Limitless Dojo Student Showcase 2/26/2020

For the first time in 2021 and in six months I ventured out to a live pro wrestling event!   Friday February 20, 2021 The Limitless Wrestling presented a Student Showcase at Ronco's Sports Bar & Grill in Brewer, Maine.

Mikey joined Canaan and I on the ride up to north to go to the show.  We stopped at Roy's work to drop off some old wrestling VHS tapes of mine that Roy is going to clean and digitally covert for me.  After we grabbed some dinner at my favorite Bangor spot Chick-fil-A. We checked out Target and Mikey added a couple figures to his collection.  Then headed to the venue.

The matches took place on the second floor of Ronco's and was a decent sized building.  I can't speak about other wrestling shows that have happened since the pandemic started, however last night I felt they did things right.  The seats were spaced out and grouped based on how may tickets you ordered when they went on sale.  They greeted you at the door and brought you to your seats.  Everyone in attendance and on the staff wore a mask, except when the wrestlers were in wrestling.  Only once did I see two fans not wearing a mask and staff very quickly asked them to put them on and they did.  Everyone was respectful of each other and have a great time at the matches. 

Before the matches started they tolled the bell ten times to pay respect to our Cheryl-Ann Madore who had passed aware on Thursday the 25th. It was a really class thing for them to do.  

Quick Results

Mac Daniels pinned Konnor Hex

Alexander Lee pinned Jacob Drifter

Frank Jaeger pinned Alexander Lee

Aiden Aggro pinned "The Prize" Alec Price

Eric Johnson pinned "Fireball" Jason Maverick

Jessie Nolan pinned Dylan Nix

DangerKid pinned "Belfast Bulldog" Dave Dyer

Mac Daniels opened the show with a promo stating he didn't have an opponent that night, that he was better than any other student and even the trainers at the Dojo.  He asked for his payday so he could get out of there.  DangerKid came out, he told Daniels that he already had a match that night, but he had someone in the back that was ready to fight him. Bringing out Konnor Hex to fight Daniels. 

The main attraction was quite arrogant though-out the match.  Although Hex had the advantage at times there was no real threat that Daniels was going to lose the match.  He got the pin with the Magnificent Slam.  (I had accidentally misidentified it as the main attraction slam, however Jon Alba was quick to correct me)

Alexander Lee came out for his student open challenge cutting a promo on the trainees working as staff as no one had signed up for his challenge.  Jacob Drifter then came out leading to their match.  Lee dominated the match but Drifter was game and gave him a fight.  In the end Lee got the pin but took it too far and attempted to suffocate Drifter with a plastic bag.  

Frank Jaeger ran out making the save and challenged Lee to a match.  Lee eventually accepted the challenge and it started out as a wrestling match but it broke down into a fight.  It looked as though Lee was going to pick up another win but Jaeger reverse his finish into a high stack roll up for the three count.

Next up was the match of the night with Aiden Aggro vs. Alec Price.  Aggro came out to his Aumon Jordan music which was a nice throwback.  These two tore it up, going to the floor using the fencing to the bar for a spot were Aggro dove over it onto Price.  Price is a great hateable heel as he backs up his arrogance.  Aggro his as heluva kick on Price to get the three count.

Eric Johnson took on "Fireball" Jason Maverick in a battle of big men.  Maverick is the son of Joey Gleitz the former referee that passed away unexpectedly last fall.  I'm not sure how many matches he has had, but he looked good in the ring.  However it wasn't enough to put away Johnson away.

The Girl on Fire battle the Dweller of the Depths in the second student vs student match of the night.  Nix lost some weight and looked good, he was being the asshole tonight and I enjoyed it.  I think he needs to stick with it.  The match itself was good, the finish, which was a spear, looked more like a body block with Nolan getting the pin.  Mikey said that last week she busted a sweet looking axe kick, I was hoping to see that, maybe next time.

Main Event time with DangerKid wrestling Dave Dyer in a great match!  Dyer has really gotten better in the ring and worked very hard.  Hard hitting back and forth match that had some action on the floor, away from the fans of course.  Dyer picked up Kid for a powerslam and took out referee Eric Greenleaf with kids feet.  Dyer took the opportunity to hit Kid with a chair.  Kid powered back though to overcome the damage and get the pin.  I appreciated all the suplex that Dyer threw tonight, specifically a high angle Saito suplex. 

I gotta take my hat off to Eric Greenleaf who officiated every match of the night. 

I didn't take many pictures because I just wanted to watch the matches.  I imagine they will be released on YouTube and the Facebook page as Randy Carver and Ace Romero provided live commentary to the matches.

The Limitless Dojo returns with another student showcase on Friday March 26th back in Brewer at Ronco's.  I'll be there. 

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Tully Blanchard vs. Dusty Rhodes

On Wednesday February 17, on AEW Dynamite they announced that Tully Blanchard would be returning to the ring in a six man tag match teaming with FTR against Jurassic Express.  That kicked off another Tully Blanchard kick for me on the WWE Network.  Thanks to their extensive library there are hundreds of Tully Blanchard matches to watch.  One thing that stood out to me was how many matches that Blanchard had with Rhodes that are available on the WWE Network.

I checked out cagematch.net and found they have listed 256 matches between Tully Blanchard and Dusty Rhodes.  This includes singles matches and tag team matches, war games, and ect.  However I do happen to know that this is not correct.  I bought the Rise and Fall of CCW: Carolina Championship Wrestling from Highspots.  It's a 5 disc set about the promotion that ran in 2004 - 2005 and this set features three matches putting Tully Blanchard against Rhodes and cagematch only has one of the matches listed.  So I can bumped that match total up to 258 matches.

However if you add the five times that Blanchard wrestled the Midnight Rider, it brings their match total up to 263 matches.  Another thing to consider is that all but four of these matches took place between May 1984 and August 1988.  

The first time they were in the ring together was on January 3, 1982 at the annual two ring battle royal in Houston Wrestling.  Their first singles match was May 24, 1984 on Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in Greenville, South Carolina with Tully walking out with the win.  Their last match was on November 19, 2005 for CCW in Spartanburg, South Carolina where both men fought to a no contest for the vacant CCW Heavyweight Championship.

They fought in many differ stipulation matches including cage matches, War Games, Lights Out Texas Tornado, Bunkhouse, Lights Out Tag Team Steel Cage, If Tully wins Rhodes must leave town vs. $10,000 of Tully's money, Texas Death, Lights Out match, multiple Barbed Wire matches, First Blood,  Bullrope, Indian Strap, Chain strap, no disqualification, I Quit Steel Cage, Lights Out Barbed Wire Ladder Match, and more. 

They also feuded over the NWA World Television Championship and NWA National Championship, and had matches for the NWA World Tag Team Championships.  

There are a couple very big moments that stand out between the two outside the ring.  On the December 28, 1985 edition of NWA World Wide Wrestling Blanchard fires Baby Doll slapping her in the face and Dusty makes the save for Baby Doll.  

On the March 26, 1988 episode of NWA World Championship Wrestling Magnum TA had returned from his career ending car crash cutting a promo when Tully came out and laid out Magnum.  Dusty made the save and with a baseball bat wen to town on Blanchard finishing the segment choking him out with the bat.  It was pure violence.  

Incidentally Tully Blanchard's last singles match was on August 10, 2007 at the NWA Legends Fanfest in Charlotte, North Carolina against Dustin Rhodes.  

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Watching Old Wrestling: Theme Music

It occurred to me tonight that wrestling I watched in my teens and early 20's is now considered old wrestling as it's 20 plus years old.  Thankfully though a tremendous amount of it is available on the WWE Network.  As I type this I just finished watching Jerry Lynn defeat Steve Corino from ECW Heatwave 2000, you know the match where Lynn writes "DIE" in Corino's blood on his stomach.  The match is excellent, but the only downside is all the music changes on the shows.

My son and others that never saw this wrestling will never know the difference, but not hearing Tommy Dreamer come out to "Man in the Box" or Sandman come out to "Enter Sandman" really sucks.  I know ECW used music they didn't have license rights too, and WWE does have the rights music performed by Harry Slash and the Slashtones, Taz, Sabu, & Mike Awesome so that's good. 

The WWE has had to change the music for other promotions as well, opening themes to televisions show, The Midnight Express theme, Road Warriors, and lot of WCW themes as well.  Hell they have had to change some of their own music as well. 

The first several episodes of Saturday Nights Main Event used "Obsession" by Animotion for their theme music before composing their own.  I will agree that their own music is excellent, but I remember how cool the music videos were with Obsession.

The other one that drives me up the wall was is the opening to Coliseum home video.  To me that music was iconic and I looked forward to watching it every time I rented a tape and when I bought them.  It was pure nostalgic bliss.  Then when they put some up on the WWE Network I couldn't wait to hear it again and to my disgust I discovered them changed it.

They don't play Hillbilly Jim's "Don't Go Messing With A Country Boy" they even have changed out Roddy Pipers original bag pipe music for the only he used later in his career.  However, they edited in music other places like for Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat at WrestleMania III.  

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