NORTH ncl3 were in this together now,
Pre show pint - sorry, pizza at pizzastorm in the new Eldon square food court. Base dough freshly prepared, and pressed via the use of a massive clamp thing. Heavy machinery and pizza finally meet here. Is there anything more awesome than that? Big thumbs up on this one, loads of create your own pizza options, and still drinks on the refillable deal. Made of win. Definitely worth a visit.
To the venue, the main body of the riverside is very compact, dark, and getting full over half an hour before the show starts. A few more here than last time by the looks of it, which is always good. The presentation is fairly gritty, definitely feels like an underground fight club.
Ring announcer for tonight is Stevie Aaron though between the failing microphones (hey, technical difficulties happen to us all at times) and the annoying tool in front of me who decided to emit a low "booooooooooo" through everything he tried to say like a broken fridge wired up to an arse hole amplifier between the unfunny offensive chants. (that's the only time I'm mentioning you if you're reading this, you're not getting over on this blog for being a dick, and I did hear your name, but it's not gracing this page. And booing the rainbow flag? Fuck you) he had a hard night being heard.
Jumping John Myers is the ref for tonight.
The first contest takes some explanation: the Sons of Ulaìd have been screwing with Liam Slater and costing him matches. this was meant to be Slater and Dom Black vs the Sons of Ulaìd. Rory Coyle was suspended after laying out a fan called Lewis at the last show (hence the reference to the incident in the blog about the 3CW show. this left it as a handicap match (Dom Black and Liam Slater vs Bas Ban)
Dom Black was out to cut a promo about his love of wrestling and Newcastle. He gets round to introducing his tag partner, but instead gets Bas Ban. I was half expecting a hessian bag containing Slater, some corn syrup and red dye to be over his shoulder, alas no, Slater is nowhere to be seen.
So we have ourselves a singles match.
Mixed crowd support on this one, the Ulaìd boys have got themselves a bit of a following, but it does kind of seem like Dom is getting the "tag partner to the star" kind of reaction.
Part way through the match Martin Kirby appears to substitute for Slater and help out Black, doling out a series of excruciating head kicks, but gets thwarted by a mystery luchador who reveals himself as Rory Coyle. Coyle and Kirby brawl to the back while Bas Ban goes over with a vicious looking fall away slam.
We have a debut up next for Amir Jordan, who gives us an account of how he loves the area, but accidentally makes a John Prescott style cock-up referring to the famous Rupali curry house, which hasn't been there for a while now (Prescott - a labour MP made a reference in a tv interview to the Consett steelworks being the pride of the north east in the present tense, almost 10 years after it closed - there you go, obscure references ahoy, brought to you by pints, piledrivers and replacement bus services). It all goes a bit four lions when he gets his toy gun out. I think being called out on Rupali being closed down for ages put him off his stride a bit as he almost forgot he'd brought it. But hey, he recovered it well, and the ref and ring announcer selling it seemed to help.
Amir has his work cut out for him tonight, his opponent is Screwface.
An amusing chant of "works at B&Q" aimed at Screwface through this one, and a pretty decent match between the two. Jordan makes an impressive debut here.
Screwface would eventually get the win here, but Jordan definitely has a promising future.
Ht drake v Jimmy Havoc is our first half main event, and Havoc starts off by trying to intimidate Drake. It's not working.
The action spills out to the floor quickly and goes all over room.
Little bit of a slip on one of the dives Havoc went for, but he made up for it later on with an on target one. Havoc did seem more than a little focused on hitting the acid rainmaker through the match. Interference from the London Riots, a couple of cricket bat shots from Havoc, the New Nation come out to counteract and chase the Riots to the back. The Havoc goes over in this one, and the main event tag match is now no DQ.
David O'Docherty makes his way out to declare himself "king of the session, and proceeds to make an arse of himself by failing to down a tin of frosty jacks, elbow dropping his flat cap, then calling out "Queen of the session" Session moth Martina. O'Docherty has a surprise for Martina in the form of April Davids as opposition.
Session moth Martina is out and ready to fight both of them. She's not come alone as she's brought jack Sexsmith along for the ride.
The sheepskin coat wearing manager has another acquisition - body guy Roy Johnson. Roy tells O'Docherty that him and Jack trained together and are friends. But in this business, friendships don't matter. He proceeds to level Sexsmith, and cue an intergender match between the two teams.
Lots of nice back and forth here, April Davids is a machine and seemingly fearless. Here's hoping we see more of her.
Session moth Martina & Sexsmith go over with a middle rope codebreakerer.
O'Doherty kicks off at April and Roy for not getting the job done. They tell him where to go and walk off. Sexsmith and Martina celebrate, and humiliate him afterwards with "Mr cocko" (a mandible claw using a condom) and a bare back stinkface. Just to top it off, the del boy lookalike is treated to the session moth and Sexsmith dancing to the theme tune from only fools and horses while recovering.
Dunne vs Margera - hard core match.
Dunne is adamant that this isn't going to involve any weaponry. Margera has other ideas. Lots of plunder used here - highlights this one include Dunne pushing a cheese grater into the back of Margera, then smashing a chair over the cheese grater, Margera sending Dunne through a set of chairs and dustpan full of pins.
Dunne gets out the duplo, and takes a death valley driver onto the blocks, sealing his fate and Margera's vicrory
No DQ tag match - London Riots vs Nation
(Round 2 - Fight!)
Nation, being the faces here, get attacked for the quick start.
After incapacitating Primate, the Riots plant Henry with a spike tombstone on the stage. This sees Henry taken to the back and the Riots take control with a series of double team sequences on Primate including a cricket bat shot or two just for good measure.
Henry resurfaces upstairs, and dives into the Riots from the balcony. Nation dominate from here to get the win with a couple of awesome double team moves
In this rivalry, after the progress show in Sheffield, that leaves them at 1-1. Sunday the 19th in Leeds at Tidal's wipeout is the rubber match I guess.
The pint after was again in the hop & cleaver - Spectre Welsh stout - dark and smooth, just what I needed to be honest - though if i'd seen the coffee porter first I would have probably went for that. Anyhow, that's yer lot for this blog - if I can make it back to the next one I will. Haskins is booked for that one too.
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