TCW - wipeout 2017 Church nightclub Leeds, February 19th
Pre show pint was Newcastle thunder vs hunslet hawks in the ipro challenge cup.
Because rugby league...
Hunslet player warming up with a resistance band or proving that bondage is never a one man pursuit. Another one is doing the shittest can can ever.
Fight sees one of hunslet sent off.
Thunder won by the way.
The venue - slightly bigger than the riverside, £4.80 for red stripe? Nope. Big ball of nope. Doing this one dry. The rugby ground have bottles of best bitter at £3.00 here it's brewdog pisswater for £4.80 or grapefruit pisswater for tenpence more. The Yorkshire in me is coming through
Gripes about prices aside, there's probably around the same amount of people here as were at NORTH - just not as many on the balcony and theres space around the ring, guardrails etc here.
Havoc is out. His collar bone is fucked. He's off the card.
The services's Dan Evans is out for the first match - their music is that familiar horror film loop, which would make sense as Dan James came out to that in Darlington. His opposition is provided by Ace Matthews.
He hates people chanting "Dan" apparently.
Nice work here from both of the lads, though seeing Ace as a face is kind of unfortunate - there's nothing there apart from the tennis references and wrestling clean against a member of a heel faction.
Ace went over after an enzeguri and back suplex.
Lana Austin (womens champion) out to defend next against Lizzie styles. Looks like Lana's working heel here.??
The family from Norfolk are here - nice to see them again!
Lizzie interrupts the schtick with the ref slapping Lana's arse then kicking her head and rolling her up.
Moonsault attempt by Styles thwarted with a powerbomb by Lana. Eat de-feet by Styles.
Lana with a DDT to win and retain the title. Lizzie moons the Norwich folk before leaving
CJ banks vs Joseph Conners next.
Starting off with a handshake - nice to see the sportsmanship here. Collar and elbow tie ups and jockeying for position third one followed by some great chain work - this is act one of an absolute epic wrestling match.
Act 1 - The feeling out process
Act 2 - The fight
Act 3 - The scramble for the win
Conners takes the win with the "DLD" - it looks better in person than it did on TV. The Service take to the stage to applaud Conners as he heads to the back.
TCW title on the line - Eddie Dennis vs Rampage Brown.
Eddie looking confused at the support being for the hometown hero Rampage, and not for him.
Eddie spends a while backing away from Rampage.
When they do lock up, Rampage starts overpowering him easily. Dennis acknowledges the fact that Rampage is massive.
The shoulder blocks off the ropes start, and after a failure from Dennis, a Lucha mask is produced and donned. The Pride of Wales starts uncorking the head scissors and suicide dives. Rampage acquires the mask and does a rolling senton over the ropes Guerrero style before despatching the mask and going back to the power moves
Rampage retains after reversing a super Plex into a small package. Fun match all in all. The ending didn't hurt anyone, but showed them on an almost equal footing.
Minor ring maintenance taking place during the interval.
Second half starts.
Dara Diablo out for the service. That horror film loop is both perfect and annoying in equal measure. Put to good use for the heel faction. Sean Only is out with him. As tempting as a "you're just a shit James Castle" chant is, he seems angry enough at this point.
White Tiger is the lamb to the Service's slaughter tonight
Armdrags to start - Diablo evaded for a bit, and tried to keep up his strength and power game against the luchador. White tiger is keeping on top though with the faster paced offence.
Only trips tiger from the outside on a dive attempt and is ejected.
A fair amount of back and forth here with no real advantage being taken.
Tiger goes for a double stamp, misses and is met with some kind of vicious looking lariat neckbreaker thing that looked like it almost decapitated him. Dara goes over with that.
Ligero comes out for his match with Sean Only, and is quickly attacked by Dara and Only. Double team wheelbarrow kerbstomp onto a chair basically kills Ligero. I really hope that mask has some protection under it. Faces and ring crew out to check on him.
Jumpin John Myers says he's done and the match is called off. Only tells Tidal that he'll sue if it doesn't go ahead.
One foot cover for an easy, quick win by only. El Ligero kicks out at two, but there's not much behind it.
For the duration of this one Only keeps kicking Ligero down, choking him and basically pasting him all over the place.
The referee is pulled in the path of a flying kick by Ligero. Interference and a whip reversal into a chair held by Dara Diablo lead to the Mexican wave splash and the comeback win for Ligero. The service are understandably surprised and upset.
Riots vs Nation - TCW tag titles on the line
Round 3... Fight!
Brawl all over the place to start this one. The Riots try to kneecap Primate using the cricket bat and chairs. The ref decides that he's throwing this one out.
Primate is helped to the back by the ring crew.
Henry's not having any of this and wants to take both of the Riots himself, Demanding that the ref restarts the match. And he does.
Brief flurry of offence by Henry, the Riots take over quickly though.
The Riots hit a nasty senton on Henry who was being draped over the second rope.
Henry keeps trying to fight them off as they take advantage of the numbers, until Primate hobbles back and makes the save. Shatter machine gives the Nation the win.
Looks like the rings broken at the edge - luckily the bloke who built it is in the next match...
Main event time
Ht Drake vs.... Amir Jordan? Drake's sceptical that Havoc picked Jordan.
Nice technical work here from both.
Amir wants a dance off and Drake obliges with a spineroonie before a waist lock take down on Amir. Drake locks in a surfboard submission, but Amir is in the ropes.
Amir is on fire here. Nice swanton bomb on to Drake. Battle around the outside after a couple of dives. Drake takes back over after reversing a whip into the ring post.
Drake looks about to take the win, the service surround the ring. Havoc comes out, seemingly to help, but wipes out Jordan and Drake. The New Nation come out to help but get laid out as well.
Havoc says he hired the service to fuck things up in Tidal since they weren't using him, And now they're taking over.
The show ends with Drake, the nation and Jordan recovering and raising their hands. Looks like the service has some opposition.
Unfortunately I didn't get to the following event - I do hope to get back to one in the near future though.
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