Post by eDemento2099 on Dec 10, 2007 3:31:11 GMT -5
From CZW Fans (http://www.czwfans.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=24111), here is an account of what when down at Cage of Death 9. I'm especially psyched about the fact that Sexxxy Eddy, Messiah, and Nick freakin' Gage are back in CZW!
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Pre-show: sparse parking available, small crowd but grows to a respectable line outside the Arena. One thing I noticed was not many weapons for the FBTW (even the CZW staff seemed disappointed by the lack of plunder)... Most important note: DOORS OPEN ON TIME (or at least pretty close), everyone was happy to get out of the cold and get on with the show. I look at the merch tables and want to buy the Viking shirt with the skull and the Viking W*ING logo, but apparently Viking only brought 3 shirts to sell and they were all size L (bummer, I wear XL) I notice a woman set up with a table full of OX f***in' Baker merch so I assume he's there, but didn't see him at this point.
Inside they show the contest video winner's (BaZLn I think) video with Unforgiven by Metallica. Video went over well, people popped for the spots and I noticed that people were REALLY popping for the Forefatherz/Nick Gage stuff.
Ring announcer for the night: Nick Papagiorgio (formerly known as Orange Shirt Guy) He gets booed because people just love Ed O Mac.
Warning: this is probably slightly out of order
Ryan McBride vs. Pinky Sanchez
Not a great match but Pinky did OK. I think he is a decent enough talent that he should be midcard, he is a good junior flipfloppy guy. I'd put him on par with Grim Reefer. Not great, but good. Still, this hardly started the show off with a bang. I think Ryan McBride could take a bump off the roof of Viking Hall and I'd still kinda go "meh" No f***ing charisma whatsoever.
LJ & Greg Excellent vs. Colon/Berk/Gacy
Greg Excellent seriously wishes he was the Blue Meanie. And I think Gacy wishes had half of the heat (even if it was fake heat) that GW Baus did. Berk decides he is wrestling and not just playing manager tonight so Greg Excellent brings out some backup -- BEEF WELLINGTON. Crummy match, but the ending was pretty funny, and done on the fly, Berk loses to an ass punch but "forgives" partners Colon and Gacy for losing the match, but per a heckler's recommendation, he declared he was "no homo" but ordered them to suck his dick. This went over and got a pop.
Somewhere around this point, Billy Gram comes out with Toby Klein and OX BAKER. OX puts over Toby and Billy, the main event, predicts DJ Hyde's downfall and got a nice chant and pop. Nice surprise, I can't say I watched a lot of Ox Baker matches but I know he's a legend and true old school guy.
Hatred/Gulak/Sumner vs. Brodie/Cheech/Cloudy
Not good. Hatred had like no time in the ring and looked lost in there, save for a brief showdown with Brodie with a few chairshots. My first time seeing Brodie wrestle. Brodie is a big enough guy that hits hard that I think could have a decent match with Necro down the line.
Team Suckage vs. Demanto/Dahmer
Pre-match Demanto buries Noel and Niles, calls for a hot chick to be brought to the ring, and does a big tease for showing her tits (never happens). This is the first time I saw Demanto live since I stopped attending shows right when he started with the Dub. He tries hard to get the match over and connects with the fans, so I think he is doing the best he can. I mean after all, they are pairing him up with Jon Dahmer, it's not like they are giving him a super hot angle to work with. So yeah, controversial as this may be, I say he's an asset and could grow into a upper mid card guy one day.
Sabian vs. LuFisto
Pretty fun match, Eddy runs out to turn heel and cost LuFisto the match. After the match Sabian and LuFisto shake hands and put each other over. LuFisto takes a lot of sick chops.
Lobo vs. Maven
Sabato comes out for the name drawing for the lumberjacks. Unfortunately I did not get called, but some well known fans did (Ref Fan Steven, Whack Packer SANTA, etc) Maven says that if he loses, he will give Lobo a check for $10,000 for a promoter's license and Maven will leave CZW to start his own promotion. This match was FAST, a disappointment, but the bright spot was when Maven threw Lobo out of the ring, and the lumberjacks obviously wanting to help him, one of the women takes out a camera, puts her arm around Lobo and takes a self portrait. Well-played, got a pop. After the match, Lobo has CZW staff set Maven up to be "stretched" a la Stretched in Smyrna or the botched attempt at "RESPECT." Unfortunately this didn't work as planned so Lobo just declared that CZW staff could get in the ring and beat the shit out of Maven. Brain Damage and DJ come out to make the save, but WIFEBEATER's music hits and he comes out and chases out Damage, Hyde, and Bentley (who escapes over the guardrail)
WHACKS vs. Eddy vs. Viking
Pretty entertaining match, WHACKS took some sick chops courtesy of Viking and his chest was RED. Viking's chops were brutal. Sexxxy Eddy still proved he was a sick f*** when he licked a huge bloody bump on WHACKS' skull. Final spot saw WHACKS put the giant ladder on a table, climb up the ladder, hang off the rafters, and do a senton for the pin. Pretty nuts, good spot. WHACKS wins thanks to LuFisto interfering to cost Eddy the match, returning the favor.
Ruckus vs. Mystery Opponent
Ruckus comes out and calls out his opponent and SURPRISE (not so much), it's Messiah. Crowd reaction is mixed, some people are popping while others start a "f*** Messiah" chant. Messiah seemed to bring his A-Game at first, lots of fast paced and diving spots, until the LIGHTS GO OUT, music is played, and through the shadows on the entrance way I see someone with a bandana over their face. Of course, the lights go on and it's NICK f***ING GAGE, who gets the biggest pop of the night. Couldn't have been timed better. Unfortunately the match wasn't so great, however Gage goes over and is your CZW champ leading into 2008. All the naysayers who posted stuff like "guys, give it up, Gage is done" should be eating crow now, there were a few of us who still believed a return was possible (if not very likely)
Mitch Ryder vs. Chuey Martinez
There were more weapons than I thought there would be, but still not nearly as many for a usual FBTW. Average match, Chuey takes a nice bump off the turnbuckle to the entrance ramp when he missed Mitch. Mitch went into the festive Fisher Price bench of doom as someone on the board talked about bringing, really got cut up by the glass ornaments. A good match, though nothing to write home about.
It's time for the cage to get constructed, and Ox Baker, who didn't seem to be moving a lot of merch, starts a raffle and goes around the ringside selling tickets. I felt bad at first and bought a couple of tickets but then so many people started buying tickets I thought at least he was getting a break. I think the raffle was announced to be for an Ox Baker signed football and an action figure.
Team CZW vs. Team MBA
The cage took quite awhile to construct, but the match seemed to go on much longer than last year's. Lots of sick bumps in the cage, weapons galore. Some stuff was left over from the FBTW and other stuff was brought in, like panes of glass with barbed wire taped to them, barbed wire boards, barbed wire chairs, cactii, etc. At one point Necro brandishes a pair of scissors and really f***s up Brain Damage's face. Another sick spot was when someone (Brain Damage, I think) HAMMERED A SMALL POTTED CACTUS into Drake's back, which STUCK as Drake ran around selling the chairshot (ouch). In a weird twist, Toby and Necro get eliminated fairly early on, but the match didn't suffer that badly for it. Another spot saw Danny falcon arrow (or something) Vortekz off the platform into a barbed wire board in the ring. I couldn't see the bump that eliminated Brain Damage and Drake, but right after this Havoc climbs up the platform and is followed by DJ. There is a light hanging from the ceiling in their way and DJ rips the bulb out and smashes it in Danny's face (Roger probably was not pleased). I was sure Havoc was taking this bump to avoid a repeat of last year's crash to the floor, since he is a lot lighter than DJ. After teasing, DJ TAKES THE BUMP into the barbed wire net and the platform below, hitting the floor similar to Lobo and Zandig last year. Except DJ caught a lot more of the net and seemed to be in really bad shape after the bump. Finally, the rubble was cleared and DJ looked hurt, he seemed to be throwing up a little bit and quite shaken up. Some asshole heckles "You still suck!" which was pretty unnecessary at this point. DJ is carried out to applause. Really a crazy match, great showing by everyone.
At this point I'm thinking "OK, what about that raffle?" and apparently I'm not the only one. The most amusing swerve of the night is when a bunch of ticketholders head over to Ox's table looking for info about the raffle drawing, and he tells everyone that they get a signed photo. SWERVE, there was no raffle, but Ox graciously signed personalized 8x10s for ticketholders. I can't complain, it's Ox f***ing Baker. He might be an old guy but he can still work the marks!
Twisted Evil
Overall, a good show, not the best COD ever but given the current situation in CZW I think it probably went as good as could have been hoped. Gage's return was brilliant and Danny Havoc finally got over on DJ Hyde, even if it nearly killed DJ in the process. Big props to the big man for the bump, it was f***ing nuts.
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Pre-show: sparse parking available, small crowd but grows to a respectable line outside the Arena. One thing I noticed was not many weapons for the FBTW (even the CZW staff seemed disappointed by the lack of plunder)... Most important note: DOORS OPEN ON TIME (or at least pretty close), everyone was happy to get out of the cold and get on with the show. I look at the merch tables and want to buy the Viking shirt with the skull and the Viking W*ING logo, but apparently Viking only brought 3 shirts to sell and they were all size L (bummer, I wear XL) I notice a woman set up with a table full of OX f***in' Baker merch so I assume he's there, but didn't see him at this point.
Inside they show the contest video winner's (BaZLn I think) video with Unforgiven by Metallica. Video went over well, people popped for the spots and I noticed that people were REALLY popping for the Forefatherz/Nick Gage stuff.
Ring announcer for the night: Nick Papagiorgio (formerly known as Orange Shirt Guy) He gets booed because people just love Ed O Mac.
Warning: this is probably slightly out of order
Ryan McBride vs. Pinky Sanchez
Not a great match but Pinky did OK. I think he is a decent enough talent that he should be midcard, he is a good junior flipfloppy guy. I'd put him on par with Grim Reefer. Not great, but good. Still, this hardly started the show off with a bang. I think Ryan McBride could take a bump off the roof of Viking Hall and I'd still kinda go "meh" No f***ing charisma whatsoever.
LJ & Greg Excellent vs. Colon/Berk/Gacy
Greg Excellent seriously wishes he was the Blue Meanie. And I think Gacy wishes had half of the heat (even if it was fake heat) that GW Baus did. Berk decides he is wrestling and not just playing manager tonight so Greg Excellent brings out some backup -- BEEF WELLINGTON. Crummy match, but the ending was pretty funny, and done on the fly, Berk loses to an ass punch but "forgives" partners Colon and Gacy for losing the match, but per a heckler's recommendation, he declared he was "no homo" but ordered them to suck his dick. This went over and got a pop.
Somewhere around this point, Billy Gram comes out with Toby Klein and OX BAKER. OX puts over Toby and Billy, the main event, predicts DJ Hyde's downfall and got a nice chant and pop. Nice surprise, I can't say I watched a lot of Ox Baker matches but I know he's a legend and true old school guy.
Hatred/Gulak/Sumner vs. Brodie/Cheech/Cloudy
Not good. Hatred had like no time in the ring and looked lost in there, save for a brief showdown with Brodie with a few chairshots. My first time seeing Brodie wrestle. Brodie is a big enough guy that hits hard that I think could have a decent match with Necro down the line.
Team Suckage vs. Demanto/Dahmer
Pre-match Demanto buries Noel and Niles, calls for a hot chick to be brought to the ring, and does a big tease for showing her tits (never happens). This is the first time I saw Demanto live since I stopped attending shows right when he started with the Dub. He tries hard to get the match over and connects with the fans, so I think he is doing the best he can. I mean after all, they are pairing him up with Jon Dahmer, it's not like they are giving him a super hot angle to work with. So yeah, controversial as this may be, I say he's an asset and could grow into a upper mid card guy one day.
Sabian vs. LuFisto
Pretty fun match, Eddy runs out to turn heel and cost LuFisto the match. After the match Sabian and LuFisto shake hands and put each other over. LuFisto takes a lot of sick chops.
Lobo vs. Maven
Sabato comes out for the name drawing for the lumberjacks. Unfortunately I did not get called, but some well known fans did (Ref Fan Steven, Whack Packer SANTA, etc) Maven says that if he loses, he will give Lobo a check for $10,000 for a promoter's license and Maven will leave CZW to start his own promotion. This match was FAST, a disappointment, but the bright spot was when Maven threw Lobo out of the ring, and the lumberjacks obviously wanting to help him, one of the women takes out a camera, puts her arm around Lobo and takes a self portrait. Well-played, got a pop. After the match, Lobo has CZW staff set Maven up to be "stretched" a la Stretched in Smyrna or the botched attempt at "RESPECT." Unfortunately this didn't work as planned so Lobo just declared that CZW staff could get in the ring and beat the shit out of Maven. Brain Damage and DJ come out to make the save, but WIFEBEATER's music hits and he comes out and chases out Damage, Hyde, and Bentley (who escapes over the guardrail)
WHACKS vs. Eddy vs. Viking
Pretty entertaining match, WHACKS took some sick chops courtesy of Viking and his chest was RED. Viking's chops were brutal. Sexxxy Eddy still proved he was a sick f*** when he licked a huge bloody bump on WHACKS' skull. Final spot saw WHACKS put the giant ladder on a table, climb up the ladder, hang off the rafters, and do a senton for the pin. Pretty nuts, good spot. WHACKS wins thanks to LuFisto interfering to cost Eddy the match, returning the favor.
Ruckus vs. Mystery Opponent
Ruckus comes out and calls out his opponent and SURPRISE (not so much), it's Messiah. Crowd reaction is mixed, some people are popping while others start a "f*** Messiah" chant. Messiah seemed to bring his A-Game at first, lots of fast paced and diving spots, until the LIGHTS GO OUT, music is played, and through the shadows on the entrance way I see someone with a bandana over their face. Of course, the lights go on and it's NICK f***ING GAGE, who gets the biggest pop of the night. Couldn't have been timed better. Unfortunately the match wasn't so great, however Gage goes over and is your CZW champ leading into 2008. All the naysayers who posted stuff like "guys, give it up, Gage is done" should be eating crow now, there were a few of us who still believed a return was possible (if not very likely)
Mitch Ryder vs. Chuey Martinez
There were more weapons than I thought there would be, but still not nearly as many for a usual FBTW. Average match, Chuey takes a nice bump off the turnbuckle to the entrance ramp when he missed Mitch. Mitch went into the festive Fisher Price bench of doom as someone on the board talked about bringing, really got cut up by the glass ornaments. A good match, though nothing to write home about.
It's time for the cage to get constructed, and Ox Baker, who didn't seem to be moving a lot of merch, starts a raffle and goes around the ringside selling tickets. I felt bad at first and bought a couple of tickets but then so many people started buying tickets I thought at least he was getting a break. I think the raffle was announced to be for an Ox Baker signed football and an action figure.
Team CZW vs. Team MBA
The cage took quite awhile to construct, but the match seemed to go on much longer than last year's. Lots of sick bumps in the cage, weapons galore. Some stuff was left over from the FBTW and other stuff was brought in, like panes of glass with barbed wire taped to them, barbed wire boards, barbed wire chairs, cactii, etc. At one point Necro brandishes a pair of scissors and really f***s up Brain Damage's face. Another sick spot was when someone (Brain Damage, I think) HAMMERED A SMALL POTTED CACTUS into Drake's back, which STUCK as Drake ran around selling the chairshot (ouch). In a weird twist, Toby and Necro get eliminated fairly early on, but the match didn't suffer that badly for it. Another spot saw Danny falcon arrow (or something) Vortekz off the platform into a barbed wire board in the ring. I couldn't see the bump that eliminated Brain Damage and Drake, but right after this Havoc climbs up the platform and is followed by DJ. There is a light hanging from the ceiling in their way and DJ rips the bulb out and smashes it in Danny's face (Roger probably was not pleased). I was sure Havoc was taking this bump to avoid a repeat of last year's crash to the floor, since he is a lot lighter than DJ. After teasing, DJ TAKES THE BUMP into the barbed wire net and the platform below, hitting the floor similar to Lobo and Zandig last year. Except DJ caught a lot more of the net and seemed to be in really bad shape after the bump. Finally, the rubble was cleared and DJ looked hurt, he seemed to be throwing up a little bit and quite shaken up. Some asshole heckles "You still suck!" which was pretty unnecessary at this point. DJ is carried out to applause. Really a crazy match, great showing by everyone.
At this point I'm thinking "OK, what about that raffle?" and apparently I'm not the only one. The most amusing swerve of the night is when a bunch of ticketholders head over to Ox's table looking for info about the raffle drawing, and he tells everyone that they get a signed photo. SWERVE, there was no raffle, but Ox graciously signed personalized 8x10s for ticketholders. I can't complain, it's Ox f***ing Baker. He might be an old guy but he can still work the marks!
Twisted Evil
Overall, a good show, not the best COD ever but given the current situation in CZW I think it probably went as good as could have been hoped. Gage's return was brilliant and Danny Havoc finally got over on DJ Hyde, even if it nearly killed DJ in the process. Big props to the big man for the bump, it was f***ing nuts.
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