Al Pro Wrestling Philadelphia MS 02/20/2010

Picked up this DVD at the Xtreme Outlaw Wrestling show I went too last Saturday.I open up the disc using VLC player. Nice the menu looks just like the ones my DVD recorder.Some guy in a suit comes out and tells the crowd why the show is starting late. Looks like a 200+ crowd. Guy in suit starts shilling the 50/50 bucket. Winner gets 50% of the money from the raffle ticket sales. And also gets to walk to the ring with Jerry Lawler. They also want females over the age of 18 for a lumberjill match later. They want to put 12 women around the ring and arm them each with a belt.

First match is Anton Leveigh vs Monty Warbucks. I am not completely sure but it sounds like Warbucks is coming out to Motorhead. That means Bix will already be booing Mr Warbucks. The crowd heckles Warbucks. After about 2 minutes Anton Leveigh's music hits. And the crowd goes wild. Kinda funny seeing a most likely religious audience cheering for a guy who shares his name with the head of the Church of Satan. Warbucks does a half ass Fargo strut,to mild boos from the crowd. Then he slips climbing the first rope and rolls out the ring. The two guys have a pose down that gets the crowd excited. Anton eats a shoulder-block and Warbucks does the Fargo strut again. Monty gets Anton in the corner and starts to chop him. Nice sold looking and sounding chops,he follows this up with a arm breaker. Anton does a spinning arm scissors take down followed by a hurricanrana. Then he climbs to the top rope. Ron Horn has run out and throws him off the top rope. Ron,Warbucks and Warbucks second all beat on Leveigh for a few minutes then Barry Wolf hits the ring. He cleans house and the heels regroup at ringside. Horn and Warbucks do a great Fabulous ones strut outta camera side right. And the ref lets us know that Anton Leveigh won by DQ. Warbucks bets that Ron Horn can beat Barry Wolf in 7 minutes.

So we get to match two. Ron Horn and Barry Wolf take turns climbing the turnbuckles. Horn of course getting boos and Wolf getting screams. Wolf throws Horn in the corner and then splashes him. Horn does a great fall and then he does the southern heel tactic of stalling. Horns hits a shoulder block,then Wolf counters with two quick arm drags. Horn rolls out the ring and sits in the lap of some man at ringside. The numerous kids in the audience start making chicken noises at Horn and he finally gets back in the ring. Horn nails a nice looking clothesline then starts stomping on Wolf's hand. He slaps the crap outta Wolf and brings him to his feet to then just knock him down again with a punch. Ron puts Wolf in a bow and arrow. And Warbucks tries to start up a "LETS GO RON" chant. Wolf fights his way back to his feet but ends up eating a stiff elbow from Horn. After criss crossing the ring Wolf connects with a good flying clothesline. Then he climbs the ropes to go for what I bet is his finisher. But Warbucks knocks him down and Horn takes advantage of this. Wolf is down on the mat in pain,and the ref calls for the bell. Horn and Warbucks do the strut again,but Anton Leveigh hits the ring and runs them out. The ref declares Barry Wolf the winner. And Wolf and Leveigh chase Horn and Warbucks outta the arena.

Third Match. "Hells Bells" is playing so I guess that means Milhouse will hate Lord Humongous. I know there is no way this is Sid Vicious under the hockey mask. Looks like the crowd is around 180-200 or so. Oh shit are they handing Lord Humongous a mic? OK that wasn't a mic. Mitch Snakeman Teretta comes out. With his canvas bag,most likely holding a nice sized albino python. Has anyone ever come to the ring using "The Crusher-The Ramones" or even better "The Crusher-The Dee Dee Ramone/king rap song" as their entrance music? This will be the fourth time I have seen Teretta wrestle. I figure with these two guys we might get a good WWF 80's style match. Two big guys hitting each other with crisp power moves. Back and forth till Teretta flips Humongous over the top rope. Both guys fight back into the ring. Mitch ends up hitting a DDT on Humongous manager and then drapes the snake over him. Somehow this causes Mitch to win. I think I might have missed something. Ok the snake isn't an albino. The two times I saw Mitch wrestle last month he had a 8footish albino Python. I have a pic of it i need to scan in."You shook me all night long-ACDC" hits and Monty Warbucks,Ron Horn,and who I bet is Ash Anderson. I am confirmed to be right by the ring announcer. The crowd boos the shit outta Anderson. Then some rock/rap/country song hits and Cowboy Cody starts his way to the ring. Anderson attacks Cody,while Cody is distracted throwing bandannas into the audience. A few minutes into the match Ron Horn and Monty Warbucks again attack the ring and gang up on Cowboy Cody. Causing the match to be "thrown out". Anton and Barry wolf hit the ring and help Cody up. Anton gets on the mic and calls Horn,Anderson and Warbucks the gay trio. And the crowd cheers. Nice Barry Wolf calls Ron Horn "Fat Hardy". I seriously believe Ron needs to be in TNA soon working a Matt and Jeff's little unknown half brother. Barry Wolf refers to the trio as the Buffet Patrol. The heels finally accept the challenge. And we are on to the semi main event.

Anton Leveigh,Cowboy Cody,Barry Wolf VS Monty Warbucks,Ron "Fat Hardy" Horn,and Ash Anderson. Ash starts the match and circles around the ring with Leveigh. Ash rake's Anton's eyes and Warbucks gets tagged in. Leveigh takes him down quick with a arm drag and repeats this a few seconds later with Ron Horn. Barry Wolf tags in and hits a second rope elbow on Horn. Horn tags in Anderson. Wolf gets him in the corner and tries to throw him into the other. But it is reversed by Ash. Cowboy Cody tags in and challenges Ash to a test of strength. Ash kicks Cody in the stomach 2 times . Cody powers up and hits all three of the heels with solid right hands. The heels go outside the ring and huddle up. Cody tags in Wolf. Wolf climbs to the top rope and hits a double ax handle on Ash. But Horn,Anderson,and Warbucks end up triple teaming Wolf behind the refs back. Wolf kinda reminds me of a young memphis era Ricky Morton. The heels triple team Wolf again behind the ref's back. Warbucks drags Wolf to the center of the ring and nails a backhand chop which cause's Barry to collapse to the mat. This keeps going on for 3 or so minutes. And finally Ash goes for a pin,but Leveigh runs in for a quick save. Warbucks tags in and slaps Wolf hard in the face. Wolf is selling this punishment very much like Morton. Horn tags in and Wolf manages to hit Horn with a running elbow smash. Both guys are flat on their backs and the ref starts the 10 count. Horn is on his knees at 6. Wolf tags out at 8. And Leveigh hits the ring just pounding on all three of the heels. Leveigh goes up and hits a second rope frog splash on Warbucks to get the win. Very fun to watch southern style tag match.

I fast forward thru the ring announcer and stop on who I assume is a heel. He is talking about how he doesn't like fat people,and nasty people from Philadelphia. And he guarantee's us that Jerry Lawler won't make it to the PPV tomorrow. Jerry Lawler makes his way to the ring with two referees. I assume the heel is Neil"The real deal" Taylor. With his manager Hollywood Jimmy. The King works on the mic cutting down Hollywood Jimmy. Nice Taylor is coming to the ring to "Beat It-Micheal Jackson". OK I am kinda confused the DVD back cover promises over 2 hours of action. But this is the last match listed on the back of the case match listing. According to the clock this runs 2 hours 40 something minutes . And we are at a little over and hour. The King comes out to "Back in Black-ACDC". WTF did they just have a ACDC greatest hits CD for the music? Both guys stall for 5 or so minutes. Taking turns with the house mic. The crowd is of course behind Lawler. IIRC Philadelphia is pretty close to Memphis. Taylor slams Lawler. And Lawler quickly slams Taylor. Taylor rolls outta the ring. They lock up again,and Taylor throws Lawler into the ropes. And then hits a back body flip/ The King gets back on his feet and gets throw again into the ropes. But the King hits the breaks and smacks Taylor with a right fist. Hollywood Jimmy complains about Lawler using closed fists. But this of course just gets the crowd even more behind Jerry. The king hits a jawbreaker that sends Taylor to the mat. Lawler hits three right fists then tries to pin Taylor after a dropkick. Taylor kicks out and the King keeps telling Taylor to "Get UP!". Jerry hits another right fist and Taylor takes the Greg Valentine face first fall to the mat. Somehow Taylor ends up with what looks to be brass knuckles. And he hits Lawler with them. Taylor climbs to the top rope. And catches Lawler with a jumping punch thingy. Lawler wins, but while he is celebrating Taylor punches the King in the back of the head. Then starts to choke Lawler on the bottom rope. Some guy comes into the ring talking smack on Hollywood Jimmy. But the guy gets blindsided by Taylor and then a beatdown from Neil and Jimmy. Ok this is strange this is the listed main event. But the counter list almost an hour left. Oh crap Taylor now has Lawler handcuffed to the bottom rope. Lawler seems to break the handcuffs. And runs the two dasturdly heels outta ring.

Out comes JD Macay. Backed up with the Ghost Rider. Seems this was supposed to happen at a later show, But JD doesn't want to wait. And he wants to face the Giant Hillbilly tonight in a strap match. The ring is surrounded by what looks like 9 women. I guess this is the lumberjill match and it is now also a strap match. Is Russeo booking this? The ring announcer is trying to make sure all the lumber jills have a belt. And the lady in front of the camera keeps talking about how she will "Whip the tar outta Macay's little white BUTT! I'M GONNA TEAR THAT LITTLE WHITE BUTT UP!!". Then sadly the camera person tells her to get outta the way.Shit they aren't using a strap. Giant Hillbilly chases JD outta the ring and JD gets hit with a belt. He quickly rolls back in and starts yelling at the lady that hit him with the belt. This is the longest match I have seen with Hillbilly in it. JD ends up out in the audience and two of the ladies try to hit him with their belts. JD gets a small comeback on the Hillbilly. And the crowd starts chanting for the Hillbilly to get up and beat on JD. JD takes off his boot and hits the Giant Hillbilly with it 3 times. Then puts the Hillbilly in a figure four. But the Hillbilly reverses it. And JD taps out.

I just realized that earlier they said that the winner of the 50/50 raffle would come out in the main event with Lawler. But this didn't happen and Lawler wasn't the main event. two guys hit the ring. One of who I think might be Alan Funk. I have no idea who the other guy is . Then some rap song hits the speakers and CJ Cash and some guy who's name I can't make out head to the ring.Fairly long well paced tag match.Cash and the guy in the yellow trunks have the crowd completely behind them. The two heels do the old fake tag behind the refs back bit and basically double team Yellow Trunks guy. Wait I think yellow trunks guy is Cameron Valentine. And 10 minutes or so into the match the dvd is over. That sucks but shit it only cost me $5. It was worth what I paid for it.