MCW is back with a new episode this week. And it is an hour long. We start off with letterboxed footage set to "It's my life" by Bon Jovi. Weird choice of music but whatever.
Match 1 Tatt2 vs Rondale Roosevelt Clipped
Seems the footage is of Tatt2 vs Rondale Roosevelt. IIRC Roosevelt is part of Bruise Brothers 2k. Tatt2 seems to be a high flyer. Roosevelt hits a nice split legged moonsault,but only gets a 2 count. The match seems to be clipped. And keeps jumping ahead. Tatt2 catches Roosevelt with a stiff kick to the head. And goes for the pin. Roosevelt kicks out at 2. Roosevelt goes up to the top rope. Looks like he was trying to hit a senton. Tatt2 rolls outta the way. And with both guys flat on the mat the ref starts the 10 count. Tatt2 gets up and throws Roosevelt to the ropes and hits some crisp moves. Tatt2 then hits a rolling thunder then a Asai moonsault. But Roosevelt kicks out at 2. Tatt2 hits a 619,or since this is Mississippi it might be a 601. And again Roosevelt kicks out at 2. Roosevelt hits a modified samon drop. The crowd seems to be behind Tatt2. Tatt2 goes for a second 601/619 but this time Roosevelt moves outta the way. Then he rolls up Tatt2. 1,2,3 Roosevelt gets the pin.
We then cut to a promo from The VIP Cassidy Riley. Riley is the Mid South Heavyweight Champion. Then we cut to Jerry Clower in the ring with JYD and Hacksaw Duggan. This is old footage from Mid South. Clower is wearing a bright red wide lapel jacket.
Match 2
Malek Avalon w/Travion vs Tiger MAsk???
We start off with who I assume is Malek and Travion in the ring. And Malek is parading around with a belt. It looks like the belt says XPW on the front. Weird. Ok I have no idea who this Tiger MAsk is. Malek takes Tiger down with a shoulder tackle. But Tiger gets right back up. Tiger throws Malek to the ropes and does a nice armdrag. Crap this match is clipped. They go outside the ring and Malek gets thrown into the crowd. Tiger throws Malek into the guardrail and I see a shopping cart full of stuff. Wonder if this is a hardcore match? Cut again and now they are back in the ring. Tiger throws Malek to the corner and hits him with a stiff clothesline. He repeats this again . And then tries it a third time,but Malek ducks. Cut and now Malek has Tiger in the corner and is hitting him with kicks and boots. Tiger rolls outta the ring,and Malek's manager comes over and puts the boots to him. Malek rolls out and throws Tiger into the guardrail. The crowd is kinda small but very very vocal. Malek rolls Tiger back into the ring and goes for a pin. Cut and Tiger is running off the ropes when Malek catches him with a nice dropkick. Malek goes for the pin. Cut and now they are both in the corner.Tiger charges into the corner but Malek smacks him with a big elbow. Tiger recovers and does a great looking double underhook suplex. He pins Malek. But Malek kicks out. Cut and Malek hits a jawbreaker. Cut and Tiger knocks Malek off his feet with a clothesline then hits a belly to belly suplex. Tiger goes for the pin but only gets a 2 count. Cut and Malek is in the corner. Tiger runs the ropes,and Malek catches him with a superkick. Malek climbs to the top rope. He seems to be going for a crossbody block,but Tiger dodges it. Tiger hits a crisp german suplex,rolls and hits another. He rolls again and is trying for a third but Malek gets outta the hold. Tiger gets thrown into the ropes,and Malek's manager rips Tiger MAsk's mask off. Malek then rolls Tiger MAsk up for the pin.
Match 3 Ron Horn vs Wade Garrett
We goto some black and white footage. Quickly it goes back to color and Garrett is beating the crap outta Horn. Cut and we see Horn throwing Garrett into some lockers. Ok this seems to be a hardcore match. We get lots of quick clips of both guys using tables,ladders and chairs. It seems that Garrett wins. I wish they had shown this entire match. Mainly cause Horn always is entertaining to watch. The guy has natural charisma and knows how to work the crowd.
We goto another promo from Cassidey Riley and they are advertising a show in Yazoo City.
Match 4 Monty Warbucks Vs Joe Kane
They tie up and Warbucks gets a side headlock. I am assuming that Kane is a face. The two guys tie up again and Warbucks gets another side headlock. He throws Kane into the ropes and takes him down with a shoulder tackle. Weird the crowd seems to be behind Warbucks,so I guess he is a face. IIRC last time Warbucks was on MCW he was a heel. Warbucks and Kane circle the ring. And Kane throws Monty into the ropes. But Monty knocks Joe to the mat and drops an elbow on him. Joe exits the ring,and Warbucks jawjacks with the crowd for awhile.Kane comes back into the ring,and Warbucks nails him with some quick punches. Kane hits Monty with a huge punch and Monty goes down. He gets up and throws Kane into the corner. Monty goes for a big splash but Kane gets outta the way. Monty ends up an a halfass tree of woe. So Kane does a running dropkick and Monty falls to the floor. Kane follows him to the floor and works on Monty's arm. Kane and Monty get back into the ring. And Kane twist Monty's right arm. Strange I was told that wrestlers always work on the left side. Maybe Joe Kane was trained in the Lucha Libre style,in which they work on the right side. Now Kane is working on Monty's left arm. But Warbucks catches Kane off guard with a hard punch. Warbucks is thrown to the ropes and Kane hits a flying clothesline. Warbucks hits a nice spinebuster. Then a suplex. Monty goes for an elbow drop,but Joe Kane rolls outta the way. Kane catches Monty with a modified side Russian legsweep and gets the pin.
Match 5 Iceman King Parsens vs Brickhouse Brown
Now we cut to Ron Tronguard??? Wait this is AWA footage from ESPN Classic. Strange. Ok now we have graphics at the bottom of the screen telling us this is "Classic Wrestling from AWA/MCW" Ice Man King Parsens Vs Brickhouse Brown. Seems this match is from Superclash III. Parsens is the Texas Heavyweight Champion. Iceman is wearing a sweet reflective blue top hat. Crap Vern Gagne is on the mic,and as usual he sucks. Brown shoves Iceman to the mat. And they lock up. Brown gets thrown to the ropes but hits Iceman with a very very sweet dropkick. It is almost as good as Bob Holly's dropkicks. Brickhouse gets Parsens in a side headlock. Brickhouse runs the ropes and hits Parsens with two solid shoulder tackles. Brown goes for a backslide but Iceman gets out. Iceman throws Brown to the ropes and catches him with a good kneelift. Then Parsens takes Brown down with a short clothesline. And then hits a snap suplex. Parsens goes for the pin,But Brown kicks out at 2. Parsens then hits Brown with 3 punches and Brown hits the mat. Parsens goes for a piledriver. Brown reverses it into a back body drop. Iceman rolls to the corner and begs for mercy. But Brown ignores this and throws Iceman to the ropes. Brown hits a flying bodypress. Iceman pulls some brass knucks outta his tights and hits Brown with them. 1,2,3 Iceman King Parsens wins.
We cut to Jimmy Hart in some studio talking about the new Fabulous ones. It seems one of them is Porkchop Cash. We get various footage of them posing and walking around in red velvet tuxes. While "You dropped a bomb" is playing. A graphic at the bottom of the screen informs me that this is "The Bruise Brothers .... The Beginning part 1". Neat stuff to see,but I would have rather they didn't show this and instead we had gotten the entire Ron Horn match. Now we cut to some tall guy wearing a shirt with the Punisher skull on it. Some rap song is playing in the background. I have no idea what the song is,but then I also haven't kept up with rap since about 1994. Ok this seems to be clips from various matches. And the guy in the Punisher shirt is Kevin Northcutt I think. Kevin seems to be a decent wrestler and very agile for being such a tall guy. Neat he is attacking some people with a flaming chair. We also see Kevin hit a few superkicks. Strangely some of the footage is full screen and some of it is letterboxed. I wonder if any wrestler out there has ever used "the Ramones-The Crusher" for their entrance music? We now goto some fat guy in the ring ,and who I think is Kevin Northcutt. This seems to be more clips from a match,but this time we get the actual audio. Again this is fun,but I rather they had cut this out and given us the complete Tiger Mask and Ron Horn matches. And the show is over. Pretty good show. I just wish they would show entire matches instead of clipped matches.