The Rap Sheet - from the Crimefighter
Midwest Powerhouse Wrestling "Championship Collision"
5/8/2K4 - Bethalto, IL

If you LOVE screwjobs and main event interviews, this was your show!


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Every time I come to an MPW show, someone complains about me talking about it.  EVERY TIME.  And they get madder when I refute and rebut their complaints.   So anyone reading this, I should point out there's a greater threat against the wrestling world than me.  If you are a fan of Scott Keith, or ARE Scott Keith, you are considered a menace to the wrestling world and must be silenced.  Keith is destroying the WWE every time he writes a Smark RAW Rant, or a SmarkDown Rant.  In fact, he single-handedly destroyed WCW giving several matches negative stars on their PPV's.  He must not be allowed to succeed in destroying the WWE, cause if the WWE is destroyed, then the whole wrestling industry is destroyed.  He must be banished from the Internet before it's too late!  It is vital you email the owners of 411mania.com and tell them they must drop his column immediately and contact the publisher of his upcoming book, "One Ring Circus: The Death of the World Wrestling Federation", that being Citadel Press and demand they suppress this book from being released right away.  The health of the wrestling industry depends on your quick action now!!!

The MPW President is Mr. Bigg, your ring announcer is Rod Jeremy, and your promoter is Master Powell.  A little kid sings the national anthem.  That's tricky and scary at the same time, but he was brave enough to pull it off.

In a true Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde moment, the man formerly known as Mr. Insecurity, formerly known as Eberus, now known again as Mr. Insecurity again comes out first dressed in a green jacket and says he has no idea who Eberus is and the man he managed in the Legion formerly known as Gluttony, now known as Scar, is really a nice guy.  A man who chokeslams women is a nice guy, uh right.  He says Scar is not a monster.  Cue in the man formerly known as Sloth, who lost all the face paint and changed his name to Xavier Frost.  He's anti-American bashing the country and mocks Mr. Insecurity and kicks him around prompting Scar to saunter out to the ring and give him a piledriver.  If Scar is such a nice guy, take the mask off!

MPW Women's Championship
Trinity 5'4" 140lbs. Miami, FL vs. Jaden 5'5" 140lbs. St. Louis, MO - It's match 12,351,485 between them in the series and this time it's for the women's title.  The last MPW show I attended was supposed to award the title to whichever one of these girls that scored the victory, but the man formerly known as Gluttony jumped in the ring and chokeslammed them.  Now you know why I don't buy the idea Scar is a good guy.  Due to Trinity's poor display of sportsmanship the last time we were in Bethalto, she gets booed.  Jeremy the Ref is the official.  Lockup to the corner, clean break.  Lockup again, chop Trinity, lockup to the corner another chop by Trinity, Jaden flips her around and chops back, snap mare.  Butterfly armbar Jaden, FAMEASSER gets two.  Rake Trinity, she kicks away, armwringer, hammerlock, headlock.  Jaden elbows out, whip spinkick Jaden, elbow, Irish whip corner, monkeyflip gets Jaden two.  Trinity knocks her down and does a standing hair pull, legdrop gets a FAST two.  Trinity slugs away, slam, she kicks away on the mat, X-Factor gets a FAST two.  Irish whip monkey flip Trinity gets a FAST TWO.  Sleeper Trinity, Jaden fights out of it, whip clothesline, suplex gets a SLOW two.  Jaden with a slam gets a SLOW two.  Jaden whip spinning jawbreaker, ref counts two, then stands up shaking his arm.  Oh geez, Jeremy's being a jackarse.  Jaden gets in his face, Trinity rollup and Jeremy counts an extremely fast three count.  BS!  By the way, that happened to be the longest match of the night.

WINNER and NEW CHAMP:  Trinity pin -> 6:55 mins. *½

What the heck is Jeremy the ref's problem?  He dating Trinity or something?  Was there a rhyme or reason he was deliberately helping Trinity here?  And Jeremy is a fairly new referee, who's not likely to hold his job for very long.  Jaden KO's Jeremy.

Before going to the next match, Rod Jeremy walks over to someone sitting in the front row and says hello to Jay Fenix.  He has been retired from wrestling for a couple years after his brother called it quits and he decided to follow suit.  Rod Jeremy (not the ref) asks him what he's been doing the past couple years to which he says he's been in college.  Rod tries to talk him out of retirement.  Jay Fenix resists.  I should point out they were having problems with sound all evening.  For you to be heard, you had to talk directly in the microphone.  Several guys didn't do that, and STILL wouldn't do that when we shout that we can't hear them.  Sigh.  So I can only be brief on the promos cause most of them were inaudible and transcribing is impossible.

Christian Haze 6'3" 250lbs. Phoenix, AZ vs. Uriah 6'2" 175lbs. "Heaven's Underworld" - When did these guys split up?  Up in NMW on May 22nd they're scheduled to team against our tag champs Tuff-N-Stuff!  Now they're feuding!  Oh great, they had to import a team from another fed cause the former champs broke up and all the other potential challengers are tied up in other matches, now the team we import has broken up before their tag title shot.  Uriah I absolutely do not care for, and hold a Uriah Sucks sign.  Lockup, waistlocks traded, takedown Haze.  Headlock takedown Haze.  Headlock Uriah, shoveoff, crossbody caught, Haze with a powerslam.  Suplex Haze, legdrop gets two.  Haze chops away, whip clothesline.  Whip Haze, Uriah grabs onto Haze and locks in Gail Kim's submission hold, which I don't have a name for, but it's that flying armbar while hanging off the other guy's back.  Someone wanting to get out of it, all they have to do is a SAMOAN DROP!  Uriah releases it and does a flying headscissors, then a shining wizard.  Suplex gets Uriah two.  He suddenly bails out and fetches a chair, the referee takes it away.  Shoulderblock Uriah, he flips over Haze's back, he drapes himself down Haze's back and snap sunset flips him over for two.  He goes out and fetches the kendo stick, referee takes it away but Uriah goes back to the chair.  Jay Fenix hops the rail, jumps in the ring and drop kicks the chair barely catching Uriah in the face with it.  Haze with a move that looks suspiciously like Sage Ramsey's Final Fall and wins it.

WINNER:  Christian Haze pin -> 5:25 mins. **¼

This match should had run longer than it did.  Haze grabs the mike and says something but we can't hear them very well.  Christian basically wants to wrestle Jay Fenix later this evening for his first match back.  Fenix accepts.  Sound problems with the mikes plagued the entire evening.  The crooked Jeremy the ref comes out to officiate the next match, and the crowd REALLY lets him have it.  They loudly boo him and chant "YOU SUCK" to which the dimwit just waves his arms.

MPW Tag Team Championship
(c)Chico Es Loco 5'10" 150lbs. Mexico, MO & "Shooter" Curtis Payne 6'0" 240lbs. Chicago, IL vs. Brutality Inc. 595lbs. Detroit, MI - Dangerous Derek Davis 6'2" & Rough Cut Rick Ruby 6'0" - Davis and Payne start, Payne slaps Davis, Davis slaps Payne then they start slugging away at each other.  Shoulderblock Davis, whip reverse clothesline Payne.  Davis bails, comes back in, slugs away on Payne and tags Ruby.  Double whip double elbow, double elbowdrop.  Whip clothesline Ruby, choke, headbutt.  Headbutt doesn't work, Payne with a kick to the head, tag CEL.  Missile dropkick CEL, DDT gets two.  Oh by the way, the ceiling's low in this building so top rope moves will be rare.  Legdrop CEL gets two.  Suplex is blocked, suplex Ruby.  Tag Davis, tag Payne.  Payne clobbers everyone, drop kick on Davis sends him out.  Axe off the apron, post ram Payne.  Toss in, second rope blockbuster, tag CEL.  Then out of nowhere two masked men jump in the ring and start waylaying on Payne & Loco for the SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT FINISH at 6:30 mins.

NO WINNER:  NO CONTEST -> 6:30 mins. **

One masked guy gives Loco a DDT, clothesline off the top for Payne.  Dimwit Jeremy the ref takes forever to ring the bell.  The guy wearing a blue jacket who's not wearing a mask grabs the mike and runs his mouth, id'ing his team as "S&M".  We don't get a name for their punk kid manager, though if he did say it I couldn't hear him.  Someone says it's former MPW ring announcer Zach Fox.  That's run-in number two, screwjob number three for those keeping score.  Match was going okay until the BS ending.

Chris Powell comes out and brings out Cowboy Bob Orton, The Searcher, Damian Blade, and the Chipster.  Powell announces that Orton can't wrestle tonight due to some injury and the MPW Board of Directors wants him stripped of the title.  Orton has the mike, says something but NO ONE can hear him and he holds the mike far from his face despite repeated shouts for him to speak up.  I manage to catch that he has a back injury but that's all.  Orton says he's gonna seek a second opinion and get himself cleared this week.  Powell agrees to give him a week against the board's wishes.  We still can't hear Orton.  There isn't a show next weekend.  We go to intermission.  

During intermission which lasts a lengthy 30 minutes, some drunken cowboy decides to make a smart*** remark at me cause I mention I did not want to be caught in a photo where kids are posing for pictures with a wrestler.  As far as I'm concerned, he wasn't wearing a hat, he was wearing his arse on his head.

Blade comes back out with the Searcher after intermission and announces he can't wrestle tonight due to his recent carpel tunnel surgery so there's gonna be a #1 contender match to the hardcore title.  

Triple Threat Hardcore Match
Xavier Frost 6'3" 230lbs. Parts Unknown vs. Scar 6'8" 400lbs. Parts Unknown w/ Mr. Insecurity vs. Wapo Choncho 6'2" 250lbs. Parts Unknown - This match was announced as elimination.  The ring announcer pronounced it "Floppo Chocco" (where do they COME UP with these names?), anyway he's wearing a red and black outfit, is most likely enhancement talent.  All these guys hail from parts unknown, I think that's a first.  Frost is the former Sloth, Scar is the former Gluttony.  Wapo floppos down into the mat after a shoulderblock attempt against Scar and gets chokeslammed.  Kendo stick shots by Frost on Scar, and they have NO effect!  Scar with a clothesline on Frost, he bails, Scar follows.  Mr. Insecurity tries to give Scar hulk hands.  Frost back in with a chair and blasts Wapo with it, he goes floppo to the mat.  Scar puts a table in the ring, Frost his a suplex.  Scar gets in, Frost has the mandible claw on Wapo, Scar breaks it up, slam, legdrop.  Table is put in the corner, Frost pulls Mr. Insecurity in and slugs him in the corner.  Scar powerbombs Wapo through the table, Scar turns around and charges Frost but he moves and Mr. Insecurity was left to be squashed with a splash.  Frost with a pedigree on the chair for Wapo.  Scar takes Mr. Insecurity to the back, hey I thought Ron Jeremy said it was an elimination match???  I dunno if I've ever seen a triple threat where it was two stars and a jobber, but this was a squash win nonetheless.

WINNER:  Xavier Frost pin -> 4:15 mins. ½*

Damian asks Searcher if this Frost guy won, so looks like he gets a shot for his title.  USA chant fires up to bug Frost, Blade offers to shake hands, Frost slaps him.  Blade hits Frost with some sit-down move (perhaps it was the inverted stunner though it didn't look like it), then a DDT.  Mr. Bigg walks over and counts a pin for Blade.  He throws the hulk hands in the ring, Blade dons them, winds up with his good arm, BAM!  Searcher throws the kendo stick in, Blade shouts it's time to go to school and whacks him in the head.  Blade says when you mess with him, school's back in session.  Frost slowly gets up after they leave and takes a parting jab at the country.

Jay Fenix 5'11" 175lbs. Tampa, FL vs. Christian Haze 6'2" 250lbs. Phoenix, AZ - The masked man known as Referee X is the official.  They shake hands to start, lockup shove Haze, hip toss.  Takedown Fenix, wrestling on the mat, headlock Haze, Jay kicks his way out, chops.  Whip reverse Fenix hurraconranna blocked, sitdown powerbomb Haze.  Jay rolls out, Haze holds the ropes for him but he slaps him in the face.  He chops away, Haze flips him around and chops him back, Jay flips him around and chops away, whip reverse splash Haze misses and he goes tumbling out.  Suicide crossbody Fenix, Haze posts Jay, chop on the rail.  Jay whip reverse Haze gets posted.  Toss in, Jay with a knee, death valley driver blocked, spinning powerslam Haze gets two.  Haze whip to the corner but he eats a boot.  Fenix goes up, crossbody.  He goes up again, frogsplash gets two and Referee X just stops counting.  Fenix gets in his face, Referee X attacks him and hits an inverted spinning neckbreaker!  WTF???  Referee X pulls Haze on top of Fenix and counts it.

WINNER:  Christian Haze pin -> 6:30 mins. **½

Referee X yanks the mask off and it's Uriah.  Darn it!  Match was too short, I was enjoying it, and HE HAD to just ruin it for us all.  Haze slowly gets up and fetches the mike.  He says he's his buddy, and he had nothing to do with what Uriah did.  Jay thinks it's a conspiracy and he doesn't just lose matches.  Fenix is fuming, then charges Haze.  Security starts filling up the ring to pull them apart, but Jay manages to keep diving over people to get at Haze.

MPW Tag Team Championship
(c)Chico Es Loco 5'10" 150lbs. Mexico, MO & "Shooter" Curtis Payne 6'0" 240lbs. Chicago, IL vs. Brutality Inc. 595lbs. Detroit, MI - Dangerous Derek Davis 6'2" & Rough Cut Rick Ruby 6'0" - They're running this match again?  Ruby nails CEL, leg hook side suplex, side suplex.  Whip boot Ruby, tag Davis.  Double whip, double hip toss, double clothesline.  Death valley driver Davis gets two.  Knee to the head Davis, tag Ruby, kick to the gut.  Whip flying headscissors CEL.  Tag Payne, clothesline, superkick on Davis off the apron into the rail.  Whip clothesline Payne, turnbuckle smash, goes to the second rope, sunset flip misses.  Ruby holds him sideways, legdrop double team.  Davis knocks CEL off, and those two masked S&M thugs run back out here and punch Ruby in the head with a weapon, knocking him OUT.  Davis jumps out of the ring and runs them off, Payne covers and pins him.  WTF???  That was your main event, by the way.

WINNER and STILL CHAMPS:  Chico Es Loco & "Shooter" Curtis Payne pin -> 5:05 mins. *½

Ruby is hurt and has a bad cut on his head.  Davis is pissed off at being screwed out of their title shot for the second time tonight.

Okay here's my BIG problem with this, and you all better be taking notes.  We should have had ONE ten to twelve minute tag match without these guys running out here and ruining everything and gotten one good match out of it instead of two short not so great matches instead with the "sports entertainment finishes."  I mean if these two "S&M" losers wanted to make a statement so bad they could had just sauntered out after the match was over to do their dirty work but all they did was screw the fans over.  Heck these "S&M" guys didn't even wrestle a match tonight!  They tag the last match of the night as the "main event" when it really was not much of one and it was a match we already had earlier in the night on a six-match show.  I mean geez, I open my mouth and point out this stuff and someone throws a temper tantrum over me daring to say something.  Like the emperor is walking down the parade route BUCK NAKED!  Curse you little boy for stating the obvious!  Final score: five screwjobs, four variations of a run-in, no match over seven minutes.

MAIN EVENT INTERVIEW.  What the heck?  Wasn't this the big problem with the WWE that was killing the ratings for it?  And we get a main event interview to close out this show.  Chris Powell comes back out and says he was just phoned by the MPW Board of Ingrate Directors and if he doesn't strip Bob Orton of his belt, he's fired.  Orton, Searcher, Blade, Chipster come back out.  Powell doesn't want to do it but he has to or he's fired.  Orton says something but he's NOT TALKING INTO THE MICROPHONE again.  Orton says he doesn't care about Powell's job and pops him with the belt.  Orton messes up his shoulder doing it, now all four of them are pounding on Powell.  Christian Haze runs out, security jumps in, Chico Es Loco in, Payne, even Jaden.  The four men manage to beat the crap out of EVERYONE, security, referees, wrestlers.  Scar comes in to try doing something but even he gets taken out.  Blade and Searcher continue kicking and pounding away on everyone.  Searcher POWERBOMBS Mr. Insecurity.  Searcher puts Powell in a camel clutch, they continue to scream bloody murder, then say they are the Independent Icons.  They keep screaming at people as they depart, can't hear hardly anything of what they were ranting about, and threaten Mr. Bigg.  They throw the MPW Power Hour sign off the entrance and pull the banners down.  Bunch of whiners they are.  Thanks MPW Board of INGRATE Directors, you guys force someone to do your dirty work for ya and hide under your desks.  These guys saved MPW from the Legion and you turned on them and made them the NEW LEGION.  BTW, when did Orton defend his title last?  This show is over ending in a real downer.

I don't know WHAT IT IS with this promotion, but they have a good show, then a bad show, then a good show, then a bad show, or something.  People are happy when I give a good review and the hounds are released from hell when I give a bad review.  Already the patrons are screaming bloody murder about my comments, and I originally was gonna include them here but I ultimately decided against doing so.  But a little advice, take a look at http://www.livejournal.com/~rspwfaq/ and see if you're reminded of anyone when the readers comment on the rants.

The Verdict:  Once again like the last show in Bethalto, the frequent run-ins killed the show, and the main event interview freakout by Orton, Searcher & Blade ending the show in a real downer left me with more dissatisfaction.  Yeah the crowd was into it, and so was I but after the show is over, how many are satisfied with the outcome?  I don't feel satisfied, that's the bottom line.  It is just bizarre how they're booking this as they are trying to come up with more and more ways to do a screwjob and run-in.  I even stated at halftime that if there was going to be any more run-ins I was gonna be pissed.  And it was a six short match show.  Not at all what I was expecting.

Thumbs down.