The Rap Sheet - from the Crimefighter
Midwestern States Pro Wrestling
4/16/2K5 Charleston, IL
Frat boys don't know how to promote a wrestling show...
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IS the wrestling after all. The archive of all prior rap sheets is
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seems to drive the point home better than anything else for those
kayfabe radicals.
It came to be that a member of an Eastern Illinois University
fraternity brother died young, that being Ryan Struebing, and in his
honor, the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity were raising money to have a room
in the Communication Disorders & Sciences Department named for him
at the Human Services Center being built at EIU. They also are
developing a scholarship in his name. One of his former roommates
of the same fraternity that he lived with for a semsester just happened
to own his own wrestling company, and thus MSPW makes the trip down to
Charleston to hold a show. They needed to rent a ring and since a
few NMW wrestlers have been working MSPW lately they wanted to rent
NMW's ring.
Showed up at 8:45am to load the ring on the trailer, but the trailer
didn't get here til 10:30 or so. Some sort of problem getting the
electrical working with the taillights it seems. Loaded the ring
up and got outta town by 11am when we really needed to get there by
noon. And heh, I knew the best way to Charleston, but Mapquest or
whichever service they use for directions thinks driving from
Springfield to Champaign then down to Charleston was the best way
adding an extra 50 miles to the trip using only the interstates.
Saved a good 45 minutes going IL 121 instead. Once we all
arrived, we had to set the ring up outside as the inside of the
Warehouse wasn't wide enough for the ring. They had to change
venues a month ago so I dunno what went on. Unfortunately it
appears that the members of Delta Sigma Phi did not get the word out
about the event (like flyering the campus) until either the night
before or the day of the show. Attendance was a disappointing
30-35, but kids started showing up in like the last half hour for a
birthday party. If I was at EIU I would had flyered the town a
week ago. Ugh. Justin MacIntyre's goofy antics: Crank
call to my cell phone while on the road claim he's someone with the
Marines looking for new employees and they had my app on file for five
years. I had a hard time believing any employer would be
contacting me and it took a while before I figured out it was his voice
and told him I knew it was him, he quickly hung up. He's such a
home-renter. He got to shoot video for the whole thing.
Live from outside the Warehouse in Charleston, IL. Your ring announcer is Mike P. and your referee is Andy Long.
Egotistico Fantastico 6'3" 210lbs. Mexico City, Mexico vs. "Superstar"
Bryce Benjamin 180lbs. Hollywood, CA - Ego is quite tall, about the
tallest one in the bunch and it made it easy to find him after the
show. Bryce gives a girl a pair of panties. Met the guy
before the show recalling the last time I've seen him wrestle in
person, against Jenny Montgomery. They test their strength at the
start, Ego gets the monkey flip and takedown and works the arm.
Bryce with an armdrag and dropkick. Bryce charges but gets catch
in a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Ego with a suplex, sets up an
elevated surfboard, he rolls with it a bit, then launches him from the
surfboard face first to the mat and gets two. Shoulderblocks by
Ego, whip clothesline gets two. Ego shouts that he hates guys
that wear pink, I shout back "so you hate Bret Hart?" getting no
response. Sitting surfboard using both legs to the back with the
arms pulled, yep that height is coming in handy. Bryce gets a
sunset flip for two, but gets clotheslined down for two. Whip
powerslam Ego gets two, enzuigiri Bryce. Bryce slugs away, hits a
jumping side kick, clothesline, suplex gets two. Kneeling
fameasser by Bryce gets two. Ego hits a gut wrench suplex
throwing Bryce into the corner getting two. Ego with the Alabama
slam, and puts on the Liontamer, but Bryce won't give, so he goes to
the crossface. Bryce gets out, hits a kick to the back of the
head and gets three. Ego grabs those panties, stuffs them down
his pants, then throws them to the ground on his way out. Good
opener.
WINNER: Bryce Benjamin pin -> 7:40 mins. **¾
"Waterboy" Mike Horning 185lbs. Gainsville, FL vs. NMW Central IL Champ
Michael Shard 165lbs. Santa Monica, CA - Horning grabs those panties
and hands them off to another guy, someone shouts "Gatorade" at
him. I dunno why they aren't using "Devil Without a Cause" as his
music here as the "Pain" song just ain't as fitting. Shard with
the headlock takedown, they fight for control of that headlock, shove
shoulderblock by Horning. Shard does a bad hiptoss, armdrags,
back body drop by Shard and Horning runs away. Shard hits a
suplex back in for two, whip Shard hits a splash, but misses a
second. Horning with a neckbreaker for two, and slaps on a head
vice. Horning clubs him down, HARD CHOP, whip dropkick gets
two. HARD CHOP by Horning, CLOTHESLINE FROM HECK in the corner
gets two. Horning whip, Shard hits the flying forearm, sunset
flip gets two. Shard hopover rollup gets two. Horning with
a spinebuster for two. Chokehold by Horning, then fetches his
waterbottle. Horning with a suplex gets two, rear headlock
stretch. Horning whip, Shard tries a flying headscissors but
settles for a DDT, Shard goes up, Horning bounces the ropes to crotch
him, death valley driver finishes him for three. Apart from two
spots errored, this was okay.
WINNER: "Waterboy" Mike Horning pin -> 7:10 mins. **¾
MSPW & BCW Tag Champ "Metalhead" Steve Stone 220lbs. Whitelands, IN
w/ Brandon Blaze & Ami Zane vs. Tweek Phoenix 215lbs. Champaign, IL
-- So Stone & Blaze are dual champs as the Supremacy Squad?
Great, they just need one more tag title to duplicate the feat by the
original XXXPlicit Content a year ago. Apparently Steve Stone got
in trouble for making comments he shouldn't had at a BCW show a week
prior to this before a title defense. Zane is a doll. Tweek
is having his debut match in MSPW today. A lot of chatter before
the match gets going. Stone wants the ref to check them tassles
on Tweek. Lockup, clean break and Stone exclaims how awesome they
are, someone says it's awe-full. Lockup, Stone punches him and
says it's an open hand. Tweek promises to give that punch back to
his face. So Stone does it again and Tweek says it's two.
Stone calls it gay. Stone bails out when Tweek tries to fire
back. Back in, Tweek hits his punches, slam, elbow and Stone
bails. An arguement ensues and Tweek gets an armwringer, whip to
the corner and Stone flops down as if he was doing an armdrag with the
AIR. Tweek with an armdrag, legdrop, armbar with a foot on his
face. Whip to the corner, Stone tries to hop over Tweek but Tweek
doesn't follow and gets armdragged. Hip toss Stone, he armdrags
AIR again and flops to the mat. I dunno, what do you think about
this? Tweek with an armdrag, goes for a piledriver but it's
blocked, back body drop by Stone. He dumps him out for Blaze
& Zane to work him over. Dumb ref just chats with Stone in
the corner. Choke, sitting chinlock, a jumping sitdown gets the
knees. Atomic drop Tweek. Stone fires back with a
clothesline for two. And Ms. Zane chokes Tweek on the
ropes. Stone with a rake, slam, he goes up, and Tweek slams him
off. Tweek goes up, hits a sledge to the head, back body
drop. Tweek hits the piledriver, Blaze hops on the apron, Tweek
knocks him off, another piledriver attempt is blocked, back body drop
gets turned into a sunset flip but Stone grabs the ropes, he hooks
hands with Blaze and they steal it. Well Tweek did okay in his
debut, dunno if armdragging air would cause someone to say "he's
exposing the business!"
WINNER: "Metalhead" Steve Stone pin -> 10:55 mins. **¼
Blaze runs his mouth on the mike, someone threw a paper wad at him and
he threatened to break their neck if he found out who did it.
Blaze wants everyone to look at the person next to them, this is as
good at it gets for them and none of you jerks could bring your
friends. Oh funny. He calls someone to come in the ring
that's sitting in the crowd. He calls him the pride and joy of
EIU, a joke of a college town. He wears a cubs hat, dirty jeans,
dirty shoes, and packed on 25 pounds since coming here, look at his
hair. He tries to leave but the Supremcy Squad JUMP him and kick
away at him. Come on, he ain't a wrestler! Danny Scott runs
out with a handfull of belts to break it up. He tells them three
to shut up and to shut up his whore. He has a lot of belts but no
lumberjacks so they are gonna have a raffle to pick lumberjacks.
They trade banter back and forth before the go to intermission.
The announcer explains the raffle, and I buy one ticket for the guy who
was beat up, cause he should had gotten one of the belts to get back at
them guys. One of the winners is on crutches, so they say hit
someone with a crutch instead.
Mr. Elite 220lbs. Minnepolis, MN w/ Rian Cruz vs. Tony Rican 165lbs.
San Torca, Puerto Rico - Slam Elite, lockup, clean break, lockup, Elite
with a kick and forearms. Whip kick Rican, flying headscissors,
monkey flip, drop kick and Elite bails as Rian yells what are you
doing. Elite wants Rian to rub his shoulders but Rian says he
should rub her shoulders for messing up. Rican knocks Elite down
before he can start, and starts rubbing Rian's shoulders instead.
Elite attacks, toss in, suplex gets two. Gee Miss Cruz was that
the best time to be asking for a backrub? Well I could have given
you one. Clothesline Elite gets two. Tony pounds back, knee
to the gut Elite, belly to belly slam gets two. Choke on the
ropes, Rian joins in, Elite goes to a sleeper. Jawbreaker Rican,
clothesline. Tony goes up, Elite crotches him and Rican hits the
mat. Whip Elite, flying forearm Rican, drop kick to the corner,
Rican does a running flip off Elite's shoulders, bulldog gets
two. Reverse DDT Rican, he goes up, spinaround 450 splash
MISSES! Elite with a torture rack into a neckbreaker gets
three! Nothing to complain about here.
WINNER: Mr. Elite pin -> 7:40 mins. **½
MSPW Heavyweight Championship
(c)Mike Venom 285lbs. Las Vegas, NV vs. AAW Heavyweight Champ Tony Scarpone 265lbs. Chicago, IL - Well Tony's music would not work, and I wanted to hear the
Sopranos theme badly. Tony is one half of "Who's the Boss" with
Tony Rican, and it seems I missed out that he has his own heavyweight title from elsewhere so it's a quest for a double crown. I didn't know Venom won the title in March, I did see
the late February show. Venom for some reason goes after the ring
announcer and throws him in the ring, apparently angry at him for
something. Venom lets out the cuss words at someone in the crowd,
Tony tells him he's fired. Lockup, Venom with a light slap.
Lockup, Tony slaps him back, drop toe hold, drop kick, Venom charges
and Tony yanks down the rope for him to tumble over to the
ground. Back in, armdrag Tony, knees, Venom reverses a whip but
Scarpone's clothesline has no effect. Mike catches Scarpone in a
spinebuster, headbutt, choke, and he stands on him. Venom with
the whip, Scarpone with the sunset flip but Venom grabs the rope, the
ref kicks him off for two. Mike with the clothesline, choke, Tony
grabs the ropes like a teddy bear so Venom pulls the legs against the
rope to crotch him. Pulls him to the apron to choke with the
knee, Mike rakes him, hits a suplex, slams him, elbow gets two.
Tony with a small package, and Venom stands on his head in anger.
He chokes away some more, Tony finally hits a side backbreaker.
They slug it out, Tony hits the side elbow, clothesline, hard whip in
the corner, the ref stupidly gets too close and Venom yanks Long to
take the brunt of a charging Scarpone. Saw it coming. Mike
fetches the title belt, BAM, cover gets two. Scarpone goes up,
Venom trips him up, superplex Venom but Tony gets the cover at
two. Venom hits his spinning side slam for three. Crowd
gives Tony applause for his efforts, and he quips that's the loudest
reaction he got the entire match thanks a lot. Well, this crowd
was said to be not a wrestling crowd, yeah there are a few people who
are wrestling fans mixed in but still.
WINNER and STILL CHAMP: Mike Venom pin -> 12:10 mins. ***
The ring announcer gives away the other belts, and they keep drawing
people that already won. So they just hand the rest of them to
people in one row, including the beatdown victim from earlier.
The belters surround the ring, ready to spank someone if they try to
leave.
MSPW Hertiage Championship - Lumberjacks Have Straps
(c)Delicious Danny Scott 222lbs. Joliet, IL vs. MSPW & BCW Tag
Champ Brandon Blaze 205lbs. Chicago, IL w/ Steve Stone & Ami Zane -
The lumberjacks are told not to hit the girl. Well can they hug
her instead? Blaze is called the "Dyslexic Wonder" cause
supposedly he can't read and thus hates college towns. A couple
of wrestlers are throwing peanuts from the upper floor at them
guys. DDS comes out to "Real American" with a bag of
Twizzers. DDS hits the spear and Blaze tries to run but gets
belted by the lumberjacks. DDS with three straight
shoulderblocks, and they scream about those shoulderblocks being
punches to the face. Whatever. Zane has that bag of
Twizzlers and throws pieces of it in the ring. Blaze argues and
gets slammed by DDS, Blaze stumbles into the ref and HE slams
him! Andy Long to be a wrestler sometime? Blaze bails out
and gets belted by everyone. DDS suplexes him back in for
two. Hammer shot Blaze, choke on the rope. Whip drop kick
by Blaze gets two. DDS gets dumped out and the everyone belts him
around, eats an elbow getting in for two. DDS with a sunset flip
and PULLS DOWN Blaze's trunks, exposing his bare butt. Okay I
didn't need to see that one. He bails out and everyone whips that
bare butt, including that fan he beat up earlier. Back in, DDS
hits an atomic drop that clearly didn't connect, Blaze hits a
clothesline and chokes with his wrist tape. Blaze with a slam, he
goes up, he dives and eats a boot. Whip clothesline DDS, slam,
back body drop gets two. Blaze with the death valley driver gets
two. DDS however hulks up like Hogan and waves that finger in his
face, KICK WHAM STUNNER DDS, ROCK BOTTOM, and the People's Elbow finish
him for the win! Fine match to end things, a bit silly with the Hoganisms.
WINNER and STILL CHAMP: Delicous Danny Scott pin -> 8:55 mins. ***¼
Well Ami Zane hops in the ring to argue with DDS, she slaps him, DDS
gives her a death valley driver in retaliation. Sheesh, I thought
they said don't hit the girl, what the heck was that? Steve Stone
comes out to check on the two of them. Blaze
refuses to get out of the ring until all the belts are returned.
And our day outside comes to a close.
The Verdict: I didn't expect an outdoor show, anyone looking at
the photos will invoke the "backyard fed" crap. Once you get over
that part, nothing really stood out overall. It was an average
show, though on the short side, but lack of attendees really
hurt. The fraternity promoting this event really dropped the ball.
Thumbs in the middle, leaning up.