The Rap Sheet - from the Crimefighter
Next Generation Wrestling
10/9/2K4 Peoria, IL

Since WHEN are paying fans required to practice kayfabe?


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It's been a long time since I have been able to get up to Peoria to watch an NGW show, and this is the first time I was able to get up there to view a show in their regular building.  Getting there is rather difficult, as the interstate through Peoria is completely tore up and numerous exit ramps are being completely rebuilt.  So you have to pay attention to the message signs that tell you which exit to get off on to go to the street you were driving to.  After you get off the highway and into the city streets, you have to watch carefully cause if you drive by the place you might miss it.  I found this Peoria Athlete Club finally and went in.  I could not believe how small this place was.  The ring is in the back of the room, the walls are like one or two feet from the ring.  The total number of chairs set up was 70, and were in rows of five seats each on both sides of the room.  Total attendance for this show was a rather low 43.  These guys run weekly shows, and this apparently has been within the average attendance numbers.  

Live from the Peoria Athletic Club.  Your PA commentary team is Scooter and Mr. NGW.  Yeah there's PA commentary again, I'll just ignore it for the most part.  

Before the first match even gets started, Dennis Devine, the former drunkard Mike Casteen now known as Mike Fine, and Klepto Magnifico come out to the ring.  Devine says he's not Phoenix's opponents tonight.  Devine does his best Stuart Smalley imitation showing off his rehab work on Fine and Klepto.  Devine has Klepto return some chain straps he apparently stole from Ryan.  I have no idea what that was about.

Ryan Phoenix vs. Alto the Great w/ The Great Cheyenne - I mistakenly thought Alto was  someone else on the roster with a mask cause he looked like The Great Malenko but that wasn't the case.  Lockup, armbar Alto, reversals, waistlock Alto, takedown gets two.  Snap mare blocked, armdrags Ryan, spinning heel kick and Alto bails.  Cheyenne is repeatedly shouting SHUT UP.  Sheesh, why is she so cranky tonight?  Alto back in, whip reverse hip toss, armdrag, clothesline, drop kick Phoenix.  Alto bails again, Phoenix follows, Alto gets a drop kick on the way back in.  Cheyenne hops on the apron to whine.  Whip INVERTED flying headscissors Alto gets two.  Rear headlock, hair yank Alto.  Wheelbarrow attempt is turned into a backbreaker by Phoenix.  Whip inverted wheelbarrow is reversed into an X-factor by Ryan.  Guillotine legdrop on the ropes by Alto, neckbreaker on the middle rope gets two.  Whip drop kick to the back by Alto, springboard neckbreaker gets two.  Camel clutch Alto, but lets it go.  Whip reverse Alto with a flip over, enzuigiri Phoenix.  Whip drop kick twice by Ryan, whip reverse into powerbomb.  Ryan does a crossarm backbreaker for two.  Whip reversals double crossbodies.  Ouch.  They both get up and each of them go for double springboard clotheslines.  They beat the count up, atomic drop by Ryan, Alto is put on the top rope, Alto gets a tornado DDT for two.  Alto goes up, Kyle Rich runs out from the back and superkicks Alto off for something that happened one or two weeks ago.  Ryan Phoenix with the Styles Clash wins it!

WINNER:  Ryan Phoenix pin -> 11:40 mins. ***½

Great match to open, some sloppiness in there but I'll let it slide.  A fan tells me I'm brave for writing a review of Ace of Spades, cute.

Tank Thurman comes out to gripe.  He's back and he's pissed.  He's mad Perfect 10 has a title shot next week, he's got a surprise for them this week.  He takes off.

Johnny Justice & Tristian Hayze vs. Gilbert Lewis & Scotty Keyes - Oh geez, not the nerd!  Lewis is rolling on the floor laughing.  The heels jump them from behind, double team, superkick, dropkick on the bad guys.  They bail, Justice and Hayze back in and stomp on Lewis.  Justice pounds away, tag Hayze whip hip toss.  Hayze Boston Crab, Justice Camel Clutch combo.  "He dropped the soap" chant.  Drop kick to the face, knee to the gut and teases a tag for Keyes.  Hayze puts him on the bottom rope, charges and sits on him.  Choke by Justice, Lewis escapes and tags Keyes.  Keyes kicks away, uppercut, chops, Hayze flips him around and chops harder!  Keyes fires back, tag Lewis, they pound away in the corner.  Tag Keyes, spinkick to the face, Keyes' chest is all red.  Keyes makes a wish, double legdrop.  Hayze charges gets yanked into the middle turnbuckle, Hayze yanks Keyes into the post.  Hayze gets a suplex, tag Justice.  Hayze pulls the arm up for the kick, Justice kicks away, does a piggyback armbar.  Off the ropes, ref almost gets run over, spinning flatliner by Justice.  Justice whip into his corner, tag Hayze, he pounds away, Justice tag, he pounds away, tag Hayze, whip hammerlock with the leg into a pin combo for two.  He knocks Lewis off into the wall, Justice chokes with the tag rope, tag.  Hayze holds Keyes up for Justice to jump him and sit on Keyes...but messes up the set down.  Keyes gets a jawbreaker, Hayze cuts of the tag and slaps Lewis.  Hayze with a modified ab stretch.  Keyes picks him up for a Samoan drop.  Justice illegal switch, double flatliner, Lewis ties up the ref, Hayze gets two.  Knee drop to the head by Hayze, Hayze goes up, twisting moonsault missed.  Both men in the wrong corners, Hayze tries to kick, Keyes with a kick to the face.  Both men tag, clothesline on Justice, whip back body drop on Hayze, whip on Justice elbow.  LOW BLOW and POKE by the heels.  Lewis by his corner and doesn't tag, Hayze in illegally, choke, slaps Keyes in the back.  Keyes yanks down the rope and Hayze flies over.  Lewis gets a hammerlock rollup on Justice for the pin!

WINNERS:  Gilbert Lewis & Scotty Keyes pin -> 10:20 mins. ***¼

Keyes pulls Hayze out, Justice shoves down the ref and throws a temper tantrum.  Sore losers.

Shane Griffin comes out for an interview.  He says if gave a crap of what two guys think they'd be on the other end of this.  Last week he debated Chris Hazard in the ring, but he got MC Trip C instead.  MC Trip C hit him with a chair and he wants him out here.  Chris Hazard comes out instead.  Hazard says for all his five minute challenges he can't roll over in five minutes.  Hazard says Shane should be glad that it wasn't him chairshotting him last week cause he'd knock his head off.  Hazard says he's a changed man, he wants him the old fashioned way and he can bring his chair or whatever he wants.  Shane accepts, though I thought it was a hardcore stip with the chair involved.  Some fan keeps popping for the announcements of time limits.

The Great Malenko w/ Cheyenne vs. Apocolpyse w/ Dr. Jacob Walker - Well Apoc has ditched the biker gear for facepaint.  Cheyenne is still very cranky, maybe she just needs a hug.  Malenko slugs away but has no effect.  Armbar, waistlock, chop does nothing.  Whip three clotheslines by Apoc, spinebuster.  Cheyenne on the apron and does the illegal neck yank on the rope.  Chip by Malenko, he works on the leg, figure four.  Apoc powers out and shoves Malenko out with his boot.  Apoc with a choke shove over the top rope!  Apoc grabs Cheyenne and Malenko with choke holds, but he rams Apoc into the post.  Malenko goes up, Apoc slams him off, then gorilla press slams Malenko onto Cheyenne on the floor!  Okay, that's just wrong.  Malenko with the neck yank on the rope, DDT, elbows.  Apoc acts like Undertaker and sits up, whip clothesline.  Cheyenne jumps up again, man she don't learn.  Malenko gets thrown into Cheyenne, but gets a LOW BLOW on Apoc.  Edgeucution by Malenko, hits a second rope moonsault.  Apoc no sells it and chokeslams him.  Pumphandle slam follows and Apoc wins it.

WINNER:  Apocolpyse pin -> 7:50 mins. **½

Women's Match 2/3 Falls
Super J vs. Sensational Sascha - Your referee is MC Trip C.  Sascha complaining about cheering for a loser, how?  Match hasn't started!  First fall:  Super J attacks from behind, whip clothesline J.  They trade slaps, chops, Sascha with a hard chop.  Snap mare, drop kick Sascha.  J whip clothesline, snap mare, J up to the second rope, Sascha yanks her down.  Sascha with a choke, forearm shots, whip a very LOW hip toss, Sascha stomps away, then pins J with her feet on the ropes to go (1-0) at 3 minutes.

Second fall:  Shoulderblock J, whip to the corner, shoulderblock to the back of Sascha.  Whip shoulderblock Sascha dodges but J hits a bit of her side, Sascha goes up and hits a crossbody for two.  Stretch chokehold Sascha.  Super J hits a suplex for two.  J knee, DDT gets one but she pulls her up!  DDT J again, she goes up, Sascha tries to throw her off but J hits a sloppy tornado DDT for the pin at 6:35 minutes to tie it at (1-1).

Third fall:  Sascha attacks, J yanks the leg.  Lockup, armwringer J.  Face slam J, sloppy running bulldog gets two.  Sascha kicks J outside, Sascha fetches a chair, MC wrestles it away in the corner, J charges and splashes into the chair, MC Trip C and Sascha that looked all messed up.  And it didn't look like it could knock a ref out, especially an active wrestler.  "Soon To Be" Justin MacIntyre runs out and clotheslines J.  You don't go beating up girls!  J recovers and hits a snap mare, gets a butterfly armbar, Sascha stands up with it but gets downed by a running butterfly bulldog (or maybe a running Unprettier?) for the win.  Sloppy match.

WINNER:  Super J (2-1) pin, pin -> 10:30 mins. *½

MacIntyre runs back out and attacks J some more.  MC Trip C shoves him off, ROCK BOTTOM MacIntyre.  MacIntyre holds J up for Sascha to beat on before two more refs break it up.  Super J grabs the mike and chews out MC Trip C for trying to help people but only gets people hurt in the process.  HUH?  We go to intermission.

NGW Triple Threat Championship
(c)Ray the Wrestler vs. Chris Michaels vs. Ric Brutal - They go after Ray before the bell, double whip double sit out hip toss, Brutal gets two, Michaels gets two.  They shove each other, Ric kicks him, whip cartwheel by Michaels, leapfrog Brutal, side kick Brutal, Ray forearms Brutal.  Ray whips Michaels to the corner, holding clothesline to the mat gets two.  Brutal whips Michaels jumping karate kick gets two, Michaels rolls out.  Ric kicks away, tosses Ray out.  Brutal with a moonsault onto Ray & Chris on the floor and almost in the front row!  Ric throws them in, shoulderblock, hard sunset flip, Ray up, turnbuckle smash, second rope legdrop.  Superkick Michaels on Ray, two count on Brutal.  Brutal whips Michaels, spin kick, Ray kicks Brutal, whip toss spinebuster.  Michaels senton on Brutal, two counts, kicking in the corner, choke on Ray, Brutal misses a kick, double powerbomb on Brutal!  Michaels fights Ray, Michaels with a poke on the top rope, crotches him.  Brutal snap mares Michaels off the top rope, Ray flying hurraconranna on Brutal and pins him.  Cramming spots within five minutes.

WINNER and STILL CHAMP:  Ray the Wrestler pin -> 4:40 mins. **½

Klepto, Fine and Devine come back out.  The commentary team call this the "Devine Intervention" segment.  Someone shouts they need one more for the Teletubbies.  Devine talks about tricks, and who didn't enjoy the bXXXX slap contest and he's nobody's bXXXX.  He's tired of Team Greatness and had been through a lot with Cheyenne.  Devine has a table brought in, someone shouts it's a "good housekeeping" match.  Cheyenne and Team Greatness come out, all banged up from earlier.  Klepto steals their hat.  Devine wants Cheyenne to sit down for an arm wrestling match.  Okay the way Devine is acting I can see why Cheyenne ain't attracted to him.  Devine brings out a referee, and it's pNut.  I shout to spit in their hand.  Other members of the crowd shout crude comments.  The arm wrestling begins, Devine gets an early lead but Cheyenne powers his arm down for the win.  Devine yanks his arm out and flips the table on her before fleeing the ring with his posse.  Gee what a wuss.  Team Greatness go after pNut, Cheyenne grabs pNut for the side slam, legdrop.  Kody Kash runs out to help pNut, Team Greatness turns to beat up Kash.  Devine and Fine sneak back out and yanks Team Greatness off the apron.  Cheyenne grabs Devine and beats the crap outta him before the referees try pulling them apart.  Michaels accidentally nails his own partner in the melee.  Kody Kash fights Michaels to the back.  

Kody Kash vs. "Student of the Game" Russ Staley...err..Stevens - Apparently Russ did something last week to set up this match.  Hey where is Russ?  The ref announces that Russ ain't in the building and starts counting.  A woman shouts "He's in labor!"  Another person shouts he probably had to work tonight.  "He's in labor" chant.  I shout "maybe he's in the Quad Cities wrestling!"  Ref gets to ten and it's a forfeit.  "It's a boy!  He had triplets!"  Guess Russ didn't want to show his face after last week's incident.  We will revisit this match at the end of the rap sheet.

WINNER:  Kody Kash forfeit -> N/A

"Ace of Spades" Shane Griffin vs. Chris Hazard - I thought this was a hardcore match from the interview earlier but I was incorrect.  Lockup Shane forearm shot.  Lockup corner, weak chop by Shane.  Lockup Hazard slugs away, shoulderblocks.  Whip attempt is blocked, Hazard gets whipped to the corner and crashes.  Shane with a poke, suplex, one foot cover gets one.  Chop in the corner, snap mare Shane.  Hazard with a flying shoulderblock, elbow off the second rope gets two.  Hazard whip shortarm clothesline Shane.  Griffin with weak punches in the corner, whip crash goes Hazard.  Shane splash in the corner, Hazard spear attempt misses and he hits the floor.  Shane goes out, apron ram by Hazard.  Head slam into the announcers table by Hazard, Hazard takes the table made of metal despite the protests of Scooter.  Shane with a pair of head slams, but the ref gets to ten and we got a lousy double countout.  BAH!

NO WINNER:  Double countout -> 5:10 mins. *

Scooter screams at the two guys that it's his table and if they want the table so bad they're having a table match next week if they don't like it they can hit the door.  Hazard and Griffin start fighting some more, Shane gets the ring bell and conks Hazard in the head.  Scooter orders both men to hit the showers.  This was all about setting up next week's table match, nothing more.

Tank Thurman comes out to introduce the opposition for Perfect 10.  Stickrod and HIMSELF?  Oh geez, we're gonna have a -***** match now!

Denver Todd Stickrod & Tank Thurman vs. Perfect 10 - Big Pappa & "Little Pappa" Kyle Rich - Thurman is gonna wrestle in street clothes.  Rich and DTS start.  Lockup, armbar Rich, hammerlock, shoulderblock, enzuigiri.  Kyle whip hip toss and rides it down for two.    Tag Pappa, KO punch, whip clothesline, big elbow gets two.  Pappa whip big bubba slam gets two.  Tag Rich, chop, side kick gets two.  Armbar superkick Rich gets two.  Tag Pappa, he chops DTS, whip clothesline misses, DTS with a clip!  DTS elbows to the gut, he goes up, flying headbutt to the shoulder (called Stick the Rod).  Tank wants in, DTS begrudgingly tags him in.  Pappa is up and goes after Tank, whip big splash!  Another one, tag Rich, full nelson, Kyle on top, big chop.  Rich scissor kick on Tank gets two.  Illegal switch, DTS pounds away, snap suplex gets two.  DTS slugs away in the corner, whip flying splash gets two.  DTS whip spinebuster, Tank wants in again, so he's tagged.  Tank just covers and gets two.  Tank whip clothesline.  Tank whip reverse tornado DDT Rich gets two.  DTS breaks it up with another illegal switch.  Belly to belly suplex variation DTS gets two.  DTS whip flying clothesline, ROCK BOTTOM!  Tank wants in again, DTS is losing patience.  Kyle nails him in the back of the head with a kick, Pappa in, flapjack/neckbreaker combo finishes off Tank for the pin.

WINNERS:  Big Pappa & Little Pappa Kyle Rich pin -> 7:45 mins. **¾

Ah the match turned out quite good, Perfect 10 go for the titles next week.  Show is complete, Scooter and Mr. NGW say goodbye.

The Verdict:  A better show than Ace of Spades was by a big margin but before I could go telling anyone about it I got an unpleasant surprise.  I got a scolding from one wrestler after the show was over telling me I "ruined the angle" that was Kash vs. Stevens. Not so.  A no-show is a no-show, there may be valid excuses to no-show and there's invalid excuses.  Choosing to skip out on a match in Peoria to wrestle in the Quad Cities instead would be one of those invalid reasons a heel would use to avoid an certain  opponent.  How that "ruined an angle" beats the heck out of me unless NGW's fans know absolutely nothing about wrestling outside of the city limits.  There's more than just me out there that follows wrestling in the Midwest, and there's probably a few people that have gone to Peoria and the Quad to watch shows.  And what difference does it make if he fled town or hid under his bed at his house?  A bunch of other stuff was said about committing this "no-no" and I'm being held to a standard I have not set for myself to be more responsible cause I'm not a typical fan and write columns.  Because of that incident, this may be the last NGW show I review live cause I will not accept being chewed out like that.  I say more about it in the Rap Sheet Blog at http://www.livejournal.com/~rap_sheet

Overall show, much better than Ace of Spades, enjoyment ruined by that dumb incident.

Thumbs up.