The Rap Sheet - from the Crimefighter
Capitol City Championship Wrestling
4/17/2K4, Springfield, IL
Anyone else tired of seeing that sweathog Marvin during
RAW? I shed tears every time I see it!
This rap sheet is posted in news:rec.sport.pro-wrestling.info
a
newsgroup that many wrestling organizations could utilize to spread
info about their shows but don't, and the dossier of all the ones I've
written are stored in http://rap-sheet.tripod.com.
EDIT: I have gone thru and corrected the names now that I have most of
them.
Ironically I wrote part of this rap sheet back in July of 2003 when I
was going to go to their first show that was going to be held in
Grandview, IL at a location that I thought was too small indoors.
The show ended up being cancelled by the owners of the building in a
dispute on how the place is supposed to be used and the village board
claimed it could never be used for any profitable venues. An
article appeared in the paper a few days later about the cancellation
and I thought the building owners were in the wrong. After that,
it appeared the fed went under...but I come in to a meeting of the
wrestlers on this particular date and am shocked to find that 3CW still
exists! Anyway, let's go back in time and review some history
between the "cross-town promotional feud".
I never thought this city of Springfield would have two wrestling
groups, much less one, but now it does. And the beginnings of
this 3CW are wild and turbulent at best, requiring its own retelling of
history before we get to the actual show. 3CW began its existence
as a group of wrestlers breaking away from New Midwest Wrestling, for
various reasons including disagreements on whether someone was ready to
work a match, how often to hold shows, and various other things.
Initially I thought this group was a bunch of people looking to get a
piece of the action cause once NMW started holding shows cause lo and
behold someone associated with this group sent me an email inviting me
over to look. I thought the whole thing was a hoax cause there
has been trolls who were claiming they were putting on superior shows
somewhere else, all lies of course, and this was another in a line of
them. Weeks later I get another email from someone with the group
complaining about the stuff I've written. I had been posting a
few comments about what I thought the whole thing really was and
thought he was talking about that. But I come later to learn that
3CW had its own message board, and once I loaded up the page discovered
an imposter was writing stuff using MY OWN NAME without my
knowledge. To say I was outraged was an understatement, and made
a public slamming of the offender. As time wore on, they lost
their site, and I thought the whole venture was dead. Fast
forward a year later, as I was watching Monday Night RAW, I see an ad
for 3CW featuring former local shock-jock radio personality "Marvin"
from WQLZ hyping this new wrestling school. Besides hyping the
school, he tells us why this school is better than the others even
though it has no established business reputation and while not naming
companies does some bashing with phrases like "don't be fooled" and
such. Unfortunately, in the background we see two guys doing
moves, and not very well. I don't know if these guys are actual
wrestlers but if they were I'd be embarrassed. This ad runs for
six weeks, and during that time there was a couple of occasions where
an NMW ad aired RIGHT AFTER the 3CW ad giving viewers a great
side-by-side comparison. Things got worse fairly recently though,
when the newest ad came out for this show and Marvin took a few more
cheap shots with Adam [Deacon] doing "Little Inspiration" on
someone. A pack of wrestlers got in their cars and took a drive
down to the southwest end of town, which happened to be NMW's former
location, now 3CW's new location and attempted to perform a reading of
the riot act. That didn't quite set well with me, I would have
greatly discouraged them from running down there for a
confrontation. Anyway, they planned their debut show called
"Blood Sweat & Tears" for July 2003, which was heavily advertised
during RAW and in the Illinois Times. Literally a couple hours
before the show was to start, the owners of the Grandview Municipal
Building cancelled the show claiming the building was rented under
false pretenses. Angela Hanley, the village office administrator
claims they DID NOT know this show was for profit, despite knowing for
a couple of MONTHS exactly what they were gonna use the place
for. It was quite obvious that Hanley is an incompetent moron who
doesn't have a clue how to manage her own building. Well after
that incident, 3CW faded away, or so I thought. In the middle of
April next year, they suddenly hold a show at a new venue.
Well this report covers their debut show, with little fanfare or
advertising. As a result, there's hardly anyone there
watching. To be quite honest, I had NO CLUE they were running a
show. When I found out they were actually running a show, I was
at NMW's gym for a meeting. Since I WASN'T there, just how can I
be doing a review of it? Being with NMW now, someone loaned me a
videotape on 8mm for me to do the recap. Amazingly enough, a lot
of people want to see this tape just to see how bad it is.
Someone enters the ring unidentified wearing black and has black and
white face paint. He says he's got a hardcore match with Justin
Blade. He expresses his dark intentions and welcomes him to his
nightmare. Yes sir, he's giving me the creeps, he wasn't facing
the crowd when he talked.
Live in some building near the intersection of North Grand and 19th
Street, which I still haven't found. Your ring announcer is
unseen and unidentified. First thing I notice, it's a low ceiling
so no moves off the top are possible.
They play music for the first wrestler and they play the wrong
music. They play another song, and gee, it's "Iron Chef" Leo
Lagossi??? Adam Deacon must has dropped the cult gimmick, which
before he dropped the chef gimmick. Last time I saw
Deacon...errr...Lagossi, he had won a sinister six match against five
others for a Central IL title shot, which he ultimately gave up when he
joined 3CW as a trainer just so he could get more
"respect". Lights go out, and they play some odd tune for
entrance music for the next wrestler, he looks like a tennis player.
"The Iron Chef" Leo Lagossi 6'0" 225lbs. Paris, France vs. Ace Dorrity
6'2" 170lbs. London, England - Lockup, hammerlock Ace, Leo reverses it,
headlock, takedown Chef. Ace with a headscissors but Leo gets
out. Sloppy drop toe hold Leo. Shoveoff, running the ropes
and Leo stops and kicks him after hopping over. Leo chop, whip
splash. Leo HARD whip Ace crashes. Chef stomps away,
backbreaker, another one cover gets two. Chef chops away,
butterfly suplex gets two. Chef tossout and Ace crashes to the
floor. Chef drops Ace on a couple of what looks to be big boards
up against a wall. Toss in, Chef whip powerslam gets two.
Chef chokes away with the knee, whip tilt-a-whirl slam gets two.
Chef whip, and he COMPLETELY blows a hip toss. Ace just drops to
the mat like an idiot and Chef pounds him in the back of the
head. They do the spot again, and I see Ace was going for the
wheelbarrow but BLOWS IT AGAIN! Chef just knees him. Chef
with a knee to the groin, hip toss, then actually HELPS Ace into the
wheelbarrow position and gets bulldogged. Oh boy this match has
completely fallen apart. They both go outside and slug away at
each other, ref gets to nine, Ace is against some conveniently placed
sheet boards, Chef dives at him from the apron and goes thru the
boards. (I find later that they were set there to provide a path
to the restrooms, okay.) Ace short arm clothesline, toss in, Ace
whip reverse BIG collision. Chef climbs up the ref, then WHIFFS
on a clothesline that somehow knocks Ace down. Chef chokes away
on the mat, whip Ace hits an Ace Crusher to put this match out of its
misery. Match was going okay in the first half then the stream of
blown spots sunk it into the sewers.
WINNER: Ace Dorrity pin -> 9:35 mins. -**
Ace jumps up and whacks the chef with the tennis racket on his way
out. Sheesh, Adam Deacon left NMW for THIS? It seems HE
needs to be going back to training himself and not be training others
how to wrestle. This is the kind of stuff you see during training
sessions, not prime time.
Sam Stockwell 5'8" 346lbs. "Aisle Eleven" w/ Discount Diane vs. Billy
Reno 5'4" 156lbs. Reno, NV w/ Mindy Vegas & April Casino - Billy
Reno would be the former one NMW battle royal wonder "Flashback Kid",
not counting the theater era. Billy is wearing a tie while
wrestling, Stockwell ain't wearing gear either but he comes dressed
like your supermarket stocker. Stockwell forearms him down,
suplex. One of Reno's girls actually tripped on the apron getting
down. Stockwell elbow gets two. Sam whip big splash, he
pounds away, whip knee to the gut in the corner. Another whip
splash missed, Billy slugs away, chops, runs across the ring and hits a
back splash. Sam just flops down, Billy legdrop gets two.
Billy on the second rope and drops a forearm for two. Billy whip
reverse clothesline Stockwell. Butterfly suplex Stockwell, whip
to the corner, side slam gets two. Stockwell backbreaker.
Sam with a second one, choke on the mat, whip bearhug. Billy
punches out of it, whip flying forearm shot by Billy gets two.
Stockwell slugs Billy to the floor, he goes after Diane, Stockwell
posts Billy. Stockwell whip clothesline, running elbow gets
two. Stockwell whips Reno in the corner, pounds on him, another
whip splash missed. Reno works on the leg, running one foot drop
kick to take him down. Figure four attempt is blocked, Reno is
pushed outside. Stockwell side slam gets two. Billy tries a
clothesline having no effect, drop kick. Stockwell whip flying
headscissors Reno. Reno does another one and manages to get him
over, he does the Ronnie Garvin body stomp, works the leg, figure four,
Stockwell finally taps out. I notice they don't even have a
BELL. Overly long boring match.
WINNER: Billy Reno submission -> 13:45 mins. ¾*
Billy Reno wants to just shake hands, Stockwell shakes it but Diane
nails him with a pan and Stockwell DDTs him. Sore losers.
Billy gets up, find the shopping cart was left behind and so he hands
the contents to the crowd. And we see just how many are in the
crowd for there not being any advertising. Match went too long
and got boring.
Kandi Deluxe comes out next for an interview, the mike doesn't work but
we can hear him just fine without it. Someone asks where's the
deluxe. He's the women's temptation and the reason why they leave
their men for a dream vacation. He says 3CW was the first
competition to sell out in Springfield, IL. Okay, Adam Deacon
most definitely did sell out with a couple other guys, but this venue
most definitely IS NOT a full house. He says they don't put
flyers on cars to let them know who they are cause it's the cheap
way. Okay, if that was a reference to what someone was thinking
of doing while the show was going on they might have a point. But
then again they once put fliers inside wrestling magazines at the
supermarket (illegal) so saying that is hypocritical. His
opponent tonight is Nemesis. He came from the other side--the
competition--he destroyed the competition. I guess he's referring
to an ex-NMW guy. He plans to wrestle him later tonight. He
throws suckers to the crowd, then says remember, it tastes just like
candy. SUCKERS! Ohhh...the irony!
The next match starts and we don't even get the ring intros cause the
wrestlers want to fight. I don't know who these guys are!
Darn it! Well I'll call the big guy in green the Irishman, since
his manager is also playing the role but the name on the back says
Dropkick Murphys, and we'll call the guy in the football jersey OSeven
until I get the names.
Seamous McNelson w/ Patrick MuGroin vs. OSeven - They lockup, OSeven
gets
an armbar, Irishman gets a clothesline. Lockup again, armbar
OSeven, waistlock, Irishman elbows out and clotheslines him down.
Drop toe hold OSeven, Irishman rams in him the corner, he charges and
misses the splash. OSeven clotheslines have no effect, finally
one knocks him over for one. OSeven pounds away in the corner,
whip reverse, slow clothesline corner by Irishman, big splash gets
two. Irishman pounds away, shoulders, whip slow splash charge
missed, DDT OSeven. Irishman legdrop misses by a mile, OSeven
waits on him, running shoulderblock. Irishman whip, ab stretch
but OSeven gets out of it. OSeven hits something like a double
chokeslam from two before Murphys pulls the ref out. Irishman
gets a low blow with Murphys on the apron, belly to belly suplex wins
it. They announce the winner as "Derrick McNolton". OSeven
shall remain nameless for now.
WINNER: Shamous McNelson pin -> 6:45 mins. *
They go to halftime, and we get another panning of the audience by the
cameraperson just to account for how many are actually there due to no
advertising of the show.
Hardcore Match
Chuck Diamond vs. Justin Blade - I don't have a name for the kid in
black
and face paint still, and no ring intros were done either. The
Unholy One named Blade as his opponent earlier. Blade messes with
his shows and Unholy jumps him. Whip splash missed, Blade pounds
away, whip clothesline. Blade with a hard slam, legdrop,
turnbuckle smash. Blade whip side slam, Blade goes outside into
the little crowd and gets a trashcan. Some fan didn't get the
idea it's a hardcore match. Can put in the corner, whip reverse
and Blade hits it. Unholy clotheslines Blade over the top and
throws the can down. Unholy waits on him; suicide dive is met
with a trashcan tossed in his face. Blade rams him into the door,
canshot, Blade searches for something, he's got a pan and whacks
him. Blade whacks him with the pan again, then gets a chair and
bashes him with it. Blade winds up, Unholy ducks a chairshot
against the post. Unholy posts Blade, panshots, chairshot, he
puts him in and gets two. Unholy goes out and gets the chair;
whip backbreaker gets two. Unholy kicks away in the corner, whip
rolling knee to the gut and bulldog gets two. Unholy turnbuckle
smash, tree of woe, he kicks away, puts the chair against Blade's face,
rolling dropkick Unholy gets two. Unholy whip drop toe hold, he
goes for the 619 but missed, Blade powerslam gets two. Blade
tosses Unholy out, rams him in the rail, posts Unholy. Geez, the
woman almost had a wrestler in her lap. Blade blasts Unholy with
a water bottle, gets the chair, whacks him in the head while Unholy
held his hand up. Blade takes Unholy into the crowd and beats him
on a table then the glass door. Blade kicks Unholy down the
stairs. Blade teases going outside, gets another trashcan and
hurls it down the stairs at Unholy. Skip ahead. They're
back up here, Unholy hits him with a rod and slams him on the
floor. Unholy takes Blade back to the ring and gets two.
Unholy drops an elbow, misses a second. Blade throws a can in the
ring, puts it over Unholy's head, superkick. Blade tosses a chair
in, canshot, Unholy jumps up, chairshot Unholy, Unprettier on the chair
and it's over. The ring announcer says his name is "Jeff Diamond"
or something. Fine. Went way long there, even with some
clipping of when we couldn't see them fighting down the stairs.
WINNER: Chuck Diamond pin -> 16:35 mins. shown *½
Golden Eagle Chip Conway 6'1" 155lbs. USA vs. Mickey McNelson 6'0"
235lbs. Ireland w/ Seamous McNelson & Patrick MuGroin - Dang can't
hear the intros again, okay Dropkick Murphys is Brother Shamus. I
could only hear the "Bald Eagle" part of the masked man's name.
Lockup, armbar Mick, Eagle reverses, hammerlock Mick, Eagle whip
reverse flying eyepoke. Crap the cameras out of focus, Eagle with
a nice tilt-a-whirl reverse DDT for two. Eagle chops away, Mick
chops away, whip and he goes flying over the top, but I couldn't tell
cause the camera was doing a closeup of nothing. They fight
outside on the floor, Mick gets back in, Eagle gets in and Mick stomps
away. Backbreaker Mick gets two. Rollup Eagle gets
two. Whip Eagle reverse BIG SPLASH, throwdown gets two. Now
Eagle does a stupid Hogan hulk-up, Eagle pounds away, flying
headscissors from behind. Eagle seems dazed, kip-up, Eagle pounds
him, tries to pick him up but can't, he wants to try again and fails
miserably. A third try and he just barely lifts him, splash Eagle
gets two. LOW BLOW Mick, side slam, big elbow, powerslam gets
three. Looked like a skip ahead. Oh they aren't done, the
Irishman do the double team Demolition finisher on him. Ace comes
out and beats them with the racket. Well they tried.
WINNER: Mickey McNelson pin -> 7:10 mins. *¼
Nemesis is out for his match, he chews out the crowd and picks on
various members of the crowd. He said this person should have
been aborted. He runs his mouth some more before the opposition
comes out.
Nemesis 6'4" 255lbs. "Anywhere but here" vs. Kandi Deluxe 5'9" 185lbs.
Jolly Ranch, Atlanta, GA - I believe Nemesis is the former pre-NMW
talent known as DarkCyde. They trade hammerlocks, shoveoff,
crossbody Kandi is caught, but he escapes, Deluxe hits a couple
dropkicks and sends him out. Nemesis whip flying clothesline
Deluxe gets two. Backbreaker Nemesis. Slam Nemesis,
wheelbarrow into a facebuster. Nemesis pounds away on the apron,
choke behind the rope. Nemesis inverted neck snap against the
turnbuckle. Nemesis holds an inverted headlock, Deluxe flips
over, sunset flip gets two. Nemesis pounds away in the corner,
whip Deluxe does a messed up sloppy face slam teasing a DDT move.
Deluxe pounds away, whip Russian leg sweep without hooking the leg,
running bulldog. Deluxe kicks away in the corner, whip splash
Deluxe, another corner whip ref stupidly gets in the way and Deluxe
gets them both. Nemesis tries the chokeslam, Deluxe
stunner. Another ref revives the other, Nemesis rolls out in the
confusion and spits something in the face of Deluxe, twirling
DDT. You suck chants, Nemesis jaws with the fans about NASCAR;
dumb one hand cover gets two. Nemesis leans over to get small
packaged for three, dummy. Nemesis grabs the ref and threatens to
slug him if he doesn't do the DQ. So he does...uh yeah.
Sloppy.
WINNER: Kandi Deluxe pin -> 11:30 mins. *½
The Verdict: Expectations for this show was way low, and for good
reason. This was a six-match show, and a few of these ran way
longer than they should had. Not one of these matches broke two
stars, and these guys showed how green they are doing the common
moves. The ultimate irony: this debut
show for 3CW drew less than the number of fans that suffered eye
irritation from a damaged light bulb at an NMW show a week later.
Credit Matt Boston for that observation. If 3CW is serious about
being a promotion in this town, they are gonna have do the little
things, like advertise on the net and put up flyers at grocery stores
or something. But then again, Kandi Deluxe called that
"cheap". I may come watch another one of their shows to see if
they show any improvement, or merely refute the stupid statements said
in the ring and get fresh material for the rap sheet worst of the worst
in wrestling.
Thumbs WAY down.