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.