The Rap Sheet - from the Mad Conservative
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South - April Bloodshowers
4/1/2K5  Herrin, IL

Vacation at last, and I finally get to see what all the hype is...


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Vacation, a trip to Tennessee and Virginia is something I've been trying to do for a couple years but something kept happening to scrub the plans.  Finally things worked out where I could hit the road and drive down there, and it just so happened that IWA-MS scheduled a show the day I was to begin the trek southeast.  So I scheduled a couple hours off early on Friday to hit the road and get there before the show starts.  

The Herrin Civic Center is pretty much a theater, not like what a civic center would be for something like conventions and stuff.  The seats of course were all on one side of the ring facing the stage where the ring was set up on top.  Total attendance was between 170-180.  The sound system in the civic center appeared to have problems as it sounded funny when people talked.  I don't know if the ring that was used was IWA-MS's own or if they rented it from another promotion, but someone claimed the poles shook every time someone ran the ropes.  I certainly did not notice that.  Tickets ranged from $10 to $25, the higher ticket prices had the seats closer to the stage.  Those sitting in the front row must have had big crooks in their necks looking straight up and if there was mat wrestling they'd have to stand.  The rental rate for the building was reasonable, a little less than what my own local fed pays for renting the building they use.  Needless to say they will be going back to Herrin every so often.

Sabu was supposed to appear for an autograph session, but he fell ill and had to seek treatment that day.  Chris Candido was also supposed to appear for a match but was scratched due to raising plane ticket prices.  Too bad.

Live from the Herrin Civic Center.  Ian Rotten addresses the crowd and talks about the lineup.  He warns about the barbed wire match, if someone doesn't like that stuff they can leave after the first eight bouts and they'll have gotten their moneys worth.  He also warns that the wrestlers may fight through the crowd and if they are in your path, to get your stuff and outta the way.  Why?  They have a whole stage to fight on!  He says Billy Gunn will be here tonight, and Danny Daniels who had a brutal dog-collar match two weeks ago defends his title against Jimmy Jacobs.  He then introduces the guest ring announcer Kevin Hunsperger from WSIL 3 in Harrisburg.  Apparently he got smacked by Gunn during the morning newscast.  Ian says what they do is different from what airs on Monday and Thursday nights.  Ian addresses why Sabu wasn't here, he woke up ill and visited the doctors today so he wouldn't have another $200 grand hospital bill later.  Ian also teases Axl Rotten coming to a future show, that being 4/30.

Arik Cannon ???lbs. Chicago, IL vs. IWA World Six-Man Champ Trik Davis ???lbs. Chicago, IL - Trik Davis is one third of the six man champs with Brad Bradley & Ryan Boz.  Cannon is coming off a broken collarbone injury.  15 minute time limit.  They shake hands to start, they lockup, and break clean.  Trading of wristlocks, Arik shouts if he should break his arm, Trik goes to the leg.  They wrestle on the mat for quite a while, switching around until Trik comes up with an armbar.  Five minutes elapsed.  Trik with an armdrag, some more mat chain wrestling.  Trik strings some armdrags, Arik bails out.  Someone comments that this is circa 1982 wrestling.  A fan in the front row offers Arik his kendo stick.  He takes a pass and returns to the ring, Trik with a whip, hair yank by Arik, back body drop, chops, back breaker and side slam gets two.  Trik attacks, Arik fires with a hard slap to the chin, yowch!  Arik with a standing suplex gets two.  Arik hits the RUDE AWAKENING and shouts let's hear it for Trik!  Arik sets up Trik, and hits a HANGMAN'S PEDIGREE for two!  Dang.  Trik with a snap mare, side elbow, side kick, bashes him with a knee in the corner.  Trik with a neckbreaker gets two.  The ring announcer is giving time remaining, and they're being shortchanged.  Arik tries something but it's blocked, settles for a gut wrench for two.  They trade pin attempts and time expires ***EARLY*** at...

NO WINNER:  Time limit draw -> 13:40 mins. **

Okay, people wonder why I'm making a big deal about this?  Well if you're gonna have a time limit don't cheat them outta their time, and we could had gotten a winner instead of a draw.  And Arik is begging for a time extension as I am screaming that they got shortchanged by a minute and a half.  He's denied the extension.  I hold up a sign saying "Get a new watch timekeeper!" every time they're way off on the clock.  As for the match, I could tell a lot of people didn't exactly care for it.  There was nothing really wrong with the technical wrestling going on between two faces, someone thinks the opener went longer than it should (with how long a typical IWA-MS show goes they have a point) and called it a "Broadway Finish" whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.  Maybe the folks had never seen a pure technical match before but it was okay with me.

NWA Midwest/IWA Women's Championship
(c)Daizee Haze ???lbs. Forest Park, IL vs. Rain ???lbs. St. Paul, MN - Haze gets the big hometown reaction as she has her roots in nearby St. Louis and quite a few made the trip down here to see her in action again.  Rain is one half of the popular Lacey & Rain duo of the midwest, but Lacey ain't here, darn.  Rain with a slap, Haze with a takedown in response, they fight over a wristlock.  Haze with a snap mare, rollup gets two.  Clothesline, elbow, flying headscissors Haze.  Here come the chops...Rain reverses the whip to the corner and hits the clothesline for two.  Snap mare, dropkick to the back gets two for Rain.  Snap mare and kick by Rain, she drags Haze to the post and wraps the arm around it.  Rain pounds away on the apron, Haze pulls out a victory roll for two.  Arm yank to the mat by Rain gets two.  And here's the cross-legged nelson!  Haze pushes backward and nearly pins her.  Rain with a clothesline gets two, Rain goes for an armbar using a leg.  Slam attempt reversed into DDT by Haze, she slugs away, then goes up...MISSILE DROPKICK gets two!  Rain with the Russian leg sweep gets two.  Haze though finishes with a punch in the center of the chest and a hard kick to the head for the pin.  Well this match turned out okay, it's not something the WWE knows how to do anymore.  I don't agree with the claim that Haze ain't a "believable" wrestler, has he ever seen Christy Hemme wrestle?

WINNER and STILL CHAMP:  Daizee Haze pin -> 8:40 mins. **¾

Silas Young & NWA Midwest Tag Champ "Underwear Model" Eric Priest vs. The Iron Saints - Vito & Sal Thomaselli vs. Lone Star & TJ Dalton w/ Penepole - Priest takes the mike and says that was the worst intro he's ever heard and rambles on about how much of a sexy man he supposedly is.  Priest's co-champ partner is Matt Longtime, who I don't think wrestles in IWA-MS.  They spend time trying to decide who will start the match, as the heels keep tagging out and won't lock up.  Finally it's Star and Young.  Star slugs away on Young, hits a spinebuster for two.  Vito comes in, demands Star tag TJ.  Vito gets an armbar on TJ on the mat, TJ up and does a hip toss, armdrag, dropkick for two.  Vito with the clothesline, tag Sal, TJ with a hurraconranna.  Clothesline Sal, snap mare and kick.  Sal with the side kick, tag Vito, headbutts.  They trade chops, tag Young and he armdrags TJ.  TJ manages an armdrag off the whip, atomic drop, dropkick and Young gets hung up the ropes!  Thomaselli knocks Star to the floor, side suplex by Vito gets two.  Vito tags Sal, he goes up, slam by Vito, legdrop by Sal gets two.  Sal slugs away on TJ, tags Young in.  Young standing suplex gets two.  Man the crowd gets vocal with the wrestlers, TJ gets up, elbows to the gut but runs into a knee.  Tag Priest, he stomps and chokes away.  Lone Star tries to get in, Priest whip BIG BOOT to the face of TJ and a ONE FOOT cover gets one.  TJ tries to chop, whip to the corner, eats another elbow.  Young with a boot to the face, choke by Priest.  Priest works him in the corner, LOW BLOW by Priest!  Wrestlers yell at the crowd, TJ tries fighting back, tilt-a-whirl face slam by Priest and the Saints breaks up the cover.  Young argues with the Thomaselli's, TJ with a rollup and Vito breaks it up.  Young chokes TJ in the corner, tag Sal, German suplex gets two.  Sal whip to the corner, TJ slips away and tags Star.  Star bangs Young & Priest together, the Saints block a similar attempt but he chokeslams them both for two!  Star tags TJ, whip kick to the face!  Star is tripped and dragged outta the ring, TJ lifts Vito, Young and Priest beat Star on the floor, Iron Saints have TJ...DOUBLE FLAPJACK!  Sal goes up, Vito has TJ in a pendulum, Sal STOMPS HIM FROM THE TOP ROPE!!!  They get the pin.  Fun little match it was.

WINNERS:  The Iron Saints pin -> 11:20 mins. ***

IWA Light Heavyweight Championship
(c)Delirious ???lbs. Edge of Sanity vs. Josh Abercombie ???lbs. Kalmazoo, MI - They fight over an armbar, Josh takes control and takes him down.  Leg scissors Delirious, shoulderblocks Josh, rollups get one.  Headlock Delirious, rollup Josh gets two.  They run the ropes, armdrag by Josh.  Delirious with TWENTY STRAIGHT clotheslines in the corner on Josh!  Dang!  Josh bails, baseball slide misses, there's a fight on the floor before they go back in, Delirious goes up top, Josh shoves him off, uppercut Josh, whip flapjack, hard kicks get Josh two.  Josh whip elbow, hits a second rope moonsault for two.  Josh with a slam, he goes up, Delirious moves, Josh hops down and climbs up the opposite corner, but Delirious moves and Josh looks like an idiot.  Delirious goes up instead but Josh hits a springboard dropkick knocking him to the floor.  Josh springboard moonsault to the floor off the stage and INTO THE FRONT ROW!  Yikes!  Somehow they don't land in anyone's lap!  They get back in the ring, moves are blocked, clothesline by Delirious, whip to the corner Delirious goes up and hits a missile dropkick to the back of Josh.  Running knee to the face, Delirious goes back up but misses the axe handle.  Josh hits a reverse backbreaker, neckbreaker.  Josh hits a snap mare into a face plant for two.  Delirious hits a flip over short powerbomb for three (Chemical Imbalance 2?)!  Enjoyable match, I don't agree with someone's claim that the match was sloppy.

WINNER and STILL CHAMP:  Delirious pin -> 11:35 mins. ***½

We have our first intermission, and it's 9:10pm!  Ian announces the date of the next show and goofs up on the month, haha.  The Civic Center will be selling tickets to the next show, someone wants to buy tickets to sit on the stage.  Well I chatted with Mickie Knuckles for a little while about the CW.com regulars since she was out there at the merchandise table, MsChif was sitting at the other end of it.  And these gals are gonna cut each other up shortly.  Billy Gunn came out for pictures, Rain was also out there.  

"The Outlaw" Billy Gunn ???lbs. Orlando, FL vs. "Wild-eyed Southern Boy" Tracey Smothers ???lbs. Springfield, TN w/ Rain - Gunn gets a lot of crowd support.  Smothers has the mike and screams at everyone to shut up.  Gunn gets off the stage and sits in the front row.  Good ole cheer off to start as Tracey talks trash and tells us all what NOT to chant at him or else.  Gee, the reverse psychology really works.  Gunn has the mike and does the old "suck it" routine.  Lockup and shove by Gunn, big stall-a-thon.  Gunn gets a headscissors on the mat, but Tracey gets out and stalls some more.  Shoulderblock from Gunn.  Tracey runs his mouth some more in embarrassment, prompting Billy to drop trough.  Tracey kicks him, crossbody Gunn gets two.  Drop kick and Tracey bails again .  Well this is really old school sports entertainment crap.  Billy yells "SUCK IT!", Tracey yanks Gunn outside, post ram by Gunn, Tracey hits his arm on the post, Tracey finally shoves Gunn into the post.  Rain gets her licks in, Smothers chokes away.  Gunn gets a backslide for two, Tracey clothesline gets one.  Sunset flip Gunn gets one, Tracey punches him in the neck, snap mare, headlock on the mat using the ropes with Rain's help.  Yawn.  Gunn rollup gets one cause Rain ties the ref up.  Headlock on the mat by Tracey, Gunn elbows out, Tracey pounds in the corner, Gunn pounds in the corner.  Gunn hits a forearm off an irish whip, clothesline, splash, and it's THE ONE AND ONLY!  Rain jumps on the apron, Gunn comes over and gives her a big kiss.  Tracey charges and knocks Rain off, Gunn with the FAMEASSER and it's over!  That was not the kind of match I care to see, long, old school and boorish, it's something Intergalactic Wrestling Federation would do for a main event.

WINNER:  "Outlaw" Billy Gunn pin -> 12:45 mins. *½

Billy Gunn teases pulling down his trunks again, Ian Rotten comes out begging him not to, but Gunn does it quick.  Ian says Gunn can still go, he had gotten a lot of flak for even bringing him to IWA-MS, but getting Gunn out of New York away from Satan himself Vince McMahon yielded dividends.  Silas Young comes out wanting to gripe, but Gunn cuts him off.  Ian scoffs at Young being out here and calls him a faggot for what he's wearing.  Ian says for all the net that crapped on him for bringing Gunn in, they say SUCK IT.  Young scoffs at Ian showing appreciation for Gunn as if anyone gives a crap about it.  Ian scoffs at Young thinking he'll be a big superstar and it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.  He even teases a reunion of the New Age Outlaws.  Ian says Silas Young will be cuffed to a ringpost while Billy Gunn beats Eric Priest the next night in Salem so he'll learn what it's like to be a real superstar.  Well gee, who had the better match this evening huh?  Superstar does not necessarily equal great wrestler.

First Blood Match
MsChif ???lbs. St. Louis, MO vs. Mickie Knuckles ???lbs. Clarksville, IN- Well this has been billed as the first women's blood match in the country.  I'm not thrilled with the idea of women cutting each other up though.  MsChif has the wild partially dyed green hair.  MsChif jumps Mickie before the bell, slugfest in the ring, kick to the face by MsChif.  She gets the spiked belt and tries to shove Mickie's face into it but she blocks, uppercut by Mick and gets a chair.  Mickie misses the swing, MsChif tries a DDT but it's blocked, Mickie dumps her out, SUICIDE DIVE to the floor!  Clothesline on the floor, MsChif with a kick to the face and tries using the spike belt but she blocks it.  They go off the stage, Mickie with a headbutt, ram against the stage, CHOPS!!!   MsChif with a whip against the wall!  They're fighting up the side of the arena, Mickie rams MsChif against the wall, ref checks on the heads.  They're coming in my direction!  They ram heads into the seats, they're up in the curtain, they go out the back door!  MsChif tries going up a ladder to where the sound guys are and does a crossbody!  MsChif pounds away on the floor, now they're coming up the sixth row!  They're in front of me, Mickie with a double hairpull!  Where are they going?  MsChif bites, whip into the wall goes Mickie.  Flat blows ain't gonna cut anyone, why does the ref keep checking?  They're going into the foyer/concession/merchandise area, as I rush out there before they do.  They go through the doors outside briefly, Mickie tries to ram MsChif into the trash can, tries to pull the top off but it's connected together so she throws MsChif into it instead!  The crowd has swarmed the foyer area, and I see that Mickie has a big knot on her head.  Mickie drags MsChif to the merchandise table and bangs her head against her own photo!  MsChif throws a chop, Mickie hits back with someone, I tell some guy to hand Mickie the kendo stick, MsChif doesn't give her the chance, the girls get within arms length and there's no where to go!!!  I jump through the concession window fearing my safety as MsChif BLASTS Mickie with the kendo stick!  The concession guys aren't happy about it, but I don't wanna get run over by them you know?  MsChif beats Mickie on the head, no cuts yet.  The women finally go back towards the stage.  Mickie has a chair, MsChif forearm shot, MsChif puts the chair on top with the legs tied up, sitting on it while slugging away.  In the melee, the referee gets shoved to the post!  MsChif with the RED SPEW!!!  Ref sees Mickie's face covered with it, but this guy appears to be a lot smarter than your average ref and isn't fooled.  MsChif tries to bite, then fetches the spiked belt and slugs her in the head with it!  Grind to the head with it, and that DOES cut her as Mickie is screaming!  Or was that MsChif shrieking?  Cut above the right eye is visible from where I'm sitting and the ref stops it.

WINNER:  MsChif KO -> 16:50 mins. ***½

Man them girls got a bit too wild in their brawl.  The WWE divas apart from Lita couldn't do this.  Mickie has the mike and slowly stands up as the fans give her an ovation.  Mickie says she's been fighting MsChif for a while, she wants MsChif in a steel cage on the 30th in Herrin!  She asks the crowd if they want to see it.  Appears the match has been made.  There were gripes about the finish, but I didn't see much problem with it, actually am glad the match wasn't ended via the red mist cause it would had been a tainted win for MsChif.  Mickie to her credit was out and interacting with the fans with her head taped up after the show was over.  

NWA Indiana Championship/NWA Midwest X Championship
NWA Midwest X Champ Matt Sydal ???lbs. St. Louis, MO vs. NWA IN Champ Brandon Thomaselli ???lbs. Montgomery, IL - Hey, we're in Illinois, I wonder why these state titles are defended out of state?  Originally this was non-title, but Ian Rotten comes out and says since all these people came to watch how about title versus title?  The wrestlers agree to that idea and it's ON!  It's pretty much a homecoming for Matt Sydal.  They lockup, Brandon gets the takedown and they wrestle on the mat.  Matt comes up with an armbar on the mat.  Monkey flip, crossbody by Matt gets two.  Sydal does a bow & arrow but turns it loose and hits a side suplex, standing moonsault for two.  Brandon reverses the whip, throws Matt straight up and GUT BUSTERS him!  Hope he skipped dinner.  Brandon off the ropes and does a running shooting star press for two!  Suplex gets two, double underhook armbar gets two, slam & kneedrop by Brandon gets two.  Matt tries a move, Brandon tossed him outside, Brandon with a moonsault off the apron onto Sydal, he showboats, but Sydal knocks him off the stage, Matt with a flying body tackle, they may be going through the crowd!  Chops on the floor, then go out the exit door briefly, then they trade forearm shots as they get back in the ring.  Sydal moonsaults off Brandon's back, headbutt to the rear gets two.  Backbreaker stretch by Sydal, drops him, Brandon hits a spinning flapjack for two.  They both go up, Brandon gets hung, drop kick to the face by Sydal.  They trade chops, Brandon gets tied in the ropes again, Matt drop kicks him.  Matt hits some form of a gut wrench suplex for two.  Matt puts Brandon on top, Brandon shoves him down, Brandon with a 450 splash but Matt GOT THE KNEES UP!  OUCH!!!  Cover gets two, Matt tries a piledriver but Brandon reverses it into the BeeLee Driver ((c) Justin MacIntyre) for two.  Brandon goes up, FROG SPLASH gets two.  They trade rollups, Brandon with a rollup and a bridge, Matt grabs his arms from underneath and pulls them down to the mat as they BOTH pin themselves!

NO WINNER:  Double pin -> 15:45 mins. ****

Well I've never seen a double pin like that before, some may not have liked the finish (and there were groans and gripes in the crowd for sure), but it doesn't bother me one bit.  Was afraid the ref might had called it wrong but this is a smarter than your average ref in the ring.  The guys were handed their belts, the wrong ones, heh.  Excellent match.

We have our second intermission as they put barbed wire on two sides of the ring and wrap it the HARD way, over all three ropes.  

Barbed Wire Hardcore Match
Ian Rotten ???lbs. Louisville, KY vs. JC Bailey ???lbs. w/ Jim Fannen - Fannen runs his mouth about how much he hates Ian Rotten and even though he hates JC Bailey too he's better than Ian and when they win War Games he'll be rid of Ian entirely.  I saw Ian Rotten before the show and man is his forehead all gouged up...and that's when it's completely healed!  He looks a lot different than when I last saw him wrestling for the old Dallas promotion Global Wrestling Federation.  Right away they try to push themselves into the wires, Ian with the whip and JC slides out.  Back in, JC nearly sends Ian into the wire with a drop toe hold.  Ian does get a hip toss into the wire!  Ian throws some forearm shots, tries to dig the wire into his head.  Ian fetches a chair...BAM!  JC is now bleeding.  JC throws Ian into the wire and digs it into his head and his arm, and bites into it...now Ian is bleeding.  They trade headbutts, JC chokes Ian on the post.  Ian with a LOW BLOW.  Rotten with a running kick to the head, Ian suplexes Bailey ONTO the stairs!  Yeek.  Ian with a POWERBOMB on the stage!  Ian has a table set up, POWERBOMB through the table!  Ian chokes Bailey with the table strip, and hits him with a table chunk.  Fannen just stands by looking totally unappreciative.  Ian gets another table, JC gets a chair, a whip into the wire goes JC and looks like he got gouged on the ear.  Ian with a BRAINBUSTER on the chair gets TWO!  Suplex attempt is blocked, JC gets a suplex onto another table!  Ian though lights up a fireball and throws it in his face to burn him and get the pin.  Pretty much a sick brawl, at least they didn't use the staple gun.

WINNER:  Ian Rotten pin -> 11:15 mins. **

We take a THIRD intermission just to remove the barbed wire and clean up the mess.  I think they should have put the barbed wire match LAST on the show so we wouldn't have to wait even longer for this show to get over with, it's about 10:45pm.  Ian Rotten comes back out to thank us for coming and to come back on April 30th for the next show in Herrin.  He gives props to the women from earlier and slams the WWE's divas who don't know a wristlock from a wristwatch and cry cause the wrestling business is too tough for them.  Vince McMahon, are you listening?

IWA World Heavyweight Championship
(c)Danny Daniels ???lbs. Chicago, IL vs. Jimmy Jacobs ???lbs. Grand Rapids, MI - The match starts and the crowd gets behind them.  Lockup, they roll into the ropes.  Jimmy with a northern lights suplex gets one.  Monkey flip Danny gets two, floatover gets two.  Headlock takedown Jimmy, Danny with an armbar, they chain wrestle, Jimmy comes up with a wheelbarrow takedown.  Danny scissors the head, shoulderblock have no effect, Danny slaps him hard, Jimmy punches him, shoudlerblock, armdrag.  Japanese arm drag by Danny, they repeatedly trip each other and shove.  They end up shaking hands and someone has the gall to shout BORING.  Danny shouts back if you're bored then GO HOME!  Danny has Jimmy by the legs but he gets the rope.  Daniels with a full nelson, Jacobs gets free and hits a hurranconranna.  Jacobs with a dropkick, chop gets two.  Daniels with a spinning backbreaker and knees to the back.  Daniels with an elevated surfboard, but lets go before he pins himself.  Daniels chops, Jacobs hops over a charging Daniels to the corner,  Daniels tries to toss him but Jacobs gets on the second rope and hits a clothesline.  Jimmy with a double stomp on the ropes for two.  Slugfest which Jimmy wins, Daniels begs for more, Jimmy charges but gets caught in a back breaker.  Danny chops, whip side elbow gets two.  German suplex gets Danny two.  Jimmy gets a tornado DDT for two.  Jimmy puts Daniels on the top rope, he goes up with him, but Daniels drops him HEADFIRST into the ringpost!  Dang that's gotta hurt, and the match practically comes to a halt as Jacobs is cut and they may have to stop the match.  Crowd chants for Jimmy as he struggles to get up.  Finally Daniels attacks him with a kneeshot to the head!  Daniels with a pedigree into his KNEE gets two!  Dang, he's going for the kill.  Daniels with a hard chop, whip and into a sleeper hold. Jacobs gets up after two raises, side suplex by Daniels gets two.  Jimmy fires up, slugfest in the ring, Daniels charges and tries to clothesline Jacobs over but he hits the floor himself and Jacobs tumbles out with him.  Ouch.  Back body drop on the floor by Jimmy, he gets a chair and puts over Daniels and sits down.  Jacobs goes back in the ring, SUICIDE DIVE!  Jacobs tosses him in and gets two.  Jacobs with the UNPRETTIER gets two.  Jacobs goes for the sliced bread #2 but gets thrown off, Daniels with the CLOTHESLINE FROM HECK gets two!  Powerbomb attempt is blocked, drop toe hold by Jacobs in the corner, he goes outside...Jacobs springboard meets a DROP KICK by Daniels!  Man that was dangerous, it's a wonder how Jacobs ain't injured.  Daniels goes up, Jimmy meets him up there, they fight on the top rope, side suplex by Daniels from the top rope gets two!  Daniels with a PILEDRIVER!  POWERBOMB!  Daniels with the Boston crab, Jacobs somehow powers out.  Daniels goes up, pulling Jacobs with him but gets crotched.  Jimmy with the Sliced Bread #2 gets two!  Jim goes up, SENTON gets two!  Jim goes up again, another SENTON gets two!  Jimmy does another two sentons and this time puts his feet on the ropes for the pin!  It's over!

WINNER and NEW CHAMP:  Jimmy Jacobs pin -> 28:45 mins. ****½

Jacobs pulled it off, even though he cheated with the pin.  I'm wondering if that decision is gonna stand.  Daniels asks for the mike, he admits he did it.  Daniels mentions the dog collar match he had a few weeks ago and says he almost bled to death.  He says Jacobs should get all the support he could get so the crowd should give it to him.  Daniels says Jacobs couldn't beat him twice in a row in a 2/3, 3/5, 4/7 and wants a rematch.  Jacobs asks he wants him tonight, he could beat him in a 2/3, 3/5 but since he's the champ Daniels does not get a rematch.  Huh?  It's not for HIM to decide who gets the title matches.  Match was excellent, some of these bumps were extreme and credit to Jacobs for finishing the match despite getting knocked out on his feet.  If he wasn't really hurt at all, he did a masterful job at selling that head injury.

The Verdict:  Well I can see what the hype has been about with this promotion, there are flaws, like the show running ridiculously long and not starting early enough, some matches running way long (Haze/Rain was the only match that was under 10 minutes), however I greatly dispute anyone who says this was not an overall good show.

Thumbs way up.