The Rap Sheet - from the Crimefighter
Rampage Championship Wrestling
10/24/2K3 Alton, IL

Note to self, never again rush way out of your way to a wrestling show on a Friday night...

I have decided to move the Rap Sheet Dossier to http://rap-sheet.tripod.com and no longer piggyback it onto http://abermud.tripod.com. Two entirely different hobbies just don’t go together.

There were shows all weekend down in the St. Louis area and since I had to run an out of town errand I had my choice of which show to go to. I decided to go to the RCW show Friday night, though I would be cutting it close with running down there to Alton with a start time that was posted on the web of 7:30pm. The show actually started at 7pm and once I arrived at 7:35pm I discovered I missed two matches and was not pleased. Top it off, MPW had a great show the next day.

I don't know where to begin with this, but here goes. The day after this show some anonymous troll/mole/ho take your pick goes posting a message saying they are in talks to buy out and take over RCW and the entire roster's gimmicks. Why someone would want to telegraph that ahead of time and risk losing the remaining talent base where half of them quit a couple months ago is beyond me. After the troll posted their dumb message, members of the roster have gotten restless. One member of the roster, Matt Taylor who's got something jammed in his jock strap decided to pick a fight with me after reading comments I've made in the previous rap sheet. I stated, incorrectly in the last report that Taylor was one of the WWF Doinks in 1993. That turned out to be dead wrong, the WWF Doinks in 1993-95 were: Matt Bourne, Ray Apollo (some say Ray Odyssey), Steve Keirn, Steve Lombardi, and Dusty Wolfe. Taylor just used the gimmick in the indy circuit, but he had also used another gimmick, that of claiming to be the brother of Mike Hickenbottom a.k.a. Shawn Michaels. That "brother" gimmick was reportedly met with an order to stop from WWF lawyers seen by a now former RCW talent, who's in a bitter feud with the manager of Taylor, the Russian Sports Agent. I'll get to that shortly. Taylor proceeded to post obscenity-laced public notes accusing me repeatedly of being the troll. His "evidence" that proves I'm the troll is a paragraph from the previous rap sheet where I lay out a number of things that the promotion needs to improve on. He somehow construes that into a belief that I am the one who wants to buy out the company (yeah right) and take possession of everyone's personas. Rather than attack the message, which was perfectly valid, he resorts to attacking the messenger. To review what got into Taylor's craw, there ARE problems with the makeup of that ring, which during the show a number of guys tripped on it, and once they took the ring apart I could see what was under the tarp. It consisted of some layers of carpeting, under carpet padding, but the boards underneath had the center of it with additional sheet boards on top. They say they are gonna fix the thing, which is good for the talent. Poor performances by certain people was fair criticism, if they didn't like it those people can raise the issue with me and discuss it. And lastly the undelivered matches part, it is not wise to promote a match then not deliver, and the ones in question are ones set up by angles. The last show in Carlinville was supposed to be a title match between Matt Taylor vs. Shawn Dustry with the fans picking the match, that didn't happen. A flag match was supposed to be on the next show with the fans deciding the fate of the losers, that hasn't happened. Taylor was supposed to defend against Shawn on another show, that hasn't happened. Now THIS show had five announced matches, but not ONE of them were held, cause they reshuffled the lineup entirely. One of those was the match I was really wanting to see Sage Ramsey vs. Kris Synz. Kris Synz wasn't happy that the man he wanted to wrestle so badly, either here or in NMW, got put in another match and he had to wrestle two men at once. So there's the three items that Taylor has some sort of problem with, but instead of refuting that he has to go after me for a scapegoat in place of the actual MOLE. Now the other major feud, Blackglove Butch Fletcher versus Lee Miller. These guys are cousins, and Butch blames Miller for the current woes of RCW, that being the mass talent exodus. I finally met Butch this evening and got some of what transpired though parsing it was quite difficult cause he was royally angry. Though I don't know what all they did to each other the past year or so, from what I did observe, Butch has traded barbs with Miller to the point that one was gonna get a restraining order against the other for some nasty accusations. As much bad blood there is between these two they should just put them in the ring against each other and fight it out. THAT would sell a lot of tickets and settle a lot of issues. Now if you can parse all of that and figure out the truths from the fibs, you’re brilliant.

Who are the current champs in RCW? Besides the heavyweight champ, Derek Davis and Rick Ruby are the tag champs, though Ruby has been on hiatus due to injury and they haven’t defended the belts in a while. There is a hardcore title, which is vacant and they plan to fill the spot soon. There's a television title, that is vacant, and they're not on TV yet but they’re gonna fill that too. And finally there is a cruiserweight title, last held by Doug O'Shea but they are keeping the belt in mothballs cause they say there aren't enough people under 200lbs. to compete for it. Uh, exactly how many people do you need? There looks like enough of them on THIS card!

Your host is Lee Miller, who bares a very strong resemblance to someone I've seen before, like that Russian Sports Agent, he sounds like him too. The ones I recognized in attendance from MPW are Christian Haze, "Not the NWA's" Trinity, and promoter Master Chris Powell. Attendance looked to be a rather low 50-75 people, not good for a St. Louis area show. Tickets were a bargain at six bucks too, which means they need to do a bit more promotion and encouragement to get people coming.

Mr. Haunt 5'10" 240lbs. Montreal, Quebec, Canada vs. Sean Chadwick 6'4" 180lbs. - I missed out on this match due to that incorrect start time, so I asked Mr. Haunt to recap his match:

"For the record, Sean Chadwick got his sneaky win with a swanton bomb instead of a frog splash. Felt more like a ******* anvil dropping on Me. Managed to stun Me longer than three seconds. There's no conceivable way that stickman could take a win over Me, but he did it. If it happens again, I'll be sure to snap his twigs like bones, so he can't run around so much."

Unfortunately I couldn't get any other details.

WINNER: Sean Chadwick pin -> 10 mins. N/A

Triple Threat
Kris Synz 5'9" 240lbs. New Orleans, LA w/ Mat Maniac vs. Big Daddy 6'3" 400lbs. Brooklyn, NY vs. Black Death 6'6" 230lbs. Parts Unknown - Kris Synz was originally supposed to wrestle Sage Ramsey, and Synz has been asking for this match for weeks in RCW and in NMW, but for some reason the bookers changed it. Synz was worried about them screwing it up, and they did. Big Daddy is wrestling for the first time in a while, he has been recovering from cancer. Black Death is the man in the hood, and his "home fed" is the National Wrestling Coalition out of Olney, IL. I also missed out on this match due to that incorrect start time, so recapping this match is Kris Synz:

"All three of us started off brawling, punches, kicks, and chokes. After I got knocked down by a double clothesline, I ran to the outside of the ring, and killed some time out there. Multiple pin falls throughout the match. Big Daddy chokeslammed Black Death, I ran into the ring to break the pinfall. I then grabbed a piece of rope and started choking Big Daddy with it while Mat Maniac distracted the ref. Big Daddy threw me into the turnbuckle. Black Death tried Irish whipping Big Daddy into me. I moved. Big Daddy fell to the outside of the ring and went after Mat Maniac. I ran towards Black Death kneed him in the stomach, then hit 'The Downfall' on him to get the three count." The Downfall...is a butterfly suplex into a powerbomb.

WINNER: Kris Synz pin -> 10 mins. N/A

I now arrive at the YWCA thinking the show had just started but find out we're a half hour in, and it's in the middle of another Matt Taylor diatribe. The Hollywood Stud from MPW is also in the ring, and we find out that Matt Taylor has scammed his way out of defending the heavyweight AGAIN. Let's review, the #1 contenders match was held back on 8/9 in Carlinville where Shawn Dustry beat Doug O'Shea in a cage match. Matt Taylor then goes and defends the belt against a WOMAN on 9/6. I imagine Shawn Dustry wanted his shot that night and had to wrestle Rick Diamond instead. On 9/20 we were supposed to have the title match, and Matt Taylor got out of the title defense AGAIN by making Shawn Dustry wrestle Steven Kennedy. So that's three times he's made Shawn Dustry go through a #1 contenders match and the gutless wonder refuses to defend his belt which he got handed to him on a silver platter in a "tournament in Rio De Janeiro". Taylor continues to blab about how good it is to be the champ (without ever defending the belt) until someone finally interrupts. Shawn Dusty comes out wanting his title shot, Taylor says forget it, so Shawn brings out a partner Steve Montana. Lee Miller asks if he's refusing this match tonight, Taylor says he is, Miller says his evil twin Russian Sports Agent Boris Shylovski signed a contract for Steve Montana & Shawn Dustry vs. Matt Taylor & The Stud tonight. Frank Reed who couldn't be here tonight says if he doesn't wrestle the match he'll be stripped of his belt. Taylor says he'll step in the ring, but whoever gets the pin on him gets the title shot the next day. And Taylor tells Montana and Dustry to watch out for their partner, cause he'll screw you over. Montana says he screwed himself over. Dustry doesn't care who beats him as long as he doesn't hold that belt any longer. Montana says even if he doesn't get the title shot the next day he'll get it soon after. BTW, Miller calls himself Shylovski and his regular name interchangeably. Miller fires off a note asking me not to point this out cause it would "ruin" it or "break kayfabe" for the fans. Ummm...yeah, that's assuming the fans are unable to recognize his face and voice and that they don't read the RCW message boards at all where he's used both names interchangeably. Seriously, I don't know of anyone in wrestling that's playing two identities at the same time without any change in appearance. I think I would have figured it out myself without prompting from anyone else though. How many others in the crowd would had done the same thing?

Boris Volkoff 6'0" 300lbs. Moscow Russia vs. Dexter Poindexter 5'11" 175lbs. Silicon Valley, CA - Your referee is, correct spelling, Sgt. SYCO. Out comes "Black Death" or at least it LOOKS like Black Death. Boris, one person says VOLKOFF another says KOLOFF, I dunno which it is, but I hear VOLKOFF so that's what I'm going with. And besides, he's using Nicholi Volkoff's music from the first WWF wrestling album. Fistfight to start, Dexter applies the figure four, Boris makes the ropes. Dex tries a suplex, it's blocked, Boris with a suplex. Boris whip clothesline, leg drop. Punches and forearm shots from Boris, turnbuckle smash, Boris continues to slug away until I decide to fire up the crowd with a USA chant and break him off the attack. Lockup, headlock by Dex, shot to the back, shoveoff, Dexter hip toss blocked, kick DDT by Dex. Dexter goes for a suplex, but cannot get him over and drops him straight down on his head! YIKES! Well that was a nasty brainbuster. Boris manages to get up rather quickly as Dexter hurt himself over the move. Boris with a powerslam, Russian leg sweep. Dex with a bulldog gets two. Legdrop by Dex gets two. Suplex Boris, choke with the leg, forearms to the back, slam, running legdrop. More forearms to the head, then to the side, whip clothesline to the corner by Boris. CAMEL CLUTCH by Boris, but the move slips and it's just a rear chinlock. Dex gets out of it and puts on a sleeper hold, they drop to the mat and Dex gets a two count with a pinning combo. A weak looking knee slam by Boris, whip double clothesline. Boris with a one arm cover gets two. Two clotheslines by Dexter have no effect, a third takes him down for two. Boris goes for a suplex, completely botches it, then tries for a piledriver, folds Dex up like an accordion and pins him. Match was ugly, it's a wonder Boris didn't injure himself.

WINNER: Boris Volkoff pin -> 10:50 mins. *½

We go to intermission, and chat it up with the ones who shouted "Crimey's in the house!"

Christian Hartley 6'0" 240lbs. Carnage Hills, IL vs. Sage Ramsey 6'4" 268lbs. Peoria, IL - Hartly says this is the first time he's protrayed himself as a heel, and during the intermission, every person he talked to was greeted with an angry "what do you want???" Sage Ramsey is the co-holder of the NMW Tag Team Championship with Jason Wells, having won them a week ago. Lockup, shoveoff, kickaway in the corner, Hardy with a whip and a splash, choke with the boot. He shouts "Is that all you got?" Hardly. Sage kicks him then beats him down in the corner. Back breaker Sage gets two. Rake by Hartley, whip clothesline. Hartley applies an armbar thru the legs, then into a Russian leg sweep. Hartley makes a wish drops his legs on Sage for two. Punch to the gut, kick from Sage and a DDT gets two. Sage kicks away in the corner, whip to the corner big splash, kickaway. Hartley with a snap mare. Sage with a whip back body drop, slam, running leg drop gets two. Hartley with a punch to the face, reverse DDT gets two. Hartley goes up, flying elbowdrop misses. Sage with the rope walk armbar forearm blast gets two! I haven't seen him do that, but those ropes didn't look to be tightened down very much. Kick from Hartley, suplex with a twist gets two. Powerslam by Christian, the bell suddenly rings by mistake. A little kid is the bell ringer tonight, smirk. Match does continue, Christian goes up, Sage catches him in a chokeslam, then nails him with "The Final Fall"--a back-to-belly slam for the win.

WINNER: Sage Ramsey pin -> 9:05 mins. ***

That person in the black hood was running around the ring during the entire match, now sporting a gray wig, and identified as a female. I think Clover O'Shea and accuse the figure of being her. She shakes her head, I shout, "Take that stupid hood off and ID yourself, are you THAT ugly or something???" Who else could it be? The woman walks up to Sage and asks him if he'd join "The Wicked". Sage refuses and says to me this woman is loony.

"Homicidal" Steven Davis 6'2" 205lbs. New Haven, CT vs. Tommy Callaway 5'11" 180lbs. St. Louis, MO - The referee is "Crazy Eddie". Both these guys wrestle for National Wrestling Coalition. Callaway with a Japanese arm drag, hip toss, drop kick gets one. Lockup, whip flying headscissors by Tommy. Rake by Davis, attempted whip gets reversed into an arm wringer by Tommy. Bounce off the ropes into an armdrag. Davis with a chop, Callaway reverses it and chops away. Whip reversed big boot from Callaway. Davis with a back body drop, slam gets two. Rear headlock by Davis, elbow and shove of by Tommy, Davis catches him in a belly to back suplex and drops him hard on his head! Davis rams him in the corner, chops away, Irish whip, high knee, hip toss gets two. Davis with a rear chinlock, Tommy with a jawbreaker, kicks away in the corner, and gives him a hard kick to the head! Callaway goes up, hits a moonsault but only gets two. Tommy with a powerbomb but Davis gets the ropes at two. Davis yanks Tommy to the outside. Forearm shots on the floor, Tommy hits back and throws him back in. Tommy with a DDT gets two. Figure four by Callaway, he won't submit and lets go. Well look who's here, it's Clover O'Shea! Wonder why she's out here, to throw me off my earlier suspicions? Irish whip clothesline Tommy gets two. Slam Tommy, he goes up, Davis is up and bounces against the ropes to crotch him. Superplex attempt is blocked, shove down, Tommy with a missile drop kick that only gets two. Fisherman's suplex by Davis, he goes up, misses the flying elbow. Tommy with a kick to the back of the head gets two. Suplex is attempted, Tommy escapes, gives him an even harder superkick to the back of the head and pins him!

WINNER: Tommy Callaway pin -> 9:05 mins. ***½

"Irish Bomb" Douglas O'Shea 6'4" 200lbs. Belfast, Northern Ireland w/ Clover O'Shea vs. Dangerous Derek Davis 6'2" 250lbs. Detroit, MI - The referee is "Crazy Eddie". BTW, what happened to that flag match set up in Carlinville we were supposed to have? Wild brawl to start, whip clothesline Davis, knee to the head, superkick Davis gets one. Doug punches back, slugs away, whip and there's a collision in the middle of the ring. Doug is back up and chops away, Davis flings him around, pulls his shirt over the head and chops him HARD. Doug kicks back to stop that onslaught, powerslam Doug gets two. Doug to the top, splash off the top gets one. Davis Irish whip, fakes a knockout when Doug ain't looking, O'Shea stupidly drops an elbow and misses. Elbow from Davis gets two. Powerbomb Davis gets two. Davis blasts him with knees, and tosses him outside. Sidebar, after the show was over Doug O'Shea calmed down enough for me to chatter with him, found out that he got knocked out during the match and was completely out of it for the duration. Forearm off the apron by Davis, biting on the floor. Davis back in, oh it's that hooded woman again! Wanna guess who it is? Davis slugs away on O'Shea, suplex, and goes back to the slugfest. Davis with a clothesline and pins him right there. Ah but something happened here, the referee counted three all right, but he slapped the mat once, on two he barely slapped the mat, then slapped the mat on three. That's three, that's three! Bell rings, Davis stands in victory and leaves. Then THIS happened, the referee, for no reason whatsoever, wants to restart the match and Davis must get back in here. He counts to ten, Davis doesn't come back, Eddie dodges an explanation as to why it was an invalid count, and O'Shea gets an ULTRA cheapo decision awarded to him by countout. WTF???

WINNER: "The Irish Bomb" Douglas O'Shea countout -> 8 mins. **

This match was a wild brawl all the way through, but that finish was ridiculous, and I asked if it was improvised or something. We find out why the match was restarted, Crazy Eddie is some relative of Doug! Gee you know what, now that I think about it, I wonder if this guy was one of Doug's lackeys in Carlinville. Was he "Lucky" or "Charm"? The hooded woman removes the hood and IT IS Clover O'Shea! We trade "shut up" shouts between each other. She gloats over the scam they just pulled over everyone, she calls Davis a chicken, but Miss B. Haven who was lurking behind me attacks Clover and they beat each other on the floor. Davis finally comes back out and gives Doug AND Eddie Death Valley Drivers. Clover SCREAMS for a match against Miss B. Haven NOW! They make the match for the next show, Davis & Missy vs. Doug & Clover...maybe. Doug said later he had no clue it was Clover under the hood.

Steve Montana 6'1" 260lbs. Stephenville, TX & Shawn Dustry 6'0" 290lbs. Macoupin County, IL vs. The Hollywood Stud 6'3" 265lbs. Hollywood, CA & Shady Matt Taylor ?'??" ???lbs. Beverly Hills, CA - Grandpa Taylor is the currently recognized RCW heavyweight champ. Yeah I had to get that shot in there with all the crap that went on. Taylor was supposed to defend against Dustry tonight and has extended his mark of time between getting the belt (BTW, that thing says United States Heavyweight Champion on it, is that a replica of the old WCW US title belt?) Fan says Taylor LOOKS the Sandman with a cigarette. The Stud is getting into an argument with Master Chris Powell! And Powell is wielding a chair! Verbal sparring going on but it's broken up. Dustry enters the ring and trips in the corner. Taylor has the mike, he wants a particular corner to tag from. Miller says something, then Taylor says it's not for the title, it's for a title shot for whoever pins him and says Montana will screw Dustry. Whatever. Montana and Stud start. Stud whip clothesline Montana, shots to the head. Armbar, tag Shawn, he slugs away. Then we see the sloppiest-looking swinging neckbreaker I've ever seen. Whip shoulderblock Dustry. Shawn pickup, slam on Stud, off the ropes, drops an elbow, punches to the gut. Stud with a kick, snap mare Stud, drops an elbow. Tag Taylor. Let's see if this guy's worth anything in the ring. Taylor waits on Shawn, shots to the head, whip elbow to the chin. Someone's out here that I don't recognize. Taylor whip to the corner, eats a boot, tag Montana. Taylor backs away and tags Stud. Montana chops away in the enemy corner, Taylor is begging off, whip to Dustry's corner, elbow. Stud flops down on his face. Montana brings Stud over for Taylor to tag in but he refuses. Montana kick to the chest, Stud fires back. "Go Monty" chant. Montana is choked by Stud's boot, Montana with a hard chop, Stud with a rake and clubbing forearm, another choke, kick to the gut, stomps him down. Taylor joins in the chokefest, teases Shawn. NOW Taylor tags in. Taylor drops an elbow across the legs, applies an ankle lock. Montana flips over, tag Stud. Lockup, Montana forearms away, Stud with a side kick. Tag Taylor, he knocks off Shawn Dustry and goes outside after him, Stud continues with Montana, Taylor tosses Shawn back in, Taylor slugs away on Dustry, clotheslines him over the top. Taylor's the legal man, Montana's the legal man. Stud tosses Montana out, all four men are out, Taylor throws Shawn back in. Montana head slams Stud on the apron, Taylor and Dustry clothesline each other down. Montana is slugging away on Stud, fierce fight. Taylor has his belt in the ring, Stud and Montana have left, Dustry has Taylor up back-to-belly into a sloppy swinging DDT and pins him.

WINNERS: Shawn Dustry & Steve Montana pin -> 8:45 mins. *

Match did nothing for me, mostly a brawl and not much of a wrestling match. Dustry lays the belt on the downed Taylor. Miller announces the next show. Taylor has the mike and runs his mouth again about who's still the heavyweight champ, like I care.

The next show was supposed to take place the next day but it got rained out as it was at a haunted farm and rescheduled for the following weekend. Course, that didn't stop Taylor from putting out a statement that he filed an injunction against the show being held to add another week from the day he got the belt to the tally of no defenses against MEN. Somehow on the rescheduled weekend show of 11/1, the way things are going, Taylor will weasel out of the match a FOURTH time, I know WHAT excuse he'd use to weasel out of it, but I won't say it here cause I don't want to give him any ideas.

CF on 11/1 -- Well if things could not get any worse, that idiot Taylor is now going around saying I have put him over with all the crititism I've written and made him even bigger than he is. Yeah right, over as in Buff Bagwell kinda over, right after getting fired from the WWE. Now today there was supposed to be a show on a Farm out west of Godfrey, already postponed due to rain the previous weekend, rain is falling today but was expected to get out by showtime, and now I read that Taylor with three accompliaces have resorted to stealing the ring. He has indeed wussed out again for the FOURTH time, adding at least another week between getting the belt and defending it against a man. The excuse I thought he'd use to get out of it is now moot, so I'll state he was going to say the illegal man pinned him and thus it "didn't count." The next show for RCW is 11/8 which is a TV taping...odds are now about 70% likely that Taylor will manage to wuss out a FIFTH time.