Monday, April 1, 2013

Wrestling Society X Episode 2 Review

Time to go back to the WSX bunker for episode 2!

This episode featured Three 6 Mafia as the musical/commentary guests, and three matches: Human Tornado vs. Luke Hawx, Team Dragon Gate vs. That 70's Team, and the main event for the WSX Championship, Vampiro vs. 6-Pac.

Three 6 Mafia open the show as a massive crowd of white people bounce up and down, a quick recap of episode 1's action, and we're down to the ring for the first match.

Fabian Kaelinis once again tries his best to sound like a coked-up Vince McMahon screaming down a WWF PPV card from the 80's. Luke Hawx is first to hit the ring, a former XPW death match champion, previously known as Alter Boy Luke. Since WSX, Hawx has about doubled in size, opened up his own school and promotion, Wildkat Sports, and was kicking ass in Extreme Rising.

There's one thing that has bothered me ever since WSX went off the air, what the hell is the Romper Stomper?  Let me explain; Hawx's nickname is the Southern Stomper and the Romper Stomper was listed as his WSX signature move. A google search on said move yielded no results; could it be like the Garvin Stomp or Low-Ki's Ghetto Stomp? I decided to go to the man himself and ask Hawx.
There you have it, the Romper Stomper could be anything. A broader google search for the definition of a romper stomper gave these results: 1. An Australian toy, hard plastic cup that would strap to the bottom of your shoes. 2. A nickname for platform boots and the Australian skinheads that fashioned them.

Back to the match! Human Tornado dances his way down to the ring and the match starts with a test of strength lock-up, Tornado gets out of it by an Akeem-styled arm jive. A pissed off Hawx sends HT into the ropes, pops him up, and then kicks him square in the nuts, Tornado no-sells the ball kick and the commentary team put over that he's got balls of steel.
Maybe Tornado trained with Duke Nukem, or practiced "internal control" with Pai Mei and mastered the ability to suck his testicles into his body and move them around at will. Who knows?
Tornado hits Hawx with a pimp slap after the nut kick, but gets caught with a HUGE t-bone suplex and eats a spin kick. 1-2-and HT kicks out.

Hawx gets tossed outside and sells a baseball slide that spills him over the crowd rail.  Tornado flies over the top with a front flip and throws Hawx back in the ring after they recovered from the splash. Hawx looks to take the lead with a roundhouse, but Tornado pulls out a tornado ddt after a series of irish whip reversals.

Post match sees Hawx Pearl Harbored by Aguilera, one half of Los Pochos Guapos, you may know him as the man who "stabbed" John Cena in a Boston nightclub.  Alkatrazz, Hawx's tag-team partner comes in for the save, but gets cut off by other other half of LPG, Kaos. The double team on Alkatrazz ends when Aguilera reveals his weakness: the mamacitas. Yes,some untimely flirting with the women in the crowd results with Kaos getting an enzurgira from Hawx and crashing through an in-ring table.

The match was decent for what it was; to show off some of the abilities of Hawx and Human Tornado, and to set up a feud between Hawx/Alkatrazz vs. Los Pochos Guapos. 

A video promo from the Filth and the Fury, the tag team of Teddy Hart and MDogg 20, I'm guessing Hart is the filth of this combination, since Mdogg is straight edge.

Second match of this episode is a tag team bout between That 70's Team( Joey "Magnum" Ryan and the Disco Machine) vs. Team Dragon Gate( Horiguchi and Yoshino)

That 70's Team are out first, complete with their own personal disco ball. Team DG are quick to hit the ring, and quick would be the best word to describe this match; Hori and Ryan start it off with a series of wristlock/headlock/hammerlock reversal. Double tag and we get a running the ropes dropdown spot that ends with Yoshi dropkicking the disco man, Disco Machine tags in Ryan and we get another run the ropes drop down spot, Ryan ducks a clothesline and goes for a dropkick, Yoshi ran out of fucks to give and walks away from it; pointing to his head and indicating that he's too smart to fall for it.

The match comes to a screeching halt as Ryan signals for a time-out and some inhaler action, a comedy spot that I feel was unnecessary. Ryan should of sprayed it in Yoshi's face and told him it was battery acid, you slime!  Disco Machine is back in and he shakes his stuff, which angers the men from Osaka(Pro?)
Unimpressed with his wiggling hips, DM gets a drop-toe hold-dropkick combo for his troubles. Horiguchi covers him for a 2-count!

Hori tries for a sunset flip and we get more dancing from the Disco Machine, who follows up with an elbow drop and a 2 count; double tag and Ryan and Yoshi are back in, Ryan gets his ass out from an attempted double-team sunset flip, then gets hit with the Lighting Spiral from Yoshi.  The count is broken up by Disco, who gets tossed out and slammed to the floor from Horiguchi's crossbody to the outside.

Ryan and Yoshino are still in the ring, Ryan reverses a tilt-a-whirl to a sidewalk for the 2 count, a superkick outta nowhere! gets the victory for That 70's Team; Horiguchi, upset over the lose, breaks the disco ball.

A good, fast-paced tag match with the only flaw being the inhaler spot, but it's part of Ryan's gimmick,so I guess it makes some sense.

*Trailer Park Boyz video promo. I don't have much to say on these guys, besides their a white-trash stable comprised of Josh Abercrombie, Nate Webb, and Johnny Webb, so unless you're big fans of CZW and IWA-Mid South, you aren't missing out on anything.

MAIN EVENT TITLE TIME: 6-Pac vs. Vampiro for the Wrestling Society X Championship.
Vampiro is being billed from the Darkest depths of Hell, which isn't too far from The Outer reaches of your Mind; Maybe he shares a duplex with Kane? Vamp happens to be wearing a biker vest decked out with Black Label Society patches,  the musicial guests from Episode 1. We get a long shot of a ringside coffin, and then the commentary line of the night.
Three 6 Mafia member DJ Paul had this to say about Vampiro, "That's one big white dude you DO NOT want to meet in an alley." 

This matches starts at 11 and never slows down; Pac throws a spinkick, delivers a few chops in the corner and tries to whip Vamp to the opposite corner, the resident of Hell blocks these attempts and delivers his own spinkick, which really looked like a spinning knee strike. The former 1-2-3 Kid kicks out of two and turns Vampiro's frankensteiner into a sitdown powerbomb for a 2 count.

Pac pulls off the Bronco Buster and then insults Vamp with the ol' crotch chop, he goes for the ass-tearing buster again and gets stopped by a big choke. Back on offense, Vampiro lifts Pac for the chokeslam and tries a reverse corkscrew from the top, Pac rolls and Vamp goes crashing to the mat. Syxx sends the Juggalo   to the outside with a dropkick, hits a frontflip splash, and gets a 2 count on the outside.

Vamp launches a running Pac into the turnbuckle post and we get multiple shots of this lady.

Vamp sets up a table and gets clotheslined when he turns around, Pac places the Canadian vampire on the table and climbs the turnbuckle, Vampiro briskly stands up and basically puts his head in Pac's armpit. Tornado ddt on Vamp and only a 2 count! The commentary team put over that falls count anywhere in WSX, I'm also guessing there's no DQ, because of the the first match nut kick.
X-Factor by the Lightning Kid, 2 count!

Time for the coffin spot; Vampiro grabs Pac and hits the tombstone piledriver through the coffin. The coffin must of been filled with proximity explosives and fireworks, cause the damn thing blew up like an early 90's WCW mini-movie( Spin the wheel-Make the deal was my favorite) Oh, and Vampiro wins!

When I started writing this, I didn't remember what the WSX title, thanks be to google for jogging my memory. Here it is, the Wrestling Society X Championship title

Haven't we seen this title before?


Well, that's it for episode 2! Don't know when I'll get around to 3.