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From Larry Goodman:
Miss Rachael! Darling! Light of my life! I’m going to bash your brains in. - Jeff G. Bailey
You can’t be Stephen Platinum. But I, I can be Jeff G. Bailey for one night. And on July 4th, I will lead Grotesque and the ex-champions to that ring, and Miss Rachael will be triumphant. – Stephen Platinum
Revolutionary War Games, the new holiday tradition of violence on Main Street in Porterdale commenced on an exquisite 4th of July evening.
The War Games delivered on everything that was promised and more. Wildside/Anarchy holds the patent rights to the War Games match in Georgia, but for storytelling this was as good as any of the Cornelia versions.
Attendance was over 300. PCW sold about 50 seats to their regulars and I'm estimating a minimum of 250 watched the show for free from outside the barricaded ringside area. It was a perfect summer night for an outdoor show - clear skies and relatively low humidity and temperature compared to a typical July night in Georgia.
Major changes had transpired over the last year, sparked by Chip Day’s crushing turn to the dark side at the conclusion of the 2013 War Games. Day’s running buddy Sylar Cross was right behind him. The most hated villains going in to last year's War Games departed from PCW. De La Vega left the state. Jagged Edge also disappeared from the scene, although not by his own volition. Bailey, the self-proclaimed God and Mayor of Porterdale, led Day to the PCW Championship. At the pivotal February 15 event, former PCW Champion Shane Marx ended Platinum’s wrestling career, but miracle of miracles, Marx and Miss Rachael made their peace with Platinum. The power couple took up the mantle of good guy leadership squarely in opposition to Bailey and his Lethal Weapons. That led to this.
And one of Bailey’s greatest promos ever, inviting the sad, pathetic, basement dwelling, dateless future Elliot Rogers of the world to make the trek to Porterdale to live vicariously through him, as he smacked a pretty woman around and made her bleed.
On to the show...
Announcer Chuck Porterfield's War Games hype was interrupted by Quasi Mandisco miffed that Porterfield didn't mention his Porterdale Streetfight against Johnny Danger. Mandisco said he was so focused on ending Danger's career that he would not be accompanying the members of MAIM (PYB, Savage Shane and Deandre Jackson) to ringside for their matches.
(1) Marko Polo defeated "Pump Yo Brakes" Steve Goins in 8 minutes. Polo came to the ring dressed as a pimped out Uncle Sam. PYB made Polo pay for one too aerial moves to the asphalt. Polo made PYB pay for one too many suplexes. When PYB missed a Lawler fist drop, the crowd started a Polo chant. Polo fought off a superplex and connected with a top rope elbow for the win. A decent way to start the show, although shorter and simpler would have been better. A large percentage of the crowd was either seeing the PCW product for the first time or only sees it on the 4th of July, so you want to book an impressive opener to catch and hold their attention. This match wasn't that.
(2) Eric Jones defeated Savage Shane in 6:45. These guys worked their asses off but their their skills are only so so. Shane backjumped Jones and worked on his neck. Jones was selling the neck huge. I'm big on selling but his was overselling. Jones was bound and determined to do a triple German suplex. He's no Kurt Angle. Due to his worn down condition, Jones was slow to cover after a frogsplash and Shane got foot on the ropes. Jones won it with double knee gutbuster. The finish was solid and got a nice pop.
The postmatch handshake was weird since Shane is pure heel.
(3) Blake Broadway vs. ATL was a declared a no contest at 4:45 when Geter demolished both men. Broadway is out of Virginia. ATL is from North Carolina. Both were making their PCW debuts. Their athletic ability was on a higher plane than the first two matches and they were having the best match of the show so far when the monster Geter did his thing.
Geter said he was the baddest man in PCW and demanded some competition. That brought William Huckaby and Joe Black came to the ring. Huckaby said the only thing he hated more than driving from the beaches North Carolina to this podunk town was a bully. That lead to...
(4) Geter defeated William Huckaby & Joe Black in a handicap match in 1:45. Huckaby and Black blitzed Geter with a barrage of offense at the opening bell, but the mammoth of a man wasn't going down. Huckaby finally got the Geter of his feet with a spinebuster slam. Black followed with a frogsplash. But Geter kicked out at one, kicked Black's face halfway to Conyers and pancaked Huckaby with a belly to belly suplex. Geter then submitted Huckaby with a stretch muffler. Well done by all. Exactly what it needed to be.
(5) ??? defeated Deandre Jackson in 7:05. Jackson insulted the people of Porterdale and put himself over as "Mr. Clutch" and "Powerhouse". ??? (aka Trevor Aeon) debuted at the last PCW show. He's a mystical black wrestler, who comes out in a hooded robe answering to a chant of "Let us see!". He also wears workout gloves with eyeballs painted on the palms. I'm willing to give the gimmick the benefit of the doubt for now. But if PCW wanted to get ??? across as something special, Jackson was the wrong opponent. Jackson is a big lug, difficult to move around in the ring and not particularly adept at selling. The finish saw ??? counter a suplex with a DDT.
Porterfield led a postmatch "Let us see!" chant for ???
(6) Quasi Mandisco defeated Johnny Danger in a Porterdale Streetfight in 15:15 thus ending Danger's PCW career. You had a manager against a wrestler that was never much in the ring, so a lot of stuff looked ragged, and I surely didn't expect them to go 15 minutes. But the match never dragged, and it certainly didn't lack for passion. As an emotional, no holds barred fight to the finish, it worked just fine because they had the crowd engaged. Mandisco had the balls to use 2001: A Space Odyssey as his entrance music. Danger came out dressed like Casey Jones with a kendo stick and a golf bag of tricks in tow. Danger wore Mandisco out with a kendo stick. Danger pulled out his driver and teed off on Mandisco's nutsack. Mandisco was crawling for his life. But Danger missed a leg drop off the ropes and messed up his bad knee. Mandisco got his first offense at the 4:30 mark with kendo stick to Danger's knee. Mandisco stayed on the knee with genuine wrestling psychology. Danger fought off a stepover toehold and a Boston crab. Mandisco ducked Danger's home run swing with the kendo stick and hit him in the nuts. Mandisco attempted a body slam that Danger countered with a DDT. Danger put Mandisco's head inside a trash can and did an elbow drop off the ropes onto the can. Danger must be a masochist because he clearly go the worst of that spot. Danger tried to superplex Mandisco into a steel coffin of chairs. Seeing his life pass before his eyes, Mandisco shoved Danger off the ropes onto to the coffin of chairs. Mandisco threw a fit when Danger kicked out. Mandisco waffled Danger's back with a chair and Danger kicked out again. The crowd got behind Danger huge. Danger's knee was giving out on him but there was no quit in the guy. He speared Mandisco and wrapped a chain around his fist. Meanwhile, Mandisco donned a pair of brass knucks. They both swung and missed. They did the Tito Santana/Randy Savage IC title match finish with Mandisco clocking Danger with the knucks in the midst of being back suplexed.
Platinum came to the ring to tend to Danger. Danger insisted on leaving under his own power but not before hugging his trainer Platinum.
(7) Team Rachael (Miss Rachael & Shane Marx & Mason & Grotesque) defeated Team Bailey (Jeff G. Bailey & Chip Day & Sylar Cross & Adrian Armour & Bobby Moore) in the Revolutionary War Games. PCW does a full blown 2 ring War Games. The PCW version differs from traditional rules in two respects. Wrestlers enter via random draw rather alternately by team captain selection, and the match can end at any time. Rachael's team consisted of all former PCW Champions. Moore and Mason started. They teased a quick finish with Mason getting Moore in the Occam's Razor. Armour was next. Mason and Armour traded fast and furious blows until Moore recovered to turn it into a 2 on 1 beatdown. Cross made it 3 on 1. He locked Mason with a high angle back suplex while the his teammates taunted the Demigod. The random nature of entrances came into play bigtime as Rachael entered to a big pop. She slapped Moore, who was about to do something ugly when Mason made a valiant rescue attempt. Cross and Armour beat Mason down while Moore kept his former manager, Rachael imprisoned in the corner. Rachael raked Moore's eyes and laid in the kicks and chops. Moore balled up his fist, but Marx entered in the nick of time. Marx cleaned house. His babyface fire was off the chain. Marx went for a corner splash, but Moore pulled Rachael in front of him and she got sandwiched. Cross leveled Marx with a clothesline and broke up Mason's Scales of Justice attempt on Armour. The babyfaces were all laid out when Day entered. He wanted Marx solo. Ha ha. Marx made an enraged comeback but the numbers were against him. Bailey was next. He padlocked the cage door and made a beeline for Rachael. Bailey sent Rachael into the cage and she was busted open near the hairline. Marx tried to save her but was beaten down again. Finding the door locked, Supernatural entered with an psychotic double stomp off the top of the cage on Day. Supernatural ran wild, but only for a moment before Moore smoked him with a back elbow. Platinum led Grotesque to the ring as promised. Grotesque ripped the padlock off the door. He laid out Moore and Armour with chokeslams. He was unstoppable and those chokeslams had to look familiar to PCW hardcores. Bailey made a desperate attempt to squeeze through the gap between the cages. Not happening. Grotesque ran roughshod on the others and left Bailey to Rachael. They traded slaps. Rachael's second slap was no BS. Bailey's third slap decked her. Rachael crumpled Bailey with a low blow. Rachael introduced Bailey's face to the steel. Once wasn't nearly enough. Three times and Bailey's face was completely covered in blood. Certainly not the first time Bailey had bled but never like this. He was a freaking mess. His white t-shirt and pants were stained with crimson. Rachael speared Bailey and got him in the figure four, but Bailey raked her eyes. Then that scumbag Day kicked Rachael in the back of the head and applied a submission of his own. Marx broke that up with a superkick. It came down to Marx vs. Day. Marx put Day in an elevated chickenwing and Day gave it up. A memorable War Games for sure. Violence was expected. Rachael doing as much as she did was not. The copious spilling of blood certainly was not. The beauty of the match was the story and the clarity of how it was told. This was a big match and they paid everything off in big way. All of the key players (Rachael, Bailey, Platinum and Marx) did what they said they were going to do. Credit goes to the entire crew for setting individual egos aside for the good of the whole. The key spots were giving centerstage and the opportunity make maximum impact. Bravo.
Platinum said 4th of July in America stood for three things.
1) Celebration - In progress except for Team Bailey.
2) Redemption - Platinum unmasked Grotesque to reveal Jagged Edge. Few fans fully appreciated the significance of Jagged’s return, but he was relishing every moment of it.
3) Opportunity - Marx gets a shot at Day's PCW Title on July 19.
Miss Rachael! Darling! Light of my life! I’m going to bash your brains in. - Jeff G. Bailey
You can’t be Stephen Platinum. But I, I can be Jeff G. Bailey for one night. And on July 4th, I will lead Grotesque and the ex-champions to that ring, and Miss Rachael will be triumphant. – Stephen Platinum
Revolutionary War Games, the new holiday tradition of violence on Main Street in Porterdale commenced on an exquisite 4th of July evening.
The War Games delivered on everything that was promised and more. Wildside/Anarchy holds the patent rights to the War Games match in Georgia, but for storytelling this was as good as any of the Cornelia versions.
Attendance was over 300. PCW sold about 50 seats to their regulars and I'm estimating a minimum of 250 watched the show for free from outside the barricaded ringside area. It was a perfect summer night for an outdoor show - clear skies and relatively low humidity and temperature compared to a typical July night in Georgia.
Major changes had transpired over the last year, sparked by Chip Day’s crushing turn to the dark side at the conclusion of the 2013 War Games. Day’s running buddy Sylar Cross was right behind him. The most hated villains going in to last year's War Games departed from PCW. De La Vega left the state. Jagged Edge also disappeared from the scene, although not by his own volition. Bailey, the self-proclaimed God and Mayor of Porterdale, led Day to the PCW Championship. At the pivotal February 15 event, former PCW Champion Shane Marx ended Platinum’s wrestling career, but miracle of miracles, Marx and Miss Rachael made their peace with Platinum. The power couple took up the mantle of good guy leadership squarely in opposition to Bailey and his Lethal Weapons. That led to this.
And one of Bailey’s greatest promos ever, inviting the sad, pathetic, basement dwelling, dateless future Elliot Rogers of the world to make the trek to Porterdale to live vicariously through him, as he smacked a pretty woman around and made her bleed.
On to the show...
Announcer Chuck Porterfield's War Games hype was interrupted by Quasi Mandisco miffed that Porterfield didn't mention his Porterdale Streetfight against Johnny Danger. Mandisco said he was so focused on ending Danger's career that he would not be accompanying the members of MAIM (PYB, Savage Shane and Deandre Jackson) to ringside for their matches.
(1) Marko Polo defeated "Pump Yo Brakes" Steve Goins in 8 minutes. Polo came to the ring dressed as a pimped out Uncle Sam. PYB made Polo pay for one too aerial moves to the asphalt. Polo made PYB pay for one too many suplexes. When PYB missed a Lawler fist drop, the crowd started a Polo chant. Polo fought off a superplex and connected with a top rope elbow for the win. A decent way to start the show, although shorter and simpler would have been better. A large percentage of the crowd was either seeing the PCW product for the first time or only sees it on the 4th of July, so you want to book an impressive opener to catch and hold their attention. This match wasn't that.
(2) Eric Jones defeated Savage Shane in 6:45. These guys worked their asses off but their their skills are only so so. Shane backjumped Jones and worked on his neck. Jones was selling the neck huge. I'm big on selling but his was overselling. Jones was bound and determined to do a triple German suplex. He's no Kurt Angle. Due to his worn down condition, Jones was slow to cover after a frogsplash and Shane got foot on the ropes. Jones won it with double knee gutbuster. The finish was solid and got a nice pop.
The postmatch handshake was weird since Shane is pure heel.
(3) Blake Broadway vs. ATL was a declared a no contest at 4:45 when Geter demolished both men. Broadway is out of Virginia. ATL is from North Carolina. Both were making their PCW debuts. Their athletic ability was on a higher plane than the first two matches and they were having the best match of the show so far when the monster Geter did his thing.
Geter said he was the baddest man in PCW and demanded some competition. That brought William Huckaby and Joe Black came to the ring. Huckaby said the only thing he hated more than driving from the beaches North Carolina to this podunk town was a bully. That lead to...
(4) Geter defeated William Huckaby & Joe Black in a handicap match in 1:45. Huckaby and Black blitzed Geter with a barrage of offense at the opening bell, but the mammoth of a man wasn't going down. Huckaby finally got the Geter of his feet with a spinebuster slam. Black followed with a frogsplash. But Geter kicked out at one, kicked Black's face halfway to Conyers and pancaked Huckaby with a belly to belly suplex. Geter then submitted Huckaby with a stretch muffler. Well done by all. Exactly what it needed to be.
(5) ??? defeated Deandre Jackson in 7:05. Jackson insulted the people of Porterdale and put himself over as "Mr. Clutch" and "Powerhouse". ??? (aka Trevor Aeon) debuted at the last PCW show. He's a mystical black wrestler, who comes out in a hooded robe answering to a chant of "Let us see!". He also wears workout gloves with eyeballs painted on the palms. I'm willing to give the gimmick the benefit of the doubt for now. But if PCW wanted to get ??? across as something special, Jackson was the wrong opponent. Jackson is a big lug, difficult to move around in the ring and not particularly adept at selling. The finish saw ??? counter a suplex with a DDT.
Porterfield led a postmatch "Let us see!" chant for ???
(6) Quasi Mandisco defeated Johnny Danger in a Porterdale Streetfight in 15:15 thus ending Danger's PCW career. You had a manager against a wrestler that was never much in the ring, so a lot of stuff looked ragged, and I surely didn't expect them to go 15 minutes. But the match never dragged, and it certainly didn't lack for passion. As an emotional, no holds barred fight to the finish, it worked just fine because they had the crowd engaged. Mandisco had the balls to use 2001: A Space Odyssey as his entrance music. Danger came out dressed like Casey Jones with a kendo stick and a golf bag of tricks in tow. Danger wore Mandisco out with a kendo stick. Danger pulled out his driver and teed off on Mandisco's nutsack. Mandisco was crawling for his life. But Danger missed a leg drop off the ropes and messed up his bad knee. Mandisco got his first offense at the 4:30 mark with kendo stick to Danger's knee. Mandisco stayed on the knee with genuine wrestling psychology. Danger fought off a stepover toehold and a Boston crab. Mandisco ducked Danger's home run swing with the kendo stick and hit him in the nuts. Mandisco attempted a body slam that Danger countered with a DDT. Danger put Mandisco's head inside a trash can and did an elbow drop off the ropes onto the can. Danger must be a masochist because he clearly go the worst of that spot. Danger tried to superplex Mandisco into a steel coffin of chairs. Seeing his life pass before his eyes, Mandisco shoved Danger off the ropes onto to the coffin of chairs. Mandisco threw a fit when Danger kicked out. Mandisco waffled Danger's back with a chair and Danger kicked out again. The crowd got behind Danger huge. Danger's knee was giving out on him but there was no quit in the guy. He speared Mandisco and wrapped a chain around his fist. Meanwhile, Mandisco donned a pair of brass knucks. They both swung and missed. They did the Tito Santana/Randy Savage IC title match finish with Mandisco clocking Danger with the knucks in the midst of being back suplexed.
Platinum came to the ring to tend to Danger. Danger insisted on leaving under his own power but not before hugging his trainer Platinum.
(7) Team Rachael (Miss Rachael & Shane Marx & Mason & Grotesque) defeated Team Bailey (Jeff G. Bailey & Chip Day & Sylar Cross & Adrian Armour & Bobby Moore) in the Revolutionary War Games. PCW does a full blown 2 ring War Games. The PCW version differs from traditional rules in two respects. Wrestlers enter via random draw rather alternately by team captain selection, and the match can end at any time. Rachael's team consisted of all former PCW Champions. Moore and Mason started. They teased a quick finish with Mason getting Moore in the Occam's Razor. Armour was next. Mason and Armour traded fast and furious blows until Moore recovered to turn it into a 2 on 1 beatdown. Cross made it 3 on 1. He locked Mason with a high angle back suplex while the his teammates taunted the Demigod. The random nature of entrances came into play bigtime as Rachael entered to a big pop. She slapped Moore, who was about to do something ugly when Mason made a valiant rescue attempt. Cross and Armour beat Mason down while Moore kept his former manager, Rachael imprisoned in the corner. Rachael raked Moore's eyes and laid in the kicks and chops. Moore balled up his fist, but Marx entered in the nick of time. Marx cleaned house. His babyface fire was off the chain. Marx went for a corner splash, but Moore pulled Rachael in front of him and she got sandwiched. Cross leveled Marx with a clothesline and broke up Mason's Scales of Justice attempt on Armour. The babyfaces were all laid out when Day entered. He wanted Marx solo. Ha ha. Marx made an enraged comeback but the numbers were against him. Bailey was next. He padlocked the cage door and made a beeline for Rachael. Bailey sent Rachael into the cage and she was busted open near the hairline. Marx tried to save her but was beaten down again. Finding the door locked, Supernatural entered with an psychotic double stomp off the top of the cage on Day. Supernatural ran wild, but only for a moment before Moore smoked him with a back elbow. Platinum led Grotesque to the ring as promised. Grotesque ripped the padlock off the door. He laid out Moore and Armour with chokeslams. He was unstoppable and those chokeslams had to look familiar to PCW hardcores. Bailey made a desperate attempt to squeeze through the gap between the cages. Not happening. Grotesque ran roughshod on the others and left Bailey to Rachael. They traded slaps. Rachael's second slap was no BS. Bailey's third slap decked her. Rachael crumpled Bailey with a low blow. Rachael introduced Bailey's face to the steel. Once wasn't nearly enough. Three times and Bailey's face was completely covered in blood. Certainly not the first time Bailey had bled but never like this. He was a freaking mess. His white t-shirt and pants were stained with crimson. Rachael speared Bailey and got him in the figure four, but Bailey raked her eyes. Then that scumbag Day kicked Rachael in the back of the head and applied a submission of his own. Marx broke that up with a superkick. It came down to Marx vs. Day. Marx put Day in an elevated chickenwing and Day gave it up. A memorable War Games for sure. Violence was expected. Rachael doing as much as she did was not. The copious spilling of blood certainly was not. The beauty of the match was the story and the clarity of how it was told. This was a big match and they paid everything off in big way. All of the key players (Rachael, Bailey, Platinum and Marx) did what they said they were going to do. Credit goes to the entire crew for setting individual egos aside for the good of the whole. The key spots were giving centerstage and the opportunity make maximum impact. Bravo.
Platinum said 4th of July in America stood for three things.
1) Celebration - In progress except for Team Bailey.
2) Redemption - Platinum unmasked Grotesque to reveal Jagged Edge. Few fans fully appreciated the significance of Jagged’s return, but he was relishing every moment of it.
3) Opportunity - Marx gets a shot at Day's PCW Title on July 19.
