ACTION Wrestling Report from Tyrone on September 4

  From Larry Goodman: At long last, ACTION Wrestling is back in the business of presenting live events, a doubleheader no less. Last Cal...

 

From Larry Goodman:

At long last, ACTION Wrestling is back in the business of presenting live events, a doubleheader no less.

Last Call was the first half of a doubleheader at the Roger Spencer Community Center.

It was a good show. Being one of ACTION’s best wasn’t in the cards. The top three matches delivered the goods.

Storywise, Last Call was almost a complete restart. ACTION and SUP Bonestorm Champion AC Mack and dual top challenger Brett Ison had to do the heavy lifting in that department. Arik Royal and Matt Sells clearly figure in future plans. Given the lack of pre-existing feuds, the clear distinction of babyface and heels was a real strength of this show until the main event…

Mack and Ison did a great job of getting their twisted narrative across and put on a  compelling match. Mack had been the heel fans loved to hate during his two year reign as the first and only ACTION Champion. After Mack came to the rescue of ACTION CEO Matt Griffin last November, fans started cheering him outright but his character never strayed from its obnoxious and devious nature. Ison has done nothing wrong except he’s a badass outsider infringing on ACTION territory. 

One Called Manders and Graham Bell had the best match - balls to the wall, bell to bell.

For something completely different, check out Arik Royal and Pineapple Pete aka Suge D. Can’t say it was like any match I’ve ever seen.

Nolan Edward is a name to watch.

Attendance was limited to 35 fans. Chairs were grouped by ticket holders with appropriate distance between groupings.

The uplifting atmosphere that is part and parcel ACTION wrestling experience at their home arena was hugely missed. Fortunately it’s a naturally loud space.

ACTION is the gold standard for a safe environment in the COVID era. Fans had temperatures taken and were offered hand sanitizer upon arrival. Masks were required and people kept them on 100%. Poor Dylan Hales did the play by play with his mask on. Wrestlers wore masks at the merch tables. Prepackaged concessions were handled by cashless transaction.

GWH's Rob Brodhecker was in the house all night long and will have a report the PG-13 nightcap, The Tonight Show with Matt Sells, which featured what has been called the most violent match in ACTION history- Edward vs. Angelus Layne, along with his take on Last Call. 

Last Call will premier on independentwrestling.tv some time during the coming week.

Griffin opened promising to give the fans the best show possible. A seat had been set aside in honor of Norko Kipte, long-time wrestling fan and a huge ACTION supporter who passed away earlier this year.  

Mack rudely interrupted and made ring announcer Scott Hensley hold both of his titles overhead while the loudmouth had his say. Ison came out. Mack said he wasn’t doing no marketing staredown and exited out the front door. 

(1) “No Flinch” Nolan Edward defeated “Braindead” Kevin Ryan in 8:57.  Edward was in a different league from the other wrestlers in the lower half of the card. His strikes were believably solid and all of his stuff on offense looked crisp. Ryan was an arrogant ass, so fans had no problem deciding who to root for. A ripcord Eat Defeat by Edward sent Ryan to the floor. Ryan cut off Edward’s dive with a kick in the head and hit a top rope double stomp with Edward hung over the bottom rope. Edward’s hip started giving him trouble. Ryan did a springboard Spanish fly that looked fairly amazing. Finish saw Ryan go for a tombstone piledriver that Edward reversed into a snake eyes for to score the pinfall. Ryan looked OK. He couldn’t hang with Edward in the striking department.

(2) Bobby Flaco defeated “Starboy” BK Westbrook in 6:53. Another match that had a strong/heel face dynamic in its favor. Flaco picked up where he left off in so far as being a huge fan favorite. Westbook is a very young guy out of North Carolina. He came across like a kid playing at being a heel. An average match. It was up to Flaco to carry it and this wasn’t his best work. Their striking looked weak in general after seeing Edward. Westbrook worked over Flaco’s knee, using a variation of the STF.  Flaco hammered Westbrook’s head into the apron with a cutter and pinned him with a slingshot tornado DDT. Flaco was selling his knee huge after the match.

(3) "Number One"  Jaden Newman defeated “The Steel Dragon” Donnie Janela in 7:29.  Newman took victory laps around the ring after after landing a dropkick. Newman then ran his mouth until he ran into Janela’s fist. Newman threatened to break Janela’ neck with a piledriver. Janela neatly blocked with an agility move. Newman used a classic Eddie Gilbert hotshot to take over. Janela came back with a tomahawk chop off the top. Janela tried to end it with a package piledriver but Newman escaped, kicked Janela’s knee and pinned him after a rabbit forearm to the brain. They had a decent match. I had a tough time taking Janela seriously.  

(4) One Called Manders defeated Graham Bell in 11:21. Bell has a more rough and tumble look than I recall from seeing him at the 2019 SCI. These guys know each other all too well. It was abundantly clear from the opening minute that the physicality would be at an entirely different level than what had gone before and it only intensified from there. Manders turned Bell’s leapfrog into a bigtime powerslam for a near fall and landed a chop that sounded like a shotgun blast. Bell dropped Manders on his neck with a teardrop suplex. Bell’s kicks to the kidneys were sick. Manders might have been pissing blood Saturday morning. Bell’s kicks to the chest were equally brutal. An exploder suplex by Manders left both men down. Manders used an Oklahoma Stampede for a near fall. Bell caught Manders with an F5 for one near fall and got another with a falling top rope elbow. Bell took a press slam onto the ring frame. That was nuts. Bell kicked out Manders’ gutwrench powerbomb. They traded Kawada kicks and Kobashi chops. Bell popped up fighting spirit style after taking an exploder suplex and hit a german suplex. Bell kicked out of Manders’ lariat at one. Bell got a very close near fall with a running knee to the head. Manders ended it with an avalanche Oklahoma Stampede.

This match was high impact heaven. Manders and Bell brought it full force. Worth going out of your way to see.

(5) “The Space Gawd” Arik Royal defeated Pineapple Pete/Suge D in 25:04. I dare say Royal has replaced Mack as the guy fans love to hate. Plenty of love for Suge. Loads of talking by both men. They opened with mat wrestling minus any of the usual chain wrestling clichés. It felt like a legit struggle. A BIG clothesline by Royal had Suge in trouble. Royal brought out the heavy artillery. Suge fought up from his knees. Royal busted out a spinwheel kick for a near fall. Suge fired back, outboxing the SpaceGawd until a Royal forearm knocked Suge out of the ring. Suge came within an eyelash of being counted out. Royal used a bodyscissors as a submission. Suge pulled Royal’s nose to break the hold. A headbutt put both men in a daze. Royal applied a sleeper and sang Suge a lullaby. Suge refused to go out. Suge damaged Royal’s arm and capitalized with joint manipulation. A La Magistral cradle led to back and forth pin attempts. Suge pulled his knee pad down for a shining wizard to the back of Royal’s head. Just when it appeared Royal might be done, he clipped Suge’s knee and pinned him with Space Jam.

I’m not usually a fan of 25 minute matches unless it’s a really special situation. This match was so off the beaten path that I never lost interest. It was also positioned correctly – coming after intermission on a briskly paced show that wasn’t running long overall.

Postmatch, Royal admitted he was embarrassed the last time in Tyrone but that would be the last time anyone disrespected the Ace Gawd. Going forward, Royal vowed to bestow a path of destruction upon the ACTION fans.  

(6) AC Mack defeated Brett Ison to retain the ACTION and SUP Bonestorm Championships in 13:18. As Ison was making his way to the ring, Mack absolutely nailed him with a hard belt shot to the back of the head, then posted him twice. Mack ordered referee Aaron Noyes start the match and he did! What the hell? Once inside the ring, Ison took Mack down and locked in a Fujiwara armbar. Mack made the ropes but his arm was already a major problem. Ison stayed on the arm, dulling the effect Mack’s signature combo. Ison said he had been waiting six months for this. Ison was eating Mack alive. Mack mounted a comeback, building to the Mack 10. Ison reversed into a Juji Gatame. Mack made the ropes but was writhing in agony as Ison continued to taunt him. Ison did a Saito suplex into a Rings of Saturn. Mack again made the ropes. Mack riggled out of Ison’s powerbomb attempt and landed a kick in the head that put Ison down for a near fall. Ison crushed Mack’s face with the kill-shot knee and covered, but referee Noyes saw Mack’s arm under the ropes. Looked like Ison was going for the powerbomb again. Mack got out of it and hit the Mack 10. Noyes counted three and didn’t see Ison’s hand grasping the ropes.

Good match, wild story. Ison’s psycho killer vibe and Mack’s selling definitely worked for me.   

Titles in hand, Mack was out the front door in a hurry. Ison teased giving Noyes a choke slam and was roundly booed.

NOTES: ACTION returns to the Roger Spencer Community Center on October 2 with ACTION Shock. O’Shay Edwards, Shawn Dean and JD Drake are announced. Mack, Suge D, Ison, Layne, Edward and Ryan return…It was a long night for Georgia Referee of Year Darryl Hall. He reffed five straight matches…John Mosley from the SoBros Network was on color commentary alongside Dylan Hales. Matt Sells sat in during the Royal/Suge match.

 

 

 

 

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