PWG Mystery Vortex
Team Dojo Bros (Roderick Strong &
Eddie Edwards) vs. The Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson)
The show starts off with an amazing tag
team match that could, and probably should be a main event. This
match has a bunch of amazing near falls and a lot of hard shots for
both teams and of course the Young Bucks delivering their unique
blend of new moves, and classic heel tactics. Of course Strong and
Eddie deliver their stiff chops throughout the match. Both teams
deliver on some the double team moves. Both teams get in all their
trademark offense and the end comes when Roderick picks up a Jackson
for a dominator and Edwards delivers a double stomp to take him down
for a three count. This fucking match is awesome, and if you're disc
only had this match you'd be satisfied, and it's only the first
match.
Drake Younger vs. Sami Callihan
Hard hitting action, that's what this
match is all about. Drake Young busts his head open delivering
headbutts to Callihan, which is pretty normal for him. The very
beginning of this match has both men taking some wicked bumps that
are kind of ignored later in the match, but the are awesome. Younger
takes a nice bump off the apron onto some chairs from a bicycle kick.
Younger then delivers a nice piledriver to Callihan on the apron, and
all that is just in the first five minutes of the match. Sami
eventually pulls out a win with a seated stretch muffler in a brutal
match between two bruisers.
Super Smash Bros. vs. RockNES Monsters
Comedy shenanigans occur in this match
as well as awesome wrestling, it's a delightful combination. The
Monsters also provide classic heel shenanigans in the match which are
quite enjoyable. I also enjoyed Goodtime cutting part of his beard
and blowing it into Stupefied's face to allow Yuma to get a rollup
that doesn't quite work. Yuma also hits one of the best looking
reverse hurrincanrannas I've ever seen. Nobody can withstand the
double team maneuvers of the Super Smash Bros. though, and they
retain the belts in a really good match.
Joey Ryan vs. Scorpio Sky
A good technical start to the match
after the two hug, and they each throw in references to retired
members of the Dynasty. Joey does a Scott Lost double boot/stomp out
of the corner and Sky delivers a Lion Cock Punch. After Sky hits a
big tope con hilo on Ryan he fixes the chairs at ringside so Ryan can
hit a mustache ride off the apron through the chairs afterward, it
looked awesome and brutal. Scorpio gets the win with a nice combo
ending in a TKO, and this is a great match for Ryan's PWG career to
end on.
B-Boy vs. Brian Cage vs. Willie Mack
vs. TJ Perkins
An awesome four way match between these
guys. Lots of good stuff from everybody and TJ has a lot of nice
multiperson submissions going for him in this match. There's a nice
chop exchange between TJ. Cage, and B-Boy where TJ is avoiding the
chops meant for him before he delivers a chop so Cage and B-Boy stop
and both hit him with a chop. They do a couple of excellent sequences
where everybody hits a big move, and they all fit into the match
well. Even the dive sequence makes sense in the match. I like the
ending with TJ having Cage in an STF, but Mack his the Chocolate
Thunder Driver on B-Boy to get the pin before TJ gets a submission.
Great work from all four guys especially TJ who is one of my favorite
wrestlers.
El Generico vs. Rich Swann
An odd match for Generico as he plays
the heel to start the match and slows the match down and grinds on
Swann. Of course Swann escapes that and delivers all his high flying
offense which is pretty awesome. I especially liked the jump up top
rope hurrincanranna where he lands on his feet after delivering it. A
good match from these two where Generico picks up the victory with
his crazy flip the opponent around a couple of times into a
powerbomb. That's an awful description of that move, but whatever.
Team Dojo Bros vs. Super Smash Bros.
Goddamn this match. Dojo Bros attack
while SSB are doing their opening pose and then lay a beatdown on
Uno. They deliver awesome offense and keep Stupefied on the outside.
Once Stupefied gets the hot tag it might be the hottest tag I've ever
seen. He throws Edwards to the outside and hits him with a dive, runs
into the ring and hits a springboard move on Strong, then another
dive on Edwards, a springboard DDT on Strong, another dive, and then
a Meteora on Strong and the crowd goes apeshit, 'cause it's awesome.
The finish is amazing with Edwards hitting some sick double stomps
and Roderick hitting one of the best of his suplex into a backbreaker
on Stupefied. I love both these teams, and this was a baller match
especially considering they had both wrestled awesome matches earlier
in the show.
Adam Cole vs. Kevin Steen (Guerilla
Warfare)
This match is best summed up by the
word violence. To start Steen runs Cole dong first into every corner
post on the outside, and then hits a powerbomb onto the apron on all
four sides of the ring. Several ladders and many chairs are used to
beat on each other before the two men construct a brutal looking
stack of chairs. Steen wins the battle on the top rope and puts Cole
through the chairs with a fisherman buster in one of the coolest
looking spots ever and the crowd and announcers go nuts, and when
Cole kicks out they go even nuttier. Steen then brings in some
thumbtacks including some he drinks and then spits onto Cole because
Steen is fucking insane. They tease the tacks several times before
Cole delivers a nice german suplex into them and follows up with a
superkick and straighjacket german suplex to get the win and become
the PWG Champion.
Overall: Buy this fucking show now,
it's fucking awesome. Every match is main event caliber and everybody
is going all out the whole time to provide the best wrestling on the
planet. The best wrestling show of 2012 from top to bottom and
there's not a single match that isn't good, and most of them are
great.
