Got back from my first show of 2019. Limitless Wrestling's Snakebitten at the Armory in beautiful Westbrook, Maine. It was #packed crowd. A crowd of 400 or so. Pizza slices came from a local house of pizza and were 2 for $3, which is a PRETTY GOOD DEAL (even if pizza barely had any toppings), all beers were $5, including micros. Anyway, I digress. Quick results for anyone who cares
Andrew Everett defeated Josh Briggs with a chokeslam following some distraction via Briggs' rival Chris Dickinson huffing and puffing at the commentary table. Not sure when Andrew Everett started doing a Crash Holly-esque "cruiserweight that acts like a super heavyweight gimmick". Would've liked to see a little bit more back and forth. It was mostly Briggs throwing around Everett before Everett got the fluky win. Still, fun opener.
The Dream Team (Austin Theory and Christian Casanova) (with Stokely Hathaway) beat Harlow O'Hara and Pepper Parks in an intergender tag team match. Before the match, Big Stoke ran down Harlow's original partner Kevin Blackwood, who had to back out of the show after he suffering two broken ankles and a severe concussion in an awful car accident last weekend. Blackwood's replacement was his trainer Pepper Parks. Thought it was kind of weird he went by his original name and not Braxton Sutter but no one cares about the last two years of Impact, I guess. Everytime, I see Austin Theory I'm more impressed and think he's closer to being big league ready. He's got a great look and agility. He came out with the EVOLVE Title, which I thought was p. cool.
Guess I'm a hypocrite for making fun of no one caring about Impact while still kind of caring about EVOLVE.
"Dirty Daddy" Chris Dickinson defeated Simon Grimm with modified/kind of watered down Pazuzu Bomb. Simon Grimm has shaved his mustache recently. He went from looking like a hipster trying to ironically look like a dad to looking an actual dad now that he's clean shaven. It took me a solid 10 seconds to register it was him. Took the crowd a while to get into this but this was solid, hard hitting match. I thought it was odd that they brought in two names and both stuck them in death slots (this and the post intermission match)
Maine State Posse beat Puf & Thick Boyz (John Silver & Jay Freddie) in a six man tag with a backstabber and senton combination after miscommunication between Puf & Thick Boyz. Puf was in aforementioned car crash with Kevin Blackwood but came out unscathed. I love me some comedy wrestling and Puf is awesome. He was great as the doofus getting bullied by his dumb jock teammates. Nice comedy match breather before intensity of next match.
Ashley Vox defeated Kris Stadlander with the Fish Hook in an unsanctioned No DQ Match. Fish Hook is Crippler Crossface but sticking the fingers in the opponent's mouth. But since it was UNSANCTIONED, she used some kind of wrench to pull. Eeep. For the second show in a row, Ashley has had Match of the Night. Kris Stadtlander is super promising too (I believe she is a trainee of the great Curt Hawkins) and will probably be one to watch, especially if she tones down her silly extraterrestrial gimmick a bit more and just becomes a straight up asskicker.
Intermission- I buy a Puf koozie and two more beers.
House of Gangone (Anthony Gangone and Amazing Red) beat the Private Party. This is was a very good tag team match but kind of odd placing. Red looked good in semi-limited action but was doing a masked heel lackey gimmick. It was cool to see him but odd to see him in such a secondary role for a secondary match but hey, the guy has a lot of miles and his odometer and he was probably just psyched to get his students a spot on a big indy show. Private Party is fairly underrated indy tag team that might be due for a EYFBO/LAX-esque breakout in 2019.
Brandon Kirk beats Ace Austin, Jordan Oliver, Willow Nightengale, Ophidian, and The Whisper in six man scramble match. This was a scramble. Always kind of fun, usually not particularly memorable. Ophidian's hypnotist gimmick was fun to watch and imagine Jim Cornette flip the fuck out over. He hypnotized everyone and made them dance to "Uptown Funk"! Dennis Condrey never did such a thing. Grumble grumble grumble
Comedy heel cannon fodder Brett Domino issued an open challenge that was answered by returning Limitless mid-card guy Mr. Grim, who does sort of a mortician/hitman gimmick. He carries a bodybag and stuffs his opponent into it after he wins (or his opponent's interfering manager in it if he loses). Most notable part of this match was the crowd chanting "Grim" and Simon Grimm standing up and giving a shrug and a smirk.
Kings (MJF and JT Dunn) defeated Take Me Home Tonight (Ace Romero and Anthony Greene) in wild main event. Probably 2nd best match of the night. Lot of crowd brawling. It feels like they tried to stuff like 6 months of storytelling into six weeks here a bit as TMHT have been feuding for the past year before suddenly reuniting at the end of the last show. They acted hunky dory at beginning of the match but MISCOMMUNICATION led them to being at each other's throats at the end of the match. A wild pull apart ensued between all four opponents in this match until Limitless Owner Randy Carver Jr stomped to the ring and said he trusted all of these guys to lead Limitless into the next decade! So at the next show, we're going to see Fatal Fourway between all four of these men to determine the first Limitless World Champion.
Very interesting. It's kind of odd to see indies in 2019 embracing the old wrestling traditions they once eschewed (having titles, having weekly TV, etc). Also The Hurricane is gonna be on the next show in March so that's nice. Maybe Big Poppa Pump will show up after all.
