CCW 666

[Dirty Don Matt di Capo]

Nice little piece of business last night at CCW 666. The Commish and Bad Bizness Brown would have been very happy. (This was a supershow, so if Eric was still here we all know he would have been pacing like a madman and moving at 300 miles a second in pre-show preparation backstage). I felt both spirits there last night and props to the Powers That Be who pulled off the show. I have been out of the CCW loop for the better part of 3 years, but last night gave me that vintage CCW feeling I can remember when I was a part of CCW. Moving on....

It was good to see ladies wrestling back at the Coliseum. Daizee Haize and Sara Del Ray had a good back-and-forth match with Daizee going to the pay window. Del Ray seems to have the look to be an effective heel, but seemed a bit too reserved for the Evansville crowd to really hate her.

The masked wrestlers (the names escape me) had a very good match that put some juice into the crowd. Good quickly-paced chain wrestling early, nice psychology and mat wrestling in the middle, with both wrestlers working hard to tell a story and finally bring it home with some effective sequences and captivating spots.

Mitch Rider and Gypsy Joe had a good old-fashioned Tennessee rasslin' match in the absence of Mitch's scheduled opponent USWA mainstay 'JC Ice' Jamie Dundee. According to Mitch's vintage heel promo, the previous night Mitch sent (beat) Jamie Dundee into surgery (which, incidentally, was performed at a Louisville Jewish hospital, nonetheless). Of course, we all know that this was obviously a work because surely one of three things happened if you know any history on Jamie Dundee: 1) Jamie no-showed without notification 2) Jamie was arrested for delinquent child support payments in one of the 6 "confirmed" states he has fathered children 3) Jamie was fathering another child. Essentially in this match, Mitch sold everything for the 'Hardcore Legend' Gypsy Joe (clad in shorts and gym shoes) had to offer. However, it isn't Tennessee wrestling unless the heel has a chain in his tights, so to form, Mitch "pulled a chain" from his trunks - blasted Gypsy Joe - and kayfabed the "chain" back in his upper singlet and pinned GJ.

The Evansville Veteran's Memorial Coliseum has held wrestling cards for over 75 years at 4th and Court Street. Much has changed in the wrestling business over 75 years, but last night the fans caught a little glimpse of that "yesteryear" wrestling that is so absent from today's product as 'Psycho Sellout Smasher Smokey' Smothers and 'The Texas Hangman' LoneStar locked up last night. No glitz, no glamour, no pyro, no bimbos: just two guys - a challenging face and a champion heel - in a Bunkhouse Match for the World Title. This match went all over the building and spilled outside onto Court Street. This is the type of vintage 70s-80s Memphis rasslin' that some of the loyal Evansville fans saw every Wednesday at the Coliseum. And the payoff - good prevails over evil when, after many false finishes, the challenger goes over the champion (albeit with a foot on the rope) to capture the CCW World Heavyweight Title.

And so it goes...T is for Terrible. H is for Hell. U is for Ugly. G is for Jail....because a THUG can't SPELL.

Capo

[wesjorden]

100 percent right on....last nite was the best show I've seen in eville coliseum in prob. 2 1/2 years. I grew up in this place coming with my uncle every week and watching it on TV. I started to hit my teen years and kinda got away from wrestling. I was away for about 7 years. I hit my first show almost 3yrs ago and I had no clue what I was watching. The matches were horrible. I came about 3 months ago. It was hard to bare even talking about what I saw that nite.

Then Wed. show I felt at home. The wrestling I grew up watching was back for this very night. To whomever took care of this night. Booking the matches done to brawls. I commend. Keep up the good work....

Scoob ;D

[lilbrotha]

I can say this week's show was among the best since i've been around. A great job by the booking committee and the entire ccw staff way to go thanx for the hard work. Help me spread the word lets fill the seats so we can have this type of show every week.
Keep It Pimp'N

[Dirty Don Matt di Capo]

I would be remiss not to mention the Claudio Castagnoli and Mike Quackenbush match. "The Man of a Thousand Holds" definitely has a lot of charisma and seems to be a great worker. Claudio is really put together - a good tv look - but seemed kinda lax in his work that night compared to other nights I have seen him work. On paper that match had a lot of promise, but fizzled in my opinion.

[iwamaniwa]

dicapo said:

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Of course, we all know that this was obviously a work because surely one of three things happened if you know any history on Jamie Dundee: 1) Jamie no-showed without notification 2) Jamie was arrested for delinquent child support payments in one of the 6 "confirmed" states he has fathered children 3) Jamie was fathering another child.

Jamie actually cut his hand pretty deep at the XCW Midwest show in New Albany on Tuesday night and had to go to the hospital.

Claudio/Quack had also wrestled on that show, against each other, so maybe Claudio had injured himself or something of that nature as well.