The Secret of Guerrilla Island on Sunday, June 28!

[Zwarrior2]

Hopefully Tornado will do some sort of tribute to Michael Jackson during his match

And he needs some MJ music for his entrance. Maybe Smooth Criminal with jacket and hat.

[ESPINOZA316]

Hopefully Tornado will do some sort of tribute to Michael Jackson during his match

And he needs some MJ music for his entrance. Maybe Smooth Criminal with jacket and hat.

that would be cool

[CPG]

Damn, it's going to be 100 degrees in the Valley on Sunday; the line's gonna be brutal!

[PWG_Silverback]

On Friday, July 31, 2009, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla will celebrate its sixth anniversary with Threemendous II! If you would like to guarantee yourself a seat for this extraordinary anniversary event, we've got some good news: Front Row tickets for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's Threemendous II will be on sale at The Secret of Guerrilla Island! Tickets will also be on sale on http://www.prowrestlingguerrilla.com later in the week, but if you would like to secure your seat for this once in a lifetime event, you will have the chance to do so at The Secret of Guerrilla Island!


Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's Threemendous II takes place Friday, July 31, 2009, at 8:00 PM at American Legion Post #308 in Reseda, CA. American Legion Post #308 is located at 7338 Canby Ave., Reseda, CA 91335. Front Row tickets are $25 and will be available at the merchandise table at The Secret of Guerrilla Island. Ticket will be available for purchase online at a later date. For more information, please visit http://www.prowrestlingguerrilla.com. Video recording devices are not permitted. Card subject to change.

[WannaB]

Random Post: "Scott Lost is the most underrated wrestler in the multi-verse." Do something about it...

[WrestlingFanMatt]

I"m all for Scott getting a title run. I wish he'd get more of a push and hopefully his match with Generico is a damn good one! Scott has always been one hell of a talent and I think he'd be a welcome change of pace since Hero has missed close to half the shows since he won the belt a little under a year ago.

[The Six]

For a guy who's supposedly underrated, Scott Lost sure is universally praised. If nobody has a bad word to say about him, who is underrating him?

[kenssmith]

Obviously those who underrate him are the dozens... and dozens.. Of underrater..ers!
Those pricks!

[TigerDriver98]

Yeah, I wouldn't call Lost underrated (at least not by PWG fans). Underpushed maybe...

Couple small updates on the show gathered from various Twitters: Cutlers beat Mal Jackson/LTP and apparently Johnny Goodtime fought Charles Mercury.

I really wish I could have been able to make this one...

[El Asian]

Yeah, I wouldn't call Lost underrated (at least not by PWG fans). Underpushed maybe...

Couple small updates on the show gathered from various Twitters: Cutlers beat Mal Jackson/LTP and apparently Johnny Goodtime fought Charles Mercury.

I really wish I could have been able to make this one...

yay Charles is back although I honestly was hoping PWG would have him form a stable with Sky and Ronin

[Alex08]

what are the results

[Zwarrior2]

what are the results

Results & my thoughts...

- Excal is MC tonight. Talks about all the deaths recently Mays, Fawcett, Jackson, Tanabe and Misawa. 10 bell salute for Misawa.

- To note everyone entered to a Michael Jackson song for the show (From Smooth Criminal to Thriller). Tornado had Remember Jackson gear on and MJ style glasses. Generico busted out some sweet dance moves for his entrance with a moonwalk, spin and crotch grab. And Necro had Thriller so he did part of that dance.

- Goodtime vs. Mercury: It was an ok match, some scary bumps to the floor that weren't needed here. Goodtime gets the pin with a wacky leghooked DDT. **

- Tornado vs. Chuck: The crowd was shocked by Chuck's short hair (Fucking Ants). Some funny spots with hair pulling and a person in the crowd calling Chuck out. Chuck pins Tornado with a bad looking Omega Driver. **3/4

- CK Jackson & LTP vs. Cutlers: Cutlers called LTP Garry Coleman since he is small, black and has the same hair, crowd chanted the same and as a MJ reference called him Webster as well. Some sloppy stuff mostly involving the Jackson but cool finish with Cutlers hitting an awesome double Piledriver. *1/2

- Omega vs. Strong: Crazy loud Omega chants as he enters. Fun match with Omega fearing the chop. Good action which ended with a superplex from Strong that lead to a double pin. Excal tried to restart but Omega left. Then returned and said he would wrestle for one minute with Generico counting (he meant Excal, it got a laugh). This was one long minute Excal stopped counting all the time. Time runs out as Omega gets pinned. DRAW ***1/2

Intermission

- Lost vs. Generico: Lost works the bad knee. Generico makes a big comeback but ends up getting pinned by the Big Fat Kill. Lost pinned Generico...ugh. ***1/4

- Richards vs. N Jackson: Davey beat this man all over kingdom come. Even brought out a shovel to bury him. He looked to finish with a DR Driver 2 followed by the SSP but even though the ref counted 3 he said this wasn't over. Hmmm...smell something funny do I. Davey then tapped Nick with a Cloverleaf. ***

- Street Fight: Ryan vs. Necro: The camera right side of the crowd were for Necro and camera left was Joey (my side). Slow start till Necro attacked and busted Joey with SCISSORS! Necro attacked Ref. Knox in the crowd then when he pinned Joey he had no one to count. So Joey came back with a chair shot Superkick for the pin. ***1/2

Necro then hit the most horrifying unprotected chair shot I've ever seen on Knox, what an asshole. Ok show.

[El Asian]

what are the results

Results & my thoughts...

- Excal is MC tonight. Talks about all the deaths recently Mays, Fawcett, Jackson, Tanabe and Misawa. 10 bell salute for Misawa.

- To note everyone entered to a Michael Jackson song for the show (From Smooth Criminal to Thriller). Tornado had Remember Jackson gear on and MJ style glasses. Generico busted out some sweet dance moves for his entrance with a moonwalk, spin and crotch grab. And Necro had Thriller so he did part of that dance.

- Goodtime vs. Mercury: It was an ok match, some scary bumps to the floor that weren't needed here. Goodtime gets the pin with a wacky leghooked DDT. **

- Tornado vs. Chuck: The crowd was shocked by Chuck's short hair (Fucking Ants). Some funny spots with hair pulling and a person in the crowd calling Chuck out. Chuck pins Tornado with a bad looking Omega Driver. **3/4

- CK Jackson & LTP vs. Cutlers: Cutlers called LTP Garry Coleman since he is small, black and has the same hair, crowd chanted the same and as a MJ reference called him Webster as well. Some sloppy stuff mostly involving the Jackson but cool finish with Cutlers hitting an awesome double Piledriver. *1/2

- Omega vs. Strong: Crazy loud Omega chants as he enters. Fun match with Omega fearing the chop. Good action which ended with a superplex from Strong that lead to a double pin. Excal tried to restart but Omega left. Then returned and said he would wrestle for one minute with Generico counting (he meant Excal, it got a laugh). This was one long minute Excal stopped counting all the time. Time runs out as Omega gets pinned. DRAW ***1/2

Intermission

- Lost vs. Generico: Lost works the bad knee. Generico makes a big comeback but ends up getting pinned by the Big Fat Kill. Lost pinned Generico...ugh. ***1/4

- Richards vs. N Jackson: Davey beat this man all over kingdom come. Even brought out a shovel to bury him. He looked to finish with a DR Driver 2 followed by the SSP but even though the ref counted 3 he said this wasn't over. Hmmm...smell something funny do I. Davey then tapped Nick with a Cloverleaf. ***

- Street Fight: Ryan vs. Necro: The camera right side of the crowd were for Necro and camera left was Joey (my side). Slow start till Necro attacked and busted Joey with SCISSORS! Necro attacked Ref. Knox in the crowd then when he pinned Joey he had no one to count. So Joey came back with a chair shot Superkick for the pin. ***1/2

Necro then hit the most horrifying unprotected chair shot I've ever seen on Knox, what an asshole. Ok show.

looks pretty good but I'm disappointed everyone came out to Michael Jackson songs, mostly because it won't make it on DVD

[TigerDriver98]

Aww, that Michael Jackson stuff sounds really awesome, shame I'll never get to see it

So was anything mentioned/set up for the anniversary show?

[Fsportsentertainment]

I just hope Knox is OK. That was the wickedest ref bump ever!

[Mike Positive]

Hi guys, here's the report I wrote up for the Torch:

PWG: The Secret of Guerrilla Island results (5:00 PM Sunday, June 28, 2009, American Legion Post #308, Reseda, CA)

The regular ring announcer wasn't present at the show, so Excalibur opened things up. He talked about recent celebrity deaths, including Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson (though somehow leaving out Ed McMahon). He then talked about Japanese referee Ted Tanabe, and finished with Misawa's death. He introduced a 10 bell salute for Misawa, which the fans were very respectful for.

Every wrestler on the show came out to Michael Jackson songs.

(1) Johnny Goodtime pinned Charles Mercury in a surprisingly good opener, with Goodtime being particularly good. Goodtime was originally scheduled to face Human Tornado, but the card was shuffled around due to Danielson being pulled. Goodtime came out wearing an Iron Man mask colored to match his tights and a Nintendo Power Pad that he did some stuff on before the match.

Goodtime got dropped pretty hard to the outside at one point and a hush fell over the crowd, but he ended up being all right. Goodtime won with a modified DDT.

(2) Chuck Taylor beat Human Tornado via pinfall. Chuck showed off his short hair for the first time in PWG after losing a hair match in Chikara. Human Tornado came out wearing a Michael Jackson tribute t-shirt (man, those merchandise sellers work fast) and sunglasses, dancing out to the ring, though not really doing any MJ moves. Chuck tried on the sunglasses as well.

Taylor pulled on Tornado's hair, but accused Tornado of grabbing his hair, with the ref admonishing Tornado for this. I think Chuck got a smaller reaction than he would have otherwise due to the different music and his new, unfamiliar look. Chuck won with the Omega Driver in a decent match.

(3) The Cutler Brothers (Brandon & Dustin Cutler) beat Malachi "CK" Jackson & Jerome "LTP" Robinson, with Malachi taking the pin. The Cutlers were announced as being from your local GNC, and they seemed to be playing up their workout gimmick even more than usual in this match.

This was LTP's PWG debut. He was great, doing a lot of athletic moves. The Cutlers mocked him by calling him Gary Coleman as, well, he's the shortest wrestler I've seen on a PWG show, but this turned around a bit and fans started chanting "Gary" in favor of LTP. Some fans chanted "Youngest Buck" for Malachi since he's the Young Bucks' little brother. Malachi was pinned as LTP was down and the Cutlers hit a double piledriver on him.

(4) Kenny Omega versus Roderick Strong ended in a draw due to a double pin. Great match. Omega strutted through his Michael Jackson entrance, and after Omega and Taylor got such huge fan support at DDT4, Omega was still hugely over. They did a Looney Tunes-esque spot early on with Omega getting chopped and then keeping his head down, afraid to look up and get chopped again. He finally looked up and Roderick wasn't there, but Omega knew he was behind him and got a cartoony fear expression on his face before turning around into the chop.

Both men's shoulders were down for the pin, so the referee ruled it a draw. The fans chanted for five more minutes (which doesn't seem to make sense, since this wasn't a time limit draw, but whatever), but Omega wasn't having it and went to the back. He came back out and agreed to one more minute, and turned to masked commissioner Excalibur and said that "El Generico" would count the time for this match. Excalibur got offended, and Omega responded that yes, he knows his name, but while he was Excalibur, Omega was King Arthur, so Excalibur should shut up. In the 60 more seconds that Excalibur counted with a very odd cadence, counting slow in part and fast in another, Roderick had Omega down as time was running out, but time expired before the ref counted three. It was once again ruled a draw. Excalibur said they should just restart the match, but Omega wasn't having it.

Omega cut a promo that was really the only prolonged mic work of the show. He talked about how they would eventually face each other again, and perhaps Strong would have a friend next time. (This is likely a reference to Strong's partner from DDT4, Bryan Danielson, who Omega and Chuck Taylor, a.k.a. Men of Low Moral Fiber, were originally scheduled to face until Danielson was pulled due to a staph infection.) Omega called Excalibur an MFer, then ended by saying they were going to do it like two men do it in the gay reference of the night. Excalibur said he was declaring Strong the winner because Omega hurt his feelings, but I'm not sure if this was official or not.

Excalibur plugged the merch table and tickets being on sale for the next show, was told by someone from the Legion hall not to swear, and responded by repeating what the guy had said with some swearing.

[Intermission]

(5) Scott Lost pinned El Generico. This was the first time in the show I felt the change of music hurt, as Generico not coming out to his standard music kind of messes up his act. Generico was wearing a knee brace, so Lost worked over the knee. Lost won with his finisher, the Big Fat Kill (a reverse roundhouse kick to the head). Good match.

(6) Davey Richards beat Nick Jackson (Pro Wrestling Guerrilla World Tag Team Champion) via submission. Excalibur noted that Jackson was skipping his uncle's funeral to be here for this match (Is the other Young Buck at the funeral?). Richards walked out at one point, and came back with a shovel for some inexplicable reason, causing Jackson to bail to the outside, but Richards surrendered the shovel. (Did he just see that sitting around backstage or something?)

Generico was down and Richards hit the shooting star press, but in what looked like a messed up finish, the ref said the shoulder was up even though it didn't look like Jackson lifted his shoulder, and the fans started to crap on this, but Richards went back to the cloverleaf he was using earlier and Jackson tapped out. Another fairly good match, other than the awkward finish. Richards complained to the ref about not counting the pinfall and asked for validation from the fans, and even lifted up a kid from the crowd, which seemed weird for such a heel character.

(7) Joey Ryan pinned Necro Butcher in a no disqualification match. Necro came out to "Thriller," and strutted out to the ring, even pulling out some "Thriller" dance moves. Joey came out with a trash can, and Necro came out with a steel chair. There were dueling chants for Ryan and Necro as the match started. Joey convinced Necro to start not using any weapons, but Ryan quietly pulled a steel chain out of his pocket and wrapped his fist, working over Necro with that to start the match.

A kid in the front row slid Necro's steel chair into the ring during this which seemed like it could have been really dangerous if one of the wrestlers had tripped over it, but they managed to kick the chair out of the way. Still, I think this killed the crowd a bit as Necro had to not pick up the steel chair that was right there, screwing up the logic of the match.

They brawled on the outside, with Necro hitting Joey with the trash can several times and driving some scissors into his forehead. Joey bled, which I guess explains why he left his shirt on, as you could see the drops of blood on his shirt. (He should have brought back the bleached blonde hair for this.) Lots more brawling on the outside, including the scoop slam on a chair.

Necro got angry at the referee and threw him into some chairs in the crowd, which seemed to come out of nowhere. Back in the ring, Necro got a visual pinfall off a sunset flip on Ryan, but the ref got back in the ring too late to count the pinfall. Ryan ended up hitting a superkick for the victory. Good as far as this kind of match goes, but the referee bit didn't make a lot of sense. It also went a bit shorter than I expected, with the finish not feeling like it was really built to.

After the match, Necro complained about his pinfall and looked at the ref, hitting an unprotected shot to the top of Knox's head with a steel chair. With all we've been hearing in recent years about unprotected chairshots to the top of the head, this seemed really stupid. Not sure if this is an official heel turn or not, since it's not that far out of the norm for Necro's character.

Excalibur asked Necro if it was cool if he got in the ring, and Necro said something about how he was right there in the ring, so Excalibur decided to be cautious and stay on the outside as he made the sales pitch for next month's sixth anniversary show. Overall, a fun show, but not necessarily worth going out of your way to see. The show was hurt by Danielson being pulled, as it left most of the show feeling a bit flat due to not having as much history.

[Tarfoo]

He came back out and agreed to one more minute, and turned to masked commissioner Excalibur and said that "El Generico" would count the time for this match. Excalibur got offended, and Omega responded that yes, he knows his name, but while he was Excalibur, Omega was King Arthur, so Excalibur should shut up.

Yes, I'm buying this.

[deadmandevilman]

Mike Positive's review is spot on, but I thought I would add some thoughts...that I though.

Pre Show
Waiting outside in the heat was lame. The doors opened a half hour late, which was lame, but not out of the ordinary.I was concerned the turnout was going to be low, but they drew a lot of people. There were less chairs and a few empty seats once the show started. I am personally a fan of the normal night shows where they have to add rows of chairs and the place is fucking packed, so it was a bit dissapointing.

The combination of the crowd size (small), Heat (it was hot), and time of day (sunday afternoon) resulted in a less rowdy crowd.

1) Johnny Goodtime vs Charles Mercury. Good Match. First time I had seen either of these dudes and I hope they get invited back. Goodtime was over with the crowd, as a video game playing nerdy wrestler. Lots of hard falls from the ring to the floor. Mercury hit goodtime with a BOLA 07 DVD. That was awesome. A bit crazy for an opening match but it was entraining so who am I to talk shit? Both dudes set out to impress and from my seat they did.

2)Chuck Taylor vs Human Tornado. Nice Match. Two PWG regulars and two crowd favorites. I felt like I expected more from this match and it never really took off all the way. But it was still fun and entertaining.
Side bar highlight - the blond kid was sitting near me and when Chuck came out he literally started crying and hid from him. To clarify, Chuck entered and started walking away from us as he circled the ring, he was not near the kid nor did he interact with him. The mere SIGHT of Chuck broke him down into tears. Wow.

3) The Cutler Bros vs CK Jackson & LTP. Another Good Match. Didn't have any expectations going in. The Cutlers are coming together as a tag team in my book. Their "jock wrestlers" gimmick is starting to gel. There was a cool spot where one of them (the smaller one) hit a move, sat up and started talking to those of us in the front row about his abs and how nice they were and don't we agree. This caught me totally off guard. He would't let people change the subject as his brother got beat down.
I liked CK, and though he did better here then at DDT4. He had a lot of hurricanranna variations and controlled the crowd by via claping. I liked LTP, and thought his debut was good. People chanted various black pop culture characters names at him. Gary Coleman, Carlton etc. I really didnt care for that.

4)Kenny Omega vs Roderick Strong. Great Match. What can I say? A solid outing, good comedy, and good wrestling. The crowd loves Kenny, and he showed everyone why they should again. He as a great way of juxtaposing comedy spots with hard hitting wrestling. Kenny's on the mic was a funny heel rant.

Excalibur announced the intermission and was in the middle of talking when Legion Larry interrupted him. Excal said Larry had told him not to swear "or some bullshit like that". On his way to the back Larry said it was the wrestlers who shouldnt swear, and Excal seemed to be ignoring him.

Scott Lost vs El Generico. Nice match. I was expecting more again. As retarted as it might be, Generico coming out to Michael Jackson hurt the crowd. People go apeshit and sing along to the Bouncing Souls, and Generico really plays that up. He did dance though and that was cool.
By no means a bad match.

6) Davey Richards vs Nick Jackson. Ok match. I think the crowd was tired during this match. It had some good moments and some confusing ones. No not the shovel. There were times where each man would hit a hard strike, and his the opponent would not sell it. I don't know why that was or if I was not seeing something from my angle or what. Davey was over with the crowd big time, despite being the heel. When he came out he would act like he was going to give someone a high five and then at the last second pull away and berate them.The best part of the match was when a little girl handed Davy a chair and he took it. The ref got rid of the chair but Davey gave the girl a thumbs up. After the win he hoisted her up on his shoulders. On his way out he gave some kids some high fives but pulled away from the adults. Love it.

7) Joey vs Necro. I think this match didn't click for me. Everyone seemed to enjoy it but for some reason I didn't get into it. Necro trying to do the thiller dance was worth the price of admission though. Joey bled all over the floor, and Necro rubbed his face on a wall and got that bloody too. I hope that makes the DVD. Men Women and children alike were horrified when necro pulled out the scisors. They were more horrified when raked that shit across Joey's forehead. And if they though the horror ended there, they were most horrifided with Necro fucking licked Joey's bloody forhead! Two or three people threw chairs into the ring. I thought that was lame.
After the match Knox took a crazy chair shot. It was nuts.

Random last thoughts
After the main event, as everyone left, Necro sat in the middle of the ring dejected, hurting and angry. Legion Larry went to ring side and asked him to turn around, digital camera ready. Seemed odd. Necro did not turn around. Then he informed Necro that he was "banned" for the chair shot on poor ref Rick "Top Rope" Knox. Larry went on to say that scissors and garbage cans were fine but hitting an official will get you banned. Necro said something in return, but I didnt catch it.
This whole thing came off weird and awkward. I dont know if Larry was playing it up for the 6 people ringside or if he was serious.

The tall security guard started drinking during the main event and sat down in the crowd. I found this too to be awkward.

Overall I was totally happy with his event, and everyone there seemed happy as well. I look forward to July's show.

[Tarfoo]

And if they though the horror ended there, they were most horrifided with Necro fucking licked Joey's bloody forhead! Two or three people threw up on the floor.

I honestly thought this sentence would end that way. I'm disappointed.

[deadmandevilman]

And if they though the horror ended there, they were most horrifided with Necro fucking licked Joey's bloody forhead! Two or three people threw up on the floor.

I honestly thought this sentence would end that way. I'm disappointed.

Sorry. No one puked but the girl that Davey celbrated with started crying and her and her mother left. That necro match freaked some people the fuck out.