ASW1 N1 review

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1. Hook Bombery, Top gun Talwar, Ronin and Davey Richards vs Disco Machine, Excalibur, Zokre and Pheonix Star - 8 man tag - good match and good opener for the show. Ronin is a lot better here than the first time I saw him, he doesnt seem so nervous. He also does some hard chops. Your normal stuff to start. The faces, (Ronin and co.) get control. They work over Pheonix Star for a while. Richards does some nice kicks to him. Talwar hits a nice reverse DDT on him. Pheonix hits a weird pele kick on Ronin. He makes the hot tag. The heels come in and hit some clothslines and dropkicks. The heels hit 4 consecutive dives to the outside. Davey hits an enziguri to Excalibur. (back in the ring). He follows it up with a northern lights suplex. Zokre breaks that up. Zokre hits a blue thunder bomb, on Davey for 2. Ronin hits him with a massive powerbomb, then DVD for 2. Pheonix gets a sprinboard headscissors to Ronin for 2. Sitout scoop slam from Bobbery gets 2. Disco gets a chokeslam backbreaker for 2. Talwar hits a reverse DDT for 2. Excalibur hits him with a bridging German. While Excalibur is bridging, Richards does an awesome shooting star onto Excalibur for the win. Match went about 10 minutes. Really fun opener with a nice finishing sequence. ***1/4.

2. Chris Hero vs Chris Sabin - very good match. Both men are playing faces. They start with some good mat wrestling. Both men do some cool reversals. They reach a stalmate. Hero hits a scoopslam, then cool headstand double stomp. Sabin gets a great springboard dropkick. Sabin gets another dropkick to the back of Hero's head. Sabin puts on a weird submission in the ropes. Sabin hits a neckbreaker. Hero starts working over Sabin's arm really well. Sabin hits another neckbreaker. Sabin's selling his arm really well. They have a nice rollup exchange, which all gets 2. Sain hits some leg drops to the back of Hero's neck. Hero hits a middle rope flipping stunner, but on the arm of Sabin. Hero hits some kicks to Sabin's arm. Hero hits a arm/backbreaker type move. It gets 2. Hero puts on a tequilla sunrise. Sabin reaches the ropes. Sabin comes back with an enziguri. He hits a brainbuster for 2. Sabin gets a springboard tornado DDT for 2. Hero reverses the cradle shock into a reverse crossface. Sabin taps out! Went about 17 minutes. Stellar match there. Very crisp, and the bodypart work by both men was really good. ***1/2.

3. Petey Williams vs Johnny Storm - Okay match. There's lots of anticipation behing this. Storm is face. Crowd really want Petey to hit the canadian destroyer throughout the match. They do some formula mat wrestling and things to start. Storm hits a top rope arm drag for 2. Petey gets control and does some usual heel moves. He hits some dropkicks and stomps. He puts in a neck submission on the mat. Storm gets out but gets hit with a northern lights suplex. That gets 2. Storm comes back, but Petey cuts him off with a suplex. Storm lands on his feet off a backdrop attempt, and hits a cool DDT variation. Storm hits a middle rope headscissors. He hits a running enziguri, and Petey bails. He follows him out. Petey gets a nice rana on the floor. In the ring, Petey gets a russian legsweep. It Gets 2. Petey goes fot the destroyer, but Storm counters into a rollup. They have a rollup exchange. Petey puts in a sharpshooter, but Storm makes it to the ropes. Storm hits a here it is driver for 2. That really should of been the finish. They do some more stuff, until Storm wins with a rollup. Match went about 12 minutes, but it felt like 20. The finishing stretch really dragged. Storm was really bland. Was a decent match, but should have been shorter. **3/4.

4. Havana Pitbulls vs Kendo Kashin and Puma - I thought this would be good. I was wrong. Im not going to bother to do play by play for this. I really like the pitbulls in ROH, but they pretty much sucked here. Puma and Kendo werent good aswell. This match was just a heatless, anticlimatic mess really. I might have been a bit harsh on it, but this is skippable. A point for Rocky Romero being in it. *. (sorry to be so negative).

5. James Gibson vs Bryan Danielson - very good match. Not as good as their ROH Glory By Honor 4 encounter, but still really good. Danielson has the beard here. They start with lots of technical mat wrestling. They reach a stale mate. Gibson goes for lots of headlocks. Danielson suddenly throws Gibson to the outside. He does a massive top rope crossbody to Gibson, on the floor. He hits some uppercuts and kicks to Gibson, on the outside. He throws him back in. Dragon puts on a surfboard. He puts on a half Boston crab. Gibson gets to the ropes. Dragon hits some strikes on the outside. He brings Gibson back in and gets 2. He puts on an abdominal submission in the ring. Gibson's selling is really awesome here. They have a kick exchange. Danielson gets the better of it, and puts on a cravate. Gibson reverses to a suprise backslide for 2. Dragon regains control with an uppercut. Dragon goes for backdrop superplex, but Gibson reverses into a crossbody. That gets 2. Gibson hits a neckbreaker. Gibson hits some back elbows. He hits a short arm clothsline, then a middle rope legdrop for 2. Dragon hits a big forearm in the corner, then a butterfly suplex for 2. He goes for cattle mutilation but Gibson reverses to the front gulliotine choke. Dragon reverses to a (sort of) belly to belly. Dragon sets Gibson up top, and hits the backdrop superplex. It gets 2. Gibson gets a running knee, then a big brainbuster for 2. He puts in a texas cloverleaf. Danielson reverses to a rollup for 2. Dragon hits a dragon suplex, then puts in cattle mutilation. Gibson gets to the ropes. Dragon gets a really long airplane spin. They both recover for a while. Gibson goes for tiger driver. Dragon reverses to a rollup. Gibson reverses to a rolup of his own, and gets the pin. Very solid match. Both men's, (especially Gibson's) selling throughout was terrific. Went about 20 minutes long. Like I said, not as good as their ROH match but still really good. ***3/4.

6. AXP and Kazarian vs Joey Ryan and Arogance. - good match. Kazarian wants revenge on Arrogance. The heels cut a long pre match promo insulting some fans. The match begins with AXP and Arrogance trying to out wrestle each other. Kazarian comes in and takes control on Ryan. The heels cheat to gain control of Kazarian. They work over Kazarian for about 4 minutes. Lost his a cool spear in the corner onto him. They go for a doomsday dropkick combo, but it gets a bit mucked up. Kazarian gets the hot tag after this. The tag isnt that hot as AXP dont do any big stuff for a while. They start doing some double teams, including a cool legdrop facebuster combo. It all starts breaking down, with dives to the outside and all. They do a massive 6 man tower of doom spot. It was alot like the ones in TNA. They do more dives to the outside. Quiksilver hits a big piledriver on Bosh for 2. Ryan hits a tornado underhook DDT for 2. Scorpio gets a middle rope rana. Lost hits him with a sitout slam of sorts. That gets 2. Lost hits Kazarian with a german suplex for 2. Kazarian hits Lost with a massive top rope slam to the outside onto all 4 other guys! Kazarian comes back in with Lost and Bosh. He hits them with a double wave of the future for 3. That was cool. That was a really fun 6 man tag, but hurt by some botches. ***1/4.

*Post match the heels beat down on Kazarian. Sabin and Petey make the save. Petey hits the canadian destroyer. The crowd loved it.

7. Daniels vs Shelley - TNA X division title - Good match. This is Alex Shelley's only shot at the X division title. TNA never gave him the chance to go for it. They start with a feeling out process. Shelley does some of his really awesome technical wrestling. Shelley puts in a kind of Rings of Saturn move. He changes it to a rollup for 2. It goes to a stalemate. The fans are hot for these guys. There's a really annoying fan chanting sh*t. Danielso hits a delayed vertical suplex. Daniels works over the back. He hits a gutwrench suplex. Daniels hits a T-bone suplex. Shelley fights back with a golden gate swing. Shelley hits a back elbow. Shelley gets a flipping neckbreaker. He hits a double knees in the corner. He hits a top rope knee drop. Daniels fights back with a tilt a whirl backbreaker. Daniels goes for BME but Shelley moves. Shelley hits a legsweep DDT, then a top rope frogsplash. It gets 2. Daniels gets an enziguri then blue thunder bomb. Shelley gets a rollup for 2. Daniels gets the same rollup and gets 3. That was a very solid match. Went about 13 minutes. The crowd were hot. Was pretty slow at times although. Still very solid match. ***1/4.

8. Joe vs Styles - awesome match. Best of the night. Ths was better than some of their TNA matches. They start with some intense matwork. AJ gets control with a big backbreker. He hits a big suplex. He follows it up with a slam. AJ goes to flip over on a drop kick attempt and lands on his head. Sick. AJ pitches Joe to the outside. They brawl a bit on the outside. Joe brings AJ in. He hits a standard Joe combo. Joe sweeps AJ's legs. He puts on a sinle leg crab. AJ gets to the ropes. Joe hits the face wash then running knee. Joe hits a big boot sending AJ to the outside. He hits some strikes out there. In the ring Joe hits some kicks, then a double stomp to the back. Joe reverses a rollup into the choke. AJ gets to the ropes. AJ reverses a whip, and gets a massive moonsault reverse DDT. He hits a massive diving clothsline in the corner. He goes for it again, but Joe reverses into a huge STJoe. AJ goes to the outside. Joe follows it up with a big tope. It gets 2 in the ring. AJ mucks up a springboard move, but hits a big dropkick in the corner. AJ hits a big spin kick. Joe hits a powerslam. He hits a senton for 2. AJ goes for styles clash but Joe kicks him in the face. He hits a massive lariat for 2. He follows it up with a big powerbomb for 2. He puts in an STF. AJ gets out of it. He hits a pele kick. He follows it up with a big torture rack bomb. Joe hits tons of slaps, but AJ hits an enziguri. He goes up top. Joe cuts him off and has him in position for the muscle buster. AJ reverses to a rollup. He lifts up Joe by the legs, in position for the Styles clash. He hits it! STYLES CLASH TO JOE! 1-2-3! Excellent match. Went about 25 mniutes. That was better than their TNA turning point 2005 match. That was the best PWG match I've seen so far. Both men got perfect amount of offense in. The finish was brilliant. Awesome match. ****1/4.

9. Super Dragonvs Kevin Steen vs El Generico - PWG title - really good match. I'm not a fan of 3 ways but this was good. 1 fall to a finish here. SD and Steen start. They block all of each others moves. No tags required here BTW. Generico comes in, and hits an elevated dropkick to SD. He hits a standing moonsault to Steen for 2. Dragon pitches Generico to the outside, and starts going at i9t with Steen again. They both go for each other's finishers. Generico comes in and attacks SD. SD comes back with a cool rana. Steen reverses a DDT from Generico inoto a backbreaker. All 3 men hit some doublestomps. SD gets a rollup on Geberico for 2. He puts on a web of Death. Generico gets to the ropes. Steen comes in and gives Generico an enziguri for 2. Generico hits a top rope cross body for 2, on Steen. SD breaks it up with a stomp to Generico's head. He misses a running spear in the corner, and goes to the floor. Generico runs up the ropes, and hits a DDT to Steen. Steen rolls to the floor. Generico hits a huge top rope, flip suicide dive to the outside, noto Steen and SD. In the ring, SD hits a top rope dropkick to Generico, then senton to Steen at the same time. He hits two curbstomps to Generico. They get 2. SD goes up top. Generico cuts him off, and hits hits his uber sick turnbuckle brainbuster to SD! He gets 2 off the pin when Steen breaks it up. Steen hits an emerald frosion to Generico. He hits a top rope moonsault to Generico for 2. Generico hits his corner boot to Steen. He hits Steen with an exploder into the turnbuckle, then a release tiger suplex. It gets 2. Steen hits Generico with the package piledriver! It gets 2 when SD breaks it up. SD pitches Steen to the outside. He hits a tope con heelo to him. Back in the ring, he hits a top rope double stomp to Generico's head. He hits a sick lariat to Generico. He follows it up with a nasty psycho driver for 3. That was a great main event. It started kinda slow but really picked up. It had a great finishing stratch with all 3 men hitting really big moves. ***3/4.

Overall thoughts: Great show. Really good for an indy besides ROH. Best match goes to Joe/Styles. Then the main event 3 way, followed by Gibson/Danielson. This was a great show, and I reccomend it. Overall score 8.5/10.

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