Iosim Input: GSCW: February 1st, 2002
Jonny Iosim

Golden State Championship Wrestling looks to be the most consistent indy fed in all of SoCal at the moment. After the December show, and the amount of people who were there, I was sure that this show would be completely sold out for many reasons. 1) It wasn't the holiday time, so more people were in town. 2) Lots of people from NoCal were expected to come 3) Sabu, Messiah, and B-boy were on this particular card. In fact the only wresters who come to mind that were at the last show, and not at this one were Rising Son, Taro, and Super Dragon. Well, the draw was almost identical, pretty much everyone had a seat…and about a dozen people were standing up…that's basically how I estimate the draw, as inaccurate as it is.

From the get go, the NoCal/SoCal rivalry emerged. Supa Bad came out to kill time, as he was cheered on by the socal fans into doing push ups. I really didn't expect this NoCal feud to be anything more but a booking one, in that GSCW would pit Socal Wrestlers vs. NoCal ones. The constant jeering between the two sides along with the promos, the angles, and the actual matches…the feud is looking good to say the less. Not good enough for me to drive 8 hours to a garage, but a good feud.

Infernal, Zokre, & Chippy over Phoenix Star, Scorpio Sky, & Silver Tyger [11'57]
I feel kinda dumb cause I was calling Zokre "Zorke" all the time, but I have learned and moves on. Well Zokre was clearly the best wrestlers on his team, and it showed every time he was in the ring. The sequences with Silver Tiger/Zokre were the best, as they have been for the past 2 Rev Pro and GSCW shows. The match was quick paced and definitely entertaining. The amount of good wrestlers in socal are expanding, and where as a year ago we would be seeing the old rev pro class in the opener…these men for the most part have taken that spot, and wrestlers like Excitement, Excalibur, and Disco Machine have all propelled themselves

Brawlin Bo Cooper over Joey Ryan by DQ [6'13]
Easily the worst Joey Ryan match I've ever seen. Joey Ryan usually is very fun to watch and puts on a solid match every night. I suppose its not really his fault, BBC is pretty bad, slow, and boring to watch. I don't see why they would book Joey Ryan against him. Joey Ryan got pissed halfway through the match and hammered BBC with chair shots that led to a Bleeding Bo Cooper. Next time Joey…next time

Frankie Kazarian over Mr. Excitement [9'48]
Nothing special at all here. The heat was the mediocre with the same "This isn't very exciting" comments galore. The match itself was what you would expect, the modified superlplex(Spanish Fly) for the win was good and got great hang time. Kazarian was announced as straight off of his European tour. Excitement really hasn't gone anything really good at Rev J, the match against Son at the last Rev Pro show was a disaster…this was a lot better, but still lacking

Al Katrazz and Steve Rizzano go to no contest [6'04]
The match started out with Steve unbuttoning Al's prison shirt to slap him. The match didn't go up or downhill from there. This was kind of a weird SoCal/Nocal match because Steve started up north, but became "known" via XPW here. Al Katrazz is a Socal wrestler, but isn't the prison right off the San Francisco bay…oh well

Nikki & Melissa over Disco Machine & Looney Lane [11'53]
After this match being teased through not one, but two segments…it finally happened. The match had a lot of heat, I think Disco got the loudest pop of the entire night just for slapping a chick really hard. The matches best spots were all chicks getting hurt badly, so it does make me question the ethics involved in a good match. Disco Machine ran out of the Legion Hall to get his hands on Screech/Corey Matthews or whoever that little kid is, leaving Looney in the ring by herself and consequently losing. Score 1 for NoCal

Scott Lost over Lil' Cholo by countout. Lil' Cholo retains the GSCW Lightweight title. [10'05]
Yeah well, to me the match looked better when Cholo was on the offensive, he hit his moves a lot cleaner. Again, I don't understand why anyone would think they can get a title win over a countout, and I cant believe that's being worked into an angle. Other then that, we have a ladder match to see at the next show…that should be interesting to say the least.

Bobby Quance over Excalibur [11'50]
Easily the most anticipated match on the card, but didn't live up to it. It was a good match, don't get me wrong…I just sincerely think it was a much lower version of Super Dragon/Bobby Quance from the last show. The matwork in the beginning was good, but I thought lasted too much of the match. The finish was good, but kinda predictable. We didn't get to see the springboard moonsault, or anything really outrageous this time…but it was a solid match nonetheless

B-Boy over Jardi Frantz [12'16]
My pick for best match on the card, and probably most peoples after reading posts and reviews. As cliché as it sounds, B-boy did prove why he was wrestler of the year attached to his name for the remaining 11 months. He wrestled a great match against Jardi Frantz, that is probably match of the month and consequently the standing match of the year…even if it did happen on the first day. The only bad thing I saw about the match was that Jardi didn't get to hit B0boy nearly as hard as B-boy did him, the greatest spots of the match were all B-boy strikes…and were very sick. Nothing tops that baseball slide into the corner on B-boy or Jardi at the last EPIC show though. Hopefully B-boy will get good opponents more or less consistently like Super Dragon did last year.

Hardkore Kidd over Dynamite D [5'36]
Dynamite D yelled in Hardkore Kidd's face like 5 times "I'm Retired" and still wrestled. Thank God it wasn't a long match. I definitely think this was one of HKK's better matches due to its length. HKK is a good heel, in that he manages to have everyone hate his guts. El Jefe is a show stealer in this one

Sabu over Messiah [8'29]
Worse then all 4 EPIC Sabu matches, Sabu hit very little of his signature moves cleanly…and just didn't look motivated tonight. With the amount of popularity Messiah has in both SoCal and the East Coast, he didn't at all play the crowd to his advantage. This easily could have been a very intense match for chants…but wasn't. Table broke early…nothing new here. I kinda wish Messiah won, I don't see the purpose of putting Sabu over when he's the lesser of the fan favorite, and they are both fly ins.

All in all, I've been impressed with GSCW's last two shows a lot. They have my name down for the next one. The NoCal fans got really into the begging half of the show, but considerably died down. Hopefully they can bring the heat for the next show. As Scrub said, the drunk army vet and dropkick guy were pretty funny. I heard someone got punched by Sabu after the show…hopefully it was that dumbass SabuFan316. Steve Rizziano was the ultimate shut down for NoCal fans as he was introduce to represent NoCal. The most surprising match was easily the women's/Disco tag…it got insane heat, you could see all the wrestlers looking down from that window on the second floor. Looks like Bobby vs. B-Boy for the next show, which will probably be awesome, the Scott Lost vs. Cholo ladder match should be interesting, I hope Super Dragon is back…he easily will put a guaranteed great match into the card…and what not…that's my input.

-Jonny Iosim

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