CWA Review - March 9th, 2003
By David

First off let me set the tone of the show. There was probably 100 - 110 people in attendance at this show and they were QUIET! In general the show was pretty decent but had its definite down times. This was not one of the better CWA shows that I have seen, but it did have one of the better CWA matches I have ever seen. The show started out with High Times Jin-Hiryu calling out his long time partner (I think they tagged once maybe twice over the course of 3 months) Jack Danielz. Jack was sporting a new Lucha mask that was pretty damn lame, a didn't fit his already fairly unoriginal character. Jin-Hiryu called Danielz out and they began to fight, the crowd was silent, they didn't give a shit and it was actually rather uncomfortable to be out there while it was going on... Soon enough that was over and the actual show began. The REAL first match of the night was the best match of the evening BY FAR. This match should not have been curtain jerking, and was far too short given the performance by the wrestlers.

Match 1 Sunami (hardcore champ) Vs. The Loose Cannon

This match began as a straight fist fight with both competitors roling around in the ring exchanging blows and eventually rolling to the outside. The true action came later when Cannon drop kicked Sunami out of the ring and onto the floor. Cannon then mounted the top rope and frog splashed sunami to the outside!!! I can't stress how sick this was, I was right near where they landed, and the thud was audible when he hit the floor. I was out of my chair marking out like a fiend, but you could tell the crowd in attendance was stupid they were those fans that think wrestling is fake and he must have some way to make that dive not hurt. Anyway some more brawling later cannon reveals his secret weapon to the crowd, a thumbtack covered chair (probably a thousand thumbtacks or so) anyway as these things always go, cannon got booted in the stomach by sunami and took a nasty shot to the back with the chair. As he was laying on the ground blood started running down his arm, it was pretty nasty. Again the I could hear the crowd talking amongst themselves that the chair was fake and the blood was fake (idiots). Finally cannon finished the match with a pedigree into a DDT that I think he calls a Pedidriver... anyway after a really good promo about how he is the only true hardcore champ in CWA history Dante comes out of the crowd and challenges Loose Cannon, and after a short exchange beats cannon with a Pumphandle DDT off the apron through a table and down to the floor. All in all this was an extremely exciting match and the only one of the evening where the crowd was into it the whole way through.

Match 2 Six man/woman tag Big Ugly, Nikki, & James Choi over larry blackwell, james watkins, & handsome jack daulton

Halfway decent match that featured a second rope moonsault from one of the heels who probably weighed in at about 400 lbs. Other than that the only highlights were Nikki beating up on the entire heel team (she’s pretty damn good…) After the pinfall Nikki was assaulted and given a spike piledriver.

Match 3 Brawlin Bo Cooper over Psycho Seth

Bo Cooper and his manager The Ghetto Star are freakin tight. From an opening promo that had me in stitches, to Bo doing Ghetto Star’s dance moves on the way to the ring, these guys are entertaining as hell. Psycho Seth was pretty lackluster, and came out trying to look very japanese, but when he took off the bandana covering his mouth, he didn’t look the part. (he may be japanese, I don’t know, he just didn’t look the part for his gimmick). This match was short, and essentially a squash as Bo won with a DVD about five minutes into the match. This was not the best match of the night, but highly entertaining due to the antics of Bo and Ghetto Stizar (as Bo called him).

Match 4 Ballards over X Foundation

Once again these four put on a great show. To start the match the one of the ballards faced off with joey ryan in a battle on the drums. Joey of course played better to the cheers of the fans. This match took a little too long, but featured all the great Ballard spots, and Joey’s suplexes. Despite some wrestling that would be hard to call clean, this match came in at second best of the night due to how entertaining all four wrestlers were throughout the match.

Match 5 7 Man gauntlet match for cruiserweight title

This was one of the ugliest matches of the night. While there was some decent spots in the match, as a whole the wrestling was suprisingly choppy and disjointed. Blaze beat Mr. Cali first, then Kris Kage beat blaze, and eric matlock, then infernal beat kage, and hook bomberry. Silver tyger beat infernal, and kid omega beat tyger, setting up the final two, Jon Jon the Phenomenon and Kid Omega. Omega looked a lot better at this show than he has in the past, as his moves were cleaner, crisper, and connected much better than I have seen in the past. The best outing that I have seen him in, Jon Jon won the match with consecutive Phenom elbows (think spinarooni into an elbow drop) and took the recently vacated (about damn time) title. Definitely not one of the better matches of the night, but had a few decent moments.

Match 6 Parental Discretion over Off Da Hook

Again as with the first tag match, the flaw in this was it was way too long. Neither team looked capable of putting on a long performance, as after about 5 - 8 minutes the match started to become confused. Parental Discretion looked fairly decent in this match, and was a pretty good outing for them. Off Da Hook made up for any lack in entertainment value with pure energy. All in all an ok match.

Match 7 Billy Blade over Mike Sanders

Thankfully short match. Sanders is awesome, and billy is decent, but the show had gone on way too long at this point, and just needed to end and end quickly. As for the finish Billy won with a superkick… kinda lame if you ask me, I was hoping for more, maybe a DQ to put sanders over a bit, but Billy was put over, and it came off seeming kinda unrealistic to me. Sanders was a good 5 to 6 inches taller than Billy and much more muscular and athletic, so it seemed a kind of disproportionate win in my view. After the match Parental discretion, Bo Cooper and Ghetto Star crashed the ring and beat down on Billy Blade and the Halloween Barbie. Parental discretion now features all these men, becoming the top heel faction in CWA. Dante hit the ring and cleaned house with a brutal brutal chairshot to Wade E. Dangerously’s head.

In general the show was a resounding OK. If I were to rate it out of 5 stars I might give it 2 to 2 ½ stars. The hardcore match was the best of the evening, and the Ballards and X foundation was the second best. The next CWA show was announced at the end to be march 21st as the Lompoc Airforce Base. This could be a pretty good show, show up and make some noise, it makes the show better for everyone involved.