WCPW LOADED #20 Review: Bully Ray vs Martin Kirby

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WCPW LOADED
January 23, 2017

Brie Priestley w/The Swords Of Essex vs Little Miss Roxxi - 4/10
Nothing match, lasted like 2 minutes, but it was all to set up...

Post-Match - Pacitti and Bully Ray come out. Ray looks fat, he should go back to the Impact Zone and lose some weight. They call out GM Martin Kirby and threaten to put Roxxi through a table if he doesn't. They are demanding a match against him with the GM position on the line. Kirby accepts the match as long as they leave Roxxi alone. After saving her, Ray attacks Kirby.

BT Gunn Vignette - He debuts next, meh.

BT Gunn vs Travis Banks - 6/10
Hey! It's the less satanic, less tattooed, less fit version of Tommy End. He also lacks End's kicking ability. Seriously, Gunn had nothing on Banks, but since one is debuting he may as well win. After the match Gunn locked in the crossface on Banks and Doug Williams made the save of all people.

Jack The Jobber and James Kennedy Segment - Kennedy requests that the next match between Primate and Rampage to be a Chairs Match.

Doug Williams Interview - They didn't even ask why he saved Travis, but Williams did say he wanted a Lord Mountevans match, he challenges Joe Hendry.

Chairs Match
Primate w/James R. Kennedy vs .......wait, what the fuck is this, apparently Jack The Jobber thinks that a chairs match means Musical Chairs Match, and out come a bunch of jobbers to play musical chairs. This is the second time I've seen musical chairs in wrestling this month. After a bunch of crap, out comes RAMPAGE!! He beats all of them up and we finally get...

Chairs Match
Primate w/ James R. Kennedy vs Rampage Brown - 6/10
These guys just beat the shit out of each other using chairs, but that was kinda the problem with the match, it was all chair spots and chair shots, so the spectacle was great, but wrestling was lacking. Rampage is still awesome tho.

Drew Galloway Promo - He says he has his title back thanks to Hendry. He says that he is sidelined because of Ospreay's attack and will get his hands on him eventually, but for now he is focused on his title match with Joe Hendry.

WCPW Internet Championship Match
Cody Rhodes (C) vs Marty Scurll - 7/10
I'm all for promotions using other promotion's gimmicks, but at least respect the heel/face dynamic. I see Rhodes come out with Bullet Club logos all over the place, being called "The American Nightmare" and then you tell me he's a babyface here? There's American Night Cody and Grandson of a Plumber Cody, you can't have both. Anyway, match was great, but not as good as the Battle of Los Angeles match from PWG, they did however repeat most of the spots that didn't require Brandi. Also, Cody was using waay to many Ric Flair moves. Finish sucked as it was full of cheating, by both heel and babyface.

Lord Admiral Mountevans Rules:
Doug Williams vs. Joe Hendry - 3/10
Ok, I get it, we're building Hendry towards his title shot against Galloway, but this was bad. Rules are that this is a 6 five-minute-round match, winner is he who pins or submits his opponent twice. Hendry pinned Williams in under 2 minutes of the first round, second round they went to the time limit, and then submitted Williams in 30 seconds of the third round for the win. This made Williams look like shit for losing his own challenge in such a pathetic way, and surely Hendry won such a crappy match that it doesn't make him look strong if he is going to face Galloway. 2.5 of those points are for the second round, .5 are because I can't see myself ever giving zero points to Doug Williams.

Pacitti vs Kirby's General Manager Job
Bully Ray w/Pacitti vs Martin Kirby - 5.5/10
Kirby is a big babyface against the super annoying Pacitti and Bully Ray, but I find it hard to get behind a GM that is also a wrestler, especially one that looks like Kirby. Compare him to Regal, Foley, Dragon, or even Shane, none of those guys are in shape (if they are they don't show it on purpose), they're retired, they're old, all they could offer is their babyface fire to defend what they believe in, but then you look at Kirby is dude is more fit than Ray AND Pacitti. Match was mostly one-sided until Ray fails to put Kirby through a table, miscommunication between Ray and Pacitti leads Kirby to take the pin. Two refs were knocked out during this match. This match made WCPW look kinda cheap in terms of booking.

Post-Match - Ray lookes pissed at Pacitti because of the miscommunication shot that Ray took. Pacitti tries to run away from Ray and Kirby, but Bullet Club American Nightmare Cody Rhodes brings him back. Pacitti goes through a table and someone made a Dixie Carter reference.

This match kinda reflects everything I hate about WCPW. A wrestling fan starts a promotion and the first thing he/she does is book him/herself as center of a big storyline. It makes the whole promotion seem like an ego-trip, like some rich kid buying himself into the locker room so they feel like 'one of the boys'. You look at the top indie promotions from the last 10 years and you won't see Silkin or Gabe book themselves as the center of their promotions.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:
Straight up I wasn't a big fan of this show, but it was primarily because I don't care about Pacitti and his angle, which hopefully is over now. The promotion has tons of talent to have the main event wasted between Kirby/Pacitti/Bully Ray. I get the feeling that WCPW is booking by grabbing all the things that work somewhere else and re-doing them in their ring. I'll keep watching until Angle vs Patron (if it even happens) to make a proper judgement if this promotion is worth checking out on a weekly basis.

[Big Red Machine]

Pacitti vs Kirby's General Manager Job
Bully Ray w/Pacitti vs Martin Kirby - 5.5/10
Kirby is a big babyface against the super annoying Pacitti and Bully Ray, but I find it hard to get behind a GM that is also a wrestler, especially one that looks like Kirby. Compare him to Regal, Foley, Dragon, or even Shane, none of those guys are in shape (if they are they don't show it on purpose), they're retired, they're old, all they could offer is their babyface fire to defend what they believe in, but then you look at Kirby is dude is more fit than Ray AND Pacitti. Match was mostly one-sided until Ray fails to put Kirby through a table, miscommunication between Ray and Pacitti leads Kirby to take the pin. Two refs were knocked out during this match. This match made WCPW look kinda cheap in terms of booking.

Post-Match - Ray lookes pissed at Pacitti because of the miscommunication shot that Ray took. Pacitti tries to run away from Ray and Kirby, but Bullet Club American Nightmare Cody Rhodes brings him back. Pacitti goes through a table and someone made a Dixie Carter reference.

This match kinda reflects everything I hate about WCPW. A wrestling fan starts a promotion and the first thing he/she does is book him/herself as center of a big storyline. It makes the whole promotion seem like an ego-trip, like some rich kid buying himself into the locker room so they feel like 'one of the boys'. You look at the top indie promotions from the last 10 years and you won't see Silkin or Gabe book themselves as the center of their promotions.

I actually think that is what makes Pacitti an effective heel. I'm not advocating that everyone start doing it, but it's the sort of thing I can take every once in a while. The whole idea of Pacitti Club as a shameless Bullet Club rip-off helps that, too.
Also, are we sure this was all Pacitti's idea? One thing I heard someone say that used to happen often enough back in the late 80's-early 2000's indy period was that the booker would convince the money mark to become part of the show with the idea that the money mark would then start to see himself/herself as a star and thus would be reluctant to pull the plug if things got bad because he/she would then lose that "star" status- and the accompanying ego boost. (I've heard a bit of speculation that this is what happened with Dixie, and that as things became worse, her on-screen role got ramped up).