BRM Reviews PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2015: Stage 1

[Big Red Machine]

PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2015: Stage 1 (8/28/2015)- Reseda, CA

BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FIRST-ROUND MATCH: Brian Cage vs. Aero Star- 2/10
Cage did strong-guy stuff we’ve seen him do a million times before. Aero Star was not very good. The match got quite sloppy towards the end. Even the referee was in on the sloppiness as he counted a pin when Aero Star’s feet were clearly under the bottom rope.

BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FIRST-ROUND MATCH: Biff Busick vs. Andrew Everett- 6.25/10
I know this isn’t what they meant to do, but this really felt like a spot monkey taking on a real wrestler and discovering that the real wrestler was WAY out of his league.

BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FIRST-ROUND MATCH: Mark Andrews vs. William Ospreay- 7.5/10
Spotty, but pretty great if you haven’t seen any other spotfests today.

JACK EVANS & ANGELICO vs. INNER-CITY MACHINE GUNS (Rich Swann & Ricochet)- 5.5/10
Way too much antics to start this match off. The match finally starts when Rich Swann hurts himself trying to dance and Jack Evans decides to take advantage of it. Then they did moves for fifteen straight minutes, but it dragged on to the point where it felt like at least twice as long as that. I just wanted it to be over.

BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FIRST-ROUND MATCH: Trevor Lee vs. Trent?- 6.75/10
Glad to see that someone has brought back the Small Package Driver.

BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FIRST-ROUND MATCH: Pentagon Jr. vs. Drago- 7/10

BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FIRST-ROUND MATCH: Matt Sydal vs. Fenix- 6.75/10
I was really enjoying this match right up until the point where Fenix completely stopped selling his leg (which Sydal had been working over for about five minutes) so that he could do a bunch of flippy moves. If you want to do your flippy moves, DON’T HAVE THE GUY WORK YOUR LEG OVER FOR FIVE MINUTES!
The Springboard Spanish Fly spot looked terrible. Like one of those spots where it is clear that these are two guys working together to do a move instead of one guy hitting a move on the other.

MARTY SCURLL, TOMMY END, & ZACK SABRE JR. vs. MOUNT RUSHMORE 2.0 (Roderick Strong & The Young Bucks)- 8.5/10
Standard PWG six-man insanity, but the Europeans (and the slight use of weapons at the perfect time) made it feel different than usual.

A fine show from PWG. This show had kind of a weird feel to it. Between all of the outside talent and the guys who are relatively new regulars to PWG, it really felt like someone else’s show in a PWG ring.

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MARTY SCURLL, TOMMY END, & ZACK SABRE JR. vs. MOUNT RUSHMORE 2.0 (Roderick Strong & The Young Bucks)- 8.5/10
Standard PWG six-man insanity, but the Europeans (and the slight use of weapons at the perfect time) made it feel different than usual.

Eurotrash*

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MARTY SCURLL, TOMMY END, & ZACK SABRE JR. vs. MOUNT RUSHMORE 2.0 (Roderick Strong & The Young Bucks)- 8.5/10
Standard PWG six-man insanity, but the Europeans (and the slight use of weapons at the perfect time) made it feel different than usual.

Eurotrash*

Which was an utterly f*cking stupid name, which is why I didn't use it.

[cero2k]

Which was an utterly f*cking stupid name, which is why I didn't use it.

how is it stupid? they're European and certantly, not classy

[Big Red Machine]

Which was an utterly f*cking stupid name, which is why I didn't use it.

how is it stupid? they're European and certantly, not classy

Sabre Jr. isn't classy? It's a dumb name because it served no purpose. I will bet that this is the only time these three guys team together. PWG just gave them a name because PWG likes to give silly names. (And even worse, they gave an insulting name to the guys who are supposed to be babyfaces)

[cero2k]

Sabre Jr. isn't classy? It's a dumb name because it served no purpose. I will bet that this is the only time these three guys team together. PWG just gave them a name because PWG likes to give silly names. (And even worse, they gave an insulting name to the guys who are supposed to be babyfaces)

Saber Jr is definitely not classy, he's a bit of a douche
PWG likes to give names to one-off teams, yeah, and it's awesome, i wish more promotions would do this
Marty Scurll is definitely not a babyface, like at all, he's so heel he definitely puts the trash in the team

[Big Red Machine]

Sabre Jr. isn't classy? It's a dumb name because it served no purpose. I will bet that this is the only time these three guys team together. PWG just gave them a name because PWG likes to give silly names. (And even worse, they gave an insulting name to the guys who are supposed to be babyfaces)

Saber Jr is definitely not classy, he's a bit of a douche
PWG likes to give names to one-off teams, yeah, and it's awesome, i wish more promotions would do this
Marty Scurll is definitely not a babyface, like at all, he's so heel he definitely puts the trash in the team

It's not awesome. It's random and silly. It's just an extension of PWG's random show names.

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It's not awesome. It's random and silly. It's just an extension of PWG's random fantastic show names.

FTFY

[Big Red Machine]

It's not awesome. It's random and silly. It's just an extension of PWG's random fantastic show names.

FTFY

They haven't had a good name since Steen Wolf. Most of the names form the beginning until about 2008 were awesome. Since then, they've mostly been pretty bad. Throwing together random words does not make it a good name.

The Banana Shop


See. I just made a PWG name.

[cero2k]

They haven't had a good name since Steen Wolf. Most of the names form the beginning until about 2008 were awesome. Since then, they've mostly been pretty bad. Throwing together random words does not make it a good name.

The Banana Shop


See. I just made a PWG name.

The Banana Shop is pretty bogus, The Banana Stand however.

there's been a combination of older names coming back (Threemendous, Mystery Vortex, Untitled), but the rest of the shows have had pretty decent relevance to the show

Matt Rushmore the show after Mt Rushmore debuts.
Is your body ready? for a 60 minute Iron Man Match
Black Cole Sun for Adam Cole's last show
FEAR for Super Dragon's first match back
From Out of Nowhere being Trevor Lee's title shot since his rise and win streak came from out of nowhere (an his roll ups)

Sold our Soul for Rock n Roll and Don't Sweat the Technique are probably the most 'out there' and they may still have some relevance to those title shots