Sunday 24 May 2015
The show started with Sunday Slam Champion, Craig "The Firestorm" Valant calling General Manager Jason McKinlay out to the ring to make an announcement. Valant stated that since winning the Sunday Slam title he felt he had become lazy, not attending training sessions or shows and that he did not deserve to hold the belt. He promised that he would take it back in the future as a fighting wrestler but for now he was relinquishing the belt and with that the Sunday Slam Title was vacated.
The SOS entrance music played and Scott "The Butcher" Renwick came out and stated that he had been promised a match with Valant, that he did not get that match and therefore he wanted a match there and then. Valant accepted the challenge and the match was on. This was a decent match but there was surprising very little crowd participation. Valant hit a cracking elbow drop before going for "The Firestorm", which Renwick tried to reverse into "The Angels Wings" but it was Valant who was the victor by successfully managing to re-reverse the move and score the pinfall.
Mikey then came out to the ring to make a face to face challenge to Renwick. As their match at No Going Back in March had to be cancelled due to Mikey's knee surgery being brought forward, Mikey had been looking to face Renwick since his return to the ring and had received no response to his video requests so face to face he made his challenge - Mikey v Renwick at Taking Over on 6 June, one-on-one with no Darren Lewis or Graeme Leask. Challenge accepted!!
Next up was Hardcore Champion, The Westler to face Saint-George but the mouthy Englishman did not appear. Instead Wee Jimmy got into the ring to challenge for the Hardcore belt. Just then Jam O'Malley's music played! O'Malley announced that his "wife" Saint-George could not attend due to lady problems then told Jimmy to step aside as O'Malley wanted to regain the Hardcore title and challenged Westy to a match for the belt. This was a fun match that could not be contained in the unit, spilling into the car park where Westy was force-fed Jaffa Cakes. Once back in the unit, Westy took the pinfall to retain the Hardcore belt but while he was celebrating, Rob Mills took the opportunity for a sneak attack and pinned Westy to win the title (
and I actually saw it this time!) Once again Mills reign was short-lived as Sully took his revenge and the belt. Westy quickly rolled up Sully to retake the belt. O'Malley hugged Westy in congratulations but quickly made his move and pinned Westy to become Hardcore Champion, taking the microphone and telling Westy "don't trust anyone" before leaving with the belt.
The first half main event saw Rawlins face Theo Doros. The crowd took some time to warm up to this one and when they did, it seemed quite an even split, an achievement for Doros as the newcomer to have already gained a following when facing one of the usual fan favourites. For me the match was a bit slow and more of a show of "look what I can do....well I can do it better" with much of the match basically them reversing wristlocks and headlocks or taking turns on armdrags, before going down on a double cross body and following up with a slugfest. By the time they started doing something different, I was already bored. A few German suplexes from Rawlins was followed by his flying headbutt, only Doros had moved out of the way and grabbed his opportunity, ending the match by rolling up Rawlins to take the three count. Rawlins and Doros then shook hands, Rawlins gave Doros his hoodie and Doros gave Rawlins his t-shirt. While I wasn't overly impressed with the match, I do think that Doros shows amazing potential and is definitely one to watch.
The second half started with tag team action as Sweet Johnny teamed up with Jackie Grady to face Sambroso and Davidian Fury, both strange combinations in my opinion. After some amusing showboating from Sambroso, Fury did his usual, using his size as an advantage to dominate both Grady and Johnny, but it inevitably became a disadvantage when Sweet Johnny sent him barrelling into the ringpost knocking Sambroso Maestro and "crotching" him on the turnbuckle before Sweet Johnny rolled Fury up for the pinfall. Sweet Johnny and Jackie Grady were then joined in the ring by Westy for a display of their "awesome dance moves"!
The penultimate match of the day saw Rob Mills face Venym. The self proclaimed "Heart and Soul of Sunday Slam" was not happy about Venym being popular with the crowd, believing they should be in awe of him instead. I was quite surprised at the level of ruthlessness shown by Mills as he focused his attention on the arm of his opponent, including using the ropes and ringpost to his advantage. It appeared that each time Venym looked to be gaining some momentum, Mills managed to wriggle his way free and continued his assault on the left arm of Venym. It looked like Mills might take the victory as he called for his finisher but Venym was able to reverse into the "Poison Rain" and take the three count. This was a very close runner-up for my Match of the Day....
... but was narrowly beaten for the accolade by the main event match between Mikey and Massimo Italiano. Mikey has been working on his physique in the last few months and it really shows. Matching up fairly evenly in both height and build, neither man appeared to have an advantage over the other - until the crowd got involved, clearly behind Mikey. This was a lovely match, with Italiano generating extra heat by deliberately antagonising Janet during periods when he had the momentum on his side. After several near falls, the Italian looked to be in complete control with Mikey struggling to get back to his feet but Mikey never gives up and managed to score the victory with a crucifix pin. The crowd were elated and Italiano was shocked. A cracking end to the show!
Due to the lateness of this blog, Taking Over has already taken place (6 June) and my blog will be posted soon. The next event is Proving Grounds on 4 July and the card is shaping up to look like one of the best with the return of Chris Renfrew and the RI debuts of Lionheart, Kenny Williams and Davey Blaze with Charles Boddington. This really is one not to be missed and tickets are available online - click
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