Pugh Posted March 11, 2024 Posted March 11, 2024 Marisa vs Heather ***½ Doc is great at entrances, I enjoy Heathers intro, looks and feels big time. Marisa looks good too, both of them present as you’d expect their characters to and that’s grand. Match starts breathless, as many of these S-Cup ones have. We got a couple of pins which is good. One thing to note is that a lot of these matches have been incredibly similar in structure - there’s a need to win, both in character and out of character. There’s not a lot of room for character work in some of them, and its a shame, I’d like to see more. Anyways, Marisa beats the brakes off her and Heather is in survival mode for most of the match, but picks it up at the end. 3 finishers and a fucking stupid handshake… fucking Zombie again. Tag Team Turmoil Idiots are out and they do some nice babyface stuff, pro wrestling 101, interrupted by Mass Effect which is 102, back and forth, nice and simple, then GnG arrives. This is where it gets a little derailed for me. Last week we saw the parking lot thing - Chance was foaming at the mouth, ready to kill Ryvaughn. Devon didn’t arrive, but now he’s here, surely we want more heat. MORE BLOOD. It feels diluted to me, I would love to see like… revenge. The escalation should’ve come because Mass Effect needed to get their licks back. As it is, we’ve got a deep personal issue between two of the teams, but they’re putting it to the side for a title match. Doesn’t feel real, feels like pixels > everything. Anyways, TLC I guess. Kass kreeps around Kass’s blouse is lovely, very 1793 dandy attire. So, hypocrite time again. Callback to a very specific event - HOWEVER. It’s a huge touchstone event in both of these guys careers, so I can allow it here. Call back to big stuff, not to Riot 313 when you beat Johnny Dicksucker in a cold match. Anyway - well put together, a warning - a trope if you will. “You can’t beat me”, then DNS hacks the screen. Fucking sick of these people. But the video was fine, helps us understand why Kass being involved is potentially important. Kass yelling into the ether reminded me of the bit in The Sopranos where Paulie is shouting at those ghosts. Mad Dawg Marisa Good scene setting, Mad Dawg does a great job of talking like Mad Dawg talks, so that’s great news. Marisa lies to Nate to get him off the phone - I SMELL SOMETHING… I am enjoying how diffused this promo is by the lack of the word “fuck” but it's a great lesson. We’re a TV show, we don’t have fucks every 5 seconds. Then… OH NO NATE WAS ON THE LINE… except that’s what they tried. What actually happened was Marisa called Nate to tell him that she was talking to Mad Dawg because this was very clumsily written. Good attempt though, maybe the other Nate is coming back. Boulet vs Parca *** I’ll start out by saying Boulet is going to lose this match, thats my hunch. I figure its his hunch too, so I’m looking forward to seeing how he frames it. Parca’s entrance is very spooky, I would like him to have a bit more energy - lean into him trying to be a face more. You can be conflicted and also put your gameface on when its time to be in front of the crowd. Nice back and forth to start, didn’t feel super route one with them doing only limb damage moves, which can be a temptation in this kind of match. Parca whiffs a springboard and Paul takes over, coming in hot. Lots of grapples going on here, but nobody stealing the advantage. SOMEONE ADAPT QUICK! It feels like no moves happened, but both dudes were damaged as hell, guess thats what reversals will do to you. Parca trying to pull that arm off, so we’re into the attempting to win portion of the match, which is nice, if a little quick. Elementary in the end. Basically a squash match, but you need squash matches to look like a threat. We had subtitles for a sec, then we didn’t! Consistency with em please - if you’re gonna do em, do em. Was the sideways camera because we’re saying Parca clipped the camera man? Would’ve done that wayy faster if that was the intention - all it did was set off my motion sickness. I feel like Parca was diffused way to quick here - he went to nail Maxx, fucked up and then just went “shrug, maybe next time” after being furious 2 seconds before. This could’ve been a good opportunity for a pull apart or something… Maybe next week? I am great Boulet Yes! He frames it as “i had to tap to fight another day” which is clever. Sells his match for End Games too. If you want to improve your promos, read Paul Boulet’s - he does it right. Aisu/B17 Glad this is happening in the arena. Bingo sums up last week, which is good. Aisu looks like he’s trapped in a 1993 New Japan timewarp, but i enjoy it. It’s always tough to frame a face vs face match so I’m glad Aisu drilled B17 here. Makes the dynamic much better for me. Decent work, fuck Aisu. Belle vs Emp ***¾ Jay getting thirsty on the comms for Emp, hideous! Both know how to do an entrance, so that’s grand. Oh character work out the gates - maybe I was right to praise these two. Belle starts hot but Emp takes over and slows that shit down. Honestly, this is a fun back and forth match, they’re doing their thing and its engaging. Emp throwing Belle outside was a turning point for this match - Greg getting hung up on the ropes and Emp hitting the low blow right in front of him was chefs kiss. The last few minutes of this match felt super important, Belle is a great underdog - but Emp doing what she does. Shame it ended so fast. The best wrestler in this division period. Fun main event. 1 1 No.
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