I'll try to post in here at the end of the week and talk about some of things I've been into for the week. I'll try to clearly label what I'm talking about, so you can decide if you wanna skip it or not. Maybe I'll find somebody's interested in some of the same stuff as me. It'll mainly be about movies, sports, music, video games, books, tv shows, and anything else I might be into.
Week ending 2/19/2022
This week I've been busy getting moved into my new apartment and spent a couple nights without the internet. So I didn't really do a whole lot, but I have a lot to say about pro wrestling this week. I put it all at the bottom though, as I know that's probably not what most people care about here. Maybe Captain Spaulding will be interested in some of it.
Movies
I watched Midnight Cowboy this week, but I put all of that stuff into the HoF thread.
Popcorn (1991; Herrier)
The movie I watched for me this week was Popcorn from 1991 directed by Mark Herrier. It's a pretty fun flick that mostly takes place in a movie theater where an all-night horror/sci-fi marathon is being held. You have to suspend disbelief that something this niche would fill up a movie theater in a random town. The film is a slasher kinda, but it's not in the same way as the classic idea of a slasher. There is also clips of the fake films shown, so we get some fun sci-fi schlock thrown in that's done well and lovingly. There are a couple things in this film that maybe wonder if the Scream franchise took a little bit of inspiration from this, or maybe they just took inspiration from the same places. There's the phone call early in the film, plus the setting being a movie theater and people not realizing what they are seeing is real. This film is also a comedy as well, I feel like I should have mentioned that up top. It's not a full blown comedy, but the comedy is there to make sure the viewer knows that they weren't trying to make a super serious horror film, because that would have been a failure with this film. There are ridiculous elements to the film, but that's part of the point. There is an unexplained supernatural element to this film that is sort of just abandoned or they just decide not to explain by the end, perhaps hoping you'd forget about it, or maybe just in reference to the great and terrible B-movies of the past that realized what happened 30 minutes ago is less important than what is happening now, so there is no reason to think about it. My favorite of the fake films is Mosquito, which is not to be confused with the Portuguese film Mosquito from 2020. The fake film features a giant mosquito that has a really awesome kill as it pierces the roof of a car and stabs a dude in the head and sucks all the blood from his body, the Portuguese film does not have that, but a dude does get eaten by a tiger or lion, I can't remember which. Anyway, that film has nothing to do with any type of film related to Popcorn, that film is more in line with Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now.
Video Games
Dragon Quest (1986)
I had put this game down a few weeks ago after spending probably 15 hours or so on it, mostly grinding, because I had been mostly grinding. I don't really wanna be a quitter, so I picked it back up this week. I probably put a couple more hours into it. It is a fine game to play when you don't really wanna think, because most of the time you just walk around and hit the attack button. Which isn't great, but there is some level of charm there, I guess. It's not very deep, but apparently it's a good enough concept to keep me coming back to it. On one hand, you'd want all of your possible options in combat to mean something, so why have a hurt spell that seems to almost never do more than the attacks? Especially when you consider you are going to be grinding and it would be more efficient with your MP to heal yourself when you are away from an inn. On the other hand, it allows people like me to not have to think that much when approaching and attacking. Sure, it will lead to a limited experience, I can't in good faith recommend this to very many people in 2022. I'll probably try to finish it, but it most likely won't end up in my top 5 games of the year for 1986.
Pro Wrestling
I've got three matches I watched this week that I want to talk about, plus I tried to watch most of the WWE PREMIUM LIVE EVENT TAKING PLACE IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA on Saturday, but I refuse to get Peacock and I'm definitely not paying to see anything from WWE in 2022. The only reason I was interested in this show is to see how the women would be dressed and to watch Brock. I have a rule: if Brock has a match, I watch it. This rule is relatively new, but eventually I plan to have seen every Brock match that has made tape. My stream was kinda shoddy, so it kept cutting in and out at various points. I made it through the Roman/Goldberg match which felt kinda like a nothing-burger and Roman's title reign has been filled with matches I don't like, which is a giant shame because I thought it was going to be great when he came back and grabbed the strap. Instead we were given bloated, acting and dialogue heavy melodramas that I don't want any part of. This match wasn't that, but I was so much less excited for this match than I was for the one they were scheduled to have at Mania. I am a high voter on Goldberg, I even loved his trainwreck with Taker in Saudia Arabia, but I think it might be time to lose his number. Then again, WWE is a garbage fire, so maybe just keep bringing him back because he is more interesting than just about everybody on this roster not named Brock or Bron.
The women looked pretty awful in their weird outfits for the most part, the exception being Liv Morgan and Sonya Deville who both make me wanna do bad things. I was kinda worried about the two of them being beheaded or stoned, but I haven't heard anything about it so I assume we are in the clear. Ronda Rousey's outfit was my favorite, because she just came out in a gi, which almost felt like a protest to me. Ironically, with this being the least sexy of the women's outfits, Doudrop excluded, sorry, Ronda still showed the most skin as she took cues from Matt Riddle and went barefoot. Anyway, I wanted to watch the women's elimination chamber match because the elimination chamber used to pretty much guarantee you'd see a few fun things in the match, even if it didn't really cohesively create a great match. My stream cut out a few times, including the finish, so I still don't even know who won, and I don't really care. Doudrop actually seemed like the best thing in this match other than Liv Morgan looking like Liv Morgan. This might sound harsh, but I don't mean it negatively, but I wouldn't mind some more fat female wrestlers. She used fat man offense, which in this case is fat woman offense, but there are more fat dude wrestlers than chicks. Her back senton looked great, she looked like she crushed whoever she hit with it, maybe Liv. A lot of the match seemed sloppy and I am disappointed greatly with Rhea Rhipley. Maybe it's just this company taking the soul out of the people who work for it and the people who watch it, but I wasn't really feeling this match. There weren't even that many good moments, or at least that I remember.
I was having some stream issues, so I took a break before the Drew/Moss match. In hindsight that might have been a mistake, because even if the match wasn't good, that spot where Drew threw Moss down right on his dome was sick. That would have been good to see live. Who knows, maybe if this Moss fella gets to work, he could be something. He looks good, and apparently will take a hell of a bump.
The women's tag match seemed pretty sh*tty, I couldn't sit all the way through it. I expect Rousey/Flair to be great, but this is not Ronda's element. She shouldn't be working in a gi unless we are going full shoot style. But at least they are changing the world or whatever. Also, let's not tie Ronda's arm to her side anymore. Let's let her throw fools around with judo throws and suplexes and stuff. As great as I think her first run is, she is still green and they should keep it basic with her.
The main event is what I am here for though.
Brock Lesnar vs Bobby Lashley vs Matt Riddle vs Seth Rollins vs AJ Styles vs Austin Theory - 2/19/22 WWE Elimination Chamber
I didn't even try to watch this match live, because I wanted to watch it all the way through without interruption and with decent VQ, so I waited for about 20-30 minutes after the show ended to put it on. The match started out as a decent but fun match that consisted mainly of guys hitting their moves when they come in. It wasn't bad at all, but also not exactly the type of match that I'd go out of my way to see. Still probably better than 90% of the current product. There wasn't much more to the match than that with the exception of the spot that effectively eliminated Lashley, which looked really damn good, and I plan on talking more about Austin Theory and his bumping in this match later. I also had planned on talking a little bit about the booking of Lashley being eliminated this way, but it turns out Lashley is injured for a shoot. Plus booking talk is boring and doesn't lead to anything, so no bother there. Plus booking is only one of a myriad of problems with this company. But yeah that bump Theory took for that spot was nasty, in fact, Theory was bumping his ass off in this match. He was the second best thing in the match. He was working word, took nasty bumps and had a nice quick snapping suplex on I think AJ. The best thing about this match was clearly Brock. Brock is special, therefore he is often allowed to have match structures that nobody else in the company gets. Just going back to his original comeback when he had that match with Cena that basically an extended squash. Since then he's also had the matches with Goldberg, his performance in the Rumble (which should have elevated Keith Lee). Those are just a few examples, well also the match Danielson, I remember that being very different too. Anyway, this match also got an unique structure to it. I've never seen a guy just decide he wanted to enter the match before his time (this may have happened, I haven't seen all of them, but I doubt they just kicked their way in), and lay waste to everyone. For everything great about Brock, his presence, speed, power, etc., he is probably the best in the world at selling. Brock selling that nutshot was the most compelling moment in the match. I never thought Theory would get the win, but Brock sold it perfectly. And he sold the follow up offense perfectly and appropriately, which is to say he didn't just back bump off of a drop kick, because that would make no sense for Brock. Plus Brock has the great quality of his face being able to change like 5 different colors. That visual element adds a lot and makes the whole thing feel real when you know it's not.
When Brock got pissed, I was hoping for a great ground and pound beat down, but I can settle for those clubbing blows on top of the pod. Those looked pretty nasty and I almost believed for a moment that Brock was going to break Theory through that plexiglass or whatever that is on top of the pod. Which reminds me, the spot where Brock kicked through the pod to get to Theory who was running away from him looked great as well. The finish of this match won't stand the test of time or anything, as it probably won't be remembered, but it is a fine way to end a WWE gimmick match like this. I also hope for something grittier, but like I said, it's a fine way to end a really easy to watch match in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Dean Ambrose vs Daniel Bryan - 5/7/2013 WWE (Aired on Smackdown on 5/10/13)
If you are keeping up with AEW, it won't be hard to figure out why I watched this one. If you aren't, these two guys are starting an angle together that will at least have one match where they are against each and that may lead to them tagging. I don't know how that will play out, but I decided to check out a match they had against each other when Moxley was still good.
I missed the entire Shield run in real-time, but everything I've seen from that first two year period from those guys has been great. Moxley looks like he was a great pro wrestler then. All the matches I watched were six-man tags, so it is possible that his singles weren't all that great back then. I know his latter days in WWE were abysmal, and I don't think all that highly of his post-WWE run (the exceptions being when he works with great talent, i.e. Darby, Kingston, and Barnett). I do remember the FCW matches with Regal being great, but I checked out of wrestling between that time and the debut of the Shield. His matches with Kenny Omega are god-awful, but I expect that from Omega anyway.
This particular match just takes place in the middle of a Smackdown and from entrances to exits probably went ten minutes of air time with a commercial break, and it's a blast. I can't imagine these two only going ten minutes when that match happens in AEW. 2022 Moxley has devolved from the kinda over the top but not unbearable mannerisms to those mannerisms being like 85% of his gimmick. Nowadays he slinks his body around and contorts his face in the most annoying ways possible, but 2013 Ambrose still had bloom on the rose and isn't overdoing it. He was looking good and in shape and throwing his body into everything, he looked authentically chaotic. This guy should have been Jon Moxley and the AEW guy should have been Dean Ambrose. Bryan laid in the kicks, hard. He looked like a guy with a grudge, he looked pissed off and hit the guy like he was pissed at him. Something that is lacking in modern wrestling.
We get a f*ck finish, but it's a tv match telling part of story, not the whole thing. AEW could benefit from more f*ck finishes, not every match needs a clean winner. In fact, because of this match, I'm going to try to watch every match in the Shield vs Danielson feud I can get my hands on. If these two dudes outdo this tv midcard match in the main event of whatever AEW show this match main events, I have a feeling it will be mostly a carry job, but this match was absolutely not a carry job.
Trevor Lee vs Andrew Everett - CWF Mid-Atlantic 2/8/14
I almost didn't post about this match, because I figured nobody here would care about some random pro wrestling match from some random indie fed from 8 years ago. But then again, why would anybody here care about Popcorn, Dragon Quest, the Saudi chamber, or Ambrose/Bryan?
Anyway, this was a 2/3 falls match from CWF Mid-Atlantic. I haven't seen much from this promotion, but I know they got relatively big for a non-major indie a few years after this match. Mostly on the back of Trevor Lee I believe. I'm pretty sure they were also kinda known for having long matches, which I usually don't go for. This match was over an hour, but it was handled in way that built it up well. It had some of the modern stuff that puts me off, but for the most part was down my alley. The first two falls are very good. Good heel stalling from Trevor Lee. Some tight work, some good, hard strikes. The third fall is where things get kinda ridiculous in the way long modern matches do. Some of the selling goes out the window, we get more nearfalls than we need and going hand-in-hand with that, we get guys kicking out of moves they really shouldn't be kicking out of 62 minutes into a match. Trevor Lee does come out of this match looking like a star in the making, he has a lot of snug stuff. He's in NXT now as Cameron Grimes, but I've seen zero of him there. I haven't really seen much of him in this fed either, but I'll be changing that soon.
It's not hard to tell early on they are going broadway, it's two out of three and Lee is doing some good heel stalling. I am a sucker for stalling done right though, so no complaints about that from me. Everett looks like a guy who should have been signed somewhere. Not because I think he is a fantastic wrestler, he was fine in this match, but because he is a really good flyer. He was very smooth with the aerial stuff, but did go to it when it was inappropriate. I don't want to see a guy smoothly flying through the air at minute 45, much less minute 55. I really think this match could have been an all-time indie classic if the third fall was better and the guys, specifically Everett but Lee too, put over their exhaustion as little better.
Week ending 2/19/2022
This week I've been busy getting moved into my new apartment and spent a couple nights without the internet. So I didn't really do a whole lot, but I have a lot to say about pro wrestling this week. I put it all at the bottom though, as I know that's probably not what most people care about here. Maybe Captain Spaulding will be interested in some of it.
Movies
I watched Midnight Cowboy this week, but I put all of that stuff into the HoF thread.
Popcorn (1991; Herrier)
The movie I watched for me this week was Popcorn from 1991 directed by Mark Herrier. It's a pretty fun flick that mostly takes place in a movie theater where an all-night horror/sci-fi marathon is being held. You have to suspend disbelief that something this niche would fill up a movie theater in a random town. The film is a slasher kinda, but it's not in the same way as the classic idea of a slasher. There is also clips of the fake films shown, so we get some fun sci-fi schlock thrown in that's done well and lovingly. There are a couple things in this film that maybe wonder if the Scream franchise took a little bit of inspiration from this, or maybe they just took inspiration from the same places. There's the phone call early in the film, plus the setting being a movie theater and people not realizing what they are seeing is real. This film is also a comedy as well, I feel like I should have mentioned that up top. It's not a full blown comedy, but the comedy is there to make sure the viewer knows that they weren't trying to make a super serious horror film, because that would have been a failure with this film. There are ridiculous elements to the film, but that's part of the point. There is an unexplained supernatural element to this film that is sort of just abandoned or they just decide not to explain by the end, perhaps hoping you'd forget about it, or maybe just in reference to the great and terrible B-movies of the past that realized what happened 30 minutes ago is less important than what is happening now, so there is no reason to think about it. My favorite of the fake films is Mosquito, which is not to be confused with the Portuguese film Mosquito from 2020. The fake film features a giant mosquito that has a really awesome kill as it pierces the roof of a car and stabs a dude in the head and sucks all the blood from his body, the Portuguese film does not have that, but a dude does get eaten by a tiger or lion, I can't remember which. Anyway, that film has nothing to do with any type of film related to Popcorn, that film is more in line with Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now.
Video Games
Dragon Quest (1986)
I had put this game down a few weeks ago after spending probably 15 hours or so on it, mostly grinding, because I had been mostly grinding. I don't really wanna be a quitter, so I picked it back up this week. I probably put a couple more hours into it. It is a fine game to play when you don't really wanna think, because most of the time you just walk around and hit the attack button. Which isn't great, but there is some level of charm there, I guess. It's not very deep, but apparently it's a good enough concept to keep me coming back to it. On one hand, you'd want all of your possible options in combat to mean something, so why have a hurt spell that seems to almost never do more than the attacks? Especially when you consider you are going to be grinding and it would be more efficient with your MP to heal yourself when you are away from an inn. On the other hand, it allows people like me to not have to think that much when approaching and attacking. Sure, it will lead to a limited experience, I can't in good faith recommend this to very many people in 2022. I'll probably try to finish it, but it most likely won't end up in my top 5 games of the year for 1986.
Pro Wrestling
I've got three matches I watched this week that I want to talk about, plus I tried to watch most of the WWE PREMIUM LIVE EVENT TAKING PLACE IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA on Saturday, but I refuse to get Peacock and I'm definitely not paying to see anything from WWE in 2022. The only reason I was interested in this show is to see how the women would be dressed and to watch Brock. I have a rule: if Brock has a match, I watch it. This rule is relatively new, but eventually I plan to have seen every Brock match that has made tape. My stream was kinda shoddy, so it kept cutting in and out at various points. I made it through the Roman/Goldberg match which felt kinda like a nothing-burger and Roman's title reign has been filled with matches I don't like, which is a giant shame because I thought it was going to be great when he came back and grabbed the strap. Instead we were given bloated, acting and dialogue heavy melodramas that I don't want any part of. This match wasn't that, but I was so much less excited for this match than I was for the one they were scheduled to have at Mania. I am a high voter on Goldberg, I even loved his trainwreck with Taker in Saudia Arabia, but I think it might be time to lose his number. Then again, WWE is a garbage fire, so maybe just keep bringing him back because he is more interesting than just about everybody on this roster not named Brock or Bron.
The women looked pretty awful in their weird outfits for the most part, the exception being Liv Morgan and Sonya Deville who both make me wanna do bad things. I was kinda worried about the two of them being beheaded or stoned, but I haven't heard anything about it so I assume we are in the clear. Ronda Rousey's outfit was my favorite, because she just came out in a gi, which almost felt like a protest to me. Ironically, with this being the least sexy of the women's outfits, Doudrop excluded, sorry, Ronda still showed the most skin as she took cues from Matt Riddle and went barefoot. Anyway, I wanted to watch the women's elimination chamber match because the elimination chamber used to pretty much guarantee you'd see a few fun things in the match, even if it didn't really cohesively create a great match. My stream cut out a few times, including the finish, so I still don't even know who won, and I don't really care. Doudrop actually seemed like the best thing in this match other than Liv Morgan looking like Liv Morgan. This might sound harsh, but I don't mean it negatively, but I wouldn't mind some more fat female wrestlers. She used fat man offense, which in this case is fat woman offense, but there are more fat dude wrestlers than chicks. Her back senton looked great, she looked like she crushed whoever she hit with it, maybe Liv. A lot of the match seemed sloppy and I am disappointed greatly with Rhea Rhipley. Maybe it's just this company taking the soul out of the people who work for it and the people who watch it, but I wasn't really feeling this match. There weren't even that many good moments, or at least that I remember.
I was having some stream issues, so I took a break before the Drew/Moss match. In hindsight that might have been a mistake, because even if the match wasn't good, that spot where Drew threw Moss down right on his dome was sick. That would have been good to see live. Who knows, maybe if this Moss fella gets to work, he could be something. He looks good, and apparently will take a hell of a bump.
The women's tag match seemed pretty sh*tty, I couldn't sit all the way through it. I expect Rousey/Flair to be great, but this is not Ronda's element. She shouldn't be working in a gi unless we are going full shoot style. But at least they are changing the world or whatever. Also, let's not tie Ronda's arm to her side anymore. Let's let her throw fools around with judo throws and suplexes and stuff. As great as I think her first run is, she is still green and they should keep it basic with her.
The main event is what I am here for though.
Brock Lesnar vs Bobby Lashley vs Matt Riddle vs Seth Rollins vs AJ Styles vs Austin Theory - 2/19/22 WWE Elimination Chamber
I didn't even try to watch this match live, because I wanted to watch it all the way through without interruption and with decent VQ, so I waited for about 20-30 minutes after the show ended to put it on. The match started out as a decent but fun match that consisted mainly of guys hitting their moves when they come in. It wasn't bad at all, but also not exactly the type of match that I'd go out of my way to see. Still probably better than 90% of the current product. There wasn't much more to the match than that with the exception of the spot that effectively eliminated Lashley, which looked really damn good, and I plan on talking more about Austin Theory and his bumping in this match later. I also had planned on talking a little bit about the booking of Lashley being eliminated this way, but it turns out Lashley is injured for a shoot. Plus booking talk is boring and doesn't lead to anything, so no bother there. Plus booking is only one of a myriad of problems with this company. But yeah that bump Theory took for that spot was nasty, in fact, Theory was bumping his ass off in this match. He was the second best thing in the match. He was working word, took nasty bumps and had a nice quick snapping suplex on I think AJ. The best thing about this match was clearly Brock. Brock is special, therefore he is often allowed to have match structures that nobody else in the company gets. Just going back to his original comeback when he had that match with Cena that basically an extended squash. Since then he's also had the matches with Goldberg, his performance in the Rumble (which should have elevated Keith Lee). Those are just a few examples, well also the match Danielson, I remember that being very different too. Anyway, this match also got an unique structure to it. I've never seen a guy just decide he wanted to enter the match before his time (this may have happened, I haven't seen all of them, but I doubt they just kicked their way in), and lay waste to everyone. For everything great about Brock, his presence, speed, power, etc., he is probably the best in the world at selling. Brock selling that nutshot was the most compelling moment in the match. I never thought Theory would get the win, but Brock sold it perfectly. And he sold the follow up offense perfectly and appropriately, which is to say he didn't just back bump off of a drop kick, because that would make no sense for Brock. Plus Brock has the great quality of his face being able to change like 5 different colors. That visual element adds a lot and makes the whole thing feel real when you know it's not.
When Brock got pissed, I was hoping for a great ground and pound beat down, but I can settle for those clubbing blows on top of the pod. Those looked pretty nasty and I almost believed for a moment that Brock was going to break Theory through that plexiglass or whatever that is on top of the pod. Which reminds me, the spot where Brock kicked through the pod to get to Theory who was running away from him looked great as well. The finish of this match won't stand the test of time or anything, as it probably won't be remembered, but it is a fine way to end a WWE gimmick match like this. I also hope for something grittier, but like I said, it's a fine way to end a really easy to watch match in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Dean Ambrose vs Daniel Bryan - 5/7/2013 WWE (Aired on Smackdown on 5/10/13)
If you are keeping up with AEW, it won't be hard to figure out why I watched this one. If you aren't, these two guys are starting an angle together that will at least have one match where they are against each and that may lead to them tagging. I don't know how that will play out, but I decided to check out a match they had against each other when Moxley was still good.
I missed the entire Shield run in real-time, but everything I've seen from that first two year period from those guys has been great. Moxley looks like he was a great pro wrestler then. All the matches I watched were six-man tags, so it is possible that his singles weren't all that great back then. I know his latter days in WWE were abysmal, and I don't think all that highly of his post-WWE run (the exceptions being when he works with great talent, i.e. Darby, Kingston, and Barnett). I do remember the FCW matches with Regal being great, but I checked out of wrestling between that time and the debut of the Shield. His matches with Kenny Omega are god-awful, but I expect that from Omega anyway.
This particular match just takes place in the middle of a Smackdown and from entrances to exits probably went ten minutes of air time with a commercial break, and it's a blast. I can't imagine these two only going ten minutes when that match happens in AEW. 2022 Moxley has devolved from the kinda over the top but not unbearable mannerisms to those mannerisms being like 85% of his gimmick. Nowadays he slinks his body around and contorts his face in the most annoying ways possible, but 2013 Ambrose still had bloom on the rose and isn't overdoing it. He was looking good and in shape and throwing his body into everything, he looked authentically chaotic. This guy should have been Jon Moxley and the AEW guy should have been Dean Ambrose. Bryan laid in the kicks, hard. He looked like a guy with a grudge, he looked pissed off and hit the guy like he was pissed at him. Something that is lacking in modern wrestling.
We get a f*ck finish, but it's a tv match telling part of story, not the whole thing. AEW could benefit from more f*ck finishes, not every match needs a clean winner. In fact, because of this match, I'm going to try to watch every match in the Shield vs Danielson feud I can get my hands on. If these two dudes outdo this tv midcard match in the main event of whatever AEW show this match main events, I have a feeling it will be mostly a carry job, but this match was absolutely not a carry job.
Trevor Lee vs Andrew Everett - CWF Mid-Atlantic 2/8/14
I almost didn't post about this match, because I figured nobody here would care about some random pro wrestling match from some random indie fed from 8 years ago. But then again, why would anybody here care about Popcorn, Dragon Quest, the Saudi chamber, or Ambrose/Bryan?
Anyway, this was a 2/3 falls match from CWF Mid-Atlantic. I haven't seen much from this promotion, but I know they got relatively big for a non-major indie a few years after this match. Mostly on the back of Trevor Lee I believe. I'm pretty sure they were also kinda known for having long matches, which I usually don't go for. This match was over an hour, but it was handled in way that built it up well. It had some of the modern stuff that puts me off, but for the most part was down my alley. The first two falls are very good. Good heel stalling from Trevor Lee. Some tight work, some good, hard strikes. The third fall is where things get kinda ridiculous in the way long modern matches do. Some of the selling goes out the window, we get more nearfalls than we need and going hand-in-hand with that, we get guys kicking out of moves they really shouldn't be kicking out of 62 minutes into a match. Trevor Lee does come out of this match looking like a star in the making, he has a lot of snug stuff. He's in NXT now as Cameron Grimes, but I've seen zero of him there. I haven't really seen much of him in this fed either, but I'll be changing that soon.
It's not hard to tell early on they are going broadway, it's two out of three and Lee is doing some good heel stalling. I am a sucker for stalling done right though, so no complaints about that from me. Everett looks like a guy who should have been signed somewhere. Not because I think he is a fantastic wrestler, he was fine in this match, but because he is a really good flyer. He was very smooth with the aerial stuff, but did go to it when it was inappropriate. I don't want to see a guy smoothly flying through the air at minute 45, much less minute 55. I really think this match could have been an all-time indie classic if the third fall was better and the guys, specifically Everett but Lee too, put over their exhaustion as little better.