APW TV Workrate Report: 1/15/11

Got a few episode of APW clogging up my DVR, so I figured I would get back in the swing of things.

We start with a brief shot of Jeckels THE JESTER lying UNCONSCIOUS in the parking lot!!

1. Alexis Derevko/Sheik Khan Abadi (America's Most Hated) vs. The Suburban Commandos (T-Rent and D-Unit). Derevko is an awesome fat Russian worker with nice punches and solid work, Abadi is a skinny greasy A-RAB with awesome 1992 Pauly Shore hair, and Commandos I have never seen but they're two fat guys with neon yellow clothing and manicured beards and this is not looking too bad at all.

But we cut away to see Jeckels lying unconscious in the parking lot again!! And then the camera turns away for a bit....and when it comes back......JECKELS IS GONE!!! He was RIGHT THERE, and he VANISHED!! There were numerous witnesses, and nobody could explain a thing!! He's just gone!!! Oh man, where is this going!?!? Odds are, WWE saw his recent work, and while the camera cut away John Laurinaitis swooped in and booked him right into Wrestlemania. Or maybe he's going to be the mystery 2/21/11 wrestler....STAY TUNED!!!!

Match is back on and Abadi gets chucked hard by a Commando and the announcers are talking about Jeckels disappearing and comparing it to an episode of Lost. Oh, jeez. Abadi blows a rana and T-Rent points at his head because he outsmarted Abadi. I love head pointing in wrestling. And now D-Unit press slams Abadi into T-Rent's knee and the Commandos are awesome. Double wheelbarrow suplex! Abadi is good at being ragdolled by these two fat dudes so he should stick to that and cut out the whole "trying offense" thing. But Abadi does a goofily fun double rotation headscissors that T-Rent bumps huge for and rolls to the floor, and Abadi follows with a dive through the corner, banging his own hip on the ring post as he goes out!! Then instantly rolls into the ring and hits a somersault tope on the other Commando and this is fucking awesome!!

Abadi and Derevko start picking apart D-Unit and Derevko throws a nice fat elbowdrop and they begin working over Unit's knee. Leg drop off the top onto D-Unit's knee and Abadi hooks a cool Regal Stretch and then just boots D-Unit in the face. Abadi foolishly tries to sunset flip a man 100 lb. larger than he, and Unit pulls him to his fett, throws him in the air and hits a diamond cutter in one fluid move. Hot tag to T-Rent and Derevko bumps all around for him. Abadi hits a dropkick to allow AMH to take back control, and Derevko puts T-Rent in a tree of woe, allowing Abadi to hit an awesome crossbody to his trapped opponent. Tag team miscommunication allows the Commandos to take control, and the throw Abadi over the length of the ring with a huge hip toss, and the Commandos finish it with a big powerbomb/neckbreaker combo. This was a real fun 12 minute match and one of the better APW matches I've seen since starting these reports. Derevko is a real good big guy and Abadi can bump and take a great beating. Commandos are big and fat and some times they can get a little indie-offensey, but at their heart they're fat asskickers and who can't love that!?

Post-match Derevko and Abadi break up, even though I had never seen them team before. Derevko chokes him out with his chain while kicking referees in the head, then drags him to the entrance stage, and throws Abadi from the stage to the ringpost and wraps him around it. Awesome.

Jeckels mysteriously disappeared earlier, so now our 6 man tag for the evening is a handicap match, leaving Mr. Wrestling IV and Vennis DeMarco without a partner.

2. Blackwell, Corvus, and OMEGA vs. Mr. Wrestling IV/Vennis DeMarco is the main event and I am loving Blackwell making TV every week. OMEGA and 4 startwith 4 working some misdirection, giving a butt butt on the apron to Blackwell, then dodging a corner charge from OMEGA (with OMEGA taking a big bump over the top to the floor). Corvus in with Vennis, and Vennis throws some capable if not silly overhand rights. 4 is really good at working pinfalls, always hooking the leg and bridging into it with his legs for more leverage. Blackwell in and looks nasty choking out Vennis in the corner. Corvus in with some nice kicks and tags Blackwell back in and he shows the world exactly how people that are super fat should throw an elbow drop. Shit those were a couple nice elbow drops. He also makes Vennis' back elbow look great by running face first into it. Blackwell wrecks both 4 and Vennis' shoulders with stiff shoulderblocks, then just PLANTS Vennis with an over-the-shoulder sit out piledriver that gets replayed numerous times and earns it (for the record Vennis looked totally protected, but the move looked nasty and Vennis sold it awesome by stiffening up his body).

Double superkick by Corvus and OMEGA on 4 and Corvus works a cravate. Corvus with an enziguiri but the Jeckels runs in...and he turns on his partners and hits the (sigh) Jokeslam. The goth stable turns on Matthew Theall (Blackwell's Cornette-aping manager) who doesn't really know how to bump. OMEGA hits a nice knee drop off the top. The crowd is in "stunned silence" and sitting with their arms folded.

Good show this week. Opening tag was real fun and the main was decent until the run-in and heel turn. Jeckels might actually work out better as a heel since his tard clapping and awful facials were really unbearable as a babyface. He'll still make awful faces, but this should be a change for the better.