Indy TV Sampler- Future Stars of Wrestling

Nevada isn't exactly a wrestling hotbed, outside of Wrestlemania IV, the AWA Showboat tapings, and the time Cactus Jack piledrove Sabu on a roulette wheel, I can't think of any other Nevada pro wrestling moments. So I figured I would check out Future Stars of Wrestling.

Episode 5

Paul Isadora v. Crash Test Cody

Crash Test Cody is dressed like a Crash test dummy, which is actually a pretty great gimmick for a big bumping guy. Isadora is listed at 6'10 and is probably legit 6'8ish. He is a pretty basic punch, kick guy, but you can't teach height. I wanted Crash Test Cody to die a little more, he bumps nicely, but he isn't Spike Dudley or Lance Lude.

Jason Partain v. Beast

Both of these guys are pretty big and agile. Beast is a black guy with facpaint who seems to be working some sort of Homicide gimmick, although he might also be in a metal band. Fun five minute match. Partian has a nice spinebuster. It ends with Partain arguing with his manager, Dino Denelli who looked like a sixty year old guy who owns a sandwhich shop. Partain gets bumped into him and rolled up. I was impressed by the apron bump the old guy took. Wouldn't mind seeing both guys again

Commercial for the FSW school, looks like Rico and Mike Modest are the trainers.

Leon Hater and the Hater nation come out and tell the crowd to shut up a bunch of times. Even the cameramen got bored and they just cut them off mid talk.

Franco DeAngelo v. Malachi

DeAngelo has the title belt and is rocking a faux hawk with thinning hair, not a great look. Malachi is a big bald dude with a gnarly beard, who was pretty darn good. Nice suplex, stiff lariat worked the arm. Michael Modest is doing heel commentary and keeps repeating how Malachi should be hitting him with a chair instead of going for pins. Modest is significantly better in the ring then behind a mike. I liked Malachi a fair bit, didn't really see much out of DeAngelo.

No Limits Rumble

This is a battle royal for a shot at their X divisionish champion. Flippy juniors battle royal never made a ton of sense to me, although this was fine stuff. Austin Aries was in this and while he didn't do a ton, he is a guy who consistently entertains me. The first two guys were Vintage Dragon (which I guess means he is working a Tatsumi Fujinami gimmick) and Cedric the Hitman. Both guys I dug Dragon took the biggest bump of the match and Cedric was an entertaining crowbar. Funnybone seemed like the most pushed guy in the match, he had ugly stars tattooed down his spine, but was perfectly OK, sort of a middle class mans Gran Akuma. FInish had Mike Delight, who seems to be working a comedy Mike Modest lackey gimmick, get thrown through the second rope and comeback at the end to eliminate two guys. This would have worked better as a Cibernetico or something, but for a battle royal this was entertaining

Show went down pretty easy, I was a big Modest fan back in the early 2000's, so I wouldn't mind seeing what he looks like now. I could easily see myself checking out future shows