CWF Mid-Atlantic Worldwide Episode 110

Episode 110

1. Snooty Foxx/Dirty Daddy vs. Movie Myk/Timmy Danger

ER: Well...this was mostly a mess. We've seen Timmy Danger once before, and he didn't look good then. This time he looked like arguably the worst guy who's appeared in CWF (since we've been reviewing shows). He looked completely lost for most of this, and I don't know if I've ever seen somebody lean so far away from contact before. He leans out of punches before they come close to his face, bumps early on a clothesline, throws his own missed clothesline miles over Dirty, gets crossed up on rope running, it's maddening. We get a couple nice spots: Fox's top rope bulldog on Myk was devastating enough that it should have been the finish, and we get more great work from Daddy; his selling was real great, and he single-handedly helped Danger work his arm over. I also liked Myk's manager's interference, throwing nasty shots at Daddy from the floor. This could have been something...if literally anyone other than Danger were in the match.

PAS: Oof Timmy Danger, he was running the ropes like he was terrified of twisting an ankle, and spent much of the match wandering around looking confused. Stuttsy was mentioning he was a 10 year veteran which seems insane, he really looked like a guy who shouldn't have gotten out of the first level of wrestling school class. Fox and Daddy are a fun team and their double team elbow/spear move was awesome, but I am hoping the Timmy Danger experiment is over.

ER: I really liked Mitch Connor's unblinking promo. He seemed a bit crazed, came off like he had a screw loose, and the guy has some crazy eyes. But the message was intense, and the story was good. I like him comparing Cain's motives to his own as a youngster, both understanding him yet also wanting to murder him. Anything with a personal touch is always going to be more effective, and this made me excited for that match.

PAS: Holy shit that was a great promo! Reminded me of a classic Arn Anderson promo where Connor calmly and intensely let Cain know what he was in for. He describes how he sympathizes with a rookie trying to make his name known, but that sympathy wouldn't save Cain. "The attention of certain people is a poison prize." I cannot remember the last time I liked a promo this much, nothing over the last several years comes to mind. Totally sold me a ticket to Cain v. Handsome Mitch.

2. SIS vs. Ethan Alexander Sharpe

ER: One of my least favorite matches in wrestling is the "ooooooooo I'm so excited to be physically touching a girllllll". Acting like you're turned on by a headlock or a lock up is pretty fucking stupid, and the banter around it is always cringey. Add to that, the hack Andy Kaufman cosplay just showed how uninspired Sharpe's ideas actually were. Luckily SIS was in there to bring something to this tired exercise. I liked her pantsing to set up her crossbody into the ropes, her headbutt, loved the stomp/senton, and the kiss to set up the match finishing suplex was a good finish for this. But a stilted love story is not really what I was hoping for when watching weekly CWF.

PAS: Nobody will ever be as good at this shtick as Andy Kaufman or Yoshiaki Fujiwara so it should probably be retired unless Fujiwara wants to do it again, or Andy really did fake his death.

3. Arik Royal/Roy Wilkins vs. Trevor Lee/Chip Day

ER: This never really clicked for me, other than the clicking noise in my ears after what had to be a couple hundred thigh slaps. None of the moves done in the match seemed to have any consequences. There would be long sequences of Lee and Day kicking at the All Stars, but it never actually kept the Stars down for that long. So it came off odd within the match that Chip Day was slumped in the ropes for half the match on the apron selling his beating. Nobody else in the match needed recovery time, he needed 10+ minutes, and once he recovered he was fine. Some of the move set ups seemed clunky, and there were a lot of dead ends (like Royal kind of awkwardly getting into position near the ropes so Lee can come off the top and stomp his arm, but we never go back to that arm). Weirdly the thing that worked most for me was the set up of the ref bumps, like Redd getting pulled into an oncoming punt. So many refs got taken out at one point it started to look like the old MadTV Parakeet Caretaker sketch. But this just didn't add up to much for me, even though I like watching the guys involved, and liked watching them here.

PAS: I really liked the first 10 minutes of this, All Stars are a really great traditional heel tag team, I loved how they isolated Day and worked him over, loved the double team that put Day in trouble and Arik Royal was awesome ripping Day's ear, talking shit to the crowd and even singing to him while he was kicking his ass. Match falls apart a bit at Lee's hot tag, and then it just becomes a million head kicks and a ton of near falls. It turned from a great southern tag match until some overkill PWG bombfest. I am worrying a bit about Trevor Lee, I have really liked a lot of his stuff in CWF, but he seems to be bringing in a bunch of bad 2017 habits into the fed.

PAS: Didn't really like any of the matches on this episode much, but that Mitch Connor promo is one of the best things I have seen in 2017 and is a must see.