Wednesday War Games: Anarchy Wrestling Hostile Enviornment 7/28/18

Anarchy Wrestling has moved off of Powerbomb and on to Fite.tv which makes it harder to watch, but for their annual WarGames show I had to find a way.

Team TAG vs. Seth Delay/Marcus Cross

PAS: Team TAG are the Anarchy tag champions and a pretty solid heel team, Kevin Blue especially has really nice snap on his stuff. Delay goes all the way back to the Wildside days, and is a really solid veteran, he had some fun takedowns early and was in the right place for everything. Cross is pretty new and was the weak link in the match, the crowd was into the story of the kid going for his first title, but he seemed tentative and didn't hit a lot of his stuff cleanly. Still this is a basic tag match done well with a crowd pleasing finish. Not memorable in the long run, but eminently served its purpose.

AC Mack vs. Xander Ramon

PAS: Ramon is big burly guy, who is green but promising. Mack is a guy we have seen a bunch in ACTION and is really good, charismatic and a solid heel wrestler. This is a pretty basic match structure, much like the previous match. Ramon is throwing big bombs, while Mack attacks a bum knee. Really solid way to work a smaller heel against a bigger face and they do a nice job here. Mack has some nice chop blocks, and Ramon's selling was solid if a bit broad. Ramon maybe sometime away, but Mack is their now.

Billy Buck vs. Ike Cross

PAS: This was a 2/3 falls match which was squeezed into about 10 minutes, and suffered a bit for that compression. However there was a lot to like, Billy Buck is a old school territorial heel, nice punches, good superkick, slick spinebuster, kind of B+ CW Anderson. Cross is an athletic marvel, and seems like he is going to be a big star sooner then later. He has a great looking tope, a couple of nice spears and a leap onto the top rope into a superplex, all from a guy who is 6'4. Both early falls ended quick, and they go right into a near fall run, with some good ones including some great sneak superkicks by Buck. I liked the idea of Cross winning with Kyle Matthews octopus (Matthews was seconding him after blowing out a knee and retiring), but Cross didn't really pull off the move. Good stuff and I would like to see a longer match between the two.

Geter vs. Mikal Judas

PAS This was a battle of the giants with Judas returning to Anarchy. This was a quick punch out into a double countout to set up a future match. Geter is a legit 400 pound dude and hits pretty hard. Judas has a cool entrance, but didn't show me a ton post entrance. Still I wouldn't mind seeing some big guys hit each other in the future.

38. Slim J vs. Corey Hollis

PAS: This is coming off their awesome dog collar match earlier in the year. This was a Yard Call match, which is a fight in a storage room in a separate building. It had concrete walls, chicken wire door and a ceramic toilet in the side like a holding cell. Slim J comes in with hands cuffed behind his back and gets uncuffed before the fight. This was a total blast, just a grimy fight. Slim J swings a toilet tank lid at Hollis's head and it shatters on the wall, Hollis then uses ceramic shards to cut up J. Both guys get choked with a chain, and J even pulls out a shank. Slim J is a guy best known as a highflyer, but he is a hell of brawler, the best parts of this feel like a Demus lucha brawl or something Tarzan Goto might do in Shin FMW. Both guys are taking bumps on concrete, bleeding in dirt, wailing on each other with fist and chairs. Finish had J winning with a standing choke which was cool looking, but I was expecting something more horrific. Still a great unique match which totally lived up to its cool on paper promise.

ER: This is one of the better combinations of "unique setting" & "willing to be violent enough to make it work" for a street fight that we've seen, up there with the Finlay/Regal parking lot brawl. It's a weird room with chicken wire and chains and a toilet and a freaking shank and a stripped gurney and it looks like a snuff location in Manhunt. Slim J is definitely a fantastic flyer, but the man hits harder like a sack of doorknobs and you don't usually get his level of violent work with agility. The missed weapon shots are as cool as the hits, with J swinging a heavy ass toilet lid at Hollis' head and shattering it on the wall, and Hollis one-upping him by throwing the whole damn toilet at his head. There's a dog collar/chain hanging from the wall and that collar gets slipped around J's neck, and Hollis holds J by both arms and yanks him forward halfway across the room, chain pulling taut while choking him, J barely escaping by kicking off Hollis. We get some nasty spills, J getting pulled painfully onto the tipped over gurney, both men getting tossed into hard walls and rubbed into wire, Hollis comes thisclose to jumping on a chair wrapped around J's neck, J's bloody face gets smooshed into chicken wire a foot away from a bunch of kids, all of it looked great. I did want a bit more from the finish, as it looked like J was setting up this standing grapevine choke near the shattered porcelain throne, I thought he was going to smash Hollis' face down into the shards, but I like what they did anyway. Cool, super unique brawl, Slim J should be a megastar.

Cult of Cash (Brad Cash/Cyrus the Destroyer/Se7en/Chop Top) vs. Jacob Ashworth/Logan Creed/Bobby Moore/Stryknyn

PAS: This was annual Landmark Arena Wargames, and was slotted in the middle of the ones I have seen. Landmark based feds have always been able to find legit heavyweights, and there was some big dudes in this match. We get a Logan Creed versus Se7en face off and both guys are 6'7 legit (listed 6'9), Chop Top looked kind of methy and skinny, but everyone else was a legit heavy, so there was a lot of force in all of the moves. Cyrus is 400 pounds and there was a couple of spots where he looked like he was going to bring down the cage. The Ashworth and Cash first section was good, with Cash cutting upon Ashworth with a sickle, and pretty intense brawling. The middle section had its moments, including a crazy top rope rana by Creed, but it was a little meandering. Stryknyn was the surprise partner, and had some big spots, including his fireball. They had a kind of dumb spot with Creed faking being mesmerized by Cash, until he sneaks in a gogoplata. It never got to that upper level of violence you see in the best WarGames, and was kind of overshadowed by the Yard Call right before it.


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