IWC Legacy Lucha Road Report 10/24/21

Made a trip to my first post-COVID wrestling show with my five year old Zach to watch some lucha. This is the most indy-brained of all of the Denver Lucha promotions. They announced Fred Yehi, Heddi Karaoui and Jake Crist who were all no-shows, but this was still fun shit.

Fuji Man vs. Johnny Crash

PAS: This was a dark match I guess (not sure if this was a recorded show, but they ran a dark match). Johnny Crash looks like a fatter Boom Boom Mancini. This was basically a short comedy squash, with Crash doing some spots around his giant belly. It amused Zach, and was a fine 4 minutes.

Red Viper vs. Big Poppa Lypto

PAS: These are two local luchadores and this was probably the best match on the show. Stiff uppercuts by Viper and punches by Lypto (who came in with a low rider bike which was dope). Nothing super fancy, but we got a couple of nice dives and some big bumps to the floor. Clearly a pair of guys who trained together, but they had everything really solidly together and worked their stuff smoothly. Very entertaining local lucha.

Hijo Del Fishman/Delta Jr. vs. Bruce Wayans/Provider

PAS: This was originally a spot for the uncanceled Crist, but instead they used a local heel tag team. Wayans had a nice spinebuster, Provider the less said the better. Fishman had a dive and threw some hard chops, but this wasn't the Fishman who hellaciously brawls his way through the lucha indies. Zach was into the Tower of Doom spot (his first Tower of Doom), and the finish was cool with Fishman hitting a big splash after Delta hit a top rope rana. It had it's moments, and some moments which weren't much.

Ninja Mack vs. Rey Leon

PAS: Ninja Mack is a guy who does a couple of things incredibly. He may be the most agile wrestler in the world and if you put him in the position to showcase that agility you will get something pretty great. Mack was working as a stooging rudo here, throwing weak chops, yelling at the crowd, getting frustrated at lucha chants. It isn't what he does and he just kind of stopped it at one point to hit a crazy flip. We still got the highspots (including a no water in the pool 680 moonsault) but as a whole it didn't connect. Still Ninja Mack is a guy totally worth seeing live, like a crazier Blitzkrieg.

Hijo de LA Park/LA Park Jr. vs. Anthony Henry/Alex Zayne

PAS: Really interesting to see Alex Zayne, another wild high flyer, also miscast as a stooging rudo, but Zayne was great at it. If Alex Zayne is the reason you bought a ticket you don't want to see him work as Dougie Gilbert, but he is a surprisingly great Dougie Gilbert. He totally bought into work Parka spots with the junior PARKS, and was a nasty cut off rudo when it was required. He did hit one awesome looking pop up rana, but the rest was all serving as a foil. Henry seemed more eager to get his shit in, and the worst parts of this match were Anthony Henry doing his stuff. I mean Christ I still have to watch a tough guy NJ elbow exchange in a goddamn LA Park Jr. local indy match?, I can never escape that shit? LA Park Jr. has a great fat tope like his dad, and he hits it twice. Zach was scared of the skeletons so he watched my phone.