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[2000-04-28-IWA-MS-April Armageddon] Ian Rotten & Ox Harley vs Corporal Robinson & Blaze (Fans Bring The Weapons)


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Talk about milking something for all that it is worth, it is 25 minutes into this segment that the match proper begins. Ox Harley and Blaze are two guys I have seen before but were long gone from IWA when I became a regular viewer. Much like the previous month, the action is tough to follow and chaotic but there is no shortage of crazy bumps. I do think this suffered a bit with Harley and Blaze in there even though they both tried including Harley busting out a moonsault. This also was a match used more as a set up for the War Games the following week as a crew of baddies that I am unfamilar with come in and Rollin' Hard and Deliah Star have to come out to help Ian and crew. **3/4

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Note to anyone who watches this after us: Just skip the first 25 minutes of this. It goes on and on and on. When that ends, it goes on some more. Then the match starts. This was better than the worst ECW garbage brawling, but it was closer to that than the stuff I've liked in matches from Ian and the Corporal thus far. Too much focus on weapons and stunts not enough on the actual brawling. Didn't hate it, didn't love it, but overall it missed the mark.

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Corp and Blaze say Fuck a lot and try to get in a fight with fans for the first 25 minutes. I'm guessing this was pre SMV days as it's shot from the balcony with no commentary? Lot of sicks bumps and lots of blood but overall it didn't mean anything. A lot of guys run in who I have no idea who they are and then Ian cuts is usual postmatch promo. Pretty bad.

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Blaze is in the ring and he’s supposed to be announcing who his mystery partner is but is more interested in insulting the crowd. He eventually introduces Corporal Robinson who joins him in taking pops at the audience while adding plenty of profanity. Blaze says he’s fed up of coming to this redneck town and asks Corp whether they should leave, before deciding to grace everyone with their presence for as few more minutes as they take care of some unfinished business with ‘the King of KFC’, ‘the Hardcore Handicapped’, Ian Rotten.

 

After all the wrestlers make their entrance we get yet more mic work and referee Jim Fannin even takes a seat in the corner. Finally after some 24 minutes, the action at last gets underway. IWA-MS is still, like last month, being filmed by one hard camera making it difficult to follow everything, especially when the wrestlers are on opposite sides of the building. Ian breaks a light tube over the back of Blaze’s neck and gigs him with a shard of the glass. Rotten himself is busted open early, and Blaze gives him a receipt, breaking some light tubes over his head. Corp and Ox are going at it in the parking lot and the pair of them are already bleeding too. Blaze is crumpled in the corner and Ian with a baseball slide dropkick to some light tubes he’d positioned in front of his groin. All four men are now in the ring and this is like a ‘Texas Tornado’ bout. DDT by Corp on Ox and Blaze with a guillotine legdrop off the top. Not sure if that’s the smartest of moves with all that broken glass in the ring! Ian gets a bra from someone and puts it on Blaze which garners the loudest reaction so far (I don’t think these fans are the most open minded!). The customary Ian brain cell destroying chair shot over the head of Corp. Ox with a suplex on the floor to Blaze and Robinson grinds a barbed wire baseball bat into Ian’s bloody forehead. DDT on Blaze, but Ox then misses the moonsault as he moves out the way. He throws Harley to the floor as Ian nails Corp over the back with a light bulb covered stick. He heads upstairs only to be jumped by three folk who I don’t recognise. The one of them dropkicks him and he takes a backwards bump off the apron and through a barbed wire light tube board. As they continue to attack him, the action is still ongoing in the ring and Harley with a reverse DDT on Blaze for the win. Corp gives referee Fannin the ‘boot camp’ and the heels turn their attention to Ox. A couple of guys try to make the save, but Blaze lays them both out with spinning powerbombs until a weapon swinging Rollin Hard clears the ring of them all. Rollin then challenges them to a five on five ‘War Games’ match for next week.

 

I was I had read the reviews about skipping the first twenty five minutes of this! The insulting of the audience is okay at first, but it just goes on…and on…and on… Same issue as previously about it being tricky to follow the action due to the one hard camera, and there isn’t really much meat to the match, just lots of breaking of light tubes and hitting each other with weapons. Shame we don’t have the ‘War Games’ match as I imagine in that venue it would be one chaotic sight.

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