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8 MAN TAG, ARIK CANNON, KEVIN KU, JIGSAW, THE BOAR & MORE: 4/8 IWTV'S FAMILY REUNION PART 2 IN TAMPA, FLORIDA REPORT

IWTV Family Reunion Part 2

4/8/21 - 3pm

Tampa, FL - Streaming on IWTV.live

The IWTV Family Reunion continues! Rich Palldino, Righteous Jesse & Carmen Michael are your announcers for this second block.

Match 1: Erica Leigh & The Boar vs. Jordan Blade & Eel O’Neal vs. Jared Evans & Ashton Starr vs. MV Young & AC Mack (Butch vs Gore Showcase)

A stacked tag team 4-way to kick this off! O'Neal wrapping up Leigh to start it off but she has the armdrags to make space. Jordan Blade in and beating the heck out of the 90's girl. The Boar in to even the odds but Jared Evans pulls the pin and gets in Leigh's face. They have some unfinished business. Starr tags in but Jordan wants to finish her work on Leigh. Everyone is trying to tag in, targeting Erica Leigh for more damage....except Young & Mack, who are content to let everyone beat each other down. Blade & O'Neal keep her isolated. Perfect plex for two. Evans with the blind tag, he misses an old school and Boar is back in against Starr. Mack & Young finally hit the ring, completely fresh. Young with an exploder to the Boar and a pk ringside to Evans. Blade tosses him to the concrete, while Boar and Leigh hit a popup X-factor on Starr. Blade cuts it off. It's all breaking down but Ashton hitting some backbreakers on Mack with a split legged moonsault. MV has the win locked in but Mack steals the pin on Evans from his partner. They get into a shoving match, Mack sent to his rear by an angry MV Young. 

WInners: AC Mack & MV Young

Match 2: Mysterious Q (c) vs. Ryan Davidson – New Texas Pro Championship

Trading takedowns and chops early. Testing with shoudlerblocks and that just annoys Davidson. Ryan overpowering and driving Q back with big shots but he's fighting out of the corner. Rana, big boot and a dropkick staggers Davidson for two. Davidson with a big slam of his own for two. Scoop slam and fall-away headbutt. Q firing back and trading chops in the pocket. Spinning back kick drops them both so he can recover. Q comes running into a powerslam for two! Clubbing the back, Q flips over a charge, big german, champ hits a big back elbow. Blue Thunder Bomb! Davidson kicks out! Q comes off the top, Davidson catches into a powerbom for two. He tries a moonsault, whiffs it, walks into a cutter. Kick out! Slug fest in the center. Davidson runs into a lariat, but he slams Q down again for a two. Cutter and DVD to Davidson and this finally keeps the challenger down. Wow, big fight here!

 This ruled.

WInner (And Stilllllll): Mysterious Q

ACTION WRESTLING CHAMPION ARIK ROYAL JUST SHOWED UP AT FAMILY REUNION. HE’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!!!! Royal is upset he wasn't booked on the Family Reunion. He has his gear and issues an open challenge for the ACTION Wrestling Championship. Yes Please. Who will answer it? Marcus Mathers (fresh off a great match with JJ Garrett) is out here to get that belt!

Match 3: "The ACEGAWD" Arik Royal vs "The Prodigy" Marcus Mathers (for the ACTION Wrestling Championship)

Royal's eating a series of slaps and chops from an energetic Mathers. Yakuza kick! Mathers can't whip the champ. Arik catches him running with a boss man slam backbreaker. Knee drops from Royal, who has yet to take off his entrance gear. He tries a one-foot pin but the kid isn't dead, Arik. Big kick to the face and Royal is beating and throwing this kid around the ring. Mathers slips a kick in, rolls through and hits a cutter! Mathers firing up with elbows and dropkicks. Stomp out and a coast to coast! Royal catches the kid running with the Kobe (popup faceslam). NICE. This was a great surprise match for me. 

Winner (AND STILLLLLLLL): Arik Royal

Match 4: Bryan Keith vs. Alex Kane 

Kane is a power but Keith welcomes him into the guard. Keith with a shoulder block but Kane absorbs it. Keith fires off fast kicks but that forces Kane to turn on the suplex delivery machine. A german, a belly to belly, a delayed vertical. Keith out at two. Keith with some desperate shots and starts throwing some stiff leg kicks that forces Kane to the outside. Stomp to the back of knee and Keith slams the limb on the apron and against the post. Bryan Keith working the ankle and knee of Kane back in the ring. He slams the knee into the canvas for a two count. Kane manages a german but Keith blocks, hits a kick but walks into a huuuuuge X-plex. Keith with a backdrop driver dumps Kane on his head for a two count. Kane is back, the straps are down, Keith gets the work one last time and Kane plexes him for the three. This was awesome. Never seen Bryan Keith before but I’m happy to watch him rip someone’s leg off again.

Winner: Alex Kane

Match 5: Gary Jay vs. Billie Starkz (St. Louis Anarchy Showcase)

Jay doesn’t want this fight. Billie draws the like and he crosses it, walking into a slap, kick and slam. He decks her and goes to work on the arm. Gary is tearing and kicking at the limb before throwing chops and jabs in the corner. Gary yells at her to fight back, he chops her down again after a strike. “She wanted this” he tells the camera. Billie stuns him for a second with a rebound kick, Gary with a knee but she hits a rebound german. Trading elbows and they drop each other. Billie with a running forearm but she’s hurting herself. Corner chops with the good arm. Starkz chops him down, kick crumples him and she hits a Stanton bomb for two. Gary catches her running with a chest chop, clubs her in the back of the head, double stomp to the back of the head, Fujiwara armbar and Starkz is in trouble. She gets a foot on the rope. Starkz powders and Gary with a tope suicida into the front row chairs. She’s up! DVD to the concrete and Gary is moaning in agony on the floor. Billie COULD have taken the count out but she breaks the count, gets Gary back in but only a two count. Gary staggered up and trading some bar fight level slugs with Space Yeezus. Starkz with a dozen forearms and a dropkick, Gary pushes her off in the corner and hits a running forearm that starches her for the pin. That was a good fight. Gary Jay grabs the mic and recognizes the war that she just put him through. He offers her a handshake in the ring as she nurses the arm. 

Winner: Gary Jay

Match 6: Cabana Man Dan vs. Derek Neal (c) – New South Heavyweight Championship

CMD is way over in this room, Derek Neal makes sure to hate on the crowd too. Dan trying to work the arm and brings Neal to his knee. CMD working some rollup attempts. Neal trying to fire up but CMD with a hip toss and an arm drag. Neal tries to recover and meets a high velocity kick from CMD that sends him to the outside. They battle on the outside, Neal chops the post. Springboard DDT getting back in the ring. CMD goes for Surf’s Up but Neal craaaaaacks him in the head. The champ  slows it down and gets to work bouncing Dan off the buckles, slamming to ground with a knee drop for two. Neal hitting some targeted chops but CMD works that injured hand. Neal endures, hits a big corner dropkick for two. Neal is mad about the hand and stomp CMD’s out. Neal wants another corner dropkick but CMD ducks and Neal flips down. Dan throwing shots but Neal crumbles him with a punch to the face. CMD comes running, eats a headbutt. Dan has one of his own in return!  Fighting to the top, Dan biting the hand hits a sunset flip powerbomb for a near fall. Neal dodges Surf’s Up again and cracks a knee to the mouth for two. CMD tries to fight out of the brainbuster but the King’s Road Slayer muscles him up, slams him down and takes the victory. 

Damn, that was good. I’ve seen a lot of Derek Neal this week. I’ve liked what I saw. CMD is back up and Neal is whipping his former challenger with his leather belt. Adam Priest is here to make the save! He swarms with punches and sends Neal packing. Priest and CMD shakes hands in the ring and walk out together. 

Match 7: Daniel Garcia (c) vs. Kevin Ku (w/ Dominic Garrini) – C*4 Championship & Limitless Championship

Tumbling in the graps to start, they come to a pause and trade slaps. Garcia grabs the arm and works to the armbar, Ku goes to the ropes. Ku wrestles Garcia down and forces him to safety as well. Ku picks the leg out of a gut stomp and they roll out and crash to the floor. Trading slaps, Garcia drags him back to grapevine the legs. Ku rolls out into a triangle and tandem ankle locks. Ku absorbs ankle pain to grab Garcia into a rear naked choke, Garcia slips out and stomps. Increase speed!Leapfrogs and shoulder blocks, Garcia launches Ku with an arm drag and lands some chops and back elbows. Garcia clubbing at the shoulder while Ku up kicks at the knee. Hip toss to Ku and out at two. Garcia twisting at the fingers. Ku makes space and hits a flying knee for two. KU grapevines the legs and drops a series of forearms in the mount until they fall out of the hold. Trading seated slaps, snapmares and spine kicks. Back and forth shots, double lariat, double down. Back up, trading kicks, Ku with a snap dragon suplex. Garcia with a back drop driver, shotgun dropkick! Garcia catches a short piledriver but Ku twitches his way out of there. Garcia is furious, clubbing and biting at Ku. Garcia wants the back drop driver off the top but Ku reverses it, hits a doctor bomb right into a single leg crab! Garcia rolls through and drags Ku to the center with a sharpshooter. Red Deat gleans all the way back into it and Ku has to tap! WHAT A WAR!

Winner: Daniel Garcia

Daniel Garcia grabs the mic to call out Lee Moriarty. He wants to add the IWTV championship to his belt collection....assuming Lee still has it when he visits Limitless Wrestling next. “I’ll make you tap out again and again and again. COME FIND ME.”

Main Event: Downey’s Irish Drinking Team (Dan Champion, Lucky 13, Jigsaw, Arik Cannon) vs. A Very Good Professional Team (Daniel Makabe, Wheeler Yuta, A Very Good Professional Wrestler, Tre Lamar)

THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST. AVGPW refuses to end his entrance. Makabe and Lucky 13 seem to hate their team assignments tonight. Maybe they go rogue? Yuta and Jigsaw kick this off, rekindling a physical rivalry they could have had in a parallel wrestling universe. Jigsaw with a deeeeeeeep Gory special choke before he brings in BIG Dan Champion. Yuta isn’t gonna match him with power so he pulls from the bag of cheap tactics, the crossbody he followed up with matters little and Dan hits a delayed vertical suplex. AVGPW into with lots of punches to the gut of Dan. AVGPW comes running and drops into a figure-four with an extra wristlock for security. Dan is still really powerful. Cannon is to cut AVGPW from the tag. AVGPW with the deep arm drags and an abdominal stretch to lock up the vet. Backslide pin? Arik is out. Makabe is in to take down Cannon and we have a technical clinic on our hands. Makabe dives into a figure-four spin out. sick move. Lucky 13 in fresh to swarm on Makabe, kick him in the face and send him packing. Tre in against 13. Super fast pace as he rolls back and drops a boot to Lucky’s face.  6-man suplex spot but it’s a stalemate. Dan Champion calls his team down to the bar to have some beers. They are a drinking team, after all. LaMar breaks that up with a somersault to the outside. Lucky 13 is isolated and eating offense. He dodges Makabe and starts launching his teammates into him. AVGPW catches Lucky running into a sitout powerbomb for two. Lucky with a high knee, suplexes him into the buckles, double stomp from the top to AVGPW. Lamar with a big crossbody to Cannon, misses a frog splash but Jigsaw cuts him off with a german for two. Makabe locks Jigsaw into the cattle Mutilation, Dan Champion pulls it out for a TKO. Yuta with a cutter off the top, AVGPW with the blind tag and steal and pin on Dan Champion! Yuta is confused at the kill steal. We go to black as AVGPW stands tall in the ring to his music. THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST!

Winners: AVGPW, Yuta, Makabe & Tre LaMar 

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