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CORY STRODE REPORTING:
Alex Colon's Planet Death - Tampa, Florida
Our commentators are KG and Nick Gates.
The show starts with Ken Osborne coming to the ring and demanding someone make him leave, and Marcus Crane comes to the ring to meet him.
Ken Osborne vs Marcus Crane
Announcers say that Crane is coming back from brain surgery. They get a total of a single slam before we have Ken using glass tubes and Crane ignoring them. Crane hits Osborne with a scoop slam and covers for a three count.
Your winner: Marcus Crane
Crane puts Osborne through a door set up in the corner and our first match is over.
We then get a video package that this show is a tribute to the late Danny Havoc.
SHLAK vs Nolan Edward
They start by throwing hands in the middle of the ring, and then go to the outside to nail each other with light tubes. The commentators put over that Edward is an orphan who came from nothing and is fighting the stronger SHLAK. Edwards brings in chairs after they have used nothing but light tubes. Edwards sets up light tubes on the chairs, and SHLAK powerslams him into them, and then covers to get the three count.
Your winner: SHLAK
They show a music video of SHLAK and a ad for his band horrorpaingoredeath
Damon Spriggle vs Ricky Noran vs Orin Veidt in a Panes of Glass Death Match
They start by taking turns hammering some kind of metal plates into each other's chests and back as a tough man contest. Orin takes the first suplex through a plane of glass, and that leaves Damon and Ricky to throw hands and start working over each other. It then became where two guys are working each other over and one outside the ring to recover.
They do throw hands and suplex each other between using plunder on each other. Orin with my using the Assault Driver on Damon through a plan of glass in the corner set up on Ricky. Orin pins Damon for the win.
Your winner: Orin Veidt
Matthew Justice vs Mad Man Pondo in a Hardcore War
Announcers say that Pondo is a member of the death match hall of fame. Justice leaps out of the ring onto Pondo as Pondo is taking off his vest. They fight outside the ring and they are stapling dollar bills to each other as they brawl. They brawl through the crowd and Justice puts Pondo on a door set up on two garbage cans. Justice goes up a set of stairs to what would be first landing and leaps off onto Pondo. They go back to the ring and fight. Pondo uses his stop sign and then dumps Justice out of the ring onto a set up of rubber barrels and a door on chairs.
To end the match, Pondo sets a cinder block of Justice's head, pounds the cinder block with a sledge hammer and then covers for the three count.
Your winner: Mad Man Pondo
Jimmy Lloyd & Jason Gory vs G-Raver & Brandon Kirk
Doors are in two corners and a web of light tubes are set up in another corner, and it's not long before someone is tossed into the set up tubes. Lloyd has a nice sequence where he hits a series of moves on Raver and Kirk, and Raver follows it up with a series of high flying moves. Most of the matches have been brawls with a move here and there, but this match had some nice sequences that wouldn't have been out of place in a spot fest match with using plunder between.
As they are setting up for a spot through glass, Nick says “The guy's got problems, it's uncomfortable to talk about,” which, in the middle of a death match where four guys are using weed wackers and barbed wire on each other, struck me as an understatement.
Lloyd puts Kirk through a bundle of light tubes with a power bomb and then hits a pile driver and covers for the three count
Your winners: Jimmy Lloyd and Jason Gory
Lloyd goes to the back by himself and the announcers put over that he is disappointed with Gory.
Eric Ryan vs MASADA
They announce this is a cinder block match, and as such, there are a bunch of cinder blocks set up in two of the corners.
They start with a series of lockups, which is a first for the show. After a bulldog onto a cinder block, they brawl through the crowd. They get back in the ring and bust up a cinder block to have pieces all over the mat and Ryan gets slammed onto them. They follow it up by throwing hands and it's time for MASADA to get power bombed onto the shards. Ryan's partner Bobby Beverly tries to interfere, and Ryan tries to run skewers into MASADA, but MASADA dodges and Ryan fills his partner's head with them.
Members of Ryan's group show up and start attacking. MASADA leaves. I am thinking it's a no contest. Ryan leaves as well as members of his 44OH crew take the ring.
EFFY calls for Mitch Warner and Spider Nate Webb to come to the ring and it's a six man street fight.
EFFY, Mitch Warner and Spider Nate Webb vs Gregory Iron, Atticus Cougar, and Bobby Beverly.
All six men brawl in the ring and all quickly go to the outside to continue the brawl. After a period of everyone brawling outside the ring, we then get paired up with guys going to the ring, showcasing themselves and hitting a few spots before rolling out and letting the next pair in. Slowly, everyone works their way into the ring and the door is set up in a pair of corners. After everyone else has gone through the door, Effy and Beverly face off in the middle of the ring.
Effy slams Beverly and covers for the three count.
Your winners: EFFY, Mitch Warner and Spider Nate Webb
The 44OH crew starts beating down their opponents and they are interrupted by AJ Gray, and we have technical difficulties. The announcers let us know he has issued an open challenge. He's answered by Conor Claxon
AJ Gray vs Conor Claxton
Claxton attacks with the staple gun, so we get a series of staple gun attacks from each man to start the match. The sounds goes out while they brawl around through the crowd. When they get back to the ring, Doors and a garbage can have been set up. Back in the ring, we've got light tubes and a barbed wire bat being used. Gray wins after putting Claxton through a door covered in barbed wire and covers for a three count.
Your winner: AJ Gray
Alex Colon vs Lucky 13 in the Danny Havok Memorial Match for the GCW Ultraviolent Championship
They set up light tubes around the inside of the ring, doors with and without barbed wire outside the ring, and more. There are more technical difficulties, but we get back before the entrances start. It is also getting dark at the venue, so they have lights on, but it must be because of cloudiness.
Lucky 13 comes to the ring with Babymetal music (Headbanger) for his entrance, so I am going to root for him.
It starts with light tubes being used to bash, followed by suplexes, so it's a series where they switch from plunder to moves. Early on, Colon is tossed from the top through a table covered with light tubes. The table frame doesn't break or bend. The brawl continues and we get a shot of the sky. Showing the clouds are getting dark. As the match goes, it just becomes hitting each other with plunder. They are able to hit dives from the ring and as chairs are put into the ring, both men are completely covered in blood.
Lucky 13 hits a series of finishing moves and Colon keeps kicking out at the last second. They try to light a pane of glass on fire, but the wind is blowing too hard to light the lighter fluid. Colon hits a Spanish Fly from the top through the pane of glass and covers Lucky 13 for the three count
Your winner and NEW Ultraviolence Champion: Alex Colon
After the match, Alex calls people to the ring to talk about how it was time for a new championship. He says he will defend it against anyone, and he calls out Brian Cage and Tanaka to fight for the belt.
This is my first time watching a Death Match card, and I will admit it's not a style I go out of my way to watch. Having watched a few GCW shows this weekend, the crowd looks about half capacity. The announcers weren't over the top and put over the violence. They also brought context to the death match world.
Matches were short until the last three, and the announcers said that a change to death matches is that people were doing wrestling moves as well as using implements of destruction, and the moves were mostly suplexes and strikes. There was little in the way of stories or heel/face dynamics, just guys who were there to hurt each other.
It's the difference between a bigger promotion doing this type of match. Usually a larger company builds to where a death match is how to end a feud, and this, it's just all the death match with nothing leading to it. Rather than something that builds to a climax, this is more just spectacle.
There was a comics reviewer years ago would would say “If you like this kind of thing, this would be something you would like.” This was a good Death Match card with heavy mental music and the FEEL of a hard core metal concert, lots of violence, and a great presentation that didn't miss any of the action both from the hard camera and the handhelds.
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