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8/22 WRESTLING OPEN LIVE REPORT FROM WORCESTER, MA

Wrestling Open 138

8/22/24 Worcester, MA

Spotlight Match: Landon Hale vs Armani Kayos

I don’t know who to chant Welcome Back to here! Landon tries to finish this quick, going right for the SPO driver after a head scissor. Kayos with a spin kick. Split legdrop! Vertical suplex for two. Kayos with a double stomp for another near fall. Landon gets popped up but lands a Superman punch in the way down. Spring board cross body for two! He tries the SPO driver again…Kayos slips it again. Hale dodges a moonsault! Handspring stunner! SPO driver finally connects! Hale wins!

Winner: Landon Hale

Match 1: Fancy Ryan Clancy vs Sean Vegan Keegan

Clancy has the gym bag that he took off Bryce Donovan. What’s in the bag? It’s some dirty wrist tape, at least. Clancy takes his time taping his wrist while Keegan gets frustrated that he’s not being taken seriously. Clancy is doing everything to ape Bryce’s recent run. And then he starts running Keegan over. This is very one sided. Clancy even takes a water break. Sean finally with the turnaround and tries to wrench Fancy’s arm off. Big slam out of there. Side Russian! Clancy sizes him up…KO Dropsault! Clancy wins!

Ryan has the mic. What did he pull from the bag…it appears to be a bolt from the ring? Clancy says this is proof that Bryce has been taking the easy way out. 

Match 2: Spike vs Davienne (w/ Lauren St. James)

Spike had a hell of debut in the Women’s Rumble last week. Davienne is here to play spoiler and welcome Spike to a singles match the hard and painful way. Spike with a desperate codebreaker…Davienne strong arms the follow up bulldog into a hard uranage for two. Spike with a headbutt to the scissor and victory roll for two. Huge German from Davy and she gets the tap with a deep Boston crab. Davy is taking flak from the crowd for beating Spike.

Lauren is getting in Davy’s face about eliminating Paris last week. Lauren is quite clearly gaslighting Davy on what’s happening. Is Lauren the big bad master manipulator???

Match 3: Swipe Right (Brad Baylor & Ricky Smokes) vs Team BIOPro (Jake Gray & Brett Mettro w/ Julius Draeger)

Ricky thinks he’s gonna make easy work of Jake. He’s too fast. Mettro in and Smokes wants nothing to do with this wild man energy. Baylor with a blind tag and chop block. Mettro is at the mercy of the swipe boys. Jake gets cheapshotted off the corner. Draeger almost gets involved. Big slam escape from Mettro! Tag!  Double springboard clothesline! Brad whips Jake  into Mettro and Draeger and a Swipe Right Slam gives them another win over the Bio Pro grads. They pick themselves up, dust themselves off and raise their hands…and Draeger shows his true colors and hits a ripcord clothesline on them both! Draeger says there’s only one flag bearer of BIO Pro and it’s him.

Match 4: Teddy Goodz vs DJ Powers (w/ Sidney Bakabella) (Career Threatening Match)

No time limits on this one. Goodz either beats Powers or his career at Open is terminated. Goodz is focused on killing them both. Goodz has some definite under appreciated power and he is just bowling DJ over. Bakabella screams and runs for cover any time Goodz gets near. This is going POORLY for the family. Bakabella sweeps the legs from Teddy and he eats the apron. Powers with a dropkick and almost gets the three. Channing Thomas is out from the back and takes a seat to observer. DJ and Sidney look concerned. Bakabella with another cheap shot but Channing doesn’t react. Powers with a splash off the top for two! Goodz with a RKO! Atomic drop! Another lariat! 10 punches and an iconoclasym! Backpack stunner! Bakabella puts DJ’s foot on the ropes! Channing doesn’t look happy. DJ has the brass knuckles. Channing comes to make the save….and blasts Teddy with the knucks himself! It was all a ruse!!! I mean…of course it was. Bakabella and Channing shake hands as a fallen Goodz lays prone, his consciousness as gone as his future at Open. 

Rich Palladino brings out Brother Greatness for a promo. He talks about how he tries to beat Brad Hollister in the main event a couple weeks ago. He proved that Big Business doesn’t run the world…and it gave Ichiban the motivation to make his return next week and win OPEN DOOR WAR! But this doesn’t end their conflict…BG promises that at some point it will be all five members of the church vs all five members of big business. Righteous Justice and Judgement is coming! 

Match 5: Little Mean Kathleen Bakabella vs Gabby Forza

Gabby has a rose gold gnome cup?!? I see what she bought with her $10k in match winnings. LMK(B) is unhappy at this result…much like how she lost last week. LMK with a chop and Gnomie barely feels it. She catches a bulldog and powerslams Kathleen. LMK gets a foot up…and Gabby powerbombs her. Kathleen collapses as Gabby tries a spear….Gabby goes for a Rolosbi driver but LMK slaps on a sleeper…powerslam out of it! Kick out! LMK dodges a splash…Rana off the ropes! Bulldog! Forza kicks out! LMK avoids a jackhammer off the ropes…powerbomb for two! Kathleen goes for a punt! Gabby with a pounce!!!! Spear! That’s the three!

Gnomie is celebrating…and Allie Katch blindsides her with a piledriver. She tosses LMK’s carcass out and reminds Gabby that she’s not cut out to be a wrestler. Which is why we loves her. Loser game recognizes loser game. Allie says she’s taking everything away from her. Her ability to wrestle..her fans…and even her gnomes! Katch steals the golden gnome and leaves Gabby laying.

Match 6: Krule & Pedro Dones vs GAL & Rex Lawless (w/ RJ Rude)

What a bizarre tag team match this is! Will Krule make a good partner for Dones or will all burn? Rex and GAL feel the wrath of the atrocity. Krule chops Pedro to tag him in. Did the ref see that? Pedro and GAL brawling on the floor! Krule and Rex shoulder block each other to the outside! The match regains order as Gal reverses Pedro into a German and he starts taking a beating. Rex even takes a cheap shot at Krule…which seems ill advised. Gal hits a double chokeslam on Dones. Dones avoids being passed like a puck on a vertical suplex…he suplexes both Gal and Rex! Tag to Krule! He starts using Gal as a weapon to take out Rex! He tosses Dones into a crossbody on Rex for two! Gal lifts Krule and hits an AA?!? Dones is left alone and he eats a double sky high slam! Krule back in…double chokeslam! Dones with a dive to Gal! Krule hits Scorched Earth on Rex! He has the win tied up but RJ Rude breaks it up to draw the DQ. RJ is a dead man as Pedro throws him to a chokeslam from the IWTV champ that flips him into a flapjack. Brutal finish as The crowd wishes Krule a happy birthday and Dones gives a fist bump. This ruled.

Main Event: The Stetson Ranch (Steven Stetson, Danny Miles & Hammer Tunis) vs Dezmond Cole and Waves & Curls (Traevon Jordan & Jaelyn Brandyn)

The Ranch doesn’t have to do much except EXIST to draw the ire of Worcester. It’s a hot start for WCB but JB gets caught up by the big cowboy and pummeled. Tag to Traevon finally happened but they cut off any rally by distracting the ref and swarming. Boofa finally with the hot tag and he just takes Hammer apart! Big rolling dvd to Danny! Double rolling legdrop for two! Dragon whip to Stetson…but he gets popped up and Danny spears him out of the air. Super kicks and clothesline all around. Traevon looks for a chokeslam but the ranch hands stop that…at the cost of eating a few Jordan slams.  Stetson tries to have a standoff with Traevon but he eats a Wave Check!!! Boofa blasts Hammer into the corner! Superkick into a German! Swanton bomb! Boofa gets the win!!!

 

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