RB Report: IWA-MS April Bloodshowers 2008

Posted by R.Brooksbank on 08.21.2008

BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs put on a MOTYC in a barbed wire match.

IWA:MS April Bloodshowers 2008
April 12, 2008
Joliet, IL


*As always, Ian Rotten is out to talk for a long-ass time. He thanks the fans for coming to the ELEVENTH annual April Bloodshowers. That's damn impressive for an indy. Rotten announces that Eddie Kingston has been having "problems" lately, and has cancelled his plain ticket. Ian has no alternative but to strip Eddie Kingston of the IWA title. A title tournament will be held in a month's time. Also, Ian publicly announces that Ricky Reyes will no longer be getting booked by IWA, due to him skipping bookings. Thank God, Reyes SUCKS. Jim Fannin takes over the mic. He says he's wearing all black because tonight will be the funeral of Jimmy Jacobs. I am PUMPED for the Whitmer-Jacobs NRBW match.


*Chuck E. Smooth is out. GOLD BOND MAFIA REPRESENTIN'! His entrance is just incredible.
Fan: "Who are you?!"
Chuck: "I'm Chuck Smooth. I'm probably your fucking dad."
He says that Ash has peaked his interest and asks him to come out. He does and Smooth talks about how awesome Canada is. He talks smack to the fans for quite some time. It's all very entertaining, though. He offers to take Ash under his wing, like he did with CM Punk and Colt Cabana. He agrees. That entire segment was amazing.


*Jayson Quick vs. Egotistico Fantastico
Both of these guys are coming off of defeats from the previous show. Both guys have good, WWE-ish looks to them. They do an over-choreographed sequence to start. Wait for it, wait for it...INDY STAND-OFF~! Ego slows the action down and targets the arm of Quick. A big forearm sends Quick loopy, but he manages to score a dropkick which sends Ego to the outside. Corkscrew plancha! They brawl up to the back and Quick is whipped HARD into the wall. Ego takes advantage of the lack of rules in IWA and smashes Quick's face into a chair, before sitting him on it and landing an elbow drop. They head back into the ring. SAITO SUPLEX to Quick. Oh, no he di'n't. Rear chinlock by Ego. The fans get behind Quick and he fires back with strikes and lands the spinning kick that he's attempted three times already. STO to Ego. STANDING SSP LEGDROP! FUCKIN' A! I have a new favourite wrestler. <3 flips. Ego doesn't take long to0 recover and gets two from a wrap-around clothesline-slam-thing. REVERSE HEADSCISSORS FUCKING DRILLS EGO! Quick goes up...SSP SENTON MISSES! That's the move that almost killed Lince Dorado back in November. They trade chops. Ego manages to get immense strength behind his and plants Quick on his head to pick up the victory(9:59)!

After that, Ian Rotten comes out. He congratulates Ego and offers him the first spot in this year's Ted Petty Invitational. He accepts.

Rating: ***1/2. Now, THAT is an opener! The fans are now pumped and ready for the rest of the show. The match was worked very smart. I was pessimistic at the start, but they built upto the spots perfectly and Quick's flying was mind-blowing. Not at all over-the-top or over-done, it fit perfectly into the match. Can't wait to see more from both of these guys.


*Brodie Lee vs. Viking
Will Brodie be able to cancel out the black hole of suck that is Viking? I'm certainly hoping so. Viking charges, but Brodie's strength is overwhelming. He puts Viking on the top rope and rushes him, sending him flying into chairs. Lee chops him around ring-side, but is floored by a flying clothesline off the apron. He slows down the excitable Viking with a decapitating clothesline. Back in. EXPLODER to Viking! All of Viking's attempts at a comeback are instantly nulified. Big vertical suplex. Viking sandbags him on a back suplex, which makes it look all the more vicious. Viking swings with a chair, but misses and eats Brodie's boot. The victory is elementary(3:16).

Rating: Freakin' awesome squash. Brodie hasn't really been impressing me with his CHIKARA stuff lately, but his match with BJ Whitmer and his killing of Viking have both been great.


*The Iron Saints (Brandon and Vito Thomaselli) vs. Troy Walters and Jaysin Strife vs. Cheech and Cloudy
Good LORD, has Brandon got fat since I last saw him. He looks like a fatter Taz. Vito gets on the mic for a while, but I just skip it. I'm not looking forward to this one. I really hope it doesn't go too long. Cloudy and Strife start and Cloudy's experience is way too much for him. Cheech and Vito in. They work each other's KNUCKLES! They exchange stiff elbows until Cheech is floored by one. Brandon and Walters in. A flying knee turns Walters inside-out. Cheech gets in. Cloudy goes onto Cheech's shoulders and Cheech flips him off onto Walters. An Oklahoma Slam is countered by Walters into a DDT and Strife is tagged in. He's a house on fire, but misses a dive to the outside and lands hard on the floor. Back in, everyone gets their stuff in and there's lots of BIG MOOVZ! Somewhere within the chaos, Strife turns on Walters, spearing him to the outside while Walters' is setting up a dive. Cloudy is isolated by the Thomasellis. They murder him with a double chokeslam, but neglect to cover him. Cheech finally gets in to help his partner and nails Vito with the Deluxe. Brandon is hit with a double-enziguri. Crazy double stomp-Code Red combo scores Cheech and Cloudy the victory(15:33).

Rating: *1/2. Really dull match. It felt like there was no fluidity and a lot of the stuff they done was botched to a degree.


*IWA:MS Light Heavyweight Championship
Chuck Taylor (c) vs. Jason Hades
Four matches, three people with some variant of the name "Jason". Ridiculous. What exactly has he done to warrant a title shot? I suppose losing a match the previous night, but not being the person actually pinned is reason enough for a title shot. Hades controls to start. Taylor tries to flip out of a knucklelock, but Hades trips him and goes straight back to the knucklelock. Taylor is apparently too big for Hades to take him down again, so he just throws him to the outside. Hades grabs him by the hair and pulls him back in. Taylor cheap shots him and chops the throat. Taylor locks in a chinlock and slams him to the mat when Hades tries to fire back. Taylor busts out some Skayde-type awesome pinning combination. Obviously not as smooth as Skayde, but still really cool. Wacky Lucha submission by Taylor. Hades sits out with a facebuster and both men are down. Both men get up and a series of kicks temporarily disables Taylor. Hades gets two, but soon takes a overhead belly-to-belly and a superkick. Crazy triple jump double stomp by Hades gets two. He goes for the Killswitch - a kinda sunset flip lungblower. The things the kids are doing these days, eh? Where's it going to end, a Code Red Ganso Bomb?, Anyway, it's countered. Taylor's Awful Waffle is reversed and a Code Red gets two. A knee to the face floors Hades. Taylor goes for a 450, but sees Hades moving and rolls through. SOLE FOOD to Hades! He gets Hades up for the Awful Waffle, but the referee is bumped. KILLSWITCH TO TAYLOR AND WE HAVE A NEW CHAMPION(10:12)!

Rating: ***. Real solid and fun match. It's always good to see an indy match with two young guys that has no botches. This show is already leaps and bounds better than the previous night.


*Ruckus and Sabian are out. Their sound system is a bit crap and I can't understand a single word said. Ian Rotten eventually comes out. He calls Ruckus "Claude". SHOOT NAIMZ~! Pretty much the gist of it is, Ian makes Ruckus and Sabian defend the tag titles tonight, despite Ruckus not being one of the champions. I believe it's Joker who's the other champion, but it could also be Ricky Reyes. Not sure. MOOSE and 2 Cold Scorpio come out and BLKOUT clear the ring. Scorpio turns on Mickie. Devon Moore tries to help her, but falls Scorpio's superkick. Josh Abercrombie runs out and clears the ring of BLKOUT and Scorpio with a chair. I REALLY want to see how awesome a Josh Abercrombie-Scorpio match would be. Scorpio is now an official member of BLKOUT.


*Dingo vs. Sami Callahan
Dingo is coming off a loss to Jimmy Jacobs in a great match and Sami was on the losing team in a boring six-man tag. Sami attacks before the bell, but Dingo instantly fires back with chops, before being thrown to the outside. They brawl around ring-side. Dingo dives off a stange onto Callahan and lands on his face. Sami slaps him around some and rolls him back into the ring. Crazy spike DDT busts Dingo open. Sami targets the cut with headbutts. BACK DROP DRIVAH by Callahan is and he locks in a camel clutch straight afterwards. He takes Dingo to the top rope, but Dingo takes him down with a neckbreaker. Dingo unloads on strikes and gets two from a double-underhook suplex. He misses a charge in the corner, but manages to land a moonsault and that ends the match(6:41) .

Rating: **1/2. Perfectly decent, heated match, but COME ON, using a back drop driver as a TRANSITION?! Someone should teach these kids how to build a match.


*Team CHIKARA (Hydra, Jimmy Olsen, Vin Gerard and Fire Ant) vs. Diehard, Scotty Vortekz, OMG and Ricochet
I predict lots of mayhem. Vin Gerard actually cost Fire Ant his match from the previous night, so it shall be exciting to see how they get along. We all know how this is going to go - everyone's going to take turns with each other in the ring and do their thing. Unless something particularly exciting happens during this part, I won't write anything about it. You can look over any other review of a 6/8-man tag I've ever written to see what happens. Gerard doesn't stand in the same corner as his partners. Hydra's phenomenal strength actually turns Ricochet inside-out which leads to a pose-off with Diehard. Their little segment together is actually really good. Jimmy Jam and Vortekz have a nice back-and-forth exchange. Gerard gets in and, obviously, he wants the masked man of the opposition, OMG, to get in with him. He mocks Hydra, which is awesome. He then mocks Jimmy Olsen's former tag partner Colin Olsen. Gerard goes back to doing his Equinox stuff and then gets angry when he realises what he done. He then offers the guys on the other team to pin him, he wants to lose the match for his team. This guy is fucking awesome. Gerard gets thrown out by Fire Ant and we get flippy madness.

Chuck Taylor on commentary: "I hate Ricochet so much. And he's black."

So awesome. Fire Ant is isolated. Matters aren't helped by Gerard distracting the ref, so that they can double-team Fire Ant. Fire Ant fires back and bails. Gerard gets in and EVERYONE hits their finishing moves on him. Yes, even his partners. Eventually everyone piles on and Vin is pinned(14:53). Winners: everyone, but Vin Gerard.

Rating: **1/2. Yeah, fun match, but nothing happened except lots of Vin Gerard shenanigans, which WERE great.


*STRONG STYLE CHAMPIONSHIP THREE-WAY
Tank vs. Toby Klein (w/Billy Gram) vs. Michael Elgin (c)
I HATE companies actually advertising their matches as "strong style". So retarded. Not looking forward to this one. Toby sucks when not in deathmatches and Elgin and Tank just flat-out stink. They start out trading headbutts CUZ THEY WORK STRONG STYLE! LARIAT TO TANK! KICK TO THE FACE! This sucks. WE'RE HITTIN 4REELZ! So retarded. They go to the outside and Gram jumps on Tank's back. Tank gives chase and Billy actually slows down so that fat fuck can somewhat catch up. So retarded. Why does it say "Crazy Horse" on Elgin's tights? Did he steal them from Charles Bennett? I've never heard Elgin being referred to as that before. The action sucks so bad that the commentators are discussing fucking MYSPACE. Tank and Elgin trade the STRONG STYLE ELBOWS. FAT MAN CANNONBALL BY TANK! Brandon Thomaselli burps on commentary. Back drop driver by Tank, but Elgin has FIGHTING FUCKING SPIRIT~! So retarded. HEART PUNCH by Toby Klein! Toby busts out the SHOOT SLAPS, but takes a chokebreaker. Hey, that didn't involve someone landing on or getting hit in the head. DAT'S NOT STRONG STYLE! Please end now. Toby and Tank trade headbutts for like fifteen straight minutes. Well, it feels like fifteen minutes. MY FUCKING GAWD! Tank just hit him so hard with a fucking spinning backfist that I'm legit shocked he's not knocked out cold. Running forearm by Elgin to Toby and Toby is declared KO'd by the ref(9:33). Fans were dead for the end and actually booed it.

Rating: This match was so bad, that I urge you to buy the DVD just to see it. No wrestling to speak of, just guys legit hitting each other. If I wanted to watch that, I'd stick on one of the many MMA DVDs I own.


*Christian Able vs. Brian Skyline vs. Ash (w/Chuck Smooth) vs. Sexxxy Eddy
Chuck E., on behalf of Ash challenges Eddy to a "sexy dance-off". Ash dances. This is the gayest thing this side of Danshoku Dino. Eddy has found a woman to dance for. Seen this a hundred times now. I don't care about a man dry humping a woman in a wrestling ring. Ash does the same to Chuck. Okay, I LOL'd. Able and Skyline start us out. This goes nowhere and Eddy gets in with Able - the apparent love child of Austin Aries and Gene Snitsky. STO to Eddy and Ash tags himself in. Everyone wants a piece of Mr. Able. Nothing comes of that and Skyline gets in with Ash. They have a messy, over-choreographed sequence. What is it with these young guys? Gory facebuster by Ash and he tags in Able. Able pounds away with help from Sexxxy Eddy. They form a make-shift tandem and isolate Skyline. Ash gets in and tires Skyline out with a chinlock. Everyone takes turns with him. Skyline just kills Able with a DDT. Skyline takes them all out. Superkick by Ash ends Skyline's momentum. Able and Eddy team up on Ash. Double backbreaker. ABLE TURNS ON EDDY! SHOCKING~! Eddy locks in the BALL CLAW! BALL SLAM! SEXXX ON THE BEACH gets two. Skyline dumps Ash on his head and follows that with a tope out to Able. Eddy drop's Ash's neck over his knee and goes to the top rope. Chuck Smooth trips him and Ash scores the win with a rope-assisted spike DDT(12:51).

Rating: **. Not bad, not particularly good either.


*Chicago Street Fight
CJ Otis vs. Deranged (w/Billy Gram)
Corporal Robinson is the referee. I hope Billy Gram isn't getting paid for being here. Corp has changed since the last time I seen him. He now seems to firmly believe that he's black. He allows Deranged and Otis to start the match. Obviously, they throw legit elbows and slaps. Kick to the head by Deranged. Double underhook suplex into the corner. Otis is sent to the outside with a forearm. Deranged goes onto the apron. Otis trips him and Deranged takes a hard bump to the floor. Deranged is pissed now. Otis receives a chair over his back. Otis rams Deranged's head into the post and goes to town on the previously-injured left leg of Deranged. This period goes on for a while. They finally make their way to the ring after about ten minutes. Otis runs wild with a chair and Gram offers his head for a chairshot. EXCEPT, it wasn't supposed to look like he was offering his head. That was just a distraction so that Deranged could blade. He actually runs the blade over his head twice. You know, JUST TO MAKE SURE. His head is now PISSING blood. Deranged takes repeated un-protected shots with the chair, but doesn't back down. He starts throwing these really dumb-looking punches. Seriously, he looks like a retard swinging his arms around like that. Corp grabs the chair that Deranged is swinging with, and that allows Otis to slam Deranged onto a chair and grab the win(17:00).

Some stuff happens post-match with Corporal Robinson, but it has no significance at all.

Rating: ASS. Way too fucking long and boring. You can only watch so much of an obese man lying on a gym floor screaming, while a guy who looks like a chubby 14-year-old girl weakly kicks his leg. After about ten minutes, you DO want to skip it. Seriously, I get what they were going for, the leg-work section could've been just as effective if it was ten minutes shorter. I had no fun at all watching this match, and there was not a single thing I liked about it, so it's awarded the dreaded ASS rating.


*IWA:MS Tag Team Champions
BLKOUT (Ruckus(c), Sabian(c) and 2 Cold Scorpio) vs. Mickie Knuckles, Devon Moore and Josh Abercrombie
I have a strange feeling this match is going to last upwards of half an hour. Let's hope not. Scorpio's being all gangster. Moore and Sabian start. I know it's petty, but I seriously can't take Moore seriously when he's wearing those ridiculously baggy, plastic pants. He looks so indy-riffic. Sabian takes it to the mat. I appreciate little things like Scorpio stomping Moore's hand when he grabs the rope. They do some awful-looking "lucha" and Ruckus is in. He's wearing an ROH t-shirt. Mickie gets in with him. Ruckus flips around some. He chokes away and tags in Scorpio. Mickie and Scorpio had a God-awful match the previous night. But you'll know that because you read my review, right? RIGHT?! Abercrombie gets in! Abercrombie is probably in my top 10 indy guys right now. The guy's incapable of not having a good match. And I love his 80's tights. He uses his speed to neutralise Scorpio's offense. They go to a stalemate and top it off with an INDY STAND-OFF~! I thought both of these guys were above that. Sabian and Ruckus take turns with Devon Moore. They do some awesome double-teams. Back to Mickie and Scorpio. They go back-and-forth until Mickie manages to pull a Yakuza kick out of nowhere. She dishes out the headbutts as everyone else brawls on the outside. Scorpio accidentally nails the ref with a crossbody. Scorpio is triple-teamed. Erm, shouldn't it be the heels triple-teaming Mickie? Oh, that cooky IWA. Mickie nails a senton from the top rope and covers. A new ref runs out, but only manages to count two. Scorpio gets up and hits an awesome rolling kick to Mickie's dome. Mickie blades. SHE'S HARDCORE, SHE'S HARDCORE! Sabian targets the cut, but actually looks like he's scared of it. Mickie headbutts him and Moore gets the hot tag. Moore, being the idiot that he is, hits a tumbleweed to the new ref. Scorpio nails a dropkick to the face of Mickie. He's quite the misogynist, isn't he? There's two guys in the ring opposing him, and he chooses to kick the woman in the face. But, then again, that woman did just drop him on his head. The match totally breaks down and a THIRD referee is out. Scorpio takes everyone's finishers, but Ruckus manages to break up the pin. REFEREE REMSBURG IS TAKEN OUT BY A RUCKUS KICK! If Ian Rotten doesn't come out as the fourth referee, I'm going to be pissed. Scorpio and Moore go at it with strikes until Scorpio just kills him with a flipping kick. The chaos continues with everyone flying around. About five people in the crowd get a half-assed "this is awesome" chant going. Moore actually busts out a Shining Wizard to Sabian. He covers. IAN ROTTEN IS OUT! ONE-TWO-THREE!

Ian talks down to Scorpio for a while. Eventually everyone, but Ian goes to the back. Ian gets on the mic and is jumped by BLKOUT. Various hangers-on like Nick Maniwa and Jim Fannin try to help him, but are swiftly taken out. Did they really have to rip Ian's shirt off? Yuck. Corporal Robinson, Fire Ant, Hydra, Sexxxy Eddy, Ego Fantastico, Vortekz, Diehard, Ricochet and many others all also make an attempt at saving him, but it's all in vain. They hang Ian from the barbed wire that's been put up for the main event, cut him up with it and pound away on him. Eventually, Deranged, Moore and Mickie manage to run them off with chairs.

Rating: ***1/2. That was some epic booking. Over-booked into oblivion, but it was so damn entertaining. Seriously, that post-match angle was absolutely incredible. Since IWA loves it's War Games, I predict Scorpio, Ruckus, Sabian, Eddie Kingston and Joker vs. Ian, Mickie, Devon, Abercrombie and maybe one of the old favourites like Corp, Deranged, Toby Klein, Tank or they could even push one of the young guys into it like Jayson Quick or Jason Hades. And, THAT, will be incredible.


*NO ROPES, BARBED WIRE
Jimmy Jacobs vs. BJ Whitmer
I am AMPPPPEEEEEEED! I seriously don't think I've EVER anticipated any indy match this much. Someone NEEDS to make a compilation of all the matches they've had together since they started feuding. I'd buy it in a second. Even the usually-dead IWA fans seem suitably pumped up for this one. The last match they had at the 500th show is my current MOTY. Remind me to review it some day. The height difference between these guys is ridiculous. Whitmer looks like a giant next to Jacobs, but he's only actually 6'1', so that makes even me bigger than him. Jimmy bails pretty much right at the start. He riles the fans behind him on the outside and gets back in. Whitmer closely avoids getting thrown into the wire. They go to the outside. Jimmy uses a trademark of his AOTF team-mate Necro Butcher, and throws chairs at Whitmer. Elbow drop off of a chair. Whitmer recovers quickly and throws Jimmy into a whole mess of chairs. Jimmy's knee is already giving him problems. The action goes back to the ring. JIMMY IS WHIPPED INTO THE WIRE! AGAIN! Whitmer is loving this. HE CROTCHES JIMMY ON THE WIRE! Jimmy manages to throw himself off, and is covered for two. He yells at Whitmer for more. He grates Jimmy's head with the wire. Jimmy bleeds. Whitmer continues to pound away. We're now ten minutes into the match. Jimmy nails a drop toe hold and sends Whitmer into the wire. Jimmy - crimson mask and all - punches the shit out of Whitmer and pushes him into the wire. Spear by Jimmy only gets two. Whitmer gets a taste of his own medicine when Jimmy digs the barbs into the head of Whitmer. Jimmy leaves the ring and grabs some tape from under the ring. In their last match, Fannin and Whitmer taped Jimmy to the ropes and beat the shit out of him with a Singapore cane. Jimmy chokes Whitmer with the tape. He ties the wrists up and then ties them to the wire. Jimmy grabs the chair and wildly swings. Many times. Jim Fannin is out. He takes out Jimmy from behind and frees BJ from the wire. Jimmy takes Fannin out and nails him with a chair. CONTRA CODE ONTO A FUCKING CHAIR TO WHITMER! ONE-TWO-NO! I feel like chanting "this is awesome" along with the fans. Jimmy gets tossed into the wire as we reach the twenty minute mark. Whitmer goes out and finds a BARBED WIRE BOARD under the ring! He puts it in the corner. He avoids a spear from Jacobs and goes for a powerbomb, but Jimmy counters to the guillotine. Whitmer keeps it standing and RAMS JIMMY INTO THE BOARD! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! HOLY SHIT! Jimmy's back is FUCKED UP. Whitmer covers him and only gets a two-count.

The crowd chants for both men. Whitmer finds a barbed wire table. He sets it up on the outside. He gets in the ring and begins cutting the wire on the side of the table with wire cutters. Jimmy sees what's about to happen and rolls out the ring. When he gets back in, he has a whole spool of wire. He wraps it round Whitmer's head. Whitmer manages to stand up with the halo of wire and HEADBUTTS Jimmy! He puts one on Jimmy. They both headbutt each other and BJ grabs a spike out of his boot. Jimmy has one too. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES! SPIKE BATTLE! BJ gets Jimmy up in a powerbomb position and JUMPS OFF THE APRON INTO A PILEDRIVER THROUGH THE WIRE TABLE! *rewinds*. Back in, Whitmer covers. ONE-TWO-NOO! He sets up a table in the centre of the ring. He also brings a ladder into play. Jimmy dropkicks him and throws the ladder at BJ. Jimmy sets the ladder up and DRILLS BJ with a chair THREE times. He puts BJ on the table and wraps HIMSELF in barbed wire. He scales the ladder. My God. SENTON FROM THE LADDER! THE TABLE DIDN'T BREAK! I love when that happens, makes it look more vicious. Jimmy goes back up the ladder and ANOTHER SENTON FROM THE VERY TOP OF THE LADDER! ONE-TWO-THREE(33:04)!

Jimmy is COVERED in scratches and cuts. He sits a top the ladder and talks about how bad he felt throwing the IWA title in a trash can in AAW. He vows to win the belt back. This sounds like it's coming straight from the heart, it's impossible not to get behind this guy.

Rating: ****1/2. WHAT A WAR! That really was just utterly amazing. So close to perfection. The brutality was there, the story was there, the work was absolutely perfect. But, there was one problem just staring me in the face - all the dead space between setting up the spots. That's a small complaint though, when the match was this incredible.



Current MOTY list (as of June 15th, 2008)
1) BJ Whitmer vs. Jimmy Jacobs (IWA:MS 500th Show) (****1/2)
2) BJ Whitmer vs. Jimmy Jacobs (IWA:MS April Bloodshowers) (****1/2)
3) Ric Flair vs. Shawn Michaels (WWE Wrestlemania 24) (****1/4)
4) Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino vs. BxB Hulk and Shingo (DG Infinity 77) (****)
5) Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle (TNA Lockdown) (***3/4)
6) Eddie Kingston vs. Shane Storm (CHIKARA Two Eyebrows Are Better Than One) (***3/4)
7) Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho (WWE Judgement Day) (***3/4)
8) Randy Orton vs. Triple H vs. John Cena (WWE Wrestlemania 24) (***1/2)
9) Eddie Kingston vs. 2 Cold Scorpio (IWA:MS 500th Show) (***1/2)
10) 2 Cold Scorpio, Ruckus, Sabian vs. Mickie Knuckles, Devon Moore and Josh Abercrombie (IWA:MS April Bloodshowers) (***1/2)

I love that the top two matches are Jacobs-Whitmer matches!

The 411: This was a really good show. FAR superior to the previous night. Obviously, being IWA, there was a fair share of crap on the card, but there was some GREAT stuff on here, and Jacobs-Whitmer is worth the price of the DVD alone. Thumbs way up.

Final Score:  7.5   [ Good ]