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Compound Pro Wrestling review (7-21-18)

Posted: Jul 23rd 2018 By: Josh C. Jones

It was a wild night at Compound Pro Wrestling, and it began with an energy packed opening match which helped, for better or for worse, to really amp the crowd.
The night opened with the tag team of Kody Lane and Ethan Price, ‘Team Super Academia, versus Zac Taylor and Rob Barnes. These guys were flying all around the ring performing some sweet moves on each other that made the crowd gasp. There was one part in the match that I particularly found entertaining, it was when they all stood in a square and they, counter-clockwise, began chest slapping each other. The crowd was ‘wooing’ so much I thought they might lose their voice before this first match would end. This was a fast-paced, almost non-stop, high energy, wow that was cool type of match you want every show to open with. The match ended with Kody grabbing Zac with a double under-hook and lifting him upside down for Ethan to side kick him in the face, then Kody slammed Zac straight down on his head; this deadly and painful looking tag-move brought Team Super Academia the victory over Joaquin Phoenix, err … I mean, Rob Barnes and Zac Taylor. These two teams were so good I could see them one day soon facing each other in a main event match for the tag-titles.

There was a fatal four-way match between Morrison, Cameron Cole, Kikutaro, and the Oklahoma X Division Champion Joe Cuedo. Morrison acted slightly different in this match as he briefly teamed with some of his opponents to try and steal a victory. He wasn’t as aggressive or manic as he usually appears in the ring, but this was possibly due to the fact that the one and only, humorous, unpredictable, Kikutaro was one of his opponents. Kikutaro kept taking this match in a direction the other wrestlers weren’t accustomed to – a comedic and, well, unpredictable way. The match began with all four competitors locking grips with each other and forming a square in a show of strength. The first time it was Kikutaro who would over power his opponents to which Morrison would comment, “He’s strong for a short guy.” The second time they all tried this show of strength Kikutaro started a wave that flowed through each competitor, back to Kikutaro, and then cycled back through each competitor again. Soon Kikutaro talked Morrison and Joe to team up with him against Cameron Cole; Kikutaro named this short-lived truce ‘team Oklahoma’ – not sure why since Kikutaro isn’t from Oklahoma, but when it comes to Kikutaro you just go with it. Each competitor clotheslined Cole in the corner with Joe being the last to which he was greeted with a sneak from behind roll up by Kikutaro for a 2-count. This continued two more times with each competitor taking a turn trying to steal a win on Joe; it was Cole and then Morrison sneaking from behind for the 2-count on Joe. Well, that was not the end of this group trying to steal a victory over Joe. They each tried this sneaking roll up from behind again, one right after the other, each for a 2-count and it didn’t end until the ref tried to roll Joe up – this caused the other wrestlers to take on the job of the ref and pound the mat for a 2-count; good job ref, but even you can’t keep Joe down. It was an entertaining match with numerous highlights, but in the end the match went to Joe Cuedo. He ran toward the ropes, jumped on them, and flung himself spearing Morrison for the 3-count. Joe Cuedo may be small and, as in the case of this match, outnumbered but he sure as heck cannot ever be counted out.

Heavyweight champion Aaron Anders returned to face off against Marty Casaus, a vicious heel with a murderous rage – as was apparent with his numerous calls for Anders to die. Before the match started Marty offered his shirt to someone in the crowd but threw it at the ref instead. This prompted Anders to grab the shirt and offer it to a lady in the front row who Marty was first acting as if he would give the shirt to. The lady told Anders, “I’ve always liked you, I just like him more.” Well, she lost the shirt with that comment. Back to the match. This match had more near finishes than I could count. It also got some great crowd interactions; this was helped along with Marty doing what heels do best and interacting rudely with the crowds equally rude chants toward him. At one point someone in the crowd began chanting, ‘take a shower’ to Marty to which he replied, ‘I smell good,’ and stuck his armpit near the face of the person shouting at him. It was a great moment that made me want to see more of Marty at Compound Pro. I really like it when the wrestlers are able to, and perfectly, interact with the fans, even if it is rude or nasty as that was, because it brings us closer to their world than most of us could ever achieve and turns us from just spectators to feeling like we are a part of this show, like we now have something at stake for whom we might be cheering for. In the end it was the Heavyweight champion Aaron Anders who would leave victorious.

Now it was time for the match many of us were waiting for: Psycho Sawyer versus Joey Ryan versus, the infamous, Armin Syzlack. I must give props to Syzlack for attempting to mount a few comebacks and for lasting a grand total of 5 minutes and 36 seconds this time. It started with Joey Ryan being Joey Ryan and lathering himself in lotion just before the match and then, once the match started, asking Syzlack to touch his d**k. Syzlack of course did the right thing and refused. Well, throughout the match it seemed as if Psycho kept gaining the upper hand – even to the point where he had Syzlack in the corner for his patented running front flip directly into Syzlack. However, Joey Ryan interfered but was promptly lifted up by Psycho for a military press. Ryan would counter by using the power of his d**k to seize Psycho’s hand and then ‘d**k flip’ Psycho onto Syzlack. Ryan would go on to win this match, although I, like a lot of the people there, were hoping to finally see Armin Syzlack triumph over Psycho – even if it required help from a third person.

Michael Wolf – one of my top favorites at Compound Pro – took on one-half of the tag team champions Ruthless Ryan Davidson. This match was a critical match for each man; the winner would head to Japan to compete at Dramatic Dream Team. This match had the loudest, to me at least, hits and smacks of the night. Each chest slap, face slap, hit, was clearly heard even over the noise of the crowd. It’s amazing neither competitor had permanent bruising from the hits they were delivering to each other. It went back and forth, with each man gaining the upper hand. There was one point where Wolf was placed on the top turnbuckle where Ruthless Ryan clearly had some bad intentions planned for him. Ryan was attempting a move on Wolf from the top turnbuckle when Wolf seemed to counter it mid-air for a body splash. Later in the match Wolf would DDT Ryan from the turnbuckle for a 2-count. Ryan got a devastating move of his own off when he did a major powerbomb on Wolf who was running at him. I thought for sure the match was over after this move, but Wolf somehow kicked out. This match was the one match that earned ‘this is awesome’ chants from the crowd. Eventually the ref was knocked out by a hit from Wolf’s foot when Ryan spun him around. Wolf would then get Ryan down for a 5-count-plus, but with the ref knocked out it wouldn’t matter. Ryan regained consciousness and hit Wolf with a low-blow and then ended Wolf for the night with the pin. Michael Wolf put up a good fight but, in the end, it would be Ruthless Ryan Davidson who would be heading to Japan.

The main event was one-half of the tag team champions Rex Andrews taking on the heaviest leg in all of wrestling Diamond Duke Swellington. I’m not sure what happened exactly but, early on in the match, it appeared as though a knee drop from Rex Andrews split open either Duke’s ear or the side of his head a little because the side of Duke’s head began to bleed. This prompted Rex Andrews to announce that this is what happens when you step in the ring with him, you bleed. Each man gave a great show in this match. One particular moment was a cool twist-up (I’m not sure exactly what to call it or how to describe it to satisfaction, you just need to make sure you are there the next time Rex Andrews performs and hope he does it again) Andrews did to Swellington which almost won the match – it only got a 2-count. A great show by each man, though Rex would pick up the win with a dirty pin.

As usual, Compound Pro Wrestling, and all the wrestlers performing, put on a great show. I thank everyone involved for the time, effort, dedication, and – especially to the performers – the risks they take to entertain each and every one of us. Thank you.

----- Josh C. Jones