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Split Decisions Should Give Saints Reason To Ponder Career Choice

Posted: Mar 25th 2009 By: CMBurnham

As a team, they have almost the greatest longevity currently in Oklahoma. The Saints of Twilight have been tag team partners since 2002, although there was a long period where Reckless was unable to compete and Ignition had to carry on by himself. Since Reckless' return to the ring in late 2007, the Saints have been on the quest for championship gold, but have only found success once as ComPro Tag Team Champions.

Taking advantage of the FACT that they're twins, the Saints have made some bids for singles titles, but that tactic seems to be exhausting itself. Referees and opponents know that when they're signed to a 1-on-1 match against one of the Saints, it's probably going to be a 3-on-1 as the other Saint will be there along with the Saints' manager, The Shadow of Death.

This past Friday, the Saints tried to make use of this interchangability to put together 2 wins and bring some gold to the team. Michael York was announced as facing Reckless, but he switched with his brother Ignition and these tactics proved too much for York to handle on his own. This doesn't mean that he didn't know what was going on, it just meant that he didn't have a plan to counteract it. Ultimately, it cost him his match.

The main event of the card in Muskogee saw TAP Champion The Canadian Red Devil put his title on the line against Ignition. Ignition has the greater in-ring time and learned a lot from his time with Anthony Jackson, so the Devil was in for a hard match. It should come as no surprise to anyone that the Saints switched out again during this match and this time, with the title potentially in their grasp, they put that ability to interchange to full use until the referee got in the way. After being smushed in the corner, the Saints knew that they didn't have anyone to count pins. But they also didn't have to hide their interchanging. Now, with full-fledged double team tactics in play, the Saints looked to be incapacitating the champion until the ref could be revived. But that prolonged attack brought out Michael York, who moved in just as one of the Saints was about to come off of the 2nd rope onto the Devil, potentially crippling him. With one Saint disposed of, the Devil applied the Facebuster and put the other Saint back where he really belonged.

The Saints arrived at ComPro the next night, feeling confident about using the same tactics to gain two wins. They succeeded half-way. Ignition def. The Amazing Bolo, but this can hardly be counted a major win as Bolo hadn't been to the pay window to collect his earnnings in a long time. But this time, Reckless fell to Pork Chop, a man they had defeated two weeks in a row. At the ComPro show, the typical tactics of intimidation by the Saints themselves as well as manager The Shadow of Death, leads a lot of losses and (possibly) some brutal attempts to get at the opponents, even though that has cost them their match in the first place. Pork Chop knew what to expct and that gave him his advantage. Perhaps the Saints need to adopt a more "Road Warriors"-esque arrival so they can take out their opponents before they know what happened to them. The Saints' tag team strategy still remains their strength and they would be well suited to concentrate on that as new ComPro Tag Team Champions Team SuperBad have many challengers lining up and The Saints should be one those.

Tags: Saints of Twilight, Reckless, ComPro, Shadow of Death, Michael York, TAP, Canadian Red Devil, Amazing Bolo, Pork Chop