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Compound Pro Wrestling review (8-19-17)

Posted: Aug 21st 2017 By: Josh C. Jones

Once again Compound Pro Wrestling put on one heck of a show Saturday evening (8-19-2017). This time it was in their original location – same complex, different room. But that didn’t diminish the energy and full out action of the night. In fact, it felt like everyone, the wrestlers and us fans were home.

I would like to start with a thank you to Compound Pro and its entire staff for putting on another great show. Also, a huge thank you to all the competitors: Jack Gamble, Stonewall Cole, Ryan Davidson, Nathan Estrada, Elvis Aliaga, Latrell Upton, Zack Mason, Brock Baker, Michael Wolf, Dimitri Alexandrov, Psycho Sawyer, Armin Syzlack, Aaron Anders, Jon Webb, Duke Swellington and Kikutaro.

This time the meet and greet was with Kikutaro, a professional wrestling star from Japan. He is a very nice guy with a serious passion for what he does; which is put on a fantastic show and make the audience laugh and smile.

Kikutaro took on “Diamond” Duke Swellington (one half of the tag team champions Excellence Personified with Dustin Heritage). “The Kingpin” Mike Iles, who I was surprised didn’t interfere with the match as far as I can recall, accompanied Swellington to the ring. However, Iles lack of interference may have been due in part to his bewilderment with the antics of Kikutaro, and understandably so; considering the match opened with Kikutaro delivering a painful kick below the belt to Swellington, immediately disqualifying himself. The fans, laughing but confused as well, showed their concern for Swellington by asking if he was ‘experiencing some swellingtons.’ The ref, after hearing Kikutaro’s explanation of not understanding the rules in our way of wrestling and much to the anger of Swellington and Iles, allowed Kikutaro a rematch. The rematch was unique and extremely entertaining.
Kikutaro’s style is, well, comedic. He channels the in ring styles of many wrestlers adding to the mystery of what he will do next – something his opponent just couldn’t seem to figure out. There isn’t much I should say about his match because words do not do it, or him and his ability to make you smile, justice. He is a wrestler you absolutely must see in person.

We, the fans, were privy to the debut of a young wrestler named Latrell Upton. His entrance was something of a runway show if the models danced and shook their booty’s; you could tell he loved this opportunity to debut in his hometown and was milking that moment for everything he could. He was a smaller frame than most of the others and one I, just like his opponent, underestimated. Latrell faced off against Elvis Aliaga. If you remember the last review I mentioned how Elvis was able to go toe-to-toe with an unbelievably talented superstar in Jack Swagger; Elvis took Swagger to the limit at ‘Battle Lines’ and, a few times, I thought he might win. So, with that being reiterated you know how good Elvis is in the ring. This didn’t scare Latrell who was determined to prove himself and score a victory in his first match. Sadly that did not happen. But what did happen was Latrell boldly stood face to face with Elvis and delivered one heck of a match completely surprising both his opponent and me. In fact, I thought Latrell might pick up an upset over Elvis. That’s how good this young, rising star was on his debut. He challenged one (Elvis) who took one of the greats (Swagger) to the limit and nearly pulled off an upset. Keep your eyes on this guy, he may be young, and compared to other wrestlers not as strong or intimidating, but he has shown he is a force not to be taken lightly. I see him rising fast.

Armin Syzlack. What can I say about him? Well, he at least lasted longer this week than he did last week. Possibly lasting up to 2 or 3 minutes in this match. Syzlack fought Psycho Sawyer again; I guess he really wants a victory over Psycho Sawyer – something that I do not see happening but to him would be ‘so good, so good, so good.’ So far he seems to be an epitome of that old proverb, ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.’ I wish him the best of luck. Lord knows he will need it against Psycho Sawyer.

Aaron Anders faced off against Jon Webb in a Compound Pro Heavyweight Championship match. This match was one for the memory books if nothing else than for the way these two wrestlers interacted with everyone. They even tried to get chants going for each other. You could tell there was mutual respect between them. The problem was the audience, myself included, didn’t really know Jon Webb, as was evident when Anders tried to “teach” us how to chant properly with “Aaron Anders, Let’s go Webb!” However, we didn’t know Webb, so someone in the audience got a chant going, “We don’t know him.” I felt bad but I was with the rest of the audience on this one (though I have an excuse since I just recently started attending local indie wrestling events). Webb must have seen this as an opportunity to showcase himself to us and perform a ‘holy crap’ move. He walked up the entrance ramp while Anders was down outside the ring. Then, Webb ran down the ramp jumped over the announcers’ table, performing a front-flip, onto Anders – outside the ring. At that moment we, the audience, began shouting “Now we know you!” Webb would eventually lose to Anders who retained his Championship belt. But make no mistake that statement is true – Now we know you Jon Webb and we look forward to seeing you in action again at Compound Pro.

Everyone did a great job and I look forward to attending the next event.

I highly recommend you go see a show at Compound Pro Wrestling.

----- Josh C. Jones