BrynnJade92

I hope these are regular features going forward. I'll ask around. Also thanks for the plug @Curt McGirt

You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it. At lot of pre-FCW Moxley gets forgotten about and so does a lot of his pre-CZW stuff, although this was right around the time he was starting to transition over to CZW as his primary indy fed, if memory serves me right.

Catching up on these now: Brain Damage vs. Nick Gage vs. Brandon Prophet vs. Necro Butcher - Four Way Barbed Wire Boards and Light Tubes Match (CZW Tournament of Death V) from @RazorbladeKiss87 There’s nothing I love more than a good deathmatch tournament and for this we’re venturing back to when men were men and roamed the woods of Delaware like a local mythological cryptid. Here we have our ring announcer dressed to impress in khaki shorts and a polo shirt and looking like a lost member of Bowling for Soup. Not sure who this Brandon Prophet fellow is but he’s a large human. Oh, they’re not waiting for the other two. Light tube explodes, not sure who got the worst of that. Prophet is a mess already as “Free Bird” plays and Necro jogs down. Nick Gage seems like he’s in zero hurry to join the fray. This might make him the smartest man in this match. Gage and Necro brawl amongst the crowd. Necro takes a violent chair shot. Meanwhile, Damage throws Prophet through what looked like a tiny piano. Don’t ask questions. the play-by-play announcer compares this to Survivor. That’s one way to put it. Damage and Gage fight near a barbed wire table. Necro throws Prophet through some barbed wire covered plywood. Prophet’s nickname is now “punching bag”. What the hell?! BRAIN DAMAGE SUPLEXES GAGE THROUGH A LIGHT TUBE BRIDGE ON THE BARBED WIRE TABLE!! The table didn’t break! Gage suplexes Damage through the table. Again the table doesn’t break! Second rope elbow did the trick. Necro just beating the hell out of Prophet. He’s eliminated. Now there’s a baby stroller covered in light tubes involved? Sure. This is chaos. Wait, did Damage just go after a fan? Damage and Necro just throwing bombs at each other. I love it. Necro eliminated and wait, that’s it? Gage and Brain Damage advance? That was ten minutes of utter insanity. The York Foundation (Thomas Rich, Richard Morton & Terrance Taylor) vs. Dustin Rhodes, Big Josh & Z-Man - Steel Cage Match (WCW Pro Chicago, 11/16/91) from @Matt D To have something like this on WCW TV in 1991 just makes me wonder what else they aired? I actually like post-Flair 1991 WCW a lot because it’s such a weird and wild world. This is a non-title match. Dustin and Taylor working and arm wringer and Z-Man comes in. Pink is definitely a choice in a cage match. Tony Schiavone, calling this match solo, never explains how to win. I say this because Rich definitely tried to escape but then again why would you escape and leave your team down a man? Nice top rope splash by Taylor for a nearfall. Rich dropping some hard knees on Big Josh. Belly-to-belly by Josh! Rhodes in now and just lighting everyone up with elbows. Morton takes a big slam off the cage. More arm work by Taylor and nice sell by Dustin ramming said arm and shoulder into the ringpost inadvertently after charging into the corner. Everyone up top now except for Rich and Z-Man. Superkick by Z-Man! They’ve worked this like a usual six-man tag for the most part, relying little on their surroundings. The action has been good though. Crowd is into it. The constant switching in the abdominal stretch by the York crew is great. Perfect heel work. Crossbody by Z-Man followed up by an enziguri! Everyone in now and a double team dropkick/suplex combo by Dustin and Josh gets the win! No wait, there’s more! The heels are pissed and throw Josh into the cage, busting him open. Pretty fun match.

@Matt D @RazorbladeKiss87 Gonna get caught up on this over the next day or so. Will report back!

Ooh, nice! I love a good random cage match. For you sir, I have a selection from my Season of Giving playlist, the first ever match between Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson from August of 2010

I might just pop in sometime! Thanks for the heads up!

@The Natural Sorry it took so long my friend! Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles (TNA Turning Point 2005) Styles gets right after it at the bell, running at Joe like a crazy man. You can tell this is from the 2000s with the blonde highlights in Joe’s hair. That dropkick from AJ nearly knocked all those highlights out! Those kicks by Joe! Holy shit! AJ into the rail! Tenay yells to clear “the pit”. No clue what that is but Joe just kicks AJ for the hell of it. Seemed kinda awkward but it worked. AJ just taking a beating and selling everything like it’s the worst thing in the world. Spoiler alert, if you’re getting kicked by Samoa Joe, then it probably is. Tenay and West are screaming everything at the top of their lungs, which is a bit grating but also adds it to the intensity. Pele kick, AJ tries a springboard but Joe says “nope” and powerbombs him. AJ has fought from underneath the whole match. What exactly is the Morphoplex thing TNA is advertising on their apron? Never mind that ... FOSBURY FLOP BY AJ!! I forgot that was a thing! From the minute the bell rang, this thing has not let up at all and I’m digging it. All action. Total non-stop action I guess you could say? Duck and dive from Joe’s shot by AJ. He clearly learned techniques at Patches O'Houlihan's dodgeball school. No way he can get Joe up for the Styles Clash. A powerbomb works instead. Sleeper hold which Tenay calls a choke. THAT PELE KICK!! AJ’s knee caught Joe right in the jaw! Almost freaked out when they teased the top rope muscle buster. KICK OUT OF THE STYLES CLASH!! NO WAY!! Kokina Clutch! Will AJ tap out! No, he passed out. Oh man, this was all kinds of awesome.

On it! Thanks! For you @RazorbladeKiss87 I've got this. It's a fairly recent match (as in it aired last week) that I really enjoyed Indi Hartwell vs. Dani Luna - Dog Collar Match (TNA Impact, 12/11/25)

No rush my dude. I'm behind as well.

You're welcome @The Natural Glad you enjoyed it! I'll check out the match you sent me later this afternoon after football.

Gonna be really weird to see him in something other than a Mets uniform.

Me too. I've found so many little hidden gems on there, full shows I'd forgotten about and tons of handheld/fan cam footage.

@The Natural Got a cool one for you Darby Allin vs. Black Taurus (aka Beast Mortos), PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2019 Night 1 (9/19/19)

Atticus Cogar vs. Otis Cogar (ICW NHB 71, 3/23/25) Full disclosure, I’m not a fan of either of these two but I’m going into this with an open mind. The ring ropes are replaced by chains, so that’s gonna be fun. Announcers are talking about this being brother vs. brother. They do the fingerpoke of doom spot with skewers. Danny Demento shows up, nullfies this and demands the bell ring because, god dammit, these brothers are gonna fight and spill blood. Well they definitely spill blood. Atticus got whipped into the chain ropes right away. That’s gotta suck. Otis has some contraption .. oh shit! Atticus drilled him right in the face. Otis looking like a chicken from hell with skewers sticking out of his biceps and his skull. How many skewers does Atticus have? Did he like raid a kebab place? Nearfall on some sort of brain buster. And now Otis has a razor blade. Oh look! A wrestling move! Otis is covered in blood. Huge boss man slam by Otis! Otis has the look for a dude that shouldn’t be messed with, and since he’s good with hitting his brother with a light tube covered chair, then my point stands. I do not like sharp, slicy, stabby things like knives, saws, etc. in wrestling. I say this as Otis runs a giant shaving blade across his brother’s forehead. Atticus covered in blood. What’s this now that Otis propped in the corner? Doesn’t matter, he threw Atticus right into it. That is a shitload of tubes that Otis is loading into the ring. Now there’s a bedframe covered in tubes. Where is Otis going? I see where this is going. No, no … oh shit!! Right through the light tube bed frame goes Atticus! Stiff ass powerbomb. Atticus kicks out. Holy crap! What was that move Atticus did? Otis just went head first through the tube pile. That was nasty. I went into this with an open mind and the spots with the light tubes were pretty gnarly but this felt like it took forever.

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it! Hoping to be able to get to the match you picked for me this evening before ROH. Otherwise, it'll be tomorrow afternoon.