CZW Cage of Death 7
This was one I had to get out of the way and I’ll tell you why I feel about CZW like this. . Having gone down over a month ago on 12/10/05, CoD7 is one of the biggest CZW events of the year. When it was over, the consensus was, as usual for CZW, there was not a stand out match, there was no MOTYC for 2006. CZW to me has always been about a good show with alot of fun and less about awesome mat classics. CZW has also always meant to me hardcore death matches, innovative bumps, and Eric Gargulo on the mic. MOTY or not, I had to see for myself just what went down that night.
Cheech vs Cloudy was a decent opener, interesting because they are ROH students and making their debuts in CZW. They are young and it showed by there was some great spot stuff, especially a stomp off the top rope to the florr by Cheech on Cloudy who was caught in a reverse tree of woe.
The Chikara 6 man, featuring Mike Quackenbush, Shane Storm, and Jigsaw vs. Hallowicked, Icarus, and an unmasked Gran Akuma was a nice standard Chiakara match. Jigsaw and Quack really shown through, better then everyone else in this.
I don’t understand why DJ Hyde vs Jon Dahmer…. well, why? They both gassed early and it became sloppy. And in the end Hyde squashed Dahmer. Maybe they fucked up the finish.
‘Sweet & Sour” Larry Sweeney & Franky the Mobster vs. Team Masturbation was all in the promos. Sweeney is the next… Jeff Jarrett? I think he gets more heat. Excalibur and Beef Wellington are a weird mix. Not a good match and I truly enjoy Franky’s intensity, so this was a let down as well.
Joey Ryan vs. El Generico for the PWG World Title also promised to be a decent match. What a surprise that it wasn’t. The finish was awful. The wrestling was fine. El Generico is a fun guy to watch, a good flyer, gets the crowd into his offense ans comebacks. Joey Ryan, other then his cool Tom Selleck moustache, didn’t do shit for me. He was bland when I saw him in PWG in 2004, and he hasn’t really changed, IMO.
Take Adam Flash’s total white trash blandness, Nate Webb’s complete dissapearence in this match, a still young and inexperienced Sexxxy Eddy, and what you have left is a tag match that makes Sunjay Dutt look like the proverbial man to beat. I loved the finish as Dutt followed a Flash leg drop off the top rope with a moonsault double stomp on Sexxxy Eddy’s nutsack. Pandora the manager looked good in her fishnet’s, fo’ shizzle.
Derek Frazier vs Niles Young: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs for the Jr. Title. The first fall was anti-everything, because it really wasn’t built well, it just sorta happened off a high spot around a bunch of high spots. Then they hit two huge spots, Niles with a weird piledriver onto a chair that Derek’s head flattens, and then a piledriver off the second ropes on a reverted table, through the table… OOOH! More crazy spots all a little too contrived, too much dead time in the middle setting up the TL&C’s. NY ties it with an ace crusher thru a table off the top rope. The finish was another artificial finish. This could have been better. I’m dissapointed.
The Kings of Wrestling (c) vs Blackout. Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli make a good tag team, their srcasm and taunting and heelish acts belnd well together. I knew Sabian could probably have a good match with these two guys. And Eddie Kingston is a good promo guy. Well, all of that came tru except that Sabian had an OK match in his offense, and WEddie Kingston is just that, good on the mic. He is not a good wretler, but surprisingly, he should have had more face heat when he made the big tag ins. His hate for Hero came out more in his stic work then in his ringwork. The finish sucked also, Kingston is made to look kinda bad. Kingston needs to improve in his brawling and make himself believable. Maybe it depends on who he is in there against. I wonder if The Kings didn’t do as much to make Kingston look good, or if Kingston simply isn’t good enough.
And THEN Hero turns himself face talking about the ROH/CZW date that went down 1/14. He challenged Bryan Danielson to a match. Good angle.
Matt Sydal vs Kevin Steen (c) for the Iron Man Title was a good match of you were going from poiny A to point B in one straight line. Akll the spots were great, very innovative and cool mov4es, just sorta paint by numbers feel to it.
Ruckus (c) vs Super Dragon I was so surprised thto hear that Ruckus was CZW champion back whe it happened. I wasn’t following CZW that closely. Even after knowing it for so long, it is hard to fathom on many levels. I thought if anothing else this was a smart move to put the title on Super Dragon. The match was OK, but Ruckus just wasn’t on his game, and I’m a big fan of his. I thought thee two guys could have a great match bit it wasn’t meant to be.
Cage of Death: Zandig / Justice Pain / Nick Gage vs. Necro Butcher / Toby Klein / Joker
The one guy who needed to bring the fire into this match was Joker, and when he ran in no one cared and he didn’t seem to care either. A couple of moves and that was it. I believe from a talent perspective he was the guy with the most to gain in this match. The other team are staples of this company, and everyone knows what to expect from Necro and the crazy Toby Klein.
I did like the fact that they got their money’s worth on the barbwire spidernet. I think 4 out of the six guys took the bump into it. I’m sure those things don’t come cheap. Great finishing crazy ass bump to end the match. But all in all a clusterfuck of a match.
End Comments: CoD7 and CZW can be described in a nutshell, by just hearing the long promo cut by Zandig at the end. He said he wanted to turn back the clock and run things like he used to. Lobo joined him. I think it is a good angle. But then he announces some matches for the next event. Zandig vs Necro. Justice Pain vs Joker. Nick Gage vs JC Bailey. I mean… wow. See? CZW has all this great frosting, this cool persona on the outside, but has no substance to it.
