Tournament of Death IX Part 1
Like the borderline jobber that manages to sneak into a MitB ladder match lineup I feel like a man out of his element with no idea what carnage to expect as I dive into something that will make said ladder matches look like a picnic.
Fortunately for the squeamish I know bugger all about gifs making so instead make do with doodles as suggested by Mr. Luchador. Brace yourself for a mess and malformed bodies, that's for both the doodles and the matches by the way.
Im greeted by this fella known as DJ Hyde carrying a beer bottle to the ring, probably a hint that Ill need some booze of my own to tackle this. Turns out a quick googling explains that Hyde is the owner of CZW, what a hero.
But hey theyve fostered a jolly atmosphere here, Im not sure if Im supposed to be enduring barbaric hardcore madness or some sort of improv comedy event judging by this intro, well its still better than 20 minutes of the Authority.
Theres a Ten Bell Salute to Trent Acid, a name I actually vaguely recollect and honestly I had no idea he was dead. The fine folks in attendance actually keep their silence immediately elevating them beyond those of a few football (or soccer for those across the pond) matches Ive been dragged to in my time, why maybe this is going to be a classier outing than I expected?
Danny Havoc vs JC Bailey - Havoc's Happyland Deathmatch
Introducing JC motherfucking bailey bitches as his meth addict looking manager says beating the actual announcer to the punch, both Bailey and Havoc emerged carrying good ol light tubes which must be the lighting of choice in Happyland.
Weve got early lockups, trading chops and teases of being whipped into light tubes, guess were building up to the carnage. Fortunately my bloodlust is soon satiated when Havoc eventually manages to hoist Bailey up for a powerbomb into some tubes propped up in the corner, the commentary team are right to say that only NOW has the tournament officially begun.
Bailey has the next revolution in light based weaponry, a RED tube so it blends in with the blood presumably, he uses a steel chair to launch himself as a human cannonball into the corner where Havoc is collapsed with the red tube, this of course means that Bailey basically seemed to eat all of that tube with Havoc only getting a few bits of shrapnel, well thats wrasslin logic for ya.
Bailey drags Havoc over the broken glass, well thats actually pretty grim looking, as is Havocs back of course, Bailey then follows up using a glass tube as a straight up weapon, shades of WM19 on the Gamecube there.
Havocs attempt to recover with high flying trickery is thwarted and end up with him eating glass courtesy of a cutter from the top rope, when I say eating glass I may well mean it literally, yum.
The refs own hand is gonna get cut to ribbons making counts at this rate, the ring is a sea of shards.
I can only assume both wrasslers are hitting their signature moves right now (including a top rope double stomp
through glass tubes of course) but never mind that, weve got the best thing since the mythical red tube, a glass tube wrapped in barbwire!
Once again Havoc is foiled and ends up getting brainbustered into the barbwire tube, man this Havoc guy is taking all the punishment in this one.
Hes also taking the fall because thats all she wrote, Bailey gets the win and the luxury of having to put his body through more entertaining idiocy with future matches, makes me wonder who the real winner is here.
Havoc is given a mild ovation from the loyal crowd post match, all these hardcore folk stick together! Havoc apologizes to his fans which includes some 7 or 8 year old kid who is appreciative of the mans effort
.wait, who the hell brings their kid to CZW deathmatches?!
Nick Gage vs Abdullah Kobayashi - Weapons of Mass Destruction Deathmatch
The F bombs are coming as Nick Gage strolls out blaring out F this and F that to anything and everything and he crowd are happy to join in (cover your ears 7 or 8 year old Kid!).
Gage makes it known that he doesnt like those Japanese pussys eliciting a USA chant because of course it does.
Kobayashi waddles out, a man in the crowd yells Hows Hiroshima BITCH?! to whooping and hollering because of course it does.
Gage grabs the mic to continue his fuck fest, seeing that hes losing what little audience he has Kobayashi grabs the mic to win them back using his mightiest English promo skills
YOU COCK SUUUCKEEEERR! and boy does it work, the crowd erupt (or as much as this small mob can erupt) and the Ref is losing his shit, all of this and the match aint even started yet but once the ref composes himself its on.
The return of Collar and elbow tie ups! Its like they want to subvert all my expectations. Gage soon decides sod it to that nonsense and spits in Kobayashis face, his reponse? To gleefully devour that snotty spittle and thus this marks the most sickening and twisted thing Ive seen in this event thus far, WOULD SOMEONE STOP THE DAMN MATCH!
After thoroughly licking his lips both men prepare to showdown with light tubes, before a full blown swordfight gets under way Kobayashi decides to let Gage have a free clean swing at his skull and Gage is happy to oblige as glass shatters over the bald bonce of Kobayashi.
Yet it seems that that spit snack wasnt enough for Kobayashi who decides to simply take a bite out of his light tube to try and cure his hunger pangs, or maybe its another mindgame? I could go either way on this. Actually it may well be a bit of both, dude is straight up devouring that glass like a panda chomps bamboo so clearly its a tasty snack, it also provides a unique spit projectile of his own as he fires a stream of glassy goodness out of his gob into Gages face.
After devouring even more glass like the circus freak show attraction he is the dominant Kobiyashi grabs a bag, I assume thumbtacks, I get the evolution of thumbtacks which are mini beds of sharp needles spilling onto the mat. Gage takes a sideslam into the mini needle beds which are then also used as a handheld weapon of which to grind against Gages head and chest.
Desperately needing a turn around Gage decides to just boot Kobayashi in the nuts, twice at that to great effect. Gage grabs a barbed wire steel chair and dives it into the skull of a laid out Kobayashi.
Gage then grabs something I can only describe as looking like the head of a water cooler with Christmas baubles attached to it as blasts it off of Kobayashis head promptly shattering all those colourful decorations, but really I cant figure out what this thing is supposed to be and believe me Ive been trying since Gage first came out.
Gage delivers the shoddiest looking lopsided diving headbutt Ive ever seen, you aint getting a three count with that. Kobayashi pulls out a surprisingly agile standing front dropkick to regain control and starts stomping around the ring so heavily that Gages man boobs genuinely start jiggling, the second most disgusting thing Ive seen so far.
After a bit of back and forth Gage gains the upperhand after Kobayashi misses the baka elbow drop which I name that because Im pretty sure he yelled baka as he collapsed into the elbow drop (translators note: Baka means idiot which also means tournament of death participant hohoho!).
Time for a big spot, Gage balances a mini needle bed oh Kobayashis head and hammers the bloody thing in with a steel chair! Heck its so good he does it twice which still only gets a two count, Im not sure which part of that mystifies me more.
Gage tries to either pull the needle boards out of Kobayashis skull or push them further in, its hard to tell but seeing that he tries using his teeth Im guessing he was actually trying to get them out but no dice, those things are hammered in good.
Thumbtack bat is apparently a thing, and its also another thing walloping Kobayashi in the cranium and no doubt sending him on the fast lane to concussion city. Against all odds Kobayashi fights back and just grabs a ton of curved glass tubes for his high flying antics which is to say he sort of falls off the top rope with a bigger baka elbow and smashes a whole bunch of tubes into Gage in the process, it looks as sloppy as you may expect which is followed up by a sloppy pinfall where Gage seemingly kicks out before three but it doesnt count, Kobayashi is the winner and Gage looks like he tried to protect his loss or something, its all kind of awkward really.
Post match promo from Kobayashi I LOVE AMERICAN PEOPLE I LOVE DEATHMATCH!, good to see he knows how to get cheap pops from these bozos.
WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH?!
Part 2 coming when I work my way through more of this madness...