Joey Janela’s Spring Break 3, Pt. II: A wild Clusterf*ck battle royal

The showcase of the immortal drunkards and deathmatch kings is upon us: the second part of the third annual Joey Janela’s Spring Break. Masato Tanaka faces LA Park, while the modern incarnation of LAX faces the only incarnation of the Rock ‘N Roll Express. Also, the greatest spring break battle royal ever is set to happen. 

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Our show late Saturday night in Jersey City, NJ, got a late start due to the ROH/NJPW show , but now we get Ron Funches on commentary. Tanaka’s theme plays, but Joey Janela comes out with Penelope Ford to face Jungle Boy. They’re in the same buildling they were in last night and the fans resume singing Jungle Boy’s theme. A giant “F ROH” chant breaks out due to the delay.

Jungle Boy submitted Joey Janela

They trade a million superkicks before Joey goes down to his knees and eats another one. He then gets up and lands another superkick, but Joey gets the edge off a lariat. Jungle Boy sends him out and hits a series of lopes and topes. Jungle goes up top for a moonsault, but Joey blocks it and lands a crazy high angle inverted brainbuster on the apron. That insanity only gets 1.

Jungle Boy lands a slingshot spear and a jungle cutter snaps him with a high angle landing for 2. Penelope comes in and hits a flying rana and then a a spike headscissor, but Jungle hits a pop-up backstabber to her. Joey lands a series of kneeling elbows and gets a dragon clutch.

Jungle Boy escapes and gets a rolling death valley driver on the ring. Joey gets 2 off a tombstone and then hits a super brainbuster for 1. They go back and forth on snap German suplexes. Joey jumps up for a choke, but Jungle Boy gets a standing twister choke and Joey taps out. For the second night in a row, Joey has lost on his signature event. They hug and raise hands. 

LAX defeated The Rock ‘n Roll Express

LAX comes down while they are being put over as having a massive rise from relative obscurity in Beyond Wrestling to now being what they are. 

Robert is taken to the corner by Santana, who then bowls him over. Ortiz comes in and gets knocked down quickly. Robert works an arm ringer, but it doesn’t last long. Ricky and Ortiz are in and Ricky (who still has a great armdrag) armdrags him down. Robert lands a noggin knocker and then a sleeper on Santana. A miscue leads to Ortiz eating a lariat from Santana. A Canadian Destroyer lands and Morton hits a tope on LAX on the floor. My god.

But, LAX recovers and hit a run-up cannonball in the corner that ends it.

Ortiz says that this was their ninth match of the week and their most anticipated one. Santana breaks down talking about how much they’ve influenced him and the two bow to the Rock’n’Rolls.

LA Park defeated Masato Tanaka

This was a battle of The Chairman vs. the receiver of some of the nastiest chairshots in wrestling history, so it should be interesting from beginning to end. A shoving match lead to a chop battle and then kicks and a nasty Park overhand chop. They go back and forth on running lariats with Park getting a shocking amount of speed for his age and weight. Park landed a chairshot and turned around a bit too late to logically make it, so he doesn’t see Tanaka get up, but he does and lands a rolling elbow to the chair that gets two.

Tanaka gets two off a tornado DDT and then hits a crossbody to the floor. Tanaka throws a beer at him and the announcers talk about how the mask can create a waterboarding effect with the liquid. Park slams him into a sea of chairs, gets a door and throws it in the ring, and then finds another one. The door is in the corner, but Tanaka takes him down and gets a frog splash for two. Then, LA Park spears him through the door to win it.

The Greatest Clusterf*ck Battle Royal

Necro Butcher comes out as number one and looks like his own grandfather. Then, Nick F’N Gage is here to battle him, apparently wearing the same shirt he’s been wearing all weekend because the white parts of his shirt are covered in blood. Schlak and Marcus Grain are here and Necro KOs Grain. Necro and Schlak then get into a hockey fight.

Georgie Boy is out, but no word on if the rubber chicken is also in the match. Nick beats him up with the chicken. A dueling door war leads to Swoggle coming down. He hits a shin music and some chin music on Shlak. Arik Cannon is out and stares down Gage right away. Swoggle runs wild on Necro and Georgie Boy is tossed out. 

Joe Gacey runs in and hits a DVD on Grain before Brian Pillman Jr. comes down. Grain and Shlak use a plastic bag over the head to Pillman. Nate Webb and Marko Stunt are out, but not just in the match, but they’re also singing and playing guitar with the fans singing alongside them. Swoggle and Necro take out Nick Gage. 

Shlak beats up Swoggle. MJF is out and beats up Marko and Nate with a chair while wearing an MDK shirt. Joey Ryan comes down which was surprising after he was running an opposition show to this one last night. Sexy Eddie comes down too and Joey oils him up and Brian as well. Joey and Eddie have an oil off before Jefe comes out. He wants oil, but doesn’t get it. Eddie’s towel is removed but he’s bare-assed and it finds its way into Joey’s face several times. 

Sexy Eddie gets a moonsault and he’s gone to hopefully get clothing. Nick Morrettii is out and now Stunt formally joins the fray along with his brother Logan. Necro tries to lift them up and take them out which works for Logan. Team Whitewolf is in and take out Pillman immediately. Swoggle gets a dick claw on Joey and it causes Joey to be eliminated due to his center of gravity.

Egotistico Fantastico comes in and hits a moonsault on Durst for 2. G. Raver comes out with hypodermic needles and he spikes Swoggle, who then hits a German. Superkick takes out Swoggle. Kikutaru comes in to poke asses for a while and makes the ref pass out before another ref puts the fingers up to Kikutaru’s nose and he passes out and is taken out. 

Homicide came down to the ring and squares off with Teddy Hart They slug it out before Teddy lands an uppercut. Cryme Tyme (!) returns to the ring with giant beards. Teddy and Homicide reunited for the good of JAPW and battled Shad and JTG. Teddy gets taken out. Shlak gets schoolboyed and taken out by Cannon. Grim Reefer is out and now Teddy Hart is out with a cat, who he hopefully won’t throw into the air again. The Ugly Ducklings are out to provide a modern-day Dupp act. Colby Corino is out gets a tornado DDT on Reefer. Slim J comes down with Funches summing him up as a white guy in a bandanna, so he must be tough. Facade comes down and he really should be gaining more momentum as he’s got a solid look. 

A ropewalk doomsday kick hits one Duckling, leading to a reverse rana accidentally hitting another. MJF gets rid of Cryme Tyme, but he’s knocked out by Necro. Gringo Loco is down and looks like what you’d get if you combined a balding trucker with Fat Super Crazy from 2005. He lands a nice Spanish Fly and then AJ Grey comes down and tears through the Ducklings. A Steiner Screwdriver hits for Grey and then he hits a tornillo dive onto a pile on the floor.

Ophidian is out and works with Raver before the Ducklings tope guys on the floor. Gringo Loco hits a big flip dive before Rich Swann arrives. Swann hits a corkscrew dive to the floor and then Facade hits a springboard 450. Cannon teases a dive and flips them off. Dustin Thomas (aka No Legs from Friday night) is out and hits a big 610. He gets a win with a swanton and the fans sing “No Legs” to the tune of “Ole”, so he’s made.

Brendan Brown is out and MJF lowblows him, but MJF is taken out. Facade does a ropewalk 450 onto the floor onto no one. Pharoah and Odinson are out to toss the Ducklings around. Shane Mercer comes down and forms an alliance with Necro. No Legs gets tossed out to the floor. Shane hits a big suplex and a moonsault powerslam off the second rope. 

Jake Atlas is out followed by Australian Suicide. Mercer slugs it out with KTB and then Caveman Ug comes down and barks…as you do. KTB and Ug chop and headbutt the daylights out of each other. Ug has great form on his butterfly suplex and snap uranage. Stunner takes out Australian Suicide. Crowbar comes down and other than a tattoo on his chest and redoing his facial hair, he looks very similar to how he did in WCW. Super Rana gets 2 for Crowbar.

Matt Treemont is down and brawls with Necro while Gacey takes out Crowbar with a chair. Grizzly Redwood returns to battle Shane Mercer. I don’t see that going well for him and Crowbar is taken out by a moonsault from the caveman. Chris Dickinson and Pinky Sanchez come down and Necro runs wild with forearms. Necro rakes the eyes of Pinky. Michael Blaze ccmes down and rains down superkicks. Kip Osbourne and Frankie Pickard arrive as partners and brawl with each other.

NWO Sting (Jeff Farmer) is out and is still jacked. Tracy Smothers is still in town and I’m sure he’s no more sane than he was last night, so tt’s time for UltraMegaMassHomicide. Mantaur comes down and is unbelievably slow. Mantaur needs to work with Orange Cassidy for a slow motion vs. regular motion spot. Matt Nix comes in is worked over by NWO Sting. 

Jimmy Lloyd emerges from his ungodly violent deathmatch last night to start brawling and lands a rolling death valley driver. Takeda comes down to resume their war from last night. Then, Mantaur got an elimination. Jeff Cannonball brawls with Takeda and lands a tombstone in such a way that I’m astounded he didn’t tear both knees upon impact. Ethan Page is out to fight for his very soul. Essa Rios is out and looks about the same as he did 20 years ago, just a bit chunkier around the middle. Necro’s just gone before “Maneater” blares as Ashley Vox, Allie Kat, Maria Manic, Solo Darling, Su Yung, and Session Moth Martina are out. They run wild and beat the tar out of the men. Martina goes for a grind, but spits beer and lands a DDT. Stunt hits Ashley in the stomach, but she lands an air raid crash on him.

Shazza beats up Frank the Clown who comes out and in the process, Funches finds his headphones. Frank gets a variety of angry chants as he eats a variety of kicks to the lower groin region. Now we get light tubes and Jimmy Lloyd gets killed with death by them all. Dickinson eats a superplex through two tables by Manic. They tear the ring up and let up Aubrey Edwards because she’s a female ref. They drag Joey Janela out and beat him up before a Signal Lost message hits the screen.

Well, this was a night of insanity with a very unique and memorable ending.

Joey Janela’s Spring Break 3, pt. 1 live results

Joey Janela’s third annual spring break show enters a new era with it being split into two parts. On Friday, legends did battle with modern day stars as TAKA Michinoku faced Orange Cassidy and Shinjiro Otani vied for GCW’s top prize against Nick Gage. Janela also returned to his signature event from injury to battle another man back from an injury in Marko Stunt. The Invisible Man, who made his name in the annual battle royal for Spring Break, battled his brother in what was a unique match.

Since 2017, “Spring Break” has been a showcase of some of the craziest and most fun wrestling action of the year. The first year saw Janela himself rise to prominence just by having his name attached to the event, and it didn’t hurt that a cameo-filled battle royal known as the Clusterf*ck became synonymous with it.

The Invisible Man rose to his greatest fame since the Universal horror days, and the second event gave rise to PCO as he battled WALTER in one of the stiffest matches on American soil in 2018. 2019 sees the event growing so big it’s like Wrestle Kingdom becoming spread out over two days…only with a lot more stoner humor and an even crazier battle royal.

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The show started off with Nick Gage’s daughter Joanna doing a video promo and swearing while “For Whom the Bell Tolls” played in the background. She welcomes us to Spring Break III and a GCW chant broke out.

Janela and Penelope Ford came out and got a hero’s welcome before a video package chronicled the knee injury to Marko Stunt and his return. Marko came down and Dave Prazak talked about Marko being in a position to upstage Janela on his own show. 

Marko Stunt defeated Joey Janela

Joey ran the ropes and Marko almost threw him into the crowd before a second rope skin the cat saved him. Marko made lewd comments about Joey’s mother and “Now, you’re going to be on the ass end of an ass-kicking.” Joey opted for a German suplex and a Helluva kick. He hit a Brock-esque straight jacket hold German before landing two more with a bridge for 2.

Joey launched Marko into the crowd ala Spike Dudley and opted to crowd surf himself before Marko joined him, leading to a chopfest while both guys were held up by the fans.

Marko escaped and hit a somersault dive off the apron into the chairs before landing a second one. Prazak is usually very good, but he had some major audio problems and could barely be heard. Joey prevented a running knee and hit a flapjack. Penelope got on the apron so Joey could smack Marko into the boot, but it all backfired as Joey almost ate the boot. Marko kissed Penelope and hit Janela with a knee strike.

A sidewinder package piledriver hit for Joey, but it only got two. Janela went for a super package piledriver, but Stunt escaped and shoved him onto the apron, where Janela ate a spike rana on the apron. Stunt got split open and was glassy eyed, so Janela rabbit punched him. Stunt got sent into the ropes but came back with a satellite codebreaker for two.

Janela landed a super cradle shock off the top for 2.9. Penelope was in shock and Marko got a flash cradle for the win.

Janela gave him a kiss and raised his hand high before Marko hugged Penelope and kneeled in the middle of the ring to soak in the applause. This was a fantastic match and a perfect opener.

Ring announcer Rich Palladino lets us know that there are no fewer than three bars in the building, so everyone’s going to have fun tonight. Tony Deppen came out and grabbed the mic. He is bitter over not being showcased on the card in a more prominent position. He called out fans and insulted a few of them before picking on a guy in a wheelchair with no legs (Dustin Thomas) who wasn’t identified. Deppen grabbed him out of the wheelchair and threw him into the ring after Thomas called him a “f*ckin’ pussy”.

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Tony Deppen defeated No Legs (aka Dustin Thomas)

Thomas ate a slap, but got a sleeper, then a drop no-toe hold into the ropes and a 619 that the crowd went nuts for. Then, he hit a crossbody off the top for two and a somersault senton off the top to the floor! He’s put over on commentary as using his upper body strength from being in the wheelchair. He climbed up top before he ate a superplex for 2. Thomas hit a tornado DDT and a springboard 450 for 2.9. Deppen landed a shining wizard and knocked him out for the win.

In two matches, they made Stunt seem like a star, Janela out to be the man, and Deppen out to be a massive prick as the guy with no legs shone brightly.

Jungle Boy won a Spring Break Scramble featuring A-Kid vs. Jake Atlas, Australian Suicide, Slim J, and Shane Mercer

Jungle Boy was out to a huge chant for his first match back since his father’s passing

All the guys dove onto Mercer as he just caught them. Atlas and Kid had a flip and armdrag exchange while Slim J hit a giant leaping front kick off the top. Jungle Boy hit a running rana and a springboard legdrop. Mercer put Jungle Boy up in a military press before he started one-arm chokeslamming dudes and launched Jungle Boy to the floor.

Atlas set up a super Pentagon driver, but instead landed a super sidewinder Samoan drop. A-Kid landed a Northern Lights suplex into a standing moonsault for 2. Mercer launched A-Kid into the buckle with an overhead belly to belly. Mercer reminded me a lot of ECW Mike Awesome in that he stood out a ton being in there with smaller guys. Mercer did a ropewalk Death Valley Driver to Slim J while also doing an Old School on Atlas.

Jungle Boy locked on a submission and won it. Everyone raised one another’s hands while the fans sang Jungle Boy’s theme.

GCW World Champion Nick Gage def. Shinjiro Otani

Otami got a nice, respectul intro while Gage was treated like God coming down to Earth.

Things started off with a series of lockups and respectful breaks in the ropes. Otami outwrestled him which was a bit like seeing New Jack go to chain wrestling when fighting is a far better option. Otani wanted a shoulder charge and Gage obliged and won, so he attacked him in the corner and brought in a table. There we go: stick to strengths. They slapped the tar out of each other and Otani chopped him down hard, getting a half crab before Gage got to the ropes.

Otani raked the face with his boot and then stepped on his throat. Otani worked heel perfectly here as a complete prick to Gage whenever possible. Gage fought fire with fire and landed a face wash that Otani no sold, standing up and hitting a German through the table. Otani milked the face rake portion and then booted him so hard that he hit a supposed fan not once, but three times with the boot off each face wash.

A Helluva kick landed for Otani, who is still quite good. Gage landed a series of chops and elbows before getting a flash schoolboy with the trunks to win.

Gage put Otani over and says that he handpicked him because he loved watching him as a kid and he stole his moves because he loved him so much. 

Brother vs. Brother Grudge Match: Invisible Man vs. Invisible Stan

Invisible Stan got a chorus of boos coming out. I hope the ref checks him for weapons next. The Invisible Man came out being treated like royalty. Man and Stan got into a standoff to start things off. The ref had his invisible man-seeing glasses on and a forearm exchange broke out before Stan went to the eyes and the fans had none of that. The ref set up chairs and a chair exchange broke out before the ref put some gloves on to check the wound. 

The brothers waged war in the crowd before they fell from the balcony to the floor and knocked down the staff on the floor. This got a 2.9. Stan attacked the ref so Kikutaru came in and put the glasses on. He DDTd Stan and gave the glasses to the ref, but it was still just a 2.9. Stan attacked Kikutaru on the apron and a mystery move hit for 2. Then, a spear through the table got the win for the Invisible Man.

The fans threw money in the ring and the ref earned every penny and the singles that wound up there.

TAKA Michinoku defeated Orange Cassidy

Cassidy started things off with a big shoulder charge that didn’t do much. TAKA applied a full nelson, but a slow motion escape allowed him to put his hands in his pockets and land a big dropkick. TAKA destroyed the shades and ate a series of slaps around the body before TAKA landed a poke to the eye.

Cassidy landed a superkick for two. Cassidy went up top, but TAKA went to the other side. Orange tried to land a headbutt, but missed and TAKA got the crossface. Cassidy recovered and OJ’d up, but got hit with a Michinoku driver that ended it. TAKA gave him the juice and Orange gave him his shades.

Starman defeated Ethan Page

Page came out and buried the battle royal for having guys in shorts and shirts, and wanted the Body Guy Extravaganza instead. He got distracted by his own words and lost to Starman via a schoolboy. Starman then unmasked as Virgil. As a result, Virgil now owns Page’s soul and dignity. Page looked absolutely crestfallen and the commentary team put over how the Saturday battle royal will have 10 times more cluster than the 2018 version. Ethan says that he’ll make sure the battle royal is the craziest one of all-time. 

Masashi Takeda defeated Jimmy Lloyd in a deathmatch

The canvas was swapped out for the deathmatch. Confetti flew into the ring as Lloyd entered.

Takeda took him down with a headlock and a tackle. Lloyd hit a run-up armdrag and then they just bonked each other with light tubes. Gusset plates were up next and Takeda hit a headbutt with his. Takeda stomped a light tube on the arm of Lloyd, and a light tube Russian legsweep to Lloyd got 2. Lloyd bodychecked tubes into Takeda’s chest three times before snapping them off on his head, sending debris into the crowd. A tube superkick go 2 for Lloyd, but he ate a tube shotgun dropkick.

Takeda brought up a scissor board and kneed it into the chest and one get stuck into his throat…which got two! Well, at least he’s okay. Lloyd hit a series of forearms and a Razor’s Edge into a light tube board and a Tiger driver got 2. Lloyd brought a weedwacker into the ring, but used on Takeda’s arm. Lloyd ate a German through a door filled with light tubes and forks. A swanton onto light tubes go 2.9 for Takeda.

Takeda landed a rising reverse DDT onto tubes to win an absolutely insane match. Lloyd then wanted tubes broken over his head, but Takeda did it on his own head instead. 

Wow, what a show this was. There was something for a fan of pretty much any style. Night two will be on Saturday with the Clusterf*ck battle royal and more.

WrestleMania week notes: WM ticket info, Spring Break sells out

The landscape for next year’s WrestleMania weekend is starting to take shape after today’s announcements.

WrestleMania 35 tickets will be open to the general public starting on Friday, November 16 at 10 a.m. ET.. Individual tickets start at $35 and go all the way up to $2,500 (minus service charges). However, for those who are interested in travel packages, those tickets will be on sale starting on November 5 at noon ET at WrestleManiaTravel.com.

As for Axxess, WWE has switched things up this year. Axxess now starts on Friday and runs through Monday, with no Thursday sessions. This would give other promotions an ample opportunity to run unopposed against WWE scheduled events. The current location for next year’s Axxess show has yet to be announced.

Tickets for Joey Janela’s Spring Break went on sale today and sold out instantly. This will be the third year in a row that Joey Janela and Game Changer Wrestling have ran a show during WrestleMania weekend. Before tickets went on sale, it was announced that Atsushi Onita would be coming in.