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PWG Threemendous V live results: Two title matches

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Here are notes from last night’s PWG Threemendous V show at the Globe Theatre in Los Angeles. There were no matches of the year, but aside from the opener, every match was very good to great:

– Dalton Castle defeated David Starr with a crossface submission.

Castle is very limited in what he can do due to all his injuries. It was never boring but probably went too long. Starr did a scary tope spot. Castle was nowhere near him and the plan was to do a tope into either the chairs a few rows deep or the floor. And that’s what he did.

– Rey Horus defeated Penta 0M with a rana off the top rope.

Excellent match. Fans threw a lot of money in when it was over. This was high-level Lucha done with the modern United States indie style worked in.

– Jeff Cobb defeated Joey Janela with the Tour of the Islands.

As expected, Janela did crazy bumps and Cobb did insane power moves. Cobb did a superplex off the middle rope where he had Janela up, keeping him at a nearly 90 degree angle rather than vertical in a way where the laws of physics looked like there’s no way he could have gotten him back up. He did.

– PWG Tag Team Champions The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz) defeated The Young Bucks to retain their titles

This started as total comedy. The Young Bucks started out almost doing a Drew Gulak gimmick of anti-high spots, coming out with the “How Psychology Works” book that Kenny Omega gave them on Being the Elite this week. So whenever Nick Jackson would want to do high spots early on, Matt Jackson would spot him. Xavier and Wentz did all kinds of high flying.

The Young Bucks opened up late and it turned into the best match on the show. Everyone thought it was over when they gave Xavier a Meltzer Driver on top of the psychology book, but Wentz made the save. They set up More Bang for Your Buck, but Matt got pinned with a crucifix. They all raised each others’ hands after.

– Rey Fenix defeated Trevor Lee with a Fenix Driver.

One thing very different is the perception of Impact Wrestling. Lee always comes out and says he’s from Impact and he’s making money doing that gimmick, and it usually gets a lot of heat. Here, almost nobody booed him even playing it up as a heel, so it appears the indie crowd hating Impact days are over.

Fans threw money here as well.

– Matt Riddle defeated Marty Scurll

Two great pros. The match was short but excellent. Instead of breaking Riddle’s fingers, Scurll broke his toes and then stomped on the other foot. Riddle powered out of a chicken wing and used a tombstone piledriver followed by the Twister submission.

– PWG World Champion WALTER defeated Brody King to retain his title

This was advertised as non-title, but King asked WALTER to put the belt up and he agreed. The story was that King kept ducking and escaping WALTER’s chops while chopping the hell out of WALTER. WALTER’s chest was all bruised. The chops were exploding.

Walter finally started hitting chops in the end. This was one of those matches that was probably better live because of the impact of them.

PWG Mystery Vortex live results: Chris Hero addresses his situation

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– Trent Baretta defeated Candice LeRae using the Dudebuster.

Baretta did a great job in the role of the guy reluctant to fight a woman while LeRae was mad and would attack him in any way possible. LeRae makes a great babyface in peril and it was as good as it could be for the style they were doing.

– Trevor Lee defeated ACH with a fisherman buster.

Some strong athletic spots from both men. It was hurt by Lee kicking out late twice from near falls.

– Matt Sydal defeated Pete Dunne with a shooting star press.

This was Sydal’s first match in months. I don’t know if the two have ever wrestled before. Sydal still does some really impressive stuff regarding speed and agility. Good but not a blow away match.

– Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly defeated Death By Elbow (Chris Hero & JT Dunn)

Match went nearly a half hour. Some stuff, like Hero’s strikes and some of the other interplay was great, but the crowd was in and out of it. Good match. O’Reilly pinned Hero after Chasing the Dragon.

– Hero did an interview after putting over the other three and also talking about how Baretta and LeRae tore it up earlier and then went on to address the elephant in the room, his own situation. He noted that he really doesn’t know (and right now that is the status of everything). It may be his last time here and it may not be.

He noted the situation with Willie Mack that a lot of guys talk about where he was in, told he was in, but then WWE decided against him being in and he never could get a reason why for months.

– Chuck Taylor defeated Adam Cole in a number one contender for the PWG title match.

A lot of comedy. Taylor is on a long winning streak here, not sure how far back but some thought it could be as long as two years.

– Jeff Cobb & Matt Riddle defeated PWG Tag Team Champions Young Bucks in a non-title match.

It seemed like this was to set up a title match program. Excellent match, very different from any Young Bucks match I’ve seen. The beginning was them selling that one-on-one they can’t compete with the wrestling and grappling and power of Cobb & Riddle. Eventually they used a lot of double-team moves and superkicks of course. 

Cobb & Riddle have both improved greatly in the past few months when it comes to confidence and knowing what they need to do to get over. This was an excellent match. Riddle used the Bro 2 Sleep and Cobb used the Tour of the Islands to pin Matt.

It should be noted that Riddle came out first, and then Cobb, and everyone was excited to see them in a singles when the Bucks music came out and it was announced as a tag team match. The two do need to eventually do a singles program here since the match everyone on the indies has booked came from their interplay at BOLA.

– PWG World Champion Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Marty Scurll with a unique armbar type submission in a match that went more than 37 minutes to keep the title.

This was a technical masterpiece. Their styles are perfect for each other and it brought out the best in both men. It was like two technical masters of the old British style with the holds and escapes and counters, combined with modern moves, the strikes, the broken finger spot by Scurll.

Sabre’s selling was tremendous in the sense he’d do little sells of every injury from Scurll’s different body part damage throughout in subtle ways. Felt in many ways like watching a Billy Robinson match against someone of his style where you’d see things you’ve never seen before. They ended the show teasing Sabre vs. Taylor.