May 23, 1998

Tonight
Tag team division broken into threes
Conspiracy Theory?...ask the PXM!
Titan and Stingray warm up for the "playoffs"
Charles Slayer "I have seen the light!" ?????
A pirate, a fat man, a giant, a Rastafarian and two Highlanders...1 match.

It's Saturday Night....Do you know where your action is???

It's never calm ten days away from a pay per view.

Tonight, Commissioner McCullough, obviously undaunted by the fact that breaking the tag division into singles last week had Terry Sky herniating a disc in his neck, did it again this week. Starting off the program with a special announcement that two triangle matches were to be held, one with Rod Emerson of the Dream Team, IS-2000 of Los Viajeros and Slash Battle of the PXM in one, Peter McKee (DT), BC-2000(V) and Crash Burnz (PXM) in the other, with the winners team from each match facing off later on.

Of course, nothing bad would happen.

And maybe Chad Hillsman would start working in the immigration office.

Triangle Match:
IS-2000 defeated Slash Battle and Rod Emerson when IS-2000 made Slash Battle submit to a cobra clutch in 0:08:15
***3/4

Oliver Stone may have just as well been the referee, becausethere was a conspiracy against the PXM. IS-2000 and Rod Emerson never exchanged blows all match, focusing their energies on Battle. Battle fought a great match, but couldn't deal with the two on one assault. Crash Burnz tried to help his partner, but with all of the other tag team partners at ringside, this wasn't happened. Slash eventually succumbed to the cobra clutch of IS-2000. Los Viajeros would be in the tag match later on.

Grant Redstone pinned Texas Chainsaw Massochist with the Redstone Suplex in 0:14:36.
***

Were it not for Nitro, Redstone would have finished this match off a whole lot sooner. Still, Grant had no problem suplexing Tex into oblivion.

Titan Tim Redbury and El Stingray beat Los Dragones when Titan pinned Ice Dragon after an elbowdrop from the second turnbuckle in 0:12:37.
****

It's been a while since Titan and Stingray teamed and last held the World Tag Team Titles, but you wouldn't know it with their effort tonight. Los Dragones took advantage of what little ring rust there was on these two, but eventually succumbed. Next up for Titan and Stingray will be their "playoff" match with old foes The Super Powers this Monday to decide the fourth team in the 4 Way Crash.

Andrew Marshall pinned Nitro with the De-Facer in 0:12:15.
***

Pretty much a carbon copy of the Redstone/Tex match earlier, Marshall would have done this much quicker if Tex didn't keep getting involved. In fact, and accidental hit by Tex took a lot out of Nitro. These two are having a few problems.

Johnny Proton pinned Ultimate Spider with the Proton Kick in 0:22:37.
****3/4

WOW! Who knew that the rookie Spider could be THIS good? He matched Proton move for move, and almost had the match wrapped up with the Spider's Web...but the move was too close to the ropes. The match went on for a few more minutes until Spider missed a Frankensteiner. As he got up, Proton leveled him with the Proton kick and got the win. What a match.

Triangle Match:
Peter McKee defeated BC-2000 and Crash Burnz when McKee pinned BC-2000 with a belly-to-belly suplex in 0:19:12
****1/2

Two great matches back to back. This match started with McKee and BC-2000 continuing their teaming up on the PXM. However, Pete McKee must have realized that, if BC-2000 took this match, he'd have the night off later on. So, when it looked like BC was on his way to way win, McKee turned on him and got the win.

So, later on, Dream Team vs Los Viajeros.

Jerry Kent pinned Charles Slayer after a belly-to-belly suplex in 0:03:04.
1/2*
(Jerry Kent retained the SMWA Television Title)

Another scary SMWA moment at the end of this match...for two reasons. One, Slayer took a bad hit on the head when Kent pinned him with the belly-to-belly. Two, when Slayer woke up, he started screaming "I have seen the light" and bowing to everybody in the building yelling "I'm sorry." WTF was that?!? That bump must have knocked something loose.

Zangief pinned Enrico Ferdinand with the Siberian Bear Crusher in 0:11:16.
**

Enrico's speed kept him alive, but when a move can crush a Siberian Bear....

The Dream Team beat Los Viajeros Dos Mil when Emerson defeated BC-2000 by disqualification in 0:15:17.
***3/4

A Dream Killer early on looked like it would end the match, but Los Viajeros fought back to make a match out of it. The tag team match ended the way all major tag team matches in the SMWA seem to end these days...with another team causing a DQ, and it was the Philadelphia X-Treme Machine again. Hopefully, the 4 Way Crash may solve this problem.

Special Six-Man-Tag Match:
Highland Hell and King Rasta beat Greed and Gluttony and Skarzz when Wallace made Glutt submit to a sleeperhold in 0:17:10.
**1/4

Violent. Very violent. The Highlanders and Rasta did a number on the Sins, the one exception being Skarzz, who as per usual, dominated when he entered the ring, possibly leaving Rasta to wonder how he's supposed to beat him at Crash Carnival. However, the matched ended quite humourously...A six man brawl started up, and while the ref wasn't looking, Angus hit the pathetic Glutt over the head with a frying pan. As the ref turned around, Angus threw the frying pan from the ring and locked a sleeper on the already unconscious Glutt, giving his team the win.

As the brawl continued, Masters again tried to steal Bobby the Monkey from Rasta....but was foiled when the primate bit him on the nose.

THIS MONDAY IS BIG!!!

Jack Slade vs Doomsday.
The Super Powers vs Titan and Stingray...winner goes to Crash Carnival.
Just announced...Chad Hillsman returns to action.
And, based on his performance tonight, Ultimate Spider gets a Cruiserweight Title shot against Naga Yajito.