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No one will care about this post because it's my local indie but HOLY SHIT



TEGAN NOX IN MY CITY

 

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Belated thoughts on Regal Rumble '25

Casino Brutale are a good "outsider" team, they're really over. Casino vs. the Outfit for the Tag Titles looks set for Aberdeen Anarchy. Ted O'Keefe wearing the sparkly vest is a good pop. The heel teams are clashing with each other naturally, and I wonder when the FoF will finally get tired of Richard R. Russell.

There was an undercurrent of Lost Boy Aspen getting tired of delusional sea man Captain Alan Sterling's shit all across this show. Opener saw the Captain losing to Evan Young after trying to get Aspen involved, then Aspen lost to Alex Webb after the Captain didn't want him to use a piledriver. Captain Alan has abuser tendencies which I didn't think I'd say for a comedy heel. He just wanted to be Aspen's friend, but kicked him in the cock when he got rejected. Wrestling incel? Wrestlecel?

Bryan Tucker manages to avoid defending his Tri-Counties Title once again by being in a tag match with fellow wally Rhys Dawkins. The clashes between him and Team Scotty Swift never end. Dawkins got the win, he's been pushed a bit more recently and could be looking to upstage his partner. The argument for a four-way is there. Dawkins is the more effective member of the team, Umar's been screwed by time limit draw shenanigans, and Swift just really hates Tucker. Can't wait to see it.

Interesting choice in the World Title match to have the heel Shawn Johnson screwed by a referee mistake. Surely he'll have an argument he should be in Aberdeen Anarchy's main event and not Caleb Valhalla. Three-way dance? Perhaps. Good limbwork match regardless, Johnson is despised by the crowd.

Finally, the Regal Rumble! Christmas in the north-east. We got the debuts of no fewer than four new graduates from the Training Academy, hope at least one turns out well and gets a gimmick. Big tank called Kai looks promising. The Aspen/Alan thing continued with Aspen kicking Alan in the cock and eliminating him. Mikkey Vago came back from injury at number 30 and made it to the final two. Winner was Damien which is something they've teased for several months... but then he apparently turned heel which is ALSO something they've teased for several months. The card for the biggest show of the year looks to be solidifying.

 

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Aberdeen Anarchy main event set:

• Caleb Valhalla (c) vs. Damien - Undisputed Title, Shawn Johnson as special referee

Show in April has a few matches set up:

• Caleb Valhalla/Damien vs. Foundation of the Future - Damien not confirming his heel status yet, he doesn't trust ex-partner and slimy little shit Shawn Johnson
• The Outfit (c) vs. The Influence - Tag Team Titles
• Umar Mohammed vs. Rhys Dawkins - possible Tri-Counties Title implications here

 

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More Aberdeen Anarchy matches

• Nixon Newell vs. Emersyn Jayne (notable as WZ's first women's match since the pandemic)
• The Outfit vs. Casino Brutale vs. Foundation of the Future vs. The Influence - Ladder Match for the Tag Team Titles

 

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I so wish you could be here to see this

• Lost Boy Aspen vs. Captain Alan Sterling - LIFE MATCH (all medical items are legal)

 

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Another wild match announced

• Bryan Tucker vs. Umar Mohammed - for the Tri-Counties Title; Scotty Swift and Rhys Dawkins are handcuffed together at ringside

 

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So... Aberdeen Anarchy. A LOT happened.

There was a co-promotion with a local donut shop so the pre-show match was a small battle royal. All the new rookies, the few people on the roster who didn't have a match, and a donut mascot. A bit of fun, some people bumped around the giant donut. Rhys Dawkins won and this gave him a future Undisputed Title shot which will be interesting given some details I'll mention later.

Kick off with a ladder match between the four teams for the tag titles. So much happened that I can't even document it. That weasely shit Richard R. Russell tried to get involved and grab the belts a few times but he's pathetic. Genuinely scary moment when Judas Grey slipped on a dive off a ladder. From my position it looked like he clipped the top rope neck first and wiped out on the floor. There was a hush over the crowd. You'll be glad to know he walked out fine though. He's great. I hope this doesn't hurt him long term. Anyway Casino Brutale won the titles and I look forward to the fun singles matches they'll have in future.

Second was the Tri-Counties match on a really front-loaded show. Bryan Tucker, that shitbag himself, came out with a clock to remind us of the ten-minute time limit. The allies being handcuffed together surprisingly didn't come into play that much, but finally someone beat the time limit, so Umar Mohammed is the new champion! Finally that gimmick's over and we can have actual matches in that title picture.

Third match, my most anticipated, was the LIFE MATCH! Captain Alan came out with a nurse, who wore a mask and gave him various things to use as weapons. You haven't lived until you've seen multiple urine samples, blood bag, stethoscope, and all that used as weapons. Nurse tried to give the Captain painkillers but gave him muscle relaxers by mistake and he lost all feeling in his legs, so they did some fun spots with him in a wheelchair. He got it back eventually but of course he didn't win. Finish had Aspen hit a piledriver, then use a defibrillator to revive Captain Alan so he could use the piledriver again. THIS IS WRESTLING

Match number four had special guest Nixon Newell, and replacement slightly-less-special guest Lana Austin. Honestly I think this last minute change was for the best, if only because of the epic heel crowd work Lana was doing. She did the Dominik thing where she couldn't talk over the crowd and it was great fun. One kid in the crowd had a red card and kept showing it to the heels. So when Lana was trying to mouth off Nixon went out, grabbed the red card, and sent Lana off. This is the experience you don't get in WWE. Match was fine, Nixon won obviously.

Before the main we had a tag team match with years of history. Oliver Green betrayed Evan Young half a year ago, and Chris Archer betrayed Mikkey Vago several years ago, so this is a match. Faces came out in Slipknot ass gear to Before I Forget. Oli has learned Archer's ways of being a greasy motherfucker. Fairly standard tag stuff and crowd was saving their breath for the main clearly but it was fun to bash on Archer. Finish came when a mystery hooded assailant attacked Vago and handed the heels the win. I have some ideas on who it could be, as he's skinny enough it could only be a very few people. So, one of the rookies or Tommy Raiden. If they're evil it'll be Tommy, he was an up-and-coming babyface but maybe he feels that Vago abandoned him for Evan Young. Maybe he feels Rejected, if you'll pardon the pun.

Main event! Caleb Valhalla vs. not-quite-heel-yet Damien with special referee very-much-heel Shawn Johnson. Brawling all over to start, heel heat, comeback, and then the melodrama begins. Shawn's trying to convince Damien to turn and win by cheating. Caleb bumps him. General manager Mr. P shows up and gets bumped. Shawn recovers and steals the win from Caleb by removing the replacement ref. Mr. P then TURNS HEEL?? and smacks Caleb with the belt. He then orders Damien to hit Caleb with the belt and he does it. Looks like we're doing heel authority now. Why Damien Why? Why P Why? We'll find out... What a show.

 

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Battle of the Nations coming in August, and I dare say it'll be the biggest wrestling event in the UK in August. Does Forbidden Door have Scotty 2 Hotty and his son? Does it fuck

 

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Halloween Hijinx huh

Pre-show was yet another showcase for the Influence, one of the highlights of every show, and with Ronan King injured Connor Molloy really gets to shine as one of the best things for miles. Finlay Bane is a new face, he's a tall guy who does lariats. Judas Grey is great at selling lariats. Still, Influence win, and I'd love to see them take the titles because...

I've figured out what isn't clicking for me about Casino Brutale. They're so... indie. I feel like they'd be marks for themselves, have to look great even when the heels are on top. Wouldn't be great to go back to Influence vs. Outfit because we had that all of last year but I'm really not feeling these bald men.

Next match was a showcase for a new face, that being Robb Stow. He has a habit of shouting LARIAT every time he does a corner lariat which is amusing but could get annoying. All about Mikkey Vago though, he's being elevated to new heights, he even got two appearances on this show.

Tri-Counties Title next and you've got all the bells and whistles. You've got Umar and Tucker dressed as each other, you've got Rhys Dawkins as the crooked referee (and reminding us that yes he does have a future title shot), you've got regular referee Mikey Innes dressed as Dawkins, there was even a ref bump! But good of course prevailed and I'd love to see what's next for Umar. Him/Scotty Swift vs. the Wallies has been legitimately 2 years running.

Monstrum's open challenge! Nobody answered. Fans wanted Caleb Valhalla but he got suspended at Battle of the Nations, remember. So Mr. P (who's fully into the corrupt authority bit now) threatened one of the women in the ring crew. To save her came gammon-faced commentator Andrew Reid and retired-8-literal-years-now Lord Mr. Malice. It didn't end well. Still, Mikkey Vago came out to make the save. Told you he was being treated as a big damn deal. Makes me wonder where's Tommy Raiden though. He turned on Mikkey for... nothing, just a blow-off match that wasn't even in the City, it was in Inverurie on a spot show,

Speaking of handicap matches, Captain Alan Sterling and his crew of rookies are dealing with Scotty Swift and these men are shoot closer to 50 than they are 40 so might as well turn on the comedy. Interesting to see the dichotomy between James Taylor, a spindly little knob who really gets into being on the Captain's team, and the other two, who really want to be babyfaces but aren't allowed. No subversions here. Numbers prevailed even though Scotty fought his best.

There was a bit of a Halloween costume contest going on starring Oliver Green. He picked a Bray Wyatt and a Fred Flintstone.

Main event time! Halloween Brawl so all Halloween items are legal. Things got genuinely hardcore, including an attempted drowning (take that, Darby/Mox, WZ did it first!) and a few shattered plastic boxes that really looked gnarly. Mr. P (for of course it was he) declared Monstrum a Halloween weapon, to make it four effective handicap matches out of seven tonight. Six, if you count Ronan King and Richard R. Russell running interference on the outside for their teammates' matches. There were still some crazy kickouts until, finally, it came down to screwy bullshit to win for the heels.

But it's not over. Out came Zach Dynamite, who hadn't been seen since he got hurt. Apparently that'll force him to retire, but he's been appointed new co-GM so he can argue with Mr. P a bit! Oh, and Aspen's wrestling Mr. P next show! That's going to hurt.