TEW Day 2

[Dustin Smith]

I got a call early the yesterday morning, the day after our return show at the Arnettsville Community building, BKT was calling to tell me that he talked to his group from parkersburg and they wanted us to come down and do a show with them today. I was hurting in places I forgot existed but couldn’t pass up the chance to get in the ring again so I made some phone calls and we headed down to Parkersburg. We lost a couple guys who didn’t feel like making the trip but we’d obviously be picking up more folks down in Parkersburg so I was still excited about how the show would turn out. The show was outdoors, but thankfully the weather held for us. After going over the roster I pulled out a show that was about six matches long, the group that BKT used to run with are actually a local sketch comedy group so we ended up drawing a sizeable group for such short notice. The leader of the sketch group “Snake” Gwynn didn’t get in the ring but he would work the crowd on mic prior to the show and did commentary/sound/camera duties.

SINGLES MATCH
Anti-Social(Jack) vs. Jax Jameson

Jax Jameson is still being polished by Patrick, but Jack has been a training partner of his so this match was pretty good since they know each other so well. I booked this match to continue to build up Jameson giving him someone he’s comfortable to work with, and it made for a good opening match up. Jax would bring the chair in the ring and eventually hit the mafia kick to the chair into the face of Anti-Social to win the match.

SINGLES MATCH
Mike Hunt(Pat) vs. El Hijo del Sol(Dustin)

I know some people hate the term but this was a filler match, Pat and I really like working each other and we’ve pulled out some great matches that I’m proud of. The flamboyant Mike Hunt always gets a good reaction from the crowd and tonight was no different. The match wasn’t super long since we both had to regear up later for more important matches but we tried to put on a good show with Mike getting the victory over me with a side effect.


Snake got into the ring after the match and talked to the crowd getting them laughing and into the show a bit gauging how they’ve enjoyed the action so far. He introduced two members of their sketch group, Gnarles and Matt who ended up getting into an argument which resulted in a match.

SINGLES MATCH
Gnarles vs. Matt Wolfe

These two guys are huge fans of the old school style, which is a bit of a staple of the area. I booked this match because these guys are long time friends and I felt it was better to go ahead and let them work a solid match, then switch things up and have the potential for disaster. The crowd likes both of these sketch comedy guys, even though they really didn’t do much in the way of comedy wrestling, they did pay a lot of homages to legendary wrestlers from the past with Wolfe hitting a DDT for the win. Afterwards they turned on the funny and ended up hugging it out… a little to long… but it got a good chuckle from the crowd.

TRI-COUNTY TITLE MATCH
Trent Smith(Dustin) vs. Jojo©

This match wasn’t supposed to come so quickly, I thought I’d have a week or so to heal up before getting in the ring with Jojo but I wasn’t that lucky. Wes and I talked a bit behind the curtain about how we wanted the match to go, talking about some of the spots that we really wanted to get in. When the music hit we had a handshake and an exchange of “Good lucks” before getting into character and getting to the ring. I had to watch on from the outside of the ring as Jojo got in the ring and laid out an intense promo about how he was going to make me feel new levels of pain and that I’d wish he’d just kill me, ya know all kinds of nice things. The match had a stipulation that if Jojo won he’d be allowed to talk freely with his foul mouth, if I won he wouldn’t be allowed to talk anymore. We put together a back and forth match, but of course I went under because taking away Jojo’s promos would be awful. It was a painful match that Jojo won with a series of gutwrench suplexes.

SINGLES MATCH
Chris Kahn vs. BKT

Chris Kahn is a former indy wrestler who came out today to hang with friends and have a match, so we put him against BKT who should be doing a lot more in the wrestling world. These guys were great like I knew they would be and BKT was able to pick up the win hitting a fist drop off the top on Kahn.

TEW WORLD TITLE MATCH
Tommy Demonik(Jack) vs. Demented©(Pat)

These are the two guys who are working with the younger talent in TEW and they put on a solid main event match, they’ve been practicing none stop since I leave the ring with them when it’s not getting used. The chain wrestling was pretty solid in the opening then they busted out their high impact stuff that made the match a back and forth slug fest of finishes, Demented slid out of the TKO attempt hitting a superkick for a near fall. The match continued and Demented was able to get up Demonik for the DVD and he was able to score with it to retain his championship.

We were worn out after an action filled labor day weekend but we had a blast. The guys from Parkersburg were great and after the show we went out to eat before making the trip home.

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I like the way these shows work because it is really more realistic in some ways, like the ideas behind Jack and Jax working each other early because they are training partners. That's the kind of stuff that really happens in touring promotions and in Japan a lot, and it's nice to see that logic in the booking here. It's one of the reasons I started booking the same match or similar matches multiple shows in a row, as from town to town they can develop their work better and end up growing for it, so, kudos there. Once again, the Hunt/Sol match was smartly done and the Gnarles/Matt match had that solid philosophy behind it. The Gutwrench Suplex is a very underrated move, and I like that Jojo has been able to utilize it so effectively. BKT winning with a flying fist drop was very old school, but it is another one of those underrated moves that I like to see utilized. The main event was well done, and have to say, I like this promotion a lot. It is very good. It's really inspiring to me, as a matter of fact. Great stuff.

[Dustin Smith]

I absolutely love writing these shows, they only take me about a half hour to write as well. This is the aspects of booking matches that I love, the only problem is that in the real world I don't know how exactly certain wrestlers would mesh up with others. Sure you hope that every match they have will be five stars but we all know that isn't true, with these guys I've got an understanding of how they work against each other. I even state that these first two shows are to be "safe" when booking, I even avoid backstage heat because their are a few guys I could use that have heat with other guys it's sad but at the same time it's fun to do the math for each show. It's a bit depressing that the more fun I have working on a show the less it's enjoyed by the masses lol, but I want to thank you and Howard for reading the shows and I'm really glad it's inspiring.

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Hey, some people just don't appreciate art, I suppose. You see, before as I contemplated full retirement, I had my heart set on getting into some other writing projects, but what I figured out was that the less I did any work in this particular field, the less my creative juices flowed altogether, so I knew that just wasn't going to work. This is what I do, whether anybody likes it or not has had to become irrelevant, in a way, which was partially the case with the COMPLEX show. I wanted to do it exactly how I wanted to do it, and I felt good about it in the end. I've got a whole library of shows saved on a Tripod account to kind of draw from and see where I came from, what I've done many years ago, and I know I'm the only one still reading those, so I guess there is that.

I will say, having read your work for years and years and sort of mentored you very early in your goings in this world, this show and the last are really beautiful thing from a full circle perspective. I remember when you used to write these shows and they weren't as good as this, but you have become so good at your craft, at the telling of these short stories we work in and in painting a picture of the action in your way that I do really find them enjoyable. Maybe it is because I have changed as a reader, and what I want to see is different, or the things I like have changed, I don't know, but what I do know is that this is very good work and I hope more is to come.

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So I'm a bit late to the party on this show. I don't have a lot to say seeing as I'm not familar on the background of these and all, but I can say I appreciate the writing and that you did good work here. This world imo is about writing what you enjoy writing and what makes you happy, and I can tell you enjoyed writing this through the writing, so I say keep doing these and have fun with them. I mean a big part of why I've changed my promotion so many times and done side projects and stuff is that there have been times where i simply haven't taken a lot of enjoyment from what I've been writing, but now I've found a balance with Hybrid Pro where I'm really enjoying myself, to the extent that writing is one of the most positive aspects of my life right now. So yeah, keep on doing these and have a blast with them, I'll try and throw my two cents in even if it'll likely just be "good show man" lol.

(looks like I had more to say than I expected, lol)