Ask anyone who follows wrestling - not just WWE, but wrestling - who the two most fearsome, terrifying, hardest-to-kill wrestlers are in America nowadays, and my guess is the top two would be a fairly unanimous consensus: Jessicka Havok and Sami Callihan. Both have had meteoric rises to the top of the indie scene. Havok is the WSU World Champion and is knocking on the door of SHIMMER with her SHINE appearances. It can't be too long before she's in Berwyn, wreaking her brand of chaos and challenging Sweet Saraya Knight or whomever has the SHIMMER title at the time of her landfall for that piece of hardware. Conversely, Callihan has busted out from the midwest on a scorched-earth campaign in Dragon Gate USA/EVOLVE. His virulence has made its way to the West Coast, landing in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla with the force that Hurricane Sandy is blowing through the East right now.
In this world of dissolving gender barriers, it's natural that these two wrestlers would clash at some point. Havok is already showing she's as deadly against the men as she is against women thanks to her home company merging with Beyond Wrestling. So it's natural she's been vocal in getting stiff competition regardless of gender. She has been answering the fans' desires to want her to face off against Callihan. Here's the thing though; Callihan doesn't strike me as a guy who'd back down from a challenge.
So, the matter becomes who will book these two in a match? Who's gonna have the cajones to risk the imminent destruction of everything in a two-mile radius by having these two atomic bomb avatars rain haymakers on each other? Well, I have a few ideas...
ACW - Anarchy is already putting the greater Austin area in grave danger on my birthday by booking Havok against Jaykus Plisken. Callihan would be a perfect fit for the promotion. I'd say that if the Mohawk can withstand Havok and Plisken on December 16th (MY BIRTHDAY!), then it could be a fine battleground for Havok/Callihan at, I don't know, Guilty by Association 7?
PWG - Callihan arrived on the West Coast and immediately started kicking ass and taking names. I know that I highlighted that during the Super Dragon Q and A that he didn't think about booking many more women in PWG because of his own preconceived notions, but if anyone could change his mind, it'd be Havok. Imagine how balls-out Callihan/Havok would be in Reseda?
AIW - Obviously, both wrestlers came up through Ohio, and AIW has become pretty much THE promotion in the state. This promotion, at least from a local standpoint, makes the most sense. AAW in Chicago would fit the bill too. Hell, the first Midwestern promotion to book this match would get infinite cool points from me.
It really doesn't matter who books this match, as long as someone books it. It has to happen sooner rather than later. Callihan and Havok want this match to happen. The fans want it to happen. I think it's the duty of some promoter to make sure that this happens. That's the only thing about wrestling that sucks. You always need a middleman.
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| The New Horror... Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein |
So, the matter becomes who will book these two in a match? Who's gonna have the cajones to risk the imminent destruction of everything in a two-mile radius by having these two atomic bomb avatars rain haymakers on each other? Well, I have a few ideas...
ACW - Anarchy is already putting the greater Austin area in grave danger on my birthday by booking Havok against Jaykus Plisken. Callihan would be a perfect fit for the promotion. I'd say that if the Mohawk can withstand Havok and Plisken on December 16th (MY BIRTHDAY!), then it could be a fine battleground for Havok/Callihan at, I don't know, Guilty by Association 7?
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| ...vs. the Umbrella Corp. Assasin Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein |
AIW - Obviously, both wrestlers came up through Ohio, and AIW has become pretty much THE promotion in the state. This promotion, at least from a local standpoint, makes the most sense. AAW in Chicago would fit the bill too. Hell, the first Midwestern promotion to book this match would get infinite cool points from me.
It really doesn't matter who books this match, as long as someone books it. It has to happen sooner rather than later. Callihan and Havok want this match to happen. The fans want it to happen. I think it's the duty of some promoter to make sure that this happens. That's the only thing about wrestling that sucks. You always need a middleman.
