Showing posts with label Gary Jay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gary Jay. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2013

Enchantment Under the Sea: ACW Nothing Is As Real As a Dream '12 Review

The least happy Big Bird I've seen since Mr. Hooper died
Photo Credit: Texas Anarchy

You want the TH style? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TH STYLE... oh wait, yes you can.

Highlights:
  • Darin Childs interrupted the reunion of Kissyboots (Rachel Summerlyn and Skylar Skelly) opening the show to "propose" a match with Summerlyn at Guilty by Association 7.
  • In lieu of a match, Scot Summers set up an elaborate trap for Killah Kash just to beat him with a steel chair.
  • Carson and James Claxton defeated Ricky Romida and Bolt Brady with a double team move that involved Claxton slamming Carson on top of both members of the Electric Company.
  • In between stints on the mic trolling to get laid at prom, JT LaMotta took out Chingo del Santo with a twisting moonsault.
  • Mojo Bravado (Jordan Jensen and JoJo Bravo) answered Slim Sexy's open challenge, which caused JC Bravo to rally to Sexy's side as tag partner. The match ended with a JoJo low blow and Samurai Driver to JC for the Bravo-on-Bravo violence-tinged decision.
  • Mojo Bravado came out during the Athena/Davey Vega vs. Su Yung/Matthew Palmer match and attacked the male halves of the teams. Yung used the distraction to roll Athena up and score the win.
  • Using a giant monkey wrench as a distraction technique, Robert Evans was able to score a tights-assisted school boy roll up on Pierre Abernathy.
  • The ACW Tag Championship match saw Killah Kash, Shawn Vexx, Scot Summers, and Ryan Genesis run in. Amidst the chaos, Darin Childs (teaming with Khris Wolfe) scored the pinfall over Sky de Lacrimosa (Champions with Jason Silver) to win those belts.
  • In the Evening Gown Joshi Tag Match, Lady Poison eliminated both Rachel Summerlyn and herself in one fell swoop. Summerlyn would linger, but she'd take an accidental superkick from Portia Perez as she was blinded by Angel Blue's glitter gun. Blue took the opportunity to disrobe Perez and score the win.
  • After the match, a seemingly contrite Evans came to the ring to confront Perez to ask for forgiveness, but it turned out he was just stalking her sister's family, raising Perez's ire even more than it already was.
  • ACH escaped with the ACW Championship for the second straight show, pinning Jaykus Plisken (in a match that also featured Vexx) with a tight hurricanrana pin.
  • In the main event, with Jerry Lynn locked in Evan Gelistico's St. Louis Stretch, Mat Fitchett scored a pinfall victory over Gary Jay with the shooting star press before his partner had to tap out.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

The Harder They Fall: ACW Peace, Love, and Anarchy 2012 Review

Matthew Palmer using Rachel Summerlyn for leverage to get in those all-important mid-match calisthenics
Photo Credit: Texas Anarchy
In the fully immortal TWB style. Buy this show yesterday on Smart Mark Video:

Highlights:
  • Channeling the spirit of the Mega Powers, Pierre Abernathy and Davey Vega defeated the Mojo Bravado as Abernathy tapped Jordan Jenson with the crossface.
  • Chingo del Santo wrested the U-30 Championship from the grasp of JC Bravo with a muscle buster.
  • Matthew Palmer survived two falls from the balcony of the newly renovated Mohawk and finished off Rachel Summerlyn with a frogsplash from three-quarters of the way across the ring to retain his World Hardcore Championship.
  • Killa Kash thought he gave his team (including Sky de Lacrimosa and Jason Silver) a permanent advantage by blinding Scot Summers with a spike. However, Jerry Lynn would join Darin Childs and Khris Wolfe to help finish off those Children of Pain 2.0.
  • Evan Gelistico and Gary Jay RUINED the end of a technically excellent wrestling match between Lynn and Vega. Vega got the win, but he wasn't too happy about Submission Squad interference.
  • IN a match where his inflatable brother Murphy was gravely injured, Mat Fitchett fought bravely until the end of the six-way scramble, but fell to the St. Louis Stretch of Gelistico.
  • Serenity spent way too much time jaw-jacking and got got by the toxic kiss of one Lady Poison in the process.
  • Barbi Hayden beat the ever-loving crap out of Angel Blue, but the latter retained her American Joshi Championship by throwing glitter into the former's eyes.
  • Jaykus Plisken eliminated both Gary Jay and Shawn Vexx from the Anarchy Championship match, but his hubris allowed ACH to get the win and retain the title. After the match, Vexx reappeared to sneak attack ACH.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Guest Review: ACW's Lone Star Classic

Poor ACH, he doesn't know what's about to hit him
Photo Credit: Brandon Stroud
Brandon Stroud, when he's not going to vegetarian chili cook offs or judging air-sex competitions, writes about sports and RAW for With Leather and about the Internet for Progressive Boink. He is also more than gracious enough to take time out of his schedule to write about Anarchy Championship Wrestling for TWB when he can. Last night, he attended the Lone Star Classic Tournament, and here's what he had to write about the whole thing:

It looks like I'm officially Tom Holzerman's Anarchy Championship Wrestling sideline reporter (thanks for not fielding my application, Dirty Dirty Sheets) so I'll skip the perfunctory opening paragraph and get right to the results and show thoughts. Oh, before I start I will mention that I spent the Sunday afternoon before the show at our 24th Annual Veggie Chili Cook-Off and note that Austin is the best place ever to eat tempeh and watch pro graps and you should be here.

Anyway, the 2012 Lone Star Classic. Predictably, I was there!

- Thomas Shire defeated Lil' Tony in a quick, unannounced thing. Shire called out Destiny's favorite ACW wrestler, Lil' Tony, and the two brawled for a minute or so before Shire put him away with a fisherman suplex and counted the pin himself. Shire is deceptively good. Keep in mind that he's the only guy on the ACW roster who has ever toured All Japan and wrestled Kojima. So OF COURSE he could beat Lil' Tony. (p.s. we love you, Lil' Tony)

- Jack Jameson/Ricky Romida defeated Ricky Starks/Kyle Hawk, Sky de Lacrimosa/Killa Kash and JC Bravo/Stan Summers. I missed Kyle Hawk during one of the August/September shows, but if you've never seen him, he is Cruiserweight Tatanka. That's ... almost as great as you're imagining. Jameson and Romida got the win in a pretty by-the-numbers ACW pre-show scramble tag elimination thing, with two important notes: 1) Jack Jameson entered to Kenta Kobashi's theme, which, especially after dressing as Bryan Danielson at last month's Halloween show and entering to 'The Final Countdown,' is the most amazingly fun/presumptuous thing ever. 2) At one point near the end the action spilled to the outside, and in ACW it's a pretty common sight to see entire sections of fans just hop up and scurry away to avoid chair death. Ricky was about to toss Sky (I think it was Sky) into our seats, but stopped, picked up Destiny's leftovers from dinner, handed them to her politely and then did his thing. Big Ricky is our new gentleman hero.

- Gary Jay defeated Pierre Abernathy. Roughly six minutes of wrestling bliss. The Submission Squad guys obviously know each other really well and could work a good match with one another with their eyes closed (shut up, Chikara fans, that was three years ago) (EDITOR'S NOTE: I agree with this, shut up or else I will beat you, SO HELP ME GOD I WILL BEAT YOU), but when Pierre's in there with Gary it just goes to another level. Pierre transforms any ACW match he's in into this weird, heightened reality thing where comedy and violence are same, and where he can throw the worst imaginable punch at Gary and have us laugh about how awesome it is instead of booing. Gary's an abrasive, violent guy, but he hits the perfect note when he's wrestling Pierre, where he'll go for a shitty moonsault on purpose but still kinda look like he wants to cave in Big Daddy's head. I don't know. It just works. Gary got the win with a roll-up (with the tights I'm assuming, I wasn't at the right angle to see) and Pierre continues his totally unnecessary losing-almost-always streak.

- Lone Star Classic first round match: ACH defeated Jojo Bravo and Barrett Brown. HOLY SHIT, this match. If you want to be good at namedropping independent wrestlers who aren't just Kevin Steen, learn who these three guys are and namedrop them to every wrestling fan you know. ACH is already blowing up everywhere now, but the other two guys are outstanding. Jojo's a tiny guy with monstrously large offense who makes sword noises when he does his Samurai Driver taunt and has a seated senton from the top where he starts jumping up and down on you when you land. It's rad. Barrett Brown came out of nowhere (Houston) to be a guy everybody in the building loves, as he's like a proto Low Ki without all the backstage jerky stuff and angry faces. He is absolutely going places. This match was the best of the night and the best I've seen at the Mohawk in a while. At one point ACH did a dive through the ropes and flew headfirst into the side of a staircase. Top shelf. Treat these three as nicely as you can, ACW. My only complaint is that Jojo used his Godzilla dubstep entrance theme instead of that FOCUS UP rap song they used at Fun Fun Fun Fest.

- Lone Star Classic first round match: Jerry Lynn defeated Cowboy James Claxton and Bolt Brady. Everybody was wondering why Jerry Lynn was wrestling in a shirt, but we figured it out pretty quickly when this match went by a little faster than you'd expect and Jerry revealed he'd F'd up his back. More on that later.

- Lone Star Classic first round match: Evan Gelistico defeated Khris Wolfe and Angel Blue. Khris Wolfe singles matches (or at least wrestling with fewer than four opponents) are a thing that need to happen more often. Special note: I have to give Angel Blue a lot of credit for last night. She was funny at ringside during the Jojo Bravo match -- she told me she hated my face and that I looked like a "grizzly bear on crack" instead of the normal, ridiculously offensive slurs she normally calls me -- and she played an epic chickenshit here, dodging every bit of offense she could, then running back in to add stomps when Gelistico had Wolfe grounded. That all built up to the moment when she stops paying attention and Wolfe lays her the fuck out with an elbow, and she gets carried away by her The Business stablemates. It was ... it was really good, I'm not going to front. When she was heckling me, she told me I was starting to like her. Ugh, she's totally right.

- Lone Star Classic first round match: Darin Childs defeated Jaykus Plisken (c) and "Showtime" Scot Summers to become the new ACW Heavyweight Champion. That's one of the most interesting things about the Lone Star Classic ... in ACW, if you're the champion and you're wrestling by yourself in a match, the belt is on the line. That means that if you're in a one night tournament, your belt is on the line in every match you have, and you've got to win them all to keep it. That's nearly impossible. Jaykus got eliminated first, and Summers got rolled up and pinned after he got slapped by Machiko and decided to brain buster her to death. Let's never let Jaykus Plisken be the champion of something again, okay everybody?

- Hardcore Title Match: Matthew Palmer (c) defeated Jason Silver. Silver getting a hardcore title shot explains why Other Lost Boy Sky de Lacrimosa was teaming with Kash in that pre-show tag. Silver's a great opponent for Palmer, because their styles are similar, and they're both really into jumping off of things and hurting themselves. Silver pulled off a ridiculous senton over the top to the floor early on, and things went back and forth until a TV set (!) got involved. Palmer picked up the win with a well-placed Snapmare Driver. I'll say it in every report I write here, but it's Super Dumb that promotions around the country aren't sending Palmer "hey, come work for us" e-mails on the reg. Get on this, Beyond.

- American Joshi Title Match: Barbi Hayden (c) defeated Rachel Summerlyn and Jessica James. The issues between Rachel and Jessica continue (and continued after the match, with Rachel accidentally bumping Jessica in the face with a chair and getting it kicked into hers), but the real story here is that Barbi Hayden is suddenly an ace. Seriously, she gets better every time you see her. Here, she took out both women at the same time, and not only did she pin them, she pinned them by LYING ACROSS THEM AND POSING. It was the most baller thing ever. We tried to get a FEED ME MORE chant going, but her music was too loud. Barbi should keep Rybacking folks, I'm totally on board with it. Just Meathook them and pose on them like an asshole. Love it.

- Lone Star Classic round two match: Rachel Summerlyn defeated ACH. Remember when I said Jerry Lynn got hurt? His replacement was Rachel. The match was built like a lot of Rachel's matches against top-tier ACW guys ... some early sportsmanship, followed by them either underestimating her or not wanting to fight her, then her goading them into beating the shit out of her and them DOING it until she goes Beast Mode and gives it right back. Beast Mode Rachel is something you have to be there live to appreciate. She gets hit with a thousand stiff elbow strikes and gets put down with authority, then just bridges out of a pin and starts SCREAMING and MURDERING DUDES and it DOESN'T STOP. The picture at the top of this report is of Rach in Beast Mode. She got the win when she got up her knees to block ACH's frog splash and rolled him over in a cradle for the three. These two are everything good about Texas wrestling, but you know that already. Additional note: Rachel's hair is now Extra Blonde, and she deserves high fives for it.

- Lone Star Classic round two match: Evan Gelistico defeated Darin Childs (c) to become the new ACW Heavyweight Champion. Remember what I said about how hard it is to keep your belt in a one-night tournament? I remember two major things about this match: 1) Evan Gelistico wearing the world's most unflattering ring shorts, and 2) Gelistico giving Machiko a straight-up gruesome tombstone piledriver when she tried to interfere. Machiko should really invest in a football helmet.

- Athena defeated Davey Vega, Shawn Vexx and Carson to earn a shot at the ACW Heavyweight Championship. Vexx's ACW Televised Title wasn't on the line, and unlike most of ACW's multi-person matches, this was one fall to a finish. The highlight of the match was Athena getting HARDCORE~, wrapping herself in chains, using a staple gun on people and hitting Vega in the face (by accident) with a barbed wire bat. Athena got the pin on Vega to pick up the win and earn a future shot at the ACW title, a win that Vexx stood by and allowed to happen. That furthers the Vexx/Vega/Athena issues, and I'm interested to see where it all goes. Also, scoring update: Barbi Hayden > Ken Carson

Anarchy's Ace, with Anarchy's prize
Photo Credit: Brandon Stroud
- Lone Star Classic finals: Rachel Summerlyn defeated Evan Gelistico (c) to become the new ACW Heavyweight Champion. Portia did it first. The end.

I'm kidding. For the second year in a row we got three title changes in the Lone Star Classic, and just like last year's ACH victory, this year's Rachel win is wonderful. This one featured ladders, trash can shots, Brandon getting splashed with trash can residue (blargh), Gelstico trying to choke Rachel out with the ladder, balcony fights and ultimately a Gory Bomb onto the same broken TV from the hardcore title match. She's really earned it, and I couldn't be happier for her. Now we've got a Rachel vs. Athena ACW title match happening in the future, as well as a shit-ton of gravity added to the Rachel/Darin match at Guilty By Association in January.

I've gotten into a vibe where I meet somebody new at every ACW show, so if you read this and are anywhere near Texas, a car or an airplane, get to Austin and support this promotion. Even Angel Blue.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

"I'M PRO CHOICE!": AIW Straight Outta Compton Review

Hailey Hatred, showing why she's got such a strong stake to the vacated Queen of Wrestling throne
Screen Grab Credit: Smart Mark VOD
In the TWB style

Highlights:
  • In a nice opener, Mat Fitchett and Davey Vega defeated Evan Gelistico and Pierre Abernathy, Fitchett pinning Abernathy with a running shooting star press.
  • The Submission Squad came out to jump The Duke during his match with Jock Samson, but Da Latin Crime Syndicate evened the score, helping Duke get the win with a roll-up.
  • Marion Fontaine appeared in the middle of the match between Michael Facade and Colin Delaney in time to take the fall from Facade via a reverse suplex into a tombstone.
  • John Thorne picked Drake Younger as Rickey Shane Page's poison for this evening. Younger, with help from a well-placed but unwanted Thorne light tube shot, defeated RSP with Drake's Landing.
  • In a match where Sugar Dunkerton broke his arm, Eric Ryan pinned both Gary Jay and Alex Colon with package piledrivers to win the four-way elimination match.
  • RSP picked Hailey Hatred as his poison for Thorne, and as a receipt, helped the First Joshi of AIW get the win over Thorne with a Death Valley Driver into light tubes.
  • Dave Crist ate a Drunken Driver from Josh Prohibition and a shooting star press from Matt Cross, as the Irish Airborne failed in their attempt to win the AIW Tag Team Championships.
  • In one of the finest matches all year, ACH successfully ran out the clock by holding onto the ropes on AR Fox after reversing his La Mahistrol Cradle for a pinfall, winning their half-hour iron man match, 2 falls to 1.
  • In the main event, Flexor Industries were able to eke out a win over the United Front of Tim Donst, BJ Whitmer and Johnny Gargano, as Bobby Beverly nailed Whitmer with a beer bottle for the pin.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

RIP All the Mohawk's Chairs: ACW Guilty by Association 6 Review

Robert Evans or the chairs? Who was the bigger victim at this show?
Photo Credit: Texas Anarchy
In the TWB standard format

Highlights:
  • Junior Garza made his ACW return, and Angel Blue interfered to help Darin Childs eliminate Shawn Vexx in the eight-man elimination tag match opener.
  • Just Willie, with help from his partner Sabrecat, provided inspiration for fat people everywhere by landing a springboard moonsault on the outside to the other four competitors in the three way tag match.
  • However, it would be Team SEX of Johnny Axxle and Highroller Hayze taking out Aiden Colt, who partnered with Omega, with a spike Vertebreaker.
  • Jaykus Plisken used help from his Takeover to make JT LaMotta tap out to the Last Chancery.
  • In a match that also featured Lillie Mae, Angel Blue captured the American Joshi Championship from Athena using powder to the eyes and a roll up while grabbing the tights.
  • Bolt Brady and Ricky Romida busted up Evan Gelistico's back with a Doomsday Lungblower en route to a victory over him and his tag partner, Pierre Abernathy.
  • JC Bravo won the U-30 Championship in a title vs. hair vs. career match against Chingo (the former Champion) and Berry Breeze (whose career ended thanks to the loss).
  • After the match, Berry Breeze proposed to his girlfriend. It was accepted.
  • In the most intense war started over a scorned heart since the Trojan War, Robert Evans used two inverted Styles Clashes sandwiched around an ankle lock to defeat Portia Perez.
  • Masada jammed skewers into the top of Matthew Palmer's head, and it still wasn't enough to deny the challenge of the Centerfold in the World Hardcore Championship scaffold match. Palmer won with a Centerfold Splash off the scaffolding.
  • Davey Vega won the ACW Televised Championship against Scot Summers, Jerry Lynn and Mat Fitchett with a turnbuckle Air Raid Crash on Fitchett.
  • Rachel Summerlyn fended off her tag partner Jessica James with a series of counters out of an attempted Gory special.
  • After the match, Lady Poison retook the body of James, and she gave the poison kiss to both Summerlyn and her manager, Machiko.
  • In the main event, ACH tapped out Gary Jay with the Muta Lock to retain the ACW Anarchy Championship and regain physical possession of the belt.
  • After the match, Vexx and his Children of Pain 2.0 appeared to jump ACH.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

King of Trios Week: The Submission Squad's Redemption

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Chikara will give these four men another chance. So should you.
Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein
Once upon a time, there were four men who appeared at a Chikara show who stunk up the joint so bad that they were booed out of the building. Their names were spoken with contempt, and anyone who suggested they get another chance at performing in front of a Chikara crowd was labeled a moron or a crazy person. I don't speak for all Chikara fans, but there are those among them who are notoriously unforgiving and insular. A lot of times, a vocal minority can drown out a sensible majority and drive the narrative, but then again, I didn't see that performance. It might have been really, really baaaaaad.

That being said, since then, I have seen Davey Vega, Gary Jay, Pierre Abernathy and Evan Gelistico in action. The four men, dubbed the Submission Squad, have been a huge reason why both Anarchy Championship Wrestling and St. Louis Anarchy have been the talk of the wrestling world. They're a huge reason why the East Coast is no longer the only relevant area for localized, nouveau-regional progressivism in professional grappling. They're the real deal.

So why are people still treating them like it's the second coming of TL Hopper? That's an easy question to answer. People can be insular by their nature. I can't blame them because it's easier to fall into ruts and habits and not open your mind to new experiences that may not be as easy to access. I do find it funny that Chikara, a company that requires more work to follow than WWE or Impact Wrestling, has fans who would close their minds to other companies, but hey, stranger things have happened.

That's why this weekend is so important for these four men. They don't have the benefit of goodwill behind them. They have to work, but then again, redemption tales often require a lot of work in order to be successful. No one gets off easy, nor should they. If redemption was easy, then it wouldn't be poignant. It wouldn't be meaningful. It wouldn't be powerful.

Of course, I have no doubt that the Squad will be able to win back the Chikara crowds starting Friday. Again, I didn't see them in their first appearance. That was before my time as a Chikara fan. Still, in the time since I have started following them, they've gotten really good. Abernathy especially will be able to win over a Chikara crowd because the guy's got pretty good comedic timing. That will mean a lot for the King of Trios crowd.

The point is, I can write a lot of words on how the Squad will deliver. Guys like Brandon Stroud can write even more since he's in their home company's hometown. IT won't matter. We're all Doubting Thomases by nature. We need to see to believe. That being said, I have no doubt that they'll win over their own doubters. All they need is a chance.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Where We Will Find Whether a Squad Is Greater or Less Than an Envoy

Graphics Credit: ChikaraPro.com

With the announcement that the Submission Squad would be able to compete as an atomico unit instead of making one of the members sit out, their first round matchup was going to face a lot of scrutiny anyway. And just like that, they draw the Spectral Envoy. It's odd; all of Wink Vavasseur's decisions regarding personnel and matchups have seemingly benefited not one of the resident Chikara tecnicos. I mean yeah, 3.0 and Akuma seem to be on the right track, but he's put the screws to the Colony, Sugar Dunkerton and now the massively popular trio of Frightmare, Hallowicked and UltraMantis Black.

Curious decisions aside, this ought to be a pretty spiffy match. If there's anyone who could help rehab the image of the Squad to Chikara fans, it's the Envoy in an adversarial role.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Submission Squad Wants Redemption

Graphics Credit: ChikaraPro.com

Four years ago, Evan Gelistico, Gary the Barn Owl, Davey Vega and Pierre Abernathy made an infamous appearance for Chikara. Roundly booed for their performance, they left the company shamed, perhaps never to return again. A funny thing happened since then though. The four returned to their roots in St. Louis, branched off into Austin in Anarchy Championship Wrestling, started cooperating with Beyond Wrestling and Absolute Intense Wrestling, and most importantly, they got good.

So, obviously, when their Wrestling Is videos started to hit, I got very interested in what they were trying to say. Then, when they were finally announced for King of Trios, I was pretty ecstatic. It turns out I'm clearly on one side of a dividing line among fans who are as polarized by their announcement as any other trio in the last four tournament brackets. It doesn't bother me that people are up in arms about the Submission Squad being there, because I know they can prove their doubters wrong.

However, it's King of Trios, not Emperor of Atomicos. All four members (what, no Athena?) are listed on the graphic. How are they going to do this? Freebird rules? I don't know, man. Either way, as with anything unknown, it's going to be interesting, that's for sure.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Wrestling Podcast, Episode 63: Drew Cordeiro of Beyond Wrestling

This picture of ACH never gets old
Photo Credit: Texas Anarchy
Episode 63: Far Beyond Wrestling Driven

Drew Cordeiro (or Denver Colorado, the man, not the place) of Beyond Wrestling and Women's Superstars Uncensored stops by the podcast this week. Swamp Sessions happens this Friday in Bridgewater, MA, and Cordeiro does some last minute hyping for the show, including the circumstances by which the main event of Dave Cole vs. Aaron Epic in a best three out of five falls match came about. There's also the standard gushing about ACH, because really, the guy is the real deal. We get a bit philosophical about Beyond with discussion on the differences between live and "wrestlers only" shows as well as the points system and whether there'll be an endgame. We move onto talk about WSU and how the reception has been to Beyond taking over operations. There's some talk about women's wrestling as well as how wrestling is different when it comes to intergender integration than other sports. Finally, Cordeiro reminds everyone that the food at all Beyond events is homemade and that he feels as passionately about it as he does about wrestling. If that's the case, then holy shit, is that going to be some good food at Swamp Sessions.

Direct link for your downloading pleasure.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Wrestling Podcast, Episode 61: Rachel Summerlyn

WAR RACHEL
Photo Credit: Leslie Lee/DDS
Episode 61: How I Spent My Summerlyn Vacation

Anarchy's Ace, the incomparable Rachel Summerlyn joins me for this week's podcast. Anarchy Championship Wrestling's 100th show, From Innocence to Insanity 6, is taking place in two weeks, and we give you the lowdown on all the top matches. We run down Rachel's history with Lady Poison and why it's so tough to shake her. We also go into detail on the bad blood between ACH and Jaykus Plisken as well as all the trouble Angel Blue's mouth has gotten herself into. Rachel waxes poetically about ladder matches and then insinuates that Gary Jay is homeless (I have yet to hear an argument against that, by the way). We move onto Queen of Queens, where Rachel gushes about being in the ring with a veritable icon Jazz and the new hotness in Jessicka Havok. She recounts some of her dream matches she's yet to wrestle in and explains why she thinks gender segregation is bullshit. We talk about how awesome a city Austin is, and we finish up with some discussion about music.

Direct link for your downloading pleasure.