Anarchy Championship Wrestling
Respect
The Venue
Sunday May 27, 2007
Match # 1 - First Stage of Death - Pinfall Match
Darin Childs vs. Jacob Ladder (win)
Match # 2 - Triple Threat Elimination Match
Berry Breeze vs. Problems vs. Chris James (win)
Match # 3 - Dusty Wolfe vs. Tony Vega (win)
Match # 4 - Second Stage of Death - Tap-Out Match
Darin Childs (win) vs. Jacob Ladder
Match # 5 - ACW Tag Team Championship Match
Challengers Massive & Rexx Reed vs. Champions Kissyboots: Rachel Summerlyn & Skylar Skelly (win & retain titles)
Match # 6 - Tag Team Match
Perfect Enemy: Jaykus Plisken & "Showtime" Summers vs. Rory Fox & "One Man" Mike Dell (no contest)
Match # 7 - *Impromptu Match* ACW Heavyweight Title Match
Challenger Mike Dell vs. Champion "Showtime" Summers (win by forfeit)
Match # 8 - Main Event - Third Stage of Death - No Ropes/Barbwire Rope Weapons Match for ACW Hardcore Championship (Jacob Ladder's Final Match)
Challenger Jacob Ladder vs. Champion Darin Childs (win & retain title)
Notes: The name of the show was Anarchy Championship Wrestling Presents “Respect” and that was what it was all about: Respect for a man who given his all for wrestling fans, spilling more blood in 6 years than most wrestlers do in a 20 year career. Jacob Ladder had announced his retirement on May 6th, but his tag-team partner Darin Childs wouldn’t let Ladder go out without something special. Three matches, the Three Stages of Violence, were announced as Ladder and Childs would face off, first in a regular pinfalls match, next a tap-out submissions match and finally something suitable to the Deathmatch specialists. The final match for Ladder would be a no-rope barbwire weapons match in which fans were encouraged to construct and bring weapons. Three matches in one night between two men who arguably are the best team in Texas.
The show started with the First Stage of Death between Childs and Ladder. The Children of Pain showed that they didn’t need weapons to be hardcore as the two wailed upon one another in a hard-hitting match which would be enough in one night to wear out most wrestlers. Fittingly enough, Jacob Ladder won the first match on the night dedicated to show him his due Respect.
The next match was a triple threat elimination match featuring ACW regulars Berry Breeze and Chris James along with a young newcomer named Problems who seemed eerily familiar to San Antonio wrestling fans. While Chris James was easily the largest man in the ring, Berry and Problems showed there mettle and challenged for the victory. When Berry hit his finisher on Problems, ACW fans thought they were going to see Berry get his first pinfall on an opponent but Chris James interjected, throwing Berry outside the ring and stealing the pin. Clearly upset, Berry confronted James but Problems had more to say as he tripped up Berry allowing James to get the second pinfall and the victory.
The third match featured Chris James’ tag team partner Tony Vega in a match against the San Antonio wrestling legend Dusty Wolfe. These two veterans treated the fans to an “old school” match which was only spoiled when, following a collision with the referee, Chris James snuck into the ring and hit Dusty with a chair. When the ref recovered, Vega was in position to score the pin and the victory.
The Second Stage of Death was next as the Children of Pain faced off in a submissions only tap-out match. In this match, Ladder and Childs were able to show yet another dimension of their wrestling as each focused on gaining the opportunity to slap on a submission hold. Both men came close but between the reversals and the escapes the match could have gone either direction in a snap. This time it was Childs who was able to gain the advantage and score the victory with a vicious hold, names the Childs’ Play Death lock which tortured Ladder in at least three different ways.
Next came a Tag Team Title Match in which the champions Kissyboots faced two of the largest men in ACW: Rexx Reed and Massive. The Champions Skylar Skelly and Rachel Summerlyn were accompanied to the ring by their entourage, but The Big Guys held them at bay, controlling the match. Massive and Reed concentrated on keeping Rachel in the ring for most of the match. Skylar and Rachel did manage to get some offense in, but it seemed as though a title change was inevitable when, from out of the back, Double Trouble rushed the ring attacking Massive and Reed. When the dust cleared, James and Vega pulled Rachel over the fallen Massive and the ref had no choice but count the pin. Afterwards, Tony Vega explained their actions, “Nobody beats Kissyboots until WE beat Kissyboots!”
As Double Trouble stood triumphantly over two fallen teams, the newest team in ACW, “Perfect Enemy” rushed to the ring, chasing Vega and James away. “Perfect Enemy”, it was revealed is made up of Jaykus Plisken and “Showtime” Summers, two of the toughest men in ACW. Clearly Tag Team Wrestling in ACW is about to change forever.
Perfect Enemy’s first unlucky opponents were none other than “One Man” Mike Dell and Rory Fox who now insist on being called “The Sexy Fox-a-Dellics.” The match never fully developed as about 2 minutes into the action, Fox received a vicious kick to the face and had to be helped to the back. Dell wisely demurred from continuing in a two-on-one match. Not satisfied with the no-decision, ACW Champion “Showtime” Summers offered to defend his belt against Dell in an impromptu match. At first, Dell accepted the offer and went at Summers hard, but soon he changed his mind. Whether it was the thought of Plisken outside the ring, or something he saw in Summers’ eye, or actual concern for his fallen partner, Dell fled the ring, refusing to continue the match. The ref had no choice but to award the match to Summers as a result of forfeiture.
Next was the main event. As the ring crew hustled to replace the ring ropes with barb wire, the crowd compared the assembled weapons. A partial list of weapons brought by fans include numerous light-tube devices, frying pans and street signs covered with thumbtacks, A toaster, a computer keyboard, and a KFC chicken bucket all covered with tacks. Numerous boards and a chair covered with razor blades, even dry ice surrounded the ring. Fans brought forks, cheese graters, rubbing alcohol and hot sauce and then there was this strange contraption made of foam float tubes with 8 inch bamboo spikes. Oh there was also an ironing board with light tubes and a George Foreman Grill.
Describing the action in the Final Stage of Death is an impossible task. Childs and Ladder came to the ring wearing the same ring gear they wore the first time they faced each other back in October 2004 in Austin. In a show of respect, Childs declared that he would be defending his ACW Hardcore Title in the match. Ladder, who had shaved his head since the earlier match, held nothing back in the match and Childs wasn’t going to give his partner anything less than his best in this important match. The fans chanted “COP”, “ACW” and “Ladder” at different points in the match, but when Childs slammed Ladder onto a table covered with tubes and then covered him for the pin, the crowd became eerily silent. Recognizing the importance of what they had just seen, the crowd seemed stunned by the sudden ending. After the match, Ladder and Childs each thanked the other, not just for the match but for so much that cannot be said. Ladder thanked everyone involved in the night, from the workers in the back, to the ring crew, to the fans. The Age of Anarchy had entered a new phase.
ACW will present 2 shows in June. On the 10th, ACW presents “If You Don’t Like Pain, You Wouldn’t Understand” featuring Jerry Lynn at Graham Central Station. On the 17th, Canadian star Sexxxy Eddie comes to ACW with “A Sexxxy Sunday Night” at the Venue. This show will be a “Fan Appreciation Night” with all tickets just $7. Also announced on the card will be Rexx Reed vs. Necro-Butcher.
Check out www.anarchychampionshipwrestling.com for details on all ACW shows including ACW presents IWA Mid-South’s “Remember The Butcher” on August 19th. Tickets are now on sale.
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Exclusive detailed report for ACW by Barry Yount, editor of the San Antonio Independent Wrestling Scene |