<10/23/13 @ 2:13 AM PST>
- Season 3 is DONE. Let's talk about it. First off, if you haven't already,
WATCH SEASON 3. It's right here in the Media
section. Go ahead and watch, we'll wait....... Done? Good. So first up, we had
our first three episodes of the season covering ISUXDIX's trip to upstate New
York for the show of the summer, NYE3 presented by NEW ERA. Credit to Daniel
Makabe for getting the wheels in motion on this trip. One moment he's watching
Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata invade New Japan, and the next he's
saying to himself, "Hey, I want to do that," and organizing the troops to get to
New York. What's actually quite remarkable about this trip is that, even when we
were running almost weekly and flying to multiple supershows a year, we NEVER
had a group of 6 fly to one show before (previous bests were 5 people for both
BYE6 and BYWeek), but this one we somehow did. Maybe it's the fact that we're
actually wrestling less these days that made the trip more enticing. Whatever
the reason, it worked out, and Daniel Makabe, Yakuza J, Scott Henson, Drew
Sarian, Kaden Talbain, and Mercury all found themselves in New York the weekend
of June 14. ISUXDIX (or DIX-1 International, ISUXDIX's touring company) made its
presence felt right off the bat at the show, interfering in Mercury vs. Marcus
Centofante for the NEW ERA Title, and taking out Centofante, setting up the main
event of Day 3, which would be Scott Henson, Daniel Makabe, and Yakuza J taking
on Marcus Centofante, Crucible Chris Ambros, and J-2Step (collectively known as
KWCD). In between those matches, there were many other excellent matches
involving DIX-1 members: Fur & Loathing successfully defended the ISUXDIX Tag
Titles against Zayne & Brad Rush ("Feeling 22"); Drew Sarian successfully
defended the ISUXDIX World Title against Ryan Brodie, debuting his new Lion
Tamer; Yakuza J defeated The Perfection in a battle of the monsters; Daniel
Makabe defeated MX5, debuting his new Armtrap German Suplex; Mercury loss to
2005 Chris Frank in DIX-1's only loss before Day 3 (though you could argue this
match happened in 2005 so it doesn't count); Kaden Talbain won a spectacular
match over Marky Lectric, utilizing every crazy power move he's ever thought up;
Scott Henson & Daniel Makabe teamed to defeat G-Fatal and GBYWN World Champion
Matt Demorest, again with Makabe's new Armtrap German; Mercury won a 4-Way over
Tommy Flambeau, Doc Holiday, and Murph; Yakuza J teamed up with Phoenix to form
MadStyle who lost by DQ to Robby Roberts and Sean O'Mora (though their opponents
looked the worse for wear); Kaden Talbain fell to Marky Lectric on Day 3 in an
unprecedented supershow rematch, and that brings us to the main event of Day 3.
Henson, Makabe, and Yakuza have tried to team as a trio twice before. The first
time was in England and Daniel Makabe fractured vertebrae and the match was
stopped. The second time was at ISUXDIX Dreamslam and Ruzty injured his leg and
the match was stopped before everyone had even entered in the War Games style
match. So the fact this match even had a finish is a victory in itself. But the
bigger victory is that the match was, in fact, great, and it saw the hometown
team of KWCD getting the big win with Marcus Centofante pinning Scott Henson
after a war between the two. Congratulations to Centofante & Co. not only for
the victory, but for putting on probably the best ring base show we've ever been
to.
- That brings us to what comprised episodes 304 to 307: ISUXDIX Big Dick
Wrestling Universe 2. First off, thanks so much to Alex McConnell, Chris
Goodwin, Dan Van Virtigo, Domi, Phoenix, Jonathan Hitler, and Wrenegade for
flying in, and the Washington and Chilliwack contingents for making the drive.
Wouldn't have been a show without you guys. The show was held over July 12 & 13,
coincidentally Scott Henson's 30th birthday weekend. And he decided his birthday
present to himself would be to win the ISUXDIX Title from Drew Sarian the night
before his birthday. This didn't work out too well for him, as Sarian dominated
and looked to have the pin on Henson, but Henson's partner Kaden Talbain ran in
for the disqualification. Domi, who had defeated Talbain in the opening match
but was attacked by both Henson and Talbain post-match, ran in to even the odds,
and an impromptu tag match was made, with Fur & Loathing putting their Tag
Titles on the line against Sarian's World Title. The finish came with no title
change, however, as Henson pinned Domi for the win. There was still one way
Henson could have a happy birthday, though, and that was Kaden Talbain
challenging for and winning the title from Sarian on Day 2. In that match,
Sarian again looked to have things won with the Lion Tamer, but Henson
distracted the ref, threw in the title belt which Talbain nailed Sarian with
behind the ref's back, and three seconds later Sarian's nearly 18-month title
reign was over and Kaden Talbain was the first ever two-time ISUXDIX World
Champion. The show looked to end on a sour note until Daniel Makabe came out,
coming off big wins over Jonathan Hitler and Chris Goodwin. Makabe said that
Talbain was going to have to defend that title against him sometime, so he
mights as well do it now. Kaden refused, backing out of the ring. However, with
Makabe's back turned, Talbain ran back in and hit Makabe from behind, demanding
the ref ring the bell and saying that this was going to be Makabe's one and only
shot. Talbain hit the Darkness Buster immediately, but somehow Makabe kicked
out. Makabe was able to recover, went for Jumbo Tsuruta Fuck You, Talbain cut
back on it, but Makabe was able to roll through THAT pin attempt into his own,
and we had our second new champion in a matter of minutes. This is Makabe's
first ISUXDIX title win, but his fifth VCW/ISUXDIX World Title overall, which is
the record (Kaden Talbain is second with 4, and Scott Henson and Yakuza J are
tied with 3). Other notable matches on the show were Mercury and Dan Van Virtigo
going to a draw for DVV's RCWA Internet TV Title, MadStyle of Yakuza J and
Phoenix getting DQ'ed against McGoodwin of Alex McConnell and Chris Goodwin,
Daniel Makabe defeating Jonathan Hitler in a rematch 7 years removed from their
BYF9 encounter, Yakuza J and Daniel Makabe reforming the Bubble Tea Mafia to
defeat the rookie team of Zaykan and RTD, Domi defeating Jonathan Hitler, Alex
McConnell KILLING ZEUS MCFLY DEAD with a Pyramid Driver off the stage through
open chairs in their Street Fight a year in the making, Daniel Makabe defeating
Chris Goodwin in a good-should-have-been-great match when Chris Goodwin was
injured by a Trapper Keeper, and Kaden Talbain presenting Scott Henson with the
birthday present of LENNY D making his return after 4 years to team and take on
MadStyle.
- If you read the post below this one, you'll see we announced 7 episodes for
Season 3. And yet there's an episode 308 right there in the Media section. Why
the discrepancy? Well, we didn't know we'd be travelling some more. Upstart
Seattle promotion 3-2-1 Battle featuring many of your favourite BXCW stars ran
its first major show in Seattle in September, and Scott Henson and Drew Sarian
were there. We'd have had more representation there, but with Daniel Makabe out
of town, Kaden Talbain in the hospital, and Zeus McFly just generally a weirdo,
things didn't line up. Nevertheless, Scott Henson saw this show as a stage to
take out his frustrations on Drew Sarian in front of 150 rowdy fans for not
being able to win the title from him in July. Sarian was having none of this,
however, and wrestled perhaps the best match of his life, submitting Henson with
the Lion Tamer, now permanently renamed the Tiger Tamer, appropriately. That
wasn't all, as Henson and Sarian flew to Tennessee (on separate planes of
course) to compete at Galaxy Pro Wrestling's first show, promoted by none other
than Rigor Mortis. Henson teamed with Chicago native Chris Castro to form Team
Cat-Castrophe to take on the Kentucky based OG Screw Crew (Brad Rush and Matt
Revel a.k.a. MX5) and UK superstars Mark Andrews and Pete Dunne in a 3-way tag,
with the Kentuckians getting the pin on the Brits. Drew Sarian took on Davey
Vega, better known in some circles as Dangerous Dave Devereaux, falling to a
Sharpshooter by Vega. Big thanks to Rigor for running the show and hosting the
guests. Same goes to Joe Gonad.
- And perhaps one of the most compelling stories of Season 3 had nothing to do
with the wrestling shows, but the episode introductions before each show. Even
if you hate our wrestling, watch these intros, because they're great. Things
started out harmless enough, with Daniel Makabe doing the first two intros as
per usual. Then Scott Henson hijacked the camera while Daniel Makabe was on a
tea break so he could do an intro himself. However, this tea break lasted longer
than anyone expected and Makabe wasn't back for the next episode, or the next
episode. A worried Scott Henson eventually resigned himself to the fact that
Daniel was gone and held auditions for a new intro person to no avail. Makabe
showed up soaking wet at Henson's door in the middle of the night in the season
finale, with the explanation of his absence being eerily reminiscent of the
recent series finales of Dexter and Breaking Bad, but at any rate, we're glad
he's back.
- LOOKING AHEAD: what do we have? Well, we're pleased to announce that 3-2-1
Battle will be running their shows monthly starting in January, and you can
expect ISUXDIX to be at just about all of them. As for locally, we'll see if
anything's going on, but no promises. One thing we can *almost* promise is that
there will be a Big Dick Wrestling Universe 3, and that it will probably be Labour Day Weekend 2014.
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