<7/16/08 @ 8:17 PM PST>
- So we had this year's Canada Day Massacre in the first week of July.
That's more like it. And it was not a day too soon, as that was in fact the last
show at Pocomon Stadium. First let's go back a week to June 29, where the two
people in the Canada Day main event met in a 3 Way Dance that also included Zeus
McFly. The story of the match was Daniel Makabe and Special K doing everything
they could to beat each other, in order to have the momentum going into Canada
Day. Special K would abandon this strategy and attempt to pin Zeus McFly with
the Outside Cradle, only to have Daniel Makabe step in and reverse it, giving
Zeus McFly the win and Special K a loss heading into the title unification
match. Now back to Canada Day. We started off our ninth (NINTH!) Canada Day
Massacre with the Canadian Title Match. Red Money, who won the title at the
Anniversary Show in April, was looking for his first defense, going up against
Senor Cerveza. However, seconds into the match, music played, and DREW SARIAN,
who everyone believed to be dead at the hands of Red Money in 2006, strolled out
to ringside. Senor Cerveza gladly gave up his title shot to Sarian, and the
match was on. Sarian showed no signs of ring rust (or rigor mortis), and looked
to have the match won, but Money NAILED Sarian with the Canadian title belt
while the ref was down, allowing him the cheap win. Next up was returning CJ
Williams taking on a nemesis of his from the past, Aaron Noval (no relation to
Aaron Neville). CJ made fairly quick work of his opponent with the Prison
Piledriver. Third on the card was tag partners forced to go at it, with Zeus
McFly taking on Mitch Deppen. These two hadn't been on opposite sides of a ring
for a while, and neither knew what to expect from the other as an opponent
rather than a partner. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get a submission
win with the Ankle Lock, Deppen switched gears and was able to reverse a Zeus
McFly powerbomb into a DDT (a move usually done onto their opponent) for the
win. Next was the dream partner tag match of Scott Henson vs. Chris Mason. Mason
picked first, and went with Nick Price, the man who beat Henson for the Triple
Crown in 2006, and someone who many thought was done with VCW. Not tonight,
though. Next was Henson's pick, and he picked someone he said he'd been wanting
to team with again for a long time. With Lenny D in the audience, the crowd
assumed it was a done deal, until Henson asked Lenny D... to tell Yakuza J that
he wanted to team with him. Yakuza had been working the sound booth all night
(as he had on many previous VCW shows), unbeknownst to the crowd that he was in
fact able to wrestle again. This was Yakuza J's first match back since LAST
year's Canada Day show on August 12, 2007. Despite being off nearly a year,
Yakuza came back in fine form, and was able to dominate a good chunk of the
match. Chris Mason did his best to completely ruin the bodies of Yakuza and
Henson, giving Yakuza a bloody nose and a possibly sprained neck, and Henson a
second degree ankle sprain. Depsite this, Henson and Yakuza, the Van-city
Saints, were able to pull it together and get the win on Nick Price via an
assisted You Sunk My Battleship. After that, there was nothing left to do but
unify the biggest two titles on our little wrestling scene: the VCW Triple Crown
held by Daniel Makabe and the ESW World Heavyweight Title held by Special K.
Special K won the ESW Title at the Anniversary Show in April from Tony Baroni
(who had just won it from Daniel Makabe), and was going for his first defense.
Makabe won the Triple Crown from Arbo in a 3 Way Dance with Anarchy Andy in
Rhode Island in January, and despite that being nearly 6 months ago, was ALSO
going for his first defense. To his credit Makabe also had the ESW World Title
for much of that time, and did have defenses of that, but still... come on.
Special K got the better of Daniel Makabe in their feud over the Canadian Title
in 2007, but more recently, Daniel Makabe defeated Special K cleanly in a
non-title match in March. Now that you have the backstory, here's the finish:
Special K won with a Darkness Buster. See, isn't just the beginning and end
better than that boring middle part? At any rate, yes, Special K did win after a
near 30 minute epic with both men throwing everything they had at the other. In
the end, Special K had a little more in the tank and a little more fight left in
him, as he got the biggest win of his career on the biggest show of the year.
Special K becomes the 10th person to hold the VCW Triple Crown, joining a VERY
elite group of Scott Henson, Yakuza J, Daniel Makabe, Lenny D, Chris Mason,
Russell Myers, Tony Baroni, Nick Price, and Arbo. But maybe more importantly
than that, he joins and even more elite group, a group of ONE, as the first ever
VCW Quadruple Crown Champion.
- As was said above, Canada Day was the last show at this location, and until we
have a new location, it'll be tough to tell you when the next show is. Hopefully
no more than a few months, and ideally no more than a few weeks. When we do get
back, we're going to do something to the effect of a final 10 countdown or
something, where we have a string of 10 (or however many) big shows, and then
THAT'S IT. If we gotta go out, we gotta go out big. The fourth show will be the
300th Show, the second-to-last show will be the sixth and final VCW vs. The
World, and the last show will be big, big, big.
- Never fear, though, there's still some VCW action on the horizon, regardless
of what's happening locally. VCW makes its first trip ACROSS AN OCEAN for SWF
Heatfest, the UK's biggest event, from July 27-29. Then we're down to Washington
for BXCW's biggest show of the year, Receive It! IV, on August 9-10.
Old News:
2008: January, February, March, April,
May, June
2007:
January, February,
March, April,
May, June,
July, August,
September, October,
November, December
2006:
January, February,
March, April,
May, June,
July, August,
September, October,
November, December
2005:
January, February,
March, April,
May, June,
July, August,
September, October,
November, December
2004:
January, February,
March, April,
May, June,
July, August,
September, October,
November, December
2003: January,
February, March,
April,
May, June,
July, August,
September, October,
November, December
2002: November, December