[2000-04-22-IPW-Crystal River Carnage] Scoot Andrews vs Jet Jaguar

[soup23]

I am becoming pretty fond of Scoot. He has a good look and mixes in both the athletic nature of the indy boom stuff with some sound psychology in his matches. He is someone that will probably never have a MOTYC but he can be count on to be a good hand within a promotion. Jet is displaying a heel persona to the core here and has some moments but is also more inconsistent. This is some more great camera work in early 2000 sending my eyes into disarray. They are using the smaller ring height wise here that reminds me of an early Chikara show. Jaguar’s heat segment didn’t have much of a focus. Andrews makes his comeback with a huge piledriver that should have sent Jaguar to the hospital. He is up on offense again way too quickly with a low blow, weak X-Factor and frog splash to win. Scoot deserved better. **1/2

 

[Loss]

Both of these guys look like they could be a few years away from developing into something special, Scoot more than Jaguar. Still, it's true for both guys. Someone like Ric Blade definitely stood out more, and Billy Reil was probably better than both guys, but I'd still put them both in the top tier of guys in the 2000s indy scene who I wish had achieved greater success. That piledriver was nuts! This match wasn't anything special, but in an alternate universe, it would really work as a primitive version of two wrestlers facing off before they became stars.

[Tim Evans]

Nice to see a IPW match with good camera angles. Not a great match but very Florida indie in the 2000s like with convicted felon Rob Niemi all over the place.

[GSR]

Jaguar is accompanied by Sir Ronald J. Niemi IV and ‘Honest’ Eddie Edwards (an official not the future wrestler!). Niemi cuts a quick promo and claims that the only reason Scoot got to the finals of the ECWA Super 8 was because Jet Jaguar was eliminated after suffering a concussion at the hands of Jeff Peterson, and that he’s here today, along with ‘Honest’ Eddie Edwards, to make sure the IPW Jr Heavyweight championship goes home with Jaguar.

 

Flash roll up off a hammerlock by Jet for two. Scoot responds with one of his own and ‘Honest’ Eddie with a super slow count. Christ, not the heel referee gimmick! Facebuster and a bodyslam, before he throws Jaguar through the ropes and to the outside. That’s not much of a bump though as the ring is only about a foot off the floor! Terrible looking tope from Scoot and a slingshot back inside. Andrews whips him to the corner, Jet with the tip up, however when Scoot shoves him off, he lands on the apron. A couple of shoulders to the mid-section by Jet, he heads upstairs, but Scoot falls into the ropes causing him to lose his balance. Something resembling a ‘Quackendriver’ off the top for a slow two. Andrews is starting to get pissed with these slow counts (he’s not the only one!) and ‘Honest’ Eddie is grabbing at his ribs trying to claims he’s hurt. Dropkick, but Jaguar holds onto the ropes and Scoot hits only air. Jet with a couple of pinfall attempts and Edwards has appeared to have made a miraculous recovery as he’s counting fine now. Scoot then hits something that we completely miss because the referee is stood in the way. That pesky rib injury is back and this is tedious! Plancha off the top to the floor by Jet. ‘Iron claw’ and Scoot is able to get a shoulder up before the three. Legdrop off the middle, a powerbomb, but neither is enough to put his opponent away. Andrews with this awesome pumphandle into a Rikishi driver, and now Niemi is up on the apron and distracting Edwards from counting the pin. Scoot shoves the official and Jet is back to his feet pretty quickly and low blows him. A sloppy looking ‘X-Factor’ (with Scoot jumping too early and looking like he’s doing the move to himself), big splash off the top and Jet retains his IPW Light Heavyweight title.

 

I hated this. I’m not a fan of heel referees in the first place, but when you’re slow counting the face’s pin within the first 30 seconds of the match you know you’re in for a long night! Why should I even invest in a match when I know the official isn’t going to count the fall? His actions right there killed this for me. Edwards could’ve at least called it straight until the closing moments, and then gone dodgy official, at least that way I would’ve viewed this differently. Camera work wasn’t as bad as the Horowitz/Janetty bout, but still wasn’t good, and kind of reminiscent of that West Side Playaz tag match from APW last month. Work (bar that pumphandle into a Rikishi driver) was nothing to write home about and Scoot looked plain bad on a couple of occasions, which was a surprise as I’ve liked what I’ve seen of him (and Jet) so far in the project.

[Moonsault Marvin]

The crowd chants were more fun than the match. Jaguar got called Opie, Pee Wee, and Elroy. Both guys struggled to pull off some of the moves they tried. Since the referee was biased, Jaguar should have cheated more. Below Average.

[Edwin]

More U.S. indy wrestling with horrible camera work... The ring is also odd and reminds of the old CHIKARA ring from the early days as it's relatively low.

 

Scoot has been in some of our previous matches and was around some of the early ROH shows and got to work some WWE matches as a jobber on the smaller TV shows -- Heat, Jakked, etc. At this point we still haven't seen him have that career changing performance, but he always shows a lot of potential.

 

Jet Jaguar we haven't seen much of, but he teamed with Scoot in a tag match back in February and he was OK from what I recall.

 

As for this match, its not good, but that pumphandle driver by Scoot is nasty.