[2000-06-10-IPW-Jeff Peterson Benefit] Jamie-san vs Jeremy Lopez vs Jet Jaguar

[soup23]

Worked like most three ways of the era with no psychology and all moves but there wasn’t any terrible botches and at one point Jet Jaguar gets elevated so high, he hits the roof and damages some of the panels. It was nice to see Noble in this type of match and being able to work a quick pace and stretch things out a bit. Lopez also may be one of those lost workers of the 2000’s as we have a good bit of stuff coming up from him in Wildside and Japan. Noble gets the win and because it is 2000, we have run ins after the match. **1/2

[Tim Evans]

They destroy that poor roof tossing Jaguar into it. I bet they never ran there again. Very workrate heavy type match. When it was Lopez vs Noble, it was good as they went all out in such a small indie. Jaguar reminds me of Ric Blade as he botches a lot of stuff. Weird seeing Noble doing his jung dragons gimmick.

[GSR]

Interesting seeing Jamie-san on an independent show. Great, my least favourite official ‘Honest’ Eddie Edwards is back and he’s clapping and cheering for Jet Jaguar as he’s being introduced! Sir Ronald J. Niemi IV says how they are here tonight “to kick the asses collectively of ‘Bad Ass’ Jeremy Lopez and that piece of shit Jamie-san” He has a bunch more to say but the audio is not great, although for once with IPW, the picture is. After Niemi exits the ring you can clearly see a middle aged man, sat next to a young child, giving Sir Ronald the middle finger and telling him to “F*ck you”! Lopez is ogling the scantily clad Gabrielle on the outside, and Jamie schoolboys him for a two count right at the start of the match. They work some nice chain wrestling before Jet nails them both with a springboard dropkick. Double team drop toe hold/baseball slide dropkick to the face by Jaguar and Lopez. Fujiwara armbar on Jet and Noble has recovered enough to break up the submission. A Lopez dropkick sends Jamie to the outside, only for Jaguar to toss him out after and then catch the pair of them with a pescado. Irish whip and Lopez runs right into an ‘Iron Claw’. Noble comes off the top turnbuckle but he also jumps into one, in what must be the first double ‘Iron Claw’ since the pomp of Kerry Von Erich! Lopez and Noble escape, and a huge backdrop sends Jaguar crashing into the low lying ceiling, removing some of the panels in the process. Reverse DDT on Jet by Noble for two. Jumping DDT by Lopez and Jaguar slides in front of Edwards to prevent him from counting the three. Lopez with a running Liger bomb on Jet, but Noble then dropkicks him in the head, covers Jaguar himself and gets the pin to become the new IPW Light Heavyweight champion. Niemi clobbers Jamie with his briefcase and Jet attacks him until they’re run out of there by someone from the back coming to Noble’s rescue. The two of them then seem to be holding ‘Honest’ Eddie responsible for the loss, berating him on their way to the dressing room.

 

Really dug the opening wrestling between Jamie and Lopez, and I wouldn’t mind seeing them face each other one on one without the distraction of Jaguar. Not much in the way of selling or psychology here as they pretty much sprinted their way through this. I popped way too much for that double ‘Iron Claw’ mind! Overall as a match I don’t think it was that good, but it wasn’t bad either, right down the middle.