[2001-02-17-CZW-Break on Thru] Balls Mahoney vs Wifebeater

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According to Eric Gargiulo, when the magazines do their ‘dream matches’, this one makes the top five every time!  Wifebeater isn’t backing down from Balls as they’re trying to play this up as CZW vs ECW.  Balls grabs a side headlock, Beater shoots him into the ropes, drop down, leap frog and then catches him with a powerslam.  Figure four attempt, but Balls kicks him off before he can fully lock it in.  A series of left jabs to the jaw and a big haymaker floors Beater.  He looks for the ‘Cactus clothesline’ but Wifebeater ducks out the way and Balls goes soaring out over the top rope to the outside.  Irish whip on the floor is reversed, with Balls holding on to the arm and slamming Beater into a couple of upright chairs instead.  He pulls a fork out of his pocket and jabs Wifebeater in the head opening him up (although in reality he bladed himself under the ring apron!).  Powerbomb through a set of chairs.  Balls whips Beater into the wall, charges at him with a barbed wire covered trash can, however Beater moves and he ends up running into it himself.  Beater grates the barbed wire across Balls’ forehead and now he’s busted open too.  They make their way back to the ring and Balls with a spinebuster, only to miss on the top rope guillotine leg drop.  Side slam by Beater for a two.  ‘Choke’n’Stein’ (which is a chokebomb) onto a chair, although he struggles to get Balls up for it, barely getting him off the ground.  Mack Smack passes his man a table which he eventually manages to set up after having a bit of difficulty with it at first.  DDT onto the chair by Balls.  He lays Beater on the table and comes off the top with a frog splash.  Wifebeater kicks out of the cover and Balls confronts the referee thinking he’s showing a bit of home town bias to the CZW wrestler.  Smack is up on the apron and Balls wallops him with a chair.  Even though he had a helmet on for protection, I imagine that still jarred him a bit.  He blasts Beater with the chair when out from the back runs Madman Pondo.  A pair of ‘Stop’ sign shots have minimal effect, the third dropping Balls.  Pondo douses the table with lighter fluid, however Balls knocks the lighter out of his hand before he is able to set it alight.  Wifebeater and Mack Smack have disappeared and it looks like this has just ended with no finish like the previous show’s main event did.  Balls challenges Pondo to a flaming tables match, before adding Wifebeater to the match and amending it to a three way, two out of three falls, barbed wire flaming tables match.  The CZW fans like the sound of that and after not being as receptive to Balls as you might’ve expected (with him facing Wifebeater), chant his name after he makes the challenge.

There did seem to be a bit of confusion at the end of ‘Crushing the Competition’ as to whether this would be a tag match (also including Justice Pain and Mikey Whipwreck) or singles, singles it turned out to be.  So Pondo is not happy with stinking up his own matches, he’s now doing his best to ruin matches that he’s not even involved in!  I wouldn’t have been pleased if I’d attended the previous card and then this, what with neither main event having a decisive finish and just ending out of nowhere.  At the moment the post-match announcements (Balls last time, the flaming tables this) seem to be quelling any annoyance from the fans, but they won’t be able to keep that up too much longer.