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[2001-02-02-JAPW] Don Montoya & Ric Blade vs Blue Dragon & Little Dixie


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Rick Silver, Montoya’s manager, with the easy cheap heat , insulting the fans and calling them garbage.  That wouldn’t be so bad if Reckless Youth hadn’t done the exact same thing prior to the previous match.  Montoya was originally scheduled to face Dr Hurtz, but he isn’t here so the promoter put him together with Ric Blade to face Blue Dragon & Dixie.  He’s not overly impressed about having to wrestler a couple of inexperienced punks, so tells the ring announcer to introduce the greenhorns so he and Blade can stretch them all over the building. 

Dixie and Dragon have a combined weight of 300lbs!  Someone in the crowd is giving Blade grief about his receding hair line.  He really needs to do the honorable thing and take the clippers to it.  You can tell they’re working towards the stand-off, although give them a bit of due, when you expect them to milk the applause they charge at each other with clotheslines instead.  Montoya and Dixie work some stuff around the arm.  Criss cross spot, Dixie catching the Don up before eventually ducking to the floor as Montoya continues to run the ropes.  Silver is in the ring trying to get him to stop but he just runs though him.  Now Blade is in and Montoya hiptosses him.  So “in the moment” he didn’t realise what he was doing, but that was some bad shit.  As they regroup and reset on the floor, Dixie nails Silver with a baseball slide dropkick.  Awesome twisting dive over the top rope by Dragon.  Back inside Dixie with a missile dropkick to Montoya, he’s also got this sweet looking fist drop from the middle rung.  Blade catches a kick and T-bone’s him as the match swings in the other direction.  Samoan drop followed by a standing moonsault.  Slingshot belly to back by Montoya.  Some great wacky upside down submission hold, Dixie wide open for Blade to blast him in the chest when he doesn’t give.  Yuck a horrible shotgun dropkick that’s nowhere close to connecting and with an almighty hand clap to make it appear that it did.  That useless JAPW ref (I forget his name, the lad with the long hair who was useless last year too) fails to see Silver dragging Dixie all the way around ringside and slamming his head into the apron.  Dixie counters the powerbomb with a rana AND DRAGON JUST ENTERS THE RING?!?!  Why on Earth try to get heat on someone if you’re going to come in anyway without a tag?  That brings Blade in, but after DDT’ing him, Dragon returns to the apron waiting for the tag.  Weird!  Dragon cleans house until he’s caught by a Blade handspring kick.  A real contrived set up sees Montoya walk half way around ringside with Dixie so everyone is in position to cushion Blade’s landing on the springboard twisting senton.  Wow, Dixie with a rewind Frankensteiner for a near fall.  Great double jump springboard moonsault by Dragon.  After saving his partner Blade hits a rolling fisherman buster on Dragon into a spinning powerbomb.  ‘Kryptonite Krunch’ and that wraps this one up.  Post-match Billy Reil, who I didn’t recognise and who also has an awful haircut, kills Montoya with a chair shot.  While lighting up a joint he tells him that he hopes he wins tomorrow and makes a challenge for next month, a challenge that is accepted with Montoya saying how he’s going to bend his ass over and make him his ho!

Not sure who thought that this needed to go twenty five minutes.  A real indie feel to this with a dud of a ref and some very strange moments in there.  Dragon has got some great high spots and it was nice to see the rewind Frankensteiner, but they’re both so green.  I usually enjoy Montoya but hated the comedy spot early and Blade is Blade, even though he never nearly killed himself tonight.  An improvement on Reckless/Elax but that’s feint praise indeed.  Poor match.

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