[2001-02-09- LIWF] Homicide vs Deacon Riot

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Long Island Wrestling Federation still going strong into 2001!  No audio on this.  The camera is right on top of the action like we’re in the ring with them.  Homicide with a nerve hold while fish-hooking the mouth at the same time.  Only a small point but watch how he positions Deacon’s head to the side so he can get a proper grip.  Deacon catches him with a back elbow and picks up a two count after an Oklahoma Stampede.  Huh, we get a ref bump after not even five minutes of action.  Surely they’re not going home already?  Flying shoulder tackle by Homicide.  He goes over to shake the ref, however by the time he’s come around Deacon has recovered enough himself to kick out of the cover.  As Homicide dishes out some chops in the corner you see a man on the floor with a microphone and I remembered that this promotion does that in house commentary over the mic for everyone in the building.  Maybe that’s why someone turned the sound down on this!  Deacon takes over with a Dragon screw.  Legdrop off the middle, although a real slack cover, just putting two hands on Homicide’s chest.  They jockey for position in the middle, Deacon  almost losing Cide before hitting a nasty Saito suplex.  The superplex took a bit of time as you see Deacon’s leg visibly shaking up there.  Cradle suplex.  A lazy kick is caught and Homicide with a Dragon screw of his own.  STF.  Deacon’s second is up on the apron and Homicide lets go of the hold to get him.  The distraction worked as Cide turns into an overhead belly to belly.  Big splash off the top is missed.  Stiff clotheslines to the front and back flooring Deacon.  A slap across the face seems to awaken him and he hits a one handed sit-out chokebomb.  Cide cuts him off as he goes upstairs, returning favour with the superplex.  Not sure what’s going on here, a downed Homicide is grabbing the referee by the jeans, then the dreads and then slaps him.  Another ref bump, this time Deacon squashing the official.  DDT.  Homicide sits Deacon on the top turnbuckle and I can’t tell if he’s biting him or kissing him.  Maybe he was talking to him as Deacon plants Cide to the mat.  The ref has gone walkies as he’s not counting the cover.  Oh, his hand signals are gesturing that this is over.  We cut to the ring announcer who is looking at his watch so this must be a time limit draw.  Even though the match is over Deacon manhandles the referee and gets him to count to three as he covers Cide.  Deacon has a few closing words which we obviously can’t hear.  There’s this tank of a black guy who’s come out to ringside.  Homicide low blows Deacon and then gives him another DDT.  This monster is now in the ring, he removes his shirt and must be all of 450lbs, splashing the prone Deacon.

Deacon can be pretty ponderous, then he’ll pull out some killer suplex out of nowhere.  There was some good stuff in there and it held my attention, even without the sound, although I’ve no idea why the early ref bump or why Homicide towards the end attacked him.  It definitely needed plenty of refining and they were even repeating themselves to stretch things out to hit the time limit.