[2001-03-03-IWA-MS-Nightmare on Highway 62] Todd Morton vs Harry Palmer (Lumberjack)

[GSR]

Morton is the first to get some use out of the Lumberjacks, throwing Palmer out to the heel section where they all put the boots in to him.  With an abundance of people who can’t throw a punch, it’s cool to see someone like Morton who knows how to.  He cuts off the comeback with a poke to the eyes and throws him back out to his guys.  Palmer blocks the suplex, countering with one of his own.  Morton takes his first trip to the outside, Palmer though making the mistake of tossing him to the heel section where all they do is cushion his fall and help him back in.  Not one to make the same mistake twice, next time out it’s out to the face section.  Palmer hits a piledriver, Morton bouncing a good foot off the canvas on impact.  Chris Hero, one of the lumberjacks, was great selling that.  Morton crawls out the ring to safety hoping to get a bit of solace.  As Palmer leaps over with a pescado, Hero launches a chair at him and he crashes to the concrete.  It looks like the chair was close to rebounding into a young kid in the front row.  The faces are around to check on him before helping him back into the ring.  A pair of rolling snap suplexes into a brainbuster.  Morton is measuring his shots now. Double foot stomp.  He sits Palmer up top, but he blocks the attempted suicideplex and front suplexes Morton to the mat.  Second rope missile dropkick.  Palmer doesn’t half wind his punches up.  After a Blockbuster, Tracey Smothers grabs the referee’s leg to stop the count.  While the referee speaks to Tracey one of the faces throw Palmer a chain.  Morton gets in first, powdering him, then picks up the chain and KO’s him with it for the win.

If the first two matches are anything to go by this is going to be one long assed IWA-MS show.  Another that lasted in excess of twenty minutes total, the match itself going close to the twenty minute mark.  Morton was okay here but Palmer’s not the most sympathetic of babyfaces, as a result this was an almighty slog to sit through.  Very punch heavy too in the first half, which becomes monotonous after a certain level of time.