[2001-03-04-MAW-Blood & Ice Bash] Hardcore Craig vs Ian Rotten vs Corporal Robinson (Triangle of Pain)

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Mid-American Heavyweight title match, the Triangle of Pain stipulations meaning that there’s a Bed of Nails in one corner, a barbed wire baseball bat in another and a bucket of broken glass in the third.  Ian’s forehead is all taped up after last night’s strap match in IWA-MS.  He’s pretty funny at handling all the hecklers in the crowd, putting them down, but after ten minutes of that I’m just wanting them to quit it and let him finish his promo.  The action starts on the floor and Ian goes straight for the barbed wire baseball bat which he uses against both.  Corp pulls something out of his pocket, looking to re-open that cut.  You have to wonder why Ian even bothered plastering it up knowing full well what was coming here.  Ian cracks Craig over the back with a chair, the camera though misses his full force shot to Corp.  After he tries to embed Craig’s head into the bed of nails, the referee says something to him, event staff are out and the match stops as they check on Corp who appears to be seriously hurt.  Ian’s even telling “Steve” to stay down, he and Craig will finish the match.  He’s continuing, struggles into the ring and looks to be in absolute fucking agony.  Rotten empties the bucket of glass onto Craig and then hiptosses Corp onto him.  Corp’s holding his shoulder as the ref again makes sure he’s okay.  I don’t know if that chair shot compressed something or what, but the way he’s carrying his arm indicates something like a potential broken clavicle or dislocated shoulder.  Ian throws him out the ring to protect him from himself as he and Craig work things.  Testicular claw by Ian.  Craig grabs him by the shirt and pulls him onto the bed of nails before standing on his back as he’s lay across them.   Corp clambers back inside and is slammed into the broken glass, his audible cries of pain saying it all. Unlike Ian, Craig’s not for protecting, hitting that arm he’s holding with a chair.  Ian drags Craig to the floor where he delivers some stiff forearms, possibly a receipt over what he just did to his buddy.  When Ian returns he breaks a bunch of light tubes over Corps head and then powerbombs him through a bunch more which he had bridged between two chairs.  You see Ian say something to him prior to this, presumably telling him to do himself a favour, we’re going home and stop trying to wrestle!  Craig blasts Ian with a chair, nails Corp too and steals the win to retain the MAW Heavyweight title.

Corporal Robinson is too tough for his own good.  He got hurt early and from then on I was more concerned about his well being than how the match was going.