[2001-03-10-CZW-War at Station 44] Trent Acid vs Ric Blade (Ladder)

[GSR]

Trent is accompanied to the ring by “Z-Barr the Superstar”.  It looks like the odds are going to be stacked against Blade tonight, Zandig having given Acid and Barr permission to replace original referee Brian Logan with H.C. Loc.  Someone forgot to bring out the ladder, only remembering to do so when he fans start chanting for it.  The match starts like every Ric Blade match, although he does bust out a cool leg scissors cradle which I’ve not seen previously.  Barr tries to say something but gets drowned out by the “shut the fuck up!” chants.  Suppose it’s better than them yelling at him to slit his wrists like at the last show.  He and Trent threaten to leave for a second time, actually going back through the curtain this.  There has been so much stalling already.  After Blade makes some jokes about them and Zandig (have a guess) they return.  Another choreographed looking fight sequence, ending when Blade floors Trent with a spin kick.  Loc and Barr check on him and they act as though he’s seriously injured, having to be helped out of there.  When Blade turns his back on them Trent jumps inside and superkicks him.  Trent cartwheels out of the headscissors, as he celebrates Blade snatches and gives him the Drug Bomb.  Blade brings the ladder into the ring but ends up getting backdropped into it.  Apron DDT by Trent.  Release front suplex onto a bunch of chairs on the floor.  A superkick catches Trent on the reverse crossbody, Blade then locking him upside down in some wacky submission which he turns into an Air Raid Crash.  Acid avoids the switch springboard 450.  He places the ladder over Blade’s face and comes off the middle onto it with a corkscrew legdrop.  Blue Thunder Driver onto the ladder.  Blade blocks the Acid Bomb to the floor and hits an inverted suplex back into the ring.   He sets up a ladder bridged between two chairs on the outside and lays Trent across it.  In typical Ric Blade style he then overshoots the running swanton from the ring, landing back and tailbone first on the concrete and barely grazing Trent.  Z-Barr is pretty amusing here, questioning why Loc is letting all this go and wondering what they’re paying him for.  Blade is walking real gingerly when he gets to his feet.  Slingshot DDT onto a chair.  Barr is on the apron “distracting” Loc, Blade counting the cover himself and getting the visual pin.  He places a chair over the standing Trent’s head and rattles that with a handspring kick.  Loc is double slow making his count here, checking both shoulders are down, delaying etc.  Four storey moonsault. Blade brings a table into the ring, puts Trent on it and then places an opened out chair over his head and another over his legs.  Whatever crazy idea he had planned we’ll never know, Loc falling into the ropes after he’d climbed the turnbuckles causing him to crotch himself  Trent is up and hits an Acid Bomb onto the table.  It should’ve been through it but the table didn’t break.  Reverse splash off the top puts him through it at the second time of asking and Loc quickly counts the three.  Post-match Blade welcomes Loc to CZW with a chair shot, this after they’d done a bit of dancing themselves.

Pretty much went exactly how you would expect a match between these two to go; the choreographed opening, little in the way of psychology, some innovative spots, plenty of furniture using and arranging, some slop, Blade hurting himself.  At least the stuff with Loc was kept to a minimum and only really played a part at the finish and wasn’t a feature all the way through.