[2004-12-10-JAPW-Seasons Beatings] AJ Styles vs Homicide

[ohtani's jacket]

This was a decent scrap, but like a lot of 2004 indie wrestling it leaned too heavily into the sports entertainment tropes that it had rallied against previously. Indie wrestling was suddenly overrun by factions and featured more interference and post-match brawling than I can recall. I'm sure the bookers were drawing inspiration from classic territory wrestling and ECW than the latest episode of RAW, but little by little the wrestling, and the matches, were becoming secondary to the factions.