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Attended tonight's North East Wrestling Wrestling Under the Stars III
event at Duchess Stadium in Fishkill, NY. The big draws this year were The Hardy
Boys and Bret Hart, who came out during the show to thank the crowd
for supporting independent wrestling.
The show was taped for a DVD which was odd because they used a lot of
WWE music; and Brodus Clay, though booked as Monsta BC in
advertisements, was introduced as Brodus Clay.
They did the golf cart gimmick the entire show where wrestlers would
be driven to the entrance aisle.
The opening match of the main card was Michael Bennett with Maria
versus Matt Taven. Sort of a cold match until Bennett teased the
piledriver on the ring apron. Then the near-falls got the crowd into
it. Taven won with a frog splash.
Brodus Clay beat two guys. It was nothing. Brodus' running splash
makes Warrior look like Kota Ibushi. Booker T cornered Brodus and got
a punch in on the heel manager. Then he did the Spinarooni.
There was a Russian vs. American match with Romeo Rosselli but I used
that as a beer break. I'm assuming Romeo won but I don't know for
sure.
Joe Ausanio is a former New York Yankees relief pitcher, really better
known in the area for his time as a local minor league player, as he
was only in the bigs for a season. He's also a front office guy at
Duchess Stadium so apparently he gets a match every year. He fought
the poorly named Dan De Man and won with a spear. Crowd doesn't really
seem to care to see an old guy in a T-shirt and gym shorts. Lame match
built around getting this dude over. Total waste of time considering
how long the show ended up going.
Brian Anthony defended his NWE title against Kaleb Conley and Matt
Sydal. This was apparently Sydal's post-WWE North American return.
Finish was Sydal hitting the Shooting Star Press on Conley but Anthony
gave him a shining wizard immediately afterwards and pinned Conley.
Seemed like a heel move but Sydal shook his hand in a show of respect
after the match. Sydal looked great here.
Very dated six-man tag match with Velvet Sky, Robbie "The Giant"
Araujo and Mark Shurman vs. Reby Sky, Shovelhead Chuck and "The
Manscout" Jake Manning. They did the referee-catching-the-midget
gimmick and Velvet ended a ten count corner punch by slapping Remy on
the ass. The faces won with triple chokeslams. Jake Manning was fun
here.
Kevin Steen and Jerry Lawler had a Piledriver match. Mike Bennett and
Maria cornered Steen, who brought up that they were there as
"piledriver enthusiasts". Lawler countered by bringing out Matt Taven
but said Maria's counterpart wasn't there because he got to the street
corner too late. Good line. Match was mainly Steen getting heat on
Lawler with Bennett interference to cut Lawler's momentum. Very funny
moment where Jerry did one of those furious Japanese comebacks after
Steen no-sold his punches, screaming and hitting the ropes only to be
tripped by Mike Bennett. It was sort of uncomfortable hearing the
"Kill Steen Kill" chants considering Lawler's brush with death. Lawler
finally got the piledriver and won.
The Hardys and the Young Bucks were the main event, billed as a dream
match which isn't very far off from the truth. How TNA was able to not
book this when they had the chance is beyond me. Granted the Bucks
have an even stronger reputation now than they did in 2009. The story
of the match was the Bucks having scouted the Hardys well, would
counter their signature moves (rolling up Jeff for a near-fall during
Poetry in Motion, knees up on the first Swanton, etc.). The Bucks
worked on Matt Hardy for a long time. Jeff finally got the tag and we
got a series of high spots including several suicide dives from both
teams; Nick doing a diving ornado DDT on Jeff to the outside
immediately after splashing Matt Hardy inside the ring; Bucks hitting
the combo springboard 450/standing shooting star press; the Bucks
whipping out "Indietaker," the springboard spike tombstone piledriver;
and finally the Hardys doing the More Bang for Your Buck but with a
Swanton and a (kinda) sloppy top rope moonsault from Matt. The Hardys
got the win after another Swanton from Jeff. The two teams shook hands
and hugged after the mach. Matt put them over big and said they had
never faced another team like them in 22 years. I'd like to see these
two teams in front of a really hot crowd. I think they could do
something real special.
Overall the show was fun for what it was. It definitely went too long.
Clocked in at just under four hours including intermission. Lots of
Bullet Club and ROH merch on attendees.
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