Welcome back to the Sermon on the Mat, your weekly one-stop shop for news from the wider world of wrestling beyond the big cable TV monoliths that get all the coverage.
Coming soon...
Beyond Uncharted Territory Season 2 Episode 5 (Oct. 31, 8PM Eastern)
- Kevin Blackwood vs. Puf
- Anthony Greene & Platinum Hunnies (Angel Sinclair & Ava Everett) vs. Harlow O’Hara & the Batiri (Kodama & Obariyon)
- Tony Deppen (c) vs. ??? (Discovery Gauntlet)
- Jody Threat vs. Leyla Hirsch
- Bird and the Bee (Solo Darling & Willow Nightingale) vs. Team Tremendous (Bill Carr & Dan Barry)
- Gaytanic Panic (Danhausen & EFFY) vs. Team Pazuzu (Chris Dickinson & Pinkie Sanchez)
- Mance Warner vs. Nick Gage (100,000 Thumbtack Deathmatch)
Beyond Wrestling are back in Worcester, Massachusetts with your weekly Thursday night proof that the indies are far from dead and boy howdy, this one went from must to watch this week! Gage was originally slated to face Shotzi Blackheart in one of her last indie matches, but the Evolve superstar was pulled and in her place, Mancer himself... and one hundred thousand thumbtacks! Plus, I mean, c’mon... Gaytanic Panic? So in!
Get your tickets here or check it out live on IWTV, folks.
FIP In Full Force 2019 (Nov. 1, 9PM Eastern)
- Cyrus Satin vs. Zachary Cooper
- Faboo Andre vs. Francisco Ciatso
- Katalina Perez vs. Natalia Markova
- Dirty Blondes (Leo Brien & Michael Patrick) vs. the End (Odinson & Parrow)
- Bryan Idol vs. Damien Angel
- Hunter Law vs. Leon Ruff
- Jon Davis (c) vs. Snoop Strikes (FIP Florida Heritage Championship)
- Anthony Henry vs. Troy Hollywood
- Precipice (Chance Auren & Omar Amir) (c) vs. the Skulk (Adrian Alanis & Liam Gray) (FIP World Tag Team Championship)
FIP is back in Ybor City, Florida, and this show is built around a triad of special challenge matches for the members of OAO, most notably the return of FIP World Heavyweight Champion Anthony Henry in non-title action against Troy Hollywood! Plus the Skulk get another shot at the tag titles, the End and the Blondes are ready for war, and more!
Get your tickets here or check the show out live on Club WWN, folks.
RISE La Escalera (Nov. 1, 9PM Eastern)
- Paradise Lost (Dust & Raven’s Ash) vs. Witch Please (Elayna Black & Hawlee Cromwell)
- Latina Superstars (Mercedes Martinez & Miranda Alize) vs. Team Sea Stars (Ashley Vox & Delmi Exo)
- Allysin Kay vs. Taya Valkyrie
- Rosemary vs. Shotzi Blackheart
- Cassandro el Exotico vs. Saraya Knight
- Killer Death Machines (Jessicka Havok & Nevaeh) (c) vs. Team Blue Nation (Charli Evans & Jessica Troy) (Guardians of RISE Championship)
- Hyan vs. Jake Atlas vs. Kylie Rae vs. Priscilla Kelly vs. Raze vs. ??? (Phoenix of RISE Championship #1 Contender’s La Escalera Match)
- ”Big Swole” Aerial Monroe (c) vs. Laynie Luck (Phoenix of RISE Championship)
RISE are back in Chicago, Illinois as Shotzi Blackheart’s farewell tour contimnues, and she’s got a tough fight two years in the making to send her out of RISE as she faces down the Demon Assassin Rosemary! Plus a nifty elimination ladder match to determine a #1 contender and a card that is overall just jam-packed with excellent-looking action, how much do I need to do to sell you on this bad girl, folks?!
Tickets are sold out, but you can catch the show live on FITE, folks.
AIW 200 (Nov. 2, 7:30PM Eastern)
- CPA vs. Wes Barkley
- Danhausen vs. VSK
- Wheeler YUTA vs. Zach Thomas
- Steve Manders vs. “Big” Twan Tucker
- Alex Shelley vs. Lee Moriarty
- Eddie Kingston vs. Tre LaMar
- Joshua Bishop vs. Nick Gage
- Dr. Daniel C. Rockingham & Parker Pierce vs. Philly-Marino Experience (Marino Tenaglia & Philly Collins) (c) (AIW Tag Team Championship)
- Erick Stevens vs. Matthew Justice (c) (AIW Intense Championship)
This is it, show number 200 for Ohio luminaries AIW! They’re coming at you from Akron, Ohio and not only do they have a card that puts the best and brightest from the AIW Wrestling Academy front and center, they’ve got the Million Dollar Man in the house!
Get your tickets here or check it out when it hits Smart Mark Video, folks.
ICW Fear & Loathing XII (Nov. 2-3)
—Night One (Nov. 2, 7PM GMT)—
- Jordan Devlin vs. Kenny Williams
- Aaron Echo vs. Alexander Dean
- Angel Hayze & Xia Brookside vs. Kay Lee Ray & Viper
- Adam Maxted & Kings of the North (Bonesaw & Damien Corvin) vs. Kinky Pinky Party (Jack Jester, Noam Dar, & Sha Samuels)
- Grado vs. Ravie Davie (Scheme Lumberjack Match)
- Kid Fite vs. Paul Robinson (Glasgow Street Fight)
- BT Gunn vs. Sami Callihan
- Liam Thompson (c) vs. Wolfgang (ICW Zero-G Championship Good Housekeeping Match)
—Night Two (Nov. 3, 7PM GMT)—
- The Nine9 (Dickie Divers & Jack Morris) vs. the Fite Network (Krieger & Lou King Sharp) (ICW World Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s Match)
- Andy Wild vs. Mark Coffey (2/3 Falls Match)
- Iestyn Rees vs. Scotty Davis
- Ilja Dragunov vs. Kez Evans
- Kieran Kelly vs. Leyton Buzzard vs. Noam Dar
- Kings of Catch (Aspen Faith & Lewis Girvan) (c) vs. the Purge (Krobar & Stevie James) (ICW World Tag Team Championship Kings of Insanity Deathmatch)
- Aivil vs. Kasey (c) (ICW Women’s World Championship)
- Stevie Boy (c) vs. Joe Coffey (ICW World Heavyweight Championship)
ICW are back in Glasgow, Scotland for their annual Fear & Loathing supershow and would you look at that? Things got hot enough this year that they went to two nights! You’ve got NXT UK talent all over the place, it looks like a great time.
Get your tickets here or check it out when it hits ICW On Demand, folks.
Free matches here!
Halloween Costume Battle Royal
Regular readers will remember that I love a Halloween battle royal, so when this match dropped in my inbox, I knew I was running with it! Canada’s ECCW brings the spooky fun, check it out!
James D Drake vs. Maxwell Jacob Friedman
From our friends over at PWX, who have just announced that they’re going all in on their Twitch channel, we’ve got Evolve stalwart Drake against AEW’s MJF in a cultural clash of titans. Enjoy!
G-Raver vs. Nick Gage
Last but not least, from the fine folks over at Beyond, we’ve got a thumbtack deathmatch to whet your whistle for tonight’s Uncharted Territory main event. Raver. Gage. Ultraviolence. Don’t miss it!
Results
CRAB Oxorcist (Oct. 26)
- Logan Easton Laroux over Josh Kincaid
- Mack Buckler over Hype Rockwell, Ivan Ali, John Kermon, Leo Kirby, Mickey Skylar, Mikey Banker, Sledge Gibson, and Victor Benjamin to become #1 contender to the CRAB Heavyweight Championship (Gauntlet Match)
- Mikayla Matrix over Ashley America and Erica Leigh
- Dezmon King & Isaiah Frazier over Arik Royal & Bobby Shields
- CRAB (Breaux Keller, Dame, J-Sin, & Money Greene) over CRUX (Kaylon Jay, Kerry Awful, Lee Byford, & Nick Iggy) (Turf War)
- Harlow O’Hara over BLANK
- Mack Buckler over Cheeseburger (c) to win the CRAB Heavyweight Championship
CRAB had their Halloween show over the weekend, and nothing quite puts the fear into you like seeing Lady Frost and Victor Benjamin dressed as each other, folks! Plus Buckler overcame eight other men AND Cheeseburger to win the CRAB title, and Team CRAB rolled onto yet another big victory in their ongoing Turf War series.
Check it out when it hits IWTV, if you will.
As always...
Remember folks, no matter what type of wrestling you like, no matter how down you feel about the state of WWE, Impact, ROH, or any other “big-time” pro wrestling, there’s something out there for you. There’s a pro wrestling product that can hit you in the right spot and make you love wrestling like you thought you’d never be able to love it again. It’s there, I promise. You just gotta reach out and find it, and that, my friends, is what the Sermon on the Mat is all about.