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.
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Beyond Uncharted Territory Season 2 Episode 7 (Nov. 14, 8PM Eastern)
- Chuck O’Neil vs. Pinkie Sanchez
- Bird and the Bee (Solo Darling & Willow Nightingale) vs. Club Cam (Christian Casanova & Richard Holliday)
- Gary Jay vs. Matt Makowski (c) (Discovery Gauntlet)
- Daniel Garcia vs. John Silver
- Alex Reynolds & VSK vs. Nerder Death Kill (Nick Gage & Thomas Santell)
- Kris Statlander vs. Mercedes Martinez
Beyond are back with your regular Thursday night proof that the indies are alive and well and hell yeah, Daniel Garcia is back! The Red Death gets the Meat Man, midwest staple Gary Jay comes to Beyond to try and dethrone Matt Makowski, AND a killer women’s match as your main event?
Get your tickets here or check it out live on IWTV, folks.
BLP Slamilton 2 (Nov. 16, 4:32PM Central)
- No New Friends (Danny Adams & Kevin Lee Davidson) vs. Space Pirates (Shane Sabre & Space Monkey)
- Jake Atlas vs. Jake Something
- Erick Stevens vs. Josh Alexander
- Brett Ison vs. Tom Lawlor
- Billie Starks vs. Kylie Rae
- Isaias Velazquez vs. Ren Narita
- Logan James vs. Stephan Bonnar
- Violence Is Forever (Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku) vs. WorkHorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake) (30-Minute Iron Man Match)
- AJ Gray (c) vs. Gary Jay (BLP Midwest Championship)
- Blood Diamond (Jake Lander & Tre LaMar) (c) vs. “All Ego” Ethan Page & ??? (BLP Tag Team Championship)
- Jake Parnell (c) vs. Tony Deppen (IWTV Independent Wrestling Championship)
- Blake Christian vs. Kobe Durst (c) (BLP Heavyweight Championship)
Black Label Pro are back in Crown Point, Indiana and they’re closing their year with a bang, folks. Where do I even start with this card? Violence Is Forever vs. WorkHorsemen in a damn 30-minute Iron Man? Or maybe it’s NJPW young lion Ren Narita arriving for a wrestle with former Freelance World Champion Velazquez? Or maybe it’s MMA vet Bonnar coming in for a fight against Logan James? Or ANY of that spread of title matches?
Get your tickets here or check it out live on IWTV, folks.
A1 Final Act X (Nov. 17, 4PM Eastern)
- Shane Sabre vs. Space Monkey
- Alpha-1 Originalz (Cheech & Eric Cairnie) vs. Punk Rock Pussy Kats (Allie Kat & Jody Threat)
- Fight or Flight (Gabriel Fuerza & Vaughan Vertigo) vs. the North (“All Ego” Ethan Page & Josh Alexander) (c) vs. the Rascalz (Dezmond Xaviery & Zachary Wentz) (A1 Tag Team Championship)
- Danny Adams vs. Eddie Osbourne vs. Holden Albright vs. Justin Sane (c) vs. Rohit Raju vs. Steve Brown vs. Steve Manders (A1 Outer Limits Championship Ultimate Scramble)
- BMD vs. Kody Lane vs. Orange Cassidy vs. Trey Miguel (c) (A1 Zero Gravity Championship Elimination Match)
- Danhausen vs. Jake Parnell (c) vs. Mark Wheeler (IWTV Independent Wrestling Championship)
- Killer Kross vs. Rickey Shane Page (c) (“GCW World Heavyweight Championship”)
- Gregory Iron vs. Kobe Durst (c) (A1 Alpha Male Championship)
Alpha-1 have fall off our radar here at Sermon on the Mat a bit, but rest assured that All Ego and his roster have been hard at work in Canada, and what better time to refocus than Final Act in Hamilton, Ontario? From the boss defending the tag titles in a three-way, to the Ultimate Scramble, to Greg Iron’s long, long road to the title reaching a turning point, it’s a hoot top to bottom.
Get your tickets here or check it out when it hits IWTV, folks.
Free matches here!
Anthony Greene & Platinum Hunnies (Angel Sinclair & Ava Everett) vs. Shark Boy & Team Sea Stars (Ashley Vox & Delmi Exo)
From our friends over at Beyond, we’ve got some fun in the sun for you! A few weeks ago they held a show on the beach, and who better than Shark Boy and Team Sea Stars to deliver the goods? Gimme a shell yeah!
Jimmy Lloyd vs. Matt Travis
And now we commemorate the unexpected passing of a rising star, folks. Matt Travis was starting to make a name for himself in the northeastern indies before being struck by a dump truck while he was riding his bike on Saturday morning, and so here’s GCW giving us a matchup of his opposite the Different Boy himself, Jimmy Lloyd.
ICW France 2000
And last but not least, we’ve got a full ICW show for you from some weeks back. Check it out!
Results
Evolve 139-140 (Nov. 9-10)
—Evolve 139 (Nov. 9)—
- AR Fox over Colby Corino
- The Skulk (Adrian Alanis & Liam Gray) over Leroy Green & Wrecking Ball Legursky
- Shotzi Blackheart over Reina Gonzalez by disqualification
- Anthony Greene & Harlem Bravado over Brandon Taggart & Curt Stallion
- The Unwanted (Joe Gacy & Sean Maluta) over Anthony “Sharkbait” Gutierrez & Arturo Ruas
- Babatunde over Eddie Kingston (Relaxed Rules Match)
- Leon Ruff over Evan Bourne by countout
- Anthony Henry over JD Drake (No Holds Barred)
- Josh Briggs over Austin Theory (c) to win the Evolve World Championship
—Evolve 140 (Nov. 10)—
- The Unwanted (Colby Corino & Sean Maluta) over Kekoa & Mike Verna
- Reina Gonzalez over Alex Gracia
- Babatunde over Brandon Taggart
- Austin Theory over Curt Stallion
- Anthony Greene, Evan Bourne, & Harlem Bravado over the Skulk (Adrian Alanis, Leon Ruff, & Liam Gray)
- Anthony “Sharkbait” Gutierrez over Mike Donovan
- Arturo Ruas over Eddie Kingston by disqualification
- Shotzi Blackheart over Allysin Kay
- Joe Gacy over AR Fox
- Josh Briggs (c) over Anthony Henry and JD Drake to retain the Evolve World Championship
More thoughts later in the week once I’ve had a chance to watch these bad boys and digest them, but for right now, I’ll be honest-- I didn’t think Evolve were going to do the change here. I thought the groundhog told us we had six more weeks of Austin Theory, but it’s clear skies now, baby!
Check the VODs out on Club WWN, if you will.
As always...
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