SHINE 3 results – now with thoughts and images
SHINE Wrestling hits iPPV this evening for its third monthly instalment with nods to the past, present and future.
For the past, the promotion is honouring stars from yesteryear; the present is the card (which we will run down in just a moment); and the future is the announcement on the show which will affect both SHINE and big sister promotion SHIMMER: Women Athletes.
The big matches on the show see Jazz take on Rain, while Jazz’s rival Mercedes Martinez meets Jayme Jameson (plus Jazz and Martinez are banned from interacting), and Jessicka Havok steps into the ring against Mia Yim. Elsewhere, four women make their debuts (get more info on them here), and Made In Sin engage in their first singles matches in the promotion.
You can order the iPPV by clicking here, or you can click the jump and keep hitting refresh to see the results as they happen. (more…)
Shine Wrestling 3: Scouting Report
Tomorrow sees Shine Wrestling return with SHINE 3, live from The Orpheum in Ybor City, FL. As per normal, there are a number of pricing options available from WWNLive.com – and it also means it’s time for another Scouting Report. Only four talents are making their debuts on this show, so for background on the competitors not listed here, please refer back to the SHINE 1 and SHINE 2 Scouting Reports…
Luscious Latasha
From “Temptation Island”, pint-sized Latasha stands just 4’11″, but she’s a little firecracker … Trained by (amongst others) similarly undersized Matt Hyson aka Spike Dudley … Best known for her run in WSU, where she was the first ever WSU Spirit Champion, and one half of the tag team champions with Jana … Looking to make an impact with Gabby Gilbert as the tag team “Rainbow Bright” (they’ve even got a joint twitter account) … We talked to Latasha at the start of the year for the first edition of “My Name Is…” where she talked about her desire to work more places this year … Toured with REINA in Japan earlier in the year … Watch out for her Luscious Breaker (neckbreaker) (more…)
Review: AIW Girls Night Out 5 (29 January 2012)
On the eve of Absolute Intense Wrestling’s sixth edition of Girls Night Out, we cast our review net back a couple of months to the night the Mia Yim vs Allysin Kay rivalry (much like Kay’s nose…) exploded.
Results
1. Marti Belle bt Mia Yim via pinfall (Double Underhook Facebuster)
2. KC bt Lucious Latasha via submission (Cattle Mutilation)
3. Crazy Mary Dobson bt Miss Heidi via pinfall (Moonsault)
4. Gabby Gilbert bt Angel Dust via submission (Crossface)
5. Veda Scott bt Kimber Lee via pinfall (DDT)
6. Mia Yim bt Allysin Kay via pinfall (Corkscrew Moonsault) — Yim becomes #1 contender to AIW Women’s Championship
7. AIW Women’s Championship: Mickie Knuckles (c) bt Sara Del Rey via pinfall (Pump-Handle Powerbomb)
Facts
• Before the show there’s a three match “Guys Night Out” undercard with three matches.
• Cherry Bomb didn’t make it across the border for the show (she was originally scheduled to be taking on Allysin Kay), meaning Mia Yim pulled double duty. This was worked into storyline with the implication that Kay had “called the border” to rat out Cherry Bomb.
• Yim was accompanied by AIW’s “Flexor Industries” – at least for the first match. After losing to Marti Belle, Yim was slapped by fellow Flexor Industries member Allysin Kay, setting up a match between the two in the semi main event spot.
• Who is Luscious Latasha? Check out Lee’s “My Name Is” interview with her on this very site.
• Crazy Mary Dobson is a Mad Man Pondo product. Never seen her before, nor Miss Heidi. More on those two below.
• Gabby Gilbert (as in the newly renamed Roxie Cotton) “debuted” on Girls Night Out 4, turning on Portia Perez. No Perez on this show for revenge, sadly.
• The Mia Yim vs Allysin Kay match featured the now infamous nose breaking incident, when Yim broke Kay’s nose with a kick outside the ring.
• This was the first meeting between Mickie Knuckles & Sara Del Rey since the match in which Mickie broke her leg in 2008 in IWA-MS, which ultimately cost Knuckles her TNA deal. (more…)
In Video: Gabby gabs with Veda… then wrestles her
This weekend’s match comes from the tail end of last year, and is from the WXW-C4 promotion’s card in Allentown, PA on December 10, featuring its Women’s Champion Gabby Gilbert defending against Veda Scott.
Despite having less than a year’s experience under her belt, Scott has all the makings of a star. Working heel in this match, she takes control of the contest and the fans as part of her title challenge, and provides a serious foil to the happy-go-lucky Gilbert.
Speaking of which, that is very evident in Gilbert’s ongoing YouTube video series Gabbin’ With Gabby, which featured a conversation between her and Veda before the match, in which Gilbert does 90% of the talking, with Scott tuning out on numerous occasions, playing Miss High And Mighty. Hopefully, these two will become a comedy tag team one day, as it reminds me of Al Snow and Steve Blackman‘s Head Cheese tag team gimmick back in 2000, with one member being the straight (wo)man, while the other goes for the laughs. (more…)
Mickie Knuckles retains at Girls Night Out 5
Three and a half years after breaking her leg in a match in IWA: Mid South, Mickie Knuckles put that unfinished chapter in her life to bed by defeating her opponent in that match, Sara Del Rey, tonight at Absolute Intense Wrestling’s Girls Night Out 5, successfully retaining her AIW Women’s Championship in the process.
The broken leg was brought up in the match as Del Rey attacked the champion with kicks, before turning her attention to Knuckles’ arm in order to break that. However, Mickie fought back, avoided Sara’s third Capo Kick and nailed the challenger with a powerbomb to get the winning pinfall. The win is another feather in the cap of Knuckles, who is enjoying a renaissance in her career since leaving IWA:MS, spreading her wings and gaining new plaudits and accolades in wrestling promotions all over the US.
Elsewhere on the card, despite losing the opening match on the card to Marti Belle, Mia Yim became the number one contender to the championship by beating and bloodying Allysin Kay (Cherry Bomb didn’t make it to the show), rookie Veda Scott (who has just a year of ring time under her houndstooth belt) continued to impress fans, and Gabby Gilbert followed up her sneak attack on Portia Perez at GNO4 by using underhanded tactics again to defeat former champion Angel Dust.
Thanks to David Muscarella for the results, which you can read by clicking after the jump, as well as taking a look at what Allysin Kay looked like after her match: (more…)
WSU: Breaking Barriers 2 review
Twenty four hours removed from Women Superstars Uncensored‘s iPPV Breaking Barriers II and this writer is still at a loss for words. The show had it’s ups and downs as any show will, but when the ending of the War Games main event went down, it had me in shock and disbelief. The ending completely overshadowed the War Games match itself as well as the rest of the show. I’m going to attempt to write up a coherent report and put my thoughts and opinions into some sort of structure.
The first match was the Boston Shore (Amber and Lexxus) defending the WSU Tag Team Championships against the reunited International Home Wrecking Crew of Rain and Jetta. Back at WSU’s last DVD tapings in August, it was originally announced that Serena Deeb would be Rain’s partner since both women had had problems with the Shore. However, Serena pulled out of the match (which led to her being announced as Melina‘s opponent for Breaking Barriers II), leaving Rain without a partner. Not for long though – in a surprise twist, Rain brought Jetta out of retirement to take on the Shore. (more…)
Ringbelles Retro: Hardcore or old-school?
Unable to decide what match to choose for this week’s Retro, I threw the decision over to you, the Ringbelles reader. I turned to our Twitter and Facebook to make the call on whether I should feature a hardcore match, or an old-school affair. Without any more information than that, we received votes on both sides – even asking other Ringbelles staff members, wrestlers and friends.
Result: stalemate.
Therefore, being left with the casting vote, I did what anybody would do – sit on the fence. So for this week’s Retro, you have BOTH a hardcore match and an old-school contest. The first is a violent affair from the 2007 Queen of the Deathmatches (available as part of the Pride and Passion set from Highspots) between Mickie Knuckles and Roxie Cotton (now Gabby Gilbert), which Roxie discussed with us on the Women Of Wrestling Podcast earlier this year, describing it as “fun”, and saying she “would do it again”. (more…)
DVD Review: AIW Girls Night Out 4 (29 July 2011)
Absolute Intense Wrestling presented its “Girls Night Out 4” show on July 29th in Lakewood, OH. As you’d expect from the show name, this is the fourth such card featuring the women of AIW. I’ve actually never seen any of the previous GNOs, so this DVD represents my first taste of the AIW product save for a brief YouTube clip here and there. Initial thoughts are that the DVD is nicely produced, with good VQ and sound, and the package includes an entire DVD of the four-match “Guys Night Out 4” undercard. Unfortunately, for a show boasting a really good number of top quality names, the attendance appeared to be quite sparse. Nevertheless, they reacted where they needed to for the majority of the show, which is a good thing.
My biggest complaint as far as the overall production is concerned – and I might as well get this out here rather than repeat myself time and time again throughout the review – is the heel commentator on the show, who seems to spend most of his time firing off misogynistic and at times offensive commentary in an apparent attempt annoy the viewer. It worked. I believe his name is Aaron Bauer, and hey… I’m a commentator myself, so I know that this guy is just playing his “heel commentator” role, but there are ways to add colour and be a heel without resorting to the basest comments and without overbearing the match. I mean, does wondering about whether they do apartment wrestling, or insinuating sexual situations with most of the women add a single solitary thing to the product? It certainly isn’t getting anybody over, and it constantly makes the viewer re-think why they’re bothering to invest any time in the product. Haven’t we learned anything from Michael Cole in 2011? On the other hand, the play-by-play guy Pedro DeLuca does a fine job calling the action.
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WSU DVD taping results: 73 minute match, new faction & War Games match signed
Unlike its last few big-time offerings, which have been shown on iPPV before being released on DVD, this weekend’s Women Superstars Uncensored shows are going straight to the WSU shop. The promotion have two shows in Union City, NJ tonight, with the main matches being Mercedes Martinez defending the WSU World Title against Lexxus, and the increasingly-impressive Jessicka Havok taking on “The WSU Icon” Alicia in a No Holds Barred match.
After the jump, you’ll find all the results. Enjoy. (more…)
Roxie Cotton explains name change to Gabby Gilbert
Looks like were were all somewhat confused by the announcement of Roxie Cotton‘s retirement match last Friday at Absolute Intense Wrestling’s Girls Night Out 4 in Lakewood, Ohio. Instead of Roxie Cotton – the woman – saying goodbye, it was the name itself, which is being abandoned in favour of Gabby Gilbert – the name which she wishes to be referred to in future. That presumably means an alteration in look, character and presentation, though we understand it won’t be a drastic change. I hope that we’ll still hear Robin Sparkles’ “Let’s Go To The Mall” blaring out during her entrance…
For a bit more of an insight into the Roxie Cotton character, have a listen to our Women Of Wrestling Podcast with her back in March, where we discuss her suffering motion sickness when she wrestles, death matches and her ventures into stand-up comedy. (more…)
AIW Girls Night Out 4 Results
Absolute Intense Wrestling presented their fourth all-female show last night at St. Gregory’s Byzantine Hall in Lakewood, OH. In quick results from the show…
1. Mena Libra (making her return from injury) defeated KC
2. Cherry Bomb beat Veda Scott
3. Allysin Kay upset Mickie Knuckles
4. Sara Del Rey defeated Sassy Stephie (who was a surprise replacement for the advertised Super Oprah)
5. Portia Perez beat Roxie Cotton in Roxie’s retirement match. Roxie attacked Portia after the match and announced her real name was Gabby Gilbert
6. AIW Womens Championship: Jessicka Havok (c) won the First Blood match over Angel Dust when Allysin Kay interfered, causing the referee to call for the bell. This led to an impromptu challenge and a new main event…
7. AIW Womens Championship: Mickie Knuckles defeated Jessicka Havok (c) to win the AIW Womens Championship.
***
Initial buzz seems to indicate a good show, although our own Veda Scott did tweet soon after “My face hurts. Damn you @Cherrrybomb & your assorted kicks!”. Interestingly, Roxie Cotton’s old twitter account (@roxiecotton) has already been replaced by the new @GabbyGilbertWho.
We hope to have further review/opinion for you in due course.
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