The vid is of Egotistico Fantastico and Scotty Vortekz; Egotistico is doing the rail jumping. It was the only match where something happened in the crowd. They were supposed to be repping CZW. Wouldn’t say they did their organization too proud. No pics (none worth taking) but I did some tweets while I was there.
1. jeez man. brooksville is WAY da fuck out here. took me a while 2 get here 4 da jeff peterson cup. tix r $15. parkin is scarce.
2. i parked in da grass. no other spots. da armory is located across da street from a fuckin prison! i mean literally! no shit!
3. its a jpc show but fip signage is evrywhere. furk dem! milo beasley had 2 do a do over win comin 2 da ring since he kicked da trophy over.
4. 1 guy walked out of da photo of da jpc contestants win dey was all in da ring. dont know if its storyline or real. 1st match was green.
5. 2nd match was much much better. damn good match. shoulda been da opener, not dat green ass bullshit dey gave us.
6. intermission time. show is underwhelmin so far. tag team battle royale finish sucked. only 1 good match so far. prolly not doin da 2nd nite.
7. btw, jpc last nite sucked. not doin da 2nd show. @ sum church function in downtown orlando 2 feed da homeless. its new 4 me n i was nvited.
As you can tell, I wasn’t thrilled with the show. Won’t say it totally sucked as it had its moments. But that’s not a compliment. Brooksville really is a million miles away from anything. Long ass drive from where I live. Took about an hour and a god damn half but I didn’t get lost so I ain’t complaining on that front. Only things out of the ordinary I saw during my drive were a big ass self-service ice vending machine that people could walk up to like an ice cream stand or roadside food vendor and a 3-lane left turn lane. The ice vending machine would actually be a good money-making, franchising idea. Given the right location, it could turn into something big like the dollar dvd rental biz in my opinion. Cuz you know them alcoholics would be regular visitors. Never saw a triple-decker turning lane before in my life until then. I’m impressed a tiny town like Brooksville would have their roads future-proofed like that yet Orlando’s roads are still cro-magnon and littered with potholes that do more than talk like the one in that Geico commercial.
The armory it was held in wasn’t well lit. Actually, the shit wasn’t lit at all. Just like the drive through the woods along the way, it was completely dark. You’d have no idea anything was going on there if you drove by it. I rolled up in that bitch and couldn’t find a parking spot for shit. Saw the wrestlers outside by the back entrance shooting the shit so I knew I was in the right place. I found a lone spot off in the cut in the grass, so I took it.
Got my ticket and was informed that there was a PWR pre-show. I didn’t really give a fuck cuz I knew I wouldn’t like the shit. After taking a piss, I met up with some peeps I ain’t seen in a while. I did fly solo, by the way. They informed me that the pre-show totally sucked, which I already had an inkling that it would, and that each match had a different referee. Um, okay. My main reason for coming was because I’d never seen or heard of damn near any of the announced talent on the show before and they were doing a different format this year. The 2006 JPC was one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen. I was expecting something similar. Didn’t happen.
First match was only significant in the fact that Marion Fontaine’s gimmick is memorable. Of all the talent and matches this night, this cat stuck out cuz he did almost everything right. He came out and worked the whole crowd (which was less than 100 people deep). Even though he wasn’t in any kind of shape at all, he has his own look. God damn guy looks like Jesus Christ and he had a reverse tramp stamp (it was on his stomach). And his gear was mostly yellow and the back of his tights had the face of a fucking Care Bear with a mustache. We was like, “What the fuck?” And he had the Batman symbol on the front of his boots. What the fuck?
The guy looked corny as hell but he got himself over, I’ll give him that. Ring skills weren’t completely bad but the match as a whole was just green as fuck. Both guys looked like newbs. If the guy packs on some muscle like his opponent and gets some more mic time, he might go somewhere. One of the guys I was sitting with was totally infatuated with him. Interpret that how you want. The next match with Gargano and Jones was really good. Shoulda been the opener.
And then there’s the Silas Young (who’s ‘official’ website is massively out of date)/Dave Cole match. Nothing special at all about either of them, really. But Mr. Young’s entrance was quite memorable in the fact that his ring music was Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” and he didn’t come out until after a good two minutes into the damn song. The fucked up part about it all was that young kids knew the lyrics! Amazing. And, of course, when he came out, he got a pop. There’s delayed entrances and then there’s delayed entrances. I understand getting the timing right with the song but damn, man, this was ridiculous. But it was one of those unforgettable moments. Had to be there to appreciate it.
The next match with Brad Attitude losing was totally forgettable like almost everything else that would follow. I will say this though: Shane Hollister looks a lot like Nick Kroll from The League (funny as hell tv show). Fans should start a new chant when he comes out: “Ruxin, Ruxin, Ruxin!” The tag team battle royal had promise but the finish was a fucking joke. The promise I mention was DCFC came in and was clearing everybody out easily. Then The Shane Twins came in and it was some damn good brawling and mat-stomping between the two heavyweight teams. I was totally into it. Just as things were getting really good, it went south as both teams eventually got eliminated while other teams that weren’t worth shit got over. It was about here that I wasn’t much into the show anymore. Already paid my dough so I was gonna get all my money’s worth, especially after that long ass drive. I was told early on to blame Gabe Sapolsky for any bad booking. I hereby blame Gabe Sapolsky for the bad booking.
Due to garbage matches just before and after intermission, my peeps and I were just shooting the shit about everything that was wrong with the show and the biz as a whole. Here’s something I’ll bet not many other people said about this show: the food sucked! Cold Domino’s pizza and warm beverages. How fucked up is that shit? And then they was charging 2 bucks for the pizza and a buck for water that I could get around the corner in a fountain for free and cold. Just fucking ridiculous and poorly run.
Heard a lot of yap about Davey Richards being the top indy star in the country and shit. Um, I don’t think so. The guy ain’t got much for charisma and you’re gonna need that to get to the next level. There’s more to wrestling than just wrestling. Too many motherfuckers forget the entertainment aspect of it. The booking style was just like FIP and ROH. Gee, what a surprise there. High spot after high spot after high spot, near fall after near fall after near fall and that shit gets really old really quick. It’s a JPC event yet there’s signage for some other promotion plastered all over the place? Stupid. You hold the event out in the sticks in a small building and surprised at the turnout? And the next night, it was gonna be held in Crystal River which is even further away from a population center. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
These fools still believe in this dvd model. I don’t see how someone could bear to watch that boring ass bullshit with damn near every match looking exactly the same. I know I just couldn’t do it. That booking style is just not at all entertaining. Whoever booked in ’06, bring their asses back! JPC needs a boost from somewhere since the people that run it clearly don’t have a clue how to properly promote the shit. They can say the shit was successful, the boys can talk about how good a time it was (and for them, it may have been), fans can front like it was such a damn good show (and if they think it really was, they’re newbs), but the reality is that, based on that first night, the whole thing was a total wash. Mostly shit matches, shit booking, shit location, shit attendance, and SHIT concessions. Another part of the problem was that most of the talent had the same style of wrestling, damn near the same look, and practically no gimmick. Not many differences in most of those guys. I’d like to think in their respective promotions that they do better than they did here but dammit, I can’t tell. Unless the booking changes for these shows in the future, count me out.
People can say it’s for a good cause but seriously, if anyone really cared, wouldn’t they have showed up? First and foremost, this is a pro wrestling event. Fund raiser second. Combine the two and you’d think it’s gold, right? We all know the answer to that one and it ain’t the right one. Something’s gotta change here. I never knew or ever even seen Jeff Peterson wrestle. Sounds like he was a great guy and well respected, but shit man, if you’re gonna use his name, do the guy proper justice. It ain’t just about him. It’s about people with his condition and it just so happens he was a pro wrestler. Why this event isn’t bigger than it is, I just don’t get it. Like I said before, something’s gotta change. Oh, and the security guard told me no videotaping. Obviously I ain’t listen to him. Any publicity is good publicity and these idiots don’t even see that. Fuck them dvd’s!
