CZW “Best of the Best XIII” iPPV
April 12, 2014
Voorhees, NJ
CZWrestling.com
Live thoughts credit to our own Adam Leavelle
Show started with DJ Hyde starting to talk about ungrateful wrestlers that rip on his company, when Kevin Steen ran in through the crowd and attacked him to the absolute delight of the crowd. Steen package piledrived Hyde and told the crowd that’s what people like Hyde gets and the crowd chanted “one more time.” Steen said he forgot how sick the CZW fans were, but that he likes to make people happy,so he package piledrived Hyde again. Steen then said he came to watch Drake Younger win the tournament. There was a ten bell salute to the Ultimate Warrior which was cool.
Caleb Konley vs. Azrieal vs. Biff Busick
Good match, Busick is so freakin stiff it’s painful to watch. Some sick moves and bumps in this match that saw Biff Busick win it, pinning Azriel
Buxx Belmar vs. Lucky tHURTeen vs. Chuck Taylor
Loved this match, very good stuff all through it. Buxx is a sicko!! Chuck won pinning Buxx, then squirting hand sanitizer all over him lol
AR Fox vs. Andrew Everett vs. Mike Bailey
My favorite match of the night even though it was an insane spot fest it was crazy fun. Bailey is the real deal and crowd chanted “please come back” to him. Fox won it when he pinned the hard fighting Bailey
Drake Younger vs. Tim Thatcher vs. Papadon
Good match that Younger won, but told the crowd that Thatcher is one of the best wrestlers in the world today, so I expect big things from him in CZW
Shane Strickland (c) v. NOI’s Devon Moore
Good match that saw a few botches, including Moore falling off the ladder he climbed to enter the ring at the start of the match! Crowd turned on Strickland when he refused to go anywhere near a board of barbed-wire, but later suplexed Moore onto it, but Moore took the bump and had to have the wire literally pulled out of his back before continuing. Strickland won, climbing a huge ladder to grab the title. TONS of huge ladder bumps, from both guy, as you’d expect. Moore legit hurt his arm, giant “bubble” on it most of the match, looked sick.
Biff Busick beat Chuck Taylor in the semi-final round of the tournament in a pretty good match that saw Chuck tap out to Busicks sleeper/choke hold. Crowd didn’t like it.
Chuck Taylor vs. Biff Busick was a very solid, back and forth, hard hitting, fun, match. The crowd was pretty heavily behind Chuck. The Front being at ringside, just pisses the crowd off. It does seem kind of ridiculous to have three people supporting a guy from ringside. They knew better than to get invovled though, as Chuck was in a fighting mood, and worked over Busick pretty good, even nailing a hige, over the top rope back flip dive to the outside! Busick’s stiff clotheslines, and chops though seemed to wear the Kentucky Gentleman down, leading him to eventually submit to Busick’s rear naked choke hold. As Chuck passed me, he shrugged, and said “I’m really surprised I made it this far!”
Drake Younger beat AR Fox in the second semi-final is a pretty good match that saw Fox break out all his crazy stuff, and Younger kicking out of Lo Mane Pain! Afterwords Younger pulled Fox into the ring and held his hand up and hugged him.
AR Fox vs Drake Younger was surreal. Fox, usually a heavy fan favorite could do nothing to get any support. The crowd loved any and everything Drake did, and I thionk it may have threw off Fox’s game a little. Drake even managed to kick out of Lo Mein Pain! Both guys traded crazy spots that would have killed, or seriously maimed most wrestlers, but not these two. While it was never certain that Drake would win, the crowd may have rioted if he has not. After missing another attemot at Lo Mein Pain, Drake got Fox in Drakes Landing, and got the 1-2-3
In the finals of the tournament, Drake Younger and Biff Busick nearly killed each other. Very little Hyperbole in that statement either. Busick started by attacking Drake during his entrance, instantly making the crowd hot! They took turns tossing each other into the surrounding barricades, at one point, Younger even dropped Busick into the crowd and then dove from onto him while he was in there, standing then, amongst the crowd in celebration. Busick hit Drake with everything he had, including a top rope half nelson suplex, that Drake kicked out of, causing the members of The Front, at ringside, to look totally perplexed. After that, Drake was on Fire, and hit a flurry of offense on Busick, nailing him with Drakes Landing and getting the pin, and winning the best of the best tournament XIII.
Younger then gave an amazing farewell speech thanking everyone that ever did anything for him, and praising CZW and it’s fans, saying he will always be a “CZW Guy.” Crowd as insane hot for this. After the show, Drake stayed and met every,and any fan that wanted to meet him, posing with them, and the trophy. Great guy!
#1 Contender’s Match for the CZW World Tag Team Titles
OI4K v. The Juicy Product
Loved this too, second favorite bout of the night as it was pretty much on fire from the start until the end. Juicy Product won a HARD fought battle t become number one contenders.
Apparently Tommy Dreamer was a no show, and when it was announced that there would be no match involving him the crowd booed pretty heavily, and chanted for Steen. Steen did hang around, but only sold merchandise, he didn’t wrestle, outside of attacking Hyde.
Overall: This was a great show! It made me an even bigger CZW fan. Kevin Steen’s surprise appearance started the show off HOT! It was a great spot for sure. I also often don’t care for three way matches, but in all honesty, all of these matches were entertaining. Buxx Belmar and Mile Bailey are future stars, and the crowd wanted to hate Bailey so bad, but just couldn’t. The tag match was very good, as both teams wrestled their best, and made the match feel important, as it was supposed to be! It was seriously one of the best back and forth tag matches I’ve seen in a while, as it was never clear who would get the win, until right at the end. The ladder match had a few botched spots, but over all, was very entertaining. Devin Moore, telling the crowd off, for turning of Strickland was pretty cool, and it worked, as they came around, and cheered him again afterwords. The only weakness is that it seemed certain, most of the night, that Drake Younger was winning the tournament, but the matches we’re good enough to make you either forget, or get over that. Drakes speech was the best farewell speech I’ve ever heard, and his meeting fans, after the show, was incredible. The guy just seems amazing, and truly appreciative! I hope he’s a huge success in WWE.
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