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Aniversario Zehn

May 22, 2010 ~ Tyngsboro, MA

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1. Green Ant vs. Amasis – **
Amasis does a touchdown dance with a football before entering the ring, is inside a sports complex…so this is going to be a very weird-looking show. Green Ant and Amasis trade holds and Amasis tricks Green Ant into doing a little dance. They trade some pinfall attempts but Amasis hits a nice powerslam for two. Amasis hits a suplex and continues to ground Green Ant, though the elastic ant continues to find ways to get quick pinfall attempts. A shoulder tackle gets “The Funky Pharaoh” two, as does a butterfly suplex. Green Ant rolls back into an ankle lock, but Amasis breaks it up with a pin attempt. Amasis tosses Green Ant on the outside and it causes Green Ant to hit is head awkwardly on the top turnbuckle…but he comes back in and repeatedly slams his own head into the turnbuckle showing that it is made of dolomite baby! Seriously, if this isn’t leading to him eventually becoming Bull Ant, I don’t get it. Green Ant starts throwing headbutts and hits a big splash. 1…2…Amasis kicks out. Green Ant hits a wrist-clutch marching Samoan drop and locks in the Texas Cloverleaf! Amasis tries to crawl away but Green Ant pulls him back. He finally makes it to the ropes and he and Green Ant trade strikes. Amasis goes off the ropes and Green Ant gets a flash pin attempt. 1…2…Amasis kicks out. Green Ant runs the ropes, but Amasis hits a run behind roaring elbow! 1…2…3! Amasis beats Green Ant in a perfectly fine opening match.
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2. The Throwbacks vs. Tursas & Daizee Haze – **1/4
Backstage before the match, Sugar Dunkerton says he wants to melt Daizee’s icy heart with his hot chocolate. Dasher is furious and leaves. Sugar says forget that and skis away. Tursas starts by tossing Sugar across the ring and tagging in Daizee. Sugar tells her she’s fine and Dasher continues to find this counterproductive. Sugar gives Daizee his basketball and she fires it into his chest claiming it to be a check ball. Sugar went for a hug and Haze turned it into a headlock. Sugar keeps putting her in submissions and asking her out. Everybody calls timeout. Time in and he continues to court Mrs. Haze. Tursas tags in and Sugar claims Tursas is jealous. The crowd agrees. Tursas destroys Dunkerton with a shoulder tackle, but Sugar and Dasher form one giant person to combat him. Sugar throws blows from up top but Daizee clips Dasher’s knee allowing Tursas to hit a frickin’ standing doomsday device and Daizee to hit a dropkick to Hatfield. The Bruderschaft duo beat down Sugar in brutal fashion, but he eventually leapfrogs Daizee and makes a tag to Dasher who throws some nice shots to the face of Tursas. The ‘Backs hit twin dropkicks to Tursas, but Sugar is distracted by Daizee, allowing Tursas to crush Dasher with a crossbody for three. Daizee & Tursas get the win in a really funny match. The action here wasn’t great, but Sugar is just some much fun that he elevates every match he’s in. There are a lot of funny lines that Sugar spouts during this, almost like an amusing commentary track to a good film.
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3. Ophidian vs. STIGMA – **3/4
This is Ophidian’s first match since winning the Rey de Voladores at King of Trios. STIGMA starts the match by planting Ophidian on the canvas with an elbow shot. Both men trade shots and Ophidian goes for the Death Grip. STIGMA turns it into a Tombstone, but Ophidian wiggles free. STIGMA continues to throw some sick elbows to ground Ophidian, but he counters with some nice lucha moves.  STIGMA counters a back rolling headscissors into a nice backbreaker. Ophidian gets a few lucha roll ups before drilling STIG with a roundhouse kick. He goes for a crucifix bomb but STIGMA turns it into an armdrag that sends Ophidian to the floor. STIGMA goes to dive, but Ophidian rolls back & STIGMA is now outside, so Ophidian hits a corkscrew plancha to the big man! Back inside, Ophidian looks for flying knees but STIGMA counters into knees of his own! STIG continues to beat down Ophidian, countering a headscissors by tossing Ophidian chest first onto the apron. He crawls back in and STIGMA hits a dropkick for two. STIGMA goes for the Tombstone yet again, but Ophidian counters with some awesome knees. He destroys STIGMA with a reverse roundhouse kick and a fisherman’s buster that drops both men. Ophidian runs to STIG in the corner and hits a handstand into a monkey flip. 1…2…STIGMA kicks out. Ophidian misses the double knees again and STIGMA hits a deadlift release German suplex! Face Wash! 1…2…Ophidian kicks out. STIGMA goes for the Tombstone again, but Ophidian turns it into victory roll. 1…2…STIGMA kicks out! Ophidian ends up on the apron and he hits a modified Jesus Walks for another two. STIGMA counters a corner charge with another German and then hits That Japanese Move, his finisher from the Shane Storm days! 1…2…3! STIGMA picks up the victory in an upset considering Ophidian just won the RVD tourney. Really nice match that suffers slightly due to the typical STIGMA sloppiness, though it wasn’t so bad that it ruined anything completely.
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4. Grudge Match #1: Equinox & Helios vs. Tim Donst & Lince Dorado – ***1/4
Tim Donst cuts another really good promo backstage and the BDK young lions take forever to start the match. Helios and Lince start things off, but Lince quickly bails and allows Donst to get the drop on Helios, but Donst gets embarrassed lucha-style. Jimmy “Equinox” Olsen and Dorado enter, and Jimmy hammers away at Lince. Donst runs in and hits a Lince-assisted Complete Shot and Dorado hits a standing moonsault. 1…2…Jimmy kicks out. Donst & Dorado beat up Equinox with stomps and chops, forcing him to make the BDK symbol with his hands. Donst hits a belly-to-belly from the apron on Donst for two. They continue the onslaught until Equinox slips outside and Helios gets in. He takes out everybody and drops Lince with a rolling dragonrana! 1…2…Lince kicks out. Helios hits the Tiger Flip and lands a sick flip dive over the turnbuckles on Donst! Jimmy hits Dorado with a missile dropkick and a sick superkick! 1…2…Lince kicks out! Jimmy is tripped by Lince into sitting on the second rope in the corner and Dorado hits a double stomp on Jimmy! 1…2…Helios breaks it up. Helios jumps to Lince’s shoulders, Donst goes up top and Lince pushes Helios so he’s standing on Dorado’s shoulders! SKY HIGH DOOMSDAY DEVICE! 1…2…HELIOS KICKS OUT! Donst applies the Inverted Chikara Special! Out on the floor, ‘Nox drills Lince with a Knockout Punch and breaks up Donst’s submission with a spike baby rana. Jimmy applies the Chikara Special! Donst fights it off and just as Jimmy is about to reapply the hold, Lince breaks it up with an abisegiri. Helios and Lince end up on the top rope and Helios gets the advantage. AVALANCHE DOUBLE KNEES! Helios goes back to the top rope…Shooting Star Press! 1…2…3! The Future is Now get their first point against Donst and Dorado. This started okay and worked into a good heat segment. The ending made this match. Man, these guys were all over the place, and I mean that in a good way. A few stumbles aside, this was tight.
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5. Grudge Match #2: Fire Ant vs. Pinkie Sanchez – **3/4
Sanchez cuts another feeble, aimless promo. This is getting silly; the rambling fool needs to be muffled. Fire Ant runs out like a house of hot things. Papagiorgio tells Pinkie to take a shower and just berates him for getting in his face. Bell rings and Fire Ant immediately attacks Pinkie, hitting a running corner enzuigiri and a running corner dropkick sending Sanchez outside. Fire Ant hits a no-hands flip dive onto Pinkie on the floor! Pinkie gets rolled back inside and manages to hit a backbreaker and running knees to the back of Fire Ant. Pinkie continues to target the back of Fire Ant, stunting every opportunity Fire Ant gets to mount a comeback. Pinkie’s continual taunting of the crowd gets him a beating but never a sustained one. Finally, Fire Ant starts throwing roundhouse kicks like a maniac and drills Sanchez with a twisting brainbuster. 1…2…Sanchez kicks out. Fire Ant and Pinkie end up out on the apron with Fire Ant looking to give Pinkie an apron Beach Break, but Sanchez fights out and hits a sloppy apron DDT to Fire Ant. 1…2…Fire Ant kicks out. Sanchez tries to lock in the Inverted Chikara Special, but Fire Ant turns it into a roll up for two. Fire Ant destroys Pinkie with Burning Down the House and heads north for Heat of the Moment. He connects! 1…2…Sanchez kicks out. Sanchez hammers away at Fire Ants back and calls for the Burning Snicklefritz but Fire Ant counters into a Burning Hammer. Pinkie wiggles free though, and he armdrags Fire Ant to the mat and does a really poor job of locking on the Inverted Chikara Special. Fire Ant goes limp and Papagiorgio is forced to call for the bell. Pink Ant wins a big match against the leader of the Colony. Like Ophidian/STIGMA, this was clearly a match between two wrestlers not on the same level. While Fire Ant looked extra sharp out there, Sanchez couldn’t connect with the crowd at all. He fumbled the finish, too. It was still a pretty good match, just a bit of a letdown.
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6. Grudge Match #3: Ares vs. UltraMantis Black – **1/2
UltraMantis cuts a great promo before the match stating he has no one and nothing…all the while, Crossbones is standing behind him looking dejected. Ares and Mantis stare each other down as the bell sounds, and Ares decides to bail to the back. He returns with Delirious dressed in white and being guided by a chain. Mantis is furious at this and he keeps trying to reach out to his former ally. Ares hits a hard clothesline and puts Mantis in the camel clutch, taunting Mantis by forcing him stare at Delirious. UltraMantis fires back with a series of armdrags as the two men brawl on the floor. Ares beats him down outside and looks for the Toblerone Driver but he gets backdropped on the artificial grass! UltraMantis beats him up around ringside and tosses Ares back inside, but Mantis gets caught with a dropkick while reentering. Ares hits a big chop on the corner and a nice suplex for two. Ares beats on Mantis in the corner closest to Delirious and hits hit swinging fall away suplex for another two. Mantis fights back with the help of the chanting crowd, but Ares hits the Blue Thunder Bomb. 1…2…Mantis kicks out. Ares is furious and gets handed something from Jakob Hammermeier at ringside. Ares blows into a tiny dog whistle and Delirious tosses Crossbones into the ringpost, dropping the big man. UltraMantis comes back with elbows and a full nelson bomb. 1…2…Ares kicks out. Crossbones is escorted out by a Chikara attendant and this would actually turn out to be Crossbones’ final appearance in Chikara, perhaps ever. Ares goes for Toblerone again, and once again Gavin thinks he’s going for the Praying Mantis Bomb. Ultramantis Black fights out and hits an electric chair drop. 1…2…Ares kicks out. Mantis looks for Cosmic Doom, but he’s distracted by Delirious, allowing Ares to get an O’Connor Roll with a fistful of tights. 1…2…3. Ares beats UltraMantis in an okay match made better by the outside shenanigans. The return of Delirious as a BDK member was well done, and both Ares & UltraMantis were better than usually in the match.
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7. 8-Man Main Event: Mike Quackenbush, Jigsaw, & Incoherence vs. Vin Gerard, Colin Delaney, Chuck Taylor & Gran Akuma – ***1/2
Jigsaw and Vin Gerard start things off with Chuck Taylor jawing at his cousin to perform better. Jigsaw does the same series of roll ups twice in a row, and Jigsaw baits him into falling for it a third time. Jig and Quack double team Vin and Chuck enters. Quack tags in and starts bending and flipping Chuck all over the ring. He hits a slingshot dragonrana and the pin attempt is broken up by Gran Akuma. Akuma and Chuck double team Quack, but he disposes of them rather quickly. Hallowicked enters and take down Gran Akuma with Frightmare’s assistance. Gerard enters and targets Frightmare but Incoherence double teams him with their side slam / leg drop combo. 1…2…Gerard kicks out. Taylor and Quackenbush return, and Jig & Quack once again double team him. Akuma takes out Jig from behind and he starts getting worked over. Everybody takes turns beating him up, but Jigsaw catches Colin with a big clothesline and tags Quackenbush, who clears out Gerard. Chuck catches him with a dropkick. Frightmare dumps Taylor but gets caught with a running knee from Gerard. A follow up suplex gets Gerard two. Now it’s Frightmare who gets the business from the Rudo squad. Chuck accidentally refers to Vin as “Durling”, and Colin scolds him for this Deadpool-esque mistake. Frightmare dives out onto Colin, allowing Hallowicked to enter, who cleans the kitchen. He goes for Go 2 Sleep Hollow, but Chuck catches a leg, Akuma kicks said leg and Chuck applies the Cross Crab. Jigsaw breaks it up quickly, but the Rudos have found a third Tecnico to pounce on. The work over ‘Wicked’s knee, and Quack gets fed up with it so he just enters without a tag. Quack hits Akuma with a Swanton Bomb, Chuck hits Quack with Sole Food, Frightmare hits Chuck with a Standing SSP, Colin hits Frightmare with the Attitude Adjuster, and Jigsaw drills Colin and Gerard with sick superkicks. Bridging German Suplex from Jigsaw! 1…2…Akuma breaks it up. Quack and Jigsaw double team Akuma and Gerard with fancy lucha stuff. Jigsaw hits a frankensteiner and Quack comes off the top with double knees. 1…2…Chuck breaks up the pin. Akuma and Chuck hit their tombstone facebuster / cutter combo on Quack. 1…2…Quack kicks out. Quack dives out onto Chuck Taylor, Frightmare hits Akuma with his backflip doge into a neckbreaker, Colin hits his usual weak-looking punt kick and calls for the RKO. Hallowicked hits Colin with Go 2 Sleepy Hollow, Quack and Jig double team Colin with kicks, Jigsaw takes Colin out, Vin takes Quack out and dives out onto everybody! Taylor heads north but Hallowicked cuts him off and places Frightmare on his shoulders. Doomsday Ace Crusher! 1…2…Gerard breaks it up. Gerard hits Frightmare with the 2K1 Bomb but Hallowicked breaks up the pin. Akuma drives Hallowicked in the corner and Gerard uses ‘Wicked to climb on top. Quack & Jigsaw meet him there and drill him with an avalanche hip toss and Frightmare (barely) hits him with the Kneecolepsy! 1…2…3! Frightmare picks up the victory for his squad in another really good eight-man tag. This started brilliantly, with a lot of fast-paced interactions to get it going. However, the ending stretch felt kind of sloppy and rushed, so the mach couldn’t elevate to the level of some of the previous atomico matches. Still, it was the best match on the show.
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Overall – 6 / 10

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While I can’t say that I’ll watch this show again anytime soon, it did have its share of good times: TFIN/BDK and the Main Event were both really fun matches, and most everything was time not wasted. The show saw Delirious’s return as a member of the BDK, perhaps the last appearance of Crossbones, STIGMA pulling out the shining wizard for the first time in years and Sugar Dunkerton courting Daizee while she kicked the crap out of him. At two hours, it’s a fairly breezy show, which is good…any long, and you’d get too bored for words. I can only recommend this for the diehards out there (of which there is many) but if you find yourself in front of this show, you shouldn’t be terribly disappointed or anything. Like Aniversario Yin the year before, first night Anny shows just aren’t always winners.
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The All-Important M’s

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Match: Main Event. I know, you’re shocked the eight-man tag was the best match. Chikara is getting to be a company that can throw any eight guys from their roster in the ring and churn out something very enjoyable. While this was not one of the best of the year, the atomico was still fun enough to gain the top spot.
Move: That Doomsday Device where Helios was on Lince’s shoulders was un-freaking-believable. I called it a Sky High Doomsday Device because I don’t think there’s a name for it and it was the first damn thing I thought when I saw it. Just an awe-inspiring display of athleticism.
Moment: Sugar Dunkerton and his wooing of Daizee Haze. I can’t pick just one of his moments, and since I created this damn thing…I dun gotta. So there…every moment with Sugar Dunkerton wins Best Moment.
MVP: Dunkerton. While he wasn’t in even the third best match of the show, he was clearly elevating the match with his witty one-liners and conversations with people at ringside. He also cut the best promo on the show, so he gets two sets of hardware…fictional hardware, that is.
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