Hey Guys! According to my watch, it’s approximately CWF time. We were blessed with a great episode this week. No WorldWide episode is ever bad, but this episode was particularly good.
The episode starts off with a fun little sprint. On one side, you have one of CWF’s purest villains in Aric Andrews. He’s facing Carolina veteran, Matt Houston. Interesting fact about this match, both guys are really great tag team wrestlers. Andrews has teamed with Evan Banks , Nick Richards, and Lee Valiant. Houston, on the other hand, is primarily known for teaming with Louis Moore as the Mid Atlantic Outlaws. If I’m not mistaken, I believe Andrews and Houston have even teamed together on a few occasions.
Both guys are good tag team wrestlers. However, Andrews is much more accustomed to singles matches than Houston. It wasn’t too long ago that Andrews had the best Television title reign of all time. Shoutout to Cecil Scott and Smith Garrett for mentioning how Houston has been primarily a tag wrestler for the past five years. I know I haven’t mentioned commentary a lot, but in terms of telling the story, few do commentary better than CWF.
Would Houston be rusty in a singles match? I honestly thought he might since he’s used to tag matches. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Houston utilized his speed to take control of the first few minutes. Things were going well for Houston until a missed leg drop from the top rope.Andrews would capitalize by ferociously attacking the leg, culminating in a figure four. Houston used his veteran toughness to survive. The minute he began to turn the tide, Andrews cut him off in a wonderfully heinous manner. To avoid giving too much away, I’ll leave it at that.
Our main event has two world class wrestlers going at it. Trevor Lee defends his CWF Heavyweight Title against John Skyler. For the most part, this is a really even match up on paper. However, each competitor has one huge advantage. Trevor has incredible cardio and has used that to his benefit throughout his two year reign. Skyler, on the other hand is a fantastic strategist.
Skyler’s gameplan involved several different strategies. In the beginning, Skyler would attempt to frustrate Trevor by keeping the pace slow and frequently exiting the ring. He wanted to get Trevor off his game and make him prone to errors.
The next level of Skyler’s strategy was targeting the midsection. This cancels out Trevor’s sizeable cardio advantage. It began with a huge combination in the beginning stage of the match. First, Skyler hit a nice spear on the ring apron. He followed up with his beautiful, yet viscous slingshot spear. Throughout the match, he would continue to focus on the midsection with an assortment of sentons, strikes, finlay rolls, and submissions.
The final layer of Skyler’s strategy was fighting dirty. In the beginning, Skyler established his rule breaking streak by gouging at Trevor’s face and pulling his beard. He really took it up a notch in the final moments of the match. His last villainous acts were pulling the ref in front of him, thus makino him eat a nasty penalty kick, and hitting Trevor with his own belt.
Skyler had a flawless approach in my opinion. I would even go as far as saying he dominated Trevor. The champ couldn’t significantly attack Skyler’s arm until the last five minutes of the match. Despite all of this, there was one major thing Trevor had going for him. Every time Skyler got overzealous, Trevor capitalized. Did he find a way to retain or did Skyler use his intelligence to solve the puzzle of Trevor Lee?