So, the last episode had a bit of a tag team flavor to it. This episode was more diverse in its match content. Fans were treated to a women’s match, a hoss tag team battle, and a fast-paced Ultra J match.
The episode begins with a women’s match. Women’s matches are special treats for CWF fans because they don’t happen very often. This particular match is a clash of styles. We have Aspyn Rose, the midnight mermaid with a style heavily based in strikes. Aspyn might be a mermaid, but, don’t expect her to be sweet like Ariel. This chick is crazy, she even has the crazy eyes down pat!
Aspyn prefers to be more like the mythological mermaids. To my understanding, they would enchant sailors with their songs and then rip them to shreds once they jumped overboard. That’s just a tad bit different than Ariel.
Her opponent, Willow Nightingale made her CWF debut. This was my first time seeing her, so I don’t really know much. She seems like a friendly girl with a kind smile. Early in the match, I did learn that she was trained by WWE Cruiserweight Tony Nese. Shoutout to Cecil Scott and Smith Garrett for doing a great job dropping facts like that while also getting over the difference of styles and personalities!
In the opening seconds of the match, Aspyn goes for a headlock takeover, but gets outmuscled. Willow plants the mermaid with a sidewalk slam and crushes her with a running senton. This instantly made it clear that Willow had a decisive power advantage. So, in order to succeed, Aspyn needed to keep this on the ground and pound her out that way.
For several minutes, the midnight mermaid was successful in grounding her opponent. Her momentum was stopped by an impressive shotgun dropkick. Willow continued with a string of offensive maneuvers culminating with a pretty bridging fisherman’s suplex. Next, we see a battle of strikes. Willow goes to the head while Aspyn tries to chop her bigger opponent down with leg kicks.
The striking contest ultimately ends with Aspyn countering a german suplex into a stunner. She didn’t quite get all of it. However, it was enough to rock her opponent for a near fall. After a brief forearm exchange, Willow picked her opponent up and nailed her with a death valley driver for the win!
Up next, we have The Dawson Bros’ open challenge. Before the match, the brothers demand opponents bigger than Kool Jay, the diminutive underdog with endless fight and heart. Moments later, they would regret those words. Ray Kandrack accepted the challenge. Kandrack is quite possibly the baddest man in CWF history. He was one-half of my favorite CWF team along with Arik Royal. Other than that, he’s usually been a singles guy. He’s a guy that likes to fight on his own.
Kandrack acknowledges this and says he doesn’t need a friend. He simply needs someone willing to fight on the same side as him. His partner is revealed to be Mike Mars. Mars is an absolute mountain of a man. You can see that he has a ton of raw ability and potential, he’s just really young in his career.
The Dawsons are in a situation they aren’t used to. The Dawsons are accustomed to being able bully their opposition. Since they are the smaller men, they must go a different route. They recognize this and decide to use their intelligence and dirty tricks. Their intelligence is particularly shown when they isolate the inexperienced Mars. The only potential caveat with that strategy is that Kandrack is a wrecking ball. If he gets that hot tag, you won’t be able to stop him once he gets going.
The Bad News for the champs is that Kandrack did get the tag. Fortunately for the Dawsons, Mars tagged back in before Kandrack could do much damage. Due to his inexperience, he made a big mistake.In the final moments of the match, it looked like we’d have new champs and Mars would get the pin on Dave. Zane makes the save and pulls the ref out. This leads to Zane and Kandrack brawling on the outside. Dave takes advantage of the ref being preoccupied and cracks the distracted Mars in the head with a weapon for the 3!
This week’s main event featured two Ultra J stars. Logan Easton Laroux battled Cam Carter. Laroux was coming off losing his Ultra J title to Andrew Everett and Cam was a prospect climbing the ranks of the CWF roster. Laroux approached with desperation and viciousness. Cam really displayed his resilience and tenacity here.
Cam used his superior athleticism to show up Laroux in the beginning. Laroux has always had a bit of an ego, so, this didn’t sit too well with him. He takes out his anger with a nice big boot that sends Cam to the outside. He follows up by viciously ramming his head into the post.
Logan takes the action back inside. Some of his most impressive maneuvers were a bridging suplex and a unique sliding D/crossbody combination. He uses moves that are both pretty and vicious. Laroux had a bad habit of disrespecting Cam when he was in control.
Cam would always make him pay. Logan would use questionable tactics to make the comebacks brief. Whenever it looked like momentum would shift, Laroux would go to the eyes, throat, or tights. Cam just refused to be denied victory! Even the patented cutter couldn’t keep him down. Cam would eventually get the duke with an impressive second rope 450.
CWF does it again with another fun episode. WorldWide returns to Twitch on Wednesday at 9:00 and Youtube on Thursday. As always, if you have any CWF related questions for me, please feel free to tweet me @CWFAN96!