Beyond Wrestling presents their biggest show of the year, the 5th annual Americanrana. Live from the SOLD OUT White Eagle in Worcester, Massachusetts. Your commentary team are Denver Colorado (the man not the place) and Paul Crockett. Your ring announcer is Rich Palladino.
There’s a tease of Chris Dickinson and Kimber Lee squaring off as it looks like those two are gonna start the match. Dickinson tags in Jaka and the crowd express their dissatisfaction. Lee uses her flexibility to gain the advantage on Jaka. Lee makes the tag to Skylar, while Jaka tags in Dickinson. Skylar gets murdered by chops from Dickinson. Team WWR gain momentum as they all hit dives to the outside. Kimber Lee hits a huge swanton bomb to the floor taking out everyone.
Later on in the match there’s a Dickinson and Lee standoff with each person trading stiff shots to eachother. Skylar cleans house on all 4 men but doesn’t go for the pin which costs her the match. Dickinson hits an enziguri to the back of her head and it’s all over from there. Dickinson hits a sitdown powerbomb, Jaka follows up with a German suplex. EYFBO follow up with their signature cannonball in the corner. Team Pazuzu picks up the victory. Dickinson gets on the mic and says it’s been an honor and that women can be just as good as the men.
Anthony Greene comes out with the Platinum Honeys. Beach balls are tossed around the crowd. Greene is unscheduled to compete but he grabs a mic anyway. He was upset he wasn’t scheduled to compete but he lays out an open challenge anyway. DC says he booked AR Fox on standby incase of emergency.
As Fox enters the ring he hits Greene with a missile dropkick off the top rope. Fox tries to follow up with a dive but the Platinum Honeys stop him. The Platinum Honeys cause a few distractions throughout the match. Fox ends up hitting a unique spiked rana while Greene was caught up in the ropes. Greene tries to finish Fox off with a Feast Your Eyes and pinning his opponent while his feet are on the ropes. Fox ends up kicking out. Fox can’t put Greene with a 450 splash so he follows up with the Foxcatcher for the victory.
The crowd seems split on this match as commentary mentions Josh Briggs’s not so perfect record in Beyond. They also mention that Briggs is going into this match with a hurt right shoulder. King shows some impressive athleticism at he hits a rana which causes Briggs to get caught up on the middle rope. He follows up with a huge cannonball to the back of Briggs. King tries to end the match with a powerbomb but misses a clothesline for the follow up. Briggs hits a big boot to the face and the M5 for the win. Briggs grabs the mic and says he’ll either die or get signed before he loses in Beyond again.
Jonathan Gresham stands in the ring waiting for his mystery opponent, a replacement for his original opponent, Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Stokely Hathaway announces that MJF’s replacement is Trent. Trent is a newest member of the Dream Team and receives an honorary scarf from MJF. Gresham gets a hold of the scarf and drops an elbow on it. Gresham works every body part on Trent. MJF gets ejected for putting Trent’s leg on the rope while in a submission from Gresham. Gresham goes for the victory with a bridging pin and the ref gets pulled out by Thomas Sharp. He also gets ejected. Stokely hands Trent a weapon but Trent refuses to use it and throws it. Stokely slaps Trent which causes the ref to call for the bell. Trent wins by disqualification but in the end Gresham gets his revenge by breaking Stokely’s arm.
The match starts off with a lot of brawling between the two teams. Both teams brawl on the outside of the ring. At one point Matt Tremont bites Matt Riddles foot. Riddle and Tom Lawlor almost pick up the victory as Riddle hits a Bro 2 Sleep on Nick Gage and Lawlor follows up with a Death Valley Driver onto Riddle’s knees. Tremont is able to break up the count. Gage brings a chair into the match at throws it to Riddle. Riddle catches it and Gage punches it. Tremont hits a DVD and Gage hits the chokebreaker. The new H8 Club pick up the victory.
The following is a Chikara Showcase Atomicos match aka an 8 man tag as The Whisper, Travis Hukabee, Merlok and Volgar are set to face off against Fire Ant, Solo Darling, Boomer Hatfield and the legendary Mike Quackenbush. Mike Quackenbush is making a rare appearance as he doesn’t wrestle a full schedule anymore. The crowd is really behind Quackenbush. There was a lot of action in this one. Very fun match with Solo Darling making Volgar tap out to the sharp stinger and picking up the victory for her team.
Tag team partners collide in this match for the Powerbomb.TV Independent Wrestling Championship, as “Hot Sauce” Tracy Williams defends his championship against Wheeler YUTA. This is Tracy Williams’ 8th title defense. Williams takes the early advantage but YUTA comes back with a dive and a huge crossbody off the top rope. Williams locks in the STF on YUTA but is unable to put him away. The two trade forearm shots until Williams ends the match with a DVD and 2 consecutive piledrivers. Another successful defense of the Powerbomb.TV Independent Wrestling Championship from “Hot Sauce” Tracy Williams.
All 4 teams in this match punched their tickets to Americanrana by all winning their repective matches at Vitality. This match was a ton of fun. Orange Cassidy and Jon Silver have an amazing strike exchange in the middle of the ring. Massage Force bring out the oil for the slip and slide and VSK hits a huge cannonball off the stage. There’s an appearance from not one but two Swamp Monsters. Team Tremendous hit their signature doomsday sliced bread on Dorian Graves of Massage Force but Alex Reynolds of the Beaver Boys rolls up Dan Barry to steal the victory.
Post match Team Tremendous are standing in the middle of the ring. Dan Barry lays out his own tag partner Bill Carr with a DDT. Dan Barry is met with boos from the crowd, along with “Asshole” chants.
Next match is between “The Machine” Brian Cage and “Not Human” PCO. This would be PCO’s debut for Beyond Wrestling. Early in the match, PCO takes out Cage with a tope suicida along with a dive over the ropes. He then hits a one legged springboard moonsault to the floor. Cage shows his strength by suplexing PCO from the apron to inside the ring. Another show of strength from Cage when PCO does a flipping senton off the top rope. Cage catches him and turns it into a jackhammer. PCO hits a beautiful moonsault but can’t put Cage away. Cage eats some chops before coming back with a discus clothesline. Cage hits the Drill Claw for the win.
David Starr makes his entrance wearing a t-shirt and jeans. Joey Janela makes his entrance with a barbed wire bat in hand and alongside Penelope Ford. This will be Joey Janela’s final death match of his career. Nick Gage and Matt Tremont are on commentary for this match.
Janela ends up being the first to go into the barbed wire. Starr rips off Janela’s shirt in order to induce more pain. Janela then takes off Starr’s shirt and irish whips him into the barbed wire a few times. Starr’s skin gets stuck in the wire and Janela gives him a snapmare. Janela takes out a staple gun and starts to staple Starr’s head. Starr gets put in a camel clutch and receives an 8×10 of Scott Steiner stapled to his head. Janela ends up getting sent into the barbed wire and gets his back stuck. Starr ends up with the staple gun while Janela has the barbed wire bat. Janela drives the bat into Starr’s head while Starr staples Janela’s head. Starr tries to use wire clippers on Janela but Penelope stops him. Penelope gets some offense in before getting thrown into a barbed wired board set up in the corner. Janela accidentally superkicks referee Steven Dumeng. Starr hits a side russian leg sweep into a barbed wired board set up on the outside.
Starr gets Janela into the ring and pins him but there’s no referee. Referee Kevin Quinn comes out and Starr is hesitant to make the cover. Quinn counts to two and then flips Starr off. Janela takes advantage of the distraction and gives Starr a DVD onto a cinder block on top of a chair. Janela then wraps himself in barbed wire. Starr gives Janela a low blow and lays out referee Kevin Quinn with a superkick. Janela receives a german suplex onto chairs. Starr sets up cinder blocks inside the ring. He comes out the victor by hitting an arm trap piledriver on the blocks.
Starr grabs the mic and calls himself the Ace of Beyond. He also says that Janela a glorified stuntman and he has no talent. Starr walks out and Janela grabs the mic. “Thank you Philadelphia” comes out of the mouth of Janela as he collapses. “Thank you Joey” chants come from the crowd as Janela is helped from the ring.
Overall: Last year’s Americanrana was one of the best independent wrestling shows of the year. Going into this event, I felt like it would be a hard task to outdo last year’s event. Beyond did just that. In the opening match they showed that they’re one of the best promotions for intergender wrestling. But even though the show started off strong and seem to lose some momentum. The show picked back up in the second half. The Chikara Atomicos match was a lot of fun along with the fatal four way tag team match. Brian Cage vs. PCO was insane as expected. The main event was not for the faint of heart. Janela and Starr put their bodies on the line in a brutal match which topped their Fans Bring the Weapons Match from Heavy Lies the Crown earlier this year. I would say that this is a great show from Beyond but they put on great shows month after month. You don’t wanna miss this show.
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Quick Results/Star Ratings:
- Team Pazuzu (Chris Dickinson, Jaka, Santana and Ortiz) def. Team Women’s Wrestling Revolution (Kimber Lee, Skylar, Jordynne Grace and Mia Yim) ***½
- AR Fox def. Anthony Greene ***
- Josh Briggs def. Brody King **¾
- Trent def. Jonathan Gresham by DQ after interference from Stokely Hathaway **¼
- Matt Tremont and Nick Gage def. Matt Riddle and Tom Lawlor ***
- CHIKARA Atomicos Match: Solo Darling, Fire Ant, Boomer Hatfield and Mike Quackenbush def. The Whisper, Travis Hukabee, Merlok and Volgar ***½
- Powerbomb.TV Independent Wrestling Championship Match: Tracy Williams (c) def. Wheeler YUTA to retain the Powerbomb.TV Independent Wrestling Championship ***¼
- Beaver Boys def. Team Tremendous, The Gentleman’s Club and Massage Force ***½
- Brian Cage def. PCO ***¾
- No Ropes Barbed Wire Match: David Starr def. Joey Janela ****½