#ProjectReseda: PWG Presents Are You Adequately Prepared to Rock?

PWG Are you Adequately Prepared to Rock?

Thank GOD we got commentary back! Disco Machine is with Excalibur and I'm fucking stoked. Also, this is the first show in the Jewish Center which would be a staple for PWG for a while. Paul T comes out to christen our new venue and states The Briscoes are making their debut! Bobby Quance is announced as not being at the show due to being in Mexico. Adam Pearce is coming down to tell everyone what is up. Excalibur is nice enough to tell us that the Jews are rather sneaky. It doesn't matter because we know already that Pearce is THE GOD. Vander Pyle is so annoying that even Pearce looks sick of his shit which is great. Excalibur mispronounces my home state of Arkansas so I'm a little taken aback but I recover as best as I can.

TARO comes out and says he's gonna beat our boy Pearce. TARO is dope and all but this shit isn't gonna fly because he's speaking to GOD anyways. Pearce blindsides the living FUCK out of TARO before spiking him on his horns with a piledriver but Joey Ryan is here to save the DAY. Pearce is a genius though and slides out of the ring because he ain't being paid to embarrass anyone it wasn't a match anyways. We're told Ryan will face our hero Pearce again when TARO gives up his match with Pearce like a good babyface should.

Phoenix Star, Mr. Excitement, and TARO vs Top Gun Talwar, Zokre, and Lil Cholo

So Mr. Excitement was on the last show getting punked out in the crowd by Super Dragon. Phoenix and Zokre would end up being Los Luchas down the road so this is very interesting. Cholo proved himself to be pretty ace so this'll be fun. Spoiler: it is. This is also quite the lucha inspired little shindig as well. TARO is just so awesome and I'm sad knowing he'll be gone soon. At least we get his commentary here and there afterward. TOP GUN! Mr. Excitement is...very average at best. We find out that Top Gun is loved by men and women equally so that is very big news. We find out Phoenix Star is a voyeur as well. This is why commentary is so vital to PWG. Anyways, this is just fun and that's about it. *1/2

Team Chism(Disco Machine and Excalibur) vs Chris Bosh and Quicksilver

This is very short but pretty fun. We get stereo dives by Quicksilver and Bosh which is pretty cool. We see just a sample of what we will get much more of in the years to come with these four and it isn't a shock that they work well because they've spent so long on the So Cal indies already. Really sharp finishing move as well. **

B-Boy and Super Dragon vs The Briscoe Brothers

This is just awesome 'rasslin. Mark Briscoe is 18 here I believe so he looks like a 3 year old but he's bringing the spunk as he always does! I'm pretty into this B-Boy and Dragon tag team because it is like the amalgamation of two life destroying strikers that have underrated wrestling skills. The Briscoes are in their very rough days of course and this is their first full year as a tag team but you still can tell they're going to be awesome. This is a damn solid match. We get a pretty meh Springboard Doomsday Device but that would quickly change and eventually, they'd just murder everyone in the world with it. Speaking of murder, Mark Briscoe gets creamed by his opponents pretty good in this. B-Boy does a sickening variation of a t-bone into a fucking driver that looks ace as hell. The Cut-Throat Psycho Driver is a thing of macabre beauty but that's what 'rasslin is made for! ***

Pinoy Boy(TJ Perkins) vs Vito Thomaselli

This is our first look at Perkins who would of course become synonymous with PWG in the coming years and a very surprising look at Vito. Vito is a IWA-Mid South guy from the midwest and if I recall, he's not the worst ever. Perkins is 19 here which is just maddening simply because he'd already been working for years. We get some heavy chain wrestling to start us off and it is pretty swank. We get a nice athletic-based stalemate complete with missed spinning kicks and roll throughs. An armdrag throws everything off though because Perkins slips while landing on his feet and you can tell it fucks up whatever they wanted to do. They do well in putting the train back on track though. This is just an exhibition of what each guy can do really. Someone gets an advantage long enough to show off before the other takes over and does the same. Vito lets us know he is a Danielson mark because he applies a Cattle Mutilation. Perkins does a fantastic tope con hilo though and cements my jealous for that motherfucker. You can find Perkins on twitter these days having flame wars with NBA fans, it is rather entertaining and sad all at the same time. Either way this match is fairly solid. **1/2

The X Foundation(Scott Lost and Billy Kim) vs The Ballard Brothers

The Ballards had probably the best match of the debut show so I've got a good feeling about this. Scott Lost is pretty much always solid as far as I can tell and I've seen various times in his career by now. Holy fuck we get a piano solo by one of the Ballard Brothers and it is actually awesome. Not to be outdone, Billy Kim goes to an organ and shows that HE GOT SKIIIIILLLZ. This is my favorite match ever, fuck. I find out that Shannon Ballard is the piano god so I'm keeping a special eye on him from now until I die! The match itself is fairly basic as an early 2000's indy match. Lots of moves and counters to counters but it's not painful to watch. Action spills to the floor, and the musicians of the lot Kim and Shannon are on the stage by the piano. GIVE ME BEETHOVEN PLEASE? No they want to bump off the stage...alright then I guess. They're throwing people INTO the piano I'm liking it. Now the organ is taking some love and Shane's face is scraped over the keys and we get SOUNDS. We get some X Foundation double teamage when things get back in the ring. The Ballards respond. **

Adam Pearce vs Joey Ryan

Here we GOOOO. Our lord and savior of dickish tactics will surely show that white-meat babyface Ryan a thing or two. Things get HOT AND HEAVY EARLY with some back and forth goodness. Some hiccups don't stop this one from being enjoyable. Vander Pyle gets his face punched which is hilarious. Ryan loves his dropkicks. There is a totally disgusting reverse suplex that is really a goddamn brainbuster on the FLOOR. Joey Ryan hates himself, this is verification. Pearce takes control after that horrible incident on the floor. Pearce just toss Ryan around at one point because why not? Make the little bastard pay for being good! Vander Pyle comes in and gets knocked to the canvas. Frankensteiner on Pearce ONTO PYLE haha! The fat man gets some pain here in the Jewish Center tonight! Out comes Excalibur and Disco for the distraction while Super Dragon comes from the back to DRILL HIS BITCH ASS with a Psycho Driver! The beginnings of a war, folks. Pearce don't wanna finish him yet though, he's here to embarrass people like a good heel should. Much like their first match, I like this quite a bit and I like this one more mainly because of it building towards the Dragon/Ryan feud proper which I know will deliver. ***

Frankie Kazarian vs AJ Styles vs Christopher Daniels for the PWG World title

We get more of TNA in PWG but it's a good thing this time! It really is a shame that Daniels never got to reach full potential with this anti-religious gimmick because it could have been huge. Gotta love stupid TNA but that can be said about all three of these dudes. This is of course before we all got burnt out on their stupidity and got to just enjoy 'rasslin. Daniels and AJ immediately double team Kazarian and they say they're gonna do a double dive but AJ is a cagey bastard and turns coats on Daniels with a clothesline followed by a perfect dropkick! That Georgia boy is mean! We get a terrible botch off what looks like an over and behind into a roll up but it is ok, AJ is there to take a wild bump into the corner to get dropkicked into the chest. Like any triple threat match, the story here is how someone can keep both opponents loopy to get the win. We get countless spots that display that fact which is nice. Good god AJ just starches Kazarian with his spinning wheel kick to the dome. Nice tope by Kazarian on both opponents because HE GOT THE HEART OF A CHAMPION DAMMIT. Clothesline/bulldog combo by Kazarian. This is one that TNA wishes they had had on their weekly PPV shows because it's solid and lasts longer than 10 damn minutes. This isn't the 2003 MOTY or anything but it's good and very good in spots with a very good finish I would say. ***

Overall Show Rating: B. Very solid show and we get further building blocks of PWG goodness. We get the kickoff of the violent Super Dragon and Joey Ryan feud and Pearce continues his dickish ways. Kazarian looks solid as fuck in his first defense of the PWG title. The promos at the end of the DVD are mostly abysmal aside from Daniels who is always dependable on the mic. Frankie just looks like a damned goof and AJ looks barely coherent.