Reseda, California
PWG World Champion - Chuck Taylor
PWG World Tag Team Champions - Chosen Bros (Jeff Cobb & Matt Riddle)
Commentary - Excalibur
1) Adam Brooks vs. Jonah Rock
Now this is more like it! Wasn't a fan of the Brooks match on Night One, but Jonah Rock brought the hype from his match with Keith Lee last night and Brooks matched it. These boys tore it down and had a perfect little PWG opener that ended with a fuckin liger bomb off the second rope followed up by a brainbuster. YES.
Match rating - ***1/4
2) The Young Bucks vs. Flash Morgan Webster & Mark Haskins
This was everything you would expect from a Young Bucks match in Reseda. Absolute pandemonium in every possible way. You had comedy early on including a Marty Scurll run in that saw Rick Knox join in for a "six boots" spot that spawned a tumultuous chant. Then things broke down and it was admittedly a lot crazier than I expected considering it being early in the card and Webster & Haskins being fresh faces. They did an insane Meltzer Driver spot that basically made the YB's give the move to themselves. I don't even have the words to describe it, just check this shid out. The finish was great and played off the leg work/submissions that popped up throughout the match.
Match rating - ****
3) Marty Scurll vs. Joey Janela
"If you didn't know, Marty is in Bullet Club and he won't shut up about it." -Excalibur
This was driven by Scurll's pre-match comments about Janela being a "backyard wrestler" which gave it the oomph it honestly needed. Scurll's matches tend to get repetitive and Joey can do spots, but that's all we've seen from him in PWG thus far. It was a pretty easy watch for what it was. Joey did some wild dives in the crowd on the floor and they also had a couple of chair spots. Scurll taps out Janela with the chicken wing.
Match rating - ***
4) Zack Sabre Jr vs. WALTER
AHHHH this ruled. Such a level up from WALTER's debut against Ricochet the night before. Sabre still garners the heat from his heel run as world champ and the confidence he secretes just makes everything so much more intense. He & WALTER were stiff, vicious, & focused from the jump to the point of making you cringe from the brutality of the chops and slaps they were throwing. Absolute barnburner and one of the best PWG matches of 2017.
Match rating - ****1/4
5) Matt Sydal vs. Rey Horus vs. Trent?
"Oh no...." -Excalibur as Sydal puts Trent? in position for a ~COP KILLA~ (shout out Homicide)
We needed a cool down match after that barnburner and this was it. Although, it did keep the flow of this being a very good show on par. Aside from a few minor slip ups, this was a badass three-way. They start off playing off the fact that Trent is a heavyweight now then eventually go into an abundance of different sequences and spots including a spear off the apron into the crowd and Trent hitting a crunchie on Rey Horus and Sydal squashing both of them with a shooting star press. In the end, Greg picks up the big singles victory. Let's see if he can pass that luck onto his partner, Chuckie T in the main event.
Match rating - ***1/4
6) Chuck Taylor (c) vs. Ricochet - PWG World Championship Match
"Jump off the top rope now, motherfucker!" -Chuck Taylor
The crowd was HOT from the start and with all the history here, you knew this would be something else. 6 years ago, almost to the exact date, on October 21st, 2011 at "Steen Wolf" was the last time Chuckie T & Ricochet had met. But it goes even further than that as Chuck is who trained Ricochet and got him into the business. And after winning BOLA for the second time a month or two prior to this, Ricochet cut a promo saying he had surpassed Chuckie T which leads us here as he challenges Chuck for the one thing he's never won the PWG World Title. This is a pretty wild series of events. The crowd is hot, as I said before, but mega torn, which is weird for both men. They battle for about 15 minutes before Ricochet hits Chuck with a low blow and the belt for a faux three count. Knox reverses the decision and we get 15 more minutes of crazy shit. The crowd is on their feet for the entire duration of this. I think everyone thought Chuck was retaining due to the fake finish and the signing with WWE rumors, but Ricochet pulls it out for real in the end with a couple of benadryllers and a flatliner, the same move he used to win BOLA. NEW WORLD CHAMP.
Match rating - ****
Overall thoughts: Sabre/Walter is must watch and for storyline/history purposes, so is Ricochet/Taylor, and everything else was fun. Nothing bad whatsoever. This was the last show of 2017 and I'm stoked to dive into 2018 stuff. Ricochet cut a promo after the main event saying "Daddy is here to stay" and in retrospect we know that was a little stretch of the truth so I'm interested to see his final run play out.
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