Colosseum’s inaugural show! It opened up with the principles and rules of the new promotion, laying out there’ll be no weapons or closed fists, and a family show for everyone.
The whole night was great, I saw some wrestlers for the first time and I think there’s lots of potential for this company. Story beats were set up and the actual production of videos and promos was high.
Sadly, it was a very long show, and the venue was incredibly hot and eventually sweaty, but those are the only real negatives.
Shreddy Vs Iestyn Rees – 2⭐
The opening match was two beefy boys trying to over power each other, and it was great. It wasn’t the smoothest match but it didn’t need to be.
Rees took the majority of the offence, but the crowd was hot for ‘the daddy’ shreddy, who shouted my new favourite catchphrase of “ready, shreddy, go”.
After hitting big powering slams and shoulder blocks, Shreddy got the win with a big TKO. A fun match to start the night and get the crowd worked up.
Harley Hudson Vs L A Taylor – 2⭐
A proper David and Goliath set up, but this match was made to put Taylor over, and it worked. The story told was Taylor was too big for Hudson to move or hit any power moves on.
Hudson sold well, and had a nice combination of moves ending with a knee drop while Taylor hung on the middle rope. But when Hudson tried to drag Taylor in, she couldn’t budge her.
Taylor got some more offence and picked up the win. Setting up L A to be one of the main heels for the new promotion. I can also see Hudson going on a babyface run to overcome the odds.
Doug Williams & Joel Redman Vs Leyton Buzzard & Theo Doros – 3⭐
First time seeing Joel Redman, I love him. Great look and great moveset. It’s also always great to see Doug wrestle. The heels were the perfect match up to get beaten up here too.
There were lots of great technical moves and wrestling. The faces started with lots of offence and then Redman got worked over to build to Doug’s hot tag.
The match broke down with everyone in the ring. Williams took buzzard out and Redman hit a diving knee on Doros to get the win.
Jim Diehard Vs Simon Miller – 2.5⭐
Simon freaking miller, just loves professional wrestling. He came out with so much energy and I love it. Diehard, is a UNIT.
Throughout the match, Miller teased the body slam but wasn’t able to pull it off. Diehard was on the attack and Miller managed to counter and get some offence in, until someone with a fur coat came out with a mic. I didn’t recognise him or catch his name, but neither did a lot of the crowd.
Miller eventually hits the power slam but another distraction allows Diehard to hit a world’s strongest slam style move and pick up the win.
After there was a 2 on 1 beat down, which allowed Martin Kirby to come out for the save, receiving a good pop. The attack then went on maybe a minute too long for me, but a tag match was set up for the next show.
Regina Rosendahl Vs Ronnie Knocks Vs Kira Chimera – 2.5⭐
The layout to this match was great, and different from the standard triple threat style of having one on one for most of it.
The highlight of the match for me was when the three of them stood in the middle and just traded slaps and strikes with each other.
Then it got weird. Kira hit a stunner and spine buster on knocks, and went to pin her. Regina threw Kira off and pinned Knocks herself. Regina was announced winner, Kira’s music played.
The match then just continued, as it was an elimination, and this hurt the overall match. Chimera then hits a knee strike and gets the win. My annoyance with this isnt the music or announcement botches, but why did Regina steal the pin if it’s an elimination match. To me it doesn’t make much logical sense, but just to create heel heat.
Leslie beslington Promo
After the interval, someone in a white suit and shades came out to cut a promo, he said his name was Leslie Beslington (I think) and her was an investor.
He was okay on the mic, had some nice moments but too much pop culture Jake Paul heel heat. This could’ve been cut to 2 mins and get all the important story across.
Levi Muir Vs KM Lane Vs Nico Angela – 2.5⭐
Another triple threat elimination, and getting this out the way, another stolen pin to eliminate the first wrestler. To me it doesn’t make sense, but other than that this was a good match.
I love Levi’s look, and he absolutely killed Nico with an Irish whip into the corner. KM’s hair was also superb, but it wasn’t enough to survive as Nico hit a fireman’s carry/one wing angel move. Levi then threw Nico away to get the first elimination.
After Nico missed with a shooting star, Levi hit a huge suplex to gain a very near fall. One more move was able to put Nico away and Levi got the win, for Leslie to come back out and, give his endorsement I think.
The 87 Vs Kings of the North – 3.5⭐
For me, match of the night. Alexander Roth has so much charisma, almost Big E levels. This match had lots of time, and allowed all 4 men to showcase themselves.
Roth had some great looking superkicks, and the King of the North worked over the faces well, splitting the ring in half. Leading up to Johnson’s hot tag which ruled.
After Roth kicked out of a big cutter, it looked as if the King’s of the North were going to hit a finishing move, before Johnson intervened and Roth rolled up Bonesaw for the win.
Charlie Morgan Vs Aliss Ink – 3⭐
These girls beat the crap out of each other. The match started with a massive SUPERKICK from Morgan, busting Ink’s mouth open.
From then on it was huge strikes after huge strikes, both these girls were awesome. However, I feel the match was rushed or either cut short due to the show over running.
Just as I felt it was building to the 3rd act of the match, Ink hit a meteora on Morgan and got the 3 count out of nowhere. I personally think Morgan should’ve won and you could build too a Morgan Vs L A Taylor match for a title down the line.
Warren Banks Vs Sheikh El Sham – 3⭐
This match was all about establishing Sham as the big heel in the new promotion. From his music and presentation, to him dominating the match he felt like the star.
Nadia Sapphire came out as Shams manager, and yelled throughout the match (gaining good heat but was very close to go away heat).
It had a slow build, with Sham working Banks’ left leg, and putting in multiple rest holds to anger the crowd more. This led to some good back and forth between the two, and Sham had some very fun sells, shaking in pain.
The end came with a ref bump, and Banks getting a visual pin. Nadia then came in to hit a low blow, allowing Sham to do a very close copy of Roman Reigns “oooo ahhh” and hitting a spear to win. A good main event with clear direction for the future.
Sadly, after the match Banks got a microphone and said he had a serious shoulder injury and would be out for some time to get it healed up. Hopefully he gets a speedy recovery and is back in the ring soon.
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