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Purpose Wrestling – March of the Dogs 08/07/22 – 2.5⭐

Back in the library! This was a fun show with multiple comedy moments, a title unveiling and one of my new favourite wrestlers in Bullit.

The 87 Vs East City Sovereigns – 2.5⭐

The opening match was a great way to get the crowd involved and set the pace for the night. The East City Sovereigns came out to a lot of boos and worked them from then on.

The two teams had a good tag match, sharing the offence nearly 50/50. ECS had some good heel comedy moments with the 87 looking the stronger and more dominant team. The highlight of the match for me was a huge jumping knee from Banks!

The finish came after some chasing and a distraction for ECS to hit water mist and a roll up for the win.

Rob Lias Vs David Francisco – 2⭐

Lias cut a promo before the match, giving it some heat, calling Francisco out for being selfish about his promotion.

The match was mainly David getting worked over and Rob taking the majority of the offence, sandwich with some power strikes Francisco gave out at the start and end of the match.

Francisco locked in a submission and Rob taped out, a good match that kept the crowd into the show.

The Super Chapman Bros. Vs The 0121 – 2.5⭐

After Deriss’ entrance rap, there was a good comedy bit where mad Kurt insisted on rapping better. To his credit, Mad Kurt wasn’t awful at it.

The match began and it was heavy on comedy spots, the 0121 took most the offence and no sold a lot of the Chapman’s soft strikes. At one point Deriss was chased off leaving Moloney to take them both on, and doing so. Deriss returned with water and a sandwich.

Towards the end Mad Kurt hit a flurry of attacks which was followed up by a huge Drilla from Dan Moloney to get the win. A fun match, but in my opinion one that went maybe 5 mins too long. Also, I love Dan Moloney, but think he works much better as a heel, but that’s just me.

Oli Peace & Bullit Vs Alexander & Taylor – 3⭐

This was my first time seeing everyone in this match, and it was my personal match of the night. I love Bullit! Alexander and Taylor I think were both great babyfaces in peril, and Peace was a fun Heel hiding behind his monster.

This for me put over Peace as a new heel force to be reckoned with, behind the muscle of Bullit. Alexander and Taylor both played their part great, with some nice comeback moments and fight backs.

But Bullit was too strong, and frequently threw one of the faces into the corner, asking for the other to be tagged in. Then when I couldn’t love him more, he hit a huge spine buster. Bullit got the win with a big powerbomb.

Ava White Vs Amira – 2.5⭐

Amira finally got booked, and she was great. In full Alex Windsor cosplay, she got the whole crowd behind her. For White to attack straight away and get a very very close pinfall (which I fully bought).

Ava White worked the majority of the match, working slowly and methodically. Amira had a good comeback moment, hitting some good moves on the outside and getting pumped up.

The end came very quickly though, White just pinned her all of a sudden. I think this could have been a great match if there was more of a 3rd act to it, especially after the hot start.

Destination Everywhere Vs Breaks & Bryant – 3⭐

The main event was great, and everyone came out better than going in, with the offence being shared pretty evenly throughout the match.

With multiple high spots throughout the match, one including a suicide dive into the recycling bin, it was mainly the final few minutes that had the main story beat.

Mills and Breaks will challenge for the first Purpose Championship next month, and Mills couldn’t pin Breaks. They wiped Nino out after a tombstone on the outside with Oku’s top rope dive.

When it was practically 2 on 1, Breaks was hit with move after move, and kept kicking out. Until he managed to roll Connor Mills up, Nino held Oku and the babyfaces won.

After the match, the handsome bastards tag team ran down to attack the faces, Connor unveiled the new belt and posed with it. The attack continued for the locker room to empty and save Breaks and Nino.

Purpose Wrestling – Lightspeed 10/06/22 – 2.5⭐

First time seeing a Purpose show live, and it was pretty great. A small crowd in the middle of a library is just a crazy and amazing place for some wrestling.

Teens with Attitude Vs Cali Gray & Harry Sefton – 2⭐

The opener was a fun tag match that told the classic story of heel Vs baby-face. TWA came out with a lot of energy and that lifted the crowd for the entire show.

Gray and Sefton took most of the offence for this (Gray’s look was pretty cool too) as they built for the faces hot tag. They was a nice suicide dive sequence and the finish came when TWA hit a top rope crossbody, with the other on his hands and knees behind, similar to the school yard push over position.

The match had its clunky moments but all 4 guys are great and I can see them having more and bigger matches in the future. I’m not sure if Seftons face was injured or the Cody Rhodes-esque mask was a gimmick, but this definitely got a “meme” reaction from the fans.

Skye Smitson Vs Laura Dimatteo – 2.5⭐

First impressions of Smitson, loved her look and she had an awesome move set. Dimatteo is also a fantastic baby-face.

The two worked a fun match, as the crowd was easily split 50/50. Smitson hit an awesome gutwrench powerbomb style move. There was a great springboard reversal by her too, as Laura hopped onto the middle rope, Smitson kicked the top rope throwing her balance off.

After a few comebacks by Laura, she locked in her submission and got the win. A fun match that got the crowd more into the show.

Armstrong & Lynch Vs Easy City Sovereigns – Losing team must disband – 3⭐

High stakes for this match, and good heel work from both Saeed and Singh made this match feel big. As Armstrong and Lynch made their entrance, the Sovereigns attacked them from behind.

There was an injury angle as JJ’s knee was taken out, leaving a 2 on 1 as it was building to the inevitable return. When Rex finally made the tag, the pace picked up.

There were some great near falls from both teams, the ending came when Rex was held in the corner, and JJ was hit by a DDT and pinned. This was a good match with big stakes, the end I felt took a while to get too and the momentum was drained. Also JJ’s leg should’ve been sold a bit more whilst doing some moves, to really put over why he couldn’t be there at the start.

Connor Mills Vs Nino Bryant – Championship Semi Final – 3⭐

This was my first time seeing a heel Mills, and it worked very well. Also seeing Nino for the first time, and he was awesome. The match started slow and Mills took the majority of the offence.

The match picked up when Nino had Mills down for a pin, for Oku to run out and put a leg on the rope, keeping him safe. Again, first time seeing a fully heel Oku and I think it worked well.

After a ref bump and a couple low blows, Mills managed to get the cheap victory and advance to the final. They both started attacking Nino which led to a lights out reveal for Solomon Lamb.

Nino chased Mills off and the Last Man Standing match began.

Michael Oku Vs Solomon Lamb – Last Man Standing – 3.5⭐

This match started off very sports entertainment, with empty drink cans being used, Oku ran out with a big soft play thing, library books to the heads. They moved round the ring and fought to the stage, Lamb threw Oku into a box on wheels and pushed him into the ring post. It then went from 0-100 real quick.

After Oku hit a springboard moonsault onto a empty chair (sat up), Lamb went to the back and brought out a 2×4 piece of wood, with barbed wire wrapped round. BARBIE!!!

A couple shots with that to Oku, and this match shifted gear dramatically. Lamb took barbed wire to the head and busted him open. Oku climbed one of the book shelves to jump into Solomon’s arm wrapped in barbed wire.

Then the thumbtacks came out. Oku took a huge bump off the top rope onto them, Lamb then took a bulldog head first into them. The match began to come to an end as Oku grabbed something from under the ring, and hit Lamb in the face with his Rev Pro Cruiserweight belt.

Oku hit a huge frog splash whilst wearing the belt, onto Lamb with a chair lying on him. The ref began the count and Oku rolled out the ring to get to his feet on the count of 9.

An unexpectedly violent match, but a great one. Last man standing matches for me always seem to have the full periods while waiting for the ref to count, but I feel these two work around this well. After the match Lamb stood up and yelled at Oku “I’m still standing”. Hopefully suggesting another match between the two down the line.

David Francisco Vs Jordon Breaks – Championship Semi Final – 3⭐

After the ring got cleaned up, it was time for the main event, semi final match. It was always going to be tough to follow that match, but after a quiet and slow start, both men worked the crowd back into the match.

Throughout the match they had some good back and forth, with hard slaps and nice reversals. Breaks worked on Francisco’s left arm and fingers during it, putting his Kimora style finisher on multiple times.

Francisco hit a Gotch piledriver for Banks to kick out at 2.9, as he managed to lock his submission on Francisco again to make him tap out. Banks will face Mills in the final in August.

A good main event with high stakes and kept the crowd guessing the outcome.