Tuesday, July 31, 2012

IYFW Presents: HeatStrike PREVIEW/PREDICTIONS


This Saturday night, IN YOUR FACE WRESTLING returns to the Whitehall Athletic Club for another HOT night of independent wrestling action! Love this venue, especially the bar (when they aren't putting ICE IN OUR BEER) and the W'Fudge Contingent™ can't wait to see what they've got up their sleeve for this leg of their summer series! Let's go RIGHT to the Main Event!

Roman Dominguez & Vigo vs. Drake Evans & Pierre "The Beast" Vachon
I'm probably going to come across as pretty negative here and I really don't want to. I'm just not a fan of this form of match: enemies FORCED to team together and, in this case, take on ANOTHER set of enemies FORCED to team together. This screams of lazy booking to me, I have to be honest. This particular pairing also harkens back to The Brass Ring event of late 2011 where Evans teamed with Vigo (but argued the whole match) to take on Vachon and Dominguez (who weren't happy to be paired, either). If there is an issue of finding a number one contender... This match will (or in reality SHOULD) do nothing to resolve that particular problem. Don't misconstrue what I'm saying. These four will put on a fun show, given the parameters... It's just not the match I want to see. It's kind of a stalling tactic to hold us over until the Coronation Cup tournament names a true number one contender later this month.
Paul's Prediction: More of the same

New Breed Title Match:
Robert L. Coleman vs. Liam McFerrin (c)
These two battled back at the Whitehall debut and again in the chaotic six man lumberjack last month. I think Liam needs this win to further legitimize him as the New Breed champ more than Coleman needs the belt. That being said... I do like the idea of Blood Money holding onto a lot of gold in the promotion. Sorry. I can't get behind #Coleman4Champ. I think this is Liam's first singles title defense. A loss here would be a blow.
Paul's Prediction: Liam McFerrin


Guillaume de Sade vs Chuck Deep
Nice! Just announced on the IYFW INTERFACE, members of Blood Money will take on members of Pure Dynamite! THIS is some booking I can get behind! I enjoy de Sade as a singles performer and look forward to seeing him debut some new ring trunks (way to go, Bobby O). Deep is another guy I want to see in singles action. On top of all of this, we get a double dose of Michael Anthony at ringside which is always a pleasure. A win for Deep here over a former IYFW Heavyweight Champion would go a long way (at least in MY eyes).
Paul's Prediction: Chuck Deep

"Millennium Millionaire" Scott Scarsdale vs "Bad" Brad Wesley
The more compact Wesley will lock up with the larger, craftier Scarsdale. Scarsdale has showed his singles dominance over smaller performers (Ricky Williams, Rickety Rockett, etc) and I see that trend continuing with this bout despite the aid of Anthony at ringside. Sure to be a fun match. I'm expecting Scarsdale to try to ground Wesley and to really go after that submission hold he perfected last summer.
Paul's Prediction: Scott Scarsdale

ALSO:
We have learned that some sort of announcement will be made at the show in regards to the "Referee Situation", or "The Fact that Referee's Are Moving Targets in IYFW". We have been told that Senior Referee Dan Roberts won't be here. In addition, Referee Anthony (Tino) Constantino has taken to twitter and made it clear he is jumping on the RefDan bandwagon and is protesting the event by not appearing. Will Vinnie Lax make his triumphant officiating return to In Your Face? Will Maxx Burton make a bold move... or a move in GENERAL to protect the employees of IYFW as well as the paying fans (douchebags though they may be!) from the wrestlers under his watch? It will be interesting to see what the next step is. As Will Cena and I have been adamantly saying on the last few editions of WrestlefudgeTV: Something Needs to be Done!

Also Announced for the Show:
Nocturne -- awesome. My Noc shirt will be on hand!
JP Black -- as broke on W'fudgeTV, the Dark Pony will be in the building! Woot!
Ian Daniels -- give this kid a win!
Vince Beach -- a Vince/Nocturne match might be fun!
Kizashi -- a little pseudo-Asian flava!
Elite -- fuck yes. Give this kid a win!

Looking forward to this show! Their last Whitehall effort had an uptick in attendance and I'm hoping this show follows suit! It's a little disappointing that we will be without the Roddy, Scott, Ravage, Monroe, Rockett, etc delegation... But this still looks to be a fun show for sure! Be there!


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