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January 2020 the Round up Heatseeker UPW: Academy Feature What’S Coming Up January 2020 The Round Up Heatseeker UPW: Academy Feature What’s Coming up 2 A Letter from the Editor Oh man, it’s a new year. While watching Wrestle Kingdom, I stopped and thought about all of the wrestling I’d be watching this year. The sheer amount of wrestling I force myself to keep up with for no reason other than I want to. It felt overwhelming, but exciting. I’m very ready for what 2020 has to offer! With my space this month, I want to talk about something that can go under the radar in local wrestling: commentary. Most of the local wrestling I watch is live and in-person, and many places don’t broadcast their commentary booth to the crowd. But as more and more promotions pick- up streaming services, or YouTube channels, commentary becomes a prevalent feature. I’m of the firm belief that bad commentary can’t ruin a match, but good commentary can elevate one. If I don’t like the commentary team for whatever reason, I can mute the stream and sit peacefully. But if the commentary team work effectively, I’m more invested, I’m more passionate, I’m in the moment, and it’s wonderful. Commentary teams do a lot more than just talk over a match. Just as with any part of making a wrestling match work, commentary has an important role to play. Communicating the emotional significance of the fight, hyping up the involved parties, reminding audiences of important details in a story or a match – all while keeping track of the sequence of events and relaying those events. I get flustered trying to order food, let alone trying to process the sequences going on the in the ring. And while I’m no expert on commentary, I am a former choral vocalist and taking care of your throat is hard when you have to use it for extended periods of time. I guess what I’m trying to get at here is commentary is hard and can go underappreciated. If you’re a commentator, thank you for your work. Please drink some water and keep those pipes healthy. If you’re not, go thank your local commentators. Give them a big high five. And with that, please enjoy this issue of Heat Sheet, from us, to you. Stay safe and happy. Charlie Anderson Contents We spent a long time looking for a nice Venom: Elimination Lockdown 5 3 photo of Rip Rielly for our cover, but we couldn’t find one, so here is with blood UPW: Revival 5 coming out of his head. AWA: Purge: New Dawn 8 Heatseeker 12 • Photo Courtesy AWL UPW: Academy Feature 13 What’s Coming up 18 2 Issue Number Seven The Round Up Venom: Elimination Lockdown 5 By Lachlan Albert On January 4th there was a wrestling show, and I’m not talking about Wrestle Kingdom. Venom Pro Wrestling made the decision to compete with NJPW’s biggest show of the year with the fifth instalment of their annual Elimination Lockdown event. With three championships on the line and a seven-man elimination cage match main event, it’s lucky that Wrestle Kingdom is recorded, because the energy of a VPW crowd is irresistible. Elimination Lockdown 5 set up a lot of changes for Venom in 2020, the first being a new general manager. Owner Anthony opened the show by announcing (through mic troubles) that he’d be taking on more work behind the scenes and had to hand off general manager duties to Rob Levy. Rob has experience as an announcer for Queensland Wrestling Alliance in North Queensland, and his experience dealing with wrestlers immediately came into play when his introduction was interrupted by Zac Reynolds. The Natural showed up to demand a rematch for the Venom Origins Championship. Hearing that Zac wanted a match, Rob brought out a returning Johnny Hardwood. If you’re not aware, both of his names are slang for male genitalia, and he seems very proud of his butt. Johnny had a lot of crowd support, as most people do against Reynolds, and the bout went back-and-forth. Zac was unhappy with the work of ref Seb, who deserves props for refereeing the whole show by himself, and these moments of distraction gave Johnny chances to wrest back control. Unfortunately, Zac ultimately came out on top, much to the crowd’s dismay. A triple-threat match was next up, with two local favourites taking on an interstate interloper. The Magnificent Mat Gauge looks Jason Hyde defying gravity (shoutout musical fans) like a circus threw up on him, leaving a path of purple glitter that could be tracked all the way back to Newcastle. He faced off against the Asian Sensation, Shinji, and the popular up-and- comer Jason Hyde. Gauge was an excellent bad guy here, and Shinji was his usual hard-hitting self, but this was a star-making performance for Hyde. The end of the match came when Shinji hit Gauge with a kendo stick before Hyde ripped it away and hit Shinji with the loudest kendo 3 Issue Number Seven stick shot I have ever heard. Follow up with some high-flying technical wizardry, and bingo bango, Hyde wins in decisive fashion. The Venom Women’s Championship was on the line between reigning champion Tarlee and challenger Jasmin Vittora. The crowd was clearly on the side of Tarlee, and Jasmin lashed out at the crowd over it. Tarlee had early control but Vitorra took back the momentum. A quick roll-up saw Tarlee retain her title, though, moving into the crowd to celebrate. Following this match, another beloved champion defended against a challenger that the fans are less fond of. The “Good Man” John Skyfall came to the ring, and as usual looked like a D-Tier Batman villain, with his insane laugh, bulging eyes, and signature baseball bat. The champ, Tequila Young, continued his habit of dancing into the hearts of the audience, but he was as serious as could be when he faced down the man who attacked him pre-match at the last Venom show. The match was cut short – ref Seb couldn’t keep the baseball bat out of Skyfall’s hands, and Young took a nasty hit. The DQ decision didn’t keep Skyfall from attempting to continue the assault, but one more vision of Queensland Wrestling’s future was out to save the day. In another appearance that solidified Elimination Lockdown 5 as his coming-out party, Jason Hyde took the bat from Skyfall and held him off with some solid offense. Hyde helped Tequila to his feet and went to pass him the Origins Championship belt, but as Young pulled it, Jason couldn’t quite let it go. Eventually dropping the belt and raising Young’s hand, Hyde looked like a credible challenger and an exciting future matchup for the title. The pre-intermission portion of the night ended with a triple-threat tag-team match for the Venom Tag Team Championship. Champions The Night Terrors (Damien and Ryan Thorne) were accompanied by Kobra Jones; Gen Next (Mitch Ryder and Cedric Brave) were accompanied by Todd Eastman, and El Cartel (Diablo and Flashman) were accompanied by… Nobody. The match was classic tag team chaos, with Gen Next providing the old-school tag-team style, Ryan Thorne making a great good-guy-in- John Skyfall not understanding the concept of yoga peril-desperately-trying-to-tag-his-much- larger-partner, and El Cartel providing the chaos, including Diablo stealing a camera and photographing himself flipping off the crowd. Eventually the Night Terrors made the tag and looked in charge when the behemoth Bruiser made his way to ringside. Bruiser broke a cover by one of the Thornes on one of the Gen Next boys, before taking out Gen Next and aligning himself with El Cartel in order to make them the new tag champs. Intermission was used as the opportunity to set up the cage for the main event. The match started with two of the best challengers VPW has to offer in the form of EC Diamond and Jake Nova. An immediate impact was felt when the third entrant, Tim Kade, threw himself 4 Issue Number Seven all over the ring. The fourth entrant was Jackson Spade, and he threw other competitors into the cage with such force that officials outside the ring had to move quickly to ensure the structure stayed upright. This force was matched by the first surprise entrant of the match, Spaceman Dacey. His signature spear dealt a ton of damage and multiple men were bleeding by the time defending champ Jaxon Cross made his entrance. Spaceman was unhappy about being eliminated, but he was swiftly replaced with the final, surprise entrant, a newly bleach-blond Big Boi Renegade. The six men in the ring caused plenty of chaotic fun, with the highlight coming when Kade rode Renegade like a horse to deliver a clothesline to Spade. The eliminations came thick and fast at this point, with Spade, Diamond, and Renegade all eliminated in quick succession. Cross was clearly unhappy with his Next Level teammate Nova being indiscriminate in his attacks, whaling on him while yelling “you were supposed to be my brother.” Cross managed to eliminate Jake, but The King used this distraction to his advantage. Taking control and hitting a top-rope sit out fireman’s carry slam, Tim Kade became a two time Venom Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Champion. I watched Wrestle Kingdom the next day.
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