3...2...One Man Army on a solo mission

But I'm still starrin', still still starvin', still marchin'. No clue why I decided to start this prowreslove blog with lyrics to a OneBeLo rap song, but whatever. I've blogged before, and I run out of stuff to talk about after a few weeks, but one thing I always wanna talk about is pro wrestling. Love it. So I'm just going to watch and blog about it here. Sounds cool, huh? Yeah.

Last night I got through the first half of King of Trios night 2, Chikara's premiere tournament. So let's just start from there, k?

1) Austin Aries vs. Player Dos vs. Matt Jackson vs. Fire Ant in a Rey de Voladores qualifier.
Rey de Voladores is Spanish for "king of the flippy little boys" according to Chuck Taylor, who won the inaugrual mini-tournament back in 2007. 2008's tournament wasn't too bad, sans the final which saw the shitty Incognito beat Helios with a submission hold. My first Chikara show was the day before, which featured two four-way qualifiers, one with "THE IMMACULATE" TJ Cannon, who is a fantastic indy geek who wears pink and black and does shooting star double stomps. Anyway, they had Rey de Voladores over King of Trios weekend, and the winner of this match meets the winner of the next match. Austin Aries did a complete 180, from being super babyface on night 1 to complete heel in this match. Player Dos has new gear, and Matt Jackson coming out to MMMBop is really great. Fire Ant has himself a shirt. There was a good spot where Aries was going to do his wacky elbow drop. So he motioned to one side of the arena, and the fans booed. The other side cheered. He kept going back and forth and it was just funny. I guess you have to see it. Of course he ends up missing the elbow. Matt Jackson gets elimianted after the Beach Break from Fire Ant, who gets eliminated by a Player Dos frog splash after he misses a senton on Aries. Dos wins the match with a top rope flipping snapmare maneuver. It was fine, this was the first time seeing Aries' new heel shtick, and I'm not sure what the hell it is, but I like it.

2) F.I.S.T. vs. The F1rst Family in a KoT quarterfinal match.
Eh. This match didn't do a whole lot for me. There was a good spot where Arik Cannon and Chuck Taylor did the leg sweep into a 1-count lucha spot, and Bryce got involved. And Chuck did a stupid dive onto the floor with nobody catching him. I guess it's King of Trios, which is like Chikara's Wrestlemania, but still. Really dumb. Chuck and Icarus did a cool looking Yakuza Kick/Lungblower combination, and in the end, one of the NOrth Star Express guys took a Sole Food into a Pedigree and FIST advanced. Nothing special, but a solid trios match.

3) The Submission Squad vs. Davey Vega & Gary the Barn Owl in an LWA showcase match.
I have no clue how these men ended up on the show. Either they paid Quack a handsome amount of money, or they had his family ransom. This wasn't the worst match I've seen, but Jesus. It was 4 geeks from some promotion nobody cares about just doing moves. I just don't have words for this match. Just bad stuff, nobody cared, and thank God it was short. The result isn't important, but one of the SS guys pinned another guy with a move. Skip this shit.

4) The Osirian Portal vs. The Future is Now in a KoT quarterfinal match.
Lince Dorado found a new way to annoy me. I don't care if people think it's "cool to hate Lince" because this guy just finds new ways to make me want to boo him. I don't know if he's been doing it forever, but nowadays, Rey Jr. uses the middle rope when he's running the ropes. It looks dumb when he does it, but he's like 5'5". Lince's probably 5'10" or so, so it looks even dumber when he does it. The Portal were loved here, and the Future is Now... not so much. Escorpion looked bad here, and outside of Jimmy Olsen, Ophidian, Amasis, and a fun little dance spot to start the match, I didn't like this match a whole lot. Helios pinned Ophidian with a jumping DVD for the pin. Crowd booed this HUGE.

5) Jigsaw vs. El Generico vs. Nick Jackson vs. Kota Ibushi in a Rey de Voladores qualifier.
Sweet Jesus. If you're ever down on wrestling and you need something to make you love it once more, WATCH THIS MATCH. Started off pretty fun, but it got fucking incredible. Jigsaw did a double stomp onto Nick Jackson, and he used that as a launching pad for a hurricanrana to Generico. Nick hit a slingshot X-Factor, and then just went outside and did a moonsault. Generico went up top and Ibushi did a cartwheel into a HUGE pele kick. Generico did the moonsault over the ropes plancha onto Nick Jackson and then just started running and dove THROUGH THE TURNBUCKLES and gave Jig a Tornado DDT. He went in and gave Ibushi the Yakuza Kick and the half & half suplex for a near fall. Crowd was going nuts, and so was I. Then Generico went for a Yakuza in the middle of the ring but Ibushi avoided it and nipped up and gave Generico a roundhouse kick and a German. Unbelievable. Generico went for the Brainbuster on the turnbuckle, but Ibushi got out and pinned Generico after a super reverse frankensteiner. Jigsaw quickly pinned Nick Jackson with a Jig 'n' Tonic and then Ibushi pinned Jig after a twisting 450 splash. Believe the hype, folks. This was fucking awesome.

That's all I got for now. I'll probably watch more of the 2007 TPI tonight, which I've actually really enjoyed for the most part thus far. I've also got ROH, two CZW Best of the Bests, a Jersey All Pro show, and much more. So stick around!