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The Worst That Could Happen Results

Inter Species Wrestling packed up our gear, kit and caboodle and dragged it all South to Connecticut bringing everything including our fanatical terrorist cow Moohammad, only leaving behind Giant Tiger, that grumpy drunk prima donna. And we had a hell of a time, one of the best shows that I have ever been involved in. But then, I would say that wouldn’t I? (And full disclosure – I have.)

The fans who were there on the other hand? What did they have to say? (All comments from ChikaraFans.com)

Absolutely fantastic show. Everyone must buy this show for themselves, their father, mother, grandparents, and the neighborhood girl you have a crush on. – The Pagemaster

I really enjoyed the show. – HairRaiser

This is one of the best shows I’ve been to and can’t recommend buying the dvd enough. – Glothar

Super fun. – H3RC

Big ups to Rotch and company for probably one of the most fun wrestling shows I have ever been to. ISW is a mix of a party and a really good wrestling show… the show was amazing… The atmosphere and the wrestling made this an amazing show. – john

I really laughed at so many great moments during the show… Buy this show! – Future-Shock

I enjoyed it as much as DGUSA and I paid $60 less. – Nut Bunnies

I seriously had a blast at this show. Everything was fun. – George

THIS SHOW WAS FUCKING AWESOME~! – Tony

If you don’t believe me because I am a fucking SHILL~! (And you know that’s true.) Believe Tony – who is totally not my sock puppet.

*****

The Worst That Could Happen
Results Quick and Dirty

Impromptu Three-Way: Hydra beat Jolly Roger and Steve "The Turtle" Weiner making Jolly Roger tap to the Hydralock.

Badd Challenge Match: Badd Boys beat GinGerard (Shayne Hawke and Vin Gerard) pinning Shayne Hawke.

ISW Other Title: ISW Champion Moohammad the Terrorist Champion beat Stinky with help from Flip.

Bunkhouse Brawl: Twiggy beat Beef Wellington with a cow-bell.

Connecticut Co-Ed Confrontation: Addy Starr beat Sexxxy Eddy with a low blow and roll-up.

Brains Are Pink: Izzy Deadyet beat Pinkie Sanchez.

Triple Threat: El Generico beat Jigsaw and Zombified after Generico hit a Brainbuster on Zombified.

ISW Title Match: ISW Champion Player Uno beat Hallowicked after a Mega Buster.

*****

The Worst That Could Happen
Detailed Results

To be honest my expectations for The Worst That Could Happen hung lower than Giant Tiger’s beer gut. On one hand, the fact that Giant Tiger acted like a prissy prima donna and tried to hold up Inter Species Wrestling and Rotchy for everything that he could get and then at the last second decided not to go, well all of that meant that I got to drive up to Connecticut in GT’s place. The down-side was that this meant that I spent six hours as Sexxxy Eddy’s arm-rest while Eddy spent the entire trip bitching about not having his drinking buddy Giant Tiger with him and drinking enough for the two of them.

Then we got to the venue at 4PM, only to find a dark, low-ceiling barn surrounded by picnic tables, but with no ring or chairs. Technically the venue was a "pavillion" but pavillion is just a fancy name for barn. And you know I have lived the nightmare of an ISW show where the ring only showed up two hours after the original bell time. But in this case, the ring showed up shortly after my car did, the ring went up lickety-split, the organizer arranged for us to have great lighting, Matt Fortune and Mike Rotch combined to pull off some magic in the presentation and by 7:30PM we were rocking.

Of course, then I was standing backstage watching the pre-show preview (available to watch at Hybrid Entertainment TV) My instructions were to wait for the pre-show to finish, then the highlight reel would play and after that I would come out and start the show. Then the breakers blew and we lost power. We got the power back quickly, but we couldn’t get the highlight reel to play (you can see it here) or the entrance music to work. So, I had to improvise madly and entertain the crowd while we were getting things going. As you know, I am the Worst Ring Announcer in the Multiverse – Improv Comedy is not my strong suit. Fortunately, I had mingled with the crowd before the show and I knew that despite a fairly big crowd, there was as far as I could tell exactly one guy from East Hartford in the crowd. So I made fun of East Hartford until the music started working again.

(Not that hard to do by the way. For one thing, East Hartford has a store where you can buy Roast Beef and where they make sandwiches, but you can’t buy a Roast Beef sandwich. I even offered to buy the Roast Beef separately so that they could add it to the sandwich and they refused. It also has a pizza parlor that is a gated community, when neither their bank nor their church is protected by a gate. What kind of a town protects their pizza better than they protect their God or their money?)

And then right after I had finished introducing Hydra and Jolly Roger, something unexpected and completely wonderful happened. This car with a custom Rhode Island license plates that said "Turtle" drove up to the ring playing theme music and Steve "The Turtle" Weiner jumped out of the Turtle-Mobile, to announce that he was making his ISW debut and, "What better match to have the Turtle in than one that already has a Sea Monster and a Pirate?" Faced with this unassailable logic, I pretty much had to (ab)use my Commissioner powers and make the match an impromptu three-way.

Look, I am not going to say that Turtle saved the show, but he certainly started it heading in the right direction. That first match was everything a first match should be. Quick, funny and the crowd was involved. After Jolly Roger hurt his foot kicking Turtle in his shell, J-Ro encouraged Hydra to try his luck. When Hydra hurt his foot as well, the Party Pirate started mocking the Sea Monster pointing out that it said "Shell" on Turtle’s back. At which point someone in the crowd piped up and yelled, "Hey asshole! Leave Hydra alone! Sea monsters can’t read!" The crowd was animated from the moment that they saw and recognized Turtle, but from the moment that they started heckling, they became one of the best crowds that I have seen in a long time.

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