OTT continued their trek towards their second biggest show of the year, the Anniversary show. This show did its job in building excitement towards that show, with hot angles and great matches. It helps that the crowd was super hot for everything. If I didn’t know better I would have thought this was a Belfast show with how hot this crowd was.

Full Results:

Justy & Sammy D def. Club Rock Shandy (Clayton Long & Martin Steers)

Team OTT (Terry Thatcher, Calum Black, Hyperstreak, Paddy M & Paul Tracy) def. Team Land’s End (Ryoji Sai, Kyosuke Ikaho, Revlon, So Daimonji & UEXILE)

Valkyrie def. Gisele Shaw – OTT Women’s Championship

More Than Hype (LJ Cleary, Darren Kearny, & Nathan Martin) def. Alex Cuevas, OJMO & Omari

Only True Pros (Michael May & Liam Royal) def. The Angel Cruzers (B Cool & Angel Cruz)

Toni Storm def. Session Moth Martina

Jordan Devlin def. Paul Robinson

Zack Gibson def. CT Flexor (Zack Gibson Open Challenge)

David Starr def. Scotty Davis – #1 Contender’s Match for OTT World Championship

The Highs:

  • Seeing AJPW tag team champion Ryoji Sai in an OTT ring was cool. That ten man tag was a lot of fun, even if no one particularly stood out. One big takeaway I got from this is that I hope some company in Japan finds a spot for Calum Black. He would be so good in a place like AJPW.
  • OTT has this knack for bringing in people to make their promotional debuts in big spots and letting them shine. Gisele Shaw challenged for the women’s championship, and did not disappoint. Valkyrie retained after some interference from fellow Woke Queen Debbie Keitel, but it was still a fun match while it lasted.
  • More Than Hype vs OJMO, Omari, and Alex Cuevas will fly under the radar for most people, but this match was absolutely tremendous. Seriously, this was one of the best OTT matches this year. Everyone shined in some capacity. My only gripe is that OJMO, Omari and Cuevas got so over with this crowd that I almost thought they should win. But, MTH are regulars, so they picked up the huge win. Watch out for Omari, the guy has insane potential.
  • Since aligning with J-Money, Only True Pros has breathed a little life into a tag team division that is lacking in villains. Their message is clear: OTT is a promotion built on comedy, and they want to cleanse everyone’s pallets. This time they ran through the Angel Cruzers. Royal defeated B Cool so fast that Cruz hadn’t even taken off his jacket by the time the match was over. Afterwards they beat down Cruz. I’m very interested to see where this is going.
  • Martina had possibly her best match this year with Storm. Since she signed with Ring of Honor, it is nice that she had a good showing in one of her last matches with her home promotion, even if she could not get the victory.
  • Robinson brings such a different edge to OTT, and he pulled out Devlin’s best match in OTT since the WALTER match at Scrappermania in March. It’s nice that they made this a non-title match, because Devlin is in the middle of a red hot story with David Starr, so an out-of-nowhere title match with Robinson makes no sense. Devlin won, to the surprise of nobody.
  • CT Flexor has real star potential. He has been one of the most entertaining parts of the past few OTT shows, with his antics with Keitel and Valkyrie. He answered Gibson’s open challenge, and the crowd came unglued. He is weirdly charismatic and very athletic, which served him well in a match with Gibson. Gibson won, of course, but that is not what’s important here. After the match, Flexor seemingly broke off from the Woke Queens, and introduced Valkyrie’s challenger for the Anniversary show: the returning Katie Harvey. Harvey is a former women’s champion, and is considered the “first woman of OTT.” This added so much heat to a women’s title match that was filled with nothing but question marks before this show.
  • Adding to the list of OTT match-of-the-year contenders, Starr and Scotty Davis went just under 24 minutes in a high-stakes, emotional #1 contender’s match. Starr now considers himself the import killer, and that Devlin is the import. Davis, nicknamed “the prodigy,” went into this match undefeated in OTT in 2019. Starr has beaten everyone in the promotion except for WALTER, so it makes sense that these two meet for a top contender’s spot. One of the most important takeaways from this match is that Davis felt like he belonged in this spot. Starr is as good as anyone at telling a story in the ring, and he helped convey the message that Davis was as good as anyone in OTT. Starr won with a rollup, which to me signifies that both guys are good enough to challenge for the title.
  • Starr preached his message to the crowd, and they totally bought into it. The problem is, he is the villain in this story. Fortunately, Devlin came out and talked about he worked so hard for everything, and that OTT is his home. This got the crowd right back on his side. Their match at 5th Anniversary is going to be insanely heated, and I cannot wait for October 26.

This is the part of the article that I would right “The Lows” of the show, but to be honest, there were no lows here. I was not super in to the opening tag match with Sammy D & Justy against Club Rock Shandy, but it was the opener and the crowd was into it. This was the strongest show OTT has put on in a while, maybe all year. 

The last couple of OTT shows before this one did not interest me too much. This was mainly due to the shows feeling like there were no stakes to any of the matches. But now that we are on the road to the Anniversary show, things are kicking into high gear. OTT hit a home run with this one, and I expect no less from them in the immediate future.

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