{"id":11327,"date":"2019-02-18T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=11327"},"modified":"2019-02-18T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:44:40","slug":"riptide-deep-six-review-15-2-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/18\/riptide-deep-six-review-15-2-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Riptide ‘Deep Six’ review (15.2.19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello\nmy name is Iwan Mackenzie and you may know me as that dude at wrestling shows\nwho you recognise as \u2018That Dude\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m\nback with another review, this time taking down a trip down to Brighton for\nRiptide\u2019s first show of 2019. Riptide for the last year has become one of the\nbest promotions in BritWres due to its combination of hate free setting in the\nhome of love and acceptance Brighton, fantastic storytelling and combining\nvarious stars of the BritWres scene together for unusual pairings but pairings\nthat work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going\ninto this show, the top matches were Brighton Champion Chuck Mambo defending\nhis title against the debuting Mark Haskins , #1 Contender for said\ntitle TK Cooper facing off against Riptide favourite\nCandyfloss as well as debuts for Ashmore and Rocky Mac. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nset off to Brighton early afternoon on Friday, heading down there with my mates\nAndy, Nick and Dave getting there about mid-afternoon. I finally got to try a\nGreggs\u2019 Vegan Sausage Roll which I can say are pretty great before we had a\npre-show Nandos, met up with my mates AJ and Simon in the Hope and Ruin before\nheading inside. I managed to spot Man Like Beano in the crowd, who I said hello\nto as I headed to my usual spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our\nfirst match was a pre-show match between Rob Lias and the surprise debut of\nGiesele Shaw. Rob\u2019s character in Riptide is that he hates the Intergender\nwrestling of the promotion (an aspect that Riptide is very well known for) and\nrefers to it as \u2018Intergender Bollocks\u2019. Giesele who I had seen at a Kamikaze\nshow a couple of weeks ago in an impressive showing against Veda Scott also\nshined here against Lias. A good back and forth contest that got the crowd\nhyped the rest of the evening, Shaw took the pinfall win to a good reaction and\nLias had to suffer the \u201cHA!\u201d point of shame from our section afterwards as well\nas the classic football chant of \u201cYou\u2019re Sh*t and you know you are\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nthat we had owner Josh come out just to run through the ground rules of the\npromotion before introducing guest ring announcer Kid Lykos who did a good job.\nHowever, he didn\u2019t have much in the way of banter that at point we could have\ndone with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nour first official match, we had Brighton\u2019s own Jordan Breaks battle Keyboard\nWarrior Kurtis Chapman. A very good technical back and forth contest that\neventually became a striking contest which neither men held back from. Breaks\ntook the pinfall win following a Chaos Theory. Breaks is primed for a big year\nthis year and with performances like this will help that fact, Chapman is very\nunderrated when it comes to his actual in-ring work as most people judge him by\nhis character in RevPro which pales in comparison to his great heel work in\nRiptide. People should give him another chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next\nup we had #1 Contender TK Cooper battle Candyfloss. TK came out not with his\nsignature dungarees as he had more or less retired them in an excellent promo\nwhich can be found here https:\/\/twitter.com\/PureTKC\/status\/1096122159448145920<\/a>\nbecause my words will not do it justice. When this match first started I wasn\u2019t\ninto it fully as they went for more of a technical start which we had just seen\nwith Break\/Chapman, and it also felt a little awkward to begin with but once\nthey found their flow, the match became a good one and became better as it went\nalong. The best parts of the match were TK pulling off aerial moves that I hadn\u2019t\nseen him hit in ages but the absolute highlight of the match was an insane\nSpanish Fly from the top that sent the crowd into a meltdown. TK took the\npinfall win after Candyfloss initially kicked out of a piledriver after a one\ncount before TK hit with another big move to finish the job, a finish that may have\nrubbed AJ up the wrong way but I didn\u2019t mind it personally. Both TK and\nCandyfloss performed excellently here and created one of the best Intergender\nmatches that I have seen in while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following\nthat we had Jack Sexsmith face off against Money-vs-Everyone\u2019s Damon Moser and\nboy does this have some history behind it. Allow me to explain. So since the\nstart of Riptide, Jack Sexsmith and Spike Trivet have been at logger heads with\neach other and has become of one of the defining aspects of Riptide\u2019s\nexistence. Back at Point Break, Moser turned his back on old friend Sexsmith\nand joined up with Trivet which was the start of the Money-Vs-Everybody stable\nwhich also includes Chris Ridgeway; Sexsmith asked for a match against Trivet\nat the last show but Trivet stated in a promo video that Sexsmith has nothing\nto offer him so he sent Moser in to face him instead. The match had a fast and\nfurious beginning starting with a JOHN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! dropkick from Sexsmith\nbefore some crowd brawling between the two with Moser being thrown through a\nton of chairs, but Moser was able to comeback and started to target Sexsmith\u2019s\nleg which was the focus of the match for the most part. Sexsmith was able to\nmount a comeback but Moser eventually kicked Sexsmith right in the Ding Dings\nto take a DQ loss. The low blow wasn\u2019t the most obvious and confused the crowd.\nMoser afterwards cut a promo where unfortunately he stumbled over some of his\nwords but the general message of the promo was to establish himself as a\ndangerous man and not be made to look the weakest in the MvE stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nour final match before intermission, the debuting Ashmore battled the recently\nturned fan favourite Cara Noir. Cara has become a sweetheart in the fans eyes\ndue to his great performances at Riptide especially his match against Speedball\nMike Bailey at the last show which was amazing. Ashmore interrupted Cara\u2019s\nentrance which incensed Cara to where Cara attacked Ashmore as soon as the bell\nwas rung. The whole match as a result was wrestled at a fast and frantic pace\nwhich I really dug, Ashmore hit a massive rolling death valley driver to the\nring apron before taking control of the contest. Our section gave Ashmore some\nstick referencing to him looking like Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Horses\nbefore Ashmore asked if there was going to be anymore chants so we decided to\nsing a rendition of Baldy Baldy over there. Noir mounted a comeback with some\nsmooth moves which has become a signature of Noir\u2019s workrate. Ashmore went to\ngo for his finisher but Noir hit a massive Canadian Destroyer which was gnarly\nlooking. The finish of the match came with Ashmore going up to the second rope\nlooking for a big move but Cara followed him up and looked for a big move\nhimself but Ashmore was able to hit a super version of the Hack-Knees\nBackbreaker which elicited a scream from me which I never do to secure Ashmore\nthe pinfall victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nwas absolutely my favourite match of the night and is my recommendation to\nwatch when this show is released; Noir is thankfully becoming one of the more\nrecognised great wrestlers of BritWres with performances like this and Ashmore\nis one of the most underrated wrestlers in the whole of BritWres to hopefully\n2019 is the year that he breaks out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\nthen went into our interval where I spoke to Ashmore and Noir about their great\nmatch and picked up my first Cara Noir T-shirt which is very stylish indeed and\nspoke to Giesele Shaw who was very nice to speak to. I also picked up a couple\nof cans of the Riptide themed beer for my step-dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coming\nback from interval, our next match was a tag team match with the ruthless\ncombination of Chakara and Paul Robinson who gave my mate Nick shit during\ntheir entrance against the debuting Rocky Mac and fan favourite Session Moth\nMartina. Before the match Martina demanded Rocky for her Valentines Day\npresents and Child Support money as Rocky apparently is the dad of 20 of\nMartina\u2019s 84 children. Rocky prayed to god who weirdly lives in the Brighthhelm\ncentre\u2019s balcony and presents appeared for Martina, presents included some\nwindow screen liquid, a car air freshener (which Martina promptly put down her\ntights) and a can of Bants beer which was especially made for this event. That\nwasn\u2019t all as Rocky asked the house band to hit it and he started to sing a\nrendition of the Carpenters \u201cClose to You\u201d before Robbo and Chakara attacked\nthem which led the keyboard player hitting a tragic note with perfect comical\ntiming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nwas a very heated contest although it did have some comedy moments as well,\nboth teams have very good chemistry with one and another; one of the best spots\nof the matches was when Robbo went to dive onto a standing Mac but Mac caught\nhim with a stalling suplex. I had seen the spot at a Clash show once before but\nit still looked impressive and the crowd gasped when Mac caught Robbo with such\nease. There was a scary moment where Chakara had Rocky in a gory bomb position\nwaiting for Robbo to hit a diving double foot stomp but when Robbo came down\nChakara took a lot of weight onto her neck and she looked seriously hurt when\nthe match finished (I did speak to her afterwards and she said despite it being\nsore, she\u2019ll be fine). This outside of Noir\/Ashmore was my favourite match of\nthe night, it had a bit of everything and was different from anything else on\nthe card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post\nmatch whilst staff attended to Chakara, Robinson decided to mock the crowd\ngoing round and getting in everybody\u2019s face so much so that some old woman\ndecided to jump in the ring to attack him but the staff were on hand to stop\nher, that woman was later revealed on Twitter as Vicky Haskins Aunt! Jinny made\na surprise appearance to confront Robinson about his attack on her tag partner\nJimmy Havoc at the last show and set up the tag team match of Robinson and\nChakara vs Havoc and Jinny at the next show before Jinny left him lying with a\nmassive forearm shot. This may have been one of my favourite Jinny promos: she\nhad some much rage and passion in her delivery and had some very cutting lines\nwhich popped the crowd huge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following\nall that was our penultimate match of the night as Wild Boar faced Spike\nTrivet. As covered on this website already, there was a section of the crowd\nthat were very pro Spike and they wanted the whole room to know it whilst, at\nthe same time chanting at Boar \u201cYou\u2019re just a Sh*t F***ing Rhyno\u201d which I was\nmore offended at their timing and tune more than anything. Even Spike had to\nshut them down which was the right thing, although there was someone who in our\nsection shouted \u201cThe only thing that\u2019s worse than a Smark, is a right-wing\nSmark!\u201d which was really funny. Unfortunately this was my least favourite match\nof the night, a little slow and plodding for my liking and with only the story\nthat Spike was going to do to Boar what former PM David Cameron did to a pig\nbeing entertaining. Well that, and Spike\u2019s associate Shay Purser on the outside\nwho was very entertaining as a smug prick. Spike picked up the victory by\npinfall, no one submitted during this show…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now\nour main event, Kid Lykos announced that unfortunately there had been a change\nbut he was going to bring both men out to explain it, first out was Brighton\nChampion Chuck Mambo and then Mark Haskins who came out in his own clothes\nbeing supported by a crutch accompanied by his wife Vicky Haskins. Mark\nexplained that he thought Riptide was great and that he was looking forward to\nwrestling here but he\u2019s been taken out with a calf injury courtesy of Marty Scurll\nat a ROH show, he also reiterated that he thought the world of Chuck Mambo and\nsaid that his opponent will still be great, Mambo turned his back for one\nsecond whilst he thanked Vicky and Mark attacked Mambo! He had faked still\nbeing injured and took the fight to Mambo but Mambo fired up and took the fight\nright back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riptide\nseems to be the place where Mambo is at his best as the fire and desire he\nshows in all his matches for the promotion make him stand out even more. This\nwas a great main event with my personal favourite spot of the match being a\ndouble springboard outside dive by Mambo to Mark; the finish came where Mark\naccidentally speared Vicky and Mambo took Mark out with a Bad Burrito and Frog\nSplash to win the match, retain the title and stay undefeated in singles\nmatches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Post\nmatch, TK Cooper announced Mambo as the winner and called Mambo his best friend\nand told him to not get too attached of the title ahead of their championship\nmatch at the Riptide Rumble in April. Mambo sent the crowd home happy with a\nsmall speech and Haskins got a please come back chant but threw up the bird\ninstead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post\nshow, I spoke to Mambo, Spike and Robbo and all got pictures with them, then I\nhad a kebab and went to the Hope and Ruin for the post show where I spoke to my\nmates Gadge and Grainger who had been to RevPro about how the show was and got\nto congratulate Jimmy Havoc on AEW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\noverall, this was a great show with a mostly great crowd and a lot of variety\nin its matches. I was speaking to my mate Karl in the pub and he explained that\nhe thought every match was great and had something for everybody, and you know it\u2019s\nhard to argue with that. My personal highlight were Noir vs Ashmore and the tag\nteam match, defiantly ones to check out when the show is released on VOD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\nyou want to support Riptide Wrestling then you can head to their merchandise\nstore: https:\/\/riptidewrestling.bigcartel.com\/<\/a>,\nTheir On-Demand service is https:\/\/riptidewrestling.pivotshare.com\/home<\/a>\nand their next show in April 12th and tickets can be found at https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/RIPTIDEwrestling<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\ncan follow them on Twitter and Instagram @RiptideWres <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\ncan follow me on Twitter and Instagram @IwanMack <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank\nyou for reading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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