With the Spring Break concept being the standout show of past Wrestlemania Weekends, the decision to run two shows paid dividends as both sold out with ease. The wild death match may have main evented the first night, but it was time for the Greatest Clusterfuck to shine on night two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joey Janela versus\nJungleboy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What I know: <\/strong>Though\nI\u2019m not a huge fan of either guy, it was great to see them back on Part 1\nfollowing injury and personal tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Match: <\/strong>Early\nquick exchanges led to a raft of superkicks from both men in what was dubbed an\n\u2018impromptu superkick party\u2019. Things soon escalated with multiple dives by\nJungleboy, before an inverted brainbuster from Janela dropped Jungleboy on the\nedge of the apron. However, Jungleboy\u2019s unorthodox helped him fight back into\nthe contest, until Penelope Ford took him out with a top rope rana. Having used\na backstabber to deal with Ford, Jungleboy showed his resilience by kicking out\nof a trapper keeper, as well as fighting his way to the ropes to break a\nvariation of a dragon sleeper. This theme continued when Jungleboy kicked out\nof a tombstone and a sheer drop brainbuster off of the top \u2013 the latter at one!\nEventually, the standing stretch of Jungleboy forced Janela to tap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Verdict: <\/strong>The big\nnarrative is Janela going 0-2 on his return. Another match like the Stunt\ncontest that was for those who love a high spot or seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LAX versus The Rock \u2018n\u2019\nRoll Express<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What I know: <\/strong>Have\nbeen enjoying LAX\u2019s output from this weekend so far. The Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Express\nare legends, but I can\u2019t imagine they offer much between the ropes at this\npoint in their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Match: <\/strong>Any\njudgement passed on the Express in that statement was alleviated as it became\nobvious how good LAX were going to be in making Morton and Gibson look good\nwith their bumping ability. They had their way with LAX to begin with, until\nMorton became Morton and began to play face in peril after an Ortiz powerslam.\nGibson got the hot tag after some brief LAX double teaming and the ref lost\ncontrol in the process. Morton showed impressive athleticism with a sunset flip\nfor two that needed Ortiz to break it for his partner, whilst Ortiz took a huge\nbump on a Morton Canadian Destroyer! Unfortunately, an assisted cannonball that\nended the match in LAX\u2019s favour clearly missed Morton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Verdict: <\/strong>Outside\nof the finish, a really fun match. The Express can still bring it enough\nagainst the right opponents it would seem, and LAX were great. The post-match\nthat saw a huge love in between the two teams was good to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Masato Tanaka versus\nLA Park<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What I know:<\/strong> A\nmatch that completely fell underneath my radar in the build up to this show \u2013\nhas the potential to be all sorts of fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Match: <\/strong>It wouldn\u2019t\nbe a Tanaka\/Park match without a chairshot to Tanaka\u2019s head, which they got out\nof the way early (and saw Tanaka then hit a Roaring Elbow to the chair in\nretaliation). After fighting off a brief flurry from Parka, Tanaka maintained\ncontrol with strikes and a plancha to the outside, before smashing a beer on\nParka\u2019s head! Fans had to duck and run as Parka almost wiped the front row out\nas he pitched Tanaka into the chairs with a slam, before the referee had to do\nthe same as Parka launched some doors into the ring. One door had Tanaka\npowerbombed through it; the other, primarily broke by LA Park\u2019s head during an\nattempted spear that won him the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Verdict: <\/strong>A decent\nbrawl that engaged on name and character value alone, though they both looked a\nlittle beat up by the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Greatest\nClusterfuck<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What I know: <\/strong>The\nClusterfuck element of the name has always been lived up to, so will be\ninteresting to see what weird and wonderful entrants we have this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Match:<\/strong> The first\nentrant was a huge return to the ring for Necro Butcher, with Butcher throwing\nBryce Remsburg over the top rope to clear the ring before the contest began.\nThis all was to set up Nick Gage being entrant two, Shlak at three and Markus\nCrane at four, with Butcher and Shlak channelling Frye\/Takayama. The next\nentrant, Georgie Boy, was dumped through a door by Crane and Shlak moments\nlater. Swoggle had a chance to add to his \u2018freak show encounters\u2019 list as he\nbattled it out with Shlak upon entering the Clusterfuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first elimination was wild as Georgie Boy was chucked by\nShlak from the ring into the first row. The match offered me my first chance to\nget a look at Brian Pillman Jr., though his main involvement at least initially\nwas to get choked with a plastic bag by Gage. Nate Webb and Marko Stunt played \u2018Teenage\nDirtbag\u2019 to welcome Brendan B. Brown to the ring, which was a shame as the\ncamera man missed a wild dive by Pillman. MJF also took exception as he\nattacked them both with a chair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some oiling up between Joey Ryan and Sexxxy Eddy saw Eddy\u2019s\ntowel removed to reveal he had no underwear on. This did lead to a rather\nimpressive moonsault completed with his hands on his own junk to protect his\nmodesty, although he was rolled up for three seconds later. A teased fight between\nLogan and Marko Stunt was halted by Necro Butcher trying to eliminate both of\nthem (successfully in the case of Logan). Hilariously, Swoggle grabbed Ryan\u2019s\njunk and used it to throw him over the top rope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026G-Raver\u2019s arrival saw him ram several needles into Swoggle\u2019s\nface in a horrific spot that eventually led to Swoggle\u2019s elimination by Arik\nCannon. Teddy Hart brought a cat down to ringside, before we got a fourway\nbrawl between himself, Homicide and Cryme Time of all people. There was too\nmuch action to really focus on as the match continued, though people began to\ntake to the sky more and more. This included the returning No Legs, who got a\nrapturous reception. Another person who got a rapturous reception was the\nreturning Brendan Brown as he hit MJF with a stunner and eliminated him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The End, Parrow and Odinson cleared the ring of a lot of\npeople, including No Legs, before they collided with Shane Mercer who managed\nto take them out on his own. The match descended a little into \u2018look who that\nis\u2019 as Crowbar, Fake Sting, Tracy Smothers, Mantaur and Essa Rios entered the\nmatch and it dragged on past the hour mark. Having been in from the start,\nNecro Butcher was finally eliminated after a fairly Herculean effort that had\nto be lauded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With wrestlers like Jimmy Lloyd and Chris Dickinson in the\nring, a selection of women wrestlers come down, including Su Yung, Shazza\nMackenzie, Allie Kat and Session Moth Martina. The men en masse are wiped out\nby the group of women as they attack with doors, tables and light tubes. They\neven go backstage to drag Joey Janela out as the ring is beginning to be torn\napart. Then\u2026the signal dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Verdict: <\/strong>The\nfinish was interesting, but to get there was a long slog at times. By the end,\nthere had been close to sixty wrestlers enter, meaning that a lot of what\nhappens doesn\u2019t stick or is missed by the camera men. Some very dangerous spots\nwere missed or only just caught due to how much was happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What I know now: <\/strong>I\ndon\u2019t think I am ever truly going to enjoy a Clusterfuck. Other than that, the\nmatches around it were really good on the whole, whilst I learned that the Rock\n\u2018n\u2019 Roll Express are not to be doubted in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Best match:<\/strong> LAX\nversus The Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Express was just great fun and better than it possibly\nhad any right to be considering the age of the Express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Less good:<\/strong> The\nClusterfuck is just too long. 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