{"id":12248,"date":"2019-04-26T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T23:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=12248"},"modified":"2019-04-26T00:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T23:02:46","slug":"ott-contenders-14-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/ott-contenders-14-review\/","title":{"rendered":"OTT Contenders 14 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More Than Hype vs\nClub Tropicana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is announced before the match that nun-chucks and paddles\nare allowed. More Than Hype (LJ Cleary, Nathan Martin, Darren Kearny) came out\nwith nun-chucks, and Club Tropicana (Captain Sexsea, Aiden, the Fabulous Nicky)\ncame out with kayak paddles. This went exactly how it sounds at first. Lots of goofy\ncomedy. There was nothing to consequential, but it was very funny when Martin got\nsmacked in the rear with a paddle and broke down crying. More Than Hype picked\nup the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Ridgeway vs\nCalum Black<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who do not watch OTT, this match exemplified what\nthe Contenders brand is all about. Contenders is all about the younger, lesser\nknown Irish talent getting a chance to shine, with one or two big matches. In\nthis match Calum Black faced a stiff test in Chris Ridgeway. It was a simple,\nyet effective story. Black showed a ton of fire and was able to simply\nout-muscle Ridgeway for a while. Ridgeway realized the only way he could win\nwas to chip away at the larger Black, and out-grapple him from there. He was\nsuccessful, but whenever there was a submission attempt, Black would never say\ndie. This was to the point that Ridgeway had to kick him in the face and then\napply a sleeper hold. Black did not submit, but he did fall unconscious, giving\nRidgeway the win. Very fun match. Both these men will be very big stars in the\nnear future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next we had the coronation of Conor Andrews as the \u201cking\u201d of\nContenders. He comes out, and says he wants to do this right. He wants to make play-by-play\nman Aonghus Og McAnally to put the crown on his head. Just as the crown is\nlowered onto his head, Amy Allonsy comes out, and challenges Andrews\u2019s royalty.\nAndrews tries to refuse, but the match begins, and after a couple of roll-up\nattempts, Allonsy successfully pins Andrews to become the queen of Contenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sethion Moth Martina &\nSugar Dunkerton vs Valkyrie & C.T. Flexor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valkyrie is one part of the woke queens along with Katey\nHarvey. C.T. Flexor really wants to be considered woke, so he believes that\nwinning this wrestling match will constitute that. Sugar Dunkerton is just here\nto have a good time, and he had the perfect partner to do that with. There was\na lot of dancing and comedy, including Dunkerton not really wanting to wrestle\nValkyrie, instead opting to dance with her, subsequently taking out Flexor a\nfew times. Martina worked her tail off, running and diving all over the place,\nbut still leaving room for her regular schtick. After a mad scramble involving\nall four competitors on the outside, Valykrie pinned Martina with a schoolgirl.\nFlexor was very excited as now he believes he can be considered woke. Valkyrie\ndisagrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtis Murray vs\nGavin Fitz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a good example of a match where they did some cool\nstuff, but something was missing. The pacing was off, and some parts almost\nfelt secondary to the storyline that there is dissent between Fitz and the Mongrels.\nFitz showed a lot of fire and athleticism in the ring, and Murray did his part\nin being a jerk heel. Murray wins after reversing a pin into a crucifix cradle\n(in the same way the Usos beat Shane McMahon and the Miz). Afterwards, the\nMongrels left Fitz in the ring after telling him he did not try hard enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scotty Davis vs\nHyperstreak<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like I mentioned earlier, Contenders is a platform for\nyounger wrestlers to showcase their skills against bigger names. No one has\nbenefitted more from this platform than Scotty Davis. On every one of these\nshows, he gets a prominent match and comes through almost every time. This was\nno exception. The only thing different about this match than a regular Davis\nshowcase was that this one felt very long. It seems they were going for the\nidea that Hyperstreak is someone who can keep up the pace and go for a very\nlong time. Well, Scotty kept up. Where he could not match Hyperstreak in\nathleticism, he made up for with his technical wrestling ability. Davis won\nwhen he hit the crossroads, but the key is that he did not mess up the set-up\nfor the move like he did when he faced Jushin Thunder Liger at Scrappermania\nlast month. Over time we are only going to see him become more composed in the\nring. I would venture to guess that in a year\u2019s time, everyone in European wrestling\nwill know who Scotty Davis is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Haskins \u00a9 vs\nTerry Thatcher \u2013 Gender Neutral Championship<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haskins comes out with his championship and a briefcase that\nguarantees him a title match at any time. Keep that in mind for later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terry Thatcher is the best babyface that no one is talking\nabout. One of the things I love about OTT the most is the commentary. Aonghus\nMcAnally plays up the story of the matches so well. The entire time in this\nmatch, he kept bringing up that Thatcher has a never-say-die attitude. Usually,\nthat type of commentary can get annoying, but not here, because it played into\nthe match at several different points. Thatcher could not out-wrestle Haskins,\nbut whenever he was down, he would always get back up. It was such a simple,\nyet beautiful story that was executed brilliantly. Haskins worked over Thatcher\u2019s\nknee the entire match, and it was only exacerbated when Thatcher hit a\nspringboard moonsault on the outside. After this, Thatcher could not manage to\nbuild up any offense due to his knee, so he turned to the only thing that would\nlet him win this match: a flash pin. Haskins got him in a fireman\u2019s carry\nposition, but Thatcher struggled and managed to reverse it into a crucifix for\nthe pin and the championship. The whole venue goes nuts, and Haskins is stunned.\nSo much so, that he decides to attack Thatcher with his briefcase after the\nmatch. Instead of waiting for a possible world championship opportunity,\nHaskins decides he is not leaving Contenders without his belt. He cashes in his\nbriefcase to try and win back the GN Championship. After a little bit of fight\nfrom Thatcher, Haskins locks in the sharpshooter, and that is it. Haskins is\nyour new GN champion, again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, this was a fun show, but nothing you should go out\nof your way to see. The main event was great, and everything else was, at\nworst, fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did you think? Leave a comment down below, and thanks\nfor reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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