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UWA 05.20.05 - The Tradition Begins

So, this is the UWA's version of a Pay-Per-View. Most shows last around 30 minutes at most, but this show clocks in at 58 minutes and 26 seconds, and features two big title matches along with the 2nd in the Best of 5 Series with Gage and Slavins. They added some little new things like having their music played during the recording, which can be both good and bad, as sometimes you can't hear it and other times it can drown out the commentators. The commentary is getting a little better in terms of having focus, but stills needs some work. The entrance is back up as well and is wider than the last time it was use. They also have an entrance ramp, which is esstionally carpet padding, but it works. Let's get on with the show.

Opening Segement
GM Mike Moros comes out to the ring and in it is a table with a box on it. Moros says in the box is a special surprise for Calypso, since he's been such a dominant champion. We also get things cleared about Calypos's title - it's now the Undisputed title. Calypso comes out, dressed in a suit - haven't seen that since what, Septemeber? Calypso seems weary of what's in the box, and tells Moros he better not screw this up. He opens the box to reveal the NEW Undisputed championship belt, which is really snazzy. Calypso says after being in the UWA for a month, Moros finally did something right. He asks Moros to raise his hand with the new belt, and he does. Moros walks away and Calypso attacks him from behind, just to be a jerk. He stomps on the GM, who's out cold, as we fade away.

2nd Match in a Best of 5
Scott Slavins Vs Gage (Gage leads 1-0)
This is actually the third match in the series, but due to Calypso breaking up the match at the last show, nobody scored a victory. Both men have an intense staredown, then break it up. Both men circle the ring as the bell sounds, then lock up. Slavins gets taken down, Gage misses a moonsault, Slavins misses a wizard, Gage goes over, tosses Slavins over his head, and hits a clothesline, followed by a bodyslam. Nice opening sequence. Slavins takes a delay suplex, which looked like it had some nice impact on it. Gage works on the ribs with some brutal knees to Slavins, then hits a backbreaker, followed by a spinning backbreaker. Some actual psychology in this series - yes! Gage continues with more knees to Slavins' ribs, then he argues with the ref. Slavins takes advantage with a brutal dropkick to the fact, followed by the snapmare/dropkick combo. Roll up gets a two. Slavins drops some knees to the midsection of Gage, working with the same plan as Gage. Slavins goes for a modified Octopus Stretch and then turns it in a reverse DDT for two. Slavins stomps the midsection followed by a dropping headbutt. Slavins climbs the ladder and hits a painful-looking senton splash. Slavins hits a flipping legdrop and gets a two count. Slavins hits a running knee, and he has officially taken control of this match. He looks in the Camel Clutch followed by the Border City Stretch. Slavins works on the arm for the time being, Gage flips out of it, Slavins does the same, reapplies the lock, and then tosses Gage into the ladder, nearly breaking it. We take a break and come back with a Sliced Bread #2 from Slavins, but only gets a two. Slavins grabs a chair, and then nails Gage with it, nearly knocking him out. He followed with the flip over the chair, followed by the snapmare and a dropkick to the midsection, followed by more work on the midsection. Gage fights out and hits an arm drag, followed by a stiff kick to the back for good measure. Slavins rolls up into the Rube Goldberg Bulldog, only getting a two count. Slavins pounds the knee even more into the stomach, followed by a double stomp to the ribs. Slavins goes for the spear, hits the house, and then does a cool flip thing with Slavins on his shoulders. Gage locks in the Masterlock, but Slavins rolls out only to get picked up and dropped on his head, then his face. Gage goes for the stretch muffler, but Slavins rolls out of it for two. Slavins gets tossed and jumps over a chair, only for Gage to flip over the chair and onto Slavins, followed by a standing Shooting Star Press which gets a two. Gage argues with the ref again, and Slavins rolls him up, and Gage fights out of it with another roll up, and they continue to do this about twenty times. Slavins manages to end the roll up fest, and then hits a kick to the back of the head off the chair. Slavins hits a springboard RKO off the chair, but that only gets a two. Gage gets up first and hits a dropkick, but gets caught in the ankle lock, and Slavins rolls up into a headlock. Gage works his way up, tosses Slavins into the ropes, and gets nailed with a dropkick for his troubles. Slavins runs around Gage to confuse him, then hits another RKO, but once again he only gets a two. Slavins goes for an armbar, but Gage turns it into the TKO, and he climbs the ladder! He hits the moonsault, but can't cover due to his ribs hurting him too bad! PSYCHOLOGY PAYS OFF! Slavins and Gage both work their way up, but Slavins hits a BRUTAL spear and gets the wins. (14:45) ***1/2 Great opener and they actually used psychology in the match, and it paid off. Probably the best these two have had. After the match, Gage gets nailed with another brutal chair shot by Slavins.

UWA Heavyweight Title (Hardcore Rules)
Outlaw Vs Steiner
The ref is some Asian guy who dances to the music of both men. Outlaw is a gangsta' now, coming with bling and a gun, and a pre-match rap. Steiner doesn't like the rap and attacks to start things off. Steiner grapples and gets a knee and a bulldog. Outlaw hits a huge clothesline that turns Steiner inside out. Outlaw hits a nice high dropkick and both men grapple, but Steiner just destroys Outlaw with stiff punches and then hits a DDT. Steiner hits a suplex then tosses Outlaw into the ropes and clotheslines him. Steiner hits a suplex and some new guy comes in and nails Steiner with a pan! Outlaw gets up and gets hit by the new guy, and it's a DOUBLE DQ. (1:31) So, we get a triple threat.

UWA Heavyweight Title (Hardcore Elimination Rules)
Outlaw Vs Steiner Vs The Sarge
We're joined in progress with Steiner suplexing Sarge. Outlaw and Steiner give Sarge a conchairto with pans then attack the downed Sarge. Steiner nails Outlaw with a pan, followed by the Gale Slam early in the match, then works on Sarge. Sarge gets tossed and nailed with a big boot. Outlaw gets a big boot from Steiner as well. Sarge attacks Steiner and works on the arm. Outlaw hits Sarge with another pan, then nails him with a leather belt. Steiner sends Outlaw down and nails both men with the leather belt, and then hits yet another big boot on Sarge. We're getting a little redundant. Steiner hits Outlaw with a chair, but Sarge blocks it, only to get hit in the knee with the chair. Steiner attempts to Pillminize Sarge's ankle, but he doesn't sell it too well as he he gets up and nails Outlaw once again. Steiner then hits Outlaw with a chair, and Sarge jumps in with a pan, and then hits people with wood. It's hard to describe this match. Sarge hits a suplex to Steiner, and the Asian ref nails Sarge with the belt. Outlaw hits Sarge in the nuts with the belt, then does it to the knee. Sarge gets up and hits a backbody drop on Outlaw. More pan shots. Sarge chokes Outlaw out with the chain while the ref ties him up for some reaosn. Sarge and Steiner wrap Outlaw in a chain, then Steiner hits a vicious DDT. Sarge does a bad clothesline to Steiner, then, guess what, a suplex to Outlaw. Sarge gets choked with the chain, then Outlaw punches the Heavyweight champion out, then gets knocked out with a chain shot to the head. Sarge and Steiner duel with pans, and then no sell it and give a Double Gale Slam to Outlaw, which eliminates him. (7:37)

Steiner attacks Sarge as the ref helps Outlaw out. Steiner hits Sarge with the belt, but Sarge fights out of the Gale Slam and hits Steiner with the MORTOR! He stomps on the champion, then punches him, followed by a chest bump of doom. He gets Outlaw's gun, then some random guy without a shirt runs in and knocks Sarge out with the chair. Steiner continues to hit him with the chair, and then they exchange chair shots...and basically no sell everything. The shirtless guys comes back in and botches a SSP horribly, and the Asian ref kicks him out, whoever it is. We never see his face clearly. Sarge gets picked up for the Gale Slam, but Sarge reverses it into a rollup! It's a double three count, and there's huge "FIVE MORE MINUTES" chants, so the match continues. It continues as Steiner takes advantage and hits the Gale Slam and gets the pin! (10:53) Wrestling wise, this was a DUD. But, as far as a comedy match, this was the best UWA has done (actually, the only) and thus gets **** on that scale. Huge "THANK YOU" chants. After the match, the Asian ref kicks Sarge and runs away.

Main Event - UWA Undisputed Championship
Scott Slavins Vs Calypso
Slavins comes out dressed as a wigger. This is due to Calypso costing Slavins a shot at the Heavyweight title and the match at the last show, and since they're best buds Calypso gives him a title shot. This is Calypso's 24th title defense. Both men exchange words and staredowns. While Calypso is checking on the ref, Slavins kicks him, and then the bell rings. Slavins allows Calypso to hit him with a slap, so he does, and Calypso lets Slavins do the same. After a small chop fest, we turn it into an exchange of punches, and Slavins breaks that with a dropkick to the knee. Both men get up and Slavins charges and gets caught in the Reverse Dragon Sleeper, but Slavins fights out and we have a staredown. They exchange kicks this time, and Slavins once again gets the better with repeated kicks and a dropkick to the knee. Calypso runs up and hits two huge clotheslines, and we finally start the match at full pace. Calypso hits four super-stiff shots to Slavins' back, and then goes for a stalling suplex. Slavins lands on his feet and hits a fisherman suplex, and then they exchange more punches on their knees, and Calypso wins with a forearm. Calypso picks up Slavins and hits the stalling suplex this time and gets a two count. Calypso applies a reverse bearhug, throws him down, and hits three knees to the back, and ends with a Calypso Flip and gets a two count. Calypso applies the headlock on Slavins, but he fights up, hits a snapmare, and then applies a reverse Dragon Sleeper of his own. He lets go of it and hits the dropkick to the back of the head, and we take a break. We come back with Calypso hitting a HUGE backbreaker on Slavins, but only gets a two count. Slavins begins to leave, but of course Calypso follows him and gets beat down. After some punches, Slavins hits a bulldog followed by the springboard kick to the head. Slavins kicks the arm of Calypso but gets caught in the Liontamer. Slavins tries to turn it around, but gets caught in another modified surfboard-type move, which then gets turned into some other submission that can't be described. Slavins' screams of pain explain it enough though. Calypso picks up Slavins and hits a sitout bodyslam, but only gets a two. Calypso argues with the ref and gets superkicked by Slavins as a "Let's Go Slavins!" chant starts. Slavins hits a diving elbow over the chair and gets a two count. Slavins drops a knee, knee kicks to the back, and another knee to the chest of Calypso. Slavins goes for a springboard RKO, gets tossed and caught, but reverses it into a DDT on the chair. Calypso kicks out at two. Slavins stomps on Calypso's ribs and drops more knees on Calypso. Modified Octopus gets turned into a Shellshock from Calypso and both men are down! Slavins attempts a Rube Goldberg Bulldog, but Calypso reverses it into a facecrusher, and hits the knee/slap/knee/slap combo on the back followed by a running knee to the face. Calypso poses and then hits a suplex. Calypso climbs the ladder and gets caught by Slavins and lands on his knee, almost breaking his ribs in the process! Slavins misses the diving headbutt into the wall, and Calypso hits his running knee but falls due to the pain in his knee and ribs. Slavins take advantage of this and locks in a modified Figure Four, but Calypso manages to fight out and roll Slavins up, but only gets a two. Calypso picks up Slavins and they exchange armbars and Calypso hits the Breakdown to get a three count. They go back to chops, and Slavins once again breaks it with a kick and Slavins runs for a hurricarana but gets caught in a powerbomb. That gets two, so Calypso turns it into the Samoa Joe Boston crab, rolls it back for a pin, then rolls it into the Haas of Pain but he's forced to break it up. Slavins hits a lot blow, an uppercut, and an RKO. Slavins climbs the ladder and hits a double stomp off the ladder, which had to crush the chest of Calypso. Two super stiff kicks to the chest of Calypso, but he ducks the third one and turns it into a Styles Clash and hits it for two. Slavins knocks Calypso down with a superkick and hits a headbutt off the lader, but only gets two. Slavins puts Calypso on the chair and goes for a spear, but misses and gets nothing but chair! Calypso picks him up and hits Slavins three times with the chair - in the head, the back, and then the head again. The ref tell shim to stop with the chair, but Calypso said he never did it while ramming his knee into the ribs of Calypso, then following up with kicks to the back and head. Calypso argues with the ref once more, so Slavins hits an enzuguri to the back of the head. Slavins hits a senton off the chair. Slavins hits the spear...but Calypso kicks out! Slavins goes for it once again, but Calypso reverses it and catches him in the F5 and gets the three count! Calypso wins! (18:39) ****1/4 MOTYC for UWA, and once again Slavins loses because he tried for the same move too many times. A lot of the major moves Slavins hit in his first match with Gage Calypso was able to reverse, and Calypso won after reversing the second spear. I'm not sure if this was their best match, since their 30 Minute Ironman match back in March was also great. The slow start really hurt it, but once it picked up it got good and it got there fast. After the match, Calypso shakes hands with Slavins and poses with the belt.

Highly Recommended show as this may be one of best UWA shows to date. Two ***+ matches and a match so bad it's a comedic masterpiece. This is the first time the UWA has tried to do something like this, and I have to say it worked great.