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The Rap Sheet -- by the Crimefighter
Special Streaming Video Edition #1

Streaming video, what high speed internet connections were made for...and
dial-up modems were NOT made for. The Crimefighter is sick and tired of a
slow dial-up modem connection but the only thing that's been holding me back
for making the jump to cable modems or DSL is that the monthly rate for it I
felt was a bit too high. I was paying $14 a month for a dial-up while cable
was $45-50 a month and DSLs were charging $45-65 a month. Just wasn't
desirable, but happened to find a company, my local phone service offering
the first year for $35 a month during the first year, so I made the jump at
last. I've heard it's cheaper in other cities, but this is Springfield, IL
and for some reason high-speed Internet services has been SLOW in getting
here.

Now that I've got DSL, time to explore cyberspace and see what streaming
videos I can find of wrestling matches to watch. There's probably much more
in binary newsgroups but I haven't quite learned the techniques of
retrieving files from newsgroup postings, and there's new methods of doing
so which require buying additional software. Anyway, I'll take my time. The
"card" I've come up with here consists of:

Real American Wrestling out of Ohio

"Big Guns" Jeff Cannon vs. "Mr. Main Event" Kurt Allen
Shark Boy vs. GQ Masters III -- RAW Cruiserweight Title Match
Shasta McNasty vs. Bull Pain

Independent Championship Wrestling out of North Carolina

"Mean" Marc Ash vs. Flex Phenom -- ICW Heavyweight Title Match
"Mean" Marc Ash vs. The Viper -- ICW Heavyweight Title Match

NWA Midwest out of Illinois

XXXplicit Content vs. The Spanish Announce Team -- TLC NWA Midwest Tag Title
Match

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Leading off, a few matches from RAW, Real American Wrestling. Streaming
video was retrieved from http://www.realamericanwrestling.com/videopage.htm
220K video quality.

"Big Guns" Jeff Cannon 275lbs. Detroit, MI vs. "Mr. Main
Event" Kurt Allen
210lbs. Zanesville, OH -- Your referee is Mike Bilk. Allen is said to be
Ohio State's wrestling champion and this is his debut bout in RAW.
Commentary is by Zack and Matt. This match took place at West Union
Fairgrounds in West Union, OH on 9/29/2K. Cannon shoves down Allen to start.
Cannon puts him in the corner and slugs him one. Lockup, headlock Allen.
Shove and shoulderblock by Cannon. Kick and knockdown by Cannon, armbar,
Allen rolls out by Cannon clotheslines him down. Kicks, to the ropes, chop,
Irish whip and clothesline by Cannon gets two. Small package by Kurt gets
two. Rake to the eyes by Cannon, beatdown to the corner, Irish whip and back
elbow gets two. MAIN EVENT??? Smells like he won't be main eventing for a
long time. Choke on the ropes by Cannon. Zack calls it legal. Irish whip
Cannon clothesline misses, but catches Allen in a powerbomb. Doesn't cover.
Cannon yanks on Allen's face. Irish whip, misses the clothesline Allen with
a back elbow and gets two. Allen on the top, but Cannon catches him with a
bearhug and a belly to belly suplex gets two. Irish whip to the corner,
Cannon with a big powerslam to finish him off. Total squash.

WINNER: "Big Guns" Jeff Cannon pin -> 5 mins. *

Well Cannon ain't done, picks him up and death valley drivers him down. Now
he has a mike. He's mad that he keeps having to fight wimpy wrestlers and
wants someone better. Someone answers, and Cannon's screaming he doesn't
work here! He says he hasn't paid his dues and makes a toilet joke about
him. To step to the next level fat boy he has to wrestle "The Stro". Oh
yeah, "The Maestro" aka Gorgeous George III who used to compete for WCW.
That guy wrestled as "Robbie Eagle" too? Man he's bulked up and got a big
haircut.

RAW Cruiserweight Championship 2/3 Falls

G.Q. Masters III 190 lbs. Lexington, KY vs. Shark Boy 5'10", 180lbs. Parts
Unknown -- This is from the same show as the match above. GQ has the mike,
he screams about being made to look bad by the fans. He wants our attention
despite the bad mike, look at his T-shirt "your village just called, their
idiot is missing", bash bash bash the fans you're all idiots, Shark Boy's
been on every national show because of GQ3 including WCW and stealing money
from them for six months. Shark Boy comes up from behind, GQ doesn't notice
and claims he's the smartest person and will sign an autograph for the guy
tapping his shoulder. Shark Boy attacks him, and they enter the ring. GQ
bails out again avoiding Shark Boy. Bell rings finally. GQ won't lock up and
grandstands. Lockup at last, Shark takes him to the corner. Clean break. GQ
bails and wastes another minute. Lockup, hip toss GQ. Commentators note all
the big guys Shark Boy fought in the past. Lockup, slam GQ. Fish jokes about
the gills on the boots. Lockup, and armdrag by GQ. Headlock by Shark Boy.
Shoveoff shoulderblack GQ, hip toss, slam, arm drag, atomic drop by Shark.
The boy bites GQ's rear sending him outside. Man this match needs to get
going. GQ is slingshoted in the ring, armbar by Shark and a takedown. Shark
bites GQ's hand while holding the armbar. Shark works the right shoulder and
arm. GQ shoves him off by Shark hits a shoulderblock and an armdrag. Holds
the armbar on the mat. They stand up shove off, shoulderblock again, Shark
armdrags him down. GQ bails and fetches a chair, Shark grabs for him but GQ
yanks him down on the top rope, then brings the chair in the ring and hits
him repeatedly with it for the blatant DQ. Shark's knee is wrecked in the
process at 9½ minutes in. Bleh, what a waste. GQ brags about what he just
did as Shark Boy tries walking off the damage. The referee awards the match
to Shark Boy, and the video ends here going no further than one fall, too
bad. NOT MUCH went on otherwise besides the big heel promo by GQ. Gee, so
that's why GQ3 never found his way to the WWE or WCW.

WINNER: Shark Boy DQ -> 9:30 mins. ¼*

Shasta McNasty 295lbs. Parts Unknown w/ Tim Shady vs. Bull Pain 252lbs.
Milwaukee, WI -- This is the third match from the same show. Bull Pain was a
big threat in the Dallas area promotions but nothing but a jobber in WCW and
WWF somehow. Joined in progress at 1:40, Pain is pounding away and nails
McNasty from outside the ring. McNasty meets up with him Irish whip
powerslam gets two. Shasta with a leg drop, on the second rope dives and
misses. Pain up, Irish whip elbow, leg drop gets one. Pain dumps him outside
as five minutes have passed. Bull with a big chairshot on Shasta, no DQ
called. Video goes dark, Bull chases Shady, Shasta nails Pain from behind
outside. Head slam on the apron by Bull. Bull with a DDT on the concrete
floor!!! Ref is counting away. Bull with a kick, Shasta shoves Bull to the
post. Shasta with a chairshot. Count is restarted, Bull is thrown in. Shasta
in, clocks Pain, Tim Shady up on the apron and tries to nail Bull but hits
Shasta. Bull slams him, goes to the top, frog splash finishes him off.

WINNER: Bull Pain pin -> 7:45 mins. (6 mins. shown) *

Nothing special here either. Uh oh, two guys rush in the ring to attack
Bull, Ray Steele makes the save and demands a tag match with Shady's men.

Now from another corner of the world, these videos were downloaded from
http://www.indywrestlingtv.com/South.html from Independent Championship
Wrestling.

ICW Heavyweight Title Match
(c) "Mean" Marc Ash w/ Dr. Tom vs. The Viper -- Couldn't find
anything about
Viper's stats, even on his own webpage, only that this man is
African-American and a former leader of a biker gang. This match is joined
in progress from 6/15/2K2 in Hampstead, NC. Ash Irish whip to the corner but
eats a boot. Viper in the corner working him over, suplex gets two. Irish
whip reversal, clothesline Ash. Ash splits the legs and drives a knee. To
the corner, chop Ash, snap mare takeover, Ash misses a running elbowdrop.
Viper takes him down and works the arm. Viper Irish whip, flying
clothesline, cover gets two. Viper drags him in position, Viper on the
second rope and hits a big legdrop gets two. J. Marcus Lawson jumps in the
ring supposedly to help Ash, Lawson tries to hit Viper and hits Ash instead,
Viper rolls up Ash for three.

WINNER and NEW CHAMP: Viper pin -> 3:35 mins. shown. *

This title change was reversed on Sept. 10th by EVP Pete Noel when he
FINALLY looks at a tape of this show. Four months later??? You don't wait
that long to reverse a match! What if he lost the belt to someone else? How
are you gonna fix that? At the very least put these guys back in the ring or
start a new tournament. Shortly thereafter, Mean Marc was defending the
title just given back to him...

ICW Heavyweight Title Match
(c) "Mean" Marc Ash 6'1", 220lbs. Myrtle Beach, SC vs. Flex
Phenom 5'9",
221lbs. Goldsboro, NC -- This is from Wilmington, NC on 10/19/2K2.
Commentating are Marc Ash and some other guy. Flex apparently is coming back
from a back injury. Flex gets the mike and says something about taking the
ICW title and better get your pictures now but it's not audible. Chatter
about a new part-owner in ICW. Flex poses for the crowd. Ash poses but Flex
attacks and wrings the arm and takes him down. Quick cover gets one. Punch
and choking away in the corner. Arm toss by Flex. Ash reverses the arm
wringer, hammerlock, reversal by Flex. Headlock. Ash shoves him off
shoulderblock by Flex and sit down slam gets two. Suplex reversed by Ash.
Chop, kicks to the gut in the corner, Irish whip, charge by Ash and he
crotches himself in the corner. Crappy cover by Flex gets one. Chokes by
Flex, toss to the corner for more elbows. Flex puts him on top,
hurraconranna by Flex. One foot cover gets two. Second cover gets two.
Idiot. Irish whip charge, splash by Flex. Irish whip charge splash. Flex
with a knee lift. Another poor cover gets two for Flex. Ash with a sunset
flip gets one. Ash starts pounding away, and hits a knee jawbreaker. Side
suplex by Ash gets two and a foot on the ropes. Low blow by Flex. Flex with
the split leg drop. Flex punches to the gut, puts him on top again.
Superplex by Flex, goes to the top rope, Ash up, Blockbuster...or the Phenom
Flip. He picks him up! Flex in the corner to punch Ash in the head, Ash
powerbombs Flex. Lotus runs out and attacks which is some guy who looks like
a headhunter. They give him double-team suplex and the ref throws it out
right there.

WINNER and STILL CHAMP: "Mean" Marc Ash DQ -> 8:55 mins. **½

The Stro (now sporting black hair) runs out from the back and goes after
Flex. Ash throws Lotus out. The Stro sets up Flex on the ropes and rams him
from the other side of the ring. Decent match there, don't like the cheap DQ
though. There was one more video to review, alas the file was corrupt so
I'll do a review when the file is replaced.

My last video for review and it's our "main event". NWA Midwest
on 11/23/2K2
at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, IL --
http://www.midwestwrestling.com/midwest/multimedia.html 512K video quality.

TLC NWA Midwest Tag Title Match
(c) "XXXPlict Content" 435lbs. Jacksonville, FL -
"XXXPlicit" Bailey Mannix
& "Delicious" Danny Scott vs. The SATs, The Spanish Announce
Team 428lbs.
Brooklyn, NY - Jose & Jose Maximo -- The ring announcer asks about lions,
tigers and bears, so how about tables, ladders and chairs? The first team
comes out, the guy wearing the boas is Scott, the smaller man is Mannix. The
SATs come out to "Lose Yourself" which is great entrance music for anyone,
even if you hate Eminem. Man the stands do not look packed, I see a lot of
the bleacher seats. I don't know which Maximo is which, they look alike and
dress the same so I'm not gonna even try to name them during the match.
Hmm...there's a set of belts hanging above the ring and the XXXPlicits have
another set. Bell rings and it's a brawl to start that quickly goes outside
the ring and up into the bleachers! Chairshot on a Maximo by Scott. It's now
hard to see anything going on. One SAT throws Scott back over the rail as
Mannix blasts another SAT with a chair repeatedly. Danny Scott is raked in
the eyes and an SAT holds up him for FANS to actually hit him on the head
with chairs! Well just the ones wearing yellow jackets. Far off someone is
slammed on the floor. The fight continues among the fans as Scott brings a
ladder and an SAT brings a chair to get back in the ring. An SAT swings the
chair into the ladder, knocking Scott to the ground and Maximo whacks him
repeatedly with the chair...but of course the ladder takes up the shock. An
SAT puts the chair in the ropes and we have an Irish whip reserved Maximo
crashes into the chair. Mannix and the other SAT are running up to the top
of the bleachers amid the people. Scott goes out and fetches another chair
then proceeds to stack them up in a pile. Can't see the other guys, ugh, but
Mannix is getting the better of it. SAT recovers in the ring and throws
Scott out. Mannix is back in the ring but an SAT cuts him off and tries a
powerbomb but Mannix gets out of it and Acid Drops him through the stack of
chairs! Someone flies off the rail for a clothesline. The ladder is put
between the apron and the ring then Scott and an SAT fight on the apron and
fans are setting up a pile of chairs as an SAT locks his arms around Scott's
neck and does an acid drop from the ladder over the rail and into the
chairs! An SAT is making an attempt for the belts as they put the ladder up
but Mannix yanks him off and goes up himself, but there's a Russian leg
sweep from the ladder by Mannix. He's going up again, the other SAT is back
in and whacks him with a chair, Mannix is hung upside down on the ladder and
gets blasted again. The SAT goes up, but Scott breaks it up. Another SAT
with a crossbody block from the top. Irish whip, Scott catches an SAT by the
legs and swings him around. Mannix throws the other SAT into the rail
outside and baseball slides into his face. Van Daminator by Mannix on the
swung SAT! Scott with a catapult, Mannix tosses SAT the chair and punches
the chair. Break your hand doing that. SAT throws a chair at Mannix. Scott
puts an SAT and the ladder against the ropes and tries to splash him but SAT
moves. SAT Irish whip reversed, SAT tries something but Scott rams him into
the ladder. Table set up outside, Scott tries something but the table
collaspes on him. Mannix with a choke inside the ring. Scott puts the table
in the ring and in the corner, with the legs broken on one side. Mannix
kicks away in the corner, Irish whip, double reversal, Mannix with a slam
through the table. Scott makes another attempt for the belts and his partner
holds it for him but Scott steps on Mannix's hand and shoves the ladder.
Dummy. SATs climb back in stomp down continues. Another table is being put
in as the other is removed. Stuff is crashing against each other as an XC
drop kicks a chair into an SAT. XC rams the table into an SAT, put a chair
on his head, then slide the ladder across the table into the throat. The
other SAT bashes the others with a chair out of the ring. He sets up a table
in the corner. Repeated german suplexes by the SATs as one does the move and
the other rolls into position to do the next. Chairshots on the outside.
Maximos pile chairs on a downed XC, then climb the ropes. Moonsault, legdrop
combo! Ouch. SATs decide what to do next, they get the ladder over the XC
guy and climb. Mannix back in and he blasts the SATs with a chair to break
it up. Scott with shots to the gut. Mannix puts another table in the ring,
Scott moves the one in the corner...oh they're side by side. XCs put the
SATs on the tables, but they get off and attack, now the XCs are on the
tables, but they attack. The SATs on the tables again as the XCs mount the
ropes as a "homos" chant goes on. They leap but the SATs move and they stop
themselves but get nailed and put on the tables. Double flying legdrops, one
table breaks but the other doesn't so he does a splash from the top. The
SATs put up the ladder again. They goes their hands on the belts. Two guys
in jerseys run in the ring to stop them but the SATs kick them off and yank
the belts off the rope for the win and the titles.

WINNER and NEW CHAMPS: The Spanish Announce Team -> 18:30 mins. **½

Not the best TLC match I've seen, considering the one camera angle through
the whole match, that being from an amateur cameraman. No commentary at all
through the match either. It got hard to follow and a couple re-viewings
were required to see some spots I missed.
There's more streaming video in various places on the net to find, so in a
future Rap Sheet I'm going to do more reviews of various matches I find and
already I've found some weekly TV shows on streaming video of some indy
groups. Anyway, this is the Crimefighter, saying bustin' ain't easy, and
censorship is a load of crap!


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