#labron kozone

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i went to vegas last friday to go to the deadlock pro wrestling show! it was awesome!!! managed to take some halfway decent pictures too

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Labron Kozone

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WrestleMania Week 2025: One More Final - Where Are You?

Now that I've mostly recovered from the post-WrestleMania Week 2025 hangover (I watched possibly too much wrestling in the span of 4 days last week), I wanted to put a capstone on this topic before moving on. Specifically, I couldn't help but wonder why Yoshihiko (the inanimate doll that DDT uses) had more appearances during WrestleMania Week 2025 than, say, Tommy Billington.

This question started because I had circled Tommy Billington's match against Sean Legacy at Pandemonium Pro Wrestling: The House Always Wins. Due to technical issues, I wasn't able to watch it, and I tried to find another Tommy Billington match since I had wanted to see how much he had progressed since his match against Konosuke Takeshita for ROH in January. To my surprise, Billington's match against Sean Legacy, scheduled for the pre-show, was his only match during WrestleMania Week.

I know that scheduling falls into a complicated matrix of wrestler availability, wrestler interest, pay for the match, the logistics of going from one booking to another (especially if the wrestler is scheduled to wrestler in another country after), interest from the promoter, interpromotional political considerations, wrestler health and fatigue, and other factors that I have probably missed. Yet, it makes no sense to me that Tommy Billington, who has wrestled on AEW TV programming only wrestled 1) once 2) on Pandemonium Pro's pre-show and 3) had fewer in-ring minutes over the course of two weeks than an inanimate object.

That pushed me down a rabbit hole of tracking wrestlers' appearances during WrestleMania Week based on information in Cagematch. I do not claim that this definitively captures the number of shows in which each wrestler appeared or the wrestlers who appeared at a WrestleMania Week show. I have undoubtedly missed a show or a wrestler. However, this still feels accurate enough in a back of the envelope calculation way that I can draw certain inferences on the wrestlers who seem, to be, to have been criminally underused at WrestleMania Week 2025.

1. Tommy Billington

Off the top of my head, I think I can imagine up to 10 matches that could have realistically happened at WrestleMania Week that involved Billington.

Billington vs. Kzy

Billington vs. Jonathan Gresham

Billington vs. Galeno del Mal

Billingon vs. Cappuccino Jones

Billington vs. Judas Icarus

Billington vs. Arez

Billington vs. Leon Slater

Billington vs. AJ Francis

Billington vs. Nicole Matthews

Billington vs. Michael Oku

Instead, we had just the match against Sean Legacy, and I couldn't have even seen that because Pandemonium Pro's stream was overwhelmed during that match.

2. Adam Priest 3. LaBron Kozone

As two of the highlights of Deadlock Pro Wrestling, one would have expected that we would have seen more of Priest and Kozone. Instead, Kozone had only his match against Leon Slater at DPW Title Fight in Vegas, while Priest only wrestled Minoru Suzuki at Prestige Wrestling Nothing to Lose and in three Ultimate Conflict match at the DPW show. One could argue that Priest and Kozone were featured wrestlers on DPW's show, so they could have turned down offers to appear on other shows to preserve themselves for the DPW show. Nonetheless, I wish they had been more active during WrestleMania Week.

4. Hyan

I only saw the 2025 Queen of the Indies winner in her match against Kingsley at Pandemonium Pro's show, though she also wrestled on Dragongate x Pro Wrestling Revolution: The Gate of Revolution. I was impressed with how solid she was overall. She isn't spectacular, but she is a better (or at the very least, a less annoying) wrestler than some of the other wrestlers who were signed to wrestle at more shows than Hyan. Could she have wrestled on the DDT or the TJPW/DDT/GCW show instead of the inanimate object?

5. Kingsley

Speaking of Hyan's match on Pandemonium Pro’s show, Kingsley, Hyan's opponent, only wrestled once during WrestleMania Week. It's a long trip to make from Australia to Las Vegas for just one match. There's potential in Kingsley's personality and character, and I wish we had seen more opportunities to see it contrasted against other wrestlers. For example, Kingsley and Nicole Matthews could have had some fun interactions.

6. Rey Horus 7. Ninja Mack 8. Luke Jacobs

Jacobs, as the PROGRESS World Champion, had a main event match against Michael Oku, so I could imagine, similarly as Kozone and Priest, that he wanted to save himself for that match. Horus, as a veteran, could have found some of the other shows not worth his time and effort. And Mack could be saving his body for another tour of Japan; however, given that he participated in a scramble cage match at the Clusterfuck show, I doubt it.

9. Titus Alexander

The problem with potential is that it can prop doors open for only so long. At 24 years old, Alexander still has plenty of time to realize his potential, but he also feels like old news because he made his debut seven years ago. In that time, he has had good matches, but it doesn't feel like he's had a stand-out break-out match. This year, he worked at three shows: DPW's, Marvelous's, and West Coast Pro's. While they were fairly prominent matches, they also weren't the most important or most memorable matches from the week. Again, do I wish that he had teamed with MAO instead of the inanimate object at the TJPW/DDT/GCW joint show? Absolutely.

10. Danny Orion 11. Carter Blaq

I wish that these two standouts from New Texas Pro Wrestling's show had wrestled in more shows this year. Orion was in the six-man match at West Coast Pro's show, and I think he or Blaq would have been a better option than some other wrestlers on, for example, Dragongate USA: The Reborn, or 4th Rope/GCW Heels Haves Eyes: For the Culture 2025.

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Also heres some star ratings from shows i've watched recently that I havent made any real post about because idk man im balls deep in OSRS atm.

IWGP Women's Championship Mayu Iwatani (c) v. Toni Storm Nagoya Golden Fight | STARDOM 3.75 stars

Miu Watanabe & Miyu Yamashita v. Meiko Satomura & Shoko Nakajima All Rise | TJPW 4 stars

IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Tetsuya Naito (c) v. Zack Sabre Jr. King of Pro Wrestling | NJPW 4.25 stars

DPW Superbattle 19/10/24

Six Man Tag Team Match 1 Called Manders, BK Westbrook & Thomas Shire vs. Leon Slater & Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos & Kid Lykos II) 3 stars

Tag Team Match Alex Windsor & Emi Sakura vs. Danni Bee & Hyan 3.25 stars

Singles Match KENTA vs. Kevin Blackwood 3.75 stars

DPW National Title #1 Contendership Match Mike Bailey vs. LaBron Kozone 4.25 stars

Battle Of The Best Final Match Shoko Nakajima vs. Dani Luna 4.25 stars

DPW National Title Match Masato Tanaka vs. Adam Priest 4 stars

Tag Team Match FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) vs. Violence Is Forever (Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku) 4.5 stars (AEW need to sign VIF NOW!)

DPW Worlds Title Match Calvin Tankman (c) vs. Jake Something 4.5 stars

AEW Continental Championship Kazuchika Okada (c) v. Kyle O'Reilly Battle of the Belts XII | AEW 4 stars

MLP Forged in Excellent Night 1 and 2

Singles Match Miyu Yamashita vs. Gisele Shaw 3.25 stars

Singles Match Mike Bailey vs. Konosuke Takeshita 4.75 stars

Singles Match El Phantasmo vs. Mike Bailey 4 stars

ROH Women's World Title Match Athena (c) vs. Gisele Shaw 4 stars

AEW International Title Match Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Josh Alexander 4.75 stars

WHAT ELSE HAS HAPPENED RECENTLY FUCK ME IM TRYING TO THINK I SHOULD HAVE WROTE IT DOWN FUCK!

fuck it thats all your getting enjoy.

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AEW DAEK - EPISODE 78

Taped: March 3, 2021 Aired: March 6, 2021

Jacksonville, FL - Daily’s Place

Commentary: Excalibur, Taz, Anthony Ogogo

-The Natural Nightmares d. Peter Avalon & Cezar Bononi

-Chuck Taylor d. JD Drake

-Penta El Zero Miedo d. Azrieal

-Lance Archer d. John Skyler

-Brian Cage & Ricky Starks d. Fuego Del Sol & Angel Fashion

-Jack Evans d. Jake St. Patrick

-Austin & Colton Gunn d. M’Badu & D3

-Thunder Rosa d. Tesha Price

-Bear Country d. Ryzin & Cameron Stewart

-Alan “5” Angels & 10 d. LaBron Kozone & Vary Morales

-Tay Conti d. Leila Grey

-Matt & Mike Sydal d. Chaos Project

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Last one, for those wondering how to find this match

This match meant so much to me. If you know me, you know two things I absolutely love in wrestling are Uno and TNA so this was the merger of my two loves.

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AEW DARK: ELEVATION January 17

-Matt Sydal & Lee Moriarty (1-0) d. Marcus Cross & JR Miller (0-1)

-Tay Conti (1-0) d. Ameera (0-1)

-Austin Gunn & Colton Gunn (1-0) d. T.I.M. & JB Cole (0-1)

-Frankie Kazarian (1-0) d. Labron Kozone (0-1)

-Ruby Soho (1-1) d. Kenzie Paige (0-1)

-Private Party (1-0) d. Chase Emory & Patrick Scott (0-1)

-Jay Lethal (2-0) d. Alexander Moss (0-2)

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AEW Dark: Elevation Results - January 17, 2022

1. Lee Moriarty & Matt Sydal def. JR Miller & Marcus Kross in 3:21

2. Tay Conti def. Ameera in 1:56

3. Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn def. JB Cole & T.I.M. in 2:54

4. Frankie Kazarian def. LaBron Kozone in 3:14

5. Ruby Soho def. Kenzie Paige in 3:06

6. Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen def. Chase Emory & Patrick Scott in 3:10

7. Jay Lethal def. Alexander Moss in 4:39

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FREE MATCH: Oz Tyler vs Labron Kozone (CWF Mid-Atlantic, 3/1/14)

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