MLW Fusion 158 Review/Recap
Hey all, another week, another MLW Fusion recap/review. As always, if you want to see older ones and other wrestling reviews, check the tags below. We open with a recap of Cesar discovering the attacks last week. The commentary team welcome us to the show.
Here comes Willie Mack! He’s only on commentary, though. I have no idea why Impact let go of this guy, he was one of the more entertaining people on their dire roster, but hey, now he’s here on a much more entertaining wrestling show, so.
The first match is a tag match – La Anexion from IWA Puerto Rico vs the Samoan Swat Team. Samoan Swat Team take Anexion to separate corners and attack them. Anexion try to fight back, but Lance hits them together. Juicy hits them in the corner, then Lance does with a cannonball.
We come back from ads as Lance does a pretty good looking tope con hiro on Anexion. They then brawl on the outside a bit. Juicy goes for a cannonball, but hits the barriers. Back in the ring, Anexion beat up Lance. Anexion hit a muta lock/dropkick combo which looks cool, but Juicy is back in the ring and clotheslines them both.
Juicy gets one of them them both in a fireman’s carry and hits a double samoan drop. Lance Anoai gets a big splash for the win. Rich Bocchini gives an interview to the Samoan Swat Team. Fatu is still feuding with Enzo, I guess, but Fatu also sees Willie Mack and welcomes him over. Willie challenges him, and Fatu accepts.
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The Bomaye Fight Club have a promo, Alex Kane just sorta gloats. Then Davey has a video promo. He’s been training a friend from overseas, and teases Alex Kane will see him soon. Davey is also coming back for the Opera Cup, of course.
We get a video package for Lio Rush. Hell yeah always love some Lio. We see outside of Court Bauer’s office, where he yells, and Cesar leaves. Mads Kruger does a promo. His voice is a bit silly, but he calls out Mance. We get a recap to Jacob Fatu’s promo from earlier.
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Sultan del Aire comes down to the ring. He’ll face EJ Nduka. EJ takes Sultan to the corner and throws him with a few big biels. Sultan gets some kicks, but EJ slams him. Commentary says something about kicking Pikachu? Sultan gets a few kicks, but gets clotheslined by EJ. EJ tries to pull the mask off, but slams Sultan to the floor. He goes for the Nduka bomb for the win, a sort of Blue Thunder Bomb with many more spins. Not sure I like it. EJ looked fine, though. EJ does a promo, but the audio on the mic is bad. Hammerstone comes down to the ring to attack EJ. They brawl for a bit, and Hammerstone tackles Nduka through the stage. Hammerstone gets cut open.
Backstage, Fatu looks like he might cash in his title shot, which I guess he can do, but we go to ad break. I’m not sure if this’ll be fixed in post, but watching live, there was a production error where the Fatu segment flashed a few times on screen before the same Davey Boy hype package played. Fatu decided not to cash in because he wants Hammerstone clean.
Flammer and Taya will have a match in 2 weeks. I probably won’t care for it that much to be honest. Cesar leaves the building. Now the main event, Shun Skywalker vs Myron Reed for the middleweight title. Let’s go.
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Davey is accompanying Shun to the ring. Alex Kane is on commentary. Myron and Shun start off hot with a lot of acrobatics. They tease a lockup, but don’t. Alex Kane says one of the commentators is being a fanboy for Davey and accuses him of having something more with Davey which is funny. Myron goes for a clothesline, but Shun dodges and kicks Myron in the gut. Myron whips, but Shun comes back and locks a hold on Myron’s leg. Myron takes the lead for a little, but Shun fights valiantly and hits a monkey flip.
Shun hits a nice tope, and we go to ads. We get more production errors during the ads. I also just realised Hammerstone kind of looks like the chad “yes” meme. Anyways, back to the show, Shun hits a big boot for a two count. He hits some chops on Myron. Myron goes to the top rope, doesn’t hit a move, but his a superkick on Shun and then gets him in a fireman’s carry and slams him off the ropes for a 2.5. Kane is still funny bickering with commentary.
Myron keeps Shun in the corner, but Shun whips him out. Myron whips Shun, though, but Shun gets a big dropkick on Myron. They fight for position and Myron gets a chop, but runs into a backelbow, chop and ddt. Shun goes for the ultima weapon, but Myron misses. Hey, if Mikey Bailey can barely hit it, I doubt you can, shun. Shun goes for a crucifix but drops Myron and hits the ultima weapon this time for a two.
Myron his a nice cutter on Shun. He even hits a big cutter on the outside to Shun. Myron goes for something from the top rope, but Shun hits an anti air dropkick and hits the SSW for a two count. Shun goes for a moonsault but gets hit by a cutter – a little sloppy, but it looked fine. Only a 2 count, though. Myron goes for a springboard cutter and some athletic shit goes down and they jockey for pins and Shun gets a surprise 3 for the win.
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This was the first time I watched an episode as it aired. My verdict? I didn’t expect to really be that into Samoan SWAT Team but that opening match was pretty good for what it was. Juicy Finau is especially good at his role, and Lance had a damn fine tope. EJ’s match wasn’t bad, it was basically a squash. He looks alright and I wouldn’t mind seeing him face Hammerstone. The main was amazing, obviously match of the night. Shun is good, Myron is definitely good. I might watch some Dragon Gate, but I’ll definitely be looking forward to seeing more Myron.
I think the Hammerstone/EJ segment went on a little long, but it’s the main title program, so that’s to be expected. The calling card storyline was barely touched upon in any meaningful way and again, I think the recaps were unnecessary – especially to a promo we already saw earlier, but I’d say this was probably the best time management I’ve seen in an MLW show yet, and the main was awesome. As always, if you want a weekly hour of wrestling, you could do much worse. See you next time with my abridged NWA review.
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