XPW Results from Philadelphia, PA 11-16-02 (Joey Styles returns)
Submitted by Calvin Martin on Sunday, November 17, 2002 at 12:51 PM EST





Report by Phil S. (likeitis@hotmail.com)

XPW Exit Sandman at Viking Hall in Philadelphia, PA on 11/16/02

This report will not be as detailed as the TV reports I do because it is a
day later and I am not doing the report as the show is happening. Some of
these matches will air on TV in the upcoming weeks and I will go into detail
then.

It was a nice sized crowd on a TERRIBLE weather day. Up until 7pm there
were hardly any people outside the Arena waiting to get in, and I don't
blame them as it was windy and freezing. But once the doors opened, people
just kept pouring in. I suck at estimating attendance and my guess would
just be a guess, but I would say around 400 - 500 which is great for a night
like last night.

Segment #1- The show opened with XPW TV Announcer Kris Kloss coming to the
ring to get the fans fired up. However, Shane Douglas and Lizzy Borden
headed to the ring. Shane told Kloss that Rob Black saved his job by
signing him to a 5 year contract on his last day in charge at XPW. Shane
said he is under contract but he can do with him what he wants!! Shane
continued to berate Kloss until Kloss gave him the finger and left the ring.

Douglas then said he had someone to bring out and to cut the lights!!
Taz's ECW music played, then Raven's, then Dreamer's, and then Van Dam's!
Shane said to turn the lights on and Joey Styles was in the ring to a HUGE
ovation!! A lot of people already expected Styles to be at the show, and
some websites that get off on spoiling things for fans even posted the news
ahead of time, but the fans still loved it and popped huge!! Styles said he
was there for 2 reasons .... 1) Because Shane signed him to a long term
exclusive contract to call matches for XPW, and 2) to tell the fans what he
really thought of them. He said for the past 2 years he has been sitting
back and watching wrestling go down hil and he never got to tell the fans
what he really thought of them. He said his last show in the ECW Arena was
in the summer of 2000 and he didn't know it would be his last there so he
never had to chance to say what he wanted to say. Styles then said thank
you to the fans and told them that THEY made ECW, not Shane Douglas!
Douglas looked stunned. He said Shane can come out on XPW TV, and the
upcoming XPW pay per views and lie to the fans and spew his garbage, but
while he does so, he (Styles) will be there telling the fans the truth
behind the mic! He then said "thank you boss" and threw the mic down!
Douglas went after Styles but Chris Candido and Tammy Sytch ran in to make
the save!

Segment #2- Shark Boy beat Chris Chetti. It was Shark Boy's XPW debut and
again, the crowd popped HUGE for it! More on Shark Boy to come at the end
of this report as for some reason he was on the crowd's mind the entire
night!

Segment #3- XPW Tag Team Champions Mexico's Most Wanted (Halloween & Damien
666) defeated The Dead Prez to retain the tag team titles. Smokey
Carmichael came out before his team did and said he has returned to Viking
Hall. He went on a verbal tirade against the fans and everyone who did not
fit his cause. The Dead Prez came out from under the ring and attacked MMW
from behind. This was a back and forth match with MMW being their usual top
notch tag team, and the Dead Prez throwing in some cool spots as well. At
one point a third member of the Dead Prez joined the match and they actually
won the tag team titles. But then all three of them climbed the ropes to
celebrate. When the ref noticed that there were three of them, he restarted
the match. Mexico's Most Wanted then got one of them in their finisher for
the victory.

Segment #4- There was something on the video screen which said "J-Love is
coming to XPW!"

Segment #5- Malice defeated Chris Hamrick to keep up Hamrick's unlucky
streak in XPW. After the match, Super Crazy attacked Hamrick, but Psicosis
was right behind Crazy leading right into their match.

Segment #6- Psicosis defeated Super Crazy. Psicosis was wearing a mask, to
protect and hide the injuries he sustained at Fallout. A rubber chicken was
used in this match in some pretty funny spots. Psicosis and Crazy were
fighting toe to toe when Psicosis got the chicken. When Crazy saw the
chicken he backed off and retreated to the corner begging for mercy. The
crowd started chanting "chicken" but Crazy regained control. The crowd
chanted "chicken" again but Crazy stopped them and made them chant "pollo
(spelling?)". The crowd obliged and Crazy took the chicken and beat
Psicosis with it to a huge ovation. Crazy then made the chicken do a bow to
the crowd. Later in the match, the fan threw the chicken to Psicosis to use
on Crazy which he did. Crazy then went over to the fan and yelled at him
for letting Psicosis use it this time. Was a pretty decent match that
Psicosis came out on top of. But after the match, Crazy went after Psicosis
with the spike again. Psicosis had to be helped to the back.

Segment #7- XPW King of the Deathmatch Champion Altar Boy Luke defeated
Supreme and The Hardcore Homo Angel to retain the title. Supreme was the
first man to the ring and he took the mic. He said the fans are used to
seeing lighttubes and barbed wire boards and thumbtacks and all that stuff
come out before his matches. He said there was a meeting today and that
stuff will no longer be allowed in the state of Pennsylvania. He said
"that's alright though, they are just doing their job!". He said do not
blame the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, because they are just
doing their job! He said they won't whine and complain about it. He said
if you want to blame someone, blame the scared promoters in the area who go
crying to the commission because they are afraid that XPW has been talked
about far more than any of them since they got to the area. Supreme said to
blame CZW and that f'ing a$$hole Zandig. He said because of CZW and Zandig,
there will be no more death matches in the state. Supreme went on to say
that Zandig didn't screw XPW, he screwed the fans. Supreme went on to say
he doesn't need that stuff to be extreme and he will destroy Angel and Luke.
Even without the weapons, this was still a violent match. There was a big
scaffold in the corner of the arena. All three fought their way over to the
top of it. Supreme threw Luke off the scaffold through a table. Then in
one of the sickest things I've seen, Supreme delivered a running powerslam
off the scaffold through a table below. It was pretty sick and caused 4-5
XPW officials to go running to the back immediately for help. Luke somehow
managed to get the pinfall. The show then went to intermission with Supreme
and Angel still out on the floor for a good 10 minutes or so into the
intermission. I am sure Zandig and CZW will now complain about the use of
tables and pinfalls on shows.

Segment #8- After intermission was the Sandman retirement. Sandman's son
Tyler and one of his daughter's were in the ring while Sandman went around
through the crowd. Pogo the Clown then entered the ring. Sandman went to
the ring to protect his kids. Pogo tried to bait Sandman into a match
verbally abusing him and bragging about sending his wife to the hospital.
Sandman finally went after Pogo with the cane and caned him a few times. He
went to cane him again and hit Tyler instead. Tyler went down in the corner
as Sandman continued to hit Pogo. Sandman's daughter begged for him to stop
because Tyler was down. Sandman kept nailing Pogo until he finally stopped
and hugged his daughter! His daughter however kneed him in the groin as
Pogo started to beat on him. His daughter grabbed the mic and said she was
waiting 10 years to do that. She said that Tyler was always his favorite.
Pogo the Clown grabbed Sandman's daughter and left with her as Sandman
struggled to his feet and told Pogo he has a war on his hands! Now let me
beat a few people to the punch on this one .... I know that people are gonna
rip this apart since Sandman is not actually retiring. All I can say is get
a life. It's WRESTLING!!! First of all, when does anyone ever retire
anyway? Second of all, wrestling fans are not stupid and I doubt many
people thought he was going to retire! Third, it's an angle!!! Ever hear
of that? It's how you move storylines along and the such. The same people
that are going to complain about this being an angle are the same people who
used to think that Gangrel, Christian, and Edge lived in caves and could
only wrestle at night because they were vampires!

Segment #9- XPW TV Champion Kaos (with G.Q. Money and Veronica Caine)
defeated Danny Doring. Lots of interference in this match, but also a lot
of good action. At one slow point in the match, the crowd started chanting
"boring". Doring encouraged them to chant it louder. When they did, he
applied a chinlock on Kaos which led to a "holy sh$t" chant! Was pretty
funny actually. Kaos got the victory with a lot of help from Caine and
Money.

Segment #10- XPW World Heavyweight Champion Shane Douglas (with Lizzy
Borden) defeated Chris Candido (with Tammy Sytch) and Vic Grimes. It was
supposed to be Douglas vs. Candido but Grimes attacked Candido before the
match. Grimes challenged Douglas to put the title on the line and let him
have a shot. Douglas agreed! The match was underway for about 10 minutes
when Candido made his way back to the ring and it became a three way match.
At the end, Grimes powerbombed Tammy through a table that he had placed
Lizzy on. But the table did not break. So Grimes powerbombed Tammy through
the table again. Candido ran in to see if she was okay, and Douglas
schoolboyed him for the pinfall and the victory!

NOTES:

Shark Boy was so over for some reason that throughout the show, the crowd
spontaneously burst into such chants as "Bring Back Shark Boy", "We Want
Shark Boy", and "Shark Boy". Also, at points, whenever offensive moves were
made in the ring the crowd would chant "Shark" much like the old Hack Myers
days or Balls and Axl days. During Shane Douglas's promo before his match
the crowd was chanting for Shark Boy which led Shane to say he wants him too
and maybe next month he will make shark meat out of him!

After the show was over the crowd was chanting for Sandman. He came out and
the crowd chanted "please don't go!". Sandman said he would make a deal
with the fans. He said he would not go if he could get 6 fans to come drink
with him in the ring. He picked out 6 fans and had them all in the ring and
gave them all a beer. All of a sudden, the crowd erupted into deafening
cheers. Sandman did not know why until he turned around to see who else had
joined him ... none other than .... SHARK BOY!!!!!! Sandman said "that is
some hilarious sh%t!". Sandman, 6 fans, and Shark Boy all drank together.
Sandman introduced his 3 year old son Oliver to the crowd too. He said it
is moments like this which makes him never want to leave wrestling.

Next show at Viking Hall is Saturday, December 21st with Merry F'N
Christmas! It was announced that on that show will be Shane Douglas,
Sandman, SHARK BOY!!!!! and others!

I highly recommend people seeing XPW live. If you like a lot of action and
many styles of wrestling it is a show to see. If you like whining and
complaining and constant talk about feds you are afraid of, then check out
some of the other action in the area. As you will see over the next few
weeks, XPW and XPW fans talk about XPW, while CZW and CZW fans, as well as
other local feds that are scared also talk about XPW. So come out and see
what EVERYONE is talking about on December 21st ..... XPW!! I will
definitely be back

Phil S. (likeitis@hotmail.com)








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