As a wee summer treat, World Wide Wrestling League have uploaded their recent ‘School’s Out For Wrestling’ event to their W3L Network YouTube channel.

Now usually if you want to see full length W3L events you’d have to head to Demand PROGRESS Plus. Otherwise it’s Sundays W3L Wrestling Showdown if you want a match or two from recent events. So to wet my whistle before ‘Summer Spectacular’ on Thursday in Elgin, let’s check out some wrestling from earlier this month from Galashiels.

Battle Royal – Winner Faces Buffa In The Main Event – Rory Shaw defeated Nitro Green, Sami Sparx, Jay The Jackal, Sebastian Day, Rhoderick Jones, and Lou King Sharp.

Everyone entered one by one with the final entrant, Lou King Sharp grabbing a chair before he got into the ring, he struck everyone with the weapon before striking up an alliance with Rory Shaw.

‘The Blood Tourist’ chucked out Sami Sparx and Sebastian Day in short order while Rory Shaw dispatched Jay The Jackal. In a surprise, Nitro Green threw out Sharp but Green soon made his exit thanks to Shaw. Shaw then eliminated Rhoderick Jones with ease to pick up the win.

A fairly pedestrian battle royal to kick off. Other than Sharp going out after a strong start with the chair there wasn’t an awful lot by way of tension.

W3L Breakout Championship Number One Contendership – Jay The Jackal defeated Sami Sparx by count out.

After some stalling to get the crowd involved, Sparx started quickly on the offensive. Showing plenty of energy with a variety of dropkicks. Sparx’s zealous start was soon stopped after a frog splash miss that saw him turn inside out from a running clothesline by Jackal.

The Jackal took over, putting the boots to Sami, raking the eyes, and overall being a vicious in attack. Sparx fought his way out of a Fireman’s Carry to build some momentum. Knocking The Jackal down with a running knee to the face.

The match spilled to the outside with Sparx launching himself off the apron for a crossbody, which landed but had Sami favouring his shoulder. As the two crawled back to the ring, The Jackal pulled Sami back out as he reached the apron, before the ten count, and rolled in to take the count out victory.

A fine match, I liked the ending with the cerebralness of The Jackal being shown. He just had to win to get his title match at ‘Summer Spectacular’, know one said it had to be pinfall or submission. Sami got the crowd involved throughout and The Jackal has always been able to get an audience to boo him relentlessly.

Double Purse Match – Rhoderick Jones defeated Sebastian Day by pinfall.

I couldn’t quite figure out what Fi on ring announcing duties was saying but I think I heard a double purse match so I guess the winner takes home double their wages, or takes their opponents wages? Anyway…

Following the typical yay-boo start, the match got going with Jones starting fast but Day got Jones in the corner and punished him with some hard chops, grounding him and mounting him to deliver some stiff forearms to the face.

Jones tried to fight out of a chinlock but a knee to the gut sent him back to the floor to be stomped on. After another fight back, Jones ran shoulder first into the corner post which Day jumped on and ran him into the opposite corner before putting all the pressure on the shoulder and neck.

Rhoderick Jones wasn’t to be denied, he continued to keep fighting, hitting a Russian Leg Sweep and setting up a Ripcord but Day pushed away from a cutter attempt. Jones avoided a running knee, grabbed Day for a Ripcord Cutter to pick up the win.

An entertaining match with a feel good ending. Sebastian Day bullied Rhoderick Jones about with Jones never giving up. One of the better Rhoderick Jones matches I’ve seen and Sebastian Day was solid.

W3L Heavyweight Championship Number One Contendership – Lou King Sharp defeated Nitro Green by pinfall.

Sharp made his second entrance of the evening and immediately headed to the merch table to clear it. What a git. Green arrived and tried to have a child take his place whom Sharp readily squared up until it looked like the child was going to get in the ring and he retreated to the corner. This guy.

Lou then refused to get in the ring until Nitro Green could produce a work visa and that BREXIT MEANS BREXIT, shouting to the crowd that Green was over here stealing jobs from other wrestlers. Green then left the ring, so Sharp rolled in and demanded that Nitro gets into the ring before calling the referee a dirty tart for wanting to check his boots and wrist tape for any foreign objects. The man is entertainment personified.

After accusing Nitro Green of taking performance enhancements in order to win a test of strength, we got a push up contest, then Sharp used the referee to step on and help with the height disadvantage. Green had had enough and gave Sharp an Airplane Spin before dropkicking him into the corner.

It wasn’t long before Sharp was up to his tricks, untying the tag rope to use to choke Green while the referee fixed the turnbuckle, or knocking another turnbuckle pad off so that he could use the distraction to take off his wrist tape to wrap around the neck of Nitro Green.

Sharp threw Green to the outside to accept a count out win but Nitro made his way back to the ring after failing to goad Sharp to the outside. After Sharp knocked himself loopy with a headbutt he ate a superkick from Green to reset the match.

Nitro Green got some momentum going but Sharp countered a DDT attempt by biting the arm of Green but couldn’t avoid a cutter for a near fall. Green attempted a move from the top rope but Sharp pushed the referee in the rope to crotch Green on the turnbuckle and a Finlay Roll later it was Lou King Sharp marching his way to ‘Summer Spectacular’.

A shenanigans filled bout that I loved. The Chihuahua energy that Lou King Sharp emits who just keeps going, scraping, biting, shit-talking, using anything and everything to his advantage. Green was a very game opponent that matched the chaotic vibe that Sharp brings to the table by being a tired Dad trying to control his child that has just watched Power Rangers for the first time and wanted to do all the moves.

I could watch a Lou King Sharp match every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Pure entertainment, he plays to the back row with his over the top antics but keeps it grounded enough to skirt that line of pantomime and sports entertainment.

W3L Heavyweight Championship – Buffa Ayooo defeated Rory Shaw by pinfall to retain the W3L Heavyweight Championship.

Shaw showed his strength in the early going by power out of a wrist lock but his inexperience came through when he chose to start mouthing off to the crowd which allowed Buffa to jump in and take down his larger opponent.

The opening flurry from Buffa was countered by a hard Irish Whip that allowed Shaw to take control. Buffa hit a nice standing Frankensteiner but Shaw kicked out and regain the upper hand which included a jarring backbreaker.

That backbreaker took a lot out of Buffa who took a breather after a scoop slam to Shaw, allowing him to put together a string of moves to keep Rory Shaw on the back foot and his momentum rising. Shaw powered out of a Full Nelson for a big back suplex. There were some referee awkwardness by calling a shoulder up when it didn’t look to happen but missed Buffa’s foot on the bottom rope to break the pin.

Shaw kicked out of a short arm neckbreaker but couldn’t get his shoulder up from a top rope flying X-Factor which allowed Buffa to retain the W3L Heavyweight Championship.

Buffa’s celebrations were short lived with Shaw was on the attack and locked in a Camel Clutch, relenting after the referee shouted that he would be fined. Lou King Sharp returned and attacked Buffa with a chair with the show ending as Sharp wrapped the chair around the neck of the champion.

A slow build match with the problem being, for me, was that I had no belief for a moment that Rory Shaw would win. The crowd took their sweet time to get into it and when they did it was down to Buffa throwing in some flashy offense to get the ooh and aahs.

The post match attacks leads nicely into this Thursday’s ‘Summer Spectacular’ event so will be interested to see if that carries into the show.

The Lou King Sharp versus Nitro Green match blew everything else out of the water, just good fun throughout. The rest of the show was fine, as a stand alone show it was serviceable at introducing wrestlers in the battle royal for who you would see the rest of the evening.

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