It’s been a month but finally This Is VALOR returned with a bang for episode 13. Unlucky for some but for us it meant more wrestling action from the promotion.

The Eastern Bloc trio entered for an open challenge, Jan Islav berated those gathered in Paisley before he was interrupted by Sergeant Slaughter who announced that he had assembled a team to take out the puke and slime of Eastern Bloc.

Don’t adjust your pixel rate, it wasn’t the Sarge himself entering as Adam Shame lead Sean Moran and Mike Musso to do battle.

Open Challenge – Team Slaughter (Sean Moran, Mike Musso, & Adam Shame) defeated Eastern Bloc (Jan Islav, Krobar, & Topalovic) by submission.

Team Slaughter got the early upper hand from the opening scuffle, as it settled into the veterans taking their time to break down Jan Islav until Easter Bloc returned to cause chaos. Jan tried to sneak attack from the top rope but was caught and thrown across the ring by Musso and Shame.

Jan eventually powered out of a Sean Moran Camel Clutch to swing the momentum into the camp of Eastern Bloc as the trio took turns laying into Moran, isolating him from his tag team partners. Sean evaded a splash in the corner as all six men got into the action to brawl.

Some shenanigans later saw Moran blind Krobar with his neckerchief, Musso ram the Eastern Bloc’s flag into Topolovic’s groin, and finally Adam Shame locking Islav in a Cobra Clutch for the submission.

After the match, the Eastern Bloc attacked the victors, leading to Mike Musso receiving a knee to the head from Jan while Musso was held in position by Krobar and Topolovic.

It was a match in slow motion. I don’t think anyone is putting this on their highlight reel as the pace was glacial, it was like nobody was on the same page as it was rough and disjointed. The crowd didn’t quite know what to make of it with smattering of USA chants but also a vocal Eastern Bloc contingent at times. It was a weird one.

The action cut backstage with the Eastern Bloc shooing away backstage correspondent Kayleigh Watt to then vocalise their frustration and talk about the disrespect shown by Mike Musso once again with a showdown on the horizon. The reaction from Jan about Team Slaughter making a mockery of Eastern Bloc’s open challenge to prove who are the best faction in VALOR are summed up the whole situation pretty well.

Fatal Four Way – Krieger defeated Kavero, Seb Silvers, and Sebastian Day by pinfall.

Kavero got mugged to kick things off with Silvers finding himself all alone in the ring, diving over the top rope to the mass of bodies gathered on the outside. He tried to finish the match early with a top rope elbow drop to Kavero but Sebastian Day arrived to break the fall.

Krieger took control, scudding Seb Silvers from pillar to post, crashing into ‘The Swedish Supernova’ with a second rope diving European uppercut and slamming Day onto Silvers in an attempt to smash and stack but the two Sebastian’s kicked out.

It was the turn of Silvers to command the ring, going back and forth with Day until Kavero returned to interrupt, only to get his head driven into the mat by Silvers. As all four continued to try and jockey for position, Kavero knocked Day and Silvers down with a double clothesline before walking into a big boot from ‘Scudmaster Sexy’ to give Krieger the win.

A very fast fatal four way, there was plenty of action with an ending that came out of nowhere. It was eveningly matched with nobody really standing out from the pack as the action flowed throughout. I get that VALOR has a shade of grey when it comes to who the fans can support and chant for but seeing Kavero getting a NAK chant going just felt out of place. The New Age Kliq are supposed to be the ones that are against the grain, the scary violent bastards, fist pumping and trying to gain crowd favour wasn’t something that was part of the docket.

After the match Seb Silvers caught up with Kayleigh, as he questioned his luck in VALOR so far, specifically when it came to The New Age Kliq.

We were treated to an epic hype package for the main event to break down the story so far between Chris Renfrew and Lou King Sharp. Kyle Wallace’s booming voice introduced both competitors with their long list of accolades to drive home who these two are and the showdown that was about to take place.

Deathmatch – Chris Renfrew defeated Lou King Sharp by pinfall.

The heavy hits started early with Renfrew knocking Sharp to the ground with a Claymore Kick, he swaggered around throwing Lou into the corners with Irish Whips before catching a diving Sharp, turning it into a sit out powerbomb to send Lou rolling out of the ring to reset.

Renfrew tried to follow but was met with a wet floor sign across the dome, Sharp brought the weapons in to create mayhem as the fight travelled into the crowd. A missed frog splash back in the ring was dodged as Renfrew smashed Lou with a chair to the head to bust open ‘The Blood Tourist’.

Chris Renfrew continued to use the chair for destruction, throwing the steel into the face of a wobbly legged Lou King Sharp to send him to the mat. Sharp tried to fight back but found himself getting a ticket clamped across the forehead by a staple gun wielding Renfrew.

Sharp found an opening, with Renfrew getting opened up that only got exacerbated with a chair surfing Sharp colliding with the skull of Chris Renfrew in the corner. A defiant Renfrew wasn’t to be kept down for long, attempting a second rope Stunner but was pushed away and set up for a Van Terminator for a near fall.

Lou brought in a thumbtack covered chair but walked into a Stunner, another from the second turnbuckle was only good for a two count before Sharp reversed an Irish Whip to send Renfrew head first into that modified chair.

Renfrew brought in his own modified seating, a barbed wire wrapped chair, wrapping it off the spine of Sharp. Sharp sent Renfrew overhead to land on the chair before bringing in a bag of thumbtacks and spreading them around the canvas. Both felt them, first Renfrew being sent back first off the turnbuckle before catching a diving Lou for another sit out powerbomb to send Sharp whiplashing off the tack covered ground.

A blood soaked Lou King Sharp continued to survive, stubbornly getting to his feet and telling Renfrew to go f*ck himself as it took a double underhook lifting piledriver from Renfrew onto the tack pile to end the insanity.

As the dust settled it looked like Renfrew was going to show some respect with the offer of a handshake, only to have Sharp jumped by Marshall and Kavero. Seb Silvers, Sebastian Day, and Krieger rushed out to make the save.

Renfrew teased a fourth man to join The New Age Kliq to end the show.

A mad main event. It was superhuman at times for both managing to survive some gorey antics.

Overall another mixed bag for me, but then again it offered a variety in about 60 minutes. Some silliness in the opener, a more fast paced middle, then a chaos filled main event of blood and spills. The spliced in backstage segments kept the narrative of the episode ticking over as we get back to The New Age Kliq versus VALOR timeline. The hype before the main event was excellent and the production continues to be top quality.

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