World Wide Wrestling League returned to Crieff for their Mayday event. A night as part of a busy long weekend of wrestling. The previous night saw the team in Dingwall for Workin’ Man’s Wrestling which had a hot crowd in attendance. Title matches were promised, items on poles, it was going to be a Mayday to remember.

Penelope Grace defeated Scarlett by pinfall.

Before the main portion of the night, it was the Wrestling Showdown pre-show bout that saw the return of Scarlett in W3L and the debut, of sorts, of Penelope Grace fka Tate from The Commune.

Scarlett came out the blocks with the aim to bully Grace, who tried to get the pace to her liking but her handspring back elbow was dodged with Scarlett taking her time to deconstruct Penelope move by move.

Penelope broke out of a suplex to turn it around, hitting two more and a standing Moonsault for a near fall. Scarlett rolled out to avoid any further punishment, managing to push Grace into the apron, and an electric chair drop had Penelope collide with the hardest part of the ring a second time.

It was going Scarlett’s way until Penelope rebounded off the ropes to deliver the Fall From Grace. Grace headed up to the top to land the Twisted Bliss to pick up the win.

The match was quick, but got across the complete 180 between what Tate was and who Penelope Grace is.

The host for the evening, Juggalo Championship Wrestling’s Paige Collett, entered to hype up the night of action. Euan G Mackie interrupted the party to disparage the crowd and degrade Paige, telling her to leave and to bring out an opponent so he can leave Crieff as soon as possible.

Soldato defeated Euan G Mackie by disqualification.

Mackie and Soldato traded off a wrist lock to kick off, with Soldato getting the better of the exchange. Soldato took to the skies to meet a retreating Euan on the outside, but Mackie got the upper hand back in the ring where Euan slowed down the high flyer by targeting the torso of Soldato.

Soldato was erratic in his offense to take Mackie off guard, switching between power and speed to keep Euan guessing. Mackie read the tactics to find his spot to step in to counter, jumping onto the back of Soldato to lock in a sleeper hold.

The crowd were behind Soldato, who used the support to get a second wind. A springboard hurricane didn’t land flush but his follow up running knee connected with precision.

Euan G Mackie begged off but it was a ploy to drive his knee into the stomach of Soldato and connect with a Sliced Bread to catch another near fall.

A seated Senton missed the mark with Soldato going for a springboard back elbow that was thwarted by a kick between the legs for referee Jamie Jones to call the disqualification.

I really like what Euan G Mackie has done with his presentation. He stripped out all the colour and whimsy from his attire. The skullet, gone. The beard, gone. The leopard print, the tutu, all gone.

But, the trousers are a velour, and the black rose that he carried has a bright green stem, it’s like he’s added little tributes to his past but understating them to keep a monotone aesthetic. The “budget Undertaker” slant to the look feels purposeful to bring in mind the shovel he used to “bury” opponents. There’s nothing random about what Euan G Mackie puts together.

The match was purposeful in showing the more methodical approach of Euan G Mackie, relying less on high risk offense and more on deteriorating the body of his opponent.

W3L Women’s Championship – Hera w/Hugo Harris defeated Lucy Couture by pinfall.

Lucy Couture couldn’t get out of the blocks with Hera overpowering and barrelling through Lucy’s attempts to build momentum. If it wasn’t Hera, it was Hugo Harris getting his digs in at ringside.

Hera ragdolled Couture around, with the crowd getting behind Lucy who showed determination to try to get Hera on the back foot. A headscissor out of the corner was caught for Hera to swing Lucy Couture around to land with a stump powerbomb which was impressive.

Couture avoided a standing elbow drop that had Hera wobbly legged, finding herself being taken down with a headscissor and planted to the canvas with a facebuster for two.

Just as Lucy started to get something going, Harris grabbed the leg of Couture to send her into the path of a Samoan Drop for Hera to retain the W3L Women’s Championship.

Tour manager Claire got on the microphone to tell Hera that if she thinks she is getting involved later on in the main event then Paige Collett would be happy to even the odds.

It was a dominant display from Hera, but I got to see more of Lucy Couture who connected with the crowd to build sympathy and support, with her comebacks being well received.

Brandon Prince defeated Sami Sparx by pinfall.

A Chris Renfrew-less Sami Sparx started hot, bombarding Brandon Prince with agility and pace until a superkick went through the jaw of Sparx to put the brakes on Sami’s offensive manoeuvres.

Prince slowed things down, rattling Sami with strikes while picking away at the joints of Sparx, snapping the fingers of The Chaotic Luchador.

Sami tried pin attempt after pin attempt to try and catch Brandon off guard. Sparx managed to connect with a second turnbuckle diving cutter.

A headbutt followed by a brainbuster had Sami Sparx on dream street. Prince tied Sami in the corner for a double foot stomp to the back of the head of Sparx to claim victory. A gnarly finisher.

Brandon continued to attack Sami Sparx until Soldato returned to save his fellow masked competitor.

The impact of Brandon Prince to put a stop to Sami Sparx trying to get going was effective and that final stretches made him look like a killer. The change up of Sami when Chris Renfrew isn’t looming over him showed the influence that Renfrew has on the mentality of Sparx which is a nice bit of continuity from previous events. A solid match.

Shreddy defeated The Jackal by pinfall.

A lone wolf, The Jackal was without what was left of The Commune with an obvious hesitation to tangle with the jacked and stacked Shreddy.

Shreddy easily manhandled The Jackal, who used his cunning to get the referee between him and Shreddy in the corner to create enough separation to get a head of steam and get the jump on his muscle bound opponent.

The Jackal’s Full Nelson was broken out of with ease with Shreddy holding The Jackal up for a vertical suplex that had him march around the ring before the drop. The Jackal retreated to the outside and took advantage of Shreddy coming out to follow by hanging Shreddy off the ropes to take control.

Despite his best efforts, Shreddy kept coming like a juggernaut, throwing The Jackal around and landing a springboard elbow drop to the back. The Jackal kicked out but as he made his way to his feet, he turned around to be speared to give Shreddy the win in his W3L debut.

A decent match, it was poetic that The Jackal had been under the influence of Father Luke Aldridge, and with The Commune in disarray thanks to “The Da” Lou King Sharp, The Jackal is now dealing with The Jacked Stacked Daddy. I don’t think a therapist could begin to unlock all the issues that could be unpacked from that.

Weapons On A Pole Match – Tim Strange defeated Bozidar Branimir by pinfall.

It was a jovial start with crowd participation until Tim Strange had enough and decked Bozidar Branimir. Strange got distracted by the crowd chants to miss a charge in the corner for The Bulgarian Baker to (well)fire up.

Branimir got a hold of the rolling pin while delivering a baker’s dozen of punches, however, Tim swept the legs out from Bozidar and get a hold of the weapon to send it between the buns of The Bulgarian Baker.

Strange delivered RODEO TIME, sending Branimir into the path of a lariat, adding a big splash to flatten Bozidar. Tim sent referee Jamie Jones up to get the cow bell against his will, Strange got his weapon of choice but walked into a rolling pin swung to the bread basket.

Bozidar donned the cowboy had for his own version of RODEO TIME (Родео тайм). It looked like it was all doughver for Tim Strange until a last gasp smack with the cowbell knocked out Branimir for the count.

What can you say about a match that featured the end of a rolling pin being sandwiched between a masked man’s buns? A masterpiece that’s what. It was what was expected, over the top, shenanigans heavy nonsense of the highest order.

W3L Wrestling Showdown Championship – Hugo Harris w/Hera defeated Mike Musso w/Claire by pinfall to retain.

The main event was preluded by a video package with clips from the 25 year career of Mike Musso as he made his way out to face long time rival Hugo Harris.

It went to the mat early on with Musso having better luck, recouping to the outside and leading Hera to stalk Mike’s partner Claire at ringside. It brought an irate Musso out to warn off The Goddess to the temporary benefit of Harris, who grabbed Mike by the hair to take him back into the action.

Musso broke out of defense to drive his knees into the chest of Hugo. It set up Mike to scale up the turnbuckles that was countered by a dropkick from Harris that reached a fantastic height to crotch Musso up top.

As the tides continued to turn, Mike and Hugo fought to the outside as Hera rolled Claire into the ring. Musso rushed back to protect her with Harris swiftly hitting a Codebreaker for a two count.

Claire was held back by Hera but ducked a right hand with Hugo stopping short of striking the W3L Women’s Champion. Harris swivelled to find himself in the firing line of a clothesline that sent him inside out.

Referee Jamie Jones got in the way and was squashed in the corner which kicked off an interesting turn of events. Hera low blowed Musso that brought in Claire, the resulting brawl had Paige Collett get involved. It was a stink face from Paige to Hera, with Claire doing one of her own. Hugo Harris watched on and wanted a piece of that and got in position only to watch in horror to see Mike run across to deliver the goods.

Hera tried to slam Musso but it was countered. Harris pounced with a Curb Stomp and, with no referee to count the fall, Hugo delivered a low blow and a second Curb Stomp to put Musso away and retain the W3L Wrestling Showdown Championship.

The night ended with a rendition of the catchiest entrance theme in professional wrestling today, the Jamie Jones song.

Mike Musso and Hugo Harris have faced each other in just about every iteration of match possible in W3L history with this match getting the feeling of being an epilogue to close the very large chapter of Musso’s recent professional wrestling endeavours. It had the antics, it had the low blows, it was a frantic main event.

An entertaining show, the matches were solid with a menagerie of styles on offer. It felt like a soft reboot with new characters introduced and chapters potentially being closed across the evening.

The full show is available on Hooked On Wrestling TV now to check out for yourself.