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Kevin Peel's Cleveland All-Pro Wrestling TV Report: Samoa Joe vs. Rhino

By Kevin Peel
Sep 6, 2006 - 4:47 PM


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Cleveland All-Pro wrestling debuted in the Cleveland, Ohio market this past weekend on Sportstime Ohio which is the cable channel owned by the Cleveland Indians. It ran at 1 am late Friday night with a replay Sunday night at 11:30 pm. The times change this coming week however as episode two will air at midnight Friday night with a replay Sunday night at 11 pm. While new to cable tv, they have actually been around for over 13 years. Their website is at capw.net where they also have dvds of past events available for purchase. Basically what you have is a bunch of local talent with a few names from ROH and TNA that you might recognize.

We open up right off the bat with a promo from TNA Superstar Samoa Joe. He tells the Cleveland fans that it seems they've brought the baddest son of a b**ch in the world there for one reason.....to destroy Rhino. He then tells Rhino that his reputation speaks for itself as the manbeast and the war machine, but tonight Rhino will be looking across the ring at a man who has no names for him, a man who doesn't care about his reputation. He'll be looking across the ring at a man who only knows about violence and pain, and tonight Rhino will feel that pain.

After playing the intro video which has a variety high impact moves, we are greeted by our announcers Joe Dombrowski and Jamie Scott. Joe tells us that we are about to embark on a new form of professional wrestling which is different than what we see on cable television and it will be hard hitting, fast paced, athletically based pro wrestling at its finest. Jamie adds that this is about wrestling, not diva searches and nonsense and b.s. Then they run down tonight's card which is headlined with Samoa Joe taking on Rhino. The rest of the card has Johnny Gargano vs. Dios Salvador and the tag team of J.T. Lightning and Chris Cronus taking on Eastside Eddie and Shawn Blaze.

(1) Johnny Gargano vs. Dios Salvador

We head to the ring and our ring annoucer Hank Hudson informs us that the next match will be a grudge match between two former tag team partners. They don't show any footage of the breakup but Johnny Gargano is obviously the heel in the feud since the heel color commentator Jamie Scott is taking his side saying his career should finally take off now that he's dropped the dead weight of his former tag team partner. Dios Salvador dives in the ring and attacks his former partner with punches and takes him down with a flying headscissors. He hits an STO, then comes off the top rope with a flying body press for a two count. He points to the heavens and hits an Eddie Guerrero style three amigo suplex series and climbs to the top rope, but Johnny Gargano rolls to the outside to break the momentum and regroup. Dios tries to flip over the ropes into a hurricanranna, but Gargano catches him in a powerbomb position and drops him back first onto the ring apron. Johnny then picks him up and rams him backfirst into the ring apron. He rolls him back in the ring as we cut to commercial. One of the commercials is an advertisment for the Cleveland All-Pro training center with J.T. Lighting. Another is for the next Cleveland All-Pro taping this coming Sunday entitled September Slaughter. That will be headlined by their champion Claudio Castagnoli defending against Chris Hero and also features TNA superstars Abyss and Monty Brown squaring off. Back from the break, Johnny is still in control and hits a stomp to the back of Dios. He then backs him to the corner and lands a series of chops before spinning him around and hitting a Carlito style backcracker. Gargano then lifts him up to the top rope but wastes some time yapping with the fans and Dios tries for a tornado ddt, but Gargano blocks it and hits a backbreaker followed by a blatant choke right in front of the referee. Gargano climbs to the top to finish him off with a frog splash, but Dios Salvador moves out of the way and comes off the ropes with a flying clothesline and follows that with a standing shooting star press. Instead of coveringing him, Dios is holding his back in pain from all the damage previously done. Dios goes for a back suplex, but Gargano slips out the back door and tries for a full nelson facebuster, but Dios gets out of that and bounces off the ropes as Gargano tries a reverse springboard move off the ropes. Dios catches him in midair in a stone cold stunner in a fantastic spot. Dios then drapes one arm over Gargano in a delayed cover but only gets a two count. Dios hits a dropkick and goes for hurricanranna, but again Gargano catches him and hits a running ligerbomb. He follows with a swinging fisherman's suplex for a very long two count. Gargano once again goes for the full nelson facebuster, but Salvador counters into a standing sliced bread number two. Salvador tries finishing him off with a lionsault, but Gargano gets his knees up and hits his full nelson into the spinaround facebuster and covers for the one....two....three.

Winner: Johnny Gargano

Thoughts: This was a really good opener. At first glance, the physiques of these two will turn you off if you're used to the jacked up guys in the national promotions, but this was some good fast paced action. A nice way to open the show. No restholds were to be found in this one. It was just one of those bam.....bam....bam spot filled matches that you either like or you don't. These two work well together.

(2) J.T. Lightning and Chris Cronus vs. Eastside Eddie and Shawn Blaze

The announcers let us know that J.T. Lightning is one of the most hated men in all of Cleveland wrestling so he and Chris Cronus are obviously the heels in this one. They are accompanied to the ring by J.T.'s personal advisor Krystal Frost. J.T. starts out with Shawn Blaze and goes to an early headlock. Blaze tries fighting back but receives a clothesline for his trouble and J.T. follows that up with some jumping jacks in the ring. He then backs Blaze to the corner and hits a series of chops. Eventually Blaze gets a burst of energy and whips J.T to the opposite corner and gives him a big backdrop. He follows that with a pair clotheslines which brings Chris Cronus into the ring. Blaze tags in his partner Eastside Eddie and they doubleteam Cronus with a double dropkick as we cut to commercial. When we come back from the break, Eastside Eddie is getting the snot kicked out of him in the corner by J.T. Lightning as the referee is tied up with Chris Cronus and Shawn Blaze. Krystal decides to join in the fun and gets a couple cheap shots in on Eddie as well. Cronus then throws Eastside Eddie over the top rope. Krystal comes over and slaps him in the face, then J.T hooks his arms so Krystal can land a kick to the balls. She doesn't seem very nice. Cronus goes out to the floor and literally throws Eastside Eddie back in the ring. He whips him to the ropes but Eddie comes back with a dropkick. J.T. then tags back in and throws Eddie to the floor where Krystal beats on him some more with punches to the head. J.T. then goes to the floor and lands a bunch of chops before rolling the kid back in the ring where he covers but picks him up by the hair on the two count. Cronus tags in and hits a delayed vertical suplex. They continue the beatdown on Eddie for what seems like forever. Finally, he comes back with a sunset flip for a two count and makes the tag to Shawn Blaze who comes in with punches on both J.T. and Cronus. He whips J.T. to the opposite corner and follows with a running clothesline in the corner. Eddie returns to the ring and he and Blaze hit a punch series on their opponents in the corner. Blaze then hits a superkick on JT while Eddie hits a dropkick on Cronus. Blaze then yells "superkick" and goes for it on Cronus, but Cronus catches his foot and grabs him in a fireman's carry and gives him the F5 but picks him up by the hair on the two count. Cronus then sets him on the top rope and tags out to J.T. who comes in and gives Blaze a superplex and follows up with a fisherman's buster for the one...two...three.

Winners: J.T. Lightning and Chris Cronus

Thoughts: This was a squash match that just went on and on and on and on and on. Eastside Eddie is a really skinny guy and fits the role of squash victim pretty well. Chris Cronus really looked good. He's got a nice look and has some good power moves. The announcers made mention that he's being looked at by some of the folks at WWE so maybe he's a future developmental guy. J.T mostly did the basics this match and looked solid. J.T. Lightning is also the founder and booker of this promotion.

We then head backstage where Michael Cash (?) is trying to get an interview with Johnny Gargano. Michael says that Gargano did what he said he was going to do by beating Dios Salvador and asked him what was next for Johnny Gargano. Johnny told him that he was interupting him and asked him to wait a second. He says that Dios Salvador is probably downstairs somewhere crying his eyes out but he has a story to tell him. It's the story your mother probably told you when you were a kid, the story about the little engine that could. Johnny said Dios tried and tried but just couldn't get the job done against him. He said this is three times he's beaten Dios and now its time to move onto bigger and better things. He then proceeds to call out M-Dogg 20 who he says is probably considered the greatest high flyer of all time to come out of this area. He challenges M-Dogg and says he'll use him as another stepping stone.

(3) Samoa Joe vs. Rhino

The crowd starts chanting "Joe is gonna kill you" before the action gets underway. They tie up and Joe grabs a side headlock. Rhino shoves him off to the ropes for a shoulder block but neither man budge. Joe invites Rhino to charge at him off the ropes but that ends in a stalemate also. Joe goes off the ropes, ducks a clothesline, then catches Rhino with a clothesline of his own. Rhino then goes outside and grabs the microphone and tells Joe that he got lucky on that one, but promises he will gore his a** in this ring. Joe looks less than pleased and slaps Rhino across the face. Rhino then returns the favor and Joe proceeds to slap the shit out of him. Rhino comes back with some chops and whips Joe to the opposite corner and catches him in a hiptoss. He sets him up for the gore, but Joe jumps out of the ring to avoid it as we cut to commercial. We come back to see Rhino poke Joe in the eye and give him a chop and a punch in the corner. Then, he chokes Joe in the ropes but after releasing it Joe gets a burst of energy and works over Rhino in the corner. Joe lands a series of kick and punches but Rhino comes back with some punches of his own. Joe comes back with an inverted atomic drop and hits a big mafia kick off the ropes which he follows with a senton for a two count. Joe goes to a rear chinlock to wear him down, but Rhino punches his way out of that and comes off the ropes with a big clothesline and we go to another commercial break. We return to see Joe charging in the corner but Rhino catches him with a back elbow. Rhino tries running at him but Joe catches him in a powerslam for a two count. Joe whips him to the corner and comes charging in with a forearm blast and follows that with a move similar to AJ Styles' Pele kick. Joe then hits the facewash in the corner and covers for a two count. Joe then tries an irish whip, but Rhino counters that into a belly to belly suplex and goes for the gore out of the corner, but Joe kicks him in the head and goes for his rear naked choke. Rhino counters that with a mule kick to the balls and hits the gore for the one....two.....three. After the match, the two men shook hands. Rhino grabbed the mic and said that was probably the best match he's had in years and he thanked Joe for the match.

Winner: Rhino

Thoughts: This was a really good match with these two and actually better than any of the matches they've had together in TNA. There was no announcing on this match and it didn't really need any. The crowd noise was really all you needed and you felt like you in the building watching it. This match actually happened back in April, but in watching the show you really couldn't tell. On their website they built it up by saying "beore they crossed paths in TNA, they locked horns in CAPW" Just a really good big man match and a great way to main event their first show.

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