Match One: Sheik and Destroy (Gama Singh Jr. and Tiger Raj Singh) defeated Dave Titan and Ravenous Randy Myers by Pinfall. Sheik and Destroy were listed as Karachi Vice on the SuperEX website. They do a Middle Eastern heel gimmick and wore matching tights. Titan appeared in place of the wrestler Karnage and looked like a young Dynamite Kid. Myers dressed like a punk and danced like a male stripper. Titan and Myers seemed very mismatched as a team. I am not familiar with any of these wrestlers, but apparently Sheik and Destroy are former Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Champions. This was a very long squash match that bordered on tedium. The crowd was never really into Myers and eventually turned on Titan as well, cheering for everything the heels did. At one point Myers tried to pump up the crowd by telling Sheik and Destroy to “go home,” but the crowd didn't buy the American's jingoism and chanted “racist.” After the match Myers attacked his own partner and added “crazy guy” to his already confusing gimmick. He got no response for his turn.

 

Match Two: Kamala (with Kim Chee) defeated “The Genius” Lanny Poffo by Pinfall. Before the match Poffo read a poem criticizing the local Ottawa Senators franchise. It included the lines “I am Lanny Poffo/I always know what's up/Your Senators will never win the Stanley Cup.” This inspired dueling chants for the Senators and Ontario's other National Hockey League team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. Kamala had two military officers accompany him to and from the ring. He did his shtick during a short match and defeated Poffo once he figured out which way he needed to place Poffo to score a pinfall. Poffo didn't have much offense, but looked great for his age and even pulled off a moonsault from the second rope.

 

Match Three: “The Birdman” Koko B. Ware defeated Canadian Grand Prix Wrestling Champion Greg “The Hammer” Valentine (with Joe Dunlop) by Pinfall in a Non-Title Match. Former Canadian Football League defensive lineman and WWE Developmental Wrestler Glenn Kulka served as guest ring announcer. He seemed very confused and read his lines off a crumpled up piece of paper. Canadian TV personality Bill Welychka was the special guest referee. The match's stipulations stated that if B. Ware defeated Valentine he would get a title shot at the next night's show in Cornwall, Ontario. Earlier this week on Ottawa's A Channel, Valentine hit Welychka. Before the match Welychka said he would call the match down the center, but called out his A Channel co-worker, former CFL player Ken Evraire, to protect him from Valentine. The match was very slow-paced and involved a lot of outside interference. Valentine had B. Ware down, but Welychka did a slow count. Valentine argued the call allowing B. Ware to schoolboy him for a quick 3-count. After the match Dunlop beat Welychka up with a shoe. Evraire carried Welychka to the back.

 

Match Four: Sycho Sid defeated “Hotshot” Johnny Devine (with Dania) by pinfall. Before the match former TNA Team Canada member Devine cut a promo claiming that “size doesn't matter when you have talent.” Sid received the biggest pop of the night when he came out. Sid took over early, but became distracted by Dania, allowing for Devine to hit a low blow. Devine then worked over Sid's left knee for awhile. Devine hit an impressive bodyslam for a 2-count, but became frustrated when it didn't put Sid away. He distracted the referee and hit Sid with a chair, but Sid still didn't stay down. Devine set up the chair mid-ring and climbed it, only to be hit with a big chokeslam. Sid then hit a powerbomb for the win and another powerbomb after the match for good measure.

 

Intermission. Another set of autograph signing took place. I made it up to Valentine before the line started again and managed to get an autographed 8X10 for $10. At intermission's end it was announced that Bret “Hitman” Hart, who had been pushed as the key attraction of the show, would not be there due to weather. This was the first official announcement about this and prompted a loud “refund” chant.

 

Match Five: “The Madman From the Sudan” Abdullah the Butcher and “Devon Nicholson” Hannibal wrestled to a Double Disqualification. Dangerous Dan was the guest referee. This match never even got into the ring. As soon as Abdullah entered the arena, Hannibal began choking the Butcher with Abby's own head dressing and stabbed him with a spike, causing blood to pour. Abdullah responded by smashing a coffee pot over Hannibal's head, causing Hannibal's entire face to be covered in blood. Classic Abdullah-esque mayhem ensued. Abdullah hit a number of stiff shots with an umbrella then threw Hannibal into the crowd, knocking over a fan in the process. The two men eventually wrestled their way up the entrance way to the back with Abdullah stabbing Hannibal with a fork the whole way up. After the match Abdullah came back through the curtain and threw the fork into the crowd.

 

Match Six: “P.C.O.” Pierre Carl Oullette defeated “The Phenomenal” A.J. Styles and “Instant Classic” Christian Cage in a 3-way when he pinned Styles. Before the match we were informed that due a family emergency Jeff Jarrett would not be able to wrestle his scheduled main event match against Cage. As such, Oullette-Styles would be turned in a 3-way. Jarrett signed autographs and posed for Polaroids after the show. Cage cut a promo before the match railing into a front row heckler before securing cheap heat by attacking Ottawa and claiming that Jarrett was afraid to wrestle him. He then combined both by saying Jarrett “sucks so bad he could be on the Senators starting lineup.” Oullette then took the mic and said that all he ever hears when he wrestles in the States is “U.S.A.” He wanted tonight to be different and got one side of the crowd to chant “U.S.A.” and the other side to chant “Sucks.” This received a mixed response, but the Canadian Oullette was very over as a face. Early in the match Cage and Styles teamed up to beatdown P.C.O. This alliance fell apart when Cage asked Styles to lay down for him and Styles took advantage of the situation to roll Cage up for a 2-count. Oullette then took over on offense, tripping Cage so that he and Styles were in a sexual pose and hitting both with a senton. They settled into the classic 3-way structure of 2 men wrestling in the ring while another rests on the outside. Oullette got in a lot of stiff offense during this time. In a great spot, Styles went up to hit Cage with a superplex and P.C.O. returned to the ring and hit Styles with a powerbomb, sending both Styles and Cage to the mat. Styles hit Cage with the Styles Clash, but P.C.O. pulled the referee out of the ring before he could count to 3. Styles attempted to hit P.C.O. with a baseball slide, but knocked out the referee instead. Cage and Styles teamed up again with Cage holding Oullette while Styles got a chair. At this point, Jarrett ran into the ring, stole the chair, hit chairshots on both Cage and Styles and hit Styles with the Stroke. Oullette then picked up the victory to conclude the night.

 

Overall: There was a lot to enjoy here. The first half of the card was light on wrestling, with the opening tag match in particular being pretty hard to watch, but it was still nice to see the veterans do their thing and the matches were booked to hide weaknesses. Sid looked great and wouldn't look out of place in modern WWE or TNA. The last 2 matches were really fun. The Abdullah-Hannibal match was a classic bloodbath that had every one on their feet and the 3-way was the Match of the Night. That said, the show's main draws were the Hart appearance and the scheduled Cage-Jarrett Main Event. Without those 2 matches the show was a mild disappointment. I understand that “Cards are Subject to Change”, but if neither of the biggest draws were going to perform, the promoter might have been better served by announcing this at the start of the show and offering some sort of compensation. I would have stuck around regardless of whether or not Hart was going to appear. I just felt cheated that we weren't told about it until the intermission.