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CZW Highstakes at the ECW Arena, 11th May
Main event saw The Messiah and Nick Mondo defeated Justice Pain and Adam Flash. The finish came around the (legitimate) 65:00 mark and saw Messiah pin Pain and Mondo pin Flash at the same time after both guys hit a leg drop on the two losers. Messiah wound up having to put up his girlfriend, Kristi Myst on the line after Lobo brang her out and said she would be on the line, and if Messiah didn't win Lobo would be bang her brains out LOL. Messiah is the new CZW World Champion and Mondo is the new CZW Iron Man Champion (disappointing to not have Mondo the World Champ dosen't make any sense. As usual the booking is way off in my opinion - why wouldn't you give the World Title to Nick Mondo? he's been there longer and was taking on world champ Justice Pain at the April ECW Arena Show, and he has (in my opinion) a stronger fan base than Messiah... not taking anything at all away from Messiah, though. I'm sure he will do an excellent job).
H8 Club (Gage/Hatred) defeated VD (Valentine/Dahmer) to become the new CZW Tag Team Champions. After the match VD turned on long time manager Mac Smack. This brought out the returning Wifebeater out to make the save (he hasn't been seen since CZW Cage of Death 3 in December 2001) for his brother in law.
Trent Acid defended his Big Japan and CZW Junior Heavyweight Titles over Jerry Lynn with a Takuza kick for the 1, 2, 3 after interferance from Justice Pain. The advertising of the booked Lynn was a little scarce, however this is probably because it was speculated Lynn would no show due to another booking with a higher paying company.
Ruckus over Chris Hero (with Dave Prazak) only a short match at 7 minutes 40 seconds - not what Hero's been used to over the last 6 months. How long until they bring in CM Punk and some more IWA MS boys? That would be a great working relationship - the two best hardcore companies in the US working together!
Ruckus over Pure Impact to get into Best of the Best (I believe that is right. Should be confirmed tomorrow)
Backseat Boyz over M-Dogg20 and Josh Prohibition. Alot of people praised this and Lynn/Acid as match of the night candidates.
CZW women's match, Lacey defeated Rain. Second ever CZW Women's Match (other was a bitchfight however, this was a legit good wrestling match)
In a three-way tag, Ian Knoxx and Chris Styles over Softcore Connection and New School
Rockin' Rebel accompanied by 'Tough Enough' Gregg Mathews over Hurricane Kid and Towel Boy. WOW! What a match this would have been! Real classic! LOL with sarcasm.
Interesting to point out before the above match Rebel shooted on other promoters fucking with CZW. He named RF'S Ring of Honour promotion (hahahahha), and Kettner's ECWA. More on the ROH/CZW situation later.
Danny Rose over Z Barr and Fury
Epic Professional Wrestling to debut television show on Friday, June 7th. A new promotionout of So-Cal. More news on them can be found HERE.
For Toryumon's 5th Anniversery Results click HERE.
The following was posted on czwfans.com by Rob Feinstein, after the spat between CZW/ROH and CZWNews.com/CZWFans.com. Make of it what you will:
I was not going to even comment on this but I feel that now is the time. I am not going to get into a pissing contest so after I write this I will not be responding to any messages. I just want to tell my side of the story and make it public. When I started going to CZW shows I sat down and talked to John and told him I wanted to help out. I brought him Tajiri, Super Crazy, Fujita, Tommy Dreamer and hooked him up with other guys as well. We started filming and then John did not want us filming for a few months but we still were able to set up at the shows. Before CZW ran its first show at the arena, we had John up to our offices. I told him I really wanted to film once again and I wanted to help him more with the company. I thought RF VIDEO had a lot to offer to CZW with all the years working with ECW. John did not want our help as he wanted to do things his way which is fine. A little before the arena show he called me and told me if I gave him x amount of money I could once again film all shows and set up for the entire year. I thought it was a great deal for both of us. He needed money for guard rails which is what he told me. We worked out a payment plan and John was paid off after a few months. We started ROH in Feb and we had our first show. We used the Briscoes and we were told from the parents that John Zandig was happy and did not care that we were using them. We ran our second show and everything was fine with us and CZW. Then we had our third show booked. I got a call from John saying that he was running the same night in West Chester and did not book that night on purpose. I told him it was ok and I know he was telling the truth. He asked me if he could use Jay and Mark on that show. I told John that we were using them as we had them already booked. I told John to talk to the Briscoes. John also told me that the show would start at 6 PM and that they would be able to make to our show in time. Well in the past and even last night the shows hardly start on time. Jay Briscoe also needed to be at our show for promos and to talk over his match. Then a week before our third show we ran a profile on our website and it said how old Mark is. John Zandig thinks that we put his age up to screw with CZW so they can't use him. Let me tell you how stupid that is. Number one, we were planning on using Mark as well. Why would we do that if we are screwing ourselves. The second reason this is that everyone in the back knew how old Mark was. That is why they wore the masks and at the last arena show Mark was going to wrestle. I do now know why John tried to use our website as an escape goat. He then told the parents that he was only going to use one of them in the future and then the Briscoes told them that if he only wants one of them they were going to quit. I found out that they quit after it was all over. I got a phone call and was informed that they just quit. RF VIDEO did not and I repeat did not influence them to quit. They did this on their own merit. I really feel that John was not fair to them because he was jelous that they were working our show and not his. We also made it clear that we were not ever going to use his talent. We never ever called or talked to any of his guys about working for ROH. The only other person is Eric who has been a good friend to us and worked with us for the last several years. Even Trent and Johnny asked for work before and we told them we did not want to screw John over. I will admit today I did call Trent about working and we got turned down which is fine but also sad and I will tell you why later in this letter. ROH was not trying to steal any guys from CZW. The SATS, Devine Storm, Brian XL all had quit long before we started ROH. They were upset on how they were treated in CZW. They also realize that they never can land a real job working in CZW as the WWF and many Japan offices will not hire you if you work there. This is not taking away anything from CZW wreslters as they have some of the best guys there. I like all of them as I got to know a few of them and they are the hardest workers. I said it before we started ROH. Go read all my PR on CZW from 8 months ago. I said it was awesome and put all of the guys over all the time. I put money into the company of CZW and did not want to hurt it.
This past week I heard from many people that John was really mad that the Briscoes worked my show and how he thought I made them quit. People at the West Chester show were telling people and it got back to me from who said it, that we got them to quit. So I knew John was holding a grudge with us over this. So on Thursday I got a phone call and this is how it went to the tee. John calls me up and I asked him how is everything going. He goes to me, not good. He said that there are many things going on and he did not think he needed to discuss them. He was referring to the Briscoes. He then told me that he does not want me at his shows anymore (keep in mind John already was paid in full for the whole year), and we would not be able to set up at anymore shows. He said that it was A CONFLICT OF INTEREST but he was a man of his word and would still send us all the videos tapes. I don't see how that is being a man of his word, when he is not living up to the deal he made with us. He has my money and is now not letting us film and set up. He basically just screwed us because of the Briscoes not making his show. He also should have called me and talked to me instead of talking to kids and if he had a problem instead he just called me with out even talking to me. So this is what happened and this is the truth. After he hung up with me I told Joe who does our website that John just broke his deal with us.I asked Joe since he was doing CZWnews.com and was doing our ROH website did he feel it was a conflict of intrest. Joe, like us is a CZW fan. He felt what John did was wrong. It was his decision since John said it was a conflict of interest to stop doing the CZW website at that moment. He then turned the site into a link to our site. It seems fair to me after all John did not give us a chance to talk. He just called me and did not even give me a chance to talk to him. That is why there is no longer the other site. I never hacked the site. It was ran by Joe who also did our site. I did what I was forced to do. John called me 15 minutes after I did that and said it was a cute trick I did and hung up on me. I was just going to tell him it was a conflict of interest.
John still said he is sending the videos and I do think he will. Smart Mark called me the next day and told us that John called him and told them to send us everything they film so I do think John will keep that part of the deal. But what about the other part John? What happened to the table space at the shows. If you are a man of your word then we should have been set up this past week.
Then at the show this past Sat night they cut a promo on us with out saying our name. Thanks for putting us over by the way. It is funny how we are working with everyone in this area but CZW. We get along with everyone. We never tried to take anyone from CZW. John agreed to let the Briscoes work for us. He even told me on the phone that he did not care. He only cared when we already had them booked and then he booked his show and they stayed with us. I mean let's look at this. If one of his wreslters were booked on his show and some other promoter wanted them after he already had them booked he would say no. I do not understand why this is anything different. Like I said earlier in this letter I did call Trent Acid today . I respected John and did not want to do this while we were working together. This is the sad part. Trent did not want to because John told them last night they can't work for ROH or PWF. These guys are not under contract and I do respect Trent for being loyal to John. But I do not like the fact that he tries to control the guys. If they want to work for other promotions they should be allowed to. That is how your talent John is going to get better, by working with other guys and learning from other vetrans in other locker rooms. I think it is wrong that John is not letting his guys work elsewhere. I know they are allowed to work for other promotions just not ROH. I can see his points about some of his ideas but it is not fair to the fans or wrestlers. The funny thing is that John Zandig has called three of our guys last month about working for him. They all turned him down, but I never got mad. I never called John and told him not to do that. I blew it off. I never told anyone in my locker room not to work for CZW.
I know CZW fans love CZW. I even like the product. I want CZW to do well because if they do well, then it makes ROH work harder which means the fans will benefit. I hope you let people read this. Since this is supposed to be uncensored. So that is the entire story. RF VIDEO never made them quit. We never stole them from him. He never called us to inform us that there were any problems. He just broke a one year deal after four months and expected us to sit back and not do anything. I am not going to respond to anything posted after this as I am not entering a pissing contest.
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