FutureShock Wrestling 70 took place on October 6th 2013 and was held at the Stockport Masonic Guildhall. We were there as fans this time after our interview show from FutureShock 69 and it was nice to sit back, relax and write some notes about the show they put on.
“Magic” Mark Adams welcomed us to the show and introduced the usual countdown on the big screen to indicate the start of the show. The main focus of the first half of the show was to decide who would enter the second round of the Futureshock Trophy Tournament.
The first match featured Josh Bodom facing off with Xander Cooper to see who will make it into the next round. Bodom looks the part but has over the top facial expressions that take away from the action at times. Having said that, this match was storming from the outset and brilliantly placed to get the crowd hot early. The match finished after interference from Ryan Bodom cost Josh Bodom the match.
Magic Mark gave a quick plug for Futureshock 68 and 69 which are now available on DVD. (Click here)
The second match in the tournament pitted Dave Rayne against T-Bone. This match featured some brilliant moments including Dave Rayne telling the referee to move out of the way so he could do one of the least delicate splashes to the outside we’ve ever seen; the crowd loved it. T-Bone was in full heel mode and managed to rile the kids at ringside. They managed to top the dive to the outside with a stalling suplex that had Rayne screaming on his way down. The finish came when Rayne attempted to cheat but once again was thwarted by the referee, which allowed T-Bone to hit a tiger suplex followed by a top rope DDT for the win.
It was then time for the battle of the terrible ring-gear as Don Meacho battled Simon Valour. Meacho wasted no time by attacking Valour on the outside before the bell rang. The battle around ringside commenced with them both getting plenty of offense in before returning to the ring. Valour hit three back body drops, which is impressive considering the size difference between him and the much bigger Meacho. Valour eventually succumbed to Meacho’s power after a jackhammer from his opponent.
The final place in the semi-final of the Futureshock Trophy Tournament was up for grabs in our fourth match of the evening between Ryan Bodom and Joe Vega. This was the sleeper match of the night and the crowd was massively behind Vega. The match slowed down after Bodom began a methodical attack on Vega’s leg. Vega sold the injured leg like a trooper but still managed to pick the win up with his tilt-a-whirl DDT off the distraction from Josh Bodom.
We thought it was time for the intermission but the returning Davey Richards surprised us all. The crowd absolutely hated Richards because of how he had left the company high and dry the year earlier when he was champion. He claims he is still Futureshock champion and calls out the so-called champion Alex Cyanide.
Cyanide makes his way to the ring with his manager Chris Egan. There was some confusion at this point because Richards was under the impression that Egan was the champion, Richards soon changed his tune when Cyanide got in his face. Egan offered him a match tonight but before Richards had a chance to respond out came Zack Gibson. Gibson was more than happy to add an extra man to the title match and the GM of Futureshock made it official, only there would be a special stipulation that he would reveal later in the evening. Davey Richards ran off ranting about how much he hated this country as we went to the interval.
We returned from the break with an 8-man tag team match. It was Project Ego (Martin Kirby & Kris Travis), Sparx & The Nordic Warrior vs. The Blackpool Blondes (Axl Rage & James Drake), Noah & Dan Evans. This match probably would have been better if it was a standard tag match between The Blondes and Project. The match was decent with some high spots and comedy sprinkled throughout Project Ego won picked up the victory with a double team-lifting slam. Kirby did his best Hogan impression after the match with a leg drop on Noah’s teddy bear.
It was now time for our main event of the evening. It was Zack Gibson vs. Davey Richards vs. Alex Cyanide…or so we thought. The lights went off and the familiar music of Jack Gallagher rang out around the arena to the delight of the Futureshock faithful. To give some backstory, Gallagher had dropped the title to Richards the year earlier in dodgy fashion, oh and nobody even knew that he was in the country.
Gallagher went straight after Richards and a brawl ensued on the outside. Richards got the upper hand on the outside and managed to hit a piledriver on his foe. Back in the ring we had Cyanide and Gibson going at it until Richards got involved and teamed up with Cyanide to dominate Gibson. This ensued for quite some time until Zack managed to hit a top rope missile dropkick and suicide dive to the current champion.
This left Richards alone in the ring as Gallagher collected his thoughts and began his comeback; he hit Richards with a Daniel Bryan-esque dropkick in the corner followed by his patented flying headbutt. Cyanide returned to the ring and picked Gallagher up like he was a paper bag. Gallagher battled Cyanide into the corner and Gibson returned to help him hit one of the biggest top rope superplex’s since the ring collapsed on SmackDown in 2003.
The crowd were nearing fever pitch as Gibson looked like he was on the edge of becoming the new Futureshock champion. That was until Chris Egan threw sand in his eyes in a last gasp effort to stop his client from losing his title. Cyanide took advantage of the blinded Gibson and hit his huge sit-down powerbomb to retain.
That was the end to another thoroughly enjoyable night at Futureshock. The company managed to put a brilliant show together even with some of the regular roster missing from the card. If you haven’t been to a Futureshock show and you live in the Manchester area, we couldn’t recommend it highly enough.
– By Michael Owen
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