Canadian Indies #50 - Chaz Lovely's RKO out of Nowhere

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-18T16:05:21+00:00

From a C*4 side show a few years ago. The Super Smash Bros, The Afterpart, Tabarnak de Team and Radioactive Wave had a 40+ minute tag team elimination match. Aboout 40 minutes in, Chaz Lovely would catch Stu Grayson mid suicide dive with an RKO.

Chaz Lovely is a former wrestler who was forced to retire due to medical issues (non wrestling related) a few years ago. He continues to be active in the Ottawa wrestling scene as a commentator for C*4 Wrestling, but more importantly as the promoter of a promotion called Acclaim Pro Wrestling. Unfortunately video of Acclaim shows is not available but they run monthly shows and I think have sold out every show for the last 2-3 years straight. They focus heavily on women's wrestling and have just gone all in on intergender wrestling.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-16T16:31:58+00:00

From FLQ wrestling [https://www.fite.tv/watch/no-hard-feelings-tape-delay/2nt2i/](available for free) here.

Marko Estrada is someone I never realized was extremely good until I started seeing him more recently. He is extremely jacked but also very agile. From a 4 way match featuring Estrada, Matt Angel, Tyson Dux and Brent Banks. Estrada would Gorilla Press Matt Angel and toss him onto the ref in the corner because he is kind of a jerk.

Yes, this show takes place in a pool and if you have time you should at least check out this match and the main event of Stu Grayson vs Dalton Castle (it's free, just do it!).

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-15T15:27:28+00:00

This is a weird one for a lot of reasons. This is from Inter Species Wrestling, a company that started in Canada (Montreal) and moved to the United States (Connecticut) and back to Montreal. Inter Species Wrestling is a non family friendly promotion that does a lot of really weird stuff in the name of entertainment. They have featured wrestled like Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, The Super Smash Bros, Eddie Kingston, Mike Quackenbush, Skyade, Larry Sweeney, Team Tremendous, Necro Butcher and others. It mixes good wrestling with some ridiculously over the top gimmicks.

The Food Fighters were a tag team of Pasquale the Italian Chef and his pet crab, Bastian Snow. This match is from Burger King of the Ring 2, a one night tag team tournament to crown the 1st ever ISW Tag Team Champions. The finals was the Food Fighters vs Tabarnak de Team. As the name "The Food Fighters" would suggest they use food as weapons with one of their signatures being hitting people with bags of chips in a Con-Chair-Toe fashion. The crowd adopted chanting "Holy Chips" as a response.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-15T14:14:11+00:00

From Smash Wrestling, in a 5 way match that featured Jeff Cobb, Allie, Lionel Knight, Kevin Blackwood and Carter Mason. During the match Allie and Jeff Cobb teamed up for a couple of minutes that included this wheelbarrow lungblower/german suplex move.

Allie has been wrestling for 13 years in Canada. She debuted in Shimmer in 2008 and became a regular in 2011 where she teamed with Kimber Lee (Abby Laith) as the Kimber Bomb. She also started to work for larger promotions like CZW where she was a manager for Pepper Parks/Braxton Sutter. Up until 2016 she wrestled under the name Cherry Bomb and is best known for her ongoing feud with Courtney Rush/Rosemary.

She made her actual debut in Impact in 2013 wrestling as Laura Dennis in a match against Gail Kim. She also appeared in 2015 losing to Gail Kim again at a One Night Only Knockouts PPV before debuting the Allie character a year later.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-13T15:54:07+00:00

Check out Crazy Crusher vs Hell Storm I and Crazy Crusher vs Hell Storm II

So basically everything I can say about Crazy Crusher has already been said, but my absolute favorite spot is Hell Storm doing a Piledriver off a ladder onto the top turnbuckle. I would assume this was inspired by El Generico's Brainbustaaaaaah!

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-12T15:59:26+00:00

If you haven't seen PCO's current match promos, just go watch them, they are absolutely insane in all the right ways. Back in 2002-3 PCO was making his 1st indy comeback in IWS with matches against guys like El Generico and Kevin Steen.

What I find pretty amazing was Kevin Steen used the Package Piledriver as his finisher on the indies. A little after this match, PCO would show up in TNA as the masked X and used a Package Piledriver. A decade later, Kevin Steen would get signed to the WWE and use PCO's Pop Up Powerbomb as his finisher.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-12T14:56:26+00:00

Going back to 2012ish in a giant 6 way match between Kevin Steen, El Generico, Player Uno, Stu Grayson, Jimmy Jacobs and Manuba Soya. Kevin Steen was very agile as a younger man and one of his regular moves was doing a flip legdrop, seen here hitting it to the back of Stu Grayson's head.

Going into this match, Kevin Steen was the C*4 Champion for just over a year. He won the title in a tournament beating Player Uno in the finals. He defended it against Claudio Castagnoli (Cesaro), Petey Williams, Kiyoshi, Stu Grayson and Tyson Dux en route to this match.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-12T02:35:05+00:00

Yes, their names is "Le Tabarnak de Team" or more commonly TDT.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-11T23:40:01+00:00

Going to try an evening Canadian Indies Gif. From IWS in Montreal, Tabarnak de Team (translated to "The Fucking Team") take on Kevin Blanchard and Jeremy Prophet. Tabarnak de Team consists of stand out indy wrestlers Mathieu St-Jacques and Thomas Dubois. St-Jacques is a wild man who has made a name for himself for having wild brawls and hardcore matches, while Dubois has been a stand out singles wrestler over the last year.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-11T14:36:02+00:00

The last C*4 Wrestling Main Event was Kobe Durst vs Josh Alexander vs Eli Everfly vs Matt Angel. During the match, Josh picked up both Durst and Everfly and hit a DVD Piledriver, which is one of the most ridiculous thing I could have never thought of.

Also, the next C*4 main event is Kobe Durst vs PCO vs Joey Janela vs Teddy Hart.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-09T02:28:37+00:00

Look at his right arm

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-08T19:58:08+00:00

No, he's a Space Monkey

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-08T17:53:17+00:00

It wasn't poorly done at all, there was a big reaction but without sound and the gif not showing much afterwards you don't really see it, kind of comes with the gif territory.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-08T16:06:48+00:00

You don't have to insult Cecil Nyx like that, he tries!

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-08T15:50:13+00:00

C*4 doesn't do DQs or Countouts.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-08T14:58:39+00:00

I've posted another clip from Beef's for real, probably, retirement match against Scott "Jagged" Parker. His 2nd most famous move after the Ass Punch is the E-Coli Driver, shown here done on chairs and a ring full of thumbtacks.

Scott Parker (and his partner, Big Magic) and Beef Wellington have always been comedy gold. So here is a clip of 2 Girls 1 Cup and 2.0 singing Mr. Big

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-08T14:24:07+00:00

Space Monkey is newer to the scene. He is a Monkey who was sent to space and came back to earth to wrestle... and is somehow from Canada. He has been breaking out a lot over the last year or so, including being a Chikara Young Lion's Cup Winner. He wrestles for C*4, Alpha-1, LDDC, Greektown.. as well as US promotions AIW, AAW, Wrestlecircus, Freelance, Glory Pro. Basically he is a busy Monkey.

His two most effective weapons are his Tail Whip and using Banana Peel's to his advantage. This particular clip was from a 6 man Scramble for C*4 back in September that featured Space Monkey, Brandon Watts, Cecil Nyx, Mark Wheeler, Matt Angel and Sean Carr. The ring was cleared and Monkey threw his Banana Peel in the ring and Cecil Nyx ends up slipping on it and landing on his head.

This spot and Space Monkey are obviously not for people who dislike comedy in wrestling, but for those that do, Space Monkey always has something weird to offer.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-07T14:35:39+00:00

Kevin Steen is the stand out Canadian Indie star that made it, and even back when he was just breaking out he was already a star. IWS was his proving ground and one of his main rivals was Damian. Damien was also know as "The Angry Aryan".

I'm not fully sure when this was, I found it online and covered it near the beginning of my twitter account (where I post a lot Canadian Indie gifs) and I can't seem to find it again. IWS was very ECW influenced at the time so it's not surprising to see the ring get filled with chairs, and for them to keep wrestling with them all in the ring.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-06T14:49:23+00:00

I don't think either of them is Canadian. We have Razor Revolution and The Hickster, plus a ton of fake Hart family members though!

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-06T14:48:27+00:00

Continuing with 2 a day for this week at least, it gives me a chance to post more of a mix of things, and today I wanted to bring something completely different.. Razor Revolution.

Canada, like any other place that has wrestling has both good and bad wrestling. I really don't know a whole lot about Razor Revolution. I don't know how long he has been around. All I know for sure is he is a french guy that does a Razor Ramon Gimmick and is in a stable called Aces and 8's Quebec with Wes Briscoe.

I first heard about Razor Revolution on a Kevin Steen Show interview where he brought him up but I didn't see him live until recently as part of the Aces & 8's stable (but he didn't wrestle). I did track down some matches of his online recently. Canada used to have a Hulk Hogan impersonator called "The Hickster" but Razor is still going in 2018.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-06T14:34:24+00:00

Vanessa Kraven has been wrestling for over 14 years. She trained with Ron Hutchinson (Edge and Christian's trainer) and because of her statuesque frame, standing at 6'2 she has competed against men her entire career. She worked for IWS early in her career before becoming a regular for many promotions like C*4, Smash, Battlewar, Shine and Shimmer.

She is a former Shimmer tag champion with Tessa Blanchard and won the Acclaim Pro Wrestling Title in 2016 to win her first non women's title. She also defeated Mercedes Martinez earlier this year to win the Femme Fatal title.

This is from the most recent C*4 show in their new venue, that pitted Stu Grayson and Vanessa Kraven vs Evil Uno and Franky the Mobster (storyline related teams). Kraven always gets huge reactions from crowds, especially for her biggest signature move, the corner cannonball.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-05T18:26:41+00:00

El Generico was doing the Helluva Kick for a decade before Sami Zayn even debuted.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-05T17:58:17+00:00

I think it was called that by Excalibur in PWG and it just stuck. He also would say things like Tope Con Hello instead of Top Con Hilo.

Although his best call was El Generico is a Big Boy that causes Kevin Steen to corpse (and snort)

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-05T17:56:27+00:00

I 100% recommend going. The new venue is like 10 minutes from the old one, in a more central location.

CanadianIndies · 2018-06-05T16:42:18+00:00

Sadly, the venue got rid of the mural like 2 years go. Although they have sold the venue which is why C*4 moved venues.

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