Dropkixx Wrestling Training School UK

What a fantastic night was to be had last night at our first bill at St. Andrews.
At the beginning of the night the crowd were informed that there would be a change to the scheduled 4-man tournament as “Gentlemen” Jon Ritchie would be pulling out of the tournament due to an injury. He would be replaced by Ponsenby P. Pratt and that he would be competing in our first bout of the evening.

However Ponsenby was unable to defeat Callum “Bullseye” Chuck as he was quickly pinned to allow Callum to advance to the tournament finals and get one step closer to a shot at the IWC Heavyweight Championship.

The second bout featured new IWC Light-Heavyweight Champion Lazer Lagden taking on ”Honest” Earnest Sterling in our second first round tournament match. The action got started straight away with Lazer attacking Sterling before the bell even rang with that big silver belt and when it got in the ring Lazer continued the assault. Sterling would make a comeback however and just when the match was getting some steam going Lazer attacked Sterling once again right infront of Senior Official Chris Hatch’s well-trained eyes. This gave Sterling a win by disqualification and an advance to the tournament finals later in the night.

Up next came “The World’s Most Pissed Off Man” Dan Eels taking on the incredible “Jamaican Sensation” Cell in a catchweight bout. A hard series of strikes from Dan Eels grounded Cell for the first part of the bout but Cell showed us why he is the Sensation soon enough with his highflying offence. However Dan Eels was truly, well, pissed off by this and quickly pinned Cell.

Our fourth bout saw one half of the most accomplished tag team in Dropkixx history, Gary Docherty of the Royal Scotsmen issuing an open challenge to anyone in the back at the moment. Out came local competitor Josh Faulkner who accepted the challenge. Docherty wrongly overlooked Faulkner as he was unable to get a win as quickly as he perhaps thought he could do. The young rookie Faulkner was impressible and came very close to defeating our accomplished star. However Docherty would prove that experience is more important in a match like this and was able to get a cheap pinfall over Faulkner. However Faulkner impressed “The People’s Commissioner” Lucas Jackson and may very well become part of the roster in the coming months.

Up next came our tournament finals of the night against “Honest” Earnest Sterling and Callum “Bullseye” Chuck. To say that the crowd was pro-Bullseye would be an understatement as the fans in attendance were clearly behind him and not the “Honest” one from the get-go. However Earnest would show that his self-proclaimed “honest” approach to a bout would be successful as he was able to control Chuck from the early going. Even stooping as low as to throw Chuck to the outside and brawl right infront of Chuck’s family. However Chuck would make a comeback and hit a series of high impact moves however Earnest was resilient in going down easily. He too would win via pinfall and not in the fairest of ways either. Chuck would contest this with Senior Official Chris Hatch but Earnest would leave with the victory and a future title contest with The Grim Reaper.

Speaking of the devil he was in our featured bout of the evening. However due to an injury sustained in their brawl at last month’s Ilford bill Sgt. Kevin Anthony was unable to compete and so top ranked Heavyweight Devin Byrne was named as his replacement. For this bout, for the IWC Heavyweight Championship, Commissioner Jackson was the official and he had a very hands on approach as even though the bout was No Holds Barred, before the match he had made it clear that he didn’t want it to turn too vicious. Bryne was able to get a lot of offense against The Reaper and even a couple of near falls. However after some interference from Banshee as well as help from a cane used brutally on the outside right infront of the fans The Grim Reaper was able to pin Byrne after a deadly Grimson Blade. However the action didn’t stop when the bell rang as The Grim Reaper was not happy with the punishment he had already dealt Byrne and continued the assault after the match choking him with the cane. Commissioner Jackson tried to stop the attack and then in a moment never before seen clotheslined the IWC Heavyweight Champion and stood up to the Reaper and his devious ways. However this proved to be a mistake as The Grim Reaper delivered a deadly Grimson Blade to the Commissioner. After being helped to the back Jackson made no comment on the actions of The Reaper but we are sure that our Commissioner will not let this assault slip under the radar.

Thank you all for coming and hopefully later on in the week we will have an announcement regarding our date of return later in the Spring. However don’t forget we have action in 3 weeks time in Lenham on Sunday 21st March and the card will be announce over the next fortnight. And following that we have our second bill at Ilford on 10th April. Keep your eyes on the Dropkixx website for all information on these next two bills and more.

Thank you's also to Jon Ritchie, Tony McMillan, Dan Eels, our fantastic ring announcer Tebraiz Shahzad and Senior Official Chris Hatch as well as all the staff at St. Andrews' for making it a night to remember. O, and Happy 20th Birthday to Charlotte Eels.