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BRM Reviews wXw We Love Wrestling #33

Post by Big Red Machine » Oct 18th, '22, 17:57

wXw We Love Wrestling #33 (6/22/2022)- Oberhausen, Germany

This was taped on 6/12/2022. wXw is not making it easy for me to keep to a consistent dating system with these.


AMBOSS PROMO- good
Amboss is the name of the heel stable formed at the end of the last show, consisting of “The Avalanche” Robert Dreissker, the Arrows of Hungary, and Laurance Roman. They’ve got a Tron video ready, new jackets, new gear, and their own hand-signal. These guys are prepared!
They think the locker room has gotten too soft and nice, and that’s not how wrestling is supposed to be. They used the word “mediocre” a lot, which might be a bit of a dangerous word to use because, since COVID, I have been feeling that way about the roster as well. Yes, they still have some of their bigger names like Avalanche, Bobby Gunns, Jurn Simmons, and Marius Al-Ani, and they got Axel Tischer back, and people like Tristan Archer, Senza Volto, Aigle Blanc, Levaniel, Fast Time Moodo, Stephanie Maze (when she’s healthy) and Peter Tihanyi (and, to a lesser extent Anil Marilk, Vincent Heisenberg, and Maggot) have taken big steps forward, but between the loss of big names like Absolute Andy, Timothy Thatcher, and Metehan, no availability from Ilja Dragunov, Emil Sitoci, and WALTER, the loss of the entire top the women’s division in Toni Storm and Melanie Gray, , guys who had important historical cache like Rise, and either the loss or total mishandling of certain guys who seemed like they were on the verge of breaking out (Norman Harras, Veit Mueller… and losing Julian Pace to Speaking Out), it has felt like the promotion really hasn’t been of the quality we’re used to, with lots of time being taken up by the mediocre likes of Hektor Invictus, Dennis Dullnig, and the women they’ve moved into the title picture. wXw will have to be very careful to ensure that fans don’t start nodding along with these promos (especially when Dreissker and the Arrows are talking).
Also, Dreissker said he no longer wants to be known as “Avalanche,” saying it was something he came up with because the fans were too stupid to remember a German name, so he used an English one as well. Thankfully, this means my reviews will be shorter, as I will no longer feel compelled to write the whole thing out in headers. They wanted their first opponent to come out, so we got…

NICK SCHREIER vs. LAURANCE ROMAN (w/the Arrows of Hungary & Robert Dreissker)- no rating, fine squash
Roman won a short match cleanly, but left his Crossface in after the match, just to be a jerk.

AXEL TISCHER vs. PETER TIHANYI- 6.25/10
Solid stuff, with Tihanyi lasting a while against the veteran former world champion. Tischer showed Tihanyi respect after the match, drawing a contrast between him and Amboss.

ANDY JACKSON INTERVIEWS PETER TIHANYI- okay
He attributed his loss to a back injury suffered at the end of the brawl on the previous show, and at the hands of his trainers, the Arrows of Hungary. He says that their new attitude is not what they preached when they were training him, so maybe he needs to reconsider whether he continues to see them as mentors.

BOBBY GUNNS INJURY VIDEO & UPDATE- good
He’ll be back soon.

AIGLE BLANC vs. MICHAEL SCHENKENERG (w/Nikita Charisma)- 5/10
Aigle Blanc overcame the interference to get the win.

FAST TIME MOODO vs. MASHA SLAMOVICH- 7/10
This was a really great hard-hitting match. Moodo got the win. He showed Masha respect after the match.

WORLD TAG TEAM FESTIVAL QUALIFYING MATCH: Vincent Heisenberg & Maggot vs. Arrows of Hungary (w/Robert Dreissker & Laurance Roman)- 4.25/10
The Arrows got the clean win in a shockingly short match. I was also a little surprise to see Heisenberg be the one to get pinned.

wXw UNIFIED WORLD WRESTLING TITLE MATCH: Tristan Archer(c) vs. Jonathan Gresham- 7.25/10
Archer jumped Gresham during his entrance. They had a match that started well, but you could eventually tell that they were holding a back because Gresham being the ROH World Champion meant he wasn’t doing a clean job. The finish they eventually did was Archer getting himself counted out, but they did it in a way that was a lot more palatable than the guy just walking away like we usually get. That also meant that Gresham technically got the win here, setting him up for a shot in the future, by which point he will no longer be ROH World Champion.

JONATHAN GRESHAM PROMO- good
He switched the focus to his beef with Robert Dreissker. They two of them will lead teams in a match that will be taped later today for the next episode of We Love Wrestling. This probably helped the crowd feel like they didn’t get screwed on the main event, but it didn’t do so for a TV viewer.


This was a decent stage-setting episode of We Love Wrestling following the big landscape change that was the formation of Amboss at Broken Rules. We’ll see how that continues on the next show.
Hold #712: ARM BAR!

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