Well, since I don’t have anything to do on Wednesday nights, and the CZW Academy is only 20 minutes from my house, every other week I’ll be attending Dojo Wars, their bi-weekly “House Show”. It’s 5 matches for 5 bucks, how can you go wrong with that? Since the only way to see the show is to be there, and only a very limited number of people can fit in the place, I’ll let you in on all the details with a full results list, pictures and match breakdown.

Conor Claxton defeated Frankie Pikard

defeated Frankie Pikard Andrew Wolf defeated “Elegant Elvis”

defeated “Elegant Elvis” Nate Carter defeated Trooper Audubon

defeated Trooper Audubon Sozio defeated Qefka the Quiet

defeated Qefka the Quiet Dave McCall defeated Brittany Blake and Kit Osbourne in a Three-Way Dance

defeated Brittany Blake and Kit Osbourne in a Three-Way Dance Shane Strickland defeated Joe Gacy in a non-title match

This week was definitely the weakest of the Dojo Wars yet. Maybe it’s because I got there late and didn’t have a good seat (hence the lack of quality pics this week, sorry), or maybe because there was a major iPPV this last weekend, but the energy just wasn’t very good this week, and there wasn’t a lot of major bumps, so everything was a little subdued. I was also surprised David Starr didn’t have a match, as he’s on the poster. I wanted him to defend the WSU Tag Title. Yes, he won the women’s tag title this last weekend. It was hilarious.

Opening up the night yet again was another match between Conor Claxton and Frankie Pikard. At this point, I think DJ is just messing with us. The match was a bunch of grapples and submission attempts, with lots of ankle locks. Pickard got on a nice figure four leg lock, but Claxton broke free. They then traded a series of headbutts, with Claxton getting in the final one and picking up the win.



After that came Andrew Wolf against Elegant Elvis, with the stipulation that Elvis would leave CZW if he lost. That’s OK, as he was Devious Diego last time, and I’m sure he’ll be someone else next time. This was a pretty light match, but there was a fun bit of comedy in the middle where they were both fighting over Wolf’s Zelda staff. Wolf managed to pick up the win with a crucifix roll up.



Next up was a quick squash match between Nate Carter and Trooper Audubon. Apparently someone brought in a box of cupcakes for the wrestlers, and both Carter and his tag partner Dave McCall came to the ring eating one. After Carter finished his cupcake in the ring, he locked up with Audubon for a Feats of Strength, kicked him in the gut, hit a massive clothesline, then picked him up for a cutter and got the win all in quick succession.



The next bout was Sozio against Qefka the Quiet. This was a pretty solid match. It started with Sozio complaining to Qefka that his suspenders aren’t even real and are sewn onto his shirt as he tried to snap them off, and Qefka countering by snapping Sozio’s suspenders hard against his chest. Qefka didn’t have a lot of luck with his miming this week, as when he attempted the slingshot, Sozio sidestepped it, causing Qefka to ram shoulder first into the post and onto the floor. Sozio kept working the same shoulder for the rest of the match, eventually locking it in a cross arm breaker for the win.



This week was another week with a bonus 6th match, with it being an intergender Three Way Dance between Dave McCall, Brittany Blake, and Kit Osbourne. I’m a big Brittany Blake fan (or cosplayer Jeanne Killjoy if that’s not breaking kayfabe), and I wish they would use her more effectively. Even though she was the same size as Osbourne, neither of the men really wanted to engage with her, and she spent most of the short bout just standing in the corner watching. She did team up a bit with McCall, with him holding Osbourne while she hit him. She managed to get in a few kicks to Osbourne’s back while he was down, but then she attempted a crossbody to both men, and they caught her and dumped her out of the ring. Osbourne went to Superkick McCall, but he managed to avoid it and it was Brittany Blake who took the brunt of it. While Osbourne tried to check on her, McCall hit him from behind and got in a pin for the victory.



The main event of the evening was a non-title match between Wired TV Champ Shane Strickland and Chainsaw Joe Gacy. This took a while to warm up, but was pretty good. Shane spent the early part of the match trying to knock Gacy off his feet with a series of shoulder blocks to no avail, until he finally kicked his knee out with a dropkick. Gacy got in a wicked looking spinning Irish Curse backbreaker and picked up the win after a series of powerpombs.

Forgive me if I goof on some names and spellings, I try to research them as best I can, but many of the participants at these shows are new wrestlers so there isn’t anything online about them yet and I have to go by what I think I hear the announcer say.