The show opens with tag team action as the South Coast Connection (Ashley Dunn & Kelly Sixx) take on The Models (Joey Hayes & Danny Hope). As was expected with this match anyone who answered the open challenge would go on to lose to the SCC; however i was very surprised that it was answered by The Models who are quite a veteran tag team on the British wrestling scene.



There was potential that the match would have been won by The Models as they kept control throughout the early going of the match singling out Ashley Dunn. But it was when Kelly Sixx came into the match that the pace changed and the SCC would go on to pick up the victory.

The second match came as a bit of a surprise as it was an exhibition match between Mark & Thomas Billington who are nephews of the late, great Dynamite Kid. Now given the pre-match hype around the fact that Marty Jones is their trainer, i was pleasantly surprised with how good a future these two could have in the ring.



Thomas Billington who looks very much like his late uncle clearly had a lot of characteristics of the Dynamite Kid too as he took to the sky with a diving headbutt. However the match would be cut short as the SCC would make their presence felt attacking The Dynamic Duo causing a no contest.



It was mentioned prior to the match too that The Dynamic Duo had only been training for six to nine months and you can clearly tell that wrestling runs in their bloodline as they didn’t look too out of place in the ring. However while it is good to see matches at times go a fast pace; the pace that these two were wrestling at to begin with seemed like there was a little bit of uncomfortableness being in front of the bright lights of the bigger platform so early on in their career.

The third match of the evening saw Omari quickly dispatch of Connor Renshaw after hitting the O-Zone to pick up the victory. Now i wasn’t surprised to see Omari win here, however i was quite surprised at how short of a match it was given Omari’s previous bouts with Lucky Kid and how good they were. I felt that this could have been on a previous episode if they were looking to build towards the feud of Omari & Nathan Cruz instead of using it as filler during this episode.

The main event was set between “The Product” David Starr and PAC; which in all honesty could have been a selling point to draw more viewers in to one of their iPPV’s, but huge credit to Defiant Wrestling for airing this free on YouTube.



What a main event it was too as both men first tried to play mind games with each other; but overall the fact that this match was given a fair amount of time and both PAC & David Starr were allowed to try and out wrestle each other proved why not only was this a main event quality match but as already said a match that could have easily been the main event of a Defiant iPPV.



PAC showcased to the world what we already know about how good at wrestling he is; while David Starr showcased to the world that he can stand toe to toe with the likes of PAC and that he is damn good at wrestling too. The match of course came to an end via shenanigans when the referee was knocked down and PAC hit a low blow on Starr before finishing with a RED Arrow.

I was very much impressed with this episode of Loaded as while it was able to build future feuds it also showcased two of the best wrestlers in the world today in a main event quality match.



However there still seems to be some time needed to develop the next stars but i’m sure that given some time teams such as the South Coast Connection & The Dynamic Duo can become regular names in Defiant.