• Paul London defeated Red with a shooting star press in about 6 minutes. In one of the sicker spots of the night, Red his a rana as both he and Paul London stood on the top rope at the same time, with the fans chanted "Please Don't Die".
• American Dragon defeated Paul London with his "cattle mutilation"submission finisher in about 11 minutes. AJ Styles would then wrestle American Dragon in the second half of the show in the finals of the #1 contender gauntlet.
• Christopher Daniels, Donovan Morgan and Samoa Joe (with Simply Luscious) retained their Ring of Honor Tag Team Trophy by submission over the team of Low Ki, Doug Williams and their mystery partner (replacing Michael Modest) Homicide. This was a tremendous match, going 26 minutes, with incredible action throughout.
• After intermission, Alexis Laree over Alison Danger (with Mace of the Christopher Street Connection) in a brief match.
• Carnage Crew (HC Loc and Tony DeVito) defeated The Ring Crew, Dunn and Marcos, with a sick looking second rope spike piledriver.
• Xavier successfully defended his Ring of Honor title over Jay Briscoe, using a top rope neckbreaker
• AJ Styles defeated American Dragon in about 25 minutes with a Styles Clash to win the #1 contender gauntlet to a full-on standing ovation from the crowd. As Dragon was leaving the ring post-match The Prophecy (Daniels, Morgan and Xavier) jumped Styles, but Jay Briscoe and Dragon ran in for the save.
• In the main event, Shinjiro Ohtani and Masato Tanaka defeated Steve Corino and Low Ki, seconded by Samoa Joe in about 16 minutes with a springboard dropkick and spinning powerbomb on Corino for the pin at the sixteen minute mark. This was a tremendous match, with Ohtani and Tanaka hitting all their trademark spots.  Ohtani and Tanaka came in to the loudest ovation of the night. Low Ki  replaced the originally scheduled Spanky who was signed weeks ago by WWE.

For those interested in sampling their product, Ring of Honor returns to Wakefield, MA (outside Boston) on November 16th with Jay Briscoe and a
mystery partner vs. Mark Briscoe and a mystery partner, Doug Williams vs. American Dragon in a 1/2 Hour Iron Man Match, AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels and more.

ROH debuts in Hamburg, PA on December 7th with AJ Styles vs. Xavier, Colt Cabana vs. CM Punk, and Abdullah The Butcher and Homicide vs Carnage Crew.

They return to Philadelphia on December 28th with one match announced: Red vs. Jodie Fleisch.

For further information, go to the Ring of Honor website.

Then, as people walked and ran (and buses and vans drove) the five blocks between buildings, in front of an estimated crowd of 1000 (the largest crowd since Cage of Death III last December), CZW ran part II of the November 9th Philadelphia independent super-doubleheader, entitles "Night of Infamy".

The show began at about 9:30 pm with the usual video promo to get things going, with Lobo being jumped by Zandig and parties unseen, as if to say
that this was a "Zandig show", and that there would be no interruption in the main event, as occurred in Dover, DE.

The results were:

• In what could best be described as a comedy match, Ian Knoxx defeated Derek Frazier and Hurricane Kid.
• Jon Dahmer over GQ
• Josh Prohibition over Nick Berk
• Chri$ Cash over Sonjay Dutt and Ruckus in a ladder match
• The Backseat Boyz and Sick Nick Mondo and M-Dogg20 went to a no contest, as Ric Blade ran in to make the save after Mondo got powerbombed through a table.
• Justice Pain and Messiah over H8 Club
  This was a good match with tons of stiff spots. Messiah got powerbombed by Gage off the top ropes through a table. Justice Pain gave Nate Hatred a belly-to-belly suplex off the other side's top rope onto another table which didn't break.
  Then, the sound recording of the laugh from the mystery man who stole the CZW belt from the last show skipped (intentionally). Nick Gage and Justice Pain ran to the stage, demanded that the CZW broadcast team of Eric Garguilo and John House "tell them where the voice was coming from", at one point throwing Eric Garguilo off of the stage.
  As the crowd was distracted by this, Messiah showed up suddenly with the stolen belt... setting up Messiah as the man who "stole the belt", and the challenger for Justice Pain at Cage of Death 4.

The crowd, many of whom had been at the Ring of Honor show... were unbelievably hot for the main event... which began at about 1:15 am.

• In the main event, Wifebeater over Zandig in "I Quit" barbed wire canvas/no rope barbed wire wrapped with light tubes/fans bring the weapons death match.
  Fans brought weapons including a mirror wrapped in barbed wire, light tube wrapped crutches, a VCR, light tube bundles, a thumbtack and light tube studded boxing glove, and a computer keyboard with thumbtack studded keys.
  In the finish, as Zandig had been beaten bloody...Wifebeater pulled out the weedwhacker, got Zandig with it at least twice, then poured salt on Zandig's bloody back.
  Frank Talent came up (in an angle) as if to stop the show because of the weedwhacker use. Zandig basically shoved him aside, looked Wifebeater in the face and said "I quit".
  The show ended with the locker room coming out to give Wifebeater a sendoff, with the crowd giving Wifebeater a loud cheering sendoff at about 1:45 am to Metallica cover of "Turn the Page" playing on the house sound system.

Wifebeater's retirement is legitimate, as he'll need a second major surgery on his shoulder, originally injured at Cage of Death III.

CZW returns for Cage of Death 4 on December 14th, with the following matches announced at last night's show:

• Zandig vs. Lobo in the Cage of Death
• Messiah vs. Justice Pain for the CZW Heavyweight Title
• Sick Nick Mondo and the returning Ric Blade vs. The Backseat Boyz
• Ruckus vs. MDogg 20 vs. Sonjay Dutt

Tickets for Cage of Death may be reserved by calling (856) 468-9147, by emailing beaners_13@yahoo.com or by using the CZW Online Ticket Reservations System at http://www.czwwrestling.com/Tickets/COD/cod4.html.

General admission tickets for ECW Arena shows are also available at the door, or at these remote ticket locations:

• Innersoul Body Piercing, 2c Creek Road, Brooklawn, NJ (across from West Brook Bowling Alley) - (856) 742-7001
• Somerton Beverages, 13510 Bustleton Avenue, Philadelphia, PA - (215) 673-1900
• Ontario Street Comics, 2235 Ontario Street, Philadelphia - (215) 288-7338

Then, the weekend concluded with Premier Wrestling Federation's Vast Energy 2002 at Pottstown, PA's Academy Hall; again featuring Shinjiro Ohtani and Masato Tanaka, as well as the debuting American Dragon, and Reckless Youth.

Results of the show, which again saw an excellent crowd with the best advance in PWF history, are as follows:

• Shinjiro Ohtani and Masato Tanaka won the PWF Universal Tag-Team champions, defeating Steve Corino and C.W. Anderson in the main event at Vast Energy USA.
• Chris Hamrick retained his PWF Universal Heavyweight title, defeating Jay Briscoe with a second rope piledriver.
• Zero-One International Junior Heavyweight champion Low Ki defeated The Amazing Red, via the Ki Clutch submission.
• Rockin' Rebel and Striker defeated Rapid Fire Maldonado and Chi Chi Cruz.
• After intermission, Gino Giovanni attacked Rob Dimension, only to receive a beating at the hands of a returning Guillotine LeGrande.  His return was short-lived however, as he announced that he was relinquishing the PWF television title, as he was retiring (LeGrande actually hasn't worked in months, but it was a nice opportunity to recognize a longtime PWF worker); and that the TV title would need someone to defend as... beginning Friday night, December 6th, the PWF will be seen on Philadelphia's WGTW 48 at midnight every Friday, replacing the currently airing WXW program.
• In a match that was as good as you'd expect, PWF Junior Heavyweight champion Quiet Storm successfully defended his title against the debuting American Dragon and Reckless Youth.
• U.S. champion Chris Divine defeated Jack Victory by disqualification.  After the match, Divine and Trinity were laid out by Christopher Daniels and Simply Luscious.
• Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels defeated Joey Matthews and Michael Shane.
• Billy Bax defeated "Dynamite" Josh Daniels with a belly to belly suplex.
• Da Hit Squad defeated The S.A.T.

The next PWF event will be December 8th at Academy Hall in Pottstown, PA.  Matches already signed:

• Jack Victory and Joey Matthews vs. Amazing Red and CW Anderson
• For the PWF US Title: Champion Chris Devine takes on Michael Shane
• In an 8 Man elimination match: The Latino Alliance takes on Rockin' Rebel, Striker and Da Hit Squad
• For the PWF Junior Heavyweight Title: Champion Quiet Storm defends against Reckless Youth
• Chris Hamrick defends the PWF Heavyweight Title and more...

Call (215) 793-6823 for tickets and information, or visit PWFprowrestling.com.

To sum up the weekend, everyone succeeded.

This happened because two promoters who haven't gotten along did the right thing for business.

Fans and promoters everyone need to understand is that when competing promotions within a city or area cooperate, they all make money. Too
many times, competing promoters get into ego-driven pissing contests.

Fans get caught up in them, including the fans of CZW, Ring of Honor and 3PW in Philadelphia. Readers can name their own favorite local equivalent.

Neither Zandig or Rob Feinstein have to trade Christmas or Hanukkah cards. But as smart businessmen, they need to work together enough so that both of them make money if a situation like this comes up again.

Perhaps they could consider bartering for time on each other's TV programs, so as to cross-pollinate their audiences.

This very kind of situation will come up again on December 28th, as Ring of Honor is scheduled on the same night as 3PW...during Christmas week.

Jasmin St. Claire and Rob Feinstein don't get along...that's no secret. What is or isn't going on is between them.

But both of them presumably like to make money.

It's time for them to talk to each other, using intermediaries they trust, if need be.

This kind of cooperation is a priority for the three Philly-based indies; if for no other reason that there's a guy called Rob Black around, who can lose $10,000 or more with a show, and just use it as a tax writeoff.

Zandig can't do that.

Rob Feinstein can't do that.

Jasmin St. Claire can't do that.

Therefore, these three promoters need to work in some sort of cooperative manner until or unless Rob Black is out of the Philadelphia market.

If you come to shows in the Philadelphia area, and you agree, tell them.  Send your thoughts to 3PW at info@3pw.com, and to Ring of Honor at RFVideo1@aol.com.