SPW No Guts No Glory Review (Part V)

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Singapore Championship No DQ Match: Da Butcherman (c) vs Destroyer Dharma: Andre appears on the orders of the wretched GM Carl Hella to confiscate Butcherman’s cleaver (he is making good decisions so far, has he turned faced?) and eats a punch for a rare bump. Match starts and Butcherman grounds Dharma with punches, but Dharma throws him into the corner and replies with a hanging vertical suplex for two. He goes for chair attack but Butcherman hits Lou Thesz press. The champion hits multiple chair shots on Dharma’s back and wedges the chair in the corner, Dharma swings him head first into the chair. Dharma’s turn to hit chair shots and bodyslam him onto a chair for two. He setup the chair and hits sidewalk slam for another two count. More chairs arrive as Dharma dishes more chair shots at the corner. He setups the chairs and teases a superplex but Butcherman counters with a forward fireman’s carry slam onto the chairs!

Butcherman facebusters Dharma onto a chair and then seats him onto a chair for his disgusting saliva-ful eye rake. He then hits running knee for two. He goes to the top rope but Dharma recovers to put him into a World Strongest slam and running splash for two. Dharma is now irate as he rips the ringside padding to tease a suplex, but Butcherman somehow but finds a ping pong paddle for a head shot, before slamming Dharma onto the crowd’s chairs (killing no chairs this time around thankfully).

Dharma is out at this point as Butcherman hits his slingshot spear and a crisp swinging neckbreaker onto a chair for the win. Da Butcherman (c) defeated Destroyer Dharma to retain the championship [***1/2]

Thomas: The no DQ rules brought something different to the show and played to the strength of the champion. Both wrestlers brought a good intensity right off the bat, and worked hard with the objects at hand behind a hot crowd. I thought the ending was slightly one-sided and anti-climatic but overall was very entertaining with the right winner. From a pure match perspective this is not on the level of the Trexxus-Lokomotiv chairs match, but this really delivered in terms of the build-up (the gym attack angle which went viral was brilliant), the characterisations, and a well-worked match. If the feud must continue they will need to one up this match.

That’s all for now, thanks for reading!