The faces take turns working the arm of all the heels early, but Brett ends up getting decked with a big lariat from the Assassin and goes FIP. Sawyer took a huge over the top bump off of an atomic drop from Oliver and the crowd is really hot for him. Hot tag comes off of a botched spot that actually looked cool as Sawyer went for a leapfrog and ended up doing a leg lariat on accident. Gibbs ends up getting caught with a double clothesline behind the refs back for the heels to take the first fall. Decent stuff.

 

2nd Fall is Gibbs in peril and the early heel work is not terribly impressive but the crowd is super hot for it. Cool spot with Gibbs fighting to win a suplex battle and scrambling to make the tag to Sawyer who comes in and runs through a series of dropkicks while the crowd continues to go fucking bananas. Sawyer ends up hitting a huge flying elbow on Assassin and they do some fun interference spots that build to Assassin dropping the fall. Second half of this fall was really fucking fun.

 

Third fall opens with another accidental heel hitting another heel spot, this time with Assassin kicking Oliver right off the apron. Assassin ends up in a headlock which the babyfaces do some cool shit with. Assassin seriously gets his ass kicked in this fall up until Sawyer goes for a suplex on the apron but it gets blocked and he gets slammed. Sawyer does his awesome through the ropes bump again. Then Hassan hits a diving boot to his gut while he is on the floor. God damn Sawyer is over as his slow bridge out hope spot got a massive response, as did his Irish Whip reversal. Cool spot with Oliver holding onto Sawyer as he clutches for his corner and Hassan dropping the double knees. Sawyer takes another really awesome, dramatic, slow motion bump to the floor. Really good near fall on an Assassin backbreaker. Pardee gets the hot tag. He's got Hassan reeling, but Oliver gets the tag. Slight flub off a drop down spot and Oliver hits the shoulderbeaker for the finish.

 

There were some flubs in this and some down time, but Sawyer was really great, and I thought this was one of those matches that got better as it went along.

I found this actively boring. The little bursts to finish the falls were quite good but God they did an awful lot of bland armwork and headlocking. The third fall, with Sawyer in peril, was better. But then the finish seemed flat. Pretty clear no vote for me.

 

Patterson Portland Disc 24