Baxter leads out Slash. Blade has a good bit of fire today and this turned into a decent to good tv match by Power Pro standards. It still feels like there is zero juice in the tournament except to have a tournament. Ref bump is frustrating and here comes Khan and Big Nast Bill to assist Slash. Slash is able to hit a fork shot and neckbreaker to pick up the win. *1/2

Second round match in the ‘Ultimate Victory’ tournament and Brandon Baxter is back after a few weeks absence of not accompanying Slash. A pair of dropkicks by Blade, but he misses the third as Slash swats him away. Over the shoulder backbreaker, however Blade escapes and hits a Russian legsweep for two. He misses the splash in the corner, crashing into the top turnbuckle as Slash moves out the way. Airplane spin dropped into a DDT. There’s no-one home on the leg drop and Blade starts to fire back. Slash blocks the ‘Gator Drop’, driving Boudreaux backwards into the corner. You knew this one was coming as he then whips Blade into the referee knocking the official down. Blade counters the neckbreaker with a belly to back suplex and Baxter pulls a fork out of his pocket which he hands to Slash. Khan and Big Nasty Bill try to interfere but Blade sees them off, only to turn around and get jabbed in the face with that fork. Neckbreaker, Baxter rouses the ref and Slash gets the three.

 

Baxter’s army, no-one refers to them as ‘The Cartel’ any more so I take it that name has been dropped, looks so much more weaker with the likes of Khan and Big Nasty Bill compared to how it used to be when he was aligned with Seven and The Regulators. I know from checking the spreadsheet that the MCW guys are due to arrive at some point and Power Pro feels as though it’s treading water waiting for their arrival. While the matches are easy to watch, quality is nowhere near what Dragon, Spanky, Reckless, Regal et al are putting out on the opposition. The ref bumps are beyond played out now mind too.