REVIEW: Pro Wrestling EVE - Aim to Misbehave

Pro Wrestling EVE: Aim to Misbehave
Signature Brew, London
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Reviewers: Iwan McKenzie and Dave Sewell (@iwanmack and @davesewell04)

Before the Show:

Dave: I Left mine at 16:00 to hopefully meet up with everyone about 18.15, which didn’t quite go to plan after traffic delays and train problems; I finally got to Blackhorse Road about 19.10 to see two of my friends waiting there, as the rest of them got they’re not long after and all the gang was together.

We proceeded to the venue; We heard the venue had a different layout to before but all we noticed was the bar had been moved inside and the ring had been moved, it was then announced but we can all stand round three sides, which was music to our ears as we could then get ringside like the old ResGal days.

Iwan: So, my day started in Bromley Town Centre for one of my favourite takeaway’s in German Doner Kebab, had the Boss Box with the main kebab, curry frites, spring rolls and an IRN BRU. Then proceeded to see the re-release of ELF with my family, which is a great film for Christmas.

I then went to get my train from Bromley North and the 17:47 was cancelled so had to wait until the 18:00 service to London Victoria, that’s where I met up with Paul, Dave, Adam and Chris before traversing the London Underground, which was busy at first but died down by the time, we got to Blackhorse Road.

So glad that the venue went through a lay-out change, this was more beneficial for the wrestlers and fans and actually improved my mood for the show ahead.

Dark Match – Nina Samuels vs Charlie Morgan

Dave: We had the return of Nina Samuels show from its Enfield purgatory; Nina started talking and it sounded like she was cutting face promo which quickly turned into heel one saying all the girls in the back are scared of her and threw out the challenge.

Enter ‘Fearless’ Charlie Morgan, who Nina informed she was going the retire her a second time. The story of this was Nina attacking the ankle and Charlie playing the face in peril of which she is one of the best around.

Near the end Nina had Charlie in an elevated ankle lock which Charlie eventually broke end off but was heavily hobbling. Charlie hit a super kick followed by roll up for the pin much to Nina’s chagrin.

Pretty decent opener to reintroduce Nina and to show Charlie’s fighting never say die attitude.

Iwan: This was a shocker of an open to the show, something is going on with NXT UK talents working the Indies again. We’ve had Nina showing up here, WALTER is facing Cara Noir at wXw (a WWE affiliated promotion in all fairness), T-Bone is being booked for Sheikh El Sham’s Top Rope Wrestling Academy and Joseph Connors is now back on the British Indies after quietly being released by NXT UK.

Never the less, it was just good to see Nina actually do something that I would watch. She and Charlie Morgan provided a good start of the evening, with the face and heel dynamic never being in doubt.

Lota of solid work by Nina working over the ankle of Charlie that played into the match and ending, Charlie did hit a really nice springboard dive to the outside as well.

Charlie won this with cheeky roll-up on Nina,bwho left to the “Oh…Ahhhh” treatment from us lot.

Main Show: Rhio vs Laura Di Matteo

Dave: Pretty good match with Rhio showing great strength; she resisted the grounded octopus and also reversed Laura’s tombstone into an ushogoroshi.

This forced Laura to bust out a new finisher, EC3’s old finisher ‘The One Percenter’ (headlock driver).

LDM then got the mic to put herself forward for Kasey international title which brought out a still limping Charlie Morgan. LDM said Charlie should get to the back of the line, Charlie countered with the difference being LDM will wait like a good little girl.

A No.1 Contenders match is agreed for the 229 event on January 7th , I was half expecting a heel turn.

Iwan: This was one of the matches that I was really looking forward to going into the event, I’ve become a big fan of Rhio through my excursions up North to TIDAL and she has improved since I first saw her in Snodland Community Centre in 2016.

Laura Di Matteo is in her best form in this promotion. This was a really good match with a lot of hard-hitting exchanges between both, in the end we had Laura put Rhio away with her headlock driver, but I felt Rhio impressed and hopefully she becomes a regular down here.

The promo afterwards meant something, LDM’s character has always been the silent badass, who only speaks when there’s a real problem brewing. So when she got on the mic you knew that something was going to happen.

I like the direction their taking both Laura and Charlie in and now they’ve had their promo, it has sold me on wanting to see this match in early January.

The Uprising vs Debbie Dahmer & Heidi Katrina

Dave: Before we get to the match, Skye Smitson was a great shithouse in this paying as much attention to giving us grief as her opponents.

At one point she had Debbie in a sleeper and directly stared at me, it was a bit unnerving to be fair.

This started out with the Uprising typically attacking Debbie until Heidi Katrina made her surprise appearance. The match was pretty much Debbie taking a pasting making the hot tag for Heidi to bounce Skye and Rhia O’Reilly about a bit before tagging Debbie back in.

The end came when Heidi done one pose to many leading to an impressive Uprising parade of moves taking her out leaving Debbie ripe for Skye’s Cross Rhodes.

To be fair match was your typical Uprising one bit taken up a notch by Heidi’s surprise return and Skye’s crowd interaction.

Iwan: This match was unfortunately affected by the new COVID travel rules which meant Dahmer’s original partner for the evening, Debbie Keitel wasn’t available as she would have had a problem getting back to Ireland.

So, the tag partner was left a mystery until the show; we had the Uprising berate Dahmer, before an extended beat down that felt like a mini-match happening (This was confusing me).

We then had an electronica number come on, and out popped Heidi Katrina, making her first appearances in EVE since January 4th 2020.

I was happy to see this as I’m a big Heidi fan; there’s also some history with Rhia and Heidi, after Rhia left Heidi injured before WrestleQueendom 3 back in January 2020.

This was better than expected, I think the Uprising fit better as a tag team rather than the dominant heel stable that they had been for two years.

Skye and Rhia’s shit talking with both her opponents and crowd was great to see; Heidi as both the hot tag and seller here was great on her part.

Dahmer was fine here but she’s not connecting with the crowd like she did in her 2017 pomp. In the end we had Smitson beat Dahmer using the Cross Rhodes.

International Championship – Kasey © vs Mila Smidt

Dave: I quite enjoyed this but I know Iwan has a different take on this, but with Kasey, I don’t think you will get a bad match from her.

Mila had a bit of Judo in her offence with the judo wrist throws and she also had some lovely suplexes, she also hit a widow’s peak and a muscle buster.

But in the end, Kasey came through with a meteora to the back of the head followed by a penalty kick.

Iwan: I’d never seen Smidt before this match but heard a few things about her, what I’d say here that her strength was clearly more big power moves and would have worked well with a bigger opponent or somebody that would match that style,

She was plugged into a Kasey No DQ match here, which didn’t do anything for her as she was awkward in the way she was handling the chair. The chair shots reminded me of Lance Storm at Barley Legal 1997 and her attempted Suplexes on the chair completely missed and lessened the impact of said move.

I felt this match was very disjointed, the hardcore stuff didn’t work, at one point they went brawling into the venue but the big screen didn’t have a live footage of what was going on.

I pulled out my phone to watch what the live YouTube footage had, but all I saw was the Camera man filming his own feet.

When they came back into the ring, there was a cold atmosphere which didn’t help the match at all. I’ve always liked Kasey and generally can be proven to put on a really good match, but tonight wasn’t the one.

We had Kasey win by big knee strike to retain her title.

That took us to the intermission, where I had a beef roll from the BBQ stool outside, really nice food with good flavour, thumbs up from me.

Also picked up a couple of drinks at the bar which was very reasonably priced.

Ava vs Aurora Teves

Dave: Probably weakest match of the night but still a good little match; Aurora started like a house on fire giving Ava some vicious looking kicks, but Ava then took control and eventually got the win following the neutralizer.

Iwan: We had Ava with a pre-match promo, saying that the fans should be more thankful for her. Ava has good mic skills but I do feel like she needs a direction as I still don’t really know what her character is.

This match was probably the shortest on the card but did play to Ava’s strength as a wrestler and that’s to be the bigger woman dominating her opponents.

First time seeing Teves who I’ve heard a lot of things about from her appearances in Futureshock and TNT. She really impressed in this match, felt like she had a good look, presence and some hard strikes, would like to see her back.

We did Ava win this in the end though with the Gotch Style Neutralizer.

Angel Hayze vs Chantal Jordan

Dave: This was my personal match of the night this is by far and away. I have been impressed with by Chantel Jordan who I’ll admit I did feel a bit sorry for her as the crowd was almost 100% behind Angel (who I always like seeing as I think she’s a great little wrestler).

But, I think she won a few over by the end though. Both girls were fantastic in this match end came when Angel slightly went heel by removing an armband throwing it at the ref telling her to shut up.

While the ref was picking it up a quick, Angel delivered a rake of the eyes following by superkick followed by the flying cutter for the popular win.

Iwan: This was a little cracker of a match, both worked really well together here and produced something that they should be proud of.

I’ve blown hot and cold on both of them for the last few years but I can’t deny that they did a really good job here, had a lot of shades of Kay Lee Ray from both of them.

Angel was the most over here and I do feel bad for Chantal as she got zero reaction from the crowd. She is good in ring but does need to work on a character and her presence when entering the ring.

Angel showed a lot of Frustration here and in throwing her elbow pad to the ref and telling them to shut up allowed her to rake the eyes and then pick up the Victory shortly after.

I think this was supposed to be a heel turn but everyone cheered her.

Dave: The match was pretty much ground based with great wrestling and reversals galore. Neither Jetta or Emersyn exerted dominance leaving the result in doubt throughout.

The move of the match for me was Jetta hitting a double jump backstabber. The end came out of nowhere with a flash pin roll up by Emersyn leading to a bit of stunned silence from the crowd.

There was a shake of hands afterwards but the way Jetta was acting there will be a rematch.

This now makes Emersyn a two-time champion, picking up her first EVE title in three-and-a-half years after she lost it to Charlie Morgan at WrestleQueendom 1. She’s also won the International Championship and Tag Team Championship.

Iwan: I’d say that this was my favourite match of the show, a lot of great ground based mat work during the early portions that was worked around Jetta’s wrists,

This did play into the match abd was great to see, as I do feel that in modern wrestling. Wrestlers sometime do technical wrestling just to prove that they can wrestle, then forget about it later in the match.

This wasn’t the case here and I have to commend both women for that. Lot of good high spots in the later portions here and, ultimately, we had the shock result of Emersyn Jayne winning the Championship back by trapping Jetta in the mouse trap pin hold.

My jaw was on the floor here but I am intrigued by this and where it goes for both women.

Overall

Dave: The show was hugely enjoyable with no bad matches. I feel it was better than the last show as the venue was set up better.

The atmosphere is never going to match the white hot ResGal days as there are parts in all matches where you can hear a pin drop. But, what I do find with Eve is you do get a fair few casual fans.

One more thing I should’ve put at the start was the ring announcer once again was the fantastic Lolo Brow who is absolutely hilarious.

After show was all done the usual photos and chats with the wrestlers came. I did a totally unplanned pose down with Skye Smitson, Then we made our way home fearing the worst due to the Tube Strikes which started at 19:00 but rather than being little to no service as announced by TFL, it was basically a reduced service and all I got was a thirteen-minute wait for the Central line.

That concludes my first ever wrestling review so hope it came out ok all feedback hugely appreciated and thank you for reading.

Iwan: The show overall was a lot better than the last show in October. The venue set-up was much improved and the atmosphere was good here, as I felt like the non-wrestling fans joined in and got into the vibe of the show.

Lolo Brow has grown into this role of host for EVE and is a welcome addition to the team. The last two matches of the show impressed a lot and gave me a good feeling coming away from the show.

Post-show, got a few of the old famous #GrapsMeets with most of the roster and had some good chats with Aurora about Yuki Ishikawa, Rhia O’Reilly about Marvel and Heidi Katrina about the current state of BritWres.

Thankfully I was able to get a lift home with Paul and his son.

Thank you for taking the rime to reading this article, make sure to go through the archives of this website for my other articles reviewing Ignite Pro and UKPW.

You can also hear both myself and Dave on Graps and Claps Audio Podcast reviewing RevPro, EVE, WrestleCarnival, Purpose and more.

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