WSW Unleash Hell (Night 1), Melbourne, Australia
WSW did a four-night tour in Australia in March and on the tour they brought four entire women, so you got mix-and-match with De Lander, Troy, Jordynne Grace, and Shazza McKenzie doing singles matches, then a tag, then a three-way while Troy wrestled Effy on the fourth night.
Basically I was looking for any new(er) Jessica Troy or Charli Evans matches that were easy to find, and these shows are on FITE+, which I have, so here we are.
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There’s a guy in a Shrek outfit in the front row.
Troy going for the arm immediately, her specialty, but Steph is strong so she shoves Troy away. Rope-running ends in Troy going for a headscissors then an armbar, and Steph is strong so it doesn’t work. Jessica with a kick to the shoulder, De Lander with a front kick to the breadbasket.
Snake eyes attempt from De Lander, doesn’t work. Nobody’s actually completing any fucking moves. Hey, a waistlock basically works as it should. Reversed. Reversed. Shoulderblock from De Lander and finally someone hits the canvas. Two count there, and Troy goes outside, with De Lander following.
Clubbing forearm from De Lander, overhand chop from Troy. Another. Troy breaks the count and pops back out, but just stands there and unsurprisingly is kicked in the breadbasket again. Chop from De Lander! Another.
Back in and De Lander misses a charge in the corner, cracking her shoulder. Troy sprints in with a double knee to the prone back, then floats over to the apron for a kick to the side of the head.
“That’s what Jessica Troy needs to do if she wants to take the big lady down.”
Anyway, now this got into my head so I had to pause.
I didn’t feel like putting any effort into blending the colors here, no. Anyway, moving on.
Troy is on the arm now, as she will do. A pure torture-technician of the modern age. Forearms from Troy land to the jaw, but De Lander uses her raw power and size to fire back, and then Troy goes to the knee with a kick to take De Lander right back off her feet. Stomp on the elbow at a nasty angle!
So Jessica Troy still rules, if anyone was wondering. Just dominating the bigger, stronger wrestler with technique, skill, and a particular focus.
De Lander catches Troy off the second rope with a fallaway slam, then a couple clotheslines. The right arm still works fine. If I were a wrestler, and I were wrestling a right-handed wrestler, I personally would attack their strong arm! But wrestlers are very stupid!
De Lander with an avalanche in the corner, snake eyes hits this time, release German suplay gets two! Troy snaps the arm over the top rope to start her own comeback, then hits a swinging DDT back into the ring from the apron and a short, nasty brainbuster. “Almost landed on her head!” ……..yeah, man, that’s the idea of the brainbuster. I want more calls like that. Do a clothesline and go, “Almost hit her full force with her arm extended there!”
Troy gets two after that combo. The lighting in this venue is very artistic and inconsistent for what is a televised (streamed) product. Trading forearms now. De Lander’s are sort of hobbled, she can’t get that torque, it may seem like nothing but really imagine throwing the forearm, and the way you can see Troy doing it here. You’re starting by sort of twisting at the hips with your upper body, and your left arm kinda swings. I don’t know if you’ve ever had even a minor elbow or shoulder injury but you really tend to avoid moving it around much at all even doing normal shit like reaching for something with the “good arm.” And now I’m done over-explaining what may have just been a kinda lazy forearm shot.
De Lander misses a front kick, Troy misses a pump kick, De Lander with an electric chair lift, Troy counters with a victory roll into an armbar, De Lander counters with a roll-up for two. Big foot from De Lander! MAFIA KICK!
Fireman’s carry facebuster from De Lander! Hooks the leg, Troy powers that foot over to the bottom rope. “She let go of the foot.” No she didn’t. “And that foot just happened to fall on the bottom rope.” This is not what happened, bud.
De Lander sets for a power bomb or piledriver, it’s a power bomb, and Troy counters when up and into the armbar. De Lander spinning and trying to find the bottom rope blind with her foot, but she can’t, and has to tap.
Good match. It’s one of those indie matches where you want the two to look pretty equally strong, you don’t want there to appear to be much if any separation between them, and with just under 10 minutes to work, that means they never really get the chance to truly dig in, because nobody can get on too much of a run of momentum. But it is good. De Lander was a good signing by WWE and a dumb release, in my estimation, but she’s out there aggressively making things happen for herself now.
Troy remains perhaps the most puzzling unsigned and never signed talent in the entire indie wrestling landscape. There is nothing where Jessica Troy is obviously lacking or “not what you’re looking for”; I guess I can get WWE not signing her, on account of they get weirdly picky, but it’s not as though they’ve never had their eye on Australia. Tony Khan not trying really hard to get her in is baffling to me, though, especially now that they have Ring of Honor and an entire other women’s division, and one where she could build herself up with a relative lack of U.S. recognition starting out.
Maybe she’s not looking to relocate. Maybe she’s not really looking to be a TV wrestler? But I can’t see that. She’s too good and too dedicated. She’s had a couple of looks on the NJPW TAMASHI shows in Australia, maybe that will lead to something more in Japan with Bushiroad/Stardom. But more people need to see her wrestle, because it’s a distressingly small group that have for how good she is.
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