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| Updated: Saturday November 7th, 2009 03:51:44 PM PST |
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| Missy Hyatt talks Shimmer and best women wrestlers |
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Recently Pro Wrestling Illustrated contacted me to help them out by giving them my input to their PWI Top 50 Women Wrestlers. I was very flattered to be asked, since I never really worked a match in my career. I did a bunch of mix tag team matches in World Class, I worked against Paul Heyman during the Great American Bash '91 tour, & Sensational Sherri carried me to my only decent match in '01 in Canada. Minus being a participant in mud matches, cat fights, and mixed tags. I would never consider myself a wrestler, despite actually owning wrestling boots and gear. I realized I wanted to take this task very seriously on helping PWI compile a list of women workers. Luckily I work for WSU and have done the announcing for a bunch of all women shows since '07 to the present. I still felt that I needed to view more women's wrestling to give me exposure to the wrestlers that I have never seen before. I decided to contact Dave Prazak to send me some Shimmer DVD's. I was very pleased to see that Dave Prazak and Shimmer are very proud of their product to accommodate me on my request. I checked out Shimmer Volume #22 over the weekend. I know I should be very bias, since I work for WSU. But I was very impressed with the Shimmer product. I enjoyed their presentation on being the women's version of ROH. The announcing by Dave Prazak was top notch and made a first time viewer in myself to be up to date on the storylines. WSU and Shimmer draw roughly the same in attendance and share similar talent. Luckily both products are different enough to appeal to the same audience. I was very impressed that the roster puts together matches that had psychology, told a story, and knew how to build finishes. This DVD had their workers utilize crowd interaction, facial mannerisms, and they knew the concept on how to put a match together. This promotion rules! I don't want to bore everybody with a move by move recap of the matches. Here is my synopsis on the matches and the personalities. My only gripe is the product needs more interviews in order to give a viewer time to recover from a match. The interviews can also help establish the character and build up storylines. Daffney VS. Rain: Daffney has come along way from her annoying WCW Scream Queen days. I haven't seen Daffney in person since she did several photo shoots for my site [www.missyhyatt.net] and when I saw her work a decent match against Talia Madison [Velvet Sky] on the first WSU DVD. I was very impressed that she has developed to become a decent wrestler. Plus it would be hard for me not to mention that she got new boobs. Rain is one of the most underrated women in the business. She got a great look and is such a great heel. I was very impressed that they did some chain wrestling and Daffney performed some wacky submissions. Daffney is such a great baby face and I enjoy the contrast to her being a dark character in TNA. Hey, it beats playing that stupid Sarah Palin character. Rain got decent heat with her wacky dance off against Daffney. Rain picked up the win. Mark my words, Rain will make it to one of the big two in the next year. Amazing Kong VS. Rachel Summerlyn: It's no secret that I’m a big fan of Kong. I saw her tear buildings up against Amy Lee. I saw her put a dent in Kathy Fitzpatrick's van by being slammed by Amy Lee in to it. I saw Kong have a four star brawl after literally finding out that one of her friends died a few minutes before her match. Needless to say that Kong will always receive high praise from myself. I seen her bust her ass in Japan, TNA, WSU, and now in Shimmer. This girl always got her working shoes on and has a great grasp on her character [hopefully nobody will ever be stupid enough to use her in a comedy role]. Kong did a great job by going all "Vader" on Rachel. Rachel got some flurries of comebacks and sold great for Kong. Rachel actually got over, despite the loss and Kong dominating the match. Mercedez Martinez VS. Amber O'Neal: Mercedes is one of the best indy women out there. I saw her have awesome 35 minute match against Portia Perez, a kick-ass bull rope match against Angel Orsini, and a 70 minute match against Orsini. Needless to say, Angel is one of the most under publicized woman in the business. This was my first time in watching Amber. She got a great look and is a great heel. This was the classic pretty girl VS. serious wrestler. Mercedez picked up the win and had a decent match [no surprise to me]. I was impressed with the charisma of Amber. Cheerleader Melissa VS. Jennifer Blake: I hope TNA uses the Cheerleader Melissa character when the Raisha Saed characters run its course. She works harder than you would expect from her pretty looks. She blew me a way with this match. She brawled with Jennifer and sandwiched her between two metal guard rails. She slammed the hell out of Jennifer with the guard rails. Melissa's wrestling style had shades of Samoa Joe. I was so impressed with Jennifer being the young girl in peril to the stiff brawling style of Melissa. Melissa picked up the win. I am now a big Cheerleader Melissa fan. Serena Deeb VS. Sarah Del Ray: I never had seen Serena before this match. I got all of the respect for her. Serena went to OVW on her own dime for training and to pursuit a WWE career. I'm very happy that Serena finally got herself a developmental contract after several years of perfecting her craft in OVW and Shimmer. She is a pretty girl, but she doesn't have that unrealistic Diva body. Hopefully Serena and Miss April will be tearing it up at FCW.
Sarah Del Ray is another wrestler that doesn't have the requisite WWE Diva body, but she posses a wealth of skill and psychology. I usually prefer matches based upon the story that they tell in the ring, rather than the complicated sequence of moves that they integrate in to a match. Yes, I'm old school in my story telling. Sara played the serious heel that spent the match working on the arm of Serena. I hate to sound dated, but it was shades of the Andersons. Serena would spend the match selling for Sarah's arsenal of arm bars. Serena would build to a comeback that was shades of Ricky Morton that got the crowd standing. By the time Serena got the win, the crowd recognized they just seen a star that was created. I popped for Serena big time. Major credit goes to Sarah for controlling the match that had everybody clamoring for Serena's comebacks. I give this match a major thumbs up in building a match and building a finish that elevated Serena and didn't hurt Sarah at all. Did I mention that they did this with no wacky finishes? Perhaps this match has a lesson to be learned in elevating talent with a clean win over a established star with no run ins, ref bumps, interference, gimmicks, etc. The bottom line is that clean finishes work, Serena rules, and this DVD rocked!
I gave this DVD thumbs up. You can't go wrong with any product that got Rain, Amazing Kong, Serena Deeb, Lufisto, & others. I can't wait to watch another Shimmer DVD, since I’m now hooked on this product. It makes a great companion to the WSU DVD's that got Missy F'N Hyatt. Dawn Marie and I will be teaming up by signing autographs and taking pictures together on August 2nd. @ Justin Credible's Icons of Wrestling-The Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Cromwell, CT. I couldn't turn down a convention that got my favorite wrestlers in Terry Funk & Harley Race. Plus I get to hang out with Dawn Marie. For more information you can visit www.prowrestlingicons.net
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