![]() ![]() They also speculate that maybe it’s because his girlfriend broke up with him, even though she’s still his valet. At least that’s what the commentators surmise. Supposedly this is the reason Rush went full goth for his next match. Janella won that match, beating Rush for his CZW Wired championship. So I’ll try my best not to think about it too much.Īnyway, you’d think a spot like that would be the end of the match, but, no, several more risky spots occur, and it just feels sadistic watching the whole thing playing out from my big puffy chair in my basement. And that’s pretty fucked up when you think about it. Of course, both guys look like they’re dead after this, which is kinda the point of these things: leaving you wondering if the performers are actually hurt or not. At one point, Rush is splayed out on two ladders set up between the ring and the barricades and Janella uses the tallest ladder to scale the freaking roof scaffolding, dropping his body straight down. Janella and Rush fall from some serious heights, and not just once or twice, either. No, this is “just” a ladder match, but in a lot of ways that makes it far more dangerous. ![]() And thank god, really, because I generally fail to see the art in a match like that. Certainly nobody is getting busted over the head with light bulbs or bleeding profusely because of barbed wire. It’s no deathmatch, and there’s no blood. Yes, yes, plenty of flips and kicks and at one point Rush turns himself into a human cannonball as he flips over the top rope, but believe it or not, this is actually quite a tame match by CZW standards. I have to say, this was probably the most insane ladder match I’ve ever seen. Well, anyway, the Rush/Janella match was pretty original. were giving the crowd a wonderful display of classic mat wrestling and they had the audacity to chant “boring.” Someone’s going to get very hurt or killed trying to please these people. ![]() At CZW’s latest event, Sacrifices, David Starr and Zack Sabre Jr. This can get annoying at times and the fans don’t help much at times. The match showcases Rush’s furious style, which is basically the CZW house style anyway. Janella comes to the ring wearing his signature 80’s sunglasses and scorpion jacket similar to the one Ryan Gosling wore in the movie Drive (if you haven’t see this flick, you should catch it like pronto), and his theme music is from the film, too. This is also the first time he had a black heart painted on his chest. He hadn’t gone totally goth at this point, though this is the match where he debuted “Paint it Black” as his entrance song. Rush, a two-time Wired champion (CZW’s second-tier title), was taking on Joey Janella in a ladder match. The whole thing started back in September. He has big things ahead of him, so I don’t think CZW is going to have him for long, and he’ll probably leave this unique Blackheart character behind, so we should probably enjoy it while we can. He’s only 22, but he’s been wrestling since mid-2014 and has been one of the fastest-rising indie stars ever. My guess is that he’ll eventually end up in Japan or back in Ring of Honor before making his way to WWE. He’ll end up in another major promotion soon, and he’s been working dates with EVOLVE lately, which is certainly a top-tier indy wrestling promotion in itself. He might be in CZW for a while, since it looks like his year-long run in Ring of Honor is over with, after having won the Top Prospects tournament in 2016. I don’t know how much longer Rush is going to keep this character up, but I like it. It’s a much slower-paced, droning, and frankly, quite haunting version of the already nihilistic song. His entrance theme is Ciara’s version of the Rolling Stones’ “Paint it Black,” originally recorded for The Last Witch Hunter film. They change the video to black-and-white when he makes his entrances, which are slow and methodical, almost zombie-like. He comes to the ring with, yup, a black heart painted on his chest and strange undead veins on his face. While Rush is still a plucky young go-getter type in other indy promotions, and he appears in a ton of them, his gothed-up “Blackheart” character can only be seen at CZW shows. But you’ve probably only noticed it if you watch Combat Zone Wrestling. Over the past six months or so, Lio Rush has been developing and refining a new character.
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