Northstar Premier Wrestling held their last event of the year as they presented 'Beat Down: The Night of Hardcore' at the South 40 pub in
Lonsdale, MN. The main event to this card was a 4 way hardcore rules match. The 4 men in this match were
determined by 4
matches earlier in the night, all under hardcore rules.
The opening contest was an
ICW/Milwaukee showcase match between Mickey McCoy and Justin
Dredd. This was my first time seeing
Dredd in person though I've seen many photos on line of him from Wisconsin photographer Jill
Mckee. Check out Jill's online
album. McCoy won the match with a roll up and hand full of
Dredd's trunks.
In the first of the beat down 4 way
qualifying matches Brody Hoofer beat
Arya Daivari. Hoofer took one of
Arya's 8x10's off the
merchandise table (with out paying for it) and used a staple gun to attach it to
Daivari's arm.
Esteban Molina beat Benjamin
Sailer in the second beat down
qualifying match.
JB Trask beat Aaron Corbin to move onto the main event.
Corin some how got his pal
Shimdog to step in as the referee for this match but it still didn't help him beat
Trask.
Kid
Krazy returned to Minnesota for this event and made sure he wasn't going way after the first match as he beat
Arik Cannon to be the 4
th man in the Beat Down main event.
The O'Neill
Twinz beat Zero Tolerance to win the
NPW tag team championship.
In a 'hair Vs career' match James Thomas beat Jayson
Vaine to end the career of
Vaine. I was rooting for
Vaine in this match as I thought Thomas
could really use a new hair cut. This
match was done under hardcore rules as well. Thomas used a cheese grater to cut
Vaine. There were pools of
Vaines blood all over the ring as you can see at the foot of the chair in this photo.
I first saw
Vaine back in 2003 at an
MIW card in Brooklyn Park, MN. He had to take off time from the ring as he had a much more important battle out side the ring with cancer. He returned to the ring in 2005 bald and much thinner.
After all the blood was cleaned up from the ring it was time for the big heavy weights as Mitch Paradise defeated Skull Crusher
Rashe Brown.
JB Trask won the Beat Down Fatal 4 Way Elimination Match by pinning Esteban Molina after a fire ball to the face and fall through a table. Brody Hoofer was the first one
eliminated after a van terminator from Kid
Krazy. Then
Krazy was pinned by
Trask.
*EDIT*
I added this photo of the puddle of blood that was left in the ring from the Vaine/Thomas match. Yep, it was a bloody one match.
The first match was a tag team match with the RUSH tag team champions The Junk Squad facing off against Hype Gotti & Babyface. This was my first time seeing Gotti and second time seeing Babyface. Pete Huge & Kleck Micheals won the match and retained their title.
Cooter came out to the ring and ripped on Gator Magraw. Long time partner/opponent Casanova didn't like what Cooter had to say so he challenged him to a match. Casanova was sporting a really nice mullet. And this was the last photo that my camera took that night as it broke. I think it had something to do with the mullet.
