Crushed Richmond, MN 9/9/17

Promotion: Crushed Pro Wrestling
Time/Date: 7 p.m. Saturday September 9, 2017
City, State: Richmond, MN
Venue: River Lakes Civic Arena

In a pre show match Patient X defeated Jonathan Jones.

Nick "The Natural" Nelson defeated Ryan Cruz.

Josh Price had no problem beating Richie Johnson.

Darin Corbin & Petey Brown won a 4 team tag match. The other teams were Superiority Complex (Tony Nas & Roy Gordan), Wild Cat & Super Thunder Frog and Shaun Nautilus & Nathan Edward.

Arik "The Anarchist" Canon pinned "Filth King" Brubaker.

Gerard Castle pinned Air Wolf.

Chaos 300 defeated Mentallo. This was the first time I saw Mentallo in over 10 years. Go ahead and click on his name on the right side to see the last time he appeared in this blog.

Zero Gravity (Brett Gakiya & CJ Esparza) defeated The Coven (Jacob Savage & Chase McCoy).

Beer City Bruiser pinned Danny "Hot Stuff" Duggan in the main event.

Mentallo on Lucha Libre USA Masked Warriors

I was watching the August 28th episode of Lucha Libre USA on Mtv2 this past past weekend when I saw a familiar masked warrior, Mentallo. It was at an XJAM card in Minot, ND in January 2006 were I first met the masked man from Canada. That's one of the joys of being a ring side photographer at independent pro wrestling shows. One day you see a wrestler at a bar/armory in a small Midwest town and a few years later that same wrestler can be seen on national TV.
The first time I saw Mentallo he was a fan favorite when he wrestled against Arik Cannon at the Udder Palace in Minot, ND. On Lucha Libre USA Mentallo is a rudo, the lucha libre term for bad guy. It was made clear that he was a rude when he was shown pick pocketing some lady on the streets of Las Vegas in a clip on Lucha Libre USA before his match with Azteco.

XJAM Minot, ND 2/17/06

Night 2 of the XJAM double shot was held at the Minot Armory/auditorium. This show featured everyone who was on the card the night before except Keith Walker and Jason Bates as they were fired the night before.
The first match of the night was Red Lightning Vs The Patriot III. Before the match Red got on the mic to tell the crowd that he was proud of his French heritage and that he hated the U.S. of A.. In the end The Patriot's suplexs were to much for Red.















Next match of the night was Animal Sam w/Valkyrie challenging Mentallo for the XJAM cruiser weight title. The match spilled out to the floor where Mentallo gave Sam a ddt on a pile of chairs.















In the third match of the night Arik Cannon battled Benjamin Sailer. The crowd was really behind Sailer who is from near by Bismark, ND. Cannon must not have believed the fans cheers as he challenged Sailer to an 8x10 selling contest at intermission. The two even put on a wager with there after match contest. Who ever sold the fewest 8 x 10's would have to go start the the winners car in the cold Minot night while still in their wrestling gear. Cannon cheated to win the wrestling match. He was no match for Sailer as the Minot fans lined up to buy Sailers 8 x 10's so much so that Sailer sold out of all that he had. But Cannon wasn't done as he didn't want to go out in the cold and possible crack his pleather gear. So he challenged Sailer to on more contest, a thumb wrestling match. Once again Cannon cheat and beat Sailer.

Intermission time at the show with a full gimmick table and Molly Holly signing autographs.

















After intermission there was a tag team match that was suppose to be the Dirty Ones, Dan Hanson and Ernie Ellis, Vs Thunder and Lightning, Red Lightning and Bigg Nasty. Before the match Bigg Nasty was attacked by Sam Ellis so he was replaced by Red's manager Eddie Fyne. The Dirty Ones won the match.














Molly Holly was the special guest referee in the ladies title match between new champion Rain and challenger Ann-Thraxx. Molly did her best to make sure Ann didn't cheat but she couldn't see every thing as Ann-Thraxx cheated to get her belt back. Ann got lippy with the former WWE woman's champ but when Molly got physical Ann-Thraxx backed down.





In the main event Lenny Lane unified both XJAM title.

XJAM Minot, ND 2/16/06

From Minot, ND @ Dae Udder place XJAM presented 7 matches. The Udder place is a bar & casino that is heavy on the bar and light on the casino.

The first match of the night was Red Lightning vs Dirty Ernie. It was hardcore rules and they used the old regulars of hard core matches such as the cookie sheet and garbage can. Dirty Ernie won the match after a pile driver. This was my first time seeing Dirty Ernie.












In the next match local boy Bejamin Sailer battled Animal Sam w/Valkyrie. For some odd reason some of the fans were cheering for the Animal. With a little help from the lady who holds his chain Animal Sam won the match.















The XJAM heavyweight champion Sammy Savard took on the challenge of The Patriot III. The Patriot looked more like the Masked Jungle Fighter with out the big gut. Savard held on to this belt with a little help from the ring ropes.















In another hardcore type match Big Nasty beat Dirty Dan Hanson with a choke slam. Of course he was able to give the choke slam after Dan's cousin Emma turned on him and threw some powder in his eyes. Yes, that is a stapler in Dan's hand and he did use it.













Rain took the ladies title away from Ann-Thraxx but I'm not really sure why. Molly Holly got involved in the end of the match and the title went to Rain. Molly was at the gimmick table when I guess she saw Ann-Thraxx cheating to win. So Charlie booked Molly to ref the rematch between Rain and Ann-Thraxx.













In tag team action Havoc (Keith Walker & Jason Bates) beat XJAM X champion Lenny Lane and XJAM heavyweight champion Sammy Savard. Lane was suppose to tag with Tony DaNucci but Tony was unable to make it to Minot so after XJAM promoter Charlie put some names of the boys in the back and some crazy mf'ers in the audience in a hat he picked out Sammy Savard. The team of Lenny and Sammy were not able to work very well together and they ended up getting beat by Havoc. This was my first time seeing both members of Havoc and I'm sure I'll see them again on WWE tv. They are some big boys.








In his XJAM debut Arik Cannon challenged the XJAM cruiser weight champ Mentallo to a 2 out of 3 falls match. Mentallo won this 2 falls to 1. This was my first time seeing Menatall and I liked what I saw. He has a cool mask.