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On April 30th a middle school gymnasium in Gdańsk, Poland was where KPW Arena #2 took place, the third show held by young Polish promotion called Kombat Pro Wrestling. Now, I don't know the history of wrestling in Poland too well, but from what I can tell this is basically all the same people as Do or Die Wrestling which was the first Polish non-backyard promotion (founded in 2009), just without its founder and repackaged as a new product about a year ago. There were about 100 fans in the building, there was sufficient lighting and audio, ring seemed alright, so all we needed was some good action.

The night kicked off with a Gracjan Korpo promo. Gracjan is a funny name and Korpo is short for "Korporacja" which translates to "corporation", the guy wrestles in a suit (only takes his jacket off) and he has an assistant named Krzysztof. In the promo he told us the story of three little pigs, refereing to the fact that this was going to be his third match with the same opponent and he won the first two, but unlike wolf from the story he isn't from a forest, but he is a wolf from wall street so he's just going to win for the third time. His opponent was Boski Ostrowski (not sure if any of "godlike", "divine" or "heavenly" translations work for the first part of the name) who has a gimmick of being a Disco dancer and he was joined by a valet named Mira. He got a pretty good reaction, people chanted his theme's chorus and his name during the match.

It was a pretty typical bigger guy vs smaller guy story. Gracjan was winning at first using simple strikes and slams, but then Ostrowski shifted the momentum when he launched his opponent over the top rope and hit a tope to the outside. Gracjan ordered his assistant to cause the distraction several times throughout the match, but it never really helped him. Finally there was a ref bump, after which Krzysztof went into the ring again and this time Mira went there as well to stop him. Gracjan came to separate them and Krzysztof accidentally hit him with a bag, which allowed Ostrowski to hit his finisher, canadian destroyer (which Gracjan botched, didn't do a flip and just landed on his back behind Ostrowski) for the three count. After the match Gracjan teased a chokeslam on Krzysztof, but instead just yelled at him and told him this is his last chance before he gets fired, and left. Krzysztof stayed in the ring a bit longer, popped his blue collar and received a good reaction from the crowd.

The next match began with another promo. Damian Lambert, a big guy with a mohawk, cut a promo offending the crowd and his opponents in a smartass, douchey way - was pretty funny. His previously announced opponent was suspended in storyline few days before the show, and his replacement was kept as a suprise. It turned out to be a debut of Peter Pannache, who came out in a pretty cool anime-style white robe with blue details and a cool design on the back. He cut a promo on Damian, saying his last 2 wins were foul and dishonorable, and he started a "disgrace" chant which crowd ate up (they also repeated some of his other lines before). He turned out to be a pretty cool highflier, with some neat dropkicks, leg lariat and a spinning Will-Ospreay-style kick. Damian was another standard brawler and I think he was the only one to use a submission (crossface) on the show. This match also had a ref bump, after which Damian came to the outside to grab a chair, but Peter dodged the strike and hit him with a superkick to the face through the chair, which caused Damian's nose to bleed. The match continued and finally Peter hit a standing corckscrew splash for the win. This was pretty fast paced and fluid, so for me it was easily the match of the night.

Next match was another where one announced competitor was written off the show due to legit arm injury. So during Dawid Oliwa's entrance, a guy wearing a security uniform assaulted him and turned out to be his opponent in his own debut, Sawicki. I honestly don't remember anything from the match, aside from the fact Sawicki missed a senton.

I just checked the results and I might've mistaken the order of 2nd and 3rd match. Anyway, there was a 10 minute break at this point.

Fourth match was between Piękny Kawaler (Beatiful Bachelor? Handsome Young Man? Idk I'm not a translator) and Ron Corvus. These two probably had the most experience on the card. Corvus is Hungarian and his home promotion is Hungarian Championship Wrestling, he actually learned how to wrestle in America and was easily the biggest (in terms of muscle and fat) guy on the card. Kawaler on the other hand is mostly known for his 2spooky promos, he wears a fishnet over a shirt and studded pants and has two "disciples" who help him during matches. He's also really small, billed at 175cm but I think he's more 165-170 (for comparison Mysterio's real height is 165).

I immediatelly got the feeling that these guys had better fundamentals and technique, although I can't really tell precisely why. In any case, Kawaler attempted an early walkout, but Corvus, not content with a countout victory, followed him and his two stooges. After few seconds and some brawling sounds in the backstage, Kawaler came out alone, played dumb, got in the ring and few moments later his disciples brought Corvus and pushed him into the ring. After Kawaler got some offense, Corvus seemed to regain his strength and started fighting back, although it was hard with distractions from Kawaler's guys. Finally there was a cool spot where Kawaler jumped from top rope but got caught by Corvus, who then threw him up to the fireman carry, then military pressed and finally threw to the outside on his disciples. But then more distractions occurred, Kawaler lowblowed Corvus, and then did a ballplex (his finisher) with assistance from one of his disciples, and then pinned Corvus after a leg drop.

The final match was supposedly the first ladder match in Poland. The participants were: Greg and Luksus (Kawaler's stooges), Kaszub who has a gimmick of representing his home region, with a remix of a traditional song as his theme, a black and yellow flag and the name (region in question is called Kaszuby), and Robert Star who has a gimick of being a star. Quite frankly there were all the usual ladder match spots, setting it up in corner and throwing an opponent into it, dropping opponents on a lying ladder, on one set up between the ropes, wearing it on your head and swinging, tripping the ladder while there are people on it, some pretty good stuff but nothing particularly memorable. In fact the most memorable thing is that the ladders seemed to get in the way of some other spots few times and I was scared someone will accidentally hit one with his head. Otherwise there was the story of Greg and Luksus fighting together at first, but then realizing the match can only have one winner and starting to fight among each other as well. Star had some pretty cool spots, including a cutter, headcissors and a splash from the top of the ladder on the opponent lying on the ring. In fact he could've won right at that moment, but decided to go for the splash opportunity instead. I can't quite remember the finish but in the end Star climbed the ladder and got a contract for the first championship match.

All in all I really enjoyed the show. I had a really good seat, in the first row, on the side where most of the out-of-the ring stuff happened. This was my second wrestling show, but first time sitting this close, so everything seemed much more impactful, I could hear everything the performers were saying to each other (in character, not spot calling) and while there were very few crazy spots, it was just nice to see dudes hitting and slamming each other from that close in person. I'll probably try to attend all their shows from now on, maybe I'll make notes and give out star ratings next time

I imagine it would feel a lot like waking up
if anything you'd be super groggy from the lethargy of a few days of death
Whatever theatrical license and HYPE boys

Kit Harrington thought he could fool us by saying "He won't be appearing as anything other than a corpse"

yu no nawthin jon snuh

Man Kit Harrington probably just got paid 6 figures per overly dramatic breath. An extra 100k for not getting an awkward boner.

Cock cloth was really unnecessary >_<

You guys got to end on boobs Episode 1 so bah.

Could be he went straight from literally being stabbed, with his lungs filled with blood, to being naked on a cold table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9xZGpupgLw