MLW Fusion Results, Highlights, and Grades: Callihan vs LA Park
Barrington Hughes vs Ace Romero
In the biggest match in MLW history (wink wink) the resident super heavyweights clashed in-ring after dishing verbal barbs at one another last week. The match started as one would expect with the two behemoths colliding with little to no movement until Acey Baby left his feet and dropkicked Hughes into the corner.
As the two came nose to nose in the center of the ring, Colonel Robert Parker appeared from the back and began running both men down for being overweight. As Hughes and Romero looked on, The Dirty Blondes hit the ring and attack the would-be opponents. In the midst of the fracas, the referee declared that this would now be a tag team match!
Barrington Hughes & Ace Romero vs The Dirty Blondes
The Blondes had a clear advantage at the start due to jumping their opponents before the match was even official, but Hughes and Romero very quickly turned the tables. Without much trouble, the two big men heaved their opponents up for tandem powerslams to put this one away quickly.
How Was It? It was never going to be a 5-star classic. I’m not much of a fan of Hughes’ in-ring work especially when you have another super heavyweight like Romero on the roster who is just as big but far more athletic. The match with the Blondes was a complete throwaway and a literal squash meant to establish Hughes and Romero as teammates rather than rivals and could spell the end for another association for Colonel Parker’s Stud Stable. In that sense, it was completely fine.
We got another glimpse into the wild world of the Hart Foundation with an H2tv preview where Teddy Hart and Brian Pillman ran down The Lucha Bros. Hart noted that the eyes of his cats are the eyes of winners while the eyes of Pentagon and Fenix are the eyes of scared men. Teddy matter-of-factly talked about cats having 7 lives which… is fewer lives than I’ve been lead to believe they have my entire life. But, maybe it’s just a conversion problem from metric to imperial.
Sami Callihan delivered comments from backstage ahead of his Miami Street Fight with LA Park. He made it cleared that he never believed in or bought into the cause for which Salina de la Renta fights and only agreed to do her dirty work because he loved the money. Callihan promised to make LA Park nothing more than a memory just as he’s done with MVP and Jimmy Havoc in the past. Callihan closed by making the lofty claim that he is MLW.
Finally, directly before the main event, Low Ki built toward his SuperFight challenger Tom Lawlor. The World Heavyweight Champion congratulated Lawlor on being able to make it to February 2 despite every attempt by Promociones Dorado to take him out before then. Ki lamented the fact that people often accuse him of taking things too seriously or, sometimes, too far… but in Philadelphia at the 2300 Arena, perhaps he’ll take things to an extreme.