MLW Fusion Results, Highlights, and Grades: Callihan vs LA Park

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Falls Count Anywhere In Miami: Sami Callihan vs LA Park

Callihan, as one does in a match like this, came to the ring with a trash can while his opponent kept with tradition and entered with a chair. Not a steel chair, mind you, but a regular ole banquet-style chair. I didn’t realize there had been an embargo on steel chairs while MLW was in Miami.

The match started off with each man attempting to one-up each other with brutal chops across the chest. Park, not happy unless he’s inflicting as much pain on another human being as is physically possible, convince Callihan to undo his vest so he could chop him directly on the chest.

Callihan brazenly accepted the challenge and dropped to his knees, tears welling in his eyes, after Park brutalized him with a gunshot chop across the sternum. Something about seeing Callihan weeping in agony put a smile on my face.

Park kept control for a portion of the match including a suicide dive on Callihan who was seated in a chair at ringside. When the luchador went for a second, though, Callihan was quick to meet him with a trash can to the skull to slow the pace down.

The fight continued on the floor with each man looking to positively maim one another as they used every part of the arena possible to their advantage. Park would soon regain control after backdropping Callihan into the crowd and struggled with pulling the steel barricade apart so he could follow his opponent into the mass of people. Tony Schiavone quipped hilariously and with frustration in his voice that Park should just walk around the railing instead of trying to dismantle it. The aggravation in his voice was beautiful.

To their credit, Park and Callihan did do the one thing that always seems to be missing from Falls Count Anywhere and Street Fight matches – they ventured outside of the building! As Callihan attempted to flee, Park chased him around the building before coming back in through another entrance and entering the arena from the opposite side from where they had left. They didn’t do much outside, but it was nice to see them take advantage of the stipulation briefly.

Toward the end, Park rolled Callihan back into the ring where he rolled onto the referee’s ankle sending him down in a heap. The pain was so agonizing, apparently, that the ref couldn’t complete an attempted three count from Park on Callihan eliciting boos from the crowd and outrage from Salina at ringside.

Despite Callihan almost scoring a three count on a distracted LA Park, the Chairman lived up to his moniker and delivered a big spear sending both men crashing into a group of chairs set up in the corner. The referee, valiantly powering through his ankle pain, was able to count the three to give LA Park the victory.

How Was It? This was as beautiful a garbage fight as I’ve seen in MLW. You often see matches with this stipulation make little use of the lack of rules and overall freedom granted by such a stipulation, but these two absolutely lived up to the Falls Count Anywhere name. Callihan continues to fall in MLW after his loss to Lawlor in Chicago and now this loss to LA Park. What’s next for The Draw in Major League Wrestling, and where does LA Park go from here?