Fight Club: PRO, Project Mayhem 8 at The Hangar - review
The rivalry between Fight Club: PRO management and the Schadenfreude faction led by Tipton’s Chris Brookes ended in stunning fashion across both nights of the promotion’s eighth annual Project Mayhem weekender.
On Friday, the two groups would spend nearly an hour inside a steel cage, in a wild ten person match that saw pro-wrestlers go through tables and glass, and use steel chairs, barbed wire and light tubes as weapons.
Such was the quality and drama of the work this match did not feel its 58minutes running time.
Preceded by a masterful video outlining the twists and turns of a storyline that has dominated the promotion for nearly two years, this clash had the big fight feel.
The rules saw participants enter in staggered intervals, with the last person due to enter being Wolverhampton’s Trent Seven. However the WWE superstar never made it to the ring, ultimately being thrown off the entrance stage and through a table.
Fight Club: PRO wouldn’t be disadvantaged for long, with Jimmy Havoc making yet another surprise appearance at Project Mayhem, to aid the promotion.
Birmingham’s Dan Moloney would ultimately secure the pinfall for Fight Club: PRO, piledriving Kyle Fletcher through a table.
Moloney should have challenged for the World Title the following day, but a knee injury suffered by champion Mark Davis in America the previous week, forced the cancellation for the match.
What happened after the Tag Team Title match suggests that we won’t be seeing that match anytime soon.
Kyle Fletcher and Chris Brookes would lose their tag team titles to Trent Seven and Tyler Bate, with the two WWE superstars teaming together in a Fight Club: PRO ring for the first time since December.
After a tense standoff following the match, Schadenfreude would not only throw down the tag team titles they had just lost, but also Davis’s world title.
The pro-wrestlers would later use their social media to say goodbye to the fans.
The faction had become synonymous with the promotion, with them headlining all but two events since they formed back in June 2018.
It will be a very different promotion without them.
No doubt aware of this, the promotion has already announced former champion Meiko Satomura and American superstars Eddie Kingston and Orange Cassidy for the next show.
Elsewhere across the two days, Mike Bailey once again impressed, with the Canadian defeating both Cara Noir and Timothy Thatcher in physical matches.
Popular American tag-teams The Besties in the World and The Rascalz would finally clash in a Fight Club: PRO ring, with The Besties getting the victory with help from Big Joe Nelson. The Rascalz also lost on Friday, with Birmingham Omari’s shining alongside WWE UK superstars Travis Banks and Jordan Devlin.
By Will Cooling
Fight Club: PRO returns to The Hangar on October 25 for Infinity 2019. Project Mayhem 8 will shortly be available as part of the Fight Club: PRO Unlimited Streaming Service, or to purchased separately as a DVD or Video-on-Demand. To purchase tickets for forthcoming shows visit tickettailor.com/events/fightclubpro
