Smash Wresting and Lucha T.O. present Vampiros Underground Invasion
Date: Sunday May 28th, 2017
Venue: Lee's Peace in Toronto, Ontario
T-shirt worn: Carcass "Symphonies of Sickness"

Some band opened the show with five songs of harmless pop punk. I never caught their name.

Vampiro came out and welcomed everyone with a great speech. It’s kind of forgotten how huge a star he is in the Mexican wrestling scene.

Beck Cadash vs. John Atlas
This was an unadvertised match. I’m not even sure if those are their names. One of them was getting a “tryout”, I only assume it was Beck Cadash. It was nothing special.
Winner: John Atlas

Greed vs. Freddie Mercurio
This match was fun. Freddie Mercurio got the crowd pretty hot for the show right off the bat. Greed wasn’t too bad.
Winner: Greed

The Fraternity vs. Halal Beefcake
This was another fun match. Nothing spectacular. I’m not sure who were the heels and who were the faces.
Winners: the Fraternity

For Smash Wrestling Championship
Carter Mason vs. Tyson Dux (champion)
This was a really good match. I’ve known Tyson Dux’s name for a while now. I’m not sure but I may have even seen him wrestle dark matches before WWE shows ten to fifteen years ago but he doesn’t look that old. The final moments of the match were REALLY good and got the crowd really going.
Winner: Tyson Dux
Afterwards Vampiro (who was sitting on the stage for the first half of the show) grabbed a microphone and commended the two guys and gave the match two million stars. It wasn’t that good.

[Intermission]
During intermission they did photos in the ring and people who paid for V.I.P. tickets got a photo with Drago and Aerostar. It was supposed to be Drago and Vampiro but Vampiro wasn’t around. I got the V.I.P. package and got a photo with them. It’s supposed to be posted on the promoters Facebook page soon but I’ll be surprised if I ever see it. If I do ever find it I'll post it in this thread.

Some thrash band called Midnight Towers played five songs. They weren’t bad but no one there wanted to see them.

Sensation Suave w/Anthony "Kingdom" James vs. "Hacker" Scotty O'Shea vs. Space Monkey
This was a fun match and was a lot less a “joke” than I thought it would have been, with it having Space Monkey in it. It still wasn’t serious but it was a good way to get the crowd hot again after intermission. Anthony James was a good talker.
Winner: Sebastian Suave

Matt Cross vs. the Mack
Matt Cross was supposed to perform as his Lucha Underground character “Son of Havoc” and the promoter even got on the microphone before he came out and explained that they paid whoever owns the Son of Havoc likeness the rights to use the character but something happened and they weren’t allowed to. So he was basically Son of Havoc without the mask. This was a good match that the Mack pretty much dominated until the end. He hit hard.
Winner: Matt Cross

Aerostar vs. Drago
This was a good match with some nice hard-hitting spots. But I was expecting more. I mean, I wasn’t expecting anything quite as crazy as some of their matches in Lucha Underground but I was still a little let down. It’s probably not fair of me to compare the match to or have expected anything like those matches. It ended rather abruptly and that was that.
Winner: Aerostar
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This show was…okay. The obvious draws were the four guys from Lucha Underground. Everyone else was from the local Toronto scene. The wrestling was nothing special. The title match was a good match as were the two Lucha Underground guys matches. The rest were all at least fun. Nothing was “terrible”. But as I write this three hours removed from the show I'm struggling to remember it.

The promoter botched quite a bit of it though and that put a damper on the whole evening. I bought the forty-five dollar V.I.P. package, which included a photo with Drago and Vampiro, a commemorative ticket and priority seating. I knew going in that Lee’s Palace was probably not the best place to see a wrestling show so the fact that the seating was garbage didn’t surprise me too much. There were a few seats ringside and benches lining the exterior walls of the venue. So people who paid twenty dollars less for general admission got closer to the ring but had to stand. I stood on the bench anyway and thought it was actually a really good line of site. But I’m used to shit like that at concerts. All the other people around me who bought V.I.P. were really pissed off. The lighting was fucking horrid but again I expected that. The ring was in the “pit” area of the venue. So the stage where bands play was well lit but the ring/pit area wasn’t…as it should be for a concert, not for wrestling. They were filming this show for a pilot and they really should have rethought the lighting because I can’t imagine it will look good on TV. Then there was general confusion getting V.I.P.’s in and even the photos in the ring; no one checked my ticket to see if I had one, so anyone could’ve just gone up in there. Plus Vampiro bailed or something because Aerostar took his spot for the photos and he (Vampiro) wasn’t seen again. Oh, and the ticket is a cheaply printed 2x3 piece of cardstock with the picture of the flyer. None of it bothered me too much but all the other V.I.P.’s were pissed because they paid more money for the worst seats and whatnot. And I can see their points. Nerds.

Smash is a pretty legit promoter though. They bring in a lot of big indy names, usually two per show. Dalton Castle and Leo Rush are wrestling at their next show. I'm not as sure about Lucha T.O. but I've at least heard of them. So I don't know why there was so much confusion tonight.

But I had fun. I’m used to standing in hot, sweaty, uncomfortable clubs watching bands. I don’t like it but it doesn’t phase me. The lighting was the only bad thing that really bothered me. I can’t say I want to see wrestling in Lee’s Palace again, unless the promoter gets their act together and does a better job with lighting.

my view, shows how bad the lighting was


the Mack


Drago


Drago and Aerostar