Jane Says 2

Alright, folks it's time for another installment of Jane Says.  A lot to get to during this news report so let's get started.

First, we go to injuries.  As many WMW fans know, Jack Reynolds was injured during Blizzard, by Amariie.  Well, WMW has now confirmed that Reynolds' knee was seriously injured in that match and will require surgery, keeping him on the sidelines for at least 3 months.  We wish Jack Reynolds a speedy recovery and hope he can back in action soon.

Now onto general news.  We've has some big developments here.  Once again, WMW ratings went up as we get closer and closer to breaking the 3 mark once more.  WMW General Manager, Sault St. Marie and WMW Talent Director Wayne Inkster said that they expect this trend to continue given that we are fast approaching the last Graveyard Shift before Groundhog Slay.  Ratings news brings me to the next bit of news, as most viewers know, the official policy of WMW has been to try staying above the wars between the other feds in the WWA.  That policy may have to change after events of the past week.  In Valora's personal blog, she took a shot at HOW wrestler Scottywood, who made disparaging comments about WMW on his twitter.  Scottywood fired back with several of his buddies, and in an amazing show of unity, several WMW wrestlers, including rivals such as Ryven and Kronin and newcomer StormRider, came to Valora and WMW's defense.  The whole thing has led to Valora challenging Scottywood to a series of two interfed matches, one in HOW, one in WMW.  Scottywood reportedly has accepted on the condition that if he wins in HOW, Valora must agree to put the Great Lakes Championship on the line when Scottywood comes into WMW. 

Now, I need to go into some opinion here, I think this is a bad idea.  We all know the quality of wrestler Valora is.  She doesn't need an interfed match against someone like Scottywood to boost her visibility.  I see this as a situation where we have everything to lose and nothing really to win by this set up.  Scttywood holds no gold in HOW save for tag team gold, and during his stint of 6 matches here in the WMW, failed to win the ASC in two tries and had a brief run as tag team champions..  Bottom line, by no way does he deserve a title shot, and worst case scenario, were he to beat Valora twice in a row, we then face the situation of a rival fed holding our top belt.  It would be a devastating loss.  That all being said, I personally think he has a snowball's chance in hell of beating Valora twice simply because Valora has never, ever in her career lost to the same opponent twice.  So, here's to hoping she wins at least one and hopefully both of her matches against Scottywood and is able to defend the honor of WMW.

Of course, recent events have only added fuel to the fire for the caged hell match.  I had a chance to speak with Kronin yesterday as the Valora/Scottywood feud was breaking into high gear and he promised that at the caged hell match in Dream, he would remind everyone why the WWA agreed to let WMW join and did a bit of recruitment on just the rumor of WMW interest in the interfed.  WWA blog, 'Polla to the People' of which I read every week, has picked Joe Drago to win this match.  I will risk sounding biased and pick Kronin.  Kronin is every bit the technical master that Joe Drago is, has had experience in various cell matches before and has a habit of being able to step up and deliver in the big game.  This is not to take away from the fine talent that the other feds are sending.  I think WMW, AW, HOW, DW and DWF are going to give us one hell of a match this Sunday in Orlando, Florida.

In other news around the WMW, Umbrage was named Fighter of the Week, following his and Valora's win over the Tag Team Champs in a non title match up.  This, no doubt adds a bit to the momentum that That Damn Awesome has going into the big 8-man tag team match that pits That Damn Awesome against the former members of the Pinnacle of Power, and on that note, let's look at the upcoming cards for both Graveyard Shift 107 and Groundhog Slay.

Our opening contest pits the returning Wone against the newly signed StormRider.  Wone has had a hard road on his comeback tour, failing to beat Gras-Dawg and Jordan Keyser in recent weeks.  He'll definitely be looking to get a win under his belt here.  As far as the match goes, I see this going either way but I'm going to take a chance and say Wone will win.  He's made no secret about his anger and frustration about losing to Gras-Dawg and Keyser and I don't think he plans on losing to a third straight newcomer.

For our next match, we come to an important match in the Heartlands Division.  Mo'Bad vs Jordan Keyser.  The winner of that match will advance to Groundhog Slay and face Gras-Dawg to determine the number one contender for the Heartlands Title to be defended at Graveyard Shift 108.  I expect that this will be a close, hard fought match but I think Keyser has the slight edge here and I predict a Keyser/Gras-Dawg matchup at Groundhog Slay.

In our next match, we have the first match of an attempted Daughters of Darkness comeback.  Druscilla facing off against Damian Knight, Zana Knight, and Outlaw Biker in a 3 on one elimination handicap match.  Druscilla is known for being, well confident to say the least but even she has a tough match here,  To win, she must defeat all three members of the other team, while they have only to beat her.  Druscilla had some harsh words for Damian Knight and his crew in her promo and is coming for a fight.  It's going to be an interesting match but I have to side with statistics here which say it's almost impossible to win a 3 on 1 handicap match and say that Damian Knight might just pull off a big win and get his name back on the radar.

This match will be followed by part 2 of the attempted Daughters of Darkness comeback tour, Father Nathan vs Amariie.  Father Nathan has been on a major roll as of late, defeating Ryven and Jade in recent weeks.  He now has set his sights on Amariie and I think all the momentum is with Father Nathan.  Amariie is definitely the underdog in this match.

After that, we come to our main event of the card.  That Damn Awesome vs the former Pinnacle of Power.  A win here could really slow the momentum That Damn Awesome has been gathering and might even lead to a rebirth of the Pinnacle of Power.  Even so, this match is loaded with personal feuds and scores to be settled.  Kronin vs AWS Man.  Kronin vs Valora.  Ryven vs Umbrage.  Ryven vs Valora.  Hecate vs Adam Pyre, Hecate vs Valora.

That concludes the upcoming card.  Now let's take a brief look at Groundhog Slay and the matches already booked for that.

First, we have a Heartlands Title match up Damian Knight vs Hecate.  If Damian Knight fails to win this match, he will not get another Heartlands Title shot while Hecate is still champion.  I have to be honest, I've not seen any evidence that Damian Knight can beat Hecate and I think Hecate will win the match and retain the belt.

We also have a WMW Shoot Title rematch as Jade once again defends her Shoot title against Amariie.  Amariie was humbled by Jade the last time they fought as Jade won in very quick, decisive fashion and Amariie, quite frankly, never really laid a hand on Jade.  Now the woman's who ancestor was known as the Dragon of Eastern Europe faces off against China's own Jade Dragon in another match for the Shoot title.  This is Amariie's 4th Shoot title match in recent months and thus it can be safely assumed if she fails to win the title this time, it could be awhile before she gets another shot.  I expect this match will be better then their last match up, but I'm not yet convinced that Amariie can beat Jade.  If Amariie can beat Father Nathan, that might change the landscape a bit but for right now, I'd say Jade is the favorite to retain the Shoot title.

Also scheduled for Groundhog Slay is Gras-Dawg vs the winner of Mo'Bad vs Jordan Keyser to determine the number one contender to the Heartlands Title at Graveyard Shift 108.  Whoever faces Gras-Dawg will have a hard fight on their hands, as Gras-Dawg has won both of his matches in WMW and has looked impressive in each.  Still until I know his opponent, this match is going to be hard to call either way.

Then we get to the big time Tag Team Title match.  A rematch between the champs, Kronin and Ryven and the Hardcore Icons, Umbrage and Valora.  Umbrage and Valora one the first match in a weird match that started off under Hardcore rules and saw Ryven deck Bill Hughes, WMW Ringside commentator.  We're told Ryven has since been fined for that, but as I said, the match started off under hardcore rules and the highlight of that, aside from the even mentioned earlier had to be Kronin breaking his guitar over Valora's head.  However, the match quickly moved into the ring and once that happened, Referee Luna Pier, tried to restore regular rules to the match.  This didn't seem to phase Valora and Umbrage who won but by using nearly every dirty trick in the book.  Ryven and Kronin have not complained, have not made any excuses but there is no question this title match is going to be a grudge match and should definitely be worth seeing.  The Tag Team Champs have made a history of winning when it counts, when the gold is on the line and I have to say they're the favorites going into this match.

Outside of that, we have the All-In Challenge.  A match that will feature nearly every member of the WMW roster at some point during the match, all vying to be the last man or woman standing and thus earn a GLC title shot at Ides of March.  If Valora should win, she will get to hand pick her opponent for said title match.  Some of the favorites in this match are AWS Man, who has won this event two years in a row and is looking for number three and Kronin, who came within a hair of winning this match last year, only to be eliminated by AWS Man.  Kronin's number 2 finish in the match propelled him higher up in the company, proving that you don't always have to win this match to get noticed and move up in the company.  This year, the stage is set for some exciting, battle royal action in this over the top rope elimination style match.

Well, that about wraps up this edition of Jane Says.  Tune in next week when we will really start picking things up and review GS 107 and look ahead to Groundhog Slay.  We'll also have a review of the Caged Hell match and how WMW's rep Kronin fared in the match.  Tune in Next week!

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