CZW Limelight 25 Results from Sunday
Sunday, May 5, Combat Zone Wrestling presented Limelight 25 at the State Theater in Havre de Grace, MD. There were a few advertised wrestlers who weren’t able to make it but it was a great event. Before the event the movie trailer for Crackcoon was shown, a project that ring announcer Rosaria Elsa stars in and which will be shown later this month at The State Theater. CZW owner DJ Hyde announced that Alex Shelley will be returning to CZW in July for their doubleheader weekend.
Up first, Rich Swann defended the CZW Championship against Eran Ashe. This was a hard-hitting one with Ashe having the advantage for the first part of the match. It went back and forth after that with several near-falls. Then, Mika, a Vendetta stablemate of Ashe, interfered in the match, which allowed Ashe to get the 3-count for the pin. As the referee called for the bell, Kee Min, CW Director of Operations came to the ring, and it appeared he was going to restart the match. However, Ashe stopped him and threw him to the mat. After he was announced as the new champion, Ashe and Vendetta continued to attack Kee Min. Previously, Ashe put Kee Min through a table during a contract signing at Limelight 15 in April 2023.
In the next match, Chris White defeated Kris Bishop. Bishop hit White in the back of the head and chased him up the aisle afterward.
The Post Game Show with Miami Mike Walker and Vinny Talotta was next and they wore sombreros to the ring for Cinco de Mayo. Their guest was Randy Summers of Tag Team Champions Milk Chocolate. They challenged Summers to a match for the tag team championship but as Summers pointed out he had no partner. At this point, the Lost Boys came to the ring and said they deserved the title shot because of their unbeaten record in CZW. Post Game comes up with the solution of the Lost Boys will get a title shot if they can break the pinata that Vinny carried to the ring in the first try. The contest requires each entrant to spin their head around on the wiffle ball bat 10 times and then try to hit the pinata. Both members of the Lost Boys try first. Each one fails and ends up endangering others in the ring with their bat and doesn’t get even close to the pinata which is high above the mat. Summers takes the bat for his turn and leaps into the air and knocks the pinata on the stage behind the ring. Summers throws the pinata into the ring and does an elbow drop onto it, spilling the contents which includes some sort of alcoholic mini bottles that Post Game throws into the audience after ejecting Summers from the ring. Walker gets held up by the Lost Boys outside of the ring and Troy Parker of Vendetta comes to the ring with a chair and attacks Vinny. Eventually, after Vinny is laid out on the mat, Parker entangles his ankle in the chair and stomps on it.
The next match is Journey Burke competing against Valerie Verman and Samwell is banned from Ringside. As Burke enters the ring she looks underneath to make sure Samwell isn’t there. The match goes back and forth for a while and while Burke is standing at ringside, a “fan” wearing a luchador mask attacks her. The “fan” is removed from the venue and Burke ends up losing the match thanks to the attack.
Juni Underwood takes on Matt Quay in the next match. Underwood gets the win by kicking Quay in the face after the latter is distracted by other members of the Lost Boys.
Mika, another member of Vendetta, gets the win over Cosmic by using the bottom rope for leverage while pinning her.
As Anthony Gangone walks down the aisle he gets blindsided by his opponent Isaiah Wolf. As they move to the ring and the match starts, Wolf eventually grabs a chair and starts using it on Gangone and beats him viciously with Gangone smiling the whole time. Gangone is declared the winner by disqualification and Wolf runs back in with the chair to beat the smiling Gangone some more.
The main event is supposed to be next with Myles Hawkins and Richard Adoniss taking on Griffin McCoy and Brando Lee. All three members of Vendetta come out and start attacking both teams. It gets out of control and a no-contest is declared. THe locker room clears out with even the injured members of Post Game limping to the ring and getting beat up more for their effort.
CZW returns to action on May 11 with We Love Wrestling at Love Park in Philadelphia.