We’re catching up on MLW Fusion ALPHA with the seventh episode! There’s a lot going on but let’s see if things are better than the previous episode. We have a Featherweight tag team match, an open challenge from Alex Kane, and Tom Lawlor gets into hot water!
MLW Fusion ALPHA #7 Card
The Sea Stars vs. Willow Nightingale & Zoey Skye
Alex Kane vs. Warhorse
Casket Match – MLW Caribbean Heavyweight Title: King Muertes [c] vs. Tom Lawlor
The Sizzle
MLW Fusion Alpha #7 starts with Cesar Duran talking to the crowd. He says that he looked over the card and noticed that there was no human sacrifice!
How can you have a wrestling show without a human sacrifice? RAW runs for three hours and no human sacrifices. Disappointing. At that point, the TRIPLE OG Konnan leads 5150 out to the ring.
They take the mic and all four introduce themselves. Duran asks if they are high on glue for interrupting them and asks what they want. Konnan makes to let us know that he’s easy like Sunday morning not because he’s on Elmer’s but because he does weed all day every day.
He wants his team to get their shot at the Tag Team titles. Los Parks comes out and starts brawling with 5150. After security regains some control, “Filthy” Tom Lawlor and fellow Team Filthy member Kevin Ku come out to talk with Duran.
Lawlor isn’t pleased with how Duran’s booking has resulted in him having the worst string of luck in the company. He says he wants a title fight because he’s a prizefighter. Duran—who aims to please—announces that Lawlor will challenge King Muertes in a casket match. The Caribbean title is on the line although it isn’t actually mentioned.
After Cesar Duran states on a broadcast that we are in fact going to see a dead body and before our opening bout, we get a promo from Mads Krugger.
He’s been targeting Alexander Hammerstone and the MLW World Heavyweight title. While it’s the usual Krugger threats and “Hail CONTRA”, he did drop breadcrumbs of possible internal conflict by calling himself the leader of CONTRA.
After the opening bout, we get “The Suplex Assassin” Alex Kane who recaps how he and fellow former American Top Team member King Mo ambushed Calvin Tankman and busted him open.
He then issues an open challenge to anyone who wants that work. MLW Thanksgiving Fusion actually looks good with a ladder match for the vacant MLW National Openweight title.
We get a report from Alicia Atout that Tankman will remain in the 2021 Opera Cup and his alternate Alex Kane won’t get his shine in the match.
After Kane finishes off his opponent, he and King Mo are met on stage by Alicia Atout. King Mo isn’t pleased that Tankman is still in the Opera Cup and neither is The Suplex Assassin.
Tom Lawlor is panicking about his casket match against King Muertes. He has a whiteboard plan and has Kevin Ku factored in. However, due to Lawlor’s recent string of misfortune in MLW, Ku turned in his resignation from Team Filthy.
Oh yeah, Nzo will be at MLW War Chamber 2021. After the War Chamber promo, we have a semi-bandaged Richard Holliday who is talking with Atout about his new sponsor with a Japanese candy company.
He offers to get Atout a sample and goes to his usually locked door only to find TAJIRI has gone in the candy. I mean, the MLW World Middleweight champion is going to town on this candy, folks. Obviously, Holiday isn’t pleased and starts shouting but is eventually runoff by TAJIRI.
The Steak
Our opener is a bout from the MLW Featherweight division as The Sea Stars take on the team of Willow Nightingale and Zoey Skye. While brief, this was a solid tag match that probably should’ve been placed as the second of three matches on this episode.
This match had the division’s first storyline/feud as Nightingale was taken out of the match towards the end by Holidead. Dragged under the ring, Skye was easy pickings for The Sea Stars who put her away with the Tidal Wave.
After the bout, Willow manages to escape Holidead’s clutches and is tended to by her partner and opponents. It was a solid, middle-of-the-road match.
The person answering Alex Kane’s open prizefight is Warhorse—who rules ass. It’s a fact. I like that King Mo ate a headbutt before the match really kicked off. He doesn’t wrestle as much in Major League Wrestling but he makes for a great corner man to Kane. I believe his last match was at MLW Battle Riot III in July.
Anyway, Warhorse gets some good offense in but he’s no match for the Suplex Assassin’s suplex once he scores them. All he can really do is slow down Kane’s momentum and try not to get grabbed by Kane.
It’s easier said than done for Warhorse who takes three suplexes in the match before getting knocked down to 1 HP by the Ripcord Olympic Slam—the fourth suplex. That was enough to put the guy away but Alex Kane plants him with the fifth suplex—a rear Fisherman-style cravate suplex.
The main event reminded me of Tom Lawlor when he was a babyface in the company. It’s basically heel vs. heel but these two worked really well against each other.
It’s a nice touch that Karlee Perez—Catarina from Lucha Underground—is now his new manager in MLW. I think it’s cool that Perez is working with Muertes even though he murdered her in the LU. MLW is already flexing those retcon muscles for Azteca Underground.
I don’t know where that leaves Salina de la Renta but we’ll see where things go on that front.
Honestly, if the casket match stipulation was dropped, this probably would’ve been a better showdown. The fear of getting trapped in the casket was always the selling point for the heel and something that the face struggles against.
Here, the casket was just there as the winning stipulation. It hurts that there was no build around this match or at least working towards making the match King Muertes’ specialty.
There was a nasty powerbomb onto the casket towards the end of the match from Muertes. It wasn’t nasty as far as impact, just in that Muertes didn’t lift Lawlor up all the way for it and it just looked like “Get it in and let’s put a button on that.”
That spot and that this just had to be a casket match are the marks I give against the action here. It was mostly a brawl that featured a decent finish. I wouldn’t say it was a done deal that Lawlor was going to lose this one at all.
MLW Fusion ALPHA #7 Verdict: Bronze Medal (2.7/5)
For some reason, MLW Fusion ALPHA #6 had this pace where it just seemed like the show was going on forever. It’s as if the pace that ALPHA established had petered out.
However, it’s back with episode seven. This was a well-paced episode where it didn’t seem like there was too much sizzle and not enough steak to quote Good Ol’ JR.
Even though this was a better-balanced episode, it was a case of the sizzle driving the stories while we were given mostly decent bouts. The match of the episode goes to King Muertes vs. Tom Lawlor.
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