5 Ups And 4 Downs From WCPW Stacked

I really struggled with whether to classify the Bea Priestley-Nixon Newell Last Woman Standing match as an up or a down. Both women are extremely talented, and whoever emerged from the bout would be a deserving inaugural WCPW Women's Champion.

Priestley tried to attack Newell with a stick to start things out, making clear that this would be a crazy match from the get-go - and crazy it was. The two women took an incredible amount of punishment and risks, bordering on the excessive - at one point, Priestley threw a chair at Newell's head, and later in the bout, Newell gave Priestley a German suplex onto an open chair. Still, the women are both such good workers that the bout was a solid match rather than a spectacle. Newell won, putting Priestley down for ten with a punt to the skull.

What was inexplicable about the match, though, was that it was a last woman standing contest that only lasted seven minutes. Yes, the bout was good, but they got virtually no time to build to a point where the near-finishes felt dramatic. Another ten minutes would have been ideal - even five wouldn't have felt like enough.

A last man/woman standing stipulation really calls for a longer match, and this bout simply got shafted when it comes to time.