5 Ups And 4 Downs From WCPW Stacked

The main event of the show, as announced on the last episode of Loaded, saw Big Damo defend the WCPW World Heavyweight Championship against Rampage, Joe Hendry, and Joseph Conners. The match, like almost all of the in-ring action on the show, was good. The booking, here more than anywhere else, left something to be desired.

After a lot of innovative spots - and a few silly ones where Hendry let himself get hurt to protect tag team partner Conners - archrivals Rampage and Big Damo fought to the outside, where Rampage gave Damo a suplex on the ramp. That took both men out of the match, and left it as a contest between Hendry and Conners. Hendry extended his hand to Conners, but Conners snatched him up and hit the Righteous Kill DDT. Hendry kicked out of the subsequent pin attempt (or the referee said he did - it didn't really look like it), so Conners hit him with a chair several times to finally pin him and win the title.

Conners is great - easily talented enough to be champion - but he came into the match with far less momentum than any of his opponents. In fact, it sort of made no sense that he was there in the first place. Hendry picked up a huge win on last week's Loaded, and I get that we're supposed to feel like he got screwed, but that can be accomplished without putting the top title on someone who doesn't deserve it.

Between that and the fact that, for the second consecutive time, the man who won the title turned heel to capture it, what should have been a crowning moment was full of holes.