Masha Slamovich vs. Nick Gage for the GCW World Championship, from Game Changer Wrestling Eye For An Eye

Judged on just its artistic merits, this was fine. Judged against the standards of the horrorshow I’d expect from a gimmickless modern Gage match, this was a miracle. All the booking, overbooking, and choreography is in service of hiding his shortcomings and get the audience on Slamovich’s side, and I’d say it succeeds handsomely with the former and by the skin of its teeth with the latter (booking the guy who has the audience chanting with his introduction as the heel takes guts, if nothing else). It’s nothing you need to see, but it was better than I was expecting.

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