Jack Sexsmith vs. Spike Trivet
Dahlia Black vs. Candyfloss
Colt Cabana & Candice LeRae & Joey Ryan vs. Pete Dunne & Trent Seven & Tyler Bate
Chuck Mambo vs. TK Cooper
Eddie Dennis & Martina vs. Gideon Grey vs. Kurtis Chapman
Marty Scurll vs. Jimmy Havoc
6/23/19: A-Kid vs Pete Dunne
Martina vs. Candyfloss vs. Cara Noir vs. James Castle vs. The Lion Kid
Darrell Allen vs. Spike Trivet
Chris Brookes & Pete Dunne vs. Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis
Bea Priestley vs. El Phantasmo vs. Omari
Jack Sexsmith vs. Chris Ridgeway
Ashley Dunn & Kelly Sixx vs. Paul Robinson & Will Ospreay
9/28/18: Chris Ridgeway vs. Timothy Thatcher
Sweets vs. Candy Death Match: Candyfloss vs. Dahlia Black
Damon Moser vs. Spike Trivet
Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis vs. Martina & Shay Purser vs. Big T. Justice & The OJMO vs. Chief Deputy Dunne & Los Federales Santos Jr.
Chuck Mambo vs. Chris Brookes
Eddie Dennis vs. Omari
Jack Sexsmith vs. Cara Noir
Three Way Tables Match: Matt Riddle vs. Jimmy Havoc vs. Keith Lee 13:31
4/23/17: Pentagon Jr vs. Mattle Riddle
Chuck Mambo vs. Zack Gibson
The Lion Kid vs. El Phantasmo vs. Kip Sabian
Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis vs. Damon Moser & Spike Trivet
Kaggy vs. Candyfloss vs. Charli Evans vs. Laura Di Matteo vs. Rhia O'Reilly
Omari vs. Millie McKenzie
Matt Cross vs. Morgan Webster
Chris Brookes & Travis Banks & Jinny vs. Jimmy Havoc & Mike Bird & Wild Boar
12/27/15: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Morgan Webster 13:25
Morgan Webster vs. David Starr 12:53
Gideon Grey & Kurtis Chapman vs. Big T. Justice & Omari 8:36
Jimmy Havoc vs. Toni Storm 7:10
Riptide Brighton Title Tournament Six Way Scramble Qualifying Match: Candyfloss vs. Cara Noir vs. Chuck Mambo vs. Roy Johnson vs. The Lion Kid vs. Veda Scott 12:45
Chris Brookes vs. Millie McKenzie 14:25
Mike Bailey vs. Travis Banks 17:53
Damon Moser & Spike Trivet vs. Chris Ridgeway & Jack Sexsmith 20:52
Connor Mills vs. TK Cooper
Gideon Grey & Kurtis Chapman vs. Chuck Mambo & Jack Sexsmith
Riptide Brighton Title Tournament Qualifying Six Way Scramble Match: Chris Brookes vs. Chakara vs. Chief Deputy Dunne vs. Drew Parker vs. Jimmy Havoc vs. Rhia O'Reilly
Damon Moser & Spike Trivet vs. Big T. Justice & Omari
Charlie Morgan vs. Candyfloss
Pete Dunne & Trent Seven vs. Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis & Millie McKenzie
Jonah Rock vs. Travis Banks
Spike Trivet vs. Maverick Mayhew 7:29
Chakara vs. Sammii Jayne vs. Sierra Loxton 10:19
Mark Andrews vs. Jack Sexsmith 11:03
TK Cooper vs. Danny Jones vs. Drew Parker vs. ELIJAH 6:49
WALTER vs. Wild Boar 12:25
Amir Jordan & Kip Sabian vs. James Drake & Zack Gibson vs. A-Kid & Adam Chase vs. Chief Deputy Dunne & Los Federales Santos Jr. 8:49
Riptide Brighton Title Tournament Qualifying Match: Chuck Mambo vs. Gideon Grey 8:25
Jimmy Havoc vs. Jinny 12:25
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Qualifying: Chris Ridgeway & Damon Moser vs. Bea Priestley & Toni Storm 14:04
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Qualifying Match: Charlie Morgan vs. Morgan Webster 11:28
Three Way: Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis vs. Gideon Grey & Kurtis Chapman vs. TK Cooper & Travis Banks 11:18
Chris Brookes vs. Naoki Tanizaki 12:58
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Qualifying Match: Chuck Mambo vs. Eddie Dennis 10:54
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Qualifying Eight Man Elimination Match: Cara Noir vs. Millie McKenzie vs. Adam Brooks vs. Jinny vs. Kid Lykos vs. LK Mezinger vs. Lucky Kid vs. Veda Scott 17:57
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Qualifying Match: Jordan Devlin vs. Jack Sexsmith 10:38
WALTER vs. Mike Bailey 15:42. This could have been a real classic instead of the usual taking turns letting one another take their best shot until WALTER, of course, won because it's a super heavyweight against a welterweight. Bailey is an actual taekwondo expert & they started off doing a really evolved match where Bailey stayed on the outside & used his speed for quick entries & exits, doing his best to get a shot in without taking counterfire. Granted, this portion looked like a Sayama UWF match, so it wasn't futuristic but Sayama's UWF stuff are some of the only examples of actual footwork & strategy shown in pro wrestling striking, so they or anything resembling a fighter using any semblance of timing or evasion beyond ducking are almost miraculous in a world where even the pro wrestlers who do MMA or kickboxing don't try to do anything remotely realistic in their rasslin' matches. Unfortunately, it quickly turned into a more standard pro wrestling match when WALTER countered Bailey's slingshot rana with a massive powerbomb on the apron. From there, WALTER was able to maul the dazed Bailey, and he dominated with his physicality, baiting Bailey into the losing strategy of trying to show his toughness by exchanging with him. This was more frustrating than usual because you feel like they do this because it's "what they're supposed to do" when actually the early cat & mouse portion is the real & competitive fight & the later stuff is just the usual pro wrestling nonsense. It was still very impressive in the sense that neither guy was holding back & Bailey did some of his crazy flying. I've never seen Bailey hit harder, and his technique is so good there's not nearly the gap in impact the weight differential would suggest, but it wasn't really a dramatic match. I mean, sure Bailey would sort of play even in the strike for strike rallies & get going from time to time with his moonsault kneedrop variations, but once his general m.o. was standing around slugging it out you knew it was just a matter of time. Again, WALTER was good, he does what's asked of him very crisply, but for the most part he just hammers away & allows the opponent to make the match or not. Bailey had no problem spicing things up, using his speed & athleticism to set up the big spots as well as showing a lot of charisma without slowing down the match to do so. He turned the bout into something more than two guys exchanging potato shots, but at the same time he seemed to feel trapped into either bombing on WALTER without setting it up or just leaping at him & hoping for the best. The violence here is off the charts, but after such a promising start, it felt like Bailey settled in to constantly rolling the dice & hoping for snake eyes. ***1/2
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament First Round Match: Spike Trivet vs. The OJMO
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament First Round Match: Candy Floss vs. Cara Noir
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament First Round Match: Chuck Mambo vs. Angelico
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament First Round Match: Damon Moser vs. Mark Davis
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament First Round Match: David Starr vs. Charlie Morgan
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament First Round Match: Jordan Devlin vs. Kyle Fletcher
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament First Round Match: Chris Ridgeway vs. Millie McKenzie
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament First Round Match: Jonah Rock vs. WALTER
Defiant 1/26/18
Defiant Women's Title #1 Contendership Match: Millie McKenzie vs. Xia Brookside
Defiant Women's Title #1 Contendership Match: Millie McKenzie vs. Bea Priestley
Angelico vs. El Phantasmo. The couple minutes they wrestled were good.
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Quarterfinal Match: Chris Ridgeway vs. David Starr 13:01. In the midst of a tournament that had nothing to do with credible combat, these two pulled out something that was somewhere in between a timeless solid, stiff, technical match and a worked shoot. They weren't strictly sticking to MMA by any means, but real fighting has evolved so much in 30 years the bout was surely more credible than most of the UWF stuff even without specifically trying to be. To some extent, all that is neither here nor there, but certainly my primary enjoyment was that the contest came across as a real fight, and not being flashy was to it's advantage because it added to the credibility. It was far more toward Ridgeway's style than Starr's, but Starr does well when he can match the opponent's kicks or chops with his big lariats while working for an advantage elsewhere. It wasn't so much the striking that was good, though that certainly helped, but that they were patient & really struggled with one another, particularly in the way they worked into holds on the mat rather than doing quick sequences & either immediately moving on or sitting in a submission for a minute too long under the guise of added drama. One of the reasons this match was dramatic is you had no idea who was going to win. They pretty much played even throughout, with all advantages being short lived. After the opener ended 10 minutes too soon, all the near finishes seemed more credible, especially given the type of match they were working lended itself to a caught him with one move kind of finish rather than a culmination of damage. Starr survived the rear naked choke once, but then Ridgeway used a series of punches from rear mount to break him down so he could finish him with it on the second attempt. ***1/2
Millie McKenzie vs. Wild Boar. I really like the dynamic in these intergender matches where it's just about finding ways to overcome the larger opponent. Millie takes some big power moves, but does a good job of standing up to Boar to the point her win doesn't seem like a fluke even though it's a flash pin.
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Quarterfinal Match: Chuck Mambo vs. Jordan Devlin
Dave Benson Phillips & Martina vs. Chief Deputy Dunne & Los Federales Santos Jr.
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Quarterfinal Match: Spike Trivet vs. Candy Floss
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Quarterfinal Match: Jonah Rock vs. Damon Moser
Timothy Thatcher & WALTER vs. Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Semifinal Match: Chuck Mambo vs. Chris Ridgeway
Gideon Grey vs. Jordon Breaks
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Semifinal Match: Spike Trivet vs. Jonah Rock
Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis vs. Angelico & El Phantasmo
Scramble Match: Big T. Justice vs. Candy Floss vs. Dan Magee vs. Fraser Thomas vs. Kurtis Chapman vs. Lion Kid vs. Martina vs. The OJMO
Chakara & Paul Robinson vs. Amir Jordan & Kip Sabian
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Tournament Final Match: Chuck Mambo vs. Spike Trivet
IPW 4/11/18 Chris Ridgeway vs. Zack Sabre Jr.18:18. A really fun match to watch because Sabre was in with someone who has the talent & willingness to chain submissions with him. It was certainly more cute than intense, as they were literally just rolling with each other, but the craftmanship of their game of twister was really high. Though I enjoyed all the countering of submissions back & forth, the story was a bit lacking in that Ridgeway just inexplicably did Sabre's match most of the way rather than making Sabre find any kind of an answer to his kicks or shoot style grappling, even if this answer was simply to explain Ridgeway not using any of them. I felt like the mix of their styles would create something more interesting, and maybe push Sabre to be even more creative, but the match was basically Ridgeway expanding his horizons by hanging with Sabre in Sabre's style. The main point of this midcard match was to help elevate Ridgeway to the level where he could be seen as a rival to an international star like Sabre, so perhaps showing he could do Sabre almost as well as Sabre was beneficial. Especially after how typically inept & lost Okada looked on the mat in Sabre's biggest match to date 10 days earlier, Ridgeway certainly earned the respect of Sabre fans as a wrestler of genuine mat skill. This is definitely some of the best technical wrestling either fighter has done all year, but it also hurt the match that Ridgeway finally started using his style, which of course was good in and of itself, again without any reason for him doing it now when he wasn't doing it then. If you're fine with the doing whatever they felt like style, then you can't really go wrong with any of this. It ended up being Sabre's style as the body of the match then picking things up with Ridgeway's big kicks leading to Ridgeway getting a near submission with a suplex dropped into a rear naked choke. Sabre had been working the ankle with stomps early to take away Ridgeway's mobility (this was a sort of story to explain him not kicking though he already wasn't kicking long before Zach targetted the body part), but down the stretch he switched to heavier blows with his penalty kicks. Ridgeway caught a middle kick, and Sabre tried to counter with a flying armbar, but Ridgeway stacked him for the flash pin before Sabre could extend. The result was more important than how they got there, and this was a good finish for this type of undercard match whose purpose is to lead to bigger & better things. ***1/2
Gideon Grey vs. Jordon Breaks
Chris Brookes & Kid Lykos vs. Charli Evans & David Starr
Mike Bailey vs. Cara Noir
Jimmy Havoc & Jinny vs. Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis
Riptide Brighton Title #1 Contendership Six Way Match: TK Cooper vs. Candy Floss vs. Jack Sexsmith vs. Millie McKenzie vs. Morgan Webster vs. Viper
Kurtis Chapman vs. Kris Wolf
Chris Ridgeway & Damon Moser & Spike Trivet vs. A-Kid & Carlos Romo & The OJMO
Riptide Brighton Title Match: Chuck Mambo vs. Eddie Dennis
Riptide Rumble Qualifying: Jordon Breaks vs. Spike Trivet 10:01
ATTACK! Tag Team Title: Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis vs. Chris Brookes & Kid Lykos vs. A-
Kid & Carlos Romo 5:16
Mercedes Martinez vs. Candy Floss 10:26
Chakara & Paul Robinson vs. Jimmy Havoc & Session Goth Martina 7:38
Chris Ridgeway vs. Cara Noir 14:04
Riptide Brighton Title: Chuck Mambo vs. TK Cooper 19:54
Riptide Rumble: Jack Sexsmith vs. Ashmore vs. Big T. Justice vs. Cara Noir vs. Cassius vs. Charli Evans vs. Chief Deputy Dunne vs. Chris Brookes vs. Connor Mills vs. Damon Moser vs. El Phantasmo vs. Gene Munny vs. Gideon Grey vs. Gisele Shaw vs. Jordon Breaks vs. Jurn Simmons vs. Kurtis Chapman vs. Kyle Fletcher vs. Lion Kid vs. Los Federales Santos Jr. vs. Martina vs. Mike Bird vs. Rishi Ghosh vs. Rob Lias vs. Rocky Mac vs. Shay Purser vs. Sierra Loxton vs. Sugar Dunkerton vs. The OJMO vs. TK Cooper 49:06
Mike Bird vs. Lion Kid 9:33
Chuck Mambo vs. Jordon Breaks 13:15
Chakara & Paul Robinson vs. Gideon Grey & Kurtis Chapman vs. Jinny & Session Goth Martina vs. Chief Deputy Dunne & Los Federales Santos Jr. 15:07
TK Cooper vs. Kyle Fletcher 17:12
Ashmore vs. Connor Mills 10:45
Candy Floss vs. Millie McKenzie vs. Rob Lias 8:20
PAC vs. Cara Noir 23:15
Riptide Brighton Title #1 Contendership Match: Spike Trivet vs. Cara Noir
5/11/18: Chakara vs. Charli Evans vs. Kaggy vs. Millie McKenzie
Mike Bird vs. Cassius
Veda Scott vs. Gene Munny
Riptide Pride Of Brighton Title Tournament Semifinal Match: Kurtis Chapman vs. Jordon Breaks
TK Cooper vs. Cara Noir vs. Mike Bailey
Riptide Pride Of Brighton Title Tournament Semifinal Match: Cassius vs. Chakara
Chris Brookes & Kyle Fletcher vs. Charli Evans & Millie McKenzie
Riptide Brighton Title Match: Chuck Mambo vs. Rampage Brown
Damon Moser & Paul Robinson vs. Gene Munny & Millie McKenzie
TK Cooper vs. Warren Banks
Travis Banks vs. Chuck Mambo
Killer Kelly vs. Mad Kurt
Cara Noir vs. Mike Bird
RIPTIDE Brighton Title Match: Spike Trivet vs. Jordon Breaks