MISC Live Events 6/5 SHIMMER Volume 19 taping: Battle royal for a title match against MsChif, plus Amazing Kong, Shark Girl, Sara Del Rey, Portia Perez, Nikki Roxx, Mercedes Martinez Jul 6, 2008 - 02:54 PM Email This Article | Printer Friendly Page Send Us News & Results | Back to Main Listing SHIMMER tapings Berwyn, Ill. Report by Jason Detrick (1) Jetta won a battle royal to win a title shot in the main event of Vol. 19. It was old school rules (royal rumble rules) with two starting and subsequent entries. People came out in 10 or 15 second intervals. In the battle royal, Lufisto made a surprise SHIMMER return. During the battle royal, Sara Del Ray and Amazing Kong were most dominant, with Kong press slamming Portia Perez over the top rope onto a bunch of other recently eliminated contestants. It took three people to surprise Kong from behind to eliminate her. Also during the battle royal, an eliminated and enraged Del Ray pulled Ariel out, setting up a match for later. Well booked battle royal to accomplish multiple things including giving a reason for Jetta to get a title shot when she's not a main eventer. In an in-ring interview, Daizee Haze explained why she can't wrestle on the taping due to a rib injury, but she vowed to win the championship when she returned. (2) "Frickin Awesome" Portia Perez defeated Shark Girl. (3) Serena Deeb defeated Danyah. Good back and forth match. Danyah was much improved over the previous taping. Deeb has a new look after some plastic surgery. (4) Ashley Lane & Nevaeh defeated Cat Power & Veronica Vice. Of course they won, they wear matching outfits. Vice is new to SHIMMER. Cat Power was another that has improved in look and confidence since the previous tapings. The fans sang the "Meow Mix" commercial jingle at Cat Power. (5) Amazing Kong defeated Lorelei Lee. There wasn't much to it. Kong squashed her. Kong finished it with an absolutely brutal spinning backfist that looked and sounded disgusting and looked to catch her on the jaw. Lee was crying after the match and had to be helped to the back. (6) Nikki Roxx defeated Nicole Matthews. Finally. SHIMMER fans had waited approximately a year to see huge fan favorite Roxx again. She was pulled by TNA after Vol. 12. With the new SHIMMER-TNA working agreement, she was able to return. She had a buzz cut and was wearing a gothy fishnet outfit. Quite the change in appearance from her old SHIMMER days. But as soon as she came out it was evident this was the same Nikki we remembered. The crowd did the old "Nikki...Roxx! Nikki...Roxx! Nikki...Roxx. (Insert opponent here)...sucks!" thing and she seemed to love it and both played into it. This was a really fun match. Nicole Matthews has "it." She plays her character perfectly and her wrestling is improving. At one point she was choking Roxx and the ref was doing the obligatory count to five for her to break. When he said "1, 2, 3" Nicole shot her arms up into the air and yelled "WINNER!" Nikki finished her off with the Barbie Crusher. (7) Allison Danger defeated "Dynamite Girl" Jennifer Blake. This was a very good match and is probably the best match I've seen out of Danger, surpassing her match against Cindy Rogers on Vol. 14. Great back and forth throughout with little to no slow points. Blake sat Danger in a chair on the floor and hit a move at one point. She put Danger in the corner and hit her with Kenta Kobashi rapid succession chops. She didn't hit quite as hard as Kobashi, but it was still awesome to see. There were some very cool pin attempts in this one, and Danger caught Blake with one just long enough for the three count. After the match, Danger got on the mic and said she was really proud (she didn't specify what she was proud of but I'd guess proud of the new kid giving such a good match or just the fact that it was a good match). She said she and Blake are the top Canadian talent. "Edge of Seventeen" hit and out came Portia Perez and Nicole Matthews wearing t-shirts that confirmed that they are, in fact, ninjas. Portia was casually eating a cookie and Danger asked if her mom packed that in her sack lunch. Portia said they took offense to Blake & Danger saying they are the top Canadian talent when Nicole & Portia are. They set up a tag match for Vol. 20. (8) Lufisto defeated Rain. Lufisto was very over in her return and got Welcome Back chants. She put Rain away with a Burning Hammer. (9) Sara Del Rey defeated Ariel. Del Ray has gone full blown killer heel. She has Bull Nakano make-up and has a new hair style and new black outfit (as seen in ROH recently). She dominated Ariel and finished her off by catching an Ariel offensive move and using her strength to turn it into the Royal Butterfly. She slammed her for the win. (10) Mercedes Martinez defeated Cheerleader Melissa. Very good hard hitting match as you'd expect from these two. Mercedes avoided the Kudoh Driver (AKA Cop Killa AKA Gringo Killa) two or three times and Melissa avoided the Fisherman's Buster before finally falling to it. Mercedes is still undefeated since returning from injury to SHIMMER. (11) MsChif defeated Jetta to retain the SHIMMER championship. Some nice comedy in this one. Jetta seemed awfully sure of herself. She was playing up the England vs. USA thing due to it being Fourth of July weekend. She said she was taking the belt home to the Queen. After using cheap shots and running away from MsChif she was eventually caught on the outside and MsChif destroyed her shoulder using the ring post. Jetta eventually got the advantage again but spent too much time chatting with the fans and got caught with the Desecrater for the pin. HELP SUPPORT DOT NET! BECOME A MEMBER AT OUR CHARTER RATE OF JUST $5 A MONTH - GET THE FIRST LOOK AT EXCLUSIVE INSIDER DOT NET NEWS, TONS OF EXCLUSIVE AUDIO SHOWS, MESSAGE BOARD ACCESS, START YOUR OWN BLOG, AD-FREE MAIN LISTING: SIGN ME UP (or MORE INFO) GOT AN IPHONE OR IPOD TOUCH? THEN BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD OUR NEW FREE iPhone APP: (click here!) (or SEARCH "pro wrestling" in iTunes App Store) FOR MORE BREAKING WWE & TNA NEWS AND COMMENTARY, VISIT OUR AFFILIATE PWTORCH.COM (click here!) FOR MORE MMA & UFC NEWS AND COMMENTARY, VISIT OUR AFFILIATE MMATORCH.COM (click here!) 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