Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling 8/10/2025

Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling 8/10/2025

Herb Simmons and Drew Abbenhaus are on commentary.

Super Assassin vs Joe Venetti

They lock up and Joe is pushed in the corner. SA misses a corner charge and is hit with punches. Joe side headlock takeovers him. SA hits punches and chokes him. SA side slams him.

SA does a trapezius hold. Joe jawbreakers out and corner splashes him. Joe codebreakers him. Joe goes up top and top rope dropkicks him for the win.

Thoughts: It was a shorter on here with Joe winning as expected. 

We see:

Strap Match - Lilith Khan vs Ms. Hyde

We join this in progress. Khan fallaway slams her and headbutts her. Khan hits another fallaway slam. Hyde basement dropkicks her. They go outside and Khan is pulled into the post with the strap. Khan is tied around the post and hit with the strap.

Khan is pulled into the post. Hyde chairs her. They tug of war over the strap and Khan sends her into the post. Khan gets a 2 count. Hyde is sent into the corner and runs into the ref. Hyde stunners her but the ref is down and can't count. 

Travis Cook comes to ringside and gives Khan a weapon. Khan punches Hyde with it and wins.

Thoughts: What we saw of it wasn't bad. They used the strap quite a bit here and spent a lot of this brawling outside before the finish. They also definitely laid into each other a bit on the various shots.

Brandon Baretta is interviewed by Drew. BB asks what is controversial about his win over Gary Jackson. Drew said he low blowed him. BB says the ref counted the 3 and says it was just strictly business. He says he will take what he wants, when he wants from whoever he wants. He says that is strictly business. Drew wants to talk about Bobby D and BB says who cares? 

The Big Texan and Bobby D are interviewed. Bob says he didn't think much of Baretta when he first saw him. He says Baretta hit the gym and uprooted his life to get better. He says he doesn't respect how he got his wins lately though. He says Baretta will find out why he's champ next week.

They talk about The American Giant. Texan says it's not often he has to look up to someone bigger than him but he's glad he's on his side. He says they will take down Devastation Inc tonight. Bob says Devastation Inc has been a pain in his butt for a long time but he has two colossals on his side and he feels good.

Brandon Baretta vs Billy McNeil

BB waistlocks him and side headlocks him. BB wristlocks him. BM kips up and waistlocks him. BM jack knifes him then backslides him. BM side headlocks him then is pulled down by the hair. BB kicks him in the gut. 

BB chops him in the corner and piefaces him. BM is thrown hard into the corner then BB knee chokes him. BB exploders him then hits mounted punches.  BM chokes him on the ropes and euros him. BB deadlift germans him then knees on his throat for a pin attempt. BB cravates him. BM hits forearms. BB hits a running facekick then sentons him for 2. 

BM facekicks him then lariats and back elbows him. BM jumping knees him. BM flying lariats him. They fight on the buckles. BM gordbusters him off the top. BM misses a top rope swanton. BB headlock drivers him and wins.

Thoughts: I liked it. Brandon looked good as a more serious and heelish wrestler and Billy sold well for him to get him over.

Devastation Inc. is interviewed by Drew. Travis Cook says Stephen E. is in Istanbul and he's making a statement for him. They say Kenny Kingston is a new member of the group. Cook says King had a lot of interesting training, weapons training and paramilitary style training. He says he's known as being a mercenary in the underground as a guy you want when there's a fight. He says he could be fighting in Rhodesia or Russia and says he fights for whoever pays him. Cook says they paid him well and he's glad he's here with them. He says King is here for when you need to win a war.

Cook says there's a women's cage match on 10/4. He says women's cage matches are rare which is weird as he says women usually hate each other. He says it'll be Ms. Hyde vs Lilith Khan. He says he knows Hyde has probably knocked out some girls, been in fist fights and been in mosh pits. He asks what she will do when she's in a cage and there's no way in or out? He says he knows Ms. Hyde thinks she's tough but she cannot last with Khan.

They showed some old matches including Jack Brisco vs Bill Irwin, Tim Leonard vs Kerry Von Erich and Bobo Brazil vs David Price. 

The Big Texan, Bobby D and American Giant vs Devastation Inc. (Kenny Kingston, Peyton Ayres and Atila Khan)

Texan locks up with Peyton then hits him in the gut. Peyton hits forearms. Texan chops him. Giant comes in and double axe handles Peyton.Texan hits corner spears on Peyton then knees him in the gut. Bobby chops Peyton and suplexes him. Giant chokes Peyton in the corner and chops him. 

Texan knees and clubs Peyton. Peyton's head is banged off the buckles. Giant chokes Peyton the bangs Peyton and Kenny's heads together. Texan bangs Peyton's head off the buckles. Texan misses a corner splash. Kenny comes in and hits punches on Texan. Kenny then slaps him down.

Kenny stands on Texan. Khan hits Texan while he's on the ropes then he chokes him. Kenny hits a big splash on Texan. Peyton comes in and splashes Texan for 2. Peyton pulls on Texan's nose then he chokes him on the ropes. Kenny chokes Texan on the ropes. Texan suplexes Peyton. 

Khan comes in and beats up on Texan. Khan throws Bobby D out then the heels stomp Bobby outside. Khan hits Texan in the throat with a fork then pins him.

Thoughts: It was simple and it was acceptable. There wasn't anything too crazy here but we got a bunch of splashes. Giant couldn't really move that well but we knew that going on. Peyton took an impressive suplex bump.

Overall thoughts: We had 3.5 new matches and the usual interviews. There was nothing must see wrestling wise but it made sense and the faces and heels did their roles. Brandon Baretta had a good showing here and Travis Cook was entertaining on the mic as usual. It was nice to get a pinfall finish in the main and the commentary was good as usual. I enjoyed the show.