Creative Force Wrestling: Black Light 39 Review
Creative Force Wrestling’s one-year anniversary show had to do a few things at once. It needed to celebrate the company’s first year, give the audience something memorable, and advance the stories that are carrying CFW into its second year. On all three counts, Black Light 39 succeeded. It was a show with purpose, and that purpose came through clearly from the opening bell to the final image on the beach.
What stood out most to me was how well the card balanced its tones. It opened with a match built around long-simmering personal hatred, followed that with a championship-level showcase between two men with something to prove, added a hard-hitting fight between two dangerous newcomers, and closed with the kind of violent, location-based chaos that leaves an audience buzzing. That is the kind of structure that tells you a promotion knows what it wants to be. CFW did not simply throw together an anniversary card. It presented one with identity.
💫Match One: Lena Wilde & Mara Grave vs. Selina Santorino & Brandi Blight
This was a strong opening match because it had more on its mind than just workrate. The in-ring action was solid throughout, but the real appeal came from the tension surrounding Brandi Blight. Brandi’s obsession with Lena Wilde gave the match a nasty edge, and that edge made everything feel more important. Every time Brandi stared at Lena instead of focusing on the tag match, the audience could feel the story getting darker.
Selina Santorino deserves credit here as well. She spent a large chunk of the match carrying the burden of being left out to dry, and she never collapsed emotionally or physically. That matters. A match like this works best when the person in peril looks like they are surviving rather than merely waiting to lose, and Selina did that well. She showed enough grit to keep the match believable, while Brandi’s eventual involvement brought the heat the story needed.
Mara Grave getting her first tag win in CFW also gave the result some additional value. That kind of detail matters on an anniversary show because it gives the company a chance to reward someone who may become more important in the months ahead. This was not a blowaway opener, but it was a very effective one. It established atmosphere, progressed a feud, and gave the tag team of Lena and Mara a useful victory.
⭐️Star Rating: 3.75
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💫Match Two: Wyatt Storm vs. Ciaran Kennedy
This was the best match on the card, and it was the match that most felt like a true television main event in the best possible way. Wyatt Storm and Ciaran Kennedy have different strengths, but the match did a great job of letting those strengths clash without making either man feel limited. Wyatt’s speed and athleticism kept creating openings, while Kennedy’s size and ring awareness made every escape feel hard-earned.
What made this especially good was the pacing. Nothing about it felt rushed, and nothing about it felt stagnant. The match constantly shifted gears, with one man briefly controlling the tempo before the other adjusted and turned the table. That is the kind of rhythm that makes wrestling feel like a contest instead of a sequence of moves. It also helped that both men wrestled like they knew what was at stake. Kennedy was not simply trying to survive a test; he was trying to prove he belonged in the highest tier. Wyatt, meanwhile, wrestled like a man who expected to win until the exact moment that he did not.
The finish was excellent. Kennedy catching Eye of the Storm out of the air with Mercy Kill was the kind of counter that instantly earns a replay. It was a dramatic, sharp, and memorable finish that made Kennedy look like someone who can win big matches against top-level opposition. Wyatt still came out of the match with his aura intact, which is just as important. This was a great example of how to give one man a signature victory without damaging the loser. That is not easy to do, but this match pulled it off cleanly.
⭐️Star Rating: 4.5
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💫Match Three: Montag Black vs. Lobo Briggs
This match had a different kind of value. It was not as polished as Wyatt Storm vs. Ciaran Kennedy, but it did not need to be. This was a rough, physical fight between two men who clearly wanted to make an impression through force. That kind of match has its own appeal, and this one delivered on that promise.
Montag Black works best when he feels like a wrecking ball with a pulse, and that is how he came across here. He was abrasive, ugly in the right way, and difficult to deal with. Lobo Briggs matched that energy well, which kept the contest from becoming one-sided. What I liked most was that Lobo did not try to outsmart Montag. He met him head-on. That gave the match a blunt-force quality that suited both men.
The countout finish was smart booking. Lobo gets the win, which helps him after the momentum he built before this show, but Montag does not get flattened in a clean loss. Instead, he is protected by the chaos of the finish and the difficulty of the environment. That is the kind of result that keeps both men viable. This was not the night’s most technically impressive match, but it was a useful and effective one. It helped define both competitors and gave the middle of the show a harder edge.
⭐️Star Rating: 3.5
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💫Main Event: Killjoy vs. Adam Stryker
This was the kind of main event that thrives on spectacle, violence, and escalation. It was not designed to be a clean, classic wrestling match, and it should not have been. This was a street fight, and CFW understood exactly what that meant. The match made smart use of its setting, turning Venice, Florida into part of the story instead of just a backdrop. The beach shop, the hobby store, the street, and the shoreline all became parts of the fight’s identity.
Killjoy came across like a nightmare, which is exactly how he should be presented in a match like this. The window-shattering entrance was one of the most memorable visual moments on the show, and the violence that followed had a suitably savage tone. Adam Stryker, to his credit, did not get swallowed by the chaos. He fought like a veteran who understood that he was going to have to adapt in real time if he wanted to survive. That gave the match a strong sense of desperation.
The hobby shop sequence was one of the most amusingly violent stretches of the night, in the best possible wrestling sense. There is something uniquely memorable about two men destroying a store full of collectibles while trying to murder each other. That sort of absurdity is part of wrestling’s charm when it is handled correctly. The LEGO spot, in particular, was shocking and nasty enough to stick in the mind.
The finish, with Ace Dalton’s dune buggy interference, was exactly the kind of outrageous closing image that an anniversary episode needs if it wants to leave a lasting impression. It was chaotic, disrespectful, and visually loud. Ace standing over Stryker and placing the title across his face was the final insult, and it was a strong way to close the show. If the goal was to send the audience home angry, excited, and eager for what comes next, then mission accomplished.
⭐️Star Rating: 4.25
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☄️Final Thoughts
Overall, Black Light 39 was a very good anniversary show. It had an identity, it had rhythm, and it knew how to move from one emotional beat to the next without losing focus. The opener gave the audience a reason to care about the women involved. The second match gave the show its best in-ring performance. The third match added grit and depth. The main event delivered spectacle and a strong closing angle. That is a card that understands pacing and placement.
If I were grading the show as a whole, I would call it A-. It was not flawless, but it was consistently effective and, more importantly, memorable. CFW used its anniversary to show that it has a real sense of self, and that is often the hardest thing for a young promotion to establish. This one did it well. Year 2 promises to be just as explosive.
