Uprising Wrestling Revolution Episode 7: Collision Course

RESULTS: https://uprisingfed.boards.net/thread/1227/revolution-7-april-29-2026

We're going to take a look now at Uprising Wrestling's Revolution Episode 7: Collision Course.

I want to state before we begin that I will be taking my live notes as I read, so my opinion may change throughout the show. At the end, I will say the things that I liked and did not like overall about the show.

First off, this show is being held in the Silver State Ballroom at the historic Eldorado Casino in Reno, Nevada. As someone who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, I just want to say boo. That's all. I'm only kidding, though.

We start somewhere in Reno, in the exterior. I'm only saying that because that's how it's written. But what we have is a pre-show segment where John Patrick is just kind of talking about what appears to be what he's willing to do after a long time in this business. It's an interesting cold open, especially for someone who doesn't read their shows on a regular basis.

We now go to the Uprising offices for yet another opening to the show, fun little comedy segment with Helena Handbasket.

I physically laughed out loud once I got that Helena Handbasket was a play on hell in a handbasket. I know that's silly, but I'm easy to amuse.

This segment goes a lot of places. It's funny, it has its purpose, but we go from the interior of the offices all the way to a production truck where she flips a switch. Then all of a sudden, it looks like we go ringside and we hear Rick Roll. We hear "Never Gonna Give You Up" going, so just flipping a switch was able to Rickroll the entire audience.

We go directly back to the production truck, and Helena is celebrating that she now has what she says are fully functional reality powers. This whole thing is fun. This is what e-wrestling is about. E-wrestling is fake pretend, and it is fun.

Anyways, the segment finally ends, and then we go right to the ring where the opening contest begins.

Before I get into that, I do wanna say, the way we open the show is weird to me. It's not my cup of tea, but that's okay. Everyone's allowed to have their own opinions.

We had a segment type cold open, followed by a cold open of a comedy segment, going directly into a match. No introduction by commentary, no "hey, we're here now at the show," none of that. So it felt a little weird.

I understand it's creative writing, and that's what this is. And while I enjoyed what was written, it took me out of the results portion of it. Either way, good stuff up to now. Only gripe has been that, and that's a stupid gripe anyways, because that's a personal preference.

The match is nothing special. It's just a few paragraphs of nothing but what's going on in the match. There's no commentary. It's literally just, you know, this is what's happening in the ring. So, nothing to write home about. We know what happened.

We go into another segment, this one with Jude Mitchell, and in the back corridor or so, we have Jude just really kind of talking to himself and to the people watching about everything, which is a stark contrast from the Helena segment, but it does what it's supposed to do.

We go back ringside. The fans are crazy. They're excited. The house lights dim and then the Uprising logo comes on the screen and bam, first ad break. I feel like that's how you should have opened the show, was with that, but I don't know.

As we come back from what looks like a custom ad that they built, which is neat, we go back into the backstage with Alexis Lemon and Crash Rodriguez, and it seems that Crash got stabbed. Yeah, that's a funny little segment.

You know, I think I saw some stuff on Twitter, or I'm sorry, X about this, and now that I actually read it, nice little comedy section. Definitely not realistic, but once again, this is fantasy wrestling. It's all fantasy.

We go right to the ring for another match. This one is the same as last. It looks like we don't do commentary. We just do the match text. It's three paragraphs put together of moves. You know what happened. You know how the match went. It does its job.

Now a big screen video. It looks like maybe music, maybe a music video that someone's doing. The way it's written out, it confused me. I'm gonna be honest. I tried to start it over several times.

That particular segment, I just ended up having to skip. I don't know, maybe I'm just dumb. I don't get it. It was a weird segment.

It even mentions, as a descriptive aspect, someone grins and does a WrestleMania 9 joint clown mirror movement. I get what you're trying to go with there by telling us exactly what it's supposed to be, but you could do it without mentioning the real wrestling. You could do it in a more descriptive way, which makes the overall writing and segment better as well.

But that caught my eye as it's the last paragraph before we go to the ring for the immediate match afterwards.

With the immediate match afterwards being Jude Mitchell versus Kalinda Kring's daughter, that whole segment thing I'm assuming had something to do with that because it was the same people in it.

So that's fine. It seems like this Kalinda person is an odd and quirky character. The writing just wasn't for me personally.

The match itself, a little bit longer than the matches before this. Someone else probably wrote it, I'm going to expect, because while it is still just moves, I feel they took more time with it, so it's probably someone in the match who wrote it. You can always kind of tell that.

Interesting enough, we got a submission win here. You don't see submissions very often in fantasy wrestling, so that's kind of cool.

Another ad spot, this one's for Black Label Pro Wrestling, so if this is another eFed that they're advertising, really cool. That's cool. That's what we should be doing. We should be sharing other eFed stuff.

We come backstage, we're following up on the being stabbed thing, so that's kind of funny. This poor Crash Rodriguez. It did the whole "I'm not even supposed to be here today" thing. It's hilarious. I don't even know how to put it into words. If you like comedy in your e-wrestling, you need to check it out just for that.

So that kind of self-aware humor is such a nice touch. It breaks the tension and gives the show some personality, so I'm glad they're giving Crash that spotlight, even though this is a goofy angle. Definitely something worth catching if you're into that style of comedy for your writing.

Another basic match, Brendan Logan versus Alexis Lemon. Nothing different there. Three paragraphs of nothing but moves. That's fine.

We go backstage to our buddy Helena Handbasket, and now Frank and Stella. You know, I'm gonna have to follow this fed even closer because these names are killing me, plus the stabbing thing. This is hilarious.

This one was fun too. I really dig into Helena Handbasket's character.

That segment leads to Helena coming out to the ring itself and doing a little promo out there in the ring.

You know, I'm kind of disappointed. While it was funny leading up to this and everything, she comes out and the promo that was cut itself was pretty basic.

I'm let down, Helena. So you had me. I was right there with you. I was about to become your number one fan, but then you kind of just let it go with the basic promo.

I'm not sure. I'm probably going to end up checking the character out more and just seeing what type of person it is.

Another ad break, this one's for UGWC. So yeah, we're promoting other eFeds, which is cool.

I do wanna make a little note, UGWC always reminds me of UGWA, a real promotion in the Bay Area, a book that I've worked for, and every time I see it, that just kinda reminds me of that.

Next up is a match with Helena Handbasket and Felicia Atherton.

So once again, another pretty basic match. We finally get the payoff of Helena throughout the whole show till now, and she gets the win. Good. As much time as she's put in, the handler's put in writing segments to put on the show, I would expect a win. I mean, I don't know if it's role-playing or angle personally, but that's a lot of extra work to put in. So, good for them.

Segment with Billy Morgan and Amy Merrick. So it was basic, I guess. I feel like this probably could have been character development role-play and not actually on the show, and nothing to write home about.

All right, another match. This one here is still the same thing of just some moves and paragraphs, but it is more than most of the matches right up there with that last match that I'd mentioned was probably written by the handler, so I'm going to probably assume the same thing here.

I do like that occasionally we're getting some additional match context.

A little segment before another ad break advertising another fed. I really dig that. I can't stress that enough. Keep doing that.

Continuing on, another segment, but we're at a match now, Samantha Tolson versus Anya Libor, and boy, once again, it's all moves, but we actually add in a little bit of one-two kickout and some expansive stuff that hasn't been in the other matches.

We get a "this is awesome" chant. They make the font bigger and bold, and it's completely different, and I actually think that whoever wrote this match, if you're not gonna do full commentary, this is a style you should go with, just my opinion.

Another submission win, though. Two submissions on one show is interesting.

I went ahead and finished the show, and everything really kind of stayed on par with the first part of the show, to be honest with you.

You know, there's some more comedy follow-up. There's some more segments that are questionable if they should even be on the show. And the matches, they did seem to get more extensive towards the end.

Some of the things I disliked about the show is really that it felt like there was a lot of work put into it, but does all that work actually need to go on the show?

Also, I feel like maybe we should have added some stuff in that would pull it together a little better, like an actual opener and stuff like that.

Things I did like, the characters. There's some fun characters that I read and some interesting things.

I liked that the results were easy to read in terms of the matches. I felt, though, the problem was, you made the matches so easy to read that when the segments weren't good, they stood out more.

So that's where I would kind of look at what I'm actually putting into the show and what I'm not putting into the show.

Overall, Uprising had a good show here. Some really good stuff, more good stuff than bad stuff. It's definitely something that someone who wants to read something fun and interesting and out of the box should read, and I really dig the cross-promotion.

So, thanks for taking your time reading my ramble about this.

RESULTS: https://uprisingfed.boards.net/thread/1227/revolution-7-april-29-2026