[1.0] "This is... rough. The only thing that keeps it from getting a zero is Dickinson-Tanaka; I can't give a show a zero when there is a match actually worth watching on it. / Raver vs. Shlak: An abuser vs. a neo-Nazi, and the latter was replacing Jimmy Havoc of all people. No idea why the no ropes chain deathmatch went on first, especially when you started 40 minutes late and then decided to spend the next 20 minutes hotdogging and nailing a dude to a cross for no reason. A confusing match, they don't really do much exciting shit, and even when they do it's only cool because I get to see an asshole get shoot hurt. / There's a FIVE-MINUTE VIDEO PACKAGE for Matthew Justice after the opener while they clear the ring of said deathmatch shit. / The transition into the tag title match is oVe cutting a promo on NY, PA, and NJ just doing their gimmick. Have to say--"Ohio Nationalist" is an incredible heel gimmick, but WILDLY out of place in this "Satanic cult" environment. Commentary talks about how Gangrel-Justice was supposed to be happening next, and yet this somehow turns into a five-way tornado tag match for the tag titles that ends in 4 minutes. Butcher and Blade are here and I don't think they ever do anything. / Matt Justice vs. Gangrel is A Match. Inoffensive, average, I didn't hate it. At one point comms forgets that Gangrel is a vampire and claims that he "goes to bed early" and a minute later tells viewers to "do some research" on him as if they did any of their own. / The women's tag match is also okay but commentary is really trying to get the Satanist gimmick over by calling The Essence "bitches" constantly. Kimber Lee is a replacement for someone who isn't here and she's wearing her regular ring gear which does not fit into the environment at all lol also Kevin Gill clearly does not know how to pronounce Machiko San's name / Simon Grimm and Penta (who Kevin Gill repeatedly calls "Penta Ohm" even after both Larry Legend and the ring announcer call him "Zero M") could have at least done something interesting, but seconds before they went out they were told they had four and spent most of it playing to the crowd. Penta goes for the Sacrifice at one point before just giving it up, Grimm hits the Gotch-style Piledriver and wins. Comms want me to believe this is a huge upset. / Six-way for the "no. 1 contendership" is funny given that two people get world title challenges before the end of the night and neither of them are the winner of this match. It's an 8 minute spotfest where comms are trying to sell me on Teddy Hart being a genuinely lovely person and incredible wrestler. At one point they outright tell viewers to "not believe the negative hype" around him. When Dick Justice comes out, they abandon all pretense of the Satanist gimmick and just start talking about what an American hero he is and how he smells like Fourth of July and barbecue. Nothing in this match is self-aware. Rey Fénix doesn't bother taking off his hoodie (I wouldn't either), Mecha Wolf starts spamming full-sprint bottom rope topes which were genuinely awesome because he's just barreling into guys on the floor, but there's no actual interesting wrestling here. / Tanaka vs. Dickinson, in retrospect and knowing the context around this show, is really funny. After starting as late as they did, they had to have just chopped dozens of minutes off of other matches just so this could get 15. I'll give it this--I'm glad they did. Tanaka and Dickinson have a couple miscommunications but it's nothing that sticks in your craw. Tanaka takes some evil bumps, Dickinson powers out of a Super Fly at 1 which was a little silly, but Tanaka gets the win in a match that has the crowd cheering for Dickinson. A genuinely feel-good moment is not what you really expect out of this show, and commentary are fucking awful the entire match, but if you watch this one muted, it's a fun time. / I don't know who Maria Manic is, I don't know why she gets a women's world title shot, she and Saraya Knight spend 5 minutes brawling in the very dead crowd before Knight gets in the ring, apparently the match starts, and Manic gets counted out because she's dealing with The Essence on the floor. At no point this entire segment does Manic get in the ring. This was a world title match. / Speaking of world title matches, David Starr's ring introduction takes about a full minute, he and Johnny Blackcraft charge at each other, Morrison rolls up Starr and wins in 11 seconds. / Now the "Preacher, " whose name I should add is Doug Bradley--a very imposing name for a Satanic cult leader--is here to tell Johnny Blackcraft that he's not worthy to hold the championship even though he's held it across every show they've ever done. I think we're supposed to agree with him because we the fans are supposed to buy into everything he says? But now Matthew Justice, who hates the Preacher, is here and says he's been put through hell and wants a world title shot right now. The Preacher says "over my dead body, " the crowd is now chanting "KILL HIM, " so of course Matthew Justice grabs a knife off the floor and slits Doug's throat and kills him! I'll be honest--I think this is effectively a face turn for Justice? Doug was being annoying anyway so it's great catharsis to build him up as an obnoxious bastard and then literally end his life. Matt grabs the bell hammer, rings the bell, I guess the match is on and he wins in 9 seconds. lol / As we are approaching the venue's VERY HARD CURFEW, apparently we still need this 28-man Baphomet Battle Royal to happen so everyone gets in the ring and they just do it for 6 minutes. Comms are shocked that Justin Credible is here, one of the last two dudes in the match gets low blowed by Riley Madison, and Zicky Dice wins the battle royal and gets nothing for it. Comms have no idea who's in this match, I don't either."

[3.0] "This show starts off with a fucking pointless disgusting crucifixion angle for no reason at all then we get into our first and 2nd longest match of the night. RAVER/SHLAK- it was the 2nd longest... there's nothing else to see really in this. Also the change between the chains and ropes was insanely long. 5WAYTAG- This is fucking ridiculous. Idk who thought a title change should be under 5 minutes but what the fuck was this. Some of these poor legends like Damien and Bestia aswell, they didn't need this stain on there careers. Nobody got a chance to shine at all.Just terrible. JUSTICE/GANGREL- A pretty solid match actually, alil bit of brawling and some decent power moves. Nothing special tho. Justice wins with a shitty reversal then hits a death valley driver.O'HARAandVIPRESS/LEEandSAN- I just watched this match and i cant tell you a single thing that happened except a swonton bomb attempt by Kimber Lee... SIMON/PENTA- Match starts off with Simon locking in a arm bar before letting go thus giving Penta the chance to hit a slingblade. At one point Penta kicks Simon right on the top of his head before returning the favor. Penta then hits a double leg stomp off the top ropes from the corner. Then the flatest finish of the year happens when Simon hits a piledriver to win in 3 minutes. What the fuck was that lmao. For some reason Grimm stomps out a fans chair as Teddy Hart walks down the aisleway. TEDDY/DICK/REY/MATT/LUCHASAURUS/WOLF- This was actually a really fun match, everyone got there stuff in so that was positive. Near the end Teddy Hart just sits ontop of the ropes for so long, it looks like hes pissed off or something. Big old spotfest type scramble. TANAKA/DICKINSON- A really very good match to be fair and the longest on the card. Gnarly stiff spots throughout. I wouldn't recommend watching the card for just this match tho. KNIGHT/MANIC- A big fun brawl around the crowd for abit with some interference until Knight goes into the ring and them the match ends from countout... what the fuck. WHY! ? JOHNNY/DAVID- ... The less said the better. Anyways after the match The Preacher and Justice go back and forth about a title shot then Mathew Justice slashes the throat of fucking Pinhead from Hellraiser aka the Preacher to get a title shot. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON LMAO? ! ? ! JUSTICE/JOHNNY- ABSOLUTELY POINTLESS! JUST WTF? ! ? ! BATTLE ROYAL- So they had enough time to fit this shit show in. Idrk what else to say about it. Just bodys thrown over the top rope at rapid speed. Overall this show was rushed becuse GCW went overtime or somthing like that so i really think they did the best with the timeslot they had. Kinda a cult classic so bad its good show. I just feel bad for the people who watched it live."

[1.0] "? If Fire Festival did wrestling then it would be this show? is how Maffew from Botchamania summed up this show. Eleven matches was way too much for this, even without the delayed start.. A rushed mess, and a deserving contender for one of the worst wrestling show"

[1.0] "A disaster from every perspective. Going on late at a venue that had a hard curfew, this event wasted way too much time at the beginning with the rather pointless crucifixion angle, and even more time setting up and then taking down the chains that replaced the ropes for the first match. This, along with the company's refusal to cut anything from the show's lineup, led to everything being rushed beyond belief, with most matches ending quickly, with the Women's Title match between Knight and Manic clocking in at half a minute before a messy double-countout finish, and the Blackcraft Title match between Morrison and Starr - the event's most highly-promoted bout - ending in ten seconds with a flash pin, with Justice taking an additional ten seconds to win the belt with his cashed-in title shot! We also got such highlights as Penta losing in just under four minutes to Grimm for no reason; Fenix, who along with his brother was way overworked this particular weekend, not even bothering to put his gear on for his match, and the finish of the tag match being so completely botched that it led to a likely-unintended title change. By the time the battle royal went on the curfew had been reached; fans leaving the venue and the lights being turned out. One positive to single out is that the Dickinson vs. Tanaka match was actually quite good, but even that's negated by the fact that the failure of this event effectively killed off what had been a fairly promising company. Maybe somebody should apologize for this one."

[0.0] "One of the worst shows I've ever seen. In the first 50 minutes of the broadcast we had only one match, in the last 50 minutes we had 6. No flow, bad wrestling, The Lucha Bros visibly not trying, the dumbest title matches in history, a dead crowd (the first time I heard them pop was for Teddy Hart's Canadian Destroyer), the only thing not trash on this was Dickinson vs. Tanaka. I thought it would be a so bad it's good type of show, but nope. Absolute trash."

[2.0] "My first introduction to blackcraft wrestling and I'm thoroughly unimpressed. The show is called "No Apologies" but really they should be apologizing. The "devil's den" match with SHLAK and G-raver was the tamest match I've seen these guys in. Additionally, the ring setup with the chains and hooks kept falling apart - indicating to me that no one bothered to test the thing out beforehand. Like other people have said it is rushed rushed rushed... most of the matches are over before they can really begin. Commentators try to hype up the action but what we see is so obviously mediocre that their descriptions of things just become ridiculous. Add in the ridiculous preacher trying to hype up the crowd and it's a recipe for disaster. At one point the preacher is murdered but no one gives a shit... then like 20 guys come to the ring for an insane "battle royal". It lasts like 5 minutes... and no one has any introductions... The match with Teddy Hart is decent, and the match with Dickinson / Tanaka is a good match for this show but probably just a decent match otherwise. Overall I'd only recommend this show if you want to see a train-wreck in action - just have beer / weed handy so you can get through it. PS: The fact that on twitter they seem to ignore that this was a shit event just sours it a bit more for me... c'mon guys at least admit you fucked up."

[1.0] "Easily the worst show of "The Collective". Blackcraft Wrestling's lack of prep for the event was pretty evident. The show's 02:33:02 stream started with an event advert image & 16ish minutes of background noise & random talking as BCW struggled to get the show going. Once started, viewers got a largely useless, somewhat inaudible, gimmick establishing promo from BCW's figure-head, followed by a chain-rope hardcore match that needed a 10ish minute intermission after so the ring-crew could put regular ropes on the ring. 45 minutes into the stream now, viewers got their second match of the show, a 4-way tag title match that may have ended in a botched finish. With 2 of 11 matches done, BCW was forced to rush the rest of the card in order to beat a building curfew, all to the sounds of a painfully bad commentary team that drowned out the little audio viewers got from the ring & venue. High profile talents such as Pentagon, Simon Grimm, John Morrison, & David Starr saw less than 10 minutes of combined in-ring time. The women's title match ended in a count-out after only a few minutes. The folks in the Blackcraft Heavyweight Title #1 Contenders Six Way match seemed tired & ready to leave (Fenix wore a hoodie the entire match). The only good match of the night was Dickinson vs. Tanaka, but even that was sort of ruined by the commentary team's show-long effort to work in the show's title as if it was an active measure to deny how terrible the show was going. The Blackcraft title match (featuring Starr & Morrison) was maybe 20 seconds long. With all the issues BCW was having, they still opted to have a segment with Matthew Justice murdering the figure-head, him getting a title shot for no explained reason, and winning the title in a second, 20 second title match with Morrison. The cherry on top is that after all of that, they still ran their giant battle royal to close the show, one that the crowd & commentary team didn't care about."