[2.0] "This show was a disaster from the start, but that start didn't even come until they were ninety minutes late keeping the fans waiting with no updates on the casino floor. Then when the show does start, this was such a substandard venue compared to others in Vegas, no one from GCW even checked if there was a place to hang a brass ring from the ceiling, so you had a scramble match where you could win the brass ring and not grab the brass ring. That was only if you could survive the turnbuckle from collapsing because no one tightened or checked it over the course of three days of shows and the ring sagging from one side to the other. Then there were one or two good matches, along with a meaningless Effy/Allie Katch match where apparently both of them left GCW after this match, not one. ("GCW: No winners, only losers" should be the new slogan). Then was a terribly written ending to the Sandman match, and Janela wresting a child since the last year he had to wrestle a frail, dying old man who shouldn't have been in the ring. Just a disaster of a show. If you got in line for the "scheduled" bell time and stayed until the end, you would have been there for seven hours for a show that seemed to have no production or professional planning ahead of time. I don't know if Brett got into the wrestling business two decades ago or two days ago, but it seems like it was days ago. I can't even imagine how big of a mess it was for the talent, seeing the fans and them could not bring in water, and Caesar's Entertainment was charging them $9 for a 20 oz bottle of Aquafina. Way to fight and protect your talent from heat exhaustion in the middle of the desert, Brett! Lauderdale really showed he's more about flooding professional wresting zone with s*** other than putting on high-quality shows for fans and getting talent to the next level, probably because that requires real work and not being a Temu Paul Heyman."

[5.0] "A chaotic and unpredictable Spring Break event with plenty of wild moments and the trademark GCW atmosphere, but the overall execution felt inconsistent. Some entertaining matches stood out, though the show lacked strong momentum overall."

[8.0] "Solid show from GCW. This is my first time watch a Spring Break show and I thought it was solid. I enjoyed the DLC match, Rascalz vs. YDNP/Mathers, Sandman vs. Invisible Man, and Janela vs. Brodie. Hayabusa vs. Atticus wasn't a bad match, but it also wasn't good if that makes sense. It was a lackluster title match that should've been better. Perry/Marko vs. Orso/Stackhouse was decent. I remember Marko being impressive against his opponents and having Jack as a base to work off of and guide him worked well. Effy vs. Katch was really long and boring. This supposed high stakes match reminded me of Pitbull 2 vs. Shane Douglas from Barely Legal and I HATE that fucking match. Bayne/Gage vs. De Lander/Warner was an average, uneventful tag minus the return of Nick Gage. The crowd absolutely eats up anything Gage touches."

[7.0] "The best match of The Collective by far. The highlight for me was the very silly The Sandman vs. The Invisible Man a very fun way to introduce friends to Spring Break and the sillyness that comes with this show. Bordie Lee Jr vs. Janela was fun, and despite not being a great match, I got the chills watching the new Hayabusa coming to the ring."

[7.0] "[7.5] Joey Janela's Spring Break X ends up being one of the must-see shows of Vegas Weekend and they delivered on a good show. Most of the matches are good except for a few weak matches. Positives is the Ladder Match, Trios Match, Cougar vs. Hayabusa, Orso & Stackhouse vs. Perry & Stunt, Sandman vs. Invisible Man and a good main event. The show is overall mostly consistent. Only issue I had was Effy vs. Allie Katch. It was placed poorly on the card and it was too reliant on "cinema" storytelling rather than any formality of good wrestling. Overall, great show!"

[7.0] "Joey Janela's Spring Break is always built on chaos, variety and moments and this delivered that. The vibe is strong, the mix of styles works and there's always something happening to keep you engaged. The main issue is definitely pacing."

[5.0] "Pretty all over the place but these Spring Break shows don't need to be if the booker (assumably Joey Janela) understood that less is more. The show goes too long and matches that could've been great were kneecapped by a serious lack of creative restraint. Granted the Brass Ring DLC match suffered from a series of unfortunate events but the GCW world title match and the surprise Nick Gage appearance fell flat. The Loser Leaves GCW match was a dragged out mess and the gimmick matches that could've been indy classics with The Invisible Man and Brodie Lee Jr just couldn't help but over indulge in run time and run ins. The best parts of the show were the 6 man tag which could be on any episode of AEW Collision, the promo packages that were more hype than the matches themselves and The Sandman's last match which again could've been better with all the fat trimmed off. It wasn't as bad as last year's Spring Break but it also wasn't any better either"

[9.0] "Exactly what you expect from Spring Break. The atmosphere, surprises and variety made it a really enjoyable watch. Very memorable event especially considering this was my favorite ECW Sandman's last match!"

[8.0] "Spring Break is always a fun watch, and 2026 was no exceptions. GCW stumbled a bit a few times on this show, but I had a great overall time with this show."

[5.0] "Definitely felt a bit too long and overbooked in places. Too many run-ins and some matches dragged more than they should have, which hurt the flow. It needed a bit more structure and tighter pacing for it to be more enjoyable."

[7.0] "Really enjoyed the build to this show and the execution with a few exceptions. For one, I would rather see some structure in the Brass Ring match. Changing from a ladder match to a "DLC" match (with pinfalls, the objectively worst TLC/DLC variant) was odd, as is having 11 participants. It should always be the same number of participants, preferably 8. Secondly, 4 of the 8 matches had run-ins, and it was 3 of the last 4. They should have either shuffled the card order slightly and/or removed the run-ins from Effy/Allie and/or Joey/Brodie. Seeing Chris Bey was cool, but he could've just come out at the end with everyone else, and Manders added nothing to Effy/Allie. Sandman's match was also overbooked, but that was the point. Anyway, fun show as usual, really a highlight of The Collective each year."

[5.0] "If you aren emotionally invested in any of these matches than everything here is a skip. The main event is overindulgent like most Janela big matches are but I enjoyed seeing Brodie Lee Jr.'s debut. The Marko Stunt & Jack Perry team up was probably the next best match on the show. I found Effy vs Allie Katch to be an all time bad melodrama. Sandman vs Invisible Man is one pretty much what it says it is so your enjoyment of that is banking on your acceptance of the Invisible Man gimmick."

[6.0] "A great card that was only brought down due to its length. The Doors, Ladders And Chairs Match and Rascalz tag match were both high energy matches to get things kicked off. The rest of the card held its own. the invisible man vs sandman match was full of fun surprises. the Effy match really slowed down the momentum of the card and made the night feel long. bayne & gage vs SDL and Mance was a mixed bag and didnt do much to bring the energy back. The main event was fun but went on 15 minutes too long. overall a solid springbreak that just went on an hour too long"

[8.0] "Had a lot of fun with this, every match delivered although practically every match was a little too long. Loved the "everyone on the GCW roster who didn't have a match" opener, it was a ton of fun but not total chaos. YDMB/Rascalz was always going to be great. The Sandman match was absolutely wild in the best way, wanted to rewind and watch it again. Great last match for Allie, lot of emotion and violence, I don't get the immediate hate for it. Main event was solid but way too long - show was already very long before it. Really cool introduction for Brodie Jr, though. The title match and the mixed tag were the weak points, but still perfectly fine."

"Great show as always with jjsb shows, sandman's send off was so much fun with the refs and the interference and the shocking return. A few matches seemed a bit long, joey v Brodie for me ran a bit too long, Atticus v hayabusa was fine. The collective has been great so far this year and there should be more great shows like this to come."

[7.0] "A really, really good show. The few negatives first. This did feel very long. The shortest match on the card was for the title, and that ran almost fifteen minutes. I'd have liked to see some more variety in run time. Allie Katch and Effy is bland and far too long. That's about it for the negatives, everything else is at least serviceable. The opener is a ton of fun, despite the rope mishap. The main event is great. But Sandman vs The Invisible Man steals the show. Probably the best possible way to send Sandman off into the sunset as far as his in ring career goes. I'd put this on the same level as last year's show. Not 'amazing' but lots of highlights. ***3/4."

[8.0] "1 Called Manders vs Bear Bronson vs Charles Mason vs Gringo Loco vs Man Like DeReiss vs Masato Tanaka vs Shotzi Blackheart vs Sidney Akeem vs Terry Yaki vs Vengador vs Vipress: A solid enough match even if the top turnbuckle did break which meant the wrestlers did have to improvise, may have gone 5 minutes longer than needed but with the amount of wrestlers involved in this one it was bound to go longer, 1 Called Manders winning was good to see [***]. Dezmond Xavier, Myron Reed& Zachary Wentz vs Alec Price, Jordan Oliver & Marcus Mathers: A solid trios match that was action packed and paced like would be expected from the names involved, The Rascalz winning was good to see [****]. Atticus Cogar vs Hayabusa: A solid match that had a few decent weapons spots, Hayabusa had a decent challenge for the world title against champion Cogar [***1/2]. Jack Perry & Marko Stunt vs KJ Orso & Sam Stackhouse: A fun match featuring Stunts first match in nearly 2 years, nice to see Perry and Stunt teaming together again, commentator/ring announcer Emil Jay hitting Orso with a tornado DDT was surprising, Stunt and Perry getting the win was good to see [***3/4]. The Invisible Man vs The Sandman: Crazy and fun and unmissable, those are just 3 words that can be used to describe this match, so many memorable moves, a few good to see appearances during this match including Mick Foley, Invisible Stan, Missy Hyatt just to name a few, Invisible Man winning was a surprise [****]. Effy vs Allie Katch: Katch losing was the wrong choice here she should have won, towards the end looked like a horror film, the match was not good, Effy clearly continues to have lost the plot when he attacked 1 Called Manders and Parrow, Dark Sheik making an appearance was good to see [**]. Megan Bayne & Nick Gage vs Mance Warner & Steph De Lander: A surprise of Gage being Bayne's tag team partner, a solid enough match [**3/4]. Brodie Lee Jr vs Joey Janela:  Brodie Lee Jr had a outstanding showing in his first match against one of the best that GCW has to offer, the match was MOTN definitely, Brodie winning by submitting Janela was good to see and hitting the Sister Abagail and Discus Lariat on Janela were nice tributes to Brodie Lee/Luke Harper and Bray Wyatt [****1/2]"

[7.0] "Despite some low points on the show what matters is I had a very fun time watching this show. Sandman vs Invisible Man blew me away. Brodie Lee Jr vs Joey Janela was also a huge highlight on the show. This show captured what the first few spring breaks felt like, just a fun fever dream show."

[8.0] "Good show to start off mania weekend, my only gripe with this is that it felt way too long. Maybe its just because it started later than a usual wrestling show, maybe it was the crowd being out of it sometimes, but it did feel long. That being said, it was a very fun show"

[8.0] "This was such a fun time, honestly I think this might be show of the weekend. Even if it's not the best JJSB, everything was of a really good level and it felt like everything just about capitalised on its premise, but none more than Sandman v Invisible Man, which, if it were eligible would get a 9/10 from me. Really good fun throughout, well worth a watch."

[8.0] "Awesome finish between Perry/Marko vs. KJ Orso/Sam Stackhouse. The Sandman stole the whole show (in a good way)! Enter the Sandman is the most perfect entrance of all time when it comes to The Sandman: coming through the crowd, chugging 50 or more beers, smashing them over his head, and making his way to the ring already busted open. Dude, even the freakin' zombies from WWE/ECW, Bill Alfonso, Vampiro and many others made their cameos, including CACTUS FUCKIN' JACK! Who showed up for free even though he doesn't have a good relationship with Sandman back in the old days. I loved every second of this mayhem!"