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"I called the WOL show with Roland on it, asking for clean finishes on this show. Up to this point every match except the lumberjack match had ended clean, so I figured to spite me this match would have three ref bumps, a Dalip Singh run in, either, a Dusty finish or the lights turning off and Jake Roberts DDTing everyone in the ring and Roland standing up and calling for the bell during a submission hold. Luckly instead, they decided to go long and have pretty close to an Indy MOTY. The match started with Thompson and Modest hooking up, and Thompson going after Modests knee. They then did a pull apart which was looked like a Japanese style shoot angle, which was cool. Little stuff like that are the kind of little things that guys like Modest and Daniels add to a traditional style match.
Unlike some WSP2K matches this one built slowly with the traditional heel vs. face tag style match, with Modest and Daniels playing to the crowd and Boyce and Thompson both taking their turn as face-in-peril. They waited until about 15 minutes in before they started breaking out big moves, with Modest hitting an awesome Dragon suplex to start the sprint portion of the match which included some big dives by both WSP's and some nasty suplexes by Daniels and Modest. Then when it looked like they were going to the finish, they pulled back again, and worked another 6-8 minutes before the actual final section of the match. I thought the very end of the match, which had a ref bump and some spots with a plastic chair and a table, took away from the flow a little bit. Everything up to that point had been well executed, but the garbage sections seemed a little disjointed, at least they didn't kill the impact of the table spot by having it duplicate something in the undercard, but outside of matches designed as brawls, I tend to think spots like that take away from the flow of a straight match. Also the leg injury of Modest was ignored except for the opening shoot angle, which worked on a META level (Modest gets legit pissed at Thompson for working the leg, Thompson backs off, so they could work a match) but didn't work on a wrestling level. Still those are quibbles in what was really a tremendous match, right up there with Cham Pain vs. Steve Corino for live wrestling MOTY."
- From On the Road - APW Kristmas Kaos, by Phil Schneider
