MLW Fusion Review - May 25, 2023

By Graham "GSM" Matthews

MLW World Tag Team Champion Juicy Finau def. Damian 666 and Crazy Frank in a Three-Way Tijuana Street Fight

​This was an absolute mess, and not even in a fun or exciting way. There was loads of interference and it was difficult to follow what exactly was going on. The finish seemed to be executed well, but everything else was either slow or disjointed. On top of all that, it served no purpose and there was no setup. The crowd seemed to enjoy it, so at least there was that, but I personally didn't enjoy this whatsoever. This would have been better for just the live crowd instead of airing on the show.

MLW World Women's Featherweight Champion and AAA Reina de Reinas Champion Taya Valkyrie def. La Heidra, Dalys and Sexy Star in a Four-Way Match

Both belts were on the line here in what was basically a Winner Take All match, so I was convinced Valkyrie was losing since she debuted for AEW months ago and had yet to drop the MLW title (it was more believable she'd hold onto her AAA title since AEW works with AAA). Amazingly, she won here, so she remains a dual champion (for now) despite being in AEW. This was a well-worked four way with all four women having nice showings and a consistently solid pace throughout.

Overall Show

MLW went on a bit of a break after Underground Wrestling wrapped up in the beginning of May and thus this was billed as the "premiere" of Fusion, which hasn't aired a new episode in months. This emanated from Mexico as part of MLW's Super Series show, which was taped back in February I believe. The atmosphere is a cool change of pace, but the episode was all over the place. Although the opener was abysmal, we had a quality main event and there was some decent storyline progression in between via video packages, so the good outweighed the bad.

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