Comptonmania: Vegasmania (4.16.26) review 

 

April 16, 2026

 

Guest reviewer: Al Scoops (@alscoops on Twitter/X)

 

We’re at Container Park in downtown Las Vegas for Southern California independent promotion Comptonmania’s free offering to the Wrestlemania festivities: Vegasmania.

Our view of this event comes via iPhone on a tripod in portrait mode. The tripod can only do so much and the camera is wobbly. Traditionalists may be up in arms but this is how the kids watch their content now. Most celebrity gossip in the Black community comes from and is proliferated via Instagram Live. There is a whole world you cannot even imagine out there.

 

Admin has started the stream a bit before bookerman was ready and we get some chatter between them at the start of the feed. There’s a chance this is the peak of the broadcast.

 

TAG TEAM MATCH:

PJ Laurier & Auntie Hydie vs. Xochi Fatale & S.O.S. (w/ April Hom)

You know that technology iPhones have where they can mute out background noise on calls? Well the microphone has decided that the announcer is extraneous noise it needs to block out. So I cannot discern who is who off the jump. We have a pirate zombie wrestler and a wrestler dressed like The Unknown from the Willy Wonka experience (both have championships in the Southern California area). The other team has S.O.S. and Xochi and they have a legend who I find out is the Royal Hawaiian April Hom from GLOW. The heel tag team have had some animosity in their territory but they’re joining forces for the greater good. The colour commentator of this match has gone to the Booker T school of colour commentary, which could be considered irritating but I think it’s a great choice.

 

The opening universal is blocked by S.O.S. watching on. A test of strength and power between pirate looking zombie and S.O.S. If this were a men’s match it would have a meat chant. Xochi rams her ass into PJ Laurier’s face in the turnbuckle, drags her to the middle of the ring and pins her 123. PJ Laurier and Auntie Hydie’s alliance falls apart and they fight on the outside of the ring. One of Hydie’s “bitches” (they literally say that) gets involved. Xochi calls out PJ Laurier and there’s some extra afters. These women are okay. Even though I can only see this from one angle it’s adequately serviceable as a tag team match. *

 

TRIPLE THREAT MATCH (winner gets the #30 spot in the ghetto gauntlet): 

Alonzo Blackheart vs “The Wonder Kid” Will Andy vs Rhys Maddox

We know that guy! We’ve seen him this week! We’ve seen the guy in the white too he looks like he’s one of the ID guys. This starts as a little guys doing fast-ish paced strike kicky jumpy stuff. We lost a crowd spot to the fact that we have a static view of the match. Rhys Maddox hits a cutter and commentary says it’s “Shades of Mike Tyson” but I don’t know what that means. Everyone’s down, the commentary team is trying to big this up but there’s not really anything to get behind. Alonzo does a splash off the top rope, pins Wonder Kid and he is the #30 entrant in the Ghetto Gauntlet. Yeah this was okay. Everyone here can go. **½

 

Since Wonder Kid ate the pin he’s the first entrant in the Gauntlet which is starting RIGHT NOWWWWW

 

30-Man Ghetto Gauntlet

Winner of this match becomes the #1 contender for the Comptonmania World Title. So, I’m not sure how you get eliminated from this nor will I know who anybody is. Basically a bunch of guys are gonna show up, get their shit in and then they’re gonna go away and someone is gonna win. Four entrants in and we’re talking about OJ Simpson gloves. “If the glove fits you have to hit”. Guy #4 is dressed like Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania XIX. When a new guy comes into the gauntlet Hijo de Booker T counts them down and then goes “EUGHHH” which I don’t think is gonna get over, sorry. I can safely say this is the wrestling show with the strongest grasp of hip-hop music and in a world where For The Culture lost their Collective spot because of Project 2025, the death of woke, and Juggalos being better money marks, it’s nice that we haven’t totally lost its spirit.

 

An issue with the static cam is if there’s backstory they’re trying to do to set up further matches or anything I can’t see it if it’s on the wrong side of the ring. So Will Andy and his tag team partner have heat cause Andy eliminated him, only to get eliminated by Inferno Abdul. There’s a scrap that is obstructed from my vision but their relationship is in hot water I guess. The tenth entrant looks like the love child of Joe Gacy and Parker Boudreaux. His haircut offends me. I would not want to see his Discord DMs. It turns out we’re on whatever fuckshit time the booker decides for new entrants coming in rather than actual times which gives me hope that maybe it won’t go clusterfuck long. Crush is here! In spite of his beef it’s extra apparent he is on the short side. But that’s okay. I think if he wants to take more bookings on bigger indies then he should a) add the nickname “Not Brian Adams” but use “Everything I Do (I Do It For You)” as his entrance music. He’s eliminated by throwing himself over the top rope because he didn’t have enough momentum off a boot from The 80’s Baby.

 

We’re starting to see the ring clear out more and more so it’s looking like it’s getting to the business end. “A member of your mom’s favourite boy band” has a go at a heel promo but you can’t see any of it and barely hear it. When his tag team partner shows up they do some tag team stuff, ham it up outside the ropes and then a man dressed as Kane breaks up their fun, Cue a new guy coming into the match (all I know about him is “TAKE IT EASSYYYYY”) and they suggest a dance off, but it’s a ruse so they can beat him up. There’s a man whose name is CTE. He has the build of someone who may have played football at one point but there’s no clear reason for it other than “funny.” The boy band lads pull a Martina and grind up on CTE only to get eliminated by him. Turns out, not very bantz.

 

Master Amir, a British man who alleges to be Paul Levesque’s nephew has gotten on the mic talking about bringing Sports Entertainment to the unwashed masses, and sings the praises of Pat McAfee. He is dressed like Hunter Hearst Helmsley starring in a gay Interview With the Vampire porn parody. They’re really pushing this CTE guy as if not your winner, a guy who will be hovering around the top of this promotion. He is the heavy of a faction Paul London is in called The Glass Ceiling. Alonzo is in and the end is in sight. Some guy is speaking to the Paul London faction guys but I can’t hear a thing. I think this is some kind of both Orton and Batista leaving Evolution type thing. Eventually CTE batters his tag team pals after they kicked him in the nuts, eliminates one and is left with the other one as the final two. They worked a match (boo) for five minute until CTE throws yer man over the rope and wins.

 

*3/4

 

The 411:

Solid bit of wrestling especially for the price point of absolutely free, very smart to keep this to an hour and a half max. I’m sure this would have been better in person rather than via an iPhone.

 

2.0