JERSEY CITY, NJ - The Yanitelli Center was conspicuous primarily for its emptiness tonight, full rows of unoccupied seats a joint testament to both the wake of the tragic shooting after the Providence show last week and the sparse fare on the evening's schedule. Tim Shipley may now regret holding Peyote Jones' first Championship defense back for the last show of the tour as there was little to draw Jersey City's faithful to the Yanitelli tonight barring intrigue over The Back Alley Brawler's debut and whether Jacob McKail could secure a spot in next week's JWC match.

This was a shame, as individual performances were a marked step up from the decidedly mixed showings that some wrestlers have been putting out on the Homecoming Tour. The Back Alley Brawler and Steve Harrison opened up, both having made GTT7 exits in round one but not without fanfare, and both men demonstrated their worth in a visceral back-and-forth that was easily the most compelling curtain-jerker since the Halloween Trick or Treat matches. It would be the debuting Brawler who took victory, defying the noticeable creakings of his ageing body to nail Harrison with his famed One Hitter Quitter. The encounter that followed was far more one-sided, with "The Flyin' Hawaiian" Bryan Dawkins again unable to demonstrate the skills that serve him so well in PRIME, perhaps an even more extreme example than GCW World Heavyweight Champion and eventual JWC Andy Murray of a failure to adapt back to the smaller stage in Just Wrestling. John Lexicon took him methodically to pieces, the high-flyer tossed this way and that before the dominant Lexicon put him out of his misery with a leaping piledriver that shook the ring.

The enigmatic Skylar Montgomery was on show next, a mask-v-mask encounter with Hush, the difference being that while Hush is silent beneath his mask, Montgomery loves nothing more than to lecture the crowd on topics he insists they are just not intelligent enough to comprehend. Montgomery's words do little when his ring work cannot back them up and although he was commendably innovative in his approach this evening, Hush's no-nonsense approach left Montgomery a battered husk of himself before he could use his acrobatics to great effect. "The Imaginary Man" moves to a 1-8 record, matching that of perennial loser Dr. Giggles, and will need to rethink his ring style if he is to make headway in Just Wrestling.

We then came far too soon to a main event between two big names nationally - Jay Terror, whose recent return to GCW saw him a surprise Dangerous Games winner, and recent PRIME addition Jacob McKail. Terror had already locked himself into a JWC shot next week along with "Normal" John Johnson; McKail would join them in a four-way encounter with new Champion Peyote Jones if he could best Terror. McKail was initially hesitant, perhaps still understandably shook up from the shooting incident last week, but for his part Terror also took a while to come into his own, and notably the bandanna of the late Rich Rollins which Terror normally wears around his neck was nowhere to be seen. After each had scored a near-fall, however, both men clicked into gear. The match was long and hard-fought, McKail trying to keep Terror within the bounds of his match strategy but the latter's unorthodox style forcing constant rethinks for the tactician. On fifteen minutes Terror moved into an unstoppable sequence, following up a high-angle spinebuster with his feared Bandstand Bust, and McKail's resistance was finally broken. Yet before our referee could finalise his count he spotted the Bronx man's ankle hooked desperately on the bottom rope. Terror was enraged and fought on blindly, desperate to end a match he now felt was his by right, and gradually McKail's more rational approach came to prevail, finally grounding the Outlaw before destroying him with the Fearless Freefall. It had taken a monumental effort, but Jacob McKail had finally forced his way into the Just Wrestling Championship match.

Next week we return to where it all began, the Spiro Sports Center of New York City. The card is stacked and ALL tickets are just $10! Along with the four-way JWC match and the traditional MVP battle royal, GCW World Heavyweight Champion Andy Murray returns for a grudge match with longtime rival and two-time JWC Aaron Nothings, while Clark Fox and Hush are each on two wins and compete for the first Championship shot of the next tour. All this and far far more as Just Wrestling says goodbye to the Homecoming Tour and goodbye to 2009.