- 03/09/2009 (6:08:20 pm)
- Georgiann Makropoulos
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BILL BEHRENS NWA NEWS & NOTES for 3-9-09
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3/7 NWA Anarchy Report
by Larry Goodman
NWA Anarchy returned to Cornelia with another strong show Saturday night. Things are definitely on the upswing as the company heads down the highway to Hardcore Hell on April 18.
This show had the best of both worlds. It worked as a compact, pure television style product, especially the first hour, which came across as possibly the best single episode this year. The new booking directions are really starting to gel. It was also very entertaining as a live show that gave fans enough action to satisfy the moment and plenty to look forward to.
Its success was more dependent on talking and vignettes to tell the stories than most Anarchy shows, and it all worked out quite nicely. The mic work across the board has gotten a lot better, the performances by Shaun Tempers, Don Matthews and JT Talent being prime examples.
Attendance was 155. Like two weeks ago, the heat was very good for a crowd of its size.
(1) Slim J & Bo Newsome & TK Cross beat Todd Sexton & The Technicians (Bobby Moore & Tyler Smith) in 9:45. Technicians are both sporting bigtime facial hair. Cross was given the prime spot in the shine. He took out all three heels with a baseball slide through the ropes. Newsome followed with a flip dive. In the ring, J confronted Sexton but got clubbed from behind by
Post-match: Sexton delivered the knockout knee to Newsome. Sexton to J: “How many more of your trainees do I have to knock out, Buster?”
The next segment was the first ever Talent and Money Show featuring the new NWA Anarchy tag team champions, JT Talent and Andrew Pendleton III. Their special guests were Seth Delay and Brodie Chase, who entered the ring with a pair of miniature cakes in honor of the occasion. Delay also brought out the party favors and the shaving cream, which he sprayed at the ringside fans. The newly reformed Pomp & Circumstance (Ace Rockwell & Shaun Tempers) came to ringside. Talent said it wasn’t 2005 anymore. It was 2009 – the year of Talent & Money. “We tell it like it is. All you can do is tell it like it used to be.” Talent’s delivery was really smooth. He’s got a knack for it, and all that mic time in APW has paid off handsomely. Pendleton said P&C didn’t deserver a title shot. This was not good. Pendleton was shouting in this shrill voice that got old in a hurry. Maybe it was nerves. Pendleton said P&C would have to go through Delay and Chase. Talent and Money paid off Chase. Out of nowhere, New Wave hit the ring and shoved the cakes into the faces of Talent & Money. Hilarity reigned as the eyes of Talent and Pendleton were barely visible through all the cake. Definitely one of those scenes you had to see to fully appreciate.
Next up was an awesome backstage promo by Jeremy Vain and Mr. Rob Adonis. This was right of the 70s. Vain is as devious as ever and twice as vicious. Vain said Shadow Jackson felt the wrath of Rob Adonis, the man with the greatest tendon strength ever in pro wrestling, while he took a chair to one of
(2) Azrael (with Skirra Corvus & The Reverend) dismantled Chris King in 2:26 to retain the Young Lion’s Title. King tried to trade strikes with Azrael – big, big mistake there. King countered Azrael’s first attempt at the Ted Bundy with a roll up. He was dead meat the second time around.
Postmatch: Corvus curbstomped King and the Rev placed his cape over the carcass. A major of selling by King, as Anarchy personnel rushed to his aid.
Backstage, we saw the new look (shaved head) Mike Mosley reading high brow material to The Entourage. The new look (reddish Fauxhawk) Kyle Matthews said he had bad news. He had taken a role on the West Coast so a replacement would be needed. Lewis pondered who that could be. The camera panned over to find Jay Clinton “Ain’t it great,” he said.
(3) The Entourage (Jeff Lewis & Mike Mosley & Kyle Matthews & Andrew Alexander with Jay Clinton & Taco Delgado) beat Alan Funk & Chip Day & Caleb Konley & Kareem Abdul Jamar in 6:13. Delgado has the choice roll of being the Entourage’s lackey. His job duties include rolling out a section of red carpet on the ramp for their entrance and the like. I’m not sure exactly what Alexander is going for with the new scruffy appearance. He looks like he’s been living out of his car.
On the WrestleVision, we saw footage of Don Matthews on the road in
(4) Truitt Fields defeated Kimo (with Attorney Jeff G. Bailey) via countout at 6:55. Fields got the top babyface pop of the first hour. The Bleacher Bums started a “Kimo” chant, which lead to a brief round of dueling chants. Kimo displayed catlike quickness in defending against Fields’ attack. Kimo was unfazed by Fields’ shoulder blocks and sent him down with a chop to the throat. Kimo went to work trying to cut off Fields’ air supply. A double chop the base of the neck put Fields down again. Kimo applied an Oriental nerve hold. Fields was screaming in agony. Fields came back blasting away with shoulder blocks. It took three of them, but he finally succeeded in knocking Kimo off his feet for the first time in Anarchy. It got a big pop. The lights went out. When they came back on, the casket that allegedly contained the body of Mikal Judas was at ringside. Bailey jumped out of skin when he saw the casket. Kimo cautiously opened the casket and found nothing inside. Meanwhile, referee Ken Wallace had counted him out. Kimo threw a fit and hoisted the ringsteps up over his head like they were nothing. Tempers came out to make sure no harm came to Fields. No way they could do a conclusive finish. This was just right, just enough to make the people want to see more.
The second hour opened with Malachi and Chris Mayne in the ring for a Young Lion’s Contender’s Match. Adrian Hawkins said his veteran (cough) status was being disrespected and he wanted in. Malachi motioned for Hawkins to bring it and got jumped by Mayne.
(5) Malachi beat Adrian Hawkins and Chris Mayne in a quasi number one contender's match for the Young Lion’s Title by pinning Hawkins at 7:52. Dead crowd. It was the standard three-way fare involving two heels and one babyface. You know the drill. Malachi got in a strong one against two flurry, but it wasn’t as if anyone cared. The heels doubled on Malachi. Heel selfishness ensued. Finish saw Hawkins hit a Koppo Kick on Mayne, but Malachi broke up the pin attempt with a swan dive headbutt to the back of Hawkins and rolled him up.
Part II of “On the Trail of Jessco Blue” was shown on the WrestleVision. Matthews and Hunter were in the woods. Matthews said Jessco was a vagabond, and if he wasn’t at Earleen’s house, he was with his second love, the great outdoors of the
(6) Talent & Money (JT Talent & Andrew Pendleton III) & Brodie Chase & Seth Delay beat New Wave (Derrick Driver & Steven Walters) & Pomp & Circumstance (Ace Rockwell & Shaun Tempers) when Pendleton pinned Tempers 12:48. This was a heated match. The anticipation factor from the first hour angle helped. P&C and New Wave busted out double teams early. 8 way action led to a collision of heels, then the 10 Punches of Doom in all four corners. Fun stuff. Chase used a blind tag to get the drop on Driver. Chase and Talent dished out most of the punishment. Driver fought his way out of the heel corner and did a Morton roll to hot tag Tempers, who gave T & M a classic meeting of the minds. Tommy..er..Shaun hit a Thesz Press. Walters and Rockwell did double dives. Walters’ was to the short side, which is risky business in Cornelia. Talent broke up Tempers’ finisher. T & M then hit a combo move ending with Pendleton’s downward spiral maneuver.
Hunter tossed to John Johnson backstage with Fields and “Sugar” Shaun Tempers, the non-stop-talking-and-smiling babyface. Tempers is so great in this role. He’s having so much fun that it makes it fun to watch. Tempers told Fields he knew that it was the Devil’s Rejects that attacked him last week. He reminded Fields that he was once the Reject’s sleeper cell. Tempers said they needed to find NWA Anarchy owner Jerry Palmer and put a stop to it. A tracking shot followed Tempers and Fields through the dressing room with Tempers talking and shaking hands the entire way. Tempers convinced Palmer that the Rejects were the culprits and they wanted revenge. Palmer told them they could name the match and which of the Rejects they wanted to face. Temper turned his attention to Fields. He said it was paining him that he couldn’t cut the mustard in his TV title challenge against Fields. He asked Fields for one more match after they dispensed with the Rejects. Fields was all for it.
(7) Shadow
Adonis entered the ring and put the claw on
NOTES: Anarchy will be hosting its first ever NWA Excellence Camp on March 20-22. The event will be weekend long training provided by Les Thatcher…Jamar and Mayne are booked for the 4/4 IWA Mid-South show in Joliet, Il…The story on the confrontation between Rockwell and a fan at the 2/27 IWA Deep South show is this: The fan was drunk and continually heckling the wrestlers in an obnoxious manner. He allegedly had MMA and Jiu Jitsu training. During an intermission, the guy grabbed the mic, got in the ring and issued a challenge to the fake wrestlers. Rockwell came out of the dressing room and choked the guy out in about 20 seconds…Slim J, Azrael, Delgado and female wrestler Destiny all participated in shoot matches at a small MMA show on 2/28 in Cornelia.
NWA ANARCHY TV EPS #159 ONLINE NOW at www.nwaanarchy.net/online.html
SHOW #489-160
MATCH #1 RECAP & INRO
MATCH #2 MOSTEY, LEWIS & CLINTON VS NEWSOME, MATTHEWS & DAY
MATCH #3 SEXTON IN RING
MATCH #4 ALAN FUNK VS HAYDEN YOUNG
MATCH #5 SHAWN TEMPERS VS TYLER SMITH
MATCH #6 KIMO VS CHRIS KING (DAY & JUDAS)
NWA ANARCHY/APW
Matt Mercer defeated Ryan Michaels
John Carnage defeated Jesco Blue
Shaun Tempers defeated Mike Posey
Bo Newsom, Kareem Abdul Jamar,& Chris King defeated APW Tag champions The Hate Junkies & Skirra Corvus
Jeremy Vain & Taco Delgado defeated Antwan Thompson & Thunderfoot #3
Seth Delay & Dustin Knight & Duncan Enterprises defeated BJ Hancock, Don Matthews, Slim J, & Shadow Jackson
*Check out this week's APW AFTERSHOCK at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh06Hu0dzXI
NWA Southwest/ PWF
February 28, 2009
PWF Wrestleplex
Amarillo, TX
Match one: Dr. Knuckles vs. “The Southern Pitbull” Rufus Lee Wilkins
Winner: Southern Pitbull
Match two: Cody Knight vs. Jason Silver vs. “Dirty” Dice Murdock
Winner: Cody Knight
Match three: Joey “The Mastiff” Armstrong vs. Eric Fantabulous
Winner: Eric Fantabulous
Match four: Rexx Reed vs. Biohaxxxard
Winner: Biohaxxxard
Match five: Bones vs. Austin
Winner: none … match tossed out due to interference by Logan and Cody
Semi-main event: Mike Savage vs. Chuey "The Chicano Assassin" Martinez
Winner: Chuey Martinez
Main event: NWA SW/ PWF Heritage Title Match
Mark Wilson [c] vs. "Sexy" Shawn Sanders
Winner: Mark Wilson
For more information on PWF, go to:
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www.myspace.com/pwfwrestling_texas
For more information on NWA Southwest, go to:
www.nwa-southwest.com