- 11/17/2008 (2:10:18 pm)
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BILL BEHRENS NWA NOTES for 11-17-08
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NWA ANARCHY TV TAPING RESULTS 11-15-08
Jerry Palmer introduced a well dressed Melissa Coates
Greg Hunter announced the Young Lions #1 contender tournament and brought out 7 of the 8 contenders, Adrian Hawkins, Bo Newsome, Chip Day, Caleb Conley, Kyle Matthews, Andrew Alexander & the returning Hayden Young
Adrian Hawkins def Caleb Conley
Vignette with Alexander, K Matthews, Bo Newsome....the 8th contender Azreal & The Rev, Alan Funk and Vain & Adonis
Ace Rockwell def Mike Mosley..post match Kimo w/ Bailey attacked Ace, ref Wes Grissom stopped Kimo, Kimo attacked him causing him to bleed from the mouth. Jerry Palmer suspended Kimo for 30 days
New Wave retained the Tag Titles by DQ over the Dynamic Duo when Vain & Adonis interfered
Hayden Young def Chip Day in a Lions Tournament match
Technician vs Wild Bunch no contest brawl
Slim J def JT Talent w/Pendleton
Greg Hunter interviewed Shadow Jackson and announced that by pinning Iceberg at Fright Night he was facing the Champion at Season's Beatings, but added it would be a 3 Way Match. That brought out Bailey & Shatter, then Mikal Judas. Judas & Shatter brawled
Rejects def Culture Shock & Don Matthews when Jay Clinton distracted Matthews. Postmatch The Rejecst turned on Shaun Tempers. Truitt Fields saved
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MATCH #1 SHAUN TEMPERS VS SAL RINAURO
MATCH #2
MATCH #3 NORRIS & OUTLAW VS DELAY & PARHAM
MATCH #4 DON MATTHEWS IN RING
MATCH #5 ACE ROCKWELL VS JESSCO BLUE
MATCH #6 ACE ROCKWELL/KIMO CONFRONTATION
MATCH #7 DEVILS REJECTS VS JUDAS & SHADOW
NWA Anarchy/ APW
November 7, 2008
Cherry Street Gym
Jeremy Vain demanded the Southern States title be returned to him immediately. Vain said his lawyers had filed a motion to have the decision overturned, making him the rightful champion. Chris King congratulated Vain on being the only man to win and lose the title in less than a minute. Before things got out of hand, APW announcer Brett Wolverton informed Vain that a decision would be made on APW Aftershock regarding the status of the Championship. Vain vowed to send a message to "Champion" Billy Buck through his friend, Chris King.
Dustin Michaels defeated BJ Hancock.
"The Candy Dandy Man" Donovan Sweet defeated Anthony Henry.
Aaron Lee & "Royston Brawler" John Carnage defeated Brad Logan & Bo Newsome.
Slim J & APW Tag Team Champions, The Franchise (Ryan Michaels & Matt Sells) defeated Strictnyn & Dany Only & Skirra Corvus.
APW North Georgia Champion Seth Delay defeated Chris Damien.
Chris King defeated Jeremy Vain by DQ. Vain went for the Clorox bleach, but before he could do anything, Billy Buck intervened and Vain ran off.
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NWA Anarchy/ Alternative Pro Wrestling
November 14, 2008
Cherry Street Gym
Shadow Jackson defeated S.W.A.T.
Dustin Michaels defeated "Lifeguard" Wade Koverly.
"The Royston Brawler" John Carnage continued making a mockery of Don Matthews as a guest on the Talent Show.
The Hate Junkies (Dany Only & Stryknyn) defeated Keith Blonde & B.J. Hancock.
Donovan Sweet defeated Brandon Parker after Kareem Abdul Jamar made the assist.
Chris King defeated Chris Jones.
APW North Georgia Champion Seth Delay defeated Slim J.
Non-Title Match
Tag Team Champions The Franchise (Ryan Michaels & Matt Sells) defeated Skirra Corvus & Anthony Henry
APW Southern States Champion Billy Buck defeated Jeremy Vain by pinfall.
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NWA Prime Time Pro Wrestling
November 14, 2008
PTPW Arena
Columbus, GA
Before the opening match Sal Rinauro came to the ring to profess his love for Tracy Taylor. Not only had she beaten him in a wrestling match the previous week, but she had stolen his heart. He declared that he would do anything to prove his love for
In the opening match the Inter-Gender Champion Jay Clinton defended his title against LaLa.
Frankie Valentine was victorious over Shaun Tempers
In a great tag team match David Young & Chris Stevens were declared the winners over Iceberg & Jake Slater, but not before we were once again invaded by Sonny Siaki and a masked companion. There was total chaos as Siaki and the other man beat down Stevens & Young with chairs until the dressing room emptied out to calm things down. Siaki also clobbered a security guard and referee Rob Russo. There was true pandemonium as the fans tried to get at all the bad guys and it took quite awhile to restore order to the arena.
Jimmy Rave defeated Ace Rockwell in a hard fought battle that ended just 15 seconds before the 20 minute time limit was up.
In the main event, 16 fans chosen by lottery drawing, were placed around the ring with leather straps. They were there to make sure that neither Bulldog Raines or Colt Derringer escaped from the arena. They did a magnificent job of keeping both men in the ring, and seemed to get a lot of pleasure out of using the straps, and I can assure you the fans did not hold back. The match was called to an end by Referee Steve Miller on a double count out with both men down in the ring, but Promoter Billy Roper would not allow it to end that way and called for a re-start. However, while Roper was talking to the Referee, Colt Derringer clocked Bulldog with a cow bell and Bulldog was counted out and Derringer declared the winner. Bulldog then challenged Derringer to a cow bell match and that was immediately booked for the Thanksgiving show on the 28th.
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NWA Main Event – ION episode 30
Airing October 25, 2008 in
Taped October 21, 2008 at the
1 –
Jason James and Tyler Clemmons spent the opening minutes running down the rest of the card. The body of the match was heel chicanery on parade as they worked on Gangster’s arm. Cooter missed a Lawler fist drop, and it was fists of fire from Payne. Gangster hit a stunner. They called it the Rocker Dropper. I believe that name is taken. Payne finished Casey with a top rope double knee.
Winner:
Promo by the soon to be debuting Aiden Scott, who already debuted on one of the State Fair episodes, but who can blame them for wanting to forget about those shows. Anyway, this was not good. They way the shot was framed made Scott look like a pinhead. He’s in Main Event as part of an attempt to resuscitate the Mid-America X Division title.
New York Rockers promo. No idea why this aired. It was cut to preview a match that already taken place, and did them no favors as babyfaces.
2 – CHRIS CAIN vs. PENNYWISE the CLOWN
Cain worked over the clown’s neck. Clemmons said Cain was imagining that it was J.P. Lightning. Cain use a Curt Hennig over the top neck snap. “Yeah, but he is far from Mr. Perfect, I’ll tell you that much, is Chris Cain,” said James. Cain sadistically picked Pennywise apart until Scarlett Rose jumped up on the ring apron. Cane grabbed her by the hair. Pennywise caught Cain with a small package for the pin. Cain kept beating on the clown. Scarlett jumped on Cain, and he gave her a wicked neckbreaker. Off came the clown mask to reveal J.P. Lightning underneath. He cleared Cane out of the ring with all the neck flexibility of Frankenstein. Scarlett was carried to the back.
Winner: Pennywise (AKA J. P. Lightning) in 5:05. I liked the story. It had the element of surprise. Lightning’s wrestling looked so awkward in the clown outfit that I couldn’t tell it was him.
Promo by Lightning. Scarlett was in the background wearing the neckbrace. Lightning said his neck was 100% and he was challenging Cane to a match.
Cane promo. He tried to say he knew it was Lightning in the clown suit all along, but it made no sense. “Why don’t you put your rail hopping hussy where your mouth is?”
3 – SHANE SMALLS vs. BILLY HARDAWAY
Total domination by Smalls working fast and making beacoup pin attempts. The announce was back to ripping him about his looks. It took forever to set up, but the Rocking Horse face plant was cool.
Winner: Smalls in 4:15 with a moonsault. Smalls has been having a lot of good match. This wasn’t one of them.
4 – Mid
Smalls pulled up a seat at ringside. The announce team talked about how O had beaten Smalls twice. They brought up Mike Woods putting his fist through Walt’s briefcase in self-defense last week and ending up screwed out of the title shot on a DQ. Shank took a nice backward bump through the ropes for O’s dropkick. Back inside, Shank rudely tossed O on the back of his head. Shank worked on O’s back with a camel clutch and then curb stomped him. O hit a flying forearm for the double down. O slipped off the ropes attempting to springboard dropkick. Shank, who was planted on the top turnbuckle, improvised with a double stomp. For the finish Walt grabbed O’s leg on a suplex attempt and hung on, causing Shank to land on top. But Smalls pulled ref Jamie Ferrari out of the ring at two. While they argued, Woods hit the ring with the Clothesline from Hell on Shank. O covered Shank for the 1-2-3.
Winner: Steve-0 via pinfall at 8:48. It had its moments. Quite the creative finish. There was a timing problem, as Ferrari had to hold up the count bigtime waiting for Smalls to pull him out.
Backstage, Shank got into a heated argument with Small. Jeff Daniels told them to show some respect because he needed to concentrate on preparing for his title defense. The Barzinis went away happy when Dominique said Daniels’ opponent was Woods.
Promo by Steve-O. He’s no Shakespeare. Steve said the deck was stacked against him, but he was still the TV champion. Set 'em up and Steve-O would keep knocking them down.
5 – Mid
Clemmons said Daniels’ ego was bigger than ever. They put Woods over as a two-time former Mid-America Heavyweight Champion. Daniels was the cowardly cheater early. The tide turned when Daniels pumphandled the shoulder of Woods across the top rope. Daniels zeroed in on the arm to set up the Dominator. Clemmons noted that Daniels was using a keylock from Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. “That she-devil” (as James loves to call her) got into the act. As Woods started an injury-riddled comeback, they cut to Uncle Walt out arguing with Dominique. With Walt providing the distraction, Shank hit the ring with the briefcase. Woods ducked and knocked the briefcase into the third row. Dominque tossed knucks to Daniels, and it was lights out for Woods.
Winner: Daniels in 8 minutes. As good as it was going to get for wrestling on this show. Some nice work on the arm by Daniels and Woods sold it well. Better execution of the finish than the previous match.
Woods said he was going to bring more mean because now it was personal with Shank. “Step in the ring, step up or step off.”
Daniels cut a classic promo for next week’s Fairgrounds main event vs. “Playboy” Scott Hayes.
Charles doubted if even a mother could love a face like Snake’s. He’s got a point there. Charles said they got rid of that flea bitten dog Ali Stevens. Little Booger entered from stage right with a dog in his arms. Charles asked if the dog was house broken. Booger smiled. “He is now.” Charles said Chris Phoenix was about to take a ride on the big roller coaster.
6 – SNAKE JONES (with Charming Charles & Little Booger) vs. CHRIS
It was all Jones stomping, kicking and choking. Jones applied the Snake Eyes (cobra clutch).
Winner: Jones in 3:45. Dreadful stuff. These guys bring out the worst in each other.
Closing Thoughts: The stuff with Cane and Lightning continues to be the best thing going in NWA Main Event. Their promos need work, but it’s a great story. The Shank/Woods program is also humming along. I enjoyed the deal with each guy screwing up the other guy’s match. But let me get this straight. As a consequence of losing a match for a shot at the TV title, Woods gets an immediate shot at the Heavyweight title? The title matches had their moments, otherwise, the wrestling was ordinary at best. James and Clemmons again did a fine job of explaining the major angles in lieu of highlight clips. While I’m thinking of it, how about a little originality with the names of finishing moves? On the down side, Snake vs.
Thanksgiving night, NWA Main Event will host Tennessee Homecoming 2008 at the Nick Gulas Sports Arena at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds with a belltime of 8 pm. The main event will feature Too Sexy Brian Christopher taking on "Dangerous" Doug Gilbert with a no time limit, no DQ contest. These two men turned on each other after defeating the Moondogs at the Jerry Lawler 35 card at the Fairgounds on Nov. 7. To check out the other matches on the card and to reserve seats go to:
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NWA Main Event
November 27, 2008 - Thanksgiving Night
Nashville Fairgrounds
Nashville, TN
Bell time - 8pm
Main Event
"Dangerous" Doug Gilbert vs. "Too Sexy" Brian Christopher
NWA Mid-American Heavyweight Title Match
Jeff "The Crippler" Daniels [c] vs. "Playboy" Scott Hayes
NWA Mid-American Television Title Match
Steve O [c] vs. "Magnum" Shane Smalls
For the vacant NWA Mid-American X Title
Aiden Scott vs. Chris Cain
"Mean" Mike Woods vs. Larry Cooter
Matt Boyce vs. Shawn Schultz
Ali Stevens vs. Seven
2 Ring Battle Royal for the Nick Gulas Memorial Cup
14 men will enter the 1st ring and will be eliminated by being thrown into the 2nd ring and out of the 2nd ring onto the Sports Arena Floor
NWA Main Event – Episode 31
Airing November 1, 2008 in Nashville on ION affiliate WNPX 28
Taped October 28, 2008 at the Nashville Fairgrounds Sports Arena
Bert Prentice opened hyping the Lawler 35 show featuring Lawler vs. Sid Vicious with Jimmy Hart in his corner.
You all know what happened to our business. We’re just fighting to keep some sanity, and keep it alive.
Prentice introed the Memphis Memories video. It included clips of all the greats of
On to NWA Main Event with promoter Mike Porter joining Jason James on commentary this week.
1 – LARRY COOTER & CHRIS CAIN vs. AIDEN SCOTT & WHITE TIGER
Shown in edited form. Babyface domination led to argument between Cooter and Cain. Back from commercial, Scott was making the hot tag. Tiger’s punches looked horrible. Some of the footage was rewound and replayed as a result of an editing gaffe. Scott cut off a Cain’s attack on Tiger with a Thesz Press. They rolled out to the floor and continued to fight. Cooter then pinned Tiger with a pumphandle front powerslam.
WINNERS: Cooter & Cain in 4:30 of TV time. It’s slim pickings for new talent when Tiger is named as a rookie of the year candidate. The heat on Scott was edited out, so he looked like a world beater.
Cain and Scott both cut promos for the first NWA Main Event Sunday television taping in LaVergne at the HWA Arena. All tickets $5.
*Tennessee Homecoming 2008 on Thanksgiving Night at the Fairgrounds headlined by "Too Sexy" Brian Christopher vs. "Dangerous" Doug Gilbert with no time limit and no DQ match. NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship: Jeff Daniels (c) (with Dominique) vs. Scott Hayes, NWA Mid-America Television Championship: Steve-O (c) vs. Shane Smalls, Aiden Scott vs. Chris Cain with the winner crowned as the new NWA Mid-America X Division Champion, "Mean" Mike Woods vs. Larry Cooter, Shawn Shultz vs. Matt Boyce, Ali Stevens vs. Seven, and a Two Ring Battle Royal for the Nick Gulas Memorial Cup.
2 – NWA Mid-America Television Champion STEVE-O vs. SHANE SMALLS
I have no idea why this match got a JIP graphic when most NWA ME matches are joined in progress. Smalls worked over O’s knee with a series of leg DDTs, a single leg crab and an ankle lock. O used a catapult to start the comeback and hit a back suplex for a near fall. Smalls used a Punk-like climbing knee strike to set up the moonsault. It missed and Steve-O rolled him up to make it three straight wins over Smalls.
WINNER: Steve-O in 4:45 of TV time. Not as good as their previous matches. With LT Falk no longer around, Smalls is the best workrate guy they have. He’s about as successful with that moonsault as Flair was going to the top rope.
Smalls promo.
Steve-O, you must have guardian angels in your dentures, because your always making out by the skin of your teeth.
Steve O promo for LaVergne. Everything’s coming up roses in Steve-O land.
They replayed Bert’s Lawler 35 stuff.
3 – NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Champion JEFF DANIELS (with Dominique) vs. SCOTT HAYES in a non-title match
JIP with Daniels giving Hayes a beating. James said that per Commissioner George Gulas, a victory by Hayes would earn him a title shot tomorrow in LaVergne. Porter said anytime Daniels faced a serious challenger, he tried to put him out of wrestling, just as he had tried to do to Hayes. James claimed referee Jamie Ferrari was not on speaking terms with his mother, Dominique. Porter said they should put James on the kayfabe list. Daniels took a flying crotch bump. Hayes rained down “the 10 Punches of Doom.” He tried it again, but Ferrari stopped him. Dominique tossed knucks to Daniels. Ferrari confiscated the knucks. Hayes pinned Daniels with a sloppy rolling reverse.
WINNER: Hayes in 5 minutes of TV time.
Hayes promo for his title match tomorrow in LaVergne.
Daniels promo (with “The First Lady of NWA Main Event” Dominique).
Hoodwinked, flim-flammed, bamboozled - No, I was screwed.
Daniels said he lost because of biased ref that had Mike Porter in his ear all day. Daniels said nobody in NWA ME wanted him as the champion, because nobody can take the title away from him.
Closing Thoughts: This was mostly an advertisement with a little wrestling thrown in. The top priority was plugging Lawler 35, and secondarily, Main Event’s first television taping in LaVernge, The Memphis Memories video is a sweet piece of nostalgia. It got me yearning for the heyday of the territories. It will be interesting to see how the product changes with the move to tape apart from the Tuesday night Fairgrounds events. The venue in LaVergne would almost have to be an improvement over the dead crowds and drab appearance of the Fairgrounds. The crowds since they returned to the Fairgrounds in October have been 50-60, which looks especially bad in a building of that size. There was no mention of J.P. Lightning, and his stuff with Cain has easily been the most compelling thing about the recent TV shows. They’re really playing up Smalls obsession with the TV Title. He’s become the best promo guy among the younger wrestlers. Consistently good promos from Daniels are a given. They did a complete180 on Ferrari, as they had previously dropped hints that he was cahoots with momma and Jeff. There was nothing about Hayes, either in the ring or on the mic, that made him look the least bit like championship material. They're doing Cane vs.Scott to create a new X Division champion on the Thanksgiving show, so they're serious about having three singles belts with a roster that is stretched thin to support two singles titles.
NWA Wrestling Returns to
Written by Jay Joyce
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
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“We are delighted to have reached an agreement with the National Wrestling Alliance and Executive Director Bob Trobich to bring the NWA name and professional wrestling back to
The National Wrestling Alliance was formed in 1948 and has grown to be the largest group of independent professional wrestling promotions in the country. “NWA Charlotte brings back the rich heritage of this grand sport that generations of wrestling fans and families have enjoyed for more than 60 years across the
Costello himself was a legendary wrestling manager with the NWA in the mid 1980’s when he managed the tag team champions, The M.O.D. Squad (Masters of Disaster). “JD Costello and The M.O.D. Squad worked with wrestling icons like Jerry Lawler, Jerry Jarrett, Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantel, Baby Doll, and Jim Cornett,” said Costello. “We worked for the original Jim Crockett Promotions, which was the foundation for what we know today as professional wrestling.”
“There is a real magic with wrestling fans when you mention the NWA,” said Costello. “Our goal with NWA Charlotte is to bring that great style of family entertainment back to
NWA Charlotte will regularly feature past and present NWA superstars, wrestling legends, new talent from TNA, and regional wrestling stars. “The true excitement in professional wrestling is the contagious combination of good guys versus bad guys, great storylines, unique wrestling stars, and large championship bouts,” said Costello. “NWA Charlotte will have all of that and mix in the one element that today has to offer, which is the Internet.”
NWA Charlotte fans will be able to follow their favorite NWA superstars week by week on the NWA Charlotte website at HYPERLINK "http://www.NWACharlotte.com" www.NWACharlotte.com . “Mixing in the Internet gives our wrestling fans a new resource to keep current on what’s happening between shows,” said Costello. “The Internet gives the fans instant satisfaction for their need of information and will also give them the chance to interact with wrestlers and other fans on message boards and blogs.”
NWA Charlotte has selected Charlotte-based creative marketing agency Ideas Squared as the agency of record. “Ideas Squared understands the unique blend of creativity, imagination, and technology that we need to connect everything together,” said Costello. “Ideas Squared has experience working with professional sports teams and organizations and they were a natural fit as our creative and marketing partner.”
“I want to assure wrestling fans across the
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About the NWA
The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is the largest governing body for a group of independent professional wrestling promotions and sanctions various NWA championships in the
About NWA
NWA Charlotte brings back the rich heritage of professional wrestling that generations of wrestling fans and families have enjoyed for more than 60 years across the
About JD Costello
JD Costello was a legendary wrestling manager with the NWA in the mid 1980’s when he managed the tag team champions, The M.O.D. Squad (Masters of Disaster). JD Costello and The M.O.D. Squad worked with wrestling icons like Jerry Lawler, Jerry Jarrett, Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantel, Baby Doll, and Jim Cornett. During that time, Costello was employed with the original Jim Crockett Promotions, which was the real predecessor for what we know as professional wrestling today. Costello now owns the NWA Charlotte wrestling franchise.
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Message from JD Costello
After three exhaustive months of searching for the perfect building and location, we signed the papers this morning on the new 15,000 sq. ft. NWA Charlotte Coliseum at I-85 and
This is the largest professional wrestling building in the
The building of the stage and infrastructure will start immediately and be ready for our January 2009 launch!
We will be unveiling the official name of the Coliseum in December during a dedication ceremony with the naming sponsor!
It feels great to finally have this part of the NWA Charlotte mission completed and signed.
Pictures are going to be posted soon on the temporary NWACharlotte. com website. Our new website will debut at the end of the year.
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