- 07/14/2008 (5:40:09 pm)
- Press Release
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BILL BEHRENS NWA NOTES for 7-14-08
Congratulations to Patrick Bentley who placed 5th in the Novice Class (among 30 competitors), and 3rd in the middleweight class at the The Greater Tennessee Valley and Huntsville Bodybuilding and Figure Championship on July 12.
NWA ANARCHY TV TAPING REPORT for 7-12-08 by LARRY GOODMAN
July 12, 2008
NWA Anarchy returned the NWA Arena in
NWA Anarchy owner Jerry Palmer opened with the announcement that Anarchy had just passed their third anniversary (under Palmer’s ownership). Palmer noted that going three weeks in between taping hadn’t hurt the crowd, which was 200, just like last time. Neither did running on a second Saturday for the first time in over 9 years of attending wrestling in Cornelia. Neither did the gas prices or the shitty economy. These people are hooked. At three year in, the crowd has naturally matured to where they’ve become more discriminating; it takes more to impress them.
As Palmer was finishing up, Bill Behrens came out to lead a surprise birthday celebration for Palmer. There was even a birthday cake that didn’t end up in somebody’s face. The fans sang Happy Birthday to Palmer on his way out.
(1) Brodie Ray Chase (with Melissa Coates) beat T. K. Cross in 7:53. Brodie wanted me to put over how muscular he looks, and he does look fantastic – for a guy his age. Coates is so at home in the dominatrix role it’s scary. Definitely a more feminine look for her. She got a “blonde haired bimbo” chant from the Bleacher Bums as opposed to “she’s a man.” Chase looked like he was going to lose it when Coates massaged his chin with the riding crop. Cross switched to a Mohawk type hairstyle. His offensive flurry looked good. Coates grabbed Cross by the leg to set up the beatdown. Coates posted Cross and used her riding crop on him. Chase punished Cross with power moves. Cross scored a couple of near falls on the comeback. More distraction by Coates. Chase pinned Cross with a pumphandle neckbreaker.
Post-match: Coates humiliated Cross by spanking his heinie with the riding crop. Don Matthews hit the ring. Coates told Don he wasn’t man enough for her. Chase made Don an offer he could not resist for Hostile Environment: If Don wins, he gets Melissa, but it’s two against one an if Chase wins, Don becomes their slave. “I know a little bit more about three ways than you do,” said Chase.
On the WrestleVision, Greg Hunter asked Adrian Hawkins what was up with the changed demeanor and his problems with Bo Newsome. Hawkins complained about young, pretty punks like Bo pushing vets like him out of the limelight. Funny stuff. Caleb Konley was with Hawkins. Talent & Money joined them. Pendleton got sarcastic about Hawkins’ veteran status (all two years of it), and said one of them was taking the night off. Jeff Lewis showed up needing a partner and chose Pendleton. Jeremy Vain and Rob Adonis showed up. Adonis enlisted the services of all four of them plus Jay Clinton, who just happened to be sitting there, for later in the evening.
(2) Jeff Lewis & Andrew Pendleton III beat Truitt Fields & Hayden Young in 8:53. Fields invited Pendleton to take his best shot. Pendleton hurt his fist trying to punch Fields’ abs of steel. The faces dominated Pendleton. He whined to Lewis that they were embarrassing him. No argument there. The tide turned when Pendleton stepped aside and Young flew shoulder-first into the post. Lewis was like a man possessed on Young’s shoulder. Young hit the Cold Shot, a signature move of the great Caprice Coleman from NWA Wildside, to set up the hot tag. Fields cleaned house on Lewis, who managed to block the Killing Fields. Finish saw Lewis duck Young’s blind spinning enzuigiri, which nailed Fields. Lewis pinned Fields.
Post-match: A three-way dance was announced for Hostile Environment: Fields vs. Young vs. Lewis. Needless to say, Fields’ relationship with Young is severely strained.
(3) Sal Rinauro beat Seth Delay in 9:36 via DQ. Rinauro has a knack for putting together his matches in a way that avoids the usual wrestling clichés. In a nod to the countless times they’ve wrestled each other, they each had the other guys’ first big move scouted. Sal looks like Little Guido when he does his mean face. Delay raked the eyes to set up a chest cracker into a huracanrana for a near fall. Crowd got behind Rinauro strong. Delay worked the back to where Rinauro had to put a foot on the ropes after taking a simple high back drop. Rinauro did a release victory roll into a stunner for the double down spot. Rinauro brought the Phoenix Fury Leg Drop out of mothballs for a near fall. Rinauro pulled up to avoid the seemingly inevitable Brent Wiley ref bump. Meanwhile, Delay fished a set of knucks out of his trunks. Rinauro ducked the knuck shot and was setting up for his finisher when he was attacked by Chad Parham.
Post-match: Parham destroyed Rinauro with a jumping piledriver and a cradle piledriver. Delay then joined him for a stuff piledriver. Palmer hit the ring, axe handle in hand, to make the save. Rinauro was carried out on a backboard.
(4) Shatter (with Jeff G. Bailey) beat Azrael (with The Reverend) in 8:06. This was billed as a “now or never match.” Shatter had to win or the NWA Elite would receive no more title shots so long as Rejects held the tag and heavyweight titles. It totally blew away everything else on the first half of the show. The crowd had that electric feel; the heat picked up bigtime. Pretty strong pop for Shatter. The Reverend’s mask is quite awesome. Very stiff match here. It was great to see Izzy in a main event singles, and he was letting loose with the kicks and punches more than he has in a long time. Shatter responded with an exploder suplex and a Thesz Press, pounding Azrael from the mount. Azrael worked on Shatter’s elbow -a logical choice to attack a more vulnerable area like a joint. Azrael may be completely nuts, and he's certainly lost all regard for the human body, but he's not stupid. Shatter hit big power move hope spots, but Azrael kept working the body part. Shatter mounted a comeback. Azrael appeared to land badly on a back suplex. Azrael leapfrogged Shatter’s spear attempt with Shatter taking one of his incredibly bad ass bumps to the floor. The finish was sweet. After a legit scary looking struggle for control, Azrael blocked Shatter's PTSD powerbomb, but got smoked with a spear. Shaun Tempers tried to interfere but Bailey held him off for the 1-2-3. Huge pop. Best match of the night.
Postmatch: Kimo hit the ring and did this cool double judo throw on Tempers and Azrael. Iceberg came out to make it 3 on 2 in favor of the Rejects. Abomination, Bailey’s seven foot monster, made his return to the Elite with a Tree Slam on Tempers. The Rejects retreated to ringside. Bailey said the Rejects should sweeten the pot by putting the heavyweight title on the line at Hostile Environment along with the tag team titles. The Rev said OK, but it would again be the Elite’s last chance. If they didn’t win the match, no more title shots as long as Rejects held the titles, so it’s Rejects vs. NWA Elite, now or never, with both titles up for grabs.
(5) Adrian Hawkins & Caleb Konley & J. T. Talent (with Andrew Pendleton III) beat Chip Day & Bo Newsome & Malachi in 8:53. This segment had Bill Behrens’ fingerprints all over it. You had 10 guys involved in some form or fashion and managed to tell a story without it turning into a total cluster. Konley made a deal of stripping down to his tidy whitey trunks. The shine built to a reprise of the confrontation between Talent and Newsome that was the hot program in APW. Newsome’s striking needs major work. Newsome took the heat. Newsome countered Talent’s big move with a Flatliner. Malachi took the hot tag. Finish saw Day ready to fly from the top. He got an unwanted shove from Pendelton and ate a DDT from Talent.
Postmatch:
(6) New Wave (Derrick Driver & Steven Walters beat The Technicians (Bob E & Tyler Smith with Todd Sexton) in 7:38. Before the match, Sexton said the last time was the last time for Ace Rockwell, who now had a bed in the hospital next to his brother. Sexton said Rockwell had all the excuses he needed to quit again. Sexton called New Wave “the new flavor of the month.” Walters also came out with a Mohawk type hairdo. I think that’s the new flavor of the month. Speaking of hair, Smith’s Wolfman sideburns are a hoot. It opened with a hot four-way action. Bob E inadvertently hit an elbow suicida on his partner, and New Wave followed with Asai moonsaults in stereo. After some fast-paced teamwork by New Wave, Technicians started in on Driver’s knee. Driver managed to kick Smith over the top rope, but E cut him off with a chop block. Technicians are looking worlds better than they did in their early Anarchy appearances. E ended up chop blocking Driver again, just as Driver was making a last gasp dive for the tag. Nice. Walters dropped E on his head with this rolling cradle thingy. Smith saved. Technicians went for the Regulator, but Driver foiled it by pulling the ropes down on Bob E and Walters pinned Smith with an inside cradle. Good match.
Post-match: Sexton brought a chair into the ring. Wild Bunch (Billy Buck & Chris King) made the save. Rockwell came out and popped Sexton. Rockwell went on to cut a great promo. It started low-key and built in intensity. Rockwell talked about how Sexton took advantage of people when they were down, and brought up the number Sexton did on his little brother. Rockwell said he had been paying the price for 8 years, and he was the only Triple Crown Champion in Anarchy history. Rockwell asked for an I Quit Match at Hostile Environment, so he could beat Sexton’s freaking face in. Rockwell led the crowd in a chant of “Quit, Todd, Quit.”
(7) Mikal Judas defeated Jeremy Vain (with Rob Adonis) via DQ in 2:30. Huge pop for Judas. During the intro, Judas turned his back on Vain and dared him to attack. Vain was in an extreme state of distress. As soon as the bell rang, Vain jumped over the top rope. Vain tried using Adonis as a shield. Judas goozled Vain and tossed him back in the ring. Vain slugged referee Harold James to insure a DQ.
Post-match: Adonis tried to get the jump on him, but Judas decked Adonis with the Mafia kick. Vain started waving like a third base coach. Out came Konley, Hawkins, Talent, Pendleton and Clinton. Judas laid them all out. Judas goozled Vain, but Adonis got him with a spinebuster slam. Judas reached up and grabbed Adonis by the throat. Vain got brave enough to attack. Adonis laid Judas out with his spinning neckbreaker. Vain stood with one foot on Judas. Palmer came out and said Vain wasn’t crap without his entourage. Palmer said he was going to hunt up an entourage and make it Judas vs. Vain in a lumberjack match at Hostile Environment. Vain didn’t see Judas rising up behind him until it was almost too late. Vain ran back to the ramp and begged. In a classic Romans and Gladiators moment, Judas scanned the crowd and gave the thumbs down. In my book, this match makes Hostile Environment a triple main event show.
(8) Shadow
“There’s going to be blood on this noose, and it’s going to be from Nemesis and his mistress.”
Photos of the show by Blake Arledge
NOTES: Ace Rockwell will be one of the featured guests on the July 16 edition of Peach State Pandemonium. PSP airs every Wednesday night at 9pm for a full 90 minutes…Malachi was the special pre-show guest of the Top Rope Kids Club…Alternative Pro Wrestling in Royston, Ga has their next big show, “Freedom Fight” set for 8/1…Rinauro and Delay are booked for the 7/19 Full Impact Pro show in Crystal River, Fl.
NWA ANARCHY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT 2008
SLAVE MATCH – EITHER COATES or MATTHEWS
BRODY CHASE & MELISSA COATES VS DON MATTHEWS
NWA ANARCHY TV TITLE MATCH
JEFF LEWIS VS HAYDEN YOUNG VS TRUITT FIELDS
I QUIT MATCH
TODD SEXTON VS ACE ROCKWELL
SEX, TALENT & MONEY & ADRIAN HAWKINS & JAY CLINTON
VS
HOLLYWOOD BRUNETTES, MALACHI, BO NEWSOME & CHIP DAY
LUMBERJACK MATCH
JEREMY VAIN VS MIKAL JUDAS
SHATTER, KIMO & ABOMINATION VS AZREAL, TEMPERS & ICEBERG
w/JEFF G BAILEY w/THE REV
WAR GAMES
NEMESIS & FURY VS SLIM J & SHADOW
Plus: JERRY PALMER, THE NEW WAVE, THE WILD BUNCH, THE TECHNICIANS, SETH DELAY & CHAD PARHAM….and more!!!!
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NWA Anarchy TV Report by Ca$hFlowX
Episode 125
July 7, 2008
I was extremely busy for the past week dealing with driving from
WRESTLING: (n.) ’res-ling A sport of contest in which two individuals face off in unarmed combat.
ANARCHY: (n.) an-ar-key (1) A state of lawlessness due to absence of authority. (2) A complete lack of order.
What happens when you mix the two together? NWA-Anarchy!
- Welcome to NWA Anarchy Wrestling, this is PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING~! Last week on NWA Anarchy TV, Jeff G Bailey unveiled “the Butcher of Pyongyang” Kimo who teamed with Phil Shatter to dispose of four hapless jobbers. Iceberg continued the carnage much to the dismay of the NWA Elite. Security stepped in time to prevent a second colossal feud between the NWA Elite and the Devil’s Rejects from exploding. The festivities continued on NWA Anarchy TV as the Konkrete Gorillas destroyed Shadow Jackson & Slim J. Nemesis channeled Abdullah the Butcher by massacring Shadow’s head with the remnants of the Mysterious Benefactor Trophy and Jay Fury hung himself a whitey. Both men were hospitalized. This week, the #1 contender to NWA Anarchy TV Champion Truitt Fields will be determined when Hayden Young and Jeff Lewis settle their differences. Shaun Tempers accompanied to the ring by Azreal & Dan
1. “The Winner of the Parham Bump” Malachi defeated TK Kross.
I suspect that Bailey or Wilson will summon their evil hoards to bludgeon both wrestlers. Kross is seething at becoming NWA Anarchy’s whipping boy and immediately unleashes his aggression on Malachi. After taking a pounding, Malachi slumps in the corner where Kross kills him with a dropkick. Malachi fights back, but Kross fires a double thrust to the throat and resorts to a blatant choke. After commercial, Malachi disposes of Kross with a STO neckbreaker into a DDT for the pinfall victory.
COMMENTS: This was a fine opening match, but neither wrestler stood out with the crowd.
- Chad Parham simply admires Seth Delay’s juvenile behavior and his beautiful tie. Parham takes a seat, wraps his arm around Delay and soils himself in admiration. Parham basks in Delay’s glory of obtaining legendary status at the young age of 16. What makes Parham relishes even more is that Delay is infuriating NWA Anarchy Owner Jerry Palmer. “When you infuriate Jerry Palmer it means you’re something in this business.” For that, Parham has Delay’s back. Delay is glad that Parham has his back covered because the ring rats have had the front covered.
2. “The Feature Presentation” Jeff Lewis fought Hayden Young.
These two are no strangers at vying for the TV Title. Back in early 2006, Young attempted to unstrap Lewis of the NWA Anarchy TV Title one week after the Feature Presentation destroyed Slim J to commence his second reign as champion. The current reigning NWA Anarchy TV Champion Truitt Fields joins on commentary and John Johnson immediately makes accusations of a time shaving scandal. Johnson calls Fields a shameful champion. Fields refuses to answer Johnson’s shenanigans. Greg Hunter asks Fields who he would rather face and Fields responds they’re all on even ground. Young frustrates Lewis in the opening moments, but the advantage is short lived. Lewis prepares for a successful sequel when he trips up Young on an Asai moonsault attempt. Young’s head splatters the ground. After commercial, Young barely escapes a chinlock and buys himself time with a desperation flip kick. With less than a minute remaining, both wrestlers trade near falls. Lewis connects with the Final Curtain as the time limit expires. Like the second episode of NWA Anarchy TV, these two fight to a draw. Afterwards, Fields chases off Lewis to prevent further attack to Young. Fields offers a handshake to Young. It looks like the #1 contendership is still in the air.
COMMENTS: This is a solidly booked and executed storyline, but it something is just missing from this feud to make fans care for it.
- Seth Delay vs. Sal Rinauro is supposed to be out next match, but Todd Sexton abets in a double team assault. However, Ace Rockwell has a personal score to settle with Sexton and makes the save to make this a tag match.
3. Sal Rinauro & Ace Rockwell fought Todd Sexton & Seth Delay.
Rockwell spends no time hesitating in wiping out his adversaries with a slingshot cross bodyblock after referee Brent Wiley deems this a tag team contest. The rudo contingent head back in and Sexton double axe-handles Rinauro from behind to gain a momentary advantage. The technicos have other ideas and take back over. Rockwell plays face-in-peril after walking into a dropkick. After commercial, Sexton & Delay continue their assault on Rockwell. The tide turns for worse when Delay pulls off Rockwell’s necklace, brandishes it and places it around his neck. Delay prepares for a top rope double sledge, but Rockwell counters with a lungblower to the face. Rinauro receives the hot tag and ducks the Sexecution. Rinauro goes Buck Wild on Sexton. Rockwell and Delay join the fray to turn this into a Pier 6 brawl. Wiley loses control and calls for the bell. Afterwards, the Technicians’ attack is quickly repelled. Unfortunately, the advantage is short lived when Chad Parham chair smashes Rinauro. The carnage ends with Jerry Palmer makes the save with an axe-handle.
COMMENTS: This was good stuff. Parham, Sexton & Delay, what a combination.
4. “The Universal Soldier” Phil Shatter w/Jeff G. Bailey pinned “the Sleeper Cell” Shaun Tempers w/”the Reverend” Dan Wilson & the Staff of Righteousness.
Kimo is a great character as he demonstrated on the
COMMENTS: This was great stuff for television. Tempers proved he could wrestle a high caliber singles match.
OVERALL: After a slow start the second half was really good. The thing is the second and third hottest feuds in Anarchy would tank as top feud in almost every other indy promotion.
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6/28 NWA Main Event TV Recap - I
by Larry Goodman
The show opened with Robert Fuller backstage at June Slam Jam 2008. For me, this episode was worth seeing just for this. Fuller thanked Mike Porter for giving him the opportunity to come back to the Fairgrounds Arena, a building where his father (Buddy Fuller), his grandfather (Roy Welch) and his cousin, Jimmy Golden had all wrestled. Fuller went on to also mentioned teaming with Jeff Jarrett to defend the USWA Tag Titles there during their three title reigns, and some of the stars that appeared there as part of Stud’s Stable – Steve Austin, Cactus Jack and Tom Prichard. The thing about it was Fuller’s sincere expression of nostalgic gratitude for being able to return to a place that held special significance, not only for him, but for one of the preeminent families in the history of southern wrestling.
1 -- GREG KING JR. vs. KID NICKELS
Sparse crowd tonight.
WINNER: Greg King Jr. at 5:38. Technically speaking, this was the best singles match on Main Event over the five weeks I’ve been recapping these shows. Crisp work throughout. King is deceivingly athletic. He’s got the inring to be a player as a babyface. The question mark is his personality. I never saw Nickels as a babyface, but with that look, he made the right choice by going heel. It will be interesting to see how these guys fare with different opponents.
Post-match: Nickels laid King out with an Angle Slam to get his heat back.
Back-to-back promos by King and Nickels. King said he was so glad he had Nickels tonight in
Inside the Ropes with Jason James: L. T. Falk was his guest. James congratulated Falk on winning the TV Title at Slam Jam and said he was the youngest champion in the history of the title. Falk said he would take on all comers from either side of the locker room and always give it 110%.
James said during the commercial break, Deputy Commissioner Gordon made the earth shattering announcement that the former Mid-America Heavyweight Champion whose name they could not mention had been stripped of the title. The title had been declared vacant. James said they were legally obligated to shut off the camera during the announcement.
2 -- STEVE-O vs. SHANK “THE FREAK” BARZINI (with Walt Barzini)
The crowd was hot for O. He did a number on Barzini’s arm. They did a comedy spot where O left Shank criss-crossing by his lonesome while he chased Uncle Walt around the outside of the ring. O switched to a snug side headlock. Shank finally countered with a back suplex to take over. James said Walt had informed him that Shank wasn’t actually a member of the Barzini family, but a guy that got kicked out of the circus. Shank softened up O’s back and applied a camel clutch. The camera zoomed in for a nice close up. Shank tossed O out, and Walt used his cane on him. Shank did a double stomp from the apron onto O’s back. Good grief. That had to suck. O grabbed the ropes to prevent a three count. Shank made THE BIG MISTAKE by going for a moonsault. O all over Shank with punches and lariats. Walt pulled O’s leg to cut off his comeback. Moments later, Shank came up empty on a Stinger splash, and O hit a Russian legsweep and floated over ala Brad Armstrong.
WINNER: Steve-O in 8:38. This was way better than their match last week, and the best either has looked on TV over the past month. O was really over with the fans during this match.
Shank and Uncle Walt did a backstage promo. Walt said NWAME was somehow rigging things to keep Shank from winning his matches. Shank vowed that he was going to become a household name. Shank better consider mega mass homicide, because he’s not getting his name out there much with ION’s ratings.
Charming Charles was all woe is me over the loss of the title belt, his monster and the dream. “I ain’t got nuthin. What am I going to do? At my age, what can I do?” Damn, Charles, where’s that 401(k) plan when you need one?
Jason Nesmith reintroduced himself by saying he was back in NWAME because he was a little bit different. Nesmith went on to give his take on several members of the current roster and ended up saying he was better than the lot of them. He was well-spoken, and didn’t yell, which was a plus, but said nothing original or provocative enough to get me interested in his character.
O marched back out to the ring to apologize for disrespecting Daniels him last week. This was great. The more O talked about not intending any disrespect, the more he disrespected him. He kept talking about how Daniels was a top guy back in the day, when it had already been established that Daniels held the TV title as late as 2006. O called Daniels into the ring. Daniels refused to accept his apology. At this point, I was hoping Daniels would kick O’s ass and he did. BIGTIME. Daniels used a flying elbow, a Russian legsweep and then busted out a variation of the triangle choke until O lapsed into unconsciousness. Andy Douglas made the save.
3 -- ANDY DOUGLAS vs. MATT JUSTICE
Justice was a tall, slender, black youngster making his NWAME debut.
WINNER: Andy Douglas in 4:30 via submission. About all you could expect with
Jason James wanted to know what Daniels was thinking. Daniels said it all about respect and went on to b###h about how everybody and their brother was disrespecting him including radio reviewer Trent Van Drisse for saying an authority figure shouldn’t wear shorts. Daniels said he showed on TV tonight that his time was not over. Daniels said he didn’t dye his beard because he didn’t have to look 20 years old. Daniels said he went straight to hell for a partner and got Dante, and talk about old school, they were going to have Frank Morrell in their corner. This was a great promo.
What you’re gonna get is a lesson: a lesson in old school, a lesson in respect. What you’re gonna get (ha ha ha) is hurt.
4 – MID-AMERICA X DIVISION TITLE MATCH: ERIC WAYNE (c) vs. J. P. LIGHTENING
JIP for the last 3 minutes of the match with
WINNER: Eric Wayne.
5 – MID-AMERICA TV TITLE MATCH: L. T. FALK (c) vs. SHANE SMALLS
JIP as Falk hit this cool TKO style hotshot on Smalls. They beat on each other at ringside. Smalls clotheslined Falk from the apron back into the ring and took over. Falk used a sweet flying back elbow to spark his comeback. Falk hit a tornado kick. James couldn’t believe it when Smalls kicked out. Smalls hit a killer corkscrew neckbreaker and Falk kicked out. The announce team was shocked again. Smalls blocked the Falkin Over but not Falk’s big DDT.
WINNER: L. T. Falk with a DDT. The 4 minutes that aired was all solid, hard-hitting action. The false finishes worked because they nailed the big moves that lead to them. I doubt these two can have a bad match.
Smalls promo. Smalls said the people just saw that he had Falk beat and the results would be different tonight in
Falk promo. He had towel around his neck and his hair slicked back like Ronnie Garvin. I thought it worked a lot better than his usual look. Falk said he had just made his first successful title defense, and would create a new legacy by taking on guys from both sides of the dressing room and always bringing his A game.
BOTTOM LINE: A decent show considering that neither the heavyweight champion (Marc Anthony suspended indefinitely due to whatever happened with the Mid-America title belt) or the number one contender (Ali Stevens out with a dislocated hip) were available. The segments with Daniels and Fuller stood out above the rest of the hour. The development of the TV title storyline and the return of Jeff Daniels and Dante could not have come at a better time. The hype was all about
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