Cody Longpre
05-23-2004, 01:19 PM
From 1wrestling.com
Steven Prazak and "the cruel but fair" Dan "The Dragon" Wilson introduced this week's edition of the number one pro wrestling alternative. Prazak thanked Scott Hudson for subbing for him while he was off gallivanting in Brazil.
Wilson brought Prazak up to date on what he missed last week. Namely, a six-man tag team match that turned into a 10 man cluster. Wilson announced a 5 on 5 match for the main event of next week's show.
Prazak pimped this week's show. The main event was scheduled to be Tank and Iceberg taking on the newest members of Getz Enterprises, the spoiled brats from Bukkake, Florida, Pomp and Circumstance.
(1) Jimmy Rave beat Scott Starr in 4:43. Rave's chain wrestling skills came to the fore. Prazak heralded Rave's exploits, including a trip to Italy with CZW. Starr executed an acrobatic reversal of the armbar. Wilson said this match was a major opportunity for Starr. Rave did a body scissors roll up. They traded arm drags and squared off. Starr was wearing his Mr. All Business facial expression. The usual running the ropes/blocked hiptoss and reversal sequence ended with a beautiful jumping neckbreaker and kip up by Starr. Rave caught Starr with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker for a two count. Rave laced Starr with chops and went to work on the back with a surfboard. Salvatore Rinauro came out on the ramp, stroking his goatee to symbolize that there was actually a thought process going on. Rave got two with a traditional backbreaker. More stiff chops from Rave. Starr returned fire. A collision of high crossbodys and...commercial break...and Rave brought Starr off the ropes with a sunset flip. Starr rolled through and Rave went for a powerbomb. Starr slithered over the top for a two count. Rave hit a running knee to the face to score the pinfall. Rinauro's intentions remained a mystery.
COMMENTS: A good TV match thanks to judicious editing. Starr had some ugly moments near the finish of the live version. Starr has a good look, and there's no question about his athletic ability. Reminds me of Jason Broyles, who had blown spots in every match as Steve Skyfire in Wildside, before he made it in ECW as Ezy Money. As for Rave, the chops were stiff and the psychology was solid.
(2) Jay Fury & Nick Halen beat Alabama Attitude (Adam Roberts & T. C. Carnage) in 5:06. Halen bitched slapped Roberts to shut his trap and dropkicked him over the top. Attitude huddled. They saw Fury's dive coming and ran for cover, but Halen nailed them with a flip dive off the top buckle. Halen pulled Attitude up on the apron for a meeting of the Alabama minds. Prazak said that was a contradiction of terms. Halen knocked Roberts off the apron onto his partner. The building was rocking. Roberts charged into a pair of drop toeholds and tagged out in frustration. Fury greeted Carnage with jabbing kicks to the face, a full rotation dropkick and a spinkick. Halen hit a slingshot springboard-off-the-knees senton for a near fall. A blind tag spelled trouble for Halen. Double gutbuster by Alabama Attitude. Roberts with another gutbuster. Roberts knocked Halen off his feet with a chop. Halen went down again on a clothesline. Carnage worked over Halen's gut. AA did the old style deal of cutting the ring in half and baiting Fury into the ring to set up the double team. Roberts with a whip. Halen stepped aside as Roberts charged into the corner. Halen decked Roberts with an enzuigiri. Carnage entered with a banana peel bump on Halen's sweep kick. Halen used Carnage's back to springboard into a downward spiral on Roberts. Halen with a diving hot tag. Fury exploded on Carnage. Carnage brawled his way back into control. Fury ducked a lariat with the Jaytrix and leveled Carnage with the Enzufury. Halen followed with a frogsplash, as Roberts ate an Enzufury. Fury covered for the pin on the illegal man. Who cares. Spectacular finish.
COMMENTS: The rapid firing timing of Fury and Halen's offense combined with Attitude's mad bumping made this a fun match. Alabama Attitude has improved dramatically. They barely look like the same wrestlers, especially Roberts. Wilson touted Fury as Wildside's most explosive talent.
Nemesis said last night was Shadow Jackson's birthday, and now, he needed to raise bond money to get Jackson out of jail. Nemesis asked the fans and the people at home to fork over some cash. Nemesis said his business tonight was the Cracker Challenge. Nemesis said he was going to beat up a cracker and any cracker would do. Wilson asked if there were any takers. Out came hometown boy and recent Wildside training school graduate Randall Johnson.
(3) Nemesis beat Randall Johnson in the Cracker Challenge (2:32). Nemesis beat the rookie down as soon as he made it through the ropes. Nemesis hit a missile-like shoulder tackle and made a defiant one foot cover. Nemesis debuted the Redneck Crackin' Neckbreaker for a near fall. Johnson got a two count with a sunset flip. Johnson's threw some horrible punches. Johnson grazed Nemesis with an enzuigiri. His dropkick wasn't textbook dropkick either, but at least it made contact. Nemesis took a powder to break the momentum. Nemesis bludgeoned Johnson into the mat again. Nemesis went for his finisher, but Johnson countered with a crucifix pin attempt. Nemesis hit the Bloody Cracker (a modified uranage) for the pin.
Nemesis put a noose around Johnson's neck at ringside. Nemesis whipped Johnson violently, causing his feet to fly out from under him and the back of his head to hit the hardwood on impact. Prazak said that was a lariat quite literally. Wilson said THAT was a concussion.
COMMENTS: If you've been waiting for the chance to see a green boy fresh out of training get his initiation to the business on national television, this is your chance. If the booking idea was to make Nemesis come across more like a legit badass, it succeeded. Prazak acted embarrassed about having to announce the cracker stuff.
(4) Fast Eddie (with Salvatore Rinauro) beat Skeeter Frost to retain the NWA Wildside Junior Title in 8:56. The egotistical champion and the up and comer locked into a chain wrestling contest. Frost's ticked Eddie off with his pesky side headlock. Eddie called for a test of strength. Frost gave him a high five. Frost used his agility edge to score two reversals out of the roman knuckles. Eddie ordered Frost to hit the ropes. Frost couldn't budge Eddie with his shoulder blocks. Eddie hit the ropes. Frost blitzed him bigtime but botched the payoff, a standing moonsault. Eddie sold it for a near fall. Frost recovered nicely with a climbing, twisting huracanrana. Eddie went to the outside to confer with Rinauro. Frost tried for a baseball slide. It missed. Eddie and Rinauro whiplashed Frost's back into the rail. Eddie hit a sweet slingshot elbow drop for a near fall. Eddie followed up with a vertical suplex backbreaker and a lazy cover for two. Frost went for a somersault ace crusher, but didn't get all of it. Eddie sold it for a close near fall. Eddie did a cutthroat X factor, driving Frost's back into his knees, and applied a straight jacket surfboard. Very cool. Eddie continued to work on Frost's back. Frost stunned Eddie with a poor excuse for a standing dropkick. Frost made the comeback and ascended to the top. Rinauro knocked Frost off his perch. Eddie tried for his finisher, but Frost countered with a headscissors as Eddie was standing on the second rope. Frost locked fingers with Eddie and hit a moonsault DDT that looked like a train wreck. Rinauro put Eddie's foot across the bottom at the count of two. Eddie sent Frost flying into the turbuckles with THE RUSSIAN LEGSWEEP FROM HELL. Eddie scored the pin with a killer version of the Fasteddious.
COMMENTS: Eddie's string of great matches ended here. He couldn't work a miracle. Just a dreadful night for Frost, who is better than what he showed here. His offense was sloppy as hell. Heel or not, I hated to see the champion have to rely on outside interference to win this one.
Tank entered the ring alone. Al Getz and his men were looking unusually relaxed and confident. Getz feigned concern about Iceberg. "Did he maybe take a little slip in the shower? Is he may still at the all-you-can eat buffet trying to feed his fat, disgusting face?" Getz said he had some video footage for Tank's viewing pleasure.
The tape showed Iceberg being ambushed in the parking lot. Getz, camcorder in hand, greeted Iceberg as he exited his car outside the NWA Arena. Iceberg made a beeline for Getz, but Scottie Wrenn jumped out of the darkness with a chairshot upside of Iceberg's head. The No Pain Train went down in a heap. Pomp and Circumstance were all over him. Wrenn told P & C to hold Iceberg up so he could blast him again. Iceberg was busted wide open and lapsing into unconsciousness with Wrenn pounding his face and raving like a lunatic. They cut back to the ring, where Getz asked Tank "what you gonna do about it, sucka?"
Tank said he had crapped turds bigger than P & C. But he found somebody that wanted to be his partner, so hit the music. Out came the "Original Chosen One" Rick Michaels. The crowd popped. Getz Enterprises freaked.
The match was prefaced with a WARNING!!! that the segment contained EXTREME VIOLENCE.
(5) Tank & Rick Michaels beat Pomp & Circumstance (Ace Rockwell & Sean Tempers) in 9:20. They did a classic pandemonium opening with Rockwell and Tempers taking their lumps and bumps. P & C retreated to safety. As Andrew Thomas attempted to restore order, Wilson explained that Michaels' CEO contract had expired and he had re-signed as a wrestler. Prazak said that Michaels was damaged goods due to a serious back injury. Tempers was having some success with Tank, until he ran straight into a Yakuza kick. In a moment of extreme gayness, the faces hung Tempers in the tree of woe and yanked on Rockwell's legs, such that Tempers was forced to munch on Rockwell's groin. "That isn't Japan style," said Prazak. Wilson gave them a 10 for creativity. Tank dropped Tempers on his head with a Tazz style head and arm suplex. Michaels made his entrance against a ****y Ace Rockwell. Michaels put Rockwell in his place with his signature hiptoss-armdrag-dropkick sequence. Tank beat the hell of out Rockwell, kicked the fool out of Tempers and tagged. Getz grabbed Michaels' leg, allowing Tempers to nail him from the blindside. Michaels took heat, as P & C pummeled his injured back. Michaels got his foot over the ropes to prevent a pin. Prazak said the days of Michaels' kicking out were behind him. P & C started doubling up on Michaels. Tank had seen enough. He manhandled P & C. Michaels got the pin on Rockwell with his modified version of the Double Shot. Tempers "split Tank's peas" with a low blow. P & C started in on Michaels again. Scottie Wrenn showed up with a shot into the rail for Tank. Wrenn told P& C to get their hands off of Michaels. Wrenn helped Michaels up...and leveled him with fist in the face.
Wrenn was setting Michaels up for a Psycho Slam onto a stack of steel chairs when a bloody Iceberg hit the ring. Wrenn pummeled him. Iceberg gamely battled back. Wrenn gave Iceberg a brutal Psycho Slam onto the chairs. Wrenn covered and Getz made a three count. "He's gonna do it again. Has he no soul? No remorse?" Guess not. Iceberg was motionless after the second Psycho Slam. A thick mask of blood covered his entire head. Wilson called Wrenn the Titanic that sank the Iceberg. A replay of the second Psycho Slam aired from a different angle. The face dressing room gathered around Iceberg's comatose body.
The show closed with a gruesome close up of Iceberg's bloody visage.
COMMENTS: Quite a powerful image. For Iceberg to be snuffed out in a credible manner, it was going to take a graphic incident (in this case two) of intense brutality. Doing the deed certainly elevates Getz Enterprises. It's as good a spot as any for Michaels' return. Michaels' turned in a good performance in the role of the grisly veteran with more guts than sense. The announce team did an equally fine job getting the story across. Michaels has modified his inring style to compensate for the back injury. By his own admission, the extra weight he's carrying isn't helping matters any. This was a relatively weak episode overall, but the closing angle was a stunner.
This looked like a pretty solid show to me, with a great main-event to finish the show. A lot of Indy Places have the best match in the middle, they did the show just right!
Toughts?
Steven Prazak and "the cruel but fair" Dan "The Dragon" Wilson introduced this week's edition of the number one pro wrestling alternative. Prazak thanked Scott Hudson for subbing for him while he was off gallivanting in Brazil.
Wilson brought Prazak up to date on what he missed last week. Namely, a six-man tag team match that turned into a 10 man cluster. Wilson announced a 5 on 5 match for the main event of next week's show.
Prazak pimped this week's show. The main event was scheduled to be Tank and Iceberg taking on the newest members of Getz Enterprises, the spoiled brats from Bukkake, Florida, Pomp and Circumstance.
(1) Jimmy Rave beat Scott Starr in 4:43. Rave's chain wrestling skills came to the fore. Prazak heralded Rave's exploits, including a trip to Italy with CZW. Starr executed an acrobatic reversal of the armbar. Wilson said this match was a major opportunity for Starr. Rave did a body scissors roll up. They traded arm drags and squared off. Starr was wearing his Mr. All Business facial expression. The usual running the ropes/blocked hiptoss and reversal sequence ended with a beautiful jumping neckbreaker and kip up by Starr. Rave caught Starr with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker for a two count. Rave laced Starr with chops and went to work on the back with a surfboard. Salvatore Rinauro came out on the ramp, stroking his goatee to symbolize that there was actually a thought process going on. Rave got two with a traditional backbreaker. More stiff chops from Rave. Starr returned fire. A collision of high crossbodys and...commercial break...and Rave brought Starr off the ropes with a sunset flip. Starr rolled through and Rave went for a powerbomb. Starr slithered over the top for a two count. Rave hit a running knee to the face to score the pinfall. Rinauro's intentions remained a mystery.
COMMENTS: A good TV match thanks to judicious editing. Starr had some ugly moments near the finish of the live version. Starr has a good look, and there's no question about his athletic ability. Reminds me of Jason Broyles, who had blown spots in every match as Steve Skyfire in Wildside, before he made it in ECW as Ezy Money. As for Rave, the chops were stiff and the psychology was solid.
(2) Jay Fury & Nick Halen beat Alabama Attitude (Adam Roberts & T. C. Carnage) in 5:06. Halen bitched slapped Roberts to shut his trap and dropkicked him over the top. Attitude huddled. They saw Fury's dive coming and ran for cover, but Halen nailed them with a flip dive off the top buckle. Halen pulled Attitude up on the apron for a meeting of the Alabama minds. Prazak said that was a contradiction of terms. Halen knocked Roberts off the apron onto his partner. The building was rocking. Roberts charged into a pair of drop toeholds and tagged out in frustration. Fury greeted Carnage with jabbing kicks to the face, a full rotation dropkick and a spinkick. Halen hit a slingshot springboard-off-the-knees senton for a near fall. A blind tag spelled trouble for Halen. Double gutbuster by Alabama Attitude. Roberts with another gutbuster. Roberts knocked Halen off his feet with a chop. Halen went down again on a clothesline. Carnage worked over Halen's gut. AA did the old style deal of cutting the ring in half and baiting Fury into the ring to set up the double team. Roberts with a whip. Halen stepped aside as Roberts charged into the corner. Halen decked Roberts with an enzuigiri. Carnage entered with a banana peel bump on Halen's sweep kick. Halen used Carnage's back to springboard into a downward spiral on Roberts. Halen with a diving hot tag. Fury exploded on Carnage. Carnage brawled his way back into control. Fury ducked a lariat with the Jaytrix and leveled Carnage with the Enzufury. Halen followed with a frogsplash, as Roberts ate an Enzufury. Fury covered for the pin on the illegal man. Who cares. Spectacular finish.
COMMENTS: The rapid firing timing of Fury and Halen's offense combined with Attitude's mad bumping made this a fun match. Alabama Attitude has improved dramatically. They barely look like the same wrestlers, especially Roberts. Wilson touted Fury as Wildside's most explosive talent.
Nemesis said last night was Shadow Jackson's birthday, and now, he needed to raise bond money to get Jackson out of jail. Nemesis asked the fans and the people at home to fork over some cash. Nemesis said his business tonight was the Cracker Challenge. Nemesis said he was going to beat up a cracker and any cracker would do. Wilson asked if there were any takers. Out came hometown boy and recent Wildside training school graduate Randall Johnson.
(3) Nemesis beat Randall Johnson in the Cracker Challenge (2:32). Nemesis beat the rookie down as soon as he made it through the ropes. Nemesis hit a missile-like shoulder tackle and made a defiant one foot cover. Nemesis debuted the Redneck Crackin' Neckbreaker for a near fall. Johnson got a two count with a sunset flip. Johnson's threw some horrible punches. Johnson grazed Nemesis with an enzuigiri. His dropkick wasn't textbook dropkick either, but at least it made contact. Nemesis took a powder to break the momentum. Nemesis bludgeoned Johnson into the mat again. Nemesis went for his finisher, but Johnson countered with a crucifix pin attempt. Nemesis hit the Bloody Cracker (a modified uranage) for the pin.
Nemesis put a noose around Johnson's neck at ringside. Nemesis whipped Johnson violently, causing his feet to fly out from under him and the back of his head to hit the hardwood on impact. Prazak said that was a lariat quite literally. Wilson said THAT was a concussion.
COMMENTS: If you've been waiting for the chance to see a green boy fresh out of training get his initiation to the business on national television, this is your chance. If the booking idea was to make Nemesis come across more like a legit badass, it succeeded. Prazak acted embarrassed about having to announce the cracker stuff.
(4) Fast Eddie (with Salvatore Rinauro) beat Skeeter Frost to retain the NWA Wildside Junior Title in 8:56. The egotistical champion and the up and comer locked into a chain wrestling contest. Frost's ticked Eddie off with his pesky side headlock. Eddie called for a test of strength. Frost gave him a high five. Frost used his agility edge to score two reversals out of the roman knuckles. Eddie ordered Frost to hit the ropes. Frost couldn't budge Eddie with his shoulder blocks. Eddie hit the ropes. Frost blitzed him bigtime but botched the payoff, a standing moonsault. Eddie sold it for a near fall. Frost recovered nicely with a climbing, twisting huracanrana. Eddie went to the outside to confer with Rinauro. Frost tried for a baseball slide. It missed. Eddie and Rinauro whiplashed Frost's back into the rail. Eddie hit a sweet slingshot elbow drop for a near fall. Eddie followed up with a vertical suplex backbreaker and a lazy cover for two. Frost went for a somersault ace crusher, but didn't get all of it. Eddie sold it for a close near fall. Eddie did a cutthroat X factor, driving Frost's back into his knees, and applied a straight jacket surfboard. Very cool. Eddie continued to work on Frost's back. Frost stunned Eddie with a poor excuse for a standing dropkick. Frost made the comeback and ascended to the top. Rinauro knocked Frost off his perch. Eddie tried for his finisher, but Frost countered with a headscissors as Eddie was standing on the second rope. Frost locked fingers with Eddie and hit a moonsault DDT that looked like a train wreck. Rinauro put Eddie's foot across the bottom at the count of two. Eddie sent Frost flying into the turbuckles with THE RUSSIAN LEGSWEEP FROM HELL. Eddie scored the pin with a killer version of the Fasteddious.
COMMENTS: Eddie's string of great matches ended here. He couldn't work a miracle. Just a dreadful night for Frost, who is better than what he showed here. His offense was sloppy as hell. Heel or not, I hated to see the champion have to rely on outside interference to win this one.
Tank entered the ring alone. Al Getz and his men were looking unusually relaxed and confident. Getz feigned concern about Iceberg. "Did he maybe take a little slip in the shower? Is he may still at the all-you-can eat buffet trying to feed his fat, disgusting face?" Getz said he had some video footage for Tank's viewing pleasure.
The tape showed Iceberg being ambushed in the parking lot. Getz, camcorder in hand, greeted Iceberg as he exited his car outside the NWA Arena. Iceberg made a beeline for Getz, but Scottie Wrenn jumped out of the darkness with a chairshot upside of Iceberg's head. The No Pain Train went down in a heap. Pomp and Circumstance were all over him. Wrenn told P & C to hold Iceberg up so he could blast him again. Iceberg was busted wide open and lapsing into unconsciousness with Wrenn pounding his face and raving like a lunatic. They cut back to the ring, where Getz asked Tank "what you gonna do about it, sucka?"
Tank said he had crapped turds bigger than P & C. But he found somebody that wanted to be his partner, so hit the music. Out came the "Original Chosen One" Rick Michaels. The crowd popped. Getz Enterprises freaked.
The match was prefaced with a WARNING!!! that the segment contained EXTREME VIOLENCE.
(5) Tank & Rick Michaels beat Pomp & Circumstance (Ace Rockwell & Sean Tempers) in 9:20. They did a classic pandemonium opening with Rockwell and Tempers taking their lumps and bumps. P & C retreated to safety. As Andrew Thomas attempted to restore order, Wilson explained that Michaels' CEO contract had expired and he had re-signed as a wrestler. Prazak said that Michaels was damaged goods due to a serious back injury. Tempers was having some success with Tank, until he ran straight into a Yakuza kick. In a moment of extreme gayness, the faces hung Tempers in the tree of woe and yanked on Rockwell's legs, such that Tempers was forced to munch on Rockwell's groin. "That isn't Japan style," said Prazak. Wilson gave them a 10 for creativity. Tank dropped Tempers on his head with a Tazz style head and arm suplex. Michaels made his entrance against a ****y Ace Rockwell. Michaels put Rockwell in his place with his signature hiptoss-armdrag-dropkick sequence. Tank beat the hell of out Rockwell, kicked the fool out of Tempers and tagged. Getz grabbed Michaels' leg, allowing Tempers to nail him from the blindside. Michaels took heat, as P & C pummeled his injured back. Michaels got his foot over the ropes to prevent a pin. Prazak said the days of Michaels' kicking out were behind him. P & C started doubling up on Michaels. Tank had seen enough. He manhandled P & C. Michaels got the pin on Rockwell with his modified version of the Double Shot. Tempers "split Tank's peas" with a low blow. P & C started in on Michaels again. Scottie Wrenn showed up with a shot into the rail for Tank. Wrenn told P& C to get their hands off of Michaels. Wrenn helped Michaels up...and leveled him with fist in the face.
Wrenn was setting Michaels up for a Psycho Slam onto a stack of steel chairs when a bloody Iceberg hit the ring. Wrenn pummeled him. Iceberg gamely battled back. Wrenn gave Iceberg a brutal Psycho Slam onto the chairs. Wrenn covered and Getz made a three count. "He's gonna do it again. Has he no soul? No remorse?" Guess not. Iceberg was motionless after the second Psycho Slam. A thick mask of blood covered his entire head. Wilson called Wrenn the Titanic that sank the Iceberg. A replay of the second Psycho Slam aired from a different angle. The face dressing room gathered around Iceberg's comatose body.
The show closed with a gruesome close up of Iceberg's bloody visage.
COMMENTS: Quite a powerful image. For Iceberg to be snuffed out in a credible manner, it was going to take a graphic incident (in this case two) of intense brutality. Doing the deed certainly elevates Getz Enterprises. It's as good a spot as any for Michaels' return. Michaels' turned in a good performance in the role of the grisly veteran with more guts than sense. The announce team did an equally fine job getting the story across. Michaels has modified his inring style to compensate for the back injury. By his own admission, the extra weight he's carrying isn't helping matters any. This was a relatively weak episode overall, but the closing angle was a stunner.
This looked like a pretty solid show to me, with a great main-event to finish the show. A lot of Indy Places have the best match in the middle, they did the show just right!
Toughts?