| January 14, 2006
Pro Wrestling Evolution ran their monthly show at the Canton National Guard Armory last night. From a boxoffice standpoint, if not artistically, it was PWE’s most successful venture since June with an SRO crowd of 200 on hand. PWE gave the fans their money’s worth with a three and a half hour show that was chocked full of storyline. The inring was decent enough, but the overall product would have benefited from some judicious editing. The lineup was heavy on talent associated with NWA Anarchy. Whatever heat existed between the two promotions has evaporated. There was a clear effort to maintain consistency with Anarchy’s storylines and characters. The show opened with an in-ring segment featuring Commissioner Nigel Sherrod and his assistant Carl Wilson. Wilson ripped Sherrod for wearing a J. C. Penney suit. Sherrod denigrated the fans. Sherrod is very good in the role to where he by far the most heat of any heel on the show. Sherrod welcomed the first ever Evolution Wrestling Tag Team Champions, Biohazard and Jacob Ladder, into the ring and sent “Urkel” to the back. Biohazard said even though he reeked of total awesomeness, fans were saying stuff that hurt his last feeling. Sherrod brought “somebody that was detailing my car” out to face Biohazard in a tune up match. (1) Biohazard beat “Barely Famous” Hayden Young via submission in 4:42 Young spiked Biohazard with a spinning headscissors to spark a burst of offense. He followed up with a wild and wacky dive. The dude can fly. Biohazard used a great looking hotshot on the turnbuckle to turn the match around. Ladder tripped up Young to cut off a comeback. Biohazard hit a spiral facebuster and got the tap out with Pray 4 Death. Excellent opener. Maybe even too good. (2) Hollywood Brunettes (Andrew Alexander & Kyle Matthews with Ken Wallace) beat Kid Ego Jr. & Black Pegasus in 16:04 A fun and fast-paced match cruiserweight match. Really good heat. Matthews was a dropkicking machine. Pegasus has athletic ability in abundance. They did a dive series that was just OK. Young was a tough act to follow. Ego missed a cannonball splash and Alexander rammed his back into the post, a sweet heat spot. Alexander popped the crowd with a wicked lungblower. Matthews did a slice ‘n dice slingshot senton for a near fall. Alexander draped Ego’s arm over the top of him and gave him a gift near fall. Matthews hit a top rope double stomp. Alexander applied the sharpshooter, but Pegasus was in to break it up. Ego hit a spinning heel tag and hot-tagged Pegasus. A round robin of big moves ended with Wallace dumping Pegasus off the top rope. Blondes hit a top rope bulldog combo to pin Pegasus. The body of the match had better execution than the finishing sequence. It should always be the other way around. (3) Ranger Ross beat The Nightmare at 1:41 of the overtime period subsequent to a 10 minute draw Ross used “Caisson Song” for his patriotic entrance music. I was hoping for “Folsom Prison Blues.” Nightmare admitted that he got out of hand the last time. He claimed the animosity was gone. He just wanted to prove that he was the better wrestler. It was good display of veterans demonstrating the proper way to apply (and sell) basic wrestling moves, but most fans treated it like a popcorn match. Nightmare wrestled clean. Ross bled from the nose. The time limit expired without either man They did nothing to build towards the expiration of the time limit. Nightmare said they hadn’t proved anything and challenged Ross to keep going. Ross said he could whip Nightmare’s butt even with a broken nose. Sherrod ordered five more minutes. Ross got a near fall with a Gibson roll. Nightmare got one with a gutwrench suplex. Ross pinned Nightmare with a backslide. They shook hands. It Nightmare pulled a foreign object out of his tights and clocked Ross. Ross made the comeback. They brawled to the back. (4) Seth Delay (with Chad Parham & Rachael ?) pinned Darrin Childs (with Rachael Putski) at 14:13 There was a lot of Putski on display. She was wearing a skimpy hot pink mesh top over her bra. Where are the fashion police when you need them? On the other hand, the chick sitting next to me was wearing a rhinestone-studded Playboy belt buckle. You don’t see swank accessorizing like that inside the perimeter of Atlanta. In the sole character inconsistency with Anarchy, Parham cut an arrogant promo. Parham said he wasn’t going to wrestle because he didn’t get the superstar treatment he deserved. Parham said he had brought the best substitute teacher to show “Ultimate Warrior” how to wrestle. Delay tried to proposition ring announcer Jen for a rendezvous at the Super 8 after the show. Delay did a lot of cartoonish heeling. Fans seemed to be entertained by it. Childs got heated about Delay’s stalling tactics. Delay bumped for Childs’ offensive flurry, but got his knees up to thwart a splash attempt. Parham and his Girl Friday put the boots to Childs on the outside. Delay continually cut off Childs’ comebacks. Childs launched a full-fledged comeback with a reverse atomic drop and kick to the ear. He brought Parham in the hard way. The heels collided to set up the mock anal penetration spot. The valets got into it. Putski speared the other Rachael. With referee Joe Dollar mesmerized by the catfight, Ladder ran out and suplexed Childs off the top. Delay pinned Childs. Ladder sm#ked Putski with a tombstone piledriver on the floor. Putski sold it like death. Good story but it was too long in the telling. (5) The Regular Guys (Bobby Hill & Tyler Smith) beat Ace Rockwell (with Ken Wallace) thanks to outside interference by Shaun Tempers (9:27) Tempers turned on Rockwell at last week’s Anarchy show, so Rockwell came out alone. He was wearing Parhams’ gear. Rockwell wrestled babyface style. He was Guys on his own and objected to Wallace’s interference. The Guys cheated to take control. Guys worked over Ace’s back. Rockwell’s missile dropkick barely made contact with Smith, but they went ahead and sold it as the double down spot. Rockwell was a one man wrecking crew. Tempers came from nowhere to make a blind tag. He left Rockwell laying with the Temperpedic. Guys looked puzzled. They pinned Rockwell with a Hart Attack and continued to beat on him. Young made the save. The fans applauded as Rockwell was helped to the back. Another good storyline match with not very good wrestling. (6) Slaughter Boys (Johnny & Joe) beat Biohazard & Jacob Ladder to become the new Evolution Wrestling Tag Team Champions in 13:12 Ladder gave Joe’s man boobs a titty twister. A face shine segment ensued. Biohazard and Johnny had one of the best exchanges of the night. The champs tried to take a timeout, but Granny was relentlessly smacking them with her purse. Ladder screamed, “Stop it!” It was a lot funnier than it reads. Biohazard did the flashy deal where he grabs the ropes and spins up to standing position. He tagged Johnny with stiff right to start the heat. Ladder hit a tombstone piledriver and Biohazard followed up with a cradle piledriver. Joe broke up the pin attempt. With his cervical vertebrae ground to a fine dust, Johnny wasn’t making many comebacks. The champs continued to destroy Johnny’s neck. Childs came to ringside and attacked Ladder with a spike. He drove the spike into Ladder’s forehead. Ladder bled. There was a method to this madness as it set up PWE’s first ever spike match on 2/18. Seeing his partner incapacitated, Biohazard chased Childs away. Slaughters capitalized on the numerical advantage with their Cradle Shock/top rope elbow finisher. Ladder was not happy with Biohazard. Good match. Kevin Robinson was introduced as PWE’s new play-by-play commentator. Robinson called the title challenger, Scott Steele out to the ring. Robinson asked Steele why he didn’t have Mercedes with him. Steele said he was worried because Mercedes was a no show and wasn’t answering her cell. Mikal Adryan sauntered up the aisle from the dressing room. Adryan said, “She’s in good hands, VERY good hands.” Steele bolted after Adryan. Adryan was great here. It did more in 30 seconds to get across his cutthroat evilness than the last 6 months of Anarchy storyline. (7) Tank and Murder One went to a wonderfully brutal double count out (7:30) The crowd popped for Tank. This was stiff. M-1 absorbed punishment and took a time out. They traded some awesome looking punches. Tank blasted M-1 with a barrage of strikes. M-1 looked woozy. Tank no sold M-1’s headbutts and replied with 10 of his own. M-1 fired rights and lefts. Tank’s comeback dropped M-1 on his face. M-1 hit the Blazin’ Lariat for a near fall. Tank hit the Chokebreaker, but M-1 got a foot over the ropes. The action spilled to the outside. Tank pulled up a couple of chairs. They punched and headbutted each other silly until the ref called for the bell. I was marking out for the finish. A must see match for the punches. It had two of the most killer exchanges I’ve ever seen live. Tank has taking his striking sickness to another level. Sherrod named Wallace as the special referee for the next match. Wallace came out in all black. He took off the black jacket to reveal a standard issue referee shirt underneath. Wallace said he was going to call it right down the middle. (8) Mikal Adryan beat Nemesis in 5:12 Nemesis used a combination of headbutts and stiff strikes to keep the monster at bay. He got more offense than Parham did in his title challenge for the Anarchy Heavyweight Title at Holiday Havoc. Wallace has great facial expressions for a ref. Wallace ordered Nemesis to get down from the ropes. Adryan used their bickering to his advantage, as he leveled Nemesis with a Mafia Kick. Wallace stood by and watched as Adryan mounted the ropes for a huge top rope lariat. Adryan worked over Nemesis’ neck. Nemesis caught Adryan with an Angle-ish slam. Wallace counted two and clutched at his shoulder. Nemesis was about to do bodily harm to Wallace when Adryan nailed him with Assisted Suicide. Wallace made a fast three count. I didn’t like a heel of Adryan’s stature being booked to eek out a cheap win over a midcard guy, not to mention that they wasted the heel referee gimmick in a meaningless match. Adryan got into a confrontation with Granny and Monkey Lady on his way out. Sherrod called Wilson out to the ring. He threatened to fire Wilson for his smart mouth ways. Sherrod ordered Wilson to get on his knees and beg for his job. Wilson did it. Sherrod made Wilson (a former ref) the special guest referee for the next match and warned him not to get injured because that would result in termination of his job. A fan referred to Sherrod as an Eric Bischoff wannabe. (9) Scott Steele beat Iceberg in 1:15 via DQ. Iceberg retained the Evolution Wrestling Championshp It was the irresistible force meets the immovable object. Steele finally hit a powerslam, and Tempers hit the ring for the DQ. Probably just as well, since a long match could between these two could have been ugly. Tank entered the ring. Tempers cowered in fear. Tank wheeled around and started beating on Steele. Tank did some mic work to make it crystal clear that the “Two Fat Guys” were turning rotten. Tank said he was sick and tired of signing autographs. Said he had to resist the urge to drive his pen down a kid’s throat earlier in the evening. It was a three on one beatdown until Rockwell and Young made the save. The faces had gained the upper hand when Sherrod called things to a halt and ordered a six man tag. (10) Devil’s Rejects (Tank & Iceberg & Tempers) beat Rockwell & Young & Steele in 10:10 Rockwell waded into the three against one situation in the heel corner. He escaped with his life and made the tag to Young. Reject gave Young a ferocious beating. Berg hit the Thigh Drop of Doom and Rockwell saved. Young connected with a series of overhead kicks to set up the hot tag to Steele. Steele had all three Rejects laid out when Adryan ran out and grabbed his leg. Steele chased Adryan to the back. Rockwell and Young launched an aerial attack on Rejects. Rockwell spinebustered Tempers for a near fall. But the odds were too much. Iceberg caught Rockwell with a powerslam. Tank destroyed Young with a sick suplex into a row of chairs. Tempers hit the Temperpedic on Rockwell and applied a strangle submission. Rockwell passed out, leaving Wilson no choice but to call for the bell. Tank continued his verbal assault on the fans in the postmatch, while Iceberg squashed Rockwell with two Ground Zero splashes. Tank said that just like with NWA Anarchy, Rejects were bent on the destruction of PWE. NOTES: Buff Bagwell is on the card when PWE returns to Canton on 2/18 with Winter Warfare ‘06. They are running head up with Anarchy that night…Jen Holbrook is doing the ring announcing for MMA shows at Athens Arena. Holbrook said they’ve drawn SRO crowds (2000+). The next show is 1/20. |
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