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March 4, 2006

If the last two months are any indication, NWA Anarchy gots what the wrestling fans in Northeast Georgia want to see.
When NWA Wildside closed up shop in 2005, the future of wrestling in Cornelia looked grim. Personally, I thought the building was done for. I was dead wrong.

The final television taping leading into Hardcore Hell ’06 drew a ridiculously hot crowd of 175. We’re talking 80s heat, like a Mid South taping at the Irish McNeil’s Boys Club in Shreveport. For a setup show, you couldn’t ask for better. Every angle, every program is clicking on all cylinders with the new generation of fans frequenting the NWA Arena. And they got it all done in two hours and with a mere five matches. No need to overdo the wrestling part when your stories and characters are over to this degree.

(1) Jeremy V & Jason Blackman beat Adrian Hawkins & Randall Johnson in 3:50

A convincing squash victory for the tag team champions. The jobbers used a surprised attack to score stereo sunset flips. So much for their offense. V superkicked Hawkins for a near fall. Blackman was pressing Hawkins like he was a sack of potatoes, but Hawkins slithered out of the predicament to gain a two count. The champs hung Hawkins on the tree of woe and knocked the stuffing out of him. Blackman powerslammed Johnson. V and Blackman killed Johnson with a massive top rope Hart Attack to score the pinfall.

Postmatch, Anarchy Television Champion Jeff Lewis attacked a helpless Hawkins as punishment for his upset win over Lewis two weeks ago. The place went nuts when Hayden Young made the save. Eddie Rich announced that Young would get another title shot against Lewis at Hardcore Hell. This has been a well-booked program. You might think the fans would be starting to cool off on a guy that’s already had three shots at Lewis. Think again.

The appearance of Seth Delay and “The Human Action Figure” Patrick Bentley was greeted by another explosive pop. Delay said they might be cocky and good looking, but they took their wrestling seriously. Delay said Bentley had one of the best bodies in pro wrestling (for his size that is no doubt true). Delay said they were the best team in Anarchy and they were going to get their titles back.

That brought Attorney Jeff G. Bailey to ringside. Bailey said Delay must be suffering from Post Concussion Syndrome because he wasn’t making a lick of sense. Bailey said he would have beaten Bentley twice in a row if not for the interference of some masked idiot. Bailey said that “The Genetic Specimen” Onyx was the true action figure, and he had seen skeletons with better physiques than Bentley’s. Bailey challenged Bentley to a posedown against Onyx at Hardcore Hell. Bailey told Bentley he better take some steroids to beef up that scrawny body of his. Bailey promised to give Delay and Bentley some tag team competition. Alabama Attitude sneaked in through the front door and blindsided Delay and Bentley. Attitude were in the process of laying Guys out, when the masked man starting cleaning house on Attitude. Bentley and Delay recovered and clotheslined Attitude out of the ring. Bailey tried to claim it wasn’t a fair fight. The match was made for Hardcore Hell.

(2) Ace Rockwell beat Dominous (with Dan “The Dragon” Wilson) in 5:00

The pop for Rockwell was insane. The crowd was clapping to his music, and when has that happened in this building? The angle where former partner, Shaun Tempers turned on Rockwell to join Devil’s Rejects has made him the babyface supreme. The evil gnome Wilson is going barefoot now. Clever layout to this match, as in no wrestling whatsoever. Rockwell tried to use his speed to frustrate the lumbering giant. Dominous trapped Rockwell and throttled him with a two hand choke. Dominous no sold Rockwell’s kicks. The disfigured freak applied a claw. Rockwell bit his way out of it. Dominous beat Rockwell down. The crowd let loose with a thunderous chant of “LET’S GO ACE.” Dominous applied a bearhug. Dominous glared at the crowd as he attempted to choke the life out of Rockwell. Rockwell was able to jump on Dominous’ back with a sleeper. As Rockwell brought Dominous to one knee, Azrael tried to hit the ring. Ref Speedy Nelson intervened. Azrael decked Nelson. Rockwell connected with a forearm right to the baby factory. Dominous sold the low blow, which was made doubly effective by being the only one used during the entire show. Dominous applied a rear naked choke. Rockwell made it to the apron but his lights were going out. A second ref, Justin Bradley hit the ring and DQed Dominous for refusing to break the hold.

Devil's Rejects beat the hell out of Rockwell. Azrael decked Bradley. Brandon P made the save with a kendo stick that he smashed to smithereens on the collective heads of the Rejects. Iceberg and Tank hit the ring. Wilson bellowed that there would be no Hardcore Hell for P and Rockwell. Tempers and Iceberg stretched P’s body out like a hammock and Tank came of the ropes with the double stomp to end all double stomps. I expected to see P’s gall bladder puked up in the ring. The crowd was on fire for all of this. Wilson ordered Rejects to put their victims on their knees, execution style. Out came Murder One with a barbed wire baseball bat. Wilson welcomed M-1 as the newest member of the Rejects. But M-1 turned on Rejects and cleared the ring with a few swats of the barbed wire bat. A wild scene ensued. Iceberg got into a heated debate with a fan in the first row. Berg was right in the guy’s face inviting him to come over the rail. Tank calmly licked the blood that was dripping from a cut on his arm.

Jerry Palmer, the owner of NWA Anarchy, entered the ring. Palmer welcomed M-1 aboard. Palmer apologized to the television audience for the crap and for not having adequate help for P and Rockwell. Palmer said he had been calls and e-mails wanting to know when he was going to put a stop to it. Palmer issued a warning. “If you don’t like blood, violence and chaos, you might want to stay home for the next little bit.” Palmer ripped his shirt off. At least that was the plan. The shirt almost won the fight. You know a guy is over when he looks silly and the people are still chanting his name. Palmer announced a six man for Hardcore Hell: P & M-1 & Kory Chavis vs. Rejects. “We’re comin’ and we’re bringing a whole lot of hell with us.” Another blistering hot segment.

Intermission. We had seen less than 10 minutes of bell-to-bell action and nobody was complaining, which is some brilliant f***** booking.

(3) Urban Assault Squad (Shadow Jackson & Nemesis) demolished Chris Jordanson & Shane Marx in 4:25

Jordanson and Marx appropriately go the “Oompah Loompahs” chant. The UAS lovefest is still in full effect at the NWA Arena, and Jackson responsed with some great babyface fire. The jibronis jumped UAS before the bell. UAS made them pay bigtime, as the crowd roared their approval. UAS used lariats to club Marx into a semi-conscious state to score the 1-2-3.

V and Blackman came out on the ramp. They politely applauded UAS for their victory and showed off their shiny title belts. Jackson cut a promo that whipped the crowd into a frenzy. Said V and Blackman were in for the same treatment the jobbers got. Said UAS was never pinned and never lost the titles. Said UAS was going to take back what was rightfully theirs. “UAS is in the…hmm…HOUSE!”

(4) Hayden Young beat Ken Westbrooks via DQ at 11:40

Good match. The crowd likes Westbrooks OK, but the girls are stark raving mad about Young. They opened with mat wrestling. The work was fine but some impatient numbskulls yelled “boring” anyway. At 2:30, Young opened up with a spinning headscissors, a pair of leapfrogs and a dropkick. Young hit an A. J. Styles-inspired springboard forearm for a near fall. At the 4 minute mark, Westbrooks snapped off a belly to belly suplex and pounded away. Westbrooks hit a release german suplex. The girls chanted “Let’s go Hayden.” Westbrooks stayed on the attack with more suplexing. Young countered a suplex and landed a pair of flying corner lariats. But Young flew once too often, and Westbrooks ducked away from his flying leg lariat. Young then caught Westbrooks in midair with an enzuigiri. Both down for a count of six. They traded big moves for near falls. Young hit a running moonsault for a near fall. Young tried for a springboard lariat, and Westbrooks caught him in a Fujiwara armbar. Lewis ran in and started stomping on Young. Ref Brent Wiley called for the bell.

Lewis took off his belt and strapped the bejeezus out of Young. It took two refs to pull him off. The crowd chanted “Jerry, Jerry” as Palmer approached the ring. Lewis bailed. Palmer said that since Lewis had trouble staying in the ring, he was making his Young/Lewis at Hardcore Hell into a lumberjack match. And since Lewis had a fetish for belts, the lumberjacks would be equipped with straps. “How bout that?”

Mikal Adryan entered the ring with Bailey for a little Hardcore Hell preview. Bailey said it had been a great evening, and the only disappointment was that his undefeated NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Champion had no opponent. Bailey begged for somebody, anybody to come out for some humiliation. Out came Salvatore Rinauro for your basic babyface 101 promo. Rinauro said the Guys (Parham, Delay and Bentley) were family. Rinauro said Adryan was overrated, and he was the man to prove it.

(5) Mikal Adryan (with Bailey) beat Salvatore Rinauro in 15:51

Adryan has turned his performance up several notches as the heavyweight champion, and this was one his better matches. I think Sal had something to do with that. Heaps of heat once again. Naturally, the crowd chanted “o-ver-rated” Adryan covered his ears when they switched to “big and ugly.” Rinauro was able to use his aerial game to good effect in the early going. Rinauro set up for a dive, but Bailey hustled Adryan away to a safe distance. Rinauro chased Bailey around the ring. Rinauro had Adryan’s ambush lariat scouted, but Adryan then smashed Sal’s lower back on the ring apron. Adryan gave Rinauro a backdrop and caught him with a neckbreaker on the way down. Pretty amazing. Adryan draped Sal’s neck over the rope and did a slice ‘n dice legdrop on the apron. Adryan posed the question, “Who’s overrated now?” Adryan hit a top rope lariat for near fall number four. Adryan destroyed Rinauro’s back with Irish whips. The crowd got behind Rinauro. The beating continued. Adryan called for Rinauro to give it up. Rinauro pumped a fist to show that he was still alive. Adryan hit a powerslam and Rinauro was reduced to crawling on his belly. Adryan went for a vertical suplex that Rinauro countered with an Ace crusher. Adryan was, for lack of a better word, stunned. Rinauro kicked off the ropes with a Pele for a near fall. Tornado DDT? No, double underhook suplex into the buckles by Adryan. Adryan tried to end it with Assisted Suicide, and Rinauro countered with a DDT for a very near fall. Rinauro went up for a springboard move and Bailey interfered to buy Adryan more time. Adryan was waiting with a Mafia kick to the mush. Adryan gave Rinauro Assisted Suicide for the pin.

Adryan and Bailey set Rinauro up for the dastardly throat-into-the-chair-edge move that put Parham out of action. The lights went out….Lights on and the masked man was in the ring. The masked guy winged Adryan with a chair and pulled off the mask to reveal Parham. Rich announced that Parham would indeed be at Hardcore Hell, AND his match against Adryan would be a ladder match. Rinauro raised Parham’s hand for one last exhilarating pop.

NOTES:

Jerry Palmer will make a guest appearance on this week’s edition of the Wrestling Informer Weekly. The show airs at www.wrestlingradionetwork.com every Wednesday night from 8-10pm…The complete lineup for Hardcore Hell ’06 is as follows: Parham challenges Adryan for the heavyweight title in a ladder match, Young challenges Lewis for the TV title in a lumberjack match, UAS challenges V & Blackman for the tag titles, Rockwell vs. Tempers, P & Chavis & M-1 vs. Devil’s Rejects, Bentley faces off with Onyx in a Posedown Challenge, Bentley & Delay vs. Alabama Attitude, and FIP star Jay Fury vs. Westbrooks…Based on the advance, it looks like Hardcore Hell is sure to sellout…Palmer is looking into reconfiguring the ringside area to increase the seating capacity.

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