| April 15, 2006
NWA Anarchy was back at the NWA Arena in Cornelia, Ga for one of their bimonthly television tapings. It wasn’t a bad show. There was plenty of substance. But the bar has been raised in Cornelia, and last night’s show didn’t measure up to the current, loftier standards. Easter weekend probably isn’t one to produce the rowdiest of wrestling crowds. Maybe the Arena fans needed a breather after an incredible run of hot shows. Despite the presence of a sizable crowd (160), for whatever reason, this show lacked the blazing heat that has become the hallmark of NWA Anarchy in 2006. (1) Texas Treats (Don Juan & Chris Marval) beat the Nerdy Boys (Chris Cronie & Johnnie Ender) in 5:07 Dead crowd. Try as they might, Treats couldn’t get them to buy Nerdy Boys as legit pro wrestlers. To make matters worse, Anarchy fans have had the pleasure of seeing Dexter Poindexter (T. J. Mack), who excels at that gimmick and can wrestle rings around these kids. Nerdys got heat on Juan with double teams. Juan used a wheelbarrow suplex to set up the hot tag. Treats destroyed Ender with combination STO/lungblower and pinned Cronie with a veg-o-matic style top rope elbow. Video footage of announcer Greg Hunter’s in-hospital interview with Anarchy owner Jerry Palmer’s was shown on the big screen. The hospital visit was a result of injuries suffered when Iceberg attacked him on the April 1 show. Palmer said that legal action wasn’t going to make problems with Devil’s Rejects go away. Palmer revealed that was being trained by Todd Sexton and promised to be ready the next time. (2) Simply Luscious beat Sumie Sakai in 5:52 My respect for Luscious’ ability as a worker has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 10 days. The brutality and gore of her match with Mercedes Martinez at the WEW show made a lasting impression, and she had pretty decent match with Sakai here. Sakai got over as a babyface. She has a childlike enthusiasm that the crowd found appealing. Sakai opened with a series of acrobatic dropkicks. She did a choking camel clutch. Then she grabbed a handful of hair and innocently helped ref Randy Ray count to four. Luscious answered with a spinning sidewalk slam and a bulldog for near falls. Sakai did a 619 that had Luscious reeling. Sakai followed up with a missile dropkick for a near fall. Sakai climbed again but Luscious cut her off and hit a superplex. Both women down. Sakai scored a near fall with a bridging northern lights suplex. Sakai went up for a moonsault. Luscious rolled out of the way and nailed Sakai with Stratusfaction for the pin. Sakai congratulated Luscious with a kiss. (3) Hector Navarro & Skitzo (with Rudy Boy Gonzalez) beat Hayden Young & Brett Thunder in 7:37 This match did wonders for Thunder. Pairing him with Young guaranteed a big pop for his entrance. The storyline is that the other Texas Wrestling Academy guys have heat with Thunder on account of his babyface sense of fairplay. Early on, the Poodles gave Thunder their seal of approval with a “Go Bret Go” chant. Thunder caught fire with a dropsault and Steamboat style deep armdrags. Young tagged in and it was armdrag city. But moment later, Thunder ate the turnbuckle on a drop toehold by Navarro. Heel heat ensued. RBG interfered. When the ref turned around, Gonzalez acted like he was just stretching his neck. Funny stuff. Navarro applied La Tapatia and Skitzo did a top rope elbow drop for a cool combo move. Thunder got the best of a stiff exchange and milked it for all it was worth to build up heat for the tag. Young ran wild. Young got terrific elevation on a flip dive. Thunder was itching to follow suit, but RBG pulled Thunder out and rudely planted his face on the apron. Very convincingly I might add. Skitzo covered for the three count. Best match I’ve seen involving this group of TWA guys. Not a problem for Thunder to lose as long as didn’t look like an idiot in the process. (4) Salvatore Rinauro & Seth Delay & Patrick Bentley beat Onyx & Adam Roberts & T. C. Carnage (with Jeff G. Bailey) in 9:17 Just OK. Coming off what was described to me as a hot, well-executed 8 man version of this match on the previous show, it figured to be much better. The babyfaces had their way with Roberts. Onyx no sold a shoulder block by Delay and started to maul him. The heels worked on the leg of Delay. Roberts applied a half-assed Indian Deathlock. Onyx posted the knee and Delay was in desperation mode. Roberts used a single leg crab. Delay countered a powerbomb with a huracanrana. Delay made the tag and it was time for Bentley to clean house, but Onyx was having none of it. Onyx hit a hanging vertical suplex on Bentley and locked in the Jamaica City Dreams. Bentley strained to make a tag to Rinauro. Rinauro botched a top rope sunset flip and settled for a roll up pin. It would have been a great finish. Postmatch, Onyx displaced his frustrations onto referee Justin Bradley with the Blackout. Refs Randy Ray and Harold James saved Bradley from further decimation. (5) Chad Parham beat Fast Eddie via submission to retain the NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Title in 18:44 A very good match, but you would never know it based on the lethargic crowd response. The new breed of fans in Cornelia isn’t into slow-building, technically-oriented bouts. They want compelling issues and they want it fast-paced and stiff. Milano/Parham was more accessible. The match opened with a feeling out process like they were going long. It was well done but the natives were getting restless. A trade of chops built to Parham scoring a double chop knockdown for a near fall. Parham worked a submission into a ľ nelson. At 7:30, Eddie pulled Parham’s arms through is legs, flipped him into a piledriver position, and delivered a neckbreaker. Eddie chopped Parham so hard that he went flying over the top rope and it looked believable. Eddie dropped an elbow off the middle rope for a near fall. Parham tried for a sharpshooter, but Eddie was relentless here. Parham rallied with a pescado that got zero response. Parham vaulted over Eddie and hit an enzuigiri for a very near fall. Parham’s top rope double stomp barely grazed Eddie. Parham’s senton backsplash was on the money for a near fall. Parham went for a cannonball splash and Eddie rolled out of the way. Eddie was all over Parham’s back with a wicked kick between the shoulder blades and a torture rack dropped into a lungblower. But Parham came back to hit the top rope double stomp. Parham used an airplane spin to set up the sharpshooter. Eddie made ropes. Parham caught Eddie in the sharpshooter again. This time, he cinched it in deep and well away from the ropes. Tony Mamaluke entered the ring to issue a challenge for 4/29. Mamaluke was awesome on the mic here. He started out by putting Pear-ham over. Mamaluke said the last time he saw Pear-ham he was 35 pounds lighter and carrying bags for his schlep of a partner. In a voice dripping with saracasm, Mamaluke said he was all about the fans, so he was going to give them a title match. Mamaluke said he had never gotten the breaks in the NWA. He suggested that it was because TNA didn’t create him. Mamaluke said Parham had defeated “Adrian Street” and “some blind guy” but not a real pro like himself. Mamaluke offered to shake hands with Pear-ham. “Welcome to wrestling 101,“ said Mamaluke, as he punked Parham out with a headbutt. The champion really needed to make some kind of a verbal comeback in this spot and none was forthcoming. The second half opened with a memorial ceremony in remembrance of Rahn Jordan, who died of a heart attack on April 13 at age 27. Jordan had made several appearances in Anarchy during the recent months and was a regular with the MAXW promotion in South Carolina, where a number of Anarchy wrestlers also perform. Members of Jordan’s family and MAXW wrestlers came into the ring for the ceremony. Palmer did a tribute to Jordan. Palmer dedicated the remainder of the show to Jordan and they did a 10 bell salute. (6) Davey Richards beat Canadian Cougar (Tony Kozina) in 10:14 Being that Richards was fresh off winning the prestigious ECWA Super Eight and he was facing his trainer in a preview of his ROH debut next weekend, I had high expectations for this match. Too high as it turned out. Richards is an impressive athlete. His stuff looked good, especially the striking. And he’s got a strong heel presence that belies his limited experience. Unfortunately, the crowd didn’t get into Cougar as a babyface, so the match never really got cooking. They opened with some nice reversals on the armbar. Richards did a back bridge into an overhead kick. Richard bailed after eating a dropkick. One of the Poodles yelled the B word, and Richard told her to f*** off and went back about his business. Richards applied a variation of the STF. Richard strikes were stiff and crisp. Cougar made an aerial comeback that got no pop at all. Richards cut Cougar off and executed a big time superplex (standing on the top rope). Both men down. Cougar launched another comeback. Richards blocked a suplex and dished out a barrage of punishing strikes. Richards delivered a flying forearm and a lariat, both with remarkable explosiveness. Cougar countered a powerbomb with a headscissors. Cougar hit a springboard bulldog for a near fall. But Richards got his knees up on a frogsplash. Richards hit the powerbomb and Cougar kicked out. They countered back and forth until Richards hit a Tiger Driver for the pin. Flat finish as Richards failed to hit it clean. (7) Mikal Adryan (with Jeff G. Bailey) & Jeff Lewis beat Randall Johnson & Adrian Hawkins in 6:07 The kids were giving Lewis a hard time, so Adryan took matters into his own hands with a lariat and an unsolicited tag. Lewis and Adryan traded unwanted tags, as they beat up on Johnson. The crowd did dueling chants of a sort, “Let’s go Randall” and “Randall sucks.” Johnson and Hawkins teamed up for a superplex on Adryan. Although Adryan kicked out at one, it pained me to see the former champion sell anything for these guys. Adryan creamed both of them with Mafia kicks. The one on Johnson was primo, maybe his best ever. Adryan hit Assisted Suicide on Hawkins but Lewis tagged in and stole the pin. Adryan was not a happy camper. Lewis started to cut a promo challenging Parham to a heavyweight title match at Fan Appreciation Night. Adryan charged back into the ring and goozled Lewis. The ferrety Bailey said Adryan was the man Lewis would be facing, and he was going to end up like those boys in the last match. Bailey asked Lewis if he had something to say and then pulled the mic away before he could get a word out. “I didn’t think so.” (8) Devil’s Rejects (Azrael & Shaun Tempers & Dominous with Dan “The Dragon” Wilson) beat Ace Rockwell & Slim J & Brandon P in 9:18 after P deserted his partners The fans exploded with a huge entrance pop for Rockwell and his partners. J controlled Azrael with the headlock. There’s a time and a place for mat wrestling. This wasn’t it. The crowd heated up when Rockwell hit a Thesz Press on Tempers and pounded away. J brawled with Azrael and hit a swinging neckbreaker. P didn’t look happy when J tagged Rockwell. Azrael thwarted Rockwell’s high crossbody attempt, and it was only proper to counter with an Ace crusher. Tempers drove Rockwell through the ropes with a double knee, so Wilson could do the devil’s work. Back inside, Rockwell made a dive for his corner, but Azrael dragged him to the center and covered for a two count. The crowd got behind Rockwell. Tempers hit a hangman neckbreaker but Rockwell rolled a shoulder. Tempers blocked a stunner, but Rockwell planted Tempers with a spinebuster. Rockwell made the tag to P. He took one look at Dominous, tagged Rockwell, and walked away. Dominous brought Rockwell into the ring with a devastating chokeslam. Tempers covered Rockwell’s limp carcass for the three count. This was as good a time as any to turn P. His babyface character had been fully exploited and then some. (9) Henry Hoss beat Big Dog (with Rudy Boy Gonzalez) via DQ at 2:23 On previous shows, Hoss and Dog had gotten into a series of heated confrontations where they brawled to the back. Dog is back to being a bleached blonde version of JYD. Hoss took control with high impact stuff. RBG got up on the apron to protest. Hoss sent him to the floor with a bionic elbow. Dog used the distraction to his advantage, but not for long, as Hoss came back with a pair of 350 pound Stinger splashes. The crowd was gassing out at two minutes in. Dog hit Hoss with a fistful of chain for the DQ. Dog gave Hoss another shot with the chain. A small trickle of blood appeared on Hoss’ forehead. Like I’ve juiced much worse than that when I nicked myself shaving. RBG tossed ref Randy Ray aside like a sack of potatoes. A posse of refs hit the ring, forcing Dog and RBG to back off. Jeremy V entered the ring with his injured partner, Jason Blackman. V said he had a King Kong to replace Blackman for the title defense against the “Concrete Gorillas.” V introduced Hotstuff Hernandez as his partner. (10) Urban Assault Squad (Shadow Jackson & Nemesis) beat Jeremy V & Hotstuff Hernandez (with Jason Blackman) to win the NWA Anarchy tag titles in 9:14 The pop for UAS rivaled the pop Rockwell received for loudest of the night. With his size, speed and physique, Hernandez is one impressive physical specimen. This was stiff. Hernandez swapped no sell spots with Jackson. Hernandez did a leapfrog and turned to take a stinging bitch slap from Jackson. UAS knocked V silly with a Hart Attack. Blackman jumped in to make the save. Ref Ryan Michaels banished Blackman from ringside. Nemesis made the mistake of trading chops with Hotstuff. Nemesis is known to throw some stiff ones but this was ridiculous. Hernandez blistered his chest and hit a sitout powerbomb. Nemesis took the heat. V spit at Jackson and the hocker landed right in his face. Oops. Hernandez used a bearhug. Nemesis clapped the ears to break it. Nemesis escaped from suplex and hit an Ace crusher. Both men down. Both men tagging. Jackson spinebustered V and Hernandez saved. Hernandez teased a dive. Nemesis cut him off. Hernandez gave Nemesis the Awesome Bomb. Freaking brutal. Nemesis was done but Michaels correctly ruled that Hernandez wasn’t legal. V ran at Jackson with a lariat. Jackson ducked out of the way, and Hernandez took a major league flip bump over the top. Jackson turned V inside out with a lariat to score the pinfall. The crowd broke into the “UAS” chant as the new champions hoisted the title belts overhead. The celebration was cut short by the arrival of Devil’s Rejects in the form of Iceberg, Tank and Wilson. Iceberg flattened Nemesis with a Ground Zero splash off the middle rope. “We’re not done! Make the blood flow,” growled Wilson, as he handed the implement of destruction to Iceberg. Fortunately, the babyface dressing room hit the ring en masse before the carving could begin. Rejects departed with the title belts in tow. In the hopes of some law and order, the fans busted out the "Jerry" chant. In the hopes of some law and order, the fans busted out the "Jerry" chant. Palmer appeared but his sole concern was the condition of UAS, who were eventually able to leave the ring under their own power. NOTES: 4/29 has Mamaluke vs. Parham, Adryan vs. Lewis and it’s Fan Appreciation Night with reduced admission prices and guaranteed fun times…Terry Taylor was backstage in a neck brace throughout the show. Taylor had disc fusion surgery on 4/3 and was out of the hospital the same day...Low Ki vs. Tank vs. Biohazard headlines the PWE show in Canton on 4/22…New Frontier Wrestling Association debuts on 4/21 in Clayton, Ga at KIP’S. The show features a “Rabun Rumble” main event. Lewis, P, Jackson, Murder One and the returning Jacey North are on the card. NFWA is the brainchild of Anarchy referee Speedy Nelson. The tentative plan is run one or two Friday nights per month…This week’s edition of Wrestling Informer Weekly featured interviews with PWInsider’s Mike Johnson and the always controversial Murder One. The archived version can be found at www.wrestlingradionetwork.com/wiw. |
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