| April 22, 2006
Kory Chavis became the new Evolution Wrestling Champion at Pro Wrestling Evolution’s 3rd Anniversary show last night in Canton, Georgia. Chavis was an unadvertised surprise addition to what had been billed as a three-way title match between Low Ki, Tank and Biohazard. Overall, the anniversary show was an artistic success. It struck a nice balance between inring action and storyline. The pacing was such that the crowd was fresh for the payoff match. This from a company that got off to such a rough start that they didn’t figure to make it through year one, much less three. There were right at 150 in attendance at the Canton National Guard Armory, a figure the promotion was less than thrilled with, given that PWE drew over 200 when Ernest “The Cat” Miller headlined their March show. There was decent heat for most of the night, but the crowd never got whipped into an all out frenzy. Regular Guys (Bob E. Hill & Tyler Smith) & Shane 101 & Black Pegasus beat Lamar Phillps & Ben Thrasher & The Crew in a pre-show match. The show opened with an interview segment, “Unrated with Salvatore Rinauro.” Buff Bagwell was scheduled to be Rinauro’s guest. Instead, it was Murder One as Bagwell. This was hilarious. “Buff” claimed to have an all natural “$49.99 at GNC” physique. Rinauro asked “Buff” about his favorite tag partner. Was it The Patriot or Scotty Riggs? They started doing The Clap. Rinauro said Bagwell knew Missy Hyatt better than Z-Man. M1 ran Bagwell into the ground. Said he was old news and stuck in a time warp. It was 2006 not 1996, and there were no signs of Too Cold Scorpio or Kevin Sullivan. M1 said Judy wouldn’t let Buff out to play tonight, and nobody in WCW would dare stand up to him. Rinauro saw Glacier seated at the gimmick table in street clothes. M1 asked Glacier if he wanted to help him prove a point. “You’re a has been and I’m what’s happening,” said M1. Glacier entered the ring wearing a knee brace. Glacier said he would accept the challenge, even though he wasn’t at 100%. Ring announcer Jen Holbroook introduced “Executive Consultant” (and Deep South commentator) Nigel Sherrod. Sherrod whined about the way Carl Wilson had embarrassed him at the last show. He called Wilson out to get it on. Wilson hit the ring and was attacked by Sherrod’s “hitman,” who turned out to be none other than Simon Sermon dressed in a snazzy business suit. Sermon drilled Wilson‘s head into the mat with the Manchester Driver (a Canadian backbreaker dropped into a piledriver). Sherrod covered while Sermon made the three count. When Wilson regained his senses, he challenged Sermon and Sherrod to a handicap match on 5/13. (1) Kid Ego Jr. pinned Ruben James (with Simon Sermon) at 11:35 Ego and James are two young guys with a future, provided they address the the usual issues: physique, selling and ring presence. Speaking of ring presence or lack thereof, ref Chris Ganz comes across like a nice kid with zero air of authority. Sermon got major heat from the kids seated at ringside. Ego and James displayed some innovative offense here. Ego did a tornado hotshot followed up by a springboard missile dropkick. James softened Ego up with a pair of northern lights suplexes and hit a kneebreaker. James worked the knee with an assist from Sermon. Ego used an old style bodyscissors where he kept dropping James on his butt. James hit an impressive springboard high knee. Sermon stuck a knee in Ego’s back while simultaneously distracting the ref. But Ego escaped James’ finisher and sent him flying into Sermon, who took a big bump off the apron. James kicked out of Ego’s roll up. James went for another kneebreaker, and Ego floated over with a sunset flip for the 1-2-3. Good finishing sequence. (2) Ranger Ross beat “The Latin Dream” Amen Raddick via DQ at 9:18 They didn’t need to do much. Raddick played his arrogant Mexican character to the hilt, which made for easy “illegal immigrant” heat. Raddick cut a bilingual promo stating that nobody could match him. Once the bell rang, Raddick was pure chickenshit. Ross controlled with a headlock. Raddick refused to break and pumphandled Ranger’s arm across the top rope. Raddick worked over the arm. Ross rallied with a punishing hammerlock. Raddick grabbed Ross’ American flag from ringside and gave Ross a lariat with the flagpole for the DQ. Before departing, Raddick draped the flag over Ross’ body. (3) Salvatore Rinauro beat Seth Delay in 12:36 They clowned their way through most of this match. Fans taunted Rinauro by calling him a chicken. Rinauro responded with a great chicken impersonation, complete with pecking the top turnbuckle. Rinauro did some push-ups while he had Delay locked in a headscissors. They criss-crossed the ring until both were totally exhausted, which lead to some retarded comedy. Rinauro wrestled oblivious to the fact that his trunks were pulled down exposing his ass for all of Canton to see. When they finally picked up the pace, it was surprisingly ragged for two guys that have wrestled each other a ridiculous number of times. They did pull out two sweet near falls building to the finish. Delay nailed Rinauro with a great version of the Kool Krusher. Rinauro’s springboard lariat was right on the money. It was back and forth pin attempts until Rinauro blocked a victory roll and pinned Delay with a fistful of trunks. (4) Jacob Ladder defeated Darrin Childs (with Rachael Putski) in five seconds to remain as the number one contender for the Evolution Wrestling Championship Childs challenged Ladder to put up his number one contender status. Ladder said it was he that should be challenging for the title tonight, not that “4 foot 10 inch punk Low-Ki.” Ladder said he would make Childs his bitch. How original. Ladder grabbed Putski by the hair, licked her face and torched her with a cigarette lighter. Childs rushed over to check on his woman, and Ladder rolled him up with a flash pin. Glacier entered the ring in full regalia for Polaroids during the intermission. (5) Murder One beat Glacier with the help of Hollywood Brunettes The intermission came to an abrupt ending when M1 came out and started a brawl with Glacier. Once the action moved inside the ring, M1 cut Glacier off with the Blazin’ Lariat. M1 went to work on Glacier’s left knee (the brace was on the right knee). Glacier stepped aside with lightning quickness to avoid M1’s mad charge into the corner and rolled away from an elbow drop. Glacier decked M1 with a martial arts chop. Brunettes appeared at ringside. While Kyle Matthews was distracting the ref, Andrew Alexander tossed a foreign object to M1, and it was lights out for Glacier. Brunettes jumped in to join the beatdown. Slaughter Boys made the save. Segue to… (6) Slaughter Boys (John & Joseph) beat Hollywood Brunettes (Andrew Alexander & Kyle Matthews) via DQ in 10:56 to retain the Evolution Tag Team Cup Slaughter Boys looked ultra smooth in the ring. Joseph hit a killer vertical suplex on Matthews. John leveled Matthews with a lariat and Alexander had to make a save. Slaughters then hit a sideslam/legdrop combo for a near fall. Brunettes doubled up on John and started working on his back. Matthews got a near fall with a sky high backdrop. John hit a sideslam and made the tag, but the ref didn’t see it. More heel heat. John spiked one of the Brunettes with an amazing northern lights suplex for a double down spot. Joe cleaned house. John climbed to the top for Slaughter’s finisher, but Matthews met him with a dropkick. Joe backdropped Matthews off the top onto Alexander. John climbed again. The Brunettes former manager (they fired him at the last show) Ken “The Insider” Wallace bashed John with the tag team cup for the DQ. Good match. (7) Devil’s Rejects (Iceberg & Shaun Tempers with Dan “The Dragon” Wilson) beat Ace Rockwell & Adam Jacobs via submission in 15:19 This match had awesome action. You just had to ignore the lack of logic. Wilson said Rejects were going to celebrate with somebody’s guts on the altar. Wilson said Iceberg was pro wrestling’s first serial killer. Rockwell and Jacobs were slated to have a mystery third partner. Apparently, they decided to keep it a mystery. Rockwell and Jacobs were on fire with double teams in the early going. Iceberg was tremendous with his ability to sell in a believable way for his much smaller opponents. Rockwell busted out the the flip, flop and fly. At 4 minutes in, Tempers caught Jacobs with his head down and snapped off a hangman neckbreaker. Jacobs took a beating. He was bleeding from the mouth in no time. At one point, Wilson had Jacobs on the floor choking him out with his Staff of Righteousness. Iceberg delivered a baseball slide to the nutsack. Rockwell eventually made a tag, but it quickly broke down to four-way action, with no attempt by the ref to restore order. Iceberg destroyed both babyfaces. Rejects taped Jacobs to the bottom rope. The ref did nothing. Iceberg hit a TKO on Rockwell. Iceberg hit a Ground Zero splash and pulled Rockwell up at two. Tempers brought a ladder into the ring. Tempers cracked Rockwell’s head on the ladder like an egg. Rockwell was busted wide open. Iceberg took a sick bump into the ladder on an ill-advised cannonball corner splash. But there was no escape for Rockwell. Tempers hit the Temperpedic and locked in a choke out submission. Rockwell passed out with blood pouring down his face for a dramatic and gory finish. (8) Kory Chavis beat Low Ki and Tank and Biohazard in a one fall match to become the new Wrestling Evolution Champion in 16:52 There was a lot to like about this match, especially the striking, but it fell short of fully exploiting the finest collection of talent to ever headline a PWE event. I would have preferred seeing Low Ki in a singles against any one of the other three. Just as the match was about to get underway, Chavis came out as a special surprise entrant and demanded a title shot. Chavis addressed Low Ki. “I’m all familiar with what you can do. Now, let’s see if you’re familiar with what I can do.” The early part of the match saw Chavis in the role of opportunistic heel, picking his spots and avoiding contact with Low Ki. The action focused on Ki and Tank. Ki ripped Tank’s shirt off and chopped his chest raw. Tank blocked Ki’s whip. Then, Tank blocked a double whip. Finally, Tank whipped both Biohazard and Ki, but they ducked his dual lariat and took him down with dropkicks. Tank and Ki went at it again. Tank headbutted Ki for a one count. Chavis put the boots to Ki. Biohazard and Tank each took a turn kicking the crap out of Chavis’ back. They were set for a double kick, when Ki said “allow me” and stepped into a sick one to the spine. Ki landed a series of thudding roundhouse kicks to Tank’s chest. Chavis saw an opening to go after Ki, but Biohazard took over on Chavis. Ki double-stomped Tank. Chavis powerslammed Biohazard and Ki made a save. Ki and Chavis had a heated exchange. Tank tried to steal a pin and Biohazard flew from the top to break it up. Tank tossed Ki up for a free fall. Biohazard saved again. Ki applied Bite of the Dragon on Tank. Ki and Bio worked together with a double dropkick on Chavis. Then, they whipped Tank in to squash Chavis in the corner. The teamwork broke down. Biohazard hit a moonsault on Ki, but Tank was there to break up the pin. As clusterish as the body of the match tended to be, the finishing sequence was all good. Tank was doubled over after eating an enzuigiri from Biohazard and a Yakuza kick from Chavis. Ki elevated from the top rope with a double stomp to Tank’s back, sending him to the floor. Biohazard went for Prey for Death. Chavis blocked it with a low blow. Chavis covered Biohazard. Ki, meanwhile, was perched to fly from the top rope. Chavis moved. Ki landed with a double stomp on Biohazard. Chavis covered again to score the three count on Biohazard. Chavis was grinning from ear-to-ear as he walked to the back with the belt. Ki looked pissed. Biohazard gave referee Ganz a powerbomb when he should have been selling the finisher. Low-Ki issued a postmatch challenge. Ki apologized to the fans for Biohazard’s lack of sportsmanship and failure to take his loss like a man. Ki said he was the rightful champion, but his split-second mistake cost him the title, and he was accepting it like a man. “I came to fight, not to complain.” Ki said he wanted Chavis in a singles match (hopefully, this can take place on the June show.) The crowd chanted for Ki on his way out. NOTES: PWE’s next show will be 5/13 at the Waleska Ball Field with Kevin Steen and El Generico scheduled to appear…PWE returns to the Canton National Guard Armory on 6/17…Nemesis was a originally booked for this show, but he effectively unbooked himself by ripping PWE and Murder One in an expletive-filled interview on the 6/19 edition of Wrestling Informer…Montel Vontavious Porter (Antonio Banks) from Deep South was in the building…Low-Ki conducted a three hour seminar on Saturday afternoon. The guy is in phenomenal condition. |
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