| May 11, 2006
Deep South Wrestling ran their weekly television taping at the Deep South Arena in McDonough, Georgia last night. The show featured the first round of an six-team tournament to crown the first DSW tag team champions. The dark matches got underway with Ron Niemi and “The Puerto Rican Nightmare” Eric Perez on commentary. In every case except Striker/Omega (Omega also has a development deal), it was the contract talent going over the non-contract talent. The tag match was best of a mediocre lot. Quentin Michaels entered the ring to open the show. The guy’s facial _expression is a constant sneer. Michaels said he had possession of Freakin’ Deacon’s “guiding light,” his pet tarantula, Willow. Michaels said he drew Deacon away from Bill DeMott at last week’s show (leading to DeMott losing to Gymini). Michaels said that he who controls Willow, controls the Deacon. (A) Freakin’ Deacon beat Mikal Adryan in 56 seconds Adryan tried to get the jump on Deacon. It didn’t work. The Arachinilock left Adryan’s body in a limp and lifeless state. Deacon released the hold and made the pin. Michaels appeared at ringside with Willow. Deacon began calling to Willow and followed Michaels out the front door. (B) Matt Striker beat Kenny Omega in 5:16 Striker generated a fair amount of hate from the crowd. He said he was going to give Omega a lesson. Striker kicked Omega’s arm into the post and applied a Fujiwara armbar. Omega came back with a series of pin attempts. Striker kicked off the ropes to counter a backslide and pinned Omega with a creative neckbreaker variation. (C) Damien Steel & T Ray (Gordy) beat Francisco Ciatso & Cru Jones in 6:19 Good babyface pop for Steel and T Ray’s, who are still doing the racial role reversal gimmick. Some stiff shots in this match. Steel fell for Ciatso’s distraction. The heels then isolated Steel and worked him over. T Ray took the hot tag. Jones broke up T Ray’s exploder suplex attempt on Ciatso. But Steel nailed Ciatso with a top rope splash, and Gordy followed with a legdrop for the pin. (D) Kevin Matthews beat Biohazard in 3:25 with a fishermanbuster Try as he might, the crowd just doesn’t get into Matthews as babyface. Matthews applied a snug side headlock. Biohazard brawled. Matthews caught him with an elbow in the chops, a pair of lariats for a near fall and it was time to go home. (E) Tommy Suede beat Heath Miller in 4:13 Bad match. They tried to work a fast pace and it looked really ragged. The low point saw Suede totally miss on a running shooting star press. Suede reversed a pin attempt by Miller. Kristal Marshall and Krissy Vaine came out to do the drawing for prizes during the intermission. Ring announcer Ted Guinness introduced Nigel Sherrod and Bill DeMott as the broadcast team for the television taping. Theodore R. Long was introduced to open the TV taping. Long joined Marshall and Vaine, who were in the ring modeling the DSW tag belts. Long said he might get “tie-tongued” being surrounded by all that beauty and booty. Long said DSW actually started back in 1987, but WCW threw up a roadblock to prevent it from succeeding. Long said DSW was back and the tag team tournament was going to be off da hizzle fo shizzle. Backstage promo featuring Perez, Montel Vontavious Porter and Michaels. MVP interrupted Michaels to deliver the message that they were going to take care of the Gymini. Backstage promo by Gymini. They said there was no team that could take them, something that DeMott learned the hard way with the worst beating of his life. A third Gymini appeared in the background. There were tag ropes in the corners, which is a nice old school touch. Too bad nobody bothered to use them during the tournament matches. (1) Gymini (Jake & Lex Lovett with Jesse) beat Eric Perez & Montel Vontavious Porter (with Quentin Michaels) in 5:25 No idea what name Lovett was going under. Crisp, back and forth action all the way. Lovett used a running blockbuster. Perez hit a Spinesplitta on Jake for a near fall. Lovett ran in. Perez and MVP took care of Lovett, but that gave Jake time to recuperate. Jake was waiting for MVP with a TKO. Backstage promo by Cocky Siaki and Bradley Jay. Siaki is a great talker. He said it was the usual game plan -- a bigtime beatdown -- on the best team in DSW. High Impact also did a backstage promo segment, but the crowd was all over Siaki and Jay to where it drowned out the audio. (2) High Impact (Mike Taylor & Tony Santarelli with Tracy Taylor) beat Cocky Siaki & Bradley Jay in 11:43 The pop for Impact was phenomenal. Nothing else on the card could touch this match for heat. It was babyface dominance early on. Santarelli was ready to deliver the Satellite Enzuigiri, but Jay knocked him off the apron and gave him a beating. The heels got major heat on Santarellli. The kids in the crowd were going nuts for Santarelli to make a comeback. Siaki got dumped to the floor and scrambled back into the ring just in time to cut Santarelli off. Mike was a ball of fire after taking the hot tag. Mike hit his sitout leg lariat on Siaki, and Jay broke up the pin. Siaki caught Mike with an ultra high speed powerslam and Santarelli made the save. Mike dumped Siaki onto Jay and hit a pescado. The crowd popped huge because it was the one and only dive of the night. Back inside, Santarelli hit the Satellite Enzuigiri and Taylor followed with the Wipeout (reverse lungblower) for the pin. Tracy “leied” Mike and Tony in the postmatch. Tracy’s smile lights up the room and she’s got a body that just won’t quit. Backstage promo by Rough House O’Reilly and Danny Germundo. They aired a lockerroom vignette featuring Derrick Neikirk and Mike Knox. It seems that Team Elite is still having trust issues. Neikirk’s DSW title belt came up missing. Wouldn’t you know it? Knox found it under the bench, right where he was sitting. Neikirk asked Knox if he was going to pawn it. Knox said he was just trying it on for size. Neikirk told Knox he would have his own belt soon enough. Good stuff. (3) Team Elite (Mike Knox & Derrick Neikirk) beat Rough House O’Reilly & Danny Germundo in 11:06 Big pop for the babyface team. That was 90% O’Reilly. It was all good for the babyface team until Knox distracted O’Reilly. Niekirk surprised O’Reilly with a Saito suplex that left him crumpled on the mat. O’Reilly’s selling has improved a ton. Elite punished O’Reilly with a plethora of high impact offensive maneuvers. At one point, O’Reilly managed to make a tag, but Knox made sure ref Mike Posey didn’t see it. Finally, O’Reilly spiked Knox with a DDT. Both men crawled for tags. Germundo hit a Thesz press and a bulldog on Neikirk. Knox was there to break up the pin. O’Reilly clotheslined Knox over the top, but Knox ran him into the post. Knox then made a blind tag. Neikirk hit a swinging neckbreaker on Germundo. Knox finished Germundo with a massive guillotine legdrop. Postmatch, O’Reilly and Germundo sold the finish like they had been to hell and back, but they were leaving with their heads held high. It got over great with the crowd. (4) William Regal defeated Oleg Prudius in 4:52 Fans weren’t much into this. Prudius did the Russian national anthem again. Regal strolled out acted like the off key singing was hurting his ears something fierce. Prudius overpowered Regal in the opening minutes. Regal sold a hard whip like his back was on fire. Prudius went to work on Regal’s leg. Prudius did a lot of grunting and intense facial expressions. Regal came back with the European forearms, decked Prudius with a high knee, and that was all she wrote. NOTES: The first DSW tag team champions will be crowned at the conclusion of next week’s television taping (5/18)…The third installment of Deep South Television on Comcast Sports South airs this Sunday night at 11pm…Gymini Jesse did not wrestle this week due to injury. |
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