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| September 2, 2006
NWA Anarchy ran their bimonthly television taping at the NWA Arena in Cornelia last night, drawing a hot crowd of 150. It was a good show in its own right, but with Fright Night ‘06 still two months away, the fun times are just beginning. The former NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Champion Chad Parham entered the ring to get some things off his chest. Parham said he was the best heavyweight champion ever to set foot in the NWA Arena, better than A. J. Styles, David Young or Rick Michaels. Parham made disparaging remarks about Todd Sexton. Parham said he wasn’t going to wrestle. Sexton appeared on the WrestleVision and said he was going to do his job as booker by putting Parham in a match against Salvatore Rinauro. Attorney/Agent Jeff G. Bailey entered the ring with Onyx. Bailey’s deluded mind concocted the story that Onyx had never been beaten in the building. Bailey said no man alive had ever broken Onyx’s full nelson. Bailey said Onyx was schooling the Seth Delay and Patrick Bently the last time when big, stupid T. C. Carnage interfered. Bailey said they didn’t belong in the same ring the Genetic Specimen, but since Onyx was having fun humiliating the buffoons, he accepted their offer of a six man match. Bailey said Onyx could take all three of them on by his lonesome, but the NWA insisted that he have some partners. Bailey introduced ‘the Texas Hit Men.’ (1) Seth Delay & Patrick Bently & T. C. Carnage beat Onyx & Skitzo & Big Dog (with Jeff G. Bailey) via DQ in 14:32 The babyface trio neutralized Onyx’s power by working the arm. Onyx was selling like mad here. Dog and Skitzo fared no better. Onyx tagged in against Delay. Onyx wanted a test of strength and said he got to call the shots. “This is my house.” As Delay went to lock up, Onyx kicked him in the gut. Onyx used a backdrop (it must have been contagious because there were a ton of them on this show) for a near fall. The Texans hung Delay in the tree of woe and dished out the punishment. Delay got trapped in the heel corner where the Texans blasted him with headbutts. Fans broke out the “Go, Seth, Go!” chant for Delay. At 10 minutes in, Delay got a sunset flip and Onyx leveled him with a lariat. Onyx applied a bearhug. Delay tried the ear claps but couldn’t break the hold. Delay managed a Morton roll to make the tag to Bently. A sequence of double teams ensued, and it appeared that the heel team was in disarray. However, that sly dog Onyx slipped behind Bently and locked in the full nelson. Bently refused to surrender. The Texans started beating on Bently as well, so referee Harold James signaled for the bell. Onyx reapplied the hold on a limp Bently in the postmatch. Strong opener. Brandon Phoenix, the NWA Anarchy Television Champion, entered the ring wearing street clothes. Phoenix said he had 30 days to defend, and since there were no suitable opponents in the locker room, he had decided to take the night off. Ace Rockwell appeared on the ramp to the usual great pop. Rockwell had a stiffy for Phoenix’s belt. Phoenix bailed before taking any significant punishment. Phoenix said that if Rockwell could defeat an opponent of Phoenix’s choosing, he would consider giving Rockwell a title shot. (2) Salvatore Rinauro beat Chad Parham in 16:56 For technical wrestling, this match was on another level from anything else on the show. It didn’t have the strongest heat of the night, but the crowd was into Rinauro as the babyface working from underneath, and I was digging on Parham’s new, heelishly surly attitude. Rinauro has gotten to where he excels at putting together the proper match to fits the situation at hand. Sexton joined John Johnson on commentary, but not before a slight detour to high five Rinauro. They chain wrestled for better than five minutes. That’s pushing it with this crowd, but this was superb stuff and nobody said a peep about “boring.” They did a Lucha style knuckle lock sequence, where Rinauro ended up perched on Parham’s shoulders in a kneeling position, and slithered into a sunset flip from there. Parham slapped Rinauro’s face. Moments later, Rinauro gave him a receipt and a dropkick to boot. The first key spot saw Rinauro try a slingshot from the apron, and Parham met him in midair with a spinning roundhouse kick. Beautifully done. Parham used a backdrop. Parham got off some stiff chops. Rinauro was in serious agony. Parham hit a 15 count vertical suplex. Rinauro got a foot over the ropes. Rinauro surprised Parham with a small package. Parham was not happy. He tried to squash Rinauro’s head like a grape. Parham cut off another rally with a dropkick. Parham laced Rinauro with forearms from the mount. Ref Brent Wiley called for a break and Parham made the point that he was using legal blows. Parham used a camel clutch. Rinauro caught Parham with a stunner out of nowhere and a leg cradle for a near fall. Rinauro hit a huracanrana. Parham responded with a Polish hammer. Rinauro got his knees up on Parham’s senton backsplash. Rinauro scaled the ropes. Parham met Rinauro at the top. Parham took the big bump and appeared to land badly. Rinauro hit the top rope elbow and Parham kicked out at 2 ½ . Parham hit a push up powerbomb for a near fall. Parham went to the top. Rinauro stunned him with a palm strike. Rinauro hit a bulldog off the top, but Parham kicked out of the back cover. Rinauro yelled “Spanky” to telegraph a Sliced Bread #2. Parham dumped Rinauro to the floor. With both men on the apron, Parham did this amazing move where he dropped Rinauro on the apron with a back suplex and jumped to the floor at the same time. Rinauro kicked out Parham’s top rope double stomp, this thing was smelling of an upset. Parham caught a charging Rinauro in a Boston crab. No submission there. Rinauro countered Parham with a backslide for the pinfall. Excellent. (3) Tank (with Dan Wilson) beat Ace Rockwell in 7:23 It sucked to be Rockwell in this one. Rockwell got the jump on Tank as he came through the ropes. Who could blame him. A barrage of forearms had Tank shook but didn’t put him down. Wilson interfered. That allowed Tank to nail Rockwell with a lariat. Tank gave Rockwell a cold-blooded beating on the outside. Back inside, Rockwell tried to fire up with open hands. Tank responded with the rapid-fire Samoa Joe slapfest treatment. The crowd got behind Rockwell bigtime. Tank dumped Rockwell at Wilson’s feet. The disgusting little troll tried to choke Rockwell out with the Staff of Righteousness. Rockwell kicked out of Tank’s one foot cover. Rockwell fired back and staggered Tank with a kneelift. Tank hit the Chokebreaker and pulled Rockwell up at two. Rockwell somehow managed to hit an Aces High off the middle rope. Seeing Tank down for the first time in the match, Wilson distracted ref Speedy Nelson. Phoenix ran in and hit an STO on Rockwell. Tank then finished the job with his new finisher, the Go 2 Sleep knee. Fans rewarded Rockwell’s losing effort with a hearty round of applause on his way out. A first-rate first hour. Intermission. (4) “Stray Cat” Brody Chase beat Windwalker in 5:53 This was the throwback match of the evening. Chase is a former WCW enhancement guy based in South Carolina, and a prototypical burly, old school heel if I’ve ever seen one. Chase had a hand in training several Anarchy wrestlers (Scottie Wrenn and Mikal Adryan come to mind). Windwalker does your basic Indian gimmick. He’s under the tutelage of Rudy Boy Gonzalez at the Texas Wrestling Academy. Chase bailed out after absorbing a flurry of offense by Windwalker. Chase unleashed his arsenal - rolling neck snap, a sweet pumphandle back suplex complete with arrogant cover, swinging neckbreaker for a two count, fallaway slam for another two. Fans were doing Indian war whoops to rouse a comeback. Chase got ridiculously cocky with a people’s kneedrop. Windwalker rolled out of the way. Windwalker rallied with knife edge chops and a Wahoo McDaniel Special to the top of the head. Windwalker got a near fall out of the deal. Chase then caught Windwalker with a chokebomb for the 1-2-3. OK for what it was. (5) Hayden Young beat Jeremy V on a counted out at 7:58 This was switched to a singles match when Jason Blackman cancelled. V came out wearing sunglasses and a white cape. Young was accompanied by Austin Creed, but he didn’t stick around for the match. V attacked Young as he slid under the ropes. Young’s comeback deflated when V ducked his high crossbody. Young rolled out of the ring. Young pulled V out and went back on the attack. Young hit a pair of monkey flips but ate it on the third one. V hit a middle rope lariat. V got nasty. V catapulted Young’s throat into the bottom rope for a near fall. V shoved the ref into the ropes to foil a springboard move, and Young took a wacky bump to the floor. With the ref still down, V tossed a chair into the ring. Creed hit the ring with an Apollo-like flurry of punches on V, finishing with a splits haymaker. Young launched an aerial attack. Young vaulted over V and hit a whirling enzuigiri. Both down. V bailed and took the 10 count. Flat finish. Not a lot of heat on V nor much love for Young, who has yet to regain the momentum he had prior to his hiatus. This was payback for what V and Blackman did to Creed the last time, but generating support for the babyface is a tough task when the heel has been cheated and outnumbered. The new NWA Anarchy Champion, Jeff Lewis was accompanied to the ring by a glowing Jeff G. Bailey. Bailey gloated about his ability to foretell the future, i.e., Lewis winning the title. Bailey said Lewis was born with a gold belt around his waist, like some people are born with silver spoons in their mouths. Bailey said Anarchy finally had a champion to be proud of – the robe, the gear, the body, his “general presence.” Lewis said he was going to give some poverty stricken, uneducated, up and comer a chance to go for the gold. “If he died tonight, he would be a happy man.” The entrance video for Slim J played. An evildoer, sight unseen, tossed J down the ramp. “Too bad, so sad”, J slipped and fell, so no title match tonight. The crowd popped huge for the appearance of Kory Chavis. Chavis said he was cashing in the title shot he earned in a number one contender’s match a while back. Lewis was having none of that. Chavis played matchmaker via dragging Lewis into the ring. (6) Jeff Lewis (with Jeff G. Bailey) beat Kory Chavis to retain the NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Title in 11:47 Chavis was on fire with a lariats and a corkscrew dropkick. Lewis took a TO. Chavis brought him back in the hardway. Bailey grabbed Chavis by the leg to block a slingshot maneuver, and Lewis sent Chavis flying into the rail. Chavis was screaming about his back. Lewis attacked the weakened body part with a vengeance. Lewis kicked Chavis’ hand to block a strike, and delivered a back suplex for a near fall. Chavis fired back, but Lewis whipped him into the buckles and powerslammed him on the rebound. Lewis stayed on the back with a sidewalk slam. Lewis signaled that it was time to go to the top rope. Chavis cut Lewis off and brought him off the top with a press slam. Lewis took a picture perfect Flair bump. Chavis mounted a full-fledged comeback. Chavis hit a Shining Wizard, but Lewis was able to kick out of the delayed cover. Chavis hit the Spinesplitta. Bailey distracted ref Brent Wiley. Chavis popped Bailey, who took a big bump to the floor. Lewis rolled Chavis up with a fistful of tights. Chavis got a good pop on his way out. Good match. It didn’t look like they were building to anything with the finish, as it came across as just a way to get out of the match. (7) Devil’s Rejects (Shaun Tempers & Tank & Azrael) beat Brett Thunder & Randall Johnson & Adrian Hawkins in 12:22 The babyface team worked the arm of Tempers in a similar manner (too similar) to the opening of the first match. Tank no sold their offense until they decked him with a triple dropkick. It was Rejects domination from there. Azrael made Johnson into a human punching bag. Azrael’s strikes were wicked stiff. But there’s nothing new about that. Tank leveled Thunder with a Stan Hansen lariat that made a sick thud on contact. Azrael destroyed Hawkins’ chest. Wilson got in the act with some deviltry on Hawkins. Tank set Thunder up so he was straddling the top rope and did a lariat off the middle turnbuckle. Azrael potatoed Thunder a few times. Tempers hit a hangman neckbreaker on Thunder, and Johnson saved. Thunder managed a springboard lariat to get the tag to Hawkins. Tank rammed Hawkins into Johnson for an inadvertent tag. Tank did the Go 2 Sleep on Johnson. It looked screwed up. Wilson tagged in to make the winning cover. The carnage continued until Justice Served (Jason Justice and Mikki Free) hit the ring. They were cleaning up on Rejects when Wilson threw a massive fireball in Free’s face. Wilson tossed Azrael a can of lighter fluid. Azrael torched his elbow pad and was fixing to burn a hole in the face of Justice, when Jerry Palmer ran to ringside wielding a fire extinguisher. Palmer let it rip, extinguishing the elbow pad and engulfing Azrael in a cloud of white foam. An awesome visual and a great way to end the TV episode with a bang. Seeing as Urban Assault Squad (Nemesis & Shadow Jackson) were with Palmer, Rejects got the hell out of there. NOTES: Fright Night ‘06 will be on 11/4 at a venue in Helen, Georgia this year. It will be the company’s first attempt at running a show outside of the NWA Arena … 9/16 has Onyx vs. Bently and V & Blackman vs. Young & Creed … Hector Navarro is hospitalized with a staph infection and a collapsed lung. As a result, Rudy Boy Gonzalez did not accompany the TWA crew on this trip … Eddie Rich did double duty as ring announcer and television commentator, Rich was subbing for Greg Hunter in the broadcast booth … On 9/14, a combined music and wrestling benefit show will be held for Sean Evans at the Masquerade in Atlanta. Evans, a non-smoker who was recently diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, wrestled for a number of promotions around the state of Georgia. Anarchy talent appearing on the show includes Onyx, Iceberg, Rockwell, Parham, Rinauro, Tank and V. Lita’s punk rock band, the Luchagors, will make their debut. Raven, Lex Luger, Vince Russo, Kanyon, Erik Watts, Elix Skipper, David Young and Terry Taylor are also scheduled to make appearances … Nemesis didn’t look any worse for wear after crossing paths with Murder One at the annual Dragon Con show Friday night. To say there is heat between those two would be putting it mildly … My condolences to Rich Tate of georgiawrestlinghistory.com. Rich’s dad passed away on August 24 after suffering a heart attack. |
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