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2008 SHOW REPORTS

February 16, 2008

The magic is back. NWA Anarchy is on a roll heading into Hardcore Hell. Last night’s television taping in Cornelia was the best one in several months, maybe more. There were points where the energy and intensity had more of a big show feel than Season’s Beatings.

The main events were both gems. They were the two best matches I’ve seen live in 2008.

Really, all of the key matches and angles yielded excellent results. The ringwork was up to the level of the storylines, which hasn’t always been the case of late.

The crowd of 225 at the NWA Arena was blazing hot in all the right places. good stuff.

They are politicians. Do not assume they are going to do the right thing.

That’s how Jerry Palmer summed up the situation with Senate Bill 413 and the General Assembly. Palmer said the senators seemed sympathetic to the issues raised during testimony regarding legislation that would put a stranglehold on independent wrestling in Georgia. Fliers with the names of the members of the Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee and the e-mail listings for all of the state senators were distributed to the crowd. Palmer urged fans to express their opinions in a civilized manner. Palmer made it clear he has no love for GAEC Executive Secretary Kelly Farr.

Nemesis barged in the front door calling for Shadow Jackson. As Palmer was directing security to remove Nemesis, Jeremy Vain and Rob Adonis jumped him from behind. Vain used his boot to put a lump in Palmer’s head legit and bloodied him up. Vain added a top rope boot shot to the noggin before Austin Creed, Hayden Young and Ace Rockwell made the save. The crowd chanted “Jer-E” as Palmer was carried out.

(1) Chip Day beat Frankie Valentino in 6 minutes. Fast paced action. Valentino (Valentine) is tons better than he was a year ago. His moveset has gotten ever so much more interesting, and his execution was right on the money. Valentino did a variation of a Blockbuster with Day straddling the middle ropes. He applied a cravate. Stiff strikes both ways here. Day rallied with a missile dropkick and a flip dive that came up short, but Valentino made a good catch on it. Day prevailed with a corkscrew moonsault.

(2) New Wave (Derrik Driver & Steven Walters) beat Talent & Money (J. T. Talent & Andrew Pendleton III) in 7:20. These teams should be beyond familiar with each other at this point. They had a good match. The heels, Talent & Money got a louder entrance pop than New Wave, and that just should not be. Walters persuaded the crowd to do the Wave. That took balls. New Wave got in a couple of nice double teams before Pendleton turned the tide with the money neckbreaker on Driver. Hollywood Brunettes came to ringside to observe. Talent hit the Big Nasty (elevated full nelson facebuster) for a near fall. T & M got another two count with a sideslam/top rope legdrop combo. Walters cleaned house with the hot tag. Spinkick to the mush on Talent, and Pendleton saved. Pendleton got into a war of words with Brunettes. Meanwhile, New Wave hit the Unskinny Bop (side slam/quebrada combo) to pin Talent.

(3) Mikal Judas pinned Dominous in 3:12. This was as good as it possibly could be, and you have to give Judas most of the credit. Dominous was billed at over 7 feet tall. Judas clotheslined Dominous over the ropes at the opening bell. They brawled around the ring. Dominous posted Judas. Back inside, Dominous hit a chokeslam. Judas went way up for it. Big time heat. Judas sat up and leveled Dominous with the Mafia Kick. Judas staggered Dominous with a sick chair shot to the skull. A second one put him down. Then, with the disfigured freak flat on his back, Judas delivered the coup d’grace. Judas made a kneeling pin while jamming the chair edge into Dominous’ throat. It wasn’t announced as a no DQ match, but who was going to tell Judas that? The handheld camera got a great close up of Judas posing with the bent up chair. Dominous was out cold and it took a crew of wrestlers to haul the behemoth to the back.

This was the swan song for Dominous. He was no longer a part of Devil’s Rejects. His counterpart with the NWA Elite, Abomination, has been gone for some time. In retrospect, Anarchy got maximum mileage out of two big guys with very limited experience.

(4) Todd Sexton pinned Wesley Grissom with the Sexecution (9:04). Grissom got a great entrance pop, but his night went south from there. Sexton blew off the “Todd’s a legend” chant. He tried to intimidate Grissom, and when that didn’t work, Sexton popped Grissom with an elbow on the break. A series of reversals lead to Sexton turning Grissom’s spinning headscissors into a face plant. Sexton softened Grissom up with strikes and went for a triangle submission. No go. Monkey flip into the buckles by Grissom and both men down. Grissom started going for springboard maneuvers, but he just was not hitting his stuff and lost the crowd in the process. Sexton stunned Grissom with a superkick, planted him on the top rope and abused him with a jawbreaker lariat. Grissom ducked a second superkick. A ref bump looked screwed up, although Grissom actually kicked Brent Wiley in the groin. Grissom tried a Pele that garnered a “you’re not A. J.” chant from the Bleacher Bums. Grissom sorta hit the running SSP but no ref to count. Sexton’s running Samoa Joe type kick to the face ended it.

(5) Devil’s Rejects (Iceberg & Azrael & Shaun Tempers with Reverend Dan Wilson) beat Awesome Attraction (Austin Creed & Hayden Young) & Truitt Fields in 13:02. Terrific action. Awesome heat. The babyface shine was first rate. Young did Poetry in Motion. Creed and Fields elevated Young for a sky high flip dive onto the Rejects, and the building exploded. In an amazing spot, Fields got Iceberg up for the Killing Fields (Rockbottom), but Tempers pulled the rug out on Fields with a rabbit lariat. Fields did a great job as the face-in-peril. Crowd was ultra hot the comeback. Azrael used an Ace crusher out of the corner for a near fall. Iceberg hit the Thigh Drop of Doom. Rejects quadruple-teamed Fields in their corner. Iceberg hit a belly to belly suplex, and Azrael unloaded on Fields with knee strikes. Fields caught Azrael with a Mexican spinning backbreaker and hot-tagged Creed. Creed was on fire. It broke down to six way action. With the other four batting at ringside, Young went for a flying bodypress on Iceberg, but the Inconceivable Being of Horror swatted Young like a fly and pinned him with the Ground Zero Splash.

(6) Adrian Hawkins beat Amien Rios in 6:16 with the Extreme Makeover. They did not mesh well. Rios got a surprising amount of offense. The crowd didn’t show much passion for Hawkins, probably because it was a very average match.

(7) Regular Guys (Bobby Hill & Tyler Smith) beat Anger Alliance (Brodie Chase & Don Matthews) after Melissa Coates got involved (9:05). Guys got a big pop for their entrance. Crowd wasn’t into them nearly as much once the bell rang. Chase’s comedy was pretty funny here. He gave Matthews a simulated anal penetration bump. Matthews hit the BFK on Hill. Coates came to ringside to taunt Matthews. The crowd chanted for puppies. “Those are my puppies!” said Matthews. Matthews showed off his stuff for Coates with a senton back splash and a full nelson slam. Chase hit his pumphandle neckbreaker and held Hill up so Matthews could finish him. Matthews was busy with Coates, who was up on the apron. Coates slapped Matthews. When Chase tried to intervene, Guys hit him from behind and an accordion collision ensued. Coates took a bump of the apron, and Smith rolled Chase up for the 1-2-3.

The postmatch was hell for Matthews. He had Coates in a full blow fit of rage on one side and Chase chewing him out from the other.

Nemesis entered the ring to call out the injured Shadow. Slim J came from the front door and was pounding away until Nemesis bailed. Security tried to break it up. Slim laid out one security guys in the ring and hit a corkscrew dive onto Nemesis and the three security guys trying to hold him back. Bullseye. They went down like bowling pins. Molten heat for all of this. What else could you expect when the number one babyface tangles with the most hated heel? J standing tall got the biggest babyface pop of the night.

( Billy Buck & Chris King beat Hollywood Brunettes (Andrews Alexander & Kyle Matthews) via DQ due to interference by Talent & Money (7:30). King’s skater boy gimmick is history. He looks a bit like Sam Houston with the cowboy hat. Brunettes showed fear for Buck’s bionic elbow. King crashed and burned when Brunettes ran away from his dive attempt. Talent and Money came to ringside to watch Brunettes beat up on King. As per usual, it was Buck running wild with the hot tag. Finish saw Alexander setting Buck up for the Sheeney Curse when T & M interfered. New Wave came out to save Buck and King. Brunettes argued with T & M.

(9) Shatter (with Attorney Jeff G. Bailey) beat Ace Rockwell to retain the Anarchy Heavyweight Title in 12:45. Shatter can’t be long for NWA Anarchy. WWE is going to be drooling over this guy when they get another look at him next month. He’s shed the excess weight. But it’s more than the amazing physique. The guy can work at a major league level. Not to sell Rockwell short. He more than held up his end, and turned it into the type of match that elevates the loser. One of the wrestlers made the observation that Rockwell gets emotion across better than any other babyface on the roster. It was kind of like Anarchy’s version of Umaga vs. Jeff Hardy. They did a great job of telling the story - the undersized babyface has tremendous heart. He pulls out all the stops, comes oh so close, but can’t quite overcome the superior size and strength of his massive opponent. The pop for Rockwell ranked a close third behind J and Awesome Attraction. Rockwell surprised Shatter with an all out attack at the opening bell. It took three lariats, but he finally sent Shatter over the top rope. Rockwell did a huracanrana off the apron. He was damn fortunate to have Shatter as a base or it could have been ugly. Back inside, it was all Shatter. Bailey was the picture of overconfidence at ringside. Shatter did a Biel throw for the ages, a Crackerjack, and a killer gorilla press free fall. But Rockwell rolled out from under Shatter’s top rope elbow and tried to set up his finisher, but Shatter blocked the Aces High. Rockwell appeared to go down with a knee injury. A sly ruse, as he sneaked in behind Shatter with a roll up. It was the first in a series of great near falls. Shatter hit a bridging german suplex for a long two count. Shatter tried for a superplex, but Rockwell landed on top for a near fall. Rockwell hit the Codebreaker. Bailey got on the apron to whack Rockwell with his loafer and konked Shatter by mistake. Rockwell then caught a stupefied Shatter with a flying bodypress and Shatter kicked out at 2.9. The crowd bought it as the finish. Rockwell went for a top rope huracanrana. Shatter blocked it and hit the PTSD powerbomb off the middle ropes for the pin.

Shatter’s celebration was cut short by the arrival of Iceberg (with Wilson). Judas came out and a three-way inring confrontation ensued. Judas sprayed the red mist at Iceberg and hit a chokeslam on Shatter. Iceberg and Shatter bailed out to let Wilson and Bailey lick their wounds. Judas held the high ground for the big show closing pop.

NOTES: The debut edition of the Peach State Pandemonium radio show with featured guest Bill Behrens is available for your listening pleasure at www.blogtalkradio.com/PSP. Patrick Bentley has dropped out of sight. He may as well be in Singapore for as much luck as Anarchy has had getting in touch with him…Dominous’ was OK once he got to the back, although he probably woke up with a wicked headache this morning…Shatter is booked for WWE RAW in Columbia and Smackdown in Fayetteville, NC along with Mikal Judas and Jeff Lewis.