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December 20, 2008
– Larry Goodman
LAST WEEK…After taking the hot tag, Steve-O superkicked Jeff Daniels and Shawn Shultz. His partner, “Playboy� Scott Hayes
made the illegal pin on Shultz.
In the locker room, O confronted Hayes about stealing his pin. Hayes asks, “Isn’t that what it’s all about?� O told Hayes he
just didn’t get it and walked away in disgust.
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE AFTER WE WENT OFF THE AIR LAST WEEK…As O was leaving the Nick Gulas Arena, that she-devil Dominique
asked for a minute of his time. O snapped at her. Dominique reminded O of a few months ago, when Daniels was telling him it was all
about respect. She said since Hayes came into the NWA, he had been disrespecting O. O said he had been thinking about that a lot
lately.
NWA Main Event logo and music.
EARLIER TODAY…Hayes asked announcer Jason James to call Deputy Commissioner Gordon because Steve-O had a family
emergency. James said their match against Daniels & Shultz was up first. Hayes asked him if to push it back. James said he see if he
could get it moved later in the show.
To the ring with James and Scott Barry on commentary.
1 -- �The Internet’s Favorite Wrestler� WHITE TIGER vs. ARACHNID
Barry said he didn’t know how Tiger kept breaking out his cage at Grassmere. Arachnid had the advantage in the chain wrestling
until Tiger hit a spinning headscissors. Tiger worked the arm including a lucha style wheelbarrow arm drag. Arachnid took out Tigerâ
€™s leg to turn the momentum. He used a dragon screw leg whip and worked the body part. Arachnid hit a double knee drop the chest
for a near fall, and complained to the ref. Tiger schoolboyed Arachnid to start the comeback. Arachnid cut Tiger off and felled him with a
corner dropkick, but nobody home on Arachnid’s swanton bomb. Tiger hit a frogsplash, selling the impact ala Van Dam before
making the pin.
Winner: White Tiger in 5:47. Best Tiger match I’ve seen. Arachnid was a big help with that. Not much chance of disguising Arachnidâ
€™s identity. The only pro wrestler with a deformed hand is Jeff Jamison. Barry and James were over the top trying to be clever tiger and
spider comparisons.
Plug for December 20 in Portland with Travis Sawyer and Mike Rapada Jr.
Plug for Christmas Chaos with a list of the talent including “Dangerous� Doug Gilbert.
Shultz cut a great promo. Forget the gimmick, he said. Shultz waxed nostalgic about the legacy of the NWA as the real deal. Shultz said
he didn’t leave “the other company� to be comedy relief. He came back to the NWA to give the people goose bumps one more
time. Shultz said he was going to win the one belt that meant something, the NWA TV title (Mid-America version), talking like it was same
one held by Steve Austin, Arn Anderson and Barry Windham. Shultz said Shane Smalls was a great athlete but he wasn’t Shawn
Shultz.
2 -- BIG BULLY DOUGLAS vs. BRYAN CASEY (with Charming Charles)
JIP. Douglas worked over Casey’s arm until Casey used a lame donkey kick to the man region. Douglas sent Casey airborne on the
kickout. Nevertheless, Casey took control of the match with liberal interference by Charles. Douglas hit a big spinning neckbreaker that
left both men down, but it was Casey draping the arm for a two count. Bully shook off Casey’s lariats and made the comeback. Bully
had it won with a running power slam. Charles jumped up on the apron. Bully went after Charles. Casey got Charles’ cane. Time
stood still as Casey stood behind Bully waving the cane. Casey finally cracked Douglas with the cane. Instead of breaking, the cane went
flying. Casey pinned Douglas with the Rude Awakening.
Winner: Casey in around 8 minutes. This was lousy. Bully is the wrong opponent for Casey because his offense doesn’t cut it
against a guy that big. Then there was the messed up finish.
Hayes approached James as he was leaving the bathroom stall and asked him to push them back one more match. James told Hayes
they were up next but he would see what he could do. James pulled out his cell phone. “Jason, Jason, you going to wash your
hands?�
Promo by Charming Charles and Casey. Charles said nothing was going to be merry about Big Bully’s Christmas because he had
opened up the proverbial can of worms. Charles said that in Casey, Bully had met wrestling royalty. Casey said that was he was going to
do to Bully was simply rude. He sent Bully a kiss.
3 – SCOTT HAYES & STEVE-O vs. JEFF DANIELS (with Dominique) & SHAWN SHULTZ
O still wasn’t there, so Hayes had to go it alone. Hayes got some nice one-on-two offensive spots in the opening minutes before the
numbers game took its toll. At one point, Hayes hit a springboard back elbow and crawled towards his corner with Dominique taunting
him about not having a partner. In short order, O came running from the front door in street clothes and jumped up on the ring apron.
Hayes hit a big DDT on Daniels, but with Dominique providing the distraction, Shultz ran across the ring and decked O. Hayes went
through Daniels’ legs to make the tag. O cleaned house. The faces cleared the ring with a meeting of the minds. O leveled Hayes
with a superkick. The announce team went nuts. O posted Hayes busting him open. O tossed Hayes back inside for Daniels to make the
pin. Hayes kicked out. O was watching from ringside in disbelief. Hayes fired back one against two and pinned Daniels after a leg lariat.
O jumped back in the ring and it turned into a 3 on 1 beatdown on Hayes. They had Hayes set up for another superkick when Shane
Smalls hit the ring. Smalls was a house of fire. The heels retreated to ringside.
Winners: Daniels & Shultz in 13:15. Good action and a great story. James was freaking awesome on the mic after O turned.
Smalls said he heard Shultz talking about how the TV title had lost its meaning, but it did mean something to him. Smalls said he may
not have been trained in all the camps like Shultz, but what he lacked in experience, he made up for with heart and passion. Smalls said
he respected Shultz, and when all was said and done, Shultz would respect him.
4 – SHANE SMALLS & JEREMY JUSTICE vs. “Colossal� CHRIS CAIN & LARRY COOTER
The Cooter-Cain Connection had a tough time getting untracked in the opening minutes. Smalls was a whirlwind of offense including a
pair of huracanranas with the vocal support of the crowd ( as vocal as all of 30 people can get). Smalls blew his knee out on a
springboard backflip. Cain wrenched Smalls’ knee and dropkicked Justice off the apron in one continuous motion. Nice. Cooter and
Cain did a number on the knee with Smalls selling the agony. Smalls hit the dreaded enzuigiri to set up the hot tag. It broke down to four-
way action. Cooter went for his faux DVD and Smalls reversed it into a variation of the Last Rites for the illegal pin. Smalls was helped to
the back.
Winners: Smalls & Justice in 7:45. Geez. Two weeks in a row where a babyface teams wins with the illegal guy making the pin. Great
stuff from Smalls selling the turn with the babyface fire and heart. There wasn’t enough dissension between the heels given what
was coming next.
Cain berated Cooter for losing. Cooter told Cain he got pinned by the same guy last week. Cain pie-faced Cooter, who reeled off a series
of moves. Cain bailed out in disbelief.
The card for Chaos featuring: Cooter vs. Cain in a grudge match, Smalls vs. Shultz for the TV Title, Hayes & Gilbert vs. Daniels & O.
Cain promo - said now that he was done carrying Cooter’s sorry ass from town to town, he was going to take Cooter out. He was
going to send him to his backwoods family.
Cooter said it was on like a neckbone and spit on the floor.
Steve-O’s gloating interview was interrupted by Hayes getting in his face to ask what his damn problem was. O said he would show
him. Daniels clubbed Hayes from behind, and they beat him down while Dominique laughed. “It’s all about respect, Scott Hayes,
it’s all about respect,� said O.
LATER THAT NIGHT: Hayes was on the phone with Gilbert explaining what just happened. Hayes asked Gilbert if he could count on him.
â€�Jeff Daniels, Dominique, and that Benedict Arnold Steve-O, ha, ha ha. I’ve got a surprise for you and his name is â
€œDangerousâ€� Doug Gilbert.â€�
Random Thoughts: They pulled out all the stops in this episode, the go home show for Christmas Chaos. More happened in this one
hour than the last two months of NWA Main Event TV combined big thing being O's turn, a moment they have been building to for months.
It was very well done. The roster is still paper thin, but the booking is certainly making much better use of the talent on hand. The return of
Shultz is a huge boost. So much for Shultz comedic losing streak, but they needed a serious challenger to Smalls. So far so good with
Smalls’ turn. Smalls and Shultz both cut strong promos. Cooter’s turn came out of the blue. I can see with such limited
resources that they need more help on the babyface side. Not that it’s any special, but the country boy babyface character is a much
better than whatever it was Cooter was trying to do as a heel. Casey as Rude doesn’t work at all for me. The little bit he did on that
promo was awful. Charles’ promo would have made more sense if Casey was facing Douglas at the Christmas show…Talk about
a card that was late coming together, not one match was announced until the last 5 minutes of this show. Up to that point, they were
hyping it strictly on a holiday tradition that, unfortunately, is a thing of the past. Nothing from Gilbert at all, although I can’t see his
name selling tickets at this stage in any case...It was hilarious when Barry made a comment about the 100s in attendance. It was dark in
there but not that dark. James and Barry make a decent announce team. James stepped it up like he never has before to get O’s turn
across.
– Larry Goodman
LAST WEEK…After taking the hot tag, Steve-O superkicked Jeff Daniels and Shawn Shultz. His partner, “Playboy� Scott Hayes
made the illegal pin on Shultz.
In the locker room, O confronted Hayes about stealing his pin. Hayes asks, “Isn’t that what it’s all about?� O told Hayes he
just didn’t get it and walked away in disgust.
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE AFTER WE WENT OFF THE AIR LAST WEEK…As O was leaving the Nick Gulas Arena, that she-devil Dominique
asked for a minute of his time. O snapped at her. Dominique reminded O of a few months ago, when Daniels was telling him it was all
about respect. She said since Hayes came into the NWA, he had been disrespecting O. O said he had been thinking about that a lot
lately.
NWA Main Event logo and music.
EARLIER TODAY…Hayes asked announcer Jason James to call Deputy Commissioner Gordon because Steve-O had a family
emergency. James said their match against Daniels & Shultz was up first. Hayes asked him if to push it back. James said he see if he
could get it moved later in the show.
To the ring with James and Scott Barry on commentary.
1 -- �The Internet’s Favorite Wrestler� WHITE TIGER vs. ARACHNID
Barry said he didn’t know how Tiger kept breaking out his cage at Grassmere. Arachnid had the advantage in the chain wrestling
until Tiger hit a spinning headscissors. Tiger worked the arm including a lucha style wheelbarrow arm drag. Arachnid took out Tigerâ
€™s leg to turn the momentum. He used a dragon screw leg whip and worked the body part. Arachnid hit a double knee drop the chest
for a near fall, and complained to the ref. Tiger schoolboyed Arachnid to start the comeback. Arachnid cut Tiger off and felled him with a
corner dropkick, but nobody home on Arachnid’s swanton bomb. Tiger hit a frogsplash, selling the impact ala Van Dam before
making the pin.
Winner: White Tiger in 5:47. Best Tiger match I’ve seen. Arachnid was a big help with that. Not much chance of disguising Arachnidâ
€™s identity. The only pro wrestler with a deformed hand is Jeff Jamison. Barry and James were over the top trying to be clever tiger and
spider comparisons.
Plug for December 20 in Portland with Travis Sawyer and Mike Rapada Jr.
Plug for Christmas Chaos with a list of the talent including “Dangerous� Doug Gilbert.
Shultz cut a great promo. Forget the gimmick, he said. Shultz waxed nostalgic about the legacy of the NWA as the real deal. Shultz said
he didn’t leave “the other company� to be comedy relief. He came back to the NWA to give the people goose bumps one more
time. Shultz said he was going to win the one belt that meant something, the NWA TV title (Mid-America version), talking like it was same
one held by Steve Austin, Arn Anderson and Barry Windham. Shultz said Shane Smalls was a great athlete but he wasn’t Shawn
Shultz.
2 -- BIG BULLY DOUGLAS vs. BRYAN CASEY (with Charming Charles)
JIP. Douglas worked over Casey’s arm until Casey used a lame donkey kick to the man region. Douglas sent Casey airborne on the
kickout. Nevertheless, Casey took control of the match with liberal interference by Charles. Douglas hit a big spinning neckbreaker that
left both men down, but it was Casey draping the arm for a two count. Bully shook off Casey’s lariats and made the comeback. Bully
had it won with a running power slam. Charles jumped up on the apron. Bully went after Charles. Casey got Charles’ cane. Time
stood still as Casey stood behind Bully waving the cane. Casey finally cracked Douglas with the cane. Instead of breaking, the cane went
flying. Casey pinned Douglas with the Rude Awakening.
Winner: Casey in around 8 minutes. This was lousy. Bully is the wrong opponent for Casey because his offense doesn’t cut it
against a guy that big. Then there was the messed up finish.
Hayes approached James as he was leaving the bathroom stall and asked him to push them back one more match. James told Hayes
they were up next but he would see what he could do. James pulled out his cell phone. “Jason, Jason, you going to wash your
hands?�
Promo by Charming Charles and Casey. Charles said nothing was going to be merry about Big Bully’s Christmas because he had
opened up the proverbial can of worms. Charles said that in Casey, Bully had met wrestling royalty. Casey said that was he was going to
do to Bully was simply rude. He sent Bully a kiss.
3 – SCOTT HAYES & STEVE-O vs. JEFF DANIELS (with Dominique) & SHAWN SHULTZ
O still wasn’t there, so Hayes had to go it alone. Hayes got some nice one-on-two offensive spots in the opening minutes before the
numbers game took its toll. At one point, Hayes hit a springboard back elbow and crawled towards his corner with Dominique taunting
him about not having a partner. In short order, O came running from the front door in street clothes and jumped up on the ring apron.
Hayes hit a big DDT on Daniels, but with Dominique providing the distraction, Shultz ran across the ring and decked O. Hayes went
through Daniels’ legs to make the tag. O cleaned house. The faces cleared the ring with a meeting of the minds. O leveled Hayes
with a superkick. The announce team went nuts. O posted Hayes busting him open. O tossed Hayes back inside for Daniels to make the
pin. Hayes kicked out. O was watching from ringside in disbelief. Hayes fired back one against two and pinned Daniels after a leg lariat.
O jumped back in the ring and it turned into a 3 on 1 beatdown on Hayes. They had Hayes set up for another superkick when Shane
Smalls hit the ring. Smalls was a house of fire. The heels retreated to ringside.
Winners: Daniels & Shultz in 13:15. Good action and a great story. James was freaking awesome on the mic after O turned.
Smalls said he heard Shultz talking about how the TV title had lost its meaning, but it did mean something to him. Smalls said he may
not have been trained in all the camps like Shultz, but what he lacked in experience, he made up for with heart and passion. Smalls said
he respected Shultz, and when all was said and done, Shultz would respect him.
4 – SHANE SMALLS & JEREMY JUSTICE vs. “Colossal� CHRIS CAIN & LARRY COOTER
The Cooter-Cain Connection had a tough time getting untracked in the opening minutes. Smalls was a whirlwind of offense including a
pair of huracanranas with the vocal support of the crowd ( as vocal as all of 30 people can get). Smalls blew his knee out on a
springboard backflip. Cain wrenched Smalls’ knee and dropkicked Justice off the apron in one continuous motion. Nice. Cooter and
Cain did a number on the knee with Smalls selling the agony. Smalls hit the dreaded enzuigiri to set up the hot tag. It broke down to four-
way action. Cooter went for his faux DVD and Smalls reversed it into a variation of the Last Rites for the illegal pin. Smalls was helped to
the back.
Winners: Smalls & Justice in 7:45. Geez. Two weeks in a row where a babyface teams wins with the illegal guy making the pin. Great
stuff from Smalls selling the turn with the babyface fire and heart. There wasn’t enough dissension between the heels given what
was coming next.
Cain berated Cooter for losing. Cooter told Cain he got pinned by the same guy last week. Cain pie-faced Cooter, who reeled off a series
of moves. Cain bailed out in disbelief.
The card for Chaos featuring: Cooter vs. Cain in a grudge match, Smalls vs. Shultz for the TV Title, Hayes & Gilbert vs. Daniels & O.
Cain promo - said now that he was done carrying Cooter’s sorry ass from town to town, he was going to take Cooter out. He was
going to send him to his backwoods family.
Cooter said it was on like a neckbone and spit on the floor.
Steve-O’s gloating interview was interrupted by Hayes getting in his face to ask what his damn problem was. O said he would show
him. Daniels clubbed Hayes from behind, and they beat him down while Dominique laughed. “It’s all about respect, Scott Hayes,
it’s all about respect,� said O.
LATER THAT NIGHT: Hayes was on the phone with Gilbert explaining what just happened. Hayes asked Gilbert if he could count on him.
â€�Jeff Daniels, Dominique, and that Benedict Arnold Steve-O, ha, ha ha. I’ve got a surprise for you and his name is â
€œDangerousâ€� Doug Gilbert.â€�
Random Thoughts: They pulled out all the stops in this episode, the go home show for Christmas Chaos. More happened in this one
hour than the last two months of NWA Main Event TV combined big thing being O's turn, a moment they have been building to for months.
It was very well done. The roster is still paper thin, but the booking is certainly making much better use of the talent on hand. The return of
Shultz is a huge boost. So much for Shultz comedic losing streak, but they needed a serious challenger to Smalls. So far so good with
Smalls’ turn. Smalls and Shultz both cut strong promos. Cooter’s turn came out of the blue. I can see with such limited
resources that they need more help on the babyface side. Not that it’s any special, but the country boy babyface character is a much
better than whatever it was Cooter was trying to do as a heel. Casey as Rude doesn’t work at all for me. The little bit he did on that
promo was awful. Charles’ promo would have made more sense if Casey was facing Douglas at the Christmas show…Talk about
a card that was late coming together, not one match was announced until the last 5 minutes of this show. Up to that point, they were
hyping it strictly on a holiday tradition that, unfortunately, is a thing of the past. Nothing from Gilbert at all, although I can’t see his
name selling tickets at this stage in any case...It was hilarious when Barry made a comment about the 100s in attendance. It was dark in
there but not that dark. James and Barry make a decent announce team. James stepped it up like he never has before to get O’s turn
across.
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