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Marcus and Orlando Jordan vs. Street Soldiers

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Street Soldier vs v Black Legion

So there turn out to be two UWA matches available on the interweb. Really shockingly little information about UWA on the internet. Really don’t want to become the Jonathan Barber of the Urban Wrestling Alliance but it deserves more than this.

Anyway two matches:

A fun little Donovan Morgan v Marcus Jordan match with a couple really blown spots. Really for a Pro Wrestling Iron guy vs. a highflyer it is a nice companion piece to Modest v Daniels from WCW.

And a Street Soldiers v Black Legion match.

Black Legion are Maryland mainstays Orlando and Marcus Jordan with Street Soldiers being Maryland mainstays the Ghetto Mafia: Too Dope and Sideswipe.

So the setup for this match is Luminous came to the ring on one episode to announce that he owned the tag belt that his father had won from the Brown Hornet (owner Alonzo Brown’s father) and that he would put that belt up against if Alonzo would create a tag title and give team Blitz (Bison Smith and Luminous Warrior) the championship. Brown wants to reclaim his father’s belt and so sends Baltimore’s Black Legion into match against Blitz. Black Legion win the belt only to have the Street soldiers run in steal the belt and kidnap Marcus Jordan’s girlfriend in exchange for a tag title shot. Brown will not negotiate with terrorists but runs a one day single elimination tag tourney that ends with Street Soldiers v Black Legion. Other teams in the tourney are the Blitz, the Diaz Brothers and Two D. The Diaz were supposedly Puerto Ricans from Philly who I don’t recognize. Two D were Donovan Morgan and Billy D, who I also don’t recognize. Billy D was working a Barry Horrowitz/Mike Boyete losing streak gimmick. Brown kept on threatening to fire him if he didn’t start scoring wins, but D was a third generation wrestler son of Lightning Jack, grandson of big Jake thunder who kept on reminding Brown that Browns father wouldn’t fire a legacy. Did I mention that this show was overwritten? I should point out that the team of Donovan Morgan and Billy D weren’t accompanied to the ring by a fake Vanessa Del Rio and were called Two D. Again being writer for the movie Honey makes you a little more sophisticated than a Friends or WWF Magazine writer.

The tourney set up and finale are here.

Amusingly bad Watanabe play by play combined with amusing Cross color commentary. Cross is doing neither face nor heel color but instead doing Ruff Ryder commentary and the Ruff Ryder world view/ideology doesn’t really sync up with wrestling face/heel structure.

I’d also point out that while the UWA had way too many valet’s my impression is that they were attractive C-list out of work actresses. Attractive women waiting for the next David E Talbert casting call.

As a result, by and large their back stage bits came off better than the models being asked to act in the WWF do. The acting by the valet in the kidnapping scene here is good enough to be in a direct to DVD release. Too dope and Sideswipe also do a nice job with their comedy bits and Marcus Jordan is a guy who currently has a recurring role on The Wire. It’s jarring how much better some of the UWA back stage acting is vis a vis WWE valet acting. Most WWE backstage "acting" would get you laughed off the set of Killa Season.