Segunda Caida Gets an Incomplete: NWA VA 2005

This show took place in Orange Va. It was right next to a skydiving club and there was a skydiving “performance” as part of the show. The space was really neat. It was essentially outdoors. Unfortunately it was hot as fuck and mosquitoes were mating in pools of sweat that fat wrestling fans were creating. Main event was Scotty Blaze v Preston Quinn in an absolutely epic fight, easily one of the best live wrestling matches I’ve ever seen. Before the show the NWA VA promoter ran a bunch of “dark matches” which he taped to be used as filler whenever needed.Unfortunately when the hackers destroyed the board we lost all of the Road Report other than the report for the pre-show stuff. We never got around to rewriting about the real show. So all we have is me taking shots at Dean’s comics and writing about the dark matches.

NWA VA

Hey we never did a workrate report for this show. I was waiting for Dean to start it off but I guess he’s to busy writing cartoons about all his lost loves. Once or twice I’ve tried to attach poignancy to my filthy stories but you add the pathos and it becomes both bullshit and pointless. You won’t see me writing cartoons about riding a train on some soccer chick while “White Nights” blared on the TV for people to watch between turns….well at least if I did I would be honest enough to have the final panel be my shit eating grin and not my saddened knowing eyes. If you can pull off the sensitive poet thing more power to you. But married guy with kids still playing the sensitive poet act….Just sad. So I’m stuck starting this thing off.

So when we first read this card, Phil sees the Midnight Mauler vs. Sugarbritches match and assumes its one of those NWA VA shows 8 hours from DC. I see that it’s in Orange and go “Fuck I’ve been to Orange…its closer than Richmond…Blaze vs. Quinn in the main lets go. So we get the car and we’re off. Pretty short uneventful drive as we pass strip mall followed by strips of churches followed by strip mall followed by strip of churches. Only thing that broke up the scenery was the sign for “BIG DADDY’S LEATHER (next right)” written in balloon animal font on the side of road. A block past the sign was Big Daddy's Leather which appeared to be an S&M supply store housed in a roadside fruit stand. There actually was a fruit stand sitting across from it and I think a kettle corn stand behind it.

We make it to the Booster Club and this is the shortest trip we’ve ever taken to a show. Booster Club is a big open air wooden portico with plenty of space for wrestling ring the barriers and the audience. We make it there on time to catch some of the pre-show TV taping which apparently started at 4. Catch the end of Big Tony vs. Chris Dramen, which I don’t remember anything about.

Rex Sterling vs. Dragon Frost

So the last match was face vs. face and this is heel vs. heel. Well maybe Rex Sterling was supposed to be face…but he has the chubby face of Silver Spoons era Jason Bateman and the crowd quickly turns on lil Eddie Haskell. If he was supposed to work face, he had the presence to work chickenshit heel with this crowd and he was really great at it. I don’t think I’ve wanted to see a snot nose kid get beat that badly outside of Nellie Olsen on Little House on the Prairie. Once he started mugging it up, he was that level of hate-able. Dragon Frost ends up de facto face as the crowd gets into counting along with his low blow based offense. I normally like Frost’s low blow offense but Sterling is young looking…If you’re going to hurt him where he loves you should be working over his hands. Sterling does a bunch of fun stalls and complaining and eats a beating well. That’s most of what he does, his two bits of offense a quick crossbody off the ropes and DDT both look really good and work as come out of nowhere offense. Sterling shouldn’t have gone over given the booking of the rest of the show.

Maxx Dynamite vs. Playboy Pete Jannings

And this is face vs. face with them working a low end veteran vs. young guy coming up thing. Pete Jannings is really useless as face tag worker as he isn’t good as face in peril and is lacking the fire of a hot tag guy cleaning house. That said this is the most I’ve enjoyed Pete Jannings in what I’ve seen of him. Singles match meant he didn’t have to eat offense for long period or show fire. Instead he just worked a basic undercard singles match and he was totally unobjectionable.

Bad News Johnson/Scotty Blaze vs. Extreme Outlaws

And you have another face vs. face match with the crowd treating Outlawz like the heels since they were working against the top face in Blaze and his partner. This was good when Blaze/Johnson were on offense. Blaze and Johnson are both really big guys who never do any Mcguire twins offense, no double splashes—none of that…just hard hitting wrestling. Johnson has some really nasty Choshu/Tenryu-ish lariats that I’ve always dug. He looks to have added the Kobashi chops in corner spot…and well everyone knows that better to study Tenryu than Kobashi. When Outlawz were on offense wasn’t pretty and there is absolutely no reason that the Outlawz should have gone over here.

And on to the real show.


Mike Vaughan vs. Rex Sterling
Dragon Frost vs. Max Dynamite (street Fight)
Kiley McLean vs. Lorelie Lee
Midnight Mauler vs. Sexxay Kavina
Xtreme Outlawz vs. Smallz and Big Tony
Chris Dramen vs. Mike Booth (alpha title submissions match )
OSE (Frank PArker/Damien Wayne) vs. Bad News Johnson/ Sean Lei (with guy in UNC colors)
Logan Knight/Pete Jannings vs. Revelations (Brandon Day/6d6 and the KROTCH)
Scotty Blaze vs. Preston Quinn