NWA Wildside- Throwback Review Episode 43

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7/3/00

Wildside reviews return

AJ Styles is in the ring and Jeff G. Bailey is discussing his prowress, he mentions his lucha skills, his Japanese style and the fact that he is more hardcore then European porno. That brings out White Trash and we have an impromptu match.

White Trash v. AJ Styles

White Trash is the Wildside Axl Rotten, and he may not be a great wrestler, but he will take a stop sign to the mouth and get punched in the temple. Fun brawl, Styles has always had great looking punches, and he pops Trash hard, including a straight right into the nuts. FInish is a DVD through a piece of broken table. One of the better matches I have seen in Wildside

Rock and Roll interview. Morton is always worth hearing spit his rap

Total Destruction (Rusty Riddle/Sean Royal) v. Scar Stevens /Pretty Boy Harris

TD just kick the shit out of these guys until the ref DQ's them. Their slingshot tope rope clothesline finish is nasty looking

Terry Knight v. Marky Mark

Another squash, Knight has really good execution, nice dropkick, athletic bumps and a cool backward DDT finish.

Terry Knight accuses Christian athlete Christopher Sampson of stealing his title belt. Sampson comes out and tells us he believes "Thou Shall Not Steal," When he rears back to smite Knight with the hand of God, Candy, Knight's valet fakes like she was hit by his elbow. When Sampson turns to minister to her, Knight wears him out with a steel chair. I continue to love this feud.

Gemini v. Jason Cross

Gemini is your RVD running buddy and fake Muta, and Cross is a future star, but current non entity. Mediocre juniors match with a bunch of spin kicks. Gemini wins with a firemans carry. Nothing to see here

Eddie Golden v. JC Dazz

Fun match with a clip in the middle. Dazz is starting to grow on me, he took a monster over the top rope bump and missed a crazy 720 dive from the top. Golden is always solid. We get a ref bump and Jeff G. Bailey hits a Van Damninator which is lunatic. Match gets thrown out with Golden smashing Dazz with a chair.

Internet controversy starter Stone Mountian is cutting a promo in the parking lot and gets jumped by Scotty Wrenn, they do some crappy brawling.

Bad Attitude wants to beat the New South

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NWA Wildside- Throwback Review Episode 38

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5/28/00

Show starts with folks running out to see Shank writhing on the ground in the parking lot claiming Timber smashed his hand in the door of his truck. Pretty dastardly by Timber, although Shank did threaten to murder Timbers grandmother, so smashing his hand seems like a measured response.

We have a match between two guys interrupted by White Trash, who hits them both with a stop sign, then he is interrupted by Big Ron Studd, who chokeslams everyone. Kind of a lazy ECW pastiche, and Big Ron Studd is a crappy 911, although actually tall.

Lazz v. Gemini

Lazz is a guy doing a Brittney Spears imitator gimmick, and an act I remember really digging back in the day. Gemini is apparently a Sheik trainee and RVD buddy, and works as kind of a fake RVD with Muta facepaint. This only goes a couple of minutes before Ron Studd comes in and chokeslams Lazz. Then the three guys from the last match attack Ron Studd only to get chokeslammed (Big Mick Cool is only guy who takes the chokeslam well.) Then we get a Mick Tierney run in and a pull apart. Lots of stuff, none of it particularly compelling, although I could see people who didn't know who Mick Tierney and Ron Studd were, anticipating a Mick Tierney v. Ron Studd match.

Onyx v. Adam Jacobs

Fun early 21st century juniors match. There was a little too much spinning on clotheslines, but otherwise it was some nice athletic moves hit well. Onyx is only about 5'8 but cut as shit, he does sort of a Chippendale's gimmick which he executes in a really assholish way. Finish had some mishigos from Jeff G. Bailey and Eddie Golden and the NWA Elite gets another belt

Short Bailey and Onyx interview where Bailey calls Onxy "Blacker then South Atlanta and twice as Dangerous"

Fired up Bad Attitude promo promising to take all the belts. Basic stuff, but well done.

Jeff G. Bailey comes out with his crew, talks about the fine Christian athlete AJ Styles coming to his sense. Says JC Dazz is in a film and he is happy he got to bottom Jeff Strykers cock, then says they are sending Jorge Estrada back to Tijuana to work the door at his madre's donkey show. Wasn't this show on TV? Jeff G. Bailey folks.

AJ Styles/Eddie Golden v. JC Dazz/Jorge Estrada

Best match I have seen so far. Most of the match had Styles and Golden working over Estrada and Jorge takes offense really well. He goes sky high on backdrops and slams. Golden has really great basic asskicking offense and Styles is great as a flashy douchey heel. I didn't like Dazz doing a rope running section off a hot tag, but the near fall section was pretty exciting. I really love the Golden and Styles team, I am not sure how long it lasted, but they could have had a big run, because they complemented each other really well

First part of the show was forgettable, but start at the 30 minute mark and watch the Bailey interview and final tag.

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NWA Wildside- Throwback Review Episode 37

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5/21/00

We open with a night vision promo from SHANK!! He is in the woods outside of Timber's parents house. "I'm in your backyard boy. I see you parents right now through the window eatin dinner. Your grandma pulled up in the driveway. When they go to the door and they don't see her come in, but her cars outside. They may find the body, they may not." Yes that is a babyface credibly threatening to murder the heel's grandma. Shank is the best.

JC Dazz v. Gemini

Gemini is rocking face paint and doing kind of a fake Muta. He is exactly as good as one might expect a GA indy fake Muta to be. JC Dazz is an ex Scotty Wrenn tag partner and has the same kind of tubby jeans shorts highflyer look (he had long pants, but he looked like he should've had jeans shorts.) They do some stuff for a while and AJ Styles and Eddie Golden run in and attack Dazz.

Mick Tierney v. Stone Mountain

Tierney is a Bassman trainee who would have a cup of coffee in WWF Developmental. He is a pretty big guy who got tapped by Oleg Taktarov in a submissions tourney and played Canadian football. He wrestled like an early 2000's fake MMA guy, think Kama the Human Fighting Machine. Both of these guys looked like heavyweights which is something Wildside always had. The match sort of had that awkward feel of a Zero One mainevent without Hashimoto or Ogawa to bring things together. This ended with a Ron Studd staredown and Scotty Wrenn run in. I am starting to notice a trend here.

They have a promo with Steve Martin (Not working a Steve Martin gimmick) and Rick Michaels where they discuss AJ Styles leaving and the issues with the NWA board. Felt very expositional, if it was on Game of Thrones they would have at least shown us some titties.

Jorge Estrada/Jessie Taylor v. Onyx/Terry Knight

Onyx and Knight are Jeff G. Bailey managed. These are four pretty athletic guys, Estrada hits a tope with crazy height. Still outside of Terry Knight they all felt pretty green. Finish has Estrada pinning Knight after he gets accidentally hit with the belt. Big commercial break clip in the middle made it kind of hard to get a sense of this.

Lots of guys in this fed are great on the mike, Stone Mountain is not one of them

Cole Brothers v. Bad Attitude

Very short no DQ match. Cole twins smack the ref and double team David Young. Bill Beherens cheap shots Rick Michaels, but Michaels cracks him and Young hits his spinebuster for the three. Don't understand why this wasn't given more time as they seem to be building the Cole's as a bigger deal and the certainly look like big tough dudes.

Bad Attitude promo calling out the Rock and Roll Express which is a match I hope shows up

Opening Shank promo is must see, the rest of the show is pretty skippable.

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