NWA Wildside- Throwback Review Episode 42

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6/26/00

Long intro, starting with Steve Martin (was not in Roxanne) and Jeff G. Bailey riding to the arena, Martin explaining how he is going to confront Stone Mountain (may or may not have shot his father). Then the NWA Elite goes into the ring and Martin goes "like I told you in the car, I am calling out Stone Mountain." I am not sure why I needed the car ride about the confrontation and the actual confrontation. Martin offers Mountain a place in the NWA Elite, gets the third finger and we get a big brawl between Scotty Wrenn and Mountain with chair shots and broken handcuffs.

Jesse Taylor v. Stan "The Man" Lee

A match with plenty of entertaining pieces to it, although didn't really come together as a match. Lee is an old school Southern indy guy I have always enjoyed, kind of a poor mans Mike Davis. The match was going along at a nice pace before the blew a top rope rana which ended up spiking both guys awkwardly on their necks. It was touch and go for a bit, although they were able to bring the match back eventually.

Jon Phoenix v. Lazz

Onyx runs out during Lazz's dance routine and hits him with the light heavyweight belt (which looked like crap because Lazz went down way too early.) Phoenix hits a top rope splash and pins him. Lazz's shtick is starting to get really over with the crowd.

They have a WOW magazine segment with Bill Apter where a young wrestler named Ron Starr (a black guy, not Rugged Ron Starr) calls out Bill Beherens for not returning his calls, or giving him a booking. Kind of a weird angle, not sure if it ever went anywhere

SHANK!! is in the ring. He wants to give a shout out to all of his Overweight Lovers in the house. God has healed his hand, and he is challenging Timber the Lumberjack to a Cellblock Rules match at Freedom Fight, that is a steel cage match out in the parking lot. He tells Timber that there won't be any Vaseline, and he he can either run and hide, or bend over and take it like a man. Everything you want it to be. Man I hope they show us the Cellblock match.

Rock and Roll Express v. Bad Attitude

Joined in progress which is a bummer. We see Young get worked over and make the hot tag and Bad Attitude get the pin with a couple of top rope moves. Steve Martin (not King Tut) comes out and changes it to a 2/3 falls match. Rock and Rolls get a sort of double dropkick (Morton hit it, Gibson looked like his dropkicking days were in the past) and win a quick second fall. Fun third fall with the heel Rock and Rolls working over Michaels leg, until a hot tag, a mistimed chain throw by Martina and a Bad Attitude win. NWA Elite jumps Young and Michaels, but Morton and Gibson revert to their babyface ways and run them off.

First part of the show is skippable, but the Shank promo is Shank at his best, and I dug the main event tag.

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NWA Wildside Throwback Review Episode 40

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6/12/00

Show opens with Rick Michaels, the newly appointed head of NCW running through the card. Beherens and Bailey come out and they do a back and forth about the card. Nothing is more tiresome in wrestling then dueling matchmaker stuff, and I hope they moved past this soon.

Jason Cross v. Jon Phoenix

This is a debut for both guys, both of whom would get big pushes later. This is pretty much the kind of spotfest debut match you would expect Ian Rotten to come from the back and give a speech about. They seemed to try every flip and highspot they knew. No real story, just both guys moonsaulting, shooting starring and 480ing. Not something which ages particularly well, but they did some fancy stuff.

Sean Royal comes out for his rematch with Rusty Riddle. He hands him a beer and suggests they team up. Wouldn't have minded seeing a rematch, but I do remember them being a fun team

Scottie Wren v. Ricky Noble

Semi competitive squash. Wren hasn't done a ton for me so far. He uses Stone Mountain's finisher to taunt the champion. Steve Prazak's has been doing color the last couple of weeks, and his catch phrase seems to be "That's very white of you."

Christian Strong Man, Christopher Sampson is back out, and he calls out Terry Knight and Candy. Sampson apologizes for losing his temper last week. Terry Knight slaps him in the face, and Sampson turns the other cheek, he gets slapped again, leaving him no more cheeks to turn. This sets up Knight v. Sampson at their next big show. This is kind of corny, and neither Sampson or Knight are great on the mike, but the pure pro wrestlingness of this angle makes me smile.

Bill Apter talks to Ricky Steamboat about Brian Pillman

Shank is in the back with a cast on his arm and he is stealing a belt from someones kit bag

Lazz v. Onyx

We get the dancing intros of both guys, including Lazz doing the entire Brittney dance number from Oops I Did it Again, including lap dance to uncomfortable looking ringside security. We only get about 30 seconds of the match post commercial break before everyone runs in.

Not much of a show. I am digging the Sampson v. Knight feud, and Cross and Phoenix did a bunch of moonsaults, but not enough Bailey and Shank and no Eddie Golden or Styles makes kind of a rough show.

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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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