From Larry Goodman: It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful. --Hiromu Arakawa Southern Fried Champio...
From Larry Goodman:
It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
--Hiromu Arakawa
Southern Fried Championship Wrestling kicked off 2016 with a bang at their Fan Appreciation Night.
The heel reigned supreme, screwing the babyfaces at every turn and imposing their will all night long.
When the smoke cleared, Backbone (Drew Adler, Michael Stevens and Zac Edwards) had all of the SFCW gold. To make matters worse, Southern Fried’s indestructible hero, AJ Steele was manhandled for the second show in a row.
Clean finishes were essentially non-existent. A steady diet of no-finish finishes would be a problem. The lack of them worked beautifully in this circumstance and should serve SFCW well going forward. The heels have all kinds of heat coming out of this show. Backbone was given the ball they ran wild with it.
A crowd of 300+ turned out at the Nowell Rec Center. This was a bigger gate than for any of SFCW’s shows in 2015 with the exception of “Shindig 2”. The crowd reaction was the reverse of the typical SFCW event, with strong heat for the undercard and a lack of same for the main event.
(1) Pandora vs. Brooklyn Page vs. Kiera Hogan was a no contest. The advertised match was Pandora vs. Brooklyn. Hogan came out and said she heard what they said about her at the last show and demanded a three way. Match went less than a minute before Adler attacked Brooklyn. Pandora jumped on Adler’s back. Adler shrugged Pandora off and kicked her face halfway to Loganville. Gave her a serious fat lip for real. Hogan wanted no part of this.
Adler threatened to give Page the Drew Drop if he didn’t get a no DQ match with Creed. Under duress, Commissioner Tim Rice agreed to the match. Being the scumbag that he has become, Adler planted Page anyway.
(2) Drew Adler defeated Logan Creed in a no DQ match to win the SFCW Heavyweight Championship with the help of Beautiful Bald Besties. Creed was beating the bejeezus out of Adler until Besties came out to help. Creed fought off several finishing maneuvers before finally yielding to overwhelming numbers. The heat for the entire segment was off the charts. Fans were outraged at the outcome and chanted huge for top babyface Creed on his way out.
(3) The Chairs Match between Justin Legend and Twisted (with Ace Hefner) was ruled a no contest after 15 minutes of mayhem. Match was the result of an incident at the November show when Twisted used a chair to reinjure Legends’ surgically repaired leg. Your basic no DQ hardcore match with a ladder, a spike, and pizza pans brought into play in addition the chairs. Twisted bled after Legend took the spike to his forehead. They brawled into the bleachers. Twisted did a psychotic swanton off the top off a 7 foot ladder for a near fall. Twisted did a cannonball into a wedged ladder when Legend got out of the way. Twisted took a flip bump off the ropes onto a ladder bridged across two chairs. That had to suck. Commissioner Rice and his security force entered the ring to tend to Twisted. Legend jumped on Twisted as he tried to get up. Security pulled Legend off. Rice said that was enough. Legend proceeded to deck Hefner. OK for what it was. There were some awkward pauses, most notably, the use of the blade did not go smoothly. Twisted took some hellish bumps.
A chaotic pull apart climaxed with Legend nailing Rice for a big pop.
Rice said Legend and Twisted were both suspended until March 12 (meaning they will miss next show on February 6).
Ring announcer Rick Richards called for a break. Charles Anschutz said let’s give some stuff away. The stuff included two tickets to WWE in Macon to a reserved seat holder drawn at random (Ron Moore).
Coming out of the break, AJ Steele told Joseph Brock III he had until February 6 to spill the beans about who sent Geter after him at the last show or else. Brock said he was going home. JB
Enterprises member Drew Blood claimed Brock had been traumatized by a thug and ordered the fans to give him the respect he deserved. Blood was very entertaining here.
Before Brock could go anywhere, Anschutz introduced Roscoe Ray as the special referee for the next match – JB Enterprises vs. Trinity.
Ridiculous nonsense ensued. Chris Nelms slipped Brock some cash (Shoney’s money) for one of his guys to lay down. Blood said he wasn’t laying down for a second tier attraction and told Brock to return the money, which he did. Brock offered the ludicrous sum of 100K for Trinity to lay down. Terry Lawler refused.
(4) Joseph Brock Enterprises (Tetchi Makuji & Drew Blood with Dr. Joseph Brock) vs. Trinity (Terry Lawler & Big Andy with Chris Nelms & Jamie Holmes) was a 7:18 no contest. The highlight of the match was a spirited bull of the woods contest between Andy and Makuji, who spit the green mist. All four attacked Ray to end the match. Jacob Ashworth and Brian Kane made the save.
SFCW Tag Champions Beautiful Bald Besties came out and challenged Monroe City Champion Ray and Cruiserweight Cup Champion Kane to do their winner takes all match right now.
(5) In a winner takes all the titles match, SFCW Tag Team Champions Beautiful Bald Besties (Michael Stevens & Zac Edwards) defeated Southern Fried Mafia (Monroe City Champion Roscoe Ray & Cruiserweight Cup Champion Brian Kane) in 5:25. Besties worked over Ray’s arm until the hot tag was made. Referee Ken Wallace was inadvertently struck by Ray. Adler ran out to attack Mafia. Creed came to the rescue, but Adler dumped him out and went after Ray, who was pinned after a Bestie’s combo move.
Postmatch – Stevens gloated and gloated and gloated about how great Besties and Adler were and how they ran the entire state of Georgia. Besties held a chair in front of Creed and Adler used a high boot to drive the chair into Creed’s face. Besties and Adler again got bigtime heat.
Referee “Wolfman” Ron Lee announced that he was retiring due to throat cancer. Lee thanked the fans for supporting him for 39 years. Lee received a standing ovation.
(6)The number one contender’s match between Odinson and Jacob Ashworh was an 8:54 no contest. Early on, the ring boards buckled in the middle of the ring. Odinson and Ashworth worked around them as best they could, but the problem definitely altered the match. That said, this was a good power vs. power match with both men making strong showings. Adler and Besties attacked both competitors to end it.
Adler did some awesomely repugnant mic work. Said Ashworth and Odinson were just pawns in their little game of chess and how they were the bricks and mortar the promotion together. “These are our championship belts. We have EVERYTHING!”
Anschutz said they wouldn’t have them for long. Seeing how neither Odinson or Ashworth could be the number one contender and how Adler and Co had just royally pissed him off, Anschutz announced that Adler would defend against Odinson and Ashworth on February 6 in a three way dance.
(7) Big F’N Deal (Geter & Brian Blaze) defeated former SFCW Heavyweight Champion AJ Steele & Fred Yehi in 9:17. They brawled outside the ring for a solid 15 minutes. It was some kind of massive brutality. Yehi choked Blaze with his shirt and dragged him across the floor, then whipped him with a belt. Blaze returned the favor. Geter waffled Steele with an ungodly stiff chairshot to the back. Steele answered with a testicular claw. An exasperated referee Ken Wallace finally declared a no contest.
The fans were pissed and chanted “let them fight”. Steele told Wallace to kiss his ass. Anschutz rang the bell. Steele and Yehi had their way with Blaze. It was a different story once Geter tagged in. He gave Steele a beating. Blaze tagged in. Double clothesline and both men down. Blaze tagged out and pulled Yehi off the apron to prevent Steele from tagging. Geter then pinned Steele with a belly to belly suplex. The sight of their hero looking up at the lights sucked the life out of the building.
Nothing wrong with the action and there was plenty of it, but an appalling lack of heat for a SFCW main event. The problem was the context. My sense was that the fans had already seen so much brawling on this show that they were numbed out by another long one. I’m curious to see where SFCW is going with this story.
It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
--Hiromu Arakawa
Southern Fried Championship Wrestling kicked off 2016 with a bang at their Fan Appreciation Night.
The heel reigned supreme, screwing the babyfaces at every turn and imposing their will all night long.
When the smoke cleared, Backbone (Drew Adler, Michael Stevens and Zac Edwards) had all of the SFCW gold. To make matters worse, Southern Fried’s indestructible hero, AJ Steele was manhandled for the second show in a row.
Clean finishes were essentially non-existent. A steady diet of no-finish finishes would be a problem. The lack of them worked beautifully in this circumstance and should serve SFCW well going forward. The heels have all kinds of heat coming out of this show. Backbone was given the ball they ran wild with it.
A crowd of 300+ turned out at the Nowell Rec Center. This was a bigger gate than for any of SFCW’s shows in 2015 with the exception of “Shindig 2”. The crowd reaction was the reverse of the typical SFCW event, with strong heat for the undercard and a lack of same for the main event.
(1) Pandora vs. Brooklyn Page vs. Kiera Hogan was a no contest. The advertised match was Pandora vs. Brooklyn. Hogan came out and said she heard what they said about her at the last show and demanded a three way. Match went less than a minute before Adler attacked Brooklyn. Pandora jumped on Adler’s back. Adler shrugged Pandora off and kicked her face halfway to Loganville. Gave her a serious fat lip for real. Hogan wanted no part of this.
Adler threatened to give Page the Drew Drop if he didn’t get a no DQ match with Creed. Under duress, Commissioner Tim Rice agreed to the match. Being the scumbag that he has become, Adler planted Page anyway.
(2) Drew Adler defeated Logan Creed in a no DQ match to win the SFCW Heavyweight Championship with the help of Beautiful Bald Besties. Creed was beating the bejeezus out of Adler until Besties came out to help. Creed fought off several finishing maneuvers before finally yielding to overwhelming numbers. The heat for the entire segment was off the charts. Fans were outraged at the outcome and chanted huge for top babyface Creed on his way out.
(3) The Chairs Match between Justin Legend and Twisted (with Ace Hefner) was ruled a no contest after 15 minutes of mayhem. Match was the result of an incident at the November show when Twisted used a chair to reinjure Legends’ surgically repaired leg. Your basic no DQ hardcore match with a ladder, a spike, and pizza pans brought into play in addition the chairs. Twisted bled after Legend took the spike to his forehead. They brawled into the bleachers. Twisted did a psychotic swanton off the top off a 7 foot ladder for a near fall. Twisted did a cannonball into a wedged ladder when Legend got out of the way. Twisted took a flip bump off the ropes onto a ladder bridged across two chairs. That had to suck. Commissioner Rice and his security force entered the ring to tend to Twisted. Legend jumped on Twisted as he tried to get up. Security pulled Legend off. Rice said that was enough. Legend proceeded to deck Hefner. OK for what it was. There were some awkward pauses, most notably, the use of the blade did not go smoothly. Twisted took some hellish bumps.
A chaotic pull apart climaxed with Legend nailing Rice for a big pop.
Rice said Legend and Twisted were both suspended until March 12 (meaning they will miss next show on February 6).
Ring announcer Rick Richards called for a break. Charles Anschutz said let’s give some stuff away. The stuff included two tickets to WWE in Macon to a reserved seat holder drawn at random (Ron Moore).
Coming out of the break, AJ Steele told Joseph Brock III he had until February 6 to spill the beans about who sent Geter after him at the last show or else. Brock said he was going home. JB
Enterprises member Drew Blood claimed Brock had been traumatized by a thug and ordered the fans to give him the respect he deserved. Blood was very entertaining here.
Before Brock could go anywhere, Anschutz introduced Roscoe Ray as the special referee for the next match – JB Enterprises vs. Trinity.
Ridiculous nonsense ensued. Chris Nelms slipped Brock some cash (Shoney’s money) for one of his guys to lay down. Blood said he wasn’t laying down for a second tier attraction and told Brock to return the money, which he did. Brock offered the ludicrous sum of 100K for Trinity to lay down. Terry Lawler refused.
(4) Joseph Brock Enterprises (Tetchi Makuji & Drew Blood with Dr. Joseph Brock) vs. Trinity (Terry Lawler & Big Andy with Chris Nelms & Jamie Holmes) was a 7:18 no contest. The highlight of the match was a spirited bull of the woods contest between Andy and Makuji, who spit the green mist. All four attacked Ray to end the match. Jacob Ashworth and Brian Kane made the save.
SFCW Tag Champions Beautiful Bald Besties came out and challenged Monroe City Champion Ray and Cruiserweight Cup Champion Kane to do their winner takes all match right now.
(5) In a winner takes all the titles match, SFCW Tag Team Champions Beautiful Bald Besties (Michael Stevens & Zac Edwards) defeated Southern Fried Mafia (Monroe City Champion Roscoe Ray & Cruiserweight Cup Champion Brian Kane) in 5:25. Besties worked over Ray’s arm until the hot tag was made. Referee Ken Wallace was inadvertently struck by Ray. Adler ran out to attack Mafia. Creed came to the rescue, but Adler dumped him out and went after Ray, who was pinned after a Bestie’s combo move.
Postmatch – Stevens gloated and gloated and gloated about how great Besties and Adler were and how they ran the entire state of Georgia. Besties held a chair in front of Creed and Adler used a high boot to drive the chair into Creed’s face. Besties and Adler again got bigtime heat.
Referee “Wolfman” Ron Lee announced that he was retiring due to throat cancer. Lee thanked the fans for supporting him for 39 years. Lee received a standing ovation.
(6)The number one contender’s match between Odinson and Jacob Ashworh was an 8:54 no contest. Early on, the ring boards buckled in the middle of the ring. Odinson and Ashworth worked around them as best they could, but the problem definitely altered the match. That said, this was a good power vs. power match with both men making strong showings. Adler and Besties attacked both competitors to end it.
Adler did some awesomely repugnant mic work. Said Ashworth and Odinson were just pawns in their little game of chess and how they were the bricks and mortar the promotion together. “These are our championship belts. We have EVERYTHING!”
Anschutz said they wouldn’t have them for long. Seeing how neither Odinson or Ashworth could be the number one contender and how Adler and Co had just royally pissed him off, Anschutz announced that Adler would defend against Odinson and Ashworth on February 6 in a three way dance.
(7) Big F’N Deal (Geter & Brian Blaze) defeated former SFCW Heavyweight Champion AJ Steele & Fred Yehi in 9:17. They brawled outside the ring for a solid 15 minutes. It was some kind of massive brutality. Yehi choked Blaze with his shirt and dragged him across the floor, then whipped him with a belt. Blaze returned the favor. Geter waffled Steele with an ungodly stiff chairshot to the back. Steele answered with a testicular claw. An exasperated referee Ken Wallace finally declared a no contest.
The fans were pissed and chanted “let them fight”. Steele told Wallace to kiss his ass. Anschutz rang the bell. Steele and Yehi had their way with Blaze. It was a different story once Geter tagged in. He gave Steele a beating. Blaze tagged in. Double clothesline and both men down. Blaze tagged out and pulled Yehi off the apron to prevent Steele from tagging. Geter then pinned Steele with a belly to belly suplex. The sight of their hero looking up at the lights sucked the life out of the building.
Nothing wrong with the action and there was plenty of it, but an appalling lack of heat for a SFCW main event. The problem was the context. My sense was that the fans had already seen so much brawling on this show that they were numbed out by another long one. I’m curious to see where SFCW is going with this story.