Dementia D'Rose From Larry Goodman: Like my Chicago Cubs, Why We Wrestle came through in the clutch. Not only was “Frigh...
Like my Chicago Cubs, Why We Wrestle came through in the clutch.
Not only was “Fright Night: Last House on the Left” the best show in the company’s short history, it was held in front of the largest, loudest crowd they’ve ever drawn.
With 140 in the building, The Church was rocking like it hasn’t rocked in a long time. Fright Night hearkened back to the great big shows of the past. Almost every match had sustained heat with constant chants for the babyfaces. There were many new faces in the crowd and more young women than I’ve seen there in years.
WWW gave them a great show. Dan Wilson’s heat booking is working to perfection. The heels brought home the bacon in all of the key matches with one major exception. The babyfaces got screwed every which way with a surprising turn and a shocking return in the mix.
Slim J and Kevin Blue put on a remarkable TLC match. The Triple Crown title match (Gunner Miller vs. Stryk Nyn) was a war.
The heated feud that carried WWW through some awfully lean times over the last year came to a fitting conclusion with a violent bloodbath inside a steel cage.
An amped up Dany Only welcomed the crowd to the 17th annual Fright Night and said it would be a night of firsts.
(1)Big F’N Deal (Geter & Brian Blaze) & Elijah Evens IV defeated Devil’s Rejects (Azrael & Se7en & Brad Cash with Reverend Dan Wilson) in 12:29. Blaze injured Izzy’s elbow to force him out of the match. The heels put heat on Cash. He fought his way out of the heel corner and made the tag. Se7en took the heels to double sledge city before Geter took him out of with a 400 pound leaping splash. Cash was facing insurmountable odds. Big F’N Deal hit their finisher on him and Evans applied the coup de grâce with a frogsplash. It was all abut sympathy for the Devil’s Rejects.
Postmatch, Geter decked Wilson and left him laying with a leaping splash. To be continued.
(2) Bobby Moore (with Cyrus the Destroyer & Jessica Leigh & Logan Chase) defeated Billy Buck in 9:57. Leigh and Cyrus got involved so referee Dee Byers ejected them from ringside. Moore had Buck’s signature moves scouted and was able to effectively counter them. Moore was in shock after Buck kicked out of his sick kick. Buck superkicked Moore as he was guzzling a bottle of water supplied by Chase. It looked like sayonara for Moore when Buck began clutching at his head. Moore capitalized with the STO from Hell. Good match. Southern Bastard Crew needs all the wins they can get to be seen as a credible force.
On the big screen, we saw Slim J and Buck. Slim apologized to Buck and they made their peace. Slim asked Buck if he had his back tonight. Buck said yes. The crowd applauded. Warm fuzzy feelings abounded.
(3) New South Heavyweight Champion Odinson defeated Cyrus the Destroyer (with Logan Chase) via DQ in 8:54. When monsters collide. It was OK but the intensity level was lacking. They have better match in them than this. Cyrus blocked Odinson’s spinning F5 finisher and set up for a Vader bomb. Odinson saw it coming. got Cyrus on his shoulders and hit an electric chair drop. Moore attacked Odinson for the DQ. Odinson quickly rid the ring of his SBC ass.
(4) Dementia D’Rose defeated Nina Monet and Jessica Leigh (with Logan Chase & Bobby Moore) and Crystal and in a fatal four-way to become the first WWW Women’s Champion in 10:26. Alliances were fleeting at best. D’Rose spent the majority of the match battling on the outside. Monet did a rolling senton off the apron ala Liger. There were some late save on pin attempts. The crowd got behind Crystal, who did a spinning head scissors with D’Rose as the base. Crystal had D’Rose in a rear naked choke forever. D’Rose finally broke the hold and pinned Crystal after Damnesia. A very average match. They put the title on the right woman.
(5) Kevin Blue defeated Slim J in a TLC match at 20:27. Slim was on fire. He hit an insane flip dive almost over the ringpost and gave Blue a tour of the barricades. Slim set a table up next to the ramp. They went back and forth on the ramp teasing moves to put the other guy through the table, any one which could have ended somebody’s life. A chair was brought into play. Slim gave Blue a drop toehold onto the chair. Blue gave Slim a uranage on the chair. Blue set a ladder up in the corner and whipped Slim into it. Slim applied a sadistic inverted STF with Blues leg wrapped around the chair for extra leverage. Blue’s best buddy Chris Spectra interfered by suplexing Slim onto the ladder. Blue gave Slim a demented spinning neckbreaker onto the chair. Blue hung the chair around Slim’s neck and ran him into the turnbuckles. Slim fired a chair at Blue to stun him and hit Screwdriver on the Rocks. Slim climbed a 10 foot ladder. Blue brought him off from near the top with a downward spiral. Blue and Spectra set the 10 foot ladder up on the ramp and brought the table into the ring. That did not end well for Blue as Slim put him through the table with a flying reverse DDT off the ladder. Blue’s back was lacerated by the table. Spectra broke up the pin and attacked Slim. He hit a tornado kick and a fisherman suplex on Slim and put Blue on top but each time, Slim kicked out. Slim then laid Spectra out with a wheelbarrow flatliner and chairshot to the back. This gave Blue time to recover. He gave Slim the Air Raid Crash. Slim kicked out again. The chant for Slim was huge. Spectra and Blue bridged the 10 foot ladder between the ropes and the smaller ladder. They were about to give Slim a Razor’s Edge onto the ladder when Buck hit the ring to a huge relief pop from the crowd. Buck looked at Spectra and Blue…and superkicked Slim. The three of them hugged. Slim clawed at Buck’s pants leg. Buck superkicked him again. They teamed up for a brutal powerbomb across the ladder on Slim with Spectra doing the dirty deed. This was a spectacular TLC match with a compelling story to back it up. In no time flat, Buck went from being one of the most beloved wrestlers at the Church to public enemy number one.
Slim was furious after the match. He refused help from the refs and stormed out the front door of the building.
(6) The Monarchy (Black Baron & Prince Apollo) defeated Lynch Mob (Matt & Joey Lynch) to retain the WWW Tag Team Championship in 9:04. Monarchy reinjured Joey’s knee and had him in agony. Matt cleaned house setting up a moonsault by Joey. Matt covered Prince but Baron pulled referee Darryl Howe out of the ring. While Howe was regaining his bearings, Prince tattooed Matt’s forehead with one of the title belts and that was all she wrote. I can’t say enough about Joey’s selling. It was flawless. He didn’t not one thing a man with a crippled knee shouldn’t be able to do. Following the spectacularity of the TLC, this was pretty much the perfect match for this spot on the show. They got great heat with a simple, well told story.
(7) Gunner Miller (with Jeff G. Bailey) defeated Stryk Nyn to retain the WWW Triple Crown Championship in 18:24. It was all Stryk early. The crowd popped for a stomp on Bailey’s hand. The highlight was running senton from the ramp back into the ring. Miller came back with a trio of german suplexes that made the girls in the crowd shriek. Bailey got payback, slugging Stryk with his Gucci shoe. Miller used an Oklahoma Stampede for a near fall. Stryk tried for a Fujiwara armbar and was met with more suplexes from Miller. The Stryk chants grew louder. Stryk sprung to his feet with a clothesline. A hellacious slugfest ensued. The comeback was on. Stryk coiled for the spear but Miller beat him to the punch with a spear of his own. Stryk dodged the CTE and hit the F5 but Miller got a foot on the ropes. Stryk applied the Fujiwara but Miller made it to the ropes. Stryk locked in the armbar in the middle of the ring. Bailey jumped onto the apron to distract referee Dee Byers. Miller was tapping when Iceberg hit the ring with a Ground Zero splash on Stryk. Miller then blasted Stryk with the CTE for 1-2-3. This match delivered on all counts - stiff action throughout, tremendous heat and a shocking, beautifully executed finishing sequence.
Postmatch, Iceberg came back out to raised Miller’s hand. Finally “The Inconceivable Being of Horror” has come back to Cornelia. .
(8) Jacob Ashworth defeated Nemesis in a loser leaves WWW cage match in 10:36. Their final confrontation was a crude, blood-drenched fight to the finish in the fine tradition of Cornelia cage matches. Huge chants for Ashworth right from the get go. Ashworth was murdering Nemesis until he crashed headfirst into the cage. Nemesis whipped Ashworth face-first into the cage. Ashworth was a bloody mess. Nemesis put a noose around Ashworth’s neck and yanked him off his feet. Nemesis went at Ashworth with a screwdriver but Ashworth caught him with a full nelson slam. Ashworth stabbed Nemesis with the screwdriver and he was busted open. Ashworth put the noose around Nemesis’ neck and fired him into the cage. Nemesis kicked out of at two. Ashworth picked up a chair and delivered not one, not two but three horrifyingly sick chairshots to the head. Nemesis rolled a shoulder just before the three count. Ashworth jabbed the screwdriver into Nemesis’ fhead until he gave up.