From Larry Goodman: Booker Todd Sexton pulled another rabbit out of his hat at Street Wars . SFCW Champion Jacob Ashworth was hos...
Booker Todd Sexton pulled another rabbit out of his hat at Street Wars.
SFCW Champion Jacob Ashworth was hospitalized the day of the show so the main event Steet Wars match was short a critically important player. What to do?
One could argue Southern Fried should have brought in another star to make good, ala the argument Stephen Platinum made in his Full Disclosure video regarding last week’s PWC show. I would argue that given the story SFCW is telling, the right call was made.
For the show after a major show, Street Wars delivered the goods. The Street Wars match was a cyclone of violence, chaos and heat booking. Overall match quality was fine. That’s never really the issue at Southern Fried. It’s the stories and this show had the bases covered.
Coming off Crossroads, attendance at the Walton County Boys and Girls Club was down – 200 vs. 300 for Crossroads. What they lacked in numbers, they made up for with enthusiasm.
SFCW owner David Manders and Sexton were out to open the show. Ring announcer Rick Richard said they must go to the same barber. Sexton said the good news was that Southern Fried was running Thanksgiving night for the 3rd year in a row. The bad news was Ashworth’s medical condition. A new partner would be needed for the Street War main event.
(1)Xander Ramon defeated the debuting CT Keys in 9:35. The crowd picked up on Keys’ arrogance right away. Per usual, Ramon was way over with fans imitating his war cry. This was a really good match for two guys with limited experience. Ramon has gotten in better shape and added some nifty new wrinkles to his moveset. Keys has a bright future as pro wrestler. He’s got the physique, the athletic ability, good instincts and Slim J is his trainer. Need I say more? The finish saw Keys unable to convert on a powerbomb and Ramon countered with a TKO.
(2) Master & Machine (Marcus Kross & Griff Garrison) defeated AC Mack & Ashton Starr in 10:56. Starr came out wearing copper shades to match his hat and hair. He looked like a star. Mack entered separately, getting a mix of cheers and boos. Mack said he should be having his title rematch with Alan Angels rather than being stuck in a tag match “with whatever you call that”. The pop for M & M was huge. Match went according to Mack’s plan: 1) Stay on the floor and let Starr go it alone. 2) Pull ropes down to spill Garrison out and run him into the rail 3) Tag self in and beat on Garrison 4) Knock Kross off the apron to prevent the hot tag. Garrison, however, did end up making the tag and Kross ran wild, hitting a running SSP on Mack for a close near fall. As Mack was licking his chop ready to hit his finisher, Starr tagged himself in. They argued. Starr smacked Mack across the face. M & M capitalized on the dissension with the Goodman Bomb on Starr. Well played—solid action and clear, clean storytelling.
Kelly Sexton came to the ring to pass a message to ring announcer Richards and found Logan Creed blocking her path to the dressing room. Logan said they had a problem. Kelly wasn’t a wrestler, nor a member of the SFCW roster and had no damn business putting her hands on his wife Brooklyn (as Kelly had most definitely done at Crossroads). If Kelly wanted to be part of the business, it was time to break her in. Logan goozled Kelly. Todd hit the ring and kicked Logan in the nuts. Logan’s partners Tetchi Makuji and Brian Kane attacked Todd. Billy Buck and Josie Quinn ran in with chairs to save Todd. Buck suggested they had found their partner for the Street Wars. Todd said he was too old to wrestle but he wasn’t too old to fight.
(3) Mikal Judas defeated Stryknyn in 6:20 to earn a shot at the SFCW Championship. Match was set up at Crossroads when Stryk said he was robbed of his title shot, offering to face anyone to get it back and Judas answered the call. This was six minutes of fast-paced, high impact goodness. Southern Fried could hardly go wrong here with two guys that have loads of great matches and precious few bad ones. Stryk delivered a trio of germans on the big man for a near fall. He went for a fourth and ate a short arm clothesline. Judas gave Stryk a fallaway slam for a near fall. Judas missed charging in and Stryk got that fourth german suplex. But Judas fought off Stryk’s F9 and pinned him after a choke slam. Referee David Weakley was perfectly positioned to not see what everyone else saw --- Stryk clearly had his foot on the ropes before the three count.
For a crowd that makes a habit of booing referees, the finish got surprisingly little heat. Judas has not only earned the respect of the Southern Fried fans, he’s getting some cheers.
Postmatch, Stryk got in Weakley’s face. A new security guy (wrestler Bobby Flaco) stepped in and got speared by Styrk.
Dr. Joseph Brock III introduced Brooklyn as a wonderful wife, a spectacular mother and the best female wrestler in Georgia today. Two out of three ain’t bad.
(4) Brooklyn Creed (with Dr. Joseph Brock III) defeated Shalandra Royal in 8:05. Brooklyn plays her role to the hilt. At the bell, Brooklyn blew Royal off and took a stroll to draw heat, as if she wasn’t getting enough already. Just as Royal was starting to build momentum, Brock interfered. Brooklyn headbutted Royal and choked the life out of her. Brooklyn stayed on the attack until a wonky looking backslide/bridge hope spot momentarily derailed the match. Brooklyn gave Royal a uranage to get things back on track. Royal had the crowd behind her on her comeback, using a cartwheel back elbow for one of her near fall. Royal evaded Brooklyn’s finisher and went for another cartwheel back elbow but Brooklyn caught her with the full nelson face plant to pick up the win.
(5) Alan Angels defeated Sal Rinauro via DQ to retain the Classics Championship in 9:54. They had a good match. Crazy-like-a-fox Sal clocked Angels with the title before the bell. Rinauro was all over Angels, who was still out of it. Angels rolled out to escape Rinauro’s finger breaking tactics. Rinauro continued to punish Angels and his fingers on the outside. The worm turned when Angels planted Rinauro on the ring frame. The agony was all Sal’s now. Rinauro escaped from the Wingsnapper. With Angels looking for the frogsplash, Rinauro got his knees up. Angels had that scouted and locked in a reverse single leg crab. Rinauro was in bad way but managed to counter. Angels came off the top with DDT and quickly scaled the ropes for the frogsplash. Rinauro kicked out. Angels went back to the top. Rinauro met him with a spider superplex but Angels hooked Rinauro with an inside cradle. Angels rocked Rinauro’s world with a jumping knee and hit the Wingsnapper. As Angels went to cover, Mack attacked and laid Angels out with the Mack 10 for the DQ.
With Angles face down in the ring, Mack said he got the drop on him nine out of ten times and demanded his damn rematch. This got a ton of heat.
We had quite the eventful intermission. Keys and David Ali attacked Ramon when he was at his merch table socializing with the fans. A wild brawl ensued. How rude. An irate Alan Angels stormed the ring and challenged Mack to a 30 minutes Ironman match on October 18.
(6) Street War -- no DQ, falls count anywhere in Walton County: Logan Creed & Tetchi Makuji & Brian Kane (with Dr. Joseph Brock III) defeated Billy Buck & Josie Quinn & Todd Sexton in 19:30. It goes without saying that Todd and Buck would be heavily cheered. The surprise to me was how over Quinn has gotten with the Southern Fried crowd. Manders posted about Quinn proving he was a bad ass. I agree 100%. He was awesome, more than holding his own against Logan. It was tornado tag all the way with three separate matches going for most of the bout. Quinn gave Logan a tijera using the basketball rim for leverage. Logan gave the cowboys a double choke slam. Todd locked Kane outside the building so it was 3 against 2 for a bit. Kane threw chairs and crutches into the ring. That did not end well for JBE as the faces cracked them over their collective heads with the chairs and hammered the chairs into their groins like nails for the biggest pop of the night. Quinn hit a Van Terminator on Logan. The faces applied simultaneous submissions to the heels were able to break free. Logan chokeslammed Quinn onto three guys on the floor and went for Scorched Earth on Todd, who countered with a cutter. Brooklyn hit the ring with a low blow for Todd. Kelly hit the ring with a low blow on Brooklyn. Perhaps that was the loudest pop of the night. Logan goozled Kelly. Todd superkicked Logan to save her. Catfight! Catfight! Catfight! Kelly got knocked loopy and the women hastily brawled/danced their way to the back. Quinn hit a flip dive onto all three heels and had Logan pinned after a TKO on but Brock pulled the ref out of the ring. The match went completely off the rails here with battles taking place on three sets of bleachers. Logan chokeslammed Buck off the bleachers through a table. Todd was laid out on another table. Not sure what happened to him but he looked dead. Logan hung a chair around Quinn’s neck and gave him a Scorched Earth to win the match.
The babyfaces were destroyed. JBE reigned supreme.
Logan told Todd to get his non-wrestling wife to drive him to the hospital where Ashworth was. He didn’t care if Ashworth was dying, if he wasn’t at the next show he should forfeit the title.
NOTES: Ashworth was hospitalized due to dehydration and a severe respiratory infection and is back home recovering…Bill Behrens was helping out backstage…Jen Holbrook-Sells was in the house.
