Photos courtesy of TJ Burks From Rob Brodhecker: Lots of stuff happing tonight for SHW, highlighted by the Bunkhouse Brawl tag match betwee...
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Lots of stuff happing tonight for SHW, highlighted by the Bunkhouse Brawl tag match between the team of David Ali and Austin Towers and Fear members Sunny Daze and Logan Creed. Will Logan finally get payback on Ali and Towers for the attack on Logan in front of his child? Zicky Dice will make his SHW in ring debut facing the man he attacked from behind at the last show, Owen Knight. The Real Mean Girl, Dani Jordyn makes her return to SHW to face AEW star Katalina Perez. The Honor Society was scheduled to face Technical Excellence for a chance to face SHW tag champs, Lethal Poison, after the match ended, but with an injury to Kevin Ryan, Honor Society is out and Technical Excellence will face Lethal Poison heads up. AC Mack will face Ben Buchanan and in a Hoss fight of Hoss fights, William Huckaby will square off against Cyrus the Destroyer.
Brandon Benefield and Gerard Bonner are on video commentary. Diana Michel is your ring announcer. David Weakley and Jeremie Prater are your referees. TJ Burks of Erratic Aperture and the Kind Punk crew are on visual duties.
The official crowd count at the Action Builidng is 381. About 50 people showed up after the second match had started.
1. “Bam Bam” Ben Buchanan with Bull Buchanan vs. AC Mack
Mack shakes Bull’s hand but blows off Ben. Mack, gets on the mic and puts over Bull but tells him that Ben will have to take the L tonight. Mack does his trademarked intro, Ben attacks before he finishes and Weakley starts the match. Ben’s all over Mack for not shaking his hand and gets a near fall. Mack tries to fight back but Ben just powers through it. The crowd is pulling for Mack. Ben used an object to try to choke Mack. Mack gets Ben out of the ring and dives on him twice, Ben is staggered. Jumping heel kick gets Mack a near fall. Ben powers out of a Mack 10 attempt and takes Mack’s head off with a lariat. Ben pulls himself off the cover and goes for a leg drop from the top rope, but Mack rolls away. Mack hits the Mack 10 and pins Ben at 6:59. The crowd was happy with Mack’s win. Bull and Ben are arguing their way up the ramp.
Gary Lamb promo. He welcomes everyone to the show. He summarizes how the week went and says that they are going to put on the best show tonight and everything will be a homerun. He wants everyone to be loud and have fun.
2. “The Monster” Cyrus with Logan Chase vs. William Huckaby (with Hold My Beer Hanson)
The jukebox plays Enter Sandman for Huck’s entrance, Hanson’s singing along with the crowd. Hanson’s still on crutches after The Honor Society damaged it at the last show. Huck busts out a hurricanrana in the opening minute but Cyrus counters with a black hole slam. Cyrus works over the body and tosses Huck out of the ring. Chase goes in to do some damage, but Hanson chases him off. Huck dumps Cyrus out of the ring and they do some back and forth. Back in the ring, they are exchanging haymakers, until Huck gets Cyrus over with a spine buster. Huck misses a middle rope moonsault, Cyrus doesn’t miss the spear. Huck grabs the rope to break up the pin. Cyrus starts to climb the turn buckles; Huck cuts him off. Huck gets the superplex on Cyrus and that gets the crowd up on their feet. Logan Chase confronts Hanson on the outside, allowing Jordan Kingsley to come in from behind. Huck’s up on the top turnbuckle, but Kingsley is holding onto his foot. Cyrus cuts him off and suplexes Huck off and follows it up with a Vader Bomb to pick the win up at 7:23.
3. Technical Excellence (Kyle Matthews and Chip Day) vs. Lethal Poison (Corey Hollis and Mikal Judas) (c) for the SHW Tag Titles
The crowd loves them some Technical Excellence. Hollis gets into it with some ringside fans. Day wants to know where the tag ropes are at? LP controls the early going on Day, but TE returns the favor on Hollis. Several momentum shifts happen, highlighted by Judas’s choke slamming Kyle onto Day. Day taking major heat. Day makes the tag to Kyle but Judas cuts him off rather quickly, Kyle takes the heat now. Kyle reveres Corey’s suplex attempt to start a hope spot. Day’s in and he’s using his feet in interesting ways to get Judas out of the ring. Day gets a near fall in on Hollis. Kyle and Day double team Judas, then Hollis. A Superplex by Day, then a splash by Kyle, Judas breaks it up. Judas double chokeslams Day and Kyle. Gunner Miller’s music plays and Judas leaves the ring and to the stage, no Miller. Kyle dropkicks Corey from behind into the turnbuckle and pins him at 16:47. The crowd erupts for the new SH Tag Champs: Technical Excellence. Judas is beyond pissed, proclaiming that Gunner’s a dead man.
4. Katalina Perez vs. “The Real Mean Girl” Dani Jordyn
Jordyn gets the hero’s welcome from the SH faithful. Perez grabs the Burn Book from where Jordyn left it and uses it to attack Perez. They are fighting at ringside, using the ring posts and guardrails against each other. They get into the ring and the match starts. Perez escapes Dani’s offence but uses the top rope to stop Dani. Dani almost school girl’s Perez. Both ladies are laid out after a mid-air hair pull collision. Dani’s on the attack and gets a near fall. Dani goes up top but Perez hits the ropes to send Dani crashing down. Dani recovers to nail Perez with a move to pick up the win at 7:12.
Music plays and it’s Reka Tehaka from AEW. She comes to the ring and has a stare down with Dani. Reka kicks Dani in the stomach and sends Dani crashing to the canvas with a modified Russian leg sweep.
5. “The Prince of Petty” Ashton Starr vs. Snoop Strikes
One of my many faults is that I tend to focus mostly on Georgia and surround area promotions and talents, so I really don’t know anything about Snoop. Starr starts the match by paint brushing Snoop and talking smack, Snoop takes him down. Snoop slips off the top rope but recovers nicely to do a rolling drop kick. Ah, to be that limber. Snoop has an interesting looking cross face locked in on Starr using Starr’s arms. Starr fires back and puts the heat on Snoop. Snoop gets Starr over with a pump handle fisherman’s suplex for a near fall. A Modified Cloverleaf by Starr and Snoop is forced to tap out at 9:29.
Starr asks for the mic and he rails on some of the front row spectators. Starr introduces his friend who will make SH outlandish: Zicky Dice. Dice makes his way to the ring, antagonizing the fans. Dice thanks Starr for the intro, saying he did a much better job than that bimbo. The crowd didn’t like that. Dice runs down crowd and says that he’s the biggest star that SH has ever seen, 220 days as TV champion at some place. Owen Knight’s music plays and we will head to the next match.
6. Zicky Dice (with Ashton Starr) vs. Owen Knight
Knight rushes the ring and attacks Dice. Dice had attacked Owen at the last show which set up this match. Dice has to bail from Knight’s offence and Starr comforts him. Owen topes on both of them. Knight is on fire on the outside, sending Dice into the barricades a couple of times. Dice hot shots Knight onto the barricade. Dice is using the turnbuckle to try to separate Knight’s shoulder. Dice distracts Ref Prater to allow Starr time to get some licks in on Knight. Dice keeps cutting Knight off. Knight gets his hope spot and is taking it to Dice, getting a near fall. Knight goes to the high rent district, but Starr gets up on the apron, jiggling the ropes to cause Knight to sit down uncomfortably. Dice takes advantage, landing a pop up stunner for a near fall. Starr sprays Knight in the face with the atomizer while Dice had prater distracted. Dice pins Knight at 11:21.
Starr and Dice are threatening some damage and AC Mack comes out to make the save. Knight wasn’t pleased that Mack had saved him as there’s some previous bad blood between those two.
Corey Hollis comes out to the ring, calling out Gunner Miller, saying that Hollis made Miller and Hollis can destroy him. Miller’s music plays but he doesn’t come out, but a video package plays from Gunner. He addresses what happened after the show after the backstage video ended which showed Hollis plotting against Miller but Miller was listening in. Miller says at the next show it will be a tag match with Lethal Poison against Miller and a partner of his choosing and his partner is in the building. Joe Black’s music hits and the crowd goes apeshit.
Black makes his way to the ring, Hollis attacks but Black sends him down with a monster suplex. Judas makes his way ringside and pulls Hollis out of the ring. They make their way to the back while Joe Black stands tall.
Intermission to set up the ring for the main event. One side of the ring will have one wall of a steel cage, the opposing side will be wrapped in barbed wire.
A video package plays highlighting how these four men got to this point.
7. Bunkhouse Brawl tag match between the teams of SH Champion, David Ali and Austin Towers vs. Fear (Logan Creed and Sunny Daze with Ravenna Vein)
Ali has his contingent of saved fans ringside. Fear attacks as soon as they enter the ring. I will go on the record in saying that there won’t be much tagging in or out in this match. Towers tastes the cage first. Ali wants no part of Creed. Vein prevents Ali’s escape to the back. Fear unloads some weapons, including a cinder block and an 8x4 plywood with barbed wire attached to it. Fear are out for blood and Towers is bleeding. Ali fires on Sunny with a kendo stick. Towers chokeslams Creed into a pile of thumbtacks and gets a near fall. Creed gets tossed into the ropes that are wrapped in wire. Creed has color. Vein is in the ring to unhook Creed. Towers has her and chokeslams her into the wired plywood. Crew members come out to try to get her out of the ring.
Sunny and Ali were fighting ringside on the far side of me so I didn’t see all of that action. Ali has a baseball bat wrapped in wire. Creed tosses Towers in the what was left of the plywood. 
Ali cowers away from Creed. Daze is bleeding. Creed and Daze both get choke slammed into the thumbtacks by Towers. Creed chokeslams Ali into the tacks. Daze dumps out more thumbtacks with bad intentions. Ali takes a choke slam/lariat combo onto the tacks. I’ve noticed several light tubes near the ring area, Daze brings them into the ring. Towers and Creed are up on the stage area, knocking each other down. Daze sets Ali on top of some tubes and backs up for a cannonball, but Ali moves out of the way. Ali’s fired up and punts Daze in the head. Ali’s calling for Towers, but Creed chokeslams Towers off the stage area, onto a table below. Creed’s in the ring and goozles Ali but Ali kicks low. Ali has the baseball bat and is teeing up on Creed. Ali has the cinder block now. Ali puts Creed’s head on the block and swings with the bat but Creed moves. Creed has Ali in a full Nelson, but Ali squirms out of the ring. Ali is running to the stage area, Creed follows. A table gets set up on the stage. Ali trying to fight back but no selling by Creed. Creed powerbombs Ali through the table and pins ali at 22:41. Creed stands tall on the stage, having gotten a measure of revenge on David Ali.
Ali cowers away from Creed. Daze is bleeding. Creed and Daze both get choke slammed into the thumbtacks by Towers. Creed chokeslams Ali into the tacks. Daze dumps out more thumbtacks with bad intentions. Ali takes a choke slam/lariat combo onto the tacks. I’ve noticed several light tubes near the ring area, Daze brings them into the ring. Towers and Creed are up on the stage area, knocking each other down. Daze sets Ali on top of some tubes and backs up for a cannonball, but Ali moves out of the way. Ali’s fired up and punts Daze in the head. Ali’s calling for Towers, but Creed chokeslams Towers off the stage area, onto a table below. Creed’s in the ring and goozles Ali but Ali kicks low. Ali has the baseball bat and is teeing up on Creed. Ali has the cinder block now. Ali puts Creed’s head on the block and swings with the bat but Creed moves. Creed has Ali in a full Nelson, but Ali squirms out of the ring. Ali is running to the stage area, Creed follows. A table gets set up on the stage. Ali trying to fight back but no selling by Creed. Creed powerbombs Ali through the table and pins ali at 22:41. Creed stands tall on the stage, having gotten a measure of revenge on David Ali.
Final Thoughts.
1. Top to bottom, SH’s best show of the year thus far, IMO.
2. Ali’s skin must be made of Teflon. All the tacks slid off of him.
3. The video sync between Hollis’s in ring promo and the video of Gunner was damn near perfect.
4. The is the Road Warrior pop and then there is the Joe Black pop.
5. As I mentioned, I really don’t know people who are if they don’t wrestle in Georgia.
6. That said, Snoop Strikes was impressive.
7. Ben Buchanan needs that one Jedi Temple scene for his character’s journey.
8. The crowd, late arriving or not, was into everything. When the music got to a certain point, you could almost see light bulbs turning on over people’s head that Joe Black was about to come out.
9. Nice touch adding a timer on the video screens for the matches.
10. Zicky Dice is….interesting.
My Three Stars of the night: 1. Everyone in the main event. You guys killed it. 2. Ashton Starr. He won his match and was instrumental in Dice’s victory. 3. Everyone involved with the Hollis/Miller promo. It totally rocked.
