Walker and Diggs obliterated Dorian with a double team move after the match to leave him laying.
Dorian is carrying himself with more confidence as a babyface and is notably more over with the fans than he was at the start of this feud. He's gone further as babyface than I though possible. Walker and Diggs have been good adds to the ProSouth roster.
Midas ranted and raved about the identity of the Super Chicken. Midas then accused Howell of being the Super Chicken. Howell's plausible deniability notwithstanding, Midas punched him in the mouth and out came our superhero Chicken to the rescue.
Midas' portrayal of a wrestler having mental breakdown has been awesome.
(2) Super Chicken defeated Tony Midas by DQ in 5:18. Midas brought a chair into the ring. Referee Santiago objected so Midas knocked him down. Santiago signaled fo the bell and snatched the chair out of Tony's hands. Midas dropped Super Chicken with a discus forearm and unmasked him but Chicken had a second mask on underneath. The Chicken gave Midas a codebreaker and escaped to the dressing room. Midas wandered aimlessly to the back in a daze.
No mat classic here but they kept it short and kept the "mystery" of the Chicken's identity intact.
(3) Nawfside Heroes (Jose Manuel & Shoota Gabe) defeated Supreme Metal (Tyrese Murphy & Roma Miller) to regain the ProSouth Tag Team Championship in 6:24. They picked up right where they left off last week with intense four way brawling and a series of dives thrown in to spice things up. Hardy returned to the booth claiming to have missed the last match due to intestinal issues from eating too many chili dogs at Huddle House on the hottest day of the summer. The two teams did consecutive dosey-do spots, then slugged it out until four went down. Miller did the slingshot sunset flip that won the Supreme Metal the championship but Gabe kicked out. Gabe gave Roma a falcon arrow and Nawfside finished him with a wheelbarrow/guillotine leg drop combo. Miller kicked out just after the three count. Momentary confusion as referee Santiago hesitated before declaring Nawfside as the winners.
Non-stop action. Pretty good stuff especially from Murphy. The screw up on the cost the title change the pop it deserved.
a post-match show of respect between the two teams was interrupted by the presence of Walker and Diggs on the ramp. While Walker ran his mouth on the mic, Diggs singlehandedly decimated all four men.
Oh hell yeah. ProSouth needed a heel tag team. Diggs and Walker will do just fine.
(4) Marcus Eriks defeated Bubba Cagle in 13:58 to retain possession of the Gold Rush briefcase. Cagle was a man on mission. He had something to prove. Eriks was getting smoked until he guillotined Cagle's throat on the bottom rope. Cagle was selling it big and Eriks stayed on it. Big near falls -- Cagle with a capture belly to belly suplex, Eriks taking Cagle's powerslam and hanging on for a near fall with an inside cradle, Eriks with a European uppercut off the top rope. Exhaustion was setting in as they traded big blows. Cagle had Eriks pinned with the TKO but Eriks put a foot over the bottom rope at two. Eriks blocked Time Paradox and tried to end it with his finisher. Cagle countered with an inside cradle for a close near fall. Eriks crushed Cagle with a sitout uranage and pinned him with Falling In Reverse.
They worked a hard pace in sweltering heat and had a high caliber match, easily Cagle's best match in a ProSouth ring since his return from knee surgery. His punches looked great and Eriks was selling them just right. Eriks has become one the most solid, consistent worker on the roster. Hardy's color commentary added a sports feel. Per the stipulation, Cagle will no longer interfere when Eriks' attempts to cash in the briefcase.
Gene Jackson introduced Violent Gentleman for the next match. Jackson claimed Charles Zanders was severely injured and confirmed he and VG would be gone from ProSouth if they lost the match.
(5) Shane Noles & Orion Bishop & Papa Marko (with Amy Haven) defeated Violent Gentlemen (Charles Zanders & Scott Morgan & Shane Mako) in 10:16. Jackson horned in on commentary and got in a cheap plug for the Cheap Heat podcast. Morgan and Mako took all the punishment and did all the work on offense as they isolated Noles. Double hot tags were made to Bishop and Marko. Morgan and Mako hit their moves and were too busy gloating to notice Bishop and Marko standing behind them. Bishop hit the Fire Thunder Driver on Morgan, Marko gave Mako a goozle STO. Zanders finally entered the match and got rolled up by Noles.
An anticlimactic end to a feud that was derailed by Ace Haven's seizure, scheduling snafus and a lack of positivity about the angle in certain corners. Bishop is a stud and was regarded as such in the match and on commentary. Jackson has been insufferable. I'm going to miss him. Unique characters are so difficult to come by in wrestling these days.
Aaron Dallas addresses his injury situation. Dallas had his right arm in a sling. Dallas said he suffered a separated AC joint last Sunday and the time frame for recovery was unknown. As Dallas was about to forfeit the title, Terry Yaki came to the ring. Yaki accused Dallas of making excuses and faking the injury to avoid defending the title against him. Dallas said he figured this is how it would go and agreed to the match.
(6) Terry Yaki defeated Aaron Dallas by count out to win the All-Out Championship in 1:41 (title changes on a count out under All Out rules). At the bell, Yaki superkicked Dallas who spilled over the top rope. Dallas was literally fighting with one arm. He tried to pick Yaki up but his arm gave out. Yaki ran Dallas' injured shoulder into the ring post. Writhing in agony, Dallas tried to pull himself into the ring but was unable to do so.
Dallas' display of burning desire was something else as he pulled a Cody Rhodes. But there was no way he could do a full-scale match with a separated shoulder. The way it played out definitely did good things for Yaki as a heel.
(7) The Unchained Match -- Dameon Ceretone defeated Jay Lucas and Brandon Whatley and JACS and Brother Azriel and Cameron Keast (with Harley Haven) to retain the ProSouth Championship in 28:31. Hardy explained the rules: Two competitors would wrestle one-on-one for the first five minutes with the other four wrestlers handcuffed to the corner posts. A new competitor would be unlocked every two minutes. Eliminations could occur by pinfall or submission at any time in the match and there would be no DQs. Howell said Whatley had experience in the Unchained match at GIPW. Noles was back in the booth for the main event.
Azriel started with Ceretone and got a healthy amount of offense against the champion. Whatley was the first be unlocked and immediately beat the living hell out of Lucas with the nunchucks while Lucas was still handcuffed to a ringpost. Lucas was uncuffed and taken to the dressing room. Not much time was left for the heels to beat on Ceretone before JACS was unlocked. JACS ran wild and made Azriel the first competitor to be eliminated with a swanton bomb at 8:21. Slim had a devil of a time unlocking Keast's handcuff. Keast was fidgeting like crazy and was unaware of JACS lying in wait with a superkick. Great spot. One of the refs handcuffed Harley to the post. JACS hit Code Red on Ceretone. Lucas was announced as the next to be unchained but had not returned to the ring. The heels (Keast and Whatley) took control of the match for a bit. With all four down, Eriks slid into the ring with the Gold Rush briefcase intent on cashing it in. But Whatley grabbed the case and tossed it out of the ring. Eriks got his ass kicked and headed back to the dressing room. Keast hit a knee strike on JACS for a great false finish before JACS eliminated him with the TGS at 17:23. Elimination did not stop Kast from nailing JACS with another knee. Ceretone kicked out of Whatley's Serpent Destruction but he was toast for a while. JACS went for the swanton bomb on Whatley, who rolled out of the way and pinned JACS with the scissors kick at 20:55. It was down to Ceretone and Whatley. When Ceretone kicked out of scissors kick, Whatley was beside himself and threatened referee Santiago. Whatley started to deliver the deadly Kawada kicks to Ceretone. At this point. Lucas slowly walked the ramp to the ring holding his back and neck. Whatley tried to cut Lucas off. Lucas met Whatley with a flurry of offense and pinned him with the double underhook piledriver at 24:41. Lucas went toe-to-toe with the champion. Ceretone was showing signs of exhaustion as Lucas blasted him with a clothesline for a close near fall. The crowd chanted "Dameon". Ceretone gave Lucas a death valley driver into the turnbuckle and onto his injured back. Lucas looked to be done but kicked out. Ceretone went for Sleep the Deep. Lucas countered with a roll up for a two count and tried for the double underhook piledriver. Ceretone escaped and hit Sleep to Deep to retain.
A great telling of stories here, the most compelling being the subplot between Whatley and Lucas. Loved the way it played out. Whatley beating Lucas up while he was still handcuffed was tremendous. I believe Whatley is having the best run of his career. Wished Lucas could have hit that finisher on Whatley more cleanly. The JACS story also had power. He showed great heart and scored two eliminations before being taken out The insertion of another failed cash in attempt by Eriks was was nice. So was Ceretone going all the way. A title change was not in the cards.
