The pieces are falling into place for ProSouth's next major show, Redemption on March 31.
Azriel won the Beat the Clock Challenge and will face Brandon Whatley for the ProSouth Championship at Redemption.
The stipulation for the YouTube title match between Champion Cameron Keast and Shean Christopher was finalized with a titillating added twist.
In a shocking conclusion to the episode, a masked man jumped Ace Haven and left him laying with a package piledriver. The man unmasked revealing Donne Primetime, the man who labeled himself "King of the South" during Haven's absence from the ring.
This episode had the best writing, the single best and worst promos and the poorest wrestling of any ProSouth show this year. The roster was thin. They had to stretch to get 90 minutes out of it. But elements of the show were entertaining and incredibly creative.
Commentary by Wicked Nemesis and Mathias Darkthorne. They do not suffer fools gladly. Lewis Santiago and Troy Fortenberry were the referees. The ring announcing duties were shared by James Hardy and Chris Kamikaze?!?
(1) Caeden Ooten (with Harley Haven) defeated Dorian to earn an All-Out Championship match (9:16). Dorian tried for the spear. Ooten was ready for it and used Dorian's momentum to send his head into the YouTube belt being held up by Harley. Ooten stacked Dorian up for the three count.
Working with Nawfside Heroes brought out the best in Ooten. This overly long match did not. Dorian is leading a charmed life. Hasn't won a match but he received a Beat The Clock Challenge match last week and an All-Out Championship number one contender's match this week. He must have something on the booker.
Dameon Ceretone addressed his attack on Roma Miller...then there was more. Ceretone came to the ring with a dramatically different look than a week ago. As a form of apology for his attack on Miller last week, Ceretone said he was giving Roma his mandatory title rematch with Brandon Whatley next week. But going forward he would not accept disrespect.
The lights went out. JMO's music hit. JMO and Hot Lips Farley made their way into the ring after distributing those infernal glow sticks to the fans. JMO addressed Ceretone as "Delicious Dameon". He said the party just getting started. Farley put a black feather boa around Ceretone's neck. Ceretone politely placed the boa back around Farley's neck and decked her with a forearm in the face. He did the same to JMO and stomped on his head into oblivion. JMO and Farley were both out cold. Ceretone talked directly to the camera without the mic saying "that didn't need to happen."
Ceretone's fragile mental state was on full display. The new look is a good fit. JMO and Farley won me over with this segment. Anyone that would call Dameon delicious is OK in my book. The forearm Farley ate looked like no joke. Neither did those stomps to the head. They sold like pros.
(2) Chris Kamikaze took the lead in the Beat The Clock Challenge by defeating JMO in 2:50. Kamikaze covered JMO who was still lifeless on the mat. However, Referee Santiago refused to start the match until JMO was on his feet. Kamikaze demanded and got another referee. Problem was Cowboy Troy also refused to start the match until JMO was standing. Finallly, JMO made it to his feet. After kicking out of Kamikaze's Lionsault, JMO had the crowd getting behind him. JMO fired up and tried for a corner splash but came up empty. Kamikaze hit the 450 for the win.
The deal with Kamikaze trying to get JMO up to start the match was tremendous. And they legitimized the authority of their referees in the process. And we got the first post-suspension interaction between Santiago and Kamikaze.
Kamikaze took over the ring announcing duties.
Kamikaze is gold. Having him stick around to ring to emcee the proceedings was a small stroke of genius.
(3) Christian Garrett (with Harley Haven) defeated James Hardy in a Beat The Clock Challenge match but could not beat Kamikaze's time (3:04). Hardy was looking for the Eviscerator as the time wound down. Kamikaze grabbed his leg. The time expired as Hardy bitched at Kamkaze. Garrett then pinned Hardy with a pumphandle suplex.
It was competitive and they wrestled with urgency. Not saying it was good.
ProSouth Champion Brandon Whatley laughed it up at Hardy's expense. Whatley was in stitches as he came to the ring. He stood over the hapless Hardy laughing so uncontrollably he could barely get any words out about the ridiulousness of Hardy wanting a title match.
The segments with Hardy the last two weeks has given Whatley a chance to show he can be just sadistic on the mic as he is in the ring. Hardy has been so thoroughly humiliated, there has to be some form of comeuppance coming Whatley's way.
(4) Brother Azriel defeated "American Ninja" Ryan Dodson in 57 seconds to win the Beat The Clock Challenge. Johnson launched an all out assault at the opening bell. Azriel shrugged it off and calmly stepped away from Dodson's springboard move. As Azriel set up for the Woodgrain (piledriver), Kamikaze hit the ring. Azriel backdropped Kamikaze and hit the piledriver.
Azriel's cool, calm and collected manner about the whole thing was awesome.
James Hardy's introduction of the main event was interrupted by Morgan Penfield and Jabari Jones. Penfield crowed about booted Marcus Eriks in the head and out of ProSouth. He claimed Jones was the future.
Horrible just horrible. Penfield couldn't even get Eriks' name right. The one positive about this atrocity was Penfield's booming voice on the mic. Everything he said could be heard, which come to think of it, wasn't a positive at all.
(5) Aaron Dallas defeated Caeden Ooten (with Harley Haven & Christian Garrett) to retain the All-Out Championship in 11:25. Dallas had his way with Ooten until guess what? Harley interfered. Ooten stayed on his man, the highight being a gut squishing shotgun dropkick in the corner. Ootten kicked out of a spinebuster so Dallas hoisted Ooten onto his shoulder for the AAD. That was Harley's cue to get on the apron. Santiago came to ringside to check Harley. While both refs were dealing with Harley, Garrett got in the ring and clearly intended to slingblade Ooten but nothing append. They redid the spot. Dallas ducked this time and Garrett took Ooten down. Dallas gave both Kids the Steel Toe and stacked them up for the pin.
Ooten in 20 minutes of singles action in one show did him no favors. The unintentional botch of the intentionally botched spot was hilarious.
King's Court in session featuring Ace Haven, Amy Haven, Shean Christopher (with Ravenna Vein) and Cameron Keast (with Harley Haven). Amy said they had a dilemma about the stipulation. Would it be a tables match as Christopher wanted or a ladder match as Keast wanted? The crowd chanted the obvious answer. Ace cut to the chase and officially it would be a TLC match.
Keast had plenty to say.
--- Of course Ace was going to go with what the crowd wanted, not with the guy who had been there for almost seven years. Christopher might think this was his redemption arc to make up for the all the crap that had happened to him in the last few years but it was actually another chapter in The Book of Keast. He'd watched so many flavors of the month come in and it always ended the same way. Keast was still there. Keast was ProSouth.
-- He was being villiainized for using his Kids to get ahead. He was aware he was YouTube Champion because of his kids and that was why he loved every slngle one of them.
-- He wanted the ladder match because he was the one who forever climbed the ProSouth ladder to grab the imaginary brass ring just to watch Ace's new favorite come in. But that was all going to change when he remained the YouTube Champion.
-- When Christopher looked at the ring, he saw a mat, three ropes and four posts, while Keast saw a chessboard and he moved all of his pieces where he needed them to keep Christopher in checkmate and possibly take his queen.
-- He was putting up his YouTube Championship, Christopher was putting up nothing so he had a proposal that Shean might call an indecent proposal. What if he not only got to keep the title when he climbed the ladder? What if he also found a Tragic Queen? (as he leered at a repulsed Ravenna Vein). He couldn't become a king without a queen and he had to admit it was hard being a single father raising three kids. He could offer Ravenna protection from the things that happened to her since she came to ProSouth. She could enjoy the kingdom he had created as they crafted their world FOREVER.
This was a phenomenal promo that checked all the boxes. There were undeniable truths to the story he told about his career at ProSouth. He hyped the match in the process and gave a plausible explanation, albeit an evil and delusional one, for the added stipulation. And he delivered it wrapped in provocative imagery and clever lines. Vein didn't need to say a word. Her facial expressions said it all.
Ace said Christopher had earned the match and didn't have to accept the stipulation. Christopher was seething. He was fine with it because Keast didn't have a chance in hell. Christopher bull rushed Keast, They went down in a tangled heap and spilled out the ring. Christopher was kicked and pounded on Keast. Harley tried to hit Christopher. Vein grabbed Harley. Amy stepped between them. Ace was furious.
A masked man attacked Ace and laid him out with a package piledriver. The man unmasked revealing Primetime just as the livestream ended.
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