From Larry Goodman:
Classic City Wrestling returned to Macon for their second event at the historic Capitol Theater. Their first show in Macon was good. This was one was better.
Attendance was around 200, same as for the first Macon event This show had the same brisk pacing (run time 2:30) of that magical CCW show at the 40 Watt Club two weeks ago. What it didn't have was the 40 Watt crowd. Don't get me wrong, the crowd at Capitol Theater was loud all night and reacted strongly to every match, though they did tail off a bit towards the end. The 40 Watt crowd is a species of wrestling fan I have not encountered anywhere else in Georgia.
If you wanted to see great in ring wrestling, this show had it. Terry Yaki and Najasism knocked it out of the park. Owen Knight vs. Rico Gonzalez and Exotic Youth vs. Buff and Fluff Connection gave them a run for their money in so far as stealing the show.
Musical guest, country artist Kimberly Morgan York opened. Really good stuff and the Capitol Theater has fantastic acoustics.
(1) Matt Sells & Aaron Dallas & Dave Stage defeated Ashton Starr & Zamir Zuriel & Nathaniel Vanderbilt (with Rose Gold) in 6:55. Sells did that disturbing Sheepherders walk to mess with Vanderbilt's mind. Vandy cheated from the outside. The heels isolated Dallas. Stage cleaned house to set the stage for the finish. Sells made a blind tag and caught Vanderbilt by surprise. Stunner, palm strike, 1-2-3.Vanderbilt took one of the best bumps for a palm strike you'd ever want to see. Worked great for an opening match. The Macon crowd ate it up.
(2) Rose Gold (with Nathaniel Vanderbilt) defeated Nikki Heat in 6:45. Mediocre at best. The crowd went with it and Gold knows how to get heat. Vanderbilt got in Heat's face on the outside. Gold capitalized with a choke slam on the ring frame. A beating ensued. Heat used a cross armbreaker during her comeback. As Heat tried to hoist Gold onto her back, Gold slipped away and pinned Heat with feet on the ropes.
Kimberly Morgan York's next song was interrupted by Exotic Youth in the form of Zach Mosley and Cornelius Pepperbottom. Mosley said Macon deserved better. Pepperbottom did the worst rendition of LIttle Richard's "Tutti Frutti" imaginable. Buff and Fluff Connection (Sean Legacy & Cornelius Pepperbottom) entered from the front door. EY didn't see them get in the ring behind them. They brawled. EY bailed. The main event was made. By the numbers and it worked perfectly fine.
(3) No Good Bastards (Dominic Stuckey & Duncan Mitchell Avecilla with Desmond Chastain) defeated Nawfside Heroes (Jose Manuel & Shoota Gabe with Chayn Male) at 4:10 of overtime after the match ended in a no contest. Good match. Manuel popped the crowd with a crazy flip dive off the turnbuckle. Stuckey did a plancha off upper level rail. Stuckey knocked Manuel's goggles off by sending him face first into the turnbuckles to start the heat. Cole Taylor made a 10 minutes gone call at the eight minute mark and time calls every minute thereafter. Gabe took the hot tag with 2 minutes to go. Nawfside was on the verge of winning when that POS Chastain spilled Manuel over the top rope and speared Chayn Male. Manuel was still managed to make a last split second save for Gabe. With the final seconds counting down, DMA and Manuel both had submissions applied and Gabe and Stuckey tapped simultaneously.
Of course, the crowd wanted the teams to fight it out. Emcee Cole Taylor said the CCW Board of Directors (oh really?) ordered that there must be a decision and a 5 minute overtime period. Again, the time was winding down when Chastain interfered, allowing Stuckey to give Manuel a standing sliced bread onto backstabber from DMA.
The time calls was a nice piece of business that increased the excitement and drama.
(4) Najasism (with DJ Smoke) defeated Terry Yaki via ref stoppage in 15:44. Naja turned heel at the last Athens show and The Hoochie Daddy was in full flamboyance mode tonight. Naja said this was the largest crowd to ever smell the band in this venue and ran down the city of Macon. The crowd heaped hatred upon him.
Crowd was loving Yaki. He broke out a Fargo strut and a pair of tijeras that wowed the crowd. Smoke made his presence felt and the match was pretty much two against one the rest of the way. At one point, Smoke gave Yaki a backbreaker on a chair while Naja distracted the ref. Naja hit a standing Spanish fly and went on a roll. He stuffed Yaki's tornado DDT with a suplex into the turnbuckles and followed up with a Gori Bomb. Moments later, Naja dropped Yaki on his neck with a high angle german suplex. Yaki's turn -- springboard missile dropkick, flip dive onto Smoke and an Asai moonsault. Move of the match was Yaki's slingshot kitty corner onto another top rope into a springboard piledriver. Insane. Yaki activated the Yaki Driver but Smoke distracted the ref so Naja could rake the eyes. Smoke KOed Yaki with a chain. Naja applied a sharpshooter. Yaki was out cold and the ref stopped the match.
This match ruled. It had heat to burn thanks to Naja. Yaki is the most creative flier to come out of Georgia since AR Fox.
(5) Owen Knight defeated Rico Gonzalez to retain the CCW Championship in 15:30. This match was quite a change of pace from what had come before. Crowd wasn't familiar with Rico but he got over like he does everywhere he goes. Babyface/babyface, CCW OG vs. CCW OG. They wrestled and traded chops. Rico started to fly. Knight had his apron double stomp scouted. They got into an electrifying back and forth struggle that engaged the crowd in the match at a whole new level, ending in a Rico suplex that left both men down. Knight took shots at the Clock Out but Rico escaped both times. Rico hit a double stomp from the turnbuckles to the stage. He got Knight back into the ring and covered but Knight kicked out. Rico tried for a twisting springboard crossbody. Knight caught him and planted him with the Clock Out to retain.
After the match, Knight put Rico over on the mic. Said he wanted this match because people said Rico was next up and they were right. Knight then went live on CCW social media to say he would defending the CCW Championship in a open challenge to any wrestler from any promotion.
(6) Buff and Fluff Connection (Sean Legacy & Cody Fluffman) defeated Exotic Youth (Zach Mosley & Cornelius Pepperbottom) in 17:30. Match opened with a four way brawl won by Buff and Fluff. Buff and Fluff did the Fluffman ass of mass destruciton spots and Fluff did the steamroller. Fluffman was over from the first Macon show. Legacy was over as soon as the crowd saw what he could do (a picture perfect standing moonsault). EY isolated Legacy...fast forward through sketchy notes...Mosley was in trouble but Pepps came to rescue. Pepps dropkicked Fluffman off the apron into a ringside seat. Great back and forth beween Mosley and Legacy here. Legacy caused Mosley to crotch Pepps on the top rope and Legacy gave Pepps the same insane moonsault fallaway slam he pulled off in Athens. Fluffman speared Mosley. Looked like Buff and Fluff had it in the bag but they screwed up. Legacy inadvertently caught Fluff with the springboard cutter. The ref got knocked down. The finish was supposed to involve an exposed turnbuckle. Try as they might, EY could not get the damn turnbuckle pad cut off. Didn't have the right cutting tool evidently. They improvised. Mosley gave Legacy a dragon suplex and had him pinned with a curbstomp. Legacy kicked out but Mosley was the victim of a slow count. A back and forth between Mosley and Legacy culminated in a victory roll by Legacy for the win.
A very entertaining match. Fast and furious action with Legacy vs. Mosley providing the athletic highlights. They came up with an effective finish, the turnbuckle snafu notwithstanding.
Legacy thanked the crowd for their support to close the show.
NOTES: CCW's next show is back in Athens at the 40 Watt Club on July...Bryce Cannon was in the crowd on crutches as he's one month past keen surgery and recovering well...AC Mack was in the house in support of you know who...Anthony Rivera and Richard Buznego were the referee...The show taped for IWTV with the CCW announce team of Specte and Josh Deal.
