Blood and Honey Series II -- Atlanta on November 17

Photos by Ben Zani From Larry Goodman: Nothing like deathmatch wrestling outdoors on a Sunday night featuring the Atlanta debut of one of th...

Photos by Ben Zani

From Larry Goodman:

Nothing like deathmatch wrestling outdoors on a Sunday night featuring the Atlanta debut of one of the gods of deathmatch wrestling, John Wayne Murdoch.

47 years ago this week, I moved to this then lovely city. My first apartment was at 1088 North Avenue, kitty corner to Manuel's Tavern and a stone's throw from Monk's Meadery. There was no place I would rather have been. 

Bloody & Honey II felt more professional than the debut show last month.  I like the crew  Nathan Mowery has assembled: Carmen Michael and Rob Weathers on live commentary, Don Miguel as ring announcer, Anthony Rivera was the senior official, Mekahla Peterson and Impak Palmer doing the camerawork. 

Attendance at Monk's Meadery was slightly better than the October, maybe 70 at its peak with a few freeloaders watching from Manuel's parking lot. 

See before an after photos of the main event below.

Matt Griffin opened the show berating the crowd as degenerate inbreds out to destroy legit pro wrestling in Atlanta. Lindsay Snow hit the ring. Griffin took a powder.

(1) Lindsay Snow (with Ayla Fox) defeated Lizzy Blair (with Payton Blair in 6-7 minutes. Lindsay Snow gave the performance of the night.  Lizzy was getting the shit beaten out of her until Payton interfered.  Lizzy pounded a gusset plate into Snow's temple. Snow got the most glorious color. A clash of cookie sheets cracked like thunder. Lizzy bled from a gusset plate being stuck in her head.  Payton interfered again but this time, Ayla cut her off with a slingblade. Snow jabbed metal spikes into the top of Lizzy's head and tapped her out with a crossface.  

Dominic Stuckey appeared unannounced and rid the ring of any and all deathmatch implements. Said the fans were cavemen paying money to watch garbage. Stuckey claimed to be a benevolent God and invited any one to beat him in a real wrestling match. The crowd, a quick-witted, fun group of misfits, engaged Dom in witty repartee.  

 (2) Dominic Stuckey defeated Zamir Zuriel in 4:42. The people were hating on Stuckey. He stripped down to amateur gear the better to stretch Zuriel, who seemed too pure and innocent for this deathmatch stuff. Stuckey asked the people why they were cheering for Pepe Le Pew which got a "Pepe" chant. Zuriel got a close near fall so Stuckey gave him a low blow and pinned him with package piledriver. 

Griffin said death match wrestling sucks  and shook hands with Stuckey. They were about to dump Zuriel over the top rope onto the pavement when CJ Lawler saved Zuriel's life. Griffin wasted Lawler with a kendo stick and Stuckey laid Lawler out with a package piledriver. Griffin laid into Lawler with one last kendo stick shot. Lawler was dead. Griffin laid out Selena Cyanide as well. Nothing about this was pretty. Griffin said his first death match would be against  Lawler on December 29 and it would be a dumpster match. 

(3) Shean Christopher & Ravenna Vein defeated Terry Yaki & Jazzy Yang in an elimination doors match (8:02). Also a couples match. Jarring seeing Yaki with shorter hair but it looks good on him. Crowd pointed out two out out the three doors were substandard. Ravenna took a gnarly bump onto the concrete. Yaki and Yang kissed and set up the a door spot on Christopher. Ravenna moved the door to save Shean. Christopher tiger bombed Yaki. Jazzy saved him. Christopher got kicked in the groin and Yaki put him through door #1. Yaki accidentally speared Jazzy through door #2. Vein put Yaki through the full size door to win the match. I wasn't fired up about seeing any these people bleed and was glad they didn't.

Spectre cracked the newlyweds with chair shots and laid Christopher out with Screamarama, which got as big a reaction as many of the weapon spots. Spectre said he had Christopher beaten last time until that vampire bitch interfered in their match so he wanted her one-on-one against a real man in barbed wire match on December 29. Vein said fine Christopher was kidnapped and dragged behind a fence. Nothing I hate worse than a phony kidnapping angle. I already have all I can take of those with ProSouth.

That's a Christmas ornament bat in the foreground of the photo above as the Hardcore Hillbilly prepares to do battle.

(4) Hardcore Hillbilly defeated Sunny Daze in a Home Run Derby Match (6:22). Perverse even by death match standards and hugely entertaining. Daze swung for the fences with barbed wire bat. Hillbilly spilled out to the concrete landing with a sick thud. Daze wailed on Hillbilly with a tack bat and a bat coated with mouse traps. Hillbilly's back was all sliced up from the barbed wire. Hillbilly made two mighty attempts to drive Daze through a door with cannonballs. Hillbilly gave up on that and  put Daze under the door. He tried to bust the door again with a senton splash that had zero chance of getting the job done. Daze hammered a gusset plate into Hillbilly's head and hit a gusher. Blood everywhere, Referee John Ellington got squashed. The crowd got behind Hillbilly. Daze went for a chairshot and kabonged himself in the had as the chair rebounded off the ropes. Hillbilly added a whack with the firecracker bat for the three count. 

(5) John Wayne Murdoch defeated Nathan Mowery in 9:04. Crowd was hyped for this, chanting "Blood and Honey" at the jump. Mowery got off to fast start busting two tube bundles on Murdoch. He headbutted a gusset plate into Murdoch to get the juice to really flow. Mowery took a hacksaw to Murdoch's head to get a "you sick fuck" chant, kind of equivalent to a "this is awesome" chant in a standard pro wrestling match.  Murdoch exploded a tube bundle on Mowery with a suplex. A fire chair spot messed up. Mowery threw a flaming t-shirt at Murdoch which ended up draped from the ropes. Murdoch threw Mowery into the last of the four tube bundles propped in the corners before the match. Murdoch gnawed on one of the broken light tubes. Murdoch made creative use of a knifes on Mowery's forehead, ear and nose. 

Murdoch tried to superplex Mowery into the pile of tube wreckage. That came up a little short so he used a piledriver instead. Mowery kicked out of the pin. On their knees, they bashed each in head with light tube after light tube. Shrapnel was flying into the crowd and they kicked up a cloud of light tube dust. Mowery busted a tube bundle over Murdoch's head and almost pinned him with a swinging neckbreaker.

For the finish...Mowery doused a chair with lighter fluid. The crowd broke into an "Arson" chant. Murdoch gave Mowery a low blow and suplexed him onto the fire chair to score the pin. Mowery's shirt caught fire but the pin extinguished it. 

Postmatch: Murdoch said Drake Younger could suck his fucking dick because he was the best in deathmatch wrestling. 

Stuckey (with Griffin) jumped Mowery and gave his a curbstomp into the light tube trashpile.  "Terrible human" a fan blurted out. I think I figured out why this tickled me so much but I'll not get into that here.

Stuckey said he had Mowery beaten at his own game at the first show if not for Mowery's manager (Bombshell). Dom challenged Mowery to a 3 Stage of Hell match for the December show. Stuckey would choose the first two stages and if Mowery survived those, he got to choose the third. Stuckey stomped Mowery into the tube trash again. 

The crowd was chanting for Nathan as the show came to a close.

NOTES: Jimmy Yang, Keelin Cole, Nikki Heat, Nawfside Heroes and Dante Darko were on hand for all the fun...Rob Weathers said he held the use curse word  down to a dull roar. I will believe that when I watch the video.  Michaels' car gave up the ghost after God knows how many miles and he now has a minivan he can sleep in on the road...Michaels and Weather are shooting on being the commentary team for an even dozen promotion in 2024...Deep South Wrestling commentator Nathan Hamilton seemed to be delighted by the show. We both made our way over the Monk's Meadery from DSW show at New Realm Brewing. A report on that show will be forthcoming.