It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be scary. It's gonna be violent. But most importantly, it's gonna be weird.
-- Cameron Keast
From Larry Goodman:
Day of Reckoning was the final stop on the road to Wicked Havoc. The build for Halloween night has received the most TLC of any ProSouth major event this year.
80s Memphis wrestling intersects wildly out of the box angles here. Witness the hair vs. hair match added to Wicked Havoc, wherein super bald Scott Adams has to wear a wig if he loses.
A casket match has also been thrown in the mix (Eric Silva vs. Caeden Ooten). Hey, why not? It's Halloween and ProSouth always has a casket on hand.
The Ravana Xin/Tony Midas/Leon Ruffin video on this episode is slapstick comedy gold. Xin squares off with her brother-in-law Ruffin at Wicked Havoc in what promises to be a bizarre encounter.
Joe Black vs. Brother Azriel in a steel cage and Ace Haven vs. Alexander Lev will headline.
Incidentally, the tag team championship changed hands. Bloodborn dethroned Karmegeddon. That figured to happen at some point but not the week before a major show.
Wicked Nemesis, celebrating his 46th birthday and Mathias Darkthorne doing triple duty (commentator, ring announcer and manager) was the broadcast team. T Bird was the one and only referee. Jessie was the ringside videographer.
Before the opening video rolled, they cut a shot the seating area of the arena where ProSouth Champion Scott Spade was mangling the right arm of Ayden Andrews, his advertised opponent in the main event.
The cold open was an attention grabber and totally out of the norm for ProSouth. The sadistic side of Scott Spade was in full view. The segment added a layer of intrigue to the main event.
(1) Bloodborn (Alexander Lincoln & Joe Wood) defeated Karmageddon (Bubba Cagle & DRP with Scott Adams) to win the ProSouth Tag Team Championship in 7:39. Before the match, Adams said Karmageddon would love to defend the title but the belts had been stolen. Ace came to the ring carrying twin belts bags. Ace said he was sick of champions and title that were not there so he got the belts back from Golden Class. "Congratulations, champs. Good luck."
Bloodborn didn't wait for the bell. Early on, Lincoln sidewalk slammed Cagle. Wood headbutted Cagle to spoil his Fear Factor 85. Adams interfered and Karmageddon went to work on Wood's arm. Cagle objected to DRP using his move. Lincoln pulled the ropes down to spill Cagle onto Adams. Bloodborn killed DRP with a double team power slam.
The suddeness of the finish was fantastic. They lulled the viewers into thinking the match was standard heel title defense and BOOM. Bloodborn's new finisher looked great. Their postmatch celebration went a long way to rehabbing the tag team championship and making it feel important again.
Julius Pryor said AJ's doctor excused him from wrestling him but AJ was able to wrestle so Pryor was going to give him an opponent.
(2) AJ Black defeated Sean Nelson in 6:11. Nelson was windmilling AJ with punches. AJ fired back with a jumping neckbreaker, bigtime chops and punches and a lariat. Nelson hit the Moonshine Driver (spinning back suplex and yeah, that name was another Wicked invention). They went back and forth with pin attempts until Black scored the pinfall with a handful of tights and a foot on the ropes. Just one problem: both forms of cheating were in plain view of referee T-Bird.
T-Bird knew he screwed up the instant his hand hit the mat for third time. This mercenary character is another aspect of Sean Nelson who is having a great 2025. The crossover between ProSouth and Premier is paying dividends for both promotions.
AJ sat down on the ramp and smugly pointed at his brain. Trey Jordan sneaked up behind him. Jordan planted AJ on the ramp with a sambo suplex. Pryor pulled out a wad of cash and handed it to Jordan. Jordan promptly choke slammed Pryor on the ring apron. Jordan stopped to strip AJ of his payoff on his way to the back. Pryor was furious and left holding his taped up shoulder.
Quite the unexpected push for Jordan. He outsmarted AJ and Pryor and laid them out. AJ's facial expression upon realizing Jordan was breathing down his neck was tremendous.
Cameron Keast promo. Of Christian Garrett, Keast said this: "Yet again, someone from my past has tried to make me release that inner evil and I'm going to enjoy this one." BUT Keast didn't want to reclaim the All-Out Championship until Justin McKenzie got a fair shot first.
Keast called out "The Scott Almighty" Scott Adams to present him with quite the weird proposition. Keast challenged Adams to a hair vs. hair match at Wicked Havoc. Adams said he obviously had nothing to lose, the match was almost a gift so he was in. Keast said the match wasn't about what Adams had to lose, it was about what was going to be given to him. If Adams lost, he would be forced to wear a wig.
Keast said it dawned on him that simply beating Adams up hadn't worked. He was still a wart on the ass of ProSouth. Keast was going to embarrass Adams and was still going to hurt him.
Keast said back in the days of The Tragic Prince and Kids of Keast, he didn't have a Psycho Cam. That is where Psycho Cam came from. "Psycho Cam is a psycho. I am a monster." Beating Adams until he couldn't move but that wasn't intimate enough. Keast wanted to look Adams in the eye and watch his confidence turn to doubt then to fear and the fear become agony. Cam whispered "it's gonna be weird" into Adams' ear and kissed him on the head.
A blow away promo from the darkest corner of Keast's twisted mind. The man belongs on a stage more so than in a wrestling ring.
New All-Out Champion Christian Garrett joined Adams in the ring and told the ProSouth fans they didn't deserve an explanation for his actions last week.
(3) Christian Garrett (with AlmightyScott Adams) defeated Justin McKenzie via DQ to retain the All-Out Championship in 4:27. DRP entered the ring with the title and clobbered Garrett with the belt. Garrett was pissed. Wicked made the point that under All-Out rules if DRP had hit McKenzie, Garrett would have lost the title, so Garrett should be thanking DRP for saving his championship.
If the DQ was the grand plan Karmageddon had hatched to keep the title, they in no way acknowledged their brilliance after the match.
(4) Steven Calozzi & Caeden Ooten (with Harley Haven) defeated Whipass Path (Christian Pierce & Eric Silva with Mathias Darkthorne) in 9:56. Pierce and Silva were kicking ass until Ooten harpooned Silva to gain a short-lived advantage. Pierce frog splashed Calozzi and fought off Loaded Gun Complex from Ooten. Pierce had Calozzi locked in a boston crab when he ate a Superman punch from C. Calozzi Ooten severely punished Pierce.
Ooten held Pierce so Calozzi could treat Pierce like he was heavy bag. Calozzi got preoccupied with taunting Silva. Pierce threw Calozzi into Ooten and made the tag. Calozzi's blows were having no impact on Silva. A Hellplex by Silva had a devastating impact on Calozzi. Whipass Path was looking to finish Calozzi with a Once Bitten/Collateral Damage combo. But the heels caused Pierce to end up on the receiving end of Collateral Damage and Calozzi swooped in to cover for the three count.
This was a good match involving three skilled wrestlers and one great character. Calozzi can brawl and his weaknesses are more easily hidden in a tag. The finish was a nifty reversal of the outcome of the encounter these four had on last week's show.
Darkthorne said enjoy it while you can. Somebody wrote a W next to your name on a piece of paper. Real victory was putting your opponent away so he can't get back up. So how about Silva makes sure Ooten can't get back up by putting him in casket at Wicked Havoc?
Silva is a spooky character so good he's got a match on Halloween. Darkthorne had to do some verbal jiu jitsu to make the casket match with Oooten plausible. What about Pierce and Calozzi?
Ravana Xin video. Xin was standing by the road with a pie. Xin said she had peace offering for Leon Ruffin and had enlisted the help of someone ProSouth fans may know. Tony Midas pulled up playing his own theme music. Midas said he would let Xin by him a rib dinner and see where the night took them. Xin was dumbfounded by Midas' cluelessness. Midas showed off his bicep while he drove to Ruffin's house and was not deterred from scoring with Xin.
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Midas went to the side door with the camera. Ruffin was there with Aja (WWE referee Daphanie LaShaunn) and her parents. Ruffin was happy to see an old friend from A4. Xin smashed a pie into Ruffin's face and started wailing on him. Dad started to get in Xin's face. Xin whacked dad over the head with a book. Mom and Aja were screaming at her. She fired a pie into Aja's face. Mom tried to calm Xin down. Xin smushed whip cream into the face of the dog mom was carrying. His face covered in whip cream, Ruffin stumbled out of the house as Xin drove off in Tony's car. Midas was left behind holding the camera. "Hey Ruff, man to man, do you think I have a shot?"
Uproariously funny. The pie-faces were bullseyes. Ruffin sold his pic face like a champion. The parents, the dog, all the details were great. Midas' role was right up his alley and he was tremendous.
Amy Haven was with Ace Haven in the backstage interview area. Ace said they didn't have a main event. The fans came to see people fight and he had unfinished business with Spade. The camera followed Ace and Amy into the arena.
Spade jumped Ace from behind. Spade gave Ace a beating. Andrews charged into the ring with a gnarly bruise on his right arm. Spade went after the arm. The babyface side of the locker room hit the the ring to separate them. As Darkthorne started to introduce the match, Karmageddon attacked the babyfaces. The music of the number one contender for the ProSouth Championship hit. The action ground to a halt as Brother Azriel made his way to the commentation station.
Loved the tracking shot from the interview area to the ring. Darkthorne introduced Andrews as "being strangled in the corner".
(5) Scott Spade defeated Ayden Andrews to retain the ProSouth Championship in 10:54. Right at the bell, Andrews got a two count with Nail In The Coffin. Before Andrews could stomp his head again, Spade dipped out and yanked Andrews to the floor by his arm. Andrews was clutching at his right shoulder in agony. Spade attacked the shoulder with a vengeance. Andrews chopped Spade with his left arm. He tried to hoist Spade into position for a powerbomb but couldn't pull it off. Andrews powered out of Spades' crossface and into a one-armed Ushigiroshi. Andrews threw some right hands despite the pain. Spade cut Andrews off with a dropkick. Spade gave Andrews a single arm DDT and prepared to Pillmanize Ayden's arm with a top rope elbow. Ace dumped Spade off the top rope and Spade landed on top of the ref. Ace jumped in the ring with a cutter for Spade. Karmegeddon attacked Ace. Chosen Ones had Ace's back. Bloodborn joined the fight. T-Bird finally got his wits together and ejected all of the interlopers. Andrews tried and failed to get Spade up for a brainbuster. Spade dropped Andrews with a stunner and finished him off with the Copenhagen Kick.
The sadistic side of Spade was on full display. The bruise on Andrews' right shoulder was no joke. To the extent Andrews was exaggerating the injury, that was some awesome selling. The outside interference only served to water down the drama.
