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From Larry Goodman:
You talk about doing things the Georgia way. What's that? At the end of the night when we dip out and don't pay anybody? Or is the Georgia way when we book a bunch of adulterers and racists on a flier and parade them around like it's OK. That's the Georgia way.
-- Ace Haven
The expansion of the talent roster is giving Ace Haven and company room to be more ambitious. This show was packed with content. Creative is working overtime. The stories are cooking.
The mic work on was the main attraction outside of a banger of a teacher/student match in the main event.
Alexander Lev sent in a video. In an eviscerating in ring promo, Ace declared war on Georgia as part of the build for his match at Wicked Havoc. Then this happened at Premier last night.
Southern Honor Wrestling, Premier All-Star Wrestling and New Era Wrestling were all mentioned during the course of the show.
Joe Black (c) vs. Justin McKenzie for the SHW Championship is on the card for next week. Two additional matches were set up and announced during this episode: Christian Pierce challenging Scott Spade for the ProSouth Championship and Julius Pryor vs. AJ Black in a match up of two former All-Out Champions.
Wicked Nemesis was in the booth murdering his thirst alongside Mathias Darkthorne doing triple duty - commentator, manager and ring announcer. Jeremy Blackstone, Joseph Void and T-Bird were the referees. The wizard of the rover camera, Katie Lindsey was the ringside videographer.
'Sleazy C" Caeden Ooten's Pillow Talk with special guest Eric Silva. Harley Haven was out there holding a teddy bear and looking lovely but never said a word.
C recalled watching Left Hand Path as a fan in the old building and being a little scared but LHP had fallen off. They were down to two members at ProSouth and it seemed as though their people were taking that right hand path out the door to another show, so why was Silva still there?
Silva gave Ooten props -- standout football player, three-time ProSouth Champion, the boss' daughter on his arm. Ooten alluded to being afraid of the LHP but he didn't say why. Silva recalled a boyhood Caeden Ooten sitting in the crowd and being mauled by Zombie Dragon. Silva said Ooten had been overcompensating ever since. He saw what others didn't see. Ooten was still that crying child. He was going to finish what Zombie Dragon started.
Ooten admitted Silva had a valid point but that was the past. Silva was a washed up old man trying to ride on his coattails to regain some relevancy, and trying to instill fear in him was not going to happen. Ooten handed Silva two dollars and told him to get lost.
Silva smiled as he put the two bucks in his pocket. Then Silva took his jacket and rings off like he was getting ready to fight. Ooten slugged Silva with the loaded pillow case he grabbed out his corner. One problem -- Darkthone had switched pillow cases on him. Darkthorne dumped the contents of the loaded pillow case out at ringside. Harley tried to toss the teddy bear to C but Silva won the jump ball. Silva tore the stuffing out of the bear searching for a foreign object and came up empty handed. Ooten punted Silva in the jewels. Silva crumpled to the mat. Ooten said bye-bye and jetted to the back. Wicked said Ooten had a plan within a plan within a plan.
Silva's subtly menacing speech was tremendous. He was on the road to living rent free in Ooten's head. Sleazy C outfoxing the veteran was an unexpected turn of events.
(1) Karmgeddon (DRP & Chris Gainz with "Caucasian Thanos" Scott Adams) defeated Golden Class (Dallas Kage & KJ Valentine) to retain the ProSouth Tag Team Championship in 7:49.
Adams addressed all the people out their in TV land. Adams said he spent a lot of time looking for a God and in his darkest hour, he came to realize there might actually be one. "Caucasian Thanos has arrived and I brought Karmageddon with me...I'm the one true Scott." Adams said he was a deity and called for worship music.
An extraordinarily strange promo by one of the most neurotic individuals in pro wrestling. Gainz and DRP were like WTF is this?
Karmageddon jumped the belt. That backfired. Golden Class worked rapid fire and displayed solid teamwork. DRP's Eye of the Hurricane turned the tide. Karmageddon cut the ring in half. Cut to a new bird's eye camera angle as Kage made the hot tag.
Valentine allegedly dropkicked Gainz into a forced DDT on DRP. Golden Class followed up with a wheelbarrow/springboard cutter combo on Gainz but DRP broke up the pin. DRP planted Valentine with the ropes walk springboard DDT that Valentine blocked early in the match. It looked like the finish but was not. Adams got on the apron for a chat with referee T-Bird. Valentine hooked DRP with an inside cradle. Gainz turned the pile and got T-Bird's attention for the three count.
Sloppy mess of a match. Even the steady hand of Gainz could not overcome the inexperience of Golden Class. They've got lots of great idea. Too many of them are half baked in the execution.
Postmatch, Karmageddon raised the both title belts above their heads. T-Bird snatched the belts out of their hands and put them down with a shotgun dropkick. The champs bailed. The crowd chanted for T-Bird.
ProSouth devaluing their own tag team championship. We've been here before. The two guys defending the title were not the people that won them and they had to sell for and back down from a kid referee. Can't say it didn't work the ProSouth faithful though.
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Pryor hit a tornillo quebrada. Midas went on offense and was setting up for the Midas Touch. Vougan came to ringside with their eyes on Midas. The distraction discombobulated Midas and Pryor picked up the win with an O'Connor Roll.
AJ said Pryor did not win in five minutes so no match.
A match up of wrestlers at the opposite ends of he physique spectrum. Midas is a character. I'm here for Midas/Vougan match. Loved AJ leaning against the wall with his arms crossed while he watched.
I didn't want to miss a moment of a match so loaded with perverse wrestling entertainment potential. The Weapon Of Ass Destruction was in full effect. Xin honest to God bit Vougan's belly button.
Alexander Lev video. Lev said he saw what Ace said about him on last week and was surprised it wasn't from a group chat. He was not going to be rage-baited by the stalest piece of bread in the South trying to make ProSouth relevant again, something that hadn't happened since AJ Styles vs. Jimmy Rave. If Ace wanted to talk to him, they could do it the Georgia way at Premier where he would be defending his Georgia Heritage Championship.
Chosen One (Ace Haven, Cameron Keast, Justin McKenzie) promo. Ace and Keast were wearing their regained New Era tag team title belts. Ace went right to the Georgia/Alabama football rivalry and the pattern of the Bulldogs getting their asses whupped. If people thought the best wrestling was in Georgia, they were wrong because he had four trophies on his desk that said he kicked the crap out Georgia, so the best wrestling in Georgia took place in Piedmont, AL. Ace contended his trashing Lev on the livestream was the most publicity Lev was ever going to get. Lev was an NWA guy but NWA viewers never saw him because he was pre-show guy. Ace said Lev loves to tribute Jimmy Rave but Lev was pissing his pants when Rave died while Ace was actually James Guffey's friend. He never had to wear a Jimmy Rave Approved t-shirt or pretend to be somebody he was not.
When Premier needed a boost, they called the King of the South. People talked about Premier when they saw Ace on the flier not when Lev won his 88 titles over there. He didn't back away from a fight and would have that face-to-face with Lev at Premier.
Ace was on fire, shooting, working, egotistical and hyberbolic to a ridiculous degree. He trashed Lev, went on the warpath with Georgia wrestling and hyped Premier all in one fell swoop. Not that it sold any tickets, but the last time a local TV show promoted a live show the next night must go back 40 years.
Ace mentioned the name Scott. Keast started going off on Scott Adams. I was a bad guy and I'm trying to make things better for myself was a dumb, weird idea. Ace said he was talking about his rematch with Scott Spade. They need to figure out how to make that happen since Ace didn't win the Rumble. Keast said Spade wanted all the title so Ace should beat McKenzie for the All-Out title and then Spade would give him the match. McKenzie was hanging out with some kids in the crowd, oblivious to what Ace and Cam were cooking up. Justin agreed with them without knowing what he was agreeing to. Ace berated McKenzie for his lack of focus. He put himself in a title match with Ace just seven days before his Southern Honor title match with Joe Black.
This was a long segment but the rhythm and pacing kept it from dragging. McKenzie hoodwinked into a match by scheming, flawed humans. McKenzie was wonderfully clueless.
(4) Brother Azriel defeated Trey Jordan in 5:56. A battle of the big men. Jordan's shoulder tackles bounced off Az. Jordan invited Az to go for a shoulder block and cut him off with a cheap shot instead. The action spilled to the floor where Jordan rammed Az's back into edge of the ring, the the fifth hardest part of the ring according to Wicked. Jordan messed with Az's mask and took a black hole slam for his troubles. Jordan went back on the attack. He tried to hoist Az onto his back but the load was too much. Az decapitated Jordan with a lariat and pinned him with Wood Grain.
Az gave Jordan too much offense for his positioning -- cage match with Joe Black at Wicked Havoc and the title match at Anniversary SuperShow. Az's lariat and Jordan's sell of the move was the best spot of the match.
(5) Christian Garrett defeated AJ Black in 5:57. AJ drew Garrett into chasing him on his bad wheel, then ate him up with punches and chops. AJ scored near falls with a divorce court and a shadow flatliner. Darkthorne listed off the names of West Georgia wrestling royalty that are AJ's heritage. The highlight of Garrett's comeback was a running knife edge chop. As AJ was setting up for Less Than Zero, Pryor came to ringside with derisive applause and Garrett rolled AJ up.
AJ was so pissed he impulsively agreed to give Pryor his match next week and immediately tried to take it back. Too late, the words were out of his mouth. Darkthorne made it official for October 10.
Black's ring psychology was stellar. Two distraction roll up finishes in the same show. What is this? WWE? At least there was a method to the madness. Pryor/Black is going to be good.
"Diamondback" Christian Pierce promo. Pierce was wearing his hunting gear. The Diamondback said he was tired of not getting a clear shot at the ProSouth Championship. Spade was picking and choosing when to be there to defend a belt that belonged to ProSouth and their fans. Next Friday night, his scope was wide open and it was open season on Scott Spade. Last week, Spade had a revelation -- "beware the pale horse for the man that rides on him is death." Pierce said Spade needed to finish the book because the man on the horse got pulled down into the depths of hell and he was going to take Spade to a special place far worse.
Great promo. Sold me on the match. Pierce positioning himself as a representative of the people. The hunting analogy worked and he had the answer to Spade's revelation.
(6) Justin McKenzie defeated Ace Haven to retain the All-Out Championship in 15:52. They wrestled. McKenzie turned his back and Ace chop blocked him. Ace got all over McKenzie's knee to take away his aerial game.
Ace had McKenzie set up for draping pedigree when Amy came to ringside with stern expression on her face and said that was enough. Ace lost focus and McKenzie beat him with Sliced Bread 69.
Was Ace trying to teach McKenzie a valuable lesson or was this the darkness in his heart seeping through? It was easy to see these guys have spent a lot of time in the ring together. They worked snug and they were in synch. McKenzie showed great instincts with his selling of the knee.
Karmageddon attacked Chosen Ones after the match. Joe Wood hit the ring to make the save. DRP bounced off of Wood. Joe put Gainz down with a headbutt and had Adams on his shoulders for the Woodchipper when the number game caught up with him. The lights went out. Keast returned as Psycho Cam and cleaned house on Karmageddon with his weird superhuman powers. Keast threw a fireball in Adams' face and laid him out. Keast appeared to be lining Ace up for a kill shot knee but delivered it to DRP and stood tall as the screen went to black.
The postmatch felt like overkill. But excessiveness is how ProSouth rolls. The return of Psycho Cam and the foreshadowing of further complications within the Chosen Ones was great cliffhanger.
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