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From Larry Goodman:
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
-- Joe Black
No, Ace Haven did not rise from the ashes. of the Buried Alive match. Ace will perform that feat tomorrow night at GWH awards show.
Zombie Dragon did climb out of a casket to set up a Flaming Casket match with Tragick for next week.
The last ten minutes of this episode was pure gold. All out war has broken out between The Process and the Left Hand Path. Trever Aeon has muscled his way into an title match with ProSouth Champion Joe Black, also to take place in the next episode.
Oh by the way, Tragick is the new YouTube Champion, a title he has held twice before as Cameron Keast.
Caeden Ooten had a solid main event but the best wrestling may have taken place after the livestream ended in the DRP/Julian Balderas All-Out title match shot for Members Only.
Scott Adams cut an anti-Amy Haven promo filled with shoot comments and a two choice expletives that got him suspended by the promotion.
The first half was an inauspicious triad of matches involving tag team champions Money Power Respect (Steven Calozzi KJ Valentine and Trey Jordan).
The audio was an intermittent problem all night long due to a bad cable.
Mathias Darkthorne performed triple duty -- manager, ring announcer and commentator alongside Wicked Nemesis. Joseph Void and Becca were the officials. Emma was videographer.
Brother Azriel opened on the heels of defeating The Mongrel in the Kill Field. Az said now that he had the monster off his back, he could get back to ProSouth Championship business. He had Joe Black beaten at Anniversary but for some reason Amy Haven made him a target. He was coming to get his title back. Az said he was ready to fight anybody in the back.
MPR appeared on stage. Steven Calozzi said he did not see a title around Az's waist and invited him to vacate the ring so they could puruse the YouTube Championship and take it to new heights. Darkthorne politely asked Az to leave the ring so the opening match could get underway.
McKenzie avenged his clean loss to Valentine from a few weeks back. Valentine is great with his facial expressions and body language, if his wrestling was that stellar...
Darkthorne informed MPR they were not done because Jordan's match was next.
(2) Christian Pierce defeated Trey Jordan (with Steven Calozzi) in 5:54. Pierce dropped Valentine with Once Bitten on his way to the ring and Valentine laid there for the entirety of the match.
Pierce countered the F5 with Once Bitten and pinned Jordan after a double stomp to the gut from the top rope.
It was hard-hitting and it was not pretty. I loved, loved, loved Pierce laying Valentine out just becaue he felt like and Valentine selling it for the entire match.
With his partners both in pitiful shape, Darkthorne told Calozzi his match was right now.
(3) Steven Calozzi (with KJ Valentine) vs. Vougan was ruled a no contest at 4:05 . Calozzi tried to end Vougan before the match got started by hitting him with brass knucks. Vougan ducked. Jordan got blasted and took a Nestea plunge onto the ramp.
Calozzi shoved referee Void into the path of Vougan's pump kick. Vougan kicked Calozzi in the face and covered with no ref to count. Valentine and Jordan assaulted Vougan. McKenzie and Oliver Green came to Vougan's aid but fell victim to the numbers game. Brother Azriel singlehandedly rid the ring of MPR.
Calozzi is tailor-made for TV. I was sorry he was not on the card last week because I've never gotten to meet the guy. The postmatch was a nice showcase for Az.
Scott Adams promo
Adams addressed the camera while sitting on the stage. Adams said he was a loyal soldier, but "trusting the process" only got him a mouthful of Cameron Keast's pre-diabetic urine and a work-shoot name like Patrick Gilbert that got him heat. He'd known Amy was the epitome of evil since the Havens' wedding day. She was now the dominant bitch of ProSouth, which would have been better left in the hands of her idiotic daughter and doofus future son-in-law, who was nicknamed "Trips". Adams said Amy was the biggest POS he'd ever met in his life. Adams produced Ace's crown from the bag he was carrying and said, "Joe Black this don't make you a f***ing king." Security tussled with Adams. Joe Black came out and punched Adams in the mouth. The livestream abruptly cut to intermission
Adams' promo marked the first time the F word had been spoken on the mic since ProSouth started livestreaming on YouTube. ProSouth issued a press release announcing Adams had been removed from all programming due to remarks inconsistent with the standards of ProSouth Wrestling.
DRP's All-Out Panama City Party
DRP said he freed the All-Out Championship and was going to give ProSouth a defending champion each and every week. Out came "party pooper" Julian Balderas with a huge bandage covering the eye that Pierce tried to gouge out with a screwdriver last week. Balderas said he wanted DRP's championship. DRP said he was a fighting champion, you've got your match. DRP looked to commentary for someone to sanction it. Wicked said there was no room on the card and they would have to do the match on Members Only after the livestream.
So let me get this straight. There was room on the card for three MPR matches but not an All-Out title match. Who's booking this shit?
Alexander Lev video promo. Lev is returning to ProSouth. Any further details ravaged by a horrible echo in the audio.
LHP was in cruise control mode and put on a clinic. Rebirth's offense was totally ineffective in the early going but they cheated to get a modest amount of heat on Silva.
The ending was decisive -- Silva with a Hellplex for Wyndell, Collateral Damage on Thomas and an LHP meeting in the middle concussion on Wyndell with Silva making the pin.
Aeon challenged Black to a title match.
Rebirth was stilborn in Piedmont. Wyndell's heel schtick entertains me. LHP took their sweet time and it was pleasure to see them back in action in a ProSouth ring.
(5) YouTube Title Tournament: Caeden Ooten defeated Oliver Green in 9 seconds. In the chat, RobBrod wanted to know what brand of hair conditioner Ooten uses. The Process in the form of Brandon Whatley and Joe Wood utterly destroyed Green before the match. Darkthorne said Harley feigned surprise at what her mother's goons were doing to poor Oliver.
Green told the ref he still wanted the match. Ooten speared him and that was that.
Green's first match back from the ligament injury and got wasted by The Process. Bonus points for Wood ragdolling him with a full nelson.
(6) Tragick (with Amy Haven) defeated Caeden Ooten (with Harley Haven) and Justin McKenzie via referee stoppage to win the YouTube Championship in 8:17. McKenzie had Ooten reeling until he went for an ill-advised moonsault and ate a midair kick in the mouth. Harley choked McKenzie on the middle rope when the ref wasn't looking. Ooten grounded McKenzie with a rear naked choke and got a near fall with a rip cord lariat. Ooten unleashed his fierce strike attack. McKenzie stunned Ooten with a shotgun dropkick and planted him on his head with rana. Ooten hit a GTS. McKenzie answered right back with a running knee and both were down. Ooten cut off McKenzie's comeback with a powerbomb. McKenzie hit a northern lights with impact for a close near fall.
Amy Haven appeared onstage with the edict that she wad adding Tragick to the match. Tragick locked McKenzie in the bulldog choke until he passed out.
Easily the best match of the show. The back and forth into the double down was good stuff. Mckenzie's northern lights was a killer move. Keep that. The finish worked because McKenzie's selling of the beating he took from Ooten was so persuasive.
Amy said there was not enough time in a ProSouth night to give a full explanation of why she turned her back on her sweet, loving husband. But when she did explain, the fans would not be thinking about their sweet king the way they did not. While Amy gave her non-explanation, Whatley and Wood put more lumps on McKenzie's battered body. Amy welcomed Joe Black to the ring.
Black made a triumphant entrance. He had buried Ace alive just like he said he would. Black stood over McKenzie. He had so much potential but insisted on defending the honor of someone who had none. Since McKenzie loved Ace so much he was going to put his beige ass in the ground right next to him.
McKenzie tried to fight back. He ate a boot sandwich from Whatley and Wood. Whatley subdued McKenzie for good with a cobra clutch.
Black had security haul a coffin to ringside. The lights went out. Ace Haven's music hit. Black re-entered wearing Ace's crown and carrying a can of lighter fluid. The Process put McKenzie in the casket and Black poured lighter fluid on it.
The lights went out. Tragick's collar light turned red signaling fire. When the lights came back on, Black was gone, Tragick's collar light went haywire and Zombie Dragon emerged from the coffin. Dragon slithered into the ring to face off with Tragick. In the background. LHP started brawling with The Process.
Darkthorne said The Process could trust that Joe Black had a date with his twin, Trevor Aeon next week and Tragick could trust that if Process wanted to put someone in a casket and light it on fire, the beast standing in front of him was the one to do it. Next week: Zombie Dragon vs. Tragick -- FLAMING CASKET.
One of the best hook and drag closing segments in recent ProSouth history. Darkthorne's delivery was tremendous. Black's mic skills are legendary at this point. Tragick/Keast has gone from the most emotive character in ProSouth's menagerie to an expressionless automaton. With this story, either you're along for the ride or not, there's no middle ground.
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