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From Larry Goodman:
(1) Michael Stevens defeated Seth Delay and Ashton Martin and Hayden Seal and Lucas DeSilva and JT Paradox in the Call Your Shot Gauntlet (14:35). Stevens earned the title shot of his choosing at any time. Stevens and Delay were the finalists. With seconds remaining of the five minute time limit, Stevens kicked Delay in the groin and pinned him with feet on the ropes.
Multiple stories advanced. Young talent showcased. Seal's greenness showed through on the finish of his match but he's an athlete with size, just needs to keep getting reps. 'm a mark for wrestlers with great amateur wrestling backgrounds from my AWA roots so DeSilva is my kinda guy. Paradox displayed his suplex prowess -- hence DeSilva vs. Paradox in a Suplex Challenge on February 21.
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(2) Alexander Lev defeated Michael Walker in 10:42. Lev over with his new O1C finisher.
Southern Fried really could not go wrong with this fresh match up between young stars and they've got another slated for Hunting Ground -- Walker vs. Joey Hyder, who took his game to another level at the January show.
(3) Jaden Vain & Xavier Cross defeated Wonder Boys (Aaron & Ethan Dallas) to retain the Southern Fried Tag Team Championship in 8:14. Wonder Boyz were setting up a double team. Vain pulled Ethan out and slammed him into the barricade, while Cross choke slammed Aaron. Vain slid back in to cover Ethan for the win.
Vain ran his mouth about being undefeated in Southern Fried.
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Approved (Adryan Hawkins & Bobby Moore) challenged the champions to a title match on the spot. Vain said "No! No! No! No!" and headed for back doing a Buddy Landell hair flip on the way.
(4) Hunter James & Dominic Stuckey defeated Rosario Grillo & Christian Taylor (with Pat Roach) in 8:53. James pinned Taylor with an up and over rolling prawn hold.
Loved James using a new finesse move to overcome Taylor's phenominal strength.
Grillo immediately stomped James into unconsciousness and gave him a second stomp to the head off the ropes. Matt Hankins hit the ring with a baseball bat to send the Crusade packing.
This post match set up Stuckey avenging what Grillo to his new found friend Hunter wiith Hankins successfully lobbying Manders for the match, Saturday night at Hunting Grounds.
(5) The Approved (Adryan Hawkins & Bobby Moore) defeated Jay Alpha Miller & Chad Sky Walker via DQ in 10:48. Xavier Cross spoiled a first rate tag match by attacking Approved.
After Cross had sufficiently softened up Approved, Vain said we're doing that title match right now.
(6) The Approved defeated Vain & Cross to win the Southern Fried Tag Team Championship in 1:21. Approved appeared to be dead in the water but they were playing possum. Approved hit the Shatter Machine on Cross to win the titles.
Vain was an extremely sore loser. He KOed Approved with his loaded glove. Vain picked up the title belts but could not handle the crowd chanting "You got beat" and fled the ring.
(7) Madstreet (Sal Rinauro & Michael Stevens) took the Southern Fried Tag Team Championship from Approved in 8 seconds. With Rinauro coaching him up, Stevens cashed in his call your shot. Rinauro superkicked Hawkins. Boom! New champions.
The entire double title change was a really nice piece of business. The immediate fall out is six man tag at Hunting Ground -- Vain & Cross & Disturbed vs. The Approved (Halen & Moore & Hawkins) who are in disarray after taking Ls.
(8) Jacob Ashworth (with John Johnson) defeated Billy Buck (with Southern Fried owner David Manders) via DQ to earn a Southern Fried Championship match in 11:10. Buck was eating Ashworth up until Ashworth necked him on the top rope. Ashworth used gutter tactics and taunted the crowd. Buck made his trademark babyface comeback and escaped Ashes to Ashes. Chaos ensued and both Manders and Johnson found their way into the ring.. Manders knocked down referee Matthew Daniel and KOed JJ. Ashworth and Manders came face-to-face. Manders shoved Ashworth into a Buckshot and summoned referee Weakley from the back to make the three count. Buck was announced as the winner. Daniel overruled and DQed Buck due to Manders' interference.
Of course Ashworth was going to get his title match and it's Saturday night at Hunting Ground.
(9) CT Keys defeated Sal Rinauro and Disturbed and Nick Halen in a fatal four way to retain the Southern Fried Championship by submitting Rinauro at 18:54. Ebb and flow with all four hitting their stuff in th early going. The other three competitors worked together to ice Disturbed. Halen was like a man possessed. Disturbed got back in the mix. Keys inadvertently, and I do mean inadvertently, pounced Disturbed into Sal with raw explosive power.
Halen and Keys wheeled shopping carts filled with chairs out from the back. Disturbed took chair shots from all side and was covered under a mountain of chairs at ringside. The other three competitors had a wrestling match. Sly dog Rinauro tried to buddy up with Keys and Halen. That did not end well for Sal but neither could Keys and Halen abide each other. The champion powered out of a double submission and F5ed Rinauro onto Halen. Stevens pulled up at ringside to save Rinauro and hand him the title belt. Rinauro clocked Keys with the belt and covered him but Adryan Hawkins pulled the referee Byers out the ring to stop the count. Hawkins and Stevens fought to the back. Halen had Rinauro pinned with the Gamebreaker but Byers was nowhere to be found. Keys put Halen in the cobra clutch. Disturbed rose up from under the chairs to seize control of the match before taking a Frankensteiner from Rinauro and an F5 from Keys. Keys locked Rinauro and applied the cobra clutch. Rinauro tapped before Halen could break up the submission.
A high caliber main event reduced several notches by a lethargic crowd. The people in Monroe looked spent. I like how the creative has positioned Disturbed as this other worldly monster so formidable that three opponents had to unite to sideline him. With the other top contenders temporarliy out of the title picture by virtue of losing to Keys, Ashworth vs. Keys is not likely to be a one off.
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