Premier All-Star Wrestling -- Carrollton on February 28

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From Jeremy York:

Premier All-Star Wrestling at Church Without Walls (Carrollton)

Ring Announcer/General Manager: Jason Boyd 

Officials: Butterbean, Caleb, 

The show starts with Jason Boyd, Frankie Valentine, Tweety, Billy Knight & Heavyweight Champion AJ Black in the ring to honor not only their family member but also a prominent member of the Premier family. We get the customary 10 bell salute and moment of silence. 

Match 1: AJ Black (C—Open Challenge) V. “The Misfit” Justin McKenzie—McKenzie came to the ring before the match to call out the champion Black. Justin said if AJ really wanted an Open Challenge opponent, he was more than willing to be his foe. Bell rings and we get a handshake as neither grappler has any ill will towards each other. Then we get an aggressive lockup with each trying to sling the other around yet neither release the grip of the tie-up. After a small bit of time, Black emerges with a wristlock on McKenzie. Justin reverses, pulling AJ’s arm behind his body. Deep arm drag from the champ, deep snap mare from the Misfit who adds a dropkick. They trade chops. McKenzie with a head scissors takeover and another basement dropkick. Black hits a back elbow in the corner followed by some vicious forearms. AJ climbs to the top rope. As McKenzie approaches, Black sets him on the top instead. Big time superplex from the champ rocks the challenger. Somehow it’s the Misfit who recovers first and scampers to the top. His swanton misses. AJ smashes him with a spinning uppercut for the win! After the match, former long-reigning Heavyweight Champion Stevie Ray Frost saunters to the ring. He calls for the microphone and tells Black that he can have all the Open Challenges he wants, but it’s HIM who is owed his rematch for the championship AJ took from him. He adds that at the next show on March 14 th in the same town, same building…HE will take back what was his before. AJ nods, grabs his championship and heads to the back. 

Winner: (And STILL Premier All-Star Wrestling Heavyweight Champion) AJ Black via pinfall 

Match 2: Stevie Ray Frost V. Ashton Martin—They lockup where Martin is backed into the corner, clean break. Next time it’s Frost who is backed into the corner, not so clean break. Shoulder tackle from Frost, and another. Arm drags, a clothesline in the corner and a dropkick get a one count. Stevie catches Ashton for a big slam. Martin’s enziguri stuns Frost, but only enough for him to land a decapitating lariat. Double open palm chops from SRF who puts a foot on Martin and poses as the official counts to one with Martin kicking out. Frost sends Martin hard into the turnbuckle, however misses the running back splash. Ashton cannot regain control though as Stevie lands a spin slam for a two count. After some back and forth it’s the former champ Frost utilizing a double underhook DDT for the 1,2,3! 

Winner: Stevie Ray Frost via pinfall 

Match 3: DeSilva V. DRP V. Sal Rinauro—On the way to the ring, Sal picks up a random young fan and runs around ringside so all the fans can high five the young fan. Then HE runs around the same path to high five the fans as well. After all of this he sprints through the second section of fans before finding an open seat and sitting down to enjoy the show. A distraught DeSilva bellows from inside the ring that Sal is a part of this match and to get in the ring now! He relents and the bell sounds. DeSilva instructs Sal and DRP that he is now here for their hijinks. Sal rolls him up for a one count. Before he can yell at Sal, DRP rolls up DeSilva for another one count. Sal rolls him up one more time to complete the hat trick. DRP and Sal execute a double hip toss on DeSilva who rolls himself to the outside. Rinauro and DRP lock into some crazy chain wrestling focusing on wristlocks and takeovers. Sal with a headlock, DRP sends him into the ropes, but DeSilva pulls him outside. DRP with a tope’ suicida on both opponents. Back inside DRP hits a running clothesline on Rinauro, DeSilva with the inverted DDT on Sal, chokeslams DRP onto him. DeSilva nears cuts Rinauro in half with a spear. DeSilva puts DRP into a torture rack, Sal clips his knees. DRP finds some energy and has some sling blades followed by a Northern lights suplex with a bridge…two count. Rinauro curb stomps both foes, starts calling for the super kick out of the corner. DRP and Rinauro host a super kick party. Sal flying kicks DRP, gets a two count. DeSilva breaks up the pin attempt by deadlifting Sal off of DRP into a German suplex! DeSilva slaps on an ankle lock on DRP, however Sal beaks it up with a double underhook bomb! DRP with the Eye of the Hurricane on Sal, DeSilva with the Spiral Rack on Sal for the victory! 

Winner: DeSilva via pinfall 

Match 4: Richard Page V. Zander Whoric (Loser Leaves Premier)—Lots of posturing by Page who seems super confident about his evening. The bell rings, Whoric runs at Page to hit a sling blade, stomps the mat to call for the super kick. Smashes Richard in the mush with the super kick and gets the 1,2,3! The crowd is excited and stunned all at once! 

Winner: Zander Whoric via pinfall (Richard Page must leave Premier All-Star Wrestling) 

Match 5: Battle Royal plus 6-Man Tag: The rules of this match were that wrestlers were eliminated by being thrown over the top rope with their feet hitting the floor. When there are six remaining, two at a time are called to the middle of the ring for a coin toss to decide teams. The final six are divided into two three-man teams with the winner of that match becoming the new Ultimate Tag-Team Champions. 

Ace Haven (w/ Amy Haven), Eddie Hendrix & Joey Hyder V. Mad Man Mayson, Jacob Ashworth & Xander Seabolt—Ace, Hendrix and Hyder battled hard and at times almost got the victory. However, the brute force and new-found camaraderie of Mayson, Ashworth and Seabolt were too much to overcome. Jacob Ashworth performs a full nelson front-face bomb on Joey Hyder to give them the win! 

Winners: (And NEW Ultimate Tag-Team Champions) Jacob Ashworth, Xander Seabolt & Mad Man Mayson 

Jason Boyd brings out Sean Nelson. Together they introduce West Georgia wrestling legend Shane Noles. They present Noles with the West Georgia Wrestling Legacy Award for his career in and out of the ring including his run with Peach State Wrestling in the Carroll County area. 

Match 6: Joe Black V. Alexander Lev (C—Southern Honor Championship)—Lev offers a handshake to start the match, Joe slaps his hand away. They trade chain wrestling holds in a clinical display. Lev emerges with a stern lock on the cranium of Black. Joe pushes him towards the ropes for relief of the hold, but Alexander holds on. Joe wiggles free and knife edge CHOPS Alexander with a thunderous smack! Lev applies a head lock again. Black eventually gets him to the ground. He entangles his legs around the torso of Lev. As Lev breaks free they both get to their feet. Next up a test of strength that results in Lev once again wrapping his arms around the head of Black. He transitions to an armbar this time. They tangle which sends Alexander to the apron. Joe delivers a shattering kick which deposits Alexander to the floor. Black joins him and they fight outside until Black delivers another cutting chop that was felt by many fans in attendance as well as Lev. Joe misses a drive-by attempt, Lev counters with a running kick. Black catches Lev’s drive-by kick attack and they roll back into the ring. Joe captures control of Lev after a slap and head lock of his own. Hard clothesline from Black. He then pushes Lev’s throat on the ropes followed by another chop and kick to the back. Joe with the picturesque delayed suplex for a two count. Alexander hits a back elbow as he climbs to the top rope. As he springs off to land on his opponent, Joe pulls a (Samoa) Joe and nonchalantly walks away…leaving Lev to crash hard to the mat. Back on his feet Lev misses an elbow but Joe does not a miss a CHOP on the champion. He rains down elbows onto the collarbone and neck area of Lev. Joe with more effective ground and pound then he yells at Lev that the people are not with him. Alexander rolls up Joe for a near fall. As Black kicks out it turns into a cross-face from the champ. Both trade submissions. Back on their feet, Lev hits the running STO, Joe rolls outside the ring. Alexander performs a Tope’ suicida attack. Back inside, Lev hits a kick from the top rope. Then some a flurry of succession of clotheslines that fire up himself and the crowd. Crazy brain-buster gets him a two and three quarters count. Waist lock from Lev is reversed by Joe who drops his foe with a close up lariat for a two and thirteen sixteenths count. Joe hits the ropes close to twenty four miles per hour to crash into Lev with a spear for another close fall. Black sets Lev on the rope for a superplex that is countered into a sunset flip powerbomb from Alexander. Another near fall. Joe with the Coquina Clutch as he hangs on through TWO chin-breakers from Lev. Lev tries the back roll pin attempt causing Black to release the hold. Two count for that and the roll up that followed. Joe lays in some big strikes in the corner. Lev has some in response, Joe finds the Clutch again. Lev reverses, yet Black’s jaw breaker releases the grasp of Lev. The official gets knocked down. Black picks up the championship to crack Lev with, however Eddie Hendrix grabs it from him. As a second official runs out to the ring, Lev grabs Joe in a front tilt-a-whirl power slam for the victory! 

 Winner: (And STILL Southern Honor Champion) Alexander Lev via pinfall 

Takeaways: 

-McKenzie put on a show and gave AJ Black everything he could handle in the opener. He had AJ on the rails for a bit and the champ had to dig deep to thwart off the threat. 

-Frost is more focused now than ever before. He made short work of the young Martin who continues to impress. Frost not wasting any more time for a championship rematch can only spell a tough night ahead for AJ. 

-DeSilva, Rinauro and DRP put together one of the most fun and exciting matches I’ve seen in a good while. It had every fun moment and crazy jumble the three could ever be put in. Just a great all around match where each showcased their abilities and the fans wanted them to fight for the rest of the night. 

-Nice win for Whoric who will have to find a new nemesis now that Richard Page is no longer a member of the roster. Just as soon as Page built a good faction in Premier, it crumbled almost overnight. Have we really seen the end of him in Premier? 

-Congratulations to the new tag champs. Good look to whatever trio thinks they can take that team down too. Mayson, Seabolt and Ashworth are a menace to anybody on their own, it’s only magnified when they are on the same side. 

-Lev versus Black did not disappoint. They’ve fought before elsewhere and every match they’ve had has been different from the rest. Looks like they are matched up for round two at the next show. If you have not seen this war live in person, do not miss a chance to see it on March 14 th in Carrollton.