Southern Fried End of the Line Video Review/Shindig XIII Preview

There's only so many times you can climb the same mountain over and over and over again. And right now, I'm just too tired to start ...

There's only so many times you can climb the same mountain over and over and over again. And right now, I'm just too tired to start from the bottom 

--CT Keys

From Larry Goodman:

Todd Sexton has been playing some fierce 3-D chess in Monroe. The final pieces on the board for Shindig XIII were moved into place at End of the Line. 

The booking of the Southern Fried Championship runs deep.  Nick Halen won Battle Bowl to earn a championship match with Jacob Ashworth at Shindig. 

David Manders' redeemed golden boy has turned into a dark, bitter man with a bone to pick. His smug prick of a manager, John Johnson is  having the time of his life. 

Former three time Southern Fried Champion CT Keys announced he would be taking time off after his open challenge match at Shindig. 

The title feud with the most juice is the one the champion has going with former two-time champion Southern Fried Billy Buck and his fiancee Georgeanne Hardin. Buck will have to settle for a bullrope match against "Firestarter" Xander Seabolt at Shindig. 

Five time Southern Fried Champion Judas is nowhere near the championship but there's this:

 

Shindig will present a cross-section of the best wrestling talent the state of Georgia has to offer with multiple stories at or near their pinnacle.

Southern Fried fans want Jaden Vain's head on a stick. They might just get it.

Hunter James and his father have a prime opportunity to get their hands on that slippery  Italian Rosario Grillo in a trios Rough House match.

Dominic Stuckey and Brian Blaze (with Matt Hankins) will get it on in a cage  outside the building. 

Michael Walker and Seth Delay are putting their careers on the line.

End of the Line was an extremely well edited and produced video from miracle man Adam Vance. 

Vance got in some great zingers on the play-by-play. He and color commentator Blake Blackwell are really starting to click as a team. 

I'd be lying if I said the show drew a large crowd that looked and sounded great. 

In the uncut version, Manders gave props to rover camera guy, Hayden, son of referee David Weakley on the occasion of high school graduation.

Manders called out his new number one contender. Halen thanked for supporting him through a lot of adversity for the last 365 days.

Halen called Ashworth out. 

Addressing Halen as Nicholas, John Johnson enforced his court order requiring Manders to stay 25 feet away from him before allowing Ashworth to enter the ring. 

JJ said Halen was riding on the coattails of another man's legacy and had failed as leader of the Approved. True leaders rise to the occasion. Ashworth was forging his own legacy.  Halen said he was going to forge his foot straight up JJ's ass and would be the new Southern Fried Champion come June 20.

GREAT segment. 

(1) Disturbed crushed RC Daniels in 1:16. Disturbed has a unique finisher, it's a uranage flatliner. Disturbed added a claw hold for the count. Got only a glimpse of Daniels but he looks like he has something.

(2) Hunter James defeated Ashton Martin in 6:50. There was a time when choking your opponent with a scarf in plain sight of the referee was an automatic DQ. Things change.

James paid the price for a too soon brainbuster but kicked out of Martin's backbreaker without even a one count. Martin got way over his skis and James beat him with the brainbuster.

Martin is improving by leaps and bounds. In my crusty opinion, James gave him too much offense. 

James said he was the only Crusader that mattered. He started it and he would end itl Tayo joined Hunter in the ring and said he  had Hunter's back. Jamey said the Evil Godfather took something from him and he was begging for a chance to put a foot up Grillo's ass. 

Jamey Dean was nothing short of fantastic The crowd was chanting Stuckey's name. Tayo? I smell a rat

(3) Lucas DeSilva pinned Seth Delay in 6:11 with the Spiral Rack. Distraction by Michael Walker as Delay went for the flying squirrel handed DeSilva the win. 

This was a win DeSilva had to have and what better opponent than Seth Delay? The man is a class act all the way.

JT Paradox hit the ring. Walker fled. Delay tossed Walker back in...

(4) JT Paradox (with Delay) pinned Michael Walker (with DeSilva) in 6:33. Paradox was in hot pursuit. DeSilva got in the way. Walker capitalized and focused his attack on JTP's back. Walker went up top and was greeted by an escalara overhead suplex from Paradox.

Delay got on the apron to protest Fro's tactics. DeSilva jumped in with a dragon suplex on Paradox. As referee David Weakley was admonishing DeSilva, Delay gave Walker a cradle DDT. All Paradox had to do was make the cover.

Walker and Delay went back and forth on the mic and it's now career vs. career at Shindig.

(5) CT Keys defeated Jaden Vain (with Xavier Cross) in 9:17. Vain was no match for the power and strength of Keys and he knew it. But Vain's chicanery and interference by Cross prevented him from being destroyed. Referee Dee Byers caught Cross laying hands on Keys and ejected him. Vain loaded the glove...and ate a pop up punch from Keys. Vain decided enough was enough. The lights went out. Vain panicked and got back in the ring where Keys was waiting with a Pounce and an F5.

Vain was put in this slot because CT's scheduled opponent, Alexander Lev was sick and missed the entire weekend.

Keys reflected on being a triple crown Southern Fried Champion. Keys issued an open challenge for Shindig. After that, he was going to be taking time off.

I loved the authenticity. 

Matt Hankins and Dominic Stuckey had a sitdown in the middle of the Southern Fried ring. Hankins said Brian Blaze hailed from Chicago, the murder capital of the USA. Dom was going to Chiraq, a cell block set up outside the building. Hankins wanted to see many of the lazy, lethargic, no nothings would get out of their comfortable chairs and got outside to see Stuckey get his ass beat in the June heat.

Stuckey said for 10 years, Hankins never listened to him and he didn't care that Hankins got his heart broken. He'd broken girls' hearts all across the country. Hankins was nothing special. The streets of Southern Fried were calling his name after the last show. Hear them now. Your cage means nothing. Chicago ain't been nothin' since Michael Jordan left. Hankins was nowhere to be found when he beat Hunter James for the Classics Championship and the entire Georgia Hall of Fame. These people hate you Hankins because you think you're so much better than them.

"I don't care if you think you're great. I don't care if Brian thinks I'm dangerous, as long as Southern Fried has my back, I don't need your boys...When we're out there on the concrete and they lock that cage, it ain't nothin' to the Hitmaker."

Hankins said that was pretty speech Stuckey wrote for himself. Blaze wasn't bringing no notes into the cage and Stuckey ain't bringing no belt. "These people will be following you to your funeral because I am planning a wake for you, boy."

Hankins splashed water in Stuckey's face. Dom jumped over the table to beat Hankins' ass. Secruity piled into the ring to hold Dom back while Hankins hightailed it up the aisle.

This segment was money. They brought passion and made match a must see. Southern Fried is not billing it as a cell block match (the legendary orginal took place at NWA Wildside's Freedom Fight 2000)  but they could  have. 

(6) Xavier Cross (with Jaden Vain) vs. Judas was a no contest. Judas administered a pillar to post beating except it was all outside the ring. There was a glimpse of Kelly Sexton running for her life. Dee Byers never called for the bell. Vain knocked Judas out with the loaded glove and mocked Judas' pose. Lights out. 

Lights back on. Judas struck the pose and challenged Vain to a tag match at Shindig.

I cannot say enough good things about the way Jaden Vain has gone about embracing this role. 

(7) The Approved (Nick Halen & Adrian Hawkins & Bobby Moore) & Billy Buck defeated Southern Fried Tag Team Champions (Sal Rinauro & Michael Stevens) & Jacob Ashworth & Xander Seabolt in 22:20. Seabolt cut a promo on Buck. The announce team agreed Stevens rivaled Vain as most enjoyed person to punch in the face by members of the locker room.

Vance made a snide remark about people in Monroe not going to bars (the PWR show got canceled due to weather concerns) and referred to Stevens' private parts as his entertainment center. Buck got his hands on shit starter Seabolt. Buck ran wild on everybody and stood tall. Marv was continually getting his ass kicked. Blackwell said huge brutality and zero remorse from Ashworth during the heel heat on Hawkins. Buck got the figure four on Ashworth. Seabolt hit Buck with the cowbell. Stevens of all people started kicking ass. Halen hit the Gamebreaker on Seabolt but Ashworth broke up the pin and pinned his Shindig opponent with Roll of the Dice. 

Well done. The match was structured to spotlight the key players.. Buck is one of Georgia's all-time great babyfaces of the last 25 years. As Halen said in his show opening promo, he's had a lot adversity over the last year and the outcome of this match added to it.