Blood & Honey 10 -- Atlanta on July 19

Photos by Matt Watkins From Larry Goodman: No way I was not going to be there. For o ne night only --  RobBrod, Jeff G Bailey, Dan Wilson, T...

Photos by Matt Watkins

From Larry Goodman:

No way I was not going to be there. For one night only --  RobBrod, Jeff G Bailey, Dan Wilson, Tank and Matt Griffin a block away from my first home in Atlanta, kitty corner to an Atlanta institution.

Manuel's Tavern

Bizarre stuff always happens at Blood and Honey but Mercury retrograde was in effect so there was an extra level of weirdness like one glass pane shattering for no apparent reason and others that refused to break. The cops paid B & H a visit for the third show in a row. Nathan Mowery is now the proud owne of citationn for violating the City of Atlanta noise ordinance.

Bailey did live commentary with Rob Weathers. Don Miguel was the ring annoncer. Refs were John Ellington and Jessie B.

Attendance at Monk's Meadery looked roughly the same as last time, so call it 175. Crowd loved the show and never gassed out. Under normal circumstances, a steady diet of three hour shows would eventually bite them in the ass. Does such a thing as normal exist anymore?

(1) Top Team (represented by Terry Yaki & Neji Ichiban with Carson Rogers & Stella Randy) defeated Coven of the Goat ("The Human Grindhouse" Tank & Nathan Mowery with the Reverend Dan Wilson & Bombshell) in 15:26. Mowery's chairshot to Yaki's back sounded like a shotgun blast. Ichiban's weapon of choice was a brick. Ichiban got his dick twisted, bitten and bricked by Tank. Also had Teriyaki sauced poured down his gullet.

Indelible moment of the match was Yaki's psychotic, dive off a trailer to put Mowery though a table.

Tank got impressive color. Rogers got involved and Tank got put through a table. Ichiban knocked Bombshell and Stella off the apron and they crashed landed through a table on the floor. Mowery cleaned house and choke slammed Yaki trhough a table covered with upright plastic forks. Jessie B got bumped. Jazzy Yang ran in with a low blow for Mowery and put on a ref shirt. Looked grim for Mowery but Tank planted Jazzy on her face.

Rev lit a table up for Mowery but Ichiban superplexed Mowery into the flames for the win. 

Great action right from the rip and a meaty story to boot. Top Team got over on Mowery again and for the second straight show the B & H fans saw their hero pinned.

(2) Jamesen Shook defeated Sean Campbell in 8:48. Lots of kiddie toys used here. Campbell got his body carved up pretty good and was wearing a blood mask. Shook coldly and methodically went about his work. Campbell suplexed Shook onto a barbed wire board game. In the end, Campbell took a nosedive into a barbed wire abyss from an electric chair position. 

Shook put Campbell over huge after the match. Said a list of Southern deathmatch icons somebody came up with had Mowery, Lil Sicko, Mr. Danger and himself and Campbell should be on that list.

(3) Keelin Cole defeated Spectre in 14 minutes. In short order, Cole has become revered talent at B & H. There was a notable lack of visible fuckery as the match got underway. They played hot potato with a light tube that eventually got smashed on Spectre's back and ground into his forehead. Spectre used tack-loaded nunchucks. Cole sent Spectre into a barbed wire board with a DVD. A piece of glass literally shattered in Specte's hands and he got a "you fucked up" chant on top of it. The look on his face was priceless. The big spot -- involving the glass and a king-sized Batman figure - was screwed. Spectre improvised with a leap off the ropes using the Batman as a weapon. Vivian Cross to the rescue with another sheet of glass. Cole tried to put Spectre through the bridged sheet of glass. The glass did not break. Cole pinned Spectre anyway. Good match. Not quite what they envisioned.

Post-match, Spectre said this was the second time Cole had beaten him and they shook hands.

(4) Corinne Joy defeated "Grayson Pierce in 25:25. Match was set up by their lover's quarrel at B & H 9. Joy's entrance was outside standard deatmatch sensibilities. "Everybody's White Boy of the Year" Pierce out to David Bowie's Fame.  They had a compelling story to tell. Performing  the extended  cut did them no favors and that wasn't the half of it.

Each wanted to solve the problem by having the other lay down. Pierce said he wasn't asking. Joy dropkicked Pierce in the nose and beat him up pretty good. Pierce was bleeding. He poured tacks out of  a bouquet of roses and suplexed Joy into the tacks. The women in the crowd, now massively behind Joy, cranked up a "Diva" chant. They both ended up with tacks in their backs. 

A growing pack of workers were watching from behind the crowd. Pierce gave Joy a suicide cutter onto a bridged chair. Joy gave Pierce a tornado DDT into the tacks. Joy was screaming like a banshee. She took a tube bundle to the head and suplexed Pierce by his dick for a near fall. Joy put her hair up so this was getting serious. Pierce got a "Fuck you, white boy, fuck you" chant. Joy hit an avanlanche Joy Ride into a light tubes for a falsh finish. Pierce gave Joy a beautiful twisting vertical suplex into angled barbed wire board. Joy was bleeding and clearly in pain when she kicked out.

Joy kissed Pierce and shoved him onto a bridged pain of glass. Great idea for the finish but the glass did not shatter. This was no ordinary glass. This sucker was three inches thick. Would have taken a true heavyweight to make it shatter and maybe not even then. A press slam onto the glass couldn't break it. 

Pierce took an Irish whip into the glass. No way it was breaking. The talent watching from the "curtain" were begging them to  stop. Pierce slammed into the glass two more times before they gave it up and Joy just pinned him.  The pane of glass was saved for posterity. 

If there was ever an obvious case where less would have been more, this match was it.

(5) Matt Griffin (Young Boy Sam & Young Boy Cooper) defeated Lil Sicko (with Sadistico) and Dimitri Alexandrov and Anakin Murphy (with Davina Thorne) in 11:05.  A tie with the opener for my favorite match of the night. Sicko is an athlete and and artist. Deatmatch wrestling is his canvas. Griffin did not bleed out. Sure looked like he could have though. 

Griffin had the unfair advantage of Sam and Cooper feeding him implements of destruction. He got both barrels of hate from the B & H crowd...and a light tube sandwich from  Alexandrov. Griffin got the best of a tower of doom. Dimitri  got the worst. Griffin made the rounds with light tube shots and a tack bat. Griffin KOed Thorne with one punch for more hate. Thorne and Sam are both are willing and able female bleeders. Thorne got the gusset plate treatment. 

Payback was hell for Griffin. Sicko's 619 was creative.  

Alexandrov brought forth the firecracker bat. 

 Sicko put his skateboard to good use and ate one from Sam.

Alexandrov took Thorne out with a bundle of light tubes. Murphy dropkicked Alexandrov off the apron and through a table and he was done. Cooper's barbed wire contraption sent Sicko careening off the top rope to the cement. Crazy, crazy bump but Sicko survived. Griffin suplexed Murphy into a giant light tube explosion to end the match. 

Afterward -- Griffin reiterated his challenge to bring him the Death Match Gods and he would slay them. They're building to something with these grandiose challenges.  Murphy led the crowd in a "Fuck you Matt Griffin" cheer.

(6) Mr. Danger defeated Hardcore Hillbilly to retain the DWA Ultraviolent Championship in 14:05. HCHB is still very over with the B & H crowd but Mr. Danger gave him a run for his money. Danger did a tope into light tubes as seen below.

Danger hit a springboard senton. He gets such great ups on his springboards, they never fail to get a reaction.  Best gore of the night award went to Danger.  HCHB pounded a gusset into Danger's head. His head was enveloped in blood. In a rare show of wrestling skill, HCHB turned the tables on Danger's suplex. Danger shotgun dropkicked HCHB into a barbed wire board and covered him with a pane of glass. As you might expect on this night, Danger's coast-to-coast dropkick did not shatter the glass but it did get HCHB hopelessly snagged in the barbed wire. HCHB's cannonball shattered the glass all over Danger. The pop was orgasmic after all the glass glitches. Danger kicked out and won with a 450 onto light tubes with HCB buried underneath. 

Danger and HCHB did a show of sportsmanship to close the show.

NOTES: Blood & Honey returns to Monk's Meadery for Chapter 11 on August 22 ...Visiting and helping out were Jimmy Yang, JB Anderson, Big Dave, Effy, Hakeem Young, Dante Darko, Vivian Cross and Nathan Hamiliton.