----The show opened with Kraven Morehead , who came out decked out like it was 1973. He is good on the mic and did a good job opening the show to let everyone know that Seth Knight would be wrestling a “mystery opponent” tonight. “The Golden Boy” Greg Anthony then walked out to talk to Kraven. TGB talked to Kraven for a few minutes until “The Upset Kid” Jeremy Moore came out. TGB told him to just step aside he was taking care of business. Moore pushed TGB from behind trying to get his attention. Finally, Moore made TGB mad enough that TGB ordered a match.
----Jeremy Moore beat TGB [photo to the right] to continue his gimmick “the Upset Kid”. [**1/2] [click here for star rating key]This was a good opener with TGB carrying Moore to a good match. Typical
psychology with TGB getting heat on Moore and Moore getting hope spots to come back. TGB was real stiff with some chops and a few closelines. Moore messed up a flying DDT and then went to go do it again. TGB reversed and threw Moore out of the ring. Moore went to the top rope for a flying press and they followed thru back to TGB on top, but then Moore went over and got the upset. TGB beat up on Moore in the end until Quicksilver came out to make the save.----Cash Flow [Jeff McDonald – promoter] comes out to announce that “Pretty Boy” James was not at the show and he was going to offer someone $500 to take his place and become part of his stable. Tank comes out and Flow offers him to turn to go with him. Tank has been a face here. Tank turns and takes the money.
----Tim Alfonzo beat Anton LaVey. [*1/2] Both guys were babyfaces and the psychology was not there. Both guys did some good moves, but most of the times they didn’t really make any sense. Just felt like a bad TNA bout. Alfonzo won with a lionsault. I always feel you can still do the heel heat even though both are babyfaces. This kind of match just confuses everyone though.
----“Real Deal” Tim Edwards beat Quicksilver [*] There was nothing wrong with this bout. It was mainly a squash with Quicksilver getting little shine. Edwards look better in this bout than I have seen him at times. Edwards is slow and seemed to be blown up, but all of his moves were very solid on QSilver. Silver started his comeback after taking tons of heat. TGB came to ringside and Edwards got the ref’s attention with TGB hitting QSilver with a gimmick.
----Tank [photo below] totally
squashed Tommy Boy and ended it with a 5 count. [**] Tank gave Tommy very little and should have given him nothing. Tommy is ok at taking a beating, but he didn’t even show up in wrestling gear. Tank is so much bigger than everyone on the roster, except maybe Edwards. He looks like a killer unstoppable monster heel. He is doing the 5 count King Kong Bundy gimmick and that is perfect for him.----Main Event: Seth Knight won by DQ over his “mystery opponent” Rude of “Naughty By Nature”. [***3/4] It doesn’t get much better than this bout. Psychology was perfect, but we are talking about Rude here. Match started slow with Rude giving Knight a lot of shine with Knight working Rude’s arm. Rude started his heat when Knight missed a dive into the corner. Rude went against the other side of the ropes and hit Knight was a rolling thunder closeline. Rude continued his heat on Knight with him finally putting Knight in a sleeper. Knight came out with his own sleeper and they got a rest doing these moves. Finish had them doing a double down and Rude went to the top rope for a diving headbutt, which he missed. Knight came back with tons of babyface fire. Move after move. Good stuff. Knight tries for his finisher, but Rude pushes him off and drops out of the ring with the ref pulling Knight back. Rude enters the ring with a chair and hits Knight, which got him DQ’ed. He also hits the ref with the chair. He then proceeded to piledrive Knight and the ref leaving them lying. Both piledrivers were awesome!! He did a mic spill and you would think the place was packed from the heat of this bout.
----Kraven came out again to end the show and thank everyone for coming. It was a good way to end the show as Knight and Walker were carried to the back.
RAMBLINGS: I was told that Jeremy Moore has only been working a little over 3 months. He is very green. Small skinny kid. But, did a very good job in this match with TGB…McDonald’s character is funny, but I think I would like him better do commentary…No tag team matches!!!...I wonder if the kid doing the gimmick knows who Anton LaVey really is?? He was the founder of the Church of Satan…I noticed a few of the young workers wondering around during the main event. Something needs to be set up in the dressing room, so they can watch guys like Rude/Knight have a match to help them understand psychology. Rude is so good
at the little subtle things like making noises when he is getting worked on and working the crowd to perfection…Speaking of Rude [pic to the right], I guess when a man will not shake your hand even when you are complementing him, then you need to just keep your mouth shut; right?? Rude has always been a super nice guy and respected by the boys. I have legit heat from this man for running the story about him being one of the “Insane Clowns”. As I have said, there are no ill intentions to revealing people’s real identity. And, if I don’t like the gimmick I am going to say I don’t like the gimmick. When a man says “fuck you”, “you are the last person I want to talk to” and “just don’t say another word”, well it doesn’t take a smart man to realize he will stay away from around that person. It will not hurt my objectivity [as you can tell if you read this report] as I still see Rude as one of the best in this area. And I just wished people would understand that just because I am the first to report the story, it does not mean that no one else would have told the story. I just happen to find out quicker than anyone else…I like the idea of someone coming out at the start and end of the shows to talk to the fans. Good touch. Kraven is just a natural babyface. He actually came up and shook my hand to thank me for giving him his start?? Did I?? Damn, I don’t remember that one??----The constructing of a new promotion is hard. This is going to be more of a “rise of a phoenix” if this show can pull it off. They have all the key ingredients to have a good promotion. The building is clean and the set up is nice. This will be a slow process and I think if TGB is given the time to do it, he can make the crowds go up and Dyersburg will be a hot wrestling town again. I look forward to seeing the results from these shows every week. I don’t mean any bad feelings for the people at DCWF or TLCW, but let me let you in on a little secret – the NBW crew is hungry. They have lots of drive and they could really care less about anyone else. They worry about only putting on a good show at their building.
