Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Arena Report: All Pro Productions Bruce, MS 3.08.08

----Anton LeVeigh with Lil’ Bit beat Chris Styles with Josh Matthews by DQ, when Josh Matthews jumped in. How can the “Southern Saints” be heels in the South?? They were wearing Confederate flag gear and were still booed. Not much of a match – just to set up main event. [*1/2]

----Brandon Barbwire with Lil’ Bit beat Josh Matthews with Styles by DQ, when Chris Styles interfered. Ditto for this one. Styles had some great heat!! Crowd hated him. [*1/2]

----Ken Wayne/Eric Wayne came out and was talking about his wrestling school and how proud he was of Eric. “Bodies of Steel” [John/Max] with “Hollywood” Jimmy Blaylock came out. Blaylock took the mic and went on to tell Ken how bad of a wrestler that his dad Buddy Wayne was. He then said, “As for the Nightmares, Danny Davis carried that team.” He then pointed at Eric and said, “I think he might have a little sugar in his tank.” The Waynes turned to leave and got jumped. Jerry Lawler came out and made the save to set up the next match after intermission. If I gave stars for angles, this would have been [*****]. Blaylock was so “on” with his delivery. Ken was bumping his ass off and the Lawler save was good. Kudos to all involved in this angle.

----Jerry Lawler/Eric Wayne with Ken Wayne beat “Bodies of Steel” [Max/John] with “Hollywood” Jimmy. Good match – best on the show. The psychology was a little strange and that is weird considering who was involved – double heat sort of. Some spots were blotched due to the “Bodies”, but nothing the fans noticed. They were “into” this bout. Eric’s left hand punches looked a bit weak. Eric was doing something usually done by vets – he was making the big guys look great!! All his bumps and selling was right on cue. Lawler piledrive John. Lawler then dropkicked John out of the ring. Eric hitting a flying Benoit headbutt on Max for win. [***]

----Uncle Felton beat Chris Fontaine. Not long – not horrible. Fontaine did a good job with Felton. [*]

----Little J/Matt Justice beat Little Devil/Cameron Valentine. I did not get a chance to see any of this bout.

----“Asylum” [Psycho/Pappy] with “Hollywood” Jimmy beat Greg King Jr/Kid Nikels. Good match. Perfect psychology. King took a good ass beating in the heat. Nikels got the hot tag and was on fire!! He looked stiff as hell too. LOL Blaylock cut him off with a kendo stick to the back and “Asylum” hit their finisher “Falling From Grace” – Pappy hits a Samoan drop and then Psycho hits a headbutt to the ribs on the other side. They then both pin their opponent. [**3/4]

----“Tables” Match: APP Tag Team Champions: Brandon Barbwire/Anton LeVeigh with Lil’ Bit beat “Southern Saints” [Chris Styles/Josh Matthews]. No psychology and pretty much a clusterfuck. Everyone juiced except for Josh – there was real no need in it. Some good spots and all four guys did work hard. Some real good dives at the start of the bout. It ended up with Lil’ Bit jumping from the top turnbuckle to the floor on all four guys – she looked good. I would have rather seen a wrestling match between these four guys. I usually see the fans sitting on their hands during a match like this, but they were eating it up. “Tables, Tables” chant all thru the bout – very hot when they finally got the table in the ring. It took them 5 tries to break the table with Anton finally breaking it. Angle at the end had Anton/Barbwire shake hands with Saints and then Saints beat them up to set up match for next time in Bruce – TLC Match with Barbwire wrapped around the ring. [Rumor has it that they will set the ring on fire and all the wrestlers will also piss on the ring. LOL Just kidding!!] [**1/2]

NOTES

----210+ in the crowd...www.hollywoodjimmy.com webmistress Tia Blaylock was present for the show holding a puppy. They were giving away puppies at the show. No kidding – only in Mississippi and wrestling. LOL…Kenny Valiant set my book table with his DVDs right beside Lawler’s table. Lawler made all the gimmick money for that night…Lawler was not wearing his strap??...Not sure on the Lawler/Eric finish for the match. I couldn’t read my handwriting and it has been two days!!...Anton LeVeigh was over like a bologna sandwich in Ethiopia. Barbwire/Anton were working hard at intermissions – selling autographs and such….I really like Barbwire’s “look” right now. He has changed his gear and he looks like Marilyn Manson ran into someone from the “Wizard of Oz”. This kid has an unique look and I would love to see him “work” more…Cameron Valentine has a great look and does look like Greg. His robe is over with me…There was a chair stomp spot where it looked like Anton got his head demolished. One minute later he is up doing suplex. Do you know what is wrong with the business today?? LOL…Blaylock was dressed in all black…Blaylock/Waynes/Lawler angle would have made some good TV…Would love to see them do a program with Kid/King vs Asylum – sort of the underdogs getting beat every time and then finally get the win. Or Asylum with Blaylock needs to finally elevate to matches like Lawler teaming with someone. They are better workers than “Bodies”. VOICE YOUR OPINION ON THE ALL PRO SHOW ON RRO'S KAYFABE BOARD