----I didn’t get results from DCWF @ the Pond this week, but did get some news. Jody Allen had a car accident Friday night and was not on the show. He is good and expected to be at this Saturday’s show. One of the regular workers of the show told me about 45 in attendance, so you are looking at a $225 gate. This weekend “Family of Pain” [Sarge O’Riley/Mickey Ray] will be at the Pond along with a “East Coast Bad Boys” vs CP4 match. Yes, you read that right. Don’t know anymore than that.
----I was told that when NBW started up that Derrick King [TLCW booker] pretty much gave his blessing for anyone that wanted to go work there, but they just couldn’t work both promotions. Fair enough. Well, I am being told now that it is every man for himself and DK is trying to get all the good talent to stay with TLCW. I see it from both directions, because I don’t see why DK needs many workers. And, I see why he would want to keep all the better workers. Right now TLCW is drawing better than DCWF or NBW, so why mess it up?? Take a look at NBW’s myspace.com page and you can see main matches for this weekend – TGB vs Quicksilver and Rude vs Knight rematch. Not a marquee lineup, but I do promise you the Rude vs Knight match will be worth your $5.
----I finally got the results from the “secret” Dyersburg show. LOL The story is that they tried to cancel the show, but the radio spots [SL 100 radio spots—hint to Dyersburg promoters!!!] would not stop. Apparently Rocker sent his dad to help with the show and Brian Steele booked it. Close to 60 people were there with a gate close to $450.
----Results 10.06.06 Dyersburg, TN: Gunner Thompson by DQ over “Pretty Boy” James – James had a chain and it looked like Brian Steele was going to tell the ref about the chain, but turned on Thompson – Masked Luchador II [result had Mil Mascaras II, but I refused to call anyone that. That would be like calling a wrestler Bill Dundee II] made the save; AC Havock beat Jason [Bruce Swanner]; TJ Money beat Dell Tucker [who was MLII w/o hood]; Freezer Thompson beat Street Hawk [Rocker’s dad] by DQ when Steele jumped in – Gunner/ML II made save; Gunner/MLII beat Steele/James in a match that last almost 45 minutes [I feel sorry for the crowd at this point] and in the Main Event: “Picture Perfect” [Christian Jacobs/Chris O’Neal] beat Dell Tucker/Brian Steele.
----“Secret Show” notes: I was told the 45 minutes was not as bad as you would think, but I can’t see sitting thru 45 minutes of Gunner Thompson!!!...They ran an angle after the 45 minute match where the heels got whipped by Nikki Lace. Lace ended up whipping Angel Lea [Havoc’s gf], Street Hawk, HT Montel and Steele…Stan Lee was involved in the finish of the main event helping PP.
----Total of gates and crowd was good this weekend. If you take all the shows that I usually run on the “Shows of the Weekend” bit, then you had about 1,200 people attending the shows for the weekend. This mainly is contributed to having so many shows and the 401 that CWA drew on Saturday night. The average ticket price is a little over $6 including the higher price @ CWA and the free show in Batesville – around $7,500 for 12 shows. Almost 60% of that gate was from CWA though with the average gate of the other 10 shows [the free Batesville show does not count] being around $311. This only shows you that fans will come out to see the shows, but you need to have fewer promotions. Fewer promotions would not only benefit the fans, but the workers also.
