----The show started with an angle where the announcer Kimble Winstead brought out Uncle Felton [manager of the Hillbillies] to say a prayer and for them to play the National Anthem. “Hollywood” Jimmy Blaylock came out before the anthem started. Felton ended up getting beat up and The Hillbillies made the save to set up a match later in the night.
----John Saxton/Ricky Rocket with Danielle beat “Pure Destruction” [Cody & Brody Hawk] with Hollywood Jimmy. Good opening bout. Perfect psychology. Heat on Rocket with hot tag to Saxton. Crowd was hot for it. Nothing wrong with the match. [**½]
----Danny B Goode/Blade Boudreaux with Lady Vixen beat Sarge O’Reilly/Eric Wayne. Double heat on babys with Good taking the blunt of it. Hot tag to Blade. Good solid match. My first look at Wayne and he is going to be real good. At one point it looked as if Wayne was faster than Goode and was very good at chain wrestling. [**½]
----Pappy/Giant Hillbilly/Candyman beat Max Steele/Joe Cane/Chris Kilgore. Heat on Candyman. Steele is real green, but has a good look. Cane reminds me of Jerry Stubbs and what I seen of him, he is good. Kilgore has always been a solid worker - nothing flashy or fancy. Pappy used the Hillbilly drop for the win. [*½]
----Don Bass, “Gentleman” Jim Casey and “Hollywood” Jimmy came out. Bass’ music played first and then Jerry Lawler’s music played. Jimmy was dressed like Lawler with a cape, crown, prison stripes suit and handcuffs. Jimmy pretended to be Lawler and talked about him being thrown in jail in Tunica for hitting wrestling managers. He made some comment about instead of using Redbird mascot they could use him as a jailbird. The real Lawler then came out and made the challenge for the match with Bass. This was good as any SNL skit where they make fun of news events. Jimmy was priceless here.
----Greg King Jr/Kid Nichols beat Blazing Star/Brett Michaels. Not good, but I guess it was good for rookies. King and Nichols are also from the http://www.nightmarekenwayne.com/ school of wrestling. Good on their chain wrestling, but this was only good when Michaels was in with them. I have seen lots worse and that has been from veterans.
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----Kimala beat Psycho with Kayte. Not good. It was not horrible, but nothing special. Psycho seem to try to get the beat down on Kimala, but he just kept coming back with Psycho getting no heat. Three chops to the head and then Kimala just dropped on Psycho for the pin. [*½]
----Austin Lane with Nikki Lane/Hollywood Jimmy beat Phoenix X in the best match on the show . [that I got to watch] Some of the stuff was sloppy in parts, but these guys work a total different style with high spots with Lane getting heat on X with power moves. X is very small. X had some really stiff chops. X made the comeback and went to the top rope. Lane caught him in midair and it looked like he was hitting him with a power bomb, but ended up coming down with a face buster. It looked real good. [**¾]
----Jerry Lawler beat Don Bass with Hollywood Jimmy/Jim Casey. As I said on commentary, this was very old school with the proof that less is more. This match had the most heat of any of the bouts. Bass did his old “hide the chain” trick - in his tights, in his mouth or under his arm. Nothing special to me with nothing wrong from two old pros that have worked this match probably 100 times or more. Crowd liked it. [*½]
----Kid Kash/Anton Leveigh beat Brandon Barbwire/Doug Gilbert. I did not get to see this match, because I was interviewing Lawler at the time. I talked with three of the guys in match afterwards and everyone thought it felt good. Kash had good comments about Anton.
----There was only about 120 people paid with probably around 140 in the building. Gate was around $1,200...Danielle is nice to look at, but not much at ringside…I did an interview with Ken Wayne after the first match putting over his school...Candyman brings out candy for the fans. It seems to get over, but hell he is giving away candy. LOL If it was Charles Manson and he was giving out candy the marks would take it. He was real sloppy on offense, but took a good beating…It was funny because when Lawler came to the ring the first person he met was me. LOL I brought the microphone to him and then held his crown. ..Not a great show, but good for fans that just like basic wrestling. There was also a good mix of all kinds of talent, so it was good to see some of these guys for the first time.
