----The show started with the presentation of the ASWF “Hall of Fame” inductees. I am sorry if I miss someone here as I was running back and forth trying to cool off. It was hot as Hades in the building. Inducted were Jimmy Valiant, Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, “Family of Pain” [Sarge O’Reilly/Mickey Ray], “Treat Connection” [Loose Cannon/San Francisco Treat]., “Luscious” Leonard Brand, “Dirty Little” Dave, Kamala [broke kayfabe and talked thanking the fans!!], Dusty Wolfe, Brandon Baxter and Austin Lane.
----When Dundee came out to get his award, he called Valiant back into the ring. He told a story about when he and Valiant were both going thru divorces that Valiant moved in with him in Nashville. Jamie was living with them at the time. Dundee made the comment if you wonder why Jamie is a little crazy, then that might explain something. Valiant said that Dundee cooked, he washed dishes and Jamie ate. LOL Valiant then told a story of coming back from a show and getting in a hot tub with Jamie and some girls. The only problem with that Valiant was naked and the others had suits on. Good stories.
----Dundee also came out to tell a story after Lawler got his award. Dundee said that Lawler and he were headed to Evansville, IN one night in Lawler’s red corvette and it was snowing and sleeting. On the way back from the show, the weather got worse. Lawler had made the statement they needed gas. Then all of a sudden Lawler lost control of the car doing a couple of 360s and when the car stopped it about two feet from the gas pump. Lawler looked over at Dundee and said, “I told you we needed gas.” LOL Good stuff.
----“Crazed Country Rebels” [Cody Murdoch [formerly Velvet Thunder]/Wild Bill] beat X-Kalibur/Chuck Daddy. Heat on X, but hot tag was messed up a bit. Not too impressed with Daddy or Bill. I want to see X in the ring with someone as good as him. Murdoch is a big guy and has potential. Cody pinned Daddy for win. [*1/2]
----“Family of Pain” [Sarge O’Reilly/Mickey Ray] beat Dirty Little Dave/Psycho with Kayte. Match started out good. No psychology, but was fun to watch. DLD is so small and Psycho looked huge as his partner. Not sure who was heel or baby. Ray got Kayte outside the ring and chokeslammed here out on the concrete. Psycho went after Ray and Sarge pinned DLD with a small package. [**]
----Mr. Wrestling III [Dusty Wolfe] beat “Luscious” Leonard with a knee lift and pin. This was totally old school match and the crowd was not much into it. Just slow hold for hold stuff that looked shoot. Best bout I have seen Leonard in. [*1/2]
----Jerry Lawler/Bill Dundee pinned “Treat Connection” [Loose Cannon/San Francisco Treat] with Rottn Randy in the second best bout on the show. This was an old school comedy match with Cannon/Treat not missing a beat. Lots of shine for the babys – they are Lawler/Dundee – LOL. Treat was also real good trying to kiss Lawler and grabbing his ass. They did a bunch of comedy spots with Cannon and the crowd ate it up, including a spot where Cannon was chasing Dundee, but both of them were running over Treat. Heat on Dundee with hot tag to Lawler. Lawler pulled the strap down and ended the match by piledriving Cannon for the pin. This was a very entertaining bout and the crowd loved it. [***1/4]
----Bruiser Graham beat Bubba “The Pitbull” Studley with Big Money. Big Money handcuffed to Jimmy Valiant. Big Money came out and did a real good mic spill. Money looked like a sleezy 70’s porn star. After the win, Demon X came out to remove the handcuffs Valiant from Big Money, and then turned on him. [**] . * for match and * for Big Money.
----Kamala beat Scott Fury in an ASWF non-title match. Kamala was super over here to the level of Lawler/Dundee. Fury did a good mic spill, but no one gave a shit, because it was so hot. This was the typical Kamala match, with Kamala giving very little and then getting the win in the end. Fury tried, but not much here. [*1/2]
----Austin Lane beat Brandon Baxter. This was another one of their wild crazy brawls. They started out hold for hold in the ring, which was the only bitch about the match I had. As much heat as these guys had, they really should have just gone to the crowd first. They went to the top of the building and all over the building. Real stiff stuff in the crowd. They went to the ring setting up near falls and hitting them to perfection to the point you thought it was over, when it wasn’t. Finish had Lane go behind as Baxter was going after Nikki Lane for the pin. Baxter went after Nikki after the match and then he picked her up and spanked her. Scott Fury ran in and ended up getting a chair to the end from Lane and I believe Baxter then stunned Lane. I am not sure as my brain was frying from the heat by this point. [***3/4]
NOTES: There were at least 200 people in the building and maybe more. Some were still coming in when I was counting and then some had left because it was so hot. This is the best building I have been to in this area…I gave Valiant a copy of the RRO Valiant DVD release that I did with Kenny Valiant. CLICK HERE to get yourself a copy. LOL BTW, I also got an autographed copy for myself, so I can sell it on ebay.com. LOL J/K…Please e-mail me if I missed anyone on the “Hall of Fame” list…Weird that they inducted Wolfe into the “Hall of Fame” and then he worked under the hood??...For all those that give Treat/Cannon hell – they went out and worked Dundee/Lawler without talking to them about ANYTHING – not even the finish. True pros. I didn’t think much of their manager Rott’n Randy at ringside – he did very little except run once from Lawler…A dude came to me and ask if I was Brian Tramel and I said, “yea.” He told me that he loved my site and wouldn’t have known about the ASWF, if he had not read about it on the site. He said he comes all the time now and it looked as if he had two or three people with him. For those that don’t think this site can contribute to your attendance and gate, including some on the current ASWF staff, then there is proof…Baxter got the biggest pop of the night.
