----The third leg of the “Thanksgiving Throwdown” tour was Saturday night and the last one for me of this tour. The show was packed and maybe too packed with what I was hearing close to 50 wrestlers on the show.
----Rude/AJ Bradley beat Brian Steele/Pokerface and Ike Turner/Robbie Douglas and the “Asylum” [Arnez/Psycho] in a 4-Corner Tag Team Match becoming the TLCW Tag Team Champions. Poker is way over. “Asylum” got a good reaction coming out at a new arena. The TLCW fans had no idea what to make of them, but were cheering them by the end. Poker knocked Rude off the ring apron ending with AJ Bradley pinning Poker. [**]
----“Rockin’ Randy beat Chris Lexx with Sue Young in a match for the Hardcore Title. Nothing hardcore about it except maybe a chair. Not as good as I expected. The crowd were giving Young hell and she has good heat. I am not sure if the crowd is buying Randy as a baby. Randy superkicked Lexx while he was holding a chair for the pin and win. [**]
----Battle Royal with Tommy Redneck, Idol Bane, Gladiator, Albino Rhino, Maxx Corbin, Shannon Lee, Seth Knight, Dell Tucker and Cody Melton. Who did I miss because that is only 9 and I thought it was a 10-Man?? They finished the Albino turn with him turning against his partner Maxx. Knight got a big pop for winning, but this match was lackluster. [*]
----Bill Dundee beat Kevin White with Sue Young. “Two Dollar Hoe” chant was really bad during this match at Young. White had great heat here for a guy that is not at this show a lot. This was pretty much the same match from the last two nights. Good old school match. I think the work was a little less than the other two nights, but the heat was worth their [**1/2] rating.
----Flex beat Matt Foley. The less said about this bout the better off I will be. Foley is not even over anymore. Flex tried, but after the entrance – no heat and nobody cared and it was not Flex’s fault. [DUD]
----Alan Steele beat Tatt2. This is another bout that I expect more out of. Some good spots, but Steele doesn’t seem to have the heat that a heel needs. Tatt2 is over, but not after the music. Steele powerbombed him hard on his head for the win. [**]
----Derrick King beat Jerry Lawler. Lawler was heel here and talked on the mic putting down Ripley, TN and the fans for about 10 minutes. Lawler is perfect at this. This was total old school with Lawler giving King a little at the front of the match and then all heat on DK. Lawler did a piledriver, which he held King up and moved him to all four sides of the ring and then piledrove him. After a ref bump, Alan Steele hit Lawler on mistake. Then Lawler hit Steele by mistake and DK rolled Lawler up from behind for the pin. [**1/2]
----TLCW Title Match: “I Quit” Match – Flash Flanagan beat “The Golden Boy” Greg Anthony. Not as good as expected, but the best bout of the show at this point. Flash did his signature springboard armtwist. Flash flew between the ropes hitting TGB into the chairs. They fought to the announcer’s table and Flash threw TGB off the table [which was about 10 ft in the air to a table down below and TGB took a hard bump. Flash did an awesome springboard press off a chair he put in the ring. He then set TGB up in the chair and went for a somersault and missed it totally destroying the chair. TGB did an elbow from the top rope along with other near falls. Ref Tavian Robertson took a chair away from Flash and Flash threw him down and looked like some real hard shoot kicks to his back kicking him out of the ring. Ref Bill Rush finished the match. TGB went for the “Goldi-lock”, but Flash reversed I and TGB said “I quit” with Flash winning belt. [***1/4]
----“Loser Leave Town” – Special Ref – Dell Tucker - Dustin Starr beat Jon Michael in the best match of the show. Good solid work to start the match. They went outside the ring with Michael hitting a crossbody off the announcer’s desk to the floor on Starr. Starr got thrown into the seats clearing a whole section of fans. Starr hit a german suplex. Starr/Michael were fighting on the top turnbuckle with Starr getting thrown off and Michael did a frogsplash across the ring. Starr used a crippler cross face. Michael did an elbow drop from the top rope. Michael even hit a moonsault at one point. Michael was doing the 10 punch spot in the corner, when Starr just manhandled him off and it ended up in a side powerbomb type slam. Michael was going to use a chair on Starr, but Tucker grabbed it and then Starr rolled him up for the win. Tucker then smashed Michael with the chair after match and Starr threw him out of the ring. As they were celebrating with the Tucker turn, Tim Grind’s music started to play and out ran Grind bumping Tucker/Starr and sending them out of the ring. Crowd left happy. [****]
NOTES
----230 paid with probably around 250 in this small building. Gate was in the $1600 range…They are doing some kind of partners are not partners for the tag team titles. Yes, it is confusing to me too. LOL…Psycho’s punches at Poker in the corner had the crowd going. Poker was selling like he was dead…DK seem to adjust himself in his tights and IT seem to be sticking out, so Lawler said – See how excited he gets when wrestling me!! LOL…Loved the finish of the TGB/Flash bout…I sit in the bleachers, except for the last two bouts. It is uncomfortable place to be in this arena. People jumping up and down on you and no respect that you are actually trying to watch the matches. Security guards were also in the way a lot. I had to tell one of them more than once to move, so I could see…Jon Michael ties Stan Lee with 3 [****] bouts for the year and Dustin Starr gets his first ever [****] bout…If I was TLCW I would use Kevin White on a regular basis or at least twice or so a month. He had more heat than a lot of their regular heels...Show was way too long. I believe the Lawler vs DK bout was going in the ring at 10 PM with two matches left. I left the building around Midnight…I wanted blood in the “I Quit” match and as one of the workers said, it needed more work on submission holds…Thanks to cast and crew for the all three nights of great hostility and respect. Fun was had by all.
