Aired on January 5, 2008
Taped on December 14, 2007 at the SAW Arena in Millersville, Tn
LAST WEEK!! A. M. Vision was the winner of the first BOD sanctioned lottery drawing for a shot at Arrick Andrews’ SAW TV Title. Paul Adams said it was rigged but he had a lucky feeling about Nore Havoc’s chances next time. Andrews defeated Vision…Homicidal Tendencies vs. Indian Nation ended in a double pin with the titles held up. Morton said they would settle in Columbia on Christmas night…Hammerjack was DQed for using the piledriver on Santel. The animosity between Hammerjack and announcer (and former tag team partner) Biggs got turned physical. Jack jumped Biggs, bloodied him bigtime, and had him set up for the piledriver when “Boogie Woogey Boy” Gary Valiant made the save. Jack vowed to end Valiant’s career in Columbia.
Adams was out with Jack Johnson to open the show as Johnson's tag team partner for the day. Johnson said Biggs wasn’t there due to the injuries he suffered at the hands of Hammerjack. “We had blood pouring everywhere.” Johnson said he was in the dark about the details, as usual. Claiming to be an unbiased individual from New York, Adams had somehow been trusted with the task of drawing the name of Arrick Andrews’ next title challenger out of a hat, a Tennessee Titans’ hat at that. Adams drew the name of his man, Nore Havoc. Johnson didn’t seem the least bit surprised. Adams said he had goose pimples running down his arm.
I think you’re full of goose something. Maybe not pimples…SAW starts NOW!”
(1) ”Boogie Woogie Boy” Gary Valiant (with Miss Boogie) pinned Big Rig Bully (Brown) at 4:40 with the Boogie Blaster. Valiant was doing his best to channel Jimmy’s Boogie Woogie Boy mannerisms when he was attacked by Bully. Valiant made the comeback with a chop and Bully spilled over the top rope with a face first bump on the apron and a swan dive to the floor. Valiant won a back and forth battle of armbars to take command, but Bully capitalized on a telegraphed backdrop to reverse his fortunes. Bully worked on the bad neck. Johnson said Valiant wasn’t 100% recovered from the head injury inflicted on him by Hammerjack.
“The last original thought this Boogie Woogie Boy had, he left it swirling in a bowl. And those concussions couldn’t have helped any,” said Adams. He didn’t have nice things to say about Miss Boogie either. “When she comes around, Jack Johnson, it smells like a brothel at low tide.”
The beginning of the end was Bully’s assbusting miss on a middle rope legdrop. Bully took a flying Jim Cornette bump off of a Boogie haymaker. The Boogie Blaster is a running stunner that made for a very effective looking finisher.
Cut to a promo by Valiant. He said they beat the living hell out each other in Columbia and now they were going to be like animals locked in a cage.Two of us is walking in. And I promise you, only one of us is walking out, this Friday night in Millersville.“New Year’s 2000 & Hate” on January 4 in Millersville: Homicidal Tendencies vs. Tribal Nation for the SAW tag titles, Big Rig Bully vs. “Ugene” Nick Dinsmore, and Valiant vs. Hammerjack in a steel cage.
“Boogie Woogie Boy” Valiant video. Wow. Just like they made ‘em 25 years ago. Set to the Tractors “Boogie, Woogie Choo Choo Train,” with cheap ass visual effects and a slew of clips showing Valiant in action.
Cut to a promo by Hammerjack, who was behind a section of fence. He talked about spending most of his teenage years in a cage. Hammerjack said he had humiliated Valiant in front of thousands of people, and the Christmas Chain Match was just a taste. Johnson looked highly disturbed.
You think you’re humiliated now? Just wait until I grind your face into this cage. (as he shreds a head of lettuce on the fence). Boogie, it’s over. Two men enter. One man leaves. Two men enter. One man leaves.
Cut to Homicidal Tendencies and Tribal Nation in a heated dispute at the desk with Kory Williams on the mic.
Y’all smoking too much peace pipe and drinking too much fire water. Y’all didn’t come out with either set of tag team belts. Y’all out here lyin’ and cryin’ to the people. The better team won. The better team will always win. That’s why you out here with dead buzzards on top of your head, crying and trying to get another title match on January 4th. Ain’t happening. Read ‘em and weep boys.
(2) Tribal Nation (Lennox Lightfoot & Indian Outlaw) beat Homicidal Tendencies (Kory Williams & Vic the Bruiser) via DQ in an impromptu match (5:09). They brawled their way into the ring with fans doing the Indian war whoops. The Indians were giving Tendencies a beating until Vic blinded Lightfoot with an eye rake. Tendencies pulled their usual shenanigans to keep heat on Lightfoot. Lightfoot caught Williams with the Four Winds Tomahawk Chop and made the crawling hot tag. Outlaw cleaned house. He “made it rain” with a top rope tomahawk chop, but Williams broke up the pin and tossed a chair in. Vic brained Outlaw with the chair for the DQ.
Postmatch, Tendencies drove a chair into Outlaw’s throat. Vic gave Lightfoot a shoulder mounted piledriver onto the chair. Tendencies tied Nation to the ropes with duct tape. Vic smeared chewing tobacco in their faces, while Williams doused them with cheap vodka.
…brutal, unnecessary, nonsensical, unbelievable. Look at that, Paul. It just doesn’t stop. They’re not going to quit!
Reno Riggins and Mike Sircy tried to intervene but Tendencies just went about their business with a double team chair edge to the throat of Lightfoot.
(3) Mason Raige beat Chris Cane 4:38. This was comical. Raige had a good 12 inches and at least 100 pounds in weight on Cane, who refused to shake hands and just kept running his mouth. Raige said have it your way. Adams said Cane was the runner up in the 2007 Mr. Puniverse contest. Cane’s frustrations mounted as he was unable to make the slightest dent. Raige was looking amused. Cane blinded Raige with a poke in the eyes to set up shoulder block but it was like hitting a brick wall. Raige gave Cane a brutal hiptoss. It built to a spot where Raige wiffed on a lariat because Caine was so vertically challenged, so he got on his knees and leveled him. Johnson called it dwarf bashing. “It’s humorous, but it’s just not fair. The guy’s just limited physically.” Raige pinned Cane with a press slam.
Johnson interviewed Big Rig Bully. He claimed to be SAW’s brightest star - “18 wheels of justice coming straight at you.” Bully said he was tired of losing. “I’ve been on the canvas more times than Picasso.” Bully promised his first win would come at “New Year’s 2000 & Hate” by giving WWE’s most special superstar, Ugene a very special beatdown. “I am the Big Rig Bully. And that my friend is what? A big 10-4.”
(4) Nore Havoc (with Paul Adams) beat Arrick Andrews to regain the SAW TV Title in 7:22. Johnson questioned the legitimacy of the drawing by Adams. Andrews shook his ass at the crowd. Havoc blindsided him, but Andrews made a quick comeback to drive Havoc to the outside. Andrews brought Havoc in the hard way. They traded small package attempts before Andrews got two with a DDT. But Andrews reckless charged in and posted his own shoulder. Havoc sent Andrews into the opposite post and distracted the ref so Adams could choke him with the towel. Andrews kicked out of a shoulderbreaker. The crowd got behind Andrews, but Havoc left him flat on his back with a dropkick. Havoc took his sweet time about hooking the leg, and Andrews grabbed the bottom rope. When Havoc went for another dropkick, Andrews hooked the ropes and took a back bump to Havoc’s groinular region. Andrews skinned the cat and took a flip bump over the top off of Havoc’s lariat. A blinded Sean Casey (complete with cane and dark glasses) was lead to ringside by Samantha. Johnson explained that Casey was still suffering the effects from the hairspray incident several weeks ago. Andrews tried a sunset flip back to the inside, and Havoc grabbed Adams’ towel for leverage. The ref knocked Adams off the apron but Havoc managed to kick out. Casey cracked Andrews across the back with the cane while the ref was looking the other way. Havoc hit the Chopping Block for the three count. As Samantha was leading him to the back, Casey lifted up his sunglasses and laughed into the camera. “He should be ashamed,” Johnson said before getting in one final plug for New Year’s Brawl 2000 & Hate.
Closing Thoughts: For hyping the big show, this was some terrific television, and lots of funny lines as usual. Unfortunately, it didn’t run on Nashville television last Saturday due to a screw up at Comcast, not that local television matters much for drawing fans to indie wrestling. SAW television is a labor of love. A 30 minute version of the show is up on SAW’s website at www.southernwrestling.net. No explanation was offered as to why the BOD would allow Adams to draw the name of Andrews’ opponent. One of those wrestling things, I guess. Fast paced action in the Valiant match. Valiant is growing on me as a babyface. He’s not a great talker or worker, but he’s got a certain appeal that works for SAW’s fan base. Big Rig Bully is gold. He takes the most hilarious exaggerated heel bumps since I don’t know when, and he has the athletic talent to go with it. Johnson’s facial expressions were a sight to behold as Hammerjack was grinding the lettuce into the cage. More great mic work from Homicidal Tendencies. I’ve been a mark for Williams’ stuff since the days of New South. This was by far the best the Indians have looked – more fire, better selling, stiffer blows. Cane/Raige was perverse entertainment of the highest order. Cane was hilarious. Raige had to keep it between the lines. Too cocky and he looks heelish. But if he takes Cane seriously, then he’s got to beat the guy in 30 seconds or he looks like a complete asshole, and the entertainment value goes out the window. Impressive promo by Brown. I wasn’t big on the gimmick until I learned that the part about being a trucker is a shoot. Havoc/Andrews had good heat. It was a solid match to tell the story – Andrews could handle the underhanded tactics of Havoc and Adams, but Casey’s chicanery was just too much - although beating Andrews in only his second defense appears to devalue the title. You could see the finish with Casey coming, but that predictable is fine if it makes you care about the characters. Too bad TNA hasn’t figured that out yet.
