First Round
Match 1 “Human Highlight Reel” Austin Lane vs Maw Southern Champion Chris Lexx
In a re-match from last years semi finals, it was Chris Lexx defeating last year’s winner Austin Lane with the lexecution after 9 minutes of back and forth action. After the match, commissioner KC Gold came out to congratulate Lexx but was shoved aside by Lane. Lane then offered Lexx a handshake of respect, to which Lexx reluctantly agreed.
Match 2 The Goldenboy Greg Anthony [pictured] vs Idol Bane.
A hard fought match for 2 first time Memphis 10 invitees. Ultimately The Goldenboy came out victorious by putting his feet on the ropes to secure the victory and advance to the second round.
Match 3 Magnificent Reno Diamond vs Stan Lee
In probably the best move for move, counter wrestling match of the first round, Reno Diamond hit the Diamond Bomb on Lee at the 11 minute mark to gain advancement to the second round.
Match 4 Danny B. Good vs Johnny Dotson
Another re-match from last years semi final round. Some interesting things in this match as these 2 turned it into an impromptu tag match of sorts, with Danny B even tagging in the security guard. Once all was settled it was Danny B coming out on top for the second straight year.
Match 5 Derrick King vs “The Future” Dell Tucker
This was scheduled to be King vs Tatt2 but for “Personal Reasons” Tatt2 declined to wrestle and was replaced at the last minute by Tucker. Tucker brought everything to the match with everything to win & nothing to lose, but the experience of King was too much. In the end King ducked a clothesline attempt & hit his patented superkick to gain entry to the second round. After the match Tucker was superkicked several more times by King & Johnny Dotson.
After the completion of the first round K.C. Gold return to the announce table with the names of the winners from the first round on separate slips of paper. He asked Poncho to draw a name as the person to get the BYE into the final round. Much to Gold’s dismay it was Derrick King getting the free pass to the finals. Once that was determined the rest of the names were drawn to set up the semi final matches.
Round 2
Match 6 Chris Lexx vs Goldenboy Greg Anthony.
These 2 guys went at it for 8 solid minutes before Derrick King interfered hitting Lexx with the Southern title allowing Goldenboy to be victorious and advance to the finals.
Match 7 Danny B. Good vs Reno Diamond
Another great wrestling match by these two. Ultimately Danny B. came out on top becoming the first man to go to the finals for 2 straight years.
Match 8 Main Event Goldenboy Greg Anthony vs Derrick King vs Danny B. Good
Much as one would expect TGB & King worked together to try to eliminate Danny B.
After a TGB went for a pin & King broke it up, King began asking what TGB was thinking. The argument then turned to who is actually the best between these two. It didn’t take long for them to come to blows with both gaining the upper hand on the other for a brief time. At one point Danny B. took a hard bump to the floor, but got back into the mix and continued to battle. After the ref for the night was squashed in the corner by Danny B accidentally, Dre Black interfered turning Danny’s attention to Black, and the 2 battled up the isle. With TGB on the floor trying to recuperate, Chris Lexx slipped in behind King and delivered the Lexecution as K.C. Gold tried to revive the ref.
Goldenboy seized the opportunity dragged the ref over & covered King. Danny B. couldn’t get there in time as the 3 count came down to declare The Goldenboy Greg Anthony the winner of the 2nd Memphis 10 tournament and the new M.A.W. Champion!
After the match TGB declared that he always says he is the Best of the Best & this just goes to prove it, and he did it all by himself! He told the crowd that he had said he was going to win and then finished by telling King he knew TGB’s word was “Good As Gold”!!!
NOTES
A handful of workers were in the crowd all night, including Tatt2, Bishop, Baron Malkavain, Pokerface, Malik, and a few others…. Attendance was very slim, considering this was the first time they have run back to back weekends at the New Daisy, with only about 35 in the crowd, but all the guys worked immensely hard and by all reports everyone got paid. …Word is that M.A.W. will still be holding shows at The New Daisy but they may be venturing into other areas in hopes of drawing better crowds and running more frequent shows…As of now they are scheduled to be back at The New Daisy on Oct 19.
Credit: MAW Gizzold
----Good to see Greg Anthony win here – this is probably as shoot as you can get when it comes to the best performer in this area…Why did Tatt2 sit in the crowd, but not work??
