It was the first ever Summer Celebration with 6 big matches. It was a TV shoot for a one hour TV show for this week’s edition. The announcers Brandon Wallace and Greg Russell were both on hand. Russell has had a running feud with the radio host Budro. Budro hosts the show On The Front Row With Budro on 970 AM KNEA which is the ESPN broadcast for NE Arkansas. They have been going back and forth over the RWA TV show. All this has generated a large ground swell for the RWA which is great. Russell put on a very derogatory commercial about Budro and his listeners. Frank Martin has called in and apologized on air for Russell's actions and made Russell apologize to Budro and the listeners. That segment will air this week as well.
The Asylum vs The Irish Dragons. Hardcore rules. Winner Asylum.
Black Sheep vs Soul Train Jones. Winner Soul Train Jones.
The Natural Born Playa'z vs CCR. Winners The Natural Born Playa'z
Ron Rage vs RWA Heavyweight Champion Rodney "Bad Dogg" Mack. Winner and New RWA Champion Ron Rage [pictured with Raven].
Blaylok, Mike Anthony, Reno Diamond (The Dynasty) vs J.D. Kerry, Lucky, Pokerface. Captains Take the Fall. Winners The Dynasty.
Main Event Mike Austin vs Gary Diamond. Barbwire Match. Winner Gary Diamond.
The show opened with a hardcore match to set the tempo. The Asylum and The Irish Dragons. These guy's used everything in the building, road signs, ladders, kindoo sticks,chairs. There were big shots delivered by both teams at one point Acid hit a big boot Psycho and Pappy hit a elbow drop from the apron to the floor. But the big move of the night was a knee drop by Nic Fury. How many people can say the big move of a hardcore match was a knee drop? Well this one came when Nic got the straight ladder its a 20 footer and climbed to the rafters that hold the lights.(BT can verify this one) That is a good 20 foot up above the ring! Hanging from the wood rafter he climbed out over the ring and did a knee drop on Pappy. It was just not enough though, the Asylum is probably the best at hardcore in the Mid South and they proved that and got the victory.
The second match saw Black Sheep(formally Precious) taking on the fan favorite Soul Train Jones. This guy has a following that is Hugh and the kids really love the big man. Black Sheep gave Soul Train all he wanted but as Black Sheep came off the top rope with a cross body Soul Train caught him and slammed him for the 1 2 3.
The Natural Born Playa'z took on CCR no titles were on the line this was supposed to be a revenge match for Cannon who went crazy last week. As Cannon and Dr Randy came out they were one short. Chris Steel was missing. It turned into a handicap match. Cannon went crazy right off the bat, I truly believe if Cannon would have had his partner they would have got the victory. But Cannon got pinned and then the Playa'z jumped Dr Randy. Then they turned their attention to Cannons son Ryan. Ryan rings the bell for the RWA and the Playa'z went after him. The Irish Dragons made the save. Before Intermission Martin called Ryan into the ring. Ryan placed 1st in softball and 2nd in the 100m dash in the Special Olympics. Way to go Ryan you are this reporters hero young man.
After intermission Martin came out and told everyone that he was going to do what most promoters will not do and talk business outside of the building. This was a shoot. Martin explained that there was a rumor going around about Mack and himself. It has been said that they have had a falling out. Martin told the story about how he called Jazz and Rodney to the building before it was finished. Martin explained what he wanted to do with the RWA. Jazz and Rodney agreed to help Martin. Martin told the fans the two families have become one family. Rodney and Jazz lived with Martin for almost a year. The Martin's are the God Parents of Summer and Skye the twin girl's of Rodney and Jazz. All of this is a shoot. Martin called Mack out to assure the fans there was no falling out. Mack came out and told his side of how the Martin's took him when he was down, washed his clothes and how Suzanne Frank's wife cooked breakfast and supper for him and Jazz. How Anthony took him to the store when he had no gas in his truck just and bought him a can of dip. Mack told the fans how he promised Martin he would do all he could for the RWA and the Fans and for him. He thanked the fans, the guy's in the back and then thanked Frank for all he has done. At that point Martin took the mic and told the fans that Mack and him agreed that the actual details of the agreement that they signed this week was private but he said as of this Saturday night Mack is as important as Martin.
The RWA Heavyweight Title Match started at this point. Ron Rage came in through the front door as always. This match was great as both of them gave everything. They took it outside the ring and brought it back into the ring. Mack hit the spear out of no where and looked as if he had the match won. Rage had his valet Raven pull his arm outside the ring and the ref stopped the count. Raven also loaded Rage's arm pad and Rage hit Mack in the head as Mack came in to the corner to clothesline Rage. Rage covered Mack and at the last second Mack got his leg on the rope. After that Mack made his comeback and hit a back to back suplex with a bridge for the pin and as the ref hit the 3 count Rage rolled his left shoulder. Mack got up and celebrated and the fans were going nuts. When the Ref raised Rage's hand the crowed was stunned, Mack was also stunned. Mack almost hit the ref but realized he just did his job. The crowd gave Mack a standing ovation as he left the ring.
The 6 man tag match was a captain takes the fall match. Blaylok was the captain for the Dynasty and Poker Face was the captain for his team. All I can say for this match was holy smokes!!! These guys absolutely tore the house down, the moves and the team work was second to none. It was without a doubt one of the best 6 man tag's that I have ever seen. This is not an easy match to pull off. But these 6 guys pulled off this match and took the fans on a roller coaster ride that was worth the price of admission it's self. The finish was great, as the whole match was getting out of control Blaylok was in position to get beat when he took off his belt and tossed it out of the ring to Mike Anthony. Mike Anthony attacked Poker from behind and racked the belt around his throat and then covered it with a sleeper. The ref checked the arm of Poker 3 times and awarded the match to Dynasty. Blaylok did a great mic spill and let the fans know The Dynasty is the future of the RWA.
The Main Event was supposed to be a light bulb match. This came out of the match last week. Mike Austin busted a 8 foot fluorescent bulb over the head of Gary Diamond and cut Diamonds should up bad. Glass flew out into the fans and it took the ring crew 20 minutes to clean up the ring for the other matches to continue. Martin announced at the beginning that he made a mistake and got caught up in the moment and agreed to let Diamond and Austin do this match. Martin sub the Light bulb match with a barbwire match. Only Martin added a twist, he had two gloves wrapped in barbwire hanging above two corners. Whoever got to the glove first could use it. If they both got one then they both could use them. If that was not enough Martin said he had more barbwire he just might throw in the ring. Mike Austin came out and told Martin he signed a light bulb match. The crowd of 300+ was chanting you suck at Austin it was so loud you could not hear Austin over the fans. Martin told Austin if he did not perform the match he was fired. Austin then grabbed Martin by the tie and started to back him into the corner. Martins son hit the ring, Anthony is 6" 4" and 300 lbs, he is one of the security at the building and is actually a licensed security guard and also a (shoot) body guard. He spun Austin around stepping in front of Martin, other security also hit the ring. Austin told Anthony ok I got your number, that's when Gray Diamond's music hit and Diamond hit the ring like a madman. This match was just brutal from the get go. They used chairs and road signs and when they got the gloves the blood was flowing like crazy. It was a true blood bath and the fans were going crazy over all this. Towards the end Martin came out with a baseball bat wrapped in barbwire and had Anthony give it to Diamond. Austin hit a low blow on Diamond and the bat went to the outside. Anthony pointed it at Austin and Austin was pointing at Anthony and Diamond came up from behind and rolled up Austin for the victory. At this point Diamond was weak from the loss of blood and Austin went crazy and beat Diamond with a big road sign before leaving the ring.
This was by far the biggest and best show for the RWA to date. Martin advertised for the past 2 weeks with commercials on Facebook and flier's and a commercial on TNA as well. There was 300+ in the building to see the show.
Credit: RWAreporter
----I had also heard the rumors of Rodney Mack/Frank Martin having problems. It looks Mack has signed to be part owner of the promotion.
