NWA Wildside report: Abyss returns

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Abyss made a surprise return to NWA Wildside last night. His mission: to destroy Onyx. The former NWA Wildside Heavyweight Champion, aka Prince Justice, made his presence known when he entered the ring following another successful title defense by Onyx. Abyss left the reigning NWA Wildside Heavyweight champion laying and reunited with the evil forces of Attorney Jeff G. Bailey.

 

The Abyss/Onyx confrontation was the high point of a generally average taping that featured short matches without any major storyline developments. The crowd on 90 was not one of the more responsive groups to frequent the NWA Arena. The heat picked up some in the second half, but never really caught fire.

 

(1) Angel Dust & Seth Delay beat Fast Eddie & Salvatore Rinauro in 11:45. Dan "The Dragon" Wilson introduced his favorite official, Andrew Thomas, as a "Dutch oven licker." Eddie gets more arrogant each time out. This started out as singles match between Dust and Eddie, with Rinauro in his meal ticket's corner. Dust was looking good with his lucha styles offense. Eddie was in trouble, so Rinauro jumped in and Thomas declared that it was a tag match. But Dust had a tag team partner of his own. Eddie and Sal started having trouble getting along. They did this tripped out four way spot that ended up with Rinauro having Eddie in an Indian deathlock. Delay hit a picture perfect tope con giro. Rinauro stepped through the ropes to avoid Dust's charge and hit a springboard lariat. Eddie got heat on Dust. Dust came back with a DVD on Rinauro. Delay was on fire off the hot tag. Delay hit the Kool Krusher on Eddie and Rinauro saved. Rinauro hit the Phoenix Fury Legdrop but the ref said he wasn't the legal man. Dust hit a springboard somersault ace crusher on Sal. Eddie dropped Dust on his head with that wild variation of a russian legsweep he's using. Delay caught Eddie with the Overnite Sensation for the pin. Dust tried to give the Junior belt to Delay. Thomas grabbed the belt out of Dust's hands and handed it to Eddie. Thomas ruled that the title was not on the line because it was a tag match. Delay showed a lot of class putting Dust over in the postmatch. A fun opener.

 

(2) Altar Boy Luke & Gabriel beat Jay Fury & Nick Halen in 6 minutes. This was a showcase for Luke and Gabriel's offense. Fury kept his flashy stuff on the down low. Face vs. face so it lacked heat. The God Squad took it Halen early. Gabriel did the top rope double stomp to Halen's back. Luke and Gabriel obliterated Halen with a sequence of stereo ninja moves. Halen did a leg lariat and made a much needed tag. Gabriel and Fury had an awesome exchange that popped the crowd. Luke used a DVD to set up the Halo on Halen. Fury made the save. Luke hit the Holy Driver on Fury and Halen saved with a stiff shot. Gabriel destroyed Halen with From The Cradle To The Grave, but the ref said he wasn't legal. It must be law and order night. Luke hit a guillotine legdrop for the pin.

 

(3) Ray Gordy beat Jeff Lewis in 5:36. Crowd was dead for the intros. There was Jacey North sitting in the first row, still suffering the humiliating consquences of the Loser Becomes a Fan match. Lewis tried to ground Gordy with his mat skills. Gordy escaped and came roaring back with a vengeance. Gordy did his spinning fisherman suplex for a near fall. Lewis used a sloppy counter to regain the advantage. Lewis sold an enzuigiri by falling on his face ala Flair. Gordy hit a senton bomb and covered, but Lewis got a foot on the ropes. Gordy said one more time. Lewis knocked the ref into the ropes to crotch Gordy. Lewis mocked North with the Iconoclasm. A man in a gold mask wearing a familiar "Magnum Condoms" t-shirt appeared at ringside. Lewis whined that it was North under the hood. Meanwhile, Gordy recovered and and surprised Lewis with a bridging german suplex for the pin. It took Lewis a few minutes to gather his wits about him (not an easy task). The masked man had disappeared and there was North, taunting Lewis from the seating area.

 

Bailey entered the ring accompanied by the NWA Elite. Azrael was wearing a "Hail Satan" t-shirt. Bailey said the new year meant new goals and bigger accomplishments. Bailey welcomed "pro wrestling's most spectacular athlete," Jason Cross back to the Elite. Bailey said Onyx was walking around with Elite property. Bailey made a solemn oath to solve the Onyx problem in '04. Bailey vowed that it would be Onyx's last year as a pro wrestler and said the same thing would be true for Caprice Coleman. Bailey said they were going to disfigure Coleman's pretty face. "You're going to be uglier than Kelly Osbourne and that's ugly." Bailey claimed he would prove to Gabriel that his so-called friends were deceivers and users, and bring Gabriel back to the Elite where he belonged. In closing, Bailey said the Elite were the most vulgar display since the outlawing of public hangings.

 

(4) The NWA Elite (Rainman & Jason Cross & Azrael & Mikal Adryan with Jeff G. Bailey) beat Drew the Don & Apollo & Nick Rampage & Skeeter Frost in 8:22. This match had problems in the cooperation department. It was supposed to be almost 100% squash but some of the jobbers had other ideas. Adryan wound up selling, and he's the last member of the Elite that should have been put in that position. The Elite started getting stiff to make sure there was no misunderstanding. Cross dropped an elbow from the apron on Rampage. The impact made a sick thud. The Elite made Frost pay for an insolent slap. Rainman gave the Busta Rhymes looking dude (Apollo?) an ass whipping and refused to make the pin. Apollo finally got a chance to tag, but the Elite pulled his teammates of the apron and beat the hell out of them. Cross hit his brainbuster. Azrael spiked Apollo with a Michinoku driver. Cross ended it with the Shooting Star Legdrop. Adryan gave Apollo a postmatch Assisted Suicide for good measure.

 

(5) Texas Death Club (Todd Sexton & Masada) beat Carolina Connection (Jeremy V & Brandon P) to retain the NWA Wildside tag titles in 7:55. This was a really good match until the finish. They pulled off a lot of intricate spots that were built on their previous encounters. TDC tried a Pearl Harbor job, but CC returned fire, hurling the heels into a bigtime collision. V hit the VDT on Sexton and Masada pulled his partner out to regroup. Masada and P pulled off a swank sequence of moves, wherein Masada did an impressive moonsault to his feet only to get nailed by P's springboard leg lariat. Sexton's interference set up a powerslam by Masada. P took the heat. Masada did a sick double stomp on P's back while the poor guy's head was resting on the bottom turnbuckle. TDC pulled out their combo move of the week, a Masada backbreaker/Sexton bombs away kneedrop. P suplexed Masada into the buckles to set up the hot tag. It looked like Masada hurt is ankle there. V cleaned house. BIG double backdrop on Masada. Double superplex on Sexton. CC went for a new combo finisher, a missile dropkick/powerbomb deal, but Masada broke up the pin. CC blocked a Masadamizer and a Sexton superkick. A double dropkick sent Masada through the ropes. Sexton rolled away from P's top rope elbow. It looked like V was supposed to hit the 450 but it was botched. V covered anyway and Masada pulled ref Speedy Nelson out. Urban Assault Squad (Shadow Jackson and Nemesis) showed up to give V the beatdown. Sexton pinned V using an O'Connor roll with an assist from Masada.

 

(6) Jenny Taylor beat Special K (Krissy Vaine) in 4:22. For aesthetics, this was the best women's match I've seen in Wildside. Taylor and K are North Carolina-based workers that recently appeared on the NACW television show. The women in OVW have nothing on them in the looks department. And the wrestling wasn't all that bad either. K couldn't hang wih Taylor and bailed. Taylor reached for K's hair, but K snapped her throat on the top rope to take over. Taylor did a nice Gibson roll hope spot. K cut Taylor off with a lariat. K stood on Taylor's hair and pulled on her arms. K thought she had Taylor beaten with a backbreaker and complained to the ref. Taylor surprised K with a schoolgirl roll up.

 

(7) Tank & Iceberg beat The Dobbins Brothers (Chad & Jason with Al Getz) via DQ in 4:45. This was OK for a short four-way brawl. You won't see to many matches where Tank is the smallest guy. Iceberg hit a corner clothesline on Chad and rammed him with a series of shoulder blocks. A couple of minutes in, and it was already time to break out the oxygen tank for Chad. Chad choked Tank with an extension cord. Tank went for a nut shot and nailed Chad with a Yakuza kick. Iceberg hit a stacked corner splash that felled both Dobbins Brothers. That's a lot of beef, folks. The finish saw Al Getz distract ref Mike Posey, allowing Bulldog Raines to clock Tank with a chain. That brought Ray Gordy to ringside. Gordy stooged off the interference to Posey, who reversed the decision. More brawling and the faces cleared the ring. Tank said "the son of a legend" had joined forces with them. Tank challenged to Getz Enterprises to a six-man match. "Before it's all over, all of y'all will be licking our balls."

 

(8) Caprice Coleman beat Don Juan to retain the NWA World TV Title in 5:37. Juan's physique has shriveled since his last appearance in Wildside. Coleman pretty much squashed him. Coleman's offense looked good. Juan's selling did not. Coleman worked on Juan's knee and forced him to tap out with a modified stump puller. Juan tried to get some postmatch revenge and Coleman smoked him with the Comatoser. Azrael hit the ring on Coleman, with Bailey bringing up the rear. Azrael hit a killer move, the Ted Bundy (vertical suplex into a uranage) on Coleman. Gabriel and Luke made the save.

 

(9) Murder One beat Urban Assault Squad (Shadow Jackson & Nemesis) via DQ in 6:08. This got as much heat as anything on the show. This was scheduled as a tag match, but Slim J couldn't work because he cut off the end of one of his fingers in an accident (they sowed it back on and he's going to be OK). M1 was more than holding his own against UAS, until he tried going to the top rope. Jackson grabbed M1's leg and M1 took a Flair flip bump off the top. M1 demonstrated how to take a lariat like a man. M1 ducked Jackson's lariat but not the one from Nemesis. M1 dug down deep for a comeback. UAS took the crowd out of it with a messed up combo move. M1 got them back by cold cocking Nemesis with the Blazin' Lariat. M1 had Jackson pinned, when Nemesis dumped the ref for the DQ. UAS hit their finisher on M1. P and V came out to make the save.

 

(10) Onyx beat Rudy Boy Gonzalez to retain the NWA Wildside Heavyweight Title in 6:09. Nothing wrong with the match except the heat. Gonzalez started out with some vicious knees. The champion battled back. An Onyx dropkick couldn't put Gonzalez down, but a vertical suplex did the trick. Onyx locked in a full nelson and Gonzalez was forced to go to the ropes. Rudy Boy went flying like he had slipped on banana peel on a legsweep. Gonzalez got down in the gutter. He went for a cheap shot on the break and spit in Onyx's eyes. They battled on the outside, with Onyx getting the best of it. Back inside, Onyx tried for his finisher, but Gonzalez blocked it and hit a superkick for a near fall. Gonzalez missed with a Vader Bomb. Onyx seized the opportunity and hit the Blackout (spinning implant DDT) finisher for the win.

 

As Onyx began to celebrate another successful title defense, Abyss made a surprise appearance to confront the champion. They stood toe-to-toe, which really accented the incredible size disparity between them. Abyss tried for the choke bomb, but Onyx blocked it. Onyx was not so lucky on the Black Hole. Abyss wound that sucker up full force. Out came Jeff G. Bailey for a joyous reunion with his all-time favorite monster. Abyss hit a sitout backbreaker that left the champion in a crumpled heap. There were referees and security guys all over the place trying to restore order. Abyss wasn't done. He destroyed one of the security guys with a devastating sitout backbreaker. A match between Onyx and Abyss was announced for the next taping on 2/7.

 

NOTES: Hardcore Hell '04 was announced as another two night extravaganza to be held on March 26 and 27…Members of the Wildside crew will be appearing at shows on 3/12 in Douglasville at the National Guard Armory and 3/19 in Woodstock at the Recreation Center…Fright Night '03 is now available on DVD, making it Wildside's first DVD release.

 

 

 

CREDIT: Larry f'n Goodman and NWA-Wildside.com

[Guest Markingout]

Very cool, Wildside DVDs. But werent some DVDs released on Highspots.com?

[Guest Real F'n Show]

show sounds decent. I really need to get some Wildside, because I haven't seen any yet.