NWA Wildside results with David Young vs AJ Styles

[Mark B Ware]

NWA WILDSIDE: HARDCORE HELL RECAP
By: Larry Goodman

David Young defeated A. J. Styles in the main event at the first night of NWA Wildside’s 6th annual Hardcore Hell event.

It was an outstanding match that, along with an emotional postmatch tribute, was the highlight of an otherwise unremarkable show.

The 2005 version of night one was somewhat of a letdown in comparison to recent first night shows. The first night of the 2003 show turned out to be the better of the two. The 2004 night one show closed with a terrific angle (Christopher Daniels turning on God Squad) to set up the main event (and Wildside match of the year) for night two.

The crowd was the same size (165) as last year’s first night show.

Bill Behrens announced that Biohazard would miss the show due to injury and that Masada couldn’t make it because he was headed back to Japan (see notes below).

(1) Murder One & Nick Rampage beat Urban Assault Squad (Shadow Jackson & Jacey North with Nemesis) in 7:15. It wasn’t pretty. But it was stiff as hell and the crowd was hot for it. North cut a short promo, saying it was one down (Biohazard) and two to go. He ended up with a concussion and remembered zero about the match. Crowd broke into “kill the cracker” for North, which was the first of many chants during the first half of the show. M-1 came out blazing with forearm shots. At 3:15, heel chicanery sent Rampage to the floor, where Nemesis lit him up with a chop. Rampage took a sick bump on a side slam from Jackson, directly on the cervical vertebrae. Rampage dropped North on his head to get the hot tag. Murder One cleaned house with an exploder suplex on North. Jackson took a hideous bump over the top. Rampage pinned North after a Hart Attack double team. North was carried out by his teammates.

(2) Brent Silver beat Ken Westbrooks to retain the NWA Wildside US Title in 9:27. The US title is the prize on the weekly Friday night shows. Westbrooks has the athletic ability, and there’s no question about his wrestling skills (state champion in high school), but his striking needs major work. Silver goes around 250. He brings to mind both Triple H (body type) and Lex Luger (lack of fluid movement). Match was well laid out. Problem was in shaky execution. Silver used a cheap shot on the break. Westbrooks’ payback flurry built to an overhead belly to belly suplex. Silver rammed Westbrooks’ gut into the post a couple of times and generally worked over the body part. Westbrooks started going for Benoit’s triple german suplex sequence. Silver blocked #2 and struggled mightily with a backbreaker into a fallaway slam. Silver was sucking wind. Westbrooks hit two germans and then got the trifecta. Silver kicked out at 2 and 7/8. The crowd popped when Westbrooks got an ankle lock. John Johnson (Silver’s manager on the Friday night shows) left the announcer’s booth and ran down to ringside. Silver made the ropes with Johnson’s help. Silver used a low blow and went for his finish. Westbrooks tried to counter with an Angle slam. Silver escaped and got the pin with a sitout powerbomb. We had a Bennie Hinn moment, as Silver was miraculously healed and never sold the ankle at all.

(3) Alabama Attitude (Adam Roberts & T. C. Carnage) beat Sweet Dreams & Cru Jones in 9:19. The faces dominated the Alabamians early. Dreams looked a lot sharper than last week. Jones damn near knocked Carnage out with a lariat. The lights were flickering. Roberts turned the tide with a Russian legsweep, as Dreams took the heat. Nice double team powerdrive flapjack by Attitude. Carnage took a big bump on a missed moonsault. Dreams topped it with a missed tumbleweed. He might kill somebody if he hit it. A double down spot lead to the hot tag. Dreams got the worst of a suicidal flip dive onto Carnage. Meanwhile, Jones hit the Pounce on Roberts. Carnage smashed Dreams into the ring steps. AA doubled on Jones and pinned him with Attitude Adjustment. Jones was down in the ring for a long time. It looked like his neck got whiplashed on the finisher.

(4) Rick Michaels won the Reunion Rumble in 17:32. Another match with some good booking ideas (and in this case, some not so good) that ran into problems in the execution. Rules were over the top eliminations until only two men remained. It was 90 seconds between entrances. Former partners Sergeant Hardner and Cooter Calhoun, started it out. Rick Michaels entered by spitting a spectacular fireball. He went one on two against Platoon. The entrance of former NWA Wildside tag team champion White Trash got the biggest pop thus far. Trash still wields a mean stop sign. He blasted Calhoun and Hardner with the stop sign for some monster pops. Michaels turned on Trash with a Double Shot. Tony Stradlin was next. Stradlin has undergone an amazing physical transformation since his Wildside days. All hard work and clean living, no doubt. Stradlin put Michaels in a cravate. Michaels superkicked Stradlin in the liver. Shane Austin-Young was next. He was only there during Wildside’s infancy and I suspect very few fans knew him. Calhoun and Trash tumbled over the top rope. Austin eliminated Hardner. Scottie Wrenn got the biggest entrance pop of the night. Wrenn ran wild. He made short work of Stradlin. He hit the Psycho Slam on Austin, which got the “Tick, Tick” chant going. Wrenn turned heels on Michaels. Stone Mountain entered the ring, laid Wrenn out with the Landslide and eliminated himself. The crowd groaned with Michaels dumped Wrenn. Mountain and Wrenn battled to the back. That left Michaels vs. Austin-Young to decide the winner. It was no mat classic. Fans chanted “kill the mullet” at Austin-Young. He tried to used a chair. Michaels kicked it into his face. Michaels sandwiched the chair around Austin-Young’s groin and smashed it with a second chair. They brawled into the crowd. Michaels got major color. He had the crimson mask going before it was over. The finish fell flat when Michaels pinned Austin-Young with a horribly botched Double Shot. It’s supposed to be a facebuster into a neckbreaker. Austin-Young took the bump before Michaels got anywhere close to hitting the neckbreaker.

[Mark B Ware]

Tony Stradlin opened the second half of the show with a promo. Stradlin said that being relegated to the rumble match was a slap in the face to a newly signed WWE superstar. Stradlin issued a challenge to anyone that wanted to climb the ladder. The entrance of Caprice Coleman was greeted with chants of “Ice.”<br>
(5) Caprice Coleman beat Tony Stradlin in 9 minutes. Technically sound compared to anything that had preceded it, but the crowd never really got into the match. For anyone that wondered why WWE isn’t interested in Wildside guys, the size difference between Stradlin and Coleman told the story. Stradlin used a crossover collar and elbow. Stradlin did a funny bump where Coleman tripped him with a dropdown and he fell on his face. Stradlin tried to return the favor, but Coleman skipped over him and Stradlin ended up on the floor. Stradlin snapped Coleman’s throat off the top rope to take over. Coleman roared back with the spin scissors kick and high elevation legdrop. Stradlin used a series of strikes to put Coleman on the deck for a two count. Coleman dumped Stradlin with a skin-the-cat headscissors. Stradlin got his big near fall after knocking Coleman off the top rope with a whirling spinkick (Mr. Toad’s Magical Suit). Coleman responded with a pair of Northern lights into Thermal Shock. Stradlin kicked out at the last split second. A shining wizard brought more “Ice” chants. Coleman won it with the Comatoser.

(6) Nick Halen beat “Precious” Patrick Bentley (formerly known as Zero X) and Chasyn Rance and Mark Stephens in a four-way elimination match (11:40). Not bad but again, the crowd was sluggish. Strong pop for Halen, the lone babyface in the match. They pulled out a creative dive sequence in the early minutes. A 3-way spot saw Stephens do a springboard sunset flip on Halen, who did a german suplex on Rance. Rance eliminated Stevens with the Sensational Spike at 5:04. Halen escaped from the Spike and pinned Rance with a reverse roll up at 6:47. A fast-paced exchange lead to Bentley blocking the Nitro Driver. Halen pasted Bentley with forearm shots and scored a series of near falls. Bentley got his knees up to skewer Halen’s swanton bomb. Bentley got a near fall with a huracanrana. Halen blocked a rana and pinned Bentley with a Nitro Driver that was closer to a tornado bulldog.

(7) David Young beat A. J. Styles in 16:55. Just a great match. They wrestled early, with Styles working a side headlock and Young going to an armbar. Some moron yelled “boring” and Styles shot back with a remark. The idiot fan started heckling Styles, something I had never seen in Cornelia. Styles picked up his intensity bigtime with a beautiful dropkick. Then Young ripped Styles’ legs out from under him and he took an awesome face bump on the apron. Young hit a picture perfect hanging suplex. Styles landed a quebrada on his feet and as Young went for a quebrada, Styles caught him in midair with a spinkick. Styles did a full speed flip dive to the short side of the ringside area where’s there is no margin for error. NOBODY does that in this building. Styles hit a brainbuster for a near fall. Styles tortured Young with a standard Mutalock, a kneeling version and a bow and arrow. In between the big moves, they were absolutely beating the crap out each other with forearm shots. Young ducked one and caught Styles with a kitty corner springboard dropkick. Young powerslammed Styles for a near fall. Young went for a quebrada, but Styles got his knees up. Styles hit a springboard forearm. Styles took a full rotation bump on Young’s german suplex and a spin bump off a lariat. Killer sequence. Young went for a huracanrana. Styles tried to counter with the Clash but Young fought it off. Styles hit the Mindbender, but Young kicked out. Young countered another Clash attempt with a huracanrana. Both down for a count of five. Styles ended another super stiff exchange of forearms with the Pele kick. Young hit the spinebuster to score the pinfall. Standing ovation.

Young called Bill Behrens into the ring. Young talked about how he and A. J. had started in Cornelia. Young said Styles was good a person outside the ring as he was a wrestler inside the ring. Young said Behrens was the one person that had stood beside them and taken care of them. Young said Behrens fought for him when there wasn’t much to fight for and he was the one person in wrestling that never lied to him. Young presented Behrens with a plaque on behalf of A. J. and himself. Behrens was visibly moved as he read the plaque. The three men hugged in the center of the ring. It was a very touching moment to cap off a total class gesture by Young. Rick Michaels entered the ring. Michaels said the best times he ever had in the business came wrestling for Wildside. Michaels thanked Young for helping him build his reputation. Michaels echoed Young’s sentiments about Styles as a person, adding that Styles had earned everything that he had ever gotten in the wrestling business through hard work.

NOTES: Behrens announced that a special (final?) Wildside show would be held on 4/30…The Thomasellis, The SATs, Matt Sydal, Delirious and Daizee Haze are all scheduled to appear at the April television tapings (either 4/2 and 4/16)…Masada worked for FIP last night in a three way vs. Vordell Walker and Jared Steel…Romeo Bliss canceled out on his scheduled match for tonight’s show (vs.Tony Mamaluke), citing the restrictions of his services contract with CBS for Survivor…John Johnson subbed for Dan “The Dragon” Wilson on commentary for the home video.

[Mark B Ware]

NWA WILDSIDE: HARDCORE HELL RECAP (NIGHT 2)
By: Larry Goodman
3/27/2005 3:55:51 PM

The second night of NWA Wildside’s Hardcore Hell ’05 is likely to be remembered among the top tier of big shows in company history. If indeed, it was the last one, they did it up right.

This was Wildside at its best. A smorgasbord of wrestling — spotfests, hardcore, technical, comedy — all while staying true to its southern style rasslin’ roots. Three titles changed hands. This show had it all. The crowd of 170 was psyched from beginning to end.

Bill Behrens announced that Todd Sexton had withdrawn from the three-way for the World TV Title to face Tony Mamaluke to see who was truly “The Technician.”<br>
All But Destroyed, a speed metal band featuring Wildside announcer Dan “The Dragon” Wilson on vocals, opened the show with a new version of the Wildside theme song “Destroyed By Design.”<br>
(1) Double Deuce (Frankie Capone & Marcus Dillon) beat 911 Inc. (Bruce Steele & Rod Steele with “The Hardcore Giant” Ron Niemi) to retain the NWA Florida tag titles in 6:20. Bruce made an impressive showing. Capone looked much better than I recollected from seeing him several years ago. Capone took the heat. Capone crotched Rod on the top and superplexed him. Capone hot-tagged Dillon. Bruce got great ups when taking a backdrop. 911 turned things around. Bruce used a half Stroke on Frankie. 911 had Capone set up for a dastardly double team when Dillon speared Rod, as Capone used a rolling Mexican cradle on Bruce for a near fall. Dillon speared Bruce for the pin. Crowd got on Niemi with chants of “hardcore midget.”<br>
(2) Slim J beat Fast Eddie & Jay Fury to win the NWA Wildside Junior Title in a three-way elimination match (13:07). A spotfest that rocked. Fury and J jumped the blind guy from behind. Eddie responded by destroying both of them on the floor. The three way spots in this match were terrific. Some terrific three way spot he first three-way spot was terrific. Eddie got J up for a vertical suplex, and Fury rode J to the mat with a springboard crossbody. Fury turned Ninja. Eddie put J in a gorilla press position and Fury came off the top with a double stomp on J. Eddie played power guy. He hit a double lariat and posed. Eddie’s kidney kicks are so rude. Fury gave Eddie a german suplex off the top as Eddie superplexed J. Fury hit a slingshot legdrop on Eddie. Fury hit a top rope belly to belly suplex on J. Eddie saved and hit the lungblower on J. Fury did the Jaytrix move and went for the Enzufury. Eddie ducked. J didn’t. Before Fury could follow up, Eddie caught him with the Russian Legsweep from Hell and the pin at 10:05. Eddie went for the legsweep finish on J, but he countered with a wind up lariat. J hit the 360 Ace crusher for a great false finish. Eddie caught J low with a donkey kick and dropped him on his noggin with a german suplex. Eddie mounted J on the top for the Fasteddious. J escaped. J did the move they’ve been building to for months, “the move that never works,” the Anger Management (shoulder mount head drop) off the ropes to regain the title.

(3) Jeremy V (with Jeff G. Bailey) beat Brandon P to retain the World TV Title in 10:40. Strong heel/face dynamic made for a hot match. The crowd brought the hate for V. V used the slap and run technique to get even more. P dominated V and gave a receipt with interest for the bitch slap. P may have exceeded the Wildside record for lariats in this match. V dumped P and gave him a beating on the outside. V put a crease in P’s forehead with a direct hit on the rail. That blow really did leave a mark. Bailey put the loafers to P. When P missed an enzuigiri, V dropped an elbow and ran out to high five Bailey before making the cover. V used a VKO into a lariat for a near fall. V climbed. P shook the ropes to crotch him. P hit a head and arm suplex off the middle rope. V kicked out. P’s comeback built to the atomic facebuster. Bailey got on the apron. P went to take a swipe at Bailey. V weaseled out of the jam with a roll up using the tights. Blah finish.

(4) Altar Boy Luke & Mikal Adryan (with Bailey) beat the Lost Boys in a no DQ match (11:46). Lights out for the Lost Boys entrance. They had a table with them. The crowd was on fire, as they went right to an all out four-way brawl. Azrael punted Luke in midair. Lost Boys dished out some major punishment to Luke. Bailey pulled Luke out of harms way, lest he get his face crushed by Azrael’s charging knee. The heels got heat on Azrael. Adryan gave Azrael a double underhook suplex into the turnbuckles and Gabriel made the save. Adryan went for one Mafia kick too many and crotched himself on the top rope. Hot tag. Lost Boys hit the Time Warp on Luke. Fans chanted for blood. Gabriel hit the senton backsplash, but Adryan cut him down with the kick of death. Azrael escaped from Adryan’s Assisted Suicide finisher. Azrael managed to get Adryan up the Ted Bundy (vertical suplex dropped to a uranage). Damn impressive. Luke made the save. Lost Boys went to their repertoire of classic double teams for the Excommunicator on Luke and the head sandwich on Adryan. In the psychotic spot of the night, Gabriel stacked two chairs on top of Adryan’s back and set the table up over his body. Gabriel then did a top rope double stomp through the table, driving the chairs into Adryan’s back. The crowd chanted “Hardcore Hell.” Adryan kicked out. At least that’s what I think happened, because it was hard to see through Azrael and Luke, who were beating the hell out each other at ringside. Lost Boys tried for the Unholy Roller on Adryan. Luke spoiled it. Adryan threatened to powerbomb Gabriel through a table that was bridged from the apron to the rail. Just a tease. Only a person with a death wish would have taken that bump. Adryan destroyed Gabriel with a super powerbomb and Luke followed with a guillotine legdrop for the pin. Gabriel went after Luke in the postmatch.

Intermission.

[Mark B Ware]

(5) Tank & Iceberg beat Pomp & Circumstance (Ace Rockwell & Shaun Tempers with Al Getz) to win the NWA Wildside Tag Team Titles in 11:35. P & C used the element of surprise to get the jump on the two behemoths, as they entered through the front door. The blood was flowing from Tank’s head before the people had a chance to settle into their seats. Tank flipped P & C over the top rope. The babyface monsters dished out a horrific beating on the champs. Rockwell went head first into a propped up chair. Rockwell juiced. Tank blasted Tempers with a chair shot that surely cost him some much needed brain cells. Tempers was supposed to bleed as well, but it didn’t happen. Iceberg did a basement dropkick into a chair that was covering Rockwell’s privates. Iceberg splashed Rockwell. Tempers saved and dragged his partner’s carcass to the corner for a tag. The beating continued on Tempers. Tank shrugged off Rockwell’s missile dropkick. The champions’ situation looked hopeless. Jeff Lewis ran out and whacked Iceberg in the back with a chair (a nod to the finish where P & C won the titles). But White Trash (Tank’s former partner in Project Mayhem) made a surprise appearance and blasted Lewis with his trusty stop sign. Iceberg served up the Slice ‘n Dice Thigh Drop of Doom and Rockwell was dead meat. Crowd went nuts for the finishing sequence.

Tank did a tribute to Behrens. Thanked him for giving a “fat assed bald guy” a shot. Tank started tear up. “You know I’m a real pussy.” Tank said there wouldn’t be a Tank or and Iceberg without Behrens. Tank said he had a soft spot for old Jeff G. Bailey even if he was a dickhead.

(6) Tony Mamaluke beat Todd Sexton via submission in 12:09. Great pop for the long awaited return of Mamaluke, or was that just me? Sexton told Getz, “I got this,” and sent him to the back. Mostly matwork, good matwork, for the first five minutes. Sexton made an ill-advised charge into the corner and got the post with his shoulder. Mamaluke seized the moment with a sweet bridging hammerlock. Sexton blocked a short arm scissors. At 7:30, Sexton sent Mamaluke flying off the apron into the rail. Sexton dropkicked the ringsteps into Mamaluke’s knee and generally tried to destroy the knee. Mamaluke blocked the sharpshooter. Sexton caught Mamaluke flush in the face with a perfectly-timed superkick for a great near fall. Mamaluke came back with a tornado guillotine choke. Sexton broke it with a suplex into the buckles. Sexton got the sharpshooter but Mamaluke made the ropes. Mamaluke got the Sicilian Stretch and the submission master was forced to tap.

Sexton called Mamaluke back to the ring for the mutual respect deal. Sexton’s former partner in T-N-T, Tony Stradlin came to the ring and clubbed Mamaluke. Sexton and Stradlin had an animated discussion. They decimated Mamaluke with a double superkick and put the boots to him. Their arch rivals in times past, the Lost Boys made the save. It will be T-N-T vs. Lost Boys on 4/2.

(7) Three Guys That Totally Rule (Salvatore Rinauro & Seth Delay & “The International Superstar” Jimmy Rave with “Precious” Patrick Bentley) beat Suicidal Tendencies (John Phoenix & Adam Jacobs & Jason Cross) in 16:32. This was the high point of the weekend. Everything I could have hoped for and more. The crowd was amped to the max once the “mystery opponents” made their first Wildside appearance in several years. Tendencies got a rousing “welcome back” chant. The ref pulled chain and a set of knucks out of Rave’s boots…and then the sock he had stuffed in his pants. Fans chanted “little bit.” Three Guys threatened to pack it in right there. Rinauro has developed the disturbing habit of rubbing his partners’ butts. Tendencies proceeded to hand 3 Guys their asses. Cross did the running SSP for a near fall. With Rinauro planted on the top turnbuckle, Cross gave Delay a series of headbutts into Rinauro’s nutsack. That brought the house down. Guys ran away when Tendencies threatened a triple dive. Jacobs got a pop for his slingshot slice ‘n dice legdrop. Guys finally got heat on Tendencies. A highlight was the wheelbarrow/gutblower combo by Rinauro and Delay. Swinging neckbreaker by Jacobs and the hot tag. Tendencies did the dive train, capped off by Cross launching over the top with an amazing corkscrew tope. They did a mind blowing sequence of sequence of finishing moves and saves. I know Rave had a jumping knee off the top and the Disco 2000 in there, both on Phoenix. Delay did the Kool Krusher on Cross. Rinauro hit the Phoenix Fury Legdrop on Jacobs. But Rave accidentally crotched Delay into the tree of woe. Tendencies served up a triple baseball slide. Cross did the Idolizer (double underhook flip into an unprettier) on one Guy into a slice ‘n dice on another of the Guys. Rinauro pulled Phoenix out to prevent the pin. Cross gave Rinauro THE BEST DAMN BRAINBUSTER IN NORTH AMERICA. Jacobs followed with the Georgia Jam. Phoenix followed that with a messed up 450. He went up and did it again. That wouldn’t have worked in a lot of situations but it didn’t matter here. Referee Mike Posey counted two and suddenly acted like he had a severe arm injury. Rinauro blindsided Phoenix. Rinauro covered Phoenix (his trainer) and Posey made the fastest three count in wrestling history. Fans pelted the ring with garbage. Hadn’t seen that in Wildside in years. Fast Eddie and Posey joined the celebration. Fans had to endure a lovefest on the ramp among all 6 of the Three Guys. The other refs stood around looking pissed off. It was beautiful.

(8) Rainman (with Bailey) beat Onyx and Ray Gordy (with Getz) to win the NWA Wildside Heavyweight Title in 12:52. They had a helluva tough act to follow and pulled it off in style. Rainman and Gordy tried to double up on Onyx. But “The Genetic Specimen” was more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap over tall building in a single bound. Then came the shocker. Gordy eliminated Onyx at 3:27 with a bridging t-bone suplex. Astonishment reigned. Gordy took over on Rainman. At 5:30, Rainman reversed a whip and sent Gordy barreling into the rail. Rainman hit a hanging falcon arrow that was very cool. Getz got on the apron to distract, but Bailey took exception to it. Bailey and Getz squared off. They got into a chest bumping altercation that was hilarious. Andrew Thomas did his best baseball umpire imitation to toss Getz. Bailey looked all smug. Thomas tossed him as well. “Get to stepping.” The crowd chanted “Andrew” for the man who was once the most hated man in Wildside. Gordy’s enzuigiri connected. Rainman came back with the Spinesplitta for a near fall. Gordy escaped from the Dark City Street Cutter and hit a bridging german suplex for one false finish. Rainman got the Street Cutter for another one. Gordy hit an exploder suplex but could not follow up due to the damage to his neck. Rainman hit a second Street Cutter to earn the heavyweight prize for the first time. The crowd chanted Rainman’s name. Bailey ran back out to celebrate with his new champion.

NOTES: Besides Lost Boys/T-N-T, the 4/2 TV taping has Iceberg & Tank vs. Luke & Adryan, J vs. Fury, Rainman vs. Murder 1, Three Guys vs. SATs & Quiet Storm, V vs. P, and Onyx vs. Gordy…The special Wildside show on 4/30 will feature a War Games main event…Phoenix said that Hardcore Hell was, in all likelihood, his last pro wrestling match.

[High Hippie]

Does anyone have the lyrics to the NWA Wildside Theme song? all I remember is something about "Death From Above"