NWA Wildside

The Wildside broadcast team of Steven Prazak and Dan "The Dragon" Wilson
opened the show with the usual recap and preview segment. The hot topic was
what occurred in the aftermath of the David Young's victory over Elix Skipper
match. Rick Michaels turned on Bailey and his Elite, but then KOed Young with
a chair. Was it an accident?

1) Rick Michaels beat Otto Schwanz. What more is there to say about a match
where the most memorable thing is a worker parading around ringside in his
thong. The postmatch was another story altogether. Schwanz, who was recently
signed by NWA TNA, was doing a gimmick like he had only two wheels on hard
sand. He looked more cut compared to his first stint in Wildside after he was
dropped from the WWE developmental program. The commentary highlighted the
continuing Young-Michaels saga. There were a lot of spots that just didn't
click.

Schwanz demonstrated his power advantage, so Michaels used smarts and
wrestling skill to gain the upper hand.. They exchanged slaps. Michaels did a
pair of armdrags. Schwanz threw himself over the top rope off a dropkick.
Michaels followed with a baseball slide that left Schwanz lying across the
security rail. Michaels pulled Schwanz's tights down leaving him bare-ass in
his thong. Prazak: "Somewhere Dick Murdoch is smiling big...We know as much
about Schwanz as his proctologist." Schwanz whipped Michaels into the rail
and pounded him. Michaels reversed a whip that sent Schwanz into the rail.
Schwanz nailed Michaels as he climbed back into the ring. Generic heel
offense from Schwanz until he used a short arm clothesline for a two count,
followed by a stellar standing frog splash for a near fall. Michaels came
back with a clothesline when Schwanz lowered his head for a backdrop.
Michaels fired a series of left hands. Schwanz reversed a whip and charged
into a back elbow. Michaels hit another clothesline for a two count. Michaels
hit a so-so version of the Double Shot for the pin. Blackout jumped him right
at the three count.

Blackout's barbed wire attack on Michaels lead to the bloodiest segment on
Wildside television in quite a while. Bailey was not far behind. "Blackout
are now anointed. They are soldiers under God's command." While Homicide used
barbed wire on the forehead of Michaels, Bailey said that Michaels had
screwed himself with his wrong decision. "Dig the barbed wire into his
head...Bleed him to death." Michaels hit a real gusher. He was left lying in
a pool of his own blood. Young cleared the ring with a chair, but Bailey
stayed at ringside to continue his tirade. "David Young, you're gonna find
out next week when Jason Cross. Camera man, get a close up of his face."
Wilson called it a Dark City style mugging.

Next up was a short backstage promo by an enraged Michaels, still covered in
blood. He said that Bailey and Blackout had drawn first blood. "If it's a
fight you want, it's a fight you're going to get."

2) Blackout (Rainman & Homicide) (with Jeff G. Bailey) massacred G-Rated (Sal
Del Rio & Kid Kool) and Jeremy V & Derik Driver. It took Blackout a little
over a minute to destroy all four of their scrawny opponents. Homicide dumped
both of G-Rated to the floor. Blackout pounded on V & Driver. Rainman
dropkicked V. Bailey was pummeling Del Rio at ringside, prompting Prazak to
comment, "Bailey and a young boy, I've heard that one before." Rainman tossed
Driver across the ring with a release butterfly suplex. Blackout got the pin
on Kool with the Violator 420, a gorilla press upgrade on the 2.0. Rainman
dragged Del Rio back into the ring for a spinning Sky High (The
Spinesplitta). Bailey was still going to town on somebody. Prazak wondered
about a CEO that puts the boots to his workers. Blackout drove V through the
mat with another 420. They left the ring littered with bodies.

3) Jeremy Lopez beat Todd Sexton to regain the NWA Wildside Junior
Heavyweight Title. This was the best match on the show. An action-packed bout
with a postmatch surprise.

Prazak said Lopez insisted on coming out last. Sexton conveniently turned his
back to set up an aggressive attack by Lopez. He took Sexton to the outside
for a forearm shot to the side of the head and slammed his face into the
apron. Back on the inside, Lopez pummeled Sexton with punches from the mount.
He rammed Sexton's head corner to corner into the top buckle. Lopez used a
discus elbow. Sexton reversed a whip. Lopez took a chest bump in the corner
and Sexton caught him on the rebound with a neckbreaker. Sexton hit a spin
kick for a two count. Sexton used two snap suplexes and a hanging vertical
suplex. Wilson brought up how the delay causes the blood to rush to the
brain. Sexton did a hangman style neckbreaker. Sexton went for a springboard
something or other and Lopez moved out of the way. Awkward looking spot.
Lopez clotheslined Sexton over the top. He hit an uppercut forearm and threw
Sexton back inside. Lopez got two with a back suplex. Lopez got another two
count with a neckbreaker. Sexton countered a suplex attempt with a German of
his own. Sexton hit a Northern Lights with a bridge for a two count. Lopez
ducked a clothesline and debuted a new move, swinging his victim from a
powerslam position into an inverted bulldog. Lopez went for a series of pin
attempts. Lopez hit a brainbuster that Sexton sold huge. Lopez went for a
nonchalant cover that Sexton suddenly countered with a crucifix pin attempt.
Lopez reversed it for a two count. Lopez hit a standing dropkick. Lopez
choked Sexton over the top rope. Lopez whipped Sexton to the corner and ate a
boot to the face. Twice. Sexton fought back with a clothesline that left both
men down. Sexton ducked a clothesline and hit a spinwheel kick and a
dropkick. Sexton went for a backslide. Lopez fought it off so Sexton
maneuvered it into a powerbomb. Sexton hit a frogsplash for a near fall.
Sexton draped Lopez over the top rope and hit the Gamebreaker. Tony Mamaluke
hit the ring to break up the pin. Jimmy Rave dragged Mamaluke out and slammed
him into the rail. Lopez reversed a whip, sending Sexton into Rave, who was
preparing for a dive off the apron. Lopez hit the elevated DDT for the pin
and rolled to the floor hugging his title belt.

Sexton shook hands with Rave...and then flattened him with a superkick.
Sexton was ramming Rave's head into the mat until his partner, Tony Stradlin
pulled him off. Stradlin nailed Rave with another superkick. T-N-T started
putting the boots to Rave. T-N-T left Rave for dead with a cradle spike
piledriver.

T-N-T cut an effective promo to explain their actions. Sexton said they had
been acting like jackasses for the last year by coming through the curtain
clapping their hands and what had it gotten them? He whined about being tag
team champions for only one week and getting the Junior belt for only two
weeks. Sexton said they were treated like jokes in the company. Stradlin
disagreed. He said they were the standard bearers, the team that other teams
copied. Stradlin said people say imitation is the best form of flattery, but
to him it was an insult. Stradlin had some real emotion going as he talked
about wrestling being his life, and Lost Boyz trying to take away his dream
by injuring him. (The injury occurred when Stradlin did an insane move off
the guardrail.) Prazak said Stradlin had lost it. Stradlin: "We're not asking
for a God damn thing." Sexton: "We're gonna take it." Good job of selling the
turn by T-N-T. It was a nice swerve too, because of the subtle hints in the
storyline that Rave would be the one to turn.

The next segment opened with NWA World Tag Team Champions ("Vivacious Vito"
DeNucci & "Casanova Chris" Nelson) in the ring. DeNucci said they came up to
Georgia to do a title shot but nobody had earned one. DeNucci said the Bodies
had broken up Bad Attitude, ran Total Destruction out and retired the Kohl
Brothers. He issued an open challenge to any of the good, young teams in the
back to prove themselves in a non-title match. Out came Total Destruction
toting their beer cooler. NHB looked distressed by this turn of events. Rusty
Riddle said it was damn good to be back (after being absent from Wildside for
about 8 months). He told the "Heavenly Hams" to get in the ring and take
their beating. Sean Royal wanted to get it on UFC style. DeNucci said not so
fast. Royal started unzipping his fly. "Put that thing away. Easy big fella."
DeNucci said that TDD were too old to be working with NHB. He told Wilson no
match. Wilson said ring the bell.

4) Total Damn Destruction (Sean Royal & Rusty Riddle) beat The New Heavenly
Bodies (Vito DeNucci & Chris Nelson). They aired the first four minutes,
which was mostly cowardly stalling by NHB, and the finish. The TV version
didn't do this match justice.

Neither one of the Bodies wanted in with TDD, so they played
rock-scissors-paper to settle it. Nelson lost. Nelson tried to surprise
DeNucci with a tag, but he jumped off the apron. Nelson knelt in the corner
and crossed himself. Riddle tossed Nelson to the mat out of the lock up a
couple of time. Nelson got bounced around by a pair of shoulder tackles and
retreated to the floor. Tag to DeNucci. Commercial break and fast forward to
the finish. Riddle broke DeNucci's sleeper hold with a jawbreaker to make the
hot tag. Royal cleaned house on Nelson. Riddle dumped DeNucci. TDD did a
botched version of the Ezy Rider that appeared to shake up Riddle. Royal got
the pin on Nelson. Crowd popped big for the finish.

DeNucci told TDD that they hadn't beaten them when it counted because after
four matches, NHB still had the gold. You couldn't beat us if your life
depended on it you drunken piece of garbage." DeNucci offered TDD a title
match. That lead to...

5) Total Destruction and New Heavenly Bodies went to a double DQ in a match
for the NWA World Heavyweight Title that lasted less than a minute. TDD
started hammering NHB with their half-full beer cans and the bell rang. Royal
exchanged no sell chops with DeNucci. Meanwhile, Riddle was wearing Nelson
out with chairshots at ringside. Royal whipped DeNucci from pillar to post.
He poured beer on DeNucci and pounded him in the face with the empty can.
Both of the NHB were busted open. Prazak and Wilson seemed confused about
what was going on. Ref Andrew Thomas signaled for the DQ. Royal blasted
Nelson with a couple of more chairshots for good measure. The show closed
with TDD heading for the ramp with NHB laid out at ringside.