Your commentators are: Todd Keneley & Adam Pearce
Match #1: Buggy vs. Kitana Vera
The two shake hands to start than lock-up. Buggy gains the advantage with a headlock takedown. Kitana hits a DDT for a near 2 count on Buggy. Kitana puts Buggy in the corner and throws her to the ropes. Buggy counters and puts Kitana into the middle buckle. Kitana counters Buggy with a back suplex for 2. Kitana puts Buggy in a headlock. The crowd gets behind Buggy, who gets out. Buggy takes Kitana to the ropes and gets a headlock takeover for 2. Buggy then hits a sidewalk slam for 2. Buggy puts Kitana in the corner and looks for a bulldog. Kitana counters, but Buggy follows up and hits the bulldog for the victory.
Match Result: Buggy wins via Bulldog in 3:57
Afterwards, Candice LaRae comes out and sprays an unknown substance into Buggy’s face and lays Buggy out with the Raccoon Breaker Spike of Death from Doom on Buggy.
The match itself was OK. A bit messy at points, but they are building the Buggy/Candice feud very well.
Los Luchas are in the back with Jeff Resnick who asks them about Ricky Mandell and Hector Canales. Both men respond speaking in Spanish. Next week it is Hector Canales vs. Zokre.
Match #2: NWA Heritage Tag Team Championship Match – Natural Selection (Brian Cage & Shaun Ricker) (C)
vs. The Tribe (Navajo Warrior & Hawaiian Lion)
The Tribe immediately attack and go after Shaun. The Tribe set him up for Reservation Devastation, but Cage blocks it. Lion and Ricker are now in the ring. Ricker hits a suplex and chops on Ricker and tags in Navajo. He hits a big open hand slap. He takes Ricker to the ropes, who smartly grabs them and tags in Cage. Cage gets thrown to the ropes and dropped by Navajo. Navajo scoop slams him and Lion tags in. He hits a big pair of slaps in the corner. Lion drops a forearm on Cage for 2. Lion takes Cage to the ropes. Ricker puts his knee up, hitting Lion’s back, and Cage follows with a DDT. Ricker tags in and covers Lion for 2. Ricker puts Lion in a camel clutch position and delivers some strikes to Lion’s neck. Ricker tags in Cage who stomps on Lion and locks in a grounded headlock. Lion gets to his feet and tries to drop Cage. Lion pushes Cage to Navajo and makes the tag, but the referee did not see it. Ricker phantom tags in and further grounds Lion as we go to commercial.
Back from commercial and Cage is holding Lion across his knee and Ricker drops an elbow across Navajo’s face. Ricker tags Cage back in who locks in a headlock on the ground. Lion starts to fight back and drops Cage with an Exploder. Ricker makes the tag off of Cage who knocks Navajo off the apron and puts Navajo in the corner and chokes him while the referee is distracted. Cage tags in and he and Natural Selection hit a flapjack/bulldog combination for 2. Cage tags in Ricker and they go for a combination with Cage having Lion up for a suplex, but Cage can’t keep Lion up and just hits him with a DDT. Ricker tags Cage back in who hits a clothesline in the corner on Lion. He goes to the ropes but Lion takes Cage down with a big clothesline of his own. Lion finally tags in Navajo Warrior who hits Cage with chops. Ricker charges and gets taken down. Navajo hits a Death Valley Driver on Cage. Backbody drop on Ricker. Navajo sends Ricker to the outside. Navajo charges at Cage in the corner, but Ricker grabs Cage and takes him out of the ring who go to the entrance way and let the referee count them out. Shaun Ricker says, “Maybe another time.”
Match Result: The Tribe win via count-out in 8:30 (shown) but do not win the tag titles.
Decent match, but not much to talk about. When Navajo made the hot tag and it seemed that the match would get going, it ended. The crowd was also relatively dead, seeing as this is a feud between two heel teams, even though this is seemingly meant to make the Tribe the face team based off of the ending of this match. A strap match was indicated for the future, which would likely be very good.
The Family Stone of James Morgan/Stu Stone/Attorney Mortimer Lipschitz come out. Morgan takes the mic and says that this is family business. They want to share the ring currently with Joey Ryan. Joey makes his way to the ring. Morgan claims that SoCal Crazy and Colt Cabana were plotting against Ryan. Morgan says that they embarrassed Ryan and made him tap out. Morgan knows that Ryan was cheated and makes an offer for Ryan to be apart of their family. Stu says he can make Joey a big star. Stu says he can get Joey TV deals outside of the ring. Joey takes the microphone to respond. Joey says that they are right about him being cheated against SoCal Crazy. Joey says that he is already a big star. He is Hollywood’s Own. It’s his town. Joey says he has gotten a lot of offers, but this one is the most promising. He is torn though. Colt Cabana’s music hits and he comes out. Colt gets the microphone. Colt says no one cares about the decision he has to make. Colt says Joey maybe an important person to his mother, but he does not think the fans care about Joey Ryan anymore. Colt says that it was a decision that he made all by himself. Colt says he and the fans want to know why Joey did what he did as he walks to the ring. Colt then says to Stu that it is about time that he shuts his mouth. Colt is on the apron and asks Stu to come to him to talk a little business. Colt grabs Stu after taunting him over thinking he is a big star. Morgan pulls Cabana off the apron and tosses him in the ring as he and Joey put the boots to him. Stu Stone yells at Adam Pearce and invites him in the ring. Adam Pearce stands up and walks towards the ring. Stu Stone opens the ropes for Pearce as he enters the ring. Pearce takes off his jacket as Morgan continues to put the boots to Colt. Pearce rolls up his sleaves. Pearce then decks Joey Ryan and James Morgan! He then looks at Mortimer Lipschitz and decks him, who falls in tremendous fashion. Pearce chases Stu Stone out of the ring. All four of them walk to the back as Pearce turns to Cabana who stare at each other. Pearce nods at him as we go to commercial.
Match #3: “Be The Star” TV Tournament First Round Match: Scorpio Sky vs. “Pretty” Peter Avalon
The two lock-up and Avalon takes Sky over. They lock-up again and Peter once again takes Sky over and poses for the fans. He wants to do that one more time. They lock-up, but Sky takes Peter down with a pair of armdrags and a dropkick sending Peter to the outside. Peter takes his time getting into the ring, including ripping a fan’s sign. Peter gets in the ring and kicks Sky in the gut and takes down with a headlock. Sky gets to his feet and puts Avalon in the corner and drives his shoulder into Peter. Peter puts his thumb in the eye of Sky and drives his shoulder into Sky in the corner. Sky backbody drops Peter over. Sky hits a backbeaker and bends Peter over his knee. He then picks up Peter again and hits one more for a 2 count. Sky hits a big vertical suplex for 2. Sky puts Peter in the corner and lays into him with nine punches. Peter takes him down before ten and hits a leg lariat for 2. Peter puts Sky in a chinlock as the fans try to get behind Sky. Sky gets out, but Peter pulls him down, dropping his neck across Peter’s knee as we go to commercial.
Peter throws Sky to the corner hard as we return from commercial. Peter picks Sky up and hits a doubleunderhook suplex and kips up. Peter makes the cover for 2. Peter then grapevines his legs around Sky. Sky once again tries to get the fans behind him as he picks up Peter on his shoulders and backs in the turnbuckle. Peter drops Sky with a takedown for 2. Peter puts Sky in the corner and chops Sky. Sky fires up though with a bigger chop. Sky puts Peter in the corner and tosses him to the other and hits a big running clothesline. He then hits a missle dropkick for 2. Sky hits a legdrop on Peter for 2. Sky goes for a TKO but Peter gets out and shoves him into the middle turnbuckle. Peter goes for a kick, but Sky counters him into a big overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Peter tries to kick him again but Sky throws down Peter’s foot and kicks Peter in the face very hard. Sky goes to the middle rope and goes for a crossbody, but gets dropped over Peter’s knee chest-first. Peter then hits a running grounded flatliner for 2. Peter picks Sky up, but Sky counters with a knee. Sky charges but Peter counters with a knee of his own and follows up with a series of kicks ending with an Enzugiri for 2. Peter goes after Sky in the corner, but Sky grapevines his legs around Peter’s head and gets a triangle choke over the ropes. He has to break the hold and hits a running yakuza kick on Peter for 2. Sky throws Peter to the ropes, but Peter counters with a Tiger Driver for 2. Peter is very frustrated and chokes Sky in the middle rope. Peter tries to throw Sky to the ropes, Sky counters and throws Peter back to the corner. Peter leaps onto the middle rope and comes off looking for a crossbody, but Sky counters with essentially a Codebreaker! Sky then picks Peter up and hits him with the Ace of Spades (TKO)!
Match Result: Scorpio Sky defeats Peter Avalon via Ace of Spades in 12:16 (shown)
Very enjoyable main event. Nothing too out of the ordinary, but the match had a good build to it and was a great showcase for two of the better wrestlers that don’t get a lot of recognition from the west coast. Good ending and I am hoping that Scorpio Sky is who ends up winning the TV title. ***1/2
OVERALL
Enjoyable episode from NWA Hollywood this week. Nothing too great, but certainly not bad. I felt that the tag title match could have been better, even though it was meant to set up a future match. The in-ring promo involving Cabana was enjoyable with Pearce making the save being one of the better things about the show. The main event was a very good match however and would be the main bit from this episode that I would reccommend checking out.
This episode, along with every other episode of NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, can be seen at www.NWAHollywood.com