NWA/WWA in Melbourne, January 29th, 2010
Unlike an alleged show that took place on Friday night in my hometown, there is undeniable proof that this event actually took place.
I decided to do something different and instead of seeing a show on Saturday night that’s only a few miles from my house (I was so tired by Saturday night, I ended up taking a late nap; true story), I used my free time on Friday to unwind (as there’s been reason to this month, and I’ll leave it at that) and spend some time in Cocoa Beach and then the Melbourne area before heading on over to the saloon to watch the NWA/WWA show. It looked to have an interesting card so I figured it was a good idea. There really isn’t anything to say about the pre-show except that I was at a JC Penny’s and found a 26 dollar shirt that was only 3 bucks and change. It was from the Decree clothing line and it looks snazzy for the price.
I got there and the crowd was already pretty large. By the end I’ll guess that there was-and this is a ballpark figure-350 to 400 there. No kidding. It was stated online that the crowd was 437, which I I guess it was advertised well and people wanted to see Jake The Snake in action. Speaking of that…
Apparently there was a church show in my home town (at least home town since 2004) of Clermont last night, and Jared David was involved! I still call shenanigans on it, by the way. The lineup looks ridiculous and made up, and my comments in that thread say it all. I wish that Will Rivera wouldn’t have gotten so butthurt over what I said, but I’m not going to worry too much about that. No matter if the show happened or not the point is that I live in Clermont and heard nothing about it and apparently it was a FREE show too, so no money was made there. It does sound like the hallmark of an MSL run event, admittedly, but at least it’s clear that Jared David is as good of a promoter as a booker, which means he’s revoltingly bad at both.
But, enough of Jared’s horribleness. People at this event were eager to get the autograph of Jake The Snake. I saw that before the event started some people I knew were in the crowd. I got to see more than one person I hadn’t seen in far too long. I also found out from “unnamed sources” that the scheduled FCW show only a few miles away was cancelled with no advanced warning. No shocker there. I’m sure that this was a reason why the attendance here was so large. I saw some 2 dollar discount passes floating around this joint for the rescheduled FCW event, now to take place in a few weeks. I found them… in the men’s room! I’m not joking here.
The event started about 10 minutes late and the ring announcer (looking like a modern day Kenny Rogers) was out there with some young lass who looked like a regular at the saloon. I don’t mean that as an insult, but it’s true. She got on the mic and she was all “motherfucker” this and “motherfucking” that; note that there actually were some children in attendance at this event. It was an all ages show, which surprised me. Then again, some more cursing was heard from the wrestlers during the bout, so there’s that… anyhow, those two were quite the duo. They were able to read the cue cards fine enough (and they were typed up fine enough too) but they were more goofy than anything else; they were great! It wasn’t in a traditional sense but I was entertained by them.
1. Craig Classic defeated Marty Con (w/ Ben Dejo). This was a pretty good opener. You had technical wrestling, forearm exchanges, and all that. The crowd at first wasn’t into it but by the end they were into Craig. They didn’t enjoy how Con and Dejo were cheater cheater pumpkin eaters. You also had near-falls and kicks to the face/head, amongst other things. The ending came when Dejo was on the apron and he held Classic. Marty went to attack him and… yep, what you thought would happen did happen and Ben crashed to the floor and Craig rolled up Con and then transitioned that to a submission, and the Hispanic tapped out.
The wacky duo in the ring were going to introduce the next match but then out came Francisco Ciatso and Pete Cannon. Before they even said one word on the mic the crowd hated them. But then Frankie started to run down the crowd for being lowly rednecks who were white trash and were “proud of their gunracks and fish decals in the back windows of their Ford F-150’s” and that only intensified their hatred. He said that he had no one to face at the show so he was willing to face anyone. Out came the 7 foot tall guy known as Titan, Tower, and several other names, and needless to say Frankie quickly changed his tune and suddenly did not feel like fighting anymore. He and Cannon quickly ran to the back.
2. Dark City Fight Club (w/ Leva) defeated The New Heavenly Bodies (w/ Santana G) to retain the NWA Florida Tag Team Titles. This was a quite good contest. Santana G is a young lady who mainly is involved with the much-bemoaned in some circles Coastal Championship Wrestling in South Florida but after some online searching, I know that she’s from Missouri and also wrestles up there. Looks-wise, she resembles a hotter version of a younger Francine of ECW fame. After Kenny Rogers made a quip to the Bodies on the mic (I just don’t think he knew any better) Chris Nelson and then Vito DeNucci got on the mic and hilariously bashed the crowd. It was more making fun of rednecks stuff but again, it was great. One awesome moment was when a fat guy was told, “You haven’t seen your junk since the Tet Offensive”. Tremendous. When the match started, the larger DCFC had the advantage and used their size to their advantage. You also had comedy, such as when both Bodies were whipped into the corner and as has happened before, the two guys ended up in a position on their knees where one guy’s crotch landed right next to the other guy’s ass, and the crowd chortled at that sight. They also enjoyed the catfight that happened between the two ladies… as did I! But, the Bodies took over via.. an eye poke. Legit, I found that to be pretty great, as it was so old-school. It was even used a few other times to their advantage. They wore down the DCFC for a little bit but then the hot tag was made. Not everything was picture perfect but I didn’t mind it and neither did the audience. They were happy to see the champs retain their belts.
3. Sinn Bodhi defeated Bruce Santee. Originally Bruce was going to wrestle Apolo (yep, the former TNA guy and the individual who once wrestled Jared David a few years ago in a show in front of less than 15 people and for reasons I won’t get into here the bout went less than 30 seconds and Jared David ended up with a black eye; oh, and he also injured Scott Steiner’s throat pretty badly in Puerto Rico; not that he’s a big stiff who injures people or anything…) but maybe thankfully so for Bruce’s health, he instead wrestled Sinn. Bruce was bamboozled early on by the strange Bodhi, and he especially didn’t like it when Sinn hammered a nail into his nose and then pulled it out (!) and then he pulled out a huge spike and wanted to hammer it into Santee. Early on Sinn had control with his unique offense, but then Bruce took over for a few minutes. When the bout started, Sinn said that Bruce was “a mama’s boy”, so three guesses as to what Santee had to hear when he had the advantage. But, then Sinn made the comeback and he won the bout with his Tallulah Belle finisher.
Intermission time, and it was announced as being 20 minutes, but it went longer than a half hour. But, I can’t complain. Some talent were out there signing autographs and the crowd was happy to get stuff signed. Also, I spent the break continuing to drink alcohol (hey, I was at a bar! I did not have enough to impair my driving home) and chatting with various people. Sad to say, though, for the second half of the show Kenny Rogers didn’t announce and instead it was the chick who did that duty. I don’t know what happened to The Gambler, but the lady did fine.
4. Francisco Ciatso (w/ Pete Cannon) defeated Titan. This was a short bout in which Titan squashed Frankie the entire time. It was comedic so the crowd was happy to see him get his comeuppance. Suddenly, the ref was distracted and Cannon used a foreign object to knock out the big man, and that’s how Ciatso got the win. Afterwards, they continued to beat up Titan, so Tommy Marr made a surprise appearance and ran out… only it was a SWERVE~! He joined up with the Double Deuce Social Club and this *really* got some people upset. Seriously, it looked as if some people were going to jump the rail to attack them!
5. The Sheik defeated Jesse Neal via disqualification to retain the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title. Not to be stereotypical or anything, but the crowd was not very tolerant of this Middle Eastern man. One drunk lady (who was happy to give out middle fingers all night… not that she was the only one who did this) even tugged on Sheiky’s keffiyeh headdress and she got pie-faced! That was quite amusing. Sheik asked for silence so that he could pray with his prayer rug. The crowd did not oblige. Throughout the bout I heard such things as “Bomb Iran!” and “fucking towelhead”. Sigh… I guess I should be happy that I didn’t hear more or worse than that. I mean, if that racist Jared David would have been there and he showed his true KKK Grand Dragon feelings during this bout*… Jesse started off with the advantage and briefly they fought out of the ring and nearby the bar area, but then Sheik took over by being a cheater cheater pumpkin eater and used a spike hidden on him to his advantage; of course, it was used a few times and the ref never saw it. Note that before the match started, the ref did the standard pat-down and he found another spike on Sheik, and took it away. He never thought that the Iranian had a second one on him. Jesse made the comeback and things were going well for him. Then, the spike fell out, but the referee didn’t see where it came from. Jesse stopped, looked around, then thought, “F it!” and he grabbed it and used it as a weapon to bloody the champion, and he got himself DQ’ed. Again, the crowd wasn’t happy to see this.
• Let’s just say for comedy purposes that that church show actually did take place, as preposterous as it sounds to me with that kind of lineup and it not being announced online at all. I’m sure they-referring both to the special guests who flew in to the show and the church people who put the event on-be filled with delight knowing that Jared David and his brainless sycophant bigot friends (some of whom apparently were in attendance at that fictitious church show) are actually cross-burning segregationists. Maybe I should try calling that one number provided by butthurt Will Rivera…
A brief amount of time was spent by some guys who cleaned up the blood from the mat. It wasn’t too much but I won’t complain about the company being safe about that sort of thing. At least the lady announcer knew to stall for time while that was done.
6. Jake Roberts defeated Tommy Taylor. This went pretty much how you’d expect it to. Jake started off with the advantage, working over Tommy’s left arm and also using some chest slaps. Taylor also showed that he was frightened of Jake’s large snake, which he brought out to ringside and whipped out to show the crowd, so to speak. But, then Tommy took over and worked over Jake for a few minutes. Jake made the comeback, did the short-arm clothesline, and then did the you know what for the win. For what it was it was entertaining and the crowd ate it all up. You may think that Roberts being in a bar all night long is a recipe for disaster but he wrestled acceptably enough in the ring, all things considered and he spent a lot of the show watching the action in the ring. I know this as where I was sitting (or rather, standing) Jake was usually only a few feet away.
Afterwards, Jake whipped it out again and laid the snake on the prone body of Taylor. Then, out came the Double Deuce Social Club to lay out Jake (and they didn’t step on the large snake, which was still on the mat). Titan, Sinn Bodhi, and Abudadein (who didn’t appear on the show at all until this point) came out to made the save. I believe this sets up a six man or at least some sort of tag at their next show, which is either March 5th or 6th.
Overall, this 2 ½ hour show was a lot of fun. I’m not saying that because I was able to have some alcohol while watching all the action in the ring. It was a genuinely entertaining time and I’m glad I was able to see it and it helps to wipe out the bad taste of what happened at the first show I saw in 2010. The crowd helped make it fun but the wrestling was good stuff too.
After the show I didn’t go straight home but rather my car had a mind of its own and took me to downtown Orlando… don’t you hate it when that happens? Actually, I went to a certain nightclub in downtown Orlando because they were having an 8 year anniversary bash on that night and I figured that’s a good time to go there. What an experience that was, but you can read about that on Monday morning (at the latest) at www.myspace.com/blairpac. As for my next show I am unsure of when that will be, but no matter what I should post something new here within the next week or two, so stay tuned for that.
I decided to do something different and instead of seeing a show on Saturday night that’s only a few miles from my house (I was so tired by Saturday night, I ended up taking a late nap; true story), I used my free time on Friday to unwind (as there’s been reason to this month, and I’ll leave it at that) and spend some time in Cocoa Beach and then the Melbourne area before heading on over to the saloon to watch the NWA/WWA show. It looked to have an interesting card so I figured it was a good idea. There really isn’t anything to say about the pre-show except that I was at a JC Penny’s and found a 26 dollar shirt that was only 3 bucks and change. It was from the Decree clothing line and it looks snazzy for the price.
I got there and the crowd was already pretty large. By the end I’ll guess that there was-and this is a ballpark figure-350 to 400 there. No kidding. It was stated online that the crowd was 437, which I I guess it was advertised well and people wanted to see Jake The Snake in action. Speaking of that…
Apparently there was a church show in my home town (at least home town since 2004) of Clermont last night, and Jared David was involved! I still call shenanigans on it, by the way. The lineup looks ridiculous and made up, and my comments in that thread say it all. I wish that Will Rivera wouldn’t have gotten so butthurt over what I said, but I’m not going to worry too much about that. No matter if the show happened or not the point is that I live in Clermont and heard nothing about it and apparently it was a FREE show too, so no money was made there. It does sound like the hallmark of an MSL run event, admittedly, but at least it’s clear that Jared David is as good of a promoter as a booker, which means he’s revoltingly bad at both.
But, enough of Jared’s horribleness. People at this event were eager to get the autograph of Jake The Snake. I saw that before the event started some people I knew were in the crowd. I got to see more than one person I hadn’t seen in far too long. I also found out from “unnamed sources” that the scheduled FCW show only a few miles away was cancelled with no advanced warning. No shocker there. I’m sure that this was a reason why the attendance here was so large. I saw some 2 dollar discount passes floating around this joint for the rescheduled FCW event, now to take place in a few weeks. I found them… in the men’s room! I’m not joking here.
The event started about 10 minutes late and the ring announcer (looking like a modern day Kenny Rogers) was out there with some young lass who looked like a regular at the saloon. I don’t mean that as an insult, but it’s true. She got on the mic and she was all “motherfucker” this and “motherfucking” that; note that there actually were some children in attendance at this event. It was an all ages show, which surprised me. Then again, some more cursing was heard from the wrestlers during the bout, so there’s that… anyhow, those two were quite the duo. They were able to read the cue cards fine enough (and they were typed up fine enough too) but they were more goofy than anything else; they were great! It wasn’t in a traditional sense but I was entertained by them.
1. Craig Classic defeated Marty Con (w/ Ben Dejo). This was a pretty good opener. You had technical wrestling, forearm exchanges, and all that. The crowd at first wasn’t into it but by the end they were into Craig. They didn’t enjoy how Con and Dejo were cheater cheater pumpkin eaters. You also had near-falls and kicks to the face/head, amongst other things. The ending came when Dejo was on the apron and he held Classic. Marty went to attack him and… yep, what you thought would happen did happen and Ben crashed to the floor and Craig rolled up Con and then transitioned that to a submission, and the Hispanic tapped out.
The wacky duo in the ring were going to introduce the next match but then out came Francisco Ciatso and Pete Cannon. Before they even said one word on the mic the crowd hated them. But then Frankie started to run down the crowd for being lowly rednecks who were white trash and were “proud of their gunracks and fish decals in the back windows of their Ford F-150’s” and that only intensified their hatred. He said that he had no one to face at the show so he was willing to face anyone. Out came the 7 foot tall guy known as Titan, Tower, and several other names, and needless to say Frankie quickly changed his tune and suddenly did not feel like fighting anymore. He and Cannon quickly ran to the back.
2. Dark City Fight Club (w/ Leva) defeated The New Heavenly Bodies (w/ Santana G) to retain the NWA Florida Tag Team Titles. This was a quite good contest. Santana G is a young lady who mainly is involved with the much-bemoaned in some circles Coastal Championship Wrestling in South Florida but after some online searching, I know that she’s from Missouri and also wrestles up there. Looks-wise, she resembles a hotter version of a younger Francine of ECW fame. After Kenny Rogers made a quip to the Bodies on the mic (I just don’t think he knew any better) Chris Nelson and then Vito DeNucci got on the mic and hilariously bashed the crowd. It was more making fun of rednecks stuff but again, it was great. One awesome moment was when a fat guy was told, “You haven’t seen your junk since the Tet Offensive”. Tremendous. When the match started, the larger DCFC had the advantage and used their size to their advantage. You also had comedy, such as when both Bodies were whipped into the corner and as has happened before, the two guys ended up in a position on their knees where one guy’s crotch landed right next to the other guy’s ass, and the crowd chortled at that sight. They also enjoyed the catfight that happened between the two ladies… as did I! But, the Bodies took over via.. an eye poke. Legit, I found that to be pretty great, as it was so old-school. It was even used a few other times to their advantage. They wore down the DCFC for a little bit but then the hot tag was made. Not everything was picture perfect but I didn’t mind it and neither did the audience. They were happy to see the champs retain their belts.
3. Sinn Bodhi defeated Bruce Santee. Originally Bruce was going to wrestle Apolo (yep, the former TNA guy and the individual who once wrestled Jared David a few years ago in a show in front of less than 15 people and for reasons I won’t get into here the bout went less than 30 seconds and Jared David ended up with a black eye; oh, and he also injured Scott Steiner’s throat pretty badly in Puerto Rico; not that he’s a big stiff who injures people or anything…) but maybe thankfully so for Bruce’s health, he instead wrestled Sinn. Bruce was bamboozled early on by the strange Bodhi, and he especially didn’t like it when Sinn hammered a nail into his nose and then pulled it out (!) and then he pulled out a huge spike and wanted to hammer it into Santee. Early on Sinn had control with his unique offense, but then Bruce took over for a few minutes. When the bout started, Sinn said that Bruce was “a mama’s boy”, so three guesses as to what Santee had to hear when he had the advantage. But, then Sinn made the comeback and he won the bout with his Tallulah Belle finisher.
Intermission time, and it was announced as being 20 minutes, but it went longer than a half hour. But, I can’t complain. Some talent were out there signing autographs and the crowd was happy to get stuff signed. Also, I spent the break continuing to drink alcohol (hey, I was at a bar! I did not have enough to impair my driving home) and chatting with various people. Sad to say, though, for the second half of the show Kenny Rogers didn’t announce and instead it was the chick who did that duty. I don’t know what happened to The Gambler, but the lady did fine.
4. Francisco Ciatso (w/ Pete Cannon) defeated Titan. This was a short bout in which Titan squashed Frankie the entire time. It was comedic so the crowd was happy to see him get his comeuppance. Suddenly, the ref was distracted and Cannon used a foreign object to knock out the big man, and that’s how Ciatso got the win. Afterwards, they continued to beat up Titan, so Tommy Marr made a surprise appearance and ran out… only it was a SWERVE~! He joined up with the Double Deuce Social Club and this *really* got some people upset. Seriously, it looked as if some people were going to jump the rail to attack them!
5. The Sheik defeated Jesse Neal via disqualification to retain the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title. Not to be stereotypical or anything, but the crowd was not very tolerant of this Middle Eastern man. One drunk lady (who was happy to give out middle fingers all night… not that she was the only one who did this) even tugged on Sheiky’s keffiyeh headdress and she got pie-faced! That was quite amusing. Sheik asked for silence so that he could pray with his prayer rug. The crowd did not oblige. Throughout the bout I heard such things as “Bomb Iran!” and “fucking towelhead”. Sigh… I guess I should be happy that I didn’t hear more or worse than that. I mean, if that racist Jared David would have been there and he showed his true KKK Grand Dragon feelings during this bout*… Jesse started off with the advantage and briefly they fought out of the ring and nearby the bar area, but then Sheik took over by being a cheater cheater pumpkin eater and used a spike hidden on him to his advantage; of course, it was used a few times and the ref never saw it. Note that before the match started, the ref did the standard pat-down and he found another spike on Sheik, and took it away. He never thought that the Iranian had a second one on him. Jesse made the comeback and things were going well for him. Then, the spike fell out, but the referee didn’t see where it came from. Jesse stopped, looked around, then thought, “F it!” and he grabbed it and used it as a weapon to bloody the champion, and he got himself DQ’ed. Again, the crowd wasn’t happy to see this.
• Let’s just say for comedy purposes that that church show actually did take place, as preposterous as it sounds to me with that kind of lineup and it not being announced online at all. I’m sure they-referring both to the special guests who flew in to the show and the church people who put the event on-be filled with delight knowing that Jared David and his brainless sycophant bigot friends (some of whom apparently were in attendance at that fictitious church show) are actually cross-burning segregationists. Maybe I should try calling that one number provided by butthurt Will Rivera…
A brief amount of time was spent by some guys who cleaned up the blood from the mat. It wasn’t too much but I won’t complain about the company being safe about that sort of thing. At least the lady announcer knew to stall for time while that was done.
6. Jake Roberts defeated Tommy Taylor. This went pretty much how you’d expect it to. Jake started off with the advantage, working over Tommy’s left arm and also using some chest slaps. Taylor also showed that he was frightened of Jake’s large snake, which he brought out to ringside and whipped out to show the crowd, so to speak. But, then Tommy took over and worked over Jake for a few minutes. Jake made the comeback, did the short-arm clothesline, and then did the you know what for the win. For what it was it was entertaining and the crowd ate it all up. You may think that Roberts being in a bar all night long is a recipe for disaster but he wrestled acceptably enough in the ring, all things considered and he spent a lot of the show watching the action in the ring. I know this as where I was sitting (or rather, standing) Jake was usually only a few feet away.
Afterwards, Jake whipped it out again and laid the snake on the prone body of Taylor. Then, out came the Double Deuce Social Club to lay out Jake (and they didn’t step on the large snake, which was still on the mat). Titan, Sinn Bodhi, and Abudadein (who didn’t appear on the show at all until this point) came out to made the save. I believe this sets up a six man or at least some sort of tag at their next show, which is either March 5th or 6th.
Overall, this 2 ½ hour show was a lot of fun. I’m not saying that because I was able to have some alcohol while watching all the action in the ring. It was a genuinely entertaining time and I’m glad I was able to see it and it helps to wipe out the bad taste of what happened at the first show I saw in 2010. The crowd helped make it fun but the wrestling was good stuff too.
After the show I didn’t go straight home but rather my car had a mind of its own and took me to downtown Orlando… don’t you hate it when that happens? Actually, I went to a certain nightclub in downtown Orlando because they were having an 8 year anniversary bash on that night and I figured that’s a good time to go there. What an experience that was, but you can read about that on Monday morning (at the latest) at www.myspace.com/blairpac. As for my next show I am unsure of when that will be, but no matter what I should post something new here within the next week or two, so stay tuned for that.