The SmarK Rant for NWA Powerrr–10.29.19
By Scott Keith on October 30, 2019
(Someone had commented to me that they really liked that I posted Fall Brawl earlier than usual, so I’m putting this one up at 4:30am my time as an experiment. Usually I set them to post at 7:00am CST, but really they could go up at midnight if I wanted.)
The SmarK Rant for NWA Powerrr – 10.29.19
Episode 4 – “Dealer Calls Again”
Taped from Atlanta, GA
Your hosts are Joe Galli & Jim Cornette
If nothing else, this show prompted me to add Dokken to my Spotify playlist again.
James Storm is out at the desk to start, and he’s sick of having to prove himself and sick of Colt Cabana getting all up in his area. So Colt responds and he’s pissed that Storm stole the title when he was injured, and then Eli Drake comes out to make peace and demands that Nick Aldis give Storm a title shot. Aldis is sick of all the rhetoric and he just wants to settle things like men in the ring with a six-man match. If Team Aldis wins, Storm defends the National title against Colt Cabana. But if Team Storm wins, he gets a shot at the Ten Pounds of Gold. BUT…Storm has to give up the National title first. Because then he’ll have something to lose. Oooo, SPICY.
Meanwhile, we recap Joe Galli being a dick and harassing Nick Aldis and Kamille about “not letting her speak”. LET IT GO, Joe!
Trevor Murdoch joins David Marquez and he’s not smiling much these days. In fact, he wants a match with Jocephus in retribution for messing with his friend Colt Cabana. Jocephus is sick of “all these humilgrations” from “shapeshifters”, so Trevor suggests that he shut his hole and get his ass in the ring. However, before this can happen, Jocephus shoves Trevor into the ringpost and apparently we’re on.
Trevor Murdoch v. Jocephus
Murdoch quickly shrugs off the initial attack and hits a pair of clotheslines, then slugs away in the corner, but Jocephus drops him on the top turnbuckle and pulls out a bag of powder. Murdoch kicks it back in his face and finishes with a bulldog at 1:10. You know it’s authentic 80s NWA when guys are carrying giant bags of white powder around the studio with them.
Thunder Rosa is here. Soon.
Aron Stevens is back and would like to remind us not to make eye contact with him. Ricky Starks interrupts, and Aron thinks he would make a good stunt double, but Ricky slaps him instead. That’s even worse than eye contact!
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No DQ: The Dawsons v. Eddie Kingston & Homicide
The babyfaces attack before they even make it into the ring and Kingston is fish-hooking and biting and everything. In the ring, Homicide chokes out Dave Dawson, but Kingston accidentally punches the post and the Dawsons take over. Homicide chokes Zane out with a TV cable, which seems to draw boos from the crowd but it’s actually Wild Card at the desk. Various chairs get tossed into the ring and Homicide bulldogs Zane onto one of them and follows with a cutter for two. The Dawsons get rid of Homicide and double-team Kingston before suplexing him onto a chair bridge. Yikes. Homicide recovers and makes a comeback, but the Dawsons wear him out with chairs and bury him under a pile of them. But then Wild Card comes in and attacks Zane Dawson, and then Royce Isaacs slams Kingston on the chair, and puts Dave Dawson on top for the pin at 5:58. Not sure what the plan was there. Not a huge fan of the crazy chair brawls on this kind of show, actually. **
Meanwhile, we’re still unclear as to the identity of the mysterious Question Mark.
Meanwhile, Marti Belle wants to prove that she’s worthy of a title shot at her best friend Allysin Kay.
Marti Belle v. Ashley Vox
Belle quickly gets a neckbreaker and misses a blind charge, so Vox dropkicks her into the corner for two. Belle comes back with the running hip attack in the corner for two and follows with the rolling suplexes for two. Vox with a senton for two, but Belle does a couple of moves in the corner where she whips Vox in and then circles around before charging. Is that like one of her signature things? Because it looks dumb. Vox tries a chicken wing, but Belle reverses, so Vox rolls her up with a jackknife cradle for the pin at 3:33. Marti Belle is just not particularly good. * This brings out Thunder Rosa, who offers a handshake to Marti, but it gets brushed off.
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Aron Stevens v. Ricky Starks
Stevens takes him down with a snapmare, but misses an elbow and Starks runs him into the turnbuckle in three corners to take over. Nice dropkick gets two. Starks goes to an armbar, but Stevens does a nice move where he maneuvers Starks to be standing in the ropes, and then kicks the middle rope to crotch him behind the ref’s back. That’s very well done. Stevens takes over with an elbow drop and a curtsy while the crowd mocks him for his pirate ways, but Starks comes back with a sling blade for two. Stevens tries a neckbreaker, but Starks comes back with a backdrop and teases another slap, at which point Stevens shrieks like a little girl and cowers, and Starks rolls him up for the pin at 3:30. This was a lot of a fun. **1/2
James Storm & Wild Card v. Nick Aldis, Colt Cabana & Mr. Anderson
Tom Lattimer trades wristlocks with Aldis to start, but Aldis wins that battle. Over to Anderson, who takes Lattimer down with a single arm DDT for two and then controls Isaacs with a drop toehold. Cabana comes in with a sunset flip for two and hits the tag champs with a flip flop & fly while yelling for Storm to answer his challenge. This allows them to double-team Colt, at which point Storm comes in and attacks. Storm slugs away on Colt and they trap him in the corner, with Lattimer getting a clothesline for two. Isaacs goes up and Colt hits him with an upkick to block, and it’s hot tag Anderson. Ken runs wild with a neckbreaker on Storm and the rolling fireman’s carry on Lattimer for two. Mic Check, but Isaacs cuts him off and it’s BREAKING LOOSE IN TULSA with everyone hitting their moves. Storm hits Colt with a high knee, but superkicks Isaacs by mistake and Anderson takes him out. Aldis hits Lattimer with a uranage, however, and Colt gets the superman pin at 7:02, earning himself a title shot at James Storm’s National title. Fun match to end the show. ***
So simple, so fun, such a great hour of wrestling TV. The women’s division isn’t exactly their shining moment, but nobody’s perfect.
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