NWA Hollywood

December 10th

Rather than opening with Dave Marquez, the show opens with Greg Sharpe and Eric Cross coming to the ring. Quickly after, Rico Dynamite and Tito Escondido. We are by Todd Keneley that this is the opening for a #1 contenders tournament for the NWA Heritage Tag Team titles held by The Tribe

Greg Sharpe & Eric Cross vs. Rico Dynamite & Tito Escondido.

Cross and Rico Dynamite start out for their respective teams.After some working on the arm,  Cross tags out, but Escondido is able to tag in very quickly. Escondido and Dynamite, who have the size advantage, are able to get some control, until Sharpe is able to break away and tag in Cross who goes wild with kicks and a big german suplex. He is quickly shutdown when he goes for a wheelbarrow bulldog, he gets stungunned on the top rope, slammed down and hitting with a slingshot senton.

Winners: Escondido and Dynamite

I was impressed with Eric Cross for his brief blitz of offense, right before the finish.

Cedrick The Hitman vs. Famous B

The crowd seems to love Famous B, with loud chants of his name before he even appears. Quick and fancy attacks by Famous B early in the match, Cedrick even resorts to the rapid movement for a brief second but after he catches Famous B with a tilt-a-whirl slam, he slows the paceand works on Famous B's neck. Famous B gets back into the action by reversing a neckbreaker, hitting a kick to the back of the head, getting a brief rollup for 2 and then hitting a superkick (named "The Flashing Lights") and senton from the top. He gets the three count

Winner: Famous B

I enjoyed this match. Especially after Famous B got back into the match. Cedrick was able to do a slow methodical style very well but when it was necessary, he was able to speed it up.

Post match, Famous B says he is gonna knock down the competition until he gets some gold around his waist. Good promo.

Bobby Phoenix with GQ Money come out (they are flanked by several large men). Phoenix's opponent is seemingly Nick Madrid. Madrid however comes in from the crowd and hits a big crossbody off the top rope

Bobby Phoenix vs. Nick Madrid

I figured out who the mystery man from last week was. The promo with the umbrella. It was GQ Money. I recognized him but could not put a name to it. He was Fabian Kaelin from WSX. I didn't like him then. The group that flanked Phoenix and Money are "The Disorder". Apparently two of the Disorder are named "M" and "W". Nick Madrid controlled a good portion of the match and got the win with a top rope splash.

Winner: Nick Madrid

Post match, The Disorder attacks Madrid. M and W come out from the back and destroy him with their apparent finishers. An Osaka Street Cutter and a curb stomp.  It is 7 on 1 until  Joey Kaos comes and saves Nick Madrid. Joey Kaos used to be the leader of The Disorder.

Dave Marquez is in the NWA Action Center for some promotion. He also does a brief summary of Wahoo McDaniel, who is being inducted into the NWA Hall of Fame.

Dan Spivey vs. Wahoo McDaniel (NOT REVIEWED)

Back to present day

Ray Rosas enters. Ray Rosas looks like a hispanic (and living) Chris Kanyon. His opponent is  Ryan Taylor. But Taylor does not enter as he was laid out by Peter Avalon in the back. Taylor has 10 seconds to get to the ring (The ref is unaware that Taylor was attacked). Taylor fights and makes it just in time. Ryan Taylor looks like a young Chris Sabin or maybe Jon Moxley

Ray Rosas vs. Ryan Taylor.

The announcers mention that in this feud (Ray Rosas and Peter Avalon vs. Ryan Taylor) there were a few haircuts. Rosas has control but Taylor is still alive. But a double underhook DDT drops Taylor for the three

Winner: Ray Rosas

Overall, not a great show.

Ring of Honor on Sinclair December 3rd

Ring of Honor on Sinclair December 3rd

Recap video of Mike Bennet interfering in El Generico vs. Jay Lethal's TV Title match.

Our announcers are Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness

The Main Event is The Young Bucks vs. Future Shock

Promo time for The Embassy's "Dominant Male" Tommaso Ciampa. He is looking a few inches left of the camera. It reminds me of a Mitch Hedberg joke. Most of the time however, they show videos of him training. Flipping tires, swinging sledgehammers. Ciampa is undefeated.

Shiloh Jonze enters the ring. Here comes The Embassy afterwards. Prince Nana, Princess Mia and Mr. Ernesto Osiris all accompany Ciampa.

Shiloh Jonze vs. Tommaso Ciampa

Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness seem to agree that Jonze has no chance. Ciampa hits several hard elbows in the corner and in doing so also is holding Jonze arm around he rope so he is trapped. Jonze makes a brief comeback but is cut off with a stiff lariat. Jonze does escape the ring and hits a top rope elbow smash on Ciampa followed by a running one in the corner. Ciampa though cuts him off again with a dropkick to the knee and one to the head. Repeated running knee attacks to the corner followed by a powerbomb/backbreaker combo

Winner: Tomasso Ciampa

Everything from the second cutoff by Ciampa to the finish looked great.

Video recap of Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team and The Briscoes fighting in the street. Next week WGTT vs. The All Night Express in a Proving Ground match.

Jim Cornette interviewing ROH World Champion Dave Richards. He towers over him.

In ring segment now with McGuinness, Kevin Kelly, Jim Cornette, Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs in the ring. Kevin Steen comes out with his lawyers. Cornette is offering a settlement. He says Steen is a great wrestler but is worried about him as a face for the company. He is too loose of a cannon. Steen says he is a loose cannon. Cornette passes off the response to Steve Corino. Corino challenges Steen to a match at Final Battle. Jim Cornette adds Jimmy Jacobs as the referee to the match. Jim Cornette will be at ringside. If Steen wins, he is reinstated. I am pretty sure that Jimmy Jacobs is turning on Corino. 

Kevin Kelly throws to break as Steen and Corino try and fight.

Inside ROH: It is announced that at Final Battle 2011, Mike Bennett vs. Jay Lethal vs. El Generico
The last unbeaten man will get the ROH Television Title. Todd Sinclair, by Bennett's request, will not be the referee.

Eddie Edwards is with his trainer, Dan Severn. Dan Severn has a sweet mustache. They show clips of Eddie Edwards training camp. Davey Richards has closed his camp (which I will tentatively refer to as Munchkin Land) but he did give comments. He says he wants to remember Eddie Edwards as a man of honor and is trying to ignore the reports that Eddie is a bad man.

Camp Strong: Roderick Strong is with 3 very attractive young ladies. He implies that he is working out very hard with these women (SEXUALLY). He says if nobody dies in the main event of Final Battle, he will go down to the ring and kick them in the testicles and ask for a refund.

Main Event time

The Young Bucks promo: They talk about not respecting anyone. They say they are too good to have to respect anyone.

Now Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly come to the ring. They make up Future Shock. The Young Bucks follow.

Future Shock vs. The Young Bucks

Future Shock controls the opening of the match but a very organized (read: choreographed) session leads to The Young Bucks taking over. One highlight after what I consider to be some uneventful minutes was a wheelbarrow suplex onto the apron by Adam Cole to Nick Jackson. O'Rielly has Matt Jackson in a guillotine choke and nothing Nick Jackson does breaks it until a Matt is able to lift Kyle up and Nick hits a springboard reverse ddt. Bucks finish with "More Bang for Your Buck" and get the win

Winners: The Young Bucks

The match was kind of a drag in the middle but picked up with the slam to the apron. I did like the neverending guillotine but think that it took something out of the finish. As soon as it got broken, the match peaked and even though it ended just seconds later. It still feels like a down ending.

NWA HOLLYWOOD~!

Stu Stone opens the show saying that he thought he had the upperhand on Percy Pringle, Adam Pearce and Bob Trobich but didn't. He is looking for someone to take the NWA Title from Adam Pearce. He said he is coming back once he finds that guy.

"The Mirror Image" Ricky Mandel vs. Jarek Matthews

Mandel has a title belt with a mirror on it. The analysis for this, being provided by Jeff Resnick, Todd Kennely or James Morgan. Mandel is an all around athlete and Matthews is a submission specialist. After every few moves, Mandel goes to his title and checks his reflection to make sure his looks are still intact. He makes a mistake and while he is checking his looks Matthews rolls him up and gets the victory

Winner: Jarek Matthews

A short match but told a simple story

Someone with an umbrella has a microphone and is singing about Nick Madrid.

Next from Hoboken, New Jersey is Hobo. His opponent is K-Man.

Hobo vs. K-Man.

This appears as if it will be a one sided encounter, Hobo isn't small but K-Man is bigger. Hobo got very little offense in. K-Man won after a full nelson slam.

K-Man reminded me of a one man Road Warriors. Used Ironman by Black Sabbath as his theme much like the Road Warriors did. Controlled a good portion of the match and overpowered Hobo. After the bell, he raised Hobo's hand like a good sportsman. Then when he dropped it, Hobo fell down.

Earlier this week they got reports saying that The Ugandan Giant Kamala had his foot amputated and were unable to confirm this. But Kamala apparently sent in a video to confirm this himself. They go to the video tape now. Kamala says he is blessed he is alive. He thanks people for their support. I was hoping the video would be of him in character. I know it is a serious issue but that would be awesome to see.

Dave Marquez with news about TV tapings that already passed (at least as of my viewing), then a video of Peter Avalon talking about Ryan Taylor and Scorpio Sky. Peter  Avalon is still a tiny man, nothing has changed in the year since I last saw this program.

8 man tag main event hype: Johnny Yuma, Willie Mack, Terex and Brian Cage make up apparently the babyfaces. Yuma runs through their accomplishments. Terex is undefeated. Now we go to the heels. Shaun Ricker, Watts, Mikey O Shea and Timothy Thatcher. The heels do a better promo (well Shaun Ricker does) but cannot agree who is the leader.

ITS AN ELIMINATION MATCH~!

Promo by Famous B.

The heels are apparently named "The Gravy Maniacs" Shaun Ricker is a former NWA Heritage tag team champion with Brian Cage, one of his opponents for tonight. Mikey O'Shea has a look, at least in attire and size, like Bam Bam Bigelow. Watts is probably the best known member of this match with his appearance on USA Network's Tough Enough earlier this year. Timothy Thatcher has a look resembling early ECW Mike Knox. He is British though. That is the best I can do.

Next the babyfaces who will apparently be known as "The Cage Rage" Brian Cage had a WWE developmental deal as Kris Logan is signed to a deal with Jeff Katz Wrestling Retribution Project (as is Shaun Ricker), Terex is the biggest man on "The Cage Rage" and is apparently undefeated.
Johnny Yuma is a former NWA Heritage Tag Team champion with Johnny Goodtime and Willie Mack is a member of the UWF crew 40 Glocc. He also has appeared on The Art of Wrestling with Colt Cabana. Earlier when Dave Marquez was talking about the match, he said Johnny Yuma was the captain of the babyface team but apparently Brian Cage is the leader. Interesting note, the referee is bigger than Johnny Yuma

Gravy Maniacs vs. The Cage Rage

Ricker and Cage start out but Ricker tags out to Mikey O'Shea. O'Shea is a large man and Cage is struggling to get him off his feet. Timothy Thatcher tags in. Watts tags in as we  go to commercial. Then when they come back, Watts tags out immediately. Not really a good sign about Watts. Brian Cage is able to get some offense in and tag in Terex. Terex is obese. After some offense on Thatcher by Terex, Johnny Yuma tags in. Yuma is tiny. Willie Mack tags in now. Quick tags by each team. Some triple teaming by the babyfaces leads to a pin attempt. Then all hell breaks loose. All 8 men brawling around the arena. BRIAN CAGE WITH A MOONSAULT FROM THE TOP TO THE OUTSIDE! Terex threatens to dive out of the ring, but Watts cuts him off. Which is good. Because people would have died. After things get cleared up. Ricker and Yuma are in the ring. Ricker showboating but is unable to get a 3 count. Mikey O Shea tags in. Yuma is able to escape. Terex tags in and he delivers clotheslines to all the heels until the two fat men (O Shea and Terex) spill outside. Double countout.

Mikey O Shea and Terex both counted out.

Watts and Mack are in the ring but Mack tags out to Brian Cage. Cage working over the arm of Watts. Which apparently Watts will need for his finisher. Quick tags by the heels and Cage is being stomped on by the heels. After several minutes Cage is able to tag in Willie Mack. Thanks to a distraction by Shaun Ricker, Watts (with a handful of tights) rolls up Mack and eliminates him

Willie Mack eliminated

Johnny Yuma comes in and is trying his damndest against Watts. Willie Mack runs in and attacks Watts. Allowing Yuma to hit what appeared to be a modified piledriver (could have just been a double knee jawbreaker and I saw it wrong, looked good regardless) on Watts and pin him

Watts eliminated.

Poor Yuma is stuck in the ring with Thatcher and Ricker. Repeated tags by the heels. Shaun Ricker gets Johnny Yuma with a side suplex slam and pins him

Johnny Yuma is eliminated

Two on one against Brian Cage. Thatcher locks in a submission but Cage gets his feet on the ropes.  A quick neckbreaker by Cage sends Thatcher out

Timothy Thatcher eliminated

Quick pinfall attempts by Cage. Ricker has more energy than Cage, conserving his energy early in the match. After escaping a suplex attempt, Brian Cage is able to hit another neckbreaker and get the victory for his team.

Winner: The Cage Rage (Brian Cage)

Overall, I really liked Shaun Ricker on this show. The main event was the definite highlight of the night, although I did not like Willie Mack running back in to cost Watts the match. It made sense because Mack got eliminated by suspicious means but it happened right in front of the referee to no consequence.