Deep South Wrestling TV Report for December 24, 2006

Deep South Wrestling Television
Airing December 24, 2006 on Comcast Sports South
Taped on December 7, 2006 at the Deep South Arena in McDonough, Ga
By Larry Goodman

Nigel Sherrod and Bill DeMott opened this edition of Deep South Wrestling with a recap of the major developments from last week’s show. Henry Godwin found a new bib overall-wearing partner in the form of Ray Gordy (the former Ray Geezy). Urban Assault became the new DSW tag team champions by defeating the Majors Brothers with the help of G-Rilla. The feud between Mike Knox and Ryan O’Reilly came to end when Knox pinned O’Reilly cleanly in the middle with an Oklahoma roll.

Earlier today Rebecca DiPietro caught up with the Majors Brothers. Brian said that every week it was three on two because of G-Rilla. He lifted his shirt so the viewers could see the Ace bandage around his midsection (as a result of taking an ICU on the floor from G-Rilla last week). Brett said they were going to debut their equalizer next week. DiPietro tried to use her powers of persuasion to get Majors to reveal the equalizer’s identity, but they wouldn’t spill the beans.

(1) Afa pinned Suede at 4:42 with the Samoan Storm. This was Afa’s debut match in DSW. Sherrod acted clueless about the identity of the masked Suede. Suede landed a kick up side the head and scored a two count with a nice take down. Suede applied a full nelson. Afa slipped out of it and took a bump on his butt. Awkward spot. Afa reversed a whip. Suede tried to go up and over, and Afa dropped him on his face. Afa decked Suede with a corner clothesline. Afa stomped a mudhole, yanked Suede out of the corner and covered him for a two count. Afa scored with a knockdown headbutt. Afa used a Canadian backbreaker. Suede slithered free but Afa nailed him with a dropkick. Afa made a nonchalant cover. Afa reapplied the backbreaker. Suede escaped and hit a DDT. Both down for a count of seven. Suede roared back with a barrage of kicks. Suede hit a spinning heel kick and hooked the leg. Afa rolled a shoulder.
Suede’s climbing knee lift connected. Suede crashed and burn on a Phoenix Splash. Afa hit his finisher, a version of the Blue Thunder Bomb.

Micah Taylor (with Tracy) was interviewed by Brooke Adams. Micah painted Heath as a psychotic individual who was oblivious to the rules. Micah said he was going to give Heath a chill pill and bring him back to reality.

Luscious was backstage with Heath. She asked him about his blatant disregard for the rules. Heath said the punks in DSW should be thanking him. Nobody was being nice to him when he broke into the business 20 years ago. Heath talked about how tough it was back in the day, all of the injuries, and how he never missed a match..

They (the whiners) should be handing their paychecks over to me, what little they might be gittin’, because I’m here to do a job. This is my business and that ring is my office. Do you hear me? (shoves Luscious) Do you hear me? That ring is my office and I’m not here to play. Mike Taylor, when I get done kicking your rear end and teaching you a lesson, you ought to crawl over to me, climb up my leg, shake my hand, and say ‘thank you very much.’

(2) Micah Taylor (with Tracy) beat David Heath in 7:21. Crowd was behind Micah with Tracy leading the cheers. Micah started cranking on the arm. Heath broke the hold with a punch in the nose, but Micah grabbed a leglock. Each time Heath countered, Micah would punish him with another leglock. Heath’s facial expressions showed his mounting frustration. Heath bit Micah’s hand. They started to brawl. Micah grabbed a stepover toehold. Micah countered a backdrop attempt with a sunset flip. Micah turned it on and hit a leg lariat for a near fall. Heath raked the eyes. Heath finally seized the advantage at 5:30 with a hotshot. Heath choked Micah over the middle rope and hammered him with crossface forearms. Heath dropped an elbow for a two count. The crowd fired up for Micah. Heath with what DeMott called “a flurry of clubberin.” Heath hit a corkscrew elbow drop for a near fall. Heath brutalized Taylor in the corner. When Heath charged in, Taylor scooted to a sitting position on the middle rope and rolled him up.

Gymini and Angel Williams sarcastically congratulated Urban Assault on winning the tag titles. Gymini said there was no way UA could have beaten the Majors without their 400 pound monster, G-Rilla. Williams said GM Krissy Vaine had lost control of DSW and they were about to take matters into her own hands.

Cut to DiPietro with Vaine. DiPietro said rumor had it that Vaine wasn’t tough enough to enforce the rules of DSW. Vaine denied the rumor and said it was created by bored people with nothing better to do. DiPietro informed Vaine that the source was Williams. Vaine said Williams was no friend of hers and she was just jealous of Vaine’s success in DSW. Vaine said Jody Hamilton was perfectly content with everything in DSW land.

The scary brown people bring honor, dignity and the street to the Deep South tag team titles. — Cocky Siaki

UA was with Luscious, who was subjected to another dose of intimidation and abuse. UA gloated about winning the tag titles and did their catch phrase — “It’s a wrap. You guys are done, son.”

(3) Urban Assault (Siaki & Perez with G-Rilla) defeated Gymini (with Angel Williams) in 8:53. UA’s first title defense. Gymini dominated Perez, while DeMott was waxing strong about the monster G-Rilla. DeMott and Sherrod said Gymini were Smackdown superstars but were back in Deep South to get the one prize that had eluded them. Perez was taking a beating. Jake hit a double underhook suplex for a two count. Jesse applied a body scissors. Jake went after Siaki and out of nowhere, Perez capitalized with a Spinesplitta. Siaki gave Jake the beatdown. UA doubled up behind the back of referee John Cone. Siaki switched in without tagging, but Cone caught him.UA isolated Jake in their corner. Siaki inadvertently clocked Perez with a forearm, and Jake caught Perez with a spinning neckbreaker that left both men down. The hot tag. Jesse cleaned house showing babyface fire. Jesse laid out both member of UA with full nelson Russian legsweeps. Siaki hooked the ropes to block a second legsweep. Jesse hit a Samoan drop on Siaki but Perez saved at the last split second. It broke down to four way action with the Gymini in control. Cut to a shot of Williams grabbing G-Rilla’s leg. Afa came to ringside and shoved Williams down on her face. Jake started pounding on Afa at ringside. With the ref distracted, G-Rilla entered the ring and crushed Jesse with the ICU. Siaki pinned Jesse.

Earlier today Derrick Neikirk was interviewed by DiPietro. Neikirk said he would still be the champ if not for some distractions along the way. Niekirk said Jay was lucky to still be champion because Ryan O’Reilly had him beaten if not for Mike Knox. Neikirk said he was going to pick Jay apart just like everyone else. “The eight month reign is going to be twice as long this time.”

Luscious asked Jay for his thought’s on his match with Neikirk. “They say everything comes to he that waits.” Jay said Neikirk had been strategizing for months for his shot at the title and he expected nothing less than Neikirk’s best. “We’re going to find out who exactly is the greatest Deep South Heavyweight Champion, the All-American or the Monster from the Midway.”

(4) Bradley Jay retained the DSW Heavyweight Title vs. Derrick Neikirk in a TV time limit draw (10:05). The match opened with a death-grip lock up that wasn’t broken until it spilled through the ropes. Verbal sparring at ringside ensued. Back inside the ring, Neikirk locked in a snug side headlock. Neikirk took it to the mat with a rear chinlock, but Jay got a hammerlock reversal. Coming out of a commercial break, Neikirk dodged a barrel roll, but Jay then speared his knee. Jay zeroed in on the injured knee. Neikirk bailed out to buy time, but Jay continued his assault at ringside. Jay racked Neikirk’s knee on the ring apron. Neikirk was in agony. Neikirk tried to cut Jay off on the reentry. They rocked each other with uppercut forearms. Jay kicked Neikirk in the knee and put him on his back for barely a two count. Jay applied a punishing leglock. Neikirk ripped at Jay’s eyes to break the hold with three minutes of TV time remaining. Jay ate an elbow charging in. Jay blocked a superkick, but Neikirk hit a release german suplex. Neikirk limped across the ring and climbed to the second rope. Neikirk nailed a long distance flying elbow drop. But Neikirk was damaged goods and slow to cover, so Jay was able to kick out. Jay cut Neikirk down with the barrel roll. Jay got an ankle lock, a hold he had mastered according to DeMott. Neikirk made it to the ropes. Neikirk reversed a whip attempt and hit an overhead belly to belly suplex. One minute remaining. Neikirk went for another german. Jay blocked it and picked the ankle. Jay got the ankle lock again, this time squarely in the middle of the ring. Neikirk hung on for the final 30 seconds. The time limit expired with Sherrod saying the match would continue next week.

The Inside Pulse
Closing Thoughts: This show was a good example of what I have come to appreciate about DSW. The emphasis is on the wrestling with mostly clean finishes and sparing use of gimmick matches Poor Sherrod having to sell the idea that he didn’t know the identity of the masked man. The least the creative minds could have done was given him a different name. It’s not like Tommy Suede had never wrestled on DSW TV before Don’t expect Afa to show up on the major league roster any time soon. Decent raw material but he needs to polish up his ringwork I was marking out for Heath’s promo. The match told a good story with Heath’s facial expression and Taylor’s matwork as the high points Luscious and DiPietro continue to improve as interviewers. Adams looks hot as hell but is totally green behind the mic. Rob Russo’s work as substitute ring announcer makes it clear that he’s better suited to his usual role of referee…In yet another example of WWE’s mind boggling talent decisions, G-Rilla worked singles matches on this week’s Smackdown house shows using the name George Murdoch and looked atrocious. DSW is able to use him effectively without exposing his weaknesses, much the same as they did with Kahli, by limiting his involvement to a bodyguard role where he basically does one big spot per segment Gymini worked babyface style against UA and the commentary was pushing hard in that direction. The crowd was split during the match but the finish got them solidly behind Gymini I liked Neikirk’s promo as usual. Jay’ is OK on the mic as long as doen’st lapse into that annoying shrill tone…Jay/Neikirk was a basic but intense wrestling match. Neikirk’s selling was excellent here…Results of this week’s dark matches: Jake Hager b Daniel Rodimer w/Brooke Adams, Freakin’ Deacon b Bob Hoskins, Oleg Prudius b Kofe Nahaje Kingston, Heath Miller b Big Bully Douglas, Ray Gordy b Adam West and Tony Santarelli b Johnny Curtis.