411’s NWA Championship Wrestling From Hollywood Report 01.28.11

The show starts out with highlights from the end of last week’s show with the RockNES Monsters, Slymm and Brown and The Tribe all brawling in the ring after The Tribe interfered and cost Slymm and Brown their shot at the NWA Heritage Tag Team Champions, Natural Selection. From there, we head to the NWA Hollywood interview area where the RockNES Monsters are set to speak. Johnny Yuma says that last week, The Tribe stuck their noses where they didn’t belong and now they have to deal with the Monsters. He says that they’re not looking past The Tribe, but that by the end of the night, the Hawaiian Lion will be reduced to the Hawaiian Kitty-Cat, while the Navajo Warrior will be shedding a single tear for pollution on the highway and because he just lost to the RockNES Monsters. Johnny Goodtime says that on the off chance that they end up frozen, when they’re woken up a thousand years from now, he wants to be able to tell their new robot and one-eyed mutant friends that they were the greatest NWA Heritage Tag Team Champions of all time. He adds that when the talking lobster doctor asks them who they beat for the titles, it will be a privelege to tell him that it was Natural Selection, because they’re the RockNES Monsters and they will rock you. Really fun promo to kick off the show and I’m liking that they’re giving these guys a bit more time on the mic as its paying dividends.

Match One:
vs.
The RockNES Monsters (Johnny Yuma and Johnny Goodtime) vs. The Tribe (Hawaiian Lion and Navajo Warrior) w/Olivia

Excalibur is back on color commentary with Todd Kenely and they talk about the match-up of speed vs. size in this one and how it will be interesting to see how they handle their unfinished business from last week. Goodtime and Yuma play to the crowd and get attacked right off the bat, but they fight off the attacks and hit some forearms and punches before The Tribe turns the tables with some knees to the gut. Warrior pushes Goodtime into one corner and lays in some big chops while Lion shoves Yuma into the opposite corner and chops him as well. Double whip from The Tribe and both of them get reversed as Warrior and Lion have a little malfunction at the junction and Warrior takes Lion down. Dropkick to the knee of Warrior by Yuma and Goodtime hits the ropes for a short dropkick to the side of the head before Goodtime picks Yuma up for an atomic drop that turns into a double legdrop as Warrior rolls out to the floor. Lion charges at both of them and tries for a double clothesline, but the Monsters duck and take Lion out of his game with some chops before whipping him into the ropes for some lightning moves. Goodtime slides under the bottom rope and trips up Lion as Yuma comes off the ropes with a legdrop and Goodtime comes over the top rope with a slingshot legdrop into a cover that gets a short two-count.

Yuma tries to whip Lion into the ropes, but Lion fights it off and forces Yuma to hit him with some forearm shots before trying the whip again. Lion reverses it and yanks Yuma into him, dropping him to the mat with a NASTY belly-to-back suplex that folds Yuma in half. Lion with a cover attempt that gets two and he throws Yuma into his corner before tagging in Warrior. Double whip into the ropes and Lion takes Yuma down with a drop toehold before Warrior drops a big elbow to the back of the head. Warrior picks Yuma up into a seated position and Lion hits the ropes for a vicious diving shoulderblock that slams the back of Yuma’s head into the mat. Warrior follows that up with a double chop to the trapezeus and he lays Yuma across the top rope for a big chop to the chest, followed by a clothesline off the ropes. Warrior hits the ropes and scores with an elbowdrop into a cover that gets a short two-count. Yuma tries to fight back with some shots to the gut and some backhanded strikes, shooting off the ropes and ducking under a clothesline, but Warrior takes him down with a HUGE modified crossbody that almost looked like a cross with a tackle. Tag to Lion and he comes off the ropes with an elbowdrop into a cover..hook of the leg….1……2………Yuma kicks out!

Lion moves to a bodylock and squeezes around the ribs of Yuma, who slowly fights to his feet and scores with some reverse elbows. Lion with some right hands and he tries to whip Yuma across into the corner, but Yuma puts on the brakes and steps into the turnbuckle before coming off the middle rope with a twisting elbow off the top rope. Yuma runs to the other corner and looks to set up another offensive move, but he goes to the well once too often and Lion just kicks him in the gut and picks him up in the double underhook before SWINGING YUMA AROUND THE RING AND SENDING HIM FLYING WITH A HUGE BUTTERFLY SUPLEX!! Impressive move from Lion that draws some ooh’s and ahh’s from the Hollywood crowd. Lion with the cover….1…….2…………..Goodtime with the save from the outside!! Warrior is in now for some double-team offense and they whip Yuma into the ropes and Warrior tries for a tilt-a-whirl slam, but Yuma slips out and gets a quick roll-up for two. Yuma realizes he’s in the wrong corner and somersaults past Warrior into a HOT TAG TO GOODTIME!! Warrior tags Lion and Goodtime comes in and slides through Lion’s legs into a Hadouken followed by a jumping kick to the face and a beautiful leg lariat that takes Lion down. Goodtime whips Lion across into the corner but Lion reverses and charges in on Goodtime. Goodtime avoids contact and rolls back into the middle of the ring, whipping Lion into the corner.

Goodtime sets up for a charge and Lion backdrops him over to the apron where Goodtime kicks his leg out from under his leg and scores with the slingshot dropkick to the chest in the corner. Goodtime with a jawbreaker/backbreaker combination on Lion and he moves to a front facelock as Warrior charges into the ring from the corner. Goodtime ducks a clothesline and dropkicks Warrior in the back, sending him down to the Showcase floor, but as he sets up for a splash over the top, Lion comes back and attacks him with a double axehandle. Lion goes for a belly to back suplex, but Goodtime flips over it and takes Lion down with his cradle into a trip slam before he heads up to the top rope. Warrior sneaks into the shot and pushes Goodtime off the top rope to the Showcase floor, drawing Yuma into the ring to dropkick him off the apron. Goodtime up on top and he hits a HUGE MISSILE DROPKICK that sends Lion out to the floor. TOPE SUICIDA BY YUMA ON LION!! TOPE CON GIRO BY GOODTIME ON WARRIOR!! RockNES in the HOUSE!! Goodtime fires Lion back into the ring and tries to set him up for some package move, but Lion fights free and goes for a clothesline that misses. Enziguri from Goodtime misses and Lion just PLANTS HIM with a massive release German suplex!!! Lion crawls over for the cover….1………………2……………Goodtime rolls the shoulder!!

Warrior in the ring now and they set Goodtime up for Reservation Devastation, but they put him down as here comes Skullkrusher Rasche Brown and Slymm from the back! They’ve got Olivia on the outside and they’re dragging her back with them. Warrior heads out to the floor and they shove Olivia into Warrior’s arms and start the verbal sparring. Lion watches from the ring, but stops paying attention to the Monsters and they set him up and hit EXPLOSIVE AMNESIA!! FROG SPLASH FROM GOODTIME!! 1………………2…………………3!!! Big win for the Monsters as they try to work their way back to a rematch for the titles.

Winners: The RockNES Monsters (pinfall, Goodtime’s frog splash on Lion at 7:50) ***1/4

Great way to open the show as the Monsters are over as all get out and can work with any team on the NWA Hollywood roster. That’s not to take anything away from The Tribe as they more than held their own with their quicker opponents and were on point with their work in the ring. The finish seems to set up the continued tensions between all three teams as they jockey for position for a title shot and I’m okay with that. Good stuff to get things started.

Back from the break and David Marquez is in the NWA Hollywood interview area with NWA World Heavyweight Champion, “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce. Marquez makes a remark that “Hollywood’s Own” Joey Ryan should have gotten a shot at the title sooner than tonight’s main event and Pearce takes exception to that, saying that the problem with people like Marquez and people at home is that they want to point fingers and make accusations. He says that Ryan should be counting his lucky stars that he is even getting a shot at the title and that some pundits, experts and idiots are saying that he should have gotten his chance a long time ago. Unfortunately for Ryan, he’s had a lot on his plate with “Pretty” Peter Avalon and “Rock Superstar” Joey Kaos and that the bottom line is that tonight at the end of this hour, the lights will come down on “Hollywood’s Own”. Pearce says he should pay close attention to what has happened to the people who have gotten in his way in the past few weeks and that if there’s any question in Joey Ryan’s mind about it, he should make a phone call to Colt “Boom Boom” Cabana and he can tell him exactly what happened. Marquez asks about Nick Madrid and Pearce’s expressions goes cold before he walks away from the interview.

Marquez throws it over to Jonny Loquasto, who is with Austin Aries and Aries sticks his sunglasses on Jonny stops to correct him as he’s not the “greatest man in the world” as Loquasto called him, but “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”, which covers a whole larger range of people. Aries says that Scorpio Sky has accepted his challenge and reiterates that if Sky can beat him three times, he’ll shake his hand and say that he’s the better man. Aries says that that’s not going to happen and that everyone knows it because the first match was a fluke win. Aries says that he knew he had Sky beat in the first match, but he let his ego get in the way and decided he wanted to be a showman so after he hit the Brainbuster and he was down for the count, he picked him up because he wanted to hit the prettiest 450 splash in wrestling. Aries says that he missed that splash and Sky snuck out a win but it won’t happen again because when they meet again it will be all business and no pleasure.

Match Two:
vs.
Nick Madrid vs. Gabriel Gallo

Todd and James talk about how easy it is to have a letdown after a big win and they question whether Nick Madrid might be primed for one of those letdowns. Lock-up and Gallo grabs a side headlock, taking Madrid over before Madrid reverses into a headscissors. Gallo pops out of it and moves around to a reverse chinlock, cranking away at Madrid as he fights back to his feet and whips Gallo into the ropes. Gallo blasts Madrid with a shoulderblock and hits the ropes where Madrid drops down before going over with a leapfrog into a hip toss that puts Gallo down. Armdrag takeover from Madrid and he follows with a dropkick that gets a short two-count. Madrid goes for an Irish whip but Gallo reverses and they fight over a hip toss before Gallo trips Madrid down and locks in a grapevine into a reverse chinlock in an STF-style move. Gallo lets it go as Madrid reaches the ropes, but stomps away at him before choking him across the top rope.

BIG chop from Gallo and he lights him up with another one in the opposite corner before he punches Madrid in the gut. Madrid fires back out of the corner with some forearms and whips Gallo into the ropes, but Gallo reverses it and rocks him with a big clothesline into a cover….1…….2……Madrid barely kicks out. Reverse chinlock now from Gallo and he slams him into the top turnbuckle before he whips Madrid across, following him into the opposite corner with a charging clothesline. He whips Madrid across again and charges him again, but Madrid steps up to the second turnbuckle and kicks Gallo in the face. Madrid grabs him by the head and sets him up…..RUNING OF THE BULLS!! Madrid hooks the legs….1……………2………………………3!!! Madrid picks up another big win after his huge upset over Adam Pearce a couple of weeks back.

Winner: Nick Madrid (pinfall, Running of the Bulls (tornado DDT) at 3:34) **

Decent bout that was mainly here to continue to get Madrid over as the plucky underdog that never gives up and finds a way to win. It’s all got a very 1-2-3 Kid feel to it and that’s okay as they’re doing a good job with it. They keep bringing up Madrid’s win to Pearce whenever he’s on camera as well, which makes me think that there’s something brewing there as well, which is awesome for Madrid.

Match Three:
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So Cal Crazy vs. “The Mirror Image” Ricky Mandel

Not sure if it was intended or not, but fun fact, the Urban Dictionary defines a Ricky Mandel as a person that thinks they’re cooler than they are and that wherever they are is the coolest place to be. Suffice to say, when someone calls themselves “The Mirror Image” and carries a custom-made title belt with a big mirror as the center plate, they’ve definitely got ego issues. As for the actual Ricky Mandel in the ring, he’s a five-year pro out of Southern California that has worked for virtually every promotion on the circuit but has mainly been focused in SoCal Pro as of late.

Mandel attacks at the bell, hammering Crazy with big forearms from behind before he picks him up and hits an elbow to the back of the head. Mandel slaps Crazy in the back of the head and picks him up before putting him back down with another right hand. Mandel whips Crazy into the ropes and misses a reverse elbow before Crazy hits a casadora and takes him down with an armdrag. Spinning heel kick by Crazy and he sets Mandel up for a clothesline, but Mandel floats over and pushes Crazy into the ropes for a big boot to the mush!! Mandel chokes Crazy rather blatantly and headbutts him down to the mat before playing to the crowd. Mandel picks Crazy up for a big suplex and floats over into a cover for a short two-count. Reverse chinkock from Mandel and he squeezes on it as Crazy fights back to his feet and elbows out of the hold. Crazy tries for a whip but Mandel blocks it and hits a HUGE standing dropkick into a cover for another two-count.

Mandel mounts Crazy and just hammers away with punches before he picks Crazy up and whips him into the corner. Mandel tells the crowd to kiss his ass and does a little Rick Rude memorial bump and grind before he charges Crazy, but Crazy gets the boot up into the face! Crazy takes Mandel down with a clothesline and follows it up with a dropkick before he reverses an Irish whip into a tilt-a-whirl headscissors that sends Mandel out to the floor. Crazy climbs up to the top rope and hits a HUGE PLANCHA TO THE SHOWCASE FLOOR!! Crazy sends Mandel back into the ring and climbs back up to the top, jumping over a charging Mandel and ducking a clothesline before missing a clothesline and ducking under a Mandel leg lariat. Mandel reaches out and RIPS THE MASK RIGHT OFF OF CRAZY’S HEAD!! Crazy drops down and rolls out of the ring as James Morgan is CACKLING on color commentary. Referees out to help Crazy cover up and he gets a towel around his face but the count is on and the referee reaches ten.

Winner: “The Mirror Image” Ricky Mandel (countout, mask shenanigans at 4:26) *1/2

Nice introduction for Mandel, and while it would have been nice for him to get a clean win in his debut, I think that this actually does a little more for his character as it shows him as a guy that doesn’t care about anyone or anything else besides looking at himself and winning matches. Shame that Crazy seems relegated to job status as he’s capable of more from his matches in SoCal Pro, but Mandel looks like there are big things in his future and this was a solid first step in that direction.

After the match, Mandel talks to Jeff Resnick in the ring and says that he doesn’t care about SoCal Crazy or his stupid traditions before he throws the mask in Crazy’s face. He says he doesn’t care about any of the fans and he sure as hell doesn’t care about Jeff Resnick. Mandel says that he is “The Mirror Image” and he’s the best looking champion in pro wrestling history. Resnick throws it to the back and Jonny Loquasto has “Mr. Mega Star” Tommy Wilson with him. Wilson takes umbrage at the fact that Loquasto calls him a future star and he says that he’s already a megastar and that Loquasto better not mess it up again. Wilson says that he’s not a goober that’s going to tell everyone what he’s going to do and that he’s an evil genius and that when his plans are finally revealed, everyone will see how great he is.

Match Four: NWA World Heavyweight Championship
vs.
“Hollywood’s Own” Joey Ryan vs. “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce (C)

Crowd is pretty heavily behind Ryan as ring announcer Angelo Trinidad gives us the special ring introductions, but Pearce attacks Ryan before he’s even finished with everything. Pearce grabs a side headlock and Ryan shoots him off into the ropes, leapfrogging him and ducking under him before hitting Pearce with a big dropkick and a pair of armdrags into an armbar. Pearce rolls to his knees and eventually fights to his feet, but Ryan brings him right back down to the mat with an arm-wringer. Ryan back to the armbar and the crowd is chanting his name as Pearce shoves him back into the corner and fakes a clean break before he takes a cheap shot on Ryan. More right hands from Pearce and he backs away but Ryan pulls him back into the corner and peppers him with rights before hitting a big hip toss out of the corner. Ryan over to the other corner to grab Pearce, but Pearce catches him and drops him face-first into the middle turnbuckle. Pearce picks Ryan up and sets him up for a vertical suplex, but Ryan floats over into a roll-up off of the ropes for a two-count. Pearce misses a clothesline and hits the ropes, but Ryan catches him coming of with a HUGE Machine Gun spinebuster! Ryan calls for Pearce to get up and sets up for the superkick, but Pearce bails out to the floor to catch his breath and call for a timeout.

Pearce hooks Ryan around the ankle and drags him out of the ring, slamming his head into the front of the stage area before he rams him into the ring steps. Pearce with a handful of hair and he chucks Ryan back into the ring, measuring him for a huge stomp to the face. Elbow to the back of the head puts Ryan down to his knees and Pearce just rakes away at his face, clawing at Ryan’s nose and mouth before raking his nails down Ryan’s back. Pearce rakes the back again and tells Ryan to get up with Ryan responding with right hands and a dropkick that sends Pearce over the top rope to the Showcase floor! Ryan right out after him with right hands and Pearce is trying to get away from him and get another breather as the crowd chants “Hollywood” to support Ryan. Pearce turns the tide with a cheap shot and rams Ryan’s head into the barricade before sending him back into the ring. Pearce rakes his bootlaces across Ryan’s eyes and whips him into the ropes, but Ryan reverses and holds on, slipping through Pearce’s legs and knocking him down before picking him up for a BIG PUMP HANDLE SUPLEX!! Pearce rolls to the apron and Ryan charges across the ring, hitting a shoulderblock to the gut that sends Pearce flying to the floor.

Referee’s count is up to five with both men on the floor and Ryan sends Pearce back into the ring before heading up to the top rope. Ryan off the top rope with a big crossbody block…..1…….2……….Pearce kicks out as we head to a commercial break!

Back from the break and Pearce is climbing up onto the top turnbuckle, but Ryan splits his wickets and crotches him on the top rope! Ryan climbs up and locks Pearce in for a HUGE SUPERPLEX…..cover from Ryan….1……..2………………Pearce barely rolls his shoulder!! Pearce grabs referee Chris Massie and Ryan shoves him out of the way, allowing Pearce to take over with an STO into a cover…hook of the leg….1…………2…………..Ryan with the kickout! Pearce whips Ryan into the ropes but Ryan reverses and hits a standing hurracanrana. Pearce rolls through it and charges at Ryan, but Ryan takes him over with a big snap powerslam!! 1…….2……….Pearce barely escapes again!! Crowd is really buying into these false finishes and the place is pretty electric, rallying behind Ryan. Pearce holds onto Ryan’s boot and begs off with Ryan responding with right hands. They both hit the ropes and Pearce TURNS RYAN INSIDE OUT WITH A MASSIVE LARIAT!! Pearce drags Ryan into the middle of the ring and signals the crowd before heading up to the top rope…..SUPERFLY SPLASH FROM PEARCE CONNECTS!! Pearce hooks the leg……….1…………….2……………………….RYAN KICKS OUT!! Pearce grabs Ryan and locks in a Camel cluth, raking at Ryan’s face while he’s in the hold, yanking on his nose and mouth. Ryan tries to fight out of the hold and drags himself to the ropes, finally making them to break the hold.

Pearce gets in the face of referee Massie and throws him to the side to try for the low blow, but Ryan blocks it!! Ryan blocks the low blow and swings Pearce’s arm around, nearly hitting Massie, who ducks out of the way. Ryan takes advantage of the momentary distraction….LOW BLOW ON PEARCE!! Ryan sets him up for the piledriver to really rub it in, but Pearce drives him back into the corner to break up the move. Big knife-edge chop from Pearce and another as Pearce sets him up for a whip into the corner. Ryan reverses and charges in, but Pearce gets the boot up and kicks him in the face. Pearce out of the corner…SUPERKICK FROM RYAN!!! STEREO SUPERKICK FROM RYAN!! CROWD IS ON THEIR FEET!! Ryan with the cover……..and Austin Aries drags out the referee behind Ryan’s back and counts the three-count himself!! Ryan thinks he’s won the match as Aries shoves the referee back into the ring. Aries sits down beside the apron and hides as the crowd is cheering for the three-count as most of them didn’t see Aries as the man doign the counting. Ryan is arguing with Massie about the three-count and here comes Pearce from behind with a roll-up. Handful of tights…..1……………2……………….3!! Pearce escapes with his title one more time thanks to Austin Aries and his ruse!!! Ryan still doesn’t understand what happened and is asking the fans about the three-count as Pearce staggers to the back, title belt in hand.

Winner: “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce (pinfall, roll-up with a handful of tights at 13:00 shown) ***3/4

Awesome back and forth main event that had the crowd at the Showcase rocking and rolling throughout. While I’m not totally jazzed on yet another Pearce title bout ending with a screwy finish, I liked that this one was original and fresh and that they played off of Pearce’s usual finish of the low blow and piledriver. Ryan had the people in the palm of his hand and if he doesn’t manage to get the win to pick up the title eventually, he’s still going to be insanely over. Great work, great psychology and a great match to close out the show this week!

Ryan argues with the referee some more and ARIES ATTACKS FROM BEHIND!! Aries stomping Ryan to the mat and Pearce joining in with some choking from the floor. They drag Ryan over to the apron and Aries hits a slingshot forearm shot over the top rope, right into Ryan’s throat. Pearce with more rights and he pulls Ryan over to the entrance area and scoops him up for a slam and drops his face onto the ring steps. Aries throws Ryan back into the ring and stomps on him some more but HERE COMES SCORPIO SKY!! Sky knocks Pearce down and charges the ring….right hands on Aries…Sky throws him over the top rope to the floor to make the save!! Pearce tries to grab Aries and high-tail it to the back, but SKY HITS THE ROPES AND CONNECTS ON BOTH WITH A BEAUTIFUL TOPE CON GIRO OVER THE TOP!! Sky rolls back into the ring to check on Ryan and we’re out of time for this week!

Final Thoughts: The show kind of lost its way a little bit during the middle with the two squashy kind of matches, but they were both necessary in the grand scheme of things to get over new talent and were more than covered by the awesome tag match to start the show and the great title match that closed things out. There’s more and more buzz from people calling this one of the best hours of wrestling on television and it’s getter harder and harder to dispute that as NWA Hollywood keeps bringing it week after week. NWA Hollywood does what it knows and it knows wrestling very well.

Southern California wrestling fans, the next big NWA Championship Wrestling From Hollywood KDOC-TV taping takes place on February 12th at the Regent Showcase Theatre in the heart of Hollywood and you could be there LIVE! The card, which will has a special matinee bell time of 4pm, already has six great matches signed including a tag team main event with The Standard’s “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce and Austin Aries taking on “Hollywood’s Own” Joey Ryan and Scorpio Sky in tag team action, the third bout in the best of five series between Aries and Sky and a whole lot more. Visit the NWA Hollywood website for more information on the show and pick up tickets for just $15 at SaveFans.com or by calling 1-888-326-7697.

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