Your commentators are: Todd Keneley & Excalibur
Match #1: Aaron Bolo/Famous B/Ryan Taylor vs. “Pretty” Peter Avalon/Ray Rosas/Rico Dynamite with Sylvia
Ryan Taylor and Ray start off. Ryan quickly backbody drops Ray causing Rico to tag in. He wants no piece of Ryan and tags in Peter. Ryan takes down Peter . Peter is up and charges at Ryan and is met with a hip toss. Ryan tags in Famous B. B hits a few kicks on Peter as well as an enzugiri. B gets distracted by Ray, and Avalon takes advantage. Ryan and Aaron try to intervene but to no avail, causing the other 3 to triple team B. Rosas tags in and chops B in the corner. Rico tags in. Both exchange various counters, but Rico hits a big knee to the gut taking down B. Rosas tags in and hits a vertical suplex for 2. B tries to fight back, but Ray hits a release german suplex on B for a 2 count. Peter tags in, but eats a superkick from B, sending Peter into Ray, knocking Ray to the floor as we go to commercial.
Back from commercial, and Bolo is taking it to Rico. Peter Avalon comes in and tries to help but Rico, but Ryan Taylor hits a Gojira Driver on Avalon. Rosas hits a missile dropkick on Taylor, and B hits a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker on Rosas. Rico throws B outside, but Bolo takes down Rico with a back suplex facebuster. B and Taylor are in the ring and do stereo dives onto Peter/Rosas, leaving Rico and Bolo in the ring. Bolo looks to hit Rico with his finisher, but Rico reverses into a school boy and puts his feet on the middle ropes and has a handful of tights, giving his team the win.
Match Result: Ray Rosas/Peter Avalon/Rico Dynamite win via school-boy by Rico on Aaron Bolo in 7:58 (shown)
Joey Ryan has a sit-down interview talking about how he wanted a fair shot at the NWA title. When Natural Selection got involved, he and Colt had a shot to take the tag titles, but Ryan says he struck out. Joey thinks it is time for Joey Ryan to start worrying about himself, and not what the right thing to do is. He refuses to be remembered as the guy that failed, which is why he will take the NWA title tonight.
Match #2: Candice LaRae vs. Buggy
Candice hides near the entrance and ends up jumping Buggy. Candice throws Buggy into the steel stairs before bringing her into the ring. Candice looks for a top rope axe handle, but Buggy counters and throws Candice into the ropes before hitting a monkey flip. Buggy looks to slam Candice, and the two counter before Candice sends Buggy face first into the bottom turnbuckle. Candice tosses Buggy into the corner. Buggy tries to spring up, but Candice slams Buggy down facefirst. Candice tried a cover grabbing the ropes, but to no avail. Candice tosses Buggy to the corner again, but Buggy gets on the top turnbuckle and hits a crossbody. Buggy follows up with a bridging Northern Lights Suplex for 2. Buggy goes up top again, but Candice stops her. Buggy once again knocks Candice off and hits another crossbody. Buggy looks for a springboard bulldog, but Candice counters it with a back suplex. Candice locks Buggy in a single legged Indian Deathlock. Buggy desperately tries to get to the ropes and gets it, but Candice refuses to let go of the hold, causing the referee to disqualify her.
Candice goes outside and grabs a chair. The referee tries to stop her, but Candice low blows the ref, and picks up the chair and levels Buggy with a BRUTAL chairshot.
Match Result: Buggy wins via disqualification in 4:07
Colt Cabana has a sit-down interview of his own now talking about how he understands where Joey Ryan comes from for the way that Joey challenged him. Colt calls himself a fighting champion and puts over Joey as a great competitor, but he will get knocked down tonight. Colt says Natural Selection ruined the moment and says that there was some miscommunication in his and Joey’s game in the Natural Selection match, but that is wrestling. Colt was upset by it, but he will not be defeated by it. He calls what James Morgan and Stu Stone did disgusting. He found it interesting that Joey did not do anything to help. He is not sure of what Joey is about and knows that there is a lot of stuff going through his head. Colt expects to put on a top notch wrestling bout tonight. It is Colt’s story to tell, and whatever Joey brings tonight will not be good enough to end Colt’s reign.
Match #3: NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match: Colt Cabana (c) vs. Joey Ryan
Colt offers a handshake, but Joey does not want it. The two lock-up. Colt takes Joey to the corner and offers a handshake again, but Joey denies it. Colt puts Joey in a side headlock and takes down Joey with a shoulder tackle. Joey goes to the outside and paces. Colt goes back to a side headlock and takes Joey down again with a hip toss. Colt once again offers Joey a hand, but Joey refuses. After pacing, Joey charges the ring, but Colt reverses and goes for a roll-up before hitting Joey with an armdrag. Colt goes after Joey’s left arm, as Colt locks it behind Joey. Colt hits a snapmare on Joey and locks in the left arm again as we go to commercial.
Back and Colt hits another armdrag and ties Joey up in another submission hold. Joey gets to the ropes. He hits a straight fist to Colt and uses the ref to block Colt’s charge, and lays into Colt with several fists. The two exchange fists, with Joey having the advantage now. Joey hits some shoulder thrusts on Colt in the corner, before strongly whipping Colt to the other corner. Joey hits some straight punches to Colt’s face. Colt fires back with chops as Joey hits punches. Colt gets the advantage and puts Joey in the corner, but Joey maneuvers out and stomps a mudhole in Colt in the corner. Joey goes for a cover, but only gets 2. Joey goes to the second rope. He waits for Colt to get to his feet and leaps at Colt, but Colt hits a big punch to the gut of Joey. Colt is back to his feet first and takes down Joey with a few chops and a big wind-up punch. Colt whips Joey to the corner and takes down Joey with a big chop. With Joey in the corner, Colt looks for the Flying Apple, but Joey quickly charges out and hits a spear. Joey goes for another cover and gets 2 as we go to another commercial break.
Joey is on the outside now and drags Colt towards the post and uses the post to his advantage to put pressure on Colt’s gut. Colt is now on the apron as Joey charges. Colt flips over with a Sunset Flip looking for a pin, but only gets 2. Joey takes down Colt and Joey stands on Colt’s chest. Joey goes for another few covers, but gets 2 each time. The fans start to get behind Colt. Colt is up and hits chops on Joey. Colt throws Joey to the corner and charges, but Joey sidesteps as Colt hits the turnbuckle hard. Joey covers again for 2. Joey locks in a grounded abdominal stretch, working again on the rips of Colt. Colt powers out and hip tosses Joey. Joey is up and is met with a big clothesline by Colt Cabana. Both men get to their feet and trade punches, as the crowd does the “boo/yay” being pro Colt. Colt hits a Bionic Elbow on Joey, gaining the advantage seemingly and hits a big scoop slam. Colt goes to the middle rope and hits a big splash on Joey for a 2 count. Colt once again goes up top, but Joey gets to his feet and crotches Colt up top. Joey goes to the middle rope, looking for a Superplex. Colt tries to fight out of it, but Joey successfully hits a Superplex for another 2 count. Joey goes to lock Colt in a submission, but Colt counters into a Billy Goat’s Curse attempt. Joey kicks Colt into the turnbuckle and looks for a school boy attempt, but gets 2. Colt is in the corner and Joey looks to charge. Joey eats a boot from Colt, and Colt looks for a tornado DDT, but Joey tosses him to the mat and follows up with a big Spinebuster on Colt. Joey is SCREAMING for Colt to get up, looking for the Superkick, but Colt very nicely counters into the Billy Goat’s Curse!. Joey can’t counter it though and is forced to tap out!
Match Result: Colt Cabana retains the NWA Heavyweight Title via Billy Goat’s Curse in 15:49 (shown)
This was a bit of a plodding match towards the beginning, but it got rather enjoyable towards the end. Joey worked very hard to show the frustration he was going through the match, by going outside to give himself pep talks and you could feel the desperation he had towards the end of the match. While not a great match, it was still a very enjoyable match. ***1/2
After the match, Colt helps Joey to his feet and extends a hand to Joey. Joey hesitates and teases a handshake, but walks out on Colt again looking incredibly disappointed as Colt poses with the belt.
OVERALL
They built the main event very well throughout the show with the two sitdown interviews with Joey & Colt. I thought the match delivered higher than I expected as well, especially for two guys who are not really known for their seriousness when it comes to wrestling. The other two matches on the show enjoyable for what they were. It’s just a shame that since this was the last show before Colt lost the NWA title, that we will not get to see what else NWA Hollywood may have wanted to do when Colt had the belt. If you are a fan of him and/or Joey Ryan, definitely check out this episode. It can be watched at (along with every other episode of NWA Hollywood) at www.NWAHollywood.com