Your commentators are: Todd Keneley & Jeff Resnick.
We open the show with Los Luchas and SoCal Crazy. Los Luchas cut a promo in Spanish. SoCal Crazy says all of his attention and focus is on Joey Kaos tonight and he is going to bring the TV title with him to Mexico.
Match #1: Cedric The Hitman vs. Sergio Vega
Cedric uses his strikes to start. Sergio speeds up and rolls up Cedric a few times. Cedric hits a pair of Russian Leg Sweeps and a Russian Leg Sweep into a backbreaker for 2. Cedric hits some knees and a Blue Thunder Driver for 2. Cedric throws Sergio to the corner, ut Sergio counters. Sergio looks for a crossbody but Cedric moves. Cedric puts Sergio in a Full Nelson-style Camel Clutch. The crowd fires Vega up. Vega gets a headscissors and a leg lariat for 2. Sergio goes up top. Cedric gets to his feet and crotches him on the ropes. He goes up and hits a Frankensteiner. He then picks Sergio up and hits a Fisherman’s DDT for the 1-2-3.
Match Result: Cedric wins via Fisherman’s DDT in 3:37.
Nick Madrid is in the back and talks about how 7 months ago when he pinned Adam Pearce was the biggest night of his career. The TV title is all that is on his mind. Madrid says he is coming after the disorder.
Match #2: Los Luchas vs. Ricky Mandell & Hector Canales
No entrances for either team. Mandell/Canales immediately attack Los Luchas. Luchas take them down with armdrags and dropkicks, sending them to the outside. They get their grip together and get in the ring. Phoenix Star and Mandell go at it. Star hits a backbreaker on him and Zokre springboard legdrops into the ring. Star hits a dropkick. Mandell tags in Canales. Star immediately hits a dropkick on him. Canales hits Star with a clothesline and chokes Star while the referee is not looking. Canales hits a triad of open hand slaps. Star puts Canales with some of his own. Canales throws him to the turnbuckle and tags in Ricky. Ricky hits a vertical suplex. Star makes a comeback and tags in Zokre who takes down Canales with clotheslines and an enzugiri. Canales makes the tag and hits a big clothesline on Zokre. Zokre gets thrown into the turnbuckle and dodges a splash from Hector, who lands on the top turnbuckle. Zokre kicks him and Hector’s selling there is shades of Shawn Michaels at Summerslam 2005. Hector gets a Spinebuster on Zokre and a fameasser on Star. Canales and Mandell hit a rather awesome rope assisted double neckbreaker for 2 broken up by Star. Los Luchas hit a dropkick/spin out slam combination on Ricky. They then hit another unique move on Hector and follow up with stereo flipping sentons. They go for the pin, but Mandell teases hitting Zokre with his Mirror Image title. The referee goes to take it out. Mandell throws Star out of the ring. Zokre goes to attack, but Mandell hits a huge kick below the belt and Hector makes the cover for the 1-2-3.
Match Result: Hector Canales & Ricky Mandell win in 8:00 via Low Blow
RockNES Monsters are in the back for a promo. They are the #1 contenders and will face the winners of the upcoming Tribe/Natural Selection Strap Match. Next week they face Young Hollywood. Yuma puts over their war with The Cutlers. Yuma says that war changes people and they are now new and improved. Goodtime says some weird stuff comparing their new darkness to PeeWee Herman’s darkness. Can’t make that up. Regardless, they assure that they will become the NWA Heritage Tag Team Champions.
We get a full video recap of an unaired match from the June 5th, 2011 episode of Cedric The Hitman vs. Willie Mack, which was referenced in the first match of this episode. Cedric caught Willie Mack in the knee when he went for a dropkick which caused the DQ. After the match, Cedric hit the referee with the briefcase and used the briefcase to chop block Willie Mack. Cedric puts Mack’s knee on the rope and hits Willie’s kneecap head on with the briefcase. He then drives his knee into the turnbuckle post. He then pins Mack’s knee in the stairs and drives the stairs into his knee. Cedric reveals that he had iron weights in his briefcase and hits Mack with them. Referees finally arrive to send Cedric to the back. The referees try to help Mack out of the ring. Mack collapses on his way out of the ring since he can’t hold himself up.
Dave Marquez is sitting down with Buggy. Buggy says that she was blinded by Candice two weeks ago by whatever it was that Candice sprayed. Buggy says that she wants this Blindfold match with Candice LaRae so Candice can see what Buggy has had to endure due to Candice’s attacks. Buggy says that she may have lost her eyesight but she still has fight in her. Dave asks what her tactics will be. Buggy says this is her first time in a match like this, but Buggy thinks that she will have the advantage. She does not want Candice to be able to cheat. Buggy has learned what it’s like to be blind. She is sorry that it has to be this way, but it is how it has to be.
Match #3: “Be The Star” TV Title Tournament Semifinal Match: Joey Kaos vs. SoCal Crazy
GQ Money and The Disorder come to the ring. GQ Money takes the microphone and says NWA Hollywood is doing everything possible to hold Kaos down. Due to them banning the Disorder from ringside, Kaos called him and they came to the conclusion that if The Disorder are banned, Kaos will not wrestle in this tournament at all.
Match Result: Winner by forfeit and advancing to the finals, SoCal Crazy
The Disorder and GQ Money walk to the back. SoCal Crazy takes the mic. He says he is happy to advance to the finals, but he did not want to win this way. He wanted to prove that he can wrestle. Kaos’s business is not his business. There is someone in the back who SoCal wants to fight with though and that is Ricky Mandell. He calls Ricky Mandell out. Ricky makes his way to the ring.
Match #4: Ricky Mandell vs. SoCal Crazy
SoCal takes down Mandell with a headscissors and a spinning wheel kick. Mandell goes to the outside. SoCal flips him back into the ring. Mandell takes Crazy with a running boot as we go to commercial.
Back from commercial and Mandell has SoCal in a headlock. SoCal gets to his feet, but Mandell drops him down. Mandell hits a dropkick for 2 after 3 attempts. SoCal takes Ricky down and goes to the top rope. SoCal hits a crossbody for 2. He throws Mandell to the ropes but eats a boot. SoCal gets a backslide. He then gets Mandell in the Crossface, but Mandell uses his feet to get to the ropes. SoCal goes for a frankensteiner but Ricky blocks it. He throws SoCal to the corner and charges, but SoCal gets the boot up. He goes for a pair of clothesline attempts, Ricky goes for a kick, SoCal ducks, and hits an Ace Crusher sending Ricky to the floor. SoCal goes to the top turnbuckle and dives to the outside. He gets Ricky back in the ring who tries to fight back. SoCal runs to the ropes and follows up with La Mistica and forces Ricky to tap.
Match Result: SoCal Crazy wins via La Mistica in 5:55
OVERALL
Enjoyable episode from NWA Hollywood, like usual. Nothing must see, but certainly worth watching. I rather enjoyed the Los Luchas tag. It showed off some good tag team maneuvers from both teams. I really enjoy the way that they build all of their feuds. They actually have me looking forward to a Blindfold Match of all matches, one gimmick I thought I could live without for the rest of my life. The impromptu main event was fine and Mandell deserves props for pulling double duty. SoCal making it to the finals was something I did not expect when the tournament began, but it makes sense when you factor in this deal with Kaos.
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