NWA Championship Wrestling From Hollywood
Episode 83
Taped: May 13, 2012
Remember how I said every episode is available online? Well I unknowingly lied because episodes 81 and 82 are not there. The next episode listed is 83 so I guess by default; this is the next episode to review so here we go.
-Show opens with Percy Pringle III and his boy Shuan Ricker picking names for the next match in the PPIII Cup. Mikey O’ Shea comes out to find out his opponent. Ricker picks El Ridiculoso. Yup. That’s his name. Oh boy, here we go again with this horrid under card.
-The Happening (Joey Ryan and Johnny Goodtime) vs. Eric Cross and Angel Lopez
This was just a usual squash match. Ryan and Goodtime have a NWA Heritage Tag Team Titles shot coming up against The Tribe and this was just a match to get them over as contenders again. Goodtime and Ryan had a shot a few weeks back but failed. Their rematch has been granted. Cross and Lopez got some offense at the start but it was all Goodtime and Ryan from there. Some cool tag offense from The Happening as Ryan rocket launched Goodtime from the top rope into a roll through then right into a spear to Cross in the corner followed by a double under hook suplex. The finish saw Goodtime clip Lopez’s knee, followed by a super kick to the head of Joey Ryan followed by a knee drop to the back of the head from the top by Goodtime to end it at 3:14. * They cut a promo outside the ring right after the match. The mock Cross and Lopez by calling them one of the best tag teams in the NWA. Or maybe he’s not mocking them and that’s just what the NWA has to offer? I don’t know. Anyway, yeah, they want the belts and Tribe should be scared or something.
-John Ian is in the ring and introduces The Tribe who comes out to the ring with their valet Olivia. As a thank you to them for being great champs, they are presented with new belts. Shelley Martinez comes out with the new NWA Heritage Tag Team Titles with a pink dress with the same cut as the purple dress! YES! YES! YES! The Tribe talks about their beef with Los Banditos (Rico Dynamite and Tito Escondido) and out they come. They brawl. The locker room empties out to separate them. The crowd was not excited for this at all. And quite frankly, this segment wasn’t compelling, so there you go.
–PPIII Qualifying Match: Mikey O’ Shea vs. El Ridiculoso
I see what there going for here creating a jobber, underdog character to root for but honestly, this is a dumb gimmick because Ridiculoso doesn’t seem like a luchadore to begin with. His style doesn’t match a luchadore. He strikes and goes off the top rope once just to get caught into a side slam. If you’re going to create a dumb gimmick, you need a good wrestler to make that character believable. El Ridiculoso looks like he shouldn’t even be in the ring. O’ Shea is a wide, powerful dude and just manhandled him for the entire match. He had the pin but lifted up Ridiculoso’s shoulder before the 3 to mess with him. O’Shea leaves the ring to get a chair?! What the hell? You have the match won and you grab a chair in front of the ref no less? Now that’s stupid. Jarek Mathews comes out to grab the chair away from O’Shea and the chair sort of fumbles in the face of O’Shea who stumbles backward into a trip by Ridiculoso who rolls up O’Shea for the upset at 4:39. DUD. This was just horrible. Ridiculoso looked like some random dude in mask and O’Shea looked like an idiot. That was horrible psychology when O’Shea grabbed the chair for no reason what so over. So his plan was to hit Ridiculoso with the chair in front of the ref and still somehow not get DQ’d? Stupid. Nothing was accomplished here. NOTHING.
-Brian Cage (-Taylor) is in the back with Percy Pringle III and he draws his opponents name. Its Big E. Biggs, former PWG security turned wrestler. Think Party Boy from Jackass except with pants, suspenders and a low cut NWA t-shirt. He’s like 350lbs by the way.
–PPIII Qualifying Match: Brian Cage (-Taylor) vs. Big E. Biggs
No offense to Biggs, but this match should not have gone as long as it did, even though it was short. Cage should have dominated and looked like a credible challenger to Ricker and the NWA World Heavyweight Title holder Colt Cabana. Biggs got way to much offense in to put over Cage. At the start, Cage tried to wrestler but Biggs tried to dance and pour oil on his self as he took off his shirt. Fans chant “motorboat”. Oh fans “Will you stop it!?” Cage did some power moves on the big guy that looked impressive. Cage had a headlock on for like a minute to give Biggs a breather. Big flap jack only gets two for Cage. Black hole slam from Biggs only gets 2. Cage suddenly hits a spinning neck breaker for the 3 at 6:53. * Way too long. Biggs should have skipped that antics at the start, go for some offense then get squashed. This match should have been done in two minutes. You just needed Cage to get over. It doesn’t take six minutes against a jobber to get over. Two minutes tops. Biggs is not good at all. Even the commentators where hoping for Cage to win so they possibly wouldn’t have to see El Ridiculoso vs. Big E. Biggs. This is not $5 Wrestling NWA Hollywood. Shaun Ricker comes out afterward and attacks Cage. He gives him the Gravy Train to boo’s from the crowd.
-We see an outside fan cam with Hector Canales as the target. Pinky comes in and that’s where I skip to the next segment.
–NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title: Kevin Douglas© vs. Jack Zaler
I’ve never ever heard of these two guys and they get the main event? What? The commentators even say Zaler is from the “various NWA territories”. Great some random dude gets a shot at a NWA title. Okay. Even though I haven’t seen Douglas wrestle, he is a regular on NWA Hollywood and has a running title program with Johnny Yuma. I guess that’s why they broke up the RockNES Monsters so they could give Yuma a Jr.’s singles push. Anyways this match was pretty long squash match and considering this is a title match, that’s disappointing. Douglasdid a heel sneak attack at the start and just dominated. Zaler hit a drop kick and that was about it. Douglashad basic offense; kicks, punches, elbows, etc. Some double knees to the gut fromDouglasto Zaler. Douglasputs his cape on from his entrance and goes up top for a top rope splash and a 3 count at 4:24. * Douglas keeps beating Zaler and Yuma comes out for the save the end the show.
*This is the worst episode I’ve ever seen. There were four squash matches and a brawl with no heat. The main event was a title match featuring a debuting wrestler who had zero offense. It shouldn’t even have been a title match. This episode proves how awful the NWA Hollywood under card is and needs some serious work. Ridiculoso was horrible as was Biggs and Zaler. The highlight of the show was Shelley Martinez and I think the crowd would agree with me, which says a lot about this episode. NWA Hollywood needs to seriously tune up their under card because some of these guys look like they are no where ready to be on television yet.
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