NWA Wildside presents Fright Night ‘99
Date: 10/30/1999
From: Cornelia, GA
Opening Contest: Andy Anderson vs. Terry Knight: Anderson sends Knight into the corner a few times followed by a hip toss and a backdrop. Anderson dropkicks Knight to the floor. Knight climbs to the top rope trying for an axe handle, but Anderson delivers a strike to the midsection. Anderson manages a two count after a back elbow. Anderson dropkicks a seated Knight for a two count. Anderson punches Knight in the corner and delivers a clothesline in the corner. Anderson misses a dropkick after Knight held onto the ropes. Knight knee drops Anderson on the upper back. Knight drops Anderson with a double knee strike. Knight delivers a running neck snap and drops Anderson over the middle rope throat first. Knight elbow strikes Anderson before putting a chin lock on Anderson. Knight knee lifts Anderson coming off the ropes and delivers a forearm strike to the back. Knight pulls on Anderson’s neck on the mat, but doesn’t get a submission. Knight scoop slams Anderson and connects with a leg drop for a two count. Knight sends Anderson into the corner back first to keep control. Anderson gets a rollup out of the corner for a near fall, but Knight forearms Anderson. Knight misses a dropkick in the corner and Anderson hit a middle rope elbow drop for a two count. Knight boots Anderson followed by a forearm strike. Anderson backslides Knight for a two count, but Knight recovers to stomp Anderson. Knight elbow strikes Anderson over the apron and yanks down on Anderson’s apron. Knight slams Anderson, but misses a splash off the ropes. Anderson drops Knight after several strikes and hits a powerslam for a two count. Anderson sends Knight across the ring and they collide leading to Knight delivering a headbutt to Anderson’s groin area. Anderson hits a series of snap suplexs and heads to the top rope. Anderson is distracted by David Young on the apron. A masked man with a crutch whacks Anderson while the referee is distracted and Knight picks up the win. The masked man is clearly Shane Young. (**. For some reason the crowd seemed to be crapping all over this match, but the action was solid enough for me. They both came across well and presented themselves as potential stars for Wildside. It was a little weird for the crowd to just crap on it so much.)
David Young is interviewed at ringside and says that the NCW thought they had him down in a cage with the Boogaloo Crew. David has a suitable replacement for Shane Young not being able to compete. It sucks that Shane can’t wrestle in the main event.
Second Contest: NCW United States Champion Jesse Taylor vs. Romeo Bliss: Taylor avoids a strike in the corner and chops Bliss in the corner, but doesn’t followup and backs off. Taylor elbows free from a waist lock and takes Bliss down with a headlock. Bliss breaks free with a head scissors on the mat and they have a standoff. Taylor takes Bliss down with a wrist lock to maintain control of the match. Bliss gets out of a hammerlock and takes Taylor down to the mat to control with a chin lock. Taylor controls Bliss with a hammerlock on the mat, but doesn’t get a submission. Bliss elbows Taylor, but Taylor arm drags Bliss a couple of times followed by hip tosses. Taylor slams Bliss, which the fans don’t seem to like. Taylor backdrops Bliss coming off the ropes. Taylor decks Bliss over the top to the floor with a clothesline. Taylor dives over the top onto Bliss on the floor with a crossbody. Taylor brings Bliss into the ring with a suplex from the apron and puts a headlock on Bliss. Bliss gets a rollup out of the corner, but Taylor kicks out at two. Taylor goes back to a headlock control. Taylor shoulder blocks Bliss and goes back to the headlock on the mat.
Bliss breaks free with a back suplex. Bliss dumps Taylor to the floor. Bliss delivers a few strikes on the floor and sends Taylor into the ring post. Bliss gets on the microphone and chops Taylor saying that is for Bill Behrens. Taylor sends Bliss into the ring post face first. Bliss kicks the middle rope to low blow Taylor upon getting back into the ring. Bliss hits a swinging neckbreaker and covers Taylor for a near fall. Bliss stomps on Taylor and keeps wrist control before getting a rollup for a near fall. Bliss punches Taylor several times in the corner, but Taylor hits a sit down powerbomb leading to a near fall. Taylor hits a handspring back elbow and both men are down. Taylor gets up first and delivers an elbow drop for a near fall. Taylor plants Bliss with a TKO and signals for the top rope. Taylor leaps off the top hitting an elbow drop. Taylor covers, but Bliss kicks out at two. Bliss low blows Taylor and hits a tilt a whirl slam. Taylor stops Bliss on the top rope and hits an electric chair slam. Taylor covers, but Bliss manages to barely kick out at two. Bliss tosses Taylor through the ropes to the floor. Bliss grabs a steel chair and whacks Taylor over the back. Taylor gets the chair and whacks Bliss over the head after Bliss played to the crowd. Bliss has been busted wide open. Bliss stops Taylor hitting a vertical suplex. It looks to be a big cut on Bliss’s forehead. Bliss sends Taylor chest first into the corner and decks Taylor with a clothesline from behind. Bliss is stopped on the top rope by Taylor. Taylor hooks Bliss for a superplex and hits it! Taylor doesn’t go for the cover and instead signals for the belly to belly suplex. Taylor plants Bliss with the belly to belly suplex, but Bliss kicks out at two! Bliss counters coming off the ropes and spikes Taylor with a piledriver to pickup the win and title. (**1/4. The build to the feud felt like this match should have been a little more of a brawl and have more carnage attached to it. Taylor using a headlock for a good portion of the match was a bit annoying. Bliss winning the title is fine by me as he’s been entertaining and a strong heel in the opening weeks of NWA Wildside existence.) After the match, Candy slaps Bliss. Bliss grabs Candy by her neck, but Terry Knight comes out and confronts Bliss. Knight gets a microphone and says he’s done a lot of disgusting things in this sport, but he’s never laid his hands on a woman. Knight claims to be a Southern gentleman. Knight is an equal opportunity neckbreaker for people who do put their hands on a woman. Knight ducks a clothesline and atomic drops Bliss over the top to the floor.
Steve ‘Chance’ Martin and Bill Behrens have an announcement. Behrens mentions that there was a three way match for Patriot to defend against Stone Mountain and Thunder. Behrens reveals that Stone Mountain suffered an injury isn’t here. Patriot isn’t in the building either. Behrens brings out Thunder. Martin mentions that Stone Mountain blew his knee out. Jeff G. Bailey comes out and says that Thunder isn’t going to get a match because he’s white. Bailey says that the fans will get a three way match. Bailey reveals that Ice Pick and Vic Violent will wrestle Thunder and they’ll win the NCW Heavyweight Championship.
Third Contest: Thunder vs. Ice Pick vs. Vic Violent for the vacant NCW Heavyweight Championship: Thunder is double teamed in the corner, but manages to fight back with a double clothesline. Thunder elbows Pick, but Violent low blows Thunder. Thunder is double teamed some more. Pick and Violent hit a double suplex followed by a leaping double shoulder block for a two count. Pick delivers a leg drop to Thunder and Violent headbutts Thunder on the lower midsection area. Thunder gets his legs yanked apart on the mat. Thunder comes off the ropes and is met with a double shoulder block. Violent leg drops Thunder. Pick messes up a slam on Violent onto Thunder, but they still get a two count. Violent accidentally hits Pick with a chair shot. Thunder nails Violent with a big boot. Thunder hits a sit down powerbomb and pins both men at the same time to win the match and is the new NCW Heavyweight Champion. (1/2*. Ice Pick and Vic Violent are not ready for big matches and need to be limited in the ring. I can support a title reign of Thunder. Thunder has the look of a star and his in-ring isn’t too bad.)
Fourth Contest: NWA Georgia Heavyweight Champion Rick Michaels & Mark Phor Michaels vs. NCW Television Champion AJ Styles & Tonya Terrific: Tonya starts the match and that causes Rick to bail to the floor quickly. Mark and Styles kickoff the match legally. Mark gains control with a wrist lock, but Styles breaks free with an arm drag several times. Styles nails Mark with a dropkick to send Mark to the floor. Rick checks on Mark on the floor. Styles plays to the crowd as Mark returns to the ring. Rick tags into the match to try his luck against Styles. Styles backs Rick into a corner, but cleanly backs off and Rick yells at the referee, but the referee gets in Rick’s face. Rick puts a headlock on Styles and ducks a few strikes. Styles atomic drops Rick a couple of times followed by a clothesline to send Rick to the floor to regroup. Styles controls Mark with a wrist lock and tags in Tonya. Tonya clubs Mark over the arm several times. Tonya delivers a leg drop after a snapmare. Tonya clotheslines Mark in the corner and continues with stomps in the corner. Tonya decks Mark to the mat and Styles tags in to hit a top rope strike. Mark nails Styles with a strike to the midsection followed by a jawbreaker. Rick tags into the match and knee drops Styles on the groin.
Rick delivers another knee drop to the groin area on Styles. Rick continues to work over Styles in the corner with several strikes. Rick decks Styles over the back and delivers a clothesline in the corner. Rick bulldogs Styles out of the corner leading to a near fall. Rick nails Styles with a nice dropkick as Styles comes off the ropes. Mark leg drops Styles and yanks on Styles left leg before delivering a splash. Rick tags into the match, but Styles connects with a clothesline. Tonya gets the hot tag, but Rick backs off into the corner. Rick slams Tonya, but doesn’t followup. Mark tags into the match and Tonya hip tosses Mark follows by stomps. Tonya clotheslines Mark coming off the ropes. Styles tags into the match and powerslams Mark coming off the ropes. Styles hits a springboard moonsault for a near fall. Styles comes off the ropes to leg drop Mark. Styles plants Mark with a modified Fame-Asser. Tonya tags in and stomps Mark on the mat before putting a spinning toe hold locked in. Tonya drop toe holds Mark and Styles returns to the match to hit a snap suplex. Styles covers, but Rick breaks the cover. Rick enters and pummels Styles with strikes. Styles spikes Rick with a tornado DDT and knocks Rick to the floor.
Styles follows to the floor and they brawl into the crowd. Tonya works over Mark while Styles and Rick trade strikes in the bleachers. Tonya plants Mark with a DDT. The camera catches them crashing through tables off the bleachers. Rick gets up first and returns to the ringside area. Styles gets back to ringside and they collide on stereo clothesline attempts. Styles nails Rick with a top rope swinging stunner, which is basically the Diamond Dust, but the announcer thinks AJ created it, which is not accurate. Styles hits it a second time and Tonya ends up getting tagged in and pins Rick for the win. After the match, Mark misses a splash in the corner. Rick decks Tonya. Rick holds Tonya and John Cheatum declines to strike Tonya. Rick gets in Cheatum’s face. Cheatum ends up hitting Rick and Mark with a briefcase, which the crowd loves. Cheatum gets on the microphone and says he’s never going to strike a woman. Tonya leaves the ring and doesn’t seem interested in what Cheatum has to say. Cheatum talks to AJ Styles and says he’s done with the Michaels and their actions. Cheatum says that Styles getting hit on the groin was his tipping point. Cheatum tells Styles he can trust him. Styles holds the ropes for Cheatum to leave the ring. Cheatum shakes Styles hand and they leave the ring. (**1/2. Okay, that was a bizarre face turn for Cheatum that nobody was expecting to see. The match was fine and held my interest. I’m looking forward to a singles match between Rick and AJ at some point. I’m sure Cheatum turned because of Jeff G. Bailey being the main heel manager now.)
Jeff G. Bailey enters the ring with K-Krush and demands that Bill Behrens and Chance Martin enter the ring. Bailey puts over Krush as the best singles talent. Bailey mentions that Krush is a WWF superstar and he’s not wrestling in a cage match against Ruckus. Bailey insults Ruckus mother for being a five dollar crack whore who is called planters because she’s had more nuts in her mouth than anyone else. Bailey presents an injunction to prevent Krush from being involved in a cage match. Behrens reveals that they have become a developmental area for the WWF starting yesterday. Apparently, the WWF has any right to cancel a wrestling booking. Behrens says that Krush will be forced to do something tonight. Krush vs. Ruckus in a cage match is no longer happening. Bailey puts Krush over as being the best athlete. Bailey promises that they have something special for Behrens. Behrens asks if Bailey talked to Jim Ross. Behrens leaves the ring to make a call and will be back. Martin tells Bailey that if he has to spend every dollar he has he’ll get Krush to wrestle Ruckus tonight.
Fifth Contest: White Trash vs. Damien Steele vs. Terry Lawler in a hardcore challenge match: Steele and Lawler brawl on the floor to start, but quickly get in the ring. White Trash enters the ring and attacks both men with clotheslines in opposite corners and a double neck snap. Trash plants Steele with a sit out powerbomb. Lawler whacks Trash on the floor with a sign over the back. Steele decks Lawler and uses a piece of barbed wire on Lawler. Lawler uses several weapons on Steele and Trash. Lawler plants Trash with a DDT on the floor. Steele rolls Lawler into the ring to continue the match. Steele drops Lawler with an overhead suplex for a two count as Trash breaks the cover. Steele savant kicks Trash and delivers a fist drop. Lawler slides a ladder into the ring. Steele sends Trash onto the ladder in the corner. Lawler slams Trash onto the ladder and delivers an elbow drop. Steele superkicks Lawler and goes to the top rope, but misses a knee drop. Trash rams a ladder into Lawler’s midsection in the corner. Steele sends Trash into the ring post on the floor. Steele heel kicks Trash coming off the ropes. Lawler sets up a couple of tables on the floor. Steele slams Trash and goes to the floor to help Lawler set up three tables on top of each other. Trash is met with a chair shot to the face. Trash whacks Steele over the knee, but Steele fights Trash on the ladder. Lawler low blows Trash and Trash is sitting on the top table. Steele climbs the ladder and splashes Trash through all three tables on the floor. Lawler rolls Steele into the ring and slides a ladder into the ring. Lawler tries for a powerbomb, but Steele backdrops Lawler onto the ladder. Steele spikes Lawler with a piledriver onto the ladder and pins Lawler for the win. (*1/2. The three table spot was cool, but it was your typical hardcore match that didn’t add any value to the show.)
Scottie Wrenn has his arm in a sling, and is informed that he’s not cleared to compete in the cage match tonight.
Sixth Contest: NCW Tag Team Champion JC Dazz vs. David Young & Rick Michaels in a steel cage match: Dazz dropkicks David and Shane Young. Dazz dropkicks Shane in the corner. Dazz spin kicks David in the corner and nails David with a clothesline. Dazz leg drops David a few times. Dazz tries to ram David into the corner, but David knee lifts Dazz and tags in Shane. Shane comes off the ropes and is met with a backdrop. David returns to the match, but Dazz hits an arm drag. David plants Dazz with a spinebuster and tags in Shane. Shane dropkicks Dazz and David elbow drops Dazz. Well, it’s actually Rick Michaels in the disguise of Shane Young, which is actually brilliant. Rick plants Dazz with a side slam. David hits a swinging neckbreaker on Dazz. Young misses a splash in the corner. Dazz leaps off the top to hit a clothesline on David. Dazz climbs to the top of the cage and misses an elbow drop. Rick drop toe holds Wrenn and Young delivers an elbow drop. Rick keeps a sleeper on Dazz, but doesn’t get a submission. David drives Dazz down with a suplex and Michaels leaps off the top rope to splash Dazz for a near fall, but Michaels doesn’t want to cover Dazz. Rick misses a top rope leg drop attempt. Dazz cleans house with heel kicks to both men. Rick atomic drops Dazz, but Dazz plants Michaels with a facebuster. Young misses a top rope diving headbutt hitting Michaels on accident. Michaels chop blocks Dazz on the leg, but Dazz sends Michaels and Young into each other. Dazz tosses Young into the cage. Dazz sends Young into the cage face first, but Michaels chop blocks Dazz again. Young has been busted wide open. Dazz is driven down to the mat with a double team front suplex and Michaels covers Dazz to win the match and titles. After the match, Scottie Wrenn gets in the ring with a chair to check on his fallen partner. Young and Michaels leave the ring. Al Getz was going to hit Dazz with a chair, but Wrenn took it away. Wrenn whacks Dazz over the head with a steel chair! Wrenn and Getz destroy Dazz with chair shots and Dazz is busted wide open. Wrenn faked an injury. Dazz can’t even stand on his own. Getz and Wrenn are eventually escorted out of the ring by security after the beatdown. (**. Well, it sucks that Shane Young has apparently been fired. I’m wondering if the heel turn by Scottie Wrenn was a pivot from their previous plans. It’s an underwhelming main event because of how many changes were made to it. Young and Michaels worked well together, though.)
Scottie Wrenn cuts a promo being sick of being JC’s cheerleader. Al Gatez says that Scottie Wrenn is a real man and calls Dazz a piece of trash just like everyone else in the building.
Jeff G. Bailey declares that K-Krush will not get inside the steel cage, but he will perform his new single off his CD. Krush makes his way out and dances toward the ringside area. Krush raps a little bit, but Ruckus attacks from behind.
Main Event: K-Krush vs. Ruckus in a steel cage match: Ruckus tosses Krush over the railing and Bill Behrens reveals on commentary that Vince McMahon said that Krush could perform and prove himself to be a WWF superstar. Ruckus tosses Krush over the railing to the ringside area. Ruckus decks Krush to the ground with another strike. Ruckus tosses Krush into the ring and Ruckus scares Bailey away. Krush tosses powder into Rucku’s face to gain the cheap advantage. Krush pummels Ruckus with right hands as a chair is in the ring, as well. Krush pummels Ruckus with right hands on the mat and hits a wheelbarrow slam onto the chair face first. Krush continues to work over Ruckus in the corner with right hands and Ruckus has been busted wide open. Krush sends Ruckus into the cage. Krush plants Ruckus with a spinebuster, but doesn’t go for a cover. Ruckus fights back with right hands and hits a Samoan Drop. Ruckus tries for a cover, but Krush kicks out at two. Krush decks Ruckus to the mat to regain control of the bout. Ruckus avoids a handspring and whacks Krush over the head with a chair shot. Ruckus scares Bailey on the floor. Ruckus sends Krush into the cage face first. Bailey tries to climb the cage, but Ruckus knocks Bailey off. Bailey does have a pipe attached to his back.
Ruckus jabs Krush with a chair a few times. Ruckus delivers a clothesline and covers for a two count. Krush stops Ruckus with a low blow to regain control of the match. Krush lifts Ruckus up and hits a running powerslam. Krush covers, but Ruckus kicks out at two. Krush wedges a chair in the corner and pummels Ruckus with several right hands. Krush sends Ruckus back first into the chair in the corner. Krush continues with right hands in the corner to drop Ruckus to the mat. Krush hits a running spear in the corner. Ruckus sends Krush upside down into the chair in the corner. Ruckus knocks Bailey off the cage again. Ruckus hits a snap suplex and gets a two count. Krush plants Ruckus with a spinebuster for a two count. Ruckus forearms Krush against the ropes several times. Ruckus ducks a pipe shot, but Krush nails Ruckus with the pipe on a second try to lay out Ruckus. Krush goes for the cover, but Ruckus kicks out at two. Ruckus spikes Krush with a tornado DDT to counter a spinebuster attempt. Ruckus leaps off the top to hit a diving headbutt for the win. (***. I enjoyed this match quite a bit. There’s nothing crazy in the match, but it felt like a fight between two guys that hate each other. Bailey didn’t try to steal the spotlight. There’s a clean finish. It’s the ideal way to end the show.)
Jeff G. Bailey knocks out security on the floor to get the key and hits Ruckus over the back with a chair. Ruckus nails Bailey with a DDT onto the chair! Ruckus leave and Bailey checks on Krush. Bailey flips out over the loss and yells at the fans. Bailey leaves and says “this isn’t over.”
Final Thoughts:
A lot of changes to the show due to injuries, but luckily the main event between Krush/Ruckus ended the show on a positive note. Overall, it’s a little underwhelming because of the changes, but that’s ultimately out of control. I’m looking forward to TV and seeing where Wildside goes from here.
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