NWA Wildside TV
Date: 3/4/2000
From: Cornelia, GA
Footage from last week starts the show with Rock N Roll Express attacking Rick Michaels is shown.
Steve Martin talks about the NWA World Tag Titles between Team Extreme and Triple X. Steve has a special surprise for both teams at the NCW Arena. AJ Styles, Jeff G. Bailey and NWA Wildside Heavyweight Champion Ruckus will be at the NCW Arena.
Opening Contest: NWA Worldwide Television Champion TJ Gray vs. Romeo Bliss: Gray puts a headlock on Bliss to kickoff the match and yanks Bliss down to the mat by his hair. Gray controls Bliss with another headlock and yanks Bliss to the mat. Bliss complains of a hair pull. Bliss taunts Gray, which doesn’t get censored this time. Gray eye rakes Bliss and Bliss staggers into the corner. Gray chops Bliss in the corner a few times and chokes Bliss. Gray knee lifts Bliss in the corner. Bliss fights back with a DDT. Gray punches Bliss a few times, but Bliss delivers a kick to the midsection. Bliss plants Gray with an Un-Prettier. Bliss drives Gray down with a vertical suplex and does his taunt, causing another censor. Bliss chops Gray in the corner a few times. Bliss manages a rollup on Gray for a two count. Gray sunset flips Bliss for a two count. Bliss eye rakes Gray and delivers a knee strike in the corner. Bliss sends Gray into the corner and delivers a clothesline for a two count. Bliss tries for a slam, but Gray counters with an inside cradle for a two count. Bliss misses a running attack and crashes to the floor. Gray leaps off the apron to strike Bliss. Gray knee lifts Bliss on the floor and sends Bliss into the ring post shoulder first. Gray rolls Bliss into the ring and walks up the steps. Gray misses a shot with a chain, I think. Bliss spikes Gray with a piledriver to win the match. (*1/2. I wasn’t expecting Bliss to win here since Gray got an entrance and Bliss didn’t. Bliss being censored sucks for his character because his crudeness is what people love. The censorship is dumb since the show airs at 2:30am for the local channel they are. The announcers make sure to bring that up seemingly once a show.)
Jeff G. Bailey is in the ring with his group saying that AJ Styles finally has to wrestle a man. Bailey says that Onyx is the real Rookie of the Year and tonight he’ll prove it by winning the NWA Wildside TV Championship. Bailey continues to hint that Styles and Steve Martin are lovers. Bailey promises that Onyx will put Styles down for the three count. Styles comes out and gets the crowd to chant for NCW. Styles confronts Onyx saying he doesn’t know why Onyx is hanging out with a bad crowd. Onyx seems to be taking in the words, but decks Styles.
Second Contest: NWA Wildside TV Champion AJ Styles vs. Onyx: Styles hip tosses Onyx followed by an arm drag and a right hand. Onyx bails to the floor to regroup for a few moments. Onyx returns to control Styles with a wrist lock. Styles counters and takes Onyx down to the mat. Onyx misses a clothesline and is met with an atomic drop. Styles punches Onyx into the corner and misses a splash. Styles fell over the corner to the floor. Onyx stomps Styles on the floor to keep control of the contest. Onyx rams Styles onto the camera podium. Onyx sends Styles into the railing back first and taunts the crowd. Styles dumps Onyx into the crowd before returning to the ring. Onyx slaps Styles and drops Styles to the mat gut first. Onyx chokes Styles over the middle rope and Bailey hits Styles with his shoe. Onyx chokes Styles on the mat to maintain the advantage. Styles nails Onyx with a dropkick and delivers a kick to the head. Styles slams Onyx and plays to the crowd before hitting a springboard moonsault. Styles goes for a cover, but Onyx kicks out at two. Onyx kicks Styles on the mat. Onyx runs the ropes to kick Styles for a near fall. Onyx sends Styles into the corner and delivers a spear. Styles sends Onyx into the corner and jumps off Onyx’s chest, but misses a splash attempt.
Bailey stomps Styles on the floor to help out Onyx. Onyx punches Styles a few times and hits a powerslam for a two count. Onyx yells at the referee while taunting the crowd. Onyx heads to the top rope, but misses a swanton bomb. Styles hits a reverse spinning neckbreaker and heads to the top rope hitting a 450 splash. Eddie Golden pulls the referee out and decks Styles. Styles is triple teamed and the referee calls for the bell. Golden and Onyx back elbow Styles to the mat and Styles is stomped by three men. Jorge Estrada runs into the ring to make the save. Estrada punches Onyx in the corner while Golden beats on Styles. Bailey cheap shots AJ. Estrada is overcome by the numbers and is double teamed. Estrada ducks a double clothesline and hits a double clothesline of his own. Estrada slams Golden and Onyx. Styles drops Golden with a few strikes. Styles and Estrada send the heels to the floor following dropkicks to end the segment. (**. Onyx looked better in there than his matches earlier in Wildside. Styles isn’t going to the lost the title to Bailey’s group as long as they have two titles, I think. If the heels have all the power, it kind of kills the angle. So, Styles being the one saving grace for the moment allows for the heat to continue.)
Backstage, Bill Behrens is chatting with Rock N Roll Express, but we can’t hear what they are talking about.
Main Event: NWA Wildside Tag Team Champions Bad Attitude (Rick Michaels & David Young) vs. Rock N Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson): Michaels is selling his left leg injury. Michaels and Morton kickoff the main event, which is for the tag titles. Michaels is protecting his left knee from being a focus of attack by Morton. Morton backs Michaels into a corner and accidentally knocks Gibson off the apron. Gibson holds Michaels and Morton yanks Young into the ring. Young sends Morton into Gibson and Gibson is knocked off the apron. Gibson tags into the match against Michaels. Michaels shoulder blocks Gibson, but Gibson comes back with a hip toss and Young tags into the match. Gibson backs Young into a corner and delivers a few strikes. Young hip tosses Gibson followed by an arm drag. Young keeps arm control on Gibson for a few moments. Morton knee lifts Young, but Young comes back with a backdrop. Young arm drags Morton and tags in Michaels. Michaels axe handles Morton off the middle rope. Michaels elbows Morton coming off the ropes and leaps off the top rope hitting a frog splash. Michaels sells his left knee. Gibson decks Young on the apron. Gibson and Morton double team Michaels. Morton takes off the knee covering on Michaels knee and delivers a few strikes. Gibson wraps Michaels knee over the bottom rope as the show goes to commercial.
Gibson stomps Michaels knee on the floor before returning to the ring where Morton tags in Gibson. Gibson delivers a slingshot knee drop to the bad knee. Morton and Gibson somersault to hyperextend Michaels knee. Morton puts a figure four on Michaels in the middle of the ring. Young enters the ring and stomps Morton. Gibson knee drops Michaels on the left knee and Michaels screams in agony. Morton tags back into the match and wraps Michaels leg around the ring post. Morton delivers a knee breaker to Michaels on the floor. Morton kicks Michaels on the knee and rams Michaels into the apron. Gibson knee drops Michaels on the left knee. Gibson tries for a spinning toe hold, but Michaels counters with a rollup for a two count. Gibson stops Michaels and tags in Morton. Morton keeps Michaels on the mat. Michaels sunset flips Morton, but the referee is distracted. Michaels continues to have his left leg worked over. Gibson knee drops Michaels on the legs several times. Michaels collapses to the mat when being sent into the ropes. Morton continues to beat on the left leg of Michaels. Michaels fights back with a double DDT. Young gets the hot tag.
Young cleans house with strikes and rams Morton into Gibson. Young puts a sleeper on Gibson. Morton makes the save with a strike to the back. All four men are in the ring at this point brawling. Young pummels Morton with strikes in the corner. Michaels does the same to Gibson. Michaels and Young are sent into each other. Gibson hits Michaels on the knee with a chain. Express hit a double dropkick and pin Michaels to win the tag titles. After the match, Morton and Gibson beatdown Young. Behrens slides a chair into the ring. Morton tries to use a chair, but Romeo Bliss slides into the ring to make the save with a chair. (**. Honestly, the work on Michaels knee was rather boring and not all that interesting. The title change is shocking and I was not expecting it to happen. Express feuding with Bad Attitude is probably more interesting than New South. It just seems as if they switch plans often right now.)
Bill Behrens announces that on April 1st there will be a tag match. Instead of the New South, Bad Attitude will wrestle Rock N Roll Express instead.
Backstage, Steve Martin and Al Getz are talking when Bill Behrens enters the scene. Behrens talks about getting Getz an NWA shirt. Behrens heard Steve insult one of the NWA titles held by TJ Gray. Behrens doesn’t like the insults and praises Getz. Behrens knows that Steve has a lot of pride with NCW, but he needs to swallow the pride a little bit. Steve says Behrens is acting like he didn’t have anything to do with it. Behrens notes that Jerry Lynn and the Hardy Boys are rumored to be coming back into Wildside. Behrens reveals that Spunk Myer is coming into the company. Steve isn’t thrilled about it, while Getz is excited because he’s a kiss ass.
Final Thoughts:
There was some better action this week compared to last week. The tag title change was unexpected, but for some reason I’m thinking the Rock N Roll Express aren’t going to be at the April supercard event. They need to be faces in the company. It seems as if a few people are not being presented correctly to make this NCW vs. NWA angle continue along. I’m not sure when it ends, but hopefully it doesn’t last too long.
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