9/21 Deep South Wrestling TV Taping Report

Deep South Wrestling ran their weekly TV taping in McDonough, Georgia last night. It had more talking in the ring than any DSW show I can recall. The wrestling was OK. Freakin Deacon’s quirky comedy got over. Definitely a larger, hotter crowd than two weeks ago, as the DSW Arena was packed to max with over 250 people.

“The Voice of Deep South Wrestling” Nigel Sherrod and “Brooklyn’s Finest” Kevin Matthews were the announce team for the dark matches.

(A) Urban Assault (Cocky Siaki & Eric Perez with G-Rilla) beat Chris Thomas & Shawn Shultz in 7:04. Thomas was none other than Chris Michaels, the most excellent Nashville-based worker who had a spot in OVW several years back. Thomas and Shultz are on opposite sides of the fence in the USWO indie fed in Nashville. The Nashville guys were on top until the presence of the giant G-Rilla at ringside provided the necessary distraction. Assault gave Shultz a mugging. Thomas initiated a collision between Perez and his partner to set up the hot tag. Thomas hit Rick Michaels’ Double Shot on Siaki for a near fall. Siaki answered with a waterwheel slam and Shultz was in for the save. While the ref was busy with Shultz, Assault hit their neckbreaker/powerbomb combo on Thomas. Good opener.

(B) Bradley Jay beat Heath Miller in a non-title match (5:02). Jay is wearing a towel around his neck ala Ronnie Garvin. Jay caught Miller with a leg DDT ala Mike Knox and unleashed a devastating attack on the leg. Miller made a short-lived one-legged comeback. Jay blocked Miller’s suplex, stomped his foot, and leveled him with a lariat for the 1-2-3. Ref Rob Russo had to help Miller up the ramp.

(C) Montel Vontavious Porter beat Kofi Nahaje Kingston in 3:48. MVP got the strongest heat for any of his DSW appearances. Kingston is a happy-go-lucky Jamaican, mon, via New England’s Chaotic Wrestling. He didn’t appear to be going at full speed on a lot of stuff and that isn’t going to cut it here. Kingston went amateur style, forcing MVP to use the ropes to gain a break. MVP tried to swerve Kingston with a handshake, but Kingston got the better of him. MVP nailed Kingston with a back elbow on the break and beat him down bigtime. MVP used a belly to belly suplex for a two count. Kingston came back with standing dropkicks. MVP cut him off with a push up facebuster. MVP struck the Heisman pose before ending it with the Playmaker.

(D) High Impact (Tony Santarelli & Mike Taylor with Tracy Taylor) beat Francisco Ciatso & Antonio Mestre in 4:24. This match featured a pareja increíble team on the jobber side. Mestre’s gamer thumbs were itching for action. This match had the funniest moment of the evening. Santarelli pulled Ciatso’s straps down and Impact gave him a major tittie twister. Santarelli tossed Ciatso by his titties. The crowd was in hysterics. Mestre got the advantage on Santarelli and double-stomped his arm. But Ciatso dropped an inadvertent elbow on Mestre. Taylor destroyed Ciatso. Then, it was the Santarelli’s Satellite Enzuigiri followed by Taylor’s Wipeout for the pin on Mestre, a great finishing sequence that left both jobbers laid out. Ciatso and Meste sell as well as anybody on the roster.

The Divaless merchandise drawing was handled by Ted Guinness.

Guinness directed the crowd’s attention to the DSW Titantron for the premier of a new Freakin’ Deacon video. This was hilarious. Deacon was seen in the parking lot putting the moves on his bag lady friend. He convinced her to join him in his manhole. The video implied that they shared intimate moments down in the manhole.

Theodore R. Long joined Sherrod as the special guest commentator for the first match of the television taping. Lots of love for Long.

(1) Freakin Deacon pinned Goth in 38 seconds. Deacon got strongest babyface reaction of the evening. Goth was tatted up to fit the gimmick, but what was up with those cowboy boots? Goth attacked before the bell. Deacon no sold and headbutted him into oblivion. While this was going on, Deacon’s love interest entered the building to cheer on her man from ringside. Deacon nailed Goth with a big boot for the pin.

Deacon licked his woman on the hands, placed her in her shopping cart, and wheeled her out the front door. Endearing in a bizarre kind of way. The crowd got a kick out of it.

Ron Simmons was introduced to the crowd and replaced Long as the guest commentator. Simmons got a good ovation.

(2) Daniel Rodimer beat Ray Geezy in 2:15. Rodimer is using Johnny Swinger’s old music. Geezy interrupted Rodimer’s arrogant posing. Rodimer pie-faced him. Geezy lit into Rodimer, who showed some vulnerability here. Geezy jumped on Rodimer’s back for a sleeper hold. Rodimer backed Geezy into the turnbuckles to shake him loose. Geezy clipped Rodimer’s knee and hit a step up enzuigiri for a near fall. Enough was enough. Rodimer hit a gorilla press gutbuster for the 1-2-3.

Nick Patrick and Long made a special in-ring presentation to Cindy Carter, the head of the Sunshine League, a baseball leaguer for special needs kids. Patrick talked about his oldest son, Nick (who attends every DSW show with his dad) being autistic, and his participation in the Sunshine League. Patrick and Long presented Carter with a donation of $1150 from Deep South Wrestling.

(3) Jake Hager beat Big Bully Douglas in 3:13. Being the veteran that he is, Douglas knew how to work the crowd to get heat. Hager is mostly sticking to amateur style. Hager did three fireman’s carries in succession for a one count, so Douglas thumbed him in the eye. Douglas mauled Hager. Ugly but effective. Douglas strangled Hager with his own arms. Same finishing sequence as Hager’s match with Geezy at Six Flags. Bully tried to reverse a hiptoss and Hager cradled him for the pin.

Long came out to the ring again and said he was going be a frequent visitor to DSW as a part of the New Talent Initiative program. Long said they were still negotiating with MVP to sign him with Smackdown. The crowd popped when Long mentioned Mike Knox going to ECW. Long talked about bringing a live DSW show to your town as a fundraiser and plugged the training school.

The appearance of Matt Striker generated the loudest spontaneous heat all night long. Striker told Sherrod that the bikini contest he supervised last week was a charade and dismissed him. Striker said that one didn’t count because Rebecca DiPietro was DQed for wearing a bikini that was not up to “regulation standards.” Striker called the Deep South Divas out for another contest. Nobody was complaining about that idea. Striker said each of the Divas would “parade their shame” and instructed the fans to cheer for the one that aroused them the most. This was done elimination style. Striker ignored the crowd response and put the heels over in the opening rounds. Krissy Vaine beat Shantelle, despite the fact that Vaine never removed her cover up. Williams defeated Luscious. Crowd was for Luscious, but Williams would have clearly won that round in a shoot. Striker chose Williams over Vaine. That left Williams and the overwhelming crowd favorite, Tracy Taylor. Striker decided that this contest involved brains as well as beauty, and made it into a spelling bee. He gave Williams the word “cat” and Taylor the word “tuberculosis.” Taylor got it right, so he told her to spell Deoxyribonucleic Acid. That brought Mike Taylor out. Striker DQed Tracy for outside interference and declared Williams the winner.

Patrick joined Sherrod on commentary for the last two matches.

(4) Tommy Suede beat Gangrel in 4:42. Good pop for Suede. Fast-paced action. Gangrel looked and worked similar to his last stint in WWE. Gangrel hit his trapped arm suplex early and went to work with high impact moves, before settling into a camel clutch. Suede stepped aside as Gangrel charged into the corner and caught him with release german suplex. Suede made an aerial comeback. Gangrel tried for the Impaler, but Suede was able to escape.

Gangrel tried a middle rope elbow drop. Suede escaped again and hit a running SSP to score the pinfall.

(5) The Majors Brothers (Brett & Brian) beat Gymini (Jesse & Jake) via DQ in 10:26. The pop for Majors was on par with Impact’s. Majors used their speed to stay a step ahead of Gymini in the opening minutes. Gymini used the look-alike deal to pull off a no tag switcheroo. They pounded on Brett. Jesse threatened to break Brett’s neck. Brian got popped and lost his cool, which only got his brother more of a beating. Brett finally managed a dropkick and hot-tagged Brian for the house cleaning sequence. Brian got Jake with a victory roll that the crowd bought as the finish. Jesse pulled Brian out of the ring and smashed him into the ring steps. Gymini started double teaming Brett. Scrappy McGowan got shoved by Gymini and immediately called for the bell. Gymini tossed the Majors out like yesterday’s garbage.

NOTES: No mention of the 9/23 show in Griffin at Rushton Mills that is listed on the DSW website. Apparently, the date has being moved back…William Regal was backstage…Nattie Neidhart and T. J. Wilson are rumored to be headed into DSW for a tryout…The DSW television show on Comcast Sports South is cut to 30 minutes until December 1 due to college football…Jody Hamilton’s autobiography, “Assassin: Man Behind the Mask,” is available at the merchandise section on the DSW website.

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