Deep South Wrestling Television Report

Aired August 13, 2006 on Comcast Sports South

Taped August 2, 2006 in McDonough, Ga at the Deep South Arena

By Larry Goodman

This week’s show opened with a surreal vignette featuring Freakin Deacon. We saw a lame, skanky, homeless woman wandering through the parking lot of the DSW Arena with her shopping cart. As she began to rummage through the dumpster, Deacon emerged from a nearby manhole. (Mystery solved. Deacon

exits through the front door of the Arena after his matches because his crib is only a few feet away.) Deacon was grumping about all the noise as he approached the dumpster, but he was immediately swept off his feet by the creature standing before him. The woman told Deacon to buzz off before she hit him where he didn’t want to be hit. The woman began to smoke on a discarded cigar. Deacon sniffed her hair. “Aroma is fantastic,” said Deacon. She swigged on a bottle of liquor. Deacon licked at her face. The woman paid Deacon no mind and hobbled away. Deacon called upon the force of his man-eating tarantula Willow to make her stay.

A large logo for the September 4 RAW at Phillips Arena in Atlanta was visible in the lower left quadrant of the screen throughout the hour.

As Damien Steele entered the ring for the first match, the DSW play-by-play guy, Nigel Sherrod told Bill DeMott that he could not believe what they had just seen.

Backstage, Bradley Jay said he was not only coming for victory, he was sending a message to Deep South Wrestling. He was merciless. He would spot his opponent’s weakness and exploit it. Jay got right on top of the camera. “Do you hear that Deep South Wrestling? Prepare to be broken by Bradley Jay.”

Cut to Steele’s response. He had a white tennis sweater around his neck. In a calm, sophisticated manner, Steele told Jay that he hadn’t asked for any mercy, and this match would be no walk in the park. Steele warned Jay to bring his A game.

(1) Bradley Jay beat Damien Steele in 6:57. It was the speed of Steele against the size and power of Jay. Steele had things going his way until Jay took his knees out with a barrel roll. Jay attacked Steele’s knee with a vengeance. Jay applied a painful looking submission, but couldn’t seal the deal. DeMott said Jay should have ended it by now, and wasn’t as focused as needed to be. Steele escaped from Jay’s finisher. Steele made a one-legged comeback. Steele backdropped Jay and covered for at two count. Jay hit his rolling fireman’s carry slam to score the pinfall.

Promo featuring “Russian Bear” Oleg Prudius. He started in Russian and then switched to English to explain the martial art of Sambo. “It’s not just a sport. It’s a way of life. Who is coming to kill me first, is going to dead extremely fast. Just one rule. My rule is good challenger, dead challenger.”

“I can hear you, Willow. I can feel you, crawling, creeping, digesting, loving…”

Deacon was mourning the loss of his beloved Willow. Among his ramblings, Deacon said he couldn’t think without the human atrocity. Before our very eyes, Deacon and Willow merged into one being.

“And now that we’re back in the Deep South Arena. They will feel the wrath and the fury of the Sneakin Deacon.”

(2) Freakin Deacon decimated Onyx in 1:32 (from 7/13/06). Huge pop for Deacon, who has cut off the hair that was part of his distinctively freaky look. Onyx attacked before the bell. Deacon leveled Onyx with a big boot and strangled him. But Onyx wasn’t going down without a fight. Onyx took to the air, and Deacon caught him with a devatasting powerbomb for the pinfall.

Tracy Taylor said Krissy Vaine was hell bent on being the best Diva in Deep South, while she was more interested in having fun in the sun and enjoying life. Taylor said Vaine was taking her too lightly.

In Hawaii, we say go hard or go home. Now, I’m definitely going to go hard, and I’m not planning on going home.”

Cut to comments from Krissy Vaine. She started out all humble, giving the fans credit for her rise to top. Then the worm turned. Vaine said without the fans, she would still be the greatest, most beautiful, most talented, and most popular Diva in DSW. Vaine said the rest of girls couldn’t hold a candle to her.

“Tracy, try as you might, you will never, ever be as hot like me. ssss.”

(3) Tracy Taylor beat Krissy Vaine in 4:37 with an assist from referee Chantelle. As Vaine came through the ropes, she paused to shine the mirror on her derriere. The opening exchange got across the concept that there was no love lost between these two. They went back and forth with snap mares and bridge ups, then tumbled under the ropes to the floor. Taylor smashed Vaine’s precious face into the guardrail. Taylor tossed Vaine back inside the ring. Vaine scrambled for the ropes yelling “help me.” Taylor pulled her back by the hair. While Chantelle was admonishing Taylor, Vaine grabbed her compact and blew powder in Taylor’s face. DeMott knew it was foundation because he read it in Cosmo. Vaine applied a camel clutch. Taylor nicely reversed the hold, and Vaine went for the ropes. Vaine shoved Chantelle. They traded forearm shots. Vaine bumped for Taylor’s offense. Taylor backdropped Vaine and hooked the leg for a two count. Taylor tried for a sunset flip, and Vaine pulled hair to get to the ropes. Chantelle tried to intervene. Vaine pie-faced her. Chantelle kicked Vaine’s hands off the ropes and made the three count.

(4) Rough House O’Reilly beat Derrick Neikirk to win the DSW Heayweight Title. They aired the closing minutes of a previously unseen match from June 22. O’Reilly hit a side slam. Neikirk kicked out O’Reilly’s tight cradle. When O’Reilly roared at the crowd, DeMott said O’Reilly was “roughing up.” O’Reilly went for the Roughshot, but Neikirk countered with an armdrag and hit a big spear. Neikirk hooked the leg and O’Reilly kicked out. Neikirk hit an elbow drop off the middle ropes and O’Reilly kicked out again. Neikirk was cocked and waiting with a superkick. O’Reilly ducked it, and went for the Roughshot. Neikirk blocked. O’Reilly rolled through with a waistlock and a bridge to become the second heavyweight champion in DSW history. O’Reilly celebrated with the ringside fans.

Gimundo cut a backstage promo for his non-title match against O’Reilly. Gimundo said he wanted the “pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” the DSW Heavyweight Title, and he was going to take it. Gimundo warned O’Reilly not to get too comfortable wearing “my” belt, because after he won tonight, O’Reilly would have to give him a title shot.

“After tonight, things are going to start heating up in Deep South Wrestling (sinister laugh). And you know the old saying, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen (pronounced sinister laugh).

Gimundo entered the ring with an evil gleam in his eye. DeMott pondered why opponents in non-title matches always refer to the belt as theirs.

O’Reilly said all of Gimundo’s talk about what he was going to do was just that. Talk.

“Tonight, right here in Deep South, we’re gonna find out who talked the talk. And what man can walk the walk.”

(5) Ryan O’Reilly beat Danny Gimundo via DQ to retain the DSW title in 6:09.

High Impact. The crawl said that next week’s show would have highlights of Impact winning the tag titles at Six Flags over Georgia on July 11.

Team Elite

(6) High Impact (Tony Santarelli & Mike Taylor with Tracy Taylor) beat Team Elite (Derrick Neikirk & Mike Knox) in 6:06.

Closing Thoughts: DSW fast forwarded from May 18 to August in one fell swoop. The only vestige of the 11 episodes in between was the footage of O’Reilly winning the title and the stuff with Deacon. Fortunately, there had been very little turnover of talent over that time period. It’s understandable that they would want the TV to more up-to-date. but it was surprising that they didn’t air the finals of the tag team tournament before making the jump, since it had been hyped on the previous episode and was reported to be a hot show… Whoever came up with the ideas for the Deacon vignette has either a vivid imagination or a supply of potent hallucinogens. I can’t wait to see where they go with it. Melissa Coates (formerly with OVW) showed some heretofore hidden acting talent as the homeless woman…Jay is as good as anyone on the roster when it comes to working a body part. Better yet, he finally had a match where he did what he said he was going to do in his promo…Deacon went all out in his promo. It’s hard to figure the thought process behind bringing someone with Deacon’s talents up to the main roster under a mask in a non-speaking role…Vaine makes a good arrogant heel in an old school way. She shows fear
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