NWA Midwest Saturday Night 11-26-05

MATCH #1: Shelley vs. J.R. Ryder-**

Shelley starts the match out with a heelish grin. They lock up, and Shelley takes him to the mat and a fujiwara armbar. Ryder grabs some rope, and Shelley stomps his shoulder. Ryder rolls out of the ring to recoup. Shelley runs as if he’s going to do a suicide dive, but he stops before the leap and shakes his head to taunt the crowd. The ref rolls out to check on Ryder The crowd boos, and then cheers as RHINO runs into the ring. Shelley turns around and meets a GOOOOOOOOOOORRRRREEE!!!! Ryder climbs into the ring, and looks at Shelley, confused. He goes for the cover and gets the 1-2-3.

WINNER: J.R, Ryder thanks to Rhino

BACKSTAGE….

CHAD COLLYER is in the hallway. He whistles some Lynyrd Skynyrd. There’s some shouting from behind him, and he turns around and meets ONYX. Onyx doesn’t like Collyer whistling that racist redneck crap. Collyer looks confused, and apologizes that he somehow offended Onyx. Onyx tells him “Shut yo mouf, foo!” He then tells him that next week, he better bring his boys, “Cuz I be bringing the Blackout, you know what I’m sayin’?” Collyer says no, but it’s too late as Onyx is already gone.

MATCH #2: John Walters vs. Onyx-*½

Joey Styles and Tazz debate who Onyx will bring with him next week. Styles wonders if Collyer even understood Onyx. As for the match, Onyx is MEAN. He fights DIRTY. Walters tries to wrestle, but Onyx likes to punch, stomp and throw Walters around. Walters has to duck into the ropes to keep Onyx off of him. Onyx calls him something we can’t repeat, and I guarantee you it gets bleeped out of the TV show. Walters comes back after Onyx promises to “wrestle.” Walters expects some clean wrestling, but of course Onyx even wrestles dirty. Lots of extra tweaks and such. Walters taps to the Dirty South Stretch.

WINNER: Onyx

MATCH #3: The Lords of the Ring vs. MNM (w/Melina) **1/4

The first of several tag matches tonight. MNM flaunt themselves to the crowd, which allows Conway and Dinsmore to attack them before the bell rings. Conway and Dinsmore overpower MNM for most of the match, but Melina proves to be the difference maker as she flashes some booty at LOTR, who can’t help but look. This allows Mercury and Nitro to knock Conway out of the ring, and deliver the “snapshot” to Dinsmore.

WINNERS: MNM

BACKSTAGE…

Chris Jericho & Matt Hardy are discussing their strategy for their upcoming match with Jeff Hardy & Chris Benoit. They see the camera man and chase him away.

MATCH #4: Austin Aries vs. Johnny Jeter-**1/2

Petey Williams is ringside doing special commentary

Jeter offers a hand, Aries spit’s at it. OOOOOOOHHH SNAP! That’s a burn! Jeter shakes his head. The two start out circling each other. There’s a series of reversals, and then Aries pulls Jeter’s feet out from underneath him. Some stretching on Jeter, and Aries is using the ropes for leverage. Aries lets up, and Jeter rolls onto his feet. He stretches for a second. They start to go at it again, and Aries gets Jeter in an abdominal stretch. He’s again using the ropes for leverage. It’s about now that Petey Williams gets tired and steps up. He goes to the ring where Aries feet are on the ropes and slaps his feet off the ropes. Aries turns around and Williams is shaking his head, telling him not to use his feet like that. Aries stands up and reaches over to grab Petey, but Johnny Jeter dropkicks Aries in the back. Aries bounces off the ropes and Jeter goes for roll-up. Aries kicks out. Jeter throws Aries into the ropes and Aries holds on to the ropes. Jeter misses on his dropkick. Aries faces the crowd and reaches in his tights. Williams grabs Aries by the feet and pulls him out of the ring. The ref comes over to see what’s happening and Williams wrenches some brass knucks from Aries’ hands. Aries gets pissed but the ref tells him to get back in the ring. It’s about this time that Jim E. Cornette marches down to the ring, tennis racket in hand. He chases Williams, who ends up delivering a drop toe hold to Cornette, whose face meets tennis racket. Back in the ring, Aries delivers a Brainbustah!!!! He climbs to the top rope and hit’s the 450 splash for the victory.

WINNER: Aries, without cheating. No thanks to Petey Williams.

Williams grabs the microphone and tells Aries that he doesn’t need Cornette. He tells him that he doesn’t need to cheat. He just needs to use the talent God gave him. Cornette tells Petey to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.

BACKSTAGE…..

JOEL GERTNER approaches MNM.

WELL, WELL, WELL. It is I, the quintessential studmuffin, Joel “Nothing better than being back in wrestling, except I don‘t have anyone to manage but myself, and I‘m here to scout talent so I can get paid” Gertner. Now as you two probably already know, I am considered somewhat of a “legend” in our business. I was a commentator, an interviewer and a manager in ECW. You guys know all about that, though, so let me get to the point. I want to manage again. I love your look, I love your in ring work, basically I love it all. So here’s my card. I’ll be in touch.

And man does Melina look pissed.

MATCH #5: The Briscoes vs. The Dudleys-****

The Dudleys are the NWA Midwest representatives for the NWA Tag Titles. They’re here to prove that wasn’t a fluke. But man, do The Briscoes give him a hard time with it. Bubba and D-Von hit all their signature spots, as expected.

WINNER: The Dudleys

The Dudleys are backstage challenging ANYONE to beat them. They are INVINCIBLE. And they’ll put their shot at the NWA Tag Titles on the line for it. Roddy Piper comes out and asks them will they take on more than one team? The Dudleys say yes. Piper asks them would they do it for the NWA Midwestern Tag Team Titles? They say yes. He says that it’s done, then. At Into the Fire the Dudleys will take on three other teams for the NWA Midwestern Tag Team Titles. And the crowd goes wild.

MATCH #6: Jericho & Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy & Chris Benoit-***

The match starts with Matt Hardy and Chris Benoit. Benoit takes Hardy to task, and Hardy looks as if he’s distracted by his brother. So Benoit tags in Jeff. Jeff and Matt stare and scream at each other, and then Jeff goes for the lock up, which Matt sidesteps. Matt pulls Jeff to the ground by his hair, and then stomps on his head while standing on his hair. Matt pulls Jeff up and throws him into the corner before tagging in Jericho. The crowd boos. Jericho plays his hell part like a Fozzy song. Ok, maybe like someone else playing a Fozzy song;. Hardy is DYING for a hot tag. And it seems the crowd REALLY wants it too. But nooooooo. Jericho has to be mean and slap on a resthold. Jericho tags in Matt again. Jeff grabs him and delivers a sit-down jawbreaker that gives him just enough momentum to make the HOT TAG! Benoit comes in pissed off. He clobbers Matt, and hip tosses Jericho. Matt tries to attack Benoit, and gets locked in the CRIPPLER CROSSFACE. Jericho makes the save for his team, though, and stomps Benoit on the head. Jeff tries to interfere, but the ref won’t let him. Matt throws a punch, and gets three german suplexes instead. On the last one, Matt got a tag in to Jericho, who hits Benoit with a missile dropkick. Jeff runs in, but the ref won’t let him. This allows Jericho to deliver a low blow, and Matt to hit the Twist of Fate. Jericho goes for the pin, and sneaks out with a win.

WINNER: Jericho & Hardy

Last show before I start hitting this hard:

Southern Lightweight Title Match:
Lash Leroux d. Simon Dean to retain the Southern Lightweight Title

Super Dragon d. David Young

Hardcore Title Match:
Mike Rotunda d. Abdullah the Butcher to win the Hardcore Title

Kane d. Bob Sapp

Southern Heavyweight Title Match:
Eddie Guerrero d. AJ Styles to retain the Southern Title