from PWInsider:

NWA Wildside ran their final TV taping at the NWA Arena last night. The show, titled “We Will Not Go Quietly,” set the stage for the wrestling equivalent of a jazz funeral, “Last Rites” featuring the War Games on April 30th.

NWA Wildside is coming to an end as a result of owner Bill Behrens officially signing on with WWE. The new WWE training facility located in McDonough, Georgia is projected to be up and running by the end of May. Behrens will oversee the production of a weekly television show that will start shortly thereafter.

NWA wrestling will continue in Cornelia after Wildside concludes its run. The first show under the new ownership is scheduled for 5/21. It is likely that many of the wrestlers on the current Wildside roster will be staying on with the new promotion.
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Wow, I know Behrens has been rumored to be going to WWE, but I didn't know that Wildside would shut down.

Whatever company takes it's place will probably just assume the name of NWA Wildside.

Here's the results of the show....courtesy of pwinsider.com

NWA Wildside ran their final TV taping at the NWA Arena last night. The show, titled “We Will Not Go Quietly,” set the stage for the wrestling equivalent of a jazz funeral, “Last Rites” featuring the War Games on April 30th.

NWA Wildside is coming to an end as a result of owner Bill Behrens officially signing on with WWE. The new WWE training facility located in McDonough, Georgia is projected to be up and running by the end of May. Behrens will oversee the production of a weekly television show that will start shortly thereafter.

NWA wrestling will continue in Cornelia after Wildside concludes its run. The first show under the new ownership is scheduled for 5/21. It is likely that many of the wrestlers on the current Wildside roster will be staying on with the new promotion.

Here’s what went down in the ring for a crowd of 90 or so.

(1) Ken Westbrooks beat Eddie Guapo with the Westbrooks Bomb at 4:04. Not a bad match, but the crowd was downright apathetic. Westbrooks was subbing for Nick Halen, who was moved into the 8 man tag due to sub for the injured Slim J. Westbrooks got a near fall with a belly to belly suplex. Westbrooks tried to a make it a trio of Stinger Splashes, which was one too many and only served to make him look like a dumb babyface. Guapo went to work on the neck. Guapo stuck a knee in Westbrooks’ ear for a near fall. Westbrooks hit his finisher, which is a variation on the Angle Slam.

(2) Brandon P beat Jeff Lewis (with Al Getz) via DQ to retain the World TV Title in 7:23. Lewis tried to run. P finally caught the wuss with a series of high impact moves and went after Getz. But before he could get his hands on him, Lewis clubbed him from behind. Lewis worked on P’s back. P’s facial expressions were awesome as he sold the pain, blues and agony of Lewis’ surfboard maneuver. Lewis said he be the champ tonight. P fired back and hit the head and arm suplex. P’s comeback climaxed with the atomic facebuster. Getz hit the ring, along with Enterprise members Ace Rockwell and Shaun Tempers. They gave P the beatdown supreme. Lewis hit the Final Curtain and Getz made the three count. Getz intimidated Nigel Sherrod into announcing Lewis as the new champion, and the rat bastards walked off with P’s belt.

(3) Brandon Thomaselli & T-N-T (Todd Sexton & Tony Stradlin) beat Caprice Coleman & Iron Saints (Vito & Sal Thomaselli) in 13:02. It started as Brandon vs. Coleman in a singles match. T-N-T interfered on Brandon’s behalf. Saints ran out to even the odds. Triple dropkick on the heels and it morphed into a six man. Saints used double team maneuvers to decimate Sexton Chicago style. Coleman hit an awesome springboard splash. Stradlin’s chicanery turned the tide. Sal took the heat. Brandon hit the running SSP. Sexton did a death defying hanging vertical suplex off the middle rope. Stradlin got ultra stiff with the kicks. Spinning headscissors into the hot tag. It was big moves all the way to the finish. Coleman nailed Sexton with a shining wizard, but Stradlin saved and landed a kick that sent Coleman hurtling out of the ring. Sexton did a dragon screw legwhip into the Sharpshooter on Vito. Coleman saved. T-N-T did the X Bomb on Coleman for old time’s sake. Hard to believe that at one time, Sexton and Stradlin had similar builds. Saints clotheslined T-N-T over the top, laid Brandon out with a double flapjack, and killed him dead with the double stomp/pendulum. T-N-T smoked the Saints with a double superkick. Coleman went to the air and connected. But Sexton escaped from Coleman’s finisher and got the pin with an illegal assist from Stradlin.

Coleman said that on 4/30 he was bringing Tony Mamaluke as his partner against T-N-T. “We’ll see how funny it is when I bust your mouth and drop you on your head.”

(4) The NWA Elite (Mikal Adryan & Luke & Jeremy V with Jeff G. Bailey) beat Tank & Iceberg & Murder One at 11:44 when M-1 turned on his partners. It’s just Luke now. He’s no altar boy. Tank and Iceberg came out wearing black hoods. The Elite tried to sucker punch them, but only hurt their hands because the champs had hockey masks on underneath. Luke took a mad wicked beating. Iceberg requested silence when he went to do the stiff chops and the crowd obeyed. That was funny. The behemoths obliterated Luke in the corner. M-1 mowed Luke down with the Blazin’ Lariat. Tank did the surfboard curbstomp, and Luke made a desperation dive for a tag. The Elite dug deep into their bag of dirty trick to take control of the match. Luke used hairspray to blind Iceberg, and Adryan leveled “the No Pain Train” with the Mafia Kick. The Elite softened up (melted?) the Iceberg. Luke, who was acting like a real a**hole, got near falls with a springboard senton bomb and the Halo. The hot tag dissolved into a six way brawl. That’s when M-1 made his move, clocking Tank with brass knucks. V got the pin. A beatdown ensued. The Lost Boys and Rick Michaels hit the ring for the save. This Rick Michaels was in much better shape than the one we’ve been seeing at the Arena lately. Michaels hit a full scale version of the Double Shot for the first time since his back injury 2 ½ years ago. Congratulations.

(5) The Lost Boys (Gabriel & Azrael) beat Pomp and Circumstance (Ace Rockwell & Shaun Tempers with Al Getz) via DQ in 8:58. P & C retained the NWA Wildside tag titles. The building went dark for Lost Boys entrance. Azrael came out brandishing a very cool medieval sword. Gabriel schooled Rockwell on the mat. Tempers fared no better. P & C tried to trap Gabriel 2 on 1. Gabriel bailed and Azrael blitzed those P & C turds bigtime. At 5:15, Tempers caught Gabriel on the floor with a double axe blow from the apron. P & C got sustained offense, until Gabriel’s senton backsplash garnered the hot tag. Getz got in the ring to rally the troops. Azrael was going for the Ted Bundy when Tempers speared him out of his boots. P & C hit the double play on Gabriel but Azrael saved. Gabriel hit a top rope double stomp that left P & C stacked in the 69 position. I could have lived just fine without that. Gabriel hit a tope con giro on P & C. But Adryan and Luke attacked Lost Boys for the DQ. Adryan hit Assisted Suicide on Azrael. Lost Boys revived enough to clear the ring, but Luke absconded with Azrael’s prized sword. When he’s good, Luke’s the angel boy, but when he’s bad, he’s freaking evil.

(6) Sweet Dreams beat Adam Armor (with Adam Roberts & T. C. Carnage) via DQ in 6:05. Roberts and Carnage were modeling the latest in sportswear from Sears Express. It was all Dreams until interference by Carnage set up an Armor dropkick. Armor worked on the neck. The Alabamians kept cheating. Dreams got fed up. He hit an RKO on Armor and neutralized Roberts and Carnage. Dreams had Armor up for the whirlybird when Roberts and Carnage attacked for the DQ. Skeeter Frost went against the odds to make the save. Strong crowd response for Frost, who was making his first inring appearance since suffering a broken collarbone at Christmas Chaos.

Frost & Dreams & Cru Jones vs. Alabama Attitude (Armor & Roberts & Carnage) was announced for Last Rites.

(7) Three Guys That Totally Rule (Fast Eddie & Patrick Bentley & Seth Delay & Salvatore Rinauro) beat Joel Maximo & Jose Maximo & Jay Fury & Nick Halen in 13:40. This was wild. Maximos are much better all around wrestlers than when they appeared in Wildside back in ’02. Jose has filled out to where they are almost identical size, and it’s hard to tell who’s who. Referee Mike Posey (who aligned himself with Three Guys at Hardcore Hell) indicated that he was going to call it right down the middle. Faces got to shine in the opening minutes. Halen did a nice drop down into a headlock on Rinauro. Crowd chanted “Zee-ro” at Bentley. One Maximo boosted the other Maximo into a leapfrog flying forearm. Delay, Bentley and Rinauro all did wacky dives. Fury capped it off with a springboard corkscrew plancha into the pile. Maximos hit a double bulldog on Eddie for a near fall. Looked like Eddie was getting into the deep stuff, but Rinauro stuck a knee in Halen’s back, and Eddie leveled the littlest babyface with a lariat. Guys pressed the advantage against Halen. Halen hit a german suplex and hot-tagged Fury. Fury countered Eddie’s Russian Legsweep from Hell with the Enzifury. Sweet. It was finishers and saves galore. Bentley got crotched on the top. Maximos hit the Spanish Fly. Joel got a visual fall while Posey was busy doing other things. Eddie hit the Russian Legsweep from Hell on Joel for the pin. Guys celebrated by hoisting Posey up onto their shoulders.

A rematch between Three Guys and Suicidal Tendencies was announced for Last Rites. They tore the house down at Hardcore Hell.

(8) Rainman (with Jeff G. Bailey) beat Ray Gordy (with Al Getz) to retain the NWA Wildside Heavyweight Title in 11:20.[/quote]

I was never a Wildside fan at all. We got them on TV here for a year or two and there show was often the kind of thing that made you embarrassed to be a wrestling fan. I'm never happy when a wrestling company goes out of business, but maybe now someone can take it over and put on good shows with the consistently great talent they've had in that area.

I did like some of the Wildside stuff I saw when AJ was wrestling there consistantly, but I haven't seen much of their stuff recently because of lack of interest.

Make no doubt, Wildside had tremendous talent pass through their doors, for me it was just the inability to put together a full show. I really hated it. I'd watch it for the occasional showcase of young talent, but for the most part...pure crap.

Come to think of it, I've never seen a full show of theirs. Everything I've seen is on comps and such.....

I am absolutely fucking distraught.

Piss poor booking in an arena with (if they're lucky) 100, shoddy production values, awful announcers, awful wrestlers.

Yeah, they'll be missed.