NFW Brawl Presents: Fresno Frenzy
Reported on Sunday, February 10 2008
Fresh off the heels off an explosive Crashmas 6, New Frontier Wrestling stepped up to the plate at the SaveMart Center in Fresno, California to kick off the second leg of its Wrestlestock West Coast Tour. NFW Brawl was there for all the action on February 7th and has a lot to report on the event that could lead to some interesting side stories heading into the inaugural SUPERCRASH I scheduled for February 10th.
Four matches were scheduled, but in true New Frontier fashion…well, let’s just say that things didn’t go as planned. As the lights went down, the FRONTIERtron sparkled to life with one of the strangest images one could expect from a low-key house show. Then again, this is New Frontier Wrestling and so we shouldn’t have been shocked to see LORD COYNER POLLARD and DIRK DICKWOOD brawling in the commissary area for New Frontier employees.
The fans exploded as they watched Dirk jump off the deli tray platter with a double stomp to Pollard as PHIL ATKEN tried to pull his head out of a bowl of jello that was apparently mixed for vodka jello shooters for some of the backstage female acquaintances.
As the story was later told, Pollard was trying to make himself a sandwich, when Atken and Dickwood rumbled into the room quite inebriated from Fresno’s finest Bud Light taps.
(The bartender said Phil finished half a pint, while Dirk might’ve put down 20 before getting buzzed.)
Pollard was shoved out of the way, so Atken could scoop up the potato salad with his bare hands to shove it in his pants, proclaiming to put out the fires of his future babies as Dirk poked fun at Pollard’s manner of dress.
And well, the rest was history as the brawl quickly ensued as NFW officials finally broke it up after almost 5 minutes of the fans watching it on the FrontierTron. Now, up for conjecture is whether they cancelled the match because of the brawl or the fact neither participant made it on the Fresno airwaves for the whole week leading up to the event. Maybe, it was a combination of both, but there’s also a hint of this match not being ex-communicated from the regime’s mind and a possible match could still happen down the line.
With that, fans were already wondering what was in store considering the ominous promotions provided by Legion before the event as well as first-time appearances from the likes of Simply Beautiful and the Uber Judge, who may not know of each other, but wouldn’t be hard-pressed to believe that in NFW, two superstars from two different regional promotions were just starting to get some tread on their tires here.
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL, who also is apparently a friend of The Dream Team (more on this as you’ll see) kicked off the show with a blaze of fireworks and cocky strutting before CAMERON CRUISE fired up the crowd, although in NFW…it seems Cameron can’t ever find a NORML friend.
Cruise and Beautiful got things going in a class mat wrestling beginning, with Beautiful working in some arm drags and hiptosses, but Cruise countered with some lightning quick dropkicks. Cruise suffered some injuries at Crashmas 6, eventually tapping out to the Hyperspace Kid and let’s face it as Andrew Rossi was risking a lot by signing this match after what Dan Ryan did up to him Western Canada.
Both men didn’t seem like their usual selves, and judging from their interviews before the match…neither of these men were strangers to each other. It had seemed Cruise had been on the sour end in a prior matchup against Rossi, but his advantage tonight:
He knew the NFW ring.
Rossi’s serious neck injury took some wide angle swerves as he found out the dangers of a 20-count rule for countouts combined with the green light referees have in keeping matches going despite chairshots and flaming tables.
In the minds of the regime and its own fans, anything outside of NFW shouldn’t even be mentioned out loud should people remember the true winners of Season 2’s Survivor Series and Hulk-A-Thon free-for-shoot-alls.
Of course, the difference between these two and those two events?
They like to WRESTLE.
Cruise fought off his knee injuries by wrestling a more subdued attack, taking shots at Rossi’s neck in the process with a quick swinging neckbreaker, followed by dragging Rossi’s head off the apron and delivering an elbow smash outside the ring across his scalp. Rossi fought back after Cruise missed a running clothesline, instead getting caught in a back suplex – Kneebreaker rolling combination. Rossi grasped his neck in some serious pain as he immediately started stomping Cruise’s knee.
The next several minutes, Cruise was locked in various torture zones of Simply Beautiful…going from a spinning toe hold into a Figure 4 and just as Cruise reversed it in the middle of the ring, Rossi quickly de-locked and spun around, wrapping the already hurting Cruise into a modified STF.
Cruise finally hit the ropes, letting Rossi work over his bad leg with the aid of jumping off the ropes and stomping. Rossi again went for the figure four, but Cruise snuck him in a quick small package almost getting the 3 count. A few countered flash pin sequences got the crowd riled up and excited, then everyone leaped in unison as Cruise hit a snap DDT out of nowhere.
Rossi made the worse mistake of instinctively rolling out of the ring ‘cause that’s when he learned with a chairshot to the back of his skull just as he just got to his feet that NFW isn’t for the faint of heart. The shot to the back of the head sent Rossi into the crowd, and for whatever reason…whatever happened in War Games apparently awoke something in Cameron Cruise in regards to his NFW career.
He jumped over the barricade, following Rossi and they started brawling in the crowd. Rossi started getting in his own chairshots, then blinded Cruise with a beer to the face and Cruise somehow fought through it and locked up Rossi and proceeded to body slam him across a row of seats.
Cruise wanting to win the match, then made his way back to the ring as Rossi did his damndest to follow, but both made it back in time. Rossi caught the charging Cruise with a kitchen sink knee, followed by a brainbuster suplex and only a two count. Just as he was lifting Cruise up from the mat, Cruise caught him with a sneak low-blow! Cruise then quickly hit a Snap Powerbomb that shook the ring! As Cruise made the motion for the Shipwreck, MIKE GORDEY of the DREAM TEAM started hustling down to ringside.
Obviously, a Cradle Piledriver could’ve done some serious damage to Rossi’s neck if Cruise hit it, or maybe Mike Gordey is an asshole that likes to seize the moment by diving into the back of Cameron Cruise’s knee like a midget at a wet bar.
Cruise hit the deck, grasping the kneecap as the referee rang for the bell, Rossi coming to consciousness in a bit of confusion at what was going on. Gordey stayed on the offensive blasting Cruise in the face with a vicious knee, then reeling him in for a bodybreaking TIGER DRIVER!
Rossi pulled Gordey away angrily, demanding to know what he was thinking…ironically, Rossi was holding his neck while confronting ‘the Natural,’ which naturally made Gordey nod to Rossi’s hand.
An interesting development to say the least, but before Rossi exited the ring he stared back at Cameron Cruise, shaking his head with a scoff. I don’t know if we’ve seen the last of this situation, or Simply Beautiful’s interaction with the Dream Team…but I’m pretty sure that Rossi wasn’t on the bus to SUPERCRASH with Gordey after he left him behind as well.
Up next was LEGION vs. THE MYSTERIOUS MASKED Y vs. MIKE RANDALLS, which turned into quite the crazy situation between Legion and Randalls before the bell even rang. This time as Randalls was making his way to the ring, Legion attacked him from behind and shoved him into the crowd and started waylaying into him. Security as well as Eddie Mayfield’s Insurgent Patrol trying to follow after them. After several minutes, the Mysterious Masked Y emerged in a silver glittering glam outfit that’d make David Bowie blush. He held his arms in confusion and started towards the ring as Legion and Randalls brawled through the crowd smacking each other with everything from chairs to the new Ryan Oracle Power Smoothie mugs.
Eventually, the Insurgents got them back to the ring, where the Mysterious Y found himself overwhelmed by the insane brawling tactics of Randalls and Legion. A lot of headbutts, chops and kicks to the throat were being thrown by the both of them as the action also spilled in and out of the ring. By the five minute mark, Randalls was bleeding and literally trying to chop the skin off of Legion’s chest as he also continually tried to keep the Mysterious Y out of the ring.
Finally, Y made a mistake by delivering a chairshot to the back of Randalls which got him a mule kick to the balls. With a lightning shifting glance, Randalls immediately looked down at Y and said, “YOU ARE NOT HIM.” And left promptly left the ring, almost as if he were only there for the sake of protection.
Legion used the moment to crush the Mysterious Y with the NINTH GATE gaining the pinfall victory and ripping off the mask of the Mysterious Y to reveal him as RIKI YAKAMO.
A harbinger of things to come?
After all, if dildoes are banned from ringside…that pretty much means Yori Yakamo Jr, is…
As the fans pondered that thought and watched Riki continue his NFW stretcher streak, the hammer of a gavel thundered and THE UBER JUDGE in his flowing robe stormed down the aisle. To complete the Higher Society Education Comic Book Hero Clash, next out was PROFESSOR TREMENDOUS.
The Judge attacked Tremendous as he got in the ring taking him down with some kicks, stomps and diving elbow smashes. Tremendous managed to get a few eye pokes and gouges to get out of the predicament and catch The UJ with a dropkick knocking him out of the ring. The action continued with a few chairshots and Tremendous suplexing the Judge back into the ring, getting a two count.
Tremendous then went to the top rope, but found himself overhead slammed off and the victim of a nefarious clothesline for a two count. Cradle suplex by UJ got another two count, as did a Powerslam. UJ then went for a big top rope splash, but Tremendous rolled out of the way! Tremendous then hit an Enziguiri to a crowd pop, followed by a lightning fast Honor Roll for the 3-count!
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Now, you’d think this was the whole night with one match cancelled, but halfway through the show on the FRONTIERtron, Calvin Carlton and Frankie Fargo were seen backstage. Fargo had been complaining about Blaine Hollywood refusing his challenges for a match. Carlton tried calming down, saying he had a meeting with Craig Miles later to discuss the challenge.
So, as fans were wondering if Tremendous versus Judge was the final encore, the Delta slide of ‘Mississippi Queen’ boomed over the loud speakers as FRANKIE FARGO stormed down the aisle and straight for the ring. He had the mic, he was livid and frothing. He hadn’t heard back from Cal and started calling out Craig Miles himself, saying he’d fight the devil himself for another crack and shot against the Hollywood Wrecking Crew.
Most normal owners of any business operation wouldn’t exactly answer the call…
…and when the drumbeat of When the Levee’s Gonna Break hits and CRAIG MILES walked out smirking and smoking his cigarette, we were all reminded of that this isn’t anywhere normal at all.
Fargo ran out of the ring, meeting Miles halfway with a thunderous leaping forearm and grabbing Miles, then ramming him into the barricade, steel steps and post! Fargo rolled Miles into the ring, climbed the ropes and leapt off with a bodypress and held down Miles as he flailed around. Running into the ring came Greg Herpin, giving a one-count! Miles leapt to his feet saying there was no match, but Fargo rolled him getting a quick two-count!
Both men rolled up, Miles raked the eyes and tossed Fargo out of the ring. He flicked his cigarette (how it stayed in his mouth, god knows) out of the ring and signaled for Herpin to ring the F’N bell, so to speak in much less derogatory fashion. Miles rolled out of the ring, but caught a few hard fists to the jaw from the riled up Fargo and found himself rammed into the barricade again, then body slammed on the cement.
Fargo rolled back in the ring, yelling at Miles to bring on the fight. Miles rocketed in, taking a few stomps and forearms to the back and then gutwrench suplexed over by Fargo. Followed up by a quick elbow drop and pin attempt, Fargo scaled the turnbuckles once more, but when he leapt off Miles caught him with a vicious roundhouse right to the gut, followed by a guillotine legdrop.
Miles got a close pinfall, then quickly got up to his feet and locked in his sights before 360’ing Fargo out a COCKYLINE. Miles hit a Stun Gun after a few more punishing moments, but after Fargo slided down the back out of a Tombstone position and hit a Side Russian Legsweep, the party REALLY got started.
Fargo hit an Alabama Jam and seemed on the verge of victory as the FRONTIERtron sparked to life, displaying Calvin Carlton backstage unconscious, facedown in a pool of his own blood. Fargo saw the image, started freaking out when out of nowhere, the HOLLYWOOD WRECKING CREW stormed out of the crowd and into the ring! MALIK ANDERSON speared Fargo in the back, then delivered a vicious Anderson Spinebuster, while Blaine berated Frankie, the south and his family on the microphone. To top it all off, Blaine then caught Frankie in a vicious move, where leaping onto his back from behind – he pulled him downwards to the mat, breaking his arched back over both his knees in what some indy fans have seen called as a ‘BACKCRACKER,’ but I’m sure Blaine has a special name for it.
Regardless, Frankie had to be carried out of the ring by medics. As the HWC raised their arms in victory, the DREAM TEAM hit the ring – provoking a brawl from the two Everette Memorial Tag Title Finalists that will meet at SUPERCRASH I. Craig Miles immediately whistled to security as the crowd applauded the brawl as it spilled backstage and finally needed a good portion of Eddie Mayfield’s Insurgent task force to break up.
That’s all we’ve got for now, but some interesting developments heading into SUPERCRASH I to say the least.
