Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 4:45 PM EST

Arturo Zaldana sent this report in:

Booker T's PWA held their 7th show of the year entitled "Clash Of Champions" at The Pasadena Convention Center" in Pasadena, Texas. Attendance was up, around 600.

We begin the show with ring announcer Adrian, announcing Booker T. He comes to the ring along with Queen Sharmell. Booker started talking about how it has been a dream of his bringing back wrestling in Houston and that he is excited about it, at this point the whole PWA roster came down to ringside and congratulated him. Adrian then told Booker that on behalf of the fans and locker room they would like to present him a "champion title" of his own, and that he deserves it for all of his hard work. Audience started chanting "PWA" and "Thank You Booker". Booker grabs the title and said that he is very, very, very thankful for it.

Next, Booker told the audience that TNA superstar BG James was supposed to be present tonight, but he called at the last minute saying that he had a family issue, but that he would not disappoint the audience, and announced that TNA superstar AJ Styles will be appearing on the next show (August 31, 2007), pops for Styles. Also he said that 2 Cold Scorpio will be wrestling tonight, and that there was some changes in the card. First, the main event was originally BG James vs 2 Cold Scorpio, but it was changed to Mike Foxx vs 2 Cold Scorpio. Next Kryll vs "Perfect Enemy" was changed to The South African Connection vs The Trump Twins.

Finally, Adrian told the audience that the Hooter girls were going to show us the PWA belts, down comes the Hooter girls with the titles and posed with it to the crowd.

Now, on to the matches!

(1st Match) The Trump Twins (Max-A-Million & Richy Rich w/ "Lovely" Little Dollar) def. The South African Connection in the PWA Tag Team Tournament Semifinals. By default, The South African Connection are back in the tournament (Due to changes in the card). A fan at ringside held a sign that said "The Trump Twins shop at Wal-Mart". Match starts with Max & Anazi? (Didn't catch his name), Anazi tried to work over Max's arm. Max comes back to the arm of Anazi. Back and forth action between both teams, Max made a hot tag after he was getting heavily beaten up by The South Africans. Richy comes and closelines Anazi & his partner. Anazi's partner goes to the outside, back in the ring Anazi is laying in the ground and Trump Twins do a Tree Of Woe/Running Senton combination to Anazi, he rolls to the outside. Richy gets Anazi's partner back in the ring, takes him to the turnbuckle. Richy makes the tag to Max. Richy goes to the top rope, while Max picks up Anazi's partner. Trump Twins then executed a powerbomb/blockbuster combination for the win.

(2nd Match) Cyrus w/ Lady Poison def. Devin
This was Devin's first PWA match. Cyrus is 7ft tall (Similiar to The Great Khali) except he wears a mask. Match starts with Cyrus executing a chockeslam, followed by a powerbomb, goes for the cover and picked up the win.

(3rd Match) Neico def. Jared Steele to become the 1st Ever PWA Heavyweight Champion This was the finals of the PWA Heavyweight Title Tournament. Match starts really quick with Jared trying to weaken Neico by using forearms and scoop slams. Neico comes back with his own forearms and scoop slams, irish whip to Jared by Neico. Neico comes charging to Jared but he moves out of the way now Jared works over Neico's left arm. Later in the match a Belly-To-Belly Suplex was executed by Jared to Neico. He goes for the cover but only got a 2 count. After about a 3 minutes later of back and forth action, Neico closelines Jared which kept Jared in the ground. Neico goes for the top turnbuckle, as he looks at the audience Jared comes from behind and nailed a Top Rope Suplex to Neico. Jared went for the cover but only got a 2 count. Jared, frustrated picked up Neico, he worked over his left arm again, but Neico countered it with the "STF" submission move, crowd chants "Tap Out", Jared tried to reach the rope but couldn't so he tapped out. Neico picks up the win

Aftermath: Neico celebrated as the audience cheered for him, the commisioner of PWA Mr. Walkins comes out to the ring he said that he hates to be the "bad guy" for the night, but that Neico wasn't the PWA Heavyweight Champion, because in his hand he had a medical release form stating that Chris Adams was medically clear to wrestle (He was out of action due to a concussion received 2 months ago by Dawg Chetum). Crowd started booing. Mr. Walkins then announces that later on tonight it would be Chris Adams vs Neico for the PWA Heavyweight Title, Neico was super tired and frustrated. Chris comes out, and tells Neico if he accepts his challenge. Neico responses stating that he worked his butt of just to win the PWA World Title and that he had one of his greatest matches of his career right now but that he never backed down. Neico then accepts the challenge and said that he can do it one more time.

We had intermission with a local band called "Useful Information". They performed for about 10 minutes.

(4th Match) Kryll (AD & Creet w/ Lady Poison) def. The Trump Twins in the PWA Tag Team finals to become the 1st ever PWA Tag Team Champions This was the finals of the "PWA Tag Team Tournament". Before the match started the Hooter girls came to ringside to pick up ring gear, since they grabbed Kryll's stuff, Lady Poison came and stared at them, she got closer and until Poison was in the face of one of the Hooter girls and almost started a catfight with one of them but it never happened. Match starts with Max & Creet. Max took controlled of the match. Creet comes back working on Max's arm, Creet takes him to his team corner, a tag was made. A lot of double team moves to Max, this lasted about 5 minutes with Max really confused, he tried to make a tag to Richy but couldn't because Kryll always stopped him by grabbing his legs. Finally Max makes the tag and Richy dominates Kryll sending them to the outside. Richy comes and executes a "Suicide Dive" to both members of Kryll on the outside, crowd started chanting "PWA", Richy throws Kryll back to the ring, now he goes to the top rope and executed a moonsault on Kryll. Richy when for the pin to Creet but he kicked out. Later in the match, Max accidently knocked out the referee in the turnbuckle, with the referee down Kryll started dominating The Trump Twins. Creet grabs Max and Lady Poison gets on the apron and tried to spit "poison mist" to Max but even before Poison spit it out Max gets out of the way and pushes Creet which caused him to knock out Lady Poison to the outside. Now since Creet is on the outside, The Trump Twins are left with AD so Richy goes to the top rope and Max grabs AD and executed another powerbomb/blockbuster combination. Richy goes for the pin but the referee is still knocked out, this brings out Jason Hollier and starts beating up Richy and Max, he sends Richy to the outside, Jason then does a neckbreaker to Max. Jason leaves and the referee is back on his feet, Creet comes and pins Max and got the victory.

Aftermath: Kryll & Lady Poison w/ Jason Hollier celebrated with the titles.

(5th Match) 2 Cold Scorpio def. Mike Foxx
Mike was making fun of Scorpio in the beginning of the match. Scorpio gets the upperhand with martial arts kicks to Mike, this causes Mike to go the the outside. Crowd started booing , he comes back to the ring and played mind games with Scorpio. Finally both wrestlers start wrestling, with both guys getting the offensive/defensive moves. Finish came when Scorpio rolled up Mike and grabbed the ropes for the victory.

(6th Match) Neico def. Chris Adams to recapture the PWA Heavyweight Title During Neico's entrance a female fan was walking/prancing around the whole ringside chanting "Neico" and waving some wands that light up. Anyways both men seemed confident at the beginning. Chris plays mind games with Neico but that didn't worked out, both men were really going at it with all their strength, at one point Chris executes the "3 Amigos" suplexes to Neico. After this he goes for a springboard moonsault but he botch it by slipping in the ropes. Crowd started chanting "You screwed Up" and laughing at Chris Adams, finally Neico applies the STF to Chris. Crowd then started chanting "Tap Out", Chris tried to get to the ropes but couldn't so he tapped out, the crowd went balistic as Neico celebrated.

Booker T comes out and congratulated Neico, backstage interviewer Johnny Bravo comes to the ring and does an interview to Neico. He says that he wants to thank the fans for supporting him and that he couldn't have done it without them. Crowd started chanting "Neico" which ended the show.

Overall even though "BG James" wasn't there, the crowd was hot all night, even with 6 matches on the card it was still a great event the audience had really fun. PWA returns to The Pasadena Convention Center on August 31, 2007 with TNA Superstar AJ Styles appearing. Schedule to appear are: PWA Heavyweight Champion Neico, PWA Tag Team Champions Kryll w/ Lady Poison and more to be announced.

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Larry Goodman sent this report in:

Joe Hamilton’s Deep South Wrestling ran the third in their series of weekly shows at the W. L. Carter Auction Company in Locust Grove, Georgia on a muggy Thursday night.

During the 20 months DSW was affiliated with WWE, their weekly Thursday night shows were the place to see the stars of tomorrow and on occasion, the random WWE Superstar from one of the major league rosters. For three bucks admission, it was a phenomenal bargain.

At this point, DSW is just another indie show in search of an identity. The booking leans on the ability to tell the story with inspired ringwork, as there isn’t any mic work or vignette type stuff to clue the people in about the characters, to give them something to care about. They’ve got some appealing babyface talent in Austin Creed, Truitt Fields and Caleb Konley, but the heel side is in sad shape. Murder One is about the only bright spot.

It’s a tough sell. Attendance was down to 50 after drawing roughly 85 the first two weeks. There are a lot of familiar faces in the crowd from the old building, but these revival shows are nothing like what they were used to seeing in McDonough.

Referee Rob Russo, a DSW mainstay got the “Chuck" (Norris) chant from the Hooligans, a group of hardcore fans from the McDonough days. They supplied what little heat there was.

(1) Adrian Hawkins pinned Kid Ego Jr. with the Unprettier at 7:49. Two cruiserweights, 175 at the most. Nobody much cared about them, although it wasn’t a bad match at all. Ego used ropes and bailed out to show he was the heel. But once he took over, Ego’s offense was pure babyface stuff. He worked on Hawkins’ back and applied a bow and arrow hold. It was both men down after a Hawkins missile dropkick. Hawkins scored a near fall with a springboard back elbow. Ego got a near fall with a bridging german suplex. Hawkins reversed Ego’s back suplex attempt and hit his finisher. This would have worked better babyface vs. babyface.

(2) Scott Blaze pinned Jay Clinton in 8:12. Blaze (as Scott Fantastic) was the first wrestler to appear in Locust Grove who had worked for DSW when it was WWE affiliate. He’s improved his physique and his wrestling since then, but there’s something missing character wise. Clinton was wearing sunglasses and a feather boa, although he wasn’t flaunting the flaming gay gimmick. Blaze thwarted Clinton’s attempt to take the shortcut and dominated. Clinton hit a divorce court and did some nice work on the shoulder. Unfortunately, Clinton looks out of shape and he blew up bad. Blaze didn’t sell the shoulder on bit on his comeback. Oops. The climax was a top rope battle for control. Clinton took the bump and Blaze won it with an impressive guillotine legdrop.

(3) Caleb Konley pinned Harley Wood in 6:43. This match got the best response of the evening. Konley showed a lot of spunk working against his surly and much larger opponent.Wood acted all bad ass and questioned the appropriateness of Konley’s undie-like attire. He’s probably not the first. Konley used quickness and agility to neutralize Wood’s power advantage. When Wood went to the eyes, Russo told him to “be nice." Wood had other ideas. Konley answered Wood’s nonchalant sitting pin attempt with a swift kick in the mouth. Wood’s frustrations mounted. He raked the eyes. Konley pinned Wood with a rolling leg grapevine cradle. Not a real smooth finish there.

“The Original Chosen One" Rick Michaels entered the ring and said his scheduled opponent, Sal Rinauro was a no show. Michaels issued a challenge to anybody in the building, which was answered by Blaze.

(4) Rick Michaels pinned Scott Blaze in 7:23. Michaels took some big bumps for Blaze before taking over. Blaze kept kicking out at one. Michaels used gutshots and chokes to cut off Blaze’s comebacks not to mention his air supply. Blaze made the full-fledged comeback and was trying to fire up the crowd when, out of nowhere, Michaels pinned him with his feet on the ropes.
Michaels is a solid wrestler and a very good heel when his heart is in it. I’m just not sure that it is.

(5) Phil Shatter & Truitt Fields beat Murder One & Alexander the Great (with Mr. Donnie) via DQ in 12:24. Shatter and Fields got the band back together again for DSW. They’ve been on opposite sides of the fence for a while now in NWA Anarchy. They make an imposing team, but this crowd wasn’t familiar with them. M-1 is a menacing heel. Donnie has about as much body fat as Tammy Faye Baker. He got a reaction from the crowd. M-1 felt the power of Shatter early. The tide turned when M-1 distracted Fields with knee in the back, allowing Alexander to club him from behind. Alexander hit a gutwrench. From there, it was Fields doing a fine job selling as the face-in-peril for the typical heel chicanery. With a ring as small as the one DSW is using, I was finding it hard to suspend disbelief about the heels being able to prevent the tag. The finish saw Shatter cleaning house on the inside, while Fields had Donnie’s malnourished presence in his sights at ringside. Pretty Boy Floyd attacked Fields for the DQ. It was 3 on 2 against Austin Creed joined the fray for a little babyface triumph.

(6) Austin Creed beat Pretty Boy Floyd (with Mr. Donnie) via DQ in 8:16. Creed’s entrance got over about as much as anything. Floyd did the gutter heel stuff. He ate a lariat and poked Creed in the eyes. Creed connected with a dropkick and Floyd went to the eyes again. Creed was mounted on the ropes delivering the 10 punches when Donnie upended him. Floyd distracted Russo and Donnie posted Creed. M-1 and Alexander made it a three on one beatdown for the DQ. Shatter and Fields made the save. This appeared to be a screw up. It made no sense to book back-to-back heel DQ finishes.

NOTES: DSW returns to the W. L. Carter Auction Company on 7/26 with a tournament to crown the DSW Tag Team Champions…Hamilton and former DSW television announcer Nigel Sherrod were seated at ringside throughout the show…Ted Guinness handled the ring announcing…Rinauro was indeed a no show. All of the undercard matchups differed from what was listed on the DSW website.