The Rap Sheet - from the Crimefighter
Next Generation Wrestling's Ace of Spades
7/10/2K4, Peoria, IL

Ummm...why isn't there any ring introductions?  Who are these guys?

This rap sheet is posted in news:rec.sport.pro-wrestling.info, a newsgroup many wrestling companies could use to post results of their shows or advertise upcoming shows but don't.  And the archive of rap sheets is located at http://rap-sheet.tripod.com.

I'm way late in putting this one out, cause I've had no motiviation to finish it up due to being stressed over our own fed in Springfield being ensnared by the Sagnamon County Board taking away NMW's home by defacto because they denied variances to a teen club in the same building effectively barring all public assemblies.  It's been writing notes and calling people about it and I'm just been confused over it all.  And in my own typical fashion I jump the gun and make intrepretations prematurely before the final word comes in.  I will write up an actual story on this in the next NMW rap sheet.

I've known of this promotion's existance for a long time, I just haven't mustered up the will to travel 70 miles north.  This time since this is supposedly one of their major shows apart from the weekly ones and three current and one ex-member of the NGW roster has been coming to Springfield to compete, I finally decided to make the drive and watch a show.  Oh, why is that one person an ex-member of the roster?  Some stupid political reasons that the promoter pulled where if he showed up at NGW's home building that he'll have him arrested.  So the Crimefighter has a special message for THAT person who got rid of "Soon To Be"...YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!  GROW UP, GET OVER YOURSELF AND LET HIM BUY A FREAKIN' TICKET TO WATCH THE SHOWS!!!  Ahem, now moving on.

Total attendance for this show was a disappointing 60-70 people.  Driving to this venue was a huge mess, cause the roads along I-74 and the interstate itself are in the process of being tore up and reconstructed.  Half the turnoffs were closed down cause the ramps are being rebuilt.  The interstate in some places is being widened for more lanes.  The city streets are confusing as well, I ended up having to circle around a bit until I could get to where I wanted to go.  Once I got there, the parking lots were full and I had to find a legal place to park on the street.  Imagine my surprise as once I got inside, the number of people did not reflect the number of cars.  A wedding across the street at a church was taking up all the parking.  Okay, doesn't the church have a big enough parking lot for themselves?  I did a head count just before the show started and got 50, some latecomers bumped it up a little bit but it was not good attendance.  Did they do any sort of advertising before this show?  

Live from the American Legion Hall Post #2.  Your hosts are Scooter and Kyle Rich who are doing live commentary.  Your ring announcer is....NO ONE.  That's right, there's no ring announcer, there's no ring introductions whatsoever.  WHY?  You've got to be kidding me, how the heck am I supposed to know who ANYONE is if they aren't introducing anybody?  I suppose you could get it off the live commentary but they're slow to mention their individual names during the tag bouts, they just refer to them by the team names.  That's not a good move if there's first time spectators in the crowd, or infrequent ones.  And of course we have in the opening four guys from a Chicago area fed that I've never heard of even on CW.com's board.  The show starts 15 minutes late, and the national anthem is not played cause these guys come up to their own music.

The Great Malenko & Chris Michaels vs. Slappy the Clown & Gilbert Lewis - No ring intros here, and these guys are all from World Wrestling Zone, a wrestling company that used to allow 12 year old kids to wrestle in matches during their shows.  Yeah, I'm NOT kidding you on this one.  I asked about that after their match and they've stopped doing it, thankfully.  One member of each team had their names on their ring attire so I could at least identify who was who.  Malenko and Michaels waste a LOT OF TIME running around from the ring to the bar window.  The opposition, oh geez, not another clown and Gilbert is playing the character from Revenge of the Nerds.  The bell finally rings, and the heels continue to stall like mad even grabbing chips and cheese curls from the concession stand, and NMW board regular MOAV5706 stands up and turns his back to the ring until they lock up, which takes a LONG time.  Slappy and Michaels start.  Trading of slaps on the butt, lockup shove Slappy.  Michaels bails, and I start chanting "BORING!", which gets the attention of Gilbert.  Back in lockup shove Slappy.  Chris gets an armbar, Slappy reverses, headlock, armwringer, Chris flips over, headlock, hammerlock.  Slappy snap mare, neckbreaker, whip kick, slam.  Slappy pulls out a whoopie cushion, puts it on Michaels and sits on him.  The heels take off for the back, but alas they come back through the curtain to continue at the six minute mark.  Tag Malenko, tag Lewis.  Force down Malenko gets two, Lewis pounds away.  Drop toe hold Gilbert, chop, whip splash, DDT gets two.  Malenko, snap mare, chop, whip reverse tag Michaels, hip toss Lewis but gets axed.  Michaels with a poke gets two.  Choke with the leg, whip hip toss, whip armdrag.  Illegal switch, armbar Malenko.  Powerslam Malenko, legdrop gets two.  Tag Michaels, sideslam elbow combo gets two.  Superkick Michaels, fisherman's suplex gets two.  Tag Malenko, snap mare, double team wheelbarrow legdrop gets two.  Whip sunset flip, chop gets Michaels two.  Tag Malenko, Michaels with a slam, flying elbow gets two.  Michaels with a messed-up looking DDT gets two.  Michaels whip reverse hip toss Gilbert.  Clothesline Gilbert, legdrop, Malenko gets hit.  Double tag, Slappy clotheslines, back body drops, everyone's in, ten punch counts.  Double whip Michaels gets the clothesline on Slappy.  Malenko chokes Gilbert, Michaels and Slappy go outside and brawl on the floor leading up to Slappy being knocked out cold against the post I think.  Chris Michaels grabs a chain and wraps it around the wrist of Slappy, tells the ref to check on him, a chair gets inserted in the ring, the heels powerbomb neckbreaker combo Gilbert on the chair, put the chair on top of him, then play dead.  The ref, completely oblivious to the commentators and too incompetent to realize the fact that Slappy and Gilbert are unconscious gets the idea that they used the chain and the chair calls for the DQ.  WHAT???

WINNERS:  The Great Malenko & Chris Michaels DQ -> 16:30 mins. ½*

The finish was so incredibily stupid for words and the REFEREE IS A FREAKING MORON.  If this guy had ANY BRAINS he'd figure out two men knocked out can't possibily had used those weapons, but intelligence is too much to ask for when it comes to referees and my own has been greatly insulted.  I mean if you're going through all the effort to knock someone out with a chair why wouldn't you just pin the guy instead of try to draw the DQ?  Way too freaking long to get the match going and the complete BS finish just was not a good way to get this show going.  And I think it also ate into the time allotted for the matches the rest of the night.  I couldn't take the clown and nerd gimmicks seriously either.

Tank Thurman, regional director comes out with bodyguard for an interview segment.  He rambles something about the upper class, then starts trashing Mike Chasteen and Russ Stevens.  He then says something about Apocalypse losing tonight, which brings him out.  He gets in his face then beats the tar out of him and the bodyguard!  Chokeslam for the bodyguard.  Apoc takes the mike and says he doesn't care about anyone in the crowd.  He says he'll overcome the odds and beat Russ Stevens errr....Staley, who comes out.  Apoc says he has no chance in heck of beating him.  Apoc says Chris Hazard lost to a girl so he can't beat him either, which brings him out.  Apoc then says the fans chose a dolt to fight him, that being Jester.  Well Jester comes out, then Stevens & Hazard jump in the ring and proceed to beat the crap out of Apocalypse.  Apoc goes after Jester but to no avail.  Scooter warns everyone if they don't stop fighting they'll be kicked out of the main event.  Apoc wants some more so he tries taking shots at people now.  Soon Stevens and Hazard leave, but Jester is still out here and Apoc attacks Jester some more.  The mess is cleared out finally and we proceed onward.

"The Monster" Chris Brown 5'9" 250lbs. Pekin, IL vs. Klepto Magnifico ?'?" ???lbs. Parts Unknown - Man I almost took Klepto for El Pollo Loco, since there's no ring intros that's an easy mistake to make. Klepto means THIEF by the way.  Sheesh, we're an hour into this show and there's only been one match.  Takedown Brown, poke Klepto, whip boot, spear, superkick splash from the second rope gets two.  Shoulderblock Brown, whip crash, shoulderblocks to the back.  Brown with the torture rack, then drops him.  Gorilla press Brown, but Klepto slips out, rake, shoulderblocks.  Klepto whip reverse crash corner.  Klepto with eye pokes, Brown goes for what looks like a spinning rock bottom but Klepto somehow gets the DDT.  Klepto steals one of Brown's gloves, chase outside, back in Klepto gets a spinebuster.  Chris Hazard comes out with a weapon and jumps in the ring, Brown holds Klepto up but Hazard misses the mark and nails Brown by mistake.  Klepto pins him.  Chris Brown throws the ref out on the hard floor, yeah there's NO PADDING.  Too short to mean much.

WINNER:  Klepto Magnifico pin -> 4:10 mins. *¾

NGW Hardcore Championship
(c)Sinnister 6'1" 300lbs. Sinn City w/ Dr. Jacob Walker & CJ Esparza vs. Big Pappa 6'3" 450lbs. Pappadelphia - Sinnister has the mike and says since Kyle Rich pulled out due to injury so who's he gonna wrestle tonight?  Kyle says he'll be fighting his partner Big Pappa.  Sinnister is one of the few I've seen wrestle.  I was told that belt is actually a WWE Europeon replica that's spraypainted blue, which I have to ask, why do wrestling companies buy WWE or WCW belts then modify them for their own when we all can recognize what they used to be?  They since back out here the referee that was injured.  LOW BLOW by Sinnister, choke, chops.  Sinnister's men make wishes with Big Pappa's legs around the ring post.  Here come the lids and a crutch!  Lidshot, crutch shot Sinnister.  Here come the cookie sheets!  Panshot, elbow Sinnister.  Sinnister goes under the ring for stuff, takes forever get to get the trashcan.  Sinnister's men with caneshots.  CJ in tries a belt shot but hits Sinnister, oops.  Whip clothesline on Esparza, sitdown piledriver!  Lidshot Pappa, Sinnister is bleeding.  DDT on the lid, splash Pappa, trayshot, LOW BLOW Sinnister.  Pappa gets dumped to the floor, apron slam, Sinnister BLASTS Pappa with the BELL!   Uh oh, Pappa is bleeding badly.  Pappa is put back in the ring, and he flops facefirst into the pans.  Crap this match needs to be stopped, that is a Muta Scale cut there.  Pappa gets a whip, clothesline and pinfall.

WINNER and NEW CHAMP:  Big Pappa pin -> 8:40 mins. *½

They went to the quick improvised finish, was probably supposed to go another five minutes.  Big Pappa ended up getting twelve stitches as a result.

NGW Tag Team Championship
(c)Fire & Iced - Ryan Phoenix 5'9" 185lbs. E. St. Lewis, IL & "MC Trip C" Cory Carter 5'10" 215lbs. Inglewood, CA vs. The Party Boyz - Ray The Wrestler 5'9" 170lbs. Peoria, IL & Kody Kash 6'3" 180lbs. Pensacola, FL w/ pNut - More WWE replica belts.  One member of each team is carrying a belt for some reason, the reason being Ray stole the tag belt.  pNut is the lone girl wrestler on the NGW roster.  Big brawl to start, the heels soon bail.  Kody and MC start.  Lockup shove MC.  Lockup, waistlock Kody, drop toe hold MC.  Headlock MC, hammerlock, takedown Kash, butterfly armbar.  MC whip chops, whip reverse crash corner goes MC.  Knee neck by Kash, choke, whip elbow, he charges with the elbow to the corner three times.  Kash snapmare, legdrop gets two.  MC chop, tag Phoenix.  Double team move, Ryan off the top and sits on the arm of Kash, armdrag.  Kash elbows, backside neckbreaker gets two.  Whip Ryan, Kash just bails.  Back in at nine, tag Ray.  Ryan wants Ray to punch him, Ray with the poke, springboard kick.  Ryan hits a flatliner, springboard moonsault, then the split-legged legdrop in the corner.  Whip ab stretch by Ray, hip toss Phoenix.  Spin kick to the back of the head gets two.  Whip Ryan, Ray blocks a move, Ryan blocks a move, neckbreaker into the knees, tag MC.  pNut trips him and she gets thrown out.  Kash whipped to the corner, Ray slugs away on MC.  pNut goes for a beer instead of leaving and takes a seat in the front row.  Whip reverse rollup gets two.  Tag Kash, half camel clutch, Phoenix jumps back in, some bizarre move where he rolls on MC.  Whip reverse flying clothesline by Ray.  MC whip reverse BOOT, Ray misses the sunset, clothesline MC.  Ryan goes nuts in the corner, MC struggles to tag, double tag.  Clotheslines by Ryan, whip Ray jumps over the top, Ryan tries to suplex him in but gets tripped and pinned!

WINNERS and NEW CHAMPS: Ray the Wrestler & Kody Kash pin -> 15:00 mins.

But wait!  Another ref runs out and wants the match restarted cause they cheated.  Uh, why was this done during the FIRST match?  Ray takes a boot off to protest.  Double hip tosses, double drop kicks, Ryan completely blows a double team move where MC just drops him, MC STYLES CLASH gets the pin but the other guy's feet were in the ropes!  Shrug.

WINNERS: Fire & Iced pin -> 16:10 mins. ***½

Kash gets the mike and screams that they won the belts and they got screwed!  We go to intermission.

NGW Triple Threat Championship
(c)Scott Keyes 5'6" 175lbs. Quad Cities vs. Ric Brutal 5'10" 150lbs. Tokyo, Japan vs. "Asian Sensation" Brett Gakiya ?'?" ???lbs. Parts Unknown - This is one of the few places in the country with a triple threat title.  Keyes wants to shake but Ric kicks him.  Shovedown, Asian and Keyes lockup, armbar headlock chain, shoulderblock Brutal, leapfrog, double legdrop misses, double whip thrown and dropped goes Brutal.  Snap mare Keyes, hammerlock by Asian, Brutal misses the kicks, they then connect for two.  Brutal kicks Asian around, back body drop, hurraconranna, Keyes with a kick on Asian gets two.  Brutal whip drop toe hold, legdrop on Keyes gets two.  Asian and Keyes whip kick, Brutal throws Asian into a SPEAR, Brutal sidekick on Keyes gets one.  Drop kick back flip by Asian gets two.  Brutal tosses them both, Asian spinning heel kick.  Asian goes up, moonsault on Keyes on the floor!  Brutal with a suicide dive on Keyes and Asian!  And I move away.  Keyes whip flying headscissors Brutal.  Keyes whip powerbomb on Brutal, spike piledriver!  Brutal is out, Asian gets two, Keyes gets two, they shove each other, Asian slaps him, whip kick blocked, flip springboard moonsault blocked, Asian neckbreaker DDT combo on two men.  Asian puts Keyes on top, Keyes shoves him off, splash misses, Brutal splash on Keyes hits, Asian kicks him off and pins Keyes!  

WINNER and NEW CHAMP:  "Asian Sensation" Brett Gakiya pin -> 4:50 mins. ***

Brutal is pissed and kicks Asian, Keyes runs him off.  This match was most definately not long enough, and this is the highest rating a match under five minutes can ever achieve.

Johnny Justice 5'8" 180lbs. Justiceville, WV vs. Mike Chasteen ?'?" ???lbs. Parts Unknown w/ Jack Daniels - Jack Daniels ISN'T a person by the way, and Chasteen came to the ring having a bit too much of him already.  MOAV says something about him being a bull fighter.  Johnny kicks away and gets two.  Someone's screaming "drunken power", isn't there a WWI law, wrestling while intoxicated?  Justice with a shove to the corner, armbar, hammerlock, takedown, headlock takedown, another takedown, this to cut off the alcohol flow to the brain.  If he's too drunk to wrestle throw him out!  Chasteen pulls off a hammerlock rock bottom for two.  Chasteen whip reverse clotheslines miss, Justice steps back and watches him run the ropes until he flops down.  Justice charges with shoulderblocks in the corner.  Chasteen acts like he's gonna throw up, Justice with a small package for one.  Justice with a jawbreaker gets two.  Chasteen fetches the Jack Daniels bottle and takes a drink, the "Popeye The Sailor Man" starts playing!  Okay, this is so retarded.  Chasteen starts slugging away on Justice, uppercut to the shoulder gets two.  Justice whip Chasteen flops to the mat.  Johnny gets the handcuffs and cuffs Chasteen, rolls him over and pins him to end this horrible match.  Such incredible mind numbing retardedness, Chasteen should REALLY take a hard look at what alcohol did for Scott Hall and Jake "The Snake" Roberts and decide if he REALLY wants to emulate those two.  This sucky match was seven minutes too long and yes I've broken out the negative stars.  

WINNER:  Johnny Justice pin -> 7 mins. -*½

NGW Heavyweight Championship - Gauntlet Match
(c)Apocalypse 6'5" 310lbs. Death Valley, CA vs. Russ NMW Staley NGW Stevens 5'5" 184lbs. Seattle, WA vs. Chris Hazard 6'1" 235lbs. Las Vegas, NV vs. Jester 5'9" 200lbs. Peoria, IL - They drew straws to see who goes first, and it's Jester vs. Stevens...errr...Staley...eh, Russ.  Russ gets an armbar, reversed Jester pounds away.  Lockup, headlock Russ, hammerlock, leg takedown, Jester gets the ropes.  Kicks to the knee, second rope boot, waistlock Russ, kick, sharpshooter, but Jester gets the rope.  Whip reverse side slam Jester gets two.  Slugfest, stun gun Jester.  Backbreaker stretch, cover gets Jester two.  Elbowdrop Jester gets two.  Russ applies an scissors ankle lock, tries a turnover for a pin getting two.  Russ gets another sharpshooter but has to let go, then hits a DDT.  Russ split legging move but doesn't get much of the moonsault.  Russ tries a suplex but gets suplexed himself, Jester chains three of them gets two.  Jester stomps away, gut-wrench suplex gets two.  Whip reverse forearm shot gets two for Russ.  Jester DDT, Russ tries to get away, STF Jester, camel clutch Jester.  Steven gets up and drops him on his back, but Jester gets the hold again and torques him until he gives up.

Russ Stevens, you ARE the weakest link!  Goodbye!  Jester submission at 8 mins.

Chris Hazard comes out next.  Lockup, armbar Hazard, whip drop toe hold, armbar, OK roll gets in the ropes.  Hazard rams him in the corner, shoulderblocks repeatedly, suplex, he goes up, forearm shot gets two.  Hazard whip side slam gets zero, he goes up, elbow misses.  Jester slugs away, clothesline over the top and they hit the floor.  Jester stomps away, he gets a water bottle and soaks himself, then spews him before throwing the bottle back at a fan.  Jester shoulder attack but he gets the worse of it.  Toss in, legdrop on the shoulder by Hazard gets two.  Slugfest, rake Hazard, suplex attempt blocked, Jester suplex.  Jester suplex again, but it's a falcon arrow for two.  Jester full nelson slam almost gets two.  Jester slugs away, whip reverse crash corner, Hazard charges and gets the post.  Chris Brown comes out.  Jester goes for the unprettier, LOW BLOW Hazard, charges and hits the pole head first.  Jester rolls him up and pins him.

Chris Hazard, you ARE the weakest link!  Goodbye!  Jester pin at 14 mins.

Now the champ comes out, after getting the crap kicked out of him earlier he's fortunate to go last.  The slugfest begins!  And the quick kill gets attempted!  Jester Unprettier gets TWO.  Apoc gets the chokeslam for TWO!  Apoc chokes him with the shirt.  Apoc shoves the ref.  KO punches by Apoc get two.  Boot choke by Apoc, whip corner crash goes Jester gets two.  Choke on the ropes, running punch to the jaw Apoc, KO punch and sits on him.  Senton gets the knees, Jester slugs away on Apoc, whip repeated clotheslines.  Apoc with the rake, goes for a powerbomb but its a hurraconranna by Jester.  Fisherman's suplex Jester gets two.  Jester kick, crossarm neckbreaker!  Springboard moonsault Jester gets two!  Jester whip reverse POWERBOMB Apoc gets two!  Apoc goes up, Jester cuts him off, superplex!  Jester up first, back to the corner, he pounds away, whip charge misses.  Apoc hits a sitdown piledriver for two.  Snap mare Apoc, rear headlock, Jester hits a jawbreaker, BIG BOOT.  Apoc waits on him, death valley driver only gets two!  Jester with a shot to the back, Apoc spinebuster, Apoc takes the turnbuckle pad off.  Apoc goes for snake eyes on the metal, Jester slips out, SUPERKICK, UNPRETTIER, one two three its OVER!  Jester wins three in a row and the title.

WINNER and NEW CHAMP:  Jester pin -> 24:50 mins. ***¾

The locker room empties out to celebrate the title change.  

The Verdict:  I had no idea what to expect for this show since I hardly knew anyone in the ring.  The lack of ring intros made things real difficult for the first time attendee and the live play-by-play is just something that shouldn't be done.  This was a real mixed bag overall.  Some parts were really good, some not long enough, some too long, and some really bad.  For this to be one of their "major" shows of the year, I just expected more.  They're gonna have to do something about the low attendance though.

Thumbs in the middle.