The Rap Sheet -- from the Crimefighter
New Midwest Wrestling's Cutting Edge
10/26/2K2, Springfield, IL

This rap sheet is also posted in news:rec.sport.pro-wrestling.info a newsgroup that many wrestling organizations could utilize to spread info about their shows but don’t.

You know how hard it is to track down a suspect? If trying to track down one guy inside an arena is difficult, well it was a even tougher job for the police to find two snipers and they kept claiming this is a white guy running around in a white van when the two bastards were black and really riding in a beat-up dark blue car. Yours truly ventured out there in the state of Virginia, watched for gunmen in front of a white van, but they didn't come to the city that was far south and far west of Washington. I hope the police out there came up with the description of the car and plate the day they announced it, cause if they knew and held it back, I'm gonna be ticked off. Well I am ticked off, cause they have several chances to take him down cause they had run-ins with him multiple times but didn’t know he was the one. ARRGH!!! The rap sheets of these guys warrant the use of a firing squad, but before then, have a group of pro wrestlers repeatedly stone cold stun them, then powerbomb them through a dozen or more tables.

A quick note about the win-loss record I put up beside the wrestlers names. A bunch of these guys do wrestle in other promotions on occasion when those tour groups put on a show nearby, sometimes traveling to a neighboring state. Wins and losses count in the standings if the match was held at an NMW show. If the match was held at a competing show, the match counts in the competing company’s standings, but not in NMW.

I dared to sit in the front row this time ready to move back if debris from the street fight started flying into the audience. Two kids next to me just got way too rowdy, which distracted me from the action in the ring a bit. I find out a few details about the shouting matches that go on with the parents of the kids and the wrestlers in the ring, most of it directed at Jason Wells. They happened to win the auctions for Rip Mystic’s jackets and dinner and a movie with Sage Ramsey. Instead of dinner and a movie, he got them tickets to this show. I swear those ceiling lights are playing havoc with the camera shots I take. When I take pictures outdoors, the shots aren’t smudged. Inside THIS arena, the camera sees the lights in the ceiling, and it can’t adjust properly to the lighting and takes longer to expose. If the rumors are true that the next show is going to be held at a different venue, I’ll see if it makes a difference.

Back in April during the first show, I had a tape recorder and was using it to take notes. Some guy a couple rows behind me had a tape recorder and was commentating the whole show. Luckily for him he didn’t run into that one jerk who threatened me with violence. I’m assuming this guy was making an audition tape for something, like be the voice for NMW on any videotape they put out later. I’ve stated that I did not want to be a NMW performer previously, but I’m talking about being a wrestler, manager or referee. If they hire commentators, they should pair me with that guy a safe distance from the ring, or else have us in to do the dubbing of the tape, which is what the WWE does. WWF stands for…Wacko Wildlife Fanatics.

The show begins with Dredd Walker jumping in the ring for a short rant. He complains he’s been here a long time and has had a noticeable lack of title shots, but when he finally got a title shot out in that softball field in Grandview against Shard, he got screwed when he got pinned with pull of the trunks. He then complains about the big change in attitude that Rip Mystic has had ever since he lost his title. He calls Rip out so he can read him the riot act. Well Rip comes out and stands face to face, then Rip screams about how he’s been screwed out of his scheduled title shot that was supposed to take place tonight, conveniently skipping over the fact that he took away Real World Jeremy’s title win last month. So the author carefully notes that Rip wanted to face Shard for the title instead of Jeremy for the title. Rip continues by saying their excuse is that they are giving the fans what they want, a triple threat match between Rip, RWJ and Shard for the title. Lastly, Rip tells Dredd to get his gear so he can beat him later. Dredd slugs Rip and dumps him out of the ring. The author carefully notes, he went to a time limit draw in the tourney, and was defeated by RWJ in a #1 contenders match and didn’t go for the pin when RWJ threw out his back in the middle of the match and waited like two minutes for him to get up and continue.

There is no embellishing in my rap sheets, so if I didn’t say it here, it’s not likely that it occurred if it sounds far-fetched. Jimmy "The Bruiser" Osborne comes to the ring as the emcee and introduces the first match; hey they’re doing a title match right off the bat!

Central IL Title Match

[c]Scotty Cash (4-0) 170lbs. 5'9" Yo Mammas House vs. Eric Logan (1-1) 173lbs. 5'10" Palm Springs, FL - FINALLY someone has broken the trend of all the wrestlers wearing black. Eric Logan is wearing bright orange and white, now if everyone else would vary their outfits. A couple of lockups, Cash shoves him down and steps on him. The kid next to me keeps shouting "Scotty Crap" and his mom is mad at him. I thought it had a nice ring to it. Logan retaliates with a clothesline, Cash bails and Logan nails him with the plunger. Logan beats on him outside, then tries to throw him into the post, but is rammed into it himself. Cash pushes him back in. Legdrop misses. Logan back up, irish whip to the corner but eats a Cash superkick. Cash with a powerslam gets two. A suplex gets two, then a side suplex gets two. Cash tries an elbow but misses, slam by Logan followed up by a standing moonsault only gets a two count. Irish whip and a miss to the corner, Cash tries to pin Logan with his feet on the ropes but is broken up. Cash does another powerslam for two. Cash goes for a suplex on the top rope, but is reversed getting a quick two count for Logan. Another whip to the ropes, missed clotheslines ending up with Cash nailing Logan with the stun gun on the top rope. Cash up top and frog splashes Logan across his back, but he still can’t put him away. Cash tries another powerslam but doesn’t get it. He tries a slingshot suplex but just gets two. Cash then jumps outside and fetches a chain to use on Logan. Luckily a punch is ducked, Cash is shoved to the ropes, misses another punch, Logan kicks him then whips him to the ropes and Cash loses the chain to the outside. Logan nails him with a clothesline followed up by a fireman’s carry into a rolling slam that remarkably just gets two. Bing Westlake and Doug Frazier come out to the ring. Bing jumps on the apron, Doug climbs in from behind. Logan jaws with Bing, while Cash stands in a corner as Doug Frazier clobbers Logan then picks him up for a monster Last Ride…err…Longest Drive Powerbomb. He splits, then Cash causally covers Logan for the screwjob three count. Arrgh. Just how many people does Cash line up every month to bail him out when he’s about to lose? *I* could run undefeated in NMW if I had this many people run interference for me every month. No one from any leagues up the chain of organizations would want me on their shows though. And has Cash ever used his regular finishing maneuver? Does anyone even know what it is?

WINNER: Scotty Cash pin -> (5-0) 11 mins. **½

Stale moves hurt this match a bit. The golfing team wanted to beat Logan some more so they jump in and pound Logan some more. Frazier picks him up and holds him sideways so Bing can do a leaping leg drop across his neck. Stan Sallinger comes out with a chair while the golfers gloat and kick Logan. And Sallinger BARELY TAPS Frazier with the chair that has to be the ALL-TIME WEAKEST chair shot in wrestling history! Touch your back with your hand, that was how weak it was. Sallinger when asked about it made the excuse of "well it served its purpose". Did it really? Well Frazier was so insulted by that pathetic attempt at a chair shot that he began hitting Sallinger. Bing gets the chair and has Sallinger cornered when Logan manages to stand up and drop kick the chair in Bing’s face. The golfing duo runs for it, Sallinger takes the mike and says NMW is not big enough for the both of us, at November Reign either you go or I go. It will be Eric Logan and Stan Sallinger making his official wrestling debut against Bing Westlake and Dangerous Doug Frazier in a tag team match where it’s either loser leaves town or I quit the presidency. All right, if Sallinger wrestles as well as he wields a chair, he’s going to be destroyed in that ring. And I hope Sallinger had someone lined up to take his place when he loses, cause the heels will be climbing all over themselves to run the company and we all be stuck with another corrupt promoter. I cannot see the golfing team losing next month, for one, NO ONE has ever complied with the loser leaves town stipulation. Sooner or later, they worm their way back into the company, either under masks or some other method and the promoters can’t stand the loss of talent. Plus there’s no way the golfing team would pack up and move to St. Louis or Chicago to wrestle there full time. I know of a couple of wrestlers that have lost more than one loser leaves town or retirement matches in the same company, and they don’t leave. So if by some miracle that the golfing team loses next month, how are they going to enforce the stipulation?

Mystery Seventh Match

Toga Steve (1-1) 240lbs. 5'10" Carbondale, IL w/ Garret Ryan of SWB (Sigma Omega Beta) vs. Billy "The Kid" Grissom (0-1) 5'10"? 170lbs? Rushville, IL w/ Earl Grissom -- The frat boys are on the scene and Garret Ryan takes the mike. He says, you boo me, that’s fine, but they booed Jesus too. Uh yeah, they booed the OK City Bomber too. Please. Ryan doesn’t have a sling this time, but his elbow is wrapped up. The Cruiserweight Redneck comes out wearing a sling. He states that while he was scheduled to compete here tonight (he was?) he messed up his arm while he was doing some target practice with a gun back home when it backfired. So he has brought in a pinch-wrestler to take his place, his brother Billy the Kid. Billy right away hits a cross body for a two count, but the Toga guy takes over and sets up an armbar near the ropes allowing Ryan to hold his legs for greater pressure. Earl has to run him off as the ref breaks it up. Irish whip followed by a double axe to the chest from Steve gets a two count. Steve goes for an overhead slam and covers for two. He then lifts him for a vertical suplex and holds it before dropping him down and only gets two. Steve tries another move that is blocked then Billy gets a standing hurraconranna that fails to end the match with a two count. Kid whips him to the corner where Billy gives him the ten-punch count a couple times until Steve grabs him and does a running powerslam. After another failed two count, he hooks him into a camel clutch near the corner. Ryan lifts Billy’s legs and drapes them over the bottom rope or holds them up to twist that body some more. Earl has to run Ryan off and the ref breaks up the hold. Steve picks up Billy for a gut wrencher, keeps holding him and slams him but only gets two. Steve tries something else to put him away, but Billy gets his second wind and nails him in lieu of a tornado DDT from the second rope. That only gets two. Ryan is up on the apron, gets the ref in his face, and Ryan tosses a wrench to Steve. Earl jumps up on the other side while Steve is preparing to whack Billy, steals the wrench and clocks Steve in the head. Billy sets him up for another tornado DDT and gets the pin.

WINNER: Billy "The Kid" Grissom pin -> (1-1) 7:30 mins. **½

Garret Ryan jumps in the ring, spear from Ryan on Billy, Ryan turns his attention to Earl and pulls off that sling. A chair ends up in the ring somehow. Billy comes back to retaliate and gets Ryan in a tornado DDT on the chair. The frat boys stumble to their feet and the Grissoms double drop kick them out then they brawl on the outside before the refs separate them. Garret Ryan gets a mike from the emcee and issues a challenge saying he’s sick of them hicks he wants a death match next month where it will be the Frat Boys vs. the Grissom Bros. Now what is a death match? It’s believed to be where you have to get a KO on the opponent like in boxing where the loser can’t stand up before the count of ten. It ended up being something other than a death match, it ended up being a hardcore match.

Before the show began, it was reported that the Discount Gigolo Ken Mills tore up his knee the night before his scheduled match with El Diablo Silverado. Well he was there at the door next to the ticket takers with crutches. They did find someone to fight in his place, and wouldn’t you know it, it’s the golfing team.

El Diablo Silverado (1-3) 173lbs. 5'8" Beardstown, IL vs. Bing Francis Alexia Westlake III (2-1) 165lbs. 5'10" London, England w/ Dangerous Doug Frazier - Frazier is still running around saying he was the real winner of the battle royal and not Logan, get over it already! It was spoken to me anonymously that Bing got heat for struggling so much with security the night he was thrown out of the building after beating Logan two months ago. Bing has the mike and tells Silverado hey we’re both foreigners and we should not fight. Is Bing offering to forfeit the match? Yep, but only if Silverado agrees to forfeit as well. He won’t! Silverado attacks Bing and gets rid of the golfing team. Silverado dominates the early going of the match leading up to a powerbomb for a two count. Bing later tries his fameasser from the standing position but only gets two. Woman to Frazier "Why are you with that Westlake you don’t need him!" Frazier just points to his head. I tell him, "I was one of the few people standing up for you and this is how you repay me???" He taps the side of his head with a finger, claiming he’s smart or something. Irish whip, missed the clothesline, Bing hits a neck breaker for two. A bit later Silverado pulls of a frankensteiner for two. Then Silverado delivers the TAKA Driver on Bing (can’t spell TAKA’s last name, sigh). Scotty Cash comes out, apparently to return the favor for saving his title earlier in the night. Silverado up top with Bing laying fact on his back, Silverado tries the flying leg drop, Cash pulls Bing outside. Cash in the ring while Frazier has the ref tied up, Cash with a powerbomb. Cash rolls Bing back in to cover. The ref counts two before Silverado kicks out. Bing makes a bid to put Silverado away but Diablo does another TAKA Driver and mounts the top rope. Silverado picks his target and dives on Cash. Frazier over to jaw at Silverado, Silverado flips back first at Frazier to take him down. Silverado back in the ring, hooks Bing up for the Unprettier and hits it for the three count.

WINNER: El Diablo Silverado pin -> (2-3) 8:45 mins. ***

Well Cash didn’t seem to have enough, so he’s in the ring and tells him he’s sick of having to deal with him so he’s putting up his title in a ladder match next month and kicks Silverado. Wow, the heel champion requesting a certain type of match, oh right, ladder matches are no DQ, so he’ll probably have someone to help him win next month too, and probably Guy Smith.

"The Iron Chef" Leo Lagossi (1-3) 240lbs. 6'0" Bracke, Sweden vs. Khaos Kidd (0-3) 200lbs. 5'7" Springfield, IL w/ Luscious P. Coltrane - Oh no, that idiot Mike the Ref is back to officiate this one just waiting to screw Kidd out of another win like he did last month. Who was the brain trust that decided it would be a good idea to assign him to the same match after the stunt he pulled? Leo I think is much lighter than the billed weight of 240, I am his height and am 218. And where are all the tall wrestlers? I seem to be taller than EVERYONE, except Tom Arson. Khaos Kidd comes out to Hulk Hogan’s Real American and he’s dressed in yellow with Kiddster on the back of his tights and Kidd Rules on the t-shirt. Coltrane has painted his hair with a jack-o-lantern. NOW he has eyes in the back of his head. Leo takes a side headlock and gets Kidd down on the mat. Leo dominates for much of the time, Leo slams Kidd down, twisting arm takedown into a crippler crossface. Alas, the kids get too rowdy and I can’t pay as much attention as I wanted, but Kidd hulks up, nails Leo and hits the Hogan Legdrop. Mike the Ref counts a VERY SLOW two. Kidd in his face as he should, Leo rolls up Kidd and Mike counts a FAST THREE. Boy is he SO dead meat after this, made me so mad that I had to rate this match a...

WINNER: "The Iron Chef" Leo Lagossi pin -> (2-3) 4:30 mins. DUD

LPC jumps in the ring ready to give Mike the Ref another stunner, Mike gets the microphone and tries to justify his conduct by saying Kidd comes out as all these different wrestlers and is the laughingstock of NMW and he should dump LPC cause he’s got a jack-o-lantern painted on his head. Gee, would that get me to dump my manager when it was you that screwed me? NO. LPC tries to clobber Mike, and Khaos Kidd attacks LPC and Mike the Ref and the chef assists in kicking LPC’s bad knee. Then after hearing someone next to me suggest NWO music is gonna start playing, it starts playing! So Leo and Kidd are back together with Mike the soon-to-be-ex-referee as their new manager. Don’t know if LPC is going to field a new team or sign up to be a referee again to make life miserable for the Chef and Kidd. Kidd now has four losses, two thanks to Mike. Have you noticed every match so far has ended with a screwjob of some kind tonight? Attempted screwjobs by the heels have them at (2-2) so far. Meanwhile "RON" continues to run his mouth like a total retard and am no closer to finding him.

Rip Mystic (5-2) 180lbs. 5'8" Hannibal, MO vs. Dredd Walker (3-2-1) 210lbs. 5'11" "Purgatory" - Dredd’s music plays and Jimmy "The Bruiser" introduces Rip Mystic? I thought Jimmy was the one who screwed up, but Rip comes out and heads straight to the sound guys and screams at them to shut off that music and play his right now! He storms back behind the curtain, and they play some other song, but it wasn’t the "Just One of Those Days" 24 theme, he apparently has picked another track. Dredd Walker comes out and gets into a slugfest with Mystic right away, Irish whips to the ropes with clotheslines and back body drops repeatedly missed until Rip gets a side suplex. Japanese arm drags from Dredd, regular armdrag, then a drop kick sends Rip outside. He gets back in, runs into a big back body drop from Dredd, clothesline causes Rip to bail. Dredd charges the ropes and does a plunger on Rip. Dredd puts him back inside the ring and does a twisting slam for two. Irish whip, reversal by Rip. Rip goes for the cartwheel tumble to the corner but misses completely. Dredd with a suplex, Rip escapes, Dredd tries for the Dreddnaught but loses him and Rip superkicks Dredd. Sunset flip from Dredd gets two. Rip with a clothesline and a standing leg drop gets two. Rip tries for a legdrop from the second rope but misses. Dredd drags Rip to the post and wishbones his legs around the post. Dredd back in with a drop kick to Rip’s head while still stuck against the post. Dredd tries for a suplex but botches it, Rip hooks him for a pair of German suplexes but only gets two out of it. Baldo bomb from Dredd gets two. Irish whip reversed to the corner, oops, the ref got in the way. The ref is pinned by Dredd’s body, Rip tries a superkick and misses Dredd but the ref eats his boot. Walker hits the Dreddnought and covers, but the ref of course is down. After a long pause Dredd tries to wake the ref, Rip goes outside and pulls out a steel rod. Rip punches Dredd with it and gets the ref up to count. And it’s three, bleh. Screwjobs are now (3-2) for the heels.

WINNER: Rip Mystic pin -> (6-2) 11:50 mins. ***

Rip threatens to DDT the dazed referee, but just tosses him away. Dredd back up and he atomic drops Rip out of the ring.

"The Alpha Male" Guy Smith (4-2) vs. Tom Arson (0-3) – Guy comes out, still without a valet again, and he’s not rushing to find a replacement. First thing he does is pull four security guys away from their posts and lines them up in the ring to face the entryway. He starts his squawking that there isn’t going to be a match tonight! No street fight, no nothing. A "refund" chant is started, as Smith continues to brag about how great he is, and how Arson can’t win a match, including the last street fight they’ve had. This ignores the fact that Smith was on the losing team and Arson was on the winning team of that tag match last month. Arson’s tired of all the talking so he’s out for a confrontation. Smith STILL says there’s not going to be a match, but to avoid being responsible for the entire gate having to be refunded he says I want a regular match. Arson says he’ll give him a regular match if he’s too chicken. Guy Smith runs through security and chokes Arson with his shirt. Guy applies a leg hold, but Arson gets out and ends up outside. Guy sets up Arson and DDTs him on the apron! Back in the ring, Smith rams Arson’s back into the corner a couple times then applies a half-camel clutch. Arson gets out of it and hits a big clothesline for two. Arson goes for a piledriver, but Smith gets out of it and goes outside. Smith smacks a guy in the front row with an elbow pad, namely the recently enrolled Matt Young. Smith jumps in with a sunset flip for a two count. Side suplex from Guy gets two. Powerslams mixed in somewhere from Guy leading up to the application of a sleeper, Arson powers out and spinebusters Smith. Arson locks in the Texas Cloverleaf but Guy makes the ropes. Arson pounds him some more and sets him in position for a moonsault. Arson mounts the top rope and flies but misses completely. Guy applies a sleeper hold, Arson walks up the ropes and pushes off, Guy is on the mat, Arson on top of him, Guy tries to hold Arson’s shoulders down while his are down, forgets to bridge, and the ref counts three. I couldn’t see it, but apparently Arson had to have raised a shoulder cause he was declared the winner. Guy can’t believe it!

WINNER: Tom Arson pin -> (1-3) 10 mins. **½

Smith goes out and fetches a chair, whacks Arson with it (note to Sallinger, THIS is how you swing a chair, it is swung hard and a loud noise is heard when it makes contact) and hits him until he’s face down. Smith goes to savagely beat the crap out of the referee, which ironically is the first match this particular kid has officiated. Death Valley Driver for the ref and he hurls him out. He better have a stiff penalty for that one. He inserts the leg through the chair and stomps it from the top rope twice. Where’s security, I’m yelling at them to get in there and the one closest to me just sits there with a totally expressionless face. A second referee runs out to check on the injured ref. Guy now inserts Arson’s head in the chair and prepares to snap his neck, and NOW security decides to break it up. Gee, like you could had done that five minutes ago before Guy killed that new ref and practically broke Arson’s leg. What’s your deal here, guys? This turned out to be the ONLY clean outcome of the evening. I do not particularly care for screw jobs occurring in almost EVERY match of a show.

Michael Shard (3-4) & Jason Wells (2-3) w/ PHD vs. Real World Jeremy (3-0-1) & Sage Ramsey (4-2) – The woman next to me heckles Wells a LOT and the kids can’t stop being rowdy. Shard puts a hand in front of the camera saying "no pictures!" Sage Ramsey and Michael Shard were going to start, but RWJ wants Shard so Sage tags, but Shard chickens out and tags Wells. Lockup, Wells chokes him on the ropes. RWJ retaliates with a pair of clotheslines, and sends Wells over the top. Double clothesline from RWJ on Shard and Wells on the outside. Tag Sage, double team slam and leg drop gets a two count. Tag RWJ, bodyslam on Wells gets a two count before Shard breaks it up. Tag Sage, and he proceeds to punch him repeatedly in the corner before clotheslining Wells. Tag RWJ, double side suplex on Wells. RWJ with a slam and a leg drop gets two. Tag Sage, but Wells hits a Russian leg sweep, whips the knee then tags in Shard. Sage is choked, then Shard ties up the leg. Tag Wells, punches to the back of Sage. Clothesline from Wells. PHD is up on the apron while Shard runs over and rakes RWJ’s face, and there’s an illegal switch. Sleeper hold, but that is turned loose in favor of a side suplex. PHD pulls RWJ off the apron before Sage could tag, allowing for more double-teaming with a double suplex as RWJ can’t get his hands on him. Back body drop from Wells and PHD chokes Sage with the cane while Wells gets the ref to focus on RWJ. A splash from Wells, followed by a DDT only gets a two count. Sage pulls off a powerslam out of nowhere for a two count, and each man tries to get to their corners to tag. Shard is tagged in and he immediately knocks RWJ off the apron so he can’t get tagged in. Shard locks in a figure four. PHD grabs Shard’s arms for more leverage, but the ref breaks it up. Shard locks in a sleeper. Sage stands up with him and squashes in into the corner to get out of it. Sage grabs Shard for a powerbomb and hits it. No cover, as Sage makes an effort to tag. Both men tag. RWJ repeatedly slams the PHD team, then tags Sage in (was that wise? Sage hasn’t recovered enough!) Punching in the corners as RWJ and Sage try to collide the heels in the middle of the ring, but Wells nails RWJ as Shard slides under. Shard mounts the top rope but is crotched, Baldo bomb from Sage. Shard tries a top rope drop kick on Sage. RWJ with a spear then clotheslines Shard out. RWJ and Shard brawl outside as the ref follows them out, Wells beats on Sage, then whips him to the ropes to a waiting chairshot to the back from PHD that I just missed seeing followed up by a clothesline. Wells hooks him up and does a fisherman’s suplex and the ref comes back in and counts three! Screwjobs by heels end up (4-2) for the evening.

WINNERS: Michael Shard & Jason Wells pin -> (1-0) 19:15 mins. ***½

Rip Mystic has come out from nowhere and joined the brawl outside the ring. Sage gets back up and fights with Wells some more, Wells clotheslines Sage and himself out. Shard and RWJ are tossed back in the ring, Mystic follows and we get a quick preview of the triple-threat match. Sage and Wells go to the back of the field, while Tom Arson limps his way to the ring to apparently assist in breaking up the fight. Guy Smith and Scotty Cash come running out to blindside him and punk him out of the ground. Mystic pounds on RWJ’s head as Shard is laid out in the corner. El Diablo Silverado charges from the back and Cash hightails it over the barricade and they run a lap around the whole arena. Stan Sallinger comes out with mike in hand and tells the guys in the ring to stop it. But here come Bing Westlake and Doug Frazier for another blindsiding attack on Sallinger. Eric Logan comes out to retaliate. Brawl continues as Shard now takes control of the fight in the ring as he pounds Mystic in the corner. Hard to watch both brawls but someone is thrown into the glass on the other side of the arena. RWJ takes control of Shard and pounds away, Rip tries something but ends up in the other corner, and Shard is sent head first into his crotch. The rest of the wrestling crew is cleared out as RWJ grabs Mystic to set up for the pedigree and nails him with it! RWJ finishes off Shard and holds up the belt and poses in victory then leaves. Everyone gets up to leave thinking it was over when Shard and Mystic slowly get up and they start jawing. Shard attacks again and drills Mystic with a sidearm faceslam. Shard leaves, and Mystic is left laying. After a minute, Mystic sticks his tongue out at anyone who’s watching him. Haha.

Okay, the next show had six matches lined up, those being:

The Frat Boys of SWB vs. The Grissom Bros.

Stan Sallinger & Eric Logan vs. Bing Westlake & Dangerous Doug Frazier
Golfers leave town or I quit the presidency match.

Michael Shard[c] vs. Real World Jeremy vs. Rip Mystic for the NMW Title.

Sage Ramsey vs. Jason Wells w/ PHD
Sage fights PHD for 5 minutes if he wins.

Tom Arson vs. "Alpha Male" Guy Smith in 2/3 fall hardcore match.

Scotty Cash[c] vs. El Diablo Silverado for the CI Title in a ladder match.

And the mysterious seventh match and mystery eighth match for November Reign the alleged anniversary of when the company opened.

And now there’s the problem of WHERE the show will be held, and if it will be on November 9th. NMW had a six-month contract with Soccer World to use its arena, but when it came up for renewal, Soccer World wanted more money. So NMW said so long Soccer World. Does Soccer World regularly charge more for use of the arena with all their customers? Stupid move by the owners. At this time, no venue has been lined up to hold the show as of yet. They are inquiring about using either the Expo Building or the Illinois Building at the State Fairgrounds, it turned out they rented a small gym just northwest of town. NMW is looking for a venue in the Springfield area where they can have the training and do the shows. I don’t think such a building exists in this town, and certainly one that’s not economically feasible. It is my belief still that they should do a show in a neighboring city, like Jacksonville, Lincoln, Decatur, or Taylorville once in a while just to spread their presence around a bit more.