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ASE Wrestling held their 3rd show, "Cosmos", this time in the Gold Hall of the Cabarrus Arena & Event Center in Concord, NC (about 10-15 outside Charlotte).
It's a good venue for wrestling, a common spot for the old Premiere Wrestling Xperience company (great company in it's day) and the Event Center complex has hosted shows from NXT and TNA (several house shows and Bound For Glory 2015, which I attended). Not sure it's a great venue for tv wrestling as it was pretty dark, not as well lit as previous ASE shows. PWX used to have similar issues when they tried to record shows there.
Chris Lea and Faye Jackson on commentary with social media influencer Chris "Spraybaby1" Torrence on guest commentary for the first half, Caprice Coleman sitting in for the second half.
Gerard Bonner and "Big Swole" Ariel Monroe were the hosts of the event.
They open with Kiera Hogan making her return, facing Danni Bee of the NWA Women's World tag champions King Bees (with Charity King). Hogan defeated King at the first event in Jan so this was Bee looking for payback. Good match with Hogan taking advantage of some confusion between the Bees and picking up a win. Hogan trash talked the Bees as she walked to the interview section to have a post match interview with Bonner so the Bees went after her. She stood her ground and let them know where there's fire, there's flavor...flava, bringing out her former TNA Knockouts World tag champion, Tasha Steelz and laying out a challenge to the King Bees for the June ASE event. I shrieked a bit, I admit that.
"The Business" Billy Dixon, still limping from a tough match at For the Culture back on April 5 with Mr. Darius Carter, overcame a game rookie in Charlotte native Dontay Khalifha. This was nice. Khalifha is a rookie but he looked good and the strategy of attacking the compromised right leg of Dixon was smart and helped him offset an obvious size disadvantage.
For his post match interview with Bonner, Dixon promised to not interfere with the night's main event (Sonny Kiss vs Mr. Darius Carter) continue his years long war with Carter. Good stuff.
"The Filmmaker" Movie Myk put up a better fight this ASE event than his previous sub-1 min loss to "Fast As Hell" Ian Maxwell back in Feb but still went down to TNA and New Japan star, "The Jet" Kevin Knight. Another good, athletic match. Myk's been working with Dustin Rhodes and you can see some good fundamentals in him.
As had become expected by now, he went for his post match interview with Bonner where Maxwell didn't accept Knight's claim to being the best athlete in ASE and challenges him for the June 22 show. I absolutely appreciate this kind of episodic wrestling on the local/regional level.
Only tag match of the show saw brother team of Treehouse Lee and Saieve Al Sabah made a rare tag appearance together to face Eli Knight and Malik Bosede (with Nicholas Holiday), reigning Generation Championship Wrestling and USWA tag team champions Culture Iinc, making their NC and ASE debut, in a non title match. This was very good match. Lee and Al Sabah had the size advantage and were very fast and athletic and had a few tricks up their sleeves, beating the young champs in a strong bout.
Hot promo from Owen Knight, still furious at Team Georgia's loss to Team NC at the first ASE show in Jan. Buries his team, particularly leader Suge D. He faces his one time teammates Ashton Starr and Trevor Aeon in a 3 Way match.
Cool intermission with some backstage footage from the first 2 ASE shows.
Yahyah and "Creme Pie Papi" Reyhan Inteus (he carries a box of Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies, of course) do an interview with Bonner, with Inteus wanting to play his single about creme pies even though Big Swole threatened there would be consequences for him, Yahya AND Bonner.
He does anyway and Swole stops it and chases him off the set and is still giving Bonner some business as they throw back to the ring. Cute. I like Inteus'...gimmick.
"The Little Blue Dragon" Tootie Lynn Ramsey defeated Promise Braxton, both making their ASE debuts. Another good match with both women playing to their strengths (Braxton the wrestler, Ramsey the martial artist).
Trevor Aeon was victorious over Owen Knight and Ashton Starr in a 3 way match. This was the best match of the show at this point (stiff comp).
It was three heels working against each other, which was odd. Knight and Starr got hyper focused on each other, allowing Aeon to slip after Knight had taken out Starr to hit his Kiss Kiss Bang Bang pump handle suplex for the win. Knight marches over to Bonner's set but gets cut off for a highlight reel package on Darian Bengston, who will make his debut at the Jun 22 event.
Knight was FURIOUS and books himself as Bengston's opponent. Language was stiff but good segment.
In the main event, "The All-Father" Mr. Darius Carter got a big win over "The Concrete Rose" Sonny Kiss in a very good main event. Even commentary was against Carter (he has antagonistic history with Jackson so it was understandable) but he overcame no one liking him and Kiss bringing her A game with a low kick and a beautiful piledriver for the win. As he celebrated, Billy Dixon limped out to continue his war with Carter right then. Wild pull apart brawl that prompts Big Swole to come out and rush to the close of the show.
This show goes by very fast. If not for some padding like live musical performances from QT and the Soul Providers, an intermission, and a brief costume contest, it would probably be done in under 2 hours. I like shows that go by like that. They're still a new company but they have the "quality wrestling" part down already.
The Real Uncle Dave grade: A (93 out of 100)
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