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ACTION Wrestling “Next Up: Episode 6”
Taped 10/1/21 in Tyrone, GA
Now Available on IWTV.live
ACTION’s “Next Up” series continues, now a staple before ACTION’s monthly shows. This one was taped before ACTION’s 1st October show “Founders Day Festival 2021”! Here’s my write up on THAT show.
In a Venn diagram of “training show”, “tryout show’ and “thanks for helping out”, this series aims right in the center of all these spaces, utilizing a lot of upcoming talent from AR Fox’s WWA4 wrestling school as well as other folks who were in the area to help out. It has proven to be a great opportunity for talent to be evaluated and scouted for the ACTION main shows as well as other promotions in the Southeast. We’re outdoors for today’s action, before the festival has started in full. Wrestlers are surrounding the ring to brings the energy! Summer B is your announcer. Bobby Flaco gives us the intro and we’re off to the races with Scott Hensley on commentary.
Match 1: Terri Yaki vs Zamir Zuriel vs Kavron Kanyon vs Blak Jak Mak
ZZ is a little overconfident and Mak sends him flying. Terri Yaki throws out Kanyon and Mak takes a dives after them. Yaki wants to follow but Mak kicks him in the face. Kanyon fights back into the ring and backdrops Terri out to their opponents. Kanyon with a suicide dive but hits nothing but grass. ZZ takes a jump off the apron for good measure. Mak gets it back in the ring and drops ZZ. Yaki with a tornado DDT on Mak for two. Yaki tries the Taki Crusher but Kanyon cuts it off. Kanyon tries a package piles driver but Yaki slips it. ZZ in fast with a twisting neckbreaker but Mak stops the pin. Kanyon catches ZZ and Mak, he lets Yaki try to dive into him and he bounces off the pile of humans. Kanyon with the fallaway slam and sets up ZZ for the finish. Package Piledriver setup into a GTS and Kanyon takes the win!
Winner: Kavron Kanyon
Match 2: Jay Lucas vs Rico Gonzalez
Good lockup and fighting over the wrist. Rico tries a quick rollup for two. Headscissor but Lucas kips up out of it. Rico with a headlock takedown and keeps Lucas grounded. Lucas out again but running into an atomic drop and a rana follow up. Rico lets Lucas get to his feet and come charging into a drop toe hold. Lucas wants a timeout. He’s too hot….and also getting his a** kicked. Rico walks him down but gets water spit in his eyes. Lucas gets him back in there and stomps Rico out. Big clubbing blows to the back, takes mount and drops bombs to the head. Rico fighting back but Lucas pokes him in the eye. Lucas keeps running into a boot, Rico ties up the arms and rolls him up for two. Rico with a chop & atomic drop but Lucas is mad and throwing hands now. Rico avoids a suplex and reverses into one of his own. Springboard senton across the ring! Kick out by Lucas! Rico misses a knee and Lucas hits a blue thunder bomb! Kick out! Rico with an enziguri, jumps to the top and bounces off with a big elbow for two! Rico misses a corner splash, eats a german and Lucas spikes him into the mat with a ddt he calls the Dream Killer.
Winner: Jay Lucas
Match 3: Shoota Gabe vs Jose Manuel
The Nawfside Heroes explode?!? Even the wrestlers at ringside are shocked at this matchup! Manuel takes Shoota right down and scrambles to the back, working a hammer lock. Shoota out but Manuel takes him back down with a headlock. Shoota transitions to a head scissors, hits a couple of arm drags and sends Gabe flying to the mat. Manue up and over on a charge and hits a Superman punch for two. Kick to the kick, kick out! Splash off the second rope but Gabe grabs the rope. Manuel with a hard whip into the corner. Two count again! Knees to the ribs but Gabe is fighting back! Manuel stunned by an uppercut and a jaw jacker. Gabe runs in with a clothesline, big back elbows and a fireman’s carry slam! Manuel kicks out! Gabe runs in with a spear but Manuel hits a legdrop to the back of the head. Manuel tries and misses a top rope double stomp and Shoota Gabe rebounds with a spear for the pin! Fun action between these two but in a way, they almost ignored the fact that they are tag partners on the reg. No animosity here, this was just pure competition.
Winner: Shoota Gabe
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