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ASE Wrestling was back in the Slingshot Social Club in Charlotte and live on Youtube for "ASE 11". It's a fun venue to host and see wrestling but I can tell it's a problem to light well with wrestlers sometimes falling into shadow when they went the floor.
Entertaining pre show hosted by hip hop artist Go79man (Goldman) that saw Team NC (Bojack, Manny Lo, "The" Dontay Khalifah, Jha'Quan "Air" McNair) beat Team DC ("Prolific" Moses, Andino, "Hitman For Hire" Mr. Grim, Olijah Friday) and a pair of veterans in Keith Mack and Zuka King put their friendship over their differing philosophies to beat young stars Blade Brown and ------ , who were filling in for Ashton Starr and Zamir. Plus performances by artists Flower in Bloom and Chocolate Kndy.
The main show was hosted by Gerard Bonner with Christopher Lea and Big Swole on commentary. Nadiah Hunter is a fantastic ring announcer.
New Pan Afrikan champion Bishop Kaun opened the show, celebrating his title win at ASE 10 last month, getting completely on the bad side of the Charlotte crowd and announcing the creation of new ASE Tag titles. But before he can do a big reveal of the title belts, former champion Suge D came out and had a back and forth, demanding his rematch. "The Problem" Isaiah Broner (with Joseline Navarro), who is scheduled for a shot on this show, was not a fan of being overlooked and entered the situation. Kaun exits. Nice segment that looks like Suge is set to face the winner of tonight's title match.
"Front Man" Jah-C finally gets a win over "The Intergalactic Soul" (and ASE founder) Darius Lockhart, avenging his two previous losses. Very good match, heavy technical wrestling even with the intensity of their rivalry. Jah countered an O'Connor roll with one of his own but unlike earlier in the match, grabbed Lockhart's trunks to hold him for the win.
"The It Girl" Maya World earned the fourth spot in the 4 Way match to determine the first ever ASE Women's champion, defeating Aleah James. Good match.
"The Big Flexer" Alexis Lightfoot interviews World, kinda. More commenting on how World might have changed how she was going to bet on the title match. Lightfoot is very good here, antagonizing World and then James.
"Pryme" Cedric Alexander, who's been openly disappointed in what he sees as a lack of progress from some NC-based wrestlers and fresh off defeating Amazing Red Thursday night, beat another of his former proteges, "Fast as Hell" Ian Maxwell, in a really good match, one of the best I've seen from Maxwell. There was a scary bump where Maxwell landed too high on a top rope Meteor double kneestrike, landing on Alexander's shoulders, toppling them both and nearly landing on his own head. That led right to the finish with Alexander picking him up and hitting the Lumbar Check for the win. Similar to how he lambasted Yahya back at ASE: Return of the King back in June, Alexander started on Maxwell, which brought out Yahya. Cedric gave them both the business but on his way to the back, Deadlock Pro National champion and Yahya's scheduled opponent, Labron Kozone, came out. He reminds Alexander he lost to Kozone when he challenged for the National title just a couple months ago and that while he's berating his former students, his own students are either on WWE TV or in the pipeline.
ASE Commissioner Caprice Coleman enters the picture and wants to clear this up: the winner of Kozone-Yahya here faces Alexander next month with the winner of that match being the number one contender to the Men's title, held by "The All Father" Darius Carter.
Kozone defeats Yahya (with Maxwell staying ringside in support), avenging Yahya beating him in the ASE Men's title tournament first round back last Dec.
In a recurring theme, a very good match. Alexander sat in on commentary and had one last staredown with Kozone as he went to the back.
Bishop Kaun was successful in defending the Pan Afrikan World Diaspora title against "The Problem" Isaiah Broner (with Joseline Navarro). If you like shenanigans--and who doesn't--be sure to watch the pre match patdowns. This was a power based Hoss Fight with big strikes and slams in a war of attrition. Kaun gets into a fracas with Navarro, causing her to fall off the ring apron and possibly injure herself, causing the ref to check on her as one of Kaun's masked sentries delivers a Death Valley Driver to Broner on the opposite side of the ring onto the floor. Kaun hits the Pedigree for the win.
The masked man is revealed to be "Prolific" Moses, an OG Shane Taylor Promotions reunion. I admit: I popped. Before they could do any more damage to Broner, a chair wielding Suge makes an unappreciated save as all he got were two VERY hard shoves from Broner before Isaiah carried Navarro to the back.
The Uglee Gang, represented by Reyhen Inteus and Zay Vega (with Jordan Holt and UG associate, Chayce Coleman ringside) knock off their summer long rivals, the Audacity (brother team of Treehouse Lee, Saieve Al Sabah) to get in the match to crown the first ever ASE Men's Tag champs in Oct. The Audacity looked great here with no only innovative offense but some slick defense as well but the size of Inteus was the deciding factor. In a post match interview, they find out their opponents will be TME, the monstrous power team of Ganon Jones Jr and Duke Davis, making their first ASE appearance since the first one. Ouch.
In the main event, Charity King became the first ASE Women's champion, defeating "The Cannibal" Savannah Evans, Maya World, and Karen "Bam Bam" Renee in a 4 Way match. Strong main event with all four women getting their moments to shine. There is an underlying theme, which Swole called out perfectly, of Renee having opportunities to win but choosing to showboat. That costs her as she takes too long to get to the middle rope to do her Banzai Drop-style finish on King, first allowing World to slow her then for King to get up and drop her with a powerbomb, followed by a World's Strongest Slam. New champ!
Great promo from King, who was in the first ever Women's match at ASE (a show with an Aja Kong-Trish Adora main event, showing how much ASE has respected their women talent), to close a great show.
ASE doesn't just present great matches but works hard to have an episodic feel, usually setting up and/or announcing matches for the next show.
The Real Uncle Dave grade: A (93 out of 100)
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