by Nic Diamond
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The big weekend for the NWA 54^th Anniversary show has finally arrived, and by the time Rick gets this up at OO, Baby and I will be on the road.  As such, I want to direct your attention to a website called Art Of The Mix.  I am, as some might describe, a freak for making mix-cd’s, and nothing inspires a good mix quite like combining two of my lifelong hobbies…road trippin’ and watching wrasslin’!!  Anyway, the mix that I made for the drive down is located right here.

OK.  If you checked that out (and if you paid particularly close attention), you probably realized that I used the name Nic Diamond on that website.  One or two of you might recognize that moniker, since one or two people is how many people usually read the columns that I wrote for several bush-league websites back in the day (3-5 years ago).  I briefly considered writing my NWA: TNA recaps under that name, but in the end I decided that the purpose of those recaps is to get the TNA program over with y’all, not to get myself over.  Well, this column is going to be at least in part about getting myself over, hence the link to my mix!  Don’t worry, I’ll be doing an in-depth preview of the show (and you won’t insult me if you scroll down), but for right now it’s all about me!  That is to say it’s all about Nic Diamond!  That’s right!  Much like when Scaia would don The Rick hat, but actually more like when the Immolator becomes Calum Macbeth, Scotty Szanto-Nicodemus is stepping aside to make room for Nic Diamond this weekend!  Oh, and don’t forget that my wife and valet Amey, should be thought of by you as Baby this weekend…a name inspired partly by Babydoll from back in the day (15-20 years ago), and the movie Swingers.

Let’s get to the preview, and as a special bonus I will be predicting a winner in each of the bouts…despite the fact that I’ve never heard of most of the combatants, not even to know who’s a face and who’s a heel!!

By the way, just to be sure that I am not accused of deceiving anyone, I am pasting the announced card that is available on www.nwawrestling.com, and then I will add my own commentary…

54th NWA Anniversary Show Full Schedule!
Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, Texas
Sat., Oct. 26, Bell 7:30 p.m.
Advance tickets: 1-800-462-7979

Friday, Oct. 25

8:30-11 pm: Fan Fair

This should be quite fun, especially if the crowd is going to be as small as I am expecting.  We are taking our camera, so hopefully next week when I submit a recap of the show; I will be able to include lots of fun stories about getting photos and autographs!!  Here are the details as posted on www.nwawrestling.com: the event will take place at Fiesta Square, which is said to be a block behind the Memorial Coliseum.  Entry fee is $4 per person, programs for the event will be sold, also at a rate of $4 each, and all of the performers will be available for autographs and polaroids…no cameras or video devices allowed!  Oh well, I’m sure that we’ll be able to take our camera into the event Saturday night.

Saturday Oct. 26

7 p.m. Welcome address
7:05-7:15   Ice Girls perform dance routines
7:15-7:30   Country music entertainment and National Anthem.
7:30  Bell-time

MATCH 1 -  Brother Love vs. Jacey North, 15 Min. Time limit, 1 Fall.

I was showing this list of matches to a guy that I work with, and he said, “I didn’t know that Brother Love was still around.”  I’m going out on a limb here in predicting that this is not the same Brother Love that was in the WWF more than a decade ago, much to the dismay of my coworker…although I did promise him that I would be trying to get Brother Love’s autograph for him!  It’s always difficult to call the outcome of the first match of any indy wrestling event, so I am going to take the easy way out and say that the face goes over in order to start the crowd off feeling good.

MATCH 2 -   MYSTERY MATCH, will not be revealed until next week.  Special "wild" rules to apply. 15 Min. Time Limit, 1 Fall.

As if the first match wasn’t hard enough to pick!! 

MATCH 3 -   Tag: East Coast Connection vs. Ricky Murdock & Magnum, 15 Min. Time limit, 1 Fall.

Since this event is taking place in Texas (deep southern Texas, no less), don’t be surprised if the East Coast Connection is introduced as the faces, but the fans react to them as the heels.  I am predicting that Ricky Murdock & Magnum go over in a stiff contest.

MATCH 4 -  Canadian Heavyweight Title Match. Spyder (Champion) vs. Disco Fury. 30 Min. Time limit, 1 Fall.

Spyder.  If he is dressed as Spider Man, I am going to turn on him quickly.  Then again, Baby could reprise her DISCO 420 sign (originally made for Disco Inferno back in ’97), but we’re not taking any signs.  Southern Texas is about as far as you can get from Canada and still be in NWA territory, and so it would be hard for me to choose that the title will change-hands.  Besides, disco isn’t exactly going to get a face pop, so I am predicting that the champ retains.

MATCH 5 -   Biggie Biggs vs. Preston Quinn, 15 Min. Time limit, 1 Fall

Biggie Biggs or Preston Quinn?  Again, I have to point to the geography of the event before picking a winner in this match.  If we were in Virginia, or some other wimpy state like Connecticut, then I would be going with Preston Quinn.  But this is Texas, folks, and I really just don’t see the crowd going for a guy with a name like that!  My prediction: Preston Quinn is doing a Super-Geek type of gimmick, and Biggie Biggs goes over in less than five minutes.

MATCH 6 -   #1 World Junior Contenders Match:  Rocky Reynolds vs. Jason Rumble, 15 Min. Time Limit, 1 Fall.

A #1 Contenders Match has become my favorite type of match for some reason.  There’s something special about it, but the title itself isn’t up for grabs…too often Title Matches are squashes with little or no surprises.  My hope is that Rocky Reynolds is playing the heel and playing for the part of the audience that has always hoped for the crowds to chant “Sucks!” after “Rocky!”  The only WWF event that I’ve ever been to was a house show back when Mike Tyson was in the storyline, but he wasn’t there of course.  I remember how much fun it was to chant “Rocky Sucks!”  Yes, the good ol’ days.  Back to this match, and I don’t want to cop-out and say that the heel will win if there’s a face holding the title (or vice-versa), so I am going to guess that Rocky Reynolds cheats to win.

MATCH 7 -   Texas Heavyweight Title Match, under Texas Death Match rules and taped fists being allowed. Champion JP Black vs. challenger Steve DeMarco. No DQ, No Time Limit, only the 10-count Rule applies to determine the winner.

This match I am especially excited about.  What’s not to love?  No disqualification, no time limit Texas Death Match with taped fists!!  This should be a real wild brawl going into the intermission, and I am predicting a bloodbath.  As for picking a winner, I think it is a no-brainer that the Texas Heavyweight Title will change hands at the event.  DeMarco goes over clean.

INTERMISSION - Ice Girls return  (10 mins.)

MATCH 8 -   United Kingdom Heavyweight Title Match. Champion Johnny Moss versus challenger Danny Garnell. 30 Min. Time Limit, 1 Fall

It’s interesting to me that the National Wrestling Alliance has a United Kingdom Title.  Once again, we’re about as far from that territory as one can get.  Once again I am going to take the easy way out and predict that the champ retains.

MATCH 9 -   Women's World Title Match. Champion Madison vs. challenger Char Starr with manager Steve Moody. 30 Min. Time Limit, 1 Fall.

Steve Moody was recently added as Char Starr’s manager, according to www.nwawrestling.com.  I am predicting a Dusty Finish for this one, with Moody helping the heel Starr to win, only to have the match restarted and Madison will win with a Schoolgirl Roll-up.  How’s that for accuracy?

MATCH 10 -  North American Heavyweight Title Match . Champion Paul Atlas vs. challenger Flying Elvis' Jorge Estrada. 30 Min. Time Limit, 1 Fall.

The crowd is going to be firmly behind Jorge Estrada for this one, since probably less than 25% of the audience will ever have heard of Paul Atlas.  That makes this one tough to call, since my instinct tells me that Estrada will go over, but I am going to go with conventional wisdom and predict that the champ will retain…probably by cheating, and then he will run out of the ringside area leaving Estrada to Shake, Rattle & Roll with his fans!

MATCH 11 -  Mexico vs. USA "International" Match. Mexico's Konnan vs. USA's Danny Dominion with manager Mortimer Plumtree. (Added surprise to be announced the night of the match). 15 Min. Time Limit, 1 Fall.

Baby has been pointing-out possible foreshadowing to show that Konnan is on his way to NWA: TNA ever since the masked Mr. Wrestling III showed up and attacked Tha Truth the first time.  I’m not going to try and predict that…at least I’m not going to try and predict that right now!  I will say that I think Konnan’s chances in this match are very good considering that we will be less than 100 miles from Mexico.  My prediction: Mortimer Plumtree will cause Danny Dominion to lose, and then Dominion will knock Plumtree out after the match, and leave the ring to a face pop…I’ve seen that exact scenario play itself out too many times at too many indy shows to not predict it!!

MATCH 12 -  #1 Heavyweight Contender's Match. TNA superstars Ken Shamrock vs. AJ Styles. 15 Min. Time Limit, 1 Fall.

This match will definitely be a clash of styles, and with Shamrock heading back to the UFC, and AJ Styles being pushed to the top of NWA: TNA, I think that the result can almost be a foregone conclusion.  That doesn’t mean that it won’t be an exciting match!  In my NWA: TNA recap this week I touched-on the idea that I hope Shamrock will be able to keep up with Styles, and that remains a concern for me.  Even when Shamrock was being pushed to the moon by the WWF, I just didn’t consider him to be a very good wrassler.  I happened to see the RVD v. HHH match from the ppv last month, and I just felt sorry for HHH because it was so obvious that he isn’t in RVD’s league, and yet the fact that he was going to win was almost a forgone conclusion.  I felt sorriest for RVD.  That’s the type of emotion that I have for AJ Styles’ match against Ken Shamrock.  I think that Styles is going to make Shamrock look like a green rookie, but in this case, I am predicting that the better wrassler, AJ Styles, goes over, probably due to interference from Mortimer Plumtree, who will be in the building after all.  There are really two questions that I have: first, will AJ Styles have the X-Division belt that he won this week with him at the show this weekend; and second, assuming that Styles wins to become the #1 Contender, will he get a title shot on an upcoming NWA: TNA show?

MATCH 13 -  NWA World Heavyweight Title Match. World champion Ron "the Truth" Killings vs. #1 contender/National champion Hotstuff Hernandez. 60 Min. Time Limit, 2 out of 3 Falls, NWA salutes the legacy of NWA's 54 years featuring the return of the legendary 2 out of 3 Falls Match.

Tha Truth hadn’t yet won the World Title when this match was first signed, and so it was signed as a National Heavyweight Title Match.  When Killings won the belt, of course the match took on more importance, and is now a 2/3 Falls World Heavyweight Title Match.  If there weren’t 12 matches before this one, I would predict that it would go to a time-limit draw, with each wrassler having one pinfall apiece at the end of the match.  There is no way that there is going to be enough time for this match to go a full sixty minutes, however, and so I am going to have to actually pick a winner.  Even though Tha Truth will probably be leaving with his World Title, I think that this match is going to be the hardest to pick because Hernandez is the #1 guy in the NWA: SW.  He’s going to have to do the job, but it is going to have to be in a believable way so that he can retain his credibility, and the credibility of the National Heavyweight Title (the event is going to be broadcast in part on NWA: SW television, after all).  For that reason, I am predicting that Tha Truth “steals” a win in a modified Dusty Finish.

Finally, I predict that after the main event, all of the performers will come to the ring, and all face/heel alliances will be dropped while they express a genuine “Thank You” to the crowd…furthermore, I predict that Baby and I will have a great time!

PEACE

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