[2000-05-27-NWA Wildside-TV] A.J. Styles & Eddie Golden vs J.C. Dazz & Jorge Estrada

[soup23]

Bailey says in this house, there is only one deity and that is him. We get our first look at heel AJ. Behind the RNR stuff, this is probably the best Wildside stuff we have seen. AJ worked well as a heel showing ass and him and Golden not initially being on the same page. Dazz was always someone that I wanted to see more of just based on the compilations I got in the early 2000’s. Styles does a great job of cowarding away from him when Estrada makes the hot tag. Finish with Dazz and Styles is the most fast paced sequence of the match and they built to it well. AJ was able to show his athletic flash as a heel well. Double clotheslines end the sequence. Dazz gets the sunset flip over Golden and pinning Styles right as the show goes off the air. ***1/4

[Tim Evans]

Jeff G cuts another great promo to start this. I've heard of JC Dazz before and I know i've seen him but just don't remember. The way he does pinfalls towards the end of the match with Aj is great and so crisp. Match was fine but way too much Jorge Estrada he looked lost at time.

[Edwin]

This was pretty awesome namely due to Styles and Golden. Styles really shined as a heel here. Fantastic stuff from him on the ring apron with the crowd getting on his nerves. Estrada looked pretty bad on his hope spots and comebacks, but that didn’t look to bad since he was in there with Golden who always found a way to patch that up immediately. The finish was great as Dazz and AJ were exchanging pinfalls before Styles eventually feel to one. Good stuff.

 

***

[GSR]

Jeff G. Bailey says that everyone has been running down A.J. Styles, how he’s turned his back on the fans, but all he’s done is come to his senses and realised he wants to be on the winning team.  Tonight everyone will get the opportunity to see the TV champion, Eddie Golden, and A.J. Styles as a tag team against J.C. Spazz (sic) and Jorge Estrada.  Bailey goes on to mention that Dazz has been in some film recently and how he’s happy that he got to play bottom to Jeff Stryker’s top!  Dazz and Estrada storm the ring but the heels immediately duck out of there.  After Estrada gets the better of the opening exchanges Golden is back on the outside and things don’t bode well for the Bailey team, A.J. prodding Eddie in the chest and telling him to get back inside.  Estrada takes advantage of the situation nailing Golden with a baseball slide dropkick followed by a flip dive to the floor, clearing the top rope with ease.  Leg drop off the top by Dazz and A.J. is in to break up the cover.  Double clothesline and Styles again makes the save.  Golden with a poke to the eyes then a tag to his partner as A.J. makes his first legal foray into the match.  He fares little better mind until a poke to the eyes of his own.  Double backdrop and Estrada remembers to tuck his head in the nick of time as it looked for all certainty that he was landing on the top of it.  A high frog splash and this time it’s Dazz who is forced to save his partner.  Dragon sleeper into a reverse DDT.  ‘Diamond Dust’ by Golden, but he doesn’t go for the pin.  He and Estrada then run through a rather sloppy Guerrero/Malenko series of pinfalls and counters, starting with a Lucha style cradle that Estrada struggles to execute cleanly.  A big bulldog by Jorge and he makes the hot tag to Dazz.  He and Styles have a great minute or so of action, ridiculously fast paced with a bunch of near falls.  When a double clothesline takes out both it brings their partners in as the match breaks down.  Golden backdrops Dazz, however Styles walks into his trajectory and as he comes down catches him with a sunset flip for the win.

A.J. has taken being a heel like a duck to water and I’m glad we got an explanation for his heel turn after it almost coming out of nowhere in the Golden match.  Good tag match with a cool, innovative finish, while the lightning fast, super crisp Dazz/Styles stretch prior to that finish was the highlight.  Estrada struggled at times (the backdrop, the Guerrero/Malenko section) but not enough to take this one down.  Well worth watching.