[2000-09-02-NWA Wildside-TV] Onyx & Terry Knight vs American Males (Adam Jacobs & Silky Boom Boom) / Onyx & Terry Knight vs Boogaloo Crew (Scotty Wrenn & J.C. Dazz)

[soup23]

The finish of NWA Elite vs American Males is shown. Decent action towards the end with Bailey using his shoe to allow them to advance. Finals are set with Scottie Wren having to face off against NWA Elite on his own. NWA Elite works him over and takes off the bandage on top of his head to work on the cut. Some pretty gory looking close up camera angles. When all hope looks lost for Wren, JC Dazz in a neckbrace comes back and helps Wren. They run through some of their old tag team moves and end up winning the titles. This is a cool moment for long term fans that these former partners but big time rivals are back together as the Boogalu crew. Jeff G Bailey has a promo going after Al Getz and he calls JC Dazz KY Spaz which is hilarious. He gives a spirited promo where he nearly loses his voice but promises revenge. *1/4

[Tim Evans]

The pop for the return of the Boogaloo Crew was nice. Who were the American Males? They were no bagwell and Riggs. That Bailey promo at the end was intense.

[GSR]

Onyx & Terry Knight vs American Males (Adam Jacobs & Silky Boom Boom) (NWA Wildside 9/2/00)

If only this was a one night reunion of Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs!  The match is joined in progress with the NWA Elite in charge, working over Silky Boom Boom and following a very similar pattern to their first round match against Ultimate Creation.  Silky makes a tag which the official misses and ushers Jacobs back on to the apron as the Elite take advantage.  After a double clothesline Boom Boom makes the hot tag which this time is seen.  Jacobs runs rough shot over the Elite and hits an ‘Alabama Jam’ on Onyx.  As he makes the cover, Knight distracts the referee allowing Bailey to clock Jacobs over the head with his shoe and the Elite move on to the finals.

Only a couple of minutes of action so hard to rate, but as I said, if you watched the Ultima Creation match you get pretty much the same here (heat section, ref fails to see the tag, hot tag, Bailey interference leads to the Elite grabbing the win).

Onyx & Terry Knight vs Boogaloo Crew (Scotty Wrenn & J.C. Dazz) (NWA Wildside 9/2/00)

Scotty Wrenn is flying solo having made it all the way to the finals on his own, although is showing the effects of previous battles with a bandage wrapped around his forehead.  Scoop powerslam on Onyx however he’s jumped by Knight who levels him with a back elbow.  High knee, but Wrenn then ducks a lariat and nails Knight with a springboard back elbow off the middle, something unexpected from the big man if you haven’t seen him previously.  Onyx distracts the referee as Jeff G. Bailey drapes one of his men’s title belts over the top turnbuckle so that Knight can ram Scotty’s head into it, reopening that old wound.  Knight grinds his boot into the cut before giving the cameraman an extreme close up of it.  Bailey gets in a shot with “that damn shoe” of his, while Steve Martin is now at ringside to cheerlead the NWA Elite on.  Double flapjack as the Elite continues to target that cut.  Wrenn ducks a double clothesline and comes back with one of his own when out runs J.C. Dazz who slides into the ring attacking Onyx and Knight, as well as Bailey and Martin who had both climbed up on the apron to complain about what was going on.  As the commentators talk about how he’s injured and shouldn’t be out here, Dazz rips off his neck brace and takes his place in the corner.  Release overhead pumphandle throw and Wrenn makes the hot tag.  Dazz is on fire, wanting revenge on the Elite after the stuff piledriver they gave him the other week.  Leg lariat to Onyx, ‘Boogaloo Bounce’ on Knight and Onyx is able to break up the pin in the nick of time.  Dazz ties Onyx up in the ‘Rings of Saturn’, Wrenn hits a springboard leg drop and with no-one to make the save, the Boogaloo Crew get the win and become the new NWA Wildside tag team champions in the process.

Backstage interview from the Elite where a seething Jeff G. Bailey calls what went down one of the biggest crimes in the history of the NWA and is convinced that Al Getz was behind it.  The Boogaloo Crew have signed their own death warrants as the NWA Elite is going to be swatting around them like maggots on a rotting corpse.  The titles are rightfully theirs and they will get the belts not at the expense of pinning them, but by ending their stinking lives!

You have to query the logic of having a solo wrestler in a tag team tournament, it’s like one of those bizarro booked Vince Russo WCW ones.  Still, the end result was the reuniting of the Boogaloo Crew which gives the fans a great feel good moment and as an actual match, I enjoyed this a fair bit.