[2001-02-10-NWA Wildside-TV] Stone Mountain vs A.J. Styles

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We get a recap of a handful of interviews from last week’s show.  Jeff G. Bailey tells Air Paris that after Bill Behrens saved him last time out, he won’t be getting another shot at A.J.’s TV title.  He’s currently in the process of scouring the planet to find the perfect man to destroy him once and for all and that day is coming and its coming sooner than he thinks.  Paris responds throwing out phrases like “wrestling angle” and “storyline” and how he no-longer wants Styles’ belt, he wants his ass!  Finally we hear from A.J. who says that everyone knows Paris is jealous of him and if he wants a shot at his time, “come get it if you can” (which goes against what both Bailey and Paris said previously, but there you go).

A.J. Styles and Jeff G. Bailey make their entrance and we go straight to a commercial break.  We return with the match now in progress and the much larger Stone Mountain in command.  Styles is backed up begging for mercy and offers Mountain his hand.  He accepts, but then snatches A.J. around the neck and hurls him into the corner.  A.J. ducks a big boot and clips Mountain’s knee with a shoulder tackle.  That’s followed by a kick and then a dropkick to the same knee which finally fells the big man.  The commentator mentions how Terry Knight adopted this strategy against Stone Mountain and it worked for him, so this is smart thinking on Styles’ part in trying to take away one of his wheels.  A.J. distracts the referee’s attention which allows Bailey to remove his shoe and repeatedly hammer away at that knee with it.  Bloody hell, another advert!  It doesn’t look like we’ve missed much though.  Sleeper hold by Styles and Mountain runs him backwards into the turnbuckles to force the break, however he’s so high up on his back due to the size difference between them that A.J. ends up taking a spill over the top rope to the outside.  Mountain heads out after him, but as he hobbles around ringside gets caught with another dropkick to the knee.  Leg drop off the top to the knee as A.J. continues to focus his efforts on that body part.  Styles makes the cover and an almighty kick out sends him flying through the second and third ropes to the floor.  Mountain catches a kick, lifts A.J. up and plants him with an inverted side slam.  ‘Landslide’ (which is a choke bomb) and Bailey is interfering, disrupting the count.  A.J. heads upstair,s but Mountain grabs him, and a second ‘Landslide’ sees the Heavyweight champion come out on top in this non-title affair.

These commercial breaks are really annoying!  One in a match is bad enough, but we get two here and that’s not the first time it’s happened in Wildside.  Luckily they didn’t really disrupt the flow in this match like they have done in previous ones.  Something a little different out of A.J. here as we get to see him in there and working with a much larger opponent as opposed to the Cruiserweight and Light Heavweights that we usually do.