[2000-11-25-MCW-TV] Steve Bradley vs Shooter Shultz

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Bradley starts things with a decent promo just putting over him becoming champion was such a surprise. Bradley has Victoria by his side. Shooter and Bradley have a pretty decent tv style match. Bradley works Shooter over and Shooter gives a good comeback with avoiding the interference from Victoria on the outside. When it looks like he has the match in his grasp, Tracy Smothers comes into the ring with a chair to draw the DQ. K-Kwick and Lance Cade end up making the save as the show goes off the air. *1/2
 

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We start off with a promo from earlier in the day, Steve Bradley talking about coming back to Memphis after being away for almost a year and immediately becoming the Southern Heavyweight champion.  He says how everyone told him that he was too small, that he was never going to be the top guy, but this belt he’s holding means that he is the top guy and he’s the best in MCW.  From there he warns Shooter Schultz that the only things he’ll be leaving here with are a black eye, another concussion and a mark in the loss column.  Good little interview addressing a few things (he now has Victoria with him too) and promoting the TV main event.

Kevin Kelly mentions how Victoria was originally one of the Godfather’s ho’s, but what happened to her at the hands of Chyna changed her demeanour and now she’s siding with the likes of Steve Bradley.  Shooter is such a master of suplexes, an awesome release German dumping Bradley on the back of his head.  After a belly to belly he goes for the ‘Shooter Clutch’, but Bradley hooks the ropes with his legs to force the break.  Victoria grabs Schultz’s ankle from the outside and he takes off after her, however as he chases her around the ring he’s cut off by a Bradley clothesline.  Missile dropkick to the back of the head.   It’s not long before Victoria is interfering again, choking Shooter behind the referee’s back whilst Bradley keeps him occupied, then distracting him herself so he misses a Schultz pinfall attempt and finally punting Shooter in the chest after he’d been thrown to the floor.  Bradley goes flying through the turnbuckles into the ringpost, Shooter avoiding his charge, as he looks to get back into the contest.  Quality gut wrench suplex, although that one takes it equally out of him as it does his opponent.  Double underhook suplex and Kelly thinks that the title is slipping out of Bradley’s grasp here.  Drop toe hold into the ‘Shooter Clutch’ when out from the back comes Tracey Smothers who attacks Shooter from behind for the title saving DQ. Lance Cade looks to help his fellow Shawn Michaels Academy trainee, but he gets clocked over the head with a steel chair.  The Fabulous Rocker is with Tracey and it’s three on one until K-Kwik evens things up and clears the ring of the heels.