The Lost Rap Sheet - NGW 5/13/2K6
The Rap Sheet – from the Mad Conservative
Next Generation Wrestling’s Ace of Spades
5/13/2K6 Peoria, IL

Play your cards right now!

This is the last of the lost rap sheets I caught up on while with the utterly boring call center--barring the few shows I've had to put aside for various reasons. Now I have a bunch of videos to watch and post online which can only be addressed at home. And hopefully it promotes downstate wrestling so the major cities nearby can sit up and take notice. Around this time NGW was changing venues because the Peoria Athletic Club was closing shop. They did some shows at the Holiday Inn downtown but for some reason people didn’t wanna go there. The Riverplex then didn’t want to have wrestling shows there anymore due to insurance costs after the July event. So about a couple months later they find the Bellevue Plaza Gym with very reasonable rental, and NGW has been running shows ever since.

Live from the Peoria Riverplex. Your commentary team is Scooter and Doug Devore. Attendance was about 135 for this.

NGW Triple Threat Championship
(c)Brett Gakiya vs. CJ Esparza vs. Scott Keyes – I never figured out why they junked the triple threat title in the first place, unless they got tired of doing triple threats but half the problem was they started defending the belt in singles matches too. CJ tries to sneak in on Brett and Scott but gets run off. CJ throws Brett into a spear on Keyes. Brett headscissors Keyes out. Keyes pulls Brett out and KOs him. CJ is backdropped over the top onto Brett, Keyes with a springboard moonsault and gets NOTHING. Fight outside, Brett suicide dives onto CJ. Brett slingshot knee to the head gets two. Brett with a flying knee on CJ, Keyes misses a legdrop, CJ dropkicks them both. CJ wipes his boot on Keyes and dropkicks him through the ropes. CJ springboard clothesline on Keyes. Running shooting star misses, Keyes with a kneedrop, Brett kneedrop, double flapjack, assisted moonsault gets two. Brett gets caught in a hotshot, backcracker by CJ for two. CJ throws Brett into the corner, running dropkick to the back gets two. Keyes with a dropkick, CJ twisting senton for two. Brett chops CJ, CJ hops Brett, Brett with a reverse DDT. Hurranconna into a powerbomb by Keyes. Brett with a moonsault and takes down Keyes. CJ neckbreaker, facebreaker, gutbuster, faceplanter gets two. Keyes catches CJ in a shoulderbreaker, running knee, Russian legsweep for two. Keyes with a backbreaker, CJ with a shooting star elbow for two. Keyes and CJ slug it out, tries for the flip piledriver again but blocked, CJ escapes a backslide, powerslam on CJ, Keyes goes up and misses the frogsplash! CJ rollup gets two, Brett with a flying headbutt but knocks himself out. CJ gets the Canadian Destroyer, the pin and the title!

WINNER and NEW CHAMP: CJ Esparza pin -> 11:50 mins. ***¾

NGW Tag Team Championship
(c)New Era - Morton Von Prose & Black Dragon vs. Egos Inc. Dennis Devine & Axis w/ pNut – The fight begins and they’ve spilled into the audience! MVP throws Axis into a chair, Devine fights Dragon and takes it to the bleachers! Dragon throws Devine, MVP and Axis disappear behind the gym divider, Axis is thrown over the barricade, MVP with a flying tackle on Axis! Dragon drags Devine back to the ring…and officially the match starts. MVP tries to pin Devine quick, Devine with a face plant for two. Tag Axis who gets a chop, but MVP with a suplex. Axis with a BOOT, tag Devine, who goes to work, Dragon in with a dropkick, MVP drags Devine to the post and locks a figure four around it! Tag Dragon, they make a wish, Dragon with a leglock, then a half crab. Axis with a dropkick, but MVP dropkicks the leg and works it. Dragon jumps in to nail Axis but gets KO’ed, Dennis with a swinging facebuster. Axis with the lungblower, monkey flip gets two. MVP chops, nails Devine, Dragon with an axe to the arm, crossarm breaker, Axis with a dropkick. Slugfest on the mat, Axis clothesline, tags Devine, they collide…MVP has pNut, and Andy Roberts comes outta nowhere to kick Axis in the face! The ref argues with MVP, Dragon has a clawhold on Axis. Forward Russian legsweep by MVP on Devine and that’s it! Crappy reffing.

WINNERS and STILL CHAMPS: New Era pin -> 12:05 mins. **½

Andy Roberts vs. Johnny Justice – Andy attacks but misses the moonsault, JJ with ten elbows, Andy with suplexes, JJ with suplexes gets two. Shoulderblocks Justice, Andy lariat for two. Splash in the corner by Roberts, bulldog, running legdrop, flying elbow gets two. Andy misses a top rope legdrop, they spill to the floor and slug it out. Andy gets posted, Justice clothesline, baseball slide. Andy drop toe hold and they fight some more on the floor, axe misses, Andy with a full nelson facebuster gets two. JJ with a chokeslam for two, liontamer applied and gets the tapout. Andy acts like a sore loser and superkicks Justice then pulls the mask off.

WINNER: Johnny Justice submission -> 5:40 mins. **

PC Championship – Dog Collar Match
(c)Ryan Phoenix vs. Jester – Ryan slaps Jester and runs away, Apoc throws him back in, Jester with a chainshot and straps the chain on. Jester with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and clotheslines with the chain. Ryan with a flying knee, dropkick, headbutt, enzuigiri off the top rope for two. Jester with a DDT, whips him with the chain, slingshot senton gets two. Tornado punch with the chain by Ryan, he whips him with it for two and Jester is bleeding. Ryan chokes and hangs Jester with the chain, suplex gets two. Powerbomb on the chain gets two! DVD across the knee, Ryan fetches a chair, the ref tries to take it but Jester superkicks it into Phoenix. He puts the chair on his head and whips it with the chain! And Phoenix is bleeding...chairshot gets two. Ryan with a poke and dumps Jester out, yanking him to the post. Ryan charges into a back body drop over the fence, suplex, neckbreaker, and Jester hangs him. Suplex attempt is blocked, Ryan with a neck snap, Phoenix Clash gets two. Full nelson slam by Jester, slugfest, Jester catches Phoenix and locks in the sharpshooter for the tapout.

WINNER and NEW CHAMP: Jester submission -> 16:05 mins. **½

And we are here for the NGW Hall of Fame ceremony...which now we need a list of all the prior inductees, but Psycho Sam Cody was entered previously. Tank Thurman is the guest of honor. Scooter notes he started in Sept. 1994 as a columnist for Wrestling Edge out of New York. He was a traveling video photographer for Doctor X’s Wrestling Royale. He started wrestling in 1995. He became a columnist for the Independent Insider publication out of Iowa. In 1997, he started his own wrestling promotion New Mid-West Wrestling (which the current NMW doesn’t want to be thought of having any linkage to it whatsoever). Starting in 1999, he did color commentary for later incarnation of New Midwest Wrestling. In 2003, he joined up with Next Generation Wrestling. He later became a manager at NGW. 2005, started another promotion called FIST, 2006 started PWA. Scooter then inducts Thurman into the NGW Hall of Fame and hands him a certificate. Thurman has a trophy with him, he says they did in 2004 the Ultimate Wrestling Challenge. This year they did the NGW Tank Thurman Lethal Lottery tournament (which I had the honor of calling the action behind the mikes) that was won by Chris Hazard. Hazard comes out and accepts the trophy. Thurman notes he won the first tourney years ago. Now that brings out Catalyst Cory Carter, all in a huff and with a bag in hand. TripC admits to a mistake, due to a some nonsense that went down that cost Hazard his entry into Ace of Spades, he awards the spot held by Deacon Hobbs who suddenly retired from the business to back to him. TripC then scolds Thurman for walking away from NGW because he couldn’t get his way and wasn’t happy that a younger generation pushed him off the executive board. TripC says business is business, it’s gonna pick up cause he hands Tank a referee shirt and he’ll be officiating the match between TripC and Devore tonight!

Geek Council - Gilbert Lewis & Dewey Dawson vs. Apocolypse & Stumpy - Stumpy still has his arm taped up from that ultra-violent hardcore match a month ago down in Fairview Heights. He starts against Dawson, and hits an atomic drop. Tag Apoc, Dewey gets overpowered, headbutt has no effect and gets shoulderblocked. Dewey manages a hip toss but Apoc grabs the arm and tags Stumpy. Double backdrop, Stumpy hip tosses Dewey about and in comes Gilbert. Jawbreaker, spinning neckbreaker from Lewis gets two. Dewey gives Stumpy a pitstop, Lewis sets up the battering ram but Apoc tags in and trips it up. Apoc spinebusters Lewis, DVDs Dewey, Stumpy misses the legdrop however and Dewey slaps on a chinlock...but gets powerslammed. Lewis and Apoc in, Apoc clobbers the geeks, double suplex, backbreaker, reverse DDT, slam, Apoc with a senton off the ropes for the pin. Pretty much a lengthy squash.

WINNERS: Apocolypse & Stumpy pin -> 8:35 mins. *½

Catalyst Cory Carter vs. Doug Devore – Your guest referee is Tank Thurman, and this match is for who becomes the general manager of NGW. If I can remember the backstory correctly, these two have been in a dispute for quite a while, whereas for a time Devore was suspended from NGW and TripC was bringing in guest commentators for the weekly shows, including myself. Now it’s a match for who runs the organization. Chain wrestling to start, Doug pounds him causing TripC to flee. Doug chases him down to chop, knees him, but TripC with a poke. Splash in the corner, but Doug hits a running knee for two. Doug with chops, clothesline, bulldog gets two. TripC tosses him in the corner to pound him, locks in a head vicegrip. Doug breaks free and ten punches him in the corner, KICK WHAM DDT gets two. TripC with a low blow, pedigree attempt is blocked, Doug backdrops him, TripC with a BOOT for two. Doug with a headbutt, clotheslines...TripC with a russian legsweep, ties him up in a submission hold and Doug taps!

WINNER: Catalyst Cory Carter submission -> 9:45 mins. **

Thurman gets into a shoving match with TripC, and just slugs him down. TripC gets the mike and chews out the crowd before firing Doug Devore…course two months later there was a rematch under first blood rules. Carter became the general manager of NGW, but about seven months later, Devore buys ownership of the newly created Hammerlock Pro Wrestling.

NGW Heavyweight Championship - 4-Man Gauntlet Match
Chris Hazard vs. Sinnister Raul Montenegro - Sinnister mat wrestles him down, Hazard hip tosses him off. Raul hip toss, Japanese arm drag, slam, but misses a splash in the corner. Hazard with the triple suplex, goes up but misses the flying elbow. Sinnister with an atomic drop, clothesline, Hazard charges and hits the floor. Raul rams him on the table. Hazard lariats Raul and blasts him with the ring bell! He’s bleeding, imagine that! Hazard slam, goes up and hits the elbow this time for two. He goes up again, but Montenegro trips him up, ten punch in the corner, superplex gets two. Sunset flip attempt by Hazard...Raul sits on him and gets the pin.

Chris Hazard has been voted off the island! Sinnister pins Hazard at 10:25 mins.

Sinnister Raul Montenegro vs. Kyle Rich w/ pNut – Hazard acts like a sore loser and beats on Sinnister…SPEAR! Quick cover by Kyle only gets two! Kyle slugs away and hits a side kick, chop, but misses the charge. Raul hits a clothesline, Kyle misses his flip kick, Raul hits a spinebuster. DVD attempt is blocked, Kyle with a dropkick...shining wizard follows and gets the pin. Rich takes him out in under two minutes!

Raul Montenegro has been voted off the island! Kyle Rich pins Sinnister at 12:35 mins.

NGW Heavyweight Champ Big Pappa vs. Kyle Rich - It's the battle between Perfect Ten! Kyle slugs away but gets clobbered. Pappa rams him on the apron, but clotheslines the post...and Rich wraps that arm around it! CHAIRSHOT ON THE ARM! Kyle goes to work on it, but Pappa flees...they fight on the floor and Kyle stomps a chair on the arm. Uh oh, that elbow is looking black. Kyle keeps attacking the arm, save for a powerslam by Pappa for two. Kyle goes back to the arm, splash, pNut decides to hop on the apron, Kyle bumps the ref, Pappa clotheslines the ref...oops. Kyle hits a knee to the head, but a ref has to run out to count two. Crossarm breaker by Rich, Pappa stands up to push his shoulders to the mat, the refs count a fall on Rich as Pappa taps out! And we gotta problem as the match stops at 22:10 mins. Robbie McCann argues with Matt Hanson as to who the winner is, TripC comes out to make a ruling, gets rid of one of the refs and orders a restart. Kyle runs into Pappa, dropkicking the knee. pNut hops on the apron as Pappa tries for a piledriver, Robbie McCann ejects pNut. Kyle fetches the title belt and blasts Pappa with it, but Pappa remains upright and catches Rich in the Black Hole Slam for the pin! Pappa survives!

WINNER and STILL CHAMP: Big Pappa pin -> 24:35 mins. ***

The Verdict: I would say the show was pretty average overall with the opener the match of the night.

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