WHAT A NIGHT AND WHAT A GREAT AWF SHOW!
I certainly had a great time as well as the 500+ fans that were there to pack the Semmes Conmmunity Center for AWF SEMMES SUMMERSLAM!THAT'S RIGHT!YOU HEARD ME AND YOU MOST DEFINITELY READ IT!The building was a total sell-out!The Semmes Community Center was so packed....
HOW PACKED WAS IT?
It was so packed,you couldn't fit another person in the building with a shoehorn!There wasn't a seat that wasn't filled and there wasn't a seat left to be taken.They had to put out more chairs just to seat everybody!Heck,I saw somebody walk in with a lawn chair just to be even seated.Therefore,what does that tell you?
Former WCW/nWo superstar and current AWF Heavyweight Champion Buff Bagwell was unable to be at the show in Semmes,AL due to some family problems that he had.However,his replacement most definitely made up for his absence.I'll tell you more about that later.
Since Buff was not there and as the show was about to begin,I cannot believe that Doink The Clown had the utter audacity to come out to Buff's theme music,wearing Buff's custom made tights and even posing and flexing his muslces like Buff....WHAT WAS DOINK THINKING MUCH LESS,WHAT WAS HE SMOKING?!!?
Anyway,Wade Garrett who was originally scheduled to face "The NightMare" Ted Allen in a weapons match,whom also didn't show up,came out with Doink and Dr. Love.As usual,these 3 were berating and cutting down all the AWF fans in Semmes."The War Machine" Chad Cheetum and Tony "The XTingusiher" Sweatt came out looking to get it on with Doink and Wade Garrett.However,Garrett went back to the locker room to get himself a partner....and what a tag partner did he get in the former co-holder of the WCW and WWF(E) Tag Team Championship and 1/2 of quite arguably one of the greatest tag teams that has ever lived in any era of professional wrestling.
From the legendary tag team,The Steiner Brothers,it was "THE DOG FACED GREMLIN" RICK STEINER (pictured to the right)!
What an unexpected surprise this was for myself and the AWF fans!Later in the evening,Steiner and Garrett were to face Chad Cheetum and Tony Sweatt in the main event.
Now,here are the results of AWF SEMMES SUMMERSLAM:
MATCH #1:
NEW AWF TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS WERE CROWNED as "The Notorious BSC" "BIG" Steve Cheetum and Randy Riggins defeated "The Leading Edge (Monty Warbucks and Calvin Rose).Warbucks and Rose pulled almost every dirty trick in the book to hold onto their tag team titles,but it was to no avail.BSC got hammered and pummeled by The Leading Edge during most of the match,but he somehow made the tag to Randy Riggins who came in like a house of fire to handle both members of the Leading Edge,scoring a pinfall for his team in a schoolboy roll-up for the 1-2-3 (10:07).
CONGRATULATIONS to Randy Riggins and "Big" Steve Cheetum for winning and becoming the new AWF Tag Team Champions!
MATCH #2:
BIG NASTY RETURNS TO THE AWF as he was led to ringside by Doink The Clown and Dr. Love as he took on Richtor Rhinehart and the Mountain Man in a 3 way dance.
Poor Richtor was being pummeled unmercifully by the larger and bigger Big Nasty,but he kept competitive and perseverd Big Nasty's onslaught.Nasty didn't really want absolutely no part of Mountain Man whatsoever,thus he was concentrating mostly throughout the match on Rhinehart.
Nasty pulled out a pair of brass knucks and hit Mountain Man upside his head with it.Mountain Man was startled and dazed by the blow,but he did not go down as he went outside the ring trying to regain his senses.Nasty left Rhinehart in the ring and battled Mountain Man outside.The two big behemoths battled back and forth with each other outside.The referee was counting both men out as Richtor Rhinehart was standing all by his lonesome in the ring winning the match (8:27).
I know that the very lovely and rthe very beautiful Commissioner and ring announcer Destiny said that Richtor Rhinehart won the match by a double disqualificatiion,but really it was more like a double countout.Sorry about that,Destiny and certainly no knock towards nor against you!
MATCH #3:
It was a 3 way cruiserweight match as,much to the surprise of the fans in the AWF audience through their raucous cheers,"Lil' Shooter" Kory Jackson returned to action in the AWF as he took on "Cowboy" Billy Wayne and the AWF Cruiserweight Champion,2 Quik.
Commissioner and ring annnouncer Destiny said before the match began that if 2 Quik won,he would still be AWF Crusierweight Champion.However if either "Cowboy" Billy Wayne or "Lil' Shooter" Kory Jackson won,one of those two men would be facing 2 Quik for the Cruiserweight Championship at next month's show.
All 3 of these men pulled out all the stops in this one as one tried to gain the upper hand on their opponents.It was non-stop,fast paced,high flying action from start to finish.In the end,Billy Wayne finished off 2 Quik as he defeated him with a corkscrew powerbomb and pinned him 1-2-3 (5:53).
At the end of the match,all 3 men raised their arms in unison and embraced each other in the middle of the ring in very good sportsmanship much to the adoration,applause and roars by the AWF crowd in a very outstanding match.
MATCH #4/SEMI MAIN EVENT:
General Payne took on the Rainbow Warrior.As the match started and progressed,General Payne just simply could not handle the unorthodox wrestling style of The Rainbow Warrior.He really didn't know what to do with him.But,he did battle back to take control of the match until the Rainbow Warrior took control as it was Rainbow being Rainbow.
The match ended as General Payne had some words with the referee.The Genreal shoved the referee and the referee shoved him right back,but unbeknowst to General Payne,The Rainbow Warrior was behind him and rolled him up in a schoolboy for the 1-2-3 victory (8:03).
MATCH #5/THE MAIN EVENT:
"THE TRUE FRANCHISE" Wade Garrett and "THE DOG FACED GREMLIN" Rick Steiner vs. Tony "THE XTINGUISHER" Sweatt and "THE WAR MACHINE" Chad Cheetum.
This match had a lot of funny moments in the beginning,then the action got wild,hot and heavy!From the start,Cheetum and Sweatt got the upper hand over their opponents,until with a little chicanery doing some dirty and underhanded moves and tactics behind the referee's back,the Steiner/Garrett team took control during most of the match.
With all due respect to "The War Machine" Chad Cheetum,my personal highlight was when Rick Steiner hit him with his clothesline known as "The SteinerLine".I can't begin to tell you the many,numerous countless times when I was watching Rick and his brother Scott wrestling in tag team action on TV literally take off opponent's heads with that move.When you see that move happen,it would make anybody say,um well certain adjectives and things that I will not repeat on here,but you know which ones they are.
Rick Steiner didn't miss a beat nor lost his touch when he connected Chad Cheetum with it.SORRY ABOUT THAT,CHAD!
Then things got a little wild when Chad tagged in "The Xtingusiher".He totally cleaned house with both Steiner and Garrett.Then Garrett took Chad outside the ring and posted him in one of the corner posts that was outside the ring.
Steiner was about to hit Sweatt with a steel chair while Garrett was holding him from behind.But,Chad Chettum came in and gave Garrett a standing drop kick.Sweatt Irish Whipped Steiner across the ropes and finished him off with a powerslam.Sweatt covered Steiner and hooked his leg for the 1-2-3 to conclude a great main event and a very fantastic night of AWF wrestling!
Thanks to Dwaine Henderson and everybody at the Alabama Wrestling Federation for once again putting on a terrific show!
See you at the next one!
