NWA Power results: Tyrus & Eric Jackson vs. EC3 & BLK Jeez

The road to next month’s NWA 312 pay-per-view continued on this week’s NWA Power. However, this was a pretty terrible episode with no heat for anything.

Kratos defeated Magic Jake Dumas & Jordan Clearwater in a three-way

This was a bad match, but I don’t blame Kratos or Clearwater.

I have yet to see Jake do a magic trick unless you count being thrown around by Kratos, but that would make him a victim of Kratos’ magic. The irony was that the only person to do a magic trick in his act was his valet CJ, who pulled ribbons from her tights last week before Natalya Markova knocked her out.

Kratos took out both men with clotheslines and when he went for a pop-up power bomb on Clearwater, Dumas attacked from behind, leading to a temporary Clearwater and Dumas alliance.

This got very boring with Clearwater and Dumas getting the heat, mainly because Dumas is boring. Clearwater and Dumas hit a double clothesline and later a double suplex when Kratos started to fight back. Once Dumas and Clearwater turned on each other and Dumas was about to hit an Alabama Slam, Kratos picked up both men and hit a Samoan drop. Dumas didn’t go up for him, and nearly caused a botch. Kratos then hit a swinging uranage on Dumas for the pin and win (he barely went up for that, too).

– A promo package aired for Dak Draper & Mims vs. Blunt Force Trauma with comments from Aron Stevens, Draper and Mims.

– Danny Dealz pitched Alex Taylor a deal for a no. 1 contender’s match for the NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship. If Taylor loses, the Ill Begotten will be no more.

Blunt Force Trauma (Damage & Carnage) vs. Magnum Muscle (Dak Draper & Mims) wen to a no contest in a no. 1 contenders match

I have no words for how stupid this finish was as it was one of the dumbest I can remember seeing. The non-finish wasn’t the problem, but how they did it. DQs, countouts, no contests, and draws can be useful for storytelling when done right. This promotion never does that.

Draper and Damage started and it wasn’t long before they were getting the heat on Draper. Damage got the heat with some slow offense targeting Draper’s arm. Carnage continued the assault after a powerslam. Draper got Irish whipped to the corner, but he ran up the ropes. Unfortunately, Damage shook the ropes at that moment and Draper landed on the top turnbuckle. Draper turned a back suplex into a crossbody.

It was at this moment that Aron Stevens, who was banned from ringside, came out to the ring. Stevens went to punch Draper with his loaded glove, but May Valentine came out and slapped Stevens. This caused the referee to declare the match a no contest for no real reason. If anything, Blunt Force Trauma should have been DQ’d for Stevens being out there.

The announcers explained Magnum Muscle will advance to the PPV because of their Champions Series title shot, rendering this entire match pointless to begin with.

Joe Alonzo (w/ Jamie Stanley) defeated Alex Taylor (w/ Danny Dealz)

The finish was not as bad as the last one, but it was very bad.

It seems this week that the Ill Begotten were babyfaces after being heels forever. Alonzo, who was a babyface, is now officially a heel. I don’t recall a specific turn for any of them. Alonzo faked a knee injury and drew Taylor in, leading to Stanley choking Taylor on the ropes. Fundamentally, this was a good match with two good workers, but it was hard to care as we haven’t seen the Ill Begotten be anything other than a geek group with few hints about them breaking up.

It would have helped to have some build to make the stakes matter, but that didn’t happen here. Dealz, being the babyface that he is, gave a chair to Taylor, who realized he would lose and the Ill Begotten would be gone if he used it. Taylor refused to cheat and then ate a Skull Crushing Finale for the win. Of course, this make Dealz and Taylor both look like morons.

– La Rosa Negra was with Gagz the Gimp as Valentine was escorted out of the building for slapping Stevens. Gagz asked a question via a flash card since he doesn’t speak. It was about something about stalking people she loved. I stopped paying attention at that point.

– Later, NWA Tag Team Champions La Rebelion were with Gagz who asked via flash card for them to explain who they were. They then cut a promo on Draper and Mims.

EC3 & BLK Jeez defeated NWA World Champion Tyrus & Eric Jackson

Jackson tried, but this was horrible. I do not recommend.

Jeez assured us this was just an exhibition. He and Jackson were in the early parts of the match before Tyrus tagged in. The champion did nothing but pat Jeez on the head after putting him on the turnbuckle. Jackson got a near fall that EC3 broke up and then blind tagged in.

Jeez hit a flatliner on Jackson and then claimed Tyrus took it too far. You know, Tyrus only patted him on the head. Jeez then hit a suplex on Jackson. EC3 and Jeez got the heat on Jackson and the ref missed the hot tag to Tyrus. Jackson then got finished with a splash by Jeez.

Tyrus and EC3 faced off after the match, so it looks like they are building to a match no one wants to see with Jeez siding with EC3.

Final Thoughts:

The crowd seemed to be around 30-40 people in the front row and there was utter silence for most of the things that happened. Then, we got literal silence when Gagz was interviewing people. 

Again, that non-finish really was one of the dumbest non-finishes I have ever seen and that includes Seth Rollins getting DQ’d in a Hell in a Cell against the Fiend.

This was a pretty horrible show this week.