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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
By ANDY FLORA - Special to The Frankin News-Post
Sgt. Jim Nelson retained his Universal Heavyweight Championship overcoming the odds against him as American Championship Wrestling (ACW) returned to Rocky Mount National Guard Armory. Saturday.
In the main event, Nelson faced Rolling Thunder, who had challenged Nelson for the title after scoring a recent pinfall victory over the mat veteran.
The ACW commissioner appointed a special referee for the matchup to maintain law and order during the bout.
Pro wrestling legend Ricky (The Dragon) Steamboat was first contacted to referee this important championship match, but previous commitments kept him from accepting the appointment.
"The Legendary" Eclipso, with some monetary backing from his manager Douglas J Wentworth, III Esq., convinced the commissioner to allow his charger to oversee the title match.
"I want you to sit back and learn something," Eclipso told regular referee, Ric Petty, before the match.
Petty became the referee in charge of any action that spilled outside of the ring.
The action went back and forth before Wentworth jumped on the ring apron to complain to referee Eclipso about Nelson's signature cobra clutch being a choke hold.
Eclipso declared to Nelson to break the hold.
Then, the sergeant used the distraction to whip Thunder into Eclispo who then hit heads with Wentworth knocking both to the ground.
Nelson took advantage of a dazed Thunder once again slapping the cobra clutch on the challenger. As Thunder fell to the mat, the effects of the devastating hold forced his shoulders the mat in a pinning situation.
Outside referee Petty took charge of the match since guest referee Eclispo was incapacitated counting to three giving Nelson the win.
"Nelson, you have been dodging me since I lost that belt over a year ago, Eclipso said. "November 1, right here in Rocky Mount, give me another shot at the title.'
"When I won this belt, the stipulation was that you (Eclipso) would never get another title shot. If the commissioner approves it, I will see you on Nov. 1," Nelson said.
In other action:
"Universal Tag Team Champions "Dirty Deeds" Eddie Loco and Robbie Lynn retained the championship by defeating "Team USA" Scott Weddle and Foxy Rocky by disqualification.
After "Team USA" dominated much of the match, a frustrated Lynn went for a chair under the ring to take control.
As Lynn went to hit Roxy, he noticed the referee turning to catch him with the chair. Since Lynn's team would lose the belts on a disqualification, a match stipulation, a crafty Lynn tossed the chair to Roxy and faked being pummeled with the steel.
The referee seeing the chair in Roxy's possession and noticing a "knocked out" Lynn on the mat, declared "Dirty Deeds" the winners.
"In a lumber jack match, Eclipso and Ken Steel with Wentworth defeated hometown favorites "Big Yella" Jeff Holland and Mr. Jamie Wright when Rolling Thunder, a lumberjack outside of the ring, caught Holland with a right hand during a pin attempt.
"Holland, who needed help back to the dressing room after the match, later discovered Thunder delivered the punch with the help of brass knuckles.
"In an exciting "Scramble Rules" match, Franklin County's own, Hillbilly Helbert retained his Universal Television Championship over Col. Spud Wade and Scotty Blaze.
During this 15-minute match, pin falls can occur as many times as possible, but the competitor who scored the last pin fall after the 15 minutes expired would be declared the champion.
During the match, there were as many as 10 pin falls with the championship going back and forth between the wrestlers.
With less than a minute remaining, Wade tossed Helbert to the outside of the ring and landed a devastating bulldog on a dazed Blazed.
As the referee was lowering his hand for the count of three and an apparent win for Wade, Helbert pulled Wade off of the pinned Blaze as the bell sounded to end the match allowing Hillbilly to retain his championship.
This is the second time Wade had been denied the championship from Helbert and he has promised revenge the next time these two meet.
"Damien James defeated Scott Lee with a splash from the second rope.
"Robbie Lynn defeated Ace England by pinfall.
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