| National Wrestling League - March 25, 1995 - Keyser, WV |
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| Friday, March 24, 1995 | |||
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NWL at Potomac State College 3/26/95 by JEFF AMDUR The Saturday night crowd at Potomac State College was much more "alive" than last night's crowd at McConnelsburg. An honest-to-goodness celebrity was in attendance, Potomac State's most famous graduate, the man whose #4 baseball jersey hangs from the wall of this building, none other than John Kruk, all-star first baseman of the Philadelphia Phillies. There was one thing that impressed me about these Potomocans. If in Baltimore we ever had Cal Ripken or Brady Anderson show up at one of our MEWF cards, all hell would break loose. Here, the locals respected Kruk's privacy and let him sit with his family in the back row of the bleachers to be heckled by Shane Shadows and Don Julio Sanchez. I did speak briefly to Kruk during intermission. I told him I wished he played for the Orioles. I wished him good luck for the forthcoming (?), baseball season except when he bats against my former student Denny Neagle of the Pirates. Anyway, here's what happened. 1) Dirty Doug Deeds pinned Switchblade in 6:57. 2) Giant T. Rantula pinned Johnny Eaton in 4:27. T. Rantula is a big 340-pounder who goes about 6'8". He's apparently been wrestling in Pittsburgh and Columbus for years. 3) Doink the Clown (with help from a second Doink, neither Doink being anyone you would have ever heard of), pinned "Adorable" Adrian Hall in 11:05. 4) Neil "the Power" Superior and (Keyser's own), Jeremy Sumner pinned Shane Shadows and Don Julio Sanchez in 12:42. Stipulation of this no DQ match was that if his team won, Shadows would win Superior's NWL heavyweight championship match. During the match Adrian Hall came out and handcuffed Neil to the ring post. The S-team then beat the living h3ll out of local hero Sumner, a recent graduate of Neil Superior's wrestling school. At the end, however, Dirty Doug Deeds saved the day by cutting the cuffs off Neil and allowing Neil to pin Shadows. Unbelievable crowd heat in this one. 5) Johnny Polo (with a big assist from manager Royce Prophet), avenged his previous night's loss to Morgus the Maniac by pinning His Maniacality (Maniacness? Maniacity?) in 11:58. 6) Luna Vachon pinned Malia Hosaka in 9:22 as the ref. didn't see Luna's feet on the ropes for leverage. I couldn't say anything because the ref. after all was my ride back to the Baltimore area. 7) Morgus the Maniac won a 10-man battle royal in 6:57. He threw out Adorable Adrian Hall for the win. 8) Bushwackers Luke Williams & Butch Miller once again pinned Goodfellas Romeo Valentino & Dino Casanova in 14:51. Once again, manager Royce Prophet survived an evening without getting pantsed. NWL's last card of the season will be April 22 at Clear Spring High School in Clear Spring, Md. I guess that's somewhere near Hagerstown. Dick Caricofe announced that he was trying to get the Rock & Roll Express, among others, to be on this card.
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