Battlezone Ranger Rumble May 2022

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So last Saturday 3 of us drove up to the lovely town of Richland MS to hit up a Battlezone wrestling show.

Last year in Columbia BZ had a great Street Fight match between Vlad Koloff and Vordell Walker.It was for the BZ Brass Knucks title and the fight went all over the venue and outside.

Well Ranger Rumble event has a main event of Vlad vs Vordell vs Nightmare Jeremiah in a street fight. With that as the main event and tickets being 10 bucks we had to go.

Now I had messaged the FB Battlezone page and reserved 3 tickets. Thinking we would be in the bleachers. Get there and nope we got 3 seats second row.



A quick video look around the gym about 20 minutes before the show started.

[Ultimo Gallos]

This was the start of the show.

Bald dude is Joey Abel,the BZ champ at the time. He is also the booker of BZ. The dude with the beard is JD Jenkins,who also does MMA. The other dude is Frankie Thomas,he has been on AEW and WWE many times.

They had the mic levels high so it was hard to understand what was said. This promo was used to set up 3 of the 5 matches on the show.

Match 1-Eric Black defends his BZ jr heavyweight title against Frankie Thomas.
Match 2-Noah Hosey vs Pitbull(current BZ brass knucks champ)
Match 3-Jd Jenkins vs Joey Abel for the BZ heavyweight title
Match 4-Daybreakers(Doc Gracie and Warden Moss) current BZ and SWA tag champs vs Faroh of Phunk and Riley
Main Event-Winner gets a shot at the BZ Brass Knucks title. Vladimir Koloff vs Vordell Walker vs Nightmare Jeremiah

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Match 4-Doc Gracie/Nate Moss vs Faroh/Riley

Riley is a rookie and BZ is smart teaming him up with Faroh.Faroh has been wrestling in the deep south for 20 years. Dude has charisma and is ok in the ring.

Nate is a dude I have been watching since his first match 10 years ago. Before he started losing his hair people said he looked like Chris Platt. Doc is also a video guy. And is in charge of the video work in SWA.

As you can see it was a fun match. Nothing mindblowing,but still fun to watch.

I just asked Joey Abel he told me 120 tickets were sold to the event. Which for BZ is decent. They draw between 50 to 100 most shows.

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Eric Black BZ Jr Heavyweight champ vs Frankie Thomas

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3rd Match Bz heavyweight champion Joey Abel vs the Full time Beast JD Jenkins.

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Main event

Vladimir Koloff vs Nightmare Jeremiah vs Vordell Walker STREET FIGHT

Besure to watch after the match when a Sons of Anarchy reject tries to fight 3 heels.