Harrisville, UT – If you like old school tag team wrestling with swagger, none do it better in the National Wrestling Alliance than the Southern Six, consisting of not only the current NWA Heavyweight Champion, “Thrillbilly” Silas Mason, but also “Too Hot to Trot” Alex Taylor and Kerry Morton.
“Let me go back and correct ya, real quick,” the NWA Junior Heavyweight champion Taylor interjected, referring to his tag partner Morton. “That is ‘The CliMax, The Ticket, The Future Legend,’ baby! But I do appreciate you getting ‘Too Hot to Trot’ right.”
If nothing else, The Southern Six are never shy, nor short for words.
Slam! Wrestling caught up with two-thirds of the Six members as they came out to local Utah promotion Intermountain Wrestling Revolution to defend their NWA US Tag Team championship belts against the team of Juicy Finau and Journey Fatu in late November. For both, this was their first time wrestling in Utah.
“We came in two days early,” Morton explained, “and Alex and I have toured Salt Lake City. We went to a [Utah Mammoth] hockey game. We ventured out, and we took some photos of people.
“It’s cool to get noticed out in public,” he added,” it makes you think that you know what you’re doing in the professional wrestling game is worthy.”
They even had a chance to visit the local Utah chapter of the Boys and Girls Club and participate in other charity work.
It is interesting that both men are more established not just in the NWA but in the southeastern wrestling territories. Taylor and Morton discussed why they ventured west of the Mississippi River to grace the Rocky Mountains with their presence.
“It’s a good experience,” said Taylor. “Branching out the Southern Six [to the west]. The whole world needs a little taste of southern wrestling.”
“Yeah, I thoroughly agree,” Morton concurred. “Alex and myself, we pride ourselves in Southern professional wrestling.
“We take a lot of pride in our art and the way we bring wrestling,” Morton continued, “and it’s cool to see promoters wanting to take that opportunity to bring us into these places such as Utah.”
Which brings up how the “Southern Six” stable name came to be. Again, Morton and Taylor had an interesting take on the subject.
“Now, it’s kind of secretive,” Taylor started jokingly. “It involves twenty-seven Tongans in a bar in Australia. Other than that, I can’t get too much into it for legal reasons.”
“May I say that Alex has one hell of a right-hand punch?” Morton laughed. “And that’s all I can say to that nature.”
Thankfully, we at Slam! Wrestling managed to get the origin of the name when we spoke to Mason at NWA 75 two years ago.
“We were all on the bus,” Mason recalled at the time, “and we’re sitting there talking; me, AT [Taylor], Kerry, and Kenzie [Paige]. We’re just like, ‘How cool is it?” That was like, four kids from Tennessee just like…we’re in Australia.”
“Like, how can we just screw these Aussies the whole time?” he added with a chuckle. “And then we just sort of like, we need a faction name, though. I was like, well, there’s Kenzie, Kerry, Alex, and me: Southern Six.”
The two was silent, as Mason pointed out with a wry laugh. “But representing the deep south division is Mecha [Wolf] and Bestia [666], because they’re from Puerto Rico and Mexico, respectively.”
(Author’s Note: The last two names were the former NWA tag team “La Rebelíon” at the time of that interview.)
All members of The Southern Six are keeping busy as 2025 winds down. What do they hope to accomplish in 2026?
“2026: the Year of the Six,” Taylor exclaimed. “That’s got a good ring to it. Mason captured the World title. I’ve got the Junior Heavyweight title. We got the US tag titles. We might take the World Tag Team Titles, too. Kerry might take over [the NWA] Television [title]. We might take the [NWA] National title.”
“That was very smooth, AT,” Morton complimented his fellow Six member.
Morton did get a little serious on the topic of what the future of the Southern Six holds for next year.
“We have a job in professional wrestling,” he said. “No matter what anyone tells you, we are living our dream, which is amazing, to get to be able to do what we get to do.
“With that being said, though,” Morton continued, “with that comes a little selfishness. We want all the belts. We want all the championships. We want all the TV time.”
Of course, no interview with The Southern Six is complete without Taylor hitting their signature catchphrase, “When you’re hot, you’re hot! And when you’re not…!”
and then leaving this writer high and dry so they could take care of business, one territory at a time.
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