If ever there was a match to feature super heavyweight action in the National Wrestling Alliance, it would be this one. “Thrillbilly” Silas Mason has been on the rise, but he faces a tough challenge in Hammerstone. Formerly of MLW and recently of TNA Wrestling, Your Boy Hammer wants to step up and throw down with “Big Daddy Thrill.”
It’s Kaiju Carnage on this NWA POWERRR at The 2025 Crockett Cup, as we come to you from the legendary 2300 Arena in downtown Philadelphia, PA. Joe Galli, Billy Corgan, and Danny Dealz have the call, as your First Match of the Night is a title match for the…
NWA National Championship: Big Strong Mims(c)(with BLK Jeez) vs. Max the Impaler
Been a while since Max stepped in the squared circle, and the same can be said for Jeez. Mims comes in with a bad attitude as he presses the title in Max’s face, and then they throw down right away.
The Non Binary Nightmare is in control, but Mims is no pushover. Max is proving to be more of a problem as he powders out to confer with Jeez on a new game plan, and then…
Ads (I usually don’t like it in the middle of a match, but they serve a purpose, as they prep fans for the semifinals of The Crockett Cup, as well as hype up the upcoming main event.)
We come back, and Max grabs a chair from the crowd, but the ref pulls it away before they can get swinging. Mims uses the distraction to give a forearm to the back of their head, and then the champ throws them back in. As he climbs back in the ring, Max hits a senton on his back. They climb up the high-rent district for a Vader bomb, but Mims gets them in the electric chair and covers for two.
Max counters by grabbing his dreads and clotheslines for a two count, but Mims ends it with a Big Strong Slam and gets the pin and the win.
Your Winner via Pinfall, and Still NWA National Champion: Big Strong Mims
Mims and Jeez beat a hasty retreat as The Lost comes out to get in Max’s grill. Max ain’t having it and chases them to the back.
Meanwhile, at Uncle Thrill’s Watering Hole, Tommy Henrie and Joe Cazana have a meeting of the minds. Cazana says running the territories is tough, and JCP Promotions is the tops in the NWA territories and well above his Kross Fire Wrestling promotion, and he wants to bury the hatchet. Henrie says he and The Country Gentlemen are goofs, and he doesn’t know why they’re in a top position. Cazana says that it’s good to air things out and offers him a drink. He doesn’t want to have anything to do with him until his sons show up.
Carson Drake approaches the referee, Jarrod Fritz, and asks him to reverse the decision on his NWA Television title loss to Bryan Idol. He’s tried pleading his case to Cazana and everywhere else, but with no luck—one problem, though: Fritz didn’t call the match. So Drake is outta luck.
Silly Drake. TV titles aren’t for spoiled kids.
Max catches up to The Lost, and Father James Mitchell is throwing a fireball in their eyes. The Non-Binary Nightmare writhes on the floor, blinded, as The Lost laughs at their misfortune. Curious to see where this angle will lead down the road.
But it’s time for The Main Event between the heavyweights in…
Hammerstone vs. “Thrillbilly “ Silas Mason
Both men stare down at each other, but fans in the ECW Arena are solidly behind Hammerstone. He offers his hand as a show of respect, and Mason slaps it away and wants to see how strong he is. They go to the Greco-Roman test of strength, and he immediately overpowers Big Daddy Thrill.
He gives him a boot, and Your Boy Hammer launches Mason with a German suplex, much to the big Man’s surprise. Clearly, this is a first for the Southern Six member.
They trade chops in the corner, but it’s Hammerstone with a back body drop, and he clotheslines him outside the ring, followed by a plancha to the outside, and the big man cracks his head on the concrete floor. He rushes toward Mason, but he reverses and drives his ribs into the guardrails. He throws Hammerstone back in the squared circle, and Mason is showing color on the back of his mulleted skull. He proceeds to whip Hammerstone to the corner and lands a nice dropkick, which is not typically in Thrill’s repertoire.
A series of corner splashes just wear down Hammerstone, but he manages to get an enzugi to stun Mason and then follows with a missile dropkick from the top rope.
Which then leads to…
Ads (again, more of a hype package for the Crockett Cupp semis, as Knox/Murdoch will face off against The Colóns, and The Immortals will take on The Holy Grail of EC3 and Pretty Boy Smooth)
We come back, and Hammerstone is getting his second wind with a clothesline and then an overhead belly to belly suplex to Mason. He attempts the Nightmare Pendulum, but his back gives, and Mason nails him with a powerbomb for a close two count. He goes for another series of corner splashes, but Hammerstone catches him with a boot on his last run. He sets up Mason on the top turnbuckle, and they come down hard with a superplex. Now Your Boy Hammer delivers the Nightmare Pendulum, but before the ref can make the count, out come The Southern Six members Kerry Morton and Alex Taylor. As the ref deals with Morton on one side of the ring, Taylor winds up with his NWA Junior Heavyweight title. Hammerstone catches him red-handed, and he scurries out of the ring. That allows Mason to give a low blow to Hammerstone’s…err, little Hammers as “Big Daddy Thrill” rolls him up for the one, two, and three.
Your Winner via Pinfall: “Thrillbilly” Silas Mason
The Southern Six celebrate the tainted win, and Your Boy Hammer is nonplussed about the loss as the show comes to a close.
Top Photo: Hammerstone (left) offers his hand before he squares off with “Thrillbilly” Silas Mason at The Crockett Cup on May 17, 2025. Photo Credit: George Tahinos
