OVW Rise 5/23/24 Results: Mick Foley Returns, Tiffany Nieves vs. Leela Feist, OVW Women’s Champion Leila Grey Confronts Gema, Carson Drake vs. Big Beef
OVW Rise results from Louisville, Kentucky, USA at Davis Arena on Thursday, May 23, 2024 live and free on YouTube and Facebook and on TrillerTV+ for the $8 a month membership price:
Josh Ashcraft and Linda Kay were the broadcast team. Eric Cornish was the ring announcer
Hour 1-
Tiffany Nieves (with Dream Girl Ellie and Gema) pinned Leela Feist after a spinebuster in 2:58. Ellie and Gema got on the ring and distracted Feist to set up the finish. After the match, Nieves said that was a warning message for Leila Grey if she continues to stand in the way. She said The Bad Girls Club is better off without Grey and she will become the new OVW Women’s Champion.
OVW Country Boy Brewing Media Champion Kal Herro pinned Nick Hamrick after the Fanny Pack Knee in a non-title match in 3:13. After the match, REAL-1 came out to the stage and insulted Herro. He said Herro was born with a spoon in his mouth. Herro said tomorrow night at Country Boy Brewing he will shove the spoon up REAL-1’s ass.
Backstage, PJ Jones was confront by Omar Amir and Lucious Lawrence. They blamed him for their fake injury scam not working against Al Snow. They hoped to get free money and time off out of Snow. Crystal White is now aligned with them as their “nurse”. They told Jones he was fired. He tried to ask for another chance but they walked away from him.
Al Snow came out to the ring and forced Omar Amir and Lucious Lawrence into a match against three members of Dysfunction.
Omir Amir and Lucious Lawrence (with Crystal White) defeated Dysfunction by pinning their unnamed newest member after a double team finisher in 3:14 when Kyle Roberts and Brandon Espinosa walked out on the unnamed member of their team. The announcers didn’t know the guy’s name either and called him a “possible prospect” of the faction.
Backstage, Lawrence and Amir wanted to beat up ZDP because his investigative reporting to Al Snow exposed their injury scam. He ran away and quickly turned into Super Z. They heels laughed at him but then backed off when Mahabali Shera walked in and backed him up so they couldn’t attack him.
Super Z pinned Icon Lee after the Superhero Flying Bodypress in 1:56. Amir, Lawrence, and White came out and looked like their were going to attack Super Z after the match but Mahabali Shera ran out and backed Z up again so nothing could happen.
Shane Mercer and Jack Vaughn defeated Tony Evans and Jay DeNiro when Mercer pinned DeNiro after a powerslam in 12:32 after DeNiro kicked Evans down by accident.
Hour 2-
Mick Foley came out to do guest commentary.
TW3 (with Donovan Cecil) pinned Dustin Jackson (with Jake Lawless) out of a reversal in 5:49.
OVW Women’s Champion Leila Grey confronted Gema backstage about turning on her last week to join forces with Tiffany Nieves and Dream Girl Ellie. Gema acted very calm and casual. She said she looks at it like she’s now backing Tiffany Nieves as a “winning horse”. She wanted to walk away from the discussion but Grey pulled her around face to face and continued it. They got into a shoving match and then a brawl.
Carson Drake pinned Big Beef after a stroke in 2:43. After the match, Drake got on the mic and taunted Mick Foley. Foley responded and said Katie Gannon and Crystal White shared a secret with him about Drake being “small”.
Buzz Backlund defeated OVW Rush Division Champion Will Austin by submission in a non-title match with a crossface chicken wing in 4:38. Austin refused to break a Figure Four leglock in the match when Backlund reached the ropes. The lights went out and HY-ZAYA appeared in the ring to distract him.
The Mystery Masked Men appeared on the big screens. They said they do not work for EC3. They said they are here to right the wrongs and when they are done everyone will see.
Crixus won a 4-Way Match over Luke Kurtis, Tony Gunn, and Mahabali Shera in 20:32 after The Mystery Masked Men ran in and attacked all of them. Security chased the masked heels away and the ref allowed match to continue. The announcers said there must be a winner. Crixus was able to barely crawl over and get one arm across Shera to get the pin. This was a #1 contenders match for OVW Heavyweight Title.