We start things off with Sweet Dreams, who is accompanied by some Other guy who is Dark and Meaty (I know, I know, bad pun…but, well, I thought it was funny) named Juice. They are representing the Ghetto Boys and the opponent for Sweet Dreams is "Hi-flyin'" Chris Hamrick and they start off quickly. Sweet Dreams attacks early and Juice trips Hamrick on an Irish whip. Dreams goes for another Irish whip and Hamrick leapfrogs over him and hits a suicide dive onto Juice outside the ring. Dreams goes out to check on Juice and Hamrick planchas onto both of them from the top. Hamrick ducks a leapfrog, springs to the top rope and hits a sunset flip for two. Dreams gets in a couple of shots but walks into a superkick. Dreams powders to the floor and Hamrick springboards off the top rope twice out onto him. Hamrick drapes him across the top rope and hits a gorgeous guillotine legdrop. Dreams tries a powerbomb but Hamrick counters with a rana. Hamrick springs off a chair onto Dreams in the corner and then drops a gorgeous elbowdrop from the top. Dreams hits a nice diving headbutt onto Hamrick. Hamrick with a top-rope frankensteiner on Dreams as Juice grabs a chair. Juice misfires with the chair and accidentally nails Sweet Dreams, allowing Hamrick to score the victory. **

Some guy named Heroin is out and taking on Rick Justice. I am not familiar with either of these guys, Heroin starts off with a spinning elbow and some fists. Justice catches him with an inverted atomic drop but Heroin powders to the floor to avoid a superkick. Justice dives through the ropes onto him and then rolls back in. Justice nails him with a board and then a fisherman's suplex, which the color commentator incorrectly calls a German suplex. Heroin with a clothesline and then a couple of chairshots to the back. Heroin takes a backdrop and then retreats to the floor again. They brawl onto the top of a pool table and then back to the ring. Heroin with a chairshot and then Justice takes the chair and tosses it back at him. Justice was a weird looking flying leg lariat. Suddenly, we're back on the floor and using garbage cans. A ladder gets tossed into the ring and Heroin attempts an Asai moonsault but lands on the ladder. Justice drops Heroin on the ladder in an atomic drop. Heroin tosses Justice onto the ladder and then BACK on the floor. They continue brawling around formlessly until Heroin hits two consecutive powerbombs for the pin. On the brawl scale: *

Rick Michaels comes to the ring, which is surrounded by about a three-foot tall chicken coup. NCW TV champion Ricky Rocket is his opponent and the concept is essentially a cage match where the cage only goes up about as high as the top rope. Michaels controls early and rubs Rocket's face into the cage and stuff. Rocket gets busted open and Michaels is essentially just running him into the wire. Rocket mounts a comeback with punches and kicks. Michaels gets hold of a foreign object and jabs him several times with it. A board gets passed into the cage and set up in the corner and Rocket gets tossed into it. Chris Hamrick tosses a bag of powder into the ring which Michaels gets hold of and tosses into Rocket's face. Michaels DDTs Rocket begins taping him to the bottom rope and beating on him. Hamrick storms the ring and hits a nice frankensteiner on Michaels, who escapes from the chicken coup to win the match. Ehh…call it 1/4*

HELL YEAH! My hero and yours, Cham FUCKIN' Pain is out for a promo. Pain picks up a mic and just goes Andrew Dice Clay on the entire crowd. Obscenity-laced and funny as hell, as he just verbally molests everyone in the crowd.

Speaking of my heroes, it's Willow the Whisp! "MMMBop" starts up, which can only mean one thing, Kid Dynamo! This should be good. This is for the Light heavyweight title and is a Belt on a Rope match, where the belt is hanging from a rope outside the ring and you have to climb the rope, seventh-grade gym class style to get the belt. Willow controls the match early and goes for the belt but Moore tosses a chair at him to bring him down. Back in the ring, Willow gets a Russian legsweep and then springs off a chair for a legdrop. Willow gets caught in the ropes and takes a 360 legdrop from Dynamo. Willow gets up and springs off the chair again for a clothesline. Willow puts Dynamo in the chair and then mounts the top rope but misses and Willow lands in the chair. Dynamo uses the rope to swing to the top and then hit a frankensteiner. Dynamo goes outside and climbs the rope but Willow brings him down. Willow rolls him back in and springs off the top for a legdrop. Willow climbs the rope but Dynamo climbs up it too. Dynamo bodyscissors Willow and pulls him down, but he lands on the referee. Dynamo almost has the belt but Cham Pain (!) yanks him down. Pain climbs the rope himself and gets the belt, and then drapes it across Willow. Nice but short. **

The Punisher (now known as Bull Buchanon in the WWF) storms the ring in a surprise appearance. This was shortly before Punisher made his WWF debut as Recon of the Truth Commission in '97. Punisher makes an open challenge and essentially cuts a "Mr. Monday Night"-style promo. Rick Michaels comes out and asks Punisher to be his new bodyguard. Punisher declined and Michaels calls him an idiot from cartoon land. Punisher drops him with a leaping sidekick, talks some more trash and then leaves the ring. Overall, not a bad segment.

The other two Ghetto Boys, D-Rock and a new member who never actually gets identified, hit the ring for a Tag title three-way-dance. David Jericho (the future Kid Kash) and Rusty Riddle, Rough Cut, are team number two and they are joined by David Young and Rick Savage, Body Count. All six guys start in a pier-six in the ring and on the floor. Jericho gets a toaster and begins cracking people in the head with it. Jericho dives off the top rope onto D-Rock on he floor and then brawl over the rail and into the crowd. This is just a big six-man cluster going throughout the building and really hard to call and follow, and just a bunch of weapon shots and stuff, not really worth calling anyway. They end up back in the ring and they beat up the referee too. Jericho works over Young's injured knee amd D-Rock gets a leglock on him too. Jericho dives off the middle rope with a bar stool. Jericho with a tiger driver 91 on Young and then locks on a figure four. D-Rock pins Young while he is in the figure four to eliminate him, but this is the more traditional version of an elimination tag match, so his partner remains. The unidentified Ghetto Boy gets pinned too, leaving Rick Savage, Rough Cut, and D-Rock. Jericho dives out onto one of the camera stands but D-Rock moves. Savage elbows a chair into the face of Riddle and eliminates him. D-Rock cracks Savage three times with a chair of his own and then gets the pin to win the match. Just a big cluster with a bunch of weapon shots. 1/2* After the match, all four Ghetto Boys, including that Juice guy who I still say looks strangely familiar beat down both members of Rough Cut.

Surge (Matt Hardy) enters to challenge NCW Heavyweight Champion Venom (Jason Ahrndt, later Joey Abs in the WWF and Memphis, if you are on the freaking Hardcore Fan Club website, you *should* know these things) in an I Quit match. Surge starts early and in a cool spot, ducks a clothesline attempt, then while behind him takes Venom's title belt off and hits him with it. Surge locks on a Boston crab but Venom powers out. Surge does some nice flips and stuff and Venom calmly kicks him in the face. Matt slips out of an armbar and gets a drop toehold. Venom rolls to the floor and Surge comes off a chair over the top with a clothesline. Venom tries a backdrop but Surge takes him down with a single-arm DDT into a hammerlock. Surge hammerlocks the arm and slams Venom on it Anderson-style. Surge puts a chair over Venom's arm and then dives off the second rope onto it…twice. Surge continues to work over the arm and hits a nice double-chicken wing with a bridge. Venom catches him with a clothesline but Surge counters an Irish whip attempt with a reverse fujiwara, continuing to work on the left arm. Surge locks on Maxx Payne's old Pain killer finisher (if Edsel were here, he could tell me how to spell its actual name) but Venom gets to the ropes. Venom goes low and then drops Surge across the top rope, midsection first. Venom with a nice face-first reverse bodyslam and a gut buster. Surge tries a cross-body but Venom catches him with a fall-away slam. Venom charges out of the opposite corner and hits a reverse springboard splash. Venom with an abdominal stretch and he grabs the top rope just to be a heel. Surge is able to reverse it anyway, but Venom hiptosses him to the floor. Venom locks on a torture rack backbreaker but Surge spins out of it into an armdrag. Venom unfolds a chair in the ring then picks Surge up for a fireman's carry and drops him onto the chair. Surge counters a second attempt and gets a reverse neckbreaker onto the chair. Venom takes a few chairshots between the eyes and gets knocked to the floor, where Surge gets a board and attempts to springboard onto him but can't because referee Jamie Tucker is in the way. Surge springs off the middle rope and gets a swinging DDT. Surge gets a camel clutch but Venom powers out of it. Venom hits a running powerbomb out of the corner and then a reverse full nelson. Venom gets a sleeper but Surge breaks it, puts Venom on the top rope but gets tossed off himself. Venom moonsaults off the second rope but lands on the ref. Venom locks on the reverse full nelson but The Punisher comes to the ring and begins stacking tables on the outside. Venom hits a moonsault bodyblock but he doesn't get all of it and lands face first on the mat. Surge hooks a Crippler Crossface on Venom and Punisher says "I Quit" over the PA. The groggy ref hears him and calls for the bell. Punisher drops Surge with a power bomb I guess just because he can and then puts Surge on top of the two stacked tables. Willow comes out and hits a sommersault senton off the top onto Surge through both tables. Punisher punks out Venom just for the hell of it before leaving. Good match ***

Final analysis: Good show with the usual nice work from the OMEGA boys plus Hamrick. Good action in the opener and a solid main event to close the show. The chicken coup match and the three-way cluster both didn't really do much for me, but Pain's promo was funny as hell and Willow/Moore was not bad. Recommended show.