Enter the Snake Pit
Feb 1, 2013 7:30:18 GMT -7
Post by howardschilling on Feb 1, 2013 7:30:18 GMT -7
Before the pyro can even go off inside the Orange County Convention Center to welcome everyone to NWA South Beach: Enter the Snake Pit, the cameras are backstage where members of The Revolution, Appetite for Destruction, The Unholy Trinity and Family are shouting at each other being held back by random Orlando police officers that just happened to be in the area and wanted to be on tv. Eventually JBL pushes his way through and announces that after the events of this past Monday Night Raw in NWA Entertainment, Christopher Daniels will get the chance to correct the injustice against Kyle O'Reilly with everyone else surrounding the ring for a lumberjack match! JBL then tells the announce team to do their thing and open the show before he gets even more angry. Joseph Park walks up (how convenient huh?) and asks why a man who has everything would be angry about anything. The Wrestling GAWD says that in an unprecedented move, NWA President and owner of NWA Impact Dustin Smith is in the building and won't give a reason as to why he's here.
Finally the pyro goes off welcoming everyone to the final South Beach show before the NWA presents Year of the Snake. The stage is shaped like the head of a snake and the pyro comes out of the teeth. "Cult of Personality" hits and out walks the former NWA Heavyweight champion CM Punk for tonight's opening contest. Punk lays out an open challenge to ANY member of TOXIC in the building and interestingly enough Jon Moxley does NOT answer the call....instead the Zombie Princess him/herself Jimmy Jacobs, railroad spike in hand saunters through the crowd and into the ring.
Match number 1: CM Punk vs Jimmy Jacobs
The contest starts off with Punk trying to figure out the unorothodox-at-best style of Jacobs, and the two trade holds before ending in a stalemate which the crowd applauds. The two lock up again with Punk putting a headlock on Jacobs....only to get distracted by some movement in the crowd as the camera finds New Horror Sami Callahan making his way through the audience. The momentary distraction allows Jacobs to slip loose and take a surprised Punk down with a chop block behind the right knee. Jacobs then works over the knee taking Punk to a ring post and repeatedly whipping his leg against it. The ref finally tells Jacobs to desist or risk disqualification. Jacobs surprisingly breaks the assault on the knee but only to slither back into the ring and rain closed fists down upon the skull of the second city saint until the ref pulls Jacobs away so he can ask Punk, who is struggling to get to his feet, if he can still go. Punk nods yes which gets the crowd of 6,395 to start chanting for Punk. Punk finally gets to a vertical base and starts hobbling toward Jacobs who is openly laughing and pointing at his adversary. Punk charges Jacobs who lands scores with a dropkick to the knee and Punk goes to the mat again. Jacobs has a sadistic smile on his face as he picks apart the knee. The ref continues to check on Punk and the announcers question how much longer Punk can take this kind of torture. The ref pulls Jacobs away again and checks on Punk telling him that he will call for the bell if this gets any more out of hand. Punk nods in understanding, gets to his feet and charges after Jacobs; who has his back to Punk and is insulting the crowd with language that is making the censors extremely happy. Punk spins Jacobs around and starts nailing him with forearms that have dazed Jacobs. Punk sends Jacobs into the far corner and signals for the running knee. Punk connects with the knee as well as a bulldog out of the corner. The crowd is on their feet for Punk, while McMichael checks the NWA message boards to find out that most of the IWC hates that Punk is overcoming the odds "yet again", who signals that it is time for Jacobs to Go to Sleep. Punk looks to pick Jacobs up, but decides instead to lock in the Anaconda Vise! Jacobs is helpless in the center of the ring, flailing and trying to knee the Straight Edge Savior in the head, but to no avail. Jacobs is fading, looking like he's about out, when Callahan gets up onto the apron! The ref goes to deal with Sami while Punk releases the hold and instead starts looking around the ring for some reason. After a few moments, Punk gives up his search and goes to deal with Callahan; only to be stopped by Jon Moxley! Moxley stuns the former champ with a kick to the gut and hits the Boma Ye! The ref sees this however and calls for the bell.
Winner (by DQ): CM Punk
Post match, Toxic continues the assault on Punk until both the No Remorse Corps AND the team of Roderick Strong and Michael Elgin come out for the save. They clear the ring and Elgin grabs a mic.
Elgin: You guys think you're so big and bad; you want to sneak up on people but bail from a real fight? Since nobody in this ring has plans for next Sunday, how about we have a 6 man tag? You-
Moxley: Now wait just a damn minute. You're calling for a 6 man tag yet I see five people in the ring. I'm not stupid enough to enter into a fight where the numbers are not on my side. Since it appears that you four men have some unfinished business, you guys eliminated each other from your promotion's tag title match if memory serves, how about you guys face off tonight. The winner teams with Punk in what will be a losing effort next Sunday.
Elgin, Strong, and the NRC all agree before facing down in the center of the ring.
A vignette for next Sunday's super show airs.
Match number 2: NWA World Tag Team Champions The Briscoes vs Flying While Intoxicated (Matt Sydal and James Storm) in a NON-TITLE match
As both teams are walking to the ring we get videos shown of how this match came together. This was a war in every sense of the term with The Briscoes showing why it will be tough for ANYONE to take the NWA World Tag Titles off of them and Flying While Intoxicated proving that they're no slouches in the ring either even though they have only been teaming for just over a month. After 17 minutes of non-stop action; Jay ducks a last call, lifts the Cowboy onto his shoulder in time for Mark to hit the Springboard Doomsday Device! Mark takes Sydal off the apron as Jay makes the cover. One 3 count later and this one is in the books.
Winners: NWA World Tag Team Champions, The Briscoes
After the match, the crowd gives all four men a standing ovation. FWI offers their hands to the champs....who accept them! Storm calls for some beer and they have a beer bash as the announcers put over how ready both teams look for their respective matches next Sunday.
Match 3: The No Remorse Corps vs Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong
These two teams have no love lost for each other and it shows as they trade shots in the middle of the ring to start the match. The official threatens to call for the bell and throw the match out & that sobers both teams up as they realize what a missed opportunity this would be. Davey no sells a lot of Elgin's offense throughout the match while Romero and Strong have a little bit more of an even pace when they are in the ring together. Elgin eventually catches Romero off a hot tag with an Elgin bomb and this one is over.
Winners: Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong
After the bell, TOXIC swarms the ring while the No Remorse Corps quietly escapes. SJK hits an MK Ultra on strong while Stevie Richards hits a Stevie-T on Elgin! The crowd boos as the announcers wonder why The NRC would leave their adversaries for dead while not getting attacked by TOXIC.
While trainers help Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong to the back, The All Night Express comes out and Kenny King is holding a microphone.
Kenny: You know, Rhett and I extended an invitation to Averno and Mephisto for a tune-up ass whipping before next Sunday, but apparently those spics don't hablo ingles or some shit because we never heard nothin' out of them. Now Rhett is ready for the ladder match where we will regain the titles that we NEVER lost in the first place, but I decided that if I had to drag myself to this hellhole *crowd boos mercilessly then I'm going to get me some. I'm extending an open invitation to ANY tag team in the back: pick your lame asses up and come out here and fight me; and just to show how generous I am, whoever decides that they want to die tonight can have their partner at ringside to claim the body after the match.
International Airborne comes out and it looks like PAC will be stepping up to the challenge.
Match number 4: Kenny King (with Rhett Titus) vs PAC (with Amazing Red)
Great, evenly paced match between two men that will be seeing each other next Sunday. Both men get distracted when the holders of the NWA South Beach Tag Titles, The Show Stoppers of CPW, come out with chairs and mics, telling the participants that "We're only here to scout our competition". Kenny King hits a back slide out of nowhere for the victory.
Winner: Kenny King
Titus and Red get in the ring and stand with their partners, nose to nose with the other team; then both teams turn to the stage and beckon Cabana and Compton to the ring who smile and walk away. As both teams go to exit the ring, Ultimo Guerrero, Dragon Rojo, Rey Bucanero, and Terrible from NWA Mexico come out and attack both teams! Both teams pull out Mexican flags and drape them over International Airborne and the All Night Express!
Backstage JBL is in his office watching what has just transpired and his face is growing more red by the second.
JBL: What in the hell is going on here? It's not bad enough that I got assholes from CPW holding my tag titles hostage, the Revolution from NWA sticking their large noses where they don't belong, now I got luchafreaks invading my territory? Who the hell is in charge of security around this god damned place? If this doesn't stop, someone's getting fired! By the time I get finished with them they will smell like smoke because I will have forcibly drug their lazy carcasses through hell fire and brimstone myself!
Main Event: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Christopher Daniels (Lumberjack Match)
Kyle O'Reilly, flanked by the Revolution and Appetite for Destruction, comes out first for this highly anticipated rematch from Raw to a standing ovation. O'Reilly continues pumping up the crowd until the lights go out, save for one white light shining from the center stage up to the heavens, where a pedestal lowers from the top of the arena. While ominous music plays; The Unholy Trinity and The Family are revealed to be on it with Daniels at the front, The NWA South Beach Title gleaming over his shoulder. As the team makes their way to the ring the spotlight follows them with the crowd booing mercilessly. Formal ring introductions are made as security actually comes in and tries to provide a barrier between the two groups of lumberjacks.
McMichael: Good luck with that boys these guys are ITCHING for a fight!
Both men pick up right where they left off on Raw, bringing an excellent exhibition of technical wrestling to this capacity crowd, all of whom are firmly and vociferously behind the young man from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Daniels tries for Last Rites early, but that's countered into a sweet looking neckbreaker for a near fall. Daniels is back up to his feet up near his side and Kyle charges which allows Daniels to, out of desperation pull the ropes down, causing O'Reilly to fall to the floor where he is immediately swarmed by Family and Trinity members who take a few cheap shots. Security nearly gets trampled by The Revolution and AfD as they try to rescue their comrade. Kyle is finally sent back into the ring and is immediately attacked without remorse by The Fallen Angel. Daniels picks O'Reilly up and slams him near the turnbuckles and signals for the BME, which he hits! Daniels covers! One....two.....KICK OUT! Kyle has kicked out and has the crowd back in this contest, urging him to continue fighting. Kyle gets up and trades punches with Daniels in the center of the ring until Daniels swings and misses allowing O'Reilly to hook him.....Brainbuster! Kyle thinks about going for the cover, then locks in an Ankle lock! Kyle falls back and grapevines the leg as Daniels as screaming in pain. Daniels looks to be about ready to tap when Devon gets on the apron to distract the ref, but is pulled down by Super Dragon! While the ref is distracted by the Dragon and Devon, Luke Gallows gets in the ring and breaks the hold which brings in Kevin Steen to brawl with Gallows. Seeing this, the remaining members of both factions enter the ring and this match has utterly broken down. The referee has no choice but to call for the bell.
Result: No contest
JBL comes down trying to restore order to the anarchy in the ring to no avail as Everyone in the ring continues brawling until "Whatever" by Godsmack blares through the building as NWA President Dustin Smith makes his way down to the ring wearing his Sunday best. The chaos freezes as the president climbs into the ring with everyone's eye on "The Boss".
Dustin Smith: For anyone who doesn't already know, I am the owner of NWA Impact, as well as the president of the National Wrestling Alliance. I try to attend as many shows through the alliance as I can, and tonight's main event is yet another example of the anarchy that's been running rampant. So to teach EVERYONE a lesson, I've decided to team the Family and the Unholy Trinity against The Revolution and Appetite for Destruction in a 10 man tag team match next Sunday at Year of the Snake!
Announce team: OH MY GOD!
The announcement sends JBL to a boiling point as his face turns crimson in anger and he gets into the face of the NWA President. JBL towers over Dustin but the president doesn't flinch.
JBL: Now listen here, I am a wrest...
Dustin: SHUT UP! Now listen to me John, you might be a wrestling god in your mind, but here in reality I am a TITAN. Now before you open your fat mouth again, remember who your boss is, remember who's name is on your paychecks...you're a big fish in a small pond John, and when you step to me you're stepping into the ocean. Guess who's the god of that? I'll give you one hint...it's not you!
While JBL stands and fumes after the pronouncement made by Dustin Smith, the lights go out save for a bloodred spotlight on the ring. The tortured voice that first made it's presence felt at Winter Wasteland laughs and speaks again.
Voice: That was exactly what I was hoping for *laughing*....my time is finally at hand. Daniels, you sent me to the pits of hell and left me for dead, never thinking for a moment that I would return, let alone stronger than how you left me. You once mentioned penance and answering for the sins one commits in life. I have paid for my sins; at Year of the Snake, you begin to pay for yours. Next Sunday, I come alive and begin my path to vengeance which will only end with your salvation and the NWA South Beach Title OUT of your possession!
The lights come on as a skeletal figure comes on stage; points at Daniels, who for the first time looks absolutely petrified, with one hand as it mimes shooting itself with the other. What does this mean? Who, or what, is this mysterious figure? Who will be coming alive on Sunday, and will NWA South Beach ever be the same?
Finally the pyro goes off welcoming everyone to the final South Beach show before the NWA presents Year of the Snake. The stage is shaped like the head of a snake and the pyro comes out of the teeth. "Cult of Personality" hits and out walks the former NWA Heavyweight champion CM Punk for tonight's opening contest. Punk lays out an open challenge to ANY member of TOXIC in the building and interestingly enough Jon Moxley does NOT answer the call....instead the Zombie Princess him/herself Jimmy Jacobs, railroad spike in hand saunters through the crowd and into the ring.
Match number 1: CM Punk vs Jimmy Jacobs
The contest starts off with Punk trying to figure out the unorothodox-at-best style of Jacobs, and the two trade holds before ending in a stalemate which the crowd applauds. The two lock up again with Punk putting a headlock on Jacobs....only to get distracted by some movement in the crowd as the camera finds New Horror Sami Callahan making his way through the audience. The momentary distraction allows Jacobs to slip loose and take a surprised Punk down with a chop block behind the right knee. Jacobs then works over the knee taking Punk to a ring post and repeatedly whipping his leg against it. The ref finally tells Jacobs to desist or risk disqualification. Jacobs surprisingly breaks the assault on the knee but only to slither back into the ring and rain closed fists down upon the skull of the second city saint until the ref pulls Jacobs away so he can ask Punk, who is struggling to get to his feet, if he can still go. Punk nods yes which gets the crowd of 6,395 to start chanting for Punk. Punk finally gets to a vertical base and starts hobbling toward Jacobs who is openly laughing and pointing at his adversary. Punk charges Jacobs who lands scores with a dropkick to the knee and Punk goes to the mat again. Jacobs has a sadistic smile on his face as he picks apart the knee. The ref continues to check on Punk and the announcers question how much longer Punk can take this kind of torture. The ref pulls Jacobs away again and checks on Punk telling him that he will call for the bell if this gets any more out of hand. Punk nods in understanding, gets to his feet and charges after Jacobs; who has his back to Punk and is insulting the crowd with language that is making the censors extremely happy. Punk spins Jacobs around and starts nailing him with forearms that have dazed Jacobs. Punk sends Jacobs into the far corner and signals for the running knee. Punk connects with the knee as well as a bulldog out of the corner. The crowd is on their feet for Punk, while McMichael checks the NWA message boards to find out that most of the IWC hates that Punk is overcoming the odds "yet again", who signals that it is time for Jacobs to Go to Sleep. Punk looks to pick Jacobs up, but decides instead to lock in the Anaconda Vise! Jacobs is helpless in the center of the ring, flailing and trying to knee the Straight Edge Savior in the head, but to no avail. Jacobs is fading, looking like he's about out, when Callahan gets up onto the apron! The ref goes to deal with Sami while Punk releases the hold and instead starts looking around the ring for some reason. After a few moments, Punk gives up his search and goes to deal with Callahan; only to be stopped by Jon Moxley! Moxley stuns the former champ with a kick to the gut and hits the Boma Ye! The ref sees this however and calls for the bell.
Winner (by DQ): CM Punk
Post match, Toxic continues the assault on Punk until both the No Remorse Corps AND the team of Roderick Strong and Michael Elgin come out for the save. They clear the ring and Elgin grabs a mic.
Elgin: You guys think you're so big and bad; you want to sneak up on people but bail from a real fight? Since nobody in this ring has plans for next Sunday, how about we have a 6 man tag? You-
Moxley: Now wait just a damn minute. You're calling for a 6 man tag yet I see five people in the ring. I'm not stupid enough to enter into a fight where the numbers are not on my side. Since it appears that you four men have some unfinished business, you guys eliminated each other from your promotion's tag title match if memory serves, how about you guys face off tonight. The winner teams with Punk in what will be a losing effort next Sunday.
Elgin, Strong, and the NRC all agree before facing down in the center of the ring.
A vignette for next Sunday's super show airs.
Match number 2: NWA World Tag Team Champions The Briscoes vs Flying While Intoxicated (Matt Sydal and James Storm) in a NON-TITLE match
As both teams are walking to the ring we get videos shown of how this match came together. This was a war in every sense of the term with The Briscoes showing why it will be tough for ANYONE to take the NWA World Tag Titles off of them and Flying While Intoxicated proving that they're no slouches in the ring either even though they have only been teaming for just over a month. After 17 minutes of non-stop action; Jay ducks a last call, lifts the Cowboy onto his shoulder in time for Mark to hit the Springboard Doomsday Device! Mark takes Sydal off the apron as Jay makes the cover. One 3 count later and this one is in the books.
Winners: NWA World Tag Team Champions, The Briscoes
After the match, the crowd gives all four men a standing ovation. FWI offers their hands to the champs....who accept them! Storm calls for some beer and they have a beer bash as the announcers put over how ready both teams look for their respective matches next Sunday.
Match 3: The No Remorse Corps vs Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong
These two teams have no love lost for each other and it shows as they trade shots in the middle of the ring to start the match. The official threatens to call for the bell and throw the match out & that sobers both teams up as they realize what a missed opportunity this would be. Davey no sells a lot of Elgin's offense throughout the match while Romero and Strong have a little bit more of an even pace when they are in the ring together. Elgin eventually catches Romero off a hot tag with an Elgin bomb and this one is over.
Winners: Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong
After the bell, TOXIC swarms the ring while the No Remorse Corps quietly escapes. SJK hits an MK Ultra on strong while Stevie Richards hits a Stevie-T on Elgin! The crowd boos as the announcers wonder why The NRC would leave their adversaries for dead while not getting attacked by TOXIC.
While trainers help Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong to the back, The All Night Express comes out and Kenny King is holding a microphone.
Kenny: You know, Rhett and I extended an invitation to Averno and Mephisto for a tune-up ass whipping before next Sunday, but apparently those spics don't hablo ingles or some shit because we never heard nothin' out of them. Now Rhett is ready for the ladder match where we will regain the titles that we NEVER lost in the first place, but I decided that if I had to drag myself to this hellhole *crowd boos mercilessly then I'm going to get me some. I'm extending an open invitation to ANY tag team in the back: pick your lame asses up and come out here and fight me; and just to show how generous I am, whoever decides that they want to die tonight can have their partner at ringside to claim the body after the match.
International Airborne comes out and it looks like PAC will be stepping up to the challenge.
Match number 4: Kenny King (with Rhett Titus) vs PAC (with Amazing Red)
Great, evenly paced match between two men that will be seeing each other next Sunday. Both men get distracted when the holders of the NWA South Beach Tag Titles, The Show Stoppers of CPW, come out with chairs and mics, telling the participants that "We're only here to scout our competition". Kenny King hits a back slide out of nowhere for the victory.
Winner: Kenny King
Titus and Red get in the ring and stand with their partners, nose to nose with the other team; then both teams turn to the stage and beckon Cabana and Compton to the ring who smile and walk away. As both teams go to exit the ring, Ultimo Guerrero, Dragon Rojo, Rey Bucanero, and Terrible from NWA Mexico come out and attack both teams! Both teams pull out Mexican flags and drape them over International Airborne and the All Night Express!
Backstage JBL is in his office watching what has just transpired and his face is growing more red by the second.
JBL: What in the hell is going on here? It's not bad enough that I got assholes from CPW holding my tag titles hostage, the Revolution from NWA sticking their large noses where they don't belong, now I got luchafreaks invading my territory? Who the hell is in charge of security around this god damned place? If this doesn't stop, someone's getting fired! By the time I get finished with them they will smell like smoke because I will have forcibly drug their lazy carcasses through hell fire and brimstone myself!
Main Event: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Christopher Daniels (Lumberjack Match)
Kyle O'Reilly, flanked by the Revolution and Appetite for Destruction, comes out first for this highly anticipated rematch from Raw to a standing ovation. O'Reilly continues pumping up the crowd until the lights go out, save for one white light shining from the center stage up to the heavens, where a pedestal lowers from the top of the arena. While ominous music plays; The Unholy Trinity and The Family are revealed to be on it with Daniels at the front, The NWA South Beach Title gleaming over his shoulder. As the team makes their way to the ring the spotlight follows them with the crowd booing mercilessly. Formal ring introductions are made as security actually comes in and tries to provide a barrier between the two groups of lumberjacks.
McMichael: Good luck with that boys these guys are ITCHING for a fight!
Both men pick up right where they left off on Raw, bringing an excellent exhibition of technical wrestling to this capacity crowd, all of whom are firmly and vociferously behind the young man from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Daniels tries for Last Rites early, but that's countered into a sweet looking neckbreaker for a near fall. Daniels is back up to his feet up near his side and Kyle charges which allows Daniels to, out of desperation pull the ropes down, causing O'Reilly to fall to the floor where he is immediately swarmed by Family and Trinity members who take a few cheap shots. Security nearly gets trampled by The Revolution and AfD as they try to rescue their comrade. Kyle is finally sent back into the ring and is immediately attacked without remorse by The Fallen Angel. Daniels picks O'Reilly up and slams him near the turnbuckles and signals for the BME, which he hits! Daniels covers! One....two.....KICK OUT! Kyle has kicked out and has the crowd back in this contest, urging him to continue fighting. Kyle gets up and trades punches with Daniels in the center of the ring until Daniels swings and misses allowing O'Reilly to hook him.....Brainbuster! Kyle thinks about going for the cover, then locks in an Ankle lock! Kyle falls back and grapevines the leg as Daniels as screaming in pain. Daniels looks to be about ready to tap when Devon gets on the apron to distract the ref, but is pulled down by Super Dragon! While the ref is distracted by the Dragon and Devon, Luke Gallows gets in the ring and breaks the hold which brings in Kevin Steen to brawl with Gallows. Seeing this, the remaining members of both factions enter the ring and this match has utterly broken down. The referee has no choice but to call for the bell.
Result: No contest
JBL comes down trying to restore order to the anarchy in the ring to no avail as Everyone in the ring continues brawling until "Whatever" by Godsmack blares through the building as NWA President Dustin Smith makes his way down to the ring wearing his Sunday best. The chaos freezes as the president climbs into the ring with everyone's eye on "The Boss".
Dustin Smith: For anyone who doesn't already know, I am the owner of NWA Impact, as well as the president of the National Wrestling Alliance. I try to attend as many shows through the alliance as I can, and tonight's main event is yet another example of the anarchy that's been running rampant. So to teach EVERYONE a lesson, I've decided to team the Family and the Unholy Trinity against The Revolution and Appetite for Destruction in a 10 man tag team match next Sunday at Year of the Snake!
Announce team: OH MY GOD!
The announcement sends JBL to a boiling point as his face turns crimson in anger and he gets into the face of the NWA President. JBL towers over Dustin but the president doesn't flinch.
JBL: Now listen here, I am a wrest...
Dustin: SHUT UP! Now listen to me John, you might be a wrestling god in your mind, but here in reality I am a TITAN. Now before you open your fat mouth again, remember who your boss is, remember who's name is on your paychecks...you're a big fish in a small pond John, and when you step to me you're stepping into the ocean. Guess who's the god of that? I'll give you one hint...it's not you!
While JBL stands and fumes after the pronouncement made by Dustin Smith, the lights go out save for a bloodred spotlight on the ring. The tortured voice that first made it's presence felt at Winter Wasteland laughs and speaks again.
Voice: That was exactly what I was hoping for *laughing*....my time is finally at hand. Daniels, you sent me to the pits of hell and left me for dead, never thinking for a moment that I would return, let alone stronger than how you left me. You once mentioned penance and answering for the sins one commits in life. I have paid for my sins; at Year of the Snake, you begin to pay for yours. Next Sunday, I come alive and begin my path to vengeance which will only end with your salvation and the NWA South Beach Title OUT of your possession!
The lights come on as a skeletal figure comes on stage; points at Daniels, who for the first time looks absolutely petrified, with one hand as it mimes shooting itself with the other. What does this mean? Who, or what, is this mysterious figure? Who will be coming alive on Sunday, and will NWA South Beach ever be the same?