Our next match was the one I personally found the most interesting of the night. It definitely had the most interesting storyline, because it pitted “The People’s Choice” August Joyce against Tara Micheals. Tara is Jace Parker Davidson’s wife and tag team partner in Ascended Supremacy, the NWA World Tag Team Champions, while August is Jace’s tag team partner here and current Peach State Tag Team Champions. Neither of them got to choose this partnership, as our tag team division is a bit different than anything else out there, but they are tag team partners just the same as long as they hold those titles. Tara already is a bit bitter about seeing her husband partner with someone else, and the fact that she wanted those tag titles, she has spared no words at how much she doesn’t like August, and August hasn’t really done much to endear himself to his new tag team partner’s wife, as he has kind of rubbed it in to a certain extent.
Tara came out first to “End of Days” by Fozzy. She gets the usual cat calls from the crowd, which she shows her disdain for. She shakes her head at the crowd as she climbs into the ring. Then out comes “The People’s Choice” August Joyce, who gets a great crowd reaction. Joyce comes out cocky as ever, but unlike a lot of cocky wrestlers, the crowd eats it up. He quickly climbs up the ring steps, turning his back toward Tara to face the crowd, holding up his hands.
Suddenly, Tara rushes across, bringing her knee into his back, sending him off the apron, before he’s even had a chance to pull off his brown coat. Joyce crashed to the floor, as Tara followed him out of the ring, standing on the apron. Joyce slowly got to his feet, throwing of his jacket, as he turned around, right as Tara comes off the apron with a side kick that nearly takes Joyce’s head off. Joyce drops backwards, landing flat on his back. Tara stomps Joyce, using the ring apron for some extra support with her stomps.
Reynolds started the count, but Tara didn’t let it get very far, as she picked up Joyce and rolled him into the ring. Tara went for a cover, but Joyce almost immediately got a shoulder up. Tara ran to the ropes, coming back, jumping up and going for a hard stomp, but Joyce rolled out of the way, having Tara come up empty. Joyce got back to his feet. Tara holds her leg from the stomp, and Joyce rushes behind her, grabbing her from behind, but as soon as he does, Tara swings her elbow back, connecting with his head. She swings her other elbow, but Joyce ducks, and she turns around. He grabs her around the waist, lifting her up, and slamming her backwards with an over the head belly to belly suplex.
Tara slammed into the mat hard, and Joyce went for the cover, but Tara got a shoulder up. Joyce immediately goes back on the offensive, grabbing Tara’s arm and putting it into an arm lock, applying that pressure on it. Tara fought to a seated position, then to her feet, but Joyce immediately flipped her back down with an arm drag. Both wrestlers got back to their feet. Tara rushed Joyce, but Joyce caught her with a powerslam, immediately going for another pin. He got a two count before Tara kicked out.
Joyce got back to his feet, waiting for Tara to get to his feet. He rushes behind her again, jockeying for a waistlock, but Tara reverses it, rolling Joyce up for a pin attempt. She got a two count before Joyce pushed her off. Joyce got back to his feet, but Tara leapt up and caught him with a huge dropkick that sends Joyce back into the corner. Tara leapt up, going for a monkey flip, but Joyce caught her, stepping forward, and slamming her down with a spinebuster.
Joyce went into the ropes, coming back with a leg drop, and going for another pin. Tara got a shoulder up, and Joyce lifted her up immediately, but Tara slips out of his grip, driving an inside elbow into Joyce’s head, causing him to take a step back. A forearm across Joyce’s chest sending him backwards against the ropes. Tara grabbed his arm and sends him to the otherside. Joyce hits the ropes, and Tara took him down with a running forearm. Joyce got back to his feet, as Tara boots him in the gut, doubling him over. She grabbed him, and went for a suplex, but Joyce blocked it, and reversed it, sending her down with a snap suplex. He gets back to his feet, lifting her up once again, and went for another suplex, but as soon as he has her up, he drops down into a powerslam, a move he calls Tong Ku Zhuan, and I’m glad I don’t have to pronounce it, because I can’t.
He went for a pinfall, but as Reynolds’s hand came down for the three, he saw Tara’s foot on the rope. Joyce can’t believe it, neither can the crowd as they were sure that Joyce had picked up the victory with that. Joyce shook his head, getting back to his feet, lifting Tara up. Tara looked as if she could barely stand. She dropped down to one knee, and immediately leaned forward, driving her arm straight up between Joyce’s legs. Joyce immediately lets go of her, and stumbled backwards.
We must be the only fed that doesn’t declare that an immediate disqualification. As a man, I think there should be some law written down that not only do they get disqualified, they get arrested or something like that. And Joyce probably agrees with me at this point. Joyce was doubled over in pain, and Tara got back to her feet and ran to the ropes. She came back, leaping into the air, and connecting with a huge scissors kick she calls The Goodnight Kiss. Joyce’s head goes straight into the mat hard, and Tara immediately covered, hooking his leg.
She picked up the three count, to the shock of the crowd. Tara Micheals picked up a huge victory tonight, as she rolled to her knees a smile on her face. She told everyone what she was going to do, and she did it. She just picked up a victory over one half of the tag team champions. That will definitely get people talking after this. Especially when I know for a fact that at Uprising, while the world will be watching Kidd Kaboom versus Magnum Randell, Jace Parker Davidson and August Joyce will have their first tag team title defense, and with only four people not previously booked, it will be very interesting as to who will get that title shot, because there is a very real possibility that Tara Micheals will wind up in that match.