The Scenic City Trios Field Is Almost Full

Jay anchors the team from Glory Pro
Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein

So, Brain Week took over The Wrestling Blog, but it didn't dominate the news cycle enough that the folks behind Scenic City Trios didn't announce team number six last week, and last night, they announced number seven. Trio six hails from Glory Pro Wrestling, Michael Elgin's upstart wrestling promotion taking the St. Louis area by storm. It features Gary Jay, Curt Stallion, and current Crown of Glory Champion "Hot Fire" Myron Reed. Jay is familiar to longtime readers of TWB because of his affiliation with the Submission Squad.

While Pierre Abernathy has mostly gone behind the scenes, Evan Gelistico has scaled back his participation in wrestling to focus more video gaming (which is fine!), and Davey Vega has mostly moved north to Chicago, Jay has carved out a new path for himself solo working not only St. Louis but the Southern indies, specifically Atlanta Wrestling Entertainment. He's always had a flair for being an annoying heel with hard striking, but he's honed his craft to focus on the latter. He's had several marquee matches with opponents like Kyle O'Reilly and Martin Stone, and he leads his inexperienced yet promising comrades into battle. Stallion comes with high marks from many people whose opinions I trust, and he's even conquered the Austin scene by capturing the Anarchy Championship Wrestling title already in his young career. Reed is another newish guy on the scene but he's already risen to prominence enough by besting the field and taking the Crown of Glory.

Trio number seven will represent Southern Underground Professional Wrestling. The members are Kevin Ku, AJ Gray, and Jaden Newman. This is another one of them teams that is mostly unfamiliar to me, as the width and breadth of my independent wrestling scope atrophies further with each passing day of home ownership and parenthood. However, if Dylan Hales, from whom you can purchase tickets to this event, vouches for them, I'm excited.

These teams join The Carnies and Tripp Cassidy, the Viking War Party, Southern Motors, the Gym Nasty Boys and Mallaki Matthews, and the Nightmare Mob. The final team will be announced next week. Joining these trios for the one night tournament taking place on November 18 will be Gunner Miller and Cyrus the Destroyer doing battle in one-on-one exhibition action.

Also, the Makin' Towns Classic has its second competitor. Last time I checked in, Delilah Doom was named as the first entrant via fiat. Joining her will be one-half of Team PAWG, the righteous bruiser known as Jordynne Grace. She defeated Allie Kat in a qualifying match this past Friday night at NOVA Pro Wrestling's NOVA Project Three event. The Makin' Towns Classic will take place in Nashville in May 2018.