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Jet Setters Want Opportunity To Take Tag Titles

Posted: Feb 10th 2010 By: CMBurnham

Overlooked. Underrated. Champions for the better part of a year. Those descriptions and many others summarize the career of the Jet Setters. Athough they?re the Southern Tag Team Champions, those belts are rarely defended on Oklahoma soil anymore and have never been recognized by Oklafan. They were nominated for Tag Team of the Year, but only received 7% of the vote. Now, with frustration mounting, Jack Legacy & Dustin Heritage have targeted the MWA Tag Team Titles, believing that acquiring them will finally earn them some respect in this state.

For all their complaining, The Jet Setters might have a point: perhaps they have been overlooked. They won the Southern Tag Team Titles in their first match together, defeating the Old School Express for the belts in Harrison, AR. At the beginning of 2009, they briefly feuded with the Compound Varsity, but while the Canadian Red Devil and Justin Lee were able to pick up wins in singles matches, they couldn?t defeat the champions in a tag team match.
In April, a single night tournament was held to determine the 1st MWA Tag Team Champions. Six teams were entered into that tournament including The OSE & The Compound Varsity. Also, teams that had never competed in MWA before, like Dawn of Extreme and The M.U.S.C.L.E. Club, were invited. But the Jet Setters weren?t there. Texas, Inc. came out as the first champions. And a subtle rivalry began, as both teams believed that their championship was the superior one.

The Jet Setters didn?t wrestle together as a team in MWA again until July 11 in Pryor, when they defeated the El Matadors to earn a shot at the MWA Tag Team Titles. By this time, they had lost the Southern Tag Team belts to the OSE and were focused on putting some gold back around their waists. That happened in August, when they regained the Southern Tag Team Titles. And on September 11, they sent a message to the Old School Express, defeating them in Spavinaw. The following month saw them upend the team of the El Matadors again and they were promised a shot at the MWA Tag Team Titles as a result. But that shot never came.

October 9 saw the beginning of a new regime in MWA as Mike Iles took command upon the resignation of Raymon Downey. Iles rescinded the Tag Team Title shot from the Jet Setters, granting it to the Old School Express, who defeated Texas, Inc. in an Old School Butt Whoopin? Match. This seemed to inspire something in the Jet Setters as they have gone to great lengths, along with MWA Champion Michael Barry, to avoid, stretch and blatantly ignore the rules Iles has laid down. Perhaps this is because of Iles? association with the Jet Setters in other federations. But in MWA, it?s all business and Iles has made it clear that he doesn?t appreciate the antics of Excellence Personified. In November, Iles booked Legacy & Heritage against newcomers Brian Breaker and H. J. Jones, who scored a huge upset as they pinned the Southern Tag Team Champions in a non-title match. And then in December, the Jet Setters contributed to Michael Barry?s continuing problem with Jeff Starchild by accidentally dropkicking Barry into a steel chair being held by Lars Manderson. This allowed Starchild to hit a crossbody and score a pin in a 6-man tag team match, earning him a shot at whatever title he wanted. And it was no secret that he wanted the MWA Title. Mike Iles granted him that shot in January and it was later announced that the match would be a lumberjack match.
January?s show had to be postponed due to the weather, but when February came, 400+ people turned out to see the MWA action they had been deprived of for two months. Heritage and Legacy found themselves in singles competition, something they didn?t have a strong record with, against the Old School Express. The show opened with Dustin facing Jason Jones, but it?s never just 1-on-1 with EP and this was essentially a 3-on-1 match. There was plenty of interference from Jack Legacy and Michael Barry on the outside as well as the use of chairs and the table at ringside and eventually, Jack slid one of the Southern Tag Team Title belts into the ring, which Dustin slammed against Jones? head to score the win.

The second half of this rivalrly saw Jack Legacy take on Jake Boulder. Again, this match spilled outside the ring and even went outside the barricade and through the fans. The ringside table was upended after Jake was slid across it by Jack as if it were a bar in a Western movie. And on 4 separate occasions, Jack threw Jake from the ring to the floor, where Dustin provided additional damage while Jack distracted the referee. But after the 4th time, Mike Iles came down and demanded that Dustin take himself to the back. An argument broke out, which brought the attention of Jack to the edge of the ring, allowing Jake to recover, sneak up behind him and schoolboy him to gain a win. EP was irate and demanded that Mike Iles join them in the ring. Legacy protested the involvement of Mike Iles and Barry said that this was just more evidence that there was a conspiracy against EP. After several childish acts were exchanged in the ring between Iles and the members of EP, including Dustin and Iles spitting in each others? faces and Iles referring to Jack as ?Pinky Tuscadero?, Iles stated that all he?d done was come down and told Dustin to get away from ringside. He did nothing to interfere in the match and yet Legacy still lost. But if they wanted a conspiracy, he would give them one. He then announced that the Jet Setters were banned from being lumberjacks in the Lumberjack Match main event! Barry nearly had a stroke at this announcement, as he had probably plotted out strategies and interference, only to have all that taken away.

But if they?re nothing else, the Jet Setters are opportunists. And they saw the opportunity still laying in the main event. When Barry came out to defend his title, he saw the odds severely stacked against him. On the outside on his side were TAP Tag Team Champion Tim Rockwell and TAP Oklahoma Heritage, MWA MAX-Division and ComPro Champion Shane Morbid. The rest of the ring was surrounded by enemies such as the OSE, The Canadian Red Devil, Dexter Hardaway, El Super Colibri and the El Matadors. Given those odds, things went as expected and while Barry tried to hold his own, it was pretty obvious that any time he went to the outside, he didn?t have enough backup. But then, as Starchild has the champion reeling and looked like he had him pinned, one of the El Matadors entered the ring and attacked Starchild. He was quickly followed by the other El Matador and, as the bell rang repeatedly, the masked stars removed their hoods and revealed themselves as The Jet Setters. Obviously, they had stolen the El Matadors? gear and used it to disguise themselves, thus getting around the ban from Mike Iles. But Iles had one more surprise up his sleeve. He announced that Barry would once again defend his title against Starchild in the main event of next months? show. This time, it would be a Steel Cage Match and there would be a special enforcer: the returning Max McGuirk!

This was bad enough, but the MAX-Division Title match between Shane Morbid and El Super Colibri was also set for that show. Nothing, however, was said about the MWA Tag Team Titles. And so, again, it looks like the Jet Setters have been forgotten. Hopefully, this trend won?t prompt Legacy & Heritage to do anything drastic.

Tags: Jet Setters, Jack Legacy, MWA, Old School Express, Compound Varsity, Canadian Red Devil, Justin Lee, Dawn of Extreme, Texas, Inc., El Matadors, Raymon Downey, Mike Iles, Michael Barry, Excellence Personified, Brian Breaker, Lars Manderson, Jeff Starchild,