New LGBTQ wrestling champions crowned at Uncanny Attractions’ ‘Winter Ball’
Out pro wrestlers Dillon McQueen and Nixi XS left Austin with Uncanny gold. 'I don’t plan on leaving this title under lock-and-key,' McQueen said. The post New LGBTQ wrestling champions crowned at Uncanny Attractions’ ‘Winter Ball’ appeared first on Outsports.
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Texas-based LGBTQ-led pro wrestling promotion Uncanny Attractions closed out its year with its annual “Winter Ball” event on Dec. 13, but this year’s edition provided the stage for the dawn of a new era within the walls of Austin’s Highland Lounge.
The promotion crowned new champions for both its titles, which were vacant going into the event, after a year of rising stars and new beginnings. Out pro wrestler Dillon McQueen‘s year-long quest for the Uncanny Attractions Unchampionship came to fruition and the team of out pro wrestler Nixi XS and Mackenzie Morgan finally installed themselves as Uncanny Attractions Tag Team Unchampions.
McQueen battled DARK Sheik, Marvelous Mack and Jak Calloway in a four-way main event for the Uncanny Attraction Unchampionship that closed out a night of no ring, no disqualification madness steeped in queer culture. The fight spilled all over the venue, including on top of a bar and both McQueen and Calloway nearly going over the railing of the second-floor balcony.
Amid a cacophony of devices wrapped like Christmas presents, Sheik nearly secured the win after hitting Calloway with an Arabian Facebuster through a door bridge using an artificial Christmas tree in tribute to Hall of Fame wrestler Sabu, but McQueen wouldn’t be denied.
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The win came when McQueen ducked Mack’s attempt to use McQueen’s Zaddyweight title as a weapon and dropped him with his modified arm-trap DDT variation, appropriately called the Zaddy-T, for the three count.
The weight of the moment immediately washed over McQueen, a constant presence at the promotion after it relocated from New York City to Texas three years ago. The new champ burst into tears as the Unchampionship belt came into his possession. That emotional outpouring continued as McQueen addressed the sold-out crowd after the match.
“Three years, from the bottom up, we went from empty seats in the front row to sold-out crowds. And we did it together. All of you made the Highland Lounge the spot in Austin, Texas,” McQueen said, clutching his titles, to cheers. “I’ve met some of my heroes that I’ve looked up to my entire life, but this Unchampionship is a bigger achievement in my wrestling career and it’s all because of you guys.
“I don’t plan on leaving this title under lock-and-key,” he continued. “From now on, it doesn’t matter. I want the best queer wrestlers, the best wrestlers in Texas, the best in the world. Because here, at the Highland Lounge, Zaddy is going to lay you down.”
Morgan and XS, known collectively as XSMKZ, had their moment earlier in the night as they took on former Uncanny Attractions Tag Team Unchampions Living In Fashion (Devin Carter and Zakai Living) in the finals of a year-long tournament to crown new Unchampions.
The two teams battled each other all over the venue as well, but with distinct moments of sensuality mixed into the holiday-themed violence. The sapphic stylings of XSMKZ prevailed after putting both Carter and Living through a door bridge and scoring a double pinfall.
XS paid tribute to her tag partner after the match. “This woman, Mackenzie Morgan, is the most ridiculous woman I’ve ever met,” XS said to the fans in attendance. “But its because of this woman that we are the new undisputed Uncanny Tag Team champions.
“We’ve been fighting for these titles for a year, and it is the greatest honor in the world to hold these titles for Austin, TV, for Uncanny, for the gays, for the trans women, for the dolls, for the drag queens, for all the ballroom performers here tonight. We represent them, and we will fight for them as hard as this woman has fought for me.”
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