Post by Slade on Dec 27, 2014 4:17:23 GMT -5
Dynamite Saturday Night
Saturday, December 20, 2014
From the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine, USA
Tonight’s Announced Matches
“Superstar” Billy Graham vs. Leo Burke
Fabulous Moolah vs. AJ Lee
Kazarian vs. Christian Cage
“Superstar” Billy Graham vs. Leo Burke
Fabulous Moolah vs. AJ Lee
Kazarian vs. Christian Cage
Tonight’s Broadcast Features the Ringside Commentary Teams of
Ed Whalen and Lord Alfred Hayes (English)
Marc Blondin and René Goulet (Français)
Ed Whalen and Lord Alfred Hayes (English)
Marc Blondin and René Goulet (Français)
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The following matches took place during the Explosive Pre-Game Show, hosted by Jeremy Borash & SoCal Val, and available exclusively on the Mash-Up Wrestling Network:
First Match: Cuban Assassin Sr. defeated Al Snow by pinfall at 5:47 after executing the piledriver.
Second Match: Courtney Rush defeated Sarita by pinfall at 5:18 after executing her finisher, the Skyward Suplex.
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Tonight’s show begins with a promo spot by the biggest key members of Californiacation – the ring general and current International Heavyweight Champion, “Superstar” Billy Graham; the management and brains behind the birth of the faction, “Classy” Freddie Blassie; and the man who employed them to try to ruin his father’s company, René Duprée. They come to the ring to a surprising amount of fanfare. It must be because we’re in Portland, Maine, just a stone’s throw away from the hostile territory of the broken city. The fans cheer on the antics of the “Superstar,” who promises a victory against Bret “The Hitman” Hart, next week. They also cheer when Blassie declares that AGPW owner Emile Duprée is pencil neck geek. Plus, they give Duprée a loud pop when he says that defeating Leo Burke and becoming the referee of the WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA) will literally guarantee that he’ll take over the company and when he does, he promises to forge strong business ties to New England and its favourite broken city.
Leo Burke comes out to interrupt the Californiacation love-in and he is soundly booed for it. However, he doesn’t let the fans get under his skin. He stands strong in the face of a hostile crowd and makes two promises. The sentimental territorial favourite and heart-and-soul of AGPW says that he’ll soften up Graham for Hart in tonight’s main event and then he’ll make Duprée go away for good when he defeats next weekend. Graham and Duprée have a plan to make sure neither of those things happen. They attack Burke, which brings the Hitman out from the back to make the save, which is jeered even louder than when Burke came out. Graham, Duprée and Blassie scatter from the ring, but they promise to get their revenge on Hart. Then, Emile Duprée emerges from the back, booed by the hostile New England crowd, who then cheer at the announcement that tonight’s main event has been changed to a tag team match featuring Billy Graham and René Duprée versus Leo Burke and Bret Hart!
*Commercial Break 1*
VS.
Big E. Langston vs. Sylvain
This isn’t much more than an introduction to Big E. He uses this match to showcase some of his moves and what he’s capable of doing. He’s extremely agile for a man of his size and impresses with his vertical leap. Big E uses his power to run over Sylvain like he was hit by a bullet train. Big E wins the match after executing the Big Ending.
Official Decision: Big E Langston wins by pinfall at 2:54
Big E. Langston’s victory celebration is cut short when Killer Kowalski appears on the arena jumbotron and promises to do to Big E what he’s about to do to Eric Young, who he says must be punished for eaves dropping on his meeting with “Classy” Freddie Blassie and snitching to Emile Duprée about their gentleman’s agreement. Kowalski forces his way into Young’s dressing room and throws him hard into the brick wall. Then, he pummels him with clubbing forearms blows and hard stomps, before giving him the Kowalski Claw. Meanwhile, Big E runs as fast as he can to the backstage to try to come to Young’s aid, but Kowalski’s vicious assault ends and he leaves before Big E can get there.
SoCal Val is standing by with Paige to get a few words from her regarding her ongoing hostilities with Jazz. They’ve both attacked each other several times and last week, in fatal fourway tag team match, both women ended up fighting away from the ring and throughout the entire arena. Paige tells SoCal Val that she makes it no secret that she doesn’t get along with Jazz and that she wishes to challenge her to a match at WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA)! She wants to see if Jazz’s bite really is as big as her bark. Then, suddenly, Jazz attacks Paige from behind with a steel chair and then administers a vicious beat down that culminates in Jazz giving Paige a powerbomb through a nearby catering table! Jazz tells SoCal that if Paige remains uncertain about the size of her bite, then she’ll gladly come to WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA) and show her exactly how strong her jaws are.
*Commercial Break 2*
Big E Langston has made it to Eric Young’s locker room too late to catch Killer Kowalski. He leaves the locker room and shouts out for first aid and then vows to make Killer Kowalski pay. He sees the camera, looks at it and an invitation to Killer Kowalski to make good on his promise to knock him out at WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA)!
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Lance Cade w/ Jimmy Hart vs. Rusev w/ Maryse Ouellet
Last week, Lance Cade’s tag team partner, Trevor Murdoch went into singles action against the Bulgarian Brute, and suffered a difficult loss. This week, Cade attempts to regain that victory. Of course, Rusev recently lost to both men in a tag team match when his partner, Magnus, was pinned. Following that match, Rusev and Maryse severed ties with Magnus. Moving into singles action, Rusev has won in consecutive weeks and looks to made it three in a row. Cade keeps him busy early on, using his speed to his advantage. Rusev does his best to block and defend against Cade’s early flurry of offensive maneuvers and begins to make a comeback when he gives Cade a standing body block that knocks him through the ropes and then gives him a ton of knee lifts to the chest and abdomen while Cade is caught between the ropes. From that moment on, Rusev is in firm control of the match and it is only a matter of time before he puts Cade out of his misery with a swinging side slam and The Accolade.
Official Decision: Rusev wins by submission at 4:38
*Commercial Break 3*
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Kazarian w/ Christopher Daniels & “Classy” Freddie Blassie vs. Christian Cage w/ Chris Jericho
Last week, it was their tag team partners that faced each other in singles action – Christopher Daniels versus Chris Jericho. This week, it is Kazarian versus Christian Cage is another singles match highlighting two of the best and most exciting wrestlers of the past decade. Last week, the Daniels versus Jericho match ended in a double countout when they brawled on the floor and failed to return to the ring. Kazarian and Cage got involved. Bad Influence manager “Classy” Freddie Blassie would urge his team to use weapons against their foes, but it would only backfire and see Vitamin C walk away from the ring unscathed after leaving Bad Influence in a mess as a result of a pair of con-chair-tos! This week’s match is no different in that Kazarian and Cage bring a fast paced intensity into the match and keep the action moving along at breakneck speed until things finally breakdown and give away to a larger fight involving their tag team partners. The referee’s official decision is a double disqualification when Daniels attacks Cage inside of the ring and Jericho retaliates by running in and giving Kazarian the Codebreaker! When it looks like Jericho and Cage will leave Bad Influence laying on the mat, Daniels gets up and takes them both out from behind with a springboard plancha that gives big air! This time, it is Bad Influence that dances and struts its stuff after leaving Vitamin C in a mess. They put both Jericho and Cage through tables with double powerbombs! These teams are on a career ending collision course that ends at WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA)!
Official Decision: Double disqualification at 7:51
*Commercial Break 4*
VS.
Taylor Wilde vs. Charlotte Flair
Charlotte Flair has been on a role since entering AGPW. She’s had a huge match with Natalya Neidhart and also competed in a historic mixed tag team match with her father, Ric Flair, as her partner. Last week, she competed in a big fatal fourway women’s tag team match, but didn’t factor into the outcome of the match. Taylor Wilde was once a pretty high profile competitor in AGPW, but her star seems to have waned. Nonetheless, this match represents a huge opportunity for Charlotte to rise further up the women’s division ranks and a chance for Wilde to re-establish her position in the upper echelon of the women’s division. The match is highly competitive. It’s a battle between Charlotte’s mat based attack and Wilde’s high risk aerial attack. Charlotte keeps Wilde on the mat for long stretches of the match, working her over with a figure four headlock and the figure four leg lock at various points in the match. Wilde nearly takes the victory at one point with a diving hurricanrana into a cradle pin. In the end, it is Charlotte who emerges victorious after she executes a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster as a counter to some headscissors from Wilde, and then follows that up with the Natural Selection!
Official Decision: Charlotte Flair wins by pinfall at 6:35
*Commercial Break 5*
VS.
Owen Hart vs. Magnus
The freshly turned face, Owen Hart, receives a huge amount of heel heat here. It’s like he never turned. However, patching things up with his fellow Calgarians and opposing the Boston Strongmen has done nothing to endear him to the fans of Portland, Maine. Here, he faces Magnus, who is no longer with a tag team partner for the first time in his AGPW tenure. Magnus holds his own in the opening minutes of the match, but he’s quickly overmatched by the far better and more experience grappler in the “King of Harts.”
And yet, Magnus finds himself lucky enough to leave this match a winner when the Boston Strongmen descend on the ring to distract the referee and along Frank Scarpa to give Hart a KO Punch as he is applying the sharpshooter to Magnus. Lance Storm and Tyson Kidd run out, but Scarpa, Frank Sexton and Tommaso Ciampa make a getaway through the crowd and the fans assist them in their escape by blocking aisles and passages to prevent Storm and Kidd from doing anything. Back in the ring, Magnus executes the Tormentum on Hart to pick up the pinfall victory.
Official Decision: Magnus wins by pinfall at 4:52
Lance Storm grabs a microphone. He wants to a moment to be serious with the hostile crowd. Storm cuts a short promo talking about how the Boston Strongmen have no business being here. They came to retrieve a title belt that was stolen from their promotion. However, the guy who stole the belt was fired weeks ago, which gives them no good reason to continue coming here. Tyson Kidd backs him up the emphatic declaration that what Storm says is FACT! Storm says that he, Kidd and Hart are proud Canadians and they will proudly defend their nation and AGPW against these Strongmen. Hart is back on his feet and he says that the three of them hereby challenge Scarpa, Sexton and Ciampa to their own match in their very own backyard – they want to face them in a 6-man Boston Street Fight at WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA)! The Strongmen, who have remained in the crowd to bask in their adulation, shout out that they accept. Now it will really be a war between the Grand Prix and the Broken City!
*Commercial Break 6*
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AJ Lee vs. Fabulous Moolah
Before the match begins, AJ Lee grabs a microphone and expresses her disbelief that the woman she admires more than any other in the world, “The Big Event” Trish Stratus, would attack her when she proved her undying loyalty to the Women’s Champion by offering her a golden opportunity to earn a pinfall victory over her arch nemesis, Fabulous Moolah. She feels hurt and betrayed. Fabulous Moolah comes to the ring and tells AJ that she shouldn’t be surprised because Stratus doesn’t care about anybody but herself. Then, she goes on to tell AJ that she won’t get any sympathy from her because she made an enemy out of Moolah the first time she attacked her on behalf of Stratus, and now she’ll have to pay. This is an entertaining match with Moolah employing every rule bending and breaking tactic she knows. She stays mostly in control of the match by taking liberties with the rules. However, AJ gets a few quick rallies thanks to her speed. There is short brawl outside of the ring midway through the match that sees both women trade chops, then AJ slam Moolah’s face off of the announce table. She tries to follow that with a whip, but Moolah reverses it and AJ crashes into the ring steps. Moolah continues to wear down AJ, but can’t seem to put her away. When she decides to go for a missile dropkick and misses, AJ finds a chance to get back into the match and rallies to the point where she gets Moolah trapped in the Black Widow! Moolah tries to get to the ropes to force a break, but she can’t make it. As he tries to inch her way over, she collapses and the referee awards the match to AJ.
Official Decision: AJ Lee wins by submission at 9:24
AJ Lee grabs a microphone and makes one final appeal to Trish Stratus to be friends, using her huge victory over Moolah as proof of what a valuable friend she could be to the Women’s Champion. Of course, while she’s making her case, Moolah decides to retaliate for her loss by hitting AJ in the back with a steel chair!
Suddenly, Moolah gets attacked by the Women’s Champion, Trish Stratus, and her gatekeeper, Awesome Kong. After giving Moolah the Stratusfaction and an Awesome Bomb, Stratus decides to clear the air with AJ, who takes her arrival in the ring to mean that Stratus really cares. However, Stratus tells AJ that they are not and never will be friends and, in fact, she thinks AJ is crazy. This last comment sets off AJ and she attacks Stratus, but ends up getting demolished with a two-handed chokeslam and an Awesome Bomb from Awesome Kong!
AGPW owner Emile Duprée comes out and says that he’s had enough of Stratus’ behaviour. He thinks that she sets a terrible example as the Women’s Champion and thinks that both AJ Lee and Fabulous Moolah deserve a fair shake at the title, so he’s ordering a match for WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA) where both women will have a chance to win the title. Stratus thinks it is unfair that she should have to defend her title against two opponents at the same time, so Duprée offers to balance out the competition in a way that ‘might’ be a little more in her favour. He decides to make it a fatal fourway match between Trish Stratus, AJ Lee, Fabulous Moolah… and Awesome Kong!
*Commercial Break 7*
w/ VS.
“Superstar” Billy Graham & René Duprée w/ “Classy” Freddie Blassie vs. Bret “The Hitman” Hart & Leo Burke
Tonight’s main event features all of the wrestlers who will have the greatest impact on the future of AGPW when they compete in a pair of singles matches at WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA). René Duprée and Leo Burke will compete for the chance to officiate the main event between “Superstar” Billy Graham and Bret “The Hitman” Hart. The stakes are high as earning the right to be the special guest referee in the main event virtually guarantees a victory for Duprée or Burke’s respective tag team partners for this evening. Of course, the stakes are much higher in the match between Graham and Hart. Not only is the International Heavyweight Championship on the line, but so too will control of AGPW. If Graham wins and retains his title, Renée Duprée will assume control of AGPW from his father. However, if Hart wins and becomes the champion, Emile Duprée will retain control of his company and his son will be banished from AGPW forever! This match, though, is for bragging rights and to gain momentum going into next week’s big event!
Both teams trade the advantage a few times before Graham and Duprée take control of the match. They isolate Hart and do a good job of wearing him down. However, they are unable to put him away. Even a rib-crushing bear hug from Graham can’t make Hart submit, however much the fans may be clamoring for it. No, the Hitman manages to avoid having his hand dropped three times to end the match and even successfully breaks the hold, but can’t get anywhere, as Graham pulls his hair as he tries to run away. Then, Graham hits a standing leg drop and hooks a leg for a pin, but Hart kicks out. Graham tags out and Duprée comes in to hit a standing dropkick and then dance a pas de basque and land a running elbow drop to earn another 2-count. A few more moves later and Duprée goes for a big splash off the top rope, but Hart moves. He makes the hot tag to Burke, which is meet by boos from the American fans. Burke comes in and does a number on both Duprée and Graham. However, taking on both of his opponents at the same time eventually catches up to him. As Burke is fending off Graham, Duprée is able to grab him from behind and put him in a full-nelson. Burke won’t quit and Duprée eventually just turns it into a full-nelson slam. He tags out and lets Graham go to work on Burke. He executes several moves in a row, but then goes for a whip and has it reversed by Burke, who executes an overhead belly-to-belly suplex on the International Heavyweight Champion. Burke crawls to his corner to make a tag, but Duprée jumps into the ring, rushes over and punches Hart off of the ring apron, much to the delight of the fans. When Hart recovers, he hops into the ring and attacks Graham. Then, Duprée comes back into the ring and we get a big 4-man brawl that ends with Hart dumping Duprée over the ropes and onto the floor with a big back body drop. However, a running clothesline attempt by Graham is ducked and Burke inadvertently bowls over the Hitman with it! This leaves him vulnerable to a hard kick to the abdomen and a piledriver from the Superstar! Graham pins Burke. 1…2…3! “Superstar” Billy Graham, Renée Duprée and “Classy” Freddie Blassie celebrate their victory as the fans in Portland cheer them on. Is tonight’s victory an omen of things to come at WAR ON THE EAST COAST (on December 28 in Boston, MA, USA)? Tune in next weekend to find out!
Official Decision: “Superstar” Billy Graham & René Duprée win by pinfall at 13:52
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