Post by Slade on Jan 22, 2015 5:34:04 GMT -5
Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling presents
The Titans of Grand Prix
Wednesday, January 21, 2014
From Kitchener Memorial Auditorium in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
Live Attendance: 8 500
Tonight’s Announced Matches
Édouard Carpentier vs. Magnus vs. Test vs. Owen Hart
The Stampeders vs. “Killer” Karl Krupp & Kurrgan
Tonight’s Broadcast Features the Ringside Commentary Teams of
Ed Whalen and Lord Alfred Hayes (English)
Marc Blondin and René Goulet (Français)
Édouard Carpentier vs. Magnus vs. Test vs. Owen Hart
The Stampeders vs. “Killer” Karl Krupp & Kurrgan
Tonight’s Broadcast Features the Ringside Commentary Teams of
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: Gail Kim & Natalya Neidhart defeated the Canadian Ninjas by pinfall at 8:12 when Kim pinned Portia Perez following Eat Defeat, while Natalya executed the Nattie By Nature clothesline on Nicole Matthews.
Second Match: Dean Malenko defeated Cuban Assassin by submission at 6:26 with the Texas Cloverleaf.
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Édouard Carpentier vs. Magnus vs. Test vs. Owen Hart
This week’s show begins with a fatal fourway match, which is something we haven’t done yet in 2015. These four very capable opponents put on an excellent show. Everyone gets a chance to shine. Around the 10-minute mark, the match goes into the end game as Test lands a diving elbow drop on Magnus, followed by Owen Hart landing a moonsault on him, and ending with Édouard Carpentier landing a diving senton bomb on him. However, Carpentier can’t capitalize, as Test runs over him with a running big boot. However, he gets chopped down to size by Hart with one of his patented leg-feed enziguiri kicks. Hart follows it up with a sharpshooter to force Test to tap out.
Official Decision: Owen Hart wins by submission at 11:05
Hart wins the match, but has his celebration cut short by Steve Corino and the Fabulous Rougeaus, who attack him. After Corino gives Hart some wicked shots to the body with a Singapore cane. Lance Storm and Tyson Kidd rush down to the ring and brawl with the Rougeaus, but the damage is done. After Corino canes Hart half a dozen times, he whips him into a running big boot from Test. The Ex-patriots came to K-W ready to fight for their adoptive homeland, the good ol’ U-S-A!
*Commercial Break 1*
SoCal Val is standing by with Christian Cage, who complains of suffering a killer headache from the week before when he received a piledriver on the hood of a rental car from Bo Dallas. However, more than that, he complains that Dallas’ cowardly attack cost him his chance of facing Bret Hart for the International Heavyweight Championship at WINTER WARFARE. So as a consolation prize of sorts, he asked the commissioner’s office for and was granted a Falls Count Anywhere match versus Bo Dallas at WINTER WARFARE. Cage will get full revenge for everything Dallas did to him last week because that’s how he rolls!
Jeremy Borash is standing by with Commissioner Billy Two Rivers to find out whether he thought last week’s Beat the Clock challenge was a successful event. As he is explaining that he felt it went over well and that he was pleased with the results, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair shows up to decry the results as the greatest shame that ever happened in professional wrestling and he lays all of the blame for it at the feet of Chris Jericho, a man who is worth less than Flair’s shoes! Flair demands a piece of him and says that his good friend Arn Anderson also wants a piece of him for costing him his match against Samoa Joe. Two Rivers decides to grant Flair and Anderson their wishes as he announces that tonight’s main event will be a 6-man tag team match featuring Ric Flair and the Brainbusters versus Chris Jericho and the North American Tag Team Champions, Tazaro!
*Commercial Break 2*
Taka Michinoku vs. Steve Corino
Steve Corino’s debut match is a resounding success. He has difficulty picking up the victory in this. He snuffs out a brief late match rally by Taka, who tries to give him the Michinoku Driver, but Corino blocked it and gave him the Old School Expulsion to pick up the victory.
Official Decision: Steve Corino wins by pinfall at 4:15
After the match, Owen Hart gets his payback by attacking Corino with a steel chair. Test runs out to try to make the save, but Hart chases him to the back. Canada may have been routed in the first act, but it rises back again in the third. Oh Canada! Owen Hart stands on guard for thee!
*Commercial Break 3*
Awesome Kong vs. Courtney Rush
Awesome Kong dominates Courtney Rush, the native of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Rush is a fan favourite, but Kong receives a fair amount of cheers just one week after abandoning her post at the gate of The Big Event’s throne (that’s the AGPW Women’s Champion Trish Stratus, for those not in the know). Kong wins this match quickly, planting Rush into the mat with a devastating Awesome Bomb!
Official Decision: Awesome Kong wins by pinfall at 3:40
Following the match, Kong grabs a microphone and gives Trish Stratus a warning: the gatekeeper has left her post. A mutiny is coming for The Big Event, spearheaded by Awesome Kong, and she promises to finally conquer the throne and overthrow the queen!
However, that’s when the Women’s Champion shows up to give Kong a sincere apology straight from the bottom of her heart. Stratus now recognizes the error of her ways and claims to be remorseful for not truly appreciating her partner in crime. She offers a handshake and Kong accepts. Then, the other shoe drops. Stratus tells Kong that she knew the prestige of being the gatekeeper to her throne was greater than any personal aspirations she might have of becoming the Women’s Champion. Kong rips the microphone out of her hand and says that she’s full of shit. Now, she rejects the apology and won’t accept it until Stratus acknowledges that Awesome Kong is the true conqueror of the women’s division. Stratus then says that there is only one awesome conqueror of women’s wrestling, then clobbers Kong over the head with her title belt before saying that it is her.
*Commercial Break 4*
Prince Nana and the “Bulgarian Brute” Rusev take over the ring, so that Nana can promote his prized fighter, who has not yet faced a formidable challenge in singles competition. Nana proclaims that Rusev is a super athlete, stating that is the kind of warrior that only comes along once in a generation and that he is the prototype for this generation’s ultimate fighter. Nana declares that the future is bright for Rusev and believes that he will lead Nana and his powerful business associates to an embarrassment of riches in 2015 and in the many years ahead. And to prove that these are not just bold statements, Nana says that Rusev is ready to prove his might by challenging Bret “The Hitman” Hart to a match, right here, right now!
The International Heavyweight Champion is here and he’s ready to answer the challenge. If Rusev wants to learn what it means to be the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be, then the The Hitman is ready to execute him excellently.
Bret “The Hitman” Hart vs. Rusev w/ Prince Nana
Rusev has challenged Bret “The Hitman” to an impromptu non-title match that will certainly be the toughest match of his young career. Rusev has faced off with some excellent wrestlers in tag team competition and looked good doing it, but so far he’s stuck to manhandling guys at the low end of the card in his singles contests. Now that he’s no longer with Maryse Ouellet’s old managerial firm and competing for Prince Nana and his wealthy business associates, Rusev has suddenly found himself with a rocket pack strapped to his back. However, Nana and Rusev may have bit off more than they can chew in challenging the reigning International Heavyweight Champion, Bret “The Hitman” Hart. During the match, Samoa Joe comes out to join the play-by-play team and watch the match from ringside. Hart will defend his title against him in his very first title defence, on Sunday, February 1 at WINTER WARFARE.
Rusev comes out of the gate looking strong. He uses his power and a little bit of aggression to take control of the match early. Hart gets beat up as he struggles to defend himself against Rusev’s offense, which borrows heavily from his muay thai background. Eventually, Hart gets back into the match and takes over briefly after getting out of the way of a corner-to-corner running body splash. Hart gives Rusev an inverted atomic drop and a side Russian legsweep to get him on the ground and then starts working on his back, as well as applying some holds to cut of his hair, as he tries to keep his much bigger opponent on the mat with his ground attack. It is an effected attack, the Bulgarian Brute proves that maybe he can put some bite behind Nana’s bark, as he manages to block a sharpshooter attempt with his feet and strong legs by kicking Hart right through the ropes and onto the floor. Rusev goes to the outside and does some damage by sending Hart into the guardrail as well as by putting him in a bearhug and then ramming his spine into the turnbuckle post. Rusev nearly earns a countout victory, but the champion manages to crawl back into the ring at the count of ten. Hart absorbs quite a bit more punishment, but always forces rope breaks on the various armbars and the Indian deathlock that Rusev employed, and kicks out of his pinfall attempts. The tide turns back in Hart’s favour when counters a charging attack with a body drop over the ropes and onto the floor. Hart then takes Joe down with a suicide dive that sends him crashing back into the guardrail! When they both get up, they trade blows throughout the entire duration of the referee’s 10-count to return to the ring, which causes the match to end without a winner.
Rusev gets the upper hand in the exchange and then whips Hart hard into the guardrail. He charges at him, looking to go for a spear, but Hart moves and Rusev slams head and shoulder first into the guardrail. As Hart limps away, he picks up his title from the timekeeper and then pauses when he sees Joe at the commentary table. Joe takes the headset off and stands up. They exchange a few words, but nothing heated. Then, Rusev drops Hart from behind with a running standing body splash to the back. He stomps down on his spine, but before he can do anything more, Joe steps out from behind the commentary table and shoves Rusev back. They have a tense stare off that ends when Prince Nana pulls Rusev away, who then walks away with his hands raised in the triumphant celebration of having left the International Heavyweight Champion laying on the floor.
Official Decision: Match ends in a double countout at 12:18
*Commercial Break 5*
The Stampeders vs. “Killer” Karl Krupp & Kurrgan
“Killer” Karl Krupp and the “Acadian Giant” Kurrgan have considerable height and weight advantages, but Lance Storm and Tyson Kidd have all of the speed and use the ropes to springboard like nobody’s business. It’s a fairly evenly contested match until the Fabulous Rougeaus show up to assault Kidd after he gets dumped onto the floor by Krupp. He gets tossed back into the ring, where Kurrgan finishes him off with a chokeslam and applies Kurrgan Claw for the submission win, while Krupp blocks Storm from breaking it up.
Official Decision: “Killer” Karl Krupp & Kurrgan win by pinfall at 6:57
*Commercial Break 6*
Jeremy Borash is standing by with Commissioner Billy Two Rivers, who says that upon returning from his medical absence, it has become clear to him that there are a few scores that need to be settled amongst the AGPW roster, so he’s decided to give those wrestlers a golden opportunity to settle them at WINTER WARFARE. First, he announces that Owen Hart will take on Steve Corino in a one-on-one match and the Stampeders will battle the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers in tag team competition. Finally, he says that he is going to give Awesome Kong the opportunity to challenge Trish Stratus for the Women’s Championship because he thinks we’re all dying to find out whether the woman who truly conquered the women’s division over the last year is the gatekeeper or the reigning bearer of the throne. Trish Stratus versus Awesome Kong for the Women’s Championship will finally happen at WINTER WARFARE!
*Commercial Break 7*
Chris Jericho & Tazaro vs. “Nature Boy” Ric Flair & the Brainbusters
With 6 great workers in this one match, it is a high-octane, put pedal to the floor and never let up on the gas kind of affair. While everyone in this match is capable of doing some great things from a technical point of view, they contest this match more like a pier 6 brawl, which is suitable for everyone involved as well (although better suited to some more than others). Both the Nature Boy and Y2J take turns bumping like a couple of Ricky Mortons for the other team. First, Flair and then later Jericho. The hot tags lead to switches in the match’s momentum. After Jericho makes a hot tag to Cesaro and he gives running European uppercuts to each of the Horsemen, the crowd pops wildly as he then takes Flair for a long ride on a giant swing. However, after that, Anderson and Blanchard attack, which draws Jericho and Taz into the ring. The match breaks down into a giant brawl that sees Jericho and Flair exchange a number of chops on the outside. Jericho gets the better of him and whips into the ring post, causing Flair’s head to smack the ring post. Jericho hops up and climbs the top rope, but gets crotched on the turnbuckle. The Brainbusters set him up for a double superplex, but in the spot of the night, Taz and Cesaro rush over, get into position and powerbomb Anderson and Blanchard as they take Jericho to the mat with a double superplex. The crowd pops and a “This is awesome!” chant breaks out. Flair is bleeding profusely from his forehead, but that doesn’t stop him from breaking up a pin attempt that would have won the match. Flair jabs and then chops away at Cesaro. Then he goes for a whip, but Cesaro reverses it and knocks the Nature Boy out with a Very European uppercut. However, he is then given a slingshot suplex from Blanchard, who ends up a victim of a Codebreaker from Chris Jericho. Then he ends up receiving a Double A Spinebuster, which is followed by Anderson flying half way across the ring with a Tazmission-plex! Taz gets a low blow from behind by the Nature Boy and then a Russian legsweep. Flair goes for the figure four leg lock, but Jericho hammers him from behind and knocks him out of the ring. Then, Jericho takes him out with a corner springboard plancha! Back in the ring, after a bit of confussion, the Brainbusters manage to dump Taz from the ring and then give Cesaro a spike piledriver. Blanchard covers him for the victory!
It doesn’t stop there though. Having already won the match, the Brainbusters attack Taz and Anderson takes him out with a Double A Spinebuster on the outside! Then, they save Flair from Jericho and put a beating in on him, which ends with them turning Jericho over to Flair so he can give Y2J a delayed vertical suplex through the English announcer’s table! The show ends with the Horsemen standing tall!
Official Decision: Ric Flair, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard win by pinfall at 14:43
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