War on the East Coast 2015
Sunday, December 20, 2015
From the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Live Attendance: 13 835
Part 2 of 2
“The Warrior's Code” by Dropkick Murphys (of Quincy, Massachusetts), from the album The Warrior’s Code (2005)
Tonight’s Broadcast Features the Ringside Commentary Teams of
Ed Whalen and Vampiro (English)
Marc Blondin and René Goulet (Français)
With backstage interviews conducted by
Jeremy Borash and SoCal Val
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VS. Special AGPW-BCCW Interpromotional Tag Team Match
Dude Love & Cuban Assassin vs. Tyler Breeze & Rick “The Model” Martel This tag team match was set up by way of various storylines from AGPW and BCCW coming together. Over in BCCW, Commissioner Mick Foley felt guilty about a situation whereby Rick Martel assaulted the Bella Twins, who has been feuding with for quite some time because they have continuously scorned his attempts to woo them. Meanwhile, in AGPW, the feud between Tyler Breeze and Cuban Assassin began when Cuban Assassin prevented Breeze from using his selfie stick as a weapon to get the advantage over the Acadian Giant in a match they were having. Breeze couldn’t stand someone that ugly getting in his way and got revenge on him. Then, last week, Cuban Assassin paid him back by spearing him through a red carpet interview set Fashion Week in Toronto. Rick Martel happened to be there and he joined forces with Breeze to get revenge. Later that night, the two of them worked together to give Breeze a win over Cuban Assassin in singles action. But they didn’t stop there. They continued their assault, which led to the surprise save from one of BCCW Commissioner Foley’s alter-egos, Dude Love!
The first several minutes of the match follows a typical formula featuring a hot start for the faces, followed by the heels cheating to get the upper hand. Cuban Assassin ends up playing the face-in-peril. Frustration begins to set in as Cuban Assassin won’t stay down for a 3-count. Eventually, a mistake is made by Breeze when he whips Cuban Assassin into the corner and charges in only to end up having his shoulder slam into the turnbuckle post. Cuban Assassin makes a move towards his corner, but Martel comes in to cut him off. Cuban Assassin sees him coming and gives him a spinning spinebuster! Cuban Assassin crawls towards his corner, but both Breeze and Martel grab him by the legs and drag him away. They give him a wishbone legsplitter. Breeze executes a springboard 180 leg drop and pins. 1…2… kick out! He tags Martel, who climbs the turnbuckle. Breeze picks up Cuban Assassin and holds him in place. Martel goes for a missile dropkick and hits Breeze as Cuban Assassin gets out of the way. Then, Cuban Assassin nails Martel with a spear! Finally, he crawls over and makes the hot tag.
Dude Love comes in and cleans house with his fists, his feet and his clotheslines. He sends Breeze into the ropes and gives him a big back body drop, then runs over to give Martel a swinging neckbreaker! He gives Breeze an inverted atomic drop and then a short-arm clothesline. Then, Martel gets scooped up for a bodyslam and then a diving elbow drop. 1…2… Breeze makes the save. Cuban Assassin comes in, kicks Breeze in the abdomen and then throws him out of the ring. Dude Love makes the tag, then he lifts Martel up into the electric chair and Cuban Assassin nails the clothesline portion of the Doomsday Device! Cuban Assassin covers. 1…2… Breeze pulls Cuban Assassin out of the ring and then drives his back into the side of the ring. Dude Love chases him back to his corner, where he tags into the match. When Cuban Assassin climbs onto the ring apron, Breeze comes over to grab him, so Cuban Assassin gives him a shoulderblock and then does a slingshot sunset flip for a 2-count. Breeze kicks out and then gives him a basement dropkick. He pins for two. He picks up Cuban Assassin and whips him into the ropes. Dude Love makes the blind tag. Breeze gives Cuban Assassin a hurricanrana, but when he gets up, he immediately ends up in the Mandible Claw!
Martel comes in breaks it up, but then he gets attacked by Cuban Assassin and they end up on the outside brawling. While they brawl, Breeze gives Dude Love the Beauty Shot! He covers. 1…2… shoulder up! Breeze loses his mind. Back to the outside, Martel has just whipped Cuban Assassin into the ring steps. He goes back to his corner to grab his Arrogance sprayer. He moves towards Cuban Assassin when he sees the Bella Twins in the front row! They call him over and make like they have finally seen the light – like they think he’s God’s gift to women – and he appears to be falling for it. Breeze goes to his corner to make the tag and then sees that Martel is on the floor flirting with the Bella Twins. They sucker Martel in, grab his Arrogance and spray it in his face! Martel is blinded! He stumbles around, unable to see, and ends up in front of the barricade, when Cuban Assassin charges at him and drives him through the barricade with a spear!
“Holy shit!” Holy shit!” Breeze is pissed off at what he has just seen. Finally, he turns around, but doesn’t realize that Dude Love is waiting right there. Sweet Chin Music! That’s a kick to the chin and a double-arm DDT, for those who don’t know. Dude Love pins him. 1…2…3! The Bella Twins enter the ring and celebrate with the winners. The ugly heroes defeat the handsome heels and get to leave with the beautiful girls!
Official Decision: Dude Love & Cuban Assassin win by pinfall.
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Next up is a match that has been several months in the making. The backstory for this one goes back to the end of July, when Sensational Sherri made an unannounced return to AGPW television, announcing that she would be bringing a new wrestler onto the scene. She also foreshadowed the feud to come by alluding to him being more animalistic than macho madness ever was. On August 12, after “Macho Man” Randy Savage won a squash match, Batista stormed to the ring and viciously attacked Savage. A week later, at AGPW’s Summer Showdown, Savage beat Batista by disqualification, but ended up being put out of action after getting put through both sets of announce tables with Batista Bombs! Two months later, at Mayhem in Montréal, Savage returned to attack Batista. Ever sense then, any time the two have been in the same building, uncontrollable brawls have broken out, including this past Wednesday on
The Titans of Grand Prix when the contract signing for this match took place. Now, pinfalls can occur anywhere in the arena. Consequently, there are no countouts. They can end up anywhere throughout the arena and anything goes.
Anywhere and everywhere is where this match ends up going. Savage jumps Batista immediately as the bell rings and within 30 seconds, the brawling spills out to the floor, Batista is trying to get some distance, but Savage is on him, until he attempts an Irish whip. Batista reverses it and Savage slams into the barricade. Batista clotheslines him over it and then climbs over it to brawls around the floor a little bit. Savage takes control with a chair shot and sends Batista back to ring side. He climbs onto the barricade and executes a diving double axehandle smash. Savage grabs Batista and gives him a vertical suplex and then tries to pin him, but Big Dave just tosses him aside after a 1-count. Savage grabs the bell from the timekeeper and comes running at Batista, who drops him with a big boot. Batista grabs Savage and sends him back into the ring. While Savage is trying to get up, Batista picks him up and gives him a sidewalk slam. He covers for a short 2-count. Batista sends Savage into the corner and nails a running clothesline. He gives the Macho Man multiple shoulder thrusts to the abdomen. Then, he whips him into the opposite corner and repeats the running clothesline and shoulder thrusts. He lifts Savage onto his shoulder and looks to be going for a running powerslam, but Savage slips out the back and then dropkicks Batista. It staggers him, but he stays on his feet. Savage gives him a running elbow to the forehead and then two more before Batista goes down. Savage goes out to climb the turnbuckle, but before he can leap, Batista wisely rolls to the far side of the ring and out.
While Sherri is checking on Batista – or screaming instructions at him, Savage comes running around the ring and nails Batista in the back with a double axehandle. Sherri gets knocked over and she gets angry. While Savage is busy repeatedly slamming Batista’s face off of the steel ring steps, Sherri comes over from behind and hits him in the back of the head with her mini handbag. Savage immediately drops. Sherri opens her handbag to reveal a brick! Then, she orders Batista to pin Savage. He finally does, but there was enough of a pause for Savage to beat the three count. Batista shoves Savage against the barricade and lays into him with punches and kicks, while Sherri brings a trashcan full of goodies out from under the ring. Batista empties out the trashcan and dents it over Savage’s head. Then, he takes’ Savage and whips him across ringside, into the barricade. He charges at Savage and gets body dropped over the barricade, onto the floor. After taking a bit of a breather, the fight is back on. They trade blows as they brawl up the entrance aisle and towards the entrance set. Batista throws Savage into a stack of amplifiers and they fall over. Batista finds a metal storage trunk on wheels and shoves it towards Savage, but he rolls over the amplifiers, out of harm’s way. The Animal stays on the hunt. As he comes around to get Savage, he receives the old snake eyes and a lariat takedown. Savage bodyslams Batista onto the fallen amplifiers, then looks at the entrance set. He starts climbing it. Is he going to go for the diving elbow drop? No, Sherri grabs Batista by the arm and pulls him away.
Batista and Sherri head into over the guardrail and into the crowd. They go over to an area where there is an emergency exit at the arena floor level. Sherri finds a stack of tables leaning against the wall and tells Batista to grab one. He sets up, but then the Macho Man arrives and he drills Batista with a double axehandle to the back of the head. He grabs an audience member’s chair and hits Batista across the back with it. Then, he gives him a vertical suplex on the exposed floor! Savage gets up and sees the vantage point above the emergency exit (think of the size of a Zamboni entrance/exit) and points to it. The fans explode with cheers while Sherri screams no! Savage knocks Batista around a little more and then places him on the table. He starts walking up the arena steps and when he reaches the spot where he needs to walk over to the diving point, he freezes. Then, the cameras see a familiar face that we haven’t seen in a year and a half.
It’s Miss Elizabeth! Savage looks like he’s seen a ghost. He snaps out of it and starts questioning her. Elizabeth starts crying and tells him to stop before he kills himself. As this goes on, Batista has time to recover, open another table and stack them, and then attack Savage by hitting him across the back with a fire extinguisher! He lays him out on the steps with a clothesline. Batista sits down on him and pounds him with closed fists. Elizabeth looks very distressed. Sherri shouts at him to powerbomb Savage through the tables, so Batista takes Savage over to the spot above the floor level arena entrance/exit. Elizabeth gets out of her seat, walks over and pleads for him not to do it. Batista smiles at her as Sherri shouts at him to do. Finally, Batista lifts him up and gives him a release powerbomb through the stack of tables!
“Holy shit! Holy shit!” Batista smiles at Elizabeth as he walks by her, then heads down the steps and finally pins Savage. 1…2…3! Batista is a dangerous animal. Sherri jumps with joy, laughs at and insults Savage and Miss Elizabeth. She looks up at Elizabeth and says,
“You can have him.” When they finally leave the scene, Elizabeth comes down to scene of the wreckage. There are officials and EMTs everywhere. Savage gets fitted for a neckbrace and stretchered out of the arena. After the broadcast cuts to a promotional spot for future events, we come back to a scene of Savage getting loaded into an ambulance and Miss Elizabeth climbing into the back with him before it drives away.
Official Decision: Batista wins by pinfall.
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VS. Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match
For the North American Tag Team Championship Titles
Ted DiBiase & Alberto El Patron vs. Edge & Christian
vs.
Bret Hart & Chris Jericho vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. & Ultimo Dragon Tables. Ladders. Chairs. When all three things come together, the wrestling ring transforms into a living hell for the participants of the match. It is not for the weak at heart. Only the strong can survive. Only the strongest team will survive and close out the year at the top tag team in AGPW because it will be that team that will have climbed the ladder and retrieved the North American Tag Team Championship Titles when all of the other teams are too broken to get up off the ground and stop them. “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase and Alberto El Patron enter the match as the defending champions. Their current title reign stands at 238 days and is the longest reign of any team to have held the titles in AGPW history. The odds are against them to retain. It isn’t only the fact that the match will be fought under the vaunted Tables, Ladders & Chairs match. It is the fact that there are three other teams involved. That gives them a 25% chance of winning. But then look at the teams that are involved: Bret Hart & Chris Jericho (arguably the two best Canadian-born wrestlers of all-time), Edge & Christian (arguably the best tag team of all-time), and Rey Mysterio Jr. & Ultimo Dragon (two of the most successful luchadors of all-time).
The match opens with a big brawl in the ring. It peters out until there are only a few people left in the ring. We get started with the highlight reel of spots early on as Bret Hart hits DiBiase with a suicide dive in the entrance aisle. Then, Christian takes them both out with a diving crossbody from the top turnbuckle. Ultimo Dragon fakes them out by running towards the ropes and leaping over them to the ring apron. Then, he takes them out with an Asai moonsault. Next, Chris Jericho jumps into the fray with a corner springboard plancha. Rey Mysterio Jr. brings a ladder into the ring, but instead of climbing it, he leans it against the ropes, runs to the far ropes, up the rungs of the closed ladder and performs a diving somersault senton splash into the pile of wrestlers in the entrance aisle. Alberto El Patron breaks the chain. He grabs the ladders, sets it up and starts climbing. He doesn’t get very far, as Edge hits him in the back with a chair and gives him another shot to the face to knock him down. He throws the chair aside and starts going up the ladder. He is stopped by Ultimo Dragon, who performs a springboard dropkick into Edge’s back, which sends him and the ladder falling down. The ladder would later get folded up, picked up with Edge and Christian and thrown over the ropes at Jericho and Mysterio.
Later in the match, the first table is introduced by Ted DiBiase. He brings it into the ring and sets it up with his tag team partner. El Patron superkicks Christian and hands him over to DiBiase, who brings him onto the table and piledrives him through it! Later, after a ladder has been placed in the ring, Jericho gives it a baseball slide that causes the top of the ladder to ram into El Patron’s crotch as he is seated in the corner! Sometime later, we get our first major ladder spot of the night. Mysterio climbs the ladder to stop Edge from getting the belts, but then Jericho climbs up two steps below him and powerbombs him off of the ladder! Jericho holds onto him and then powerbombs onto a folder up ladder laying on the mat! Meanwhile, Edge gets close to the titles, but Bret Hart pushes the ladder over and Edge ends up landing awkwardly, straddling the top rope, and then he falls out of the ring. Hart starts climbing the ladder and El Patron goes up the other side. He stops him near the top by bashing his arm off the side of the ladder, then he pulls Hart’s arm through some ladder rungs to give him a modified cross armbreaker in the ladder! Jericho breaks that up by attacking El Patron. Meanwhile, another ladder gets set up and both Mysterio and Ultimo Dragon start going up it. Christian climbs up the original ladder and gets into a fist fight with Ultimo Dragon, who knocks him down to the mat, onto a ladder laying on the mat. Then, Ultimo Dragon performs a moonsault onto Christian on the ladder! Mysterio is the first wrestler to get his hands on the belts, but Jericho stops him from taking the titles by hitting his legs with a steel chair a few times. Then, Jericho knocks the ladder over.
Sometime later, we get one of the big spots of the night as Rey Mysterio Jr. climbs a ladder inside of the ring and performs a frog splash onto DiBiase through tables on the floor! With bodies laid out all over the place, Hart and Ultimo Dragon are the only people up and moving. Jericho starts moving on the outside. Hart takes care of Ultimo Dragon by putting him in the figure four around the ring post. Jericho enters the ring and starts climbing the ladder. It looks like there will be no one around to stop him, but Edge suddenly emerges and starts climbing an adjacent ladder. They get into a small fist fight and then Edge spears Jericho off of the ladder! El Patron starts climbing the ladder when Christian creates a ladder bridge from the ladder to the ropes. He gets on it, stops El Patron from getting the titles and does a jumping Unprettier from his ladder bridge to the mat! He starts climbing the turnbuckles and Hart comes in to stop him. Christian manages to knock him over and he lands onto the ladder bridge, so Christian gives him a frog splash! Then, finally, Edge makes the climb up a ladder and retrieves the North American Tag Team Championship Titles! We have a new top tag team in AGPW! And with this win, Edge and Christian become the first wrestlers in AGPW history to have won both the North American Tag Team Titles and the International Heavyweight Championship! It is a history making night, here, in Boston!
Official Decision: Edge & Christian win.
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VS. Women’s Championship Match
Charlotte Flair vs. Gail Kim Gail Kim’s AGPW career has experience a resurgence since she returned from a long layoff due to injury. Upon her return, she developed a new attitude. She has become over-confident and selfish. One can be over-confident when one has Chyna as an ally, who some might argue is responsible for a big part of her recent success. Kim got herself into title contention over the past several months with a few big wins. However, she cemented her spot as the number one contender when she pinned Charlotte Flair, the Women’s Champion, in a tag team match on the November 25 edition of The Titans of Grand Prix. Flair had been unbeatable since winning the title, six months ago, at Journey to Greatness 2015. Now, there must be some doubt as to whether she can continue her ride at the top of the most competitive women’s wrestling division in the Mash-Up Wrestling Universe.
The match starts out slowly, but with headlocks and a vaiety of other holds. They pass out the opening minutes of this match very slowly and methodically as the fans need to be brought back down from the high of having just watching the falls count anywhere and tables, ladders and chairs matches back-to-back. The first big spot of the match occurs after Kim takes Flair down with a snapmare and then runs to the ropes and hits her with a running basement dropkick. Flair rolls out to the ring apron, where Kim stops her from reaching the floor. She pulls Flair through the ropes and gives her a rope-hung DDT (shares of Randy Orton). She covers, but Flair kicks out. Kim starts applying holds to try to hyperextend different parts of Flair’s arms. Flair eventually breaks free and goes for a whip, but Kim reverses it. She goes for a headscissors takedown, but Flair handsprings up to her feet to counter and then drops Kim with a big boot. She puts Kim in a figure four headscissors and gives her a number of push-up facebusters. Kim eventually turns over in the hold and then folds up Flair for a pin, but she breaks the hold to get free. Kim goes for a tilt-a-whirl headscissors, but Flair counters it into a backbreaker and pins her for a 2-count. After that, she reapplies the figure four headscissors until Kim reaches the ropes. Next, Flair lays into Kim with a few knife-edge chops. She whips Kim and sets up for a back body drop, but Kim counters it with a sunset flip for a 2-count. Back to their feet, Flair attempts a big boot, but Kim baseball slides under it and then dropkicks Flair in the knee. After that, she executes a float-over DDT and pins her for a 2-count.
Kim applies an over the shoulder half-crab for a little bit before going out to the ring apron and executing a springboard crossbody into a lateral press for a 2-count. Kim applies a chinlock, Flair eventually gets up and breaks it with elbows to the mid-section, a knee lift to the face and then gives her a swinging neckbreaker. She pins. 1…2… kick out. Flair scoops up Kim and gives him multiple front backbreakers and then finishes her off with a fallaway slam. She pins. 1…2… kick out. Flair decides to go to the top rope. She goes for a moonsault, but Kim rolls out of the way. When they both get up, Kim runs at Flair and executes a tilt-a-whirl headscissors takedown. Flair gets up and Kim dropkicks her in the back, sending her face first into the top turnbuckle. Kim puts Flair up on the top rope and then hangs her down in a tree of woe and gives her a few hard kicks to the torso. She backs out and goes for a running baseball slide, but Flair lifts herself out of the way. Kim gets up on the ring apron, but Flair kicks her to the floor and then nails a plancha! Flair sends Kim back into the ring and starts climbing the turnbuckle. Kim pulls on the top rope to knock Flair into a seated position. Then she goes up top and takes Flair to the mat with a frankensteiner! Kim pins. 1…2… kick out! Kim is ready to finish her off. When Flair gets back to her feet, Kim gives her the arm wringer to set up for Eat Defeat, but Flair frees her arm, grabs Kim’s foot, pushes her flat on her back and puts her in the figure eight leglock. Kim can’t make it to the ropes and submits. Charlotte Flair retains her title and will close out 2015 as the AGPW Women’s Champion.
Official Decision: Charlotte Flair wins by submission.
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VS. Title vs. Title
Winner Takes All of the Gold
Mash-Up World Heavyweight Championship vs. AGPW International Heavyweight Champion
“Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. Samoa Joe On Sunday, December 24, 2014, AGPW held the first annual War on the East Coast. At that event, Samoa Joe and “Nature Boy” Ric Flair had a 20-minute contest that ended with Joe getting the biggest win of his Mash-Up Wrestling career to that point by making Flair pass out while being stuck in the Coquina Clutch. A few months later, Flair’s brief stint in AGPW ended and he returned to BCCW. In 2015, he would go on to form the Mount Rushmore of Wrestling with Gino Hernandez and Adam Cole and win lots of gold, including the BCCW Heavyweight Championship and the top prize in the game – the Mash-Up Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship, which he still holds. Samoa Joe continued his awesome 2014 with an even better 2015. Upon defeating Flair at the end of 2014, Joe was declared the number one contender for the International Heavyweight Championship and would challenge Bret Hart for the title at Winter Warfare. They wrestled a 24-minute masterpiece. Unfortunately for Joe, he suffered his first (and only) clean loss in his Mash-Up Wrestling career that night. Losing that match could have been the beginning of bad things for him, however, Joe picked right back up from there and shined all year long. He fought Rusev most of the summer, finally winning their feud in a Last Man Standing Match at the AGPW Summer Showdown. A month later, Joe got another opportunity to wrestle for the International Heavyweight Champion. At Vengeance in Vancouver, Joe defeated Edge to win the title. Then, at Mayhem in Montréal 2015, Joe retained his title, going distance as one of the first two entrants in the Elimination Chamber and outlasting Hart, Edge, Rusev, Chris Jericho and Christian Cage. It was just another feather in his cap. Now, the stakes could not be higher. 51 weeks after Joe beat Flair, they meet again at the same event, in the same city, but this time with the Mash-Up World Heavyweight Championship and the AGPW International Heavyweight Championship titles both on the line. The winner will walk away with everything and the loser will go home with nothing.
We get a false start to begin the match. Flair looks like he’s going to lock up, but he ducks and side steps Joe, then runs his hands through his hair and struts. The crowd cheers and goes,
“Woooo!” Joe smirks for a moment and waits for the showboating to end so they can get on with the match. Very early on, the crowd seems evenly split. We get dueling
“Let’s go Flair! Let’s go Joe!” chants. When they finally lock up, they open the match with some technical mat based wrestling. They exchange various holds. Joe gets Flair caught in a side headlock. A few times, he’s able to drop both of Flair’s shoulders to the mat to the referee to count pinfalls, but Flair always gets a shoulder up. Eventually, Flair shoves Joe off and tries to shoulderblock him, but it doesn’t work. Flair runs to the ropes and Joe takes him down with an arm drag. He gives him another arm drag and then a headlock takedown, but this time Flair slips out of it right away and takes Joe down with a fireman’s carry takedown and puts his own headlock on him. When Joe gets to his feet, he breaks it with some elbows and then runs to the ropes. He hops over Flair as he drops to the mat. Flair goes for a dropkick, but Joe clutches the ropes. Then, Joe charges at Flair, but he gets a back body drop. Joe gets up and Flair starts to lay the knife-edge chops in on him, backing him into the corner.
“Woooo!” Flair mounts the turnbuckle and starts punching him to the count of ten. However, Joe stops him at six by grabbing onto him, walking out of the corner and executing an inverted atomic drop. He knocks down Flair with a running single leg dropkick and then goes for a running senton bomb, but Flair dodges that. Back to their feet and Joe charges at Flair, but he drops to the mat while pulling the top rope down, causing Joe to go over the top rope and onto the floor.
The Nature Boy heads to the outside tackles Joe into the barricade. Then, he lays into him with some chops.
“Woooo!” Flair grabs Joe and attempts a vertical suplex, but Joe counters with one of his own! Joe rolls into the ring and back out. He picks up Flair and attempts to roll him into the ring, but he puts his hands out to block, gives Joe a hard back elbow and then slams his face off of the ring apron. More chops and then a hip toss into the steal ring steps. Flair breaks the count and comes back out. He picks up Joe and sends him into the ring. Flair comes in and chop blocks him. Now, he’s zeroing in on Joe’s leg. He starts contorting the knee in different ways. He wrenches it. He applies a spinning toe hold. He also gives it knee drops to the inside of the knee and multiple elbow drops. Flair attempts to apply the figure four, but Joe kicks him away with his free foot. When Joe gets up, Flair runs at him, and runs right into an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Next, Joe executes a belly-to-back suplex and then a fisherman’s suplex. 1…2. Kick out. Now, Joe throws some chops at Flair.
“Woooo!” Joe backs Flair into the corner and gives him some forearm smashes. Joe tries to lift Flair onto the top turnbuckle, but Flair stops him with an undetected testicular claw, which he applies while faking a suplex set up. Then, he takes Joe down with a gutwrench suplex. He pins. 1…2.. kick out. Flair goes back to a headlock. He eventually transitions it into a kneeling sleeperhold. He can’t put Joe to sleep though. Joe gets back to his feet, breaks out of the hold and executes a head and arm suplex. He goes for the cover. 1…2… Flair kicks out. Back to their feet, and they get into a nasty knife-edge chop battle. Joe wins it and then whips Flair into the corner and gives him a running butt bump. Flair falls to the mat with his head on the bottom turnbuckle. Joe runs to the ropes, comes back and nails him with kick to the face. Joe drags him out of the corner and pins. 1…2… shoulder up!
Joe has the momentum on his side, so Flair pulls a classic trick out of the book. He gets on his knees and begs and pleads for mercy. He tries to thumb Joe in the eye, but he was ready for it. He catches Flair’s arm and someone uses it to counter that attack into the Coquina Clutch! Flair isn’t in it for long and he quickly backs into the corner and slams Joe into the turnbuckles a few times. Flair goes for a whip, but Joe reverses it. Flair ends up flipping over the turnbuckle. He lands on the ring apron, runs to the other corner and climbs the turnbuckle. Joe grabs him and throws him down to the mat! Joe goes for the pin, but Flair kicks out at two! After that, they go into a sequence of multiple 2-count pinfall attempts. When it finally ends, Joe nails Flair with a CCS enziguiri! Flair goes down, but has enough sense to roll out of the ring and lay on the floor. When Joe finally gets to him, Flair pushes him away and throws some chops at him. He grabs Joe by the head and tries to ram him into the turnbuckle post, but Joe turns it around on him. Flair hits it hard and falls to the floor. When Joe picks him up, we see that Flair’s been busted open. Joe rolls him into the ring, comes in and executes a senton bomb. He pins. 1…2… kick out! Joe picks up Flair and sends him into the corner. He runs in and gets a boot to the face and then a chopblock. Flair waits for Joe to get up and gives him another one and then does it again. Finally, when Joe tries to get up again, Flair gives him a shin breaker and then puts him in the figure four! Joe manages to turn it over, but Flair is able to turn it over on him. After what seems like forever, Joe finally gets to the ropes to force a break.
Joe struggles to get to his feet. He uses the ropes to help him up. Flair attacks him with chops before going for an Irish whip. Joe reverses it and executes a Samoan drop. Joe covers. 1…2… kick out! Joe grabs Flair and sends him into the corner. He lifts Flair onto the top turnbuckle. It looks like he’s going for the Muscle Buster, but Flair blocks it and thumbs Joe in the eye. Joe turns his back to Flair and walks away, so Flair performs a diving knee strike to Joe’s back. Joe ends up flailing into the ropes, where Flair grabs him and executes a belly-to-back suplex. He hooks both of Joe’s legs and when the referee looks down at the shoulders, Flair puts his feet up on the middle rope for added leverage. 1…2…3! The Dirtiest Player in the Game finds a way to win it, by hook or by crook! Samoa Joe was unable to kick out and now he has lost the AGPW International Heavyweight Championship!
“Nature Boy” Ric Flair is on top of the world! He lost to Joe at last year’s War on the East Coast. However, this year, he not only beat him, but took his belt, too. Ric Flair is the Mash-Up Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion and the AGPW International Heavyweight Champion, winning another territories top championship in the heart of his own territory – the Broken City! What an embarrassment for Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling!
Official Decision: “Nature Boy” Ric Flair wins by pinfall.
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