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Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling presents
PRIMETIME LIVE
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Live from the Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia
AGPW is live and in primetime, only on ASN. Now, it’s time to play that old familiar drum beat!
PRIMETIME LIVE
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Live from the Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia
AGPW is live and in primetime, only on ASN. Now, it’s time to play that old familiar drum beat!
Ed Whalen: Good evening, Atlantic Canada! Welcome to PRIMETIME LIVE!
Jeremy Borash: We have a very exciting night of wrestling ahead of us. We are broadcasting live from the Halifax Metro Centre, in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, and tonight promises to be an historic evening for Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling!
Ed Whalen: Tonight, the International Heavyweight Championship and North American Tag Team Championship titles will be awarded for the first time since the re-birth of Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling.
Jeremy Borash: That’s right, four teams will compete to become the North American Tag Team Champions when Kaientai, the Montréal Mafia, Junkyard Dog & Bo Dallas, and Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch battle in a fatal fourway elimination match.
Ed Whalen: And let’s not forget that Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch can’t be eliminated during the first 10-minutes of the match.
Jeremy Borash: That gives them an added advantage over the other teams in the match. Plus, the first International Heavyweight Champion in Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling will be either Chris Candido or “The Iceman” Dean Malenko.
Ed Whalen: Does it surprise you that two of the very strongest technical wrestlers in Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling will be competing for the top prize in our region?
Jeremy Borash: Not at all, Ed. As you well know, if you are wrestling in Canada and you are not a sound ring technician, it is very hard to make it to the top in this country.
Ed Whalen: That’s very true, Jeremy.
Jeremy Borash: But those aren’t the only big matches that are on tonight’s card. We’ve also got Magnus vs. Chavo Guerrero and the Cuban Assassins vs. Al Snow and a tag team partner of his choice.
Ed Whalen: That depends on if he’s found a tag team partner yet. Also, Test will finally take on “Primetime” Elix Skipper tonight, and we will have a 6-man tag team tables match between Team Canada and “Marvelous” Marc Mero & the Jersey Shore.
Jeremy Borash: And, in what is perhaps the most anticipated match of the night, Leo Burke and Lance Storm will face René Duprée and Sylvain Grenier in a Losers Leave Town tag team match.
Ed Whalen: That’s a big one that all of Canada can’t wait to see, and Atlantic Canadians in particular, as arguably the two biggest names in Atlantic Canadian professional wrestling history will go head-to-head in this tag team contest, and one of them will be forced out of Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling by the end of the night.
Jeremy Borash: There is all of this and so much more coming up for you on our first live 3-hour telecast. This is Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling and this is PRIMETIME LIVE on ASN.
SoCal Val is backstage with René Duprée and Sylvain Grenier – La Résistance. She wants to know if they’re nervous about their Losers Leave Town match, later on tonight. Grenier says that they aren’t worried because they’re prepared for this match. He believes that when it all comes down to it, they have the advantage of experience working together as a team, whereas Leo Burke and Lance Storm have only teamed together once in a handicapped match, and together they failed to beat one wrestler. Duprée adds that he isn’t worried because they wanted this match to happen so that they can rid Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling of all of its poisonous elements – the two biggest of which are Leo Burke and Lance Storm. He knows that they deny his brilliance, but he maintains that regardless of what they say, he is the best wrestler in all of Canada and he will prove it by first banishing Burke and Storm from Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling, then beating every other man on the roster who dares to dispute his greatness, and by going on to win the International Heavyweight Championship. He guarantees it.
We switch over to the Chief of Staff’s office, where we find Chief Morley with Al Snow and Head. Snow comes to Morley and tells him that he has a big problem. He still hasn’t found a tag team partner for tonight and hopes that maybe he wouldn’t mind being his partner. Morley says that he would love to, but he is busy working to make sure that tonight’s event goes smoothly and without any problems. Plus, he says that, as the Chief of Staff, it wouldn’t be appropriate for him to wrestle against members of his roster. He tells Snow that there are still some guys here who aren’t booked for tonight and that he’d better ask every last one of them for help because there’s not much more time before his match against the Cuban Assassins. Snow says that he understands, but leaves Morley’s office disappointed and worried that he may be fighting in a handicapped match. The last thing we hear him say as he’s leaving the room is, “To defeat a couple of mad men, I have to enter the madness. How do I enter the madness, Head?”
SoCal Val is with Chris Candido and Sunny, and asks Candido how it feels to have a chance to become the first International Heavyweight Champion. Candido says that it would be an honour and a privilege to go down in the record books as AGPW’s first International Heavyweight Champion. Val asks him what he thinks about having to face a man as cold and calculating as Dean Malenko. Candido says that he knows that Malenko is a ruthless competitor and that he will pick him apart if given the chance. However, he isn’t going to give Malenko the chance. He’s been preparing long and hard for this match and he’s confident that he will be victorious. Sunny speaks up and says that all of that hard training and preparation he’s put in for this match means that he’s ready to handle anything that Malenko throws his way. Then, she wonders aloud whether Malenko will be ready for everything that Candido throws his way. She closes by saying that she doesn’t think so.
*Commercial Break 1*
VS. w/
6-Man Tag Team Tables Match
Team Canada vs. “Marvelous” Marc Mero & the Jersey Shore
Team Canada vs. “Marvelous” Marc Mero & the Jersey Shore
The evening’s action begins with Petey Williams and Eric Young taking out both Robbies with suicide dives out on the floor. Mero starts to rush down, but stops as he sees Devine, who is anxious to get into it with him. Devine charges towards him and they brawl. It’s a pier-6 brawl out on the floor, with the good guys getting the better of their opponents. The match eventually returns to the ring, where the members of Team Canada take turns working on Mero. The tide of the match turns, when Robbie E comes into the ring to break up a pinfall attempt and he takes his time leaving. The referee is busy trying to get him out of the ring. Meanwhile, Devine tags in Young, who gives Mero a bodyslam and goes to turnbuckle to for a moonsault, but with the referee distracted, Robbie T goes over and shoves him off the top turnbuckle, sending him crashing into the guardrail. This draws Williams and Devine into the ring and the referee goes to hold them back. Robbie E grabs Mero and drags him back into their corner to tag out. Robbie T crosses the ring and knocks Williams off of the apron. Devine comes into the ring and gets into it with him, but he’s eventually planted into the mat with a powerslam. Now, both Robbies make quick tags to work over Devine. Mero gets into the match and takes the fight to Devine while shouting at him about keeping his eyes off of his personal trainer. Mero decides that he wants to get the tables into the match. A table is slid into the ring, which brings Williams and Young into the ring, followed by both Robbies and we get another brawl. At this point, the referee can no longer contain order and the fighting happens all over the place. Team Canada is building momentum and starting to dominate things. There are a few attempts to use the tables, but no one can end it. Eventually, Young goes through a table on a moonsault attempt, but no one is there. Mero was on the table, but managed to roll off of it. Candice Michelle pulls him out of the ring and tries to help him to hide from the action. Mero waves off the match. He doesn’t want anything to do with it anymore. He and his trainer high-tail it out of there, leaving the Jersey Shore at a disadvantage, and before long, Robbie T is put through a table with a double team suplex from Williams and Devine. Although, they’ve already won, Team Canada put Robbie E through a table with a wicked triple team spot in which Devine powerbombs RE, while Williams jumps off the top turnbuckle with a flying cross-body block, and Young grabs him by the head as he comes down for a neckbreaker! The crowd pops as the Jersey Shore has been left in ruins.
Official Decision: Team Canada wins by putting Robbie E and Robbie T through tables
*Commercial Break 2*
VS. w/
Chavo Guerrero vs. Magnus w/ Maryse Ouellet
There isn’t a big backstory to this one. This match was set up after Magnus and Maryse deliberately beat up on Al Snow, who asked Magnus to be his tag team partner for tonight, but then was saved by Chavo. Magnus looks like he’s in a hurry to win the match, impress the fans and his manager, and humiliate Chavo, as he takes the fight to Chavo right away and seems to be rushing his every move. This is a mistake, as he doesn’t take care to make sure that his intensity doesn’t backfire – and it does. He runs hard into a turnbuckle. Chavo rolls him up for a 2-count and then goes on the offensive. Chavo hits Magnus with most of his signature moves, including spinning tilt-a-whirl headscissors, a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, a dropkick and the three amigos suplexes. He decides to try to go for the Gory bomb, but Magnus manages to shake himself free and deliver a standing dropkick to Chavo. He gets up and tries to give Chavo a vertical suplex, but he slides down behind and lands on his feet. He follows his escape up with a release German suplex. Chavo starts climbing the turnbuckle, but Maryse gets up on the apron and creates a distraction. The referee eventually gets her to hop back down to the floor. However, this disctraction gives Magnus enough time to get to his feet, and meet Chavo on top of the turnbuckle and execute a superplex! Magnus is slow to make the cover, allowing Chavo the chance to kick out at two. Magnus picks Chavo up and lifts him onto his shoulders, but Chavo gets down, kicks him in the abdomen and takes him down into a sunset flip. It gets a 2-count, but Magnus kicks out and folds him up into a double leg clutch pin. Magnus gets his feet up on the middle rope for added leverage. The referee doesn’t see his feet on the rope and Chavo can’t kick out of the pin. Magnus gets the win, much to the displeasure of the crowd.
Official Decision: Magnus wins by pinfall
*Commercial Break 3*
Chris Hero: Coming Soon!
SoCal Val is backstage with Lance Storm and Leo Burke. She asks them the same questions she asked La Résistance: are they nervous about the Losers Leave Town match and are they worried that they may be forced out of their jobs by the end of the night. Lance Storm tells her that this is no time to be joking around. He needs to be deadly serious right now. He’s not excited by the idea of losing his job, just one month after he got it. However, he’s not too worried about the match stipulation, because he won a contract by beating René Duprée, even after Sylvain Grenier tried to help him cheat his way to victory. If he can do that on his own, he figures that wrestling the two of them with the help of a Canadian wrestling legend, the likes of one Leo Burke, then there’s no chance that he’ll be leaving AGPW after tonight. Leo Burke, for his part, doesn’t seem his usual self. He’s more quiet and reserved than usual. He speaks up and simply asks forgiveness for not wanting to say too much right now, but the only thing he has to say is that this match may be the most important of his career, because losing a losers leave town match would effectively end his career – and he’s not ready for that to happen. He believes that he still has plenty left in the tank and he won’t let some brash, entitled idiot of a kid from the next generation of professional wrestling force him out to pasture. He’s going to go out when he’s ready and on his own terms – and not by being forced out by René Duprée and Sylvain Grenier.
*Commercial Break 4*
“No Class” Bobby Bass comes to the ring and – you guessed it – he’s got a bone to pick with the management, specifically Chief Morley, for not booking him on PRIMETIME LIVE. He fails to understand how a superstar of his calibre - a self-described “ratings juggernaut” – could be so unceremoniously left off of the biggest show of the year, as if he was nothing more than an afterthought to the booking committee. He won’t stand for it and he is intent on righting this wrong by having a match tonight and he refuses to leave until he’s had a fight in the middle of this ring. He doesn’t care whom it is against because he knows that there isn’t a single man in the back who won’t lay down for the 1-2-3 after getting a taste of his leather boots. Finally, he demands that Chief Morley send “one of them poor schmucks out here to get him some!”
It’s Rowdy Roddy Piper! The fans are going crazy! The first thing that the Scotsman does is grab a microphone and greet the fans of New Scotland (the English translation of Nova Scotia). Then, he berates Bobby Bass a little bit and tells him that he’s here to answer his open challenge. Bass, for his part, doesn’t look particularly pleased to see Piper and says that he shouldn’t be out here because he’s not on the roster. Piper calls the “ratings juggernaut” a coward and tells him that it’s time to fight!
“No Class” Bobby Bass vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper
The referee calls for the bell. Piper is still removing his kilt when Bass attacks. He backs Piper into a corner and pummels away at him. He gets Piper down to the mat, but Piper springs up, and in a fit of Scottish rage, fights back with a flurry of jabs, chops and slaps, until Bass has been backed into the opposite corner and pummeled to the mat. Piper brings him to his feet and throws some calculated jabs at Bass, while he’s against the ropes before clotheslining him to the floor. Piper goes outside and takes the fight to him. He press slams Bass against the guardrail and drives his back into the side of the ring apron before rolling him into the ring. Piper gives him a vertical suplex and covers, but Bass kicks out. Piper brings him to his feet and whips him, but Bass reverses it. Piper hits the turnbuckle hard, but runs out of the corner on impact and clotheslines Bass to the mat. He plays to the crowd while waiting for Bass to get up and then slaps on the sleeperhold, putting “No Class” to sleep for the win!
Official Decision: Rowdy Roddy Piper wins by putting his opponent to sleep
*Commercial Break 5*
VS. w/ VS.
VS.
VS.
Fatal Fourway Elimination
North American Tag Team Championship Match
Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. Montréal Mafia vs. Junkyard Dog & Bo Dallas vs. Kaientai
North American Tag Team Championship Match
Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. Montréal Mafia vs. Junkyard Dog & Bo Dallas vs. Kaientai
Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch cannot be eliminated during the first 10-minutes of this match. This gives them a distinct advantage over the other teams in the match. However, the other teams find a way to counteract their advantage by getting Cade into the match and refusing to tag out. The other teams would walk away or leap off of the apron and onto the floor to avoid getting tagged into the match. Moreover, any attempt at a pinfall made by Cade or Murdoch would be broken up by any of the other wrestlers in the match. In essence, the match plays out as a 6-on-2 affair in its opening minutes. This hurts Cade and Murdoch, as Cade ends up getting cut off from his corner, at around the 5 minute mark, and begins to get dominated by the other teams. Mad Dog Vachon and Dino Bravo even manage to give him a spike piledriver! Vachon forgets that he is immune from pinfalls and goes for the cover, but the referee won’t count. He gets furious at the referee as he could’ve counted to 10 before Vachon broke up his own fall attempt. Bravo and Martin try to calm him. A few moments later, the 6-on-2 dynamic of the match breaks down after Vachon tags out to TAKA. Vachon hooks Cade’s arms, as TAKA goes for a springboard dropkick, but Cade breaks free and he hits Vachon. This draws Bravo into the ring to attack TAKA, which in turn draws Funaki into the ring. JYD and Dallas are both struck by Vachon, which draws them into the ring, as he is attacking everything in sight. While the brawl ensues, Cade sneaks away to tag out. Murdoch comes in but just patiently waits in the corner while wrestlers are getting dumped out of the ring. Then, he sees an opportunity to pounce and attacks TAKA, giving him the Ace of Spades and scoring the fall, thus eliminating Kaientai from the match. A minute later, Cade and Murdoch’s immunity ends, which is bad news for them, because 2-minutes later, JYD gives Murdoch the Thump and pins him to eliminate Cade and Murdoch from the match. Now, we’re down to two teams. We get a tense stare-off from these old, bitter rivals. After the stare down, Martin orders both men to attack. Vachon and Bravo rush JYD, but Dallas comes in and everyone is firing lefts and rights. The match spills out to the floor and the brawl has begun. The referee can’t seem to get control of things and he can’t convince anyone to get back into the ring. He’s also powerless to count them both out, because the titles are at stake and they must be won by one of these teams! JYD eventually brings Bravo back into the ring, while Dallas is taking care of Vachon on the outside. JYD is largely in control. However, he goes for a whip and Bravo reverses it. He sets up for a back bodydrop, but JYD leap frogs him and comes to a stop. Bravo turns around and JYD gives him a head butt and then scoops him up for the Thump slam! He hooks the leg, but the referee is distracted by Frenchy Martin. Meanwhile, on the outside, Dallas gets sprayed in the face by green mist! He’s been totally blinded and he’s now stumbling around on the outside of the ring.
It’s Tajiri! He jumps over the guardrail and slides into the ring. JYD releases Bravo from the pin and rises to his knees, only to get knocked out from behind by Tajiri, who gives him a Japanese buzzsaw kick from behind! Tajiri grabs Bravo and rolls him over onto JYD before exiting the ring. Martin lets the referee get back to his job. He counts the pinfall. 1…2…3! The winners and first Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling North American Tag Team Champions are Dino Bravo and Mad Dog Vachon, the Montréal Mafia!
Official Decision: Montréal Mafia wins by pinfall
*Commercial Break 6*
Ezekiel Jackson: Coming Soon!
SoCal Val is backstage with “The Iceman” Dean Malenko to ask him how he feels going into his match for the AGPW International Heavyweight Championship, in tonight’s main event. Malenko says he feels better than ever and he likes his chances of going home with the gold, tonight. Val asks him if he has any feelings of nervousness, to which he replies that he feels nothing but confident that he will go into the ring for a long, grueling battle with Chris Candido, and that he will emerge from the battle as the only man left standing, making him the first AGPW International Heavyweight Champion in the process.
*Commercial Break 7*
VS.
Test vs. Elix Skipper
This match has been a long time coming and it shows as they get off to a hot start. Both men lock up and Test uses his strength to throw Skipper around. However, he also displays his incredible quickness for a bigger man through incorporating some strikes and running to the ropes into his offensive attack. Test is firmly in control for the first portion of the match, but Skipper finds an opening to turn the tide and makes a comeback with several successful high-risk moves. However, things take a turn for the worse for Skipper when he tries for a somersault senton bomb from the top rope, only to find there’s no one home. Test waits for Skipper to get up and tries for his signature running big boot, but Skipper ducks it, then takes Test down with a back wheel kick. Skipper pins, but Test kicks out at two. He picks up the big man and sets up for a piledriver or powerbomb, but Test goes for a back bodydrop, only to have Skipper counter it into a sunset flip, but Test kicks out at two, then folds Skipper up with a double-leg clutch pin, but he manages to kick out at two. He gets up and Test nearly takes his head off with a stiff clothesline. Test picks up Skipper and goes for a pump-handle slam, but Skipper escapes down Test’s backside and gives him a bridging dragon suplex, which Test kicks out of. Skipper takes Test back down with a huricanrana. Then he leaps onto the top turnbuckle and takes him down with a flying, spinning heel kick from the top rope. Skipper pins, but Test gets his shoulder up at the last moment. Skipper picks up Test to set him up for his Sudden Death finisher, but Test wiggles free and lays into Skipper with some hard fists. He goes for the Irish whip, but Skipper reverses it. Skipper leaps up for a leg lariat, but Test catches him and drops him across his knee for a vicious backbreaker. He pins, but Skipper kicks out at two. Test picks up Skipper and brings him into a fireman’s carry. He goes for the Test Grade, but Skipper breaks free, then delivers a diving dropkick to Test’s knee to chop him down, and he gets up quick enough to hammer Test in the back of the head with an enzigurri kick. He covers, but Test manages to get his shoulder up! Skipper sets up for the Play of the Day, but Test backs out of it and levels him with a short-arm clothesline. He runs to the ropes as Skipper is getting up and tries to deliver the running big boot, but Skipper ducks it again, then tries to hit him with a spin kick, but Test blocks it, then grabs Skipper from behind and gives him a full nelson slam. Test picks him up and this time manages to execute the Test Grade. He covers for the 3-count and the win.
Official Decision: Test wins by pinfall
*Commercial Break 8*
Al Snow comes to Chief Morley’s office. He tells Morley that he has a bit of problem – he still doesn’t have a tag team partner and he wants to know if there is some way that he can delay the match until later. Morley says that he can’t put off this match any longer. It has to happen here and now. He has a big double main event, and those matches must finish off the night. He tells Snow that he sympathizes with him and doesn’t want to see him get destroyed by the Cuban Assassins in a handicapped match, but he says that he has a responsibility to the people who paid their hard earn money to make sure that this match happens as advertised, regardless of whether Snow found a partner or not. Then he tells Snow to get on there.
& ? ? ? VS.
Al Snow & Mystery Partner vs. The Cuban Assassins
Al Snow comes to the ring first. He’s waiting in the ring, looking rather nervous about what is about to happen, as the Cuban Assassins make their way down to the ring. They get in the ring and both of them look like a couple of savage beasts who are both just anxious to get their hands on Snow. The referee asks him if his partner is coming out and he responds that he doesn’t have a partner, so the referee reluctantly calls for the bell. Snow is getting backed into a corner as the Cuban Assassins close in on him. They try to attack, but Snow manages to split their attack with a baseball slide. He runs to the ropes and comes back with a cross body attempt, but they catch him and then give him a gorilla press slam! The Assassins start laying into him with punches and kicks when suddenly we hear “Pomp and Circumstance” blast throughout the arena.
Enter the MACHO MADNESS! “Macho Man” Randy Savage runs down to the ring, with his valet Elizabeth following behind. He gets into the ring and starts delivering clotheslines, elbows and knife-edge chops to both of the Assassins. Snow is able to recover and starts to help Savage as they take on the mean brawlers. The referee lets this one go as all four men fight in the ring, until eventually, the Macho Man sends CAJR over the top rope with a running hair-pull toss. Meanwhile, Snow pulls off the Snowplow on CASR. Savage goes to the top rope, which sends the building into hysterics! He nails the flying elbow drop, then gets up and circles around while pointing to the sky as he lets Snow pin the fallen CASR for the 3-count and the victory!
Official Decision: Al Snow & “Macho Man” Randy Savage win by pinfall
*Commercial Break 9*
VS.
Losers Leave Town
Leo Burke & Lance Storm vs. René Duprée & Sylvain Grenier
Leo Burke & Lance Storm vs. René Duprée & Sylvain Grenier
As soon as the bell rings, a brawl breaks out in the middle of the ring. All four men are going at it for the first half-minute before Duprée and Grenier get dumped to the floor to pop the crowd. They stall returning to the ring. Finally, Grenier slides into the ring and locks up with Burke. Both teams get moves in on their opponents and are able to make some tags with neither team getting a clear advantage in the opening minutes of this bout. That changes after Storm misses a leg lariat and then gets put down with a side belly-to-belly suplex by Duprée, who then tags in Grenier and they quickly follow up with a double-team spinebuster! Grenier pins him, but Burke breaks the pinfall attempt. However, the villains are clearly in control now. They make several quick tags and take full advantage of their opportunities to pull off some double team moves. Burke is anxious to get a tag, but he can do nothing but watch as Storm is slowly been worn down and each 2-count gets miliseconds closer and closer to reaching the count of three. Finally, it looks like Storm has nothing left in the tank when Grenier tags Duprée and then gives Storm a neckbreaker and Duprée comes off of the turnbuckle to hit an elbow drop to his forehead. He pins, but Burke breaks it up before the count of three. This draws Grenier back in to attack. Grenier backs Burke into the ropes, then he goes for a whip, but Burke reverses it and takes Grenier down with a flapjack. Duprée tries to strike, but Burke sees him coming and hip tosses him and then delivers a low dropkick to his spine. The referee finally forces Burke back to his corner, where he starts beating on the turnbuckle and getting the crowd to chant for Storm. Grenier gets up first and sees Storm getting up. He runs at him, but Storm ducks the clothesline attempt and then catches Grenier with a superkick. Duprée runs over and Storm takes him down with a spinning heel kick. After a few seconds, Storm starts crawling to his corner. Duprée gets over and grabs his foot, but Storm manages to fling himself up off the mat and make the tag before being pulled away.
In comes Burke and Duprée looks worried. Burke strikes with fists and chops. Then he gives Duprée a whip and an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Burke gets up and sees Grenier coming at him and he gives him an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Duprée gets up with the help of the ropes, only to get clotheslined to the floor by Burke, and then the same thing happens to Grenier. Burke is jacked up and the crowd loves it. He goes to the outside and sends Grenier into the guardrail with an Irish whip. He charges at him and clotheslines him over the rail to the other side. Burke hops the guardrail and folds up a ringside seat. He’s signalling that he’s getting ready to tag Grenier with it. He lifts it over his head, but Duprée pulls it out of his hands and goes to swing it, but he has it pulled out of his hands by Storm, who goes to swing it, only to have the referee pull it out of his hands. Duprée sees the advantage and shoves Storm back first into the ring post, then he smacks Storm’s face off of the ring apron, before Burke grabs him from behind and gives him a German suplex on the floor! Burke gets up and puts the boots to Duprée until Grenier leaps off of the guardrail and takes him down with a diving clothesline. Grenier gets up and Storm turns his chest red with some knife-edge chops before rolling him back into the ring. Storm follows him in with a springboard clothesline and a pinfall attempt that Grenier kicks out of. Storm flips Grenier over and applies the Canadian Maple Leaf (single leg crab). Grenier refuses to tap and nearly gets to the ropes, but Storm manages to drag him back to the middle of the ring. However, he can’t force a submission, as Duprée clubs Storm in the back of the head, then starts putting the boots to him. Duprée picks up Storm and throws him into the corner. He drives his shoulder into Storm’s abdomen a few times before putting him up on the top turnbuckle. He can’t do anything though, as Burke puts him in a full nelson. Duprée breaks it up with a rear mule kick before throwing Burke through the ropes and out to the floor. Then, Duprée gets taken down with a missile dropkick from Storm. Storm gets up as far as his knees when Grenier executes the Showoff DDT on him. Grenier pins, but Storm just gets his foot on the bottom rope before the count of three. Duprée returns to the ring apron and asks for a tag. Grenier tags him and Duprée climbs the turnbuckle as Grenier gives Storm a bodyslam. Duprée hits a frog splash and hooks his leg. He nearly gets to three before he’s pulled out to the floor by Burke. The two of them start trading fists. Grenier comes around the turnbuckle post and takes Burke out with a running somersault senton bomb from the ring apron! Duprée climbs back onto the ring apron, but ends up back on the floor after he’s knocked out by a Lance Storm superkick. Storm then catapults himself over the top rope to take Grenier out with a plancha!
Everyone is down on the floor and the referee goes out to the floor to check on everyone before starting his 10-count. Storm is the first to get up and he grabs Grenier and rolls him into the ring. Storm climbs the turnbuckle, but Grenier gets up and pulls on the top rope, causing him to get crotched on the top turnbuckle. Grenier climbs up and tries to give him a superplex, but Storm blocks and eventually shoves Grenier to the mat. He starts to get back up on the turnbuckle, but then he gets shoved by Duprée, sending him crashing down into the guardrail! Duprée enters the ring and, with both he and Grenier standing in the middle of the ring, demands the referee count the other team out. He reaches the count of nine before Burke slides into the ring. Duprée and Grenier put the boots to him. They bring him to his feet and give him a whip. They go for a double-team clothesline, but he ducks it, then returns off the opposite ropes and takes them both down with his own double clothesline! As each man gets up, Burke jabs and chops at them. He picks up Grenier and presses him into the air and drops him over the ropes and onto the floor, but then gets his own sleeperhold slapped onto him! Duprée is cackling to himself as Burke is struggling and fading away. Burke falls to his knees and it looks like he’s out of it. The referee raises his hand and it falls twice, when Burke gets released from the hold and saved by Storm, who clocks Duprée on the chin with another superkick! Grenier enters the ring and Storm tackles him down and they roll out to the floor while they trade blows. Burke and Duprée are left in the ring and they both look like they are out cold. Duprée moves first. He rolls Burke over and pins him. Just before three, Burke gets his shoulder up. Duprée can’t believe it and just pins him again, this time hooking his leg, and this time Burke kicks out. Duprée starts to pick up Burke, when he gets a stiff upper-cut to the chin and his eyes glass over. Burke gets up and in a last ditch effort gives Duprée his own Duprée Driver (sitout scoop slam piledriver)! Burke hooks his leg. Grenier tries to enter the ring, but Storm grabs onto his leg to hold him back. 1…2…3! Leo Burke and Lance Storm win! René Duprée and Sylvain Grenier must now leave Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling!
Official Decision: Leo Burke & Lance Storm win by pinfall
*Commercial Break 10*
SoCal Val is backstage and he gets a moment with the “Macho Man” Randy Savage and the lovely Miss Elizabeth. Whalen welcomes them to AGPW and expresses his surprise that they’ve come here to AGPW. Miss Elizabeth says that both she and the “Macho Man” are delighted to be in Atlantic Canada and that they couldn’t have been happier to come to the aid of Al Snow. Savage speaks up and says that AGPW will never be the same now that it has had a small taste of Macho Madness. He says that whenever it is needed, Macho Man and Elizabeth will be there to spread the Madness, thus righting whatever is thought to be wrong in the AGPW universe.
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International Heavyweight Championship Match
Chris Candido w/ Sunny vs. “The Iceman” Dean Malenko
Chris Candido w/ Sunny vs. “The Iceman” Dean Malenko
We’ve reached the last match of the night. This one is for the biggest prize in Canadian professional wrestling. Whoever wins this match will have to stay sharp to hold onto their spot at the top of the food chain, as we’ve already seen a number of new big name threats arrive in AGPW, tonight, not to mention the other big names that have been with the company since day one. In what has to be considered a rather shocking display of civility and good sportsmanship, the main event begins with a handshake by both of the title tournament finalists. In the early minutes of the match, both men show off their impressive technical skills and knowledge of submission holds and maneuvers as they take turns getting each other into various holds and show off a few nice chain wrestling sequences. Candido becomes very happy with a headlock that he holds onto for a long time. Malenko makes several attempts to escape and breaks free a couple of times, but Candido keeps going back to it. The “Man of 1,000 Holds” is learning that, sometimes, one hold is good enough to be a major thorn in one’s side. The extended headlock sequence leads to a few incomplete pinfall counts by the referee, after Malenko’s shoulders hit the mat. However, Malenko eventually finds a way to get Candido to break the hold by getting some near falls on him, while being in the hold, after which Malenko draws Candido into a chop fest, which in turn leads to some more impactful offensive maneuvers by both men and a few more near falls. Things turn in Malenko’s favour when Candido misses on a New Jersey jam attempt, allowing him to follow up with a tornado DDT. He goes for a pin, but Candido manages to kick out. Malenko starts to target his lower back with some backbreakers, driving knee drops and other holds to wear him down. Malenko wows the crowd by putting Candido in a Mexican surfboard. However, Candido refuses to give up. Malenko tries to go for the Texas cloverleaf, but Candido blocks his attempt and even manages to pull him into a small package pin for a 2-count. Both men get up and Malenko kicks at the back of Candido’s right knee, but then he gets taken off of his feet with a spinning lariat. Candido picks up Malenko and holds him high in the air for a long time before sending him crashing down to the mat with a delayed, hanging vertical suplex. He covers, but Malenko kicks out. Candido sends Malenko into the corner, but Malenko gets a foot up into his face. Malenko then sits up on the turnbuckle and jumps off to take Candido down with a Hart attack clothesline from the second rope. Malenko drags him away from the ropes and covers, but Candido kicks out. Malenko picks him up and gives him a couple of snap suplexes. He decides to go up to the top rope and try for an elbow drop, but Candido gets out of the way. Both men get up at the same time. Candido tries to strike, but Malenko takes him down with a dropkick. He goes to grab Candido’s legs, but gets kicked away. Candido gets up and Malenko hits him with a flying forearm. Malenko climbs the turnbuckle and waits for Candido to get to his feet and goes for a flying cross body block and hits it, but Candido uses his own momentum to flip through and make the cover. However, Malenko manages to kick out. Candido runs to the ropes and Malenko gets up. He goes for a huricanrana, but Candido counters into a sit out powerbomb. Malenko gets a shoulder up just in time. Candido sends Malenko into the corner and then follows in with a running lariat. He puts Malenko up on the top rope and then climbs up, but Malenko punches and headbutts him in the ribs and knocks him down. Still, Malenko doesn’t capitalize and Candido gets up and comes over, but Malenko kicks him back down to the mat and refuses to let him climb up to meet him. Then, Malenko goes for a tornado DDT, but this time Candido tosses him away. When Malenko gets up, Candido scoops him up and executes a tombstone pilediver. He goes for a lazy pin, but Malenko gets a shoulder up. Candido lifts him up for another hanging vertical suplex, but Malenko gets down and rolls him up from behind for two. He runs to the ropes and comes back to take Candido down with a float over DDT. He then locks on the Texas cloverleaf, but Candido won’t give up and he crawls to the ropes after about half a minute.
When Candido gets up, Malenko lays into him with chops. He goes for an Irish whip, but Candido reverses it into a short-arm clothesline. He picks up Malenko and goes for a powerbomb, but Malenko counters with a sitout facebuster! He covers, but Candido kicks out. Malenko goes for the Texas cloverleaf, again, but Candido kicks him in the face and crawls away to the ring apron. He gets up and Malenko comes over to bring him back into the ring. Candido tries to fight him off and lifts him up for a suplex, but Malenko grabs onto the rope to guide his landing onto the apron. They trade knife-edge chops. Malenko tries for a hook, but Candido blocks and hits him with one of his own. Then he gives Malenko a leg drop bulldog from the ring apron to the floor! It takes Candido a bit of time to get up and roll Malenko into the ring, but he does it and he covers him. Malenko grabs onto the bottom rope to spare himself the loss. Candido punches him twice and then drags him away from the ropes. He climbs the ropes and goes for the New Jersey Jam, but Malenko rolls out of the way. Both men are down for a while and get up around the same time. They trade punches while they appear to be out on their feet. Finally, Candido connects with a few in a row and then goes for a whip, but Malenko reverses it. He sets up for a back bodydrop, but Candido takes him over into a sunset flip. Malenko rolls through it, gets a hold of Candido’s legs and locks on the Texas cloverleaf! Candido tries to fight it off. He even powers his way towards the ropes, but Malenko breaks it, then stomps on his lower back several times, before dragging him across the ring and locking it on again. Candido holds out for nearly 20 seconds more before finally tapping out. The winner and first Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling International Heavyweight Championship is “The Iceman” Dean Malenko!
Official Decision: “The Iceman” Dean Malenko wins by submission
Ed Whalen: Ladies and gentlemen, and wrestling fans of all ages, what an historic night it has been! We’ve witnessed new champions being crowned, hated villains forced out of the region, and the debuts of some of the most popular names in sports entertainment history!
Jeremy Borash: It certain has been an unforgettable evening, Ed. Frenchy Martin’s Montréal Mafia are the first AGPW North American Tag Team Champions after last eliminating their long-time rivals, Junkyard Dog & Bo Dallas, with the help of Yoshihiro Tajiri!
Ed Whalen: Plus Emile Duprée’s very own son, René Duprée, and his partner, Sylvain Grenier must now leave AGPW after losing a losers leave town match to Lance Storm and the legendary, Leo Burke.
Jeremy Borash: And we witnessed the surprise debuts of Rowdy Roddy Piper and Randy “Macho Man” Savage and, of course, the crowning of “The Iceman” Dean Malenko as the first AGPW International Heavyweight Champion!
Ed Whalen: Well, Atlantic Canada, tonight has been nothing short of a ring-a-ding-dong-dandy! We’ll be back to meet you again next week for another edition of Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling on ASN. In the meantime and in between time, on behalf of Jeremy and I, this is Ed Whalen wishing you all a wonderful week, everyone!