Hellfire in Halifax
Saturday, April 5, 2014
From the Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia
“Faded” by Bear Mountain (of Vancouver, British Columbia), from the album XO (2013)
Tonight’s Broadcast Features the Ringside Commentary Teams of
Ed Whalen and Lord Alfred Hayes (English)
Marc Blondin and Jacques Rougeau (Français)
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VS. 
Chris Hero vs. Bo Dallas
This grudge match originates back when both Chris Hero and Bo Dallas were teammates on a 6-man tag team match several weeks ago. Miscommunication between both men led to Dallas getting pinned and eating the loss for his team. Since then, Dallas has tried to patch things up with his ‘friend’, but Hero has shown no interest in being his friend. Now, they face each other in a quick-paced match. Hero controls the opening minutes of the match. He goes for his Hangman’s Elbow early, but Dallas ducks it and gives Hero a neckbreaker to stop him in his tracks. From there, Dallas shows a bit of a vicious streak as he pummels away at Hero. When he finally eases up on the gas for a moment, Dallas’ goofy ‘aw shucks’ smile comes back and he plays to an unresponsive crowd. Playing to the crowd gives Hero a chance to fight his way back into the match with several strikes. Hero backs Dallas into a corner and whips him across the ring. He charges, but Dallas slams into the turnbuckle and comes right back out of the corner to nail Hero with an unexpected spear! He covers, 1…2… shoulder up! Dallas nearly takes the match right there. Dallas continues to go to work on Hero until he tries for a springboard bulldog, which Hero counters by crotching Dallas on the top rope and then dropkicking him off of the rope and onto the floor! Hero takes out Dallas with a highlight reel spot – the somersault plancha! He sends Dallas back into the ring and heads to the top rope. Hero waits for Dallas to get up and then hits him with a diving body press into a pin, but Dallas kicks out. Hero continues his attack and gives him a Hangman’s Neckbreaker, but Dallas shows his resiliency by kicking out of that. Hero is ready to finish him off and sends him into the ropes. He sets up for a Hangman’s Eblow. Dallas ducks it and runs to the opposite ropes. He avoids a savate kick by clinging to the ropes. Hero runs at him and takes a big boot to the face, then gets taken down with a bulldog. Dallas sizes him up and goes for a punt kick, but Hero avoids it. Dallas charges at him and eats a spinning heel kick. Hero gives Dallas a double underhook backbreaker and covers, but Dallas gets his shoulder up. Hero takes him into the corner and lifts him onto the top turnbuckle. They exchange blows and Dallas knocks him to the mat, then hits a diving clothesline. Both men get up at the same time. Hero comes at Dallas, but takes a kick to the mid-section and then receives a side belly-to-belly suplex. Dallas then sets him up for and nails a second spear! He covers. 1…2…3! Bo Dallas wins the match, much to the chagrin of nearly everyone in the audience.
Official Decision: Bo Dallas wins by pinfall
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Ted Dibiase proves once again that everybody has a price for the Million Dollar Man. Tonight, he plans on proving that even the Hot Rod, Rowdy Roddy Piper has a price.
“It’s your gods. It’s your bloody, awful, stinking gods. They made you what you are. May they rot away in the filthy hell they came from!” – Col. John Lawrence, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, 1983Goldust sits in what looks like the arena boiler room. He cuts a promo, in which he quotes “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” starring David Bowie. He ties the quote into a soliloquy about belief in gods and how believing in the wrong ones can corrupt a man’s soul and make him do things that no man whose vision is not tainted by the same holy paint brush would ever consider doing. It will soon be time to cleanse those poor unfortunate souls of what ails them and set them on the path of righteousness with a
“walk down my walk of fame.”***
No Disqualification Match
Lance Storm & Tyson Kidd vs. “Killer” Karl Krupp & “The Acadian Giant” Kurrgan
This match is happening because “Killer” Karl Krupp nearly choked Owen Hart to death, and so Hart volunteered his fellow Calgarians – Lance Storm and Tyson Kidd – to face the menacing giants – Krupp and Kurrgan – in an effort to avenge him. Neither Storm nor Kidd were particularly enthusiastic about the booking, especially since Hart seems to never be around to help them out of sticky situations. When Storm and Kidd make their entrance, Hart joins them down to the ring and then joins Ed Whalen and Lord Alfred Hayes on commentary, where Whalen presses him on these subjects and he does his best to deflect his line of question and change the subject, with Hayes’ help.
The match, itself, starts out in a standard tag team match format, but quickly turns into a 2-on-2 fight when Krupp starts choking Kidd with the tag rope, just like he did to Hart a few weeks ago. This draws the ire of Hart. However, he won’t get up from the commentary table to do anything about it because doctors haven’t cleared him to get back into action yet. Storm, though, comes to Kidd’s aid. The referee tries to force him back out of the ring, but Storm protests that the match is no disqualifications. Having actually successfully reasoned with the referee, Storm gets back on the attack. However, since the referee is allowing this to happen, the over 7-foot, 350-pound monster, “The Acadian Giant” Kurrgan enters the ring and starts clubbing Storm with his big arms! Storm and Kidd are completely outsized and take quite a beating. But for what they lack in size, they outmatch Krupp and Kurrgan in heart. Both men refuse to give up and they both fight back. After getting lifted high in the air in a gorilla press and then dropped out to the floor by Kurrgan, Kidd digs under the ring and brings the first weapon into play. He has a kendo stick and he uses it liberally against both Kurrgan and Krupp, saving Storm from the double-team beating he was receiving. After giving both big men a number of shots from the kendo stick, Kidd finally shatters it with a shot to Kurrgan’s forehead! He tries pinning The Acadian Giant, but can’t get the 3-count. The action continues with a ladder and a pair of chairs coming into play. Kidd and Storm set up for a big spot when Storm lays Krupp out on the commentary table and Kidd climbs the ladder. The crowd rises to their feet, but Kurrgan stops anything from happening by knocking the ladder over and causing Kidd to get a hangman across the top rope! Kurrgan grabs Kidd in a chokehold. Storm goes for a springboard clothesline, but Kurrgan releases Kidd and catches him in a chokehold, then lifts him up for a big chokeslam! Kurrgan pins him, but Storm kicks out. Then, Kurrgan applies the Kurrgan Claw. Storm is in the hold for no more than 2-seconds when Kidd starts repeatedly swinging a chair at Kurrgan’s back! Kidd gets Kurrgan down on his back and starts driving the spine of the chair down into both of Kurrgan’s thighs! He plans on keeping the big man grounded. However, he’s finally stopped when Krupp grabs him from behind and gives him a high-elevation side belly-to-back suplex. Krupp and Storm get into a fist fight that the bigger man wins. However, his whip attempt is reversed and Storm takes him down with a leg lariat. Storm applies the sharpshooter to Krupp, but only for a few short seconds before Kurrgan slaps the Kurrgan Claw onto him a second time! Again, the move is broken up when Kidd chopblocks the back of Kurrgan’s left knee! Kidd kicks his knee over and over again, then goes out to climb the top rope. As he does, Krupp folds up the ladder, lifts it up and runs over to the corner, driving the ladder into Kidd’s head and knocking him down to the floor! Krupp puts the ladder down and rests it against the turnbuckle. Then, he is driven back into it by a dropkick from Storm. He picks up a chair and starts giving Krupp shots to the body while he’s propped up against the ladder. This continues until Kurrgan gets him into a full-nelson, drags him away from the corner and executes a full-nelson slam! Third time’s the charm, as Kurrgan slaps on the Kurrgan Claw again! This time, Kidd is nowhere to be seen to make the save. He looks to have been knocked unconscious on the floor. Storm can do nothing but tap out to spare himself the excrutiating pain of the claw hold.
Following the match, Kurrgan won’t release the hold. Owen Hart gets up from the commentary table and climbs onto the ring apron, against doctor’s orders. This leads to Kurrgan releasing the hold and staring down the King of Harts. When he moves towards him, Hart hops down to the floor and backs away. Additional referees come to the ring to get Storm out of the ring and away from the dangerous victors of the match.
Official Decision: “Killer” Karl Krupp & “The Acadian Giant” Kurrgan win by submission
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It’s Californiacation! The entire gang is here! “Classy” Freddy Blassie, the mastermind and manager of the Illuminati’s AGPW insurgents, tells Jeremy Borash to spare them his dumb and pointless questions and just tells him to hand the microphone over and let each of his champions talk. Before the microphone is ripped out of his hands, Borash is able to note that “Superstar” Billy Graham is not a champion yet. Graham threatens to hit Borash, which causes him to leave the scene. Now, the tower of power can about how tonight, there will no way for the Mafia to get inside of the cage. Yvon “Le Lion” Robert’s days as champion are done because there are five men gunning for what he’s got and once they put the old lion down to rest, the warm California sun will take care of the rest! Bad Influence are unimpressed by Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, not only by how they wrestle, but how they comport themselves as human beings. It’s because of where they come from – one of the less civilized regions of North America – much like this region of North America, which is overpopulated by fishermen – the hillbillies of the high seas! The Hollywood A-Lister, “Top Shelf” Trish Stratus is prepared to prove to the world once and for all who the best Canadian women’s wrestler truly is when she will successfully defend her title against Gail Kim, who she claims is nothing but a pretender with a false claim to the crown.
Ric Flair = Ted DiBiase
Mr. Perfect = Virgil
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Samoa Joe vs. “Marvelous” Marc Mero w/ Candice Michelle
This match begins with a sparring contest between Joe and Mero. Joe strikes first, but Mero does a good job of blocking and fights back. An experienced and successful amateur boxer, Mero backs Joe into the ropes with his jabs, then starts lifting his knees into Joe’s abdomen. Mero with a whip attempt. It gets reversed and Joe tosses Mero across the ring with an arm drag. He takes him down with two more and Mero leaves the ring to regroup. Upon returning to the ring, Mero wants to spare again. Joe makes like he’s game, but starts kicking Mero’s legs. Joe parlays his foot strikes into an offensive advantage. However, that advantage goes away when he sets up for a back body drop and ends up getting a swift kick to the shoulder and then a hard lariat to knock him down. Now, Mero goes to work with some jabs to the head with wristlocks and armbars applied to work over Joe’s right arm and shoulder. Most of his offense in the next few minutes is directed at softening up that arm. Although he is not a submission specialist, it may be a smart strategy to eliminate the Coquina Clutch from Joe’s arsenal. Mero starts looking for the victory after he has a whip reversed, but prevents a comeback with a swinging neckbreaker. He goes for the pin, but Joe kicks out. He gives Joe a shoulderbreaker and covers, but Joe kicks out. Mero picks him up and whips him into the corner. He runs in and hits a shoulderblock, then hip tosses Joe out of the corner. Mero goes to the top rope and lands his Merosault. Joe gets a shoulder up at two! Mero slaps on a rear chinlock. Joe fights his way to his feet and breaks the hold. He runs to the ropes, but Mero stops him in his tracks with a dropkick! Mero with another pin, but again Joe kicks out! Mero takes Joe into the corner and throws plenty of chops at him. Then, he gives Joe a cross-corner whip. Mero charges in and slams into the turnbuckle, as Joe gets out of the way. Joe, then tattoos him in the back of the head with a CCS enzigurri kick. Joe begins to mount his comeback. He goes through several of signature moves. Mero finds a moment to escape the ring in an effort to try to stop Joe’s momentum, but Joe surprises him with a big suicide dive. He throws Mero around, outside of the ring. However, a whip attempt is reversed by Mero and Joe slams into the ringsteps. Mero rolls Joe back into the ring and decides to climb the turnbuckle. Joe gets up and bounces into the ropes, causing Mero to fall down onto the turnbuckle. Then Joe grabs Mero from off of the top turnbuckle and executes the Musclebuster! He pins. 1…2…3! Samoa Joe remains undefeated in AGPW!
Official Decision: Samoa Joe wins by submission
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Jeremy Borash is standing by with Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch, who will challenge Bad Influence for the North American Tag Team Championship Titles in a matter of moments. Borash asks them for their thoughts going into this big match. Cade and Murdoch tell us that they’ve been competing night in and night out in AGPW for nearly a full year – since the rebirth of the company. They’ve always been at the top of the tag team ranks, but haven’t had a real shot at the tag team titles. At least, not until tonight. Now, they face their biggest challenge yet. They aren’t worried that with Bad Influence comes a bevy of other California beach bums to watch their backs. They’ll face every one of them head one and show them why absolutely everything – and most certainly the size of the fight – is bigger in Texas!
SoCal Val is standing by with tonight’s challenger to the Women’s Championship Title, Gail Kim, who is accompanied by the Ninth Wonder of the World, Chyna! Kim has heard everything that Stratus has had to say about her over these last weeks and months, but none of it means anything unless she comes out on top tonight. Tonight, it’s time for the “Top Shelf” to finally put up or shut up. Kim doesn’t think she has what it takes to put up. Kim knows that she has the goods to beat Stratus. And to ensure a fair fight, she’s bringing Chyna along as an equalizer. Chyna adds that if Stratus can’t defend her title without having a truly awesome woman standing behind her every stretch of the way, then Kim shouldn’t have to challenge her without having an even more awesome woman standing behind her. If Awesome Kong tries to get involved in tonight’s match, she’ll have to go through the Ninth Wonder of the World to do it.
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North American Tag Team Title Match
Bad Influence w/ “Classy” Freddie Blassie vs. Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch
There is no major backstory to this match. Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch won a number one contender’s match to set up this match, while Bad Influence is required to defend their titles. Cade and Murdoch have been winning a lot of matches lately, as they have throughout most of the last year. They are the fan favourites going into this match. The match begins with both teams trading the advantage. Each team makes frequent tags and takes advantage of the double-team counts to maximize their opportunities to do extra damage to their opponents. While Cade and Murdoch get the first sustained advantage of the match, the tag team champions come back and turn Murdoch into the face-in-peril. Christopher Daniels and François Kazarian cut the ring in half and show us all why they are the North American Tag Team Champions of North America! After a couple of near falls, Bad Influence looks to put the match away. They give Murdoch a double hip toss then begin to lift him up for a neckbreaker-powerbomb combo, but Cade comes into the ring and gives Kazarian a superkick, effectively putting that double-team attack on ice. Cade and Daniels trade blows before Daniels shoves Cade backwards into the ropes and then goes for a hurricanrana, only to be giving a powerbomb as a counter. Cade hops back out onto the ring apron and the fans are clapping along as he stomps his foot to try to bring some life back into Murdoch. As Murdoch approaches his corner, Daniels and Kazarian come up from behind and lift him up high as if to give him a double belly-to-back suplex. However, Murdoch shows up his incredible athleticism for a man of his size and body type, by flipping through, landing on his feet and then taking both men down with a double clothesline! He tags out! Cade comes in and goes to town on both tag champions. He gives them each clotheslines and knife edge chops. He plants Kazarian into the mat with a powerslam and gives Daniels a sit-out spinebuster! Cade goes to the top turnbuckle and lands a diving leg drop on Daniels. He pins. 1…2… Kazarian makes the save! Murdoch comes in and trades blows with him. Murdoch backs him into the ropes and goes for a running clothesline, but Kazarian ducks it and sends over the top and out to the floor! Cade now goes back to the top turnbuckle, but Kazarian runs into the ropes, causing him to get crotched on the top turnbuckle! Kazarian and Daniels climb up and give him a double superplex! Daniels makes the pin. 1…2.. Murdoch saves it! Murdoch fights off both tag champions. He whips Daniels to the ropes, but then gets chopblock from Kazarian and a springboard moonsault from Daniels! Cade drops Kazarian with a few right hands, then swings at Daniels. He ducks it and then gives him a STO. Kazarian is back on the ring apron and Daniels makes the tag. They grab Cade and give him Cade & Murdoch’s own Sweet ‘n Sour double-team finisher! Before Kazarian can pin, Murdoch charges at him, but Daniels runs in the way and takes him down with a spinning heel kick. Kazarian hooks Cade’s legs for the 1…2…3! Bad Influence retains the titles in a close battle.
Official Decision: Bad Influence wins by pinfall
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Gene Okerlund = Jeremy Borash
Tito Santana = Yvon “Le Lion” Robert
SoCal Val is standing by with “The Iceman” Dean Malenko to his final thoughts before entering the elimination chamber later tonight. Malenko says that all day he’s been counting down the hours and now he’s counting down the minutes until he can get into that cold unforgiving environment known as the elimination chamber. It’s the kind of environment where he feels right at home. It’s kind of environment best suited to someone as cold, calculating and unforgiving as he is. There is no other man with a better chance of walking out of the match with the International Heavyweight Champion. The time has finally come for the title to return to its rightful place – around The Iceman’s waist!
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Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase w/ Virgil
This grudge match was booked following the Million Dollar Man’s multiple appearances on the Piper’s Pit. First, he debuted on the Piper’s Pit and ended his first appearance on the show in an altercation resulting in a two-on-one beatdown of Piper by DiBiase and Virgil. After a few more weeks of cutting promos on one another, in which the Million Dollar Man claimed his money could buy anything and anyone and Piper denied that he could be bought, DiBiase appeared for a second time on the Piper’s Pit. This time, however, he was hosting the show after he claimed that he bought it for a hefty sum. Piper stormed the set in an outrage, but DiBiase and his special guest, the Mash-Up World Champion, Hollywood Hulk Hogan put the boots to Piper. This is an important match for both men to win. For Piper, it will be to vanquish himself from the humiliation he’s recently experienced at the hands of the Million Dollar Man. For DiBiase, it is his first high profile match since joining AGPW and a win here would really help to establish himself as a major force to be reckoned with in the territory.
The beginning of the match starts out in Piper’s favour as it begins as a high-octane fist fight to begin. This brawling style suits Piper’s attitude and demeanour and is to DiBiase’s disadvantage. The opening minute’s fist fight leads to Piper taking over on offense and wearing down DiBiase with a variety of submission holds, some suplexes and an atomic drop thrown in for good measure. Even an early attempt to distract the referee by Virgil, in order to help out his employer, doesn’t do DiBiase any good, as Piper simply slugs Virgil off of the ring apron and returns to beating DiBiase around the ring, following a classic Hot Rod double finger poke to the eyes. Piper tries a few pins to no success. He nearly wins the entire thing following a running bulldog, but DiBiase was close enough to the ropes to get a foot on the bottom rope. Piper decides to change his strategy by applying a figure four leglock. DiBiase doesn’t quit, but looks like he’s on the verge of doing so more than once. He eventually drags himself close enough to the ropes to get pulled over the rest of the way by Virgil and get a rope break. The help from Virgil went undetected by the referee. Piper complains about how he suddenly slid about 18 inches across the canvass and believes there was something fishy going on there. Virgil stands by, acting completely innocent. Then reacts with great anger to having been accused of any wrong doing. He jumps onto the ring apron causes enough of a commotion to buy DiBiase a bit of recovery time and allow him to give Piper an unseen low blow from behind, after which DiBiase gives him a school-boy roll-up, but Piper kicks out. DiBiase drives some elbows into the back of Piper’s head and neck as he tries to get up. He sits down on top of Piper and fires away with several fists, before getting up and executing one final delayed fist drop. He pins, but Piper kicks out. DiBiase gets him up and gives him a vertical suplex, then climbs to the second turnbuckle and gives him a diving fist drop! DiBiase hooks the leg. 1…2… kick out! DiBiase asks the referee to speed up the count and then slaps on a headlock. Piper makes it to his feet, breaks the headlock and tries to regain the momentum, but his attack is thwarted by DiBiase, who sees him coming off of the ropes and gives him an arm drag takedown followed by a standing dropkick. DiBiase finishes off the sequence with a gutwrench suplex and covers him for another 2-count. DiBiase turns Piper over onto his back and delivers a few high elevation knee drops into Piper’s kidneys. After that, he grabs him by the arms, sticks a foot on his spine and applies a surfboard. Piper refuses to quit. DiBiase keeps him in the hold for a quite a while, but as it becomes apparent that Piper is too stubborn to give up, he finally breaks it and just starts stomping the back of Piper’s head. DiBiase brings him to his feet and gives him another vertical suplex. Another pinfall attempt proves unsuccessful.
DiBiase calls on Virgil for a helping hand. Virgil climbs onto the ring apron and the referee gets into an argument with him about getting down. While that it going on, DiBiase removes one of the top turnbuckle pads. He goes back to stomping on Piper, then brings him to his feet and lays a few heavy chops in him. Piper fires back with a couple of quick jabs, but DiBiase stops him in his tracks with a kick to the abdomine and a swinging neckbreaker. Another pinfall attempt fails, so DiBiase picks up Piper and threatens to whip him into the exposed turnbuckle. A few reversals leads to DiBiase hitting the turnbuckle in the opposite corner. Piper charges at him, but takes a back elbow to the face. DiBiase grabs him by the head and shoulder and runs him across the ring to drive his head into the exposed turnbuckle, but Piper blocks by putting his foot up into the turnbuckle. A back elbow to the face and a eye rake later leads to Piper turning the tables on the Million Dollar Man and driving his face into the exposed turnbuckle! Piper follows that up with another big running bulldog and pins. 1…2… Virgil pulls the referee out of position. They get into a brief argument where the referee goes to call for the bell, but Virgil points at the exposed turnbuckle and tells him to take a closer look. He sees it and starts arguing with Piper about it. Piper, of course, denies any knowledge of how the turnbuckle became exposed. While this takes place, DiBiase comes up from behind and rolls up Piper. He grabs his tights for added leverage and the referee counts the fall. 1…2…3! The Million Dollar Man steals away the victory!
Following the match, as he is getting his hand raised on the outside, Piper regains his heat by attacking DiBiase with a chairshot to the back and one for Virgil to the face. He pummels away at both fallen men before he can be pulled away. Piper leaves to a round of applause from the fans despite falling victim to the numbers game and taking a crooked loss.
Official Decision: “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase wins by pinfall
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SoCal Val is standing by with Leo Burke to get his final thoughts before the elimination chamber match, which is coming up soon. Burke says that he’s confident in his abilities. He knows that very few people are picking him as their favourite to come out of this match with the International Heavyweight Championship Title in his hands, but that doesn’t bother him. For as long as he can remember, the people of the Maritimes have been told that there’s always someone better from somewhere else. Whether it be someone from Montréal, Toronto, or even the United States. People come from far and wide to this part of the world to show us why we’ll never be better than second best. Things are changing. Maritimers are rising to the occasion, facing down the supposedly bigger and better and proving to the world that they are in fact as good as or better than everyone else. If a boy from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia can grow up to be the best hockey player in the world (Sidney Crosby reference), then a boy from Dorchester, New Brunswick can grow up to be the best wrestler in the world. Tonight’s the night that it finally happens!
Jeremy Borash is standing by with Christian Cage to get his final thoughts before going into the elimination chamber match to fight for the International Heavyweight Championship. Captain Charisma says that when he enters the elimination chamber and looks around the ring at the other competitors in tonight’s main event title bout, he sees some stiff competition. There are legends ranging from the most notable “Superstar” to ever grace the ring, to a man with so much machismo that they had to call him the “Macho Man”, to the king of the jungle, to a Canadian wrestling icon, to the only man on the planet who knows a thousand wrestling holds. It’s all very impressive – impressive enough to overwhelm and intimidate most men. However, Cage isn’t most men. He’s almost always been the smallest dog in the fight, but he always finds a way to come out on top. Because when you’re always facing an uphill battle, there are times when you have to put everything on the line to shoulder that next boulder and climb over the next large rock in your path. He’s been doing it ever since the first time he stepped into the ring. It’s why the peepulation pop at the sound of his name. They appreciate the effort he puts into every match and his will to never be satisfied with finishing in second place. These are the things that have turned him into an Instant Classic, and these are most of the things that will make tonight’s main event a truly memorable bout for the ages. However, the one other thing that it needs to rise further up into the pantheon of profession wrestling and become a match that will forever be remembered as an Instant Classic is a victory by Christian Cage. Tonight, Captain Charisma promises to give the fans what they want. He promises to overcome the odds and become the next International Heavyweight Champion in a match that we will forever remember as an Instant Classic!
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Women’s Championship Match
Trish Stratus w/ Awesome Kong vs. Gail Kim w/ Chyna
The Fabulous Moolah joins Ed Whalen and Lord Alfred Hayes on commentary for this match. She has a vested interested in seeing who walks away with the Women’s Championship and she claims that not one of the four women standing in the ring can beat her and end her undefeated streak! Our Women’s Championship match begins with the Hollywood A-Lister, “Top Shelf” Trish Stratus and Gail Kim standing about a three feet apart, face-to-face. Stratus raises her championship title high in the air while talking trash to Kim. Awesome Kong is positioned just behind her, to the right, and Chyna is standing just behind Kim, to the left. The tension and electricity in the air is palpable. Stratus raises her championship title high in the air while talking trash to Kim. Kim hears her out, nods her head, then talks back with some insults that cut deep. Stratus tells her that no one talks back at the goes to slap Kim in the face, but Chyna reaches out and grabs her wrist to stop her. This sets Awesome Kong in motion as she strikes Chyna. Kim jumps on her back. Kong tries to shake her off, but Kim holds strong until Stratus grabs her by the leg and pulls her off, then clocks her with a stiff clothesline. Chyna rebounds and strikes Kong back again and again and then clotheslines her hard enough for both women to go over the ropes and onto the floor. The bell finally sounds to begin the match as extra officials come down to try to separate Chyna and Kong. The referee has called for both of them to be escorted away from ringside!
Stratus takes control of the match early, after that big clothesline before the opening bell. She tries to win the match early and often, but Kim kicks out of each of her early pinfall attempts with the greatest of ease. Stratus eventually switches gears and focuses on Kim’s lower back, delivering directed strikes with her forearms, elbows and shoulders. Stratus lifts Kim up into a bow-and-arrow submission hold and keeps her there for over half a minute, but Kim just won’t quit. Trish whips Kim into the corner, then walks in and gives her some kicks to the head. She lifts Kim onto the corner turnbuckle and begins to go for the Stratusphere, but in a nifty counter, Kim blocks, grabs onto her legs and comes down onto her back into a Boston crab, which she drags away from the corner! Stratus is scrambling for an exit and after teasing a tap out, drags herself to the ropes for a break. That hold changes the complexion of the match and after a brief back-and-forth, Kim settles into the driver’s seat, hitting some of her signature moves, like a body avalanche, hurricanrana, Toronto slam and front missile dropkick. A pair of pinfall attempts don’t get her the win. After serving up a few more chops, Kim goes for a whip. Stratus reverses it and gives Kim the Air Canada (her variation of a Thesz press). When Stratus finishes punching her, she gets up and drives a hard stomp across Kim’s throat! That earns a warning from the referee, but Stratus clearly couldn’t care less. She picks up Kim and looks set to give her a piledriver, but Kim fights back to her feet. Stratus pounds on her back and lifts her again, but again, Kim gets back to her feet, then tries for the back bodydrop, but Stratus pulls her into a sunset flip for a close 2-count. Kim goes for a clothesline. Stratus ducks it, then goes for the Chick Kick, but Kim ducks it and executes a falling backbreaker. She covers, but Stratus gets her shoulder up! Kim picks up Stratus, only to get her eyes gauged out and then eats a stiff lariat! The referee tries to give Stratus yet another warning, but she doesn’t bother to listen. She exits the ring, collects her title and begins to walk away, with the referee questioning her actions.
Stratus has given up on the match, so the referee begins to count her out. However, Stratus discovers that she has nowhere to go, as Chyna reappears in the entrance aisle to block her exit. Stratus starts to back track towards the ring. Chyna points at her to turn around, just in time for her to receive a suicide dive! Meanwhile, Chyna gets taken down from behind by Awesome Kong! The extra officials from before come down, but one-by-one they are thrown aside by the mighty powerful Awesome Kong! Meanwhile, Kim has returned Stratus to the inside of the ring and hit a few more moves on her. Finally, she finishes her off with Eat Defeat! Before she pins, she sees Awesome Kong climbing onto the ring apron. Kim charges over and knocks her down to the floor with a front dropkick! She goes back and pins Stratus. 1…2… shoulder up! Kim pounds the mat out of frustration. She waits for Stratus to start to get up before running to the ropes. Stratus grabs the referee by the shirt as a distraction and Kim gets tripped, pulled to the outside and leveled with a lariat from Awesome Kong! Then, Chyna attacks Kong! They resume their battle at ringside. Stratus leaves the ring, rolls Kim back in and pins. 1…2… kick out! Stratus can’t believe it and starts questioning the referee’s count. Stratus picks up Kim, but gets caught off-guard by a small package pin. 1…2… kick out! They get up and Stratus immediately connects with Chick Kick! It’s cover! She pins. 1…2.. Chyna pulls the referee out of the ring and shoves him into the ring steps! The fans are really going mad now!
Stratus starts mouthing off at Chyna, which is a bad idea, as she simply climbs onto the ring apron and starts entering the ring. At this point, Trish decides to make a break for it and runs to the opposite side of the ring and baseball slides out. However, she can’t get very far as the Fabulous Moolah grabs her by the hair and orders her to finish the match like a real champion would! So, she yanks on her hair and basically Moolah whips her back into the ring, where Chyna grabs her and sets up for the pedigree. Stratus manages to get out of the set up, drop to her knees and deliver a low blow, which is followed by a running clothesline from Awesome Kong! Kong throws Chyna out of the ring and continues her assault by tearing apart the ringsteps and dropping a portion of them on Chyna! Back in the ring, Stratus and Kim trade punches before Kim blocks, grabs Stratus by the arm and tries to pull her in for another Eat Defeat. Stratus pulls her arm free and tosses Kim onto her back. When Kim gets up, Stratus grabs her in a side headlock and executes the Stratusfaction! By this point, a second official is in position to count the fall. 1…2…3! Trish Stratus retains the Women’s Championship!
Official Decision: Trish Stratus wins by pinfall
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Jeremy Borash is standing by with the International Heavyweight Champion, Yvon “Le Lion” Robert, and his manager, Frenchy Martin, to get their final thoughts before Le Lion enters the elimination chamber in just a matter of moments. Robert and Martin say that Robert has suddenly been pushed into the role of playing the underdog. There are five challenge to one champion. Well, they don’t picture this as an underdog scenario because for as long as there has been an animal kingdom, there has always been more challengers than champions. However, Le Lion has always held onto its place at the top of that kingdom. While everything changes around him, there is one constant – one thing that you can count on – Le Lion will always be number one! That’s no different in the world of wrestling. No one can beat this lion on the best days. Now, with every one of the challengers due to enter the elimination chamber before him, the odds are even more in his favour to retain the title. When you wake up tomorrow morning and go to your door to grab the morning newspaper, don’t be surprised if the headline reads:
“Le Lion Retains the Title!”***
Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling Presents
JOURNEY TO GREATNESS
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Live on Pay-Per-View
Don’t Forget to Bring Courage on Your Journey to Greatness!***
Elimination Chamber Match
For the International National Heavyweight Championship
Yvon “Le Lion” Robert vs. “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Leo Burke vs.
Christian Cage vs. “The Iceman”Dean Malenko vs. “Superstar” Billy Graham
Our main event features six of AGPW’s top competitors, most of whom have had issues with everyone else in the match. There is an interwoven web of feuds underlying this match. However, first and foremost, this match is all about the International Heavyweight Championship. The current champion, Yvon “Le Lion” Robert, has held the title since October. The odds do not favour him to retain the title. However, he did secure the final entry into the match. He will remain in one of the elimination chamber pods longer than any of the challengers to his title. This may end up helping him out in the end.
The order of ring entrances reveals who will be locked into the chamber pods at the outset of this match. Robert comes to the ring first, followed by “Macho Man” Randy Savage, “The Iceman” Dean Malenko and Christian Cage. This leaves “Superstar” Billy Graham and Leo Burke to make their entrances last and indicates that they will be the first two men to begin the match. The bell rings to open this match. Burke and Graham have been at odds with one another for a while. Truthfully, Graham has no friends in this match. Graham uses his power and strength to get an early advantage, winning a classic test of strength against Burke. He beats Burke around the ring for a while before tossing him through the ropes onto the hard steel chamber floor. Graham receives a stiff shot to the head while trying to step through the ropes. Then, Burke grabs Graham and gives him a backbreaker and starts dropping elevated knee drops into his ribs. Burke picks up Graham and goes to whip him into the chamber wall, but Graham reverses it and Burke hits the steel-chained wall. Graham charges over and shoulderblock tackles him in the lower back, driving him into the wall once again! Graham grinds Burke’s face against the chains as the first five minutes runs out and the next man into the match is revealed.
It’s the “Macho Man” Randy Savage! Savage comes in, climbs a turnbuckle and lands a double axehandle smash on Graham. He goes to work on Graham, giving him kicks and chops galore! Savage sends him back into the ring, climbs the turnbuckle and then executes a diving clothesline on him. Savage sits down on Graham and lays into him with a flurry of punches. He brings Graham to his feet and whips him into the corner. Savage charges at him but takes a boot to the face and then a chopblock to the back of the knee. Graham starts to work on his knee, dropping elbows into it, then laying down on Savage’s leg and working a knee wrench. Savage pulls at Graham’s hair to try to get him to break the hold, but Graham toughs it out until he takes a boot to the chest from Burke. He continues to stomp on Graham before picking him up and giving him a vertical suplex followed by a standing senton bomb and then pinning him. Graham kicks out. Burke takes Graham into the corner works him over with some shoulderblocks to the gut and then lays some heavy chops in on him. Burke tries to climb the turnbuckle for the classic punch count to ten, but Graham delivers a low blow and an inverted atomic drop to block. He covers Burke, who kicks out at two. Graham attempts to apply a headlock, but Savage is right there to stop him and start laying a beating in on him.
The next man into the match is Christian Cage! He comes in and attacks everyone in the match, giving them kicks, punches, arm drags and a dropkick to Graham. Finally, his flurry of offense is stopped by the Macho Man, who gives him a double axehandle to the back of the neck. After that, Savage tosses Cage out of the ring and starts fighting with him there. They go back-and-forth and take turns hitting the chamber wall. Cage ends up receiving a vertical suplex on the hard steel floor, stinging his back! After putting the boots to Cage for a few more moments, Savage turns his attention back into the ring, where Graham has just given Burke a suplex. Savage runs over Graham with a running clothesline. He picks up Graham and gives him a bodyslam, then climbs the turnbuckle. He points to the sky for a flying elbow drop, but ends up falling onto the turnbuckle after Cage grabs his foot. Burke comes over to meet Cage, but gets a shoulder to the abdomen. Then, Cage goes over Burke and the top rope with a sunset flip that gets a 2-count. Cage continues to lay the right hands in on Burke and then clotheslines him over the top rope. He goes to the outside and stays right on him with punches and a kick to the abdomen. Cage sets up for the Unprettier. As he turns into the move, he’s hit with a missile dropkick from Savage!
“Iceman” Dean Malenko is the fifth man into the match. He enters the ring and targets the first man he sees, which is Graham. Malenko gives him a leg lariat, spinning heel kick, gutbuster and a fisherman’s suplex that nearly eliminates the Superstar. On the outside, Savage throws Cage head first through an empty pod! Meanwhile, Burke has entered the ring and rekindles his long standing feud with Malenko in an epic chop battle that goes on for at least 20-rounds. Both men’s chests have turned beat red. Neither man wins the battle, as Graham gives them a double noggin knocker! Graham throws Malenko in between a set of turnbuckles, slamming his shoulder against the ringpost. Then he approaches Burke as he’s getting up, threatening to put him in his bearhug, but Burke sees him at the last moment and counters his approach with a small package pin for 1…2… kick out! They get up and Graham throws a lariat at Burke! He pins. 1…2… shoulder up! Graham pins again, but Burke kicks out! Now, Savage attacks Graham and flings in over the top rope. Savage starts laying a beating in on Graham on the outside. Meanwhile, Malenko gives Burke a bridging German suplex! 1…2… kick out! Malenko gives Burke a gutwrench sit-out powerbomb, then applies the Texas cloverleaf. Burke struggles to make it over to the ropes and after nearly a minute, taps out for the first elimination.
Leo Burke has been eliminated. As soon as Malenko secures the elimination, he releases the hold and then gets taken out with a missile dropkick from Cage, who had been perched on the top rope, just waiting for Burke to quit before attacking.
Finally, the last man enters the ring. It’s the defending champion, Yvon “Le Lion” Robert. He enters the ring and goes after Malenko and Cage. Meanwhile, the chamber door opens for Burke to leave. Before it can be closed again, the rest of the Montréal Mafia shows up and force their way into the cage. They attack everyone in sight. Dino Bravo gives Cage an airplane spin. Malenko gets a piledriver from Mad Dog Vachon. The Macho Man receives a face full of green mist and gets put in the tarantula by Tajiri! Then, Bravo, Vachon and Robert execute a beatdown on Graham. They give him a triple team powerbomb on the hard steel! Then, they roll him into the ring, when Robert goes for the pin and orders the referee to count the fall, but he refuses! That gets him a gorilla press slam from Canada`s Strongest Man! The Montréal Mafia are reasserting their dominances over AGPW with this disgusting dismantling of all of Robert’s opponents, until…
Bad Influence enters the cage and gets into it with the Mafioso. Still, the North American Tag Team Champions are outnumbered. However, before they can get picked to pieces…
Hollywood, California’s very own, Goldust appears with “Classy” Freddy Blassie by his side! He enters the ring and goes to town on the various members of the Montréal Mafia! Bad Influence keep fighting the men they beat for the North American Tag Team Titles, Dino Bravo and Mad Dog Vachon, and take them out of the cage. Meanwhile, Goldust gives Tajiri Shattered Dreams and then serves up a Final Cut to the International Heavyweight Champion! Goldust grabs Tajiri and tosses him from the chamber. The Californiacation-Montréal Mafia war has finally exploded!
Back in the ring, there are 5-men who look worse for wear. Cage is the first to move and he crawls over to pin Robert. 1…2… shoulder up! Cage picks up Robert and begins to go for the Unprettier, but then lets go as he sees Malenko charging at him. Malenko ends up taking Robert down with a clothesline, but then gets knocked down by a dropkick from Cage. Meanwhile, Savage is trying to get up, but struggles to see anything, as he was blinded by Tajiri. Graham takes advantage of the situation and attacks him, which culminates in Graham taking him onto the steel and giving him a piledriver! He drags Savage back into the ring and pins him. 1…2…3!
“Macho Man” Randy Savage has been eliminated. As soon as Graham gets up, Cage attacks him with lefts and rights. He goes for a whip, but Graham reverses it and sends Cage towards the corner. Graham charges behind, but gets taken down with a springboard cross body block into a pin for a long 2-count. While Cage is picking up Graham, he receives a hard savate kick from Malenko, who then pins Graham with a rolling side cradle for another nearfall. Malenko and Graham exchanges blows until Malenko takes him down with a fireman’s carry, but then he gets bodychecked through the ropes by Robert. Robert exits the ring, picks up Malenko in a body press position and rams him into the side of the chamber five times before dropping him! Robert continues to work him over. Meanwhile, back in the ring, Graham tries to apply the bearhug to Cage, but he stops it with a double palm slap to Graham’s ears. Then, Cage gives him a falling reverse DDT. He climbs up the turnbuckle, then onto the top of one of the pods and performs a huge frog splash! He recovers quickly and pins. 1…2…3!
“Superstar” Billy Graham has been eliminated.
We’re down to the final three. Robert is outside of the ring, trying to hyperextend Malenko’s elbow, when all of the sudden, Cage runs at him, grabs his head and slams it into the side of the chamber! Then, he gives Robert a suplex on the hard steel floor! Cage picks up Malenko and tosses him into the ring. He waits for Malenko to get up, then slingshots over the top rope with a shoulder tackle. He pins, but Malenko kicks out. Cage picks up Malenko and gives him a bridging northern lights suplex, which he also kicks out of. Cage changes gears and puts Malenko in a Boston crab. Malenko refuses to quit and drags himself to the ropes to force a break. While Cage waits for Malenko to get up, Robert grabs him from behind and gives him a release German suplex! Then, Robert gives Malenko a side belly-to-belly suplex and puts him in the arm-trap headscissors. Malenko can’t get out of it. He refuses to quit but eventually passes out from the hold.
“The Iceman” Dean Malenko has been eliminated. When Robert gets up, Cage immediately grabs him and goes for the Unprettier. Robert pushes him away, into the turnbuckle, then gives him a powerslam when he comes back out of the corner. He hooks the leg. 1…2… kick out! Robert brings Cage to his feet and whips him into the corner. He charges in, but Cage moves and Robert’s shoulder smacks into the turnbuckle post. When he pulls himself out of the corner, Cage folds him up into a school-boy roll-up for a close win. Robert attacks with a clothesline attempt, but Cage ducks it and pulls him down into a crucifx pin for another near fall. Then, Robert charges at him again, but Cage takes him down with a hurricanrana! When Robert gets up Cage grabs him and executes the Unprettier! He pins. 1…2…3!
Yvon “Le Lion” Robert has been eliminated, meaning that we have a new International Heavyweight Champion!
Official Decision: Christian Cage wins the AGPW International Heavyweight Championship!
Post-match celebrations for the new International Heavyweight Champion, Christian Cage, before we go off of the air.
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