AGPW Dynamite Saturday Night (July 12/14)

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Dynamite Saturday Night
Samedi, le 12 Juillet, 2014
Du Palais des Sports à Sherbrooke, Québec

Tonight’s Announced Matches

The Mounties vs. “Killer” Karl Krupp & Kurrgan

Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. The Stampeders



“You Know I’m No Good” par Cœur de Pirate (Montréal, Québec), extrait de l’album Trauma (2014)

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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This week’s show kicks off with the Tower of Power, the Man of the Hour, “Superstar” Billy Graham and his manager “Classy” Freddie Blassie coming to the ring. They claim that the coin toss decision to give Goldust a title shot against Christian Cage was a cop out to protect him from facing the ladies’ pet and the men’s regret, which they say would have been a real challenge for his title. They go on to talk up the “Superstar” as the man who can’t be beat and claim that he pops the ratings every time his 22-inch pythons appear on television screens. He is the true number one contender of AGPW and he deserves a match against Cage. Next, Bad Influence takes some time to rip on the North American Tag Team Champions, Leo Burke and Rowdy Roddy Piper, claiming that they could not beat them without the help of Christian Cage in their last match (even though Cage didn’t interfere in the match whatsoever). In any event, they are here to announce that they are cashing in their former champion’s rematch clause, tonight!

Commissioner Billy Two Rivers comes out to shoot down Californiacation, which causes Blassie to make grand sweeping accusations of a conspiracy to hold his men back and keep them winning AGPW gold. Two Rivers comes clean and says that he is actively trying to keep them from getting title shot opportunities. It is his job to protect the best interests of AGPW and, to steal a line from the WWE Authority, do what’s best for business. Giving a group of men who have publicly acknowledged that their primary goal is to put the company they work for out of business is an example of doing something that is not best for business. So their pleas for title shots will consistently fall on deaf ears with him. Moreover, he tells Bad Influence that another reason they won’t receive a title match tonight is because they’ve already used their rematch clause. They point out that the rematch clause was not used up because they earned an additional title shot as a stipulation of winning the mixed 6-person tag team match on the June 14th DSN.

The Network’s representative to AGPW, Cyrus, comes to the ring the ring to make a major announcement concerning tonight’s main event. He says that it is an important announcement that they are all going to want to hear. Two Rivers tells him that he doesn’t have the authority to make matches, but Cyrus says that he isn’t making a match. He’s only announcing one that was demanded by Mr. Duprée! He hands Two Rivers a document and says that it is explained in this communique from Mr. Duprée, himself! Cyrus tells Bad Influence that they will have to wait another day to exercise their right to a tag team title shot because they will be competing in an 8-man tag team match, which is tonight’s main event! In one corner it will be Californiacation, and in the other corner it will be International Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage, the North American Tag Team Champions Leo Burke & Rowdy Roddy Piper and a partner of their choice, and in the other corner it will be the team of “Superstar” Billy Graham, Christopher Daniels, Kazarian and Goldust – Californiacation! And what’s more is that if Californiacation wins, Cage will have to defend his title against Graham and Burke & Piper will have to defend their titles against Bad Influence at AGPW’s next special event, TAKEOVER IN TORONTO, on August 2nd! Californiacation looks happy about this announcement. Two Rivers thinks it makes no sense that Emile Duprée would personally demand this match. And who will Cage, Burke and Piper find to join their team, tonight? Stay tuned to find out!

*Commercial Break 1*

The International Heavyweight Champion, Christian Cage, and the North American Tag Team Champions, Leo Burke & Rowdy Roddy Piper, have a meeting backstage. Having just heard the announcement of their match tonight, they need to decide who they will ask to join their 8-man tag team for tonight’s match. Piper wonders if the entire thing is a set up and suspects that the Network is working for the same guy that backs “Classy” Freddie Blassie and Californiacation. Burke thinks it might be too short notice to find a partner, especially someone they can trust. Cage says he knows a guy from just down the road and he doesn’t think he’s busy. He knows that it is short notice, but he’ll give him a call and see if he can get to the arena on time.

VS.

The Mounties vs. “Killer” Karl Krupp & Kurrgan

The first match of the evening features a pair of Québecois Mounties. This is their debut tag team match in AGPW. Mountie Jacques Rougeau has been a fixture of the AGPW mid-card all year long, but Mountie Pierre Ouellet just debuted last week. Unlike during their runs as the Québecers in WWF and the Amazing French Canadians in WCW, in their newest incarnation in which they are acknowledged as a pair of Mounties, they are fan favourites. In their debut, they are faced with the daunting task of competing against the biggest team in the territory – “Killer” Karl Krupp & “The Acadian Giant” Kurrgan. The fans are fully behind the duo from Montréal. This match features a lot of high impact power moves, although Rougeau is the outlier in the contest, preferring to use his quickness relative to the others and finesse to stay a step ahead of Krupp and Kurrgan. The Mounties work very well together as a team and show teamwork instincts. They use a lot of double teams. And unlike your typical faces, they don’t hesitate to use dirty, underhanded tactics to take control of the match away from Krupp and Kurrgan whenever they have it. Late in the match, a miscue by Krupp and Kurrgan leads to Kurrgan getting dropkicked over the top rope by Rougeau and Krupp falls victim to a running powerslam from Ouellet. The Mounties then execute their assisted diving top-rope senton bomb finisher, known as the Québec Crash on him to collect the victory!

Official Decision: The Mounties win by pinfall

After the match, Owen Hart enters the ring and stuns both Mounties with their cattle prod! This leads to a 3-on-2 beat down from Hart, Krupp and Kurrgan. Rougeau and Ouellet both receive spinning heel kicks from Hart, as well as thunderous lariats from Krupp and chokeslams from Kurrgan. Krupp and Kurrgan kick the Mounties out to the floor and then leave the ring, pleased about getting the upper hand. Hart, meanwhile, grabs a microphone and cuts a promo stating that Rougeau’s greatest mistake was when he double-crossed him. All of the punishment he’s received since then hardly makes up for when he turned on Hart. He then goes on to say that any other idiot Québecer who tries to come to Rougeau’s help will end up just like his friend Ouellet – broken and battered at the hands of the “King of Harts” Owen Hart! This receives a ton of heel heat from the fans. Hart responds by saying he’s so serious that he’d like to dare anyone in this arena to prove him wrong!

The man who steps up to that challenge is “Mr. Wrestling” Kevin Steen. Hailing from Marieville, Québec, Steen is here to say to say that this idiot Québecer dares to prove him wrong. Steen dares Hart to put his money where his mouth is and prove to him that Hart’s worst nightmare didn’t just arrive to shove his feet down his throat! Hart tells him it’s on and we get an impromptu match between Owen Hart and Kevin Steen after this commercial break!

*Commercial Break 2*

VS.

Owen Hart vs. Kevin Steen

The promise of a great wrestling match is not fulfilled in this contest. They grapple and Steen throws Hart to the mat. They grapple again and Hart comes out of it with a rear wristlock. This begins a short sequence of chain counter maneuvers that ends with Steen trapping Hart in a rear wristlock and Hart flipping himself right over Steen, then pushing him into the ropes for a roll-up attempt. Steen clings to the ropes, then tries to run over Hart with a clothesline, but he ducks it. Hart tries to catch Steen off-guard with an enzuigiri, but Steen ducks it, then pulls Hart down with a side Russian legsweep. Steen waits for Hart to get up and he picks him up onto his shoulders, but Hart elbows Steen to the side of the head to get down, then slides out of the ring and leaves, taking the countout loss. Hart gets booed vociferously for bailing on the match while Steen gets a huge ovation from the crowd.

Official Decision: Kevin Steen wins by countout

"Mr. Wrestling" Kevin Steen has arrived in AGPW!

Coming Soon!

Switching scenes, we now go backstage to find Jeremy Borash standing by with Chris Jericho to get his reaction to being attacked by the “Macho Man” Randy Savage a week ago. Jericho says that he’s not interested in talking about the “Macho Man.” He’d rather address a more pressing issue and that is the disturbing fact that Sensational Sherri’s face is looking more and more like a trainwreck with each passing week. Last week, he had the misfortunate of seeing it and it scared the living crap out of him. He never wants to see her face again. But he knows that he will. It is inevitable that he’ll run into that frightening visage at some point in time in the backstage area. And when he does, he’ll have to put his guard up because she’ll most likely sic the nearest ass clown on him by saying that he was talking dirty about them. He goes on to say that while he never spoke ill of the “Macho Man” before, he most certainly will speak ill of him now. Savage is a lunatic that needs to get his act together and if he ever puts his hands on him again, he will never EVER be the same again!

*Commercial Break 3*

VS.

Samoa Joe vs. Cuban Assassin

Samoa Joe takes on one half of the Cuban Assassins. On this night, he faces the elder of the two Cuban Assassins. Their match begins slowly enough but develops into a fist fight that further develops into a ringside brawl. This is just the way the Cuban Assassin likes it. However, in Joe, he’s found one of the few opponents in AGPW who can match the wily veteran’s propensity for ringside brawling. In fact, this is best exemplified by Joe when he dives off of one of our announce tables, over the barricade, and into the Cuban Assassin, sending him crashing into a row of abandoned ringside seats.

Just as was the case the last time Samoa Joe had a match, “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase and Virgil are seen watching the match from near the entrance. When the brawl out on the floor makes its way back to ringside and around the other side of the ring, where the entrance aisle is, Samoa Joe glances in their direction and notices them watching the action. He only briefly gives them a look before grabbing his opponent and returning him to the ring, where he finishes him off by sending him into the corner, hitting a running avalanche splash on him, then lifting onto the turnbuckle only to pull him off of it and executes the muscle buster! After winning the match by pinfall, Joe looks back to the entrance only to find that DiBiase and Virgil are already gone.

Official Decision: Samoa Joe wins by pinfall

*Commercial Break 4*

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Awesome Kong w/ Trish Stratus & “Classy” Freddie Blassie vs. Nicole Matthews w/Portia Perez

Awesome Kong steps into the ring to face the more powerful of the two Canadian Ninjas, Nicole Matthews. Kong does not need help to fight her battles. Nevertheless she is joined at ringside by “Classy” Freddie Blassie and the AGPW Women’s Champion, the Hollywood A-Lister, “Top Shelf” Trish Stratus. For that reason, Portia Perez has joined Matthews at ringside. None of our ringside participants interrupts the proceedings of the match. It is fought without interference. However, it is not fought entirely cleanly. Kong gives Matthews some hair pulls and illegal chokeholds. Although she gives up a sizeable weight advantage, Matthews is fairly powerful herself, but facing someone the size of Kong, she cannot fully take advantage of her own power game. However, she still manages to throws some powerful clotheslines and lariats Kong’s way and even knocks her off of her feet after three hard running clotheslines in succession. Despite her valiant effort, Matthews is no match for the awesome power of Awesome Kong, who finishes the match off by catching Matthews who attempts a diving body press and flipping her onto her own shoulders for a vicious Samoan drop! She follows that up with a running leg drop and an Awesome Bomb before pinning her for the victory!

Official Decision: Awesome Kong wins by pinfall

Following the match, just because they can, Stratus and Kong attack Perez as she checks on her Canadian Ninjas partner. Stratus instructs Kong to give her a chokeslam and she obliges. Then, Stratus gives her the Stratusfaction! Then, she tells Kong to give her an Awesome Bomb. She sets up for it, but tosses Perez aside when she sees Chyna rushing to the ring with a chair in hands. Chyna swings the chair wildly all over the ring, but Stratus and Kong have both safely fled the ring before she could get there. Chyna grabs the microphone and tells Stratus that her days as Women’s Champion are numbered because she’s coming after the title!

*Commercial Break 5*

Jeremy Borash is standing by backstage with the “Macho Man” Randy Savage to ask him about the incidents that transpired last week with his public address in which he turned on the fans, dismissed and dumped Miss Elizabeth and attacked the Ayatollah of Rock ‘n Rollah, Chris Jericho. Savage says that he already said his piece about the fans. He didn’t turn on them, rather they turned on him when they decided to cheer for that piece of garbage Stone Cold Steve Austin. And Miss Elizabeth turned on him by showing Austin her sympathy. She proved to the entire world that she couldn’t be trusted. And Chris Jericho, he got what was coming to him for interfering in the Macho Man’s business. Borash suggests that maybe Miss Elizabeth was no longer any of his business since he had already fired her earlier that evening. The jealous and paranoid Macho Man tells Borash that it doesn’t matter if he fired her because for as long as Miss Elizabeth shows her ungrateful face at an AGPW event, she’ll be his business!

Suddenly, Sensational Sherri arrives on the scene and she wishes to be excused for the interruption, but she needs to ask the Macho Man if he saw Chris Jericho’s interview with Jeremy Borash earlier in the evening. Savage said that he did not because he doesn’t have time to be worried about what lowlifes like Chris Jericho are up to. Sherri says that it should interest him to know that Jericho called Savage a lunatic and said that if he ever came face-to-face with the Macho Man again, he’d spit in his face and punch his lights out! Savage starts to get really steamed, and he mumbles, “oh, did he?” Borash denies that was what Jericho said to him and Sherri screams at him to shut his mouth. Sherri continues, saying that Jericho claimed he would do this and that he could do whatever he wants to because he thinks he’s the king of the world! Savage’s blood boils over and he starts throwing a fit, saying that he wants to shoves his foot down Jericho’s throat and screaming that Jericho is the king of nothing and Sherri speaks up saying that the Macho Man is the real king of the world. Savage likes the sound of that and as he repeats it. Yeah, he’s the real king of the world. He’s the real king of profressional wrestling. He’s the one and only Macho King!

SoCal Val finds Bo Dallas backstage. He’s just finishing up a phone call on his cell phone when he sees Val and makes her feel welcome with a warm greeting. He tells her that he was just leaving a message for all of the BOlievers on the brand new Bo Dallas hotline to remind them to don’t stop BOlievin’. Val asks Bo for a statement on the most recent rumours circulating the dirt sheets that claim that Dallas’ message of BOlief has been receiving chilly reactions since the start of the AGPW summer tour. Dallas assures Val that the rumours are patently false and says that the people reporting them are guilty of mixing up their facts. The truth is that he received nothing but positive feedback from all of the BOlievers on the latest AGPW tour, despite the unseasonably frigid temperatures, which were caused by chilly wind gusts blowing in from off the Atlantic Ocean.

See Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling When It Comes to Your Town!
Sunday, July 13 – Drummondville, Québec
Wednesday, July 16 – Windsor, Ontario
Thursday, July 17 – Chatham, Ontario
Friday, July 18 – St. Thomas, Ontario
Saturday, July 19 – London, Ontario (DSN Live)
Sunday, July 20 – Sarnia, Ontario
Thursday, July 24 – Brantford, Ontario
Friday, July 25 – Cambridge, Ontario
Saturday, July 26 – Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario (DSN Live)
Sunday, July 27 – Guelph, Ontario
Monday, July 28 – Milton, Ontario
Saturday, August 2 – Toronto, Ontario (Takeover in Toronto)

*Commercial Break 6*

VS.

Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. The Stampeders

This is a competitive contest that would never see the light of time in today’s WWE (putting aside the fact that Cade is no longer living), simply because each team has a Lance on it. This contest is fought fairly and each team is simply trying to see which one of them is the better of the two. Cade and Murdoch have had some bad luck which has resulted in their names showing up in the loser’s column quite a bit recently. Conversely, Lance Storm and Tyson Kidd have seen their luck turn around for the better around the same time that Cade and Murdoch’s luck started to slide. Storm and Kidd have been racking up wins and even put forward a strong showing at the AWA Crockett Cup, getting out of the first round before taking the eventual tournament winners, Beer Money, to the very limit in their contest before losing and being eliminated. Here, each man has a good showing. The match features a nice blend of speed and finesse, technical wrestling and power moves. Both Murdoch and Kidd have lengthy stretches in which they are dominated by the opposing team. Both teams do a good job of showing off some slick double team maneuvers. The ending moments of the match see Cade go for a superkick on Kidd, only for him to avoid it and then knock him down with a spinning back kick. Kidd goes to the top rope and looks to be going for a moonsault, but Murdoch pushes him off of the turnbuckle and he goes crashing into guardrail. This prompts Storm to springboard into the ring and take him out with a dropkick. Cade charges at Storm, but he catches him with a superkick! Storm puts him in the sharpshooter. Just before Cade appears to be ready to tap, Murdoch breaks it up from behind. He gives Storm some knees to the face, then executes the Ace of Spades! However, as neither man is legal, he can’t register a pinfall, so he gets up and Kidd comes flying off of the turnbuckle to give him the blockbuster! He sees Cade trying to get to his feet, comes up from behind and places him in the Dungeon Lock! This time, Cade cannot hold out until Murdoch recovers to save him. Storm and Kidd stay on a roll with the win!

Official Decision: The Stampeders win by submission

*Commercial Break 7*

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8-Man Tag Team Match
Christian Cage, Leo Burke, Rowdy Roddy Piper & Édouard Carpentier vs. Californiacation w/ “Classy” Freddie Blassie

Californiacation comes down to the ring first. They look and feel confident that Christian Cage, Leo Burke and Rowdy Roddy Piper won’t find a good tag team partner to make their side competitive enough to face them. When Cage, Burke and Piper enter the arena together, Cage gets a microphone and introduces their tag team partner:

“The Flying Frenchman” Édouard Carpentier! From Roanne, Québec, Carpentier is a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion who has won a number of other territory’s World Championships. He was a member of the French underground resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II and won the Croix de Guerre and Croix du Combattant war medals in recognition of his service and contributions to his country. In 1956, he immigrated to Montréal, Québec, Canada, where he got into professional wrestling. He has a background in gymnastics, which he used to his advantage as a professional wrestler, becoming one of the pioneers of acrobatic and high-flying wrestling maneuvers.

“The Flying Frenchman” receives a huge pop from the partisan Québecois crowd here in Sherbrooke, as he joins Cage, Burke and Piper to storm the ring, getting into a pier six brawl with “Superstar” Billy Graham, Christopher Daniels, Kazarian and Goldust before the bell even rings. Slowly, the brawl peters out with only Cage and Kazarian remaining in the ring, when the bell is finally rung to signal the official start of the match. In the early minutes of the match, Cage, Burke, Piper and Carpentier take turns putting some work in on Kazarian, but when he evades a Piper bulldog attempt by grabbing the middle ring rope, he’s able to take the Hot Rod down with a running dropkick and then finally tag out to Goldust, who comes into the ring and goes through several of his signature moves on his Wrestlemania XII opponent, including a scoop powerslam, ten punches in the corner, his classic stop short and uppercut counter to a back body drop and a running bulldog that nearly wins him the match. Goldust tags in the Superstar and he slows things right down by giving Piper an atomic drop and then a sleeper hold. He nearly puts Piper all the way to sleep, but the Hot Rod battles back and breaks the sleeperhold. He goes for a running clothesline, but Graham ducks it and then levels Piper with one of his own. Then, he picks up Piper and places him in the bearhug. Again, he has Piper on the brink of submission, but before his arm can fall a third time, Burke chop blocks Graham to break it up. This brings Daniels and Kazarian into the ring, which in turn draws Cage and Carpentier into the ring, and then finally Goldust, and we get our second extended brawl of the match. This time, the action spills out to the floor. Goldust goes crashing into the guardrail after being tosses into it by Burke. Meanwhile, Daniels sends Cage into the crowd with a back body drop! And Carpentier sends Kazarian crashing into the ring steps with a flying headscissors takedown after diving from the ring apron.

Back in the ring, Graham drops Piper to the mat with a military press slam, then folds him up for a pin. He puts both of his own feet on the bottom rope for added leverage, but Burke shakes the rope to break that up. Burke climbs onto the ring apron and gets into a mini battle with Graham, who tries to give him a vertical suplex into the ring, but he lands on his feet behind Graham and gives him a release German suplex. Burke goes back to his corner to wait for a tag, but he gets pulled off of the ring apron by Goldust! Meanwhile, Daniels gets a tag and then runs over to pull Piper away from his team’s corner. Piper flips over to his back and boots Daniels away, then makes a desperation lunge into his corner to tag in Carpentier! The Flying Frenchman comes in rolls somersaults and cartwheels to evade Daniels’ attacks and then knocks him down with a clothesline. Carentier gives hima few more running clotheslines and then a standing somersault senton bomb. He pins, but Daniels kicks out. Carpentier gives him some European uppercuts to back him into the corner and then goes for a cross-corner whip, but Daniels reverses it. Daniels starts to charge at him, but Carpentier comes running out of the corner and takes Daniels down with a Polish hammer! Carpentier goes for the pin, but Daniels gets a shoulder up! He tags out to Cage, who goes to stop Daniels from making a tag, but ends up receiving an enzuigiri kick instead. Daniels tags in Kazarian and they give Cage a slingshot elbw and slingshot legdrop combo. Kazarian pins, but Cage kicks out. Californiacation spends the next two minutes making quick tags and working over the International Heavyweight Champion with several double team moves until finally Graham goes for a whip into the corner and charges behind him only to receive a corner springboard sunset flip for a 2-count. Cage avoids a lariat attempt and gives Graham a falling reverse DDT. He pins, but Kazarian makes the save. This leads to the third 8-man brawl of the match. During all of the chaos, Kazarian and Daniels execute a neckbreaker on Cage and leave him there for Graham to pin. As the other wrestlers take the brawl out to the floor, Graham goes for the pin. 1…2… kick out! Graham complains about what thinks was a slow count from the referee This gives Cage time to recover and get up. However, as he uses the ropes to get up, he gets cracked in the head by a swing of “Classy” Freddy Blassie’s cane! Graham takes advantage by rolling him over and giving him a leg drop. He pins the International Heavyweight Champion. 1…2…3! Californiacation steals the victory and now “Superstar” Billy Graham and Bad Influence will challenge for the International Heavyweight Champion and North American Tag Team Titles at TAKEOVER IN TORONTO, on August 2nd!

Official Decision: Californiacation win by submission

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Join us next week for another edition of
Dynamite Saturday Night
featuring

Chris Jericho vs. Dean Malenko

Cesaro vs. “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase

This has been a presentation of

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Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling Presents
TAKEOVER IN TORONTO
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Live on Pay-Per-View



International Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Christian Cage {C} vs. "Superstar" Billy Graham


North American Tag Team Championship Title Match
Leo Burke & Rowdy Roddy Piper {C} vs. Bad Influence



And Much More!

[fifthhorseman]

Excellent eight-man tag to end the show, and glad in a way that Graham got the pin - sets him up nicely for Takeover in Toronto. Not surprised at all that Jericho had some harsh things to say about Sherri Martel, and a Jericho/Savage feud is gold, as will be Steen vs. Hart. But I gotta say, next week's show with Jericho/Malenko, and Cesaro/DiBiase, already has me looking ahead!