AGPW presents Takeover in Toronto

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Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling Presents
TAKEOVER IN TORONTO
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Live from the Air Canada Centre
Only on Pay-Per-View and the Mash-Up Wrestling Network



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


Women's Championship Title Match
Trish Stratus {C} vs. Chyna


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


Chris Jericho vs. "Macho King" Randy Savage


"Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase vs. Samoa Joe


Fabulous Moolah vs. Awesome Kong


6-Man Tag Team Street Fight Match
Kevin Steen & The Mounties vs. Owen Hart, "Killer" Karl Krupp & Kurrgan


Maximum Brute Force vs. Cesaro & His Mystery Partner

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Takeover in Toronto
Saturday, August 2, 2014
From the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario




“Superstarr Pt. Zero” by k-os (of Toronto, Ontario), from the album Exit (2002)

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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Cesaro & Partner vs. Brute Force w/ Maryse Ouellet

The first match of the night features former tag team partners Cesaro and Magnus continuing their on-going feud, but this time in tag team action. At our last supercard extravaganza, JOURNEY TO GREATNESS, Cesaro and Magnus faced each other in singles action. Unbeknownst to Cesaro, Maryse had already taken on a new client, “The Bulgarian Brute” Rusev, who interfered in the match and giving Magnus the victory. Tensions have remained high between the two sides over the last two months and they led to Cesaro issuing a challenge for a tag team match, tonight. Magnus, Rusev and Maryse enter the arena first. Maryse and Magnus both take a turn on the microphone to briefly ridicule Cesaro and to say they can’t wait to find out which loser he found as a tag team partner because they know that there is no way in the world that he could possibly find someone as dangerous as the Bulgarian Brute to help him avoid the beating of a lifetime. Then, Cesaro comes to the ring and says that his tag team partner has a simple message for them: “Beat us if you can, survive if we let you!”

That’s the sound of “War Machine” by Kiss, which can only mean that it’s the Human Suplex Machine, Taz! He slowly walks down to the ring and as soon as he enters the ring, Rusev charges at him to show no fear. The two intimidating men clash with thunderous fists, forearms and chops until finally Rusev floors Taz with a back kick to the chest. He lets out a violent war cry. He isn’t afraid of anyone or anything. Rusev goes to pick up Taz, but gets surprised when Taz tosses his much bigger opponent overhead with a t-bone suplex! Rusev slides out to the floor and completely flies off the handle. He slams and kicks things and overturns a set of ring steps while Taz looks on, completely unphased by his actions. Rusev comes back into the ring and again locks up with Taz again. They go back and forth, trading blows before Taz goes for a whip. Rusev reverses it, sending Taz into the ropes. Then, he charges at Taz and drops him with a running body block. He picks up Taz and gives him multiple knee lifts to the chest and abdomine before driving one into his face. Magnus is tagged into the match and he picks up from where Rusev left off. Magnus and Rusev make some quick tags and keep Taz isolated from his corner. They make some pinfall attempts, but Taz kicks out of each of them. After giving Taz a rebound clothesline and only getting yet another 2-count on him, Magnus gives him a scoopslam, then goes for a diving elbow drop from the top rope, but Taz moves. When they both get up, Magnus comes at him, but Taz blocks and gives him a series of right and left hooks. He whips Magnus across the ring. Magnus hits the turnbuckle, pops out of the corner and gets floored by an Angry Man’s Clothesline, followed by another and another and then a dragon suplex!

After that outburst of offense, Taz slowly moves to his corner. Magnus crawls to his corner and both men make the hot tag. Rusev comes in and charges. Cesaro slingshots over the top rope with a mean European uppercut! As Rusev is trying to get up, Cesaro grabs him in a gutwrench and gives him a suplex. He rolls with a big man, executing 5 continuous rolling gutwrench suplexes! Magnus charges at Cesaro, but he sees him coming and executes a picture perfect dropkick! Cesaro sees Rusev getting up and he gives him a dropkick, but it only backs him into the ropes. Rusev uses the momentum from the bounce to come back at Cesaro with a spinning heel kick. Rusev moves towards the corner and gives out a battle cry, then charges at Cesaro and knocks him down with a running body block! Rusev picks him up and sets up for a swinging side slam, but Cesaro breaks it up with some elbows to the side of the head. Cesaro runs to the ropes, but receives a bicycle kick from Rusev! He pins Cesaro, but only gets a 2-count. Rusev picks up Cesaro and gives him a swinging side slam! He tags Magnus and he executes a diving elbow drop! He pins. 1…2… broken up by Taz. Rusev charges at him and receives an exploder suplex! Magnus swings at him with a lariat attempt. Taz ducks it, then gives him a tiger suplex! Rusev runs at him and Taz gives him the Concrete Crash! Taz goes back to the ring apron to wait for a tag. Magnus and Cesaro get up at the same time. Magnus charges at him, but Cesaro lifts him up for a very European uppercut! He pins. 1…2… shoulder up! Cesaro can’t believe it. He jumps on Magnus with a double foot stomp to the chest, then goes to his corner and tags out. Taz comes into the ring and serves up more suplexes for everyone. He goes on a tear with Germans, side and overhead belly-to-bellies, gutwrenches and exploders. He finishes the flurry of activity with a Tazzmission-plex to Rusev. Then, he locks Magnus in the Tazzmission! Maryse shouts at him not to tap as Rusev slowly gets up. However, he can’t break it up because Cesaro climbs the turnbuckle and knocks him back down with a diving European uppercut. At that point, Magnus has no option but to tap out!

Official Decision: Cesaro & Tazz win by submission

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AGPW owner Emile Duprée arrives at the loading bay entrance to the Air Canada Centre and he is met by Commissioner Billy Two Rivers. The first thing Duprée wants to know is why Californiacation is competing in every one of tonight’s title matches. Two Rivers tells him that it was the result of Californiacation winning the 8-man tag team match that he personally booked 3 weeks ago. Duprée says that he did nothing of the sort. He tells Two Rivers that he was on vacation for the entire month of July. He asks Two Rivers if someone in his office ordered the match and Two Rivers responds in the negative. He tells him that Cyrus received a communique directly from him. Duprée doesn’t know what is going on, but he wants to get to the bottom of this right away. He says that he would never allow a group hell bent on being the cancer that kills his company to put itself in a position to make major strides in that direction.

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Fabulous Moolah vs. Awesome Kong w/ “Classy” Freddie Blassie

There isn’t a big backstory leading up to this one. Essentially, how it came to be was that on the June 21 edition of DSN, Fabulous Moolah announced that she wanted a straight up one-on-one title match against Trish Stratus and claimed that the Women’s Champion because the only way Stratus was able to beat her at JTG was by working with Gail Kim to take her out of the picture. It took two women to beat one. Stratus said that she wasn’t worthy of another title shot and that she had nothing more to prove to Moolah, then told Awesome Kong to deal put an end to her problem. Kong gave Moolah a beating so bad that she was not seen again until last week when she wrestled against Stratus in a non-title match. At the end of the match, Moolah roughed up Kong on the outside of the ring and told Blassie that she wanted to meet Kong in the ring this week. Awesome Kong backs down from no one, so the match was added to the card.

The match begins with Awesome Kong using her awesome size and power advantages to toss Moolah around the ring. The veteran is not used to being so easily thrown around, however she maintains her composure (owing to her considerable experience in the ring). Moolah exits the ring to regroup and trades words with Blassie, who taunts her for allegedly trying to ‘escape the match.’ Moolah replies that there isn’t a big enough challenge for her to consider making an escape. When Moolah returns to the ring, she uses quick strikes in a hit-and-run fashion to cut Kong down to size. She comes at her with running clotheslines, dropkicks that target Kong’s lower extremities and chopblocks. She finishes this onslaught off with a DDT and goes for a cover but Kong kicks out at one, literally tossing Moolah off of her as she puts all of her weight between a lateral press lift. Kong rolls to the outside to regroup and this time Moolah gets under Blassie’s skin by telling him that his client is trying to escape from the match. As soon as Kong is ready, she returns to the ring and charges at Moolah, going for a big boot. Moolah ducks to avoid it and then gives Kong a dropkick. She falls back into the ropes, but bounces off of them and drops Moolah with a hard lariat! Kong covers, but Moolah kicks out. Kong picks up Moolah on gets a sla across the face. Kong’s eyes intensify with anger as no one is brazen enough to do that to her. Kong gives Moolah a series of knee lifts to the midsection and then gives her vertical suplex. Kong bounces off of the ropes and attempts a leg drop, but Moolah rolls away. When they both get up, Kong comes at Moolah, but she sidesteps her and gives her a modified Greco-Roman toss. Then, she lands on Kong with a running seated senton and starts pounding away at her with a series of punches. As Moolah builds momentum, the fans start getting behind her. Moolah waits for Kong to try to get up and gives her a Moolah whip, followed by two more! She climbs the turnbuckle and executes a missile dropkick! She pins. 1…2… kick out! After telling the referee to count quicker, Moolah goes back to the top rope and waits for Kong to get up. Then she jumps onto Kong’s shoulders, presumably to try for a victory roll, but Kong counters with an electric chair drop! Now, Kong looks like she’s in kill mode. She waits for Moolah to get up and gives her a two-handed sit-out chokeslam. Moolah kicks out of the resulting pin. Kong picks up Moolah and whips her into the corner. She charges in and crushes Moolah with an avalanche splash. Kong puts Moolah on the top rope just to send her crashing down to the mat with a military press throw! Kong puts Moolah in a camel clutch, but she eventually breaks free and after several forearms to the head and chops to the chest, Moolah puts Kong onto the mat with a standing dropkick. Moolah goes for a pin, but Kong kicks out. Moolah decides to go high risk once more and she attempts a diving crossbody press, but Kong catches her and just falls forward on top of her with a fall forward slam. Kong chooses not to pin her, however, instead opting to take Moolah into the corner and slam her face into the turnbuckle repeatedly before picking her up and giving her a gorilla press slam. Then, Kong climbs the turnbuckle and executes an Awesome Splash! She covers. 1…2… Kong lifts Moolah’s shoulder off of the mat. Not content to end it there, she picks up Moolah and gives her not one, but two Awesome Bombs before putting a lazy pin on her for the 1…2…3! Awesome Kong is the first woman to defeat Fabulous Moolah by pinfall or submission in AGPW competition and she does it rather decisively!

Official Decision: Awesome Kong wins by pinfall

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WrestleRock 2014

AWA HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Daniel Bryan [C] vs. Big Van Vader (w/Gary Hart)

AWA TAG-TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Beer Money (w/JJ Dillon) vs. the Miracle Violence Connection [C]

HELL IN A CELL / "I QUIT", LOSER LEAVES AWA MATCH

Tully Blanchard (w/JJ Dillon) vs. Magnum T.A.

Edge (w/JJ Dillon and Missy Hyatt) vs. Verne Gagne

AWA TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

The Great Muta [C] (w/Gary Hart) vs. A.J. Styles

and much, much more!

Now airing on the Mash-Up Wrestling Network: Click Here for AWA WrestleRock 2014

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6-Man Tag Team Match
Street Fight Rules in Effect
Kevin Steen & The Mounties vs. Owen Hart, “Killer” Karl Krupp & Kurrgan

The story here begins with Owen Hart seeking revenge against Mountie Jacques Rougeau, who gave him a jolt from his cattle prod at JTG after discovering that Hart, disguised as the Blue Blazer, had played him for a fool. They had a singles match that saw Hart attack Rougeau. This brought Mountie Pierre Ouellet to the aid of his friend. Later, he would face Hart and also get attacked after the match. On July 12, after The Mounties defeated “Killer” Karl Krupp & Kurrgan, Owen Hart attacked them again. Following his attack, Hart said that he would do to any other “idiot Québecer” who tries to stop him from continuing to doll out his payback on Rougeau what he’s been doing to The Mounties. That’s when Kevin Steen entered the scene to challenge Hart. Hart accepted the challenge but threw the match before he could suffer a loss. The next week, Hart attacked Steen and The Mounties showed up to the save. Then, Krupp & Kurrgan came out to even the odds. Steen and The Mounties then requested a match against Hart, Krupp & Kurrgan, and their request was granted by Commissioner Two Rivers.

With Street Fight rules in effect, it means that everyone is going to be engaged in a slobberknocker of a brawl from the moment the bell is rung to start the match right up until the bell has rung to end the match. And that’s how it goes. With all six men brawling in the ring and eventually taking the fight to the floor and out into the crowd, thus taking a page out of the BCCW 6-man tag team match playbook. When the fighting returns to ringside is when things begin to get a little out of control. It all starts with Kurrgan showing off his incredible strength by dislogging a set of ringsteps and throwing them 10-feet away to knock Ouellet out. However, following that, Steen works over Kurrgan’s torso with a number of kendo stick shots. That’s stopped when Hart grabs Steen from behind and gives him a German suplex that sends his head and shoulders slamming into the guardrail! Meanwhile, Rougeau is on the other side of the ring and he’s busy taking care of Krupp. Rougeau sends him into the guardrail with a hip toss and then continuously stomps away at him. This continues until Hart rushes around the sides of the run to connect with a flying forearm to the side of Rougeau’s head. Rougeau gets up and Hart gives him a suplex on the floor! On the other side of the ring, Ouellet and Steen show up Hart by giving the 7-foot 350-pound “Acadian Giant” Kurrgan a double vertical suplex on the floor! When they both finally get up, Hart takes them out with a diving crossbody from the top turnbuckle onto both Ouellet and Steen! A bit more brawling ensues around the ring before Hart and Steen end up inside of the ring where they are trading blows. Meanwhile, Krupp slides a table into the ring, but then he can’t do anything with it as Ouellet attacks him. Hart gives Steen an enzuigiri kick and pins him for a 2-count. Then, he props the table up in the corner of the ring and goes back to pick up Steen. He tries to give him a gutwrench suplex, but Steen fights to stay on the ground, eblows his way out of the gutwrench and then takes Hart down with a discus clothesline! Steen picks up Hart and picks him through the table with a Steenalizer! He drags Hart out of the broken remnants of the table and pins him. 1…2… Kurrgan makes the save. He lays out Steen on the canvas with a chokeslam! Kurrgan indicates that he’s going to apply the Kurrgan claw, but then he is suddenly dropkicked in the back by Rougeau and this causes him to fall through the ropes and out of the ring. Rougeau grabs Hart to pick him up, but receives a low blow and a fisherman’s suplex! 1…2… Ouellet makes the save! He goes to work on Hart in the corner. Meanwhile, Krupp enters the ring with a table. Then, he sees Steen getting up and gives him a running big boot. Ouellet charges at him and receives a back body drop. Then, Krupp sees Rougeau getting up and applies the Kurrgan claw! Rougeau is too close to the ropes, and gets his feet on the bottom rope, but Krupp won’t let go. The referee tries to break it up, but Krupp shoves him aside as he breaks the hold. Krupp sets up his table, picks up Rougeau and lays him out on it. Hart comes over and climbs the turnbuckle, apparently ready to go for a moonsault, but then Steen pulls on the top rope, causing Hart to fall onto the top rope and then down to the canvas. Krupp tries to attack Steen, but he back body drops the big man over the top rope. Rougeau slides off of the table and after he and Ouellet stomp away at Hart, they place him on the table. Meanwhile, Steen dropkicks Kurrgan off of the ring apron, then takes him out with a running cannonball dive from the apron to the floor! Ouellet climbs the turnbuckle and Rougeau grabs him by the hands to swing him through the air with a Québec Crash senton splash onto Hart, thus putting him through the table! Ouellet turns him over and covers while Rougeau piles on top. 1…2…3!

Official Decision: Kevin Steen & The Mounties win by pinfall

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Jeremy Borash is standing by with “Classy” Freddie Blassie, who is a very busy man tonight. However, he is more than happy to be so busy especially since tonight is the night that Californiacation really takes its takeover plans to the next level. Awesome Kong has already pinned Fabulous Moolah and put her out to pasture. And later on, Trish Stratus will successfully retain the Women’s Championship, Bad Influence will regain the North American Tag Team Titles and “Superstar” Billy Graham will bring the International Heavyweight Championship back to the warm California sun! Plus, he reveals that the group is extra motivated because its client is in the building and so everyone is really out to prove that his money is being spent wisely. Yes, they are doing all of this to make one person very happy and, so far, they are exceeding expectations. Blassie plans on keeping his troops in the winner’s column and to continue to exceed his client’s expectations. He predicts that his client is going to be happier than he’s ever been at the end of tonight when all of AGPW’s championships end up making the big move across the continent to be paraded down Hollywood Boulevard.

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Samoa Joe vs. “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase w/ Virgil

This match was signed by Commissioner Billy Two Rivers at the request of the “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase. He asked for the match after Samoa Joe attacked him, Virgil and many other wrestler’s during “Macho King” Randy Savage’s royal swearing in ceremony on “The Genius” Lanny Poffo’s Honour Roll last week. In addition to that, the Samoan Submission Machine turned down an offer to work for DiBiase, one week ealier. DiBiase had been scouting Joe until finally Joe confronted him about it. That’s when DiBiase offered him everything he could ever want to go after the International Heavyweight Championship, win it and give it to him. Of course, Joe turned him down. All of that together has angered the Million Dollar Man, which led him to request this match so as to teach the undefeated grappler from the Isle of Samoa a “lesson in humility.”

The Million Dollar Man’s attempt at teaching Samoa Joe a lesson in humility doesn’t start out very well. After a brief exchange of headlocks, armbars and wristlocks, DiBiase ends up on the mat after a hip toss and an elbow drop. After getting placed in a grounded headlock, DiBiase squirms over to the ropes to force the break and then exits the ring, where he threatens to walk out on the match, even going as far as to walk half way down the entrance aisle, only to rush back into the ring and attempt to attack Joe. However, this time, he takes a series of arm drags and then a dragon screw leg whip. After a quick kick out on a pinfall attempt by Joe, DiBiase retreats again. Virgil tries to reassure him that he has this match in hand. DiBiase decides to use some stalling tactics. He plays cat-and-mouse with Joe, sliding into the ring and back out several times until Joe finally takes the bait and exits the ring. When he chases DiBiase back in, the Million Dollar Man puts the boots to him and starts to grind out an attack on Joe that consists mainly of a combination of suplexes and restholds meant to wear down his opponent. This slow methodical attack works wonders for DiBiase as he wears Joe down to the point that he is in prime position to take a figure four leglock. Joe attempts to flip it over, but DiBiase does a great job of blocking each of his reversal attempts. After his shoulders hit the mat for a pair of 2-counts, Joe gets up to a seated position and uses his strength to drag himself to the ropes. Joe struggles to get to his feet and DiBiase zones in on his knee. After a drop toehold, he starts wrenching the knee and driving it into the mat by lifting his foot up into the air and driving it back down. After some elbow drops to the knee and some more wrenching, DiBiase decides to go for another figure four, but Joe kicks him into the corner with his good leg. Joe tries to get up and DiBiase charges in his direction. On one good knee, Joe executes a Samoan drop! It buys him some time to get a breather. Joe uses the ropes to help him up one more time and again DiBiase runs at him. This time, Joe lifts him overhead and sends him to the floor!

Following another recovery break, Joe goes down to the floor and gets into a knife-edge chop war with DiBiase. The Million Dollar Man gives Joe an eye rake and then attempts a whip, but Joe reverses it and DiBiase slams his back into the guardrail and stumbles into the timekeeper’s seat. Struggling to run on one good leg, Joe still manages to smoke DiBiase in the face with a running big boot while he’s seated in the chair. Joe hobbles back to the ring apron and rolls in and out to break the referee’s count. He heads over to grab DiBiase, but Virgil gets his attention and provides a long enough distraction to allow DiBiase to run over Joe with a clothesline. DiBiase picks him up and gives him a vertical suplex on the floor. Then, he enters the ring and tells the referee to count. As Joe starts to move, DiBiase distracts the referee to enable Virgil to give Joe a bodyslam and put the boots to him. The referee restarts his count. Joe gets up right in time and again DiBiase interrupts and distracts the referee. Virgil charges at Joe, but he catches him coming with a big boot. Then Joe slides into the ring. DiBiase puts the boots to him, but Joe still gets to his feet. DiBiase goes for a whip, but Joe counters it. He sets up for a back body drop and DiBiase counters with a sunset flip for two. They get up and Joe ducks DiBiase’s clothesline attempt. DiBiase turns around just to receive an inverted atomic drop, single leg dropkick and then a running senton bomb. Joe covers, but DiBiase kicks out. Joe sends DiBiase into the corner and charges in with a forearm smash. He gives him several in a row and then follows that with a cross-corner whip and charges in, but DiBiase puts a big in his face. He follows that up with some punches and elbows to the head before finally dropping Joe onto the mat with a clothesline. DiBiase gives him three standing elbow drops and then his signature falling fist drop before trying for the pin. Joe kicks out. DiBiase gives Joe a belly-to-back suplex. He pins. 1…2… kick out. DiBiase gives Joe a gutwrench suplex and pins him. 1…2… kick out! DiBiase gives him a vertical suplex and pins him. 1…2… shoulder up! He hooks both legs. 1…2… kick out!

Exasperated that his effort has gone for not, DiBiase questions the referee about his count. Then, he stomps at Joe’s face and scoops up him up for a bodyslam. DiBiase climbs to the second rope and goes for a pointed elbow drop, but Joe rolls out of the way. DiBiase still beats Joe to his feet and uses that opportunity to apply the Million Dollar Dream! Joe isn’t in the hold for very long though, as he backs into the corner and breaks it simply by repeatedly ramming DiBiase’s back into the turnbuckle. Joe then clocks DiBiase with a CCS Enzuigiri kick! Both men struggle to get up, but once they do, they exchange punches. Joe starts to get the better of the exchange and then takes DiBiase down with an exploder suplex. Joe gets up and appears to have tapped into his energy reserve because he rallies off a release German suplex, half nelson suplex, bridging dragon suplex and a death valley driver. He follows up each move with a pinfall attempt, but DiBiase kicks out of each and every one of them. Finally, Joe signals that it is time to finish the match. He puts DiBiase on the top turnbuckle, but before he can grab him for the muscelbuster, from out of the corner of his eye, he sees Virgil coming at him. Joe quickly turns and throws him to the mat with a STJoe side slam! When he turns his attention back to DiBiase, Joe receives a diving double axe-handle smash. DiBiase stands in wait for Joe to get up. When he does he comes up from behind to go for the Million Dollar Dream, but Joe gives him another CCS Enzuigiri! When both men get up, Joe applies the Coquina Clutch! DiBiase tries to get to the ropes, but Joe turns him away from them and pulls him down and applies a body scissors. After that, DiBiase stands no chance and he taps out! Samoa Joe wins another big one and remains undefeated in AGPW action!

Official Decision: Samoa Joe wins by submission

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WCW GREAT AMERICAN BASH 2014


Mash-Up World Heavyweight Championship Match
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin {C} vs. CM Punk


The Rock vs. Kurt Angle


United States Championship Match
Dolph Ziggler vs. Sami Zayn


Rick Rude vs. Austin Aries


Casket Match
The Undertaker vs. Papa Shango


And much more!


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North American Tag Team Title Match
Leo Burke & Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Bad Influence w/ “Classy” Freddie Blassie

Both of these teams are becoming very familiar with one another. Leo Burke and Rowdy Roddy Piper defeated Bad Influence for the titles three months ago. On June 21, Burke and Piper successfully defended the titles against Bad Influence. However, as it turns out, Bad Influence still hadn’t exercised the rematch clause in their contract. Moreover, they’ve faced each other recently in 6-man and 8-man tag team matches, and there have been a few singles bouts contested between members of each team. This is important to note as their increasing familiarity leads to a lot of successful counter maneuvers throughout the opening minutes of the match. Attempts to apply holds are quickly countered and those counters are in turn countered quickly. It’s a fantastic display of rapid pace chain wrestling by all four men. Even as the match hits the five minute mark, neither team has been able to establish control of the bout and very little real damage has been caused to any one contestant in the match.

That changes when Christopher Daniels and Kazarian give Burke a spinning heel kick and chop block double team combo. They follow up with a springboard leg drop by Kazarian and a springboard moonsault into a lateral press by Daniels. Burke kicks out at two. At this point, Daniels slaps on a rear headlock and keeps Burke on the mat. After some time being trapped in the hold, he finally fights his way to his feet and breaks the hold with some elbows to the abdomen. Then, he grabs Daniels and attempts a vertical suplex, but Daniels slides through and rolls him up from behind. Burke kicks out, but upon getting to his feet, receives an enzuigiri kick! Daniels covers him, but Burke just kicks out. Next, Daniels takes Burke down with tilt-a-whirl headscissors and he falls out to the floor. Then, Daniels gives him a springboard plancha! When he recovers, Daniels puts the boots to Burke. He grabs him and sends him crashing into the guardrail. Piper hops down from the ring apron and comes to the aid of his partner. He trades blows with Daniels. Eventually Burke gets up and starts to get involved, but then they are all taken out by Kazarian when he performs a somersault suicide dive into everyone! Kazarian helps Daniels up and returns his partner to the ring. Burke, just barely gets back to the ring on time. Daniels tags Kazarian and he attacks Burke. He gives him a vertical suplex followed by a springboard discus leg drop. Burke kicks out of the pinfall attempt. Kazarian goes out to the apron and when Burke gets up, he performs a slingshot DDT! He pins, but again kicks out. Kazarian picks him up and executes a bridging German suplex and Burke still kicks out, although just barely. Kazarian changes tactics and decides to apply a cross armbreaker. Burke appears to be in a lot of pain, but he still manages to slowly drag himself the short distance he needs to get his free hand on the bottom rope. Kazarian takes Burke into the Bad Influence corner and gives him a couple of shoulder blocks to the midsection before tagging out. Daniels puts Burke onto the turnbuckle and starts to climb up. He goes for a frankensteiner, but Burke holds onto the top rope. Then, he elbows Kazarian in the head, to knock him off of the apron and executes a diving clothesline on Daniels. He rolls through on the landing to pop up and leap into his corner to make the desperation tag!

Piper comes into the ring and he’s on fire. He takes Daniels down with a couple of running clotheslines and then a bodyslam and an elbow drop. Piper sees Kazarian springboarding into the ring and punches him in the abdomine. Then, he thumbs Kazarian in the eye and tosses him over the top rope. Piper turns around in time to counter a spinning heel kick attempt by Daniels into a backbreaker. Piper covers, but Daniels kicks out. Piper picks him up and whips him into the corner. He follows in with the charging clothesline. Then, Piper climbs the turnbuckle and gives him 10 punches to the head. Piper lifts Daniels onto the top turnbuckle. He climbs up and sets up for a superplex, but Daniels punches him and counters with a sit-out falling forward suplex from the top! Daniels rolls him over and pins. 1…2.. kick out! Daniels tags out. Kazarian comes into the ring by executing a springboard hurricanrana. He knocks Burke off of the ring apron and then gives Piper a reverse STO. He pins, but again Piper kicks out! Kazarian takes Piper into the corner and lifts him onto the top turnbuckle. He climbs up, but Piper knocks him down to the mat and then gives him a diving axehandle smash. When Kazarian gets back up, Piper fires a series of jabs at him and knocks him down with a big haymaker! Piper covers Kazarian, but Daniels breaks it up by grabbing his foot and dragging him off of Kazarian. Burke runs in and connects with a clothesline. As Kazarian starts to get up, Burke and Piper grab him and execute a double suplex. Burke goes back to the corner and Piper makes the tag. Burke climbs the turnbuckle and goes for a splash, but Kazarian rolls out of the way! Piper is standing on the ring apron screaming, “what were you thinking?!” Kazarian tags Daniels, then charges over to the corner to knock Piper off of the apron and follows that with a tope to take him out. Meanwhile, Daniels takes advantage of Burke’s mistake by executes the Angel’s Wings and the Best Moonsault Ever. He makes the pin. 1…2…3! Bad Influence wins the match and the North American Tag Team Titles. They also become the first 2-time champion of any title in AGPW history!

Official Decision: Bad Influence wins by pinfall

***

SoCal Val is standing by with the AGPW Women’s Champion to get a few words from her in advance of her title defence later tonight. Val asks Stratus how it feels to have the opportunity to defend her championship in front of thousands of AGPW wrestling fans right here in her own hometown. Stratus responds by telling her that she absolutely adores Toronto. She has heard the buzz all around Toronto that the city’s favourite daughter is coming home to be the cherry on top of the cake that is tonight’s show. And why is she the cherry on top? Because she’s a Hollywood A-Lister and her brand sells. In fact hers is the most powerful brand in all of professional wrestling. The public hangs on her every word and action. Men everywhere wish they could be with her and women everywhere wish they could be her. The paparazzi won’t leave her alone. Companies everywhere are offering her endorsement deals hand-over-foot. And other wrestling promoters are so desperate to cash in on her persona that they have stooped to hiring cheap imitators to try to sell more seats. Why? Because everyone knows that it isn’t a BIG EVENT without Trish Stratus! Val then asks her if her last comment is making reference to something in particular and Stratus tells her to open up her ears. She said that “Trish Stratus is the BIG EVENT.”

***

w/ VS. w/

Chris Jericho w/ Miss Elizabeth vs. “Macho King” Randy Savage w/ Sensational Queen Sherri

The story going into this match has largely centred on the evolution of the “Macho Man” Randy Savage into the “Macho King” Randy Savage. It all goes back to the Macho Man winning a battle royal to earn a shot at the Mash-Up World Heavyweight Championship, held by “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. As the champion increasingly got under the nerves of the Macho Man, he began to give into the Macho Madness. He gave into in full when they had their match at JOURNEY TO GREATNESS, which he ultimately failed to win. Following that event, Savage turned his back on Miss Elizabeth and the fans. Meanwhile, Sensational Sherri make her return to television after a 4-month hiatus and Chris Jericho immediately got on her bad side. Sherri exploited a situation whereby an irate Macho Man attacked Jericho for sticking his nose where it didn’t belong. The fallout from all of these interwoven threads saw Sherri getting on the good side of the Macho Man and feeding his ego by giving him visions of grandeur, and eventually becoming his manager. He completely his transformation into the Macho King thanks to the help of the Sensational Queen. With Sherri now being paired up with Savage, she convinced him that Jericho was his enemy, a point which was proven in his mind when Jericho decided to name Miss Elizabeth as his new manager in effort to upstage Savage’s announcement of Sherri as his new manager. That more or less sums up how we arrived at this match.

As soon as the bell rings, the Macho King stalls and tries to get into Jericho’s head with a constant stream of trash talk, but it doesn’t work against the brash native of Winnipeg (he is not from Toronto, unlike what some people from Washington, D.C. believe). Jericho simply poses and shouts, “I’m the king of the world!” in the direction of the Macho King, before turning to the crowd and screaming, “Yeah, baby!” This causes Savage to lose it and charge right into some arm drags, clotheslines and dropkicks. Jericho continues to keep Savage off balance until he makes a mistake by sending him into the corner. Jericho runs in and takes a boot to the foot and then a hard clothesline puts Jericho on the mat. Savage takes over and focuses on Jericho’s body. He stomps away at him while he’s down and drops some elbows down into his chest. The Macho King also works him over with a body scissors, abdominal stretch and bear hug. After executing a hangman across the top rope, Savage climbs the turnbuckle and points to the ski, but Jericho rolls under the ropes and onto the floor. Savage turns and takes him out with a diving axehandle smash to the back of the head, sending Jericho crashing into the guardrail. The ensuing ringside brawl sees both men whipped and counter-whipped into ring steps and guardrails. Savage even back bodydrops Jericho onto the other side of the guardrail. They exchange knife-edge chops and fists as they brawl through the crowd. Savage gets body dropped over the guardrail into ringside. Jericho picks ups Savage and takes a thumb to the eye and then a vertical suplex. Savage starts clearing off the English broadcast team’s table, but when he picks up Jericho, he receives a knee lift to the abdomen and then a DDT on the floor!

Jericho brings Savage back into the ring and goes for the first pin of the match, but Savage kicks out. Jericho picks him up and executes a butterfly suplex. He covers and Savage kicks out. Jericho gives him a few kicks and then a bodyslam. He runs to the ropes and attempts a lionsault, but Savage gets his knees up. He gives Jericho a pair of jumping knee drops and then covers for a 2-count. Savage locks on a rear chinlock, but Jericho works his way up to his feet and breaks it. He runs to the ropes and ducks a clothesline attempt. He comes back off of the opposite ropes with a flying forearm. Jericho runs to the ropes and executes a one-handed bulldog! Now Jericho executes the lionsault. He pins. 1…2.. kick out! Jericho climbs the turnbuckle and gives Savage a taste of his own medicine with a diving double axe-handle smash. He goes back to the top ropes and does it again and again and again until Savage puts a stop to it by dropkick Jericho out of the air! Both men are down and get up at the same time. They exchange chops, snake eyes and punches before both running to the ropes and taking each other out with running clotheslines. When they both get up again, Jericho takes Savage down with a backslide pin, which starts off a chain of pinfall combinations, each one collecting counts of two, but never three. After several pinfall attempts, it is Savage who executes an atomic drop and then a lariat takedown. His pinfall attempt scores another 2-count. Then, he gives Jericho a vertical suplex and pins, but Jericho gets a shoulder up. Savage climbs the turnbuckle and waits for Jericho to get up, then he executes a string of diving double axehandle smashes to Jericho until Jericho is able to sweep Savage’s legs on the way down and turn him over into the Walls of Jericho! With the Sensational Queen Sherri looking on and shrieking and Miss Elizabeth clapping and offering words of encouragement to Y2J, the Macho King scrambles and tries to crawl to the ropes. He nearly reaches them, when Jericho powers him back towards the center of the ring. Once Savage is dragged back into the middle of the ring, Sherri jumps onto the ring apron and distracts the referee. Meanwhile, Savage begins to tap out furiously! However, the referee is tied up with Sherri. Miss Elizabeth comes over and climbs onto the ring apron to confront her. Sherri screams her lungs off at her until Elizabeth slaps her in the face! This earns her a hard push then causes her to fall to the floor! Jericho comes over and grabs a handful of Sherri’s hair. She shrieks again and tries to slap him, but he blocks it. However, before he can do anything more, Savage rolls him up from behind, and puts his feet on the second rope for added leverage. 1…2… Jericho kicks out! Savage doesn’t believe it! The crowd gasps as they thought it was over.

Savage lays into Jericho with a series of right hands and then goes for an Irish whip, but then takes a spinning heel kick right on the chin. Savage rolls out to the ring apron. As he tries to get up, Jericho knocks him off of the apron with a springboard dropkick! Jericho waits for Savage to get to his feet and then goes for a springboard plancha, but Savage sidesteps it and gives him a side thrust kick to the mid-section! Savage picks up Jericho and rolls him onto the table. He hops up, grabs Jericho and gives him a piledriver on the table, causing it to collapse underneath them! “This is awesome!” can now be heard throughout the arena. Savage rolls Jericho into the ring and goes to the top turnbuckle! He executes his signature diving elbow drop! Savage covers. 1…2… shoulder up! Savage can’t believe it. He is very angry with the referee now! Savage gets Sherri’s attention and gives her an instruction, then he argues at length to the referee about his count while Sherri unties a turnbuckle pad. Savage picks up Jericho and runs towards the corner. Jericho gets a foot up on the middle turnbuckle to block and then drives Savage’s face into the exposed turnbuckle! Then he executes the Codebreaker! Jericho covers. 1…2… Sherri yanks the referee out of the ring! He and Sherri have a few words before he tosses her from ringside! Jericho comes outside of the ring and goes over to break things up. Sherri tries to kick him in the crotch, but Jericho catches her foot. Then he decides to clothesline her. Sherri ducks it and Jericho takes out the referee by mistake! Jericho is checking on the referee and Sherri grabs the ring bell. She starts sneaking up on Jericho and gets ready to knock him out with it, but Elizabeth pulls it out of her hands! Then, Sherri tackles Elizabeth and goes to town on her. Jericho pulls Sherri up off of Elizabeth with a hand full of hair, but then he gets cracked in the back with the swing of a steel chair! Now, the Macho King just bends the chair out of shape with multiple chair shots! Meanwhile, Sherri continues her assault on Elizabeth, finishing off her assault by throwing her into some dislodged ring steps! Macho King brings Jericho’s lifeless body back into the ring and lays him out in the middle of the ring. Macho King climbs to the top turnbuckle and gives him another diving elbow drop and then another and another! With a replacement referee in the ring and after three diving elbow drops, the Macho King pins Jericho. 1…2…3!

Official Decision: “Macho King” Randy Savage wins by pinfall

***

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***

w/ VS.

Women’s Championship Match
Trish Stratus w/ Awesome Kong & “Classy” Freddie Blassie vs. Chyna

This title match was granted to Chyna despite Trish Stratus’ best efforts to avoid having to defend the title against her. Chyna made a strong case for a title shot by defeating Awesome Kong in a Last Woman Standing Match back at JOURNEY TO GREATNESS. However, Chyna could not secure an earlier title shot in June because Stratus pinned her in a 6-person tag team match, but only after striking her with “Classy” Freddie Blassie’s cane. Chyna continued to pursue a title shot opportunity and it was eventually granted to her. Stratus had one final chance to avoid the title defence, but she would have to pin or submit Fabulous Moolah in a match last week. She was unsuccessful, as Chyna interfered in the match to save her title shot opportunity.

Despite what you may have otherwise heard, this is Trish Stratus’ first match in her hometown since competing in a tag team match on the April 19 edition of DSN. In fact, Chyna was one of her opponents in that match. This match begins with Stratus complaining to the referee that he didn’t check Chyna thoroughly enough for foreign objects and demands another search. Of course, this happens just after the bell was rung, so as soon as the referee has finished, Stratus takes advantage of the situation by taking Chyna down with a running Lou Thesz press and slams her head off of the mat and slaps and punches her. Stratus picks up Chyna and sends her into the corner. She charges in, but Chyna lunges out of the corner and takes Stratus down with a stiff clothesline. Chyna attempts to stay right on the attack, but Awesome Kong pulls Stratus out to the floor to avoid further harm. An argument ensues between the referee, Stratus, Kong and Blassie, which results in the referee ejecting Kong and Blassie from ringside. Now, Stratus has it bad. She tries to stall and avoid Chyna as best as she can by milking the referee’s 10-count, circling the ring and quickly sliding in and rolling back out of the ring. Chyna eventually has enough of it and leaves the ring. The chase is on, but she never catch up to Stratus. She chases her around the ring, into it and out of it. Stratus seems to content to just run away and hope to tire out her opponent. Chyna gives up the chase. She stands right in the centre of the ring and after a few seconds, decides to leave the ring from the opposite side from where Stratus is standing. Chyna appears to stumble on her way out and disappears from view. After a few seconds, Stratus enters the ring and the referee halts his count as he cannot see Chyna anywhere. Stratus comes over to tell him to finish counting her out. They discuss the matter and look over the ropes to see that no one is there.

Chyna emerges from under the ring on the other side, slides in and attacks Stratus from behind! The Toronto crowd pops for that, as they tear into Stratus for no longer residing in her hometown. Chyna pummels her with punches and kicks until she takes Stratus into the corner, where she lays into her with an interchanging set of chops to the chest and fists to the side of the head. Chyna whips Stratus across the ring and performs a running handspring back elbow. Then, she kicks Stratus and gives her a DDT. Chyna goes for the cover, but it only gets a 2-count. Chyna picks up Stratus and gives her a suplex and an elbow drop. She makes another cover, but still only gets a 2-count. Chyna scoops up Stratus and gives her a bodyslam. Then, she climbs up to the middle turnbuckle and goes for a leg drop, but Stratus rolls away. Chyna still gets up first. She attacks with a clothesline attempt, but Stratus ducks it and gives Chyna a dropkick. When Chyna gets to her feet, Stratus immediately takes her down with a running one-armed swinging neckbreaker and goes for the cover, but Chyna kicks out at one. Next, Stratus goes for a whip into the corner, but Chyna reverses it and Stratus executes a springboard sunset flip for another 2-count. They get up and Stratus lands a back kick to Chyna’s abdomen and then attempts Stratusfaction, but Chyna pushes her off in mid-spin and the Women’s Champion goes over the ropes and falls all of the way to the floor! She looks unconscious. Chyna has to exit the ring and roll Stratus back inside to avoid getting a countout victory. Once back in the ring, Chyna covers, but Stratus gets her foot on the bottom rope. Stratus rolls back outside to try to recover. Chyna goes out to bring her back in, but gets an eye rake and then Stratus applies the headlock and runs up the side of the steps and ring apron to perform the Stratusfaction on the floor! Stratus gets back in the ring and demands the referee count Chyna out. She slides back into the ring at the count of nine! Now, Stratus stomps away at her and drops some elbows to the back of the head while Chyna is trying to get up. Stratus brings Chyna to her feet and goes for the Chick Kick, but Chyna blocks it, then lifts her high into the air and executes a gorilla press slam! Chyna falls back into the ropes. After regaining her composure, she pins Stratus, who kicks out at two. Chyna picks up Stratus and gives her an Irish whip and then a powerslam! She pins. 1…2… kick out! Chyna picks her up and goes for a powerbomb, but Stratus gives her a pair of punches to stall it and the counters into a falling facebuster! Stratus is slow to make the cover and so Chyna is able to kick out. Stratus decides to climb the turnbuckle. Chyna gets up and trips her. She goes up and sets up for a superplex, but Stratus punches her ribs and then pushes her to the mat. When Chyna gets back to her feet, Stratus jumps off the ropes and attempts to win the match with a victory roll, including a handful of tights. 1…2… Chyna just barely kicks out! She gets up and goes for a running clothesline, but Stratus avoids it with a matrix evasion and then goes for a Chick Kick and connects with the side of Chyna’s head just as she is turning around! Stratus quickly goes for the cover and hooks both legs. 1…2…3! She gets the 3-count right before Chyna powers out of the pinfall. Stratus kept her down just long enough to win the match and retain the Women’s Championship!

Official Decision: Trish Stratus wins by pinfall

***

We find the “Macho King” Randy Savage, “Sensational Queen” Sherri and “The Genius” Lanny Poffo celebrating the Macho King’s victory over Chris Jericho. The Genius offers up a congratulatory poem that discusses the Macho King’s greatness at great length, expresses how his victory tonight has brought happiness to his many subjects across the wrestling kingdom and puts a final emphasis on how he has proven that without a shadow of a doubt he the one true and only king of the professional wrestling world! The Macho King and Sensational Queen love it and they take jabs at Jericho for failing to prove to the world that he is its king.

They are in a very celebratory mood and crack open a bottle of champagne, but then their party is interrupted by Commissioner Billy Two Rivers who scolds the Macho King and Sensational Sherri for their post-match actions, which caused Miss Elizabeth to be taken away from the arena in an ambulance. He says that they need to discuss the ramifications of his actions, explaining that a fine is most likely and a suspension is a very real possibility. The Macho King gets incredibly agitated and tells Two Rivers that he can’t take that tone with him nor can he suspend him because he is professional wrestling royalty. He is the Macho King and he is immune to the Commissioner’s rules and regulations. Two Rivers asserts himself, saying that he can talk to him that way and he most certainly has the power and authority to suspend him if and when his actions warrant it, noting that what he did tonight definitely warrants it. Finally, he tells the Macho King that he has let this idea of being the King go too far and thinks that he’s completely lost his mind as of late. Macho King gets furious and tells him that he hasn’t lost it. He denies that this is a fantasy and claims that his royal heritage is the reality. Two Rivers tells him he should see a doctor to which the Macho King responds in kind telling him that he is the one who needs to see a doctor.

And within the flash of a second, the Macho King strikes Two Rivers, knocking him back into a wall. He kicks him down to the floor, sits down on him and punches away. Neither The Genius nor Sensational Queen are able to stop him right away. When the Macho King finally stops throwing punches, they tell him that they need to get out of there. The Macho King grabs his crown, sceptre and a bottle of champagne and leaves the scene of the crime with The Genius and his Sensational Queen.

***

VS. w/

International Heavyweight Championship Match
Christian Cage vs. “Superstar” Billy Graham w/ “Classy” Freddie Blassie

After dispatching of the once formidable Montréal Mafia by defeating it in an 8-man tag team losers leave town match at JOURNEY TO GREATNESS and being the sole survivor of the match (fought under elimination rules), The Man of the Hour, Tower of Power, Too Sweet to Be Sour, Californiacation decided to set its sights on winning all of the championship gold in AGPW. “Superstar” Billy Graham chose to target AGPW’s top prize, the International Heavyweight Championship title. To earn a shot at this title, he pinned current champion, the Instant Classic and Captain of Charisma, Christian Cage, in an 8-man tag team match. Cage, who has been the champion since April 5, gained a measure of revenge and some much needed momentum coming into this match by leading he and his partner Édouard Carpentier to victory over Graham and Goldust in a tag team match, last week. Cage has had successful title defences against Marc Mero, Yvon “Le Lion” Robert, “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase and Goldust. Now, he faces arguably his biggest challenge to date and he also represents the last line of defence against Californiacation as the group attempts to takeover AGPW tonight!

Graham begins with his chest puffed out. He’s very confident. He’s runs his mouth off while flexing his massive arms for Cage. However, this is a bad idea, as Cage just gives him a hard slap to the face and then several chops and punches to back him into the ropes. Cage with a whip attempt. Graham reverses it. He attempts a clothesline, but Cage ducks it and returns off of the ropes to take him down with a cross body into a lateral press for a 1-count. Cage drops Graham with a series of hip tosses and arm drags. He goes for a dropkick, but Graham drops out of the way and slides out of the ring to regroup. The fans are solidly behind their hometown champion. Back in the ring and a lock up works for the challenger. His power overtakes the champion. Graham throws Cage around with some hip tosses and gives him some punches, kicks, double axehandle smashes and clotheslines for good measure. After an atomic drop and bodyslam, Graham goes for the cover, but Cage kicks out. However, Graham stays right on top of him, locking on a rear chinlock and then eventually transitioning it to a standing headlock. As Cage tries to break free, Graham puts him right back down with a headlock takedown. Cage gets to his feet and gets taken back down twice more before finally getting to his feet and making it to the ropes for a break. Cage has no better luck after the rope break. The challenger pounds away at him with chops and axehandles and then gives him a vertical suplex. Cage kicks out of a pinfall attempt and then Graham starts in with the knee drops to the ribs. As Cage attempts to get to his feet, Graham puts him in an abdominal stretch and punches freely at Cage’s ribs with his free hand. The champion won’t quit. Graham moves a bit closer to the ropes and starts grabbing them for added leverage whenever the referee is not positioned to see it. Eventally, the referee sees his hand on the ropes and removes it himself, which helps Cage take Graham over with a hip toss. Graham tries to get up, but Cage is right on him with punches and then an Irish whip. Graham reverses it, but then Cage takes him down with a crucifix pin for a 2-count. Cage dropkicks Graham twice and then gives him an enzuigiri kick! Graham rolls out to the floor after taking the kick. As soon as he reaches his feet, Cage takes him back down to the floor with a corner springboard plancha!

Now, on the outside of the ring, the brawl is on. Faces are smashed into the ring apron and off of ringposts and ringsteps. Graham gets whipped into the guardrail and then body drops Cage over it and onto the bare concrete floor. Graham gets shoved into the guardrail and chopped several times across the chest. Cage attempts a vertical suplex, but Graham reverses it. Whenever Blassie appears to be getting too close to the action, the referee makes sure he backs away. Taking the action back into the ring, it is Graham who is in control. He works over Cage with some spinning toe holds and wrapped knee drops. Graham applies a half crab, but Cage eventually makes it to the ropes. Graham continues his attack and gets Cage back down onto the mat with a flapjack! Then, he applies another half crab, and again Cage gets a rope break. After a few more moves aimed at doing damage to the knee, Graham puts Cage in a figure four leg lock. Cage suffers in the hold for a while, but eventually reverses the pressure and Graham has to drag himself to the ropes to force a break. Back on their feet and they slug it out back and forth. Graham buries a knee into Cage’s midsection and then executes a front suplex. He pins. 1…2… kick out! Graham gives up on the legs and goes back to targeting Cage’s head. He keeps him in a headlock until Cage gets up and breaks it with several elbows to the abdomen. Cage runs to the ropes and Graham knocks him down with a standing shoulderblock. Then, he goes for an elbow drop, but Cage moves. Cage runs to the ropes and executes a diving dropkick to Graham’s forehead as he’s trying to get back up. Cage gets up and climbs the turnbuckle. He executes a missile dropkick! As Graham tries to use the ropes to get up, Cage comes over and stands on his back, pushing down his shoulders. Then, he slingshots over the top rope to the floor and connects with an uppercut to Graham’s face. Cage climbs the turnbuckle and waits for Graham to get up and then executes a diving cross body into a lateral press. 1…2… kick out! Cage sets up for a spear and goes for it, but Graham moves the referee into the path to block it. The referee is down and out cold!

Cage checks on the referee, while the Tower of Power has left the ring in search of a steel chair. Grahm gets back into the ring, but Cage sees him and dropkicks the chair back into Graham’s face. Cage, then sits down on Graham and lays into him with his right fist. Blassie climbs into the ring and approaches to hit Cage with his cane, but Cage gets his hands on it to block and after a brief struggle is able to pull it out of Blassie’s hads. As Cage threatens and Blassie lifts his arms to try to block an impending swing of the cane, Cage is hit in the back with a steel chair! There’s a masked man in there!

The masked man lays the chair down and gives Cage a DDT onto it! Then, he places his head on the chair, grabs the other one that Graham brought into the ring and gives Cage a one-man con-chair-to! At this point, we see Édouard Carpentier rushing down to the ring, but by this point it is too late for him to do anything but chase the masked man off into the crowd. With Cage knocked out and the referee beginning to stir, Blassie clears the ring of all foreign objects on his way out. A new referee finally arrives just in time to see Graham get up, pick up Cage and give him a piledriver. He pins. 1…2…3! We have a new International Heavyweight Champion! Californiacation is truly golden. The fans are upset by the screwjob of their hometown hero. Trash rains down on the ring as Graham and Blassie celebrate in the ring! Our event end on a scene of Graham, Blassie, Trish Stratus, Awesome Kong, Christopher Daniels, Kazarian and Goldust celebrating Californiacation’s takeover of AGPW, tonight, in Toronto!

Official Decision: “Superstar” Billy Graham wins by pinfall

***

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[fifthhorseman]

Thanks for raising the bar, Slade (he said sarcastically...)

Awesome card. Taz as the mystery partner - will Tazaro be a permanent thing? Big win for Kong, equally impressive victory for the undefeated Joe over DiBiase - and I don't think that feud is over yet. Bad Influence and Graham winning their respective matches cements the top spot for the MUW's most dominant faction, but the highlight of the night was Savage/Jericho. The classic "piledriver on the table" spot, the back-and-forth, the multiple elbows... even the post-match attack on Two Rivers... "Macho King" is unstoppable.

And I sincerely hope the masked man that cost Christian his title was, in fact, wearing that green and red ensemble.

[Slade]

Thanks, Fifth.

After I finished working on Journey to Greatness, I promised myself to go easy on the writing for the next ppv. I think I broke that promise. I still managed to save myself some time and effort by having fewer matches. Anyway, if it makes my readers happy, then I suppose the fact that I'm earning no money for breaking by back over these things in hopes that you'll enjoy them is worth it (I guess). Although, truthfully, I wouldn't put the time and effort into it if I didn't want to. I'm glad you thought it was "awesome."

Yes, I have plans to make Taz and Cesaro's working relationship a more permanent thing. I've booked them both in singles action on the Aug 9th DSN. However, you can fully expect them to team again before too long.

And, yes, the masked man that cost Christian Cage the title was wearing that green and red ensemble. I didn't use that photo without reason.

[MadStepDad]

Meanwhile, on the other side of "The Big Event" we get this. "Takeover in Toronto". How apropos when one considers the Californication takeover of the International HW title in the main event. Absolutely stirring victory for Superstar Graham that I can't help but applaud. You know of my love for golden-age relics and there is none bigger than the "Tower of Power (too sweet to be sour)" himself "Superstar" Billy Graham. His clash with Christian is fight-fiction as I like to read (and write it). This was the culmination of many months worth of angles and it paid off masterfully, with a nod to the future still... Who was the man in the Christmas tree costume??

On to other news, Brute Force is a dope tandem but they got their shit rocked by Cesaro and muthaphuckkin TAZ! Awesome entrance, awesome match, awesome opener. Knowing your apparent love for the TNA Knockout division I shouldn't be surprised Kong beat Moolah, but that doesn't make me any less so. She didn't just defeat the longest-reigning Woman's champion in history, Kong ANNIHILATED her. Californication off to a bang early.

With the news of Kevin Steen finally getting a look from NXT, it's good to see him get a win here over some tenured, and strongly-positioned opponents in Owen/Krupp/Kurrgan. I love what you're doing with Samoa Joe, as I've done something similar with him in my own work before (another reason I can't hate on your depiction of Awesome Kong, a former 3x XPW Remixed/BCCW Woman's champion herself!) Ted Dibiase has been his biggest name test to date and Joe hasn't disappointed. Yet. It's like 2006 all over again or something.

Californication on the rise as Bad Influence takes the tag titles and Trish Stratus has some tuff talk before her eventual title defense against Chyna. Fake Trishes? Indy Imposters? "The Big Event"? Are we talking Halloween Havoc 1990-level of shenanigans here? Or is the Canadian hierarchy just a little sore over Trish being beat on American soil? You will get my on-the-record response soon enough, I assure you.

Match of the night in my estimation (pound for pound, workrate-wise) was Jericho vs Savage. Macho King reigns supreme after 3 elbow smashes. Horrid, wicked actions by Savage and Sherri that resulted in the destruction of both Y2J and Elizabeth. But the worst was yet to come. When Commissioner Two Rivers dare interrupt the Kings champagne shower, he gets snapped into like a Slim Jim! I don't see Two Rivers taking this lying down (although he was left lying here), and Savage may be facing some serious consequences. Even in a land of reckless lawlessness like AGPW is sometimes, there is still such a thing as "crossing the line" and Savage did it here with his attack on the Commissioner.

In conclusion I found this to be another thrilling chapter in AGPW, that was a defining showcase for your Californication stable. When Mash-Up Wrestling starts dropping compilations like "Greatest Factions in History", Californication is sure to rank at the top. I love how you broke the pages down into individual advertisements for our own shows too, that was cool. (conspicuous by it's absence, WWE... "The Big Event!" You know, the one that took place in Toronto!) But there were more than enough subliminals throughout that let you know AGPW was WELL aware of this event and took every appropriate measure to counter-attack! Big stakes, serious matters when your messing with peoples lives and talking territorial borders. I have a feeling this could be the start of something big. Something that will make the old WWF Canadian/American War of 1997 look like the War of the Roses. We now know where the battleground lines are drawn...

[Slade]

I'm glad you like Brute Force. I doubt it comes as much of a surprise that I thought of the name because Magnus used to be Brutus Magnus and Rusev was the "Bulgarian Brute" (and maybe still is, but I haven't noticed him being referred to as that, recently). And I think they make a good fantasy team combo regardless of the convenience of both of them being or having been brutes. I was going to call them Maximum Brute Force because I thought it was a cool name, but I've since decided to shorten it to just Brute Force, which I thing is good enough.

I love the TNA Knockouts division. At its peak, it was the best women's wrestling division of all-time for a few years. However, I think it has lost some steam lately and I feel that most of the women competing in NXT over the last 18 months or so are excellent workers. That's where the next wave of female wrestling superstars are going to come from, in my opinion.

I'm also glad you love what I'm doing with Joe. He was slowly racking up wins during the winter, but has since started to make big moves up the card with big matches against Dean Malenko and the Million Dollar Man. And if you liked those match ups and opponents, just wait until you see who his next major pay-per-view opponent will be.

From the outset, I wanted Jericho and Savage to have the match of the night. On paper, their match screams out for it. When you fantasize about such a match, you must surely be thinking to yourself that it be a surefire 5-star match of the year kind of a contest. But would you believe that I waited to write it last? I had the entire show finished in advanced and already moved onto putting together the next DSN episode before writing that match. It was something I was afraid of botching. I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to present the reader with a good enough representation of what a match between these hall of fame talents might do if put in match against one another. But when it came time to deliver the show on schedule, I did it. I was up early that Saturday morning and I sat down and typed it up. Took a break for about an hour, then read the match and decided I was pleased with what I had done, and then started publishing the show in this thread.

Thank you for all of the positive feedback, MSD. When I decide to do a ppv event, I put extra effort into it to try to hit the ball out of the park for the benefit of all of those who take the time to read it. I appreciate that there are people who read my work and like it and, in turn, it makes me try that much harder to give them something even more enjoyable to read the next time around.