Mayhem in Montréal 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
From the Bell Centre in Montréal, Québec
“Code of the Road” by Danko Jones (of Toronto, Ontario), from the album Code of the Road (2008)
Tonight’s Broadcast Features the Ringside Commentary Teams of
Ed Whalen and Lord Alfred Hayes (English)
Marc Blondin and René Goulet (Français)
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Dynamite Saturday NightRevisit Owen Hart’s attack on Kevin Steen during an episode of the Piper’s Pit!
The Piper’s PitFeaturing Rowdy Roddy Piper and his guest Kevin Steen
DSN Edition: September 20, 2014 ***
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*Loser Will Be Banned From Using The Piledriver In AGPW*
Owen Hart vs. Kevin Steen
Our show opener is the big payoff match to a long ongoing feud that spans back to the early summer when Kevin Steen made his debut to defend his home province against Owen Hart, who was targeting the Québecers because of a perceived betrayal by “The Mountie” Jacques Rougeau. This match is a see-saw battle that sees both men take turns in control. Steen punishes Hart with high impact maneuvers, while Hart picks apart Steen, hoping to wear him out to the point that he cannot defend against the piledriver. As with any match carrying a stipulation like this one does, many attempts at piledrivers are teased, but countered. Hart threatens to break Steen’s neck, but Steen defends against it well. Steen is over big time as he is competing in his own backyard. The defender of Québec feeds off of the fan support to stay in the match, kicking out of a pinfall following a vicious enzuigiri kick and crawling to the ropes to break a sharpshooter. The match comes to a brutal end when Steen blocks an attempt to suplex him into the ring by lifting Hart up onto the ring apron. After trading some blows and nailing a back elbow that stuns Hart, Steen gives him a package piledriver on the ring apron! With that move, Hart is out cold. Steen rolls him into the ring and covers for the 3-count, much to the delight of the predominantly Québecois crowd. Steen may continue to use his package piledriver while Owen Hart will no longer be about to break necks with his piledriver.
Official Decision: Kevin Steen wins by pinfall at 12:15
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Dynamite Saturday NightRevisit the breakup of the team of Leo Burke & Rowdy Roddy Piper when Piper turns on Burke
and attacks him following a failed attempt to regain the North American Tag Team Titles!
North American Tag Team Championship MatchBad Influence {C} vs. Leo Burke & Rowdy Roddy Piper
DSN Edition: September 6, 2014 ***
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Grudge Match
Leo Burke vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper
Our next match features former co-holders of the North American Tag Team Championship Titles. This grudge match is happening after Rowdy Roddy Piper turned heel by attacking his Leo Burke after he was fed up by them being on a losing streak that started from the time that they lost the tag team titles. In nearly every loss, a poor decision or mistake made my Burke would lead them to lose. As those losses piled up, Piper became increasingly agitated and he eventually could no longer handle it. Piper believes that Burke doesn’t stand a chance in this match in part due to his recent propensity for making mistakes. This match has a lot of heat. The fans are split between a pro-Burke camp and the smart fans who prefer Piper’s act as a heel. This match features more brawling than it does technical wrestling. Still, there are moments between the ringside fracases where Burke and Piper exchange holds and bust out suplexes and slams with the odd backbreaker and bulldog takedown thrown into the mix. A fast sequence of pins and reversals increases the drama, which reaches a crescendo when both men battle on the top turnbuckle. They jab, elbow and headbutt at each other until Burke executes a huge superplex! After that, Burke barely makes the cover before the referee counts them both down, but Piper gets a shoulder up. An Irish whip attempt is reversed and Burke slams into the turnbuckle. Piper charges in and Burke moves. Piper hits the turnbuckle chest first and then receives a bridging German suplex that he fails to kick out of on time. Burke wins the match and proves to both Piper and himself that he’s still got it.
Official Decision: Leo Burke wins by pinfall at 11:56
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Dynamite Saturday NightRevisit Bad Influence interfering in a match to determine the #1 contenders to their North American Tag Team Titles,
only to have it backfire on them and have all three teams granted a shot at their titles in a Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match!
Triple Threat Tag Team #1 Contender’s MatchThe Brain Busters vs. Tazaro vs. The Stampeders
DSN Edition: October 4, 2014 ***
North American Tag Team Championship Title
Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match
Bad Influence vs. The Stampeders vs. Tazaro vs. The Brain Busters
It’s our first gimmick match of the night and arguably the one that conjures up the most excitement. There are tables, ladders and chairs all around the ring. This match features four more than capable teams. Christopher Daniels and Kazarian, representing Californiacation as the defending North American Tag Team Champions, face a tough field of challengers, featuring Lance Storm and Tyson Kidd, Taz and Cesaro, and Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson. This is the kind of match up that fantasy wrestling dreams are made of. Each wrestler is appreciated for their wrestling styles and skills. Work rate freaks abound in this one. However, there are plenty of weapons at their disposal and they get used liberally throughout the match. There are more than enough spots to earn
‘This is Awesome!’ chants from the appreciative crowd. For instance, at one point, Kidd and Cesaro engage in a fist fight from the top of a ladder. Cesaro gives Kidd enough European uppercuts to get him off balance. Having been turned around, Kidd decides to jump off of the ladder and nails Kazarian with a blockbuster! Moments later, Tully Blanchard goes up and over the ladder and brings Cesaro crashing down to the canvas with a sunset flip powerbomb! In another impressive spot, Anderson gives Storm a Double-A Spinebuster through a set of opened up chairs! Christopher Daniels gets holy shit chants for climbing to the top of a tall ladder, outside of the ring and executing a Best Moonsault Ever on Blanchard through a stack of tables! Taz whips the crowd into a frenzy when he sends Kazarian, Kidd, Storm and Anderson through tables propped in the corners with a series of Taz-plexes that he fires off in quick succession all around the ring. When he goes to climb the ladder and retrieve the titles, Daniels stops him with chairshots to the back, which causes him to fall off the ladder. When Daniels goes to retrieve the titles, Kidd and Storm tip the ladder over and send him flying out of the ring, giving him a crash landing onto a pile of discarded ladders! Later on, Anderson pushes Kazarian off of a ladder and he ends up getting knocked out for good with one of Cesaro’s Very European uppercuts as he falls from the sky! Cesaro quickly runs up the ladder to stop Blanchard from getting the titles. Meanwhile, Storm tries to push the ladder away. As he does, Cesaro and Blanchard grab ahold of the hanging title belts. Taz takes Storm out of the picture by putting him in the Tazzmission. Cesaro eventually wins the struggle for the titles. He knocks Blanchard down to the mat, then falls down seconds later, holding onto the North American Tag Team Titles! Tazaro emerge from this brutal battle victorious and are therefore the new North American Tag Team Champions!
Official Decision: Tazaro wins at 17:22
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TAKEOVER IN TORONTORevisit the time when a masked René Duprée caused Christian Cage to lose the International Heavyweight Championship to “Superstar” Billy Graham!
International Heavyweight Championship MatchChristian Cage {C} vs. “Superstar” Billy Graham
TAKEOVER IN TORONTO: August 2, 2014 ***
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Grudge Match
Christian Cage vs. René Duprée w/ “Classy” Freddie Blassie
Our next grudge match is the result of René Duprée’s return to AGPW. He returned at the August 2nd
TAKEOVER IN TORONTO to cost the then International Heavyweight Champion, Christian Cage, his title when he was defending it against “Superstar” Billy Graham. We have since learned that René Duprée hired Californiacation to wreak havoc on AGPW and help him to put his father’s company out of business as revenge for allowing Duprée to be booked in a loser leaves town match and suffer the loss, forcing him to leave AGPW, more than a year ago. Of course, being upset that he had the title so unceremoniously stolen from here, The Instant Classic, vowed revenge, but was thwarted at every turn until now. In this match, he finally gets his chance to gain a measure of revenge on Duprée. Unfortunately for Captain Charisma, Duprée uses every old school heel tactic in the book to stall and avoid butting horns with him. He angers Cage to no end and gets him to chase him outside of the ring, all the way around it, back inside it, and then out. However, that is where Duprée finally takes the advantage by flooring Cage with a thunderous running clothesline just after he slid out of the ring. Duprée further cements his control of the action by whipping Cage into the ring steps as hard as he can. He returns Cage to the ring, where he engages in a typical slow and controlled heel beat down of the face. After a few minutes, Duprée goes for the win, but after each successful move, Cage would kick out of each of his following pinfall attempts. Cage eventually makes a big comeback, culminating in him executing the Unprettier. However, a distraction by “Classy” Freddie Blassie keeps the referee from counting the pinfall and leads to Cage getting into a fight with Blassie where he punches him off of the ring apron. The referee goes to tend to Blassie on the floor, and as he does that, Duprée smashes Cage over in the face with a steel chair and then finishes him off with the Duprée Driver to collect the 3-count and the win. Duprée steals another win away from Cage and dances in celebration!
Official Decision: René Duprée wins by pinfall at 8:31
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Dynamite Saturday NightRevisit Trish Stratus’ offer to defend the Women’s Championship against AJ Lee provided she can first win a match against Stratus’ gatekeeper to the title, Awesome Kong!
AJ Lee vs. Awesome Kong
DSN Edition: September 27, 2014 ***
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Women’s Championship Match
Trish Stratus w/ Awesome Kong vs. AJ Lee Fabulous Moolah
AJ Lee won a fatal fourway #1 contender’s match to earn the right to face Hollywood A-Lister Trish Stratus for the Women’s Championship just last night. However, this came after weeks of confrontations between the two, including Stratus offering AJ Lee a chance to compete for her title if she could defeat Awesome Kong in singles competition. Despite Lee competiting just last night, Stratus is not at an advantage because she was attacked by Fabulous Moolah, who swung a steel chair at her last night, to prevent the self-proclaimed “Big Event” from doing harm to AJ Lee. As always, Stratus has Awesome Kong accompany her to the ring. However, to once again even the odds, Lee is joined by Fabulous Moolah at ringside. The presence of two women who are bitter enemies ensures that this match doesn’t end with controversy. The match breaks down when Stratus attempts a Stratusfaction bulldog, but Lee manages to push her away on the spin. Shortly thereafter, Lee applies the Black Widow, which brings Awesome Kong into the ring to cause the disqualification. However, Fabulous Moolah enters the ring and their fight inadvertently knocks out the referee. Stratus taps out, pleading to be released from the hold, but with no referee there to make a decision, she’s stuck in the hold until Kong can finally peel Lee off of her and plant the challenger into the mat with an Awesome Bomb. Together, Stratus and Kong assault Moolah and remove her from the ring. They also do quite a number on Lee. It culminates with Lee receiving a Chick Kick and being pinned for the 3-count after a new referee finally arrives on the scene. By hook or by crook, Trish Stratus retains the Women’s Championship again!
Official Decision: Trish Stratus wins by pinfall at 9:55
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Dynamite Saturday NightRevisit the debut of Killer Kowalski when he attacks Samoa Joe, causing him to lose his first match in AGPW and a chance to become the International Heavyweight Champion all at once!
International Heavyweight Championship Match“Superstar” Billy Graham {C} vs. Samoa Joe
DSN Edition: September 6, 2014 ***
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Hell in a Cell
Samoa Joe vs. Killer Kowalski
This match is an extension of a feud between Samoa Joe and the “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase. To try to sum it up as quickly as possible, DiBiase was angry that Joe refused his generous offer to give him as much money as he wanted in return for winning him the International Heavyweight Championship. Joe refused and that led to a match between the two, which Joe won. After that, Joe decided to go after the International Heavyweight Championship and win it for himself. DiBiase would then hire Killer Kowalski to prevent Joe from winning the title and, in turn, handing Joe his first defeat in AGPW after going undefeated for 10-months. Joe vowed revenge and now these two dangerous and deadly grapplers are set to enter inside of AGPW’s first ever Hell in a Cell match! Ed Whalen and Lord Alfred Hayes are joined at ringside commentary by the “Million Dollar Man,” who has Virgil with him to watch his back.
This is a brutal and bloody affair that sees both men bleed. It is the kind of match that isn’t your typical AGPW affair as the level of violence is cranked up several notches. Both men are busted open and they have their faces pressed against the chain link fencing that comprises the walls of the cage, to further grind away at their wounds. Midway through the match, it spills out of the cage when Killer Kowalski picks up the heavy bottom portion of the ringsteps and hurls them at Joe, causing his near 300-pound body to go through a portion of the cage, with the added steel steps landing on top of him. A fight in the entrance alley sees Joe repeatedly slammed into the guardrails. When Kowalski sets up for a piledriver on the concrete floor, Joe musters up all of his strength to counter it with a back body drop. Moments later, he follows that up with a snap suplex of the big man. After returning into the cage, steel chairs are used as weapons and they are mangled beyond repair. A bag of thumbtacks is emptied onto a portion of the canvas and Kowalski back body drops Joe into the bed of tacks! However, unable to put Joe away, Kowalski is later dumped into the bed of thumbtacks with a Samoan drop! Later, Kowalski puts his Claw on Joe, but he manages to drop himself through the ropes as he loses muscle strength, which effectively causes Kowalski to lose his grip on the hold. With Joe nearly passed out on the floor, Kowalski decides to bring a table into the ring. Then he fetches Joe and rolls him into the ring. He climbs the corner turnbuckle and the large, imposing giant flies from the turnbuckle, going for his signature diving knee drop, but Joe moves out of the way. When they both get back up, Joe puts Kowalski in the Coquina Clutch, however, he won’t fall to the mat and just barely breaks the hold by using every ounce of his strength to back Joe into the corner and ram him in the turnbuckles three or four times. After taking a short breather, Kowalski beats Joe down with his fists, then he sets the table up above the spot where the bulk of the tacks lay on the mat. Kowalski places Joe on top of the table and climbs the turnbuckle. Is he going to go for a splash? We can’t be sure, now, because Joe slides off of the table and attacks Kowalski. After an intense exchange of fists, chops and headbutts, Joe is able to pull Kowalski off of the corner turnbuckle and give him a Muscle Buster through a table and into a bed of thumb tacks! That’s it! That’s all she wrote! Joe barely finds the strength to roll over and drape an arm across Kowalski’s chest. 1…2…3! DiBiase can’t believe it! He and Virgil leave ringside in disgust and bitter disappointment. Can anyone stop the Samoan Submission Machine?
Official Decision: Samoa Joe wins by pinfall at 25:36
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Dynamite Saturday NightRevisit Chris Jericho pinning “Superstar” Billy Graham during an epic 6-man tag team match for the ages!
6-Man Tag Team MatchBret Hart, Chris Jericho & Christian Cage vs. Billy Graham, Ric Flair & René Duprée
DSN Edition: September 20, 2014 ***
International Heavyweight Championship Match
“Superstar” Billy Graham w/ “Classy” Freddie Blassie vs. Chris Jericho
This story going into this match begins the week after “Superstar” Billy Graham won the International Heavyweight Championship. His first appearance on AGPW television as the champion was as a guest on Chris Jericho’s Highlight Reel. There, Jericho made a mockery of the champion by lampooning him and asking him difficult questions about the legitimacy of his title win, which immediately turned him into an enemy of Graham and Californiacation. What followed was weeks of confrontations between Jericho and various members of Californiacation until, on September 20, when Jericho teamed with Bret Hart and Christian Cage to battle Graham, Ric Flair and René Duprée in an historic 6-man tag team match that ended with Jericho pinning Graham to earn his team the win. The following week, Jericho declared himself the #1 contender and challenged Graham to a match. Graham responded by tattooing Jericho in the head with his title belt and giving him a piledriver on it. Following that confrontation, Commissioner Billy Two Rivers signed off on the match.
The match is the farthest thing from a 5-star workrate super fan’s wet dream. Matches featuring Graham aren’t that kind of an affair. While Jericho definitely has the skills to work that kind of a match, he’s extremely versatile and can easily meet Graham on his level, to turn a 5-star sports entertainment style of a match. This is what we get from these two. While Jericho is the face, he matches Graham’s dirty tactics move-for-move. The referee spends half of the match giving warnings to Graham and Jericho about their behaviour; and he spends the other half of the match failing to notice that an illegal maneuver was just executed. Graham is jeered for each of the actions that he pulls from out of the cheat book. Conversely, Jericho is cheered for each of his. Plenty of brawling takes place inside of out of the ring, with the occasional high impact wrestling move thrown into the mix. There are also some submission holds that get used. Much to the surprise of Graham and his manager “Classy” Freddie Blassie, Jericho won’t submit to the bearhug and even manages to break free from the hold after narrowly avoiding a loss by submission for having his hand fall three times. Later, Jericho puts Graham in the Walls of Jericho and the enter area is surprised when the Tower of Power finds the strength to push himself up off of the mat and crawl to the ropes from the centre of the ring. Later in the match, after it spills back out to the floor, Jericho gets put through the French announce team’s table with a Rock Bottom! However, this move fails to put him away, as Graham rolls Jericho back into the ring and covers him, but he still gets a shoulder up. After Graham goes for a running leg drop and misses, Jericho executes the Codebreaker! However, Blassie saves Graham by pulling him out to the floor. Jericho chases Blassie around the ring, proving that his cane isn’t needed to help him get around. Graham gets back in the ring and as Jericho returns just in time to avoid a countout, he falls victim to a small package pinning predicament as he is entering the ring. 1…2…3! To add insult to injury, Jericho is knocked down down from behind while he is discussing the final pinfall count with the referee. Graham uses his title to hit him in the back of the head. Then, just as he did a few weeks earlier, Graham gives him a piledriver onto the title belt to make sure that Y2J cannot leave the ring without assistance.
Official Decision: “Superstar” Billy Graham wins by pinfall at 19:43
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Dynamite Saturday NightRevisit the Mash-Up World Heavyweight Championship Iron Man Match Contract Signing Ceremony
Featuring “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair and Bret “The Hitman” Hart
Plus, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin defends his World Title against Bo Dallas!
DSN Edition: October 11, 2014 ***
Mash-Up World Heavyweight Championship
Iron Man Match
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin vs. “Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. Bret “The Hitman” Hart
This triple threat Iron Man match is a fantasy wrestling dream match for the ages and you will only find it in Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling! There is context going into this match. Rumour has it that AGPW felt it desperately needed to counteract the WWE-AWA-BCCW join effort Battleground II: Mayhem in Montréal by booking a huge event for wrestling fans in its own territory, so it decided to hold
MAYHEM IN MONTRÉAL 2014 a week in advance of Battleground II. Plus it found a hole in Mash-Up World Heavyweight Champion “Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s schedule and decided to fill it. Once this event was officially announced, AGPW decided to hold a 25-man battle royal to determine who would be granted the opportunity to face Austin at the event. René Duprée, who weaseled his way into the contest suddenly claimed a neck injury would prevent him from competing, so he gave his spot up and shocked the Mash-Up Wrestling Universe by finding “Nature Boy” Ric Flair to fill in for him. Flair would go the distance and win the match. Worried that Californiacation and René Duprée would embarrass the company by holding all of its title belts and potentially winning the Mash-Up World Championship at an AGPW sanctioned event, Emile Duprée and Commissioner Billy Two Rivers threw them a huge curveball by finding the most decorated Canadian wrestler of all-time and throwing him into the match – the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be – Bret “The Hitman” Hart! And, of course, to make it that much more difficult on Flair, they decided to make it an Iron Man Match!
Thanks for there being three competitors rather than two, this 60-man match isn’t quite as slow in its pace than a typical Iron Man match would be. The added dynamic of the third man allows for one wrestler to take a breather outside of the ring from time-to-time while the two men in it put on a show. Consequently, during the middle portions of the match, we end up with snippets of 2-man singles contests between Austin and Flair, Flair and Hart, and Hart and Austin, respectively. Austin leads Hart and Flair into an early, extended brawl all around ringside about 5 minutes into the match. However, Austin probably didn’t expect that he’d come out of the brawl in the worst shape as Hart and Flair would eventually agree to double team the champion. This led them to put Austin through the English announce team’s table with a double powerbomb! However, after that, their working arrangement would fall apart when neither man could agree on who would take Austin into the ring and pin him. Hart and Flair would take their fight back into the ring and slow the pace down a little bit with submission hold exchanges. Several minutes later, Flair sneaks a thumb into Hart’s eye and then starts to work over his knee until he’s ready to put him in the figure four leg lock. However, he can’t apply the hold because Austin returns to the ring and takes him down with a Lou Thesz press. Then, Austin serves up a Stone Cold Stunner to The Hitman, but before he can pin him, Flair takes him down from behind with a school-boy roll-up. He grabs a handful of tights and gets the 3-count to take the early lead with the first pinfall of the match.
The next several minutes mostly see Austin dish out punishment to Flair to his illegal roll-up. Austin can’t even the score before Hart returns to the bout and works over the Texas Rattlesnake, which earns huge cheers from the fans. Flair gets a second wind and gets back into the ring to take the fight to everyone. While he’s booed vociferously throughout the match, the fans cheer and starts a
‘This is awesome!’ when he literally spends a full minute chopping the crap out of both Austin and Hart. Both men’s chests turned beet red as they were taking those backhand slaps to the chest. After he knocked both men don, Flair strutted around the ring and then applied the figure four to Hart, which got the fans back on his bad side. Hart refused to quit, but he was eventually spared by Austin, who broke it up. Another brawl around the ring between Austin and Flair would happen while Hart recovered from a long figure four leg lock. Their brawl would lead to both men getting their foreheads busted open. This time, Austin would win his ringside brawl by sending Flair over the guardrail and onto the hard concrete floor with a back body drop! After returning to the ring, Austin engaged in a battle with Hart that whips the fans into quite a frenzy. They really take it to each other, however, Austin starts to slow down as he loses blood and Hart takes advantage of this by putting Austin in the sharpshooter. And, in a moment reminiscent of their classic Wrestlemania XIII match, Austin refuses to quit but passes out completely. The referee, then awards a submission fall to Hart. Now, the Mash-Up World Champion is behind both Hart and Flair by a score of 1-1-0.
With a bloody World Champion passed out in the middle of the ring, and a bloody Nature Boy nowhere to be seen, Hart flips Austin over and covers him. The referee isn’t sure what to do, but after a moment’s hesitation, he gets down to count the fall. 1…2… Flair pulls Hart off of Austin! Now they get into a long drawn out battle as Austin is removed from the ring by the referee and checked on by paramedics. A series of 2-count pinfalls and reverses brings the noise to a whole other level as the drama really starts to build going into the last 10-minutes of the match. Hart and Flair are engaged in an intense war as they’re not only fighting over the Mash-Up World Championship, but also over the very soul of AGPW. Will Emile’s boy emerge victorious or will René’s boy make AGPW the laughing stock of the Mash-Up Wrestling Universe? The fans are firmly behind Hart and after a brief scare where he nearly gets put in the figure four, Hart turns the tables and puts Flair in a sharpshooter! Flair tries to crawl to the ropes, but Hart pulls him back into the middle of the ring. Flair’s bloody face tells us that he can’t hold out much longer. But just when the fans think they’re about to witness history, Austin suddenly comes back into the ring and gives Hart a Stone Cold Stunner! He pins him. 1…2…3! Austin has tied it up with just under 5 minutes left in the match. The Texas Rattlesnake proves us why he’s the Mash-Up World Champion by reaching deep down to defend his title. An intense couple of minutes goes by with everyone nearly getting the go ahead pinfall. However, in the final 60 seconds of the match, Hart goes for a pointed elbow drop from the second rope but Austin moves out of the way and then drops Hart into the mat with a vicious lariat. Then, he sees Flair climbing to the top rope and he catches him atop of the turnbuckle and then throws him down to the mat, where Flair lands on top of Hart! Then, Austin gives the Nature Boy a Stonecold Stunner and pins him with about 20 seconds to go. 1…2…3! Austin pulls ahead 2-1-1! The match is over! Austin wins this epic battle and further cements his legacy in Mash-Up Wrestling with an incredible, scuccessful title defense!
Official Decision: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin wins by a final score of 2-1-1 over “Nature Boy” Ric Flair and Bret “The Hitman” Hart at 60:00
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MAYHEM IN MONTRÉAL 2014!
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