Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling presents
The Titans of Grand Prix
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
From Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta
Live Attendance: 13 000Tonight’s Announced Matches
Rocky Mountain Warfare
Bret “The Hitman” Hart vs. Killer Kowalski
AJ Lee vs. Natalya Neidhart vs. Paige vs. Charlotte Flair
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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The new North American Tag Team Champions, Alberto El Patron and “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase come to the ring, with Virgil in tow, to declare a new era where money really, truly matters the most. But not just anyone’s money – their money. As members of the International Ministry of Finance (IMF), they discuss ways in which their money will make the wrestling world a better place for everyone and urge everyone to get on board with their programme. They cite their victory at
SPRING SLAUGHTER, which brought them a huge return on their pre-match investment (namely the North American Tag Team Championship Titles), as evidence of how IMF money makes it better.
Hold everything! Commissioner Billy Two Rivers arrives on the scene to rain on their parade. Amid rumours that the IMF may have bought influence in the AGPW officiating ranks and given video evidence that suggests that Cesaro was not submitting when the match was called and awarded to El Patron and DiBiase, Two Rivers orders a re-match, tonight! And to make sure there will be no repeat of the ending to their match at
SPRING SLAUGHTER, he declares that tonight’s match cannot be won via submission, raising the ire of the new champions! The IMF will defend their titles against Tazaro later tonight!
*Commercial Break 1*
Winner Gets a Women’s Championship Title Match Next Week
Natalya Neidhart vs. AJ Lee vs. Paige vs. Charlotte Flair
This fatal fourway match is a great way to kick out the evening with the winner getting an opportunity to face AGPW Women’s Champion Awesome Kong, next week, in
The Titans of Grand Prix[/u] main event. The match has a quick pace owing to the fact that there are four legal women in the bout. There are plenty of one-on-one sequences in the match. Paige ends up doing a lot of bumping in the middle portion of the match, as she takes a beating from Natalya, until Charlotte rocks her with a running knee lift and then a swinging neckbreaker. Then, Charlotte takes over doing damage on Paige, until AJ breaks up a figure four headlock with a basement dropkick and then throws Charlotte out of the ring. AJ picks up Paige and gives her a snap suplex and then climbs to the top rope. Before she can do anything, Natalya trips her up from the ring apron. Natalya comes back into the ring and goes for a Nattie By Nature clothesline on Paige, but she ducks it, gives Nataly a spinning back kick and then executes a leg trap sunset flip powerbomb. 1…2… kick out! Charlotte runs in and drops Paige with a clothesline, but then she’s taken down with a diving hurricanrana from the top rope by AJ, who then puts Natalya in the Black Widow! Just when it appears as though Natalya might tap, Paige connects with a superkick to AJ’s face, causing the hold to be broken. Then, Paige gives Natalya the Ram-Paige DDT! She covers. 1…2… broken up by Charlotte, who brings Paige to her feet and lays into her with a series of knife edge chops. The fans respond with the customary ‘Woos’ that they used to give her father. Charlotte goes for a whip, Paige reverses it and sends Charlotte right into a Lou Thesz press from AJ, who then slams her head off of the mat quite a few times. AJ gets up off of Charlotte and receives a Paige-Turner! Natalya drops Paige like a ton of bricks with her Nattie By Nature clothesline! She covers. 1…2… Charlotte makes the save. She and Natalya trade chops until Charlotte can try for a vertical suplex. Natalya lands on her feet and then Charlotte holds onto her and turns it into a swinging neckbreaker! Charlotte waits for Natalya to try to get up and then gives her Natural Selection! However, she receives a shining wizard from AJ! AJ gets up and receives a superkick from Paige. With AJ and Charlotte both knocked out of the ring, Paige turns her attention to Natalya and puts her in the Scorpion Crosslock to earn the win and next week’s title match versus Awesome Kong.
Official Decision: Paige wins by submission at 13:17
*Commercial Break 2*
SoCal Val is backstage with the winner of next week’s Women’s Championship Title Match, Paige. She tells Val how hard she’s worked to get to this point in her career. Ever since the day she first stepped foot inside of the ring, her goal was to win the Women’s Championship Title and now she’s just one week away from realizing that goal. Then, Awesome Kong enters the picture. She congratulates Paige on her victory, but tells her that she’s not a week away from realizing that goal. She’s a victory over Awesome Kong away from realizing that goal. The only problem with that is that no one can beat her. There’s a reason they call her Awesome and it is because there is no force in wrestling more awesome than the reigning Women’s Champion.
*Commercial Break 3*
Jim Ross = Ed Whalen
Jerry Lawler = Lord Alfred Hayes
Chris Jericho has been granted time on tonight’s show to host a special edition of the
Highlight Reel, in which he demands an explanation for Trish Stratus’ actions at
SPRING SLAUGHTER, when she cost him his match against Christian Cage and the chance to be the #1 contender to the International Heavyweight Championship. Trish Stratus explains why she turned Jericho down in favour of Cage and then Jericho humiliates her. Returning from the next commercial break, Cage comforts Stratus, promising to get revenge on Jericho tonight, for the mean things he said about her. Both Jericho and Cage are entered into the Rocky Mountain Warfare match. When asked, earlier tonight on the pre-game show, why Cage was competing in the match after securing his opportunity to challenge for the International Heavyweight Championship at
JOURNEY TO GREATNESS 2015, Cage responded that he’s in the match because winning two titles would be better that winning just one!
*Commercial Break 4*
North American Tag Team Championship Match
IMF: Ted DiBiase & Alberto El Patron vs. Tazaro
Virgil and Prince Nana are both on hand for this one. This
SPRING SLAUGHTER rematch sees Taz and Cesaro come out aggressive to open the match. They throw Alberto El Patron around the ring at will. “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase jumps into the ring to try to stop El Patron from getting annihilated, but he ends up getting destroyed. The champions are both dumped to the floor on opposite sides of the ring with running clotheslines from the former champions. Virgil helps DiBiase to his feet and Nana helps El Patron to his feet and they make a break for the exits. They cannot win the match by submission, but they can still lose it by countout and retain their titles. Taz and Cesaro jump them from behind, half way down the entrance aisle. Although Virgil ends up getting a bodyslam from Cesaro, the numbers advantage works in the IMF’s favour and they take over. Taz is returned to the ring and El Patron and DiBiase take turns working him over. Meanwhile, Cesaro has been left lying in the aisle after DiBiase gave him a hip toss into the guardrail. The IMF make liberal use of double teams as they make several quick tags. They look like a veteran unit. Taz gets a brief hope stop when he kicks DiBiase from the corner and then takes him down with an Angry Man’s Clothesline. Cesaro is up and tries to get to his corner so he can be tagged in. However, as Taz heads towards his corner, he sees Cesaro get run over by Virgil with a clothesline from behind. Taz can’t tag out, so he turns around and gets a step up enzuigiri from El Patron. 1…2.. kick out! El Patron goes to work on Taz’s right arm. After putting him in a long Fujiwara armbar, El Patron takes out to DiBiase, who continues to work on the arm and shoulder. After giving Taz a bodyslam onto his weakened arm, DiBiase gives him his patented delayed fist drop and covers. Taz still kicks out. DiBiase takes Taz into the corner, mounts the turnbuckle and punches him to the count of ten. Then, he sits Taz onto the top turnbuckle and tags in El Patron. El Patron runs forward and DiBiase acts as his springboard by helping him hop into the air and take Taz down from the corner with a frankensteiner! El Patron pins, but amazingly Taz still kicks out. El Patron applies the Cross Armbreaker, but because he can’t force a submission, he lets go of the hold after about 20 seconds. Cesaro has finally made it back to his corner, when he gets punched off of the ring apron by El Patron.
DiBiase gets the tag and he puts Taz in the Million Dollar Dream. Taz fades and when he appears to be out cold, DiBiase releases the hold and covers him. 1…2… Cesaro makes the save. El Patron charges in and gets a back body drop. DiBiase eats a European uppercut. El Patron takes one. Then, DiBiase takes another. Cesaro has backed both IMF members into opposite corners and he charges back and forth, rocking them with European uppercuts. He only stops when he sees Virgil climb onto the ring apron, so he runs over and takes him out with one. Cesaro goes back to his corner and gets the tag in. He comes in and serves up a suplex to DiBiase. El Patron comes at him and gets a tilt-a-whirl slam. Cesaro picks up DiBiase and gives him 15 spins on the Cesaro Swing! He grabs DiBiase and sets him up for the Neutralizer, but then he’s given a step up enzuigiri from El Patron, who is then put in the Tazmission and sent flying across the ring with a Tazmission Plex! Prince Nana gets on the ring apron to get the referee’s attention, allowing Virgil to try to interefere, but he just ends up in the Tazmission. DiBiase breaks it up with a low blow from behind! DiBiase throws Taz out of the ring, but then he’s taken down by Cesaro with rolling gutwrench suplexes. Cesaro picks up DiBiase and gives him the Neutralizer! He covers, but the referee remains occupied by Prince Nana. El Patron enters the ring with a chair and gives Cesaro a few shots to the back, then he swats Taz off of the ring apron with it. El Patron turns DiBiase over onto Cesaro. The referee gets back into position to count the pinfall. 1…2…3!
Official Decision: The International Ministry of Finance wins by pinfall at 11:32
*Commercial Break 5*
Jeremy Borash is standing by with Killer Kowalski, who is set to challenge Bret “The Hitman” Hart for the International Heavyweight Championship only a few minutes from now. Kowalski says that the loss of the Ex-Patriots versus the Hart Foundation at
SPRING SLAUGHTER does not reflection an inability on his part to defeat any member of the Hart Foundation – and most certain not Bret Hart – but more of a reflection of his teammates’ inability to get the job done. He basically bad mouths the rest of the Ex-Patriots, stating that they lack the killer instinct that he possesses to make his opponents suffer and he’ll prove that tonight by winning the International Heavyweight Championship. He tells us all never to doubt this Killer’s ability to hurt and maim his opponents because he is the most ruthless competitor in professional wrestling today! Tonight, the Killer will slay the Hitman!
SoCal Val is standing by with Bret “The Hitman” Hart, who just days ago was proud to represent his family, his province and his country in a battle against a group of ungrateful turncoats, who took everything great that Canada has to offer and, when the moment suited them just fine, abandoned the country that nurtured them through their formative years to buy into the great “American Dream.” Hart says there is nothing wrong with leaving home to chase your dreams, but there is something wrong with turning your back on it and doing everything you can to forget about where it is you come from. He says that he used to think Killer Kowalski was different from the rest of those Canadians who chose to move to the United States, but he found out that he was wrong. So tonight, he goes to war to defend the International Heavyweight Championship in honour of the city of Edmonton, the province of Alberta, and the country of Canada. He promises not to let us down because he has pride in his homeland and that is and always will be stronger than the hate and resentment that people like Killer Kowalski have for it.
*Commercial Break 6*
VS. International Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Bret “The Hitman” Hart vs. Killer Kowalski
The biggest prize for male wrestlers in AGPW is on the line in this one. The Hitman has fought valiantly through title defences against the likes of Samoa Joe, “Superstar” Billy Graham and Leo Burke, to name a few. Now he faces arguably his biggest test, if not at least his biggest challenger. Killer Kowalski exploits his size advantage by tossing Hart around the ring early on. He won’t let Hart turn this into a technical contest. Kowalski isn’t just some big lumbering lug. He’s school in the art of wrestling, but he’s also a big bruiser, and he clearly has decided that pounding away at Hart gives him his best chance at defeating him. After suffering through a long and physically punishing attack, Hart gets back into the contest by lifting Kowalski over the ropes with something that looks like a back body drop. Kowalski ends up on the ring apron, but then Hart knocks him down to the floor with a standing dropkick and then takes Kowalski down with a suicide dive! Hart takes control of the match after slamming Kowalski’s face off of the ring apron and then rolling him into the ring. Hart zeroes in on Kowalski’s legs, as the best bet for a successful title defence would be to cut the giant down to size and keep him off of his feet. Moreover, softening up Kowalski’s tree trunk like legs will help him later on when he wants to apply the Sharpshooter. He uses leg grapevines, knee wrenches, elbow drops to the knees and seated sentons with Kowalski’s leg drapped over the bottom rope. When Hart attempt a figure hour leg lock, Kowalski kicks him away, but when the big man gets to his feet, Hart chops him back down with a chopblock and then gets the figure four locked in. Kowalski manages to break the hold after about 15 seconds, as his limbs are so long that he’s able to kick Hart in the face with the foot belonging to his leg that isn’t being twisted like a pretzel.
Kowalski gets back on track as the Hitman runs to the ropes and attempts a crossbody. Kowalski catches him, executes a backbreaker and fallaway slam combo. Now, Kowalski is back in business. Hart gets up and Kowalski traps him in the corner. He uses his big boot to choke him out before giving him some open palm slaps to the chest with his large hands. Kowalski sends Hart across the ring and follows in with a running clothesline. Kowalski lifts Hart onto the top turnbuckle and climbs up to go for a superplex, but Hart blocks it with some jabs to the ribs and then a pair of headbutts to knock him down. Kowalski gets up and Hart goes for a diving clothesline from the second rope, but Kowalski ducks out of the way. Kowalski charges at Hart, but gets met with a standing dropkick. Hart runs to the ropes and attempts a Hart Attack clothesline, but Kowalski counters it into a Winds of Change slam! Kowalski goes for the pin, but Hart kicks out. Kowalski drops a few knees into the champion’s temple before picking him up and giving him a vertical suplex. Kowalski pins again, but Hart kicks out. Kowalski backs into the corner and waits for Hart to start stirring. He goes for a punt kick, but Hart moves. Hart gives him a side Russian legsweep. Hart goes to the turnbuckle and as Kowalski reaches his feet, he takes him down again with a diving bulldog from the turnbuckle! He pins. 1…2.. kick out! Hart picks up Kowalski and appears to be going for a DDT, but Kowalski shoves him into the ropes and then drops him with a big boot to the fact and then gives him a standing leg drop. Kowalski covers. 1…2… kick out! Kowalski picks up Hart and gives him an Irish whip into the corner. He charges in and gives him a running big boot. Kowalski props him onto the top turnbuckle and executes a superplex! He pins. 1…2… shoulder up! Kowalski doesn’t believe it. Nevertheless, he gets up and waits for Hart to rise to his feet before putting him in the Kowalski claw! Hart screams out, but acts quickly to break it by kicking at the side of Kowalski’s already weakened knee, causing him to crumple down to the mat (and Hart, too).
When they both get up, Hart gives Kowalski an inverted atomic drop and then a clothesline. It doesn’t knock him down, so he runs to the ropes and knocks him down with a Hart Attack clothesline. Hart covers. 1…2… kick out! As Kowalski gets to his feet, Hart takes him back down with a crucifix pin. 1…2… kick out! Hart runs to the ropes and Kowalski swings with a lariat. Hart gives him another Hart Attack clothesline as he takes the lariat! Both men are out. They both get up just in time to beat out the standing 10-count. They trade blows. Kowalski backs Hart into the ropes and goes for an Irish whip. Hart reverses it. Hart goes for a Lou Thesz press, but Kowalski catches him and spins him around into a spinebuster! Kowalski with the cover. 1…2… shoulder up! After questioning the referee, Kowalski goes for a grounded Kowalski Claw, but Hart grabs his forearm with both of his hands to block it. Hart lets go and rolls out to the ring apron. Kowalski gives chase and Hart gives him a hangman across the top rope, then he drags the big man intothe corner for the turnbuckle assisted figure four leglock. He holds it just as long as he’s permitted, then gets back in the ring. Hart drags Kowalski away from the corner and then tries to apply the Sharpshooter, but Kowalski’s legs and too big and he ultimately pushes the Hitman into the turnbuckle. Kowalski approaches and Hart gives him a drop toehold that sends his face into the middle turnbuckle. Hart drags Kowalski away and applies a Boston crab. Kowalski won’t submit and makes it to the ropes after a long struggle to crawl over. Kowalski gets up with the help of the ropes. Hart meets him with some European uppercuts. He goes for a whip, but Kowalski reverses it and goes for the big boot to the face. Hart ducks it, bounces off of the opposite ropes and takes him down with a crossbody. 1…2… kick out! Hart goes for a small package. 1…2… kick out! As Kowalski starts to get up, Hart dropkicks his knee and then a DDT! 1…2… kick out! It seems like nothing will keep Kowalski down, so Hart decides to go for the high risk, high reward of climbing to the top rope. When Kowalski gets to his feet, Hart jumps onto his shoulders and takes him over into a victory roll. 1…2…3! Bret “The Hitman” Hart successfully defends the International Heavyweight Championship and can now look ahead to meeting Christian Cage at
JOURNEY TO GREATNESS 2015!
Official Decision: Bret “The Hitman” Hart wins by pinfall at 18:57
*Commercial Break 7*
In case you missed it…Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling Presents
SPRING SLAUGHTER 2015
Sunday, April 26, 2015
From the Scotiabank Saddledome
in Calgary, AB, Canada
Live on Pay-Per-View and on the Mash-Up Wrestling NetworkFeaturing10-Man Tag Team MatchThe Hart Foundation (L-R): Davey Boy Smith, Tyson Kidd, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Owen Hart & Dynamite Kid
vs.
The Ex-Patriots (L-R): Steve Corino, Raymond Rougeau, Killer Kowalski, Jacques Rougeau & Test
Women's Championship Title MatchAwesome Kong {C} vs. Jazz
International Heavyweight Championship #1 Contender’s MatchChris Jericho vs. Christian Cage
North American Tag Team Championship Title MatchTazaro: Taz & Cesaro {C} vs. IMF: “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase & Alberto El Patron
And more!
Available exclusively in the Mash-Up Wrestling Event Center: Click Here! *Commercial Break 8*
Rocky Mountain Warfare
Featuring (in alphabetical order): Arn Anderson, Big E. Langston, Bo Dallas, Chris Candido, Chris Jericho, Christian Cage, Cuban Assassin, Davey Boy Smith, Dean Malenko, Dynamite Kid, Jacques Rougeau, “Killer” Karl Krupp, Kurrgan, Lance Storm, Leo Burke, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Owen Hart, Petey Williams, Raymond Rougeau, Rhino, Rusev, Samoa Joe, Sho Funaki, Steve Corino, Taka Michinoku, Test, Tully Blanchard, Tyler Breeze, Tyson Kidd and Ultimo Dragon
Rules: Two wrestlers start in the ring. Every 90-seconds, another wrestler joins the match. The only ways in which a wrestler can be eliminated is by pinfall or submission. The last wrestler standing wins the match and earns the right to compete against the Mash-Up Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion, CM Punk, at AGPW’s biggest event of the year:
JOURNEY TO GREATNESS 2015!
The first two wrestlers into the match are Tully Blanchard, of the Brain Busters, and the Dynamite Kid, of the British Bulldogs. They start the pace out slowly, just trying to feel each other out. It is 90-seconds worth of chain wrestling, as both men know that they need to conserve a lot of energy if they want to finish this match.
The third wrestler to enter the match is Steve Corino. He enters the ring swinging a steel chair and doing damage to both Blanchard and the Dynamite Kid. Only 90-seconds into the match, the stakes have been raised, with weapons coming into play. Although they both absorb plenty of punishing blows from Corino and his steel chair, neither Blanchard nor the Dynamite Kid are eliminated before a fourth wrestler enters the contest.
The Canadian Destroyer, Petey Williams, comes prepared for Corino and ends his 90-seconds of domination via old school weaponry. Williams attacks Corino with a springboard dropkick and then counters a tilt-a-whirl slam attempt into a side Russian legsweep. Williams puts Corino in a sharpshooter, but Corino crawls to the ropes to force a break. Then, Blanchard starts fighting with Williams.
Kung Funaki is the fifth wrestler into the match and he receives a huge pop from the fans. He comes into the ring by giving Corino a missile dropkick. He also knocks him clear into next week with a crane kick. However, Funaki doesn’t get a chance to follow up, as the Dynamite Kid comes up from behind and tosses him across the ring with a release German suplex.
The sixth man into the match is the Super Athlete, Rusev! And the mood has suddenly changed. Accompanied to the ring by Prince Nana, he takes his time going through his ceremonial pre-match ritual, but while he’s on his knees and finishes his bow, he gets hit by Funaki as he was tossed through the ropes and out of the ring by the Dynamite Kid. Rusev gets so angered by this that he repeatedly flings Funaki into the guardrail as punishment.
Luckily for Funaki, his Kaientai partner, Taka Michinoku, is the seventh entrant and he charges down to try to help his tag team partner, but he fares no better than Funaki, as Rusev now punishes the crap out of him, tossing him into the guardrail and then dislodging the ring steps and throwing them at him! Back in the ring, Blanchard is standing in a corner while Williams and the Dynamite Kid work through an exchange of quick pinfall attempts and counters that eventually ends with the Dynamite Kid blocking an attack and then tossing Williams across the ring with a gutwrench suplex. Williams rolls out of the ring to safety, while Blanchard and Corino put a double team attack on the Dynamite Kid.
Now, business seriously picks up with Samoa Joe coming into the match as the eighth participant. He enters the ring and stops an attack attempt by Corino with a head-and-arm suplex. Then, he fights off Blanchard with a series of jabs, followed by an inverted atomic drop, a running single foot dropkick and then a running senton. Corino charges at Joe, but he gives him a Samoan drop and then puts him in the Coquina Clutch, which gets him to submit.
Steve Corino has been eliminated.In at number nine is Arn Anderson, and it couldn’t come a moment too soon for his Brain Busters partner, Tully Blanchard. Anderson gets to the ring just in time to save Blanchard from being eliminated by Samoa Joe, breaking up a pinfall after Joe gave Blanchard a CCS Enzuigiri kick and then followed that up with a folding powerbomb. Anderson gets Joe on the ropes with a series of chops. He goes for an Irish whip, but Joe reverses it and Anderson runs right into a springboard hurricanrana from Petey Williams! Joe charges at Williams and takes him down with a clothesline. Then, Joe gets sent out of the ring with a dropkick to the back by the Dynamite Kid. Then, he gets attacked by both Brain Busters.
Coming in at number ten is Davey Boy Smith, the other half of the British Bulldogs. He comes to the aid of his tag team partner. The Bulldogs and Brain Busters end up clearing out of the ring and brawling. As the ring clears, Rusev finally tosses both members of Kaientai into the ring. First, he gives Funaki a swinging side slam and the Accolade to force a quick tap out.
Kung Funaki has been eliminated. Next, he knocks Michinoku down with a spinning heel kick and then gives him a Samoan drop and covers him for the 3-count.
Taka Michinoku has been eliminated. Then, Petey Williams attacks Rusev, but the Bulgarian Brute counters his Irish whip and then drops him with a running, jumping side kick and forces him to submit to the Accolade.
Petey Williams has been eliminated. Rusev is on a roll and Prince Nana, who is at ringside, is loving it! The ring belongs to Rusev, that is, until the Samoan Submission Machine climbs back into the ring. A tense stare down takes place, but before these two mighty warriors can come to blows, the eleventh entrant comes into the ring.
It’s Kurrgan! The Acadian Giant towers over Joe and Rusev and drops them both with a running double clothesline! Kurrgan is having his way with both Joe and Rusev, making these supreme fighters look like mere mortals. He takes them down with clotheslines, punishing double axehandle smashes and big boots to the face before serving up chokeslams to both men.
Bo Dallas enters at number twelve. He comes into the ring while Kurrgan has his back turned and catches the giant by surprise by attacking him with several double axehandle smashes to the back and then takes him down with a Bo-Dog! Perhaps out of surprise that he felled the giant, Dallas jumps for joy, screams,
“Yeah, baby!” and then hops out of the ring to do a victory lap, passing by members of the Brain Busters and British Bulldogs on his way around the ring. When he comes back into the ring, Kurrgan is waiting. Dallas charges, get a big boot, chokeslam and the Kurrgan Claw! Dallas submits almost immediately, much to the delight of the crowd, who chant
“Bo leave!” at him.
Bo Dallas has been eliminated.Jacques Rougeau enters the fray at number thirteen, and he immediately makes a move to go after Samoe Joe, but stops dead in his tracks when he sees Joe glaring a cold stare right through him. Then, Jacques convinces Joe and Rusev to team up with him to take out the Acadian Giant. They gang up on the biggest man in the ring. The Bulldogs and Brain Busters also join in. Finally, they take him down when everyone helps the Brain Busters to give Kurrgan their patented spike piledriver! Joe and Rusev both cover him up, as the tag teams start fighting with each other again.
Kurrgan has been eliminated.Entering into the ring at number fourteen is Chris Candido. He comes into the match with low expectations, as his AGPW career hasn’t really gone so well. He immediately gets into it with Rusev, which probably won’t help him to use this event to catapult him to the top of the territory ranks. Meanwhile, Blanchard stands on the ring apron and tries to suplex Smith to the floor. He lands on the apron and hits Blanchard with some punishing forearms, before scooping him up and giving him his running powerslam from the ring apron to the floor! Back in the ring, Rusev has given Candido the swinging side slam and put in the Accolade for the submission.
Chris Candido has been eliminated. Poor, Candido lasted just over a minute. Smith rolls Blanchard into the ring, but Anderson attacks him. Meanwhile, Dynamite Kid climbs the top rope and executes the swandive headbutt and pins Blanchard. 1…2…3!
Tully Blanchard has been eliminated.We’re at the half way point now, with Lance Storm entering the ring at number fifteen. As soon as he enters the ring, he serves up a superkick to the Dynamite Kid, who turns right into a Double A Spinebuster! Anderson covers him. 1…2…3!
Dynamite Kid has been eliminated. Meanwhile, Jacques Rougeau decided to climb the turnbuckle and got tripped up. Now seated on the top turnbuckle, Samoa Joe grabs him and gives him the Muscle Buster! 1…2…3!
Jacques Rougeau has been eliminated. Storm tries to attack Joe as he is getting up, but Joe slams him down hard with a St-Joe! 1…2... kick out! The second half of the match is about to begin, with Samoa Joe, Lance Storm, Rusev, Arn Anderson and Davey Boy Smith still in contention.
Coming in to a huge standing ovation at number sixteen is the Albertan Owen Hart. His first order of business is to help his brother-in-law, who was trapping in a corner, taking a beating from Rusev. Meanwhile, Arn Anderson battles with Samoa Joe. After Lance Storm gets into a battle with Davey Boy Smith, which takes some pressure off of Rusev, but Hart being the fresh man has his way with the Bulgarian Brute, giving him a spinning heel kick and an overhead belly-to-belly suplex.
The #1 contender to the International Heavyweight Championship, the Instant Classic, Christian Cage makes his way down to the ring at number seventeen. He wants to make history by winning both that title and the Mash-Up World Heavyweight Championship on the same night! He stops short of the ring as his new main squeeze, Trish Stratus, briefly makes out with him – for good luck. When they finish playing tonsil hockey, Owen Hart comes diving off of the turnbuckle to take out Cage with a plancha!
Look everyone! It’s Tyler! Entering the ring at number eighteen is Tyler Breeze, and he walks to the ring looking at himself using his cellphone, which is attached to a selfie stick. Prince Pretty’s face is on the jumbo screen and every other screen in the building. He immediately takes the fight to everyone he can find. He serves us a Beauty Shot (spinning heel kick) to Smith, Anderson, Hart and Cage before coming face-to-face with Samoa Joe and getting tossed clear across the ring with an exploder suplex! Welcome to the Grand Prix of Wrestling, Mr. Breeze!
At number nineteen, and receiving a huge pop is another native Albertan, Tyson Kidd. He takes his exciting and high energy offense into the ring by executing a springboard hurricanrana on his former tag team partner and fellow Albertan, Lance Storm. Anderson tries to attack Kidd, but he ducks the clothesline attempt and gives him a few shoot kicks before knocking him over with a superkick. He turns around and sees Rusev charging at him and he takes him down with a spinning heel kick. Kidd runs to the ropes, but ends up getting speared out of his boots by Christian Cage! He goes for the cover, but Smith saves his family member. Smith scoops up Cage to give him a running powerslam, but when he starts running, Cage slips down from behind and executes an inverted facelock backbreaker and then gives him the Unprettier! 1…2…3!
Davey Boy Smith has been eliminated. Cage gets up and showboats about his elimination, but that proves to be a mistake as Kidd comes diving off of the top turnbuckle to give him the blockbuster! 1…2… kick out! Cage was nearly eliminated.
Coming in at number twenty, it’s the Ultimo Dragon! He makes an immediate impact as he takes down Samoa Joe and Lance Storm with an Asai moonsault before even entering the ring. Moments later, after getting up from that, he climbs up the turnbuckle and takes down Owen Hart with a diving crossbody. Tyler Breeze tries to attack him with a clothesline, but he ducks it and gives him a bridging German suplex that gets a long 2-count. Tyson Kidd tries to attack him with a springboard maneuver, but Dragon dropkicks him out of the sky. Then, Christian goes for a clothesline on him, but he ducks it and gives him a bridging tiger suplex for a long 2-count. As he is getting up, Arn Anderson grabs him for what looks like a swinging neckbreaker, but Dragon spins all of the way out of it and gives him a jumping tombstone piledriver! 1…2…3!
Arn Anderson has been eliminated. Dragon has won over the fans with his quick ninety seconds of awesome action, but as the buzzer sounds for the next entrant, Rusev reappears to drop Dragon with a big jumping side kick. Nothing bad comes of it, as Owen Hart attacks Rusev with an leg-feed enzuigiri kick for 1…2… shoulder up!
Entering the match at number twenty-one is Raymond Rougeau, who comes to the ring waving an American flag. The fans give him quite an earful for it. The Canadian ex-Pat doesn’t long however. As soon as he hands the flag off to the timekeeper, he attacks Samoa Joe with some shots to the back and then gives him a bodyslam. His pinfall attempt falls short of eliminating him. Once he gets up, Rougeau receives an enzuigiri kick from Tyson Kidd! It knocks him out on his feet and he turns into a second enzuigiri kick, this time from Owen Hart! The pair of Albertans cover Rougeau. 1…2…3!
Raymond Rougeau has been eliminated.Entering the match at number twenty-two is the Cuban Assassin, who clubs everyone in the ring and even leaves the ring to take the fight to Samoan Joe, whipping him into the guardrail and then gnawing into his forehead with his teeth. The Cuban Assassin looks like a man possessed. He’s got an extra edge to him tonight and it shows when he piledrives Storm on the arena floor! After that, he rolls Storm into the ring, where Tyler Breeze takes advantage to record a pinfall and eliminate him from the match.
Lance Storm has been eliminated. After recording an elimination, Breeze just sent out of the ring with dropkick from Tyson Kidd. On the outside, the Cuban Assassin attacks Prince Pretty with a chair shot to the back of his neck and head before he climbs into the ring to bring the fight to Christian Cage, which earns the fans’ approval.
Test is in at number twenty-three. He enters the ring and immediately targets the Cuban Assassin. After brawling with him for a bit, Test gives him a pump-handle slam, then he serves him up a nasty looking running big boot. Cuban Assassin rolls out of the ring to save himself from the possibility of being eliminated. Meanwhile, Owen Hart gets Christian Cage in the sharpshooter and he is trying to crawl to the ropes, but Hart drags him back away. Cage is screaming in pain and looks like he might submit. Trish Stratus screams at Test to save Cage. Test turns to see that Cage is on the brink of eliminating and drills Hart in the back of the head with his running big boot. Test pins Hart. 1…2…3!
Owen Hart has been eliminated. Cage crawls into a corner and Test stands by as if he is guarding him. What is going on here?
Business is about to pick up, as the “Macho Man” Randy Savage is the twenty-fourth entrant into the match. The building is a buzz as he comes into the ring and attacks everyone in sight with running clotheslines, double axehandle smashes and pointed elbows. The Macho Man is cleaning house. Everyone has been knocked out of the ring except for Test and Cage. Macho Man plants him into the mat with a bodyslam, but then he gets a spear from Cage! Cage is slow to react, still feeling the effects of being in the sharpshooter. When his pin doesn’t get a 3-count, he simply rolls out of the ring and helps Test come to the outside with him, as they look for a breather.
Coming in at number twenty-five is Leo Burke and he isn’t coming into the ring alone. His fist is adorned with brass knuckles. He comes in and pops Kidd right in the kisser and then pins him to end his night.
Tyson Kidd has been eliminated. Burke pops the Macho Man with a shot from his trusty knucks, but he falls out of the ring, where Test and Cage decide to put the boots to him. Next, Burke levels Samoa Joe with a shot from his brass knuckles and then he nails the Cuban Assassin with a shot. He pins him. 1…2…3!
Cuban Assassin has been eliminated. Then, in the night’s biggest holy shit moment, Rusev comes down on the fallen Samoan Submission Machine with a splash from the top rope! 1…2…3!
Samoa Joe has been eliminated. Samoa Joe’s long run in this match is over, at the hands of Leo Burke’s brass knuckles, and he was pinned by the Bulgarian Brute! Ultimo Dragon takes Burke down with a springboard hurricanrana. Dragon gives him a Dragon Combo, but he can’t do further damage, as Rusev hits him with a jumping side kick! Dragon rolls out to the floor, but Rusev follows him out.
Big E Langston comes in at number twenty-six and he’s going right after Leo Burke, ducking a swing from Burke’s brass knuckle adorned fist and dropping him with a side belly-to-belly suplex. Big E gives him a running splash and then executes the Big Ending! 1…2…3!
Leo Burke has been eliminated. Leo Burke’s brass knuckles won’t eliminate anyone else. Plus, Big E has finally got one over on Burke, after suffering a number of losses to him in high profile matches.
The twenty-seventh man in the match is “Killer” Karl Krupp and he goes right after Ultimo Dragon. Rusev, who has been in match for over 30 minutes now, is suffering a beating at the hands of Big E, who manages to get the Bulgarian Brute onto his shoulder and plants him into the mat with the Big Ending! Big E pins Rusev, but there is no referee to count the pinfall. All of the ringside officials have been distracted by a ringside brawl, where the Cuban Assassin is absolutely beating the shit out of Leo Burke for eliminating him from the match. The Cuban Assassin has busted Burke open and the fans on the floor are starting a chant for him, which has to be a first in AGPW! Back in the ring, Test and Christian Cage double team Big E. Cage whips Big E into a running big boot from Test. Then, he gives Big the Unprettier!
Chris Jericho comes in at number twenty-eight! He’s got his eye on Christian Cage, who tells Test to go deal with it. Test leaves the ring and gets into a brawl with Jericho in the entrance aisle. Back in the ring, Cage gives Big E a frog splash and pins him. 1…2…3!
Big E Langston has been eliminated. Jericho makes it through Test and he’s rushing into the ring. Cage decides to run out the other side and Jericho follows right after him. A wild goose chase is on until Cage gets behind his new girlfriend and uses Trish Stratus as a shield. Stratus dares Jericho to hit her. He hesitates just long enough to get punked out from behind by Test. Back in the ring, the Macho Man is schooling Tyler Breeze, giving him an atomic drop, a vertical suplex, bodyslam and then the hair-pull hangman.
Dean Malenko is entering the match with a lucky draw at number twenty-nine. He enters the ring with Christian Cage, Chris Jericho, Test and Ultimo Dragon fighting. The first International Heavyweight Champion wastes no time in going to work, first helping out an old rival, Jericho, by giving Cage some rolling German suplexes, until Test wallops him from behind. Test goes for a whip, but Malenko reverses it and knocks him down with a leg lariat. Then, Malenko gives Tyler Breeze a tilt-a-whirl slam onto Test! Ultimo Dragon runs at Malenko, but he lifts him into the air for a back body drop. Dragon lands on the ring apron and then takes down Rusev with an Asai moonsault!
The last man to enter the match is the MAN BEAST RHINO! He runs down to the ring and drops Malenko with a big clothesline. Karl Krupp tries to attack him, but receives a belly-to-belly suplex. Rhino sees Tyler Breeze and lines him up for the GORE! GORE! GORE! Rhino gets up and gives Test a spinebuster! Meanwhile, the Macho Man goes up to the top rope and gives Breeze the diving elbow drop! 1…2…3!
Tyler Breeze has been eliminated. Now, Rhino runs right through Krupp with the GORE! GORE! GORE! He pins. 1…2…3!
“Killer” Karl Krupp has been eliminated. Cage dumps his ex-friend and enemy, Chris Jericho, over the top rope. Rhino lines him up. As Cage turns around, rhino charges, but Test steps in the way. GORE! GORE! GORE! Cage jumps out of the ring and Rhino gives chase. Meanwhile, Dean Malenko sees Test on the mat and decides to lock him in the Texas cloverleaf. Test appears ready to tap out, but Cage makes the save. However, Rhino catches up to him and gives him a powerbomb! He covers. 1…2… shoulder up! Macho Man starts fighting with Rhino and they both go out to the floor when the Macho Man clotheslines Rhino over the ropes. Jericho enters the ring and sees Jericho down, he gives him a lionsault, but before hooking the leg, he sees Test getting up and then gives him the Codebreaker! 1…2…3!
Test has been eliminated. Before Y2J can do anything to Cage, Rusev is there to start clobbering him.
Malenko and Ultimo Dragon start to put on a show with some chain wrestling. Malenko sends Dragon into the ropes and he performs a springboard arm drag. Dragon goes for a tilt-a-whirl headscissors, but Malenko counters it with a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster. Then, he picks up Dragon and gives him a bridging German suplex! 1…2… kick out! Malenko with a snap suplex and then he goes to the top rope. Malenko goes for a frog splash, but Dragon rolls out of the way. Malenko gets up and Dragon gives him a bridging dragon suplex! 1…2… kick out! Dragon picks up Malenko and they start trading punches and chops until Rhino runs through both of them with a double GORE! GORE! GORE! Rhino covers Malenko. 1…2…3!
Dean Malenko has been eliminated. Next, he covers Ultimo Dragon. 1…2…3!
Ultimo Dragon has been eliminated.We’re down to the final five: Rusev, Christian Cage, Randy Savage, Chris Jericho and Rhino. After a period of brawling by everyone except for Cage, who is on the floor and being tended to by Trish Stratus, Rusev’s record 40-minute run in the match comes to an end when he receives a Codebreaker from Jericho, then the GORE! GORE! GORE! from Rhino, and a diving elbow drop from the Macho Man, who pins him. 1…2…3!
Rusev has been eliminated. Rhino and Jericho agree to work together to eliminate the Macho Man, but that partnership dissolves when Savage escapes Rhino’s clutches and a diving axehandle smash by Jericho ends up hitting Rhino. As soon as he’s back to his feet, he attacks Jericho. Savage stands back and waits as Jericho and Rhino duke it out. Rhino gets the better of the exchange, but then Cage comes back into the ring and takes out Rhino with a chair shot! Then, he nails Jericho with the chair! Macho Man tries to make a move, but Cage swats him away with a chair shot! Rhino starts to stir and Cage drops the chair, grabs his former friend and gives him the Unprettier onto the chair! 1…2…3!
Rhino has been eliminated.Cage drives the spine of the chair into Jericho’s lower back a few times before Savage attacks. Savage is suddenly possessed. He drills Cage with pointed elbow smashes to the forehead and whips him from corner to corner, nailed running clotheslines each time. Savage gives Cage a bodyslam and climbs the turnbuckle. When he gets to the top and points to the sky, Trish Stratus climbs onto the ring apron and yanks on the top rope, causing Savage to fall onto the turnbuckle. Cage goes to corner and takes Savage down to the mat with a frankensteiner. He gets up and suddenly sees Jericho holding a chair. Cage backs away pleading for mercy until he backs into a corner, where Jericho whacks him with the chair. Jericho gives him a cross-corner whip and bounces off of the nearby ropes to gives him a one-handed bulldog. Then, Jericho grabs Cage by the legs. Cage tries to fight him off, but Jericho begins to turn him. But he can’t get the Walls of Jericho locked in because as he starts to turn, he is speared!
It’s Edge! The place is buzzing as Edge has just knocked out Chris Jericho! Cage covers him. 1…2…3!
Chris Jericho has been eliminated. Edge has disappeared, almost as soon as he came. He’s helped his lifelong friend get one step closer to victory. However, it is no easy task, as Savage has recovered and he back body drops Cage. Savage follows that up with an atomic drop and a clothesline. He goes for a vertical suplex, but Cage counters it. Cage stomps on him and climbs the turnbuckle. He stops for a moment to mock Savage before going for the frog splash. Big mistake! Savage rolls out of the way. When they get up, Savage gives him an eye rake and then pulls him in for a piledriver! He starts climbing the top rope. Stratus runs around the ring to try to interfere, but AJ Lee shows up to stop her! Savage makes it to the top and points to the sky. He hits the diving elbow drop! 1…2…3!
Christian Cage has been eliminated.Your winner and the recipient of a shot at the Mash-Up World Heavyweight Champion at
JOURNEY TO GREATNESS 2015 is “Macho Man” Randy Savage!
Official Decision: “Macho Man” Randy Savage wins at 51:38
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