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Rhino vs. Canadian Earthquake
The Canadian Earthquake debuted on the Titans of Grand Prix by interrupting a fatal fourway match between Rhino, Raymond Rougeau, Justin Gabriel and Yoshihiro Tajiri. He made a seismic impact on the AGPW wrestling landscape when he entered the ring and just started to annihilate everyone. Later in the evening, when being interviewed by Jeremy Borash about his debut, Rhino attacked the 450-pound behemoth, setting up this big man matchup. It’s a classic big man match. Rhino, who typically dwarfs most of his opponents, looks small compared to the Canadian Earthquake. However, that doesn’t mean he backs down or shies away from the seismic monster. Rhino is a heavy hitter and he brings the fight to Earthquake, however he struggles to knock him off of his feet. He isn’t until about 5 minutes into the contest that Rhino is finally able to take Earthquake down with a side belly-to-belly suplex, which earns a 2-count on the follow up pinfall attempt. Rhino continues to bring the fight to the big man, but his fatigue starts to show when he goes for a whip into the corner and it is reversed. Then, Earthquake runs in and squashes him with a corner body splash. He follows this up with an atomic drop and a 450-pound standing dropkick! Rhino kicks out of the pinfall. A Canadian backbreaker, running elbow drop and running leg drop all fail to win the match for the big man. He sends Rhino into the corner and goes for another corner body splash, but Rhino moves and then rallies with hard clotheslines and even a spinning spinebuster! Rhino tries to give him another belly-to-belly suplex, but this time, Earthquake blocks it and gives him one of his own. He follows that up by walking across Rhino’s stomach a few times before finally finishing him off with the Earthquake Splash! 1-2-3!
Official Decision: Canadian Earthquake wins by pinfall at 10:06
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Kaientai vs. “The Animal” Batista w/ Sensational Sherri
In the weeks that followed AGPW’s VENGEANCE IN VANCOUVER, Batista entered into a feud with the legendary “Whipper” Billy Watson and they were booked to compete at this event. However, on the last edition of
Titans of Grand Prix, wrestling against “Killer” Karl Krupp, “Whipper” Billy Watson injured his ankle while attempting to land on the ring apron when he was being back body dropped over the ropes. His foot caught the edge of the apron causing him to slip and roll his ankle. The match had to be called off. Unwilling to lose their pay day, Batista and Sensational Sherri look for someone they can force into taking his place. They end up finding two people to step into the unenviable position of being The Animal’s opponents. Under the threat of being torn limb from limb, Sherri makes Taka Michinoku and Sho Funaki sign a contract to appear as Batista’s opponents in what will be a two-on-one handicap match, later tonight.
This isn’t a particularly competitive match. The members of Kaientai get few token moves of offense in. It is essentially a squash match featured on a major pay-per-view event, to showcase the viciousness of king of the animal kingdom, “The Animal” Batista, who wins the match quickly and with authority, after delivering a Batista Bomb to both Sho Funaki and Taka Michinoku. After winning the match, Sherri tells Batista to finish them off. He clears off both the English and French announce tables and drags both members of Kaientai out to the floor to put them through the tables, but then…
… “Pomp & Circumstance” plays over the arena speakers and the “Macho Man” Randy Savage runs out. Sherri goes into a screaming fit as Batista tosses Kaientai to the side. Batista climbs into the ring as Savage comes in. Batista charges at Savage and gets a running pointed elbow smash to the forehead. He gets another and another and another until Savage gives him an inverted atomic drop and then a bodyslam. Savage climbs the top rope, but Sherri grabs onto his foot and holds on tight, stopping him from performing the diving elbow drop. By the time Savage shakes her off and prepares for his signature move, Batista is rolling out of harm’s way, out to the floor at the far side of the ring. Sherri and Batista try to make a hasty retreat, but the Macho Man catches in to them in the entrane aisle, running up from behind and dropping Batista with a double axehandle smash between the shoulders. He continues to pummel Batista until security can pull him away. Nothing can contain Macho Madness! The “Macho Man” is back and he has revenge on his mind for the man that took him out back in the summer!
Official Decision: Batista wins by pinfall at 4:18
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Women’s Championship Title Match
Charlotte Flair vs. Natalya Neidhart
These former rivals meet up once again in a battle for the AGPW Women’s Championship. This is their first match against each other in nearly a year. A lot has happened in the past year. Charlotte Flair has risen through the ranks of AGPW and earned the Women’s Championship in a 6-woman ladder match at Journey to Greatness 2015, four months ago. Natalya Neidhart has gone on a winning streak – which has included a victory over Trish Stratus at Vengeance in Vancouver – and shot up the ranks, earning herself the much coveted spot as the number one contender of the division. Much like Cesaro and Dean Malenko, who wrestled earlier in the evening, these two have a match that would make technical wrestling purists drool. The back-and-forth exchange of holds dominates the first half of the bout before the pace of the match begins to pick up, which happens after Neidhart gets knocked out of the ring and Flair slingshots herself over the top rope to take her out with a plancha. They brawl for a bit outside of the ring, culminating with Flair getting sent barreling into the ring and returned into the ring for a pinfall to which she kicks out of. At this point, Neidhart starts bringing some more damaging moves into her attack, as she focuses on Flair’s back, by giving her some suplexes, a pendulum backbreaker, bow and arrow submission hold and a bearhug. Flair fights her way out of the bearhug and halts Neidhart’s momentum with a failed vertical suplex that she transitions into a kneeling hangman’s neckbreaker. When they get up, they exchange punches and chops. Neidhart goes for the Nattie by Nature discus clothesline, but Flair does the matrix evasion and then takes Neidhart down into the Charlotte’s Web for 1…2… kick out! After that, she gives Neidhart a swinging neckbreaker and pins her again, but she kicks out again. Flair puts Neidhart on the top turnbuckle to set up for a superplex, but Neidhart knocks her down to the mat and then executes a diving clothesline followed by a bridging German suplex! 1…2… kick out! Neidhart puts Flair in the Sharpshooter, but she manages to drag herself to the ropes to break the hold. When Flair gets back to her feet, Neidhart whips her and then attempts the Nattie by Nature again, but Flair ducks it, bounces off of the ropes and executes a spear. Flair gets up a little quicker than Neidhart, which enables her to executes the Natural Selection and then apply the Figure Eight leg lock to force a submission out of Neidhart. To be the woman, you’ve got to beat the woman and Charlotte Flair remains the woman to beat in the AGPW Women’s division!
Official Decision: Charlotte Flair wins by submission at 17:10
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“From Montréal to Memphis, parlez-vous français, you better tell all the girls, the Rougeaus are on their way!”The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers make an unannounced appearance. They come to the ring, waving little American flags. They cut a promo about how pathetic the wrestling scene has become in Québec since the Rougeaus moved from Montréal to Memphis. They manage to get their real hometown fans on their bad side by stating that they have no intention of moving back just because there are no longer any Montréalers competing in the territory. They are very happy that they moved to a much better city with better culture. Moreover, they go one step further in claiming that there have never been any talented wrestlers hailing from Montréal except for them. That’s when Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon come to the ring! The crowd is shocked. The Mad Dog makes a strong rebuke of the Rougeaus, who take great offense and try to attack the Vachons when they let their guard down. However, the Vachons bounce back and clear the ring by clotheslines Raymond and Jacques out of the ring. Montréal once again has solid representation in AGPW, thanks to the return of Maurice “Mad Dog” Vachon and the debut of his brother, Paul “Butcher” Vachon!
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Elimination Chamber Match
For the International Heavyweight Championship Match
Samoa Joe {c} vs. Edge vs. Christian vs. Bret Hart vs. Chris Jericho vs. Rusev
Last month, at VENGEANCE IN VANCOUVER, Samoa Joe became just the seventh International Heavyweight Champion in AGPW history. To win the title, he had to beat Edge and survive the run-ins from Edge’s Centre of the Universe pals, Christian and Test. Much has happened in the month since then. Upon leaving Western Canada, Edge and Christian began to receive tons of fanfare and appear to be turning face, while the warm receptions for their current storyline foes, Bret Hart and Chris Jericho, started to dry up. With all four top contenders entering the Elimination Chamber, the double-turn is on the brink of happening. Rusev, the holder of a contract guaranteeing him a match against the International Heavyweight Champion at the time of his choosing is also in this match, and he did not have to use his contract to get in. Rusev, along with Bret Hart, Chris Jericho and Christian all had to win qualifying matches to earn a spot in the Elimination Chamber, while Edge was automatically entered for having held the title just before Samoa Joe. The odds of retaining the title are slim for the new champion, but if there was ever anyone up to the challenge – and who would accept it without complaining that it is unfair – it would have to be the Samoan Submission Machine. The stage is set: now let’s dance!
The first two men into the match are summertime rivals Samoa Joe and Rusev. They get five minutes to rekindle their feud, which ended not too long ago. By being one of the first two men into the match, the odds are even further stacked against Joe. Highlights here include a wicked slugfest and a reverse hip toss by Rusev that sends the champion over the ropes and crashing onto the steel platform. Coming into the match next is Christian, who forms a pact with Rusev to pummel Joe and make him taste the cold, hard, unforgiving steel structure of the chamber. However, after Christian whips Joe towards Rusev and he executes a Samoan drop on the Samoan Submission Machine onto the steel floor, Rusev turns on Christian by giving him a jumping side kick. As the five minute period winds down, Rusev has brought Christian into the ring and set him up for The Accolade, but he fights Rusev off and then crawls away right before Samoa Joe grabs Rusev from behind and executes a half-nelson suplex slam. The next man into the match is the man who holds the longest International Heavyweight Championship title reign – Bret “The Hitman” Hart. The Hitman immediately targets Christian, whipping him into the chain mesh siding of the cage over and over and over again until the crowd counts to ten before picking him up and giving a side belly-to-back suplex on the steel floor! Hart enters the ring and sets his sights on Joe, targeting his knee with a chop block. He drags him to the ropes and gives him some seated senton drops onto the knee. He starts to work him over with a knee wrench, when Rusev runs over and shoulder tackles him to the mat and then puts Joe into a Boston crab. Chris Jericho is the fifth man into the match and he comes into the match, hitting everyone in sight, except for his friend, the Hitman. Jericho nails Rusev with a missile dropkick and gives Christian a running, step-up enzuigiri kick. He nails Joe with a one-handed bulldog takedown and gives him the lionsault, but Joe kicks out of the pinfall. His momentum is finally halted when he charges at Rusev and receives a powerslam. Rusev pins him, but Hart drops a double axehandle on the back on Rusev’s head to make the save.
When the final pod finally opens up at the 20-minute mark, Edge enters the ring without anyone having yet been eliminated. Edge comes in and attacks the man who defeated him for the International Heavyweight Championship, sparing Christian from suffering a Muscle Buster. He lines up Joe for a spear, but Joe moves and he ends up taking out Rusev! Christian gives him a frog splash and makes the pin. 1…2…3! Rusev is the first contestant eliminated from the match. After Hart and Jericho give Joe a double team vertical suplex on the steel floor, they are attacked by Edge and Christian. The next few minutes resembles a tornado tag match, which benefits Joe, as he gets time to regain his composure on the outside. A few minutes into the brawl, Christian sets up Hart for the Unprettier, but he shoves Christian away and directly into a Codebreaker! Hart puts him in the Sharpshooter while Jericho prevents Edge from breaking it up, first with a spinning heel kick and then by throwing him over the ropes. Christian taps out and is eliminated. Jericho and Hart discuss what to do to Edge next. As Edge gets to his feet, Hart runs over and goes for the suicide dive, but Edge steps out of the way and he crashes into the chain mesh siding of the cage. Edge looks at Jericho, who decides to run for cover. He heads out the other side of the ring and starts climbing the side of the chamber. Edge makes chase and does the same thing. As they both get positioned over the ring, Jericho tries to kick Edge, but misses and ends up hanging in position to receive a spear from Edge, all the way down to the mat.
Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! Edge is very slow to capitalize on the move, but just as he hooks the leg, Hart drags him off and puts him in the Sharpshooter! Edge tries to make it to the ropes, but he struggles to get there. He may only have been saved by Samoa Joe’s re-emergence, as he starts going to work on Jericho with an inverted atomic drop, a one-legged dropkick and a running senton bomb. Hart breaks the submission hold and goes to help Jericho, but ends up receiving a head-and-arm suplex. Then, he gives him a release German suplex and the CSS enzuigiri kick! As Joe picks up Hart with the intention of giving him the Coquina Clutch, Jericho rolls him up from behind and grabs his tights. 1…2… kick out! Just after that happens, Edge gives Hart an impaler DDT! Before he can pin, he sees Jericho come at him and he counters his attack with the Downward Spiral! 1…2…3! Chris Jericho has been eliminated. Now we’re down to the final three, the current International Heavyweight Champion and the previous two titleholders. Edge immediately goes for a pin on Hart, but he kicks out. Edge picks him up, but is given a legsweep and then placed in the Sharpshooter once again. He tries to get to ropes, but Hart drags him back and then, finally, Edge taps out! Just as Hart is releasing him from the hold, Samoa Joe comes up from behind and puts Hart in the Coquina Clutch! He picked his spot perfectly. He gets Hart falling to the mat and then locks in the bodyscissors. Hart has nowhere to go and finally taps out. Samoa Joe survives the entire field, from the opening bell to the closing bell, and in so doing retains the International Heavyweight Championship!
Official Decision: Samoa Joe wins by submission at 32:27
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