Winter Warfare 2016
Sunday, March 6, 2016
From the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Live Attendance: 10 860
Tonight’s Broadcast Features the Ringside Commentary Teams of
Ed Whalen and Vampiro (English)
Marc Blondin and René Goulet (Français)
With backstage interviews conducted by
Jeremy Borash and SoCal Val
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Pre-Show Bonus Match
Sexy Star vs. JazzIn the first match of the evening, Sexy Star defeats Jazz by pinfall when she gets Jazz in a variation of the victory roll as a counter to the Bitch Clamp. When Sexy Star has her hand raised in victory, Jazz attacks her from behind. Jazz gives her the Jazz Stinger and then puts her in the Bitch Clamp. She releases Sexy Star from the hold when she sees Bayley rush out to help out friend. Jazz defends herself valiantly, but then Paige runs out and that scares Jazz out of the ring. Bayley and Sexy Star thank Paige, but then she blasts Sexy Star with a superkick and then gives Bayley the Ram-Paige DDT! As Sexy Star is getting back up, Paige gives her the Paige Turner and leaves both girls knocked out. Why did Paige do this?
Official Decision: Sexy Star wins by pinfall.
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reDRagon vs. The Vachon Brothers vs. The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers vs. Rhino & TajiriThe pay-per-view portion of tonight’s show kicks off with a fatal fourway tag team match with one fall to a win. The action is fast pace with few rests spots. After the first few opening minutes, each team takes turns beating on Kyle O’Reilly until he makes a hot tag to his partner, Bobby Fish and he comes in and goes to school on Raymond Rougea with multiple kicks and suplex variations. When Jacques Rougeau runs in to stall Fish’s momentum, it backfires as he runs right into a Samoan drop. Rhino makes a blind tag on Fish, then comes in and gives Raymond the GORE! GORE! GORE! He pins, but big Butcher Vachon comes in to break it up with a hard elbow drop between the shoulder blades. Tajiri runs in to attack him, which draws in Mad Dog Vachon. For the next minute, all hell breaks loose. Bodies and finishers going flying everywhere. Jacques grabs Tajiri in a two-handed chokehold but gets a spray of mist to the face that sees him walk right into a piledriver from the Mad Dog. Butcher knocks Tajiri clear out of the ring while Rhino gives Fish a belly-to-belly suplex on the floor! Mad Dog covers Jacques. Raymond attempts to climb into the ring, but not realizing that a pinfall is in progress, O’Reilly catches him with a superkick. 1…2…3! The Vachon Brothers win the match!
Official Decision: The Vachon Brothers win by pinfall.
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Matt Sydal vs. Tyson KiddExciting, high-risk, high-octane offense is what dominates this match up. Both men take some big risks that pay off, including Tyson Kidd giving Matt Sydal a slingshot diving hurricanrana from the ring to the outside and Sydal responding a few minutes later with a corkscrew plancha on Kidd from the ring to the outside. Back in the ring, they kick the crap out of each other. Sydal knocks Kidd down with a series of stiff kicks to the legs and a roundhouse. Then, he executes a standing moonsault for a 2-count. Later, Sydal attempts a springboard corkscrew moonsault, but Kidd gets his knees up and then takes Sydal down with a swinging neckbreaker. He covers for a 2-count. He picks up Sydal and sits him on the top rope. Kidd goes for a springboard frankensteiner, but Sydal miraculously lands on his feet! Then, he nails Kidd with a shining wizard! He covers him. 1…2… kick out! Sydal gives Kidd a snap suplex, then goes to the top rope and goes for the shooting star press, but Kidd rolls out of the way. When he gets up, he prevents Sydal from getting to his feet with a front basement dropkick to the side of the head. Then, he grabs him and executes a swinging fisherman’s suplex. 1…2…3! Tyson Kidd is the winner. FACT.
Official Decision: Tyson Kidd wins by pinfall.
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Leo Burke vs. “Killer” Karl KruppLeo Burke is cheered on for the first time in a long time. However, his recent tag team partner, now rival, “Killer” Karl Krupp pounds and grounds him after the match spilled to the outside and Krupp reversed an Irish whip that sent Burke crashing hard into the ring steps. Krupp takes Burke to the top rope to give him a superplex, but Burke blocks and knocks the big man to the mat and then takes him off of his feet with a diving back elbow to the face. Krupp tries to regain control of the match with a running clothesline, but Burke ducks it and brings him into some rolling German suplexes, finishing with a bridge on the last one. 1…2.. kick out! Burke puts Krupp on his shoulders, but the big man breaks free. Upon getting down to his feet, he knocks over the referee just before knocking Burke down with a big boot to the face. Recognizing that the referee is knocked out, Krupp leaves the ring to grab his riding crop. Burke catches Krupp with a running knee lift as he enters the ring, then takes the riding crop from him and starts to whip him. The referee sees this and calls for the bell to disqualify Burke. When Burke argues with the referee, Krupp knocks him over and starts whipping him with the riding crop. Then, he puts the Iron Claw on Burke until more officials come out to put a stop to it.
Official Decision: “Killer” Karl Krupp wins by disqualification.
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North American Tag Team Championship Match
Bret Hart & Chris Jericho vs. Edge & ChristianEdge and Christian get their rematch and an opportunity to regain the North American Tag Team Titles. Last month, they lost the titles when Bret Hart spat on Edge, then pulled Christian away from the ropes, where he had just forced a rope break of the Sharpshooter, and put him in the Sharpshooter to get the submission win. In the rematch, Christian plays the role of Ricky Morton. When he makes the hot tag, Edge comes in and goes on a tear, giving Hart a spinning heel kick, Chris Jericho a back body drop, Hart an electric chair drop and Jericho a missile dropkick. He grabs Hart and gives him an implant DDT and pins, but Jericho breaks it up. They pound away at each other until Jericho whips Edge into the corner. He charges in and edge moves. Jericho’s shoulder slams into the turnbuckle. Hart comes at Edge and gets a big boot. Edge tags Christian and he climbs to the top turnbuckle. Edge gives Hart a half-nelson bulldog and then Christian lands the frog splash! He pins. 1…2… Jericho pulls him out of the ring and then whips him into the barricade. Jericho charges at him, but gets back body dropped into the time keeper’s area. Christian heads back into the ring to give Hart the Unprettier, but he shoves Christian into the turnbuckle. Edge makes the blind tag while Hart rolls up Christian. When the referee doesn’t count he gets up, then turns to face Edge who comes off of the top turnbuckle and takes him down with a diving crossbody. Edge covers. 1…2… kick out! Edge prepares to give Hart the spear, but before he can, Jericho enters the ring with one of the title belts and blatantly knocks him out with it. The referee calls for the bell and disqualifies the champions, who end up retaining their titles because of it.
Official Decision: Edge & Christian win by disqualification.
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Owen Hart vs. Pentagon Jr.This is a competitive showcase match that has the potential to move Pentagon Jr. up the card if he can defeat the mid-card veteran Owen Hart. It looks good for him in the early going as he punishes Hart with nasty open-palm slaps across the chest. However, when Pentagon tries to send Hart out to the floor, he holds onto the top rope and lifts himself up and over it, right back into the ring, showing a measure of strength much bigger than the size of his frame. Hart catches Pentagon by surprise with a leg-feed enzuigiri kick that earns a 2-count. Now, Hart is right back in this thing and mounting a solid attack that culminates with a moonsault. 1…2… kick out! Hart can’t believe it. He doesn’t waste much time arguing about the count. He goes right back to work on Pentagon for a time. When he tries to put him in the Sharpshooter, Pentagon Jr. pulls him into a small package. 1…2… kick out! A sequence of blocked and missed attacks ends with Pentagon catching Hart flush on the chin with a superkick! 1…2… kick out. Pentagon Jr. sends him into the corner and charges in, but gets a boot to the face and then a running bulldog takedown. Hart covers, but Pentagon gets the shoulder up on a 2-count. Hart whips Pentagon, who comes off of the ropes and takes Hart don’t with a sling blade. When they get up, Pentagon gives Hart a kick to the mid-section and a package piledriver. 1…2…3! Pentagon Jr. wins the match. But he doesn’t stop there. He takes a microphone and announces that he must make another sacrifice to his master, for he demands it! Pentagon grabs Hart and breaks his arm! Hart’s done for. It will be a long time before we see him again, that is, if we ever do see him again.
Official Decision: Pentagon Jr. wins by pinfall.
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Women’s Championship Triple Threat Match
Charlotte Flair vs. Gail Kim vs. ChynaCharlotte has successfully defended her titles against both Gail Kim and Chyna in our previous two supercards. Tonight, she defends it against both of them. However, the alliance they previously had has dissolved. It is anyone’s guess what will happen. Under triple threat rules, it is one fall to a finish which means that for as much as Charlotte might like to let Kim and Chyna beat the snot out of each other, she has to break it pinfalls and then get involved in the match. After all combinations of one-on-one mini-battles are exhausted, the ending of the match draws near with Charlotte trying to put Chyna in the figure eight, but getting kicked away. When Chyna gets up, she ends up on the receiving end of Kim’s Eat Defeat facebuster-kick! Kim can’t follow it up, as Charlotte runs her over with a running big boot. She pins Kim. 1…2.. kick out! Charlotte puts Kim in the figure eight, but Chyna stomps on Charlotte’s abdomen to save the match. Chyna picks up Charlotte in a military press and drops her out to the floor! She picks up Kim and tries to set her up for the Pedigree, but she breaks loose and takes her down with some headscissors, then goes to the top rope and attempts a diving crossbody. Chyna catches her and counters right into a backbreaker, then she gives Kim the Pedigree! As she finishes rolling her over to make the pin, Charlotte returns to the ring and executes Natural Selection on Chyna and then covers Kim for the pin. 1…2…3! Charlotte retains the title.
Official Decision: Charlotte Flair wins by pinfall.
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Dario Cueto's $100 000 Ladder Match
Samoa Joe vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Big Ryck vs. Alberto El Patron vs. CesaroThere is a hundred thousand dollars in cold, hard cash inside of a briefcase that is suspended above the ring. Fans are cheering for Cesaro and Rey Mysterio Jr. This match is a brutal affair with some fantastic high spots. Alberto El Patron tries climbing a ladder, but Mysterio does a springboard hurricanrana to take him off of the ladder. Cesaro leaps from one ladder to give Big Ryck a European uppercut that knocks him off of another ladder. Of course, not long into the match, Cortez Castro and Mr. Cisco show up to help Big Ryck in his quest to claim the cash. They move furniture around and Castro gives everyone shots from his kendo stick. After a few minutes passes, and Big Ryck is taken down with a few superkicks from Alberto and an enziguiri kick from Samoa Joe, all of the other official participants gang up on Cortez and Mr. Cisco and bury them underneath all of the display ladders set up in the entrance aisle, thus getting rid of them for the rest of the match. As the action continues, Alberto puts Cesaro in a cross armbreaker through the rungs of a ladder propped up between the ring apron and the ringside barricade. Later, Big Ryck pulls Mysterio off of a ladder and jackknife powerbombs him from the ring onto that same ladder! Not long after that, Samoa Joe gives Alberto a Muscle Buster onto a ladder! Joe and Big Ryck meet at the top of a later and pound away at each other in an all-out battle of fisticuffs that ends with Ryck slamming Joe’s face off the ladder and causing him to fall to the ring. Cesaro shows up and pushes the ladder over, causing Ryck to go over the ropes and through a stack of tables! As he sees Joe getting up, he goes over and gives him the Neutralizer, leaving him with a clear path to top of the ladder, where he retrieves the $100 000 dollar prize!
Official Decision: Cesaro wins the $100 000 by retrieving it from where it was suspended above the ring.
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International Heavyweight Championship Match
“Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. BatistaOur main event features Mash-Up World Heavyweight Champion, the “Nature Boy” Ric Flair defending the AGPW International Heavyweight Championship against a former tag team partner, “The Animal” Batista. The Animal King as he is referred to by his manager, “Sensational Queen” Sherri, has been on an incredible run since entering AGPW. His march to the top of the card has been fast. He has been devastating and unstoppable. A large thanks can go to Sherri, who made sure Batista would win by recruiting Samoa Joe as a new client. Joe smashed Kurt Angle’s head in with the door of the steel cage, guaranteeing Batista would win and be named the #1 contender.
This is an odd all-heel match that sees the “Nature Boy” slowly became the fan favourite. However, we’re not witnessing a face turn for the Alimony Pony! Heck, no! He’s still the Dirtiest Player in the Game and the fans cheer him on. He uses Sherri’s presence at ringside to his advantage by trying to draw her into the match. It is an intelligent move because her anger boils over and distracts the referee, allowing Flair to deliver a low blow to Batista. Flair is in top form, tonight. He has everything going for him. He ever climbs the turnbuckle and performs a diving axehandle smash, something that is as rarely seen as a white humpback whale. Brawling outside of the ring results in Flair getting busted open on the ring post, but he fights back and drops Batista across the barricade so as to cause pain to his crotch. The “Nature Boy” loves to destroy his opponent’s manhood. Woooo! Back in the ring, Flair tries to go for the Figure Four, but Batista kicks him away. Then, Flair chopblocks him from behind. Sherri tries to get involved again and Flair catches her on the ring apron. He gives her a big open mouth kiss. Batista charges at him, but Flair moves and Sherri goes flying off of the ring apron! Flair with the roll-up and feet on the ropes. 1…2… kick out! Batista levels him with a hard lariat and then the Batista Bomb! But before he can pin him…
… it’s the “Macho Man” Randy Savage! He rushes out and attacks Batista, causing the match to end. Samoa Joe shows up to come Batista’s aid, but Kurt Angle is not far behind! Angle gives Joe an Olympic Slam! Savage gives Batista a diving elbow drop! The fans go mental as Miss Elizabeth appears in the ring and she and Savage embrace! This causes Sherri’s head to explode! She is on the outside of the ring screaming like only she can as Elizabeth and Savage are officially reunited and Savage offers his hand in friendship to Angle, who was there to help Elizabeth after Savage was nearly killed by Batista. Angle and Savage shake hands. We’ve just witnessed the birth of the new “Mega Powers!” of AGPW! Unbelievable!
Official Decision: Batista wins by disqualification.
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