Spring Slaughter 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
From the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario
Live Attendance: 16 245
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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VS. Pre-Show 6-Man Tag Team Match
Leo Burke, Rey Mysterio Jr. & Dean Malenko vs. Ted DiBiase, Earthquake & “Killer” Karl Krupp This one was a fast paced match featuring a few minutes of the heels beating down Rey Mysterio Jr. with ease. However, Mysterio’s fighting spirit and resiliency proved too strong to beat, as he made a hot tag to Dean Malenko, who schooled both “Killer” Karl Krupp and Ted DiBiase with some of his 1000 holds. However, Malenko was squashed into the turnbuckles by a charging Earthquake, who then give him the Earthquake Splash. Leo Burke made the save and was attacked by DiBiase and Krupp. The referee lost control of the proceedings for a little bit. In the melee, DiBiase returned to the ring apron to tag himself in and put Malenko in the Million Dollar Dream. Meanwhile, Krupp targeted Burke with his riding crop and tried to whip him, but Burke moved, causing Krupp to whip DiBiase across the back! This allowed Malenko to break free and tag out to Mysterio, who capitalized on the situation by dropkicking DiBiase from behind, sending him into the ropes while Burke took Krupp out of the ring with a clothesline and then flung himself into Earthquake with a suicide dive! Mysterio, then, hit the 6-1-9 on DiBiase and gave him the West Coast Pop to earn the victory for his team.
Official Decision: Leo Burke, Rey Mysterio Jr. and Dean Malenko win by pinfall.
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VS. Winner Challenges Ric Flair for the International Heavyweight Championship
Kurt Angle w/ Miss Elizabeth vs. Samoa Joe w/ Sensational Sherri What a match to open up the main part of the show with. It begins with chain wrestling sequences and submission holds applied by both the Samoan Submission Machine and the Olympic Gold Medalist and then transitions into a more physical encounter with a brief brawl on the outside and then a suplex clinic on the inside of the ring. Angle goes for the ankle lock, but can’t get Joe to quit. He drags himself to the ropes, then gets up gingerly and nails Angle with a CCS Enzuigiri kick. He covers for a 2-count. Joe tackles Angle and drives him into the turnbuckles, then gives him some stiff chops and peppers him with jabs. Joe puts him on the top rope, but Angle kicks him away, then takes Joe down with a diving cross body from the second rope, into a lateral press for two. Angle gives the big Samoan an overhead belly-to-belly suplex and then attempts the Angle Slam, but Joe gets out of it and applies the Coquina Clutch. Angle manages to back him into the turnbuckle to break the hold. Next, we get an exchange of chops, followed by Angle rolling some German suplexes. Angle attempts the ankle lock again, but this time Joe kicks him away. Angle charges at Joe and gets an inverted atomic drop. Joe runs to the ropes and Angle takes him down with a drop toehold and then slaps on a crossface. Joe can’t reach the ropes, but then turns over onto Angle, forcing his shoulders to the mat for a 2-count. A fist fight ensues and Joe gets the better of it. He whips Angle into the corner and charges in, but hits the turnbuckle. Angle pulls Joe out of the corner and gives him the Angle Slam! He pins, but Sensational Sherri distracts the referee. Angle gets up and confronts Sherri and the referee. The distraction causes Angle to end up in the Coquina Clutch. Joe gets the bodyscissors locked in. Miss Elizabeth acts quickly to go around the ring and slap Sherri, causing her to chase Elizabeth into the ring and bump into the referee. The referee gets into another argument with Sherri and decides to toss her from ringside. Sherri loses it and gets ready to attack the referee, but Samoa Joe stops her so he won’t be disqualified. The argument gives Angle enough time to wake up. As other officials come down and grab Sherri by the arms, pulling her out of the ring while she screams, Angle gets to his feet, nails another Angle Slam and pins Joe. 1…2…3! Kurt Angle will go on to wrestle Ric Flair for the International Heavyweight Championship in tonight’s main event!
Official Decision: Kurt Angle wins by pinfall.
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VS. Fatal Fourway #1 Contender’s Match
Bayley vs. Paige vs. Sexy Star vs. Jazz This number on conteder’s match features four excellent female wrestlers and it is one fall to a finish. Everyone gets an opportunity to shine. Jazz shows why she’s the baddest bitch in wrestling when she gives Sexy Star a Moolah Whip into the barricade at ringside. Later on, she puts Bayley in the Bitch Clamp, but then Paige takes her over with a release German suplex to prevent the submission from happening. Paige insists that the ring is her house and goes to great lengths to keep her opponents at bay. She gives Sexy Star the Paige-Turner and pins her, but Bayley breaks it up. Bayley gets her share of offense in, too, at one point hitting Paige and Jazz both with a diving front dropkick off of the top rope at the same time (giving them one foot each). Sexy Star hits the biggest high flying spots of the match, once taking out Paige with a plancha and later taking out all of her opponents with a moonsault from the top rope to the outside. Later, in another huge spot, Bayley and Sexy Star team up to give Paige a double-team superplex while Jazz gets in underneath them and guides them to the mat in a double powerbomb spot. Jazz tries pinning everyone, but only gets a 2-count on each woman. She gives Bayley the Jazz Stinger and pins her, but Paige breaks it up and executes a Ram-Paige DDT on Jazz. She pins Jazz, but Sexy Star pulls her off, ducks a clothesline, then executes a springboard tornado DDT. Sexy Star goes to the top rope and executes a frog splash and pins Paige. 1…2…3! Sexy Star wins and becomes the new women’s #1 contender.
Official Decision: Sexy Star wins by pinfall.
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VS. 6-Man Tag Team Match
The Acadian Giant, Rhino & Yoshihiro Tajiri vs. The Heenan Family: Vader & The Brain Busters Bobby “The Brain” Heenan brought his new Family to AGPW to conquer. With fewer championships available to its competitors than any other organization in Mash-Up Wrestling, Heenan views winning here to be a bigger deal than anywhere else. Tonight, his Family brings the fight to some stiff competition in the form of the Acadian Giant, the “Man-Beast” Rhino and the “Japanese Buzzsaw” Yoshihiro Tajiri. In the dying moments of the match, the Acadian Giant gets tagged into the match and drops Anderson and Blanchard with a double clothesline. He picks up Blanchard and chokeslams him, but then receives a Vader Attack that knocks him down and out of the ring. They go outside and brawl. Tajiri attemps a Buzzsaw kick on Anderson, but he ducks it and then gives him the Double A spinning spinebuster. Immediately after that, Anderson ends up on the receiving end of a GORE! Blanchard crawls to the corner and tags out to Vader, who crushed the Acadian Giant between himself and the turnbuckle post with a body avalanche! Vader comes in and bowls over Rhino with a Vader Attack and then gives the Man-Beast a powerbomb! Meanwhile, Blanchard manages to toss the Acadian Giant into the ring. Vader attacks him with a running splash and then positions him close to the corner, climbs to the second rope and executes a Vader Bomb! 1…2…3! The Heenan Family are victorious in their AGPW debut!
Official Decision: The Heenan Family wins by pinfall.
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VS. $100 000 Cash Up For Grabs
Cesaro vs. Big Ryck Cesaro won a cash prize of $100 000 dollars in a ladder match at Hellfire in Halifax 2016. Big Ryck stole the money and now they are having a match to decide who will keep the cash. Maybe that doesn’t make sense, but this is wrestling. Before the match even begins, Big Ryck comes out with the briefcase of cash only to announce that he’s already spent all of the money, so he’s only here for the pleasure of beating the shit out of Cesaro. Dario Cueto told Cesaro that he would have to give him back the money to get the title shot at the International Heavyweight Championship that he thinks he deserves. Now, Cesaro is pissed. He takes the fight to Big Ryck. He overwhelms the big man with a multitude of hard European uppercuts before finally knocking him off of his feet with a diving European uppercut from the top rope. When he sets up for the Neutralizer, Big Ryck’s Crew members, Castro Cortez and Mr. Cisco show up to attack Cesaro. The referee does not call for the bell because of a pre-match announcement that Dario Cueto ordered the match to have no disqualifications. Cortez nails Cesaro repeatedly with his kendo stick and Mr. Cisco gives him a diving sommersault senton bomb. Big Ryck picks up Cesaro and gives him the Ryck Bottom. 1…2... the pinfall is broken up by Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish! They get into a scrap with The Crew and manage to clear them out of the ring long enough to give Big Ryck a legsweep and Flying Fish Hook combination. Then, they go back to brawling with The Crew. Cesaro and Big Ryck get up at the same time and slug it out. Big Ryck whips Cesaro into the ropes and he does a springboard spinning European uppercut. He grabs Big Ryck as he’s getting up and gives him the Neutralizer. He covers. 1…2…3!
Official Decision: Cesaro wins by pinfall.
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VS. Three Stages of Hell: Falls Count Anywhere, Submission & Ladder
North American Tag Team Championship Match
Bret Hart & Chris Jericho vs. Edge & Christian This is the final round of this bitter rivalry. Neither team will face each other ever again in AGPW. The stakes are high. Which team will get the last laugh? Which team will survive the three states of hell? Which team will walk away from the ring as the AGPW North American Tag Team Champions?
The first stage is a Falls Count Anywhere contest. The match stays in and around the ring for the opening 7-8 minutes of the contest, but it eventually heads outside of the ring. It looks like Hart and Jericho will win the first stage when Christian goes for a plancha, but Jericho counters it with a Codebreaker! It takes Jericho a few moments to make the pin, but Edge makes the save just in the nick of time. He brawls with Jericho. When Hart comes around, he takes Christian into the crowd and brawls with him through the crowd. Hart whips Christian into the hockey boards and clotheslines him into the Maple Leafs’ bench before returning to ringside to help Jericho with Edge. The two-on-one fight leads to both announce team’s tables getting cleared off. Hart puts Edge in the Sharpshooter on top of a table. However, before he can get the submission win, Christian climbs on the nearby barricade and jumps at him, nailing him with a chair. Jericho starts in on Christian and lays him out on a table. He climbs onto the ring apron, then springboards from the ring for a Lionsault onto Christian that breaks the table! When he covers, Edge makes the save and then gives Jericho an implant DDT on a piece of the busted table. Hart and Edge duke it out until Hart goes for a whip. Edge reverses it, sending him into the barricade. Then, he spears him through it!
Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! Edge lands half on top of Hart. The referee counts the fall. 1…2…3!
With each wrestler already exhausted, it takes some time to get them back to the ring for the submission stage of the match. This stage favours the champions, which is a good thing for them because if they lose here, there won’t be a third stage. Jericho works over Christian and goes for the Walls of Jericho, but Edge comes into the ring and stops him with a Russian legsweep. He returns to the ring apron and waits for a hot tag, but Jericho is able to capture Cage from behind and give him an inverted vertical suplex. Jericho gives Edge a forearm shot to knock him off of the ring apron and then gives Cage a double underhook powerbomb and puts him in the Liontamer! Before he can win it, Edge breaks it up with a missile dropkick. Edge and Jericho duke it out and Edge counters a whip and gives Jericho a flapjack. He lines him up for a spear, but runs into a Codebreaker! Hart has finally returned to ring and gets tagged in. He gives Cage a pendulum backbreaker and then a pointed elbow drop from the second rope before putting him in the Sharpshooter. Cage has no choice but to submit and save his back strength for the third and final stage: the ladder match.
More than one ladder comes into play in the last stage of the match. Jericho bodyslams Cage onto a ladder and goes for a lionsault, but Cage rolls away. Hart sees Edge on the outside and goes for a suicide dive, but Edge lifts a ladder up and Hart crashes into it! Cage attempts an Unprettier on Jericho, but he slips free and gives Cage a side belly-to-back suplex onto a ladder. Multiple attempts to climb the ladder and retrieve the title belts are thwarted by the other team. Hart and Cage fight it out on top of a ladder until Hart is able to slam Cage’s face off of the top of it and punch him down to the mat. Before he can take advantage, Edge comes up beneath him, gets him into an electric chair and falls backwards off of the ladder! Jericho comes in and climbs the ladder. Edge recovers just in time to stop him from getting the titles. They throw punches at each other until Jericho grabs Edge and takes him off of the ladder with a Codebreaker! Jericho recovers and starts climbing up the ladder. Cage gets up and tips it over, causing Jericho to get crotched on the top rope and fall out of the ring. Cage climbs the ladder. Hart cuts him off, but gets knocked down. Then Cage gives him a frog splash! This leaves a very groggy Edge to see the ladder with no one around it and slowly climb it. Jericho picks himself up off of the floor and sees Edge getting his hands on the belts. He slides into the ring and gets his hands on the bottom rung of the ladder, but it is too late. Edge has secured the titles. Edge and Christian win the final stage and become the new North American Tag Team Champions!
Official Decision: Edge & Christian win by pinfall in Falls Count Anywhere and by retrieving the titles in the Ladder Match portion of the Three Stages of Hell.
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VS. King of Strong Style vs. Mexico’s Greatest Export
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Alberto El Patron This is the much hyped debut of Shinsuke Nakamura. He has no easy task in trying to defeat Alberto El Patron in his debut. Nakamura is known as the King of Strong Style, but El Patron can work stiff when it is necessary. This is one of those times when it is necessary. Both guys kick the crap out of each other. Leg and foot strikes are the primary means of offense throughout this match. Nakamura uses a lot of shoot kicks and El Patron responds in kind, while also bringing enzuigiris and superkicks into the foreground. When El Patron goes for a cross-armbreaker, Nakamura manages to block and strike him in the face with a hard jumping knee lift and then execute a bridging German suplex for a long 2-count. Nakamura lines up El Patron for Bomaye, but El Patron takes two steps forward and lands a superkick on him as he charges forward. 1…2… shoulder up! El Patron puts Nakamura in a tree of woe and starts climbing the turnbuckle. Nakamura lifts himself up and applies a front sleeper hold. He cannot submit El Patron because he’s outside of the ropes. Still it does enough damage to allow Nakamura to free himself from the corner. He tries to bring El Patron back into the ring with a suplex. He floats through, lands on his feet and goes for a full nelson. Nakamura slips through, buries a knee into El Patron’s mid-section and then clocks him in the head with a step-up enzuigiri. He lays El Patron over the top rope, near the turnbuckle and then gives him a series of knee lifts, culminating with a running knee strike to the abdomen. Then, he rolls away, waits for El Patron to get down, then charges in and nails him with Bomaye! 1…2…3! Nakamura wins his debut match.
Official Decision: Shinsuke Nakamura wins by pinfall.
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VS. Women’s Championship Match
Charlotte Flair vs. Natalya Neidhart The two most well-known second generation female superstars in wrestling battle it out to find out which one of them is the best. Both grapplers fight a very technically sound match, but Flair resorts to cheating, something she learned from her daddy, the Mash-Up Wrestling World Champion and AGPW International Heavyweight Champion, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair. She thumbs Neidhart in the eye, then chokes her on the middle rope and also pins her against the turnbuckles and chokes her out with her foot. Neidhart responds by picking up the physical intensity of the contest. When Flair whips her into the ropes, she ducks a clothesline and then levels her with a discus clothesline and then goes to work on her back. When Flair escapes to the outside and tries to leave with her title belt, Neidhart brings her back to the ring, but receives a swinging neckbreaker as she tries to re-enter the ring. Flair goes for the figure eight a few times, but never gets it locked in. Neidhart attempts to put Flair in the sharpshooter, but Flair kicks her awake and Neidhart bumps into the referee. Flair heads to the outside and Neidhart gives chase. Flair picks up her title belt and hits Neidhart in the head with it. Then, she returns Neidhart to the ring, wakes the referee and puts Neidhart in the figure eight, which forces her to submit. Flair is on the road to become the dirtiest female in the game!
Official Decision: Charlotte Flair wins by submission.
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VS. Hell in a Cell Match
“Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Batista Finally, the big blow off match to this feud that has lasted for several months already. Miss Elizabeth and Kurt Angle, and Sensational Sherri and Samoa Joe are seen in different backstage locations watching the action on monitors. They have been kept out of the cell for the sake of their own safety. The Hell in a Cell is an imposing structure that comes into play frequently during the match, like when Batista throws Savage over the ropes, from the ring into the side of the cell. Later, Savage takes Batista all around the ring, throwing him into cell panels and grinding his face into the chain link fencing. Batista smashes Savage’s face off of a turnbuckle post and then tackles him into a cell panel. At this point, we see that Savage has been busted open around the hairline. The action continues in the ring with Batista taking a section of the steel ring steps inside and nailing Savage in the face with them. Then, he gives him a Batista Bomb! 1…2… kick out! Batista decides to go for another Batista Bomb, this time on the ring steps, but Savage turns it into a sitout facebuster that busts open Batista’s nose on the ring steps. Savage brings some chairs into the ring. Both men take chair shots. Batista counters a whip attempt and then gives Savage a spinning spinebuster on a steel chair. He covers, but Savage kicks out. Batista tosses about half a dozen chairs into a pile and sets up to give him a Batista Bomb, but Savage counters with a back body drop into the pile of chairs. He goes to the top rope and nails a diving elbow drop! 1…2… kick out! They continue to slug it out with one another. Batista has no hair to pull, but Savage takes him by his bald head and gives him the hairpull hangman across the top rope, anyhow. Then, he brings out the lumber. Savage brings a table into the ring. He sets it up in the ring and lays out Batista on it. Savage climbs the top turnbuckle, but before he can go for the elbow drop, Batista rolls off, so Savage gives him a diving double axehandle smash instead. Savage decides to give Batista a suplex instead, but he blocks it and then counters with one of his own. Then, Batista props the table up in the corner, behind Savage and waits for him to get to his feet. Batista goes for a spear, but Savage gets out of the way and Batista runs right through the table! Savage grabs Batista and bodyslams him onto the ring steps and then goes to the top rope. He nails the diving elbow drop! He pins him. 1…2…3! “Macho Man” Randy Savage finally conquers “The Animal” Batista in one hell of a match!
Official Decision: “Macho Man” Randy Savage wins by pinfall.
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VS. International Heavyweight Championship Match
“Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. Kurt Angle The International Heavyweight Champion, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair starts off by faking a locking up attempt, then patting his hair and giving out a “Woooo!” Angle seems unimpressed. He goes to lock up, but Flair backs into the ropes and ducks under the top rope. When he re-enters the ring, Angle gets him in a side headlock and takes him down. Flair scrambles to the ropes to force a break and Angle goes, “Woooo!” Angle with another side headlock take down, Flair breaks out of it with a headscissors. Back to their feet, Flair gets a side headlock take down and Angle gives him a headscissors to break it. Back to their feet and they a test of strength. Angle takes Flair to his knees, but he breaks it with a headbutt and then thumbs Angle in the eye and gives him a side belly-to-back suplex. Lateral press for one. Flair locks on a headlock. Angle gets to his feet and Flair lands some fists across the bridge of his nose. Angle tries to break the headlock by lifting Flair into a side belly-to-back suplex, but the Nature Boy holds onto it. He only breaks it, when Angle manages to roll Flair onto the back of his shoulder to get a quick 2-count. Back to their feet and Angle goes for a whip. Flair counters it and sets up for a back body drop. Angle clutches the ropes and then bowls Flair over with a running clothesline. He covers, but Flair kicks out at one. Back to their feet and Angle lays into Flair with some chops. He whips Flair into the corner and he flips right over the turnbuckle and onto the ring apron. Angle goes over to get him, but Flair shoulderblocks him through the ropes and then grabs him for a vertical suplex and drops him on the floor!
Flair brings Angle to his feet and shoves him into the barricade. Then, he gives him some knife-edge chops. “Woooo!” Flair takes Angle and slams his head off of the ring steps. He rolls into the ring and back out, then gives Angle a delayed vertical suplex on the floor and goes inside to let the referee count him out. Angle gets back in the ring at the count of seven. Flair locks up and trips him up. He applies a hammerlock. Angle counters into one of his own and transitions it into a modified bow-and-arrow submission hold. Flair won’t quit and he breaks it up by fish hooking Angle’s mouth. Then, he starts to stomp on the back of Angle’s head. Flair lets Angle get up and gives him a knee breaker. He goes for the figure four, but Angle kicks him away. Flair comes at Angle and he quickly reacts with a fireman’s carry takedown and then a spinal tap. Angle covers for a short 2-count and then puts a chinlock on him. Flair gets to his feet and breaks it with some elbows to the sternum. He runs to the ropes, but Angle quickly follows and lands a knee to the midsection that causes Flair to fall out of the ring.
Angle goes outside to pick him up, but Flair rakes his eyes! Then, Flair whips Angle into the steps and runs in to land a hard knee to the side of his head. Flair picks up Angle and rolls him into the ring. He walks up the steps and starts climbing the ropes. Angle pops up, runs up the turnbuckles and takes Flair off of the top rope with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex! Angle crawls over and hooks a leg. 1…2… kick out! Angle works over Flair’s arm. He tries to hyperextend the elbow with a body scissors applied. Flair eventually gets to his feet and has Angle’s shoulders down for a count, so he breaks the hold. When Angle gets up, Flair throws some more chops. “Woooo!” Flair whips Angle into the corner and then charges in, but gets a boot to the face. Angle grabs Flair and attemps the Angle Slam, but Flair hooks his nose and breaks free, landing on his feet. Then, he kicks Angle low and takes him over with a double underhook suplex. He covers. 1…2.. kick out. Flair picks up Angle and gives him a bodyslam and then lowers the knee pad and dropped a series of knees on his head. Flair covers, but Angle kicks out. Flair grabs Angle and appears to be going for a piledriver, but Angle counters with a back body drop. Flair turns that into a sunset flip. 1…2… kick out! Back on their feet, Flair goes for an attack but Angle gives him an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Then another and another. Angle drops his shoulder straps and puts Flair in the ankle lock!
Flair scrambles around trying to get to the ropes, but he can’t get to any. Finally, he turns over on his back and kicks Angle in the face a few times with his free foot. Flair quickly hobbles onto his good foot, and with Angle’s back turned to him, gives him a chop block. Flair gives him two more and then puts him in the figure four leglock. Angle tries to drag himself to the ropes, but just as he gets close, Flair pulls him back to the middle of the ring and re-applies the hold. Angle is going to have to tap. But he doesn’t. Instead, he flips Flair over and forces him to make a rope break. Both Angle and Flair limp when they get up. They meet in the center of the ring and trade blows. Flair delivers some nasty chops and Angle replies with European uppercuts. Angle whips Flair into the corner. He charges in, but Flair moves and Angle’s shoulder slams into the turnbuckle post. Flair pulls Angle out of the corner and gives him a delayed belly-to-back suplex, followed by a rolling knee drop, and then he drags him towards the middle of the ring to give him the figure four leglock, but blocks, pulls Flair down to the mat and applies a STF submission hold, but Flair breaks that by biting on Angle’s hands. The referee gives Flair a stern warning. Meanwhile, Angle goes for a running clothesline, but Flair moves and Angle takes out the referee! While Angle checks on him, Flair drops to his knees, sneaks up from behind and delivers a low blow! Then, he puts Angle in the figure four.
Medical personnel check on the referee as a new officials comes to the ring. Angle refuses to quit and his shoulders hit the mat for a few 2-counts, but finally, he musters all of his strength to drag himself to the ropes. However, the damage may already be done. When Angle gets up, Flair throws him some chops. He goes for a whip, but Angle reverses it and gives Flair a big back body drop. He goes to grab Flair, but he shoves Angle into the ropes and rolls him up. 1…2… kick out. Flair with a clothesline attempt. Angle ducks it and pulls Flair in for the Angle Slam! However, Flair’s foot hits the referee in the head on the follow through. There’s no count. The original referee climbs back into the ring and counts. 1…2… shoulder up! Angle applies an ankle lock, but Flair quickly scrambles to the ropes. Flair takes him time, refusing to leave the ropes. Angle goes over to get him and gets a thumb to the eye and then a small package. 1…2.. kick out! Angle attempts a clothesline and Flair ducks, gets him in a rear waistlock, pushes him into the ropes and takes him down in a school-boy roll-up. He pulls on the tights with both hands. 1…2…3! Ric Flair wins! The Dirtiest Player in the Game cheats another challenger out of winning the gold!
Official Decision: “Nature Boy” Ric Flair wins by pinfall.
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