Post by Leo on Feb 27, 2022 18:48:02 GMT -5
Bonus matches from free pre-show
Madusa Micelli debuts by defeating Layla El by pinfall via bridging German suplex at 10:01.
Demolition (Ax, Smash, Crush and Mutilate) defeated Sunny’s Boys (Chris Candido, Sean Casey, Griff Garrison and Brian Pillman Jr.) by pinfall of Smash on Garrison by Demolition Decapitation at 12:30. After the match, Casey and Candio gets on Garrison for taking the loss, but Pillman sticks up for his tag partner.
CCW KaufMania: What’s Causing Aldis - Night 2
Live from the Orange Bowl in Miami Florida
Commentators: Bob Caudle, Dutch Mantel and Terry Funk
Ring Announcer: Mike McGuirk
Interviewer: SoCal Val
Referees: Tommy Young, Joey Marella and Aubrey Edwards
Gloria Estefan sings “America, the Beautiful.”
We cut to the luxury box with Tony Khan, Billy Corrigan, Dixie Carter, Andy Kaufman, Robert Fuller and Ivory. Kaufman is sucking down shrimp cocktail like it’s going out of style. Ivory tells Fuller that McMahon is in the building and he’s down in a locker room with someone, but he’s keeping it a secret. Sherri Martel says Blanchard still wants to wrestle, but she hasn’t been cleared medically from the piledriver on the concrete from the night before by Charlotte Flair. They may have to go with McMahon’s woman to save the day. Kaufman perks up at this and comes over. Shane McMahon is not saving his show. He storms out to find McMahon.
Kamille distracts Magee so Bagwell can jump him from behind at the bell. He beats Tom around the ring. Swinging neckbreaker. Yellowjacket suplex. It gets a two count. Bagwell whips Magee to the corner, but he jumps to the top rope and comes off with a turning crossbody for two. Backbreaker. He eats knees on a standing moonsault. Bagwell with a fisherman’s buster. He goes up top for the Blockbuster. Magee runs in and dropkicks Bagwell off the top who does a Nestea Plunge off the top to make Mick Foley proud. Kamille helps Buff up, but they both get wiped out on a sucide dive. Snake eyes to the ring wall. Magee slides Bagwell into the ring and comes back in with a slingshot senton for two. Mega Driver (spinning power slam) wins.
Winner: Magee by pinfall at 6:18
Eli Drake goes to get Sherri Martel for his upcoming match. She comes out of a locker room and says she’s working with Tessa Blanchard who is still determined to wrestle tonight. She can’t leave her now. He needs her now and she better get her priorities straight. Sherri lowers her head timidly, rare for her, and she follows Drake to the ring.
Martel is at ringside, but seems worried and distracted. Lockup to start with Backlund getting a hammerlock and Drake goes into the ropes for the break. They go into a lockup again. Drake cockily gets a hammerlock, but Backlund reverses for a hammerlock slam. He rides Drake on the mat. Drake gets out and goes into the ropes. He yells at Sherri to get her head in the match. Backlund slides up behind for the crossface chicken wing, but Drake senses it and drops to the mat. He rolls to the floor and gets in Sherri’s face. Backlund baseball slides out and gets the crossface chicken wing. Drake sells it big time, but eventually backs Backlund into the outside ring post to break. He spins with a discuss punch. Backlund ducks and Eli punches the post. Backlund throws Drake back into the ring and follows, but Eli is up and stomps the crap out of Bob. Whip to the ropes and he goes for a backdrop, but Backlund turns it into a sunset flip for two. Drake is up and is surprised by an arm drag.
Backlund works an arm bar on the mat. Drake powers up and throws Bob into the ropes. He goes for a backdrop again and Backlund goes for the sunset flip, but Drake blocks this time and sits down on it for a two count. Backlund gets his legs up and flips Drake over for a two count. Drake with a wild, swinging lariat. Backlund slides behind Eli for a bridging German suplex for two. Drake backs Backlund into the corner and drives a couple knees into his gut. Marella tells him to get out of the corner and Drake argues with him, which allows Backlund to come out of the corner with an inverted atomic drop. Shoulderbreaker and Bob works the arm bar on the mat again. Drake grabs the bottom rope with his feet to break. Drake goes to the floor and asks Sherri on the sly for the foreign object in her purse, but she forgot her purse in the back. Backlund comes off the apron with an elbow to the back and rides Eli to the floor. Suplex on the floor. He rolls Drake back in and climbs the top rope from the outside, rare for Bob. Drake catches him and tries a superplex, but Backlund pushes him off and gets a top rope fist drop for two. Crossface chicken wing in the center of the ring. Drake struggles, can’t make the ropes and can’t break. He submits and loses the Television Title. Post match, he yells at Sherri all the way to the back.
Winner: Backlund by submission at 15:38
“Borne Again” Matt Borne is in the ring and complains about how he didn’t get a match for KaufMania. He’s no longer Doink the Clown, he’s no longer a joke. He demands someone face him right now. Epic music hits, pyro goes off and out from the back in full gear is…
Joey Marella slides into the ring and calls for the bell. Spear, jackhammer. He pins Borne in a matter of seconds. Goldberg gets a microphone.
“I was waiting in the back for an opportunity like this to make myself known here in Continental Championship Wrestling. I asked for my release from ETW to come here when I saw the refugees from PWX landed here. I’m talking about CM Punk, Kurt Angle and the Undisputed Era. PWX screwed me over. They had Low Ki injure me on purpose to throw me out. I might not be able to get revenge on Low Ki or Eric Bischoff, but I can get it on those three damn initials I hate. You want to know who’s next, it’s PWX!”
Strowman attacks Langston on the entrance ramp and beats him all the way down to ring side. He throws Big E into the outside ring post. Body slam on the floor. Strowman with the freight train shoulderblock that sends Langston over the ring wall. He follows him into the crowd and they brawl out there for a while. Braun whips Big E into the wall and charges, but Langston backdrops him back over to the ringside area. Langston with a double knee drop from the ring wall. Langston with a ring wall assisted DDT. Langston gets the stretcher from where it was positioned at ringside. This allows Strowman to recover and he hits Langston with a clothesline to the back. He beats on Big E on the floor and sets up the reverse choke slam. Langston elbows Strowman in the side of the head. Overhead belly to belly suplex wipes out the stretcher. Gorilla press to impress everyone and Big E drops Strowman so he bounces off the edge of the ring apron.
Langston sets up the stretcher and puts Strowman on it, but he kicks Langston away and gets off of it. Big E charges into a sidewalk slam. Delay suplex with Braun holding his opponent up all day before turning and dropping him onto the entrance ramp with a clang. He gets the stretcher and tries to put Langston on it, but he fights back and gets off of it. Big E body tosses Strowman on the ramp and goes for a running jumping splash, but Braun gets the knees up. He rocks Big E with some big upper cuts and then a heart punch to setup a jackknife powerbomb. Strowman gets Langston on the stretcher and starts to push it to the finish line at the top of the entrance stage. Big E rolls off it to the ramp. He drops over the edge of the ramp to the bit of floor between it and the audience barrier. Braun comes down with a double axe handle. Langston slugs back from his knees. A short arm whip into multiple knee lifts. Langston with a sort of flapjack toss to make Strowman land back on the ring ramp.
Langston with a vertical leap back to the ramp. He goes for the Big Ending, but Strowman fights out of it while grabbing Big E’s head and turning it into a uranage backbreaker. Reverse choke slam on the ramp. Strowman with a curb stomp. Strowman gets Big E up for a running power slam and kicks the stretcher so it moves up the ramp and he gives chase. As the stretcher crosses the finish line, Strowman power slams Big E through it onto the stage.
Winner: Strowman by pushing stretcher over finish line at 18:30
Andy Kaufman beats on a dressing room door and Shane McMahon comes out. He’s been looking for him since the start of the show. Did you ask anybody where we were? Andy Kaufman doesn’t ask for directions, he gives them. What does that even mean? Doesn’t matter…who is your mystery woman. It looks like we’re going to find out soon. Also, did Shane call Goldberg? Maybe. He made a few calls last night. But, it’s all for you Andy. Shane closes the door.
We cut to Sasha Banks in the ring and she doesn’t care who comes out to face her. Tessa Blanchard, Sherri Martel, Charlotte Flair, Mickie James-Aldis, Gloria Estefan with or without her sound machine, Miss Atlanta Lively, the ghost of Mae Young….
Then music hits. “I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation.”
Banks protests to Edwards that she never signed up for Ronda Rousey. Rousey turns Banks around and drives her into the near corner with lefts and rights to the midsection. She drives several knees into the midsection in the corner. Judo throw out of the corner. She goes to lift Banks for a gutwrench powerbomb, but Banks drops out of the hold and scurries away. She asks for a time out, but doesn’t get one. Rousey with a choke lift to show her power and she throws Sasha into the near corner. Ronda charges and eats a back elbow. Banks springs to the top and comes off with a meteora. She bashes the back of Rousey’s head into the canvas several times. Jackknife cover for two.
Banks goes to a bow and arrow stretch. Rousey won’t give up and eventually fights out. Banks with a springboard armdrag. Wheelbarrow bulldog. She points up top and goes up for a frog splash, but Rousey gets the knees up. Swinging neckbreaker and she goes for the gutwrench powerbomb again and gets it. One…two…thre…foot on the ropes. Rousey goes for the Piper’s Pit spinning Samoan drop, but Banks spins through it and into a codebreaker. She nails the Bank Statement, but Rousey gets her knees up under her, powers up while grabbing Banks around the waist and turns it into a back suplex. Rousey with a guillotine choke, but Banks makes the ropes to break. She rolls to the floor, grabs her title belt and shakes her head ‘no’ as she backs up the aisle. Banks gets into the camera and says she’s going to file a protest with the UWA Board on what was a blatant bait and switch to criminally end her title reign.
Winner: Rousey by count out at 14:40
Kaufman is back in the luxury box and is grousing over how everyone is extolling the debuts of Rousey and Goldberg. Kaufman screams he doesn’t want KaufMania to be remembered as McMahonia and orders everyone out of the box, but Ivory and Fuller. Andy realizes what they’re doing. They’re trying to get someone interested enough in CCW to buy him out. Well, it’s not going to happen. And, furthermore, Fuller and Ivory are fired. Ivory asks him to think twice about that. Does he think he can run this company by himself when he didn’t even know one match that was booked for the show with his name plastered on it. Kaufman unfires them, but they better watch themselves.
Test of strength to start. Atlas expects a kick, grabs the foot, spins Rocky around and scores an atomic drop. Running forearm to the back. He drops several knees to the back of the head. Scoop slam off the ropes. Johnson slips out of a power slam and dropkicks Atlas in the back. He falls through the ropes to the floor. Given the rules, Slick just bashes away on Atlas with his cane until he breaks it, but that just pisses him off. Johnson with a knee clip from behind. He takes the broken cane piece and jabs it into Tony’s knee. Slick gets the microphone and talks trash on Atlas then asks if he wants to quit. Tony says hell no. Johnson with a knee breaker to the ring steps. Tony still won’t quit. Rocky pulls a chair out from under the ring, but Atlas, while leaning on the apron, kicks Johnson with his good leg a few times. Atlas with a lariat. He gets Johnson up on his shoulder, but winces. He’s going to run Rocky into the outside ring post, but Slick gets in the way. So, Atlas just runs Johnson into Slick and he goes down. Power slam on the ring steps. Atlas takes a walk to get some feeling back in his leg. Johnson with a spear to the back and Atlas flies into the ring wall. Rocky with a double stomp to the back from the ring wall. Johnson with a single leg crab on the floor. Young has the microphone now and asks Atlas if he wants to submit and says no.
Slick is recovered and waves Power Station to come out. Johnson throws Atlas back in the ring and the tag champs beat the crap out of him. The Patriot and Junkyard Dog run out to make the save. This includes Johnson taking the Big Thump. The tag teams brawl to the back. Atlas with a buckle bomb on Johnson and he goes to a bear hug. Rocky won’t give up. He breaks with a bell ringer. Johnson goes into the ropes and Atlas nails him with a discuss clothesline. Atlas with a falling headbutt. He tries a torture rack, but Tony’s knee gives out and Johnson slips into a neckbreaker slam. Atlas reverses a suplex. Tony back to the bearhug. Johnson won’t give up. Atlas turns it into a belly to belly suplex. Slick runs into the ring and clips the knee. Atlas turns on Slick and choke lifts him. Johnson with a knee clip. Knee breaker. Back breaker. Face first whip to the corner and a dropkick to the back. Inverted swinging neckbreaker. Johnson into the Boston Crab. He really grinds it on. Atlas makes the ropes, but it’s not a break in this match. With the knee and back thoroughly worked over, he’s hurting but won’t give up. Slick gets in Tony’s face from the floor and sings “say goodnight, the party’s over.” Tony says no and spits in Slick’s face to a pop. Johnson pulls Atlas out to the center of the ring and cranks it on with a real high-angle Boston Crab. Caudle on commentary says you can hear cartilage and ligaments popping. Atlas finally says I Quit.
Winner: Johnson by Atlas saying I Quit at 20:03
SoCal Val is in the back with “Lionheart” Chris Jericho. “I’ve had a long strange trip here in CCW and tonight is the culmination of it. I went from eating T-bone steaks to lifting barbell plates. I’m lean, mean and ready to end the 1 million year galactic reign of Nick Aldis in just three short, but excuritiang, months. I also want to congratulate Tom Magee on his excellent win earlier tonight. He’s going to be a champion here in CCW real soon, but tonight is the Lionheart’s night. I wouldn’t be here without Magee and I thank him. And where I’m at is moments away from being the new Universal Men’s Champion.”
Hart and Martel start and grapple a bit. Martel with a heel trip and elbow drop, but Owen rolls out of the way. He leaps into a springboard turnaround crossbody, but Martel ducks, goes for his own and Owen ducks that. Hart with a basement dropkick. He goes to a leg grapevine and tags Smith who comes in and stomps on Martel while grounded until Hart has to leave the ring. Davey with a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster for two. Whip to the corner and Davey runs into an outstretched foot. Martel with an elbow drop from the second turnbuckle. He controls with an armbar and tags Santana who takes over on it. Tito walks the near corner and performs an armdrag. He works the arm on the mat. Smith powers up, backs Santana into the ropes, shoots him off and flips him over with a knee lift. Elbow drop for a two count. Long holding delay suplex with a floatover for two. Smith gets a full nelson and Hart makes a blind tag. He superkicks Tito for Smith to take him over into a pinning predicament. Martel breaks it up.
Into the ropes, Sananta ducks a clothesline and gets a crossbody, but Smith catches him and delivers a fallaway slam. However, this puts Tito in his corner and he tags Rick. Tag back to Owen. Long crisscross sequence ends with Martel not getting low enough on a leapfrog and Hart appears to be injured in the groin. Martel checks on him and is suckered by a small package for two, Rick turns it over for two. They break up and race up with Rick getting an armdrag into an armbar on the mat. Hart gets up, walks the ropes and springboards off trying to break, but Martel just hangs onto it. Tag to Santana who gets a headlock and walks the near corner for a headlock takeover. He works that on the mat, but Hart works up and gets a back suplex.
Tag to Smith. Smith with a flying shoulder block off the second turnbuckle. Snap suplex with a floatover for two. Gorilla press for two. Smith lines up the running power slam, but Tito slips off the back into a back stabber. Flying forearm smash for a two count. Tag to Martel for a tandem dropkick off the second turnbuckle. Hart breaks up the pinfall. Martel with a swinging fisherman’s buster for two. He goes to the Boston Crab. Smith crawls to the ropes for the break. Rick keeps holds of the one leg with Davey on his back, but he kicks Martel off. Smith goes for the tag, but gets his knee clipped. Martel goes back to the Boston Crab. Smith makes the ropes again. Tag to Tito and Martel slingshots him in on top of Davey for a two count. Whip to the ropes and he whiffs on a dropkick as Smith grabs the top rope. Lariat to Tito. Tag to Hart who is a house of fire. Whip to the ropes and a roundhouse kick. Hart goes up top for a frog splash, but Tito gets the knees up. Tag to Martel. Whip to the ropes on Hart. Santana drops to the mat and Hart runs right into a superkick from Martel. Shooting star press as Santana keeps an eye on Smith.
Winner: Strike Force by pinfall of Martel on Hart at 22:50
Shane McMahon comes to see Andy Kaufman in the now empty luxury box. McMahon asks where everybody went. Andy says he kicked them out. And he wants Shane out of there too. Look, Andy, I don’t want to steal CCW from you. Perish the thought. He was invited here out of goodwill and he’s been helping out of goodwill. The show is KaufMania and everyone knows it. Everyone will be saying tomorrow what a great two nights of wrestling Andy Kaufman put on. Kaufman perks up and seems happier. Really? Sure, Andy, everyone will be singing your praises tomorrow. Including me, and thanks for letting me come and be a very small part of your awesome night. Oh, don’t mention it. Kaufman goes to finish off the shrimp cocktail and McMahon sits on the couch smiling smugly.
Cherry Bomb is petrified in the ring. Cross comes out carrying a kendo stick and stop sign. Bomb goes to run, but Cross drops her plunder, grabs Bomb by the hair and drags her down from behind. Knee drop, whip to the ropes and Nikki comes around with a swinging stop sign shot, but Cherry ducks it and scores a Thesz Press coming the other way. She grabs the kendo stick and cracks it over Nikki’s head as she stands. That just pisses her off. Bomb runs and Cross gives chase outside the ring. Nikki just stops and waits for Cherry to come back around. Bomb is looking behind her and slams right into Cross. She falls to the ground and crawls under the ring. Cross grabs her and pulls Bomb out by the ankles. Cherry comes out with a cookie sheet, and nails her with it. Bomb shuffles Cross back in the ring and hits a slingshot leg drop with the cookie sheet back into the ring. It gets a two count. Bomb goes to pick up the stop sign, but Nikki gets a low blow. Samoan Driver. Razors’ Edge to the stop sign.
Winner: Cross by pinfall at 6:57
SoCal Val is in the back with Nicholas Aldis. “Your Universal Treasure is here tonight at KaufMania, but everyone wants a piece of me. I’m scheduled to face Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania II. Bryan, you should have taken the Million Dollar Man’s offer. Then AWA wants me to ‘wrestle’ the Ultimate Warrior. And I put air quotes on ‘wrestle,’ because that’s one thing I’ve never seen the Warrior do. And don’t think I’ve forgotten about Tommy Rich in ETW. If Marcus Alexander Bagwell doesn’t finally take care of you, I will. You claim you left the York Foundation, but we kicked you out and I’ll kick your ass now.”
Val says Aldis has talked about everyone, except his opponent tonight. “There’s good reason for that. Chris Jericho is an afterthought. If he’s the best CCW can put up, it says they’ve bottomed out since I can’t be here week in and week out. The Lionheart still looks like a fat, has-been loser to me and I’ll expose him to the world here in just a few moments.”
Lockup to start. Jericho with a headlock and Aldis shoots him off. Neither man budges on a shoulderblock. They both go into the ropes and hit shoulderblocks with neither moving. They both nod at each other, back off and circle each other. Lockup into a hammerlocker by Aldis and he rides Chris to the mat. Chris reverses and gets on top of Aldis with a rear waistlock. Aldis comes up and grabs the ropes to prevent a German suplex. Jericho falls back, rolls to his feet and charges for a clothesline. Both go over and nail the apron, then hit the floor. Kamille York comes over and Jericho gets in her face. Aldis shoves Jericho into her and she rocks Chris with a forearm uppercut. Young yells at her, but Aldis said she was just protecting herself. Aldis rolls Jericho into the ring and gets a slingshot leg drop. He goes to a rear chinlock with a knee in the back. Jericho powers up and breaks with a couple elbow shots. He goes into the ropes and comes off with an angled dropkick to the knee. Jericho with a knee breaker and he works a knee bar on the mat. Aldis rakes the face to break.
Aldis brings Jericho up with a half nelson and gets a half nelson suplex. Fujiawara armbar. Kamille gives leverage from the floor as Young asks Chris if he wants to quit. This goes on for awhile until Young finally catches them. He stomps Aldis’ arm and forces him to break. Single arm DDT for two. Aldis puts the arm between his legs and jumps on it twice. Swinging shoulderbreaker for a two count. Back to the fujiawara armbar and this time Young watches Kamille on the floor instead of Jericho. Chris eventually makes the ropes to break. Aldis with a snap suplex. He goes up top for the Macho Man elbow and misses.
Jericho with the Breakdown and a lionsault for two. He snaps the leg and gets a leg capture piledriver. One…two…thr…Kamille puts Aldis’ foot on the ropes. Young calls for the break, but he yells at York just in case. Jericho with a one handed bulldog and a second lionsault eats knees. Aldis with a gutwrench gut buster. He lines up the Treasure Chest (Pedigree), but Jericho backdrops out. Falling back elbow for two. He lines up the Judas Effect, but Aldis ducks it and delivers a back suplex. He throws an arm over Jericho for a two count. Aldis tries a tornado DDT, but Jericho blocks and pitches him to the floor. Chris with a slingshot senton. Young tells York to keep away. Jericho gets a suplex reversed on the floor. Aldis with a Snake Eyes to the ring apron. He throws Jericho into the ring and makes the apron while jawing at the fans. Chris throws a few punches and tries to suplex Nick into the ring, but Kamille grabs his foot and holds onto it. Aldis falls on top. Young sees it, takes the floor and forces York to the back.
Aldis gets a low blow while Young is working with Kamille. Treasure Chest. Young flies back into the ring. One…two…thre…shoulder up. Aldis gets in Young’s face for being out of position and throwing York out. Jericho gets a schoolboy for two. They race up and Jericho gets a codebreaker for two. Butterfly power bomb for two. Jericho goes up top. Aldis meets him up there and they fight. Chris gets a top rope Breakdown. One…two…thre…shoulder up. Flashback. Springboard plancha for two. Jericho goes into the Walls of Jericho. He really cranks it on. Marcus Alexander Bagwell runs out, but Tom Magee is hot on his heels and bashes him from behind. Young is hot and orders them out, but this allows Mickie James-Aldis to appear out of the crowd and nail Jericho with her CCW Women’s Title Belt. Ronda Rousey then appears to chase James-Aldis off. Second low blow. Treasure Chest. Young slides back into the ring for the one…two…three.
Winner: Aldis by pinfall at 28:31
Magee and Rousey check on Jericho in the ring while Bagwell and Mickie celebrate with Nicholas Aldis on the ramp.
Madusa Micelli debuts by defeating Layla El by pinfall via bridging German suplex at 10:01.
Demolition (Ax, Smash, Crush and Mutilate) defeated Sunny’s Boys (Chris Candido, Sean Casey, Griff Garrison and Brian Pillman Jr.) by pinfall of Smash on Garrison by Demolition Decapitation at 12:30. After the match, Casey and Candio gets on Garrison for taking the loss, but Pillman sticks up for his tag partner.
CCW KaufMania: What’s Causing Aldis - Night 2
Live from the Orange Bowl in Miami Florida
Commentators: Bob Caudle, Dutch Mantel and Terry Funk
Ring Announcer: Mike McGuirk
Interviewer: SoCal Val
Referees: Tommy Young, Joey Marella and Aubrey Edwards
Gloria Estefan sings “America, the Beautiful.”
We cut to the luxury box with Tony Khan, Billy Corrigan, Dixie Carter, Andy Kaufman, Robert Fuller and Ivory. Kaufman is sucking down shrimp cocktail like it’s going out of style. Ivory tells Fuller that McMahon is in the building and he’s down in a locker room with someone, but he’s keeping it a secret. Sherri Martel says Blanchard still wants to wrestle, but she hasn’t been cleared medically from the piledriver on the concrete from the night before by Charlotte Flair. They may have to go with McMahon’s woman to save the day. Kaufman perks up at this and comes over. Shane McMahon is not saving his show. He storms out to find McMahon.
vs.
“Mega Man” Tom Magee vs. Marcus Alexander Bagwell with Kamille York
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Kamille distracts Magee so Bagwell can jump him from behind at the bell. He beats Tom around the ring. Swinging neckbreaker. Yellowjacket suplex. It gets a two count. Bagwell whips Magee to the corner, but he jumps to the top rope and comes off with a turning crossbody for two. Backbreaker. He eats knees on a standing moonsault. Bagwell with a fisherman’s buster. He goes up top for the Blockbuster. Magee runs in and dropkicks Bagwell off the top who does a Nestea Plunge off the top to make Mick Foley proud. Kamille helps Buff up, but they both get wiped out on a sucide dive. Snake eyes to the ring wall. Magee slides Bagwell into the ring and comes back in with a slingshot senton for two. Mega Driver (spinning power slam) wins.
Winner: Magee by pinfall at 6:18
Eli Drake goes to get Sherri Martel for his upcoming match. She comes out of a locker room and says she’s working with Tessa Blanchard who is still determined to wrestle tonight. She can’t leave her now. He needs her now and she better get her priorities straight. Sherri lowers her head timidly, rare for her, and she follows Drake to the ring.
vs.
CCW Television Title
Eli Drake © with “Sensational” Sherri Martel vs. Bob Backlund
Referee: Joey Marella
Martel is at ringside, but seems worried and distracted. Lockup to start with Backlund getting a hammerlock and Drake goes into the ropes for the break. They go into a lockup again. Drake cockily gets a hammerlock, but Backlund reverses for a hammerlock slam. He rides Drake on the mat. Drake gets out and goes into the ropes. He yells at Sherri to get her head in the match. Backlund slides up behind for the crossface chicken wing, but Drake senses it and drops to the mat. He rolls to the floor and gets in Sherri’s face. Backlund baseball slides out and gets the crossface chicken wing. Drake sells it big time, but eventually backs Backlund into the outside ring post to break. He spins with a discuss punch. Backlund ducks and Eli punches the post. Backlund throws Drake back into the ring and follows, but Eli is up and stomps the crap out of Bob. Whip to the ropes and he goes for a backdrop, but Backlund turns it into a sunset flip for two. Drake is up and is surprised by an arm drag.
Backlund works an arm bar on the mat. Drake powers up and throws Bob into the ropes. He goes for a backdrop again and Backlund goes for the sunset flip, but Drake blocks this time and sits down on it for a two count. Backlund gets his legs up and flips Drake over for a two count. Drake with a wild, swinging lariat. Backlund slides behind Eli for a bridging German suplex for two. Drake backs Backlund into the corner and drives a couple knees into his gut. Marella tells him to get out of the corner and Drake argues with him, which allows Backlund to come out of the corner with an inverted atomic drop. Shoulderbreaker and Bob works the arm bar on the mat again. Drake grabs the bottom rope with his feet to break. Drake goes to the floor and asks Sherri on the sly for the foreign object in her purse, but she forgot her purse in the back. Backlund comes off the apron with an elbow to the back and rides Eli to the floor. Suplex on the floor. He rolls Drake back in and climbs the top rope from the outside, rare for Bob. Drake catches him and tries a superplex, but Backlund pushes him off and gets a top rope fist drop for two. Crossface chicken wing in the center of the ring. Drake struggles, can’t make the ropes and can’t break. He submits and loses the Television Title. Post match, he yells at Sherri all the way to the back.
Winner: Backlund by submission at 15:38
“Borne Again” Matt Borne is in the ring and complains about how he didn’t get a match for KaufMania. He’s no longer Doink the Clown, he’s no longer a joke. He demands someone face him right now. Epic music hits, pyro goes off and out from the back in full gear is…
Bill Goldberg!
“I was waiting in the back for an opportunity like this to make myself known here in Continental Championship Wrestling. I asked for my release from ETW to come here when I saw the refugees from PWX landed here. I’m talking about CM Punk, Kurt Angle and the Undisputed Era. PWX screwed me over. They had Low Ki injure me on purpose to throw me out. I might not be able to get revenge on Low Ki or Eric Bischoff, but I can get it on those three damn initials I hate. You want to know who’s next, it’s PWX!”
vs.
Stretcher Match
Braun Strowman vs. Big E Langston
No referee
Strowman attacks Langston on the entrance ramp and beats him all the way down to ring side. He throws Big E into the outside ring post. Body slam on the floor. Strowman with the freight train shoulderblock that sends Langston over the ring wall. He follows him into the crowd and they brawl out there for a while. Braun whips Big E into the wall and charges, but Langston backdrops him back over to the ringside area. Langston with a double knee drop from the ring wall. Langston with a ring wall assisted DDT. Langston gets the stretcher from where it was positioned at ringside. This allows Strowman to recover and he hits Langston with a clothesline to the back. He beats on Big E on the floor and sets up the reverse choke slam. Langston elbows Strowman in the side of the head. Overhead belly to belly suplex wipes out the stretcher. Gorilla press to impress everyone and Big E drops Strowman so he bounces off the edge of the ring apron.
Langston sets up the stretcher and puts Strowman on it, but he kicks Langston away and gets off of it. Big E charges into a sidewalk slam. Delay suplex with Braun holding his opponent up all day before turning and dropping him onto the entrance ramp with a clang. He gets the stretcher and tries to put Langston on it, but he fights back and gets off of it. Big E body tosses Strowman on the ramp and goes for a running jumping splash, but Braun gets the knees up. He rocks Big E with some big upper cuts and then a heart punch to setup a jackknife powerbomb. Strowman gets Langston on the stretcher and starts to push it to the finish line at the top of the entrance stage. Big E rolls off it to the ramp. He drops over the edge of the ramp to the bit of floor between it and the audience barrier. Braun comes down with a double axe handle. Langston slugs back from his knees. A short arm whip into multiple knee lifts. Langston with a sort of flapjack toss to make Strowman land back on the ring ramp.
Langston with a vertical leap back to the ramp. He goes for the Big Ending, but Strowman fights out of it while grabbing Big E’s head and turning it into a uranage backbreaker. Reverse choke slam on the ramp. Strowman with a curb stomp. Strowman gets Big E up for a running power slam and kicks the stretcher so it moves up the ramp and he gives chase. As the stretcher crosses the finish line, Strowman power slams Big E through it onto the stage.
Winner: Strowman by pushing stretcher over finish line at 18:30
Andy Kaufman beats on a dressing room door and Shane McMahon comes out. He’s been looking for him since the start of the show. Did you ask anybody where we were? Andy Kaufman doesn’t ask for directions, he gives them. What does that even mean? Doesn’t matter…who is your mystery woman. It looks like we’re going to find out soon. Also, did Shane call Goldberg? Maybe. He made a few calls last night. But, it’s all for you Andy. Shane closes the door.
We cut to Sasha Banks in the ring and she doesn’t care who comes out to face her. Tessa Blanchard, Sherri Martel, Charlotte Flair, Mickie James-Aldis, Gloria Estefan with or without her sound machine, Miss Atlanta Lively, the ghost of Mae Young….
Then music hits. “I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation.”
vs.
UWA Universal Women’s Title
“The Boss” Sasha Banks © vs. “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Banks protests to Edwards that she never signed up for Ronda Rousey. Rousey turns Banks around and drives her into the near corner with lefts and rights to the midsection. She drives several knees into the midsection in the corner. Judo throw out of the corner. She goes to lift Banks for a gutwrench powerbomb, but Banks drops out of the hold and scurries away. She asks for a time out, but doesn’t get one. Rousey with a choke lift to show her power and she throws Sasha into the near corner. Ronda charges and eats a back elbow. Banks springs to the top and comes off with a meteora. She bashes the back of Rousey’s head into the canvas several times. Jackknife cover for two.
Banks goes to a bow and arrow stretch. Rousey won’t give up and eventually fights out. Banks with a springboard armdrag. Wheelbarrow bulldog. She points up top and goes up for a frog splash, but Rousey gets the knees up. Swinging neckbreaker and she goes for the gutwrench powerbomb again and gets it. One…two…thre…foot on the ropes. Rousey goes for the Piper’s Pit spinning Samoan drop, but Banks spins through it and into a codebreaker. She nails the Bank Statement, but Rousey gets her knees up under her, powers up while grabbing Banks around the waist and turns it into a back suplex. Rousey with a guillotine choke, but Banks makes the ropes to break. She rolls to the floor, grabs her title belt and shakes her head ‘no’ as she backs up the aisle. Banks gets into the camera and says she’s going to file a protest with the UWA Board on what was a blatant bait and switch to criminally end her title reign.
Winner: Rousey by count out at 14:40
Kaufman is back in the luxury box and is grousing over how everyone is extolling the debuts of Rousey and Goldberg. Kaufman screams he doesn’t want KaufMania to be remembered as McMahonia and orders everyone out of the box, but Ivory and Fuller. Andy realizes what they’re doing. They’re trying to get someone interested enough in CCW to buy him out. Well, it’s not going to happen. And, furthermore, Fuller and Ivory are fired. Ivory asks him to think twice about that. Does he think he can run this company by himself when he didn’t even know one match that was booked for the show with his name plastered on it. Kaufman unfires them, but they better watch themselves.
vs.
Loser Leaves Town I Quit Match
“Mr. USA” Tony Atlas vs. “Soulman” Rocky Johnson with Dr. of Style, Slick
Referee: Tommy Young
Test of strength to start. Atlas expects a kick, grabs the foot, spins Rocky around and scores an atomic drop. Running forearm to the back. He drops several knees to the back of the head. Scoop slam off the ropes. Johnson slips out of a power slam and dropkicks Atlas in the back. He falls through the ropes to the floor. Given the rules, Slick just bashes away on Atlas with his cane until he breaks it, but that just pisses him off. Johnson with a knee clip from behind. He takes the broken cane piece and jabs it into Tony’s knee. Slick gets the microphone and talks trash on Atlas then asks if he wants to quit. Tony says hell no. Johnson with a knee breaker to the ring steps. Tony still won’t quit. Rocky pulls a chair out from under the ring, but Atlas, while leaning on the apron, kicks Johnson with his good leg a few times. Atlas with a lariat. He gets Johnson up on his shoulder, but winces. He’s going to run Rocky into the outside ring post, but Slick gets in the way. So, Atlas just runs Johnson into Slick and he goes down. Power slam on the ring steps. Atlas takes a walk to get some feeling back in his leg. Johnson with a spear to the back and Atlas flies into the ring wall. Rocky with a double stomp to the back from the ring wall. Johnson with a single leg crab on the floor. Young has the microphone now and asks Atlas if he wants to submit and says no.
Slick is recovered and waves Power Station to come out. Johnson throws Atlas back in the ring and the tag champs beat the crap out of him. The Patriot and Junkyard Dog run out to make the save. This includes Johnson taking the Big Thump. The tag teams brawl to the back. Atlas with a buckle bomb on Johnson and he goes to a bear hug. Rocky won’t give up. He breaks with a bell ringer. Johnson goes into the ropes and Atlas nails him with a discuss clothesline. Atlas with a falling headbutt. He tries a torture rack, but Tony’s knee gives out and Johnson slips into a neckbreaker slam. Atlas reverses a suplex. Tony back to the bearhug. Johnson won’t give up. Atlas turns it into a belly to belly suplex. Slick runs into the ring and clips the knee. Atlas turns on Slick and choke lifts him. Johnson with a knee clip. Knee breaker. Back breaker. Face first whip to the corner and a dropkick to the back. Inverted swinging neckbreaker. Johnson into the Boston Crab. He really grinds it on. Atlas makes the ropes, but it’s not a break in this match. With the knee and back thoroughly worked over, he’s hurting but won’t give up. Slick gets in Tony’s face from the floor and sings “say goodnight, the party’s over.” Tony says no and spits in Slick’s face to a pop. Johnson pulls Atlas out to the center of the ring and cranks it on with a real high-angle Boston Crab. Caudle on commentary says you can hear cartilage and ligaments popping. Atlas finally says I Quit.
Winner: Johnson by Atlas saying I Quit at 20:03
SoCal Val is in the back with “Lionheart” Chris Jericho. “I’ve had a long strange trip here in CCW and tonight is the culmination of it. I went from eating T-bone steaks to lifting barbell plates. I’m lean, mean and ready to end the 1 million year galactic reign of Nick Aldis in just three short, but excuritiang, months. I also want to congratulate Tom Magee on his excellent win earlier tonight. He’s going to be a champion here in CCW real soon, but tonight is the Lionheart’s night. I wouldn’t be here without Magee and I thank him. And where I’m at is moments away from being the new Universal Men’s Champion.”
vs.
UWA Tag Team Titles
Strike Force (Rick Martel and Tito Santana) © vs. Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith
Referee: Joey Marella
Hart and Martel start and grapple a bit. Martel with a heel trip and elbow drop, but Owen rolls out of the way. He leaps into a springboard turnaround crossbody, but Martel ducks, goes for his own and Owen ducks that. Hart with a basement dropkick. He goes to a leg grapevine and tags Smith who comes in and stomps on Martel while grounded until Hart has to leave the ring. Davey with a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster for two. Whip to the corner and Davey runs into an outstretched foot. Martel with an elbow drop from the second turnbuckle. He controls with an armbar and tags Santana who takes over on it. Tito walks the near corner and performs an armdrag. He works the arm on the mat. Smith powers up, backs Santana into the ropes, shoots him off and flips him over with a knee lift. Elbow drop for a two count. Long holding delay suplex with a floatover for two. Smith gets a full nelson and Hart makes a blind tag. He superkicks Tito for Smith to take him over into a pinning predicament. Martel breaks it up.
Into the ropes, Sananta ducks a clothesline and gets a crossbody, but Smith catches him and delivers a fallaway slam. However, this puts Tito in his corner and he tags Rick. Tag back to Owen. Long crisscross sequence ends with Martel not getting low enough on a leapfrog and Hart appears to be injured in the groin. Martel checks on him and is suckered by a small package for two, Rick turns it over for two. They break up and race up with Rick getting an armdrag into an armbar on the mat. Hart gets up, walks the ropes and springboards off trying to break, but Martel just hangs onto it. Tag to Santana who gets a headlock and walks the near corner for a headlock takeover. He works that on the mat, but Hart works up and gets a back suplex.
Tag to Smith. Smith with a flying shoulder block off the second turnbuckle. Snap suplex with a floatover for two. Gorilla press for two. Smith lines up the running power slam, but Tito slips off the back into a back stabber. Flying forearm smash for a two count. Tag to Martel for a tandem dropkick off the second turnbuckle. Hart breaks up the pinfall. Martel with a swinging fisherman’s buster for two. He goes to the Boston Crab. Smith crawls to the ropes for the break. Rick keeps holds of the one leg with Davey on his back, but he kicks Martel off. Smith goes for the tag, but gets his knee clipped. Martel goes back to the Boston Crab. Smith makes the ropes again. Tag to Tito and Martel slingshots him in on top of Davey for a two count. Whip to the ropes and he whiffs on a dropkick as Smith grabs the top rope. Lariat to Tito. Tag to Hart who is a house of fire. Whip to the ropes and a roundhouse kick. Hart goes up top for a frog splash, but Tito gets the knees up. Tag to Martel. Whip to the ropes on Hart. Santana drops to the mat and Hart runs right into a superkick from Martel. Shooting star press as Santana keeps an eye on Smith.
Winner: Strike Force by pinfall of Martel on Hart at 22:50
Shane McMahon comes to see Andy Kaufman in the now empty luxury box. McMahon asks where everybody went. Andy says he kicked them out. And he wants Shane out of there too. Look, Andy, I don’t want to steal CCW from you. Perish the thought. He was invited here out of goodwill and he’s been helping out of goodwill. The show is KaufMania and everyone knows it. Everyone will be saying tomorrow what a great two nights of wrestling Andy Kaufman put on. Kaufman perks up and seems happier. Really? Sure, Andy, everyone will be singing your praises tomorrow. Including me, and thanks for letting me come and be a very small part of your awesome night. Oh, don’t mention it. Kaufman goes to finish off the shrimp cocktail and McMahon sits on the couch smiling smugly.
vs.
Hardcore Match
Nikki Cross vs. Cherry Bomb
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Cherry Bomb is petrified in the ring. Cross comes out carrying a kendo stick and stop sign. Bomb goes to run, but Cross drops her plunder, grabs Bomb by the hair and drags her down from behind. Knee drop, whip to the ropes and Nikki comes around with a swinging stop sign shot, but Cherry ducks it and scores a Thesz Press coming the other way. She grabs the kendo stick and cracks it over Nikki’s head as she stands. That just pisses her off. Bomb runs and Cross gives chase outside the ring. Nikki just stops and waits for Cherry to come back around. Bomb is looking behind her and slams right into Cross. She falls to the ground and crawls under the ring. Cross grabs her and pulls Bomb out by the ankles. Cherry comes out with a cookie sheet, and nails her with it. Bomb shuffles Cross back in the ring and hits a slingshot leg drop with the cookie sheet back into the ring. It gets a two count. Bomb goes to pick up the stop sign, but Nikki gets a low blow. Samoan Driver. Razors’ Edge to the stop sign.
Winner: Cross by pinfall at 6:57
SoCal Val is in the back with Nicholas Aldis. “Your Universal Treasure is here tonight at KaufMania, but everyone wants a piece of me. I’m scheduled to face Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania II. Bryan, you should have taken the Million Dollar Man’s offer. Then AWA wants me to ‘wrestle’ the Ultimate Warrior. And I put air quotes on ‘wrestle,’ because that’s one thing I’ve never seen the Warrior do. And don’t think I’ve forgotten about Tommy Rich in ETW. If Marcus Alexander Bagwell doesn’t finally take care of you, I will. You claim you left the York Foundation, but we kicked you out and I’ll kick your ass now.”
Val says Aldis has talked about everyone, except his opponent tonight. “There’s good reason for that. Chris Jericho is an afterthought. If he’s the best CCW can put up, it says they’ve bottomed out since I can’t be here week in and week out. The Lionheart still looks like a fat, has-been loser to me and I’ll expose him to the world here in just a few moments.”
vs.
UWA Universal Men’s Title
“Universal Treasure” Nicholas Aldis © with Kamille York vs. “Lionheart” Chris Jericho
Referee: Tommy Young
Lockup to start. Jericho with a headlock and Aldis shoots him off. Neither man budges on a shoulderblock. They both go into the ropes and hit shoulderblocks with neither moving. They both nod at each other, back off and circle each other. Lockup into a hammerlocker by Aldis and he rides Chris to the mat. Chris reverses and gets on top of Aldis with a rear waistlock. Aldis comes up and grabs the ropes to prevent a German suplex. Jericho falls back, rolls to his feet and charges for a clothesline. Both go over and nail the apron, then hit the floor. Kamille York comes over and Jericho gets in her face. Aldis shoves Jericho into her and she rocks Chris with a forearm uppercut. Young yells at her, but Aldis said she was just protecting herself. Aldis rolls Jericho into the ring and gets a slingshot leg drop. He goes to a rear chinlock with a knee in the back. Jericho powers up and breaks with a couple elbow shots. He goes into the ropes and comes off with an angled dropkick to the knee. Jericho with a knee breaker and he works a knee bar on the mat. Aldis rakes the face to break.
Aldis brings Jericho up with a half nelson and gets a half nelson suplex. Fujiawara armbar. Kamille gives leverage from the floor as Young asks Chris if he wants to quit. This goes on for awhile until Young finally catches them. He stomps Aldis’ arm and forces him to break. Single arm DDT for two. Aldis puts the arm between his legs and jumps on it twice. Swinging shoulderbreaker for a two count. Back to the fujiawara armbar and this time Young watches Kamille on the floor instead of Jericho. Chris eventually makes the ropes to break. Aldis with a snap suplex. He goes up top for the Macho Man elbow and misses.
Jericho with the Breakdown and a lionsault for two. He snaps the leg and gets a leg capture piledriver. One…two…thr…Kamille puts Aldis’ foot on the ropes. Young calls for the break, but he yells at York just in case. Jericho with a one handed bulldog and a second lionsault eats knees. Aldis with a gutwrench gut buster. He lines up the Treasure Chest (Pedigree), but Jericho backdrops out. Falling back elbow for two. He lines up the Judas Effect, but Aldis ducks it and delivers a back suplex. He throws an arm over Jericho for a two count. Aldis tries a tornado DDT, but Jericho blocks and pitches him to the floor. Chris with a slingshot senton. Young tells York to keep away. Jericho gets a suplex reversed on the floor. Aldis with a Snake Eyes to the ring apron. He throws Jericho into the ring and makes the apron while jawing at the fans. Chris throws a few punches and tries to suplex Nick into the ring, but Kamille grabs his foot and holds onto it. Aldis falls on top. Young sees it, takes the floor and forces York to the back.
Aldis gets a low blow while Young is working with Kamille. Treasure Chest. Young flies back into the ring. One…two…thre…shoulder up. Aldis gets in Young’s face for being out of position and throwing York out. Jericho gets a schoolboy for two. They race up and Jericho gets a codebreaker for two. Butterfly power bomb for two. Jericho goes up top. Aldis meets him up there and they fight. Chris gets a top rope Breakdown. One…two…thre…shoulder up. Flashback. Springboard plancha for two. Jericho goes into the Walls of Jericho. He really cranks it on. Marcus Alexander Bagwell runs out, but Tom Magee is hot on his heels and bashes him from behind. Young is hot and orders them out, but this allows Mickie James-Aldis to appear out of the crowd and nail Jericho with her CCW Women’s Title Belt. Ronda Rousey then appears to chase James-Aldis off. Second low blow. Treasure Chest. Young slides back into the ring for the one…two…three.
Winner: Aldis by pinfall at 28:31
Magee and Rousey check on Jericho in the ring while Bagwell and Mickie celebrate with Nicholas Aldis on the ramp.
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