Post by Leo on Mar 18, 2022 18:17:52 GMT -5
CCW March Madness
Live from the Raising Cane’s River Center Arena in Baton Rouge, LouisianaCommentators: Bob Caudle and Ivory
Ring Announcer: Mike McGuirk
Interviewer: SoCal Val
Referees: Tommy Young, Joey Marella and Aubrey Edwards
vs.
Charlotte Flair vs. “Sensational” Sherri Martel with Tessa Blanchard in a neckbrace
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Charlotte Flair gets in Tessa Blanchard’s face, who slaps her. Sherri with a schoolgirl rollup off the slap for two. Flair comes up out of it and stomps the crap out of Sherri. Whip to the near corner, followed by a hip attack and a hair pull snap mare out of the corner. Flair with a chinlock and knee to the back. Martel frees herself with a jawbreaker. Sherri with a scoop slam for two. Flair catches Sherri on a flying crossbody and gives her a backbreaker. Flair points at Tessa on the floor and sets up a brainbuster, but Sherri fights out and twists into a backslide for two. Charlotte flips out into a kick to the gut to double Sherri over and she goes for a piledriver, but Martel backdrops out. Sherri with a knee drop for two. Whip to the ropes for a sunset flip, but Flair blocks and sits down for a two count. Sherri brings her legs up and flips Charlotte over for a two count. Both to their feet and Charlotte backs Sherri into the corner with knife edge chops and some ‘woos.’ She kicks Martel down and gets a face wash. Hip toss out of the corner. Charlotte with the Natural Selection as Sherri struggles up. One…two…thr…Flair picks Sherri up and wags her finger ‘no’ at Blanchard on the floor. Charlotte sets up a piledriver. Blanchard gets on the apron, Flair yells at her, Martel backdrops out. Snap suplex. Sherri goes up top for a flying crossbody, but Flair catches her for a fallaway slam and then segues into the Figure Eight. Sherri taps out.
Winner: Charlotte Flair at 8:18 via submission by figure eight
Post match, Flair goes for the piledriver again. Tessa gets on the apron again and Charlotte turns it into a toss powerbomb. Martel collides with Tessa on the apron who falls off the apron and lands on the floor. She’s favoring her neck. Flair laughs at Tessa as medical personnel run out. Flair finally nails a piledriver on Sherri just because.
A video package is run recalling PWX entering CCW, their dominance at KaufMania and how we got our slate of matches tonight.
vs.
CCW Gulf Coast Tag Team Titles
The Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly) © vs. The Patriot and Junkyard Dog
Referee: Joey Marella
The heels jump the faces at the start, but Patriot and Dog get the best of the brawling. Things settle down with JYD and Fish, who gets a scoop slam off the ropes. He gets the crawling headbutts on the mat and Fish slides to the floor. He comes back into his corner and tags O’Reilly. Patriot in. Lockup. Patriot with a full nelson. Kyle walks the near corner and flips out of it to get behind Patriot. He pushes Patriot into the corner for an O’Connor Roll, but Patriot holds onto the ropes and Kyle falls off to the back and rolls to his feet. Patriot walks into the Axe and Smash (ax kick and forearm smash combo). He drapes the ankle on the bottom rope and stomps it. Tag to Fish. Fish stomps the ankle. Bobby with a rolling leg snap.
Fish acts like JYD is trying to come in. So, Marella turns to him. O’Reilly runs in and the heels make a wish by pulling the legs. Bobby with a knee breaker. He whips Patriot into the corner and goes for the Space Rolling Elbow, but Patriot nails Fish with an elbow to the back of the head. Atomic drop out of the corner. Patriot’s ankle collapses. Kyle runs in and that brings in JYD. O’Reilly goes back to the apron, so Marella deals with Dog. O’Reilly runs back in and the heels get a double team suplex. Tag to O’Reilly. Diving knee drop to the ankle. Then he goes to an ankle lock. Patriot manages to get up on the good leg and nails an enzuigiri. Both men down, Patriot crawls for the tag. Fish runs in. JYD just steamrolls past Marella and clotheslines Fish. Clothesline to O’Reilly. Marella threatens a disqualification. JYD back to the apron.
Patriot is almost going to make the tag, but O’Reilly gets an ankle lock with leg grapevine on the mat. Patriot’s upper body strength allows him to keep crawling and make the tag. JYD comes in with stomps to O’Reilly. He throws Kyle into the ropes and Fish blind tags him. Kyle is nailed by a back elbow, but Fish blindsides Dog with a roundhouse kick. He tries a suplex, but Dog reverses and hangs him out to dry on the top rope. Fish slides to the apron and Dog slingshots him back in. Diving headbutt into a cover and O’Reilly breaks it up. Dog with a spinebuster into a cover. Kyle comes back in, but JYD pops up and wags his finger ‘no’ at Kyle. Fish with a knee clip. Double team suplex, but JYD reverses. Tag to Patriot. Double flying shoulder block to both guys. Uncle Slam to O’Reilly and he covers, but Kyle’s not the legal man. Double jump moonsault to Patriot by Fish. O’Reilly knocks JYD off the apron and follows him to the floor. Flying Fish Hook for the win.
Winner: The Undisputed Era by pinfall of Fish on Patriot via Flying Fish Hook at 14:23
SoCal Val is with Kurt Angle. “Eddie Kingston talks about being from the streets. I’m from the mats. When he was shanking guys with a broken beer bottle I was winning an Olympic gold medal on a broken freaking neck. Eddie might be a fighter, but I’m a wrestler. This is Continental Championship Wrestling. I’m a wrestler. I’m a champion……and, uh……I’m continental. I’m going into that ring the Gulf Coast Champion and I’m coming out the Gulf Coast Champion.”
vs.
CCW Gulf Coast Title
Kurt Angle © vs. Eddie Kingston
Referee: Tommy Young
Angle wants a lockup to start and Kingston obliges. Angle comes out of it with a rear waistlock and rides Eddie to the mat amatuer style. Kingston manages to squirm out and reverses to get on top of Angle and rides him. Kurt gets out and looks mad at Kingston hanging with him on the mat. He wants a lock up again, but only to fake out Kingston as he starts throwing hands. Whip to the ropes. Angle tries a hip toss, but Kingston reverses into his own. Angle up fast and he pushes Kingston into the corner off of a lockup. He drives a couple knees into the gut and then biel throws Eddie out of the corner. Angle works a chinlock with body scissors on the mat. Eddie rolls into the ropes. Angle stomps Kingston on the mat and boots him to the floor. He argues with Young. Kingston makes the apron and Angle goes to cut him off. Eddie nails him with three shoulder thrusts through the ropes and then gets a slingshot sunset flip for two.
As they come up, Angle gets an arm drag and goes to an armbar on the mat. Kingston works up and throws Kurt into the ropes. Angle ducks a back elbow and comes off the opposite ropes with a diving crossbody for two. This time Kingston gets an arm drag and works an armbar on the mat. Angle works up and throws Eddie into the ropes. He misses a wild clothesline and then Kingston comes from the other side with a Thesz Press into a pin for two. As they come up, Angle tries a surprise Angle Slam, but Kingston slips off the back into an inverted DDT. Kingston picks Angle up for a uranage, but Angle elbows out and gets a back suplex.
Angle brings Kingston up with a rear waistlock, but he blocks a German suplex and reverses. Angle blocks and reverses back to get the German Suplex for a two count. Kingston flips out and gets the Blackout Lariat out of nowhere for two. Royal Flush DDT for two. Eddie goes for the Texas Cloverleaf, but Angle grabs his head for a flash small package for two. They come up, Angle ducks the Backfist to the Future and comes up under Eddie for the Angle Slam for one…two…thr…shoulder up. Fireman’s carry gutbuster. Angle up top for the Anglesult. Eddie tries to bring him off with an electric chair drop, but Angle turns it into a Victory Roll for two. Angle rocks Kingston with a few European uppercuts, gets a belly to belly suplex and then nails the Anglesult.
Winner: Kurt Angle by pinfall via Anglesult at 20:11
Video package shown to setup the next match.
vs.
Double Russian Chain Match
Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith vs. Ivan and Nikita Koloff
Referee: Joey Marella
Owen is chained to Ivan and Davey to Nikita at the wrists. Feeling out process to start by both sides. Nikita finally gets tired of waiting and charges diagonally to attack Hart to catch him off guard. This pulls Smith and Ivan together and they start brawling. Smith puts Ivan up in a gorilla press and throws him onto Nikita as he turns around. Hart with a springboard moonsault onto both men. They pull Nikita out of the pile and whips him to the ropes for a double back elbow, but Nikita ducks and gets a double flying Russian Sickle. Ivan goes off with Hart into a corner. Nikita and Smith go into a corner. Hart raps the chain around his fist and gets five punches on Ivan, but he covers up and brings Hart out of the corner with an inverted atomic drop. Ivan is bleeding. He drops a chain wrapped fist onto Owen and then does a chain assisted camel clutch. Smith with an impressive delay suplex on Nikita out of the corner. Davey with a diving attack on Ivan to save Owen. Davey catapults Ivan into Nikita. Owen is bleeding.
Ivan slides to the floor and jerks on the chain to make Hart post his shoulder into the ring post. Smith comes over to help, but he stepped over the chain, so Nikita crotches him with the chain.
Ivan drags Hart to the floor and whips him with the chain. Nikita tries a clothesline with the chain, but Smith ducks it. Nikita turns into a dropkick. Nikita slides to the floor, but Smith jerks the chain to slam Nikita into the apron. He then baseball slides out. Ivan and Hart back into the ring. Ivan with a bearhug, but Hart slugs out with a chain wrapped fist. Code breaker and Hart with a diving elbow drop with the chain wrapped around it. Nikita reverses a whip and slings Davey Boy into the ring steps. Running knee to smash Smith’s head into the steps. Nikita has just enough slack to grab Hart’s leg and break up a cover. Hart with a slingshot splash onto Nikita. However, Nikita catches him and delivers a backbreaker. He wraps the chain around Hart’s throat and Ivan pulls Hart up to choke him out.
Smith attacks Nikita and then goes after Ivan to save Owen. Davey Boy is bleeding. Smith throws Ivan to the floor. Then both faces do slingshot splashes to the heels on the outside. Brawling on the outside. Ivan ducks an enzuigiri, pulls Owen up with a rear waistlock and runs him face first into the outside post. Nikita backdrops Smith and drops a back elbow with the chain wrapped around the elbow. Back in the ring, the Russians do a double sickle to Smith. Double sickle to Hart. Nikita Slams Ivan on top of Owen.
Winner: Koloffs by pinfall of Ivan on Hart via body slammed splash at 11:12
In the back, Col. Robert Fuller is on speaker phone with Andy Kaufman. Shane McMahon is in the room, but Kaufman doesn’t know it. Andy says he feels much better from his mental breakdown a few weeks ago. He’s sure he can come back soon. McMahon on his phone plays the Bennets’ “True Love” theme song. Kaufman screams and then asks if the Bennets are going to the ring. No, they’re not on the show. Andy, you’re not still hearing the song are you. No, not at all. Got to go. Shane and Fuller smile at each other.
vs.
CCW World Tag Team Titles
Power Station (Will Hobbs and Odyssey Jones) © with Dr. of Style, Slick vs. Proud and Powerful (Santana and Ortiz)
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Slick gets in the faces of the heels. Ortiz picks Slick up by his lapels, but Power Station jumps the faces from behind and beats them down. It settles down with Hobbs getting a scoop slam on Santana for an early two count. Dominator sets-up a bicycle kick. Tag to Jones. Splash hits knees. Tag to Ortiz. He boots Jones on the mat and then pulls him up into a swing into the ropes for a roundhouse kick. Jacknife cover for two. Jones blocks a suplex and gets his own. World’s Strongest Slam for two. Tag to Hobbs. They go for a double team clothesline, but Ortiz ducks it and gets a flying double clothesline. Tag to Santana. Double stomp to Hobbs’ gut. Swinging neckbreaker. Santana up top for the blockbuster, but Hobbs catches him as he comes off and turns it into a high angle, turning spinebuster. Buckle bomb and he tags Jones.
Jones with a double handed choke lift and a throw to the near corner. He charges and eats an outstretched boot. Santana off the second turnbuckle with a double axe handle, but Odyssey catches him and delivers a belly to belly suplex. World’s Strongest Slam again. Ortiz breaks up the cover. Hobbs runs in and attacks Ortiz. Slick throws in his cane, but Santana intercepts and breaks it over Jones’ head. Implant DDT and he covers. One…two…thr…Slick pulls Edwards out of the ring and points out his broken cane in the ring and tells her Santana used it. Well, she didn’t see that, but she knows Slick laid hands on her and that’s a DQ for his guys. Slick gathers Power Station and the belts and runs off before Proud and Powerful can regroup.
Winner: Proud and Powerful at 10:59 by disqualification as Slick grabbed the referee
SoCal Val tries to talk to the Koloffs in the back on their win, but they’re jumped by Hart and Smith with chains. Their faces are still bloody. They brawl off with fists and chains flying.
Video package for the next match.
vs.
Braun Strowman vs. Bill Goldberg
Referee: Joey Marella
Strowman attacks Goldberg at the bell and beats him around the ring. Cactus clothesline sends both to the floor. Body slam on the floor and Strowman goes for the freight train shoulderblock, but Goldberg does a drop toehold into the ring steps. Goldberg breaks the ring out count and rolls Braun back into the ring. Goldberg sets up the spear, but Strowman sidesteps him and Goldberg posts his shoulder. Side slam for a two count. Strowman goes for the running power slam, but Goldberg slides off the back and pushes Strowman into the far corner. Avalanche to the back. Goldberg tries a gorilla press, but can’t hold Strowman up and he falls behind Goldberg into a Dragon Sleeper. Bill fights out, slings Strowman into the ropes, nails the spear and finishes with the Jackhammer.
Winner: Goldberg by pinfall via spear into jackhammer at 5:40
An irate Strowman attacks Goldberg from behind as he celebrates. Braun puts him in the lifting triangle choke and won’t let go until security and backstage personnel can pull him off.
SoCal Val is with Nicholas Aldis and Mickie James-Aldis. Mickie says if people don’t know who her husband is, they’re going to find out tonight. Nicholas runs over his upcoming matches in the UWA, including Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania and a collision with Tommy Rich. He also takes a shot at the AWA for the bait and switch they did against him. Wherever the Ultimate Warrior lands next, Aldis still owes him a beating.
Onto tonight. He’s not a fan of the double belt stipulation, but there is no way Jericho and Rousey can beat the UWA’s premier power couple.
vs.
CCW World Heavyweight Title
CM Punk © vs “Marvelous” Marc Mero
Referee: Tommy Young
Tilt-a-whirl backbreaker for two. Pepsi Twist for two. Sitout suplex slam for two. Punk argues the count with Young. Punk sets up the Go 2 Sleep, but Mero slides out and gets a swinging inverted stunner. Snap suplex. Badd Mood somersault plancha misses. Punk with a step-up enzuigiri as Mero stands. Both men down. As they stand, Punk whips Mero into the corner and gets the step-up high knee into a bulldog. Punk goes for a fisherman’s suplex, but Mero blocks and punches out. Marc off the ropes with a running discus punch. Standing moonsault gets two. Mero lines up the TKO, but Punk slides out into a jaw jacker. Welcome to Chicago double underhook backbreaker for two. Go 2 Sleep attempt. Mero slides out again and goes for the inverted swinging stunner, but Mero pushes off, kicks Mero in the gut and gets an ax kick. Punk goes up top. Marc comes up and goes for the Badd Day super frankensteiner, but Punk blocks and Mero splats to the canvas. Mero comes up into a missile dropkick. Go 2 Sleep hits.
Winner: Punk by pinfall via Go 2 Sleep at 18:44
SoCal Val has Jericho and Rousey in the back. Ronda promises to rearrange Mickie’s face and her internal organs. She doesn’t give a damn who Mickie’s husband is, because she knows who her partner is. Jericho tells Aldis that he got lucky at KaufMania thanks to his shrewish wife and band of not-so-merry men. The York Foundation is a joke and so is Aldis and Jericho will be laughing tonight after becoming the UWA Universal Men’s Champion.
Vs.
Mixed Match Challenge - All titles on the line (UWA Men’s Universal and CCW Women’s)
“Universal Treasure” Nicholas Aldis and Mickie James-Aldis © vs. “Lionheart” Chris Jericho and “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey
Referee: Aubrey Edwards
Kamille York and the York Foundation banned from ringside
Kamille York and the York Foundation banned from ringside
James sees who is in and backs off to the corner. Jericho smiles and comes in on her, but Mickie nails a low blow. Edwards gets on her, but James says it was to the inner thigh. With Jericho on his knees, she hits a seated dropkick coming off the second turnbuckle. Tag to Aldis. Nick with a T-bone gutbuster. Knee breaker. He kicks the leg and gets the sharpshooter. As Edwards is checking on Jericho, James is pushing on Nick from the apron for more pressure. Rousey comes over and pulls Mickie off the apron and she bangs her face on the edge of the ring. Aldis lets go and goes to the floor, getting in Ronda’s face. Rousey backs up as Jericho comes out with a suicide dive. Double team suplex of Aldis on the floor. James charges into a double team backdrop and she lands on Nick. The faces get in the ring and play to the crowd. Aldis and James regroup on the floor and come back in.
Aldis signals for Jericho to tag Rousey as he tags Mickie. Rousey wants in. She charges at James, who catches her with a kick. She boots her down and gets a springboard elbow drop. James goes for the Mickie-DT, but Rousey catches her on the jump and runs her back first into the corner. Ronda with several quick punches and then a biel throw. She goes for the Piper’s Pit, but James rides the swing into a sitout facebuster. Tag to Aldis. Nick with a diving elbow drop and he covers for two. He goes for the Treasure Chest, but Rousey backdrops out and tags Jericho. Dropkick to the knee as Aldis stands. Double underhook DDT for two. Breakdown for two. He goes for the Lionsault and eats knees. Aldis with a front suplex and he goes up top for the Macho Man elbow. Rousey shakes the ropes and Aldis crotches himself. Edwards warns her. James runs in to attack Chris, but he sidesteps her while grabbing the back of her head and pitches Mickie to the floor. Aldis tries to surprise with a missile dropkick, but Chris falls back from it and makes a diving tag to Rousey. Ronda runs in, but is suckered by Aldis into a hotshot. Release German. Aldis up top for the Macho Man elbow. James from the floor grabs Chris’ leg so he can’t make the save.
Winner: Aldises by pinfall of Nicholas on Rousey via Macho Man Elbow at 22:12
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