Post by Baixo Astral on Aug 26, 2011 11:06:49 GMT -5
Venue is the MSG, crowd is a near sellout 20,500.
The show opens with announcer Tony Sefton in the center of the ring, about to announce the opening match - however, King Cobra and his bodyguards Sibola and Kage-Miura interrupt him, and Cobra takes the mic, announcing that due to popular demand, and thanks to their victory in the cage match on the previous Monday's GPWA Blast, he now has the ability to book his bodyguards in matches (previously, they had been uncontracted, and King Cobra suffered large fines every time they interfered in a match, but beating The Jets in the cage match won them contracts, and forced The Jets to leave GPWA1). With that in mind, the newly named Singapore Death Machines had been added to the card, to face the pairing who were intended to wrestle the opener, Abid el Sheik and Jordan Blair. The two cruiserweights come to the ring, confused, to team.
Match #1 - Singapore Death Machines (Sibola and Kage-Miura) vs. Abid el Sheik and Jordan Blair.
Basically a massacre to build up the new team. Sibola gets to show off his skills properly for the first time, having been mainly used as a mysterious assassin-type character, and despite being a similar size to his opponents, demonstrates great strength, pressing Blair and not breaking stride with a boot to Sheik's face. Kage-Miura is used more for karate styled double team moves, but is given the pin when Sibola whips Blair into a spinning backfist with Kage-Miura's stone hand.
1/2* - A squash, but establishes the new team as killers.
Backstage, Eddie Smith is talking strategy with Bob "Cat" Brown, in advance of their International Tag Title match with the Doom Brigade - Brown confides in Smith that the Cobra Corporation had been calling him with invitations to join, and Smith replies that the same had happened to him, but it would be a cold day in hell before he'd desert Rex and Goliath. Brown agrees, but also asks if Smith is sure that they aren't getting the same treatment. Smith looks perturbed at that, but tells Brown to concentrate on the match.
Match #2 - Bob "Cat" Brown/Eddie "Bullwhip" Smith vs. The Doom Brigade (Colonel Death/General Doom)w/ footsoldiers of Doom
This match continues the downward trajectory of the Doom Brigade as an inring force - previously solid 2-time International champs and one time World champs, and tangentially involved in the World Heavyweight Title scene, they are now portrayed as pretty much passengers of the Cobra Corporation. Their footsoldiers, always fodder for face assaults, are also even more ineffectual now, and this is actually their penultimate appearance, as on Blast the following night, Doom and Death fire them, and deliver a beating on the way out. The challengers impress, but the ending comes with Colonel Death hit with a Knockout Blow (Brown's three-punch combo finisher), followed by a Bullwhip (Smith's secondary finisher of a second rope bulldog), only for the footsoldiers to hit the ring for the DQ. However, this triggers the contractual clause, that the title will be held up in the case of another Doom Brigade DQ loss, and results in the violent firing of the footsoldiers the next night.
Match #3 - The Triumvirate (Behemoth, Tarantula, and Simon DeNapoli) vs. Iron Storm (The Iron Gladiator and Mike Storm) and Ice - Elimination Rules
Wild, back and forth brawl, with the traditional lead heels of the company vs. the upstart Cobra Corps midcarders. Trimuvirate default faces, and the match serves as a boost to Tarantula, who had been the victim of a number of beatings recently. Simon first elimination, catching Ice in a Simon Sez: Sleeper (Reverse Hangman's Million Dollar Dream), only for a blind tag to be made to Mike Storm, who big boots the totally unprotected face of Simon and pins him. The next elimination is Behemoth, who had dominated, only to be disqualified for brutally beating on The Gladiator in his own corner past the five count. This left only Tarantula, although the Gladiator was slumped at ringside, insensible. Tarantula gets the next elimination, putting out Mike Storm with a headscissors choke after an attempted Storm Force (electric chair drop setup, spun into a sitout powerbomb). The match ends after an epic battle between Ice and Tarantula, with Tarantula finally slapping on the Spider's Bite (hard to explain - seated Dragon Sleeper, with Tarantula hammerlocking one arm, and waistlocking the other with his legs) and submitting Ice, only to be hit with the Iron Elbow (spinning elbow with Iron Gladiator's surgically repaired metal elbow, whether covered with padding or not) immediately afterward to the back of the head, and pinned.
1 - The match was allowed under special dispensation, with a one night contract
*Note: This is my fantasy promotion, I might post some more results from it's history someday. Gonna post more results later from this show.
The show opens with announcer Tony Sefton in the center of the ring, about to announce the opening match - however, King Cobra and his bodyguards Sibola and Kage-Miura interrupt him, and Cobra takes the mic, announcing that due to popular demand, and thanks to their victory in the cage match on the previous Monday's GPWA Blast, he now has the ability to book his bodyguards in matches (previously, they had been uncontracted, and King Cobra suffered large fines every time they interfered in a match, but beating The Jets in the cage match won them contracts, and forced The Jets to leave GPWA1). With that in mind, the newly named Singapore Death Machines had been added to the card, to face the pairing who were intended to wrestle the opener, Abid el Sheik and Jordan Blair. The two cruiserweights come to the ring, confused, to team.
Match #1 - Singapore Death Machines (Sibola and Kage-Miura) vs. Abid el Sheik and Jordan Blair.
Basically a massacre to build up the new team. Sibola gets to show off his skills properly for the first time, having been mainly used as a mysterious assassin-type character, and despite being a similar size to his opponents, demonstrates great strength, pressing Blair and not breaking stride with a boot to Sheik's face. Kage-Miura is used more for karate styled double team moves, but is given the pin when Sibola whips Blair into a spinning backfist with Kage-Miura's stone hand.
1/2* - A squash, but establishes the new team as killers.
Backstage, Eddie Smith is talking strategy with Bob "Cat" Brown, in advance of their International Tag Title match with the Doom Brigade - Brown confides in Smith that the Cobra Corporation had been calling him with invitations to join, and Smith replies that the same had happened to him, but it would be a cold day in hell before he'd desert Rex and Goliath. Brown agrees, but also asks if Smith is sure that they aren't getting the same treatment. Smith looks perturbed at that, but tells Brown to concentrate on the match.
Match #2 - Bob "Cat" Brown/Eddie "Bullwhip" Smith vs. The Doom Brigade (Colonel Death/General Doom)w/ footsoldiers of Doom
This match continues the downward trajectory of the Doom Brigade as an inring force - previously solid 2-time International champs and one time World champs, and tangentially involved in the World Heavyweight Title scene, they are now portrayed as pretty much passengers of the Cobra Corporation. Their footsoldiers, always fodder for face assaults, are also even more ineffectual now, and this is actually their penultimate appearance, as on Blast the following night, Doom and Death fire them, and deliver a beating on the way out. The challengers impress, but the ending comes with Colonel Death hit with a Knockout Blow (Brown's three-punch combo finisher), followed by a Bullwhip (Smith's secondary finisher of a second rope bulldog), only for the footsoldiers to hit the ring for the DQ. However, this triggers the contractual clause, that the title will be held up in the case of another Doom Brigade DQ loss, and results in the violent firing of the footsoldiers the next night.
Match #3 - The Triumvirate (Behemoth, Tarantula, and Simon DeNapoli) vs. Iron Storm (The Iron Gladiator and Mike Storm) and Ice - Elimination Rules
Wild, back and forth brawl, with the traditional lead heels of the company vs. the upstart Cobra Corps midcarders. Trimuvirate default faces, and the match serves as a boost to Tarantula, who had been the victim of a number of beatings recently. Simon first elimination, catching Ice in a Simon Sez: Sleeper (Reverse Hangman's Million Dollar Dream), only for a blind tag to be made to Mike Storm, who big boots the totally unprotected face of Simon and pins him. The next elimination is Behemoth, who had dominated, only to be disqualified for brutally beating on The Gladiator in his own corner past the five count. This left only Tarantula, although the Gladiator was slumped at ringside, insensible. Tarantula gets the next elimination, putting out Mike Storm with a headscissors choke after an attempted Storm Force (electric chair drop setup, spun into a sitout powerbomb). The match ends after an epic battle between Ice and Tarantula, with Tarantula finally slapping on the Spider's Bite (hard to explain - seated Dragon Sleeper, with Tarantula hammerlocking one arm, and waistlocking the other with his legs) and submitting Ice, only to be hit with the Iron Elbow (spinning elbow with Iron Gladiator's surgically repaired metal elbow, whether covered with padding or not) immediately afterward to the back of the head, and pinned.
1 - The match was allowed under special dispensation, with a one night contract
*Note: This is my fantasy promotion, I might post some more results from it's history someday. Gonna post more results later from this show.
