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GCW “rSpring Break, Presented by 44OH”
4/9/21 - 8pm
Tampa, FL - Streaming on FITE.tv
Pre-Show Scramble: Jimmy Lloyd vs Treehouse Lee vs Brayden Lee vs Saieve Al Sabah vs Dante Leon vs Ninja Mack
Super fast pace to this, as is traditional. Dante with a corkscrew famouser to Sabah. Sabah left alone and corkscrews to the outside, damn near wiping out. Brayden with a picture perfect shooting star. Ninja gets spiked with a tornado DDT. Standing moonsault knees. Lee cuts off the pin. Lloyd in with a popup powerbomb, package powerbomb but Leee ain’t done. Dante with a flipping cutter off the corner. Lloyd with a piledriver but Sabah cuts it off. Everyone in now. Dant with another flip cutter to Ninja. Treehouse Lee with a loooonnnng elbow drop to Dante to get the pin!
Winner: Treehouse Lee
And we’re Liiiiiiiiiiiiiive!
Match 1: Starboy Charlie vs Billie Starkz
Charlie just turned 18 but this is a battle of the highest profile high schoolers on the indies right now. Good chain wrestling sequence to kick this off, Billie uses her momentum to whip Charlie out of his hammerlock to the floor. Starboy fakes a handshake and whip Billie, who transitions to a sharpshooter and roll up pin attempt. Charlie with a back suplex for a two. Starkz walks into a dropkick and standing shooting star press. Charlie with a chain of vertical suplexes. Billie with a chain of Germans. Billie with an electric chair drop with a bridge pin for two. Charlie off the top and catches a knee to the head. Run up cyclone splash off the 2nd. Billie with a DVD. Trading shots and Starkz each a spinning kick on the chin. Billie ito the tree of woe and Charlie dropkicks her out of it. Charlie with a 450 into the knees. Billie comes running and Charlie hits a sitout driver for the flash pin. OH GOD. Good match, brutal finish.
Winner: Starboy Charlie
Eric Ryan and Bobby Beverly hit the ring while Starkz and Charlie share a handshake. They look like they might cut a promo but they opt to beat them out of the ring instead. HIT THE MUSIC, IRON BEAST IS HERE TO RUN 44OH OFF!
Match 2: 44OH (Eric Ryan & Bobby Beverly) vs Iron Beast (Shane Mercer & KTB)
Mercer picks them both up and KTB takes them off the shoulders from the top. Wow. Battling at ring side, KTB picks up Ryan and Mercer suplexes him from the outside back into the ring. KTB grabbing doors and we’re setting it up. KTB dropped to the outside with a low tope. 44OH isolates Mercer. KTB back to eat a tiger driver from Ryan for two. 44OH trying to break the door but they can’t KTB powerbombs Ryan through the one that failed to break on him. KTB with a tope to Beverly outside. Mercer catches Ryan on the top. Moonsault press slam, toss to KTB for a powerbomb, passed back for a german bridge and Mercer gets the pin on Eric Ryan. 44OH with a dubious start to their show (again).
Winners: IronBeast
Match 3: Gringo Loco, Black Taurus & Arez vs. Laredo Kid, Dragon Bane & Aramis
Laredo Kid and Gringo Loco starting this off with good arm drag sequences. Loco throwing birds to all of his opponents. Chaos as everyone hits the ring. Arez pulls down Laredo and gets super kicked off the apron. Aramis and Arez trading electric chair positions until Arez eats a snake eyes. Laredo islolated. High angle springboard where Taurus gores him. Loco with a moonsault for two. Dragon Bane tries to help but he gets stomped out.Bane putting together some combos. Kick to Loco, DDT to Taurus. Taurus back with a headbutt that startches him. Kid to the top with Black Taurus but teammates make the save. All three technicos to the top of the same corner and moonsaulting down to the rudos below. WOW. Bane with a neckbreaker to Arez. Taurus in with the fury, knocks a tooth out of Bane’s mouth and hits a torture rack backbreaker. OH GOD. Aramis to the top with loco. Falcon Arrow off the top but Laredo Kid cuts off the pin. Kid with a series of moonsaults but Arez stops this. Springboard i with a dropkick in the corner. Popup backbreaker to Kid. Slugging it out in the center. Arez and Kirk meet at the top rope walk and Laredo rana’s him down. Bane with a poisonrana to Black Taurus! Aramis blasts Arez with a knee. Triple stack electric chair. Cutter off the top of it. Taurus with a snap Samoan drop to Bane. Arez in a torture rack airplane spin by Aramis. Laredo Kid cuts off the rudos. Aramis finishes the spin into a bomb for the immediate pin. AWESOME.
Winners: Aramis, Dragon Bane & Laredo Kid
We get a “Ring”-style video package hyping up Jordan Oliver vs Blackheart Lio Rush.
Match 4: “Blackheart” Lio Rush vs. ‘Big Breakfast” Jordan Oliver
The Blackheart entrance is an experience. If you haven’t seen one of these, go out of your way to do so. It’s one of the wildest entrances on the indies, period. Blackheart smiles as Oliver comes into his range. Rush attacks but Oliver with the big boot to send Blackheart out. Clout cutter dive to the concrete. EEK. Fighting in the front row, Blackheart with a headbutt that sends Oliver packing. Blackheart knocked into a chair, he comes running but Rush with a flying knee. Blackheart seats Oliver and hurls his body into Big Breakfast. Jumping into the pin for only 1. Blackheart getting his hands on a door. They battle over who might go through it. Rush is caught in a belly to belly and that sends him through the lumber. Moar door! Rush pays that door smash back in kind. Rush working towards giving Oliver his first loss in GCW, a Spanish flying nearly does the job. Battling on the top and the both tumbling to the floor. Oliver takes his time getting back. Fast flurry of strikes traded. Stunner to a Tiger driver from Oliver for two! Oliver looks for more hardware under the ring. Jordan making a table while Blackheart convulses and staggering on the mat. Blackheart screaming Jordan’s name as Jordan hits a roaring forearm that rag dolls Rush. Blackheart gets ahold of the waist and hitting a series of germans. Jordan tries to boot Rush into the doors, Rush dodges and falcon arrows him out of the ring through setup. The Blackheart is petting Oliver’s fallen boy and saying “It’s ok. It’s ok”. Rush comes off the top into a clout cutter. Jordan running up the buckles and dives back into another cutter. Blackheart kicks out at two. Blackheart to the apron and Jordan springs back and clout cutters him to the edge. Blackheart down for the two but he convulses into a bridge to stop the pin. Jordan gets a limp Rush to the top, Blackheart pushes him off of the cutter. 450 from the top and Blackheart wraps up a deeeeeeeeeep choke. Jordan can’t get out and is forced to tap out, marking his first defeat in a GCW ring. Wild stuff here.
Winner: Blackheart Jordan Oliver
We get a promo of young Atticus Cogar talking about how big of a fan he is of MASADA and how he has made it a four year quest to have a match with him.
Match 5: “The Silver Teeth Satan” Atticus Cogar vs. “The Ultraviolent Beast” MASADA
The buckles are covered in boards covered in skewers. Cogar is out looking like the literal devil. Cogar jumps MASADA at the bell but he gets thrown right into those skewers. Kendo stick shot and a side Russian leg sweep. COgar with a moonsault to MASADA as ringside. MASADA slams him to the apron and blasts him over the head with a piece of door. MASADA with a toothpick covered board and pounds it into Cogar’s back and head like a gusset plate. OWWWWWW. MASADA back with a kendo stick made of carpet strips and grinds that over Cogar’s back too. Cogar is bloodied up as MASADA works those strips into the skull. MASADA with the skewers and grinds those into the wounds. Tilt a whirl backbreaker. MASADA whipped into the skewer board and eats a dropkick. Cogar gets the skewers and smacks a bundle into MASADA’s skull. They are STUCK in there and the crimson is flowing on MASADA. Cogar has that toothpick board and blasts MASADA with it. MASADA suplexes Cogar into the first row. MASADA with a set of mini skewers driving those into Atticus’ forehead. MASADA with a powerbomb for to and right into a STF. Atticus with a double stomp after using lumber to escape. Back to the top, Atticus with a headlock driver off the top through a chair oh my god how did MASADA kick out of that?!?! Atticus grabs a 2x4 covered in gusset plates. OH NO. MASADA gets it and swinging for the fences. MASADA gets the gusset plates into the arm. Atticus with more skewers into the head of MASADA and hits another headlock driver for two. MORE SKEWERS. Superkick! Superkick! Headlock driver! Atticus get the three! Love him or hate him, Cogar went to war with a legend and earned that W.
Winner: Atticus Cogar
Match 6: Rich Swann vs. Lee Moriarty
What a vibe change! Swann is fresh while Lee has had a LONG DAY of many different matches. Trading arm drags and dodging dropkicks. Stale mate. Another sequence, dodges and reversals, Swann finally hits a dropkick. Lee dodging strikes and hits a flying armbreaker. Lee wrenching the limb. Lee’s ribs are eating damage but Lee powers through, double stomp off the top to the arm. Lee jacks the limb again for a two count. Swann trying to fire up but his arm won’t let him get going the way he’d like. Hammering each other with forearms and kicks. Double big boot and a double down. Swann tries a crucifix pin, trading attempts rolls and schoolboys. Lee tries an armbar but he can’t leverage well with his ribs. Short arm Lariat from Lee for two! Up to the top, Swann is BITING THE RIBS. Swann headbutts Lee down. 450 from Swann and that’s the three! I was caught up watching this one. Fun match with some solid physical storytelling.
Winner: Rich Swann
Match 7: “The Bad Boy” Joey Janela vs. “Dirty Daddy” Chris Dickinson
Chris Dickinson comes to Tampa to face his SLITHER partner, Janela and knock some sense into him and his eternal quest for validation. Janela is in a Bam Bam Bigelow getup tonight. They come to blows right away. Dickinson with a powerbomb. Another one. Dirty Daddy dropping bombs. Dickinson grabs a door and throws it into the ring, hitting Joey. Dickinson stomps the door and breaks it apart. Dickinson cutting into Joey’s head, drawing blood from the Bad Boy. Janela up and right into a high velocity door shot. Door setup and Dickinson drop kicks through it. More cutting into the head, Dickinson strangles him with door parts. Suplex for two. Dickinson takes him to the top, Janela twists at the fingers and superplexes Dickinson down. Janela unleashing some forearms, finally firing up. Dickinson with germans. Janela his a roaring elbow out of the blue for two. Janela shatters a door piece over Chris’ head. He wants another but Dickinson with a tornado kick and a snap dragon for two. Rebound basement dropkick from Dirty Daddy and he goes for chairs...Dickinson encourages the crowd to throw chairs into the ring with Janela getting buried and blasted repeatedly. Dickinson wants a Pazuzu bomb into the chairs but Janela slips it, superkick and DDT. Janela comes running into a lariat. Back to the top. Janela fights back and DDT’s Dickinson to the chair. He powders immediately to recover. Janela with tope suicidas to a VERY bloody Dickinson. Double stomp through a chair to the chest. Dickinson kicks out! Chris is a bloody MESS. Janela with a clean chair shot to the head. Dirty Daddy wants another. Dickinson with a low blow and hits a DVD to the chairs! Janela is out! Trading strikes in the pocket. Janela scoops up Dickinson with a spike DVD. OW. Joey goes to the top. Dickinson cuts it off and hits a Pazuzu bomb off the top to the center. OH LORB. Dickinson grabs a ladder. He sets up a door on chairs in the ring with the ladder. Spiking Janela in the face with thrown chairs. How far are we going here? Dickinson tries to pull him up but takes a shot to the junk. Janela with a chair shot. Dickinson on the door but he recovers and heads p the ladder. OH NO. Dickinson gets ahold of Janela and DVD’s him off the ladder through the door. It’s done, right?!?! Janela kicks out! Chris not feeling great and pulls off his boot to give life to his knee. Dickinson with a pair of dragon screws! Janela picks the ankle and slaps on a figure four! Dickinson is in agony, he can’t turn it, Chris Dickinson taps out!!! Daaaaaaamn. That was absolutely fantastic. Janela stands tall and offers his hand to Dickinson....Chris spits on it and leaves. Janela is stunned but tells the crowd that the Bad Boy is back in GCW.
Winner: Janela
Match 8: Effy vs. Gregory Iron (w/ Virgil) (Control of Effy’s Big Gay Brunch vs. Being Effy’s B**** for a day)
Iron announces as the latest member of 44OH. Virgil tries to pie face Effy and Daddy is right in his face. Iron with chair shots to the back. Effy choked with a chair as Gregory Iron lays the beating in. Virgil is up on the apron and constantly distracting Effy, allowing Iron to stay ahead of everyone’s Daddy. Iron whipped to the corner and eats a Yakuza kick for a near fall. Clubbing blows, clothelines but Iron is battling back. Effy pulls the trunks of Iron, showing his a**. Effy spanks him while Virgil watches. Virgil enters the ring and Iron low blows. Virgil is gonna crack him with a steel vodka bottle but he hits Iron instead. He butt is still exposed. Effy in Virgil’s face....Effy cuts the shirt off Virgil and he’s got a “wrestling is Gay” shirt! Effy with a powerbomb to Greg and stacks the pin for the three. Iron’s bare a** is exposed to the world and the ref begs Effy to help cover that up. Effy has saved his brunch....and gained a new b**** in the process.
Winner: Effy
We get a promo video of 44OH robbing a liquor store. “Is this how it felt for you? I get why you did it” says RSP.
Main Event: Rickey Shane Page(c) vs. Nick Gage (for the GCW Championship)
The King is back from injury and he wants his GCW title. They have a scaffold set up at ringside. Light tubes everywhere. This won’t go well. The “Nick F***ing Gage” chants from his MDK gang as he makes his entrance into the arena. RSP is coming down from the top of the building, dressed in white. Nick doesn’t wait through the champs announcement and beating and cutting on him with a light tube early. RSP sent through a pane of glass. Gage biting the back of RSP to draw more blood. Face wash boot with a bundle of light tubes. OW. RSP crawls out to the barbed wire structure and Gage springboard elbow drops him through it. RSP is a mess. Gage is having fans hold up chairs and he rams RSP’s face into them. RSP with chair shots to the ribs and he’s finally in control. Gage getting blasted with tube after tube. RSP is leaking hard as he cuts into Gage’s head. Gage reverses a whip and RSP meets glass pain again. RSP retreating, Gage chasing him down with more tubes. RSP with an enziguri and back to smashing tubes into Gage. Elbow drop with a pile of tubes. Gage fires up and comes running, RSP backdrops him into a suspended pane of glass. Gage is a bloody mess as he crashed and burned on the concrete. RSP taking shots at the previously injured ankle of Gage. RSP drags Gage and throws him through a light tube structure, Gage disappearing in a cloud of spooky dust. RSP drags him back and Gage kicks out at two! Gage fires back, RSP throws glass into his eyes. Gage is blinded and decks the ref. Spinebuster to RSP! Gage carving a MDK into RSP’s back. RSP climbs the scaffolding to escape. Gregory Iron is in the ring and eats a piledriver into the glass. Effy comes into the ring to collect Iron. Bobby Beverly and Eric Ryan hit the ring to stomp out Gage. They set up a table and a tube cube. Matthew Justice, Mance Warner and Joey Janela hit the ring to beat up Eric and Bobby and send them into the back. Gage back on his feet and sees the table, glass, and light tubes set up. Gage climbs up to face RSP. RSP is sent flying through the glass and tubes, grazing the table and crashing to the mat. Gage finishes blasting RSP with the remainders of the tube cube. Gage keeps carving. RSP with a low blow! Choke breaker to Gage, kick out! RSP is mad and hits a chokebreaker on the ref. RSP calling for help and Atticus Cogar is our to help. Cogar spikes the skewers into Gage’s head. The remnants of 44OH setup a bunch of chairs and glass panes. Cogar lifts Gage into RSP’s grasp. Brett Lauderdale in with a bundle of tubes and blasts Cogar in the head. Gage with a piledriver through the structure. Lauderdale counts it off.....RSP kicks out! Gage with a chokebreaker to RSP. COUNT IT OUT, BRETT. ONE. TWO. THREE. NEW CHAMP.
Winner (And Newwwwwwwww GCW Champion): Nick Gage
Lauderdale gives Nick a can of spray paint to tag RSP’s 44OH belt with MDK. The real belt is presented to the King. Music hits! JON MOXLEY JUST ENTERED THE ARENA! Moxley and Gage have a staredown across the broken glass. Moxley enters the ring and it’s a forehead to forehead staredown with the King. Jon tries to leave but Gage flips him off. They come to blows! DDT! Paradigm shift through a pile of light tubes. Moxley with a face covered in blood as he leaves, his statement made.
Nick Gage grabs a mic to react to...ALL THIS. He recognizes Moxley stepping to him. But the King needs to thank his gang for all the support that has kept him going. And for them? Gage and Moxley will go one on one in a REAL deathmatch. Because it’s MDK: ALL. F***ING. DAY.
GOOD NIGHT SPRING BREAK!
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