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MLW FUSION REPORT: MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE MATCH AND MORE

By Richard Trionfo on 2019-02-16 22:03:00

We start with the Hart Foundation and H2 TV. Davey Boy Smith Jr is with his cat and he shows everyone where in Japan he bought the shirt he is wearing. He says Brian Pillman Jr. is getting a silk shirt made as well. Davey says the people of Japan are great and he talks about the low crime rate. He says that the Japanese people are some of the smartest in the world and he says he is trying to learn Japanese. Davey talks about how advanced the Japanese technology is. He says the Japanese people would never turn their backs on you.

We are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and your announcers are Rich Bocchini and Matt Striker.

Salina de la Renta submitted a statement and she says it is time to congratulate our new World Champion Tom Lawlor. You are as equally dumb as the fans. Salina says she is asked if Promociones Dorado is failing because she does not have gold. She has the power and she says that Low Ki has a contractually obligated rematch. She says it will happen in Chicago at Intimidation Games. They can do to Tom what they did to Kotto Brazil if you don’t want to see what is going to happen.

Rich Swann has some prerecorded comments as he makes his way to the ring. Swann says to look at the jacket and the googles. When Rich Swann enters the arena, everyone knows that the party goes All Night Long.

Match Number One: Ace Austin versus Rich Swann

Swann offers his hand and Austin is slightly confused. Swann pulls his hand back and does a split. They lock up and Swann with a wrist lock. Austin with a waist lock and Swann with a side head lock. Austin with a wrist lock and arm bar. Swann pulls the hair and applies a side head lock. Austin with a handstand satellite head scissors but Swann with a carthweel and he lands on his feet. Swann goes for a head scissors and Austin lands on his feet.

Austin and Swann with arm drags and then they go for leg sweeps and get near falls. Both men with drop kicks and they do the same thing a second time. Swann lays on the turnbuckles to calm himself down and also to frustrate Austin. Swann with a knee to the midsection and chop. Swann with punches and Austin with forearms. Swann with a rake of the eyes followed by an Irish whip. Austin with a drop toe hold and kick to the back. Austin with a drop kick to the head and a splash into the corner.

Austin misses a springboard round kick and Austin goes to the apron and connects with a shoulder. Austin is pushed off the turnbuckles to the floor by Swann. Swann chops Austin against the apron and they return to the ring. Austin with a punch and Swann with a forearm. They go back and forth with Austin gaining the advantage. Swann with punches and a round kick to the temple but Austin with a series of round kicks. Swann misses a kick but both men with bicycle kicks and they fall into opposite corners.

Swann misses a splash into the corner and Austin with a springboard cyclone knee and Austin goes up top for an inward splash and gets the three count.

Winner: Ace Austin

After the match, Rich Bocchini goes into the ring to interview Rich Swann. Swann argues with the referee and punches the referee. Swann yells at the referee and says it was two. Swann leaves the ring while Bochiini asks about what happened and the change in Swann’s attitude.

Swann asks do you want different and he knocks Bocchini down. Swann leaves the ring and gets a chair from the ring announcer and throws it at the ring.

Swann goes to the back.

We go to commercial.

Alexander Hammerstone has some pre-recorded comments as he makes his way to the ring. He says it does not matter what you have seen before in MLW because the future just arrived.

Match Number Two: Alexander Hammerstone versus Ariel Dominguez

Hammerstone grabs Dominguez by the throat and sends him into the corner. Dominguez with a punch and Hammerstone misses a clothesline. Hammerstone blocks an arm drag and he presses Dominguez over his head but Dominguez lands on his feet. Ariel goes for an O’Connor Roll but Hammerstone escapes and hits a bicycle kick. Hammerstone with a German suplex. Hammerstone punches Ariel and then he kicks hi min the head. Hammerstone with punches followed by a pump handle fallaway slam. Hammerstone kicks Ariel away. Alex signals that it is over and he goes for a suplex but Ariel lands on his feet. Alex runs into boots in the corner. Ariel goes for a springboard move but Alex with a forearm. Alex with the Nightmare Pendulum for the three count.

Winner: Alexander Hammerstone

We go to commercial.

We are back with a look at Intimidation Games on March 2nd in Cicero, Illinois. Tom Lawlor will defend the MLW World Championship against Low Ki inside a steel cage. The Lucha Brothers will face Taurus and Laredo Kid.

Mance Warner has some comments between beers.

He will have his MLW debut next week against Jimmy Yuta.

Rey Horus will face Aerostar next week.

We go to commercial.

We are back and MJF has something to say before his match. MJF has some suggestions for the crowd. He introduces himself and he says he is the youngest and fastest rising star in professional wrestling. He says unfortunately, he is in this building, a building that hosted ECW. MJF says if you like ECW, you are white trash. He wants to move on to more white trash and talks about Teddy Hart.

Teddy claims to be your Middleweight Champion. You chant for Teddy, which is funny because MJF says he is the real champion and you should be chanting his name. The real champ is going to talk right now. How about for the first time in your life, jailbird, you grab your nuts if you can find them and come out without the Hart Foundation so all of these mindless nimrods can see why he is better than Teddy.

Match Number Three: Teddy Hart versus Mawxelll Jacob Friedman for the MLW Middleweight Championship

Teddy offers his hand but he pushes MJF. MJF pushes Hart away and slaps him. MJF tells Hart to go to the turnbuckles and he does and the crowd is behind Hart. MJF goe to the turnbuckles and Hart pulls down MJF’s tights for a moment. MJF hits Teddy from behind on the turnbuckles and kicks Hart. MJF sends Hart to the floor.

Hart makes his way back into the ring and MJF kicks the ropes as Hart re-enters. MJF with an Irish whip that sends Hart sternum first into the turnbuckles and hits an exploder. MJF gets a near fall. MJF with a reverse chin lock. Hart goes for a head scissors but MJF fights off the hold. Hart with a rollup for a near fall. MJF with a knee to the midsection and he returns to the side head lock. Hart with a fishhook to try to get MJF to release the hold but MJF holds on.

Hart with a wrist lock but MJF holds on to the side head lock. Hart with an arm drag to escape. MJF with a thumb to the eyees. MJF with an Irish whip and Hart floats over and stands on MJF’s back before hitting a Code Red for a near fall. Hart with knees to the head followed by a lungblower from a power bomb position. Hart with a quebrada for a near fall. Hart punches MJF and follows with a European uppercut. Hart with an Irish whip but MJF with an elbow and a double stomp to the arm. MJF with a knee and a hesitation piledriver for a near fall when Hart gets his hand on the ropes. MJF with a Fujiwara arm bar and then he turns it into a cross arm breaker. MJF returns to the Fujiwara arm bar.

MJF bites the hand while he has Hart in the Fujiwara arm bar. Hart gets his foot on the ropes to break the hold. MJF with a double thrust to the throat and he puts Hart on the turnbuckles and chops him. Hart with a punch and he gives MJF a wedgie. Hart with a destroyer but the momentum sends MJF into the referee and the referee is down. Hart with a hanging hammerlock DDT but the referee is still out.

MJF rolls to the floor as Hart checks on the referee. MJF gets a chair from under the ring. Hart kicks MJF in the groin before MJF can use the chair. Hart hits MJF in the midsection with the chair and then he hits an electric chair lungblower followed by a corkscrew moonsault for the three count.

Winner: Teddy Hart (retains Championship)

Teddy Hart is in the back about to be interviewed but he is attacked by a man in a suit. It is Richard Holliday and MJF tells Holliday to pick Hart up. MJF hits Hart with the chair and slams his head into a table. Hart is send into storage bins but Hrat tries to fight off both men.

Holliday holds Hart for MJF to hit him with a trash can and then he is sent into a metal door. Holliday kicks Hart and then MJF and Holliday leave.

We go to credits.

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