Post by Eli Buchanan on Jan 21, 2018 19:29:00 GMT -5
This week’s episode of PWGP “CHARGE” begins with a wild start. Kraken is rampaging through the back halls of Edmonton’s Rogers Place, yelling, “Buchanan!” He grabs a stagehand and tosses him clear over a stack of crates. A couple of the Unknowns see him coming and try to make a run for it, but he grabs hold of both of them before they can get away. He smashes on of them into the wall, while the other when is thrown right through a door.
Security arrives to try to calm him down. Kraken responds by grabbing the Unknown lying at his feet. He lifts the dazed masked man over his head and tosses him on top of the security. Wrestlers arrive to help security deal with the angered French Canadian Colossus. “Iron” Mack Brody and the Agents of Pain appear to help their fellow member of Asper’s Army and a backstage brawl insues.
Robert Fredrick appears with more security and members of Edmonton’s police department to take control of the situation. Saul Asper gets control of his men too late, as Fredrick informs everyone that Kraken and all the members of Asper’s Army who caused the havoc here tonight are suspended and if they don’t leave now will be arrested. With Asper protesting, his men are escorted out of the arena by Edmonton’s finest.
It’s at this moment True North Ant comes out of the washroom and asks what he missed. Robert Fredrick laughs and congratulates TNA. He’s going to take Kraken’s spot in the Television Title tournament. Seething, Asper takes a confused True North Ant off to prepare for his match.
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We finally make it down to ringside, where Greg Stradford and “Big Bad” Paul Carlyle formally welcome us to “CHARGE”. They hype the Television Title tournament, telling us because both Kraken and Mack Brody were removed from the building the matches would be True North Ant versus Bryant Adam Thompson and Vlars versus Alan Hunter, with the tournament finals later in the evening. They also hype the “Father vs Son Match”, where if James Daniels defeats his father, “High Five” Jimmy Jive, Jive will have to leave PWGP, but if Jive wins then Daniels must become his tag team partner. Finally, in the main event we will have our first ever Global Title Match; Eli Buchanan will defend the championship against former Television Champion, and the first competitor to accumulate the needed ten points to challenge for the title, Faititili.
Stradford sends it down to our ring announcer, Nick Christoulos, who makes the introductions for our opening match.
MATCH 1
Television Title Tournament Match
Bryant Adam Thompson (1 points)
Vs
True North Ant (0 points, w/ Saul Asper)
Asper looks less than pleased at the start of the match as he was hoping to have both his big men in the tournament. TNA tries to calm his boss, saying he’s got this, but immediately eats a drop kick from Thompson. True North Ant struggles to get back into the match, but the Notorious B.A.T. keeps the pace quick with a series of kicks and head scissor takeovers. The ant man escapes to the outside, but Thompson hits a a suicide dive and tosses his larger opponent back into the ring.
Asper jumps up on the apron and gets in Thompson’s face, which allowed his client time to recover and hit a clubbing blow from behind and followed up with a backbreaker. He would work over Thompson for the next few minutes, concentrating his assault on Thompson’s back and neck, setting him up for his finisher, the Red River Plunge. True North Ant hits the ManitobANT Stampede (Okahoma Stampede) and goes for the cover, only getting a two count. He would try for a second one, but Thompson broke free and tried to get back on the offense, only for TNA to hit him with a lariat and got a second two count out of it.
With his manager urging him to put Thompson away before the ten minute time limit ended, TNA went for the Red River Plunge, but Thompson would counter with a hurricanrana. With True North Ant dazed, Thompson would hit a series of drop kicks and would conuter a tilt-a-whirl into a DDT. With TNA down, Thompson would set up for the Bat Outta Hell, but would momentarily get distracted by Asper again. He would wave Asper off and go for the springboard phoneix splash, but the delay allowed True North Ant to get his knees up, catching Thompson in the chest as he came down. TNA would roll Thompson up for the pinfall. Referee Mark Lindsay miseed seeing his feet on the ropes and he got the three count.
Winner: and advancing to the Television Title Tournament final, True North Ant (1 point)
Thompson sat up in shock as True North Ant escaped from the ring and joined his manager on the entrance ramp to celebrate. Greg Stradford put the win over as a minor upset and how TNA needed to cheat to beat Thompson. Carlyle countered that the former ManitonANT was just living up to his potential and predicted we might be looking at our next Television Champion.
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Alan Hunter watches what just happened on a monitor in the back. The East K Connection join him and wish him luck against the mysterious Vlars, in tonight’s next match. Alan thanks him and asks Easy E and Sweet Daddy D to watch his back because with Vlars in the building, that meant Surf ‘n Turf wouldn’t be far away. The three of them mock the rookie team’s apparent man crush on the “puke bucket god”, and Hunter high fives both of them before taking his leave.
After the break we’ll have our second Television Title Tournanment match. Don’t go anywhere!
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MATCH 2
Television Title Tournament Match
Alan Hunter (1 points)
Vs
Vlars (2 points)
Back from break, we find Vlars making his way down to ringside with his mop and bucket. Alan Hunter makes his entrance and is immediately set upon by Vod and Zaros, who start beating him down. The East K Connection quickly run them off and check on Hunter.
Jose Doe asks Hunter if he’s able to compete and Hunter nods. Vlars wastes no time going on the attack and Doe has little choice but call for the bell to start the match. There was little fineese in Vlars’s offense. He smashed Hunter into the turnbuckles and chokes him on the top rope before slamming him to the mat and stomping on his chest.
The next few minutes are more of the same, with Vlars using his smashmouth tactics to wear Alan Hunter down and going for frequent pin attempts. Hunter did his best to fight back but Vlars rough house antics appeared to be too much for him.
The tide finally turned when Vlars missed a rushing tackle and went shoulder first into the ring post. This allowed Hunter enough time to recover and hit a hip toss and a drop kick. He would hit a couple of running clotheslines and a body slam before Vlars would bail to the floor. The two of them would brawl around the ring before Vlars would grab his mop and tried to hit Hunter with it. Hunter would catch the mop, but Vlars would grab his bucket and strike him across the side of the head with it. Jose Doe would immediately call for the bell, disqualifying Vlars.
Winner: and advancing to the Television Title Tournament finals, Alan Hunter (3 points).
Following the match Vlars would continue to work over Alan Hunter with the mop and bucket. The east K Connection would hit the ringside area to help their friend but Surf ‘n Turf would blindside them with chair shots. Vlars would stand back and watch with growing apprecaition as Zaros and Vod would assault Sweet Daddy D, Easy E and Alan Hunter with steel chairs before referees and security rushed down and stopped the assault.
Vlars and Surf ‘n Turf would take this has their cue to leave and celebrated the carnage they had caused up on the entrance ramp. The commentators questioned whether there was any way Alan Hunter could possibly be in any shape to compete later tonight in the tournament finals.
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Watching the monitor in their locker room, True North Ant and Saul Asper were estactic at what had just transpired. Saul told TNA he had the title in the bag tonight, but warned him that if he didn’t bring home the championship tonight for the Army, there would be hell to pay. True North Ant told him there was nothing to worry about, but it was clear he was feeling the pressure.
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Elsewhere, Vlars and Surf ‘n Turf were still celbrating what they had donw. Robert Fredrick approached, rather furious, with security. He announced that next week We would see a mtag team match, Surf ‘n Turf would face off with The East K Connection, with Vlars and Alan Hunter banned from ringside. Fredrcik would then order the security to escort all three of them out of the arena so they couldn’t interfere in anymore mathes tonight.
Up after the break it’s “Father vs Son” with both men’s futures in stake. Don’t go anywhere!
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Back from break, we find Alan Hunter and The East K Connection all being checked out by trainers. Robert Fredrick enters and asks the head trainer if Hunter is cleared to compete. The trainer says he’s hestitant to allow him to compete, but Hunter insists that he compete. He says he doen’t want to Asper’s Army to get their filthy hands on any of PWGP’s championships and begs to be allowed to compete. The trainer says it’s against his better judgment, but he’ll allow it, much to the delight of the Edmonton crowd.
Robert Fredrick shakes his head at Hunter’s heart, but wishes him good luck tonight. He too doesn’t want to see the Army get their hands on any championships and hopes Alan Hunter can stop True North Ant.
Fredrick takes his leave, as the trainers continue to bandage Hunter up.
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As James Daniels makes his way down to the ring for his match, the commentators discuss what we just found out. Paul Carlyle admits Alan Hunter has guts, but calls him a fool, siting he’s sure if Hunter had forfieted the match tonight, Robert Fredrick would have given him a shot at True North Ant’s Television Championship next week, and believes TNA will win the title tonight regardless and it will be much more painful for Hunter.
“High Five: Jimmy Jive makes his way down to the ring whil Nick Christoulos makes the ring introductions.
MATCH 3
“Father vs Son”
“High Five” Jimmy Jive
Vs
James Daniels
(If Daniels wins, Jive is gone from PWGP. If Jive wins, Daniels must become his tag team partner)
Despite requesting this match, Jimmy Jive seems reluctant to tie it up with his estranged son. James Daniels has no such reservations and immediately kicks his father in the stomach and grabs him in a side headlock. Jive counters by whipping him into the ropes and knocking him down with a shoulder block, followed by a hip toss and a side headlock takeover, getting a one count from referee, Andrew Roller.
Daniels would push away from his father and roll out of the ring, kicking the ring steps in frustration. Andrew Roller began the count and ordered him back into the ring. Daniels would get up on the ring apron and argue with Roller, but made no effort to get back in. Jive was having none of this though. Grabbing the ring rope, he slingshot his son back into the ring and causght him with another headlock takeover for a near fall.
Out of frustration Daniels raked his father’s eyes and this allowed him to finally get control of the match. He would show his father no mercy as he pushed him into the corner and began kicking him, before snap maring him out of the corner and stomping on his face. For the next few minutes he would wear down his father and go for frequent pin attempts.
It was his lack of experience that would finally get the better of him as he slammed his father in the middle of the ring and went to the top rope, looking for the flying drop kick, a move that brought his father a great deal of success early in his career. As Jive rose to his feet, Daniels would go for the big move, only to miss his target as Jive stepped out of the way. Jive would wisely hooking his son’s arms and hitting the floatover underhook suplex he calls “The Wipe Out”. Daniels was unable to escape and Jive got the three count.
Winner: “High Five” Jimmy Jive, James Daniels now must tag team with him.
Daniels has a look of horror on his face as his father celebrates. Jive grabs a spare headband and hands it to him and Daniels reluctantly puts it on, as part of the stipulation is that he must do whatever his father asks of him. Looking downtrotten, Daniels follows his excited father out of the ring and they head to the back, with both commentators laughing at him.
After the break, it’s the Television Title Tournanment Final! Can Alan Hunter overcome the assualt he suffered earlier tonight, or will True North Ant bring home the Television Title to his suspended stablemates. Don’t go anywhere, we’ll be right back.
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Back from break, the camera focuses on the Television Title on display at ringside. Stradford and Carlyle hype this match, reminding everyone at home that the holder of the Television Championship can fast track his way to a PWGP Global Title shot, gaining two points instead one for everytime they successfully defend their championship.
True North Ant is out first with Saul Asper. Before the pair can make therir weay down to the ring, officials come out and order Asper to return to the back. We’re told that Robert Fredrick wants this tournament final to be fought cleanly and following his repeated interferance earlier tonight, Asper has been barred from ringside.
Looking lost, TNA watches his manager being escorted back to his locker room. Reluctantly he makes his way to the ring and waits for Alan Hunter to appear.
Hunter comes out, his right shoulder and ribs tapped up. The commentators remind us that he was injured at the hands of Vlars earlier tonight at the conclusion of their hands and we watch hilights of him being beaten down by Vlars and both members of Surf ‘n Turf. Again Stradford questions how he can possibly be able to compete here in the finals and Carlyle replies that there’s no way he can.
Nick Christoulos makes the formal introductions and leaves the ring, as Andrew Roller calls for the bell.
MATCH 4
Televison Title Tournament Final
True North Ant (1 point)
Vs
Alan Hunter (3 points)
True North Ant immediately tries to go after Hunter’s injured ribs but Alan sidesteps him and catches him with a series of punches. TNA rolls out of the ring, with Hunter right on his heels. Hunter would chase him around the ring and back in. True North Ant would try to catch him with an elbow drop as he rolled back in, but dodge it by sliding back out of the ring, before getting back in and clotheslining him.
With the fans firmly behind him, Hunter would try to keep the offense going, but True North Ant would catching him with a knee lift to the bread basket and go for the cover, only getting two. The man in the ant mask would keep the attack up, concentrating his everything on Hunter’s shoulder and ribs. Hunter would manage to break out of an attempted MantiobANT Stampede, only to be caught with a back breaker and a near fall. A few minutes later, True North Ant was able to finally hit the ManitobANT Stampede but only get another near fall.
True North Ant decided to end it anf called for the Red River Plunge. He lifted Hunter up in the crusfix position, but Hunter managed to get his feet on the ropes. Pushing off the ropes with his feet, Alan was able to flip backwards out of TNA’s grip and handed on his feet. He kicked TNA in the gut and hit a desperation DDT, that left both men down.
Andrew Roller started counting both men down, as the crowd firmly got behind Hunter. True North Ant was the first to his feet and tried to hit Alan Hunter with a running clotheline. Hunter ducked and caught TNA under the chin with a leg lariat. He started buidling momentum, hitting drop kicks and a body slam, doing his best to fight off the pain. Hunter would hit a snap suplex before making his way to the top rope, looking for a Swanton Bomb. Fatigue was getting the better of him though, allowing TNA time to get to his feet and crotching him on the top rope. Alan would fall into the ring and True North Ant would quickly roll him up, putting his feet on the middle rope and got the three count.
Refereee Andrew Roller would begin to present True North Ant the Television Championship, but Jose Doe rushed down to the ring and told Roller that TNA’s feet were on the ropes. The two referees would argue over this, with Alan Hunter begging Roller to listen to Jose Doe. Roller would finally agree to restart the match. Jose Doe would exit the ring and Andrew Roller would call for the bell to restart the match.
Neither referee saw what True North Ant did next. With both their backs turned, he kicked Alan Hunter between the legs and quickly hit the Red River Plunge. Both referees would were shocked to see TNA covering Alan Hunter with the leg hooked and Roller administered the three count again.
This time Jose Doe could do nothing as Andrew Roller handed True North Ant the Television Championship. TNA snatched it from Roller and left the ring. As he passed by Jose Doe, he flipped off the masked referee and walked away laughing.
Winner: and NEW PWGP Television Champion, True North Ant.
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In his office Robert Fredrick is shaking his head at what has happened. He turns to Deedee and tells her next week, if Alan Hunter is cleared to compete he will go on-on-one with Vlars to determine the number one contender for the Television Championship and that whoever loses tonight’s Global Title match will face off with the True North Ant next week for the title. She nods her head in agreement and rushes off to make the arrangements.
Robert Fredrick turns to someone off camera and apologises for the delay in their discussion. The camera turns and it’s Lions Road’s Mandeville Nelson. Nelson tells him no apologises are neccesary, he’s very familar with True North Ant’s antics and tells Fredrick he’s a braver man than he is, allowing the masked man on his roster. The two of them walk off to discuss some matters and we’re left wondering what’s going on as we go to break.
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Nick Christoulos is standing centre ring and announces it’s time for our main event and it’s for the PWGP Global Championship! There are shots of wrestlers standing in multiple locations in the back, watching on the monitors as history is about to be made.
Former PWGP Television Champion, Faititili, is the first to come out. Once again, we’re reminded by the commentary team that the Samoan warrior was the first wrestler to accumilate the ten points needed to challenege for the Global Championship. Since being awarded the TV Title in December for winning the Buck U Cup, Faititili would go on to successfully defend that championship six times, pinning the likes of the new Televison Champ, True North Ant, and the man he was about to face, Eli Buchanan, to attain the points needed. True North Ant, Paulie Rodd, GRIM, Cielo Guerrera, Eli Buchanan and The Technician all tried to take the title from him, but were unable to do so. Was he about to become Global Champion as well?
Eli Buchanan came out next. We’re reminded how he was a founding member of Asper’s Army before being betrayed by his former manager and Kraken. The commentators brought up his rocky start in the company how he only made it into the Lethal Lottery two weeks ago as an alternative, but would take advantage of the opportunity given to him to go on and winning Battle Bowl, eliminating many of his former allies in the process, to become Pro-Wrestling Grand Prix’s first ever Global Champion. Greg Straford says it’s amazing how far Eli Buchanan has managed to come since Week One of “CHARGE”, but how will he do in his first title defense against one of only two competitors here in PWGP who hold a pinfall victory over him.
We’re told we have to go to our last commercial break. When we return it will be time for the ring introductions and our main event.
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Back from our final break, Nick Christoulos makes the ring introductions. As the announcements are being made, we return to the back were we see Asper and True North Ant watching in their locker room. Alan Hunter is watching with East K Connection in the trainers rooms, as he’s being bandaged up again. The rest of the roster are shown once more circling around other monitors, all of them waiting, just like we are to watch history in the making.
Before Jose Doe calls for the bell, Eli slips out of the ring and goes to to greet his wife Charlotte, sitting alongside a woman and her daughter. Stradford tells us that the woman is Mya Denton and the little girl is Eli’s half sister, Sterling Denton-King. Eli kisses his wife and offers all three of them hugs, before handing his little sister his sunglasses. He hops back in the ring and the first ever PWGP Global Title match final is on its way.
MATCH 5
Global Title Match
Eli Buchanan (champion)
Vs
Faititli (cashing in his 10 points)
Both men shake hands as the match begins and they circle one another in the middle of the ring. The finaly lock up and Eli immediatley uses his size and strength advantage to shove Faititili backwards to the mat. The Samoan warrior climbs to his feet and the two shake hands again before locking up. Once more it’s the much larger Eli Buchanan who shoves his opponent to the mat. The commentators remind us that Eli out weighs Faititli tonight by nearly fifty pounds and holds a four inch height advantage, but that Faititili has been at a size disadvantage in nearly every match he’s been in since joining PWGP.
Eli Buchanan goes to lock up with his opponent again, but Faititlin ducks under and goes for a rear waist lock. Eli tries to hit a back elbow, but once again the Samoan warrior ducks and manages to catch Eli off guard with a hip toss. Eli rolls to his stomach and slides back to the corner, using the ropes to help him get to his feet. Once again he offers his hand to Faititili, but his opponent grabs a hold of his wrist and tries to go for a judo-style throw. Eli is able to block it and tries to grab Faititili for a suplex, but the smaller man rolls away and slides out of the ring.
The commentators point out that both men seem content to feel each other out for now, but Eli catches everyone off guard as he suddenly hits a suicide dive. The crowd cheers as he reminds us all that he’s clearly more than a suplex machine. He tosses Faititili back in the ring and waiting for him to get up, goes for a springboard closthesline. As he leaps off the rope though, Faititili catches him with a super kick to the chest and quickly goes for the cover. Eli manages to kick out at two and rolls out of the ring, as Carlyle points out that if Faititili had manages to catches him on the chin with that kick it’s likely we would have a new Global Champion right now.
Eli slowly gets to his feet on the arena floor, clearly rattled by the kick. As he’s trying to recover, Faititili comes flying over the top rope and hits him with a plancha that rocks the Global Champion. Faititili drags him to his feet and rolls him back into the ring, before climbing to the top rope, clearly looking to put Buchanan away with the splash, but Eli rolls back to the arena floor. Carlyle points out this as a sound strategy, in an attempt to slow the match down.
Undetered, Faititili gets down from the top rope and follows Eli out of the ring. So intent is he on getting the chmapion back in the ring that he’s not paying attention and Eli catches him with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex into the ringside barricade. He pulls Faititli up and rolls him back into the ring. Following him in, he hits a wheelbarrow German suplex and goes for the cover, only getting a two. He hits an exploder suplex and goes for the cover again, getting another two count.
Clearly annoyed now, Eli starts to hit a series of German suplexes and the crowd starts counting along: four, five, six, seven, eight. He hits one more German suplex, making a total of nine suplexes so far, before indicating he’s had enough of this. He climbs to the top rope, and the commentators wonder if he’s doing this to mock his opponent, and leaps off for a frog splash.
At the last moment, Faititili gets his knees up and all the air is driven out of Eli’s lungs as he lands chest first on them. Both men are down and Jose Doe starts making administering the count. Greg Straford wonders what will happen if neither man is able to answer and referee’s ten count, but he needn’t worry as both men begin to stir at the count of five. Miraculously, it’s Faititili to his feet first. He goes for a super kick but Eli catches it and spinning his opponent around goes for another release German suplex. Faititili manages to roll through to his feet somehow and as Eli gets up, hits a superkick right to his jaw. As Eli crumbles to the mat, Faititili goes for the cover and Eli is only able to kick out a just the last possible moment.
Faititili is shocked and begs Jose Doe to tell him it was three. When the ref tells him that’s not the case, Faititli turns his attention back to Eli and hits him with another super kick. He drags Eli into the middle of the ring and points to the top rope. Without any further hesitation, he goes to the corner and climbs up. Point to the crowd, he leaps off for the splash. Eli rolls out of the way and the Samoan Warrior crashes into the mat.
Eli climbs to his feet and backs himself into the corner. As Faititili starts to rise, The Last Dragon rushes in and hits the Boyame. Clearly wanting to make sure his opponent stays down, Eli picks him up and pointing at his family at ringside, hits the Chaos Driver, a version of the Northern Lights Bomb his late sister, Zoe Chaos favoured, and goes for the pin. One, two, three!
Winner: and STILL PWGP GLOBAL CHAMPION, Eli Buchanan
The crowd erupts as Eli Buchanan’s hand is raised in victory. He turns to Faititili, who is slowly getting two his feet. Eli offers him his hand and the two shake before Faititili raises Eli’s hand, before leaving to allow the Global Champion to celebrate.
As “CHARGE” goes off the air, we see security helping Charlotte Buchanan, Mya Denton and little Sterling, over the baricade and into the ring to celebrate with Eli, who embraces them all as we go to credits.
… So, in the meantime and in between time. Good night, God bless and may the Force be with you.
Security arrives to try to calm him down. Kraken responds by grabbing the Unknown lying at his feet. He lifts the dazed masked man over his head and tosses him on top of the security. Wrestlers arrive to help security deal with the angered French Canadian Colossus. “Iron” Mack Brody and the Agents of Pain appear to help their fellow member of Asper’s Army and a backstage brawl insues.
Robert Fredrick appears with more security and members of Edmonton’s police department to take control of the situation. Saul Asper gets control of his men too late, as Fredrick informs everyone that Kraken and all the members of Asper’s Army who caused the havoc here tonight are suspended and if they don’t leave now will be arrested. With Asper protesting, his men are escorted out of the arena by Edmonton’s finest.
It’s at this moment True North Ant comes out of the washroom and asks what he missed. Robert Fredrick laughs and congratulates TNA. He’s going to take Kraken’s spot in the Television Title tournament. Seething, Asper takes a confused True North Ant off to prepare for his match.
***
We finally make it down to ringside, where Greg Stradford and “Big Bad” Paul Carlyle formally welcome us to “CHARGE”. They hype the Television Title tournament, telling us because both Kraken and Mack Brody were removed from the building the matches would be True North Ant versus Bryant Adam Thompson and Vlars versus Alan Hunter, with the tournament finals later in the evening. They also hype the “Father vs Son Match”, where if James Daniels defeats his father, “High Five” Jimmy Jive, Jive will have to leave PWGP, but if Jive wins then Daniels must become his tag team partner. Finally, in the main event we will have our first ever Global Title Match; Eli Buchanan will defend the championship against former Television Champion, and the first competitor to accumulate the needed ten points to challenge for the title, Faititili.
Stradford sends it down to our ring announcer, Nick Christoulos, who makes the introductions for our opening match.
MATCH 1
Television Title Tournament Match
Bryant Adam Thompson (1 points)
Vs
True North Ant (0 points, w/ Saul Asper)
Asper looks less than pleased at the start of the match as he was hoping to have both his big men in the tournament. TNA tries to calm his boss, saying he’s got this, but immediately eats a drop kick from Thompson. True North Ant struggles to get back into the match, but the Notorious B.A.T. keeps the pace quick with a series of kicks and head scissor takeovers. The ant man escapes to the outside, but Thompson hits a a suicide dive and tosses his larger opponent back into the ring.
Asper jumps up on the apron and gets in Thompson’s face, which allowed his client time to recover and hit a clubbing blow from behind and followed up with a backbreaker. He would work over Thompson for the next few minutes, concentrating his assault on Thompson’s back and neck, setting him up for his finisher, the Red River Plunge. True North Ant hits the ManitobANT Stampede (Okahoma Stampede) and goes for the cover, only getting a two count. He would try for a second one, but Thompson broke free and tried to get back on the offense, only for TNA to hit him with a lariat and got a second two count out of it.
With his manager urging him to put Thompson away before the ten minute time limit ended, TNA went for the Red River Plunge, but Thompson would counter with a hurricanrana. With True North Ant dazed, Thompson would hit a series of drop kicks and would conuter a tilt-a-whirl into a DDT. With TNA down, Thompson would set up for the Bat Outta Hell, but would momentarily get distracted by Asper again. He would wave Asper off and go for the springboard phoneix splash, but the delay allowed True North Ant to get his knees up, catching Thompson in the chest as he came down. TNA would roll Thompson up for the pinfall. Referee Mark Lindsay miseed seeing his feet on the ropes and he got the three count.
Winner: and advancing to the Television Title Tournament final, True North Ant (1 point)
Thompson sat up in shock as True North Ant escaped from the ring and joined his manager on the entrance ramp to celebrate. Greg Stradford put the win over as a minor upset and how TNA needed to cheat to beat Thompson. Carlyle countered that the former ManitonANT was just living up to his potential and predicted we might be looking at our next Television Champion.
***
Alan Hunter watches what just happened on a monitor in the back. The East K Connection join him and wish him luck against the mysterious Vlars, in tonight’s next match. Alan thanks him and asks Easy E and Sweet Daddy D to watch his back because with Vlars in the building, that meant Surf ‘n Turf wouldn’t be far away. The three of them mock the rookie team’s apparent man crush on the “puke bucket god”, and Hunter high fives both of them before taking his leave.
After the break we’ll have our second Television Title Tournanment match. Don’t go anywhere!
***
MATCH 2
Television Title Tournament Match
Alan Hunter (1 points)
Vs
Vlars (2 points)
Back from break, we find Vlars making his way down to ringside with his mop and bucket. Alan Hunter makes his entrance and is immediately set upon by Vod and Zaros, who start beating him down. The East K Connection quickly run them off and check on Hunter.
Jose Doe asks Hunter if he’s able to compete and Hunter nods. Vlars wastes no time going on the attack and Doe has little choice but call for the bell to start the match. There was little fineese in Vlars’s offense. He smashed Hunter into the turnbuckles and chokes him on the top rope before slamming him to the mat and stomping on his chest.
The next few minutes are more of the same, with Vlars using his smashmouth tactics to wear Alan Hunter down and going for frequent pin attempts. Hunter did his best to fight back but Vlars rough house antics appeared to be too much for him.
The tide finally turned when Vlars missed a rushing tackle and went shoulder first into the ring post. This allowed Hunter enough time to recover and hit a hip toss and a drop kick. He would hit a couple of running clotheslines and a body slam before Vlars would bail to the floor. The two of them would brawl around the ring before Vlars would grab his mop and tried to hit Hunter with it. Hunter would catch the mop, but Vlars would grab his bucket and strike him across the side of the head with it. Jose Doe would immediately call for the bell, disqualifying Vlars.
Winner: and advancing to the Television Title Tournament finals, Alan Hunter (3 points).
Following the match Vlars would continue to work over Alan Hunter with the mop and bucket. The east K Connection would hit the ringside area to help their friend but Surf ‘n Turf would blindside them with chair shots. Vlars would stand back and watch with growing apprecaition as Zaros and Vod would assault Sweet Daddy D, Easy E and Alan Hunter with steel chairs before referees and security rushed down and stopped the assault.
Vlars and Surf ‘n Turf would take this has their cue to leave and celebrated the carnage they had caused up on the entrance ramp. The commentators questioned whether there was any way Alan Hunter could possibly be in any shape to compete later tonight in the tournament finals.
***
Watching the monitor in their locker room, True North Ant and Saul Asper were estactic at what had just transpired. Saul told TNA he had the title in the bag tonight, but warned him that if he didn’t bring home the championship tonight for the Army, there would be hell to pay. True North Ant told him there was nothing to worry about, but it was clear he was feeling the pressure.
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Elsewhere, Vlars and Surf ‘n Turf were still celbrating what they had donw. Robert Fredrick approached, rather furious, with security. He announced that next week We would see a mtag team match, Surf ‘n Turf would face off with The East K Connection, with Vlars and Alan Hunter banned from ringside. Fredrcik would then order the security to escort all three of them out of the arena so they couldn’t interfere in anymore mathes tonight.
Up after the break it’s “Father vs Son” with both men’s futures in stake. Don’t go anywhere!
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Back from break, we find Alan Hunter and The East K Connection all being checked out by trainers. Robert Fredrick enters and asks the head trainer if Hunter is cleared to compete. The trainer says he’s hestitant to allow him to compete, but Hunter insists that he compete. He says he doen’t want to Asper’s Army to get their filthy hands on any of PWGP’s championships and begs to be allowed to compete. The trainer says it’s against his better judgment, but he’ll allow it, much to the delight of the Edmonton crowd.
Robert Fredrick shakes his head at Hunter’s heart, but wishes him good luck tonight. He too doesn’t want to see the Army get their hands on any championships and hopes Alan Hunter can stop True North Ant.
Fredrick takes his leave, as the trainers continue to bandage Hunter up.
***
As James Daniels makes his way down to the ring for his match, the commentators discuss what we just found out. Paul Carlyle admits Alan Hunter has guts, but calls him a fool, siting he’s sure if Hunter had forfieted the match tonight, Robert Fredrick would have given him a shot at True North Ant’s Television Championship next week, and believes TNA will win the title tonight regardless and it will be much more painful for Hunter.
“High Five: Jimmy Jive makes his way down to the ring whil Nick Christoulos makes the ring introductions.
MATCH 3
“Father vs Son”
“High Five” Jimmy Jive
Vs
James Daniels
(If Daniels wins, Jive is gone from PWGP. If Jive wins, Daniels must become his tag team partner)
Despite requesting this match, Jimmy Jive seems reluctant to tie it up with his estranged son. James Daniels has no such reservations and immediately kicks his father in the stomach and grabs him in a side headlock. Jive counters by whipping him into the ropes and knocking him down with a shoulder block, followed by a hip toss and a side headlock takeover, getting a one count from referee, Andrew Roller.
Daniels would push away from his father and roll out of the ring, kicking the ring steps in frustration. Andrew Roller began the count and ordered him back into the ring. Daniels would get up on the ring apron and argue with Roller, but made no effort to get back in. Jive was having none of this though. Grabbing the ring rope, he slingshot his son back into the ring and causght him with another headlock takeover for a near fall.
Out of frustration Daniels raked his father’s eyes and this allowed him to finally get control of the match. He would show his father no mercy as he pushed him into the corner and began kicking him, before snap maring him out of the corner and stomping on his face. For the next few minutes he would wear down his father and go for frequent pin attempts.
It was his lack of experience that would finally get the better of him as he slammed his father in the middle of the ring and went to the top rope, looking for the flying drop kick, a move that brought his father a great deal of success early in his career. As Jive rose to his feet, Daniels would go for the big move, only to miss his target as Jive stepped out of the way. Jive would wisely hooking his son’s arms and hitting the floatover underhook suplex he calls “The Wipe Out”. Daniels was unable to escape and Jive got the three count.
Winner: “High Five” Jimmy Jive, James Daniels now must tag team with him.
Daniels has a look of horror on his face as his father celebrates. Jive grabs a spare headband and hands it to him and Daniels reluctantly puts it on, as part of the stipulation is that he must do whatever his father asks of him. Looking downtrotten, Daniels follows his excited father out of the ring and they head to the back, with both commentators laughing at him.
After the break, it’s the Television Title Tournanment Final! Can Alan Hunter overcome the assualt he suffered earlier tonight, or will True North Ant bring home the Television Title to his suspended stablemates. Don’t go anywhere, we’ll be right back.
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Back from break, the camera focuses on the Television Title on display at ringside. Stradford and Carlyle hype this match, reminding everyone at home that the holder of the Television Championship can fast track his way to a PWGP Global Title shot, gaining two points instead one for everytime they successfully defend their championship.
True North Ant is out first with Saul Asper. Before the pair can make therir weay down to the ring, officials come out and order Asper to return to the back. We’re told that Robert Fredrick wants this tournament final to be fought cleanly and following his repeated interferance earlier tonight, Asper has been barred from ringside.
Looking lost, TNA watches his manager being escorted back to his locker room. Reluctantly he makes his way to the ring and waits for Alan Hunter to appear.
Hunter comes out, his right shoulder and ribs tapped up. The commentators remind us that he was injured at the hands of Vlars earlier tonight at the conclusion of their hands and we watch hilights of him being beaten down by Vlars and both members of Surf ‘n Turf. Again Stradford questions how he can possibly be able to compete here in the finals and Carlyle replies that there’s no way he can.
Nick Christoulos makes the formal introductions and leaves the ring, as Andrew Roller calls for the bell.
MATCH 4
Televison Title Tournament Final
True North Ant (1 point)
Vs
Alan Hunter (3 points)
True North Ant immediately tries to go after Hunter’s injured ribs but Alan sidesteps him and catches him with a series of punches. TNA rolls out of the ring, with Hunter right on his heels. Hunter would chase him around the ring and back in. True North Ant would try to catch him with an elbow drop as he rolled back in, but dodge it by sliding back out of the ring, before getting back in and clotheslining him.
With the fans firmly behind him, Hunter would try to keep the offense going, but True North Ant would catching him with a knee lift to the bread basket and go for the cover, only getting two. The man in the ant mask would keep the attack up, concentrating his everything on Hunter’s shoulder and ribs. Hunter would manage to break out of an attempted MantiobANT Stampede, only to be caught with a back breaker and a near fall. A few minutes later, True North Ant was able to finally hit the ManitobANT Stampede but only get another near fall.
True North Ant decided to end it anf called for the Red River Plunge. He lifted Hunter up in the crusfix position, but Hunter managed to get his feet on the ropes. Pushing off the ropes with his feet, Alan was able to flip backwards out of TNA’s grip and handed on his feet. He kicked TNA in the gut and hit a desperation DDT, that left both men down.
Andrew Roller started counting both men down, as the crowd firmly got behind Hunter. True North Ant was the first to his feet and tried to hit Alan Hunter with a running clotheline. Hunter ducked and caught TNA under the chin with a leg lariat. He started buidling momentum, hitting drop kicks and a body slam, doing his best to fight off the pain. Hunter would hit a snap suplex before making his way to the top rope, looking for a Swanton Bomb. Fatigue was getting the better of him though, allowing TNA time to get to his feet and crotching him on the top rope. Alan would fall into the ring and True North Ant would quickly roll him up, putting his feet on the middle rope and got the three count.
Refereee Andrew Roller would begin to present True North Ant the Television Championship, but Jose Doe rushed down to the ring and told Roller that TNA’s feet were on the ropes. The two referees would argue over this, with Alan Hunter begging Roller to listen to Jose Doe. Roller would finally agree to restart the match. Jose Doe would exit the ring and Andrew Roller would call for the bell to restart the match.
Neither referee saw what True North Ant did next. With both their backs turned, he kicked Alan Hunter between the legs and quickly hit the Red River Plunge. Both referees would were shocked to see TNA covering Alan Hunter with the leg hooked and Roller administered the three count again.
This time Jose Doe could do nothing as Andrew Roller handed True North Ant the Television Championship. TNA snatched it from Roller and left the ring. As he passed by Jose Doe, he flipped off the masked referee and walked away laughing.
Winner: and NEW PWGP Television Champion, True North Ant.
***
In his office Robert Fredrick is shaking his head at what has happened. He turns to Deedee and tells her next week, if Alan Hunter is cleared to compete he will go on-on-one with Vlars to determine the number one contender for the Television Championship and that whoever loses tonight’s Global Title match will face off with the True North Ant next week for the title. She nods her head in agreement and rushes off to make the arrangements.
Robert Fredrick turns to someone off camera and apologises for the delay in their discussion. The camera turns and it’s Lions Road’s Mandeville Nelson. Nelson tells him no apologises are neccesary, he’s very familar with True North Ant’s antics and tells Fredrick he’s a braver man than he is, allowing the masked man on his roster. The two of them walk off to discuss some matters and we’re left wondering what’s going on as we go to break.
***
Nick Christoulos is standing centre ring and announces it’s time for our main event and it’s for the PWGP Global Championship! There are shots of wrestlers standing in multiple locations in the back, watching on the monitors as history is about to be made.
Former PWGP Television Champion, Faititili, is the first to come out. Once again, we’re reminded by the commentary team that the Samoan warrior was the first wrestler to accumilate the ten points needed to challenege for the Global Championship. Since being awarded the TV Title in December for winning the Buck U Cup, Faititili would go on to successfully defend that championship six times, pinning the likes of the new Televison Champ, True North Ant, and the man he was about to face, Eli Buchanan, to attain the points needed. True North Ant, Paulie Rodd, GRIM, Cielo Guerrera, Eli Buchanan and The Technician all tried to take the title from him, but were unable to do so. Was he about to become Global Champion as well?
Eli Buchanan came out next. We’re reminded how he was a founding member of Asper’s Army before being betrayed by his former manager and Kraken. The commentators brought up his rocky start in the company how he only made it into the Lethal Lottery two weeks ago as an alternative, but would take advantage of the opportunity given to him to go on and winning Battle Bowl, eliminating many of his former allies in the process, to become Pro-Wrestling Grand Prix’s first ever Global Champion. Greg Straford says it’s amazing how far Eli Buchanan has managed to come since Week One of “CHARGE”, but how will he do in his first title defense against one of only two competitors here in PWGP who hold a pinfall victory over him.
We’re told we have to go to our last commercial break. When we return it will be time for the ring introductions and our main event.
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Back from our final break, Nick Christoulos makes the ring introductions. As the announcements are being made, we return to the back were we see Asper and True North Ant watching in their locker room. Alan Hunter is watching with East K Connection in the trainers rooms, as he’s being bandaged up again. The rest of the roster are shown once more circling around other monitors, all of them waiting, just like we are to watch history in the making.
Before Jose Doe calls for the bell, Eli slips out of the ring and goes to to greet his wife Charlotte, sitting alongside a woman and her daughter. Stradford tells us that the woman is Mya Denton and the little girl is Eli’s half sister, Sterling Denton-King. Eli kisses his wife and offers all three of them hugs, before handing his little sister his sunglasses. He hops back in the ring and the first ever PWGP Global Title match final is on its way.
MATCH 5
Global Title Match
Eli Buchanan (champion)
Vs
Faititli (cashing in his 10 points)
Both men shake hands as the match begins and they circle one another in the middle of the ring. The finaly lock up and Eli immediatley uses his size and strength advantage to shove Faititili backwards to the mat. The Samoan warrior climbs to his feet and the two shake hands again before locking up. Once more it’s the much larger Eli Buchanan who shoves his opponent to the mat. The commentators remind us that Eli out weighs Faititli tonight by nearly fifty pounds and holds a four inch height advantage, but that Faititili has been at a size disadvantage in nearly every match he’s been in since joining PWGP.
Eli Buchanan goes to lock up with his opponent again, but Faititlin ducks under and goes for a rear waist lock. Eli tries to hit a back elbow, but once again the Samoan warrior ducks and manages to catch Eli off guard with a hip toss. Eli rolls to his stomach and slides back to the corner, using the ropes to help him get to his feet. Once again he offers his hand to Faititili, but his opponent grabs a hold of his wrist and tries to go for a judo-style throw. Eli is able to block it and tries to grab Faititili for a suplex, but the smaller man rolls away and slides out of the ring.
The commentators point out that both men seem content to feel each other out for now, but Eli catches everyone off guard as he suddenly hits a suicide dive. The crowd cheers as he reminds us all that he’s clearly more than a suplex machine. He tosses Faititili back in the ring and waiting for him to get up, goes for a springboard closthesline. As he leaps off the rope though, Faititili catches him with a super kick to the chest and quickly goes for the cover. Eli manages to kick out at two and rolls out of the ring, as Carlyle points out that if Faititili had manages to catches him on the chin with that kick it’s likely we would have a new Global Champion right now.
Eli slowly gets to his feet on the arena floor, clearly rattled by the kick. As he’s trying to recover, Faititili comes flying over the top rope and hits him with a plancha that rocks the Global Champion. Faititili drags him to his feet and rolls him back into the ring, before climbing to the top rope, clearly looking to put Buchanan away with the splash, but Eli rolls back to the arena floor. Carlyle points out this as a sound strategy, in an attempt to slow the match down.
Undetered, Faititili gets down from the top rope and follows Eli out of the ring. So intent is he on getting the chmapion back in the ring that he’s not paying attention and Eli catches him with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex into the ringside barricade. He pulls Faititli up and rolls him back into the ring. Following him in, he hits a wheelbarrow German suplex and goes for the cover, only getting a two. He hits an exploder suplex and goes for the cover again, getting another two count.
Clearly annoyed now, Eli starts to hit a series of German suplexes and the crowd starts counting along: four, five, six, seven, eight. He hits one more German suplex, making a total of nine suplexes so far, before indicating he’s had enough of this. He climbs to the top rope, and the commentators wonder if he’s doing this to mock his opponent, and leaps off for a frog splash.
At the last moment, Faititili gets his knees up and all the air is driven out of Eli’s lungs as he lands chest first on them. Both men are down and Jose Doe starts making administering the count. Greg Straford wonders what will happen if neither man is able to answer and referee’s ten count, but he needn’t worry as both men begin to stir at the count of five. Miraculously, it’s Faititili to his feet first. He goes for a super kick but Eli catches it and spinning his opponent around goes for another release German suplex. Faititili manages to roll through to his feet somehow and as Eli gets up, hits a superkick right to his jaw. As Eli crumbles to the mat, Faititili goes for the cover and Eli is only able to kick out a just the last possible moment.
Faititili is shocked and begs Jose Doe to tell him it was three. When the ref tells him that’s not the case, Faititli turns his attention back to Eli and hits him with another super kick. He drags Eli into the middle of the ring and points to the top rope. Without any further hesitation, he goes to the corner and climbs up. Point to the crowd, he leaps off for the splash. Eli rolls out of the way and the Samoan Warrior crashes into the mat.
Eli climbs to his feet and backs himself into the corner. As Faititili starts to rise, The Last Dragon rushes in and hits the Boyame. Clearly wanting to make sure his opponent stays down, Eli picks him up and pointing at his family at ringside, hits the Chaos Driver, a version of the Northern Lights Bomb his late sister, Zoe Chaos favoured, and goes for the pin. One, two, three!
Winner: and STILL PWGP GLOBAL CHAMPION, Eli Buchanan
The crowd erupts as Eli Buchanan’s hand is raised in victory. He turns to Faititili, who is slowly getting two his feet. Eli offers him his hand and the two shake before Faititili raises Eli’s hand, before leaving to allow the Global Champion to celebrate.
As “CHARGE” goes off the air, we see security helping Charlotte Buchanan, Mya Denton and little Sterling, over the baricade and into the ring to celebrate with Eli, who embraces them all as we go to credits.
… So, in the meantime and in between time. Good night, God bless and may the Force be with you.