Post by Eli Buchanan on Mar 25, 2018 21:42:28 GMT -5
Preshow:
-”The Bayside Behemoth” Axel Moros (fka Bruiser Jones) defeated Paulie Rod with a Burning Hammer to pick up the pinfall and his second point.
-David Lee Sellers and The Big O fought to a double countout.
-The East K Connection and Pierre the Masked Canadian defeated The Pimp & Shrimp Connection (MANDINGO & Capt Gill Baits) and Duke Womack when Easy E pinned Baits with a Frog Splash.
As PWGP CHARGE goes on the air, we see footage from a press conference at Winnipeg’s Bell/MTS Place. There BUAC Spokesman Robert Fredrick, as well as Buck U Productions Vice President David Flynn, announce that a vacant retail store in heart of the city and renovations were recently completed so PWGP could produce all further episodes of CHARGE in it. It’s explained that Winnipeg’s central location in North America makes it a perfect spot to bring in talent from around the continent. The “Glory Road” special quarter annual events will still occur in other locations, with Glory Road 1 happening at the Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Montana. The first show in what has been dubbed the PWGP Exhibition Centre will occur in two weeks time.
We go to the Helena Ice Arena in Helena, Montana, where a ruckus crowd helps welcome us to the show. Our colour commentary team, Greg Stradford and “Big Bad” Paul Carlyle greet us and quickly go over tonight’s matches. We will still our final two quarterfinal matches in the PWGP International Tag Team Title Tournament, The Wrecking Brew face off Team AMLL, and The Brute Squad face off with Surf ‘n Turf; Alan Hunter will face off with Vlars in the fifth match in their best of five series; Agent B will face off with Bryant Adam Thompson; and in the main event, PWGP Television Champion BOB will defend his title in a gauntlet match. Plus, because Kraken attained his tenth point last week, he has every intention to cash it in for a PWGP Global Title match against Eli Buchanan at Glory Road, so later tonight we will have an official contract signing.
Greg and Paul send it over to our ring announcer, Nick Christoulos for the opening match introductions.
MATCH 1
Bryant Adam Thompson (4 points, w/ Faititili)
vs
Agent B (3 points, w/ Saul Asper & Agent D)
(Referee: Mark Lindsey)
Before the match we see highlights of Faititili defeating Agent D last week with a flying splash. Greg Stradford points out that a victory by Thompson tonight would give him and Faititili a lot of momentum going into next week’s tag team match against the Agents of Pain at Glory Road.
In the early goings of the match both competitors showed their technical skills, going move for move with one another. Agent B would briefly gain control with a well placed knee to the gut but Thompson would soon gain the advantage back with a headscissor takeover. Agent B would roll out of the ring but Thompson would hit a corkscrew plancha on the arena floor. This would lead to Agent D to try to interfere but Faititili would prevent it with a clothesline of the ring apron. In the midst of it all, Agent B would get the drop on Thompson when Asper grabbed the latter’s foot while he was trying to get into the ring, allowing Agent B to stomp on his back.
Now firmly in control, Agent B would slowly begin to take Thompson apart, wearing him down while Agent D and Asper shouted encouragement from ringside. Faititli would do his best to get the crowd into the match, banging on the ring apron while Thompson was locked in a kravat. This seemed to energize the Notorious B.A.T., who tried to fight his way out of the kravat but Agent B would grab a handful of Thompson’s hair and pull him back down to the mat .
Thompson would continue to fight to get back into the match and finally would after countering a vertical suplex into an Ace Cutter. Try his best, Agent B found it hard to do anything to slow Thompson down as he seemed to be getting hit on all sides by the Notorious B.A.T.’s high octane offense. Thompson would drop Agent B on his head with a hurricanrana and prepare to hit Bat Outta Hell, when Agent D jumped up on the apron to stop him. Faititili would pull him down off the apron and the two would begin fighting, leading to Mark Lindsey to order them both to return to the locker room. While the two of them argued with Lindsey, Agent B hit Thompson with a low blow and rolled him up for the three count to pick up the victory.
Winner: Agent B (4 points)
Agent B quickly rolled out of the ring as Faititili scrambled in to check on Thompson. He joined his manager and tag team partner on the stage to celebrate. Carlyle stated that it would appear that the Agents of Pain were walking into Glory Road with all the momentum now and wondered how a couple of singles wrestlers would be able to compete against a well oiled tag team when they met next week.
***
MATCH 2
PWGP International Tag Team Tournament Quarterfinal
The Brute Squad (Son of Brute and Mini Brute, w/ Tony Columbo)
vs
Surf ‘n Turf (Vod and Zaros)
(Referee: Andrew Roller)
It’s explained at the beginning of the match by Greg Stradford that Tony Columbo had his team’s names changed to English because he was having a hard time pronouncing the Spanish names. Carlyle quipped that Tony Columbo has a hard enough time speaking English and wondered why he didn’t just call them Small Brute and Smaller Brute. He also asked the question many people have probably be wondering for months, if Brutus Smith is a eunuch how can there be a “son of Brute”?
The match itself was pretty straightforward. The Brute Squad used their size advantage early on to control the action. Try as he might, none of Zaros’s offense seemed to do any damage to his larger opponents and he ended up getting tossed around for his troubles. Vod seemed to fair better when he was tagged in and faced off with Mini Brute, who still out weighed him by fifty pounds, with neither of them being able to get a clear advantage over the other. When Son of Brute tagged back in however, Vod found himself unable to counter the bigger man’s size and strength advantage. Zaros would attempt to help his partner out by jumping of Son’s back, but the big man easily tossed him off and along with Mini, would clear the ring of Surf ‘n Turf.
Zaros and Vod would form a plan on the arena floor while Andrew Roller would begin to administer the ten count. Vod would climb back into the ring and state that he wanted to fight Mini Brute again. Zaros would take this opportunity to go after Tony Columbo. Son of Brute would jump off the ring apron to come to his manager’s aid and the goblin would quickly scramble under the ring to escape the big man’s wrath. This distraction was all Vod needed though and he would level Mini Brute from behind. Zaros would quickly join his partner in the ring and the two would stomp away until Roller forced Zaros back out of the ring.
Despite the pair’s relative lack of experience, Surf ‘n Turf’s simple plan of keeping Mini Brute grounded and work on his legs seemed to be working very well. Paul Carlyle praised the rookie team for how they cut the ring in half and kept Mini far from his corner. The young duo would taunt Son, to get him to enter the ring so they could double team his partner while Roller tried his best to get him back out of the ring.
The tide would finally change, no pun intended, when Zaros would go for a vertical splash from the top rope and almost ended up eating a raised boot from Mini Brute in the process. Both men would slowly crawl to their corners. Zaros would manage to tag in Vod first but Mini managed to make the tag to Son before the sea monster could stop him. Son of Brute would come in and begin clearing house, leveling both his opponents with big boots and clotheslines. He scooped Zaros up for an apparent powerslam but Vod would pull his partner to safety and the two would start double teaming the big man before they were both shoved away. Mini Brute would enter back into the action and all four men were soon brawling. Zaros would try to set Mini up for what appeared to be a running spear but Tony Columbo would get his revenge for earlier in the match by tripping him up while Roller was busy trying to seperate Son and Vod. Mini Brute would quickly take advantage of this opening, hitting Zaros with a brainbuster and once Son had tossed Vod out of the ring, Mini would hit the assisted top rope cannonball senton to pick up the three count.
Winners: and advancing to the semifinals, The Brute Squad.
After the match, the Brute Squad stood tall while Surf ‘n Turf recovered on the arena floor. Carlyle was all over Tony Columbo for interfering in the match and complaining that Surf ‘n Turf were robbed. Greg Stradford informs us that the Brute Squad will face off next week with the winners of the match between the Wrecking Brew and Team AMLL later tonight, and whoever wins that will face off with the winners of the other semifinals between the East K Connection and the father/son duo of Jive and Daniels. We take on last look at the Brute Squad celebrating with their manager before we move on.
***
We return to find Robert Fredrick in his office with his assistant, Deedee Gagnon. Saul Asper and the Agents of Pain soon enter, followed close behind by the duo of Bryant Adam Thompson and Faititili. Fredrick thanks everyone for coming and congratulates Fatitili and Agent B on their victories. Because of this, the BUAC, Fredrick states, wants to give both teams the opportunity to add a stipulation to the match since they want this issue between the four of them to conclude at Glory Road. Robert Fredrick flips a coin to see who gets to choose first and it’s the Agents of Pain, who deliberate with Asper and state that the losing team is gone from PWGP for thirty days. Faititli and Thompson seem to like this idea and add their own stipulation, Saul Asper and all other member of his Army are banned from ringside. Robert Fredrick approves of both stipulations and adds one of his own, the winning team will be entered into the tag team gauntlet match later that night and be able to pick their own number of entry. Both teams immediately leave to prepare for next week, allowing Fredrick and Gagnon to turn their attention back to the action on the monitor.
***
MATCH 3
Best of 5 Series
Alan Hunter (2 wins)
vs
Vlars (2 wins)
(Referee: Jose Doe)
The back and forth battle between these two has clearly gotten the better of both men’s temperaments. As soon as the bell rings, both men are at each other’s throats and there’s no effort by either man to even try to wrestle. They brawl with one another all around the ring and out to the arena floor. Jose Doe begins administering the count, which leads to them both rolling back into the ring but they soon find themselves back on the floor as they continue to fight. With no other choice, Jose Doe starts the count again. Neither man seems to hear him this time, or simple doesn’t care, as they do their best to get their pound of flesh from one another. With the crowd showing their clear displeasure, Doe has no choice but to count them both out and call for the bell.
DOUBLE COUNT OUT
Security and officials run down to ringside to try to break these two up, while the crowd chants “Let The Fight!” The locker room clears out to help separate the two of them, but this only leads to Alan Hunter scrambling into the ring and hitting a plancha onto Vlars and everyone trying to hold him at bay.
The two competitors are finally separated and things appear to be under control. Robert Fredrick appears on the big screen and states the BUAC had a feeling this might happen. He announces that they will not allow this series to end like this states that next week we will see these two end their feud in a ladder match with contract to face the PWGP Global Champion hanging above the ring, and oh yeah, did he fail to mention that will now be a title match. The crowd cheers as Vlars and Alan Hunter nod their heads and yell insults at one another as we head to break.
***
Somewhere in the back we find James Daniels flirting with an intern. “High Five” Jimmy Jive walks in and asked the young lady to take a walk so he can speak with his son. Once she’s gone he confronts James about cheating last week to make sure they made it to the International Tag Team Title semifinals. Daniels begs off, stating all he did was make sure his dad got the three count and tells him not to worry about it. Jive makes him swear not to do it again and eventually James agrees but after his dad departs he rolls his eyes and goes off to find the intern.
***
MATCH 4
PWGP Television Title Match
BOB (champion, w/ The Guru)
vs
(Referee: Andrew Roller)
The Guru grabs the microphone from Nick Christoulos. He states that no one has been able to stop, or even slow down his green faced gladiator since his arrival and now that he’s Television Champion no one wants to face him. Greg Stradford tries to dispute this but gets hushed by Paul Carlyle. The Guru stated he forgives them for being apprehensive so he’s going to make things easy on them. He holds up a hat and states that the names of every member of the roster is in it and with the BUAC’s consent he will pick a name at random to challenge BOB for the title. If that person is unsuccessful, the Guru will pick a second individual to face BOB, and if they too are unsuccessful, he will pick a third. The Guru brags that BOB will defeat all three men here tonight and he’ll do it with the ten minute time limit.Greg Stradford does a quick calculation in his head and states that if BOB beats all three men tonight that would give him nine points, just one short of the required ten to challenge for the Global Title.
The Guru picks the first name and laughs. He shows the name to the camera, Orville Newton.
As Newton makes his way down to the ring with the Big O, Greg Stratford questions whether this “lottery” is rigged. No sooner does Newton get in the ring than BOB levels him with a boot and Andrew Roller calls for the bell. BOB picks Orville Newton up by the hair and starts headbutting him repeatedly. The Big O jumps up on the apron to protests but BOB releases Orville and knocks him off the apron with a big boot. He turns his attention back to the prone Orville and hits a leaping splash on his back before rolling him over and covering him for the easy three count.
Winner: BOB (5 points)
The Guru gets on the microphone and pointing at Orville, orders the officials to clean that stain off the mat. He raises the hat above his head and pulls out another name. He’s clearly not happy about who it is and tosses the paper aside in disgust. Nick Christoulos quickly scoops it up and after reading it, announces the next competitor, FAITITLI!
The crowd comes alive as Faititli comes out and stares down his old rival. Before he can even get to the ring though, he’s attacked from behind by the Agents of Pain. They start beating him down, which leads to Bryant Adam Thompson coming out to even things up and the four brawl their way to the back. The Guru doesn’t care about this and orders Andrew Roller to count Faititili out. With a look of disgust on his face, Roller complies and counts Faititli out. The Guru jumps around like it’s a huge victory for his client but Greg Stradford balks at it and wonders how this can even count.
Winner: BOB (7 points)
The Guru starts bragging about how quickly BOB is mowing through the competition tonight and states that no one can beat his client. He reaches into his hat and pulls out the third name. He looks at it in confusion before asking who exactly is Axel Moros.
The answer to his question is a large individual with a tattooed head. Greg Stradford quickly brings us up to speed and tells us despite this being his first appearance on CHARGE, Axel Moros has been tearing things up in PWGP for the last two weeks and has already earned for himself two points.
Axel enters the ring and immediately starts throwing punches with BOB. The green faced freak is taken aback at first but soon grabs him and connects with a headbutt. Axel shakes it off and gives BOB a headbutt of his own. The two behemoths fire back and forth, neither seemingly able to get the better of the other. Before anyone realises it the bell is ringing, signalling the ten minute time limit has expired. Neither man seems to notice and they continue to fight. It only ends when Axel Moros delivers a running dropkick that knocks BOB out of the ring. It takes The Technician, both Moondogs and the Guru to calm BOB down and back him away from the ring.
TIME LIMIT DRAW
Robert Fredrick appears on the big screen again and states he likes what he’s seen here just now. Since there was no clear winner here tonight, he suggests that we do this match one more time, except this time he’s extending the time limit to twenty minutes and states he’s certain the BUAC will approve. The crowd cheers on this announcement, as the announcers put over this huge announcement, and Axel yells at BOB he’ll be seeing him again soon and will be taking his title.
***
MAIN EVENT
MATCH 5
PWGP International Tag Team Tournament Quarterfinal
Team AMLL (Cielo Guerrera and La Mosca de Loca)
vs
The Wrecking Brew (“Iron” Mack Brody and True North Ant, w/ Saul Asper)
(Referee: Jose Doe)
The Wrecking Brew tries their best to push around the two luchadores at the beginning of the match, hoping to use their size and strength to their advantage. The two Mexican warrior have none of it and it’s not long before they’ve knocked Brody to the floor and begin working leave True North Ant’s head spinning with a series of arm drags, ranas and tandem offense. TNA tried to seek refuge on the arena floor with Brody to rethink their game plan but there was no rest for the wicked as Cielo and Mosca hit them both with suicide dives.
The luchadores would continue to take the fight to their opponents on the floor and this would prove to be a mistake as Brody would pick up Cielo and literally toss him at Mosca, sending them both crashing into the ring steps. TNA would toss Mosca in the ring and continue the assault. The Wrecking Brew would go on to make frequent tags as they simply ground and pound the young luchadore, and kept him in their corner far from his partner. All the while True North Ant made a point of getting in Jose Doe’s face and taunting him.
It would be one such instance that would lead to La Mosca de Loca finally make the tag. True North Ant went for the Red River Plunge but stopped to yell insults at Doe before lifting up the luchadore for the move. Mosca would counter it with a hurricanrana and rolled to his corner to bring his partner. The much fresher Cielo Guerrera literally sprung into the ring with a flying cross body block on True North Ant and dropkick Brody’s knee out from beneath him, knocking him off the ring apron. He hit TNA with a series of arm drags and then with a hurricanrana, hooking the leg for the pin attempt. Brody would jump in to break up it up and tossed Cielo out of the ring, but the lucha star landed on the ring apron. Before Brody could do anything he was struck with a flying dropkick by La Mosca de Loca that knocked him out of the ring.
The lucha duo turned their attention to True North Ant who tried to beg off and hide behind Jose Doe. The referee was having none of it and to the shock of everyone, hip tossed TNA into the middle of the ring. True North Ant leaped to his feet to try to get after Doe but would eat a double superkick from Team AMLL and would slowly get chopped down to size with a series of lightening fast kicks from the luchadores. Brody would try to get in the ring but they would knock him back off the apron with a double dropkick. The luchadores quickly ascended opposite corners and looked to be about to hit a tandem flying move when Brody suddenly jumped up on the apron and pushed Cielo Guerrero off the top rope, sending him crashing down on the barricade. The sight of this caused Mosca to pause too long before going for a flying leg drop and TNA was able to roll out of the way. Brody quickly entered the ring and leveled the lucha star with a lariat clothesline before lifting him up on his shoulders. True North Ant quickly climbed to the top rope and hit the Doomsday Device clothesline. True North Ant would cover Mosca for the pinfall, yelling insults at Jose Doe while he made the count
Winners: and advancing to the semifinals, The Wrecking Brew.
Following the match, Jose Doe refused to raise the winners hands in victory. He immediately rolled out of the ring and headed to the back as True North Ant continued to berate him with insults. Saul Asper rolled into the ring to raise his men’s hands in victory and as we go to break tells us all that we’re looking at the first ever PWGP International Tag Team Champions.
***
Back from break we see Robert Fredrick and Deedee Ganon standing in the ring beside a table. Fredrick announces that at Glory Road we will have a PWGP Global Title Match in the main event and introduces the two competitors.
First out is Kraken with his manager, Saul Asper. Paul Carlyle reminds us that unlike Faititli and True North Ant, who both used the Television Title to accelerate their way way to Global Title shots, Kraken did it the hard way, by slowly accumulating the points one at a time. He points out that Eli Buchanan has never defeated this man and believes that we are looking at the next PWGP Global Champion.
Out next is the champion, Eli Buchanan. Greg Stradford is quick to point out that Eli has recently returned from a very successful tour of Japan. Stradford puts over how resilient Buchanan is, reminding us all that he took advantage of an opportunity given to him to enter the Lethal Lottery back in January, where he became the first ever Global Champion. Since then he has refused to hide behind the title, successfully defending it against both Faititili and True North Ant, two of the three men who’ve held pinfall victories over him, The third stands in the ring waiting for him to enter and sign the contract.
As Eli enters, Robert Fredrick thanks them both for coming. He goes on to tell both of them this will be a civil contract signing but Asper cuts him off and begins going off on Buchanan. He states that Buchanan is lucky to be holding that title. That he would never even have it if Robert Fredrick didn’t do everything in his power to make sure he won that title. Asper states that the only reason Eli even managed to eliminate Kraken from Battle Bowl in January is because Kraken slipped on some else’s sweat. He congratulates him on managing to hold the Global Title this long, but next week at Glory Road his luck has run up. He reminds everyone that Kraken is the only person to ever beat Eli Buchanan twice and at Glory Road he’ll do it for a third time. Saul Asper reminds Eli of how badly Kraken beat him up the last time they faced off on on one and this time will be no different. Asper continues talking about how badly Kraken is going to destroy him, but Eli cuts him off by picking up the contract and signing it, before tossing the clipboard in Kraken’s face.
Eli tells Asper he’s heard it all before and is tired of hearing it. He states that unlike their last few matches, he’s ready for Kraken this time and is at a hundred percent. Eli openly questions though if Kraken is, reminding all of us how Brutus Smith chokeslammed him through the ring two weeks ago and how he hasn’t wrestled since then. Eli warns Kraken and Asper if there’s a chink in Kraken’s armour he’ll exploit it and whether Asper, or Kraken, or anyone else likes it, he will walk out of Glory Road still PWGP Global Champion. Eli then tells Asper and Kraken to hurry up and sign the contract so this match can be made official.
Asper and Kraken make a show of looking over the contract, but Kraken then tosses the table aside and tries to attack Eli. Fredrick and Gagnon quickly leave the ring as the two competitors start throwing punches. The crowd pops as Eli ducks a punch and German suplexes the French Canadian Colossus. He has no time to celebrate as Saul Asper blindsides him with the clipboard. Kraken gets to his feet and chokeslams Eli. He and Asper then set up the table and Kraken picks Eli up. He yells at him in French before bending him over and power bombing him through the table.
Saul Asper picks up the PWGP Global Title and hands it over to Kraken. The big man raises it over his head and roars. As we go off the air we’re all left wondering if this will be the scene at the end of PWGP Glory Road. Greg Stradford and Paul Carlyle tells us we’ll see them again next week and the show goes off the air.
So, in the meantime and in between time… Good night, God bless and may the Force be with you.
-”The Bayside Behemoth” Axel Moros (fka Bruiser Jones) defeated Paulie Rod with a Burning Hammer to pick up the pinfall and his second point.
-David Lee Sellers and The Big O fought to a double countout.
-The East K Connection and Pierre the Masked Canadian defeated The Pimp & Shrimp Connection (MANDINGO & Capt Gill Baits) and Duke Womack when Easy E pinned Baits with a Frog Splash.
As PWGP CHARGE goes on the air, we see footage from a press conference at Winnipeg’s Bell/MTS Place. There BUAC Spokesman Robert Fredrick, as well as Buck U Productions Vice President David Flynn, announce that a vacant retail store in heart of the city and renovations were recently completed so PWGP could produce all further episodes of CHARGE in it. It’s explained that Winnipeg’s central location in North America makes it a perfect spot to bring in talent from around the continent. The “Glory Road” special quarter annual events will still occur in other locations, with Glory Road 1 happening at the Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Montana. The first show in what has been dubbed the PWGP Exhibition Centre will occur in two weeks time.
We go to the Helena Ice Arena in Helena, Montana, where a ruckus crowd helps welcome us to the show. Our colour commentary team, Greg Stradford and “Big Bad” Paul Carlyle greet us and quickly go over tonight’s matches. We will still our final two quarterfinal matches in the PWGP International Tag Team Title Tournament, The Wrecking Brew face off Team AMLL, and The Brute Squad face off with Surf ‘n Turf; Alan Hunter will face off with Vlars in the fifth match in their best of five series; Agent B will face off with Bryant Adam Thompson; and in the main event, PWGP Television Champion BOB will defend his title in a gauntlet match. Plus, because Kraken attained his tenth point last week, he has every intention to cash it in for a PWGP Global Title match against Eli Buchanan at Glory Road, so later tonight we will have an official contract signing.
Greg and Paul send it over to our ring announcer, Nick Christoulos for the opening match introductions.
MATCH 1
Bryant Adam Thompson (4 points, w/ Faititili)
vs
Agent B (3 points, w/ Saul Asper & Agent D)
(Referee: Mark Lindsey)
Before the match we see highlights of Faititili defeating Agent D last week with a flying splash. Greg Stradford points out that a victory by Thompson tonight would give him and Faititili a lot of momentum going into next week’s tag team match against the Agents of Pain at Glory Road.
In the early goings of the match both competitors showed their technical skills, going move for move with one another. Agent B would briefly gain control with a well placed knee to the gut but Thompson would soon gain the advantage back with a headscissor takeover. Agent B would roll out of the ring but Thompson would hit a corkscrew plancha on the arena floor. This would lead to Agent D to try to interfere but Faititili would prevent it with a clothesline of the ring apron. In the midst of it all, Agent B would get the drop on Thompson when Asper grabbed the latter’s foot while he was trying to get into the ring, allowing Agent B to stomp on his back.
Now firmly in control, Agent B would slowly begin to take Thompson apart, wearing him down while Agent D and Asper shouted encouragement from ringside. Faititli would do his best to get the crowd into the match, banging on the ring apron while Thompson was locked in a kravat. This seemed to energize the Notorious B.A.T., who tried to fight his way out of the kravat but Agent B would grab a handful of Thompson’s hair and pull him back down to the mat .
Thompson would continue to fight to get back into the match and finally would after countering a vertical suplex into an Ace Cutter. Try his best, Agent B found it hard to do anything to slow Thompson down as he seemed to be getting hit on all sides by the Notorious B.A.T.’s high octane offense. Thompson would drop Agent B on his head with a hurricanrana and prepare to hit Bat Outta Hell, when Agent D jumped up on the apron to stop him. Faititili would pull him down off the apron and the two would begin fighting, leading to Mark Lindsey to order them both to return to the locker room. While the two of them argued with Lindsey, Agent B hit Thompson with a low blow and rolled him up for the three count to pick up the victory.
Winner: Agent B (4 points)
Agent B quickly rolled out of the ring as Faititili scrambled in to check on Thompson. He joined his manager and tag team partner on the stage to celebrate. Carlyle stated that it would appear that the Agents of Pain were walking into Glory Road with all the momentum now and wondered how a couple of singles wrestlers would be able to compete against a well oiled tag team when they met next week.
***
MATCH 2
PWGP International Tag Team Tournament Quarterfinal
The Brute Squad (Son of Brute and Mini Brute, w/ Tony Columbo)
vs
Surf ‘n Turf (Vod and Zaros)
(Referee: Andrew Roller)
It’s explained at the beginning of the match by Greg Stradford that Tony Columbo had his team’s names changed to English because he was having a hard time pronouncing the Spanish names. Carlyle quipped that Tony Columbo has a hard enough time speaking English and wondered why he didn’t just call them Small Brute and Smaller Brute. He also asked the question many people have probably be wondering for months, if Brutus Smith is a eunuch how can there be a “son of Brute”?
The match itself was pretty straightforward. The Brute Squad used their size advantage early on to control the action. Try as he might, none of Zaros’s offense seemed to do any damage to his larger opponents and he ended up getting tossed around for his troubles. Vod seemed to fair better when he was tagged in and faced off with Mini Brute, who still out weighed him by fifty pounds, with neither of them being able to get a clear advantage over the other. When Son of Brute tagged back in however, Vod found himself unable to counter the bigger man’s size and strength advantage. Zaros would attempt to help his partner out by jumping of Son’s back, but the big man easily tossed him off and along with Mini, would clear the ring of Surf ‘n Turf.
Zaros and Vod would form a plan on the arena floor while Andrew Roller would begin to administer the ten count. Vod would climb back into the ring and state that he wanted to fight Mini Brute again. Zaros would take this opportunity to go after Tony Columbo. Son of Brute would jump off the ring apron to come to his manager’s aid and the goblin would quickly scramble under the ring to escape the big man’s wrath. This distraction was all Vod needed though and he would level Mini Brute from behind. Zaros would quickly join his partner in the ring and the two would stomp away until Roller forced Zaros back out of the ring.
Despite the pair’s relative lack of experience, Surf ‘n Turf’s simple plan of keeping Mini Brute grounded and work on his legs seemed to be working very well. Paul Carlyle praised the rookie team for how they cut the ring in half and kept Mini far from his corner. The young duo would taunt Son, to get him to enter the ring so they could double team his partner while Roller tried his best to get him back out of the ring.
The tide would finally change, no pun intended, when Zaros would go for a vertical splash from the top rope and almost ended up eating a raised boot from Mini Brute in the process. Both men would slowly crawl to their corners. Zaros would manage to tag in Vod first but Mini managed to make the tag to Son before the sea monster could stop him. Son of Brute would come in and begin clearing house, leveling both his opponents with big boots and clotheslines. He scooped Zaros up for an apparent powerslam but Vod would pull his partner to safety and the two would start double teaming the big man before they were both shoved away. Mini Brute would enter back into the action and all four men were soon brawling. Zaros would try to set Mini up for what appeared to be a running spear but Tony Columbo would get his revenge for earlier in the match by tripping him up while Roller was busy trying to seperate Son and Vod. Mini Brute would quickly take advantage of this opening, hitting Zaros with a brainbuster and once Son had tossed Vod out of the ring, Mini would hit the assisted top rope cannonball senton to pick up the three count.
Winners: and advancing to the semifinals, The Brute Squad.
After the match, the Brute Squad stood tall while Surf ‘n Turf recovered on the arena floor. Carlyle was all over Tony Columbo for interfering in the match and complaining that Surf ‘n Turf were robbed. Greg Stradford informs us that the Brute Squad will face off next week with the winners of the match between the Wrecking Brew and Team AMLL later tonight, and whoever wins that will face off with the winners of the other semifinals between the East K Connection and the father/son duo of Jive and Daniels. We take on last look at the Brute Squad celebrating with their manager before we move on.
***
We return to find Robert Fredrick in his office with his assistant, Deedee Gagnon. Saul Asper and the Agents of Pain soon enter, followed close behind by the duo of Bryant Adam Thompson and Faititili. Fredrick thanks everyone for coming and congratulates Fatitili and Agent B on their victories. Because of this, the BUAC, Fredrick states, wants to give both teams the opportunity to add a stipulation to the match since they want this issue between the four of them to conclude at Glory Road. Robert Fredrick flips a coin to see who gets to choose first and it’s the Agents of Pain, who deliberate with Asper and state that the losing team is gone from PWGP for thirty days. Faititli and Thompson seem to like this idea and add their own stipulation, Saul Asper and all other member of his Army are banned from ringside. Robert Fredrick approves of both stipulations and adds one of his own, the winning team will be entered into the tag team gauntlet match later that night and be able to pick their own number of entry. Both teams immediately leave to prepare for next week, allowing Fredrick and Gagnon to turn their attention back to the action on the monitor.
***
MATCH 3
Best of 5 Series
Alan Hunter (2 wins)
vs
Vlars (2 wins)
(Referee: Jose Doe)
The back and forth battle between these two has clearly gotten the better of both men’s temperaments. As soon as the bell rings, both men are at each other’s throats and there’s no effort by either man to even try to wrestle. They brawl with one another all around the ring and out to the arena floor. Jose Doe begins administering the count, which leads to them both rolling back into the ring but they soon find themselves back on the floor as they continue to fight. With no other choice, Jose Doe starts the count again. Neither man seems to hear him this time, or simple doesn’t care, as they do their best to get their pound of flesh from one another. With the crowd showing their clear displeasure, Doe has no choice but to count them both out and call for the bell.
DOUBLE COUNT OUT
Security and officials run down to ringside to try to break these two up, while the crowd chants “Let The Fight!” The locker room clears out to help separate the two of them, but this only leads to Alan Hunter scrambling into the ring and hitting a plancha onto Vlars and everyone trying to hold him at bay.
The two competitors are finally separated and things appear to be under control. Robert Fredrick appears on the big screen and states the BUAC had a feeling this might happen. He announces that they will not allow this series to end like this states that next week we will see these two end their feud in a ladder match with contract to face the PWGP Global Champion hanging above the ring, and oh yeah, did he fail to mention that will now be a title match. The crowd cheers as Vlars and Alan Hunter nod their heads and yell insults at one another as we head to break.
***
Somewhere in the back we find James Daniels flirting with an intern. “High Five” Jimmy Jive walks in and asked the young lady to take a walk so he can speak with his son. Once she’s gone he confronts James about cheating last week to make sure they made it to the International Tag Team Title semifinals. Daniels begs off, stating all he did was make sure his dad got the three count and tells him not to worry about it. Jive makes him swear not to do it again and eventually James agrees but after his dad departs he rolls his eyes and goes off to find the intern.
***
MATCH 4
PWGP Television Title Match
BOB (champion, w/ The Guru)
vs
(Referee: Andrew Roller)
The Guru grabs the microphone from Nick Christoulos. He states that no one has been able to stop, or even slow down his green faced gladiator since his arrival and now that he’s Television Champion no one wants to face him. Greg Stradford tries to dispute this but gets hushed by Paul Carlyle. The Guru stated he forgives them for being apprehensive so he’s going to make things easy on them. He holds up a hat and states that the names of every member of the roster is in it and with the BUAC’s consent he will pick a name at random to challenge BOB for the title. If that person is unsuccessful, the Guru will pick a second individual to face BOB, and if they too are unsuccessful, he will pick a third. The Guru brags that BOB will defeat all three men here tonight and he’ll do it with the ten minute time limit.Greg Stradford does a quick calculation in his head and states that if BOB beats all three men tonight that would give him nine points, just one short of the required ten to challenge for the Global Title.
The Guru picks the first name and laughs. He shows the name to the camera, Orville Newton.
As Newton makes his way down to the ring with the Big O, Greg Stratford questions whether this “lottery” is rigged. No sooner does Newton get in the ring than BOB levels him with a boot and Andrew Roller calls for the bell. BOB picks Orville Newton up by the hair and starts headbutting him repeatedly. The Big O jumps up on the apron to protests but BOB releases Orville and knocks him off the apron with a big boot. He turns his attention back to the prone Orville and hits a leaping splash on his back before rolling him over and covering him for the easy three count.
Winner: BOB (5 points)
The Guru gets on the microphone and pointing at Orville, orders the officials to clean that stain off the mat. He raises the hat above his head and pulls out another name. He’s clearly not happy about who it is and tosses the paper aside in disgust. Nick Christoulos quickly scoops it up and after reading it, announces the next competitor, FAITITLI!
The crowd comes alive as Faititli comes out and stares down his old rival. Before he can even get to the ring though, he’s attacked from behind by the Agents of Pain. They start beating him down, which leads to Bryant Adam Thompson coming out to even things up and the four brawl their way to the back. The Guru doesn’t care about this and orders Andrew Roller to count Faititili out. With a look of disgust on his face, Roller complies and counts Faititli out. The Guru jumps around like it’s a huge victory for his client but Greg Stradford balks at it and wonders how this can even count.
Winner: BOB (7 points)
The Guru starts bragging about how quickly BOB is mowing through the competition tonight and states that no one can beat his client. He reaches into his hat and pulls out the third name. He looks at it in confusion before asking who exactly is Axel Moros.
The answer to his question is a large individual with a tattooed head. Greg Stradford quickly brings us up to speed and tells us despite this being his first appearance on CHARGE, Axel Moros has been tearing things up in PWGP for the last two weeks and has already earned for himself two points.
Axel enters the ring and immediately starts throwing punches with BOB. The green faced freak is taken aback at first but soon grabs him and connects with a headbutt. Axel shakes it off and gives BOB a headbutt of his own. The two behemoths fire back and forth, neither seemingly able to get the better of the other. Before anyone realises it the bell is ringing, signalling the ten minute time limit has expired. Neither man seems to notice and they continue to fight. It only ends when Axel Moros delivers a running dropkick that knocks BOB out of the ring. It takes The Technician, both Moondogs and the Guru to calm BOB down and back him away from the ring.
TIME LIMIT DRAW
Robert Fredrick appears on the big screen again and states he likes what he’s seen here just now. Since there was no clear winner here tonight, he suggests that we do this match one more time, except this time he’s extending the time limit to twenty minutes and states he’s certain the BUAC will approve. The crowd cheers on this announcement, as the announcers put over this huge announcement, and Axel yells at BOB he’ll be seeing him again soon and will be taking his title.
***
MAIN EVENT
MATCH 5
PWGP International Tag Team Tournament Quarterfinal
Team AMLL (Cielo Guerrera and La Mosca de Loca)
vs
The Wrecking Brew (“Iron” Mack Brody and True North Ant, w/ Saul Asper)
(Referee: Jose Doe)
The Wrecking Brew tries their best to push around the two luchadores at the beginning of the match, hoping to use their size and strength to their advantage. The two Mexican warrior have none of it and it’s not long before they’ve knocked Brody to the floor and begin working leave True North Ant’s head spinning with a series of arm drags, ranas and tandem offense. TNA tried to seek refuge on the arena floor with Brody to rethink their game plan but there was no rest for the wicked as Cielo and Mosca hit them both with suicide dives.
The luchadores would continue to take the fight to their opponents on the floor and this would prove to be a mistake as Brody would pick up Cielo and literally toss him at Mosca, sending them both crashing into the ring steps. TNA would toss Mosca in the ring and continue the assault. The Wrecking Brew would go on to make frequent tags as they simply ground and pound the young luchadore, and kept him in their corner far from his partner. All the while True North Ant made a point of getting in Jose Doe’s face and taunting him.
It would be one such instance that would lead to La Mosca de Loca finally make the tag. True North Ant went for the Red River Plunge but stopped to yell insults at Doe before lifting up the luchadore for the move. Mosca would counter it with a hurricanrana and rolled to his corner to bring his partner. The much fresher Cielo Guerrera literally sprung into the ring with a flying cross body block on True North Ant and dropkick Brody’s knee out from beneath him, knocking him off the ring apron. He hit TNA with a series of arm drags and then with a hurricanrana, hooking the leg for the pin attempt. Brody would jump in to break up it up and tossed Cielo out of the ring, but the lucha star landed on the ring apron. Before Brody could do anything he was struck with a flying dropkick by La Mosca de Loca that knocked him out of the ring.
The lucha duo turned their attention to True North Ant who tried to beg off and hide behind Jose Doe. The referee was having none of it and to the shock of everyone, hip tossed TNA into the middle of the ring. True North Ant leaped to his feet to try to get after Doe but would eat a double superkick from Team AMLL and would slowly get chopped down to size with a series of lightening fast kicks from the luchadores. Brody would try to get in the ring but they would knock him back off the apron with a double dropkick. The luchadores quickly ascended opposite corners and looked to be about to hit a tandem flying move when Brody suddenly jumped up on the apron and pushed Cielo Guerrero off the top rope, sending him crashing down on the barricade. The sight of this caused Mosca to pause too long before going for a flying leg drop and TNA was able to roll out of the way. Brody quickly entered the ring and leveled the lucha star with a lariat clothesline before lifting him up on his shoulders. True North Ant quickly climbed to the top rope and hit the Doomsday Device clothesline. True North Ant would cover Mosca for the pinfall, yelling insults at Jose Doe while he made the count
Winners: and advancing to the semifinals, The Wrecking Brew.
Following the match, Jose Doe refused to raise the winners hands in victory. He immediately rolled out of the ring and headed to the back as True North Ant continued to berate him with insults. Saul Asper rolled into the ring to raise his men’s hands in victory and as we go to break tells us all that we’re looking at the first ever PWGP International Tag Team Champions.
***
Back from break we see Robert Fredrick and Deedee Ganon standing in the ring beside a table. Fredrick announces that at Glory Road we will have a PWGP Global Title Match in the main event and introduces the two competitors.
First out is Kraken with his manager, Saul Asper. Paul Carlyle reminds us that unlike Faititli and True North Ant, who both used the Television Title to accelerate their way way to Global Title shots, Kraken did it the hard way, by slowly accumulating the points one at a time. He points out that Eli Buchanan has never defeated this man and believes that we are looking at the next PWGP Global Champion.
Out next is the champion, Eli Buchanan. Greg Stradford is quick to point out that Eli has recently returned from a very successful tour of Japan. Stradford puts over how resilient Buchanan is, reminding us all that he took advantage of an opportunity given to him to enter the Lethal Lottery back in January, where he became the first ever Global Champion. Since then he has refused to hide behind the title, successfully defending it against both Faititili and True North Ant, two of the three men who’ve held pinfall victories over him, The third stands in the ring waiting for him to enter and sign the contract.
As Eli enters, Robert Fredrick thanks them both for coming. He goes on to tell both of them this will be a civil contract signing but Asper cuts him off and begins going off on Buchanan. He states that Buchanan is lucky to be holding that title. That he would never even have it if Robert Fredrick didn’t do everything in his power to make sure he won that title. Asper states that the only reason Eli even managed to eliminate Kraken from Battle Bowl in January is because Kraken slipped on some else’s sweat. He congratulates him on managing to hold the Global Title this long, but next week at Glory Road his luck has run up. He reminds everyone that Kraken is the only person to ever beat Eli Buchanan twice and at Glory Road he’ll do it for a third time. Saul Asper reminds Eli of how badly Kraken beat him up the last time they faced off on on one and this time will be no different. Asper continues talking about how badly Kraken is going to destroy him, but Eli cuts him off by picking up the contract and signing it, before tossing the clipboard in Kraken’s face.
Eli tells Asper he’s heard it all before and is tired of hearing it. He states that unlike their last few matches, he’s ready for Kraken this time and is at a hundred percent. Eli openly questions though if Kraken is, reminding all of us how Brutus Smith chokeslammed him through the ring two weeks ago and how he hasn’t wrestled since then. Eli warns Kraken and Asper if there’s a chink in Kraken’s armour he’ll exploit it and whether Asper, or Kraken, or anyone else likes it, he will walk out of Glory Road still PWGP Global Champion. Eli then tells Asper and Kraken to hurry up and sign the contract so this match can be made official.
Asper and Kraken make a show of looking over the contract, but Kraken then tosses the table aside and tries to attack Eli. Fredrick and Gagnon quickly leave the ring as the two competitors start throwing punches. The crowd pops as Eli ducks a punch and German suplexes the French Canadian Colossus. He has no time to celebrate as Saul Asper blindsides him with the clipboard. Kraken gets to his feet and chokeslams Eli. He and Asper then set up the table and Kraken picks Eli up. He yells at him in French before bending him over and power bombing him through the table.
Saul Asper picks up the PWGP Global Title and hands it over to Kraken. The big man raises it over his head and roars. As we go off the air we’re all left wondering if this will be the scene at the end of PWGP Glory Road. Greg Stradford and Paul Carlyle tells us we’ll see them again next week and the show goes off the air.
So, in the meantime and in between time… Good night, God bless and may the Force be with you.