Pro Wrestling Guerrilla DDT4 tournament results
March 4, 2011
Reseda, Calif.
Report by Matt Massingham, PWTorch correspondent
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PWG promoted an eight-team, seven-match tag tournament to determine the annual DDT4 tournament winners and the next challengers to PWG tag champions El Generico & Paul London.
(1) Young Bucks (Generation Me in TNA) beat Brandon Gatson & Willie Mack in a First Round tournament match. The Bucks hit a combination superkick on Mack for the win.
(2) American Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards) beat RockNES Monsters (Johnny Goodtime & Johnny Yuma) in a First Round tournament match. The Wolves won with a powerbomb/lungblower combination into Edwards’s Achilles lock submission finisher.
(3) ROH tag champions Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & PWG champion Claudio Castagnoli) beat the Cutler Brothers (Brandon & Dustin Cutler) in a First Round tournament match. KOW won with a pair of big kicks to the head.
(4) Kevin Steen & Akira Tozawa beat The Briscoes (Jay & Mark) in a First Round tournament match. Steenzowa won with a doomsday heel kick.
(5) Young Bucks (Generation Me in TNA) beat American Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards) in a semi-final tournament match. Bucks won with a roll-up. After the match, Richards talked up Edwards and asked him to come back to PWG.
(6) Kevin Steen & Akira Tozawa beat ROH tag champions Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & PWG champion Claudio Castagnoli) in a semi-final tournament match. Hero missed with a moonsault and Tozawa pinned him with la magistral roll.
The result of the sixth tournament match set up Young Bucks (GenMe) vs. Steen & Tozawa in the DDT4 tournament finals.
– PWG announced Claudio Castagnoli (champion) vs. Joey Ryan (challenger) at the next PWG show on April 9. On cue, the first-ever Joey Ryan Invitational started with Ryan Taylor vs. Brian Cage.
(7a) Ryan Taylor beat Brian Cage in a Joey Ryan Invitational match. Taylor won with a flipping cravate.
(7b) “Pretty” Peter Avalon beat Ryan Taylor in a Joey Ryan Invitational match. Avalon won with a roll-up and hook of the tights.
(7c) Candace LaRae beat Peter Avalon in a Joey Ryan Invitational. Candace was next in the gauntlet match and Joey superkicked Avalon to give Candace the win, setting up Candace vs. Joey in the finals.
(7d) Joey Ryan beat Candace LaRae via submission to win the Joey Ryan Invitational. This was the latest installment of their years-long feud on PWG. Joey won with a superkick, then End Scene for the submission victory. Typical inter-gender match.
(8) Young Bucks (GenMe) beat Kevin Steen & Akira Tozawa to win the DDT4 tournament. GenMe won with the More Bang For Your Buck on both Steen and Tozawa. The fans didn’t seem to be happy with the Bucks winning. (Lots of history with the Bucks holding the Tag Titles for nearly two years from mid-2008 to mid-2010 before Generico & London won the titles.)
After the match, the Bucks cut a heel promo saying they’re coming for London & Generico after winning the tournament. They dedicated the win to TNA president Dixie Carter.
Upcoming title matches: PWG champion Claudio Castagnoli vs. Joey Ryan, PWG tag champions El Generico & Paul London vs. Young Bucks (GenMe).
Could not be less thrilled with some of these results. Jerome will not approve of the Cutlers not at least making the finals, I don’t think anybody on the planet will approve of the Bucks winning for the second time, and I was hoping they’d book Kings/Wolves and make it even crazier than it was in ROH. Hope Eddie does in fact return, be nice to see Kenny King make a return trip to from Against the Grain.
Seriously? The Young Bucks? Why?
There were so many better teams to go over — scratch that, actually — there were so many other teams who could have used the rub to go over. Why not Steen and Tozawa, or the Wolves, or the KOW?
I was also hoping for Tozawa & Steen.
Seems like in every match, the more established team won except Steen and Tozawa. And the only reason they seemed to want Steen and Tozawa in the finals was to get more heat the Bucks (which they don’t need). I’m sure the matches were amazing, but the results sounds frustrating.
Stupid overall result, but NOT doing KOW vs. The American Wolves is the thing that makes the least sense to me.
If Steen & Tozawa won, I’d be fine with them not doing Kings/Wolves because from the write-up Eddie might be coming back. Unless Tozawa isn’t in the US for much longer, no need to have the Bucks win especially if they do that title match alongside Claudio/Joey which most people aren’t really excited for.
There’s no way on earth the matches aren’t going to be amazing, but as Jerome said, the Bucks were already the biggest heels in the company… except maybe Hero in a title match, there was no need to put this on them too.
Would people find it overkill for the Kings to win the tag team titles and Hero want the world title? Rivals winning the titles never goes down well when WWE do it, but I think it might be interesting to see them trying to co-exist as a team with the world title coming between them.