Can ROH top their efforts from last night? There won’t be a chance for the world or tag team titles to change hands today as Eddie Edwards will be tagging with Davey Richards against brand new world tag team champions Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. Both the Wolves were victorious on night one, but so were Wrestling’s Greatest Tag Team, so somebody’s wave of momentum is going to have to come to an end in this dream tag match. Meanwhile Roderick Strong will lock up with El Generico in a rematch of SoCal Showdown II and one has to wonder whether or not the masked assailant who got involved in Generico’s match last night will rear his head again. There’s also a big tag team grudge match as the Briscoes do battle with Kenny King and Rhett Titus after their huge brawl last night. The Kings of Wrestling will look to rebound from losing the belts by defeating the hot young team of Adam Cole & Kyle O’Reilly, Homicide will lock horns with Tomasso Ciampa, Colt Cabana will step into the ring with Dave Taylor, and the Shimmer Tag Team Titles will be defended!
Kevin Kelly and Dave Prazak open the show the same was as they did on night one with a nice little to-camera promo hyping the matches for tonight, followed by a countdown, some music, and the arrival of Cary Silkin and crew to the ringside area.
Tag Team Challenge Match
The Kings of Wrestling vs. Adam Cole & Kyle O’Reilly
The Kings mug Cole & O’Reilly from the opening bell, wearing Cole out with multiple stomps. Huge back elbow from Castagnoli and Kevin Kelly tells us that the Kings gave Hagadorn a telling off last night. Speaking of the devil, he joins the commentary booth. Claudio military presses Cole but he lands on his feet and then hits a bulldog from the top rope, though the camera was on Hagadorn. O’Reilly tags in and dropkicks Claudio but he gets uppercutted. Hagadorn downplays the tension between him and the Kings as O’Reilly gets a near fall from a backslide. Slaps and knees in the ropes by O’Reilly, but Hero blind-tags and he and Claudio double hip toss O’Reilly, catch him, and then hurl him up into the lights. Jumping senton by Hero and Hagadorn leaves commentary. Hero is pissed, throwing a dropkick and then standing over O’Reilly and laying some boots to him. Claudio tags back in and hits a huge body slam and then a running elbow drop. Hero returns and lifts O’Reilly for a back suplex but just throws him to the mat. Kevin Kelly incorrectly asserts that O’Reilly’s new tattoo is in Scottish. Scottish isn’t a language, it’s gaelic. Anyway, Hero tags Claudio and hits a jumping elbow and then throws O’Reilly into a giant lariat from Claudio. Cole is getting frustrated as the Kings double team some more with a European uppercut and sickening elbow to the back of the head. Ouch. O’Reilly rolls Hero up but can’t get the pin and Claudio tags in and begins taunting O’Reilly. Claudio is selling the knee a little bit from last night. O’Reilly avoids a double team and flips over Claudio, rolls through and tags Cole who hits a double missile dropkick! Forearms everywhere and then a spinning headscissors to Claudio. Hero tries a jumping senton but gets knees to the back. Leg lariat off the second by Cole! He hits an enzuigiri to Hero and then dropkicks Claudio to the outside. Cole vaults over the top rope and hits a hurricanrana on the floor! Destroyer dropkick off the apron by O’Reilly!!! Crossbody off the top by Cole, but Hero kicks out. O’Reilly tags and lifts Hero into a fireman’s carry for a superkick by Cole! O’Reilly misses the spinning lariat and Hero gives them each a rolling elbow! Claudio is in and their tag team suplex/elbow move fails and Cole takes Hero to the outside while Claudio hits a tornado DDT into a guillotine choke! Hero tries twice to break it up with a kick to the head but O’Reilly hangs on! Hero tries again but gets superkicked by Cole! Superkick to Claudio and he is still in the guillotine and is fading fast! But he powers out of it with Swiss Death! Hero tags in and they hit Swiss Chin Music and the Cyclone Kill for the win.
Winners: Kings of Wrestling via Pin-Fall (Double Bicycle Kick)
The Kings don’t look happy with their win and leave without posing for the fans, with Hagadorn still looking downtrodden. Cole & O’Reilly get a standing-O as they leave. Here come the Embassy and Nana takes the mic and cuts the standard promo, calling the fans fat. He brings out Dave Taylor.
Special Challenge Match
Colt Cabana vs. Dave Taylor
Taylor came out to Rule Britannia. Sweet. Kevin Kelly trips over himself to praise Taylor. Colt slides out of the ring to tease attacking the Embassy but gets right back in and they lock up and immediately break. Cravate by Taylor and he snapmares Colt but he rolls right back up to his feet. Another cravate and the same thing happens but this time Taylor gets a sort of body hurricanrana and then follows it with a dropkick as Colt bails to the outside looking surprised. Taylor holds the ropes open for Colt and he gets back in with no shenanigans. Taylor grabs both of Cabana’s arms and gets him in a strangle hold, but Colt reverses into one of his own. They continue to trade strangle holds until Taylor starts driving shoulders into Colt, but his third attempt is ducked and he’s thrown overhead. The crowd fail at chanting as Taylor hits a pair of huge European uppercuts, dedicating them to the Queen. Good boy. Stretch plum of sorts grounds Colt and Taylor follows with another uppercut. Colt ducks a clothesline and starts throwing jabs but Taylor realises what the rest of us already knew, he doesn’t have to watch Colt wind up for the elbow, so decides to blast him with another uppercut. Taylor trips Colt and bends his leg around his own. Taylor breaks it and works in some elbows before going back to his modified standing stretch plum but Colt gets to the ropes. Cabana evades Taylor in both corners and then hits the Flying Apple but eats another uppercut. Colt gets a crazy roll-up out of absolutely nowhere and gets the win!
Winner: Colt Cabana via Pin-Fall (Roll-Up)
The Embassy stay in the ring as Taylor leaves after exchanging some words with Nana. R.D. Evans talks himself into a state, bringing out Tomasso Ciampa who I’m hoping has a good match this time out.
Tomasso Ciampa vs. Homicide
Ciampa eagerly awaits Homicide who enters to a reasonable reception to his old music (The Truth – Beanie Sigel). Brave. Homicide and Nana get into it immediately and it looked like it would lead to Ciampa blind-siding him but he didn’t… instead he waited for the referee to check Homicide and jumped over him for a dropkick. They head to the outside and Homicide wins a brawl segment, smashing Ciampa’s head off the barricade. He tries to use a chair but the ref takes it away. Ciampa can’t take advantage and finds himself meeting the barrier again. More brawling and Homicide hotshots Ciampa on the guard rail. Finally they get back in the ring and Homicide hits a jumping back elbow and then a big overhead belly to belly suplex. Ciampa rolls back outside and huddles with the Embassy as Homicide teases a tope con hilo. Nana, Mia and Evans get on the apron to prevent it and Ciampa runs all the way around the ring and catches Homicide from behind with a burning hammer facebuster aka The Coronation, which Kenny King no longer uses. Ciampa hits a big running knee to Homicide in the corner for two. Ciampa makes the mistake of throwing hands and Homicide of course wins the exchange, heading up top for a ten-punch but Ciampa walks out of the corner in a powerbomb looking for his finisher, but Homicide punches him until he falls. He tries a lariat but Ciampa kicks his arm and then hits a lariat of his own for two. Ciampa works Homicide over with more right hands and then does some kind of Sicilian gesture to insult him. Homicide gets in his face and throws him to the outside. Homicide climbs up onto the stage with the fans, and jumps off with a cannonball dive! Nice work! Back inside and Homicide hits a tornado DDT and then a suplex for two. He tries his jumping Ace Crusher but Ciampa devastates him with a backbreaker in mid-air. It does no lasting damage as Homicide beats him down in the corner and hits a running face-wash. He teases a tiger driver but Mia is up on the apron. The ref goes over to deal with her and Ciampa doesn’t even need it as he counters into a strange twisting cut-throat neckbreaker type… thing for two. He sets up the powerbomb on the knees but Homicide lands on his feet and hits the Ace Crusher! Cop Killa is countered and Mia is on the apron again. Homicide chokes her a little and Ciampa attacks from behind. Northern Lights Suplex gets three!!!
Winner: Tomasso Ciampa via Pin-Fall (Northern Lights Suplex)
Homicide doesn’t take too well to the loss and throws a chair in R.D. Evans’ face and then attempts to attack Mia but Nana saves her. Homicide throws the chair around some more and nearly hits a camera-man, taking his sweet time to leave the arena while Kevin Kelly and Dave Prazak talk about Daniels not shaking hands last night.
Non-Title Match
Christopher Daniels vs. Michael Elgin (w/ Truth Martini)
Conspiracy theorists unite, Daniels had the Book of Truth, he’s become more aggressive, refused to shake hands last night, and now he’s going to be involved with the House of Truth… The fans applaud Daniels and he slaps hands, not looking like a heel. Daniels dropkicks Elgin right as the bell rings and starts firing away with forearms. He knocks Elgin to the outside and hits a vaulting body press. Back in the ring and Elgin catches Daniels coming up and hoists him up for a huge body slam which he turns into a suplex of sorts. Running avalanche in the corner floors Daniels. Jawbreaker and then an enzuigiri by Daniels and Elgin rolls to the floor, avoiding a baseball slide but getting thrown into the steel post after attempting a powerslam on the floor. Elgin catches Daniels coming back into the ring and tries to suplex him but Daniels lands on his feet. He runs the ropes but gets flattened with a leaping shoulder tackle. Aaaand we’re back on the floor. Elgin runs Daniels the length of the ringside area and rams him into a guard rail. Back in the ring and Elgin flies from the top rope with a shoulder tackle! Only a two count. Huge stalling suplex by Elgin as he walks around the ring with Daniels, holding up for over twenty seconds. That was pretty crazy. Only a two count. Elgin puts a knee into Daniels’ back and pulls back on the arms with a surfboard but Daniels turns him and breaks it, firing back with multiple shots and then another jawbreaker. Elgin blocks the comeback with a throw into the post shoulder first. Elgin sits up top with Daniels still in the ropes and gets a top rope boston crab! Nice. Elgin misses a second top rope shoulder tackle and Daniels fires back with jabs and then a leg lariat, but Elgin doesn’t go down. Kick to the back of the knee and then a running clothesline to the back of the head takes him down. Daniels hits his double wrist-clutch chest-stomp from the top for a two count. Angel’s Wings fails and he tries to do the chest stomp again but gets thrown down to the mat. Big spinning fisherman suplex (Prazak called it a pumphandle driver) by Elgin! He rams Daniels into the corner and then hits a swinging uranage for another two. Elgin goes up top and misses a corkscrew senton!!!! Jesus. Daniels tries a uranage and gets blocked. Elgin rolls through on an O’Connor Roll and fires away at the back of the head with elbows! He tries a lariat but Daniels hits an STO! Daniels can’t keep an advantage in this match as Elgin hits a big lariat. Elgin tries a powerbomb but Daniels lands on his feet. Daniels ties up the referee and hits a low blow to Elgin! BEST! MOONSAULT! EVER!
Winner: Christopher Daniels via Pin-Fall (Best Moonsault Ever)
Daniels celebrated as Kevin Kelly talked about how Truth Martini did nothing in the match and seemed nonplussed by the loss. Speculate away fans.
Intermission.
And we’re back! Jim Cornette is in the ring and he has a microphone I predict a shot at TNA. Yep, he opens with a reference to the Jeff Hardy incident and incites a “F*** TNA” chant. He asks how many people there were seeing ROH live for the first time. He thanks the fans in attendance and at home before bringing out Davey Richards. I said recently I’m not a huge fan of Cornette’s bias towards Davey, and the fact he brought Richards out on his own doesn’t sit well with me. Eddie’s in the main event too and he’s the new champion, show him some love. Davey talks about how good Haas & Benjamin are but says they’re in for a fight against the Wolves. He puts over Eddie Edwards and the fans chant his name. Cornette talks about avenging his loss to Roderick Strong last night and points out he’s undefeated. He asks Richards when he’s going to ask for his title shot – his last title shot. Davey doesn’t seem too pleased at the idea of facing Eddie but Cornette insists it would be good for business for him to agree to it. Davey says it’s Eddie’s time and that he needs to make his name and he won’t be the one to destroy Edwards’ dreams. That brings Eddie out! Eddie correctly points out Davey is making it sound like it’s a forgone conclusion that Richards would win if they faced each other, reminding him he won their one and only match. Davey sort of heels it up, telling Cornette to “save it” as they know he just wants to make money as a promoter. He downplays the heat between himself and Edwards and talks about tonight’s main event. Eddie finishes the promo “The Hunt Is On!” Interesting segment.
Shimmer Tag Team Title Match
Daizee Haze & Tomoka Nakagawa vs. Ayumi Kurihara & Hiroyo Matsumoto
Warning in advance, I may end up referring to the Japanese ladies by their first names. No real handshake and Kevin Kelly talks about Daizee’s attitude change since MsChif hit her with the poison mist. Hiroyo grabs a headlock on Nakagawa and then takes her down with multiple shoulder tackles. Daizee attacks from behind and taunts the crowd. Hiroyo hits a crossbody on both of the champions and as awesome as she is her voice is annoying. Ayumi tags in and gets a chant. Jumping clothesline by Ayumi and now she’s working the legs, but Daizee breaks it up, entering the ring illegally again. Eye rake by Nakagawa and she tags in Haze. Fans call Daizee anorexic. Ouch. Ayumi gets her hanging arm submission in the corner again. Ayumi goes up top but Nakagawa sprays water in her eyes and she falls to the mat for a two count by Haze. Rude, rude comments from the fans. Face manipulation by Nakagawa! Basement dropkick gets two. Running victory roll by Ayumi gets two but Daizee again makes sure her team keeps the advantage. She tags back in and hits a dropkick to the knee as Nakagawa hits a bulldog. Nice double team. Another quick tag but Ayumi hits a dropkick and tags out. Multiple shoulder tackles by Hiroyo. Strange kick by Nakagawa but it doesn’t work and Hiroyo tries a backdrop driver. It’s blocked but not for long and she dumps Nakagawa backwards. Crazy double submission ends with 400lbs of ladies dropping down on Nakagawa. Running knees and a running splash in the corner by the challengers and then running knees to the face of a seated Nakagawa! Codebreaker! Running dropkick knocks Nakagawa to the outside! She brings her back in but Haze gets the tag in. Daizee misses a clothesline… Lungblower! Hiroyo tags back in and attempts a backdrop driver. It’s breaking down and strikes are flying left and right. Missile dropkick by Ayumi! Uranage to Haze! Backdrop Driver!!! Haze sort of kicked out as Nakagawa distracted the referee. Heart Punch! Yakuza Kick! Enzuigiri! Tiger Suplex! It’s over.
Winners and Still Champions: Daizee Haze & Tomoka Nakagawa
The challengers bow to the fans who chant “Please Come Back” and rightfully so, they were awesome. Grudge tag match is next!
Grudge Tag Team Match
The Briscoes vs. The All-Night Express
The Briscoes jump the ANX after coming through the crowd and we’re away with a brawl on the outside, naturally. Mark attempts a powerbomb on the floor but gets back-dropped! Ouch. Brawling, brawling and more brawling. The bell finally rings as Jay and Mark take turns to punch Kenny King in the face back in the ring. King tosses Mark out of the ring but eats a superkick from Jay. Briscoes are wrestling in shirts tonight. Rhett blind-tags and hits a slingshot shoulder tackle. Springboard leg drop by King, running splash by Titus gets two. Mark flies in and takes King down and stomps away at him. Fans boo and a second referee has come out. Titus still has control of Jay and hits a big dropkick to the face. Atomic drop by Titus, lariat by King who tags in. Suplex by King and he rolls through into some mounted punches. Titus tags back in and hits a running back elbow in the corner before whipping Jay into a helicopter kick! Love that move. Titus chops Jay and then for some reason uses a back rake. You’re supposed to be the face Rhett. Mark tags in and Jay hits a jawbreaker and then whips Titus into a busaiku knee strike. Mark knocks King off the apron and throws Titus to the floor where he and Jay beat him down as King argues with both referees. Why bother having two if they’re both going to deal with the same thing? Titus gets thrown into the ring post and is bleeding. Mark works the cut open back in the ring. Titus tries to fight back and fails as Jay beats him down some more in the corner. The fans insinuate that the Briscoes like to do unorthodox things to chickens. Lovely. Mark tags in again and bites Titus’ forehead, spitting the blood out. Mark hits a slingshot double stomp to Titus as Jay repositions a ringside table. He tags in and hits a yakuza kick in the corner. Huge running clothesline in the corner, snapmare and a running basement dropkick gets two. Titus rolls Jay up but to no avail and ends up eating a big boot. Rest hold. Mark is back in and we’ve got more punching and stomps. Jay is back and causing trouble with King in the corner as Mark tries a top rope move on Titus, but gets shoved down and eats a huge double knee drop! Titus tags King and he cleans house! Cartwheel kick to Jay! Helicopter kick misses, but he catches an incoming yakuza and hits a capture suplex! King vaults over Jay, does a back handspring and destroys Jay with Shotgun/John Wu knees. Jay ends up on the apron and Titus hits a Sex-Factor through the table! That came out of nowhere. King beats down Mark in the corner. Jay is bleeding… a lot. He pulls Rhett back out of the ring and then hits a huge lariat to Kenny King. Falcon Arrow! He’s done the deal! Titus breaks it up because nobody kicks out of the Falcon Arrow. Mark tries another top rope move on Titus and ends up getting hot-shotted onto the ring post! Jay is a mess. Titus less so, but they go forehead to forehead covered in blood and start trading right hands. Jay spits blood in Titus’ face! Titus slaps his own face and asks him to bring it on and then murders Jay with a giant lariat!!! Powerbomb/Blockbuster combo to Jay! Mark saves the pin and gets thrown to the floor. They set up the One-Night-Stand but Mark breaks it up and throws Titus to the outside. J-Driller to Kenny King, three count.
Winners: The Briscoes via Pin-Fall (J-Driller)
Jay gets on the mic and curses out the crowd and makes fun of Rhett Titus. He claims this is a new side of the Briscoes and they won’t be losing in ROH anymore. Titus and King probably could have gone after them but elected not to. Briscoes leave, crowd chant A-N-X.
Roderick Strong vs. El Generico
They lock up and shove each other early and Roddy goes to the arm, but Generico uses his speed to counter. Roddy powers back to the advantage and works the arm, stomping on the elbow. Kick to the gut instead of a clean break by Strong and the fans boo. Multiple stomps to the gut in the corner but Strong misses a chop and eats two from Generico. Strong puts him down with another kick, this time to the knee, and then just to confuse things goes back to the arm. So he’s working the arm, gut and knee? Roddy asks a female fan to call him and she probably doesn’t realise he’s serious. Multiple arm drags by Generico and a ten-punch in the corner, but he only gets to eight before being shoved down. Leg lariat by Generico gets two. He tries a springboard move of some sort but Truth Martini drags him to the floor and beats him down as the referee talks to Roddy. Kevin Kelly points out Truth did nothing of the sort in the Elgin/Daniels match. Strong hits a big suplex back in the ring for two. Generico tries to fight back but gets his face dropkicked off. Camel clutch by Strong now and I’ve lost track of which body part he’s working, maybe all of them, nothing wrong with that. To the floor we go and Strong tries his best to break Generico’s jaw with a jumping knee strike. Strong whips Martini into Generico! I guess it’s not a DQ if Strong threw him against his will… Back in the ring now and Strong locks in a full nelson with his legs. Generico turns it into a pair of pins but Strong keeps it locked on. He releases after a third pin attempt. More beat-down from Strong in the corner but Generico fires back with some clotheslines. Rolling elbow misses, Blue Thunder Bomb does not! Only two. Half and half is blocked and Strong tries a superkick but Generico rolls him up. Stiff forearm by Strong but he ends up getting hit with a Michinoku driver for two. Generico charges in the corner but eats some kicks and then a running forearm smash and a backbreaker for two. Generico blocks a gutbuster and tries a knuckle-lock tornado DDT but ends up being hit with an elbow and a jumping knee strike for two. Anyone want to see Hero vs Strong again? Strong stands over Generico and taunts him and they begin trading strikes. Generico spits in Strong’s face, Strong spits in Generico’s face. Big boot by Generico and he gets the swinging DDT he tried earlier. Strong rolls to the outside and Generico tries a dive to the outside but Truth pulls him to the outside again. He enters the ring and teases a dive onto Generico! Strong accidentally low-bridges him while trying to get back in and Generico then hits Strong with the Yakuza kick to knock him off the apron and hits a flip dive onto both men! Yakuza!!! Half and half suplex! Only two. Generico tries the Brainbustaaahhhh!!!! but Martini distracts the ref, allowing Elgin to enter and try and powerbomb Generico only to eat a hurricanrana. Yakuza to Elgin! Brainbuster to Strong! El Generico just owned the entire House of Truth!
Winner: El Generico via Pin-Fall (Brainbuster)
The House of Truth beat Generico down after the match. Colt Cabana makes the save but he falls to the numbers game. Christopher Daniels is out with the Book of Truth! He of course hits Generico with it after teasing attacking the House. Angel’s Wings to Cabana! Daniels and Strong go face to face but then smile. Half nelson backbreaker through a chair by Strong to Generico as the new House of Truth stand tall.
Dream Tag Team Match (Non-Title)
Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin vs. The American Wolves
The Wolves enter together in matching gear. Code of Honor is followed, though Davey gives Shelton a bit of a look. Richards will start against Haas. Fans are split. They of course hit the mat and Haas controls early with a headlock but Richards gets into a waistlock. Haas grabs the arm and takes Davey down but Richards rolls through and we have a stand-off. Eddie wants the tag, Davey wants the fans to chant his name first. The world champion enters the ring, as does Shelton Benjamin. They get very low when trying to grab takedowns and Edwards surprisingly gets the early advantage, only to get fireman’s carried down and Shelton rides him until he grabs the ropes. Nohomothough. Kelly and Prazak take a shot at the WWE for shying away from wrestling. Eddie and Shelton go for a test of strength and Benjamin of course gets the better of it, bridging Eddie down. He can barely hold Shelton’s weight as he jumps down onto him, before pushing him up, leaping up and getting a hurricanrana to force a stalemate. “That’s our champ!” chant I believe. Haas tags in and Davey wants a tag but the fans chant Eddie’s name instead. He’s hesitant to tag but eventually does, but in a light-hearted way, no tension yet. Davey takes Haas down and works the leg, tagging Eddie and they make a wish. Davey tags back in and gets a Trailer Hitch on Haas before standing up and turning it into a Muta lock! Awesome. Haas gets the ropes. Davey comes off the top and hits an axe handle to the arm as Edwards holds him, and then tags out and Eddie does the same. Armbreaker across the shoulder by the world champion as Kevin Kelly tells us Haas minorly injured the shoulder last night. Davey tags in and flies off the top for a double stomp to the arm. Speed Muscle! Eddie tags back in and does the same. Double Speed Muscle! More quick tags and Davey works Haas over in the corner, whipping him across but getting reversed and bouncing off the turnbuckles hard. Haas tags Benjamin and he knees Richards very hard in the gut several times. Huge whip and Davey bounces out of the corner again. Delayed vertical suplex turns into a gourdbuster by Shelton and Davey kicks out at two. Haas tags in and this time WGTT make a wish. Richards screamed pretty loud. Haas continues to work the stomach with knees and punches and then a shoulder tackle. More hard Irish whips just in case you forgot these guys are bigger and stronger than Davey. Haas locks in a submission but it gets countered into Davey’s modified surfboard, though he can barely hold him in place. Shelton breaks it up and tags in. He drops a headbutt to the groin and Richards yells in pain. Benjamin of course claims it was to the gut. Shelton tries a Boston crab and locks it in. The fans chant “defense” and Eddie responds by kicking Shelton in the face. Haas tags in and drops a knee to the spine. Headlock by Haas and Richards is in bad shape. He gets to his feet and fires back with the damage reflex! He tries to dive to the outside onto Haas but Benjamin stops him. Davey throws him out too but he starts to skin the cat. Eddie stops it in mid-flow though and dropkicks him in the face. Double suicide dives by the Wolves!!! Body slam by Eddie back in the ring and Davey dives off the top with a headbutt, with Eddie assisting him. Haas kicks out. Eddie tags in and hits a huge chop. Running elbow strike in the corner and then a snap suplex for two. Fans chant “let’s go champ!” and Davey is pleased. So am I. Shelton makes it back to the apron in time for Haas to tag him. Haas tries a body slam but Eddie lands on his feet. Shelton superkicks Eddie in the back of the leg!!! Knee-DT! And another! Figure Four is teased but Shelton drops it when the fans Woo. He tags Haas back in and he continues to attack the knee. Reverse Indian Deathlock by Haas and he and Eddie trade chops from the mat. Edwards finally chops his way free, holding his knee. Haas uses an awesome trip to prevent a tag and then brings Shelton back in who drops his weight on the knee. Shelton lifts Eddie up for a back suplex but then rams him knee first into the turnbuckles. Ouch. Another leg submission but Eddie gets the ropes. Powerbomb attempt is blocked by Edwards and then countered into a sunset flip for two. Dragon Whip by Shelton gets another. Haas returns and continues working the knee as Eddie tries to kick his way free with the other leg. Haas tries a back suplex but Eddie lands on his feet, though recoils to the corner holding his knee. Haas charges but eats a foot and then a diving codebreaker! Shelton can’t stop the tag and Davey hits a double missile dropkick. Third of the weekend, second of the night. Running forearm in the corner to Haas and then a running knee strike. He puts Haas up top but can’t make anything of it and is thrown to the mat. Fighting spirit! Multiple headbutts by Davey on the top rope and Haas goes limp. Superplex! Finally. Davey can’t get a regular suplex, but avoids a big boot and Eddie uses a dragon screw over the middle rope! Davey runs the ropes and rolls Haas up into an Ankle Lock! Haas rolls free and throws Davey into the turnbuckles. Shelton blind-tags and they use a catapult into a Samoan drop but Richards rolls him up into a crucifix instead. Stinger Splash misses in the corner and Davey fires away with multiple kicks. He’s looking a little tired. Haas and Edwards enter the ring and the Wolves fire away with multiple kicks and Kobashi chops in opposite corners. Stereo enzuigiris! Superkick and roundhouse to the head of a kneeling Benjamin! Only two. Kevin Kelly references the English football team the Wolverhampton Wolves for no reason. Double team Alarm Clock! Shelton enters the ring and WGTT hit stereo German suplexes! And another! Wolves counter and gets stereo Germans of their own! Another! WGTT break free but end up taking a third and fourth anyway! Haas and Benjamin reverse and it’s more suplexes! The Wolves both get roll-ups for a stereo two count. All four men clothesline each other and everybody is down. Haas and Davey trade big right hands and look spent. Massive rolling enzuigiri by Davey! Even bigger superkick by Shelton! He could be out. Superkick by Edwards! Angle Slam by Haas!!! They’re all down again. Davey fires off with multiple elbows but ends up getting hit with an atomic drop and another huge superkick. He narrowly kicks out and screams. WGTT place Davey up top but he manages to throw Haas to the outside. Benjamin tries a superplex but Davey pushes him back to the mat. Step-up yakuza! He tries for the superplex again but Eddie hits an enzuigiri! Powerbomb/Lungblower combo!!! Shelton kicks out but Davey has the Ankle Lock!!! Haas charges but Eddie rolls him backwards into the Achilles!!!! Benjamin shoves Davey into Eddie! Pay-Dirt to Davey! It’s over!
Winners: Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamim via Pin-Fall (Pay-Dirt)
Both teams shake hands after the match but the Wolves get into it a little bit and Eddie leaves alone. Davey yells at Todd Sinclair. The fans chant “Next world champ” and Davey nods his head in agreement before doing the Wolves pose. His/their music hits and he stands there in the middle of the ring brooding for a while before slowly leaving.
That’ll do it folks! Send us your thoughts, comments or questions about this event via our Twitter, through a comment on this article, or to mailbag@pwponderings.com. We’ll answer as many as we can on the livestream later tonight which you should join us for. We’ll be reviewing both this iPPV and Dragon Gate USA’s over at our UStream page.
Speaking of DGUSA’s iPPV, we’ll have live coverage of that too! See you back here in an hour and a half for lots more wrestling!
Evil Briscoes and Good ANX sounds like GREAT times to me.