Opening Contest: Joseph
Hayes versus Bubblegum
The opening match got the first show of the year off to
a great start as these 2 individuals went one on one for
the first time. The match was a great showcase of the british
cruiserweight style as well as being seriously competitive
with neither man wanting to lose the first GPW match of
2006. In the end a timely distraction by Minx, allowed Joseph
to connect with the GI Joe (suplex into a neckbreaker) and
pick up the win continuing his winning streak from 2005.
WINNER: Joseph Hayes
Match Number 2: The
MilAnfield Connection (Danny Hope and Jiggy Walker) versus
The Geeks (Rupert Holmes and Elroy Doogle)
The next match was a tag team match. Back in September at
Trials and Tribulations, The Geeks defeated The MilAnfield
Connection via disqualification so this was a rematch of
sorts. However before the match actually began, Walker demanded
a replacement referee on the grounds that the current referee
(Mike Holmes) for the contest was related to Rupert. In
the interest of fairness he was quickly replaced by another
official. The Geeks got control early managing to hit some
impressive (well one..Elroy couldn’t quite manage
it lol) dives onto their foes. However soon after the MilAnfield
duo regained control isolating Rupert from Elroy. After
a great display of teamwork by the arrogant MilAnfield Connection,
Rupert was able to get the tag to Elroy who entered the
ring and cleaned house. In the closing moments, Walker seemed
to have the match in hand until Mike Holmes returned and
this distraction allowed Elroy to roll up Walker and get
the pinfall. Stunned at the way the match ended up, Walker
issued a challenge to Mike Holmes along with Rupert to face
Walker and Hope at the next show.
WINNER: The Geeks
Match Number 3: Stevie
Lynn vs Ruffneck
This match was signed as a result of what took place at
Trials and Tribulations. On the night, Ruffneck had tried
to interfere in a match between Dangerous Damon Leigh and
Mark Kodiak and Stevie Lynn who had wrestled earlier in
the show made the save.
Before the match began however, MC Angel D Souza announced
that Stevie Lynn could not compete due to injury and had
set his tag team partner Ice XVII to face Ruffneck on his
behalf. This match had an interesting clash of styles as
the brawler Ruffneck faced the technique of Ice. Towards
the end of the match, the ref was knocked out and Ice XVII
quickly applied a Dragon Clutch submission hold and Ruffneck
was on the verge of tapping. He seemed to be looking to
the backstage area perhaps waiting for his ally British
Champion Alex Shane to help him out but Alex did not appear.
In the end Ruffneck escaped the hold and hit his Ruff Ryder
TKO to obtain victory.
WINNER: Ruffneck
Match No 4: Sabotage
vs Spud
This match came about as a result of what took place at
the Salvation is Near event back in May. Spud had just defeated
El Ligero (albeit due to the distraction by JC Thunder)
and Sabotage came out to congratulate him on his victory,
or so we thought. After praising Spud, he quickly turned
on him, laying him out with a barrage of brutal moves as
the stunned crowd looked on. Sabotage said that he was sick
of cruiserweights and was going to ensure that from now
on, any willing cruiserweight had to defeat him in order
to prove they were a wrestler. So Spud had a lot to prove
going in to this match.
Sabotage made his entrance and then out came Spud. Yet this
turned out to be a cruel setup perpetrated by Sabotage as
his opponent turned out to be a Mr Potato Head toy from
a childs toy box. Sabotage offered to give “Spud”
a fighting chance saying he had to the count of 5 to kick
out of any pinfalls and the match began. Sabotage quickly
hit a legdrop on Spud and quickly went for the match winning
5 count until some familiar music hit. Paul “Demo”
Gibson had seen enough and decided to give Sabotage a worthy
opponent. While Demo put up a decent fight, the match belonged
to Sabotage after a top rope chokeslam and Demo stayed down
for a 5 count.
WINNER: Sabotage
Match 5: The W K DanceOff
Challenge
This contest was organised by fan favourites WKD who hoped
to send a message to their rivals, Damage Control, Project
Ego and Kev and Krev about who the next tag team champions
would be in GPW. The teams began to dance until they were
interrupted by Flood of Damage Control who seemed to have
his own message to send. Flood claimed that his regular
tag partner The Dragon could not make the show but he had
found a replacement, the cousin of Project Ego’s Kris
Travis who quickly hit the ring and took out WKD and Kev
and Krev with vicious forearms and a northern lights bomb.
WKD quickly cleared Dom Travis from the ring and then the
Geeks came out to continue the dance off to the crowds delight.
WINNER: No contest
