Feb 4th Back With A Bang will see the start of the UK's first North West Rookie League!
GPW have teamed up with XWA to give you a 10 man league consisting of 8 rookies and 2 mentors divided into 2 teams of 5. The teams will compete against one another in special challenge matches starting now and ending at the end of the year!
You do not want to miss the start of this! Soon, everyone is going to be talking about NWRL! It starts Feb 4th!!

The latest blog is live! All 3 parts to Only The Strong Survive are up! So if you want to know what went majorly wrong, how ego's clashed and how the show was put together, promoting-wise and booking-wise, give it a read -
http://www.gpwblog.posterous.com/

GPW British Title Match: Zack Diamond vs. Juice
Diamond Does The Double & Ends An Era For Banks
Reigning GPW British Champion, Zack Diamond took on former British Champion and the formerly undefeated "Juice" CJ Banks. Banks had held the title for 13 months having won it in October 2009 from "Super" Sam Bailey and only losing it in a 3-Way Scramble Match in November 2010 where he wasn't himself pinned and the winner hadn't even been an announced participant in the match. He had a right to be angry, and a right to a re-match but Zach Diamond would ensure that things wouldn't go back to the way Juice had been used to before. There is a new gun in town and his name is Zach Diamond.
Juice wasted little time at the opening bell of the contest to get straight into action, but Diamond was able to counter his ground based offence and as a result, the crowd fell in love with him all over again. Never before had the crowd seen Juice be matched on the mat like Diamond matched him, but it didn't last. Soon we saw a familiar sight as Juice began to stamp his measurable authority on the match. German suplexes, back suplexes, strikes and unrelenting blows had the crowd wondering if we'd see a second reign. The punishment continued for Diamond, but he never looked like giving up and the crowd stayed with him. Eventually, much like he'd won the title, he rolled Juice up for a 3 count out of nowhere and won the match on his first defence to retain the British Title. Post match Juice's anger was plain to see. Angry and inconsolable at the loss, Juice reluctantly, eventually, took his leave. Will we ever see him the same again?

No.1 Contenders Match: Ligero vs. Gáylord
Bubblegum Gifts Gáylord The Win
William Gáylord returned to GPW after almost 12 months away in arguably his most high profile match to date as he took on El Ligero to determine who the No.1 Contender to DDL's Heavyweight Title is. El Ligero began by mocking Gáylord, wearing his robe and using his innovative evasive manoeuvres to escape an angry Gáylord. The crowd jeered the so called "Gent from Kent" with familiar chants of "Gaaaaaaaaylord! Gaaaaaaaaylord!" but he was unphased by the adverse reactions in Hindley and got on top of Ligero with some punishing mat based offence. Gáylord continued to dominate despite the crowd remaining on his back but it wasn't enough to put El Ligero away as the Mexican Sensation stayed alive throughout the contest. With the crowd cheering him on, he was able to mount a comeback against Gáylord that culminated in him going for his finish C4L DDT but MasterPlan's Bubblegum ran down to the ring to break it up and ultimately costing Ligero the Number One Contendership with his Butterfly Collection Suplex, much to the disgust of the GPW faithful but now William Gáylord is the No.1 Contender to the GPW Heavyweight Title.

 

Singles Match: Prof. Mike Holmes vs. Fox Carter
Fox Drops Holmes
Mike Holmes' comedy routine worked for a couple of minutes here against the intense Fox Carter but it wasn't long before he came unstuck. He had the crowd ralleighing behind him in the opening exchanges but when Fox took control of the match, it was as good as over. After just 5 minutes and a mistake by Holmes, Fox was able to hit him with his CDT from the second turnbuckle and it was game over very quickly for the Professor.

NWRL: Suzuki & Ninja vs. Blonde Jovi

MiTB: Hope vs. Walker vs. Gallagher vs. Kirby vs. Kraze vs. Roberts
Kirby's Bank Balance, On The Up!

In the first ever GPW 6 Man Money In The Bank match it was a close call as to who would walk away with the right to challenge any champion at any time for up to 12 months after. All men went close in the early going as Head Official Mike Fitzgerald did a good job of officiating the contest and enforcing the "one in one out" rule. However, with that amount of bodies at ringside, these kinds of contests could really do with two officials as Fitzgerald lost control of the match and the rules went out of the window! The crowd went wild as Danny Hope risked life and limb and dived over the top rope onto his foes on the outside taking each one of them out. Dylan was next to throw himself from the top turnbuckle and onto the mass of bodies below. It was all in vein though as the pinfall win went to Kirby as he got the 1.2,3 after 11 minutes of action over Cameron Kraze.

Non Title Match: Paradise Lost vs. Vitamin C
Another One Bites The Dust...
Vitamin C were full of vigour and energy on their entrance to the ring, but that didn't last long as the tag team champions made their entrance immediately attacked their opponents delivering a vicious beatdown to both members. Once the bell had rang, Heresy and LeVay had isolated Xander Cooper as the beating continued. Quick tags from the champs reminded the audience exactly why they are the Trophy holders. The unhinged Kastor LeVay was let loose on Cooper as he scratched and clawed at his skin delivering a beating that Cooper has never had before. Cooper showed some signs of life however as he fired back on Heresy only to be cut off seconds later.
As a sign of dominance, Heresy mocked the challengers by throwing Cooper into his own corner and begging him to make the tag to his partner. Cooper did and in came Clinch with a house of fire, ducking under Heresy clothesline attempt and unloading on LeVay. He sprang back into action to deliver more blows to Heresy but when he turned round, he was caught in the Monster Spear by Kastor and it was game over for Vitamin C, with 4 minutes on the clock, Heresy and LeVay hooked clinch up in Hell Bound and delivered the final nail in the coffin. But they weren't done there though. Following the win, Heresy had a few choice words for the crowd. He reminded them that Paradise Lost had disposed of The Young Offenders, Roberts & Valour, The Mystics, The Eastern Bloc, Ricky J. McKenzie, Sam Bailey and now Vitamin C. He called out Miss North West and RJM valet, Rebecca Jayne to tell the crowd what "she's really like", With his intimidating presence, Heresy yelled at Miss North West to tell the audience who had pushed her through the curtain in September of last year. In tears and clearly upset, she replied "You did" revealing that Heresy had lied about who had done it and had had RJM suspended for no reason. He laughed as he and LeVay taunted her some more, but help was on its way. Little did they know McKenzie was in the building and RJM came running to his valet's rescue and chased off her antagonises. With the Champs licking their wounds on the outside, McKenzie and Miss North West shocked the world with a passionate embrace and kiss. With McKenzie back, this one is far from over.

Main Event: Bubblegum vs. Joey Hayes GPW: "Back With A Bang", February 2011Main Event: Bubblegum vs. Joey Hayes
Dirk Casts Doubt Over Joey
In a wonderful main event steeped in history that had the fans on the edge of their seats throughout we were robbed of a clean result.
So much history between Bubblegum and Joey through the SIN feuds and CC8 feuds of the past, it was the first time these two men had met where the fans had not been behind Bubblegum. Infact, it was quite the opposite as not one member of the audience even looked like cheering him. Tonight they were staunch Joey Hayes supporters. The two launched at each other with kicks and strikes as the bell rang but it was Bubblegum who tried to get himself DQ'd from the match after involving his bodyguard Jason Logan in proceedings. His attempts were unsuccessful and they backfired when Head Official, Mike Fitzgerald ejected Logan from ringside. Whilst he thought his plan had worked, at the announcement Bubblegum cringed when he realised it was Logan heading for an early shower and not him,.Joey took his chance at getting back into the match where he had been hampered since the start by laying into Bubblegum, but it wasn't enough to finish him off. The two trading high risk moves and stiff blows but there was neither of them could finish the other off, that was until MasterPlan leader, Dirk Feelgood appeared through the crowd and still with cast on his hand, struck Joey knocking him out cold and gifting the match to Bubblegum. The crowd went wild, El Ligero came to the aid of Joey but it was too late. Ths issue is far from settled

 

NWRL: Suzuki & Action vs. Blonde Jovi
Unlucky Action First To Be Eliminated
In the first North West Rookie League challenge it was a captains tag team match. As Axl Rage chose to partner with J.D Sassoon, Former GPW Tag Team Champion, The Great Suzuki chose Action Jackson to be in his corner and it was a promising start by the rookie and the pro as Axl and Sassoon were bounced all over the ring. Action impressed with his plucky, never say die attitude but learnt a valuable lesson after a mistake that let Axl and Sassoon back into the match and ended up isolating him from his partner Suzuki. This was unfortunately the teams downfall as even despite coming back into the match for a short period, Axl utilised his team members on the outside as Jackson was thrown outside to the imposing Jason Logan who rammed his shoulder into the steel of the turnbuckle for Axl to capitalise with a shoulder breaker making it impossible for Action to get his shoulder up on the pin. Action Jackson has now been eliminated from the North West Rookie League, but i'm sure the issue won't end there...!

New GPW Heavyweight Champ DDL

New British Champ Zack Diamond Gibson