Singles Match:
Danny Hope vs. Jack Gallagher
GPW: "Live & Let Die" write up, by Alex
Jones
GPW: Live & Let Die’s opening contest undoubtedly
lived up to the shows moniker. As the Monaco Ballroom
pulsated with anticipation and excitement, ring-announcer
Sam Shaw declared that the first match the ‘GP-Dub’
faithful would be treated to was a singles match between
crowd-favourite, Danny Hope, and the technically-sound-scoundrel,
Jack Gallagher. Coming off-of a narrow defeat at the hands
of Zach Diamond a month ago at Back With A Bang in the
British Title scramble-match, Gallagher desperately sought
the momentum that a victory over Hope would provide him
with, in order to interject himself right back into the
British Title picture. However, Hope entered the ring
equally as driven as his adversary, seeking a triumph
that could help the Hindley-native overtake Gallagher
in the race to challenge for championship gold. As the
conceited Gallagher demanded for the referee to ease his
entrance into the squared-circle, the Live & Let Die
attendees erupted in favour of Hope, as chants of ‘Let’s
go Danny!’ filled the air of the now spirited Ballroom,
and the opening bell-rang.
In a fashion most have come to expect from Jack Gallagher,
the match opened with a vicious, disrespectful slap-in-the-face
of Hope. A strike that was subsequently replicated by
the home-town-hero to a thunderous ovation from onlookers.
Gallagher, recovering from a momentarily loss of balance
after the open-handed slap, drove Hope into the corner
of the ring in an attempt to pummel his opponent with
ruthless shoulders driven into the mid-section. Hope was
not going to be slowed-down so early on in the contest,
and fired-out of the turnbuckles with a series of clotheslines,
culminating in a back-body-drop that sent Gallagher crashing
to the canvas with force that had children leaning over
the guard-rail, turn to their parents and wince in what,
for a second, could be mistaken for sympathy for Gallagher.
Such ‘sympathy’ didn’t last long, as
Gallagher re-grouped and began to wrestle the match in
a much more comfortable manner, using a variety of different
technical-holds and targeting the left-arm of Hope. Gallagher’s
domination of his foe began following an under-handed
rake-of-the-eyes and an innovative use of the top-rope,
using Hope to propel him over, Gallagher clung-on to the
left-arm of the Ballroom darling, and draped it over the
rough, unforgiving rope. After several minutes of malicious
attacks launched on the arm, Gallagher made a mistake.
As Gallagher whipped Hope across the ring, Hope hung-on
to the rope that had previously been used to damage his
own limb, allowing him to evade an almost picture-perfect
dropkick from Gallagher. This opened up the opportunity
for Hope to unleash his rapid offence on a reeling Jack
Gallagher. A succession of quick-yet-impactful clotheslines
left Gallagher vulnerable to an athletically-impressive
leaping-knee-strike, and a close two-count. As more chants
of ‘Let’s go Danny!’ echoed throughout
the Ballroom, Hope, with momentum seemingly firmly in
his corner, was caught by a surprise butterfly-suplex.
Gallagher, quick to realise the swinging pendulum of momentum
was now on his side, methodically began to ascend to the
top-rope, setting up for his signature flying-headbutt.
However, Gallagher was too-slow in scaling the turnbuckles,
as Hope had managed to get back to his feet and leap an
incredible distance from the canvas to the top-rope in
order to superplex Gallagher straight back to the mat-below.
This feat of athleticism was, ultimately, in vain. As
Gallagher repelled the superplex attempt and out-muscled
Hope, sending him crashing to the canvas from his position
on the turnbuckle. It was then, that Gallagher soared
through the air and delivered a devastating flying-headbutt
to the dazed Hope who lay helplessly in the centre of
the ring. The aerial assault was delivered with such force,
that Gallagher’s body created a dip in the middle
of the ring akin to a small ditch. It was with this hellacious
headbutt that Gallagher picked-up the one, two, three,
and a decisive victory that has no doubt propelled Jack
Gallagher into all the right-places here, in Grand Pro
Wrestling.
NWRL:
Ste "Bin" Mann vs. Ken Zen
The North-West Rookie League has taken GPW by storm. Pitting
two teams of rookies against one another in an assortment
of diverse match-types, the North-West Rookie League is
rapidly becoming the place to see the future stars of
GPW learn their craft, and make life-long adversaries
of one another...
It was announced by Sam Shaw that one member from each
team must be chosen to face-off in singles competition.
As both teams separated into huddles, it became clear
that The Great Suzuki had chosen Bin Man to represent
his team. What wasn’t clear however, was who he
would be facing. As Bin Man readied himself for the task
ahead, Masterplan’s ‘enforcer’ Logan
trudged across the ring towards the crowd-favourite. The
two stood eye-to-eye in the centre of the squared-circle,
as a deafening ovation for Bin Man filled the ears of
each and every person in the Monaco Ballroom, Logan began
to retreat. Stepping over the top-rope and continuing
to verbally admonish Bin Man, Logan served as the perfect
distraction for the man who had in reality had been chosen
to dispose of Bin Man, Ken Zen.
Ken Zen took full advantage of the distraction and delivered
a sickening roundhouse kick to the skull of Bin Man to
officially begin this one-on-one contest. Ken Zen continued
to lay-into his opponent with a flurry of quick punches
and kicks, though this didn’t last long, as Bin
Man struck back with his own series of offence. First
hitting Zen with his patented ‘Trip to the Tip’,
followed by an impactful big-boot to the masked face of
his foe. Sending Zen to the rafters-and-back with a soaring
back-body-drop, and culminating the attack by almost squashing
the much smaller Zen by delivering a devastating body-splash
to his vulnerable opponent. The GP-Dub faithful erupted
with elation as Bin Man hooked Zen’s leg for what
seemed like an inevitable three-count. However, the roaming
Logan was quick to act, and draped his fallen team-mate’s
leg across the bottom rope a split-second before the referee’s
hand came down for the decisive three count. Bin Man was
not oblivious to the cheating ways of Logan, and was quick
to confront the sinister colossus. This proved to be an
unwise decision on the part of Bin Man, as, identically
to the manner in which the match began, Ken Zen was wise
to take full advantage of the commotion and unleash his
deadly array of martial-arts influenced strikes on Bin
Man. Zen dominated his larger adversary with an all too
apparent calculating, malicious demeanour. Zen looked
to put-away Bin Man with an aerial manoeuvre as he quickly
scaled the turnbuckles to a chorus of boos from spectators.
As the mysterious Zen leapt into the air with refinement
and poise, contorting his body and bracing himself for
the impending collision with the torso of his foe, Bin
Man raised both his knees in what can only be described
as a desperation move, and caused Zen to crash-land on
the knees of the downed Bin Man. This caused uproar amongst
those in attendance, as each and every member of the audience,
with no exceptions, rose to their feet and began chants
of ‘Let’s go Bin Man!’ and Bin Man did
just that. As the reeling Zen gingerly made it back to
his feet, Bin Man sped across the proverbial-battlefield
and speared Zen almost out-of-the ring. This caused for
an upsurge of excitement from those sat ringside, those
sat in the high-rise balcony, and everybody in-between.
As a chorus of ‘Bin Man! Bin Man! Bin Man!’
rang in the ears of each-and-every man, woman and child
in the Ballroom; Bin Man took hold of the staggering Ken
Zen and delivered his finishing-move, the ‘Bin Man
Slam’. As the leg was hooked, and the referee began
the three-count, without Logan to take advantage of the
situation, Bin Man secured the one, two, three, and a
victory for his team. Thus eliminating Ken Zen from the
running’s of the North West Rookie League, much
like Action Jackson was one month prior, at Back With
A Bang.
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William Gaylord vs. DDL
After defeating El Ligero under dubious circumstances
following interference from Bubblegum at Back With A Bang
to earn the number one contender spot to DDL’s newly
attained GPW Heavyweight Championship, William Gaylord
will, for the first time ever, appear in a main-event
match, and, a Heavyweight title contest. On the other-hand,
this is to be the first time Dangerous Damon Leigh will
ever find himself in a Heavyweight Championship match...
as the defending champion! Can youth upturn experience?
Will the hunger of Gaylord overwhelm the determination
of the ten-year veteran? Who will leave the Monaco Ballroom
GPW Heavyweight Champion? Those gathered ringside for
Live & Let Die, were on the verge of finding out.
The contest started-out with an excellent display of technical-prowess
on the part of both competitors. Both Champion and contender
exchanged hammerlocks, armbars, wristlocks and headlocks,
jostling for position and the upper-hand in this World
Championship match. DDL edged ahead of his challenger
with a series of back-body-drops, turnbuckle-splashes
and a reverse elbow catching Gaylord square in the jaw.
On the retreat, Gaylord exited the ring in what at first
could be mistaken for an act of cowardice; however, Gaylord
lured Leigh into a cunning trap as the number-one-contender
for the GPW Heavyweight Championship took DDL’s
vertical base straight from underneath him as he pulled
the leg of the Champion through the bottom rope, thus
causing the champ to loose-balance and find himself flat-on-his-back
with an encroaching Gaylord eager to follow-up with a
vicious attack. Gaylord anticipated DDL’s recovery,
and suplexed arguably the most popular Heavyweight Champion
in GPW history straight back to the canvas. An exchange
of European uppercuts followed, Gaylord, on this occasion,
getting the best of Leigh. The crowd began to become restless
as the challenger locked on a ferocious reverse-chinlock,
a chorus of ‘Gaaaaaaaaayyylord! Gaaaaaaaaayyylord!’
rang through the Monaco Ballroom.
As DDL fed off the GP-Dub faithfull’s animosity
towards his opponent, the champ fought his way back to
his feet. However, unshaken by the seemingly turning-tides,
Gaylord relinquished the reverse-chinlock and instead,
locked a brutal sleeper-hold on the momentum-building
Leigh. The defending Champion was quick to hit a much-needed
belly-to-back suplex on Gaylord, a manoeuvre that was
to spell the end for the brash, young challenger. A flurry
of offence subsequently followed from DDL, a flying-knee
strike to the temple, as well as a modified sit-down-powerbomb
set up Dangerous Damon Leigh for his signature top-rope
attack, the moonsault. However, this decision proved to
be premature, as Gaylord managed to roll out of harm’s
way as the Champion contorted his body mid-air and prepared
to crash-land on the sternum of the defenceless challenger.
This mistake gave Gaylord one last chance to put-away
DDL, and in doing so, become the new reigning GPW Heavyweight
Champion. Gaylord stalked his groggy opponent and struck
with a sudden butterfly-suplex, enough to put most men
away for the three count. As the referee’s hand
careered towards the mat for the decisive third-time,
DDL found it deep within himself to force a shoulder up
of the mat, and in doing so, keep his fairytale Championship
run alive. As Gaylord squabbled and bickered with the
referee, Leigh found his composure and struck the shocked
challenger with a succession of quick strikes, setting
Gaylord up for a second-rope somersault-stunner that DDL
calls, the Diamond Dust. After perfectly executing the
innovative attack, DDL covered the fallen challenger and
got the crucial one, two... three! And in doing so, ensured
he won’t be awoken from his Championship dream just
yet. However, Damon Leigh’s night, was about to
get that little bit more dangerous...
Following the triumph, DDL embraced the crowd’s
joyous ovation. The celebrations were cut-short, however,
by the dastardly Alan Tasker, and his monstrous associate,
Cyanide. As the defeated Gaylord staggered to the backstage
area, Tasker led the behemoth towards the exhausted champion,
screaming orders into the ear of his cohort. Leigh, showing
no signs of intimidation, rushed towards his new foe with
a combination of forearm strikes and closed-fist punches.
Cyanide, unfazed by the onslaught, sent DDL to the mat
with one vicious clothesline. As the fallen champion retreated
to the corner, Cyanide darted across the ring with speed
that a man half-his-size would struggle to achieve, and
crushed Leigh between him and the three unforgiving turnbuckles.
Cyanide rounded the attack off with a devastating splash
that squashed the life-out-of a fallen, defenceless Damon
Leigh. With the champion left lifeless on the canvas,
and Alan Tasker praising his conqueror, Cyanide’s
intentions have been made quite clear. The question arises,
if DDL can’t stop the brute, then who can?
Six
Man Tag:
Kraze, Walker & Carter vs. Kirby, Roberts &
Holmes |
The second contest of the 2011 instalment of Live &
Let Die was a six-man tag featuring two members of Dirk
Feelgood’s Masterplan, teaming with former GPW British
Champion C.J Banks’ personal trainer, Fox Carter.
In the opposite corner stood Martin Kirby, Dylan Roberts
and Mike Holmes. But they weren’t standing for long...
As Holmes, Roberts and Kirby stepped into the ring, ready
and raring to take-on the terrible trio that awaited,
Kraze, Walker and Carter launched a pre-match assault
on their opponents. Kraze and Walker were quick to eliminate
Roberts and Holmes from the action, as Fox followed them
to the outside in order to use the harsh, unforgiving
wooden Ballroom floor and steel fan-rails in his mission
to maim and injure his adversaries. Meanwhile, in the
ring, Cameron Kraze and Jiggy Walker punished Martin Kirby
with an array of double-team manoeuvres that shook the
already damaged ring to its foundations. As this two-on-one
assault continued, Dylan Roberts, who had somehow managed
to temporarily subdue a destructive Fox Carter made his
way into the ring in order to save his tag-team partner
from the Masterplan’s offensive onslaught. With
a series of clotheslines to both Kraze and Walker, Roberts
did just that, and allowed time for the referee to take
control of the match. Finally, the second contest of the
night was officially under-way.
Jiggy Walker and Mike Holmes were to start the match off
as representatives for each of their teams. Holmes began
the match well, flurries of offence that included quick
strikes, dropkicks and a series of clotheslines. However,
it wasn’t long until Walker managed to turn the
match on its head and gain control of the both the bout,
and the mad professor. Frequent tags between Walker and
Kraze allowed for a prolonged period of domination as
they isolated Holmes from his tag-team partners, and left
him vulnerable to the twisted will of Cameron Kraze, Fox
Carter and Jiggy Walker. After a tirade of abuse at the
hands of each member of the opposing team, Holmes finally
managed to find an opening in the game-plan of Jiggy Walker
and managed to make the crucial tag to his partner Dylan
Roberts. Roberts entered the ring with the intention of
taking-out the wicked Walker, and did exactly that. After
a series of quick clotheslines, Walker found himself on
the back-foot and in need of re-enforcement. Back-up came
in the form of a rampaging Cameron Kraze and Fox Carter,
both of which found themselves on the receiving end of
being tossed to the outside of the ring courtesy of Holmes
and Martin Kirby. As Kirby and Holmes followed their foes
to the unprotected floor, Dylan Roberts planted Walker
in the centre of the ring, and signalled to the top-rope.
Roberts clambered up each turnbuckle and positioned himself
on top, perched and signalling to a fallen Jiggy Walker.
Akin to the way in which Jack Gallagher disposed of Danny
Hope in the night’s previous contest, Roberts leapt
half-way across the ring and delivered a heart-stopping
elbow-drop to the helpless Walker, and in doing so, sealed
the victory for his team.
As the referee raised the hands of the triumphant three,
Kraze, Walker and Carter begrudgingly made their way to
the backstage area, nursing the signs of a hard-fought
battle. Little did the spectators know, this wouldn’t
be the last time these six competitors would do battle
before the night was through...
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GPW British Title Match: Zach Diamond vs. Mikey
Whiplash
After a six year absence from the GPW roster, one of the
most revered wrestlers of the independent circuit today,
Mikey Whiplash, made his long-anticipated return to the
Monaco Ballroom to face the reigning GPW British Champion,
Zach Diamond. Diamond has been making headlines here in
GPW ever since his arrival in October at ‘Friday
Night Thriller IV’ where he came-up short in a one-on-one
contest with Jack Gallagher, a match many tipped as a
potential match-of-the-year. He appeared a month later
as a member of the paying-public at ‘Guts &
Glory’, where he was added to the three-way British
Title scramble, and emerged victorious! Now, as reigning
British Champion, and in his second defence of the title,
Diamond squares off against the veteran Whiplash. Whiplash,
who has wrestled all over the UK, Europe, and around the
world, was last seen in GPW in March of 2005 when he faced
WWE’s Tyson Kidd. As excitement builds in the Ballroom,
one begins to ponder whether Diamond’s soaring popularity
can bypass Whiplash, or can the seasoned Whiplash expose
the inexperience of the young champion, and make his return
to GPW, a successful one?
For the first (and only) time of the night, a match began,
not with an underhanded assault, or a fierce brawl spilling
to the outside, or an arrogant open-handed slap, but instead
with a hand-shake. A sign of respect that echoed throughout
the ballroom as each man acknowledged the task ahead of
him, and prepared to do battle over the prestigious British
Title. The two technical competitors were quick to demonstrate
why it is that they were squaring off in one of the nights
three main-events, putting on a wrestling clinic that
divided the crowd between chants of ‘Let’s
go Diamond!’ and ‘Let’s go Whiplash!’
This split in support carried-on throughout the contest,
as both men exchanged a series of offensive flurries,
Whiplash eventually gained the upper-hand with a quick-succession
of elbow and knee strikes to a downed Diamond. Whiplash
would not be relinquishing his hold on the match-up any
time soon, slingshoting the defending champion into the
top-turnbuckle and following up with a spine-crunching
double-underhook-backbreaker. The challenger pursued his
opponent and struck with a knee-drop from the top-rope,
coming close to taking both the match and the title, but
narrowly missing-out with a two count. This inability
to follow-up the aerial assault with a pin-fall proved
to be the undoing of Whiplash, as Diamond began to feed
on the growing fan-support that the Monaco Ballroom endowed
him with, the reigning British Champion connected with
quick-fire clotheslines and reverse-elbow strikes, followed
by an enzuguri in the corner and a heart-stopping dive
through the second and third rope. As spectators looked
on in awe, and the referee in charge of the contest began
a ten-count, Diamond and Whiplash lifted their bruised
and damaged bodies back into the ring in an attempt to
put-an-end to this classic contest. The two found themselves
in what seemed like an eternal battle, each-man yearning
to pin the other’s shoulders to the mat for the
three count. As Whiplash rolled-up Diamond with a schoolboy,
Diamond would counter into a pin-attempt of his own. This
would continue for some time, until Diamond managed to
level Whiplash, and begin his ascent to the top-rope.
Leaping into the air, Zach Diamond struck with a picture-perfect
Frogsplash, and in doing so, earned the decisive pin-fall
in the second main-event of the evening.
As Diamond and the GP-Dub faithfully celebrated his victory,
a frustrated Whiplash rose from the canvas and approached
the man who had retained the British Championship. As
Whiplash verbally admonished the victor, those in attendance
who had once been divided by the two wrestlers, found
themselves chanting in unison ‘Shake his hand! Shake
his hand!’ as Diamond offered his hand in respect,
a defeated Whiplash, after first mulling over the situation,
clasped hands with the champion and embraced. As those
who had once chanted for one competitor, and jeered the
other, rose to their feet and paid-their-respects to two
astounding athletes who had just put on a show that was
worth the admission-price alone.
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GPW Tag Team Trophy Match: Paradise Lost vs. Sam Bailey
& RJM
Over seven months ago ‘Super’ Sam Bailey defeated
three other GPW superstars to earn the right to challenge
the GPW Tag Team Champions, Heresy and Kastor LeVay, with
a partner of his choosing. Seven months later, due in
thanks to the underhanded tactics of the team many have
christened ‘The Preacher and The Creature’,
Sam Bailey has yet to have competed for the Tag Team Trophy...
Or even team with Ricky J McKenzie! However, after what
must seem like an eternity in the making for both Sam
Bailey and RJM, the two will finally get their chance
to face Paradise Lost for the Tag Team Trophy! Dispatching
of Paradise Lost will be no easy task for the challengers,
the dubious duo have steamrolled through the GPW tag-team
division, picking up wins over The Young Offenders, The
Mystics, Vitamin C and The Eastern Bloc to name but a
few. Can this new-fangled team of Bailey and RJM upset
the reigning champs? Or will the experience of ‘The
Priest & The Beast’ conquer the youthful pair,
driven by vengeance, aspiration, and blind faith in one-another?
As the team of Bailey and RJM entered the squared circle
for the first time as a tag-team, they wasted no time
to get the jump on Paradise Lost and launched an assault
on the champs. The reigning tag-team trophy holders wasted
just as little time in presenting those crammed into the
Ballroom with a first-class display of tag-team-wrestling.
Making frequent tags, and executing a plethora of tag-team
manoeuvres, making light of the familiarity both Heresy
and LeVay have with one-another between the ropes. Something
Sam Bailey and RJM certainly did not posses in their arsenal
heading into the match-up. As Paradise Lost continued
to dominate the challengers to their Title, both Bailey
& McKenzie found an opening and had the Champions
reeling. It was now that the team of RJM and SSB who started
to knit together and hit a series of tag team moves as
they isolated Heresy. However, Paradise Lost’s tag-team
experience once-again caught up with the challengers,
as the champions used Miss North West on the outside as
a distraction to RJM and when Bailey broke free of Heresy
and went for the tag, McKenzie had his back turned and
missed his partner reaching out. A rookie mistake by a
rookie team. A barrage of heavy attacks ensued from PL,
culminating when Heresy clambered to the second turnbuckle,
jeering and taunting those in attendance, ready to drop
a demoralizing elbow straight to the heart of "Super"
Sam Bailey. However, it was not to be, as the Monaco Ballroom
security was called into action as one member of the audience
attempted to stop the malevolent preacher herself! This
unforeseen incident opened the door for Bailey and RJM
to take the match and ‘run-with-it’, so to
speak. Taking control of their opposition, the inexperienced
team had the seasoned pros on the back foot, perhaps,
for the first time in some time, the longest tag-team
championship reign in GPW history, was in bona fide jeopardy!
After hitting Kastor LeVay with a picturesque moonsault,
it looked like RJM had sealed the fate of both teams,
when, from out of nowhere, McKenzie’s valet Miss
North West Rebecca Jayne, who'd been brought into the
ring by her hair courtesy of Heresy , struck RJM over
the skull with her seemingly harmless handbag as he tried
to save her! Silence fell, as did Ricky J McKenzie. Paradise
Lost dispatched of Sam Bailey on the outside, both men
made their way to the ring and lifted the dead-weight
of RJM, setting him up for an elevated assisted DDT finish
they call Hell Bound , and picking-up the decisive pin-fall.
Once again, by hook-or-crook, Paradise Lost remain, your
GPW Tag-Team Champions.
After the match’s conclusion, Heresy rushed Miss
North West to the backstage area before returning to the
ring with a microphone in hand. The first order of business
was to reveal what it was that had just transpired. Handbag
in, well... hand, Heresy revealed to the world that the
bag that secured he and his partners defence of the Tag-Team
Trophy contained a brick! Dubbing the pink accessory that
cost RJM and Sam Bailey tag-team success a ‘Heresy-handbag’.
The crowd jeered the villainous Heresy as he made his
way to the back, laughing at his brilliant ploy. One thing’s
for sure, don’t expect to be seeing a Heresy-handbag
sitting-pretty next to the DVD’s and t-shirts of
the merchandise stand any time soon...
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Tag Team Grudge Match, Main Event II: Feelgood & Bubblegum
vs. El Ligero & Joey Hayes
The final match on the card, the second main-event of
the evening, and a dream-match in its own right, the night
was rounded-off with a tag-team grudge match-up featuring
the leader of the Masterplan, Dirk Feelgood, and his newest
associate, a man who he feuded with over the Heavyweight
Title for a number of months back in 2008/2009, Bubblegum.
In the opposite corner would be the ultra-popular duo
of El Ligero and Joey Hayes. Both Feelgood and Bubblegum
have cost Ligero & Hayes victories over the past couple
of months. It was Bubblegum who cost Ligero the number-one-contender
spot for the Heavyweight title in his match with William
Gaylord, and it was the actions of Feelgood that have
cost Hayes victories over the once loved, now despised,
Bubblegum over the past couple of months. This match has
been brewing for some time, and it was scheduled to come
to a head Friday, March 4th, Live & Let Die, in front
of a capacity audience. But as you should know by now,
nothing ever goes to schedule here, in GPW...
As could be expected from Masterplan, Feelgood and Bubblegum
didn’t come alone. With Jason Logan of the NWRL
in tow, Masterplan began the match-up with a three-on-two
brawl, utilising the numbers game to muster an advantage
over their adversaries from the get-go. The unsanctioned
brawl didn’t last long, as the fired-up team of
Ligero and Hayes fed off the uproar of the crowd and battled
their way back into the match, disposing of Logan and
Bubblegum, which left only Feelgood at the mercy of Hayes
and Ligero. It was then that ring announcer Sam Shaw made
the announcement that, if Ligero or Hayes were to target
or attack the injured wrist of Feelgood, they would be
disqualified on-the-spot. Conversely, if Feelgood was
caught using the cast as a weapon like he has done over
the past couple of months, both he and Bubblegum would
be disqualified! With this new stipulation added to the
match, each team retreated to their respective corners
and prepared to do battle. As the bell-rang for the match
to be officially under-way, Hayes and Ligero wasted little
time in taking it to their dastardly opponents with a
series of strikes, suplexes, and frequent tags. This spell
of domination didn’t last long, as Bubblegum and
Feelgood turned the tides on Hayes and Ligero and mirrored
their offence with a succession of strikes and suplexes
that kept the high-flying team grounded. The ‘wrestling’
aspect of the match didn’t last long, as Masterplan
began their almost-ritualistic rule-breaking, using the
ring-ropes to choke out Ligero, as well as taking cheap-shots
at the apron-stranded Hayes. Frequent tags and a series
of double-team attacks became the M.O of Masterplan for
the rest of the night, until Ligero managed to acrobatically
escape the clutches of the nefarious duo, and make the
hot-tag to an animated and energized Joey Hayes. Hayes
entered the fray like a ball-of-fire, taking out each
member of Masterplan as they came with clotheslines, reverse-elbow
strikes and his patented kicks. However this flurry was
short-lived, after a sudden and impactful kick from Bubblegum,
he and Feelgood took full advantage of the stunned Hayes.
A beatdown ensued, until El Ligero struck with a top-rope
seated-senton that triggered the beginning of the end
of this marvellous spectacle of a main-event. After a
quick scuffle between the four men, Bubblegum managed
to hit Ligero with an impressive double-knee-gutbuster,
however, Bubblegum was foolish to take so long tormenting
the crowd after executing the manoeuvre, as his follow-up
stop from the top-rope was avoided by Ligero, and the
momentarily stumped Bubblegum found himself on the end
of Joey Hayes’ ‘Teenage Kicks’, a shot
that took Bubblegum out for the remainder of the match.
A measure of revenge for Joey Hayes. It was then that
Jason Logan interjected himself into the match-up, taking
out both Ligero, and the referee on the outside. The decision
to temporarily dispose of the referee came back to haunt
Masterplan, as in the ring, Hayes had stripped Dirk Feelgood
of his cast, and struck the scheming leader of the most
dominant faction in GPW over the skull with the cast!
The referee, unaware of what had transpired, crawled slowly
back into the ring and counted the one... two... three!
Finally, Masterplan had been conquered! Or had they...
Mere seconds, after the match was over, Cameron Kraze
and Jiggy Walker hit the ring and attacked the exhausted
Hayes and Ligero. Whilst attempting to revive fellow teammate
Bubblegum, and leader Feelgood. As Feelgood regained composure,
he lashed out at Sam Shaw and forcefully grabbed a microphone,
proceeding to yell harrowingly ‘No one can beat
the Masterplan! This chaos... is a result of... the Masterplan!’
As all seemed lost, the rookies of the NWRL came hurtling
toward the ring in a desperate attempt to save their fallen
heroes. Their efforts seemed wasted however, as Masterplan
continued their domination, ejecting each and every member
of the NWRL from the ring one-by-one. As Feelgood, Bubblegum,
Walker, Kraze and Logan laughed and taunted all who would
pay them attention; Martin Kirby and Dylan Roberts burst
through the curtain and leapt into the fray, clearing
the ring of Masterplan and their ill-intentions. As bodies
lay scattered in the ring and on the floor, Kirby picked
up the microphone Feelgood held just moments before, and
issued a challenge to Masterplan. Kirby proposed that
he, Roberts, Hayes and Ligero, face Feelgood and his cronies
in a four-on-four, ‘Survivor-Series-rules’
match on April 9th at ‘Only The Strong Survive’!
The challenge was hastily acknowledged accepted by Feelgood.
However, what Feelgood surely didn’t acknowledge
was El Ligero, climbing to the top-turnbuckle unbeknownst
to the distracted Masterplan, and moonsaulting high towards
the rafters and crashing down onto a heap of Masterplan
bodies!
One thing’s for sure, if scores haven’t been
settled yet, they sure will be at Only The Strong Survive.
With eight of the most high-profile wrestlers in the country
all in a GPW ring at one time, there are no excuses for
missing what will undoubtedly be the most electryfying,
unpredictable wrestling event of the year so far. Only
one thing is for certain, only the strong will... Survive!
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