GCW: The Road To National

[kanegan]

 

BREAKING NEWS!!!

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In news which was confirmed by our sources, we have learnt that GCW has been purchased by the Hardcore Legend Mick Foley. 

GCW had been on a downward spiral ever since they ran the Hammerstein show in 2022 which was a disaster so to speak of and since then, one or the other controversy has embroiled the promotion which was considered the king of Indies prior to that.

Mick Foley was a long time fan of the promotion and even made some appearances for the promotion but he couldn't bear to see it in so much distress and instead quickly prepared his ground for the takeover. Brett Lauderdale is expected to continue as the CMO of the company considering the enormous work he had done in the marketing department while Foley is expected to take over the CEO duties including the booking.

From our phone call with Foley, we got basically the following points:

1.  GCW will continue it's April schedule as was decided earlier which would basically be the culmination of the existing storylines.

2. GCW will have major announcements regarding their various brands and it is expected to be announced by the end of April.

3. Multiple new championship belts are expected to be introduced to the company.

4. Foley has indicated that he is intending to build GCW into a cult phenomenon, in the veins of ECW or FMW and the long term plans include a regular TV Show but that would come at a much later stage when the time is ripe which we don't know when it would be.

 

We will soon have other news regarding this cracking development and those of GCW fans who had drifted apart from the organization, rejoice because the Hardcore Legend is now in helm and he promises big things.

Edited July 3, 2023 by kanegan

[kanegan]

Champions

 

~ GCW World Championship ~

Johnny Gamechanger (Since August 2023)

 

Previous Champion

Nick Gage (4X) (April 2023 - August 2023)

Masha Slamovich (March 2023 - April 2023)

Nick Gage (3X) (October 2022 - March 2023)

Jon Moxley (September 2021 - October 2022)

Matt Cardona (July 2021 - September 2021)

Nick Gage (2X) (April 2021 - July 2021)

 

 

 

~ GCW Ultraviolent Championship ~

AJ Gray (Since September 2023) 

 

Previous Champion

Rina Yamashita (August 2022 - September 2023)

Alex Colon (3X) (June 2022 - August 2022)

John Wayne Murdoch (March 2022 - June 2022)

Alex Colon (2X) (November 2021 - March 2022)

Masashi Takeda (October 2021 - November 2021)

Drew Parker (July 2021 - October 2021)

 

 

~ GCW Tag Team Championship ~

Legion of Pain (Sunny Dhinsa/Gzim Selmani) (Since September 2023) 

 

Previous Champion

Mega Bastards (Alex Colon/John Wayne Murdoch) (2X) (July 2023 - September 2023)

BUSSY (EFFY/Allie Katch) (2X) (April 2023 - July 2023)

East West Express (Jordan Oliver/Nick Wayne) (March 2023 - April 2023)

Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley/Chris Sabin) (March 2023 - March 2023)

Los Mazisos (Miedo Extremo/Ciclope) (3X) (October 2022 - March 2023)

Mega Bastards (Alex Colon/John Wayne Murdoch) (September 2022 - October 2022)

The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe/Mark Briscoe) (3X) (August 2022 - September 2022)

 

 

Champions

 

~ JCW Championship ~

Myron Reed (Since September 2023) 

 

 

Previous Champion

Jordan Oliver (February 2023 - September 2023)

 

 

 

~ GCW Extreme Championship ~

Joey Janela (Since October 2022) 

 

Previous Champion

Cole Radrick (July 2022 - October 2022)

AJ Gray (January 2022 - July 2022)

 

 

~ JCW Tag Team Championship ~

East West Express (Jordan Oliver/Nick Wayne) (Since June 2023) 

 

 

2023: East-West Express (Jordan Oliver/Nick Wayne)

 

2023: Lio Rush

 

2023: 

 

2023: 

 

 

Alliance Champions

 

 

~ WOW Universal Triangle Championship ~

 

Time Machine (Alex Shelley/Chris Sabin/KUSHIDA) (Since August 2023) 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 16, 2023 by kanegan

[kanegan]

 

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GCW released their schedule for April earlier today on Twitter and there will be 5 shows with the first two coming from the Queensborough Elks Lodge in New York, the next two coming from White Eagle Hall in New Jersey and the final show of the month coming back to New York from the Melrose Ballroom.

The first event, Planet Death will be headlined by the new GCW Champion, Masha  Slamovich heading into her third defense of the title in what will be her biggest challenge, in a deathmatch against the King of GCW, Nick Gage. 

 

The full card for Planet Death is as follows:

1.  4 Way Scramble: Tony Deppen vs Latigo vs Starboy Charlie vs 2 Cold Scorpio

2.  GCW Extreme Championship: Joey Janela (c) vs Jimmy Lloyd

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: East West Express (Jordan Oliver/Nick Wayne) (c) vs Sawyer Wreck/Billie Starkz

4.  Calvin Tankman vs Homicide

5.  GCW World Championship Deathmatch: Masha Slamovich (c) vs Nick Gage

Edited May 27, 2023 by kanegan

[SonOfSharknado]

1.  4 Way Scramble: Tony Deppen vs Latigo vs Starboy Charlie vs 2 Cold Scorpio

2.  GCW Extreme Championship: Joey Janela (c) vs Jimmy Lloyd

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: East West Express (Jordan Oliver/Nick Wayne) (c) vs Sawyer Wreck/Billie Starkz

4.  Calvin Tankman vs Homicide

5.  GCW World Championship Deathmatch: Masha Slamovich (c) vs Nick Gage

[CGN91]

The Hammerstein was indeed a disaster in terms of the booking (Outsiders having major matches and going over to the home grown talent) so a somewhat new direction could be interesting though. Sure it's all fantasy and made to have fun but I hope it will still be GCW as the grungy Indy as f*ck promotion and not something completely new. You can say everything you want to Lauderdale but he has a insanely good (and over) crop of home grown talent with unique characters so they should be pushed and should have the main attention.

The small matchcard is anything but GCW but let's see where it goes from here.

Deppen
Janela
East West Express
Homicide
Masha

[kanegan]

9 hours ago, CGN91 said:

The Hammerstein was indeed a disaster in terms of the booking (Outsiders having major matches and going over to the home grown talent) so a somewhat new direction could be interesting though. Sure it's all fantasy and made to have fun but I hope it will still be GCW as the grungy Indy as f*ck promotion and not something completely new. You can say everything you want to Lauderdale but he has a insanely good (and over) crop of home grown talent with unique characters so they should be pushed and should have the main attention.

The small matchcard is anything but GCW but let's see where it goes from here.

Deppen
Janela
East West Express
Homicide
Masha

The home grown will always be at the center of the promotion. It's just that i want to do some things differently in GCW but otherwise they will always be the cult promotion that is loved so much. The smaller shows are designed to warm up to the storylines that i am trying to run and getting the handle on the promotion and the bigger cards will come into play from May onwards.

[kanegan]

Live from Queensborough Elks Lodge, Brooklyn, New York Attendance: 350

Scramble Match Tony Deppen vs Latigo vs Starboy Charlie vs 2 Cold Scorpio The first scramble match in the Foley era was a lot of fun with Charlie and Latigo going crazy with their bumps and 2 Cold Scorpio hitting planchas and swanton bombs while smoking but in the end, it was the GCW gatekeeper, Tony Deppen who fought his way to a win when he submitted Latigo with a tight Sleeper. Winner: Tony Deppen Grade: 44   GCW Extreme Title Joey Janela (c) vs Jimmy Lloyd The contest was impressive with both of them selling other's moves quite well. Janela got sent through multiple doors while he himself hit a crossbody and reverse canadian destroyer which looked like it has caused concussion in Lloyd's head but then both rose up and everybody was relieved. Lloyd swung a bat which he had taken from the crowd which was ducked by Janela before he hit his Moonsault Foot Stomp to end this one.   Winner: Joey Janela (defense #5) Grade: 50   GCW Tag Team Titles East West Express (c) vs Sawyer Wreck/Billie Starkz Four young wrestlers who would someday be the future of this business showed their true skills in a dazzling match.  Sawyer and Jordan traded quick reversals to open. Starkz and Wayne also traded quick reversals and had a standoff. Starkz dove through the ropes onto Wayne while in the ring, Wayne hit his running Shooting Star Press on Sawyer. Jordan hit a running powerbomb on Starkz for a close two while Wreck almost took off the head of Wayne with a sick DDT.  Everyone hit their dives on the floor which stalled the match a bit. Wayne hit a handspring-back-stunner on Sawyer and then teamed up with Jordan to hit a team Clout Cutter on Sawyer to pin her.   Winner: East West Express (defense #1) Grade: 21   Singles Match Calvin Tankman vs Homicide     They opened with some mat wrestling. Tankman hit a shoulder tackle sending Homicide to the floor. Tankman teased a dive to the floor, but quickly got down and they traded hard chops on the floor. In the ring, they continued to trade more chops. Homicide hit a suplex that popped the crowd and earned a “holy shit!” chant. Tankman countered with a pop-up spinning back fist, and they were both down. Tankman went for a second-rope flying crossbody block, but Homicide moved and Tankman crashed.  Tankman hit a backbreaker over his knee and a short-arm clothesline, then a pumphandle sit-out powerbomb for a nearfall. Tankman climbed the ropes, but Homicide hit an enziguri. He tried for the Gringo Killa but couldn't lift Tankman and the Heavyweight Hustle instead hit the Tankman Driver for a hard fought win.   Winner: Calvin Tankman Grade: 45   Post match. Tankman grabbed a mic and put forward his candidature for the GCW World Title. GCW World Title Deathmatch Masha Slamovich (c) vs Nick Gage   She unloaded a flurry of kicks early on. Gage stumbled across the ring; He hit a belly-to-belly suplex at 2:30 and took control, and he hit some bodyslams. He held her upside down for 20 seconds before slamming her for a near fall. He hit some forearms. Masha fired up and hit some chops of her own. They hit simultaneous clotheslines and were both went down. They got up and traded forearm shots, he hit a running elbow drop, and he stomped on her head in the corner. They brawled to the floor, with Gage in complete control, choking her against the guardrail. She fired up and hit some punches and forearms, and whipped him into the ring post. They got in the ring, and Masha whipped a chair at his head busting him open. He hit a chokeslam over his knee for a nearfall. They traded more forearm shots. Masha hit an Air Raid Crash into the corner onto a chair for a believable nearfall. Masha hit a mid-ring piledriver, then a second one, for another nearfall. She hit a Shining Wizard and she applied a rear-naked choke but Gage somehow got out of it and then hit the Chokebreaker. NEW CHAMPION!!!!   Winner: Nick Gage (new champion) Grade: 50   Gage got on the mic and said he’s “the realest motherf—er in the locker room, but now, he has found another one and raised Masha's hand. The crowd chanted, “You deserve it!” Masha got on the mic and said she was happy to hold the title for the last few months and she will again work her way to this title.   Show Rating: 44

Edited May 7, 2023 by kanegan

[Blodyxe]

Nice debut show, bro. Gage is now a 4x time champ, right? One away from tying Sandman's ECW record 😃

Edited May 6, 2023 by Blodyxe

[kanegan]

On 5/5/2023 at 4:34 PM, Blodyxe said:

Nice debut show, bro. Gage is now a 4x time champ, right? One away from tying Sandman's ECW record 😜

Yes he is. This is perhaps his last run considering how broken down he is but will see how it goes.

 

PREDICTIONS

CGN91 - 3/5

SonofSharknado - 3/5

[kanegan]

Live from Queensborough Elks Lodge, Brooklyn, New York Attendance: 350

Scramble Match Alec Price vs CPA vs Gringo Loco vs Shane Mercer Alec Price won the second scramble match when he pinned CPA with a small package. Shane Mercer lived up to it's billing as the strongest man in GCW when he handed out powerbombs to everyone and Price took the advantage of it. Winner: Alec Price Grade: 37   Trios Match Time Machine (KUSHIDA/Motor City Machine Guns) vs Hijo del Vikingo/Los Mazisos Los Mazisos are GCW legends having been 3 times Tag Team champions and a mainstay of the company in the past few years. They were tagging with Vikingo who had been impressive in his American appearances. On the other hand was the re-united Time Machine who were coming off a hot feud in Impact and they were now ready to rock the indies.  KUSHIDA and Vikingo began the action as Vikingo hits KUSHIDA with a back elbow before hitting a shoulder tackle. Ciclope tags in and KUSHIDA delivers a knee. Shelley tags in and hits a back breaker before it breaks from there and we see all six men entering the ring with ref having a hard time to control. Miedo delivers a chop to Sabin and delivers a reverse stunner to Sabin. He goes for a pin, but Sabin kicks out. Ciclope delivers a Side Russian Leg Sweep. He goes for a pin, but Shelley and KUSHIDA break it up. Sabin makes the hot tag to KUSHIDA and he takes down Miedo with a springboard back elbow before Time Machine delivers some triple offense to Vikingo and then Kushida hit Ciclope with the Midnight Express who was tagged in.   Winner: Time Machine Grade: 57   GCW Tag Team Titles East West Express (c) vs BUSSY BUSSY was looking for their second GCW Tag Titles and in this first time match-up, we got a very weak one as BUSSY's obnoxious energy didn't mesh well with the fast pace of the champs. Effy sent Wayne to the floor and the fight went outside. Oliver and Wayne performed a double dive after being sent back to the ring. Katch slammed Wayne on the apron and then attempted a pinfall back in the ring but it didn't work. Wayne tagged in Oliver and they attempted the Clout Cutter but couldn't as Katch slapped the hell out of Wayne and Oliver.  Effy caught Oliver with a knee on his chin before Allie hit the piledriver to win. NEW CHAMPION!!!!   Winner: BUSSY (new champion) Grade: 30   As BUSSY were celebrating with crowd strongly behind the new champs, we get another huge pop as  MCMG walked into the scene. They grabbed the mic and congratulated BUSSY before saying that they had seen a career revival in recent times, winning the Impact Tag Team titles and current NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team champions and so they would like to add the GCW Tag Team Title to their collection. Crowd gave their roar of approval before both teams shook hands but Effy would not let the moment go just like that as he planted a wet kiss on Shelley to disgust him.   GCW Extreme Title Jory Janela (c) vs Matt Cardona   Matt Cardona had been in a major career upliftment in the past couple of years ever since he left WWE and he built his name mainly in Impact and here in GCW. The feud with Janela which also involved his wife Chelsea Green was the hottest storyline for quite some time and it was Cardona who had come out the better. Crowd was pumped to see them reprise the feud. Cardona once again riled the crowd and abused them, riling them up and goading Janela into beating him. Janela thought he will create the maximum impact and hit him in the family jewels and instantly went down, grabbing his hand. Cardona revealed the cup he was wearing, just like in their Hammerstein match last year and pointed towards his head, screaming that he will always be smarter than Janela. He choked Janela with the cup before hitting the Rough Ryder for a very quick pin but Janela kicked out. He then threw a chair at Janela's face before the champ recovered and hit a superplex off the top rope before going on an offensive flurry. He busted Cardona's nose before hitting him with a shoulder block through a door and finally the Moonsault Foot Stamp to win. He had avenged his last loss and was ready to move on.   Winner: Joey Janela (defense #6) Grade: 53   GCW World Title No Rope Barbed Wire Deathmatch Nick Gage (c) vs Matt Tremont   Just a week removed from Gage winning the GCW title for the 4th time in his career against Masha, Gage was putting his title on the line against arguably his best friend and long time partner, Matt Tremont with whom he reformed the H8 Club on the Hammerstein show last year and since then they had held the Tag Team Titles twice. So, it was a given that the first defense for Gage would be this man. The match is an immense bloodbath, and so much more than just that. The early light tube smashing dick contest went as expected, with both men covered from head to toe in blood within a few minutes, and it gives the rest of the match a much grander feel. Tremont begins to win out as this all goes on, because he’s bigger, stronger, and younger. Gage again benefits from experience as he shoves Tremont off the top to a table outside. Tremont shakes the rust and chokes Gage with the barbed wire bat and then repeatedly hit him with the same. He then brings in a horrific tower of light tubes. He tried to go for the Superbomb but Gage somehow in a last show of power reversed it and Superbomb Tremont through it to win the match.     Winner: Nick Gage (defense #1) Grade: 61   After the match had ended, Gage and Tremont hug it out before they raise their hands together. On the ramp though comes  Tankman shouts at Gage that he has still not answered the Heavyweight Hustle's challenge and he will not need any fancy contraptions to beat Gage, he will kill him with his bare hands. Gage says you are on and on Find You Again from White Eagle Hall, Gage will be ready.   Show Rating: 51

[kanegan]

 

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Mick Foley earlier in the day took to Twitter to announce the card for the next two events that will come from White Eagle Hall, Jersey City.

~ Devil in a New Dress ~

1.  4 Way Scramble: Jimmy Lloyd vs Jack Cartwheel vs Gringo Loco vs Cole Radrick

2.  Los Mazisos vs Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders/Matthew Justice)

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY (c) vs Motor City Machine Guns (Paranoid post-match challenge made by MCMG)

4.  GCW Ultraviolent Championship Lego Blocks Deathmatch: Rina Yamashita (c) vs John Wayne Murdoch

5.  Kota Ibushi vs El Hijo del Vikingo

 

~ Find You Again ~

1.  5 Way Scramble: Gringo Loco vs Janai Kai vs CPA vs Dark Sheik vs Charles Mason

2.  El Hijo del Vikingo vs Homicide

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY/MCMG (c) vs The Kirks

4.  GCW Extreme Championship: Joey Janela (c) vs Nick Wayne

5.  GCW World Championship: Nick Gage (c) vs Calvin Tankman (Paranoid post match challenge by Tankman and accepted by Gage)

Plus More

[SonOfSharknado]

~ Devil in a New Dress ~

1.  4 Way Scramble: Jimmy Lloyd vs Jack Cartwheel vs Gringo Loco vs Cole Radrick

2.  Los Mazisos vs Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders/Matthew Justice)

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY (c) vs Motor City Machine Guns (Paranoid post-match challenge made by MCMG)

4.  GCW Ultraviolent Championship Lego Blocks Deathmatch: Rina Yamashita (c) vs John Wayne Murdoch

5.  Kota Ibushi vs El Hijo del Vikingo

 

~ Find You Again ~

1.  5 Way Scramble: Gringo Loco vs Janai Kai vs CPA vs Dark Sheik vs Charles Mason

2.  El Hijo del Vikingo vs Homicide

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY/MCMG (c) vs The Kirks

4.  GCW Extreme Championship: Joey Janela (c) vs Nick Wayne

5.  GCW World Championship: Nick Gage (c) vs Calvin Tankman (Paranoid post match challenge by Tankman and accepted by Gage)

[Vandal]

~ Devil in a New Dress ~

1.  4 Way Scramble: Jimmy Lloyd vs Jack Cartwheel vs Gringo Loco vs Cole Radrick

2.  Los Mazisos vs Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders/Matthew Justice)

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY (c) vs Motor City Machine Guns 

4.  GCW Ultraviolent Championship Lego Blocks Deathmatch: Rina Yamashita (c) vs John Wayne Murdoch

5.  Kota Ibushi vs El Hijo del Vikingo

 

~ Find You Again ~

1.  5 Way Scramble: Gringo Loco vs Janai Kai vs CPA vs Dark Sheik vs Charles Mason

2.  El Hijo del Vikingo vs Homicide

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY (c) vs The Kirks

4.  GCW Extreme Championship: Joey Janela (c) vs Nick Wayne

5.  GCW World Championship: Nick Gage (c) vs Calvin Tankman (Paranoid post match challenge by Tankman and accepted by Gage)

[Blodyxe]

1.  4 Way Scramble: Jimmy Lloyd vs Jack Cartwheel vs Gringo Loco vs Cole Radrick

2.  Los Mazisos vs Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders/Matthew Justice)

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY (c) vs Motor City Machine Guns (Paranoid post-match challenge made by MCMG)

4.  GCW Ultraviolent Championship Lego Blocks Deathmatch: Rina Yamashita (c) vs John Wayne Murdoch

5.  Kota Ibushi vs El Hijo del Vikingo

 

~ Find You Again ~

1.  5 Way Scramble: Gringo Loco vs Janai Kai vs CPA vs Dark Sheik vs Charles Mason

2.  El Hijo del Vikingo vs Homicide

3.  GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY/MCMG (c) vs The Kirks

4.  GCW Extreme Championship: Joey Janela (c) vs Nick Wayne

5.  GCW World Championship: Nick Gage (c) vs Calvin Tankman (Paranoid post match challenge by Tankman and accepted by Gage)

[CGN91]

Cole Radrick
Los Mazisos
BUSSY
Rina
Ibushi
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Gringo Loco
Vikingo
Kirks!
Janela
Gage

[kanegan]

Live from White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, New Jersey Attendance: 360

Scramble Match Jimmy Lloyd vs Jack Cartwheel vs Gringo Loco vs Cole Radrick Jimmy Lloyd went back to winning ways as he hit the Fire Thunder Driver on Gringo Loco to win. Gringo loses his second consecutive Scramble match and goes further down the pecking order. Cartwheel performed well. Winner: Jimmy Lloyd Grade: 24   Tag Match Los Mazisos vs Second Gear Crew Los Mazisos took out their opponents with a series of dives to start the match, and they all continued to brawl on the floor. Manders made a comeback when he started beating Ciclope mercilessly on the floor while Miedo was setting up the ladder. Justice saw an opening and cracked a chair on the back of Miedo creating a hard dent on the piece of furniture but Miedo still went ahead and finished setting up the door between two smaller ladders. Ciclope and Manders started to exchange some blows before Ciclope went to look for more weaponry to use, SGC dragged him up on the ring and laid him out on the door, but he fought back and took control and punched Justice on the face when he stumbled on to a reappeared Miedo as he sent Justice packing through the setup with a Death Valley Driver. He then hit a running Stunner on Manders before hitting the Death Valley Driver to him as well on the unforgiving ladder that brought the Mexicans the win. Winner: Los Mazisos Grade: 29   GCW Tag Team Titles BUSSY (c) vs Motor City Machine Guns The Guns came out first to a huge pop. Shelley hit a dragon screw leg whip on Allie. Effy tied Sabin in a surfboard. All four brawled and traded forearm shots. The Guns hit simultaneous superkicks. Effy dove through the ropes to the floor on everyone. He then charged at Sabin but he moved and Effy crashed.  Meanwhile, in the ring, Shelley hit a spinning slam on Allie and the other two joined in the ring. Shelley put in a sleeper on Allie but somehow she managed to make a tag to Effy who started a series of chopping duel with Shelley and then put his hands inside his trunk and started masturbating as Shelly started chopping hard which disgusted Shelley and he kicked him in the face. Allie was clotheslined by Sabin and he followed up with a Scoop Slam. With the champions down, it was ripe for Made in Detroit but then,             Cardona and Myers, the Major Players come rushing through the crowd and in the ring and blasted Guns with good old brass knuckles as Effy saw the opening and covered Sabin for the 1...2...3. Winner: BUSSY (defense #1) Grade: 44   Post match we saw Major Players laughing their heart out. They have feuding in Impact throughout the month and this was a natural way to extend the rivalry.   GCW Ultraviolent Title Lego Blocks Deathmatch Rina Yamashita (c) vs John Wayne Murdoch Yamashita and Murdoch locked up as the match got underway. Yamashita took John down with a headlock. Both wrestlers hit each other with Lego blocks at the same time. Yamashita placed a bundle of blocks in the center of the ring and put herself through them. Yamashita invited John to do the same thing but he just laughed. The champ got angry and he busted a tube bundle on Murdoch. She then used a piece of the broken tube to carve John's forehead and then stomped his head into a steel chair on the canvas. Both wrestlers exchanged forearm strikes in the center of the ring. Yamashita connected with a DDT. John responded by spearing Yamashita through a pane of Lego Blocks in the corner. The challenger hit two tubes over Yamashita's head and then hammered a metal plate into forehead.  John continued to dominate the fight on the outside. Yamashita turned the tables after bodyslamming John onto the wooden floor and then launched a bundle of tubes at John. She finished up with the Splash Mountain to eke out a successful defense.   Winner: Rina Yamashita (defense #6) Grade: 50   Singles Match Kota Ibushi vs El Hijo del Vikingo Kota got a brief advantage after some kicks, but Vikingo returned fire with a rope-rebound kick of his own. He stumbled on a double springboard but recovered to land a tope suicida. Ibushi recovered and then landed an Orihara moonsault to the floor.  Ibushi kept up the attack with an arm-trap German, He climbed the ropes again, but Vikingo popped up and brought Ibushi crashing down with a superplex. They fought on the apron, where Vikingo charged at Ibushi -- but Ibushi moved out of the way, sending Vikingo face-first into the ring post. Vikingo fired back with overhand chops. They had a long multiple-minute chop exchange until Vikingo came back with a black hole slam and running knees through the ropes before concluding the run with a shooting star press off the apron. Back inside the ring, Vikingo hit two Death Valley drivers, but Ibushi kicked out at one. They traded forearms until Ibushi finally stopped the exchange with a suplex. Vikingo returned fire with a German, but Ibushi hit one of his own. Simultaneous clothesline attempts led to the double down. Ibushi laid in a flurry of strikes, his classic strike combination. Vikingo hit a standing moonsault and landed a lariat followed by a package piledriver for two. He laid in repeated thrust kicks, but Ibushi cut him off with a running knee before hitting the Kamigoye for the win. Winner: Kota Ibushi Grade: 64   Show Rating: 46

Edited May 14, 2023 by kanegan

[kanegan]

Live from White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, New Jersey Attendance: 365

Scramble Match Janai Kai vs Dark Sheik vs CPA vs Gringo Loco vs Charles Mason Gringo Loco finally won the scramble at the third time of asking as he hit the Frog Splash on Janai Kai to win. Winner: Gringo Loco Grade: 42   GCW Tag Team Titles BUSSY (c) vs The Kirks Kasey and Allie was pretty violent with each other, resuming their rivalry they had last year as both smashed each other through bundles and with chairs. While Brandon was much more straightforward with Effy who tried using his mind games but the ICW American Deathmatch Champion would have none of it, instead using a staple gun on Effy's groin and relishing his pain. He smashed a couple of beer bottles on his head and then sent him through a table with a release German.  Allie meanwhile had covered having gotten the better of Kasey and she came back to the ring and then after a couple of elbow exchanges, she hits the Rainmaker Headbutt to defend.  Winner: BUSSY (defense #2) Grade: 41   Singles Match El Hijo del Vikingo vs Homicide Vikingo was the aggressor as Homicide had slowed down a bit due to years of wear and tear and Vikingo took advantage of it, hitting some lethal kicks, particularly his signature rope rebound one. Another chop exchange happened but Homicide surprised everyone by curb stomping Vikingo and hitting the Gringo Killa but Vikingo somehow managed to stop it and then came back strongly with couple of roundhouses before a 630 Senton settled this one. Winner: El Hijo del Vikingo Grade: 39   GCW Extreme Title Joey Janela (c) vs Nick Wayne Janela taunted Wayne, calling him an undeserved spoilt son of a bitch and slapped him repeatedly which infuriated Nick and he broke into his speedy offense with lots of kicks, sentons and ranas. He even tried a single Clout Cutter but Janela caught him in mid-air and delivered a Death Valley Driver.  With Janela startled by Nick's offense, it was now his turn to get angry as he made Nick's head a punching bag repeatedly punching him and then finished with the Moonsault Foot Stomp.   Winner: Joey Janela (defense #7) Grade: 36   Trios Match Time Machine (KUSHIDA/Motor City Machine Guns) vs Major Players/Mike Bailey Time Machine reunited again after Paranoid and this time it was against Major Players who had attacked the Guns in the last show. Bailey was tagging along with Cardona and Myers and we got a high energy match with all six taking the fight all over the arena. Kushida delivers brutal knee to Myers while Bailey delivers the Ultima Weapon to Shelley but couldn't get the three count as Sabin came back to foil the attempt. A Rough Ryder attempt was broken down by Kushida who trapped Cardona into a Cattle Mutilation but Myers then came back for the save. With many pinfalls and counters going on, it was finally Shelley who won it for his team when he submitted Bailey with the Border City Stretch. Winner: Time Machine Grade: 47   GCW World Title Nick Gage (c) vs Calvin Tankman Tankman grabs a side headlock as they stayed on the deck, but Gage ends up grabbing a leg as they continued to go hold-for-hold. A cross arm breaker from Tankman almost gets a pin, but Gage kicks out and found himself in a key lock as Tankman worked the arm. They quickly escalate into chops, which had Gage wanting more, before he faked out a chop and poked Tankman in the eye. The pair headed towards the corner, where Tankman threw Gage back into the ring before a mini pounce drew a near-fall. Forearms from Tankman keep Gage bouncing off the mat, ahead of a grounded armbar that stretched the champ some more. More forearms wear him down, who brings back the chops… and ends up getting chopped to the outside. Gage returns to drag Tankman to the outside, but Calvin quickly responds with a running crossbody as the pair again slugged it out on the mat. Gage had enough of trying to out-wrestle Tankman and he brought his A-game back, as he surprised Tankman with a powerslam for a near-fall. A clothesline and a dropkick to the knee was enough to lock in the STF but Gage had other ideas as he revealed the pizza cutter and carved Tankman's forehead which horrified the Heavyweight Hustle and Gage saw the opening as he hit the Chokebreaker. Winner: Nick Gage (defense #2) Grade: 56     Show Rating: 43

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PREDICTIONS

CGN91 - 8/10 + 3/5 - 11/15

SonofSharknado - 5/10 + 3/5 - 8/15

Vandal - 8/10

Blodyxe - 7/10

 

In the final event of the month, we are going fully loaded with talent as for the first time ever this season, we are having a tag team scramble plus the card is laced with tag team bouts. MCMG and Major Players continue their rivalry when Cardona and Shelley lock horns plus we get a new challenger as ICW's own Deathmatch Samurai, Akira steps up to our Death Princess and in the main event, after defeating Homicide, Kota Ibushi wrestles in another dream match, with Mike Bailey.

~ In Too Deep ~

1.  4 Way Tag Scramble: InJustice (Myron Reed/Jordan Oliver) vs The Kirks vs Jack Cartwheel/Jimmy Lloyd vs Alec Price/2 Cold Scorpio

2.  Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders/Matthew Justice) vs Ironbeast

3. Los Mazisos vs Tremont Club (Matt Tremont/Marcus Mathers)

4.  Matt Cardona vs Alex Shelley

5.  GCW Ultraviolent Championship Chains of Fury Deathmatch: Rina Yamashita (c) vs AKIRA

6.  Kota Ibushi vs Mike Bailey

 

Edited May 18, 2023 by kanegan

[Vandal]

1.  4 Way Tag Scramble: InJustice (Myron Reed/Jordan Oliver) vs The Kirks vs Jack Cartwheel/Jimmy Lloyd vs Alec Price/2 Cold Scorpio

2.  Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders/Matthew Justice) vs Ironbeast

3. Los Mazisos vs Tremont Club (Matt Tremont/Marcus Mathers)

4.  Matt Cardona vs Alex Shelley

5.  GCW Ultraviolent Championship Chains of Fury Deathmatch: Rina Yamashita (c) vs AKIRA

6.  Kota Ibushi vs Mike Bailey

 

[Blodyxe]

~ In Too Deep ~

1.  4 Way Tag Scramble: InJustice (Myron Reed/Jordan Oliver) vs The Kirks vs Jack Cartwheel/Jimmy Lloyd vs Alec Price/2 Cold Scorpio

2.  Second Gear Crew (1 Called Manders/Matthew Justice) vs Ironbeast

3. Los Mazisos vs Tremont Club (Matt Tremont/Marcus Mathers)

4.  Matt Cardona vs Alex Shelley

5.  GCW Ultraviolent Championship Chains of Fury Deathmatch: Rina Yamashita (c) vs AKIRA

6.  Kota Ibushi vs Mike Bailey

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Live from Melrose Ballroom, Queens, New York Attendance: 360

Tag Scramble Match InJustice vs The Kirks vs Jack Cartwheel/Jimmy Lloyd vs 2 Cold Scorpio/Alec Price We got an InJustice reunion as Reed and Oliver dominated the tag scramble with Reed finishing this off with a Sky Walker on Price. Winner: InJustice Grade: 47   Tag Team Match Los Mazisos vs Club Tremont (Matt Tremont/Marcus Mathers) This was the first time that Matt Tremont was tagging with his protege and he had started a faction with Mathers and CPA. But the Mexicans were in no mood to play loose as they isolated Mathers and beat him like a ragdoll. Even Tremont could not save his protege as he was knocked out pretty hard after a double barbed wire con-chair-to. Miedo submitted Mathers with a barbed wire bat aided crossface. Winner: Los Mazisos Grade: 30   Tag Team Match Second Gear Crew vs IronBeast Iron Beast was back in GCW after almost a year. The team of KTB and Shane Mercer went toe to toe with the most premier faction of the company and their strength was enough to overpower their opponents and Mercer pulled off one of the most impressive stunts, double chokeslamming Manders and Justice.  But in the end, it was SGC who came back with Justice Death Valley Drivering KTB for the win.  Winner: Second Gear Crew Grade: 47   SGC was celebrating in the ring when we see Brett Lauderdale coming up on the ramp. He screamed and cussed the audience for supporting Foley while he was taking over the company and leaving Lauderdale alone to live off the scraps. He has seen it all and he is very disappointed about it, but he is a visionary and so what he can build, he can build again Out of nowhere, three figures emerge from the crowd..................................                 It's AKIRA, JWM and Reed Bentley, the Rejects!!! They beat the living sh** out of Second Gear Crew. Lauderdale lets out a maniacal laugh as he mentions that he has found his new loyalists and they are taking over.   Singles Match Alex Shelley vs Matt Cardona Once the bell rang, Cardona tried to stall and made everyone wait for the action. He doesn’t wrestle work-rate matches, he just wants to get paid. He even tried to sabotage the match with a WCW Bash at the Beach finish because he didn’t want to wrestle. Shelley wasn’t buying it and clawed Cardona’s balls then his mouth, in that order. The match got more competitive and the droning pace picked up to give us an entertaining match where everyone wanted to see Cardona get his ass kicked by Shelley. Cardona, to his credit, did his absolute best to keep Shelley trapped and worn down but eventually, that plan failed and Shelley lit him the hell up. No matter what Cardona did, Shelley wouldn’t stay down. But finally Matt found a way to hit a low blow and finished up with the Rough Ryder to pull off a shock win.   Winner: Matt Cardona Grade: 52   GCW Ultraviolent Title Chains of Fury Deathmatch Rina Yamashita (c) vs AKIRA AKIRA towers over her and has a huge weight advantage too. They are chained together and immediately hit each other with light tubes and gusset plates. They both were bleeding heavily early on. She grabbed him in the groin. He hit a package piledriver for a near fall.  He put her on his shoulders and flipped her onto a glass pane but only got a one-count. She hit a Death Valley Driver and got a near fall. They couldn't go very far as both were tied together so they used clothesline to rough each other up and then Rina finally managed to grab the key and unlocked herself and then hit 3 consecutive gusset plate shots to AKIRA before hitting the Splash Mountain and mouthed F**k you Reject. Winner: Rina Yamashita (defense #7) Grade: 47   Singles Match Kota Ibushi vs Mike Bailey Kota was making full use of his US stay and he was wrestling dream match after dream match. This felt like a perfect NJPW bout, a hard hitting, strong style match and the crowd lapped it up. Bailey started strong and his barrage of kicks to Kota's body startled the former NJPW man and he was playing second fiddle for the majority of the match but he moved out of the Ultima Weapon and then started his comeback.  Some nasty elbow strikes aside, Kota hit a shiranui and then a running knee strike before peppering Bailey with leg kicks of his own. He finished the bout with the Kamigoye Winner: Kota Ibushi Grade: 60   Post-match, Ibushi waved to the crowd and then he said that his time in US is coming to an end shortly so before living this wonderful organization, he would like to wrestle one last match, for the GCW World Title against Nick Gage....!!! Nick Gage comes out and crowd erupts. He says he respects Kota too much but the match of this magnitude needs a matching event and so Kota vs Gage for the GCW World Title will be the main event for the biggest event of summer, Cage of Survival!!!!     Show Rating: 47

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The first month of Foley's GCW regime went well with GCW putting in 5 shows.  With 2 new champs crowned, it was an eventful month. We had a sit-down interview with Mick Foley and following are the excerpts from the interview:

 

- The recent run-in of Rejects led by Brett Lauderdale added to the excitement and the company is planning a long-term storyline between GCW and Rejects.

- He had some words about JCW and we got to know that JCW will function as a separate brand which will act more like a developmental territory with up and comers getting a chance. It will house it's own championships. While it already has the JCW Championship which is currently held by Jordan Oliver, GCW Extreme Championship will be exclusive to JCW and the brand will soon crown it's Tag Team Champions in the event titled Bloodbowl which will be an annual tag team tournament trophy. Further details will be shared soon.

- Going ahead, both GCW and JCW will have several monthly events. While the Cage of Survival will be the big event for May, GCW will hold two more events in May but all focus will be on Cage of Survival and the main event between Kota Ibushi and Nick Gage.

 

We will soon have other news regarding this cracking development and those of GCW fans who had drifted apart from the organization, rejoice because the Hardcore Legend is now in helm and he promises big things.

Edited November 11, 2023 by kanegan

[kanegan]

PREDICTIONS

Vandal - 8/10 + 5/6 - 13/16

Blodyxe - 7/10 + 5/6 - 12/16

CGN91 - 11/15

SonofSharknado - 8/15

 

May starts off on a big note with Holy Smokes.

~ Holy Smokes ~

1.  4 Way Scramble: Cole Radrick vs CPA vs Janai Kai vs Jack Cartwheel

2.  Blake Christian vs Lio Rush

3. GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY (c) vs Dark Sheik/Sadika

4.  Chris Sabin vs Brian Myers

5.  InJustice (Myron Reed/Jordan Oliver/Calvin Tankman) vs Gringo Loco/Los Mazisos

6.  Rejects (Reed Bentley/John Wayne Murdoch) vs Second Gear Crew (Mance Warner/Matthew Justice)

7. Jonathan Gresham vs Mike Bailey

[CGN91]

Cartwheel
Rush
BUSSY
Sabin
InJustice
SGC
Gresham

[Vandal]

1.  4 Way Scramble: Cole Radrick vs CPA vs Janai Kai vs Jack Cartwheel

2.  Blake Christian vs Lio Rush

3. GCW Tag Team Championship: BUSSY (c) vs Dark Sheik/Sadika

4.  Chris Sabin vs Brian Myers

5.  InJustice (Myron Reed/Jordan Oliver/Calvin Tankman) vs Gringo Loco/Los Mazisos

6.  Rejects (Reed Bentley/John Wayne Murdoch) vs Second Gear Crew (Mance Warner/Matthew Justice)

7. Jonathan Gresham vs Mike Bailey

Edited May 30, 2023 by Vandal