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Andrew’s NJPW The New Beginning in Hiroshima Results & Match Ratings: 2.10.2021

Show number two out of three! We get some of the final building blocks for Ibushi vs SANADA: as well as, two big title matches!

Published

3 years ago

February 10, 2021

Andrew Balaz

Show number two out of three! We get some of the final building blocks for Ibushi vs SANADA: as well as, two big title matches!

We also get to see if EVIL will finally step up and accept Okada’s challenge to go along with seeing if Master Wato has grown up any. Wato’s big match butterflies have really taken the steam out of his initial debut. Yes everyone meme’d his blue power ranger look, but he’s athletic and had a cool moveset. It just never seems to translate when it matters.

Let’s see how the show panned out!

Ratings:

Yuya Uemura, Gabriel Kidd & Yota Tsuji vs Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru: Suzuki wins via Single Leg Crab @8:01 – ***
Master Wato vs BUSHI: BUSHI wins via MX @11:08 – *** ¼
Bullet Club (ELP, Taiji Ishimori, EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi & Jay White) vs CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii): Yano wins via Low Blow/O’Connor Roll @12:08 – ***
SANADA & Tetsuya Naito vs Kota Ibushi & Tomoaki Honma: Naito wins via Destino @11:02 – ** ½
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Guerrillas of Destiny (c) vs Dangerous Tekkers: G.o.D. retain via DQ @29:08 – **** ¼
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Hiromu Takahashi (c) vs SHO: Hiromu retains via Time Bomb #2 @35:38 – *** ¾

Results:

Yuya Uemura, Gabriel Kidd & Yota Tsuji vs Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru

This match has the story of Yuya Uemura trying to go after Suzuki to cut his teeth. The concept of the adolescent testing their mettle against Dad, and this went exactly how you expected.

Yuya and the other Lions had a great flurry, they triple teamed Suzuki at one point and Yuya had a few minutes when he was in charge. But as Suzuki was covering, you saw that sly smirk, like he just wanted the fight from the youngster and gave him some of the early minutes.

Suzuki turned it on, beat the holy hell out of Yuya after a solid strike exchange, and then bent him in half with the Half Crab.

Master Wato vs BUSHI

BUSHI and Wato both came out with solid game plans. Wato was aggressive, clawing at the mask and even tearing off the t-shirt early so BUSHI couldn’t use it as a weapon. But BUSHI slowed things down. Played the methodical game of attacking different body parts, starting with the legs and moving up.

Wato had a lot of successful offense coming off of the attempts to break his body down. Tornillos, Jumping Kicks, Springboard attacks, and a lot of things really made Wato look pretty damn good. The fact that it’s become a story that Wato gets nervous in bigger matches, this helps to prove he’s growing. But BUSHI, being the veteran, found a way to catch the younger wrestler.

A few good ducks, rewind kick, Terriblé, Rewind Kick and an MX for Wato’s trouble. It was a solid effort from Wato, but it again proves that he’s got a long road ahead before he’s even close to Grand Master.

Bullet Club (ELP, Taiji Ishimori, EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi & Jay White) vs CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii)

CHAOS started off quick, and it was a fun mess of a match. War Drum gang ups from CHAOS, and essentially the Bullet Club members take their turns being ganged up on. Jay literally runs for his life at different points, so Tomohiro Ishii grabs Gedo and they smack him around a bit.

Bullet Club got some momentum going after the Gotch Style Back Rakes from ELP and Taiji, then EVIL and Jay took their turns beating on YOSHI-HASHI a little before HASHI tagged out and we got small previews. A little more Ishii versus Jay and EVIL versus Okada kicked up a bit during the match and looked to be solidified after the match.

Yano got in late and did his usually Sublime Master Thief stuff. Yujiro got the best of Yano early, but Low Blows, running into seconds and O’Connor Rolls won Yano the match as per usual.

It was fun, hectic and worked to build the 6 man and singles match for the next day.

SANADA & Tetsuya Naito vs Kota Ibushi & Tomoaki Honma

Well let’s be honest now, as soon as we saw Honma in this match; we knew who was eating the pinfall. SANADA and Ibushi actually had a lot of back and forth. I’m going to be curious how much they build off of this since they’ve had a few previous matches and were interacting for most of this match.

Honma has solid offense and Naito wins with a single Destino. But Ibushi and SANADA have a nice moment after the match, do a fist bump out of respect and we should get a great match tomorrow.

It was kind of nice to see Honma get a decent position in the card for the first time in a while.

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Guerrillas of Destiny (c) vs Dangerous Tekkers

So Tama continues his crazy speaking Japanese thing early on in this match. He brings out a big bag filled with different little bags, this is all a distraction for Taichi to try to open them all and give G.o.D. an advantage.

The bag spots were funny, since Taichi would knock down Tama and open them, and all you hear is Tama cackling. A plushie, loaf of bread, ping pong paddle, tangerines, even some lingerie. Taichi was abused early on, and Tama and Loa were loving every second. The crowd kept trying to rally Taichi, but you could tell it was just catching up with him.

Once the bag spots were over, we got a great tag team match with ZSJ and Taichi playing great face roles in this match. ZSJ had an awesome hot tag, Taichi had support from the crowd the whole time and this continued to prove Taichi’s talent when he tries. They hit Zack Mephisto, but Loa pulls Marty Asami out of the ring.

This allows Jado to come out with the Iron Fingers and we set things up to look like Tama will once again screw Taichi and beat him with Iizuka’s Iron Fingers from Hell. DOUKI however tries a save, eats a Fingers shot. Taichi and Tama struggle over possession of the fingers, until ZSJ holds Tama and Taichi FINALLY gets them back. But of course, Marty comes to and tries to stop Taichi.

Taichi shoves Marty, wipes out Loa and Jado, then there’s a small delay with Tama begging and Marty warning him, but Taichi clocks Tama and gets disqualified. Taichi just wanted the fingers back, and then we saw that they are truly possessed, turning Taichi crazy, he even swung on Kanemaru and ZSJ who rushed him to try and calm him down. Once the fingers were off, Taichi fell to the ground exhausted, but G.o.D. retain.

It’s a very Japanese gimmick, but the story was done really well. Taichi found the fingers precious because of the fact they were Iizuka’s, and rarely used them. Now we see why he rarely used them. So Taichi gets the heirloom back, but they lose their challenge. Maybe now we get ZSJ and Taichi in the singles pictures.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Hiromu Takahashi (c) vs SHO

Starting off like most Hiromu matches, we get a Fighting Spirit strike exchange spot to kick things off. Since it was a match built off respect, we see a lot of trading, with the intent to win in the ring and not take any types of shortcuts.

They brawl to outside, hear the 19 count and slide in to break the count, but Hiromu only goes halfway in, to pull the younger wrestler out and take advantage of his poor positioning into the guardrail. This was shortly followed with a running Sunset Bomb tease, which SHO tried to turn into his own apron move, but Hiromu ends up squirming out and landing the Sunset Bomb anyway. Sliding back in, Hiromu tells Red Shoes to stop counting and goes to the top rope, but that backfires when SHO pops up and lands an Apron Powerbomb.

There was a spot where Hiromu had SHO in the Triangle in the ropes, which SHO turned into a Powerbomb attempt, but it was botched. Taking too long, and Hiromu had to obviously assist with getting himself back over the ropes to get Powerbombed, took away from things. Not cause the spot was dumb, but the amount of time it took to pull it off and the obvious cooperation hurt. SHO sold his back a lot immediately after, to try and sell the reason that wasn’t great, but it still hurt a match that was building for a long runtime.

A lot of this match was well done, hinting at the Straight Jacket Piledriver earlier, to hit it toward the end of the match, gave a very close near fall for SHO. Shock Arrow was never hit, since Hiromu countered it twice, Time Bomb was kicked out of, but Time Bomb #2 got the job done.

Really good match that could’ve been great if it was a bit shorter and that Powerbomb spot wasn’t messed up.

Overall Score: 7.25/10

The main event ended up being the longest Junior Heavyweight championship match in history and there’s no reason for that. I mean seriously, long doesn’t equate to quality. You knew this was going to be at least a half hour since the tag match was fairly long, but this is starting to get ridiculous. Everything doesn’t need to be the longest match in the history of Japan.

Due to that I think it brought the event down a little for me. All of the matches were solid and lead to the story they needed to; but the insistence on matches that last longer than some of my previous relationships is starting to get tiresome.

I did enjoy the wrinkle with Taichi and the Iron Fingers, Suzuki helping put over Uemura’s toughness was great and we finally get the confirmation for an Okada versus EVIL match. I also have no issue with who won the title matches, since that played well into ELP’s run on commentary since he ran in to make a challenge after the match.

These 30+ minute main events are just starting to get silly. Just because it seems to be every show and every decent title. Once you start doing it for everything, it stops feeling special and turns into a chore since you know if there’s 2 matches left on the card, it’s still gonna take a damn hour.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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Andrew’s TNA iMPACT! Results & Match Ratings: 4.18.2024

Motor City Machine Guns either go out on their backs, or head to Rebellion as champs! Lets see how they finish their current run in TNA!

Published

1 hour ago

April 18, 2024

Andrew Balaz

No burying the lead here! The Main Event is The System versus Motor City Machine Guns, and it’s the Go Home episode before Rebellion! So we’re guaranteed a damn good tag match, and we should get either new wrinkles, or ways to keep the storylines cooking going into the Pay-per-View.

With all the rumors and innuendo about the Guns being on their way out, I think we all assume that MCMG is losing, but my inner fanboy is still excited.

Part Three: Acceptance @TheJonGresham #TNAiMPACT pic.twitter.com/NE9FPzCCz2

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 19, 2024

Ratings:

Little Guido w/New FBI vs Hammerstone: Hammerstone wins via Torture Rack – SQUASH
LSG vs Joe Hendry: Hendry wins via Standing Ovation – SQUASH
Mustafa Ali & GYV vs Cody Deaner, Jake Something & Rhyno: Ali wins via 450 Splash – ** 3/4
Rosemary w/Havok vs Jody Threat w/Dani Luna: Rosemary wins via Spear – ***
Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) vs The System (Eddie Edwards & Brian Myers) w/Alisha Edwards: System wins via Roster Cut + Knee Party – *** 1/4

Results:

So we kick off the match with Josh coming out to commentary again to watch Hammerstone’s match. They really need a new way to try and keep heat without reusing the same tired gimmick of “ring side seat” to a Squash match.

Little Guido w/New FBI vs Hammerstone

Guido tries to shoot the half, but Hammerstone shrugs him off, lifts him like a child and runs him into a corner, few short shots and then just tosses him across the ring. Hammer gets a little distracted talking smack to Josh and eats a foot, but then tosses Guido with the ole Sack of Shit move and keeps working over Guido.

Hammer shoves Clayton, and provokes him to push him back right in front of the referee. She ejects them, Guido tries to take advantage but when he goes for the pinfall Hammer kicks out immediately and presses Guido out of thing through the ropes. Continues to dog walk Guido, puts the head gear on the ECW Original and then Torture Racks him while staring directly at Josh, and of course picks up the submission victory.

.@XiaBrookside and @Ashamae_Sebera face off NEXT WEEK on #TNAiMPACT! pic.twitter.com/Q0S3wSRpeu

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 19, 2024

LSG vs Joe Hendry

Hendry cuts a little promo, mentioning the Fat Uncle Phil joke…something about shopping at the TOP Dollar Store. Solid mic work.

LSG is a damn good local talent, he’s been seen in ROH and AEW in the past (perhaps others, but that’s what comes to mind immediately for me), but we all know this is an enhancement match. A few nice chain wrestling spots early, but Hendry uses his power to stop the smaller wrestler, Sack of Shit into Standing Ovation and the match is over quickly.

Mustafa Ali & GYV vs Cody Deaner, Jake Something & Rhyno

Well okay, having Deaner ask the crowd if they wanted a 3v2 or their third member…RHYNO…is pretty much a no brainer in Philly. But at least the gimmick isn’t quite as cringe as I expected.

Jake starts with Zack Gibson and throws him around. Jake goes for the tag and Deaner asks the crowd who Jake should tag, and the crowd picks Rhyno. Rhyno Whips Gibson into a corner, Drake actually softens the impact, allowing Gibson to fire back, tag out, but Rhyno levels both GYV members and then even knocks Ali off the apron. Rhyno tries to call to the crowd to tag in Deaner and that goes over like a fart in church. He tags him in anyway, and the crowd is kinda dead and doing whatever it wants after the obvious ECW chants when Rhyno tagged in.

GYV take a couple lumps but they of course start to work over Deaner and capture some momentum. Solid tandem work from GYV, they cut off Deaner from making a tag and goad Jake a little to cause the ref to block off the babyfaces so the heels can take a few shortcuts. Cody eventually makes the tag to Rhyno, hot tag, he tries to set up the Gore but the GYV manage to stop him in his tracks and hit an Enzuigiri to daze the Man Beast, he falls to his corner and Jake tags himself in. Jake literally runs them all over, tags in Cody and Launches him from the Top Rope into Zack Gibson. Ali makes the save and Jake tries to get his hands on Ali, but the GYV keep throwing themselves at him, literally. The triple team finally gets the best of Jake, they hit 3 Dives and then post Jake, so they gather around Cody like hyenas.

They forgot about Rhyno, he’s set up for a Gore, he Gores Drake, Gibson and Ali take out Rhyno, but then Cody starts to fight back. Ali stops Deaner’s offense with an Avalanche Sunset Bomb, then hits his 450 Splash. Jake barely misses being able to break up the pin.

.@TheEricYoung channels "The Sickness" as he prepares for FULL METAL MAYHEM with @FrankieKazarian at #Rebellion! #TNAiMPACT pic.twitter.com/tm1TqxZBLo

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 19, 2024

Rosemary w/Havok vs Jody Threat w/Dani Luna

Jody tries to start quickly with Shoulder Tackles, Lariats and Scoop Slams, and it does seem somewhat effective. Rosemary is having trouble finding offense against the intensity, but she keeps kicking out. Shotgun Dropkick finally gives Rosemary an opening, she goes into full mount and rains down strikes. Rosemary shoves Jody into a corner and Bites her in the corner. Jody tries to fight out, they go across and Rosemary catches her with the legs and puts her in the Upside Down. Splash in the corner from Rosemary, Exploder Suplex and Jody is eating a lot of offense.

Rosemary looks like she’s caught after she gets tripped up into the ropes and Jody goes for her Rope Knee into the German, but Rosemary dodges. Rosemary hits her own suplex and pulls out a beautiful Last Chancery! I haven’t seen her do that in a long time. Jody manages to fight to the ropes, Rosemary is a little slow to capitalize and eats a Pump Kick. Rosemary goes flying into the ropes, Jody hits the Double Knees into the German this time for 2, and they trade a few haymakers after that. Jody folds Rosemary with a low Lariat, Zombie rise spot a few times, Jody goes for a pinfall and Rosemary kicks out.

Havok jumps up on the apron, Dani meets her and they decide to step down, but the distraction was enough. Jody turns around and eats a Spear. Rosemary wins!

Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) vs The System (Eddie Edwards & Brian Myers) w/Alisha Edwards

Eddie and Shelley start off, and its a very simple slow start. Mostly an early stalemate, the typical Japanese style the TNA seem to love to employ. Starters tag out, but then Shelley with the blind tag, Sabin Baseball Slides out, picks Eddie’s ankle and sends his face bouncing off the apron, while Shelley sneaks up being Myers and they hit a tandem move before we cut to commercial. Off of the commercial it looks like Eddie and Myers regained control. But a nice Jawbreaker from Shelley sends Eddie falling back into the MCMG corner. Dragon Screws to both legs from Sabin and Shelley, and we get the Dragon Screw dissection spot for the Guns.

Myers gets sick of things, tries to get involved, but Simultaneous Figure Fours from the MCMG makes The System look silly. Alisha does the classic “push the rope forward” gimmick to assist Eddie in breaking the hold. She keeps chirping at Shelley until she finally grabs his foot. Shelley doesn’t take kindly, tries to grab her by the hair but she gets away, Shelley eats a strike and falls back to the ropes so Lish can just throttle him with the rope, Sabin walks over and acts like he’s going to PK her and the look of disgust on her face is hilarious, like “how dare he threaten to kick her”. Would I be mad is Masha decides to team with Lish and they win the Knockouts Tag titles? No, because the Knockouts Tags are trash. But I still prefer Lish as valet/manager.

Shelley starts fighting back after another commercial break, Eddie tries to cut him off, but Sabin clocks Eddie and Shelley manages to make the tag and Sabin comes in. Lights up both System members, Kick off Tornado DDT, into a Running Gamengiri. Eddie tries to counter but Shelley assists, tandem strikes, Double Baseball Slide into the classic MCMG spot 5 Hole Dive! Keeping up with the classics Shelley stacks the System members on each other and hit the Missile Dropkick/Flatliner spot. As the Guns are rolling, Sabin accidentally catches Sabin with his foot and The System take control! They hit their pieces of the System Overload spot, but Sabin kicks out. Roster Cut attempt from Myers, but Shelley is back. High Speed Dirt, Machine Gun Sandwich, but Lish grabs Shelley’s foot when they’re setting up Skull and Bones. Shelley gets dropped on the turnbuckle and thrown out, Sabin eats the Roster Cut followed up with Boston Knee Party and System retains!

Its a little weird to have had the two commercial cuts and the fact there’s still Nic Nemeth to follow. So it feels a little flat, I hope this wasn’t their swan song match, because it was nice to see some classic spots, but it was entirely too abbreviated.

Nemeth comes out, goes into the crowd and finds a kid with a kendo stick and borrows a beer from someone, so he does a bit of a Sandman tribute. Moose cuts off his promo basically immediately. He throws out the “can’t beat the system” line again, and Nic rolls with the punches well. Moose uses a few cute analogies about Nic having a failure laden past, but Nemeth bites back and its really damn good. He says he can see it in Moose’s eyes that he thinks he’s getting in the ring with Dolph Ziggler, but no, there is no more old Dolph Ziggler, just the new Nic Nemeth. And Moose’s cool seems to be slightly shaken after those words. Good promo.

Overall Score: 6.5/10

So this was okay, if it didn’t end as strongly as it did, I would’ve rated this much lower. Two squash matches in the beginning, reusing the Josh comes out to the announce table to watch trope is boring, hell even Clayton’s shove to Hammerstone was super lame looking. The Deaner match was luke warm at best, but things picked up around the Rosemary match.

Lets also not overlook the segments with ASH & Xia, Jonathan Gresham’s whole deal and EY having to return to the violence/sickness/world class maniac, whatever you want to call it, were all great building blocks. This definitely wasn’t what I would call a strong Go Home, but it didn’t hurt things for Rebellion. The whole injury of Cardona was addressed, which honestly sounded weird since Jordynne basically said she was expecting them to have a backup plan so she has a backup plan. I don’t really like how that video package came across.

But who knows, all I know is, this wasn’t an awful episode, it just wasn’t really strong either. Here’s to hoping Rebellion Saturday is still strong.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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Mitchell’s ROH Results & Report! (4/18/24)

Time to Man Up!

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5 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Steven Mitchell

Will the Ivy League MVP earn a title shot?

The NEW ROH World Champion, Mark Briscoe, is here to step onto the Proving Ground with one of Maria Kanellis’ baby boys, Griff Garrison! Will Griff make Maria proud? Or will he reach for the sky?

OFFICIAL RESULTS

Bryan Keith VS Aaron Solo; Keith wins.
Six Man Tag: Lance Archer & The Righteous VS Jon Cruz, Savion Truitt & Damian Chambers; Archer & The Righteous win.
The Infantry VS The Iron Savages w/Jacked Jameson; win(s).
The Dark Order VS ???
Six Woman Tag: Diamante, Leila Grey & Taya Valkyrie VS Kiera Hogan, Leyla Hirsch & Trish Adora; win.
Lady Frost VS Marti Belle; wins.
Beast Mortos VS Nick Comoroto; wins.
Abadon VS Allysin Kay; wins.
ROH World Championship Proving Ground Match: Mark Briscoe VS Griff Garrison w/ Cole Karter & Maria Kanellis; wins and
Lee Johnson VS JD Drake; wins.

PLAY BY PLAY

Mark Briscoe speaks.

“Now House of Black, I’ve been doing this dance with y’all a little while now, and I’m starting to understand how y’all operate. Starting to understand y’all’s M-O. You try to intimidate me. You try to strike fear into the hearts of men. Well I done told you, I fear no man, I fear no evil. And ancient wisdom says the violent take it by force. Now lemme tell you, Eddie Kingston, Adam Copeland, and Mark Briscoe, we some violent men! And at Dynasty, we bringing the violence, babeh! So heed my advice, House of Black! Be afraid, be very afraid!” The Sussex County Chicken is ready for a fight, will he, the Rated R Superstar and Mad King tear down The House of Black once and for all?

Bryan Keith VS Aaron Solo!

The Bounty Hunter is still looking for a prize, but he’ll gladly fight to earn his shot. Will Keith be heading for a golden opportunity on the other side of Dynasty? Or will Solo shoot first?

The Code of Honor is upheld with sarcastic enthusiasm by Solo, and Keith shoves him away. The bell rings and Solo SLAPS Keith! Keith TACKLES Solo and rains down fists! The fans fire up, Solo gets away then knees Keith low. Solo ROCKS Keith, whips him to a corner, but Keith comes back to run Solo over! Keith scoops to SLAM Solo, then stands on Solo’s face! The fans fire up for the KNEE DROP! Keith then SLAPS Solo! The fans rally for “BK! BK!” Solo storms up but Keith kicks low. Keith reels Solo in, suplexes, and he holds Solo up! Keith marches around, then SLAMS Solo down! Solo bails out and the fans fire up as Keith aims.

Keith builds speed, slides, but Solo ducks! Solo sends Keith into steel steps! The fans boo as Solo leaves Keith behind. The ring count starts, fans chant “SOLO SUCKS! SOLO SUCKS!” Solo counts along but wants it to go faster. Keith stands at 8 of 20, slides in, but Solo stomps and HAMMERS away! The fans boo more, but Solo stands Keith up to bump him off buckles. Keith CHOPS in return! Then CHOPS again! The fans “WOO~,” then Keith ROCKS Solo with a forearm. Keith CHOPS in the corner, but then Solo dodges. Solo tries but Keith dodges the chop to CHOP Solo down! The fans fire up while Solo is stinging.

Keith whips Solo, Solo reverses and CLOBBERS Keith! Cover, TWO! Keith grits his teeth but Solo knees him in the back! And again! The fans rally, Solo taunts them, and then ELBOWS Keith in the head. Solo stalks Keith to a corner, digs his boots in, but again the fans chant “SOLO SUCKS!” Solo stomps away on Keith, digs his boots in again, but Keith fights up! The fans fire up as Keith fires forearms! Keith fires forearms again and again and again, winds up, but Solo dodges! Solo comes back, but Keith ROCKS him after all! The fans fire up as Keith runs in to BOOT! Solo sputters, Keith runs, but then Solo SUPERKICKS! Keith just roars!

Solo swings, but into a T-BONE SUPLEX! Cover, TWO! The fans rally as Keith keeps calm. Keith waits on Solo as fans rally behind him. Solo staggers into a fireman’s carry, but he fights free! Solo shoves, goes to a corner, but then Keith comes back. Solo ELBOWS Keith, whips, but Keith reverses! Solo goes up but gets caught, for an USHIGOROSHI! Cover, TWO! The fans rally up again as Keith slashes his throat and aims his finger gun! Keith underhooks, but Solo fights the lift! Solo back drops, Keith sunset flips but Solo stays up to DOUBLE STOMP! Solo then runs up, catches Keith and hits a T-BONE! Cover, TWO!

The fans fire up but Solo hurries to a corner. Solo climbs fast, and DIVING DOUBLE STOMPS! Cover, TWO!! Keith survives that coup de grace and Solo isn’t sure what to do. Solo kicks Keith around, drags him up and reels him in to underhook. Keith fight that lift, Solo CLUBS away on him, but Keith Alabama Lifts! Solo grabs ropes so Keith lets him down, and ENZIGIRIS! But Solo SCREW HIGH KICKS! Solo goes up top, but Keith RISING HEADBUTTS! The fans fire up with Keith and he climbs! Keith reels Solo in, for DIAMOND DUST!! Cover, Keith wins!

Winner: Bryan Keith, by pinfall

A big win for BK! And he gives back that sarcastic handshake. Will the Bounty Hunter be hot on the trail of a championship after AEW & ROH pass through the Gateway City?