-squash match

 

Pamela Paulshock conducts an interview with two female wrestlers, Rain and Daizee Haze  (click on their names for links) about to make their debut in APW. Basically asking them their background in pro wrestling, favorite moves, wrestling idols, etc. Of course the interview ends with a catfight between the two women.

 

Jazz   v   Dana Hamm   v   Rena Mero   v   Sarah Stock

v   Dawn Marie   v   Rain  v   Daizee Haze

 

First woman able to enter the ring is declared the winner, and will get a title shot next wek against April Hunter.

Rain and Daizee Haze were making their first appearance in APW. Will it be an in-ring appearance though?

Seven lovely ladies battling it out right in front of the crowd went over very well with the fans. Jazz was dominant but the girls were very aware of her so she was always faced with two or three competitors at a time. Stock, Dawn Marie, and Jazz all had times where they were able to get on the ring apron but were unable to completely enter the ring to get the win, being pulled off the apron.

Then as the two newcomers Rain and Daizee Haze battled on the ring apron, both trying to secure the win, on the other side of the ring, Dana Hamm took a run at Jazz who backflipped her. Unfortunately for all the other competitors Jazz backflipped Hamm too hard and sent her bouncing off the ring apron, and through the ropes, into the ring for the win.

 

 

APW Commissioner Jack Larkin comes to the ring. He announces that the main event for the night will be a 3-corners tag team match to settle some old scores.

It will be Adam Riggs teaming with his protege Trent Arion, against Dan Severn teaming with his protege Roberge Stockburger, against Kurt Angle who will be getting his own partner for the night.

 

 

-any doubts about the ability of Terkay went out the window as he easily disposed of former champion Petey Williams in under 5 minutes.

 

Dan Severn and Roberge Stockburger are interviewed regarding tonight's main event. Severn says that besides settling old scores he has been assured by Jack Larkin that the results of tonight's main event will be taken into consideration in the weeks to come. Severn says that he still wants another title shot, whether that ends up being against Riggs or Angle, and Stockburger says he still has his eyes set on the TV title held by Trent Arion.

 

-Reyes offered to shake hands with Chavez before the match but Eddie refused. Seems to be some distance between the SoCal latino Reyes and the eastern latino (Allentown PA) Chavez.

During the match Reyes tried to get Chavez to do some double teams on Waltman but Chavez took more of an everyman for himself approach and took advantage of Reyes' offer to attack him.

In the end Chavez had neutralized Reyes with a frog splash but then fell victim to the X-Factor before he could make the pin.

 

Eddie Chavez is interviewed by Pamela Paulshock. Eddie says he didn't co-operate with Reyes because he's a singles wrestler now, not interested in a tag team, a partner of any description. Chavez says that Reyes is going to have to make a name for himself and he doesn't simply get to step into the shoes of Asp Evergreen overnight, considering the many years it took for him and Asp to get to the top.

 

[end of first hour]

 

Jerry Orth is being interviewed by Pamela Paulshock about his betrayal at the hands of his former friend and tag partner Bryan Caruthers. Orth says he still hasn't been able to find out "why" and Caruthers seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Orth says he doesn't really know what to do next. Paulshock seizes on that and asks if he is contemplating retirement. After a pause he says, yes, he is thinking about it.

The fans cheer as Kurt Angle comes to the ring. He offers a handshake to Orth, which is taken.

Angle says he feels for Orth, there is no loyalty anymore it seems. But having said that Angle says he wants Orth to do him a favour and stop talking about retirement for a bit, at least long enough to team with him in tonight's main event. When Orth looks hesitant Angle says its a way to get back into the Main Event, maybe earn himself another TV title shot, and besides Angle says, he needs him because he is a tag team specialist.

After a bit more thinking Orth accepts, and they shake hands again.

 

-Windsor showed some good stuff early in the match controlling a front face lock, dropping it into a chokehold, then taking Bayley over with a front facelock suplex. However, Bayley figured him out fairly quickly and controlled the last couple minutes of the match, having Windsor set up for the Blaze bomb after a sidewalk slam which had been set up by four flying clotheslines (one from each side of the ring). But as he climbed to the top for the bomb, Nigel McGuinness appeared, jumped up on the apron, and hit Bayley in the back with his "Union Jack" iron.

 

Post-Match:

Bayley protected his head against the iron, but took a shot on the forearms, and then another in the ribs.

The crowd popped big though as Sam Holiday made his first appearance in months running to the ring to make the save.

 

Holiday and Bayley (who is still clutching his ribs and gasping for breath) challenge McGuinness and Windsor to a match next week. The British duo accept.

 

 

Dustin Rhodes makes his way to the ring, greeted by jeers from the crowd.

 

the fans cheer as "All 80's" Mike Maverick runs to the ring, high fives for the crowd as he goes by. He is wearing a Miami Vice t-shirt, and a tiger print spandex wrestling pants. He takes off his fringed white leather jacket before he enters the ring.

 

-Rhodes tried to attack Maverick as he entered the ring, but the greenhorn was expecting it and got the upper hand on Rhodes. Maverick went to work with armdrags, a backbody drop, vertical suplex, and his immitation of a bionic elbow.

Rhodes took back the momentum but couldn't finish off the high energy Maverick. "All 80's" then went to work on the arm of Rhodes trying to weaken it up for a submission. But again Rhodes battled back with a headbutt, chop to the throat and then, still favoring one arm, nailed a single arm DDT. He pinned and got 1, put his feet on the ropes for leverage, 2, 3!!

 

Adam Riggs and Trent Arion are joined in the ring by Brock Lesnar and April Hunter.

Riggs says that its bad enough he has to face the junkie Kurt Angle next week for his title, an American on the Independence Day show, but now they have this match tonight. Riggs says that America has been stacking the deck for years in its favor but for once they have met an enemy they can't defeat.

Pamela Paulshock asks Riggs about the attack on he and Bayley last week by McGuiness and Windsor. Riggs spits on the mat, apparently getting some on Paulshock's feet as well. He calls them a couple of limey perverts who he doesnt have time to deal with, or he would send them back to England in a briefcase full of organs and tissue. Riggs says the British are even worse then the Americans..a bunch of bloody animals.

 

 

Adam Riggs & Trent Arion

v

Dan Severn & Roberge Stockburger

v

Kurt Angle & Jerry Orth

 

Very rarely was referee James Beard able to keep only two men in the ring. It was either double teams, or all 3 teams having at least one man in the ring at a time. Mini-brawls errupted outside the ring frequently and Riggs and Arion got away with bloody murder becasue of all the distractions. Throughout much of the match Riggs and Arion traded off a pair of brass knuckles and while able to use them a couple of times were unable to get a pin. Kurt Angle, Jerry Orth, and Dan Severn were all wearing the proverbial crimson mask by the 8 minute mark of this match. In the end Riggs climbed to the top to hit the Phenomenal performace but was pushed off the top by Dan Severn to the mat below. Roberge Stockburger was the other legal man and tried to pin Riggs but Angle reached in and tagged himself in off the head of Stockburger in the middle of the three count. Thinking they had won Stockburger and Severn embraced and celebrated while Angle hooked a leg and pinned Riggs, 1, 2, 3.

 

 

Post-Match:

Dan Severn and Roberge Stockburger returned to the ring to complain to James Beard. They ended up in a pushing match against Angle and Orth, but then Riggs and Arion joined in the fray, and we had all 6 men trading punches as we...

 

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