(1) The Vandal won a 20+ man Platinum Royal. Delay eliminated De La Vega to win the first phase of the match at 15:13. In a Platinum Royal, the last competitor in the ring takes on the competitor that scored the most eliminations in a singles match to determine the winner. This match had numerous subplots. Seth Delay used Badstreet USA for his music and did a zany glad handing babyface entrance. Fans didn’t seem to know what to make of this, but they went with it. Newcomer Bobby Lambert hit some impressive power moves. Lambert is huge guy with a Brodie Lee look to him. The Empire heel faction had a slew of guys in the match. They worked together to eliminate Lambert. A Warhorse (Kurt Kilgore) snuck into the ring. The Warhorsemen is a long running jobber gimmick with a variety of incarnations and different people under the masks including owner Stephen Platinum. There was Warhorse Hogan, Warhorse 3.14, and so on. A tiny, mysterious masked man made a notable debut, as he was flying all over the place. After splitting up at Chapter One, former partners De La Vega and Vandal were working together. It came down to Delay, De La Vega and Vandal. De La Vega again turned on Vandal, causing him to be eliminated. Delay and De La Vega ended up battling on the apron, and Delay dropkicked De La Vega to the floor.
Vandal reentered the match having eliminated 8 competitors in the first phase. Vandal and Delay are in the midst of a best of seven series taking place at PCW’s weeks shows at the Academy Theater. Vandal suggested making this match five of the series (currently tied 2-2) and Delay said you’re on. They went another 6 minutes and it was good stuff. It’s great when a young up-and-comer like Vandal can work with a veteran like Delay on a regular basis. Finish saw Vandal go for a figure four. Delay countered with an inside cradle but Vandal was able to reverse it to score the pin. Delay was selling the knee huge afterward. The crowd was entertained by this match. Not sure they needed to devote quite so much time to it though.
(2) Dany Only (with Miss Rachel & Marty Freeman & Jonathan Malik) beat Vordell Walker in 9:40. Good match. Both men looked sharp. Rachel came out wearing the PCW Title around her bare midriff. Empire has three managers, and Only is the group’s linchpin. The rest of Empire was at ringside for the start, but Walker did a dive and they went down like bowling pins, and the ranks thinned out after that. Walker took great bumps off of hard Irish whips. Only went to work on his back. Walker evaded Only’s finisher (lariat from hell) and tried for his finisher, the brainbuster, but his back gave out. Walker kicked out after taking the lariat. Only kicked out after taking the brainbuster. Walker locked in a horse collar submission. Only was tapping like mad but Rachel had the ref distracted. Can’t blame him at all for that. Walker went for another brainbuster but some Empire guys grabbed his leg and Only fell on top for the pin. Fans were hot about the cheating and chanted “you tapped out” at Only.
(3) Washington Bullets (Jon & Trey Williams) defeated Konkrete Gorillaz (Geter & Brian Blaze) to win the Tag Team Season Final in 14:20. Rather than having tag team champions, PCW forms a league of tag teams for a three month season of matches that is followed by a playoff round. Bullets were the defending champions from season one. Gorillaz came out in bullet proof vests. Fans threw streams at the Bullets, who are a dynamite little tag team. They’re not the greatest technical wrestlers, although they’ve improved greatly in that regard, but their teamwork is awesome and they connect with the fans. Trey gets extraordinary hang time when he goes airborne. Blaze destroyed Jon on the apron to start the heat. Geter is massive. His thighs were easily larger than Jon’s waist. Blaze is a lousy tag team wrestler. He didn’t stay between Jon and his brother, then he threw Jon out on the wrong (babyface) side of the ring. He does have a cool move where he sits on the turnbuckle and lifts his opponent of the mat with a choke. Geter dropped Jon on his head with a wicked Saito suplex. Trey was on fire with the hot tag. It was back and forth with big moves and saves. The finish was a double backcracker on Geter followed by a double stunner. The crowd loved this match.
(4) Chip Day pinned NWA World Heavyweight Champion Adam Pearce in a non-title match at 13:04. The set up was Pearce sending in two brilliant video promos (from the privacy of his bathtub and shower no less – see NOTES below) questioning Day’s worth as a title challenger. Pearce said if Day proved himself by winning all of his matches he might give him a shot. Day did just that. Pearce came to the ring and said Day hadn’t proven jack to him and no way in hell was he getting a title shot. Day was outwrestling him, so Pearce used some stall tactics. No power vs. speed spots. Pearce is so much larger than Day, but the crowd had no problem with it at all, and were totally into Day’s offense. Suspension of disbelief ruled the day. Pearce worked on Day’s neck, taunting him all the while. Day nutted the champion on the top turnbuckle and hit a missile dropkick that left both men down. Pearce bumped his ass off for Day’s comeback. Pearce cut him off with a belly to belly throw. Day came back with a superplex and kick in the head for near falls. Pearce dropped Day on his neck with a move like what Sal Rinauro used to call the Phoenix Fury Legdrop (even though it wasn’t a leg drop). Day kicked out and caught Pearce with a small package for the flash pin. The crowd went nuts for it.
Pearce was a sadistically sore loser. He leveled Day with a belt shot and left him laying with his signature jumping piledriver.
Stephen Platinum presented Thunderbolt Patterson with a special legends award. The highlight video by Chuck Thornton was off the chain. It had some incredible footage of Patterson’s matches and promos when he was in his prime. Thunderbolt kept it short, but his delivery was everything that today’s pro wrestling talkers lacks. Well done.
(5) Kyle Matthews defeated Jay Lethal and Shane Marx in a Trinity Rules three way match at 20:20 to earn a shot at the ROH World Title. The Trinity Rules and the booking of Lethal happened because couldn't make it to defend the ROH title. The loser of a fall was banished to ringside for five minutes, and if a pinfall or submission occurred during the penalty period, the match was over. This was a fluid, crisp three way. If you think Marx was out of his league with the like of Lethal and Matthews, think again. Lethal and Matthews both hit topes. Marx hit a DDT/flatliner combo on the two of them. A round robin of superkicks left all three down. Beautifully done and it popped the crowd bigtime. Marx pinned Lethal with a reverse DVD at 9:13. Matthews and Marx did some nice finishers and submissions but not much heat. The crowd wasn’t buying that the match could end before Lethal got back in. Lethal reentered with an onslaught offense, pinning Marx with the Lethal Combination at 15:33. Lethal used a very cool elevated leglock. Matthews got the Hidaka Lock, and Lethal countered with a dragon suplex. Matthews then won it with the Slurpee Kick. It was the right finish -- both PCW stars pin the national star. Matthews wins without being pinned at all. Some fantastic action. The gimmick need tweaking, perhaps with a shorter penalty period.
Matthews vs. Davey Richards was announced for the Academy Theater in Avondale Estates on October 28.
(6) In the first of three cage matches, Nemesis defeated Jay Fury in 11:49. Former partners (as the original Konkrete Gorillaz) turned bitter enemies. In the last of many atrocities, Nemesis bloodied Fury last week at the Academy. They tore each other up in this match. Nemesis speared the hell out of Fury, put a noose around his neck, and gave him a neckbreaker. Fury cracked Nemesis’ skull across his shin. Fans chanted “jailbird” at Nemesis. As promised, Nemesis tried to hang Fury off the top of the cage with the noose. He didn’t succeed, thank God. Fury tied Nemesis to the ropes and hit a frogsplash elbow. The other Gorillaz (Geter and Blaze) came to ringside. Nemesis managed to pass the rope to them and they choked Fury out by pulling on the rope. There was a funny moment here were a lady came out of the crowd and started hitting Geter in the back to make him stop. He finally looked back to see who was hitting him. Fans were infuriated by the finish. Platinum and Dr. Melei hit the ring to tend to Fury.
(7) Pandora vs. Aesha Sunshine was ruled a no contest at 9 minutes when both women hit the floor simultaneously. Platinum calls this the greatest feud in women’s wrestling. It surely isn’t the greatest women’s wrestling, but he’s got a valid point about it being the greatest feud. They’ve done everything under the sun to each other, including a first blood match and a last woman standing and Sunshine as repeatedly been done in by outside interference, so unlike TNA, the cage match made perfect sense. The good doctor Melei and her psychedlic high top gym shoes replaced Daffney as the special referee. As soon as Pandora got the advantage, she called for the cage door to be unlocked so she could escape. How refreshingly realistic. They beat the hell out of each other like they have so many times before. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t meant to be. They battled while standing on the top rope, and Pandora brought Sunshine off the top with a bulldog. The fans started a “she is dead” chant. They climbed to the top of cage. They didn’t look secure at all and it was scary stuff. They both started to climb down the outside and fell from near the top of the cage through two ringside tables. A pretty insane fall this was, but they appeared to hi the tables right, if there is such a thing. Platinum ran to ringside in a panic. Hushed crowd like this was the real thing. Sunshine was carried out on a backboard. Only carried Pandora out like a sack of potatoes.
(8) Mason (with the Witnesses) beat Grotesque (with Rachel & Freeman & Malik & Marko Polo & Joey Kidman) to win the PCW Title in 8:30. They did a long, overblown entrance for Mason. Fans got impatient with it. Mason usually has only has the one Witness at ringside, but for the special occasion, a bunch of babyface wrestlers came out as Witnesses in support of him. It was weird. The babyface had more guys at ringside than the heel. Grotesque doesn’t wrestle really. He’s been DQed in most of his title defense. Every inch of his skin was covered – overalls, gloves, mask, but based on his work (tons better!), it was different monster in the gimmick this time. Rachel told Mason he would be destroyed, because she was only person that could control him and she was locked out. Grotesque was impervious to Mason’s offense. Grotesque gave Mason a choke bomb and used his head as a battering ram against the cage. Mason bled a teeny tiny bit. Only came to ringside with the key to the cage and a chain saw. He handed the chainsaw to Grotesque. Grotesque revved that sucker up, but the motor died just as he was about to slice Mason’s head off. Mason ran wild. He gave Grotesque three TKO’s and pinned him with a splash off the top of the cage. Another spectacular finish.
The show closed with Platinum putting the title belt around the waist of the new champion.
Credit: Larry Goodman of www.georgiawrestlinghistory.com
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