Post by Steven Brody, CEO on Sept 11, 2019 18:00:36 GMT -8
The opening riff to Saliva’s “Ladies and Gentlemen” is heard as the cameras open up on the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, preparing for Day 9 of the Queen of the Frontier and Vlad Blackheart Memorial Tournaments. Viewers are welcomed to the event by Nick Hanson and Miranda Augustino before the camera cuts right to the ring and the event begins.
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[TYLER GREY V. ANTON CROWLEY]
Renegades versus Dominion. Here it was again. Tyler Grey came out of the corner, trash talking and throwing insults and slurs towards Anton Crowley. The Demon Prince looked calm until he cracked a wicked smirk to the audience and suddenly began just unloading on Grey with vicious chops and backhands, combined with knees and kicks. Crowley delivered an STO, transitioning it right into an STF submission attempt which Grey slipped out of and popped up to deliver a straight boot to the face as Anton was starting to get up.
Tyler maintained control throughout the next few moments of the match, hitting Anton with bone rattling kicks and forearms. He, too, made numerous submission attempts that Anton managed to find his way out of, either through rope breaks or disciplined escape techniques before returning the offense with the Lingchi. Tyler Grey exercised his animalistic resilience, however, and pressed through the pin attempt before tossing Anton overhead with a butterfly suplex. From there, Tyler began to let his temper get the better of him as he started bending the standard rules, testing the referee on rope breaks and underhanded strikes. Pokes to the eyes, etc.
Finally, Tyler Grey had enough of the referee trying to intervene and got in the man’s face. It was right about here that Eavan Maloney had also seen enough of Tyler Grey’s bad sportsmanship and climbed up onto the apron to chide the man. Tyler Grey turned his attention away from the referee and got right up in Eavan’s face, starting to jackjaw with her until it escalated to him reaching out for her. Eavan jumped down to avoid being touched so Tyler Grey hocked one up and SPAT right down in her face, throwing her the middle finger.
AUGUSTINO
“IJO DE PUTA!!!!!”
HANSON
“Now that’s just disgusting!!!!”
Seeing this drove Anton Crowley into a blind rage and the man exploded out of the corner like a man possessed by some hellacious demon. Anton began laying into Tyler with closed fists, feeding him punch after punch until the referee managed to break them up. Boiling over with rage, Tyler Grey ran off of the ropes for a lariat but Anton ducked under and came off of the ropes himself, running at Tyler and bringing him to the mat with a flying armbar takedown. Anton smoothly transitioned this right into In Ostium Inferos which he locked in with full torque. Tyler Grey struggled to get around to the ropes with his feet but he was right in the center of the ring. The commentators directed attention to the eyes of Anton Crowley as they were far from the man’s trademark calm expression. Instead, they were wide open and flat out crazed as he suddenly added an extra twist to Tyler’s wrist, hissing through his teeth as The Renegade yelled out and tapped desperately at the mat. “Jim Jones” by SKYND played as the referee struggled to make Anton Crowley release Tyler Grey, having to be assisted by two more referees before Anton Crowley finally let Tyler go and went immediately to Eavan Maloney who was also fuming mad but seemed satisfied at her husband’s reaction to the way she was treated.
Winner: Anton Crowley
Result: Submission
Time: 16:48
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[KEIJI SUGIWARA V. EDDY POE]
Keiji Sugiwara found his agility and high flying put to the true test against Eddy Poe’s brute force and power. The Slasher literally found several opportunities to snatch the younger man out of the air and drive him down to the mat. Eddy controlled the opening match with savage big boots, brutal clotheslines and jaw dropping feats of power that saw Keiji being sent through the air almost as if he were weightless. This also played in Keiji’s favor, as he managed to reverse a powerbomb attempt, rolling Eddy into a Sunset Flip Powerbomb and came right up into a dropkick to Eddy’s face. The ball rolled right on over into Keiji’s side of the court at this point as he began mounting a counter offense with knee drops and back elbows. Keiji ended a flurry of strikes with a pele kick that actually knocked Eddy back, into the ropes, bringing him right back into a Yakuza Kick that brought him down. Keiji managed to even hit Loaded for Bear for a near pinfall before Eddy powered out of it.
Keiji continued to fight valiantly but the more he laid into Eddy, The Slasher found his second burst of rage and turned the tables right back around as Keiji came at him for Saishu Fomu but was caught right in a Black Hole Slam. This stopped Keiji’s momentum dead in its tracks and Eddy picked him up, delivering Enter The Bad Place to pick up the pinfall win.
Winner: Eddy Poe
Result: Pinfall
Time: 10:24
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[GRIFFIN HAWKINS V. JUDAS LASHER]
Griffin Hawkins would receive what some would probably call his “official” welcome to the New Frontier as he found himself coming toe to toe with the World Champion, Judas Lasher. The King of Pain greeted the Juke Box Hero with hard MMA strikes to start off before taking him to the mat and administering his ground based offense, throwing elbows and knees to the jaw and ribs of NFW’s newest acquisition. There was no animosity behind the brutality of the attacks. This was simply Judas Lasher doing his thing. For a man in his fifties, he was able to keep up remarkably well with Griffin Hawkins when the younger wrestler began mounting a comeback, starting by countering a suplex setup with a swinging neckbreaker. The fans began to get on their feet as Griffin built up a head of steam and picked up his speed, really pushing Judas Lasher’s stamina to its peak as Griffin started coming off of the ropes with springboard hurricanranas, dropkicks and tornado DDTs.
Griffin Hawkins found himself in a close call during one instance when he came flying off of the ropes and came down right into a Lucifer’s Halo from Judas Lasher. Judas was so out of it from the punishment his own body had sustained that it took him too long to capitalize and once he was able to finally make the cover, Griffin kicked out just before three. Judas Lasher sat up, giving that trademark, terrifying sneer of his that could make the mightiest of men quiver as he threw himself over onto his front and began slamming his fists into the mat slowly, waiting for Griffin to get up. Clearly looking for another Lucifer’s Halo, Judas slowly rose up with Griffin, waiting for him to get into position before leaping up and grabbing him around the head. In an act of desperation, Griffin shoved Judas forward into the ropes. Judas came back - SMACK - right into a Shot In The Dark by Griffin! Knocked for a loop, Judas wavered on his feet until Griffin, seemingly shocked at how he had the World Champion vulnerable, grabbed Judas and quickly delivered the South of Heaven before curling him up, essentially sitting on his chest and pulling one leg back as the referee counted the 1...2...3!
HANSON
“I DON’T BELIEVE IT!!!!”
AUGUSTINO
“WOW!!!!”
HANSON
“GRIFFIN HAWKINS HAS JUST PINNED THE WORLD CHAMPION!!”
AUGUSTINO
“HE DOESN’T EVEN NEED TO WIN THE TOURNAMENT FOR A TITLE SHOT NOW, NICK!!!!! DIOS MIO!!!”
Winner: Griffin Hawkins
Result: Pinfall
Time: 25:49
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[ASHE CORVIN V. SCOTT LEROUX]
This was a treat to true wrestling fans as two veterans - legends even - of the business came head to head in their first ever matchup. First ever face to face meeting, in fact. Age wasn’t even a concern for either man as they engaged in a technical wrestling match to please the masses. It remained a mostly even back and forth with neither man getting too much of an advantage over the other. Ashe Corvin took to the air on more than one occasion, surprising Scott Leroux at one instance with a Springboard Split Legged Moonsault to the outside when Scott thought he had put a distance between him and his opponent. This earned the man an immediate chant of
CROWD
“COR-VIN!”
“COR-VIN!”
“COR-VIN!”
“COR-VIN!”
The two legends from different parts of the business continued to take each other to their limits. Corvin with his technical striking and jaw dropping takedowns and Leroux with his technical mat wrestling. But Scott Leroux also started working on Ashe Corvin’s leg throughout the match, setting him up for the eventual administering of the Ankle Lock which finally earned him the submission victory of the match. The two shook hands as the crowd gave them a standing ovation
CROWD
“THANK YOU SCOT-TY!”
“THANK YOU ASHE!”
“THANK YOU SCOT-TY!”
“THANK YOU ASHE!”
Winner: Scott Leroux
Result: Submission
Time: 26:39
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[RICK DICKULOUS V. MAX LEBRUN]
In another highly anticipated rematch, the Toronto Daredevil Max LeBrun squared up in the ring against the giant from the Rockies, Rick Dickulous. Max looked like he was more aware of what he was getting into but so did Rick Dickulous. It was a slow start with Max well aware that if he tried to go head first into a lockup with Rick, he was as good as done. Instead, Max went directly to trying to take down the giant tree of a man down with kicks to the legs and springboard kicks to the head.
Max had a hell of a time getting out of Rick’s powerful grapples once he did get his hands on him and started taking him down to the mat with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, trying to bend Max in ways he shouldn’t have been bending in an effort to get the man to submit. When that failed, Rick Dickulous began to just hit Max with every ounce of power he had. Krav Maga and boxing strikes combined were rocking the smaller man. Max kept up with his defense as best as he could, eventually turning things around when Rick whipped him into the ropes but Max grabbed on and managed to hop over onto the apron. As Rick came charging in, Max hit a pop up kick to the head, knocking him back, and followed up with a springboard forearm that dazed Rick even more. Max hit the mat rolling and came up onto his feet with his back to Rick. Acting on a whim, Max threw himself backwards to hit a pele kick which dropped Rick to his knees. Max came up again, measured, and delivered a popping Slapshot kick to Rick’s jaw. Rick refused to go down so Max fed him another one. Rick went down to his hands and knees but pushed himself back up. Shaking his head in disbelief, Max reared back and hit a third and final Slapshot to Rick, sending him down to the mat. Thinking better of it, Max decided to go to the apron again. Placing his fists to his head, he threw his head back with a yell and extended his arms up, giving the double horns. Max then hopped up onto the top rope and delivered a beautiful springboard, corkscrew shooting star press rarely used, known as Devil In The Sky and came crashing down onto Rick Dickulous’ midsection and made the cover.
Winner: Max LeBrun
Result: Pinfall
Time: 22:18
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The opening chords to “Champion” by Bishop Briggs plays as the cameras return to ringside, preparing for the next round of tournament matches.
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[DONA ROTTEN V. LILITH MEADOWS]
Once again, Lilith Meadows who had clearly shown herself to be inexperienced in singles matches found herself against a rather tough opponent in the form of Dona Rotten. While Dona was eager to start the match, smiling wickedly under her face paint, Lilith was hesitant to even get close to her up to the point where Dona jumped and screamed at the Dark Faerie. On instinct, Lil made a beeline for the ropes and Dona gave chase, catching her before she made it out and proceeded to lay into her with brawling shots to the midsection. Lilith was slow to get into the groove as her previous matches with Dona laying into her without an ounce of mercy as she had none for any opponent. Several minutes in, Dona Rotten went for Toxicosis but Lilith found the energy to roll out of the way, causing Dona to crash down into the mat.
Lilith got up to her feet, seeing her opening and ran off the ropes, hitting a somersault senton that got a pop from the Kingdom fans in the crowd. Next, the commentators had to verbally wonder what she was doing as Lilith climbed to the top rope and went for a frog splash which she hit. Lilith got a few more good shots in before Dona found her footing again and started laying into her once again. Eventually, Dona went for the Chainsaw Kick once she had Lilith down on one knee. Giving an adorable yelp, Lilith dropped down instinctively, causing Dona to miss the kick and land hard on her side. Seeing Dona scramble up to her feet, Lilith realized the opening and got to her feet first, grabbing Dona and drove her head straight into the mat with a swinging leg Implant DDT. This was enough to shock the crowd by earning her the pinfall!
Winner: Lilith Meadows
Result: Pinfall
Time: 14:02
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[KENNEDY CAMPBELL V. CHERRY ADDAMS]
Kennedy Campbell and Cherry Addams had an absolute war that took each other to their limits. Ever the underdog in the women’s division, Kennedy Campbell was determined to fight harder than she had ever fought before. The Great White North member dug deep and countered much of Cherry Addam’s Strong Style striking and powerhouse maneuvers with her technical submission arsenal which was very reminiscent of her trainer, Scott Leroux. Cherry Addams had a difficult time working against the quickness of Kennedy Campbell as she maneuvered around the mat, staying on her takedown and submission attempts. Cherry evened out the playing field, however, once she hit that first real good strike, stunning Kennedy and began laying into her with precise forearm strikes and hard knees.
But Kennedy Campbell managed to catch Cherry Addams in the Ankle Lock, looking like she nearly had her ready to submit but Cherry managed to lift herself and roll under, pulling Kennedy head first into the turnbuckle, knocking her for a loop. As Kennedy pulled herself up to her feet and leaned back in the corner, Cherry pulled herself up to her own feet and came running in to deliver the Lamb to Slaughter, driving her knees directly into Kennedy’s chest. Kennedy fell to the mat where Cherry covered her and got the pinfall victory, coming up with a victorious yell.
Winner: Cherry Addams
Result: Pinfall
Time: 19:58
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[LARA BLACKHEART V. RIVER CHANCE]
Another classic match setup of technical wrestling mixed with aerial offense versus raw power and classic wrestling. After a handshake initiated by River Chance, the two women squared up with River able to gain the upper hand from there, due to her strength advantage over Lara. River worked quick on her reflexes, catching some of Lara’s kicks and countering them into single leg takedowns to try and transition into submission holds or flat out suplexes. She countered Lara’s hand strikes into armbars and armdrags until Lara was able to come off of the middle rope with a springboard spinning heel kick.
This was the start of Lara picking up speed and showing how much she took from her father’s playbook. Countering a discus lariat from River into a Rock Bottom got a huge pop from the crowd which Lara followed up with the People’s Elbow. The commentary team calling out shades of her father and second godfather, both. River kicked out of another pin attempt, however and continued fighting back with her raw power and classic arsenal, all the way up until she managed to catch Lara during a hurricanrana attempt, dropping the woman down and catching her with the blonde’s legs around her waist to deliver the Pommel Strike, brutally into the mat for the surprising pinfall upset.
Winner: River Chance
Result: Pinfall
Time: 17:40
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[LLUVIA CANE V. SAMANTHA TOLSON]
Another match that the fans had been highly anticipating, was this one. Lluvia and Samantha circled the ring, starting with a lockup and jarring for position. Samantha had the power and Lluvia had the versatility to slip out of a lot of Samantha’s setups for her dangerous suplexes. Lluvia looked like she was getting the upper hand with her jabs, backfists and dropkicks but Samantha reminded the world of her experience when Lluvia went for a high kick and Samantha ducked under, causing Lluvia to overshoot it and plucked her right off of the ground for a quick Olympic Suplex. As Lluvia got to her feet, Samantha pulled her up before beginning to unleash Strong Style forearms and kicks to her body. The Pretty Little Murder Machine had The Cherokee Princess metaphorically on the ropes but Lluvia fought back with her spiritual resilience, working herself out of the corner with her own stiff shots to Samantha, including a Big Boot that looked like it was enough to slow the multi-time champion down. Samantha was waiting with a big discus lariat, though, that said she wasn’t done yet.
These two women had the crowd on their feet the majority of the time as Samantha continued to manhandle Lluvia around the ring with her strength but Lluvia kept coming back with those bursts of drive and heart, including catching Samantha with a Suicide Dive on the outside at one point which ended with Samantha almost catching her in her arms but the force of Lluvia’s projection sent them both over the barricade and into the front row. When it came time for them to get back into the ring, Samantha caught Lluvia from behind and, to the awe of the crowd, caught her with the Nightfall, throwing her back over the barricade to ringside. Samantha pulled Lluvia back into the ring where the two continued to brawl it out. In the end, she caught Lluvia setting up for a moonsault and attempted to counter with Victory Drop Omega. Lluvia felt Samantha behind her, however and began fighting her off with back elbows and throwing her head back into Sam’s face. After several attempts, Lluvia caught Samantha with one good blow in the side of the head with an elbow and she fell back to the mat. Seeing her opening, Lluvia turned around on the turnbuckle and came leaping off to deliver Your Horizon. The sheer impact caused Lluvia to rebound up off of Samantha but she crawled over in a haste, clutching her midsection as she went for the cover and managed to get the pinfall.
Winner: Lluvia Cane
Result: Pinfall
Time: 25:40
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[SATIVA NEVAEH V. ADRIANNA SALVATORE]
Some might have thought this was a title match with how the two women started off just staring each other down from their corners and then Sativa Nevaeh walking to the center of the ring to raise her Women’s World Title before handing it to the ref. As soon as the bell rang, the crowd began to buzz as Adrianna Salvatore came walking out of her corner and got right in Sativa’s face with almost an ever so small amused smirk on her lips. Sativa went for an opening slap to the face which Adrianna simply caught her by the wrist and went to pull her in for a forearm. Sativa ducked and slipped her wrist free, beginning to unload on Adrianna with a series of palm strikes, chops and kicks. Each strike resounded with stiff smacks and pops. The shots to the knees of Adrianna had the Queen of Anarchy reeling early, biting through visible frustration. Once Sativa went to capitalize big, coming off of the ropes and back towards her, Adrianna exploded and rocked her inside out with a discus lariat, accompanied by a primal scream as it stopped the Women’s Champion dead in her tracks. Adrianna threw her hands down and yelled to the crowd, garnering a return pop.
From there, Adrianna mercilessly went right for Sativa, pulling her to her feet and feeding her some of her own strikes. The harder Adrianna hit, however, Sativa seemed to get more of a fire lit up inside of her as she actually began to goad the woman on, telling her to hit harder. Adrianna happily obliged which resulted in a painful sounding exchange of backhand, knife edge chops. Adrianna looked to win this part with her clear advantage in strength but as she ran in for a clothesline while Sativa was on the ropes, Sativa dropped down and pulled the top rope with her, sending Adrianna tumbling over onto the floor with a hard landing. Just as she started pulling herself to her feet, the Blood Countess hit the mat running, hopping over the ropes by the turnbuckle and delivered a beautiful moonsault after hopping up onto the outside middle turnbuckle. Sativa came crashing down onto Adrianna, bringing them both to the floor. This put the advantage in the champion’s favor as she immediately stayed on her opponent, brawling with her outside of the ring. Thinking smart, Sativa Irish whipped Adrianna right into the steps, causing her to go tumbling over after slamming into them with her knees. This would surely cause problems for a time in the match. Sativa slid back into the ring at the count of 15 and just watched as Adrianna struggled to get to her feet and managed to make it back in just before the count of 20.
Frustrated a little bit, Sativa pulled Adrianna to her feet and continued laying into her with some more shots before she Irish whipped her into the ropes. As Sativa started to take charge, however, likely going for a spinning heel kick, Adrianna pushed herself to pick up speed and ended up drilling Sativa right in the ribs with the MOAB Launch and the crowd roared all around. Adrianna was unable to attempt a pinfall, however, as she immediately went back to nursing her knees, feeling the ache in them from pushing herself faster. Being the first to recover, Sativa sat up and saw Adrianna slowly getting to her feet. She ran in behind her and hooked the arms behind her back with a wild look in her eyes and an equally wild smile as the crowd yelled - “EXECUTE ORDER 66!” - before Sativa...well...executed Order 66! A Tiger Suplex with a bridge that nearly got the pinfall but Adrianna managed to kick out and roll the rest of the way through. As Adrianna came up onto her knees, she saw Sativa sit up so she shot in and threw an arm around her throat, locking in the Cold Embrace. The crowd went wild as she fully locked in the move, wrapping her legs around Sativa’s waist and performed her signature eyeroll/tongue out expression. Sativa tried to escape the hold naturally but Adrianna’s grip proved too strong for her current exhaustion level, at least. She managed to get her feet around to the ropes, however, causing the break. Adrianna got to her feet and started to pull Sativa up to hers. Sativa sprang up, making an attempt at Got ‘Em. Adrianna just barely managed to catch it, and shoved her into the ropes as she, herself, stumbled back to get a distance between them. As Sativa came stumbling back from the ropes, Adrianna ran in to catch her with Hell’s Bells. Sativa’s head snapped back from the impact of the knee and wavered. Adrianna pulled her into the setup and delivered the Ground Zero for the pinfall.
Winner: Adrianna Salvatore
Result: Pinfall
Time: 29:39
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Match Summaries Written By
Morgan Payne
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Winners
VBMT
Match 1. Anton Crowley
Match 2. Eddy Poe
Match 3. Griffin Hawkins
Match 4. Scott Leroux
Match 5. Max LeBrun
QOTF
Match 1. Lilith Meadows
Match 2. Cherry Addams
Match 3. River Chance
Match 4. Lluvia Cane
Match 5. Adrianna Salvatore
