Day #7 - 09/09/2020!

This first preliminary match saw Angel Kash basically standing on the floor watching and “cheering” on Carter Slade throughout it. Carter held his own though against HEIDI and Emevlas. There were a few times though, Angel had to get involved a little bit to break up a pin and keep her team alive in this match. Carter though found a way to battle through the handicap as he hits Game Misconduct, but as he springboards in, Angel reaches up and tags herself into the match. Carter goes for the pin, but Angel struts in and shoves him out of the way and goes for the cover and picks up the win as Carter looks extremely annoyed and he just gets out of the ring and walks up the ramp.


Once again, as Tren and Minoru make their way out, Minoru takes a seat at the commentary table and joins Matt and Andrew on commentary for the match. He just sits there and watches as Tren competes in yet another handicap match. Tren doesn’t seem to mind though as he just looks at both Layla and Remi and goes right after them. Remi and Layla do manage a little bit of offense against Tren, but ultimately, it’s Tren who delivers Bullet Train to Hell on Layla before delivering a big boot to Remi to knock him off the apron and covering Layla to pick up the win as Minoru stands up and applauds his partner.


These next two teams came out ready for a fight. Both teams came out looking like they had something big to prove and they were going to do it tonight. First, Morgan and Anton went back and forth with strikes, neither one able to get a true advantage. It didn’t take long for the crowd to start backing Morgan and Sativa. Morgan and Anton would both make tags to their respective partners and that’s when things picked up. Both women put on displays of athleticism and counter wrestling. These two teams battled back and forth, but eventually it was Sativa and Morgan hitting Kingdom Come on Kate and Morgan hooking the leg to pick up the win while Sativa did her best to hold Anton back.


The next match saw Cass Baumer and Dona Rotten working quite well as a team while Debby and Savannah struggled at times. Both teams fought their hearts out though and Debby and Savannah refused to give up. They kept fighting back, eventually having control of Cass for part of the match and working her over. Cass would finally find a way to tag Dona back into the match and she began clearing house and she would finally find a way to deliver the Punk-plex on Savannah and pin her to get the victory.


In the final tag team match of the day, both teams were definitely on the same page as they battled back and forth. Both Asian Persuasion and Sela and Milisadre showed great chemistry with one another. Neither team wanted to back down from the other and crowd was trying to figure out just who to cheer for. Eventually, the crowd decided to split and cheer both teams on as all four women were giving it their all out there for this match. The end of this great tag match came though when Maki was able to deliver a Makihouse kick to Sela that dropped her and she went for the cover and picked up the win.


Today’s A Block matches kicked off with Jenn Drew coming out the gate more aggressively than she had in her previous Block matches. She knew she needed to catch up to the leads and she had to do so fast. So, when Runa Olsen was still in the middle of playing to the crowd in the ring, during her entrance, Jenn Drew darted across the ring and got the match off to an early start. The referee rang the bell as Jenn threw all fancy work out the window and just pulled out all the brutal stops on Runa Olsen. Olsen got some of her own offense in but when she attempted Prep The OR off of the top turnbuckle, Drew countered with a devastating, modified Final Act down to the mat. Olsen’s head was spiked onto the mat before Drew climbed to the top turnbuckle again and finished things off with The Curtain Call before hooking the leg and going for the cover to get the pinfall


Jansen Myrrh and Graham Baker started this one off with a bit of jaw jacking in the middle of the ring. Mostly from Myrrh who was jabbing a finger at Baker and reiterating her thoughts about him from the Press Conference. Baker wasn’t in the mood for any of it and just pie faced her, pushing her away. Myrrh wasn’t about to take any of that either and just spit right in the man’s face. In the time it took him to grin and wipe his face, Myrrh followed up with the first offense of the match, kicking Baker in the midsection and hammering him back into the corner. She continued to talk trash and laid into him with boots to the midsection and forearm shots across the jaw but when she went for an Irish whip across the ring, Baker reversed it and sent her reeling into the corner. He wasted no time, following up with a running clothesline into the corner. Baker carried on in the match with an arsenal of stiff kicks and knees with a top off of suplexes for Myrrh but she fought back as expected and caught Baker off guard with a nasty thumb to the eye right before biting him on the nose. Myrrh took control of the match with some outright brawling techniques, hammering into Baker with closed fists and even proving her own strength with her High Back Suplex trio on the 245 pounder. As she went for Lariat From Hell, however, Baker countered with an STO Backbreaker before a couple of consecutive Clean The Blades for the pinfall victory.


Even if this match wasn’t the main event of the card, it probably could have been. There was a buzz ever since Day 5 about the dual undefeated tournament streaks of both competitors. Both Damon Cross and Super Tiger were unpinned and unsubmitted with 6 points each in this year’s event. Tonight, though, one of them would advance past the other. Damon Cross and Super Tiger stared each other down, circling the mat as they tested the waters against one another with shadow kicks and feigned lunges. When the two locked up, Cross immediately had the power game in his corner as he began moving Super Tiger across the ring. Rather than wrestle her against the ropes, he went for an Irish Whip off of them but Super Tiger used her quick thinking and deceitful strength for an arm drag that sent Cross over the mat. The Black Ronin’s mix of aerial and submission work met the small but mighty Super Tiger’s Strong Style that had the crowd on the edge of their seat. Aerial offense from both competitors saw the battle take place inside, outside and around the ring. Things looked to be going in Cross’ favor when he was the first to hit a signature move with a stiff Yakuza Kick to Super Tiger for a nearfall. Super Tiger answered back with There And Back Again not long after but it was still only enough for a two count. She later went for Starlight Express but exhaustion prevented her from getting Damon Cross up and he gracefully twisted around and reversed it into a Dragonfire DDT that had the crowd roaring but STILL only a two count! Cross set up next for Black Crucifixion but Super Tiger slipped loose of his grip and quickly sprang off of the ropes for a Tiger Snare to the knee! Super Tiger managed to lock on Tiger Tamer in a position where Damon couldn’t turn and reach the ropes. Just when it looked like he was about to tap, however, THE BELL RANG! At 30 minutes elapsed, this match is a DRAW!


Lluvia Cane and Griffin Hawkins put on one hell of a spectacle once the bell rang. They locked up and jarred for position. Hawkins had the power. Cane had the agility. Hawkins had just as much grace as his opponent, however, and both competitors took the fight to one another. They tested each other’s mettle with technical wrestling and aerial offense before pulling out the big guns; Cane with clotheslines and dropkicks and Hawkins with dropkicks of his own in addition to hurricanranas and various holds that gave him the power advantage over the smaller Lluvia. The two began a hot exchange of finish attempts as Griffin went for Shot In The Dark but Cane caught him by the foot and spun him off balance before going for Angelic Rebellion. Hawkins ducked, however, and Cane’s leg swung over, knocking her off balance. Hawkins grabbed Lluvia and set up for South Of Heaven but the Cherokee Princess managed to slip free and shoved him into the ropes. Griff spun around, coming in for a clothesline but Lluvia leaped up from the mat and caught him right in Torch of Blame, dragging him to the mat into the submission hold. Hawkins held out for a while but eventually had no choice but to tap on her leg and give up.


In the main event, Layla Diaz proved once again that she was just as formidable in singles competition as she was in a tag team. Ronnie North’s playful, borderline controversial antics did little more than just piss one half of the Tag Team Champions off but it was his size and strength advantage that gave him the opening edge in the match. Diaz had the speed and resiliency, however, to keep up with the Prince of Pleasure’s combination of power and technical game. While she spent a good portion of the match getting slammed around, she turned things around with that trusty Satellite DDT of hers before working the knees and shoulders to keep her opponent from being able to lift her so easily. It didn’t stop Ronnie from flat out laying into Layla with heavy chops and elbows but things took another drastic turn in Diaz’s favor when Ronnie went for a short arm clothesline that the much shooter Layla was able to duck under and reverse right into a CT Knee Strike, knocking him for a loop and leaving him open as she followed up with the Southside Cutta. Diaz hit it with authority before going for the cover and getting the pinfall victory for the last match of the night!