Independent Wrestling Thread

[RossFC]

it's almost "sabotage" according to them

Despite all this, Tony Khan had loaned out AEW talent to GCW.

Until GCW talent decided to talk crap about Tony Khan.

 

[Cleavy]

they can suffer in their jocks.

 

[nobbyiscool]

GCW Dream On notes:

Spoiler

The show was from the American Dream Shopping Mall.

Kurt Angle and Mick Foley were a special guests. Blue Pain aka Blue Kane came out, Foley called him a loser, Angle told him to be a fan and sit in the crowd. Pain went to chokeslam Angle, but Foley gave Pain a Mr Socko finisher, then Angle gave Pain the Ankle Lock.

Sidney Akeem beat Speedball. Post-match it was announced that at the Hammerstein Ballroom Jan 19th it will be Akeem vs Vikingo.


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Matt Cardona beat Manders due to JBL giving Manders a Clothesline From Hell.

Little Guido vs Ricky Morton turned into a tag match due to Kerry Morton walking in talking trash about both of them. Guido and Ricky Morton beat Kerry Morton and Griffin McCoy.

Masha Slamovich retained the JCW Title vs Santana Jackson. Very entertaining match. Post-match Blake Christian attacked Jackson.

Mance Warner retained the GCW Title vs Effy in a match that got thrown out, due to Allie Katch wiping both wrestlers and the ref out, in the main event.

GCW Josh Barnett's Bloodsport XII notes:

Spoiler

NXT's Karmen Petrovic beat Sumie Sakai.

NXT's Charlie Dempsey beat Tracy Williams.

AEW's Marina Shafir (w/Jon Moxley) beat TNA's Jody Threat.

Masha Slamovich retained the TNA Knockouts Title vs Lei Ying Lee in a Bloodsport style match.

Royce Isaacs beat NXT's Myles Borne.

Josh Alexander beat Speedball.

Josh Barnett beat MVP in the main event. Post-match Josh Barnett put out an open challenge in a Bloodsport match for the Hammerstein Ballroom show Jan 19th.

I watched Bloodsport last night/this morning, it was a really good show again. Hurt Syndicate's music is a meme already. Although it doesn't sound like he'll be back in anything GCW affiliated any time soon.

I think TK is the one who looks shitty in that situation, pulling your talent cos some GCW wrestler said something mean about you and your daddy is pretty thin-skinned when they've always spoken about working with, not against the independent scene.

That said, the reverse was true with the Hammerstein thing, which just made Lauderdale sound much more naive to wrestling than he really is.

 

[Ry009]

Agree on the whole playing hardball with GCW.

As for Ricky himself - from a business perspective, understand why they are holding onto him, but he clearly isn't happy - and has no intention of staying by the sounds of it - just let him go. Hate when WWE (especially Vince) did it - with the size of their roster cost and top level talent available - not exactly going to be huge blow to them. Don't get it.

 

[Cleavy]

it will be interesting to see if Starks is the only one pulled. presumably Danhausen and Megan Bayne might still be under AEW contracts?