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Julia Hart (TBS Champion) vs. Willow Nightingale (with Stokely Hathaway)
Willow comes out of the gate hot, but Hart cuts her off and takes over the match by beating Willow down. During her being dominant, Hart is slow and deliberate with her moves, taking time after each one to let them sink in.
Willow starts to get a little flurry of offense, but Hart locks on Heartless. Willow powers out of it and reverses it into a pin. This is where Willow starts to power up and ignores a few of Hart’s attacks until Hart gets a stomp from the top. Willow is able to get the power slam for the pin and the win.
Winner and NEW TBS Champion: Willow Nightingale
A short match, which fits if Hart is injured. I really liked Taz being nasty toward Hathaway on commentary and Hathaway trying to smooth things over.
Mercedes Mone shows and takes over Willow’s moment. They face off and Willow holds up the belt and goes to celebrate with her family at ringside.
Roderick Strong (International Champion) vs. Kyle O'Reilly
They start with grappling, and move to trying for submission moves. It’s fifty fifty as it starts and they move to strikes and kicks. As they move into the middle of the match, Kyle is working on Roddy’s shoulder and Roddy works on Kyle’s back. Roddy hits a back breaker on the turnbuckle, and then takes over with a ground and pound on Kyle.
At this point, Roddy takes over and keeps telling Kyle that he wanted this and he could beat Kyle right now. Kyle finally is able to take over and he has a move where Roddy’s leg is wrapped in the top and middle rope and he hits a guillotine on him. That just looked like pure pain. Kyle looks as if he’s dominating, and Roddy gets a back breaker out of nowhere.
This feels like a Ring of Honor match from 2010 in a good way. We get a long sequence of chops and kicks that end with both men knocking each other down. The ref does catch Wardlow getting into the ring and sends him to the back and we move to a series of two counts.
In the end, Roddy gets End of Heartache for the pin and the win.
Winner and still International Champion: Roderick Strong
After the match, the rest of the Undisputed Kingdom show up and Adam Cole gets out of his wheelchair and walks to the ring. Cole gives the evil eye to Wardlow behind his back.
One thing I want to point out is that this crowd is having a LOT of fun. They are cheering, booing, dancing, loud and into everything going on. It reminds me of the crowd from right after the COVID lockdowns ended. Good choice to have this show in St. Louis.
Hook (FTW Champion) vs. Chris Jericho
The crowd HATES Jericho. He gets booed out of the building, they chant Fozzy sucks, and any time he gets a big move, they boo.
This is simply a brawl with Jericho getting strike and Hook hitting suplexes or punching. There is a table set up at ringside that they work around for most of the match. Eventually, Hook gets a T-Bone Tazplex into the table. Jericho kicks out of the pin after that spot. They return to the ring and as Hook starts giving suplexes, the crowd chants Go Home Jericho.
Odd how him not playing his normal heel persona has finally got the crowd to boo him for real.
Hook gets a garbage can on Jericho’s head and beats him with a kendo stick and then hits a t-bone with Jericho in the trash can. Hook goes under the ring for tables. The tabel is set up in the corner of the ring and they trade moves. Jericho is able to get the advantage and the crowd does NOT want to see it. Hook gets on Jericho’s back and gets the redrum, but Jericho falls backward through the table.
Jericho pins Hook with his feet on the ropes for two. Jericho goes for the Judas Effect and after Hook tries for a knee bar, Jericho gets the walls. Hook rolls through for an inside cradle and then grabs the Redrum again. Jericho escapes with a low blow to a chorus of boos. Jericho hits a Judas Effect while saying I’m Sorry for two. He does it again and Hook kicks out again.
This is making Hook look incredibly strong.
Jericho pulls out the bat and yells Don’t make me do this. Hook flips him the double bird and Jericho nails him with the bat for the pin and the win.
Winner and NEW FTW Champion: Chris Jericho
Taz goes to ringside and tells Jericho to step away from Hook.
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