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ACTION Wrestling “Running Wild”
Taped on 10/15/21
Available on IWTV.live VOD
Action’s month long 4-show run concludes with this high school show! At the top of the card, champion Arik Royal defends against recent number one contender, Orion Bishop! ACTION kicks off with another great highlight reel of recent violence. Dylan Hales & Johnny Mosely are your commentators. Scott Hensley is your announcer.
Match 1: Rob Killjoy vs “Number One” Jaden Newman (w/ Carson Dilbeck & Pete Youngblood)
Newman is directing traffic with his TWE goons, who block his ears from the “number two” chants. Killjoy gets the crowd going with the Quack chants. They have a mirror sequence of exact moves and counters before Killjoy picks up the speed and drags Newman off his feet with his quickness. Killjoy sends Newman running for cover and moral support. Trading some loud chops as Newman fires back up into this…which Killjoy uses to his advantage, hitting a backbreaker/suplex/lionsault for a near fall. Jaden fights out with a mule kick and tonardo ddt! Cravat flip driver for two! Killjoy with a buckle bomb and duck driver for two! Dilbeck and Youndbloos distract Killjoy on the apron, Newman tries to take advantage but Killyjoy topes over and wipes them out! Killjoy back in for the kill but Newman drags him into a hangman’s clutch, it’s deep…Killjoy taps! Good contest here. Newman and his goons taunt Killjoy in the corner to celebrate this opening match victory.
Winner: Jaden Newman
Match 2: “The Boozerweight” Matt Sells vs MERC
East Coweta HS is hot for the Boozerweight, who celebrates with the crowd through his entrance. MERC protests all the time wasting his opponent is doing and just dives out to the floor to begin the beatdown. Sells reverses the position, pulls off his jacket and fights MERC into the upper bleachers. Trading shots, hanging off the guardrail. Sells gets MERC into position and humps his face into the bleachers. MERC tries a chest kick and hits the wall. Sells sends him falling down the bleachers to the floor. Sells runs him into the wall of the gym. MERC tries to come back but he gets thrown through the ringside chairs. The match makes it into the ring and the bell finally sounds to start the match. Sells with a reverse cutter! MERC blocks the palm strike, he tries the heart grenade, Sells blocks the finish and rolls up MERC for the three count! This was wild. Crowd loved the brawl and quick steal by Sells.
Winner: Matt Sells
Match 3: Adam Priest vs Kevin Ku
Ku wants his prior loss against Priest back. Ku wraps up the arm early and controls a fired up angry Adam Priest. Priest in a fury, drags Ku down and slaps at his head. Priest keeps testing Ku’s patience and ends up eating some Punishment for that sin. Priest reverses the choochoo elbow and pummels Ku on the apron. Big back drop to the apron, frog splash to the back, kick out! Trading chops on the outside, Priest crushes the back against the apron again and works to pick that area apart with whips and kicks. Ku is mad now and throwing heavy boots at Priest for a near fall. Ku ducks a back elbow but eats a neck breaker. Priest tries to swing that loaded arm, Ku hits a brain buster! Priest tries a sharpshooter, Ku fights out. Priest tries a suplex plex…Ku powerbombs him into the knees, stacks the pin for the three! Priest has been crafty with that surgically repaired arm lately but Ku brought the fight and would not be denied tonight. Good match.
Winner: Kevin Ku
Match 4: Ashton Starr vs Cabana Man Dan
Another rematch on the card tonight, this time Starr has something to prove. Aggressive lockup to start. CMD takes the leg and almost snags the pin early. Starr proving he’s learned from prior mistakes and goes pin attempt for pin attempt with CMD. Code red from CMD! Starr kicks out and CMD is furious. Rebound flying back kick by CMD for another close call. High cross body? Kick out! Starr is staying alive but CMD is not letting up on the gas. Starr dodges the shipwrecked and hits a kick for two. Starr misses a scissor kick, Dan tries a slingshot ddt, Starr blocks it. CMD tries the code red again but Starr catches and sinks it back to an alligator clutch for the pin!
Winner: Ashton Starr
Match 5: The Skulk (Adrian Alanis & Liam Gray)(c) vs Air BnB (Bobby Flaco & Brogan Finlay) (for the ACTION Tag Team Championships)
The kids in this crowd hate the Skulk as much as they loved Matt Sells. Action spares us the full entrance of Skulk by supercutting us through the twelve and a half minutes of them antagonizing the crowd and threatening to leave and come back and start the entrance again. (NOTE: put the whole entrance on YouTube, ACTION). AirBnB enters and the Skulk tries to leave….but they get turned around. Brogan overpowering Alanis early and taking a few swipes at Liam. Brogan getting his licks in before bringing in Bobby to take on Gray. Flaco hypes up the crowd and hits a high angle arm drag. Air BNB owning this early until Liam is able to bomb Flaco off the top for a quick near fall. Alanis in to keep the pressure on Flaco and Brogan at bay. The champs finding their groove as Liam tries to choke out Bobby in the center. Flaco gets space and almost makes the tag but Alanis pulls Brogan off the apron. Big back breaker and elbow drop combo from the Skulk. Bobby with a rebound double cutter! Brogan gets the tag! Finlay comes in hot but Liam hits a handspring cutter. Alanis gets his up for the crossbody suplex. Brogan kicks out! Finlay fighting back and tags out! Liam is confused who is legal! Bobby wipes him out on the rope! Cross body dive from flaco, Saito suplex from Brogan! Liam kicks out! Finlay roll! Alanis pulls Bobby off the top! Liam distracts the ref with one of the tag title belts, allowing Alanis to throw in the other. Liam blasts Brogan with the belt, goodnight sweet prince.
Winners: The Skulk
Match 6: Suplex Science (Alex Kane & Damyan Tangra) vs Zach Mosley & Elrond Campbell
Mosley & Campbell make sure the crowd knows to hate them by simply using the microphone. Mosley antagonizes Tangra early which really is poor planning. Suplex science tosses him around before Campbell ties to save his partner, winding up in a chop battle with Kane. Kane with a pair of back suplexes and a near fall on Mosley. Mosley eats a double plex and kicks out again. He’s resilient at least! Mosley rakes the eyes and Campbell I for a lariat/German combo. Tangra taking the heat from Campbell & Mosley as they slow the pace down. Drop toe hold and an elbow drop from the impromptu tandem shows they have some chemistry as a team. Tangra keeps trying to fight to the tag but he’s taking so much damage for a prolonged period. Tangra escapes and dumps Campbell into a low blow headbutt on his partner. Kane tags in! Time for more suplexes! Mosley and Campbell take all the free rides. Mosley gets X-plexed into Campbell. Mark of Kane on Mosley! Tangra with an STF. Mosley tries to bite his way free but he taps out!
Winners: Suplex Science
Match 7: 1 Called Manders vs “The Mack of All Trades” AC Mack (w/ Cabana Man Dan)
After his SCI 2021 win, Mack SHOULD BE the Number One Contender for the IWTV Championship and he makes sure to let everyone know that. Mack stays ahead of the big cowboy at the bell but he eats a few big chops. Mack with a dropkick and sends Manders to the outside. Trading chops and uppercuts on the outside, Manders goes to the eyes and beats Mack on a ringside chair. These two are working out a lot of their personal history right now. Manders comes running on the outside into a sudden leg lariat. Running Yakuza kick sends Manders tumbling off the chair. They fight up into the catwalks above the gym! Manders wants to toss Mack off but AC escapes and takes the fight back downstairs. The fight stays in the crowd, CEO Matt Griffin gets used as a weapon briefly. Manders blasts Mack into the apron before heading back into the ring to eat another leg lariat. Flying clothesline, two count! Manders counters a kick into a big powerbomb for two! Mack misses an enziguri! Big cowboy lariat! Kick out! Mack nearly steals it with a rollup. Sweep ddt! AC hits the Mack 10 and that’s it! Solid fight here, Manders was a game opponent but Mack is back on the roll right now.
Winner: AC Mack
We get a post match promo from AC Mack. How many more indie darlings does he need to beat before he gets his shot at the IWTV belt? He respects Alex Shelley…but it’s Mack’s time.
Main Event: “ACEGAWD” Arik Royal(c) vs Orion Bishop (for the ACTION Championship)
The Acegawd has to take to the bleachers to avoid the pack of stinking rabid shirtless children celebrating the champion. Orion uses his power early but the champ can match that. They trade full Nelsons, Royal rolls and flips out of a wrist lock but eats a huge German. Orion with some clubbing forearms and a deadlift German! Royal dodges a charge and send sBishop to the floor. Big seated senton off the apron from the acegawd! Bishop back to his feet and back in the ring but walks right into a wheel kick. Acegawd with an exploder! Kick out! Double leg spine buster for another two. Royal coming in for the kill with body attacks, knee drops and chin locks. Bishop’s getting worked over here but he fires up and backpacks Arik into the corner. Gutwrench suplex from Bishop! Bridging choke wears the champ down more. Royal tries some corner punches, he gets bombed off the corner. Bishop comes in and meets the Acegawd’s curse (pounce to the knee). Royal calls for Kobe but turns into a spear! Is it over? Royal gets the rope! Royal fight out of a driver, Bishop dodges another Acegawd’s Curse but rebounds into the Kobe which puts him down for the count. Acegawd retains!
Winner: Arik Royal
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