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5/28 GCW DOWNWARD SPIRAL IN LAS VEGAS ON FITE.TV REPORT

GCW “Downward Spiral”

5/28/22 - Las Vegas, NV

Streaming on Fite.tv

We open right into a Scramble already in the ring!

Match 1: Jimmy Lloyd vs The Rotation vs Marcus Mathers vs Matt Vandergriff vs Titis Alexander vs Early Morning Guy Steel 

Oh god it’s early morning guy steel! An internet legend after his appearance at Spring Break. He throws Rotation and Vandergriff right into chairs. Titus dropped to the apron. Mathers and Lloyd don’t know what to do! They work over Early Morning Guy Steel and tag up to drop him we get into proper scramble territory. Rotation rope walks and dodges! Mathers dropping Rotation, Lloyd in! Back elbow, superkick! EMGS is back! Rana off the top! He tries a springboard but crotches himself! Rotation springboards off EMGS to wipe out erryone! Mathers joins the dive party. The group battles to the back of the venue. Rotation comes off the top of the wall with a moonsault! Flying kick to EMGS! Tornado ddt! EMGS kicks out! Seated senton drop out of the tree of woe! Vandergriff hits a suplex to Rotation! Phoenix splash! Titus with a Michanoku driver! Lloyd with a hangman driver. EMGS hits a destroyer!!!! Flip legdrop to Lloyd. Mathers hits a poisonrana to EMGS! Mathers can’t finish him! STO! Mathers kicks out! Twisting neckbreaker to Mathers and he’s down!

Winner: Early Morning Guy Steel

Match 2: Second Gear Crew (AJ Gray, Matthew Justice & Mance Warner) vs Allie Katch, Billie Starkz & Sandra Moone 

Moone kicks this off with Justice, who offers a fist bump of respect before he tosses her across the ring. She ducks a boot and hits a corner crossbody! Justice slams her out of the corner, boot connects! He tries a superplex…she reverses and sends him off the buckles! Gray is in and Starkz comes right at the the Truth. Cartwheels out of a rana but Starkz kicks him in the face. Mancer wants a piece….of Katch. He tries to light her up but Allie fires back. Headbutt sends him out to the floor. Gray and Justice catch a double dive and pokes the eyes of their opponents. Allie goes for the eyes but Justic blasts her with a chair. Big chair shots all around and SGC is owning this fight. They set up a door, Moone underneath. Second rope Powerbomb setup…Billie rana’s him through the door! Moone with a dropkick! Justic throwing chairs! Katch is back and SHE HAS A KNIFE! Justice holds her back and Mance accidentally blasts him with a chair! Katch cuts up Mancer with the knife! She cuts Justice. Gray blasts her with a lariat for two! Warner slams Moone, bouncing her off a door! Justice spears her Into the door! DVD finally breaks it! Mance out through a door too! Starkz hits a swanton! Katch throws a chair into Warners head..piledriver! Three count!

Winners: Katch, Starkz & Moone

Match 3: Speedball Mike Bailey vs Chris Bey

Has anyone been having a wilder year of bonkers good matches as Speedball in 2022? Every matchup looks amazing and this is no exception. The crowd certainly agrees and fire these two up before they get to combat. Bey with the early advantage, catches Speedball with kicks and rana’s, he’s ready with the reversals. Bailey finally lands a huge kick and wraps a half crab. We slow it down as Bailey stays Bey with hard kicks and slams. Frogsplash connects for two! Trading forearms in the pocket as they get back up, Speedball with the axe kick and corkscrew shooting star for two! Bey catches the buzzsaw! Diving forearm wipes out Bailey! Rolling code red for two! Crowd back and forth for these guys. Bailey avoids the springboard cutter! Triangle moonsault! Bey with a springboard dropkick and tope to the floor! They battle to the top rope, Speedball caught up in the top rope! Bey with a double stomp and a gonzo bomb?!? This was a sick spot. Bailey kicks him down! Kneesault! Buzzsaw Kick! Bey kicks out! Bey hits the cutter, kick out! Buzzsaw in return! Bailey dodges a double stomp, spin kick in the corner, Ultima Weapon connects! Speedball wins! This lived up to my expectations but these last few minutes were frantically wonderful.

Winner: Speedball Mike Bailey

Blake Christian is out here. He plans to take out Mid-Cardona. He plans to DM his wife, Chelsea Greene. He has call outs first though: He wants Alex Shelley. He wants Johnny Gargano. He wants the GCW title…so he also want Jon Moxley. 

Match 4: Blake Christian vs Matt Cardona 

Cardona walks around the arena and personally flips out every fan that is giving him the bird. This is great and I love how everyone, Kevin Gil included, hate him so much. Christian is motivated to prove himself again though and comes right at the Deathmatch King. Cardona is NOT ready for this onslaught and cowers at the ropes. Blake sends him to the floor, he tries to run but Blake dives over the post at him. Blake mocks Cardona with that woo woo woo! Cannonball into the chairs! They break some venue chairs…oops! Fighting into the bar area, Cardona upends the trash into Blake. Christian climbs a ladder and dives off the entryway onto Cardona and the ref. Cardona wants a pedigree on the ramp, back drop to the floor! 450 misses, Cardona tries a rough Ryder, Christian dodges it, tries a shining wizard lands right into an uppercut to the groin. Cardona gets the three and everyone hates him more! 

Winner: Matt Cardona 

Match 5: Gringo Loco & ASF vs Nick Wayne & Jordan Oliver

Well, THIS should be nuts. Oliver tries to grapple but Gringo is all about those lucha moves. Oliver switches it up and plays by those rules and they counter to a stalemate. ASF & Wayne lock it up, THIS is the power struggle?!? ASF tries to crawl all over Wayne but he’s flipping free. He finally drops Wayne and gives the bird to Oliver. Wayne getting double teamed and he gets right out of there. Oliver eats a step up senton, really cool tandem move. Gringo slapping the life out of Big Breakfast. Nick Wayne in, big suplex! They flurry on ASF but can’t finish the job. Flying European uppercut almost ends it. Oliver with a side ways bow and arrow, falls back OWWWWW. ASF escapes a double suplex, Gringo’s in! Handspring rana! Double springboard arm drag! Inverted brain buster! Nick Wayne kicks out! Superkick poisonrana combo! ASF climbs the top rope and Gringo to hit a splash. Gringo almost wipes out but still lands a splash. Oliver tags in and goes wild. Double knees! Clout cutter! ASF eats a dive! Oliver eats a powerbomb! Wayne sentons to break a pin. ASF moonsaults behind Wayne, big German! Shooting star connects and Wayne kicks out! Gringo and Oliver battle in, and both teams look exhausted. Gringo hit with a tiger driver! Clout cutter to ASF and Wayne picks up the pin for the team!

Winner: Jordan Oliver & Nick Wayne

Match 6: Effy vs Kevin Blackwood

Effy does what Effy does to keep Blackwood flustered and off his game. Effy just wants a smooch. Blackwood’s not having it. Effy with a headbutt that is pretty low. Hanging Leg choke in the corner, Blackwood torques the ankle And drops him to the floor. Effy tries a sunset flip but Blackwood hits a double stomp. Huge big boot sends Effy over the top! Effy grabs a double nipple twist….he bites them! Northern lights for two! Seated senton! Cloverleaf curbstomp! Cattle mutilation! Blackwood frees himself, gets Effy hung in the tree of woe. Big kicks! Double stomp! Trading forearms! Blackwood absorbing clotheslines….he turns the tide and gives Effy a taste of his own mind games! Effy baited in but falls into a cloverleaf. Blackwood stomping him, Effy with the small package. Sack Ryder! Kick out! Blackwood with a slap but Effy likes it. Blackwood stuns Effy with a big kiss…he puts him up for the finish but Effy slips out, roll up, three count!

Winner: Effy

Match 7: Dark Sheik vs  Jai Vidal

They seem to enjoy this for about a minute but Vidal with a corner break and a smile seems to piss Sheik off. Jai lands some big chops but Sheik kicks his head off. Big chops, Jai sent out, crossbody to the floor! Sheik goes right for the plunder but Vidal sabu’s her. Throat driven into the chair top. Vidal gives a little lap dance before hitting a suicide dive to Sheik in a chair. Vidal humps Sheik’s face into a chair repeatedly but can’t get the pin. Sheik switches it up, spinning back kick, slingshot leg drop! She tries the slingshot again but eats boots. Jai with a heat seeker piledriver! Fisherman’s driver! Kick out! Styles clash powerbomb variant! Kick out! That was a cool move. Jai sets the chairs up but Sheik bites his face and hits a driver through the chairs off the second! One chair still loves and Sheik puts him through it with a pumphandle driver for the win!

Winner: Dark Sheik

Match 8: Johnny Game Changer (w/ Dad) vs Joey Janela

Johnny is all sorts of clowning and Janela is no fun. Dad pulls off his belt and wants to discipline Janela but the ref tells him to get off the apron. Janela walking Johnny down early but a quick reversal and a moonsault turns the tide. Janela beaten to the ropes and begs off. Janela to the floor, Dad dances at him but eats a forearm. This lets Johnny dive out to a completed distracted Janela. Medics are carrying Dad to the back. Janela catches Johnny worrying about his cornerman, piledriver to the apron! He tries to wrench the limbs, neck, digits of Johnny. Huge slap wakes up JGC and they get to trading. Janela with a STF but Johnny to the ropes. The crowd is all over Janela so he moons them. JGC trading shots again, Janela hits a brain buster! He spikes a DVD! Janela needs a chair…and another chair…and a door. Here we go. Double stomp onto the chair! Dad is back and he has boxing gloves. He beats up the ref and Janela clubs him. DVD to dad through the door! JGC with a chair to the gut. Knee to the face! Starship pain! Kick out! We need another door! He sets it up on the bottom rope, Janela crotches him…he tries an electric chair but the door gives way under their combined weight! Big German! Janela grabs a chair, JGC blasts him with door parts! Door table assembled! Janela is bleeding and laid on the door! Flipping elbow drop through the door! That was super cool! Janela is done!

Winner: Johnny Game Changer

Main Event: John Wayne Murdoch & Alex Colon vs Cole Radrick & Rina Yamashita

Based on the ring and the participants, This is gonna be a lighttube fest. Will Colon & Murdoch be able to coexist in this world? Cole and Murdoch start…and we are doing tags?!? Cole wants to put him in the tubes early but the Ultraviolent champ has a bird for him. Too many close calls, Murdoch tags out and forces Colon into the fight. Rina and Colon aren’t f***ing around and square off with tubes and glass goes flying. Baseball swing to Rina’s face! Murdoch is more than happy to let Colon take this punishment but Cole blasts him over the head and brings him into the fray. Rina Germans her opponents back into a tube pile! Swanton by Cole! Rina carves up Colon while Cole headbutts a tube into the forehead. Everyone getting carved up and the crimson is flowing. JWM blasts a pile over Cole’s head and cuts him up on the ropes. Colon in, tube kicks to the spine. Cole enduring a ton of pain and glass and continues to kick out over and over. Colon and Murdoch starting to squabble over who is going to beat up Cole. Accidental tube collision between them! Tag to Rina! Tube over the head! She matrixes up from it and bites through a tube! She puts herself through some tubes and dares the champ to do the same…he does and she tries to steal the pin! Colon saves but Rina grabs them by the nuts! Double clothesline! Double team on JWM! Brain buster for two! Cole Lionsault through tubes to Colon! JWM defiant as he takes more tubes. Brain buster to Cole but he kicks out! Both teams fighting it out in the center! Murdoch thrown through a door! Colon and Cole trading shots from wood shards! Destroyer from Murdoch…Colon pulls Murdoch off, he wants the pin. Rina gets in the middle, they work together again with a baseball slide through tubes to her. Colon and Murdoch barely cohesive here but beating on Cole…reverse to a double stunner! Murdoch with a brain buster! Colon to the top, double stomp through the tubes…JWM quickly hits Colon with a brain buster and throws Cole on top for the three! What?!? Wins and Losses don’t matter, Murdoch only cares about making Colon look like a fool ahead of their title rematch at Tournament of Survival.

Winners: Cole Radrick and Rina Yamashita

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