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GCW “Joey Janela’s Spring Break 7”
3/31/23 - FITE+
Lights up on Spring Break and the Opening Scramble! Emil Jay is your announcer. This is getting right underway!
Match 1: Gringo Loco vs Tony Deppen vs Cole Radrick vs Komander vs Billie Stark vs Blake Christian vs Alec Price vs Jack Cartwheel vs Shane Mercer (Grab the Brass Ring DLC Scramble)
Tony Deppen just wants to jaw with everyone. This is such a large crew for a scramble. Blake Christian and Deppen gets taken for a ride by the Base God. Komander out moves Gringo Loco. Mercer is so damn strong as he catches and yeets Komander away. Jack Cartwheel with a rolling DVD and flipping dive to the floor. Price is serving up knees for everyone. Mercer military presses Price and launches him to the floor. Gringo brings the first chairs into the scramble. Deppen sentons a chair into Radrick. We got ladders! Christian rides the ladder and splash it down on Deppen! Gringo catches a flippy Blake into a stout tombstone! Billie tries a rollup but Gringo kicks out. We got a door propped on the bottom rope….BIllie knocked onto it……..Price double stomps and the door doesn’t break! He tries again and this time the wood splits! Price sets up a blockbustaaaaah but Gringo cutters him out of the air. Loco eats a chair via Radrick. Cartwheel trying to fire up but Deppen cuts that right off. We got a ladder structure….Cartwheel sends Radrick through a door at ringside! Mercer catches cartwheel….He goes up the ladder and hits Moonsault and Battery! Jesus! Gringo breaks it up and clubs him with a chair. Gringo tries to set up a door table but it just melts underneath Mercer’s body. Price with a dive off the ladder to Starkz on the floor! Komander runs the ropes to dive to everyone. Gringo with a Moonsault to put Mercer through the door the right way. Billie is sick of ladders and clears the ring. She wants a FIGHT and Raddy Daddy steps up. Billie hits a Sugoi Driver on Radrick but Blake runs in and stomps her face into the mat for the three! He gets the title shot of his choice down the line!
Winner: Blake Christian
Match 2: Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) vs The East West Express (Jordan Oliver & Nick Wayne) (GCW Tag Team Championships)
The champs take this right to the floor immediately. Wayne has a bandaged eye and Sabin goes right at it. Shelley with a cross face around the ring post. MCMG are too busy preening as EWE catches them with a stereo tope. Wayne is already leaking crimson but they are hitting a ton of tandem offense on Shelley and Sabin, giving them a taste of their own medicine. Shelley back in to blast EWE from behind and really get under the skin of this crowd. EWE hung up in the corner and MCMG start unloading basement dropkicks. EWE caught in a tandem crossface and ab stretch. These are some aggressive Machine Guns tonight. Nick Wayne trying to get it going but Shelley clotheslines his head off out o nowhere. Oliver dropped face first into the turnbuckle. Oliver gets bombed off the top….he flips to hit feet! Shelley fights for the Shell Shock. He gets it, border city stretch! Nick Wayne almost rolls up Shelley! MCMG unloading combos on Oliver but they miscommunicate…Oliver hits the clout cutter! Kick out! Double team clout cutter! Double kick out !hey try a double team clout cutter on Sabin. Wayne runs interference and Sabin stays down! The crowd goes wiiiiiiiiild for this title change!
Winners: The East West Express
Emil Jay welcomes out the multi multi multi multi multi time DDT Pro Ironman heavy metal Weight Champion, Yoshihiko. In case you don’t know, Yoshihiko is a blow up sex doll. Emil Jay gives a straight up interview to Yoshihiko. The crowd chanting for this debut at Spring Break. Emil says GCW wants to see more Yoshihiko…and they promise to return in the future with a nod of their plastic head. Music hits….who is here? Charles Mason is here with Parrow to confront the champ.The crowd does like where this is going. Mason with a boot to Yoshihiko and stomps their head. Mason throws the doll aside because it’s NOT REAL. Mason rips into the fans for eating this up. He’s tired of this. He promises to end it once and for all………..He goes to cut Yoshihiko’s throat. Yoshihiko’s puppet master tries to save her….And Parrow hits a Rikishi driver. It’s Jimmy Lloyd! Mason wants to make Jimmy watch the destruction….And Parrow gets German suplexed by Yoshihiko! Mason and Barrow run away in disbelief….it’s JUST A DOLL! Right?
Match 3: Speedball Mike Bailey vs El Hijo Del Vikingo
Billed as a Dream Match, this is certainly going to be one of the highest velocity contests of the weekend. A fast sequence to a stalemate as they both try to hit dropkicks. They slow it down briefly to feel this out a little but Vikingo explodes off the ropes…and runs right into a speedball kick. Speedball eats a spinning back kick as Vikingo transitions the ropes to a rana. Suicide dive to the floor is almost as advertised when Vikingo skids head first on the floor. Bailey stalking with hard kicks. A dragon screw might take the flight out of Vikingo. Another one off the ropes, Bailey has a strategy. Twisting into a reverse figure four….Bailey uses the ref’s count to get as much damage done as he can. He may not be able to fly right now but Vikingo throws a mean chop. They trade chops, Speedball kicks him in the spine with ZERO honor. Vikingo catches Bailey with a swinging orange and his a double knee through the ropes. Shooting star to the floor! Slingshot spinning splash for two! Bailey dodges a baseball slide, Moonsault to the floor! Speedball measure up..PK! Kneesault! Buzzsaw Kick! Kick out! Bailey is tired but feeling the moment as he super kicks Vikingo limp. Tornado Kick in to the corner! Ultima Weapon misses! Imploding dragon rana from Vikingo! German suplex with a bridge for two! Bailey invites kicks on the apron and they are trading these big shots. He tries a kneesault to the apron…..nobody home! Destroyer off the post to the apron! Jesus! He tries a shooting star but eats knees…..Mike brings him up top…Fisherman’s suplex off the top! Only a two! Vikingo fights off the flamingo driver….back to the top…Spinning side slam off the top! 630 senton for the win! Wild clash of high impact styles!
Winner: El Hijo Del Vikingo
Match 4: Bussy (Effy & Allie Katch) vs Maki Death Kill (Maki Itoh & Nick Gage)
Maki and Allie start us off and work the crowd in a pose off. Allie is sick of this foolishness and kicks Maki away. Maki takes her right down….Kokeshi! Effy and Gage in there, Iffy drops to his knees but the King just kicks his head off. Itoh really wants into this fight but Gage wants to stay in the fight. Double atomic drop, Allie hits a cross body, Effy with the earthquake splash. Maki looking crestfallen as Bussy works over Gage through a bunch of tags. Gage with a reversal to a neck breaker….suplex! Tag to Maki! Punches in the corner, tornado ddt! Effy kicks out! Gage has the pizza cutter! Allie pulls him off the apron….oh it’s f***ery time. She traps gage’s head in a chair and drives him into the post. Iffy has the pizza cutter and carves into Maki’s head! Allie takes a turn! Maki’s busted open! They keep the torture up as Gage gets back into it. DDT and a spine buster wipes out Bussy! Maki is stumbling but joins Gage in stereo boot washes. Gage has a social pizza cutter for Itoh! She’s getting some payback! Maki has murder in her eyes as she carves into Allie. Bussy are both wearing the crimson masks! Gage and Itoh wipe the blood of their enemies on each other. Bwaaaaaaaaa. Busy blocks the choke breakers….trading shuts back and forth….Maki and Effy both eat piledrivers. Gage and Katch slug it out…CHOKEBREAKER!!! Effy breaks it up! Maki has a chair and swings but Effy just no sells it and blasts Gage in the head. We have a back to back chairs….Maki hits a chokeslam into the chairs! Allie runs in to save the day but she makes Maki cry. Allie wants to smooch her better but Maki throws the bird. Katch falls over in tears and Effy rolls her up for two. Gage into the ring with a chair. Maki hits a high cross body and Gage hits a Michanoku driver for the double pin!
Winners: Maki Death Kill
Matt Cardona and Steph Delander hit the ring and wipe out MDK with chairs. Cardona is furious they don’t have a Spring Break Match….OR Wrestlemania. He predicts his best friend Cody Rhodes victory on Sunday. Steph runs GCW completely down as an embarrassment. Who is coming to make the save? It’s Masha Slamovich! Cardona pushes Steph into Masha’s path. Gage takes him out and fights to the back. Steph and Masha are squared off and Masha calls for a ref. This is a title match!
Match 5: Masha Slamovich(c) vs Steph Delander (for the GCW Championship)
Masha unloads the beating. She goes for a chair but Steph clotheslines her down. Steph is too busy raging on the crowd that she lets Masha get her breath back a bit. A series of snap duplexes and a kick out by the champ. Huge German for two. Masha escapes, kick to the back of the head! Masha needs a door. She sets it up but Delander kicks her face off. Steph sets up a pair of chairs and choke slams Masha through them. She wants a power bomb but Masha turns it to an air raid crash through the door! Masha is about to end this but Cardona hits the ring and pulls Masha to the mat. He grabs a chair but Gage and Maki Itoh run in to stop him. The battle, Steph tries to ambush Masha but the champ switches position and slaps on a sleeper and Steph Delander taps out in the chaos!
Winner: Masha Slamovich
Main Event: Kota Ibushi vs Joey Janela
This is Ibushi’s first weekend back into wrestling and we have a matchup that promises to annoy men who swing tennis rackets by its very presence. Leading up to this, Ibushi said he didn’t know who Janela was, which lit a fire under Joey for this main event clash. Brief feeling out, Ibushi throws a high kick and Janela drops out of the way. Hitting the ropes, a dropkick sends Janela to the floor….and Joey wants Kota to come out to HIS kingdom. It’s all mind games as Joey invites Kota in once he jumps out. It’s enough to get in Ibushi’s head as he starts landing kicks and hard chops….then Ibushi reverses the position and lands hard. Both guys start landing hard and they stagger quite a bit. Joey comes running right into a spike rana. Moonsault follows Joey out into the crowd! Joey gets out of there but also loses to a regal Plex. Kota is keeping this slow paced, working to wear Joey down. Joey follows him to the top….SUPERPLEXXXX! Kota sends Joey into the ring post and Janet is a bloody mess very quickly. Janela firing up with forearms and Ibushi sent to the apron….spike ddt on the edge of the ring! Janela setting up chairs and doors on the outside. Ibushi eats the post and gets laid out on the doors. He gets RIGHT OUT of there and germans Joey off the top through the doors. It’s a BAD LANDING. Ibushi takes most of that door with his neck. Jeeeeeeeeesus. They are both loopy. Ibushi rolls him in for the pin. Kick out! Janela hits a DVD! He hits another. Kota out at ONE! Joey is shocked! Ibushi up and throwing forearms back and forth. No quit in either of them. Janela hits a rolling elbow and brain buster…Kota hits one right back! Joey with a German folds ibushi in half! Ibushi returns the favor. Double clotheslines, the crowd applauding their efforts tonight. Trading slaps. Kota kicks him to the mat. Joey gets the knees up for the Moonsault. Lariat!!! Joey hits the package piledriver! That two count was very nearly a three. Kota standing up and swinging weakly at air. Joey hits a trio of super kicks…he won’t stay down! Joey comes running Ibushi boots him down. He grabs the arms….V TRIGGER! Joey goes limp and Kota Ibushi gets the three count!
Winner: Kota Ibushi
Good show. Not the outright FEVER DREAM that previous years have been but definitely some unique matchups and moments. Joey grabs the mic and talks about signing his first wrestling contract 4 years ago. He says it started great but he lost himself. He thanks AEW and Tony Khan for everything he did…but he got lost in there. He talks about Ibushi losing himself too for a while and coming back and choosing GCW for his return. It means the world to him and welcome back to the business, Kota Ibushi. He ovation from the audience for Ibushi. Meanwhile, Joey is still pouring blood and probably needs to roll around in a pile of stitches.
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