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It’s the AEW Full Gear Kickoff show at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
The hype team is Renee Paquette, Jeff Jarrett, RJ City, and Lexi Nair. They explain how to see the PPV and then show a hype video for Hangman Adam Page and Samoa Joe’s title match. They are joined by Justin Wang from “Tales from the Internet” and they discuss Page and Joe’s match. This is what is going on over on YouTube to hype the show. I did not realize that Collision was going on as they talked up the PPV.
On TNT for Collisions, our commentary team is Tony Schiavone and Nigel McGuinness.
Max Caster and Anthony Bowens vs. Bang Bang Gang (Austin Gunn and Juice Robinson) vs. Big Bill and Bryan Keith vs. The Outrunners (Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd)
Dalton Castle joins commentary.
Austin and Bowens start with hip drags and covers back and forth. They run the ropes and Austin trips Bowens and then nails him with jabs. They run the ropes again and Bowens face-plants Austin. Caster tags in, as does Juice, and he gets a Russian leg sweep and a senton on Caster. He covers Caster for two. Truth tags in as Juice hits the ropes and then drop-kicks Caster. Bill tags in and he fights with Truth in the corner. Truth knocks Bryan to the floor before Bill knocks him to the floor and we go to picture in picture.
When we return to full screen, Truth escapes a splash from Bill and crawls to his corner. Turbo tags in and he runs wild with body slams. Juice tags himself in and the Outrunners toss him from the ring. They then get the double biceps drop on Bryan. Caster and Bowens get into the ring and set up for the Scissor Me Timbers and Bryan breaks it up. Bowens gets back in the ring and they start to work together. Caster calls for scissoring, but Bill breaks it up.
Bill is knocked out of the ring and Juice sneaks in for the surprise rollup for the pin and the win.
Winners of the $200,000: The Bang Bang Gang
Next is the trailer for Full Gear.
Paul Wight joins commentary.
We get a promo in the back from Samoa Joe with a bunch of men in Opps Dojo Shirts, and he says he represents men who have been pushed aside and are now a movement behind him.
Boom & Doom ("Big Boom!" A.J. and Q. T. Marshall) (with Big Justice) vs. RPG Vice (Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta)
Don Callis also joins commentary. Also, they have been showing up on AEW shows for over a year and I still don’t get Big Justice and the Rizzler.
RPG Vice starts by throwing hands until QT and AJ whip RPG Vice into each other. Rock and Trent throw themselves around the ring to make AJ and QT look good. As they st6art to brawl around the ring we go to picture in picture.
When we return to full screen, QT has been the babyface in peril. When QT is knocked to the floor, Rizzler goes to help him. Rocky gets in his face, and Big Justice gets in his face, but Trent knocks Big Justice down. Paul Wight helps him up and in the ring, QT gets an enzuigiri and finally gets the tag to AJ, who cleans house. His run ends when he gets a full nelson slam on Trent for two, broken up by Rocky.
Trent gets a big boot, but AJ hits him with a spine buster and looks gassed. Don Callis gets on the apron and the ref makes him leave as Trent attacks AJ from behind. Trent gets a shotgun dropkick for two. Rocky and Trent get a strong zero for two, broken up by QT. Rocky gets sliced bread on QT and then forever clotheslines on AJ.
Big Justice gets to the ring and hits a Diamond Cutter on Rocky who was using part of Trent's cast. Trent grabs Rizzler on the floor, so Wight punches him. AJ and QT get an electric chair cutter for the pin and the win.
Winners: AJ and QT Marshall
In the back, Don Callis is OK with his team losing since they will be successful for the night. AND He will have three new members, Mark Briscoe and the Young Bucks. The Bucks are ambivalent, and Josh Alexander talks about getting rid of Kenny Omega. Don is told Kazuchika Okada is not there tonight, and he isn’t worried, but feels the Bucks haven’t been responsive enough to Okada. Don then gives the Bucks a gift as they go to get ready for the show.
Hook and Eddie Kingston vs. The Already In The Ring WorkHorsemen (Anthony Henry and JD Drake)
Hook’s music is still terrible, the Workhorsemen get beat in less than two minutes and Hook gets to put on a Redrum.
Winners: Hook and Eddie Kingston
We then get a hype video for Kris Statlander and Mercedes Mone’s title match.
El Sky Team (Místico, Máscara Dorada, and Neón) (CMLL Trios Champions) vs. The Don Callis Family (Kazuchika Okada, Konosuke Takeshita, and Hechicero)
Okada does not come to the ring with his team as Don Callis joins commentary.
Hechicero and Takeshita attack at the bell and they all brawl in and around the ring. Hechicero uses a chair wrapped around Mistico to snap his arm. In the ring, Takeshita has a rear chin lock on Dorado.
The bell finally rings as Mistico is taken backstage. In the ring, Neon and Dorado toss Takeshita and Hechicero to the floor for a dive. Okada’s car pulls up in the back in his gear and slowly heads to the ring. In the ring, everyone is brawling as we go to the PPV.
Full Gear Begins!
The commentary team is Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and Nigel McGuinness. Don Callis is with them.
Pyro goes off as the fight in the ring continues. Okada comes to the ring with his entrance and the fight in the ring has stopped. As Okada heads to the ring, Dorado gets a quick rollup on Takeshita for two. As Okada gets in the ring, Hechicero tries to play peacemaker, but Okada flips on Takeshita. Neon and Dorado attack as this goes on and they knock everyone down.
Neon and Dorado go to the top for dives, but Okada and Takeshita join them on top. Mistico is all taped up and comes back and tags in to get a double back elbow on Okada and Takeshita. He runs wild on the two of them, and they are knocked to the floor. Hechicero gets into the ring and Mistico gets a tejaris to force Hechicero to the ring and then dive onto Hechicero. He returns to the ring and starts to work on Takeshita, but Okada breaks it up and Okada lays in blows on Takeshita.
Neon and Okadatrade quick attacks until Okada is rolled from the ring and then Takeshita comes in and gets a slam on Neon. Okada and Takeshita keep interfering in each other’s moves on Neon. Dorado gets into the ring and dodges a Rainmaker from Okada which hits Takeshita instead.
Time for lots of dives from Sky Team. Hechicero is left in the ring and Mistico takes him down for two. Mistico gets a rollup crucifix pin for two. Hechicero gets a big knee strike and then picks up Mistico who turns it into a poisonrana into an arm bar and Hechicero has to tap out.
Winners and still CMLL Trios Champions: El Sky Team (Místico, Máscara Dorada, and Neón)
Darby Allin vs. Pac
Darby is all bandaged up from burns from the Blood and Guts match.
They lock up and Pac forces them to the corner, but Darby reverses it and gets an arm drag and holds Pac down. They trade arm bars, Darby gets a rollup for two and grabs another arm bar take down. Pac forces them to the corner and Pac grabs an arm bar out of the corner. Darby escapes and gets a shotgun drop-kick. Pac goes to the floor to regroup. Pac slowly gets into the ring.
They go to headlock and Darby gets an arm drag from the ropes. He hits a springboard off the ropes for another two count. Darby gets a side headlock take down. Pac gets head scissors and Darby works out of it with a scorpion death lock and Pac gets to the ropes quickly. They fight on the apron and Pac gorilla presses Darby to the floor.
Darby gets back in the ring at 8 and Pac stomps him down when he does. Pac rips off the bandages and starts attacking the burned areas. Pac then whiplashes Darby’s head into the second rope and covers for two. Pac works over Darby in the corner and then whips him into the far corner and Darby misses the corner and hits the floor. Pac rolls Darby into the ring and then comes off the top with a shotgun drop-kick for two.
Darby gets to his feet and starts striking Pac and Pac whips him to the floor. When Pac goes to join him, Darby catches him in the ring apron and nails him with punches. Darby then dives onto him from the ring. Darby sets Pac in a chair and comes off the top with a missile dropkick into Pac.
Darby rolls Pac into the ring and tries for a sunset flip, which Pac avoids. Darby gets a front guillotine choke on Pac, but Pac picks him up and tries a suplex. Pac escapes out the back, but Pac gets a pair of suplexes on Darby. Darby pops out of the corner with a lariat and both men are down.
Darby is up first and waits for Pac, nailing him with blows. Darby goes for a coffin drop off the second rope but Pac makes it a suplex. Pac nails Darby with a lariat for two. Pac grabs the brutalizer. Darby makes the long crawl to the ropes for the break. Pax then mounts Darby in the corner and takes off the turnbuckle pad. He stops and throws blows at Darby and then hits a pump kick. Pac gets another pump kick and keeps working Darby over in the corner.
Pac goes to the top and tries for the Black Arrow, but Darby gets out of the way and picks the ankle for a Scorpion Death Lock. Wheeler Yuta runs to the ring and slides a bat to Pac. And the ref gets rid of Yuta, Pac nails Darby with the bat for the pin and the win.
Winner: Pac
Babes of Wrath (Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron) vs. Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye Blue) vs. Timeless Love Bombs ("Timeless" Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa) vs. Megan Bayne and Marina Shafir
Shafir starts with Toni in the ring and everyone else is fighting on the floor
Shafir works over Toni in the corner and Bayne tags in
They double-team Toni in the ropes. Toni fires back a few shots but Bayne catches her from a Thesz press and suplexes her.
Toni gets a swinging DDT to Mina and then slams Mina onto Bayne for one only.
Mina gets a series of blows and then avoids a charge from Bayne.
Mina tries a cross body and Bayne catches and slams her for one only,
Bayne drags Mina to her corner and tags in Shafir
Skye gets a blind tag on Shafir. Skye slams Mina for two.
Mina lays in blows and then gets a sling blade off the tops and tries to tag out, but Hart pulls Toni off the apron.
Mina tags in Willow who gets ten lariats in the corner.
Harley tags in and they double-team Skye with Willow dropping Harley onto Skye for two.
Harley and Skye throw hands. Harley hits sole food and a backstabber and Skye.
Skye pulls Harley down by her hair and tags in Hart
Hart knocks Shafir off the apron and uses that corner for an old school walking the ropes.
Bayne tags in and Bayne knocks Skye out of the ring and suplexes Harley.
Shafir and Bayne double team Harley in the corner and tag back and forth.
Harley is able to get a spinning DDT on Bayne and crawls to her corner.
Harley fights off Shafir and tags in Willow, who cleans house.
Willow hoists Shafir, who gets a rear naked choke and then back into the corner where Hart tags in.
Hart covers Willow and Bayne breaks it up.
This sets off the tag team alarm and everyone is fighting in the ring.
Bayne works over Mina and Hart until Shafir locks on Mother’s Milk on Mina
Toni gets a jawbreaker on Bayne and breaks up the pin before tagging in and running wild
Harley dives onto Toni from the top for two.
Toni gets a power bomb on Harley for two, and then the Sisters of Sin attack Toni.
Bayne then suplexes the Sisters of Sin.
Willow pounces Bayne and then dives onto Bayne and Shafir
More dives
Toni and Harley trade rollups back and forth and Harley gets a knee strike, but Toni gets a small package for the pin and the win.
Winners: Timeless Love Bombs
Brodido (Bandido and Brody King) (Tag Team Champions) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) w/Stokely
Bandido and Cash start the match. They lock and break quickly and lock up again. Cash slams Bandido and they trade waist locks and arm bards. Cash then puts his hands behind his back to give Bandido a clean shot. Cash grabs an arm bar and takes Bandido down. Bandido gets an arm drag and they run the ropes. Bandido gets a pair of quick hip tosses and then one on Dax who gets into the ring.
Brody tags in and Cash does as well. They jack jaws and then throw hands. Dax gets a boot up in the corner, but Brody knocks him to the floor and keeps throwing chops on both Dax and Cash. Brody rolls Dax into the ring and hits a senton and covers for two. Bandido is tagged in and gets slammed onto Dax. Then Bandido slams Brody on Dax.
It’s then Macarena time, but Brody says no. Stokley gets on the apron to stop a drive, but Bandido dives over him into FTR. FTR slams Bandido into the announce desk. Cash then works over Bandido in the ring getting a quick two count. FTR works over Bandido with quick tags.
Bandido is able to get a double slam on FTR. Cash tries to knock Cash off the apron, but Brody drops him. Bandido gets the tag, but the ref does not see it due to Cash’s shenanigans and Bandido has to stay in the ring. Bandido is then able to get away from FTR for a tag and Brody runs wild. He ends the sequence by hitting a driver with Cash on his shoulders into Dax in the corner. He then hits a cannonball in the corner for two on Cash.
FTR is able to get a low bridge on Bandido and double team Brody., They then hit the Power and Glory on Brody, but Brody catches Cash, Bandido gets a frog splash on Dax. Brody and Bandido double team Dax with Brody dropping Dax with a lariat. Bandido is tagged in and Brody goes to dive. Stokely shoves Dax out of the way of Brody’s dive. In the ring, Cash catches a dive from Bandido and gets a rebound slam on Bandido for two. Dax gets another rebound slam with Cash coming off the top onto Bandido for two.
Bandido throws Dax into the post and then one hand press slams Cash to the floor. Bandido comes off the top onto FTR on the floor. Bandido misses a moonsault, but FTR turns it into a shattered machine into a DDT on Cash. Bandido gets a 21 plex on the second time, but FTR is able to get a Shatter machine for two, broken up by Brody.
Brody and Cash fight on the floor. Cash grabs one of the belts and tosses it into the ring. Brody grabs it and they have a tug of war over it. Bandido gets a rollup for two. Cash wins the tug of war and nails Bandido with the belt for two. Brody and Cash fight on the floor and Brody beats him down. Bandido and Brody get a shatter machine on Dax for two, broken up by Cash. Cash trips Bandido and crotches him on the ringpost. Cash dives onto Brody on the floor and goes to the top for a doomsday machine on Bandido for two.
Brody grabs a choke on Dax, but Cash grabs one on Brody. They fight on the apron and FTR gets a spike pile driver on Brody on the apron. FTR catches Bandido in the air and slams him for two. They get a spike pile driver on Bandido for two. Bandido struggles to his feet and FTR hits him with the Shatter Machine for the pin and the win.
Winners and NEW Tag Team Champions: FTR
Brian Danielson joins commentary and Nigel leaves.
Casino Gauntlet match for the inaugural AEW National Championship
Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin start the match. They lock up and break in the ropes and both smile at each other. They fight into the corner.
Ricochet
Ricochet comes out with a mic complaining that Bobby and Shelton are wrestling as GOA attacks them. Ricochet then attacks MVP and the Hurt Syndicate is left laying. The referee corps run to the ring and tells GOA to leave as MVP is helped to the back. Ricochet break dances in the ring.
Claudio Castagnoli
Ricochet tries a dive and Claudio nails him with an uppercut as he goes over the top rope. Claudio rolls Ricochet into the ring for the big swing. He follows with an uppercut in the corner. Ricochet gets a tejaris and rests against the ropes.
Daniel Garcia
They fight in the ropes and Garcia seems to have nailed Ricochet with a foreign object. Garcia works over Ricochet as Claudio watches. Claudio then hits a running uppercut in the corner to Ricochet. They take turns working over Ricochet. Ricochet dodges a charge from Claudio and goes to the top, where Garcia crotches him.
Orange Cassidy
He sees that Ricochet is fighting off a suplex from the top by Garcia, and bits Ricochet, and Garcia can get the suplex. Cassidy and Claudio go back and forth and Cassidy gets a rollup for two. He tries a sunset flip on Claudio, who fights it off.
Wheeler Yuta
The Death Riders being front loaded is a fun idea. Claudio has been rolled out of the ring so it’s Cassidy and Yuta, the most hated man in wrestling. Garcia and Claudio get in the ring as Yuta does and they work over Cassidy. Ricochet gets into the ring to help the Death Riders and then decide to work him over instead,
Kevin Knight
He takes out Yuta on his way to the ring. He then takes out Garcia on the floor and goes to the top. He leaps onto Claudio who catches him and carries him to the ropes, when they both go over the top. Knight gets back in the ring and he and Ricochet go back and forth.
Roderick Strong
Strong takes out Garcia before getting into the ring and then attacks Claudio. Knight leaps into a back breaker and Claudio and Strong fight. He hits Ricochet with a sick kick for two.
Mark Davis
We get Strong and Davis in the ring until the Death Riders join. Davis takes out the Death Riders and then clotheslines Strong. Ricochet gets a pile driver. Davis avoids Cassidy’s PK and spikes Cassidy.
Speedball Mike Bailey
Speedball and Knight double team Davis and then both pin him for two. Then, they realize it’s every man for himself. Davis pops them both in the much and they start to double-team again. Knight takes down Davis and we get Speedball and Knight in the ring again. They trade roll-ups and they dodge each other’s moves. Garcia then attacks them both and puts Speedball in a Dragon Slayer.
Matt Menard
Matt and Garcia throw hands in the middle of the ring and Matt takes over. Garcia tries to escape through the crowd and Matt stops him and they brawl into the crowd. In the ring, we get Davis and Claudio. The Hurt Syndicate hits the ring before they start fighting. FOUR BIG MEN IN A HOSS FIGHT! The Hurt Syndicate takes over and tosses people around. We do get Hurt Syndicate tossing Ricochet all around the ring. After they are done, everyone is fighting as Cassidy clears the ring. Then it;’s time for everyone to get a big move on the last person in the ring and in the ring, Ricochet gets the Spirit Gun on Kevin Knight for the pin and the win.
Winner and NEW AEW National Champion: Ricochet
Jon Moxley vs. Kyle O'Reilly - No Holds Barred
Kyle and Mox start brawling as soon as the bell rings. They have a quick series of standing switches. Kyle kicks Mox into the corner and after they fight a bit, Mox gets a rear leg trip and moves to mat wrestling. Mox allows Kyle to get free strikes. Kyle gets a few strokes and then hits a headbutt. Mox gets an eye gouge and they fight in the corner.
They fishhook each other and then Kyle gets an octopus hold. The feed stutters a bit and Kyle gets an ankle lock, and Mox goes to the outside to escape. Shafir gives Mox a fork and he slowly gets back in the ring. Kyle grabs the hand and they fight over the fork. Mox trips Kyle and they keep fighting over the fork. Mox peels Kyle's hand away and jabs repeatedly at Kyle's forehead.
Kyle is busted open and Mox starts kicking Kyle around the ring. Mox then pulls at Kyle’s face and lays in knee strikes. Mox drops Kyle and gets a straight arm lock on Kyle with a knee on Kyle’s face. Mox then bites Kyle fingers and turns the hold into a full nelson. Mox kicks Kyle in the back. Kyle is able to pick the ankle of Mox and holds on with an ankle lock, and then changes to a side face lock. Mox gets a backdrop on Kyle to get free.
Mox picks up the fork again. He digs at Kyle's chest with it.
We don’t need that kind of crap.
Mox gets a rear headlock in the ropes. Kyle peels off Mox’s arm and gets a choke in the ropes and follows with a Dragon Screw in the ropes. Kyle locks on a Juji Gatame and Mox rolls to the floor to break the hold. They fight to the floor and then Kyle catapults Mox into the ring post. Kyle slams Mox’s head into the steel steps. Kyle then gets a running drop-kick from the apron into Mox on a chair on the floor.
Mox is now busted open as well.
They go to the ring and Kyle escapes a cutter and grabs an ankle lock. He then turns it into a straight ankle lock. Mox kicks his way free. Mox grabs a fork and Kyle grabs an arm bar and takes the fork away and jabs Mox with it. Kyle rolls to the floor and looks under the ring. He pulls out a chain and Mox grabs the fork again.
Mox grabs an arm bar and Kyle turns it into a headlock and wraps the chain around Mox’s neck. Mox does the same thing as Mox transitions into a guillotine choke. They both try to suplex the other and Kyle is able to win the struggle and suplex Mox. Both men are down and struggle to get up.
They each wrap the chain around their fists and throw hands. Kyle gets a series of kicks and Mox wraps the chair around Kyle’s throat and gets a bulldog choke. Kyle reveres it and rains down blows on Mox. Mox tries to fight back and they go back and forth with holds. When Mox gets the bulldog choke, Kyle jabs his hand with a fork. Mox then gets a curb stomp onto the chair.
Mox brings a chair into the ring and wraps it around Kyle’s arm. Mox stomps on the chair and then tosses the chair out of the ring. Mox tries for an arm bar on the injured arm, and Kyle tries to fight him off. Mox gets a Death Rider and Mox goes for another arm bar. Kyle fights it off for a bit and then gets an ankle lock as he reverses it. Kyle wraps the chain around Mox’s ankle and grabs the ankle lock again and Mox has to tap out.
Winner: Kyle O’Reilly
I know Mox will do these kinds of matches, but the blood and stuff with forks just is not something I like.
After giving Kyle a nod, Mox attacks Kyle and goes after Kyle’s injured arm as the crowd chants “You tapped out.” Members of both the Conglomeration and the Death Riders come out and they stay apart as Kyle is helped to the back.
Kyle Fletcher (TNT Champion) w/Don Callis) vs. Mark Briscoe - No DQ and if Briscoe loses, he must join the Don Callis Family
We get a promo video from Mark Briscoe about God and Family.
Don Callis joins commentary.
Kyle slaps Briscoe who slaps back. This turns into throwing hands and then running the ropes when Kyle gets a big boot. Kyle kicks Briscoe to the floor after each tries for a big hold. Briscoe pulse Kyle off the apron and they brawl around the ring. Briscoe sends Kyle shoulder first into the ring steps.
Briscoe pulls out a bunch of chairs and uses one on Kyle. Briscoe sets Kyle on a chair and bites him. Briscoe charges at Kyle, who catches him and hits a brain buster on the chair. Kyle’s arm was hurt in the move. Kyle runs Briscoe into the steel steps and then tries for a brain buster on the steps, but Briscoe fights back and sweeps the legs driving Kyle back into the steel.
Briscoe pulls a small ladder out from under the ring and sets it on a chair at ringside. Kyle is laid out on the ladder and Briscoe dives. Kyle moves and Briscoe lands on the ladder. Kyle throws the bent ladder at Briscoe like a dart. Kyle goes under the ring and looks for something until he finds another ladder, which he shoves into the ring. Briscoe is pulled into the ring and Briscoe is busted open.
Kyle slams Briscoe on the ladder and then slams the ladder on Briscoe’s back. Kyle sets the ladder up in the corner and whips Briscoe into it and covers for two. Kyle sets the mangled ladder up in the corner. Kyle then puts Briscoe on top and then goes for a brain buster form the top onto the ladder. Briscoe knocks Kyle down to the mat and Briscoe grabs it. He tosses the ladder to Kyle and drop-kicks it into Kyle’s face.
Briscoe drives the ladder into Kyle’s head. Briscoe goes to the floor and pulls out a table. He sets it up at ringside and Kyle looks busted open as well. Briscoe lays Kyle on the table and attacks him with a chair. Briscoe goes to the top, but Kyle rolls off the table. Briscoe follows Kyle and Kyle gets a half-and-half suplex on the floor into a chair.
Kyle sets up a group of chairs. Briscoe tosses a chair at Kyle’s head and then lays him out of the chairs. Briscoe goes to the top and Kyle shoves him off through the table at ringside. Kyle pulls out another table after Callis and Kyle have a quick hug. Kyle rolls Briscoe into the ring and sets up the table in the corner. Kyle gets a running kick on Briscoe in the corner and then hoists him up. Briscoe escapes out the back and they go back and forth around the table. Briscoe tries for a Jay Driller, but Kyle picks him up and drives him through the table twice for two.
Kyle pulls a bucket from under the ring and pours thumbtacks onto the mat. Kyle tires for a power bomb, but Briscoe fights it off. Kyle gets in a series of knees. Kyle puts thumbtacks into Briscoe’s mouth and gets a thrust kick. Kyle picks Briscoe up for a power bomb, but Briscoe escapes out the back and hits a Michinoku driver into the tacks for two. Briscoe pulls out a barbed wire table and a second table, rolling them into the ring. He then shoves a tall ladder into the ring.
Briscoe sets up the ladder and then the tables. Briscoe goes to grab him and Kyle gets a series of kicks on the apron. Briscoe gets a flipping neck breaker off the apron into the chairs Kyle set up earlier. Briscoe rolls Kyle into the ring, sets him on the table and climbs. Kyle recovers and climbs and they fight on the way up. Briscoe goes all the way to the top and gets a double stomp onto Kyle through the table for two. Briscoe tosses the ladder from the ring and then pulls in the barbed side table.
As Mark is setting up the table, Callis sneaks Kyle a screwdriver. When Kyle tries to attack, Briscoe stops the first, but not the second and Kyle digs it in and then licks it.
I hate that crap. It’s gross, it’s unnecessary and it adds nothing to the match other than grossness.
Kyle tries to stab Briscoe and misses. Briscoe suplexes Kyle into the tacks for two. Briscoe goes to the top and Kyle shoves the referee into Briscoe. He then jabs the screwdriver so it is sticking up through the turnbuckle so it would stab him during a brainbuster. Kyle grabs the screwdriver so that Briscoe has to let him go. Kyle runs through Briscoe and gets a brainbuster for two.
They fight on top and Briscoe gets a Razor’s Edge through the table and then follows with a Jay Driller for the pin and the win.
Winner and NEW TNT Champion: Mark Briscoe
Kenny Omega and Jurassic Express ("Jungle" Jack Perry and Luchasaurus) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) and Josh Alexander
Callis is on commentary and the Bucks gear looks as if it is made of money.
Perry and Nick start the match and go back and forth with a lot of high-flying moves. Luchasaurus tags in and as does Matt. Luchasaurus tosses Matt around the ring and tags in Perry. Perry gets a running drop-kick for two. Omega tags in and comes off the second rope with a drop on Matt’s arm. Josh gets a cheap shot on Josh and yells at the Bucks for them to tag him in. Josh and Omega fight in the corner.
Omega gets a leaping back elbow on Josh in the corner and then dives onto Josh when Josh goes to the floor. Omega rolls Josh into the ring and follows him, and Josh picks the leg. Josh goes to work on Omega’s leg as he said he will break Omega’s leg. Josh tags in Nick and the Bucks double team Omega. Omega gets a basement drop-kick on them both and then comes over the top for face-plants on them. Josh gets into the ring and shoulder tackles Omega.
When Josh comes off the ropes, Omega gets a hurricanrana and then dives onto the Bucks and Josh. She’s favoring his leg and then tags in Perry. Perry forces the Bucks out of the ring and when he dives, Josh grabs him and slams him into the apron. The Bucks try for a dive and miss Luchassaurus.
Perry is rolled into the ring and Matt leaps off the top onto Omega on the floor. The Bucks then hit Risky Business on Perry for two. Perry is then the babyface in peril as he is kept in the ring with quick tags. Perry is able to get a leaping DDT on Josh and crawls to his corner. Perry gets a diving tag to Luchasaurus and works over the Bucks until he gets a moonsault press on Matt for two.
The Bucks get a few double team movers on Luchasaurus until they all clothesline each other down. Luchasaurus crawls to the corner, and kicks off Josh. Omega is tagged in and when he goes to tag the Bucks, they drop off the apron. Omega works over Josh and still shows some leg issues. Now we get everyone getting big moves on the last person in the ring.
We go back to Josh and Omega face to face throwing hands. Omega gets a snap dragon suplex and Omega then gives snap dragons to the Bucks. Josh gets a chop block on Omega and then an ankle lock and we see Josh is busted open. The Bucks get a BTE trigger on Kenny in the ankle lock. The Bucks hold Perry from getting into the ring, but Omega gets to the ropes for the break.
Matt tags in and as Josh and Nick try to interfere, Luchasaurus chokes slams them out of the ring. Luchasaurus dives onto them as Omega covers Matt for two. Omega tags in Perry and Josh breaks up the Countdown to Extinction. Lots of big moves where the Bucks run into Josh, Perry and Luchasaurus hit countdown to extinction, but Josh breaks up the pin.
We then get a bunch of Young Buckery and the accidentally super kick Josh. Omega hits Josh with a One Winged Angel on the floor. The Bucks hit the BTE trigger on Perry for the pin and the win.
Winners of the one MILLION dollar prize: The Young Bucks and Josh Alexander.
The Don Callis Family join the Bucks in the ring and Don says they are rich again. Don says they are now part of the family and they need to go celebrate. The Family attack Omega’s leg as Callis leads the Bucks to the back. They argue with Callis about the attack, but they say they need the money. They stop on the stage as the fans chant “You sold out.”
The Bucks drop the money and run to the ring to save Omega. After the Family is driven off, Jurassic Express shake hands with the Bucks. Omega recovers and the crowd chants Hug It Out. The Bucks hold out hands for Omega, who slaps their hands away. They then hug.
On the stage, Don Callis yells that it is all his money.
Kris Statlander (Women’s Champion) vs. Mercedes Moné
Kris starts with a suplex immediately. Kris dominates Mone with a series of takedowns and two counts. Mone is able to shove Kris out of the ring and then hits a sliding drop-kick on her from the ring. Mone then dives, but Kris catches Mone and carries her up the steps into the ring. They fight on the apron and Kris pulls Mone to the top and suplexes her into the ring. Kris drags Mone to the middle and goes to the top and misses a 450 splash, and she is selling the arm.
Mone gets a meteora from the ring onto Kris on the floor. Mone then sends Kris into the steel steps. She leaps onto Kris and attacks her arm. Mone rolls Kris into the ring and grabs a two count. Mone gets a rope assisted DDT and locks on an arm bar. Mone drops knees on Kris’s arm and keeps manipulating it. Mone whips Kris to the corner and then slams her head into the bottom tubercle and covers for two.
Mone grabs another arm bar. Mone runs Kris into the turnbuckles repeatedly. Mone whips Kris into the corner again and Kris explodes out of the corner with lariats. Mone gets a cross arm breaker and keeps working the arm. Mone gets a spinning DDT for two. Mone mocks Kris and kicks her before hitting 14 suplexes, one for each title and one for the title she feels she is about to win.
Mone forces herself up and drags Kris to the corner. Mone goes to the top for a frog splash, but Kris gets the feet up and both women are down. They both slowly get to their feet and Kris fires chops with her good hand and then gets a back body drop. She charges into Mone in the corner and hits a blue thunder bomb for two because the blue thunder bomb never wins a match. Mone gets a kick and then snaps Kris' arm over the second rope. Mone leaps onto Kris, who catches her and bits a blue thunder bomb on the floor.
Both women take a long time to get up and return to the ring. Kris gets into the ring at 3 and Mone gets into the ring at 9. Mone gets a lung blower, then a backstabber and code red into the turnbuckles. As Mone charges, Kris gets a discus lariat and covers for two. Mone grabs an arm bar and starts kicking Kris’s arm. Kris gets a belly to belly suplex for two. Kris grabs a crossface and Mone pries her hands apart.
Mone turns it into a statement maker and Kris rolls through and picks up Mone and carries her to the top. They fight on top and Kris gets a rib breaker from the second turnbuckle and can’t follow up. Kris crawls over for the cover and a two count. Kris tries to pick Mone up, but can’t. Kris figures out a different way to pick Mone up, but Mone reverses and they move to mat wrestling and Mone covers for two.
They go back and forth until Kris gets a pile driver and Mone grabs the ropes at two. Kris puts Mone on top and Mone kicks her away. Mone leaps at Kris, who catches her. They jockey for position. Mone gets a poisonrana and follows up with a double knee strike in the ropes for two. Mone takes time to calm herself down and Kris slowly gets up. They reverse their finishers back and forth and Kris eventually backs Mone into the corner.
Kris hits Staturday Night Fever for the pin and the win.
Winner and still Women’s Champion: Kris Statlander
In the back, Lexi is with the Don Callis Family and Takeshita and Okada are still arguing. Callis says Okada will defend his title in the Continental Classic. Takeshita says he is in the tournament as well. Kyle shows up and he’s mad and says he is at the tournament as well.
"Hangman" Adam Page (World Champion) vs. Samoa Joe in a Steel Cage
Page’s ribs are taped up and he has tape on the back of his neck. Joe forces Page into the corner and hits a series of knee strikes. Page fights his way out of the corner. Joe tosses Page into the cage and Joe charges at Page, who gets out of his way and Joe goes into the cage. Joe gets knocked to the mat. Joe is busted open and Page gets ten in the corner.
Page gets a moonsault from the top into Joe for one. Joe pulls off one of Page’s boots and hits him with it. Joe gets a series of face washes with his foot in the corner. Page then grabs his boot and nails Joe with it over and over in the corner. Page covers for one only. Joe collapses against the ropes in the corner and Page attacks him from behind. Joe turns and starts throwing chop and tries to pick up Page, who escapes. Page gets a series of clotheslines, but Joe runs Page into the cage, head first.
Joe hammers Page’s head and Page starts to fire back. Page is also busted open and Joe gets a back elbow. Joe has Page between the ropes and cage and hammers at him before hitting an enzuigiri. Joe rakes Page’s face back and forth in the cage. Joe pulls Page out and lays in strikes and chops. Page fires back and charges at Joe, who gets a power slam for two.
Joe hits a series of strikes and Page gets to his feet and fires back. Joe tries a suplex, but Page lands on his feet and tosses Joe back and forth into the cage and hits a suplex. Joe grabs a rear choke, but Page drops down and rolls up for two. Page then gets a rear naked choke, but Joe backs into the corner. Joe then gets a side slam on Page.
Joe pulls off a turnbuckle pad and trees to run Page into it, but Page fights it off. Page goes to the top and Joe tries for a muscle buster, but Page bites Joe to fight him off. They fight to the top of the turnbuckles and Page gets an avalanche power bomb from the top. Joe is up first and then drops.
Shibata is on the outside of the cage and is going for the lock until Page kicks the door. Shibata climbs the cage and Eddie Kingston shows and pulls Shibata down they fight to the back. As that goes on Page and Joe run into the ref, and knock him out. Page hits a Deadeye and Page covers as the crowd counts to ten. Powerhouse Hobbs then shows up and pulls the lock and chain off the door. Page attacks him as he comes in, but Hobbs nails Page with the belt.
Page hits Hobbs with a low blow, but Joe grabs a coquina clutch. They fight to the corner where Joe goes head first into the exposed turnbuckle. Hook shows up to wake up the referee, and then grabs the belt Hobbs had…and nails Page with it. He takes off his overshirt and has an Opps shirt underneath. Joe is able to get a muscle buster on Page into the belt and covers him as the referee is up and counts three.
Winner and NEW World Champion: Samoa Joe
The Opps with Hook celebrate in the ring as we get Pyro. The men in Opps shirts from earlier in the show join Joe to celebrate.
The lights go out.
When they come back on, the cage is gone.
We see Swerve Strickland’s house on fire on the big screen. Prince Nana is on the stage and says “We are in the money, my friend.”
Whose house is it?
Nana dances as Swerve Strickland comes from the back. Swerve and Nana slowly come to the ring. Joe tells his men to make a path for Swerve, who gets into the ring, slowly takes off his leather jacket and slaps one of the members of the Opps dojo . They attack him and he fights them off. Joe, Shibata, Hook, and Hobbs leave as he takes out the dojo members. Page takes out the last man and he stands next to Swerve in the ring.
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