TV Taping: Reno, NV
Jan 19, 2023 4:30:34 GMT -5
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Post by Jonnie Valentine on Jan 19, 2023 4:30:34 GMT -5
Reno, Nevada
Lawlor Events Center
Attendance: 6,506
Flashback to backstage in Las Vegas
Dirk "Glorious Wolf" van Thijmen is walking to catering to get some coffee when he bangs into Moondog Dook. Dook, who was angry about losing his match to Gavin Drake, was walking with his chain. Dirk confronted Dook and they got in a verbal battle, although Dook's responses were mostly barks. Dirk then had to duck the chain, as Dook swung it at his head. Van Thijmen hit Dook with a european uppercut. Their confrontation alarmed security who escorted Dook away.
Dirk "Glorious Wolf" van Thijmen: (screams) See you in San Francisco to face each other in the ring!
The Infamous Onyx Brekkar vs. Biker Daddy
The Infamous Onyx Brekkar came down to the ring in his fedora and Biker Daddy in black leather duster. When the match began, Biker Daddy grabbed Brekkar's hair and took him over into a snapmare, then grab a reverse chinlock. After he was on the mat for a while, Brekkar worked his way to his feet with Biker Daddy hanging on to the reverse chinlock. Onyx elbows his way out of it, and shot Biker Daddy into the ropes, catching him with a lo-down spinebuster he calls the KayFaBBeR! After Biker Daddy kicked out, he walked right into the Scene Stealer pele kick! Onyx Brekkar jumped off the top turnbuckle but Biker Daddy caught him with a bicycle kick! Biker Daddy came off the ropes, but Brekkar ducked the flying forearm and caught him from behind with a backstabber known as Lesson #1. Onyx Brekkar then applied his Dear Agony full nelson camel clutch to get the submission.
Dana "The Drone" Daniels vs. Dirk "Glorious Wolf" van Thijmen
The brother of Hardkore World legend Greg "The Great" Daniels made his debut to a big ovation from the Reno crowd that remembered his older brother's exploits in that town 20 years ago. Dan took van Thijmen over with a big hiptoss and then irish whipped him into the ropes and knocked him to the mat with a shoulderblock. The Drone irish whipped van Thijmen into the turnbuckles and then ran backwards into a corner hip attack. He tried to smash van Thijmen's face into the corner, but Glorious Wolf blocked it with his boot. Dirk van Thijmen then smashed Daniels' face into the turnbuckle. He punched Dana in the stomach and then gave him a swinging neckbreaker. Dirk van Thijmen irish whipped him but Daniels reversed it and shot Glorious Wolf into the corner, following him in with a stinger splash known as Jodie Give Dana A Second Chance. The former bee keeper went to grab his thermos of bees, but referee Kelly O'Connell cut him off, threatening to disqualify him. Discouraged, he turned around into Dirk van Thijmen's bearhug suplex for Thijmen to get his first Hardkore World win in an upset! The fans erupted and Dirk van Thijman went out to the crowd to celebrate with the fans that have been rooting him on for years while Dana Daniels complained to Kelly O'Connell about a fast count. Suddenly Moondog Dook came out of the crowd and starting bashing van Thijmen with his chain. Dook tossed van Thijmen back into the ring and he and Dana Daniels began stomping and kicking him until a woman ran down to the ring, she punched Daniels in the stomach, and then hit Dook in the face with a forearm. She grabbed Dook and tossed him over the top rope, and then took out Dana Daniels with a roundhouse kick that sent him to the floor. Dirk van Thijmen took the mic and introduced her as Mickie Fury to a cheering crowd
Kilroy Evans vs. Irish Red
Kilroy Evans came down to the ring with Dina, his mule and then gave her rope to Hardkore Ring Crew Donnie Valentine Jr. to hold. Kilroy Evans walked into the ring and Irish Red immediately slapped him. Kilroy smiled and then bit Irish Red on the forehead. Kilroy dropped down into a jawbreaker, and caught Red's legs, turning him over into a Jawsome texas cloverleaf. Evans pulled Irish Red up for a belly to belly, but Red got him with the double ear clap he calls an Earswipe. Irish Red grabbed Kilroy in his gut wrench suplex. After Kilroy kicked out, Red irish whipped him but Kilroy hung on for a Shake Hands With Danger headbutt, then bulldogged him. Fans began feeding Dina nachos and soft pretzels at ringside. Kilroy lifted Red up into a pulling piledriver. Irish Red staggered up and walked right into The Bad Touch diamond cutter for the win for Kilroy
"El Exotico" Joey Little Horse vs. Kalmin Watts
Kalmin Watts did his Sooner Squeeze Challenge with the proceeds going to the Reno Sheriff's Department but it appeared that Cross Recoba and his lawyers were watching at ringside. Watts grew tired of Recoba's presence and challenged him to get into the ring. "El Exotico" Joey Little Little Horse used the distraction to sneak up on Watts and club him in the back of the head with some forearms before the bell. He slugged Watts a few times and then grabbed him in a full nelson. Kalmin Watts used his awesome power to break out of it. Watts and Little Horse traded some headlocks, front facelocks and armbars to start the match off. Wisely, Joey Little Horse abandoned the mat wrestling and started hitting Watts with tomahawk chops to the chest. Little Horse turned Watts' chest red with more tomahawks until Watts got angry and pressed Little Horse over his head. He tossed Little Horse over the ropes onto the lawyers at ringside, popping the crowd. Watts vertically suplexed Little Horse back in the ring, leaving him up there for a while to show off his power. Kalmin irish whipped him into the ropes and hit him with The Oklahoma Hammer and then applied The Sooner Squeeze bodyscissors to get the submission win
The Italian Bombshell vs. Ruben Bowman
Bowman read a poem that likened The Italian Bombshell to a pizza delivery driver, which enraged the Italian so much that he dropkicked Bowman before he could get his head dress off. Italian Bombshell came off the top rope with a double ax handle, then tried to take the big man up into a piledriver but Ruben backdropped his way out of it. Bowman irish whipped Bombshell into the ropes and caught him with a powerslam. Ruben Bowman applied a dragon sleeper for a few minutes, and then lifted him up and over into a reverse suplex. Marty Donovan came down to ringside and began observing as Bowman irish whipped Italian Bombshell into the ropes and caught him with the Poetry in Motion blackhole slam.
Little Dragon vs. James Hard
Hard and Little Dragon tussled in a lock up, and then Little Dragon took him over with a deep Mexican armdrag into an armbar. James Hard got back to his feet and reversed it into an arm twist. Little Dragon reversed it into an arm twist of his own and then took him down into a fujiwara armbar. Hard almost tapped out but was able to get to the ropes and Richie Richardson forced Little Dragon to release the fujiawara. Little Dragon irish whipped him into the corner but James Hard ran up the turnbuckles and took Dragon over into a flying headscissors takedown. Hard irish whipped Little Dragon into the ropes and tried to give him his tiltawhirl but Dragon spun out into a huracanrana. Little Dragon pulled him up by the arm and pulled him into a rainmaker, but held onto his arm and pulled him up into a second one. Little Dragon then hopped to the top turnbuckle in one move and jumped off with his DSD backstabber for the win.
Suikerbossie vs. The Great Syberus
Syberus tried to point to Suikerbossie's wife Mein where she had missed a spot mopping at ringside. Suikerbossie didn't think it was very funny and sucker punched. him, then monkey flipped him into an armbar. Syberus was able to turn the tables and get an armbar of his own, followed by the European Three Quarter Nelson. Syberus smashed Suikerbossie's face into the turnbuckle, but Suikerbossie blocked the second one with his boot and then backed him off with a uraken spinning backfist. Suikerbossie scooped him and tried to running powerslam but Syberus slipped off behind him into a diamond cutter. Syberus single underhooked Suikerbossie's arm and then drilled his head into the mat with a Pure Confidence DDT for the the victory.
"The Punisher" Dan Stein vs. Dennis Steel
Lee's teammate from Hard & Steel, James Hard tried to even the odds by double teaming Stein with a double dropkick, but Stein just looked at them. He grabbed James Hard and headbutted him three times before sitting out with a Detroit Hangover facebuster. Dennis Steel begged off but Dan Stein kicked him into the stomach and pumphandle sitout slammed him to beat Lee in less than a minute with The Reckoning.
Hardkore World Tag Team Title Match
The Anointed (Disney's Marty Donovan & "High Roller" Wesley Crane)
vs.
The Dutch Express (Harley van Houten & Leonard van Dam)
The Anointed (Disney's Marty Donovan & "High Roller" Wesley Crane)
vs.
The Dutch Express (Harley van Houten & Leonard van Dam)
The Dutch Express hit Wesley Crane with a double chop to the chest, and then turned around and gave one to Marty Donovan it sent him out of the ring into the arms of "The Punisher" Dan Stein. While Dan examined the supposed welt on Marty's chest, Wesley Crane had to take on both members of the Dutch Express. Crane flipped Harvey van Houten with an exploder suplex, but then turned around into boxing jabs by Leonard van Dam. van Dam irish whipped Crane into the ropes and went for a backdrop but Crane caught him with a tornado DDT. Harley van Houten came running over but Crane cut him off with a european uppercut. While Wesley Crane gave van Houten a trio of brainbusters, The Dutch Express' manager Klazina van Dam came over to have some words with Marty Donovan. "The Punisher" Dan Stein protected Marty from her as he hopped off the apron behind him, but that was right when Wesley went to tag Marty. As the commotion got worse at ringside with Marty trying to keep Dan in between he and Klazina, van Houten tagged in Leonard van Dam while a distracted Wesley Crane looked at the fracas. Leonard van Dam came off the top rope with a double ax handle to the back of Crane's head. Van Dam then took Crane over with a cartwheel headscissors. Harvey van Houten climbed to the top turnbuckle, and leapt off with a cross body, but Wesley Crane superkicked him out of the air! Leonard van Dam tried to help his partner, but Wesley Crane kneed him in the face his In The Face. Marty Donovan ran in to capitalize, but Wesley Crane accidentally hit him with In The Face as well. This time though, he looked less apologetic, looking down on Marty for a beat or two. When Wesley caught a distressed Dan Stein looking on, he changed his expression to utter shock. Then Wesley Crane backed up and made the pin attempt on Leonard van Dam for the three count. After the match, Crane helped Dan Stein wake Marty up, with light slaps trying to explain it as another accident, but Dan Stein seemed less than convinced as the show faded out.