Post by Jonnie Valentine on Jan 11, 2024 18:14:19 GMT -5
Escondido, CA
Escondido Sports Center
Mary Yellowbird vs. Keiko Nakamura
Nakamura tried to tie up with Mary, but the 280 pound Yellowbird easily flipped her to the mat by her hair. She applied a nerve hold, wearing down Nakamura for a minute. She irish whipped Keiko into the corner, but she ran up the turnbuckles and caught an on coming Yellowbird with an enzuigiri to the face. She hit Mary with some muay thai kicks to her kidneys, but Yellowbird fires back with a knuckle punch. A headbutt from Mary Yellowbird stunned Keiko, and then she floored her with a roundhouse kick. Yellowbird came off the ropes with a big splash for a two count. Later, Keiko attempted a suplex but Mary was too big and gave her the Seeing It inside cradle to win and get the first big pop of the night.
“The Salford Squid” Callum Cornwall and Disney’s Marty Donovan
vs.
The Dutch Express (Leonard van Dam and Harvey van Houten)
Squid had Harvey van Houten on the mat with a single leg boston crab early on in the match. Later, he pulled down his knee pad and Muscle Killer knee dropped van Houten’s knee. Cornwall went for a double underhook, but Harvey van Houten slipped his arms out and inverted atomic dropped him. He tagged in Leonard van Dam, and twisted Cornwall’s arm. Leonard came off the top with a double ax handle to Callum’s twisted arm. Leonard van Dam applied a stepover armbar. Later, he irish whipped Cornwall into the ropes, but the Squid came back with a leg lariat. The audience was at a fever pitch as Cornwall crawled over to his corner. Leonard tagged in Harvey van Houten and Squid made the tag to Marty Donovan. Donovan took out The Dutch Express with a springboard front missile dropkick. Donovan then flipped Leo van Dam with a frankensteiner. The Squid irish whipped Harvey van Houten into the ropes and Marty took him out with a Dis Knee v-trigger for the win. After the match, Nowa Days ran into the ring and tossed Marty over the top rope to the floor below. Bobby Nowa gave Cornwall The Pure Confidence DDT known as The Nowa Days, Then Anthony Jordan hit his vertebreaker known as The Perfect Example on The Squid to lay him out. Marty Donovan chased Nowa Days out of the ring with a chair, but the damage was done to “The Salford Squid” Callum Cornwall.
Captain Righteous vs. Scorpion
Righteous stood posing after his introduction, and Scorpion tried to get the jump on him with a whisper in the wind, but Righteous just stood there. Scorpion punched and forearmed his back, but Captain Righteous didn’t budge. He finally turned around and knocked Scorpion out with a Captain Righteous Punch. He pulled Scorpion’s limp body up, and dropped him to the mat with a sleeper neckbreaker known as The Land of Milk and Honey. He tried to pull him up for another move, but Scorpion was out, so he put his foot on Scorpion’s chest for the 1-2-3.
Sweet Bone Daddy vs. Joe Nobody
Sweet Bone Daddy and Nobody traded arm drags, and then Sweet Bone Daddy hip tossed Nobody over. Daddy irish whipped Joe Nobody into the ropes and dipped down for a back drop, but Joe caught him and twisted him around for a hangman’s neckbreaker. He fisherman suplexed Daddy up into an orange bomb for the Awesome Driver and a two count. He caught him with the running STO known as the Denial of Perfection for the pin.
Nowa Out (Bobby Nowa and Anthony Jordan)
vs.
Storm and Thunder (Kenezu Fujiwara and Johnny B Obongo)
vs.
Storm and Thunder (Kenezu Fujiwara and Johnny B Obongo)
Anthony Jordan started off with some headlocks and reverse chinlocks on Kenezu Fujiwara, then hooked Fujiwara in a reverse suplex, dropped his body on the top rope and bounce up into a slingshot reverse brainbuster DDT called The Presumptuous Plex, He tagged in Bobby Nowa who came off the top rope with a moonsault for a two count. Nowa wore Fujiwara down with a camel clutch, and then sat him on the top turnbuckle. He climbed up there with him, but Kenezu went over the top with a sunset flip tiger bomb. He tagged in Johnny B Obongo, Obongo gave Nowa a nerve hold, but Nowa eventually countered with an inverted atomic drop. He then dropped Johnny with a Bobby to Belly Suplex, then tagged in Anthony Jordan. Jordan applied the indian deathlock he calls The Idolizer #2. Kenezu Fujiwara tried to interfere, but Bobby Nowa cut him off with The Pure Confidence DDT that he calls Nowa Daze. Johnny B Obongo tapped out, and Richie Richardson signaled for the bell. The jeers turned to cheers when Disney’s Marty Donovan springboarded into the ring with a missile dropkick that knocked both members of Nowa Out out of the ring. Hardkore Security escorted an angry Nowa Daze back to the locker room, while Marty Donovan offered them to get into the ring.
The Martian vs. Cross Recoba
Cross didn’t let Greg Jin finish his introduction, he took the house microphone and beat The Martian in the head with it until he stopped resisting. Cross stalked the ring, yelling at the camera and fans that he wanted his HKW Championship back, to deafening boos. When Martian got to his knees, Recoba viciously drilled his head into the mat with a short huracanrana, known as The Chicago Overcoat. He walked around the ring some more, to show how he could end this match whenever he wanted. He finally applied the standing styles clash known as Garibaldi’s Guillotine to The Martian, who tapped as soon as he could to end this match. However, Cross Recoba would not release Garibaldi’s Guillotine. Hardkore Timekeeper Carl Valentine Jr. rang the bell over and over and referees tried to break it up, but Recoba continued to bend The Martian in half with Garibaldi’s Guillotine. The audience booed loudly and chanted for various babyfaces. Finally, Simon Cruise ran down to the ring welding his surfboard like a baseball bat and Cross dipped out of the ring. He told Simon that would be him in LA, with Simon just beaming with a big smile as they went to break.
"The Punisher" Dan Stein vs. Reptile
Reptile no showed for unknown reasons and Moondog Dook took his place. Dook jumped Stein with the chain as he was giving Hardkore Ring Crew Donnie Valentine Jr. The Peacemaker. He choked Dan as referee Kelly O’Connell demanded Dook let go of him. Finally, Stein took the chain in his hand, and tossed Dook over his shoulder. Dook got up and ran right into a Stein Line blindside clothesline. He headbutted Dook a few times, and then sat out into a Detroit Hangover facebuster. He lifted the Moondog up in a hanging suplex and then planted his head into the mat with a tombstone for the Stein Screwdriver and a quick victory in a blink and you missed it match.
Virago vs. Black Tiger
Black Tiger started the match off with a side headlock takedown into a headlock on the mat. Eventually, Virago floated over into a side headlock of her own. She then converted it into a hangman’s neckbreaker. Virago flew off the second turnbuckle with a flying shoulderblock, but Black Tiger caught her and dropped her throat on the top rope. She pulled Virago’s head into her legs and lifted her up for a Black Tiger Bomb. Virago staggered up and Black Tiger cut her in half with a Black Tiger Strike for the victory. After the match, Ri Eun-Ae came out to a huge ovation and took the mic
Ri Eun-Ae: "I just thought I'd return the privilege that you offered me last time and say hello at the end of your powder puff match. I don't typically like to cheese it this way, but it seems like a good idea this time because I don't appreciate your sense of entitlement. No one gets to step into Hardkore and take a shot at the champ without paying some kind of consequence.
Eun-Ae stares directly at Black Tiger
Ri Eun-Ae: This place doesn't just earn respect, it demands respect, and that's a price you haven't paid. Unfortunately, it's going to come out of you in other ways when I get my hands on you, and by then you'll be lucky to have a shred of dignity left.
The Great Syberus vs. The Hurricane
Syberus came out through the crowd, and started off the match with a snug headlock, then eventually snapped him back into a russian leg sweep. He irish whipped Hurricane into the ropes, but the former WWF Cruiserweight Champion came back with a flying clothesline that took them both to the floor. Hurricane set up a table at ringside and rolled Syberus onto it, but Syberus caught him by the hair and cracked him with a few forearms. He got off the table and then suplexed Hurricane through it. He rolled Hurricane back in the ring and then drilled his head into the mat with the single underhook Pure Confidence DDT for the win. After Tommy Milligan raised his hand, Syberus went back out through the audience from where he came.
Ri Eun-Ae vs. Pink Queen
Pink Queen, who outweighs the Hardkore Women’s Champion by 100 pounds, twisted her arm, and then monkey flipped her to the mat. Ri Eun-Ae rolled out of the ring, Pink Queen came off the top with a cross body, but Ri Eun-Ae ducked and she hit the railing. Ri tried to superkick her but Pink Queen avoided it and a tall lanky redhead goth woman got accidentally kicked in the face. Pink Queen rolled Ri Eun-Ae back into the ring, and then climbed to the top turnbuckle for a moonsault, but Ri knocked Queen’s feet from underneath her to crotch her on the top. Ri Eun-Ae back superplexed Queen on the back of her head. She applied a stretch plum that turned into a manji gatame and Pink Queen tapped out.
Hardkore Tuvalu (Apisai Paisi and Sami Ielemia)
vs.
The Anointed (Steve Awesome and El Rey)
vs.
The Anointed (Steve Awesome and El Rey)
Apisai Paisi attempted to lock up with El Rey but got taken down with arm drags and lit up with knee strikes. El Rey got a two count from a straightjacket suplex called X’d Out. Paisi tagged out to big 6’8 Sami Ielemia and El Rey quickly tagged in Steve Awesome. Ielemia got Awesome in the corner with some elbows and a foot choke, and then tagged Apisai Paisi back in. Apisai picked Steve Awesome up with a samoan drop, but Awesome floated over with a floating reverse DDT. Awesome wrapped Paisi’s arm behind his back and dropped him with an Awesome Plex, and then tagged in El Rey who gave him a Society Killer styles clash for the 1-2-3. As they celebrated, suddenly The End’s music began playing. The spotlight hit the rafters of the Escondido Sports Center and The End was ominously staring at them from up there as the fans roared.
Simon Cruise vs. Suikerbossie
As Suikerbossie’s wife Mein mopped the ringside area in her housecoat, he took down Simon Cruise with a single leg and then hammered him with punches. Simon Cruise was able to get on top and do some ground and pounding of his own. Cruise slingshot himself over the ropes and caught Suikerbossie with a Cruisin USA ace crusher and then waited for Suikerbossie to get up. Cruise tackled the 300 pound Suikerbossie with a spinning spear known as The Barrel Roll, and then climbed to the top turnbuckle. A fan threw a surfboard at Cruise, which he caught, and then Simon jumped off with the surfboard, landing on Suikerbossie’s back. Cruise applied a mexican surfboard and the South African shooter was forced to tap out to the Cruise Control. After the match, Simon did the belt signal around his waist to the camera.
Pork Dirkmeyer vs. "El Exotico" Joey Little Horse
Joey Little Horse grabbed Pork’s generous amounts of stomach with a claw. He grabbed Dirkmeyer by the head and twirled around into a tornado DDT. Little Horse tied up Pork’s legs into an indian deathlock and nearly got the submission, but Pork got to the ropes. Joey lit up Pork with some tomahawk chops and then wrapped both of Dirkmeyers arms up in his double chicken wing bearhug known as The Indian Stand Off for the win.
Florida Man vs. Tuna Meltzer
Florida Man was like a man possessed, attacking Tuna Meltzer with chokes and eye gouges. He bit Tuna’s forehead until Tommy Milligan threatened the little used in Hardkore DQ. He double underhook piledrove Meltzer and then applied a rolling neck claw that Tuna immediately tapped out to. After the match, X Crown and Hardkore World Heavyweight Champion Kilroy Evans walked out and held up both his belts, with Florida Man nodding in the ring. Florida Man took the microphone and said
Florida Man: “Who you trying to duck, Kilroy? 'Suppose you could take the Long Beach freeway instead, but good luck getting home!”