Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jan 1, 2017 20:28:15 GMT -6
AAW Unstoppable
Friday night in Merrionette Park, IL before 690 fans: Homicide b Conor Braxton (Scarlett Bordeaux, who was on Raw on Monday as the opponent of Nia Jax, was Braxton's manager), Jake & Dave Crist b Markus Crane & Kongo Kong, Matt Riddle b Davey Richards (this may have been their first ever meeting), Michael Elgin won four-way over Mat Fichett, Paco Gonzalez and Dezmond Xavier, Drew Galloway b Jeff Cobb, Pentagon Jr. b Chris Hero, Colt Cabana & Chuck Taylor b Davey Vega & Silas Young, Heidi Lovelace b Kimber Lee, ACH b AR Fox to win the AAW Heritage title, Sami Callihan b Rey Fenix to retain the AAW title.
In the Hero vs. Pentagon match, Hero was whipped into the turnbuckle and one of the pieces of the ring post broke and then the top rope broke at the 2:00 mark of the match. The two continued to wrestle while they tried to repair the top rope but it deflated the crowd They did fix the top rope between matches and neither guy was hurt. The two had to improvise without a top rope. Pentagon won with the package piledriver and the two men raised each others' hands. Hero talked about the ring breaking and said it was amazing. He thanked the fans for supporting the promotion and supporting him even with his lack of an appealing physical appearance. He said that he's never had a bad match in AAW and he's never seen a bad AAW show and it's his Midwest home. He said he's been asked a lot of questions, but right now still doesn't have an answer and thanked the fans for his ability to have made a living in pro wrestling.
Lovelace did an interview and noted it was her last show with the promotion (she and Kimber Lee are both headed to WWE) and thanked Danny Daniels for giving her the chance to compete and that whatever success she gets in wrestling was because of AAW. She was fighting back tears and thanking people for her being able to call AAW her home promotion. For Lovelace and Lee, it was both of their last indie shows.
Callihan noted it was Fenix's birthday and the crowd started singing Happy Birthday to him. But then he gave Fenix a low blow and laid him out with a belt shot. Homicide made the save and challenged the Killer Cult to a cage match on 1/20. Next show is 1/7 in LaSalle, IL with Callihan vs. John Morrison for the AAW title, Rey Fenix vs. Michael Elgin and Colt Cabana vs. Silas Young. On the 1/20 show in Merrionette Park, it will be Silas Young's last AAW appearance plus Galloway, Eddie Kingston, Andrew Everett, Matt Sydal, Brian Cage and Abyss appear.
There was a controversial situation with language used by Homicide in a promo on the show. Keith Lipinski from the promotion noted that they had no clue words like that would be used in their promotion. They give the talent bullet points but let them cut their own promo. He said Homicide did apologize to the AAW staff immediately after he got through the curtain, and also apologized on Twitter saying he made a huge lapse of judgment. Lipinski said that the promo did alienate fans and feels racial or homophobic slurs have no place on their shows.
Danny Daniels of the promotion wrote a post about the subject.