We’re on a collision course for UPRISING everyone! So buckle up, we’ve got the go-home episode of Paramount to cover, and the first night of the Prime G1 tournament kicked off this past week too! So let’s dive on in.
PRIME #94 – Recap & Highlights
MATCH ONE
SINGLES – G1 TOURNAMENT GROUP B MATCH
ViVi Vs The Defender WINNER via pinfall: The Defender
Match Highlight: Vivi slowly starts to move, reaching for a rope to pull herself up… Defender goes in… PEOPLE KILL- WAIT! Vivi ducks and sends The Defender going head first over the top rope down to the concrete! The crowd loves it!! Vivi goes wild eyed and… is she gonna do it?! WOWZA! FROM THE TOP ROPE DOWN ONTO THE DEFENDER AT RINGSIDE!
MATCH TWO
SINGLES – G1 TOURNAMENT GROUP A MATCH
Mitsuo Shimada Vs Eddie Dozier WINNER via pinfall: Eddie Dozier
Match Highlight: Shimada then grabs Dozier and springboards off of the ropes, delivering a DDT to finally ground Dozier. Dozier rolls to the outside of the ring before Shimada can make the cover, but ‘The Starblazer’ has other plans as he gets to his feet and looks at the fans again, teasing once more. He runs towards the ropes, bouncing off of them and running towards the opposite set, floating through them as he performs a Tope Suicida on Dozier!
MATCH THREE
SINGLES – G1 TOURNAMENT GROUP B MATCH
Kyle Gautier Vs Kazia “Galactic Vixxen” Siona WINNER via pinfall: Kyle Gautier
Match Highlight: Siona rolls a shoulder off the canvas to break the count. Gautier lifts Siona off the mat and positions her for a DDT but she counters with an inverted atomic drop and a step up enziguri. Gautier quickly gets to his feet and he runs at Siona who arm drags him to the mat and hits a low dropkick to the side of his skull.
MATCH FOUR
INDY CHAMPIONSHIP
SINGLES – G1 TOURNAMENT GROUP A MATCH
Amber Lisa Hall Vs Narumi Tsutsumi WINNER via pinfall and STILL Indy Champion: Narumi Tsutsumi
Match Highlight: Amber pulls Narumi to her feet before taking her back down with three rolling suplexes. Narumi clutches her ribs as she makes her way to her feet. From almost nowhere, Amber sends her flying across the ring with a Drive By.
MATCH FIVE
SINGLES – G1 TOURNAMENT GROUP A MATCH
Tyler Quest Vs Scorpio WINNER via pinfall: Scorpio
Match Highlight: Quest bridges, TyVasion style, and Scorpio stumbles and tries to keep his momentum from bringing him down to a knee as he misses wildly with the lariat attempt. Tyler is back to her feet, turning Scorpio around before hooking his head and pulling him down into a small package. One! Scorpio kicks out, and Tyler rolls backward and to her feet just as Scorpio is to a knee. KICK OF TY!
MAIN EVENT
SHOWTIME BROADCAST CHAMPIONSHIP
SINGLES – G1 TOURNAMENT GROUP B MATCH
Dalilah Ashe Vs Bosa WINNER via pinfall and STILL Showtime Broadcast Champion: Bosa
Match Highlight: Dalilah seizes a white-knuckled handful of his crotch and squeezes. Bosa is made of stern stuff, but his expression passes through shock and pain, and the distraction is enough for Ashe to squirm free, knee him in the gut, and then leap to hit a double axe handle to the back, dropping him to the canvas. The Last Temptation grins, and circles around her fallen opponent, making a lascivious show of licking her fingers as she almost idly lays in a few sharp kicks to the head and ribs.
PRIME #94 MVPs: Narumi Tsutsumi, Eddie Dozier and Scorpio
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Scorpio Vs Tyler Quest
Price’s Prospect
Former North American champion, sash master, and all around good guy Kyle took home the important 2 points in the G1 this past week on Prime and now sets his sights on ViVi for Prime #95. Kyle is no stranger to success, having held onto the aforementioned Paramount championship for an impressive 106 days after the championship was reinstated at the 2019 Uprising event. Could the fan favorite find himself standing opposite the Showtime champion later in the tournament and get himself a new strap? You never can predict the G1, but if we had to make a prediction about Kyle Gautier? Never count Kyle out. He’s going to make big waves on Prime this season.
PARAMOUNT #18 Recap & Highlights
MATCH ONE
SINGLES MATCH X-DIVISION RULES
Adriana Aquilla VS Xavier Reid WINNER via disqualification: Adriana Aquilla
Match Highlight: She thrusts both of her boots into him and sends him rolling off ringside. This is just long enough, unfortunately, as Reid is shakily on one knee as Addy stands in the ring. He ducks a Divine Wizard attempt and connects with a ranheim maker as Adriana turns around. Reid hits the ropes and executes a nasty punt to the head of Adriana Aquilla.
MATCH TWO
SINGLES MATCH
Johnny Malestrom VS Nevaeh WINNER via submission: Nevaeh
Match Highlight: Nevaeh drops as Johnny is back to a vertical position. Johnny picks Nevaeh up and hooks his arm around her neck. After doing so, he pops his hips and throws her overhead with a suplex. Johnny kips himself back up, quickly climbs up to the second rope and leaps off them.
MATCH THREE
TAG TEAM SHOWCASE – JFS RETIREMENT TOUR
The Sharpes (JFS & Saidie) VS The HunterS (Jason and Ruthann) WINNERS via pinfall: The Sharpes
Match Highlight: Saidie psyches herself up, stepping in to grapple with the older woman, who instantly gains the upper hand, kicks her in the gut, and plants her with a spinning sitout pedigree! The crowd ‘ooh’ in mixed appreciation and sympathy, as Ruthann picks Saidie up and tenderizes her with a few stiff blows, before whipping her toward the turnbuckle. The younger Sharpe is dragged up top, and then Ruthann takes a couple steps away, framing her with her hands critically, an artist examining a masterpiece in the midst of its creation. The crowd pops before she even goes for the move – but go for it she does, stepping up into a top-rope Huracanrana that absolutely launches Saidie!
MATCH FOUR
SINGLES MATCH
Marcu$ $t. John VS Asriel Buzzard WINNER via pinfall: Marcu$ $t John
Match Highlight: Asriel is back to his feet now and back on the attack, laying in more kicks to the body. This puts $t. John is in a perfect position near the corner. Buzzard sees this and quickly runs to the corner and outside, climbing the turnbuckle and measuring his opponent as the crowd buzzes. Buzzard leaps and connects with his shooting star press he calls “Is anyone out there?”
MATCH FIVE
TAG TEAM SHOWCASE – NON-TITLE MATCH
The Hawaiian Hunters VS The Southern Express WINNERS via pinfall: The Southern Express
Match Highlight: Jimmy enters the ring once more as Bobby yanks David up off the canvas. As he does, David manages to catch Jimmy around his neck before driving him down with tornado DDT. David quickly pops back up to his feet and slams his knee into the ribcage of Bobby who was just getting out of the ring.
MATCH SIX
SINGLES MATCH – NON-TITLE MATCH
Faith Rivers VS Killjoy Ito WINNER via pinfall: Killjoy Ito
Match Highlight: Ito climbs onto the apron and prepares himself for his signature Kushu (Springboard Forearm Smash). Rivers groggily gets to her feet, swiftly turning around to find Ito flying in the air and towards her. She manages to duck out of the way! Ito turns, and Rivers grounds him with a drop toe hold which she then manages to transition into a Figure Four leg lock!
MAIN EVENT
SINGLES MATCH FOR THE CW BROADCAST CHAMPIONSHIP
Carrie Samson VS “The Wicked” James Keaton WINNER via submission and STILL CW Broadcast Champion: “The Wicked” James Keaton
Match Highlight: The chants turn to her, encouraging the definite underdog to get back into the fight. Keaton isn’t giving her time; he comes raging in with a forearm that snaps her head back, and then follows up with a handful more, before slowly drawing back a scintillating slap across the chest. His desire to drag this one out costs him; Carrie comes to life, bringing both arms out and back in with a Mongolian chop, then grabbing the dazed champion to hit a beautiful tornado DDT!
PARAMOUNT #18 MVP: James Keaton
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Marcu$ $t. John vs Asriel Buzzard
Brock’s Blockbuster
Hand picked by Chris Brock for a second time, Marcu$ $t John is out there showing everyone that he’s more than just the dollar signs in his name. Over the past six months, Marcu$ has managed to pick up wins over former Undisputed champions in Ace King and Stitches, and just this week on Paramount knocked off the man who faces Killjoy Ito at Uprising for the Undisputed championship, Asriel Buzzard. While he didn’t manage to pick up the win at Stranglemania, it’s clear that it was only a bump in the road for Marcu$. He’ll be looking to get right back into the championship conversation when he squares to Nevaeh for the chance to become the number one contender for the North American championship once more.
Coming Soon! Matches to set your DVR for!
Brawl #582 – CHAMPION VS CHALLENGER King Flip vs Xavier Reid | Xavier Reid has been absolutely off his head since the night Gabi Vee won the International championship from him. Despite regaining it at Stranglemania, he has to somehow look past that and focus on the man who introduced his face to a steel chair on Paramount – the Benchmark of Brawl himself – King Flip. Flip is guaranteed a shot at Reid at Hardcore Revolution, and the stakes on Brawl this week? Winner picks the stipulation for their match at the pay-per-view. Could this be Flip’s chance to, dare we say, flip the script on Reid? Or is Xavier’s fury going to claim it’s next victim?
Rampage #499 – United States Championship Match! Jamie Love vs Darna Dare | The first defense is right around the corner for Darna Dare, who captured the championship at Stranglemania. Now, Dare stares down the BORT and a gauntlet of defenses that would make any champion hesitate – and challenger salivate. Will Jamie Love redeem himself after missing out on the HBO championship against Phoenix Winterborn? Or will Darna Dare strike first with that all-important first successful defense?
