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Ballpark Brawl VII: Survival of the Fittest
Dunn Tire Park, Buffalo, NY
Report by: Eric Schwarzott
Pre-Show
New Vision Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship: The Italianos (Primo Scordino & Tony Carbonie) defeated Rhythm & Booze (Frank the Tank & Buddy Delmar) (w/ Krystal Banks) to retain A decent opener, Italianos got heat with the crowd with their Italian gimmick. "Where's my pizza?" chants all around. The Italianos picked up the win after Krystal Banks turned on her men and joined up with The Italianos.
Six-Man Future Futures Match: Jonny Puma defeated Crazy Steve, Derek Duncam, Eric Everlast, Mastiff and TJ Harley Good fast paced match, Crazy Steve's "crazy" gimmick (similar to Delirous's) was very over. I don't recall the exact order of elimination, but the Justin Hawk Bradshaw looking Duncam was eliminated first, and it came down to Puma, Everlast, and Mastiff. After Mastiff got eliminated he hung around outside the ring, angry, and tried to screw over Jonny Puma. Puma was able to pick up the win nevertheless. After the match, Puma thanked the Western New York wrestling fans for supporting him from the beginning to ...the end of his career. I guess this was his retirement match.
NWA Upstate No Limits Championship vs New Vision Pro Wrestling Cruiserweight Championship: John McChesney defeated Phil Atlas to win the NVPW Cruiserweight Title, and retain the NWA Upstate No Limits Title A very entertaining hard fought matchup, both men had portions of the audience behind them. In addition to the title win, picking up this victory also gave McChesney a spot in the Futures Match on the main show.
After McChesney retained, Hellcat grabbed the mic and introduced his hired gun for this year, Matt Morgan! Morgan attacked Atlas with a messed up powerslam of some sort, F5ed McChesney, went back to Atlas and did the move properly this time, and then attacked McChesney again. He ran down Buffalo, the Buffalo Bills, and Monty Brown on the mic, and challenged Monty to a match. Funny note, he yelled "0 for 3" to taunt the crowd about Buffalo's poor Super Bowl record. The crowd responded with an "It was 4!"
There was a long break between the Pre-Show and the...
Main Show
Chris Hill welcomed us to Ballpark Brawl VII and informed the crowd of some changes to the card. Bryan Danielson separated his shoulder at an ROH show last night, therefore neither he or the ROH World Title would be on the show. Milano Collection AT and The S.A.T. also did not make it. Johnny Kashmere was unable to attend because his young cousin died in a car accident, but Trent Acid would still compete, along with a new partner as "The New Backseat Boyz".
Backstage (and on the jumbotron) Jonny Puma interviewed participants in the Six-Man Futures Match. Big Cat said that even though most of us probably don't know who he is, we will all soon know he is the biggest wrestler on the east coast. JD Michaels came next, and said Big Cat wasn't the biggest wrestler on the east coast, but he was the fattest. He went on to comment on Big Cat's shirt, which was a jersey with the number 69 on it, complimenting him on successfully eating 69 cheeseburgers in one sitting. Ruckus then appeared and said he doesn't care about Big Cat, "the pretty boy" JD, or "whoever the hell McChesney is", cause he will be the one to win and be a champion in the future. Delirious was next, and he cut a very Delirious-like promo, scaring everyone else away.
Six-Man Futures Match: Ruckus defeated Big Cat Lemmer, Chris Hero, Delirious, JD Michaels, and John McChesney. Either Ruckus or JD were the mystery participant, and the other was the replacement for Milano Collection AT. Very frantic fast paced matchup. One spot saw the participants taking turns diving over the ropes onto everyone else. Once it was the 375 lb. Big Cat's turn, everyone ran away as he was preparing to dive. Later in the match everyone took turns jumping off the top rope onto Big Cat, which led to his elimination. John McChesney was selling his beat down by Matt Morgan big time, as he looked to be in constant pain. The crowd loved Delirious's antics, much like they dug Crazy Steve's in the Future Futures Match.
Monty Brown came to the ring, and talked about how good it was to be back in Buffalo. He punked out a group of fans who generally act like asses and carry a lot of replica belts. Making fun of their shiny plastic belts they didn't earn. He then talked about Matt Morgan (aka "The Giraffe"). Claiming that "even if I were covered in door knobs, you still couldn't handle me", and saying that Morgan will feel the pounce.
Backstage, while being interviewed by Jennifer Blake, Samoa Joe cut a promo about how he IS pro wrestling, and how he will be the Natural Champion by the end of the night.
Natural Heavyweight Title Tournament Match: Samoa Joe defeated Steve Corino. Before the match Corino had a ring announcer read a lengthy prepared introduction. Highlights include mention of Corino's work out discipline compared to Samoa Joe's lack thereof. And that Samoa Joe models himself after athletes such as Afa, Sika, Rikishi, Phatu (& The Sultan), Playboy Buddy Rose, Adrian Adonnis, all the women of Buffalo, and Scott D'Amore, among others. Corino attacked the ring announcer when he got his name wrong. This match saw Corino playing somewhat of a comedy role, never really being much of a threat to Joe. Joe won with a Kokina Clutch reversal from a roll up.
Teddy Hart was interviewed by Jennifer Blake backstage, denying that he was scared of "CM Puke" last year when he no showed Ballpark Brawl IV. He says he doesn't care what people believe about him, or what rumors about him are spread. He doesn't care about much in the world other than his girl and his mom (who apparently doesn't like him much). Christopher Daniels interrupted, saying when there's cameras or pretty girls around, Teddy throws on this persona of controversy. He claims Teddy cares more about being controversial than being great, and tonight Daniels will show him what greatness is like.
Teddy Hart makes his entrance along with his girlfriend. As ring announcer/promoter Chris Hill was about to introduce The Fallen Angel, Teddy grabs the mic from him. Teddy says he doesn't feel Daniels deserves to work with him, and refuses to have this
match. He says he promised he'd show up here in Buffalo, and he kept that promise. Because he loves us so much, he said he will show us one moonsault, which he then performed. As he was getting ready to leave, Hill got on the mic and said people wonder why he keeps bringing Teddy back when he does things like this, but he loves Teddy, and he knows Teddy. He expected this to happen, and has another opponent lined up, which he must face. That is the winner of the Futures Match ...Ruckus!
Teddy Hart defeated Ruckus. Pretty crazy high-flying encounter. Lots of moonsaults and cartwheels and other things of a flippy nature. After Teddy won he got on the mic and thanked the fans for supporting him, and supporting wrestling in Buffalo, and that he loves us. Aww.
Tag Team Table Turmoil: The New Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Teddy Vine?) defeated Brodie Lee & Sterling James Keenan, The Roadies (Dunn & Marcos), and Up in Smoke (Cheech & Cloudy) This match was pretty intense. This was a gauntlet match of sorts. Two teams started (Backseats and The Roadies). Once a person is eliminated, he has to leave, his partner stays, and another team comes out. Teddy whatever was eliminated first, and Lee/Keenan came out next. These two are not exactly friends, so their tag team did not exactly mesh well. They didn't listen to each other much when trying to team up on their opponents, and Keenan eventually turned on his partner, who was then eliminated. Up in Smoke came out next, and we had all six remaining wrestlers competing
at once. The tables in this match were the true stars. Four times throughout the match, the tables refused to break as the combatants tried various slams and splashes in order to break them. That means in addition to the seven planned table spots, we got several extra improvised since the tables were not cooperating. When it was down to Trent Acid and Sterling James, James failed twice to break a table with Trent Acid. Resulting in "you can't lose" chants directed at Trent, as well as "tables win!" chants. Trent finally picked up the win which was obviously not the original choice for the outcome.
Backstage, Colt Cabana hit on Jennifer Blake as she attempted to interview him, but he was more interested on getting her to go to prom with him (he's been scoping out lots of proms recently). Claudio Castagnoli interrupted, and said these two are typical stupid Americans. Jennifer pointed out she's Canadian. Claudio says, close enough, still not European. He went on to claim he will set new records in The Guinness Book of The Record for longest vertical suplex, and most European uppercuts in a match tonight. Shattering the previous records, held by himself. Colt gave Blake the key to his Super 8 Motel room, and told her to stop by after the show, and that he'd be in a thong.
Colt Cabana defeated Claudio Castagnoli, guest referee Chip Stetson. Complete comedy match. Before the match, as Chip was checking the wrestlers gear, he found a plastic baseball bat Colt was attempting to conceal. During the match, Colt did everything he could to get under Claudio's skin. He imitated Hacksaw Jim Duggan as the fans chanted U-S-A, he continuously avoided Claudio's European uppercut attempts (one of which led to
Castagnoli running himself right out of the ring), he did the old "look up in the sky" trick, slapping Claudio after he fell for it. When Claudio tried this trick himself, instead of looking up, Colt just gave him another slap. There was plenty more shenanigans, but the sheer hilarity cannot be captured properly with the written word.
Backstage, Jennifer Blake (scheduled guest ref for the women's tag match) interviewed Daizee Haze and Cherry Bomb. Daizee says her and Cherry Bomb are the TNT that will take down T&A. Talia and April interrupted, and April asked if this is what wrestlers are supposed to look like. She thought wrestlers are supposed to have muscles, and advised Daizee to eat some sandwiches.
T&A (Talia Madison & April Hunter) defeated Daizee Haze & Cherry Bomb via DQ, Jaime D was the guest ref. T&A did their usual routine of collecting money from the gentlemen in the audience in creative ways, and had a nice wad of cash laying in their corner of the ring. Until Daizee took it upon herself to swipe it all, at least. Jennifer Blake was nowhere to be found, and in her place was this monster of a woman, Jaime D (aka Sirelda). Once the match got started, it was abundantly clear that Jaime D was favoring T&A, barely making an effort to count when Cherry and Daizee attempted pin falls. T&A took control and kept Cherry Bomb isolated for much of the match. Eventually
Jennifer Blake made her way to the ring (she was trapped in a closet or something by T&A and/or Jaime D). She helped Daizee sunset flip April by kicking her hands away from the ropes, and then making the count. However since Jaime D was the ref, she awarded the
match to T&A, due to Jennifer Blakes "outside interference". After the match as T&A were outside the ring, Blake jumped off the top and took them out.
Christopher Hill got on the mic, and instructed the audience to stand at attention for Sgt. Slaughter. However, instead of Sarge, we were greeted by Cody Deaner, a white-trash Canadian redneck, complete with mullet and fanny pack. He took the mic, and talked about how much he loves carnivals, and how it is a shame that Buffalo doesn't have carnivals (I'm pretty sure we do...). He decided he'd bring the carnival to us, and play a carnival game with someone from the audience! He brought up a little boy from the audience, and we had a rousing game of "throw the ball in the bucket". In order to win this game you must ...throw the ball in the bucket. Three times, to be precise. After the child threw the ball in the bucket twice, Deaner made sure he missed the third time by moving it. He then yelled at the kid, called him a loser, and nearly brought the child to tears.
Sgt. Slaughter then made his way to the ring, and called Deaner a maggot, and Deaner retreated. Christopher Hill then had a "this is your life" type presentation on the jumbotron for the Sarge, as it was Sarge's birthday (25th birthday!). It consisted of photoshopped pictures of Sarge at birth, at prom, and so on... Slaughter then thanked everyone and said how great it was to spend his birthday with the fans. Cody Deaner returned, along with Kristal Banks and a large cake with a photo of the Sarge made of frosting. He said he's got two words for Sarge ...he's sorry. He then apologized to the little boy he no doubt traumatized for life. Slaughter asked why a piece of the cake is missing, Deaner claimed Banks ate it, she claims otherwise. Deaner then tried to throw the cake in Sarges face, missed and nailed Christopher Hill with it. Sarge then locked the Cobra Clutch on Deaner, as Hill grabbed a big chunk of cake and smashed it into Cody's face.
We then took a 15-20 minute break in order to clean cake out of the ring ...woo.
Monty Brown defeated Matt Morgan (w/Hellcat) This was a much more entertaining match than you'd might expect. Though it started off painfully slow with a lot of stalling. Matt Morgan had HUGE heat with the crowd. Lots of "you take steroids" and "you got fired" chants. For much of the match, Monty was trying to knock the big man down. Eventually they took to brawling outside the ring, and Monty performed a very impressive running leap from the ground over the barricade, and onto Morgan who was in the crowd. There was a ref bump late in the match, and Morgan hit the F5 shortly after, he would have had the win, but only got a two count once a second ref arrived on the scene. Hellcat then tried to jump off the ropes and hit Monty with a chair, but hit Morgan instead, which left him prone for a pouncing, and a pouncing is what he got.
Natural Heavyweight Championship Foul Pole Match: Samoa Joe defeated Christopher Daniels, Homicide, and Low-Ki Due to the changes tonight, this was the main event. Samoa Joe earning his spot by defeating Steve Corino, Daniels awarded his spot due to Teddy tucking his tail, and Low-Ki, cause he's Low-Ki. This was announced as a triple threat match, but then Homicide made his surprise appearance, and berated Chris Hill for not calling him and putting him in a title match, even though he won a title shot at Ballpark Brawl VI.
The rules of this match were as follows: The Natural Title is suspended from the foul pole, which is near the entrance area for the wrestlers. The match has to go ten minutes before anyone can attempt to go for the belt. During these ten minutes, the match was contested under fairly standard rules, two guys wrestle, and can tag in and out. Once it hits the ten minute mark, the only rule is you need to get the title.
During the first ten minutes, this match basically played out like a tag match. Low-Ki and Homicide worked together against Daniels and Joe. A lot of good crisp action, and plenty of trash talk all around. The crowd was very into it. Once the ten minutes expired, One hell of a brawl broke out. Homicide and Daniels were battling over near the foul pole (and the nearby ladder they'd attempt to climb to grab the belt). Low-Ki and Joe took their fight into the audience, brawling along the wall, and then climbing up into the stands. They teased that one of them would be thrown back down to the field, and through a table, but Homicide ended up knocking Daniels off of the ladder and through that table instead. Joe was wailing on Low-Ki and hit him with a metal pole of some sort. He then used this pole to grab the wire the title was hanging from, and pull it towards him while Homicide was about to grab it. Joe grabbed the title, won, and I got to high five him! I am told my hand may now have inherited some sort of super powers.
Ballpark Brawl VII: Survival of the Fittest
Dunn Tire Park, Buffalo, NY
Report by: Eric Schwarzott
Pre-Show
New Vision Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship: The Italianos (Primo Scordino & Tony Carbonie) defeated Rhythm & Booze (Frank the Tank & Buddy Delmar) (w/ Krystal Banks) to retain A decent opener, Italianos got heat with the crowd with their Italian gimmick. "Where's my pizza?" chants all around. The Italianos picked up the win after Krystal Banks turned on her men and joined up with The Italianos.
Six-Man Future Futures Match: Jonny Puma defeated Crazy Steve, Derek Duncam, Eric Everlast, Mastiff and TJ Harley Good fast paced match, Crazy Steve's "crazy" gimmick (similar to Delirous's) was very over. I don't recall the exact order of elimination, but the Justin Hawk Bradshaw looking Duncam was eliminated first, and it came down to Puma, Everlast, and Mastiff. After Mastiff got eliminated he hung around outside the ring, angry, and tried to screw over Jonny Puma. Puma was able to pick up the win nevertheless. After the match, Puma thanked the Western New York wrestling fans for supporting him from the beginning to ...the end of his career. I guess this was his retirement match.
NWA Upstate No Limits Championship vs New Vision Pro Wrestling Cruiserweight Championship: John McChesney defeated Phil Atlas to win the NVPW Cruiserweight Title, and retain the NWA Upstate No Limits Title A very entertaining hard fought matchup, both men had portions of the audience behind them. In addition to the title win, picking up this victory also gave McChesney a spot in the Futures Match on the main show.
After McChesney retained, Hellcat grabbed the mic and introduced his hired gun for this year, Matt Morgan! Morgan attacked Atlas with a messed up powerslam of some sort, F5ed McChesney, went back to Atlas and did the move properly this time, and then attacked McChesney again. He ran down Buffalo, the Buffalo Bills, and Monty Brown on the mic, and challenged Monty to a match. Funny note, he yelled "0 for 3" to taunt the crowd about Buffalo's poor Super Bowl record. The crowd responded with an "It was 4!"
There was a long break between the Pre-Show and the...
Main Show
Chris Hill welcomed us to Ballpark Brawl VII and informed the crowd of some changes to the card. Bryan Danielson separated his shoulder at an ROH show last night, therefore neither he or the ROH World Title would be on the show. Milano Collection AT and The S.A.T. also did not make it. Johnny Kashmere was unable to attend because his young cousin died in a car accident, but Trent Acid would still compete, along with a new partner as "The New Backseat Boyz".
Backstage (and on the jumbotron) Jonny Puma interviewed participants in the Six-Man Futures Match. Big Cat said that even though most of us probably don't know who he is, we will all soon know he is the biggest wrestler on the east coast. JD Michaels came next, and said Big Cat wasn't the biggest wrestler on the east coast, but he was the fattest. He went on to comment on Big Cat's shirt, which was a jersey with the number 69 on it, complimenting him on successfully eating 69 cheeseburgers in one sitting. Ruckus then appeared and said he doesn't care about Big Cat, "the pretty boy" JD, or "whoever the hell McChesney is", cause he will be the one to win and be a champion in the future. Delirious was next, and he cut a very Delirious-like promo, scaring everyone else away.
Six-Man Futures Match: Ruckus defeated Big Cat Lemmer, Chris Hero, Delirious, JD Michaels, and John McChesney. Either Ruckus or JD were the mystery participant, and the other was the replacement for Milano Collection AT. Very frantic fast paced matchup. One spot saw the participants taking turns diving over the ropes onto everyone else. Once it was the 375 lb. Big Cat's turn, everyone ran away as he was preparing to dive. Later in the match everyone took turns jumping off the top rope onto Big Cat, which led to his elimination. John McChesney was selling his beat down by Matt Morgan big time, as he looked to be in constant pain. The crowd loved Delirious's antics, much like they dug Crazy Steve's in the Future Futures Match.
Monty Brown came to the ring, and talked about how good it was to be back in Buffalo. He punked out a group of fans who generally act like asses and carry a lot of replica belts. Making fun of their shiny plastic belts they didn't earn. He then talked about Matt Morgan (aka "The Giraffe"). Claiming that "even if I were covered in door knobs, you still couldn't handle me", and saying that Morgan will feel the pounce.
Backstage, while being interviewed by Jennifer Blake, Samoa Joe cut a promo about how he IS pro wrestling, and how he will be the Natural Champion by the end of the night.
Natural Heavyweight Title Tournament Match: Samoa Joe defeated Steve Corino. Before the match Corino had a ring announcer read a lengthy prepared introduction. Highlights include mention of Corino's work out discipline compared to Samoa Joe's lack thereof. And that Samoa Joe models himself after athletes such as Afa, Sika, Rikishi, Phatu (& The Sultan), Playboy Buddy Rose, Adrian Adonnis, all the women of Buffalo, and Scott D'Amore, among others. Corino attacked the ring announcer when he got his name wrong. This match saw Corino playing somewhat of a comedy role, never really being much of a threat to Joe. Joe won with a Kokina Clutch reversal from a roll up.
Teddy Hart was interviewed by Jennifer Blake backstage, denying that he was scared of "CM Puke" last year when he no showed Ballpark Brawl IV. He says he doesn't care what people believe about him, or what rumors about him are spread. He doesn't care about much in the world other than his girl and his mom (who apparently doesn't like him much). Christopher Daniels interrupted, saying when there's cameras or pretty girls around, Teddy throws on this persona of controversy. He claims Teddy cares more about being controversial than being great, and tonight Daniels will show him what greatness is like.
Teddy Hart makes his entrance along with his girlfriend. As ring announcer/promoter Chris Hill was about to introduce The Fallen Angel, Teddy grabs the mic from him. Teddy says he doesn't feel Daniels deserves to work with him, and refuses to have this
match. He says he promised he'd show up here in Buffalo, and he kept that promise. Because he loves us so much, he said he will show us one moonsault, which he then performed. As he was getting ready to leave, Hill got on the mic and said people wonder why he keeps bringing Teddy back when he does things like this, but he loves Teddy, and he knows Teddy. He expected this to happen, and has another opponent lined up, which he must face. That is the winner of the Futures Match ...Ruckus!
Teddy Hart defeated Ruckus. Pretty crazy high-flying encounter. Lots of moonsaults and cartwheels and other things of a flippy nature. After Teddy won he got on the mic and thanked the fans for supporting him, and supporting wrestling in Buffalo, and that he loves us. Aww.
Tag Team Table Turmoil: The New Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Teddy Vine?) defeated Brodie Lee & Sterling James Keenan, The Roadies (Dunn & Marcos), and Up in Smoke (Cheech & Cloudy) This match was pretty intense. This was a gauntlet match of sorts. Two teams started (Backseats and The Roadies). Once a person is eliminated, he has to leave, his partner stays, and another team comes out. Teddy whatever was eliminated first, and Lee/Keenan came out next. These two are not exactly friends, so their tag team did not exactly mesh well. They didn't listen to each other much when trying to team up on their opponents, and Keenan eventually turned on his partner, who was then eliminated. Up in Smoke came out next, and we had all six remaining wrestlers competing
at once. The tables in this match were the true stars. Four times throughout the match, the tables refused to break as the combatants tried various slams and splashes in order to break them. That means in addition to the seven planned table spots, we got several extra improvised since the tables were not cooperating. When it was down to Trent Acid and Sterling James, James failed twice to break a table with Trent Acid. Resulting in "you can't lose" chants directed at Trent, as well as "tables win!" chants. Trent finally picked up the win which was obviously not the original choice for the outcome.
Backstage, Colt Cabana hit on Jennifer Blake as she attempted to interview him, but he was more interested on getting her to go to prom with him (he's been scoping out lots of proms recently). Claudio Castagnoli interrupted, and said these two are typical stupid Americans. Jennifer pointed out she's Canadian. Claudio says, close enough, still not European. He went on to claim he will set new records in The Guinness Book of The Record for longest vertical suplex, and most European uppercuts in a match tonight. Shattering the previous records, held by himself. Colt gave Blake the key to his Super 8 Motel room, and told her to stop by after the show, and that he'd be in a thong.
Colt Cabana defeated Claudio Castagnoli, guest referee Chip Stetson. Complete comedy match. Before the match, as Chip was checking the wrestlers gear, he found a plastic baseball bat Colt was attempting to conceal. During the match, Colt did everything he could to get under Claudio's skin. He imitated Hacksaw Jim Duggan as the fans chanted U-S-A, he continuously avoided Claudio's European uppercut attempts (one of which led to
Castagnoli running himself right out of the ring), he did the old "look up in the sky" trick, slapping Claudio after he fell for it. When Claudio tried this trick himself, instead of looking up, Colt just gave him another slap. There was plenty more shenanigans, but the sheer hilarity cannot be captured properly with the written word.
Backstage, Jennifer Blake (scheduled guest ref for the women's tag match) interviewed Daizee Haze and Cherry Bomb. Daizee says her and Cherry Bomb are the TNT that will take down T&A. Talia and April interrupted, and April asked if this is what wrestlers are supposed to look like. She thought wrestlers are supposed to have muscles, and advised Daizee to eat some sandwiches.
T&A (Talia Madison & April Hunter) defeated Daizee Haze & Cherry Bomb via DQ, Jaime D was the guest ref. T&A did their usual routine of collecting money from the gentlemen in the audience in creative ways, and had a nice wad of cash laying in their corner of the ring. Until Daizee took it upon herself to swipe it all, at least. Jennifer Blake was nowhere to be found, and in her place was this monster of a woman, Jaime D (aka Sirelda). Once the match got started, it was abundantly clear that Jaime D was favoring T&A, barely making an effort to count when Cherry and Daizee attempted pin falls. T&A took control and kept Cherry Bomb isolated for much of the match. Eventually
Jennifer Blake made her way to the ring (she was trapped in a closet or something by T&A and/or Jaime D). She helped Daizee sunset flip April by kicking her hands away from the ropes, and then making the count. However since Jaime D was the ref, she awarded the
match to T&A, due to Jennifer Blakes "outside interference". After the match as T&A were outside the ring, Blake jumped off the top and took them out.
Christopher Hill got on the mic, and instructed the audience to stand at attention for Sgt. Slaughter. However, instead of Sarge, we were greeted by Cody Deaner, a white-trash Canadian redneck, complete with mullet and fanny pack. He took the mic, and talked about how much he loves carnivals, and how it is a shame that Buffalo doesn't have carnivals (I'm pretty sure we do...). He decided he'd bring the carnival to us, and play a carnival game with someone from the audience! He brought up a little boy from the audience, and we had a rousing game of "throw the ball in the bucket". In order to win this game you must ...throw the ball in the bucket. Three times, to be precise. After the child threw the ball in the bucket twice, Deaner made sure he missed the third time by moving it. He then yelled at the kid, called him a loser, and nearly brought the child to tears.
Sgt. Slaughter then made his way to the ring, and called Deaner a maggot, and Deaner retreated. Christopher Hill then had a "this is your life" type presentation on the jumbotron for the Sarge, as it was Sarge's birthday (25th birthday!). It consisted of photoshopped pictures of Sarge at birth, at prom, and so on... Slaughter then thanked everyone and said how great it was to spend his birthday with the fans. Cody Deaner returned, along with Kristal Banks and a large cake with a photo of the Sarge made of frosting. He said he's got two words for Sarge ...he's sorry. He then apologized to the little boy he no doubt traumatized for life. Slaughter asked why a piece of the cake is missing, Deaner claimed Banks ate it, she claims otherwise. Deaner then tried to throw the cake in Sarges face, missed and nailed Christopher Hill with it. Sarge then locked the Cobra Clutch on Deaner, as Hill grabbed a big chunk of cake and smashed it into Cody's face.
We then took a 15-20 minute break in order to clean cake out of the ring ...woo.
Monty Brown defeated Matt Morgan (w/Hellcat) This was a much more entertaining match than you'd might expect. Though it started off painfully slow with a lot of stalling. Matt Morgan had HUGE heat with the crowd. Lots of "you take steroids" and "you got fired" chants. For much of the match, Monty was trying to knock the big man down. Eventually they took to brawling outside the ring, and Monty performed a very impressive running leap from the ground over the barricade, and onto Morgan who was in the crowd. There was a ref bump late in the match, and Morgan hit the F5 shortly after, he would have had the win, but only got a two count once a second ref arrived on the scene. Hellcat then tried to jump off the ropes and hit Monty with a chair, but hit Morgan instead, which left him prone for a pouncing, and a pouncing is what he got.
Natural Heavyweight Championship Foul Pole Match: Samoa Joe defeated Christopher Daniels, Homicide, and Low-Ki Due to the changes tonight, this was the main event. Samoa Joe earning his spot by defeating Steve Corino, Daniels awarded his spot due to Teddy tucking his tail, and Low-Ki, cause he's Low-Ki. This was announced as a triple threat match, but then Homicide made his surprise appearance, and berated Chris Hill for not calling him and putting him in a title match, even though he won a title shot at Ballpark Brawl VI.
The rules of this match were as follows: The Natural Title is suspended from the foul pole, which is near the entrance area for the wrestlers. The match has to go ten minutes before anyone can attempt to go for the belt. During these ten minutes, the match was contested under fairly standard rules, two guys wrestle, and can tag in and out. Once it hits the ten minute mark, the only rule is you need to get the title.
During the first ten minutes, this match basically played out like a tag match. Low-Ki and Homicide worked together against Daniels and Joe. A lot of good crisp action, and plenty of trash talk all around. The crowd was very into it. Once the ten minutes expired, One hell of a brawl broke out. Homicide and Daniels were battling over near the foul pole (and the nearby ladder they'd attempt to climb to grab the belt). Low-Ki and Joe took their fight into the audience, brawling along the wall, and then climbing up into the stands. They teased that one of them would be thrown back down to the field, and through a table, but Homicide ended up knocking Daniels off of the ladder and through that table instead. Joe was wailing on Low-Ki and hit him with a metal pole of some sort. He then used this pole to grab the wire the title was hanging from, and pull it towards him while Homicide was about to grab it. Joe grabbed the title, won, and I got to high five him! I am told my hand may now have inherited some sort of super powers.