WWE UK EPISODE #158 | COMMENSURATE BT SPORT STUDIO | LONDON, ENGLAND BACKSTAGE CORRESPONDENTS ~ JOANNA ROSE AND SIMON MILLER COMMENTARY TEAM ~ JOHN GOODEN AND WADE BARRETT RING ANNOUNCER ~ ANDY SHEPHERD |
DARK MATCH: AIGLE BLANC VS. BOBBY GUNNS VS. BULLIT VS. CALLUM NEWMAN VS. CHRIS BROOKS VS. CONNOR MILLS VS. DAMIEN CORVIN VS. DANNY BLACK VS. DANNY JONES VS. DAVID FRANCISCO VS. DEREISS GORDON VS. DOVER VS. ELTON PRINCE VS. ETHAN ALLEN VS. GENE MUNNY VS. GREG BURRIDGE VS. ICARUS VS. IESTYN REES VS. JACK MORRIS VS. JAY JOSHUA VS. JOAO SANTOS VS. JOEL REDMAN VS. JOSEPH FENECH VS. JOSH HOLLY VS. KEZ EVANS VS. KID LYKOS VS. KIP SABIAN VS. KIT NELSON VS. KURO VS. LEON SLATER VS. LEVI MUIR VS. LEYTON BUZZARD VS. LUKE JACOBS VS. MIKE D VECCHIO VS. NICO ANGELO VS. RICKY KNIGHT JR VS. RILEY OSBORNE VS. TOM BILLINGTON VS. TOMMY KYLE VS. WILL KROOS VS. ZAK ZODIAC VS. ZOZAYA An all DEFIANT battle royal would take place ahead of the official show. This match however would get off to a bit of an auspicious start thanks to "The Modern Classic" Josh Holly who felt the urge to get on the microphone and insult everyone in the match and everyone in attendance. This would backfire as Josh Holly would then be the first man tossed out of the ring. As the match wore on we'd see some relationships and teams working together as Icarus/Dover, Connor Mills/Nico Angelo and Pretty Deadly would all exploit their numbers at points. Two large powerhouses in the bout Bullit and Levi Muir would also have their power displays as they eliminated several opponents before eventually they'd eliminate one another. As the bout wore on we'd steadily get down to six as Deriess, Kez Evans, Kip Sabian, Mike D Vecchio, Ricky Knight Jr and Zozaya would be the last to remain. Following some back and forth action in a big moment Mike D Vecchio would hit an F5 sending Kip Sabian out of the ring while Kez Evans managed to shove Dereiss into Zozaya sending both men out of the ring. This led us down to three and much to the delight of the fans it would be Ricky Knight Jr who was victorious as he managed to eliminate Mike D following a superkick and counter an Evans cheap shot by hip tossing him over the ropes and to the floor! Result ~ Ricky Knight Jr |
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As always our WWE UK Show opens with a recap of the events of the previous week's show. This video package would of course recap the Halloween Havoc event starting out with the latest update on the Elimination series and the elimination of the Selfish Generation. After this we would see clips of Session Moth defeating Hyan followed by Gunther's defeat of Steven Regal. The video would then close with Ilja Dragunov winning the Tower of London match to become the number one contender of the Commonwealth title. From here the show would officially open from inside the BT Sport Studio in London, England. With a small but lively crowd in attendance, Wade Barrett and John Gooden would hype up tonight's show before sending us to the ring. |
MATCH #1: ELIMINATION SERIES (Referee: Katie Walker) THE SMOKING ACES (CHARLIE STERLING AND NICK RILEY) VS. WELSH DRAGONS (MARK ANDREWS AND MORGAN WEBSTER) VS. SUGE D AND CHARLES CROWLEY VS. SANITY (ALEXANDER WOLFE AND KILLIAN DAIN) VS. FOREIGN LEGION (FRANCESCO AKIRA AND LUDWIG KAISER) The elimination series would continue to open the show and we was now down to 5 teams. This match would get off to a jump start thanks to two things. One was Amale taking matters to her own hands and hitting a thesz press on Danny Burch at ringside while in the ring Sanity jumped the match as they began to attack the other teams. Unlike some of the other matches in the series this one truly felt like it broke down as the Aces usual tactic of ducking out of the way would prove fruitless when both the Foreign Legion and Welsh Dragons took the fight to them. As the bout wore on we'd truly see Sanity begin doling out some damage with Killian Dain crushing Sterling and Riley with a suicide dive at ringside while in the ring Wolfe blasted Crowley with a running European uppercut. Continuing this damaging barrage Dain laid out the Welsh Dragons with a running crossbody before he'd throw Akira like a dart into the ring post. In the ring Wolfe landed a big tiger suplex on Kaiser before he and Dain would look to put away Suge D. As Wolfe lifted him for a suplex Charles Crowley hopped on Dain's back and tried for a crucifix. Dain backed up onto the ropes where Kaiser pulled down the top rope which sent Dain and Crowley toppling to the floor. In turn we would see Suge D counter Wolfe's attack with a small package for a shock count of three. Shepherd: Sanity has been eliminated! The crowd explode into cheers as The announcement is made. Suge D rolls out of the ring and snags Crowley in a big hug while a stunned Alexander Wolfe sits up in the ring. Suge D and Crowley dive into the crowd to continue their celebration |
~ BAPTISM ~ A replay from Halloween Havoc is then played focusing on the Ripper's Revenge match. From here the cameras take us to the hallway of the arena where Teoman is standing by. Calling himself one step ahead of Ashton Smith at all times, Teoman follows up by saying he told Ashton that he didn't want to pursue this and now he's seen the consequences of his actions. With that Teoman says that the days of him having employees are over just like the days of him being in a cult. Instead now he has his family in the Ensanglante. So he'd like to introduce to the world his brother Bobby Gunns! |
~ NOT DONE ~ A post show promo from Halloween Havoc then plays and it focuses on a livid Michael Oku following his bout with Giovanni Vinci. Saying that this is far from over and that tonight was only just the beginning for the suffering. Calling this whole situation personal and one which he intends to fully avenge Amira and make Giovanni Vinci suffer. Saying tonight was just a mere taster for Vinci for what happens when you push him too far. Michael Oku closes this promo by saying that he doesn't just intend to beat Vinci but to break him as well! |
MATCH #2: SINGLES MATCH (Referee: Artemis Ortygie) SESSION MOTH VS. NATALIA MARKOVA The second bout of the night would be a grudge match as Session Moth Martina took on Natalia Markova. With the bad blood between them it seemed that Martina very much continued to look to frustrate Markova with her fun loving antics. This would pay dividends as we'd see a frustrated Markova begin to make several mistakes which allowed Martina to begin to land some offense. This included a rolling cutter on Markova for a near fall, with Markova wobbled and stunned Martina would follow up with a diving DDT for a count of three. Shepherd: And the winner of the match Session Moth Martina! The crowd cheers as the announcement is made and Martina begins her celebration. As she dances at ringside a Livid Markova begins to flip out in the ring. Rolling to the floor Markova can be heard loudly proclaiming that she quits! |
~ SUFFERAGE ~ 
The cameras take us to an unknown darkened location where Aleister Black is standing by. Black despite what transpired at Halloween Havoc is in high spirits as he called his encounter and the beating he took from Finn Balor a small sacrifice in a much larger game. Aleister Black would continue by saying that he has little issue in putting himself through suffering in order to continue to walk his path because in his mind pain is an old friend. However he makes it crystal clear that just because he is at peace with the pain he suffered, he won't allow Finn to just get away with that! |
~ DECISION ~ The cameras then take us to the office of "The Guvnor" Anthony Ogogo. There is a large number of security in his office separating the trio of Trent Seven, Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate. Ogogo is far from thrilled to have all three of these men in his office as he says this has gone on too long and he has three of the UK's top talent constantly in one another's way. However he has found what he calls in his opinion the best of a bad bunch of decisions. This is why at Showcase X these three men will compete in a triple threat match to end it all! As it will be losers leave WWE UK! In the meantime however Ogogo says he will embrace some of the chaos with this trio as over the coming weeks he will give these men the option to pick one another's poison! |
MATCH #3: SINGLES MATCH (Referee: Oscar Harding) ORO MENSAH VS. BOBBY ROODE A world's collide preview match would be the next port of call for the evening. This bout however would be more than just a preview as for Oro Mensah this was an opportunity to make a statement against a former NXT Champion. Fired up and looking to prove himself Oro Mensah would launch himself across the ring on several occasions against his opponent. The technician Roode in turn would continue to look to ground Mensah, as the bout wore on Mensah would pick up a few close near falls on Roode until Roode caught Mensah on a springboard and drove him into the canvas with a spinebuster. From here Roode followed up with a Glorious DDT for the victory. Shepherd: And the winner of the match Bobby Roode! The crowd cheers as the announcement is made and Bobby Roode has his arm raised. After celebrating his win, Bobby Roode walks over to the downed Oro Mensah and helps him up to his feet before shaking his hand in a show of respect. |
~ WORLDS COLLIDE ~ The cameras then return us to the office of Anthony Ogogo and he is standing by with Simon Miller. Requesting this time to make an announcement, Ogogo follows up by confirming that two new participants have been put in place for the Worlds Collide Gauntlet match. These two will be from NXT Australia and they are Aaron Henare and Robbie Eagles! As Ogogo thanks Miller for his time, he is surprisingly cut short by Simon Miller. Miller says that Showcase X will be a historic event and Worlds Collide is shaping up to be one of the most star studded contests to date. Which is why Simon Miller would like to be considered as an entrant in the gauntlet! Ogogo says he would consider it but Simon has to understand he hasn't had a match in WWE UK so there are others he would have to consider first! |
The crowd in attendance boos loudly as already standing in the ring is the European Champion Gunther as well as his associate Nigel McGuinness. While the confident champion stares stoically into the distance Nigel McGuinness demands that the crown in attendance silence themselves out of respect to the greatest European Champion in wrestling history. Proclaiming Gunther a dominant champion of which the wrestling world has not seen before, Nigel goes on to further say that Gunther is the personification of dominance and that his reign will only continue to be more dominant. However on top of his incredibly impressive reign, Nigel reveals that Gunther is someone who is truly keen and invested in the future of tomorrow. Saying that along with Gunther, Nigel has looked around and seen a bunch of unworthy pretenders in this locker room calling themselves wrestlers. This is why Gunther and Nigel have began to look to the future of wrestling and those who are truly looking to step into this ring with the honor and integrity befitting this sport. Which is why tonight Gunther and Nigel are out here to introduce the very first Young Lion to step in line and follow the Ring General and his teachings! To the shock of the crowd in attendance the theme song of Steven Regal begins to play. His face bruised and his eye blackened from his battle with Gunther last week, the stoic Steven Regal walks down to the ring before climbing through the ropes. While Gunther stares at him, Steven Regal is greeted by Nigel McGuinness who shakes his hand. From here Gunther nods his head to Regal who falls in line. As Regal stands by Gunther's side, Nigel says that unlike a lot of other people ahead of Halloween Havoc last week they did not see Steven Regal as someone who was not ready or prepared for the task at hand. They instead looked at that contest as an evaluation of one of the few talents they deemed worthy to follow the ring general's lead. This is why following the match that Steven Regal's own father didn't believe he had a chance to win, Nigel McGuinness went and visited Steven Regal on his return to the UK performance center. Not only did he praise him on his spirited effort but he provided Steven with all he wanted in the first place and that was recognition and respect he deserved. Now under Gunther's tutelage, Steven Regal is not just a prospect kept on ice in the performance center. Instead he is now officially apart of the WWE UK roster! With that Nigel McGuinness raises Steven's arm in the air to boos while the cameras cut backstage where a disappointed William Regal watches on. |
MATCH #4: SINGLES MATCH (Referee: Chris Hatch) MERCEDEZ BLAZE W/KANJI VS. SANTANA GARRETT The next bout of the night would be women's action as the recently debuted Mercedez Blaze took on veteran Santana Garrett. This bout would be quite the technical back and forth contest with both women having their moments. The veteran Garrett in particular managed to go on offense thanks to her fast paced offence and managed to score a near fall following a diving hurricanrana. Garrett then would climb the turnbuckle once more but as she neared the top she would be distracted by the presence of Stevie Turner at ringside. This distraction would allow Blaze to connect with a rope hung cutter for the win. Shepherd: And the winner of the match Mercedez Blaze! The crowd voices their displeasure as the announcement is made and a smug Mercedez Blaze rises to her feet. While Blaze has her arm raised by the official, a disappointed Kanji at ringside confronts Stevie Turner. The brash Turner backs her way through the crowd while Blaze leaves the ring and heads backstage. |
~ OVER ~ Halloween Havov post show footage is played and it focuses on Joe Hendry getting stitches from the attack at the hands of Spike Trivet. Far from his usual fun loving self, Joe here is very serious as he remarks that Spike Trivet will learn that it takes a lot more than this to keep Joe Hendry down. Branding the last few weeks and his songs about Trivet good fun. Joe Hendry says that because of Spike Trivet and his actions this has gone from being just a little bit of fun to now becoming purely a personal matter. One of which Joe Hendry will get payback on when he gets his hands on Spike! |
~ NEXT WEEK ~ The cameras then direct us to the office of Anthony Ogogo. Here the general manager is standing by with a couple of announcements for next week's show. Starting out by confirming that next week the WWE UK women's champion Raquel Lourenco will be returning, Ogogo follows up that revelation by confirming that Raquel has personally demanded a match with Katarina Leigh at the next showcase which Ogogo has made official. On top of that Ogogo confirms that next week we will also see another World's Collide preview match as David Finlay takes on Mansoor. |
MATCH #5: BRITISH BULLDOG TAG TEAM CLASSIC (Referee: Darryl Sharma) HOUSE OF COUTURE W/ELIZA ALEXANDER VS. KACY CATANZARO AND KAYDEN CARTER The British Bulldog Tag Team Classic would continue this week as The House of Couture took on the popular highflying pair of Kacy Catanzaro and Kayden Carter. This would very much be a back and forth battle from the off with Kacy and Kayden flying all across the ring opposite the more hard hitting approach of Nina Samuels and Lana Austin. As the bout wore on we'd see Kacy Catanzaro put it all on the line as she landed a big suicide dive on Nina Samuels which took out both women. Meanwhile in the ring Kayden Carter would land a leaping enzuugiri on Lana. As Kayden then motioned to Kacy at ringside to go for her finish however we would see behind the referee's back Kacy Catanzaro would be shoved into the ring post by Eliza Alexander. This would distract Kayden and allow Lana Austin to roll up her opponent for a tainted count of three. Shepherd: And the winners of the match the House of Couture! The crowd boos as the announcement is made and Lana Austin rolls out to the floor. Here Lana is joined by Nina Samuels and Eliza Alexander for their celebration while Kayden Carter protests to the official in the ring. |
~ CHALLENGE ~ The cameras then take us to the hallway where WWE Commonwealth Champion Kassius Ohno is standing by with Joanna Rose. Rose is quick to ask Ohno how he feels about his challenge at Showcase X Ilja Dragunov. With a smile on his face, Kassius Ohno remarks that this is exactly the kind of challenge and opponent he has been looking for this entire time. Calling Ilja Dragunov an opponent he has a lot of respect for and admiration for, Kassius Ohno says that it will be his honor to step in the ring and compete with Dragunov at Showcase X! |
~ RETURN ~ Just before the main event can begin the cameras direct us to the locker room where Curt Hawkins and Nathan Cruz are standing by. Doing the talking for the two of them Curt Hawkins says that they are the most professional wrestlers and that fear not because the most anticipated segment in wrestling history will return next week as Curt Hawkins will once more hold the most professional challenge. Hawkins then follows by saying that while Cruz was unsuccessful last week, he will turn things around by being the winner of the World's Collide Gauntlet match! |
MAIN EVENT: TAG TEAM MATCH (Senior Official: Tom Scarborough) EDDIE DENNIS AND ADAM MAXTED VS. AUSSIE OPEN Finally it was time for the main event of the evening and this would be a non title clash as the Selfish Generation took on Aussie Open in what had become quite the personal clash following a brawl the previous week. More akin to a fight than an actual match as the teams battled it out around the ringside area much to the testing of the official's discretion. We'd see after a solid ten minutes of back and forth battling that the champions would be victorious following a Coriolis on Adam Maxted and a Mark Davis piledriver on Eddie Dennis. Shepherd: And the winners of the match Aussie Open! The crowd cheers as the announcement is made and Aussie Open rise to their feet. Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis begin to celebrate their win while the official checks on the fallen Dennis and Maxted to close the show. |
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