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Paradigm is back for another show at the Cockpit Theater in Marylebone, London .... These shows are are treated like Takeover shows in style and setting .... The venue is smaller and very intimate, putting the fans right in the middle of the action .... The show is live-streamed to the world on platforms like Twitch, Instagram Live and Paradigm’s YOUTUBE channel ....***** |  |
Pat McAfee and Dasha Fuentes are tonight’s MC’s and McAfee starts out by presenting the thing that we are all here for tonight: The Monarch title belt. McAfee and Dasha recap the lineage of the title, whose origins can be traced all the way back to 2006 when it was the first women’s title ever created .... McAfee announces that they are short a competitor as, due to travel issues, Bianca BelAir is unfortunately not here tonight and will be replaced by Hyan ....
On queue, this brings out Hyan and she isn’t happy with McAfee's comments .... She is no ones ‘alternate’ .... She is the Renaissance woman that this division NEEDS .... She is the reason Hikaru Shida is dragging her leg around and tonight she is going to show the world how good she is and walk away with the Monarch title! Who is her opponent? She demands to know. Hikaru Shida’ music hits! Hyan looks like she’s about to shit her pants!
Match 1: Hyan vs. Hikaru Shida
Shida is still selling the effects of the attack on her knee last week, but she comes out intense and kicks Hyan's ass .... Hyan zeroes in on the injured leg and attacks, but Shida battles through the pain .... Shida hits a middle rope Falcon Arrow, but she isnt done there .... She pulls down her knee pad and drills Hyan with the Tamashii, doing more damage to her own knee in order to punish Hyan .... Shida covers Hyan and gets the 3 count to adbvance .... GABBY LOREN IS BACKSTAGE W/ THE ROTTWEILERS ....
Eddie Kingston cuts a promo and says they dont even know who their opponents are tonight, but it doesn’t matter .... Whoever it is, they better be ready to kill them for those belts because that’s what it’s gonna take .... those belts validate everything they've done and every drop of blood that they've spilled .... they came from the streets, came from nothing and this sport is all they've got .... They've bounced around, been fired, not been called to come back to shows .... So they don’t just want those belts, they need them .... As far as the other teams in the tournament, Kingston says teams like The North aren't on their level. They were so scared of the Chosen Bros that they slammed Jeff Cobb's arm in a car door .... Kingston says to look in his eyes, they arent scared of anything .... if The Rottweilers wanted to take someone out, they would have slammed Cobb's fucking head in the door and not just his arm! That’s New York! He would like to see The North try to pull the same shit on some boys from the hood .... That’s the shit they came up doing and they are the Kings ....
Match 2: Thunder Rosa vs. Killer Kelly
These two have extensive MMA backgrounds and they work a match with that style of striking and grappling .... Rosa ends up getting the win after hitting the Fire Thunder Driver on Kelly ....Match 3: ‘The Virtuosa’ Deonna Purazzo vs. Jordynne Grace
Purazzo with the slow, gradual mat wrestling to start while Grace counters with her power .... Grace hits a powerbomb for a false finishes, but Deonna takes over and starts decimating Graces shoulder .... Grace can’t hit Fall from Grace because of the hurt arm and Purazzo gets the Crowbar (Fujiwara Armbar)! Grace makes it to the ropes before she can transition to Venus De Milo and then she comes back with a one-armed spinebuster but Purazzo gets her foot on the ropes .... Grace charges but Purazzo sidesteps and Grace hits shoulder-first into the post .... Purazzo rolls Grace up, putting her feet on the ropes for extra leverage and she steals the win!!!!WE GO BACKSTAGE ....
We see Jay Lethal in the locker room when Elijah Burke walks in .... Lethal rolls his eyes when Burke isn't looking and then asks what he wants .... Burke says he just talked to Eric Bischoff and tells Lethal to look at the newest team with a spot in the tag title tournament .... NEW ... AGE ... RAGE .... Lethal thinks he’s joking and Burke says Pope told him he had big plans .... Burke says maybe things haven’t gone Lethals way so far, but they’ve had tag team gold before and they can do it again ....
Match 4: Mia Yim vs. Candice LeRae
Candice is the definite underdog, having just been added to the field last week .... The crowd doesn’t really know who to cheer for, but by the end of this fiery battle the crowd is chanting ‘THIS IS AWESOME’ to both women .... Yim torments Candice with a series of strikes and submissions, but Candice somehow keeps finding a way to survive .... Candice hits a suicide dive into a tornado DDT on the floor, then back in the ring goes for the Gargano Escape but Yim gets out and scores with Kick Me Goodnight (roundhouse) but Candice kicks out again! Yim goes for the Package Piledriver but Candice goes up and over and hits the Unprettier from behind! That’s enough to get Candice the 3 count! ....Paradigm Tag Team Title Tournament: Mustache Mountain (Tyler Bate & Trent Seven) vs. Austin Theory & Alexander Hammerstone w/ Brandi Lauren
The crazy set up of the tag team title tournament means this is a semi-final match .... Due to injuries and there only being 6 teams .... Hammerstone and Theory work well as a team, but Mustache Mountain are too good .... Bate & Seven are definitely the people's pick to win, and they are super OVER with the crowd .... Hammerstone runs into Bop & Bang from Bate, then he gets him in a 'Big Strong Boi' airplane spin but Theory breaks it up with a superkick .... Bate counters Attaxia and lands on his feet, but Theory avoids Bop & Bang only to run into a spinning backfist from Seven! Hammerstone gets dumped to the outside, and Mustache Mountain hit the Mustache Ride (Burning Hammer + top rope knee drop) to advance ....POST MATCH: Theory is pissed and he berates Hammerstone after the match .... Theory shoves Hammerstone, and he has had enough and grabs Theory by the throat! .... Brandi steps in and calms Hammerstone down and he lets go, and they squash it and leave together ....
IN THE BACK:
Shida is icing her knee for her match coming up next .... SoCal Val walks in and says it has been over a week since she gave her her business card .... Clearly she has had time to think about it .... Shida is a star in the making and she needs someone to get her to that next level .... So let's talk business .... Shida tells her she's not interested ....
Monarch title semi-final match: Thunder Rosa vs. Candice LeRae
Hard-fought match .... The fans are solidly behind Candice, as she has become the sentimental favorite coming out of all the problems she and Johnny have had with the Rottweilers .... The fans are on the edge of their seats for every false finish .... Candice comes close, but Rosa gets the knees up on the Lionsault attempt and this allows her to hit the La Rosa Driver (Hammerlock Wing Clipper) and finally puts Candice away to be the first woman in the finals ....Candice and Rosa shake hands after the match, and Candice gets a nice ovation from the crowd for her performance ....
Monarch title semi-final match: Deonna Purazzo vs. Hikaru Shida
Shida attacks right off the bat trying to keep Purazzo away from the injured knee .... Purazzo finally zeroes in on the knee, and just destroys it further with attack after attack .... Shida keeps fighting back, but Purazzo grounds her with a figure four .... Shida tries to fire up, and hits the Tamashii but hurts her knee further and can’t cover .... this allows Purazzo to recover and she locks on a stretch muffler crab! Shida struggles to get to the ropes but Purazzo pulls her back to the center of the ring! Shida wont tap! Shida stops being able to defend herself and the referee steps in and stops the match before any further damage can be done to Shida's knee ....POST MATCH: At ringside, Rhea Ripley is still seated and watching on intently. Gabby Loren tries to get comments from Ripley, who just acts like she’s bored .... Deonna Purazzo walks by on her way to the back, and she stops to jaw with Ripley .... These two women have had run-ins during their time in APW .... Purazzo yells at Ripley and tells her that she is going to be forced to hand that title over to her tonight!
Paradigm Tag Team Tournament Match: New Age Rage (Jay Lethal & Elijah Burke) vs. The Rottweilers (Low Ki & Homicide) w/ Eddie Kingston
The fans are hyped for this New Age Rage reunion as Burke & Lethal come out .... Burke and Lethal run wild at the start, and they look like the old NEW AGE RAGE .... the fans are behind them .... However, from there it turns into Lethal trying to prove himself as a singles guy by going alone for a large portion of the next few minutes .... this backfires as The Rottweilers take over on him .... Burke asks for the tag, and every time Lethal comes close to tagging him something stops him from doing it .... Burke finally gets the hot tag and he comes in .... BUT THEN TURNS AND KICKS JAY LETHAL RIGHT IN THE NUTS!!!! Burke looks down at Lethal and smirks, then walks out leaving Lethal to the dogs .... Low Ki hits the Tidal Krush and then goes up top and finishes Lethal with the Warriors Way (double stomp) .... The Rottweilers advance .... IN THE BACK:
We immediately go to the back as cameras catch up with Elijah Burke as he leaves the arena .... Dasha rushes to catch up to him and asks why did he turn on Jay Lethal? Burke doesnt answer and he walks out into the parking lot where a limo is waiting .... The door open and MVP and Lashley are inside .... Burke looks at Dasha and says 'It's just business' and gets in .... the limo pulls off ....
Monarch title Finals: Deonna Purazzo vs. Thunder Rosa
We get some mat wrestling in the first few minutes with both ladies trying some submission attempts only to have the other woman counter .... We are in a stalemate in the first few moments .... Rosa hits some strikes and gets a near fall off of a series of running back sentons .... Purazzo catches Rosa in the ropes and hits a dragonscrew leg whip through the ropes to take the advantage .... Deonna works the knee of Rosa much like she did Shida in the previous match .... Rosa battles back and runs wild with a barrage of clotheslines while Purazzo is in the buckles .... Butterfly suplex and Rosa goes up top but Purazzo knocks her off and they battle onto the apron, and Rosa comes back with a German Suplex on the ring apron!!!! Back in the ring, Rosa hit the La Rosa driver (hammerlock wing clipper) for the 1 ... 2 ... Noooooo! Purazzo kicks out! Rosa up top again, but Purazzo recovers in time to meet her up there .... they battle it out with strikes and headbutts but Purazzo gets the super-plex! However, as she floats over Rosa cradles the legs and both women’s shoulders are down! 1 ... 2 ... 3!!!!There is confusion as multiple referees have a conference in the ring about who the winner should be .... Ripley enters the ring .... She and Purazzo jaw at each other, and Ripley says that the match should just be restarted .... The refs agree and they order the match to be restarted!
Purazzo attacks Rosa and throws her into the ringpost shoulder-first! She goes right into the Crowbar (fujiwara armbar) but Rosa reverses it into a crucifix for a 2 count .... Rosa is tossed to the apron, and Purazzo with a sunset flip powerbomb from the ring to the floor! RRosa holds on to the ropes! Purazzo pulls her loose and buckle bombs her onto the announce table and wipes out Rhea Ripley and the commentators!!!! Purazzo pulls Rosa back in the ring and goes for Cosa Nostra, but Rosa battles out and hits a German Suplex! 1 ... 2 ... 3!!!! Both ladies shoulders are down!!!! More chaos!Both women claim they won and the ref are trying to sort it out .... Ripley is back in after the powerbomb spot on the floor and she spears Purazzo to the mat! Ripley with hammer fists on Purazzo but the refs pull her off! Ripley picks up the Monarch title, but Thunder Rosa jerks the title out of her hand! Ripley turns to Thunder Rosa and they get nose to nose .... SHOOT HEADBUTT BY RIPLEY DROPS ROSA! Purazzo is back up and hits Ripley from behind, but Ripley turns the tables and lays her out with the Riptide! Ripley scoffs at both of them and then picks up the title .... She walks off, passing Bischoff in the aisle and he tells her 'this wasn’t part of the deal' .... Ripley gets in Bischoff's face and says isn’t going to just hand the title over .... She isnt scheduled to fly back to Australia until next week, so he will just have to wait until the next Paradigm TV to find out what she is going to do ....
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To end the show, it is time for Johnny Gargano's announcement .... Johnny and Candice come out and Johnny has a neck brace on .... Johnny & Candice get a great reaction ....
Johnny details the attacks on The Rottweilers ....
*** We see a replay of the Rottweilers attacking Johnny and injuring his neck with their '187' finisher (Double Stomp-spiked Cop Killa) and being carried out on a stretcher at Paradigm #2 *** .... The last time they saw him, he was carried out on a stretcher, and his body has reminded him of that every morning when he struggles to get up out of bed .... He’s been doing this his whole life, but he’s realized he has to think about not only his future, but THEIR future .... It all started when they put their hands on his wife .... It’s all taken a toll on his family, his friends, and his marriage .... The injuries have all added up, and he's had a lot of time to sit at home and think about if this is even worth it anymore .... We get a 'PLEASE DON'T GO! PLEASE DON'T GO!' chant from the crowd ....
Johnny puts the mic down and looks like he is going to walk off, but then he stops and rips off the neck brace! Candice looks a little surprised here .... Johnny then cuts a firery promo on the Rottweilers saying it is ALL worth it .... he calls out Eddie Kingston and the Rottweilers as Candice begs him not to .... Here come the Rottweilers .... Kingston has a mic and he thought he told the Gargano family that they aren’t welcome in ‘HIS’ sport of pro-wrestling .... he tells them to go home and play house, walk their dog, and forget about wrestling .... He says they’re coming to the ring and if Johnny is still there, they will finish this ....
Refs arrive to try and stop this, and Candice is trying to talk Johnny out of this. She finally convinces Johnny to leave and they leave the ring together .... They are headed to the back, but Kingston tells Johnny he better be a good little boy and listen to his wife. This is it for Johnny and he snaps and rushes the ring! He gets past the refs but the Rottweilers attack! Candice watches helplessly as Johnny gets beat down but she has seen enough and grabs a chair! Candice tries to hit Eddie with it, but he easily grabs it away from her! Candice is surrounded by the Rottweilers but she won't back down .... SHE SPITS IN THE FACE OF KINGSTON!!!! Eddie stands there in disbelief for a moment and then laughs like he can't believe that just happened .... He wipes the spit off his face, THEN THROWS THE CHAIR RIGHT IN THE FACE OF CANDICE!!!! Low Ki & Homicide grab Candice and set her up for the 187!!!! The ref tries to stop them but Eddie lays out the refs!!!! 1 ... 8 ... 7 KILLS CANDICE!!!!
Once again, The Rottweilers have gone too far!!!! Eddie stands over Johnny and Candice and spits on the ground in disrespect ....
Johnny slowly crawls to Candice and cradles her in his arms and sobbing .... Kingston looks back over his shoulder at the ring and has a disgusted look on his face .... The crowd is quiet as EMT’s come out to try to help Candice but Johnny has snapped and he won’t let anyone near her .... the stream ends ....
