Paradigm #22 - 'Farewell London'

STRONG STYLE /strôNG/ /stīl/ 1. ‘... A style of wrestling evolved from Japanese Puroresu (プロレス) and traditional British Catch wrestling that incorporates full contact martial arts kicks and strikes with a strong emphasis placed on submission wrestling ...’

Monarch Women's Champion: Deonna Purazzo Hometown: Hackettstown, New Jersey Finisher: Venus De Milo Cosa Nostra (Cradle Piledriver) Reign: 12/19/20

LOCATION: London, England (United Kingdom) ARENA: Royal Albert Hall BROADCAST TEAM: Mauro Renallo & Pat McAfee INTERVIEWS: Christy Hemme & Dasha Fuentes

Brand new UWF women’s tag team champions VALIFORNIA (Deonna Purazzo & Chelsea Green) come out with SoCal Val and Raquel Gonzalez for a huge championship celebration …. Valifornia is dripping in gold as Purazzo is the MONARCH champion, and together with Green they are both the new SHINE tag team champions as well as the new UWF tag team champions ….


PURAZZO – “I told the whole world what would happen at Wrestlemania.  I didn’t give you a prediction, I gave a spoiler.  And what we did was not only become the very first SHINE tag team champions, Chelsea and liberated the UWF tag team titles from those digusting THOT’s Su Yung & Rosemary.  And now we have instantly brought class and sophistication back to the women’s tag team division.  We are a of what all tag teams, no scratch that, of what all WOMEN should aspire to be.  And as the top women in the entire UWF, we definitely like to spoil ourselves.  And you know that ladies of class love GOLD.  Well, Valifornia has ALL the gold!  Well, almost.  And that brings me to Alexa Bliss.  Alexa, sweetheart, congratulations from one champion to another on your big win at Wrestlemania.  The only problem I have with you is you calling yourself the one true ‘goddess’ of the UWF.  Well, I am the one true ‘Virtuosa’ of the UWF, and just remember that you are only champion until I decide that I want your belt too ….

You know, Valifornia was planning on coming out here on the red carpet and having a celebration to mark our dominance of women’s wrestling, but after looking at this crowd I realize that we are WAY too sophisticated to have it in front of these trolls.  So what we are going to do is we are going to go to the finest restaurants this city has to offer, and order the most expensive bottle of champagne.  Because whether anyone likes it or not, Valifornia is the toast of womens wrestling in the UWF! ….


Back at the announce desk, Mauro and Pat put over Valifornia’s history-making Wrestlemania and talk about how they are headed out to paint the town red .... Mauro puts over Temple of Doom, signaling the end of the Paradigm-era and the beginning of MLW .... tonight will be the final show at Royal Albert Hall, and it is fitting that our main event will be a battle of two of England’s biggest stars .... Will Ospreay, who left the UK to have great success in XWA, and Cara Noir, who stayed behind and re-created himself as an enigma on the British independent scene ....


THE NORTH (Ethan Page & Josh Alexander) vs. STREET PROFITS (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford)

RESULTS: The North attack The Street Profits as they make their charismatic entrance, with Josh Alexander taking Dawkins out with a Jay Driller (Double Underhook Piledriver) on the ramp!!!!  Ford takes on both members of the North by himself, holding his own for a few moments before the North get the heat on him …. Ford fights back, and Dawkins comes back out to try to help his partner despite the doctors being at ringside and telling him not to …. Page ends up throwing Dawkins into the ring steps, which aggravates the neck injury further …. Ford gets the springboard blockbuster on Page, but Alexander pulls the ref to the floor before the 3 count …. Ford takes Page out with a dive, then he goes to the top for the MILE HIGH frog splash but Page recovers in time and shoves Ford off the top to the mat …. Alexander and Page hit the Northern Assault double team on Ford and get the pin ….


IN THE BACK:

DASHA tries to get a word with CHRIS JERICHO regarding the current situation surrounding the MLW title …. Jericho smirks at her ….

JERICHO – ‘Really Daja?  Really?”

DASHA – “It’s Dasha …”

JERICHO – “Whatever.  Like that is important.  Just like it doesn’t matter who that Orange assclown Donald Trump gets to be my opponent in the match at TEMPLE OF DOOM.  The only thing that matters is that the MLW title comes back to where it rightfully belongs, around the sexy waist of Le Champion.  I am the greatest champion, the greatest star not just in Paradigm, but the entire UWF.  You know it, Donald Trump knows it, and everyone else knows it.  The UWF NEEDS Chris Jericho, and don’t you forget it …. Got it?”

Jericho walks off ….


Back in the arena, Ridge Holland comes out …. He talks about losing to Lashley last week, but only because Shane Taylor got involved …. He asks if Lashley is the man he says he is or is he afraid to fight him without having backup …. He thought Lashley was supposed to be dangerous.  Holland is interrupted by Shane Taylor instead …. Taylor says if Holland wants a ‘real’ fight then he can fight ‘Shane T’ boy ….


RIDGE HOLLAND vs. SHANE TAYLOR

RESULTS: This is a hard-hitting hoss battle …. Taylor fights every match with great intensity because he is always trying to prove something because it took him so long to get signed …. Holland was a promising rookie with wins over Matt Riddle and Pete Dunne among others whose momentum was de-railed when Mustache Mountain left Paradigm …. These two fight all over the ringside and in the ring, and ends with Taylor getting the impressive win following a King Kong lariat followed by ‘Welcome to the Land’ (Fire Thunder Driver) for the 3 count ….


IN THE BACK –

Bobby Lashley and MVP are shown arriving at the building …. As Lashley enters he sees a replay of Shane Taylor coming out and fighting Holland when Holland has trashed Lashley on the mic …. Lashley is immediately about to lose his shit, but MVP tries to calm him down …. He tells Lashley don’t sweat it and he will go talk to Taylor about it ….


AUTHORS OF PAIN (Akam & Rezar) vs. THE GUNN SHOW (Austin & Colton Gunn)

RESULTS: Total squash match …. There are no tags as AOP attack the Gunns at the bell and beat the shit out of them …. They hit the Super Collider on the Gunns, then finish Colton with the Last Chapter for the pin ….

POST MATCH:
Tomasso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano come through the crowd TOGETHER and attack AOP from behind with chairs!  AOP bail out and actually run away from the attack, while Johnny and Ciampa stand tall in the ring …. They seem to be on the same page …. While Johnny holds off the AOP with the chair, Ciampa is holding the chair behind Gargano teasing hitting him with it but he doesn’t


IN THE BACK –

MVP catches up with Shane Taylor …. MVP says Taylor is really rocking the boat here …. Taylor doesn’t care, because Lashley isn’t worth all the hype …. MVP brought him in because when he looks at Shane T he sees dollar signs …. He needs to be promoting Shane Taylors name …. MVP tells him not to forget who got him in the door here and he needs to trust him …. Taylor just walks off ….


Up next, we get the weigh in for the Becky Lynch/ Gina Carano match at TEMPLE OF DOOM …. This is done in a very UFC-like manner with introductions for both women and a legit fight weigh-in …. They complete the weigh in and do their face to face photo op, where there is of course some pushing and shoving ….

Gina says that Becky sees her on the Mandalorian, sees her in Fasts & Furious and she thinks that is who she is …. She doesn’t see the woman that went to Thailand when she was 21 and fought the best Muay Thai fighters in the world …. She’s been bullied, she’s been cancelled …. But people that is born to bully everyone will never beat someone that was born to survive everything.

Becky takes the mic and says that she has never tried to bully anyone.  What she has been trying to do is find out which Gina Carano is the ‘real’ one … Why did it take someone like Becky to unleash the ‘real’ Gina?  Becky was the squeakiest wheel, she dared any woman from any locker room to come after her, and Gina came here to find HER!  She won’t just ‘survive’ Gina, she will make her tap out ….    

Both women are interrupted by the surprise appearance of BIANCA BELAIR!  BelAir does not seem to like the fact that this is even going on, and says all this hype around this match is basically for nothing …. Belair is still the EST, and she is the Blueprint of this womens division …. She is so talented it has everyone ‘shook’ including Valifornia AND Becky & Gina …. Once she is medically cleared, she is coming back to take what belongs to her …. Because she is ‘that bitch’ and she is ‘UN-DA-FEET-TED!’


’The Sword of Essex’ WILL OSPREAY vs. ‘Black Swan’ CARA NOIR

RESULTS: This match has been hyped all night …. You have 2 of the biggest stars in the British Wrestling scene, one of which left England to have success in the United States (Ospreay) and the other that has remained a fixture of the British independent scene (Noir) …. It is fitting as MLW expands into a more global brand, that these two British talents would face off in the final main event under the Paradigm banner in London ….

The early action is as quick as a hiccup, with Ospreay taking to the skies while Noir focusing on a more mat-based approach with stiff strikes …. Noir attempts a German suplex from the top rope, only to have Ospreay backflip out and land on his feet and we get a lot of good stalemates early on …. They battle up top again, with Noir locking on the Black Swan sleeper but Ospreay slips underneath and catches Noir in the Cheeky Nandos superkick …. An Oscutter is countered into a German suplex by Noir, and he calls back to his infamous trilogy of matches against ILJA DRAGUNOV as he hits a Torpedo Moscau for a 2.99999 …. Noir hits Madame Guillotine and then a PK for a 2 count, but Ospreay flips out of the Package Piledriver and hits an Os-cutter!  Noir kicks out at 2!!  Another Os-cutter is countered into the Black Swan sleeper!  Ospreay rolls backward into the Bret Hart pinning combo and Noir is forced to release the hold to avoid being pinned!  Noir gets a triangle choke on Ospreay, but Ospreay shows the power he has gained from adding 15 lbs of muscle and he starts climbing up the ropes while still trapped in the move!  He gets to the 2nd rope, then turns it into an avalanche powerbomb!!!!  Both men are down, but Ospreay is up first ….


HIDDEN BLADE!!!!  Double underhook ….


STORMBREAKER!!!!  Ospreay hooks the leg and gets the 3 count ….


The final main event in London comes to an end with a classic between two of the best representing England …. The fans rise to their feet and are throwing roses in the ring to celebrate these two men, and Ospreay bows to Noir, who returns the favor …. Noir leaves the ring, leaving the spotlight to shine on Ospreay as the show comes to an end ….


We end the show with a rundown of the TEMPLE OF DOOM card so far:

Chris Jericho will face a mystery opponent for the vacant MLW ELITE title
Gina Carano vs. Becky Lynch ….
EC3 vs. Angel Garza
Tag Team Titles:  Johnny Gargano & Tomasso Ciampa vs. Authors of Pain

UWF World Women's Tag Team Championship Match
Rosemary and Su Yung (c) w/ Catrina vs. Valifornia w/ Raquel Gonzalez

Valifornia makes their way to the ring, when they are blindsided by the champs in the aisle! This match hasn’t even started yet, and all four women fight all the way to the ring, with Raquel Gonzalez getting involved as well! BLOOD MIST TO THE EYES OF RAQUEL GONZLEZ!!!! Valifornia is getting beaten down and they don’t even have their ring gear off! Gonzalez is being tended to by a ringside physician, and she is frantically wiping the mist out of her eyes . . . . The champs bring out the tables and set them up at ringside, but more referees rush out to try to get things under control . . . . When they see this, the Rosemary tosses Purazzo into the ring and then Su Yung intimidates the ref until he calls for the bell and starts the match!

The champs start the match in control . . . . They make quick tags in and out just to see who can stomp Green the hardest. They attempt to get this one over early but Purazzo keeps coming in to break up the pin every time. Green eventually fights back and makes the hot tag to Purazzo, and here is where the match kicks up a notch. All 4 women end up in the ring brawling and the ref is just letting this go! The champs are in their element here, as Su Yung hits a cannonball on Purazzo into the ring steps! Rosemary and Green fight on the apron and Rosemary tries to put Green through the table but Green escapes and hits an unprettier to Rosemary on the apron! SoCal Val hands something to Green, and it’s powder! Green tries to throw the powder in Su Yung’s face, BUT SU YUNG MISTS CHELSEA GREEN! She scoops her up for the Panic Switch, but Raquel Gonzalez is back! Her face is still red from the mist earlier, but she is seeing red as she takes Su Yung out with a Big boot. GONZALEZ PUTS SU YUNG THROUGH THE TABLE ON THE FLOOR WITH A POWERBOMB!!!!

The referee is about to throw out the match via a disqualification, when suddenly Marty "The Clown" Martinez runs out onto stage with a microphone in hand and starts screaming at the referee to let this one continue! He tells the referee that "We don't do disqualifications like that here in DAW! And even if we did it's Wrestlemania, damn it!" The referee listens and let's both team continue to wage war against one another. Catrina is livid on the outside screaming at Marty. She had just found an easy way out of this one and "The Clown" snatched it away!

Green is down and blinded in the corner, and Rosemary takes out Gonzalez with a dive to the floor! There is carnage around the ring, but Purazzo is back up and she pulls Su Yung from the rubble of the broken table and tosses her back in the ring. Purazzo tries to lock Venus De Milo on Su Yung, but Su manages to get a hand free and locks the mandible claw on Deonna!!!! Purazzo is fading, but Green is up and breaks it up with a superkick out of nowhere!!!! Su Yung doesn’t let go! MANDIBLE CLAW TO GREEN & PURAZZO AT THE SAME TIME!!!! They hit a double boot to the gut to break it up, and a double superkick takes Su Yung out! Rosemary back in and takes out Green, then hits the Red Wedding on Purazzo! 1 . . . 2 . . . Green breaks up the pin with the curb stomp! Purazzo immediately goes right in to Venus DeMilo!!!! Green holds Su Yung at bay and Rosemary is fading, but she won’t submit! She has a smile on her face! Rosemary passes out from the pain and stops responding, and the ref waves it off! We have new champions!!!!

Winner: Valifornia via KO.