The show opens up with highlights of Edge answering the open challenge from Seth Rollins for a NWA World title shot at Wrestle Kingdom.........
The fans blow the roof off the Georgia Dome as Edge makes his way to the ring! Edge and Rollins don't say a single word, they just stare each other down as the fans buzz in anticipation as it appears the NWA World title match for Wrestle Kingdom is set!
The show goes live and the cameras pan around The Footprint Center here in Phoenix and then out comes......
Chris Adams: "Two weeks ago I stood here a defeated man. That's right, I lost my NWA World tv title to Taz. And I made no excuses about it. He was the better man that night. But as I said, I stood in this very ring two weeks ago asking for my rematch. But instead, I was blindsided by that snake Gary Hart and his new client, Big Van Vader! I heard all the talk.... people warned me for months.... not to trust Hart! But I wouldnt listen. But Gary , you should know something too..... you shouldn't hunt what you can't kill. I'm going nowhere. As a matter of fact, bring Vader out here right now! I will kick his ass all over Phoenix!" After a few moments Gary Hart does come out, but Vader isn't with him. Instead he is accompanied by the Progress tag team champions, The Hart Foundation!
Gary Hart: "Chris, you should be very careful what you ask for. I know that you think you want Vader in that ring. But you aren't deserving of such. You have to earn that. So here's the deal..... tonight you will face this man..... Bret "The Hitman" Hart. And if you can beat him, you get Vader right here next week!" The fans pop as our Main event is set for the night!
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As we come back from break we hear some unfamiliar music play then after a few moments, out comes.......
WILL OSPREAY!!!! Joey Styles: "Are you freaking kidding me?? Will Ospreay is here in Progress Wrestling??? OHHH..... MY GAWD!!!" Match One: "Speedball" Mike Bailey vs Will Ospreay The crowd was hot at the bell. Stalling at first, then standing switches, quicker reversals, and a standoff. The crowd started singing the “Ole” soccer chant but instead singing “Ospreay." Bailey hit his speedback kicks to the ribs, and Ospreay bailed to the floor. Ospreay tied Bailey in the ropes and hit a kick on the left knee sending Bailey to the floor writhing in pain. Ospreay followed to the floor and worked over the injured knee on the guardrail in front of the fans.
In the ring, Ospreay applied a Figure Four. Ospreay was now fully in charge, working over the damaged knee. Bailey hit a running knee and a series of kicks, then a corkscrew press for a nearfall. Ospreay hit a top-rope flying forearm for a nearfall. Bailey went for his mid-ring moonsault kneedrop, but Ospreay got his knees up, and Bailey landed on the mat in pain, clutching his knees. Bailey hit his Asai Moonsault to the floor. Bailey missed a moonsault kneedrop on the apron, and Ospreay immediately hit an Os-cutter on the apron.
In the ring, Ospreay hit a top-rope flying forearm to the base of the neck, then a springboard Os-cutteer for a nearfall. Bailey avoided the Hidden Blade, and he immediately hit Ultimo Weapon/second-rope moonsault kneedrop, and they were both down. They traded chops. Ospreay hit his wrap-around kick to the face and a forearm strike to the back of the head for a nearfall. Ospreay applied a modified Texas Cloverleaf. Bailey hit a mid-ring huracanrana and his moonsault kneedrop, then his spin kick in the corner. Bailey hit the Ultimo Weapon and a spin kick to Ospreay’s jaw for a nearfall.
They fought on the ropes in the corner, and Bailey hit a second-rope piledriver, then he hit the Hidden Blade for a nearfall. Ospreay immediately put Bailey on his shoulder and hit the Stormbreaker spinning faceplant for the pin. After the match Ospreay got on the mic and tore into the crowd that was cheering for him. He ran through the matches he’s had in the past before coming here. Ospreay says he's not here to be be some side show attraction...... he's here because he is the fucking attraction! And his goal in 2024....... to become the NWA Super Juniors World Champion!
This brings out....... "The Bastard" PAC!!!!
The fans chant "HOLY SHIT!" as PAC stands at ringside staring at Ospreay. Ospreay taunted PAC to come into the ring. PAC walked around ringside. They stood face-to-face in the ring, but security rush to the ring before any blows are thrown!
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Match Two: Sting & Lex Luger vs The Steiner Brothers Scott starts the match throwing Sting all around the ring with tilt-a-whirl slams and such. Sting makes a comeback with a hotshot and drops Scott with a faceslam. Tag to Luger, he stomps Scott while he’s down. Luger ducks low off a whip and takes the butterfly slam.Rick nails Luger with a Steinerline for two. Belly-to-Belly Superplex sets up a STEINER BULLDOG for 1.....2......NO! Sting tags and hits Rick with a Stinger Splash. Scott breaks up the SCORPION DEATHLOCK. Rick tags Scott, who delivers the Belly-to-Belly Suplex out of the corner. Super Frankensteiner gets two. Sting slips out of a suplex and hits the SCORPION DEATHDROP on Scott. Luger gets a tag and powerslams Scott to lead into the TORTURE RACK! Steiner breaks it up with a kick to the gut. On the floor, Luger goes for a suplex and Rick stops it from happening with a kick in the gut. It breaks down with all four inside the ring. Rick and Sting head out to the floor where we see Kerry Von Erich jump the railing for the 3rd week in a row. Kerry meets Rick Steiner and gives him a Discuss punch on the concrete! Kerry walks past a downed Sting and pulls the top rope down to send Scott flying out to the floor. Kerry slides in after Luger but police grab him before he can get to Luger. The ref throws the match out as a NO Contest. Police are shown handcuffed and escorting Von Erich away as Renee Young approaches.......
Renee Young: "Kerry! Kerry, this is the third straight week that police have had to escort you from a Progress Wrestling event! What is going on?" Kerry Von Erich: "Its real simple Renee! Luger screwed me out of my UWF title! And if McAfee won't sign the match to happen here so be it. I challenge Luger to meet me at Road to Wrestle Kingdom in Madison Square Garden. Let's finish this once and for all!" The police escort Luger away and then we see the Progress Heavyweight champion, AJ Styles watching on.......
AJ Styles: "I've tried telling people that boy can't be trusted!" Then wr see Don Callus walk up to.Styles........
Don Callis: "Now, now AJ! I wouldnt worry so much about him. You have way bigger problems coming your way!" Callis walks off laughing as Styles watches on.
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Match Three: Brian Kendrick vs "Dr. D." David Schultz Schultz offers his hand as the bell rings and Kendrick shakes it bit Shultz slaps the taste from.his mouth instead. Schultz then opens a can of whopp ass on Kendrick. Powerslam by Shultz, 1.....2..... Schultz pulls Kendrick up instead of taking the win. Whip into the ropes by Schultz followed up with a lariat. Schultz up top.... flying elbow drop for the win. As the replay is show, Renee Young joins Schultz at ringside......
Renee Young: "Dr. D.... After your surprising debut here last week and the brutal attack to Hangman Page, its been made official, you will face Hangman this weekend in San Francisco at the....." David Schultz: "You get your fat ass away from my ring girl before I turn you over my knee! I don't care nothing about no Hangman Page! If your gonna run with the big boys, you better be ready! Last time I was in San Francisco I was looking for a woman! I wanted a woman!! I couldn't find no woman!! I found a lot of men that looked like women! That looked like Hangman Page! Yeah you, Hangman Page, you belong in San Francisco. I'm telling ya like it is! That's your kind of place and your kind of people! HEY CAMERA MAN.... DONT YOU WAVE ME OFF! COME HERE BOY!!" Schultz goes after the camera man, who drops the camera down and hightails it away as we head to break!
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Match Four: Shelton Benjamin vs Swerve Strickland (If Swerve wins, he gets a Progress Wrestling contract) Benjamin got a backslide for a two count early on followed by an armbar. Benjamin showed off some athleticism with a backflip off the top ropes into another armbar. Swerve broke free with a slap to the face and that turned into a slugfest. Benjamin with a kick to the gut, Swerve blocked a suplex and Swerve with a back body drop that sent Benjamin to the floor, Benjamin tried a Powerbomb and Swerve turned it into a hurricanrana. Strickland sent Benjamin face first into the top of the barricade. Swerve with a slam followed by his cocky pin attempt. Benjamin ran the ropes followed by a forearm. Swerve came back with a dropkick. Benjamin whipped him into the turnbuckle, splash in the corner and a belly to back suplex. Swerve came back with a bulldog. Swerve wanted a moonsault, but Benjamin sent him over the top onto the apron. Swerve was on the top rope, Benjamin ran across the ring and jumped to the top rope with a superplex!! Benjamin slowly crawled over for a two count. Benjamin whipped Swerve into the ropes, tossed him into the air and Swerve bumped onto his chest. Benjamin slapped on a body scissors. They did a double clothesline spot, so both men were down for about eight seconds
Benjamin missed a corner splash. Strickland with a forearm, and a shoulder block and Swerve teased a move against the ropes, but Benjamin popped up with a Samoan Drop for a two count. Swerve nailed Benjamin with an elbow to the face followed by an enziguri kick for two. Swerve tossed Benjamin onto the apron, Benjamin with a leap to the top rope leading to a springboard bulldog for a two count. Swerve got a nearfall of his own. Benjamin went for an attack off the ropes, Strickland avoided it, but Benjamin nailed the T-Bone Suplex, 1......2...... Swerve got his foot on the bottom rope. Benjamin went for a spin kick, Swerve ducked it and slapped on the Boston Crab with the crowd screaming for this. They were into it. Benjamin got to the ropes. Swerve kicked away at him, the ref made him go back and Benjamin nailed a leaping kick to the face for two. Benjamin went for a dropkick, Swerve held on to the ropes. Swerve went for a moonsault, Benjamin avoided it, Swerve went for the Boston Crab, Benjamin flipped out and rolls Swerve up, but Swerve rolls through and sits on Shetons shoulders holding the middle rope for leverage as the ref counts three!
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"Gentleman" Chris Adams vs Bret Hart w/Gary Hart Adams pulls Bret out to the floor to start and posts him right quick. In the ring, Adams gets to work in the corner, breaking the rules going to Bret’s eyes. They do a double reversal into the other corner, but Adams hits the buckles when Hart moves, and Bret lays in with forearms and kicks, then chokes away.
Adams comes back quickly and goes after Hart’s nose and hair, and the referee has to break it up, but Adams charges Hart and knocks him off the apron, sending Bret crashing sternum-first into the guardrail. Gary Hart goes over to check on Bret, then distracts Adams from the apron himself. Adams gives them the ol’ double noggin knocker.
But ultimately it all worked, as Gary Hart had dropped off a chair with Bret, so when Adams dives from the top down to hit a double axhandle, Bret surprises him with a chsirshot to the ribs. Bret distracts the ref now, and Gary Hart gets a kick to Adams hurt ribs.
Bret hits a piledriver, gets a two count. Adams sidesteps Bret again in the corner and then Adams shoulders him on the post again. Adams up top and hits the double axhandle. That gets two. Hart comes right back with a backbreaker.
Hart goes for his second rope flying elbow but it misses. Adams snaps the neck over the top rope and slides back in for a two count, then gets caught up with the referee, and when he turns to charge, Bret backdrops him over the top rope to the floor, where Adams immediately grabs at his ankle.
Adams takes his boot off and rolls back in, he can’t put any weight on it. Bret goes right after the bootless ankle. Joey Styles wants the referee to stop the match as Adams can’t defend himself and Hart is looking for a submission. But Adams kicks him away and Bret shoulders the post for the third or fourth time. Adams snaps Bret back off the ropes and covers for two.
Hart right back to the ankle, though, as Adams can’t even stand, he can’t put any weight on it. Adams gets under the bottom rope while in a half-crab, and he’s on the apron trying to pull himself up. Hart snapmares him over and back in. Adams goes back to the apron, and when Hart tries to slam him back in, Adams cradles him for the win. Adams rolls out of the ring holding his ankle when we see Big Van Vader come out posing and stalking Adams as they are set to Clash next week.