Joey Styles: "Hello everybody! And welcome to Broken Hearts! We are coming to you live and what a show we have in store for you tonight. We have to start the show with some unfortunate news. During the America's Cup, the Progress Wrestling Heavyweight champion, AJ Styles, suffered a serious neck injury during his match with Nikita Koloff. So unfortunately the match for......" Don Callis: "Don't you even think about making that announcement Joey Styles! The only thing wrong with AJ Styles is that he's scared to face Samoa Joe! He is the weakest champion in all of pro wrestling! Progress should be ashamed to have him representing their company. He is a coward of a man! This is......" AJ Styles; "I've heard just about enough of your mouth! Anytime that Samoa Joe wants a match..... I will show you and him why I am the Phenomenal One!" Samoa Joe: "Right now!!!" Progress General Manager Pat McAfee enters the ring and tries to stop Styles from accepting the match and reminds him about his neck. Styles won't have any of it and demands the match start right now. Mcafee reluctantly agrees.
Match One: AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe w/Don Callis for the Progress Heavyweight title AJ hits the nip up rana. HURRICANRANA BY JOE and now they go to the mat and it’s a struggle for an advantage. Chop/kick combo by Joe, but it wasn’t brutal enough so he goes for it again and AJ trips him down and puts him in a headlock. Sweet dropkick from Styles gets 1. AJ delivers a suplex on Joe. Styles looks for the discus lariat but takes a left jab THEN GETS BOOTED THROUGH THE ROPES TO THE FLOOR!
ELBOW SUICIDA FROM JOE!! Joe sets AJ up on the chair…but Styles tries to avoid the Ole Ole Kick – THEN GETS BLASTED WITH A SUPERKICK! Joe looks for a whip to the rails, but Styles jumps it. Joe follows in AND AJ NAILS HIM WITH A DIVING CLOTHESLINE! Back in the ring AJ signals for the Styles Clash, but Joe blocks. Powerbomb from Styles gets 2, Styles looks to have hurt his neck. STO SLAM ON AJ! BOOTSCRAAAAAAPES!
AJ is in trouble and Joe no sells his strikes then dropkicks him hard in the knee. Powerbomb-2 count-STF on Styles, and he’s in the middle of the ring. Joe floats over into a Crossface before AJ gets his leg in the ropes. AJ looks for another fight back but Joe rakes his eyes. Rolling cradle gets Joe 2. Joe runs off the ropes – OVERHEAD KICK FROM AJ! Quebrada inverted DDT scores but only scores 2. HARD kicks to the side of the head, then a big knee keeps Joe down. MutaLock applied by AJ but Joe rakes the eyes once again to escape. Joe with a ferocious enziguri kick out of nowhere, and now both men are down. STIFF AS FUCK forearms from both guys…HONDA SLAPS BY JOE! AJ ducks one last slap and drops Joe with another enzi. AJ lifts Joe to the top rope then powerbombs him off it…INTO THE STYLES CLASH!!!! 1.......2...... JOE KICKS OUT!!! AJ looks for another quebrada…BUT GETS CAUGHT WITH THE ISLAND DRIVER…AND NOW AJ KICKS OUT!! AJ gets blasted with knees BUT STILL dishes out a discus lariat. AJ goes to the top rope but Joe catches him…MUSCLE BUSTER NAILED! JOE SLAPS ON THE CHOKE! AJ is choked unconscious! AND NEWWWWWW PROGRESS WRESTLING HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION....... SAMOA JOE!
Joey Styles: "OHHHHH...... MY GOD! Samoa Joe just went through AJ Styles in a brutal way! Styles was no way in 100% with the after facts of facing Nikita Koloff in the America's Cup. Fans, one thing is very certain here...... Don Callis has Joe on a whole different level. And now he's the Progress Heavyweight champion!" Match Two: Darby Allin vs Swerve Strickland w/Prince Nana Both men locked up to start the match, Darby took Swerve to the mat as Joey Stylesreminds the tv audience that both men are undefeated here in Progress. Swerve then put Darby on the apron while still in a headlock, Darby jumped over the ropes and took Swerve to the mat once more. Strickland applied a chop, Darby then applied a springboard arm drag. Both men then battled on the outside, where Darby hit a Code Red. Darby then hit chops and tossed Swerve in the ring steps. Darby set up the steps in the middle area of the outside. Darby was tossed over the stairs, then Swerve slammed him.
Swerve got a two count pin attempt, then both men traded roll up attempts. Darby locked in a deep pin for a near fall to end the exchange. Both men ended up laying on the floor after a Darby rocket dive. Swerve was tossed into the ring, and rolled back out. Darby did his fast dive and ran into a knee strike from Strickland. Swerve went to the top and hit the Swerve Stomp for a near fall.
Darby hit a top rope stunner, Swerve rolled to the apron. Darby tried to set up a move but was knocked down. Swerve then hit an apron Death Valley Driver. Swerve then hit a slam after an assist from Nana and got the pinfall.
Match Three: Cody Rhodes vs Kurt Angle Cody drags Angle to the floor where Angle backdrops him into the crowd. After some brawling in amongst the fans, Angle goes to work on the ankle, stomping away at the knee and ankle. Angle applies a toehold, but Rhodes breaks out of it. Rhodes goes to rebound out of the corner, but they accidentally butt heads. They trade right hands until Cody takes control with forearms. Angle comes back with a German suplex, only for Cody to hit him with a nasty knee to the face for a nearfall.
Angle quickly goes to the rolling German suplexes, only for Cody to retaliate with the springboard Disaster Kick for a two count. Angle hits some more rolling Germans for two. Angle smells blood and goes for the ankle lock, but Cody pushes out, before walking into an Angle Slam, 1.......2.......NO! Angle gets the ankle lock again, only for Cody to roll through and send Angle into the corner. Rhodes hits the Cross Rhodes! 1.........2.........NO! Cody climbs the turnbuckles for a moonsault when he sees.......
before crashing and burning on a failed moonsault attempt. Both men attempt and fail to execute their finishers again before Angle catches Rhodes by the injured ankle, grapevines, and forces Rhodes to submit in the ankle lock.
Joey Styles: "What the..... we haven't seen Shelton Benjamin in several weeks, and now here he is with Charlie Haas, helping Kurt Angle? This night just gets wilder as we go along!" Match Four: Will Ospreay vs PAC Both men got a giant reaction coming out. Some highlights were a moonsault by PAC to the outside that bloodied Ospreay’s nose early on. This was followed by a brainbuster on the ramp that led to a near count out with Ospreay barely making it. PAC tried another moonsault in the ring, was caught on Ospreay’s shoulders and turned it into a tornado DDT in a spot that had the crowd on its feet. There was an Oscutter for two, an insane huracanrana by PAC for two, and more brawling on the outside. After 22 minutes there was a ref bump and CCK came out to a strong negative reaction. They attempted to hit Ospreay with PAC’s Dragon Gate title but both men fought them off and Aussie Open returned to run CCK back to the locker room. As the clock counted down there was a styles clash from Ospreay and a phoenix splash from PAC before he hit a low blow with 30 seconds left. The referee refused to disqualify him, PAC climbed to the top rope to hit a Red Arrow but Ospreay moves and nails PAC with the Hidden Blade to get the win.
Joey Styles: "Will Ospreay has made it perfectly clear.... he wants to become the NWA Super Juniors champion in 2024! If he keeps getting wins like this one here tonight, it's only a matter of time before he gets that opportunity!" Match Five: The Steiner Brothers vs The Lucha Brothers Fenix vs. Scott start us off and the fans are LOUD. We hit the mat almost immediately and Scott goes for the knees. Fenix stays in a crouch and makes Scott comes to him. Big kick to the back of the head of Scott as Penta comes in and gets a ROAR. He beats up Rick and takes his head OFF with a lariat.
Scott and Fenix come in and Scott hits a Slam off the top. Incredibly hart hitting match so far. Theres the Steiner Line to take Fenix down. Scott hits a belly to belly for two. DDT hits but no cover. Belly to belly off the middle rope gets two again as Penta makes the save. Butterfly Powerbomb requires another save from Penta.
Penta gets a spinning Rock Bottom on Rick and a suplex on Scott. Penta suplexes Fenix onto Rick. Rick kicks out of Fenixs Northern Lights Suplex. Tilt-a-whirl slam to Fenix from Scott. 1......2........Penta makes the save. Penta pulls Fenix up AND CLOTHESLINES HIS BROTHER DOWN! Penta lifts Fenix up...... FEAR FACTOR!
Penta looks down at his brother then leaves the ring with the Steiners looking in confused. Rick covers Fenix to get the pinfall.
Joey Styles: "What the hell just happened? Penta turned on his own brother??? But...... why?" Match Six: Shawn Michaels vs Randy Orton Match starts off with Michaels punching Orton a few times, then HBK sends Orton over the top rope. Orton gets back in the ring, but HBK sends him to the corner, and gives him a few chops. HBK sends him to the other corner, and Michaels chargers, but Orton kicks Shawn in the face, then gives him a clothesline and goes for a pin, but HBK kicks out. Orton throws HBK's face into a turnbuckle, then starts choking him, but HBK delivers back with some punches. HBK charges at Orton, but he moves out of the way and HBK bumps into the ring post. Orton is focusing on the left arm of Michaels now, and throws him to the other turnbuckle with impact. Styles discusses Orton getting a win over Minoru Suzuki in the America's Cup. Orton throws HBK to the ropes, but HBK comes back with a swinging neckbreaker, and then nails some chops to Ortons chest, and throws him to the ropes, bends down and kicks a kick from Orton. HBK sends Orton over the top again. Both men are outside of the ring, and HBK is in charge. HBK throws Orton back into the ring, and climbs the top rope, and goes for a sledge, but Orton kicks him. Orton hits an arm bar takedown on HBK, then goes for the pin, but HBK kicks out. Orton goes for a dropkick, but misses, and HBK locks in the figure four on Orton. Orton is screaming in pain, but gets the ropes. HBK hits a suplex, then goes for the Figure Four, but Orton kicks him into the ring post again. HBK clotheslines Orton out of the ring, and then hits a cross body to the outside
Orton sends HBK head first into the ring post, and he starts bleeding. Orton goes to the outside, and beats on HBK. Ortons throws HBK back in the ring and the two men battle eachother with punches. Orton gets a Suplex on the bloody Michaels, and then nails a perfect dropkick, and goes for a pin fall, but HBK kicks out. HBK is up, and hits a flying forarm, then falls back down. The referee begins a 10 count, but HBK hops right back up, as if it were a second wind, and takes control of the match. He climbs ths top rope, and nails a big flying elbow, then goes to the corner, and tunes up the band. Sweet Chin Music.....NO! Orton ducks...... RKO OUTTA NOWHERE! 1......2........3!!!
Match Seven: Hangman Page vs Dr. D David Schultz (Texas Death Match) Shultz makes his entrance through the crowd but Hangman is right there to jump him and start the fight. Page whips him into the barricade and it’s time to bust out the barbed wire.
The wire cuts Shultz open and Page stomps him down in the corner. Page wraps the wire in his boot but gets caught in it, allowing Shultz to take him down and hammer away. A barbed wire right hand knocks Page down again and Shultz pulls him into the triangle choke. With Page trapped, Shultz stabs him in the head with some kind of object to bust Page open as well. What looks like a fork to the head makes Page bleed even more and Shultz wedges a chair into the corner as Page is sent face first into wire, leaving him even more rocked. The half crab, with Page’s chest on the barbed wire chair, doesn’t last long as Shultz stomps him in the head instead. Shultz wraps some chairs around two open chairs but takes too long, allowing Page to powerbomb him onto the chairs.
With his back busted open, Page wraps barbed wire around himself and moonsaults down onto Shultz. Page gets knocked down so Shultz can pull out….a brick and a chain. He crushes Page’s hand between two bricks and then piledrives him onto the chain. Another piledriver onto the barbed wire chair is broken up and Page hits a hard clothesline. Shultz gets fall away slammed into the wire and sent outside but he rakes Page’s back to get a break.
The barbed wire is raked over Page’s back and Shultz sends him down a barbed wire board bridged over two chairs. Back in and they slap it out until Page blasts him with a lariat. The Buckshot Lariat is countered into the piledriver though and Shultz Stomps him onto the bricks. Back up and Hangman gets his own choke, followed by the Buckshot Lariat. Shultz gets up again so Page chokes him with the chain for the tap out win.
Match Eight: Dynamic Duo vs The Hart Foundation Gino and Bret fight over an armbar, and Gino wins by cartwheeling over Bret’s back and dropkicking him down. Bret throws a fit outside the ring because he’s been outsmarted, so he races back in and shoves Adams. So he tags in and goes for a roll-up, but Bret grabs the top rope, so Adams dropkicks him in the face and Bret falls to the floor again. So Bret says “screw this” and he leaves.
Gary Hart and Neidhart chase him down and try to console him, and he comes back. Neidhart and Gino tag in. Neidhart pulls the strap down and dares Gono to knock him down. Two shoulderblocks don’t phase him, so Anvil charges with his own. Gino gets a scoop slam and locks on the Boston crab. But a kick to the chest from Bret ends that. Bret tags in and hits an elbow from the second rope while Neidhart drapes Gino over his knee, an early form of decapitation. That gets two. Bret dumps him to the floor, and Neidhart slams him.
He throws him back in and Bret goes to the side headlock. Gino monkeyflips his way out, and Bret almost falls out of the ring again. Neidhart tags back in and locks on a front facelock, and Gino works his way back to the corner. Neidhart tries a clothesline, but Gino ducks to get some momentum, so Bret kicks him in the back. Neidhart chokes Gino out and Irish whips him to the corner. Gino tries a desperation bodypress, but Neidhart ducks and Gino crashes to the canvas. Bret tags in, front facelock, and the Harts get the extra double team in. Bret tangles Gino in the top and middle rope and Bret tries a second rope elbowdrop, but Gino moves and tries desperately to make the tag. But Neidhart runs in, and picks up Gino which is enough for Gino to lunge at Adams and make the hot tag. Adams destroys both men with Bret eventually getting dumped. Adams gets a sleeper but Bret breaks it up. Gino and Bret fight on the floor with Bret winning. The ref gets Bret back to his corner which allows Gino to sunset flip Neidhart but Bret nails him in the face either the Progress tag belt and Niedhart pins Gino.
Main Event: Seth Rollins vs Lex Luger for the NWA World title C&E start, Rollins turns it, but Luger pushes him into the corner. Clean break from Luger. C&E again, Rollins to a side headlock. Luger with a forearm to the ribs, sends Rollins off the ropes, shoulders him down. Rollins bounces back up but backs down and gets space again.
Side headlock from Luger now. Rollins rolls him over for a two count, Luger rolls back and hangs on to the headlock. Rollins walks Luger over to the corner for a break. Not clean this time, Seth throws rights to the body and one over the back, then another. Scoop slam from Seth quick legdrop, two count.
Luger fighting back in the corner with right hands and kicks. Luger mounts in the corner, ref gets involved and Rollins stunguns Luger over the top rope. Right to the ribs and an elbow over the back of the head from Rollins. Some kicks to the gut and a choke in the corner.
Rollins with a headbutt, then one to the midsection, then a kick to the midsection, too. Seth with a boot choke, using the ropes for leverage. Rollins continuing to dominate the offense. Elbowdrop hits. Russian legsweep hits, two count.
Side backbreaker. Rollins up to the second rope, elbow misses, and this time Rollins takes it to the knees instead of the back. But Rollins up first still, and goes back to work, ramming Luger’s head into the turnbuckle a couple times.
Luger reverses a whip to the corner. Seth bounces out, another whip to the corner. Rollins bounces out, Luger with two clotheslines and then the forearm. Luger has the adrenaline going. Luger clotheslines Rollins out to the floor
Lex has the chair. He teases using it, referee warning him, and then we see....
Sting tells Luger to drop the chair! Be better than this. Be a man and win the right way.
Rollins shoves Luger, whose head hits the chair and knocks the ref down in the corner.
DDT from Rollins on the chair. Seth trying to wake the ref up now. Cover, 1....... 2....... NO! Luger got a shoulder up.
Then out of the back we see.......
Rude and Ventura attack Sting from behind and beat him down at ringside. They then look up at Luger and climb up the ringapron.
Rollins going for the Boston Crab now, and he turns it over, center of the ring. Ventura clotheslines Rollins. The ref calls for the bell, Dq'ing Luger. Rude throws Rollins out of the ring. Luger is now surrounded by Rude and Ventura. Sting comes to his rescue. It's a standoff! Until...... Luger nails Sting!!! Now, Luger pounds on Sting and puts him in the Torture Rack fir a few moments then he drops Sting to the mat. Luger stares at Madusa....... then he high fives Rude and Ventura!
Joey Styles: "That low down sonofabitch!!! We hadn't seen Madusa since the Riad to Wresyle Kingdom in Japan. And it looks like her plan with Ventura has came into full force here tonight. And of all things, apparently Luger is in on it!"