Saturday, April 7, 2018

House of Hardcore 40





Jay Spade is out to face Matt Lancy, and beats him fairly quickly with a discus flying forearm. Okay-ish match - nothing amazing. Mean Gene does a silly WCW Hotline plug from the convention. Alex Reynolds is out to face Swoggle. Swoggle chokeslams MJF, tells him "fuck you" and Reynolds cheats to beat Swoggle. Killer Kross faces Willie Mack in another TV Title tourney match. Mack stuns him to win, but Kross attacks the arm after the match.


The Squad World Order is out to face the Rock N Roll Express and the Hurricane - so it's '06 WWE vs. the last 30 years of the Carolinas outside of the Hardys. One commentator jokes about Mikey's helmet being something he must've won from the Legends of the Hidden Temple, and using Wite Out to write SWO on it because he couldn't find paint - and he's impressed he managed to spell it correctly. The Express comes out to prevent the world from hearing more of Kenny.


Robert works Kenny over and uses Kenny as a method of doing more moves to Mikey. Randy takes a bump for the Hurricane pose! FIGURE FOURS FOR EVERYONE! Ricky plays face in peril with Mikey. Flying legdrop misses for Kenny! Ricky rolls through and tags in Robert! Kicks and double knockers! DOUBLE HURRICHOKESLAM! Rana from Ricky! DOUBLE DROPKICK ENDS IT!


Carlito is out to face MVP in a purple Punisher getup. Carlito works in a shirt and does some kneelifts. Carlito kicks out of the playmaker. Second one ends it. Joey Ryan and Teddy Hart are out for a match. Teddy isn't amused by Joey's dick and hurts his knee on an inverted atomic drop. Joey drops down off a corner sunset flip and wins with a dick to the face.
 
Trey Miguel faces Ace Romero, Super Crazy, and two other guys in a fatal five way. Crazy hits his moonsaults and gets a cradle to win. Cage and Aries are out for their match. It's a heck of a different style clash. F5 on the apron for Cage. Apron neckbreaker for Aries gives him an edge briefly. Brian Cage and Aries are having a heck of a match here. Aries eats a giant catching suplex, but lands the corner dropkick and wins with the brainbuster. He cuts a promo on how much everyone here loves pro wrestling before announcing that Fenix and Pentagon will face him in a triple threat at Redemption to replace Alberto.


The Killer Elite Squad comes out and then Billy Gunn and Tommy are out with weapons. HOWEVER, the federal commission dude basically playing Fonzie in '95 is out and says weapons are banned here in this match involving Tommy Dreamer. Tommy hits the Dusty homage offense before tagging Billy in to work the bulk of this. Tommy gets choked in the rope by Davey, and this must be like a working vacation for KES. They can do next to do nothing and get a solid reaction. Davey's homage to Mike Awesome trunks look terrible on him. Gunn comes in and hits a stinger splash on Lance. Gunn gets a falling Hart attack for 2.

Billy teases a double dive, before they run out and land some punches instead. Tommy and Billy go back and get their weapons. Can to the head of Archer.  Davey takes a ladder to the back and a Dreamer DDT gets 2. Inverted Razor's Edge to Dreamer gets 2 thanks to a Gunn save. Robliss prevents a piledriver, but Tommy can't attack him due to the edict. HOWEVER, Billy can - so he hits the fameasser. Dreamer gets a cutter and goes to grate Robliss, but he eats a Killer bomb and that's it.



Sami, Alex Reynolds, and Willie Mack are out for the TV Title tourney finals. Not a whole heck of a lot to the match, sadly. Sami uses a bunch of chairs, and we get one real highlight with Mack locked in a Reynolds cobra hold - but he throws knees into the mix. He misses those terribly, but Sami locks an STF in and that ends that hold until Mack gets spat on and that finishes the sequence with a kick. Mack wins the title by beating Sami, and holds the title high.




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