WWC: King of Extreme – Aberdeen, OH – 4/10/10

The 7th annual King of Extreme is in the books, and if you weren’t there you missed the best one yet! WWC fans in Aberdeen, OH on Saturday, April 10th were on their feet for what is being called the greatest KOE match so far and were enthralled all evening with time qualifiers for KOE, Tag Team action, and a North American Title match! They were also cheering as two WWC alumni made their returns and a newcomer attempted to make his mark on the company. Here is a quick rundown of the show; and we’re sure that once you see what you missed you will be scrambling to buy tickets for May 8th, when WWC presents ‘Grand Slam 2010’ in Aberdeen!

Opening: Patrick Black addresses the crowd and goes over the participants and rules for KOE. He also explains that the participants will be having time trials leading into the Battle. All eight men will have one-on-one matches early in the night, the man who looses in the shortest time will be the first KOE entrant; the man who wins in the shortest time, the last. In this way each of them will be assigned an entry spot.

Match 1: ‘the Canadian Terror’ Terry Reines comes to the ring for his time trial against ‘the Angelic Assassin’ Aaron Williams. Williams is announced and his music plays, but he never enters the arena. Referee Kara Kildare is forced to make a ten count and declare Reines the winner, and so with a 27second ‘win’ he will be the last man to enter the KOE battle. Fans were asking aloud where Williams was. It seems that he was not yet recovered from the fireball to the face he received the previous month at the hands of Violent Bob and Matt Taylor. Had Taylor & Bob cost Aaron his chance at the crown?

As Reines is leaving in ’victory’ Matt Taylor cuts over announcer V.L. Stricklett. Taylor comes into the arena and tells the crowd that he gives the fans what they really want and proceeds to ask different members of the audience what it is they want to see this night. Many say “Aaron Williams”, some tell Taylor to go home, one stands and tells Taylor they want to see good wrestling. Taylor then makes his way over to the corner of the bleachers to where Violent Bob is sitting in the crowd. Violent Bob says “I paid for my ticket tonight so I can be here to see Matt Taylor win King of Extreme!” At this point Patrick Black grabs a microphone and tells Bob that when he banned him from ringside, that included the crowd and has security remove him from the building. Violent Bob and Taylor protest loudly, but Bob is escorted out. As Taylor is heading to the back, Black stops him and tells him that in answer of this interruption; Taylor will have his time trial match then and there; against the ‘Re-Enforcer’ Devlin Anderson!

Match 2: Taylor and Anderson have a strong match, with a lot of give and take and both men get near pins. Taylor starts to get the upper hand, but Devlin answers with a hot comeback, only to see Taylor roll out and walk away from the arena. Referee Steve Helphinstine counts Taylor out and Anderson gets the win. Taylor later explained, back stage, that he felt it a waste of his talent and energy to continue the match, as he chose to conserve his energy to win the KOE crown.

Match 3: Dangerous Damien Kass is escorted to the ring by Naughtia. Kass gets into several arguments with fans as he enters the ring, telling them that he IS the king of extreme, they just don’t know it yet. His opponent for this time trial is ‘the Darkhorse’ Dave Nevada. These two men were quite evenly matched, and Naughtia was unable to assist Kass under the watchful eye of referee Adam Fusion. In the end Nevada delivered a viscious superkick to Kass’ face and rolled him up for the win.

Match 4: Malo Pescado, who was selected by random draw for the KOE despite his loss at FallOut, waited impatiently in the ring while his opponent was announced. Jimmy ‘Pretty Boy’ Malloy had just been announced and was making his way through the entrance, when he stopped and pointed behind him. Accompanying him to the ring was none other than Scary Gary! The crowd was ecstatic over this surprise return as fan favorite Scary Gary hadn’t been seen in WWC for quite a long time! After Gary and Malloy took their places, referee Helphinstine started the match. The Pretty Boy seemed to have the advantage, but Pescado managed to slink out of Malloy’s reach each time he gained the upper hand. In the end, Malo Pescado managed to pin Malloy by rolling him up by a handful of tights. Ref. Steve missed this illegal move and declared Pescado the winner.

As Malo Pescado’s hand is raised in victory, Scary Gary storms the ring to contest the match. As he is explaining the cheat to the referee, Pescado turns and slaps the taste out of Gary’s mouth. Gary retaliates by whipping Pescado into the ropes for a destructive clothsline. As Pescado lay on the mat recovering, Gary raised Malloy’s hand as the true victor of this match.

Match 5: In a non-KOE match, newcomer Marvel Trice took on returning WWC star Justin Hollins. Hollins put up a strong fight, showing the fans that he has not lost a step since his days wrestling as a ‘Good Ol’ Boy’ but that was not enough to overcome the down and dirty style of Trice, who had the assistance of his tag partner Princeton Travis. As Travis distracted Hollins on the apron, Marvel locked in and hit a devastating RKO for the win.

Intermission: Fans were once again entertained by the mic skills of the Penthouse Playboy, Jimmy ‘pretty boy’ Malloy; this night accompanied by Scary Gary. Malloy interviewed Gary about his time away from WWC, his hopes for his return, and what he likes on his pizza, then the two took to asking questions of the crowd. At the end of intermission they raffled off a WWC t-shirt, signed by all of the night’s stars.

Match 6: International Incident, represented by Nikita Allanov and Eddie Gonzales, took on the Solar Powers in a non-title match. This was a hard fought match but in the end Solar Powers came out on top with a double roll up. As they are celebrating the win with their manager, Will Profit, the third member of I.I., Terry Reines, grabs Profit and locks on an ankle lock. While the other two I.I. members keep Hulk and Eclipso at bay, telling them if they do anything Reines will break Profit’s ankle, Ric Byrne slides into the ring behind to make the save. Once Profit is free, Byrne and the Solar Powers clear International Incident out of the ring and Byrne addresses I.I. and the crowd. He says that if Incident wants a war, they have it! At Grand Slam, International Incident will have to take on the Solar Powers, but this will not be a tag match, but a 3-on-3 match! All three members of International Incident against the Solar Powers and a teammate of their choosing!

Match 7: Princeton Travis takes on WWC North American Champion, ‘Superstar’ Shawn Parks for the title. Travis is accompanied to the ring by his tag partner Marvel Trice, who attempts to interfere when the ref is distracted but Parks manages to avoid interference and after a solid match catches Travis for a beautiful Whirl War 3 and gets the pin to retain the belt.

King of Extreme 2010: This match starts out with two men in the ring, with a new entrant every 60 seconds, in an order determined by the earlier time trials. Once all men are in the ring it becomes an elimination battle royal. Eliminations will come in a changing series as the match progresses until there are only four entrants remaining. It then becomes a ladder match. The winning man must climb the ladder and retrieve the King Of Extreme Crown, hanging high above the ring.

The first two entrants are Jimmy Malloy and Dangerous Damien Kass, followed every 60 seconds by Matt Taylor, Devlin Anderson, Dave Nevada, Malo Pescado, and Terry Reines. Once all 7 were in the ring, V.L. Stricklett started to announce that the Battle Royal would begin but was interrupted by an eruption of cheering from the crowd. Aaron Williams was entering the ring, with a patch over his eye. It seems that Williams wasn’t about to let the burn from FallOut keep him from his chance at the crown! Once Williams was confirmed as the eighth entrant the battle began with the elimination phases.

First Elimination: Over the top rope expulsion. All eight were looking to toss someone out, but DDK managed to get Dave Nevada over and to the floor for the first elimination.

Second Elimination: Submission. In this phase, the crowd saw every kind of submission hold imaginable including a seven man sleeper hold conga line! However Terry Reines managed to lock his sharpshooter onto Jimmy Malloy for the submission.

Third Elimination: Falls Count Anywhere. At this point the fighting spilled out all over the arena- into the bleachers, on stage, at the concession stand, everywhere! After many near counts by all three referees Malo Pescado was pinned by Devlin Anderson.

Fourth and Final Elimination: Weapons become legal. After pinning Pescado, Anderson ran into the wings. He returned with two shopping carts full of every imaginable weapon, from ball bats to cheese graters, even a child’s hobby horse! Everyone remaining hit and was hit with some form of weapon and during this melee Violent Bob snuck out to try to get in on the action. When Bob went after Aaron Williams, a ref caught him and gave the three count for Williams to pin Terry Reines after Williams nailed him with a laptop computer!

Ladder Match: DDK, Anderson, Williams, and Taylor vied for the KOE crown. This was a fast paced fight to the finish with each man nearly grabbing the crown at some point. At the end Devlin Anderson was making his grab for the crown as Matt Taylor climbed the back side of the ladder. Taylor knocked Anderson off and tried to stabilized himself to reach up and take the crow but Williams started up the other side and the two traded blows at the top until Taylor lost his balance and ended up hanging upside down in the ladder rungs. This gave Williams the opportunity he needed to grab the crown and become the 2010 King of Extreme!

Recap:
Aaron Williams was crowned as 2010 KOE, giving him a contract to challenge for any title within the next 12 months. What title will he go after and when? Will he seek further revenge on Violent Bob? Who is really top dog- KOE Aaron Williams or #1 Contender Matt Taylor?

Scary Gary is back in the WWC! How will his friendship and assistance affect Jimmy Malloy?

Shawn Parks retains the North American Championship. Who will challenge his rein next? Parks has been in the cross hairs of International Incident since winning the title. What are they willing to do to bring the title to Canada and Mexico?

Fans were left wondering who the third member of Team Solar Powers will be. Ric Byrne? Will Profit? Or someone totally unexpected?

No way to know, unless you come to Grand Slam, May 8th at the Aberdeen Municipal Building.

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