ATTACK! crowned new tag team champions as Cathays hosted a one-night tournament for the revived straps.
Quick Results
ATTACK! Tag Team Championship Tournament Semi-Final: Danny Jones & Brendan White pinned Old Poppa Sunflower & Sonny the Sunflower in 11:43 (***)
ATTACK! Tag Team Championship Tournament Semi-Final: Lee Construction & Jim Construction pinned Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster in 12:22 (***)
Eddie Dennis pinned Kanji to retain the ATTACK! Championship in 16:30 (***¼)
Harrison Bennett pinned ELIJAH in 14:16 (***¼)
Rayne Leverkusen submitted Josh Holly to win the ATTACK! 24/7 Championship
ATTACK! Tag Team Championship Tournament Final: Lee Construction & Jim Construction pinned Danny Jones & Brendan White to win the ATTACK! Tag Team Championship in 18:33 (***½)
We’re live on YouTube from NOT the Walkabout in Cardiff, as a change of venue lands us right back in the old bingo hall in Cathays. Here, ATTACK! will be crowning new tag team champions, with the belts having been deactivated in January 2021 when the promotion shuttered… so we’ll be starting up a new lineage since Man Like Dereiss and Dan Moloney aren’t on hand to defend for the 0121. We do have former champions in the lineup – with the Brothers of Construction back in ATTACK for the first time since May 2019.
Commentary comes from Shaun Thorne and a rotating cast of characters…
ATTACK! Tag Team Championship Tournament Semi-Final: Greedy Souls (Danny Jones & Brendan White) vs. Father & Sunflower (Old Poppa Sunflower & Sonny the Sunflower)
Danny Jones tried to bully Sonny early on, but got sent flying with a tijeras ahead of some double teaming from the foliage.
Another double-team turned it around though, with the Greedy Souls able to control things as they isolated Old Pappa. I can’t believe I’m typing this… a petal snap from Jones had Old Poppa in the ropes. That’ll hurt the stamen. Don’t correct me, horticulturists.
Old Poppa’s able to break free to Sonny though, whose initial burst allowed him to step off of Brendan White into a ‘rana on Jones. Avoiding a Line Out, Sonny’s able to keep the upper hand as he landed a brainbuster for a near-fall, before Brendan threw away an Octopus stretch.
Old Poppa’s quickly back to try and snuff out the Greedy Souls though, before Danny Jones pulled Old Poppa into the path of a top rope splash from Sonny. From there, Sonny tries a reverse ‘rana, but it’s blocked as the Souls took charge once more, leading to a Hospital Pass for a near-fall ahead of an attempted Soul Destroyer.
A cradle saved Sonny after some help from Old Poppa, before a Codebreaker-assisted Code Red almost put Brendan away. Apparently they call that “Plant The Seed.” Cute. Anyways, Brendan pulls off a turnbuckle pad as Old Poppa went for a roll-up… and it proved pivotal as Old Poppa was tripped into it… an apron piledriver KO’d Sonny, leaving Poppa prone for a Soul Destroyer that booked the Greedy Souls their spot in the final. ***
ATTACK! Tag Team Championship Tournament Semi-Final: Subculture (Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster) vs. Brothers of Construction (Lee Construction & Jim Construction)
This is a throwback… I miss the days of the Hunter Brothers when I could barely tell them apart on tape. This was Andrews’ return to ATTACK! after injury – he’s already won gold since returning, having won Riot Cabaret’s title and Unlimited Wrestling’s tag titles at the end of August.
Jim and Mark start us off trading holds as Andrews targeted Jim’s historically-injured knee in the early going. Webster’s in with an armdrag and a Special Brew Flip – if he still calls the inverted senton that – for a two-count, before tags brought in Lee and Mark as Subculture retained the upper hand.
Dualling topes nearly wipe out the entrance way as Subculture were dominating… at least until the Brothers finally got a foothold in things as Jim was aping Flash Morgan’s inverted senton and Subculture’s dives. Back inside, Webster helps change things around as Subculture took over with double-teams – again, focusing on Jim… but an attempted diving knee onto Lee was stopped as he was caught with a Giant Swing instead.
Jim’s low dropkick on the swing – dubbed the Cement Mixer – gets a two-count, before Lee’s leap off the top rope came up short. It played right into Subculture’s hands again, as a double-team Falcon arrow still couldn’t do the deal. Lee escapes a double-suplex moments afterwards, but couldn’t avoid a Stundog from Andrews, nor a Shadows Over Malice from Webster, before a pair of superkicks cut off Mandrews’ backflip.
A Webster moonsault met a similar fate, before a pair of splashes got the Brothers of Construction into the final – could they repeat their former glories? ***
Before the next match, Act Two’s Jack Knudsen came through the back and chase Josh Holly through the crowd – Holly’s the current ATTACK! 24/7 champion, which explains that…
ATTACK! Championship: Kanji vs. Eddie Dennis (c)
Eddie won the ATTACK! title – and reformed Nothing To Prove – last month at the Winterslam show… doing so by inserting himself into an ongoing title match between Jay Joshua and Wild Boar.
Kanji tried to grapple with Eddie early on, but the size disparity made things tricky, forcing her into the ropes as Eddie looked for a roll-up. An attempt at a mounted Kimura ends with Eddie charging into the ropes, while a springboard ‘rana took the champion off his feet. Things headed outside with Eddie almost catching a tope, before he caught a plancha and instead dumped Kanji onto the side of the ring with an Electric Chair facebuster.
Back inside, Eddie looked as comfortable as Kanji was defiant, but a crossbody’s caught and turned into a swinging side slam for a two-count. Trying her luck, Kanji’s thrown off from an O’Connor roll, before a read naked choke’s rolled out of for a two-count before Kanji twisted Eddie’s neck between her legs. A swinging DDT nearly gets the win for Kanji, who kept on with a barrage of strikes, only for Eddie to block her and try for a Next Stop Driver. Bridging out of another neck twist was a cool escape from Eddie, as was him catching a Tiger Feint kick in the corner before he bounced Kanji with a jumping tombstone for a near-fall.
Kanji countered a Severn Bridge with a ‘rana, following up with the Tiger Feint kick into the corner as my feed buffered badly. It recovers as Kanji’s connecting with chops, only to get sent into the corner with an elbow strike. Mounted strikes in the corner lead to a Severn Bridge out of the corner, but Kanji’s able to kick out of the crucifix powerbomb.
Another Severn Bridge gets countered into a Code Red by Kanji, then a triangle armbar as she looked for a stoppage, but a buckle bomb breaks it up. A Next Stop Driver look to follow, but Kanji slips out and hits almost a Hidden Blade, then a diving back elbow… and we have a new champion!? Although on my feed it looked like Eddie’s leg was under the rope… and sure enough, referee Oscar Harding restarts the match.
Resuming the match with kicks to Eddie’s leg, Kanji goes in for the triangle armbar. Slingshotting her between the ropes forces the break, before a Next Stop Driver got the win. I wasn’t too keen on how quick things were after the restart, but the Dusty finish on the first title defence is a hell of a way to go. ***¼
Coming back after intermission and a silent raffle… we’ve got a returning Splits McPins. He was last in ATTACK! back in March before taking time off to deal with some health issues. Issues which Splits recounted until he was interrupted by Eddie Dennis, who got in Splits’ face and bullied him to the back.
Eddie took over ring announcing for this next one… at least for one of the competitors before he wandered onto commentary.
Harrison Bennett vs. ELIJAH
It’s a current vs. former member of Nothing To Prove, with Bennett having turned on his short-time tag partner last time out in Cardiff. Before the bell, Alex Vaughan stormed out to attack ELIJAH, eventually getting thrown out.
Despite all that, ELIJAH started brightly, taking Bennett outside for a tope, before getting a fan to help him chop Harrison. Back in the ring, we’ve a switcheroo as Bennett baited ELIJAH between the ropes for a guillotine legdrop before some boot choking in the corner had ELIJAH on the back foot.
Bennett’s elevated uranage’s fought out, but Harrison’s able to regain control as a spinebuster drew a near-fall. Blocking a discus lariat helps ELIJAH finally back into it, as he countered a death valley driver into a sunset flip… then caught Bennett with an electric chair facebuster for another two-count.
Hitting a death valley driver into the corner turned it back around for Bennett, who eventually landed an enziguiri before the “Wobbler” discus lariat almost won it. The “Baseline” elevated uranage’s countered into a roll-up from ELIJAH, whose Graveyard Smash got him so close to a win. So close, in fact, that Eddie Dennis ditched commentary to distract ELIJAH, and it works as Bennett’s able to come right back with that Baseline for the win. On paper this was pretty solid, but they’re re-establishing Nothing To Prove here so this was always going to have interference all over it. ***¼
Before the main event, Jack Knudsen popped back through the curtain, fighting with Josh Holly… a tope from Knudsen wiped out Holly, before a springboard dropkick and a “Jackadriver” almost beat Holly… who laid out Knudsen with the ATTACK! 24/7 title to save his skin. Holly – who looks a little reminiscent of Terry Gordy these days – cut a promo, then got interrupted by Rayne Leverkusen, whose cutter caught out Holly ahead of a Liontamer for the submission… and new 24/7 champion!
Rayne announces the main event from there, with, in theory, four people gunning for her belt, right?
ATTACK! Tag Team Championship Tournament Final: Greedy Souls (Brendan White & Danny Jones) vs. Brothers of Construction (Jim Construction & Lee Construction)
We start with Jim and Danny… and weirdly a shot of Jim’s rear on camera.
Anyway, once we switch cameras, Danny Jones was all over Jim in the early going, as the Greedy Souls looked set for a quick win thanks to a couple of back sentons. A big chop from Jones knocked Jim off the apron as the first five minutes of this was all Greedy Souls, but a sidestep from Jim saw Brendan charge into the corner before Lee got the tag in to clear house with half a dozen clotheslines.
A blind tag allowed the Greedy Souls to plant Lee with the Line Out, before Jim broke up the pin on a lariat… only to get sent outside as Jones teased an apron piledriver, only for Lee to break that up. Instead, a DDT on the apron from Jim left Danny laying, before a neckbreaker/senton bomb combo from the Brothers nearly took home the win.
The double-teaming continued with a top rope ‘rana and a splash, but Jones pulled out the referee to save the match… then laid out the ref. With no ref, the Greedy Souls fought with the Brothers around ringside, but the Brothers lay out the Souls with… a literal fan. That’s not health and safety compliant?
Lee charges the fan down the aisle and into Brendan and Danny, before Jim and Brendan traded right hands back inside the ring. Donning a hard hat, Jim lands a torpedo headbutt… before a “wazzap” hard hat headbutt followed to Danny Jones. A quick turnaround led to the Greedy Souls nailing an avalanche powerbomb and a Tiger superplex, before a Hospital Pass laid out Jim… but we’re still without a ref, so it’s all for nought until Oscar came out to make a two-count.
Annoyed, the Greedy Souls grab the title belts… the distracted ref misses a low blow from Jim, who was able to follow up with a Destroyer to the newly-tagged-in Brendan White. Tags get us back to Lee and Danny as the match descended into a Parade of Stuff, leading to an avalanche back suplex from Lee a la Razor Ramon. From there, a Blockbuster to Brendan White took care of him, before a neckbreaker/flying stomp to Danny Jones almost got the win.
The Brothers keep going with a stuff tombstone piledriver to Jones… but Danny kicked out at two, before a pair of top rope ranas and splashes forced Brendan White to pull out the ref. EXCEPT we’ve got a twist, the first referee got back into the ring and counted the pin – meaning the Brothers of Construction left as the new tag team champions. This perhaps could have had a few minutes shaved off, but the crowd were biting on the Brothers of Constructions’ near falls by the end. Still, having the fan chug a beer was a nice touch at the end. Thankfully, it wasn’t plugged in… ***½
ATTACK’s a promotion that can be hot or cold depending on your tastes in wrestling – but the Tag Team Extravaganza was a strong outing, and a good jumping in point if you’ve not been keeping up with ATTACK! as of late. Get this watched while it’s still free on YouTube!