\nGray starts by immediately chasing after Marius von Beethoven at the bell, following him outside before Alpha Female goes after her. That just leaves Toni Storm in the ring by herself, so she launches herself into Alpha with a tope, before she rolls Gray into the ring with some chops.<\/p>\n
On the outside, von Beethoven and Alpha set up a table, but out comes Alpha Kevin to chase away von Beethoven and keep the match even. In the ring, Gray hits a Northern Lights suplex and a back senton for a pair of near-falls, before Female comes in with a clothesline to Gray that ends up giving Storm a DDT – because those accidental spots in multi-person matches are the new black now!<\/p>\n
Alpha goes after Gray rather than focus on Storm, dumping her with a spinebuster for a near-fall, before the Australian Storm took down the monster Alpha with a backcracker in the ropes. Gray follows up with double knees in the corner before Storm throws a hip attack to Alpha, who then retaliated with a double suplex to her opponents, as a side slam gets a near-fall over Storm.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a bunch of broken-up pins, as is the norm for three-ways, until Storm takes a big slam from Alpha. Gray wriggled out of a crucifix buckle bomb and drops Alpha with a spear, before going after von Beethoven on the apron. He\u2019s brought in the hard way, before providing a distraction as Alpha attacks Gray from behind.<\/p>\n
Alpha and Marius stand by the apron, but Gray charges at the pair of them, ending with her spearing von Beethoven onto a table\u2026 which he just bounces off of. There you go Maffew – \u201cich bin der Tisch!\u201d… With Gray on the outside, Storm gets another backcracker for a near-fall on Alpha, before she goes up top and misses with a leg drop\u2026 which leaves her open for the Dominator as Alpha Female gets the win. A decent TV-length match; it\u2019s just a shame that the big spot they were going for with the table didn\u2019t quite come off\u2026 ***<\/p>\n
We go backstage to a segment with Karsten Beck and Melanie Gray. Thankfully, subtitled! Gray is still mad at what happened at Back To The Roots, and she wants to take on Marius von Beethoven\u2026 who\u2019s still chickening out of every challenge she\u2019s making. Gray wants Beck to make the match: Marius and Alpha Female vs. Melanie and Kevin in an intergender streetfight. Those last two words are the same in German as they are in English, apparently!<\/p>\n
Beck wants Gray to reconsider if that\u2019s a good idea, but she\u2019s fed up of playing by the rules. Understandably, Beck doesn\u2019t want to be responsible for man-on-woman violence, so Gray tries to push his buttons by saying that doing so would piss-off Christian Michael Jakobi. We then fade\u2026 to a graphic that confirms that match is taking place at Dead End XVI in two weeks\u2019 time in Hamburg.<\/p>\n
Also on that show, Emil Sitoci vs. Michael Dante, Pete Dunne vs. Ilja Dragunov, and Avalanche vs. Bad Bones. That last one was quite good in London\u2026 however, since Shotgun went live, the Dunne\/Dragunov match has been pulled, with Ilja facing Alexander James instead, as Dunne took a booking for Rev Pro in Portsmouth against the former Pentagon Jr.<\/p>\n
Another backstage segment has Karsten Beck with John Klinger. Bad Bones wasn\u2019t expecting Robert Dreissker to come back stronger from his injury. Neither was Beck, who\u2019s now worried that Bones is going to fall behind Avalanche. Their match is taking place in \u201cBad Bones City\u201d (Hamburg; Klinger\u2019s home town), and Klinger promises to leave Bad Bones City on top.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got a new backstage interviewer – Verena Fischer – who\u2019s with \u201cthe academic without remorse\u201d, Julian Nero. She asks Nero why nobody from Cerberus attended the meeting that Dirty Dragan called; Nero seems to suggest that Dragan is being rejected as he wasn\u2019t the original Cerberus. Apparently Adam Polak is in South America \u201con time-out\u201d, and Nero tells us that he won\u2019t ever follow orders from Dirty Dragan.<\/p>\n
Up next is clips of Bobby Gunns making Alpha Kevin submit in their match in Bielefeld on January 21, which leads to a segment called the \u201cSmoking Break\u201d – a chat segment with \u201cKing of Smoke Style\u201d Bobby Gunns. He\u2019s talking about some bad decisions – mostly in Alpha Kevin thinking he could beat him, along with his desire to get married. The segment ends with Gunns\u2019 catchphrase: \u201csmoking kills, but Bobby Gunns is the killer\u201d<\/p>\n
They show us some brackets for the \u201cRoad to 16 Carat Gold\u201d – a tournament on the house shows where the winner gets into the tournament proper. We just saw Gunns beat Alpha Kevin – other matches on the docket are Da Mack vs. Marius Beethoven; Hakeem Waqur vs. Johnny Evers, and Chris Colen vs. Francis Kaspin. All but Colen\/Kaspin have happened, but we\u2019ll get footage of those next week.<\/p>\n
Another segment now with Robert Dreissker\u2019s photoshoot. The photographer wants a group shot with Cerberus, and Dirty Dragan grabs a chair so he can stand above everyone, mimicking the pose that Cerberus used to do. Nero just walks out, and almost slams his cape in the door during his exit as Dragan mugs for the camera.<\/p>\n
Markus Antonius vs. Michael Dante<\/strong> We\u2019re backstage with Thomas Giesen, who\u2019s with Michael Dante. Michael feels good to be back, and it looks like part of the deal that saw his former tag partner Tommy End go to WWE was that Dante got Sami Zayn\u2019s hat! Dante\u2019s going to re-establish himself as a singles wrestler, starting against Emil Sitoci at Dead End.<\/p>\n Up next is a video package of highlights from A4 vs. London Riots at the London Calling event. Hey, I see me a few times! That leads to a segment with Absolute Andy, who\u2019s apparently having his photo taken, and he\u2019s asking what the photographer wants. In comes Chris Brookes, who tells Andy that \u201che\u2019s not got many Absolute Knee Drops left in you\u201d. Andy shoots down the Calamari Catch King, and tells him that when he\u2019s done with him, he\u2019ll not need a kneepad, he\u2019ll need a neck brace. Them\u2019s fighting words!<\/p>\n Travis Banks attacks Andy from behind, and we get a quick beatdown before CCK (no hashtag) leaves. Of course, Marius Al-Ani turns up just after they\u2019ve gone, which leads to this gloriously translated comment:<\/p>\n Answers on a postcard\u2026<\/p>\n Now we get a video package from the whole London Calling show, featuring more of my ugly mug, and highlights from throughout\u2026 including the Jurn Simmons love-fest. If you haven\u2019t seen this yet\u2026 why not? That\u2019s followed by more clips from WALTER vs. Jurn Simmons from the London show\u2026<\/p>\n Another backstage segment, this time with WALTER walking in on Christian Michael Jakobi. WALTER\u2019s still mad that he\u2019s not in the 16 Carat Gold tournament, whilst Jurn Simmons faces Axel Dieter Jr. on the same weekend of shows. WALTER apparently turned down other offers so he could work for Jakobi, and he\u2019s fed up of how he\u2019s CMJ is treating him. Jakobi doesn\u2019t say a word throughout\u2026<\/p>\n RINGKAMPF (WALTER & Axel Dieter Jr.) vs. Jurn Simmons & Da Mack<\/strong> They exchange holds in the middle to start us off, with Mack grabbing a waistlock, before Dieter works free and lands a shoulder tackle.Axel catches a leapfrog, but couldn\u2019t do anything with Mack, who gets a dropkick in for good measure, before he chops away at the wXw champion in the corners.<\/p>\n Dieter comes out with a sunset flip as he sails over Mack, who then replies with a back suplex and a PK for a near-fall. Dieter stays on top of Mack with snapmares and a rear chinlock, as WALTER comes in to chop away on Mack, who returns in kind. An uppercut from Mack rocks WALTER as Jurn tags in, and the two big guys go for a test of strength!<\/p>\n Simmons looks to be bending backwards, but he powers back up only for WALTER to boot him in the gut and follow-up with a dropkick. A slap from Jurn takes WALTER into the ropes, before Simmons hangs onto the ropes to avoid a dropkick from the Austrian. In comes Dieter, who takes a biel throw across the ring, before Axel tries for the Landungsbr\u00fccke suplex – but Simmons escapes and tries to counter with a piledriver, which is also countered.<\/p>\n Dieter tries to fly off the middle turnbuckle, only to get hit with a dropkick instead. Mack tags in and immediately get suckered into some distraction from WALTER\u2026 so Dieter attacks his former partner from behind as he wears him down with a wristlock. Simmons finally makes a blind tag in and knocks down WALTER, before Dieter attacks Simmons from behind with an enziguiri in the corner.<\/p>\n RINGKAMPF take over on Simmons for a spell, with Dieter landing a diving uppercut for a near-fall, before Jurn struggled to slam WALTER, falling back on himself for a near-fall. WALTER deadlifts Simmons off the mat for a side Salto suplex for another two-count, whilst a knee drop got something similar for Axel. Simmons gets worn down for an extended period, before he backdrops WALTER and brings in da Mack once again, who took down WALTER with a Slingblade.<\/p>\n The Mack Magic Crack Smash (rebound cannonball) gets a near-fall, as Mack rocks WALTER with some knee strikes, only to be caught in a Gujira clutch by the giant Austrian. Mack gets thrown to the outside after he makes the ropes, before he\u2019s given a butterfly suplex once he climbed back into the ring. Mack tries a comeback with a springboard towards Dieter, who catches him, before Mack completed a roll-up for a near-fall as RINGKAMPF ensured that the smaller Mack remained in the ring for a little longer.<\/p>\n An enziguiri and a shotgun dropkick from Dieter and WALTER respectively force another two-count, before WALTER goes back to that Gujira clutch. Mack throws himself free, before he Dieter pulls down Simmons just as a tag was about to be made\u2026 before they followed up with an uppercut\/powerbomb combo gets RINGKAMPF another two-count. Finally Mack makes the tag out to Simmons, who clears house on both Axel and WALTER.<\/p>\n Dieter takes an Oklahoma Stampede, but there\u2019s no cover as Simmons instead lifts up Axel in a torture rack\u2026 but WALTER breaks it up as Mack returns to chop away at the giant Austrian. A \u2018rana takes down WALTER, who\u2019s then shoved to the outside as he looked for something off the top rope. Axel heads into the crowd with Mack, and we can barely see them as they head up to the stage. WALTER tries to powerbomb Mack off the stage, but he ends up countering with some Mack Magic onto Axel Dieter Jr below him.<\/p>\n Jurn and Axel return to the ring, as a Doctor Bomb gets a near-fall with WALTER breaking up the count. Mack tries for another \u2018rana, but it\u2019s caught and turned into the Air Raid Crash by Dieter, who then eats a diving boot from Jurn. It breaks down for a while as all four men end up laid out on the mat. The pair exchange slaps, ending with Dieter going down before he\u2019s taken into the corner for a series of lariats, leading to Jurn going up top for something.<\/p>\n Dieter gets up and catches him with an enziguiri and a draping DDT for a two-count. From the kick-out, Simmons comes back with a uranage and a Massive Kick before WALTER blocks a Royal Piledriver, and hits a clothesline to get Dieter a near-fall. Simmons comes back with a torture rack, and this time Mack cuts off Walter with La Mistica into a Fujiwara armbar, and finally Axel taps! A wonderful final stretch to end a really solid main event – well worth the watch! ***\u00be<\/p>\n Alan Counihan signs off by saying we\u2019ll have more next week\u2026 but first, a recap of Axel Dieter Jr. vs. Marty Scurll from London Calling. Another backstage segment follows with Karsten Beck and Christian Michael Jakobi. Jakobi tries to butter up Beck, but he\u2019s not having any of it\u2026 CMJ wants WALTER in 16 Carat Gold, and he reckons that WALTER has to be in the tournament to make it the best possible.<\/p>\n Beck agrees, but he wants Jakobi to make a concession. Jakobi suggests giving Beck first class transport\u2026 before switching things up based on the Dead End main event of RINGKAMPF vs. David Starr & Jurn Simmons. If \u201cBeck\u2019s team\u201d wins, he can make a title match. Beck doesn\u2019t accept, but instead he counters by suggesting that if RINGKAMPF loses, Beck replaces Jakobi as the head of the championship board of directors. 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\nAlso from January 21 in Bielefeld, and they start with Antonius trying to take down Dante with clotheslines\u2026 they fail, but a single lariat from the Dutchman knocks Antonius inside out! Dante propels Antonius into the air, before he hits a release suplex-into-a-backbreaker. A spear follows, and that\u2019s all for this squash folks! (Not Rating)<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wxw-shotgun292-leek.png?resize=360%2C205\")
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\nAnother match from Bielefeld, and we start with the former Hot & Spicy partners squaring off in Dieter and Mack.<\/p>\n
\nACH vs. Mike Bailey
\nMarius Al-Ani vs. JT Dunn
\nKoji Kanemoto vs. Timothy Thatcher
\nCody (Redacted) vs. Winner of the Road to 16 Carat Gold League (the tournament that\u2019s taking place on wXw house shows)
\nDavid Starr vs. WALTER
\nDonovan Dijak vs. Matt Riddle
\nPaul London vs. \u201cBad Bones\u201d John Klinger<\/p>\n