{"id":29053,"date":"2026-07-16T17:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/?p=29053"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:45:03","slug":"wxw-shotgun-july-16-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/reviews\/wxw-shotgun-july-16-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"wXw Shotgun (July 16, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time on Shotgun, Katsuya Murashima faces Zoltan in a non-title match, as we experience the fallout from Broken Rules.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Quick Results<\/b><br \/>\nZoltan pinned Katsuya Murashima in 8:04 (***\u00bd)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; In the next week or so, I\u2019ll be chatting about this show with Mike Kilby on the Auf Die Fresse podcast. Links to stream that episode when it drops, as well as back episodes are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aufdiefresse.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AufDieFresse.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_m98tmTnrt0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As ever, we start with Mett Dimassi being all bilingual outside the Batschkapp\u2026 as he pitches to a series of highlights from last weekend\u2019s Broken Rules.<\/p>\n<p>First up &#8211; Ahura offering himself up for a Boss Lariat in the main event against Cowboy Way\u2026 then the ensuing scuffle after the match between Ahura and Elijah Blum. From there, it\u2019s Axel Tischer\u2019s win against Dennis Dullnig in the no-ropes-and-a-whole-lot-more match for the Shotgun title\u2026 then Jane Nero\u2019s win over Kade Brasher\u2026 and then Dieter Schwartz\u2019s defeat of Laurance Roman.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also clips of Peter Tihanyi getting back in the winning column, with his opening match win against Ricky Sosa\u2026 and of course, the bedlam that was the four-way weapons plunder tag, and the subsequent title shot that Roadkill were granted.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29051\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/reviews\/wxw-shotgun-july-16-2026\/attachment\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?fit=1200%2C675\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?fit=788%2C443\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29051\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?resize=788%2C443\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?resize=1024%2C576 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?resize=150%2C84 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?resize=450%2C253 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-tischercage.jpg?w=1200 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After all that, Mett pitches to some words of wisdom from backstage. First up, Axel Tischer putting over Quick and Dirty\u2026 and Hugo Brand treading dangerously when he flat out said that Tischer was better than the Shotgun title. Jane Nero wanders in to call the Shotgun title the \u201closer\u2019s title\u201d only to get put in a place by the Axeman, who then took aim at \u201cPit and Pat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next\u2026 Peter Tihanyi congratulated Roadkill for winning that four-way tag\u2026 M4 and Tim Koslowski\u2019s in with some unbranded protein goodies for the Hungarian too, before Dennis Dullnig wandered in through the back door. Dullnig pointed out that Tihanyi had cheated his way to win the last two Shortcut to the Top matches, and openly asked if he was going to be more creative this time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Tihanyi just ended up escorting out the delusional Dullnig\u2026 who brought up Stephanie Maze\u2019s name on his way out. Hmm\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dieter Schwartz is also busy celebrating, and runs into Zoltan. He\u2019s a little sore at how Zoltan has a title when he should be in wrestling school. Next\u2026 Planet Gojirah, who look like they know them carrying pizzas is going to be turned into a meme, have Robin Christopher Fohrwerk gas them up. There\u2019s a third pizza there, but they didn\u2019t order it\u2026 and it\u2019s a special present for Fohrwerk &#8211; one of his expensive shirts has been used as a base for a pizza.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29050\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/reviews\/wxw-shotgun-july-16-2026\/attachment\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?fit=1200%2C675\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?fit=788%2C443\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29050\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?resize=788%2C443\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?resize=1024%2C576 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?resize=150%2C84 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?resize=450%2C253 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wxw-shotgun160726-fohrwerkpizza.jpg?w=1200 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back from break, Fohrwerk\u2019s agreed to Planet Gojirah facing CSI\u2026 and he\u2019s so mad at his pizza shirt, he\u2019s agreed to a stipulation that I guess we\u2019ll find out about. We keep jumping around, this time to Zoltan agreeing to defend the European title against Dieter Schwartz at Shortcut to the Top\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy Way is backstage celebrating their win\u2026 Shire\u2019s pretty happy at having taken care of Ahura, while Manders tells us he\u2019s got Bandido at Shortcut to the Top for the ROH title. Manders is pretty buoyant at that, because he\u2019s got a winning record at the Turbinenhalle\u2026 Ahura\u2019s looking for quiet time, but Elijah Blum\u2019s in there to play Owen Hart, telling Ahura he just needed to tag him in. Is he going to kick his leg out of his leg next? Blum took a dig at Ahura for being inconsistent, before telling Ahura he didn\u2019t think he was ready.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re back as Mett has Ben Thamer to confirm more of the card for Shortcut to the Top:<\/p>\n<p>wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship: Ahura vs. Elijah Blum (c)<br \/>\nNo Holds Barred Match for wXw World Tag Team Championship: CSI (Luca de Leone &amp; Nordino) vs. Planet Gojirah (Robert Dreissker &amp; Marc Empire) (c)<br \/>\nwXw European Championship: Dieter Schwartz vs. Zoltan (c)<br \/>\nROH World Championship: 1 Called Manders vs. Bandido (c)<br \/>\nOf course, we\u2019ve also got the eponymous Shortcut to the Top match &#8211; with no names announced for it\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katsuya Murashima vs. Zoltan<\/strong><br \/>\nOf course, Murashima\u2019s not able to compete for the European title\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We start with Murashima and Zoltan locking up into the corner, before Murashima found a way through with a waistlock takedown. He\u2019s able to stuff a response from Zoltan, charging away the Hungarian with a shoulder tackle. A trip and a dropkick from Zoltan finally created an opening, leading to a rolling thunder splash for an early two-count.<\/p>\n<p>Murashima chopped back ahead of a Judo-style throw, before more chops kept Zoltan at bay. We\u2019ve a back body drop out of Murashima next as he continued to control the pace, but Zoltan\u2019s able to boot his way out of the corner before scoring with a crossbody off the top. Pushing on, Zoltan\u2019s able to land an enziguiri before his springboard cutter out of the corner was blocked\u2026 with Murashima instead planting him with a German suplex.<\/p>\n<p>Another push from Murashima sees him land a flying forearm, before an airplane spin into a Samoan Driver almost got the win. Murashima tries a cutter of his own, but to no avail as Zoltan countered with a backslide, before a diving knee and a frog splash got the win. This was a good little outing for the time they got &#8211; with Zoltan having been taken to the brink, only to come back as Murashima tried to out-Zoltan Zoltan. ***\u00bd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time on Shotgun, Katsuya Murashima faces Zoltan in a non-title match, as we experience the fallout from Broken Rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"wXw Shotgun (July 16, 2026) recap - #wXwShotgun - This time on Shotgun, Katsuya Murashima faces Zoltan in a non-title match, as we experience the fallout from Broken Rules.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[690,6,2037,829],"tags":[7167,1063,454,6879],"class_list":["post-29053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-european-indies","category-reviews","category-shotgun","category-wxw","tag-katsuya-murashima","tag-shotgun","tag-wxw","tag-zoltan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73vbt-7yB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wxw-shotgun-2026logo.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29055,"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29053\/revisions\/29055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}