3/17/01: Saturday Night Explosion - Chicago, IL

Interview:
Ken Shamrock & Jesse James Armstrong unveil their mystery partner for Super Cade.
Click here to see highlights.

Tank Abbott pinned Mike Sharpe after a mounted punch in 0:03:24.
Rating: -** 1/2

Juventud Guerrera and Pierre Oulette defeated Colorado Kid and Indiana Kidd Jr.
 when P. Oulette pinned Colorado Kid after a flying forearm in 0:15:33.
Indiana Kidd Jr. injured his left knee. He will be out for approximately 8 weeks.
Rating: ** 1/4

Flash Flanagan pinned Mark Pain with the Flying Somersault Neckbreaker in
           0:06:37.
Rating: -*** 1/4

Brian Adias pinned Erik Watts after a figure-four leglock in 0:00:58.
Rating: 3/4*

Sebastian P. Sterling pinned The Perfect Creation with the Sterling Suplex in
           0:13:23.
Rating: **

Interview:
Gran Hamada has some strong words for The Perfect Creation and... Masato Tanaka?
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Big Titan pinned Jerry Lynn with the Power Bomb in 0:08:27.
Rating: ** 3/4

The Extremists (Ace Darling, Devon Storm, Jonny Storm and Rhino) defeated
The Armstrong Family (Scott Armstrong and Steve Armstrong) and The Headhunters
 when J. Storm pinned Steve Armstrong with the Split Legged Moonsault in
           0:16:12.
Rating: **

The Superstars of Grunge defeated Jesse James Armstrong and Ken Shamrock when
Skank pinned Armstrong with the Jesus & Merry Pain in 0:13:55.
Rating: * 3/4

Masato Tanaka and Gran Hamada battled to a draw in 0:30:00.
Rating: **** 1/4
(Masato Tanaka retained the GLW World Title.)



Match observations: 

We are only 6 days away from Super Cade I, and what a night of action we had to set it up here on Saturday Night Explosion from the GLW Arena in Chicago, Illinois!  Let's get right to it, folks!

The show opened up with "The Roaddog" Jesse James Armstrong & "The World's Most Dangerous Man" Ken Shamrock coming out for an interview.  They talked a little about their match at Super Cade against the Extremists in a 10-man Elimination
Match, but the thing is, we still didn't know who would be the babyfaces' mystery partner.  Well, we would soon find out as that man was announced to be another former UFC superstar and all-around bad ass, Tank Abbott!  Abbott isn't a
finesse guy by any means, but the Extremists have to be worried!  A good choice for a partner to say the least.

Tank Abbott then had his debut match, and this was a massacre!  Poor Mike Sharpe... it didn't take long for Abbott to toss "Iron" Mike around the ring and finished this one off with a huge mounted punch.  Abbott is going to be a force to
reckon with here in Great Lakes Wrestling.

We had a tag team match up next, and this was fantastic!  The teams were Indiana Kidd Jr. and Colorado Kid teaming up to take on their respective opponents at Super Cade, Juventud Guerrera and Television champion Pierre Oulette.  This was
a back and forth match to say the least.  Both of these teams took turns hitting each other with high impact maneuvers, but the end of the match is when it got interesting.  While Oulette and C-Kid were fighting in the ring, "The Juice"
pulled a ladder out from under the ring!  Indiana Kidd Jr. saw this and went over to Juvy and began brawling.  Both men eventually started climbing the sides of the ladder and began punching each other at the top of it!  Juvy got the
advantage and punched Indiana Kidd Jr. right off the ladder and through the announcer's table!  Indiana Kidd Jr. was laid out!  Colorado Kid turned around to check on his partner, but he caught a flying forearm from Pierre Oulette who then
made the cover for the win.  We learned later that Indiana Kidd Jr. hurt his knee pretty bad and will not be able to compete at Super Cade.  However, GLW President Ryan Niemiller has said that the Ladder Match is still on for Super Cade
with Juventud Guerrera now taking on a mystery opponent!

The next match was definitely not pretty to say the least.  The words "pure domination" don't even begin to cover it.  Flash Flanagan was on fire tonight, and Mark Pain was not to say the least.  Flanagan gets an easy victory.

Brian Adias has a Falls-Count-Anywhere Match coming up with Mark "The Shark" Schrader, and he showed that he's ready to do whatever it takes to not only beat Schrader, but hurt him.  Before his match with Erik Watts, Adias attacked Watts
in the back with a steal chair and proceeded to take out Watts' knee.  Adias was expecting to not have a match when he came out, but Watts showed a lot of fight as he hobbled to the ring.  Watts gave little fight though as Adias put him in
an extremely painful figure-four leglock and got the victory.  Schrader is in for a fight at Super Cade.

Our next match was an interesting contest to say the least as Sebastian P. Sterling took on his former partner and friend and a man who has went off the deep end, "Greatness Himself" The Perfect Creation.  Sterling had a fire lit under him
against the man who turned on him just a week ago, but eventually TPC started to get the advantage.  TPC got a little cocky and several times instead of pinning Sterling, he lifted his shoulders and kept the onslaught going.  Near the end
of the match, TPC ascended the ropes to put more punishment on Sterling, but Gran Hamada came out of nowhere and tripped TPC up and crotched him on the ropes!  Sterling followed this up quickly with the Sterling Suplex and picked up what
has to be considered a huge upset!  The crowd erupted as Sterling celebrated his biggest victory to date.  Hamada jumped in the ring and planted TPC with the Swinging DDT to a huge crowd pop.  When TPC came to, he was none too happy as he
ran to the back in search of Gran Hamada.

Before TPC could find Hamada, Hamada gave an interview and said that The Perfect Creation would get more of the same at Super Cade and then shocked everyone by challenging his friend World champion Masato Tanaka to a match tonight!  This
all came about after Tanaka accidentally hit Hamada with a chair last week that cost him the Triangle Match with The Perfect Creation and Big Titan and now wants revenge.  The match was signed as our main event tonight, and we learned that
it would also be for the World Title!  What a match!

Despite who would be World champion at the end of this night, Big Titan gets the champ at Super Cade, and he looked to get into a groove, but he had a very tough match ahead of him against "The New F'N Show" Jerry Lynn, who has turned a 
few heads in the GLW, including Midwestern champion Doc Dean's.  Lynn showed no intimidation against the much stronger Big Titan, hitting him with everything he had.  Lynn went for the juggular by going for a flying Frankensteiner, but
Titan was able to counter it with the Power Bomb and got a very hard fought victory.  Titan looks to be at his best as he goes into his World Title match at Super Cade against either Masato Tanaka or Gran Hamada depending on who wins the
match tonight.

Our next match can't be described as anything but chaos.  When you put 8 guys together in one match, things tend to get a little wild, and that's exactly what happened here as the Headhunters teamed up with Scott & Steve Armstrong to take
on the Extremists, Rhino, "Wonderkid" Jonny Storm, and the GLW World Tag Team champions Ace Darling and Devon Storm.  Not too many details about this match other than a lot of brawling and a lot of action.  In the end of a well fought
match, Jonny Storm got the pin on Steve Armstrong with the Split Legged Moonsault.  The fight wasn't over yet though as the Superstars of Grunge came down and joined the battle, which prompted Suicidal Tendencies and The Movement to join
the fray as well.  Needless to say, it took a lot of officials to break this one up.

In our next battle we had the Superstars of Grunge getting their chance to prove they were legit by taking on the team of Jesse James Armstrong and Ken Shamrock, not an enviable task.  This was a highly competitive match as "Superstar"
Steve Boz and Skank did not look intimidated or overmatched at all.  The match even managed to stay clean until "The Canadian Superstar" Lance Storm got involved, tripping Armstrong up allowing Skank to hit the Jesus & Merry Pain and get
the Superstars of Grunge an absolutely huge win!  The rest of the Extremists soon joined the fight and the beating of "The Roaddog" and "The World's Most Dangerous Man" was on, until Steve & Scott Armstrong and Tank Abbott made the save
and a huge 10-man battle ensued!  This match at Super Cade is going to be a barn burner!

We just had one more match left on the card, and it was the big one!  As far as we know, World champion Masato Tanaka and Gran Hamada are the best of friends, but they definitely didn't look like it in this match!  Tanaka insists that last
week's chair miscue was an honest mistake, but Hamada seems to have his doubts.  Even if these guys are still friends, they went at each other like they were bitter enemies in one of the damnedest matches I have ever seen.  Just move after
move after move, and no matter what, both Tanaka and Hamada kept getting up for more, and the crowd loved every minute of it.  After a long time of intense action, we were dangerously near the time limit.  With 30 seconds left in the match
Hamada seemed to have Tanaka ready for the pickings and was going for his Swinging DDT, but Tanaka countered it with a throw-off.  Tanaka then got a running start and nailed the Roaring Elbow with the last bit of his energy.  Before the
champ could get the energy to make the cover, the time limit expired.  The GLW Arena crowd all stood up and gave both of these competitors a well-deserved standing ovation, but that ovation was cut short when Big Titan and The Perfect
Creation came in and beat on their respective opponents for Super Cade I.  The show came to an end with the heels pummeling the faces.

Be sure to join us for Super Cade I, live from Chicago, Illinois, this Friday, March 23rd!  With 8 action packed matches, you won't want to miss it for anything!  See ya there!