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: "It's Saturday Night and you will not find a more action-packed two hours anywhere. With me as always is John Bradshaw Layfield and Paul E. Dangerously, and we are live tonight from the gambling capital of the world: Las Vegas!"
: "Tonight's pre-show is a new special 'buy in' edition. This entire pre-show is being broadcast absolutely free on TNT."
"Coming up on the main show tonight, is a massive 6-Man Tag Team bout as the Blood Generation, who are at the bottom of the standings in the 6-Man Tag Team division square off against the New Impact Players, who stand to be the next team to challenge for the titles after the Real Americans."
"Also, a little bit later on, Primo has decided that tonight he is going to do a special United States Championship ceremony, despite having held that belt for, well, the past decade."
The wrestlers have each selected a card from a special deck, with the suit they chose assigning them to a group. Every three minutes the deck will be shuffled and the next suit to enter will be drawn. After all 4 suits have been used, the individual who drew the joker card will be the final participant in the match. Elimination occurs when an individual is thrown over the top rope and both feet touch the floor. The last individual remaining will go on to challenge Tommaso Ciampa for the LCWF European Championship. Currently in the ring with me are the men who selected the clubs suit. Hawk, Max Buck, TJ Perkins, Drew Gulak, and
"Wow, Johnny Ace is being welcomed very graciously by this Vegas crowd. Kind of a surprise since the last time we saw him he was not nearly this popular with fans."
: "That he is, Bobby. Let's see what he can do in this matchup, and, for anyone watching, the rules might seem confusing, but it's just a Battle Royal with different rules for how the competitors enter, nothing more."
Casino Battle Royale to determine the #1 Contender to the LCWF European ChampionshipThe bell dings. Drew kicks things off punching away at Ace, Max Buck shoves Hawk down to the mat, and TJ Perkins is measuring Drew and Ace, waiting for his moment.
Dangerously: "Look at Max Buck here, stomping away at the down Hawk in the corner. Immediately using his speed advantage to take Hawk down and by surprise, I might add, he definitely moved a bit before the bell there." Drew turns around and Perkins catches an elbow for his trouble. Drew punching away at Perkins, who is tied up in the ropes now. Gulak kicks Perkins in the gut. Max shoves his foot in Hawks face and yells "You need Animal to fight all of your battles?" Gulak comes over and tells Buck to fight him instead. Perkins is kicking away at Johnny in the corner. Gulak starts unloading punch after punch on Buck, driving him towards the corner. Perkins uppercuts Johnny, as Gulak hits a particularly devastating punch to Buck. Gulak goes to capitalize, but Buck pulls him down and slams his head off the turnbuckle.
Heenan: "Let's point out here that Buck and Hawk, both, don't usually receive opportunities like this. Ones in which they have the chance to break from their seemingly ever-present tag team partners." Buck is stomping on Gulak and trash talking him, which gives Gulak the opening to take shots at his midsection. Perkins is trying to lift Johnny Ace for a suplex, but Johnny is blocking the attempt. Gulak has gotten the upper hand and delivers a well placed kick to the gut.
Bradshaw: "The unsportsmanlike conduct begins as Johnny is rubbing a wet rag into Perkins' face. We can only hope it has only been soaked in water." Gulak has thrown Buck into the corner and is going for the elimination. The rag allows Johnny to trip Perkins up, knocking him to the mat.
Heenan: "Now Johnny is rubbing the rag all over himself. This is a bizarre strategy, if I have ever seen one, and I've seen Mr. Fuji." Gulak turns around and Ace is asking for him to attack. They lock up, but Gulak can't get a handle on him and slips to the mat. Perkins with the go behind, but Ace just continues using the rag and starts wiggling around. He slips out and kicks Perkins in the gut. Off the ropes, and right into a headbutt from Perkins to the bicep. That took him off his feet. Gulak steps to him now and takes a right fist to the face, followed by another one. When, out of nowhere, Perkins tosses him right over the top rope and he hangs on with one hand. Perkins picks him up and tries to punch him off the apron. He turns around for momentum, charges, and takes a shoulder block to the gut. Gulak rolls back into the ring as Max Buck starts yelling at the crowd.
Dangerously: "From the sounds of it the Diamonds are going to be the next group to enter, Bradshaw you have been involved in battle royals, do you think it's better for the ring to be empty or full when their time comes?" Buck goes over punches Gulak in the face and immediately starts trying to get rid of him.
Bradshaw: "Well, I've never been in this specific battle royale, but I'd imagine you'd want the ring to be full so that you have more people to go after that may keep the target off of you."
Heenan: "Ace will probably have no trouble keeping the target off himself is people can barely hold on to him." Ace starts stomping on the down Perkins in the corner. Buck sends Gulak off the ropes, he ducks the clothesline attempt, and delivers a flying forearm smash. He stays on him with stomps to the chest, then more so by picking him up and kneeing him square in the chest.
Dangerously: "Remember this match is to determine Tommaso Ciampa's opponent at the next Takeover event." Ace punches Perkins in the face, while Buck rakes Gulak's eyes.
Ace, still covered in some unknown substance, stomps on the top of the shoulder blade of Perkins in the corner.
Dangerously: "It looks like the Diamonds have been drawn and it's time for them to enter this match. It should be interesting to see who is joining the fray here." Ace is trying to life Perkins, but gets clubbed on the back. Perkins striking him on the back, even whipping him. Buck is burying his boot into Gulak's chin.
Bradshaw: "Buck is already calling this in his favor. Saying he's going to be the champion, he is going to be the winner tonight. Despite the fact that he does still have to go through Jeremy at some point this evening. Buck stomps on Gulak one more time, then goes back over to Hawk and buries his boot in his ribcage.
Heenan: "As Perkins goes over to stomp on Gulak now, I have to say Hawk has just been taken out of this one. He has not been able to make any sort of progress since the opening bell, but he has been employing an old strategy by trying to hide under the turnbuckle. Buck kicking Hawk in the back now. Of course it looks like Buck isn't letting that slide anymore and is biting the fingers. And the Diamonds have finally joined us at the ramp."
Dangerously: "Out comes Tom Brandi, who is trying to make his presence known to the crowd. And he catches Tracy Smothers by surprise with a big boot to the face while he was playing up the crowd." Brandi tosses Smothers into the barricade. Brandi is celebrating his strategy, and almost to the ring, when Barrett and Kazarian turn him around and double suplex right on the ramp.
Bradshaw: "The ramp has just gotten somewhat more exciting as Barrett and Kazarian had the same idea."
Heenan: "But the final member of the Diamond club waits to make his entrance.
The crowd chants 'Albert'. And it's Tensai!" Tensai ignores everyone on the ramp, goes right into the ring, and catches the foot of Max Buck. Buck flips out and pokes him in the eye.
Dangerously: "The determination in Tensai as goes right after Buck. Buck off the ropes and Tensai returns the poke to the eye." Tensai lifts him up in a fireman's carry and drops him in a neckbreaker over the knee. Tensai taunts him. The crowd is firmly behind Tensai as he picks Buck up and throws him into the corner. Tensai starts lighting him up now with chops to the chest. Buck is begging Tensai to go after anyone else, while he tries to distance himself by sliding over to a different corner. Tensai goes back to chopping the chest as Perkins steps on Hawk's head.
Bradshaw: "5,4,3,2,1. The Hearts are the next club to join the fray as Kazarian pulls a table out from under the ring." Shannon Moore, Roman Reigns, Tony Nese, Kid Krush, and Homicide make their way down to the ring. Moore and Nese speed down and slide into the ring. Barrett finally enters the ring and punches all of the down men. Moore goes right over to kick away at Gulak in the corner. Barrett sends Nese off the ropes, but Nese catches him with a hurricanrana, planting him on his head. Then Buck takes Nese down with a right hook as soon as he got back to his feet. Moore goes over to punch Buck now, and Buck rakes the eyes. Buck clubs Moore on the back and pushes him away before staring down Reigns and making fun of him, he can't believe Reigns would participate in this match. Buck, not taking him seriously, swings wildly, but Reigns grabs the arm, twists it, and kicks him in the chest. Reigns sweeps the leg, then delivers a cross chop. Barrett tries to catch him off guard with a blow to the back of the head, but Reigns catches the arm and drops him with an uppercut.
Dangerously: "Reigns said he was the one who had the experience to take him to the win in this match, but Perkins just clubbed him through the middle rope and down to the floor." Perkins follows that up with a big running splash to Gulak in the corner. Meanwhile, Moore takes a clothesline from Barrett in the opposite corner. Then, Perkins is ready to be done with Johnny Ace and tosses him over the top rope, but Ace wraps his hands around the ropes and hangs on.
Heenan: "Whatever Ace rubbed all over himself could work against him here as Perkins pulls him up. As Perkins delivers a headbutt right into the shoulder, notice that Reigns is right there on the outside, still in this contest. Oh no! It doesn't matter as that headbutt knocked Ace out on his feet, he loses his grip, falls to the floor, and is the first man out of this one."
Johnny Ace has been eliminated! (21st) Reigns rolls back into the ring as Perkins heads up top.
Bradshaw: "Reigns is heading after Perkins and it..it looks like Wade Barrett is taking a smoke break in the middle of the ring."
Heenan: "And Reigns is throwing something in Perkins' face, it looks like water. Whatever it is seems to have stopped Perkins in his tracks, big right hand by Reigns, and Perkins collapses to the outside. That's it for him."
TJ Perkins has been eliminated! (20th). Reigns is gloating, staring down Perkins, he stands on the ropes and yells down at him.
Dangerously: "This is dangerous...I mean there goes Max Buck from behind. He is picking Reigns up and dumps him right out, catching him by complete surprise!"
Roman Reigns has been eliminated! (19th). It's Buck's turn to gloat now as Shannon Moore waits for him to turn around. Kazarian hits a running bulldog on Barrett, which slams his face right into his own cigarette. Barrett is screaming in pain. Buck backs into Moore and finally realizes what's going on.
Bradshaw: "Kazarian has a staple gun. I guess that is legal in this match." Buck turns around and Moore tosses him over the top rope and on to the apron. Barrett has turned it around and gives Kazarian a kick to the midsection. Moore tries to capitalize on Buck, but Buck delivers a shoulder block to get back in the ring.
Bradshaw: "Barrett is still going despite having a small fire on his forehead." Tom Brandi with a flying clothesline to Barrett. Gulak lays into Kazarian with rights and lefts while he is down on the mat. Tensai throws Barret over the top rope, but Barrett is clutching to the top rope, so Tensai is trying to rip his fingers off. Kid Krush and Tracy Smothers go high-low on Tom Brandi as the Spades are set to make their way down. That's Jeremy Buck, The Great Muta, Animal, Big E. Langston, and Curry Man. While Jeremy Buck is being introduced, Krush and Smothers double suplex Brandi, then pick him up and drop him over the top rope.
Tom Brandi has been eliminated! (18th). Muta slides into the ring, bounces off the ropes, tiltawhirls around Moore, then grabs his head, and drops his face in to both knees. Muta is feeling the crowd when Max Buck shoves him down from behind. He's taking center stage and forearms Langston in the face before Langston has even set foot in the ring. Homicide off the ropes, charging at Max, but Max sidesteps, and Homicide turns it into a suicide dive through the middle rope, taking down Langston, Jeremy Buck, and Animal. Carnage around the ring as everyone else is just delivering miscellaneous punches, kicks, and forearms to whoever is around them. Jeremy Buck and Homicide are back in the ring and trading lefts and rights. Jeremy Buck hits a knee to the face, a spin kick to the chest, then another kick to the face, before finally delivering a striking kick to the temple.
Dangerously: "After they eliminated Tom Brandi, you could say Krush and Smothers are the elimination leaders right now, but more on that later because this crowd is going wild for Big E. Langston and Xavier Woods, who are about to introduce more weapons into the fray." Homicide delivers a spinning clothesline as Langston and Woods start filling the ring with weapons.
Woods throws a chair that clips Jeremy Buck a little bit. Langston finally enters now, trashcan lid off Moore's head. One to Barrett, Gulak, Smothers tries to plead with him but gets one too, as do Krush and Homicide.
Heenan: "Langston looks like he is on a path of rage. Kazarian is asking for it and Langston bonks him on the head with the trashcan." Langston follows that up with a cutter to Kazarian.
Bradshaw: "It looked like Kazarian was going to shake that off, but Langston had other ideas, you could see it in his eyes." Langston goes after Gulak first and looks as if he bites his head. Barrett and Langston getting into it now, with Barrett eventually getting the advantage with a flurry of punches. Meanwhile, Jeremy Buck catches Smothers and Krush with a double STO. Jeremy Buck picks them both up at the same time and shoves them into the ropes, just pushing them over and down to the floor.
Kid Krush and Tracy Smothers have been eliminated! (17th and 16th). Dangerously: "It is now time for the last man to enter this match. The man who drew the joker card and it is....big super Mex, Hernandez! You can see him limping a bit from an unrelated injury he suffered this week, let's see how that affects him in this one." Hernandez enters the ring and everyone starts after him one by one, clothesline puts down Moore, right hand puts down Tensai, one to Gulak, he's taking on everyone! He is sparing no one, even Homicide gets a punch. Another clothesline to Moore.
Bradshaw: "They are just dropping like flies. Boot to Kazarian, there." Punch to Animal, Langston, but Max Buck is the one to stop him in his tracks. Boot to the midsection, followed by an irish whip, but Hernandez explodes out of the corner with a lariat. Tensai charges, but runs straight into a boot to the face. Tony Nese charges, but gets caught and hit with a blockbuster. Barrett is standing tall right behind him, ready and waiting. Hernandez turns around and they go at it with the rights and lefts. Hernandez looks like he is getting the upper hand, comes off the ropes, and Barrett catches him with a forearm shot. Hernandez reverses another irish whip attempt into one of his own and Barrett comes back into a discus elbow strike. Hernandez lifts Barrett up and drops him right on the back of his neck with a border toss. Tensai is chopping away at Homicide in the corner. Homicide is getting lit up as Jeremy Buck wants to be the next man to challenge Hernandez. Homicide turns it around and delivers his own chops to Tensai so he can go over and get in Hernandez's face over those shots he took earlier. Homicide reels back and goes for the right hook, but Hernandez steps out of the way and Homicide catches Jeremy Buck. Hernandez turns him around, kicks him in the gut, and goes to lift him up, but his knee gives out from under him. Animal kicks Kazarian off of the top turnbuckle and Kazarian is in trouble, but he hangs on. Tony Nese and The Great Muta have teamed up and they both take turns punching Homicide. Homicide shoves them off and goes for a double clothesline, which they duck, Nese picks up Muta and launches him, but he's caught by Homicide. Nese kicks the knee, which forces Homicide to drop Muta back down to the mat. Homicide shoves Muta back, but that gives Nese the opening he needs to lock him in a sleeper hold. Homicide drops back and plants Nese back first into the canvass to break the hold. Muta is punching away at Homicide, but it appears to be having no effect. Homicide swings wildly with clothesline after clothesline, but Muta ducks them all and connects with an enziguri. They both come off the ropes, Muta looks for a jumping head scissors, but Homicide catches him and throws him right out of the ring.
The Great Muta has been eliminated! (15th). Bradshaw: "That looked very similar to Monty Brown's pounce, it could be that Homicide has been training with him. Homicide is bragging though and gets caught with the running dropkick from behind by Tony Nese. Nese buries the shoulder into Homicide and drives him up and over the top rope!"
Homicide has been eliminated! (14th). Barrett is on Nese immediately with clubbing blows to the back. Hawk finally comes crawling out from his spot on the bottom turnbuckle and eats a bicycle kick from Barrett. But Tensai kicks him in the gut and delivers a spike DDT to Barrett. Barrett is stumbling, out on his feet, and collapses across the middle rope. Tensai is calling for Hawk and Hawk drops the knee across Barrett's back, but Tensai is still calling for more. Hawk heads up top and delivers a diving elbow drop. Max Buck puts a stop to that with a running kick to the skull of Hawk. Buck hoists Hawk up and sets him on the top turnbuckle, but Animal looks like he is coming to his partner's aid. He pulls Buck off and hits him with a forearm. Animal goes to talk with his partner, but Hawk grabs him by the head. Hawk drops down to the apron, pulling Animal with him, he's delivering headbutts to pull Animal down faster, and Animal drops to the floor!
Animal has been eliminated! (13th). Dangerously: "Hawk just proved it is really every man for himself in this match. I mean you don't see The Young Bucks working together do you? Speaking of which, Max Buck over to finish what he started now."
Hawk punches Max off of him, then tries a springboard shoulder tackle, but Max Buck uppercuts him and he drops down to the floor beside Animal.
Hawk has been eliminated! (12th). Max Buck celebrates and falls to the mat a bit, meanwhile Moore delivers a feint stomp leg drop to Gulak in the center of the ring. Moore thinks he has him, picks him up, takes him over to the ropes, but Gulak with the reversal, tosses Moore by the head over the top rope and down to the floor.
Shannon Moore has been eliminated! (11th). Gulak is smirking at Moore.
Bradshaw: "Gulak is spending too much time with his back turned, this is why he has not been seen much around here, and Max Buck from behind dumps him right out, as expected."
Drew Gulak has been eliminated! (10th). Barrett is still kind of out of it, but delivers a discus forearm to Jeremy Buck. Buck delivers a hook kick to the face. Buck punches him back into the ropes, then takes him in a headscissors, and delivers a hurricanrana to send Barrett down to the floor and through a table!
Wade Barrett has been eliminated! (9th). Jeremy is appreciating his work when he is struck from behind with a chair shot by Big E. Langston. Langston sends Tensai off with an irish whip. He charges, but Tensai catches him with a back elbow. Tensai throws him into the corner and delivers a series of elbows one after the other, but he went to the well too many times as Langston ducks one and lifts Tensai up and over.
Tensai has been eliminated! (8th). Curry Man has been standing at ringside this entire time finally enters the match and confronts Langston. He delivers some mock kicks, then charges and delivers a light tap on the back of the leg.
Bradshaw: "Langston is going to be feeling those for weeks. He'll probably need crutches tonight. We already have the ice getting prepared in the back. Right hand puts Curry Man down, but Curry Man kips right back up looking like nothing happened. Langston easily throws Curry Man down to the floor."
Curry Man has been eliminated! (7th). Langston lifts up Kazarian and Kazarian presses a staple into his head with the staple gun.
Dangerously: "Kazarian just lowblowed Langston with the staple gun. Then flipped him out and down to the floor. Best elimination of the night."
Big E. Langston has been eliminated! (6th). Kazarian is threatening the other competitors with the staple gun and they want no part of it. Tony Nese and Jeremy Buck team up as Buck kicks the staple gun out of Kazarian's hand. Then Buck tosses Nese and Nese delivers a facebreaker on Kazarian. Nese tries to use the momentum to take out Max Buck, but Buck reverses it and tosses him over the ropes, Nese hangs on.
Heenan: "Kazarian starts trying to pry his fingers, he's biting them! He is biting them, of course Nese has no choice but to let go here."
Tony Nese has been eliminated! (5th). Dangerously: "Here we are down to the first final four in LCWF Casino Battle Royale history. The Young Bucks, Kazarian, and SuperMex, Hernandez. All of them, even Jeremy Buck, look like they want Max Buck as the next one out. Max has been in this match the longest, so they are all crowding around him." Kazarian delivers the first kick. Kazarian and Jeremy are kicking away at him, while Hernandez is punching.
Bradshaw: "Let's point out here, Max rolled under the bottom rope and down to the floor, he is still alive in this one. But they think he has been taken out as now Kazarian and Hernandez call out Jeremy, who misses a double clothesline. Sledges to the back by both men, but Jeremy fights it off with an elbow to Kazarian and a right to Hernandez. A discus forearm by Kazarian. TKO cutter by Kazarian. Kazarian calls out Hernandez, but runs straight into a boot to the face. Hernandez to the top, gets caught by a leaping uppercut from Kazarian. Death valley driver by Kazarian, he rolls through, and punts him in the chest.
Heenan: "Kazarian standing tall in the middle of that ring, looks for a second TKO cutter on Hernandez, but Hernandez reverses and back bodydrops him onto the apron, he hangs on. The wild swing misses Hernandez, but Jeremy Buck comes off the ropes with a leaping knee strike to the face. Kazarian just crumples to the floor."
Kazarian has been eliminated! (4th). Dangerously: "Two men...oh no, three men remain. Max Buck is still out here on the floor in front of us. Like a lion waiting to pounce, let's not forget about him. But let's point out that there is a 2/3 chance that the Young Bucks are taking this one." The crowd behind Jeremy Buck as he charges in, but Hernandez sidesteps him. Hernandez with chops to the chest, but he takes a high rounding knee strike to the side of the head. Tilt a whirl head scissors takedown from Buck.
Bradshaw: "You can still see Hernandez favoring the knee, but Jeremy Buck charges him and Hernandez with the low bridge to send Jeremy tumbling out down to the floor!"
Jeremy Buck has been eliminated! (3rd). Heenan: "What's going on? Somebody rang the bell, but we don't have a winner yet. Look there's Max Buck trying to dump Hernandez out from behind right now. Everybody forgot about Max, who thinks he has won now, but Hernandez hung on. He turned away too soon he thinks he got him there, but the bell didn't ring this time."
Dangerously: "Hernandez waits for him to turn around and springs in with the flying shoulder block. Hernandez just clotheslines him down to the floor and now he's really won this thing."
Max Buck has been eliminated! (2nd). Bradshaw: "Hernandez wins this one, hurt leg and all. He is receiving a European Title opportunity. He won the first ever Casino Battle Royale in the company's history."
Draw | Entrant | Order | Eliminated by | Eliminations |
Clubs | Drew Gulak Johnny Ace Hawk Max Buck TJ Perkins | 12 1 10 20 2 | Max Buck TJ Perkins Max Buck Hernandez Roman Reigns | 1 0 1 3 1
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Diamonds | Tom Brandi Tracy Smothers Wade Barrett Kazarian Tensai | 4 5 13 18 14 | Kid Krush/Tracy Smothers Jeremy Buck Jeremy Buck Jeremy Buck Big E. Langston | 0 1 0 2 0 |
Hearts | Shannon Moore Tony Nese Kid Krush Roman Reigns Homicide | 11 17 6 3 8 | Drew Gulak Kazarian Jeremy Buck Max Buck Tony Nese | 0 1 1 1 1 |
Spades | Big E. Langston (w/ Xavier Woods) The Great Muta Curry Man Jeremy Buck Animal | 16 7 15 19 9 | Kazarian Homicide Big E. Langston Hernandez Hawk | 2 0 0 4 0 |
Joker | Hernandez | - | Winner | 2 |