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Riot Act Pre-Show

Jacob Ryler was sat down in a studio with former SNW wrestlers, Petey the Pirate, Super Extreme and Baz Hepburn. Ryler was hosting the first ever interactive Pre-show. The show filled between the matches with segments including tweets and predictions.

1) Axel Parkland and Rose Parkland vs. Joseph Stone and Red Fire: Simple match to kick off. All of these athletes are still pretty green. The least was Red but she didn’t have much to work with. Stone hit some big dives to get the crowd going and took out Axel late on with an Asai Moonsault, this allowed Red to hit a moonsault for the pin.

2) El Hijo de Angel Custodio vs. Baby J Jamerson: A fun little bout, El Hijo was the highlight, kicking the fans into a frenzy. Although Baby J must take some credit for taking the spots and playing a fantastic heel, he got close a few times but fell to the ever spectacular Spanish Fly.

3) Duke Parkland vs. Dimitri Smirnoff [NGW]: This was a good match that followed on from the last bout well. The challenger from NGW took control early on but the fans rallied behind the son of Drew Parkland. Duke took the win locking in the KFC for the submission win. Fans really love Duke.

Jacob Ryler and his panel of former SNW athletes talked about some of the matches on tonight. Baz predicted we would see new tag champs tonight, Extreme questioned whether the team of Team Bennett and the AirDevils will be enough to beat RevX while Petey spoke about his old rival Drew Parkland, saying he might well meet his maker tonight as he faces the loud brash youngster Dave Demento

4) Noah Lee and Kourtney Love vs. Richie Stevens and Kitty [TCW]: Before the match, Richie asked the fans if they have seen Kacey Montgomery, continuing from his TCW storyline. He even asked Love but she just seemed confused. The match itself was fun, Noah is still very green so Richie led him though the match and won after a small package.

5) Jason Williams vs. Blackbird [TCW]: A good highflying bout which got the crowd on their feet for more than one occasion. Jason in particular hitting a Indian Press to the floor. Back in the ring Jason hit the Psycho Driver for the win.

Just before the pre-show main event Ryler asked for the panel's opinions and predictions on the main event match. Extreme went for Bockwinkel citing his experience, Baz went for Riley as he's untested at this level and will catch Bock out, Petey went for Riley because he's more 'buccaneering'

6) Nick Jacobs vs. Zeke [TCW]: Big main event for the pre-show, former SNW athlete Zeke returned to SNW to battle SNW’s Original 16’s Nick Jacobs. There was some great back and forth action, plenty of lock ups and technical holds. Jacobs went close on a few occasions but Zeke managed the win after the two battled up top. Zeke pushed Nick off the top then fell on top of him for the win (the botch was on purpose to continue another story from TCW).

Riot Act 8
Live from Cobo Arena, Detroit only on SNW Player

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it
- Che Guevara

There’s a big crowd in Detroit, breaking SNW’s attendance record. There’s a large set too, with Riot Act 8 written in big letters. The entrance is a large stage with a big projected screen above it and a ramp leading straight to the ring like the ramp NJPW uses in Japan. Some fireworks are let off to celebrate the show before ‘Bangarang’ plays and the camera pans over the arena. The commentators ‘The Genius’ Edward Colgate and James Simmons run down the card.

1) Daniel Sinn vs. Carson Clark: This singles action opened the show, when it was expected that the three corner tag would open. However, fans enjoyed this match and that’s largely to do with Clark. But credit must go to Sinn who played a fantastic heel off of Sinn. Sinn was introduced under the nickname of ‘Widdowmaker’. We’ve seen before he can work well with highlyfers and it happened once again here. Clark hit a few dives and high spots to get the crowd going but missed an inverted 450 and soon fell to the Original Sinn.

As per usual at this time on the iPPV we saw the champion and challenger arrive into the arena from earlier today. Bockwinkel arrived in style, as he usually does, accompanied by Cameron Stone and Baby J Jamerson. Riley showed up in a chauffeur driven car, wearing a dress shirt. He signed some autographs to chants of ‘Next World Champ’.

2) Jack Powers vs. Cameron Stone: The good action continued, even if this match was much different. The story of the match was the big, bad, dominant Stone being his usual self. Powers played the underdog (a strange role for the former World Champion). Powers used clever tactics to wear down the ‘Canadian Gangsta’, focusing on the legs and more closely on the left knee. Stone’s dominance wore away, although he did catch Stone from the Suicide Dive and reverse STO him into the barricade. Back in the ring, the former United Front leader went in for the kill, he soon got a leg-lock in and Stone had to submit.

SNW Women’s Champion, Wasp was backstage shadow boxing when Amy Lee walked in. Wasp wished Amy good luck in the Warfare match later tonight. But Amy said that once she is done with Warfare she will be gunning for her and her title. Amy left and Wasp resumed but then was attacked from behind by Beast Kong. Staff and wrestlers had to pull Kong away but the damage seems to be done.

3) Knife Fight vs. Joseph Brothers vs. Mockingbird: More fun action as the singles action gave way to three corner tag action. As you’d expect, this was a frenzied fast paced bout and the fans ate it up. You might have expected the Joseph’s or Mockingbird to be the fans favourite due to their highflying style but as we’ve seen recently, Jackal and Static got cheered loudly. They seemed more used to it than before and played quite face-like, which included Cain hitting a dive to the floor. The match ended with a cluster of finishers, the Joseph’s hit the DVD/Pele but then MBird hit the Sunset Flip/Missile Dropkick combo but then the former Adrenaline team hit the Spear /Brainbuster combo to seal the win.

The challengers to the Duos titles, Kevin Hart and Cody Rejero were backstage giving a promo to the camera. They put over Calgary, saying that you get something special from being from there. They put over the cities accompaniments. They said this will give them the edge over Fatality Squad. Cody added that if that doesn’t work then he’ll use the Pepsi.

4) WOM: Falls Count Anywhere: Wasp vs. Beast Kong: The champion Wasp looked already beaten as she made her way out, she was still feeling the effects from the pre-match attack. And of course, Kong wasn’t going to let up. Kong was dominant at first then Wasp hit a bit clothesline to send Kong to the floor. Wasp then made use of the stipulation by bringing a chair. Kong got back in it by lifting Wasp into the crowd. The two brawled about and the fans loved it. Wasp fell down the stairs and was dumped head first onto a chair. Wasp got back in it, placing her opponent on a seated chair then hitting a running boot to her. Wasp continued using the chair to get back into it and the two fought beside the entrance ramp. Wasp positioned two tables side by side then lifting Kong onto the ramp. But Wasp couldn’t lift Kong, possibly because of the pre-match attack. Kong capitalised hitting a sitdown powerbomb from the ramp through two tables below. Kong made the pin and we had a new Women’s champion.

Team Bennett of Ace Bennett, Matt Spade, Alicia Bennett and Clive the Janitor were backstage when Tom Gerard and Travis Cantrell of the AirDevils walk in. There’s a few back and forth jabs at each other such as the Devils questioning Alicia’s wrestling ability, adding that they can’t be sure that she’ll just stare at Devine all match. Spade then blurted out that Gerard and Ace used to be tag partners and Clive added that ‘we all know who got the most success’. Ace calmed things and said just for tonight, let’s act as a team.

5) DUOS: Fatality Squad vs. Kevin Hart and Cody Rejero: What a tag match, you couldn’t ask for much better. Although not a SNW regular team, Cody and Kev work together in other promotions under the name ‘The Calgary Sons’, this teaming shone though and found a chink in the amour of the champions. But the Squad didn’t lay down, Kagemann and Thomas came out swinging and their explosive and unorthodox offence gave them plenty of chances. As usual in tag matches, the heels isolated the faces. First Hart then Cody but when Cody made the hot tag to the second ever Triple Crown Champ the place exploded. He even hit the 450 but it was broken up by Thomas. All manner of finishers were kicked out of and each time the fans thought that was it. The Pepsi Driver, DeathDrive, The Fall, Pepsi Cutter all hit. Hart hit the Maple Leaf Revenge and that could have been it if Kagemann didn’t break it up with a diving double foot stomp. The double stomp / Fall combo was also broken up. Hart even locked in the sharpshooter on Thomas, that looked like it would be it. However, Kagemann springboarded in, but Hart caught him in mid-air and locked in the Sharpshooter on him. Kagemann held on allowing Thomas to get to his feet. Cody ran at him but he was dumped to the outside. Hart then was forced to release the submission and run at Thomas, he popped him up into a powerbomb hold, Kagemann ran at the ropes, hit the middle rope and sprung back in for a clotheseline whole Thomas pressed Hart up higher from the powerbomb, hitting a variation on their Ball and Chain finisher to retain the belt.

Intermission. Hart and Cody stayed out at the break. Signing and taking photos with the fans.

Dave Demento was standing by, he give his usual stick about people jumping on his ‘bandwagon’ since his video went viral. He ended his good promo, saying that SNW are the oppressor and he is the oppressed. He said tonight he takes down the mainstay of SNW.

6) Drew Parkland vs. Dave Demento: The great action continued, it had a lot to live up to with the last match but the break calmed the fans down a little. This was a good match, Drew is head trainer in the SNW academy and part of that role was teaching Demento. Demento was a bit of a rogue to begin with but Parkland helped him settle down, in much the same way Aries taught Drew. So this bout, was kind of like teacher vs. student and it’s clear to see now the student has passed the teacher. Parkland’s never been a great wrestler, just popular. But Demento has the talent to become a big star. This was a big breakout match for Demento. He looked bada** all match, taking it to the father of Duke, Axel and Rose. His stiff strikes could not be matched and the charisma he displayed was unparallel. This didn’t mean Drew didn’t look good, he played a fantastic face and sold so well that he made Demento look even better than he usually is. He had the fans in the palm of his hands but in the end it was his feet that made the difference. After a top tope back body drop, Demento lined up the shoot kick. It hit and Demento got the big win.

Post match, a ‘F***tard’ chant started. Demento soaked in the chants then lined up another shoot kick. It hit and Parkland looked done. Parkland was barely moving and Demento made sure he stopped with a third running shoot kick. Parkland was out cold and Demento mocked him. Drew’s sons Duke and Axel ran out and scared Demento away. Duke and Axel checked on their father but he had to be stretchered out.

Revolution X of Chris Hammers, Jordan Devine, Safu, LyNN and Amy Lee were backstage. Devine and Hammers were giving them the team talk. They did their usual speech how they started on the first show and have beaten off every challenge. They say Team Bennett and Ace are no different.

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RULES OF WARFARE
A cage surrounds the ring
Two men start the match in the ring
Every 3 minutes a new member enters the cage
Anyone can be eliminated at any time via pinfall or submission.
The match will continue until all of one team has been eliminated
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7) Warfare IIX: Revolution X (Chris Hammers, Jordan Devine, Safu, LyNN and Amy Lee) vs. Team Bennett (Ace Bennett, Matt Spade and Alicia Bennett) and AirDevils (Tom Gerard and Travis Cantrell): The first two out were Devine and Gerard. They had a decent three minutes, the highlight being Gerard clinging to the cage Spiderman style then launching off into a crossbody. RevX won the coin toss backstage, so they had the man advantage. LyNN was out next and the two-on-one began. The beating soon stopped when Ace Bennett came out and the fans went wild. He turned the tides and alongside Gerard re-united to form the original AirDevils, when they used to be known as the American Airforce. They hit some cool spots and took LyNN out early with the Bombs Away! LYNN ELIMINATED.

Safu broke up the party as he was next out. The AmForce tried to deal with the big Samoan but fell to him. Out next was Matt Spade and although he was effective at first, the fresh Safu and the rejuvenated Devine soon wore him down. Out next for RevX was Amy Lee. She walked down and mainly watched as RevX of Safu and Devine beat down their opponents. Ace then got some extra energy and he inspired Spade and Gerard to get a fight back. They were looking good and waiting for their penultimate teammate. It was Alicia but she didn’t show up, then she did but Chris Hammers grabbed her by the hair. He then hit a Last Minute Orders on the ramp! Ace could only watch from the ring then he was attacked from behind by Safu. Hammers watched the beatdown on the outside until his time was up and he entered to add to the beatdown. Spade was taking out by a Samoan Drop / Neckbreaker combo. SPADE ELIMINATED. Meanwhile, Alicia was being put on a stretcher. ALICIA ELIMINATED.

The last man was out and it was Travis Cantrell. He sprinted to the ring and climbed the cage, Amy climbed up the inside to meet him at the top. But Cantrell pushed her off onto the rest of RevX below. Then hit a Shooting Star Press into the ring! He pulled his tag partner to his feet and hit the Sky High to take out Amy. AMY ELIMINATED (3-3). Ace was back in it and with some help from the AirDevils he hit a Syracuse Drop on Safu. SAFU ELIMINATED (2-3). Ace, Gerard and Cantrell then looked over at Hammers who was cowering in the corner. They were about to do the damage when Devine attacked them from behind, and Hammers joined in. Devine hit the Devinity on Cantrell. CANTRELL ELIMINATED (2-2) then Hammers hit a Liger Bomb on Gerard. GERARD ELIMINATED (2-1).

Ace began a terrific comeback and managed to Hammers on the top rope. Ace went for the Syracuse Drop but Devine interfered. Ace fought him off and crotched him on the top alongside Hammers. Then Ace brought both men to their feet on the top rope and hit a Syracuse Drop on both of them. He pinned Devine. DEVINE ELIMINATED (1-1). Then Hammers but he kicked out, he had time to rest when Ace pinned Jord. Hammers and Ace then had a good back and forth bout inside the cage, Ace was busted open from earlier and heroically tried to wrap up the win for his team. He went for one last Syracuse Drop but he went to the well one too many times and Hammers countered with the Last Minute Orders off the top rope to pick up the win. ACE ELIMINATED – REV X WIN 1-0.

Intermission. The staff took down the steel cage, no-one was out at the break. However, there was a video announcement of next iPPV. It will be SNW’s Anniversary Show, SEVEN live on iPPV from Du Burns Arena, Baltimore, MD only on SNW Player. But up next for SNW is Magnificent 10:2015 which will decide the World Champion challenger for SEVEN. But before all that we have two major matches, one of which will decide who the champion is going into the next event.

A video package aired of the feud between former SNW World Champion Mike Hogan and ISW’s Hunter Kellen. It all started a year ago at the Super Sims Cup II. SNW and ISW were drawn against each other and Hogan was set to face Kellen. However, during the match Kellen got himself disqualified so that he could focus on defending his title the next night at ISW’s Blitzkrieg. Hogan took to social media to blast Hunter calling him a coward saying he took ‘the easy way out’. And that was that. That is, until Hunter showed up unexpectedly in London to stop Hogan from winning the World title. Hunter said in his most recent video that he didn’t like Hogan bad-mouthing him. Now the match is set, it’s SNW vs. ISW, it’s One Year in the Making, it’s Mike Hogan versus Hunter Kellen.

8) One Year in the Making: Mike Hogan vs. Hunter Kellen [ISW]: Hogan made his grand entrance, then Kellen made his entrance for his in-ring SNW debut. He took off his ISW shirt and the match begun. The match was stiff and you wouldn’t have really expected it from these two but it built up the bad blood between them well. Hogan was busted open after being sent into the turnbuckle on the outside. Hogan also went for the Springboard Elbow early on but Hunter pushed him, sending Hogan crashing to the floor. Hogan struggled to get back in before the twenty count but did, however, it had affected him. The two carried on, raging war with one another. Even without the Agents of the Apocalypse Kellen looked good but that’s no surprise considering how good he is. There was an epic strike exchange, with both men using punches, elbows, kicks, knees and even heads. The fans cheered Hogan and boo’ed Kellen with every shot. A running knee gave the Englishman the advantage and sent Kellen to the floor. Hogan followed it up with a suicide dive on the outside. But a drop-toe-hold turned the tides and Kellen followed it up with a knee strike. Kellen took him to the apron and hit a Tiger Driver that nearly had Hogan counted out. Hogan made hit back in the ring and Kellen went for the Bless the Fall but Hogan backed out of it and hit the Futurism but couldn’t make the pin. The two stirred to their feet and had a short strike exchange again with Hogan coming out on top. Hogan had Kellen on his knees and the former SNW World Champion kicked away at Kellen’s head. But Kellen wouldn’t go down, he’d just wobbled on his knees. Hogan shouted ‘Just Go Down!’ Then Kellen spat at him and smiled a bloody grin, blood was leaking from his nose. Hogan hit another two kicks and went for a third but Kellen ducked and rolled Hogan up. Hogan kicked out and Kellen struck with a knee strike then a Bless the Fall to seal the win.

Kellen celebrated up the ramp and Hogan was being treated by medical trainers, he didn’t seem to know where he was. Meanwhile, we were taken to promos by Mike Bockwinkel and Riley Shamrock along with clips of both Bockwinkel’s reign and Riley’s rise to the top. Bock said that he was the champion and whatever Riley did, it wouldn’t change that. Riley said he’s fought so hard to get where he was today, he deserves this chance and this is his time.

9) SNW: Mike Bockwinkel vs. Riley Shamrock: This match had a big time feel straight from the get go. First we had special entrances: Riley Shamrock made his entrance but before his music kicked in, there was a troupe of dancers, then Riley emerged from the group with the FUSE Championship over his shoulder with fireworks following. Riley had new music ‘Knights of Cydonia’ by Muse. When his music stopped and he took off his jacket the entire arena was chanting ‘Next World Champ’, the loudest we’ve heard the record breaking crowd all night. Then the champions entrance, on stage were the rock band ZZ Top to perform a live performance of Mike Bockwinkel’s theme tune ‘Sharply Dressed Man’. The champ then emerged, he fist bumped lead vocalist Billy Gibbons then strutted down to the ring. When the music stopped, the fans were very vocal in their support of the challenger. We had the full championship introductions where the fans re-started their ‘Next World Champ’ chant and boo’ed Bock loudly. Then the match finally began. The match started slow, both are third-generation wrestlers and they paid a tribute to their forefathers with some old school mat wrestling. Neither man could take control until Riley broke out of a hold and just booted Bock hard. The fans cheered loudly and started their chant back up as Bock exited to the outside to check on himself. Back in the ring, they went to lock up again but Bock got a knee to the gut on Riley. The champion then took control and continued into the middle stages of the match. Bock wore the challenger down, then locked in the Camel Clutch. With the crowd chanting and clapping their hands Riley made a comeback, he even went for the Irish Welcoming to top it all off but Bock slid off his shoulders and exited to the floor. Riley thought he catch Bock off guard with a dive over the top but Bock was just playing possum and moved, sending Riley crashing hard onto the floor. The commentators put over Riley’s inexperience in big title matches and how he was too excited there. Bock then put Riley back inside for a close count. Bock continued to work over Riley’s back and neck before Riley made another comeback. This time kicking Bock into the corner. He went for a superplex but Bock fought out of it and jumped onto the ramp. Riley followed, this time hitting a big springboard dropkick onto the flat ramp. The two then started a strike exchange between them which ended when Bock grabbed Riley and pushed him off the apron and body first over the barricade. Riley just about made it back into the ring before the countout. Bock continued his control but then Riley countered a suplex into his own twisting variation. He went to follow it up quickly with the Irish Welcoming but Bock rolled off the shoulders and hit the Bockwinkel Special. Fans thought it was it but Riley kicked out! Bock complained to the ref then got caught by the Ode to Shamrock. Bock then slowly crawled towards the ropes. Riley went for the springboard but Bock caught him in an atomic drop. Bock hit the ropes but Riley followed and hit the Irish Welcoming II for a close count. The two got to their feet and started a small strike exchange, which Riley won and then he hit the Famine Driver out of nowhere! It was his Father’s finishing move. But Riley was too tired to cover. The camera showed two men in the front row, to older wrestling fans they would have recognised them as Riley’s Father and Grandfather, Brian and Kevin Shamrock. Riley got the pin but Bock had time to recover and kicked out. Riley then got Bock to his feet, locked in the mui tai clinch and started kneeing Bock right in the face. Bock somehow managed to push Riley off, who rolled backwards and then was caught in the Bockwinkel Special: Championship Edition. Bock hit it and went for the pin. Fans were silent, they fought Bock had stolen it again. But Riley kicked out! Bock couldn’t believe it. Bock slowly picked up Riley and went for another. He got Riley up in the Package Piledriver but Riley’s legs were kicking, he got out of it hit a few kicks across Bock’s chest then locked in the mui tai clinch again. Knee after knee came to Bock’s face and the fans cheered at every strike. The final knee sent Bock to the floor and he groggily picked himself up. Riley was waiting, taunting him to get up, the fans on their feet. Bock swung a weak punch, he was punch drunk, he didn’t know what he was doing, he was in trouble. Riley easily ducked the punch and got behind the champion. Riley got the champ on his shoulders and hit the Irish Welcoming. Bock was never going to kick out. Riley got the three-count. We have a new World Champion.

The fans exploded for the finish. Riley Shamrock becomes the 13th SNW World Champion. He stayed on his knees as the referee handed not only the FUSE Championship but the belt he had just won, the SNW World Championship. Then he got to his feet to have his arms raised. He then climbed the top rope with his titles and fireworks went off in the background. Confetti then rained from the ceiling as the iPPV came to a close with an iconic moment: Riley Shamrock holding both the SNW World Championship and the FUSE Championship.

Exclusively on YouTube, we saw the after events. Riley went over to his family and hugged them then made his way up the ramp. Posing on the ramp with the new title. Referee’s checked on Bock who looked like he was knocked out. Cameron Stone and Baby J Jamerson came out to help Bock to the back. Strangely he was cheered, although that’s probably due to the match, not him being face. Riley then went backstage where the majority of the roster were there clapping. Part Owner Red Dragon was first to congratulate him, shaking his hand and hugging him and sharing a joke with him at Mike Bockwinkel's expense