A Superhow - Live from Chicago, Illinois/USA
Breaking NEWS! Since it's under a week until EAM Promotions biggest spectacle of the year, and the markings of another season, the company has decided to host a live show from Chicago instead of doing the weekly Jamboree and Pride shows the same week Grandslam is happening. Wrestlers from both Jamboree and Pride will be present at this show, and we might even get some special matchup's just for tonight. But most importantly, we will match up all the lose ends, and get all information we need regarding the biggest show of the year, as some things still are pretty unclear so close up at the PPV. Will Ricochet and Aleister Black defend their titles for the first time at the grandest stage of them all? If so, who is going to be their opponents? And what teams will participate in the announced first ever tag team money in the bank ladder match? Not to mention The Ornate Prime Championship. Adam Cole and Adam Page truly have their own opinion on what match should happen at Grandslam. And what about The Womens Title? Nia Jax has eliminated all competition, and the last thing we saw of her was right before she gored Mickie James trough the titantron. We will surely get some answers tonight, as we are under a week from Grandslam 14! We then get a promotional video for the PPV, with the announcement of the participating teams in the first ever tag team money in the bank ladder match, at least some of them. Young Bucks, Lucha Bros, reDragon, Mustache Mountain and Love Gun are all scheduled to take part of this matchup. But there are still 3 slots to be announced it seems, we then get the official announcement regarding a couple of other matches scheduled for the show. War Raiders will be defending their Pride Tag Team Titles against Heavy Machinery and the match between John Morrison and Orange Cassidy are now made official, it will be a normal wrestling match, with Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee, but the loser will have to leave EAM Promotions. We there is some statics and we cut to a hotel room, where Cody and Brandi Rhodes have placed themselves rather comfortable in the big bed. They are wearing bathrobes and are drinking champagne. In front of them on the bed are the Intergender Tag Team Titles. Cody are feeding Brandi with grapes, and comments on how they truly deserves this, and how easy he could get used to days like these. He then kisses Brandi. Then a phone rings and Cody answers it. After a short conversation, where Cody mostly said yes and ok he hangs up, and becomes completely silence. Brandi asks what's the matter and Cody turns around telling her it was the boss that called. He said that we don't have to show up in Chicago this weekend, as he's got nothing for us. That makes Brandi angry, how can they be chunned from the biggest show of the year? We cut to the vignette....
Holy crap what a huge show. Maybe the biggest tv show ever for EAM. I really do hope Brandi/Cody have a match because they a MAJOR surprise waiting for them at Grandslam.
As we get back we go backstage and find ourselves in the chairman's office together with The EAM Tag Team Champions Ricochet & Aleister Black. Emil A. tell the two guys that they might wonder what his plans for them at Grandslam is, well, the truth is, until one week ago he didn't really have a plan. Not get him wrong, but he hadn't really seen they capture the straps so early, he was actually thinking about having them participate in the tag team money in the bank ladder match, but that can't happen now as they are champions. The only problem see, is that all the challengers for the tag team straps either is in that ladder match, or is on Pride, so as they can understand, picking a team as their opponents for the biggest show of the year is not the easiest of tasks. Offcourse, he thought about giving Lucha Bros a rematch for the titles, but he would rather see what they could do in that ladder match. So, as he mentioned, until a week ago, he had no clue what to do, but now everything is cleared, so he asks Ricochet and Aleister Black to be prepared for Grandslam 14, as they will be defending their titles for the first time! Not a small task on the grandest stage of them all. But, there is a small catch, Emil A. don't want to tell them who their opponents is gonna be. There is a couple of reasons for that. First, he wants Ricochet and Aleister to be at the tip of their toes and compete at their top level, and second, he don't want to spoil the new signed team a week before Grandslam, after all, what would the biggest show of the year be without a few surprises? We cut to the ring for our first match of the evening....
Hmm makes sense I guess didn’t need to wrestle but if it’s a mystery team I guess it could work and forces Ricochet in 2 matches. Gonna be lot of surprises at Grandslam.
Cross-Brand Matchup
AJ Styles Vs Matthew Riddle
Huge match from the both of them, fun opening. Some MMA stuff and high flying. Riddle kicks out of a Styles Clash which leads to a Riddle Road for the 3 count and win.
We see a video with Brooke Hogan, she's doing her role in some sort of b or c movie when the director says cut and the scene is over. She goes to the backstage where her father Hulk is sitting and reading something on his phone. He is agitated because of something and Brooke wonders what it is. Hogan says that he's had enough of these Foley people and shows her what both Noelle and Foley has been writing in social media just in the last couple of hours. She gets even angrier than Hulk and says that if she had the chance, she would give Noelle Foley the beating of a lifetime. Hogan calms Brooke down and gesture for her to turn her attention to a TV-set that's placed in one of the corners. Noelle Foley is on and she talks about Brooke and Hulk, pointing out how Hogan destroyed wrestling with his ego, main eventing 100 WrestleMania's in a row etc. She then calls Brooke a dirty little hoe and a papa's girl, who surely would do everything daddy says. The promo gets edgier but before Noelle manage to get as far Hogan kicks in the TV set and hulks up. He rips off his shirt and screams, and this time it's Brooke that has to calm him down. Hogan says; that does it, you will get your chance to give Noelle that beating, because he knows a man that can't turn such a possibility down, and he will be sure to be in Brooke's corner, to see the face of Mick when she does...
This match is being made much more important because of these promos.
Singles Matchup
Claudio Castagnoli Vs MJF
Cesaro dominates with his moves, uppercuts and recoil bomb for a 2 count, MJF with a swanton and is about to hit his finisher but he reversed into the Neutraliser...
As the match goes on, they take the match to the outside where they exchange chops and Flair chops right in front of the audience. Claudio manage to get in a European Uppercut, sending MJF over the guardrail and onto the fans on first row. Claudio walks after him and they continue the brawl amoungst the fans until they leave for backstage and the camera has problems catching up with them. Suddenly they come back and it's MJF that's got the upper hand, but only because he's got help from two others! What is this?! The three men beats down Claudio and insults him. The match has been ruled a double count-out by the referee a long time ago, but neither men seem to care. The beatdown continues until security reach them, but at that point, the three men are all finished with Claudio. Security tries to reason with them, but they get away, not wanting to be touched by lower rank people. They move trough the audience, getting loud booos all the way to the ring. When they get to ringside they enter the ring and MJF gestures for a microphone. He introduces himself, as like the EAM audience doesn't know who he is by now, and then he introduces his friends, they might not be very good known by the EAM fans right now, but they will be very soon, as he presents for the EAM audience, his partners in crime; Richard Holliday and Alexander Hammerstone. And together, they are The Dynasty! We cut to commercial break....
Another big thing here and funny to have them debut in a show before Grandslam but can continue after as well. Dynasty from MLW yup I know them.
Cross-Brand Matchup
Zack Zabre Jr. Vs Will Ospreay
Pretty fun 10 minute match. Sabre hasn’t won many matches and uses his technical styles. He’s a good jobber for sure. Will with a 630 splash for the 3 count. Slowly picking up those wins.
We get another promotional video Grandslam 14, and we now get the confirmation of the rumors that's been going on for a while regarding tag tem titles in the womens division. There will be a match at Grandslam 14, and that match will determine who's going to be the first ever EAM Womens Tag Team Champions. But not only that, we get the news that the women of EAM are getting their own TV show. It will be called Spotlight and will air once a month. We then cut back to the arena and hook up with The NWA Champion Adam Page, who walks up to The Ornate Prime Champion Adam Cole. He once again wonder if Cole is scheduled for a match at Grandslam and Cole gets angry asking if Page is scheduled for a match at Grandslam. Page replies and says he is NWA Champion, not EAM Ornate Prime Champion, so there is no reason why he would defend his title at Grandslam. He just defended this title in Milwaukee just over a week ago. There is rather odd he thinks that the second biggest prize in EAM is not being defended at their biggest show of the year. This gets Cole even more angry. Maybe there is some truth behind what Page is saying. He then put's the Ornate Prime Title strap up above his head and sends a clear message to Page, he is willing to put the Ornate Prime Title on the line if Page is willing to do the same. Page laughs and replies that it's not like he is married to this belt, takes it off and puts it up in the air, telling Cole that he's on!
Wow own tv show is big wasn’t expecting it but with tag belts and women’s belt it makes sense and smart to air in once a month since less women. All women refs/announcers etc. More progressive than WWE haha. Women’s belts confirmed and unification match as well. Announcements so huge they could be on the PPV but it’s just so big already. Very excited.
Tag Team Matchup
Alexa Bliss & Leah Von Dutch Vs Kairi Sane & Io Shirai
Good match from both sides. Dutch hasn’t been that great. Sane and Io are underrated and get the win in this one after a moonsault and floppy elbow. Bliss and Dutch seem to have something going on according to Twitter recently. Twisted Bliss misses.
We see another promotional video hyping up Grandslam. This time it is a recap-reel of Omega's career and everything he's done in Japan and the history between him and Kota Ibushi. It all comes full closure at the grandest stage of them all! We then cut back to the arena and go ringside where GM manager of Jamboree Christopher Daniels has come to the ring. He has to talk about the elephant in the room, Nia Jax. No pun intended, but he gets a good pop from the audience as none of them likes Nia Jax. He says he's got a problem, and that is, who should face her at Grandslam for the womens title? As he see's it, she has eliminated all competition. Music then cranks the area speakers and Becky Lynch makes her way out getting mixed reaction from the crowd. She makes her way down to the ring and enters, telling Daniels that she has no problem facing Nia at Grandslam. Music then once again cranks the arena speakers and this time it's Charlotte Flair making her way out on the stage. She get a mixed reaction as well, but maybe a bit more booo's than Becky. She makes her way down and into the ring, telling Daniels the exact same thing as Becky said. Music cranks the speakers then for a third time, and this one gets the biggest reaction fot he three, as Ronda's music cranks the speakers the audience explod and Ronda gets the biggest pop of the three when she makes her way out on the stage. She also walks down the rampway and gets into the ring, telling Daniels the exact same thing as Becky and Charlotte before her. Daniels are now standing in the middle of the ring, surrounded by three women that's seems pretty determined on what they want. Daniels is about to say something when music cranks the arena speakers for the fourth time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHWqTSiTdk . This gets an even bigger reaction than Ronda got, and Ronda even seems a bit annoyed by it. Mickie James walks out on the stage to the greatest cheer of the night, and she looks like a million bucks, and more determined than ever. It doesn't even seem like the fall trough the titantron has affected her much as she makes her way down the ramp and into the ring. He takes the spotlight from everyone, after all she is EAM's first lady. She tells the three girls to step in line, as they just have to wait. Because if anyone if fighting Nia Jax for that Womens title at Grandslam 14, it will be her! She will even put her career on the line! Because even if it is the last thing she does, she will end the career of Nia Jax! The audience explodes again and Daniels nods, and then making it official. The three other girls look dumbfounded at each other for a couple of seconds because of the recent events, then they start to throw punches at each other. Mickie gets out of the ring and are about to make her way up the rampway when Nia Jax's music cranks the arena speakers. The EAM Womens Champion walks out on the stage, carrying the womens title over her shoulder. She smiles an evil smile as she and Mickie makes eye contact. In the ring, Daniels has problems seperating the three women as we cut to commercial break....
So much going on!. Great build up of Omega/Ibushi’s last stand. Very clever to build two matches and name a contender at the same time. Gets everyone involved. Good fluidity. I wonder if Ronda/Charlotte/Becky will plan something after Jax/Mickie since it is the main event and they will have a match before them. Maybe if she wins Becky will get revenge on Jax and ask her for a match after...or Mickie.
Cross-Brand Tag Team Matchup (Non-Title)
Ricochet & Aleister Black Vs Private Party (Marq Quen & Isiah Kassidy)
The match is about to start and this has been a match people have wanted to see for ages. The bell rings...damn it we didn’t even get the match...wait...what is going on!...
Suddenly during the match, Ricochet starts to see Prince Puma appearing around the arena. All of a sudden it's like hundreds of Prince Puma masks around him in the audience. The commentators comments how this Prince Puma thing as of late has somewhat affected him and that he even heard the chairman himself had to give Ricochet and Aleister a pep-talk earlier in front of Grandslam. All this distracts Ricochet at performing on his top level. Whoever wins the match, after the match, music suddenly cranks the arena speakers. Out on the stage walks Prince Puma, and he's holding The EAM Crosspromotional Title over his shoulder. He gets eye contact with Ricochet in the ring then gestures to Ricochet to look up into the audience at The Grandslam logo. He points at Ricochet, then at himself, then at the Grandslam logo. There is no mistakes to be made, Prince Puma wants his first title defence to be against Ricochet at Grandslam! How is this going to affect everything? As Ricochet and Aleister also is scheduled to face a tag team they don't know who is yet. This certainly raised the tension! We cut to commercial break with this.
Good build up of Puma/Ricochet and maybe he is just crazy after all and hopefully he doesn’t let this get to him or he could lose the belts or it could be his past coming back to haunt him...
After the commercial break, we go backstage where we hook up with Private Party. They get stopped in their tracks by GM manager of Pride Drake Younger who says he's got some interesting news for them. They are still a bit angry about what just happened in the arena, but when Drake tells them that he wants to give them a huge chance to show themselves off at the grandest stage, they suddenly get in a much better mood. Drake asks them how they would feel about being the 6th team in the tag team money in the bank ladder match? They offcourse accept the offer and become pretty excited about it. We cut to the ring for our next match of the evening. The newly crowned Running Mate Champion; Keith Lee is already in the ring making himself ready, as he is about to face off against an old friend.
Cross-Brand Matchup
Keith Lee Vs Mustafa Ali
Awesome having Party in a bigger audience showcase their stuff in a ladder match should be awesome. Another big match with both men having won a lot of matches recently. 054 but Lee kicks out. BBC but Ali kicks out. 619 for a 2 by Lee as Ali looks for a shooting star misses and turned into a burning hammer driver...1...2...3...Lee gets the win!.
We get the news that another match has been added to the Grandslam program, as Becky Lynch, Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair will battle it out for the #1 Contendership, because of the recent happenings. The winner of this triple threat match will be facing whoever is the EAM Womens Champion at Fight For Glory 14! We then get a promotional video with Mick Foley. He's all dressed up as Hulk Hogan in his famous red and yellow attire and with the famous feather-boa in the same colors. He also impersonate Hogan, putting down a couple of his famous phrases like; What'ya gonna do? and brother! He then gets serious for a second, telling Hogan that it's disgusting that his kids adopted his ego. You arranged all this only to get yourself in the spotlight on the biggest wrestling show on earth, just because you never could handle not being asked doing a match for EAM Promotions. Well, I got news for you brother! He will be in his daughters corner for the match Higan so egotistically put up, and he will make sure that if the Hulkster runs wild, he will make and end to it!
Cross-Brand Tag Team Matchup
Tommaso Ciampa & Drew McIntyre Vs Moose & Pete Dunne
Yup number 1 contender match and more crazy Hogan shit. Big match from all four men. Moose and Ciampa just can’t stop fighting. Lot of high flying, technical and signature moves but at the end a Claymore kick is reversed into a rolling spear and Dunne break point submissions Drew for the win!.
As the show closes in the camera zooms in on a person far behind in the audience. He's wearing a coat and a hat, sitting with one leg over the other, pretty relaxed. He's smoking a cigarette, but you still can't see who it is underneath the hat, you can only get a couple of small glimpses of the contures of his face as he takes a drag on the cigarette. Then, it's almost as we can hear his minds. " Why did I ever doubt? It seems like everything is running without me after all. So many years. It's strange to be back. So many new people, but still, not everything has changed. Something will never change it seems. At least, let them think so... "
Absolutely huge show. Wonder who it could be.