1PW FIRST ANNIVERSARY
The Dome, Doncaster
Att: 1700
Report Courtesy of WrestleMag.com - LIVE COVERAGE OF TONIGHT'S 1PW FIRST ANNIVERSARY SHOW!

Following on from our coverage of this afternoon’s ‘Fight Club III’ show, WrestleMag were again at The Dome in Doncaster, England this evening for 1PW’s First Anniversary show. Here’s our live report from earlier this evening:

- The Dome is sold out. It appears to look the same as normal in terms of layout for seating etc, so perhaps those extra 200 or so seats that 1PW said they sold in the build-up to tonight were somehow incorporated into the existing layout of The Dome.

- In an unadvertised match, El Ligero beat El Generico in the opening match - El Generico being the first of several surprises planned for the course of the evening (if you’re a regular reader to the site, you’ll already be aware of at least two of them).

- Mad Man Manson beat Jamie Brum in a short rematch from this afternoon’s Fight Club III card.

- As we reported last night here on the site, Anthony Kingdom James has returned to the company. They set up the angle we said they would last night involving Jay Phoenix and the pillow, and it led to a quick match, which Phoenix won. Afterwards, Kingdom beat him up and gave him a curbstomp into a birthday cake.

- A video aired showing Team Supreme allegedly taking out Samoa Joe. Joe wasn’t shown on video.

- A Tag Team Gauntlet Match was up next, with the winners being named #1 contenders for the Tag Team titles. Max Voltage & Dan Head vs Mark Sloan & Ollie Burns started the match out. Voltage & Head were eliminated, with The Chavs being the next team involved. They eliminated Sloan & Burns and the fourth team involved was Pain Inc. Pain Inc were next to go, with Damned Nation (Majik & Dragon Aisu) coming out as team #5 to face The Chavs. Majik and Dragon Aisu picked up the win, and are #1 contenders for the tag titles.

- On the video screen, a “news flash” appeared saying Christopher Daniels vs Dustin Rhodes was off the card. A replacement match was announced - Curry Man vs “Gold Dustin". That match was up next, with Dustin (wearing the full Goldust costume) picking up the win.

- Martin Stone beat Ulf Herman and Iceman in a Triple Threat European Deathmatch. The finish came after Iceman missed a cannonball and collided with a car bonnet. Stone then hit him with a coal bucket and picked up the win. Insane match.

- After the interval, the advertised Sterling James Keenan & Mystery Partner vs Spud & Samoa Joe match was changed. Darkside (who until tonight was advertised against a “TBA” wrestler) joined Spud and Joe to take on Keenan and Team Supreme in a 6-man tag. Keenan and Team Supreme picked up the win.

- Post-match it was announced that at next January’s No Turning Back show, Keenan would take on The Great Muta. As regular readers to the site will be aware, we reported a month ago that Muta would be at January’s show, only for 1PW to hit out at the news we broke by issuing a statement two days later to deny that any talks had taken place and that he wouldn’t be at January’s show.

- AJ Styles beat Pac. Said to be a very good match - very pacey and tons of good spots.

- Team SHAG (Darren Burridge & Colt Cabana) beat Jody Fleisch & Jonny Storm and Southern Comfort in a Triple Threat Ladder Match to become the new 1PW Tag Team Champions.

- An announcement was made saying it would take around thirty minutes to take the ropes down and set the barbed wire up for the ‘No Rope Barbed Wire’ main event.

- The Steve Corino-Abyss main event got underway at around 11.15pm after several warnings to parents about the match. Some seats were empty from people leaving early. The match went well over 30 minutes, with Abyss picking up the win. From the live reports I’ve got from The Dome, they never announced a title change over the house mic, so it seems the match was changed to a non-title match. Post-match, Abyss and Team Supreme attacked Corino until Ulf Herman and Sterling James Keenan made the save (which I guess makes Keenan a face now). Corino cut a promo with most of the babyfaces on the roster in the ring with him to end the show.

Thanks to everybody who joined us for our coverage of tonight’s show as well as Fight Club III earlier in the day here and over at WrestleMag. We’ll have news and fallout from today’s shows over at WrestleMag over the next couple of days as well as reaction and likely we’ll do an audio hotline at some point. If you attended tonight’s show and want to send feedback, drop me a line at [email protected]!