NYCW
HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM
NEW YORK, NY
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2003
* MATCH 1: NYCW TAG TEAM
CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT: ROUND
ONE: THE OLD SCHOOL (BOBBY BURRIS AND
ALEX MASON) VS. DEION YOUNG AND RYAN VALENTINE:
As this week’s show begins, we are immediately informed
that tonight, we will see the opening rounds of championship tournaments to
crowd both NYCW Tag Team Champions and an NYCW Women’s Champion. Also tonight, we will see a semifinal match
in the NYCW Heavyweight Championship tournament, with the winner advancing to
meet Solomon next week, March 13, to crown the inaugural champion. A Women’s Champion will be crowned on March 20,
and Tag Team Champions on March 27. The
show opens with the first match in the Tag Team Championship tournament, as the
Old School -- Bobby Burris and Alex Mason -- goes up against the team of Deion
Young and Ryan Valentine. Young and
Valentine clearly have the crowd on their side in this one, but it proves to
mean absolutely nothing, as the technically sound Burris and Mason outwrestle
their much larger opponent, with Mason earning the fall, getting Young to
submit to a half Boston crab. The Old
School advances to the semifinals.
WINNERS: THE OLD SCHOOL
(6:57)
* BACKSTAGE:
The camera cuts to the backstage area, where an unfamiliar
face -- unfamiliar to the NYCW locker room, that is – enters and approaches Jon
Dulberg. The man looks mysteriously
very much like a former CAW Heavyweight Champion, and when Dulberg refers to
him as “Don,” those suspicions are confirmed.
However, this man informs Dulberg that “Don” is no longer his name, and
he is to be known from hereon in as Sonny Valachi. Valachi explains to Dulberg that he comes here in peace, citing
their friendship and working relationship in CAW. He wants Dulberg to know that he has his back tonight. Dulberg thanks him and Valachi walks away, but
Dulberg is skeptical.
* MATCH 2: NYCW WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP
TOURNAMENT: BATTLE ROYAL: JENNY OTTATI VS. TINA HOOVER VS. JESSICA
TILLMAN VS. JILLIAN CLAY:
The Women’s Championship tournament begins with a
four-person battle royal, the winner of which advances to the finals in two
weeks. Jillian Clay is the only
non-wrestler in the ring in this one, and it shows. Jessica Tillman dominates her from the opening bell, and tosses
her over the top effortlessly, eliminating her. Tillman’s celebration doesn’t last long, as Tina Hoover
eliminates her shortly thereafter. This
leaves Jenny Ottati and Tina Hoover, who battle furiously, both in hot pursuit
of a berth in the Women’s Championship match on March 20. However, in the end, it is Ottati that
prevails, reversing a whip by Hoover, and launching her over the top rope to
pick up the victory.
WINNER: JENNY OTTATI (4:38)
* MATCH 3: NYCW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT: ROUND ONE:
D-UNIT (MAVERICK AND DARKSTAR) VS. KILAUEA AND BIG VERNON GOODWIN:
The talented newcomers Maverick and
Darkstar are impressive in this outing, having their way with Kilauea and
Goodwin, two big men. Of course, it doesn’t
hurt that D-Unit’s massive bodyguard Bubbles is at ringside for this entire
contest and not above getting physically involved. The finish sees Bubbles enter the ring during a ref bump and knock
Kilauea out, leading to a D-Unit Splash from Maverick and the victory. D-Unit advances to meet the winner of the match
between Da Banditz and Martin Blackburn and Roland Holcomb next week.
WINNERS: D-UNIT (7:25)
* BACKSTAGE:
The camera once again spots Sonny
Valachi, who is now backstage with D-Gunz.
In a shocking and intriguing moment, Valachi hands D-Gunz a considerable
amount of money and thanks him for his cooperation. What could this mean?
* MATCH 4: NYCW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
TOURNAMENT: ROUND ONE: DAMIEN FIELDS AND DAMON SAVAGE VS. ROB
GRAVES AND FRANK BRIGGS:
The crowd is heavily against the brash
and cocky Fields and Savage, with Fields being an ultra-sadistic former
football star hailing from Phoenix, and Savage being an almost obnoxiously vain
former boxing Golden Gloves winner.
Their opponents, however, are not nearly as compatible. Rob Graves is a Connecticut born biker with
a shaved head and a bad attitude, while Frank Briggs is the most enormous
athlete to every come out of Calgary… Alberta, Canada, whose attitude and
temper has already ended one career.
The match is hard-fought, but the constant bickering between Graves and
Briggs leads to Briggs snapping and laying out his partner, securing the easy
victory for Fields and Savage, to the ultimate disdain of the crowd.
WINNERS: DAMIEN FIELDS AND DAMON SAVAGE
(8:03)
* BACKSTAGE:
Jenny Ottati is busy celebrating her
victory backstage, when Allison Kelly approaches her. Kelly belittles Ottati, and informs her that she has absolutely
no chance of winning the women’s title, for Allison herself will win her battle
royal tonight and then proceed to tear Jenny limb from limb. When she has said her peace, Allison suckers
Jenny in and slaps her right to the ground, infuriating Ottati as Allison Kelly
heads to the ring.
* MATCH 5: NYCW WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP
TOURNAMENT: BATTLE ROYAL: ALLISON KELLY VS. LI MEI VS. LIZ RUSH VS.
DANA CHAPMAN:
From the moment the match begins, Allison
Kelly is dominant. She effortlessly
disposes of Li Mei in the opening moments, before doing the same to Dana
Chapman shortly thereafter. However,
Liz Rush proves to be more difficult.
Rush and Kelly battle furiously, until Allison finally establishes the
advantage and prepares to dump Liz out.
At this point, Jenny Ottati wanders to ringside, distracting Allison
long enough for Liz Rush to dump her over the top rope and score the upset
victory to advance to the finals of the Women’s Championship tournament against
Jenny Ottati in two weeks. Needless to
say, Allison Kelly is furious.
WINNER: LIZ RUSH (4:43)
* BACKSTAGE:
Reporter Josh McGuire gets a word with
Dynamite Dean Nash, who in just a moment will step into the ring with the
number one contender to the NYCW Heavyweight Championship, Solomon. Nash says that he is giving up a lot of
size, but one thing he has advantage in is heart. He promises to shock the world tonight and defeat Solomon.
* MATCH 6: DYNAMITE DEAN NASH VS. SOLOMON:
Dynamite Dean Nash truly gives
everything he’s got in this one. He
wrestles as hard as he possibly can, but it simply is not enough. Not against a 6’9” 293-pound monster like
Solomon. Nash has his moments in this
one, but Solomon gets the job done, putting Nash out for the count with the
Deep Freeze and hushing the New York crowd.
WINNER: SOLOMON (6:23)
* MATCH 7: NYCW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
TOURNAMENT: ROUND ONE: DA BANDITZ (JERMAINE HARRIS AND CHARLES
WALKER) VS. MARTIN BLACKBURN AND ROLAND HOLCOMB:
The crowd makes it known from the get-go
that they simply do not like Martin Blackburn, his manager Jillian Clay, or
Roland Holcomb. Da Banditz, on the
other hand, they absolutely adore.
Jermaine Harris and Charles Walker light up the Hammerstein Ballroom
again this week, overcoming the interference of Jillian Clay and the shady
tactics of Blackburn and Holcomb to finish off their opponents with a variation
of Total Elimination. Da Banditz move
on to face D-Unit next week.
WINNERS: DA
BANDITZ (7:31)
* MATCH 8: NYCW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
TOURNAMENT: SEMIFINALS: THE TYRANT VS. D-GUNZ VS. ANDREW LIVINGSTON
VS. JON DULBERG VS. ANTHONY “BK” DESIO:
The winner of this match meets Solomon
for the NYCW Championship next week, the four losers are eliminated. The match is contested under the same rules
that the NYCW Championship tournament has existed under over the past few
weeks. The Tyrant and D-Gunz are the
first two out, battling furiously, each man desperate to score the first
victory. The Tyrant does a lot in this
match to convince people that he is truly one of NYCW’s best and a better
competitor than D-Gunz, but the big Salida, Colorado native proves otherwise, finishing
Tyrant off with a chokeslam. Or so we
think. When D-Gunz goes for the cover,
Solomon storms the ring, creating a momentous distraction. By the time Solomon can be removed from
ringside, Tyrant has recovered and hits D-Gunz with a big full nelson slam,
scoring the pin! Andrew Livingston
enters next and looks to destroy any momentum Tyrant might have. However, it is exactly that momentum that
does Livingston in, becoming a quick victim of the full nelson slam and
advancing Tyrant even further. Jon
Dulberg is the next out and takes advantage of the fact that this is the third
consecutive match that Tyrant has wrestled.
Wearing the big man down by keeping the pace of the match quick, Dulberg
hits his Sudden Death top rope attack, getting a huge victory over Tyrant to
advance on. Anthony “BK” Desio enters, completing
the first go-round. Desio fights great
and hard, but Dulberg catches him with the Play of the Day and moves on to his
third match. D-Gunz enters for the
second time of the night, facing elimination and desperately needing the
win. With that said, D-Gunz destroys
Dulberg with a monstrous chokeslam, giving all five competitors a loss, meaning
they all now face elimination. Andrew
Livingston enters next and battles D-Gunz, with the loser simply going
home. Livingston gives it his best, but
D-Gunz catches him with a chokeslam, officially eliminating Livingston from the
tournament. The Tyrant comes out next,
looking to repeat his performance against D-Gunz from earlier in the night, but
D-Gunz avenges his loss, pinning Tyrant with a big chokeslam, and eliminating
him. Anthony Desio comes out and gets
very physical with D-Gunz, doing a lot to wear him down and keep him off base,
but Desio makes one mistake and gets chokeslammed to hell because of it. D-Gunz eliminates Desio, bringing us down to
D-Gunz vs. Jon Dulberg. D-Gunz and
Dulberg fight hard, until Dulberg puts D-Gunz in the Seventh Inning
Stretch. After only ten seconds in the
hold, D-Gunz taps out and Dulberg wins!
Shocked that he won, Dulberg launches into a celebration, knowing that
he will meet Solomon for the NYCW Championship next week. As Dulberg celebrates, Sonny Valachi appears
at the top of the ramp, applauding Dulberg.
Dulberg looks at Valachi suspiciously as Valachi exchanges a nod with
D-Gunz and the show comes to a close.
WINNER: JON DULBERG (24:03)