NYCW

ELKS LODGE
LYNBROOK, NY
THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2003

COMMENTATORS: JUSTIN SCHENCK & FERNANDO RAMIREZ

* RINGSIDE – NYCW Commissioner JERRY GEORGATOS begins the show, announcing to the NYCW faithful that the time was right for the implementing of a new singles title, and he would do the right thing and give the go-ahead to exactly that. He then pulls out a briefcase the NYCW Television Championship belt, which will be awarded to the inaugural champion next week at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Eight men have been selected for the tournament to crown the TV Champion, and the quarterfinal round will take place tonight. Next week, both the semifinals and the finals will occur, with a new champion being crowned by the end of the night. With that, GEORGATOS introduces the first participants to compete in a TV title match, GREG PRICE and KRIS ANTHONY, who will do battle right now.

* MATCH 1 – NYCW TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT – QUARTERFINALS – GREG PRICE d. KRIS ANTHONY at 8:19 via submission with the Boston Crab. (Referee: Ethan McKay)

* MATCH 2 – NYCW WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP – LIZ RUSH © d. HYPNOTICA at 3:51 via pinfall with the cobra clutch bomb. (Referee: Corbin Page)

* MATCH 3 – NYCW TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT – QUARTERFINALS – DYNAMINTE DEAN NASH d. DAMIEN FIELDS via pinfall at 16:02 with the diving dragon attack. (Referee: Chris Korbin)

* MATCH 4 – NYCW TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT – QUARTERFINALS – MIDDKNIGHT d. ANTHONY “BK” DESIO via pinfall at 7:01 with a reverse Death Valley Driver. (Referee: Ethan McKay)

* MATCH 5 – ROB GRAVES and ANDREW LIVINGSTON d. NYCW Tag Team Champions THE OLD SCHOOL via pinfall at 5:05 in a non-title match. GRAVES pinned BOBBY BURRIS with a small package. (Referee: Chris Korbin)

* BACKSTAGE – JOSH MCGUIRE is standing by with JON DULBERG, who has a rematch with RYAN KNAKAL for the NYCW Championship later tonight. DULBERG says that he was not even pinned to lose the championship last week in the triple threat match, and until he is pinned, he is still considering himself the champion. He challenges RYAN KNAKAL to pin him one on one tonight, stressing that KNAKAL is simply a paper champion and will be just another blip on DULBERG’s highlight reel tonight.

* MATCH 6 – NYCW TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT – QUARTERFINALS – JACKIE BACCARO d. ROLAND HOLCOMB at 14:27 via pinfall after a top-rope elbow smash. (Referee: Corbin Page)

* BACKSTAGE – We are taken backstage, where JOSH MCGUIRE is standing with the new NYCW Champion RYAN “THE BOSS” KNAKAL. KNAKAL, normally a man of many words, doesn’t say much tonight, instead claiming that he will show the world tonight exactly why he is the NYCW Champion.

* MATCH 7 – NYCW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP – RYAN “THE BOSS” KNAKAL © VS. “THE HUMAN HIGHLIGHT” JON DULBERG (Referee: Jim Parris):
Dulberg goes on the offensive early, getting the crowd behind him and implanting a firm belief in the New York crowd that he is going to regain the championship tonight. Dulberg has his way with Knakal throughout the match, until referee Jim Parris goes down toward the end. Soon after Parris goes down, Dulberg locks Knakal in the Seventh Inning Stretch. Knakal is clearly tapping out, but the referee is incapacitated and cannot see it. However, with the hold still locked on, Dulberg is unaware of the chair-wielding man storming down the aisle and heading into the ring. The man, identified as Knakal’s older brother and former CAW tag team partner Jeff Knakal, smashes Dulberg repeatedly with the chair, beating him senseless. Ryan Knakal then gets up and delivers his implant DDT to Dulberg on the chair and covers him. Jeff Knakal tosses referee Jim Parris back into the ring, who counts the three and the successful title defense for Ryan Knakal. The Knakals celebrate the victory to ICONZ’ “Get F*cked Up” amidst a hateful crowd as the show comes to a close.
WINNER AT 12:21 AND STILL NYCW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION: RYAN “THE BOSS” KNAKAL