{"id":11689,"date":"2019-03-16T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T15:45:51","slug":"wxw-16-carat-gold-night-three-review-10-3-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/16\/wxw-16-carat-gold-night-three-review-10-3-19\/","title":{"rendered":"wXw 16 Carat Gold Night Three review (10.3.19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

wXw 16 Carat Gold\nNight Three<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the 16 Carat Gold Tournament and the wXw Women\u2019s Title still\nto be resolved, things were far from finished as the weekender drew to a close.\nFour names had a chance of winning the trophy, whilst friends turned bitter\nrivals in Killer Kelly and Toni Storm were finally going to get their hands on\neach other. That, alongside a bevy of other surprises in terms of matches,\npromised that Night Three would be well worth watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucky Kid versus Ilja\nDragunov<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After what had probably been two heavy nights for the fans,\nthe third night was kicked off wisely with two very popular wrestlers as Lucky\nKid and Ilja Dragunov met for a chance to contest the 16 Carat Gold final. The\nmatch begun fast with a Saito suplex by Dragunov and the trading of dives,\nbefore it settled down into a contest dominated by Dragunov\u2019s chops. After a\ncrazy sequence saw Kid pop up from a superplex straight into a Ligerbomb of his\nown, Kid unsurprisingly lost out overall on a series of strike exchanges. A\nflash pin was teased as Kid turned a Torpedo Moscow into a small package for a\n2.9 count, whilst Dragunov did land it eventually to stop a handspring back\nelbow by Kid. The fans popped huge for the kickout, as they did when another\nTorpedo Moscow saw Dragunov hit the turnbuckle instead and Kid landed a 450\nsplash for the victory! Another good match for Kid as the perennial underdog\nmade his way into the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avalanche versus\nWALTER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crowd were firmly behind Avalanche after WALTER\u2019s\nactions over the past two days in this battle of two ex-partners. Avalanche\nalmost grabbed the victory within the first minute, but WALTER grabbed the rope\non a pinfall following a Dreissker bomb. WALTER cruelly targeted the shoulder\nthat had been injured before, sending Avalanche into a metal railing before\nworking it over with holds and strikes. That didn\u2019t stop Avalanche from\ndisplaying immense power in a one arm slam on WALTER. However, every move\nWALTER used seemed to work over the joint to the point that it did eventually\ncost him as a second Dreissker bomb impacted upon the injury further, allowing\nWALTER to lock on a Kimura-style submission for the tapout win. Lucky Kid\nversus WALTER Kid was now going to be the final in a true David versus Goliath\nclash. This match told a good story alongside some decent power spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axel Tischer, Veit\nMuller and Timothy Thatcher versus Daisuke Sekimoto, Shigehiro Irie and Yuki\nIshikawa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A strong looking six man on paper started with Ishikawa\ngiving Muller a bit of a lesson on the mat, before each man was given their\nchance to shine on offense in the opening exchanges. It was Irie who ended up\nisolated in the opponent\u2019s corner, though a Muller sunset flip then saw Irie\npiledrive Thatcher on to Muller to break the hold and make the tag to a fresher\nman. At this point, things mainly broke down as people came in to hit moves, go\nfor pins, and make saves. Tischer saved both of his teammates from submissions,\nwhilst Muller used an airplane spin on Sekimoto in an impressive show of\nstrength that led to a huge double clothesline by the dizzy pairing. Thatcher\nlocked the sleeper on Irie, but Sekimoto made the save with a German and Irie\nfinished Thatcher off with the Beast Bomber. Fun six man action, but a bad\nweekend for Thatcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Tischer and Thatcher in the ring, WALTER and Axel\nDieter Jr. came out to the ring. For a moment it looked as if WALTER had jumped\nMuller, but it was all a ruse to give him a RINGKAMPF shirt to show he had\nfinally been accepted. Tischer left, but as the remaining four went to do the\nRINGKAMPF pose, Thatcher walked out. Having had a bad few months, it\u2019ll be\ninteresting to see what the next step is for Thatcher in wXw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toni Storm \u00a9 versus\nKiller Kelly (wXw Women\u2019s Title Match)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fast paced start perfectly fit an increasingly hostile relationship\nbetween the two women and it wasn\u2019t long before they were throwing themselves\n(Storm) or getting thrown into (Kelly) chairs at ringside. Storm made it clear\nearly on how she was happy with a countout, whilst her offense was of the\nplayground bully variety \u2013 derisory kicks, pulling hair, stamping on fingers. A\ncountout was once more teased later on as Storm hit her Strong Zero on the\nrampway, yet Kelly beat the count. Storm\u2019s heeling continued to work to add\nheat as she stole Kelly\u2019s mouthguard to imitate her trademark offense;\nnaturally this caught her out when Kelly fired back with an enziguri. Finisher\nkick outs came as standard, yet it was a schoolboy roll-up by Storm as Kelly\nwent for Shades of Shibata that earned her the cheap victory. This felt forced\nat the start, but really built up to some great late exchanges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JayFK versus\nHot&Spicy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fun with having numerous returning faces are some of the\nnostalgic moments you can create. A perfect example of this was Karsten Beck\ninterrupting a JayFK promo, leading to Axel Dieter Jr. and Da Mack reuniting as\nHot&Spicy for the evening. This did somewhat undermine the gimmick change\nDa Mack had undergone in the time since they first teamed, but the reaction for\ntheir return was huge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That reaction was also levelled at JayFK for jumping their\nopponents, though Dieter Jr. and Mack were soon double teaming Skillet and\nKaspin as if they had never been away. It took Kaspin grabbing a handful of\nMack\u2019s hair from the apron to allow JayFK to cut the ring in half with heel 101\nreferee manipulation and make use of illegal double teaming in an abdominal\nstretch. A neat top rope enziguri by Mack gave him a window to make a tag;\nDieter Jr. blasted through JayFK with a double blockbuster before pinning\nKaspin after dual gamengiris dropped both members of JayFK. Whilst the match\nwas good, the nostalgia pushed it over the top in terms of quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schadenfreude versus\nLucha Bros and Rey Horus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schadenfreude get a black and white filter for their\nentrance as Fletcher and Davis are also attired differently than the previous\nnights. The crowd are very much up for this as duelling chants echo around the\nTurbinenhalle. A match fought under lucha rules, the wild opening meant Davis had\nto kick out of a Canadian Destroyer within the first couple of minutes. With no\ntags, the action was wild from the get go, whilst Schadenfreude highlighted\ntheir new heelish tendencies with an Aussie Open double low blow on Pentagon\nearly on in the action. Davis again needed to be resilient after a double foot\nstomp, swanton and 450 splash combination, kicking out at two. The Mexican\ntriumvirate in particular had some nifty team moves, including Pentagon sending\nHorus over the top rope onto Schadenfreude to spark off a dive fest. However, a\nmiscommunication saw Pentagon hit the Canadian Destroyer on Fenix, triggering a\nsequence that saw Fenix get dropped with Close Your Eyes and Count To Fuck as\nwell as a Praying Mantis Bomb for the loss. A wild match that lived up to\nexpectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post-match, Fenix got on the microphone on behalf of the\nMexican trio to say thanks to the fans for a great weekend of action and\nsupport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 Carat Gold Final:\nWALTER versus Lucky Kid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what the weekend all boiled down to as the underdog,\nLucky Kid, took on a man with an increasingly bad attitude, WALTER, in the\nfinal of the 16 Carat Gold tournament. The whole narrative was the ever-present\ndanger WALTER represented to Kid; every time Kid landed a quick flurry of offense,\nit was only a moment away from WALTER reversing things or landing a hard\nstrike. Worse, WALTER took off Kid\u2019s bandage around his arm to begin to target\na previous injury, echoes of his treatment of Avalanche earlier. Spots from\nthroughout the weekend came back to be played upon \u2013 Kid grabbed a two count on\na small package, before reversing a superbomb into a super-rana. WALTER tried\nhis \u2018end boss\u2019 offense and dumped Kid hard with a tombstone as well as a top\nrope splash, though his arm trap sleeper almost saw him give Kid a chance to\ngrab a flash pin. To beat a monster, you need to bring out your biggest moves\nand following a standing double foot stomp, Kid launched himself onto WALTER\nwith two 450 splashes. WALTER managed to kick out of that, but Kid transitioned\nsmoothly into the crossface and forced the tap for the victory!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main event neatly crowned what had been a strong weekend\nin terms of the storylines that had been told throughout the tournament. My\nexpectation had been that David Starr might have turned up to cost WALTER, but\nseemingly that wasn\u2019t necessary. Having seen the response Kid received on the\nphantom title change at the tail end of 2018 at the Anniversary Show, wXw must\nhave felt it was the right time to strike whilst the iron was hot. They got the\nrun right as well \u2013 revenge for last year in the first round, before taking on\nseveral wXw\/ex-wXw stalwarts. Though he was often fighting from underneath, he\nraised his game to take on and take out the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 Carat Gold as a whole was an entertaining three nights of\nwrestling with enough overarching storylines and narratives that leave threads\nopen to build upon going forward. Most interestingly, the positioning of\nThatcher, Starr and WALTER going forward is one to keep an eye on over the next\nfew weeks for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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