Auckland Qualifiers: Round 2
The card for tonight's event!
Match 1: Michael Bates vs Roneel Hira (Table Match)
Match 2: Anaru Kitchen vs Greg Morgan (Casket Match)
Match 3: Jeet Raval vs Scott Styris (Ladder Match)
Match 4: Daryl Tuffey vs Reece Young (Hell in a Cell Match)
Match 1: Michael Bates vs Roneel Hira
It would be Bates up against Hira in the first match of a promising card - and they would be competing in a table match! The rules state a wrestler must for a match to finish - and ringside has been stacked with tables!
Roneel Hira started strongly, dominating Bates immediately and bringing a table into the ring. Bates soon countered though and attempted to set up the table before he was ambushed by Hira from behind. Hira then lifted Bates up into a fireman's carry, but Bates dropped out of it, and pushed him at the table, sending it clattering to ringside. After a gruelling match, it appeared Roneel Hira had the advantage after he hit a vicious DDT on Bates, seemingly dazing him and concussing him. Bates seemed to have no clue where he was at and Hira set up the table before lifting Bates on to it, lying him on the table. From there, Hira climbed up on to the top turnbuckle and prepared for the frog splash that would end the match... but Bates rolled off the table! Hira crashed through the table, that was an amateur effort from Hira; Bates simply rolled off the table at the last second and it is Hira who has to suffer, Bates wins the match!
Winner: Michael Bates
Match 2: Anaru Kitchen vs Greg Morgan
It was an Undertaker special here as the two cricketers came out to fight - the condition stating that a wrestler must be shut inside the casket that was laying by ringside for the match to finish. There were no disqualifications, no pinfalls and no submissions - it was the casket or nothing.
Greg Morgan got off to a confident start, hitting Kitchen with a corkscrew armdrag and then sending him into the ropes before following it up with a nasty elbow to the face, but Kitchen fought back with an explosive suplex. "That was a nice suplex," says Ian Chappell. Thanks for that, Chaps. As it turned out, Greg Morgan didn't have much stamina - Kitchen hit him with a powerslam which seemed to render him near unconscious, and he stomped Morgan's head into the casket, a nasty finishing move. As he was about to shut the lid, Morgan retaliated by kicking the lid open and attempting to climb out, but Kitchen climbed out of the ring and tackled the casket lid, closing it on Morgan to end a relatively boring match.
Winner: Anaru Kitchen
Match 3: Jeet Raval vs Scott Styris
Next up was the wily Scott Styris taking on the enthuasiastic Jeet Raval, who had won in fine fashion last round to make it this far. The match would be a ladder match - the first person to set up a ladder in the middle of the ring, climb up the ladder and claim the belt would win. Except - this time, it was a large pie hanging from the ceiling - the winner would be rewarded with it, as well as an entrance to the next round.
Raval started well, dropping Styris to the mat with a gorilla press slam, and he followed it with a few nasty punches to the air near Styris' head, whilst Styris pretended to be hurt. Raval continued the momentum, choking Styris illegally for fifteen seconds before Rudi Koertzen realised what was going on. Styris, however, took the advantage from Raval's arguing with Koertzen, and slung him to the ground with a rugby tackle - nothing pretty about that. He then walked outside the ring, grabbing a ladder that was set up, and threw it into the ring, before sliding in himself. Styris thought about setting it up, but seeing Raval moving, he instead hit him in the head with it, and then set it up in the middle. He began to climb slowly up one side, a stupid mistake that wrestlers always make in ladder matches, and Raval recovered quickly and climbed up the other side. It was a true battle for the pie.. they both reached the top together, before exchanging blows.. hang on... what's this?!?? Styris lifts Raval on to his shoulders.. surely not.. ZOMG!!1!11!!1111!!!! HE JUST SUPLEXED HIM OUT OF THE RING! Styris just suplexed Raval out of the ring completely, over the top rope and all! Surely there must be a few broken bones after that encounter.. hang on a second! WHO'S THIS? JESSE RYDER JUST CLIMBED OVER THE BARRICADE... he slides into the ring, begins to climb slowly up the ladder.. and grabs the pie!! JESSE RYDER HAS WON THE PIE! NOW HE'S EATING IT! Well, that was to be expected, anyway.
Winner: ?
Match 4: Daryl Tuffey vs Reece Young
The most brutal match of all now - a Hell in a Cell contest between these two wrestlers. It should be an extremely tough match.
Daryl Tuffey got the early advantage, but Reece Young fought back, and the two exchanged basic moves for a while, with nothing threatening. It wasn't long, however, before Tuffey slid out under the ring, and started to climb the outside of the cage. Young had other ideas though, stealing a chair from the announcer and clubbing Tuffey with it, seeing Tuffey fall off the side on to the floor. Young waited until Tuffey stood up, before he charged at him with the chair again, hitting him right in the face, causing Tuffey to bleed. Now, it was Young who began to climb up to the top of the cage. He reached the top and began to taunt to the crowd, with Tuffey still on the ground, but it wasn't long before Tuffey began to climb up himself. The two wrestlers fought on the top of the cage for a bit, before Young hit Tuffey with a snap suplex, seeing Tuffey recoiling in pain on the top of the cage. It was here that Young threatened a possibly career-ending move, lifting Tuffey on to his back and walking over to the edge of the cell. It looked like he was going to hit the fall-away slam off the edge of the cell on Tuffey - a move that would almost kill him. But Tuffey managed to slide out of it, and he quickly regained the initiative, grabbing Young's head and walking over to the centre of the cell, stomping on one of the sections, sending it clattering to the ring. He then walked over to the edge of it.. oh surely not... YES HE IS! Tuffey hits an incredible DDT down to the ring on Young, what a move! Young falls all the way to the ring and lands on his neck, it surely looks broken now.. Tuffey managed to absorb the impact by landing on Young's head. That doesn't look good. Young is in no state to fight back.. let alone breathe, and Tuffey covers him up with an easy pin. Is Young okay!?!?
Winner: Daryl Tuffey
