Results – XCW: Proving Grounds ’09 – 5/23/09

Intense Championship Tournament Semi-Finals Match: Big Kahuna d. “Shooting Star” Matt Taylor with the Kahuna slam to advance to the finals on June 6. Taylor’s manager Violent Bob Humperdink interfered constantly in the early goings of this one until new referee Ken Refferson kicked him out of the ringside area bc Ken don’t take no shit from nobody. ya heard?

Tourn Semi-Finals: Bulldog Garf Redman d. TBA to advance to the finals of the tournament on June 6. Redman seemed to be in an especially pissed off mood on this night and took it all out on TBA. Sucks to be him.

Joeberg interviewed Brian Beech who, despite losing the XCW Championship to Jason Cross just minutes after winning it, still has possession of the physical belt. Beech took great exception to being referred to as the former champion and was quick to have his goon Tarek the Legend get the announcer out of the ring. Beech then went on a tangent about being the greatest champion XCW has ever seen and things of that nature. Everyone seemed cool with Beech proclaiming himself champion as nobody really had anything to say about it. If only the referees’ example had shone through to the rest of the locker room and/or the higher ups in XCW.

XCW Tag Titles: Champions Dew Moore d. The Soul Shooters to hang on to the belts. The champs pretty much got their asses handed to em in this one but the challengers seemed to be more interested in physical punishment than championship gold. In the end, that was their undoing as Dewey Brown was able to roll up Q Skillz to retain the titles. Bruce Magurn, trainer to the stars and manager of the Soul Shooters, protested to the referee that his man’s feet were in the ropes at the time of the pin and thus it shouldn’t count but Ken Refferson’s example in the first match proved to be an inspiration to the entire XCW officiating staff who weren’t takin no shit from nobody. Ya heard?

Steve Blainard def. DDK & Nikita Allanov in a triple threat match

The Notorious N.I.C. & Kara Kildare d. Hardcore Heather Owens & her mystery partner which was revealed to be Super Oprah. Speculation has and continues to run rampant that Super Oprah may not be quite what she presents herself as being but as of yet nobody has dared attempting to get to the…bottom of things, so to speak. Anyway, this was a hard fout contest with all 4 women participants giving it all they had. The end came when the NIC & Kara hit Oprah with a double team hip toss to pick up the win. After the match, the NIC & Heather got into it once more and ended up fighting to the back. It was then announced that at our 1 year anniversary show on June 20, those 2 will face each other in a street fight.

In the main event, Tarek the Legend def. XCW Champion Jason Cross in a non-title match. This was originally scheduled to be a title match, however, Tarek recognizes Brian Beech as champion not Jason Cross. Therefore, Tarek refused to accept the match as being for the XCW Championship. One would have to wonder if he is now perhaps rethinking that decision after pinning Cross with a rollup and using the ropes for leverage.

XCW returns to action on Saturday June 6 with the finals of the Intense Championship tournament. The Big Kahuna faces “The Bulldog” Garf Redman to determine the first man to hold this prestigious new title. Stay tuned to the myspace for more matches as they are announced. Pre-sale tickets are available for $5 by sending us a message with your name and how many you wish to purchase.