Welcome to the LIVE COVERAGE for
THE 2-HOUR LIVE FINALE of
THE CRUISERWEIGHT CLASSIC
The Final Four
Zack Sabre Jr vs Gran Metalik
Metalik comes out like lightning. A huge dropkick, to🧸pe con hiro, sprinboard swanton. Two Couꦜnt.
ZSJ takes control with a European uppercut counter to another springb꧑oard move.
Now he's jus💛t bending Metal🍒ik in all sorts of ways.
Metalikꩵ fig🤡hts back with a running headscissor takedown.
THIS IS SO GOOD.
Sabre 🔥keeps trying to get ahold of Metalik, so he can try to wrench his arm🌺s off.
Metalik keeps getting free to kick Sabre in the🧜 face and do stuff like reverse slingblades.
Metalik is SO GREAT. He's doing amazing submission move🦋s and pinning predicaments.
Can't wait to see him on Raw.
MY GOD WHAT A LARIAT FROM METALIK.
I can't keep up.
Tightrope cro💧ssbody countered by a European Uppercut, followed by a PK from Sabre.
TWO COUNT.
Trading strong sty🔯le elbows and slaps from a kneel꧟ing position.
Metalk caught in some kind of Octopus-like submissܫion, but he gets to the ropes.
Sabre puts him up on the top rope, but Metalik crotches him on the top rope, and hurricanr🎃anas him off.
WOW.
Springboard again by Metalik, but HE HIS꧙ CAUGHT IN MID AIR INTO🍒 A TRIANGLE HOLD.
Metalik flips over into a pin. Two count.
All of a sudden Mꦫetalik has Sabre up in po♒sition for the Metalik Driver.
HE HITS IT!
1.
2.
3.
WINNER: Gran Metalik by Pinfall.
Wow. This was amazing.
But I can't help but think that if ZSJ had signed with WWE, he'd be in the finals.
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Kota Ibushi vs TJ Perkins
A lot moreᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ feeling🌺 out between these two in this one.
P✱erkins almost ca🦂tches Kota in the Kneebar, but Kota frantically escapes.
A few moves later, Kota knocks 𒐪Perki꧂ns to the outside with a big springboard missile dropkick.
He tries that Golden Triangle Moonsault thing, but Perkins takes outꦆ his leg🐭s and Kota lands awkwardly on the outside.
Ibushi makes hit back inside as 🅘the 10 Count is at 9 and a Half.
Back and forth, spectacular action from both men.
A standing Frankensteiner out of nowhe✅re throws TJP to the outside, followed by a ဣGolden Triangle Moonsault, successful this time.
Big Missile Dropkick from Kota, trading kicks, Perkins g🌳ets the knees up on a Moonsaꦅult.
Perkins is able to lock on the kneebar,𒈔 but Ibushi gets to the ropes.
He lands a tremendous bridging German Suplex.
Two Count.
Ibushi kicks Perkins in the chest about a 🌠million times.
He goes for that German suplex from the apron back into the ring thing, but Pe♌rkins fights out of it.
He hits a wr🥃ecking ball dropkick, then goes up top.
Ibushi hits the pele kick, Perkins s🃏lumps to the fꦿloor.
(I AM WAY BEHIND HERE BECAUSE THEREও IS SO M🎃UCH GOOD STUFF.)
At one point, Perki🔯ns catches Ibushi in the KneeBar OUT OF THE PELE KICK.
At another point, Ibushi hits the Golden Star Powerbomb, and ♋Perkins kicks out🅷.
MY GOD THIS IS THE GREATEST MAT🌌CH I HAVE EVER SEEN.
Perkins is able t﷽o counter another attempt at the Golden Star into a kneebar, then combines that with some kind of rear choke.
IBUSHI TAPS.
WINNER: TJ Perkins by Submission.
What a match. What an upset.
"Thank you Kota," indeed.
TJ Per🌟kins is getting booed by fully 1𝔍/3 of the crowd.
I don'𓄧t know why. He was f*cking great in this match.
Intermission Match
Tommaso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano
vs
Cedric Alexander & Noam Dar
Forgive me for not giving play by play of this.
I'm still recovering from that last match.
If Tommasoꦕ turns on🔯 Johnny, I'll be sure to let you know.
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He didn't
Great match, though. Seriously.
Gargs & 𒁏Champsꦏ win with their Dual Kick and Knee thing to Noam's head.
WINNERS: Gargano & Ciampa
The CWC Finals
Gran Metalik vs TJ Perkins
THIS JUST BECAME A R𓃲AW CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH.
HUNTER BROUGHT OUT A BELT AND EVERYTHING.
Back and forth feeling out process.
Metalik gets Perkins on the outside, then hits his headbutt suicide dive.
(it is only 1,000,000꧂ times better than Dean Ambro♛se's)
He rolls TJP back inside, hits his tightrope♒ springboard swanton.
Two Count.
Back and forth some more.
Aౠ hurricanrana🔯 from Perkins takes Metalik to the outside.
A senton atomico💖 by Perkins onto Metalik from the apron to the insi⛦de.
Dropkick to the back of the head,🧸 rest hold, sidewalk slam. Two Count.
Back and forth some more.
PERKINS ON THE APRON, METALIK SOMEHOW HURDLES THE ROPES AND HURRICANRANAS ✱HI𝔉M TO THE FLOOR IN ONE MOTION.
The Metalik's step-up tope con hiro, but he misses TJP almost entirely.
Scary moment.
A springboard elbow drop back to the inside.
PERKINS SLAPS ON THE KNEEBAR.
METALIK GETS TO THE ROPES.
Can't believe this match.
Can't believe this night.
Kicks and slaps and chops.
Metalik reverses a Benadryller into a DDT.
Metalik goes up top for th🧜e moonsault, eats a foꦯot on the landing.
Gutbuster/Lung blower into a pinfall attempt from TJP.
Kick out, DIRECTLY INTO THE KNEEBAR.
Metalik is in it for about twenty minutes.
Finally he's able to reverse it into a pinfall attempt.
Kick out.
He's not able to hit the full Metalik Driver, mor𒈔e of a Michioku, but Metalik hurts his knee on the landing.
Two count.
Slaps traded back and forth.
M🐽etalik puts Perkins on the top rope, is going for an Avalanche Metalik driver, but Perkins rolls off his shoulders, grabs a leg on the way down, pulls Metalik into the Knee Bar.
METALIK TAPS.
WINNER, AND NEEWWWWW CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
TJ PERKINS
Holy crap what a match.
Holy crap what a tournament.
