Tremont, Payne & Bradley Invade PWE
Be careful what you wish for.
The final scene of The Departed opened Pro Wrestling Explosion: Wrestling Will Escape last Friday, as Smash Bradley tried to catch a rat running across the ring rope. The 50 some-odd folks in attendance at the Ruba Club chalked it up to the dusty, intimate venue. Little did we know it was foreshadowing a night that would change PWE forever.
In an interview with The Wrestling Estate, promoter Erik Viking vowed that PWE Champion Bobby Dempsey’s mystery opponent would shock the wrestling world. Well, it certainly did. It shocked Viking, too.
Matt Tremont burst out the curtain to shrieks from the standing room-only crowd. According to Viking, the death match legend and owner of H20 Wrestling was not supposed to be the mystery man, but due to Dempsey’s willingness and the excitement of the Philly faithful clamoring for this battle of the bulls, the championship match was officially sanctioned.
Tremont and Dempsey brawled throughout the building, smashing each other’s heads into the merchandise table and slugging it out amongst the fans. Tremont took control by suplexing Dempsey on the floor, causing a sickening thud to echo throughout Northern Liberties. Inside the ring, Tremont went for the kill, but Dempsey fought back and subdued him with a big splash. An elbow drop from the second rope put away Tremont for good.
After the bout, Dempsey offered his hand to Tremont in a sign of respect, which the challenger eventually acquiesced to before leaving the spotlight to the champion in the ring. Then the lights went out and the spotlight shifted toward the entrance, where two masked men – one cloaked in a hoodie and the other decked out in a suit with a championship belt around his waist – emerged. They pounced Dempsey, sticking the boots to the exhausted champion. When they removed their masks, the audience booed as Smash Bradley (who ditched his partner Billy Avery earlier in the night) and former PWE Champion Alex Payne revealed themselves.
The crowd chanted for Tremont to make the save, and when the “Bulldozer” returned to the ring, he stunned everyone by joining in on the attack. All three villains hoisted Dempsey up and drove his head into the belt with a vicious spike piledriver. Viking slid into the ring to check on his champion, but was snatched and assaulted as well. When the pack of wolves was finally satisfied with their carnage, Dempsey wobbly grabbed the mic and challenged Payne to a future bout.
Payne, Bradley and Tremont make for a treacherous trio that perhaps nobody in PWE can stop. After a two-year reign as PWE Champion, using every trick in the book to hang on to his gold, Payne was defeated by Dempsey in February. Viking claimed to have fired Payne and his partner Shane Hagadorn, but obviously the former champion has found his way back into the company. Bradley has clearly left his ex-partner in the dust, never truly changing his ways. As for Tremont, it was a disturbing image to see the beloved brawler sell out and join forces with a couple of hyenas.
The next PWE event has yet to be announced, but you can rest assured that this is the only beginning of a new war. For PWE’s sake, let’s hope it’s not the beginning of the end.
Full results
The South American Sensations (Alessandro & Pedro Pablo) def. The Creatures Of The Deep (Cajun Crawdad & Hermit Crab)
Hotdog Starkes def. Mike Swanson
Grizzly Redwood def. Yohan Wunderschintzel
Danjerhawk def. Mantequilla and Shane Sabre
Shockwave The Robot def. Space Monkey
Jerika Starlight def. Gabby Gilbert
Caribbean Strap Match: CPA def. Troy Nelson
Billy Avery & Mike Gamble def. The Shinobi Shadow Squad (Eli Isom & Ryan Nova)
PWE Title Match: Bobby Dempsey (c) def. Matt Tremont
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