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Elite World Wrestling
presents
Best Coast Summer Series
LIVE! from Vancouver, BC, Canada

EWW World Heavyweight Championship
Bret "The Hitman" Hart (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada

After going to war and narrowly surviving Kenny Omega, Bret Hart faces arguably his toughest challenge yet in Kazuchika Okada. The sensation from Japan known as The Rainmaker has claimed world title gold everywhere he has been, and plans to continue that trend in EWW. Has The Hitman finally met his maker?

EWW Women's Championship Tournament - Round Robin
Chyna vs. Jade Cargill

The round robin tournament for the vacant EWW Women's title kicks off in tremendous fashion as two of the most powerful women in the sport go head-to-head in round 1. What's not to love?

EWW Women's Championship Tournament - Round Robin
Bull Nakano vs. Asuka

The other match in the round robin tournament is just as amazing as two innovators of women's Japanese wrestling square off and try to earn a critical 3 points.

EWW Tag Team Championship
Booker T & Shelton Benjamin (c) vs. Bullet Club (Adam Cole & KENTA)

After beating The Young Bucks at their own game and claiming tag team gold, Booker T and Shelton Benjamin are riding high and shocking the world as an athletic, charismatic, and solid unit. Meanwhile dissention in Bullet Club may lead to their first title defence coming with plenty of drama. After defeating KENTA and retaining his TV title and Bullet Club leadership in one fell swoop, Adam Cole offered his hand to KENTA, who reluctantly accepted. Cole then suggested they show unity to the rest of Bullet Club and claim the EWW Tag Team titles in Canada, which KENTA again reluctantly agreed to, and the confident Booker T & Shelton Benjamin accepted.

EWW Openweight Championship - House Rules Match
Malakai Black (c) vs. "Hangman" Adam Page

Malakai Black cut a scathing promo on the EWW locker room after claiming his first singles gold in EWW, defeating Rob Van Dam for the Openweight Championship. Black claimed that this was the dawn of The House of Black, and EWW would suffer in his wrath. That's when unofficial locker room leader "Hangman" Adam Page stepped up, bloodied and beaten, but victorious over Jon Moxley, and said that if anyone was going to try and take down EWW, they would have to go through him first. Malakai defends his titles in House Rules matches, allowing his opponent to name a stipulation of their choosing, which Hangman quickly named while wiping his brow and looking at his red, dripping fist: a First Blood match.

Tornado Tag Team Match
Sting & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. The Young Bucks

After dropping their tag team titles at Sinful Saturday, The Young Bucks were incensed and taking it out on anyone that got in their way. The arrogant hot heads eventually crossed paths with Hiorshi Tanahashi, who tried to mind his own business but suffered their wrath. Looking to make an example that nobody was above their arrogance, The Young Bucks attacked, but Sting swooped in and made the save, chasing them off with a baseball bat. After their once in a lifetime match in Vegas, Sting was happy to have The Ace of New Japan's back as a show of respect, and to pay him back for honouring him with a bout he has always wanted, Sting vowed to help him get revenge on the cocky duo one way or another.

East Van Street Fight
Jon Moxley vs. Samoa Joe

Both men are coming off losses and both men are looking to hurt someone. Mutually assured destruction, anyone? No matter who wins this brawl, we all win.

Singles Match
Kenny Omega vs. Rob Van Dam

Kicking off the evening in Vancouver are two men who lost big in Sin City, but plan to turn their fortunes around. After coming up short against The Hitman, Kenny Omega was down on himself and his confidence. He came so close after fighting for so many years, and was feeling as low as he ever felt. Later that night, on social media, Rob Van Dam reached out, offering an olive branch, saying that he knows how Omega feels after losing his EWW Openweight title, and has been where Omega is now, fighting many times for the big one before finally getting it. And while he feels low now, he knows that in Vancouver, everyone can get as high as Rob...Van...Dam. Omega simply replied that he would happily meet the legend in the ring, and RVD accepted.

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TRUE Presents: “I’m Him. I’ve Been Him. I Will Continue To Be Him.” from the Manhattan Center circa 2004

Senior Referee: Paul Turner (Alias Baul Burner)

Ring Announcer: David Penzer

Kurt Angle and the Creed Brothers vs Minoru Suzuki and The Astronauts

After a razor-thin victory by the Creeds to become the first TRUE World Tag Team Champions, the Astronauts were hungry for a return match given the closeness of their defeat. They asked Minoru Suzuki to coach them and help overcome weaknesses in their game, which caused Kurt Angle to appear, unprompted and uninvited, at the side of the tag team champions. While the brother tag team were initially excited to have Angle’s assistance, the Olympic Hero quickly wore out his welcome when it became clear that most of his focus was on Minoru Suzuki. The TRUE matchmakers made this trios match, promising that a victory would ensure another title shot for the Astronauts and that being on the winning team would increase Angle or Suzuki’s standing in the World Championship rankings. Will the Creeds be able to turn away their game challengers, or will Angle be so obsessed with winning that it costs him the victory?

For the TRUE Men’s World Championship

“The Wrestler” Katsuyori Shibata © vs “The Coldhearted Handsome Devil” Hook

Now this is a peculiar one. It’s not very often that a World title match borders on the nonverbal, but that is the situation we find ourselves in. Hook made a brief challenge to Shibata while eating chips, Shibata brought out his phone, pulled up google translate, and accepted. Since then, each man has said maybe a dozen words in the promotion of this match. But neither Hook nor Shibata has ever been the most verbose of men. They will do their talking in the ring, and their fists will be the great communicator to express the language of their souls. We shall all be witness to this great debate.

For the TRUE Women’s World Championship

"Knoxout" Becky Quinn © vs “Flying Angel” Manami Toyota

Following their victories, it only made sense to set up a title fight between the biggest star in the world and perhaps the greatest women’s wrestler of all time. But Becky Quinn has made no secret of her distaste for any language that might even imply that Toyota is a better wrestler than her. At the end of the day, according to Quinn, what Toyota really has is just a bunch of keyboard geeks telling her she’s the best, while Becky knows it. Toyota is God in one country, while Quinn sells out arenas and wins championships all over the world. Manami Toyota, meanwhile, is completely confident in her prior legacy. She knows from her work, who she’s defeated, the crowds she’s fought in front of, that she is one of the greatest ever. But this is about proving that she is the greatest *now.* And the only way to be the greatest is the be the TRUE World Champion.

“Young Animal” Kyoko Hamaguchi vs “The New Warmaster” Shayna Baszler

It is sometimes said that the only thing worse than a sore loser is a sore winner, and Shayna Baszler is emblematic of that idea. After beating Miyu Yamashita and regaining her confidence, Baszler preened and crowed until she found her next target, someone with the complete opposite stance: Kyoko Hamaguchi. Following her loss to Manami Toyota, Hamaguchi was humble in defeat, stating that she felt no shame in coming up short against a living legend and that it made her proud to do as well as she had done in her first professional match. Shayna said she had nothing to be proud of and demanded to know why she wasn’t angry. Kyoko insisted that she had nothing to be angry about, that the defeat from Toyota had shown her the weaknesses in her abilities and that she would come back as a stronger wrestler from what she had learned. To which Baszler had a simple question: what if Kyoko loses again? Would she continue to smile about it? If Baszler were to kick Hamaguchi’s ass, would she be so happy? Kyoko simply said that Baszler was more than welcome to find out. Will Baszler continue to build momentum toward a title fight, or has Hamaguchi already learned enough from crossing swords with the “Flying Angel” to earn a victory?

Ebony and Ivory (Sheamus and Bob Sapp) vs Lion’s Den (Chad Gable and Ken Shamrock)

One thing can be said for certain about wrestling: You can make friends in the unlikeliest of circumstances. After Sheamus knocked Sapp out with a Brogue kick following a brutal, stiff match, both men laughed, shook hands, and went out for drinks after the show. They became fast friends and decided to take on the tag division together as Ebony and Ivory because, as Sheamus pointed out, he wears black trunks and Sapp wears white trunks. With their power and natural chemistry, they are sure to become a force in the tag division. The team across from them, however, are not what you’d call bosom buddies. Following a controversial victory where Shamrock downed Gable with an unintentional thumb to the eye before putting him in an armbar, Ken Shamrock has put Gable through his paces in the Lion’s Den gym. His training methods have stopped just short of torture in his endeavor to awaken Gable’s rage and help him get ‘in the zone.” This will be an opportunity to see if Shamrock’s unorthodox methods have paid off, as both men will definitely need to be in the zone to defeat this colossal connection.

“Top Dog” Rex Steiner vs “The Big Bad Booty Daddy” Scott Steiner

Though the idea of an “alpha” may not actually exist in nature, for some people the belief and the desire that there can be only one “alpha male” is too deeply embedded to let scientific fact get in the way. Frustrated by recent losses, the Steiner family members are looking for someone to blame and have both directed their frustrations at one another, attributing their defeats to an inability to focus due to the other’s being in the company. With “uncle” accusing “nephew” of stealing his spotlight and “nephew” believing “uncle” needs to step out of his way. There was simply only one way to settle this: a fight between the two “alpha” men of the Steiner family to determine who is the top star and patriarch.

“Pink Striker” Miyu Yamashita vs “Unbreakable” Thunder Rosa

After frustrating losses at our first supercard, both women are looking to rebound. Miyu Yamashita could have scored a knockout victory but got overconfident and showboated before the final kick, allowing Shayna to get a final burst of energy to choke her out in the Kirifuda Clutch. Meanwhile, Thunder Rosa had let Becky Quinn wear down one of her arms for most of their fight, so she didn’t have the strength to maintain the hold for the Thunder Fire Driver and let Becky Quinn slip out, resulting in her getting knocked out with an elbow strike. Refocused and learning from the mistakes that cost them important victories, Yamashita and Rosa are hungry for another opportunity to climb back up the ranks.

I like both. Don't love either. Pretty similar VIIIIBES honestly, and I think RT does it just maybe a LITTLE better. It might help he has more guys I've heard of. Still can't get excited about a Shelton Benjamin Booker T tag team.

Jun 15, 2024 16:25:35 GMT 1RealSmartAlex said:

I like both. Don't love either. Pretty similar VIIIIBES honestly, and I think RT does it just maybe a LITTLE better. It might help he has more guys I've heard of. Still can't get excited about a Shelton Benjamin Booker T tag team.

Gotta go with RT here. We're rarely on the same page, but I'm intrigued by his top 3 and first 3 matches this time around.

For KITN I like the Clash of Steiners and applaud his usual strong effort.

I guess I'm late to the party and the polls are closed. I hate to say it but neither card does much for me. But I will give you both credit for taking the time to make cards with write ups.