Various: NWA 74 Night 1 Results, Matt Hardy on Vince McMahon Saying Its Human Instinct to Eat Someone, GCW

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Steve C.

Aug 27, 2022

NWA 74 Night 1 Results – Aug. 27, 2022

August 27, 2022
St. Louis, MO – The Chase Ballroom

Quick Match Results:

Pre-show: The Country Gentlemen (AJ Cazana & Anthony Andrews) defeated Gold Rushhh (Jordan Clearwater & Marshe Rockett) via O’Connor Roll (pinfall)
Pre-show: Rhett Titus defeated VSK via Belly-to-Belly Suplex (pinfall)
Pre-show: Rodney Mack defeated The Pope via Euthanizer (submission)
Pre-show: Pick Your Poison match – Caprice Coleman & Gustavo defeated Colby Corino & Wrecking Ball Legursky via Repentance (submission)
EC3 defeated Mims via The Purpose (submission)
Beelzebub’s Bedlam Match – The Miserably Faithful (Judias, Gagz the Gimp, & Sal the Pal) defeated The Ill Begotten (Alex Taylor, Jeremiah Plunkett, & Danny Dealz) via Chokeslam (pinfall)
Chris Adonis defeated Odinson via Disqualification
NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship – Homicide (c) defeated Kerry Morton via Avalanche Cutter (pinfall)
Cardona’s Choice match – Rolando Freeman defeated Matt Cardona via Roll-up (pinfall)
The Burke invitational Battle Royal match – Max The Impaler won, last eliminating Natalia Markova via Welcome To The Wasteland (pinfall)
NWA National Heavyweight Championship – Cyon defeated Jax Dane (c) via Death Valley Driver (pinfall)
Tables match – Bully Ray defeated Mike Knox via Chokeslam
Vacant NWA World Tag Team Championship – La Rebellion (Bestia 666 & Mecha Wolf) defeated Hawx Aerie (Luke & PJ Hawx) via Roll-up (pinfall)
NWA World Women’s Championship – Kamille (c) defeated Taya Valkyrie via Spear (pinfall)

Matt Hardy Comments on Vince McMahon Telling Him Its Human Instinct to Eat a Person in a Wheelchair

A recent episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast featured co-host Matt Hardy discussing his thoughts about his match he had against Edge at WWE’s SummerSlam 2005 and his shocked reaction over some crazy advice Vince McMahon gave to help them to prepare for their match.

“Vince McMahon in his mind, he was worried there’s going to be tension between myself and Edge. So he called us into his office and he was going to sit us down and talk to us, and also let us know how he wanted the finish of this match to go specifically, in detail. So we walk into the room, and we were getting along good at this time. You know, there were moments where there was some tension, obviously. But Vince was going to talk to us both and make sure to lay down the law, so to say. So I remember myself and Adam, we go we sit in there, there’s a couch across from his chair, and we’re sitting on opposite ends of the couch. You know, there’s probably four feet between us. We’re sitting and the first thing Vince says, he says, ‘Adam, Matt, you know, the WWE is my company, right?’ He says, ‘You know that this event, SummerSlam, is my event that I created, right? We both go, ‘Yes.’ He says, ‘You know that I have rented this venue for the night, right? So this is basically my arena. Do you understand that?’ We go, ‘Yes.’ He said, you know, that wrestling ring out there? That is my wrestling ring. Do you understand that?’ He said, ‘I’m going to tell you about this right now. If either one of you go out there tonight and try and take liberties with each other, if you try and intentionally hurt one another, I am the most powerful man in this industry. I promise you neither one of you will ever work a day in this industry again. Do you understand?’ We go, ‘Yeah, sure. ‘We understand’.
Vince continues, “‘Okay, with that being said, I want to get into the psychology behind this match tonight. So it’s not going to be a long match. I want to portray this as an MMA fight. This is like a UFC fight, right? I don’t want to see any hokey wrestling bullshit. [This] is going to be like a brawl a fight short and effective. Matt’s in here, he’s kicking the shit out of you. You’re real piece of shit, Adam, so Matt kicks your ass the whole match. Then, you’ve got some spot, right? You’ve got some spot picked out where Edge hits a lucky move and then Matt hits the post, right? All of a sudden, his face is a crimson mask, and he’s bleeding all over, and that’s where you are able to take the advantage, is that the spot you guys have?’ ‘Yeah, that’s what we have.’ We told him in detail this what we were talking about doing, and he said, ‘Okay, great.’ I’m gonna explain something to both of you right now, this is really what I want to see. This is basic psychology. This might sound crazy to you. But I have done many, many studies in the basic psychology of human beings and animals. He said, ‘Have you ever seen two animals in the wild — in the Wild Kingdom, when they’re going to fight one another? Have you ever seen one animal wound another animal? When it wounds that animal and the animal starts bleeding, and it smells the blood, it gets bigger, It swells up, it [growling noise], and it just wants to kill the other animal? Do you know what I’m talking about?’ He said, ‘Listen to me, these are your primal instincts. This might sound crazy, but when two animals — the primal instincts kick in and survival kicks in, and it’s their basic primal instincts, and we all have them, even as human beings. If you see someone weaker than you, you see someone that’s crippled or in a wheelchair, deep down your primal instinct, you want to destroy them, you want to eat them, you want to eat them alive! That is what we do. That is what human beings do to one another. That is our basic primal instincts. When you look at a primal human being and the psychology behind it, that is our instincts. You want to take the person who’s weaker than you, that is below you in the food chain, and you want to fucking EAT THEM! Do you understand?! That’s what I want to see out of this match.
Adam and I now, we had got so freaked out from Vince’s monologue, we were sitting beside each other almost like cuddled like, ‘What the fuck?! Yes, we understand. We will follow this to a tee. Thank you very much, boss.’ As time ticked on down the road, myself and Adam, we think Vince brought us in there and he tried to like freak us out to bond us together. Give us something to talk about and really like, we were on that page. Everything about that match was super professional. But, Vince went crazy. He told us, ‘If you [have] ever seen a crippled person or person in a wheelchair, you want to eat them.’ That’s the quote. He said, ‘That is basic instincts, human psychology, us at our core.’ I swear to God, me and Adam have said many times since then, man. Maybe he just did that, to really try and give us something to talk about — how fucking insane he was and that was the psychology behind that it helped bond us before that match.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

GCW Planning to Introduce a New Yearly Pass for Their PPV Events

While responding to a recent fan question on Twitter, Game Changer Wrestling owner Brett Lauderdale stated that the company is currently working on launching a yearly pass type subscription service to help save money to those who regularly buy their pay-per-view events.

Lauderdale stated that this upcoming yearly pass service is currently expected to be released very soon.

This is coming soon. Very soon.

I know ive been saying it for a while now, but hang in there a little longer and i promise it will be worth it… https://t.co/VaO0AW2vcG
— brett lauderdale (@Lauderdale11) August 27, 2022