After a week break between episodes, VALOR Wrestling returned with episode three of This Is VALOR, taking place at a rowdy Grand Ol’ Opry, featuring matches from May’s ‘Ring of Fire’ event. It was immediately clear the production value was increased with the venue giving a bar room brawl vibe.

A creepy video package played that interrupted Master of Ceremonies Kyle Wallace before we got into the first match.

BT Gunn defeated Kez Evans by pinfall.

Evans and Gunn traded holds early, with Kez showing off a bit of flash with a wrist lock escape, he also dodged a BT Gunn chop in the opening exchanges to show how well he knows his opponents. They traded off shoulder tackles and hip tosses to meet in a stalemate.

Kez dodged a dive with both outsmarting the other as neither could get traction due to the familiarity with the other. BT managed to get a chop in to swing the momentum in his favour with rapid punches to catch a near fall.

Gunn had a second big elbow drop scouted as he string a couple kicks and an enziguri for a near fall. Pinfall attempts were traded until BT Gunn caught Evans bonnie with a Flatliner to get the win.

This one felt like an exhibition match, two tag team partners going back and forth. There was no sense of urgency or intent to hurt the other. Which made sense as a respective contest between Dangerous Brothers.

Rubi Roberts defeated Kasey Owens by pinfall.

Kasey struck with intent from the off, bombarding Rubi Roberts with attacks with a concentration to the back of ‘The Basic Bitch Slayer’. Roberts hung on and started swinging wildly to knock Owens back with hard knees to the gut.

Owens didn’t take too kindly with the knees and responded with knees of her own to the chest, a running knee into the corner, then a double knee inverted Meteora to the back of the neck. Roberts rolled Kasey through a roll up attempt and went for a knee to the face and got the pin.

Rubi called Daisy out who was on commentary duties for this match, telling her that she was next.

The knee missed by a mile, the camera angle tried to save it but the finish was weak. This was a disjointed and didn’t do either wrestler justice. The blown finish deflated the crowd and they didn’t give the reception anticipated for the post-match call out.

Dog Collar Match – Lou King Sharp defeated Seb Silvers by pinfall.

Sharp got the crowd on side quickly with a patriotic Scotland chant. The fired up Sharp took too long hotdogging and grandstanding with Silvers attacking him on the second rope. The cockiness was short lived as Lou returned with his Singapore cane to smack the blue and yellow out of the the Swedish Supernova.

Silvers tried to escape but Sharp dragged him back to the ring via the chain that was tied to their necks by the dog collar. Silvers managed to the get some space and obtained a belt to crack over the back of Lou King Sharp. Seb’s dog collar came off which left Sharp vulnerable to be choked and controlled with the chain. Eventually the referee removed the collar from The Blood Tourist to even the playing field.

Both tried to use the chain as the match descended into a hardcore bout. Sharp hit a Finlay Roll but Silvers managed to kick out, hitting a low blow to leave Lou scrambling and falling out of the ring. The brawl continued on the outside with Sharp cut open which seemed to just power him up.

The battle made its way back to the ring, smashed Silvers with the chain while Seb was perched on the top rope before being launched with a Superplex which was enough to keep Seb Silvers down for the count.

Before Lou King Sharp could celebrate group of hooded figures in white masks wandered out and surrounded the ring, they threw up the infamous N hand signal to bring out Chris Renfrew. The figures stormed the ring and attacked Sharp and Silvers.

Renfrew spat out a declaration about the return of The New Age Kliq. Silvers refused the offer to join which got him a Singapore cane shot to the skull. Lou King Sharp’s response to the offer was to spit in the face of Chris Renfrew so got a caned. Renfrew closed his monologue to claim that NAK was forever.

A big moment to close out the episode. The match itself had plenty of action, it was chaotic with the dog collar breaking early on it allowed a bit more freedom to come up with ways to attack the other. The Superplex was a curious end point but that mattered little when everyone would be talking about the post-match return of Chris Renfrew and The New Age Kliq.

An interesting episode, a definitive cliffhanger into episode four but the two previous matches prior to the main event weren’t particularly exciting with out of nowhere conclusions that cut off the momentum from the match stone dead. Will await to see how it develops into the next edition.

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