Three years have passed since Iron Girders went from a training facility coming out of a worldwide pandemic into a promotion that features the upcoming Girders Built stars of tomorrow along with some of the best wrestlers in the country today.

I’ve been lucky to watch the Iron Girders shows from afar thanks to the Twitch streams, which is simply a camera propped in the corner of the Gallowgate to give a handy view of the action, which is all that’s required to be immersed into the Girders action.

Enough of my yammering, let’s take a look at the show itself.

The main show started with Kez Evans accompanying Tommy Lockhart to the ring, less than 24 hours from making sure Roman Reigns, CM Punk, and Seth Rollins didn’t batter each other at the O2 Arena in London. A successful job all round. After giving his stamp of approval on Tommy, he made an exit.

Eddie Castle defeated Tommy Lockhart by pinfall.

An opening jockey for position had Lockhart tying Castle up in knots but the former IGPW Champion found counters… only to have those counters countered in a circle of counters to make you go cross eyed.

A well placed forearm from Eddie Castle ramped up the intensity but wasn’t enough to deter Lockhart, who sent Eddie to the outside and quickly following. Tommy continued to have Castle’s number, who evaded a bop and bang swing to the face by rolling to the outside.

This time Eddie had the follow up scouted, hanging Lockhart off the second rope to take control, picking at the joints and putting the boots to Tommy. Lockhart fought back but a second rope European Uppercut was caught into a backslide position before Castle simply smashed Tommy with a clothesline to keep the advantage.

Lockhart landed the diving uppercut on the second time of asking to rattle Castle, managing to get the Bop and Bang to keep on top. Kez rejoined the action at ringside who caught Eddie trying to use the tights to score a victory. Luke Kyro snuck in to crack the IGPW Championship off the back of Evans’ knee which was enough of a distraction for Eddie to grab Tommy for a Flatliner for the win.

A slick opening match where the moves all flowed into each other well. The ongoing tension between Kez Evans and Tommy Lockhart is subtly going forward with Kez taking the spotlight away from Tommy at the start to talk about his, well earned, accomplishments then returning as it looked like Lockhart was about to win, undoubtedly to hotdog and grandstand, and bask in the cheers for Tommy Lockhart as his own.

Luke Kyro might have taken the opportunity to gain an advantage for later in the evening but Kez could have stayed down but didn’t, pawing his way onto the ropes that ultimately caused Lockhart to take his eye off the ball and allowed Eddie Castle to use the hesitation for his gain.

Honestly, the eventual implosion is going to be epic.

PWE Tag Team Championship Tournament – Quarter Final – Tall ‘N’ Tiny (Kev.i.n & James Diaz) w/Astrid Day defeated The Par (Ross Hunter & Robert Balfour) by pinfall to advance.

After a little bit of crowd participation, Robert Balfour struck with a clothesline to knock down Kev.i.n, but it was TNT who got the early upper hand, tagging in big James Diaz to send Balfour sharply to his corner to bring in an apprehensive Ross Hunter.

Some Balfour intervention put The Par back onto the fairway, isolating Kev with quick tags and tandem offence, clubbing the knees of Kev and driving him to the mat. Some roughhousing from The Par gave Tall N Tiny the handicap, with Balfour and Hunter doing all they could to keep James Diaz off the green.

The Par continued to keep Kev on the hook, chipping away at him until a stereo clothesline gave Kev the chance to tag in Diaz. Balfour dropped off the apron and walked out of bounds from Ross Hunter which gave TNT the opportunity to plant him with a back suplex-powerbomb combination to move onto the semi finals.

The team known as The Par is officially dead then, between the brackets being announced and this match taking place the duo broke up in emphatic fashion over at PWR PRO so there was a bit of a question mark on if they would reunite again elsewhere, the quick tag out from Balfour to an unsuspecting Hunter when Diaz was entered into the contest was the hint, as when Diaz was once again tagged in after an extended wait on the outside Balfour had no interest in getting near him and left Hunter at the mercy of Tall N Tiny, which lead to giving Kev and James a big win on their prospective underdog run through the tournament.

A spirited showing from TNT, even if a lot of it was Kev trying to stay in the fight, but it’s not about the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. The crowd in the Gallowgate love them some Tall N Tiny with a loud support for the team. Them entering with a Golf For Dummies book was a nice touch.

I’ve got nowhere else to put this thought but I’d love to see Ross Hunter tangle it up with Zach Dynamite, they’ve got a similar aura about them.

Katt Wolfe introduced Commissioner Elijah Bulwark to the ring to present Moxie Malone with the new For The Fans Championship to replace the ACME Comic Con Interpromotional Championship. Malone was flanked by her Misfits, Chris Kingston, Stone Malone, and Big Mick with Charlie Vyce absent.

A disrespectful Moxie dropped the old title in front of Bulwark, and kicked it away when Elijah attempted to retrieve it. The slight lead to the Commissioner not giving Malone the time to prepare for her first defence, bringing out Harley Hudson, and chucking out the Misfits much to their protests.

For The Fans Championship – Harley Hudson defeated Moxie Malone by pinfall to win the For The Fans Championship.

Moxie avoided the opening lock up to the chants of “chicken”, with her shove to Hudson being met by a Hudzilla strength return to send Malone on her back. Harley had the answer to Moxie’s attempts at gathering some offence early on, even using her backside to send Moxie wobbly knee’d.

The match went to the outside with a well timed head bash to the ring apron gave ‘The Misfit’ her opening to take control, wearing down Harley Hudson slowly with strikes and chokes. Malone was feral on the attack but her zealousness came undone when two corner splashes were dodged to put Hudson back into the driver’s seat, throwing Malone overhead with a release leg hooked suplex.

It wasn’t over for Moxie just yet, however, a crossbody from the top rope was scouted, but a stump DDT put the champion back on the up as she attempted to lock in the Dragon Sleeper. Hudzilla powered herself over, catching Malone with her shoulders on the mat into a pinning combination for the three and crowning a new For The Fans Champion.

A quick, but good, match, the disrespect shown to the commissioner before the match came back to haunt Moxie in karma fueled fashion. Not only having less time to prepare for Harley Hudson, but losing the support of Kingston, Malone, and Mick at ringside left her up a creek without a paddle. The usual ferocity and tunnel vision of Moxie’s attack left her deaf to Archie Williams’ count. A shock win perhaps with Moxie Malone having a title stranglehold for so long, with a near 7 month reign as champion over in the blink of an eye.

It now means that we should see Harley Hudson up at the Gallowgate more often which isn’t a bad thing at all.

PWE Tag Team Championship Tournament – Quarter Final – Casino Brutale (RABU & Mikey Devine) defeated Legends Never Die (Fulton King & Sami Sparx) by pinfall to advance.

The Casino chants were loud before their music even hit, and they were in a fired up mood, embracing the fan support with open arms. Legends Never Die were less than impressed, but even they tried to one up the jacket removing antics to a less than successful outcome when King dragged Sparx to the ground with his attempt for a big laugh in the Gallowgate.

Sami Sparx bullied Mikey Devine in the opening seconds so RABU produced a Rey Mysterio mask (white to match his ring attire… fashion), to help Devine gain some mysterious powers to combat ‘The Chaotic Luchador’, which worked with a snazzy one handed escape from a wrist lock and cabriola simiesca (that’s monkey flip in Spanish) to send Sparx flying into the arms of ‘The Juggernaut’ as the “Lucha” chants rained down.

King, who has actually wrestled in Mexico, overpowered Devine with the isolation attempted as Sparx removed the mask to reveal MIKEY DEVINE all along. The momentum swung all over the place like Spider-Man, with both teams getting to show why they are considered two of the best teams in the country.

Legends Never Die finally, thanks to some nefarious means, managed to gather some control, taking their frustrations out on RABU as The House desperately tried to tag in his partnah. King and Sparx were relentless in trying to keep RABU away but a rested Mikey Devine was eventually brought in to run wild, using all that horsepower to land a 6-De-Vine to Fulton King.

As the match began to break down with all four feeling the effects of the match, Sparx tried to use the ropes for some leverage for a school boy but it wasn’t enough to keep RABU down who answered with a Blue Thunder Bomb for a near fall.

Casino Brutale broke the deadlock, hoisting Sami Sparx for some Aces High to dispatch a very game Legends Never Die.

The clinical Casino Brutale against a rough and ready Legends Never Die made for a nice mash up of styles that worked well together. Chalk and cheese when it comes to presentation and style but seeing the clean cut Mikey Devine and Casino Brutale battle the bold, brash, and ruthless Legends Never Die was great stuff.

Katt Wolfe hosted a quick in-ring post-match interview where RABU revealed that they were due to debut as a team in Pro Wrestling Elite and in another timeline the PWE Tag Team Championships could’ve been the first titles they won, but now even though that’s not going to the case, they are going to make sure that they are going to become the next champions.

So that’s two teams into the semi finals and for my money probably the two favourites for different reasons. Casino Brutale are one of the best teams in the country without a doubt, they have that emotional connection with the audience and the belts themselves which would make them an incredible option to be the next PWE Tag Team Champions.

On the other side of the brackets is Tall N Tiny, a team that was formed within Iron Girders, they have captured a lot of attention from the Girders fans already, and pointing to Pro Wrestling Elite as a place that gave opportunity to those in their early years like Noam Dar, Lou King Sharp, Kay Lee Ray, Lionheart’s students like Kez Evans, Eddie Castle, SBX, the list goes on and on, to see a team forged from Girders battle through to raise the titles high would certainly represent what those belts stood for.

We’re only two matches in with plenty more twists and turns on the horizon. Love it.

Angel Hayze defeated Prince Levi by pinfall.

Fresh from Damien Priest launching him through a table and smashing Drew McIntyre across the windscreen of his prized BMW on Smackdown less than 48 hours beforehand, Prince Levi was not in the mood to celebrate his WWE experience, demanding his subjects to appreciate wrestling royalty. It was met with an anti-royal reaction you’d expect from the green side of Glasgow.

Some casual misogyny kicked off the contest when Levi reminded everyone that Angel was a girl and he was, in fact, a boy. The argument didn’t sway Hayze who just wanted to get to wrestling, throwing Levi over with a hip toss to snap Iron Girders’ self proclaimed Prince back to reality.

Whenever Levi tried to gain a head of steam, his head would be quickly locked and he’d find himself thrown to the mat. The bombardment of fast paced attacks got the best of Levi as he rolled to the outside, hanging a pursuing Hayze on the second rope to finally gain the upper hand, cinching in a side headlock of his own.

Levi dodged a running crossbody by dropping to the mat early to stop another build up of momentum from The Young Lioness, but his troubles getting hold of Angel Hayze continued as she evaded clotheslines to snap Levi back with a Sling Blade for a near fall.

A cutter almost had it for Levi, with multiple kickouts enraging the former IGPW Champion. He headed up top but dived into a superkick to leave him prone for a neckdriver from Angel Hayze for the victory.

Angel Hayze ran rings around Prince Levi, with Levi spending the majority of the match just trying to catch her but Hayze was wise to his tactics and kept ducking and diving. A very cat and mouse style match with Angel managing to nip in with offense between Levi’s wild swings to take her out.

Much like Moxie versus Harley earlier, some swift karmic retribution, this time it was Levi underestimating his opponent only to find himself staring at the lights when it was all said in done. An enjoyable encounter.

A shenanigan free raffle was hosted by Katt Wolfe and Robbie Cardwell before the main event with the Vibes set constructed in the ring.

Luke Kyro announced that due to Kez Evans’ having an unfortunate injury he could no longer compete so considered having a Vibes to close the show then changed his mind before being interrupted by ‘That Guy’ limping to the ring to compete.

IGPW Championship – Luke Kyro defeated Kez Evans by referee stoppage to retain the IGPW Championship.

Once the official announcement was made, Kyro went straight at Evans, targeting the knee like a shark smelling blood in the water and getting the digs in while referee Archie Williams’ tried to clear the ring and get the bell rung.

Kez weathered the flurry by throwing punches and taking Luke on a tour of the top turnbuckles head first and sending Kyro over the top rope to think again as the action spilled to ringside and the entrance way. Evans gave Kyro a heart stopping chop, and a second at the behest of the crowd.

An overzealous Evans scaled the second rope to go for a 10 punch rally but that slippery Kyro chopped the injured knee to put the champion in charge as he went about torturing Kez Evans by jarring the knee in creative ways, jamming it into the canvas, and twisting it in all sorts of gross positions.

Kyro continued the punishment, pulling down the knee pad of Kez and locking in a modified Indian Death Lock which was made all the more torturous with punches jabbing at the joint. Evans finally got some space with an enziguri and dodged a slingshot spear to give himself a chance.

The comeback was on, Evans kicked out the knee of Kyro to exact some sort of revenge, sending the champion reeling with a Russian Leg Sweep and several Stinger Splashes while Kyro begged for assistance, which was received when he dragged Archie Williams into the path of a bounding Evans to take the official out of the action.

Luke brought the belt in but felt it against his skull when Kez rammed it off his cranium. Tommy Lockhart returned to get Archie back into the ring only for Kyro to get a shoulder up at the very last split second. The champion managed to wriggle out of a Fireman’s Carry to land a Kyroscope, which should have done the job, but Kez got his shoulder up at 2.99 to an almighty roar in the Gallowgate.

The champion had had enough, torquing the knee further by locking in a Figure Four Leglock, after nearly two and half minutes of pain and suffering, Tommy Lockhart threw in the towel to stop the match.

One of the most diabolical showings from Luke Kyro in his reign, going from squeaking wins to being cruel and developing a killer instinct to target on weaknesses.

The mask of Kez slipped to shove Tommy for throwing in the towel, with BT Gunn trying to play peacekeeper until Kez told BT to piss off to almost kick off a scrap between them. Eventually Evans begrudgingly shook the hand of both men before making his exit.

Talk about subversion of expectations, for a third anniversary show you would be thinking it would be a big all conquering hero relieving the merciless champion of the title but instead Kez’s journey back to holding gold was stopped and it wasn’t by his own choice. We’ve seen Kez’s strong pride and temperament get the better of him before, and the fact that he requested a match with Tommy Lockhart, then was given an IGPW Championship bout, only to lose due to Tommy throwing in the towel will be sticking in his craw. That resentment will continue to bubble up, he lashed out at BT Gunn, who he is due to team with in the PWE Tag Team Championship Tournament against The Young Team, so that will be lingering in the air. There are so many layers to this outcome that I’m glued on seeing what happens next.

A fun time was had watching this, my only criticism would be that it was celebrating three years of Iron Girders Pro Wrestling but it didn’t feel like that outside of a couple mentions here and there during the show. It would have been good to have the BT Gunn UEWA European Heavyweight Championship defence on the main show but in saying that there wasn’t a match I could immediately go, aye that’s the one that could’ve been swapped out as all the matches had their place, with them all delivering a good dose of entertainment that earned those matches to be on that main card in the first place.

Same with some noticeable absences like Branagan, Martin MacAlistair (although that was due to him not being available as he put out on social media), Charlie Vyce, and Kasey being a few that come to mind.

But if my only complaint is wanting more, then that’s not a bad place to be in with Iron Girders Pro Wrestling producing quality events regularly.

The show is still currently available to replay on Twitch here, and will appear on YouTube soon.

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