
Episode 15 of This Is VALOR kicked off with Kayleigh trying to get a word with The New Age Kliq who weren’t forthcoming with information about their fourth man. After stalking the cameraman away it was time to get into the episode hailing from The Grand Ole Opry.
The New Age Kliq (Chris Renfrew, Kavero, & Dru Marshall) defeated VALOR (Sebastian Day, Seb Silvers, Krieger, & Lou King Sharp) by pinfall.
Sebastian Day didn’t enter on his time with Seb Silvers walking out last to make up the VALOR team with a chair in hand. The New Age Kliq made their entrances separately to stretch out the anticipation of their fourth man. The crowd were split in their allegiances with The New Age Kliq continuing to garner a vocal fanbase for their chaotic actions.
As Sebastian Day didn’t arrive, Renfrew offered to make it three on three which was interrupted by the forearm of Lou King Sharp to spark a brawl. The bodies were colliding thick and fast with Silvers and Marshall going back and forth until Seb slipped on a second rope springboard attempt to halt the bout while he was being attended to.
It didn’t take long for the scrap to get back to it, the weapons and started flying with chairs and even an umbrella brought into the fold. Referee Sean Moran could only stand and watch it all happen. Krieger and Marshall fought outside and back to the ring while Kavero threw Sharp overhead for a big belly to belly suplex.
With the numbers now into the favour of The New Age Kliq, they took full advantage by isolating Lou King Sharp and taking turns to put the boots to The Blood Tourist. The initial support for The NAK started to wane as Sharp continued to survive. Krieger could only look on as the powerbomb variations came. A Finlay Roll to Irn Dru finally gave Lou the chance to tag in Scudmaster Sexy who took The NAK to task but was stopped by a Chris Renfrew Stunner.
Seb Silvers made his way back out to accept a tag from Krieger, as he squared up to Renfrew, limping, Silvers pushed him aside and superkicked Krieger, then Lou King Sharp as the fourth man was revealed. Seb swung the chair, he entered with, off the back of Krieger and finishing the job with a knee to the skull, pinning him to give the win to The New Age Kliq.
The post-match attack continued, with a chair wrapped around the arm of Krieger, Silvers landed an elbow drop to the steel while Sharp was held back to see it happen. Sean Moran tried to get involved to stop the carnage but was given a double underhook piledriver for his troubles.
When it comes to The New Age Kliq and Lou King Sharp it wasn’t going to be anything other than absolute destruction with little control and lots of plunder. The foreshadowing of Seb Silvers entering after Sebastian Day’s no-show with a chair in hand, to him deceiving Glasgow Grindhouse to use the very same chair to take them out was great as was the sympathy and support for Glasgow Grindhouse as they had to fight against the numbers growing throughout the match. It took up half the episode but that time wasn’t felt due to the continuous flow of action.
A prayer conducted by Sister Veronica for God’s Country was interrupted outside as they prepared for their upcoming Texas Deathmatch with Legends Never Die.
Nitro Green defeated Jimmy Pierce by pinfall.
Green and Pierce exchanged holds early on as neither man could get on top, the “jobby” chants for Jimmy got under his skin as he continued to mark the fans with every moment of offense.
Nitro Green dodged a splash from the top rope to get back into the match, a Blue Thunder Bomb mustered a two count with a suplex countered into a stunner to give Jimmy Pierce a very close near fall.
Pierce tried a spinning reverse DDT but was caught on the shoulders of Green, who proceeding to drop Pierce face first onto the top turnbuckle and get the three with a cutter.
It was a match, it wasn’t a bad match but didn’t have much by way of reason to occur and it felt like quick buffer to break up some of the more wild battles on the show. Jimmy Pierce tried to get some interaction going which was hit and miss with success.
Texas Deathmatch – Legends Never Die (Fulton King & Sami Sparx) defeated God’s Country (Frank of the Cross & Tim Strange) w/Sister Veronica & Stone Malone by pinfall.
Sami Sparx jumped the gun and dived to the outside to take out God’s Country before the bell as the fists were flying. The two teams went hammer and tong as a chair got brought into the fray, with some divine intervention, aka a trip up by Stone Malone, assisted Cross and Strange gaining the upper hand, which saw Tim Strange chokeslam Sami Sparx onto a laid out Fulton King.
Fulton King and Tim Strange continued fight in the ring with Sparx having to deal with Frank of the Cross and the ever present Stone Malone at ringside. Sister Veronica gifted a bag to Strange which contained a couple thousand thumbtacks. King tried to avoid the sharp terrain by putting Tim into a sleeper hold, but by jumping onto the back of Strange to hold over some leverage it gave the cowboy a chance to buckeroo himself backwards to put Fulton King into the tack spread. Strange wasn’t done, bringing out skewers to stab into the forehead of King and set him up for some rodeo time to add insult to injury.
Frank of the Cross continued to keep Sami Sparx neutralised as Tim Strange continued to have his wicked way with The Juggernaut. Cross rolled Sami in for a bit of rodeo time of his own but Fulton launched a chair to the head of Strange to bust him open. As Strange bled in the corner, Frank of the Cross tentatively made his way back into the ring but was slammed into the tack pile and put into a Boston Crab-Crossface submission combo.
Stone Malone jumped onto the apron to cause the distraction, which allowed Cross to plant Sparx with a Torture Rack Driver. God’s Country tried to bring in the cowbell bullrope of Strange but King powerbombed Cross in the centre of the ring and a Frog Splash wrapped up the match for Legends Never Die.
The image of Tim Strange’s eyes rolling back as the blood covered his face, sat in the corner propped by the bottom rope, was striking and encapsulated the madness that unfolded. It was messy but that was right for the stipulation, nobody wants pretty wrestling in a Texas Deathmatch.
Before the credits rolled, Kayleigh caught up with a dejected Lou King Sharp outside who in the process of unpacking what happened to Krieger started to get the fire reignited, talking about his friend being taken out, his business partner abandoning him, and Chris Renfrew haunting him once again, sparked a fuse. Sharp said he was going to make a few calls as the show faded to black.
An episode bookended with some heated violence. The two multiman matches offered a lot of insanity that VALOR is becoming known for. The opening and closing matches being swapped over in the edit made some of the commentary a bit odd with references made to the Texas Deathmatch clean up at the start of Pierce versus Green, and talk about The New Age Kliq versus VALOR being the main event (the latter can be hand waved as it being considered one of the main events on the show).
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