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Feb 23 2002, Plainfield, CT Genesis The next non-tournament match was a "Double Jeopardy" match for the vacant PWF Northeast Jr. Heavyweight Title. Two matches going on simultaneously in one ring at one time. The first two matches were KL Murphy facing Tim Kilgore and Johnny Curtis battling "Broadway" Kenn Phoenix. Kilgore and Phoenix have had history as stable-mates and tried to help each other from the get-go. After a flurry of high flying moves, Phoenix went to hit Murphy with a pair of brass knuckles and accidentally hit Kilgore, who Murphy pinned to win his match. A minute later, Phoenix rolled up Curtis to pin him. Kilgore came back to rindside as Murphy and Phoenix fought. KL reversed a Phoenix move attempt into his finisher, "Murphy's Law" (moonsaulting reverse DDT). After the match, Phoenix attacked the new champion. Kilgore came in and prepared to hit Murphy with the brass knucks from earlier, instead nailing Phoenix purposely. He helped up Murphy (who he has had numerous heated matches with in the past) and shook his hand, giving the new champ the title belt in respect. KL Murphy is the first PWF Northeast Jr. Heavyweight Champion. 30 March 2002, Bristol, RI After intermission, Tim Kilgore debuted a much more Goth look and received a great applause from the crowd. His opponent, Killer Kowalski protege "Broadway" Kenn Phoenix, also debuted a new look complete with yellow feather boas and a yellow robe. The crowd gave him the exact opposite reaction as Kilgore. The two traded off, with Kilgore demonstrating his great high flying abilities, with quebradas, forward sentons, and more. Phoenix overpowered Kilgore catching a high cross bodypress, and spiking him into the buckles. Kilgore managed to reverse a powerbomb attempt into a victory roll position, then hit a reverse pedigree on Phoenix for the win. The crowd was very happy to see Kilgore defeat "Broadway". 28th April 2002, Plainfield, CT Turbulence In a tag team match to determine who would get a shot at PWF Mid-south Junior Heavyweight Champion Loco at “Convergence”, Tim Kilgore teamed with “Dancing Devil” Damian Houston to face “Broadway” Kenn Phoenix and Chi Chi Cruz. Both Houston and Phoenix Championship Wrestling’s Cruz were making their PWF Northeast debuts. The man to score the pinfall would find himself with the title shot next month. Kilgore took the brunt of the match, getting beat down by Phoenix and Cruz. When he was finally able to tag Houston, Damian came in and cleaned house. Somehow, “Broadway” was able to cut off Houston and throw him to the outside. Chi Chi charged at Kilgore, only to be back dropped over the top rope onto Damian Houston. From there, Kilgore hit a quick twisting sunset flip out of the corner on Phoenix to win the match and a title shot at PWF Mid-south’s Loco at Convergence. 15 June 2002, Smithfield, RI Convergence Originally the next match was to be a “Double Jeopardy” for the PWF Northeast Junior Heavyweight Title. Two weeks before the show, Northeast officials signed PWF’s Quiet Storm as a surprise contender for the match. Last week, Quiet Storm ran the gauntlet through nine other Juniors to win the Universal Junior Heavyweight Title. The “Double Jeopardy” was instead challenging for his PWF title rather than the Northeast strap. The pairings for the match were Northeast Jr. Champ KL Murphy and “Extreme” Adam Hastey facing each other while Quiet Storm would battle “Broadway” Kenn Phoenix. Hastey found himself at the losing end of “Murphy’s Law” (reverse moonsault DDT), while Phoenix was victim to the dreaded “Storm Cradle Driver”. The Universal champ and the Northeast champ then fought each other for another five minutes until Quiet Storm hit a modified Guerrero-Special into a neck breaker for the win. 23 August 2002, Plainfield, CT Mutiny Johnny Curtis came to the ring very upset and grabbed the microphone. He talked about being looked over. He talked about hitting transportation problems for the last event and getting there in time to see someone else, Chris Camero, taking his place in a match with Kyle Storm for the #1 Contendership. He then stated the he was the Premier athlete in PWF and only one man was talented enough to stand by his side. That brought our Curtis' new partner, "Broadway" Kenn Phoenix. Their opponents would be another debuting team, Sudden Impact (Kid Mikazi & Chris Camero). Both teams tried to prove their worthiness for a shot at the PWF NE Tag Titles currently held by Fusion. Curtis/Phoenix got the eventual win when "Premier Player" Johnny Curtis hit a top rope leg drop on Camero. 28 September 2002, Woonsocket, RI Animosity The next match would be a return tag team match between Sudden Impact members Camero/Mikaze and "Broadway" Kenn Phoenix/"Premier Player" Johnny Curtis. The winners of this match would get a PWF Northeast tag title match in October at NWA Wildside in Georgia. All four men showed that they were equally versed wrestling or flying. It appeared that Sudden Impact would take the win, when Mikaze hit an impressive top rope maneuver on Phoenix. While the referee was distracted, Curtis nailed Mikazi with a foreign object and rolled Phoenix on top of him for the win. 2 November 2002, Plainfield, CT Treachery The next match was a bizarre one at best. The PWF Northeast Tag Team Titles would be on the line as 1/2 of the Tag Champions "Broadway" Kenn Phoenix would face members of Fuzion in a Gauntlet match. If both members of Fuzion won their matches, they would regain the tag team titles. Here's where it gets strange. Due to Mike Paiva not being able to make the event, his match would be wrestled by Fuzion's manager Mercedes. She had suffered a neck injury weeks before when Johnny Curtis hit her with an Aerial Crash, but seemed to have been in little to no pain. Kenn Phoenix was announced to the ring, only to be led by his new manager, "Talented" Dean Ripley, now calling the Tag Champs "The Talent Exchange." We can only assume that the other wrestler Ripley has signed to manage would be the other Tag Champ "Premier Player" Johnny Curtis. The first match would be Phoenix facing Blade. The match was a great high-flying technical display. After numerous pin attempts, Blade was able to pin Phoenix with a small package. As Phoenix started to get to his feet, Mercedes ran in and hit an amazing head scissors into a DDT. It looked like there would be new Tag Champs, but Phoenix kicked out just before 3. Mercedes attempted another head scissors, but the referee got in the way and was knocked down. "Broadway" grabbed the young woman and hit her with an Aerial Crash of his own. Dean Ripley climbed into the ring, and Blade tried to come in to stop him. Blade ducked Ripley's boot shot and hit Ripley with a suplex. Blade got up and was hit with the boot by Phoenix. Phoenix then got the ref up and pinned Mercedes to retain the titles. After the match, the referees came out and carried Mercedes to the back, as her neck seemed to be reinjured. 15 November 2002, Woonsocket, RI Vindication “Talented” Dean Ripley came out with his tag team champions The Talent Exchange (Johnny Curtis/Kenn Phoenix) thinking it would be an easy night for defending the title, but they were mistaken. Mike Paiva of Fuzion came out with the injured Blade and Mercedes. The team signaled to the back and Thriloogy’s music hit. Kid Mikaze ran from the back and stated he would be Paiva’s partner. They proved to be a cohesive team including hitting Phoenix with Fuzion’s own Double Moonsault Japanese Armdrag. It looked like the champions would hold onto their titles when Curtis hit his Aerial Crash from the top rope and covered Paiva, however Pavia kicked out at 2, just in time for Mikaze to hit his Shinobi press. Both Paiva and Mikaze placed an arm on Curtis to win the Tag Team titles. After the win, Mike Paiva asked for the mic and thanked Mikaze for stepping into the match for Blade. He then asked him to hand the tag title to Blade. Mikaze answered him and stated that if it weren’t for him, they wouldn’t even be champions, and they should relinquish the title to Chris Camero. At that time, The Talent Exchange rebounded and hit all competitors with the belts. During the carnage, Ripley got on the mic screaming about respect and how they had signed to wrestle Fuzion, not Paiva and Mikaze. He also ranted that they were still champions because possession is 9/10ths of the law. The Talent Exchange left Fuzion and Thrillogy lying in the ring. |
