Pure Power Wrestling champ overcomes fine for victory
Pure Power Wrestling heavyweight champion “The Tattooed Terminator” Massive Damage was handed a fine and a warning for his actions last month when he assaulted a referee but, at the end of the night, he walked away with his title intact.
PPW’s Anniversary Extravaganza VI last Saturday saw some tidal forces shifting in the Lethbridge pro wrestling scene, with new faces and new alliances surfacing to change the PPW landscape.
The night opened with PPW Commissioner Bulldog McBain and The Gothic Knight calling out Damage to deal with his actions in March when he assaulted a referee. The champ was handed a fine and warned that further attacks against PPW refs could result in him losing his title.
“From my point, I felt like I was being threatened,” Damage said. “I don’t know if (Orion) bought him off or what. I don’t understand how it’s legal you can just keep choking a guy.”
Damage said he was comfortable with the decision by management, stating it was important to teach the wrestlers and the fans that when mistakes are made, they should be owned up to.
“What PPW did was fair,” he said, adding he was worried they might decide to strip him of the title as punishment.
“They could have done that, but they didn’t. I think they see that I’m a good guy, and I do a lot of work with kids. I lost my temper and I have a lot of passion. At that point in time, I made a bad decision.”
Later, in the Main Event — a triple-threat match between Damage, The Irishman and Chris Perish — Damage was able to pin Perish to retain his title.
“I think I snuck a lucky pin in tonight,” Damage said. “Those guys are both tremendous athletes. Both have been national champions.
“I respect these guys. They are high-level athletes. However, I’m the PPW Heavyweight Champion and I think my level is just as high as those guys.”
The end of the match was marred by an attack by Edmonton grappler Shaun Martens, a friend and ally of Perish who attacked The Irishman and then attacked Damage, securing a match with the champ next month.
“Massive Damage has been holding me down for years,” Martens said. “That old man has done nothing but try to keep me away from his (PPW) championship. How long has he had it? A year? Two years? A decade? It feels like forever.
“I’ve been trying to get down here, and he’s been doing his best to make sure I couldn’t. He knows I’m going to walk away with his championship.”
The other main event saw Cyanide successfully defend his title against Travis “The Heat” Copeland. Following more interference from “The Black Heart” Vinnie Valentine, Cyanide unleashed a devastating finisher he calls “Lethal Injection” which put Copeland out of commission.
After the match, McBain decreed next month there would be a rematch, but Valentine would be dogcollared and kept from ringside by “The Chain of Command” McBain carries with him.
“Vinnie was up to Vinnie things, as usual,” said Copeland. “I didn’t do a very good job of keeping track of him throughout my match. Things happen. That’s why he’s the manager of champions.
“I’m pumped that Bulldog saw what happened, and stepped in to square it up with me next month. It’s going to be awesome. THC is gonna smoke him next month!”
In the undercard, Kato was attacked by Chris Perish and “The All-American” Steve Rivers prior to his match with “The Cheetahbear” Jude Dawkins. Dawkins picked up the win, but he was not happy about competing against an opponent who was already hurt.
It was later revealed Rivers and Perish were forming PPW’s newest tag team, “The Trump Foundation,” in order to carry on the work of Rivers to “make wrestling great again” and get rid of “illegal” wrestlers in PPW.
“I have gone through the Alberta wrestling scene,” Rivers said. “I have I have found men such as Chris Perish, and we’ve banded together because we have a bunch of illegal immigrant wrestlers stealing jobs from us hard-working wrestlers.”
In other action, Sydney Steele defeated “Big Sexy Beast” Bradley Graham, while the seven-foot monster Orion evoked shades of The Undertaker by walking the top rope and hitting “Wildchild” Tyler James with a chokeslam, allowing him to score the pinfall.
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