Tuesday's stream was short affair due to my illness, but I think it was to the show's advantage. The four fights were all above AI match standards, and another match of the year candidate may have been born. Let's go piece by piece and break down what happened.
First up was Jacob Drummond and Trevor Warren fighting for that last guaranteed spot at September 29th's main event elimination chamber match. Although people were expecting Jacob to win, the ending of the match was one of the highlights of the month. After Thomas bent over to look down at a beaten up Jacob, he talked some shit and then proceeded to climb to the top rope for an elbow drop. Jacob then uppercut The Beast out of the goddamn air. Talk shit, get hit. 1-2-3. This means if Trevor wants to get into tonight's main event, he's going to have to defeat Geoffrey "TG" McCullough. TG lost his qualifying match to Ken Nakano a couple of streams ago, and it was probably the strongest we've seem him yet. I don't see TG winning, though.
Next up was Jake Rapture fighting Maximilian Wolf. Winner of this match would go on to fight Tyler T-Man in a #1 contender's match for the US Championship of America. This was another excellent match with the momentum swinging back and forth quite rapidly, but in the end it was Maximilian who grabbed Rapture out of the air into a Maximum Impact for the win. After Maximilian was not able to beat Laine Whitaker for a rematch contract last week, he's been bound and determined to make his way back up and win his opportunity to beat the ever-loving shit out of Thomas Warren. If we wants that title back, he's going to have to get though his last obstacle: Tyler T-Man.
The Provincial Alliance fought against The Hardcore Union for the #2 spot in the Doubles rankings. Probably the weakest match of the night, but it was still a good tag match. It does not help how we've been numbed to how good Doubles matches have been recently, but the most important thing to note about this match is that the Union went over clean. That's very uncharacteristic of them.
The final match was between John Polak and Johnny Talladega for the Canadian title. This match was almost on par with Maximilian Wolf vs Thomas Warren earlier this month. There was also some storytelling in the match! I didn't even know the AI could pull that off.
To explain the lead up to this match, Jacob Drummond (John's tag team partner) has been worried about Polak's performance in the ring as of late, following his mediocre performance at the September 10th tournament. Jacob then threatened that if John does not shape up and win the Canadian title he was in the race for, he'd end the partnership of one of the most iconic tag-teams in the FLPW. Things got even more serious after Jacob and John lost their titles to V-Nation after John was hit by an assisted Koog Boot. On top of that, most people picked Talladega to retain the title. You could see how much John wanted to not lose this title match. Nothing could pin him, he never gave up, and he fought like a champion. It ended after John hit his wrist-lock hurricanrana for the win after over 25 minutes of fighting. It was a great match.
Tonight is going to be a little insane. Every single match on the card is a #1 contender's match, which means that next Monday every title in the FLPW will be on the line. Watch tonight at 9:00pmEST to witness the first ever FLPW elimination chamber match, and to see who's fighting who for what!
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