Pure Rules Match for the ROH World Championship: Jonathan Gresham (c) vs. AJ Gray
Gresham and Gray lock up and exchange holds. The match reaches the next level, and Gray connects on a moonsault. Gray drills Gresham with closed fists and gets a warning for violating the Pure Rules. Gresham rallies and takes contro. He dives onto Gray outside the ring. “The Octopus” rocks Gray with a flurry of offense and several elbows. Gray nearly gets the win with a stiff lariat. He continues to overpower the champion. In the end, Gresham gains the upper hand, locks in the Octopus hold and drills Gray with more elbows until the referee is forced to call for the bell.
Winner and still ROH World Champion: Jonathan Gresham
And still…#GCWBlood pic.twitter.com/qlD4olce9L
— PWPonderings (@pwponderings) December 18, 2021
Blake Christian vs. Alex Zayne
Christian and Zayne trade fast-paced offense early on. Zayne takes control with some high-flying offense, including a running spinning splash. He chops Christian in the corner, but Christian rolls through a hurricanrana attempt and gets a two count. “All Heart” dives onto “The Sauce” outside the ring. The two men fight into the crowd. Christian runs off the wall and launches off the barricade with a moonsault. Zayne sends Christian flying with a hurricanrana off the top. Christian drops Zayne with a clothesline and hits a split-legged moonsault for a two count.
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Zayne catches Christian with a shotgun dropkick. “The Sauce” hits the Crunchwrap Supreme (flipping-double knees) for a two count. Zayne blocks a springboard 450 splash. The two competitors trade blows, and Christian nails Zayne with a rolling elbow to the back of the head for the win.
Winner: Blake Christian
After the bout, Christian thanks Zayne and calls him his brother. He tries to cut a promo, but the mic cuts out. He perseveres and says he came back to be the best. He issues an open challenge and dares anyone to walk through his “door.” Christian challenges Gresham to a match for the ROH World Championship at GCW “The Wrld On GCW.”
Jacob Fatu vs. Matthew Justice
Match 7: Mathew Justice vs Fatu @Casshooole @BodyslamNet @ProRoundtable #GCWBlood pic.twitter.com/RLNxk5lJt7
— Byron Cuellar (@Cuellar_CCK) December 18, 2021
Juicy Finau accompanies Fatu to the ring, but the latter brings some chairs out to even the odds. He dives onto Fatu at ringside and uses the chair on him early on. The two men brawl, and Fatu takes control after Justice controls the opening minutes. Justice Spears Fatu through a door. They fight into the crowd, and Justice takes Finau down. Justice Spears Fatu off the apron and sends him crashing through a door. He hits a splash, but Finau plants Justice with a Samoan drop at ringside. Finau helps Fatu gain the upper hand, as they smash him with chunks of a door. The injuried Starboy Charlie, on crutches, and his mom are at ringside Starboy’s mom slaps Fatu, and the two powerhouses carry Charlie into the ring.
Fatu attacks members of the security team, and other officials try to keep Mama Starboy out of the ring. Justice chases Fatu to the back while Starboy’s mom and medical officials on him in the ring. Fatu and Finau attack Charlie right in front of his mom. Finau holds Mama Starboy in place, and Fatu splashes the wounded Charlie. Mama Starboy cries over her son’s body, and the two powerhouses play to the crowd. Starboy gets helped to the back.
No Ropes Barbed Wire Match: Atticus Cogar vs. Jordan Oliver
Nick Wayne accompanies Oliver to the ring, and the latter has his eye heavily taped. The broadcast team calls him the “one-eyed man.” The two men quickly start fighting and trying to use the barbed wire on each other. Oliver suplexes Cogar and dives over the ropes to take his foe down. The one-eyed warrior plants Cogar with a Pedigree onto some chairs at ringside. They continue to brawl at ringside. Back in the ring, Cogar sends Oliver into the barbed wire and gouges his bad eye. Cogar grinds Oliver’s mouth and his eye in the barbed wire. He shoves one of his skewers into Oliver’s mouth and stabs his eye and his forehead with it.
Cogar grinds a chair covered in barbed wire across Oliver’s chest and jabs him with a skewer. Oliver rallies and sends Cogar into the barbed wire a few times. Both men go crashing through a door covered in barbed wire with a cutter by Oliver at ringside. Oliver cuts Cogar’s forehead with barbed wire and bunches his open wound. The two men continue to punish each other. Cogar is bleeding profusely, but he takes control. Oliver rallies and gets a two count with a powerbomb. He suplexes Cogar throigh a flaming door and hits a Tombstone for a two count. Oliver slams Cogar onto his head for another two count. Cogar drops Oliver wirh an Air Raid Crash through a pane of glass.
.@Atticus_Cogar with an air raid crash through a pane of glass!#GCWBlood @GCWrestling_
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In the end, Cogar slams Oliver onto a chair covered in barbed wire with the Brain Hemorage for the win.
Winner: Atticus Cogar