🎟️ Iron Grip Pro Wrestling: Show 30 – “Full Control”
Live from a sold-out United Center in Chicago, IL – 20,800 fans in attendance. Fire, betrayal, and gold – tonight, destinies are rewritten.
🕘 Pre-Show Highlights
- Video package running down the night’s card.
- Hurt Syndicate are seen arriving together, calm and collected, gold glinting.
- Swerve Strickland cryptically says: “Control… isn’t taken. It’s earned. And tonight, I keep mine.”
🔥 MAIN CARD 🔥
1. Adam Cole vs Damian Priest – Street Fight
Story:
Cole has been pushed to his limits after weeks of mind games from Priest, who attacked Cole’s reDRagon allies. Now, with steel chairs, kendo sticks, and vendettas, they settle it in a street fight.
Match Highlights:
- Brutal kendo stick duel.
- Cole Panama Sunrise onto a chair.
- Priest hits Razor’s Edge through a table on the outside.
- Cole wraps a chain around his knee and hits a Last Shot for the win.
Winner: Adam Cole
2. Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly vs Motor City Machine Guns vs War Raiders
Best of 5 Series – Match 4 (Series 1-2-1)
Story:
With Paragon down in the series, they must tie things up. High stakes and stiffer elbows.
Match Highlights:
- Kyle O’Reilly submits Shelley with a guillotine, only to be crushed by Ivar’s top rope splash.
- Roddy catches Sabin with a high-angle backbreaker to set up End of Heartache.
Winner: Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly
Series (3-1-1) – win the series
3. Rey Mysterio vs Ricochet – 30-Minute Iron Man Match
Story:
Mutual respect, but both want to prove who the true aerial icon is. Fast-paced, high-risk, technical wizardry.
Fall Breakdown:
- Ricochet 1-0 (Shooting Star Press – 6:45)
- Rey 1-1 (619 + Springboard Splash – 11:00)
- Ricochet 2-1 (Recoil – 18:00)
- Rey 2-2 (Victory Roll – 25:30)
- Ricochet goes for 630 – misses!
- Rey rolls him up at 29:59!
Final Score: 3-2
Winner: Rey Mysterio
4. Malakai Black vs LA Knight – #1 Contender Tournament Final
Story:
The darkness of Malakai vs the swaggering defiance of LA Knight. Winner gets a future world title shot.
Match Highlights:
- LA Knight refuses to back down from Black’s strikes.
- Malakai hits a spinning back heel, but Knight gets a rope break.
- Knight hits BFT, but Buddy Matthews distracts referee!
- Black spits black mist and hits Black Mass.
Winner: Malakai Black
Malakai earns a World Title shot at Show 32.
5. ELP (c) vs Kazuchika Okada – Intercontinental Championship
Story:
ELP has stolen his way to the title with arrogance. Okada wants to bring prestige back.
Match Highlights:
- Rainmaker attempt reversed into a low blow.
- ELP walks the ropes into a hurricanrana, then hits CR2.
- Okada kicks out and snaps – Dropkick → Tombstone → Rainmaker x2.
Winner & NEW Intercontinental Champion: Kazuchika Okada
Post-Match: ELP throws a tantrum. Okada just holds up the belt and leaves stoically.
6. Trios Title Match
Hurt Syndicate (Lashley, Benjamin, Cedric) (c) vs Wardlow, Jack Perry, & Sammy Guevara
Story:
Wardlow recruited old rivals Perry & Guevara to unite against a common enemy. But unity is fragile.
Match Highlights:
- Jack Perry shows new aggression.
- Cedric takes a crazy dive from Guevara.
- Wardlow powerbombs Lashley… then Perry tags himself in.
- Sammy and Jack refuse to help when Cedric counters Perry into a Lumbar Check.
Winner & STILL Trios Champions: Hurt Syndicate
Post-Match Shocker:
Sammy and Jack brutally turn on Wardlow. Chair shots, double team DDT onto the ramp. They scream, “We’re done carrying you!” as the crowd boos loudly.
7. Tag Team Championship – 5-Way Elimination Match
Brody King & Buddy Matthews (c) vs DIY vs Bronson Reed & Kyle Fletcher vs Speedball & Kevin Knight vs Young Bucks
Eliminations:
- Speedball & Kevin Knight eliminated by Young Bucks (BTE Trigger – 7:20)
- Bronson & Fletcher eliminated by Brody King (Gonzo Bomb to Fletcher – 11:45)
- Young Bucks eliminated by DIY (Meet in the Middle – 17:30)
- DIY vs House of Black turns into a war – chairs, exposed turnbuckles, and near falls.
Finish: Malakai Black appears and spits mist in Gargano’s face, allowing Buddy to hit Murphy’s Law.
Winners & STILL Tag Champions: Brody King & Buddy Matthews (House of Black)
8. Money in the Bank Ladder Match
Zack Sabre Jr. vs Drew McIntyre vs Randy Orton vs AJ Styles vs Mustafa Ali vs Andrade vs Santos Escobar
Match Highlights:
- Drew hits a Claymore mid-air on Santos as he leaps off the ladder.
- Randy RKO’s Andrade from the top rope.
- ZSJ ties AJ in the ladder with a submission!
- Mustafa Ali nearly wins – crowd on fire – but Orton shoves ladder and he crashes into a table.
Winner of the MITB Briefcase: Randy Orton
Orton smirks at the camera as the briefcase dangles in his hand.
9. No Holds Barred Tag Match
Hangman Page & Kevin Owens vs Kenny Omega & Finn Balor
Story:
Bullet Club fallout. Betrayals, blood feuds, and high emotion. No rules. Just carnage.
Match Highlights:
- Trash cans, tables, chairs – total chaos.
- Owens cannonballs Balor through a barricade.
- Omega hits V-Trigger → One Winged Angel on Page, but he kicks out!
- Page drinks a beer from the crowd, grabs a barbed wire chair.
- Buckshot Lariat to Omega THROUGH a table.
Winners: Hangman Page & Kevin Owens
Post-Match: They shake hands and hug – bloody but victorious.
10. MAIN EVENT – WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Swerve Strickland (c) vs CM Punk vs Will Ospreay vs Cody Rhodes
Story:
Swerve’s title reign has been dominant, but now he faces 3 former world champions in his biggest test yet. Ospreay is white-hot. Punk is home in Chicago. Cody wants to finish his story… again.
Match Highlights:
- Ospreay and Swerve do a ridiculous fast-paced exchange.
- Cody hits Punk with Cross Rhodes, but Swerve breaks it up.
- Punk nearly wins after GTS on Swerve – crowd EXPLODES – but Hurt Syndicate pulls ref out.
- Cody is furious, goes after Lashley on the outside.
- Ospreay hits Hidden Blade on Punk – but Cedric distracts.
- Swerve low blows Ospreay, hits House Call on Punk.
Winner & STILL World Champion: Swerve Strickland
Post-Match Chaos:
- Hurt Syndicate hold Swerve on their shoulders.
- CM Punk limps away disgusted.
- Cody stares down Swerve from the ramp.
- Orton’s music hits – he appears on the stage with the MITB briefcase but… just smiles and walks back.
Bonus Stinger:
As the show fades…
Wardlow is interviewed backstage.
Suddenly, Jack Perry and Sammy Guevara attack again. Jack yells:
“We’re done being your backup. We’re the future. You’re the past.”
They throw him through a glass window.
🌟 Final Thoughts:
Title Changes:
- Kazuchika Okada becomes IC Champion
- Randy Orton wins Money in the Bank
Major Turns:
- Jack Perry & Sammy Guevara turn heel on Wardlow
- Hurt Syndicate fully align with Swerve – forming “The Strickland Syndicate”
Setups for Future:
- Orton lurking with the briefcase.
- Malakai Black vs Swerve confirmed for Show 32.
- Wardlow vs Sammy & Jack in the works.
