🏟️ Next Level Pro Wrestling: SHOW 35 – “All or Nothing Else”
📍 United Center – Chicago, IL
đź“ş Broadcast live on NLPW Network and Pay-Per-View
🎙️ Commentary: Mauro Ranallo, Nigel McGuinness, and Excalibur
🎶 Theme: “Hate to Say I Told You So” – The Hives
“Tonight, champions fall, dynasties implode, and the future of NLPW changes forever.”
🛑 Match 1: Gunther vs Jacob Fatu
“Kings of the Ring” – Heavyweight Showcase
The perfect opener. Gunther enters to a standing ovation. Jacob Fatu storms out like a man on a mission.
Match Highlights:
- Gunther dominates early with precision chops.
- Fatu showcases shocking agility with a standing moonsault.
- The pace builds into a brutal war. Gunther applies a sleeper; Fatu powers out and hits a pop-up Samoan drop.
- Fatu goes to the top rope for the Superfly Splash, but the lights go out.
SAMI ZAYN RETURNS.
Wearing a black hoodie, he slides in and nails Fatu with a steel chair across the back. Gunther looks on, confused but unfazed.
- Gunther hits a Powerbomb Symphony – TWO in a row.
- 1…2…3.
Winner: Gunther
Time: 13:04
Post-match: Zayn grabs a mic. “Fatu me and you next show in a last man standing match.”
🎯 Match 2: #1 Contenders – NLPW Trios Titles
Four-Corner Faction Frenzy
🔹 Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Jeff Cobb
🔹 Christian Cage, Braun Strowman & Daniel Garcia
🔹 Hikuleo & Guerrillas of Destiny
🔹 Orange Cassidy, Hook & Tomohiro Ishii
Match Structure:
- Tornado tag rules. First fall wins.
- Strowman and Cobb have a HOSS-OFF early. Earth-shaking shoulder blocks.
- Christian plays cowardly heel, tagging out constantly.
- Ishii absorbs ridiculous punishment from all three of GOD.
- Orange Cassidy and Hook clear house.
- Cassidy lands Orange Punch on Christian—but Finlay cracks him with the shillelagh.
- Cobb launches Garcia with Tour of the Islands.
- Final sequence: Juice hits Pulp Friction on Hikuleo, Cobb splashes him from the top.
Winners: Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Jeff Cobb
Time: 12:33
Bullet Club Gold officially becomes #1 contenders.
🌀 Match 3: Tag Team Gauntlet – #1 Contendership
🔸 Creed Brothers
🔸 Lucha Bros
🔸 FTR
🔸 Santana & Ortiz
🔸 The Gunns
Order:
- Lucha Bros vs Creed Brothers – CRAZY spotfest. Brutus hits a cannonball to the outside, and Julius lands a top rope suplex to pin Fenix.
- Creeds vs FTR – Grappling clinic. FTR wins with Shatter Machine on Brutus.
- FTR vs Santana & Ortiz – All brawl. Ortiz rolls up Cash Wheeler with tights.
- Santana & Ortiz vs The Gunns – Billy Gunn gets involved, but Ortiz fights him off.
Winners: Santana & Ortiz
Time: 17:41
They face the champs next show.
🏆 Match 4: Edge & Mark Briscoe (c) vs The New Day
NLPW World Tag Team Championships
Storyline: Briscoe wants to prove he belongs. Edge carries injuries after their latest defense.
Match Notes:
- Briscoe plays the chaotic babyface role while Edge is the technician.
- Kofi targets Edge’s ribs with precision dropkicks.
- Woods has a counter for every Briscoe move.
- Crowd is split as Edge gets isolated.
Finish:
- Edge hits Spear on Kofi.
- Briscoe tags in but walks into Lost in the Woods.
- Woods climbs and hits a Limit Break Elbow.
- 1…2…3.
Winners & NEW Tag Team Champions: The New Day
Time: 15:26
Edge and Briscoe hug. Respect shown. Briscoe mouths “I’ll be back.”
🇺🇸 Match 5: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs Shingo Takagi vs Rusev
NLPW United States Championship – Triple Threat
Match Highlights:
- Takeshita’s stamina vs Shingo’s brute strength vs Rusev’s submission game.
- Rusev hits a Thrust Kick + Game Over on Takeshita. Shingo breaks it up.
- Shingo lands Made in Japan on Rusev, near fall.
- Takeshita lands a Blue Thunder Bomb on Shingo – 2.99!
Finish:
- Takeshita goes for the V-Trigger.
- Rusev dodges, locks in Game Over on Takeshita.
- Shingo can’t make the save in time.
Winner & NEW US Champion: Rusev
Time: 16:10
Post-match: Rusev screams “I AM AMERICA NOW!”
💥 Match 6: 5-Way Scramble – #1C for US Title
🔹 Eddie Kingston
🔹 Samoa Joe
🔹 Bandido
🔹 Darby Allin
🔹 Chad Gable
Elimination Order:
- Samoa Joe chokes out Bandido (Coquina Clutch)
- Chad Gable surprises Joe with Chaos Theory – elimination!
- Gable and Kingston brawl – Eddie lands a spinning backfist
- Darby takes advantage and rolls up Eddie
Winner: Darby Allin
Time: 11:05
Darby vs Rusev at NLPW 36. Huge reaction from the crowd.
🔥 Match 7: Jon Moxley & Seth Rollins vs Jay White & Bron Breakker
Tag Team Elimination Match
Match Format:
- Traditional elimination.
Eliminations:
- Rollins pins Jay White after a Stomp at 8:30
- Moxley gets speared through a table and KO’d – eliminated at 11:12
- Rollins fights Bron alone, takes insane punishment
- He avoids the second spear and hits three consecutive stomps.
Winner: Seth Rollins (sole survivor)
Time: 16:44
Rollins helps Moxley up post-match. Mox: “I don’t trust you, but I’ll bleed with you.”
🩸 Match 8: The Usos & Solo Sikoa (c) vs The Bar & PAC
NLPW Trios Championship
Match Notes:
- The Usos work like a cohesive unit—until the ending.
- Solo Sikoa is dominant, hitting Samoan Spikes on both Cesaro and PAC.
Shocking Twist:
- As Jimmy goes for a Superkick, Roman Reigns’ music hits.
- Roman appears in a hoodie from the crowd, SPEARS JIMMY.
- Cesaro hits the Neutralizer. 1…2…3.
Winners & NEW Trios Champions: The Bar & PAC
Time: 14:55
Rusev comes out after the match and the 4 all celebrate with their new gold”
🎯 MAIN EVENT: Powerhouse Hobbs (c) vs MJF
NLPW World Heavyweight Championship
Build-Up:
MJF has weaseled his way into a title shot after months of politicking. Hobbs is the dominant, respected champion. But MJF says, “Brute force never beats brilliance.”
Match Story:
- Hobbs dominates early—throwing MJF around like a toy.
- MJF plays dirty: eye pokes, exposed turnbuckles, even rakes the eyes.
- He goes for the Dynamite Diamond Ring—ref catches him.
- Ref bump after a Hobbs powerslam.
- MJF LOW BLOWS Hobbs, hits a Heatseeker on the exposed turnbuckle.
Kickout at 2.9.
MJF is stunned. Screams “STAY DOWN!”
- He brings in the ring again. Shane Taylor appears from the crowd, teasing interference…
BUT TURNS ON MJF.
- Shane grabs the ring from MJF’s hand, shakes his head.
- Hobbs roars back, hits Spinebuster of the Gods.
1…2…3.
Winner & STILL World Champion: Powerhouse Hobbs
Time: 22:48
Post-match: Shane Taylor and Hobbs stare down. Respect nod. No handshake… yet.
