Iron Grip Pro Wrestling – Crimson Reign (Show 35)

🌐 IRON GRIP PRO WRESTLING: SHOW 35 – “Crimson Reign”

Venue: Iron Coliseum – Chicago, IL
Attendance: 17,432 (Sold Out)
Commentary: Mauro Ranallo, Tazz, Renee Paquette
Theme Song: “Control” by Halsey x Bring Me the Horizon

🔥 PRESHOW ELIMINATION MATCH

Santos Escobar vs Alex Shelley vs Chris Sabin vs Tommaso Ciampa vs Johnny Gargano
📌 #1 Contender’s Match for the Cruiserweight Championship
📍 Winner faces Hiromu Takahashi at Iron Grip: Rising Storm

Five elite veterans collide in a high-stakes elimination bout, each chasing one goal: a shot at Hiromu Takahashi’s Cruiserweight Title.

The Motor City Machine Guns enter to a hero’s welcome. Gargano debuts FFVII-inspired gear, laser-focused. Ciampa marches out all business. Escobar, in full mariachi skull regalia, enters last—calling this his “redemption arc.”

Match Begins:

Gargano and Shelley start with crisp chain wrestling. Quick tags bring in the Guns, who isolate Johnny until Ciampa blind-tags in and unleashes chaos—vicious knee to Sabin, double draping DDT to both Guns.

❌ ELIMINATION #1: Chris Sabin – Project Ciampa seals it. Shelley stays in.

Escobar tags in, punishing Gargano with suplexes and neck-targeting offense. Shelley tries to rally but eats a Legado Bomb from Escobar.

❌ ELIMINATION #2: Alex Shelley

Down to Escobar, Ciampa, and Gargano. Chaos reigns. Slingshot spear from Johnny. Air Raid Crash from Ciampa. Escobar wipes both out with a tope con hilo.

Ciampa and Gargano briefly reunite to take out Escobar, but Ciampa turns, yelling, “You never change!” Gargano answers with a superkick and One Final Beat.

❌ ELIMINATION #3: Tommaso Ciampa

🔥 Final Phase: Gargano vs Escobar

A TakeOver-level showdown. Gargano locks in Garga-No-Escape; Escobar rolls through. Near falls, counters, emotion.

Gargano charges for Final Beat—Escobar counters, targets the knee, hits Sudden Death and a second-rope Avalanche Legado Bomb.

❌ ELIMINATION #4: Johnny Gargano

Winner: Santos Escobar

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PACKAGE**

Dark, cinematic recap:

• CM Punk’s rise to Iron Grip World Champion.
• LA Knight’s meteoric momentum.
• House of Black’s dominance.
• Hangman vs Omega’s emotional war.
• Swerve, Ospreay, and Sabre circling the main event.
• Balor’s recent alliance with Kross & Priest – “Dark Kingdom.”
• The mystery of Drew McIntyre and Kevin Owens’ rocky friendship.
  Tonight… everything changes.

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🎤 SEGMENT: Swerve, Ospreay, Sabre Jr. Collision

Swerve opens, promising to take what should’ve been his from day one: the World Title.
Will Ospreay interrupts—mocking Swerve’s “swagger without substance.”
Zack Sabre Jr. appears, calmly saying they both lack what matters—technique and IQ.
Regal appears on the tron:

“Settle it in the ring. Triple threat. Winner becomes #1 Contender to the World Title… tonight.”

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🔥 MATCH 1: Swerve Strickland vs Zack Sabre Jr. vs Will Ospreay

📌 #1 Contender’s Match – World Title

Match Highlights:

• Sabre ties Swerve in knots early with a double wrist clutch octopus.
• Ospreay lands a Sky Twister Press to both men outside.
• Swerve rallies with a rolling flatliner/DDT combo.
• Ospreay and Sabre go full “British Strong Style” slap fest.
• Sabre traps Ospreay in a grounded arm-triangle—but Swerve hits a 450 splash to break it.

Finish:
Swerve sets up House Call on Ospreay—Sabre cuts in with a PK kick to Swerve, goes for a roll-up—but Ospreay reverses into a Storm Breaker on Sabre!

Winner: Will Ospreay
➡️ Ospreay is the new #1 Contender to the Iron Grip World Championship.

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🔥 MATCH 2: The House of Black (c) vs The Young Bucks & Ricochet

📌 Trios Championship Match

Match Highlights:

• Nick Jackson and Buddy open with furious chain counters.
• Ricochet stuns Brody with a Fosbury Flop.
• Bucks double superkick Malakai into the corner.
• As Ricochet sets up for the 630—

Lights flicker. BLACKOUT.
Suddenly, Finn Balor, Damian Priest, and Karrion Kross storm the ring, attacking both teams.

Winner: No Contest
House of Black retain the Trios Titles.

Post-Match Carnage:

• Kross chokeslams Ricochet onto the steel steps.
• Priest gives Matt Jackson a razor’s edge into the barricade.
• Balor climbs the top rope and Coup de Grâce’s Nick Jackson through a table.

They call themselves: THE DARK KINGDOM.

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🔥 MATCH 3: Cody Rhodes vs Randy Orton

📌 Grudge Match — 20 Minute Time Limit

Match Highlights:

• Deep psychological storytelling. Orton targets Cody’s shoulder from the bell.
• Cody powers back with the Disaster Kick and a Cody Cutter.
• Orton hits the elevated DDT from the ropes.
• Cody attempts Cross Rhodes… COUNTERED into an RKO… but Cody kicks out at 2.99!
• Orton sets up for a Punt—

Lights go out again! DARK KINGDOM returns. They attack both men again.

Ref throws the match out.
Winner: No Contest

Post-Match: Cody and Orton finally unite, fighting off the Kingdom together.
Regal appears on the tron:

“Next week – Cody & Orton vs Dark Kingdom in a No Disqualification War!”

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🔥 MATCH 4: Adam Cole (c) vs Finn Balor vs Kazuchika Okada

📌 Intercontinental Title – Triple Threat

Match Highlights:

• Okada and Balor open with stiff forearms. Cole plays opportunist.
• Okada hits a Dropkick into Balor’s face.
• Cole superkicks both men and hits Panama Sunrise on Balor—but can’t cover.
• Balor counters Okada’s Rainmaker with 1916 DDT, Cole throws Okada out.
• Balor goes up top—

Coup de Grâce!

Winner: Finn Balor – NEW Intercontinental Champion
Balor, bloody and wild-eyed, is handed the title by Kross and Priest as The Dark Kingdom raises his arms.

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🔥 MATCH 5: Hangman Page vs Kenny Omega

📌 Best of 5 Series – Match 4 (Page leads 2-1)

Match Highlights:

• Story-driven. Heavy psychology. Hangman targets Kenny’s surgically repaired neck.
• Omega hits the V-Trigger and teases One-Winged Angel, but Page counters.
• Page hits Deadeye, but Kenny kicks out.
• Kenny fakes another V-Trigger and rolls up Page with the tights.

Winner: Kenny Omega
Series tied 2-2
➡️ Final match set: Iron Grip Show 36 – 30-Minute Iron Man Match

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🔥 MATCH 6: Kevin Owens vs Drew McIntyre

📌 Singles Match – Grudge Showcase

Match Highlights:

• Brutal strikes and chops. Crowd split.
• KO hits a cannonball into the barricade, then a swanton bomb inside.
• Drew hits White Noise from the second rope, and both men are down.
• Drew lines up for the Claymore—

EL PHANTASMO appears on the ramp, distracting Drew!

KO hits a low blow, then a vicious Stunner.

Winner: Kevin Owens

Post-Match Assault:

• KO nods to ELP, who enters the ring.
• Together, they double-team Drew, stomping and mocking him.
• ELP hits CR2. KO hits Pop-up Powerbomb through the announce table.

Crowd boos loudly

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🔥 MATCH: Bronson Reed & Kyle Fletcher (c) vs Paragon (Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly) vs Jack Perry & Sammy Guevara
📌 Iron Grip Tag Team Championship – Triple Threat
📍 No Countouts, One Fall to a Finish

🎥 Backstage Hype Video
Clips of:
• Bronson Reed and Kyle Fletcher bulldozing challengers left and right.
• Paragon’s rise—precision, strategy, and a cold, calculated mission.
• Jack Perry & Sammy Guevara, chaotic but passionate, on a hot streak.
Overlay:
“Three teams. One crown. Who rules the tag division?”

🎤 Entrances
• Jack Perry & Sammy Guevara come out first, hyped, soaking in crowd energy.
• Paragon enters second, stone-faced and intense. Kyle O’Reilly air guitars, Roddy does zero nonsense.
• Reed & Fletcher, the champions, enter last—slow, no-nonsense walk, titles raised high.

🛎️ MATCH BEGINS
🔹 Opening Chaos
• All six men brawl at once.
• Reed bulldozes Sammy into the barricade.
• Paragon isolates Jack Perry, working the shoulder.
• Fletcher nearly gets a flash pin on O’Reilly with a sit-out powerbomb—only 2.

🔥 Momentum Builds
• Sammy hits a 630 Senton to the outside on all five men!
• Jack Perry and Sammy attempt a double-team Assisted Destroyer on Fletcher—Reed breaks it up with a flying body press.
• O’Reilly puts Perry in a Guillotine Choke—broken up by Guevara with a springboard cutter!
Crowd: “This is awesome!”

⚠️ Just as the match reaches a fever pitch…
The lights dim.
A black mist pours down from the rafters.
Smoke seeps through the entrance ramp.
Music hits:
🎶 “No more heroes…”
THE DARK KINGDOM HAS ARRIVED.
• Finn Bálor hits the ramp in black gear, blood-red lighting behind him.
• Karrion Kross and Damian Priest flank him, stoic, sinister.

☠️ THE ATTACK
• Priest enters the ring first—clotheslines Fletcher into oblivion.
• Kross takes Reed and hits a Saito Suplex through the announce table.
• Bálor hits Pele Kick + shotgun dropkick to Jack Perry into the corner.
• Sammy eats a South of Heaven chokeslam on the ring apron from Priest.
• Roddy tries to escape—Bálor Coup de Grâce from the top rope onto a chair.
• Kyle O’Reilly reaches for a weapon—Kross TKO’s him onto the steel steps.

💀 Ring of Destruction
All six men are laid out. The Dark Kingdom stands over the entire tag division.
Finn Bálor grabs one of the tag belts, examines it, then throws it to the ground in disgust.
“We don’t take what’s offered. We conquer what matters.”

❌ Official Ruling: No Contest
• Referees swarm in. EMTs check on Perry and Reed.

🔥 MATCH 8: Mustafa Ali (c) vs Hiromu Takahashi vs Rey Mysterio vs Dominik Mysterio

📌 Cruiserweight Title – Fatal 4-Way

Match Highlights:

• Rey and Hiromu steal the show with fast-paced sequences.
• Dominik uses cheap tactics, eye-gouging Rey.
• Ali hits 054 on Dominik—but Rey breaks the pin!
• Hiromu hits Time Bomb II on Rey!

Winner: Hiromu Takahashi – NEW Cruiserweight Champion

Ali is stunned. Dominik throws a tantrum. Rey congratulates Hiromu, who celebrates with the belt on the ropes.

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🎤 BACKSTAGE SEGMENT

JetSpeed, Andrade, & Dragon Lee discuss fighting for pride, not politics.
The Hurt Syndicate (Lashley, Shelton, Carmelo, Cedric) walk in.

Lashley:

“You boys are fast, but we’re inevitable.”

Brawl breaks out. Match made on the spot!

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🔥 MATCH 9: The Hurt Syndicate vs JetSpeed, Andrade, & Dragon Lee

📌 8-Man Tag

Match Highlights:

• Dragon Lee & Cedric open with fireworks.
• Andrade and Carmelo square off in a sequence filled with disrespect.
• Lashley spears Andrade outside the ring.
• Jet

Speed fights hard, hitting a Phoenix Splash on Shelton.

Finish:
Carmelo hits Nothing But Net on JetSpeed. Cedric follows with a Lumbar Check.

Winners: The Hurt Syndicate

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🔥 MATCH 10: AJ Styles vs El Phantasmo

📌 Dream Match – First-Time Ever

Match Highlights:

• Technical brilliance meets chaos.
• ELP tries mind games, fakes respect.
• AJ unloads with strikes and a Phenomenal Blitz.
• ELP lands a Top Rope CR2, but AJ kicks out.

Finish:
AJ dodges the next CR2, springboards—Phenomenal Forearm for the win!

Winner: AJ Styles

Post-match: AJ offers a handshake. ELP spits in his face and retreats, smirking.

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🔥 MAIN EVENT – MATCH 11: CM Punk (c) vs LA Knight

📌 Iron Grip World Championship

Match Highlights:

• Epic crowd energy.
• Punk works Knight’s leg, grounding the high-impact offense.
• LA Knight hits a BFT early, but Punk kicks out!
• Punk grabs the ropes on a pin attempt.
• Knight mounts a comeback with a superplex and elbow drop.

Finish:
Knight goes for BFT again—Punk low blows him behind the ref’s back, rolls him up with the tights.

Winner: CM Punk (retains)

Post-Match:
Punk retreats with the title, smirking.

But then—Will Ospreay’s music hits!
He stares Punk down from the ramp.
Punk mouths “You’ll never beat me.”

Ospreay raises one finger. “One shot. One kill.”