🛡️ Next Level Pro Wrestling: Show 36
Event Title: “Collision Course”
Tagline: Alliances Break. Dynasties Rise. The Next Level is Chaos.
Location: Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY
Crowd: 17,000 – Sold Out
🔥 Opening Video Package
A hard-hitting montage plays, featuring clips of Powerhouse Hobbs dominating as World Champion, Gunther’s rise, and the increasing tension between factions: The Switch Breakers, The Bloodline, The Shield, and others. Jay White’s voice ends the video with:
“To control the world, you must burn it down first.”
🎙️ Commentary Team
- Mauro Ranallo
- Taz
- Nigel McGuinness
Match 1: 🎭 Bandido vs Chad Gable – 2 Out of 3 Falls Match
- Fall 1: A high-paced lucha-style exchange, Bandido gets the first fall with a 21 Plex.
- Fall 2: Gable grinds Bandido down with technical mastery, wins with an Ankle Lock submission.
- Fall 3: A flurry of false finishes, Gable counters the X-Knee into a Chaos Theory German Suplex off the second rope for the win.
Winner: Chad Gable (2-1)
Match 2: 💥 Shingo Takagi vs Tomohiro Ishii vs Hikuleo vs Big Bill – Fatal 4-Way Hoss Fight
- Brutal, stiff strikes and powerful slams.
- Hikuleo and Big Bill briefly team up, only to implode.
- Shingo hits a Last of the Dragon on Hikuleo after Ishii hits Big Bill with a Brainbuster.
Winner: Shingo Takagi
Segment: 🎤 Trick Williams Promo
Trick calls out Anthony Bowens and says he’s tired of being overlooked. Bowens appears with The Gunns and jumps Trick 3-on-1.
Street Profits rush down to make the save. The crowd erupts.
➡️ 6-Man Tag Set for Later Tonight
Match 3: 🔥 The Bar & PAC (c) vs Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Jeff Cobb – Trios Titles
- PAC goes toe-to-toe with Cobb in a stunning aerial/big-man showdown.
- Switch Breakers isolate Sheamus late, but PAC hits Black Arrow on Finlay.
- Jeff Cobb breaks the pin but is taken out by Cesaro with a Neutralizer.
Winners: The Bar & PAC – STILL Champions
Match 4: 💎 FTR vs Lucha Bros vs Creed Brothers vs Orange Cassidy & Hook vs G.O.D – #1C Tag Gauntlet Match
- G.O.D eliminates the Creed Brothers with Super Powerbomb.
- Lucha Bros eliminate G.O.D with Fear Factor.
- Hook turns on Orange Cassidy mid-match with a Redrum.
- FTR clean up by eliminating both Lucha Bros and Hook after a Shatter Machine.
Winners: FTR – Earn a Future Tag Title Shot
Match 5: 💢 Rusev (c) vs Konosuke Takeshita vs Darby Allin – U.S. Title Triple Threat
- Rusev dominates early. Takeshita hits a Blue Thunder Bomb on Darby.
- Darby hits Coffin Drop on Takeshita, but Rusev launches him with a Machka Kick.
- Rusev locks in Game Over on Takeshita for the win.
Winner: Rusev – STILL U.S. Champion
Match 6: 🎤 MJF vs Shane Taylor
Before the match, MJF grabs a mic:
“I don’t fight jobbers. But I brought someone monstrous enough for you…”
➡️ Shane Taylor vs Braun Strowman (w/ MJF)
- Taylor gets tossed around but fights back hard.
- MJF interferes, but MOOSE debuts, spearing Strowman through the barricade!
- Taylor hits Welcome to the Land for the pin.
Winner: Shane Taylor
Match 7: 🔥 Eddie Kingston vs Samoa Joe
- An absolute slugfest. Joe controls early, Eddie fights through the pain.
- Joe counters the spinning backfist with a Coquina Clutch, but Eddie escapes.
- Eddie hits Backfist to the Future x2 and pins Joe clean.
Winner: Eddie Kingston
Match 8: 🥊 Trick Williams & Street Profits vs Anthony Bowens & The Gunns
- Fast-paced, flashy match.
- Bowens works Trick’s leg.
- Ford hits a 360 Splash on Austin Gunn.
- Trick returns and hits the Trick Shot for the win.
Winners: Trick Williams & Street Profits
Match 9: 🌀 Sami Zayn vs Jacob Fatu – No Holds Barred
- Wild brawl all around the arena.
- Fatu puts Sami through a table with a Samoan Splash.
- Sami fights back with chair shots and a Helluva Kick.
- Fatu superkicks Sami mid-air, then hits a Pop-Up Samoan Drop onto steel steps.
Winner: Jacob Fatu
Match 10: 🏆 New Day (c) vs Santana & Ortiz – NLPW Tag Titles
- Emotional, high-stakes match.
- Santana hits Street Sweeper but Woods breaks it up.
- Kofi hits Trouble in Paradise, followed by Limit Break Elbow by Xavier.
Winners: New Day – STILL Tag Champions
Co-Main Event: 🌍 Powerhouse Hobbs (c) vs Gunther – World Title Match
Hard-hitting, psychological chess match.
- Gunther targets the chest with chops and powerbombs.
- Hobbs refuses to stay down, lands Spinebuster and a huge World Breaker Slam.
- After a brutal 20-minute war, Hobbs just manages a second World Breaker for the win.
Winner: Powerhouse Hobbs – STILL World Champion
🚨 Post-Match Chaos
- As both men collapse from exhaustion…
- ⚡ Switch Breakers (Jay White, Juice, Finlay, Cobb, Gunns) storm the ring and ambush BOTH Hobbs & Gunther!
- Moose and Shane Taylor rush out for the save but are jumped by MJF, Braun Strowman, and FTR.
🔥 Jay White appears with a steel club, takes out Hobbs and Gunther with sickening shots.
💥 Samoa Joe runs down but gets overwhelmed by the rest of Switch Breakers.
🎤 Jay White holds up the NLPW World Title and screams:
“THIS BELONGS TO ME!”
Switch Breakers regroup.
- Juice and Finlay talk about their dominance.
- Jay White says he’s the future.
- Bron Breakker appears and says he wants the world title too.
- Jay says: “Then prove it. You and me. Next show. Winner becomes the face of Switch Breakers.”
As Bron walks off… Jay White jumps him from behind!
- Juice, Finlay, Gunns, and Cobb run in.
- Cobb hits Tour of the Islands on Bron.
- Switch Breakers leave him laying, bloodied.
The Switch Breakers stand tall on the stage with Jay White holding the World Title.
Main Event: 🔥 The Shield (Reigns, Rollins, Ambrose) vs The Usos & Solo Sikoa – Street Fight
- All hell breaks loose from the bell.
- Chairs, tables, kendo sticks.
- Blood everywhere.
- Reigns spears Jimmy through the barricade.
- Rollins Curb Stomps Jey on a chair.
- But then… Jacob Fatu, Hikuleo, and G.O.D. hit the ring!
🩸 The Bloodline expands. They take over the match.
Dean Ambrose is laid out with a Spike Piledriver from Fatu and Solo.
Rollins is superkicked into oblivion by both Usos.
Roman tries to fight, but is overwhelmed.
Winner: The Bloodline
