🎟️ Next Level Pro Wrestling: Show 38 – “A New Dynasty”
Location: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY
Attendance: 17,942 (Sellout)
Theme Song: “Legendary” by Welshly Arms
🛑 Match 1: Shane Taylor & Moose vs. Braun Strowman & Christian Cage
A Segment-Heavy Opener with a Major Angle Shift
“Not every match is about wins and losses — some are about power plays, statements, and setting the tone**. And that’s exactly what this opening bout delivers.”
🎬 The Setup:
The show opens with pyro, camera pans across a rabid crowd, signs waving, chants booming — and then, the music hits:
- Shane Taylor and Moose emerge, walking side by side with focused aggression. Taylor’s eyes scan the crowd, ice cold. Moose raises his arms with swagger, unbothered, absorbing the boos like fuel.
- Christian Cage’s theme hits next. The veteran walks out slowly, confidently, arms spread like a messiah of mind games. A sly smirk rests on his face — he’s done this dance too many times to be rattled.
- Then comes the monster: Braun Strowman.
The crowd roars as Braun storms through the curtain, slapping his chest, then points at Moose. You can feel the tension — two freight trains on a collision course.
💪 The Match – Controlled Chaos
The bell rings and we’re immediately thrown into a heavyweight slugfest.
- Moose and Strowman start it off. They collide in the center like bulls. Shoulder tackle – neither budges. Another – still standing. Moose slaps Braun across the face. Braun roars, hits the ropes, and plows through Moose with a lariat that flips him over.
- Moose rolls out, stunned, as Shane Taylor tags in. He and Strowman go nose-to-nose. The crowd is on their feet as two monsters square up. They trade massive forearms like cinderblocks. Taylor rocks Braun with a headbutt, sending him into his corner.
- Christian tags in, bringing a different energy: control, calculation. He targets Taylor’s knee with stomps, low kicks, and even rakes his eyes when the ref is distracted. Cage’s experience shows — he cuts the ring in half, slowing the big man.
- But when Christian turns to taunt Moose on the apron — Taylor explodes out of the corner, catching him with a monstrous spinning side slam. Moose tags in, hits a standing dropkick (!), and Christian is reeling.
- The match builds to a crescendo — Strowman tags back in and clears house with corner avalanches, running powerslams, and a double clothesline that drops both opponents. He lets out a guttural roar and slams the mat.
Christian stirs. He sets up in the corner, stalking Shane Taylor…
🚨 Lights Flicker — Then Cut Completely.
The crowd buzzes.
Spotlights snap on across the crowd.
Through the audience, three figures storm in — fast and violent.
- Dijak — tall, lean, radiating fury, steel pipe in hand.
- Bishop Dyer — thick, explosive, dressed in tactical gear.
- Alexander Hammerstone — jacked, focused, and undeniably dangerous.
They vault the barricade and swarm the ring like hyenas.
💥 Brutal Beatdown Begins
Strowman charges, but Hammerstone catches him mid-run with a deadlift overhead belly-to-belly suplex. The ring shakes. Moose tries to fight back, but Dijak levels him with the pipe to the ribs, then cracks it across his back.
Christian tries to escape — but Bishop Dyer pulls him back in and flattens him with a pop-up powerbomb.
The ring is now a crime scene. Four men laid out. The newcomers stand tall.
🎵 Then… MJF’s Theme Hits.
The crowd erupts. Huge ovation. Everyone’s on their feet. MJF, in a sharp suit, walks out slowly from the tunnel, smirking like the devil with a secret. He holds a microphone.
But he doesn’t run in. He doesn’t help. He doesn’t look angry.
He stops at the top of the ramp, the beatdown still ongoing behind him, and… begins to applaud.
Slow. Mocking. Calculated.
🎤 MJF (on the mic):
“Ohhh, you thought I came to save the day? C’mon. Don’t insult me.”
“This… isn’t an ambush. This is a movement. A restructuring. A hostile takeover.”
“These men aren’t invaders. They’re disruptors. They’re the future… And you’re all looking at the man smart enough to lead them.”
MJF grins wider.
🔚 Final Shot:
The camera pans to the ring:
- Strowman face-down.
- Moose crawling.
- Christian Cage clutching his ribs.
- Dijak, Dyer, and Hammerstone standing tall, side by side — menacing, unshaken.
Back to the stage: MJF adjusts his tie and holds up four fingers.
Fade out.
2️⃣ Chad Gable & Creed Brothers vs Bandido & Lucha Bros
Fast-paced, hybrid technical/Lucha match
Early mat-based dominance by Gable and the Creeds, but Bandido’s freak power and the Lucha Bros’ creativity overwhelm them. Julius Creed hits a superplex to the floor, taking out everyone.
In the final stretch, Gable locks Penta in an Ankle Lock, but Fénix tags in unseen and hits a springboard double stomp + Spanish Fly combo with Bandido.
🔥 Winners: Bandido & Lucha Bros
3️⃣ Konosuke Takeshita vs Hikuleo vs Shingo Takagi vs Anthony Bowens
#1 Contender Match – United States Title
This match is high impact chaos. Shingo and Takeshita go strike-for-strike, while Hikuleo plays the towering threat. Bowens gets a huge babyface pop, rallying with fiery offense and coming inches from the win.
As Bowens tries the Arrival, Takeshita counters into a Blue Thunder Bomb, but Shingo slides in, hits Takeshita with a Pumping Bomber, and pins Hikuleo with Last of the Dragon!
🔥 Winner: Shingo Takagi – #1 Contender for the US Title
4️⃣ Eddie Kingston, Big Bill, Hook, Santana & Ortiz vs Mark Briscoe, Ishii, Orange Cassidy, Darby Allin & ???
Big 10-Man Tag – Surprise Debut
Midway through the match, it’s 5v4 — until:
🎶 “I believe in Joe Hendry…” blasts through the arena!
Joe Hendry debuts, getting a thunderous pop. He shakes hands with Cassidy and Darby.
The match is chaotic and emotional — Kingston and Briscoe tear into each other, Hook and Ishii trade suplexes, and Darby flies everywhere. Hendry catches Big Bill off a chokeslam attempt and slams him with the Standing Ovation!
🔥 Winners: Briscoe, Ishii, Cassidy, Darby & Joe Hendry
🙌 Moment: Hendry stands tall, soaking in “JOE HENDRY” chants.
5️⃣ FTR (c) vs New Day – Tag Team Titles
Classic tag team clinic.
This match delivers exactly what it promises — crisp teamwork, psychological warfare, and close calls.
New Day nearly win after a Midnight Hour, but Dax kicks out at 2.999. FTR isolate Woods and hit a shatter machine out of nowhere!
🔐 Winners: FTR – Still Tag Team Champions
🤝 Post-match handshake out of respect.
But the celebration is cut short.
🎶 MJF’s music hits again.
The New Dynasty storms the ring — MJF, Dijak, Corbin, and Hammerstone. They beat down FTR in a brutal post-match assault. Daniel Garcia runs out for the save but kicks Dax below the belt and joins the New Dynasty.
- Corbin hits End of Days on Cash.
- Garcia locks in the Dragon Tamer on Dax as MJF screams in his face.
- Dijak hits a Feast Your Eyes on Dax, bouncing his head off the tag belts.
MJF (smirking): “You’re looking at the new kings of tag team wrestling… and everything else.”
💥 FTR laid out. New Dynasty standing tall.
🥇 Trios Championship Match:
Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Jeff Cobb
vs.
The Bar (Sheamus & Cesaro) & PAC
vs.
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) & Trick Williams
Setting: The arena is electric — the energy is buzzing before the bell even rings. Three distinct trios stand in three corners of the ring, each team representing a clash of styles: brute force, speed and showmanship, and chaos incarnate.
The stakes? The vacant Trios Titles — and the chance to be crowned the first champions of a new era.
🔥 Opening Sequence – All Systems Go
The bell rings, and we’re instantly thrown into triple-threat tornado rules chaos.
- Jeff Cobb opens for his team, bulldozing through both Angelo Dawkins and Cesaro with shoulder blocks that shake the ring. Cobb then lifts Montez Ford for a delayed suplex, showing unreal strength, holding him vertical while circling the ring.
- Cesaro and Finlay exchange stiff European uppercuts in the corner, trading strikes like two men trying to knock the past out of each other.
- PAC, the self-proclaimed “Bastard,” flips in with a springboard dropkick that sends Dawkins sprawling, then nails a standing shooting star on Finlay for an early near-fall.
- Trick Williams tags himself in mid-flurry, oozing charisma. The crowd pops hard. He faces off with Juice Robinson, ducks a lariat, and catches Juice with a leaping calf kick that drops him. He kips up to massive cheers, yelling, “WHOOP DAT—” before Juice tackles him into the corner.
💥 Mid-Match Chaos – Everyone Shines
The middle of the match is a fast-paced, high-octane storm of near-falls, broken pins, and dazzling spots:
- Ford hits a plancha to the outside, wiping out PAC and Finlay in one motion. The crowd chants: “This is awesome!”
- Sheamus pulls Ford back in the ring and delivers the Beats of the Bodhrán — the crowd counts all ten, then keeps going as he slams in three more for good measure.
- Cesaro enters and hits a pop-up uppercut on Trick, followed by the swing — 12 revolutions before tossing Trick into PAC for a shotgun dropkick.
- Jeff Cobb showcases his freakish strength again by catching both Montez and Dawkins — one on each shoulder — and hitting a double Samoan drop. The crowd gasps.
⚔️ The Late-Match Breakdown – Absolute Mayhem
Everything breaks down as bodies fly everywhere.
- PAC climbs the top rope and hits a picture-perfect Black Arrow on Angelo Dawkins! It looks like the finish — but Trick Williams dives in at the last second, breaking the pin with a running boot to PAC’s head.
- PAC rolls out, clutching his ribs, as Jeff Cobb storms back in, furious. He grabs Trick and hoists him up for Tour of the Islands, but Dawkins intercepts with a huge spinebuster, shaking the ring!
- Montez Ford, ever the aerial ace, flies from the heavens — literally — with his signature “From the Heavens” frog splash onto Cobb!
- The crowd is deafening as Trick gets back to his feet, fired up, and waits behind a staggering Juice Robinson, who just rolled into the ring.
WHAM!
Trick Shot (leaping spinning kick) connects flush on Juice’s jaw!
Trick drops into the cover, eyes wide, heart pounding.
1… 2… 3!
🎉 Winners: Street Profits & Trick Williams – New Trios Champions!
Bell rings. The crowd erupts into a wall of sound. Ford, Dawkins, and Trick rise together, arms raised in triumph, the Trios Titles handed to them as confetti begins to rain down.
Trick Williams holds his championship in disbelief, tears nearly in his eyes. This is his first major title, and he earned every bit of it.
- Montez lifts Trick on his shoulders as the crowd chants: “WHOOP THAT TRICK!”
- Dawkins beats his chest, screaming “WE HERE!” as Ford dances on the ropes, holding his belt high.
- The camera pans to the aisle, where Sheamus and Cesaro look back in exhausted frustration, PAC limping behind them.
- On the other side, Juice, Finlay, and Cobb argue on the ramp, seeds of tension already being planted.
🏆 Moment of the Night:
Trick Williams — charismatic, hungry, and resilient — stands tall alongside the Street Profits. A future main event star just had his breakout moment on the biggest stage.
🔥 Instant Classic.
7️⃣ Rusev (c) vs Samoa Joe – US Title
Two bulls going to war
Joe and Rusev don’t do flips — they do bombs. Chops echo, suplexes fly. Joe locks in the Coquina Clutch late in the match, but Rusev powers out and hits a Machka Kick.
Joe counters the Accolade into a Muscle Buster, but Rusev kicks out! He follows up with two more Machka Kicks and finally cinches in the Accolade.
Joe fades.
🎯 Winner: Rusev – Still US Champion
🩸 Hard-hitting match of the night contender.
8️⃣ Jay White vs Bron Breakker
Psychological vs Physical warfare
White plays the long game, escaping Bron’s power moves and baiting him into frustration. Bron eventually explodes with a Frankensteiner, but Jay rolls outside.
Jay sneaks in a low blow behind the ref, followed by Bladerunner — but Bron kicks out! He hulks up, hits a huge spear, and finally a military press powerslam.
🔥 Winner: Bron Breakker
Jay White is furious post-match, throws a tantrum, teasing a darker turn.
9️⃣ Powerhouse Hobbs (c) vs. Gunther — 2-Out-Of-3 Falls Match for the World Championship
A Brutal War of Attrition — A Match of the Year Candidate
In what can only be described as a titanic collision between two of the most physically dominant forces in pro wrestling today, Powerhouse Hobbs and Gunther tore the house down in a 2-out-of-3 falls match for the World Championship. This wasn’t just a contest — it was a battle of will, pain tolerance, and sheer endurance.
Fall 1: Hobbs Strikes First — Sudden Impact
From the opening bell, Hobbs brought an intensity that caught even the stoic Gunther off-guard. After an early exchange of heavy blows and brute force collisions, Hobbs managed to shift the momentum with a thunderous Buckle Bomb that rattled the entire ring. As Gunther staggered out of the corner, dazed, Hobbs didn’t hesitate — he ascended to the top rope with surprising agility for a man his size and came crashing down with a massive Frog Splash, nearly driving the air out of Gunther’s lungs.
✅ Hobbs takes the first fall: 1-0
The champion stood tall, chest heaving, as the crowd erupted. He had drawn first blood.
Fall 2: Gunther’s Vicious Reprisal — Systematic Destruction
But Gunther is no stranger to pain — in fact, he thrives in it. The second fall saw “The Ring General” slow the pace, dragging Hobbs into his world of precision violence. Gunther unleashed his trademark knife-edge chops that echoed throughout the arena, each one turning Hobbs’ chest a deeper shade of crimson. Every shot seemed to chip away at the champion’s armor.
As Hobbs began to fade, Gunther cinched in a suffocating sleeper hold, wrenching back with the kind of torque that looked like it could end the match. Hobbs fought to his feet, but the damage was done. Gunther followed up with a devastating powerbomb, folding Hobbs in half, and then ascended the ropes — unusual for him — to deliver a rare and emphatic second-rope splash that sealed the fall.
✅ Gunther ties it up: 1-1
Now both men were spent, bodies battered, their tanks running low.
Final Fall: Survival Mode — Hobbs Digs Deep
By the time the third fall began, neither competitor could hide the toll the match had taken. Sweat poured, limbs hung heavy, but both dug deep into reserves of strength and heart. Gunther, sensing victory within reach, went for a third powerbomb — looking to break the champion once and for all.
But Hobbs wasn’t done yet.
Summoning every ounce of power left in his colossal frame, Hobbs exploded out of the lift, countering with a violent running spinebuster that shook the mat. With the crowd on their feet, Hobbs didn’t waste a second. In a jaw-dropping feat of strength, he deadlifted the nearly 300-pound Gunther off the mat and planted him with a Burning Hammer — his most punishing move, driven with exclamation.
📣 Winner: Powerhouse Hobbs — STILL World Champion
👑 Match of the Year Candidate
The crowd erupted as Hobbs collapsed beside his fallen challenger, the referee raising his hand in victory. This wasn’t just a title defense — it was a war, and Hobbs survived it. Both men lay motionless in the ring afterward, a testament to the carnage they endured.
This wasn’t just a match. It was a legacy moment.
🔟 ⚔️ WarGames Match – Bloodline vs. The Shield & Sami Zayn
A Battle Written in Blood, Loyalty, and Legacy
Inside the double cage, surrounded by steel and roaring fans, eight men walked into war — only four would walk out victorious. This was more than a match. It was vengeance, reunion, betrayal, and heart.
🚪 Entrant Order & Storytelling:
1. Jey Uso:
The cage door opens to thunderous anticipation. Jey enters alone, his expression unreadable. He paces the ring like a warrior general, fire in his eyes. Every step screams tension, history, and the burden of loyalty. The crowd doesn’t know whether to boo or cheer — they just watch, waiting for what’s next.
2. Sami Zayn:
The roof nearly blows off the arena as Sami charges down to a deafening ovation. No hesitation — he storms the ring, sliding under the ropes and tackling Jey with a flurry of fists. Their complicated history fuels every strike. Chants of “Sami! Sami!” echo as the underdog goes toe-to-toe with a man he once called brother.
3. Jimmy Uso:
The Bloodline gets their first advantage. Jimmy enters with a smirk, and the brothers immediately reconnect. Double superkicks. Slam after slam into the steel. The Usos isolate Sami, working him like a pack of wolves. The tide turns quickly, and Zayn is in trouble.
4. Seth Rollins:
The Visionary hits the scene, springboarding into the cage with a burst of energy. He lands a crossbody on both Usos, then unleashes a flurry of superkicks, stomps, and flashy reversals. He’s a one-man army, evening the odds and electrifying the crowd with every move.
5. Solo Sikoa:
Menace personified. Solo enters like a hitman on a mission. Every movement is calculated. He drops Seth with a devastating Samoan Spike, then turns and plants Sami with a cage-assisted uranage. He stands over the wreckage — silent, dangerous.
6. Jon Moxley:
The building erupts. Moxley storms in with a steel chair in one hand and a barbed-wire bat in the other. He swings with no mercy. Blood flows as Jimmy and Solo are busted open. The chaos reaches another level. Mox headbutts the cage, screaming with adrenaline.
7. Jacob Fatu:
An animal unleashed. Fatu sprints down, climbs to the top of the cage, and leaps — landing on a crowd of bodies below. His offense is wild, untamed. Tosses men like rag dolls, hits standing moonsaults, and even bites Moxley. The wild card has arrived.
8. Roman Reigns (c):
The arena turns cold. Roman walks slowly down the ramp, golden title draped over his shoulder, calm amidst the chaos. He stops in front of the cage, watching. Observing. Calculating. When he finally steps in, the door closes behind him.
🔔 Now… WarGames officially begins.
🔥 Match Highlights – Key Moments
- Sami & Jey have a dramatic sequence filled with reversals, stare-downs, and emotional callbacks. Old wounds flare. At one point, Jey hesitates before superkicking Sami — only for Sami to slap him, screaming, “Do it!”
- Fatu stuns the arena with a jaw-dropping coast-to-coast dropkick, flying across the ring like a cannonball into Seth, who’s pinned in the corner.
- Moxley, bleeding and grinning, wraps his barbed-wire bat around Solo’s neck and spikes him with a brutal Death Rider that leaves Solo motionless.
- Rollins ascends the top of the cage, the crowd holding their breath — and soars with a Phoenix Splash, crashing down onto Jimmy and Fatu. Unreal.
- Roman picks his spot — and destroys Seth with a Spear through a table, shattering it into splinters.
- Just when Roman raises his hand in triumph, Moxley leaps off a turnbuckle, driving a steel chair across Roman’s back. Flashbacks of betrayal from The Shield’s past burn bright.
- The Shield finally reunites. For the first time in years, Rollins, Mox, and Roman fight side by side — but only briefly. Old alliances and old betrayals collide, and the trio turns their fury on the Bloodline.
🎯 Final Sequence:
- Roman lines up another Spear — but turns, accidentally hitting Jimmy Uso! The crowd gasps.
- Seth bounces off the ropes and crushes Solo with a picture-perfect Curb Stomp.
- Mox hooks Jey, lifts, and drives him into the mat with a barbed-wire-assisted Death Rider.
- Then, the three former Shield brothers lift Jacob Fatu together.
💥 TRIPLE POWERBOMB — THROUGH A STACK OF CHAIRS.
1-2-3. It’s over.
🏆 Winners: The Shield & Sami Zayn
As the bell rings, the crowd erupts in a deafening explosion of cheers and chants.
Sami, Rollins, Moxley, and Roman stand atop the cage, bruised, bleeding — but victorious. The three former brothers extend their fists — The Shield salute, reborn. Sami joins them.
Pyro explodes. Cameras flash. The arena shakes.
