Shoot Saturday II | Saturday, July 23, 2016

[RSW Wrestling]

SHOOT SATURDAY II

July 23rd | THE ARENA | SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

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MATCH 1 – HANALEI BRIGHTLY VS RAVEN MACDEMARE – STANDARD MATCH

Shoot Saturday kicks off with two rookies inside the ring. Hanalei Brightly, making her RSW debut, and Raven MacDemare, a loser three straight times, are both ready to do battle. As promised by Raven throughout the week, Lord Blake is not in attendance so by all accounts this should be a fair contest between the two women. With that in mind, Raven extends her hand in a show of sportsmanship as the bell rings. Hanalei curls her nose up in disgusts and kicks the shorter girl in the stomach. She follows it up with a quick DDT but before she can apply a chicken wing submission, Raven rolls away from her. Hanalei jerks Raven back towards her by the ankle, but Raven kicks her back. Hanalei stumbles but recovers her footing fairly easily. She grabs Raven up by the hair but is met with a mean elbow right to the stomach. Raven nails her with two more which causes Hanalei to lose her grip and Raven responds with a forearm to the Brooklyn native’s face. Hanalei blocks another forearm and manages to wrench Raven’s arm behind her back. Raven can't fight out thanks to Hanalei’s strength advantage and gets planted face first into the mat. Hanalei goes for a quick cover, but Raven kicks out.

Hanalei gets back to her feet and pulls Raven up with her. She tries to whip Raven into the ropes, but Raven is able to block. Hanalei clotheslines her instead. Unknown to both women, a figure clad in all black has creeped down to the ring. The fans are trying to point this out but no one is paying attention. Hanalei is covering Raven again but Raven is able to kick out. Hanalei slaps her hand down in frustration and points at the referee. She decides she is going to have a little conversation with the man. With the referee’s back turned, the mystery figure reaches under the ring and grabs a lead pipe. Raven is pulling herself up over in the corner and shaking out the cobwebs. Before she can go and get Hanalei, the figure slams her in the back of the head with the lead pipe and crouches down by the ring again!

Having gotten nowhere with the ref, Hanalei turns back around. When she sees Raven out cold in the corner, a look of confusion crosses her face. Refusing to overthink the situation, Hanalei pulls Raven into the middle of the ring and quickly covers her. This time she gets the three count. As the referee goes to raise her hand in victory, the mystery assailant sneaks into the ring and slams the lead pipe into Hanalei’s back. The referee suffers the same fate. The crowd is booing and the man pulls the ski mask off that has been covering his face. Jackson Kendrick raises his arms in a victory stance and the crowd hates him for it. Looking at the carnage, he goes over to Raven, his opponent for the upcoming episode of Vendetta. A sick smirk crosses his face. He scoops her up, tosses her over his shoulder, and leaves the ring.

WINNER: Winner by Pinfall – HANALEI BRIGHTLY!

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MATCH 2 - ARCHER VS ARTHUR THOMAS - STANDARD MATCH

Arthur Thomas is determined to overcome the narcolepsy that has plagued him thus far in his RSW career. He comes out of the gate on fire, trying quickly to end this one. He was quick to fire off strikes, albeit, weak ones to his opponent before dipping into his arsenal and taking the new comer down with a hard running lariat followed by a spear once he returned to his feet. Arthur was rolling now, picking up steam. He waited patiently for Archer to return to his feet and attempted a Superkick, which was avoided. Now Archer would display his striking prowess. Forearm shots, kicks, chops, completed with a hard European uppercut. Archer charged at Arthur, looking for a running variation of the uppercut, but Arthur sidesteps. Archer turns around to find Arthur Thomas…sleeping. His narcolepsy kicked in again at a very inappropriate time. Archer grew furious. He charged at his sleeping opponent, putting him down with a sickening Yakuza Kick that he calls “Malum In Se”. That would be the end of the match, the three count was academic after that.

WINNER: Winner by Pinfall – ARCHER!

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MATCH 3 - JACE O'BRIEN VS BRYCE ALRIGHT - RSW BAY AREA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

The first championship match under the Georgia and Shawn DeLise presidency of the RSW is underway and it was a back and forth affair. Bryce Albright would use his superior wrestling technique to his advantage for most of the match, using various basic holds such as the headlock, armbar, wrist lock etc etc. When not applying these, he would either try to suplex his smaller opponent, or keep him grounded. However, all of the offense didn’t belong to Albright on this night. O’Brien in fact had his own, as well, using his expert striking abilities to pin point various points on Albright’s limbs and torso to attack, weakening him over time. O’Brien would execute a few suplexes of his own, showing impressive stremgth for the smaller competitor. Back and forth the two went further, exchanging suplexes, O’Brien cutting Albright’s fluidity with well-timed strikes, but Albright using his size advantage to get the upper hand throughout all of it when he hit a powerful Oklahoma Stampede. Albright would keep the advantage for a little while after that, executing power move after power move. The turning point of the match came after Albright attempted a Release German Suplex, but O’Brien flipped and landed on his feet. When Albright returned to his feet, his jaw caught O`Brien’s boot! The Welshman hit a perfect springboard enzuigiri off of the middle rope. The impact of the kick looked like it knocked Albright out on his feet. So when O’Brien returned vertical, it was easy for him to hook his arm under Albright’s and with a fluid motion of twisting and lifting, he successfully planted Albright with “The Downfall”.

WINNER: Winner by Pinfall; and new Bay Area Champion - JACE O'BRIEN