{"id":147495,"date":"2022-10-10T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=147495"},"modified":"2022-10-10T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:17:54","slug":"gcw-fight-club-2022-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/10\/10\/gcw-fight-club-2022-report\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/8 GCW FIGHT CLUB 2022 SHOW REPORT: Nick Gage vs. Jon Moxley title vs. career, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1803113163\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>GCW FIGHT CLUB 2022 SHOW REPORT<br \/>\nOCTOBER 8, 2022<br \/>\nAIRED ON FITE.TV<br \/>\nREPORT BY JUSTIN MCCLELLAND, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><em>GCW Announcers: <\/em><i>Dave Prazak, Nick Knowledge, and Emil Jay<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) SCRAMBLE MATCH: BLAKE CHRISTIAN vs GRINGO LOCO vs JIMMY LLOYD vs SHANE MERCER vs B-BOY vs LIO RUSH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rush (who entered the match late) pinned Lloyd with a frog splash at 11:55.<\/p>\n<p><em>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: This was a very fun opener. It was a bit disjointed in places without the controlled chaos of the best multi-man matches but it was fast paced and had lots of cool moves to get crowd fired up, which is what you want in an opener. I thought that Christian and Rush were the stars of the match.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) SHUN SKYWALKER vs NICK WAYNE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Skywalker pinned Wayne with the SBS (a wrist-clutch blue thunder bomb) at 10:55.<\/p>\n<p><em>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: This was a very good back and forth match. It was not the sprint I was expecting but had a super-hot finish with both guys trading falls in the last couple minutes.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) SAWYER WRECK vs ALLIE KATCH<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1340101322\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Wreck pinned Katch with a chokeslam (in theory) off the top rope through a door bridge at 8:09.<\/p>\n<p><em>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: Another good match. Wreck controlled a lot because of her height advantage and I thought they told a good story off that. Katch is great at connecting with the crowd and combining comedy and more serious wrestling. Unfortunately, the finish was botched as Wreck didn\u2019t really get Katch up for the chokeslam so it was more of a choke push, leading to a flat finish to the match.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(4) TONY DEPPEN vs YAMATO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deppen pinned Yamato with a shining wizard at 8:40.<\/p>\n<p><em>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: Disappointing match. The two started with a good intense brawl but it never moved much beyond that stage into a higher gear. The finish was also flat as Yamato took a piledriver in a very strange way, totally tucking his head to the side and then Deppen hit the knee strike for the pin.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(5) LOS MACIZOS (CICLOPE AND MIEDO EXTREMO) JOEY JANELA vs COLE RADRICK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ciclope pinned Janela with a rollup after Radrick accidentally gave his own partner a cutter at 11:30<\/p>\n<p>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: This was technically pretty bad but also entertaining in a car crash way. Miedo separated his shoulder at one point, but popped it back in (off camera) then came back and tried to do more moves, including giving Radrick a Razor\u2019s Edge which is nuts. Miedo then retreated for good. Janela called for a giant scissor lift and dropped an elbow off it and that wasn\u2019t even the finish. I guess they couldn\u2019t go home early despite Miedo\u2019s injury because of all this stuff they had planned so they had to improvise. Radrick and Janela came to blows afterwards.)<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-107364207\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>(6) JONATHAN GRESHAM vs JORDAN OLIVER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gresham pinned Oliver with the bayonet forearm at 10:00.<\/p>\n<p><em>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: This was probably technically the best match on the show. Gresham and Oliver did a great job in recapturing the crowd\u2019s interest in their technical wrestling match following the chaos in the last match. Gresham worked on Oliver\u2019s arm quite a bit and Oliver kept fighting and failing to get a Tiger Suplex, then hit one basically out of nowhere with no drama. Gresham did a unique move, catapulting Oliver into a stunner to set up the finish.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(7) DEATH MATCH: RINA YAMASHITA and DREW PARKER vs ALEX COLON and MATT TREMONT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yamashita pinned Tremont with a top rope splash through some light tubes on Tremont\u2019s stomach at 14:28.<\/p>\n<p>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: Death matches aren\u2019t really my thing, but I was kind of charmed by the stupidity on display. Even though much of the match centered around whacking each other with light tubes, at one point Rina hit her own partner with a tube to get him fired up. Both teams took a ton of abuse, mostly with light tubes. The match could have used some other weapons to break up the monotony of it all. I found this more energetic than the main event, also a death match.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(8) EFFY vs SHOTA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Effy pinned Shota with the Sack Rider at 4:40.<\/p>\n<p>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: Not much to this match. I don\u2019t know if time was cut or it was just designed to be a filler between the two death matches. Basically, it was Effy spots you can\u2019t really describe on a family website.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(9) GCW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, TITLE VS CAREER: JON MOXLEY (c) vs NICK GAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gage pinned Moxley with two piledrivers and a chokebreaker (chokeslam into a back breaker) at 21:10. Moxley was in control until W. Morrisey (accompanied by Stokely Hathaway) appeared and choke-slammed the champ, setting up the finish.<\/p>\n<p><em>(McClelland\u2019s Thoughts: This was fairly slow paced and your enjoyment will probably mostly be based around how much you like gore and\/or Nick Gage. Lots of glass breaking and forehead slicing, including the infamous pizza slicer from Gage. I think it\u2019s kind of deflating that Gage\u2019s career was only saved because of the interference of outsiders, but perhaps that was the compromise that had to happen for Moxley to do a job here.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>OVERALL THOUGHTS:<\/strong> This was a pretty fun show for most of the way but it lost momentum after the first death match and the ending was very flat to me. I think it was a huge mistake to book a second death match on a show where the main event is basically the biggest death match in the history of the promotion with the promotion\u2019s biggest \u201chome grown\u201d talent\u2019s career on the line. I don\u2019t always favor the \u201cless is more\u201d philosophy but I things like involving heavy machinery and gratuitous weapons in the middle of a card can hurt the overall flow of a show. There was some very good technical and high- flying matches on this show. GCW does a good job of providing something for everyone, but I also cannot argue if death matches, or the overall excess of ever GCW show, are a turnoff.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/10\/10\/jon-moxley-run-with-gcw-comes-to-an-end\/\">Jon Moxley run with GCW comes to an end<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3193892452\"><div id=\"pwtor-2086329972\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>GCW FIGHT CLUB 2022 SHOW REPORT OCTOBER 8, 2022 AIRED ON FITE.TV REPORT BY JUSTIN MCCLELLAND, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR GCW Announcers: Dave Prazak, Nick Knowledge, and Emil Jay (1) SCRAMBLE MATCH: BLAKE CHRISTIAN vs GRINGO LOCO <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/10\/10\/gcw-fight-club-2022-report\/\" title=\"10\/8 GCW FIGHT CLUB 2022 SHOW REPORT: Nick Gage vs. Jon Moxley title vs. career, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":147496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,539],"tags":[6814,6460,5941,5289,6249],"class_list":["post-147495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-indies-news","tag-fight-club","tag-game-changer-wrestling","tag-gcw","tag-jon-moxley","tag-nick-gage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/10\/GCW-Fight-Club-2022.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147497,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147495\/revisions\/147497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}