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From Larry Goodman:
ACTION Wrestling celebrated their 8th anniversary where it all started -- the Roger Spencer Community Center in Tyrone.
Throughout its eight years in existence, ACTION has presented wrestling as sport about as well as any indy promotion around. Wins and losses matter and referees are not made to look like incompetent fools. ACTION also embraces wild stipulation matches and outrageousness when the story fits.
Suge D is gone from ACTION Wrestling as a result of losing the fall of Tag Team Warfare. Bomaye South (Alex Kane & ACTION Tag Team Champions Top Team) defeated the Good Hand with former Good Hand member turned bitter rival Kane being the one send Suge packing.
Suge had been a part of ACTION Wrestling since 2020 and had led the Good Hand for over five years and through two title reigns.
In the best wrestling match of the night, Darian Bengsten retained the ACTION World Champion over former champion Kevin Ku. The match marked Bengsten's 15th successful title defense since winning the championship at Bangers Only 6 last December.
Dylan Hales and ACTION CEO Matt Griffin are still at each other's throats. Hales won this round. Dylan's disciple, former ACTION World Champion Tim Bosby beat Griffin's guy.
Kalshi predicts Bosby will defeat Bengsten to regain the ACTION World Champion within the next 12 months. That's only if Bosby does not get signed first.
Total attendance was 175-200. It was hot crowd if you were in the building. The crowd noise was muted in the livestream audio.
The show streamed live in IWTV with Rob Weathers and Jaden Newman on commentary.
(1) Alexander Lev defeated Father Marquis. Father Marquis is from the Michigan/Ontario area and debuted for ACTION at the Bus Barn last November. His flying was impressive (Finlay roll flowed into a moonsault especially nice) and he had the crowd behind. But Lev got his knees up on Father's frogsplash and pinned him with the hammerlock piledrver.
(2) Corinne Joy defeated Jazzy Yang in 8:52. Both women showed the versatility in their personalities. Joy was a babyface after stellar performance as a heel at TWE's . Yang had a nasty attitude. After connecting with wheelkick, she stuck her boot into Joy's throat. Builiding to the finish, Joy sent Yang into the turnbuckles with suplex.
Yang almost pinned Joy with a shining wizard but Joy went on to win with a powerbomb.
Ring announcer Scott Hensley (wearing a tux for the occasion) shared the bad news that Jameson Shook's scheduled opponent Isiah Broner could not be there due to travel issues.
Matt Sells took a trip down his ACTION memory lane, as bitter as they come and not for nothing. Sells is recovering from surgery for the knee injury he suffered at Bangers Only 6. Sells tore his bicep at ACTION. He had his head shaved in an ACTION ring. When Jaden Newman tore his ACL, he got a parade and only thanks to Sells did Newman become a tag team champion. The outlandish claims infuriated Newman, who charged into the ring from commentary to stomp on Sells.
Heel or babyface, Sells is great promo.
(3) Jamesen Shook defeated Prince Moulay in 5:27. Moulay is out of WWA4. He had a good match with Shook in his debut. Lots of jigglin' and wigglin' in the opening minute. Moulay kicked out of the death valley driver that won Shook the 2025 SCI. Moulay's tiger bomb was not enough and Shook beat him with a pumphandle driver.
(4) Darian Bengsten defeated Kevin Ku to retain the ACTION World Championship in 15 minutes. "Welcome back" chant for Ku returning to Tyrone for the first time in over three years.
Handshake at the bell. They grappled. Both men passed on an opportunity to inflict serious on their opponent. Bengston got cute with the ballin'. Ku proceeded to dissect Bengston's back. Ku's chop made Bengston crumble. His bow and arrow forced Bengston to the ropes. Bengston snapped off a DDT and both were down. Bengston hit Whisper in the Wind but the Eastlander lariat came up empty.
Ku's brainbuster onto the top turnbuckle was the move of the match. Bengston kicked out at the last split second. The lights were on but nobody was home. Bengston broke out a Mack 10 tribute to the first ACTION Champion and applied the Makabe Lock. Ku tried to fight it but had to tap.
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Great match.
(5) Grayson Pierce & Herculon Rage defeated Golden Class (Byron Young & Dallas Kage) in 9:10. Golden Class outwrested and outwitted Pierce and Rage in the early going. Rage smoked Kage about three minutes in to turn the match around. Match was something of a coming out party for Young. His hot tag offense had the crowd popping. But the power of Rage ruled. Kage was presented on a silver platter for Pierce's split legged moonsault.
(6) Tim Bosby (with Dylan Hales) defeated mystery opponent Slim J (with Matt Griffin) via submission in 13:48.
Hales a hated man. The ACTION fans will never let the former ACTION champion forget that he lost thet title by tapping out. Hales called it AI and maintained the combination of the best mind and the best wrestler in independent wrestling was unbeatable.
Griffin was in a chipper mood. His mystery opponent a) had a win over Bosby b) was an ACTION original and c) wrestled in the Landmark Arena. Out came Slim J. The man never seems to age.
Of course Hales interfered. Bosby repeatedly banged Slim's head on the mat and used his ridiculous strength to sling Slim J around. Slim took a 180 degree spin on Bosby's german suplex. Slim sparked his comeback with the 3-6 Mafia Slim knocked Bosby off his feet with missile-like shoulder blocks and applied the inverted STF. That brought Hales onto the apron. Griffin pulled his ass down. Slim miraculously survived Bosby's swinging dragon sleeper. Slim's tope drove Bosby into the second row. Bosby still made the catch and planted Slim on the apron with an F5. Slim rolled a shoulder at 2.9. Slim brought Bosby off the turnbuckles with a powerbomb and ripped his wifebeater off. Slim would have pinned Bosby with Screwdriver on the Rocks had Hales not put Bosby's foot on the ropes. Griffin and Hales got into it. Hales curled up in the fetal position. As referee Darryl Hall was dealing with Hales pitiful condition, Bosby gave Slim a low blow F5 and it was over.
For a combination of in ring and story this match packed a wallop. Huge heat
(7) Gang Warfare Streetfight: Bomaye South (Alex Kane & Terry Yaki & Jay Lucas) defeated The Good Hand (Suge D & Tyler Stevens & Kasey Owens) in 16:45. Suge D lost the fall and must leave ACTION Wrestling. Pandemonium reigned with tornado tag action. Yaki put Stevens through a table with a psychotic leap off a 10 foot ladder set up outside the ring but Stevens saved Suge's ass. Good Hand had multiple opportunities to but Suge wanted it do it his way which exasperated Stevens and Owens. In the end, Stevens had enough of Suge's heavy-handed leadership and let him have it. Kane pinned Suge with Mark of Kane. Suge D is gone from ACTION Wrestling.
Referees were Kevin Blicker , "Shiny Shoes" Aaron Noyes and the aforementioned Darryl Hall.
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