Grab the Brass Ring Ladder Match with G-Raver (replacing Lio Rush), Tony Deppen, Jordan Oliver, Jimmy Lloyd, PCO, Alex Colon, and AJ Gray
GCW tends to start their PPVs with multi-man matches to get the crowd hyped, and this match did precisely that. All the competitors came out to massive pops, especially PCO, Jordan Oliver, Jimmy Lloyd (coming out a roaring “Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Fuckin’ Lloyd” chant), and Alex Colon in a sea of Puerto Rican flags. AJ Gray also received a massive pop from his recent GCW Extreme Championship win over PCO’s 1,225-day reign. As all the wrestlers delivered impressive and terrifying leaps and bounds on the ladders, PCO impressed the most, as the 54-year-old wrestler wowed the audience with a bombastic ladder doomsday device on G-Raver and Alex Colone, his flight through the ropes, and an impressive top rope moonsault. I like the story they told with PCO, this older wrestler who lost this championship he had for all these years, only to be lost by AJ Grey, and now feeling like he’s got something to prove to the younger guys. Tony Deppen and Jordan Oliver impressed with their agility on the top rope, knocking larger competitors off the ladders like Jenga blocks. The crowd belted at Oliver delivering a wild cutter to Deppen, bouncing off the top ropes to the ladder. Unfortunately, not all the ladder spots landed smoothly, as both AJ Grey and G-Raver suffered some brutal high-risk botches off the ladders. Props to them for keeping up the momentum after such serious hits. Llyod delivered his Awesome Powerbomb on G-Raver onto a ladder that I swear the audience all the way in nosebleeds could feel. We see some potential story development as Jimmy Lloyd knocks Alex Colone out of the ring, who’s subsequently attacked by John Wayne Murdock out of nowhere, motivated by their feud over the past few months.
AJ Grey took the victory to thunderous applause. Despite some messiness here and there, the high risk every wrestler put in this fight paid off. With the new GCW Extreme Champion AJ Grey now having the brass right, I’m excited to see how his story unfolds.
