It was time for the SotF match, which was my main interest in the show. Delirious had gotten a bye for some reason, odd considering he’d been treated as a jobber pretty much.

Delirious vs. Cabana vs. Strong vs. Black vs. Hero vs. Castagnoli wasn’t the best possible matchup, but the latter 4 were probably the 4 best guys left in the company.

Match started off slow but there was some amusing stuff. Hero and Castagnoli did a segment together and used full nelsons, each of which made Delirious yell “OH MASTERLOCK”. Later there was an extended beatdown segment on Black and Castagnoli and Hero did an awesome giant swing/basement dropkick double team.

When Black tagged out, things started to break down. Cabana and Delirious each pounded on Hero and Castagnoli in the corner, then threw them both out of the ring. Then they did the swinging dropkick through the bottom rope that I saw like 20 times on the show. After that, Black and Strong did tope con hilos onto the rest of them in an awesome spot.

Back in the ring, Hero and Castagnoli did an extended miscommunication sequence that ended with Castagnoli getting hit by a rolling elbow and Cabana backsliding him to eliminate him. Delirious immediately rolled up Cabana to eliminate him after that.

Don’t have too clear a memory of what happened after that but Strong soon eliminated Delirious via ungodly kick to the face.

Hero immediately roaring elbowed Strong after that and I thought he was gone, but he kicked out. Later Strong got hit by another one to the back of the damn head but kicked out as well. Then Black took out Hero with the God’s Last Gift.

When it came down to Black and Strong, they did everything possible. Black escaped the Stronghold, twice. He also kicked out when Strong reversed an attempt to reverse the Stronghold into his own pinning combination. He also took a ton of backbreakers, including the half nelson, the torture rack double knee backbreaker, and one on the top rope where he only avoided being pinned by rolling out of the ring.

Strong took a crossbody into the crowd, a turnbuckle powerbomb, and God’s Last Gift and kicked out.

The crowd was damn hot for all of this as there were chants of “This is awesome”, dueling chants of “Let’s go Tyler” and “Let’s go Roderick”, and finally a “This is wrestling” chant.

The match finally ended when Black powerbombed Strong into the turnbuckles and superkicked him in the face 3 times, followed by a kickout, followed by one last superkick for the pin.

I was jumping at the last couple nearfalls and my friend who was telling me he hated wrestling enjoyed the match. It was that damn good and worth the annoying drive to Indianapolis.

On the way home there was a ton of fucking fog for some reason and I got some white chocolate flavored coffee and put a lot of creamer in it FTW.

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