Despite not winning the tournament for the NZWPW Championship, Adam Avalanche retained his coveted Title thanks to some obscure clauses in the NZWPW Rule Book last night at Double Destruction.

The first semi final match up saw IPW competitors Roger Ventura and Vinny Dunn square off for the right to battle for the Championship in the tournament final. While Lyte Playa was making his way to the ring Vinny Dunn struck him from behind and battered him against the steel ringpost. Once the action moved inside the ring, Dunn continued to be the aggressor, assaulting Playa’s back with a series of backbreakers.

Lyte Playa managed to save his back when he caught ‘The One’ off guard with a flying head scissors, and then followed up with a Stinger Splash! Dunn soon recovered though and the two IPW athletes battled to the outside of the ring again. Ventura stunned Dunn for a moment, and hit a flying side kick from the ring apron to the outside. Vinny Dunn took back control of the match with a thumb to the eye, and with the action back in the ring, took a page out of Ventura’s book and went to the sky with a huge dropkick.

Dunn attempted a second dropkick, but slipped and landed groin first on the top rope. Roger Ventura capitalised on Dunn’s misfortune with a hurricanrana, followed by a frog splash for the 2 count. Soon afterwards, Playa connected with a swanton bomb, but Dunn’s manager for the night - Paul Starr - hauled senior referee Roneel from the ring, stopping the pin fall.

Despite the interference from Starr, Ventura stayed in control of Dunn, and tied him up in a small package submission hold. With Dunn on the verge of tapping out, Starr threw his briefcase into the ring to distract the referee, and then drove his thumb into Lyta Playa’s eye. With the submission broken and Ventura’s vision impaired, Vinny Dunn brought down his opponent with the One and Only, to gain the victory and advance on in the tournament.

In the second semi final match of the evening, D-Hoya took on the NZWPW New Zealand Champion, Adam Avalanche. Before the match even began, D-Hoya was approached by former KPW superstars, the Reaver and Brother Axel of the Inquisition, who offered Hoya a spot in their stable. D-Hoya turned down their offer, and the two left irate.

Adam Avalanche then made his way to the ring, and the second semi final of the evening began. D-Hoya’s intensity dominated the match early on, with Avalanche falling victim to a liquidiser, which send the big man out of the ring. D-Hoya followed up on Adam’s dazed state, and leapt from the top turnbuckle to the outside of the ring onto the behemoth of NZWPW. The two men clambered back into the ring, and Adam Avalanche took control of the match when Hoya over balanced attempting to lift the 170kg man.

Avalanche stretched Hoya out with an excruciating chinlock, and then crushed the challenger with a huge splash. As the referee reached a 2 count, Avalanche broke his own cover, obviously wanting to punish D-Hoya some more. The strategy somewhat backfired though, as D-Hoya took control with a leg sweep. When D-Hoya attempted a K Kwon bomb to finish off Avalanche, the Champion slipped out of Hoya’s grasp and brought him down with a vicious powerbomb. Suddenly, ‘Silencer’ Jean Miracle hit the ring with a steel chair in hand, and appeared ready to strike Avalanche in retribution for when the two came to blows as tag team partners at Bringing Down the House. Silencer came up with a better plan though, when he turned and crushed Hoya with the steel, prompting a disqualification from the referee, causing Adam Avalanche to lose the match.

Later in the night, in the final match of the tournament, Vinny Dunn and D-Hoya went one on one with the NZWPW Championship on the line. D-Hoya started the match with a series of stiff blows to ‘the One’, showing his dominance over the IPW powerhouse. With Dunn beaten down on the mat, Hoya took some time to get in the face of Paul Starr on the outside of the ring. Vinny Dunn rolled to the outside of the ring and caught D-Hoya off guard with a clubbing blow to the back of the neck, and dragged him back into the ring.

In the ring, after failing to be pinned by the liquidiser, Dunn showed he could match Hoya in strength, manhandling the NZWPW wrestler with an Oklahoma Slam. Dunn soon sent the action to the outside again, when he dropkicked D-Hoya off of the ring apron. Vinny then leapt over the top rope and landed on D-Hoya with an amazing vaulting body press.

When both men made it back to their feet, D-Hoya slammed ‘the One’ into the steel ringpost, and rolled him into the ring. Dunn quickly scaled the top turnbuckle, and stung D-Hoya with a missile dropkick. With Hoya hurt, Vinny Dunn dropped him with a One and Only, but somehow D-Hoya kicked out before the 3. Dunn, obviously distressed, tried to hit the One and Only again, but D-Hoya flipped backwards and set Dunn up for an End of D-World. Dunn rolled away and tried to connect with the One and Only, but Hoya rolled through again, and this time brought ‘the One’ crashing to the canvas with a successful End of D-World! With Dunn out cold, D-Hoya threw his arm over his opponent and scored the pinfall victory, to seemingly become NZWPW New Zealand Champion!

However, D-Hoya’s celebration was short lived, when the former Champion, Adam Avalanche made his way to the stage, accompanied by the NZWPW Championship and the NZWPW Rule Book. Adam Avalanche then proceeded to inform the fans that the NZWPW Championship could not change hands in a Championship Tournament, and as such, the title would stay with the Mountain of a Man.

In a breathtaking match between two IPW competitors, Roger Ventura looked to have the advantage over Vinny Dunn, assaulting him from the air with a frog splash and a swanton bomb. When the aerial attacks couldn’t keep Dunn down, Playa tried a submission to choke out ‘the One’. However, thanks to Paul Starr’s interference, Vinny Dunn was able to avoid tapping out, and drill Ventura with the One and Only to score the victory.

In the first inter-promotional match of the evening, Nick Silver managed to score a huge victory over Link van Haggard. Link seemed to be in control of the match, outwrestling Silver, and recovering from an X-Factor dished out by the Shining One. However, when Haggard attempted a moonsault, Silver rolled out of harms way and then finished off Link with a Silver Bullet for the 3 count.

After a back and forward match, which saw Hoya and Avalanche each take their fair share of a beating, it was D-Hoya who would controversially pick up the victory when ‘Silencer’ Jean Miracle hit the ring, and assaulted him with a steel chair. This caused Adam Avalanche to lose the match via disqualification, and Silencer gained revenge for their less than successful tag team effort at Bringing Down the House.

Stirling and his team worked far better as a collective unit, and soon managed to put away their opponents. After the match was over, an irate Axel choke slammed his team mates, before Infinity hit the ring, and despite wearing a sling, managed to take out Axel and help fellow Generation Next export PsykoBoy to the back.

Fans were treated to a spectacular match between two of IPW’s best when Joey Kinkade took on the IPW Champion. Joey Kinkade made the match personal, when he attempted to make Deluxeo kiss his ass. Double D saved himself from such a fate with an atomic drop, and the clotheslined Kinkade to the outside. When the two brawled back into the ring, Joey attempted a DVD, but Davey slipped out of the way and dropped Kinkade on the back of his neck with a half nelson suplex. With Kinkade’s neck softened up, Deluxeo finished off his rival with his patented Goth Killa, for a successful pin fall.

Sparx and Anarchy managed to isolate C.D. in the early stages of the match, beating him down and preventing him making a tag. C.D. finally made a tag to Chrome, but the referee didn’t see it, so C.D. was beaten down again by Sparx and Anarchy. When C.D. finally managed to make the tag to Chrome, Anarchy and Sparx fell victim to a series of suplexes, before Chrome finally hit Anarchy with a V8. C.D. quickly hit the spear tackle on Sparx, to stop him breaking up the pin fall, and Chrome and C.D. won the match.

The match started off with a series of tagging in and out by both teams, with neither sure who they wanted to face off against. Eventually DreamCatcher and Joey Kinkade started off the match. When Jason Burns was tagged in, Joey Kinkade was the first eliminated when he tapped out to an armbar. DreamCatcher was next eliminated when ‘Handsome’ Danny Jacobs pinned the bizarre one with his feet illegally on the ropes. Jason Burns was next eliminated, when Silencer pinned him following a Screwdriver Remix. The match boiled down to Miracle vs. Knox, after IPW’s most Handsome competitor tapped out to a Fort Knox. Dal Knox couldn’t wait to get his hands on Miracle, and the two put on an amazing display. Silencer attempted to put the Deal away with a two Screwdriver Remixes, but Knox held onto the ropes on the second attempt, causing Miracle to slam the back of his head into the mat. Knox capitalised and took Miracle down with a Surf Highway, and followed up with the Knox Out. Unlike at the NZPWI Invitational, Silencer could fake no injuries, as he was out cold for Dal Knox to pin and win the match as the sole survivor for Fort Knox.

• NZWPW Championship Tournament Grand Final
  D-Hoya def. ‘The One’ Vinny Dunn

After a spectacular match, Vinny Dunn caught D-Hoya with the One and Only, but failed to keep the NZWPW veteran down for the 3. Hoya got back up and the two attempted to hit their finishers on each other, rolling out of the way and reversing grapples. In the end, D-Hoya put an end to Vinny Dunn’s dreams of NZWPW gold when he brought the IPW wrestler down with an End of D-World for the victory.