GEW Winter Bash

Winter Bash is Global Extreme Wrestling’s annual December pay-per-view. It is the final GEW show of the year, typically held sometime between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

=2006=
 * Sunday 24th December 2007
 * Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas, USA
 * Theme Song: Deify - Disturbed

History
On the previous edition of Friday Night Chaos, “Swift” Tony Wright – in his first night with the promotion – won a seven-man battle royale to crown the first holder of the reinstated GEW Undisputed Championship. Early on, Wright left the ring under the bottom rope. At the end of the match, Shawn Michaels threw Randy Orton over the top rope and assumed he’d won, but Wright re-entered the ring and eliminated Michaels. The three were scheduled for a triple threat match at the following pay-per-view.

Also the on the previous edition of Chaos, “The Superstar” Nathan Irwin debuted, challenging Luke Mason, Dean Heartly and X-Pac to a match of his own devising, for the GEW United States Championship. The match in question was the Journey To Hell match. The central feud, between Irwin and Mason, was continued from the time they spent together in FWA. The feud tied into the nationalist tensions in GEW at the time, as Mason, Irwin and Heartly were each vying to prove that they were the best British wrestler in the promotion (although largely uninvolved in that feud, the eventually winner could be argued to be Tony Wright, as he won the Undisputed Championship). Similarly, Edge and Petey Williams, as Team Canada, were attempting to prove their dominance over the American wrestlers. The pair were number one contenders to the GEW Tag Team Championship until the titles were vacated as a result of them being attacked. As expected, they worked together in the United States Championship elimination match until Undertaker eliminated Williams. The Undertaker had previously announced that he would leave the company if he lost the match. Following the match, neither Undertaker nor Petey Williams were seen again on GEW programming.

Triple H and K.C. McGrath’s perennial feud had taken a more personal turn over the previous weeks as McGrath started an affair with Triple H’s wife Stephanie Levesque. Prior to the public revelation, Triple H attacked McGrath in increasingly violent ways, including running him over and shooting him, and assaulting McGrath’s mother. Triple H would claim that McGrath had limitless potential but was wasting his attention on Stephanie when it should have been on wrestling, and that the attacks were lessons to teach him where his heart should be. Triple H’s increasingly dangerous actions left him generally considered unfit to run the company and Jeff Hardy was declared temporary General Manager. This left Triple H focusing all his attention on McGrath. He challenged McGrath to a 60-minute iron man match at Winter Bash under street fight rules, with the winner taking both Triple H’s GEW World Heavyweight Championship and McGrath’s GEW Extreme Chaos Championship. McGrath accepted, assaulting Triple H in the process.

At the contract signing for the match on the following edition of Friday Night Chaos, Triple H taunted McGrath until McGrath swung for him, and Triple H pulled Stephanie in front of the punch. While McGrath was distracted by checking on Stephanie, Triple H pulled his sledgehammer from beneath the signing table and hit McGrath in the back. Stephanie then realigned herself with McGrath, also hitting him with the sledgehammer.

The Event
Early on in the night, K.C. McGrath delivered an ultimatum to Stephanie: if she interfered in the main event, she would pay. He then kissed her, pushed her to the ground and walked away.

Immediately prior to the Journey To Hell match, we saw a brief clip of each competitor preparing or reflecting. Following the match, a vignette aired with Christopher Daniels and Paul E. Dangerously. Daniels announced that he was returning to GEW, and bringing the stable The Prophecy – Allison Danger, SIN and Slash – with him and that his first target was the GEW Intercontinental Championship.

This event marked Tony Wright and Klown’s GEW pay-per-view debuts, and Nathan Irwin’s in-ring GEW debut.

The Journey To Hell match held at this event is to date the only such match ever held.

Results

 * John Bradshaw Layfield def. Cuervo.
 * Layfield pinned Cuervo after a Clothesline From Hell.


 * Klown def. Myles Taylor.
 * Klown pinned Taylor after a Murder-Go-Round.

Ryan Gracie def. The Undertaker ©, Edge and Petey Williams to win the GEW United States Championship.
 * Williams and Edge pinned The Undertaker following a Canadian Destroyer from Williams.
 * Following his elimination, The Undertaker grabbed Williams in a chokehold and the lights went out. When they returned, both men had disappeared, and the match was continued as Edge vs. Gracie.
 * Gracie pinned Edge following a Halloween’s Dawn.


 * Nathan Irwin def. Luke Mason ©, Dean Heartly and X-Pac in a Journey To Hell match to win the GEW Intercontinental Championship.
 * Mason and Heartly eliminated X-Pac.
 * Irwin eliminated Heartly.
 * Irwin eliminated Mason.


 * Tony Wright def. Shawn Michaels (w/ Jay Phoenix) and Randy Orton (w/ Cowboy Bob Orton) in a triple threat cage match to retain the GEW Undisputed Championship.
 * Wright escaped the cage after several chair shots to Michaels and a chair shot and a Swiftness Stunner to Orton.
 * Wright had the steel chair specially lowered to him from above the cage.


 * GEW World Heavyweight Champion Triple H and GEW Extreme Chaos Champion K.C. McGrath fought to a no-contest in a 60-minute iron man match contested under street fight rules.
 * McGrath pinned Triple H after a Pedigree. (1-0)
 * Triple pinned McGrath after a Natural Disaster (1-1)
 * McGrath pinned Triple H after two chair shots. (2-1)
 * Triple H pinned McGrath after a low blow and high knee lift sending McGrath onto a burning barbed-wire covered board. (2-2)
 * After the time limit was reached and the score was even at 2-2, Triple H announced that the match would continue under sudden death rules, with the first fall for the Extreme Chaos Championship and the second fall for the World Heavyweight Championship.
 * Triple H pinned McGrath after a pedigree to win the Extreme Chaos Championship.
 * McGrath pinned Triple H with a schoolboy rollup to win the World Heavyweight Championship.

=2007=
 * Sunday 30th December 2007
 * TD BankNorth Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 * Theme Song: A Different Side To Me - Headspeed

History
At the previous Pay-Per-View, Collision Course, Randy Orton cashed in his GEW Undisputed Championship rematch clause after the main event in which Undisputed Champion Kameron Chase unified that title with Xavier Michaels’ GEW World Heavyweight Championship. As a result, Orton won the unified World Heavyweight Championship. Orton and Chase were also feuding over the attentions of Becky Orton, Randy’s sister and Kameron’s fiancé.

Orton had stated that previous General Manager Tracy Smothers had authorised the rematch as his final act in authority, but nobody else had any proof. Consequently replacement General Manager Jarred Carthellion authorised a rematch at Winter Bash.

The initial plan for the main event – a slaughterhouse match – was changed when Becky Orton campaigned to Carthallion for a compromise. It was changed to a ladder match. On the previous episode of Friday Night Chaos, Becky had delivered an ultimatum to Randy and Kameron learn to get along by the end of Winter Bash or she would walk out of their lives.

The Event
During the event, Velvet Grey returned, delivering a promo in which she reminded the audience that she still had a shot at the title of her choice thanks to her victory at Collision Course. She announced that she would reveal her choice during the event. It would prove to be the GEW Women’s Championship, as held by Kirsten.

Glenn Legend was also present at the event, appearing first in a vignette with Cole McGrath in which he reassured Cole that his brother Kameron was not having an affair, and later with Becky Orton in a segment in which the latter apologised to Legend for attempting to seduce him.

“Pretty” Ricky Stanton, “The Suplex Machine” Ryan Brown, Rhys Matterson and Bailey would all make their GEW debuts at this event. It also marked Tony Harrison and Troy Gafgen’s pay-per-view debuts.

Results

 * Tony Harrison def. Troy Gafgen in a hardcore match.
 * Harrison pinned Gafgen with a schoolboy rollup using the ropes for leverage.
 * During the match, Gafgen attempted to hit Harrison with a sledgehammer, but the head had been sawn off.


 * Ricky Stanton def. Nic Williams.
 * Stanton pinned Williams after a Pretty Boy Drop.


 * Ryan Brown def. GEW Women’s Champion Kirsten.
 * Brown pinned Kirsten after Velvet Grey hit Kirsten with a steel chair.
 * Kirsten rolled to the outside after a series of German suplexes by Brown. Brown attempted to follow but the referee blocked him. With the referee distracted, Grey emerged from beneath the ring and hit Kirsten in the head with a chair, then rolled her back into the ring for Brown to make the cover. Following the match, Grey performed a Tucked In on Kirsten, declaring her intention to challenge for the GEW Women’s Championship.


 * Rhys Matterson def. Phreak in a barbed wire match.
 * Matterson pinned Phreak after a low blow from Bailey and a Burning Hammer from Matterson onto a barbed-wire covered board.
 * Following the match, the video screen displayed the legend “EXTREME!” which was replaced by the words “Game Over!”
 * Phreak would congratulate Matterson, saying he had earned the veteran’s respect, but that hardcore was “still my territory.”


 * GEW World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton fought Kameron Chase to a no-contest in a ladder match.
 * Chase was about to grab the title when Triple H’s music began to play. The match ended in a no-contest when Triple H and then Jeff Hardy returned. Following a standoff, the four men allied and declared a common intention to excise hardcore match types from GEW.
 * During this declaration, guest commentator Jarred Carthallion was the victim of an RKO by Orton, a series of punches by Chase, a blow with a sledgehammer by Triple H, a Swanton Bomb by Hardy, and finally a Pedigree by Triple H.

=2008= Saturday 27th December 2007 Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA Theme Song: TBA