Check out the action from the first round match of the ULTRATITLE Tournament!
“THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE” AUGUST JOYCE vs. JOE THE PLUMBER
The former NFW World Champion entered the ring an undefeated superstar who hadn’t been in the ring in months. Facing him, a just slightly-younger slightly-smaller veteran in August Joyce, the former MWA Millennium Champion. Before the bell rung, standing just outside the ring it looked like Joyce was sending out a final tweet to his fans on his phone… only to be interrupted by a running somersault off the apron from JTP. Both men went down in a pile, with JTP on top trying to dig out Joyce’s eye with his right hand. Joyce was able to hammer JTP in the side of the head and get free, rolling into the ring. JTP went to follow, only to find he had rolled his ankle in the landing. Barely avoiding a count-out, JTP rolled inside the ring. As he got to his feet, Joyce hit a shin breaker that dropped the former NFW Champion. Cursing so loudly that the microphones picked it up, JTP tried to get to his feet unsuccessfully, finally using the ropes to pull himself up. But Joyce was in position, snap suplexing the Plumber into the middle of the ring.
JTP tried to pull himself up by grabbing Joyce’s hair. As the referee focused on that, he nailed Joyce with a low blow that doubled over the People’s Choice. JTP dropped Joyce with a bionic elbow. As Joyce got up, Joe tried to back into the ropes and set up for a running Death Valley Driver, but his ankle gave out, delivering him perfectly into Joyce’s arms. Joyce powered JTP up over his head and then delivered him back to earth with the The Choice, this time a Canadian backbreaker piledriver.
WINNER: “THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE” AUGUST JOYCE