[ThunderVerse 2016] Evolve Pro Wrestling - Diamonds Shine

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- In the first ever title bout of EPW recent history, George Kellum became World Champion to everyone surprise, since he is an unknown in the area despite of spending 2 years on WWWE. Leroy Winters put a decent perfomance though.

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- EPW managed to steal the youngster Curtis Windham to HCG - from which they have big expectations - and he debuted well alongside Blonde Bomber, picking up a victory against two strong individual wrestlers like Mike Frobel and Ryan Strong.

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- Another shocking decision as Blonde Bomber defeated the muscular heavyweight from Hells Kitchen, Ares.

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- Jack McGraw debuted in EPW as The Icemaster and lost against the experienced Ash Caiman.

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- The veteran Jeff Russel defeated the canadian cruiserweight Fleur de Lys Jr.

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- To finish the night as a nightmare, the australian world champion George Kellum defeated Stain and was booed by the fans, but still walked out as a champion.

- Despite of the bad start for EPW, the creative team says that it is a matter of time and that new faces will debut soon. The fans can also count on 8 shows for next month. Which all will be broadcasted in the regular TV Station and definitely there will be an improvement.

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EVOLVE Pro Wrestling in New Jersey #1
1,982 in the arena, 12,200 at home broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication:Tri-State
Week 1, February 2016
#1 Ash Caiman def. Danny Stryker. RATING 49
#2 Rocky Roselli def. Porkchop Biscuit Jr. RATING 37
#3 Corbin Trent def. Leroy Winters. RATING 53
#4 Billy Starr def. Buzz. RATING 47
#5 George Kellum def. Jack America to retain the EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title. RATING 66
Overall Rating: 60

NOTES
Danny Stryker debut.
Porkchop Biscuit Jr. contract expired after losing against the debutee veteran Rocky Roselli.
Billy Starr debut.
Buzz debut.
Jack America debut.

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Week 1, February 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling in Connecticut #1
1,676 at Fifht Avenue Sports Club, Connecticut , 11,510 at home. broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication:Tri-State
#1 Kris Phoenix & The IceMaster def. Ryan Strong & Mike Frobel RATING 59
#2 Corbin Trent def. Rick E. Waters RATING 54
#3 Ash Caiman def. Stain RATING 44
#4 Leroy Winters def. Billy Ray RATING 51
#5 George Kellum def. Captain Olympia II to retain the EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title. Defense#3 RATING 46
Overall Rating: 49

NOTES
Jeff Russel contract expired and he left EVOLVE.
Rick E. Waters, Billy Ray, Captain Olympia II debut.

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Week 2, February 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling in Maryland #1 (Mid-Atlantic)
1,423 at uView Centre, Maryland, 10,740 at home. broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication:Tri-State
#1 Ash Caiman def. Garza RATING 36
#2 Ryan Strong & Mike Frobel def. Danny Stryker & Tres RATING 46
#3 Corbin Trent def. The IceMaster RATING 55
#4 George Kellum drew with Leroy Winters to retain the EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title. Defense#4 RATING 49
Overall Rating: 50

NOTES
Garza, Tres debut.
George Kellum and Leroy Winters, after a wild brawl out of the ring which led to the double count-out.

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Week 2, February 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling in Connecticut #2 (New England)
1,805 at Fifht Avenue Sports Club, Connecticut , 11,800 at home. broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication:Tri-State
#1 The Magnificient Mountie def. The IceMaster RATING 45
#2 Maddox def. Little Italy RATING 43
#3 The Shaman def. Fleur de Lys Jr. RATING 42
#4 Eddy Orion def. Soda RATING 44
Overall Rating: 43

NOTES
Eddy Orion, Soda, Maddox, Little Italy and The Magnificient Mountie debut.
The Shaman 1 night only deal.

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Week 3, February 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling in Connecticut #3 (New England)
1,803 at Fifth Avenue Sports Club, Connecticut , 11,760 at home. broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication:Tri-State
#1 Blonde Bomber def. Rick E. Waters RATING 46
#2 Winston Rollins & Buzz def. Danny Stryker & Fleur de Lys Jr RATING 47
#3 Maddox def. Garza RATING 34
Overall Rating: 38

NOTES
Winston Rollins debut.

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Week 3, February 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling in Philadelphia #1 (Tri-State)
2,000 at SuperWire Complex, Connecticut , 12,110 at home. broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication:Tri-State
#1 Eddy Orion def. Garza RATING 26
#2 Ash Caiman def. Kris Phoenix RATING 55
#3 George Kellum def. Leroy Winters to retain the EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title. Defense#5 RATING 51
Overall Rating: 49

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Week 4, February 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling in New York #1 (Tri-State)
2,000 at Paradise, New York, 12,280 at home. broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication:Tri-State
#1 Tony Castanza def. Soda RATING 26
#2 Leroy Winters & Jack America def. Ryan Strong & Mike Frobel RATING 61
#3 George Kellum def. Blonde Bomber to retain the EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title. Defense#6 RATING 34
#4 Captain Olympia II & Curtis Windham def. Winston Rollins & Buzz RATING 47
Overall Rating: 49

NOTES
Tony Castanza 1 night only deal.

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EVOLVE Pro Wrestling in Connecticut #4 (New England)
1,868 at Fifth Avenue Sports Club, Connecticut , 12,750 at home. broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication:Tri-State
#1 Ash Caiman draws The Magnificent Mountie RATING 49
#2 Ash Caiman def. Fleur de Lys Jr RATING 55
#3 The Magnificent Mountie def. Danny Stryker RATING 46
#4 Winston Rollins & Buzz def. Kris Phoenix & The Ice Master RATING 54
Overall Rating: 54

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Monday, Week 3, March 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling Big Event #1 (Tri-State)
3.000 at Generic Venue, 13,240 at home.
Broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication: Tri-State

#1 Special Appearance Bout
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Rocky Roselli def. Canadian Wildman RATING 33
A special appearence of the veteran Rocky Roselli who defeated the local wrestler, for the fans pleasure.

#2 Tag Team Bout
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Leroy Winters & Blonde Bomber def. Rick E. Waters & Danny Stryker RATING 43
Leroy Winters and Blonde Bomber joined forces to gain some momentum.

#3 EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title Bout | 2-Out-of-3-falls
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George Kellum def. Corbin Trent RATING 49
The australian champion retained the title and made the 14th defense against "The Son of Anarchy" Corbin Trent in which was a very contested bout. Kellum was more than happy to secure this win.

#4 MAIN-EVENT | Singles Bout
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Jack America def. Ash Caiman RATING 74
The EVOLVE US Tag Team Champion at the time, Ash Caiman, thought he could beat George Kellum but was defeated in a very contested bout. He wanted to get back to the title race but in order to archieve another match for the title he had to beat the Man of Moment, Jack America! Which didn't happened in what was a match to remember later on.

Overall Rating: 65

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Wednesday, Week 3, March 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling Big Event #2 (Tri-State)
3.100 at Generic Venue, 14,840 at home.
Broadcasted by Syndication: New England, Syndication: Tri-State

#1 Singles Bout
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Eddy Orion drew Death Butler RATING 39
The 23 years old young promise, Eddy Orion managed to draw against the masked 'debutant' Death Butler.

#2 Tag Team Bout
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Reckless Life (Badd News Brewer & Matt Cole) def. Flexappeal (Dom Abbatelli & Bobby Cook) RATING 33
Badd News Brewer & Matt Cole made an impressive debut by defeating the young New Zealander tag team Flexappeal.

#3 EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title Bout
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George Kellum def. Ryan Strong RATING 58
The australian champion retained the title and made the 15th defense against Ryan Strong. Ryan Strong is a wrestler still looking to find his spot on the EVOLVE and had a lot to proof on this night, but the experience of the 42-year old australian George Kellum stood out and he walks out with the belt on his waist.

#4 Singles Bout
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Keenan Nelson def. Billy Starr RATING 46
Keenan Nelson was facing his second oponnent on his EVOLVE Pro Wrestling history, after defeating impressively Kris Phoenix on his debut. In one one-sided contest Keenan Nelson grabbed another win and Billy Starr may be thinking about his contract expiry in a month time.

#4 Tag Team Bout
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Daniel Azaria & Curtis Windham drew with Ambassador's Club (Ebi Kadivar and Paul Crowley) RATING 61
- The 26-year old Daniel Azaria debuted in a great fashion for EVOLVE Pro Wrestling. He joined forces with the Winter's protegé Curtis Windham. Both of them are set for long-term sucess in wrestling and picked up and important draw against a very experienced team. Ambassador's Club have picked up mostly wins until the time being but they were showing some signs of rust in a match they should've won. Daniel Azaria's perfomance was really nice to watch.

#5 MAIN-EVENT | Tag Team Bout
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Leroy Winters & Jack America def. Winston Rollins & Buzz RATING 62
After a bad start at the EVOLVE Pro Wrestling Leroy Winters is getting some momentum back. Jack America is the biggest draw in the roster and joined forces with Winters to face Winston Rollins & Buzz a team made by EVOLVE's creative team and who is showing some great chemistry. Despite of Rollins & Buzz perfomance on the last shows and impressive wins they didn't manage to have enough fuel in the tank and Jack America got the pinfall for another victory in EVOLVE.

Overall Rating: 60

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Saturday, Week 2, May 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling Big Event #3 (Tri-State)
3.800 at Generic Venue, 37,790 at home.
Broadcasted by Syndication: Mid Atlantic, Syndication: New England, Syndication: North West, Syndication: Tri-State

#1 Singles Bout
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Mike Frobel def. Adam Steinberg RATING 61
After splitting from his tag team partner Ryan Strong in April after 3 consecutive losses of them, Frobel has been showing to be a strong singles competitor. His only loss was against his ex-partner and he also got a win over Strong and both are 1-1 after splitting. Having debuted in April Adam Massey is riding a big wave of momentum but today fought under Adam Steinberg alias a cold harsh german wrestler and did a great job putting Frobel over.

#2 Singles Bout
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Eddy Orion def. Jack Bodydrop RATING 55
Eddy Orion got an impressive win over the local veteran Jack Bodydrop.

#3 Singles Bout
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Ryan Strong def. Death Butler RATING 64
Ryan Strong is also showing to be a strong singles competitor after splitting from Mike Frobel - his ex-tag partner. Having won 6 matches as singles competitor and even joining forces with Jack America to get another tag victory. Tonight he has done his job and secured another consistent win. On the other half, the mysterious Death Butler. Who is capable of putting a decent perfomance everytime and despite all of the mysteriousity he's always being defeated by the higher ranks and grabs one victory every now and then to maintain momemtum.

#4 Singles Bout
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Curtis Windham def. Billy Hoffman RATING 47
Since the first show that the announcers of EVOLVE put Windham as the best promise in the whole American scene and it seems EVOLVE has big hopes on Owen Money's son. Tonight he faced the 37-year old experienced cruiserweight Billy Hoffman who has been involved with a rivalry with Eddy Orion putting the young wrestler over. Tonight, Hoffman had the same job and certainly passed some experience to the young wrestler who got another convincing win.

#5 Tag Team Bout | Best 2-Out-of-3-Falls
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Reckless Life (Badd News Brewer & Matt Cole) def. Daniel Azaria & JD Hogg (2:1) RATING 59
Having debuted at the Big Event #2 in March, Reckless Life have been setting a good and solid reputation in the tag team division. They set Ryan Strong & Mike Frobel apart in their last match as a team. But maybe they've found their arch-rival and main target... Daniel Azaria who is constantly beating them joining forces with Jack America and Blonde Bomber. Given the fact both of them have another matters to attend to JD Hogg was given a shot. JD Hogg debuted in March and since then is losing match after match and tonight gave away two falls to Reckless Life who got some revenge on Azaria during the match.

#6 EVOLVE United States Tag Team Title Bout
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Winston Rollins & Buzz drew Leroy Winters & Blonde Bomber to retain the EVOLVE US Tag Team Titles RATING 49
After defeating Ash Caiman / Tom Schultz for the US Tag Team titles, Winston Rollins & Buzz had to face a very strong contendership in their first defense. Leroy Winters has picked up a good momentum over the last months getting wins almost every night he shows up at EVOLVE the same can be said about Blonde Bomber and after Winters defeating Rollins & Buzz alongside Jack America in the last Big Event here in the Tri State was more than reason for the EVOLVE creative team to set up the match. The match went back and forth and both teams brawled into the back leading to a double count-out in what was a good match despite of being inconclusive.

#7 MAIN-EVENT | EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title Bout
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Jack America def. George Kellum - NEW CHAMP! RATING 71
After five months in the making finally EVOLVE gave to the fans want they wanted and now the company sets in another direction with a totally different shape under the guidance of Jack America who beat George Kellum the first and worst champion in Evolve Pro Wrestling history. He didn't manage to get the fans on his side and was defeated in 10 minutes by the dominating Jack America who has been over-perfoming in the regional-sized company. There was a prestige boost after Jack America's win and George Kellum might be even leaving EVOLVE.

Overall Rating: 68

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Tuesday, Week 4, July 2016
EVOLVE Pro Wrestling Big Event #4 (Tri-State)
4.832 at Jersey City Skyscraper, New Jersey, 92,270 at home.
Broadcasted by Syndication: Mid Atlantic, Syndication: New England, Syndication: North West, Syndication: Tri-State

#1 Tag Team Bout - Non-Title Match
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Winston Rollins & Buzz drew with Reckless Life (Badd News Brewer & Matt Cole) RATING 58
The US Tag Team title holders Winston Rollins & Buzz have reasons to wonder if they will manage to maintain the title and have been avoiding title bouts for the last month. After the third Big Event of EVOLVE history they managed to retain the title 3 times even managing to pick up a draw against Jack America. On the other half, Reckless Life who are on great, great, form. Coming to this match only with 1 loss after the last Big Event they even managed to defeat the sensational team of Daniel Azaria & Jack America. But today they lost the control and became over-agressive after the referee being knocked out. Both teams raged and exchanged chairshots leading to a double DQ finish.

#2 Singles Bout
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Mattias Taylor def. Super Azul RATING 35
In a match where both ages combined was of 38. Both competitors being 19 years old and rookies on the scene. The luchador Super Azul was defeated for the third time in a row against the promising young Mattias Taylor who remains undefeated with 3 wins in a row. Being a Guy Lothario protege he shows signs of great promise.

#3 Singles Bout
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Daniel Azaria def. Gary Woods RATING 56
Daniel Azaria has given a lot of proofs in the last 6 months defeating almost every competitor on the EVOLVE roster in singles or tag team matches but tonight he has a great challenge before him. The ex-MMA fighter and American Pride, Gary Woods. Who was one of the biggest american MMA promises but after a steroid scandal left the bussiness and joined pro wrestling. After several defeats in PWI, Woods joined EVOLVE Pro Wrestling. And despite having a good start coming to this match undefeated he didn't had enough to finish Azaria's resilience. Who overcame the intense battle and got another big win.

#4 Special Atraction | Tag Team Bout
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Derek Grace & Utamara def. El Icono & JT Rush RATING 48
This night's event also featured a different contest to amuse the crowd, with loads of flashiness and high-flying skills. All the wrestlers competed for the first time and there was a lot of expectaction around the outcome who could've been very bad. On one side Derek Grace an american young cruiserweight who wants to break into Japan and already has adopted the Japanese Junior style joined forces with the japanese junior Utamara who counts 16 years of experience and a spell on UPJ. They faced the iconic luchador El Icono who has more draw in the USA then in Mexico who joined forces with the young flashy cruiserweight J.T. Rush who is a former backyard wrestler since his 13 capable of perfoming any stunt. The match was a very good contest and Derek Grace picked up the win and won some respect from Utamara.

#5 EVOLVE United States Title Bout
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Leroy Winters def. Mike Frobel RATING 65
Leroy Winters is a self-proclaimed EVOLVE United States champion. He has been defending unoficcialy the title in the last events and defeating some big and medium EVOLVE Pro Wrestling names. EVOLVE's creative team liked the idea behind this and gave him the right to ofiacialize the title in this bout. Leroy Winters made the first oficcial defense in a contested bout in which Mike Frobel left angry another time. Frobel doesn't manage to break into the higher ranks and has been defeated in the last month by Adam Massey, Jack America, Daniel Azaria and other big names inside EVOLVE roster.

#6 Special Appearance | Tag Team Bout
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Golden Eagle & Ryan Strong def. Curtis Windham & Cpt. Olympia II RATING 66
A match where the main attraction was the veteran 44 years old Golden Eagle a star of the late-90's early-00's who debuted on EVOLVE Pro Wrestling on this night alongisde Ryan Strong. Both got a win over the young impressive wrestlers Curtis Windham & Cpt. Olympia II to set pace for the night's main-event. Golden Eagle was very happy to attend the show but many expect him to retire soon.

#7 MAIN-EVENT | EVOLVE World Heavyweight Title Bout
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Jack America def. Keenan Nelson RATING 80
The night's main-event and match of the year contender. The 18th defense since Jack America defeated George Kellum in May 2016. Since he picked up the title Jack America has been a very fighting champion headlining a majority of EVOLVE's events defeating almost every member of the roster. The title prestige is up on the roof and Jack America brings fans to the arena almost every night. But this was a very expected match-up. Was booked last month after Jack America struggling hard to defeat Keenan Nelson who is showing himself very strong since he debuted. Keenan Nelson was mis-used by WWWE, under a silly rapper gimmick after WWWE closure left for Japan and came back stronger than ever. In what was a very heated bout between two major stars, Jack America managed to connect his Freedom Slam and win the bout after 24 minutes of action.

Overall Rating: 73
Rated 6th in TOP10 best events of 2016 so far