PBW fans in Airdrie will never forget the moment where Kenny Williams was 'robbed' of the PBW Championship. Saturday night saw over 500 fans turn out for our first Airdrie Town Hall show of 2014 with the PBW fans chanting William's name from the very start of the show. The PBW fans were on their feet for the main event they had all been waiting for. Airdrie's own Kenny Williams had a chance to become the youngest ever PBW Champion. For a brief moment everyone in attendance including both Williams and Thomson thought that had happened.
A fantastic back and forth match had the crowd screaming their support for Williams. As the action picked up referee Sri Hari took a knock which resulted in him being carried to the back. Seconds later referee Edward Roberts entered the ring to replace the injured Hari. Moments later Thomsons girlfriend Carmel distracted the referee allowing Thomson to grab the PBW Championship. Thomson attempted to strike Williams with the title belt only for Williams to duck out of the way, kick Thomson, grab the title and strike Thomson on the head with it. During the confusion Carmel lost referee Edward Robert's attention when turned around and rushed to make the 3 count. The place erupted with fans going crazy and rushing to the ringside barriers to celebrate Kenny Williams becoming the new PBW Champion.
The joy was to be short lived though as the orginal match referee Sri Hari had apparently witnessed the final minutes of the match from just behind the entrance. Sri Hari who is also the senior PBW official used his power and called it as he had seen it. Ring announcer Tom Aitken was instructed to make the announcement that almost started a riot when he informed the Airdrie fans that Williams victory had been thrown out and Williams had in fact lost the match via disqualification due to the use of an illegal weapon(The PBW Championship belt).
Not the happy ending everyone had hoped for but one thing cannot be taken away from Williams. Without a doubt he came closer than any other man has to ending Thomson's impressive championship run.
In other news after months of tension the relationship between TJ Rage and his now former manager Charles Boddington broke down once and for all. Once again Boddington wanted Rage to use his briefcase as a weapon after the 8 man tag had boiled down to just Wolfgang and TJ Rage. Rage refusing to use the briefcase and the words that followed between him and Boddington was enough for Wolfgang to sneak a quick pin on Rage causing his team to lose the 8 man tag team match. After the match Boddington grabbed the mic and tore into TJ and the Airdrie fans only to turn around and be speared out his shoes by a man who had finally just had enough. It will be interesting to see where both TJ Rage and Charles Boddington go from here.
Full results from the show were as follows
- PBW Tag Team Title Match - Just Uz bt Jack Jester & James Scott to retain
- Kay Lee Ray bt Carmel
- Mark Coffey bt Davey Blaze
- Wolfgang, Andy Wild, Brendan Cooper & Tommy Marx bt Saqib Ali, Drake Stone, Red Lightning & TJ Rage with Charles Boddington
- Grado bt Scott Maverick
- PBW Championship Match - Liam Thomson with Carmel bt Kenny Williams to retain
Once again we would just like to thank all our fans in Airdrie for their continued support. We are already looking forward to returning to the town hall later this year when we arrive back on Saturday 22nd November.
The good news is that the trusted David Wilson was on hand to photograph all the madness on Saturday night so we will have pictures up soon. We are also hoping to upload fan cam footage of the entire main event onto our Youtube channel later this week so keep and eye out for that folks.