Carmelo Hayes vs. Apollo Crews (Two-Out-Of-Three-Falls Match)

The two men start out grappling, going back and forth to feel each other out, but Carmelo Hayes then nails a couple of slaps with Apollo Crews replying with one of his own. Crews then catches Hayes and looks to slingshot him to the corner but he jumps up to the ropes and then leaps back only for Crews to catch him with a dropkick in mid-air as he follows it by slamming Hayes onto the turnbuckles. 

Hayes then hits the turnbuckles and damages his ribs with Crews following up on that by dropping him to his knee ribs-first. Hayes tries to change things up with a springboard but he gets caught into a German suplex. On the outside Trick Williams stands in the way but it doesn’t work as Crews steps aside when Hayes dives out at him, and then drops him before moonsaulting from the ring apron to land on him outside. 

Crews dives over the ropes to land on Hayes’ ribs back in the ring and follows with a delayed standing suplex, which gets a near fall, but Hayes then gets some offense in after throwing Crews over the top rope and pulling him back down to hang him up on the top rope. Back in the ring, he drops him on the top rope again, but he isn’t able to get the first fall. Hayes talks trash but then eats two German suplexes before a big backdrop from Crews. 

Crews picks up the pace with some strikes and clotheslines before hitting a big splash into the corner, but Hayes responds with an elbow strike. However, as he tries to leap into the ring Crews hits an enziguri as he then powers Hayes up from the apron and nails a superplex! Despite his dominance, Hayes turns things around with a cutter, and he immediately sets in a Crossface and which leads to Crews tapping. 

Carmelo Hayes 1-0 Apollo Crews

Hayes immediately continues the aggression, slamming Crews’ neck into the top rope as he keeps focusing on that area, but Crews fires back with a trio of German suplexes and then a standing shooting star, but Hayes kicks out. However, Hayes manages to hit the Fade Away, but Crews keeps the match alive by kicking out, they then head to the turnbuckles but both spill to the floor as they just break the 10 count. 

Back inside the ring, Crews hits a knee to the jaw as he then throws him up to his shoulders as he slams him back down. Williams then takes off the top turnbuckle pad, but inside the ring, Crews unloads on him and then fires Hayes into the exposed turnbuckle. Williams tries to get involved with a chair, but Crews’ former bodyguard Commander Azeez returns and pulls him down. However, Hayes launches in to take him down with an elbow strike as he then hits Nothing But Net.

Winner: Carmelo Hayes (2-0)

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