Things are changing in VIPW.
Two title belts changed hands at Vancouver Island Pro Wrestling’s Bathtub Weekend Bash show on Saturday at the Departure Bay Activity Centre.
Cremator Von Slasher won a fatal four-way for the VIPW championship, pinning Krofton after Scott Steel and Eli Surge had been previously eliminated from the match.
Then, in the main event, Liiza Hall defeated Nicole Matthews to win the VIPW women’s championship.
Hall kept up with the veteran Matthews with chain wrestling to start the match, and then in the end, managed to kick out of Matthews’s finisher before hitting her own for the pinfall.
Cremator’s win came after the Uprising faction attacked Krofton. Cremator beat up the Uprising with a kendo stick, then turned his attention to the weakened champ and hit a chokeslam for the win.
In other results Saturday, Riea Von Slasher defeated Cat Power via disqualification, Nathan Legacy hit a shooting star press en route to a win over Lak Siddartha, Judas Icarus and Flex Matthews beat Logan Reid and Spunk and Andy Bird beat El Haviko.
Also at Saturday’s show, Nanaimo’s B.J. Laredo showed up on crutches to address fans about trying to recover from a career-threatening knee injury. He was interrupted by the Uprising, and Zakk Merrick, a member of that faction, attempted to use a steel chair to injure Laredo further before Steel and Krofton made the save.
Laredo challenged Merrick to a match, and though VIPW wouldn’t sanction it due to Laredo’s injury, the match was scheduled for September.
“How bad do you want this unsanctioned match? Bad enough to put your career on the line?” Merrick challenged.
“It’s on,” Laredo replied.
The unsanctioned career-versus-career match will take place Sept. 23 when VIPW returns to Nanaimo’s Departure Bay Activity Centre.
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