Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament (2014)
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Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament (2014) was the eighth
The tournament would be held to determine the #1 contenders for the
Production
Background
On December 23, 2013, PWG announced on its official
Storylines
It was announced that unlike the previous edition, the PWG World Tag Team Championship would not be defended in the 2014 edition. Instead, the winning team would become the #1 contenders for the World Tag Team Championship. The participants announced for the DDT4 were:
- African-American Wolves (A. R. Fox)
- Trent?)
- Kevin Steen)
- The Inner City Machine Guns (Rich Swann and Ricochet)
- PPRay (Peter Avalon and Ray Rosas)
- RockNES Monsters (Johnny Goodtime and Johnny Yuma)
- Unbreakable F'n Machines (Brian Cage and Michael Elgin)
- World's Cutest Tag Team (Candice LeRae and Joey Ryan)
- African-American Wolves (
Two non-tournament matches were also announced for DDT4. The first match set for the event was a
Event
Quarterfinals
The DDT4 kicked off with a match between
Next, Unbreakable F'N Machines (
Next,
It was followed by the last match in the quarterfinals between
After the match,
Semifinals
The semifinal round of the DDT4 began with a match between Cole Steen Cole and Best Friends. Adam Cole knocked out Chuck Taylor by backdropping him on the chairs set up outside the ring. Kevin Steen then delivered a sleeper suplex to Trent? in the ring, and then Cole Steen Cole attempted to deliver a superkick and a package piledriver combination to Trent?. But Candice LeRae distracted Cole by spitting in his face, causing Cole to chase her in retaliation. Steen was distracted, and Trent? capitalized by pinning him with a jackknife for the win.
Next, Inner City Machine Guns took on Unbreakable F'N Machines. Cage countered a standing 450° splash by Swann into a gorilla press slam into a backfist. A miscommunication then occurred and Cage accidentally delivered a
Later, the penultimate match took place. It was a
Final
In the DDT4 final, Best Friends took on Inner City Machine Guns. Chuck Taylor countered a handspring cutter attempt by Rich Swann into an Omega Driver for the win.
Reception
DDT4 received mostly positive reviews from critics.
Will Pruett of Pro Wrestling Dot Net praised the event as "an excellent night of wrestling", "with the unexpected crowning of Best Friends as DDT4 winners." He further wrote "The tag team action was all sorts of fun. The setup for Younger vs. Cole and Young Bucks vs. Best Friends (both of which I assume will happen in March) was great. The long term story of LaRae and Cole was also delightful."[5]
Jake St-Pierre of 411Mania rated the event with 8.0 score, with "great matches up and down the card". He considered it a "consistently fantastic offering" by PWG, praising all of the matches, with the exception of PPRay's match against Unbreakable F'n Machines, stating it "more inoffensive than anything."[6]
Aftermath
DDT4 would turn out to be Drake Younger's last appearance in PWG, as he signed with
Best Friends received a World Tag Team Championship opportunity against The Young Bucks as a result of winning DDT4, at Mystery Vortex II, but failed to win the titles.[9]
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times Tag team match in the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament final8:13 | |
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Tournament brackets
| First round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Best Friends | Pin | |||||||||||||
| RockNES Monsters | [11] | |||||||||||||
| Best Friends | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Cole Steen Cole | [11] | |||||||||||||
| Cole Steen Cole | Pin | |||||||||||||
| World's Cutest Tag Team | [11] | |||||||||||||
| Best Friends | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Inner City Machine Guns | [11] | |||||||||||||
| Unbreakable F'N Machines | Pin | |||||||||||||
| PPRay | [11] | |||||||||||||
| Unbreakable F'N Machines | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Inner City Machine Guns[11] | [11] | |||||||||||||
| Inner City Machine Guns | Pin | |||||||||||||
| African-American Wolves | [11] | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ "PWG Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament (DDT4) 2014". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ^ "PWG 01/31/14 DDT4 2014 Results". Pro Wrestling Ponderings. January 31, 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ a b Caldwell, James (2013-12-24). "PWG News: Entire DDT4 tag tournament field, First Round matches, non-tourney bouts announced". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
- ^ Matt Massingham (December 30, 2013). "PWG DDT4 2014 Details". Pro Wrestling Ponderings. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ Will Pruett (February 1, 2014). "Pruett's PWG DDT4 2014 Review: Annual tag team tournament feat. The Inner City Machine Guns, Kevin Steen and Adam Cole, Best Friends, and many others! Chris Hero vs. Johnny Gargano vs. Drake Younger vs. Kyle O'Reilly and more!". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ Jake St-Pierre (March 19, 2014). "Guerrilla Reviewfare: PWG DDT4 2014". 411Mania. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ Jay Cal (March 4, 2014). "Drake Younger to the WWE". SoCal Uncensored. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ Chad Simplico (March 31, 2014). "A Recap of PWG's Mystery Vortex II". SoCal Uncensored. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ Chris (March 29, 2014). "SHOW RESULTS - 3/28 PWG in Reseda, Calif.: Mystery line-up produces all titles defended, Hero vs. Ciampa, Strong, Gargano". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "PWG DDT4 2014". Cagematch. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Gee Schoon Tong, Chris (2014-02-01). "Show results - 1/31 PWG DDT4 tournament: One-night tournament features Cole, Steen, Elgin, Trent, more, plus Chris Hero in #1 contender match (w/Roe's in-person tweets)". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2014-02-01.