Winnipeg’s longest running professional wrestling promotion made worldwide headlines after the 17th Anniversary Spectacular on Saturday night.
Premier Championship Wrestling wowed a vociferous sellout crowd on the heels of a nationwide Kenny Omega publicity blitz, as the TSN documentary about his unique stardom in Japan rings aired to rave reviews.
The annual Hall of Fame induction became an unexpectedly dramatic 6 Man Tag Team battle with Omega and his cohorts confronted by the very crafty Vice-President of IMPACT Wrestling Don Callis, in a continuation of a feud that began with Callis ruining Omega’s in-ring birthday celebration last October.
The event opened with the London Brothers, with a change to My Chemical Romance attire and attitude, wildly cheered to victory against the Alberta pairing of Jack Pride and SeVen.
JL Spiker has some outside help from a new pro-USA entourage to finish off a game Dragneel before burying him under the Stars and Stripes.
Celebrating her birthday and eager to have a match, Miss Emma Blake was confronted by the German Juggernaut Moses Luke who found the diminutive dynamo a handful before flattening her to end the bout.
Hard hitting action spilled out of the ring in a tag team grudge match that pivoted on Luke doublecrossing stablemate Robbie Royce. The Old School Wreaking Crew took advantage and vanquished Royce and Anderson Tyson Moore. The win cemented Outlaw Adam Knight and Darren Dalton as top contenders for any duos title in the country.
Omega, the former New Japan Pro Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion, was accompanied by his partner in “The Experience”, Chris Stevens, to award the trophy as the crowd exploded ; both were PCW originals with inductee Donnie Dicaprio.
Upon mention by Omega of the dastardly insults and physical attack in October, the old ECW theme blasted out. Callis, straight from a Las Vegas flight after supervising IMPACT TV tapings for The Fight Network, strode out to further deride all 3 of his former students - and PCW fans in attendance - as failures.

After strategically avoiding Omega, Callis waited for an opening and unloaded a Harley Race style kneedrop to Omega’s noggin.

When Kenny turned around Callis nailed the Codebreaker, Jericho’s finishing move, and authored a shocking pinfall upset.
The rivalry is more than personal, as Callis asserts Omega made a big business mistake turning down a lucrative IMPACT contract to join All Elite Wrestling as an executive Vice President and star performer. With an AEW feature bout scheduled in Las Vegas for May 25 between Omega and Jericho, the wily Callis bragged how he had proven that Omega could be beaten if Jericho hit the Codebreaker.
In the windup match, Antonio Scorpio got past challengers Alix Vanna and Jay Walker to retain the PCW Heavyweight belt to the satisfaction of the PCW faithful.
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