GCW Life Goes On Results (5/1/22): Joey Janela, Alex Zayne And More

Scramble Match for the GCW Extreme Championship: Marcus Mathers vs. Axton Ray vs. Drago Kid vs. Gringo Loco vs. Cole Radrick vs. AJ Gray (c)

Gray overpowers Radrick early on and takes out his legs with a chop block. He drops Radrick with a flapjack. Axton Ray enters the bout and dumps Gray to the ground with a powerslam. Drago Kid takes Gringo Loco down with a headscissors and hits a tornado DDT on Ray. He takes Loco down with a hurricanrana. Mathers hits a diving crossbody and kicks Loco. Bodies start flying as Radrick and Mathers dive out of the ring. Kid sends Loco into Ray with a hurricanrana. He dives onto a group of competitors outside the ring. Radrick drills Mathers with a right hand to the face. Gray squares off with Ray, and they trade blows.

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Gray takes control with some stiff chops and a rung-shaking slam. He eats a cutter from Mathers. Gray pins Mathers with a diving leg drop to win the match.

Winner and still GCW Extreme Champion: AJ Gray

The S.A.T. vs. Nick Wayne and Jordan Oliver

Wayne and Oliver dive onto their opponents shortly after the match starts. Wayne takes Joel Maximo down with a head-scissors. Oliver takes the fight to Jose. The S.A.T. slam Wayne to the mat with the Washing Machine. They ground Wayne in a modified Camel Clutch. The veterans keep Wayne grounded and isolated in the corner. Wayne rallies with a flurry of offense. Oliver makes the hot tag and catches Joel with a cutter.

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Joel clotheslines Oliver off the top rope, and Jose powerbombs Wayne onto his knees. Wayne dives onto Joel outside the ring, and Oliver hits a cutter for a near fall. The S.A.T. hit a double Spanish Fly from the top rope for the win.

Winners: The S.A.T.

After the match, Joel thanks his opponents, the fans and GCW itself.

Joey Janela vs. Masha Slamovich

Slamovich and Janela trade blows right off the bat. She hits him with a backfist and suplexes him. “The Bad Boy” drops her with a clothesline and powerbombs her. Janela blasts her with a knee to the face and chops her in the corner. Slamovich dives onto him outside the ring. She plants Janela with a powerbomb and blasts him with a chair. Slamovich gets a two count with a Northern Lights suplex. Janela powerbombs Slamovich through a door and hits a piledriver for a two count. Slamovich slams Janela through a door for a two count of her own.

She locks in a sleeper hold, but Janela drops her onto the ring apron to escape. Slamovich flips off Janela and hits him with some strikes, but Janela clinches the victory with a superkick.

Winner: Joey Janela

After the match, Janela calls Slamovich “one tough bitch”, thanks her for the fight, and tells her to get out of his ring. He addresses how his AEW contract expired and says he learned so much. Janela says AEW had no idea what they were getting themselves into when they signed him. He notes that he got to have some dream matches, but his heart wasn’t in AEW; it’s in GCW. Janela states that the money isn’t worth anything to him if he’s not working hard for it. He says he’d rather wrestle every show and travel the world. He says business is booming, the flowers are blooming, and they belong to Joey Janela. He ends the message with an FU to the fans.

Tournament of Survival Qualifying Match: Matt Tremont vs. Brandon Kirk

Tremont slams Kirk into the tubes almost immediately several times. Kirk slams some kind of grater onto Tremont’s head, and he returns the favor. They headbutt each other and bust each other open. Tremont hits Kirk with some jabs and takes a dropkick into some tubes into the corner. Kirk breaks a tube in Tremont’s mouth. Tremont bashes Kirk with some tubes and slams him onto some glass from some broken tubes. Glass is flying, as Tremont keeps breaking tubes over Kirk’s head. Kirk hits a cutter onto a flaming bottom and slams a bundle of tubes onto Tremont.

Now it’s Kirk’s turn to break tubes on Tremont’s head. Tremont hits a Death Valley Driver onto some tubes and another onto the fragments of glass for the win.