The best of Professional Wrestling, a wrestling fanfic

Chapter1- The Rules +Day 1 part 1

This is officially the first annual The best of Professional Wrestling tournament. 32 of the best current wrestlers around the world have been gathered together for one epic tournament.

There will be 4 Blocks each filled with 8 wrestler. The 2 wrestlers with the most points in the end, will advance to the quarter finals.

Every match in the block stage will have a Time Limit of 30 Minutes.

A win is worth 2 points,a draw's worth 1 point and a loss is worth 0 points.

After the Block stage,the wrestlers with the 1st and 2nd most point from each block will advance to the next round.

Here are the blocks:

Block A

Gunther

Samoa Joe

Evil

Mike Bailey

Ilja Dragunov

Konosuke Takeshita

Yota Tsuji

Damien Priest

Block B

Adam Copeland

Josh Alexander

Bryan Danielson

Jon Moxley

Seth Rollins

Zack Sabre JR

Randy Orton

Gabe Kidd

Block C

MJF

Logan Paul

Tetsuya Naito

Kenny Omega

AJ Styles

Cody Rhodes

Shingo Takagi

David Finlay

Block D

Swerve Strickland

CM Punk

Sami Zayn

Will Ospreay

Hangman Adam Page

Kazuchika Okada

Drew Mcintyre

Shota Umino

Notes:

Day 1, part 1

We're Live from England,London. The show starts with pyros going off at the entrance ramp.

Cole: Ladies and Gentleman,Welcome to the singular Greatest Professional Wrestling Tournament of all time. I'm Michael Cole here and I'm joined by the top Commentator of AEW, Excalibur.

Excalibur:Thanks Cole, and you're right. This is the greatest professional wrestling tournament of all time. So everyone, get ready for a couple of weeks of exciting action. Forbidden Doors will open,Dream Matches will happen and we'll find out who the best Professional Wrestler of the Current Era is. And We'll start now!

"Prepare to Fight"Starts Playing as the Ring General Makes his way to the ramp, Wearing his Usual Ring gear. The crowd shows respect to him,giving him a standing ovation

Cole: As you notice, Imperium aren't here with Gunther tonight. Because this tournament should rely on pure wrestling ability and Gunther respects that so he came alone to prevent any interference.

Excalibur:Tell that to Evil and House Of Torture.

Gunther makes his way to the ring, waiting for his opponent,as "Where do the gone things go" plays and Mike Bailey comes out to the ramp, meeting the cheers of the crowd.

Excalibur:And here comes the Speed Ball of TNA, Mike Bailey.

Cole:A WWE Superstar is facing a TNA Superstar, this really is a hell freeze over moment.

Excalibur:This will be an interesting clash of styles as Bailey's high flying style, goes up against the technical and stiff style of Gunther.

Mike Bailey enters the ring,a determined look on his face.

The bell rings as the two wrestlers circle eachother around. The crowd are electric as they are chanting this is awesome before anything happens.

The two lock up together for a test of strength. Gunther easily overpowers Bailey,pushing him to the ground. Bailey quickly stands up, attempting another lock up with Gunther. This time, Bailey puts him in a side Headlock. Gunther pushes him towards the ropes and hits Bailey with a shoulder tackle.

Excalibur:Well Gunther is certainly overpowering Bailey in the starting moments of this one.

Gunther than picks Bailey up and Irish Whips him to the corner. Gunther himself goes after Bailey and hits him with a Knife Edge Chop, the sound Echoing through the arena. Gunther than proceeds to hit him with a few more, taking Bailey down.

Gunther throws Bailey out of the ring and goes after him to the ring side area. Gunther Irish Whips Bailey to the barricade. He than picks him up and hits him with a back Suplex onto the barricade. Gunther picks Bailey up and throws him into the ring. He turns his back and does the Imperium taunt at the crowd. Which happens to be a mistake cause as soon as he steps foot on the apron, A recovered Mike Bailey hits him with a Superkick,throwing him back to the ringside.

Bailey climbs to the top Rope and hits a Corkscrew Moonsault on a standing Gunther. Bailey throws him back in the ring and goes for a cover.

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Gunther gets the Shoulder up at 2. Bailey doesn't hesitate and proceeds to hit multiple stomps on Gunther while he's down.

Bailey then attempt a Standing Shooting Star Press but Gunther manages to get his knees up, avoiding the move. Gunther stands up and stomps Bailey on the back. He then picks Bailey and turns him around,Chopping his back multiple times, Taking him down .

Excalibur:It seems like Gunther came to this match with the plan of working on Bailey's back. We'll have to see how that plays out in the match.

Gunther picks Bailey up and hits him with a German Suplex. But he doesn't let go as he picks him up for another one. Gunther Finishes the trifecta with a third German Suplex, Bridging it into a pin.

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Bailey Kicks out at 2.5.

Gunther, seemingly frustrated with that, picks Bailey up and attempts to send him to the outside. However, Bailey manages to land on the apron. Gunther runs towards him but is met with an Enzuigiri. Bailey then attempts a Springboard Dropkick,but while he's on the ropes,Gunther hits him with a Lariat, sending him to the floor. Bailey lands on his back and screams in agony while clutching his back in pain.

Gunther doesn't waste time as he goes after Bailey to the ringside floor. Gunther Stomps on his back a few times, and then Deadlifts him off the floor in a powerslam position. But Bailey manages to avoid the move and land behind Gunther. Bailey then pushes Gunther into the ring post. The crowd pops massively for this.

Bailey manages to get Gunther back into the ring. He stands on the apron and stalks Gunther and taunts him to get up. When he does, Bailey hits him with a Slingshot DDT. He immediately goes for the cover.

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Gunther manages to kick out at 2.8.

Bailey doesn't waste a moment as he proceeds to go to the top rope for his finishing move, Ultima Weapon (Shooting Star double knee drop). Gunther manages to move out of the way just before Bailey can connect. Bailey lands on his feet and runs towards Gunther, only to be hit by a Last Symphony. Gunther crawls into the cover right after.

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Bailey manages to get a shoulder up at 2.7, Much to Gunther's shock.

The crowd starts chanting "this is awesome".

Gunther picks Bailey up and runs towards the ropes, attempting a lariat, but gets countered by a Standing Fallaway Slam from Bailey.

A hyped up Bailey stands up and gets Gunther up to hit him with the Machine Gun Kicks, moving Gunther to the corner. He finishes up with an Enzuigiri to the side of the head.

He puts Gunther on the top rope and gets up himself, attempting a Top Rope Frankensteiner,only to get caught mid way through the move. Gunther powers Bailey up and hits him with a top rope power bomb, and bridges into a pin.

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Bailey kicks out at 2.99, Getting a gigantic pop out of the crowd.

Gunther though, immediately turns him around into a Boston Crab.

Cole: Gunther's worked on the back since the start of the match. Can Bailey survive this?

Bailey is trying his best to drag himself towards the ropes and almost reaches them, only for Gunther to drag him back to the middle of the ring and lock it in again, leaving Bailey with no choice but to tap out.

Cole: It's over. Gunther manages to overcome Mike Bailey by making him tap out in 15:34.

Excalibur:But nothing to take away from Bailey. He fought a hard battle and came up just short against the Ring General.

Cole:With that victory, Gunther earns himself 2 points in the block A bracket, currently being in the lead.

Excalibur:Next up, we'll be having Block B action as Gabe Kidd faces The Viper Randy Orton. Can't wait for that one, right after a break.

Cole: We're back from our break and as you saw moments ago, Gunther won the first match of the tournament earning himself 2 points.

Excalibur:And now we'll see some block B action as Gabe Kidd faces Randy Orton.

"War Ready " plays as Gabe Kidd comes out to massive heat.

Excalibur:In a block full of Veterans,Gabe Kidd is certainly a Wild Card.

Cole:Gabe is representing New Japan, more specifically,Bullet Club War Dogs. As you see he's not very popular here.

The crowd is chanting "Piece of shit" and throwing trash into the ring. Gabe Kidd gives them a warm response, A middle finger.

"Voices" starts to play and the crowd goes crazy as the Viper Randy Orton makes his entrance.

Cole:on the other hand,we've got a very experienced wrestler in Randy Orton. We shall see weather his experience is enough to beat Kidd or not.

The bell rings as Gabe Kidd immediately launches him self at Orton hitting him with hard Elbows. Orton doesn't back down though as he throws a few punches of his own, starting a full out brawl. The ref breaks them apart as the crowd are very hot for the match.

They get in each others face and Gabe slaps the taste out of Orton's mouth. Orton laughs before throwing himself on Kidd, hitting him with punches left and right.

Kidd changes the position and hits a few elbows on Orton before being pushed off by him.

Excalibur: If you haven't figured out by the first few minutes of the match,this is gonna be a full on brawl.

Gabe runs to the Ropes and hits Randy with a knee to the face. Kidd goes for a cover.

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Orton gets the Shoulder up at 1.

Gabe delivers a few hard blows to the back of Orton before picking him up fpr an attempt at the Sitout Piledriver,which Orton avoids by wrenching Gabe's arm and hitting a kick to his gut. Orton picks Kidd up and hits him with a back suplex.

Orton throws Kidd out of the ring towards the announcers table and attempts a back Suplex,which Kidd avoids by hitting a few elbows to Orton's head.

Gabe then hits Orton's Head off the announcers table before doing a BrainBuster on the floor.

Kidd comes back into the ring to break the referee's count and comes back out. Gabe hits Orton's head off the ring post before getting a twisted idea in his mind. He begins to divide the steel steps into two parts. Climbing one while dragging Orton,attempting a Piledriver on it.

However,Orton reverses the Piledriver and hits a Back Body drop on Kidd onto the other piece of stair.

Cole:Kidd might have a broken back after that one,the brutality is really showing in this match.

Orton drags Kidd back in the ring and hits his famous middle rope DDT and goes for a cover.

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Kidd kicks out at 2.3.

Randy picks Kidd up and throws him to the corner. He puts Kidd on the Top Rope, attempting a superplex. But Kidd manages to hang on and hit Orton with a rolling BrainBuster off the top rope. He rolls him in for the cover.

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Orton barely gets a shoulder up at 2.7.

The crowd is chanting "fuck you Gabe" as Kidd tries to ignore them and focus on Orton.

He picks him up and with a loud "Fuck you" he runs to the ropes to hit a big boot only to get hit by a snap Powerslam.

Orton taunts for the RKO as Kidd is getting up to his feet. Gabe manages to push Orton off and hits a stiff HeadButt on him. Gabe then goes to the corner, kicking his legs down, perhaps thinking of a Punt Kick. But as he runs towards Orton, he is met with an RKO out of nowhere. Orton goes for the cover.

...

Cole:Orton beats Gabe Kidd after 10:05 of hard-hitting action.

Excalibur:Even though the crowd hates him, you have to admit Kidd showed some guts in this match. It certainly isn't easy to go toe to toe with a veteran like Orton.

Cole:But tonight, Orton was the better man. And I'm excited to see who the better man in our next match is. Because in a first time ever match, Shingo Takagi will face off AJ Styles in what might be a dream match for many, next.

"You Don't want none" plays and AJ Styles comes out to a mixed reaction from the crowd.

Excalibur: I still don't get why he changes his theme song but here comes The Phenomenal One. Styles is probably one of the popular picks to win this tournament as he's been doing this for a long time, he knows the game and he knows how to play it.

Cole:Was that supposed to be a pun? If it was, I'm better off leaving now.

Excalibur: Come on, it wasn't that bad.

"Rising Dragon" Plays as Shingo Takagi makes his entrance to the ring.

Cole:Here you see one of the best that Japan has to offer, Takagi is a multi time world champion in different promotions in Japan, and now, he's trying to be the best in the word.

Excalibur: Wasn't that Shane McMahon?

Cole:DO NOT REMIND ME OF THAT.

The bell rings,as the crowd are electric for these two Veterans. They attempt a lock up as Styles barely gets the advantage and pushes Takagi to the corner. The ref calls for a break and they have a clean Break. They lock up once again ,this time Takagi gets the advantage by pushing Styles to the ropes. The ref calls for a break again. This time as Takagi is letting Styles go, Styles throws a punch at him.

They go for a lock up a third time. This time Takagi puts Styles in a side Headlock as Styles struggles to get out. Takagi drops him down while holding onto the Headlock. Styles rolls Takagi while he's in the Headlock ,but Takagi manages to get a shoulder up before 1, continuing the Headlock. Styles attempts to get up. He succeeds and tosses Takagi at the ropes.

He first ducks under him, then jumps over him, before hitting an Arm Drag on Takagi.

Takagi gets up and the two lock up yet again. This time,Styles gets Takagi in a Wrist lock. Takagi manages to roll out and hit an Arm Drag on Styles. Styles gets up and runs toward Takagi but is met with a lariat, but he doesn't go down .

Styles hits an Elbow to Takagis chin. Takagi repays the favor by hitting an Elbow of his own.

The two continue exchanging elbows, neither willing to back down as finally,Takagi gets a little dizzy which causes Styles to dun towards the ropes, only to get hit with a Lariat by Takagi. This time, he goes down as the crowd gives Takagi a standing ovation.

Excalibur:These two are starting things by technical wrestling. You just know they're in for a long fight.

Takagi picks Styles up and throws him onto the apron. He goes on the apron himself, attempting to pick Styles up, which Styles avoids with a few punches to the head. Takagi Ran towards Styles but Styles ducked under so Takagi hit the Ring Post. Styles then, with a little assist from the post,hit a Tornado DDT on the apron.

Styles sent Takagi back to the ring and dragged him towards the post. He then smashes Takagis leg to the post before attempting a Figure 4 on it. The ref called for a break but Styles used the full 5 count before letting Takagi go.

Styles goes back into the ring and hits a Dragon Screw on the leg of then started doing multiple Elbow Drops on it. Styles then picked Takagi up and hit a Snap Suplex on Takagi,pinning him immediately after.

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Takagi gets the shoulder up at 2.

Cole: Styles is in full control of this match. I don't know how much more Takagi can take.

Styles then picks Takagi up and hits him with two punches and a kick to the leg before attempting a Swinging Clothesline but meets a HeadButt bfrom Takagi. Both man fell down as the crowd cheered loudly for Takagi.

Takagi picks Styles up and hits a Rolling Sitout PowerBomb, Straight into the pin.

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Styles kicks out at 2.1

Takagi goes to the corner taunting Styles to get up. He runs towards him for a Back Elbow but his knee gives out which gives Styles the perfect opportunity to go for a Calf Crusher and he locks it in. Takagi is screaming in pain as Styles keeps on adding pressure to the submission. As it seems like there's no way for Takagi to get out, he grabs Styles head and hits it on the mat several times causing him to let go.

Takagi tries to stand up but his knee is hurt which causes Styles to be back up sooner than him.

Styles run towards the ropes and Springboards off of them going for a snap DDT but is caught by Takagi who hits a michinoku driver on styles. He than picks him up for a Piledriver and connects. He goes for the cover.

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Styles kicked out at 2.8, leaving Takagi and the crowd in shock.

Takagi doesn't waste time as he drags Styles up and goes for his finisher, The Chase Of The Dragon but his knee gives out,giving Styles an opening as he hits a kick to the back of the knee and picks Takagi up for a Styles Clash. Takagi kicks him in the head with the good leg, and runs to the ropes for a Lariat but Styles ducked under and hit a Pele Kick on Takagi.

The crowd begins chanting"Fight forever" at the two.

Styles goes to the apron and connects with a Springboard 450 Splash on Takagi before going for the cover.

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Takagi kicks out at 2.9.

Styles immediately picks him up and hits a Styles Clash on him and rolls him afterwards.

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Takagi gets his foot on the rope at the last possible moment.

Styles looks like he's seen a ghost, before getting his act together and going on the apron, taunting Takagi, signalling for a Phenomenal Forearm. Takagi caught Styles midair with a jumping knee strike. A tired Takagi than picks Styles up and finally hits Chase Of the Dragon,before Collapsing on top of Styles.

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Excalibur: It's finally over. After 18:41 of instant classic wrestling,Shingo Takagi defeats AJ Styles.

Cole:You know Styles isn't gonna be happy about that loss as you could argue he had a better game plan than Takagi did. But tonight,Takagi overcame the odds and beat the Phenomenal one.

Excalibur:Up Next we'll get our first match from Block D as Hangman Adam Page is looking for payback on CM Punk. How successful will he be? We'll have to wait and find out.

Card for part 2 of day 1

(Hangman Adam Page VS CM Punk

Evil VS Samoa Joe

Bryan Danielson VS Josh Alexander

Kenny Omega VS David Finlay

Will Ospreay VS Drew Mcintyre)

Questions

1. How did you feel about the matches and results?

match was your favourite?

3. What are your predictions for who advances each block