Matt Riddle defends his MLW World Heavyweight Championship against Sami Callihan in a brutal No Ropes Deathmatch at MLW Blood Thunder. Witness the carnage as these two rivals battle without mercy.
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00:00Hey Riddle, bro, you just had a great victory, you're undefeated, bro, how does it feel?
00:04Bro, it feels good, I've been backing MLW, been winning, gonna just keep doing it.
00:09Riddle made this!
00:10You may be undefeated since you came back to MLW, but you haven't beat the Death Machine.
00:15How about ICU in Chicago?
00:18Anytime, anywhere, bro.
00:21And this is why we love Matt Riddle!
00:24Summer self-pro time!
00:26Matt Riddle, congratulations, you are still undefeated in Major League Wrestling, but
00:31now we are counting down the next stop.
00:33It's June 1st, it's Atlanta, Georgia, it's the 40-athlete Battle Riot.
00:37In 2018, I left MLW and had one thing I hadn't done yet, and that was win the MLW Heavyweight
00:45Championship.
00:46And when I win Battle Riot...
00:49Oh, what the hell?
00:52What the hell is Sami Callihan doing out here?
00:55Matt Riddle, you stupid, stupid little bitch!
01:01You think you're just gonna waltz right back into MLW, win Battle Riot, and beat Kojima
01:08for the World Championship?
01:11I call bullshit!
01:15And not only will I win Battle Riot, I will be your next MLW World Champion!
01:29I'm just curious who's going to win.
01:31We're at nine, we're at nine!
01:34That's it!
01:35Sami and Riddle have been counted out, and Matt Riddle and Sami...
01:40Sami's cheating, Sami's gone!
01:43Riddle has done it!
01:44Matt Riddle has done it!
01:46Matt Riddle, the man that screwed me out of Battle Riot.
01:51Matt Riddle, the man that has not defeated the devil.
01:57I am challenging you to a match.
01:59I don't give a damn what kind of match it is, because Riddle, I've never liked you.
02:04I'm gonna kill you!
02:10Sami Callihan, so you wanna issue a challenge, bro?
02:13I don't care what you want, where you want it, your ass is mine, bro.
02:18When are you gonna cash in your golden ticket for the championship?
02:21Well, that's a really good question, bro, but I think the time's gonna be coming any day now.
02:28Hey!
02:30The animosity has grown between these two men to such a rapid degree,
02:35the title shot takes the balance in a no-throats deathmatch.
02:42And I'm gonna kick your ass, bro!
02:45Because everyone at the end of the day has to take it for what it's worth.
02:51Thumbs up.
02:52Thumbs down!
02:57Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time for your MLW Blood and Thunder main event.
03:17A no-throats deathmatch!
03:26Introducing first, from Anonymous, Ohio, weighing in this evening at 221 pounds,
03:33he is the Death Machine, Sami Callihan!
03:44The ropes have been removed from the ring, this will not be a wrestling match,
03:50this will not be catch-as-catch-can, this will be a deathmatch,
03:55it will be a fight until one man cannot continue.
03:59It is Sami Callihan in his element, disrupting, disparaging, vile and vulgar
04:06with an MLW world title shot, Riddle's world title shot, in the balance.
04:12Not only the world title shot on the line, but of course,
04:15a simple good old grudge match between Callihan and Riddle.
04:19We're going to find out tonight who's the better man.
04:23And his opponents, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, weighing in this evening at 216 pounds,
04:33he is the King of Bros, Matt Riddle!
04:46Matt Riddle came to the major league with one goal in mind,
04:52it was 2018, the MLW world title tournament finals,
04:57two very worthy athletes, two very proud fighters,
05:03one Swerve Strickland, the other Matt Riddle,
05:07and unfortunately on that night, it was not yet Riddle's time to shine,
05:12but since then, Matt Riddle has been all over the world.
05:16Matt Riddle has become the best professional wrestler he has ever been.
05:21Cut this shit! Cut this bullshit music!
05:26Cut it, truck! Cut it! Cut it! Cut it!
05:36Sami's mad at the world.
05:37I swear to God, if you don't shut your mouth, Tampa,
05:40I'll punch each and every single one of you in your inbred's face!
05:48Is there a lot of inbreeding in Tampa?
05:51I think you're saying Death Machine wrong.
05:54It's Death Machine! Death Machine! Death Machine!
06:08Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
06:25Oh, you want a champ, bro? This is because of you guys!
06:29I'm knocking this bitch out in under five seconds!
06:33Ring the fucking bell!
06:36Wow, strong words from Sami as we start this fight.
06:41Well, Sami's no shortage of confidence.
06:46He's got guts.
06:48He has no fear.
06:50Matt Riddle!
06:51Oh, he landed the knee! Will this be it?
06:55Could you imagine? Could you imagine?
06:58Sami Callaghan with his tail between his legs, losing in five seconds.
07:02Yeah, he said on the microphone he was going to knock out Matt Riddle in a matter of seconds,
07:06and look what he's got in his hand here.
07:08What is that? Some kind of powder?
07:13Oh!
07:14And now he doesn't see anything!
07:18That chalk or that talcum powder, it landing in the eyes of Matt Riddle,
07:24and with his championship shot on the line,
07:27the beginning of this match not looking good for Riddle.
07:30Sami is a depraved, ravaged mess.
07:35And that's before this matchup gets fired.
07:37And now, no, no, no, no!
07:38We've seen it! And there it is again, a paper cut!
07:41The webbing between the fingers, sliced open by this sick bastard.
07:49Riddle, with his vision compromised, and now his hand compromised.
07:57Sami made Riddle a target.
08:00Until Riddle had no choice but to put his Battle Riot victory-earned
08:07MLW World Title shot at stake.
08:10And this is just the beginning.
08:12Sami would do anything to anyone to get that shot in his back pocket,
08:18including whip a human being with Barbed Wire.
08:22Only a sadistic punk like Sami Callaghan would use Barbed Wire to whip his opponent.
08:30And when you're up against the sadistic mind of Callaghan,
08:33how can you keep your championship shot that Riddle earned at Battle Riot?
08:37It's gotta be in jeopardy when he eats a baseball bat right to the gutter.
08:42Sami cornered me earlier on in the locker room,
08:45and told me some very disparaging things he was gonna do to Riddle
08:49to manipulate his appearance, to mangle him, to mutilate him.
08:55Sami wrapping the hair of Matt Riddle into that Barbed Wire bat
09:00and shoving the Barbed Wire across the face and forehead of Riddle.
09:05It's Sami's goal to make sure Matt Riddle doesn't just lose his title match,
09:10but can't make a living in pro wrestling ever again.
09:18And these rules, this environment, certainly favor Sami.
09:22Riddle can do no-holds-barred. Riddle can do martial arts, wrestling, whatever.
09:26But when you have these weapons, when this Barbed Wire is in,
09:30when it's just this merciless mentality, this is all Sami Callaghan's wheelhouse.
09:35Yeah, that's right. Matt Riddle, for me, for my money,
09:37he's one of the great pro wrestlers in the world today.
09:40His ability to mat-wrestle his speed, but with a weapon like a stapler in his hand,
09:46Callaghan has to have the advantage.
09:48How sick you gotta be to lick and then use a staple gun?
09:52But here comes Riddle! Thumbs up and thumbs down to Sami!
09:57Oh, no.
09:59Oh, Riddle holding on, though.
10:02Oh, no!
10:05A staple deep into the sternum and chest of Matt Riddle!
10:09That exposed skin, Riddle had no protection.
10:12Who's in love? Who's in love?
10:17Oh, my God.
10:18And keep in mind, as in a standard matchup,
10:21Oh, no, no, no, the armpit!
10:23Oh, God!
10:25Sami knows how to make anybody uncomfortable.
10:28It is really difficult to watch Sami Callaghan work.
10:33And he's one of the best in the world at what he does,
10:35and what he does is drop violence on his opponents
10:39in the most evil and sadistic ways.
10:41I've said it before on this broadcast, Joe, for my money,
10:44Sami, one of the most intelligent pro wrestlers
10:47we have in this great sport.
10:49Sami is like a psychotic surgeon.
10:51He's so creative with the damage he can do.
10:54Breaks apart the human body at its weakest points.
10:57That's 11, for God's sakes.
11:02He's not gonna...
11:03Oh, no, no, no.
11:05And now, oh, my gosh, and right on the wound!
11:08Yeah, right into where that staple...
11:11Penetrated the flesh of Riddle.
11:14And the match just extinguished that burning
11:17on the entire side of Riddle's body.
11:19What is wrong with this guy?
11:20What's wrong with everything?
11:23The man's a menace to society.
11:25Yeah, he really is one of a kind,
11:26and I don't mean that in a good way.
11:31He's a hideous human being.
11:33He really is.
11:36As he goes back now for that stapler, Joe,
11:38he's got it back in his hand.
11:40You've done enough.
11:44Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
11:46Oh, no.
11:47No, no, no, no, no.
11:48Between the toes!
11:49Jeez!
11:52My goodness!
11:53You sick son of a...
11:59What is that?
12:00Is that salt?
12:02That looks like salt.
12:04Literally rubbing salt into the wound
12:09of Matt Riddle.
12:10Don't do that!
12:12Sick, sick human being is Sammy Callaghan.
12:17This is tantamount to torture.
12:26What's going through the mind of Sammy Callaghan
12:29as he continues to pour on the violence
12:31as he searches to win the title shot
12:36that Matt Riddle currently owns.
12:41What's in the bag?
12:44What is that?
12:46Is that part of a glass bottle?
12:49Oh, my God.
12:52A glass, shattering, exploding all over the ring.
12:55Immediate pile driver from Sammy.
12:57Cactus driver, 97.
12:59Sammy half a count away
13:01after shattering a glass bottleneck
13:05over the skull of Matt Riddle.
13:07That's the thing about Callaghan, right?
13:08I mean, he goes for that glass bottle.
13:10He busts it over the head of Matt Riddle.
13:12And moments later, a fundamental wrestling maneuver
13:15just spearing Matt Riddle's head
13:18into the center of the canvas.
13:19Sammy was shaking in anger that Riddle dared kick out.
13:24Oh, no, that's the rest of the glass,
13:26the rest of that bottle
13:28that Sammy busted before he got out here.
13:32And Riddle, who can barely stand
13:34on the already injured foot,
13:36seems shocked at the proposal
13:39that he would land in this glass.
13:40Potentially, he has to fight back here.
13:42His foot, his hand, his arm.
13:44Fight back, Matt, you gotta...
13:45All compromised.
13:47Sammy looking to suplex Riddle
13:49deep into the glass.
13:50Oh, he turned it on him.
13:52But can he get the Callaghan Death Machine over?
13:55Callaghan's so big.
13:57Wait a minute, wait a minute.
14:00Wow, Sammy's made a lot of...
14:03Bizarre comments towards Riddle,
14:05but I'm not gonna endeavor it to here.
14:07Riddle's voice might change a couple octaves.
14:09And now Sammy has his back.
14:11Sammy, oh, Riddle's up.
14:13Oh, the feet, no.
14:15Into the glass and on the knees.
14:17Oh, no.
14:18And Matt Riddle, who prefers competing
14:22without shoes, without wrestling boots,
14:25and his feet landing right in that glass.
14:28There's nowhere for Riddle to go
14:30any time he moves his other piece of glass.
14:35What the hell are you doing now?
14:38This guy is crazy.
14:39That demented look on the face
14:41of the Callaghan Death Machine.
14:43Like he just found a treasure chest or something.
14:46Bro is down and out already,
14:48and Sammy's lost it.
14:49I mean, look at Sammy.
14:52What the hell did you find?
14:54Put it back, whatever it is.
14:58What are those?
15:04It looks like nuts.
15:07Oh, my God.
15:09Shades of his past, but he sacrificed himself.
15:14Riddle lands in the glass, the nuts, the bolts.
15:18You can see the glass sticking out of the back
15:21of Matt Riddle.
15:22But that's what Riddle had to do to save himself.
15:25He had to bite that bullet.
15:27He had to feel that agony,
15:29or else Sammy, at his will,
15:31would have done so much worse.
15:33Riddle barely able to make it to his feet.
15:35I mean, any weight he puts on those feet
15:39is doing more damage.
15:42Riddle with a knee, and as odd as it sounds,
15:45normally the outside of the ring
15:48is much safer for Riddle right now than inside.
15:55Matt Riddle looking for his own bit of plunder,
15:58looking to create his own bit of violence.
16:01Riddle has found some sort of door or wooden plank.
16:10You actually love to see it.
16:12If Sammy's going to pull out all the stops
16:14with the violence of the glass, the nuts and bolts,
16:17Riddle's going to have to answer.
16:19Riddle's going to have to go deep in his playbook.
16:22Riddle is undoing the cables
16:25that attaches this canvas to the rest of the ring.
16:31Yeah, every bungee he removes, exposing
16:34what's basically just a bit of padding,
16:37and then there's that, you see those wooden boards there,
16:40and the steel underneath.
16:41Anyone thinks it's a trampoline,
16:42you're getting a lesson 101 right now.
16:45Thin padding, and then thick boards,
16:48and steel beams, and Riddle is exposing all of it.
16:53Matt Riddle controlling the head of Sammy,
16:57but Sammy dropping some bombs to the solar plexus.
17:00Ripcord, and the knee sends Callaghan onto that door.
17:08Riddle is measuring his foe,
17:09he's trying to take everything from him.
17:11Oh, misses the Broton.
17:14Matt Riddle goes for that Broton, a patent maneuver,
17:18but nobody home.
17:19Callaghan able to get out of the way just in time.
17:22Riddle took too much time to set up the Broton.
17:26Callaghan lives, and Riddle, his body is wracked with pain again.
17:35What a grudge match we've witnessed,
17:37and don't forget folks, I mean,
17:38Matt Riddle's heavyweight championship shot is on the line.
17:42It could be Sammy Callaghan who moves on
17:46to steal that Battle Riot victory from Matt Riddle.
17:50Wait a minute, Sammy has just pulled out
17:53one of the sets of ring ropes that our ring crew tore down
17:58for this match.
17:59This is a no-ropes match, what is he doing with a ring rope?
18:04Riddle is hurt,
18:07and Sammy is just...
18:11Diabolical mind continues to think of new ways to hurt people.
18:17Oh, gosh.
18:19Riddle tried to block it, but good luck with that kind of force behind it.
18:24I cannot believe what we are witnessing, partner,
18:27as now Sammy looks to undress the canvas from the MLW ring,
18:32a canvas that is strewn with nuts and bolts, with glass.
18:37Riddle picking up, or rather, Sammy picking up where Riddle left off.
18:46No padding, no canvas.
18:48This will be a battlefield of dangerous proportions
18:52as Riddle fires back with a catch.
18:54Oh, here they come, watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out.
18:57Oh, sickening thud right in front of the broadcast position.
19:01Matt Riddle finally answering.
19:03Joe Dabrowski just trying to get the hell out of the way,
19:05and there, a sleeper, a rear naked.
19:07Sammy's got a bit deep.
19:10Oh, Riddle fights back, though.
19:12Joe, are you all good? Are you good?
19:14Riddle's fighting for his life out here.
19:16Sammy Callahan's a man possessed.
19:18Riddle's fighting for his life.
19:26Oh, there you see those shards of glass
19:29still stuck to the back, embedded in the anatomy of Matt Riddle.
19:36Big right hand from Sammy,
19:38as now Matt Riddle lays across those wooden planks,
19:43supporting the ring.
19:45I mean, just the splinters alone he must be encountering
19:48from rolling around on that wood.
19:52These boys have been through hell tonight, Joe.
19:54This is the ultimate underground environment
19:56before MMA was an official sport.
19:58No holds barred fighting.
20:00It's savage, it's violent.
20:02It's playing on your primal instincts,
20:04and that's what it'll take.
20:06And the ironic part is,
20:08the top prize in the major league may hang in the balance.
20:11One of these men will challenge Kojima at a later date.
20:15Sammy eating right hand after left hand.
20:17Spits in the face of Riddle.
20:19Sammy's setting something up.
20:21Oh, my goodness gracious!
20:23CactusDriver97.
20:25This is it.
20:27Oh, he kicks out.
20:29I thought for a second there, Joe,
20:31I thought Matt Riddle had lost his championship opportunity.
20:36And with no padding there and no protection,
20:39I mean, Riddle could be concussed
20:41as he collided with those wooden boards.
20:43Yeah, there's no give there.
20:45You can see those thick wooden boards.
20:47You can see them attached to the metal beams.
20:50This is reinforced.
20:52It's made to withstand thousands of pounds of pressure.
20:56He's gonna do it again,
20:58but now just above those nuts and bolts,
21:00just above the glass.
21:01Riddle with the counter.
21:02Riddle floats in.
21:04He hooks in.
21:05Oh, my goodness!
21:08What threshold for pain
21:10Matt Riddle must have
21:12to sacrifice his body once again
21:15to look to save the title shot
21:17that hangs in the balance.
21:20He's got that rope,
21:21and it's in his mouth.
21:23And he's pushing now.
21:24Look at that.
21:25Man, what a visual.
21:27Sammy Callahan taps out.
21:30Riddle's done it.
21:31His title shot is saved.
21:44Matt Riddle has survived
21:47the ultimate battleground.
21:49Matt Riddle has been taken
21:52to basic rival animalistic instincts.
21:56In fact, he's been stapled.
21:58He's been covered in glass.
22:00He's had salt and powder
22:02and lemon juice in trash cans
22:04and barbed wire.
22:06But Riddle has stood it all
22:08because of a six-year dream
22:10to be MLW world champion.
22:12And not even a sick bastard like Sammy Callahan
22:15will stand in his way.
22:18Sammy Callahan put Matt Riddle
22:20through hell and high water tonight.
22:23Matt Riddle somehow able to win.
22:27Somehow able to save his championship shot.
22:32What a war we just witnessed, Joe.
22:35Matt Riddle scores a victory of a lifetime.
22:40And if he survives this,
22:42can he survive Satoshi Kojima?
22:45Can he realize a six-year dream?
22:49Is Matt Riddle's next stop the MLW world title?
22:53Thank you for joining us tonight.