Final night time, Eric Bischoff took a seat behind the inventive wheel as soon as once more when he assumed full management of Main League Wrestling’s One Shot occasion in Queens, New York. Bischoff’s first order of enterprise was a singles match between two former WWE stars — that being Matt Riddle and Donovan Dijak. In keeping with the previous WCW President, although, a match wants stakes. As such, he later made a notable change to Riddle vs. Dijak.
“If you happen to do [listen] to [the ’83 Weeks’ podcast], then you definately’ve heard me say this earlier than: a match has bought to have stakes. So let’s have some extra enjoyable tonight. You have bought a match a bit bit in a while. How can we make this extra enjoyable for all of you and for you?” Bischoff instructed Riddle at the highest of the One Shot present. “I’ve bought it. We’ll create some stakes, in order that for those who lose and Dijak wins, he will get your title shot.”
At MLW Battle Riot VI, Riddle secured himself a future shot on the MLW World Heavyweight Championship, which is presently held by Satoshi Kojima. Following this, the promotion introduced that Riddle would problem Kojima for the title at MLW Kings of Colosseum on January 11. And with a victory over Dijak, albeit by disqualification, at One Shot, “The Unique Bro” stored that title match intact.
The closing moments of Riddle vs. Dijak noticed the previous apply a physique lock on the latter. Dijak’s supervisor Saint Laurent, nevertheless, all of a sudden pulled the referee out of the ring earlier than pulling Riddle as much as his ft by his hair. As Riddle started firing off strikes on Laurent, Dijak hit him from behind, inflicting the referee to name for the bell. Finally, Tom Lawlor made the save, prompting Dijak and Laurent to retreat.
