A Nanaimo wrestler played giant killer and won a championship belt.
Scott Steel defeated Lak Siddartha in a main-event ladder match to win the Pure Wrestling Association’s Pure Violence championship at the Vancouver Island Pro Wrestling show Saturday at the Departure Bay Activity Centre.
Siddartha used his significant size advantage to beat up Steel for most of the match, slamming him onto ladders and on the floor outside the ring.
“You just have to persevere and keep the goal in mind, the belt,” said Steel. “You’ve just got to keep going for it. You can’t stay down.”
The finish came when the two men were battling at the top of the ladder and Steel was able to sunset-flip powerbomb Siddartha off the ladder, through another ladder.
“I thought he was going to put me through it,” Steel said. “I had the split-second instinct just to go for it and the risk and the reward paid off.”
Winning the belt, especially in his hometown, was “a big accomplishment,” he said, and vindication for the veteran high-flyer.
“My whole career, everybody’s telling me I’m too small for hardcore wrestling,” Steel said. “Well, I proved them wrong tonight.”
The originally scheduled main event of B.J. Laredo versus Ice fell through as Ice dodged the match again. Instead, Laredo was inserted into a triple-threat match for the VIPW championship that saw Eddie Osbourne take the title away from Bishop.
In other action, the Wisemen cheated to retain their tag titles against Krofton and the King of the Yukon, Riea Von Slasher held onto her women’s title in a match against Violet, and Super V-Los picked up his first VIPW victory in a match against Shreddz.
After the main event, the Wisemen, Tony Baroni and Billy Suede, came out and attacked Steel, setting up a tag team bout in Nanaimo on May 21 pitting Steel and Laredo against Baroni and Suede in a ‘chamber of extreme’ match.
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