Annual supercard event by PWG
Professional wrestling pay-per-view event series
Mystery Vortex |
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Promotions | Pro Wrestling Guerrilla |
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First event | Mystery Vortex I |
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Event gimmick | Event with the element of mystery and surprises as matches are not announced beforehand |
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Mystery Vortex is an annual professional wrestling event produced by Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). The event is titled as such because most of the matches are not announced beforehand to captivate the audiences with surprise matches. The event is notable for unannounced returns of major PWG wrestlers, surprise debuts of major stars and matches often being announced during the event.
Dates, venues and main events
# | Event | Date | City | Venue | Main Event |
1 | Mystery Vortex | December 1, 2012 | Reseda, California | American Legion Post #308 | Kevin Steen (c) vs. Adam Cole in a Guerrilla Warfare for the PWG World Championship |
2 | Mystery Vortex II | March 28, 2014 | Adam Cole (c) vs. Candice LeRae for the PWG World Championship |
3 | Mystery Vortex III: Rock And Shock The Nation | June 26, 2015 | Andrew Everett and Trevor Lee (c) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) for the PWG World Tag Team Championship |
4 | Mystery Vortex IV | December 16, 2016 | Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Marty Scurll for the PWG World Championship |
5 | Mystery Vortex V | December 1, 2018 | Ricochet (c) vs. Chuck Taylor in a Guerrilla Warfare for the PWG World Championship |
6 | Mystery Vortex VI | October 5, 2019 | Los Angeles, California | Globe Theatre | Darby Allin vs. Joey Janela in a Guerrilla Warfare |
7 | Mystery Vortex 7 | August 1, 2021 | Bandido (c) vs. Black Taurus for the PWG World Championship |
8 | Twenty: Mystery Vortex | August 13, 2023 | Daniel Garcia (c) vs. Mike Bailey in an Iron Man match for the PWG World Championship |
Results
Mystery Vortex I
One of the PWG's six co-founders and the promotion's veteran Joey Ryan wrestled his farewell match in the promotion against Scorpio Sky due to signing a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.[1] Ryan lost the match.[2]
Mystery Vortex II
Mystery Vortex III
Josh Alexander competed in his farewell match at the event as he retired from wrestling due to neck injury. Monster Mafia lost to World's Cutest Tag Team in Alexander's farewell match. The event featured the surprise return of The Young Bucks after a four-month absence, who interrupted Andrew Everett and Trevor Lee to an impromptu match and defeated them to win the PWG World Tag Team Championship, thanks to interference by the PWG World Champion Roderick Strong. After the match, Super Dragon made his surprise return to PWG after a three-year absence and attacked Rick Knox, Excalibur, Candice LeRae, Andrew Everett, Trevor Lee, Biff Busick and Mike Bailey in quick succession. Strong subsequently formed the Mount Rushmore 2.0 faction with Dragon and the Bucks.[5]
Mystery Vortex IV
Chris Hero wrestled his farewell match in PWG at the event, in which Death By Elbow lost to reDRagon. Hero cut a promo after the match, in which he explained his departure due to re-signing with WWE.[7]
Mystery Vortex V
Ricochet's PWG World Championship title defense against Chuck Taylor in a Guerrilla Warfare was his farewell match. He cut a promo after losing the title.[9]
Mystery Vortex VI
Mystery Vortex 7
It was PWG's first event after hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, the last event being The Makings of a Varsity Athlete, which took place on December 20, 2019.[12] Super Dragon made his surprise return to the promotion by joining Black Taurus and Demonic Flamita in assaulting Bandido after Bandido retained the PWG World Championship against Taurus.[13] This prompted AEW star Malakai Black, who formerly competed in PWG as Tommy End, to make his surprise return to the promotion after a five-year absence, having last competed at the 2016 Battle of Los Angeles.[14] Black rescued Bandido from the assault and was joined by Brody King and the two formed a tag team with Black promising to appear at Threemendous VI.[15][16]
Twenty: Mystery Vortex
References
- ^ "Joey Ryan leaves PWG to focus on TNA". Super Luchas. November 29, 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ December 2, 2012. "12/14 PWG Mystery Vortex results: Joey Ryan says goodbye, Super Smash Brothers vs. Eddie Edwards and Roderick Strong, Adam Cole vs. Kevin Steen in a Guerrilla Warfare match for the PWG Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "PWG Mystery Vortex". Cagematch. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ "PWG Mystery Vortex II". Cagematch. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ "Show results – 6/26 PWG in Reseda, Calif.: Huge show with no advanced line-up – new PWG tag champs, faction re-forms, PWG Title match, Alexander says good-bye, big celebrities at ringside, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. 2015-06-27. Retrieved 2015-06-27.
- ^ "PWG Mystery Vortex III: Rock And Shock The Nation". Cagematch. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Dave Meltzer (December 17, 2016). "PWG Mystery Vortex live results: Chris Hero addresses his situation". WON / F4W. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ "PWG Mystery Vortex IV". Cagematch. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Dave Meltzer (January 13, 2018). "PWG Mystery Vortex results: Ricochet says farewell". WON / F4W. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ "PWG Mystery Vortex V". Cagematch. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ "PWG Mystery Vortex VI". Cagematch. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Bryan Rose (July 5, 2021). "PWG announces Mystery Vortex 7 event for August 1". WON / F4W. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Jack Atkins (August 2, 2021). "Super Dragon Returns To PWG At Mystery Vortex 7". Cultaholic. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Gisberto Guzzo; Denise Salcedo (August 2, 2021). "PWG Mystery Vortex 7 Results (8/1): Malakai Black Appears Following The Main Event". Fightful. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Steve Bryant (August 1, 2021). "PWG Mystery Vortex 7 – 01 August 2021 – Results". SoCal Uncensored. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Dave Meltzer (August 2, 2021). "PWG Mystery Vortex VII results: Bandido defends PWG title". WON / F4W. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ "PWG Mystery Vortex 7". Cagematch. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
External links
- Pro Wrestling Guerrilla official website
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla events
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