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Winners Knight, White Have Date With Destiny
It is annually the most difficult match to win. In the ring with 29 other wrestlers, the odds of survival are slim. And up until this week, Hall of Famer LeStatt Knight, a man who has done it all in this business, had never won it.
Add a Dangerous Games victory to his long (and still growing) list of accomplishments.
For Knight, the Dangerous Games victory puts him one step closer to regaining the GCW World Title he last held two years ago. Since then, Knight's critics have seen him as a watered-down version of his old self. Apparently Knight has heard, and in recent weeks it seems the LeStatt Knight of old is making a dramatic comeback.
Knight outlasted the competition and bested his latest rival, superstar-in-waiting Andy Murray, to emerge from the field as the number one contender. For Knight, the NC-17 main event will be familiar territory. He's been in the match twice: 2005 against Michael Stevens, and 2006 against Lia Ambrosi and Dawn MacFarlane.
But this will be the first time he's come into the match the challenger.
Knight's NC-17 record also doesn't bode well for him. In both prior main events, Knight has lost the GCW World Title. It's not all doom and gloom, however. As part of last year's billed triple main event, Knight defeated then-"Outlaw" Jay Terror in the 2007 Match of the Year.
For Jordan White, the NC-17 main event will be a first. It will also be his first Pay-Per-View title defense under what is expected to be the biggest spotlight in company history. But for the moment, Jordan White can bask in the redeeming glow of the GCW World Title.
White's struggles with the pressures of main event wrestling are well documented. He first came to the forefront by winning the 2007 Warpath tournament, earning him a shot at champion Lia Ambrosi (en route, he defeated Rich Rollins in an Iron Man match). But White, then a member of The Establishment, fell short in a moment of identity crisis. It took White 365 days to round into form, consistently passed over by fast-tracked wrestlers like Terror and Vivica J. Valentine.
In the end White got another shot at Dangerous Games, and this time he made good. White defeated Terror, the man who jumped past him way back in April by getting in bed with The Establishment, and did so in gruesome ACWF fashion.
There are a number of questions still surrounding White's mental state, but he's finally got the monkey off his back. Unfortunately for White, his time to revel will be short. He's already facing one of the biggest, most daunting challenges of his career.
Such is the life of the GCW World Champion in the current era. White has finally emerged victorious from a highly emotional war with Terror only to see LeStatt Knight now staring him down. Knight, veteran of the big matches and perhaps the most dominant wrestler in GCW history, has never been more focused. White will have only a few months to prepare for what is being billed as the headlining match of the biggest wrestling event in history.
Starting this week at Devil's Night, GCW plans to unleash its most potent hype campaign to date. That means Jordan White and LeStatt Knight will find themselves the focus of the highest level of media attention GCW can muster, which figures to be considerable. We know LeStatt Knight will be completely at home in the spotlight.
Now we'll find out if Jordan White can handle it.
Link:
http://www.gcwonline.net
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