And we’re off! Gambino punches and dumps Osborne over the top. Talbot punches and dumps Hardaway over the top. Talbot opens up with chops on Gambino. Gambino reverses a whip and hits a suplex on Talbot that gets 2. Looks like this one is tornado rules, thanks for the heads up on that one powers-that-be! Off a whip, Talbot gets a neckbreaker on Gambino but Osborne is in and clotheslines him down and drops him with a big slam. Hardaway is in and he clotheslines Gambino and drops him too. Lot’s of point proving going on so far.
They trade shots and Osborne dropkicks him to the outside. On the outside, Gambino pounds him and rolls him back in to Osborne. Osborne tries another whip but Talbot pulls him out on the other side. Talbot chops but Gambino comes around and clotheslines both. But Hardaway hits a baseball slide dropkick on Gambino. Hardaway whips Osborne into the stairs and slams Gambino. He tries one on Talbot but he slips out and hits one himself. He goes up and hits a moonsault on all 3 other men! Crowd really getting behind Talbot here.
Talbot rolls Hardaway in. Hardaway cuts him off and whips him. He attempts an up and over but Talbot doesn’t come in. They clothesline each other down. Gambino up top hits the double fame-asser. He tries a pin only gets 2. Interesting move from the champ there.
Osborne in. He clotheslines Gambino down and dumps Talbot and Hardaway. They trade shots until Osborne hits a backbreaker for 2. Osborne hits a leaping elbow drop and gets a 2. Whip, reversal. Gambino tries a spear but eats post and falls to the outside. Talbot in. They trade chops and shots until Talbot hits a flying elbow and kips up but right into spinwheel kick from Hardaway. Nice. He tries the pin but Osborne breaks it up. They argue and then double team Talbot! Gambino tries to sneak in but Hardaway clubs him off the apron. Double whip and double backdrop. They hit the double Boston crab!
Gambino comes in and hits a spinning heel kick on both CJ & K-Hard. Another nice move. Clotheslines and shoulderblocks for all. Then he hits a gutwrench powerbomb on Hardaway. Big elbow drop for Hardaway but Talbot and Osborne pull him out and throw him into the post, then Talbot throws Osborne into the post from behind. Awesome sound as CJ smashes off the post.
Talbot preps a piledriver through the ringside table on Osborne but Hardaway saves him with a chairshot to the back. Osborne gives him the thumbs up for the help but then eats a chairshot. Back in, Hardaway goes for a chairshot but Gambino reverses to a drop toe hold and a STF. Hardaway gets the ropes. Osborne in, another STF. Talbot in. Gambino tries again but Talbot rolls him up for 2.
Another flying elbow from Talbot. Inverted atomic drop on Gambino but Hardaway is up but he eats an inverted atomic drop. Talbot connects with a big right hand. Another for Osborne. A bodyslam for Gambino and Talbot up top for the elbow drop. He signals to the crowd. Hardaway tries a KTFO~! but Talbot dodges. Another body slam and goes up top again for another elbow drop. Osborne in. More of the same. Gambino cuts him off and goes for the Fongul off the top but Hardaway and Osborne are up for a Tower of Doom/Samoan Drop combo. Gambino tries an Fongul but Hardaway escapes and right into a Williams Driver but then Gambino reverses back to an Fongul position and Hardaway reverses to an Williams Driver position again! Great blocking and countering!
Hardaway nails a big kick before getting Gabe up for an Asylum Bomb. Talbot is in and Hardaway picks him up too!! K-Hard has Gabe AND Talbot on his shoulders!! Amazing stuff! But Talbot slides off the back and preps Last Call. Osborne in through and DREAM STREET! Osborne tries the pin but Hardaway drops Gambino and breaks it up.
Hardaway.. WILLIAMS DRIVER ON CJ! Two only! Hardaway tries a spear on Gabe but Gambino leapfrogs! Osborne pushes Hardaway toward Gambino. Gambino sets up the Fongul. Osborne slides out and gets pushed into a SPEAR! GAMBINO HITS THE FONGUL ON HARDAWAY! Talbot up, HITS THE LAST CALL!!! And collapses! Gambino falls on Osborne… And gets the win!!
Your winner, Gabriel Gambino!
WOWSERS! What else can be said about that match? Wowsers. I thought Hardaway had it won. I thought CJ Had it won. I thought Talbot had it won. But in the end it’s the GFC World Champion who comes out on top. My word, we will literally never hear the end of this!