Adam Styles offers his hand to comply with the Code of Respect but Hawk Boy turns his back on his opponent, much to the annoyance of Styles. The crowd booed loudly at that, way to get people to like you on your debut! They trade control in the opening moments and try some quick pin attempts. Hawk Boy sends Styles to the floor with a headscissors and fakes a dive. In the ring, Hawk Boy connects with a corner dropkick. Styles responds with a backbreaker and takes control. Hawk Boy comes back with discuss forearm smash and follows with a slingshot hurricanrana to the outside. Back in, Hawk Boy lands a springboard dropkick along with a springboard Ace crusher. He adds another crusher and locks in the cloverleaf.
Styles makes the ropes to break the hold and then hits a dropkick. Hawk Boy lands a backbreaker rack dropped into a neckbreaker before sending Styles up and hurricanrana’s him off the turnbuckle. Hawk Boy leaps back to the top rope and hits the Hawk Splash for a nearfall. Styles avoids the Fly by Night and finds success with a Yakuza kick. He tries for a flying forearm but Hawk Boy plants him with the Fly by Night at the second attempt and follows up with the Talons of Terror for the win at 13:01.
Your winner, Hawk Boy!
A solid debut performance from Hawk Boy. The fans may not have liked his attitude but they seemed to enjoy his style in our opening bout here tonight. I think the rest of FRONTIER will sit up and take notice of that. As for Styles, another decent debut, even though he came up short here tonight. There’s definite potential there, let’s see how he bounces back from this one.