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"Vicious" Vic Grimes defeated "Shooter" Tony Jones in the time of 10:41 with a powerbomb. The highlight of this tough fought match was at the 7 minute mark when everyone in attendance thought Jones had stunned the big guy, Grimes with a German Suplex. What makes this German Suplex so devastating is that although Jones weighs in at 258, Grimes came into this match at over 350 pounds. - Original match review from 1997...

All Pro Wrestling presents a Heavyweight Championship match featuring Michael Modest versus Chris Cole!

Here's a classic match deep from the archives of All Pro Wrestling. The year was 1997 and APW's Gym Wars was one of the premiere events in independant wrestling. It's the "Natural One" Michael Modest vs. a young "Superkick" Chris Cole for the APW Universal Heavyweight Championship!

All Pro Wrestling presents a tag match featuring Blitzkrieg and Super Dragon versus the American Wild Child and HellBlazer in a "U.S.A versus International" tag team challenge match.

This was the match that everyone was waiting for, Vic Grimes and his mystery man, going for tag team gold. The "Westside Playaz" had no idea what they were in for. The Grimes brothers were here, with their new valet, Miss Brenda, and the tag team titles on their minds. The match started right away with the Grimes boys attacking the Playaz. "Little" Dic was going to work on Jay Smooth while "Vicious" Vic was taking care of "Shoota" Jones. The Grimes brothers were doing double team moves that nobody in APW has seen before, espically Kuame and his boys.

Best 2 out of 3 Falls Match

In this All Pro Wrestling match the Grimes Brothers shock the fans by making their entrance by driving a car through the garage door entrance! This same car would end up dented and very abused before this battle was over.

Later in the night, Erin O'Grady (now known as Crash Holly) would announce his departure for ECW and turn his back on APW and it's fans. Watch this match to see how this shocking night played out.

Commentary by Frank "BostonIdol" Jewett.

*Holiday Weapons Match*

In 1997, "Vicious" Vic Grimes was shocking the wrestling world with his hardcore style. Grimes became known at the APW Garage as the CEO OF HARDCORE and every show would have fans packed to see what he would do next.

This was the night Barry Blaustien and his camera crew visited the APW Garage to film footage for the major motion picture, Beyond the Mat. Be sure to watch until the end of the match when Michael Modest gives a passionate speach about the pro wrestling business and his involvement in "The Secrets of Pro Wrestling Revealed" wrestling expose.

Halloween Hell 2 will forever be a historic night in APW history. In the weeks leading up to this show, Gym Wars crowds were growing so large there was concern that APW was exceeding the occupancy limit for the building. This combined with the city Fire Marshal being called on several occasions by "APW-Haters" had many wondering if HH2 was even going to take place.

This match was everything that we expected, and more. Defiantly the match of the year. This is the first match i have ever given 5 Stars!!! All four men were brilliant in this match. The double team moves were awesome, the psychology was perfect, just an all around great match.

All four men did just about every move they knew, and showed us a few new ones as well (with Boyce's "Flipping Stunner" being my favorite of the night). There is no way that i could recap everything that happened, so i will just tell you to go buy the tape of this match.

On this night, M'aoch (James Watkins) had his work cut out for him. Not only did he have a title shot against APW Champion, Tony Jones, but he had to deal with the "Shoot Club" (Frank Murdoch, Shane Dynasty) at ringside. Unfortunately, with only Cherry Bomb in M'aoch's corner, things looked bad for the challenger.