Surprisingly good attendance considering the rough weather and the Pats game. The Lowell Memorial Auditorium holds 2,800 and must've had around 2,000 people in attendance. A hot crowd throughout the show with most in attendance being familiar with the product.
The show kicked off with EC3 interrupting Jeremy Borash as he was delivering the opening address and excusing him from the ring. EC3 welcomed everyone and said 3 letters were synonymous with hardcore: EC3. He said all of the money we spend goes to his trust fund. Fans chanted "we want Dreamer" and Tommy Dreamer came out to a good reaction.
1. Ethan Carter III beat Tommy Dreamer in a table match. Everything you'd expect from Dreamer in 2013: beer spitting, things dropkicked in faces, etc. But the crowd was really into it and was solidly behind Dreamer. Carter hit a spinebuster through a table leaned in the corner for the win.
The Bro Mans came out without their Tag Titles, so look for them to drop them before this airs. They ran down Team Angle and said none of them were hardcore. They called Dewey Barnes in from the merch stand and introduced him as the fourth member of Team Angle. He threw out some t-shirts and then had a long, pointless, and not funny pose-down and push-up contest with Jesse. At 9 push-ups, Jesse dropped Dewey and the heel duo hit their double team finish to leave Dewey laying. That said whoever is the real fourth member will end up the same.
2. Bobby Roode defeated Samoa Joe by DQ. Good match, Roode got the DQ win with the old Eddie Guerrero smokin' gun, where he tossed Joe a trash can and bumped, only for the referee to turn and see Joe with the can and call for the bell. With that, Team Roode has the man advantage in Lethal Lockdown.
3. Lei'd Tapa pinned Velvet Sky in a streetfight. Mediocre match. Tapa won with a TKO-style stunner.
4. Eric Young and Joseph Park beat Bad Influence in a Full Metal Mayhem match. Good match with some impressive spots and big bumps. The crowd chanted "We want Abyss" several times but didn't get their wish. Young scored the win with an elbow drop off the top of the ladder.
Borash came out and instigated sound bytes of the arena cheering and booing, probably to pipe in in post-production.
Before the next match, Bully Ray got heat by playing up on being from NYC. Mr. Anderson said he didn't want to put Bully on a stretcher because he didn't want Bully to receive medical attention, and he had the match changed to a last man standing match.
5. Bully Ray beat Mr. Anderson in a last man standing match. Old fashion double juice job. Anderson got the visual win with a Plunge and Kenton Bomb onto a guardrail but the ref was bumped. Bully shoved Anderson into the ringsteps which had been brought into the ring and Anderson couldn't answer Hebner's ten count.
Intermission to set up the cage.
6. Austin Aries beat Chris Sabin in an Xscape match. Nothing too dangerous or risky, but good athleticism throughout. Lengthy, competitive, good match that Aries won after crotching Sabin on the top rope and escaping the cage.
7. Team Angle (Kurt Angle, James Storm, Samoa Joe, and Abyss) beat Team Roode (Bobby Roode, Magnus, and The Bro Mans) in a Lethal Lockdown match. Typical War Games style match, but the crowd was super into it. Abyss pinned Robbie E after a superkick and a Black Hole Slam on a barbed wire board.
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