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Win Lose Or Draw

HOMICIDE WAS MY pick to leave the Crockett Cup as NWA World junior heavyweight champion, but the wily veteran wasn’t a risky bet, considering he had already won a gauntlet-match qualifier that included CW Anderson, Darius Lockhart, Ricky Morton, Kerry Morton, Luke Hawx, and PJ Hawx to earn an instant ticket to the four-way tournament final in Nashville. He had also maintained a consistent ring schedule and was in great physical shape.

To me, those factors made him the favorite. Homicide dominated former ROH rival Austin Aries in most of their exchanges during the four-way, and his experience made him too formidable for the other two combatants, Colby Corino and Darius Lockhart. Homicide pinned

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