NCW April Assault 2014 was a supercard event hosted live on pay-per-view by Northern Championship Wrestling. Described as a "semi-tribute to hardcore wrestling", as the promoters remarked it had been held a few weeks after ECW Barely Legal 1997, it was held at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first time a wrestling pay-per-view was held at the arena since the aforementioned Barely Legal.
Background[]
The event had been originally announced one week before NCW No Way Out 2014, originally under the name of NCW Barely Legal, and set to take place on April 13th, 2014. NCW was immediately hit by a cease-and-desist lawsuit from Ultimate Wrestling Entertainment, holders of the rights to the Barely Legal name. That, and the 2300 Arena being unavailable for the planned date as it was underdoing renovations caused the event to be renamed to April Assault and moved to one week later, on April 20th, 2014.
The card featured six matches, and was headlined by the bouts over the top titles of each respective division, those being the NCW Women's Championship and the NCW Heavyweight Championship.
The former match saw reigning champion Joan Rivera defend against challenger Korra. At No Way Out, Rivera had been ambushed by a masked wrestler going by the name of Black Beauty. The paranoid champion believed Korra to be behind the mask, and promptly jumped her at the first occasion on Prime. Korra was attacked again by Rivera, this time flanked by her stable Gamer Generation. During the attack, Rivera grabbed a microphone and rambled aimlessly. Korra was forced to take a week off as consequence, whilst Rivera would continue to try and demand everyone's attention, coming out and interrupting matches, promos, and the scheduled programming.
NCW owner DXP reached his wits' end with Rivera and, at the final Prime before April Assault, announced that she would've defended her championship against Korra at the event.
In the other main event, X-Pro Division mainstay and former champion Crash Bandicoot earned the right to challenge NCW Heavyweight Champion Drew Cage by winning a match on the go-home Prime before April Assault, only for longtime rival Chris House to attack him afterwards. At the same event, Cage, on whom crowds and NCW ownership started to turn, promised he would've abandoned NCW with the belt following April Assault, causing DXP to put pressure on Crash to win the belt and keep it within the promotion.
In the low-card, the only other match to have weight to it was the Six-Men Tag Team Match that saw the team of Sokka, Aang and NCW X-Pro Champion Bolin (dubbed "Team Doctor") take on the team of Alistair Solverig, Ben Tennyson and Zach Cage (dubbed "Team Critic"). The leading cause of this match were the frictions between new NCW commentator, the Tenth Doctor, and long-time color commentator, "The Nostalgia Critic" Doug Walker. Tensions escalated until Walker assaulted his fellow commentator during Prime's opening. The following week, the Doctor laid the challenge out to Walker, with the conditions that if he won, he was to be allowed to get physical payback, but if the Critic won, he would've left NCW.
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| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesse Alvarez defeated Takato Matsuki | Singles Match | 9:25 |
| 2 | Team Doctor (Sokka, Aang & Bolin) w/The Tenth Doctor defeated Team Critic (Alistair Solverig, Ben Tennyson & Zach Cage) w/Doug Walker | Six-Men Tag Team Match | 7:13 |
| 3 | Joan Rivera (c) defeated Korra | Singles Match for the NCW Women's Championship | 31:57 |
| 4 | Hiccup Haddock defeated Roadkill, Chris House, Jack House and Cody Hida | Ultimate X Match | 12:21 |
| 5 | Frozen Asylum (Jason Krueger and David Williams) (c) defeated The Outsiders (Randall Zeniths and Ace Hunters) and Team HeroKazu (Hirokazu Shiota and Kenta Kitagawa) | Triple Threat Tornado Tag Team Match | 18:31 |
| 6 | Crash Bandicoot defeated Drew Cage (c) | Singles Match for the NCW Heavyweight Championship | 17:46 |