Reality of Wrestling 1/5/2026 GLORY - 20 Year Anniversary Special Edition

Reality of Wrestling 1/5/2026 GLORY - 20 Year Anniversary Special Edition

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The show ROW GM's, Ivory Robyn and Andrew Jackson talk about who is putting on the best show tonight and run down the cards. Andrew wants to know why the Glory champ isn't defending the title tonight.

The commentators talk about tonight's show. 

ROW Legacy Title - Ladder Match - Gino Medina vs Clay Roberts vs Javi vs Semsei vs Chandler Hopkins

We get a bunch of fast action to start. Chan shoulders over Sem and they stand off. Clay dropkicks Chan. Chan is pushed off a ladder into the ropes then his knee is dropped on the ladder. Javi chops Cay and supericks him over the middle rope. Jav is then hit with a ladder. Gino corkscrew kicks Sem. Gino slingshots over a ladder. He hits kicks on Chan and dropkicks a dropkick into Javi.

Clay chops Gino. Gino chops him against the ladder. Gino throws up Clay in the corner and knees him in the gut. Chan rolls into a flatliners on Gino. Javi fisherman busters Chan. Sem hits Javi with a ladder. Sem suicide dives onto opponents outside.

Clay gets on top of a ladder, decides not to jump off of it then goes for the title. Sem jumps off a ladder and Clay spears him down in mid-air. Gino and Javi climb a ladder together. They fight there. Chan is knocked off a ladder. Gino/Javi/Chan fight on the ladder and Gino is pushed off into a ladder in the corner.  Chan and Javi knock each other off at the same time. Chan is powerbombed on a bridged ladder.

Clay throws a ladder at Javi's head. Sem and Clay are on a ladder. Sem hangs upside down. Clay's head is banged off a ladder then he falls onto a bridged ladder. Sem then grabs the title and wins.

Thoughts: It was your usual ladder match. I was surprised to see the mid-air spear spot. They put out an okay effort here and we got enough violence without anything being too dangerous. I was fine with this. 

Sam Holloway does a promo with EJ Nduka. He says the two biggest guys came together. EJ says there will be a whole lot of motion going down.

Fly Def do a promo and says they will try to bring the tag division back to prominence. They say they will become the #1 contenders.

Lockhart and Rhys do a promo and argue. La Familia then get hyped up for the match tonight.

#1 Contender's Match - La Familia (Jonathan Vega and Jay Alexander)  vs Fly Def (Zack Mason and Warren Johnson) vs Erik Lockhart & Rhys Maddox vs Sam Holloway & EJ Nduka

Rhys and Vega go at it. Vega side headlocks him and springboard armdrags him. Rhys side headlocks him then Erik flatliners Vega off of it for 2. Vega suplexes Erik. Erik hiptosses Warren and armlocks him. Erik takes a double shot to the gut and back. 

Zack is tripped into a short ddt for 2. Sam lariats Rhys hard from the apron. Sam facekicks Zack. Rhys is thrown up and double dropped on his back by EJ's team. EJ then suplexes him. Sam 2nd rope elbow drops Rhys for 2.

Sam misses a corner splash and then launches Rhys on a release german. Rhys jawbreakers EJ then enzugiri's Zack. Jay comes in and hits shots on 3 opponents. Sam is pulled over the top and goes flying out. Jay overhead belly to belly suplexes Zack. Jay takes a powerplex. EJ tags himself in for a 2 count on Jay. Jay takes a double chokeslam for 2.

Sam and EJ get beat up by everyone. Jay spears EJ. Jay takes a backdrop + 2nd rope neckbreaker. Rhys springboard euros Warren then takes a facekick from Zack. Erik takes a flying headscissors from Vega. Vega top rope swantons outside. 

Sam hits a hard dropkick on Jay. Vega takes a powerbomb + chokeslam combo and is pinned.

Thoughts: It didn't get a ton of time but what we got was enough. This was fine. They kept a fast pace here and EJ/Sam did a nice job of throwing their opponents around. The crowd was into this and this worked out pretty well.

Alex Gracia gets on the mic. She says she's here but Gigi Rey isn't. She says Gigi lost her passport and says it should make her the new Glory Women's champ. Ivory Robyn comes out. Ivory says that's not what we do here. She says Gigi is okay. Ivory says she has a gift for Alex. She says there's been a trade. She says Promise Braxton is her opponent and the new member of Glory.

Alex Gracia vs Promise Braxton

They lock up. Alex knees her in the gut and clubs her. Alex forearms her then PB back body drops her. PB running corner lariats her then suplexes her. PB is forearmed from behind then backdropped. PB legdrops her arm and whips her down by the arm. 

Alex hits corner spears on PB. PB is sent into the buckles. Alex running facekicks her in the corner for 2. Alex kicks PB in the arm. Alex ties up one arm and pulls on the other while standing. PB drops her backwards to escape. 

PB hits lariats and pump kicks her. PB kicks her in the back of the head. PB top rope diving meteora's her from behind. Alex gets a 2 count while putting her feet on the ropes. PB rolls her up with the tights and wins.

Thoughts: It was a shorter bout and kind of average. There was nothing too great here.

House Money are interviewed. AJ says they feel great and says 2025 was their year. He says they got the most TV time, had the longest title reign and had the most money made. He says when you play with house money, the house always wins.

House Money (AJ Francis, Josiah Jean & Quentin Wynters) vs The Command (Big Luther and Terrale Tempo) & Eli Knight

Luther and AJ stare down. They are about the same size actually though Luther is heavier. AJ then tags out to QW before doing anything. Luther stops the "money, money, money" taunt. He throws QW in the corner and corner lariats him. Tempo full nelson's QW and Luther double chops QW.

Tempo leg lariats Jean. Tempo hits the viralplex then Eli slingshot splashes Jean for 2. Eli snpmares him and low dropkicks him for 2. Tempo euros Jean. Jean spinebusters Tempo after Tianna Sway trips Tempo.

Tempo takes a facekick then QW is popped up by AJ into an elbow drop on Tempo. QW dropkicks Tempo and does push-up's off of it. QW stomps and foot chokes Tempo in the corner. AJ then foot chokes him and Jean stomps him. Tempo takes a double flapjack. AJ misses a coner splash. Eli gets in and dropkicks all 3 heels. He hits 2 dropkicks on AJ and punches. Eli handsprings into a kick on AJ.

Eli springboard dropkicks AJ then kips up off of it. Eli goes up top and hits a top rope moonsault. Sway distracts the ref and the ref doesn't count the pin attempt. Eli and Sway argue. AJ hits a big spear on Eli. Luther is p!ssed and he gets behind AJ. AJ hits lariats but Luther doesn't go down. AJ's crossbody is caught and Luther hits a world's strongest slam.

QW is caught with a sky high by Luther. Jean jumping knees Luther but Luther fires up. Luther spinebusters him. Temp leg lariats Luther out on a failed double team. Jean jumping side kicks Tempo. Eli jumping dropkicks Jean then hits a standing shiranui. 

Eli handsrpings and is swatted down by AJ with a lariat. AJ chokeslams Eli and pins him.

Thoughts: I didn't like Eli losing here but it was a fun tag otherwise. I wish it would have gotten a bit more time because it worked and just scratched the surface of what these guys can do.. Luther is super over. I do wonder if Luther getting hit by Tempo will lead to something or not. I enjoyed this and would be up for a rematch.

Overall thoughts: I liked 3 of the 4 matches here. The ladder match was probably the best match here but I enjoyed the main most. The crowd was pretty good here and they gave us some good stuff on this episode. I thought it was a fun watch and I'd give it a 6 out of 10. It was a good show.