Reload was a

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produced by

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(MLW), which took place on September 26, 2002 at the

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in New York, New York. Nine

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were taped at the event, with seven matches being featured on the Reload home video release and one match aired on ''

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''. The vacant

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was decided in the

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between a match between

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and

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, which Kojima won. Other prominent matches on the card featured Taiyo Kea defeating Sabu to become the #1 contender for the World Heavyweight Championship,

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defeating The Sandman and

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in a

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Street Fight and

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defeating

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Event

The event kicked off with

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making an announcement that the

would be decided in the main event between

and

while their next #1 contender would be determined in a match between Taiyo Kea and Sabu later in the night.

Preliminary matches

The opening match took place between Super Crazy and Fuego Guerrero. Crazy avoided a high-angle senton bomb by Guerrero and countered a

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by Guerrero into a spinning powerbomb for the win. Next, PJ Friedman and Steve Williams took on Afterburn and Eric Adams in a tag team match. Friedman delivered a

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to Afterburn and Williams hit a backdrop driver to Adams for the win. Next,

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took on Shocker. Parka hit Shocker in the groin while Shocker attempted to hit a bronco buster to Parka and Parka then grabbed Shocker by the hair and dropped him on the mat and hit a corkscrew moonsault on Shocker for the win. Next, Christopher Daniels,

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and

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took on Quiet Storm and The S.A.T. (Joel Maximo and Jose Maximo) in a six-man tag team match. Daniels nailed a ''

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'' to Storm for the win. Next,

took on

. Candido countered a spinning toe hold by Funk by attempting to pin him with a roll-up but Funk rolled over for the win. Candido attacked Funk after the match by executing a piledriver. Later, a street fight was scheduled to take place between

and

. The Sandman interrupted the two and challenged them to a match, making it a three-way elimination. Sandman

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ed Corino off the top onto the guardrail and Vampiro pinned Sandman to eliminate him. Corino then nailed an '' Old School Expulsion'' from the middle rope to Vampiro for the win. It was followed by the penultimate match of the event between Sabu and Taiyo Kea to determine the #1 contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. Kea nailed a '' Hawaiian Smasher'' to a diving Sabu in mid-air for a near-fall and delivered a second ''Hawaiian Smasher'' and a '' H5O'' for the win.

Main event match

The main event took place between Jerry Lynn and Satoshi Kojima, with the vacant World Heavyweight Championship on the line. Kojima nailed a back drop to Lynn and a sitout scoop slam piledriver and followed it with a

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to win the title.

Aftermath

MLW officially recognized Satoshi Kojima as their inaugural World Heavyweight Champion, thus refusing to acknowledge

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' title win at

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, considering it a different belt and a different lineage. Taiyo Kea was supposed to challenge Kojima for the title at King of Kings but he suffered a knee injury which forced him to withdraw from the match and he was subsequently replaced by Vampiro as Kojima's opponent. Although not included in the Reload home video release, the tag team match of PJ Friedman and Steve Williams would later air on the April 14, 2003 airing of MLW's television program '' Underground TV''. Friedman and Williams would form a tag team, entering a tournament for the new Global Tag Team Championship at King of Kings.

Results

References

External links

Major League Wrestling official website
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