MLW Fusion results: Davey Richards vs. SB KENTo National Openweight title match

Joe Dombrowski and Rich Bocchini welcomed us to Atlanta, Georgia, for this week's MLW Fusion and promised a medical update on MLW Champion Alex Hammerstone following his brawl with EJ Nduka that sent both of them through the stage. 

They also reiterated that Cesar Duran was ousted as MLW matchmaker last week.

This week's show continued to focus on the Super Series between MLW talent and other promotions.

Star Roger defeated Cosmos

Puerto Rico's entry into the Super Series this week was Roger, a charismatic babyface who was eager to impress and get the crowd going throughout the match. He took on Cosmos from the Lucha Lucha Atlanta promotion and a masked high flier who was also making his MLW debut.

We heard some background about Star Roger initially being a parody character of Carlito called "Carlitos" in Puerto Rico, but he now has a bit of a chip on his shoulder as he wants to prove people wrong with a more serious, yet colorful, personality and wrestling style. 

Cosmos impressed early, diving from the top rope and hitting a sunset flip, quickly followed by a suicide dive to the outside. Roger came back with a dive of his own, using his slight size advantage to drive Cosmos into the guardrail.

Later, Roger had his own flurry of offense when he used Cosmos as a post to spring from, dropkicking him off the ropes and smoothly following up with a German suplex. Roger then planted Cosmos with a face-first gourdbuster from the top rope, but he missed a nice-looking double springboard moonsault in the follow-up.

This gave Cosmos the opening for a comeback as he planted Roger with a tilt-a-whirl DDT but it was short-lived when Roger came back with a jump-up neck breaker.

The back-and-forth action continued with a Roger superkick and a standing Spanish fly from Cosmos. However, Cosmos was caught after taking a little too long on the top rope and was finished with a top rope Spanish Fly by Roger to give the Puerto Rico star the win in a nice action-packed opener.

- After crashing through the set last week, Nduka told us that he is the self-proclaimed World champion because he is here and Hammerstone isn't. Later, the medical update on the champion was that he suffered a hole in his lip after the big bump.

- After seeing Jacob Fatu have a change of heart last week in deciding not to cash in his guaranteed title shot against Hammerstone by virtue of his Battle Riot win, we heard from Fatu, Juicy Finau and Lance Anoa'i as they plan to get a Tag Team title shot for the Samoan SWAT Team.

- Mance Warner was back on his continued comedic hunt for Mads Krugger. Ol' Mancer was searching through the Georgian wilderness but instead of Krugger, he stumbled across Microman instead, who himself was hunting with his net for wild butterflies. Earlier in the night, we heard from Krugger who said it is the Black Hand that is hunting Warner. These two will clash next week in a tables match.

- Alex Kane and Mr. Thomas informed us the MLW Opera Cup will now be known as the Bomaye Fight Club tournament. Kane had previously stolen the cup from Davey Richards and is now holding the tournament hostage.

MLW National Openweight Champion Davey Richards defeated SB KENTo to retain

Dragon Gate's KENTo was making his MLW debut and looked great. He had a strong start with a flurry of strikes and underhanded tactics to get the early advantage.

The commentary team caught us up with Richards' recent storylines involving the Bomaye Fight Club. Tonight, however, his attention was on KENTo and he had to be in top form to keep his title.

KENTo dropped Richards with a DDT on the apron, hit a running dropkick in the corner, and even invited Richards to take a few free forearm shots before raking Richards' eyes to stay on top.

Richards' comeback started after he double foot stomped his way free of a sunset flip. He hit his dragon screw through the ropes but missed a double foot stomp from the top rope. Moments later, he was still able to lock in the Trailer Hitch submission.

After a hard landing from a top rope superplex, Richards hit a running soccer kick, superkick, German suplex, a lariat and a brainbuster in a finishing sequence flurry before locking in his ankle lock, with a grapevine, to pick up the submission win and successful title defense.

After trying to take underhanded advantages throughout the match, there was a nice showing of respect after the match between the two exhausted wrestlers. Bocchini interviewed Richards at ringside who said he is open to competing against all challengers before mentioning he still has unfinished business with Kane.

 Next Week:

• MLW Featherweight Champion Taya Valkyrie defends against Lady Flammer
• Mance Warner vs. Mads Krugger in a tables match