Take No Prisoners (2009) - Event - Preliminary Matches

Preliminary Matches

The show opened with a match between Colt Cabana and his original trainer and often tag team partner, Ace Steel. The match started with both wrestlers comedically inspecting the structural integrity of the top rope, which broke during a match the night prior, before starting their match eventually won by Cabana after making Steel submit to an inverted version of the Boston crab dubbed the Chicago Crab.

Succeeding the third dark match was an eight-man tag team match pitting the team of Kevin Steen, El Generico, Jay Briscoe, and guest-appearing from Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), Magno, against Chris Hero, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards of Sweet n' Sour Inc., and guest from AAA, Incognito. The match was kept at a fast pace and brawling that eventually ended by Briscoe catching Hero with a piledriver, driving his head to the mat, followed up by the former team scoring the victory.

Jimmy Jacobs would wrestle Necro Butcher next in a No-Disqualification match that quickly degenerated to a brawl on the floor area surrounding the ring before both wrestlers made their way into the crowd, which eventually had Jacobs pull out his signature railroad spike to use as a weapon against his opponent, cutting open his face. This would do little to phase Necro Butcher, as he would return to the ring area to place Jacobs onto the top turnbuckle before suplexing him off onto the floor of the arena. After some trading of shots with a steel chair, Necro Butcher punched his adversary in the face before executing a sit-down powerbomb to him to get the pinfall.

The following match was scheduled to be a tag team match pitting Nigel McGuinness and Claudio Castagnoli against Brent Albright and Blue Demon, Jr., but due to the aforementioned injury of McGuinness, the match became a triple threat match. The match started as a fight between Castagnoli and Demon with Demon throwing his opponent to the floor of the arena with a headscissors takedown over the top rope. As Albright made his way into the match, he attacked Castagnoli. The match would end by Albright catching Castagnoli in a half nelson, suplexing him before pinning him.

AAA had another guest competitor in Alex Koslov against Roderick Strong. The match was based around both men delivering heavy shots and stiff throws to each other with neither man being able to pin their opponent. The match would end by Strong delivering a kick to Koslov's face before hooking his legs, and applying a Boston crab he calls the Strong Hold to get the submission victory.