Post by Cyberstrike on Apr 6, 2018 13:26:03 GMT
We go to ringside where the stage pyros explode to start off the show and we see the crowd section as with a couple of signs like “I love Rayne…Bloodstone” and "nTo 4 Life!". Finally, the camera pans over to the announce booth with JR and RK.
JR: “Welcome ladies and gentlemen to another action packed edition of X-WCW Warzone! I’m James Russell and alongside me here as always is Randal King. Tonight, were here live at the Los Angeles Forum in Englewood California!”
RK: “JR, Hollywood is ready to get XTREME tonight!”
JR: “Indeed they will king cause we WILL start off this show with a X-WCW TV Championship! Its going to be Bruce Ganser vs Judge Death!”
RK: “Oh..on second thought..I guess it WILL be Xtreme. It will be Xtremely terrible…ugh..Judge Death.”
JR: “Now, now King. Just because he tried to hit on you during the last show, doesn’t mean he is a terrible person.”
RK: “Lets see if you will have the same tone once he does it to YOU!”
Before we continue the banter between the two announcers, “Immortal” blasts into the speakers and the X-WCW CEO himself; Christopher Back, makes an appearance at ringside. The fans give a round of cheers for the X-WCW CEO as he makes his way down the rampway wearing a dark grey suit.
JR: “Here comes the X-CEO himself, Chris Back.”
RK: “He seems to have something in mind, JR. I wonder what he will announce.”
CB finally enters the ringside area and THII hands him the mic while his music slowly fades out.
CB: “Tonight, I will make a special announcement regarding the events of last Nitro. As we all know, Grandmaster E and Otacon had a draw due to a double knockout in their last match. So the world title match wont be a singles match anymore, it will be a DOUBLE ELIMINATION MATCH! So at the X rumble, it will be Otacon vs Grandmaster E vs Iganvus for the X-WCW World Title!!!”
The fans cheer wildly upon the announcement while CB pulls up his mic again to address them all.
CB: “As for Mr. Bonito, I’m here to give you another reminder. Bonito, you know as much as I know, its gonna be you and me in the X Rumble. Don’t forget, that we will face in a HELLS CHAMBER match! Remember that Tony, cause you have NEVER entered the place they call the hell’s chamber as much as I did. I have been through that chamber, and I know my way around. Tony, it doesn’t matter if you think you’re the better wrestler going into this match..but the question is..are you the better survivor?”
CB takes a pause for a while before he speaks again.
CB: “That’s a little question you need to ask yourself, Bonito, before we face each other inside that structure. Now onto other things..”
“Clint Eastwood” by the Gorillaz hit the speakers and Iganvus comes out to a loud ovation from the crowd. He holds the X-WCW World Title on his shoulders as he makes his way down the ring.
JR: “Here comes the champ, King.”
RK: “Wow, what happened to him? Aint he supposed to be lyin around somewhere backstage instead?”
Ignavus enters the ring and adjusts his shades before he is handed a spare mic by a stage hand.
Igz: “Boss guy, I’m sorry if I interrupted you, but I can’t help but hear something about Tony Bonito. You know, just like you Chris, I’m a friend of D-Ex here in the X-WCW regardless if he is in your group or hanging out with me in the locker room. Now, I know I should have done something to Tony after he maltreated our dear friend last PPV, but I guess I was slackin of a bit more than usual. Meh, so I thought about it..and yeah..I guess now’s the time to have a little payback for my good ol buddy D-Ex.”
CB just raises an eyebrow at Igz before he speaks.
CB: “Was it just me, or do you want a piece of Tony Bonito right now?”
Ignavus scratches his bum before he looks back at CB with a sheepish grin.
CB: “Ugh..I guess you do huh? Ok then, tonight, you will face Tony Bonito…IN A HOCKEY STICK ON A POLE MATCH!”
We get a mixed reaction from the crowd as Igz just nods at CB.
Igz: “See, that’s what I like about you Chris, you know what I want.”
With that said, Igz lazily exits the ring and heads on back to the rampway.
JR: “It seems like we got ourselves a match tonight. It will be Ignavus vs Tony Bonito in a hockey stick on a pole match!”
X-WCW goes to a commercial break as CB just watches Ignavus leave ringside.
X-WCW TV Championship
Bruce Ganser vs Judge Death (c)
We go back from the commercial break as “Out of the silent planet” hits the speakers and Judge Death’s eerie presence is felt throughout the ringside area by the fans.
THII: “The following X-WCW Television Title Match is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, from Deadworld, he is the X-WCW Television Champion…JUDGE DEATH!!!”
The fans give him a very mixed reaction as he makes his way down the ramp slowly with the X-WCW TV belt.
RK: “I dunno JR, but that guy just makes me feel ill inside the stomach most of the times he’s here. That and, I REALLY think he looks like a skinny turd.”
JR: “If JHA was here right now, King, he could sue you for trademark infridgement on using that reference to Judge Death.”
RK: “BAH! Just because he lands in a hall of fame class of a has-been federation…”
JD finally enters the ringside area and takes off his helmet before he unbuckles the X-WCW TV belt on his waist. He gives a grin to the referee as he hands both items, to the horror of the poor X-WCW ring official, Sid Green.
RK: “See JR? Even Sid there is creepin out.”
JR: “Its just a matter of preference, King. Judge Death is not a freak of nature, he is just..eccentric. Plus, he is one hell of a character to have as a Television Champion here in our company.”
JD leans on the nearby corner as he awaits his opponent. Soon enough “Next Contestant” by Nickleback hits the speakers and the big man Bruce Ganser makes his appearance on the stage.
THII: “And the challenger, from Milwaukee Wisconsin, he weighs in at 295 pounds…BRUCE GANSER!!!”
The fans start to boo at Ganser as he makes his way down the ramp.
JR: “Bruce Ganser, King, is one big hoss! I mean, at 6’7 and nearly 300 pounds, who would doubt him being dominant here in the X-WCW?”
RK: “No one! But, I think he just looks like that cause he is takin too much HGH if you know what I mean.”
Ganser hops onto the apron and roars to the crowd, which only gets a cackle from his opponent. Ganser shakes his head and glares at JD as he enters the ring.
RK: “I think when Ganser tried to intimidate Death, it failed miserably and just entertained the champ.”
JR: “For obvious reasons, King, Judge Death is as eccentric as they come.”
RK: “eccentric? I doubt that would even BE an understatement for him, JR!”
With both men in the ring, the referee calls for the bell to start the match. Once the bell is rung, Bruce Ganser charges at Judge Death and tries to attack him, but the TV champ quickly takes him down with a single leg takedown.
JR: “That was a smart move there by Judge Death.”
JD waits for Ganser to get up before he delivers some hard chops..or..slaps onto the chest of his opponent. He tries to whip Ganser into the ropes, but Ganser holds on and reels JD in for a hard clothesline.
RK: “OUCH! JD just got inside-out after that clothesline! I know Judge Death can lift and can do damage to his opponent, JR. However, lets remind ourselves that with his skinny frame, he too can be easily lifted up by almost anyone here in the X-WCW with ease. To me, that’s like his double edged sword.”
Ganser picks up Judge Death and tosses him into the nearby corner. Bruce Ganser goes over to the corner and deliver some hard kicks to the body of Judge Death. After a while, Ganser backs up and makes a charge into the corner. But as he nears it, Judge Death sticks out one of his boot and it meets Ganser by the face. Ganser, who is still a little stunned from the kick, staggers backwards while Judge Death flys off the corner and delivers a top rope dropkick. Ganser goes down to the mat while Judge Death slowly gathers himself to his feet.
JR: “Judge Death just took down the big bruiser there with a dropkick from the top rope.”
RK: “That’s some smooth flying there by Judge Death. I’d never imagine him doing that again sometime soon. Well, unless he would try that again today.”
Judge Death approaches Bruce Ganser and picks up the bulkier opponent. He delivers a hard throat thrust to Ganser and the big man reels back into the ropes. With Ganser on the ropes, Judge Death delivers a powerful chop to the chest that echoes throughout the building. JD has a grin on his face before he delivers a second chop across the chest of Ganser. With the second shot already hit, JD backs up and makes a charge, but Ganser catches him and sends him over the ropes.
RK: “He was way too ahead of himself right there.”
JD crashes down to the outside while Ganser slowly gets onto the apron. Eventually, Ganser steps to the outside of the ring as well and picks up Judge Death. He has Judge Death and he rams him face first onto the nearby ring post. JD falls down like a ton of bricks while Ganser just glares at him for a little while.
JR: “Bruce Ganser really wants to destroy the TV champ.”
RK: “Anyone who wants to break Judge Death in two for the second time, gets the Andrew Hart award if you ask me.”
Ganser picks up Judge Death and has him in a gorilla press position. Soon enough, he tosses Judge Death back into the ring as the referee already was in his ‘6th’ count. Ganser re-enters the ring and hauls JD back to a vertical base. However, fate befalls on Ganser as Judge Death uses both hands to…pinch him in the nipples.
RK: “WHAT IN THE?! WHAT IS JUDGE DEATH DOING?! THE PURPLE NURPLE?!”
JR: “It seems like he is, King. Judge Death just clamped his hands on Bruce Ganser’s nipple region.”
After a couple of seconds, JD lets go as Ganser hold his pinched chest region. While Ganser is distracted by the unorthodox move of JD, his opponent takes him down with a bodyslam. Judge Death turns Ganser around and locks in a camel clutch submission on his opponent.
JR: “Judge Death has that submission move applied on Bruce Ganser, and it seems to be a bit effective now.”
Bruce Ganser is stuck in the camel clutch of Judge Death for only a few seconds after JD lets go of it himself. He picks up Ganser and sets him up for a suplex, however, Bruce Ganser lifts him up into the air before he sends him down with a sit-down inverted suplex.
RK: “Ganser just reversed the momentum there against the TV Champ.”
Judge Death slowly gets to his feet and Ganser grabs him by the arm before he is reeled in for a huge clothesline. The move sends Judge Death tumbling down to the mat while Ganser has a sick smile on his face.
JR: “What a powerful clothesline delivered by Bruce Ganser on the TV Champ.”
RK: “No kidding, JR, I’m actually starting to pity JD than being disgusted by him.”
Ganser picks up Judge Death, but the TV champ starts to fight back with some hard punches on the sides of the challenger. Ganser lets go and Judge Death starts to deliver a couple of hard forearms to the head of Ganser before he bounces off the ropes. Judge Death returns from the ropes and flys off for a crossbody, but Ganser catches him and soon enough delivers a stomach breaker on the TV champion.
RK: “Very stupid move there by JD. He should have just laid it to Ganser some more or atleast just took him down with a shoulder tackle.”
JR: “I think Judge Death is in a WORLD of hurt right now after that devastating stomach breaker delivered by the opponent.”
Bruce Ganser grabs Judge Death by the head and he sets him up for a powerbomb. He lifts JD on his shoulders and is about to slam him down the mat, but…
JR: “JUDGE DEATH DELIVERS A CHOP TO THE HEAD!”
RK: “Holy rip-offs!!!”
With the move borrowed from a certain hoss, it is proven effective as the bigger Ganser stumbles down the mat. Judge Death hooks one of Ganer’s leg and the referee goes for the pin.
JR: “Here is the cover..1..2…3…and..its over..”
RK: “Well, atleast Judge Death retains his title. That’s good for him, I doubt its good for the rest of us.”
“Out of the silent planet” blares out into the speakers yet again as the referee raises Judge Death’s arm in the air.
THII: “The winner of this match and STILL X-WCW Television champion…JUDGE DEATH!!!”
The fans give a mixed reaction as JD is handed the TV title by the referee.
JR: “Such a strange finish here from an equally strange character known as Judge Death.”
RK: “You tell me, he just ripped off Khali with that move.”
JD raises his belt slowly in the air, but soon enough, the lights go out at ringside. Once it comes back up, Seith is behind Judge Death with a nightstick on his hand. Before he could strike, JD spins around and faces Seith.
RK: “Oh great, yet another creep enters the scene.”
JR: “Seith Helloct is here at ringside and both men are nose to nose!”
With both men staring down, JD quickly puts the belt on his shoulder. Seith, slowly raises his nightstick and he uses it to pat the X-WCW Television belt of Judge Death.
JR: “It seems like Seith Helloct just made his statement to Judge Death, he WANTS the X-WCW TV title!”
RK: “Well, as long as they don’t actually lust for each other like they did in Nitro, its all good to me!”
X-WCW goes to a commercial break as both men continue to stare down in the middle of the ring.
Backstage
We go to Carnage Inc’s locker room where we see “Mr. All American” Rocky Davis doing some of his pre-match stretching all alone. All of a sudden, he hears a knock on the door and he answers it. Once the door opens, the Lost Boys enter the room.
MAA: “What took you two so long?”
Mike: “Yo Mr. All American, me and Mark here just came from the arena’s gym and were ready to fight by your side on the triple threat match.”
Mark: “Yeah man, were here to represent the red, white and blue and make Joey Goldstone and Marky Mark Malin black AND blue all over for ya.”
Mr. All American just has a smile on his face and pats both men on the back.
MAA: “Now boys, I like your enthusiasm and whatnots, but leave it to me ok? I got this match in the bag. Now…regarding the Stix brothers? They got a match tonight and I see you two here in the locker room. If I recall, those two asswipes screwed you two in a match last Nitro. As members of Carnage Inc., what the hell are you supposed to do about them handing you such a miscarriage of justice during Nitro?”
Mike: “Those two monkey faced idiots? Of course they will NOT get away for what they did to me and my brother here.”
Mark: “Yeah, what Mikey said. You know, if they think they can mess with us..THE LOST BOYS…they might have just lost their minds right there and then. They’d still better watch their backs tonight.”
MAA nods in agreement with his two young protégés and turns around to stretch a bit more. Once he is done, he turns around to the Lost boys with a grin.
MAA: “I’m glad I heard that, boys. Well, you two better let me be inside the locker room now cause I still got a lot of preparation to do right here ok?”
The Lost Boys both say ‘yeah’ and leave the locker room. We see Mr. All American do a little bit of his stretching yet again until we head back to the ringside area.
RK: “Wow, after a few shows we got a name change here JR! Say goodbye to Real American and say hello to Mr. All American Rocky Davis. If you ask me, that’s one helluva nice name that rolls around your tongue.”
JR: “Even though he has a new name, does it mean he has a new outlook here in the X-WCW, King?”
RK: “Only time will tell, JR. Right now, its tag team action with the WALKIN STIX vs Misled Kiddies of Jacko!”
JR: “Uhm..dont you mean to say ‘The Stix Brothers’ vs ‘Misled Youth’ is the next tag team contest?”
RK: “Bah, those names are as synonymous as the names I just said, JR.”
The Stix Brothers vs Misled Youth
THII: “Ladies & gentlemen, the following tag team contest is scheduled for 1 fall. It will be under a 30 minute time-limit. Introducing first…”
*Some very eerie piano music hits the speakers followed by a loud explosion that causes the fans to jump and scream. The two massive creatures dubbed the Stix Brothers step out of the curtains with no emotion. Well we can see that through the wholes of their masks…the two walk down the ramp way creeping out any fans in the front row. They both climb into the ring at the same time and evily smirk as they await their opponents.*
THII: “Both from parts unknown, at a combined weight of 700 lbs… Dante & Damien Stix, The Stix Brothers!!!!”
JR: “These two are no doubt large hosses! I have never seen 2 people that can move quite like them…especially at their height King. They are not just your typical big men…its almost as if they are supernatural.”
*The fans give a mixed reaction as the two large brothers stand in the middle of the ring. Just then, “Lost Boys” by 69 Eyes hits the speakers and the tag team of Misled Youth head onto the ramp. Chaz Sundance & Trevor Moon slowly walk down the ramp, kind of nervous when looking at their opponents who are basically twice their size. As they walk down the ramp, they get booed like crazy from the fans.*
THII: “And their opponents…from Santa Cruz CA, at a combined weight of 298 lbs…. Chaz Sundance & Trevor Moon….MISLED YOUUUUTH!!!!!”
*The two enter the ring and stare down their motionless/emotionless opponents. Damien just turns and leaves the ring while both Misled Youth members try to start the match off 2 on 1. The referee yells for one to leave and both make a break for the apron. Trevor gets onto the apron first and Chaz stomps on the mat. He looks at the massive Damien as the bell rings to start the match.*
JR: “Now, if Chaz wants to walk out of this match-up at all, he cannot be still. He has to hit and move and never be stationary, one punch could end this match.”
RK: “Man, you seriously doubt Misled Youths ability. It will be good to see a proverbial David vs. Goliath.”
JR: “You know you used the term proverbial at the wrong time right?”
*Chaz dances around his opponent, Damien Stix. When he gets in front of Dante, Dante goes for a haymaker, which the clever Chaz dodges. Chaz sends a couple right hands to Dante…but have no effect. Dante throws a right hand at Chaz, but Chaz dips it again and sends some more right hands to Dante. They seem to be working until Chaz goes for a turn around haymaker. Dante drops the spinning Sundance right to the ground with a hard right hand to the jaw.*
*Dante grabs Chaz by the throat with both hands and lifts him up in the air, then throws him onto the other side of the canvas. Chaz grabs his back in pain as he gets up, only to find Dante closing in on him. Dante goes for a running clothesline, but Chaz ducks it. When Dante turns around to attack, Chaz sends a dropkick to the knee which takes Dante down to one knee and starts hammering away on his face.*
*Trevor Moon shouts some words of encouragement to his partner as he continues to send right hands to Dante. The Stix Brother starts to absorb the pain and get to his feet, so Chaz goes for a right toe kick. Dante catches his foot, but stumbles back after falling victim to a lightning fast Enziguri. Chaz quickly gets up and charges at Dante and jumps at him for a Cross Body attack, but Dante catches him in mid air. He sets him up for a British Bulldog like running powerslam, but Chaz wiggles and slides enough to land behind the big guy.*
RK: “Looks like Chaz Sundance heard you earlier JR. He is really using his quickness and speed to stop Dante from utterly destroying him.”
*The fans watch on as Chaz Sundance jumps on Dante Stix’s back for a sleeper hold. Chaz wraps his legs around his opponent hoping to further the damage and it looks like it is actually working! Dante drops to one knee and Sundance tightens his grip. He screams out loud trying to tighten it more, but Dante starts to rally. He stands up tries to shake Chaz off. Chaz does not listen, but is forced to when Dante runs forward a bit and falls backwards, crushing his smaller opponent behind him.*
JR: “A fitting counter for Dante. He has now completely changed the momentum, lets find out of he can capitalize.”
*Dante gets up, a little sore from the past attacks, but gets up anyway. He leans on the ropes awaiting Chaz Sundance to get up, which he does about 8 seconds later. Dante meets Chaz with some very hard shots to the body. The impact from each blow takes its toll, but one the 6th one comes, Chaz doubles over and grabs his stomach. Dante then grabs him by the waist and takes him down with a guntwrench suplex. As soon as his body hits the mat, Chaz sits up and screams holding his lower abdomen. Dante gets up and runs sending a running boot to the back of Chaz’s head and knock him back down. The smaller Stix brother attempts the first pinfall of the night.*
JR & RK: “1…tw-kickout by Sundance!”
RK: “He may be afraid of him, but he sure as hell ain’t backing down!”
JR: “That’s the truth as we can see.”
*Dante sends an elbow to the face and helps up Sundance. He proceeds with some strong knee strikes to the waist and then takes Chaz down with a standing back body drop! Dante sits up smiling as he listens to the everlasting pain of Chaz Sundance. Moon says “Tag out man, you can do it!” towards his partner and extends his hand and far out as he can. Dante looks at Trevor and shakes his head in disappointment as he turns around only to be thumbed in the eye!*
*Chaz staggers towards his partner and good friend, Trevor Moon, and tags out. Trevor climbs into the ring via middle rope and rushes at Dante Stix. He takes the partially blind sticks down with a spinning wheel kick to the back. Dante gets up and is taken back down with a dropkick. Trevor starts sending as many stomps as he can onto Dante and helps him up. Trevor bounces off of the ropes and hits Dante with a high knee attack to the face. The big guy stumbles back and Trevor attempts another one. This time though, Dante catches him sets him up correctly and drops Trevor’s knee on Dante’s knee for a knee breaker! The fans chant “OOOOOOOOH” as they can hear the attack all throughout the arena.*
JR: “Bah gawd, that move sounded very painful.”
*The cameraman switches to Damien Stix, who nods his head in approval as he awaits his brother to tag out. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ring, Chaz Sundance is sitting on the apron holding his ribcage. Back to the action, Dante drags Trevor by the hair and pulls him to the corner. The referee starts to lecture Dante about pulling the hair, but with an intimidating look, our good ol’ referee intentionally forgets what he was saying and backs away. Dante tags his brother Damien and Damien puts his left leg on top of the rope. Dante slams Trevor’s head on the boot which knocks the Misled Youth member down and leaves the ring.*
JR: “Dante Stix has just tagged in his even bigger brother, Damien Stix. This does not look good for Misled Youth folks.”
RK: “You got that right, Trevor better get some sort of adrenaline boost or something. He is in for an entire world…heck a universe of hurt.”
*Damien picks up where his brother Dante left off and lands a standing leg drop on Trevor’s throat. The leg hits Moon’s throat so hard that his legs kick up as if he used all the strength he ever had in his life to kick out of a pinfall at the end of an iron-man match. Damien wastes no time and sends some right hands to the jaw from the mat, than picks up his opponent and sends a throat thrust to poor Trevor’s throat. It takes Trevor Moon down and Damien Stix laughs evilly as Trevor holds his throat.*
*Damien rips Trevor’s hands from his throat and locks on a blatant chokehold. The referee rushes over and demands Damien to release the hold. Damien ignores the referee and the ref starts the count. When he gets to 5, the referee grabs his arm and pulls; Damien reluctantly obliges and lets go. Damien helps Trevor up by the head and holds him up in the air with both hands over his throat. Then, in Kane fashion, slams poor Trevor Moon on his back as hard as he can, the impact causes the ring to shake a bit.*
*Mr. Moon rolls on the mat in pain, holding his throat as if someone has been choking him for a long time now, which ironically is true. Damien wastes no time and goes for a pinfall attempt.*
JR: “1…2…kickout by Trevor Moon! He is hurt, but he is not out of this fight just yet King!”
RK: “But for how long? His partner’s ribs could be utterly broken and he isn’t in good shape himself. This does not look good for Misled Youth.”
*Damien stands up in frustration and sends a couple of stomps to the stomach. Then backs up and hits Moon with a jumping splash. A manly shriek is heard from the crowd as Trevor Moon is helped up by Damien Stix. Dante turns around and spots Mark Daniels from the Lost boys trying to make his way to the ring. He trips over somebody and rolls down the stairway, but gets back up and climbs and falls over the barricade. Dante jumps off of the apron to meet his adversary and starts to brawl with him.*
RK: “What is this loon doing here! He needs to exit the ring now!!”
JR: “Bah Gawd, there is Mike Daniels!!”
*While the referee screams outside the ring for Mark Daniels to leave, Mike Daniels slides from under the ring and stands up on his tipped toes. He jumps up and down and turns around to find Damien shouting at him. Damien’s eyes open big as he is hit in the groin with a blatant uppercut from Trevor Moon! Moon then schoolboys Damien while Chaz shouts for the referee to turn around.*
JR: “The referee turns around! 1…2…3, Misled Youth wins!!”
RK: “Whoa! Thanks to the misfortune of the Lost Boys, Misled youth has captured a seemingly impossible victory. Those idiots need to be put in a home, the Lost Boys are more retarded than anything I’ve ever laid my eyes on.”
*“Lost Boys” by 69 Eyes hits the speakers and the crowd boos the two heels. Trevor exits the ring via rolling from the bottom rope while Sundance gets off the apron. The two hurry up the ramp to exit as the Stix brothers go insane from losing a fight almost won. Mike has somehow been able to escape Dante and Mark runs up the ramp way like he is flying a plane.*
JR: “The Lost Boys need to be very afraid. They have messed up big time picking a fight with the Stix brothers.”
RK: “You got that right…I actually dunno if they figure they did something wrong though…”
Warzone goes on a commercial break
Backstage
Warzone returns from its commercial break to see Nightmare in the backstage area with his X-WCW Xtreme Title draped over his lap. He is seen sitting on top of a crate while we see Rayne Bloodstorm just standing around somewhere near inside the boiler room. Soon enough, we hear a loud crashing sound nearby and it startles Nightmare himself. The camera pans over to the doorway where we see Justin Sane getting to his feet after he fell from a dumpster that made its way through the boiler room door.
Nightmare: “What the hell is the meaning of this?! You dare disturb me here in MY quarters?”
Sane groggily makes his way towards Nightmare and leans on the crate before he tilts his head upwards.
Justin Sane: “EY! Are YOU the X-WCW Xtreme Champion?! Or are you just so insane as me and just stole that belt on your lap?”
Nightmare shrugs before he nods.
NM: “I am the Xtreme champion, peon. Now what the hell are YOU doing here? Will you answer that question or will I just have to beat it out of you?”
JS: “Well, I’m here to give this to you.”
Justin hands a piece of paper that was in his pants and Nightmare starts to read it. Once he is done, he looks at Justin and raises an eyebrow.
NM: “Wait, it says I’m going to defend my title as soon as I read this paper, inside this place. Hey, it also says some guy named Justin Sane should be my challenger, now who the hell is THAT?”
Justin smirks before he points to himself.
JS: “That would be ME!”
While Justin has his hands on his hips and his chest puffed out, Nightmare hops off the crate and looks at him. Soon enough, we see the referee enter the room and Nightmare uses his X-WCW belt to smack it over the head of Justin Sane. The match has begun inside the locker room!
X-WCW Xtreme Title
Boiler Room Brawl
Nightmare© vs Justin Sane
While we can see the boiler room, we can hear the voice-overs of the announcers who are off the screen.
JR: “Well King, I guess we got an official match right now.”
RK: “Great, and I was ENJOYING my nap time right here a few seconds ago but…NO! Someone just HAD to wake me up for this match.”
Nightmare drags Justin Sane up to his feet before he delivers a couple of hard forearms to the face of his opponent. Justin shoves Nightmare off him before he charges at him and takes him down with a tackle. With Nightmare on the floor, Justin Sane starts to hammer away on his head with some hard punches to the face. Nightmare rolls around the floor and turns the tide before he delivers some hard elbow shots to Justin Sane.
RK: “Its like both men are going at it UFC style here, JR.”
With Justin Sane a little bit dazed on the floor, Nightmare locks on a keylock on one of his arms. Justin Sane struggles to get out of the hold with using his free arm to smack Nightmare on his sides. Eventually, the Xtreme champion lets go and gets to his feet. Justin Sane gets up and he sees Nightmare charging at him. Sane quickly sidesteps out of the way and he sends Nightmare into the direction of the nearby dumpster. Nightmare rams his head onto the side of the dumpster before he turns around and stumbles into Justin Sane. Justin grabs him by the head and delivers a sit-down facebuster reminiscent of the X-Factor and pins the champion.
JR: “A facebuster by Sane and heres the cover 1..2..and Nightmare kicks out.”
Justin Sane shakes his head for a while before he climbs up the dumpster and waits for Nightmare to get up. Once Nightmare is up, he launches himself from the dumpster and delivers a flying crossbody. However, once he connects it, Nightmare rolls over and pins him instead.
JR: “The pin has been reversed, 1..2..NO! Kickout there by Justin Sane.”
RK: “A very classic reversal there by Nightmare. It might be inside a boiler room, but there are still elements in wrestling that one can use there.”
Nightmare and Justin Sane get up at the same time and Justin runs towards Nightmare. Unfortunately for the newcomer, Nightmare scouts him and takes him down with a vicious spinning heel kick right across the face of Justin Sane.
RK: “That kick might have just loosened or broke a couple of teeth on Justin Sane.”
Justin Sane scrambles back up while he holds his mouth with one of his hands. He gets punched on the gut by Nightmare, but he fights back with a hard kick right across the chest of Nightmare. Once Nightmare is on his knees, he attempts a super kick on his opponent’s face. However, the Xtreme champion scouts it and avoids the kick by blocking it with both hands. He spins Justin around before he gets up and clotheslines his opponent.
JR: “That was a quick recovery by the Xtreme champion and he takes down the challenger with a clothesline.”
RK: “Its either he is on an adrenaline rush now, JR, or he wants to just get out of the room pretty badly.”
Nightmare hauls up Justin Sane, but Sane grabs him and delivers a jawbreaker. Nightmare staggers backwards for a while before Justin Sane runs towards him and delivers a flying clothesline to take down the champion. With Nightmare getting up, Justin Sane sees a nearby chair and sets it up a few feet nearby Nightmare.
RK: “To me, its like Justin would do a little Sabu imitation right here inside the boiler room.”
With Nightmare already up and a little bit groggy, Justin Sane runs towards the chair and he springs up to it to deliver a jumping side kick to Nightmare. However, Nightmare somehow catches him and slams Justin Sane back-first onto the chair.
JR: “OH MY GOODNESS! Not only did Sane’s plan fail, but it back-fired on him. He launched himself from the chair, and now he crashed back into the chair.”
RK: “Talk about a cruel twist of fate there JR.”
Sane is hurting already on the floor, but Nightmare seems like he is not finished with his assault on the challenger. He drags him up by his head and he delivers a couple of hard clubs to the back of his opponent. Soon enough, he locks him into an abdominal stretch as the referee asks for Justin to give up.
RK: “The newcomer Justin Sane has himself locked in that abdominal stretch, JR. His back is already hurt by his earlier screwup, and now its gonna be aggravated by the submission hold Nightmare has placed him.”
Justin screams in pain, however, he does not submit to the move of Nightmare. After a few seconds, Nightmare gives up on the hold and shoves Justin back to the floor in frustration. Justin holds his back for a while before Nightmare picks him up and sets him up for a powerbomb. He tries to lift Justin, but he blocks it and back body drops the champion to the floor.
JR: “The powerbomb attempt has been foiled by the challenger and Nightmare slowly gets to his feet.”
Nightmare is on his feet right now and Justin Sane kicks him hard on the gut and sets him up for his twist of fate finisher. However, Nightmare powers his way out of it and shoves Justin Sane…INTO THE NEARBY BOILER!!! The impact makes the boiler spew out steam that temporarily blinds the challenger and he turns around and goes down on his knees as he is blinded.
RK: “That blinded Justin Sane pretty good. That would really sting, JR!”
JR: “Indeed it did, Justin sane is temporarily blinded by the steam and BAH GAWD! That was one wicked kick across the back of the head of Justin Sane by Nightmare and he falls down on the floor.”
After Nightmare connected with that fierce karate kick to the back of Sane’s head and locks in his rear naked choke hold on him.
JR: “Nightmare locks in his patented move that he calls ‘trapped in your dreams’. He really has the choke hold locked in tightly, King.”
RK: “Justin Sane, if he could actually get up from this move, would have my praises right off the bat. But I doubt he would get out of this move since he already got blinded AND he possibly got all his braincells kicked out of his head after that fierce kick delivered by Nightmare. The only thing this choke hold does for Justin is to hamper his breathin time cause he needs more O2 now than he ever did when he was conscious.”
The referee checks if Justin Sane is conscious, but after holding his arm up 3 times and it flopped, he calls the match to end and declares Nightmare as the champion.
JR: “Well folks, its over.”
RK: “Nightmare retains his X-WCW Xtreme title yet again, JR! That was some amazing title defense there by Nightmare.”
JR: “Indeed it was, King. Justin Sane put up a good fight, but he fell short in the final seconds and got beat by Nightmare.”
We hear THII’s voice over off the screen as well.
THII: “The winner as a result of submission and STILL X-WCW Xtreme Champion…NIGHTMARE!!!”
Nightmare still has Justin Sane with his submission hold as the referee attempts to break it up. However, Nightmare doesn’t let go of Justin Sane with the hold.
JR: “Oh my goodness, this doesn’t look so good for Justin Sane right now, King.”
RK: “You’re right, JR. Look, I think his face is already turning blue or purple..or something right now.”
Soon enough, a couple of more X-WCW referees and Rayne Bloodstone herself storm into the boiler room in attempts to break up the submission move. We go back to ringside with James Russell and Randal King at the helm.
JR: “Welcome back to the ringside area, folks.”
RK: “Yeah, if we still focus the cameras on the boiler room, we can only see Nightmare continue the suffering of Justin Sane with that submission move.”
JR: “As we speak, King, indeed the officials and even Nightmare’s friend Rayne Bloodstone are still trying to let him take off the submission move. Nightmare is one of the most fearsome competitors of the X-WCW today. Well ladies and gentlemen; Warzone will come back after the commercial break.”
Warzone goes to a brief commercial break.
***COMMERCIAL BREAK*****
The commercial shows a road along the Detroit highway. The footage fades to black as soon as it reaches ‘8 mile’ road. The footage comes back and shows Tony Bonito wearing his usual sports jacket with the hood on as he has his back turned on the camera. Soon enough, the footage zooms out of the shot and we see him standing inside an empty gym. It fades to black for a while until we see Christopher Back wearing a suit and he steps into a limo. As the limousine drives along the street, we hear a voice over.
V.O.: “Two bitter rivals…”
The footage goes back to TB who now is just wearing the jogging pants and he is shown doing some pushups on the ground until it cuts back to CB as his limousine stops infront of a very old looking building with a ‘gym’ sign on it yet again another voice over plays.
V.O.: “Will face each other…”
Tony Bonito slowly gets to his feet and leans on the nearby wall. We cut back to CB as he gets out of the limo and takes off his blazer to reveal an nTo shirt underneath it. The clip fades to black for a while until it comes back with several shots of the Hell’s Chamber.
V.O.: “In one of the most inhumane structure devised in professional wrestling.”
After a couple of more shots of the chamber, we hear JR’s voice over.
JR V.O.: “The Hell’s Chamber, one of the most demonic structures ever created here in the X-WCW. Clearly, once a wrestler steps into this chamber, they are putting all of their career’s work on the line for just this single match.”
We see a couple of clips involving various X-WCW superstars inside the Hell’s Chamber before it fades to black. Once the footage comes back again, Chris Back is inside the gym where Bonito is and they stare down for a while until Chris Back breaks the silence.
CB: “Work out’s over, friend.”
Both CB and TB have a smirk on their faces before TB replies in kind.
TB: “Thought you’d never show up here..”
The screen then shows the X Rumble logo.
VO: “X-WCW Presents The X Rumble. Live from Auburn Hills in Detroit Michigan. Now available on pay per view.”
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No DQ Tag Team Grudge Match
Josh Leyh & TRD vs RNR
We go back to ringside where we see THII announcing the next match.
THII: “Ladies & gentlemen, the following contest is a tag team scheduled for one falls, it will be fought under no disqualification rules. This match will have a 30 minute time-limit. Introducing first…”
“N…T…O” is heard and “Unleashed by Saliva” hits the speakers. The 7’0 behemoth, The Real Deal, makes his way down the ramp-way. His scheduled tag team partner tonight, Josh Leyh, follows him into the ring. As they walk, the two are met with “jeers” and “NTO Sucks” chants, but they ignore them and get into the ring. TRD raises his hands and Leyh does the same. Leyh flips off the crowd, but that only worsens their feedback as the crowd get very energetic with their verbal feelings.
RK: “These fans are stupid, don’t they understand that these two superstars will indeed be the future of X-WCW when C. Back and D-ex permanently hang up the boots?”
JR: “I think not Randall, these two rely on cheating t- BAH GAWD WHAT A CHAIR SHOT!”
RK: “DISQUALIFY THOSE BASTARDS, THEY ARE CHEATING TO AN EXTREME!!”
As our beloved announcers were speaking, Brett Rayne & R.E. Rage (RNR), came into the ring from behind and both attacked Leyh and TRD with chair shots. They take the NTO down and immediately start stomping away. Rayne slaps Leyh’s back with the chair multiple times while RNR does the same to TRD. Leyh rolls out of the ring to catch his breath, but Rayne wastes no time and launches the chair at JL, which hits him in the forehead and knocks him down.
RK: “Ouch. That wouldn’t bode too well for JL.”
Rayne chuckles and exits the ring to capitalize and the bell rings to signify the beginning of the match. Rage continues slamming TRD in the back with his steel chair while the fans give a mixed reaction. He goes for a pin, but the big guy kicks out at two so Rage starts hammering away on the forehead. He helps the seven-footer up by the hair and sends some chops to the chest. Rage kicks TRD in the kneecap and snap mares him to the ground. He completes the combo with his signature dragon sleeper submission hold. Painfully forcing TRD’s neck around, R.E. Rage tries to get the quick tap out as the referee asks TRD if he is ready to give up.
JR: “He has the submission move applied, King.”
RK: “Oh boy, he will start tappin on his tappin gloves, JR!”
Meanwhile, on the outside, Brett Rayne and Josh Leyh are trading blows. Rayne blocks one punch and sends a couple of European uppercuts to the chin. He then grabs Josh Leyh and goes for a Sambo suplex, but Leyh reverses it into a Reverse Russian leg sweep! Josh Leyh staggers up and slides into the ring to spot his partner in deep trouble. He hits the ropes and hits a running drop kick on R.E. Rage’s face. Rage is taken to the canvas from the drop kick by Leyh and TRD holds his neck in pain.
JR: “The NTO are making a come back King. I honestly don’t know who to root for, both of these teams will bend the rules in a split second to win.”
RK: “Man, I am also kind of torn. Rage & Rayne are 2 of the best wrestlers…ever, but then Leyh and TRD are apart of the greatest faction…ever. I guess I’ll go for both of em.”
Leyh starts to get cocky as TRD gets up. The smaller NTO member spots Brett Rayne getting up from the attack, so he asks TRD to do something. TRD nods and picks Leyh up over his head, runs towards the ropes and throws him at Brett Rayne. The former 2NLW Universal & International champion uses his experience and rolls out of the way. Leyh flies face first into the railing and slides off holding his face. TRD stomps the mat in anger and starts to head over to the ropes to exit the ring, but Rayne’s tag partner R.E. Rage takes TRD down with a chop block to the leg.
JR: “Chop block to the leg, and the nto’s momentum has been chopped down with it.
Brett Rayne climbs into the ring and he and his partner begin to dissect TRD. After some vicious stomping, the two partners lift TRD up and hold him for a suplex. They hold him for about 10 seconds before dropping him with a beautiful vertical suplex. Brett Rayne starts to pose as Rage spits on the NTO’s big man. He attempts a pinfall, but The Real Deal kicks out at 2. R.E. Rage looks at The Real Deal and shakes his head. He mounts TRD and sends some deadly head butts to the already aching Giant.
RK: “A very…weird move there by Rage, but whatever then. It SEEMS to be working for him as we speak.”
After the head butts, Brett Rayne heads out of the ring to grab some weapons while R.E. Rage picks TRD up by the hair. He sends a couple forearms to the jaw and sends poor TRD into the turnbuckle. R.E. Rage jumps up and down before charging at the 7’0 Real Deal. Just then, TRD does a Test like big boot and takes R.E. Rage off of his feet in the blink of an eye!.
RK: “Damn. That was painful.”
TRD falls to one knee from as the effects of his ass kicking are taking place. As he sits there Brett Rayne has climbed to the top turnbuckle and looks at TRD ready to strike. TRD stands up and turns around into a Cross Body attempt. Using amazing strength, TRD catches Brett Rayne in mid-air and hits him with a fall away slam. Brett Rayne’s flying body goes right onto R.E. Rage back first and both superstars of RNR roll around in serious pain.
JR: “OH BAH GAWD!!! ALL FOUR MEN ARE DOWN IN THAT THING!”
About a minute has passed and Brett Rayne is the first to get on his feet. He runs against the ropes, but to his surprise is tripped and pulled out of the ring by Josh Leyh. Leyh sends some left hands to Brett Rayne’s face and takes Rayne down with a headlock takeover. Leyh picks Rayne up and sends him some knees to the gut, then slams his face into the steel railing. Rayne stumbles back before he is taken down with an elbow smash. The smaller NTO member then climbs onto the ring apron and awaits Rayne to get back on both feet.
JR: “Josh Leyh is waiting for Rayne to just get to his feet before going to do something here, King.”
Rayne does exactly what Josh Leyh wanted him to do as he stands up. Rayne turns around and Leyh launches himself off of the apron, but Rayne catches him with a flapjack…face first into the steel railing!! Josh Leyh’s face has been heavily busted open and he slides off on the floor holding his face. The fans chant “holy sh**” as the camera man watches Brett Rayne slide under the bottom rope and into the ring.
JR: “Good God, this is indeed a grudge match alright.”
RK: “Heck yeah JR, it’s also safe to say that Josh Leyh is trying to divorce that steel railing.”
JR: “…..”
While the action conspired outside the ring, R.E. Rage has taken control of TRD. Rage has been sending left and rights to The Real Deal in a corner, knocking him senseless with a quick combination of left and rights. TRD finally blocks one and send a right hand, only to suffer a running Yakuza Kick to the face from Brett Rayne. RNR gang up on TRD and take him down with a double hip toss. Rage picks up a near-by chair and tells Rayne to hold TRD up. Rayne helps TRD up to one knee and Rage charges at him. Brett Rayne moves out of the way and TRD is knocked back onto the floor via a thunderous chair shot to the skull. TRD lays back first on his knees as Rayne spits on his face. “You wanted to screw with RNR? Huh b**** ?? You shoulda stayed in the lower card!! Rage, tear his face up!!” Rayne screams. Brett Rayne helps TRD back up again and Rage gets ready to swing, just then Rayne screams out “wait!”.
JR: “What is going on here?!”
Brett Rayne climbs out of the ring and grabs his own chair, then climbs back in. The two smirk and ready themselves. After a little stretching and practice swings, RNR give TRD such a hard conchairto, it puts E & C to shame. RNR smirk…and do the same move for a second time. TRD falls back down and looks to be knocked out.
JR: “Those sick bastards! I may dislike the NTO, but nobody deserves to be hurt like that!!”
RK: “Jesus Christ, I don’t even know if TRD will be able to walk away from this one.”
With Josh Lyeh laid out on the outside, RNR both put a foot on TRD and demand the referee to make the count. 3 second later, the match up is over. “Filmstar” hits the speakers and RNR raise their hands in victory.
JR: “Thank god this match is over King. The NTO had no chance in hell to say the least. Matter fact, I think the NTO have just lost 2 promising superstars…their careers have GOT to be over.”
RK: “This is Xtreme championship wrestling JR, I know this scares the sh** outta me but its what we live for. I hope the good doctors can do whatever they can to help these poor youngsters.”
With their hands raised in victory, they quickly go back to the fallen TRD and start stomping down on him. Soon afterwards, we see Tony Bonito running down the rampway and sliding into the ring. TRD is helped up by RNR as TB has a smirk on his face.
JR: “What the hell is Bonito up to right now, King?!”
RK: “It seems to me like he wants to join in for the fun, JR!”
With TRD being held, TB approaches him and delivers a powerful slap across the face. Soon enough, TB gets a hold of the giant and levels him with a nito plex. RNR watch as TB then applies an ankle lock to the fallen nTo member.
JR: “My goodness, this is not right at all. Josh Leyh is already laid out outside the ring, and TRD is being triple teamed inside the ring!”
RK: “I don’t think that would last, JR! LOOK!”
Starstorm comes in for the rescue and they slide in. RNR and Starstorm start brawling inside the ring as TB lets go of TRD and slides to the outside. TB hops onto the guard rail and looks back towards the ring where all the action is happening.
JR: “It seems like Bonito showed a little streak of yellow as he ran after the first sign of trouble.”
RK: “Your calling him a coward? I think this is smart for TB, he would let his allies do the dirty work to save his energy.”
While TB is busy looking at the ring, the fans cheer as they see Ignavus sneaking behind TB before he spins him around and lays on him a couple of hard shots to the face. Ignavus and TB start to brawl into the crowd as we notice a few security personel hop into the guard rail as well to restrain the two.
JR: “Its Ignavus and both men are at it!”
RK: “WOW! How did he get all that energy in getting here? Hmm..must mean he just took a nap with the fans and woke up to see TB infront of him.”
X-WCW goes to a commercial break as we also see some security breaking up the action inside the ring.
Backstage
We come back from the commercial break and we see Karl Baller walking down the corridor. As he walks down, a couple of road agents wish him good luck on his next match, until he stops at one end of the corridor. With KB on halt, it seems as if someone is blocking his way. The camera zooms out to show TGO standing infront of him with a grin on his face.
TGO: “Ey partner.”
KB lets out a sigh before he speaks.
KB: “Ey der, bro. Yo, I got a match coming up next so you should just head on back to our locker room and watch it alright?”
TGO: “What? You wont want ME to join you at ringside? Hey, aren’t we tag team partners? By tag team partners, aren’t I supposed to be at ringside to watch your back as well?”
KB: “That’s thoughtful bro, but nah. I can handle Sandy Drake myself tonight.”
TGO just nods at KB before he looks at the US title draped across his shoulder.
TGO: “Alright, I believe you, Karl. Just makin sure that after tonight, you will STILL be the X-WCW United States champion. Gawd knows what will happen if I cannot get that title shot against ya after this show cause you would lose it to The Young One tonight.”
KB smirks at TGO before he pats his US title belt.
KB: “TGO, you’re my partner, you shouldn’t underestimate me like that dawg! I’m Karl F****n Baller…aint nobody seen in dis kid yo! After my match, I still be da US champ..and dats the whole damn truth to dat!”
KB and TGO do a high five before KB leaves the area. While KB leaves, we see TGO watching him go to the ringside area.
TGO: “You better win, Karl…you better..”
TGO walks away from the corridor as we go back to the ringside area.
X-WCW US Championship
Sandy Drake vs Karl Baller (c)
'Top of the World' by the All American Rejects begins to play, and the crowd gets to their feet to welcome the guy who waltzes out onto the stage without the tiniest care, arms held high to soak in the rapture and youthful face sporting the best, shiniest ****-eating grin money can buy.
TH2: "The following contest is scheduled for one fall, and it is for the X-WCW United States Championship! Introducing first, the challenger...from Vancouver, British Columbia, weighing in at 219 pounds...the Young One, Sandy Drake!"
JR: "A great opportunity for - "
RK: "I hate this guy. Get him off my damn show."
JR: "Talking like Mr. Back does not automatically give you the same authority as him."
RK: "Why the hell not?!"
Drake hops up the stairs and steps through the ropes, then leans back against them as arty spotlights shine down on his impossibly pretty face, and bikini-clad ladies fan him with palm leaves. Why he warrants the girls when nobody else does is a question best left for another day.
RK: "Hey, no fair! How come they don't fan me?!"
JR: "The amount of different, truthful answers that could be made to that question is staggering."
RK: "Shut it!"
JR: "Eloquent. Anyway...Sandy here has the chance to win the US title, but to do that he's got to beat - "
Drake's music cuts out, to be replaced by Cassidy's shouting of 'Ima Hustla', prompting the crowd to cheer all the louder, as a camo-clad man takes the stage, projecting more street cred than the combined might of Vanilla Ice and Daniel O'Donnell. Wait, that's not what I meant...
TH2: "And the opponent...from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, weighing in at 223 pounds...the X-WCW United States champion, Karl Baller!"
Karl bounces on down the ramp - thanks to his handy blinged-out pogo stick - swinging the US title belt around his head like it's a glitzy morning star or something. After slapping some hands at ringside, he rolls under the bottom rope and makes a show of holding the belt high right in Drake's face, with only poor ref Greene coming between them.
JR: "For those of you at home who don't watch X-WCW broadcasts regularly - "
RK: "Damn your eyes!"
JR: " - it should be pointed out that there isn't any particular beef between these two superstars; however, Sandy Drake's attitude has a tendency to rub people up the wrong way."
RK: "Oh, and his name's wimpy, too."
JR: "...And there's the bell."
Those of you hoping for a fair fight may wish to look away now, for as the ref turns away to hand the belt to the timekeeper, Sandy kicks Baller in the groin. The crowd go 'ooh!' as Karl sinks to his knees, though it's unclear if this is due to sympathy or amusement. Greene turns around quickly, but doesn't see anything conclusive, and so Drake gets away with it, snapping Karl's head back with a sharp throat thrust, then dashes back, comes off the ropes and performs a slick Shining Wizard to knock Baller down.
JR: "Such is the paradox of Sandy Drake; all that skill, yet he still sometimes - "
RK: "He's not a paratrooper!"
JR: "I said...oh, what's the use. Snap Suplex by Drake..."
And following it, an elbow drop and a pin - 1, 2 - kickout by Baller, surprising only the dumbest people in the crowd. Sandy pulls Baller up by the hair and over to the corner, where he sits up on the top rope and hooks Baller into a headlock, then twirls off for a Tornado DDT - but Baller reverses, and slams Drake into the canvas with a Spinebuster! The crowd roars its approval as Drake scrambles up, only to be floored again by a stiff elbow to the general face area.
JR: "And THAT is why Baller's the current champ!"
RK: "What, 'cause he elbows people in the face? Kids these days need better role models..."
Baller follows Drake down and locks in an Abdominal Stretch (hope I spelled that right), but Sandy's foot quickly snags the bottom rope, and Da K.I.D. releases the hold without a fuss; instead, he pulls Drake to his feet and whips him to the ropes, then puts his head down for a Back Body Drop - he's telegraphed it! Sandy rolls over Baller into a Sunset Flip - but Baller rolls clean through it, gets hold of Drake's legs, and leans back, slingshotting (is that really a word?) him towards the ropes, the second of which catches his throat. Sandy stumbles away from the ropes, but Baller catches him, hoists him up onto his shoulders - and brings him down with Sandy's adam's apple across one knee!
JR: "Breath Taker! It's the Breath Taker! This is a bad time to be a Young One!"
RK: "Or an Old One - that grandma in the front row just passed out at the sight of two sweaty guys."
JR: "You - wait, why were you looking at the grandma and not the match?"
RK: "...For the sake of whatever dignity I have left, I will not answer that."
With Sandy reeling and gagging, Baller quickly applies a Sleeper hold, torquing the neck something awful...
RK: "Oh yeah, a sleeper hold. That'll work real good..."
JR: "I recall that the last time you said so, it actually did win the match."
RK: "...Ah...that's because I used latent magicks to unwittingly influence the course of history."
JR: "Right..."
Sandy flails like a trapped eel for a minute, but quickly begins to fade...and fade...faaaaaaaade. The ref nudges Sandy a bit, then pokes him in the eye with a stick. Sandy does not respond. Greene lifts his arm and drops it; it falls to the floor without resistance. He lifts the arm a second time; and once more, it falls. The arm is lifted for the third and final time...
RK: "And relax."
JR: "Shhhh!"
And it drops - but Sandy jerks it away just a matter of inches from the canvas! Baller swears quietly as Drake begins to force his way up, with a good portion of the crowd behind him. He reaches his feet, and starts wailing on Baller's ribs with some forearm strikes, forcing Karl to back off, then hops up into an absolutely picturesque high Dropkick, knocking Karl back into one of the corners! This gives Sandy a nice gap for a run-up, followed by a shoulder thrust to the abdomen that doubles Karl over.
JR: "Well, this is certainly a nicely back-and-forth match!"
RK: "Still boring, though."
Not daring to pause and give Baller a chance to recuperate, Drake lifts him up onto the top rope, hops onto the second himself, then throws Baller almost overhead into the centre of the ring with a Super Arm Drag! Both men are left hurting after the move, and the ref begins to count them out...
JR: "Excellent high-impact maneuver, but can the Young One capitalise?"
RK: "He can't even spell capsularise!"
JR: "No, I'm sure he can't..."
As the count reaches 4, Sandy begins to pull himself up using the ropes, and notices that Baller still hasn't moved. He gets a slightly mad look in his eye...
JR: "Uh-oh - this could be really bad for either of these men. Or both!"
RK: "That would require God to smite both of them with his awesome lightning bolts...which I fully support, by the way."
Drake seems to slap himself lightly, psyching up, then hops across Baller, up onto the second rope - onto the third - IT'S THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!
JR: "In the name of the Naked Buddha, that's serious elevation!"
RK: "Oh, thanks, now I'm thinking of a naked Buddha. Yuck. And ow!"
...But there's nobody home! Karl JUST rolled out of the way, and Drake eats canvas - low in fibre, high in pain! He picks himself up grudgingly, and rushes Baller - bt Karl pulls off a Drop Toe Hold, and Sandy flattens himself into the corner, injured torso absorbing much of the impact. As he backs out, Baller vaults over him and connects on the chin with a back kick, knocking Drake's liughts out; then he heads up top and...
JR: "SPREADIN' ASHES! SPREADIN' ASHES!"
RK: "And that's how it frickin' well should be done..."
JR: "Cover!"
1, 2...3! Ding-a-ling!
TH2: "Here is your winner, and STILL the X-WCW United States champion - Karl Baller!"
Baller unwillingly drags himself up, barely able to lift the belt he's just defended, and raises his arms to the applauding crowd, whilst Sandy throws a tantrum...in his dreams.
JR: "Great showing by both these men, but Baller just had a little more left in the tank by the end."
RK: "Or, more simply, the other guy's an idiot. NOW can we get him off my show?"
JR: "Urgh...back in a minute, folks."
We come back from the commercial break and we are at ringside with the voices of the announcers greeting us again.
JR: “Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to a very action-packed X-WCW Warzone!”
RK: “We got three more matches to go, JR, and those matches are gonna be hella-exciting. We got a triple threat match between Joe Goldstone, Mark Malin and the newly dubbed “Mr. All American” Rocky Davis.”
JR: “After that we will also have a hockey stick on a pole match and a TLC match.”
RK: “The gimmick matches don’t get any better than this, JR! BELIEVE THAT!”
The lights go out and “King of my castle” hits the speakers while the strobing light effects happen on the ringside area. After a couple of seconds, the lights go back up and we see Grandmaster E making his way down the rampway to the fans delight.
JR: “Here comes Grandmaster E, King.”
RK: “First time in his entrance routine he actually makes his way down the rampway huh? That or the crew just f’ed it up tonight I guess.”
GME enters the ring and grabs a nearby mic from THII while his music dies down. The fans continue to cheer for GME before he speaks.
GME: “Its been a while since my last match with Otacon, and I thought we would have settled it once and for all. But I guess it was destined to be this way, and its gonna be a triple threat match between me, the con man and the champion at the X Rumble.”
The fans give out a pop yet again.
GME: “You know what is so unbelievable here folks? What’s unbelievable here is, for the second time in my stay at the X-WCW, I have a draw decision…and now I gotta be in another triple threat match for the X-WCW World Title. But you know what, that’s just in my favor guys, cause I have YET to lose a world title shot at a PPV where I am not the champion. When I was a challenger for the world title at Vendetta 2 and Ground Zero 3, I won them both and became the X-WCW World Champ. Now on the X Rumble, I will retain my streak of PPV title wins and not Otacon nor Ignavus will stop me from that achieve..”
Before GME could finish, “Superstar” hits and the boos come pouring out for Otacon who enters the ringside area.
JR: “Here comes Otacon, yet another former X-WCW World Champion.”
RK: “With the con man at ringside, I know business is about to pick up in that ring JR.”
Otacon steps into the ropes and enters the ring. He stands infront of GME before he looks on the outside and approaches the nearby ropes. He grabs the mic handed to him before he looks at GME yet again and addresses him.
Otacon: “GME, I’ve been at the back and I heard that you have NEVER been beaten in a PPV when you’re the challenger? I got no arguments on that seeing that you DO have a record of world title wins of 2-0 at X-WCW PPVs. But I gotta ask this, how many successful title defenses have you ever had in a pay-per-view, huh? ZERO! Everytime you defend your title on a PPV, you lost! So even if you do win at the X Rumble, sooner or later, you STILL are gonna drop the ball on the next big event. It’s a very funny thing with you GME, you do win the big one..at one of the X-WCW’s big shows, yet when its time for you to defend it, you always lose.”
Otacon walks around before GME responds.
GME: “Con Man, I got no arguments on that one. I gotta admit, I did lose all my PPV title defenses, but atleast I didn’t lose in one minute or less…”
The fans let out a ‘oooh’ while Otacon has a scowl on his face. GME has a smile on his before he continues.
GME: “You say that I lost my title defenses on the PPV, but do you know WHY I lost them? Its because I’ve been screwed once, twice and more than anytime than any other wrestler in this industry.”
Otacon shakes his head before he speaks.
Otacon: “OH! So your gonna stick with the “I got screwed” excuse yet again huh Eamon? Wow, its been 2 years, and still that’s the best excuse you can hand to me and to these people. On the X Rumble, there wont be anyone screwin you, trust me on that. The only outcome of our match with Ignavus, is that YOU will be beaten. Its about high time that I take back whats mine, the X-WCW World Title!”
Otacon has a smirk on his face before GME speaks again.
GME: “You think you can win over me con man? If you cant even outlast Ignavus in a minute, I doubt you can even pin me or Igz at the PPV. I’m sorry, but at the X Rumble, it wont be your moment of redemption. On that night, I will be the new X-WCW World Champion, just face facts…you were on borrowed time when you were the champ.”
GME leans on the nearby ropes and awaits the response of Otacon.
Otacon: “Borrowed time? Wow, now your trying to say my title reign was jacks*** huh?! let me remind you that I made more thing happen here in the X-WCW in my reign then you did. Hey, when was the first time you saw an X-WCW champ defeat an outside champ to give the victory to this federation huh? I was the one who kicked TGO and his ill-fated UCW title’s ass on Collision Course 2, while you couldn’t even lead our team to victory at the wargames match. Unlike you, Grandmaster E, I am not only a master of myself but I am also the master of the X-WCW. When I regain the X-WCW World Title from Ignavus, I will usher in a new era here in the X-WCW..the era…of the con man.”
Otacon smirks at GME and raises his arm in the air before GME speaks.
GME: “I guess that will be an interesting era, that would last less than 5 minutes…”
GME laughs at Otacon, who looks visibly irritated at GME’s joke.
Otacon: “You know what, GME, I am sick and tired of you takin cheap shots at me right now in this ring. You wanna piss me off? You wanna poke fun at that sole fact when you cant find any other?”
GME: “You gonna do something about it, punk?”
Both men approach each other in the middle of the ring. Soon enough, both GME and Otacon start a fist fight in the middle of the wrestling ring.
JR: “Oh my goodness! Otacon and Grandmaster E are brawling inside the squared circle.”
RK: “I knew they would brawl after that verbal spat they had.”
After a while, security comes storming down the ringside area and they enter the ring to break up both men. They separate both men on opposite corners, but Otacon somehow gets the security off him and charges back at GME. Both men brawl for a while until the security break them up yet again.
RK: “Whoa boy, the security team really has their hands full right now in the ring.”
JR: “They are having a hard time in restraining the two men, King. I dont believe that after tonight nor after the PPV, they’d be exchanging Christmas cards in the near future.”
X-WCW goes to a commercial break as the security separates the two when they escort Otacon out of the ring first and retain GME inside of it.
Triple Threat Match
Mr. All American vs Joe Goldstone vs Mark Marlin
'Voodoo Child' by Jimi Hendrix begins with its iconic string-plucks, heralding a whole bunch of blue mood-lighting and the appearance of a bulky fellow swathed in a flowing scarf, eyes hidden behind aviator shades as he rocks away on his air guitar like a funky chicken.
TH2: "The following contest is a triple threat match! Introducing first...from Malibu Stacy's slumber party, weighing in at 275 pounds...Mark Marlin!"
Marlin slaps the hands of eager marks as he strolls down the ramp, bellowing odd phrases at his 'brothers' and flexing muscles that bulge disturbingly beneath overtanned skin, before rolling up on into the ring and inviting our easily-entertained audience to make some noise, which they gladly do. He responds with more flexing, which they like. A little too much, to be honest...
JR: "Now, here's a man who's got the right attitude, who's prepared to go that little extra distance for the fans..."
RK: "My god, he looks camper than Christmas, don't he?"
JR: "You're not going to give him even one tiny compliment for the entirety of this match, are you?"
RK: "He's wearing a feather boa."
JR: "So...?"
RK: "So frickin' N-E-G-A-T-I-V-E."
'Voodoo Child' fades away, to be replaced by Disturbed's 'Down with the Sickness'. The lights return to their natural hue and focus upon the beefed-up man striding sharply down the ramp, sweat glistening across sculpted abs and gaze so intense it causes several audience members to literally burst into flames.
TH2: "And the first opponent...from Parts Unknown, weighing in at 276 pounds...Joe Goldstone!"
Joe, ignoring the boos thrown towards him (some of which may be related to his immolation of innocent bystanders), bursts into a sprint for the remainder of his trek down the ramp, and slides quickly into the ring, almost instantaneously coming to blows with Mark. The fans whoop appreciatively as they slug back and forth, giving ref Greene as much consideration as a jumbo-jet would give a butterfly caught in its turbines.
JR: "Goldstone getting things off to a quick start here!"
RK: "Oh, speed impresses you, does it? That fits in with a few things your wife told me..."
JR: "Could we please, please just stay on the topic of the match?"
RK: "Fine - Goldstone'll win because you don't like him."
JR: "Well, I think that might be taking things a little far, Randal - I mean, I respect his skills and prowess in the ring, but he's said some scurrilous things in his time here, and lacks a certain passion for this great game - "
RK: "You know what I just heard there? 'Wah-wah-wah, why is he so much bigger than me? No fair, mommy! Wah-wah!'."
Just as Joe begins to get the upper hand, the music switches over to 'Cocky' by Kid Rock, and a very large, imposing figure stomps onto the stage, enormous coat a-swirl around him as he raises his hands solemnly and declares, "BY THE POWER...OF CHEAP HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE!". This is greeted with cheering and crossed eyes.
TH2: "The second opponent...from Ellis Island, weighing in at 350 pounds...Mr. All-American, Rocky Davis!"
JR: "Oh, dear."
Goldstone lays out Marlin with a powerslam, then turns to find Davis sliding into the ring. Having heard of Mr. All-American's prior exploits, he can't help but laugh in a hands-on-hips, evil swagger kind of way - which turns out to be a serious mistake, as Davis launches into a barrage of chops that staggers Joe back, then plants him with a Scoop Slam! Davis throws a salute to the fans, who reciprocate, then dashes back against the ropes and returns, dropping the Bionic Elbow across Goldstone's throat!
JR: "Whoa! The former Real American is going to town with frankly surprising effectiveness!"
RK: "Wait, does he have a robot arm now?"
JR: "...What?"
RK: "Why else would it be called the BIONIC elbow?"
JR: "You...ah...look, he doesn't have a robot arm, okay?"
RK: "Wonder how often he's stopped at the metal detector in the airport."
JR: "Shut up."
Mark Marlin rises to his feet - but then is almost immediately sunk again by Davis' Big Boot! Mr. All-American cries something like "Sarge, package tango inbound! Ten-four!" before stepping over to the nearest corner and clambering up onto the top rope, where he lies in wait whilst Marlin collects his scattered marbles. Figuratively, I mean - he didn't actually bring marbles into the ring with him. Why would he? Marky-Mark-Mark doesn't see Davis before him, so turns around, confused - and barely has the time to register disbelief before Rocky crashes down on him with a Diving Clothesline! There's a cover - 1, 2...kickout! Davis quickly springs back up, energy undented by his failed pin - but GOLDSTONE COMES OUTTA NOWHERE WITH A SPEAR!
JR: "Holy mackerel! Mr. All-American looked to be on top of this thing, but that impact has to have stopped his momentum dead!"
RK: "Yeah, not even a robot arm's gonna save him now!"
JR: "Stop it."
Joe hops up and down on the spot, bellowing like a wounded mammoth, but the crowd still refuse to warm to him.
JR: "Looks like the audience have been won over by the personalities of Marlin and Davis..."
RK: "Marky's got a personality? I hadn't noticed."
Turning his back on the people for the moment, Goldstone drags Marlin to his feet and winds him with a hard knee strike to the midsection, before shoving him into one of the turnbuckles and hoisting him up; Joe then steps up onto the second rope and brings Marlin crashing down to the canvas with a Superplex! After reeling for a moment, Goldstone rolls over into a pin...
JR: "2...no! Marlin's second kickout of the match!"
RK: "You're counting the near falls? What kind of sick freak are you?"
JR: "Not the kind that fixates on mechanical limbs, for one thing..."
RK: "I can't help it, it's so...vivid..."
Goldstone pounds the mat in frustration and gets back up, just as Marlin pushes himself up to his knees. Joe brings his right fist crashing down heavily against Mark's jaw - but as the crowd swells with cheers and general pick-me-up goodness, Marlin somehow finds it within himself to shrug off the blow with a maniacal grin! Goldstone can't believe it, and punches again - and again - but Marlin's just shaking like Shakin' Stevens making a milkshake, and now he's up to his feet...
JR: "Looks like all the Marlin-maniacs in attendance tonight are - "
RK: "Why aren't they called Marky-maniacs? Or is that what Mark Wahlberg calls his fans?"
JR: "Maybe...but whoever they are, they're helping Mark to...uh...Marlin Up?"
RK: "No...he's Marking Out!"
JR: "That's quite good, actually."
RK: "Thanks."
And as Joe throws one more punch, Marlin levels an accusing finger at him, making Goldstone freeze on the spot - before a furious punch drives him back against the ropes! Mark whips him to the other side of the ring, and on the rebound, lifts him up into a Body Press, from which he slams Goldstone viciously down before him! Marlin pauses to flex for the crowd, but notices they're cheering for something else now...namely Mr. All-American, who's hitting his head off the canvas repeatedly.
JR: "And it looks like Mr. All-American is...uh...American-ing Up? Randal?"
RK: "He's being weird."
JR: "I don't think that's quite as inspired as your last effort, but thanks."
Mark carefully approaches Rocky...but not carefully enough, as Davis shoots up to his vertical base and headbutts Marlin right on the nose. Choosing to ignore the ref's admonishments, Davis quickly hoists Marlin up onto his shoulders and delivers an Argentina Backbreaker...and another...and another, before dropping Mark to the ground, planting one knee in his lower back and pulling one of his legs over into a Half Boston Crab of sorts. Marlin cries out, but shakes his head stubbornly when Sid Greene asks him if he wants to give up; even so, he's too far away from the ropes to reach them, and can't move thanks to Rocky's bulk weighing him down...
JR: "We could have a submission right here!"
RK: "Or maybe we won't."
JR: "Would you stop removing the tension and just try to sound enthusiastic?"
RK: "No."
JR: "Ugh...and Goldstone breaks it up!"
Indeed, Joe kicks Davis on the back of his head, the foot connecting with a sharp snap; Rocky releases Marlin and slumps forward onto the mat, face-down. Looking down at Mark as he writhes back and forth, clutching his spine, Goldstone senses an opportunity and plucks said opponent from the floor, before applying a front headlock...
JR: "Goldstone can smell it! It's the Jackhammer!"
RK: "What does a Jackhammer smell like?"
JR: "Ah..."
RK: "It smells like his jockstrap, doesn't it?"
JR: "No comment."
Goldstone hooks one of Marlin's arms over his head, and lifts him up - but Marlin wiggles like a...well, like a big ol' sweaty wrestler, really, and it's enough to upset Joe's balance; Mark returns his feet to the floor, only to lift Goldstone into a Suplex of his own - RIGHT OVER THE TOP ROPE! Joe crashes to the floor, head cracking off the apron on the way down, and Mark collapses, his back giving out from the strain.
JR: "Bah gawd, what a counter! But what's it taken out of Marlin?"
RK: "About five months of his short lifespan and two old condoms from his wallet."
JR: "...Are you high?"
RK: "I wish."
Marlin uses the ropes to pull himself up, and finds Mr. All-American ready and waiting, lunging in with a haymaker which Mark blocks, before turning Rocky upside down and driving him into the mat with a powerful Scoop Slam, to appreciative whoops from the crowd. Marlin massages his back for a moment, before pulling a dramatic pose and dashing to the ropes - rebounding - and leaping up into the Atomic Leg Drop - which misses as Davis rolls to the side! The horror! Mark slowly rises, comically clutching his buttcheeks, only to be caught in a headlock and sent back down by a DDT from Rocky.
JR: "Marlin had a chance to win this one, but he fluffed it."
RK: "As anyone who's watching knows already...are you catering for the blind or what?"
JR: "I have it on good authority that blind people like my voice."
RK: "Typical; the only people who like you are the ones who can't see your face."
JR: "Funny. And what's Rocky Davis doing now?"
Davis is bouncing up and down on the second rope and yelling something to the crowd about Weapons of Mass Destruction, which they seem to find entertaining. He follows this by tugging Marlin up by the hair and setting him up in the powerbomb position, lifting him - and draping him across his back, arms spread wide!
JR: "Crucifix Powerbomb! He's going for it!"
RK: "Failing to care! That's what I'm doing!"
Davis can't resist showing off, and slowly walks around the ring with Mark hanging helpless across his back - until Marlin gets one arm free, then the other, and slides off - and just barely ducks beneath a wild Clothesline thrown by Joe Goldstone, who slipped sneakily back into the ring by the power of plot mechanics! Rocky whirls around, and finds Joe stumbling before him; a quick throat thrust knocks him back, and Goldstone twirls around as well - and sidesteps Marlin's Big Boot, which catches Mr. All-American instead! The force isn't enough to knock the impressively large Davis off his feet, but it sends him stumbling back into the corner. Marlin blinks, confused, and Joe seizes the opportunity by grabbing his hair and tossing him over the top rope to the outside. Goldstone then backs up - and runs straight into Rocky, nailing him with the Spear for the second time this night!
JR: "Oh my sweet little buttercup, that spear sandwiched Davis between the post and Goldstone's shoulder! He's gotta be hurting!"
RK: "As opposed to enjoying it?"
Rocky stumbles out of the corner in a daze - giving Joe all the time he needs to hook up in the Suplex position and score with the Muscle Buster! A pin is made...1, 2...3!
JR: "And it's done, short but frantic!"
TH2: "Here is your winner...Joe Goldstone!"
Goldstone barely lets the ref lift his arm for two seconds before rolling out under the bottom rope and heading up the ramp without looking back. Outside the ring, Marlin clutches his skull and curses vehemently, whilst Davis has yet to move from his resting position on the canvas.
JR: "A hard-fought win for Goldstone - "
RK: "Just like I said he'd win, notice."
JR: "Your point?"
RK: "I am psychic. And awesome."
JR: "Right then...stay tuned, folks, there'll be more from me and Professor X here after the break.."
Backstage
Thornn and Absinthe are seen in their locker room, where we clearly don’t see any signs of Vanish.
Thornn: “Seems like our friend Vanish has…Vanished…”
Absinthe just shakes her head with the attempt of Thornn to find a little humor in this situation. After a couple of seconds, a hard knock on the door is heard and Thornn opens it to see Vanish. Vanish doesn’t look a bit good as his suit seems to be a bit torn up and there are bloodstains on his hands and some on his cheeks.
Thornn: “So..what happened in Johnny’s?”
Vanish just shakes his head to and heads towards the bench to get a towel.
Vanish: “Lets just say it was a LONG walk with that dead body after those stupid clowns crashed the damn car.”
Thornn: “It’s a damn thing your back though, Vanish. I thought for a second here I gotta fend for myself against those two freaks.”
Vanish: “Yeah, aint ya a lucky man being all alone with two clowns in that ring huh Thornn? Like a little kid in a candy shop, huh?”
Thornn: “Oh by the way, some guys from Japan wanted to talk to us earlier about this match.”
Vanish stops cleaning himself with the towel and looks at Thornn.
Vanish: “OH! Those guys? Yeah, I told them to do anything they want, as long as we did our business in that ring. We don’t need them to cause some distractions for our own business in that ring, Thornn. Tonight, if those two think that I am just there to try and beat them up for what they done to me…oh they are in for a big surprise.”
He turns his attention towards Absinthe and she grabs the towel from him as he faces Thornn.
Vanish: “Tonight, however, lets show em hell..”
Vanish laughs as the scene fades to black.
#1 Contendership to the X-WCW World Tag Team
Championship
TLC Match
Fragile Minds vs The Twisted Hunters
We go back to the ringside area where THII is inside the ring with a microphone. Another noticeable thing inside the ring is that a contract is hung on the rafters.
THII: “The following #1 Contenders match for the X-WCW World Tag Team Titles will be scheduled in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. The only way to win in this match is to climb up and obtain the contract to face the current X-WCW World Tag Team Champions at the X Rumble.”
"We Dont Die" by Twiztid hits the speakers and the Hunter Brothers come out to the ringside area with a moderately positive reaction from the crowd.
THII: “Introducing first, at a combined weight of 366 lbs, they are the team of Ken and Jake Hunter..THE TWISTED HUNTERS!!!”
The Hunters make their way down the aisle complete with their bottles of faygo on each of their hands.
RK: “Is it just me, or have these guys been with D-Extreme at some point in their careers? They both have a bottle of beer with them while going towards the ring.”
JR: “These two brothers have been associated somewhat with Seith Helloct during his Generation Xtreme run here in the X-WCW. But as of now, King, these two men are poised to be one of two teams to challenge Starstorm for the X-WCW World Titles.”
RK: “Its very amusing to know that these two teams would go at it for the shot, while Starstorm is just sitting pretty in Japan after winning their matches there last night. Alec and Raven, due to my sources, don’t even give a damn about this outcome since they challenged bigger teams in Japan by the likes of Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko. Hey, JR, teams cannot get any BIGGER than that!”
The Hutners enter the ringside area and pose for the fans before their music dies down and they await their opponents. “Land of confusion” by disturbed hits the speakers and Fragile Minds enter the ringside area with their manager, Absinthe.
THII: “And the opponents, being accompanied by Absinthe, at a combined weight of 525 lbs. They are the team of Vanish and Thorn…FRAGILE MINDS!!!”
The fans give a mixed, yet mostly heelish reaction, towards the team of Fragile minds as they make their way down the aisle.
JR: “Fragile Minds, a very classic X-WCW team, King. They were in the X-WCW during a small portion of 2004 until they left for some strange reasons. But now, they are back and they also seem ready to take on any challengers that come into their way.”
RK: “If the Hunters are hardcore experts, these two guys are experts in another field, JR. “
JR: “Well, king, what would that field be hmm?”
RK: “You don’t wanna know, JR, that’s all I can tell ya.”
Both men slide into the ring while Absinthe stays on the outside with a briefcase being held by both of her hands.
RK: “I am not sure if the Hunters could actually pull off a victory here, JR. I mean, they love hardcore wrestling, but they are not like Fragile Minds who have BEEN the X-WCW Tag Team Champions even before the current champ themselves.”
JR: “Quite frankly, King, this match will showcase the age-old rivalry between youth and experience. Fragile Minds have been a mainstay in the tag team division inside and outside the X-WCW, while the Twisted Hunters have a huge cult following in their stints at the independent circuit, this one of two main events tonight will be very exciting indeed.”
The bell rings and all four men start to brawl inside. Jake and Thornn are exchanging punches on one corner while we see Ken and Vanish tangle it up in the middle of the ring.
JR: “The match is on and all four men are going at it inside that ring!”
RK: “Their main objective is quite simple, JR, be the first team to get that contract up in the air. The problem is, they gotta take out their opponents first to have an easier time in climbing up the ladder to get it.”
JR: “On that corner, the bigger Thornn delivers some massive shoulder charges to the mid-section of the smaller Jake Hunter.”
RK: “Why Jake was stupid enough to pick a fight with the BIGGEST guy in that ring, JR, is beyond me.”
Jake goes down on the corner while Thornn uses his boot to choke the living daylights out of him. Ken Hunter takes down Vanish with a hard clothesline and he sees his brother in trouble. Ken grabs the faygo bottle he sat on one corner and he walks over to where Thornn is to smash it over his head.
JR: “HE JUST BOTTLED HIM OVER THE HEAD WITH THAT LIQUOR BOTTLE! Thornn is being hung to dry there on the top rope as Ken helps his brother up.”
With Thornn hanging on the top rope, both Jake and Ken shove him over the ropes and he lands on the outside. Jake and Ken turn around, only for Vanish to take them both down with a front dropkick on both of their faces. Vanish waits for either one to get up, and it turns out to be Jake, before he sends him bouncing off the other end of the ring. He tries for a clothesline at Jake but he avoids it and Vanish turns around only to get a double clothesline from the two Hunter siblings.
JR: “Ken and Jake are double teaming Vanish inside the ring while we see Thornn getting to his feet on the outside.”
RK: “They are smart, JR, they are taking out the smaller guy in this team before they try their luck at the bigger Thornn. But if I were them, I’d finish it off soon, Thornn is just shaking the cobwebs up right now and it wouldn’t take long before he comes back into this equation.”
Ken and Jake Hunter pick up Vanish and send him into the corner. Ken whips Jake into the corner and he meets Vanish with a corner splash. Vanish stumbles forward and Ken greets him with a hard bodyslam across the mat. Jake goes to the top rope for something, but before he could take off on the corner, Thornn is on the apron and he grabs him by the throat. Jake tries to make the bigger man let go with some hard clubs to his arm, but it was no use. Ken makes the save by charging at Thornn and taking him off the apron with a shoulder block. Thornn lets go and he falls back to the outside.
JR: “A nice save there by Ken Hunter to help his brother Jake but…OH MY GAWD! Absinthe just climbed up the apron to clock Jake Hunter over the head with that briefcase.”
Once Jake gets clocked and groggy with the shot, we see Vanish running towards the corner to shove hm off and sends him crashing to the outside of the ring. Ken Hunter turns around to notice Vanish, but its too late as Vanish hits a hard punch right on the face. Ken Hunter is stunned for a while as Vanish hits a couple of more punches to his face before he takes him down with a snap suplex.
JR: “Snap suplex by Vanish and Ken is down. Back on the outside, Thornn is on his feet and he picks up Jake Hunter.”
RK: “You know JR, with the lovely Absinthe on the outside, its clearly a double team on Jake. Boy, would I love to get double teamed though by her and Terri…”
JR: “Oh my goodness King, think of your age..”
On the outside, Thornn waits for Jake to get to his feet before he runs towards him and takes him down with a big boot to the face. Back inside the ring, Vanish grabs a nearby table and sets it up infront of him before he turns around. Ken Hunter is up and he surprises Vanish with a number of hard punches and then a hiptoss to take down the former tag champ. Ken Hunter hauls up Vanish in a fireman’s carry before he unloads him on top of the table.
JR: “Ken Hunter props Vanish on top of that wooden table, King, and I smell wood!”
RK: “Same here, JR!”
Ken Hunter clobbers away on Vanish, who is on top of that table, until he saw fit to stop. While Ken is busy taking care of Vanish however, we see Thornn entering the area to grab him from behind. He takes Ken down to the mat with a spinning back suplex before he helps his partner out.
JR: “Vanish just got saved there by his partner Thornn and Ken Hunter is slowly getting to his feet.”
RK: “Ken better scat before he knows whats good for him. Jake is already laid out on the outside due to the hard attack that was caused by Thornn.”
Back on the outside, Jake Hunter slowly gathers himself by the help of the ring apron before he notices Absinthe coming at him with a briefcase. He avoids the contact and takes her down with a hard forearm smash to the face. Although a few of the men in the crowd boo, were all glad Jake didn’t get p****whipped there. Jake Hunter grabs a ladder from underneath the ring apron and slides in with it.
JR: “Jake Hunter is finally up, and it seems like he has an equalizer with him right now!”
RK: “That’s one HUGE equalizer, JR!”
Fragile Minds take down Ken Hunter with a double suplex, but as they turn around, the two are met with a huge surprise. Jake Hunter rams the ladder onto both members of Fragile Minds and they go down. Vanish is the first one to get up from the assault, but he goes down yet again as Jake rams him with the ladder on the face. Vanish topples over the ropes due to the hard impact of the ladder and he crashes to the outside. Thornn is the next to get up and Jake rams it over the mid-section area of the bigger man. With Thornn down on his knees, Jake backs up a bit before he does a charge with the ladder for it to hit face first onto Thornn.
JR: “JAKE HUNTER IS USING THE LADDER LIKE A MAD MAN!!!”
With Ken Hunter on his feet, both men place the ladder on the corner before they approach Thornn. They pick up Thornn and whip him towards the corner with the ladder. Thornn hits the ladder with his back and he groans in pain before leaning down on it. Ken and Jake Hunter set up the table on the opposite corner while Thornn slowly gets to his feet.
JR: “It seems like the Hunters are not yet done here, King.”
RK: “Obviously, they aint done dishing out some sadistic moves on the Fragile Minds people.”
Vanish slowly gets to his feet on the outside and grabs the briefcase from Absinthe before he slides into the ring. The Hunter Brothers make their way towards Thornn on the other corner and haul him to his feet. Ken tries to whip Thornn towards the corner with the table, but Thornn reverses the whip. Ken is about to hit the corner, but Vanish decks him on the face with the briefcase. Back on Thornn’s corner, Jake Hunter delivers some kicks to keep Thornn from fighting back. Jake bounces off the ropes for something, but Thornn catches him with a back body drop.
JR: “Look at that toss high into the air by Thornn before Jake crashes down back to the mat!”
RK: “Its like he just got shot out of the cannon, JR!”
With Jake getting to his feet, Vanish comes over to clock him with a running knee lift. Jake rolls down on the mat while Thornn and Vanish get the ladder off the corner and they make their way to the center of the ring. Both men set it up and Vanish starts to climb up.
JR: “This is the first attempt by either team to climb up that ladder, King.”
RK: “These two guys need to hurry up cause both Hunter Brothers are getting to their feet.”
Ken and Jake Hunter notice a couple of chairs laying nearby their area and both men grab a chair each. Thornn turns around to notice both Hunter Brothers up, but its too late as Jake rams a chair right through his chest area to send him down on his knees with Ken following it up with a wild chair swing across his face.
RK: “YIPES! That was like a home run swing on the face of Thornn!!!”
JR: “Vanish is already halfway up the ladder and the Hunters see him climbing up.”
Jake and Ken Hunter use their chairs and smack Vanish on the back for him to stop him from climbing up. After the second chair shot to the back, Vanish loses grip and falls down on the mat. Vanish crawls towards the nearby ropes and pulls himself up while Ken and Jake wait on opposite sides with the chair.
RK: “Its like the Twisted Hunters are set to do a con-chair-to at Vanish once he gets up, JR. This could be one hell of a Kodak moment.”
While the Hunters are busy waiting for Vanish to get up, we see Thornn slowly gathering himself on the other side of the ring and he is shaking the cobwebs off the chairshot. Vanish is up and both Hunters try for a con-chair-to, only to miss as Vanish is dragged to the outside by Absinthe. Both chairs hit each other and the impact forces the Hunter Brothers to let go of the chairs and shake off their hands of the hard clang.
RK: “WHAT THE?! THEY MISSED?!”
Thornn grabs the briefcase and quickly takes down Ken with a hard shot behind the back. Jake Hunter runs towards Thornn and goes for a crossbody. However, Thornn catches him and lifts him up in a fireman’s carry. Soon enough, he sends Jake down with a Samoan drop.
JR: “Samoan Drop on Jake Hunter and Fragile Minds are back in this contest!”
RK: “This match is like a see-saw battle inside the ring, JR, this is main event worthy!”
Vanish slowly slides back in the ring with a new table for him and Thornn to set up. They notice Ken Hunter getting back to his feet and they stomp down on him before they pick him up and place him on top of the table. Vanish climbs on the table as well and picks up Ken Hunter.
JR: “Vanish is on the table to take care of Ken Hunter, what is he gonna do King?”
RK: “A powerbomb, a piledriver..leave your imagination to think about it!”
He hooks both of Ken’s arms and finally drives him through the table with the Vanish Point.
JR: “BAH GAWD! A sit-down double underhook facebuster through the table!”
RK: “Its already bad enough to know Ken’s face is ugly..now its getting uglier thanks to that!”
With Ken laid out on top of the broken down table, the fans chant “Holy s***” as Vanish gets to his feet. Jake Hunter is back to his feet yet again and he charges from behind to lock a sleeper hold on the big Thornn. With Jake clinging on the back of Thornn, the bigger man tries his best to shake him loose, but it doesn’t work. Vanish grabs the briefcase and he smacks it repeatedly on the back of Jake Hunter before he eventually lets go of Thornn and falls down to the mat.
RK: “Jake might be too pesky for his own good, JR. He better just make a run for it to get the contract rather than concentrate against these two men. Its not worthy the risk, really!”
With Jake Hunter down on the mat, Vanish grabs both of his legs while Thornn seems to be ready to do something. With Vanish catapulting Jake to Thornn’s direction, the bigger man hits him hard with a clothesline.
JR: “Double team effort there by the Fragile Minds!”
RK: “They call that, JR, the fool killer. It really makes sense cause Jake was foolish of trying to take down Thornn with just a mere sleeper hold there!”
With both Hunter Brothers lying on the mat, the two members of Fragile Minds look up to see the contract flying above the air. They shake hands before they climb both ends of the ladder. Once they reach the top, however, we see Damien and Dante Stix running down the rampway and sliding into the ring.
JR: “WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE?!”
RK: “Look JR! It’s Walking Stix and Fiddle Stix!!!”
JR: “You should seriously get another job..”
Damien is the first to get into the ring and he shoves the ladder down. Thornn and Vanish crash hard on the ring mat while Dante gets in and has a baseball bat. Absinthe slides into the ring and delivers a low blow on Dante for him to drop the bat and she grabs it before she smacks it on the back of Dante’s head.
RK: “OH FIDDLE STIX!!! HAHAH!”
JR: “Absinthe, the somewhat third member of Fragile Minds in this contest, just took out Dante Stix with that baseball bat.”
Damien Stix picks up Vanish and delivers a modified powerbomb on him. With Vanish laid out, he turns his attention to Thornn, that is until he notices Absinthe smacking Dante around with the baseball bat.
RK: “Uh oh! Walking Stix is..walking his way towards Absinthe. So that girl better do something before he gets to her.”
JR: “Absinthe seems well aware of the approaching Damien stix and she tries to swing that bat…uh oh..”
Damien catches the baseball bat and snatches it away from Absinthe. He shows her the bat for a while before he breaks it in two with his knee. The girl just smirks at him before he notices Thornn already on his feet and he gets hit by a hard punch to the gut. Thornn grabs Damien by the mask before he delivers a hard knee to the mid-section area of his opponent and backs him into the corner.
JR: “Thornn is back up and he and Damien Stix are fighting on the corner!”
RK: “CMON WALKIN STIX!!! STICK IT TO THE MAN!”
Thornn delivers some hard punches and kicks to Damien, but Damien fights back with some clubs on the back of Thornn. He switches up as he grabs Thornn and shoves him on the corner before he delivers some hard shoulder charges to the midsection. While the two men go at it, we see Ken and Jake Hunter slowly getting to their feet to see what was going on while they were down.
JR: “Ken and Jake Hunter are back into the mix and they seem to be a bit dumbfounded on why the Stix Brothers are at ringside.”
RK: “I’m dumbfounded as well, JR, and I don’t wear clown makeup!”
Ken and Jake just shrug for a while before they charge towards a recovering Vanish for them to double team him on one corner. With Vanish down on the corner, Jake sets up a table near the corner while Ken Hunter climbs up the corner. He sits on the top turnbuckle and he is helped by Jake to lift Vanish on the same place. With Vanish all set up, Ken stands up from the corner and delivers a Dudley device (corner powerbomb through a table) on Vanish.
JR: “Shades of the Dudley Boyz there and karma just hit Vanish hard!!! Earlier, it was Ken Hunter who was driven down another table by Vanish with his finisher! Now, it’s the other way around King.”
With Vanish laid out, the Hunter Brothers make their way towards the ladder, until they are stopped by Absinthe. She goes for a spinning wheel kick on Ken, but he catches her and tosses her hard to the outside.
RK: “OUCH! Landed butt first on the pavement, I hope she had a lotta junk in that trunk for her not to have an injury with that one.”
With all of the Fragile Minds members a little bit pre-occupied, Ken and Jake Hunter make their way up the ladder and reach the top. Both men help each other take the contract out of the hook and the bell rings once the contract is obtained.
THII: “The winners of this match…TWISTED HUNTERS!!!”
Once the Hunters are announced as the winner, Thornn gets a bit angry on the corner and tosses Damien over the ropes. He looks up with a scowl while he watches the Hunter Brothers climb down with the contract. Thornn shakes his head before he leaves the ring and helps Absinthe and Vanish get to their feet before all three members leave the ringside area.
JR: “It took the distraction from the Stix to get it, but the Hunters are going to the X Rumble and will be facing Starstorm for the X-WCW Tag Team Titles.”
RK: “I dunno, JR, they really just got lucky tonight for that.”
Ken and Jake Hunter celebrate their win inside the ring by doing some hip hop like dancing for the fans.
RK: “Holy Scotty 2 Hotty on a pogo stick!”
All of a sudden, Starstorm run down the ramp and they attack Ken and Jake Hunter from behind.
JR: “What in the world?! I thought these two men were still in Japan?”
RK: “I dunno, but in Japan, its like morning now..so maybe they are already finished with their match.”
Raven Darkstorm delivers a lowblow to Ken Hunter. With Ken down on his knees, Raven grabs the nearby chair and places it near him on the mat. He drags Ken towards his direction and he DDTs him right onto the chair that was laid down.
JR: “OH MAH GOOD AUNT!!!”
RK: “Whos your good aunt?”
JR: “Well, she’s my good ol aunt petunia…”
RK: “You sure? Or have you been reading some old Fantastic Four comics?”
With Ken Hunter already laid out on the ring, Raven Darkstorm walks over to help Alec take care of Jake. They corner him and start to stomp a mudhole on the remaining Hunter brother.
JR: “This is ridiculous! These two men should be in Japan right now instead of doing such a cowardly attack!”
They pull Jake up to his feet before they whip him into the ropes. On his way back, the two Starstorm members deliver the “tides of darkness”.
JR: “Starstorm took a page out of the Harris Brothers and delivered an h-bomb to Jake Hunter. Right now, Starstorm is standing tall while their challengers for the title are laid out like a rug.”
RK: “Its pure dominance, JR. Starstorm just sent the Huters a message tonight. If they think they can win the titles that easy, they better think again.”
With both Hunters down, Starstorm’s music hits the PA systems and they pose for the crowd. The fans boo loudly while they continue to taunt the fallen Twisted Hunters.
JR: “This is just so opportunistic by the tag team champions, King. It’s a cowardly attack for sure.”
RK: “Just cause they attacked them from behind doesn’t mean they were cowards, JR. They just proved a point, that point is that the Hunters better have eyes at the back of their heads from now on.”
JR: “Whatever it was, King, we gotta go take a brief commercial break before the main event.”
X-WCW goes to a break while Starstorm walks up the ramp with their title belts on their shoulders.
Backstage
X-WCW comes back from the commercial break and we see Tony Bonito walking down the corridors as he is on his way to the ringside for the next match. We then see Ignavus walking down on a different backstage corridor with the title belt on his waists as he too prepares to head out for tonight’s main event.
Non-Title Match
Hockey-stick on a Pole Match
Tony Bonito vs Ignavus
We go back to ringside for the final match of the night. Terri Hotbody II is inside the ring with a mic as the ring has a pole on one corner with a hockey stick on the top of it.
THII: “The following match is scheduled for a Hockey Stick on a pole match. The objective of this match is to retrieve the hockey stick from the pole. The winner of this match is the person who becomes the first one to successfully attack his opponent with the hockey stick.”
JR: “This might be one of the strangest matches ever aired here in the X-WCW…”
RK: “But we didn’t invent this match, so don’t blame us.”
JR: “Indeed we didn’t, but that doesn’t discount the fact of its very unique and rather odd way of being a wrestling match.”
RK: “As long as its not a Viagra on a pole match, I’m all for it. Cause if it were..COME TO PAPA!”
Soon enough, guitar riffs start playing through the speakers. After a couple of seconds, we hear "fury of the storm" by shadow's fall hitting through the PA systems.
"I fly above the rest."
"What it takes to be the best."
"I'll burn this whole place down."
"I'll put you in the ground."
Red, white, and blue pyros go off and Tony Bonito comes out with a American Flag design warm-up jacket, with the hood over his face. He holds up his finger in the air while another set of red, white and blue pyros shoot up to the ceiling.
THII: “Introducing first, he hails from Boston Massachusetts and weighs in at 226 lbs. He is the ‘real f’n olympian’…TONY BONITO!!!”
The fans boo loudly at TB while he walks down the rampway.
JR: “Tony Bonito, one of the biggest names here in the X-WCW today. However, even though he is one of the biggest stars here, he is one of the most hated wrestler in X-WCW history.”
RK: “Its just because the sole reason for that is injuring a lumbering drunk that the fans are booing him.”
JR: “I doubt that’s the only reason why they boo him. They boo him because he is a man who has this inferiority complex when he looks at other people, King. He thinks he is better than them in every aspect in this world.”
RK: “Well who can blame him, he IS better than most people JR. Infact, he is the best technical wrestler today.”
TB slides into the ring and takes off his hood of his jacket before he starts to spin around and pose for the fans. They continue to boo him and there is a “Nito Sucks” chant forming up in the ringside area while he climbs up the corner and raises both hands in the air. He climbs down from the turnbuckles and takes off his jacket while he awaits his opponent.
“Ooooh, oh oh oh oh oh”
”I ain't happy, I'm feelin glad”
”I got sunshine, in a bag”
”I'm useless, but not for long”
”My future, is comin on, is comin on, is comin on”
“Clint Eastwood” by the Gorillaz hits the speakers and Ignavus comes out with the X-WCW World Title on his waists. Apart from his usual wrestling get-up, he is seen wearing some sort of a golden bathrobe.
RK: “WHAT THE?! LOOK WHAT HE’S WEARING JR!!! Its like he just stepped out of the showers or something!”
JR: “It seems like it’s the robe that most boxers wear, King. Although its just in gold color.”
Ignavus walks down the aisle as the fans cheer loudly and a “igz” chant breaks out as THII introduces the champion.
THII: “And his opponent, he hails from Simsbury Ct. Weighing in at around 200 lbs, he is the X-WCW World Heavyweight Champion…IGNAVUS!!!”
Once he reaches the end of the ramp, he takes off the boxing style robe and slides into the ring. He climbs up the corner to pose with the belt for the fans, before he looks at the pole.
JR: “The champ’s attention just got caught by that pole nearby. He knows he has a huge task to do tonight in climbing up to get that hockey stick.”
He points at the hockey stick before he jumps off from the corner and unbuckles his title belt. On the opposite end, Bonito crouches down and continues to stare at the X-WCW Champion. Once the referee has the belt, he hands it on the outside and calls for the bell. The bell is rung and both Tony Bonito and Ignavus go to the center of the ring to lock up. Bonito quickly goes for a waislock behind Ignavus before he sends him up in the air with an overhead belly to back suplex. Somehow, the champion lands on his feet and waits for Bonito to turn around before he hits a dropkick to his face.
JR: “Ignavus delivers a dropkick to Tony Bonito after Bonito did a quick suplex on him. Bonito is on his feet and Ignavus charges at him for a clothesline, which Bonito avoids. Tony Bonito now, locks Ignavus with another waistlock, but the champion goes for a standing switch. Ignavus tries to do a german suplex on Bonito, but Bonito blocks that attempt and switches back with Igz yet again.”
RK: “This match has come to a good start, JR.”
With Bonito behind Ignavus yet again, he goes for a back suplex. However, Ignavus converts it with a sit-down bulldog to take Bonito down. Ignavus picks up Bonito, but TB delivers some solid punches to the gut of Ignavus before he takes the champ down with a double leg takedown. Tony Bonito has Ignavus’ legs and he delivers some well placed boots to the gut area of the champion.
JR: “Bonito is just waiting for Ignavus to get up now before he does something here.”
RK: “And what that something is, JR, I aint sure.”
With Ignavus on his feet, Bonito sneaks in and locks in a sleeperhold on the champion. Ignavus struggles for a while, but he drives his elbow a couple of times to the mid-region of Bonito for him to let go. Ignavus grabs one of Bonito’s arm and locks it in an armbar, but Bonito quickly reverses the submission move to his favor. Ignavus moves around for a while before he rolls on the mat to loosen the armbar and uses his free arm to trip Bonito to the mat.
JR: “Bonito is down and Ignavus bounces off the ropes for a dropkick to the face of TB.”
RK: “Ouch! I hope that didn’t hit his nose region JR, or we could call Tony the bald version of Owen Wilson.”
Ignavus picks up Tony Bonito and hits him with some forearm smashes to the face before he sends him to the ropes. Ignavus catches TB with a deep armdrag that sends him to the mat. TB gets up to his feet and sees Ignavus charging at him. Bonito catches him with an armdrag of his own to send Igz to the mat this time. Bonito walks towards the recovering Igz, but Ignavus grabs him and takes him down with an overhead Japanese armdrag. Bonito is on the mat as Ignavus bounces off the ropes to deliver a little spinning elbow drop.
JR: “Very unorthodox elbow drop there by Ignavus on Tony Bonito.”
RK: “Its like he poses to the left, to the right, and then he spins around before doing an elbow drop JR. That’s just…like dance move to me.”
Ignavus heads towards the corner where the pole is located and starts to climb up the turnbuckles. Bonito slowly gets to his feet and sees Ignavus already on the top rope and is about to climb the pole. Bonito makes a dash for it and he hops to the second ropes before he clubs Ignavus repeatedly on the back.
JR: “Tony Bonito stops the attempt of Ignavus to retrieve the hockey stick on top of the pole as he delivers some clubs to the back of his opponent.”
With Ignavus a little stunned on the corner, Bonito climbs down the corner and pulls Ignavus down to the mat. Ignavus lies down and Bonito starts to rain the boots on him. He pulls up Ignavus and sends him towards the opposite corner. Bonito follows Ignavus towards the corner, but Ignavus greets him with an elbow to the face. With Bonito a bit stunned, Ignavus climbs to the top rope and delivers a flying dropkick to take down the real f’n Olympian.
JR: “Dropkick off the top rope from Ignavus and Bonito goes down to the mat!”
RK: “It was a high risk maneuver, JR, but it paid off for the champ right there.”
Ignavus picks up Tony Bonito and delivers a suplex to him. He holds on to Bonito as he gets up and connects with a second straight vertical suplex on his opponent. He has Bonito up yet again and connects with his third straight suplex.
JR: “Caffeine Buzz by Ignavus and after the third suplex, he still tries to lift Bonito up to his feet!”
RK: “He will do the dismotivator next, JR! I know it, poor Tony!”
Ignavus has TB in his grasps and delivers the quick fisherman’s suplex toss to the right side which he does call the ‘dismotivator’. With Bonito down, the fans cheer for Ignavus as he gets to his feet and points up to the pole.
JR: “DISMOTIVATOR! Tony Bonito is down and Ignavus has the opportunity to get the hockey stick on the pole!”
RK: “Oh man! C’mon Bonito, get up already, this cant be such a short match!”
Ignavus makes his way towards the corner, but he suddenly gets tripped by Bonito. TB slowly gathers himself up and waits for Igz to get to his feet as well. With Ignavus back on a vertical base, TB grabs him and takes him down with a belly to belly suplex. He picks him up and delivers some hard chops across the chest of the champion.
JR: “Knife-edged chops are being delivered by Tony Bonito right now at Ignavus.”
RK: “That chest of ignavus is getting beet red, JR.”
TB whips Ignavus across the ropes and he ducks down for a back body drop. However, Ignavus leapfrogs over him on his way back. TB turns around and Ignavus decks him hard with a spinning leg lariat on his way back from the ropes.
JR: “Ignavus takes down Tony Bonito with that spinning leg lariat from the ropes and he goes down for a while.”
RK: “Thing is with Tony Bonito, JR, you cant keep him down forever.”
Bonito gets to his feet and Ignavus catches him with a kick to the gut. Ignavus lines Bonito up for a powerbomb, but Bonito takes him down and quickly applies a boston crab on the champion.
JR: “Tony Bonito, quickly takes down the champion and has him in a Boston Crab submission move.”
RK: “Now I know Bonito had his back hurt by those three suplexes and the fisherman’s toss from Ignavus, but we should also know Ignavus took a little brunt of the damage himself. When you deliver those suplexes, it also takes a toll on your back, and I bet Bonito knows that out of all people.”
Bonito continues to lock the Boston Crab on Ignavus as the champ struggles to get out of the move. Soon enough, Ignavus groans in pain while Bonito still has the lock on hold. After a whole minute, Bonito finally lets go and picks up Ignavus. Bonito grabs hold of Ignavus and sends him back to the mat with a quick t-bone suplex.
JR: “T-Bone suplex delivered by Tony Bonito on Ignavus.”
RK: “That was one superbly done suplex there, JR. Props to my main man Tony Bonito for pulling that one off.”
TB spins around the ring and lets out a ‘woo!’ to sitr the fans into a loud chorus of boos for the Olympian. TB has a grin on his face once he sees the corner beside him and starts to climb up. Once he reaches the top rope, he grabs on tight to the pole and tries to shimmy his way up. However, we see Ignavus already on his feet and he runs towards the corner. Once he hits the corner, he springs up to the ropes and connects with some sort of enzugiri flip kick to the side of Bonito’s head. The kick to the head sends TB hanging onto the pole with one arm, but he eventually lets go and falls to the outside of the ring. Ignavus, on the other hand, tumbles down to the mat and struggles to get up by the use of the ropes.
JR: “BAH GAWD WHAT A SURPRISE COMEBACK KICK FROM IGNAVUS!!!”
The fans chant “Holy S***” as Tony Bonito holds his head on the outside of the ring. Back inside the ring, Ignavus finally gets to his feet and leans on the corner for a while to get a breather. Ignavus slowly climbs to the turnbuckles while TB slowly but surely pulls himself up on the outside. Ignavus finally reaches the top rope and he starts to climb the pole, but we see TB on the apron to stop him. TB starts to club away on the sides of Ignavus for him to stop the X-WCW Champion.
JR: “Tony Bonito is hammering away on the champion, Ignavus, who tried to climb up and retrieve that hockey stick. It’s a very back and forth match here with both men really denying the other to retrieve that stick, King.”
RK: “It is like a ladder match, JR. The difference about this, however, is that these two men don’t have it easy by climbing ladder steps, they gotta climb it like they used to do in gym class during their elementary days. You know what I mean JR, climbing the rope that is attached to the gymnasium ceiling and whatnot?”
JR: “It certainly does have a familiar style to the climbing, King. But remember, they gotta grab an object here, not ring the bell once you reach the top. You also have to use the object against you opponent to EARN the match victory.”
Ignavus slid down from the pole and now has both feet planted on the top turnbuckle. With Ignavus seemingly dazed, Tony Bonito stands on the second ropes from the apron to grab Ignavus and delivers…
JR: “NITOPLEX FROM THE APRON AND BOTH MEN GO TO THE OUTSIDE! OH MY GOODNESS KING!!!”
RK: “JR! Calm down, will ya! They aint gonna die there, maybe get paralyzed for an awkward crash landing, but they wont die. Uhm..atleast I hope they wont.”
With both men down, the fans have blending of chants between “This is awesome” and “holy s***”. Both men finally stir up to a vertical base after a whole minute and they start to exchange some punches outside the squared circle. Ignavus blocks one of Bonito’s punches and delivers some fast kicsk to the midsection of his opponent. Ignavus grabs Bonito by the head and slams him face first onto the apron before he rolls him back into the ring.
JR: “Bonito was sent back to the ring by Ignavus and the champ is on the apron. He springs up and lands with a springboard legdrop from the ring apron and straight to the throat of Tony Bonito!”
RK: “I think TB would be coughing blood soon after that.”
TB holds his throat and rolls on the mat while Ignavus waits for him to get to his feet. Ignavus charges at Bonito for a shinning wizard kick, but TB ducks down and grabs one of Ignavus’ feet to trip him. Ignavus spins and falls face flat on the canvas while TB slowly gets up and grabs one of his legs to apply the ankle lock.
JR: “Oh my! Ignavus just got himself trapped with that ankle lock submission from Tony Bonito.”
RK: “The champ tried to go for the kill, JR, but I reckon TB knew that a step before he would have done it.”
Ignavus struggles to get out of the submission move as Tony Bonito has it locked tightly on the leg of the champion. Ignavus crawls towards the corner, but as soon as they near it, Bonito drags him back to the center of the wrestling ring. Ignavus groans in pain while Bonito still has the hold locked in, yet he continues to crawl towards the corner. This time, he grabs with both hands the second ropes as he pulls himself up and is on one leg while Bonito still has the other one on his hands. Soon enough, Igz does a roll to use his free leg in order to kick Bonito’s chin hard with its heel. The move makes Bonito let go of the ankle lock and he goes down the mat.
JR: “What a very innovative move done there by Ignavus.”
RK: “Its weird, he exerted too much effort on that, while he usually does not. He could have done the simple roll to just send TB over the ropes, but I guess that would work to Ignavus’ advantage as well.”
Ignavus gets to his feet and limps a bit towards the corner. Ignavus climbs up the ropes slowly while we get a shot of TB getting to his feet. Ignavus reaches the top turnbuckle and is about to climb up, but Bonito runs up towards the corner and takes Ignavus down to the mat with a german suplex from the top rope.
JR: “BAH GAWD! GERMAN SUPLEX FROM THE TOP TURNBUCKLE!!! Both men are down yet again King!”
RK: “I know, JR, I know!”
With both men down on the mat yet again, the fans start to chant “Lets go Igz” in reference to the current champion. Both men slowly get to their feet and Ignavus is the first man up, he heads back to the corner, but he is stopped by TB. TB does a chop block to the leg that he applied the ankle lock on and Igz goes down yet again. With Ignavus down on his feet, TB quickly climbs up the turnbuckle before he goes to the pole. He reaches the top of the pole and he grabs the hockey stick.
RK: “YES! He has it, JR! Now all he has to do is use it against Ignavus and the match is finished!”
TB climbs down with the hockeystick in his hands and raises it high in the air for the fans to boo him. Ignavus slowly gets to his feet and TB tries to hit him with the stick. Unfortunately for TB, Ignavus ducks down and takes him down with a quick back suplex from behind. Ignavus picks up the hockey stick while TB gets to his feet. With Bonito looking the other way, Ignavus quickly slams the hockey stick over his head and it breaks in two. TB falls down the mat yet again as the bell rings.
THII: “The winner of this match is the X-WCW World Champion….IGNAVUS!!!”
Ignavus raises the broken hockey stick in the air to the fans approval.
JR: “The crowd is loving every moment of this, King! Ignavus, the X-WCW World Champion, has defeated Tony Bonito in his dear friend’s specialty match.”
RK: “I guess we all have to cheer for Ignavus, cause his soul aint gonna haunt him for not standing up for his friend here.”
Ignavus limps towards the ropes and leans on it before he raises his arm in the air yet again for the fans. However, we see a figure sliding into the ring and hitting Ignavus with a steel pipe on the injured leg. The man with the hood, takes off his hood to reveal that his identity is Otacon.
JR: “Oh for the love of..Otacon just did a sneak attack on Ignavus there with the steel pipe!”
Ignavus holds his leg on the mat while Otacon uses the pipe to attack the said leg a couple of more times. He turns Ignavus over before he locks in a single leg crab on the champion. However, he lets go as we see Grandmaster E sliding into the ring.
JR: “GRANDMASTER E HAS ARRIVED AT THE RINGISDE AREA!!!”
RK: “Things are about to pick up here, JR. These two just HATE each other..time to call the security again.”
Otacon charges at GME, but he is taken down by a tackle from GME. GME starts to hammer away on Otacon, until Otacon turns the tables and he punches away on GME this time around. Otacon gets up and picks up GME, but GME shoves Otacon out of the way. Otacon bounces off the ropes and Grandmaster E catches him with a powerslam.
JR: “POWERSLAM BY GRANDMASTER E!!!”
RK: “The ring kinda shook there, JR!”
Otacon rolls to the outside of the ring while Grandmaster E approaches the fallen Ignavus. He helps the champ get to his feet and the fans cheer when both men shake hands.
JR: “Even though they will face each other at the X Rumble, these two men have a lot of respect for the other.”
RK: “And its time for them to watch out, JR! Here comes Tony!”
Tony Bonito is on his feet and he charges at Ignavus for a clothesline. With Ignavus near the ropes, he pulls down the top rope and TB tumbles to the outside of the ring.
RK: “Oh man, that was stupid of TB. He should have known that would have happened.”
Back on the outside, Otacon and Tony Bonito walk up the ramp with some scowls on their faces as they look at the ring. Ignavus’ music hits the speakers as both Igz and GME look at each other and shake hands yet again.
JR: “An attempt by Otacon and Tony Bonito to spoil the win has been foiled by both Grandmaster E and Ignavus here, King.”
RK: “I’m telling you, with the X Rumble almost nearing, it will be an interesting doubleshot for sure.”
JR: “The next show certainly will, King. Well that’s all the time we got, join us next time for more Xtreme action. This has been Warzone, for Randal King this is James Russell..SEE YOU NEXT TIME!”
Warzone goes to a close as GME and Ignavus pose for the crowd inside the ring.
JR: “Welcome ladies and gentlemen to another action packed edition of X-WCW Warzone! I’m James Russell and alongside me here as always is Randal King. Tonight, were here live at the Los Angeles Forum in Englewood California!”
RK: “JR, Hollywood is ready to get XTREME tonight!”
JR: “Indeed they will king cause we WILL start off this show with a X-WCW TV Championship! Its going to be Bruce Ganser vs Judge Death!”
RK: “Oh..on second thought..I guess it WILL be Xtreme. It will be Xtremely terrible…ugh..Judge Death.”
JR: “Now, now King. Just because he tried to hit on you during the last show, doesn’t mean he is a terrible person.”
RK: “Lets see if you will have the same tone once he does it to YOU!”
Before we continue the banter between the two announcers, “Immortal” blasts into the speakers and the X-WCW CEO himself; Christopher Back, makes an appearance at ringside. The fans give a round of cheers for the X-WCW CEO as he makes his way down the rampway wearing a dark grey suit.
JR: “Here comes the X-CEO himself, Chris Back.”
RK: “He seems to have something in mind, JR. I wonder what he will announce.”
CB finally enters the ringside area and THII hands him the mic while his music slowly fades out.
CB: “Tonight, I will make a special announcement regarding the events of last Nitro. As we all know, Grandmaster E and Otacon had a draw due to a double knockout in their last match. So the world title match wont be a singles match anymore, it will be a DOUBLE ELIMINATION MATCH! So at the X rumble, it will be Otacon vs Grandmaster E vs Iganvus for the X-WCW World Title!!!”
The fans cheer wildly upon the announcement while CB pulls up his mic again to address them all.
CB: “As for Mr. Bonito, I’m here to give you another reminder. Bonito, you know as much as I know, its gonna be you and me in the X Rumble. Don’t forget, that we will face in a HELLS CHAMBER match! Remember that Tony, cause you have NEVER entered the place they call the hell’s chamber as much as I did. I have been through that chamber, and I know my way around. Tony, it doesn’t matter if you think you’re the better wrestler going into this match..but the question is..are you the better survivor?”
CB takes a pause for a while before he speaks again.
CB: “That’s a little question you need to ask yourself, Bonito, before we face each other inside that structure. Now onto other things..”
“Clint Eastwood” by the Gorillaz hit the speakers and Iganvus comes out to a loud ovation from the crowd. He holds the X-WCW World Title on his shoulders as he makes his way down the ring.
JR: “Here comes the champ, King.”
RK: “Wow, what happened to him? Aint he supposed to be lyin around somewhere backstage instead?”
Ignavus enters the ring and adjusts his shades before he is handed a spare mic by a stage hand.
Igz: “Boss guy, I’m sorry if I interrupted you, but I can’t help but hear something about Tony Bonito. You know, just like you Chris, I’m a friend of D-Ex here in the X-WCW regardless if he is in your group or hanging out with me in the locker room. Now, I know I should have done something to Tony after he maltreated our dear friend last PPV, but I guess I was slackin of a bit more than usual. Meh, so I thought about it..and yeah..I guess now’s the time to have a little payback for my good ol buddy D-Ex.”
CB just raises an eyebrow at Igz before he speaks.
CB: “Was it just me, or do you want a piece of Tony Bonito right now?”
Ignavus scratches his bum before he looks back at CB with a sheepish grin.
CB: “Ugh..I guess you do huh? Ok then, tonight, you will face Tony Bonito…IN A HOCKEY STICK ON A POLE MATCH!”
We get a mixed reaction from the crowd as Igz just nods at CB.
Igz: “See, that’s what I like about you Chris, you know what I want.”
With that said, Igz lazily exits the ring and heads on back to the rampway.
JR: “It seems like we got ourselves a match tonight. It will be Ignavus vs Tony Bonito in a hockey stick on a pole match!”
X-WCW goes to a commercial break as CB just watches Ignavus leave ringside.
X-WCW TV Championship
Bruce Ganser vs Judge Death (c)
We go back from the commercial break as “Out of the silent planet” hits the speakers and Judge Death’s eerie presence is felt throughout the ringside area by the fans.
THII: “The following X-WCW Television Title Match is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, from Deadworld, he is the X-WCW Television Champion…JUDGE DEATH!!!”
The fans give him a very mixed reaction as he makes his way down the ramp slowly with the X-WCW TV belt.
RK: “I dunno JR, but that guy just makes me feel ill inside the stomach most of the times he’s here. That and, I REALLY think he looks like a skinny turd.”
JR: “If JHA was here right now, King, he could sue you for trademark infridgement on using that reference to Judge Death.”
RK: “BAH! Just because he lands in a hall of fame class of a has-been federation…”
JD finally enters the ringside area and takes off his helmet before he unbuckles the X-WCW TV belt on his waist. He gives a grin to the referee as he hands both items, to the horror of the poor X-WCW ring official, Sid Green.
RK: “See JR? Even Sid there is creepin out.”
JR: “Its just a matter of preference, King. Judge Death is not a freak of nature, he is just..eccentric. Plus, he is one hell of a character to have as a Television Champion here in our company.”
JD leans on the nearby corner as he awaits his opponent. Soon enough “Next Contestant” by Nickleback hits the speakers and the big man Bruce Ganser makes his appearance on the stage.
THII: “And the challenger, from Milwaukee Wisconsin, he weighs in at 295 pounds…BRUCE GANSER!!!”
The fans start to boo at Ganser as he makes his way down the ramp.
JR: “Bruce Ganser, King, is one big hoss! I mean, at 6’7 and nearly 300 pounds, who would doubt him being dominant here in the X-WCW?”
RK: “No one! But, I think he just looks like that cause he is takin too much HGH if you know what I mean.”
Ganser hops onto the apron and roars to the crowd, which only gets a cackle from his opponent. Ganser shakes his head and glares at JD as he enters the ring.
RK: “I think when Ganser tried to intimidate Death, it failed miserably and just entertained the champ.”
JR: “For obvious reasons, King, Judge Death is as eccentric as they come.”
RK: “eccentric? I doubt that would even BE an understatement for him, JR!”
With both men in the ring, the referee calls for the bell to start the match. Once the bell is rung, Bruce Ganser charges at Judge Death and tries to attack him, but the TV champ quickly takes him down with a single leg takedown.
JR: “That was a smart move there by Judge Death.”
JD waits for Ganser to get up before he delivers some hard chops..or..slaps onto the chest of his opponent. He tries to whip Ganser into the ropes, but Ganser holds on and reels JD in for a hard clothesline.
RK: “OUCH! JD just got inside-out after that clothesline! I know Judge Death can lift and can do damage to his opponent, JR. However, lets remind ourselves that with his skinny frame, he too can be easily lifted up by almost anyone here in the X-WCW with ease. To me, that’s like his double edged sword.”
Ganser picks up Judge Death and tosses him into the nearby corner. Bruce Ganser goes over to the corner and deliver some hard kicks to the body of Judge Death. After a while, Ganser backs up and makes a charge into the corner. But as he nears it, Judge Death sticks out one of his boot and it meets Ganser by the face. Ganser, who is still a little stunned from the kick, staggers backwards while Judge Death flys off the corner and delivers a top rope dropkick. Ganser goes down to the mat while Judge Death slowly gathers himself to his feet.
JR: “Judge Death just took down the big bruiser there with a dropkick from the top rope.”
RK: “That’s some smooth flying there by Judge Death. I’d never imagine him doing that again sometime soon. Well, unless he would try that again today.”
Judge Death approaches Bruce Ganser and picks up the bulkier opponent. He delivers a hard throat thrust to Ganser and the big man reels back into the ropes. With Ganser on the ropes, Judge Death delivers a powerful chop to the chest that echoes throughout the building. JD has a grin on his face before he delivers a second chop across the chest of Ganser. With the second shot already hit, JD backs up and makes a charge, but Ganser catches him and sends him over the ropes.
RK: “He was way too ahead of himself right there.”
JD crashes down to the outside while Ganser slowly gets onto the apron. Eventually, Ganser steps to the outside of the ring as well and picks up Judge Death. He has Judge Death and he rams him face first onto the nearby ring post. JD falls down like a ton of bricks while Ganser just glares at him for a little while.
JR: “Bruce Ganser really wants to destroy the TV champ.”
RK: “Anyone who wants to break Judge Death in two for the second time, gets the Andrew Hart award if you ask me.”
Ganser picks up Judge Death and has him in a gorilla press position. Soon enough, he tosses Judge Death back into the ring as the referee already was in his ‘6th’ count. Ganser re-enters the ring and hauls JD back to a vertical base. However, fate befalls on Ganser as Judge Death uses both hands to…pinch him in the nipples.
RK: “WHAT IN THE?! WHAT IS JUDGE DEATH DOING?! THE PURPLE NURPLE?!”
JR: “It seems like he is, King. Judge Death just clamped his hands on Bruce Ganser’s nipple region.”
After a couple of seconds, JD lets go as Ganser hold his pinched chest region. While Ganser is distracted by the unorthodox move of JD, his opponent takes him down with a bodyslam. Judge Death turns Ganser around and locks in a camel clutch submission on his opponent.
JR: “Judge Death has that submission move applied on Bruce Ganser, and it seems to be a bit effective now.”
Bruce Ganser is stuck in the camel clutch of Judge Death for only a few seconds after JD lets go of it himself. He picks up Ganser and sets him up for a suplex, however, Bruce Ganser lifts him up into the air before he sends him down with a sit-down inverted suplex.
RK: “Ganser just reversed the momentum there against the TV Champ.”
Judge Death slowly gets to his feet and Ganser grabs him by the arm before he is reeled in for a huge clothesline. The move sends Judge Death tumbling down to the mat while Ganser has a sick smile on his face.
JR: “What a powerful clothesline delivered by Bruce Ganser on the TV Champ.”
RK: “No kidding, JR, I’m actually starting to pity JD than being disgusted by him.”
Ganser picks up Judge Death, but the TV champ starts to fight back with some hard punches on the sides of the challenger. Ganser lets go and Judge Death starts to deliver a couple of hard forearms to the head of Ganser before he bounces off the ropes. Judge Death returns from the ropes and flys off for a crossbody, but Ganser catches him and soon enough delivers a stomach breaker on the TV champion.
RK: “Very stupid move there by JD. He should have just laid it to Ganser some more or atleast just took him down with a shoulder tackle.”
JR: “I think Judge Death is in a WORLD of hurt right now after that devastating stomach breaker delivered by the opponent.”
Bruce Ganser grabs Judge Death by the head and he sets him up for a powerbomb. He lifts JD on his shoulders and is about to slam him down the mat, but…
JR: “JUDGE DEATH DELIVERS A CHOP TO THE HEAD!”
RK: “Holy rip-offs!!!”
With the move borrowed from a certain hoss, it is proven effective as the bigger Ganser stumbles down the mat. Judge Death hooks one of Ganer’s leg and the referee goes for the pin.
JR: “Here is the cover..1..2…3…and..its over..”
RK: “Well, atleast Judge Death retains his title. That’s good for him, I doubt its good for the rest of us.”
“Out of the silent planet” blares out into the speakers yet again as the referee raises Judge Death’s arm in the air.
THII: “The winner of this match and STILL X-WCW Television champion…JUDGE DEATH!!!”
The fans give a mixed reaction as JD is handed the TV title by the referee.
JR: “Such a strange finish here from an equally strange character known as Judge Death.”
RK: “You tell me, he just ripped off Khali with that move.”
JD raises his belt slowly in the air, but soon enough, the lights go out at ringside. Once it comes back up, Seith is behind Judge Death with a nightstick on his hand. Before he could strike, JD spins around and faces Seith.
RK: “Oh great, yet another creep enters the scene.”
JR: “Seith Helloct is here at ringside and both men are nose to nose!”
With both men staring down, JD quickly puts the belt on his shoulder. Seith, slowly raises his nightstick and he uses it to pat the X-WCW Television belt of Judge Death.
JR: “It seems like Seith Helloct just made his statement to Judge Death, he WANTS the X-WCW TV title!”
RK: “Well, as long as they don’t actually lust for each other like they did in Nitro, its all good to me!”
X-WCW goes to a commercial break as both men continue to stare down in the middle of the ring.
Backstage
We go to Carnage Inc’s locker room where we see “Mr. All American” Rocky Davis doing some of his pre-match stretching all alone. All of a sudden, he hears a knock on the door and he answers it. Once the door opens, the Lost Boys enter the room.
MAA: “What took you two so long?”
Mike: “Yo Mr. All American, me and Mark here just came from the arena’s gym and were ready to fight by your side on the triple threat match.”
Mark: “Yeah man, were here to represent the red, white and blue and make Joey Goldstone and Marky Mark Malin black AND blue all over for ya.”
Mr. All American just has a smile on his face and pats both men on the back.
MAA: “Now boys, I like your enthusiasm and whatnots, but leave it to me ok? I got this match in the bag. Now…regarding the Stix brothers? They got a match tonight and I see you two here in the locker room. If I recall, those two asswipes screwed you two in a match last Nitro. As members of Carnage Inc., what the hell are you supposed to do about them handing you such a miscarriage of justice during Nitro?”
Mike: “Those two monkey faced idiots? Of course they will NOT get away for what they did to me and my brother here.”
Mark: “Yeah, what Mikey said. You know, if they think they can mess with us..THE LOST BOYS…they might have just lost their minds right there and then. They’d still better watch their backs tonight.”
MAA nods in agreement with his two young protégés and turns around to stretch a bit more. Once he is done, he turns around to the Lost boys with a grin.
MAA: “I’m glad I heard that, boys. Well, you two better let me be inside the locker room now cause I still got a lot of preparation to do right here ok?”
The Lost Boys both say ‘yeah’ and leave the locker room. We see Mr. All American do a little bit of his stretching yet again until we head back to the ringside area.
RK: “Wow, after a few shows we got a name change here JR! Say goodbye to Real American and say hello to Mr. All American Rocky Davis. If you ask me, that’s one helluva nice name that rolls around your tongue.”
JR: “Even though he has a new name, does it mean he has a new outlook here in the X-WCW, King?”
RK: “Only time will tell, JR. Right now, its tag team action with the WALKIN STIX vs Misled Kiddies of Jacko!”
JR: “Uhm..dont you mean to say ‘The Stix Brothers’ vs ‘Misled Youth’ is the next tag team contest?”
RK: “Bah, those names are as synonymous as the names I just said, JR.”
The Stix Brothers vs Misled Youth
THII: “Ladies & gentlemen, the following tag team contest is scheduled for 1 fall. It will be under a 30 minute time-limit. Introducing first…”
*Some very eerie piano music hits the speakers followed by a loud explosion that causes the fans to jump and scream. The two massive creatures dubbed the Stix Brothers step out of the curtains with no emotion. Well we can see that through the wholes of their masks…the two walk down the ramp way creeping out any fans in the front row. They both climb into the ring at the same time and evily smirk as they await their opponents.*
THII: “Both from parts unknown, at a combined weight of 700 lbs… Dante & Damien Stix, The Stix Brothers!!!!”
JR: “These two are no doubt large hosses! I have never seen 2 people that can move quite like them…especially at their height King. They are not just your typical big men…its almost as if they are supernatural.”
*The fans give a mixed reaction as the two large brothers stand in the middle of the ring. Just then, “Lost Boys” by 69 Eyes hits the speakers and the tag team of Misled Youth head onto the ramp. Chaz Sundance & Trevor Moon slowly walk down the ramp, kind of nervous when looking at their opponents who are basically twice their size. As they walk down the ramp, they get booed like crazy from the fans.*
THII: “And their opponents…from Santa Cruz CA, at a combined weight of 298 lbs…. Chaz Sundance & Trevor Moon….MISLED YOUUUUTH!!!!!”
*The two enter the ring and stare down their motionless/emotionless opponents. Damien just turns and leaves the ring while both Misled Youth members try to start the match off 2 on 1. The referee yells for one to leave and both make a break for the apron. Trevor gets onto the apron first and Chaz stomps on the mat. He looks at the massive Damien as the bell rings to start the match.*
JR: “Now, if Chaz wants to walk out of this match-up at all, he cannot be still. He has to hit and move and never be stationary, one punch could end this match.”
RK: “Man, you seriously doubt Misled Youths ability. It will be good to see a proverbial David vs. Goliath.”
JR: “You know you used the term proverbial at the wrong time right?”
*Chaz dances around his opponent, Damien Stix. When he gets in front of Dante, Dante goes for a haymaker, which the clever Chaz dodges. Chaz sends a couple right hands to Dante…but have no effect. Dante throws a right hand at Chaz, but Chaz dips it again and sends some more right hands to Dante. They seem to be working until Chaz goes for a turn around haymaker. Dante drops the spinning Sundance right to the ground with a hard right hand to the jaw.*
*Dante grabs Chaz by the throat with both hands and lifts him up in the air, then throws him onto the other side of the canvas. Chaz grabs his back in pain as he gets up, only to find Dante closing in on him. Dante goes for a running clothesline, but Chaz ducks it. When Dante turns around to attack, Chaz sends a dropkick to the knee which takes Dante down to one knee and starts hammering away on his face.*
*Trevor Moon shouts some words of encouragement to his partner as he continues to send right hands to Dante. The Stix Brother starts to absorb the pain and get to his feet, so Chaz goes for a right toe kick. Dante catches his foot, but stumbles back after falling victim to a lightning fast Enziguri. Chaz quickly gets up and charges at Dante and jumps at him for a Cross Body attack, but Dante catches him in mid air. He sets him up for a British Bulldog like running powerslam, but Chaz wiggles and slides enough to land behind the big guy.*
RK: “Looks like Chaz Sundance heard you earlier JR. He is really using his quickness and speed to stop Dante from utterly destroying him.”
*The fans watch on as Chaz Sundance jumps on Dante Stix’s back for a sleeper hold. Chaz wraps his legs around his opponent hoping to further the damage and it looks like it is actually working! Dante drops to one knee and Sundance tightens his grip. He screams out loud trying to tighten it more, but Dante starts to rally. He stands up tries to shake Chaz off. Chaz does not listen, but is forced to when Dante runs forward a bit and falls backwards, crushing his smaller opponent behind him.*
JR: “A fitting counter for Dante. He has now completely changed the momentum, lets find out of he can capitalize.”
*Dante gets up, a little sore from the past attacks, but gets up anyway. He leans on the ropes awaiting Chaz Sundance to get up, which he does about 8 seconds later. Dante meets Chaz with some very hard shots to the body. The impact from each blow takes its toll, but one the 6th one comes, Chaz doubles over and grabs his stomach. Dante then grabs him by the waist and takes him down with a guntwrench suplex. As soon as his body hits the mat, Chaz sits up and screams holding his lower abdomen. Dante gets up and runs sending a running boot to the back of Chaz’s head and knock him back down. The smaller Stix brother attempts the first pinfall of the night.*
JR & RK: “1…tw-kickout by Sundance!”
RK: “He may be afraid of him, but he sure as hell ain’t backing down!”
JR: “That’s the truth as we can see.”
*Dante sends an elbow to the face and helps up Sundance. He proceeds with some strong knee strikes to the waist and then takes Chaz down with a standing back body drop! Dante sits up smiling as he listens to the everlasting pain of Chaz Sundance. Moon says “Tag out man, you can do it!” towards his partner and extends his hand and far out as he can. Dante looks at Trevor and shakes his head in disappointment as he turns around only to be thumbed in the eye!*
*Chaz staggers towards his partner and good friend, Trevor Moon, and tags out. Trevor climbs into the ring via middle rope and rushes at Dante Stix. He takes the partially blind sticks down with a spinning wheel kick to the back. Dante gets up and is taken back down with a dropkick. Trevor starts sending as many stomps as he can onto Dante and helps him up. Trevor bounces off of the ropes and hits Dante with a high knee attack to the face. The big guy stumbles back and Trevor attempts another one. This time though, Dante catches him sets him up correctly and drops Trevor’s knee on Dante’s knee for a knee breaker! The fans chant “OOOOOOOOH” as they can hear the attack all throughout the arena.*
JR: “Bah gawd, that move sounded very painful.”
*The cameraman switches to Damien Stix, who nods his head in approval as he awaits his brother to tag out. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ring, Chaz Sundance is sitting on the apron holding his ribcage. Back to the action, Dante drags Trevor by the hair and pulls him to the corner. The referee starts to lecture Dante about pulling the hair, but with an intimidating look, our good ol’ referee intentionally forgets what he was saying and backs away. Dante tags his brother Damien and Damien puts his left leg on top of the rope. Dante slams Trevor’s head on the boot which knocks the Misled Youth member down and leaves the ring.*
JR: “Dante Stix has just tagged in his even bigger brother, Damien Stix. This does not look good for Misled Youth folks.”
RK: “You got that right, Trevor better get some sort of adrenaline boost or something. He is in for an entire world…heck a universe of hurt.”
*Damien picks up where his brother Dante left off and lands a standing leg drop on Trevor’s throat. The leg hits Moon’s throat so hard that his legs kick up as if he used all the strength he ever had in his life to kick out of a pinfall at the end of an iron-man match. Damien wastes no time and sends some right hands to the jaw from the mat, than picks up his opponent and sends a throat thrust to poor Trevor’s throat. It takes Trevor Moon down and Damien Stix laughs evilly as Trevor holds his throat.*
*Damien rips Trevor’s hands from his throat and locks on a blatant chokehold. The referee rushes over and demands Damien to release the hold. Damien ignores the referee and the ref starts the count. When he gets to 5, the referee grabs his arm and pulls; Damien reluctantly obliges and lets go. Damien helps Trevor up by the head and holds him up in the air with both hands over his throat. Then, in Kane fashion, slams poor Trevor Moon on his back as hard as he can, the impact causes the ring to shake a bit.*
*Mr. Moon rolls on the mat in pain, holding his throat as if someone has been choking him for a long time now, which ironically is true. Damien wastes no time and goes for a pinfall attempt.*
JR: “1…2…kickout by Trevor Moon! He is hurt, but he is not out of this fight just yet King!”
RK: “But for how long? His partner’s ribs could be utterly broken and he isn’t in good shape himself. This does not look good for Misled Youth.”
*Damien stands up in frustration and sends a couple of stomps to the stomach. Then backs up and hits Moon with a jumping splash. A manly shriek is heard from the crowd as Trevor Moon is helped up by Damien Stix. Dante turns around and spots Mark Daniels from the Lost boys trying to make his way to the ring. He trips over somebody and rolls down the stairway, but gets back up and climbs and falls over the barricade. Dante jumps off of the apron to meet his adversary and starts to brawl with him.*
RK: “What is this loon doing here! He needs to exit the ring now!!”
JR: “Bah Gawd, there is Mike Daniels!!”
*While the referee screams outside the ring for Mark Daniels to leave, Mike Daniels slides from under the ring and stands up on his tipped toes. He jumps up and down and turns around to find Damien shouting at him. Damien’s eyes open big as he is hit in the groin with a blatant uppercut from Trevor Moon! Moon then schoolboys Damien while Chaz shouts for the referee to turn around.*
JR: “The referee turns around! 1…2…3, Misled Youth wins!!”
RK: “Whoa! Thanks to the misfortune of the Lost Boys, Misled youth has captured a seemingly impossible victory. Those idiots need to be put in a home, the Lost Boys are more retarded than anything I’ve ever laid my eyes on.”
*“Lost Boys” by 69 Eyes hits the speakers and the crowd boos the two heels. Trevor exits the ring via rolling from the bottom rope while Sundance gets off the apron. The two hurry up the ramp to exit as the Stix brothers go insane from losing a fight almost won. Mike has somehow been able to escape Dante and Mark runs up the ramp way like he is flying a plane.*
JR: “The Lost Boys need to be very afraid. They have messed up big time picking a fight with the Stix brothers.”
RK: “You got that right…I actually dunno if they figure they did something wrong though…”
Warzone goes on a commercial break
Backstage
Warzone returns from its commercial break to see Nightmare in the backstage area with his X-WCW Xtreme Title draped over his lap. He is seen sitting on top of a crate while we see Rayne Bloodstorm just standing around somewhere near inside the boiler room. Soon enough, we hear a loud crashing sound nearby and it startles Nightmare himself. The camera pans over to the doorway where we see Justin Sane getting to his feet after he fell from a dumpster that made its way through the boiler room door.
Nightmare: “What the hell is the meaning of this?! You dare disturb me here in MY quarters?”
Sane groggily makes his way towards Nightmare and leans on the crate before he tilts his head upwards.
Justin Sane: “EY! Are YOU the X-WCW Xtreme Champion?! Or are you just so insane as me and just stole that belt on your lap?”
Nightmare shrugs before he nods.
NM: “I am the Xtreme champion, peon. Now what the hell are YOU doing here? Will you answer that question or will I just have to beat it out of you?”
JS: “Well, I’m here to give this to you.”
Justin hands a piece of paper that was in his pants and Nightmare starts to read it. Once he is done, he looks at Justin and raises an eyebrow.
NM: “Wait, it says I’m going to defend my title as soon as I read this paper, inside this place. Hey, it also says some guy named Justin Sane should be my challenger, now who the hell is THAT?”
Justin smirks before he points to himself.
JS: “That would be ME!”
While Justin has his hands on his hips and his chest puffed out, Nightmare hops off the crate and looks at him. Soon enough, we see the referee enter the room and Nightmare uses his X-WCW belt to smack it over the head of Justin Sane. The match has begun inside the locker room!
X-WCW Xtreme Title
Boiler Room Brawl
Nightmare© vs Justin Sane
While we can see the boiler room, we can hear the voice-overs of the announcers who are off the screen.
JR: “Well King, I guess we got an official match right now.”
RK: “Great, and I was ENJOYING my nap time right here a few seconds ago but…NO! Someone just HAD to wake me up for this match.”
Nightmare drags Justin Sane up to his feet before he delivers a couple of hard forearms to the face of his opponent. Justin shoves Nightmare off him before he charges at him and takes him down with a tackle. With Nightmare on the floor, Justin Sane starts to hammer away on his head with some hard punches to the face. Nightmare rolls around the floor and turns the tide before he delivers some hard elbow shots to Justin Sane.
RK: “Its like both men are going at it UFC style here, JR.”
With Justin Sane a little bit dazed on the floor, Nightmare locks on a keylock on one of his arms. Justin Sane struggles to get out of the hold with using his free arm to smack Nightmare on his sides. Eventually, the Xtreme champion lets go and gets to his feet. Justin Sane gets up and he sees Nightmare charging at him. Sane quickly sidesteps out of the way and he sends Nightmare into the direction of the nearby dumpster. Nightmare rams his head onto the side of the dumpster before he turns around and stumbles into Justin Sane. Justin grabs him by the head and delivers a sit-down facebuster reminiscent of the X-Factor and pins the champion.
JR: “A facebuster by Sane and heres the cover 1..2..and Nightmare kicks out.”
Justin Sane shakes his head for a while before he climbs up the dumpster and waits for Nightmare to get up. Once Nightmare is up, he launches himself from the dumpster and delivers a flying crossbody. However, once he connects it, Nightmare rolls over and pins him instead.
JR: “The pin has been reversed, 1..2..NO! Kickout there by Justin Sane.”
RK: “A very classic reversal there by Nightmare. It might be inside a boiler room, but there are still elements in wrestling that one can use there.”
Nightmare and Justin Sane get up at the same time and Justin runs towards Nightmare. Unfortunately for the newcomer, Nightmare scouts him and takes him down with a vicious spinning heel kick right across the face of Justin Sane.
RK: “That kick might have just loosened or broke a couple of teeth on Justin Sane.”
Justin Sane scrambles back up while he holds his mouth with one of his hands. He gets punched on the gut by Nightmare, but he fights back with a hard kick right across the chest of Nightmare. Once Nightmare is on his knees, he attempts a super kick on his opponent’s face. However, the Xtreme champion scouts it and avoids the kick by blocking it with both hands. He spins Justin around before he gets up and clotheslines his opponent.
JR: “That was a quick recovery by the Xtreme champion and he takes down the challenger with a clothesline.”
RK: “Its either he is on an adrenaline rush now, JR, or he wants to just get out of the room pretty badly.”
Nightmare hauls up Justin Sane, but Sane grabs him and delivers a jawbreaker. Nightmare staggers backwards for a while before Justin Sane runs towards him and delivers a flying clothesline to take down the champion. With Nightmare getting up, Justin Sane sees a nearby chair and sets it up a few feet nearby Nightmare.
RK: “To me, its like Justin would do a little Sabu imitation right here inside the boiler room.”
With Nightmare already up and a little bit groggy, Justin Sane runs towards the chair and he springs up to it to deliver a jumping side kick to Nightmare. However, Nightmare somehow catches him and slams Justin Sane back-first onto the chair.
JR: “OH MY GOODNESS! Not only did Sane’s plan fail, but it back-fired on him. He launched himself from the chair, and now he crashed back into the chair.”
RK: “Talk about a cruel twist of fate there JR.”
Sane is hurting already on the floor, but Nightmare seems like he is not finished with his assault on the challenger. He drags him up by his head and he delivers a couple of hard clubs to the back of his opponent. Soon enough, he locks him into an abdominal stretch as the referee asks for Justin to give up.
RK: “The newcomer Justin Sane has himself locked in that abdominal stretch, JR. His back is already hurt by his earlier screwup, and now its gonna be aggravated by the submission hold Nightmare has placed him.”
Justin screams in pain, however, he does not submit to the move of Nightmare. After a few seconds, Nightmare gives up on the hold and shoves Justin back to the floor in frustration. Justin holds his back for a while before Nightmare picks him up and sets him up for a powerbomb. He tries to lift Justin, but he blocks it and back body drops the champion to the floor.
JR: “The powerbomb attempt has been foiled by the challenger and Nightmare slowly gets to his feet.”
Nightmare is on his feet right now and Justin Sane kicks him hard on the gut and sets him up for his twist of fate finisher. However, Nightmare powers his way out of it and shoves Justin Sane…INTO THE NEARBY BOILER!!! The impact makes the boiler spew out steam that temporarily blinds the challenger and he turns around and goes down on his knees as he is blinded.
RK: “That blinded Justin Sane pretty good. That would really sting, JR!”
JR: “Indeed it did, Justin sane is temporarily blinded by the steam and BAH GAWD! That was one wicked kick across the back of the head of Justin Sane by Nightmare and he falls down on the floor.”
After Nightmare connected with that fierce karate kick to the back of Sane’s head and locks in his rear naked choke hold on him.
JR: “Nightmare locks in his patented move that he calls ‘trapped in your dreams’. He really has the choke hold locked in tightly, King.”
RK: “Justin Sane, if he could actually get up from this move, would have my praises right off the bat. But I doubt he would get out of this move since he already got blinded AND he possibly got all his braincells kicked out of his head after that fierce kick delivered by Nightmare. The only thing this choke hold does for Justin is to hamper his breathin time cause he needs more O2 now than he ever did when he was conscious.”
The referee checks if Justin Sane is conscious, but after holding his arm up 3 times and it flopped, he calls the match to end and declares Nightmare as the champion.
JR: “Well folks, its over.”
RK: “Nightmare retains his X-WCW Xtreme title yet again, JR! That was some amazing title defense there by Nightmare.”
JR: “Indeed it was, King. Justin Sane put up a good fight, but he fell short in the final seconds and got beat by Nightmare.”
We hear THII’s voice over off the screen as well.
THII: “The winner as a result of submission and STILL X-WCW Xtreme Champion…NIGHTMARE!!!”
Nightmare still has Justin Sane with his submission hold as the referee attempts to break it up. However, Nightmare doesn’t let go of Justin Sane with the hold.
JR: “Oh my goodness, this doesn’t look so good for Justin Sane right now, King.”
RK: “You’re right, JR. Look, I think his face is already turning blue or purple..or something right now.”
Soon enough, a couple of more X-WCW referees and Rayne Bloodstone herself storm into the boiler room in attempts to break up the submission move. We go back to ringside with James Russell and Randal King at the helm.
JR: “Welcome back to the ringside area, folks.”
RK: “Yeah, if we still focus the cameras on the boiler room, we can only see Nightmare continue the suffering of Justin Sane with that submission move.”
JR: “As we speak, King, indeed the officials and even Nightmare’s friend Rayne Bloodstone are still trying to let him take off the submission move. Nightmare is one of the most fearsome competitors of the X-WCW today. Well ladies and gentlemen; Warzone will come back after the commercial break.”
Warzone goes to a brief commercial break.
***COMMERCIAL BREAK*****
The commercial shows a road along the Detroit highway. The footage fades to black as soon as it reaches ‘8 mile’ road. The footage comes back and shows Tony Bonito wearing his usual sports jacket with the hood on as he has his back turned on the camera. Soon enough, the footage zooms out of the shot and we see him standing inside an empty gym. It fades to black for a while until we see Christopher Back wearing a suit and he steps into a limo. As the limousine drives along the street, we hear a voice over.
V.O.: “Two bitter rivals…”
The footage goes back to TB who now is just wearing the jogging pants and he is shown doing some pushups on the ground until it cuts back to CB as his limousine stops infront of a very old looking building with a ‘gym’ sign on it yet again another voice over plays.
V.O.: “Will face each other…”
Tony Bonito slowly gets to his feet and leans on the nearby wall. We cut back to CB as he gets out of the limo and takes off his blazer to reveal an nTo shirt underneath it. The clip fades to black for a while until it comes back with several shots of the Hell’s Chamber.
V.O.: “In one of the most inhumane structure devised in professional wrestling.”
After a couple of more shots of the chamber, we hear JR’s voice over.
JR V.O.: “The Hell’s Chamber, one of the most demonic structures ever created here in the X-WCW. Clearly, once a wrestler steps into this chamber, they are putting all of their career’s work on the line for just this single match.”
We see a couple of clips involving various X-WCW superstars inside the Hell’s Chamber before it fades to black. Once the footage comes back again, Chris Back is inside the gym where Bonito is and they stare down for a while until Chris Back breaks the silence.
CB: “Work out’s over, friend.”
Both CB and TB have a smirk on their faces before TB replies in kind.
TB: “Thought you’d never show up here..”
The screen then shows the X Rumble logo.
VO: “X-WCW Presents The X Rumble. Live from Auburn Hills in Detroit Michigan. Now available on pay per view.”
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No DQ Tag Team Grudge Match
Josh Leyh & TRD vs RNR
We go back to ringside where we see THII announcing the next match.
THII: “Ladies & gentlemen, the following contest is a tag team scheduled for one falls, it will be fought under no disqualification rules. This match will have a 30 minute time-limit. Introducing first…”
“N…T…O” is heard and “Unleashed by Saliva” hits the speakers. The 7’0 behemoth, The Real Deal, makes his way down the ramp-way. His scheduled tag team partner tonight, Josh Leyh, follows him into the ring. As they walk, the two are met with “jeers” and “NTO Sucks” chants, but they ignore them and get into the ring. TRD raises his hands and Leyh does the same. Leyh flips off the crowd, but that only worsens their feedback as the crowd get very energetic with their verbal feelings.
RK: “These fans are stupid, don’t they understand that these two superstars will indeed be the future of X-WCW when C. Back and D-ex permanently hang up the boots?”
JR: “I think not Randall, these two rely on cheating t- BAH GAWD WHAT A CHAIR SHOT!”
RK: “DISQUALIFY THOSE BASTARDS, THEY ARE CHEATING TO AN EXTREME!!”
As our beloved announcers were speaking, Brett Rayne & R.E. Rage (RNR), came into the ring from behind and both attacked Leyh and TRD with chair shots. They take the NTO down and immediately start stomping away. Rayne slaps Leyh’s back with the chair multiple times while RNR does the same to TRD. Leyh rolls out of the ring to catch his breath, but Rayne wastes no time and launches the chair at JL, which hits him in the forehead and knocks him down.
RK: “Ouch. That wouldn’t bode too well for JL.”
Rayne chuckles and exits the ring to capitalize and the bell rings to signify the beginning of the match. Rage continues slamming TRD in the back with his steel chair while the fans give a mixed reaction. He goes for a pin, but the big guy kicks out at two so Rage starts hammering away on the forehead. He helps the seven-footer up by the hair and sends some chops to the chest. Rage kicks TRD in the kneecap and snap mares him to the ground. He completes the combo with his signature dragon sleeper submission hold. Painfully forcing TRD’s neck around, R.E. Rage tries to get the quick tap out as the referee asks TRD if he is ready to give up.
JR: “He has the submission move applied, King.”
RK: “Oh boy, he will start tappin on his tappin gloves, JR!”
Meanwhile, on the outside, Brett Rayne and Josh Leyh are trading blows. Rayne blocks one punch and sends a couple of European uppercuts to the chin. He then grabs Josh Leyh and goes for a Sambo suplex, but Leyh reverses it into a Reverse Russian leg sweep! Josh Leyh staggers up and slides into the ring to spot his partner in deep trouble. He hits the ropes and hits a running drop kick on R.E. Rage’s face. Rage is taken to the canvas from the drop kick by Leyh and TRD holds his neck in pain.
JR: “The NTO are making a come back King. I honestly don’t know who to root for, both of these teams will bend the rules in a split second to win.”
RK: “Man, I am also kind of torn. Rage & Rayne are 2 of the best wrestlers…ever, but then Leyh and TRD are apart of the greatest faction…ever. I guess I’ll go for both of em.”
Leyh starts to get cocky as TRD gets up. The smaller NTO member spots Brett Rayne getting up from the attack, so he asks TRD to do something. TRD nods and picks Leyh up over his head, runs towards the ropes and throws him at Brett Rayne. The former 2NLW Universal & International champion uses his experience and rolls out of the way. Leyh flies face first into the railing and slides off holding his face. TRD stomps the mat in anger and starts to head over to the ropes to exit the ring, but Rayne’s tag partner R.E. Rage takes TRD down with a chop block to the leg.
JR: “Chop block to the leg, and the nto’s momentum has been chopped down with it.
Brett Rayne climbs into the ring and he and his partner begin to dissect TRD. After some vicious stomping, the two partners lift TRD up and hold him for a suplex. They hold him for about 10 seconds before dropping him with a beautiful vertical suplex. Brett Rayne starts to pose as Rage spits on the NTO’s big man. He attempts a pinfall, but The Real Deal kicks out at 2. R.E. Rage looks at The Real Deal and shakes his head. He mounts TRD and sends some deadly head butts to the already aching Giant.
RK: “A very…weird move there by Rage, but whatever then. It SEEMS to be working for him as we speak.”
After the head butts, Brett Rayne heads out of the ring to grab some weapons while R.E. Rage picks TRD up by the hair. He sends a couple forearms to the jaw and sends poor TRD into the turnbuckle. R.E. Rage jumps up and down before charging at the 7’0 Real Deal. Just then, TRD does a Test like big boot and takes R.E. Rage off of his feet in the blink of an eye!.
RK: “Damn. That was painful.”
TRD falls to one knee from as the effects of his ass kicking are taking place. As he sits there Brett Rayne has climbed to the top turnbuckle and looks at TRD ready to strike. TRD stands up and turns around into a Cross Body attempt. Using amazing strength, TRD catches Brett Rayne in mid-air and hits him with a fall away slam. Brett Rayne’s flying body goes right onto R.E. Rage back first and both superstars of RNR roll around in serious pain.
JR: “OH BAH GAWD!!! ALL FOUR MEN ARE DOWN IN THAT THING!”
About a minute has passed and Brett Rayne is the first to get on his feet. He runs against the ropes, but to his surprise is tripped and pulled out of the ring by Josh Leyh. Leyh sends some left hands to Brett Rayne’s face and takes Rayne down with a headlock takeover. Leyh picks Rayne up and sends him some knees to the gut, then slams his face into the steel railing. Rayne stumbles back before he is taken down with an elbow smash. The smaller NTO member then climbs onto the ring apron and awaits Rayne to get back on both feet.
JR: “Josh Leyh is waiting for Rayne to just get to his feet before going to do something here, King.”
Rayne does exactly what Josh Leyh wanted him to do as he stands up. Rayne turns around and Leyh launches himself off of the apron, but Rayne catches him with a flapjack…face first into the steel railing!! Josh Leyh’s face has been heavily busted open and he slides off on the floor holding his face. The fans chant “holy sh**” as the camera man watches Brett Rayne slide under the bottom rope and into the ring.
JR: “Good God, this is indeed a grudge match alright.”
RK: “Heck yeah JR, it’s also safe to say that Josh Leyh is trying to divorce that steel railing.”
JR: “…..”
While the action conspired outside the ring, R.E. Rage has taken control of TRD. Rage has been sending left and rights to The Real Deal in a corner, knocking him senseless with a quick combination of left and rights. TRD finally blocks one and send a right hand, only to suffer a running Yakuza Kick to the face from Brett Rayne. RNR gang up on TRD and take him down with a double hip toss. Rage picks up a near-by chair and tells Rayne to hold TRD up. Rayne helps TRD up to one knee and Rage charges at him. Brett Rayne moves out of the way and TRD is knocked back onto the floor via a thunderous chair shot to the skull. TRD lays back first on his knees as Rayne spits on his face. “You wanted to screw with RNR? Huh b**** ?? You shoulda stayed in the lower card!! Rage, tear his face up!!” Rayne screams. Brett Rayne helps TRD back up again and Rage gets ready to swing, just then Rayne screams out “wait!”.
JR: “What is going on here?!”
Brett Rayne climbs out of the ring and grabs his own chair, then climbs back in. The two smirk and ready themselves. After a little stretching and practice swings, RNR give TRD such a hard conchairto, it puts E & C to shame. RNR smirk…and do the same move for a second time. TRD falls back down and looks to be knocked out.
JR: “Those sick bastards! I may dislike the NTO, but nobody deserves to be hurt like that!!”
RK: “Jesus Christ, I don’t even know if TRD will be able to walk away from this one.”
With Josh Lyeh laid out on the outside, RNR both put a foot on TRD and demand the referee to make the count. 3 second later, the match up is over. “Filmstar” hits the speakers and RNR raise their hands in victory.
JR: “Thank god this match is over King. The NTO had no chance in hell to say the least. Matter fact, I think the NTO have just lost 2 promising superstars…their careers have GOT to be over.”
RK: “This is Xtreme championship wrestling JR, I know this scares the sh** outta me but its what we live for. I hope the good doctors can do whatever they can to help these poor youngsters.”
With their hands raised in victory, they quickly go back to the fallen TRD and start stomping down on him. Soon afterwards, we see Tony Bonito running down the rampway and sliding into the ring. TRD is helped up by RNR as TB has a smirk on his face.
JR: “What the hell is Bonito up to right now, King?!”
RK: “It seems to me like he wants to join in for the fun, JR!”
With TRD being held, TB approaches him and delivers a powerful slap across the face. Soon enough, TB gets a hold of the giant and levels him with a nito plex. RNR watch as TB then applies an ankle lock to the fallen nTo member.
JR: “My goodness, this is not right at all. Josh Leyh is already laid out outside the ring, and TRD is being triple teamed inside the ring!”
RK: “I don’t think that would last, JR! LOOK!”
Starstorm comes in for the rescue and they slide in. RNR and Starstorm start brawling inside the ring as TB lets go of TRD and slides to the outside. TB hops onto the guard rail and looks back towards the ring where all the action is happening.
JR: “It seems like Bonito showed a little streak of yellow as he ran after the first sign of trouble.”
RK: “Your calling him a coward? I think this is smart for TB, he would let his allies do the dirty work to save his energy.”
While TB is busy looking at the ring, the fans cheer as they see Ignavus sneaking behind TB before he spins him around and lays on him a couple of hard shots to the face. Ignavus and TB start to brawl into the crowd as we notice a few security personel hop into the guard rail as well to restrain the two.
JR: “Its Ignavus and both men are at it!”
RK: “WOW! How did he get all that energy in getting here? Hmm..must mean he just took a nap with the fans and woke up to see TB infront of him.”
X-WCW goes to a commercial break as we also see some security breaking up the action inside the ring.
Backstage
We come back from the commercial break and we see Karl Baller walking down the corridor. As he walks down, a couple of road agents wish him good luck on his next match, until he stops at one end of the corridor. With KB on halt, it seems as if someone is blocking his way. The camera zooms out to show TGO standing infront of him with a grin on his face.
TGO: “Ey partner.”
KB lets out a sigh before he speaks.
KB: “Ey der, bro. Yo, I got a match coming up next so you should just head on back to our locker room and watch it alright?”
TGO: “What? You wont want ME to join you at ringside? Hey, aren’t we tag team partners? By tag team partners, aren’t I supposed to be at ringside to watch your back as well?”
KB: “That’s thoughtful bro, but nah. I can handle Sandy Drake myself tonight.”
TGO just nods at KB before he looks at the US title draped across his shoulder.
TGO: “Alright, I believe you, Karl. Just makin sure that after tonight, you will STILL be the X-WCW United States champion. Gawd knows what will happen if I cannot get that title shot against ya after this show cause you would lose it to The Young One tonight.”
KB smirks at TGO before he pats his US title belt.
KB: “TGO, you’re my partner, you shouldn’t underestimate me like that dawg! I’m Karl F****n Baller…aint nobody seen in dis kid yo! After my match, I still be da US champ..and dats the whole damn truth to dat!”
KB and TGO do a high five before KB leaves the area. While KB leaves, we see TGO watching him go to the ringside area.
TGO: “You better win, Karl…you better..”
TGO walks away from the corridor as we go back to the ringside area.
X-WCW US Championship
Sandy Drake vs Karl Baller (c)
'Top of the World' by the All American Rejects begins to play, and the crowd gets to their feet to welcome the guy who waltzes out onto the stage without the tiniest care, arms held high to soak in the rapture and youthful face sporting the best, shiniest ****-eating grin money can buy.
TH2: "The following contest is scheduled for one fall, and it is for the X-WCW United States Championship! Introducing first, the challenger...from Vancouver, British Columbia, weighing in at 219 pounds...the Young One, Sandy Drake!"
JR: "A great opportunity for - "
RK: "I hate this guy. Get him off my damn show."
JR: "Talking like Mr. Back does not automatically give you the same authority as him."
RK: "Why the hell not?!"
Drake hops up the stairs and steps through the ropes, then leans back against them as arty spotlights shine down on his impossibly pretty face, and bikini-clad ladies fan him with palm leaves. Why he warrants the girls when nobody else does is a question best left for another day.
RK: "Hey, no fair! How come they don't fan me?!"
JR: "The amount of different, truthful answers that could be made to that question is staggering."
RK: "Shut it!"
JR: "Eloquent. Anyway...Sandy here has the chance to win the US title, but to do that he's got to beat - "
Drake's music cuts out, to be replaced by Cassidy's shouting of 'Ima Hustla', prompting the crowd to cheer all the louder, as a camo-clad man takes the stage, projecting more street cred than the combined might of Vanilla Ice and Daniel O'Donnell. Wait, that's not what I meant...
TH2: "And the opponent...from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, weighing in at 223 pounds...the X-WCW United States champion, Karl Baller!"
Karl bounces on down the ramp - thanks to his handy blinged-out pogo stick - swinging the US title belt around his head like it's a glitzy morning star or something. After slapping some hands at ringside, he rolls under the bottom rope and makes a show of holding the belt high right in Drake's face, with only poor ref Greene coming between them.
JR: "For those of you at home who don't watch X-WCW broadcasts regularly - "
RK: "Damn your eyes!"
JR: " - it should be pointed out that there isn't any particular beef between these two superstars; however, Sandy Drake's attitude has a tendency to rub people up the wrong way."
RK: "Oh, and his name's wimpy, too."
JR: "...And there's the bell."
Those of you hoping for a fair fight may wish to look away now, for as the ref turns away to hand the belt to the timekeeper, Sandy kicks Baller in the groin. The crowd go 'ooh!' as Karl sinks to his knees, though it's unclear if this is due to sympathy or amusement. Greene turns around quickly, but doesn't see anything conclusive, and so Drake gets away with it, snapping Karl's head back with a sharp throat thrust, then dashes back, comes off the ropes and performs a slick Shining Wizard to knock Baller down.
JR: "Such is the paradox of Sandy Drake; all that skill, yet he still sometimes - "
RK: "He's not a paratrooper!"
JR: "I said...oh, what's the use. Snap Suplex by Drake..."
And following it, an elbow drop and a pin - 1, 2 - kickout by Baller, surprising only the dumbest people in the crowd. Sandy pulls Baller up by the hair and over to the corner, where he sits up on the top rope and hooks Baller into a headlock, then twirls off for a Tornado DDT - but Baller reverses, and slams Drake into the canvas with a Spinebuster! The crowd roars its approval as Drake scrambles up, only to be floored again by a stiff elbow to the general face area.
JR: "And THAT is why Baller's the current champ!"
RK: "What, 'cause he elbows people in the face? Kids these days need better role models..."
Baller follows Drake down and locks in an Abdominal Stretch (hope I spelled that right), but Sandy's foot quickly snags the bottom rope, and Da K.I.D. releases the hold without a fuss; instead, he pulls Drake to his feet and whips him to the ropes, then puts his head down for a Back Body Drop - he's telegraphed it! Sandy rolls over Baller into a Sunset Flip - but Baller rolls clean through it, gets hold of Drake's legs, and leans back, slingshotting (is that really a word?) him towards the ropes, the second of which catches his throat. Sandy stumbles away from the ropes, but Baller catches him, hoists him up onto his shoulders - and brings him down with Sandy's adam's apple across one knee!
JR: "Breath Taker! It's the Breath Taker! This is a bad time to be a Young One!"
RK: "Or an Old One - that grandma in the front row just passed out at the sight of two sweaty guys."
JR: "You - wait, why were you looking at the grandma and not the match?"
RK: "...For the sake of whatever dignity I have left, I will not answer that."
With Sandy reeling and gagging, Baller quickly applies a Sleeper hold, torquing the neck something awful...
RK: "Oh yeah, a sleeper hold. That'll work real good..."
JR: "I recall that the last time you said so, it actually did win the match."
RK: "...Ah...that's because I used latent magicks to unwittingly influence the course of history."
JR: "Right..."
Sandy flails like a trapped eel for a minute, but quickly begins to fade...and fade...faaaaaaaade. The ref nudges Sandy a bit, then pokes him in the eye with a stick. Sandy does not respond. Greene lifts his arm and drops it; it falls to the floor without resistance. He lifts the arm a second time; and once more, it falls. The arm is lifted for the third and final time...
RK: "And relax."
JR: "Shhhh!"
And it drops - but Sandy jerks it away just a matter of inches from the canvas! Baller swears quietly as Drake begins to force his way up, with a good portion of the crowd behind him. He reaches his feet, and starts wailing on Baller's ribs with some forearm strikes, forcing Karl to back off, then hops up into an absolutely picturesque high Dropkick, knocking Karl back into one of the corners! This gives Sandy a nice gap for a run-up, followed by a shoulder thrust to the abdomen that doubles Karl over.
JR: "Well, this is certainly a nicely back-and-forth match!"
RK: "Still boring, though."
Not daring to pause and give Baller a chance to recuperate, Drake lifts him up onto the top rope, hops onto the second himself, then throws Baller almost overhead into the centre of the ring with a Super Arm Drag! Both men are left hurting after the move, and the ref begins to count them out...
JR: "Excellent high-impact maneuver, but can the Young One capitalise?"
RK: "He can't even spell capsularise!"
JR: "No, I'm sure he can't..."
As the count reaches 4, Sandy begins to pull himself up using the ropes, and notices that Baller still hasn't moved. He gets a slightly mad look in his eye...
JR: "Uh-oh - this could be really bad for either of these men. Or both!"
RK: "That would require God to smite both of them with his awesome lightning bolts...which I fully support, by the way."
Drake seems to slap himself lightly, psyching up, then hops across Baller, up onto the second rope - onto the third - IT'S THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!
JR: "In the name of the Naked Buddha, that's serious elevation!"
RK: "Oh, thanks, now I'm thinking of a naked Buddha. Yuck. And ow!"
...But there's nobody home! Karl JUST rolled out of the way, and Drake eats canvas - low in fibre, high in pain! He picks himself up grudgingly, and rushes Baller - bt Karl pulls off a Drop Toe Hold, and Sandy flattens himself into the corner, injured torso absorbing much of the impact. As he backs out, Baller vaults over him and connects on the chin with a back kick, knocking Drake's liughts out; then he heads up top and...
JR: "SPREADIN' ASHES! SPREADIN' ASHES!"
RK: "And that's how it frickin' well should be done..."
JR: "Cover!"
1, 2...3! Ding-a-ling!
TH2: "Here is your winner, and STILL the X-WCW United States champion - Karl Baller!"
Baller unwillingly drags himself up, barely able to lift the belt he's just defended, and raises his arms to the applauding crowd, whilst Sandy throws a tantrum...in his dreams.
JR: "Great showing by both these men, but Baller just had a little more left in the tank by the end."
RK: "Or, more simply, the other guy's an idiot. NOW can we get him off my show?"
JR: "Urgh...back in a minute, folks."
We come back from the commercial break and we are at ringside with the voices of the announcers greeting us again.
JR: “Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to a very action-packed X-WCW Warzone!”
RK: “We got three more matches to go, JR, and those matches are gonna be hella-exciting. We got a triple threat match between Joe Goldstone, Mark Malin and the newly dubbed “Mr. All American” Rocky Davis.”
JR: “After that we will also have a hockey stick on a pole match and a TLC match.”
RK: “The gimmick matches don’t get any better than this, JR! BELIEVE THAT!”
The lights go out and “King of my castle” hits the speakers while the strobing light effects happen on the ringside area. After a couple of seconds, the lights go back up and we see Grandmaster E making his way down the rampway to the fans delight.
JR: “Here comes Grandmaster E, King.”
RK: “First time in his entrance routine he actually makes his way down the rampway huh? That or the crew just f’ed it up tonight I guess.”
GME enters the ring and grabs a nearby mic from THII while his music dies down. The fans continue to cheer for GME before he speaks.
GME: “Its been a while since my last match with Otacon, and I thought we would have settled it once and for all. But I guess it was destined to be this way, and its gonna be a triple threat match between me, the con man and the champion at the X Rumble.”
The fans give out a pop yet again.
GME: “You know what is so unbelievable here folks? What’s unbelievable here is, for the second time in my stay at the X-WCW, I have a draw decision…and now I gotta be in another triple threat match for the X-WCW World Title. But you know what, that’s just in my favor guys, cause I have YET to lose a world title shot at a PPV where I am not the champion. When I was a challenger for the world title at Vendetta 2 and Ground Zero 3, I won them both and became the X-WCW World Champ. Now on the X Rumble, I will retain my streak of PPV title wins and not Otacon nor Ignavus will stop me from that achieve..”
Before GME could finish, “Superstar” hits and the boos come pouring out for Otacon who enters the ringside area.
JR: “Here comes Otacon, yet another former X-WCW World Champion.”
RK: “With the con man at ringside, I know business is about to pick up in that ring JR.”
Otacon steps into the ropes and enters the ring. He stands infront of GME before he looks on the outside and approaches the nearby ropes. He grabs the mic handed to him before he looks at GME yet again and addresses him.
Otacon: “GME, I’ve been at the back and I heard that you have NEVER been beaten in a PPV when you’re the challenger? I got no arguments on that seeing that you DO have a record of world title wins of 2-0 at X-WCW PPVs. But I gotta ask this, how many successful title defenses have you ever had in a pay-per-view, huh? ZERO! Everytime you defend your title on a PPV, you lost! So even if you do win at the X Rumble, sooner or later, you STILL are gonna drop the ball on the next big event. It’s a very funny thing with you GME, you do win the big one..at one of the X-WCW’s big shows, yet when its time for you to defend it, you always lose.”
Otacon walks around before GME responds.
GME: “Con Man, I got no arguments on that one. I gotta admit, I did lose all my PPV title defenses, but atleast I didn’t lose in one minute or less…”
The fans let out a ‘oooh’ while Otacon has a scowl on his face. GME has a smile on his before he continues.
GME: “You say that I lost my title defenses on the PPV, but do you know WHY I lost them? Its because I’ve been screwed once, twice and more than anytime than any other wrestler in this industry.”
Otacon shakes his head before he speaks.
Otacon: “OH! So your gonna stick with the “I got screwed” excuse yet again huh Eamon? Wow, its been 2 years, and still that’s the best excuse you can hand to me and to these people. On the X Rumble, there wont be anyone screwin you, trust me on that. The only outcome of our match with Ignavus, is that YOU will be beaten. Its about high time that I take back whats mine, the X-WCW World Title!”
Otacon has a smirk on his face before GME speaks again.
GME: “You think you can win over me con man? If you cant even outlast Ignavus in a minute, I doubt you can even pin me or Igz at the PPV. I’m sorry, but at the X Rumble, it wont be your moment of redemption. On that night, I will be the new X-WCW World Champion, just face facts…you were on borrowed time when you were the champ.”
GME leans on the nearby ropes and awaits the response of Otacon.
Otacon: “Borrowed time? Wow, now your trying to say my title reign was jacks*** huh?! let me remind you that I made more thing happen here in the X-WCW in my reign then you did. Hey, when was the first time you saw an X-WCW champ defeat an outside champ to give the victory to this federation huh? I was the one who kicked TGO and his ill-fated UCW title’s ass on Collision Course 2, while you couldn’t even lead our team to victory at the wargames match. Unlike you, Grandmaster E, I am not only a master of myself but I am also the master of the X-WCW. When I regain the X-WCW World Title from Ignavus, I will usher in a new era here in the X-WCW..the era…of the con man.”
Otacon smirks at GME and raises his arm in the air before GME speaks.
GME: “I guess that will be an interesting era, that would last less than 5 minutes…”
GME laughs at Otacon, who looks visibly irritated at GME’s joke.
Otacon: “You know what, GME, I am sick and tired of you takin cheap shots at me right now in this ring. You wanna piss me off? You wanna poke fun at that sole fact when you cant find any other?”
GME: “You gonna do something about it, punk?”
Both men approach each other in the middle of the ring. Soon enough, both GME and Otacon start a fist fight in the middle of the wrestling ring.
JR: “Oh my goodness! Otacon and Grandmaster E are brawling inside the squared circle.”
RK: “I knew they would brawl after that verbal spat they had.”
After a while, security comes storming down the ringside area and they enter the ring to break up both men. They separate both men on opposite corners, but Otacon somehow gets the security off him and charges back at GME. Both men brawl for a while until the security break them up yet again.
RK: “Whoa boy, the security team really has their hands full right now in the ring.”
JR: “They are having a hard time in restraining the two men, King. I dont believe that after tonight nor after the PPV, they’d be exchanging Christmas cards in the near future.”
X-WCW goes to a commercial break as the security separates the two when they escort Otacon out of the ring first and retain GME inside of it.
Triple Threat Match
Mr. All American vs Joe Goldstone vs Mark Marlin
'Voodoo Child' by Jimi Hendrix begins with its iconic string-plucks, heralding a whole bunch of blue mood-lighting and the appearance of a bulky fellow swathed in a flowing scarf, eyes hidden behind aviator shades as he rocks away on his air guitar like a funky chicken.
TH2: "The following contest is a triple threat match! Introducing first...from Malibu Stacy's slumber party, weighing in at 275 pounds...Mark Marlin!"
Marlin slaps the hands of eager marks as he strolls down the ramp, bellowing odd phrases at his 'brothers' and flexing muscles that bulge disturbingly beneath overtanned skin, before rolling up on into the ring and inviting our easily-entertained audience to make some noise, which they gladly do. He responds with more flexing, which they like. A little too much, to be honest...
JR: "Now, here's a man who's got the right attitude, who's prepared to go that little extra distance for the fans..."
RK: "My god, he looks camper than Christmas, don't he?"
JR: "You're not going to give him even one tiny compliment for the entirety of this match, are you?"
RK: "He's wearing a feather boa."
JR: "So...?"
RK: "So frickin' N-E-G-A-T-I-V-E."
'Voodoo Child' fades away, to be replaced by Disturbed's 'Down with the Sickness'. The lights return to their natural hue and focus upon the beefed-up man striding sharply down the ramp, sweat glistening across sculpted abs and gaze so intense it causes several audience members to literally burst into flames.
TH2: "And the first opponent...from Parts Unknown, weighing in at 276 pounds...Joe Goldstone!"
Joe, ignoring the boos thrown towards him (some of which may be related to his immolation of innocent bystanders), bursts into a sprint for the remainder of his trek down the ramp, and slides quickly into the ring, almost instantaneously coming to blows with Mark. The fans whoop appreciatively as they slug back and forth, giving ref Greene as much consideration as a jumbo-jet would give a butterfly caught in its turbines.
JR: "Goldstone getting things off to a quick start here!"
RK: "Oh, speed impresses you, does it? That fits in with a few things your wife told me..."
JR: "Could we please, please just stay on the topic of the match?"
RK: "Fine - Goldstone'll win because you don't like him."
JR: "Well, I think that might be taking things a little far, Randal - I mean, I respect his skills and prowess in the ring, but he's said some scurrilous things in his time here, and lacks a certain passion for this great game - "
RK: "You know what I just heard there? 'Wah-wah-wah, why is he so much bigger than me? No fair, mommy! Wah-wah!'."
Just as Joe begins to get the upper hand, the music switches over to 'Cocky' by Kid Rock, and a very large, imposing figure stomps onto the stage, enormous coat a-swirl around him as he raises his hands solemnly and declares, "BY THE POWER...OF CHEAP HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE!". This is greeted with cheering and crossed eyes.
TH2: "The second opponent...from Ellis Island, weighing in at 350 pounds...Mr. All-American, Rocky Davis!"
JR: "Oh, dear."
Goldstone lays out Marlin with a powerslam, then turns to find Davis sliding into the ring. Having heard of Mr. All-American's prior exploits, he can't help but laugh in a hands-on-hips, evil swagger kind of way - which turns out to be a serious mistake, as Davis launches into a barrage of chops that staggers Joe back, then plants him with a Scoop Slam! Davis throws a salute to the fans, who reciprocate, then dashes back against the ropes and returns, dropping the Bionic Elbow across Goldstone's throat!
JR: "Whoa! The former Real American is going to town with frankly surprising effectiveness!"
RK: "Wait, does he have a robot arm now?"
JR: "...What?"
RK: "Why else would it be called the BIONIC elbow?"
JR: "You...ah...look, he doesn't have a robot arm, okay?"
RK: "Wonder how often he's stopped at the metal detector in the airport."
JR: "Shut up."
Mark Marlin rises to his feet - but then is almost immediately sunk again by Davis' Big Boot! Mr. All-American cries something like "Sarge, package tango inbound! Ten-four!" before stepping over to the nearest corner and clambering up onto the top rope, where he lies in wait whilst Marlin collects his scattered marbles. Figuratively, I mean - he didn't actually bring marbles into the ring with him. Why would he? Marky-Mark-Mark doesn't see Davis before him, so turns around, confused - and barely has the time to register disbelief before Rocky crashes down on him with a Diving Clothesline! There's a cover - 1, 2...kickout! Davis quickly springs back up, energy undented by his failed pin - but GOLDSTONE COMES OUTTA NOWHERE WITH A SPEAR!
JR: "Holy mackerel! Mr. All-American looked to be on top of this thing, but that impact has to have stopped his momentum dead!"
RK: "Yeah, not even a robot arm's gonna save him now!"
JR: "Stop it."
Joe hops up and down on the spot, bellowing like a wounded mammoth, but the crowd still refuse to warm to him.
JR: "Looks like the audience have been won over by the personalities of Marlin and Davis..."
RK: "Marky's got a personality? I hadn't noticed."
Turning his back on the people for the moment, Goldstone drags Marlin to his feet and winds him with a hard knee strike to the midsection, before shoving him into one of the turnbuckles and hoisting him up; Joe then steps up onto the second rope and brings Marlin crashing down to the canvas with a Superplex! After reeling for a moment, Goldstone rolls over into a pin...
JR: "2...no! Marlin's second kickout of the match!"
RK: "You're counting the near falls? What kind of sick freak are you?"
JR: "Not the kind that fixates on mechanical limbs, for one thing..."
RK: "I can't help it, it's so...vivid..."
Goldstone pounds the mat in frustration and gets back up, just as Marlin pushes himself up to his knees. Joe brings his right fist crashing down heavily against Mark's jaw - but as the crowd swells with cheers and general pick-me-up goodness, Marlin somehow finds it within himself to shrug off the blow with a maniacal grin! Goldstone can't believe it, and punches again - and again - but Marlin's just shaking like Shakin' Stevens making a milkshake, and now he's up to his feet...
JR: "Looks like all the Marlin-maniacs in attendance tonight are - "
RK: "Why aren't they called Marky-maniacs? Or is that what Mark Wahlberg calls his fans?"
JR: "Maybe...but whoever they are, they're helping Mark to...uh...Marlin Up?"
RK: "No...he's Marking Out!"
JR: "That's quite good, actually."
RK: "Thanks."
And as Joe throws one more punch, Marlin levels an accusing finger at him, making Goldstone freeze on the spot - before a furious punch drives him back against the ropes! Mark whips him to the other side of the ring, and on the rebound, lifts him up into a Body Press, from which he slams Goldstone viciously down before him! Marlin pauses to flex for the crowd, but notices they're cheering for something else now...namely Mr. All-American, who's hitting his head off the canvas repeatedly.
JR: "And it looks like Mr. All-American is...uh...American-ing Up? Randal?"
RK: "He's being weird."
JR: "I don't think that's quite as inspired as your last effort, but thanks."
Mark carefully approaches Rocky...but not carefully enough, as Davis shoots up to his vertical base and headbutts Marlin right on the nose. Choosing to ignore the ref's admonishments, Davis quickly hoists Marlin up onto his shoulders and delivers an Argentina Backbreaker...and another...and another, before dropping Mark to the ground, planting one knee in his lower back and pulling one of his legs over into a Half Boston Crab of sorts. Marlin cries out, but shakes his head stubbornly when Sid Greene asks him if he wants to give up; even so, he's too far away from the ropes to reach them, and can't move thanks to Rocky's bulk weighing him down...
JR: "We could have a submission right here!"
RK: "Or maybe we won't."
JR: "Would you stop removing the tension and just try to sound enthusiastic?"
RK: "No."
JR: "Ugh...and Goldstone breaks it up!"
Indeed, Joe kicks Davis on the back of his head, the foot connecting with a sharp snap; Rocky releases Marlin and slumps forward onto the mat, face-down. Looking down at Mark as he writhes back and forth, clutching his spine, Goldstone senses an opportunity and plucks said opponent from the floor, before applying a front headlock...
JR: "Goldstone can smell it! It's the Jackhammer!"
RK: "What does a Jackhammer smell like?"
JR: "Ah..."
RK: "It smells like his jockstrap, doesn't it?"
JR: "No comment."
Goldstone hooks one of Marlin's arms over his head, and lifts him up - but Marlin wiggles like a...well, like a big ol' sweaty wrestler, really, and it's enough to upset Joe's balance; Mark returns his feet to the floor, only to lift Goldstone into a Suplex of his own - RIGHT OVER THE TOP ROPE! Joe crashes to the floor, head cracking off the apron on the way down, and Mark collapses, his back giving out from the strain.
JR: "Bah gawd, what a counter! But what's it taken out of Marlin?"
RK: "About five months of his short lifespan and two old condoms from his wallet."
JR: "...Are you high?"
RK: "I wish."
Marlin uses the ropes to pull himself up, and finds Mr. All-American ready and waiting, lunging in with a haymaker which Mark blocks, before turning Rocky upside down and driving him into the mat with a powerful Scoop Slam, to appreciative whoops from the crowd. Marlin massages his back for a moment, before pulling a dramatic pose and dashing to the ropes - rebounding - and leaping up into the Atomic Leg Drop - which misses as Davis rolls to the side! The horror! Mark slowly rises, comically clutching his buttcheeks, only to be caught in a headlock and sent back down by a DDT from Rocky.
JR: "Marlin had a chance to win this one, but he fluffed it."
RK: "As anyone who's watching knows already...are you catering for the blind or what?"
JR: "I have it on good authority that blind people like my voice."
RK: "Typical; the only people who like you are the ones who can't see your face."
JR: "Funny. And what's Rocky Davis doing now?"
Davis is bouncing up and down on the second rope and yelling something to the crowd about Weapons of Mass Destruction, which they seem to find entertaining. He follows this by tugging Marlin up by the hair and setting him up in the powerbomb position, lifting him - and draping him across his back, arms spread wide!
JR: "Crucifix Powerbomb! He's going for it!"
RK: "Failing to care! That's what I'm doing!"
Davis can't resist showing off, and slowly walks around the ring with Mark hanging helpless across his back - until Marlin gets one arm free, then the other, and slides off - and just barely ducks beneath a wild Clothesline thrown by Joe Goldstone, who slipped sneakily back into the ring by the power of plot mechanics! Rocky whirls around, and finds Joe stumbling before him; a quick throat thrust knocks him back, and Goldstone twirls around as well - and sidesteps Marlin's Big Boot, which catches Mr. All-American instead! The force isn't enough to knock the impressively large Davis off his feet, but it sends him stumbling back into the corner. Marlin blinks, confused, and Joe seizes the opportunity by grabbing his hair and tossing him over the top rope to the outside. Goldstone then backs up - and runs straight into Rocky, nailing him with the Spear for the second time this night!
JR: "Oh my sweet little buttercup, that spear sandwiched Davis between the post and Goldstone's shoulder! He's gotta be hurting!"
RK: "As opposed to enjoying it?"
Rocky stumbles out of the corner in a daze - giving Joe all the time he needs to hook up in the Suplex position and score with the Muscle Buster! A pin is made...1, 2...3!
JR: "And it's done, short but frantic!"
TH2: "Here is your winner...Joe Goldstone!"
Goldstone barely lets the ref lift his arm for two seconds before rolling out under the bottom rope and heading up the ramp without looking back. Outside the ring, Marlin clutches his skull and curses vehemently, whilst Davis has yet to move from his resting position on the canvas.
JR: "A hard-fought win for Goldstone - "
RK: "Just like I said he'd win, notice."
JR: "Your point?"
RK: "I am psychic. And awesome."
JR: "Right then...stay tuned, folks, there'll be more from me and Professor X here after the break.."
Backstage
Thornn and Absinthe are seen in their locker room, where we clearly don’t see any signs of Vanish.
Thornn: “Seems like our friend Vanish has…Vanished…”
Absinthe just shakes her head with the attempt of Thornn to find a little humor in this situation. After a couple of seconds, a hard knock on the door is heard and Thornn opens it to see Vanish. Vanish doesn’t look a bit good as his suit seems to be a bit torn up and there are bloodstains on his hands and some on his cheeks.
Thornn: “So..what happened in Johnny’s?”
Vanish just shakes his head to and heads towards the bench to get a towel.
Vanish: “Lets just say it was a LONG walk with that dead body after those stupid clowns crashed the damn car.”
Thornn: “It’s a damn thing your back though, Vanish. I thought for a second here I gotta fend for myself against those two freaks.”
Vanish: “Yeah, aint ya a lucky man being all alone with two clowns in that ring huh Thornn? Like a little kid in a candy shop, huh?”
Thornn: “Oh by the way, some guys from Japan wanted to talk to us earlier about this match.”
Vanish stops cleaning himself with the towel and looks at Thornn.
Vanish: “OH! Those guys? Yeah, I told them to do anything they want, as long as we did our business in that ring. We don’t need them to cause some distractions for our own business in that ring, Thornn. Tonight, if those two think that I am just there to try and beat them up for what they done to me…oh they are in for a big surprise.”
He turns his attention towards Absinthe and she grabs the towel from him as he faces Thornn.
Vanish: “Tonight, however, lets show em hell..”
Vanish laughs as the scene fades to black.
#1 Contendership to the X-WCW World Tag Team
Championship
TLC Match
Fragile Minds vs The Twisted Hunters
We go back to the ringside area where THII is inside the ring with a microphone. Another noticeable thing inside the ring is that a contract is hung on the rafters.
THII: “The following #1 Contenders match for the X-WCW World Tag Team Titles will be scheduled in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. The only way to win in this match is to climb up and obtain the contract to face the current X-WCW World Tag Team Champions at the X Rumble.”
"We Dont Die" by Twiztid hits the speakers and the Hunter Brothers come out to the ringside area with a moderately positive reaction from the crowd.
THII: “Introducing first, at a combined weight of 366 lbs, they are the team of Ken and Jake Hunter..THE TWISTED HUNTERS!!!”
The Hunters make their way down the aisle complete with their bottles of faygo on each of their hands.
RK: “Is it just me, or have these guys been with D-Extreme at some point in their careers? They both have a bottle of beer with them while going towards the ring.”
JR: “These two brothers have been associated somewhat with Seith Helloct during his Generation Xtreme run here in the X-WCW. But as of now, King, these two men are poised to be one of two teams to challenge Starstorm for the X-WCW World Titles.”
RK: “Its very amusing to know that these two teams would go at it for the shot, while Starstorm is just sitting pretty in Japan after winning their matches there last night. Alec and Raven, due to my sources, don’t even give a damn about this outcome since they challenged bigger teams in Japan by the likes of Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko. Hey, JR, teams cannot get any BIGGER than that!”
The Hutners enter the ringside area and pose for the fans before their music dies down and they await their opponents. “Land of confusion” by disturbed hits the speakers and Fragile Minds enter the ringside area with their manager, Absinthe.
THII: “And the opponents, being accompanied by Absinthe, at a combined weight of 525 lbs. They are the team of Vanish and Thorn…FRAGILE MINDS!!!”
The fans give a mixed, yet mostly heelish reaction, towards the team of Fragile minds as they make their way down the aisle.
JR: “Fragile Minds, a very classic X-WCW team, King. They were in the X-WCW during a small portion of 2004 until they left for some strange reasons. But now, they are back and they also seem ready to take on any challengers that come into their way.”
RK: “If the Hunters are hardcore experts, these two guys are experts in another field, JR. “
JR: “Well, king, what would that field be hmm?”
RK: “You don’t wanna know, JR, that’s all I can tell ya.”
Both men slide into the ring while Absinthe stays on the outside with a briefcase being held by both of her hands.
RK: “I am not sure if the Hunters could actually pull off a victory here, JR. I mean, they love hardcore wrestling, but they are not like Fragile Minds who have BEEN the X-WCW Tag Team Champions even before the current champ themselves.”
JR: “Quite frankly, King, this match will showcase the age-old rivalry between youth and experience. Fragile Minds have been a mainstay in the tag team division inside and outside the X-WCW, while the Twisted Hunters have a huge cult following in their stints at the independent circuit, this one of two main events tonight will be very exciting indeed.”
The bell rings and all four men start to brawl inside. Jake and Thornn are exchanging punches on one corner while we see Ken and Vanish tangle it up in the middle of the ring.
JR: “The match is on and all four men are going at it inside that ring!”
RK: “Their main objective is quite simple, JR, be the first team to get that contract up in the air. The problem is, they gotta take out their opponents first to have an easier time in climbing up the ladder to get it.”
JR: “On that corner, the bigger Thornn delivers some massive shoulder charges to the mid-section of the smaller Jake Hunter.”
RK: “Why Jake was stupid enough to pick a fight with the BIGGEST guy in that ring, JR, is beyond me.”
Jake goes down on the corner while Thornn uses his boot to choke the living daylights out of him. Ken Hunter takes down Vanish with a hard clothesline and he sees his brother in trouble. Ken grabs the faygo bottle he sat on one corner and he walks over to where Thornn is to smash it over his head.
JR: “HE JUST BOTTLED HIM OVER THE HEAD WITH THAT LIQUOR BOTTLE! Thornn is being hung to dry there on the top rope as Ken helps his brother up.”
With Thornn hanging on the top rope, both Jake and Ken shove him over the ropes and he lands on the outside. Jake and Ken turn around, only for Vanish to take them both down with a front dropkick on both of their faces. Vanish waits for either one to get up, and it turns out to be Jake, before he sends him bouncing off the other end of the ring. He tries for a clothesline at Jake but he avoids it and Vanish turns around only to get a double clothesline from the two Hunter siblings.
JR: “Ken and Jake are double teaming Vanish inside the ring while we see Thornn getting to his feet on the outside.”
RK: “They are smart, JR, they are taking out the smaller guy in this team before they try their luck at the bigger Thornn. But if I were them, I’d finish it off soon, Thornn is just shaking the cobwebs up right now and it wouldn’t take long before he comes back into this equation.”
Ken and Jake Hunter pick up Vanish and send him into the corner. Ken whips Jake into the corner and he meets Vanish with a corner splash. Vanish stumbles forward and Ken greets him with a hard bodyslam across the mat. Jake goes to the top rope for something, but before he could take off on the corner, Thornn is on the apron and he grabs him by the throat. Jake tries to make the bigger man let go with some hard clubs to his arm, but it was no use. Ken makes the save by charging at Thornn and taking him off the apron with a shoulder block. Thornn lets go and he falls back to the outside.
JR: “A nice save there by Ken Hunter to help his brother Jake but…OH MY GAWD! Absinthe just climbed up the apron to clock Jake Hunter over the head with that briefcase.”
Once Jake gets clocked and groggy with the shot, we see Vanish running towards the corner to shove hm off and sends him crashing to the outside of the ring. Ken Hunter turns around to notice Vanish, but its too late as Vanish hits a hard punch right on the face. Ken Hunter is stunned for a while as Vanish hits a couple of more punches to his face before he takes him down with a snap suplex.
JR: “Snap suplex by Vanish and Ken is down. Back on the outside, Thornn is on his feet and he picks up Jake Hunter.”
RK: “You know JR, with the lovely Absinthe on the outside, its clearly a double team on Jake. Boy, would I love to get double teamed though by her and Terri…”
JR: “Oh my goodness King, think of your age..”
On the outside, Thornn waits for Jake to get to his feet before he runs towards him and takes him down with a big boot to the face. Back inside the ring, Vanish grabs a nearby table and sets it up infront of him before he turns around. Ken Hunter is up and he surprises Vanish with a number of hard punches and then a hiptoss to take down the former tag champ. Ken Hunter hauls up Vanish in a fireman’s carry before he unloads him on top of the table.
JR: “Ken Hunter props Vanish on top of that wooden table, King, and I smell wood!”
RK: “Same here, JR!”
Ken Hunter clobbers away on Vanish, who is on top of that table, until he saw fit to stop. While Ken is busy taking care of Vanish however, we see Thornn entering the area to grab him from behind. He takes Ken down to the mat with a spinning back suplex before he helps his partner out.
JR: “Vanish just got saved there by his partner Thornn and Ken Hunter is slowly getting to his feet.”
RK: “Ken better scat before he knows whats good for him. Jake is already laid out on the outside due to the hard attack that was caused by Thornn.”
Back on the outside, Jake Hunter slowly gathers himself by the help of the ring apron before he notices Absinthe coming at him with a briefcase. He avoids the contact and takes her down with a hard forearm smash to the face. Although a few of the men in the crowd boo, were all glad Jake didn’t get p****whipped there. Jake Hunter grabs a ladder from underneath the ring apron and slides in with it.
JR: “Jake Hunter is finally up, and it seems like he has an equalizer with him right now!”
RK: “That’s one HUGE equalizer, JR!”
Fragile Minds take down Ken Hunter with a double suplex, but as they turn around, the two are met with a huge surprise. Jake Hunter rams the ladder onto both members of Fragile Minds and they go down. Vanish is the first one to get up from the assault, but he goes down yet again as Jake rams him with the ladder on the face. Vanish topples over the ropes due to the hard impact of the ladder and he crashes to the outside. Thornn is the next to get up and Jake rams it over the mid-section area of the bigger man. With Thornn down on his knees, Jake backs up a bit before he does a charge with the ladder for it to hit face first onto Thornn.
JR: “JAKE HUNTER IS USING THE LADDER LIKE A MAD MAN!!!”
With Ken Hunter on his feet, both men place the ladder on the corner before they approach Thornn. They pick up Thornn and whip him towards the corner with the ladder. Thornn hits the ladder with his back and he groans in pain before leaning down on it. Ken and Jake Hunter set up the table on the opposite corner while Thornn slowly gets to his feet.
JR: “It seems like the Hunters are not yet done here, King.”
RK: “Obviously, they aint done dishing out some sadistic moves on the Fragile Minds people.”
Vanish slowly gets to his feet on the outside and grabs the briefcase from Absinthe before he slides into the ring. The Hunter Brothers make their way towards Thornn on the other corner and haul him to his feet. Ken tries to whip Thornn towards the corner with the table, but Thornn reverses the whip. Ken is about to hit the corner, but Vanish decks him on the face with the briefcase. Back on Thornn’s corner, Jake Hunter delivers some kicks to keep Thornn from fighting back. Jake bounces off the ropes for something, but Thornn catches him with a back body drop.
JR: “Look at that toss high into the air by Thornn before Jake crashes down back to the mat!”
RK: “Its like he just got shot out of the cannon, JR!”
With Jake getting to his feet, Vanish comes over to clock him with a running knee lift. Jake rolls down on the mat while Thornn and Vanish get the ladder off the corner and they make their way to the center of the ring. Both men set it up and Vanish starts to climb up.
JR: “This is the first attempt by either team to climb up that ladder, King.”
RK: “These two guys need to hurry up cause both Hunter Brothers are getting to their feet.”
Ken and Jake Hunter notice a couple of chairs laying nearby their area and both men grab a chair each. Thornn turns around to notice both Hunter Brothers up, but its too late as Jake rams a chair right through his chest area to send him down on his knees with Ken following it up with a wild chair swing across his face.
RK: “YIPES! That was like a home run swing on the face of Thornn!!!”
JR: “Vanish is already halfway up the ladder and the Hunters see him climbing up.”
Jake and Ken Hunter use their chairs and smack Vanish on the back for him to stop him from climbing up. After the second chair shot to the back, Vanish loses grip and falls down on the mat. Vanish crawls towards the nearby ropes and pulls himself up while Ken and Jake wait on opposite sides with the chair.
RK: “Its like the Twisted Hunters are set to do a con-chair-to at Vanish once he gets up, JR. This could be one hell of a Kodak moment.”
While the Hunters are busy waiting for Vanish to get up, we see Thornn slowly gathering himself on the other side of the ring and he is shaking the cobwebs off the chairshot. Vanish is up and both Hunters try for a con-chair-to, only to miss as Vanish is dragged to the outside by Absinthe. Both chairs hit each other and the impact forces the Hunter Brothers to let go of the chairs and shake off their hands of the hard clang.
RK: “WHAT THE?! THEY MISSED?!”
Thornn grabs the briefcase and quickly takes down Ken with a hard shot behind the back. Jake Hunter runs towards Thornn and goes for a crossbody. However, Thornn catches him and lifts him up in a fireman’s carry. Soon enough, he sends Jake down with a Samoan drop.
JR: “Samoan Drop on Jake Hunter and Fragile Minds are back in this contest!”
RK: “This match is like a see-saw battle inside the ring, JR, this is main event worthy!”
Vanish slowly slides back in the ring with a new table for him and Thornn to set up. They notice Ken Hunter getting back to his feet and they stomp down on him before they pick him up and place him on top of the table. Vanish climbs on the table as well and picks up Ken Hunter.
JR: “Vanish is on the table to take care of Ken Hunter, what is he gonna do King?”
RK: “A powerbomb, a piledriver..leave your imagination to think about it!”
He hooks both of Ken’s arms and finally drives him through the table with the Vanish Point.
JR: “BAH GAWD! A sit-down double underhook facebuster through the table!”
RK: “Its already bad enough to know Ken’s face is ugly..now its getting uglier thanks to that!”
With Ken laid out on top of the broken down table, the fans chant “Holy s***” as Vanish gets to his feet. Jake Hunter is back to his feet yet again and he charges from behind to lock a sleeper hold on the big Thornn. With Jake clinging on the back of Thornn, the bigger man tries his best to shake him loose, but it doesn’t work. Vanish grabs the briefcase and he smacks it repeatedly on the back of Jake Hunter before he eventually lets go of Thornn and falls down to the mat.
RK: “Jake might be too pesky for his own good, JR. He better just make a run for it to get the contract rather than concentrate against these two men. Its not worthy the risk, really!”
With Jake Hunter down on the mat, Vanish grabs both of his legs while Thornn seems to be ready to do something. With Vanish catapulting Jake to Thornn’s direction, the bigger man hits him hard with a clothesline.
JR: “Double team effort there by the Fragile Minds!”
RK: “They call that, JR, the fool killer. It really makes sense cause Jake was foolish of trying to take down Thornn with just a mere sleeper hold there!”
With both Hunter Brothers lying on the mat, the two members of Fragile Minds look up to see the contract flying above the air. They shake hands before they climb both ends of the ladder. Once they reach the top, however, we see Damien and Dante Stix running down the rampway and sliding into the ring.
JR: “WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE?!”
RK: “Look JR! It’s Walking Stix and Fiddle Stix!!!”
JR: “You should seriously get another job..”
Damien is the first to get into the ring and he shoves the ladder down. Thornn and Vanish crash hard on the ring mat while Dante gets in and has a baseball bat. Absinthe slides into the ring and delivers a low blow on Dante for him to drop the bat and she grabs it before she smacks it on the back of Dante’s head.
RK: “OH FIDDLE STIX!!! HAHAH!”
JR: “Absinthe, the somewhat third member of Fragile Minds in this contest, just took out Dante Stix with that baseball bat.”
Damien Stix picks up Vanish and delivers a modified powerbomb on him. With Vanish laid out, he turns his attention to Thornn, that is until he notices Absinthe smacking Dante around with the baseball bat.
RK: “Uh oh! Walking Stix is..walking his way towards Absinthe. So that girl better do something before he gets to her.”
JR: “Absinthe seems well aware of the approaching Damien stix and she tries to swing that bat…uh oh..”
Damien catches the baseball bat and snatches it away from Absinthe. He shows her the bat for a while before he breaks it in two with his knee. The girl just smirks at him before he notices Thornn already on his feet and he gets hit by a hard punch to the gut. Thornn grabs Damien by the mask before he delivers a hard knee to the mid-section area of his opponent and backs him into the corner.
JR: “Thornn is back up and he and Damien Stix are fighting on the corner!”
RK: “CMON WALKIN STIX!!! STICK IT TO THE MAN!”
Thornn delivers some hard punches and kicks to Damien, but Damien fights back with some clubs on the back of Thornn. He switches up as he grabs Thornn and shoves him on the corner before he delivers some hard shoulder charges to the midsection. While the two men go at it, we see Ken and Jake Hunter slowly getting to their feet to see what was going on while they were down.
JR: “Ken and Jake Hunter are back into the mix and they seem to be a bit dumbfounded on why the Stix Brothers are at ringside.”
RK: “I’m dumbfounded as well, JR, and I don’t wear clown makeup!”
Ken and Jake just shrug for a while before they charge towards a recovering Vanish for them to double team him on one corner. With Vanish down on the corner, Jake sets up a table near the corner while Ken Hunter climbs up the corner. He sits on the top turnbuckle and he is helped by Jake to lift Vanish on the same place. With Vanish all set up, Ken stands up from the corner and delivers a Dudley device (corner powerbomb through a table) on Vanish.
JR: “Shades of the Dudley Boyz there and karma just hit Vanish hard!!! Earlier, it was Ken Hunter who was driven down another table by Vanish with his finisher! Now, it’s the other way around King.”
With Vanish laid out, the Hunter Brothers make their way towards the ladder, until they are stopped by Absinthe. She goes for a spinning wheel kick on Ken, but he catches her and tosses her hard to the outside.
RK: “OUCH! Landed butt first on the pavement, I hope she had a lotta junk in that trunk for her not to have an injury with that one.”
With all of the Fragile Minds members a little bit pre-occupied, Ken and Jake Hunter make their way up the ladder and reach the top. Both men help each other take the contract out of the hook and the bell rings once the contract is obtained.
THII: “The winners of this match…TWISTED HUNTERS!!!”
Once the Hunters are announced as the winner, Thornn gets a bit angry on the corner and tosses Damien over the ropes. He looks up with a scowl while he watches the Hunter Brothers climb down with the contract. Thornn shakes his head before he leaves the ring and helps Absinthe and Vanish get to their feet before all three members leave the ringside area.
JR: “It took the distraction from the Stix to get it, but the Hunters are going to the X Rumble and will be facing Starstorm for the X-WCW Tag Team Titles.”
RK: “I dunno, JR, they really just got lucky tonight for that.”
Ken and Jake Hunter celebrate their win inside the ring by doing some hip hop like dancing for the fans.
RK: “Holy Scotty 2 Hotty on a pogo stick!”
All of a sudden, Starstorm run down the ramp and they attack Ken and Jake Hunter from behind.
JR: “What in the world?! I thought these two men were still in Japan?”
RK: “I dunno, but in Japan, its like morning now..so maybe they are already finished with their match.”
Raven Darkstorm delivers a lowblow to Ken Hunter. With Ken down on his knees, Raven grabs the nearby chair and places it near him on the mat. He drags Ken towards his direction and he DDTs him right onto the chair that was laid down.
JR: “OH MAH GOOD AUNT!!!”
RK: “Whos your good aunt?”
JR: “Well, she’s my good ol aunt petunia…”
RK: “You sure? Or have you been reading some old Fantastic Four comics?”
With Ken Hunter already laid out on the ring, Raven Darkstorm walks over to help Alec take care of Jake. They corner him and start to stomp a mudhole on the remaining Hunter brother.
JR: “This is ridiculous! These two men should be in Japan right now instead of doing such a cowardly attack!”
They pull Jake up to his feet before they whip him into the ropes. On his way back, the two Starstorm members deliver the “tides of darkness”.
JR: “Starstorm took a page out of the Harris Brothers and delivered an h-bomb to Jake Hunter. Right now, Starstorm is standing tall while their challengers for the title are laid out like a rug.”
RK: “Its pure dominance, JR. Starstorm just sent the Huters a message tonight. If they think they can win the titles that easy, they better think again.”
With both Hunters down, Starstorm’s music hits the PA systems and they pose for the crowd. The fans boo loudly while they continue to taunt the fallen Twisted Hunters.
JR: “This is just so opportunistic by the tag team champions, King. It’s a cowardly attack for sure.”
RK: “Just cause they attacked them from behind doesn’t mean they were cowards, JR. They just proved a point, that point is that the Hunters better have eyes at the back of their heads from now on.”
JR: “Whatever it was, King, we gotta go take a brief commercial break before the main event.”
X-WCW goes to a break while Starstorm walks up the ramp with their title belts on their shoulders.
Backstage
X-WCW comes back from the commercial break and we see Tony Bonito walking down the corridors as he is on his way to the ringside for the next match. We then see Ignavus walking down on a different backstage corridor with the title belt on his waists as he too prepares to head out for tonight’s main event.
Non-Title Match
Hockey-stick on a Pole Match
Tony Bonito vs Ignavus
We go back to ringside for the final match of the night. Terri Hotbody II is inside the ring with a mic as the ring has a pole on one corner with a hockey stick on the top of it.
THII: “The following match is scheduled for a Hockey Stick on a pole match. The objective of this match is to retrieve the hockey stick from the pole. The winner of this match is the person who becomes the first one to successfully attack his opponent with the hockey stick.”
JR: “This might be one of the strangest matches ever aired here in the X-WCW…”
RK: “But we didn’t invent this match, so don’t blame us.”
JR: “Indeed we didn’t, but that doesn’t discount the fact of its very unique and rather odd way of being a wrestling match.”
RK: “As long as its not a Viagra on a pole match, I’m all for it. Cause if it were..COME TO PAPA!”
Soon enough, guitar riffs start playing through the speakers. After a couple of seconds, we hear "fury of the storm" by shadow's fall hitting through the PA systems.
"I fly above the rest."
"What it takes to be the best."
"I'll burn this whole place down."
"I'll put you in the ground."
Red, white, and blue pyros go off and Tony Bonito comes out with a American Flag design warm-up jacket, with the hood over his face. He holds up his finger in the air while another set of red, white and blue pyros shoot up to the ceiling.
THII: “Introducing first, he hails from Boston Massachusetts and weighs in at 226 lbs. He is the ‘real f’n olympian’…TONY BONITO!!!”
The fans boo loudly at TB while he walks down the rampway.
JR: “Tony Bonito, one of the biggest names here in the X-WCW today. However, even though he is one of the biggest stars here, he is one of the most hated wrestler in X-WCW history.”
RK: “Its just because the sole reason for that is injuring a lumbering drunk that the fans are booing him.”
JR: “I doubt that’s the only reason why they boo him. They boo him because he is a man who has this inferiority complex when he looks at other people, King. He thinks he is better than them in every aspect in this world.”
RK: “Well who can blame him, he IS better than most people JR. Infact, he is the best technical wrestler today.”
TB slides into the ring and takes off his hood of his jacket before he starts to spin around and pose for the fans. They continue to boo him and there is a “Nito Sucks” chant forming up in the ringside area while he climbs up the corner and raises both hands in the air. He climbs down from the turnbuckles and takes off his jacket while he awaits his opponent.
“Ooooh, oh oh oh oh oh”
”I ain't happy, I'm feelin glad”
”I got sunshine, in a bag”
”I'm useless, but not for long”
”My future, is comin on, is comin on, is comin on”
“Clint Eastwood” by the Gorillaz hits the speakers and Ignavus comes out with the X-WCW World Title on his waists. Apart from his usual wrestling get-up, he is seen wearing some sort of a golden bathrobe.
RK: “WHAT THE?! LOOK WHAT HE’S WEARING JR!!! Its like he just stepped out of the showers or something!”
JR: “It seems like it’s the robe that most boxers wear, King. Although its just in gold color.”
Ignavus walks down the aisle as the fans cheer loudly and a “igz” chant breaks out as THII introduces the champion.
THII: “And his opponent, he hails from Simsbury Ct. Weighing in at around 200 lbs, he is the X-WCW World Heavyweight Champion…IGNAVUS!!!”
Once he reaches the end of the ramp, he takes off the boxing style robe and slides into the ring. He climbs up the corner to pose with the belt for the fans, before he looks at the pole.
JR: “The champ’s attention just got caught by that pole nearby. He knows he has a huge task to do tonight in climbing up to get that hockey stick.”
He points at the hockey stick before he jumps off from the corner and unbuckles his title belt. On the opposite end, Bonito crouches down and continues to stare at the X-WCW Champion. Once the referee has the belt, he hands it on the outside and calls for the bell. The bell is rung and both Tony Bonito and Ignavus go to the center of the ring to lock up. Bonito quickly goes for a waislock behind Ignavus before he sends him up in the air with an overhead belly to back suplex. Somehow, the champion lands on his feet and waits for Bonito to turn around before he hits a dropkick to his face.
JR: “Ignavus delivers a dropkick to Tony Bonito after Bonito did a quick suplex on him. Bonito is on his feet and Ignavus charges at him for a clothesline, which Bonito avoids. Tony Bonito now, locks Ignavus with another waistlock, but the champion goes for a standing switch. Ignavus tries to do a german suplex on Bonito, but Bonito blocks that attempt and switches back with Igz yet again.”
RK: “This match has come to a good start, JR.”
With Bonito behind Ignavus yet again, he goes for a back suplex. However, Ignavus converts it with a sit-down bulldog to take Bonito down. Ignavus picks up Bonito, but TB delivers some solid punches to the gut of Ignavus before he takes the champ down with a double leg takedown. Tony Bonito has Ignavus’ legs and he delivers some well placed boots to the gut area of the champion.
JR: “Bonito is just waiting for Ignavus to get up now before he does something here.”
RK: “And what that something is, JR, I aint sure.”
With Ignavus on his feet, Bonito sneaks in and locks in a sleeperhold on the champion. Ignavus struggles for a while, but he drives his elbow a couple of times to the mid-region of Bonito for him to let go. Ignavus grabs one of Bonito’s arm and locks it in an armbar, but Bonito quickly reverses the submission move to his favor. Ignavus moves around for a while before he rolls on the mat to loosen the armbar and uses his free arm to trip Bonito to the mat.
JR: “Bonito is down and Ignavus bounces off the ropes for a dropkick to the face of TB.”
RK: “Ouch! I hope that didn’t hit his nose region JR, or we could call Tony the bald version of Owen Wilson.”
Ignavus picks up Tony Bonito and hits him with some forearm smashes to the face before he sends him to the ropes. Ignavus catches TB with a deep armdrag that sends him to the mat. TB gets up to his feet and sees Ignavus charging at him. Bonito catches him with an armdrag of his own to send Igz to the mat this time. Bonito walks towards the recovering Igz, but Ignavus grabs him and takes him down with an overhead Japanese armdrag. Bonito is on the mat as Ignavus bounces off the ropes to deliver a little spinning elbow drop.
JR: “Very unorthodox elbow drop there by Ignavus on Tony Bonito.”
RK: “Its like he poses to the left, to the right, and then he spins around before doing an elbow drop JR. That’s just…like dance move to me.”
Ignavus heads towards the corner where the pole is located and starts to climb up the turnbuckles. Bonito slowly gets to his feet and sees Ignavus already on the top rope and is about to climb the pole. Bonito makes a dash for it and he hops to the second ropes before he clubs Ignavus repeatedly on the back.
JR: “Tony Bonito stops the attempt of Ignavus to retrieve the hockey stick on top of the pole as he delivers some clubs to the back of his opponent.”
With Ignavus a little stunned on the corner, Bonito climbs down the corner and pulls Ignavus down to the mat. Ignavus lies down and Bonito starts to rain the boots on him. He pulls up Ignavus and sends him towards the opposite corner. Bonito follows Ignavus towards the corner, but Ignavus greets him with an elbow to the face. With Bonito a bit stunned, Ignavus climbs to the top rope and delivers a flying dropkick to take down the real f’n Olympian.
JR: “Dropkick off the top rope from Ignavus and Bonito goes down to the mat!”
RK: “It was a high risk maneuver, JR, but it paid off for the champ right there.”
Ignavus picks up Tony Bonito and delivers a suplex to him. He holds on to Bonito as he gets up and connects with a second straight vertical suplex on his opponent. He has Bonito up yet again and connects with his third straight suplex.
JR: “Caffeine Buzz by Ignavus and after the third suplex, he still tries to lift Bonito up to his feet!”
RK: “He will do the dismotivator next, JR! I know it, poor Tony!”
Ignavus has TB in his grasps and delivers the quick fisherman’s suplex toss to the right side which he does call the ‘dismotivator’. With Bonito down, the fans cheer for Ignavus as he gets to his feet and points up to the pole.
JR: “DISMOTIVATOR! Tony Bonito is down and Ignavus has the opportunity to get the hockey stick on the pole!”
RK: “Oh man! C’mon Bonito, get up already, this cant be such a short match!”
Ignavus makes his way towards the corner, but he suddenly gets tripped by Bonito. TB slowly gathers himself up and waits for Igz to get to his feet as well. With Ignavus back on a vertical base, TB grabs him and takes him down with a belly to belly suplex. He picks him up and delivers some hard chops across the chest of the champion.
JR: “Knife-edged chops are being delivered by Tony Bonito right now at Ignavus.”
RK: “That chest of ignavus is getting beet red, JR.”
TB whips Ignavus across the ropes and he ducks down for a back body drop. However, Ignavus leapfrogs over him on his way back. TB turns around and Ignavus decks him hard with a spinning leg lariat on his way back from the ropes.
JR: “Ignavus takes down Tony Bonito with that spinning leg lariat from the ropes and he goes down for a while.”
RK: “Thing is with Tony Bonito, JR, you cant keep him down forever.”
Bonito gets to his feet and Ignavus catches him with a kick to the gut. Ignavus lines Bonito up for a powerbomb, but Bonito takes him down and quickly applies a boston crab on the champion.
JR: “Tony Bonito, quickly takes down the champion and has him in a Boston Crab submission move.”
RK: “Now I know Bonito had his back hurt by those three suplexes and the fisherman’s toss from Ignavus, but we should also know Ignavus took a little brunt of the damage himself. When you deliver those suplexes, it also takes a toll on your back, and I bet Bonito knows that out of all people.”
Bonito continues to lock the Boston Crab on Ignavus as the champ struggles to get out of the move. Soon enough, Ignavus groans in pain while Bonito still has the lock on hold. After a whole minute, Bonito finally lets go and picks up Ignavus. Bonito grabs hold of Ignavus and sends him back to the mat with a quick t-bone suplex.
JR: “T-Bone suplex delivered by Tony Bonito on Ignavus.”
RK: “That was one superbly done suplex there, JR. Props to my main man Tony Bonito for pulling that one off.”
TB spins around the ring and lets out a ‘woo!’ to sitr the fans into a loud chorus of boos for the Olympian. TB has a grin on his face once he sees the corner beside him and starts to climb up. Once he reaches the top rope, he grabs on tight to the pole and tries to shimmy his way up. However, we see Ignavus already on his feet and he runs towards the corner. Once he hits the corner, he springs up to the ropes and connects with some sort of enzugiri flip kick to the side of Bonito’s head. The kick to the head sends TB hanging onto the pole with one arm, but he eventually lets go and falls to the outside of the ring. Ignavus, on the other hand, tumbles down to the mat and struggles to get up by the use of the ropes.
JR: “BAH GAWD WHAT A SURPRISE COMEBACK KICK FROM IGNAVUS!!!”
The fans chant “Holy S***” as Tony Bonito holds his head on the outside of the ring. Back inside the ring, Ignavus finally gets to his feet and leans on the corner for a while to get a breather. Ignavus slowly climbs to the turnbuckles while TB slowly but surely pulls himself up on the outside. Ignavus finally reaches the top rope and he starts to climb the pole, but we see TB on the apron to stop him. TB starts to club away on the sides of Ignavus for him to stop the X-WCW Champion.
JR: “Tony Bonito is hammering away on the champion, Ignavus, who tried to climb up and retrieve that hockey stick. It’s a very back and forth match here with both men really denying the other to retrieve that stick, King.”
RK: “It is like a ladder match, JR. The difference about this, however, is that these two men don’t have it easy by climbing ladder steps, they gotta climb it like they used to do in gym class during their elementary days. You know what I mean JR, climbing the rope that is attached to the gymnasium ceiling and whatnot?”
JR: “It certainly does have a familiar style to the climbing, King. But remember, they gotta grab an object here, not ring the bell once you reach the top. You also have to use the object against you opponent to EARN the match victory.”
Ignavus slid down from the pole and now has both feet planted on the top turnbuckle. With Ignavus seemingly dazed, Tony Bonito stands on the second ropes from the apron to grab Ignavus and delivers…
JR: “NITOPLEX FROM THE APRON AND BOTH MEN GO TO THE OUTSIDE! OH MY GOODNESS KING!!!”
RK: “JR! Calm down, will ya! They aint gonna die there, maybe get paralyzed for an awkward crash landing, but they wont die. Uhm..atleast I hope they wont.”
With both men down, the fans have blending of chants between “This is awesome” and “holy s***”. Both men finally stir up to a vertical base after a whole minute and they start to exchange some punches outside the squared circle. Ignavus blocks one of Bonito’s punches and delivers some fast kicsk to the midsection of his opponent. Ignavus grabs Bonito by the head and slams him face first onto the apron before he rolls him back into the ring.
JR: “Bonito was sent back to the ring by Ignavus and the champ is on the apron. He springs up and lands with a springboard legdrop from the ring apron and straight to the throat of Tony Bonito!”
RK: “I think TB would be coughing blood soon after that.”
TB holds his throat and rolls on the mat while Ignavus waits for him to get to his feet. Ignavus charges at Bonito for a shinning wizard kick, but TB ducks down and grabs one of Ignavus’ feet to trip him. Ignavus spins and falls face flat on the canvas while TB slowly gets up and grabs one of his legs to apply the ankle lock.
JR: “Oh my! Ignavus just got himself trapped with that ankle lock submission from Tony Bonito.”
RK: “The champ tried to go for the kill, JR, but I reckon TB knew that a step before he would have done it.”
Ignavus struggles to get out of the submission move as Tony Bonito has it locked tightly on the leg of the champion. Ignavus crawls towards the corner, but as soon as they near it, Bonito drags him back to the center of the wrestling ring. Ignavus groans in pain while Bonito still has the hold locked in, yet he continues to crawl towards the corner. This time, he grabs with both hands the second ropes as he pulls himself up and is on one leg while Bonito still has the other one on his hands. Soon enough, Igz does a roll to use his free leg in order to kick Bonito’s chin hard with its heel. The move makes Bonito let go of the ankle lock and he goes down the mat.
JR: “What a very innovative move done there by Ignavus.”
RK: “Its weird, he exerted too much effort on that, while he usually does not. He could have done the simple roll to just send TB over the ropes, but I guess that would work to Ignavus’ advantage as well.”
Ignavus gets to his feet and limps a bit towards the corner. Ignavus climbs up the ropes slowly while we get a shot of TB getting to his feet. Ignavus reaches the top turnbuckle and is about to climb up, but Bonito runs up towards the corner and takes Ignavus down to the mat with a german suplex from the top rope.
JR: “BAH GAWD! GERMAN SUPLEX FROM THE TOP TURNBUCKLE!!! Both men are down yet again King!”
RK: “I know, JR, I know!”
With both men down on the mat yet again, the fans start to chant “Lets go Igz” in reference to the current champion. Both men slowly get to their feet and Ignavus is the first man up, he heads back to the corner, but he is stopped by TB. TB does a chop block to the leg that he applied the ankle lock on and Igz goes down yet again. With Ignavus down on his feet, TB quickly climbs up the turnbuckle before he goes to the pole. He reaches the top of the pole and he grabs the hockey stick.
RK: “YES! He has it, JR! Now all he has to do is use it against Ignavus and the match is finished!”
TB climbs down with the hockeystick in his hands and raises it high in the air for the fans to boo him. Ignavus slowly gets to his feet and TB tries to hit him with the stick. Unfortunately for TB, Ignavus ducks down and takes him down with a quick back suplex from behind. Ignavus picks up the hockey stick while TB gets to his feet. With Bonito looking the other way, Ignavus quickly slams the hockey stick over his head and it breaks in two. TB falls down the mat yet again as the bell rings.
THII: “The winner of this match is the X-WCW World Champion….IGNAVUS!!!”
Ignavus raises the broken hockey stick in the air to the fans approval.
JR: “The crowd is loving every moment of this, King! Ignavus, the X-WCW World Champion, has defeated Tony Bonito in his dear friend’s specialty match.”
RK: “I guess we all have to cheer for Ignavus, cause his soul aint gonna haunt him for not standing up for his friend here.”
Ignavus limps towards the ropes and leans on it before he raises his arm in the air yet again for the fans. However, we see a figure sliding into the ring and hitting Ignavus with a steel pipe on the injured leg. The man with the hood, takes off his hood to reveal that his identity is Otacon.
JR: “Oh for the love of..Otacon just did a sneak attack on Ignavus there with the steel pipe!”
Ignavus holds his leg on the mat while Otacon uses the pipe to attack the said leg a couple of more times. He turns Ignavus over before he locks in a single leg crab on the champion. However, he lets go as we see Grandmaster E sliding into the ring.
JR: “GRANDMASTER E HAS ARRIVED AT THE RINGISDE AREA!!!”
RK: “Things are about to pick up here, JR. These two just HATE each other..time to call the security again.”
Otacon charges at GME, but he is taken down by a tackle from GME. GME starts to hammer away on Otacon, until Otacon turns the tables and he punches away on GME this time around. Otacon gets up and picks up GME, but GME shoves Otacon out of the way. Otacon bounces off the ropes and Grandmaster E catches him with a powerslam.
JR: “POWERSLAM BY GRANDMASTER E!!!”
RK: “The ring kinda shook there, JR!”
Otacon rolls to the outside of the ring while Grandmaster E approaches the fallen Ignavus. He helps the champ get to his feet and the fans cheer when both men shake hands.
JR: “Even though they will face each other at the X Rumble, these two men have a lot of respect for the other.”
RK: “And its time for them to watch out, JR! Here comes Tony!”
Tony Bonito is on his feet and he charges at Ignavus for a clothesline. With Ignavus near the ropes, he pulls down the top rope and TB tumbles to the outside of the ring.
RK: “Oh man, that was stupid of TB. He should have known that would have happened.”
Back on the outside, Otacon and Tony Bonito walk up the ramp with some scowls on their faces as they look at the ring. Ignavus’ music hits the speakers as both Igz and GME look at each other and shake hands yet again.
JR: “An attempt by Otacon and Tony Bonito to spoil the win has been foiled by both Grandmaster E and Ignavus here, King.”
RK: “I’m telling you, with the X Rumble almost nearing, it will be an interesting doubleshot for sure.”
JR: “The next show certainly will, King. Well that’s all the time we got, join us next time for more Xtreme action. This has been Warzone, for Randal King this is James Russell..SEE YOU NEXT TIME!”
Warzone goes to a close as GME and Ignavus pose for the crowd inside the ring.