89) X-WCW Nitro #22

[Cyberstrike]

John Crook is inside the ring already after the recap of the last X-WCW was over. The fans boo loudly at the current X-WCW CEO while he begins to speak.

JC: “Good evening, Manchester!!!”

The crowd, even though mostly negative towards Crook, gives a cheap pop for the man in the suit before he continues to speak.

JC: “Tonight, on Nitro #22, it will be a NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS! That is right; every title will be on the line tonight in this show. Which means, after the night is over the Revolution will win ALL the title matches they can! Proving that its not just a revolution by name, it’s a revolution…by movement!”

The fans boo loudly for a while until “Superstar” hits and Otacon comes out to the ringside area. The fans give a huge ovation for the hometown hero and X-WCW World Champion.

JR: “Here he is, Manchester’s own, OTACON!”
RK: “The hometown hero has made his entrance, JR.”

Otacon walks down the rampway and eventually slides into the ring. He poses for the fans with his belt raised in the air until he pulls it down. His music fades and he eventually faces JC and smirks at him. John Crook has a raised eyebrow, curious as to why the champion is here. Otacon eventually grabs a spare mic and speaks.

Otacon: “Its great to be back where the conman grew up! Right here, in Manchester!”

Insert cheap pop here.

Otacon: “Its like a homecoming of sorts for me here, but aside from the obvious, I gotta ask a few questions from you Mr. Crook.”

Otacon slowly darts his eyes towards JC and the two men staredown silently for a couple of seconds.

Otacon: “First of all, why would you associate with those losers like Bonito and company? Second, I know I will face TB tonight for my title but I know there is a catch to it. So spill it out now, cause I don’t like surprises.”

Otacon slowly pulls down the mic and glares at John Crook, who eventually answers the questions.

JC: “Alright champ, as that you are the face of X-WCW…FOR NOW…you are entitled to be entertained with your questions. First, I don’t think I need to explain why I joined the Revolution with Bonito and his fellow companions. I chose to do so out of instinct. Otacon, it’s a movement that will be here in the X-WCW for more than just one night. Its not a one-hit wonder, Champ. I suggest you would look at your available options and chose the right one. That right one being joining us eventually.”

Otacon thinks about it and then answer.

Otacon: “That is such a tempting offer…but I’d pass Mr. Crook. You know my history with Bonito, and I damn sure aint gonna join a team with him in the near future. I tried before, and it failed. I doubt if I do join you and him, it would actually be a benefit for both parties.”

JC shrugs.

JC: “Well, that’s too bad champ, I offered you a guaranteed spot and a chance to still be a champion after the night is done, but I guess that will never happen. The second question, there is no catch but ONE. That one catch being, in your title defense against Tony Bonito, I will be the special guest referee!”

JC smiles while the crowd boos.

JR: “Wow, I guess the revolution are trying to do everything in their power to get all the belts.”
RK: “I guess they are smart people. Crook isn’t dumb, he wants the best for the revolution.”

Otacon looks a bit angered by this and just keeps his mouth shut while JC continues.

JC: “I see that you don’t seem to appreciate that I’m the referee for your match. But do not worry Otacon, I will be a fair and rational ring official. You may doubt me, but I assure you I will call the match right in the middle!”

Otacon smirks and pulls up his mic before he answers Crook.

Otacon: “Oh really? That’s great! I mean, that would help loads for the special ring enforcer for the night.”

JC: “Special ring enforcer? What the hell are you talking about?”

The crowd is mumbling around and also being puzzled as to what their hometown hero is talking about.

Otacon: “I knew that the catch would be either you or the other Revolution members getting a piece of the action in my match, so I went to the X-WCW board of directors to ask a simple request. We needed an enforcer just to oversee if the match will be called fair and right down the middle. So, my fellow countrymen and Mr. Crook, let me introduce you to tonight’s special ring enforcer.”

“Hate or luv” plays around the arena and the crowd goes wild as Karl Baller enters the ringside area with a huge grin on his face and a mic on his hand.

KB: “Hehehe, yo boss man, guess who the hells your special guest enforcer now. Got any ideas?”

JC looks shocked and angered as he glares at KB and then at the champ. He slowly calms down and nods towards the two men before he speaks to the champ.

JC: “Well, it seems like you just had to be sure huh Champ? Don’t worry, Mr. Otacon and Mr. Baller, tonight I wont be so biased. I just hope your friend Mr. Baller wont be biased in the match as well.”

JR: “Wow, not only is Crook the special guest referee, but Karl Baller will be the ring enforcer outside the ring to oversee if the match would be called fair and square.”
RK: “I think its not gonna be Crook who will be biased now JR, Baller doesn’t like TB as well. IF he is the ring enforcer, he better do a good job and not let his personal grudges with the revolution influence him.”
JR: “Yeah right, its like you trust Crook more than Baller’s judgement now King.”
RK: “Of course I do, I mean, Crook is a proven and fair X-WCW official. Baller? He only proves he likes violence.”

X-WCW goes to a commercial break.

Fatal Four Way Match
Chris Stephens vs Mike Magnus vs Lanrai vs Mark Marlin

JR: “Welcome back to Nitro folks. Up next is a fatal four way featuring four of the latest X-WCW Talent acquisitions.”

RK: “That’s right. We got four guys tonight looking to leave an impact on the higherups.”

THII: “The following is a fatal four way match scheduled for one fall.”

New Noise by Refused begins to play as Chris Stephens enters the arena.

THII: “From South Carolina, Chris Stephens!”

Stephens enters the ring as his music fades and “This Fire Burns” by Killswitch Engage plays.

THII: “From the land down under, Lanari!”

The big, menacing man enters the ring as Nonpoint’s “Bullet with a name on it” begins to play.

THII: “From Baltimore, Maryland, Mike Magnus!”

The third man enters the ring and poses for the fans as Jimi Hendrix’ “Voodoo Child” plays.

THII: “Finally, “Malibu” Mark Marlin!

The final man enters the ring and struts around in front of the fans.

The bell rings and all four men leap into action. Stephens and Lanari lock up while Marlin and Magnus battle.

JR: “Four men with four different styles and strategies. One agenda. That’s win and make an impression.”
RK: “Gotta agree with you on that one.”

Stephens and Lanari exchange a series of punches. Stephens reaches in with a slap and takes down Lanari with a leg sweep.

JR: “Stephens with the quick cover and it’s broken up by Mark Marlin.”
RK: “That was almost over and we just started.”

Marlin delivers three right hands to Stephens and throws him out of the ring. He then hits a standing leg drop on Lanari. He then gets up only to receive a springboard clothesline from Magnus. Magnus goes for a cover but Marlin gets up at two.

RK: “These guys are going a hundred miles and hour right now.”

JR: “That is the case right now. These guys all want to win right now.”

Magnus pulls Marlin up and hits several forearm smashes and throws him to the ropes.

JR: “Standing dropkick from Mike Magnus. He goes for a pin. No. It’s broken up by Lanari.”

The big man Lanari grabs Magnus and throws him against the turnbuckle. He then lines up and hits a thunderous boot to Magnus.

RK: “I think I just saw a tooth fly out of Magnus’ head.”
JR: “That was a sickening kick. Mike Magnus may not know where he is right now.

Chris Stephens comes up and decks Marlin in the back. The two exchange punches and Stephens gets Marlin against the ropes.

JR: “And Chris Stephens lights up Mark Marlin with those knife edge chops.”

The crowd gives a Ric Flair like “WOO!” with every chop Stephens delivers. Lanari then charges and clotheslines all of them over the top rope.

RK: “That was a wicked clothesline, James.”
JR: “That is was. They’re all trying to get up now.”

The three men all stir to their feet. Stephens is in the middle. Lanari connects with a punch. Stephens is knocked toward Marlin who connects with a punch of his own.

RK: “Stephens is being used as a punching bag right now.”

He punches continues for several moments until Mike Magnus jumps off the ropes and take everyone down.

JR: “Everyone is down. This is getting exciting.”

Magnus gets up and back into the ring. Stephens soon follows. Magnus grabs Stephens and whips him to the corner. Magnus then charges and hits a splash to the corner. He goes for a pin after Stephens hits the ground, but Stephens kicks out at two.

On the outside, Lanari grabs Marlin and throws him into the steel steps.

JR: “What a thud on that one!”

Marlin just lays on the ground and stirs. Lanari sees Marlin on the ground against the steps. He lines up and nails a kick to the head of Marlin and it bounces off the steel.

JR: “Marlin just got his brains splattered on that hit.”
RK: “He is out cold on that one.”

Back in the ring, Stephens and Magnus continue to fight. Stephens is perched on the ropes.

JR: “Magnus with the hurricanrana. Bah Gawd! Lanari catches Stephens during the hurricanrana and power bombs him to the floor. He goes for a cover. And no! Broken up by Magnus.”

Magnus grabs Lanari and chucks him over the ropes. He then catches the staggering Stephens and delivers the Magnus Driver.

JR: “Magnus Driver to Stephens. Cover. 1,2,3. It’s over.”

“Bullet with a name on it” plays as Magnus celebrates.

THII: “Here is your winner, Mike Magnus!”

JR: “What a match folks, Mike Magnus wins this one and makes an impact tonight. We’ve got more to come. Stick around, folks.”

X-WCW TV Championship
Sandy Drake vs Big Dog©

TH: "The following match is set for one fall and is for the X-WCW TV Championship first the challenger from Vancouver, BC he is The Young One Sandy Drake!"

As "Top of the World" by All American Rejects plays on the speaker system and Drakes makes his way down to the ring some of the fans chant his name and some boo him but he doesn't pay it any attention.

JR: "The Young One Sandy Drake is no stranger to X-WCW gold he's already been the X-WCW Xtreme Champion two times."
RK: "This crowd is definitely not 100% behind Drake, what would say 60% in favor?
JR: "I would say about 80% in his favor but then who knows?"

TH: "His opponent from Knoxville, Tennessee he is the current reigning and defending X-WCW TV Champion he is the Big Dog!"

As "Disturbed" by Stupify plays and the Big Dog walks down to the ring the fans really boo him and he soaks in and seems to enjoy the fans' boos.

JR: "The Big Dog is definitely not getting any love from the fans."
RK: "So what? The Big Dog is also a former X-WCW Xtreme Champion and is the first ever three time X-WCW TV Champion!"

The Big Dog enters the ring and gives Drake the finger and Drake attacks him and the ref quickly sounds for the bell! Drake punches Big Dog in the back, stunning him he quickly Irish-Whips him into the corner, hard. Drake runs to closeline him but the Big Dog gets his boot up and Drake runs face-first into it! Stunned Drake is turns around, holding his jaw and Big Dog drops him with a kick to the back of the head, and Drake falls face first to the mat. Big Dog grabs Drake's hair and pulls him up to his knees and kicks him in the chest!
Big Dog goes for a quick pin.

JR: "One...two...kickout by Drake! Now Big Dog puts Drake in a Sharpshooter, but he's too close to the ropes!"
RK: "Big Dog is not breaking the hold!"
JR: "The ref is giving him the five count to break the hold or he'll disqualify him and in the X-WCW any champion that gets DQed loses his or her championship!"
RK: "The ref is up to four and Big Dog has finally broke the hold!"

Big Dog slides out of the ring and drags Drake by the hair and slams him throat first on to the edge of the ring! Drakes writhes in pain trying to back in the ring, as the Big Dog climbs up to ring apron. Drake lays prone in the center of the ring and Big Dog goes up to the top rope.

JR: "Big Dog is going up to the top rope and looks too...what the hell?!"
RK: "James I'm blind! Oh my God my mom was right about masturbating too much!"
JR: "The lights are out in building dumbass!"

Suddenly the lights are back on and Seith Helloct is standing in the ring holding a rope wrapped in barbed wire wrapped around Big Dog's neck! Drake gets back to feet and stares at his former Generation Xtreme partner and asks him what he is doing, Helloct drops Big Dog and he swings at Drake, but Drake ducks and hits him with Superkick. The Big Dog gets back to his feet holding his throat to make sure he's alright, and he rolls out of the ring. Helloct grabs him and throws him into a guardrail. But as Big Dog and Helloct fight it out on the floor, Drake climbs to the top rope and as they both suddenly look up he takes them both out with a Cross-Body-Block and then he throws Helloct face first into the ring steps! This allows Big Dog enough time to get the X-WCW TV Championship title belt and he nails Drake in the back of the head with it!

JR: "The ref has thrown this match out as no contest but I doubt Drake, Helloct, and Big Dog care they want to destroy each other!"
RK: "Finally the rest of X-WCW's refs and X-WCW security are running down to separate this three!"

As the security tries to hold these three apart Drake breaks free and goes after Helloct! Then the Big Dog breaks free and he attacks them! Security separates them again and then Big Dog breaks free and attacks Helloct! As security tries to pull them apart again Drake breaks free and attacks both them!

As security pulls these three apart again the fans chant: "Let them fight! Let them fight!" Then John Crook comes down the ramp with a microphone in hand.

JC: "CALM DOWN ALL THREE OF YOU! SETTLE DOWN! Now if you three want to kill each other then you'll do it on Warzone in triple threat match and it will be a NO DQ Falls Count Anywhere match!"

X-WCW goes to a commercial break while the three men are separately being escorted out of the ringside area by the security.

Backstage

We go back from the commercial break to see Justin Sane entering his locker room holding the Xtreme title around his waist. He sees some package nearby his bench and has a very huge grin on his face.

JS: “AH! So the paddles are here today! Nice! I guess I can do my stunt later tonight.”

He unravels the package to reveal two kayak paddles and he holds them high. He still has the grin plastered on his face as if it was a gift from Santa Claus. He pulls them down and hugs them, until someone attacks him from behind. The camera zooms out and its Nightmare. He stomps down on Justin Sane until he goes flat on the ground. He snatches one of the kayak paddles and waits for Justin Sane to get up.

NM: “GET UP YOU PUNK!”

Justin Sane slowly gathers himself to a vertical base, and Nightmare delivers a violent swing that connects. The paddle hits so hard across the head of Justin Sane that it cracks in half. Justin falls down like a ton of bricks and seems unconscious. Nightmare shoves Sane on one side before he unbuckles the Xtreme belt off Sane’s waist. He pulls it up and places it over his shoulder.

NM: “You dare steal this title from me, when you cant even handle how Xtreme the situation was? Youre pathetic Sane, you make me sick! Let this be a lesson to you and to the rest of these slugs in the locker room. NEVER steal what is rightfully mine.”

He spits at the fallen Sane before he walks out of his locker room.

X-WCW Xtreme Championship
Martial Arts Challenge Match
The Renegade Ron Michaels vs Nightmare ©

We go back to ringside and hear JR and RK.

JR: “Whoa, talk about payback huh King? Nightmare just delivered a savage beating on Justin Sane before reclaiming his Xtreme title.”
RK: “You tell me, JR, that was XTREME-ly brutal.”

THII: “Ladies & Gentlemen, the following contest is a Martial Arts Challenge for the X-WCW X-treme championship! The rules are simple; two superstars will enter inside this ring and locked inside this small topless cage. There are no weapons aloud and there are two options to become victorious. You may either win by dropping your opponent for the 10 count or breaking one of the many limbs in the body. Introducing first…”

“Hurt” by Johnny Cash hits the speakers and the X-WCW fans begin to boo the hell out of the Revolution member and he hasn’t even come out yet. The hate only intensifies as “The Renegade” Ron Michaels makes his way through the curtains with a smile on his face. He slowly walks down the ramp-way and towards the ring.

THII: “The challenger!! From Out West, weighing in at 276 lbs, The Renegade Ron Michaels!!!”

TRRM just enters the ring and touches the gate surrounding it.

JR: “The fans do not like this fellow King. That is the dead truth for sure. He turned his back on the X-WCW and joined forces with those bastards ‘Revolution’.”
RK: “Can you blame him JR? He has joined up with the guy running the X-WCW and 3 of the greatest superstars wrestling has ever seen in Tony Bonito, R.E. Rage & Brett Rayne. I bet you he has learned from those 3 and will show it off tonight.
JR: “We’ll see.”

THII: “And his opponent….”

“Go To Sleep” by DMX, Obie Trice, and Eminem plays loud through the speakers. The fans still are jeering, but it sounds a bit more mixed.

JR: “Looks like this crowd don’t want Revolution gaining ANYTHING here tonight King. Hell, some are actually cheering for this guy.”
RK: “I don’t know how this little munchkin actually wins at all here in the X-WCW. I mean he is what 154 pounds?”
JR: “King, Nightmare is an established martial artist. His speed and agility are almost unmatched in the ring and his attacks are very aggressive and lethal. He may be small, but it will always be a fight if he is in the ring.”

Nightmare comes out of the curtains, the X-WCW X-treme title on his shoulder as he heads down the ramp-way and ignores the fans. Nightmare stops in front of ring and points at his opponent then slowly steps inside.

THII: “From parts of unknown, standing 5’11 and weighing in at 154 lbs………he is the X-WCW X-Treme champion….NIIIIIIIIIIGHTMAAAAAARE!!!!!!”

JR: “Here is the champion King. As I said before, Nightmare is quicker than a fox, and his instincts are very much on point.”
RK: “Only instincts I’ve seen him with here in the X-WCW is how he uses his girlfriend to win matches.”
JR: “Before Rayne even got here, he was very talented.”
RK: “Keyword James, ‘was’”.
JR: “You know wh- he is starting before the bell rings!!”
RK: “Looks like he wants that title now!”

As he hands his championship to the referee, Renegade charges at him for a shoulder-block. Nightmare side steps it swiftly and uses his left leg to trip Renegade. Renegade keeps his balance until Nightmare does a drop-kick to Ron Michael’s other leg and knocks him off of his feet. Michael’s grabs his leg as Nightmare mounts his opponent. Nightmare starts sending some solid kicks to the abdomen. Nightmare continues his leg assault, but it is thwarted when Nightmare’s leg is caught and Renegade yanks him to the ground.

Renegade wastes no time with a roll up into a ufc-like leg lock. Nightmare, sensing he could get into some sort of dangerous finish uses his free leg to kick Renegade right on the temple. Renegade drops like a sack of potatoes and Nightmare gets up.

JR: “BAH GAWD A VICIOUS FOOT TO THE TEMPLE!”
RK: “Holy cow, this one might be over before it started!”

The referee starts the count. 1…2…3…4…5 (he shows signs of life)…6…7…8…he is up! Renegade holds the side of his head and walks around on spaghetti legs. Nightmare quickly pounces as he sends a couple quick punches to the stomach. He then sends a vicious elbow strike upward, which knocks Renegade’s jaw backwards. Nightmare then does a mule-kick to Renegade’s stomach, which causes the challenger to double over. The X-Treme champion follows up with a reverse scissors kick to the face. The kick stands Renegade up, but he bends back over thanks to a mule kick!

The challenger than goes down after Renegade is hit with a regular scissors kick, this time on the back of the neck!

JR: “Look at the string of high octane attacks from Nightmare!”
RK: “Man, is this runt fast or what?”
JR: “I told you King. This kid is easily one of if not the most agile superstar the X-WCW has.”

Nightmare drops a heel kick to the chest, and then mounts his opponent. He sends some vicious head butts to Renegade, but Renegade moves his head. Nightmare slams his head onto the canvas and gets stunned, long enough for Renegade to push him off. Nightmare starts to get up, but catches a knee to the side of the face by Renegade which takes him back down.

The Revolution sits on the back of Nightmare and sends some vicious blows to the back of his head. With each one going harder than the last, Nightmares face hits the canvas. He grabs Nightmare and pulls him into a seated camel clutch. Nightmare screams in pain, but it only fuels Renegade more to increase the pain. Renegade pulls back as far as he can go.

RK: “Man, for once the no submission rule actually hurts the participants. Nightmare CANNOT submit, so he will have to sustain a broken body part unless he can counter.”
JR: “This match is truly barbaric.”

Poor Nightmare has been in this submission hold for over a minute now and there is not much anyone can do about it. Just as the referee goes to check for a broken limb, Nightmare realizes that Renegade is closing in on his feet. Nightmare uses every ounce of strength he has to pull both is legs up and wrap them around Renegades throat! He creates a head scissor kind of chokehold while being in the camel clutch!

JR: “I have NEVER seen a move like this in all of the years of calling matches. This is just un-heard of.”
RK: “Its like it is a reversal of a reversal or something JR.”

The two wrestlers are in serious pain, but neither man wants to let go. After about 20 more seconds, both superstars let go simultaneously and lie on the mat. The referee looks at the two, then shrugs and starts a double count out. At 8, both superstars get on their feet and exchange blows. Renegade blocks one and takes the X-Treme champion down with an armbar. Renegade tries to lock it in, but Nightmare fights his way out of it. Renegade tries to not let Nightmare get any rhythm so he charges his opponent. Nightmare catches his opponent with a simple judo flip. He sends his foot into the side of Renegades mouth then picks his opponent back up. Renegades face almost is slammed into the cage, but he stops it with both hands grabbing the fence first. After a few well-placed elbows, Nightmare lets go. Renegade then grabs his opponent and scoops him up, then drops him with a running power slam.

Renegade shakes his head as he backs up to catch his breath. The referee counts to 5 before Nightmare gets back up. When Nightmare is on both feet, his challenger immediately meets him. Renegade sends a couple chops to the chest of Nightmare, then hits a low kick to his shin. Renegade then explodes with a vicious wheel-barrow suplex! For some odd reason, he pats his pants before he continues his attack.

JR: “What the hell is he doing.”
RK: “It looks like he might be packing something else there JR.”

Nightmare is back up by 6 and groggily heads towards Renegade. Renegade screams out “Bloodstone! Stop her!!” and the referee turns around thinking Nightmares associate is coming down the ramp. Renegade swiftly kicks Nightmare below the belt, and sends a vicious uppercut to Nightmares chin. Nightmare actually jumps up and falls on his back!

JR: “What in God’s name! A powerful punch by Renegade, but he isn’t that strong to do something like that.”
RK: “Maybe Mike Tyson trained him a bit before he came here?”

Renegade pulls something off of his fist and tosses it over the fence into the fans. The fan who caught it, holds it up in hopes the referee will see it. It turns out to be brass knuckles. Nightmare looks unconscious and the referee looks his back and argues with Renegade about the false accusation of Rayne coming to the ring.

JR: “Those are brass knuckles! He cheated damnit he should be d/qed! Damnit, the proof is in the crowd.”

The referee finishes arguging when Renegade says “Count you fool!”.

JR: “1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10. Damnit, Nightmare got screwed out of his championship!”
RK: “I hate this controversy JR, but we have a new X-WCW X-Treme champ, and it ain’t nothing we can do to stop it.”

THII: “The winner of this match and new X-WCW X-Treme champion…. The Renegade ROOOOOOOOOON MIIIIIIICHAELS!!!”

JR: “I don’t believe this. Nightmare was hit with brass knuckles and couldn’t answer the 10 count. He is a victim to rule breaking.”
RK: “He also cheats himself JR, he deserves it.”
JR: “But, he did not cheat during this match, nor in his other martial arts challenges. He is very honorable when he enters that fence!”
RK: “Oh well, the point is he isn’t the champ anymore JR. We have to move on.”

Outside the ring, Nightmare is being helped up by Rayne Bloodstone. However, someone jumps off the crowd barrier and just hits Nightmare with a kayak paddle. Its Justin Sane! Soon enough, Sane smacks the paddle around the fallen Nightmare. Rayne Bloodstone hits Sane with a dropkick from behind to stop his onslaught. However, Corva runs down the rampway and attacks Bloodstone from behind with a steel chair to the back.

JR: “BAH GAWD! CORVA CORVEX JUST ATTACKED RAYNE!”
RK: “OH! CATFIGHT! HAHAHA!”

Corva delivers some hard punches on the fallen Rayne until the referees storm in. X-WCW goes to a commercial break while the officials separate the two girls and also Nightmare and Sane.

X-WCW Tag Team Championship
RNR vs StarStorm ©

We go to ringside where THII is in the middle of the ring with a microphone in her hand.

THII: “The following tag team contest is for the X-WCW Tag Team Championship!”

The lights go out as a familiar rock song emanates within the PA systems of the ringside area.

“Cause you’re my, ENEMY”
“All that we have, is gone away”
“There are times, that fade away”
“But you’ll still be my, ENEMY!”

The music of “Enemy” by Fozzy continues its play as the X-WCW Tag Team Champions Starstorm come out to the ringside area with their belts on their respective waists. The fans give them a mixed, yet mostly positive reaction, as they make their way down the rampway.

THII: “Introducing first, they are the X-WCW Tag Team Champons, Alec Lightstar and Raven Darkstorm…STARSTORM!!!”

JR: “Here come the tag team champions, Starstorm. The team, comprised of Alec Lightstar and Raven Darkstorm have been fixtures here in the X-WCW Tag Team division for a couple of years now. Compared to most tag teams in the current X-WCW roster, Starstorm has a showcase of tag team ingenuity that cannot be rivaled. They have faced, literally, the ENTIRE tag team roster last show and still came up on top.”
RK: “But remember JR, that’s every team EXCEPT RNR. They still need to defeat this team before they can claim they have beaten every team in the current X-WCW roster.”

Both men enter the ring and go to separate corners where they climb up and pose with their respective belts. As their music fades, both descend down from the corner and await their opponent. The ringside area goes pitch black before a spotlight is focused on the stage, and soon enough the view becomes wide-screen. The drumbeats are heard and eventually Suede’s Filmstar kicks in.

Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car tonight,
Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast tonight

R.E. Rage and Brett Rayne make their appearance on the ringside area and stay on the spotlighted area of the stage while the ring crew rolls down the red carpet. Both men are wearing black leather jackets and shades as the fans boo them loudly. With the carpet complete, both men walk down the aisle as THII introduces them.

THII: “And the challengers, R.E. Rage and Brett Rayne, R-N-R!!!”

JR: “Here they are, R.E. Rage and Brett Rayne, RNR. These two have world titles between each other and are the only ones who have gotten both the International and Universal title of the 2NLW at any point of their stay in that company.”
RK: “See JR, they only need a tag team title..and their resume for being a successful wrestler is complete! Not only those titles, but R.E. Rage has been a TV and Xtreme Champion here in his first stint in the X-WCW.”
JR: “They may be arrogant, but I got to admit that these two men have garnered individual success in their careers. Now, they are gunning for the X-WCW Tag Team titles, in which they claim they would recover its image after teams like Starstorm make the title look..rather bad.”
RK: “I don’t know JR< but they may have a point. Starstorm never faced a challenge this big until tonight for their titles. Time to see once and for all WHICH team in the X-WCW is the best and these two teams are two of the best tag teams of all time.”

Both men slide into the ring and go to opposite corners. On those corners, they take off their leather jackets and toss it towards the crowd. Regardless of them being hated, the crowd grabs the jackets like it was a baseball in a homerun. Brett and Rage jump down from the corner and take off their shades before doing a high five to each other. Their music fades and the screen view goes back to normal as both teams are on opposing corners of the ring. RNR and Starstorm stare each other down from their corners until the bell is rung.

JR: “Here is the start of the match, King. I wonder which two men would start things off here.”

Brett Rayne and Raven Darkstorm both step towards the center of the ring while their respective partners make their way into the corners. Brett Rayne raises one of his hands and signals for a test of strength against RD. RD hesitates for awhile before he eventually bites and holds the raised hand of Rayne. BR, however, did have something in plan for RD as he delivers a hard kick to the gut of the Starstorm member.

JR: “Oh c’mon! What a cheap way to start the match by Brett Rayne!”

With RD still stunned, Brett Rayne follows it up with some hard clubs to the back of Raven’s head. He picks him up and sends him bouncing off the ropes. BR tries to do something on Raven, but RD leapfrogs over the playboy. RD bounces off the ropes again and swiftly takes down BR with a running bulldog face-crusher. BR holds his face while RD pulls him up to his feet. He tries to send him into the ropes, but Brett Rayne blocks it and reels RD in for a clothesline. Raven Darkstorm falls to the mat while Brett Rayne rains in the boots on the Starstorm member.

RK: “Brett is just stompin a mudhole on Raven as he slowly gets to his feet.”
JR: “That’s the style of Brett Rayne, ruthless and relentless. That also includes all the cheapshots he could get along the way to victory like his partner Rage.”
RK: “Ah quit complaining JR, in the end, atleast they get the job done!”

Raven Darkstorm finally gets to his feet, and Brett Rayne hits him with a hard chop to the chest for his troubles. RD staggers into a corner where Brett Rayne delivers a couple of more chops to the chest of Raven Darkstorm. He turns around and taunts the crowd, but that would prove the playboy’s undoing. As he turns back to RD’s direction, Raven knocks him silly with a hard punch right on the face. Brett Rayne falls down to the mat and the fans actually cheer for the hard punch that Raven just did. Brett Rayne slowly gets to his feet and RD is there to lock him in a front face lock. While locked, Brett Rayne gets hit by several knee shots to his mid-section. RD lets go of the face lock and snapmares him down to the mat. BR is sitting on the mat, until of course RD delivers a basement dropkick to the back of the playboy.

RK: “A usual snapmare to dropkick combo by RD, and it seems like Brett would be stayin down that mat for a while.”

RD tags out to Alec Lightstar and both men pick up Brett Rayne. They shoot him off the ropes and deliver a double dropkick on his way back. RD goes back to his corner while AL picks up Brett Rayne. Alec grabs Brett Rayne and delivers a backbreaker on his opponent. He is not done as after he delivered the move, he keeps Brett on one of his knees and stretches him for some sort of submission move. He has Brett in the move for a couple of seconds before he rolls him off to the mat. Brett Rayne clutches his back for a while until Alec picks him up yet again.

JR: “Starstorm member Alec Lightstar is isolating that area of Brett’s.”
RK: “Its like finding a kink in your opponent’s armor, or making one and then exploiting it for future use.”

While AL picks up Brett Rayne, BR delivers some shots to the mid-section area of AL. Brett gets to his feet and hits a hard kick to the gut of Alec Lightstar before he takes him down with a bodyslam. As soon as Alec gets back to his feet, Brett Rayne armdrags him down to the mat. AL gets to his feet for the second time and this time he is met by Brett Rayne with a running shoulder block. Brett picks up his opponent and locks in an arm wringer. While AL is trapped in the arm lock, Brett sends down a mighty elbow to the arm of his opponent and lets go. He quickly locks in another one, however, as soon as he let go of the arm. He walks towards his corner and tags out to R.E. Rage. This time, its Rage who does damage with a double axe handle off the top rope that hits the arm of Alec Lightsar.

RK: “If starstorm targeted the back of Brett, seems like RNR wants to break an arm of Alec.”

Rage picks up Lightstar and delivers an overhead armdrag on the arm that the RNR team is currently working on. With AL down on the mat, R.E. Rage stomps on that left arm of AL for a while. He waits for AL to get to his feet, and once he is slowly getting up, R.E. Rage delivers a mighty slap across the face of Alec Lightstar that sends the crowd into a heavy chorus of boos for the arrogant member of RNR.

JR: “What a way to give your opponent props, by slapping him hard on the face.”
RK: “Alec looks a bit sleepy, JR, he needed to perk up. I guess that’s why Rage slapped him, to wake him up.”

Rage picks AL up and delivers some hard forearm smashes to the face of his opponent. Rage tries to whip AL into the ropes, but its reversed. AL goes for a clothesline and R.E. Rage avoids it on his way back. Rage is behind AL and he slams AL back to the mat with an inverted DDT. R.E. Rage hauls up AL to a vertical base before he lifts him on his shoulder. With AL on Rage’s shoulder, he completely drops down to the mat and delivers a Samoan Drop on his opponent.

JR: “Samoan drop on AL, and I think he dropped him on the right side just to squish the arm they are working on the Starstorm member.”
RK: “By the looks of it, AL holding his left arm now in pain, its quite evident it is!”

Rage pulls AL’s arm and then locks it in an arm-scissors type submission on the weakened arm of the starstorm member. AL grimaces in pain while R.E. Rage still has the hold locked on tightly.

RK: “Rage has a vice-grip on that arm of Alec’s. I am sure that with more pressure, the kid’s gonna tap out.”

After using the hold for a minute, Rage lets go and picks up Alec Lightstar. He uses the same arm to flip AL off his feet and he goes down again. Rage isn’t quite done as he delivers a leg drop directly on the left arm of AL. The fans boo and chant “Ricky sucks” while Rage plays with the crowd by flashing a huge smirk and taunting them on. He does come back to pick up AL, but it already gave Alec a time to recover and deliver some hard shots to the gut of Rage. AL uses his working arm to deliver a clothesline to take down the RNR member. Rage slowly gets to his feet again and this time Alec Lightstorm smacks him hard with a spinning kick to the stomach. Rage stumbles backwards and AL bounces off the ropes for a crossbody takedown. Both men are down and are in the middle of the ring.

JR: “Both men are down, King! Their respective partners are willing them on to make it to their corners!”
RK: “Whose gonna make the hot tag here JR? Damn, I never get sick of that line!”

R.E. Rage and Alec Lightstar struggle to make it to their corners, but Rage eventually does and tags out to Brett Rayne. Rayne quickly hops into the ring and drags Alec back into the center before he could have the chance to get a tag out to Raven. Brett Rayne stomps on AL before he picks him up. He delivers another arm wrench on the left arm of Alec before he follows it up with some chops to the chest. After the third chop, he takes AL down with an armdrag.

RK: “This is not a good break for Alec Lightstar. He was trying to go to his corner, but was stopped. Now poor Raven is lookin at his corner, knowing he still can’t do jack squat about this situation.”

With Alec Lightstar down, Brett Rayne mounts on his back and locks on an armbar on the weakened left arm of Alec. AL struggles while BR cranks up the move. Both men are positioned slightly an arm’s length of the ropes and all AL needs to do is reach out for it. Just as AL reaches out for the ropes, however, we see Rage entering the ring. Rage makes a dash towards the corner of RD and he takes him out with a hard forearm smash. The referee sees this and restrains Rage while he escorts him back into his respective corner. While the referee is busy, AL finally grabs onto the ropes, but there is no ropebreak as the referee is still pre-occupied with Rage. Brett Rayne kicks the arm of AL who was on the ropes and he forces him to let go.

RK: “Smart move there by Rage and Rayne, they knew AL would get to the ropes..too bad for him now. He’s gonna croak, RNR gets this one before the minute is over!”
JR: “Don’t count your eggs before they hatch King. AL might still get his hand back in there to break the move.”

After BR kicks AL’s free arm out of the ropes, he uses his own free hand to grab onto the ropes to add more pressure on his armbar for his opponent. However, it seems to be some bad timing as the referee sees Brett’s display of unfair fighting. He counts the RNR member up to 4 before Brett lets go of the ropes and the submission hold.

JR: “Hah! Serves him right! He thought he could get away with another cheap trick? Our X-WCW referees are trained to be vigilant.”
RK: “IF they are so vigilant though, JR, how come the early cheap shots weren’t seen?”
JR: “Fine, they are human as well King, they also get distracted every now and then.”

Brett Rayne waits for Alec Lightstar to get to his feet before he grabs him by the head. Both men are at the corner and Brett Rayne slam AL face-first onto a turnbuckle. He tries to do so again, but this time, AL blocks it and delivers a hard elbow to the face of Brett Rayne. BR staggers backwards and AL does a spring board dropkick from the ropes to take him down. Alec Lightstar and Brett Rayne both get to their feet at the same time and its BR who approaches AL and deliver a punch to the gut. AL takes the punch, but he delivers a hard kick to the side of Brett Rayne before he eventually takes down the playboy with an enzugiri kick to the back of the head. Both men are down on the mat as Raven stomps down on the apron and wills his partner on to tag him in.

JR: “Both men are down, King! I can feel it now, Alec Lightstar will get that desperation tag to his partner.”

Both men slowly crawl to their respective corners. Brett Rayne makes it in time to tag out to Rage and Alec Lightstar finally makes the needed tag out to Raven Darkstorm. Both Rage and Raven run towards the center of the ring, and RD capitalizes with a hard clothesline that sends Rage to the mat. Rage gets back to his feet and he ducks down the second clothesline of RD. He grabs him from behind with a sleeper hold and he locks it up for a few seconds. However, RD fights off Rage and does a jawbreaker to make him let go of the submission hold. Rage stumbles backwards and RD makes a run for it towards the ropes. With the bounce off the ropes, RD goes for a flying crossbody, but Rage catches him in mid-air. Rage spins Raven Darkstorm for a rock-bottom like maneuver, however, RD somehow counters it and hits a DDT on R.E. Rage

JR: “A side-winder was in place for Rage, but it seems as if Raven Darkstorm just stopped those chances for the RNR member and DDT’ed him cold heartedly on the mat! Bah gawd what a reversal!”

Raven Darkstorm waits for R.E. Rage to get to his feet, but as he is, Brett Rayne gets into the ring and blindsides him with a forearm to the back of his head. RD goes down, and AL gets back into the ring to help his partner. He delivers some fast hands to the face of BR before he eventually clotheslines Brett Rayne and himself out of the ring. R.E. Rage grabs the dazed Raven Darkstorm and lines him up for the Revolver Shot. He strikes him with the knee and connects with the snap perfectplex move.

RK: “Revolver shot on Raven Darkstorm! This is over, JR!”
JR: “Rage goes for the pin..1…2..thr..NO! Raven just got his shoulder up!”

The fans pop and Rage looks surprised that RD kicked out of the move. R.E. Rage looks a bit disappointed before he picks up RD. He signals to the people that its over and hooks RD’s arms for the Revolutionizer. However, RD back body drops Rage out of the way. Rage gets to his feet and RD catches him with a hard boot to the gut. He sets him up for the Raven Effect, but Rage blocks the DDT attempt. Rage reverses the move with an inverted atomic drop on RD. Outside the ring, we see AL and BR brawling near the crowd barrier. Brett Rayne blocks a punch on AL and he kicks him hard on the groin area. Since the referee didn’t see it, BR doesn’t get a call while AL slowly goes down on his knees. With AL a bit dazed, Brett Rayne goes for the kill and delivers the playboy kick and pose combination.

RK: “A kick to the balls, and then a kick to the chin! Who does it better than Brett Rayne? NOBODY!”
JR: “That cheat, he better be thankful that the official didn’t see that or they would have been disqualified.”

Back in the ring, R.E. Rage waits for Raven Darkstorm to get up before he locks him in a sleeper hold. RD struggles on the hold, but eventually fights back with some elbows to the mid-section of Rage. He whips Rage into the ropes, but as he does, Brett Rayne hops back into the apron and tags in by patting Rage’s back. The referee sees it and its all legal. Raven Darkstorm tries to deliver a clothesline to Rage, but Rage ducks down and quickly grabs Raven Darkstorm from behind. With RD in his grasps, he delivers an atomic drop. RD stumbles forward and Brett Rayne catches him before slamming him down with the Rayne Drop.

JR: “The Rayne Drop! Bah gawd what an impact!!!”

RD goes down and Brett Rayne pins him.

RK: “Here is the pin 1..2..3.! YES! YES!!! Rage and Rayne WIN THE BELTS!!”

The bell rings and both RNR members get their hand raised by the referee.

THII: “The winners and the NEW X-WCW Tag Team Champions, RNR!!!”

“Filmstar” hits and the fans boo loudly at the win of R.E. Rage and Brett Rayne. X-WCW goes to a commercial break while the two receive their new belts.

Backstage

We go back from the commercial break and we see RNR walking through the corridors still ecstatic after their win over Starstorm. Carrying their newly awarded belts, they stop mid-way and raise both belts in the air and arrogantly proclaim to the people nearby they are the best tag team in the X-WCW before they eventually pull them down and laugh as they walk past them. However, before they could leave the area, they stop as there is something or some people blocking their way. R.E. Rage and Brett Rayne grin at the people off-screen until the cameras zoom out to reveal its Autobot Jazz and Scifi Man.

Rage: “Well Brett, look who we have here, Final Frontier! Hey whats up guys? Oh let me answer that, RNR is up on the tag team division cause were the new champs.”
Brett: “Yeah, you got that right Ragey boy.”
Rage: “Seems like it took us just ONE chance to unseat Starstorm for these titles while you couldn’t even get these belts off them after getting chance after chance to do so.”

AJ sneers and gets into Rage’s face before he responds

AJ: “For your information, if it was just a normal 2 on 2 against them, we’d win against them in any time of the day! You got that, Ricky?”

Rage smirks before he shoves AJ lightly. Autobot Jazz takes offense to it, but before he could lunge towards Rage, SFM is there to restrain him telling him its not worth it.

Rage: “It aint worth it as your costumed partner said, Jazz. It still stands, RNR gets one shot and only one shot..yet they can deliver. Lets just hope if you two would eventually get a shot at us, you’d atleast try to emulate our example. But I dunno, Brett, were too good to lose to these losers right?”
Brett: “Damn straight.”

The two men laugh and they walk past Final Frontier.

AJ: “One of these days, SFM, I swear I will shut those douchebag’s mouth and prove them wrong.”
SFM: “I know my friend, but for now, let them do their evil deeds for soon enough…the forces of good will eventually overthrow them as the tag team champs.”

Both men look at each other and high five each other.

AJ: “Yeah, screw those losers, we will get them in the end.”

The scene fades as Final Frontier walk to their locker room area.

X-WCW U.S. Championship
Sean Bryne vs Karl Baller ©

TH: "The following match is set for one fall and is the X-WCW United Sates Championship! First from Boston, Massachusetts, weighing in at 263 Pounds he is the number one contender to the X-WCW U.S. Championship here is "The Boston Rocker" Sean Byrne!

"Ironman" by Black Sabbath plays and the lights dim and search lights begin to move around the crowd and suddenly Sean Byrne appears walking through the crowd wearing his trademark denim shorts and snow-boots and he has his fingerless gloves on! As he nears the ring he sees a fan with a sign that says: "Sean Byrne is the People's Champion and tonight he becomes the X-WCW U.S. Champion!" Bryne stops hi-fives the fan and holds the sign over his head then he walks over the guardrail and slides into the ring and climbs to second turnbuckle and soaks up the crowd's cheers!

JR: "Sean Byrne is one of the most popular X-WCW superstars and he wants to prove that he can be in the main event!"
RK: "This is his second chance to become the X-WCW U.S. Champion."
JR: "Byrne has already tasted X-WCW gold before he is a two time X-WCW TV Champion!"
RK: "Big freaking deal!"

TH: "His opponent from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; weighing in at 221 pounds he is the current, reigning, and defending X-WCW United States Champion he is "Da Kid" Karl Baller!"

As "Hate It Or Luv It" by The Game & 50 Cent plays Karl Baller comes down the ramp and the fans cheer just as loudly for him!
Baller walks down the ramp wearing black jeans and boots with the title belt around his waist. He sees a fan's sign that says: "Baller owns Byrne!" Baller points the cameraman to it and the cameraman zooms in on it!

RK: "I don't who is more popular Baller or Byrne! The fans seem like them both equally for some weird reason."
JR: "Baller is not only the current X-WCW U.S. Champion he won the X Rumble and is the number one contender to the X-WCW World Champion. He is a former X-WCW World Tag Team Champion. He's also a former 2NLW International Champion."
RK: "If it's not X-WCW gold then it's not worth mentioning!"
JR: "Like you?"

As Baller slides into the ring, he climbs to the second turnbuckle and poses for the fans he jumps down to the ring and unfastens the X-WCW U.S. title belt and hands it to the referee. Karl Baller walks over to Sean Byrne and the two shake hands. The ref signals for the bell and the fans start rival chants for them! The two lock up in the center of the ring.

JR: "Sean Bryne using his height and weight advantage to get Baller in a Side-Head-Lock."
RK: "It looks like that Karl Baller is able to push Byrne off of him and into the far ropes,
JR: "Bryne bounces off the ropes and Baller leap frogs over his head. Byrne hits the other side ropes and Baller flips him over with a hip toss. Byrne quickly gets to his feet and Baller drops him with a missile drop kick!"
RK: "Bryne rolls out to floor and he is walking around the ring to rethink his game plan!"
JR: "There is so much on the line for both these men in this match, Baller wants to retain the U.S. title and try to walk out of Starrcade: Triad with both the U.S. and World titles and become only the second man in
X-WCW history to that!"
RK: "The first being D-Extreme!"
JR: "Sean Bryne on the other hand has been trying to climb the ladder and prove he's main event caliber just like Karl Baller has proven."

Sean Bryne finally re-enters the ring as the ref reaches the count of eight.

JR: "Bryne tries to lock up with Baller, but Baller is too quick and is able to get behind him!"
RK: "Baller snaps off a German Suplex and is holding on to him. Another German! Can he go for the Hat Trick?"
JR: "I don't believe it! He just nailed three German Suplexes in row! Baller is showing some real wrestling ability!"
RK: "Baller is going up top for a Frog Splash! If he hits this move it'll be all over!"
JR: "Bryne rolls out of the way at the last split second and Baller hits nothing but canvas!"
RK: "Byrne is getting back up to his feet, if there is one thing we know is that both of these men have incredible endurance!"
JR: "Sean Bryne picks up Baller by the hair but Baller starts hitting him in the gut!"
RK: "Baller is back up on his feet and oh...Byrne nails him with a knee to gut!"
JR: "He sets him up for a Powerbomb!"
RK: "Look! He has Karl Baller up...what the hell?!"
JR: "He just reversed Byrne's Powerbomb into a Hurricana!"
RK: "Baller goes for the pin hooks the far leg 1..2..Bryne kicks out!"
JR: "Karl Baller doesn't believe it!"
RK: "Baller picks up Bryne and goes for a close line, but Bryne ducks and nails him with a series of quick jabs and a Discus Lariat that puts Baller down!"
JR: "Bryne goes for a cover. 1...2...kick out!"
RK: "Byrne drags Baller out to the center of the ring and stand him up and puts him in a sleeper hold!"
JR: "The ref is checking to see if Baller will tap out so far it looks like that Baller is refusing to tap out!"
RK: "Of course he's refusing to tap he wants to be a double champion so bad he can taste it."
JR: "Baller is down on his knees he looks like he's out cold."

As the ref continues to check on Baller's condition he realizes that Baller might have passed out he begins to raise Baller's arm to see if Baller has indeed passed out.

JR: "Baller's arm has dropped once."
RK: "The fans are really chanting for Baller to wake up!"
JR: "Baller's arm has dropped a second time!"
RK: "If it drops a third time Bryne will be the new X-WCW U.S. Champion!"
JR: "No, Baller still has life left him and he's using all his strength to get back to his feet! He's using elbows in the gut to Bryne to break the hold! Bryne Irish-Whips into the ropes! Baller jumps and MY God he's standing on the top rope!"
RK: "Baller with a back flip lands behind Bryne and he jumps on his back and puts him in a Sleeper Hold!"
JR: "Well turn about is fair play!"
RK: "Baller is really trying to lock in the Sleeper and Bryne is able maneuver with and he slams Baller back first into a corner!"
JR: "Baller stumbles out of the corner and Byrne drops him a face jam!"
RK: "But it looks like Byrne is exhausted too and he can't get cover Baller!"
JR: "The ref is starting the mandority ten count! Remember Randal if neither man can get to his feet Baller will retain the title!"
RK: I know that you jackass!"
JR: "The ref is up to five! Bryne is going for a pin!"
RK: "1...2...kick out! How close was that?!"
JR: "So close and yet so far Sean Bryne!"
RK: "Bryne picks Baller up by the hair when from out of nowhere Baller stuns Bryne with a Jawbreaker!"
JR: "Sean Bryne has fallen into the corner! Baller mounts the top rope and starts reighning in the blows to the side of the head!"
RK: "Bryne looks out of it...I don't believe it! He just Powerbombed him and he goes for the pin!"
JR: "1...2..3! Bryne wins it!"

THII: "The winner of the match and NEW X-WCW U.S. Champion...THE BOSTON ROCKER SEAN BRYNE!!"

All the fans cheer and confetti starts flying down from the ceiling!"

JR: "SEAN BRYNE HAS JUST PROVEN THAT HE IS WORTHY OF MAIN EVENT STATUS!"
RK: "THE FANS KNOW THAT THEY HAVE SEEN SOMETHING SPECIAL!"

Karl Baller gets back up to his feet and he rolls out to the floor and heads towards the annoucer's table and picks up the X-WCW U.S. title belt!

JR: "What is Baller doing? He just took the U.S. title belt off our desk!"
RK: "It looks like he's asking for a microphone!"

He re-enters the ring and Terri hands him her microphone.

KB: "Two weeks ago I beat you for the X-WCW U.S. Championship and this week you beat me fair and square for the same title. Now that makes us even at one apeice, and much as I want to give you and the fans a third and final match to break our tie, I can't! In less than three weeks I'm facing Otacon for the
X-WCW World Championship and when I beat him and become the new X-WCW World Champion I will then grant you and all of our fans that third match and it will be the X-WCW World Championship!"

Baller hands Bryne the X-WCW U.S. title belt.

KB: "But untill then Sean this is yours! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!"

As "Ironman" by Black Sabith plays Baller raises Bryne's arm and Bryne embraces Baller and he leaves the ring to celebrate his victory with his fans. Baller watches him in the ring when suddenly from out of nowhere Tony Bonito runs to ring with The Renegade Ron Micheals. Bonito, chair in hand hits Baller in the back with a steel chair!

JR: "What the hell are these two is doing?!"
RK: "Bonito thinks that after tonight he'll be the new X-WCW World Champion and he wants to make sure that Baller won't be able to make it to Starrcade: Traid! The Renegade Irish-Whips him into the ropes and it looks like the Renegade and Bonito are going to double team him!"
JR: "Baller drops them both with a double colse line and here comes the rest of The Revolution!"

Baller sees them and quickly jumps out of the ring just as Byrne makes his way back to ring. Baller gets a microphone!

KB: "You know what I'm sick of you assholes running over everybody so you know what Bonito, you low level jobber...our new boss John Crook might be the special guest referee in your title match with Otacon later tonight but I'm going to be the special guest ring enforcer!"

X-WCW goes to a commercial break as Baller and Bryne walk up the ramp while The Revolution looks on.

X-WCW World Championship
with special referee John Crook and Karl Baller special ringside enforcer
Otacon © vs Tony Bonito

X-WCW goes back to its regularly scheduled program and we see Terri Hotbody II inside the middle of the ring.

THII: “The following contest is scheduled for one fall and it is for the X-WCW World Championship!”

Generic heavy metal music hits and we see John Crook entering the ringside area. The fans immediately boo the new CEO of the company as he makes his way down the aisle.

THII: “Introducing first, he is the CEO of the X-WCW and the special guest referee…JOHN CROOK!”

JR: “These fans certainly do not approve of this man’s presence in the ring. I assure you King, he will do anything in his power to get that title off Otacon here infront of the home crowd.”
RK: “Oh don’t think of such things, JR! He already told us that he will play it fair and he will do it right down the middle. You gotta have his word for it before he will try to break that word…and only then you could condemn the man for doing such. Its always you being so skeptical of the ‘bad guys’ when they say they are gonna do some good here in the X-WCW huh JR?”
JR: “Skepticism is natural for me, King. I am not gonna believe blindly to anyone for what they say they would. Would you believe me right now if I tell you I’d treat you to a strip club after the show?”
RK: “Oh yes I would JR! You know I love them puppies!!! WOOHOO!”
JR: “Ugh”

John Crook enters the ring wearing the referee outfit and shakes the hand of THII. Just then the music fades down and “Hate it or luv” by The Game and 50 Cent blares into the PA systems. Karl Baller comes out in some Manchester united jersey and black sweat pants while the fans cheer loudly for the former US champion.

THII: “Introducing the special ring enforcer, from Philadelphia Pennsylvania, KARL BALLER!!!”

KB struts down the ring and slaps some hands of the fans as he makes his way down the rampway.

JR: “Karl Baller, recently losing the title to Sean Byrne, is the matches special ring enforcer. He has a lot of reasons to be vigilant on the outside of the ring and if needed, he has to step inside the ring to enforce the rules.”
RK: “Another reason that he cant wait to be in this match is obvious. He wants to get revenge on Tony Bonito for earlier. You tell me that Crook might not be fair, but I see Karl having a bigger reason NOT to enforce the rules right now compared to our fair CEO.”

KB slides into the ring and he climbs to the nearest corner. He poses for the fans while he is at the corner, while on the other side, we see John Crook watching on. KB also takes notice of John Crook as he slowly tilts his head towards Crook’s direction and gives him a glare.

RK: “KB might be sending some messages to Crook right now with those gleaming eyes of his JR.”
JR: “And how, seems like KB wants a piece of Crook after this thing is done.”

KB slowly goes down the corner and points at JC while he mouths off something to the CEO. KB eventually slides to the outside of the ring once his music dies down. The guitar riffs for “Fury of the storm” starts to fill the ringside area until the ringside lights go black. Eventually, an explosion of pyros occurs in the stage area as the music continues to play. The lights go back up and we see Tony Bonito standing on the ringside stage wearing his usual red, white and blue sports jacket with hood as his head is tilted downwards. The fans boo loudly at the Revolution member while Terri Hotbody II introduces him.

THII: “Introducing the challenger, from Boston Massachusetts, he is TONY BONITO!!!”

TB looks up in the sky and points upwards to signal the red, white and blue pyros to shoot up into the air. He lets out a ‘woo’ before he eventually walks down the rampway.

JR: “Tony Bonito, how many accolades this man has won in his illustrious career in professional wrestling?”
RK: “He has a LOT, JR! The only problem is, he hasn’t received the X-WCW World Title belt in that resume of his. Tonight, might change everything for him JR. Tonight might be his time to finally get that elusive dream of his to hold the X-WCW World Title from Otacon.”

TB stands outside the ring and looks over at KB’s direction before he lets out a snarl at him. KB looks unfazed while TB hops onto the ring apron and eventually enters the ring. Tony Bonito climbs up the corner and takes off his hood before he raises both arms in the air and lets out a roar. The fans continue to boo loudly at the challenger while he hops out of the corner and paces around his place. His music dies down as he and JC look at each other until “Superstar” hits and they look at the stage this time around.

THII: “And his opponent, he is the current X-WCW World Heavyweight Champion, Manchester’s own…OTACON!!!”

The fans give a very loud ovation for the hometown hero as he exits from the curtains and makes his appearance on the ringside area.

JR: “And here he is, folks! Here comes the X-WCW World Champ himself, Otacon.”
RK: “These two men have had a history haven’t they JR?”
JR: “Indeed they do. Even before Otacon became a champion, he and Tony Bonito has been on each other’s throats for the past couple of years. They were not allowed to fight each other at one point in the past, but that was already scrapped during this year. I’m so glad the X-WCW BoD did such move since these two men have one of the most intense matches with each other.”

Otacon slides into the ring and makes his way towards the nearby ropes. He unbuckles his belt from his waist and raises it high into the air for the fans to see. They continue their loud cheers for the hometown champion while the music dies down. Otacon hands the belt to JC, who raises it high in the air for the fans to see. As JC pulls it down, we could see TB and Otacon already staring down at each other. JC hands the X-WCW World Title to the time keeper and we eventually hear the sound of the bell.

JR: “The match is on…and both men are still staring down at each other in the center of the ring.”
RK: “The tension is high, JR, so high you can slice it with a butter knife.”

Both men start to mouth off with each other before they eventually engage in a collar-elbow tie up in the middle of the ring. Both men struggle to get an advantage for a few seconds before TB locks in a side headlock on Otacon. Otacon slowly but surely gets out of it by capturing one of TB’s arm and gets him in a armbar. TB rolls on the mat and eventually sweeps Otacon’s leg for him to let go. Otacon and TB get to their feet at the same time and Otacon armdrags Bonito down the mat. Otacon keeps hold of the arm of TB while Bonito slowly gets to his feet. Once he is back up, Bonito uses his free arm to put up some elbows to the side of Otacon. TB quickly goes down on his knees and uses the same free arm to snapmare Otacon out of the armbar.

RK: “Otacon gets snapmared by Bonito and the challenger has a sleeper hold applied now.”

Otacon slowly gets to his feet and delivers some hard elbows to the gut of Bonito. He lets go of Otacon, but before Otacon could make a run for it towards the ropes, TB grabs him by the hair and slams him down the mat. Otacon slowly gathers himself up and TB is there to deliver a couple of European Uppercuts at his opponent. Otacon is backed into the corner where TB continues his assault with a number of boots to the mid-section of the champion. Otacon slumps down the corner and TB turns around to taunt the crowd. TB gets back to Otacon’s direction and helps him get to his feet, only to be taken down with a dropkick from Otacon.

JR: “Surprise, surprise! Otacon had enough time to recover as Tony Bonito turned his attention to the crowd.”
RK: “It’s a mistake that Bonito won’t do again, I assure you that JR.”

Bonito gathers himself up and Otacon catches him with a hard European Uppercut. TB stumbles backwards before Otacon scoops him up and takes him to the mat with a bodyslam. Otacon bounces off the ropes and delivers a running elbow drop right on the chest area of Bonito. He delivers another elbow drop before he picks up the challenger. He sets him up for a suplex, but Bonito blocks the attempt. Bonito delivers some hard punches to the gut of Otacon before he takes the champion down with a vertical suplex of his own.

JR: “Tony Bonito blocked off the suplex counter by Otacon and took the champion down with a suplex.”
RK: “Bonito is very dangerous with the suplexes, Otacon should know that first hand even before this match started. Not a smart move by the champ on trying to make that move.”

Both men get to their feet and Otacon tries to charge towards TB. TB takes him down with a drop toe hold and quickly floats over on top of Otacon to slap him around the head. TB quickly goes to his feet and waits for a pissed off Otacon to get up. TB smirks at Otacon, and the champion quickly tackles TB down to the mat and delivers some hard punches to the face.

RK: “I don’t think pissing off otacon was a good idea, Tony.”

Seeing the rage being displayed by Otacon, John Crook finally steps in as the referee and breaks it up. He backs Otacon into the nearby corner while Tony Bonito slowly gets to his feet and shakes the cobwebs. John Crook gives Otacon some breathing room and both men approach each other again. Otacon grabs Bonito by the head and delivers some hard knees to the gut of the challenger. Otacon attempts to whip TB into the corner, but its reversed. Otacon hits the corner and TB quicky follows it up with a hard corner clothesline at the champion. TB grabs Otacon with a side head lock and sends him down the mat with a running bulldog takedown.

JR: “Bulldog delivered by TB and Otacon goes down.”

Tony Bonito makes a move immediately on the downed Otacon and locks on a ground front facelock. For a few seconds, Otacon does not move, but he eventually shows some signs of life. His feet start to kick the mat for a while before he eventually gets to his feet. Tony Bonito still has the front face lock on Otacon and now tries to deliver a DDT. Otacon blocks the attempt and he quickly reverses the lock into a fisherman’s suplex bridge. John Crook has no choice but to count the pin.

JR: “Here is the pin 1…2…and a kickout by Bonito.”

Bonito is on his feet and counters the move with a backslide pin. Before the pin could be counted, Otacon rolls out of the pin and is on his feet. Bonito is getting to his feet, but Otacon meets him with a hard forearm to the face. Otacon hits another forearm on Bonito before he sends him into the ropes. Otacon tries to clothesline TB, but Bonito ducks down and quickly grabs him with a waistlock. TB takes down Otacon with a German suplex before bringing both of them up to their feet. TB, with Otacon still in tow, delivers the second German suplex on the champion. Tony Bonito hauls both of them up yet again and tries to connect with the third suplex, but Otacon grabs onto the nearby ropes to stop the attempt. Otacon throws his body backwards while still holding on and TB lets go of him and rolls backwards. TB tries to run towards Otacon, but the con man catches him with a solid elbow right on the face of the challenger.

RK: “Oooh! I can feel that elbow from here, JR. Did you just hear that smack?!”
JR: “I sure did, King, it was sickening and TB is feeling the effects of it. Bonito is on spaghetti legs right now and Otacon hoists him up on his shoulders.”

With Bonito on his shoulders, he sets him up on the nearby corner. With Bonito sitting on the top turnbuckle, Otacon climbs up to the second rope. He grabs Tony Bonito and he sends him down hard with a superplex. Otacon slowly gets to his feet while TB is favoring his back after the superplex. Otacon crouches down into a corner of the ring and stalks for TB to get to his feet. TB slowly gathers himself to a vertical base and Otacon tries to charge at him with a spear. However, John Crook gets in between the two and halts Otacon. He tells Otacon to halt the attack since TB is still recovering. This decision by Crook disappoints Otacon and also draws numerous boos from the crowd.

JR: “Oh for the love of gawd! Don’t tell me Crook gone soft now and doesn’t want his bum buddy Tony Bonito hurt that badly.”

Outside the ring, KB has a ‘wtf’ look after what Crook just pulled off. Otacon looks pissed off at Crook and shoves him aside, only to be taken down by Bonito with a hard clothesline. TB smirks at the champion before he drags him up. Bonito has him on his grasps and sends him to the other side of the ring with an overhead belly to belly suplex. Otacon howls in pain while he is on the mat after the powerful suplex was delivered to him by Bonito. As the champion is getting to his feet, Tony Bonito is stalking him from behind.

RK: “Uh oh, this looks like trouble for our champ. I can sense the nitoplex is about to be used sooner or later in the next minute.”
JR: “Otacon is getting to his feet and Bonito is there to grab him from behind. He has him in mid-air and goes for the Nitoplex. However, Otacon gets out of it and floats behind Bonito. TB turns around and receives a kick and its time for the final impact! Oh my goodness, Bonito just got out of the finishing move and just shoved Otacon hard into the nearby corner!”

Otacon gets his head rammed face first onto the top turnbuckle and he stumbles backwards for Bonito to catch him. With Otacon on his clutches, he finally lines him up for the Nitoplex.

JR: “BAH GAWD! THE NITO PLEX ON OTACON!”

With Otacon down, TB crawls towards the fallen champ and places himself over him. As the pin is made, Crook makes a fast count.

JR: “The hell?! 1,2…NO! Regardless of the fast-count by Crook, Otacon just got his shoulder up before the three count!”

The fans cheer loudly after their hometown favorite overcame the nitoplex and that fast count at the same time. With both Crook and Bonito shocked, they look at each other for a few seconds before TB drags Otacon to his feet. He sets him up for a vertical suplex, but Otacon rolls him up for an inside cradle. Crook had no choice but to count. TB kicks out at 2 and both men get to their feet. Otacon hits a couple of hard punches to the face of TB, before TB counters him with a nasty knee strike on the sternum area. TB delivers a couple of hard clubs onto the back of Otacon before he lifts him up and sends him down with a backbreaker. With the backbreaker done, he still holds onto Otacon to use the backbreaker into a submission hold.

RK: “He is cranking up the back of the X-WCW champion, JR, this doesn’t bode well for Otacon.”

After applying the hold on Otacon for a full minute, TB rolls Otacon off his leg and gets to his feet. He starts to stomp down on the back of the con man while the champion is getting to his feet. With Otacon up on his feet, Tony Bonito grabs him from behind for a belly to back suplex. However, Otacon does a standing switch on Bonito and takes him down with a back suplex. Both men are down on the mat and John Crook could only watch them on the inside while KB is looking on from outside the ring.

JR: “Otacon just used a desperation move there and both men are down!”
RK: “I dunno if that would have helped the con man, but the crowd are rallying to his support.”

With the Manchester crowd chanting ‘lets go con man’, Otacon slowly rises to his feet and waits for Tony Bonito to get to his feet. With TB up again, he delivers some powerful punches to the former Olympian. He sends Tony Bonito bouncing off the ropes and catches him with a hard clothesline. TB gets to his feet again, only to be taken down by yet another powerful clothesline. Even with exhaustion and a banged up back, the champion is still on his feet and looks determined to finish things off. Bonito gets to his feet yet again and this time Otacon connects with a hard boot to the gut of TB and levels him with the final impact.

RK: “FINAL IMPACT ON BONITO! WHOA! I think the ring just shook on that one JR!”
JR: “BAH GAWD!”

With TB down, Otacon collapses on his knees and eventually goes for the cover. Crook resentfully obliges to do the count.

JR: “Here is the count..1…2…but crook goes for a slow motion for the third tap…before he could make it to three, TB gets a shoulder up.”

Yet again, Crook saves TB from a possible loss. KB, who saw everything from the outside, has had enough. He slides into the ring and shoves JC hard and corners him on the nearby ring post. He shouts at Crook and tells him to do his job right before he shoves him yet again and leaves the ring yet again. While this is happening, Otacon gets to his feet and picks up TB. However, both KB and JC didn’t notice TB delivering a sneaky lowblow on the champion.

JR: “Oh great! Just when Karl Baller set Crook straight, he was not aware of that cheap shot.”
RK: “Well its all KB’s fault for trying to act such a badass and talk JC some sense in the WRONG time of the match. If Otacon loses here, I would put the blame on Baller for it.”

Otacon goes down on both knees while the crowd boos heavily at TB. Bonito picks up Otacon and sets him up for a nitoplex. However, Otacon somehow gets out of TB’s grasps and now stands behind his challenger. He spins TB around for a kick, but TB catches his foot and does a single leg takedown before he turns Otacon around on the mat and locks in his anklelock.

RK: “Damn, Otacon is now stuck between a rock and a hard place. TB just got him out of his guard and slapped on his patented anklelock.”
JR: “That ankle lock of TB has been attributed to most of the people he has put on the shelf. First it was Autobotjazz and most notably D-Extreme who is STILL out on the injured list due to that move.”
RK: “So if Otacon is a smart man, he’d tap before a minute or suffer a broken foot. It’s a lose-lose situation JR, if he doesn’t tap out, he might be forced to forfeit the title due to getting his ankle snapped like a twig or if he does tap out..he wont be a champion here after the match is done in front of his hometown.”

Otacon struggles to reach for the nearby ropes, but TB quickly drags him away from the ropes and a chance for him to get out of the hold. Otacon tries to use his arms to ‘swim’ towards the corner and there he rolls out of the ankle lock. TB hits the top turnbuckle face first and staggers backwards. Otacon gets up in time to catch Bonito and delivers his own Nitoplex. The crowd is on their feet while both men are down and Otacon places his arm over TB. Karl Baller slides into the ring and shouts at Crook to count while threatening him with a steel chair.

RK: “KB is threatening the new CEO that if he doesn’t count the pin, he’d be counting up stars after a chairshot.”
JR: “And here is the pin…1…2…3! Otacon retains the X-WCW World Heavyweight Championship!”

The bell rings and Otacon gets to his feet thanks to KB’s help. KB hands the X-WCW World Title belt to Otacon and he raises his arm in victory.

THII: “The winner and still the X-WCW World Heavyweight Champion…OTACON!!!”

The fans go wild inside the stadium in Manchester due to the victory of their hometown hero.

JR: “Everyone here in Manchester is going wild, King!”
RK: “Their boy Otacon just made a huge win over a hard challenge that was Tony Bonito.”

John Crook shakes his head in disgust and helps Tony Bonito get out of the ring and walk up the ramp. While he exits through the curtains though, he shouts ‘take care of those two’.

JR: “Did he just say something, King?”
RK: “Yeah, but to who, that is what I wanna know J..OH MY GOD!”

RNR and The Renegade jump off the crowd barrier out of nowhere and enter the ring. The Renegade takes down KB while Otacon gets blasted with a hard knee strike to his back by Brett Rayne. KB gets stomped down by The Renegade but he tries his best to get up. He fights back, but R.E. Rage sneaks up behind him with a low blow to take him down to his knees.

JR: “Rage, that sneaky snake!”

KB is down and the two men stomp down on him. Otacon, on the other hand, slowly gets to his feet only to get blasted by his own X-WCW belt on the face by Rayne. Brett Rayne laughs while Otacon is down. The fans boo loudly at the Revolution members inside the ring, but those boos drown with a little bit of cheers as the nTo storm down the ramp. The members of the nTo, sans Josh Leyh, enter the ring with steel chairs to scare off the revolution. Their interference was sufficient enough as RNR and The Renegade scatter out of the ring and retreat back up the ramp.

JR: “The reinforcements have arrived, King, and the cowardly Revolution trio just made their way back up the ramp. Hah, so typical of their cowardly ways if you ask me.”
RK: “Hey, when you know you wont win in a fight, its always wise to just leave and fight another day. Don’t count on those three men being cowards; they are just too smart for the champ, KB and for the nTo.”

As R.E. Rage, Brett Rayne and The Renegade look at the ring and laugh at the nTo, they bump into something. Slowly, the three members of the Revolution turn around and realize the people they bumped into were Bombshell, Powermaster Prime and CANE DEATHSCREAM! The fans give a positive reaction towards the trio whose presence just make the Revolution members jump off the rampway and scurry towards the alternate entrances back towards the backstage area. Cane smirks while he lifts the mic towards his direction and speaks.

CD: “What’s the matter boys? Saw a ghost or something?”

JR: “BAH GAWD! CANE DEATHSCREAM IS BACK IN THE X-WCW!!!”
RK: “Yeah, I feel the goosebumps JR, it aint no ghost either..but I can feel the goosebumps with this man’s return.”

CD: “No, I aint no ghost. Infact, you could say I’m Cane Deathscream. With me here is Powerbomb, the biggest and baddest tag team in the history of the X-WCW. So to all of you here in the ringside area and to Crook and his cronies..I got an announcement. Remember what TRD told you boys a few weeks back, that the nTo has a surprise of their own? Well surprise, surprise Mr. Crook..Cane Deathscream and Powerbomb have just re-joined the N-T-O!!!”

The fans cheer as the nTo members inside the ring applaud the three men on stage who reveal themselves wearing nTo shirts.

JR: “BAH GAWD! Cane Deathscream..Powerbomb…are officially back with the nTo!!!”
RK: “If Crook thought that taking out Chris Back and D-Extreme would be easy enough to overthrow the nTo, guess were wrong. Three main components of the nTo are back and they seem hellbent to raise..HELL..yet again!”

Otacon and KB slowly get to their feet and just look on the reunited nTo faction with them as Nitro goes off the air.