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SEGMENTNO WAY HOME PRESHOW
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{The camera pans out through the sold out crowd as the theme for No Way Home is blaring. The fans are cheering and waving there signs all about. “I Thought This Show Was In Boston”, “Locke Me Up Daddy”, “Dark Triad OnlyFans When?” “Virginia is going to kill someone” “just kiss already” “Usually beating the clock is a bad thing” I miss Ulf being on the show every week ” “Danger Zone” And loads more. The camera pans further and we see the pre-show panel.}
Summer Thompson: HELLO EVERYONE! Welcome to one of high light pay per views and one that I’m sure a lot of fans look forward to every year. Not only do we have a PACKED show tonight! We have the iron maiden! The match that shapes the Night of Immortals for the women’s world title. Welcome to the show guys, gals, and non-binary pals. How are you doing?
{Crowd behind her cheers.}Uriel Black: I think we’re all doing pretty well. Shall we get to it?
Summer Thompson: Right. Well, to start off the night on the preshow we have Tytus Rost taking on the Union of Jobbers. Does, um, anyone have—
Rayne: They’re screwed.
Summer Thompson: That’s a bit blunt. And mean.
Robert Henderson: It’s unfortunate but true. Statistically speaking, the Union of Jobbers have more than earned their names.
Rayne: The big man breaks, they get paid, we move on.
Uriel Black: Starting off my evening agreeing with Rayne. My God, this is shaping up to be a brutal night.
Summer Thompson: I mean, I suppose so...next up, we have Nick Danger versus Mr. Happy. Predictions and why?
Uriel Black: Can I just say that this is a BRUTAL slide for Nick Danger? From challenging for the World Title to the preshow in the span of a month. That’s a drop of Noah Field proportions.
Rayne: We don’t say that name around here. Regardless, I’m going with Nick Danger. He put in a fucking gritty effort against Warren last month, and he’s going to look to be on the rebound here.
Robert Henderson: Agreed. Puncher’s chance aside, Mr. Happy’s advantages aren’t nearly enough to compensate for Danger’s youth, athleticism, and determination.
Uriel Black: You know what? I’m going out on a limb here. Give me the clown! Give me an upset!
Summer Thompson: Wow, really? I mean, I was going to agree with Rayne and Robert…
Uriel Black: The pre-show should not be a land of complacency! Mr. Happy’s been doing this for bloody ages, and where better than in Belfast, the land of clowns, for him to pick up the W?
Robert Henderson: ...I thought that was Detroit.
Summer Thompson: Next we have The Wraith versus Scott Handsome and Grave Roberts. Thoughts?
Uriel Black: I don’t know anything about Wraith but he’s got anger in his eyes. I’m pretty sure he’s going to win here.
Robert Henderson: Grave has been on a kick lately though. He has some very intense moves.
Rayne: But no one thinks they are going to win though.
Uriel Black: Give Robert the chance to dream for the first time in his life.
Summer Thompson: Next we have the bar crawl match. Anyone have any favorites?
Robert Hendersen: I think Stephen and Chris Diamond are going to come out on top of this. Andrew and Ethan might have more practice in the ring but Chris and Stephan are much more willing to go dirty.
Rayne: Can I vote neither? No? Fine. Andrew and Ethan seem a unlikely pair but they’ve done well in the past.
Uriel Black: I think they will get so pissed they wont even make it all the way to the arena.
Summer Thompson: Next we have the cell match of Nick Knight and Steve Awesome.
Robert Hendersen: Nick Knight and the church of crosse might not be anyone’s favorite but you have to admit that it is likely going to be him winning in this cage. He’s doing this to defend his brother.
Rayne: And Steve is doing this to defend his daughter? Get a grip. Steve should be putting his all into this match.
Uriel Black: He should have last time too.
Summer Thompson: Next we have the beat the clock challenges. Anyone have thoughts on who will get done first?
Robert Hendersen: I feel Evan makes the most sense to finish first. Warren has trouble letting go of a match unless it’s perfect.
Rayne: Warren has stamina. Which might be his downfall here.
Uriel Black: Out of context this sounds like a sex joke.
Summer Thompson: Uriel! No.
{Summer giggles.}Summer Thompson: Next we have The women’s world title match of Mandi and Tara. Thoughts?
Robert Hendersen: Mandi has a lot to prove here and I think she’s going to be able to pull it out here.
Rayne: I think Tara has the skill and the drive to keep a hold of that belt no matter what Mandi does.
Uriel Black: I honestly just can’t wait to watch it all go down.
Summer Thompson: Next we have Cals versus Dakota for the Imperial Diamond title
Robert Hendersen: Cals has the experience and the skill. I think they are going to keep holding onto that title.
Rayne: Cals has my vote as well. Dakota is gifted but it’s likely too early to give her a title shot.
Uriel Black: I think either could make a good call for the belt. I think it will be a good match regardless.
Summer Thompson: Next we have the tag team belts. Powers that Be or Gods and Monsters?
Robert Hendersen: I want to see these belts go to Locke and Abraxes. They’ve worked hard and I think it will be a hard fight but I think they can do it.
Rayne: Angel is not above pulling something out of his back pocket to keep these belts.
Uriel Black: Have to agree. The Powers that be are likely going to do something underhanded to keep the belts.
Summer Thompson: Last but not least we have the iron maiden. Any thoughts? I hope Amber wins. She’s had a rough time and this could be just what she needs to get on top.
Robert Hendersen: I have to believe Jess Reed is going to be the one who get the victory here. She’s got the skill and it is something she could really use to escape some of the things Gilmore has been saying.
Rayne: Personally I like the idea of Virginia kicking ass and getting another shot at the gold.
Uriel Black: I want to watch Rowan just destroy some people.
Summer Thompson: Well, that’s all the time we have! See you next month!
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HANDICAP MATCH1K RP WORD LIMIT
Tytus Rost vs The Union of Jobbers
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{The match starts off with Tytus and both members of the union of jobbers in the ring by his request. Tytus hits them both with a huge clothesline. Tytus levels one of them with an Ursa Major. He takes the other one and crushes them with Event Horizon. He stacks both of them and hits a crazy running powerslam. Tytus picks up the win after hitting each jobber with Rasputin's Will and stacking them on top of each other for the three count and the win just past the one minute mark.}-------------------------------------
SINGLES MATCH1K RP WORD LIMIT
Nick Danger vs Mr. Happy
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{Nick Danger hit Happy with a superkick right after the bell and followed it up with a Legacy Cutter! Happy tried to make a comeback with a bear hug but Danger boxed his ears and hit a step up enzugiri. Danger then hit the ropes and took Happy down with Natural Shock! Danger then went to the top rope and hit Phoenix Reborn! Happy managed to kick out at two after that. Danger pulled Happy up and hit him with the Chaos Breaker for the win at two minutes and twenty seconds!}-------------------------------------
HANDICAP MATCH1K RP WORD LIMIT
Wraith vs Scott Handsome and Grave Roberts
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{Wraith started the match off with Scott and caught him at the jump with a sitout jawbreaker. Scott tried to get some offense in but Wraith wasn't having it and connected with a springboard dropkick. Wraith went for a Genecide kick but Scott back pedaled to tag in Grave. Roberts looked to manhandle Wraith and sent him with the ropes but Wraith springboarded off with a clothesline. Wraith pulled Grave up and hit the Shiranui and went for the cover. Scott broke it up. Wraith fought Scott off and clipped him with a Genecide kick sending Scott to the outside. Grave clubbed Wraith from behind and then whipped him to the corner. Wraith ran up the corner and hit Grave with the Whisper in the Wind! Wraith pulled Grave up to his feet and connected with the Howling for the three count and the win at four minutes and twelve seconds!}-------------------------------------
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BAR BRAWL CRAWL Part IWinners receives a World Tag Team Title Shot at NOTI
Violent Tendencies vs Those Damn Gaijin
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{ We are shown a highlight package surrounding the feud between Those Damn Gaijin and Violent Tendencies culminating in the huge brawl backstage last week that left Chris Diamond bloody set to the tune of Crow Killer Blues by Rob Zombie. As the package comes to an end we are taken to commentary. }
Terri Morasco: So Vasco, the whole world wants to know what a Bar Brawl Crawl is, care to enlighten us?
Vasco Dias: Terri, I’d love to explain it to you but I think Alison Valance is about to do just that.
{ We see Valance in the ring. }Alison Valance: The following contest is a Bar Brawl Crawl! It will start in the Sam Adams Brewery and will be contested in any bar in the Boston metro area! Victory will come when one team is pinned, submitted or unable to continue fighting!
{ The crowd pops huge for the rules. }Vasco Dias: I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Terri Morasco: You had no idea what it was, did you?
Vasco Dias: I knew exactly what it was!
Terri Morasco: I’m sure. With the rules out of the way let’s talk about this match a little bit. Violent Tendencies laid down the challenge, Those Damn Gaijin made them earn the match. Both teams have winning records right now and management decided to put a Tag Team Title shot on the line!
Vasco Dias: Violent Tendencies may have picked a match that suits their style but I’m telling you right now it’ll be the Gaijin who walk out of Boston with a victory tonight.
Terri Morasco: It’s very possible, Andrew and Ethan have been more than formidable as a team, I believe they’ve only lost once since the tag team world cup kicked off but I wouldn’t count out Violent Tendencies so easily.
Vasco Dias: I would.
Terri Morasco: All right, we are getting word that Those Damn Gaijin are arriving at the Brewery.
{ We are take to the parking lot of the Samuel Adams Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts. A 2022 Bugatti Chrion comes ripping into the parking lot before skidding to a stop. The doors open and out hops Ethan King and Andrew Jacobsen. The two men look around before Ethan gags a little. }Ethan King: What an absolute dump!
Andrew Jacobsen: What’d you expect?
Ethan King: You’re right, it is Boston afterall.
{ The two men head to the rear entrance that leads right into the main brew room. The two look around the many rows of brew kettles. }Andrew Jacobsen: Where the hell are they?
Ethan King: Tap room?
Andrew Jacoben: Ugh.
{ Andrew and Ethan had toward the taproom but the door is kicked upen by Terrella as Chris comes charging through with a keg on a push cart and slams it into Andrew Jacobsen! Ethan goes to attack but Terrella charges him with a shoulder block, the two bigger men just bouncing off each other! }Ethan King: Nice try.
Stephen Terrella: *Groans*
{ King and Terrella start laying into each other with right hands while Chris pulls Jacobsen up off the ground and bounces his head off the keg. Ethan and Terrella fight into the tap room area where there are many tables and chairs for patrons. Chris and Andrew are now over by one of the Brew Kettles. Jacobsen grabs Chris and bounces his head off the side then spins him around and heaves Chris into the kettle with a release German suplex! }
Andrew Jacobsen: Go ahead, make another joke.
Chris Diamond: Fuck… You…
{ Jacobsen starts to stomp on Chris. In the taproom Ethan and Stephen are still trading blows. Ethan hits a knee to the gut and scoop slams Terrella onto one of the tables. Ethan climbs up and pulls Terrela to his feet. Stephen snaps back with a big time spine buster putting the both of them through a very heavy duty table.
Andrew peels Chris up off of the floor and runs him face first into the exit door. Chris turns and fires off a hard right hand that catches Andrew perfectly on the jaw. Andrew staggers and Chris throws Andrew through the exit door taking it off it’s hinges and sending Andrew outside! }Chris Diamond: Hope that was fucking funny.
{ In the taproom, Terrella and Ethan are pulling each other out of the rubble of the table. Ethan grabs one of the wooden chairs and shatters it over the back of Terrella. }Ethan King: Have a seat! Actually, have two!
{ King takes another wooden chair and shatters it over the top of Terrella’s head! Outside we find Andrew back on his feet in a slug fest with Chris in an outdoor patio area. Andrew grabs a pint glass and just destroys it over the top of Chris’ head! }
Andrew Jacobsen: Bottom’s up!
{ Andrew then spears Chris into the outdoor bar. Back inside Ethan has brought Terrella back up to his feet and lugged him into the souvenir shop. Ethan grabs a tap off one of the shelves and cracks Terrella over the back with it! Terrella falls back then turns and charges Ethan with a spear into one of the glass counters!
Back outside we see Andrew hitting the Borealis on Chris Diamond on a picnic table! The table doesn’t break and this frustrates Andrew so he pulls Chris up again but Diamond snaps back with A Fistful of Dollars. }
Chris Diamond: Keep the fucking change.
{ Back inside Terrella has pulled Ethan out of the broken wood and glass but Ethan reaches into his pocket and cracks Terrella with the Brazen Equalizer! Terrella drops to a knee and Ethan knees him right in the mouth! Ethan then pulls Terrella up and irish whips him into the door and sends him outside. }Ethan King: Check please.
{ Outside we see Chris making his way around to the front of the building where Terrella is regrouping. Ethan comes out the front door now with the nucks still on. Chris and Stephen ready themselves for a double team when Andrew Jacobsen comes pealing around the building with a fork lift! }Chris Diamond: Where the fuck did he find that!?
Andrew Jacobsen: I hope your insurance is paid up, boys!
{ Chris and Stephen just manage to move as Ethan comes running down and cracks Chris with the Brazen Equalizer too! Andrew pops out of the fork lift and comes up on Terrella and hits the Hat Trick on the pavement!
Ethan pulls Chris up as a bus pulls up onto the sidewalk and beeps the horn. }Andrew Jacobsen: What the hell is that?
Ethan King: Booze Bus, load up the baggage!
{ Andrew and Ethan pull up Chris and Stephen respectively and start dragging them toward the open door of the bus. Chris and Stephen start to fight back. Chris throws Andrew into the steps and he climbs up onside. Ethan and Terrella start ducking it out again as they make their way up the steps. The four of them are slugging it out on the bus as it pulls away toward their next stop. }
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CELL MATCHIf Steve wins he gets five minutes alone with Crosse in a cage
Nick Knight vs Steve Awesome
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{The giant ominous cell lowers down from the ceiling. The cell was wide enough to leave extra space on the floor and in one corner away from the entrance ramp was a small pod.}Terri Morasco: Well here we have the first of two cell matches here tonight. Neither of them are going to be pretty.
Vasco Dias: If Steve Awesome wins he gets five minutes alone with Lucipher Crosse. But if Nick Knight wins, Steve Awesome is forced to join the Church of Crosse for thirty days. I for one cannot wait for Steve to become Lou’s personal laundry boy.
Terri Morasco: Lou? You know him so well you can call him that?
Vasco Dias: Anybody can know Lou like that if you reach out Terri.
Terri Morasco: Oh god.
{Personal Jesus by Lollipop Lust Kill begins to play as red lights begin to flash slowly before lights come up on the stage. As the music swells, dim light begins to come up on the stage, now shrouded with smoke as three silhouettes fade into view.As the guitar kicks in hard, the lights flash onto the stage revealing the members of The Church of Crosse. Lucipher raises his arms as if welcoming the audience as Nick Knight and 'The First Apostle' walk towards the ring.}Vasco Dias: Here comes the greatest man in all of IWF and Nick Knight.
Teri Morasco: Shouldn't you be down on your knees worshipping 'The Unholy Son'?
Vasco Dias: Why, when I can take in the glory that is Lucipher Crosse?
{Nick Knight and Lucipher Crosse both enter the cell and walk around the structure. Periodically Knight grabs ahold of the fencing and shakes it to check the sturdiness of the structure.}Teri Morasco: Nick seems to be almost hesitant as he walks around the cell. I spoke with him backstage and he told me that in all of the hardcore matches he has had in his twenty year career he has never been locked inside of a cell.
Vasco Dias: Once the juice starts to flow and Nicky Nightmare comes out he'll be just fine.
{The brothers finally reach the pod and share a last second strategy session before Blue Shoes closes the door and it's locked from the outside. With one last exchange of words Nick climbs inside of the ring to await the arrival of his opponent.}
{All the lights in the arena die out and the fans in attendance start chanting his name.}"AWE-SOME! AWE-SOME! AWE-SOME!"
{Dramatic Pause.}
"REGRETS I'VE HAD MINE!"
{The lights in the arena explode to life as they flash green and black to the beat as Steve Awesome comes running out with intensity to the hyped up chorus of "Full of Regrets" by Danko Jones.}
Lonely nights/ and a whole lot of wasted time!
If you see her wont you tell her for me/
It's better this way to avoid all the misery
{The chorus plays again as Steve walks down to the ring. The guitar starts soloing and Steve hops into the ring and he provocatively slips off his jacket and then spins and drops into a kneel and he flexes his arms. He gets a slow motion effect as pyro sprays behind him.}Terri Morasco: Well the former world champion and would be hall of famer is here and there is no doubt in my mind that this one is not for the weak at heart.
Vasco Dias: Awesome might be a former world champion and future hall of famer, but he’s not a butcher. This is a match custom made for someone like ‘The Hollywood Butcher.’
{Awesome and Knight stare across the ring at one another and begin to jaw back and forth. Slowly they come together. Steve points and yells at a silent Lucipher Crosse to “shut his damn mouth”. Nick attempts to take advantage of the distracted Steve Awesome, but Steve ducks under a strike from Nick! Steve quickly turns around and starts hammering blows into the face of Nick Knight. Nick tries time block high but Steve just starts punching him in the gut. Steve backs Nick into a corner and just punches and elbows and knees to the midsection until Nick Knight collapses down into the corner. Steve Awesome runs to the opposite corner and then comes running in with a big knee to the face of Nick Knight.}Terri Morasco: Good God. Steve Awesome just unleashed some hell to start this match. We knew Steve was angry coming into this match but this is example of his fury.
Vasco Dias: He doesn’t look done yet.
{Steve rolls out of the ring and flips open the apron curtain. He pulls out a few kendo sticks and tosses them all over the place. Some steel chairs get yanked out. The crowd pops as he slides out a table.}Vasco Dias: Ah! What does he need all that for? Isn’t this barbaric cage enough?
Terri Morasco: I think these men are out for blood tonight. Lucipher Crosse is shouting through his pod for Nick Knight to come alive!
{Slowly the Unholy Son gathers his wits and starts heading toward Steve who is still pulling out weapons and making a mess out of the ringside area. Steve reaches underneath and pulls out a black metal toolbox. Nick rolls out to meet Steve but Steve buries the toolbox into Nicks stomach. Knight stumbles over and he puts his hand on the apron to stabilize himself. Steve notices this and takes the tool box and slams it down hard on Nicks exposed hand. Nick screams in pain and clutches his right hand. Nick holds his hand in close to nurse the pain. He staggers away and Steve drills him in the back of the head with the toolbox and some of its contents spill out to the ground as Nick falls to the ground.}
Terri Morasco: That toolbox looks heavy from here. I can only imagine the pain he’s feeling in that right hand.
Vasco Dias: He could have broken a bone in his hand, Terri! How can Nick Knight throw a punch with his hand injured?
{Steve Awesome picks up a pair of pliers and walks over to Nick. Steve stomps him in the face a few times then grabs Nicks right and puts one of his fingers in the pliers and starts to squeeze! Nick Knight yells out in pain.}Terri Morasco: Dear God! He could crack a knuckle doing that!
Vasco Dias: Steve Awesome is a mad man! Nick Knight didn’t touch his kid!
Terri Morasco: Guilty by association!
{Nick Knight reaches up and rakes the eyes and Steve lets go and drops the pliers. Nick again clutches his right hand and tries to shake off the pain. Lucipher Crosse shouts at Nick from inside his pod to get up at fight! Nick climbs up to his feet as Steve starts to regain his vision. Steve grabs a chair But Nick grabs Steve with the left hand and rams him into the steel cell wall. Steve is dazed but he still has the chair in his hand. Nick goes to ram Steve into the steel steps but Steve is able to keep his balance and hop up on top of the steps instead. And then he back flips off with an Awesome-Sault with the steel chair and he comes crashing down on Nick as the crowd pops!}Vasco Dias: Steve May have just smashed Nick Knights face in with that chair!
Terri Morasco: Might be an improvement!
{Steve pops up to his feet and poses for the crowd as Lucipher shouts at Nick!}Steve Awesome: Oh yeah baby, I can do this alllll-
{He suddenly points at Lucipher.}Steve Awesome: SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!!!
{Lucipher curses and slams the pod wall in anger. Steve grabs a couple of the chairs and throws them into the ring. He slides a table into the ring and that black tool box that has already done a lot of damage. He throws all that into the ring and he rolls Nick Knight back into the ring.}Terri Morasco: Steve Awesome has more evil intentions. As he sets up that table against the corner. The one right in front of Luciphers pod!
Vasco Dias: Steve is sick! He wants Nicks own brother to see what he does to him!
Terri Morasco: I think Steve is just showing Lucipher what he is going to do to him!
{Steve slaps the table to make sure it’s sturdy and he turns around to take a strike to the midsection from Nick Knight. Steve doubles over from the blow and Nick quickly grabs the black toolbox and uses it to uppercut Steve in the jaw. Steve hits the mat and even more tools fall out of the tool box. Two medium sized black bags and small mallet hammer. Nick definitely picks up the mallet hammer.}Terri Morasco: Oh no. Nick Knight has malicious intent with that hammer.
Vasco Dias: You can heat Lucipher Crosse ordering Nick to crush Steve’s skull with it! I think he should listen!
{Steve is still dazed from the blow from the tool box. Nick brings the hammer back and brings it down towards Steve’s head. Steve rolls at the last minute. But not quick enough as the hammer comes down and brutally clubs him right in the shoulder! Steve instantly begins to writhe and cuss from the pain.}Terri Morasco: Goood God almighty!! You could hear the sickening thud! There could be serious damage to Steve’s shoulder.
Vasco Dias: Well that’s unfortunate. Nick was aiming for the head!
{Nick takes the hammer and goes for another finishing blow but out of desperation Steve throws an up kick that catches Nick in the lower groin region. Nick goes cross eyed a bit and drops the hammer. Steve pulls himself up to his feet. He tries to move his shoulder around and he winces in pain the minute he does. He looks around for another weapon but notices the two black bags that tumbled out of the tool box earlier. He grabs one and opens it up. He smirks when he looks and then spills them all out onto the mat! Thumbtacks!}Terri Morasco: Oh man. I was already worried about that shoulder.
Vasco Dias: Well it’s definitely okay enough to bring thumbtacks into play.
{Steve goes to grab Nick but Nick clobbers him in the shoulder and Steve let’s go. Nick grabs Steve and hits him with a belly to belly suplex. Nick sees the tacks and grabs Steve. He punches him in the shoulder just to keep him subdued and he starts to load him up into the top rope!}Terri Morasco: I think Nick is thinking super plex on the tacks.
Vasco Dias: Wait he wants more!
{Nick throws some opened up chairs on the pile and the tool box and any other thing with a jagged edge that would hurt to land on.Nick goes back toward Steve but the Face of the Franchise kicks Nick in the face! Steve kicks him in the face again and then stands up on the top rope! Steve launches off with a cross body but Nick Knight catches him! Nick goes for a spin out slam into the tacks but Steve flips out of the move. Doing so hurt his shoulder though. Nick goes for a clothesline to the back of the head but Steve still manages to duck underneath. Nick comes running back and Steve looks for a back body drop into the tacks but his shoulder can’t push Nick up and over. Nick responds with a devastating palm strike to the face of Steve. The move knocked him for a loop and he spun on his heel. Nick then grabs Steve, lifts Steve up like a spine buster but from the back and basically slams Steve Awesome face first into the pile of thumbtacks and chairs!}Terri Morasco: Oh My God! I can’t believe it!
Vasco Dias: That’s what Steve gets for bringing the tacks into the match in the first place.
{Steve writhes in pain, holding his face and his eyes. The ref checks him out and has to do a double take. The camera finally gets a good view and Steve has a face full of tacks! One is stuck in his eyeball!!}
Terri Morasco: That is disgusting!
Vasco Dias: Nick Knight isn’t satisfied yet!
{Nick picks Steve up like a lawn dart and just hurls him outside into the locked door of the cell! Steve crashes into the reinforced beams and hits the mat as blood starts to trickle from a few of the tack wounds. His impaled eye. And a wound on his forehead. Nick Knight stalks his prey a sick smile on his face. Pulling Awesome to a vertical base ‘The Unholy Son’ quickly sends his opponent crashing head and neck first into the door of the cage causing it to buckle from the impact.}Teri Morasco: The momentum of this match has turned on a dime
Vasco Dias: And you doubted ‘The Unholy Son!’
{Looking down at Steve, Knight shakes his head and begins to jaw about how pathetic the former world champion is as he laid on the floor writhing in agony. Like a predator smelling blood in the water Nick sticks his head beneath the ring and slides out a large piece of plywood that has been covered by coil after coil of barbed wire. The smile on the face of Nick quickly turns into a downright sadistic grin as he slides the barbed wire wrapped board into the ring and sets it up atop the table Steve Awesome had brought into play earlier in the match.}
Teri Morasco: I seriously don’t like what Nick Knight is thinking about here!
Vasco Dias: Nick Knight isn’t thinking about anything right now Teri. Nick Knight might as well be dead because that’s Nicky Nightmare inside of that ring and there’s no way of knowing what he’s thinking. The man’s insane!!!
{Sliding back to the floor Nicky rolls Steve into the ring and follows behind. A couple of stiff headbutts makes sure that ‘The Face of the Franchise’ is thoroughly stunned before Nick lifts him to sit atop the top turnbuckle facing out into the crowd. Climbing up behind Knight locks on a half nelson and an underhook before throwing Steve Awesome onto the barbed wire board and through the table.}Teri Morasco: A Super Non-Dairy Creamer!!!
Vasco Dias: Don’t forget the barbed wire Teri! Oh and it was through a table!
{Knight makes the cover and Blue Shoes drops to the canvas for the count…
One…
Two…
The…
Awesome kicks out at the very last moment.}Teri Morasco: Nick Knight should know that it is going to take more than that to put down a man as motivated as Steve Awesome!
Vasco Dias: Nicky was just trying to show Steve a bit of compassion. The Church of Crosse is all about love and compassion.
Teri Morasco: Oh please! Tell that to the whole Matthews family
{Nick climbs back to his feet and pulls Steve from the rubble tearing flesh and ripping out clumps of hair in the process. A trio of hard rights has the future hall of famer on the ropes where Knight lands a big clothesline that sends them both crashing over the top rope and to the floor. Grabbing two handfuls of hair Nick caveman drags Awesome to the cage wall and scrapes his head back and forth like a cheese grater.}
Teri Morasco: Nick Knight is in firm control as that steel fencing rips the flesh from Steve Awesome's forehead.
Nick Knight: Let's hope Nick scars him for life so we don't have to endure any more of his crappy movies.
{Knight releases his opponents head and it falls limply to the floor. 'The Unholy Son' then reaches into his boot to pull out an object. Laughing like a maniac he holds it high in the air for all the world to see.}Teri Morasco: Is that...a spork!!!
Vasco Dias: Yes! Do you not know the history of Nick Knight? This man spent over a year in a mental institution for attacking a fast food worker with a spork.
Teri Morasco: I thought that was an urban legend.
Vasco Dias: Oh no it happened. Steve Awesome is not the only one in this match to have been on TMZ.
{Pulling the lifeless Awesome up to his knees Nick starts to dig the spork into 'The Face of the Franchise,' but Steve is playing possum and levels the playing field with one well placed low blow. Knight collapses to the floor and Steve stumbles over to the spork and picks it up with one of his Hollywood smiles. Lifting Nick up Awesome pins him against the cage and begins digging the tines of the spork into the scarred of forehead of the death match veteran. The blood begins to flow like water and the nasty side of Steve Awesome is seen as his laugh harmonizes with Nicky's screams.}Teri Morasco: Now we are seeing first hand what happens when you mess with a man's daughter!
{Awesome drops the spork but instead of staying on the attack he feels the need to taunt Nick with a crotch chop, but it seems to just give 'The Hollywood Butcher' a target as he reaches out and grabbed a handful then twists. The sound of Steve's laughs turned to screams several octaves higher and it was now Nick's turn to laugh at the misery of the man with whom he shares the ring. Slowly Knight gets to a vertical base, his grip never easing on the hall of fame huevos, and hits a trio of headbutts that busts open Awesome's eyebrow. Crimson begins to gush down the former champs face and Nicky showing his complete depravity begins to lick up the blood like a kitten at a saucer of milk.}
Teri Morasco: Knight is absolutely sick!
Vasco Dias: Steve Awesome brought this on himself, and you know it.
{Never releasing his grip Knight lands a modified t-bone suplex.}Teri Morasco: Cock clutch explorer!
Vasco Dias: Well Steve won't be having any affairs for a while.
Terri Morasco: My God what a brutal match this has been. Both men are bloody messes. They could both be nursing broken bones here and Steve Awesome had a god forsaken thumbtack in his eye!
{Steve Awesome lays in the ring holding his genitals. His face leaking blood from the wounds on his face. Nick picks up the splintered plyboard that was wrapped in barbed wire. He finds a piece that is exceptionally pointy and tries to jab it into the wound on Steve’s skull. Nick gets into a full mount position and tries to forcefully jab it in. But Steve Awesome does everything he can to block it.}Terri Morasco: Oh my god! Nick is trying to open that cut up even more...or worse.
Vasco Dias: I told you Terri. This is Nick Nightmare in that ring.
{Lucipher cheers Nicky on from the pod.}Lucipher Crosse: DO IT NICK! FINISH HIM!
{Steve Awesome tries to push back against Nick but his injured shoulder makes it that much harder. Finally Nick gives one final press and Steve gets his head out of the way just in time. Steve looks at the wooden plank impaled into the ring in utter shock.}Vasco Dias: I think Steve Awesome finally realized what he’s dealing with here. Nicky Nightmare is a monster.
Terri Morasco: Nick Knight is still in the mount position here. And the punches come down!
{Nick hammers away with his left hand. Then starts to pull him up to his feet looking to finish him off with a big move, but Steve comes alive! SMALL PACKAGE!!!}Terri Morasco: WAIT! Steve Awesome from out of nowhere!
Vasco Dias: Hey wait a minute!
Terri Morasco: The ref slides into place! One!
Vasco Dias: Nick will kick out.
Terri Morasco: Two! Steve is gonna surprise him!
Vasco Dias: Nick?
Terri Morasco: NO! Nick just gets the shoulder up in time! I’ll tell you, that was so close I’ll bet it smells a lot different inside Luciphers Crosses pod right about now!
Vasco Dias: How dare you make a poop joke at the expense of the unholy one!
Terri Morasco: More like unholy shit if you ask me!
{Both Steve and Nick slowly get up to their feet. Nick swings a punch but Steve ducks underneath and goes for the SteveKO but he can’t lift Nick up because of his shoulder injury. Nick drops down to his feet and locks in the La La Land and starts choking the life out of Steve!}Terri Morasco: There it is. La La Land. Tazmission. Whatever you call it, Nick Knight has choked many men out. And just look how he faces Steve so Lucipher Crosse can watch him fade. It makes me sick!
Vasco Dias: Steve tries to fight it, but it’s the beginning of the end.
{Lucipher breath leaves a mark on the pod as he watches with evil intent.}Lucipher Crosse: Fade away former star. It’s time to go to sleep.
{Steve tried to fight out but his arms start to slow down.}Lucipher Crosse: Soon you will wake up as my personal servant. You weak, pathetic-huh?
{Suddenly Steve raises up a middle finger. And with a staggered choked voice he shouts.}
Steve Awesome: Shut….your damn….mouth!
{Then in a desperation move Steve starts running back ward as hard and as fast as he could and Nick stumbles back trying to keep his balance and both men tumble backward over the rope and down to the floor. Breaking the hold in the chaos.}
Terri Morasco: Both men go tumbling to the floor by the damaged front door of the cell.
Vasco Dias: Well I guess that’s like the only way out of that hold. But looks like that clever idiot hurt himself again in the process.
{Steve is clutching at his shoulder again. The same one that got hit with a small mallet hammer. Nick slowly gets back up to his feet, shaking off the cobwebs of the fall and out of anger and frustration just sends a brutal stomp right on the shoulder that Steve has been nursing. Nick then looks under the ring and he pulls out another table. He slides it into the ring. Grabs Steve by the hair and tosses him into the ring. Steve nurses the shoulder and struggles to catch his breath from the choke hold.}
Terri Morasco: Now what is Nick thinking?
Vasco Dias: He is thinking the end Terri!
{Nick sets up the table and spots the other small black bag that fell out of the black toolbox from earlier. Nick walks over, picks it up and reaches inside to pull out lighter fluid!}Terri Morasco: Oh no! No no no. How far is this thing going to go?
Vasco Dias: You day that now, Terri. But you encouraged this fight from the beginning. Lucipher and Nick warned Steve what would happen.
{Nick starts spraying the contents all over the ladder. He keeps going until there is nothing left and the wood is soaked. Steve Awesome, still a bloody pin cushion, pulls himself up to his feet. With one arm is still attacking Nick Knight. Steve punches Nick in the gut but Nick absorbs it and just starts setting Steve up for a powerbomb. Steve reverses it mid move and drops Nick into the mat with a big time ddt! Steve quickly drops down and starts pummeling Knight with punches and then drags Nick up and onto the table. Steve hits him with a few more punches and then starts to climb the turnbuckle. Gets halfway up and then drops back down and rolls to the outside.}Vasco Dias: What is that idiot doing now?
Terri Morasco: Adding even more hardware!
{Steve pulls out a huge ladder from under the ring. He slides it into the ring and sets it up. It just about reaches the top of the cell!}
Vasco Dias: What does he want to do with that?
Terri Morasco: More damage. His shoulder is hurt. He can’t hit his main finishing move. He has to try to improvise a way to put Nick Knight down.
{Steve starts climbing up. His back to Nick laying on the table. Steve climbs all the way up to the top and starts to call for his moonsault double foot stomp finisher. But Nick Knight suddenly comes back to life. He reaches into his pocket and quickly flips a zippo lighter open and tosses the flame onto the table. Setting it ablaze!}
Terri Morasco: Oh my god! Fire!? Are you kidding me?
Vasco Dias: Nicky Nightmare don’t play. You’ll burn if you think you are touching his family!
{Steve looks down at the flaming table down below. Nick quickly tries to tip the ladder over. But the pressure hurts his injured hand! Frustrated Nick starts climbing up instead!}Terri Morasco: Both these men have lost a lot of blood and put in so much and now they are fighting above a flaming table!
Vasco Dias: Steve has come so far, but now he’s basically trapped.
{Steve quickly tries to climb down but Nick grabs him by the hair and smashes his head into the ladder. Steve almost falls straight down into the burning table but catches himself before he did. Steve climbs up and meets Nick at the top and hits him with a strike and Nick fires back with one of his own. The ladder starts to sway. Nick smashes Steve’s face off the top of the ladder and then grabs him by the throat to try and push him off! But Steve pounds a fist into Nicks bad hand that was stabilizing himself and Nick roars in pain and let’s go. Steve sees the burning table and Nick in pain and does the only logical thing. He reaches up and grabs the ceiling support beam and pulls himself up with one hand. Latches his legs around Nick and takes Nick down with a big Frankenstiener!!!!}Terri Morasco: OH MY GOD!! STEVE AWESOME WITH THE RANA! NICK, STEVE, AND THE FREAKING LADDER GO CRASHING DOWN THROUGH THE FLAMING TABLE!!!!
Vasco Dias: No!! Nick! No!!!
{Nick goes crashing through the flames and Steve falls not too far away. Nick rolls around to put the flames out as Lucipher Cross nearly faints in his pod. Nick gets the flames out but his clothes are ripped and burned up. Steve pushes the ref away and goes for the cover. The ref counts. 1….2…..3!!!!}Terri Morasco: It’s over. For the love of God it’s over. Steve Awesome has won and he endured all that to finally get his revenge on Lucipher Crosse.
Vasco Dias: Yeah but how much of Steve is left?
Alison Valance: Here is your winner, STEVE AWESOME!!!!
Terri Morasco: Well that’s the official call. And now Steve gets five minutes alone inside the cell with Lucipher Crosse.
Vasco Dias: No. This was never supposed to happen. Someone needs to see if Nick Knight is okay first.
{Nick Knight is still down and out but the medics are having a hard time getting into the cell door since it got damaged during the match!}Terri Morasco: Well looks like the cell door is broken. That’s good because Luciphers pod opens just fine!
Vasco Dias: I cant watch!
{Luciphers pod slides open and suddenly he is inside the cell with Steve without a barrier. Lucipher quickly tries to run away but Steve eventually catches him. He grips Lucipher by the neck and cowers him into a corner.}
Steve Awesome: Finally, you little bastard! You are going to get what you deserve!
{Steve goes to start punching when suddenly Gregor Winter is at the door of the cell! He gives the door a few yanks and eventually he rips the damaged door right off the post!! Gregor tosses it to the side and strolls right into the cage!}
Terri Morasco: What the hell is this? What happened to five minutes?
Vasco Dias: Eh, that was five minutes-ish.
{Gregor Winter climbs into the ring and goes after Steve but Jayson Matthews comes storming down to the ring! Jayson clobbers Gregor in the back of the head and the big Viking stumbles a bit.}Terri Morasco: And Jayson Matthews side by side with Steve Awesome. Ready to even the odds and help fight the man that whipped his sister and oh my GOD WHAT DID I JUST SEE!?
Vasco Dias: Jayson Matthews with a RibKracker to Steve Awesome!
Terri Morasco: BUT WHY!? WHY IN GODS NAME WOULD HE….no….
{Jayson suddenly drops down and kneels in front of Lucipher Crosse!}Terri Morasco: You are kidding me. Why!? How!? Why is Jayson doing this after everything?
Vasco Dias: I have no idea but I love it!
{Jayson bestows whips to Lucipher and Gregor and they all three start cracking the whip onto the back of Steve Awesome! Steve takes the licks and does his best not to show pain but the stinging pain traveled through his whole body.}Terri Morasco: Why Jayson? I don’t understand. But thankfully here comes security!
Vasco Dias: They can’t help! You think Verona would send his best goons to help Steve!?
{Suddenly a bunch of masked disciples flood the arena and stop security. One of them climbs into the ring and pulls his mask off. It’s Jack Ferriman! He pulls out his whip and gets a few licks in too. All four members of the Church of Crosse take turns whipping Steve while Nick watches on. Finally after what seemed like five agonizing minutes of brutality, Steve finally just passes out from the pain. Lucipher, Gregor, Jack and Jayson all pose together near Nick Knight. The lights fade out and when the fade back in, the now complete again Church of Crosse we’re gone and all that was left in the ring was a bloody and mangled Steve Awesome.}Terri Morasco: Well Steve Awesome won this match but….
Vasco Dias: He doesn’t look like a winner to me. Plus the Church of Crosse is back to full strength. Lucipher Crosse is inevitable.
Terri Morasco: Damn it all!!
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BAR BRAWL CRAWL Part IIWinners receives a World Tag Team Title Shot at NOTI
Violent Tendencies vs Those Damn Gaijin
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{We cut back to the Booze Bus, where we last left Those Damn Gaijin and Violent Tendencies. The quartet are seated in the back of the bus, each team occupying one side of the bench seat, silently nursing their injuries. Ethan shakes his head, sighing and looking to the ceiling.}Ethan King: Fenway Park. Such a classless place.
Andrew Jacobsen: I'd make a joke about the Red Sox, but they've managed to not be an embarrassment this year.
{Chris Diamond laughs, shaking his own head as he looks over at Jacobsen, the nearer of his two opponents.}
Chris Diamond: I'm just gonna remind your upstart ass that the Yankees own the playoff wins record at Target Field and hope you shut the fuck up.
{Andrew pauses, nodding, a hardness coming into his eyes. The bus begins to roll to a stop as he glances back at Diamond.}
Andrew Jacobsen: Hey Chris? How're the Wolfpack doing?
{Diamond's eyes narrow, and Stephen Terrella shakes his head, reaching out and putting a hand on Chris's shoulder.}
Chris Diamond: Fuck you say, limp-dick?
Andrew Jacobsen: I mean, I'd insult your pro team, but you haven't had anything to insult since Shanahan bolted. Think about that. The Whalers sucked so much, Detroit was an improvement. The city that brought us Steve Awesome.
{Before Terrella or Ethan can intervene, Chris explodes up out of his seat with a vicious uppercut! Andrew takes the shot and responds with an elbow, the two men brawling their way towards the front of the bus! Ethan and Stephen stand, protesting their teammates, and turn to look at each other. Shrugging, Ethan tees off with a left on Terrella, and they begin their own brawl up to the front of the bus, down the stairs, and into the next bar without pausing. Ethan manages to stun Terrella with a headbutt and a knee to the gut, allowing him to turn and hurl a few hundred-dollar bills at the bouncer, the sound of pounding punk rock echoing from inside.}
Ethan King: Cover charge! Keep the change, you filthy anim—UGH!
{Ethan finds himself cut off by a heavy shoulder to the gut from Terrella, who barges him into the bar and slams him against the wall, just behind the back of a packed crowd of people half-dancing, half-moshing to a Celtic punk band on the bar's stage. Meanwhile, Chris has managed to back Andrew up against the wall, unloading a vicious haymaker that stuns the smaller man. Diamond backs up a step before charging in with a pump kick, and Andrew manages to duck underneath, leaving Chris's foot to smash into the dartboard behind him, taking it off the wall!}
Andrew Jacobsen: Bullseye, huh ace?
Chris Diamond: Get fucked!
{He swings wildly back around with another Fistful of Dollars, but Andrew turns it into a judo throw that sends Chris spilling into the bar! Ethan, meanwhile, swings with the Brazen Equalizer again, but Stephen catches his fist, wrenching his arm and slowly peeling Ethan's fingers back one by one! Terrella manages to keep control long enough to rip the knucks off of Ethan's hand, but he throws them away in disgust, shaking his head.}
Stephen Terrella: Don't need these to beat your ass.
Ethan King: Those were ten thousand dollar knuckles, asshole.
{As if to prove Terrella's point, he cracks Ethan with a left cross, sending the former World Champion stumbling. Andrew charges at the grounded Diamond, looking to deliver a hesitation dropkick! Chris manages to dodge this time, and Andrew's feet crash into the wood paneling, splintering it and earning an outraged shout from the bartender. Andrew stumbles to his feet, wincing as he feels the pain shooting back up through his ankles, only for Chris to catch him by the throat and haul him up for the Hang 'Em High chokeslam onto the bartop! Andrew's back contorts in agony as Chris reaches over, taking a swig of one of the patrons' beer...before spitting it out in disgust!}Chris Diamond: What the fuck is this?! Corona?! Too cheap to get a hooker to piss in your mouth, huh?
{He decks the poor patron, and Ethan, ever the opportunist, shoots an eye poke into Terrella's eye before grabbing Andrew's hand and dragging him into the crowd of punks. Chris straightens up, looking over at his partner, and throws the glass of beer to the ground with a shake of his head.}Chris Diamond: FUCK! Where'd they go?!
Stephen Terrella: Leave this to me.
{Cracking his neck, the big man wades into the crowd, displacing it with an almost surgical precision. The protesting punks find themselves tossed aside like sacks of potatoes, and the Gaijin's initial lead is shrinking significantly...until Andrew yanks Ethan in one direction, scrambling for the stage. As the song currently playing dies down, Andrew pulls himself up on stage, snatching the microphone from the lead singer's hands, and looks at him, a grin on his face as Ethan clambers up after him.}
Andrew Jacobsen: Hey Boston, how about you show the skinhead and the leatherdaddy ripping through you what you think of fascists like them!
{The crowd, already half-drunk and belligerent, roars in approval, and Ethan takes the mic from Andrew, grinning.}
Ethan King: Hi there, Ethan King. Uh, five hundred dollars to anyone who lands a punch on those two. Trust me...
{He reaches into his coat, withdrawing a strap of hundred dollar bills and flashing the smarmiest smile possible.}
Ethan King: ...I'm good for it.
{The added incentive of bribery seems to be the spark the mosh pit needed, and they turn on Chris and Stephen, flailing at them with noodle-armed punches that, on their own, would mean nothing to either man. When it's a crowd of a hundred belligerent Bostonians, however, it becomes a matter of weight of numbers. Violent Tendencies begin hurling bodies left and right, plowing their way towards the stage, and Andrew hands off the microphone, ducking backstage with Ethan as the brawling duo works their way through. Chris roaring a blue streak.}Chris Diamond: Chickenshit limp-dick cocksucking tofu-eating motherfuckers! I'M GOING TO RIP YOUR FUCKING NUTS OFF AND CRAM THEM DOWN YOUR GODDAMN THROATS!
{The camera frantically chases after Violent Tendencies, following them up onto the stage, where Diamond levels the singer with a massive right hand and catches the mic before it falls.}Chris Diamond: Get a job, you fucking hippies.
{He flings the mic into the crowd before vanishing through the curtains. The muffled sounds of violence emerge from the back, and the camera catches up to both teams back into the thick of it. Ethan ducks a Fistful of Dollars attempt and looks for the Wildfire Suplex, only to eat a back kick to the groin from "Maniac" for his troubles. Andrew kicks Terrella in the knee, grabbing an equipment cable and wrapping it around his neck, and applies a modified version of Terrella's own Iron Throne finisher, shouting at him.}
Andrew Jacobsen: Feel good now, big man? Huh?! HUH?! JUST QUIT ALREA—
{He's cut off by Chris Diamond, who absolutely BLASTS him in the face with a big boot, sending Andrew whiplashing into the wall. Ethan, for his part, is still stirring, and Terrella forces himself to his feet, coughing and clutching his throat. Chris jerks his head at Ethan, shaking his head as he picks up Andrew by the hair.}
Chris Diamond: Grab the trash. Let's go get some real fucking booze.
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SEGMENTShabaz Show
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{ We come back from a promotional package to Keybo Shabaz seated on a modified version of the BTS set with an arm chair to either side of him, CMFT Must Be Stopped by Corey Taylor is playing before it eventually fades out. }Keybo Shabaz: Welcome to the first ever edition of the Shabaz Show! Where I sit down with two former rivals and discuss the future trajectory of their careers. My first two guests are both men who have been pegged as future World Champions as well as the future of the company itself. They had a heated rivalry that lasted months not all that long ago and came out the other side very changed men. Please welcome, Almir Sayed and Nick Danger!
{ Almir Sayed and Nick Danger each enter from opposing sides of the stage and each take a seat beside Keybo. Nick reaches across to shake the hand of Keybo but Almir just sneers when Keybo offers him the same hand. Keybo adjusts himself in his seat before continuing. }
Keybo Shabaz: So let me get started with Nick Danger. Nick, you just wrestled for the IWF Men's World Championship, how does it feel to come so far in your IWF career so quickly?
Nick:”It feels awesome and exciting all at the same time. I know at High Stakes I let it all out on the line against Warren Kane for the IWF Men's World Championship and the loss bothered me, but it made me want to just keep moving forward and that is what I plan on doing.”
{ Nick straightens up as he continues. }Nick:” Also I want to add that if I keep working hard on my dream of becoming the New Savior Of Wrestling then pretty soon you may be looking at the IWF World or Television Champion pretty soon.”
{ Keybo nods his head as he turns in Almir's direction. }Keybo Shabaz:”My next question goes to Almir, how does it feel now that you've defeated The Chosen Elite of Scott Handsome and Grave Roberts?”
{ Almir chuckles slightly before looking over at Keybo with a sneer. }Almir Sayed: How does it feel? How do you think it feels, Shabaz? It feels like I am taking back control of my life, of my destiny! It feels like I am once again becoming who I was meant to be! It feels like I am Making Almir Great Again!
Kaybo Shabaz: Glad to see your confidence has returned.
Almir Sayed: I know you're being sarcastic, Keybo and that is fine. But I am confident. Confident that I am better than I have ever been before. And do not think it's lost on me that you decided to try out this new interview concept with one of the men on my list.
Keybo Shabaz: Your list?
Almir Sayed: Yes, my list.
{ Keybo turns his head slightly and then turns toward Nick Danger now. }Keybo Shabaz: Well I think my next question is rather obvious, Nick, how do you feel being on Almir's list?
Nick:”I am on Almir's list, so it proves that he wants to try to beat me again. Almir wants to make himself great again and that does not bother me but if gets in my way, I will kick his ass Keybo.”
{Keybo nods his head the turns towards Almir}
Keyboard Shabaz: Almir why is Nick Danger on your list?
Almir Sayed: He is on my list because ever since the Chosen Elite lost to the Fateful Danger I have been on a downward spiral barley able to beat jobbers! But that sinking ship has sunk and I am a free man and I plan on defeating everyone who has beaten me in the last year! Nick Danger is next!
Keybo Shabaz: So Nick, you and your partners do hold a couple wins over Almir, are you interested in another match with him?
Nick:”Yes, me and partners have wins by DQ from The Chosen Elite. But to be fair the score is one to one. To be honest last year he beat me and also cost me my shot in Heir To The Throne semifinal. So if Almir is down for it I will be happy to face him again in any match he wants.”
{Keybo nods his in agreement then turn towards Almir}Keybo Shabaz: Almir you've been a former champion before is their any like wisdom you want to share with Nick Danger? Also another question, what match would you want to face Nick Danger in and why.”
{ Almir raises an eyebrow. }Almir Sayed: Wisdom I'd like to share? Why would I share my wisdom with him!? I wouldn't share my wisdom with close family members let alone with someone I very much plan to decimate in the ring! As for what match and why? There is only one match that comes to my mind. Man of Steel Rules. That way, when I beat Nick Danger there will be no question in anyone's mind which of us is better!
{ Keybo looks over to Nick. }Keybo Shabaz: Well Nick, the challenge has been laid, do you accept a Man of Steel Rules match with Almir Sayed?
Nick looks at Keybo in a serious look
Nick:”Yes, I accept the challenge Almir. So, we are going to really find out who is the next person to lead IWF. Everyone’s mind has the theory that me and Almir are tuff wrestlers from different backgrounds. Almir says he is the Foundation Of This Federation which does not bother me. He, is looking at the New Savior Of Wrestling in IWF. Also, I will never share wisdom to my past rivals either. So Almir your on my list as well to people to beat again as well.”
{Keybo Shabaz looks over to Almir}Keybo Shabaz: Almir, do you think your better than Nick Danger in this ring. Also where do you and Nick think your Man Of Steel Rules match should take place at?
Almir: Am I better than Nick Danger? I’m better than every single professional wrestler in this promotion! Nick Danger included! As for your second and much more intelligent question there is only one night I can think of for this match up. Night of the Immortals! On that night I will reclaim my destiny and leave Nick Danger in the past?
Keybo Shabaz: The challenge has been laid, accepted and the night chosen. Nick do you have any final words?
Nick:”Yeah I have some final words, to Almir. Almir says it is my fault that he became a so called jobber. Well, to be honest Almir you started a battle with me and I was the one who won the war. But, let’s not get this twisted we both want to know who is the really best in IWF that. Your on my list because I wanted a fair match with you for a long time. But, Scott and Grave got involved in our business so at Night Of The Immortals in a Man Of Steel Rules match. We are finally going to see who is the best. THE NEW SAVIOR OF WRESTLING OR THE FOUNDATION OF THIS FEDERATION. Because just know I am going to give you everything I got in our match. Let’s see who got the drive to be the best or the greatest in IWF.”
{ Almir stands up as does Nick and the two get eye to eye, nose to nose as we close out on this segment. }-------------------------------------
BAR BRAWL CRAWL Part IIIWinners receives a World Tag Team Title Shot at NOTI
Violent Tendencies vs Those Damn Gaijin
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{We cut back to the Booze Bus, where we last left Violent Tendencies dragging Ethan and Andre off of the bus.}
Stephen Terrella: Why aren't we in Belfast again?
Chris Diamond: I told you. I made one bad mistake and suddenly the brand you a fucking terrorist. Fucking pussy ass country.
{Chris Diamond laughs as he tosses Andrew and Ethan into a bar.}Chris Diamond: Now let's get this shit...
{Chris and Stephen stop as they look around the leather bar with a bunch of men sipping cocktails in little clothing.}
Andrew Jacobsen: ...I think this is the wrong stop.
{Diamond looks ready to say something but Ethan picks up a bar stool and hits Stephan over the head with it. Chris and Andrew shrug before going to blows again. Stephen picks Ethan up and slides him down the bar through a bunch of beer bottles as the patrons gasp and shout.}Chris Diamond: I'm gonna stomp your fucking dick in!
{Andrew headbutts Chris.}Andrew Jacobsen: Shut the fuck up!
{Before Terrella can pick Ethan back up a very tall man in a leather corset starts hitting him in the head with his big fan, screaming at him. Stephen pushes him away and a sudden all-out brawl starts in the bar. Chairs are thrown, bottles are smashed and chains are whipped. Chris and Andrew are off in the corner throwing each other through tables as a very well dressed man simply sits and watches.}Stephen Terrella: Who uses a fucking high heel?!
{Stephen and Ethan crawl out of the leather brawl breathing hard.}Ethan King: More importantly, why the whips?
Stephen Terrella: It's crazy, right?
Ethan King: Entirely crazy.
Stephen Terrella: The beer is good though.
Ethan King: Surprisingly good, yeah.
{Chris tosses Andrew over the sound system.}Chris Diamond: STOP SOCIALIZING AND HELP ME!
Stephen Terrella: Oh, right.
Ethan King: As you were.
{Ethan picks up a mic stand and breaks it over Stephen's head. Andrew rolls to a stop and grabs another giant fan and hits chris in the face with it, both stopping at the large thwack sound it made.}Chris Diamond: Jesus fucking christ on a tricycle.
Andrew Jacobsen: Wow. I need one of these.
{Chris kicks Andrew in the stomach and the two go tumbling out of the fire exit passed some drag queens on a smoke break. Andrew picks up a standing ashtray and cracks Chris with it.}Drag Queen 1: Kick his ass baby!
{Andrew seems confused by the compliment which gives Chris the chance to pick up a cheap lawn chair and hit Andrew with it back through the fire exit.}Chris Diamond: Excuse us.
{Meanwhile inside Stephan and Ethan have paused their fight to enjoy a quick glass of scotch before handing their glasses to the waitress. Stephan grabs a skinny eary twenty something guy and uses him like a ram to hit Ethan in the guy. Ethan falls to the floor but hooks Stephen's legs to cause him to hit the floor.}Stephen Terrella: Why is the floor so sticky…?
Ethan King: Do you really want to ask that?
{Ethan gets on top of Stephen and starts unloading punches into his head and stomach before Stephen bucks him off and starts raining down punches of his own. Andrew takes the plastic chair out of Chris’s hands and tosses it across the room before superkicking him in the face. Stephen gets up and spears Andrew away from Chris but back through the fire exit.}
Drag Queen 2: Gurl, bye.
{A second later Ethan and Chris are almost sword fighting with some broken parts of wine bottles. The four hear cop sirens and rush back onto the bus.}
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BEAT THE CLOCK CHALLENGEIf Evan wins his match faster than Warren he gets to pick the stipulation for NOTI
Evan Albrecht vs Mystery Opponent
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Terri Morasco: Next up we’ve got a beat the clock challenge! Evan Albrecht and Warren Kane will each tak on mystery opponents, whoever wins their match the fastest gets to choose the stipulation for their world title match at night of the immortals!
Vasco Dias: What if one of them lose?
Terri Morasco: Then I assume the one who wins gets to pick the stipulation?
Vasco Dias: Makes sense.
Terri Morasco: First up we’ve got Evan Albrecht taking on local sensation Jack “The Spade” Bombway!
Vasco Dias: I’ve heard good things about this kid, hell of a Texas Hold’em player too.
{ The guitars of "Devil Trigger" start to echo through the arena as Evan stomps out and raises a hand to the crowd before just outright Howling to the spotlight as he charges the Ring sliding smoothly under the bottom rope before climbing a corner rope to start taking off his jacket with a feral grin. Jack Bombway is already in the ring. }Terri Morasco: Allright, Gabey Edwards is the referee and she’s about to call for the bell!
{ Gabey calls for the bell and Evan doesn’t waste anytime as he roars across the ring with a European upper cut nearly sending Bombway up and over the top rope! }Vasco Dias: Holy hell! That was intense!
Terri Morasco: Evan is looking to end this as quickly as possible!
{ Evan ties up Jack with Spirit of the Fray and lights his chest up with chops! Then Evan takes Jack out of the corner with Luna’s Armour! Evan goes for the cover right then and there but somehow Bombway is able to kick out at two. }
Vasco Dias: I thought that was it and we’re only like thirty seconds in!
Terri Morasco: That was as close as close can get!
{ Evan gets right up and starts to stomp a mudhole in the chest of Jack Bombway! Evan then rips the man up off the mat and sends him hard into the corner! Evan comes in fast with a running knife edge chop and then a belly to back suplex! }
Terri Morasco: Evan is feeling the pressure to put Bombway away!
Vasco Dias: I bet he is, this kid’s already lasted longer than I expected!
{ Jack starts to stand up but Evan cracks him with another European upper cut and then calls for the end of the match by hitting Kiss of Heliós! Evan makes the cover and it’s a one! Two! Three!!! }Alison Valance: Your winner of the match a one minute and twenty seven seconds, Evan Albrecht!
{ Evan stands up with his arms raised. }
Terri Morasco: Less than a minute and a half, that’s going to be a hard time for Warren Kane to beat!
Vasco Dias: It is but Warren is good enough that I think he could do it!
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BEAT THE CLOCK CHALLENGEIf Waren wins his match faster than Evan he gets to pick the stipulation for NOTI
Warren Kane vs Mystery Opponent
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Terri Morssco: All right we saw what Evan could do now let’s see how Warren fairs in his challenge!
Vasco Dias: It’s not a lot of time but Warren has won matches quicker than that before.
Terri Morasco: That’s very true. Let’s see if he can do it against local legend, Mysterion!
{The lights go out and the snow steady beat of New Divide by Linkin Park plays and the crowd gives a good cheer for Warren Kane as he emerges from behind the curtains wearing a simple leather jacket, with his hands at his hips and a smile on his face. He then heads towards the ring, stopping to touch hands with members of the crowd before stopping in front of the ring. Closes his eyes, takes a breath before jumping up onto the apron, climbing the turnbuckle on the outside and raising his arms in the air getting a positive reaction from the crowd. The music dies down and the lights return to normal as he drops into the ring. Mysterion is already i the ring.}Terri Morasco: Warren is looking ready to meet the challenge!
{ Gabey is the referee again and she calls for the bell. Warren moves in for a tie up but Mysterion gets under him and hits the ropes for a spring board crossbody on Kane! }
Vasco Dias: Mysterion with the cross body!
Terri Morasco: That’s why he’s a local legend!
{ Mysterion goes to the ropes again for springboard moonsult but Warren moves out of the way and nips back up to his feet and catches Mysterion on the jaw with a lightning fast dropkick! }
Terri Morasco: Warren showing off his own speed!
Vasco Dias: He’s fast and extremely talented!
{ Warren pulls Mysterion up to his feet but Mysterion throws him off and hits a spinning heel kick to the gut. Mysterion goes to the ropes for momentum and comes running back at Warren but Kane ducks the clothesline and follows Mysterion into the ropes where he grabs him around the waist off the rebound with a snap release belly to belly overhead suplex! }
Vasco Dias: That was a thing of beauty!
Terri Morasco: There is a reason Warren Kane is world champion!
{ Mysterion tries to get up but Warren is on him with the Splosion Suplex! Warren drags Mysterion out of the corner and goes for the cover but the masked man is able to kick out at two. Warren looks up to the clock on the tron and see’s he’s just past the minute mark! }
Terri Morasco: We’re at a minute and ten seconds. Warren needs to put Mysterion away and quick!
Vasco Dias: It seems his challenger is putting up more of a fight than Evan’s!
{ Warren pulls Mysertion up off the mat and goes for a Kidd Kick but the masked man is able to dodge the attack and head to the ropes again. Mysterion spring boards off but Warren catches him and hits a tilt a whirl back breaker! Warren then quickly transitions into the Calf Killer right in the center of the ring! }
Terri Morasco: There’s only five seconds left on the clock!
Vasco Dias: Is Warren going to do it!?
{ Warren wrenches hard as the seconds tick away. Mysterion’s hand is hovering over the mat. The times runs out and Mysterion literally taps a second after the buzzer!!! }
Alison Valance: Your winner of the beat the clock challenge! Evan Albrecht!
Terri Morasco: It was so close!
Vasco Dias: Warren won the match but not the challenge!
{ Evan steps out onto the ramp to look down at Warren Kane, both men grinning at each other looking forward to their future battle. }-------------------------------------
BAR BRAWL CRAWL Part IVWinners receives a World Tag Team Title Shot at NOTI
Violent Tendencies vs Those Damn Gaijin
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{ The camera returns to find Violent Tendencies and Those Damn Gaijin brawling outside of the Bleacher Bar, situated underneath the bleachers in Fenway Park. As they close in on the green double doors, Terrella hoists Ethan King up and drops him crotch first across the railing outside of the bar. Diamond takes Andrew by the hair and rams him face-first into the doors over-and-over again. Terrella delivers a stiff left hand to the side of Ethan's dome, knocking him off of his precarious perch on the rail. Chris Russian Leg Sweeps Andrew onto the sidewalk. }Chris: I thought these motherfuckers were thirsty? Andy here just kept bouncing off the door. Guess not.
{ Terrella shrugs. }
{ Ethan King races into the frame, delivering a running uppercut to Chris Diamond. Ethan turns to Terrella, kicking him low to drop the big man. Ethan starts rattling off closed fists to Terrella's head as Andrew drags himself up off the sidewalk. Jacobsen delivers a release German suplex to Diamond on the concrete. Andrew opens the door to the bar, and positions Chris' head as a doorstop. Both Gaijin turn their attention toward Terrella, peppering him with fists. They throw the big man through the open doorway of the bar, sending patrons scattering. }
Ethan: We didn't forget about you, Chris.
Andrew: Don't worry about ID, no one in there will question if you're old enough.
{ Andrew pulls Diamond up, tossing him into the bar by the back of the neck. Both Gaijin enter the bar. Terrella hurls one of the chairs from inside at Ethan's head, narrowly missing him. Terrella levels both men with a double clothesline. Chris regains his footing, stumbling over to grab a television off of the wall. He throws the television down onto Jacobsen's back with fury. Terrella lifts Ethan up and Samoan drops him onto a table, breaking the legs out from underneath it. }
Chris: Fuck, I need a beer. Bartender!
{ The terrified bartender peeks his head up from a crouching position behind the bar. }
Chris: Man, you got any fucking Troeges?
Bartender: No, sir. We have Fosters, if you want somethi-
Chris: Fosters!? For fuck's sake! I don't want that piss!
{ Terrella looks at Diamond, expressionless. Then Terrella turns and belts the bartender under the jaw with a stiff left uppercut drawing a roaring laugh out of Diamond. }Chris: Damn, Big King. Guess it's self-fucking-serve now.
{ Andrew re-enters the shot, taking Terrella's leg from underneath him with a low dropkick to his bad right wheel. Ethan had pulled a Red Sox Championship cloth banner down off the wall, which he throws over Diamond's head in an attempt to smother him. }
Andrew: Ethan, you're going to kill him.
Ethan: I probably won't.
Andrew: No, I really think you may kill him.
{Diamond flails his arms. }Ethan: Do you want to place a wager on it?
Andrew: But, what if you kill him?
Ethan: I can afford lawyers. It's self-defense.
Andrew: I'd just rather you didn't chance killing him.
Ethan: Fine.
{ Ethan rams Diamond's head into the bar, removing the cloth from around his head as Diamond falls to the floor. Terrella tries to take hold of both men, but the Gaijin team up on him to deliver a double spinebuster to him on the floor. Chris surprises Ethan with a Gran Torino, leaving him laying. Chris and Andrew begin to brawl with each other around the bar, throwing kicks and punches at each other from all angles. Chris ushers Andrew behind the bar, placing his head underneath one of the taps. He turns it on, drenching Jacobsen in beer and making it hard for him to breathe. }Chris: Drink is on you, motherfucker.
{ As Diamond finishes pouring, he punches Andrew in the throat. Diamond turns, noticing the large garage door on the bar that opens up to the baseball field. As if a lightbulb goes off in his head, he walks over and starts fiddling with opening it. Eventually he is able to crack it, creating an easy entryway to the outfield grass. He grabs a bat off the wall, admiring the lumber. }
Chris: Fuck yeah!
{ Andrew staggers out from behind the bar, and Chris places the bat under his chin from behind, forcing Andrew out onto the baseball field. Ethan and Stephen follow, trading big shots with each other, and throwing anything at the other that either man can get their hands on. Diamond jabs Jacobsen in the ribs with the barrel of the bat. Andrew catches Chris with a dragon screw legwhip on the pitcher's mound, throwing Diamond to the ground and sending the bat flying. Andrew grabs the bat and uses it to clothesline Diamond. }
{ Meanwhile, in the outfield, Ethan rakes Terrella's back, and strikes him with Bare Your Throat. Ethan climbs on top of Terrella and starts hammering him with right hands. Terrella reaches up, desperate to create separation, and presses a thumb into Ethan's eye. Ethan returns the favor, and the two men tussle for a brief moment, each refusing to break grip for their own well-being. Finally, both relent at the same time, each grabbing at their own respective eyes. }
{ Ethan walks in toward the mound to meet Andrew. Terrella is slow to get up, but follows him in. The four men brawl with each other all over the infield grass for about two minutes, just savagely beating each other without mercy. A groundskeeper looks on from the safety of one of the dugouts, dismayed as his field is being torn to shreds. }Groundskeeper (under his breath): Fuckin' wrestlers.
{ Finally, it's Violent Tendencies that gain control. Terrella hoists Ethan up and delivers a pumphandle slam onto the dugout steps. Terrella grabs a bat off the rack, telling Ethan: "this is for saying my girl isn't worthy of respect." He then smashes the bat over Ethan's leg on the stairs, splintering it as Ethan yells in pain. Diamond leads Jacobsen to home plate, and raises him onto his shoulders. Chris surveys the field for a moment before dropping Andrew right onto home plate with Sudden Impact. }
Chris: There's a big fuck you for you, you little prick.
{ Diamond covers Andrew; and referee Jessica Andrews, who had been safely trailing the action the entire time runs in and counts One!... Two!!... Three!!! }Chris: And that, motherfuckers, is how shit is done!
{Terrella limps over from the dugout, still wearing the wounds of war. He and Diamond raise their hands on home plate, and Diamond mimics hitting a homerun and watching it sail over the outfield wall. }
Chris: Damn, I always wanted to do that shit.
Stephen: Let's go get fucking paid. Whiskey is on me.
Chris: Hell yeah. Someone can come clean these motherfuckers up.
{ Violent Tendencies walk toward the exit as the camera returns to the arena. }Winner by pinfall: Violent Tendencies
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IWF WOMEN'S WORLD TITLE MATCHSADISTIC MADNESSMandi Matthews vs Tara Fenix(c)
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{Umbrella by All Time Low starts rocking the speakers as Mandi Matthews steps out onto the stage, a bit overwhelmed in a good way by all the people and there warm reception. She jams a bit to the music and then she jogs down to the ring as the chorus plays.}
Because when the sun shines we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be your friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out 'til the end
{She slides into the ring and jams out the song with the crowd as they chant along.}
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella-ella-ella-ay-ay-ay
Under my umbrella-ella-ella-ay-ay-ay
{The music slowly fades as Mandi smiles at the crowd.}
Terri Morasco: The challenger is in the ring, and--
Vasco Dias: And you better remember that she ASKED for this match! She DEMANDED this match! The issue that is happening here… she is setting herself up for failure. She is setting herself up to be destroyed! At the hands of Tara! She walked into this, and when she doesn’t walk out, she will have no one to blame but herself.
Terri Morasco: I was going to say that she did want this match, but the recent chip on her shoulder… she could very well walk out as the new IWF Women’s World Champion this evening! She wants to prove that she can stand with the best of the best!
Vasco Dias: Well… look no further.
{Every light in the arena shuts off… moments later, a single blue spotlight shines to the curtain as the opening melody for “The Eagle Flies Alone” by Arch Enemy plays over the PA system and the crowd is giving their mixed reactions… The longtime fans have cheered, and overpowering the ones who do not know whether to cheer or not; some join in just out of peer pressure. Fog has filled the stage. The first verse comes and goes. The chorus comes in.}
I, I go my own way!
I swim against the stream!
(Forever) I will fight the powers that be!
{Tara emerges from behind the curtains; her head is covered by her hood. The championship around her waist glimmers from the spotlight hitting it, despite the fog covering some of it; Tara stands at the top of the stage with a sneer on her face as her eyes scan the crowd as if to find her supporters. Some of the crowd has gotten louder in her favor, while others are still mixed. Tara flings the hood back, and takes a better look at the crowd. The legendary Tara reaches down to trace her fingernails along the plate of the belt before going into a stride down the ramp; the stride turns to a brisk walk about halfway down the ramp. The crowd along the front row is bowing down to her. As she reaches the bottom of the ramp, she goes around to the camera side of the ring, and leaps onto the apron with one knee and straightens out her other leg while looking to the crowd and the camera.}
I, I go my own way!
I swim against the stream!
(Forever) I will fight the pοwers that be!
The eagle flies alone!
{Tara crawls between the middle and lower ropes, and crawls to the middle of the ring. After standing up, she walks to the nearest turnbuckle and unstraps the championship from her waist; she holds the belt up with one hand before shouting out inaudible words. After several seconds of basking, she does a one-eighty off of the second rope and landing. She hands the championship to the referee, and then her coat, then proceeds to wait for the match to start.}
Vasco Dias: And here is the champion, in all of her glory! She is ready to take Mandi apart, piece by piece, and show the entire world why she is the Women’s World Champion! After several years of being retired! She came back, and quickly gained the top prize in the industry!
Terri Morasco: It was a great return. I’ve been watching some of her old footage, her early days in the industry. Her days in nCw. The beginning of IWF. There was something missing from her, a fire that was missing, I will absolutely give that to you… and it looks like that fire is back.
Vasco Dias: I would like to remind the people sitting at home that neither competitor is susceptible to being pinned or submitted until they are bleeding! Think of a First Blood match. However! Then you must pin or submit your opponent! The only way that happens is INSIDE the ring. Rope breaks are still in effect. But every other rule: out the window!
{At the sound of the bell, Tara and Mandi charge out of the corner! Mandi is already throwing some wild swings at the champion, who in turn raises her arms to deflect and fire back with her own… the two battle back and forth for roughly thirty seconds before Tara finally ducks under a wild standing clothesline attempt from Mandi, and Tara drops her with an inverted headlock backbreaker!}
Vasco Dias: Mandi came out like a firecracker, but the experience is always going to win! Tara knew that she just needed to wait for an opening, and now she’s going to just control this match.
Terri Morasco: It’s still early, and you have to keep in mind that Tara is going to have to make Mandi bleed before she can go for a cover!
{Mandi is already up to her feet but reaches an arm back to cover her back, as she stumbles toward and finally against the corner; Tara closes the distance between herself and Mandi and drives in a knife edge chop!}
Crowd: WOOOOO!!!!!
{Tara connects with several more knife edge chops with the crowd giving the same reaction… Mandi reaches up and drives in a back elbow to Tara connecting to her jaw! Tara holds her jaw for a moment, and Mandi strikes several more times before Tara finally fires back with a knee that knocks the wind back out of her. Tara goes back to the knife edge chops. After a couple more, Tara drives her knee into Mandi’s midsection, causing her to keel over, only for Tara to put her into another front headlock and walk her away from the turnbuckle before charging forward and going for a tornado DDT!}
Vasco Dias: Tara is going for a beautifully executed tornado DDT! Annnd--
Terri Morasco: Mandi says no! Mandi freed herself, but Tara landed back on her feet, and Mandi now going forward to start her own attack!
{Mandi takes Tara down with a spear! Mandi gets her into a side headlock on the ground, and begins to pummel Tara’s skull, as Tara tries to cover up as much as she can. “Mandi” chants break out amongst the crowd. After connecting with several punches, Mandi gets back to her feet and pulls the champion to her feet at the same time only to be met with an arm drag! Tara immediately commits to a leg drop over her arm, and attempts to lock in a cross armbar!}
Vasco Dias: Do you see that? Beautiful reversal. Tara has the experience. Tara has the technical prowse. She had to be the best technician back in the day! And now Tara is going to rip her arm out of her socket!
Terri Morasco: Mandi seems to be going for a more brawler aspect, being known to be a scrapper, and I think the wild shots is what she’s trying to catch Tara off-guard with.
{Mandi has her arms interlocked to prevent Tara from being able to lock in the hold, and is trying to keep herself at an angle to keep less pressure on her shoulder; Tara begins throwing forearms to Mandi’s exposed head before lifting her leg and dropping it repeatedly over Mandi’s neck: Mandi suddenly rolls Tara up! Tara keeps her locked in, knowing that the cover can’t be made since she’s not bleeding.}
Vasco Dias: Mandi seems to have forgotten the rule that she decided! She’s wondering why Jessica isn’t going for the count.
Terri Morasco: But Mandi isn’t stopping there! She’s showing her superior size advantage over Tara, and just powering her up!
{Mandi continues to struggle but is lifting Tara up, and drops her down! Tara tucks her head to protect herself, but Mandi lifts her a second time, and drops her again! Tara releases and reaches to the back of her neck in a bit of pain, and Mandi goes forward before hitting with an elbow drop; Mandi springs to her feet, and connects with a second elbow drop! She returns to her feet, and drops for a third!}
Terri Morasco: Mandi is starting to gain momentum, and the champion looks like she may be in trouble. Tara is starting to roll over onto her stomach, she knows she needs to get back up to her feet.
Vasco Dias: Mandi better not let up if she’s hoping to win this belt tonight.
{Tara is to her hands and knees and is starting to get up when Mandi charges forward and goes for the Dirty Dancing DDT!}
Terri Morasco: We could see the Dirty Dancing DDT!
Vasco Dias: Tara flings her off!
{Mandi lands on her feet this time, but doesn’t deter; she charges forward for a second spear, but Tara steps to the side and grabs Mandi as she’s running by to give her more momentum before tossing her between the ropes and outside of the ring! Mandi has a hard landing, and Tara continues forward to get out onto the apron of the ring and looks over her shoulder to wait for Mandi to stand up… Tara springs to the middle rope, and catches Mandi with a standing moonsault! The crowd gives Tara a pop, as she now starts to unload with closed fists against Mandi.}
Vasco Dias: An amazing flight. A perfect moonsault. The only way she knows how.
Terri Morasco: You don’t typically like when people unnecessarily use high flying moves…
Vasco Dias: Nothing she does is unnecessary! Remember that!
{Satisfied with the work, Tara gets up and goes for the apron of the ring starting to search for something underneath…}
Vasco Dias: Remember, there are no rules! No disqualifications for this type of match! All that matters is that she forces Mandi to bleed!
{Tara comes out from under the ring with two items… a steel chair, and a steel chain! The crowd does give a memorable cheer at the sighting of the chain. Tara tosses the chair to the ground and forces Mandi to sit up while wrapping the chain around her neck!}
Vasco Dias: These fans know how dangerous Tara can be with that chain! She has made history using it, and it has been her go-to weapon of choice.
Terri Morasco: I don’t like where this is going. Tara has that chain wrapped around Mandi’s neck, and is starting to climb up to the apron… she’s going to hang her!
Vasco Dias: Mandi better think quick…
{Mandi is starting to come-to, and feels the chain around her neck… she squirms, and shakes her head frantically; meanwhile, Tara is starting to climb over the top rope to give herself some extra leverage, but Mandi instinctively reaches back and trips Tara! Tara’s head collides against the apron of the ring, and Mandi just pulls the chain from her neck and is just breathing heavily knowing she just dodged a bullet.}
Vasco Dias: Just in the nick of time.
Terri Morasco: Tara was going to strangle her. Even if she didn’t bleed, Tara was going to kill her!
Vasco Dias: That’s what Jessica Andrews is there for, to make sure it doesn’t get that far!
{Tara holds her head in a bit of pain from the impact of hitting the apron, and Mandi hits her with a double axe handle smash to her back! Tara goes down to one knee, and Mandi picks up the chair on the ground before winding up and slapping it across Tara’s back! Tara cringes from the connection and the amount of force that Mandi used. Mandi throws the chair back down, and starts searching under the ring for her own weapons…}
Vasco Dias: That chair shot rang throughout the arena! I don’t know what’s possessing Mandi, but that chair is indented with Tara’s spine!
Terri Morasco: I think she knows how far Tara was willing to go, and just looking to get to that same point. But what is she looking for?
{Mandi brings out a trash can, and a kendo stick.}
Terri Morasco: Well, there we go.
Vasco Dias: How far are they going to take this?
{Mandi eyes the objects for a moment but then shakes her head. She’s not satisfied with it.}
Terri Morasco: Tara is starting to come-to, and so Mandi may want to hurry!
Vasco Dias: This is the mistake that rookies make, all of the time! They do not keep their offense going, and they allow their opponent ample time to recover!
{Tara stands up and stretches her shoulders back while Mandi is preoccupied; she sees the kendo stick, and holds it tight in both hands before taking a hard swing to Mandi’s caboose! The hit causes Mandi to jump and she hits her head on the mat from the bottom and now falls flat on her stomach; Tara raises the kendo stick and just crashes it on Mandi’s lower back several times! After a couple more shots, Tara grabs her by the leg and drags her out from under the ring… there are more objects wrapped around Mandi’s arm. A bag of thumbtacks. A second kendo stick. Even a roll of barbed wire.}
Vasco Dias: She’s lucky that the barbed wire didn’t stick to her skin, otherwise she would be bleeding already! I’m surprised some of those shots didn’t break the skin!
Terri Morasco: These weapons now getting involved are capable of cutting, so there’s no doubt that it’s coming.
{Tara rolls Mandi over so she’s on her back, then raises the kendo stick and brings it down across her stomach! Several more shots follow until the stick is falling apart, and Mandi is clinging to her stomach in absolute agony; Tara forces Mandi to her feet and rushes her head first into the ring post!}
Vasco Dias: We’re starting to see a side of Tara we haven’t seen for years. Years! The bloodthirst! And Mandi brought it out of her!
Terri Morasco: Tara is checking to see if Mandi is bleeding, as is Jessica, but… she’s a bit dazed, but there’s still no blood. Hard to tell with how red her body has become.
{Tara brings Mandi back and slams her head a second time into the steel post! She looks again, but Mandi is still not busted open. Tara releases Mandi and walks over to some of the other goodies brought out by Mandi, as Mandi rubs her head with one hand but searches for a weapon with her other. Tara gets the kendo stick and the barbed wire, starting to carefully wrap it around; meanwhile, Mandi has gotten the leg of the steel chair…}
Terri Morasco: Mandi has the chair, but Tara has the kendo stick wrapped in barbed wire! And they’re about to face each other!
{Tara and Mandi both swing around to face each other, but Mandi is quicker on the draw! She connects with a steel chair shot to Tara’s head, as Tara falls to the mat outside of the ring. Mandi has a look of a sense of accomplishment, as Tara appears to be out cold… and blood is seeping down her forehead.}
Vasco Dias: What did we see? Tara is busted open?!
Terri Morasco: Mandi has forced Tara to bleed first! This is going to be huge for Mandi going forward! That means that Mandi CAN earn a pinfall or submission victory, whilst Tara still has to get Mandi to bleed!
{Mandi throws her arms up in celebration over her success of busting Tara open…}
Vasco Dias: Look at her… celebrating as if she had already won. The match can still only end INSIDE of the ring!
{The fans cheer in support of Mandi, and after her short celebration, she lifts Tara up and begins to slide her into the ring… she crawls in right after her, and hooks the leg as Jessica goes down to count: One! Two! Kick out!}
Terri Morasco: I’m surprised that Tara had it in her to kick out! But she’s got to catch up!
Vasco Dias: How are you surprised that Tara had it in her to kick out? She is the Women’s World Champion! She is probably the greatest professional wrestler of our lifetime! Of course she kicked out!
Terri Morasco: I take it you’re a fan?
Vasco Dias: You’re damn right.
{Tara rolls over onto her stomach and is shaking her head… the blood drips from her head down onto the mat, and she takes a few heavy breaths as she starts to push herself up. Mandi is back up and grabs Tara by the hair to pull her back into a reverse headlock position, about to drop her for a reverse DDT… but Tara kicks her leg back and connects with a knee to Mandi’s skull! The shot staggers Mandi, and Tara turns it around so that Mandi has her placed into a front headlock still, but then sails her over with a Northern Lights Suplex!}
Vasco Dias: Now, I’ll go ahead and give Mandi some credit, but the fact of the matter is that she showboated to the crowd a bit too much after her success in busting Tara open. It looked like she would maintain control, but the amount of experience that Tara has means that she needs less time to come up with a contingency plan. Hell, she already had a contingency before that bell rang!
Terri Morasco: But Tara cannot go for a cover still! That is still benefitting Mandi, and now you have to imagine that the longer Tara bleeds, the more she’s getting worn out. Nevertheless, the champion is getting to her feet, and Mandi seems to be holding her back after that impact.
{Tara lunged forward as Mandi is still trying to stand up, aiming for a Genocide Kick!}
Terri Morasco: Mandi catches it!
Vasco Dias: I have no idea how she saw that coming.
{Mandi spins Tara around after catching the kick, but Tara spins through and connects with a back heel kick that sends Mandi tumbling! Tara stumbles down from her feet, but quickly recovers and advances toward Mandi, grabbing her by the hair as she drags her back to her feet before taking her back down with a snapmare, and then runs against the ropes to come back with a shining wizard!}
Terri Morasco: She looks like she would love to make the cover here, but Mandi is still not bleeding.
Vasco Dias: I think she knows that. She doesn’t have to make her bleed to still render her unconscious, then do what she needs to do. But she’s heading back to the outside of the ring. What’s she going to get?
{Tara exits the same side of the ring where all the weapons were left and starts flinging them into the ring! First the trash can, then the lid, then the chair… she slides her steel chain under the bottom rope… next comes the kendo stick wrapped in barbed wire, and finally the standard kendo stick, and then she picks up the bag that Mandi had gotten from under the ring and takes a gander inside. She smiles and sets it next to the chain. But she’s not done!}
Vasco Dias: She’s going under the ring again… what for? Oh, my! {Takei fashion.}
{Tara brings a table out from under the ring and sets it up outside where she is… she then takes the rolled barbed wire and sets it up along the table before finally going back inside of the ring. Meanwhile, Mandi is holding her head as if she had a splitting headache after receiving the shining wizard, but was starting to come to the moment that Tara slid back into the ring. Tara picks up the bag as she’s getting up and holds it up for the crowd before starting to dump the contents onto the mat of the ring…}
Vasco Dias: Thumbtacks?! That’s definitely going to cause Mandi to bleed!
Terri Morasco: This match has gotten more and more intense! I don’t think Tara cares that she hasn’t gotten Mandi to bleed yet, all of those tools of pure destruction can do just that, and more! I think Jessica may have to call this sooner rather than later!
{Mandi, now to her feet, sees Tara and just as Tara turns, she charges to go in for a spear! But Tara managed to stand her ground and just put Mandi into a front headlock as she started lining her up over the thumbtacks…}
Vasco Dias: This is going to be disastrous! For Mandi!
Terri Morasco: I think she saw what was about to happen!
{Mandi in an act of desperation charges forward and gets Tara into the corner! She starts committing to several shoulder thrusts to knock the wind out of Tara!}
Terri Morasco: Crisis averted, and Mandi is taking control back…
{After a few more shoulder thrusts, Mandi gets herself free from Tara’s grasp and creates some distance before charging in! But Tara lifts her legs and gets her legs wrapped around Mandi’s neck; Mandi struggles to get herself free, and is unable to do so, as Tara shifts her weight over the ropes and holds Mandi in a figure-four neck lock!}
Terri Morasco: Tara is going to choke her out! Mandi’s face is already starting to turn shades of blue!
Vasco Dias: Mandi walked right into that one! That’s why you don’t let your emotions get the best of you in a match! Especially with someone as experienced as her! Slow and steady. Maintain control. That’s the key to beating such a veteran.
{Tara squeezes on the hold for several seconds until Mandi seems to be fully out; Tara then releases, and Mandi falls forward onto her hands and knees but holds the middle rope… she’s coughing trying to regain her breath. Tara lands on the apron and rolls back into the ring. She picks up the chair whilst en route to Mandi, and grabs Mandi by the hair to drag her back to a standing position and positioning the chair under her neck while now mouthing off at her.}
Vasco Dias: Tara is going to break her neck!
Terri Morasco: Jessica! You need to do something!
Vasco Dias: There’s no real rules in this match, Terri, just make her bleed to be able to pin her!
{Tara raises Mandi’s head up with the chair, preparing to slam it down but Mandi snatches the chair away and saves herself from having her neck slammed over the top of the chair! Tara stumbles forward from the momentum, and Mandi holds the chair in a position to attack until Tara fires with a Genocide Kick that knocks the chair into Mandi’s face! And Mandi is busted open!}
Terri Morasco: Mandi is bleeding! That chair was knocked back into her, and now we’re on an even playing field… Mandi hits the mat, and I just don’t think she has anything left in the tank. Tara is going for the cover.
Vasco Dias: The ever merciful goddess that she is. Tara could have taken her time, taking her apart piece by piece, but she’s just going to-- WHAT?!
Terri Morasco: Mandi kicks out!
{Tara seems a little aggravated that Mandi didn’t stay down. “Mandi” chants begin to rush through the crowd, but there are combatting “Tara” chants at the same time.}
Terri Morasco: Just that one kick out shows how badly Mandi wants to win this!
Vasco Dias: I don’t know how smart it was of her to do that.
Terri Morasco: Because of what’s on the line!
{Tara, back to her feet, leans down and picks Mandi up with her; she immediately follows up with an uppercut, and then a knife edge chop! Mandi fires in with a right of her own! And Tara fires with a right of hers! Both of the women are now exchanging blows which is getting a larger reaction from the crowd, as they seem to get a second wind…}
Terri Morasco: These two are just breaking it down into a brawl, and I don’t know how much more either one can take!
Vasco Dias: Tara may gain-- she did! And she rolls Mandi up!
{One! Two! Mandi kicks out at two and a half!}
Vasco Dias: Tara almost walked away with another defense…
{Mandi sits up as Tara is already getting up to her feet, and then Mandi grabs her by the hair to drag her the rest of the way up… Mandi fires in with a knee to her stomach, and aims for the Mandi Matthews Experience!}
Vasco Dias: Tara dodges!
Terri Morasco: It’s Tara dodging the bullet this time.
{Tara stalks Mandi as she tries to recover, and goes for a running bulldog toward the thumbtacks!}
Terri Morasco: Not in the eye!
Vasco Dias: Annnd-- what?! No!
{Mandi is able to keep herself grounded and lifts Tara up in position for a back body drop; Tara shifts her weight while being held up and Mandi drops her over the top ropes in an atomic drop fashion… Mandi takes an opportunity to rush the far ropes. Tara takes a moment to get her feet back down to the mat, standing on the apron, and turns to face Mandi who charges the ropes and dives between the top and middle ropes to connect with a spear onto Tara and both women crash through the table covered in barbed wire!}
Vasco Dias: Holy!
{Both of them scream out in agony as the barbed wire digs into both of their skin, although Tara takes the brunt of it.}
Terri Morasco: There’s going to be nothing left of these two by the end of this match!
{Jessica Andrews leans outside of the ring as Mandi Matthews rolls onto her back and tries to keep the barbed wire from tearing her flesh further; Tara arches her back with some of her attire sticking to the barbed wire.}
Crowd: Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!
Vasco Dias: These women have laid it all on the line, and… well… you have to give Mandi props. Everyone expected her to get into this ring and be out of it within the first five minutes, but she’s holding her own!
Terri Morasco: Both of these women are absolutely bloody messes, but… the issue that both of them are going to have is that they have to get back inside the ring.
{It takes thirty seconds before either woman is able to stir; Mandi is clinging to the apron and using it to pull herself to her feet. Tara carefully maneuvers herself from the scraps of the table and barbed wire until she is clear from it. Mandi pulls herself onto the apron and backs up to the turnbuckle…}
Terri Morasco: Get back in the ring, Mandi. Just get back in the ring! You’re going to break yourself if you do anymore outside! Just get back in the ring!
Vasco Dias: I think you’re right, but she’s stalking, and oh, my god! She is charging-- and diving!
{As soon as Tara had gotten to her feet, Mandi sprints toward her and leaps off the apron to catch Tara with a hurricanrana! Tara manages to avoid a second collision with the barbed wire, as Mandi crawls forward until she’s against the barricade and is now using that to pull herself up.}
Terri Morasco: Mandi connected with a huge hurricanrana, and Tara is hurting!
Vasco Dias: Mandi is getting a little too cocky out there and forgetting what it takes to win. Get her inside the ring! But… What's she doing now? She’s climbing onto the barricade?
{Tara is slow to get to her feet, and just as she does, Mandi comes off with a missile dropkick!}
Terri Morasco: Mandi is on absolute fire right now, and she looks like she wants to keep that momentum going, but look at her! She is just ripped apart, her and Tara, but somehow… someway… she is still going.
Vasco Dias: But now she’s finally doing something smart… Getting Tara back up to get her in the ring.
{Mandi has grabbed Tara by the hair and is almost dragging her to her feet before sliding her under the bottom rope… Tara is careful to avoid the tacks still in the vicinity, and Mandi grabs the bottom rope to pull herself up; Tara rolls up to her feet, and Mandi goes between the top and middle ropes to re-enter the ring but is cut off by Tara!}
Vasco Dias: Mandi is now in a bad way! And Tara has a bad agenda!
Terri Morasco: She’s trying to free herself, Mandi that is, but she has no leverage; her feet are tangled up on the middle rope, and Tara has her head control! I do not like where this is about to go!
{Jessica seems to be pleading with Tara to not do what she knows she has planned… Tara waits just an extra moment before dropping back, and finishing a DDT on Mandi on top of the tacks!}
Terri Morasco: I can’t believe what we just saw!
{Mandi screams out in pain and rolls over covering her face as she tries to get away from all of the thumbtacks… Tara gets up, having landed on a few, but is overall fine from that collision. She gets up and staggers still feeling the effects of going through the table. Mandi is trying to pry some of the thumbtacks from her skin. Both women soaked in blood.}
Terri Morasco: She is incredibly lucky that none of those got in her eyes!
Vasco Dias: You are correct there, but the damage is still done! And Tara knows that Mandi should be done after all of that. Look at her clearing the thumbtacks from between her and Mandi… The outside crew better get a good vacuum so no one accidentally steps on one later on.
{Tara scoots the thumbtacks out as much as she can from the inside of the ring to the outside, and as soon as enough is clear, she almost collapses over Mandi and uses as much weight as she can to pin Mandi.}
Vasco Dias: What a war. Mandi has nothing to be ashamed of.
Terri Morasco: I just don’t know how either woman is gonna be able to walk out of here, and this is-- Mandi?!
{Mandi kicked out at two and a half! The entire crowd gasps!}
Terri Morasco: What… the… eff. Tara doesn’t know what to think! She doesn’t know what to do! What’s going to keep Mandi out of this? What’s going to keep Tara out of this?!
Vasco Dias: These are all valid questions, and the answer is… well, I don’t know! I really don’t know!
{Tara is sitting up… she just shakes her head in disbelief. Mandi forces herself to roll over onto her stomach to prevent a follow-up pin attempt.}
Vasco Dias: Mandi wisely rolls over, because I just don’t think she has what it takes to get out of a second pin.
Terri Morasco: I don’t know if it was instincts, or just pure luck anymore, but Mandi is showing the world that she does belong.
{Tara raises her hand up and swipes her bloodstained hair back, and takes a moment before finally starting to get up… she leans down to pick Mandi up along with herself, and grabs Mandi by the jaw. Blood trailing down both of their faces. Tara says something to Mandi, audible by the nearby camera.}
Tara: Sweetie… I’m going to break you.
{The words trigger Mandi, and Mandi breaks free! She winds up and delivers a hard slap against Tara’s cheek leaving a visible handprint; Tara scowls at Mandi, but Mandi follows up with a right jab, and a left hook, then a left jab, and a right hook!}
Terri Morasco: Mandi starting to fire away!
Vasco Dias: I think she’s firing off desperation right now. But Tara is doing well in defending herself, after being decked in the jaw like that…
Terri Morasco: The only reason she’s standing is because the ropes are holding her up, and Mandi is unloading every pent up aggression inside of her!
Vasco Dias: I think-- yes-- there it is, Tara reverses one of the hooks, and now Mandi is sent staggering back. The distance is there, and Tara-- yes! Tara! The Genocide-- NO!
Terri Morasco: The Mandi Matthews Experience! Cover her, Mandi! Cover her!
{The replay shows the events that took place, and Mandi crawls over Tara but is too weak to hook the leg. Jessica counts: One! Two! 2.9! Tara gets her shoulder off the mat!}
Terri Morasco: Whew! We almost saw a new champion tonight!
Vasco Dias: But that is precisely why she is the champion! This match has been absolutely insane, and to think of how much further this can go? I don’t know. Mandi is looking for a way to close this one out, and the world thought that she had it there. Mandi Matthews thought she had it there! But Tara! IS! The champion!
Terri Morasco: For how much longer, though?
{Mandi is in a seated position beside Tara, now lost in her own thoughts. Wondering what she has to do to put the champion away. Tara is still lying flat on her back, so Mandi leans back and hooks the near leg just as Jessica goes to count… Tara suddenly rolls Mandi up in a crucifix pin!}
Vasco Dias: The old possum trick! I love it! And Tara is going to--
{Mandi kicks out of it, and rolls backward.}
Vasco Dias: Ah! Another near fall!
{Tara is the first one to her feet, although Mandi rolls backward and was the first to her knees; Tara advances to go for another Genocide Kick! But Mandi ducks! Mandi stands up now, just as Tara turns around and Mandi looks to get a connection of her own but Tara lands the Fallen Phoenix!}
Vasco Dias: There it is. That’s the match. Call it a day. It’s over.
Terri Morasco: Tara isn’t going for the cover…
Vasco Dias: Why not? You’re too smart for this, Tara! You’re too smart-- oh!
{Tara lifts the kendo stick wrapped in barbed wire and eyes it for several seconds… she drops it a little closer to one of the four corners, but still closer to the center of the ring, before she reaches down to drag Mandi over so that when she gets up she will have the perfect angle. Tara backs into the corner and sits on the second rope while motioning for Mandi to get up… the crowd has started a new chant. “This-Is-Sick” is breaking out amongst them and the anticipation grows as Mandi hears them, and it almost draws her back to consciousness. Just unaware of what is happening around her.}
Terri Morasco: Mandi doesn’t know where she is anymore…
Vasco Dias: It’s all that blood loss, you imagine. But Mandi has no idea what’s about to happen to her, and the moment it does! That’s it! That’s everything!
{Mandi plants her feet, and is wobbly as she stands up. She doesn’t get much time until Tara dives off the ropes for Heaven’s Fury!}
Terri Morasco: Angel’s patented move, and! … … …
{Mandi goes down into the barbed wire at the center of the ring, as Tara finishes Heaven’s Fury!}
Vasco Dias: She connects! Tara is rolling Mandi over, and she pries the kendo stick away so that she can safely make the cover.
{One! Two! THREE!}
Vasco Dias: What a war! What a battle! Mandi Matthews has nothing to be ashamed of, I know we said it earlier, but it cannot be said enough… she fought harder than anyone else and regardless of the outcome, she should know that she cemented her place in the division!
Terri Morasco: We are going to need medical staff out here for BOTH of these women, but… Tara… she’s somehow standing…
{Jessica has retrieved and given the championship to Tara, but is trying to beckon over medical staff. “The Eagle Flies Alone” is blasting throughout the PA. A crimson grin comes to Tara’s face as she stands over her vanquished opponent in a powerful, commanding, stance; blood covers her face as she basks in the glory. As if Carrie were in the ring. All of a sudden, her music cuts, and “Gateways” by Dimmu Borgir is playing…}
Terri Morasco: What? No! It can’t be!
{The music has caught the attention of the Women’s World Champion as she looked toward the curtains. Angel comes out from behind the curtains with a stoic expression; he just glares at Tara. There is no telling the thoughts racing through his mind. Tara, with a smirk on her face, walks albeit weakly to the ropes closest to the entrance ramp and sits on the middle rope while pushing the top one up. An inviting gesture.}
Vasco Dias: Well, this isn’t her brightest moment…
Terri Morasco: I can’t imagine it’ll be a warm embrace if Angel were to go down to the ring, but that doesn’t seem to phase her demeanor. She wants Angel to go down to the ring!
Vasco Dias: If he does that, he’s just going to pick apart the scraps!
{Angel shakes his head at her before finally disappearing behind the curtains again. Tara sighs.}
Vasco Dias: I think she’s happy that Angel didn’t accept her invitation.
Terri Morasco: I don’t know about that. Angel has been avoiding her since she returned, and I think Tara is getting tired of waiting.
{The music reverts back to “The Eagle Flies Alone” as Tara clutches her championship to her waist whilst getting out of the ring, and starts walking up the ramp; a team of the medical staff are trying to check on her but she doesn’t stop walking away. The second medical staff are tending to Mandi inside the ring.}
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SEGMENTUlf Hednir wants a challenge.
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{The opening introduction for “Raise Your Horns” by Amon Amarth plays over the PA system, and the crowd goes into a frenzy! The music can barely be heard over the sound of the fans. Ulf Hednir quickly shoves the curtains aside, dressed in casual gear, jeans and one of the numerous Ulf shirts available at the IWF Shop, and marches out onto the stage with the IWF World Television Championship being worn around his waist, and his drinking horn held high over his head.}Ulf Hednir: SKÅL!
Crowd: SKÅL!
{Ulf drinks from the drinking horn, and after, turns it upside down to show the crowd that there is nothing left. Ulf attaches the drinking horn to a strap hanging off his primary belt, and marches down the ramp to shake hands or high five many of the fans along the ramp; fans scramble to get as close as they can and he takes an extra moment to ensure he greets as many as he can. Ulf goes around to the right side of the ring, still greeting as many fans as he can until he reaches the timekeeper’s table, where he removes the headdress and the drinking horn, placing them on the table. He walks up to the apron and leaps up, grabbing the ropes, and leaning back to let loose a mighty howl.}
Raise your horns, raise them up to the sky,
We will drink to glory tonight!
Raise your horns for brave fallen friends,
We will meet where the beer never ends!
{The chorus plays over, and Ulf steps between the middle and top ropes before parading around the ring a bit. One of the crew hands a microphone to the reigning IWF World Television Champion who just continues pacing in the ring whilst waiting for his music to cut. A moment later, it does.}
Ulf Hednir: Takk, friends! Takk, family! Jeg did hva everybody had already counted me ute of doing disse past week at Sacrifice. Jeg ended min gauntlet by defeating tre (three) men in en (one) night! Og jeg er STILL! IWF! WORLD! TELEVISION! CHAMPION!
{The entire crowd cheers, as the crowd alternates between chanting “skål” and “Ulf” at the top of their lungs. The reception brings a smile to Ulf’s face, as he basks in their praises for several seconds.}
Ulf Hednir: Takk! Takk! But, de end of de gauntlet has brought a bit of a bittersweet moment… der were some people det dodged de challenge after competing in de battle royal, og der seems to be nothing det management is willing to do about it. Det is fine! But de issue det jeg er now having is det jeg do not wish for det to be… de end. Jeg do not wish to suddenly be put on de sideline og watch everybody else compete! Jeg er still looking to DEFEND! MY! CHAMPIONSHIP!
{Ulf shouting out those words received another huge pop from the crowd.}Vasco Dias: The world is tired of you, Ulf! You did what you wanted to do, now kindly… leave… you’re not even booked-- he’s not even booked for a match this evening, Terri, he needs to just leave.
Terri Morasco: He can stay a moment longer. I don’t mind.
Ulf Hednir: With det being said… jeg must ask. Who. Wants. To. Face. Me. At Sacrifice?
{Ulf lowered the microphone to await the arrival of someone, and he did not have to wait long! The beat to "Born Legendary" by Emanuel Vo Williams hits.}
I crawled out the gutter
I rose to the top
My reign everlasting
I can’t be stopped
I was made for the throne
Rise up til I moan
You been waiting on a ruler
Well I’m home
{As soon as he says the word "Home" pyro explodes from the rampway as JC Keeton steps through the curtain. He has a microphone in his hand, but unlike Ulf, he is dressed and ready for a match.}
JC Keeton: Ulf! I’ve been waiting for this day to come since you defeated me, which you're the only to do so by the way so I feel like I've done more than enough to earn another shot. I knew that you were gonna clear the entire gauntlet. There wasn't a single name on that list that could take you to the limits, and give you the kind of test that I did…
Vasco Dias: What about Nick Knight? Or Stephen Terrella?
JC Keeton: The only shot they had at defeating you was to follow the blueprint I laid out and almost followed through on but no one did but now… you are in quite the predicament…
Terri Morasco: JC seems like he’s wanting to take Ulf up on this challenge.
JC Keeton: You need a new challenger, but Ulf! You scared off all the competition! You scared everybody in the back. They saw that dominant run through the gauntlet and no one wants to try again. Nobody wants to come out here and face you… EXCEPT ME.
{Ulf chuckles while staring down toward his friend.}Ulf Hednir: Alright! Sacrifice!
JC Keeton: Nah buddy…
{Ulf seemed confused, as did the audible confusion from the audience…}
JC Keeton: Right. Now.
Terri Morasco: Ulf’s not dressed… we’ll have to watch him undress. Hmm.
Vasco Dias: Seriously? No, no, no! This can’t happen!
{Ulf raises his microphone, and bites his lip, but shrugs his shoulders and tilts his head as the crowd has been chanting “please say yes”...}Ulf Hednir: Du er on!
{The crowds cheers drown out all the other noise, as Jessica Andrews comes out from behind the curtains; she joins JC Keeton with charging down to the ring as Ulf strips his shirt off and tosses it into the crowd where a few of the ladies can be seen competing in their own wrestling match for it. Ulf also removes his championship and hands it to Jessica Andrews who holds it up to show the crowd what is on the line.}Terri Morasco: I can’t believe what we’re watching! Ulf and JC! Round two! The first match these two had with each other was off the charts, but… I think Ulf may be at a bit of a disadvantage this evening. He was not ready to compete this evening!
Vasco Dias: Someone needs to stop this. Ulf is not supposed to be here tonight, and I don’t even know why JC is here, either! Neither man was booked!
Terri Morasco: Their love for the company? Most people come to cheer on their friends and just to support their business, and you have to imagine that Ulf did pay attention to Evan Albrecht’s “Beat The Clock” challenge earlier this evening.
Vasco Dias: Well, I guess I have no choice… Jessica has called for the bell, and these two are already going at each other!
{JC tries to clinch with Ulf, only to be immediately taken into a side headlock! Ulf takes him down with a headlock takedown, and keeps the side headlock applied while having JC grounded, and JC uses his hands to force Ulf’s biceps away from his head just far enough to let him squeeze himself free, and JC springs to his feet just a tad quicker than Ulf! Ulf goes for a clothesline, but JC manages to circle around and take Ulf down and attempt a crucifix pin!}Vasco Dias: I didn’t think it would happen, but we could see a new TV Champion! And--
Terri Morasco: Ulf is able to kick out at two, but JC is already up to his feet…
Vasco Dias: Up to his feet, and he connects with a beautiful yakuza kick! Now look at JC go, he makes another cover.
Terri Morasco: But Ulf powers out at one!
{Ulf sits up immediately, and JC hurries to get behind him and place him in a sleeper hold! JC tries to squeeze on Ulf’s neck to put him to sleep, but Ulf is still starting to get up to his feet… he reaches his arms up to JC’s in an attempt to overpower him and pull himself free from the hold, and Ulf starts throwing a few elbows and knees! JC is battling back with his own knees as they are now facing each other and just locked in a clinch; JC and Ulf continue throwing shots at each other while clinched, and then a well-timed knee from JC…}DING!
Terri Morasco: What? Ulf looks hurt.
Vasco Dias: I would say so! He just got hit in his manhood! I can’t say he doesn’t deserve it, but no man would ever wish that on another man!
{The replay shows that during their scuffle, JC had gone for a knee and Ulf had moved in an attempt to defend himself but got caught with an accidental low blow.}Terri Morasco: No… JC looks confused. I don’t think it was intentional. It didn’t look intentional.
{JC Keeton is arguing his case with Jessica Andrews, but she is standing firm on her decision; Ulf is recovering, but insisting that he’s good to let the match continue… Jessica shakes her head again, and goes to grab Ulf’s arm, who now angrily pulls his arm away. Despite not having a microphone, you can hear him.}Ulf Hednir: Nei! It was an accident! Vi vil continue disse match!
Vasco Dias: Oh, buddy, you don’t tell the officials how to do their job.
{The crowd is chanting “let them fight”, but Jessica Andrews is shaking her head and receives a rain of boos for her confirmation that the match needed to stop. JC and Ulf are talking amongst each other, and they seem to come to a confirmation with Jessica. Jessica goes over and mentions something to Alison before Alison makes the announcement.}
Alison Valance: Ladies and gentlemen, this match has been ruled a NO CONTEST!
Vasco Dias: What?! JC Keeton committed a clear cheat, and while I don’t like siding with Ulf, that is grounds for disqualification! Therefore, Ulf SHOULD win!
Terri Morasco: I think they agreed since Jessica Andrews was standing firm on her decision that the contest needed to come to an end. Blue Shoes would have allowed the accidental shot to occur, and Jessica is usually good about it, but it seems she felt she needed to be firm on the rules this evening.
Vasco Dias: She’s probably just trying to suck up to Ulf! Just like you!
{JC and Ulf are still talking amongst each other after the decision has been made, both of them visibly angry with the official’s firm decision. Ulf does take his championship and the friends leave up the ramp while the crowd is still booing Jessica’s decision.}Vasco Dias: Damn it! You all are going to show her respect!
Terri Morasco: I agree with you, Vasco, Jessica is a great official. She just made the wrong call tonight.
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IWF IMPERIAL DIAMONDS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHMusic Shuffle - House Of Memories by Panic at the Disco
Write a promo based on a piece of music that the Staff will select for you.
Dakota Bowman vs Cals Jacobsen(c)
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Alison Valance: The following contest is scheduled for One fall and is for the DIAMONDS CHAMPIONSHIP..
{The echoing guitar intro of "Tears Don't Fall" sounds through the arena before a howl of "LET'S GOOOOOO!" brings Cals Jacobsen running out onto the stage, shoulder-rolling forward and coming up kneeling with their hands in horns and their tongue out, grinning ear to ear. They pop up to their feet, nodding and grinning wickedly as they walk down the ramp, fist bumping and high-fiving with fans. Climbing the ring steps, Cals hangs off the ring post, nodding along to the music, and steps through the ropes, pacing in a circle before running to the ropes and leaping up onto the second rope, throwing their hood back and bellowing out to the fans. Cals detaches their hood, unfolding it and tossing it into the crowd before running the ropes, clearly psyched for their match.}Alison Valance: Now entering the ring , Your Champion! Standing at 5 foot 7 Inches , weighing in at 130 lbs Hailing from Minneapolis Minnesota , The “Non-Binary Nightmare” CALS JAAAAAAAAAAAAACOBSEN!
Terri Morasco: The Champion entering first, looking determined as always
Vasco Dias: We both know Jacobsen is a piece of work, but they’re champion, like it or not. My Money is on them.
{The arena goes dark Before the roar of the great Gojira pierces the arena and “Godzilla” hits the P.A And out comes stomping The hooded figure of Dakota. Briefly lifting her hood to peek at the crowd before roaring to the ceiling and having either side of the ramp explode in Blue Pyro before then marching down to the ring. Stomping along the apron after climbing the stairs and climbing one Turn buckle form the outside whipping the hood back to Roar to the ceiling, before climbing herself over Marching to the middle of the ring and doing it again..}Alison Valance: Now entering the ring , Your challenger, Standing at 6 foot even , weighing in at 160 lbs Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts , The “Kawaii Kaiju” DAKOTA BOWMANNNNNN!
Vasco Dias: She’s big, she’s green and the Internet wants her to step on them, Ladies and Gentlemen, Jennifer Walters!
Terri Morasco: Whilst my erstwhile college skirts us dangerously close to a conversation with the house of mouse, We’re watching The continually growing Dakota Bowman climbing to meet Cals for her first ever shot at IWF gold. You have to wonder what’s going through her mind right now.
Vasco Dias: Oh c’mon it was funny.
Terri Morasco: Shut up, Vasco.
{The two move up to square up as the Ref gives instructions to both Cals staring right up at Dakota who looks down with a smile and a slight grin and nods before two of them do a fist bump to each other and move away to their respective corners and the bell rings! Cals comes roaring out of the corner and Dakota steps up to meet her half way the two shoulder checking and Neither going down. Jacobsen makes for the ropes ducking under a line attempt turning a back elbow swing into a reversal of Irish Whip as Dakota knocks Cals to the ground with another shoulder standing tall before moving to the ropes Cals is quick to kip up to their feet and leap frog over Dakota dropping instantly into a Sleep trip attempt which Dakota dodges before Cals is up their feet again to hit a blistering drop kick and stands to face the crowd throwing both their arms out to the crowd and then thumping their chest with a fist as Dakota crashes to ground and rises up herself behind Cals and Cals turns around even as Dakota brushes her shoulder off with one hand and takes up a stance }Terri Morasco: Dakota could have taken advantage there but didn’t!
Vasco Dias: Idiot.
{They circle again, Dakota swinging with a knife edge chop as Cals Drops into the SYSTEM SHOCK! Covering Dakota}1!!!
2!!!
3 NO!! KICKOUT!!Terri Morasco: Almost had it!
Vasco Dias: Smart move.
{Cals starts to circle Dakota as she gets up and keeps herself in her spot following her around as Jacobsen skirts low with a wrestler’s walk and tries to go behind on the larger woman but Dakota is faster than she appears and is quick to trap Cale’s right arm and drop to one knee throwing her over Cals manages to twist themselves through to their head spinning over to transition to Daktoa’s back, attempting to Capture the lager woman’s neck in a Rear naked choke, again the lager woman senses the danger and grips on arm to spin herself out held into Cal’s belly and into a sort of attempt at a Guillotine as Cals swings through to try the leg hooks and Daktoa just stands up still blocking the choke arm as her second arm wraps over Cals neck to pull her with pure strength into a stalled suplex holding Cals up there for a while even after the muscle up. Cals’ legs wiggle in the air as they try to set their weight down about Dakota catches her halfway down and swings backwards into a suplex before she stands up herself and roars again to the crowd as Cals stands!}Vasco Dias: That’s it!
Terri Morasco: Cals maybe taking advantage where Dakota didn’t!
{Cals drop kicks Dakota in the back sending her spilling to the outside! Jacobsen doesn’t even hesitate to run for the opposite ropes and then step up the ropes with a Tope Con Hilo on the larger woman the pair of bodies spilling to the ground as the Ref starts to lay into the count}Terri Morasco: Using their entire body as weapon!
Vasco Dias: They’re gonna have to ! They have a killer instinct! THAT'S WHY THEY ARE CHAMPION!
{Cals is up first showing out to the crowd as they pull Dakota to her feet leathering her with a huge European Uppercut!They ten get pushed back by Dakota who hits a hard shivering Forearm to the Champion, followed by a Knfe hand chop that echos trhough the Area, Cals relaising they can’t win a stand up brawl takes a moment to break up the count as Dakota drags tehm back out to ht a snapping head-butt Cals is quick to hop up on the apron, jumping an attempt at a blistering round house that would sweep her turning to point the finger guns at Dakota only to have to do a one handed Cartwheel over another Clothesline as Dakota uses her momentum to mount the apron, the Ref delivering the count but being generous with it another swing for Cals who ducks under it and then connects with a momentum assisted German suplex on the apron! Letting Dakota drop off as they sty on the apron and pull themselves up, quickly breaking the count as they measure up with the double finger guns, dropping onto a slowly rising Dakota with a GREEN SKIES! Pulling herself back inot the ring as the ref count}
Terri Morasco: What a combination by the Champion, looking to use the count out!
Vasco Dias: Champions Advantage!
{The Ref gets up to about 5 on the count as Bow rises the look on Cals face saying I for armament smirking as if to say ‘of course you didn’t stay down’ and then cracking thier neck to crouch Low as Dakota slowly rolls back in pulling themselves up into the corner as Cals charges in and lays in the FIVE FOR FIGHTING Though Dakota Shoves Cals off as they go for the back elbow nearing the Leaping Enzigiri doesn’t quite hit the back of Dakota’s head end ends up more of a GamenGiri , the larger woman staggers out and Cals Connects with a Turnbuckle run up Assisted HAVE A SEAT OVER THERE dropping into a cover}
1!!
2!!
BIG Kickout!!Vasco Dias: What?
Terri Morasco: Cals thought that was it!
{Cals argues with the Ref for a moment before covering Dakota again only for the woman to kick out against form under her and star tt o rise gesturing at Cals to ‘bring it’ with both hands and Roars into their face as Cals stands and hauls for the fences on Dakota and tires for the HARD PASS Daktoa ducks under the lariat as she pins hooking the arm with one of her own pulling the Champion into a Blistering Short arm Shoulder block rolling over to pick Cals up on her shoulders to drop into a Finlay roll and then standing up herself to run at Cals and Hit a huge King Kong Knee drop rolling up to her feet as Cals manages to stand and Avoid the incoming Shoulder block attempt, letting the Bigger Woman have to slow her moment um at the Turn buckle lest she collide fully with it turning back around to eat a Kick to the midsection as he moves in and then Cals turns their momentum back around as Daktoa eats a rolling Elbow and form somewhere Dakota pulls out a TAIL WHIP as she collapses to the mat alongside Cals and the Ref lays in the count.}Vasco Dias: Cals still has the advantage, all that needs to happen is a 10 count!