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"Whoever fights Monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a Monster. And when you look long into the Abyss, the Abyss also looks into you." - Frederick Nietzche
(As these words begin to fade from the screen you hear the opening strains of Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt". The images that begin to play are far from the typical opening montage fare. No high spots, no cheap pops. No tables, ladders, or chairs. No thrill of victory, only the agony of defeat. We see bodies collapsing back to the mat after attempting to get back to their feet. We see blood, sweat, and tears slowly dripping down faces with simply nothing more left to give. All the scenes are in slow motion, in black and white, and every bit as haunting and depressing as the music that accompanies them all. Finally the song and the images come to an end, leaving you chilled to the bone. As the last few notes ring in your ears, two simple words appear on the screen.)
(They fade from the screen and a few awkward seconds pass. The screen is pitch black and no sounds can be heard. This dead air lasts just long enough for the thought that your pay per service might be malfunctioning to cross your mind. But then a few more words appear on the screen.)
(As these words fade, "Fuck Your Enemy" by Superjoint Ritual almost literally blasts through your speakers. And, as it does, the screen comes alive with the kind of highlights that you'd expect. Now we see the high spots and the cheap pops. We see tables, ladders, and chairs. We still see blood, sweat, and tears. But we don't see the empty eyes of men whose bodies have failed them and whose wills were soon to follow. No, now we see eyes burning with a fire that will never be extinguished. The music pummels you relentlessly, as do the visual displays of violence. As the song comes to its close, so does the video package. The title screen appears.)
(As the title screen fades, we are live from Philadelphia, PA. The arena is packed to the rafters with bloodthirsty fans. Many in attendance are from Pennsylvania or near by New York, but FCW has drawn it’s faithful from all across the country. After panning the crowd for a couple minutes, we cut to a shot of the announce table, occupied by Kevin Cole and Nik Cain. Cole is, as is usually the case come pay per view time, overdressed in a tuxedo. Cain is wearing black jeans, a black leather blazer, and a black t-shirt with “give blood” written in red on the front.)
Kevin Cole: Full Contact Wrestling has come back to pay per view and is ready to take both Philadelphia and the entire wrestling world by storm!
Nik Cain: If you ain’t got a tape in the VCR, run and get one. I guarantee that you’re gonna see some shit tonight you’ve never seen before and may never see again.
Kevin Cole: We’ve got a Flaming Table Death Match, a Stairway to Hell Match, an Angel of Death Match, a Spider Trap Glass Crash Death Match...whatever the heck that is.
Nik Cain: I’ve seen the blueprints for that one and it is sick.
Kevin Cole: But we are, appropriately enough, going to get this show started with a First Blood Match. But not just any First Blood Match, a six-man elimination First Blood Match!
This contest is a First Blood six-man tag team elimination match.
Introducing first...
Led to the ring by Sylvia Myers...
At a total combined weight of 690 pounds...
Samson and The Heretics
(“Comfortable Liar” by Chevelle hits as Samson and the Heretics all come to the ring together. All three look to be all business tonight, not really bothering to acknowledge the crowd. The only one who does is Joshua Moon, who takes a little time out to yell a few insults at one particularly belligerent fan.)
Nik Cain: A tiny car full of clowns couldn’t get a smile out of that trio.
Their opponents...
At a total combined weight of 972 pounds...
Scion and Thespian Express
(“Detox” by Strapping Young Lad plays as Scion comes through the curtain, quickly followed by the Thespians. Scion takes time to allow his supporters to pat him on the shoulder. Comedy treats some fans with his patented laugh. Tragedy, on the other hand, looks to be totally focused on his opponents waiting in the ring, only occasionally nodding his head in response to the cheers.)
Nik Cain: You know, Scion and company seem thrilled to be back in FCW but, more importantly, the fans are thrilled to have them back.
They lock up.
Samson goes for a punch, but Comedy counters it with a roundhouse right.
In turn, Samson counters it with an armbreaker.
Samson is met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Samson takes Comedy down with a dropkick.
Nik Cain: Samson is certainly more mobile and ring smart than Comedy. But Comedy is still 550 pounds, which compensates for a lot of other shortcomings.
Samson whips Comedy into the ropes.Kevin Cole: What elevation!
Nik Cain: Comedy and Scion seem to be working well together. And we both know how well Comedy and Tragedy coexist in that ring.
Comedy and Scion hit Deacon King with a double back suplex.
Scion leaves the ring.
Comedy hits Deacon King with an atomic drop.
Comedy runs into the ropes.
Deacon King nails Comedy with a running diamond cutter.
Deacon King is met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Deacon King tags out to Samson.
Samson and Deacon King whip Comedy into the ropes.
They hit Comedy with a double elbowsmash.
Samson and Deacon King hit Comedy with a double low blow.
Kevin Cole: Oh dear lord!
Scion enters the ring, but gets cut off.
Deacon King hits Comedy with falling reverse DDT.
A portion of the crowd is booing Deacon King.
Deacon King leaves the ring.
Samson nails Comedy with a tornado DDT.
Samson is met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Kevin Cole: Big time DDT!
Nik Cain: Samson’s no dummy. He’ll do his best to use Comedy’s own weight against him.
Samson throws Comedy out of the ring.
Samson goes through the ropes.
Deacon King comes over to make it two-on-one.
Samson and Deacon King hit Comedy with a double low blow.
Samson and Deacon King hit Comedy with a double low blow.
Samson and Deacon King hit Comedy with a double low blow.
Scion comes over and lays out Deacon King.
Nik Cain: Oh shit. Talk about too little too late on the part of Scion. Comedy is in some serious, serious testicular pain right now.
Samson goes for a jumping DDT, but Comedy counters it with an inverted atomic drop.
Kevin Cole: What the heck is Scion doing now?
(Scion starts digging underneath the ring. He finds what he’s looking for, a strand of barbed wire. Sitting on the ring apron, he wraps the wire around his own foot.)
Scion comes over to make it two-on-one.
Scion nails Samson with a superkick.
Samson is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: Oh my goodness!
Comedy throws Samson back into the ring.
Dick Palmer sees the blood and stops the match.
Samson has been eliminated.
Comedy is met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Nik Cain: So much for Samson. Scion made short work of him thanks to a barbed wire wrapped boot to the kisser.
They lock up.
Joshua Moon hits an armhook DDT on Comedy.
Joshua Moon puts Comedy in a scorpion deathlock STF.
Comedy breaks the hold after 16 seconds.
Comedy tags out to Tragedy.
Comedy places Joshua Moon on the turnbuckle.
Comedy hits a belly-to-belly superplex on Joshua Moon.
Comedy is met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Kevin Cole: Oh...dear...lord!
Nik Cain: After that, I’m surprised that Moon is more than just a greasy spot left on the canvas.
Tragedy attempts to place Joshua Moon on the turnbuckle, but Joshua Moon
blocks it.
Deacon King enters the ring and lays out Comedy.
Joshua Moon and Deacon King whip Tragedy into the ropes.
They hit Tragedy with a double clothesline.
Deacon King leaves the ring.
Joshua Moon uses a flatliner legsweep on Tragedy.
Joshua Moon is getting a pissed look amidst all the boos.
Joshua Moon whips Tragedy into the ropes.
Joshua Moon hits Tragedy with a shoulderblock.
Joshua Moon goes for a knee to the groin, but Tragedy blocks it.
Nik Cain: Tragedy’s got much better reflexes than his plus-sized partner. In other words, he ain’t about to stand there and get repeated hit in the balls.
Tragedy hits Joshua Moon with a front facelock into a diamond cutter.
Tragedy is met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Tragedy chops Joshua Moon.
Tragedy is met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Tragedy chops Joshua Moon.
Tragedy is met with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Tragedy tags out to Comedy.
Comedy goes for a side suplex, but Joshua Moon blocks it.
Joshua Moon tags out to Deacon King.
Deacon King runs into the ropes.
Deacon King hits Comedy with a clothesline.
Comedy falls out of the ring.
Deacon King goes for a running twisting bodyblock, but Comedy
moves out of the way.
Kevin Cole: Nobody home!
Tragedy comes over to make it two-on-one.
Joshua Moon comes over, but gets cut off.
Comedy and Tragedy hit Deacon King with a double back suplex.
Comedy knocks Deacon King into the ringsteps.
A portion of the crowd is booing Comedy.
Sylvia Myers comes from behind and distracts Comedy.
Deacon King knocks Comedy into the ringpost.
Comedy is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: Comedy has been busted open!
Nik Cain: As soon as the ref spots it, Comedy will be out of here.
Deacon King knocks Comedy into the ringpost.
Dick Palmer sees the blood and stops the match.
Comedy has been eliminated.
Deacon King is starting to get more cheers than boos.
(Comedy grabs Sylvia Myers by the shoulders and, with one strong tug, yanks her dress clean off, leaving her standing there in a black thong and not a damn thing else. She quickly covers herself with her own arms and runs screaming to the back. The crowd pops huge. Scion is chuckling and holding his sides and even the usually stoic Tragedy can be seen fighting back a laugh. Comedy, however, looks to be in pain and grabs his crotch area.)
Kevin Cole: Oh...my...goodness!
Nik Cain: Forget everything I’ve ever said about the man; Comedy is my new, official hero. Too bad those repeated low blows from earlier seem to have left him a little, shall we say, tender.
They lock up.
Scion kicks Deacon King.
Scion acknowledges the portion of the crowd which is cheering him.
Scion punches Deacon King.
Deacon King punches Scion.
Deacon King punches Scion.
Deacon King is starting to get more cheers than boos.
Scion punches Deacon King.
Scion is starting to get more cheers than boos.
Scion goes for the cross-face chicken wing, but Deacon King blocks it.
Deacon King uses a low blow on Scion.
Deacon King throws Scion out of the ring.
Deacon King goes through the ropes.
Deacon King executes the Ballad of Fallen Angels on Scion on the concrete floor.
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Scion is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: Ballad of Fallen Angels on the concrete floor!
Deacon King throws Scion back into the ring.
Dick Palmer sees the blood and stops the match.
Scion has been eliminated.
Deacon King acknowledges the portion of the crowd which is cheering him.
Nik Cain: It’s time for Scion to hit the showers, which leaves Tragedy all alone with the Heretics.
They lock up.
Deacon King throws Tragedy out of the ring.
Deacon King goes through the ropes.
Joshua Moon comes over to make it two-on-one.
Deacon King and Joshua Moon hit Tragedy with a double dropkick to the knee.
Kevin Cole: A dropkick to both the knees of Tragedy!
Deacon King executes a running diamond cutter on Tragedy.
Deacon King sets up a table.
Deacon King goes for headbutt to the groin, but Tragedy blocks it.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Tragedy goes for a knee to the groin, but Deacon King blocks it.
Joshua Moon comes over to make it two-on-one.
Deacon King sets up Tragedy on the table.
Deacon King tries to drive Tragedy through the table with a shooting star press,
but he moves out of the way.
The table is broken in half.
Deacon King is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: Tragedy moves out of the way! Deacon King goes crashing through the table!
Nik Cain: And I think King’s been cut open by a shard of that broken table.
Tragedy throws Deacon King back into the ring.
Dick Palmer sees the blood and stops the match.
Deacon King has been eliminated.
A portion of the crowd is cheering Tragedy.
Kevin Cole: Deacon King has been eliminated! It’s down to Tragedy and Joshua Moon!
They lock up.
Joshua Moon kicks Tragedy.
Joshua Moon chops Tragedy.
Joshua Moon kicks Tragedy.
Tragedy begs off.
Joshua Moon whips Tragedy into the ropes, but Tragedy reverses it.
Joshua Moon hits Tragedy with an elbow.
Joshua Moon goes for a tornado DDT, but Tragedy counters it with
a belly-to-back suplex.
Tragedy takes Joshua Moon down with a back suplex.
Tragedy takes Joshua Moon down with a spinwheel kick.
Kevin Cole: What a kick!
Tragedy stands on the buckle and raises his arms in the air.
A portion of the crowd is cheering Tragedy.
Tragedy places Joshua Moon on the turnbuckle.
Tragedy executes a top-rope power bomb on Joshua Moon.
Kevin Cole: Top rope power bomb!
Tragedy whips Joshua Moon into the ropes.
Tragedy hits Joshua Moon with a clothesline.
Joshua Moon falls out of the ring.
Tragedy goes through the ropes.
Kevin Cole: Tragedy sends Moon back out to the floor!
Nik Cain: There’s a lot of different ways to bust a guy open out there.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Joshua Moon whips Tragedy into the guardrail.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Joshua Moon reenters the ring.
Tragedy follows him back in.
Joshua Moon goes for a backbreaker, but Tragedy blocks it.
Tragedy nails Joshua Moon with the Diamond Cutter.
A portion of the crowd is booing Tragedy.
Tragedy punches Joshua Moon.
Tragedy punches Joshua Moon.
Tragedy punches Joshua Moon.
Tragedy punches Joshua Moon.
Tragedy punches Joshua Moon.
Tragedy punches Joshua Moon.
Joshua Moon is busted wide open.
Dick Palmer sees the blood and stops the match.
Joshua Moon has been eliminated.
A portion of the crowd is cheering Tragedy.
Kevin Cole: Oh...my...goodness!
Nik Cain: Tragedy goes the old-fashioned route by just pounding on Joshua’s Moon’s face until he busted him open.
Kevin Cole: Scion and the Thespians are your winners!
Nik Cain: That would have qualified as a main event most places, but we’re just getting started.
Kevin Cole: Up next, we’ve got the first ever Stairway to Hell match! It’s a ladder match only the ladder is wrapped in razor wire!
Nik Cain: And, above the ring, are a sledgehammer and a kendo stick. Jean will be trying to get the hammer, and Zion will be trying to get the cane. Whoever gets their weapon of choice will win the match and, obviously, earn the right to use that weapon however they see fit.
~~~~~
This contest is a Stairway to Hell match scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first...
From Huntington, WV...
Weighing in at 219 pounds...
Chris Zion
(“Open Hand” by Project 86 plays as Chris Zion comes through the curtain to a decidedly mixed reaction from the crowd. Zion’s body seems calm, but his eyes are alive with intensity.)
Nik Cain: This is undoubtedly the biggest match of Zion’s career so far and he knows it. But he’s not as concerned with making an impact as he is with making Jean scream.
His opponent...
Hailing from parts unknown...
Weighing in at 230 pounds...
Jean
(“I Stand Alone” by Godsmack hits and Jean slowly makes his way to the ring. He doesn’t look at Zion at all, as he strolls down the aisle. This obviously serves to rile Zion up.)
Nik Cain: Jean knows how to get under Zion’s skin but, once he’s under it, he may wish he was somewhere else. Time will tell.
They lock up.
Jean uses a sitdown faceslam on Chris Zion.
Jean is getting a good reaction from the crowd.
Jean leaves the ring.
He returns with a chair.
Jean sets up the chair.
Jean executes a backspin DDT onto the chair on Chris Zion.
Jean is getting a good reaction from the crowd.
Kevin Cole: DDT on the steel!
Nik Cain: Jean may have seemed aloof outside the ring but, once that bell rang, he didn’t waste any time.
Jean throws Chris Zion out of the ring.
Jean goes through the ropes.
Jean whips Chris Zion into the guardrail.
Jean goes for a German suplex, but Chris Zion counters it with an elbowsmash.
Chris Zion takes Jean down with the Kryptonite Crunch.
Kevin Cole: What a move!
Chris Zion whips Jean into the guardrail.
Chris Zion knocks Jean into the ringpost.
Chris Zion knocks Jean into the ringpost.
Quite a few boos are audible.
Chris Zion is handed the ring bell.
Chris Zion hits him with the ring bell.
Quite a few boos are audible.
Kevin Cole: Ring bell to the face!
Chris Zion goes for a superkick, but Jean ducks out of the way.
Jean throws Chris Zion back into the ring.
Jean goes for a knee to the face, but Chris Zion blocks it.
Chris Zion hits a piledriver on Jean.
Quite a few boos are audible.
Harry Buttcheek removes the chair from the ring.
Chris Zion hits a dropkick on Jean.
Chris Zion tries to climb the ladder.
Kevin Cole: Oh god!
Nik Cain: Zion showing no fear of the razor wire. But, judging by the red streaks coming down his wrists, he is already paying the price.
Chris Zion is on his way up.
Jean pulls him back down.
Jean whips Chris Zion into the ropes.
Jean misses with a shoulderblock.
Chris Zion hits Jean with a kick.
Chris Zion tries to climb the ladder.
Chris Zion is on his way up.
Chris Zion is half-way up.
Jean knocks over the ladder with a clothesline.
Kevin Cole: Jean clotheslines the ladder!
Nik Cain: And gets a shoulder full of razor wire for his trouble. Both men are already bleeding from multiple places.
Jean goes for a German suplex, but Chris Zion blocks it.
Chris Zion executes a spinwheel kick on Jean.
Chris Zion whips Jean into the ropes, but Jean reverses it.
Jean hits Chris Zion with a shoulderblock.
Jean uses flying headscissors on Chris Zion.
Jean sets the ladder back up.
Jean tries to climb the ladder.
Jean is on his way up.
Jean is half-way up.
Jean is almost on top of the ladder.
Jean is in grabbing distance.
Chris Zion knocks over the ladder with a superkick.
Jean falls out of the ring.
Kevin Cole: Oh...my...goodness! Jean falls all the way out to the floor!
Jean reenters the ring.
Chris Zion uses a sleeper drop on Jean.
The crowd is booing Chris Zion.
Chris Zion goes for an enzuigiri, but Jean ducks out of the way.
Jean sets the ladder back up.
Jean tries to climb the ladder.
Jean is on his way up.
Chris Zion knocks the ladder over with a dropkick.
Kevin Cole: Zion knocks the ladder over with a dropkick!
Nik Cain: Jean’s obviously gotta wear Zion down more before trying to climb that ladder again.
Chris Zion goes for a swinging neckbreaker, but Jean counters it with
an armbar submission.
Chris Zion breaks the hold after 6 seconds.
Jean whips Chris Zion into the ropes.
Chris Zion hits Jean with an elbow.
Chris Zion goes for a moonsault, but Jean rolls out of the way.
Nik Cain: Nobody home for Zion that time.
Jean goes for falling reverse DDT, but Chris Zion blocks it.
Chris Zion throws Jean out of the ring.
Chris Zion goes through the ropes.
Jean knocks Chris Zion into the ringpost.
Jean knocks Chris Zion into the ringpost.
There are lots of chants for Jean.
Jean whips Chris Zion into the guardrail.
Jean knocks Chris Zion into the ringpost.
Jean has the crowd going wild.
Kevin Cole: Jean is tossing Chris Zion all over the ringside area!
Jean hits Chris Zion with a spinebuster.
Jean is handed a sheet of glass.
Jean takes a swing at Chris Zion with the sheet of glass, but he
gets out of the way.
Chris Zion snatches the sheet of glass from him.
Chris Zion hits him with the sheet of glass.
Chris Zion is being booed like there is no tomorrow.
Jean is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: Oh...dear...lord!
Nik Cain: I guess the razor wire laden ladder and the kendo stick and sledgehammer dangling above it just aren’t enough for these two.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Jean goes for a brain buster, but Chris Zion slides down his back.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Chris Zion reenters the ring.
Jean follows him back in.
Chris Zion goes for an enzuigiri, but Jean ducks out of the way.
Jean chops Chris Zion.
The crowd is going crazy.
Jean chops Chris Zion.
Chris Zion punches Jean.
Numerous fans are using Chris Zion for target practice.
Kevin Cole: Both of these men are bleeding profusely from their arms, and chests! And Jean is now bleeding from the head as well!
Nik Cain: They’re definitely gonna have to mop this canvas down before the next match up.
Jean punches Chris Zion.
The crowd is going crazy.
Chris Zion kicks Jean.
The arena is exploding in a chorus of boos.
Chris Zion throws Jean out of the ring.
Chris Zion goes for a running 180 plancha, but Jean moves out of the way.
Kevin Cole: Jean moves out of the way!
Jean whips Chris Zion into the guardrail.
Jean throws Chris Zion back into the ring.
Jean hits Chris Zion with an elbow.
Jean whips Chris Zion into the ladder.
Jean executes a back suplex onto the ladder on Chris Zion.
Kevin Cole: Suplex onto the ladder!
Jean sets the ladder back up.
Jean tries to climb the ladder.
Jean is on his way up.
Jean is half-way up.
Jean is almost on top of the ladder.
Jean is in grabbing distance.
Jean dives for the sledgehammer, but he misses.
The crowd is going crazy.
Kevin Cole: Jean misses! He dove for that sledgehammer but came up short!
Chris Zion executes an enzuigiri on Jean.
The arena is exploding in a chorus of boos.
Chris Zion hits a Russian legsweep on Jean.
Chris Zion whips Jean into the ropes.
Jean goes for an Asai moonsault, but Chris Zion side-steps and Jean collides with the ladder.
Kevin Cole: Oh my goodness!
Chris Zion leaves the ring.
Chris Zion returns with a table.
Chris Zion sets Jean up on the table.
Chris Zion tries to climb the ladder.
Chris Zion is on his way up.
Chris Zion is half-way up.
Chris Zion executes an elbow drop on Jean through the table.
The table is broken in half.
Kevin Cole: Elbow drop through the table!
Nik Cain: This is Zion’s first chance to shine in front of a pay per view audience and, after tonight, I think his name will be on the tips of a lot more tongues than it was before.
Chris Zion kicks Jean.
Chris Zion is being booed like there is no tomorrow.
Chris Zion chops Jean.
Jean punches Chris Zion.
The chants for Jean are deafening.
Jean kicks Chris Zion.
Jean executes the Deadly Promise on Chris Zion.
The chants for Jean are deafening.
Kevin Cole: Deadly Promise! Deadly Promise! That’s got to be it!
Jean tries to climb the ladder.
Jean is on his way up.
Jean is half-way up.
Jean is almost on top of the ladder.
Jean is in grabbing distance.
Jean dives for the sledgehammer, but he misses.
The chants for Jean are deafening.
Kevin Cole: No! No!
Nik Cain: That’s twice that Jean had victory in his grasp and let it slip away.
Chris Zion whips Jean into the ropes.
Jean spears Chris Zion into the ladder.
Kevin Cole: Oh my goodness!
Jean sets the ladder back up.
Jean tries to climb the ladder.
Jean is on his way up.
Jean is half-way up.
Jean is almost on top of the ladder.
Jean is in grabbing distance.
Chris Zion knocks him off the ladder.
Chris Zion hits Jean with a butterfly suplex.
Chris Zion suplexes the ladder onto Jean.
Chris Zion places Jean inside the ladder.
Kevin Cole: He isn’t! He wouldn’t!
Nik Cain: Oh he would and I think he’s about to.
Chris Zion executes the Fall From Grace on Jean.
Security guards are restraining some fans from hitting the ring.
Kevin Cole: Oh dear lord!
Nik Cain: Stick a fork in Jean; he’s done. But I don’t think Zion has anything left either.
(After what feels like an eternity, Zion struggles to his feet, bleeding from too many places to count. He rolls the unconscious body of Jean out of the ladder and slowly sets it back up.)
Chris Zion tries to climb the ladder.
Chris Zion is on his way up.
Chris Zion is half-way up.
Chris Zion is almost on top of the ladder.
Chris Zion is in grabbing distance.
Chris Zion has retrieved the kendo stick.
The ring is quickly filling up with debris.
The winner is Chris Zion. Time of match: 0:15:27
Kevin Cole: He got it! Zion got the kendo stick!
Nik Cain: Which means the match is over...but the fun’s just beginning.
(Zion drops back down the mat, kendo stick in hand. He looks over at Jean, who’s barely moving, and gets a huge grin on his face. He briefly pauses to soak up the reaction of the crowd before unleashing his fury on Jean, hitting him over and over again with the kendo stick until, finally, he cracks the kendo stick clean in half. He then looks up and points towards the sledgehammer still hanging from the rafters. The crowd goes nuts again as Zion proceeds to climb the ladder and retrieve it. Atop the ladder he holds his arms out in an almost Christ-like pose, with the sledgehammer dangling from his left hand. Then he simply lets go. The sledgehammer falls and lands right on the midsection of the fallen Jean.)
Kevin Cole: Chris Zion has just beaten the heck out of Jean! The former World Champion is out!
Nik Cain: Medical personnel are attending to both Jean and Zion, while the ring crew clean up the canvas and start to set up for our next match.
Kevin Cole: That next match will be FCW’s first ever Scaffold match! Sambo will take on Oblivion in what will be Sambo's final match.
Nik Cain: The last time Sambo left FCW his final match was against Oblivion. They did battle in the Angel of Death match, another gruesome match we’ll get to see later this evening. Oblivion was the winner that time but, this time, Sambo ain’t just walking away from this company, he’s walking away from this business. So you know he wants to go out in a big way.
Kevin Cole: The scaffold is in place and the ring has been prepared so let’s get back to the ring!
(The camera cuts to the ring, now full of tables, stacked four high. The camera pans up to show the wooden scaffold hanging about fifteen feet above the ring and then back down to the stacks of tables.)
~~~~~
This contest is a Scaffold match scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first...
Fighting out of Loves Park, Illinois...
Weighing in at 247 pounds...
"The Star Player" Sambo
(“Come With Me” by P Diddy plays as Sambo makes his way to the ring. He is showered with a near deafening number of boos from the FCW’s most loyal. But even he’s got a cheering section. He's clutching a small brown paper bag in one hand. The self-professed star of show looks ready to give an award winning performance on this, his last night.)
Kevin Cole: What the heck is in that bag?
Nik Cain: I think we’ll find out soon enough.
His opponent...
Fighting out of A Theater Near You...
Weighing in at 225 pounds...
"The eND Bringer" Oblivion
(The lights in the arena flicker. “Locust Star” by Neurosis starts to play. Oblivion makes his way to the ring. He looks calm...too calm.)
Nik Cain: Watching Oblivion make his way up that scaffold, I can’t help but think back to his infamous Hell in the Cell match against our World Champion, Mark Payne. That match damn near ended both men’s careers, could this match succeed where that one failed?
(Once Oblivion is up on the scaffold and the two men are looking across at each other from either end, Sambo opens the small bag he brought to the ring and sprinkles the contents over the surface of the scaffold. The house lights now reflect off about a couple hundred, brass thumbtacks. Sambo looks about as crazed as he’s ever been but Oblivion seems unconcerned by this new development.)
Kevin Cole: Oh no! Sambo has covered the scaffold in thumbtacks!
Nik Cain: Talk about a man who’ll do anything tonight cuz he knows that he ain’t gonna have a tomorrow.
They lock up.
Sambo hits Oblivion with an elbowsmash.
Oblivion chops Sambo.
The crowd is cheering on Oblivion.
Oblivion punches Sambo.
Oblivion is getting a good reaction from the crowd.
Sambo hits Oblivion.
A small "Sambo" chant is being started.
Sambo chops Oblivion.
A small "Sambo" chant is being started.
Sambo hits Oblivion with a double underhook piledriver.
Kevin Cole: What a piledriver!
Nik Cain: Those two don’t have a lot of room to work with up there, and that scaffold shakes every time they execute any kind of movement. But, that wasn’t enough for Sambo, who felt the need to add thumbtacks into the equation...about half a dozen of which are now stuck in Oblivion’s head.
Sambo executes a spinebuster bomb on Oblivion.
Sambo is getting a good reaction from the crowd.
Sambo executes a fireman's carry into a flapjack on Oblivion.
Kevin Cole: Oblivion’s body is already covered in those thumbtacks!
Nik Cain: Sambo’s got his fair share too since, unlike Oblivion, he does not wear a t-shirt during his matches.
Sambo goes for a Soviet suplex, but Oblivion blocks it.
Oblivion kicks Sambo.
There are lots of chants for Oblivion.
Sambo punches Oblivion.
Sambo punches Oblivion.
The crowd is cheering on Sambo.
Sambo kicks Oblivion.
The crowd is cheering on Sambo.
Sambo goes for a double underhook piledriver, but Oblivion counters it with
a backdrop.
Kevin Cole: Oh my goodness!
Nik Cain: I’m sure that scaffold is secure, but it certainly moves enough to give the illusion that it’s not.
Oblivion tries to throw Sambo off the scaffold.
Sambo blocks it.
Sambo hits Oblivion with a kick.
Sambo hits Oblivion with a spinebuster bomb.
Sambo tries to throw Oblivion off the scaffold.
Oblivion blocks it.
Nik Cain: Neither of these guys is in any hurry to take a header off the scaffold.
Sambo nails Oblivion with a series of kicks to the midsection.
Sambo catches Oblivion in a guillotine choke.
Oblivion is valiantly trying to break the hold.
Oblivion is valiantly trying to break the hold.
Sambo lets go after 15 seconds.
Sambo locks Oblivion in an armbar submission.
Oblivion tries to escape the hold.
Nik Cain: Sambo’s displaying those mat skills that he is renowned for.
Oblivion breaks the hold after being trapped for 19 seconds.
Sambo goes for a spinebuster bomb, but Oblivion counters it with
a swinging neckbreaker.
Oblivion has the crowd going wild.
Oblivion goes for an inverted DDT, but Sambo blocks it.
Sambo executes a T-Bone Suplex on Oblivion.
Sambo executes a kick to the midsection on Oblivion.
Sambo misses with a clothesline.
Oblivion takes Sambo down with a spinebuster bomb.
The crowd is going crazy.
Oblivion nails Sambo with a rabbit punch.
Oblivion nails Sambo with a snap suplex.
Sambo begs off.
Kevin Cole: What a suplex!
Nik Cain: Oblivion really drove those thumbtacks into the back of Sambo that time.
Oblivion goes for an ax kick, but Sambo blocks it.
Sambo goes for an earringer, but Oblivion blocks it.
Oblivion catches Sambo in an octopus hold.
Sambo reaches the ropes after being trapped for 5 seconds.
Oblivion takes Sambo down with a legsweep faceslam.
Oblivion has the crowd going wild.
Sambo is bleeding like hell.
Kevin Cole: Face first into the thumbtacks! Sambo is a bloody mess!
Oblivion hits Sambo with the Michinoku Driver.
Oblivion goes for a kick to the groin, but Sambo counters it with a dragon screw.
Sambo chops Oblivion.
Sambo punches Oblivion.
The crowd erupts.
Oblivion punches Sambo.
The crowd is behind Oblivion all the way.
Sambo hits Oblivion.
Sambo nails Oblivion with a headbutt.
Sambo takes Oblivion down with a double underhook backbreaker.
The crowd is on its feet cheering for Sambo.
Sambo tries to throw Oblivion off the scaffold.
Kevin Cole: Oh no!
Sambo throws Oblivion over the edge of the scaffold but Oblivion hangs on.
Oblivion pulls himself back up.
The crowd is behind Oblivion all the way.
Kevin Cole: Oblivion hangs on!
Nik Cain: Judging by the crowd’s reaction, they all thought Oblivion had a date with all those tables stacked up in the ring and, who knows, maybe he does but not yet.
Sambo hits Oblivion.
Sambo chops Oblivion.
Sambo puts Oblivion in a front facelock.
Oblivion is struggling to reach the ropes.
Oblivion breaks the hold after being trapped for 5 seconds.
Sambo hits Oblivion with a headbutt.
Nik Cain: Sambo’s driving those tacks deeper into Oblivion’s head, but driving them deeper into his own head as well.
Sambo nails Oblivion with a flying forearm.
Sambo goes for an armbar submission, but Oblivion blocks it.
Sambo begs off.
Oblivion goes for a piledriver, but Sambo blocks it.
Sambo executes the End Scene on Oblivion.
Oblivion is valiantly trying to break the hold.
Kevin Cole: End Scene! End Scene! Sambo has Oblivion trapped in the End Scene!
Nik Cain: You can’t win a scaffold match with a submission, but if Sambo can keep Oblivion trapped long enough he’ll probably be able to just roll the barely conscious Oblivion over the side.
Oblivion is writhing in pain.
Oblivion is barely hanging in there.
Oblivion tries to fight the pain.
Oblivion is close to passing out from the pain.
Oblivion summons one last burst of energy.
Oblivion isn't moving anymore.
Sambo lets go after 1 minute.
Sambo tells the fans he is the star of the show.
Sambo executes the End Scene on Oblivion.
Kevin Cole: Sambo slaps the End Scene right back on!
Nik Cain: That guy is too fucking much, taking a break to tell the fans what a star he is.
Oblivion tries to escape the hold.
Oblivion reaches the ropes after being trapped for 24 seconds.
Sambo tries to throw Oblivion off the scaffold.
Oblivion blocks it.
Kevin Cole: No! No! Oblivion refuses to be thrown over the side! Sambo cannot believe it!
Nik Cain: Well, hell, he had Oblivion locked in the End Scene for the better part of two minutes.
Sambo takes Oblivion down with a T-Bone Suplex.
Sambo goes for a cobra clutch, but Oblivion blocks it.
Oblivion is bleeding like hell.
Oblivion nails Sambo with a double arm DDT.
Oblivion executes the eND on Sambo.
Kevin Cole: The eND!
Nik Cain: And it might very well be the end for Sambo.
Oblivion tries to throw Sambo off the scaffold.
Oblivion tosses Sambo off the scaffold.
The crowd is behind Oblivion all the way.
The winner is Oblivion. Time of match: 0:17:55
Kevin Cole: Oh dear lord! Sambo goes sailing over the edge and through about half a stack of tables!
Nik Cain: Call me crazy, but I don’t think Oblivion is done yet.
(Oblivion looks down over the edge of the scaffold at Sambo, who’s smashed through a couple tables and is lying precariously on a cracked third one. Oblivion sizes him up before doing the unthinkable, executing a 450 splash off the scaffold, sending both he and Sambo crashing through the rest of the tables. The crowd goes wild. As their bodies lay covered in thumbtacks and tangled amidst what used to be several tables, we can see a smile on Oblivion’s face. But, what’s more unusual, is that Sambo has one as well.)
Kevin Cole: No! I cannot believe what I’ve just seen!
Nik Cain: Every time someone rivals Oblivion in the insanity department here in FCW, he has to go and do something to raise the bar.
Kevin Cole: Speaking of crazy, I think Brad Steel would have to be to accept our next match! He’ll go one-on-one with the near 400-pound Nimrod in a Chair shot Survival Death Match!
Nik Cain: Well, its gonna take our top-notch ring crew a little while to clear all those tables out of the ring, giving us time to give a little back story. Close to three months ago a guy called Aaron Riddick got on the horn and called up Darian Blaze, pitching an idea for a stable. The rumor was that said stable was designed to rival the up and coming Horsemen of the New Apocalypse faction. To round out the so-called Aces of Fortune, Blaze and Riddick recruited Brad Steel and the monster known as Nimrod. Long story short, Riddick gets crippled at the hands of Monarch and Blaze tries to soldier on in vain. Fast forward to the last pay per view when Brad Steel ends up hooking up with Sambo and going on to capture the World Tag Titles. Though he blames Blaze for the disintegration of the group, the prevailing theory was that Steel had turned his back on the Aces and, more importantly, on Nimrod. And that brings us to tonight’s Chair shot Survival Death match where, to win, you gotta blast your opponent with a chair shot hard enough to keep their ass on the mat for a count of ten.
Kevin Cole: And the ring is finally clear so let’s get to it!
~~~~~
This contest is a Chair shot Survival Death match scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first...
From Philadelphia, Pa...
Weighing in at 255 pounds...
Brad Steel
(“You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar but I Feel Like a Millionaire” by Queens of the Stone Age starts to play. Brad Steel bursts through the curtain, visibly fired up.)
Kevin Cole: Brad Steel is fired up!
Nik Cain: Shit, he’d have to be as fired up as possible just to muster the balls it would take to make it to the ring for a match like this.
His opponent...
Hailing from parts unknown...
Weighing in at 389 pounds...
Nimrod
("Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” by Krzysztof Penderecki begins to play, sending chills throughout the arena. Those chills only get colder as Nimrod emerges from the curtain. Nimrod doesn’t approach the ring...he stalks it.)
Nik Cain: I would not want to be Brad Steel tonight. I mean I never want to be Brad Steel but tonight even less than usual.
They lock up.
Brad Steel takes Nimrod down with a kick to the midsection.
Brad Steel hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Nimrod goes down to one knee.
Kevin Cole: Oh my goodness! Brad Steel wasted no time hitting Nimrod with that chair as hard as he could...and it only brought the big man down to one knee!
Brad Steel executes a half-nelson suplex on Nimrod.
Brad Steel yells to the crowd "Damn I'm Good!"
Brad Steel is getting a good reaction from the crowd.
Brad Steel hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Nimrod goes down to one knee.
Kevin Cole: Steel cannot knock the big man down!
Nik Cain: I think the idea that he may have bitten off more than he can chew is finally sinking into the thick skull of Mr. Steel.
Brad Steel goes for a kick to the midsection, but Nimrod blocks it.
Nimrod hits Brad Steel with an elbowsmash.
Nimrod throws Brad Steel out of the ring.
Nimrod goes through the ropes.
Quite a few boos are audible.
Nimrod whips Brad Steel into the guardrail.
Nimrod nails Brad Steel with a choke slam.
Kevin Cole: Choke slam on the concrete!
Nimrod reenters the ring.
Brad Steel follows him back in.
Nimrod takes Brad Steel down with a full nelson slam.
Nimrod whips Brad Steel into the turnbuckle.
Nimrod whips Brad Steel into the ropes.
Nimrod misses with a clothesline.
Brad Steel hits Nimrod.
Brad Steel hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Nimrod goes down to one knee.
Brad Steel raises the steel chair again but Nimrod punches the chair, driving it into Brad Steel’s face.
Brad Steel is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: Oh dear lord!
Nik Cain: Damn, this match might already be over.
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, Brad Steel gets back to his feet.
Brad Steel is getting a good reaction from the crowd.
Kevin Cole: Steel is back on his feet!
Nik Cain: Sure, for now. But I fully expect to see him back on his ass soon enough.
Nimrod chops Brad Steel.
Nimrod is starting to get under the crowd's skin.
Nimrod hits Brad Steel.
Nimrod punches Brad Steel.
Nimrod throws Brad Steel out of the ring.
Nimrod goes through the ropes.
Nimrod whips Brad Steel into the guardrail.
Nimrod executes a Soviet suplex on Brad Steel.
Nimrod goes for a power bomb, but Brad Steel blocks it.
Brad Steel whips Nimrod into the guardrail.
Brad Steel throws Nimrod back into the ring.
Brad Steel takes Nimrod down with a low blow.
Brad Steel hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Kevin Cole: Steel knocked the Nimrod down!
Nik Cain: Thanks to a well-placed low blow prior to one hell of a chair shot.
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, Nimrod gets back to his feet.
You can hear a few scattered fans booing Nimrod.
Kevin Cole: But Nimrod is back to his feet!
Nik Cain: Knocking him down is hard enough but keeping him down is a whole other ball game. I’m not sure if Steel, or anyone else for that matter, can hit this beast hard enough to keep him down for ten seconds.
Brad Steel hits a chop on Nimrod.
Brad Steel uses a T-Bone Suplex on Nimrod.
Brad Steel whips Nimrod into the ropes.
Nimrod goes for a short lariat, but Brad Steel blocks it.
Brad Steel throws Nimrod out of the ring.
Brad Steel jumps onto him with a running elbowdrop.
Brad Steel whips Nimrod into the guardrail.
Brad Steel knocks Nimrod into the ringsteps.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Nimrod uses a kneelift on Brad Steel.
Nimrod knocks Brad Steel into the ringpost.
A few fans are booing Nimrod.
Kevin Cole: Did you hear that?
Nik Cain: Are you kidding me? That collision was loud enough that I think dead people heard it.
Nimrod reenters the ring.
Brad Steel follows him back in.
Nimrod uses a running lariat on Brad Steel.
Nimrod hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Kevin Cole: Another brutal chair shot to the skull of Brad Steel!
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, Brad Steel gets back to his feet.
The crowd is really behind Brad Steel.
Kevin Cole: But Steel beats the count!
Nik Cain: No matter what else you can or can’t say about Brad Steel, the man has tremendous determination. I guarantee you that it is the only thing keeping him on his feet right now, sheer determination.
Nimrod whips Brad Steel into the ropes.
Nimrod puts Brad Steel in a bearhug.
Brad Steel reaches the ropes after being trapped for 5 seconds.
Nimrod catches Brad Steel in a chokehold.
Brad Steel is struggling to reach the ropes.
Brad Steel tries to escape the hold.
Nimrod lets go after 13 seconds.
Nimrod executes the Thrill Kill on Brad Steel.
A few fans are booing Nimrod.
Kevin Cole: Thrill Kill! Thrill Kill!
Nimrod gets a chokehold on Brad Steel.
Brad Steel reaches the ropes after being trapped for 5 seconds.
Nimrod puts Brad Steel in a bearhug.
Brad Steel reaches the ropes after being trapped for 5 seconds.
Nimrod hits him with a vicious chair shot.
Kevin Cole: Oh dear lord! Brad Steel is down again!
Nik Cain: That’s gotta be it.
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, Brad Steel gets back to his feet.
The crowd is going crazy.
Kevin Cole: No! No! How did Steel beat that count?
Nik Cain: Beats the hell out of me. All modern medical evidence would lead to me believe that, not only should he not be on his feet but he should have been reduced to a fine powder by now.
Brad Steel gives him a jumping elbow thrust, but Nimrod only stares at him.
Nimrod throws Brad Steel out of the ring.
Nimrod goes through the ropes.
Nimrod whips Brad Steel into the guardrail.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Nimrod hits Brad Steel with a full nelson slam.
Nimrod hits Brad Steel with a short lariat.
Kevin Cole: Oh god!
Nik Cain: Nimrod seems hell bent on separating Steel’s head from the rest of his body.
Nimrod knocks Brad Steel into the ringsteps.
Nimrod throws Brad Steel back into the ring.
Brad Steel hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Nimrod goes down to one knee.
Brad Steel executes the Steel-Driver on Nimrod.
Kevin Cole: Steel Driver! Steel Driver! I don’t know how he did it, but Steel got Nimrod up for the Steel Driver!
Brad Steel hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Nik Cain: And puts him down with a chair shot.
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, five, Nimrod gets back to his feet.
Nimrod doesn't quite know what to do with the mixed reaction he's getting.
Kevin Cole: Nimrod is back up!
Nik Cain: And it may have taken everything Steel had left to put Nimrod down that time.
Brad Steel hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Nimrod goes down to one knee.
Brad Steel hits him with a vicious steel chair shot.
Kevin Cole: Two chair shots and Nimrod still won’t go down!
Brad Steel runs into the ropes.
Brad Steel executes a flying forearm with the chair.
(Steel runs full steam into Nimrod. The collision makes a hideous noise as Nimrod falls like a ton of bricks to the mat, a thick gob of blood spilling out of his mouth. The mangled chair goes flying, and Steel collapses, clutching his forearm.)
Kevin Cole: Oh...my...goodness!
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
The crowd is going crazy.
The winner is Brad Steel. Time of match: 0:15:37
Kevin Cole: He’s out! Brad Steel has done the unthinkable and knocked Nimrod out cold!
Nik Cain: But at what cost? It’s very possible that Steel just suffered a broken arm.
Kevin Cole: Well here’s hoping that he is not seriously injured!
Nik Cain: You never want to see a man get injured...well except Evenkiel...I loved that. Man I hope that masochistic bastard is watching this from home and throwing a little fit over how gruesome the show’s been.
Kevin Cole: Well, up next, we’ve got an Angel of Death match between Jay Reno and The Messenger!
Nik Cain: Oblivion himself designed this match and it’s got his handwriting all over it. The ropes are replaced with barbed wire and the object is to place the exhausted and/or unconscious body of your opponent on a cross tightly wrapped in more barbed wire. Oblivion himself has been in four of these, if I recall correctly and is, so far, the only person crazy enough to compete in more than one. Reno’s been tormented by Oblivion and The Messenger for months so tonight is his night. It’s do or die time for Kid Kaos.
~~~~~
This contest is an Angel of Death match scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first...
From parts unknown...
Weighing in at 272 pounds...
The FCW Television Champion...
The Messenger
(The acoustic version of “Temple of the Morning Star” by Today is the Day begins to play as The Messenger makes his way to the ring. His Television Title belt is nowhere to be seen. The black hood of his sweatshirt covers most of his face but what little we do see shows no emotion. He really is like a jacked up, tattooed version of the grim reaper himself.)
Nik Cain: Rocky McCray, John Tatum, Sudden Death. Those are all names of men whose careers are over thanks to that man. I can’t even imagine what is going through Jay Reno’s head right now.
His opponent...
Fighting out of Chicago, Illinois...
Weighing in at 224 pounds...
"Kid Kaos" Jay Reno
(A particularly harsh remix of Nine Inch Nails’ “Head Like a Hole” begins to play as Jay Reno heads to the ring. He looks intense and somewhat crazed. In fact, one can’t help noticing that some of mannerisms actually resemble those of Oblivion.)
They lock up.
The Messenger locks Jay Reno in a Canadian backbreaker.
Jay Reno breaks the hold with a slidedown after 13 seconds.
Jay Reno executes a bulldog on The Messenger.
Jay Reno tells the crowd to be silent.
The crowd is booing Jay Reno.
Nik Cain: This ain’t no tea party Jay. This arena won’t be silent until every last fan has filed out and driven away.
Jay Reno hits neck-scissors on The Messenger.
Jay Reno goes for neck-scissors, but The Messenger ducks out of the way.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno out of the ring.
The Messenger goes through the ropes.
The Messenger knocks Jay Reno into the ringpost.
The Messenger takes Jay Reno down with a Soviet suplex.
The Messenger nails Jay Reno with a spinebuster slam.
The Messenger bows his head in prayer.
The crowd is going crazy.
Kevin Cole: Huge spine buster on the concrete!
Nik Cain: That could break a back...something The Messenger knows a thing or two about doing.
The Messenger goes for a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster, but Jay Reno counters it with
neck-scissors.
Jay Reno whips The Messenger into the guardrail.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Jay Reno goes for a hurracanrana, but The Messenger blocks it.
They're brawling inside the ring area.
The Messenger hits a series of punches to the stomach on Jay Reno.
The Messenger reenters the ring.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the guardrail.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the guardrail.
Jay Reno is busted wide open.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno back into the ring.
Kevin Cole: Jay Reno has been busted wide open!
The Messenger gets a dragon sleeper on Jay Reno.
Jay Reno is valiantly trying to break the hold.
Jay Reno is struggling to reach the ropes.
Jay Reno reaches the ropes after being trapped for 9 seconds.
The Messenger hits a spinebuster slam on Jay Reno.
The Messenger takes Jay Reno down with gutwrench power bomb.
The crowd is behind The Messenger all the way.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno out of the ring.
Nik Cain: So far this is looking less like a wrestling match and more like a one-sided ass beating. Reno really needs to get something going here and fast.
The Messenger goes through the ropes.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the guardrail.
The Messenger knocks Jay Reno into the ringsteps.
The Messenger executes the Message on Jay Reno on the concrete floor.
The chants for The Messenger are deafening.
Jay Reno is out cold.
Kevin Cole: The Message on the concrete! Jay Reno isn’t moving!
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the guardrail.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the guardrail.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno back into the ring.
The Messenger hits the Diamond Dust on Jay Reno.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the barbed wire.
The Messenger uses a head and arm suplex on Jay Reno.
The Messenger takes Jay Reno down with a spinning fisherman suplex.
The chants for The Messenger are deafening.
The Messenger nails Jay Reno with the Emerald Erosion.
The crowd is behind The Messenger all the way.
The Messenger locks Jay Reno in the Kataha-Jime.
Kevin Cole: This is sick! Someone should stop this!
Nik Cain: The fact that The Messenger has made no attempts to actually put Reno on the cross leads me to believe that he’s received strict orders from Oblivion to really make Reno suffer.
Jay Reno summons one last burst of energy.
The Messenger lets go after 42 seconds.
The Messenger goes for a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, but Jay Reno
counters it with neck-scissors.
Jay Reno executes a hurracanrana on The Messenger.
Jay Reno is being booed like there is no tomorrow.
Jay Reno throws The Messenger out of the ring.
Jay Reno goes through the ropes.
Jay Reno nails The Messenger with a facebreaker.
Jay Reno is handed a phone book.
Jay Reno hits him with the phone book.
Jay Reno further incites the crowd.
Jay Reno sets up a table.
Jay Reno sets up The Messenger on the table.
Jay Reno tries to drive The Messenger through the table with a flying bodypress,
but he moves out of the way.
The table is broken in half.
The crowd is going into a frenzy.
Kevin Cole: Oh my goodness!
Nik Cain: Well that window of opportunity just slammed shut right in Reno’s face.
The Messenger nails Jay Reno with a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the guardrail.
The Messenger takes Jay Reno down with a German suplex.
The Messenger goes for a jack-knife power bomb, but Jay Reno blocks it.
Jay Reno executes a facerake on The Messenger.
Jay Reno goes for a standing dropkick, but The Messenger side-steps and Jay Reno
only hits air.
The Messenger nails Jay Reno with a sidewalk slam.
The Messenger knocks Jay Reno into the ringsteps.
The Messenger reenters the ring.
Jay Reno follows him back in.
Jay Reno begs off.
The Messenger executes the Message on Jay Reno.
The crowd is giving The Messenger a standing ovation.
Kevin Cole: Another Message, this one right in the center of the ring!
The Messenger scrapes Jay Reno's face across the barbed wire.
The Messenger chops Jay Reno.
The Messenger chops Jay Reno.
The Messenger punches Jay Reno.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno out of the ring.
The Messenger goes through the ropes.
The Messenger nails Jay Reno with a German suplex.
Nik Cain: I don’t even think The Messenger knows the meaning of the word mercy.
The Messenger knocks Jay Reno into the ringsteps.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno back into the ring.
The Messenger hits Jay Reno with a series of punches to the stomach.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno back into the ring.
The Messenger locks Jay Reno in a double chickenwing submission.
Jay Reno reaches the ropes after being trapped for 6 seconds.
The Messenger takes Jay Reno down with gutwrench power bomb.
The Messenger puts Jay Reno in a chokehold.
Jay Reno is valiantly trying to break the hold.
Jay Reno reaches the ropes after being trapped for 8 seconds.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the barbed wire.
The Messenger goes for a short lariat, but Jay Reno ducks out of the way.
Jay Reno hits a standing dropkick on The Messenger.
Jay Reno uses a dropkick to the face on The Messenger.
Jay Reno tries to put The Messenger on the Barbed Wire Cross.
The Messenger blocks it.
Nik Cain: Reno must have lost so much blood that he’s become delusional cuz there ain’t no way a couple of dropkicks are gonna be enough to put The Messenger away.
Jay Reno chops The Messenger.
The arena is exploding in a chorus of boos.
Jay Reno punches The Messenger.
The arena is exploding in a chorus of boos.
Jay Reno kicks The Messenger.
Jay Reno takes The Messenger down with a dropkick to the knee.
Jay Reno hits a facebreaker on The Messenger.
Numerous fans are using Jay Reno for target practice.
Jay Reno executes the Silencer on The Messenger.
Numerous fans are using Jay Reno for target practice.
Kevin Cole: The Silencer! From out of nowhere Jay Reno connects with the Silencer!
Jay Reno uses a jumping side kick on The Messenger.
Numerous fans are using Jay Reno for target practice.
Jay Reno hits a fireman's carry on The Messenger.
Jay Reno leaves the ring.
He returns with a fire extinguisher.
Jay Reno hits him with the fire extinguisher.
The Messenger is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: What a shot! Now it’s The Messenger who has been busted open!
Jay Reno whips The Messenger into the barbed wire.
Jay Reno hits a Cradle DDT on The Messenger.
Security guards are restraining some fans from hitting the ring.
Jay Reno tries to put The Messenger on the Barbed Wire Cross.
Kevin Cole: No! The Messenger will not be put on the cross!
Nik Cain: The Messenger outweighs Reno by about fifty pounds and is built like a brick shit house. Getting him on that cross is not going to be easy, especially given the beating he’s sustained thus far.
The Messenger blocks it.
Jay Reno hits a hurracanrana on The Messenger.
The decibel level in the building is unbelievable.
Jay Reno executes the Silencer on The Messenger.
The decibel level in the building is unbelievable.
Kevin Cole: Another Silencer!
Jay Reno executes an armdrag takedown on The Messenger.
Jay Reno whips The Messenger into the barbed wire.
Jay Reno nails The Messenger with a facebreaker.
Jay Reno hits him with the fire extinguisher.
Jay Reno executes the Silencer on The Messenger.
The decibel level in the building is unbelievable.
Kevin Cole: And a third!
Nik Cain: The Messenger probably could have had this match won earlier but chose to prolong it. It’s a decision that may very well end up costing him this match.
Jay Reno goes for a triangle choke, but The Messenger blocks it.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno out of the ring.
The Messenger goes through the ropes.
The Messenger knocks Jay Reno into the ringpost.
The Messenger reenters the ring.
Jay Reno follows him back in.
The Messenger kicks Jay Reno.
The crowd is on its feet cheering for The Messenger.
Jay Reno kicks The Messenger.
The Messenger chops Jay Reno.
The crowd is behind The Messenger all the way.
The Messenger punches Jay Reno.
Kevin Cole: The Messenger has taken three Silencers but he just keeps on coming!
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the barbed wire.
The Messenger goes for a spinebuster slam, but Jay Reno counters it with
a swinging neckbreaker.
Numerous fans are using Jay Reno for target practice.
Jay Reno hits The Messenger with a fireman's carry.
Jay Reno tries to put The Messenger on the Barbed Wire Cross.
The Messenger blocks it.
The Messenger goes for a Soviet suplex, but Jay Reno blocks it.
Jay Reno takes The Messenger down with a bulldog.
Jay Reno whips The Messenger into the barbed wire.
Jay Reno nails The Messenger with a Cradle DDT.
Numerous fans are using Jay Reno for target practice.
Kevin Cole: What a DDT!
Jay Reno tries to put The Messenger on the Barbed Wire Cross.
Jay Reno puts The Messenger on the Barbed Wire Cross.
The Messenger gets off the Barbed Wire Cross.
Kevin Cole: Reno gets The Messenger on the cross but cannot keep him there!
Nik Cain: He didn’t succeed, but he still managed to open up several lacerations on the back of The Messenger. I guess he’ll have a new set of scars to match the bunch he’s still sporting after his Glass Death Match with the Paladin a couple months ago.
The Messenger reenters the ring.
The Messenger throws Jay Reno out of the ring.
The Messenger goes through the ropes.
The Messenger knocks Jay Reno into the ringsteps.
The Messenger goes for a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster, but Jay Reno blocks it.
Jay Reno takes The Messenger down with a Russian legsweep.
Jay Reno knocks The Messenger into the ringsteps.
The arena is exploding in a chorus of boos.
Jay Reno reenters the ring.
The Messenger follows him back in.
Jay Reno whips The Messenger into the turnbuckle.
Jay Reno runs shoulder-first into the corner.
Jay Reno goes for a hurracanrana, but The Messenger counters it with a Hotshot.
The Messenger executes a series of forearm smashes on Jay Reno.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the barbed wire.
The Messenger uses a series of punches to the stomach on Jay Reno.
The chants for The Messenger are deafening.
Kevin Cole: The Messenger is relentless!
The Messenger executes a spinebuster slam on Jay Reno.
The Messenger bows his head in prayer.
The chants for The Messenger are deafening.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the barbed wire.
Jay Reno is bleeding profusely.
The Messenger whips Jay Reno into the barbed wire, but Jay Reno reverses it.
Jay Reno throws The Messenger out of the ring.
Jay Reno goes for a slingshot somersault plancha, but The Messenger
moves out of the way.
Kevin Cole: Nobody home!
The Messenger executes the Message on Jay Reno on the concrete floor.
Jay Reno is out cold.
Kevin Cole: Another Message on the concrete!
The Messenger reenters the ring.
Jay Reno follows him back in.
The Messenger tries to put Jay Reno on the Barbed Wire Cross.
Jay Reno blocks it.
Kevin Cole: Reno blocks it! Reno refuses to be defeated!
Nik Cain: You can learn a hundred suplexes and a thousand submissions. But you can’t learn heart like that; you gotta be born with it.
Jay Reno goes for a fireman's carry, but The Messenger counters it with
a choke sleeper.
Jay Reno reaches the ropes after being trapped for 5 seconds.
The Messenger tries to put Jay Reno on the Barbed Wire Cross.
Jay Reno blocks it.
The Messenger grinds Jay Reno’s face into the Barbed Wire Cross.
Kevin Cole: I think I’m going to be sick!
The Messenger hits Jay Reno with a series of forearm smashes.
Jay Reno is bleeding profusely.
The Messenger locks Jay Reno in a cobra clutch.
Jay Reno reaches the ropes after being trapped for 5 seconds.
The Messenger executes a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster across the Barbed Wire Cross on Jay Reno.
The crowd is on its feet cheering for The Messenger.
Kevin Cole: Oh...dear...lord!
The Messenger tries to put Jay Reno on the Barbed Wire Cross.
The Messenger puts Jay Reno on the Barbed Wire Cross.
The attendants carry Jay Reno back to the locker room.
The crowd is going into a frenzy.
The winner is The Messenger. Time of match: 0:24:05
Kevin Cole: And this one is mercifully over!
(The Messenger bows his head in prayer over the body of Jay Reno as medical personnel very cautiously come to attend to him.)
Nik Cain: I’ve never witnessed a human sacrifice, but I’m guessing that, on the creep-out meter, it ranks only slightly higher than this.
Kevin Cole: As horrible as this match was, I believe this next one is even worse! I cannot believe that James Crawford would allow a match whose end result will be a hanging!
Nik Cain: I’m a little surprised myself. But I think Crawford just figures that if he doesn’t stick Monarch and Blaze in this cage tonight, they’d just try and kill each other in the parking lot, locker room, or somewhere else instead. This feud has been building for months and months. These two have never gotten along. And, tonight, one of them will put the limp body of the other into that noose and the cage will be raised, albeit briefly, for dramatic effect. To say this is a dangerous match is to make an understatement.
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This contest is a Lynch Mob match scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first...
Hailing from The Streets Of America...
Weighing in at 285 pounds...
"King of the Rotten" Monarch
“In America today, every twenty five fucking seconds someone is viciously raped; someone is brutally violated. Two hundred and fifty times a today someone is murdered; someone’s life is taken in America. This is America! This is America! And I love America! I love America!”
(With that, “Big God/Raped Souls” by Fear Factory begins to play and Monarch makes his way to the ring. He has a microphone in hand. As he reaches the ringside area, he walks over to the cage door and slowly enters. Once in the center of the ring, he looks at the noose that now dangles down from the roof of the cage.)
Monarch: Blaze, you want to talk about the past? You want to talk about the future? Look at this noose, boy. This noose is your past and it’s damn sure gonna be your future too. So get your ass out here.
(No sooner do those words escape Monarch’s lips than “Renegade” by Jay Z and Eminem starts to play.)
His opponent...
Led to the ring by Lauren Washington...
From Santa Monica, California...
Weighing in at 273 pounds...
"Mr. Moonlight" Darian Blaze
(Blaze walks down the aisle escorted by the lovely Lauren, who is seen hanging on his right arm. Blaze sits Lauren down next to the timekeeper's table. Blaze walks up towards the cage and begins to feel around the cold, steel bars. Blaze grabs a steel chair and takes with him. As he steps into the cage, he tosses the chair down on the mat and marches right up to Monarch. The two are nose to nose and you can feel the tension...you can feel that shit’s about to erupt. And then, suddenly, it does.)
They lock up.
Monarch hits Darian Blaze.
Monarch hits Darian Blaze.
Darian Blaze chops Monarch.
The crowd is really behind Darian Blaze.
Darian Blaze kicks Monarch.
Monarch chops Darian Blaze.
Monarch is starting to get under the crowd's skin.
Kevin Cole: And they’re off!
Darian Blaze kicks Monarch.
The crowd is really behind Darian Blaze.
Darian Blaze whips Monarch into the cage.
Darian Blaze gets the torture rack on Monarch.
Monarch breaks the hold after 14 seconds.
Monarch punches Darian Blaze.
Monarch punches Darian Blaze.
Monarch executes a short lariat on Darian Blaze.
Monarch whips Darian Blaze into the ropes, but Darian Blaze reverses it.
Darian Blaze back drops Monarch into the cage.
The crowd is behind Darian Blaze all the way.
Kevin Cole: Oh my!
Nik Cain: That cage doesn’t have a lot of give on it and the steel can and will cut you.
Darian Blaze uses a running diamond cutter on Monarch.
The crowd is giving Darian Blaze a standing ovation.
Darian Blaze goes for a corkscrew legdrop, but Monarch rolls out of the way.
Monarch places Darian Blaze on the turnbuckle.
Monarch nails Darian Blaze with a top-rope power bomb.
Kevin Cole: Top rope power bomb!
Monarch tries to put Darian Blaze in the noose.
Darian Blaze blocks it.
Nik Cain: But Blaze ain’t done for yet, not by a long shot.
Monarch goes for a headbutt, but Darian Blaze blocks it.
Darian Blaze runs into the ropes.
Monarch and Darian Blaze get hit with a double clothesline.
Monarch goes for a German suplex, but Darian Blaze counters it with
an elbowsmash.
Darian Blaze hits a front-layout suplex on Monarch.
The crowd is giving Darian Blaze a standing ovation.
Darian Blaze nails Monarch with a guillotine drop onto the top rope.
The crowd is going into a frenzy.
Darian Blaze grinds Monarch’s face into the cage.
Monarch is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: Monarch has been busted open!
Darian Blaze catches Monarch in the torture rack.
Monarch tries to escape the hold.
Darian Blaze lets go after 11 seconds.
Darian Blaze hits Monarch with a superkick.
Kevin Cole: Super kick right to the jaw!
Darian Blaze sits back in the turnbuckle motioning to his opponent to bring it.
The crowd is behind Darian Blaze all the way.
Darian Blaze hits a superkick on Monarch.
Kevin Cole: And another!
(Blaze sets the steel-chair in the middle of the ring up. He brawls with Monarch, and slings him to the turnbuckle. Blaze runs in with a flurry of haymakers, and stiff kicks to the arms, and kidney. Blaze backs off, Monarch charges in Blaze catches him in a spine buster, banging the back of Monarch's head on the set-up steel chair, effectively bending it in half. The crowd groans at the sickening thud of impact.)
Kevin Cole: Oh...dear...lord!
Darian Blaze tries to put Monarch in the noose.
Monarch blocks it.
Kevin Cole: No!
Nik Cain: I think the only way to win this one is to knock your opponent out and hope you’ve still got enough left to hoist their limp body up and get their head in the noose. And, since both of these guys are pushing the 300-pound mark, neither one is all that easy to pick up.
Darian Blaze hits Monarch with a shoulder lift into a flapjack.
Darian Blaze gets a figure-four leglock on Monarch.
Monarch is valiantly trying to break the hold.
Nik Cain: Blaze wisely goes to work on the surgically repaired knee of Monarch.
Monarch breaks the hold after 8 seconds.
Monarch hits a powerslam on Darian Blaze.
Monarch is eliciting a sizable round of boos.
Monarch rams Darian Blaze’s face into the cage.
Monarch hits Darian Blaze with a series of forearms to the back of the head.
Darian Blaze is busted wide open.
Kevin Cole: Monarch just keeps driving Blaze’s face into that unforgiving steel with those brutal forearm shots! Blaze has been busted wide open!
Nik Cain: Monarch’s background as a street fighter definitely gives him an edge in a match like this.
Monarch nails Darian Blaze with a fist to the midsection.
Monarch hits Darian Blaze with an inverted powerslam.
Monarch is being booed like there is no tomorrow.
Monarch goes for a short lariat, but Darian Blaze counters it with a hiptoss.
Darian Blaze goes for a running diamond cutter, but Monarch blocks it.
Monarch whips Darian Blaze into the ropes.
Monarch hits Darian Blaze with a shoulderblock.
Monarch nails Darian Blaze with an inverted power bomb.
Monarch further incites the crowd.
Nik Cain: This crowd is firmly behind Darian Blaze, and Monarch seems to be loving it.
Monarch attempts to place Darian Blaze on the turnbuckle, but Darian Blaze
blocks it.
Darian Blaze goes for a spinebuster slam, but Monarch counters it with a lariat.
Monarch hits a pumphandle powerslam on Darian Blaze.
The arena is exploding in a chorus of boos.
Monarch shouts "Bow Before Monarch!"
Monarch further incites the crowd.
Monarch hits a pumphandle powerslam on Darian Blaze.
The arena is exploding in a chorus of boos.
Monarch tries to put Darian Blaze in the noose.
Darian Blaze blocks it.
Kevin Cole: Two huge pump handle power slams but Darian Blaze refuses to allow himself to be placed in that noose!
Monarch places Darian Blaze on the turnbuckle.
Monarch executes a belly-to-back superplex on Darian Blaze.
Monarch shouts "Bow Before Monarch!"
The arena is exploding in a chorus of boos.
Kevin Cole: Big time suplex from the top!
Nik Cain: And Monarch continues to antagonize this largely pro-Blaze crowd.
Monarch nails Darian Blaze with a lariat.
Monarch goes for an inverted atomic drop, but Darian Blaze blocks it.
Darian Blaze goes for a thrust kick to the head, but Monarch
ducks out of the way.
Monarch nails Darian Blaze with a spinning power bomb.
Numerous fans are using Monarch for target practice.
Monarch goes for a choke slam, but Darian Blaze counters it with an elbowsmash.
Darian Blaze executes the Moonlight Special on Monarch.
The crowd is going into a frenzy.
Kevin Cole: He got him! Darian Blaze just hit Monarch with the Moonlight Special from seemingly out of nowhere! I thought for sure he was finished!
Darian Blaze tries to put Monarch in the noose.
Monarch blocks it.
Kevin Cole: No! No! Monarch will not be put away! Not even after the Moonlight Special!
Darian Blaze goes for an armbar submission, but Monarch blocks it.
Monarch goes for a German suplex, but Darian Blaze blocks it.
Darian Blaze hits Monarch.
Darian Blaze hits Monarch.
Darian Blaze gets a scorpion deathlock STF on Monarch.
Monarch breaks the hold after 6 seconds.
Monarch goes for a backdrop driver, but Darian Blaze flips over.
Darian Blaze nails Monarch with a German suplex.
Darian Blaze nails Monarch with an elbowdrop from the second turnbuckle.
The chants for Darian Blaze are deafening.
Kevin Cole: Darian Blaze has taken control of this match up! And I can barely hear myself over these cheers!
Nik Cain: Unfortunately, I can still hear you.
Darian Blaze takes Monarch down with a running diamond cutter.
The crowd is behind Darian Blaze all the way.
Darian Blaze goes for an Asai moonsault, but Monarch counters it with
a shoulder breaker.
The decibel level in the building is unbelievable.
Kevin Cole: Monarch catches Blaze in mid-air!
Monarch runs into the ropes.
Darian Blaze hits Monarch with an elbow.
Darian Blaze goes for brain buster into seated power bomb, but Monarch
counters it with a vertical suplex.
Monarch scrapes Darian Blaze's face across the cage.
Monarch whips Darian Blaze into the ropes, but Darian Blaze reverses it.
Monarch hits Darian Blaze with a shoulderblock.
Monarch places Darian Blaze on the turnbuckle.
Monarch hits a top-rope German Suplex on Darian Blaze.
Security guards are restraining some fans from hitting the ring.
Kevin Cole: Oh my goodness! German suplex off the top rope!
Nik Cain: Blaze looks like he’s out.
Monarch locks Darian Blaze in a choke lift.
Darian Blaze is valiantly trying to break the hold.
Darian Blaze is struggling to reach the ropes.
Darian Blaze reaches the ropes after being trapped for 26 seconds.
Monarch executes the Fall Of Western Civilization on Darian Blaze.
The decibel level in the building is unbelievable.
Monarch gives the sign for the Fall of Western Civilization.
Kevin Cole: Not another one! Don’t do this!
Monarch executes the Fall Of Western Civilization on Darian Blaze.
The decibel level in the building is unbelievable.
Kevin Cole: A second Fall of Western Civilization on a barely conscious Darian Blaze!
Monarch tries to put Darian Blaze in the noose.
Monarch puts Darian Blaze in the noose.
Monarch gives the signal to raise the cage.
Security guards are restraining some fans from hitting the ring.
The winner is Monarch. Time of match: 0:15:06
(In dramatic fashion, the cage is slowly raised about a foot and a half up, signaling the end of the match.)
Kevin Cole: This gruesome match is over! Someone just lower the cage and get Blaze out of there.
(The camera quickly cuts to the man in charge of raising and lowering the cage. We see him get blind-sided by Samson. The man is knocked down to the floor and is seemingly out cold.)
Kevin Cole: Oh no! Blaze is trapped! Somebody get some help out here!
(As if on cue, “plan B” rushes to the ring. It consists of three security guards, a stepladder, and a pair of bolt cutters. But, as the first two men try to slide into the ring, Monarch is there to meet them with boots to the back and head. He grabs the ladder, waits for the third guard to get into the ring and hits him in the face with it, sending him crashing to the mat. He sets the ladder up near Blaze, who is squirming every which way, trying to find a way to free himself. Monarch grabs the bolt cutters and scales the ladder, watching as Blaze starts to loose consciousness. We can hear Lauren Washington screaming in horror in the background as he struggles less and less until, finally, he is barely moving at all. It is only then that Monarch uses the bolt cutters to cut the rope, sending Blaze crashing down to the mat in a heap. As he lays on the mat, gasping for air, Monarch holds his arms up in victory amidst a shower of garbage, most of which is deflected by the partially raised cage.)
Kevin Cole: Monarch is sick! He has no place in civilized society!
Nik Cain: Hey, the man said exactly what he was going to do here tonight; he said he was going to lynch Darian Blaze in front of a nation-wide audience. He may be a bastard, but he’s pretty damned up front about it.
Kevin Cole: Well we have got to take a short intermission as we try and get this cage lifted. But, up next, a three-way dance for the World Tag Titles!