Post by Slade on Jun 17, 2018 13:24:46 GMT -5
Season 2, Episode 32
From the Temple in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Commentary Team: Matt Striker and Vampiro
Ring Announcer: Melissa Santos
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Cesaro defeated Mil Muertes by pinfall to qualify for the finals of the MUW Men’s World Championship Title tournament, to be held next week. This battle between the Swiss Superman and the Man of a Thousand Deaths was highly competitive. Cesaro was at his best when employing a mix of power and technical proficiency, while Mil Muertes was at his best when employing a mix of power and brawling proficiency. There are few who can survive the violent brawling of Mil Muertes, but Cesaro showed he was up to the task. Conversely, there are few who can keep up with Cesaro’s energy. Like the Energizer bunny, he keeps going and going, but like other dead men we know, when Mil Muertes gets knocked down, he keeps getting right back up again. Several near falls were made by both luchadores and there was no clear nor discernible victor in sight until the Ultimate Warrior showed up. He didn’t interfere with the contest taking place in the ring, rather he showed up when least expect, and once again ripped Catrina’s stone out of her hands and ran off with it. the wind in Mil Muertes’ sails seemed to die off after that. He continued to battle but started to struggle to get up after each of Cesaro’s attacks. Finally, when Cesaro executed a second Neutralizer – Mil Muertes kicked out of one before Ultimate Warrior’s run-in – Mil Muertes was unable to kick out of the ensuing pinfall.
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We enter Dario Cueto’s office, where we find him meeting with Paige. He pours them both a drink before apologizing to her for what happened to her last week in the Last Luchadora Standing Match. He wanted badly to see her win and go on to beat Chyna for the MUW Women’s Championship at Ultima Lucha Dos because it would be the ultimate redemption story, which is something he loves, especially when one finds redemption at the expense of Alberto El Patron (much like Cueto did at Aztec Warfare II). But just because she can’t go on to Ultima Lucha Dos to get her redemption doesn’t mean that she can’t have it, which is why next week, Dario Cueto wants to offer Paige the opportunity to get her redemption in a match against Alberto El Patron. Paige loves the idea and she wants to get her revenge on him more than anything in the world but wonders how Cueto will be able to make the match happen because she knows he has no control over the Latino World Order. Cueto tells her that he’ll have it all sorted out by the end of the need. He promises. Then, they clink their glasses and drink to finding redemption at the expense of Alberto El Patron.
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Prince Puma defeated The Patriot by pinfall to qualify for the finals of the MUW Men’s World Championship Title tournament, to be held next week. Puma used his speed throughout the match to stay one step ahead of The Patriot, who was playing catch-up for the first half of the contest. He’d gain control of the match momentarily at times, but then relinquish it back to Puma, who was just too difficult to keep down simply by using power moves on him. When Puma went to the top rope to go for the diving 630 senton, Jim Duggan and Sgt Slaughter interfered to prevent him from executing it, which both enabled The Patriot to take control of the contest and brought Psicosis and Super Crazy out to attack them with chairs. Having neutralized The Patriot’s Real American running mates, it was all down to the luchador and the wrestler in the ring to figure out who was the best. The Patriot hit Puma with a Patriot Missile and pinned him, but Puma kicked out. When he attempted the Uncle Sam Slam, Puma reversed the move into a crucifix pin that nearly won him the match. He’d have to battle a little while longer before performing a rolling thunder into a jumping DDT, which set him up for the diving 630 senton that once landed won him the match.
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In the Temple locker room, we see “Macho King” Randy Savage finish lacing up his boots. After he places his royal crown on his head and his royal sceptre in his hand, he shuts his locker door and turns to the exit. At that moment, the door opens and Shinsuke Nakamura enters. Savage says, “Well, well, well, if it isn’t the ‘King of Strong Style’” before ranting about how he himself should be in tonight’s ladder match, telling Nakamura that he doesn’t deserve to be in it, and reminding him that the last time they met the King of Strong Style was stuck to the canvas looking up at the Macho King’s hand as it was raised in victory. Nakamura tells him he doesn’t remember that, but what he does remember is beating him in a singles contest, getting hit over the head with his sceptre in a rematch, and then watching as the Macho King failed to make it past the second round of the MUW Men’s World Championship Title Match tournament. Savage looks angry but composes himself better saying that tonight he’s going to enjoy watching Nakamura fail to climb the ladder and retrieve the gold medals. Nakamura says Savage should bet on him winning, but Savage says that if he were a betting man, he’d bet on anyone else. Then, he excuses himself because his match is next.
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“Macho King” Randy Savage defeated Heath Slater by pinfall. This match was a simple palate cleanser between the semi-final tournament bouts and the main event ladder match still to come. It went about two and a half minutes and saw Slater execute a neckbreaker, but otherwise take a lot of abuse in route to earning enough money to feed his kids for another week. Savage won the match after giving Slater an atomic drop, clothesline, and then a vertical suplex to get him in place for his big diving elbow drop, which he dropped right into the centre of Slater’s chest.
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Famous B enters Dario Cueto’s office to tell him that, after a long arduous search all over the Americas, he’s found the perfect client to bring into the Temple – someone who he’ll make famous, and who will make Dario Cueto millions and millions of dollars – and if El Jefe wants to ride Famous B’s client all the way to the bank, all he has to do is give him a match at Ultima Lucha Dos. Cueto is sceptical that Famous B has found someone of that calibre to manage, so he says he can’t give him a match. However, what he can do is give his client a chance to impress him in a 20-luchador battle royal in which the winner will receive a unique opportunity. Famous B says he’ll take that offer and the unique opportunity when his client wins.
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Before the main event begins, Eddie Guerrero enters the Temple without any other members of the LWO. He enters the ring and starts complaining about Dario Cueto’s treatment of him and his Latino brothers and sisters for leaving them out of the MUW World Men’s Championship title shot tournament. He complains that he hasn’t even been booked for a single match since Dario Cueto returned to the Temple at Aztec Warfare II, and he isn’t happy about it because he knows he’s the best luchador in the world, and the only reason he came here in the first place was to win championships and raise the prestige of this lucha promotion to be the equal of some other MUW territories, where he could easily go make big bucks and win all the gold he wants. Guerrero says that he’s basically only here as a favour to Cueto, but since Cueto doesn’t appreciate that, he’ll be happy to see Cueto lose the Temple at Ultima Lucha Dos.
Finally, Dario Cueto comes out of his office. He asks Guerrero what he’s doing here and why he’s interrupting his lucha show before telling he knows damn well why he hasn’t been booked for a match in months – because he decided to take up sides with his enemy, Alberto El Patron. Then, Cueto says that he loves to give the Believers what they want, which is why he’s thinking about giving Eddie the opportunity to show the world why he’s so confident he can be champion. Cueto says he’ll offer him the chance to be in the main event ladder match – with a Lucha Underground Championship title shot on the line – if he gives him something in return. Eddie asks him what it is. Dario says he wants Alberto El Patron to come to the Temple for a match against Paige, next week. Eddie agrees. Cueto knows he’s a liar, cheat and thief, so he tells him that if Alberto doesn’t come for his match next week, Eddie will be stripped of the title shot should he win it and he’ll be barred from the Temple at Ultima Lucha Dos, thus making the Ultima Lucha de Apuestas match a handicap match. Eddie says okay to that, so Cueto says let’s start this ladder match right now – “RING THE BELL!
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Kurt Angle defeated Eddie Guerrero, Juventud Guerrera, Rey Mysterio Jr., Shinsuke Nakamura, and Ultimate Warrior by climbing a ladder and retrieving his Olympic Gold Medals, which were hanging above the ring. In doing so, he regains ownership of his medals and earns an opportunity to compete for the Lucha Underground Championship against “The Monster” Matanza Cueto at Ultima Lucha Dos!
Almost as soon as the bell rang to start this match, Ultimate Warrior was already taken out of it by a very pissed off Mil Muertes, who showed up to exact revenge for the theft of his mystical stone. Mil Muertes and Ultimate Warrior brawled all over the Temple and eventually disappeared out of sight of the Believers and the video cameras in the Temple.
This leaves Angle, Guerrera, Guerrero, Mysterio, and Nakamura to play with ladders, and that they did. There were a number of exciting spots involving ladders. A few of those spots included: Mysterio giving Nakamura a springboard leg drop as he was laying on a ladder; Guerrero giving Angle a frog splash as he was sandwiched between two ladders; Guerrera running up a closed ladder leaning on the top rope to perform a corkscrew plancha in a sea of luchadors on the floor; Nakamura delivering a Bomaye knee strike from the turnbuckle into the side of Guerrera’s head as he climbed a ladder in the centre of the ring; and Angle flinging each of his opponents, one after the other, into ladders that were leaning against the turnbuckles with overhead belly-to-belly suplexes.
After Angle gave everyone overhead belly-to-bellies, he grabbed a ladder and set it up. He was poised to get to his Olympic Gold Medals, but then the ladder was typed over by the Ultimate Warrior! He had returned at the worst time for Angle. The Warrior, who had Mil Muertes’ mystical stone in hand hit Angle over the head with it and then gave him a gorilla press drop onto a ladder. Just as he finished setting up a ladder, he saw Mil Muertes charging, with a limp, towards the ring. The Warrior picked up the stone and abandoned the ladder and the ring altogether.
Guerrera was the first luchador to get up and start climbing the ladder. Guerrero got up and climbed the other side. They traded blows at the top of the ladder before Guerrero knocked Guerrera to the mat. As Latino Heat got his fingertips on the medals, Nakamura began to push the ladder over. As it went down, Guerrero jumped from it and landed on Guerrera with a frog splash! Moments later, as he sat up, clutching his ribs, Guerrero was knocked unconscious with the Bomaye!
It was Nakamura’s turn to for the medals, but he would be denied his opportunity as “Macho King” Randy Savage ran out, climbed the other side of the ladder and knocked Nakamura off it with a blow to the side of the head from his royal sceptre!
It was down to Mysterio and Angle, who both went to the ladder, but then left it alone to battle. Mysterio eventually got Angle into position for the Six-One-Nine, but as it attempted it, Angle blocked and countered it into an ankle lock! Mysterio hobbled up to one foot, while still in the ankle lock and broke the hold with an enzuigiri kick. He went to the ropes to go for what looked like a springboard tornado DDT, but Angle caught him and used Mysterio’s moment against him to execute an Angle Slam! Then, he climbed up the ladder and retrieved his gold medals!
Angle’s celebration was cut short when Dario Cueto emerged from his office to congratulation Angle on winning the match and for getting his Olympic Gold Medals back. However, he reminded him that he also won a Lucha Underground Championship title match at Ultima Lucha Dos against his brother, Matanza Cueto – who, by the way, was not too happy about Angle did to his ankle 6 weeks ago and who was very eager to let him know it. Just like that, Matanza slid into the ring and attacked Angle from behind. His vicious beat down ended with the delivery of a Wrath of the Gods onto a ladder! The show ended with Dario Cueto standing over top of Angle’s lifeless body and holding the Lucha Underground Championship, and Matanza’s cell door key both high up in the air.
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