Post by Slade on Sept 9, 2019 17:06:46 GMT -5
Season 3, Episode 25
From the Temple in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Commentary Team: Matt Striker and Famous B
Ring Announcer: Melissa Santos
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We open this week’s show inside Antonio Cueto’s office. It is empty, but then the door slowly creaks open. Cortez Castro, a local gangbanger who used to do dirty jobs for Dario Cueto, walks in. He starts looking around shelves, inside desk drawers, and basically all over the place in search of something. As he’s doing this, the door opens again, and he stops. Antonio Cueto is entering the office and he sees Castro. He demands to know who he is and what he’s doing there. Castro identifies himself as an employee of Antonio’s deceased son. He says that he just came in looking for the money he’s owed. Since Dario’s death, he hasn’t been paid, and he needs to eat. Antonio says that because Dario is dead, Castro doesn’t have a job anymore and tells him to get out of his office before he has to force him out. Castro isn’t afraid of an old man, but then entering the room behind Antonio is the Ultimate Warrior. Castro tells him he’s going and he walks by the two of them without incident. After the Ultimate Warrior shuts the door, Antonio tells him that Cortez Castro will have to be eliminated.
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VS. VS. VS.
SEMI-FINALS OF THE DARIO CUETO LUCHADORES CUP TOURNAMENT
Prince Puma vs. Magnum T.A. vs. Samoa Joe vs. Pentagon DARK
SEMI-FINALS OF THE DARIO CUETO LUCHADORES CUP TOURNAMENT
Prince Puma vs. Magnum T.A. vs. Samoa Joe vs. Pentagon DARK
The first match of the evening pitted one of the best pure athletes in lucha history, versus a powerful stud, a powerful submission specialist, and a slow and methodical luchador skilled in the art of torturing his opponents. It was as much a contrast of styles as one could imagine, but it was also made for a mish-mash of styles that created a highly competitive and entertaining lucha libre contest. The two most powerful luchadores in the match got out to an early advantage and ended up in an old-fashioned fist fight, with some knife-edge chops thrown in for good measure. Joe and T.A. traded suplexes until Puma and Pentagon attacked their opponents with a variety of kicks that got them out of the ring. Then, they squared off. Pentagon kicked at Puma’s calf muscles to try to cut him down, but Puma used great speed to take Pentagon down with tilt-a-whirl headscissors, a hurricanrana and a slingshot tornado DDT.
The match progressed with everyone getting a turn in the driver’s seat. T.A. doled out back body drops, suplexes, and powerslams to his opponents. Pentagon executed enzuigiri kicks, slingblades and a diving double-foot stomp to his opponents. Joe gave running senton bombs, powerslams, a Samoan drop, and a powerbomb transitioned into a single-leg crab to his opponents. Puma gave his opponents a rolling thunder into a DDT, a springboard shooting star press, a lionsault, and a northern lights suplex rolled into a deadlift vertical suplex. Everyone was clearly giving it their all.
Some of the action spilled out to the floor. Joe hit T.A. with a tope suicida. Puma took them both out with a no hands over-the-top-rope corkscrew moonsault plancha. Then, Pentagon took all three of them out with a tope con hilo. As soon as he was on his feet again, Pentagon was dropped with a hard clothesline from behind by Kevin Owens. He continued his assault by giving Pentagon not one but two powerbombs on the side of the ring apron! Pentagon was unable to continue in the match. As the other three brawled around the ring, EMTs came out to remove Pentagon from the Temple on a stretcher. Back in the ring, Puma nearly won the match when he went for the 630-degree senton bomb on Joe, but he rolled out of the way. T.A. picked up Puma and gave him a side belly-to-belly suplex, but he couldn’t capitalize as Joe pulled him into a Coquina Clutch and brought him down to the mat into a body scissors. Without any hope of escaping, T.A. had to tap out.
Samoa Joe defeated Prince Puma, Magnum T.A., Pentagon DARK by pinfall to advance to next week’s finals of the Dario Cueto Luchadores Cup tournament against the winner of this evening’s main event.
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VS.
SEMI-FINAL MATCH IN THE DARIO CUETO LUCHADORAS CUP TOURNAMENT
Taya Valkyrie vs. Awesome Kong
SEMI-FINAL MATCH IN THE DARIO CUETO LUCHADORAS CUP TOURNAMENT
Taya Valkyrie vs. Awesome Kong
Taya Valkyrie defeated Awesome Kong by pinfall to move on to next week’s Luchadoras Cup finals. It is what some might consider to be an upset, but Taya was very impressive and more than met the challenge of arguably the fiercest female luchadora of all-time. Kong brought her A-game, hitting Taya with clubbing blows and giving her power moves like a spinebuster, a sidewalk slam, a chokeslam, and a seated-senton, but none of these moves kept Taya down for long the 3-count. Taya delivered superkicks, back thrust kicks, and dropkicks. She even showed off her power by surprisingly giving Kong a side belly-to-back suplex. The end of the match seemed to come from out of nowhere. Kong placed Taya on the top turnbuckle and tried climbing up, presumably to go for a superplex, but Taya blocked her ascent with enough punches, elbows and headbutts to knock Kong down to the mat. Then, she gave Awesome Kong a missile dropkick, and before Kong could get back to her feet, she executed a curb stomp, and rolled her over the pin. The referee’s hand hit the mat a split-second before Kong muscled out of the pinfall. Taya escaped to the floor to celebrate as Kong threw an angry fit in the ring.
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We enter into a room that looks like a Japanese dojo. There, Kevin Owens and “Classy” Freddie Blassie are seen sitting in the center of the room on the floor with their legs crossed. They are deep into a meditation when Vampiro enters the room. Without opening his eyes, Blassie speaks to Vampiro, saying that he has been expecting him. Vampiro apologizes for being absent for many weeks. Blassie tells him that his absence is inconsequential. What is important is that he is here now. He asks where he’s been. Vampiro tells him that he was hospitalized by Pentagon DARK. Blassie and Owens open their eyes and look at him. They see that his arm is in a cast and he is wearing a sling. Vampiro tells them that Pentagon had a message for them. He said that he is coming for them. Blassie says that he’ll see to it that he doesn’t. Owens tells him to let Pentagon come so that he can put him in the hospital. Blassie gives an evil grin and then says that, in that case, they’ll let the pencil-neck geek come after them.
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VS.
SEMI-FINALS OF THE DARIO CUETO LUCHADORAS CUP TOURNAMENT
Ivelisse Vélez vs. Shayna Baszler
SEMI-FINALS OF THE DARIO CUETO LUCHADORAS CUP TOURNAMENT
Ivelisse Vélez vs. Shayna Baszler
Shayna Baszler defeated Ivelisse Vélez by pinfall to move onto the finals of the Luchadoras Cup. It was a competitive contest that saw Baszler employ a ground-and-pound offensive strategy that was in contrast to Ivelisse’s strategy of going up to the top rope and attacking her opponent from the air. Baszler worked over Ivelisse with hard forearms, palm strikes, and elbow shots, while applying a variety of holds to weaken her arms and cut off her air. Ivelisse executed a diving front missile dropkick, diving tilt-a-whirl headscissors, a diving crossbody, and a diving tornado DDT. Unfortunately, her efforts were not enough, and when Baszler stomped on her arm after having twisted it around like a pretzel, Baszler really brought the pain. She worked over the arm and stunned Ivelisse with some short-arm jumping knee strikes. Ivelisse had a brief moment where it looked like she would win with a surprise small package, but her weak arm couldn’t prevent Baszler from kicking out. Moments later, Baszler executed Ace of Spades and made Ivelisse tap out to win the match.
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VS. VS. VS.
SEMI-FINALS OF THE DARIO CUETO LUCHADORES CUP TOURNAMENT
“Macho King” Randy Savage vs. Roman Reigns vs. Mil Muertes vs. Kevin Owens
SEMI-FINALS OF THE DARIO CUETO LUCHADORES CUP TOURNAMENT
“Macho King” Randy Savage vs. Roman Reigns vs. Mil Muertes vs. Kevin Owens
This semi-final was stacked with talent. It was extremely hard to pick a favourite in this field, especially with Sensational Queen Sherri, Catrina, and “Classy” Freddie Blassie, all patrolling ringside, all holding the potential to influence the outcome of the match. The field was so strong, in fact, that a single finisher alone could not end the match. Reigns denied Owens a victory when he kicked out of a pinfall following the pop-up powerbomb. Owens denied Savage the win when he got a shoulder up of a pinfall after he received the diving elbow drop. Savage received the Flatliner and got a shoulder up on the ensuing pinfall. And, most shockingly of all, Mil Muertes kicked out of a pinfall after he took a spear from Reigns!
It was going to have to take something more to win this match. Maybe it was the Prizefighter Stunner from Owens to Savage, but as he went for the pin, Pentagon DARK unexpectedly returned and threw Blassie into the second row of wooden seats at ringside. Then, he pulled Owens out of the ring and hit him with a steel chair. Next, he gave Owens a DDT onto the chair, and then picked him up and gave him a package piledriver on the floor. A loud chant for Pentagon broke out in the Temple as he effectively thinned the field in this match down to three( although it remained as action-packed as it had been with four).
Savage used a chair on Reigns to get him to the mat, then placed it on his face, and gave him the diving elbow drop onto it. This might’ve won the match if not for the intervention of Mil Muertes who gave Savage a 180-degree chokeslam. Savage landed at the foot of a table that had been propped up the long-way in the corner of the ring. Mil Muertes picked up Savage and received snake eyes through his mask. Mil Muertes turned and stumbled away blindly. It looked like he was walking right into a spear, but he moved and Reigns speared Savage through the table. As soon as Reigns got up, he received the Reaper’s Trident Spear! Mil Muertes rolled him out of the ring and onto the floor, then brought the Macho King out of the corner and gave him another Flatliner. This time, it did the job.
Mil Muertes defeated Randy Savage, Roman Reigns, and Kevin Owens by pinfall to secure his spot in next week’s Dario Cueto Luchadores Cup finals against Samoa Joe!
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We go inside a cavernous palacial room adorned with many gold ornaments and statues of reptilian creatures. There is a large throne at the end of the room. The throne is designed to look like it is perfectly placed in the middle of the open mouth of a king cobra. Seated in the throne is Jake “The Snake” Roberts. There are snake pits to his left and to his right. Nearby, on opposite sides of the aisle approaching the throne are two cages. One houses Chris Jericho, the other, Eddie Guerrero. Roberts gets up and walks over to wear the cages are. He gets Jericho’s attention. He asks him if he remembers “this” as he shows him a document. Jericho recognizes it as his contract for a Lucha Underground Championship match at Ultima Lucha Tres, which is a contract that belongs to him, and tells Roberts to give it back to him, “you stupid son of bitch!” Roberts says that it belongs to him. Jericho hadn’t yet signed his name on it, so Roberts did. Now, with Ultima Lucha Tres looming in the near future, he thinks it is time for him to take a trip into the city and collect his prize. Guerrero speaks up and cracks a joke at him about how poorly going to the Temple worked out for him the last time he went there to get something. For that, Roberts says that Guerrero has earned him and his friend no rations until he returns from his trip to the city. Then he walks away with Jericho cursing out Guerrero for cracking his stupid jokes.
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