ULTIMA LUCHA CUATRO – PART TWOFrom the Temple in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Commentary Team: Matt Striker and Vampiro
Ring Announcer: Melissa Santos
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VS. LAST DUO STANDING MATCH
Johnny Mundo & Taya Valkyrie vs. Andrade Cien Almas & Zelina Vega THE SET UP
Johnny Mundo and Andrade Cien Almas first met each other in the ring during the Cueto Luchadores Cup. Mundo emerged victorious. After doing so, he surprised Taya with a wedding proposal. Upset over the loss and the perceived lack of respect shown to Almas, Zelina Vega and Andrade interrupted the wedding. Vega claimed she was pregnant with Mundo’s child, thus causing the ceremony to go off the rails. It was a lie of course, and she and Almas humiliated Taya and Mundo by ruining what was supposed to be the happiest day of their lives. Many attacks and brawls later, this match was announced.
THE MATCH
This match was fought under tornado tag rules, so all luchadores were competing at the same time. They started with a full-on fist fight to begin. Taya was the superior luchadora to Vega and took an early advantage over her, knocking her down repeatedly, then sitting down on her and wailing away at her with her fists. When Vega tried to escape out of the ring, Taya took her down with a slingshot plancha and then kept putting the boots to her. Meanwhile, the battle between Mundo and Almas was more balanced and saw them block, reverse, and counter each other’s attacks. When Mundo tried to go for a spear, Almas moved and Mundo’s shoulder struck the turnbuckle. Almas took advantage by applying a rope-hung triangle armbar, which he didn’t need to break on account of there being no disqualifications. It was only broken when Taya, who was on the floor, came over and hit Andrade across his chest and arms with a steel chair, causing him to let go and fall to the floor. There, Taya grabbed him and gave him a bridging northern lights suplex on the floor. The referee made the first standing 10-count of the match, but Almas was already getting up by the count of five.
Taya and Mundo double-teamed Almas for a good minute before Vega broke it up. Mundo held Almas’ arms behind him and Taya backed up to go for a superkick. Vega hit Mundo across the back with a kendo stick, enabling Almas to break free, and causing Taya’s superkick to miss him and hit Mundo. Vega hit Mundo a few more times while Andrade faked a front kick and knocked Taya out on her feet with a discus back elbow, which he followed with a ring apron assisted tornado bulldog. With Taya down, Almas and Vega went to work double-teaming Mundo, culminating with Almas lifting him up for a powerbomb and Vega diving off the middle turnbuckle to execute a seated senton powerbomb combo on the floor. There was no count, however, as Taya recovered and gave Almas some kendo stick shots. She chased Vega around the ring and onto the ring apron where they trad punches, chops, and slaps to the face until Almas came over and swept the legs out from under Taya. He pulled her down onto his shoulders, into a fireman’s carry position, and attempted a modified attitude adjustment, but Mundo caught her in his arms and put her down on her feet and then dropped him with a running clothesline, which he followed by with a running knee smash when Almas sat up. Vega attempted a diving hurricanrana on Mundo from the ring apron, but her countered it into a powerbomb across Almas’ chest. As both teammates were down, the referee began his count. In the meantime, Mundo and Taya went around the side of the ring and brought some tables out from under it.
Almas got up at the count of eight and brough Vega back to her feet. Mundo and Taya came around the ring to meet them and they engaged in another fist fight. Taya had the Believers move away from their ringside wooden seats and tried sending Vega into them with a hard Irish whip, but she reversed it and Taya went crashing into the seats. Vega began folding the seats and throwing them down on Taya, burying her under a large pile of them. Meanwhile, Andrade tried to whip Mundo into the retaining wall of one of the high-rise bleachers. Mundo leapt up onto the ledge and grabbed the railing and then took Almas down with a corkscrew moonsault. When he got up he was stabbed in the abdomen with a chair by Vega, who then cracked him over the back with it. She threw the chair down and then gave him a DDT onto it. The referee administered his 10-count, but Mundo got up at the count of eight, keeping the match alive for his team.
Almas and Vega went back to work on Mundo, who did everything in his power to fend them off with his hands and his feet. Eventually, Taya returned to the fight, and as she zeroed in on Vega, Almas laid Mundo out on one of the tables that had been set up on the floor and then helped Vega to deal with Taya. They put her on the other table, then they went to climb the nearby turnbuckles, on each corner of that side of the ring. Mundo and Taya got up. Mundo climbed the turnbuckle and traded punches with Almas. Meanwhile, Vega reached the top turnbuckle and attempt a diving hurricanrana on Taya, who was standing on the ring apron. She used her power to halt the moment, lift Vega back up and put her through the table with a sit-out powerbomb off the apron! At the other corner, Almas nearly knocked Mundo off the turnbuckle, but Mundo held onto the top rope and regained his balance as Almas finished climbing to the top. Mundo climbed up and executed a Spanish fly off the top rope to the outside, through a table! As the referee administered his count, Taya got up, and helped Mundo get to his feet. Vega and Almas remained on the floor in the wreckage of a pair of broken tables until the referee counted to ten (and well beyond said count).
THE RESULT
WINNER : JOHNNY MUNDO & TAYA VALKYRIE ***
VS. SNAKESKIN STRAP MATCHThe White Rabbit vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts THE SET UP
Jake “The Snake” Roberts is the king of the Reptile Tribe. One might say that The White Rabbit is the king of the Rabbit Tribe (he is its spiritual leader, at the very least). These leaders have led their respective tribes into a prolonged war that began after The White Rabbit received intelligence indicating that the Reptile Tribe had become aggressive and violated the terms of a tribal peace treaty. Now the war comes to a head in what may be its final battle when the two tribal leaders are bound together by a strap made of snakeskin and made to fight until one of them can fight no more.
THE MATCH
It took some time to get Jake “The Snake” Roberts into the strap. He was hesitant. He complained that Paul London and El Bunny were at ringside. He had no backup, with Drago having been freed from capitivty and Kobra Moon having been put on the shelf by Pentagon DARK. Once he was finally bound to the strap, he and the White Rabbit engaged in a battle of fisticuffs that was easily won by The White Rabbit. He took an early advantage and used the strap to great effect, whipping Roberts’ torso repeatedly until welts began forming on his back. The White Rabbit made the first attempt at collecting the win after wrapping the strap around Roberts’ neck, backing away and pulling him into a running knee strike to the face. He went for a pin, but Roberts kicked out and then rolled to the outside of the ring.
A struggle over positioning occurred until Roberts was able to hit The White Rabbit over the head with a chair he managed to get from under the ring. After that, he pulled him out to the floor and brawled with him, sending his face into the turnbuckle post and the retaining wall of the high-rise bleachers. He also whipped him hard into that wall and then dumped him onto the floor with a back body drop. Roberts returned him to the ring. Now firmly in control of the proceedings, he slowed the action down and took a slow, methodical approach to meting out additional damage. He used a swinging knee-lift, running knee-lift, gutbuster, and pendulum backbreaker, to go along with a variety of holds meant to cut off air to The White Rabbit’s lungs. He used the strap to further that goal, wrapping it around his head, his neck, and even forcing it in between his teeth at one point.
After delivering another knee-lift and a short-arm clothesline, he wrapped the strap around The White Rabbit’s neck and pulled him in for a DDT, but The White Rabbit countered with a bridging northern lights suplex. This was the beginning of a rally for The White Rabbit, where he executed a barrage of suplexes, including a fisherman’s, rolling gutwrenches, an exploder and an Olympic slam. He slipped on his white glove and began to apply the mandible claw, but Roberts kicked him below the belt and landed a DDT out of desperation. He wasn’t able to capitalize, as he’d had the mandible claw applied for over 10 seconds prior to hitting his finisher. Both men got up at the same time, but instead of trading punches, they took turns whipping each other with the strap. Finally, Roberts went for a big attempt, but The White Robert ducked, went behind him and executed a Saito suplex and then wrapped the strap around Roberts’ neck and applied the mandible claw. Roberts’ body began to convulse and he spat up blood while still in the hold. The referee called for the bell and awarded the match to The White Rabbit. The Rabbit Tribe won its war with the Reptile Tribe. Having defeated the leader of the violent aggressors, The Rabbit Tribe celebrated its win and the restoration of peace and order amongst the Aztec Tribes.
THE RESULT
WINNER : The White Rabbit ***
VS. MASH-UP WRESTLING WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE MATCHAsuka {C} vs. Kairi Sane THE SET UP
Asuka is coming into this match to defend her championship against her friend, Kairi Sane, who is relatively new to Lucha Underground. Kairi had her debut at the beginning of the summer in Aztec Warfare. She earned this opportunity by winning a ladder match for the Antonio Cueto Luchadoras Cup. She has been great in limited action, both in singles action and in tag team matches, most notably by teaming with Asuka to defeat the Authors of Pain. Asuka has been champion for over a year and she shows no signs of slowing down as the most dominant female force in Mash-Up Wrestling.
THE MATCH
These two luchadoras knew each other well, which was obvious in the early going as they were careful to lockup and then traded holds to start. Asuka took the early advantage after reversing a whip and hitting Kairi with a running hip attack near the ropes, sending her out to the ring apron. Asuka then dropkicked her to the floor and followed with a running somersault senton off the ring apron. She gave Kairi a snap suplex on the floor and sent her back into the ring, then climbed to the top turnbuckle and executed a missile dropkick. Going for the first pinfall attempt of the match, she got a 2-count. Asuka slowed things down, working on Kairi’s left elbow and shoulder to soften it up in preparation for the Asuka Lock.
Kairi fought back to her feet and broke free with some right elbows to the abdomen. She ran to the ropes and Asuka tried to stay right on her with another running hip attack, but this time, Kairi clung to the ropes to avoid it and then took Asuka down with a series of clothesline follow by a spinning back elbow, after which she executed a bridging German suplex for a 2-count. Kairi kept up her attack with a flying headscissors that sent Asuka into the corner. Kairi marched to the opposite corner of the ring and ran in to land a Sliding D forearm smash. She went for a pinfall attempt but Asuka got a shoulder up at the count of two.
Next, Kairi climbed to the top rope, but Asuka tripped her up and eventually executed a superplex. Her pinfall attempt got a 2-count. After that, she applied a STF. Kairi was in the hold for about 15-seconds before she forced a rope break. Once back to her feet, Kairi received some punches to the torso and kicks to the legs. Asuka went for a spinning back fist, but Kairi ducked it, then lifted her up and threw her down to the mat with an Alabama slam. She covered for a 2-count. Kairi went out to the ring apron and attempted a flying kabuki elbow, but Asuka counter with a flying cross armbar. She had Kairi down on the mat for about 20-seconds before she got to the ropes to force the rope break.
As Kairi was getting up, Asuka trying to catch her with a roundhouse kick. Kairi ducked out of the way and got to her feet, but then a reverse roundhouse dropped her to the mat. Asuka went to the top rope and attempt a splash, but Kairi rolled out of the way. When they got up, Kairi gave her the Interceptor spear! She went to the top rope and signalled she was going for the Insane Elbow, but as she came down, Asuka moved around to avoid it and apply the Asuka Lock upon Kairi’s landing. Kairi tried not to give up, but eventually tapped out, giving Asuka the win and another successful title defense.
THE RESULT WINNER : ASUKA ***
VS. TEMPLE TURMOIL MATCH
LOS INGOBERNABLES PROFITS OF STRONG STYLE VS. THE INNER CIRCLE
Tetsuya Naito, Pete Dunne, Will Ospreay, Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins
Vs.
Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana & Ortiz THE SET UP
This heated feud grew over the span of several weeks and months, beginning with the opening rounds of the Cueto Luchadores Cup tournament when members of the Inner Circle either lost to and defeated (by nefarious means) members of Los Ingobernables Profits of Strong Style. The bad blood between the two groups continued for many weeks thereafter and only continued to grow. The final piece of the puzzle was the surprise debut of Tetsuya Naito, who entered the tournament as an emergency replacement in the quarterfinals and defeated Jericho in a singles match. That didn’t sit well with Jericho, who then kidnapped Naito to prevent him from continuing in the tournament, thus turning him into his biggest enemy.
THE MATCH
The match opened with a 10-man brawl that took place in the ring and outside it. After some time, everyone brawled away from ringside and out of sight from the Believers except for Naito and Jericho, who remained to fight one-on-one in front of the live audience.
Back in the Lucha Underground training room, Santana and Ortiz were having an easy time double-teaming Pete Dunne. After Santana climbed up onto a cable-operated leg press apparatus, Ortiz lifted Dunne up for a powerbomb and Santana leapt off executing a blockbuster – Street Sweeper! It appeared as though Dunne was done. But then the Street Profits arrived and brawled with Santana and Ortiz. After a few minutes, Dunne was back to his feet, and he and Santana fought their way out of the training room. Meanwhile, Ortiz was the victim of a double-team assault that ended when Ford gave him a front dropkick and Dawkins landed a running splash onto him. After that, the Profits rolled him up in some yoga mats, which they pinned down with multiple 45-pound plated weights that they stacked up on either side of him.
Now in the locker room, Santana and Dunne were engaged in a fist fight that was broken up at times by one of the two of them throwing the other into a bank of lockers. Dunne was about to give Santana the Bitter End when Jake Hager showed up and started to lay heavy shots in on him. He gave Dunne a fallaway slam into a bank of lockers and then applied an ankle lock. The hold was broken up by the arrival of Ford and Dawkins. A 3-on-2 brawl ensured. At one point, a locker door swung open revealing a gold crown and sceptre which must have been left in there from the last time the “Macho King” had stepped foot in the building. Santana took the sceptre and swung it at Dunne but missed and smashed it off a locker door. When he turned around, Dunne bit the fingers on his left hand, then took the fingers on his right hand and yanked on them. He gave Santana the Bitter End and then stuffed him in a locker. After Ford and Dawkins double dropkicked Hager into the open showers, they came back to help Dunne tip over the entire bank of lockers from the other side of them, trapping Santana inside, door side pinned to the floor.
Jake Hager and Angelo Dawkins brawled down a stairwell and into a hall. Hager drove Dawkins’ head into a door and then tackled him through it. The room in which they entered had a prison cell inside it. There, Hager took the open door to the cell and swung it hard at Dawkins’ head. It did this a few times until he was hit from behind by the bottom end of a fire extinguisher from Montez Ford, who had showed up to help his tag team partnership. He gave Hager some kicks and punches, but Hager fought back and fell forward into a slam on Ford onto the metal frame of a bed with no mattress on it. When Hager got up, Dawkins whipped him into the stone wall of the cell and gave him a spinebuster on the floor. Ford stood up on the bed and dove onto Hager with a splash. They got up and walked out of the cell. They found a padlock and a large metal chain, which they wrapped around the cell door and some of the bars to the cell frame. They closed the lock, trapping Hager inside the cell and effectively eliminating him from the match.
Sammy Guevara and Will Ospreay were engaged in a fight up a flight of stairs. They went through a door and ended up outside on the roof top of The Temple. Here, they continued to brawl. Ospreay gave Guevara a German suplex. When Guevara tried getting up, he gave him the Hidden Blade. As he went to pick up Guevara, he ended up on the receiving end of a low blow. Guevara followed it up with a vertical suplex and a standing shooting star press. Guevara pick up Ospreay and appeared to be set up for a powerbomb, but Ospreay refused to be lifted. This led to another exchange of blows ending with Guevara stunning him with a superkick. He grabbed Ospreay and appeared set to give him a Spanish fly off the side of the roof, but Ospreay landed some back elbows to break it up and gained some separation with a 540-degree roundhouse kick. Ospreay lifted Guevara onto his shoulders, but Guevara struck him with some elbows and got done. He pushed Ospreay from behind, sending him near the edge of the roof top. Ospreay turned around just in time to see Guevara charging at him. He stepped to the side and hip tosses Guevara off the roof! Then, to top that, the Aerial Assassin backed up, ran and executed a kamikaze corkscrew 900-degree senton bomb off the roof!
Inside the Temple, still fighting it out at ringside were Naito and Jericho. They brawled through the stands. The Believers were as loud as ever. They fought up onto the bandstand above the floor entrance. There, Jericho gave Naito a Codebreaker and then wrapped a microphone around Naito’s throat and choked him out. When Naito appeared to have completely passed out, Jericho took the mic and cut a promo in which he aired his grievances, which included a claim that he should have competed for the Mash-Up World Championship instead of Samoa Joe – and he would have won it by the way – and that he has been screwed over again and again by the Cuetos, prevented from being in the Ultima Lucha main event, and that politics kept him from holding all the gold in Lucha Underground. He berated the house band and called them names until they took their instruments and tried their best to play “Judas” as he sang through the song, which ended abruptly when Naito got up on all fours, and gave Jericho a low blow from behind. With Jericho bent over, Naito grabbed a beer bottle that was on one of the amps and smashed it over his head. Then, he put Jericho in a hammerlock, lifted him up and executed Gloria while falling off the bandstand, driving them both through a stack of tables on their way down to the floor! After a delay, Naito crawled over, laid across Jericho’s chest and the referee made the count. 1…2…3!
THE RESULT
WINNER : LOS INGOBERNABLES PROFITS OF STRONG STYLE ***
VS. KEYS TO THE TEMPLE DEATH MATCHMatanza Cueto vs. The Fiend THE SET UP
At the beginning of the season, Matanza Cueto was under the control of his father, Antonio Cueto. He was doing the dirty work of the dark order, led by Blue Demon Jr. Antonio was building up his strength to use him as a weapon of mass destruction. Granted the power of the gods through the Gauntlet of the Gods, Matanza was sacrificing poor unfortunate luchadores to the gods every time he stepped foot inside the ring. While this was taking place, Bray Wyatt began sending Matanza messages inviting him to come to the Firefly Funhouse, where he promised to give him the gift of happiness. He could fully evolve just as Wyatt had done. He could make the hurt go away. However, before that could happen Dario Cueto and El Santo descended upon the Temple at Aztec Warfare IV and abducted Matanza. Retreating to a hideaway out of a deserted ghost town, El Santo exorcized the influence of the demonic gods from Matanza. He built back his spirit and his soul and made him stronger than ever before. When Dario, Matanza, and El Santo returned to the Temple to wage war on Antonio Cueto and Blue Demon Jr., it was decided that Blue Demon Jr.’s other demonic disciple with the powers of the gods should punish Matanza. Now, Bray Wyatt no longer wishes to take Matanza’s pain away. He wishes for him to suffer untold amounts of it at the hands of The Fiend in a Death Match. But that’s not all. Control of the Temple is also at stake. If Matanza wins, Dario gets his Temple back. If The Fiend wins, Antonio becomes is undisputed proprietor.
THE MATCH
They began with a tense standoff, where both luchadores were staring each other down. Neither one of them is much for words, so the tension was expressed entirely through their body language. When The Fiend through his arms open, raised his head to the sky and laughed, that is when Matanza started throwing fists. He backed The Fiend into the ropes, and whipped him. The Fiend reversed it and gave Matanza a flying cross chop and then a running senton. He went for the pin but Matanza kicked out at one, so The Fiend started dropping fists and forearms on him and then put him in a chokehold. He brought Matanza to his feet. He gave him palm strikes until Matanza was backed into a corner and then ran in and landed a body avalanche. The Fiend threw Matanza out of the corner and waited for him to get up before charging at him, but Matanza showed off his impressive strength by giving him an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. When The Fiend got up, Matanza gave him a running clothesline that took both men over the top rope and out to the floor.
The brawl continued at ringside, with Dario Cueto standing nearby shouting words of encouragement to his brother. Matanza and The Fiend fought their way through the throngs of Believers, up into the section of hardwood bleachers. There, they both grabbed items from the Believers to use as weapons. A few beer bottles were smashed open on each other’s heads, but that didn’t appear to affect either one of them. Matanza gave The Fiend a release German suplex on the hardwood bleachers and some small shards of glass punctured the skin of his back. Later, The Fiend gave Matanza a DDT onto the hardwood bleachers. He dragged him over the stairs and pushed him with both feet such that Matanza rolled down to the floor.
Once back on the floor, they jockied for position over a vertical suplex before Matanza executed the maneuver. After that, he started digging under the ring and brought out kendo sticks, steel chairs, tables and a toolbox. He bashed The Fiend’s head with the side of the tool box, then positioned him on top of the ring steps and swung a hammer with great force, but The Fiend moved and all we heard for the loud thud of the hammer on metal. The Fiend picked up a kendo stick and used it to defend himself. He hit Matanza gratuitously with it. He grabbed another one and used it until it had been smashed to shards. He arranged the chairs into a pile on the floor and threatened to execute Sister Abigail, but Matanza escaped and then gave him a gutwrench suplex onto the bed of chairs, which he followed with a standing moonsault and a standing shooting star press.
Matanza tossed some tables into the ring and started setting them up. When The Fiend finally got back up, he entered the ring with a large metal chain wrapped around his fist. He fired a punch at Matanza but missed. Then, Matanza kicked him in the gut and gave him rolling gutwrench suplexes. He picked up The Fiend and tried to give him a gutwrench powerbomb through a table, but The Fiend managed to counter it into a sitout facebuster through the table. The Fiend got up, grabbed his discarded chair and wrapped it around Matanza’s neck. He choked him until the life appeared to be drained from his body. Then, with a maniacal cackle, he got up, picked him up and gave him Sister Abigail onto part of the broken table. He turned Matanza over and covered him. 1…2… kick out!
The Fiend’s body language was that of shock. It was hard to believe anyone would kick out of Sister Abigail. His next action was to roll out of the ring and bring a cinderblock out from underneath it. He tossed it into the ring. When he came back in, he picked it up, walked over to where Matanza was, lifted it high up and released it. The cinderblock slammed into the mat. Matanza had rolled away. The Fiend ran at him, but Matanza dropped down and pulled on the top rope. The Fiend went over to the ring apron. They traded punches before Matanza tried to suplex The Fiend back into the ring. He looped a foot under the rope, punched Matanza in the mid-section and tried for his own suplex. He only managed to get him over the ropes. They traded blows and headbutts. Matanza backed away and charged, but The Fiend stopped him in his tracks with a throat thrust and then took him off the ring apron with a ura-nage slam onto the bed of chairs on the floor. The Fiend set up some tables on the floor, then he went under the ring and found a giant cartoonish looking mallet with which he tried to smash Matanza’s head in. He swung it violently, but Matanza moved and it slammed into the chairs. Matanza gave The Fiend a dropkick, then put him through a table with a chokeslam.
Matanza brought The Fiend back into the ring. There, he gave him a sidewalk slam, then an Athleticplex and the Wrath of the Gods. He pinned him. 1…2… kick out! Matanza was in shock. His brother, Dario, shouted at him not to be concerned, to remain focused and continue the fight. He set up a pair of tables side-by-side and then put on to the top turnbuckle. As he climbed up, The Fiend fought back. They traded punches and headbutts. In the end, The Fiend got the better of the exchange and put Matanza through the tables with a ura-nage from off the top rope. He pinned him. 1…2… kick out!
The Fiend turned to his cinderblock. He placed it in the center of the ring. He set Matanza up for Sister Abigail. He started the move, but Matanza broke free, gave The Fiend a couple of kicks to the abdomen, then scooped him up and gave him a sit-out tombstone piledriver onto the cinderblock! Matanza slowly got over and made the cover. 1…2… shoulder up!
As Matanza was picking up The Fiend, he received a low blow and a DDT. The Fiend slowly scrambled to make the pin, but they were near the ropes and Matanza rolled out to the ring apron. The Fiend got up and gave him a baseball slide to knock him down to the floor. He went outside and hit Matanza in the back with a steel chair a few times, then wedged his head shoulders between the turnbuckle post and the ringsteps. He picked up his giant mallet and swung it at the steps, crushing Matanza’s head and upper body between the two items.
After Matanza was incapacitated, The Fiend dug under the ring and found some tables. He also brought out a small cloth sack, untied it and emptied out a pile of thumbtacks onto the bed of chairs on the floor. Then, he opened up a pair of tables and placed them over top of the pile of chairs and thumbtacks. However, he wasn’t done. He got a cannister of gasoline and some rags out from under the ring. He tosses the rags onto the tables and doused the rags and tables in the liquid. Then, he got out a blowtorch and set the tables ablaze.
The Fiend grabbed Matanza’s lifeless body and placed it on the ring apron, directly in line with the fiery inferno. Dario came over and warned Matanza of what was happening. He pleaded with Matanza to wake up and told him he loved him. Then, he begged The Fiend for mercy. The Fiend would have none of it. He gave Dario a throat thrust and Sister Abigail on the floor! Dario was out cold.
The Fiend climbed onto the ring apron and picked up Matanza. He tossed Matanza’s left arm over his head and was set up for a ura-nage, but Matanza threw some back elbows at him. He broke free. They threw punches at one another. The Fiend went for a headbutt, but Matanza leaned back and then fired one of his own into The Fiend’s chest, knocking the wind out of him. The Fiend grabbed at his chest and appeared to gasp for air. That is when Matanza scooped him up and executed The Wrath of The Gods off the ring apron and through the towering inferno of tables, tacks and chairs!
The scene was gruesome. Members of the ring crew rushed over and blew fire extinguishers. Once the smoke cleared, Matanza was standing on his feet, clenching his fists and shouting out a thunderous battle cry. The Believers cheered. He picked up The Fiend, rolled him into the ring and gave him one more Wrath of the Gods. He made the pin. 1…2…3! And with that, the Temple no longer belonged to his father. It was returned to his brother.
THE RESULT
WINNERS : MATANZA CUETO ***
VS. LOSER LEAVES LUCHAEl Santo vs. Blue Demon Jr. THE SET UP
Two of lucha libre’s biggest names of all-time are set to clash here in a Loser Leaves Lucha match. However, there’s so much more riding on the outcome of this match. It isn’t just about who can stay and who must go. It is about whether the forces of good or evil shall prevail and reign over the world of lucha libre for all time. Will the Temple be brought into the light or forever be shrouded in darkness? Dario Cueto sought the help of El Santo to get him his Temple back and so far that help has worked. However, now El Santo is putting his career and reputation as the ultimo luchador on the line. He is making the ultimate sacrifice to restore faith and hope in humanity. He is risking his well-being to supplant the dark overlord of lucha libre as the spiritual leader of the sport. Blue Demon Jr., meanwhile, looks at this as the ultimate opportunity to consolidate his hold on the sport and spread his message of a hate and fear across the planet. How the world goes depends on how this match goes. It all comes down to this.
THE MATCH
These two were ready to go from the moment the previous match ended. As soon as the bell rang, they rushed to lock up. They grappled back and forth, backing each other into the ropes and into the corner, with the referee breaking things up. Each time they broke it up, they began again until Blue Demon Jr. had El Santo caught in the corner and gave him a hard two-handed slap across the chest, to which El Santo responded by shoving Blue Demon Jr. on his back. When he got up, El Santo mowed up down with a serious of clothesline before giving him a cross-corner whip and charging at him. Blue Demon Jr. used the ropes to backwards leapfrog over him and then dropkick him in the corner. He picked up El Santo and lit into him with some chops. El Santo traded places with him and lit into him with some chops. They traded spots twice more before El Santo sent Blue Demon Jr. into the opposite corner and charged in to hit him with a stinger splash. Then, he gave him a vertical suplex and went out to climb the turnbuckle. Blue Demon Jr. rolled away and out of the ring. El Santo got down, ran across the ring and went over the top rope with a topé suicida that brought the Believers to their feet.
El Santo picked up Blue Demon Jr. and tried to send him back into the ring, but he got an elbow to the sternum and then his face slammed onto the ring apron. Blue Demon Jr. gave El Santo an Irish whip that caused his shoulder to slam into the turnbuckle post. He followed that up with a clothesline and then rolled El Santo into the ring. H climbed onto the ring apron and performed a slingshot splash into a lateral press for the first pinfall attempt of the match, ending in a count of one. After that, Blue Demon Jr. slapped on a rear chinlock to cut off El Santo’s air. He deliberately slowed the pace, interspersing various chinlocks with jumping knee drops, a vertical suplex, an atomic drop and a hurricanrana with a cradle for another 2-count. After that, he put El Santo into a Mexican surfboard. El Santo refused to quit and after some time, he relinquished the hold, picked him up and gave him a gutbuster. He covered him for another 2-count.
Blue Demon Jr. turned El Santo over, kicked him in the back of the head a few times and applied El Santo’s own La de a Caballo (camel clutch). He hoped to force him to tap with his very own submission. However, it didn’t work. El Santo mustered the strength to break the hold, but Blue Demon Jr. gave him some seated sentons to the back and reapplied it. After some time, El Santo freed his arms again. Blue Demon Jr. gave him seated sentons again to drop him to the mat. As it tried to reapply the hold, El Santo flipped over and gave him a good uppercut and then pulled him down into a sitout pin for a count of one. They both got up and Blue Demon Jr. went for a clothesline but El Santo took him over with an arm drag, followed by another and another, after which he hit Blue Demon Jr. with a standing dropkick. Blue Demon Jr. retreated to the corner and El Santo came in with a spinning wheel kick. Landing on the apron, he quickly climbed the turnbuckle, got onto Blue Demon Jr’s shoulders and performed a victory roll to get a long 2-count. When they got up, Blue Demon Jr. went for a haymaker, but El Santo backed away and then pulled him down with a neckbreaker. He covered him. 1…2… kick out! El Santo picked him up and tried a fisherman’s suplex. 1…2… kick out! Next, he attempted a bow-and-arrow submission, but Blue Demon Jr. wouldn’t quit, so he gave him a pendulum backbreaker and an elbow drop to the chest and then grabbed him by the legs.
El Santo decided to apply Blue Demon Jr’s own Demon Deathlock (sharpshooter) on him. He had the hold locked in for a good long while. Blue Demon Jr looked like he was on the verge of tapping out, but he did not. He eventually mustered all his strength to lift himself up with a push up and start crawling towards the ropes. When he reached out just fingertips away, El Santo released the hold and dragged him back to the center of the ring where he reapplied it. Blue Demon Jr had to go through it all over again. Once more, as he approached the ropes, El Santo dragged him back to the center. He didn’t reapply the hold though. Instead, he went to apply La de a Caballo, but Blue Demon Jr crawled backwards away, then stood up and hit El Santo with an enzuigi kick to stun him before leaping up and dropping him down with a spike DDT. He slowly rolled out for the cover. 1…2… kick out!
As they got back to their feet, they threw punches, each luchador blocking and landing blows intermittently. El Santo got the better of the exchange, backing him into the ropes and going for the Irish whip. Blue Demon Jr reversed it and went for a running clothesline but El Santo ducked it. With both men now on the run, they bounced off the runs and hit each other with running crossbody blocks. The collision was like a car wreck and they both laid still on the mat for some time before moving. When they got up they charged at each other and again knocked each other down, this time with dueling running clotheslines. When they were both getting up next, it was El Santo who made it to his feet just a little faster and he took Blue Demon Jr back down with a sunset flip. After a 2-count, he countered it to a sitout pin of his own. El Santo kicked out and reversed and then Blue Demon Jr did the same. This started a sequence of small packages, roll-ups, la magistrals, Oklahoma rolls, jackknife covers, bridging pins and backslides that all earned 2-counts. When the pinfall attempts ended, they threw clotheslines at each other, then ran to the ropes. Blue Demon Jr tried another clothesline, but El Santo ducked and executed a floatover DDT. He pinned him. 1…2… kick out!
El Santo got up a signalled that he was going for the finish. He went to the corner and climbed the turnbuckle. He posed for a moment before his Topé de Cristo (diving headbutt). Blue Demon Jr rolled out of the way and El Santo’s head struck the canvas. When they got up. Blue Demon Jr lifted El Santo into the air and dropped him to the mat with a powerbomb. He folded him up for the pin, but El Santo got a shoulder up at two-and-a-half. Then, he picked up El Santo and lifted him onto his shoulders. EL Santo gave him some elbows to the side of the head, then pulled him down to the mat into a crucifix pin for two-and-a-half. When they got up, Blue Demon Jr ducked a punch and dropped to his knees, giving El Santo a jawbreaker off the top of his skull. Then, he dropkicked him over the ropes. After that, he went to the top turnbuckle and executes a plancha!
Outside the ring, Blue Demon Jr grabbed El Santo and tried to lift him for a powerbomb but it was reversed. El Santo picked up Blue Demon Jr and rolled him into the ring. He climbed the turnbuckles, but Blue Demon Jr met him up top. After exchanging blows for a while, Blue Demon Jr took El Santo to the mat with a superplex. He made the cover. 1…2… shoulder up! After nearly winning it, he decided to try for the Demon Deathlock. El Santo defended against it and pulled him into a small package for another 2-count. Getting up, they traded punches and chops and then headbutts that put them both down on their backs. Blue Demon Jr was the first luchador to start moving. He went to the corner and climbed the ropes. He attempted a diving splash, but El Santo moved out of the way. When he got up, he gave Blue Demon a running dropkick that sent him into the turnbuckles. Then, he ran in and gave him a double-knee smash to the face.
After dragging him out of the corner, he turned Blue Demon Jr onto his back and put him in La de a Caballo. Although trapped in the hold for quite some time, he refused to give up. After freeing his arms, he was able to reach out for the ropes to break the hold. After being freed, Blue Demon countered an Irish whip attempt and took El Santo over with a hurricanrana. He followed that up with the Demon Deathlock. El Santo was trapped in the hold for a long time. He even crawled to the ropes, got pulled back to the middle ring, and crawled to the ropes again before being set free. Blue Demon Jr lit into him with some chops, kicked him in the abdomen and then gave him a double-underhook backbreaker. He climbed the ropes and went for the Topé de Cristo, but El Santo rolled out of the way. Blue Demon Jrès head hit the mat hard. He struggled to get to his feet, but once he was up El Santo gave him his very own Ace Crusher, then climbed to the top turnbuckle and executed the Topé de Cristo. He made the pin. 1…2…3!
WINNER : EL SANTO ***
VS. LUCHA UNDERGROUND CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHPrince Puma vs. Eddie Guerrero THE SET UP
Prince Puma became the Lucha Underground Champion when he won the title in the main event of Ultima Lucha Tres by defeating the “Macho King” Randy Savage. He has successfully defended the title ever since. That has been no easy feat at he has had to defend it against the likes of Pentagon DARK, Rey Mysterio Jr., Hulk Hogan, John Cena, and Roman Reigns. Eddie Guerrero earned this opportunity by outlasting 19 other luchadores to win Aztec Warfare IV. Now, these two luchadores are set to go one-on-one for the first time, with the biggest prize in the Temple on the line.
THE MATCH
The Believers were on their feet chanting both luchadores’ names as the bell rang. There was a moment when they let that go to take in the atmosphere. They both walked out of their corners and the dueling chants gave way to a singular “Both these guys!” chant. Some words were exchanged between the two, however, in the end, they shook hands as a show of respect, then backed away and started circling the Ancient Aztec logo in the centre of the ring before locking up right on top of it. This is what it is all about. This why they come here. To collide on that symbol for the right to be named the Lucha Underground Champion.
Puma got the better of the exchange, putting Guerrero in a side leadlock. He broke out of it, countering with a hammerlock. Puma tried to throw a few back elbows, but Guerrero ducked them, let go and went to a side waistlock. He backed into the ropes and sent Puma running. Guerrero dropped to the mat. Puma hopped over him. Guerrero popped up and went for a dropkick, but Puma clutched the top rope. When Guerrero got up, it was Puma who took him down with a hurricanrana. Guerrero got up in the corner, slowly, as Puma looked on, ready to fight. They started over. This time, Guerrero got Puma in a side headlock and Puma busted out of it and put Guerrero in a hammerlock. He dropped to the mat and rolled. Grasping Puma’s wrist, he got up and gave him an arm ringer, all the while bending back the wrist. He tried to hyperextend Puma’s elbow a couple of times. Puma eventually did a few somersaults to reverse the hold and attempted to hyperextend Guerrero’s elbow, bringing him to his knees. Guerrero slowly made his way back to his feet, reversing the hold and ending up back behind Puma with a hammerlock. Puma threw a back elbow that missed, but this time when Guerrero let go of him, Puma caught him in a side headlock. Guerrero backed into the ropes and pushed him off. He dropped his head for a back body drop, but Puma spun through, his back landing on Guerrero’s back, then landing on his feet, he continued running the ropes. Guerrero jumped up as if to go for a hurricanrana but Puma ducked under as he ran to the opposite ropes. Upon returning, Puma took him down with another hurricanrana, this one sending Guerrero under the ropes and to the floor. Puma ran to the ropes. Guerrero saw him coming and backed away from the ring so Puma did a handspring off the ropes into a moonsault back into the centre of the ring, where he landed on one knee, placed one hand down on the Ancient Aztec logo and pointed the other to the sky, as if to assert ownership over the ring. Guerrero quickly ran and slid under the ring, but Puma shook his head and extended a fist outward to stop him from attacking. Guerrero stopped and grinned, conceding that he got the better of him as the Believers voiced their approval of their champion.
Guerrero allowed the champion to get up and offered a handshake, as he complimented him. Puma went to shake his hand as they did, Guerrero thumbed Puma in the eye and then took him into a side headlock. Puma backed into the ropes and sent him running. Guerrero went for a clothesline but Puma ducked it and pulled him with a roll-up for a 2-count. Guerrero ducked an enzuigiri attempt and went for his own roll-up pin attempt. Puma kicked out. Guerrero charged at him and Guerrero stepped to the side, but Guerrero held onto him as he did a springboard off the middle rope, back into a slingshot arm drag that sent Puma to the floor. Guerrero ran to the ropes, Puma backed away from the ring, and Guerrero did a handspring backflip into a reverse somersault. Coming to a stop on his knees on top of the Ancient Aztec logo, Guerrero did a little Latino Heat shimmy and shake that got a rise out of the Believers. Puma shook his head in acknowledgement that Guerrero got the better of him. He slid into the ring and extended a hand. Guerrero wagged his finger while saying he would get caught in that trap, but then took a superkick right to the jaw. Puma quickly got down and made the cover. 1…2… kick out! He nearly won the match. After getting taken by surprise, Guerrero rolled out of the ring to re-group while Puma announced that this is going to be a fight tonight and he’s here to bring it.
When Guerrero got back into the ring, they locked up again. Puma took him into a side headlock. Guerrero backed into the ropes and tried sending him running, but Puma fell to a knee and held on. Guerrero brought him back to a vertical base and then tried to break it with a side belly-to-back suplex, but Puma held onto the hold. Eventually, Guerrero managed to roll him enough to get his shoulders on the mat and force him to break it by kicking out of the pinfall attempt. Back to their feet, Guerrero landed a couple of forearms on Puma and whipped him into the corner. He ran in and got a boot to the face. Puma hopped onto the middle turnbuckle and performed a diving hurricanrana. He followed it up with a running dropkick that sent Guerrero to the outside, where he then took him down with a over-the-top-rope corkscrew moonsault dive!
He picked Guerrero back up and sent him back into the ring. Then, he attempted a springboard 450-splash, but Guerrero put his knees up and then rolled over on top of him with a small package pin for two. Back to their feet, Guerrero took Puma over with a few arm drags before sending him into the corner with a dropkick. He ran in and delivered a stinging knife-edge chop. He alternated punches and chops before lifting Puma onto the top turnbuckle. Guerrero got up and fired off 10 punches before going for a frankensteiner. Puma flipped through and landed on his feet. When Guerrero got up, Puma sent him into the corner with a dropkick, then ran in gave him a stinging chop to the chest. He put the boots to Guerrero before lifting him into the top turnbuckle. After giving him a headbutt, he sent Guerrero to the mat with a frankensteiner and then quickly popped back onto the top rope and gave him a corkscrew moonsault. He pinned him. 1…2… kick out!
Puma picked up Guerrero and attempted a vertical suplex. He landed on his feet behind him and attempted a release German suplex, but Puma flipped through and landed on his feet. When Guerrero got up, Puma hit him with a superkick, knocking him through the ropes and onto the ring apron. Puma went over to the ropes and attempted to suplex Guerrero back into the ring, but he hooked a leg inside the bottom rope to prevent it and eventually countered it, lifting Puma over to the ring apron. They threw punches and kicks, blocking all of them. Then Puma hit Guerrero in the jaw with a knee lift. He ducked down and attempted a northern lights suplex, but Guerrero hooked an arm around the top rope to stop it, then pounded on Puma’s lower back with some shots from his forearm. After breaking free, he shifted positions and executed a side belly-to-back suplex on the ring apron! Puma’s back hit hard and he fell to the floor, where Guerrero picked him up and gave him a snap suplex. Then he put the boots to him and rolled him into the ring, after which he executed a slingshot somersault senton and pinned him for a 2-count. Next, Guerrero applied a bow-and-arrow submission, but Puma refused to quit. Then, he applied an inverted Indian deathlock and kept it locked in until Puma made it to the bottom rope.
When Puma got up, Guerrero gave him some European uppercuts and some kicks to the midsection. Then, he sent him into the corner with an Irish whip and charged in behind him. Puma catapulted himself up and over Guerrero, who turned around in the corner and charged at Puma, only to receive a spinning wheel kick. Puma lifted Guerrero onto his shoulders and gave him a ushigoroshi and then covered him for a 2-count. After that, he picked up Guerrero and executed a bridging northern lights suplex, which he seamlessly transitioned into a deadlift vertical suplex. He made the pin. 1…2… kick out! Puma dragged Guerrero close to the corner and then climbed the turnbuckle. Once he reached a vertical base on the top turnbuckle, Guerrero slid out to the floor. Puma turned around and gave him a diving double-axehandle smash to knock him down. Puma picked up Guerrero and tried tossing him into the ring, but he spun right around while gripping the bottom rope and hit Puma with a tiger feint kick. Then, he gave him a release German suplex. After that, Guerrero grabbed him by the legs and catapulted him into the turnbuckle post.
Guerrero rolled Puma into the ring, climbed the turnbuckle and went for the frog splash, but Puma put his knees up. They both got to their feet at the same time. Puma blocked a kick attempt and then hit Guerrero with a superkick. After that, he picked him up and executing Vertigo! He hooked a leg from the sit-out position. 1…2… kick out! Puma questioned the count as he couldn’t believe it. He didn’t waste much time, however, instead going up to the top turnbuckle and attempting the 630-degree senton, but Guerrero rolled in towards the corner to avoid it. Once back to their feet, Guerrero took Puma down with a running bulldog. Then, he picked him up, placed him on the top turnbuckle and lifted him back off it, executing a running sit-out crucifix bomb! 1…2… kick out! Now Guerrero was in disbelief.
Guerrero didn’t appear to know what to do next. He stomped away at Puma and drove his knees into the side of his ribs and his lower back. Then, he put him in a rarely seen submission hold – the Lasso from El Paso. Puma was writhing in pain but refused to quit. He slowly crawled towards the ropes. Before he could reach them, Guerrero let go and dragged him away, then reapplied the hold. After a good twenty seconds of intense pain, Puma started to turn over. Once he succeeded, flipping onto his shoulders, the momentum of his legs coming around sent Guerrero into the turnbuckles and his head struck the turnbuckle post. Puma was slow to get up. Clutching his lower back, he saw Guerrero stuck between the ropes. He pulled him out and with all the power he could muster, lifted him onto the top turnbuckle. He grabbed at his lower back and punched at it to try to stop it from ceasing up. Puma climbed behind Guerrero and then gave him a reverse frankensteiner! He climbed back to the top rope and executed a corkscrew 450-degree splash! 1…2… shoulder up!
Puma paused for a moment, not sure what to do next. Then, he decided to pick up Guerrero and give him his own Three Amigos. After he finished, he climbed the turnbuckles and again attempted the 630-degree senton, but this time, he landed on Guerrero’s knees. Guerrero got up with a look of intensity. The fiery passion of Latino Heat was strong. He grabbed Puma, lifted him as if to give him a side belly-to-back suplex, but then threw him down on his face. Then, he picked him up and gave him a Gory special! He pinned him. 1…2… kick out! Guerrero picked up Puma and gave him the Three Amigos, and rolling through a fourth time finished the sequence with a brainbuster! 1…2… shoulder up!
Guerrero was not at a loss for what to do. He let his anger take over, as he put the boots to Puma, raked his back, and pulled his head up by grabbing the mask. As he did, he shouted obscenities at him and then spit in his face. He lifted Puma up into the air in a crucifix position, spun him around several times, and then dropped him into a neckbreaker slam. After that, he climbed to the top rope and went for the frog splash, but Puma rolled out of the way. When Puma got up, he appeared to have a new level of intensity. As soon as Guerrero got to his feet, he ran at him and dropkicked him into the corner. Then he lifted Guerrero into a fireman’s carry and executed the Benadryller. He followed that up with a running shooting star press. 1…2… kick out! Puma backed away into the corner and waited for Guerrero to start lifting himself off the mat, then he gave him an axe kick to the back of the neck. Then, he waited for Guerrero to start getting up again and gave him the Recoil! Then, he went to the top rope and went for a 630-degree senton. Third time’s the charm as this time, he landed it! He made the pin. 1…2…3!
After the match, the referee handed Puma his title and he lifted it into the air. Guerrero got up and, as a show of respect, offered his hand. Puma took it and they shook hands. Then, Guerrero raised Puma’s hand and they hugged before Guerrero left the ring to allow Puma to celebrate his successful title defense and a full season as Lucha Underground Champion.
THE RESULT
WINNERS : PRINCE PUMA ***
We go into a dimly lit room with tables arranged in the shape of the letter U. The same Ancient Aztec symbol emblazoned on the center of the canvas of the Lucha Underground ring is painted on a wall, visible only by the light of torches on the wall. Awesome Kong enters the room and takes a seat at the table. In front her, a placard reads, “Amazon Tribe.” Next, Fénix comes in and sits at the seat for the “Avian Tribe.” Then, one-by-one, El Torito (Ungulate Tribe), Tiger Mask IV (Feline Tribe), Mad Dog Vachon (Canine Tribe), and Jake “The Snake” Roberts (Reptile Tribe). Finally, at the head of the table, The White Rabbit walks in flanked by his Rabbit Tribe compatriots, Paul London and El Bunny, who back away from the table of he takes his seat. Acting as the Chair of the Aztec Tribal Council meeting, he calls the first and only order of business for this meeting – the sanctioning of the Reptile Tribe for acts of war against other tribes. A hilarious discussion leads to the quick drafting of a resolution in which the Reptile Tribe will be permanently cut off from Aztec Tribal Council funding and its voting rights shall be revoked as long as Jake Roberts remains its official leader. At such a time that he is disposed of as its leader, the Reptile Tribe will be reinstated to the council and placed on double-secret-probation for a period of 3-years. They hold a vote and it passes 6-1, the only descending vote being that of the Reptile Tribe. The meeting is adjourned, its members go away to attend a party for Aztec Tribal dignitaries in celebration of the restoration of peace, as Jake Roberts slithers out of the room into the darkness.
Inside of a wedding chapel on the Las Vegas strip, Johnny Mundo walks down the aisle and shakes hands with the justice of the peace, one glammed up jumpsuit and enormous sunglasses wearing Elvis Presley. Then, the organ music plays, and down the walk comes the bride, Taya Vaklyrie, as Elvis sings “I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You.” Elvis does his job, the happy couple say their vows and kiss to seal the deal, and then Elvis pronounces them husband and wife. Elvis sings “Burning Love,” and confetti rains down from the ceiling of the chapel as Johnny and Taya celebrate with their friends and family.
Out on the street in front of The Temple, there is a large tour bus. Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara are standing around in front of the bus when Santana and Ortiz come around the corner, out from the alley that heads behind the Temple. Jericho says it’s about time they came back because they need to get out of here before those insufferable assclowns known as the Believers start spilling out of the exits and into the streets. Guevara says that Jake Hager isn’t with them. Jericho asks where Hager is. They said they searched everywhere but couldn’t find him. Guevara says they have to go back. Jericho says there’s no time.
The doors open and Believers come out into the street, celebrating. They see four of the five members of the Inner Circle and many of them point and laugh at their loss. The Inner Circle quickly get on the bus, but now the street is blocked and the bus can’t go anywhere. The Believers begin a street party, and leading the way is the Street Profits. They came out to join the fun. Jericho open a window on the bus and, speaking through a bullhorn, insults them and demands that they let the bus go. They won’t do it. He goes so mad that he tells them that he quits. He’s never stepping foot in the Temple again because they’re a bunch of ungrateful stupid idiots. The Street Profits then lead the Believers in a chant of “Na-na-na-na, Na-na-na-na, Hey-hey-hey, Goodbye!” Eventually, they allow the bus a clear path and keep chanting as it drives off. Once it turns the corner, they cheer, and the party begins again. Cups are raised, music is blasted, and chants of “We want the smoke!” fill the air.
Eddie Guerrero exits the Temple into the alley behind the building. There are a few vehicles parked back there. He walks over to an El Camino and throws his gear into the back. He looks up at the bright moon and then turns in the other direction and sees Prince Puma perched up on the roof top. He waves at him and says lucha is in good hands as long as he is here as its champion, and then waves at him. Puma calls down to him, asking where he is going. Guerrero says he is going to El Paso. It is time for him to go home. Then, he gets in the El Camino backs it out of the spot where it was parked, tests the hydraulic lifts and drives away. Puma, wearing the Lucha Underground Championship around his waist, looks on and glances up at the moon, then looks down when a black limousine appears and comes to a stop in the back alley.
Dario Cueto walks into his office and finds his father, Antonio Cueto sitting in his chair, facing the other direction. Antonio says that he’s been expecting him. Dario says that it is time for him to leave. Antonio spins around in his seat while saying that he is going nowhere. As he does, it is revealed that he is brandishing a revolver. Dario asks if he really intends to kill his own child twice. Antonio says that he’ll do whatever is necessary to avoid his own death because he knows that the only thing waiting for him on the other side is eternal damnation. Before he pulls the trigger, Dario has one request, he wants to know why he chose his path, not only for him but for the entire Cueto family. Antonio says that he doesn’t understand the pain and the hardship he has had to suffer his whole life. He doesn’t truly understand where his father came from and all he had to do to get to where he is today. He knows he didn’t always make the right choices, but they were the necessary ones, nonetheless. Now, he’s making another.
As Antonio raises the gun and points it at Dario, Matanza Cueto enters the office from the side door and knocks the gun out of his father’s hands. He pulls him up by the lapels of his coat and looks his right in the eye. Dario says that it is time for he and Matanza to do what is both necessary and right. They remove him from the office and force him down a dark hallway. Antonio pleads not to be locked up in the basement cell where Matanza was kept for so long. They reach a door and open it. Matanza throws him out into the back alley. Dario says, “Goodbye, Papa!” and tells me never to show his face around here again. He throws Antonio’s cane out into the street next to him and then disappears behind the closing door.
When Antonio collects himself, he sees a long dark limousine idling. Los Angeles City Councilman Delgado is leaning against the back door. Antonio says he is glad to see him and complains about getting kicked out of the Temple. Delgado says that everything will be alright once he hops in. Delgado opens the door and holds it for Antonio. He climbs inside. Delgado shuts the door behind him, taps on the roof of the limo and it begins to drive away.
Inside, Antonio comes face to face with Blue Demon Jr. He asks him what they do know. Blue Demon Jr. pours them both glasses of tequila. He hands one to Antonio and tells him to take a drink. He pounds it down. Blue Demon Jr. says that he hopes Antonio enjoyed it because that is his last drink and this is his last ride. Antonio asks where they are going and Blue Demon Jr. tells him they are going home.
Back inside Dario Cueto’s office, Dario and Matanza greet El Santo, who has stopped by to say that it is time for him to return home. Dario thanks him for everything he has done for him. El Santo thanks Dario for helping him to defeat the forces of evil. El Santo looks at Matanza and asks if he is ready. Dario is caught off guard by this comment. El Santo says that Matanza is coming with him back to Mexico City because he wants to learn more, and there is much more that he can learn from him. Dario looks disappointed for a moment but approaches his brother and gives him a hug. He tells Matanza that it is time for him to make his own path and if that should take him to Mexico City, then he is all for it. Just remember one thing – “I love you.” Matanza gives Dario a long hug, then he looks at El Santo and they turn to leave. Dario tells him to wait one point. He takes a large key hanging on a rope off from around his neck and puts it around Matanza’s neck and says that he is now his own man and that this key will open any door he wants. Nothing can get in his way now.
Dario turns around and sits down in his seat. He feels the leather with his hands. It has been far too long since he’s sat in this chair. He turns to a small liquor cabinet and opens it. There remain some bottles of tequila and a small sculpture of a red bull. He pulls out an unopened bottle and pours himself a drink. He grabs the bull and puts it on his desk. He opens a book on his desk and turns it to a blank page. At the top of the page, he writes, “Season Five,” then a few lines down, he writes, “Main Event: Prince Puma vs. Pentagon DARK for the Lucha Underground Championship.” He empties his tequila glass into his mouth, puts it down, then leans back in his chair, folding his hands behind his head and placing his feet up on his desk. He smiles.***