Post by MadStepDad on Apr 16, 2011 14:01:28 GMT -5
1) Cut to the in-studio announce team for the evening:
Gordon Solie & Matt Striker
MATT STRIKER: Welcome back to XPW studios, where we continue our focus on the upcoming debut PPV from XPW (remixed), "New Years Revolution". The parallels between XPW and all the other so-called "hardcore" outfits are "extreme", to say the least. The parallel is reaching people — of course in different ways. There’s a performance aspect to both. As a teacher, you’re in front of a classroom for six or seven hours in a row and you always have to be “on,” and you’re reaching people and you’re making a difference. It’s the same thing with being a professional wrestler. The reason why people respond to Terry Funk and Mil Mascaras — the reason why these kids coming up are going crazy about The MESSIAH — is because these men have impacted the fans’ lives in some way. I know that Toots Mondt and Gold Dust Trio Inc were responsible for developing my personality as a child because they impacted me so much — their performance, their passion, the attention that I paid to them day-in and day-out. XPW is that raw, gritty underbelly of pro wrestling - a return to the seedy, smoky backrooms of yesteryear that are missing from todays product.
GORDON SOLIE: You know you made an interesting comment there, you see, that's another thing that I look upon in my career - the fact that I was "let into" that society, allowed inside the society has made me very proud and pleased with the fact that a community that was as tightly knit as they were has said, "Hey, here's a guy who is a non-wrestler but he's got our respect so bring him in..." That in itself, you see, is now gone. I mean, hell, you can walk down the street now and the average fan… and I see it all the time...I have a favorite little watering hole - and a fan will come in there and start telling me what's going to happen next week, whose got this gimmick going and whose got this gimmick going and next week their going to switch... and I'm thinking, "Whoa!" That was the secret and the mystique about the sport years ago was that idea was to try and keep the fans guessing. They could try to figure it out, that's fine to try and figure it out - but never let them get there. XPW is bringing the magic back.
Cut to ring.
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2) ”VICIOUS” VIC GRIMES (w/ Headhunters) versus
NECRO BUTCHER[
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Vic Grimes opens the in-ring portion flanked by the Headhunters and with a microphone in his hand. Addresses the XPW audience in a very inflammatory fashion, clearly marking himself and his associates as the heels. Christens his stable “the Cannibal Cartel”, and promises a return to prominence for the “most feared faction in pro wrestling history!!!” His bold proclamations are met head-on by a barefoot Necro Butcher who emerges into XPW arena to massive cheers. Dueling mic bit before the Headhunters are expelled from the ring and the match begins. Good, hard-hitting solid action, with Grimes and Necro Butcher alternating between taking wicked bumps (outside to the floor, onto steel chairs and off the top rope). Finally the Headhunters get involved on the outside, and Butcher winds up eating a “Grimes Cutter” off the top rope for the pinfall loss.
Winner: “VICIOUS” VIC GRIMES
But the post match beat down is just beginning, with Necro Butcher getting flattened by MASSIVE top rope moonsaults from the near 400 pound Headhunters! Vic Grimes takes the opportunity to hold the house mic hostage again, and answer the Gilberts shoot on him from last week. Calls them a bunch of cowardly con-men, nowhere the caliber of the Cannibal Cartel. Vic Grimes says the Headhunters are the best tag team in the business today. To further prove his point, he orders them to deliver another set of stereo moonsaults to the still-down Necro Butcher. But before they can…
“BROOKLYN! BROOKLYN! BROOKLYN!!!”
There is a moment of stunned silence before the crowd begins reacting wildly. Emerging through the XPW curtains is none other than Big Shad Gaspard and JTG!
Introducing CRYME TYME!!!
SHAD GASPARD: Hey yo! We in XPW now cuz it's the realest shit going. I’m amped up way more off TV than on it. They actually have to pull me back a little bit, because if I was the way I am in my normal life on TV - the FCC would be all over wrestling! But here in XPW, we can finally be ourselves.
JTG: I don’t wanna sound like I’m bragging but I knew I was gonna make it to XPW. That was a good motivator; I didn’t have a back-up plan, I didn’t have anything else to fall back on. I had to make it my first time.
Cryme Tyme dub themselves the “REALEST gangstaz” in pro wrestling and will show the world just how real it gets… right here in XPW!!! Cryme Tyme then reveals that they are carrying weaponry (baseball bats and steel chains) and storm the ring! They beat the hell out of the Headhunters with their weapons while Vic Grimes flees the ring! Crowd going crazy! Cryme Tyme drives the Headhunters from the ring and soak up the audience cheers, leading them in rousing chants of “XPW! XPW! XPW!!!”
Suddenly – on the video wall –a familiar face appears, with some not-so-nice words for the so-called “Realest Gangstaz” in the game…
with versus
Vic Grimes opens the in-ring portion flanked by the Headhunters and with a microphone in his hand. Addresses the XPW audience in a very inflammatory fashion, clearly marking himself and his associates as the heels. Christens his stable “the Cannibal Cartel”, and promises a return to prominence for the “most feared faction in pro wrestling history!!!” His bold proclamations are met head-on by a barefoot Necro Butcher who emerges into XPW arena to massive cheers. Dueling mic bit before the Headhunters are expelled from the ring and the match begins. Good, hard-hitting solid action, with Grimes and Necro Butcher alternating between taking wicked bumps (outside to the floor, onto steel chairs and off the top rope). Finally the Headhunters get involved on the outside, and Butcher winds up eating a “Grimes Cutter” off the top rope for the pinfall loss.
Winner: “VICIOUS” VIC GRIMES
But the post match beat down is just beginning, with Necro Butcher getting flattened by MASSIVE top rope moonsaults from the near 400 pound Headhunters! Vic Grimes takes the opportunity to hold the house mic hostage again, and answer the Gilberts shoot on him from last week. Calls them a bunch of cowardly con-men, nowhere the caliber of the Cannibal Cartel. Vic Grimes says the Headhunters are the best tag team in the business today. To further prove his point, he orders them to deliver another set of stereo moonsaults to the still-down Necro Butcher. But before they can…
“BROOKLYN! BROOKLYN! BROOKLYN!!!”
There is a moment of stunned silence before the crowd begins reacting wildly. Emerging through the XPW curtains is none other than Big Shad Gaspard and JTG!
Introducing CRYME TYME!!!
SHAD GASPARD: Hey yo! We in XPW now cuz it's the realest shit going. I’m amped up way more off TV than on it. They actually have to pull me back a little bit, because if I was the way I am in my normal life on TV - the FCC would be all over wrestling! But here in XPW, we can finally be ourselves.
JTG: I don’t wanna sound like I’m bragging but I knew I was gonna make it to XPW. That was a good motivator; I didn’t have a back-up plan, I didn’t have anything else to fall back on. I had to make it my first time.
Cryme Tyme dub themselves the “REALEST gangstaz” in pro wrestling and will show the world just how real it gets… right here in XPW!!! Cryme Tyme then reveals that they are carrying weaponry (baseball bats and steel chains) and storm the ring! They beat the hell out of the Headhunters with their weapons while Vic Grimes flees the ring! Crowd going crazy! Cryme Tyme drives the Headhunters from the ring and soak up the audience cheers, leading them in rousing chants of “XPW! XPW! XPW!!!”
Suddenly – on the video wall –a familiar face appears, with some not-so-nice words for the so-called “Realest Gangstaz” in the game…
”Westsidaz” = Cryme Tyme
CRYME TYME versus THE GANGSTAZ!!!! Only at “New Years Revolution!!!”
Finally, XPW security has secured the premises and escorted Cryme Tyme and the Cannibal Cartel (Vic Grimes and The Headhunters) backstage. The escalated security presence allows for a Goldberg-like brigade of security escorts for the arrival of our next in-ring guest...
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3) THE INNOVATOR OF VIOLENCE SPEAKS LIVE!!!
Tommy Dreamer takes to the ring to a raucous ovation, and is greeted with loud “XPW! XPW!” chants. Security surround the ring. Dreamer seems grateful to receive these wonderful fans. Crowd responds with a standing ovation that lasts several moments before Dreamer can finally speak into the mic.
TOMMY DREAMER: (waves hand politely to get the crowd quiet) After the fall of ECW, I knew there was only one place for me. And it’s NOT WWE or TNA. For one point, it totally was away from what the original ECW was about. Again, it's Vince McMahon's vision. He owns it. He can do what he wants with it. You cannot knock the success of WWE and Vince McMahon and his vision. But we can sure knock the hell out of them in the ring! So how can you go and tell somebody, `Hey, this can be better.' Toots Mondt (part owner of XPW remixed) is an amazing man because he listens. He has pulled me aside. We have argued. He has told me things. He's admitted things when he was wrong. I have more respect for Mister Mondt than I ever have. He has to make so many decisions. We couldn't do half the things we did then. In the original ECW, we did things that were illegal. Sandman's music, my music, that's illegal. What we did; fighting in the audience. Fans could just sue you. Fans are suing even if you're not there! But in XPW, we are bringing back true hardcore! Not that watered-down, sanitized crap from the other companies!!!
Just then, there's a disturbance in the off-camera section of the audience! "Vicious" Vic Grimes is making his unexpected return! Banned to the backstage area, he has apparently skirted awaiting security by entering through the crowd - a very dangerous preposition. Vic Grimes bullies his way through the rowdy crowd until he's shouting at Dreamer from the ringside barricade. Dreamer - now aware of the interruption - is in-ring, welcoming Grimes to test him.
Grimes gets almost over the barricade before he's swallowed by XPW security. Grimes cursing at Dreamer. Security in the ring with Dreamer, helping keep him restrained. Suddenly! One of the XPW security guards clobbers Tommy Dreamer from behind with a nightstick! Everybody scatters from the ring, leaving only the man standing over Dreamers fallen body with a nightstick! Who is that guy??? He takes off his riot gear helmet to reveal...
NAILZ!!!
Frothing at the mouth, the maniac Nailz unleashes into Tommy Dreamer with the nightstick in a vicious, violent display. He discards the generic all-black XPW security t-shirt to reveal a similar one - this one emblazoned with the logo for the Cannibal Cartel. Nailz is part of Vic Grimes' crime ring. With Nailz pounding out Dreamer in the ring, Vic Grimes bumrushes his way through the rest of the lame security to taunt the Innovator of Violence further. "Welcome to XPW!!!!" Climaxes with Nailz choking Dreamer unconscious with the nightstick. Cannibal Cartel raise their arms in victory to a loud chorus of boos.
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4) KEVIN SULLIVAN introduces the new Black Army
"Purple Haze" alias for = Damien Demento
"Prince of Darkness" Kevin Sullivan (1982), Lizzy Borden (2001)
and Damien Demento (1993)
In-ring, the new Dark Army gets a rock-star entrance. Lizzy Borden slithers around the Prince of Darkness like a snake, while Damien Demento projects an air of unstable violence.
DAMIEN DEMENTO: Oh let's see... girls, money, fame. Did I mention money, and girls, and fame? Actually none of that. I wanted more than anything to be in XPW. That was my dream. You see, there's no "real" competition in Pro wrestling. The "Boss" thinks to himself "I'm gonna make this guy the champ." It's a show, period. I was a very small part of it. I can say I was in RAW's first main event. That and two bucks will get me on the subway. And maybe, if some day, a kid out there claims to be my child and it's proven by DNA testing, maybe, just maybe, he can proudly stand up and say "...proven to be my dad in a Court of Law, Damien Demento is my father." That thought makes my eyes well up. Sorry, I'm a sensitive Demento.
Kevin Sullivan - flanked by his Black Army - announces he is the 2nd participant in the main event triple-threat match at New Years Revolution to determine the new XPW champion! The Black Army is here to control the globe slowly, for what began in 1982 - and climaxed in 2007 - will continue on into the hereafter. He is bringing pro wrestling to the Darkside.
Just then, they are interrupted by the opening strains of the theme from "Godfather". All eyes turn to the curtain in stunned transfixion. Could it be? Yes it is!
Enter BRUNO SAMMARTINO (1966)!!!
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: You know, in my day, it wasn’t like it is today where these athletes make millions of dollars. In my day, you made a good living, and I’m extremely grateful for everything that came my way after coming from Europe, but you didn’t make the big bucks back then. Don’t get me wrong — my wife and I, we’re fine — but if you have the opportunity to go pick up a payday someplace, I don’t turn my back to it. It’s not that I really enjoy the traveling because I despise traveling. The only thing I like about doing autograph shows is that the people who used to be fans are so wonderful. They’ll come over and give such wonderful compliments. Younger people say, “You were a role model for me growing up. My parents love you.” You hear these wonderful comments and it really touches you that people have these positive things to say about you. It makes me feel good that I never did anything negative.
Da Brune (or BRRRRUUUNNNNOOOOOO as the raucous crowd chants his name) officially announces his entry into the title match at "New Years Revolution"! Bruno Sammartino is the 3rd man in the triple threat!!!
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: I tell you how seriously I took my role in my life and what I was. I was the world wrestling champion, and I would be in restaurants, and being Italian, especially if I was in an Italian restaurant, a lot of time I’d go for dinner and people would say, “Let’s have a glass of wine.” I would loved to have had a glass of wine, but if it was during the afternoon and there were people there with kids, I would never, never touch it because I was afraid that if they recognized me and saw me drinking, I thought it just wasn’t a positive thing. I wanted people to have a positive image of this wrestling champion. I really tried to conduct myself properly.
Kevin Sullivan, driven into a rage by Bruno's preaching, lambastes the former WWWF champion. Promises to have Bruno's memory eradicated from wrestling, and the Black Army will start tonight by make sure Bruno doesn't even make it to "New Year's Revolution". The Prince of Darkness and Damien Demento are going to take out Bruno Sammartino right now.
DAMIEN DEMENTO: I never really was a fan, that's probably why I left so quickly. But a friend told me this wrestling story. Bruno Sammartino had a match against a heel who spent the entire time beating Bruno's injured leg which was in a cast. Bruno managed to win. Afterwards, during an interview, he said he knew his opponent would go after the leg in a cast, so he took a chance and put the cast on his good leg, saving his injured one. I thought that was awesome... Bruno, we're going to break your leg!
Sullivan and Demento meet a rushing Bruno Sammartino head-on in the aisleway and a violent brawl breaks out. Security, surging fans and the antagonistic Lizzy Borden only add to the cramped, claustrophobic atmosphere. Into the ring for more space, Bruno clobbers the two Black Army members until the numbers advantage becomes too much and Sammartino finds himself on the receiving end of a wine stomping. Small fights are starting to break out in the audience as well, foreshadowing a full-fledged riot.
The Black Army methodically continues their beat down on Bruno in the ring, until "Cowboy" by Kid Rock interrupts them, and forces the unsettled XPW audience to finally focus. Entering XPW arena for the save...
TERRY FUNK!!!
Crowd explodes with cheers as Terry Funk first appears from the curtains. He carries with him the great equalizer he will use to offset the Black Army - that suddenly flares to life halfway down the aisle - a burning branding iron!!! Sullivan and Demento freeze inside the ring while Lizzy Borden quickly flees. Funk slides into the ring and blows a tremendous fireball into the faces of the Black Army, forcing Sullivan to retreat and propelling Demento out of the ring!!! Massive crowd pop as Terry Funk uses a steel chair to keep the Black Army at bay and outside the ring. Terry Funk has driven the Black Army from the ring!
Bruno Sammartino finally scrapes himself up off the mat after the vicious beat down he sustained, and shares a stare down with Terry Funk mid-ring. Crowd abuzz with anticipation. After a few tense moments... Sammartino extends his hand for the mutual handshake of respect! Crowd cheers! Terry Funk sizes up their reaction, before finally grasping Sammartino's hand in return! Another big pop! But as soon as Bruno Sammartino turns around... Terry Funk clocks him with the steel chair!!! Crowd pop is the loudest of the night!!! Sammartino crashes to the mat in a heap while Funk holds the dented chair aloft and leads the crowd in a rousing show-closing chant of "XPW! XPW! XPW!!!!" Oh my, buy the muthaphuckkin PPV!!!
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In-Studio Outro
Gordon Solie & Matt Striker
GORDON SOLIE: (addressing Bruno Sammartino's involvement in the main event title match at "New Years Revolution") Let me give you a little example of something. Howard Brody and Hiro Matsuda told me that they were going to get Bruno Sammartino down to be my color man and I was really concerned because here was a guy who was a real legend and I was worried about whether we would have chemistry. I know Bruno and all but not well...we knew of each other. So I sat down with Bruno before our first match and said, "Please understand - you have a free run. I'd like to explain to you my philosophy of how I announce." I said, "I've used this example before, but I am the drum roll to the high wire." I said, "The high wire is just as dangerous to the man up there on the high wire with or without the drum roll. The drum roll can add a little to the suspense but it cannot detract from the danger of what the man up there is doing as he is sixty feet above the ground with no net. That's my attitude. The name on the marquee is 'wrestling' it's not Gordon Solie so that's my philosophy about it Bruno, I just wanted you to know where I am coming from." And he looked at me and said, "Well, we're coming from the same place." That's important.
XPW presents: "New Years Revolution"! Coming soon!!!
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CREDITS:
GORDON SOLIE: Interview w/ Jeremy Hartley
DAMIEN DEMENTO: Icons of the Ring interview
CRYME TYME: Hip Hop DX interview 10/17/08
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: Ringposts Interview 5/1/2008
MATT STRIKER: WWE Interview July 13th 2005
CRYME TYME versus THE GANGSTAZ!!!! Only at “New Years Revolution!!!”
Finally, XPW security has secured the premises and escorted Cryme Tyme and the Cannibal Cartel (Vic Grimes and The Headhunters) backstage. The escalated security presence allows for a Goldberg-like brigade of security escorts for the arrival of our next in-ring guest...
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3) THE INNOVATOR OF VIOLENCE SPEAKS LIVE!!!
Tommy Dreamer takes to the ring to a raucous ovation, and is greeted with loud “XPW! XPW!” chants. Security surround the ring. Dreamer seems grateful to receive these wonderful fans. Crowd responds with a standing ovation that lasts several moments before Dreamer can finally speak into the mic.
TOMMY DREAMER: (waves hand politely to get the crowd quiet) After the fall of ECW, I knew there was only one place for me. And it’s NOT WWE or TNA. For one point, it totally was away from what the original ECW was about. Again, it's Vince McMahon's vision. He owns it. He can do what he wants with it. You cannot knock the success of WWE and Vince McMahon and his vision. But we can sure knock the hell out of them in the ring! So how can you go and tell somebody, `Hey, this can be better.' Toots Mondt (part owner of XPW remixed) is an amazing man because he listens. He has pulled me aside. We have argued. He has told me things. He's admitted things when he was wrong. I have more respect for Mister Mondt than I ever have. He has to make so many decisions. We couldn't do half the things we did then. In the original ECW, we did things that were illegal. Sandman's music, my music, that's illegal. What we did; fighting in the audience. Fans could just sue you. Fans are suing even if you're not there! But in XPW, we are bringing back true hardcore! Not that watered-down, sanitized crap from the other companies!!!
Just then, there's a disturbance in the off-camera section of the audience! "Vicious" Vic Grimes is making his unexpected return! Banned to the backstage area, he has apparently skirted awaiting security by entering through the crowd - a very dangerous preposition. Vic Grimes bullies his way through the rowdy crowd until he's shouting at Dreamer from the ringside barricade. Dreamer - now aware of the interruption - is in-ring, welcoming Grimes to test him.
Grimes gets almost over the barricade before he's swallowed by XPW security. Grimes cursing at Dreamer. Security in the ring with Dreamer, helping keep him restrained. Suddenly! One of the XPW security guards clobbers Tommy Dreamer from behind with a nightstick! Everybody scatters from the ring, leaving only the man standing over Dreamers fallen body with a nightstick! Who is that guy??? He takes off his riot gear helmet to reveal...
NAILZ!!!
Frothing at the mouth, the maniac Nailz unleashes into Tommy Dreamer with the nightstick in a vicious, violent display. He discards the generic all-black XPW security t-shirt to reveal a similar one - this one emblazoned with the logo for the Cannibal Cartel. Nailz is part of Vic Grimes' crime ring. With Nailz pounding out Dreamer in the ring, Vic Grimes bumrushes his way through the rest of the lame security to taunt the Innovator of Violence further. "Welcome to XPW!!!!" Climaxes with Nailz choking Dreamer unconscious with the nightstick. Cannibal Cartel raise their arms in victory to a loud chorus of boos.
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4) KEVIN SULLIVAN introduces the new Black Army
"Purple Haze" alias for = Damien Demento
"Prince of Darkness" Kevin Sullivan (1982), Lizzy Borden (2001)
and Damien Demento (1993)
In-ring, the new Dark Army gets a rock-star entrance. Lizzy Borden slithers around the Prince of Darkness like a snake, while Damien Demento projects an air of unstable violence.
DAMIEN DEMENTO: Oh let's see... girls, money, fame. Did I mention money, and girls, and fame? Actually none of that. I wanted more than anything to be in XPW. That was my dream. You see, there's no "real" competition in Pro wrestling. The "Boss" thinks to himself "I'm gonna make this guy the champ." It's a show, period. I was a very small part of it. I can say I was in RAW's first main event. That and two bucks will get me on the subway. And maybe, if some day, a kid out there claims to be my child and it's proven by DNA testing, maybe, just maybe, he can proudly stand up and say "...proven to be my dad in a Court of Law, Damien Demento is my father." That thought makes my eyes well up. Sorry, I'm a sensitive Demento.
Kevin Sullivan - flanked by his Black Army - announces he is the 2nd participant in the main event triple-threat match at New Years Revolution to determine the new XPW champion! The Black Army is here to control the globe slowly, for what began in 1982 - and climaxed in 2007 - will continue on into the hereafter. He is bringing pro wrestling to the Darkside.
Just then, they are interrupted by the opening strains of the theme from "Godfather". All eyes turn to the curtain in stunned transfixion. Could it be? Yes it is!
Enter BRUNO SAMMARTINO (1966)!!!
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: You know, in my day, it wasn’t like it is today where these athletes make millions of dollars. In my day, you made a good living, and I’m extremely grateful for everything that came my way after coming from Europe, but you didn’t make the big bucks back then. Don’t get me wrong — my wife and I, we’re fine — but if you have the opportunity to go pick up a payday someplace, I don’t turn my back to it. It’s not that I really enjoy the traveling because I despise traveling. The only thing I like about doing autograph shows is that the people who used to be fans are so wonderful. They’ll come over and give such wonderful compliments. Younger people say, “You were a role model for me growing up. My parents love you.” You hear these wonderful comments and it really touches you that people have these positive things to say about you. It makes me feel good that I never did anything negative.
Da Brune (or BRRRRUUUNNNNOOOOOO as the raucous crowd chants his name) officially announces his entry into the title match at "New Years Revolution"! Bruno Sammartino is the 3rd man in the triple threat!!!
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: I tell you how seriously I took my role in my life and what I was. I was the world wrestling champion, and I would be in restaurants, and being Italian, especially if I was in an Italian restaurant, a lot of time I’d go for dinner and people would say, “Let’s have a glass of wine.” I would loved to have had a glass of wine, but if it was during the afternoon and there were people there with kids, I would never, never touch it because I was afraid that if they recognized me and saw me drinking, I thought it just wasn’t a positive thing. I wanted people to have a positive image of this wrestling champion. I really tried to conduct myself properly.
Kevin Sullivan, driven into a rage by Bruno's preaching, lambastes the former WWWF champion. Promises to have Bruno's memory eradicated from wrestling, and the Black Army will start tonight by make sure Bruno doesn't even make it to "New Year's Revolution". The Prince of Darkness and Damien Demento are going to take out Bruno Sammartino right now.
DAMIEN DEMENTO: I never really was a fan, that's probably why I left so quickly. But a friend told me this wrestling story. Bruno Sammartino had a match against a heel who spent the entire time beating Bruno's injured leg which was in a cast. Bruno managed to win. Afterwards, during an interview, he said he knew his opponent would go after the leg in a cast, so he took a chance and put the cast on his good leg, saving his injured one. I thought that was awesome... Bruno, we're going to break your leg!
Sullivan and Demento meet a rushing Bruno Sammartino head-on in the aisleway and a violent brawl breaks out. Security, surging fans and the antagonistic Lizzy Borden only add to the cramped, claustrophobic atmosphere. Into the ring for more space, Bruno clobbers the two Black Army members until the numbers advantage becomes too much and Sammartino finds himself on the receiving end of a wine stomping. Small fights are starting to break out in the audience as well, foreshadowing a full-fledged riot.
The Black Army methodically continues their beat down on Bruno in the ring, until "Cowboy" by Kid Rock interrupts them, and forces the unsettled XPW audience to finally focus. Entering XPW arena for the save...
TERRY FUNK!!!
Crowd explodes with cheers as Terry Funk first appears from the curtains. He carries with him the great equalizer he will use to offset the Black Army - that suddenly flares to life halfway down the aisle - a burning branding iron!!! Sullivan and Demento freeze inside the ring while Lizzy Borden quickly flees. Funk slides into the ring and blows a tremendous fireball into the faces of the Black Army, forcing Sullivan to retreat and propelling Demento out of the ring!!! Massive crowd pop as Terry Funk uses a steel chair to keep the Black Army at bay and outside the ring. Terry Funk has driven the Black Army from the ring!
Bruno Sammartino finally scrapes himself up off the mat after the vicious beat down he sustained, and shares a stare down with Terry Funk mid-ring. Crowd abuzz with anticipation. After a few tense moments... Sammartino extends his hand for the mutual handshake of respect! Crowd cheers! Terry Funk sizes up their reaction, before finally grasping Sammartino's hand in return! Another big pop! But as soon as Bruno Sammartino turns around... Terry Funk clocks him with the steel chair!!! Crowd pop is the loudest of the night!!! Sammartino crashes to the mat in a heap while Funk holds the dented chair aloft and leads the crowd in a rousing show-closing chant of "XPW! XPW! XPW!!!!" Oh my, buy the muthaphuckkin PPV!!!
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In-Studio Outro
Gordon Solie & Matt Striker
GORDON SOLIE: (addressing Bruno Sammartino's involvement in the main event title match at "New Years Revolution") Let me give you a little example of something. Howard Brody and Hiro Matsuda told me that they were going to get Bruno Sammartino down to be my color man and I was really concerned because here was a guy who was a real legend and I was worried about whether we would have chemistry. I know Bruno and all but not well...we knew of each other. So I sat down with Bruno before our first match and said, "Please understand - you have a free run. I'd like to explain to you my philosophy of how I announce." I said, "I've used this example before, but I am the drum roll to the high wire." I said, "The high wire is just as dangerous to the man up there on the high wire with or without the drum roll. The drum roll can add a little to the suspense but it cannot detract from the danger of what the man up there is doing as he is sixty feet above the ground with no net. That's my attitude. The name on the marquee is 'wrestling' it's not Gordon Solie so that's my philosophy about it Bruno, I just wanted you to know where I am coming from." And he looked at me and said, "Well, we're coming from the same place." That's important.
XPW presents: "New Years Revolution"! Coming soon!!!
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CREDITS:
GORDON SOLIE: Interview w/ Jeremy Hartley
DAMIEN DEMENTO: Icons of the Ring interview
CRYME TYME: Hip Hop DX interview 10/17/08
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: Ringposts Interview 5/1/2008
MATT STRIKER: WWE Interview July 13th 2005