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Post by MadStepDad on May 6, 2011 20:37:11 GMT -5
XPW Remixed presents...
NIGHT of CHAMPIONS________________________________________________________________ This is your first live XPW show! Your good friend won tickets from a contest on a wrestling website, but had to pull out at the last moment. That leaves just you and a guest of your choice to make the all-expenses paid trip to beautiful Pittsburgh PA, home to the first East Coast show under the new XPW Remixed regime “Night of Champions”! Your excitement/curiosity/personal death wish mandates that make you trip no matter what. Now that you have, the intensity of the live environment makes it all worthwhile. You’re surrounded by hundreds, maybe thousands, of similar like-minded fans providing a visceral experience. The profane chants, the tattoos and weed smoke, the sloshing and frothy open-topped beers. This is pro wrestling heaven. Heavy metal and hardcore rap music plays through the arena like a concert as spectators start filling up the venue. Everybody has their personal favorite, but Bruno Sammartino seems to be the talk on everybody’s lips. You’ve got great seats; perfect view of the chaos but not close enough to get hit with trash, blood or worse. About 30 minutes before PPV time, backstage correspondent/ring announcer MSD stands center ring and welcomes everybody to Night of Champions! Brief highlight video is shown on the Titan Tron, running down the night’s matches and amping up the electricity in the arena. MSD begins his Bruce Buffer-styled intro pitch, when suddenly – he’s interrupted by the sound of ancient Viking war chants breaking through the arena sound system… It’s THE BERZERKER!!! ** DARK MATCH (A) ** BERZERKER versus ANONYMOUS JOBBER Post match – the Berzerker actually grabs the house mic right out of MSD’s hand and cuts a rambling, nonsensical, shouting promo that sounds very “anti-The Grand Wizard” and crew. You remember reading somewhere that The Grand Wizard had removed Berzerker from his list of clientele after the recent string of losses he suffered. Berzerker throws down the mic and picks up the helpless jobber again, prepared to toss him over the top rope like a sack of potatoes. But before he can… “The Man Comes Around” by Johnny Cash cuts him off… Enter perennial XPW favorite NECRO BUTCHER!!! The wild, untamed Hillbilly maniac enters the arena with no shirt, no shoes and wielding a steel chair! No words are exchanged between Necro and Berzerker as they go face-to-face in the center of the ring. Necro Butcher responds by bashing his OWN head in with the steel chair, ostensibly challenging Berzerker to a duel! Crowd cheers loudly! Berzerker pounds his chest in response, or to signify his willingness to battle, so Necro Butcher wraps the steel chair around Berzerker’s head with a loud SMASH, raising the crowd decibels to a deafening level!!! ** DARK MATCH (B) ** BERZERKER versus NECRO BUTCHER versus Brief, but thrilling encounter that has Necro Butcher run through all his most popular and crowd-pleasing spots on the hapless Berzerker. The Viking warrior gets a brief offensive counter, but Necro Butcher is on fire tonight. Butcher finishes with a Necro Bomb (Tiger bomb onto a set of steel chairs) to a huge crowd pop! Xtreme favorite Necro Butcher gets the prelim win to warm up the crowd and set the show off lovely. Winner: NECRO BUTCHER (Post match, Necro celebrates his victory with the first few rows of XPW faithful (somebody actually spills a beer on you trying to get closer to the frizzy-haired madman) as Johnny Cash blasts in the background and some fans sing along. Back in the center of the ring, Necro gives his final victory salute to the fans… but WAIT!!! From behind, Necro Butcher is ambushed by a hulking, monster of a man…) Introducing ABDULLAH the BUTCHER!!! Oh my, the Madman from Sudan’s XPW Remixed debut!!! Big Abby is an XPW Original, and wastes no time retaking his piece of its blood-soaked turf with this surprising and unproved attack on XPW favorite Necro Butcher! Behind him, none other than the multi-colored, turban-wearing miscreant THE GRAND WIZARD hollers hyperbole and directs traffic! Abdullah savages Necro Butcher with his trusty fork, before nearly decapitating him with his Sudanese meat cleaver finisher! Abdullah the Butcher is in XPW, and with The Grand Wizard behind him, there’s no telling how far he’ll go – or how much blood will be spilled! Later, Abdullah the Butcher’s surprise XPW debut would go on to be an “Extra” on the DVD/Blu-Ray version of “Night of Champions”, and one of the discs biggest selling points. And you got to witness it live!!!
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Post by MadStepDad on May 6, 2011 20:40:05 GMT -5
"3!...2!...1!... countdown to airtime, and we are LIVE from Pittsburgh PA for XPW Remixed's East Coast Debut!!!XPW Remixed presents...
NIGHT of CHAMPIONSIntroducing your announce team for the evening: Gordon Solie & Matt Striker"Night of Champions" promises to be a new era in XPW Remixed. This is their first PPV production East of the Mississippi. This is XPW's own version of an East Coast Invasion! And all those pencil-necked geeks who blackballed the Gold Dust Trio Inc will rue this day. In what promises to be a monumental occasion, FOUR different championships are on the line tonight! The King of the Death Match champion Jun Kasai defends against the Original Sheik. Plus, Rockstar Joey KAOS defends the TV title against Eddie Gilbert, Tag team champion The Sicilians take on Cryme Tyme, and of course reigning XPW champion Ezekiel Jackson will clash with former champ Bruno Sammartino in their final rematch. All this, plus the crowning of a new potential #1 Contender when 8 of the greatest athletes in fantasy wrestling history compete in XPW's first "Money in the Bank" ladder match! We are LIVE from Pittsburg Pennsylvania - backyard of the WWF, former home to ECW, land of the misfits like CZW - as "Night of Champions" begins!!!Cut to ringside _________________________________________________ 1) TERRY FUNK versus “VICIOUS” VIC GRIMES (ECW-Rules Match) versus This match has special, spiritual meaning for the fans in Pittsburgh today. Pennsylvania played home to the original hardcore revolution when ECW first blew the doors down on pro wrestling, and the fans have taken that honor very seriously ever since. So you can imagine the vile hatred these fans share for XPW-crusader (and rampant West Coaster) “Vicious” Vic Grimes, who is hell-bent on erasing the initials “ECW” from every fans memory. He crushed Tommy Dreamer (see “New Years Revolution”), deflated Superfly Jimmy Snuka (see “My Bloody Valentine” and “Fall Out”) and would have defeated ECW stalwart Sabu last week on XPW TV if not for the interference of the Hardcore Legend Terry Funk. The “ECW Rules” in this match are for tribute only; a mere formality. Everybody knows XPW has no rules. Vicious Vic Grimes and his Cannibal Cartel (Headhunterz and “Sick” Nick Mondo) enter first with a wall of security surrounding them from the surging crowd. The atmosphere is intense, as the liquor and blunt smoke has started flowing a lot more freely. Yet there are small pockets of fans that cheer for the Cartel and wear their gang colors (before the show you saw a long-haired dude wearing a Cannibal Cartel shirt selling handfuls of pills in the public restroom). In-ring though, Grimes and his crew are the clear heels and play it to the hilt, encouraging the profane chants and venomous boos. Finally – “Cowboy” by Kid Rock starts playing over the arena sound system, and the crowd explodes with cheers! Enter Terry Funk, but this time he comes through the crowd! Terry Funk the people’s champion makes his grand dramatic entrance through the throngs of fans ala Sandman, while carrying a steel chair with a blanket tied around it. The purpose of which becomes all too apparent when – as Funk finally hops the crowd guard rail and nears the ring apron – he suddenly lights the tip of the towel with a lighter and the whole thing flares to life with a FWOOOOSH!!! Terry Funk is wielding a flaming steel chair, and he quickly slides into the ring and starts swinging it wildly about! Cannibal Cartel retreat and dive for cover! Funk maintains control of the ring, but gets sidetracked arguing and threatening Mondo – allowing Grimes to sneak into the ring and attempt to blind side him… only to eat a flaming steel chair shot to the head! Ouch! Grimes is down, the flames are out and the match is on. Stiff, energetic, hardcore brawl made even more intense by the feverish reaction of the crowd around you. Grimes and Funk continuing “playing with fire” so to speak, when their brawl actually spills outside the ring and INTO the rowdy audience! Dangerous! Fans are becoming unhinged, the fists and glass is flying, and you feel like you’re being swept up into the middle of a violent mosh pit. Thankfully, their brawl quickly cuts through your section of fans into the concession and refreshment area, where Funk and Grimes go through every table/poster/popcorn machine in sight. Funk and Grimes actually make their way all the way OUTSIDE the building, where they start brawling in the Pittsburgh streets! Swarms of rowdy fans clamor around them chanting “XPW! XPW!” Inside the arena however, not caught on camera, a small riot broke out in the section of seating by the entrance ramp. It was hard to see at first, but apparently some fans had some jumped on the Headhunterz and security was slow to react. Rumors that the "fans" who attacked the Headhunterz were actually East Coast wrestlers opposed to XPW's first appearance out here in nearly 10 years were unfounded. But for a brief moment, it was a scary scene. By the time they make it back to the ring the crowd has been whipped into a frenzy. Finally, after all the chaos, Funk is trapped in the ring and the Cannibal Cartel goes to work. First – the Headhunterz set up this convoluted light tube log cabin death trap contraption, but as one of the Headhunterz holds Funk – Vic Grimes accidentally breaks a pane of glass over his head! Funk propels the second Headhunter through that light tube death trap and the twin behemoths have been eliminated from the match! Grimes gets some offense in, Funk fights back, and Nick Mondo winds up eating a fireball blown from the tip of Funks branding iron once more! In the end, Grimes gets entangled in the ropes crucifix style, and Funk absolutely CRUSHES him with a sick unprotected head shot from a cinder block! Funk gets the climatic pin fall with the entire crowd counting along! The place explodes with cheers and Funk leads the crowd in chants of “XPW! XPW!” and “You fat fuck!” directed at Grimes, as he is gingerly helped to the back by the rest of his mangled Cannibal Cartel crew. Winner: TERRY FUNKCut to commercial ** Backstage promo from General of the Black Army Skandor Akbar and his Princess Jasmine-gone-stripper-themed escort Lizzy Borden. Bin Laden may be dead, but there's still only a few things certain in this new world of ours - gas prices, taxes, death and the Black Army reigning supreme in enemy territory tonight. Ezekiel Jackson will retain the XPW Championship and the Black Army's stranglehold on fantasy wrestling will grow even stronger! ** General Skandor Akbar & Lizzy Borden _________________________________________________ 2) CRYME TYME (2008) versus THE SICILIANS (1967) © (XPW Tag Team championships) versus When La Coka Nosta debuted in XPW Remixed, it herald the arrival of a new set of championship hardware to the scene. XPW Tag Team championships. Paid for in cash, christened with blood. Video fade to the blood-soaked faces of Cryme Tyme and the black-gloved Sicilians Tony Altomare and Lou Albano dipping their shiny new championship gold in it. The Sicilians paid the cost to be the boss (an estimated $25k deposit, or so you've heard) here in XPW and hand-selected Cryme Tyme as their first victims ("for grievous assaults on the culture of pro wrestling", as stated by team mouthpiece Lou Albano on a radio call-in show). To the start this segment, godfather-styled music played a bit for laser and light show with a video recap of the Cryme Tyme hit filmed like a Scorsese short film. Then "Brujeria" by the band La Coka Nostra heralds the arrival of the former "Full Blooded Italians" Lil Guido, Tony Mamaluke and Big Sal E. Graziano to the ring where they flex, flaunt and flip the audience off. Then in dramatic fashion (accentuated by lighting and smoke machines and pyro) the beat blends into the "U Don't Know" instrumental for The Sicilians grand entrance... their first in XPW Remixed history. They make sure the XPW officials at ringside take very good of their new championship belts. The Sicilians then brush their shoulders off, make their way to the ring to HUGE boos, and pose before getting down into their wrestling gear (complete with murderer black gloves). Finally - the challengers - Cryme Tyme enter last. As soon as the beat drops the arena goes crazy. Shad Gaspard has the baseball bat and steel chain necklace, JTG is rocking the bullet proof vest. Tension is high before Cryme Tyme even enter the ring. Elongated introduction with the Sicilians being so haughty and condescending as to refuse performing even a simple lock up. Finally Cryme Tyme respond with an infuriatingly disrespectful hand/body gesture and Lil Guido can't help but get himself involved. La Coka Nostra make the quick run-in to start the match - Cryme Tyme dispose of them - Sicilians secure early advantage with the sneak attack. Heavy hands, pugilistic brawlers and crippling submission artists (Tony Altomare in particular locks in a near match-ending Texas Cloverleaf on JTG). Shad Gaspard even felt the cost to be boss when Mamaluke hit him early with a baseball bat to the back of the knee - rendering the big man nearly incapacitated and a victim to a series of Sicilians stretch holds. Allot of murmuring and nervous tittering throughout your section of the audience, as more news about the "fan interruption" becomes available (remember, there was a near-riot during the Funk/Grimes match when a gang of unruly "fans" jumped on the Headhunterz). Word on the streets is one of those guys was an armed criminal on the run from the law after a prison break. He was supposedly convicted on robbery charges after his surveillance photos started circulating wrestling message boards. Sounds familiar??? No truth to the rumor he's hell bent on running XPW Remixed off the East Coast!!! Meanwhile, the XPW Tag Team championship match continues... Things got serious when the referee - despite repeated death threats from the XPW Tag Team champions - actually expelled La Coka Nostra members Lil Guido, Tony Mamaluke and Big Sal E. Graziano from ringside!!! La Coka Nostra was thrown backstage, and Cryme Tyme given time to recover. They took control of the match, popping the crowd louder with each one of their successive specialty moves. Climaxes with the "Drive-By" (like a Hart Attack, but with a spinning Kofi-Kingston kick) upon Tony Altomare - but before JTG can get the pin he's clobbered by Lou Albano's metal briefcase, drawing an immediate DQ. Awwww, boooo!!! Screwjob finish to the World Tag Team title match! When The Sicilians ran out of the gas at the end trying to keep up with the younger Cryme Tyme (Sicilians shouldn't have showboated in the earlier stages of the match, and went for the finish sooner you think) they resorted to the cheap finish. They lose the match officially, but retain their precious straps of gold. Cryme Tyme are rightfully pissed, as is the crowd. But Shad Gaspard's knee injury doesn't appear to be a joke. Winners (by DQ): CRYME TYMECut to commercial ** Backstage interview with hometown hero Bruno Sammartino! His ovation - even on the video screen alone - shakes the arena. Crowd quiet for his promo as they hang on every word. Sammartino gives his solemn vow to right the wrongs of the Black Army and restore fantasy wrestling to its rightful glory. With Sammartino once again champion, XPW Remixed can grow with honor until it is the most cherished and respected league in this great sport! XPW isn't about "entertaining"! It's not about blasphemy, degradation or disrespect! It's about WRESTLING! And tonight - WRESTLING returns to Pittsburg PA! **Bruno Sammartino _________________________________________________ 3) THE MESSIAH versus DOINK REBOURNE ("Sodom & Gomorrah" match) versus Leading up to the match, The Messiah has vowed to make Matt Bourne see the light and cast away his evil "Doink Rebourne" persona. But Bourne insists he is no character, and that he has indeed seen the light. He is a believer. The Messiah is the literal Son of God come to Earth to save him. And to atone for his lifetime of sins, Doink Rebourne must be destroyed. In the center of the blood-soaked wrestling ring he was born in. Bourne's loss to The Messiah in their "Blood of the Martyr" match at Fall Out only made this revelation crystal clear. “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” (Corinthians 7:10) Tonight's match stipulations are simple - battle within the confines of the steel death trap (ring ropes are removed and replaced with barbed wired) - and be the first to utterly annihilate your opponent to the brink of extinction - leaving him lying for the predetermined point (at exactly 19:45 in the match) when the ring and surrounding area will explode in a blaze of hellfire and brimstone (similar to a land mine or exploding ring match). If both men are still in the ring at 19:45, they'll both blow up. Winner is the one who escapes the blast and lives to fight another day. “As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.” (Jeremiah 50:40) Doink Rebourne enters first to his eerie theme song, replete with his own mad laughs. The Joker-inspired Doink Rebourne is even darker and more twisted than Heath Ledger could ever bare to witness. Finally - with the sounds of gothic cathedrals and monks chanting, The MESSIAH finally makes his grand entrance to a HUGE crowd pop. He emerges slowly from the shadows into the light, where he casts off his hooded robe as the music suddenly blends into "MESSIAH" by Fear Factory in a shocking - and wildly invigorating - effect. The site of Messiah and Doink Rebourne finally staring each other down in the center of the barbed wire ring (surrounded by beds of glass, thumbtacks, and light tubes) will live in your nightmares forever. Doink Rebourne has some kind of faux-religious epiphany, praising the Messiah and imploring him to pray for his soul. A hesitant Messiah seeks to unscramble the madness behind Bourne's eyes. But as the Messiah begins to pray to his Father... that dastardly Doink Rebourne attacks him from behind! Match begins with a flurry of offense from Doink Rebourne, with a few teases of being tossed into the barbed wire ropes. Outside the ring, the two engage in a light tube duel like a scene from a Star Wars movie and each of them were wielding a dozen explosive light sabers. “And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: / And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.” (Genesis 19:27) The beds of glass get used with gruesome efficiency, as due to the thumbtacks - and finally the taut barbed wire ropes surrounding the ring. Clothes, costumes and finally flesh are all torn to shreds by the razor-sharp strands. In the end, after a dramatic reversal of fortune, and a series of daring counters, the Messiah lays Doink Rebourne out with his elevated Diamond Cutter! As the giant timer over the ring begins it's final countdown, The Messiah begins to string Doink Rebourne up along the barbed wire ropes - imprisoning him before the matches final explosion. But before he can finish, he's cut off by another figure streaking into the ring! The mystery man is wearing an all black-hooded ensemble, with a white mask over his face. He's wielding a flaming Kendo stick - that he SMASHES over the Messiahs head in a dazzling and fiery explosion! The clock continues to count down as Doink Rebourne pulls himself from the barbed wire strands. The mystery man pulls something out from under the ring - it's a large tray filled with medical syringes! With Doink Rebourne's full support and direction, the mystery man hoists Messiah over his shoulders and hits a devastating Death Valley Driver, sending Messiah's body directly into the tray of piercing syringes! With dozens of needles literally hanging from his bare-backed body, The Messiah is strung up by Doink Rebourne and his mystery partner in crucifix position in the barbed wire ropes! Doink Rebourne smears the blood of Messiah upon his own chest, blesses him, and flees the ring exactly as the buzzer sounds and the explosion goes off!!! (at ringside, it's like witnessing Kane's four-pillar blast from up close - REALLY loud, SUPER hot and blinding to the eye). The large explosion gives way to plumes of thick smoke that obscured everything in the ring. On top of that, the barbed wire ropes are ablaze in flame - creating a literal wall of fire through which all has been destroyed. “I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.” (Amos 4:11) On the entrance ramp, Doink Rebourne laughs maniacally as his mystery partner watches the ring. Doink Rebourne removes the mans white mask to reveal... TJ! The former preliminary wrestler Doink Rebourne kidnapped and assumedly tortured to death! The now-crazed looking TJ watches the XPW ring burn like he's in a trance, filled with rapture and blind devotion to the new savior of XPW. Winner: DOINK REBOURNE(Introducing to Bourne's fold... THUMBTACK JACK!!!)“Where there is no leadership the people fall, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety. (Proverbs 11:14)”Cut to commercial ** Backstage, MSD catches up with part-owner of XPW Remixed (and Gold Dust Trio Inc founder) Toots Mondt. He asks him for a brief comment on some of XPW's current events. Mondt explains the Sicilians were first to place the high-risk deposit required to introduce a new set of championship hardware into the league. He also says the disturbance witnessed earlier when some "fans" got a little too involved (referencing the Grimes/Funk match again) was the result of lax security. Measures have been taken to ensure nothing will happen again that may deter from the fans entertainment. No comment on who he hopes to see win the XPW Championship in the main event. **Joseph "Toots" Mondt _________________________________________________ Cut to ring"White Trash" by Big B starts playing to start the next segment. Introducing... MADMAN PONDO and his beautiful escort JESSICA DARLIN!!!
They enter the ring to a mixture of cheers, jeers and catcalls (mostly directed at Jessica Darlin, who hikes up her Daisy Dukes real high straddling those middle ropes). MadMan Pondo takes the mic and introduces himself and his valet, and cuts a promo on taking over fantasy wrestling and restoring it to its former glory. A purer, more untainted time (the irony here is just killing you - and the rest of the audience too apparently, as they are now unanimously booing the couple). Finally the boos just get too loud for Pondo and he flexes a few times like he might run into the audience and jig somebody with the big hunting knife he carries. After one of his ringside excursions nearly starts a riot (think Dudley Boyz circa 1998), Jessica Darlin takes the mic and redirects everybody's attention to the ring. JESSICA DARLIN: The racist stigma is nothing compared to being called a nigger lover behind your back. I love my people and you might not like the hypocrisy in my actions but my heart speaks volumes. I've never looked at another race and thought about a date. I've never had an urge to find a deep relationship with another race. I truly believe that I couldn't love outside of my race. Not from a hatred of others but from a love of my own. You're growling RACIST right now huh? Please save the "You can't control who you fall in love with"-or-"Pride is a sin because you can't control what skin color you are born with. That's the bullshit that need not apply. Your parents controlled your fate. I'm living proof that you should never lose track of what you want from someone else. Whether it's height, weight, dick size, skin color, or age. You have the right to refuse SERVICE in the business. Don't let anyone scare you with the racist label. If you don't want to fuck someone for any reason stand your ground. It's your body and you dictate its course. The best fuck I ever had was WHITE. The best cock I ever had was white. The man I love is white. I don't know about these people who love or hate because of race. If a big dick was the reason white girls went black why don't you see older interracial couples? I'll tell you-The dick gets old-The pussy gets tired-You roll over after sex and now you have to relate as people and what happens. JERRY SPRINGER/ RICKI LAKE! It's a who's who of people who don't know each other for anything other than sex. I'm not going to tell you that people shouldn't date who they want but look at the track record. I know there's exception in love but there's also a dominating order to love. It keeps our races bloodline alive and you're participating whether you like it or not! SHOCK! OUTRAGE! DISGUST!!! Pondo laughs and smirks and is about to take the mic to rub it in further.. when suddenly..."Natural Born Killaz" by Dr Dre & Ice Cube!!!! Enter NEW JACK!!!! 4) MADMAN PONDO versus NEW JACK (Impromptu Hardcore Match) versus New Jack has a mic too, and promises to take reperations on their asses! About what you'd expect. New Jack ravages Madman Pondo with his trash barrell full of weapons, and even briefly gets his hands on Jessica Darlin (where he forcefully mocks getting a blowjob) before an exploding guitar shot to Pondo. The loud rap music bumping in the background during this entire exchange drives the audience into a bloodthirsty frenzy. Pondo goes through a glass table, New Jack finishes with his steel-chair diving elbow drop, and counts the 3 himself (no referee is crazy enough to be anywhere near this vicinity). Winner: NEW JACK ___________________________________________________________________________
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Post by MadStepDad on May 6, 2011 20:40:37 GMT -5
** King of the Death Match **JUN KASAI © w/ Onita versus THE SHEIK (w/ TGW) versus *with* Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper. Idi Amin, Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein. "The Crazy Monkey" Jun Kasai and the Original Sheik. The pomp and pageantry associated with this match is awe-inspiring - like a nuclear rocket streaking toward its destination. Jun Kasai and Onita enter first to "Monkey See Monkey Do" by Eminem, with the entire crowd around you banging their heads and reciting their lyrics word-for-word. Onita has a huge sledgehammer-like weapon of bundled light tubes and spiked boards heaved over his shoulder like a major league hitter. Kasai has the baggy cargo pants, pinned-on monkey tail, bandanna around his mouth and chin and enters carrying a literal cross of razor-blade boards across his back like Jesus Christ himself. His entrance gives you chills. Followed by the bizarre horns of the Original Sheik's theme (same as Sabu's), with dancing gypsy-lady servants and stone viper statues spitting streams of fire. Everybody in the house is a rowdy smart mark, but even they recoil from the Original Sheik's rapid darts towards them. He just has to feint like he's going to run towards the barricade and all the fans instinctively flinch and scatter. The Grand Wizard of course follows behind, chuckling his approval and barking at the fans around him. You know this is going to be an unholy war. As it is, it doesn't take long for the anarchy to begin as Kasai and the Sheik rip into each other with unprotected headshots and stiff weaponry. Awesome match made even more barbaric and intense by your close proximity to the carnage. At one point, with Kasai's back a bloody mess, the two men are brawling past your row of seats. Ticket holders around you actually dip their ticket stubs into the pools of blood left behind by both men! Xtreme souvenir! Match builds with each man taking the others best shot and not staying down. Evolves from chair shots, to barbed wire, to glass, to fire, to finally - the razor board cross. You may not even be able to stomach the finish. Suffice to say, Jun Kasai earns the bloody and dramatic victory with a Kamikaze dive from the balcony you have to see live to believe. The smell of vomit briefly wafted through your section at the conclusion of this match. Hardcore liquor consumption gone wrong? Or some hapless fan reacting to the bloodbath of this match? You'll never know. Winner (and STILL XPW King of the Death Match champion): JUN KASAI!!!Jun Kasai, reigning XPW Remixed King of the Death Match Champion.** CUT ** _______________________________________________________________ ** XPW Television Title **EDDIE GILBERT versus "THE ROCKSTAR" JOEY KAOS © w/ Missy Hyatt versus Fun Fact: On the recent Place to Be Podcast, ROCKSTAR KAOS came on and said that he agreed with all the things Solie & Striker had said the week before and implored the fans to chant ”XPW” in response. On XPW TV Episode #9, Eddie Gilbert came to the ring during a Rockstar KAOS match and everyone assumed he was there to play guest commentator. Instead, the two would brawl, which Gilbert won, and that KAOS would be in enemy territory (because Gilbert is the so-called “King of Philly” ya see) at “Night of Champions. Scott: Well, here we are. XPW’s favorite son, against without question the complete antithesis of XPW. Well, with the exception of maybe Triple H. We hear “Rock Star” by Cypress Hill hit, and in comes Rockstar KAOS with the beautiful Missy Hyatt. The Greatest XPW TV Champion of all time, and as Gordon Solie just stated, the greatest wrestler, never to be World Champion. Clearly the biggest moment of KAOS’ career. Then arrives the biggest, most volatile heel heat maybe in XPW PPV history. Kudos to Eddie Gilbert for having the guts to walk into a place for fear of being shanked. It got the crowd even more incensed. Eddie Gilbert threw his hat and shirt into the crowd, like he does at any other show. This time, the crowd threw it back. Tremendous. The crowd’s chants are relentless, from “Fuck You Gilbert” to “Gilbert Sucks” to “You Can’t Wrestle”, the crowd is clearly unnerving him. As for the match, it goes back and forth for a while as Gilbert does start to get into a heel groove, shoving KAOS over the railing and going into the crowd baiting the fans on. Good for Gilbert, I like that. Act a little heel here and go with the energy. I wonder what would have happened if Gilbert did indeed win this match? Would the crowd have literally jumped into the ring and ripped him to shreds? I mean seriously these fans are quite imbibed. Gilbert’s in control as the “Same Old Shit” chants ripple through the XPW Arena in Pittsburgh. Gilbert’s actually cackling as he waits for the stun gun. I love this. He doesn’t get it and KAOS takes control. KAOS gets a table, but Gilbert sneaks up and locks in the STF. Everyone, including the announcers, is begging for KAOS not to tap out. Since this is XPW, wouldn’t grabbing the ropes not really matter here? Oh well. Gilbert actually starts shoving the ref, and then clotheslines him. This is great television and drama. I applaud Gilbert for totally going along with this even though he could have been shot. As Gilbert’s in the ring while KAOS is outside, Eddie Gilbert finally focuses his sick attention on Missy Hyatt, intent on driving her through a table!!! But the distraction allows KAOS to recover and spear Gilbert through the table that he leaned up against the turnbuckles earlier in the match! crowd is beside themselves, and after a Froggie splash (still wearing the XPW TV belt, mind you) KAOS has realized his dream and the crowd is going bonkers. What a great match, and kudos to both men but Eddie Gilbert in particular, who knew how to do this right and play up all the energy and drama. Grade: 4
Justin: Walking out to perhaps the strongest ovation of his career, Rockstar KAOS heads to the ring, looking to finally reach the potential and heights many saw for him back in 2001. After years of glass ceilings and burials, he was finally positioned as a major player in a major title feud. This match really had a big time feel and it was played up as having a lot on the line for both KAOS and the future of XPW. Gilbert’s entrance was pretty epic, as he defiantly marches to the ring, head down, amidst a sea of angry, hate fueled XPW loyalists. Gilbert was really great with the fans here, as he kept throwing his shirt in the crowd and they kept throwing it back at him in disgust. The crowd would just continue to ride Gilbert throughout the whole match, really ragging on Gilbert’s usual offense. Those chants would actually cause Gilbert to mix his offense up a bit just to shut them up. This whole brawl just had a great gang street fight feel with the angry crowd and the stiff strikes. Gilbert would control for a bit, but once KAOS took over he unleashed his impact offense to the delight of the fans. In one particularly sick spot, Gilbert sent KAOS crashing through a chair head first with a slingshot. I still don’t know how KAOS survived that one. After some great counters, Gilbert locked in the STF to the angst of the crowd, but KAOS survived that as well. Gilbert would take the ref out after he got in his way, but unfortunately for him, that would be his undoing. With a table set up in the corner, Gilbert tried to confront Missy Hyatt, but the distraction allowed KAOS to spear him through it. KAOS ascended the top rope and flew off with the frog splash. fans went crazy for a great moment for both KAOS and XPW. Rockstar KAOS finally gets his big moment and we have to give kudos to Gilbert for coming into an arena filled with hate to lay down and hand KAOS this victory. Grade: A+Winner (and STILL XPW TV Champion): "ROCKSTAR" JOEY KAOS_____________________________________________________________________________ ** Before the match, a commercial aired for an incoming superstar to the XPW Remixed roster. The promo was purposely vague, but left no doubt the debuting signee is a certified wrestling superstar. Who is this new character? And how will he alter the XPW Remixed landscape??? **7) LOU THESZ versus JACK SWAGGER (w/ "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers) (Submission Match) versus Big-match main event entrances for both, letting the audience exhale from the previous encounter while lighting the fire of anticipation within all. You see the giant HD Titan Trons lower around the ring like UFC 129, as Swagger & Buddy Rogers enters first (to the "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" instrumental - followed by Lou Thesz' dramatic entrance to G-Unit's "Respect the Shooter" instrumental. You find yourself standing, just like everybody else, in rapt attention. Rogers (in his Sunday finest - suit by Armani, alligator loafers etc) plays to you with a scowl on his face, ensuring the audience rain boos and foul-mouthed taunts down on them. Match starts out with an MMA-inspired feeling out process, before Swagger's overzealousness leads to a series of exciting Lou Thesz takedowns and counters. Thesz takes early control, and appears to be working the arm and shoulder (hoping - you assume - to secure a Kimura or similar arm lock to Swagger, something that's been known to submit him before). Watching the match unfold so close to you, it's hard-hitting, stiff self-sacrifice makes you wonder how anybody could question wrestling's realism. Allot of other highly-trained eyes were on this match tonight - a match that single handily bought the vote of the mainstream Wrestling/MMA journalist moreso than any Jun Kasai "Death Match" could. Following the event, recaps and reviews from some of the most respected names in the games began to filter out. Here's what the pros had to say about the submission match between Lou Thesz and Jack Swagger at XPW Remixed's "Night of Champions".... DAVE MELTZER: It was hyped as one of the biggest fights in history. Thesz, a former heavyweight champion, was trying to salvage his career that was on the skids. Swagger, an incredible athlete who came from pro wrestling super stardom, but was in his first XPW Remixed fight. The value of submission knowledge was never more apparent, as Swagger destroyed Thesz for 85 straight seconds, until a standing Swagger left his foot behind when trying to make a move, and in doing so, Thesz caught him in a kneebar and took over. This turned into one of the most memorable fights in XPW history. Thesz, the former Undisputed champion, was in trouble from a low blow and nearly finished on the ground when he launched into a spectacular comeback, with a running slam, followed by a rear naked choke. Perhaps the most spectacular submission expert in the modern XPW, Lou Thesz, in essentially one move, went from a belly-to-belly takedown, landing on top, to locking on a triangle in less time than it would take to say “submission of the night,” winning the match in 12:37. ***** Match.Winner: LOU THESZ** CUT ** ** Backstage promo from the entire Black Army. Kevin Sullivan gives his demonic, Devil-speak before Ezekiel Jackson - reigning XPW World Champion - takes center stage. The Apocalypse of 2012 will devour the Hero of Light and deposit those remains in his festering, stinking hellhole of a hometown, Pittsburgh PA! Black Army reigns supreme!!! **The Black Army _____________________________________________________________________________ 8) SABU versus MIL MASCARAS versus HAKUSHI versus BUDDY ROGERS versus POGO the CLOWN versus "SICK" NICK MONDO versus DAMIEN STEELE versus ONITA (Money-in-the-Bank #1 Contenders match) vs vs vs vs vs vs The big one. The match everybody is waiting for - from the purists to the spot monkeys, science technicians to blood marks. XPW Remixed treats this match with the sanctity it deserves. The entrances alone take nearly 20 minutes - and you, live in the audience - intoxicated by the hard liquor, 2nd hand smoke and sweaty female breasts around you - become completely electrified. Ring Announcer MSD declares the match, quickly summarizes the rules, and gets the crowd amped... before he's rudely interrupted by the grating voice of the newly appointed XPW Remixed Commissioner DAMIEN STEELE!!! DAMIEN STEELE: Because this federation is just a superstar away from becoming the next big thing, and I am that superstar! I'm going to be the biggest thing in the biggest thing, and THAT'S, the REAL DEAL!!!! Damien Steele then goes into business for himself on the mic, especially enraged after a section of fans around you began chanting anti-Gold Dust Trio Inc profanities. Steele shoots on the hometown Pittsburg crowd, basically calling everybody from the town a bunch of pussies! Damien Steele brazenly declares his intent to rape, pillage and burn Pittsburg tonight during his victory celebration - leaving nothing behind for that punk-ass, lame brand WWF to come home to. Talk about an "Invasion" - XPW Remixed is so far outside the game they got Insiders trying to blackball them. That's right, word on the streets is those jack-offs in the WWF offices tried to shut down XPW productions, knowing they intended to shoot a PPV from the same city a short while after. The WWF knows if XPW brings it's brand of competition, attitude and ultra-violence to the wrestling fans of Pittsburg PA first - ain't nobody gonna buy a ticket to a lame-ass show featuring muthaphuckking LARRY ZBYSZKO and TITO SANTANA in a championship bout! What is this? 1984??? Suddenly - and without warning - a giant "FUCK WWF!!! FUCK WWF!!" chant arises from the same crowd that was just vehemently booing Steele. His rant must have touched a bone in their body - a nerve in their soul. Steele declares new XPW dominion over the East Coast, and says tonight's MiTB match was designed to be his crowning affair. Damien Steele MitB Champion - and that's the Real Deal!!! ("FUCK WWF!! FUCK WWF! FUCK WWF!!")The Homicidal, Suicidal, Genocidal Sabu enters next - complete with horrifying video wall, light show and giant plumes of flames. He draws a gigantic cheer from the crowd as Steele flees the ring and powders out. A giant Mexican flag unfurls from the entrance ramp as the arena brightens up and "Sky High" plays in the background. Mil Mascaras gets his Super hero entrance to massive crowd appeal, peeling off his original mask to reveal a second championship-inspired mask beneath it. He tosses his mask into the crowd AND YOU CATCH IT!!!! Wow, the crowd around you goes crazy and everybody congratulates you and slaps you on the back! You have an official Mil Mascaras mask as a souvenir of your journeys! Mexican flavor and lighting gives way to Japanese white and red, as the Angel of Death Hakushi makes his elaborate entrance. He enters with a phalanx of white-faced geisha girls, wearing a kimono and his large Raiden-hat that covers his face -until the big in-ring dramatic reveal, where Hakushi blasts a green-colored mist high into the air - drawing ooohs and aaahs from the inebriated audience ("XPW!!! XPW!!! XPW!!!") The house lights go dark for the moonlight, misty entrance of the murderous Pogo the Clown (escorted to the ring by The Grand Wizard). Pogo forever carries with him his barbed wire shovel, and stares menacingly at a few young children in the front row before security intervenes (but are they keeping the crowd from Pogo? Or keeping Pogo away from the children???) A huge crowd cheer goes up with "Last Resort" by Papa Roach blares through the sound system. Enter perennial East Coast favorite "Sick" Nick Mondo - this time wearing Cannibal Cartel black-n-white colors and representing their blood faction. You happen to see a large proliferation now of Cannibal Cartel gear in the crowd (this stuff was selling like hotcakes at the merchandise stands before the show). Next up in the big rock star, mega-concert brigade is Atsushi Onita, entering to a rousing remix of Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive". A few of the older fans in the audience had been reminiscing about their tape trading days before the show, and they said Onita was the focal point of allot of their trades. Finally - after a long dramatic pause to build anticipation - the Original "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers makes his elaborate entrance. Priceless, ostrich-feathered robe. Magnificent, diamond-themed entrance - complete with live band playing him out on the main stage (off to the side of the entrance ramp). A singer with a cello takes the mic stand - oh my, that's American Idol alumni CASEY ABRAMS!!! He's hear to serenade Buddy Rogers to the ring in an elaborate display of showmanship!!! Too much to say about the match. Chaos reigned supreme from the start, before breaking down into various segments that literally took place all over the arena. So many teases and hope spots, with everybody from Nick Mondo to Mil Mascaras getting their time to shine. Daring display of high wire ladder leaps and balancing acts from Hakushi and Sabu, while Pogo the Clown plays the massive big bad wolf destroying everybody's house of cards. It takes literally everybody in the match using their respective finishers (some steel-chair assisted) to take out the Killer Clown and drive TGW away from ringside. In the closest near-finish of the night, Damien Steele is at the top of the ladder with the MitB briefcase nearly in his grasp - before Onita and Mondo combine to eliminate him through a burning death trap of chairs, glass and tables. At another point, Sabu nearly has the win - before the draw of the cheering crowd actually compels him to turn AWAY from victory and instead dive nearly two stories through a set of light-tube lined tables (upon which Mondo & Onita had been laid out on) with an Arabian face buster!!! "HOLY S***" and "XPW" chants abound! Finally, in the matches dramatic conclusion, Buddy Rogers comes back from the near brink of defeat to topple Mascaras and Hakushi from their perch high atop the ladders where they crash through a wall of tables - leaving the original Nature Boy all alone to scale the ladder and secure the briefcase!!! Buddy Rogers has done it!!! He's now guaranteed an XPW Title Shot whenever, wherever!!! Diamond Dynasty reigns supreme! Winner: "NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS** CUT ** _____________________________________________________________________________ ** A string of pre-taped celebrity appearances, as they give their predictions on tonight's main event winner:
WIZ KHALIFA: Bruno Sammartino PAUL WALKER: Bruno Sammartino CHARLIE VILLANUEVA (Detroit Pistons): Ezekiel Jackson TITUS YOUNG (Detroit Lions rookie): Bruno Sammartino ALEX RILEY!!!! (former NXT superstar!!!): Bruno Sammartino **Alex Riley watches XPW! MAIN EVENT
BRUNO SAMMARTINO (1975) versus EZEKIEL JACKSON (2015) © (Steel Cage match for the XPW Championship) versus Your head hurts, your voice is strained and you reek of stale beer. But you've never been happier in your life. This night has been pure wrestling nirvana, the likes of which you never truly imagined. The surge of energy in the arena before the start of the main event is palpable. In slow dramatic fashion, the house lights are dimmed as a brief highlight reel of pro wrestling champions past and present are highlighted (see opening youtube video). Segues into Bruno Sammartino being crowned the inaugural XPW Remixed champion, before falling to the dark conqueror Ezekiel Jackson and the Black Army. Finishes with a live shot of Pittsburg PA and the arena explodes with cheers! The final battle will be fought today! During the video wall and announce team interlude, you watch the set team construct the giant steel cage for tonight’s main event. It is an ominous, foreboding structure that looms over you like a giant bird of prey. Finally, houselights come up – MSD takes center ring – and the main event segment begins!!! Black Army get their rock star entrance first, complete with armed Gladiator bodyguards and barely-clothed, leashed escorts. “The Prince of Darkness” Kevin Sullivan enters with Lizzy Borden, followed by Damien Demento & General Skandor Akbar. Finally – rising from the stage like a Demon unleashed from Hell – XPW Remixed champion Ezekiel Jackson makes his entrance! He has to be escorted through the surging crowd by a wall of security. Trash, debris and blunt guts rain down upon him. In the center of the ring, the Black Army stand united as the pyro and smoke machines go off. Bigtime boos. The jeers and catcalls begin as the referees and XPW security guards begin to hustle Sullivan, Skandor, Demento and Borden away from ringside (per stipulation of their match - see Episode #9). The Black Army is escorted from ringside. Ezekiel Jackson - XPW Champion - stands alone within the confines of the steel cage. Finally… a lull… short spoken word interlude on the Titan tron… anticipation grows… then “Black & Yellow” by Wiz Khalifa starts playing and the place goes bananas!!!! Enter Bruno Sammartino!!! The “BRUUUUUNO!!!” chants are immediate and never cease. When the cage doors finally lock, and the ref presents the XPW Championship, the anticipation is off the charts. The Black Army congregate outside the ring but the huge steel cage makes them powerless. It’s just Big Bruno versus Zeke – one on one. Surprisingly, what the match lacks in mobility and finesse, it MORE than makes up for it with stiff, hard-hitting athletic action. Sammartino wrestles circles around Jackson, confounding him with a series of takedowns and arm locks. He’s trying to keep the big monster grounded, because when Jackson is on his feet bad things happen. Bruno is a big boy himself, but Ezekiel Jackson manhandles him. Things take a turn for the worse after a huge running powerslam from Jackson leaves Bruno breathless in the center of the mat. Jackson regains control and uses the steel cage in devestating fashion, drawing blood from the stalwart challenger. The crowd around you is going absolutely ballistic. In the ring neither man has once attempted to escape the cage. Thus far, it's been all about hammering the other into unmoving submission on the mat. Ezekiel Jackson is merciless in his role as futuristic Terminator, immune to some of Bruno's thickest charges. But when Sammartino collides with Jackson, the energy in the building him propels him to superhuman levels - and as Jackson begins to recoil, he immediately goes the low route and acquires a steel chair. Spinebusters, headshots and sitout powerbombs just got a whole new reinforced meaning. With each successive cringe-worthy slam, the audience inhales further. Like the hometeam down by 2 with a few seconds left on the clock. But admirably, and no doubt driven by the raucus chants of "BRUUUNO" that shake the arena, Sammartino fights back! Using the cage to great effect Sammartino evens the odds as the crowd hangs on every move. But Jackson won't stay down, so finally Bruno makes the first escape attempt of the evening. What happened from there would be a mixture of mystery, history and magic. Jackson attacks him on the way in, which gets roughly nowhere, as Bruno kicks his ass and sends him into the (wobbly) cage on the other side. He whips him into the corner and stomps him down, and then sends him into the cage again. He seems upset about something. Kneelift and he keeps slugging away, and Jackson hits the cage again. Bruno keeps mercilessly stomping him down and sending him into the cage, although with all the give in the cage it’s not terribly impressive. Jackson catches him with his head down and takes over, pounding him down, but Bruno blocks a trip to the cage and sends Ezekiel Jackson into it again. Jackson slugs back, but Bruno one-ups him on that battle and resorts to trying to climb out. Bruno yanks him down and continues kicking his ass. Jackson goes into the cage five times, all without bleeding, but Bruno charges and hits boot. Jackson goes up and drops the knee, but Bruno prevents him from walking out the door and knees him in the head. Back to the cage for Jackson, and he charges and gets dumped over the top, and Bruno whips him into the cage again and slugs away in the corner (as the Black Army is in a frenzy outside the ring). Bruno runs him into the turnbuckle from the apron and steps on his face, as he starts bleeding upon getting up. Bruno batters him in the corner. They fire away and Bruno sends him to the cage. He learns this stuff fast. He drops a leg and climbs, but Ezekiel Jackson pulls him back and goes for the door right away. Bruno grabs a leg and hauls him in, and kneelifts him. Bruno goes up again, but can’t fight Ezekiel Jackson off. Bruno eats cage, and Ezekiel Jackson DIVES for the door, but gets stopped at the last second by Sammartino, who proceeds to dive for the door himself in one motion, before Ezekiel Jackson stops him and chokes him down. He goes up, but gets pulled down by the foot. Bruno pounds away on top, and both guys tumble down. Ezekiel Jackson recovers and bolts over again, but Bruno barely catches him by the leg and hangs on for dear life. They fight on the top, with Ezekiel Jackson half out of the cage hanging onto the top, until Sammartino drags him back in again. Ezekiel Jackson gets a lowblow to knock Bruno off the cage, and he just pounds the shit out of him, opening up a cut in the process. Ezekiel Jackson climbs, but Bruno pops up and yanks him back in, only to get another stiff beating as a reward. Bruno comes back and they butt heads for the double KO. Both guys climb, but Ezekiel Jackson changes his mind and chooses to pull Bruno back in instead. Ezekiel Jackson headbutts the cut and they slug it out on the mat. Bruno catapults him into the cage, drawing blood, and he crawls for the door. They slug it out again and Ezekiel Jackson goes the cage a few times as Brunos inner barbarian is unleashed. Sammartino starts dropping fists, Ezekiel Jackson shoves him into the cage and climbs again. Sammartino atomic drops him out of the corner (that was a big finish at the time), and climbs, but Ezekiel Jackson finds an international object and takes a swing at Sammartino. They fight on top of the cage, as Sammartino knocks the knuckle dusters off Ezekiel Jacksons hand and both guys tumble to the mat. Bruno crawls for the door again, but Ezekiel Jackson grabs the leg. Bruno just starts kicking at Ezekiel Jacksons face like a maniac, until finally the momentum alone is enough to push him right out of the cage and to the floor at 23:25. ****1/4 Sammartino earned his crewcut here.
SCOTT KEITH Winner (and NEW XPW Champion): BRUNO SAMMARTINO!!!When Jackson procured the foreign object, the world around you suddenly became unhinged as thoughts of a screwjob finish filled everybody's drunken heads. Somebody in the rafters has been waving a "IF BLACK ARMY WIN WE RIOT" sign all night, and it's gone from snarky tongue-in-cheek sight gag (like it was when you first started watching) to an all-out harbinger of doom. You almost feel like they really WILL rush the ringside area like old school basketball fans. Crashing upon the steel cage walls like a tidal wave of bad intentions. You almost questioned the sanity of putting Jackson over in this environment, especially feeling it first hand - and you wonder if they may have called an audible midmatch as a response. Especially because you had heard earlier in the night there were plans for a Black Army run-in from somebody not "offically" part of their camp yet (thus skirting the match restrictions placed on them). But instead, there was a straight up balls-to-the-walls finish with Sammartino driving the back-end of the match with his titanic superhuman comeback. When the crowd finally exhaled after Sammartino won the match - it could quite possibly be the loudest sound you've heard. Absolutley deafening. You didn't even see Jackson leave. He just kinda rolled off with waiting security and was completely hustled off stage away from the rapidly expanding mobs. MSD made the formal house announcement, and when he crowed "NEW XPW Champion... the reality finally sunk in. Of course Bruno Sammartino won. Not only is he the greatest Heavyweight champion of all time, he is the everlasting epitomy of wrestling in Pittsburg - and with that invisible force he was able to drive down the demon at the gate of the Black Army like he were the mighty Thor himself! NOBODY can stop Bruno in his prime when he is within it's hallowed confines (and Baltimore and MSG, but that's another story). Flashbulbs are going off, black-and-yellow streamers are falling, Sammartino clutches the belt in the ring and stifles back a tear. You see the announce team giving their closing rap and the PPV comes to end. What a raucous occasion. But the show isn't over yet. Sammartino soaks up the championship glow and celebrates and gladhands with everybody at ringside. Bruno Sammartino leads the crowd in chants of XPW. Bruno has the mic offers his sincere thanks to the fans and promises to defend the XPW Remixed title at all costs against all challengers! The "XPW!! XPW!! XPW!!" chants suddenly - and quite rudely - become chants of "FUCK WWF!!! FUCK WWF!!" Again. The leader of XPW Remixed - the greatest Heavyweight champion of all time and toughest man in the game - throws down the gauntlet... BRUNO SAMMARTINO: I want to clear the air with that. [The Wrestling Observer’s Dave] Meltzer said something about how resentful I am, yet I actually met and tried to negotiate a deal with McMahon. Not true. RavishingPerfect, McMahon’s figurehead puppet, was contacted because we were doing our story (Night of Champions PPV) and we needed to use the Civic Arena, which is where I wrestled all those years, and that’s where wrestling still is. It turns out that WWE was going to be there for one of their TV shows. We knew that there was going to be a ring put up for that. XPW contacted the arena and asked if we could use the ring to film for our PPV. They gave us the permission to do that, but because it was McMahon’s show, they’d have to get it OK’d with them, too. So that’s when I told XPW that I didn’t want any part of this. They said, “Wait a minute.” He said he heard from RavP and it was fine. I said, “I’m not interested in meeting with the guy." I cannot tell how you how much I didn’t want any part of this, but, for XPW Remixed, I said OK. But I said, “I’m telling you right up front. I’m not interested in anything with these people.” So we met with them. Vince acted like there were never any ill feelings between he and I. He acted very friendly — “Hey, you son of a gun, you look great.” So we went in a room, and somebody said that Vince has nothing but respect for the old-timers. And boy did that give me the opening. That’s when I had to open my mouth and I have no regrets about it. I said, “I’m sorry, but I think you have shown nothing but disrespect for the old-timers! You bring some of the old-timers here, whether it’s Lou Albano or [Killer] Kowalski or Domenic DeNucci or [Baron Mikel] Scicluna or whoever, and whether it’s a big show or a pay-per-view, and you toss these guys $1,000, $1,500 or maybe $2,000 if they’re really lucky! But yet you bring in Mike Tyson and you give him $3.5 million to be outside the ring refereeing a special event. You brought Pete Rose and other athletes from baseball and football and you give them six figures for an appearance. People that have done nothing for this business, and a lot of them look at it as a joke. But those who have given their whole life to this business and never made any real money, what do they get for all those years of banging their bodies up? And a lot of them are physically practically handicapped. They get a bone thrown at them. This is respect for the old-timers? Give me a break.” I said to Vince: “You could never use me in any way and show the disrespect you have shown for wrestlers. If you and I could ever work out anything, you would have to show me the respect you showed Mike Tyson.” That was my way of slamming the door and having him be the guy to refuse, because I know them. When it comes to wrestlers, they’ll throw you a bone. But if it’s a baseball player, football player or movie star or Mike Tyson, they want to show that they’ll make big-money deals and they’ll give out hundreds of thousands or millions. So at that point, I got up and said, “there is nothing else here for me to talk about...." it's time for action! To those who think that I went there to really have a serious meeting to work something out with him, they couldn’t be more mistaken. I did it to please XPW Remixed, but there’s no deal they would have made that I would have come out of there and said, “Hey, great, let’s go for it.” Therefore, I am challenging any so-called WWF champion coming into MY hometown of Pittsburg to put your money where your mouth is and your title against mine - the only TRUE fantasy wrestling championship in the universe! XPW runs fantasy wrestling and with the power of our fans behind us, together we can topple the monopoly that is RavP's WWF!!! I'm calling them all out! Zybysko, Angle, or the worn-out Wolf Pack! I don't care who it is! XPW is the best and I put that on my black and yellow!!! ** FADE OUT ** _____________________________________________________________________________ Final Analysis:Scott : Just like last one, this show is fantastic from top to bottom. Sure there was some more storylines and East Coast influence as compared to last time. However with XPW becoming a third brand in the Territory Wars, the show needed to be in tune with the WWF product and storylines. I thought that may take the energy and fun out of the show, but it certainly did not. From all the bloodshed to the energetic and vulgar crowd, XPW once again knew how to placate the crowd and give them one night where the underground came above ground. However now with XPW being a full-time brand, the specialness and nostalgia is still not gone from this show. As for Sammartino and the Black Army, well their war continues. Rockstar KAOS is on top of the world and took the greatest prize in the business. ”Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers overall has really turned his character and career to a whole new level. Vic Grimes and Terry Funk cemented themselves as two of the craziest bastards in wrestling history. We also now have a third brand to contend with, and it’s not WCW (Ha ha! Take THAT, PerfectlyStraightEdge!!!!). This is another one of the greatest nights in wrestling history. This show is maybe a notch below last month’s show, but it’s still close to perfect. Final Grade: AJustin: For the second straight month, our XPW show delivers big time. This show is a little different from last month, however. Since the beginning of its relaunch, the show was strictly West Coast. This time around, there was less nostalgia and focused more on setting up the new XPW East Coast brand. And in its own way, this show was just as great as that one. The crowd was tremendous for the second straight month and the feel of the event again felt fresh and exciting. This show also had more build behind it and worked to get certain guys over and it was successful there. I enjoyed Solie & Striker on commentary as well, as they mixed in their bitter emotions with great chemistry. The two major matches more than delivered and the show was capped off with a hot main event and historical title match. The excitement surrounding the rebirth of XPW on the East Coast also fueled this show and now it will be interesting to see if the brand can carry on the heat and excitement developed here. Regardless of that outcome, XPW Remixed has been reborn and owned Pittsburgh PA and the wrestling world as a whole. Final Grade: A+_____________________________________________________________________________ CREDITS: SCOTT & JUSTIN: One Night Stand 2006 Review DAVE MELTZER: "UFC's Greatest Submissions" credit Yahoo.com sports (July 9th) DAMIEN STEELE UPW.com profile april 19th 2002 JESSICA DARLIN: "Jessica Darlin's Racial Manifesto" 6/1/05 SCOTT KEITH: “Bloodbath” Rant (11.02.2003) BRUNO SAMMARTINO: Baltimore Sun 5/1/08
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