Post by MadStepDad on May 10, 2011 22:01:13 GMT -5
1) Cut to the in-studio announce team for the evening:
Gordon Solie & Matt Striker
We are LIVE from an undisclosed location in Bridgeport CT, where XPW Remixed's East Coast Invasion continues! A brief history lesson for those unfamilar with the first time XPW attempted a cross-coast production:
XPW debuted at the former ECW Arena on August 31st, 2002 at the "Hostile Takeover" event, and Shane Douglas was the promotion's focal point for the rest of the year. Controversy arose when XPW signed an exclusive lease with the New Alhambra Arena, preventing other independent promotions from holding shows at the venue. As XPW continued to run on the East Coast, the risque storylines were quickly phased out, and a majority of XPW's West Coast employees were not a part of the "All-New XPW." The relocation to the East Coast also resulted in many former ECW stars passing through XPW, whether it be on a regular basis or one-night appearances. At one point, Kris Kloss was dropped from the announcing booth and replaced with former ECW commentator Joey Styles. Styles, however, left the company in December 2002. They would eventually return back to their home of Los Angeles for a few shows in early 2003. In March 2003 they did a show in Pittsburgh, PA which sold quite well (approximately 1,500 in attendance) mainly due to Pittsburgh being Shane Douglas's hometown. This would be XPW's very last show. There were scheduled shows in April 2003 on The East Coast. Supposedly tickets were selling very poorly prior to the event, then XPW announced they were canceling the event due to a storm that wasn't as big as XPW boasted to be on their website.
XPW Remixed presents... "NIGHT of CHAMPIONS"
Now, in the realm of fantasy wrestling, XPW Remixed has touched down in Pittsburgh PA. "Night of Champions" was their triumphant return to the East Coast - the first in a very long time. They brought their brand of organized anarchy and smashed gate receipts and moved merchandise. Right in the backyard of the dominating force in Mash-Up Wrestling - the WWF. Another vital stab at the East Coast empire that's been dominating the wrestling game for decades. This time, the figure point of the hometown invasion is the man behind the East Coast wrestling renannissaince in the first place. The greatest Heavyweight champion of all time, longest reigning WWWF champion in history, and the current XPW Remixed bearer of the cross - the CHAMPION - Bruno Sammartino! XPW is the only free-form fantasy organization in the universe that puts a premium on pure competition. Life or death. Truly - only the strong survive. Sammartino is a timeless Champion, savior to purists and Hero of Light in a world awash in darkness. The first thing Sammartino did at his coronation dinner after the PPV (a black-tie affair attended to by Gold Dust Trio Inc associates only) was demand 10%. Off the top from all the talent enrolled in his union. As champion, you control direction of the title and thus have quite a bit of clout (not to mention the well-connected made men Sammartino counts as his closest associates). But this demand from Sammartino was not to be selfish, no. In fact, he intended to double the contribution himself. The funds are for a wrestlers union. "When one makes it big we all take care of our brothers!" Pooling these funds has allowed for great advances in health care, reform and compensation for every grunt and jabroni risking life and limb in this great sport. Selfless gestures like this demonstrate Sammartino's respect for the sport - and thus, the respect he demands.
XPW Remixed champion Bruno Sammartino
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1) "NIGHT of CHAMPIONS" Results
"Night of Champions" was a monumental night in XPW Remixed - as championship eras were defined. Sammartino once again rose to prominence to snatch his crown back from overpowering darkness. The sacrificial Jun Kasai maintained his title "King of the Death Match" by turning back the demented Sheik (legendary for the trail of blood he's ripped through pro wrestling history). "The Rockstar" KAOS continues to ride the fast track to the top (alongside his lovely girlfriend Missy Hyatt circa 1987) with his resounding TV title defense against Eddie Gilbert in one of the most emotional XPW matches ever. Finally, the Sicilians barged their way into XPW Remixed with a set of vanity titles, which they retained through unscrupulous measures at the PPV. Now the men they screwed out of the title at "Night of Champions" - Cryme Tyme - are accusing The Sicilians of being fake, poseurs and "not keeping it real". The war of words ignited in the wake of their PPV clash has spanned the mediums (online, twitter, facebook, magazines, podcasts) even though word on the streets is Shad Gaspard's knee injury suffered at the PPV may be much worse than Cryme Tyme are letting on. Tonight - Mil Mascaras versus Pogo the Clown, the XPW TV Debut of Abdullah the Butcher, and the premiere of Honky Tonk Man's "Ice Cream Parlor"! Stay tuned!!!
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"What's the Deal" by Edo. G feat. Big Shug and Scientifik (R.I.P.) opens the in-arena portion of the show. Through the curtains emerges... the loud-mouthed braggart and newly-installed XPW On-Screen Commissioner... "The Real Deal" Damien Steele. He's dressed in an expensive suit and tie, and he smirks and flicks his long, blonde rock star hair at the jeering crowds and makes his way to the ring. He weilds a microphone like a sword.
DAMIEN STEELE: I'm going to be the biggest thing in the biggest thing, and THAT'S the REAL DEAL!!! Soon I'll move up to the Heavyweight championship. Then I'll prove to all you XPW scumbags that I'm the greatest. And that's the real deal!!!
Damien Steele acknowledges that some believe his qualifying match to get into the MitB at "Night of Champions" wasn't exactly on the up-and-up. Steele also notes that nobody thought XPW would have the balls to run a show in the WWF's backyard. Well, the XPW Commissioner wants to the first to announce that at the new and upcoming XPW Remixed PPV Supershow - "Cold Day In Hell" - pigs will most certainly fly. XPW Remixed's East Coast invasion continues. They're raiding wrestling hotspots all along the Eastern seaboard, before climaxing right in the heart of Broken City Massachussetts State for the big show. XPW Remixed presents "Cold Day In Hell". Coming soon! Steele continues to extol the virtues of XPW Remixed within the fantasy wrestling spectrum (they give everybody a chance, they're a fair and balanced presentation, they're not top-loaded with big names who hold people down). XPW Remixed is the freedom of expression. And to prove that point tonight, Commissioner Damien Steele is willing to grant a match. He's going to give a chance to one young up-and-coming fantasy wrestler who's willing to chase his dream. Damien Steele is going to "make" somebody here tonight in Bridgeport CT. He introduces...
JC BAILEY ()
2) DAMIEN STEELE versus JC BAILEY
versus
The non-descript jobber gets a polite ovation and his makes his way to the ring (you may recognize him from one of his earlier jobs in XPW, but otherwise you may be unfamilar with his work). On commentary, Solie & Striker tell you JC Bailey is a young up-and-coming Death Match wrestler who made his name in the Mid-South and Kentucky territories. Think "Tough Enough", with Bailey being a contestant and Damien Steele the Bill DeMott-like trainer. Damien Steele circa 2000ish was indeed the "Real Deal". He was head instructor and one of the main performers in the UPW - a WWE subsidized wrestling school that helped birth such legendary fantasy wrestling names as John Cena. In-ring, he reminds you of the wrestler TEST - albeit a foot shorter. Here, the cocky Steele draws massive heat for his condescending mannerisms, but the scrappy (and seemingly indestructible) JC Bailey comes back and rallies the crowd behind him. So surprised and taken aback is the All Star Damien Steele (including a series of confounding kick-outs by the kid JC Bailey who should by all means be dead from the assault he's weathered), that the Commissioner quickly resorts to underhand tactics and winds up pinning Bailey with his feet on the ropes! All that tough talk, this and that, and Steele couldn't even beat a preliminary wrestler without cheating??? Solie and Striker applaud JC Bailey's gamemanship, even in defeat - while simulteanously lamenting Commissioner Steele's abuse of administrative power (booking himself easy jobs). Damien Steele, meanwhile, looks like he just won the Superbowl. He continues to remind everyone who the "Real Deal" is.
Winner: "REAL DEAL" DAMIEN STEELE
** Cryme Tyme vignette from the streets of Bridgeport CT (trust me: not pretty). They're the true OGs of professional wrestling, taking out all imitators (and even referencing their fantasy defeat of the Gangstaz at "New Years Revolution" for emphasis). Diss reigning XPW Tag Team champions The Sicilians, calling them fake thugs. Promise to gain retribution and take the tag titles back to Brooklyn.
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3) MIL MASCARAS versus
POGO the CLOWN (w/ The Grand Wizard)
versus
Pogo is the evil man-mountain monster with suprising agility for such a big man. But his gimmick of emulating the late John Wayne Gacy (and rumors of sex offender violations etc...) has shocked and disturbed some fans, and turned off alot of sponsors. The Grand Wizard's formal endorsement only aggravates the cause further. Mil Mascaras on the other hand is an internatinal diety, and his reception here tonight in Bridgeport CT enforces that. Mexican national colors, pyrotechnics and "Sky High" blasting proudly in the background. Mascaras can't match size with Pogo, but his quickness gives him the advantage - and the heavyweight force behind his lucha attacks is enough to drive Pogo from the ring on occassion (where he congregates with The Grand Wizard to huge crowd jeers). Pogo gets a little run of offense, before Mascaras quickly comes back with a flurry of offense and TGW slides a steel chair into the ring out of desperation. Pogo winds up with it but eats a face-cracking missle dropkick from the top rope from Mascaras that gets the final pin fall. Post match, The Grand Wizard and a dejected, outraged Pogo the Clown display tension. TGW doesn't associate with losers (look how fast he got rid of The Berzerker). Meanwhile, Mascaras poses and plays to the crowd in victorious celebration.
Winner: MIL MASCARAS
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Cannibal Cartel
We return from commercial break to find the entire Cannibal Cartel already congregated in the ring. Their leader Vic Grimes has a mic in his hand, and plays to the jeers and boos of the audience before proceeding with his speech. Cannibal Cartel is the most feared faction in wrestling today – more ferocious than any wolf pack. All of the men in his stable have been blackballed from the industry before banding together to become unstoppable. Funny that none of these organizations will let the Cartel in the front door, but they will always find a way in through the back (alluding to the Cartel’s rumored side-business of selling drugs to workers in the business). Now the Cartel is expanding operations out East, and further defecating on the once-proud legacy of ECW. The Cannibal Cartel is taking over XPW and overrunning the East coast! For cheap heat, Grimes big-ups the WWF and all his "boyz and my crimies in Titan Tower" shootin steroids with Rav-P. But Vic Grimes' pro-WWF promo is interrupted by the opening strains of “Cowboy” by Kid Rock, and the arena goes ballistic. Enter the legend Terry Funk! Funk plays to the fans, reiterates the great times he’s had on the East Coast and even big-ups the old ECW for a cheap pop. Funk proved that old habits die hard at “Night of Champions” when he defeated Cartel leader Vic Grimes. He then takes the torch for XPW Remixed and promises to blaze a trail right through the East Coast, starting right here in the WWF’s backyard of Connecticut!!!
TERRY FUNK: WWF, they are kind of looked at as the graveyard, you know. I mentioned that to some people and I don’t want to keep on calling them the graveyard because I really don’t want to tag that to them. But it is. It is kind of like the WWE’s a graveyard. And, I’m not talking about the guys. They’re old, they’re this or they’re that, can’t get the job done. It has got a definite pattern to it. It’s where somebody goes ahead and leaves the WWE and they wind up down there [points to his ass]. Boom, just that quick. I think that they need to develop their own talent along with that. Does that make sense to you?
4) TERRY FUNK versus "SICK" NICK MONDO
versus
Terry Funk challenges the Cartel and they accept, but as Funk as talking trash with Vic Grimes – begging him to throw a punch and get this party started – he’s blindsided from the rear by the newest member of the Cartel “Sick” Nick Mondo! So Funk will NOT be fighting Grimes again as assumed, instead he’s got his hands full with the young and hungry Nick Mondo! The Sick one has a cool, easily identifiable look that you see many young fans in the audience emulate. The words “SICK” are drawn on his forehead with marker. He hurls his body about with reckless abandon, taking out Funk with a series of high-risk assaults. He drives Funk from the ring and doesn’t even give him a moment to breathe – immediately propelling himself out of the ring with a somersault senton that crushes the Funker on the floor. Vic Grimes and the Headhunterz remain at ringside for the match – but aside from a few shouting matches with front row fans – do not get involved. They don’t need to. Funk makes the big comeback after Mondo misses a top rope legdrop, but in the end “Sick” Nick Mondo reverses a Terry Funk top-rope superplex attempt that propels Funk back into the ring (with a steel chair landing rudely on his face for emphasis). From the top rope, Mondo absolutely CRUSHES Funk’s head with an “M.Bison” double footstomp onto the steel chair! Nick Mondo has just scored a MAJOR upset! Post match, in a frightening and disturbing display of disrespect, the Cartel put a gangland style beating on Funk (complete with twin 400lb moonsaults and Assault Drivers onto steel chairs) before laying an XPW flag over his dead body and throwing up their gang signs. Meanwhile, the crowd boos and throws trash at them.
Winner: “SICK” NICK MONDO
** Backstage correspondent MSD catches up with The Sicilians, Lou Albano and Tony Altomare (surrounded by La Coka Nostra members Lil Guido, Mamaluke & Big Sal E. Graziano). They angrily retort to Cryme Tyme's threats and allegations. Cryme Tyme can get as loud as they want and talk as much trash as they like - but the XPW Tag Team champions will end things quickly and quietly, cuz that's The Sicilian way. **
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5) OMG WTF!!!
The MIZ is coming!!!
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6) EZEKIEL JACKSON versus 2 unnamed jobbers
versus
Back from commercial, the two nondescript jobbers stand already in the ring. One is tall with a big nose, the other is wide with a shaved head. Suddenly - the Death Metal sounds of the Black Army theme can be heard - throwing the arena into disarray. Enter "The Prince of Darkness" w/ Skandor Akbar, Lizzy Borden and Damien Demento. They look angry. Kevin Sullivan rants and raves about injustices and vengeance, before summoning forth the former XPW Champion EZEKIEL JACKSON. Good-old fashioned handicap squash match. No tags required, both the jobbers bounce harmlessly off the giant Jackson at the same time. Dual power moves from Jackson serve to put over his insane strength and power. Spinebuster to 1, Standing Rock Bottom to 2. Ezekiel Jackson reminds everybody of his destructive power, and Kevin Sullivan vows vengeance upon Sammartino.
Winner: EZEKIEL JACKSON
The BLACK ARMY
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7) ABDULLAH the BUTCHER (w/ The Grand Wizard) versus
versus
Pogo is the evil man-mountain monster with suprising agility for such a big man. But his gimmick of emulating the late John Wayne Gacy (and rumors of sex offender violations etc...) has shocked and disturbed some fans, and turned off alot of sponsors. The Grand Wizard's formal endorsement only aggravates the cause further. Mil Mascaras on the other hand is an internatinal diety, and his reception here tonight in Bridgeport CT enforces that. Mexican national colors, pyrotechnics and "Sky High" blasting proudly in the background. Mascaras can't match size with Pogo, but his quickness gives him the advantage - and the heavyweight force behind his lucha attacks is enough to drive Pogo from the ring on occassion (where he congregates with The Grand Wizard to huge crowd jeers). Pogo gets a little run of offense, before Mascaras quickly comes back with a flurry of offense and TGW slides a steel chair into the ring out of desperation. Pogo winds up with it but eats a face-cracking missle dropkick from the top rope from Mascaras that gets the final pin fall. Post match, The Grand Wizard and a dejected, outraged Pogo the Clown display tension. TGW doesn't associate with losers (look how fast he got rid of The Berzerker). Meanwhile, Mascaras poses and plays to the crowd in victorious celebration.
Winner: MIL MASCARAS
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Cannibal Cartel
We return from commercial break to find the entire Cannibal Cartel already congregated in the ring. Their leader Vic Grimes has a mic in his hand, and plays to the jeers and boos of the audience before proceeding with his speech. Cannibal Cartel is the most feared faction in wrestling today – more ferocious than any wolf pack. All of the men in his stable have been blackballed from the industry before banding together to become unstoppable. Funny that none of these organizations will let the Cartel in the front door, but they will always find a way in through the back (alluding to the Cartel’s rumored side-business of selling drugs to workers in the business). Now the Cartel is expanding operations out East, and further defecating on the once-proud legacy of ECW. The Cannibal Cartel is taking over XPW and overrunning the East coast! For cheap heat, Grimes big-ups the WWF and all his "boyz and my crimies in Titan Tower" shootin steroids with Rav-P. But Vic Grimes' pro-WWF promo is interrupted by the opening strains of “Cowboy” by Kid Rock, and the arena goes ballistic. Enter the legend Terry Funk! Funk plays to the fans, reiterates the great times he’s had on the East Coast and even big-ups the old ECW for a cheap pop. Funk proved that old habits die hard at “Night of Champions” when he defeated Cartel leader Vic Grimes. He then takes the torch for XPW Remixed and promises to blaze a trail right through the East Coast, starting right here in the WWF’s backyard of Connecticut!!!
TERRY FUNK: WWF, they are kind of looked at as the graveyard, you know. I mentioned that to some people and I don’t want to keep on calling them the graveyard because I really don’t want to tag that to them. But it is. It is kind of like the WWE’s a graveyard. And, I’m not talking about the guys. They’re old, they’re this or they’re that, can’t get the job done. It has got a definite pattern to it. It’s where somebody goes ahead and leaves the WWE and they wind up down there [points to his ass]. Boom, just that quick. I think that they need to develop their own talent along with that. Does that make sense to you?
4) TERRY FUNK versus "SICK" NICK MONDO
versus
Terry Funk challenges the Cartel and they accept, but as Funk as talking trash with Vic Grimes – begging him to throw a punch and get this party started – he’s blindsided from the rear by the newest member of the Cartel “Sick” Nick Mondo! So Funk will NOT be fighting Grimes again as assumed, instead he’s got his hands full with the young and hungry Nick Mondo! The Sick one has a cool, easily identifiable look that you see many young fans in the audience emulate. The words “SICK” are drawn on his forehead with marker. He hurls his body about with reckless abandon, taking out Funk with a series of high-risk assaults. He drives Funk from the ring and doesn’t even give him a moment to breathe – immediately propelling himself out of the ring with a somersault senton that crushes the Funker on the floor. Vic Grimes and the Headhunterz remain at ringside for the match – but aside from a few shouting matches with front row fans – do not get involved. They don’t need to. Funk makes the big comeback after Mondo misses a top rope legdrop, but in the end “Sick” Nick Mondo reverses a Terry Funk top-rope superplex attempt that propels Funk back into the ring (with a steel chair landing rudely on his face for emphasis). From the top rope, Mondo absolutely CRUSHES Funk’s head with an “M.Bison” double footstomp onto the steel chair! Nick Mondo has just scored a MAJOR upset! Post match, in a frightening and disturbing display of disrespect, the Cartel put a gangland style beating on Funk (complete with twin 400lb moonsaults and Assault Drivers onto steel chairs) before laying an XPW flag over his dead body and throwing up their gang signs. Meanwhile, the crowd boos and throws trash at them.
Winner: “SICK” NICK MONDO
** Backstage correspondent MSD catches up with The Sicilians, Lou Albano and Tony Altomare (surrounded by La Coka Nostra members Lil Guido, Mamaluke & Big Sal E. Graziano). They angrily retort to Cryme Tyme's threats and allegations. Cryme Tyme can get as loud as they want and talk as much trash as they like - but the XPW Tag Team champions will end things quickly and quietly, cuz that's The Sicilian way. **
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5) OMG WTF!!!
The MIZ is coming!!!
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6) EZEKIEL JACKSON versus 2 unnamed jobbers
versus
Back from commercial, the two nondescript jobbers stand already in the ring. One is tall with a big nose, the other is wide with a shaved head. Suddenly - the Death Metal sounds of the Black Army theme can be heard - throwing the arena into disarray. Enter "The Prince of Darkness" w/ Skandor Akbar, Lizzy Borden and Damien Demento. They look angry. Kevin Sullivan rants and raves about injustices and vengeance, before summoning forth the former XPW Champion EZEKIEL JACKSON. Good-old fashioned handicap squash match. No tags required, both the jobbers bounce harmlessly off the giant Jackson at the same time. Dual power moves from Jackson serve to put over his insane strength and power. Spinebuster to 1, Standing Rock Bottom to 2. Ezekiel Jackson reminds everybody of his destructive power, and Kevin Sullivan vows vengeance upon Sammartino.
Winner: EZEKIEL JACKSON
The BLACK ARMY
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7) ABDULLAH the BUTCHER (w/ The Grand Wizard) versus
NECRO BUTCHER
versus
If you know pro wrestling, you know Abdullah the Butcher. One of (if not THE) most feared, savage madman in wrestling history. He’s cut a bloody path through the decades and haunted his opponent’s nightmares for generations. If it’s not the fork, it’s the disease-infested blood he leaks upon his opponents that has them most terrified. But it’s not all blood and guts with Abdullah – he also has an extensive amateur background in karate and judo – skills well needed in the Spartacan arena called XPW. People know of his legacy and legend. Most wrestling fans also know he never stayed too long in any one particularly territory, and his swift and abrupt exit from RavP’s WWF generated many rumors when it happened. Fact of the matter is the Butcher follows the money – and the sterile, squeaky-clean environment up North wasn’t conducive to his style. Somebody’s gotta bleed. Bad. Tonight, that man will be his modern-day namesake NECRO BUTCHER. Both men have existed in XPW before, but on opposite ends of the spectrum. Abdullah the Butcher is an XPW Original, appearing at some of their earlier shows (his match with Axl Rotten is still discussed amongst XPW faithful). Necro Butcher on the other hand, never appeared with the company during its initial run – but did main event their one-off reunion show in 2008. Appropriately titled “A Cold Day In Hell”. Here in XPW Remixed, their pasts, presents and futures will finally (and violently) clash. This is Abdullah’s official XPW TV debut and it’s been given match main-event status. Abdullah the Butcher enters first alongside the garish TGW who proceeds to cut a promo absolutely eviscerating the “lame brains and turkey necks” who seek to oppose XPW’s East Coast expansion. TGW only associates with winners and his newest charge the Madman from the Sudan will continue that tradition tonight!!!! “When the Man Comes Around” by Johnny Cash follows and elicits an immediate pop from the crowd. Enter the steel chair-wielding XPW favorite NECRO BUTCHER!!! He is single-handily responsible from driving the Berzerker from XPW Remixed’s roster! Match starts in the aisle, as Abdullah rushes to meet Necro and eats a steel chair to the head (instantly bursting him open like a balloon)! The two madmen continue their brawl around ringside to really energize the crowd. Finally, they make it inside the ring where the bell tolls and they go off. Stiff, intense and utterly hardcore. Necro Butcher absorbs a bevy of hard hitting slams (emphasized with a steel chair and guard rail) while Abdullah seems almost immune. Finally, Necro Butcher gains the advantage after a series of ridiculously hard roaring elbows, before TGW hops up on the apron for the distraction. True to form Abdullah the Butcher uses that to his advantage, and winds up burying Necro Butcher with a Sudanese Meat Cleaver (heaving elbow drop to the throat) while Necro Butcher’s head and neck are encased in steel chair! Ouch! Big time “oooo” from the crowd on that one. Post match, The Grand Wizard looks absolutely elated – a far cry from his anger and frustration earlier this evening when Pogo the Clown lost.
Winner: ABDULLAH the BUTCHER (w/ The Grand Wizard)
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THE ICE CREAM PARLOR
HONKY TONK MAN: I have been doing the Indy stuff for several years now. This year I have been to Switzerland, Scotland, The Netherlands, Yukon Territory, and Alaska. I stay very busy and I enjoy what I do because I am in charge of my own business!
Formally introduces his new segment - and the hottest talkshow in XPW Remixed - the "Ice Cream Parlor"!!! Big-time superstar introduction for the WINNER of the Money-in-the-Bank Ladder Match at “Night of Champions”, and new #1 Contender, the original “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers (along with Jack Swagger)! The Diamond Dynasty! Rogers and Swagger saunter to ringside dressed in their finest, MitB briefcase in Swagger's hands, "Diamonds from Sierre Leone" instrumental bumping in the background. They stroll onto the set of the Ice Cream Parlor and warmly greet the host Honky Tonk Man. Honky briefly makes mention of being the first to welcome the Nature Boy to XPW (see Episode #6) and congratulates Rogers on his MitB victory at "Night of Champions". Rogers brags about his win, and about having snow bunnies on the East Coast and Playboy bunnies on the West Coast. To further infuriate the East Coast audience, Rogers flaunts his California tan and romanticizes his Hollywood connections. West Coast is the best coast.
HONKY TONK MAN: [Agreeing with everything Rogers says] It was simply the weather. My son was into sports and the weather is a bit better than in Calgary or Memphis. My wife never liked Memphis due to the Ebonics spoken by most of the people there. She could not understand whitey or blackie.
Honky asks the Nature Boy when he thinks he may cash in his golden MitB opportunity, and against whom? Rogers launches into a tirade about shifty, dirty, double-crossing promoters and their inept organizations.
NATURE BOY BUDDY ROGERS: McMahon, Jr. and RavP are the modern-day Hitlers of professional wrestling, and if you told him that to his face, he'd take you out and buy you the biggest steak you could eat. He thrives on the people around him hating his guts. He loves it -- but he doesn't realize that in the final analysis he'll get torched and he'll burn!
HONKY TONK MAN: We all get burned from time to time by some dirty dealing promoters. That aspect of the business has no social or economic boundaries. WWE will burn you as bad as any small time promoters! It is hard for young guys to break in now because there is just not too many places to get steady work. Steady work is the only way to learn the business. The fellows on the east coast seem to do ok with bookings but in other areas there is one or two shows a month or every 3 months.
Rogers and Swagger - at Honky's behest - disparage Swagger's former training partner Lou Thesz and the current XPW Champion Bruno Sammartino. But say the champions name 3 times like Candyman and you're bound for trouble. Sure enough, new XPW Champion Bruno Sammartino enters the arena to retort!!! He's dressed in his gangsta finest, with XPW Championship belt proudly strewn over his shoulder. Sammartino brazenly enters the ring and goes face to face with Rogers and Swagger (w/ HTM in the middle holding the mic).
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: A lot of people accuse me of being critical of wrestling. I'm critical of what they're doing to wrestling, because I love wrestling. I've always loved wrestling. How do you think I feel, everywhere I go people look at me and say, "Bruno, boy, wrestling sure has changed," and they start laughing. It hurts, and I don't like that. Then I started seeing the drugs with that organization [the WWF], and it bothered me. It was horrible. And despite this garbage that they want to do testing, they knew it was going on before. The only reason why testing came is because they got such negative publicity. See, the way it works is like this: if something terrible happens, and there's a lot of attention focused on that, then they get their heads together–"How can we handle this?" If the people don't respond to it, it's forgotten, like it never happened. That's why the whole thing is a sham. They started drug testing, which was a sham, because the only guy who gets to see the result is Vince McMahon. That tells you right there.
Bruno Sammartino takes the initiative to call out Rogers! Instead of being a sniveling coward, waiting for an opportunity to strike when the champ isn't looking - be a man, step up and take your chance right now! Bruno Sammartino is challenging Buddy Rogers to a fight right here tonight in Bridgeport CT!!!
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: My son had just been born, when I got a message that Vince McMahon and RavP wanted to talk to me. My reply to him, which I guess was a little arrogant, was, "You tell Vince McMahon and RavP that if he wants to talk to me, he'll call me." Sure as heck, two weeks later, Vince McMahon called and said to me, "Bruno, I hear you're doing OK in Canada. I'm happy for you." I thought to myself, "Yeah, right." He said, "But you really belong in New York. We've got to forget the past, bury the hatchet, and start fresh. If we start fresh, I think you can do well, you can do real well." I said, "Well, there's only one way I would even consider that." I didn't like Buddy Rogers, so I said to him, "The only way I'd come back in the WWWF is if you give me a match with Buddy Rogers in Madison Square Garden." He said, "I don't think that would fly." I said, "I'm happy where I'm at, I don't need to come to New York. Good talking to you, good luck, but I'm staying where I'm at." Things got worse in New York–I was getting my report from friends–it was really down. Philadelphia was nothing. Two weeks later I got another call from McMahon. He said to me, "Look, Bruno, why can't you come back here? I'll put you on a weekly guarantee." In those days that didn't exist. He wanted to guarantee me $500 a week, which was pretty good money. I'm talking the beginning of 1963. I said, "No, I'm averaging that over here. Why would I leave here to come back to New York?" Then he checked it up to $700 per week. I said, "Look, I want to make it real clear, the only way I'll ever come to New York is if you put me in the ring with Buddy Rogers." Rogers was still the champion. He said to me, "Rogers won't wrestle you." To make a long story short, things got so bad in New York, he says, "OK, you'll get your match with Rogers." And then, of course, you've heard about the 40-second match. I hated Rogers, bad blood. I went in there to beat Buddy Rogers. I'll let it go at that.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Ease back, big man. The Nature Boy isn't looking for a fight tonight, he's still basking in the afterglow of his victory at "Night of Champions". There's a few nightspots left the Diamond Dynasty has yet to christen, and besides he's not even wearing his wrestling gear tonight... just then the entire set is interrupted by the Black Army's theme!!! Entering from behind the curtain, is Ezekiel Jackson and Lizzy Borden!!! She leads the big man to the ring where they crash the Ice Cream Parlor set and interject themselves into the proceedings.
Lizzy Borden actually takes the initiative, and kindly reminds the others just who runs this muthaphuckker. Lizzy Borden XPW Original, Black Army Queen. The crowd serenades her with boos and all kinds of raunchy chants, until she's forced to acknowledge them and shoot on the crowd. The last time XPW was in Pittsburgh some narcs snitched them out to the Feds and got them sent up the river on obscenity charges. The host, Honky Tonk Man tries to interject and get on Borden's good side by complimenting her work.
LIZZY BORDEN: We’re cool, for now. What did you give my last movie? (Honky Tonk Man stammers a non-response) You fucking liar. I think I hate you again.
If Bruno Sammartino is looking for a fight tonight, he's got one right here with the Apocolypse of 2012 Ezekiel Jackson. Massive staredown between Jackson and Sammartino as the crowd roars their approval, and Rogers and Swagger cackle and smirk in the background. HTM fans the flames of contention by mentioning Sammartino's personal crusade to rid the fantasy wrestling world of the scourge of drug abuse.
HONKY TONK MAN: Yes, I do think it is an angle for dough. I know first hand from some of their disciples that they only do it for the dough. I have seen them drink, smoke dope, chase women, snort coke, the whole nine yards. They pass it off as, "I fight with my demons everyday, sometimes I win, and sometimes the demons win." Heck of a way to praise the Lord I say.
LIZZY BORDEN: Three years ago when I first got into the business, I was on a lot of drugs and I was thirty pounds overweight and Rogers said that I was chunky. Then all you little internet geeks said that I was the ugliest girl in the business. Now you all can suck my pussy juice because I’ve lost thirty pounds and have been drug and alcohol free for two years. The only drug I do now is caffeine. I am a coffee addict, but that’s it. So fuck off, I’m beautiful and skinny now.
Now all the sudden Nature Boy Buddy Rogers is outraged over Lizzy mentioning his name. He and Swagger dispute the Black Army's claim to XPW seniority and their right to claim an immediate rematch - especially after Rogers has technically become the #1 contender. Suddenly, this statement draws out the shooter LOU THESZ!!! Fresh off his submission victory over Jack Swagger at "Night of Champions"! Big pop for his arrival!!!
LOU THESZ: I know some of the boys today are good people who are making a living, just like I did. I don't feel they are any more responsible, as individuals, as I was for the decline of pro wrestling. I think there is enough recrimination to go around. As a wrestler, though, I was the one in the ring, and I am responsible for the outcome of my matches. I don't have any long-term regrets. I, also, never hesitated to take my sons to the matches. I wonder if the boys today take their children to the matches with them?
Diamond Dynasty are a disgrace - Black Army is a disgrace - there are only two real champions in this ring right now, and one of them deserves an XPW Title shot (Thesz stares Sammartino down as well). Everybody has made their intentions known - they all covet the XPW Championship currently held by Sammartino. They are all just willing to travel different paths to get to that goal. Lizzy Borden and the Black Army think they can threaten and bully their way into the picture. Rogers is trying to weasel and finagle his way to the title, while Lou Thesz is ready to shoot the fair one with Bruno in a true test of wrestling skill. All of the respective factions tense for action, as Honky Tonk Man seems content to egg them all on. Finally - before all hell can break loose - we are greeted once more by the XPW Remixed Commissioner Damien Steele. He enters on the ramp and begins to speak, before being cut off by Bruno Sammartino! Steele hasn't earned the right to speak in the presence of real champions! Sammartino silences Steele and dismisses him to a big pop! Steele just got punked, and the look on his face proves he knows it! But just then, Steele gets back-up when part owner ED "THE STRANGLER" LEWIS enters the picture!!!
The Strangler most definitely has earned that respect, and nobody in the ring will dispute that. Strangler says the title picture is getting a little cluttered, and he aims to start sorting it all out. So next week - a tag match. Bruno Sammartino & Lou Thesz versus Rogers, Swagger AND Ezekiel Jackson. If the Diamond Dynasty and Ezekiel Jackson win the match, there will be more than enough title shots to go around. If Sammartino and Thesz manage to overcome, Lou Thesz will get the next title shot (Thesz and Sammartino stare each other down again). Diamond Dynasty and Black Army exchange distrustful glances. Honky Tonk Man once again tries to get the last word, and agree with Strangler Lewis' decree...
HONKY TONK MAN: For all the young people who want to be in the wrestling business, I say, have a strong desire, be serious, be dedicated, and work hard. Anything is possible if you take that "prescription."
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: The only thing I'm hoping for is when, people like McMahon and RavP, it's no longer profitable for him to stay here, he'll get out. And when he gets out, I'm hoping, and maybe it's wishful thinking, but I'm hoping some wrestling-minded people will come back into the scene and perhaps start back from basics, get some good-looking athletes, get away from the steroid crap and painted faces. Get people who can really impress people with their skills in the ring, and start back with territories. Maybe someone will start in California, somebody else in the Northeast, somebody else in the Midwest. Like it used to be. And I see that happening one day, I really do. And I think that will be the salvation of wrestling. That's why I came to XPW Remixed, and that's why I aim to stay the champ!!!
All Hell breaks loose as a wild brawl erupts! The Ice Cream Parlor is torn asunder as chaos reigns! Finally, Sammartino clotheslines Jackson out of the ring while Thesz tosses Rogers. Swagger is briefly left alone in the ring where he eats an atomic drop from Thesz into a huge back body drop from Sammartino that literally propels Swagger out of the ring where he crashes into Rogers, Jackson and Borden on the floor! Oh my, Thesz and Sammartino have cleared the ring! But they continue to eye each warily, as Thesz clearly has his mind on the XPW Championship...
XPW Remixed presents "A Cold Day In Hell" - COMING SOON!!!
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CREDITS:
DAMIEN STEELE UPW.com profile april 19th 2002
HONKY TONK MAN: Dale Pierce Interview 9/9/04
TERRY FUNK: About.com interview
BUDDY ROGERS: "Sleeperhold" by Ray Tennenbaum
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: The Lee Benaka interview
LOU THESZ: WrestlingClassics.com Editorial
LIZZY BORDEN: RogReviews Interview (2001)
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If you know pro wrestling, you know Abdullah the Butcher. One of (if not THE) most feared, savage madman in wrestling history. He’s cut a bloody path through the decades and haunted his opponent’s nightmares for generations. If it’s not the fork, it’s the disease-infested blood he leaks upon his opponents that has them most terrified. But it’s not all blood and guts with Abdullah – he also has an extensive amateur background in karate and judo – skills well needed in the Spartacan arena called XPW. People know of his legacy and legend. Most wrestling fans also know he never stayed too long in any one particularly territory, and his swift and abrupt exit from RavP’s WWF generated many rumors when it happened. Fact of the matter is the Butcher follows the money – and the sterile, squeaky-clean environment up North wasn’t conducive to his style. Somebody’s gotta bleed. Bad. Tonight, that man will be his modern-day namesake NECRO BUTCHER. Both men have existed in XPW before, but on opposite ends of the spectrum. Abdullah the Butcher is an XPW Original, appearing at some of their earlier shows (his match with Axl Rotten is still discussed amongst XPW faithful). Necro Butcher on the other hand, never appeared with the company during its initial run – but did main event their one-off reunion show in 2008. Appropriately titled “A Cold Day In Hell”. Here in XPW Remixed, their pasts, presents and futures will finally (and violently) clash. This is Abdullah’s official XPW TV debut and it’s been given match main-event status. Abdullah the Butcher enters first alongside the garish TGW who proceeds to cut a promo absolutely eviscerating the “lame brains and turkey necks” who seek to oppose XPW’s East Coast expansion. TGW only associates with winners and his newest charge the Madman from the Sudan will continue that tradition tonight!!!! “When the Man Comes Around” by Johnny Cash follows and elicits an immediate pop from the crowd. Enter the steel chair-wielding XPW favorite NECRO BUTCHER!!! He is single-handily responsible from driving the Berzerker from XPW Remixed’s roster! Match starts in the aisle, as Abdullah rushes to meet Necro and eats a steel chair to the head (instantly bursting him open like a balloon)! The two madmen continue their brawl around ringside to really energize the crowd. Finally, they make it inside the ring where the bell tolls and they go off. Stiff, intense and utterly hardcore. Necro Butcher absorbs a bevy of hard hitting slams (emphasized with a steel chair and guard rail) while Abdullah seems almost immune. Finally, Necro Butcher gains the advantage after a series of ridiculously hard roaring elbows, before TGW hops up on the apron for the distraction. True to form Abdullah the Butcher uses that to his advantage, and winds up burying Necro Butcher with a Sudanese Meat Cleaver (heaving elbow drop to the throat) while Necro Butcher’s head and neck are encased in steel chair! Ouch! Big time “oooo” from the crowd on that one. Post match, The Grand Wizard looks absolutely elated – a far cry from his anger and frustration earlier this evening when Pogo the Clown lost.
Winner: ABDULLAH the BUTCHER (w/ The Grand Wizard)
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THE ICE CREAM PARLOR
HONKY TONK MAN: I have been doing the Indy stuff for several years now. This year I have been to Switzerland, Scotland, The Netherlands, Yukon Territory, and Alaska. I stay very busy and I enjoy what I do because I am in charge of my own business!
Formally introduces his new segment - and the hottest talkshow in XPW Remixed - the "Ice Cream Parlor"!!! Big-time superstar introduction for the WINNER of the Money-in-the-Bank Ladder Match at “Night of Champions”, and new #1 Contender, the original “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers (along with Jack Swagger)! The Diamond Dynasty! Rogers and Swagger saunter to ringside dressed in their finest, MitB briefcase in Swagger's hands, "Diamonds from Sierre Leone" instrumental bumping in the background. They stroll onto the set of the Ice Cream Parlor and warmly greet the host Honky Tonk Man. Honky briefly makes mention of being the first to welcome the Nature Boy to XPW (see Episode #6) and congratulates Rogers on his MitB victory at "Night of Champions". Rogers brags about his win, and about having snow bunnies on the East Coast and Playboy bunnies on the West Coast. To further infuriate the East Coast audience, Rogers flaunts his California tan and romanticizes his Hollywood connections. West Coast is the best coast.
HONKY TONK MAN: [Agreeing with everything Rogers says] It was simply the weather. My son was into sports and the weather is a bit better than in Calgary or Memphis. My wife never liked Memphis due to the Ebonics spoken by most of the people there. She could not understand whitey or blackie.
Honky asks the Nature Boy when he thinks he may cash in his golden MitB opportunity, and against whom? Rogers launches into a tirade about shifty, dirty, double-crossing promoters and their inept organizations.
NATURE BOY BUDDY ROGERS: McMahon, Jr. and RavP are the modern-day Hitlers of professional wrestling, and if you told him that to his face, he'd take you out and buy you the biggest steak you could eat. He thrives on the people around him hating his guts. He loves it -- but he doesn't realize that in the final analysis he'll get torched and he'll burn!
HONKY TONK MAN: We all get burned from time to time by some dirty dealing promoters. That aspect of the business has no social or economic boundaries. WWE will burn you as bad as any small time promoters! It is hard for young guys to break in now because there is just not too many places to get steady work. Steady work is the only way to learn the business. The fellows on the east coast seem to do ok with bookings but in other areas there is one or two shows a month or every 3 months.
Rogers and Swagger - at Honky's behest - disparage Swagger's former training partner Lou Thesz and the current XPW Champion Bruno Sammartino. But say the champions name 3 times like Candyman and you're bound for trouble. Sure enough, new XPW Champion Bruno Sammartino enters the arena to retort!!! He's dressed in his gangsta finest, with XPW Championship belt proudly strewn over his shoulder. Sammartino brazenly enters the ring and goes face to face with Rogers and Swagger (w/ HTM in the middle holding the mic).
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: A lot of people accuse me of being critical of wrestling. I'm critical of what they're doing to wrestling, because I love wrestling. I've always loved wrestling. How do you think I feel, everywhere I go people look at me and say, "Bruno, boy, wrestling sure has changed," and they start laughing. It hurts, and I don't like that. Then I started seeing the drugs with that organization [the WWF], and it bothered me. It was horrible. And despite this garbage that they want to do testing, they knew it was going on before. The only reason why testing came is because they got such negative publicity. See, the way it works is like this: if something terrible happens, and there's a lot of attention focused on that, then they get their heads together–"How can we handle this?" If the people don't respond to it, it's forgotten, like it never happened. That's why the whole thing is a sham. They started drug testing, which was a sham, because the only guy who gets to see the result is Vince McMahon. That tells you right there.
Bruno Sammartino takes the initiative to call out Rogers! Instead of being a sniveling coward, waiting for an opportunity to strike when the champ isn't looking - be a man, step up and take your chance right now! Bruno Sammartino is challenging Buddy Rogers to a fight right here tonight in Bridgeport CT!!!
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: My son had just been born, when I got a message that Vince McMahon and RavP wanted to talk to me. My reply to him, which I guess was a little arrogant, was, "You tell Vince McMahon and RavP that if he wants to talk to me, he'll call me." Sure as heck, two weeks later, Vince McMahon called and said to me, "Bruno, I hear you're doing OK in Canada. I'm happy for you." I thought to myself, "Yeah, right." He said, "But you really belong in New York. We've got to forget the past, bury the hatchet, and start fresh. If we start fresh, I think you can do well, you can do real well." I said, "Well, there's only one way I would even consider that." I didn't like Buddy Rogers, so I said to him, "The only way I'd come back in the WWWF is if you give me a match with Buddy Rogers in Madison Square Garden." He said, "I don't think that would fly." I said, "I'm happy where I'm at, I don't need to come to New York. Good talking to you, good luck, but I'm staying where I'm at." Things got worse in New York–I was getting my report from friends–it was really down. Philadelphia was nothing. Two weeks later I got another call from McMahon. He said to me, "Look, Bruno, why can't you come back here? I'll put you on a weekly guarantee." In those days that didn't exist. He wanted to guarantee me $500 a week, which was pretty good money. I'm talking the beginning of 1963. I said, "No, I'm averaging that over here. Why would I leave here to come back to New York?" Then he checked it up to $700 per week. I said, "Look, I want to make it real clear, the only way I'll ever come to New York is if you put me in the ring with Buddy Rogers." Rogers was still the champion. He said to me, "Rogers won't wrestle you." To make a long story short, things got so bad in New York, he says, "OK, you'll get your match with Rogers." And then, of course, you've heard about the 40-second match. I hated Rogers, bad blood. I went in there to beat Buddy Rogers. I'll let it go at that.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Ease back, big man. The Nature Boy isn't looking for a fight tonight, he's still basking in the afterglow of his victory at "Night of Champions". There's a few nightspots left the Diamond Dynasty has yet to christen, and besides he's not even wearing his wrestling gear tonight... just then the entire set is interrupted by the Black Army's theme!!! Entering from behind the curtain, is Ezekiel Jackson and Lizzy Borden!!! She leads the big man to the ring where they crash the Ice Cream Parlor set and interject themselves into the proceedings.
Lizzy Borden actually takes the initiative, and kindly reminds the others just who runs this muthaphuckker. Lizzy Borden XPW Original, Black Army Queen. The crowd serenades her with boos and all kinds of raunchy chants, until she's forced to acknowledge them and shoot on the crowd. The last time XPW was in Pittsburgh some narcs snitched them out to the Feds and got them sent up the river on obscenity charges. The host, Honky Tonk Man tries to interject and get on Borden's good side by complimenting her work.
LIZZY BORDEN: We’re cool, for now. What did you give my last movie? (Honky Tonk Man stammers a non-response) You fucking liar. I think I hate you again.
If Bruno Sammartino is looking for a fight tonight, he's got one right here with the Apocolypse of 2012 Ezekiel Jackson. Massive staredown between Jackson and Sammartino as the crowd roars their approval, and Rogers and Swagger cackle and smirk in the background. HTM fans the flames of contention by mentioning Sammartino's personal crusade to rid the fantasy wrestling world of the scourge of drug abuse.
HONKY TONK MAN: Yes, I do think it is an angle for dough. I know first hand from some of their disciples that they only do it for the dough. I have seen them drink, smoke dope, chase women, snort coke, the whole nine yards. They pass it off as, "I fight with my demons everyday, sometimes I win, and sometimes the demons win." Heck of a way to praise the Lord I say.
LIZZY BORDEN: Three years ago when I first got into the business, I was on a lot of drugs and I was thirty pounds overweight and Rogers said that I was chunky. Then all you little internet geeks said that I was the ugliest girl in the business. Now you all can suck my pussy juice because I’ve lost thirty pounds and have been drug and alcohol free for two years. The only drug I do now is caffeine. I am a coffee addict, but that’s it. So fuck off, I’m beautiful and skinny now.
Now all the sudden Nature Boy Buddy Rogers is outraged over Lizzy mentioning his name. He and Swagger dispute the Black Army's claim to XPW seniority and their right to claim an immediate rematch - especially after Rogers has technically become the #1 contender. Suddenly, this statement draws out the shooter LOU THESZ!!! Fresh off his submission victory over Jack Swagger at "Night of Champions"! Big pop for his arrival!!!
LOU THESZ: I know some of the boys today are good people who are making a living, just like I did. I don't feel they are any more responsible, as individuals, as I was for the decline of pro wrestling. I think there is enough recrimination to go around. As a wrestler, though, I was the one in the ring, and I am responsible for the outcome of my matches. I don't have any long-term regrets. I, also, never hesitated to take my sons to the matches. I wonder if the boys today take their children to the matches with them?
Diamond Dynasty are a disgrace - Black Army is a disgrace - there are only two real champions in this ring right now, and one of them deserves an XPW Title shot (Thesz stares Sammartino down as well). Everybody has made their intentions known - they all covet the XPW Championship currently held by Sammartino. They are all just willing to travel different paths to get to that goal. Lizzy Borden and the Black Army think they can threaten and bully their way into the picture. Rogers is trying to weasel and finagle his way to the title, while Lou Thesz is ready to shoot the fair one with Bruno in a true test of wrestling skill. All of the respective factions tense for action, as Honky Tonk Man seems content to egg them all on. Finally - before all hell can break loose - we are greeted once more by the XPW Remixed Commissioner Damien Steele. He enters on the ramp and begins to speak, before being cut off by Bruno Sammartino! Steele hasn't earned the right to speak in the presence of real champions! Sammartino silences Steele and dismisses him to a big pop! Steele just got punked, and the look on his face proves he knows it! But just then, Steele gets back-up when part owner ED "THE STRANGLER" LEWIS enters the picture!!!
The Strangler most definitely has earned that respect, and nobody in the ring will dispute that. Strangler says the title picture is getting a little cluttered, and he aims to start sorting it all out. So next week - a tag match. Bruno Sammartino & Lou Thesz versus Rogers, Swagger AND Ezekiel Jackson. If the Diamond Dynasty and Ezekiel Jackson win the match, there will be more than enough title shots to go around. If Sammartino and Thesz manage to overcome, Lou Thesz will get the next title shot (Thesz and Sammartino stare each other down again). Diamond Dynasty and Black Army exchange distrustful glances. Honky Tonk Man once again tries to get the last word, and agree with Strangler Lewis' decree...
HONKY TONK MAN: For all the young people who want to be in the wrestling business, I say, have a strong desire, be serious, be dedicated, and work hard. Anything is possible if you take that "prescription."
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: The only thing I'm hoping for is when, people like McMahon and RavP, it's no longer profitable for him to stay here, he'll get out. And when he gets out, I'm hoping, and maybe it's wishful thinking, but I'm hoping some wrestling-minded people will come back into the scene and perhaps start back from basics, get some good-looking athletes, get away from the steroid crap and painted faces. Get people who can really impress people with their skills in the ring, and start back with territories. Maybe someone will start in California, somebody else in the Northeast, somebody else in the Midwest. Like it used to be. And I see that happening one day, I really do. And I think that will be the salvation of wrestling. That's why I came to XPW Remixed, and that's why I aim to stay the champ!!!
All Hell breaks loose as a wild brawl erupts! The Ice Cream Parlor is torn asunder as chaos reigns! Finally, Sammartino clotheslines Jackson out of the ring while Thesz tosses Rogers. Swagger is briefly left alone in the ring where he eats an atomic drop from Thesz into a huge back body drop from Sammartino that literally propels Swagger out of the ring where he crashes into Rogers, Jackson and Borden on the floor! Oh my, Thesz and Sammartino have cleared the ring! But they continue to eye each warily, as Thesz clearly has his mind on the XPW Championship...
XPW Remixed presents "A Cold Day In Hell" - COMING SOON!!!
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CREDITS:
DAMIEN STEELE UPW.com profile april 19th 2002
HONKY TONK MAN: Dale Pierce Interview 9/9/04
TERRY FUNK: About.com interview
BUDDY ROGERS: "Sleeperhold" by Ray Tennenbaum
BRUNO SAMMARTINO: The Lee Benaka interview
LOU THESZ: WrestlingClassics.com Editorial
LIZZY BORDEN: RogReviews Interview (2001)