Post by MadStepDad on Jun 15, 2011 11:29:26 GMT -5
Cut to the in-studio announce team for the evening:
Gordon Solie & Matt Striker
XPW Remixed is back home on the West Coast, and all roads lead to the super show of the year - XPW Remixed presents "BAPTIZED IN BLOOD". The annual Tournament of Death begins in Mash-Up Wrestling! The call went out across the eons and was answered by some of the toughest, most insane SOB's in fantasy wrestling. Qualifying matches for this prestigious (and deadly) tournament will continue tonight. Also, on the last episode before the PPV, Cannibal Cartel capo "Vicious" Vic Grimes has promised to get an answer from KotDM champion Jun Kasai to his championship challenge, even if he has to drag it out of him. Tonight - a cut scene from Knoxville TN - where MadMan Pondo's "White Trash Challenge" continues, XPW Champion Bruno Sammartino teams with Rockstar KAOS and rumors of a HUGE Territory Wars cross-over appearance come to fruition tonight! But first, "The Solid Man" William Muldoon has a major announcement regarding the latest addition to his new-wave fight camp "The Olympia"! Let's throw it down to ringside!!!
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1a) THE OLYMPIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
"A trainer of championship boxers, William Muldoon was a powerful athlete in his own right, and later became the head of the first modern boxing commission. Born in Belfast, New York in 1852, as a youth, he was a wrestler of some renown. He competed in the "Greco-Roman" wrestling style of the day-which barred holds below the waist. Muldoon became a bouncer and then a policeman in New York City. Known as "The Solid Man" and "The Iron Duke," he wrestled in both professional and amateur matches, defeating the police department champion as well as English wrestler Edwin Bibby. Muldoon served six years on the police force, then quit to open a bar which was popular with boxers and wrestlers as well as bankers and financiers. He toured the country with boxing champion John L. Sullivan, and the two posed, wrestled, boxed and performed feats of strength in exhibitions. He also acted in stage plays including the role of Charles the Wrestler in "As You Like It". A great believer in physical fitness, Muldoon opened the Muldoon Hygienic Institute in Purchase, New York.
"The Solid Man" William Muldoon
He trained Sullivan for his famous fight with Jake Kilrain at his farm in Belfast, NY, whipping the overweight, out-of-shape Sullivan into fighting trim. Supposedly, Muldoon had to threaten the champ with a baseball bat to get him to follow the training regimen and wrestled Sullivan into submission when he wanted to go out for a drink. Sullivan entered the ring in excellent condition and won the Kilrain fight. Muldoon also trained Kid McCoy and Jack Dempsey, The Nonpareil. After the Walker Law legalized boxing in New York State in 1920, Muldoon was appointed to chair the New York State Athletic Commission. In this role, Muldoon attempted to bar known gamblers from attending fights, established a no-smoking rule for bouts, and pushed for improved sanitary conditions for boxers."
Now, in the fantasy world of XPW Remixed, William Muldoon aka "The Solid Man" has returned to open what would become the work of his life, the well-known health institute "The Olympia. In subsequent years through the success of the Olympia, Muldoon would again gain national notice as he treated such notables there as U.S. Ambassadors, notable publishers, Senators, essayists & novelists and Secretary of States who were sent to Muldoon by the President of the United States. There was talk that Muldoon would be appointed to President Obama's cabinet to oversee physical health. For his uncompromising methods at his health farm Muldoon was dubbed the "Professor." At "A Cold Day In Hell" William Muldoon debuted his institute (Brockton MA branch), and it's first signee Hakushi. Tonight - the latest to join the fighting revolution brewing at "The Olympia"...
But before Muldoon can formally introduce his newest signee, they are cut off by the loud abrasive sound of Death Metal music...
Reintroducing THE BLACK ARMY!!!
"The Prince of Darkness" - accompanied by Lizzy Borden, Skandor Akbar and Ezekiel Jackson - demands reverence. Despite the fallen angels praying for the Army's downfall, it is in fact stronger than ever (after dropping dead weight - see Episode #15). The Black Army will rise again! And to prove their dominance - and unity - tonight they challenge the OLYMPIA! Skandor Akbar and Ezekiel Jackson - dressed and prepared for war - versus the mysterious ninja Hakushi and "The Solid Man" William Muldoon! The Olympia quickly accept the challenge and we're on!!!
1b) THE BLACK ARMY versus WILLIAM MULDOON & HAKUSHI
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"The Solid Man" gets a change to exhibit his spectacular ground work, takedown defense and scientific acumen. Some of the hip toss/headlock takeover/arm drags Muldoon shows off prove why he's also called "The Professor". Kevin Sullivan bears the brunt of the humiliation, being ground into the mat by Muldoon before being flattened by a series of breathtaking planchas and moonsaults by Hakushi. The mysterious Hakushi's fluid ninjijtsu style is the perfect balance to Muldoon's wrestling and - as he proves later in a stand-up exchange with Sullivan - his boxing as well. When Sullivan finally gets the tag, Ezekiel Jackson becomes an unstoppable freight train. His shoulder tackles run through Muldoon, and he swats Hakushi out of the sky. But when Sullivan forcefully tags himself into the match (seemingly wanting to steal the pin after Jackson did all the work), he aggravates the "Apocalypse of 2012" even more. Sullivan and Jackson get in a brief shoving and shouting match, before Skandor Akbar is up on the apron - adding more fire to the brewing anarchy. Meanwhile Lizzy Borden suddenly makes her presence felt with a BLAST of some kind of blinding aerosol spray, directly to the face of Hakushi! The Black Army begin stomping and assaulting Muldoon and Hakushi, when suddenly - a blinding FLASH of pyrotechnics and confetti BLAST from the entrance ramp!
Enter MIL MASCARAS!!!
The Mexican super hero swoops in to a HUGE crowd pop, and immediately takes it right to the Black Army! Missile dropkick to Skandor Akbar propels him into Lizzy Borden, and then both out of the ring! Leapfrog/monkey flip ejects Kevin Sullivan! Mil Mascaras is now face to face with the seething man-monster Ezekiel Jackson... when he's victimized by a surprise roll-up from Muldoon! Jackson finds his massive shoulders irrevocably pinned to the mat with a tantalizing take-down/la magistral from "The Solid Man"!!! A massive CHEER rises from the crowd!
Winners: THE OLYMPIA
Post match, with the crowd cheering them on and the Black Army retreating, William Muldoon on the mic finally introduces the newest member of "The Olympia" fight camp... MIL MASCARAS!!! And at "Baptized in Blood" - Kevin Sullivan, if you and your men have it in your black souls to compete - the Olympia will take down the Army! 6 man tag team madness! Olympia versus Black Army! Sullivan and Borden are outraged, with Skandor Akbar yelling foreign obscenities. Meanwhile Ezekiel Jackson silently stews, angrily eyeing Sullivan just as much as the triumphant Olympia in the ring...
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2) IAN ROTTEN versus AXL ROTTEN
("Baptized in Blood" Qualifying Match)
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Winner: AXL ROTTEN
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3a) WHITE TRASH CHALLENGE
MadMan Pondo’s crusade to clear all the white trash out of fantasy wrestling continues. His challenge brings him down here to the Dirty Dirty Volunteer State. Knoxville TN with all hicks and inbreds. His rant involves some off-color racial and gender remarks, and he flaunts his delicious piece of white trash arm candy Jessica Darlin. Queen of the Trailer Park. He’s interrupted by Confederate flags, Dixie and hardcore country music. Representing Smokey Mountain circa 1994, enters a pot-bellied, longhaired country boy with a wife beater and shit kickers on. He’s accompanied by a lovely woman in a K-Mart dress and cheap high heels. Introducing to a moderate pop…
”DIRTY WHITE BOY” TONY ANTHONY (w/ the Dirty White Girl Kimberly)
Tony and his dirty white girl Kimberly straddle up to ringside, mic in hand. On behalf of SMW 1994, Tony drops the fake Yankee-lovin shtick and does one proud for his home state. With Kim and Jessica eyeing each other like feral cats from across the ring, Pondo scoffs at Anthony for his white trash heritage and lame-ass “TL Hopper” plumber with a plunger act from Up North. But the Dirty White Boy can’t be perturbed, and the SMW Champion would instead like to welcome Pondo and Darlin to Tennessee the right way.
”DIRTY WHITE BOY” TONY ANTHONY: Everybody heard Dusty Rhodes (does a Dusty impression) - I'm a plumber's son, workin' in the ditches, baby. Well that's a bunch of garbage. I actually WAS a plumber's son. My father owns his own company and basically from the time I could walk, I was going to work. My daddy's my best buddy in the whole darn world. I always wanted to be with my daddy, so he put me to work. So I'd go to work with him and (WWF) said OK. So that's where the plumber is from. I wasn't really big on that. But I brought ‘ol Betsy along with me tonight, along with my old ball & chain here – and I plan on sticking ‘em BOTH up your rootin-tootin behind!!
Tony Anthony unsheathes a hidden plunger and bashes Pondo off the noggin with it! Cue clothes-ripping cat fight between Jessica Darlin and Kimberly and we’re off!!!
3b) MADMAN PONDO (w/ Jessica Darlin)
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"DIRTY WHITE BOY" TONY ANTHONY (w/ the "Dirty White Girl" Kimberly)
(White Trash Challenge)
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Brief offensive flurry by the Dirty White Boy to get the crowd going. He even clonks Pondo with his own stop sign! Meanwhile the refs have gotten Kim and Jessica separated, but it takes at least 6 of them to KEEP them separated. They continue the pro-wrestling-as-a-soap-opera spectacle outside the ring. Neither guy wows you with his physical appearance, but their working style is stiff and old-school. Finally, another hair-pulling skirmish erupts between the ladies outside the ring, Tony Anthony gets distracted and Pondo strikes with a devastating low blow. Double underhook DDT onto the stop sign follows, and Pondo squashes the “Dirty White Boy” in short order. Post match, MadMan Pondo makes a spectacle of licking his gigantic hunting knife after using it to jig Tony Anthony in the middle of the ring. Pondo and Darlin finish the segment by snatching Kimberly up – turning her over Pondo’s knee – and having Jessica Darlin lay an ass-welting beating on her behind, turning it bright red!
Winner: MADMAN PONDO
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4) THE KING OF DEATH
Really shakey, amatuerish bootleg video production. Voyeuristic in nature. A goon squad of masked assailants (who you quickly come to recognize as the Cannibal Cartel) are on a midnight raid - Black Ninja/Navy Seal style. "Sick" Nick Mondo video tapes the entire proceeds with his handheld. Black ski-mask on, dilated pupils and a frothing mouth, Cannibal Cartel capo "Vicious" Vic Grimes cuts a brief close-up promo on some Scarface end-of-the-movie type shit. Really intense, and you realize the Cartel is about to pull of a midnight raid on Atsushi Onita's satellite West Coast dojo. Really dark, grainy footage of the massive Cartel goons storming the premises and destroying people and property. Brutal, voyerestic scene as they overwhelm Atsushi Onita and torture the Godfather of Ultra Violence (stringing him up, shocking him with jumper cables and whipping him with jagged belts). All the while, Nick Mondo stays filming while Vic Grimes narrates the scene and continues to taunt Jun Kasai. The message is quite clear - Vic Grimes wants the King of the Death Match title, and will stop at nothing in his pursuit of it. Even if it means maiming, kidnapping and torturing. Vic Grimes and the Cartel are literally holding Atsushi Onita hostage for ransom. The price being Jun Kasai's title at "Baptized in Blood"... How will the Crazy Monkey respond to this brazen challenge???
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5) FUGITIVE ON THE RUN: Warning! Considered Armed, Dangerous and Insane!!!
“The Future of Hardcore” Nick Gage is a bad muthaphuckker. An original building block of Combat Zone Wrestling on the East Coast, Nick Gage has been bludgeoned, battered, slashed, burned and flatlined from loss of blood. He’s also one of (if not THE) premiere Ultra Violent specialist in all of the underground. But in December 2010 things took a turn for the worse when a masked assailant burst into a Collingswood NJ bank and demanded money. After the robbery, the surveillance footage made its way around various wrestling message boards – and Nick Gage was snitched out by the same fans that supported him. A mighty betrayal.
On 4/29/11, Nick Gage was sentenced to five years in prison in the State Superior Court of Camden, New Jersey after having plead guilty to one second-degree count of bank robbery. Gage will not eligible for parole until serving 85% of that sentence, according to the Camden Prosecutor's Office. Gage will also be responsible for paying restitution of $3,095 to the PNC Bank branch in Collingswood, NJ that he robbed as well as $150 in lost wages to the bank teller, who later left her position with the branch after the robbery.
Now – in the dangerous fantasy world of XPW Remixed – Nick FN Gage has broken out of prison! The daring jail break took place mere days before the “Night of Champions” PPV in Pittsburgh PA. Somehow, Gage actually staged a run-in during that show (see the Terry Funk vs Vic Grimes match from “Night of Champions”) before fleeing back into the obscurity of the streets. Gage resurfaced once again in Broken City MA, when he attacked XPW Remixed Commissioner Damien Steele with a tire iron! Now – on behalf of the XPW Commissioner – we are issuing a warning to all fans and spectators. Be on the lookout for the criminal Nick Gage. Any sightings should IMMEDIATELY be reported to local authorities.
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** Reigning XPW Remixed Tag Team champions, The Sicilians - Lou Albano & Tony Altomare - have pledged to eradicate the threat of Cryme Tyme forever. They are so intent upon that desire, the Sicilians have placed a bounty on the heads of Shad Gaspard & JTG!!! That's right, mobb money on the line here and we can't wait to see who shows up at "Baptized in Blood" to collect it... **
"MAFIA!!!"
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6) DAMIEN STEELE versus EDDIE GILBERT versus B-BOY
(Triple Threat Match)
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About what you’d expect from two insecure, cowardly heels. Steele and Gilbert immediately team up and the match becomes less a Triple Threat and more a handicap match. B-Boy fights back valiantly in a few hope spots, but the combined merciless might of Steele and Gilbert continues to punish him. Finally some drama begins when Gilbert and Steele can’t decide who’s actually going to get the pin after they both did all the work. They distract each other and the ref, and try to steal pin falls when the other isn’t looking. Ultimately this leads to a shouting and pointing match, and B-Boy is able to make the comeback! Just like the comic book Frank Castle, B-Boy comes at Gilbert and Steele on the solo tip with guns blazing. A variety of high-velocity, high impact moves flatten both Gilbert and the XPW commissioner to HUGE crowd appeal. But right when B-Boy seems to have the match in hand – a ref bump takes out the official. With the referee down, B-Boy gets crotched on the top rope by Gilbert and waylaid by Steele with a chair shot to the head. “Deal Breaker” by Steele lays B-Boy out for good, but once again the bad guys can’t figure out how to logically proceed so they start jawing with each other. But this time, Steele suddenly has an idea. He briefly confers with Gilbert mid-ring, and Eddie likes what he hears apparently. Steele rips the striped shirt from the incapacitated official and puts it on himself, indicating that he is taking over officiating duties for the match. Gilbert swoops in for the pin on B-Boy, which Damien Steele is now happy to make. But before the XPW Commissioner/self-appointed referee’s hand can slap the mat for the 3rd and final time, his count is interrupted…
Enter LOU THESZ!!!
The Shooter Lou Thesz halts the pinfall and sticks a finger in Steele's chest! He rips the referee uniform from Steele's body in a violent display! Eddie Gilbert watches on in dogged horror as Thesz tosses Damien Steele about. Finally, Eddie Gilbert and Lou Thesz come face to face and the volatile Eddie Gilbert's face turns beet-red as he addresses him. But Gilbert is so consumed with running Thesz down, he doesn't see a recovered B-Boy creeping on him from the rear... "Delikado" to Eddie Gilbert from B-Boy! (half-nelson lifted and dropped into a wheelbarrow driver) The disheveled XPW referee finally comes to in time to see B-Boy covering Eddie Gilbert for the pin! B-Boy has won this match! Post match, Eddie Gilbert and Damien Steele argue outside the ring - while inside, Lou Thesz and B-Boy - two members of radically different generations, yet fighters cut from the same cloth - share the dramatic stare down - into - handshake of mutual respect to big cheers! On the entrance ramp, Steele now has a mic and incredulously confronts Thesz about his interference. Thesz retorts by citing Steele's transgressions as XPW Commissioner. Thesz came to XPW Remixed with the vow of eliminating the scourge of wrestling from the fantasy universe forever. That mission continues with the crooked XPW Commissioner! Thesz makes the challenge - Gilbert and Steele versus Thesz & B-Boy at "Baptized in Blood"!
Winner: B-BOY
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** Ever since The Grand Wizard's kidnapping and disappearance (see "A Cold Day In Hell"), The Original Sheik - recently returning from medical suspension - has been like a pit bull unleashed. For reasons unfathomable, The Original Sheik chose to make his return at the PPV by ATTACKING his blood nephew Sabu! When approached for some kind of answer or explanation for his actions, this is what happened... **
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** XPW cameras get a rebuttal from a furious King of the Death Match champion, Jun Kasai (complete with English translation posted along the bottom of the screen). Intense, midnight ninja assassin promo high atop a building top somewhere. Kasai is built for war and ready to die for his. At "Baptized in Blood" Jun Kasai WILL answer the challenge - and will be the one who finally drives that final nail into the coffin of the Cannibal Cartel forever!!! For this will be no ordinary title defense... no! This will be the most dangerous match in the US - banned from all major territories - THE SCAFFOLD MATCH. The highest in American history: 45 feet. Vic Grimes likes to get HIGH... let's see how HIGH he can get!!! And how far the Cannibal Cartel will fall!!! BANZAI!!! **
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7) A GIANT CHALLENGE ANSWERED
PRIMO CARNERA versus JACK SHARKEY
(KO @ approx 5:58)
But Toots Mondt has still another dream for the giant. He wants to make Primo Carnera the Heavyweight Wrestling Champion of the World. This is what he's been shooting at during all the months he has been touring with Carnera back and forth across the country. The business of being proclaimed the World's Champion Wrestler, as Toots Mondt explained it, is a complicated set-up. There are about half a dozen men, in as many states and subject to as many rules, who claim to be the Champion of the World. Toots wants Carnera to settle it once and for all, by beating all of them. Primo will therefore have to whip Frank Sexton, who some recognize as the champion. He will have to beat Louie Thesz, the St. Louis boy who holds the National Wrestling Association title. He will also have to pin to the mat such heavies as Stone Cold Steve Austin of WWF, Whipper Watson of Toronto, Jim Londos, Orville Brown, Ultimate Warrior of the AWA, and Roughie Silverstein, former Big Ten Champion from Illinois. "It is my opinion that Primo can beat every one of these men," Toots said, with a completely straight face. "If the officials are fair and honest, Primo will win all these matches. I mean to see that they are honest," Toots concluded, "because I intend that Primo Carnera shall be the next Heavyweight Wrestling Champion of the World."
If this happens, Carnera will be the only man in sport history who has held both titles, the championship of the world in boxing and wrestling. How much or how little the grappling title means, it is still quite a prospect for the once hopeless and crippled, bruised and life-battered giant who hobbled up a gangplank in 1936 headed for oblivion. Not even those idealistic weavers of words who created ancient tales designed solely to point out a moral could improve the true-life ending of this story. For what has happened to the ruthless, shameless, cruel, and greedy handful of men who tricked and humiliated and bled the giant? Almost to a man, life has repaid them. Three of them are now penniless, two are in ill health, and one frequents the grimy alleys of crime, fearful for his life. A few months ago, in a large Eastern city, one of them provided us with a thing that is rare in this modern world, a moment of poetic justice. One of these men who had held the giant in bondage for so many years, one of the elite of the once high-riding mob, approached Primo Carnera after a wrestling match and, in our own graceless, work-a-day language, he put the bite on him.
"He looked very bad," Primo said, "but I could not find it in myself to give him money. Instead, I bought him a meal."
Suddenly - they are cut off and interrupted by a patronizing voice...
Reintroducing THE GRAND WIZARD!!!
Looks of surprise from the audience, while Carnera and Mondt retain their poker face mid-ring. MSD the in-ring MC for the segment watches on in astonishment. On commentary Gordon and Solie surmise on TGW's return, and wonder why it seemed like such a low priority to Gold Dust Trio Inc. TGW in the ring to Mondt... blames him of criminal distortion! Alleges that Mondt and Strangler didn't raise the alarm after that maniac Pogo the Clown kidnapped TGW at "A Cold Day In Hell" because his partners want him OUT of the XPW governing body! Well guess what? The Grand Wizard isn't going out that easy. References XPW's recent foray onto the East Coast, and alleges some kind of illegal shenanigans that may have driven Gold Dust Trio Inc off the East Coast in the first place. Oh my, the Gold Dust Trio Inc is fracturing right before our eyes! TGW says Mondt wants to come out here and act like his big free agent signing Primo Carnera is going to change the game. That the Ambling Alp is the greatest fighter in fantasy wrestling, and the "one true giant" in professional wrestling. Well you're wrong! And if you want a war, you got a war! The Grand Wizard alone has uncovered the one TRUE giant of professional wrestling! Introducing to XPW Remixed...
THE BIG SHOW!!!!
MSD: B-B-BIG SHOW!?!?! What are YOU doing here??? R U SERIOUS???
BIG SHOW: I think I was really serious until I got punched in the face. You know, the boxing thing was something I was interested in doing to change my lifestyle and get into shape and really improve my health. I met some friends and the idea was kicked around and talked about, and I trained quite hard for it. I went through the same training that any boxer does between training camps in getting ready for fights. And then, you know, I couldn’t get fights, couldn’t schedule fights.
THE GRAND WIZARD: Who's gonna want a fight with a 7ft 500 lb giant???
BIG SHOW: I mean, I’m not going to step in the ring and compete against Lennox Lews right off the bat. I need to get experience against guys with the same experience level I had, and those guys didn’t want anything to do with me because I’d kill them. I was sparring with Oliver McCall, who is a former heavyweight champion. It takes a lot of courage to step over that rope and go in there basically knowing the other guy is going to be hitting you in the face as hard as he can and you have to hit him as hard as you can. It was a unique, eye-opening, great experience because I left all my stature, all my credibility as The Big Show, in the locker room and I came out there as a guy learning how to box and I had to earn my respect from the guys in the boxing gym, and I think I did.
MSD: But what brings you here to XPW Remixed tonight???
BIG SHOW: I just realized that boxing, to be competitive, I have to defeat the best.... and Primo Carnera - you're the best. It’s something that I wish I could have started as a young man, like 10 or 11 years old. If I could have foretold the future and found out that I was going to be this size and have the hand speed that I have and the athletic ability and have been able to do boxing as a young man, I think I could have changed the world of heavyweight boxing forever. And at "Baptized in Blood", I plan on changing the face of fantasy wrestling forever when I show you who has the greatest KO punch in history!!!
HHHUUUUUGGGGE stare down between the two GIANT men (although Big Show seems to have quite a few inches on Primo). TGW watches on, smug in his content that he ruined another segment. Mondt looks on as Primo and Big Show size each other up like he's UFC President Dana White in the middle of a weigh-in. Are those dollar-signs in his eyes? Primo Carnera versus Big Show - in a shoot boxing match - only at "Baptized in Blood"!!!
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** "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace... (Ephesians 1:7) **
The MESSIAH will be "Baptized in Blood"...
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MAIN EVENT
BRUNO SAMMARTINO & ROCKSTAR KAOS (w/ Missy Hyatt)
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"NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS & THE MIZ
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Cameras briefly catch up with Sammartino, KAOS and Hyatt huddled in the gorilla position before take off. They quickly establish camaraderie and head down the tunnel together as the roar of the crowd approaches (shades of Hulk Hogan and Mr T's epic-level entrance from Wrestlemania 1). By the time they burst through the curtain to the roar of the audience and bright glare of HD and 3D television cameras, they are fully "on". Bruno holds his XPW Championship aloft front and center, as he leads the charge down to ringside. Rockstar KAOS 2000 reminds you of a young Heath Slater meets The Rock, and Missy Hyatt 1991 bounces joyfully behind them. Meanwhile in the ring, XPW TV Champion and #1 contender to the World Title "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers cut an intimidating sight. Behind them, MIZ's personal asst Alex Riley (circa 2010) and Jack Swagger (carrying Buddy Rogers' MitB briefcase from "Night of Champions") are immaculately dressed with their custom-designed Diamond Dynasty Rolex's prominently placed. The pomp and pageantry of this main event match - complete with glittering diamonds and championship gold - dazzles the eye.
Rockstar KAOS starts the match with the MIZ and they display a little of that new-millennium chain wrestling all the kids are talking about. But when KAOS takes over with a beautiful spinning arm-wringer counter and tags in Sammartino, the miserable MIZ catches an old-school whooping. The Italian Strongman Bruno Sammartino tosses, suplexes and manhandles the MIZ at will, climaxing in a huge gorilla press slam that plants MIZ with authority and demands he tag in the "Nature Boy". Rogers is reluctant to enter the ring, and in old-school heel parlance, he stalls the action further - infuriating the live crowd and antagonizing the viewing audience. Missy Hyatt continues to cheer her men on outside, while a screw faced Alex Riley and Jack Swagger argue with the official and cause a heelish ruckus. Match spans two commercial breaks, and Rockstar KAOS winds up playing face-in-peril for a good portion of it. In the end, high-energy donnybrook erupts between both sides after the hot tag to Sammartino. Swagger up on the apron gets a flying shoulder-tackle from Bruno that propels Swagger into a ringside barricade! Alex Riley and Missy Hyatt argue - and Hyatt hauls off with a face-welting slap to the Varsity Villain! Inside the ring, Miz misses a clothesline on Bruno, only to turn around into a top rope Blockbuster (somersault neckbreaker) from KAOS! But Buddy Rogers clips KAOS' knee from behind when he started celebrating the move! But Rogers begs off when he comes face to face with a fuming Bruno Sammartino!!! With the roar of the crowd propelling him on, Sammartino hammers away on Rogers with combinations and flurries of blows. One humongous clothesline later, and Sammartino sends Buddy Rogers 360 degrees over the top rope to the arena floor! Sammartino starts jawing with Swagger, and MIZ sneaks behind a limping KAOS to strike! Skull Crushing Finale! 1-2-3! Miz just flattened "Rockstar" Joey KAOS! In a flash, the MIZ has stolen the match! Sammartino and Hyatt register their shock, surprise and ultimately, disappointment. Meanwhile, the Diamond Dynasty congregate on the entrance ramp and once again they've got something to crow about.
Winners: "NATURE BOY" BUDDY ROGERS and THE MIZ
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OUTRO
** XPW Remixed presents... "BAPTIZED in BLOOD"!!! Coming soon!!! **
12 HUGE MATCHES!!!
** Bruno Sammartino versus "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers (XPW Championship)
** The MIZ versus ROCKSTAR KAOS (XPW Television Championship)
** Primo Carnera versus Big Show (Boxing Match)
** PLUS the 8-man "Baptized in Blood" Tournament of Death!
And much much more!!! BUY THE MUTHAPHUCKKIN PPV!!!
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CREDITS:
"A GIANT CHALLENGE ANSWERED": The Strange Case of Carnera (by Jack Sher) Sport Magazine, Feb 1948
BIG SHOW: Baltimore Sun Interview 8/13/10
"THE OLYMPIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS": IBHOF Hall of Fame write-up
"DIRTY WHITE BOY" TONY ANTHONY: ClubWWI.com shoot interview: October 2009