Post by Slade on Feb 11, 2018 9:20:37 GMT -5
Season 2, Episode 18
From the Temple in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Commentary Team: Matt Striker and Vampiro
Ring Announcer: Melissa Santos
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Fénix, Aero Star & Drago defeated Paul London, Saltador & Mala Suarte by pinfall. This match got the Believers pumped up early on as everyone took to the air with bodies flying from the ring and landing on those outside of it. Both teams were cheered on by the Believers, and they both aimed to please them at every turn. However, only one time could come out ahead and the new super trio of Fénix, Aero Star & Drago was too much for the Rabbit Tribe to handle on this night. London went Down the Rabbit Hole on Aero Star, but he was quickly attacked by Drago, who knocked him out of the ring and gave him a tope suicida to take him out. Meanwhile, Fénix took out Saltador with a springboard corkscrew tope con hilo. Mala Suarte attempted to finish off Aero Star, but the luchador from El Cosmos countered a tilt-a-whirl power maneuver into the Déjà vu double tilt-a-whirl headscissors takedown and then executed a Mexican Destroyer on him to pick up the win for his team.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is working out in the Lucha Underground fitness facility when “Macho King” Randy Savage enters the room and sees him practicing his hand and foot strikes on a punching bag. Savage interrupts, making a point to note that Nakamura is referred to as the “King of Strong Style,” before telling him that there’s only room for one king in this Temple and that’s him. Nakamura is not phased by the threat, even though Savage mentions how he knocked Cesaro off his pedestal and says he’ll do the same to him if he doesn’t abandon his phony claims of royalty. Nakamura tells him that he earned the name and he’d be happy to show him how he earned it in a match next week. Savage promises to teach his new “royal” nemesis some respect and he’ll force him to bow down to the true king of lucha!
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The Miz defeated Beth Phoenix by pinfall to retain the Gift of the Gods. It was the same old story in this match as it has been in nearly everyone of The Miz’s matches. His opponent, in this case “The Glamazon,” looked better in the ring and appeared to be on the verge of victory before The Miz received an assist from “Classy” Freddie Blassie, in this case reaching into the ring to trip Phoenix as she bounced off the ropes, that turned the tide of the match. After Phoenix’s face smacked hard into the canvas, The Miz ran over to deliver a running high knee takedown and then the Skull Crushing Finale to get the win.
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The Patriot is seen in the middle of a large crowd, attending a Make America Great Again rally. President Donald Trump is behind a podium on stage doing his thing: talking about his billions and billions, raging against the fake news media, and talking about the evil plots against America, which on this night are free trade, Iran, Little Rocket Man, and chain migration. The Patriot suddenly reaches into his pocket and pulls a phone out of it. He looks at a new incoming message from an unidentified number. The message reads, “The President is upset at how embarrassing your wrestling match was last week. He has a short fuse and has lost complete confidence in you. I know you better than that and have bought you some time. But you only have one chance to fix this. Don’t screw up again. You need to make lucha great again or else you’re fired.”
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Mil Muertes defeated Dean Ambrose by pinfall. This was an intense battle as there are few luchadores as feared as the man of a thousand deaths and perhaps fewer still that are as unstable as the “Lunatic Fringe.” When you have someone who knows no limits to dole out pain and punishment in the ring with someone who doesn’t know when to quit, you have the recipe for an extreme war throughout the Temple, and that is what the fans were treated to. Ambrose took crazy risks, like hitting multiple suicide dives on Mil Muertes, at one point flinging him into the concrete stairs. He also gave him a tornado DDT onto the arena floor and delivered a diving elbow drop onto a standing Mil Muertes from the railing of a high-rise bleacher that dropped him into a pile of thumbtacks on the Temple floor. Mil Muertes countered by spearing Ambrose into the wooden chairs at ringside, powerbombing him through a table, and unscrewing a bottom rope turnbuckle and driving it into Ambrose’s forehead, busting him open the hard way! It was a match where both luchadores should have maybe not kicked out of a few different pinfalls, but did so anyhow. The match ultimately ended with Mil Muertes blocking a Dirty Deeds DDT attempt into a bed of steel chairs and countering with the Flatliner!
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Ultimo Dragon meets with Dario Cueto to make his case for why a shot at the Lucha Underground Championship. Cueto hears him out and agrees with him that Alberto El Patron treated him unfairly and that he deserves the opportunity to regain a title that he should not have had to defend against 20 other luchadores at once. Therefore, next week, Ultimo Dragon will get his chance to regain the Lucha Underground Champion. However, Cueto tells him not to expect to regain the title because his brother Matanza is unlike anyone he’s ever faced or ever will face again.
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Brock Lesnar defeated Kurt Angle by pinfall in this Wrestlemania XIX main event rematch. It was a classic battle between the former MMA world champion and the Olympic wrestling gold medalist. Paul Heyman was on the verge of cardiac arrest as his prize fighter was nearly pinned for the win after receiving the Angle Slam. Later on, Lesnar came back and executed the F-5, but Angle kicked out. Angle trapped Lesnar in the anklelock and applied a leg grapevine to keep him from crawling to the ropes, but it didn’t work. The Beast Incarnate showed that he is freak of nature by pushing up and pulling Angle’s full body weight with him to the ropes. Later, Lesnar applied the kimura lock, but Angle miraculously made it to the ropes to force a rope break.
What ultimately ended up being Angle’s undoing was Famous B, who has been cheering on Angle and trying to get him to become his first client for several weeks. Famous B and the Beautiful Brenda came to the ring to cheer him on early on in the match. When Lesnar lifted Angle into a fireman’s carry to go for his second F-5 of the match, Famous B got on the ring apron to distract the referee. Heyman was upset and got on the ring apron to argue with him. The argument prevented the referee from seeing Angle break free and execute a second Angle Slam. Angle went over to get the referee’s attention and to tell Heyman and Famous B to go away. When he pinned Lesnar, the Beast Incarnate kicked out. After rolling away from Angle’s high risk moonsault attempt, Lesnar gave him the F-5 and pinned him to get the win.
After the match, Famous B and the Beautiful Brenda entered the ring to check on Angle. Once he had come to, Angle was pissed off about losing the match, and refused Famous B’s apologies, instead giving him the Angle Slam!
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