Post by Slade on Jun 1, 2018 3:45:09 GMT -5
Season 2, Episode 30
From the Temple in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Commentary Team: Matt Striker and Vampiro
Ring Announcer: Melissa Santos
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The scene opens in a room that is pitch black save for a solitary beam of blue light descending from the middle of it. Footsteps are heard before the body of the Ultimate Warrior is scene standing under the light. He looks down at his hands and then up into the light where he offers up a report about his progress to the Omnipotent Power of the Warrior in a far away galaxy, then he repeats the message that is transmitted to him – some longwinded and nonsensical diatribe about the Ancient Gardens of Babylon and harnessing the powers of the entire Amazonia watershed – when the light starts to flicker, cutting his communications link, and disappears completely for a few moments before returning in the colour red.
Standing in the beam of light next to the Ultimate Warrior is Catrina, who tells the Ultimate Warrior that nothing that his greater power tells him can help him to defeat Cesaro because the only thing that can defeat a Superman is Kryptonite. He asks her what that is and he shows him the mystical rock retrieved from the rumble from which Pasqual Mendoza emerged as a child – the very same rock that she always holds in her hands and that grants Mil Muertes his powers. The Ultimate Warrior says he needs her Kryptonite, but Catrina says that he can’t have it. The Ultimate Warrior reaches out to grab it from her, but the light flickers and she vanishes. The light turns back to blue and the Ultimate Warrior tells the Omnipotent Power of the Warrior that the success of his mission depends upon him acquiring something known as Kryptonite.
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Mil Muertes defeated Shinsuke Nakamura by pinfall to earn a spot in the tournament semifinals. It was a contest that went back-and-forth. Nakamura tried to play head games with Mil Muertes but learned early on that it wasn’t so easy. He did his thing where rests his head on his opponent’s chest and dangles his arms, but Mil Muertes just hauled off and leveled him with a stiff right forearm to the side of the head, nearly collecting a victory in the process. The Man of a Thousand Deaths kept punishing Nakamura and threatened to put him away early, but the King of Strong Style sidestepped the Reaper’s Trident and came back with a variety of knee strikes and kicks. The advantage was traded a few more times untila quick sequence of near finishes ended with both luchadores knocking each other down when they simultaneously connected with a jumping knee lift and a hard uppercut under each other’s chins. After trading blows, Nakamura nailing Mil Muertes with a spin kick and then climbed to the second rope to hit a diving knee strike to the chest. He made the pin, but Mil Muertes kicked out, so Nakamura sets up for the Bomaye. Catrina held the stone high in the air, and just like that Mil Muertes, started to rise. Nakamura went for the move and Mil Muertes evaded it, and then planted Nakamura into the mat with a 180-degree spinning urinage. He followed that up with the Reaper’s Trident and then ended Nakamura’s night with a Flatliner directly onto the Ancient Aztec seal in the middle of the ring.
Following the match, as Catrina was stepping through the ropes, the Ultimate Warrior ripped the mystical stone out of her hands and ran off with it, much to the surprise and confusion of everyone in the Temple. Mil Muertes made chase once he saw him disappearing out of sight.
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The Patriot defeated Juventud Guerrera by pinfall to earn a spot in the tournament semifinals. The Patriot clearly outweighed and overpowered Guerrera. Even though Guerrera was fighting from behind, he found ways to keep it competitive. He’d find ways to make quick counters to The Patriot’s slower offence, thus allowing him to string together a series of rapid fire offensive maneuvers, but his bigger opponent always found a way to regain control. Even so, there were a few times when Guerrera nearly won the match, whether by countering a fireman’s carry with a crucifix pin, turning a powerbomb attempt into a victory roll, or executing a springboard hurricanrana. There was hope that Guerrera might win the match after he nailed a tornado DDT and a diving somersault leg drop in quick secession. The Patriot got a shoulder up, so Guerrera decided to climb the turnbuckle again. This time, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan held onto his leg to stop him from getting to the top. Psicosis and Super Crazy went to stop him, and Sgt. Slaughter decided to get involved, resulting in a brawl between the Real Americans and Mexicools. Meanwhile, The Patriot recovered, lunged into the ropes to crotch Guerrera on the top turnbuckle, then gave him a superplex and then the Uncle Sam Slam to win the match.
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Cesaro defeated the Ultimate Warrior by pinfall to earn a spot in the tournament semifinals. It is a result that shocked many of the Believers as Ultimate Warrior was a heavy favourite to make it to the finals. When he arrived in the ring, he had Mil Muertes and Catrina’s mystical stone in his hands and he seemed mesmerised by it. The referee asked him to put it away, but the Warrior seemed bothered by that, so much so that he shoved the referee down. When Cesaro tried to talk some sense into him, the Warrior uncharacteristically nailed him in head with the stone.
It was at this time that Mil Muertes entered the ring and brawled with the Warrior. Catrina snuck in and got the stone back. Mil Muertes whipped Warrior to the ropes and he knocked him down with a flying shoulder tackle. Then, he saw Catrina making a get away and ran after her. He pulled the stone out of her hands then turned just in time to see Mil Muertes lunging through the ropes at him with a topé suicida! However, the Warrior steps out of the way and Mil Muertes takes Catrina down! The Ultimate Warrior returned to the ring and the match was started. He started pulverizing Cesaro until he lifted him up into the gorilla press drop. As he dropped Cesaro, Mil Muertes struck him with the force of a freight train – nailing the Reaper’s Trident! He picked up the mystical stone and left the ring to tend to Catrina, whom he would carry out of the Temple.
Both combatants were seemingly done for and the referee was preparing to call the match off, but Dario Cueto said the fight must go on. When they were both to their feet, the Ultimate Warrior quickly overwhelmed Cesaro. However, shortly after Mil Muertes and Catrina were no longer in view, Cesaro seemed to find new legs. He fought back and gave the Warrior a battle the likes of which he’s rarely seen. In the end, when the Warrior tried to execute another gorilla press drop, Cesaro landed on his feet and hit the Warrior with a couple of massive European uppercuts, culminating with a discus European uppercut before pulling him in for the Neutralizer. The Warrior kicked out of the first one, so Cesaro gave him another one. He kicked out of that one as well. However, Cesaro persisted, and on the third one, he won the match.
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Prince Puma defeated Rey Mysterio Jr. by pinfall to earn a spot in the tournament semifinals. There was lots of electricity in the air for this showdown between two of the most exciting luchadores of all-time. The mentor and his protégé shook hands before they locked up, and from that moment on, they gave the Believers a contest that put on display the true meaning of lucha. The opening minutes of the bout were probably not what you would expect as they worked slow and deliberate, trying on a variety of holds, breaking free and putting their opponent in a hold of their own. There was plenty of counters and solid, crisp chain wrestling punctuated by brief moments of speed.
The pace quickened after Mysterio got to the ropes to break up a single-leg crab. Puma ran to the ropes and hit Mysterio with a basement dropkick to send him to the floor. Then he ran the ropes to go for a big move, but he flipped over the ropes and clung to the top rope with his arms as Mysterio slid back into the ring, under the ropes. When Puma turned around, Mysterio hit him with a rope assisted enzuigiri kick and then took Puma down with an over the ropes somersault seated senton bomb! That wouldn’t be the only exciting attack from the ring to the floor. At other times during the match, Puma performing a running second-rope springboard tope con hilo, Mysterio executed a springboard hurricanrana that sent Puma crashing into the front row, and Puma executed a running over-the-top-rope corkscrew moonsault plancha!
The match brought the Believers to their feet as they witnessed many failed pinfall and submission attempts, as well as a series of 2-count pinfall counters where the match may have ended but did not. At one point, Mysterio got Puma in position for the Six-One-Nine, but Puma moved out of the way and then Pele kicked Mysterio off the ring apron. Later, Puma attempted a 630 senton, but Mysterio got his knees up to defend against it. Mysterio executed the Mysterio Express to get a long 2-count. Not long thereafter, Puma executed a 2-point Benadryller that nearly won him the match. When Mysterio finally hit the Six-One-Nine, he went for the West Coast Pop, but Puma flipped through and landed on his feet and then gave Mysterio the Vertigo piledriver! He pinned him. 1…2… shoulder up! Puma was in disbelief while the Believers chanted “Holy Shit!” and followed it up with a “This is awesome!” chant.
Puma put Mysterio in position for another attempt at the 630 senton, but Mysterio got up and pulled on the top rope. They fought on the turnbuckle for a little bit before Mysterio executed a frankensteiner, which he then followed up with a perfect frog splash! 1…2… shoulder up! Now, Mysterio was in disbelief. Mysterio went out to the ring apron and set up for the West Coast Pop. When Puma got to his feet, he went for it, but Puma did a somersault evasion and then charged at Mysterio, who gave him a drop toehold into the ropes. Six-One-Nine! Mysterio tries for the West Coast Pop again and hits it, but upon hooking the legs, Puma reverses it into a sit-out pin that he holds just long enough for the 1…2…3!
At the end of the match, Puma and Rey shake hands and share in the celebration as the Believers give them a standing ovation. And that’s when the attack comes! Alberto El Patron, Eddie Guerrero, Perro Aguayo Jr., Héctor Garza, and Daga storm the ring and decimate the heroes. Fénix, Drago, and Aero Star come out to stop the assault, but it’s essentially a 5-on3 fight and the Latino World Order rules. After laying waste to the técnicos, the faction of rudos remains in the ring where Eddie Guerrero and Alberto El Patron take turns cutting promos in which they say that one of them should be headlining Ultima Lucha Dos and winning the Mash-Up Wrestling Men’s World Championship, but that they weren’t allowed into the tournament because, as Albero puts it, they don’t suck Dario Cueto’s **** like some of the other luchadores around here. Well, this isn’t going to end well for them. They won’t let these trators of la raza to find success. They will keep coming back again and again until the trators have been permanently removed from the Temple, and then Dario Cueto will be forced to turn it back over to them.
“Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! Hold on!”
Dario Cueto steps out of his office. He’s heard enough and he’s had enough of the LWO assaulting his biggest draws. Clearly, that time they put one over on Alberto and the LWO wasn’t embarrassing enough to send them make them go away forever, so Dario Cueto has an idea. He wants to know if Alberto is a gambling man because Dario Cueto likes to gamble, especially when the pay out is big, so he proposes that they make the ultimate gamble – Cueto’s entire Lucha Empire for the career of the Latino World Order when Rey Mysterio Jr., Prince Puma, Fénix, Drago and Aero Star face Alberto El Patron, Perro Aguayo Jr., Héctor Garza, Daga, and Eddie Guerrero in an Ultima Luchas de Apuestas match at Ultima Lucha Dos! Alberto immediately accepts the deal. Guerrero doesn’t seem too pleased with his decision, but the rest of the group is. And now, we have another huge match signed for Ultima Lucha Dos, just 4 short weeks away!
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We see a video montage of the The Patriot, Sgt. Slaughter and “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan defeating luchadors, one after another. The montage is paused on an image of Pentagon Jr., with his mask ripped open and his face a bloody mess, while he’s having the life drained out of him in Sgt. Slaughter’s Cobra Clutch. Then we see the President of the United States sitting at his desk in the Oval Office.
“You see! This is what I’m talking about! This is why I asked for your help! The fine collection of wrestlers you have found couldn’t be better. They are humiliating these underground fighters in a huge way! They’re sending the low-life rapists and drug dealers back to Mexico where they belong, and even keeping those inner-city gangbangers under foot where they belong. I’m bigly impressed! Keep up the good work.”
The voice on the other end of the phone says, “Thank you, Mr. President. I told you they’d get results. The Patriot, The Sarge and Hacksaw are going to flush all the undesirables out of Boyle Heights and retake the Temple in the name of the United States of America. And as they do, they’ll show all those so-called ‘Believers’ that there’s nothing cool about being a luchador. Together, I promise you that we’re going to MAKE WRESTLING GREAT AGAIN!”