Post by Slade on Jun 28, 2018 3:54:39 GMT -5
Season 2, Episode 33
From the Temple in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Commentary Team: Matt Striker and Vampiro
Ring Announcer: Melissa Santos
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Alberto El Patron, Eddie Guerrero, and other members of Latino World Order are sitting in a limosine, where Alberto expresses his displeasure with Latino Heat and refuses to go to the Temple for a match against Paige. It’s not that he’s afraid to face her. He’s convinced he can easily beat her. It’s that he believes it’s a trap. Guerrero says he needs to compete tonight or it’ll be 5-on-4 at Ultima Lucha Dos. Alberto can’t believe Guerrero agreed to those stipulations and berates him for being so self-serving. Guerrero takes umbrage at the thought, saying that any one of them would have done the same thing for a chance at the Lucha Underground Championship. Alberto says that is not their mission. First, they must vanquish all who oppose their vision of a Latino World Order in Mash-Up Wrestling. Then, they can take all the gold they want. Then he says that he’ll reluctantly go into the Temple for this match but tells everyone that they must be ready to counteract Dario Cueto’s trap.
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Bad News Brown defeated Dean Ambrose by pinfall. It was a rough brawl that saw both combatants spend as much time outside the ring as they did in it. Ambrose toppled Brown over with some topé suicidas and hit him with a stiff rebound clothesline after spinning around on the ring apron. Brown gave Ambrose a snap suplex on the hardwood bleachers and put Ambrose through a table with a powerbomb. Back in the ring, Ambrose flew off the turnbuckle and took Brown down with a diving elbow drop. He tried to follow it up with the Dirty Deeds DDT, but Brown shoved him back into the turnbuckles before giving him a piledriver. Not long thereafter, Brown gave Ambrose the Ghettoblaster and pinned him for the win.
After the match, Pentagon Jr., who appeared with a new look, stood behind Brown. When he turned around, Pentagon took him down with a pair of slingblades and then a package piledriver. It looked like he was going to break Brown’s arm. He had him in position, holding him at his wrist with his arm elongated, but then he uncharacteristically let him go. Brown scrambled out of the ring. Pentagon took a microphone and told Brown that he was lucky not to have his arm broken and said that he was letting him keep it because he was going to need it when he faced not Pentagon Jr. but Pentagon DARK – a new, transformed and far more dangerous Pentagon – in a Boyle Heights Street Fight! And after he shows the world how much better he is now that he is Pentagon DARK, Bad News Brown will have both his arms broken, because he is Pentagon DARK and he has Cero Miedo!
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Shinsuke Nakamura is seated in Dario Cueto’s office. A knock on the door interrupts their exchange of pleasantries. Cueto says it is open and in walks “Macho King” Randy Savage. Both Nakamura and Savage are surprised to see each other, and then unhappy. They are ready to come to blows, but Dario Cueto tells them to settle down or else he’ll not give them the unique opportunity to which he wishes to present them. They stop and listen as Cueto recalls how they’ve faced each other twice and each one has a win against the other, and says that because they have renewed their hostilities, he wants to give them one more match to see who is truly the best one out of the two of them. To make it worth their while, he is guaranteeing the winner an opportunity to challenge the champion of his choice on the first episode of Lucha Underground after Ultima Lucha Dos. They both agree to this final grudge match. But then, Cueto tells them one more thing, “By the way, your match is going to be inside of a steel cage!”
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Paige defeated Alberto El Patron by pinfall. At the beginning of the match, Alberto told Paige that she made a serious mistake by leaving him. He said she could have had everything, but now she would pay dearly for stabbing him in the back. Paige flipped him the patented Stone Cold Salute, which enraged Alberto. He attacked Paige and would not let up. It was not long before Alberto took Paige out to the floor where he intended to inflict more damage. He smashed a steel chair off her back a few times and rammed her into the ring post before sending her crashing into the front row seats. Paige got back into the match by sending her knee into Alberto’s crotch when he went to pick her up from the seats. She followed it up with a thrust kick to the jaw and a snap DDT. The Believers got firmly behind her as she mounted her comeback, which members of Los Perros del Mal eventually tried to thwart. Their Ultima Lucha Dos opponent showed up to brawl with them. Noticeably absent from all this was Eddie Guerrero. In the end, Paige vanquished her former lover when he found a fluorescent light tube under the ring and threatened to use it on her. Rey Mysterio Jr. grabbed it to stop him. Alberto was able to knock Mysterio off the ring apron, and then turn to swing it at Paige, who ducked, nailed him with a pair of thrust kicks, then smashed the tube over his head, before giving him the Paige-Turner to finish him off.
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Dario Cueto starts dialing a number on his phone when suddenly the lights in his office begin to flicker off and on. Then, Catrina is there. Cueto hangs up the phone, and although he is behind him, he knows who it is and says that he’s been expecting her. Catrina says that must mean that he knows what she wants. He says he thinks he does. She wants Mil Muertes to have a match with Ultimate Warrior at Ultima Lucha Dos. Yes, but she says, she doesn’t want just any match. She wants it to be a Grave Consequences match because she wants to burry the Ultimate Warrior alive! Cueto loves the idea and agrees to let her have exactly what she wants. The lights flicker again, signalling Catrina’s exit. After she’s gone, Cueto picks up the phone and begins to dial it again.
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Paul Heyman, the advocate for the former Mash-Up Wrestling World Men’s Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar, makes an unannounced appearance in the Temple. He comes to the ring to deliver a message from his client to Samoa Joe, a message he had to deliver in the very ring in which they’ll face one another at Ultima Lucha Dos because Lesnar wants the Believers to hear it.
If Joe thinks that defeating two luchadors at once, as he did a few weeks ago, impresses or intimidates Brock Lesnar, then there is clear evidence that Joe suffered brain damage to such a degree that he probably shouldn’t step in the ring every again, but because he’s now too dumb to realize it, he’s going to it anyway. So this is a wake up call for Samoa Joe: Brock Lesnar isn’t afraid of you; you have severe brain damage; and Brock Lesnar is the Beast that gave it to you; and Brock Lesnar isn’t afraid of you; you are putting yourself in extreme danger because Brock Lesnar isn’t afraid of you; because, again, Brock Lesnar isn’t afraid of you and he put you in a coma and gave you brain damage, and he isn’t afraid to do it again.
And Heyman says he’s a compassionate man who wants to look out for the best interests of Samoa Joe, which means that he’s giving him this one warning: he’s been watching Brock Lesnar train and he believes that Brock Lesnar is deadlier than ever, which means that Samoa Joe has one chance to back out of this thing. If he were Joe, Heyman says he’d not show up at Ultima Lucha Dos, because if he does, he won’t try to stop his client from doing what he does best, which is to harm people. And if Joe shows up, Heyman guarantees he’ll be harmed, permanently!
Much to everyone’s surprise, Samoa Joe comes out, enters the ring and tells Paul Heyman that his mind works as well as it ever has. He knows what he’s getting himself into. He has wanted this ever since the moment he woke up in that hospital bed. He won’t back out of his match with Lesnar and he won’t back down from Lesnar. He’s going to conquer Lesnar, and he wants Heyman to know exactly how he’s going to do it, so he can deliver the message with the right tone and emotion. Joe grabs Heyman and chokes him out with the Coquina Clutch! Once he’s out, Joe releases him and says that at Ultima Lucha Dos, Brock Lesnar’s going to die!
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Cesaro defeated Prince Puma by pinfall to earn the right to challenge Braun Strowman for the MUW Men’s World Championship Title at Ultima Lucha Dos. This was a closely contested match that easily brought the Believers to their feet and had them chanting for “Prince Puma” “Cesaro” “lucha” and “both these guys!”
It featured a little bit of everything, beginning with the slow and methodical exchange of holds. The Swiss Superman may be seen as the better of the two in this department, but Prince Puma kept pace and countered enough not to look outmatched. Likewise, in those moments when the luchadors took to the air, Prince Puma was the more exciting combatant, but Cesaro showed he was up to the challenge. For instance, Puma gave Cesaro a topé con hilo and an over the top rope somersault corkscrew moonsault plancha, while Cesaro responded with a slingshot corckscrew plancha and a tope suicida with an added European uppercut. Halfway through the match there was a sequence of multiple 2-count pinfalls that were kicked out of and otherwise reversed, featuring crucifix, la magistral, small package, bridged, and backslide pinfall variations, among others. Puma showed off his power with a northern lights suplex transitioned into a deadlift hanging vertical suplex and later a cartwheel fireman’s carry lifted up and into a death valley driver, while Cesaro showed off his power by superplexing Puma into the ring from the ring apron and later giving him five rolling gutwrench suplexes!
The intensity increased as both luchadors showed the will and determination to succeed. Neither one willing to let the ultimate prize slip through their fingers. This was exemplified by Prince Puma kicking out of the Neutralizer and refusing to submit to a crossface applied immediately after a failed 630-senton attempt in which he landed on Cesaro’s knees. Cesaro would pull Puma away from the rope and switch from the crossface to the sharpshooter. It looked dire for Puma, but he found the strength to counter into his own sharpshooter and then pull Cesaro out of reach of the ropes and turn it into an inverted STF. Cesaro eventually made the rope break, but it didn’t look like he would. This wasn’t the only example of Cesaro refusing to give up as he would end up on the receiving end of a Benadryller 2-point and shoulder out of the ensuing pinfall with about a fraction of a second to spare.
The end of the match finally came when Puma put Cesaro in position for the 630-senton. He was slow to climb the turnbuckles after a long, grueling battle lasting over 30-minutes. Cesaro got off the mat and pulled on the bottom rope, causing Puma to get crotched on the top turnbuckle. Then, Cesaro went to the top rope. After a dramatic fist fight and exchange of headbutts with both men standing on the top rope, Cesaro did the unimaginable by executing a Spanish fly! Then, he jumped right up to his feet and lifted Puma into a Neutralizer before rolling him over and falling on top of him with his last ounce of strength. 1…2…3!
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