ULTIMA LUCHA TRES – PART TWOFrom the Temple in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Commentary Team: Matt Striker and Vampiro
Ring Announcer: Melissa Santos
***
VS. NO MAS MATCH
Rosemary vs. Sexy Star THE SET UP
Sexy Star was once an heroic luchadora that was motivated to fight for all those who were told they were too ugly, or that they were neither good enough or strong enough to achieve anything. She wanted to inspire the Believers by showing them that anything was possible. She accomplished her goal and more when she won the Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling Women’s Championship, a title whose lineage predated AGPW and that later became the Mash-Up Wrestling Women’s World Championship. Over time, Sexy Star seemed to forget this. Whether it was the pressure and the fame of being on top, or her frustration at no longer being on top, she started doing unethical things to try to win matches and attacked any luchador that beat her. Then, in Season 3, Episode 6, after newcomer Courtney Rush took control of the match, Sexy Star went loco. She hit her with multiple chairs and split her head open. Then, she made her submit to a cross-arm breaker. However, it wasn’t enough to get the win. She wouldn’t release the hold and ended up seriously injuring Rush. Many weeks later, after healing up, Rush returned to Lucha Underground as Rosemary. The sinister behaviour of Sexy Star influenced Rush to transform into his sinister alter ego. However, Rosemary seems to be on a mission to make an example of her transgressor. Sexy Star successfully ducked Rosemary all season long but couldn’t do it any longer. And now, she must face the luchadora that she victimized in a match that won’t end until one of them quits.
THE MATCH
This match began with Sexy Star using her speed to take Rosemary down with arm drags, leg whips and tilt-a-whirl headscissors, and knocking her down with flying forearms and dropkicks. Her speed had Rosemary bailing to the outside early. Sexy Star followed with a plancha and tried to get the Believers to cheer for her, but it didn’t work. They booed relentlessly. In response, she shouted at them and then went looking for weapons to use against Rosemary. Sexy Star tried to hit her with it, but Rosemary blocked her swing, took the chair, kicked her in the abdomen and cracked her on the back with it. She threw the chair down and then gave Sexy Star a snap suplex on the floor. A brawl around ringside ensued. More chairs were used as weapons. Sexy Star was thrown into the wooden chairs at ringside. Rosemary was given a DDT on the floor. The action was violent and intense in the early going.
When the action went back into the ring, Rosemary was in control. She gave Sexy Star a pendulum backbreaker and a side Russian legsweep, followed by a flying elbow drop. After that, she attempted to win the match with a Boston crab. Sexy Star refused to give up and eventually pulled herself over to the ropes and under them to break the hold. After an eye rake, Sexy Star came back into the ring with a tornado DDT. Then, she threw Rosemary into the turnbuckles and put the boots to her until she was down in the seated position on the mat. Then, she gave her a broncobuster. After that, she pulled Rosemary into the center of the ring and applied a figure-four leglock. After a while, Rosemary turned it over to reverse the pressure, causing Sexy Star to scramble for the ropes and out to the ring apron again.
She escaped to the outside, and when Rosemary came out to meet her, she greeted her with a kendo stick that whacked her with multiple times. She put a table into the ring and tossed a trashcan full of goodies into the ring. Some time later, Sexy Star put Rosemary on the table and went for a splash, but Rosemary put her knees up and blocked it. Then, she picked up Sexy Star and put her through the table with the Red Wedding! After that, she applied a cross-face, but Sexy Star got her free hand on a brick and threw it at Rosemary’s head, getting her to release the hold. When they got up, Sexy Star gave her a superkick to knock Rosemary off her feet. Sexy Star grabbed the trashcan and waited for Rosemary to get up. She approached and lifted it up to cave in on her skull but Rosemary spat red mist at Sexy Star, then she gave her an exploder suplex that sent her into the corner. She put the trashcan in front of Sexy Star’s body, climbed a different turnbuckle and went Coast to Coast into the trashcan! After that, Rosemary rolled out of the ring and put her in a figure four leglock around the turnbuckle post. This was a move that Sexy Star could neither break nor escape, leading her finally to say,
“No Mas!”THE RESULT
WINNER : ROSEMARY ***
VS. CERO MIEDO MATCH
Pentagon DARK vs. Kevin Owens THE SET UP
When Pentagon Jr. first entered the Temple, he was a kid who claimed to have no fear. Unbeknownst to everyone, he caught the eye of Vampiro, who secretly brought him under his tutelage in the dark arts of lucha libre. Earlier this season, we learned that Vampiro was mentored by “Classy” Freddie Blassie, who was a manager who retired from lucha due his advanced age. Vampiro brought his old mentor to the “fountain of youth” and when Blassie returned, he appeared to have last about 25 years and he returned as a combatant. Pentagon DARK, as he now refers to himself, had become a confident luchador who felt he has mastered the dark arts. Unimpressed with his brash attitude, Blassie kicked him out of his darn order and took on a new student of the dark arts – Kevin F’n Owens. Pentagon DARK became obsessed with proving his mastery of the dark arts and getting revenge against Blassie. That obsession led to them having a steel cage match, where Owens interferfered to help Blassie win. A lengthy grudge was held by Pentagon DARK, who kept a low profile for a short time before coming back after his transgressors, which has led to this brutally violent grudge match between Vampiro’s former pupil and Blassie’s current pupil.
THE MATCH
Pentagon has been dying to get his hands on Kevin Owens for a long time, so he came strong out of the gate. He punched and chopped Owens multiple times before running to the ropes. Owens got off the ropes, stepped out to the middle of the ring and immediately gave Pentagon a pop-up powerbomb! 1…2… kick out! Owens nearly won the match in under 30 seconds. Executing his signature powerbomb right away gave Owens a distinct advantage. He slowed the pace, working on cutting Pentagon’s air with headlocks that he would break to kick or execute a power move to Pentagon’s back before re-applying them. After executing some snap suplexes and then a sidewinder suplex, Owens took Pentagon into the corner and gave him a cannonball, then climbed onto the turnbuckle and executed a KO Bomb that got him another two count. After that, he went back to the headlock.
Pentagon broke the headlock and sent Owens running into the ropes. He ran right behind him and connected with a dropkick that sent Owens into the ropes and out to the floor. Moments later, Pentagon landed a topé con hilo. Now, Pentagon appeared to be getting some his swagger back. He chopped Owens and then ripped his t-shirt open while leaning him against the ring apron to give him a loud open palm strike. Pentagon turned Owen’s exposed chest beet red with a few more open palm strikes. Then, he chopped him down to size with some running soccer kicks kicks to the calves. Once he had Owens down on all fours, He jumped up and gave him a double-foot stomp to the back. Pentagon took this opportunity to throw a garden variety of weapons into the ring, and slid a pair of tables in. When he went to grab Owens, he got a big uppercut and a lariat to knock him down. Then, He received a powerbomb on the side of the ring apron!
Owens sent Pentagon back into the ring and began to do damage with the weapons that were placed in there. He hit Pentagon with a steel chair a few times, then placed it on top of him and performed a senton into the chair. After a momentary pause, Owens pinned Pentagon for a 2-count. He opened some chairs, when he went to pick up Pentagon, he received some chops, but then he buried a knee into his abdomen and set up for a vertical suplex. Pentagon blocked the maneuver, jabbed at his ribs and then dropped Owens into the chairs with a release forward-falling suplex. As he didn’t go through the chairs, Pentagon decided to try something else. He left him there and went to the top rope. Owens got up and pet him up top. They traded punches until Pentagon gave Owes a headbutt, then slide down between Owens and the turnbuckles. He tried to give him a powerbomb, but Owens held onto the top rope. Then he drove elbows into Pentagon’s head and kicked him away. Owens turned around on the turnbuckle and Pentagon superkicked his knee to keep him from getting up to the top. Pentagon climbed the turnbuckle but was then sent through the open bed of steel chairs with an avalanche fisherman’s buster! Owens pinned for 2-count.
Owens picked up Pentagon and gave him an Argentine neckbreaker. He pinned him and Pentagon kicked out. Owens lifted him into the air with an electric chair and dropped him into a sit-out facebuster. He pinned him and Pentagon kicked up. Then, Owens gave Pentagon a package piledriver onto a chair. He held him down for the pin but Pentagon still kicked out. Frustration was showing on Owens’ face as he opened a table and set it up. He put Pentagon on the table and climbed the turnbuckle. He went for a Bullfrog Splash, but Pentagon got off the table and Owens went through it!
Pentagon started a comeback with three slingblades. He lifted Owens into the air and gave him a powerbomb onto his knee. Then, he grabbed a steel chair and whacked at Owens with it a few times. After that, Pentagon picked him up, lifted him into a gorilla press and gave him a double knee gutbuster. He pinned Owens for the first time. Owens kicked out at two. Pentagon found a bag of thumbtacks and emptied it onto the canvas. Then, he opened the other table above the tacks. After that, he gave Owens some thunderous open palm strikes, and then some running soccer kicks to the calves. Once he was down to his knees, Pentagon gave him a superkick right to the face. He picked up Owens and placed him on the table. Pentagon went out to climb the turnbuckle. Owens got up and lunged into the ropes to trip him up. He went up to the top rope and tried to set up for the superplex, but Pentagon blocked and knocked Owens down to the mat with some headbutts. Pentagon got back to a standing position on the top turnbuckle, and as soon as Owens did the same on the mat, he jumped off and executed a Mexican destroyer through the table and into the tacks! He made the pin. 1…2… kick out!
Pentagon couldn’t believe it. He needed to do something else. He went outside the ring and brought another table out and opened it up on the floor. He found a cannister of fuel and emptied it out on the table. Then he produced a lighter and set it ablaze. He went back into the ring to get Owens, who gave him an enzuigiri kick. When they both got up, they traded a few blows until Owens fired off a pair of superkicks, the first to stun him, and the second to knock him out to the ring apron. Then, Owens went out and prepared to give him a powerbomb through the burning table. However, Pentagon had his arm hooked around the middle rope. Owens gave him some hard forearms to the back to get him to let go. Then he lifted him up for the powerbomb, but Pentagon punched him a few times and then gave him an eye-rake. Pentagon held onto the top rope and flipped over the ropes to safety. Then, he came back out to ring apron. Owens tried to superkick him, but Pentagon leaned away from it and gave him a superkick. After two more staggering superkicks, Pentagon made his
Cero Miedo! hand gesture and then gave him a Fear Factor (package piledriver) through the burning table!
After Pentagon recovered, he picked up Owens and rolled him into the ring. He picked up one of the steel chairs in the ring and placed it on his chest. Then, he climbed the turnbuckle and executed a diving double foot stomp! He pinned him. 1…2…3!
THE RESULT
WINNER : PENTAGON DARK ***
VS. MUW WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE MATCH
Asuka vs. Taya Valkyrie THE SET UP
Taya Valkyrie earned the opportunity to challenge Asuka for the Mash-Up Wrestling Women’s World Championship Title by emerging victorious at the end of the Dario Cueto Luchadora’s Cup tournament. She didn’t have an easy road to winning the 8-luchadora tournament, as she had to score pinfall or submission victories over Sexy Star, Awesome Kong, and Shayna Baszler to get here. This championship title match represents the biggest opportunity of her Mash-Up Wrestling career.
THE MATCH
The match opened up with some grappling that led to hammerlocks, headlocks, wristlocks, and other holds, that were reversed, escaped, re-applied, and reversed, escaped and re-applied again. Taya kept up with the more technically proficient Women’s World Champion until she was sent running into the ropes and dropped with a jumping hip attack. Asuka immediately went for a senton bomb, but Taya rolled out of the way and then rolled back over to make a crucifix pin that Asuka easily kicked out of. Asuka went for a roundhouse kick, but Taya leaned out of the way, got up and tried for a superkick, but Asuka stepped to the side and then went for the Asuka Lock, but Taya quickly got to the ropes to force a break, and then escaped to the floor to halt Asuka’s momentum.
When she climbed back on the ring apron, Asuka went for a running hip attack through the ropes, but Taya climbed jumped down. She tripped up the champion and pulled her out of the ring, tying her up in the ring apron. With Asuka trapped there, Taya light into her with knee strikes, knife-edge chops and then a couple of superkicks to put Asuka out on her feet. When Taya freed her from the apron, she rolled her into the ring. Asuka crawl towards the corner, but that gave her no respite. Taya ran in with a double-knee attack and then dragged her out of the corner and made the pin. Asuka kicked out at two. Taya brought Asuka to her feet and tried to go for a northern lights suplex, but Asuka blocked and reversed it into a swinging neckbreaker.
Asuka stomped away at her and delivered a diving elbow to the back of Taya’s neck. She covered her and got a 2-count. Asuka picked up Taya and gave her a double-knee facebreaker and then gave her a double chickenwing sitdown drop. She pinned her but only got a 2-count. Then, she immediately applied an ankle lock. Taya scrambled for the ropes, but Asuka managed to keep her away from them all. Taya then flipped over and broke the hold with some kicks to the face. She got up and hobbled out of the way of another running hip attack and then hit Asuka with a superkick. 1…2… kick out! Taya picked up Asuka and gave her a bridging northern lights suplex. She rolled through and then gave her a jumping double-foot stomp. She pinned Asuka again, and again she only got a 2-count. Taya brought Asuka back to her feet and set up for a powerbomb. She lifted Asuka into the air and Asuka countered it into a sit-out facebuster.
Asuka got up quicker than Taya could and then nailed her with a roundhouse kick as she was trying to get up. Then she waited as Taya tried to get up and put her in the Asuka Lock. She got her down to the mat and trapped her in the bodyscissors. After about ten seconds, and with no way out of the hold, Taya tapped out.
THE RESULT
WINNER : ASUKA ***
VS. VS. VS. VS. VS. VS. LADDER MATCH FOR THE GIFT OF THE GODS
Andrade Cien Almas vs. Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. John Cena vs.
Johnny Mundo vs. Mike Awesome vs. Mustafa Ali vs. Will Ospreay THE SET UP
Prince Puma was the last luchador to hold the Gift of the Gods. He turned it in to Antonio Cueto to get his shot at the Lucha Underground Championship, which he is set to receive in our main event later tonight. The seven luchadores appearing in this match each earned one of the seven Ancient Aztec Medallions representing the seven ancient Aztec tribes. Putting the medallions together creates the Gift of the Gods. The winner of this match will get this prestigious title, putting them in a position to challenge for the Lucha Underground Championship whenever they feel like the time is right.
THE MATCH
It started out with all seven luchadores brawling. Slowly, the ring bega to clear, leaving Ali and Cena alone. Ali attempted a clothesline and missed. Then, he received a spin-out powerbomb from Cena, who then sidestepped an attack from Ospreay and gave him a spin-out powerbomb. With both luchadores down, Cena signaled to the Believers that neither of them could see him and he ran to the ropes. He was tripped up and pulled out of the ring by Awesome, who rained thunderous blows down on him. Cena and Awesome were then taken down by Almas with a springboard corkscrew plancha. Next, Dr. Wagner Jr. made the three of them go down with a plancha from the top turnbuckle. Then, Ali sent the pile down by executing a springboard shooting star press. Ospreay capped the air show with a Sasuke Special (cartwheel over-the-top-rope corkscrew moonsault)!
Mundo was the only luchador left standing. Instead of looking to pile on, he did the smartest thing one could do in a ladder match: collect a ladder, take it into the ring, open it up, and climb it. He was soon intercepted by Ospreay with a springboard forearm smash to the back of the neck. Once off the ladder, Ospreay and Mundo traded offense and defense until finally barreled them both over with diving double clotheslines. Awesome closed up the ladder and was the first luchador to use it as a weapon. He held it pressed against his chest and charged at everyone who dared enter the ring. He sent bodies flying and crashed back outside the ring. This continued until Almas executed a springboard dropkick into the ladder to topple Awesome over.
There were a few more minutes of action before the second attempt to scale a ladder occurred. Ospreay put up a ladder and tried climbing it. With some luchadores brawling outside and others knocked down for the time being, this brought Famous B into the ring. The star agent of Mike Awesome and Dr. Wagner Jr., who had been trying to recruit Ospreay for months, pulled Ospreay down to prevent him from getting to the top of the ladder. Not long thereafter, Famous B received an OsCutter as payback. Ospreay looked to have clear path to the top again, but Wagner connected with a missile dropkick to his lower back to knock him off the ladder. Then, he gave Ospreay the Wagner Driver. When Wagner tried to make it to the top, he was met at the top by Cena. They traded punches. Cena eventually won the exchange and knocked him off the ladder. Wagner was quick to start getting up, so Cena jumped off the ladder and gave him a leg drop to the back of the neck!
As the action continued, the spots involving ladders began to take a greater toll on those who were on the receiving end. For instance, Cena gave Ali the Attitude Adjustment onto a ladder. Mundo gave Ospreay the Moonlight Driver onto a ladder. Later, with Awesome’s body stuck between two ladders, and Cena laid out on top of them, Ospreay executed a diving corkscrew 540-degree senton bomb onto them! Almas executed a springboard moonsault into a standing moonsault onto Wagner while he was laid out on a ladder. Ali gave Mundo a Spanish Fly from the top turnbuckle onto a ladder. Wagner gave Cena the Wagner Driver onto a ladder. And, perhaps, worst of all, Awesome gave Ali a reverse-facing sit-out powerbomb off the top rope onto a ladder in the middle of the ring!
After all that carnage, Awesome put up a ladder with the intention of climbing it, but Almas’ manager, Zelina Vega, stopped him from climbing it by climbing to the top turnbuckle and giving him a diving hurricanrana. With move, however, got her a Death Valley driver from Wagner, who then began his ascent. Ospreay jumped onto the opposite side of the ladder after springboarding off the ropes and met Wagner at the top. The two rivals engaged in a fist fight. Each of them came close to winning it, but they both held on for dear life and managed to fire back at their opponent. The drama was ended when Cena shoved the ladder over. Wagner got a hangman on the top rope and then the Attitude Adjustent. Meanwhile, Ospreay ended up going over the top rope and crashing through a table outside the ring!
Cena began climbing the ladder, but Awesome was back in the ring. He pulled Cena down and the two heavyweights began trading bombs. Awesome appeared to get the better of the exchange. He went for a running big boot, but Cena ducked it and then gave him a spin-out powerbomb. Next, he signaled that he couldn’t be seen and performed the Five-Knuckle Shuffle. Then, Cena picked up Awesome and gave him an Attitude Adjustment. The moment Cena got up, Mundo was waiting and blasted him with a superkick. He then bodyslammed Cena on a ladder in the corner and gave him Starship Pain onto it! Mundo began climbing the ladder. About half way up, Almas took him off the ladder by executing a springboard backstabber! When Almas got up, Cena was waiting to give him a leaping shoulder block. Almas sidestepped it and Cena’s shoulder banged into the ladder. Almas quickly took advantage, giving him the armringer into a rear wristlock, but before he could finish him off with La Sombra, Cena countered with a northern lights suplex. Then, he picked up Almas and gave him the Attitude Adjustment onto a ladder. Cena had a clear path to the top. He climbed to the top of the ladder and unhooked the Gift of the Gods tin win the match and the championship.
THE RESULT
WINNER : JOHN CENA ***
THE SET UP
Mil Muertes was the runner-up of the Dario Cueto Luchador’s Cup. He lost in the finals to Samoa Joe. To get to the finals, he won a semi-final tournament match against three other luchadores, one of whom was Roman Reigns. Although he was not pinned, Reigns apparently took the loss poorly. This became clear a few weeks later when Mil Muertes was granted a Lucha Underground Championship match against “Macho King” Randy Savage. Reigns attacked Mil Muertes, costing him the champion and the championship title. Consequently, Catrina asked Antonio Cueto for this match as a way of getting his revenge and to show any other luchador who might think that it is a very bad idea to mess with the Man of a Thousand Deaths.
THE MATCH
It was a full on fist fight to start this match, which was followed by whips and clotheslines to knock each other down. The big power moves came out quickly with Mil Muertes giving Reigns a snap powerslam, and moments later, Reigns giving Mil Muertes a Samoan drop. Mil Muertes escaped to the outside. Reigns followed him out and whipped him into the retaining wall of the high-rise bleachers and then served him up a Superman Punch. Reigns went to retrieve Mil Muertes coffin, but he gave Reigns some elbows to the abdomen and then slammed his face off the coffin lid. Then, Mil Muertes asked for the Believers to clear out before giving Reigns a running hip toss into the second row of wooden chairs at ringside. Muertes took one of these wooden chairs and smacked it off Reigns’ back twice before giving him a suplex on the floor. Then, Mil Muertes went to retrieve Reigns’ coffin and brought it over to the side of the ring. When he turned around, Reigns charged at Mil Muertes and speared him into the side of the coffin!
They continued to brawl around ringside for a few a little while longer. Reigns took Mil Muertes into the seat of Believers. They brawled up into the section of hardwood bleachers where Reigns gave Mil Muertes a sidewalk slam and then a Drive-By. As Reigns took Mil Muertes higher up into the Temple, Mil Muertes took a beer bottle from one of the Believers and smashed it over Reigns’ head, opening up a cut near his hairline. Then, Mil Muertes picked up Reigns and gave him a uranage slam on the hardwood bleachers. Their brawl would continue up along the mezzanine and then down a flight of metal stairs with Mil Muertes kicked Reigns until he went tumbling down half a flight. At the bottom of the stairs, Mil Muertes gave Reigns a few punches and one closed fist hook to the side of the jaw that appeared to knock him out cold. Mil Muertes fished a table and some metal folding chairs out from under the ring and placed them in it. When he went to pick up Reigns, he got a head butt and then a single-arm DDT. Reigns took Mil Muertes over to his coffin and banged his head off it. Then, he lifted Mil Muertes up onto it and climbed onto the ring apron. He went for a big leg drop, but Mil Muertes moved and Reigns’ leg caught hid nothing but metal. Getting back up, Mil Muertes pushed the coffin on wheels into Reigns to knock him back down. When Reigns got up, Mil Muertes gave him the Reaper’s Trident spear through the entrance of Atonio Cueto’s office! They took the door right off its hinges!
Mil Muertes finally brought Reigns back into the ring. He picked up Reigns and set up for a Flatliner into the seat of an opened chair, but Reigns gave him some back elbows to the back of the head and then dropkicked Mil Muertes off his feet. When they got up, they exchanged punches until Mil Muertes backed Reigns into the corner. He went for a whip, but Reigns reversed it and followed him into the corner with a running clothesline. Then, he gave him a full 10-count worth of repeated clotheslines before picking him up onto his shoulders and dropping him through the open chair with a Samoan drop. After that, Reigns left the ring to retrieve Mil Muertes’ coffin and brough over to the side of the ring. He opened it up and then tried to drag Mil Muertes into the coffin, but Mil Muertes blocked getting shoved into it. He got to his feet and delivered a stiff right hand to Reigns’ jaw. Then, he went over and started climbing the turnbuckle. Reigns met him on top of the turnbuckle and after a short battle, successfully executed a superplex onto a pile of steel chairs in the center of the ring!
Reigns dragged Mil Muertes over to his coffin again and this time kicked him in. However, when he tried to shut the lid , Mil Muertes pushed back and successfully blocked it from being shut in on him. He grabbed Reigns in a chokehold and sat up. As Mil Muertes made it to his feet, Reigns kicked him below the belt to break the chokehold. Mil Muertes fell over and off the ring apron. Reigns went back into the ring and went about standing the table up on its legs. He left the ring to get Mil Muertes, who responded with another stiff closed fist to the jaw. Mil Muertes knocked his coffin off the gurney wheels and then after trading a few more blows with Reigns, got him in a chokehold and gave him a 180-degree chokeslam onto the coffin. After that, he picked up Reigns and rolled him into the ring. He followed him in and set up for a powerbomb through the table, but Reigns countered with a back body drop. When Mil Muertes got up, Reigns gave him a Superman Punch! He lined him up for a spear, but Mil Muertes moved and Reigns slammed into the turnbuckle post. When he came back out of the corner, Mil Muertes gave Reigns’ another Reaper’s Trident spear!
Mil Muertes took a chair and placed it in the center of the ring. He picked up Reigns and gave him the Flatliner onto it! With Reigns knocked down and out, Mil Muertes dragged him over to the side of the ring. He climbed through the ropes and began to lift the lid to Reigns’ coffin. As he opened it, a black liquid sprayed out of the coffin at his mask and into his eyes. He stumbled away blindly. Then, the unthinkable happened.
Hulk Hogan sat up and climbed out of the coffin! He took off his weightlifting belt and started whipping Mil Muertes across the back with it. Catrina looked on in horror as the original “Triple H” tossed Mil Muertes into the ring. Mil Muertes scrambled to his feet and threw punches into the air, missing with every one of them. Hogan whipped him into the ropes and gave him the big boot, then he cupped his ears a few times before running to the ropes. When he bounced off them, he came to a stop. Standing in between him and Mil Muertes was John Cena!
They had a tense stare off for a few moments. But when Mil Muertes began to stir and started to get up, Cena turned around, lifted him into a fireman’s carry and gave him the Attitude Adjustment through the table! Hogan laughed while Cena and Reigns, who had finally recovered, left the ring to get Mil Muertes’ coffin. They picked it up and lifted in into the ring. As they did that, Hogan pulled a can of black spray paint out of the Roman Reigns’ coffin, the very same thing he sprayed into Mil Muertes’ eyes earlier. He shook it up and sprayed #MEGA on the back of Mil Muertes. Then, Reigns entered the ring, grabbed a hold of Mil Muertes and dropped him into the coffin. He closed the lid shut to win the match!
As the ring filled with empty soda beverage contained and other pieces of trash, Hogan told the Believers that what you were looking at was
“the Pinnacle of Sports Entertainment, brother!” He said that lucha libre had corrupted the values of
“good old-fashioned American sports entertainment,” with the way that it glorified death, lying, cheating, and stealing, and excessive violence for the sake of circumventing the accepted rules of competition. So they have come to the Temple on a mission to
“make (sports) entertainment great again!” Cena added that they willdo that by teaching the so-called Believers, who’ve been brainwashed to cheer for the forces of evil, that there is a better way of doing things – that hustle, loyalty and respect are the only true ways to become the very best sports entertainment superstar in the world, and that he, Hogan and Reigns are living proof that never giving up gets you farther in this business than lying, cheating, and stealing ever will. Reigns finished off by saying,
“Believe that!”THE RESULT
WINNER : ROMAN REIGNS ***
THE SET UP
“Macho King” rose to the top of lucha libre by winning the Lucha Underground Championship in a classic encounter with Samoa Joe. After he won the title, he sought validation from his psyche, which he frequently did. His psyche informed him that he wasn’t the greatest figure in lucha libre royalty. This wasn’t the answer he was expecting as he received the same answer in the past and thought he disposed of his only other great member of lucha libre royalty in the Temple, the legendary Rey Mysterio Jr. After a successful title defense against The Godfather on Episode 26, Prince Puma stepped up to the throne and staked his claim to it.
Prince Puma held the Gift of the Gods, which he acquired by defeating Mil Muertes on Episode 20. The Gift of Gods entitled him to challenge for the Lucha Underground Championship at a time of his choosing. He chose Ultima Lucha Tres for his opportunity. There were other luchadores who staked a claim to that title match, which required Prince Puma to defeat Chris Jericho, Jake Roberts, and Eddie Guerrero in a fatal fourway to secure his spot in the Ultima Lucha Tres main event. Since securing that spot, he was assaulted by the champion, whose message was simple and clear: The Prince will not defeat the King.
THE RESULT
The match began with a grapple hold that Savage turned into a rear waistlock, but Puma tossed him aside with a hip toss and then dropped him with a dropkick. Puma ran to the ropes and returned to take Savage down with tilt-a-whirl headscissors that sent the champion reeling to the outside. Puma went over to the ropes and looked to be going for a slingshot plancha, but Savage ran away and Puma stayed put. Savage went to Sherri’s side to discuss matters. She built his confidence back up and then turned to tell the Believers to shut up as a majority of them chanted for the Prince instead of the King. This thoroughly annoyed Savage, who threatened to punch a few of them out. The distraction gave Puma the opportunity to hit him from behind. He laid in a few shots, but his whip attempt was reversed and he headed towards the retaining wall of the high-rise bleachers. Savage charged after him and Puma ran up the side of the wall and flipped over top of Savage, who turned around to receive a superkick. Puma quickly rolled Savage into the ring and climbed the turnbuckle. Savage rolled to the far side of the ring, so Puma got down and ran in the direction of Savage, who lifted Puma into the air for what appeared to be a flapjack but then he dropped to the mat so that Puma’s chest landed on his knees. Savage pinned his challenger for a 2-count.
Savage slowed the pace by taking a seat on Puma’s back and putting him in a reverse chinlock. He maintained the hold until Puma got to his hands and knees. Then, Savage gave him some seated sentons followed by some elbow strikes to the shoulder and neck regions and then slapped on a headlock. He kept the hold applied for quite some time. Puma eventually got to his feet and sent Savage running into the ropes. Puma took Savage down with a hurricanrana. Then, he dropped him with a pair of deep arm drags. Savage escaped to the floor. Puma runs to the far side of the ring and back to take Savage down with an over the top rope corkscrew moonsault plancha. After that, Puma sent Savage into the ring. He climbed onto the ring apron and looked to leap up, but Sherri held onto his right foot, preventing him from getting up. He tried to shake her off but couldn’t. When he finally did, he turned to look forward again, just in time to get a running forearm smash to the side of the jaw that knocked him off the ring apron. Savage climbed to the top turnbuckle and took Puma off his feet again with a diving double axehandle smash. Then he picked up Puma and gave him a snap suplex before rolling him into the ring and going for the pin. Puma kicked out at two.
Savage picked up Puma and tossed him face first into the top turnbuckle, then he climbed onto the second rope and punched Puma ten times. When Savage got down, he whipped Puma across the ring and ran in to land a clothesline. Then, he threw Puma out of the corner, onto the mat. Savage went out and climbed the turnbuckle. Puma slowly got up and Savage took him down with a diving crossbody into a lateral press to pin him for another 2-count. Savage got up and delivered a jumping knee drop to the sternum and pinned him again for two. He got up a repeated those two moves three more times, and Puma kicked out every time. Frustration shown on the champion’s face as he argued over the referee’s count. Savage picked up Puma and gave him a gutwrench suplex and then a running jumping knee drop and pinned him for another 2-count. Savage argued with the referee over his count again. He picked up Puma and lifted him for a sit-out piledriver, but Puma fought back down to feet. He tried to counter with a back body drop, but Savage countered with a sunset flip. Puma rolled through to his feet and connected with a basement dropkick. They both got up at the same time. Savage missed with a lariat as Puma performed a somersault and then took Savage down with a backflip headscissors takedown and then a dropkick. Savage rolled out of the ring and then Puma went to the ropes and tried to take him down with a springboard shooting star press to the outside. However, Savage pulled Sherri, who had gone over to check on him, into the way to shield him from the maneuver.
It took Puma a few moments to get up. As he got his feet, he took an extra moment to see if Sherri was alright. This proved to be a mistake because Savage hit him across the back with a wooden chair as he was looked down at her. The referee gave him an earful, but there are no disqualifications in Lucha Underground, so the action raged on. Savage raked Puma’s eyes, and gave him jabs and pointed elbow smashes all around ringside before rolling him into the ring, but leaving his head leaning over the side of the ring apron and giving him an elbow smash to the larynx. Then, Savage slid into the ring delivered a jumping knee drop between Puma’s shoulder blades. He flipped Puma over and gave him another one high on his chest and then covered him for a 2-count. Then, he picked up Puma and successfully executed the sit-out piledriver. He hooked Puma’s leg, but the challenger kicked out. Savage couldn’t believe it. After another furious exchange with the referee, Savage gave Puma a bodyslam and then went to the top rope. He pointed up to the sky and went for his patented diving elbow drop, but Puma rolled out of the way!
They both reached their feet at the same time. Savage tried to get Puma with a running pointed-elbow smash, but Puma ducked out of the way and then hit Savage with an enzuigiri kick. He covered him for a 2-count. Puma picked up Savage and went for a whip, but Savage reversed it and connected with a running back elbow smash. He pinned Puma for a 2-count. Savage picked up Puma and went for a vertical suplex, but Puma slipped free, landed on his feet, and nailed Savage with a corkscrew bicycle kick. He covered and Savage kicked out. Puma went up to the top rope, but Savage flung himself into the ropes and Puma got crotched on the top turnbuckle. After that, Savage went up to the top rope and executed a superplex. He floated over for the pin. Puma got a shoulder up at two!
Both luchadores stayed down for a few moments to catch their breath after that quick back-and-forth. When they got up, they exchanged punches. Savage took the upper hand, laying into Puma with alternating jabs to the chest and face before running to the ropes and landing a pointed-elbow smash that knocked Puma down. He went for the pin, but Puma kicked out at two. Savage picked up Puma and tried to go for a bodyslam, but Puma pulled him down into a small package. 1-2- kick out! Back to their feet. Savage missed with a lariat and Puma pulled him into a backslide. 1-2- kick out! Puma went for a superkick, but Savage ducked it and pulled Puma down into a school-boy with a handful of tights. 1-2- kick out! Savage grabbed Puma in a waistlock and ran him into the ropes for a roll-up, but Puma clung to the ropes. As soon as Savage got up, Puma ran over and executed a tornado DDT! 1-2- shoulder up! Puma picked up Savage and executed a northern lights suplex and then rolled it into a deadlift vertical suplex. He pinned one more time. 1-2- Savage had his foot on the bottom rope. Puma got up and picked up Savage, who racked his eyes and then pulled him into a small package. 1-2- kick out! Then, they both got up and hit each other when stereo running clotheslines!
It took nearly an entire 10-count from the referee for both luchadores to get up. Savage went for a running lariat, but Puma ducked it. Then, he went for a Pele kick, but Savage stepped back to avoid it. When Puma got up, Savage hit with him a jumping knee to the back of the neck and then gave him a lucha mask hangman. He got up and went to the top rope. He pointed to the sky and executed the diving elbow drop! 1…2… kick out! Savage couldn’t believe it! His anger was such that he grabbed the referee by the shirt and started shaking him. He stopped when Sherri got his attention and gave him his royal sceptre. Savage went to the top rope with it. He waited for Puma to get up. He saw her there and retreated out of range.
Sherri snuck into the ring behind him and delivered a low blow. Then, she brought him near and held him in a full nelson. Savage lifted the scepter above his head and went for a diving axe swing. Puma broke free and Savage nailed Sherri in the forehead with the sceptre! She was out cold, much to the delight of the Believers! After checking on Sherri, Savage turned to look for Puma and received a springboard European uppercut. Puma went to the top rope and executed the 630-degree senton bomb! 1…2… kick out! Puma was in shock! The Macho King was still in it!
Now, Puma had to go for something big. He climbed the turnbuckles from inside the ring. After a momentary pause, he looked over his shoulder, then back out, and went for the rarely seen double rotation moonsault. But he crashed and burned! The Macho King had rolled in out of the way. After giving Puma a bodyslam, Savage went back to the top rope. He pointed to the sky and went for his patented diving elbow drop, but Puma lifted his feet into the air and Savage’s face went directly into his boots! With Savage out on dream street, Puma lifted him onto his shoulders into a fireman’s carry and executed a Benadryller MK2 (fireman’s carry lift and drop into an overhead kick). Then, he went to the top rope and executed the 630-degree senton bomb one more time! 1…2…3!
THE RESULT
WINNER : PRINCE PUMA ***
Agent Alam, aka Mustafa Ali, enters a non-descript room somewhere in the greater Los Angelese area. Waiting for him there is Arnold Schwarzenegger, his chief controlling officer at the FBI. Alam tells Schwarzenegger asks him what new intelligence he has in either the murder of Dario Cueto or the missing person’s case of LAPD undercover cop Agent Reyes, aka Cortez Castro. He passes him a stack of black and white photographs. Schwarzenegger looks through them. They are photos of the Ultimate Warrior, Matanza Cueto, and Antonio Cueto. Alam tells Schwarzenegger who each of them are and says that the Warrior has frequently been in and out of Cueto’s office, and his leads have him as the last person seen with Agent Reyes. However, he reports that the Warrior had a public falling out with Antonio and hasn’t been seen since his match against Matanza last week. Every pience of intelligence he collects relating to the murder and missing persons is connected to Antonio Cueto. Schwarzenegger tells him that the FBI has a dossier on Antonio. He tells him to keep a close eye on all his activities, but to proceed with extreme caution because there is a long history of unusual, unexplainable things that happen wherever he goes. Ali tells him not to worry because he’s good at keeping a low profile. Schwarzenegger says that while keeping a low profile is a good thing, it also means that if he is not careful and he becomes compromised, no one will notice he is gone.
We go into a Japanese styled dojo. This is the meditation and training space of “Classy” Freddie Blassie and all his disciples, including Vampiro, Kevin Owens, and once upon a time, Pentagon DARK, who was later ex-communicated. Pentagon DARK is alone in the dojo. He has entered the space for the first time in a long time. He has come empty handed. He has a large cannister of gasoline and he is emptying its contains on wooden ornamental features and soaking fabrics with it. He finds a table with candles and as he grabs one, “Classy” Freddie Blassie enters the room. He wants to know what Pentagon is doing. Pentagon tells him that he’s doing what is necessary to win the war. Then, he throws the candle as some drapes and another at a room partition. The place goes up in flames. Pentagon tells Blassie that this is the end and then he heads for the exit. Blassie falls to his knees, staring at the flames as they spread quickly. Then, he turns and heads for another exit. As Pentagon makes it the exit, Vampiro blocks his path. Pentagon stops and looks at his old master, who stares him in the eye, and then says, “You have finally graduated, Pentagon. Now, you are your own master.” Then, he steps aside. Pentagon gives him the CERO MIEDO hand gesture before leaving.
We get a view of the Los Angeles city skyline at night, with the sounds of sirens, street traffic, and helicopters passing-by. Prince Puma stands on the roof, wearing the Lucha Underground Championship around his waist. As he looks out at the bright lights of the towers in the center of the city, Catrina appears as if from out of thin air. She congratulates him on winning the title. He reminds her that a year ago in this very place, she told him that the one thing he couldn’t stop was death, but that this title belt around his waist proves her wrong. She tells him not to get too cocky, saying that Mil Muertes lived to fight another day after that match. However, tonight, he doesn’t. She warns him that there are forces stronger than even either one of them could anticipate. Tonight, they’ve return Mil Muertes to his rightful place. She pauses, leans in close to his ear and tells him that they’re coming for him next. She vanishes before he can finish turning his head to face her.
A moment later, he sees a limousine come to a stop in the back alley behind the Temple. Then, he sees the Hulk Hogan, Roman Reigns, and John Cena, with the Gift of the Gods, walk up to it and get in. Then, the limo drive’s off.
Inside the limousine, the Pinnacle of Sports Entertainment are meeting with Vincent Kennedy McMahon, aka Agent VKM. He asks for a progress report. Hogan and Reigns tell him how they’ve put Mil Muertes to death, and Cena shows him the Gift of Gods. He says that he can turn this belt in for an instant opportunity to win the Lucha Underground Championship. McMahon is impressed. He says that this evening couldn’t have gone any better. He tells them that he wants Cena to get his title match as soon as the next season begins as securing that championship is the key to proving that sports entertainment is better than lucha libre. Once he has their penultimate prize is will only be a matter of time before sports entertainment retakes the City of Angels. He tells them that he has every confidence in them that they can make that happen because they are truly the best sports entertainers he has ever created. Together, they will shut down the Temple and make sports entertainment great again!
We are in a medicine shack. Where exactly? It could be Benin, Cameroon, or Haiti. It could even be in Parts Unknown. All that is known is that there is a voodoo witch doctor mixing different amounts of blood and guts from dead animals with plant leaves and spice and blending it all together into some kind of potion. Paul London, who we haven’t seen in a very long time dances around watching what is going on and talking to a small luchador with an angry looking rabbit face on his chest. The witch doctor finishes his concoction and pours into a skull attached to a string of beads. The smoke begins to rise out of the orafices of the skull. With that, the witch doctor walks away from his medicine table to another part of the room. There is a lifeless body laying on a bed. The witch doctor rips away the shirt on his body and places the smoking skull down on it. Then, he grabs a staff and taps different parts of the body while reciting some kind of spell or curse. He removes the smoking skull from the body’s chest, steps away and lifts his hands into the air will chanting his spell or curse. Suddenly, the body sits upright.
***