ULTIMA LUCHA CUATRO – PART ONEFrom the Temple in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Commentary Team: Matt Striker and Vampiro
Ring Announcer: Melissa Santos
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VS. VS. VS. VS. VS. VS. LADDER MATCH FOR THE GIFT OF THE GODS
Aero Star vs. Angel Garza vs. Drago vs.
Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Fénix vs. Kobra Moon vs. Paul London THE SET UP
Chris Jericho held the Gift of the Gods. After losing his quarterfinal match in the Antonio Cueto Luchadores Cup to Tetsuya Naito, who was a surprise replacement for Dominik Dijakovic, Jericho was pissed off. With help from his Inner Circle brethren, he locked Naito into the trunk of a car so he couldn’t make it to the semifinals and then claimed the spot for himself. Cueto allowed him back into the tournament if he relinquished the Gift of the Gods. There was no time to divvy up the Seven Ancient Aztec Medallions, so Cueto handed them out to seven luchadores that did not yet have matches for Ultima Lucha Cuatro. Aero Star, Drago, Fénix, Kobra Moon, Angel Garza, Dr. Wagner Jr., and Paul London were the lucky beneficiaries of this act of generocity, putting them all in this ladder match with a chance to take a big leap up the Lucha Underground ranks.
THE MATCH
This match began with the in-ring ceremony of handing out the Ancient Aztec Medallions, placing them in the Gift of the Gods belt, and then raising it high above the ring. Kobra Moon was the final participant to be called out to the ring. She looked at Drago and Aero Star and vowed to make them pay. When she entered the ring and received her medallion from Melissa Santos, the lights went out. There were a few moments of confusion. When they turned back on, Kobra Moon was on the canvas with her arm extended upwards, held in a grounder hammerlock by Pentagon DARK! He snapped her arm back with The Sacrifice, picked up the last Medallion and placed it in the belt, making him the official seventh participant in the match.
This was about what you could expect from a ladder match in which six of seven luchadores were schooled in classic lucha libre. It was a good way to kick off the evening and bring some energy to the assembly of Believers. As in most modern lucha libre contests, there was a moment featuring many luchadores diving one after the other out of the ring to floor. It began with Paul London doing a springboard shooting star press onto Fénix. Then, Drago executed a step-up on the middle rope topé con hilo on London. Angel Garza went to the top turnbuckle and executed a plancha on them both. Dr. Wagner Jr. performed an Asai moonsault into the pile. Pentagon DARK took him down with a topé suicida tornado DDT. Aero Star set up a ladder and climbed it, but Fénix came in and started to tip it over, so he stepped up to the top rung and leapt backwards into the pile with a no-look trustfall senton. The ladder was leaning on the top rope and Fénix tried to get it up right. As luchadores started getting up, he folded it up and instead ran across the ring and up the leaning ladder and off the end of it with an insane corkscrew moonsault plancha!
There were many more maneuvers involving ladders. At one point, Pentagon had a ladder propped up on the middle rope and placed Paul London on it. He climbed the turnbuckle and gave him a diving double foot stomp. Dr. Wagner Jr. gave Drago a Wagner Driver onto a ladder. Paul London placed Angel Garza on a ladder and went Down the Rabbit Hole on him. With a ladder bridging the ring ropes and another ladder standing upright, with Fénix and Dr. Wagner Jr. fighting near the top of the ladder, Fénix flipped over it and gave him a sunset flip powerbomb onto the bridging ladder. Later, Angel Garza gave Pentagon the Wing Clipper onto that same bridged ladder. At another point, Aero Star was climbing the ladder and Angel Garza climbed a few rung behind him and attemped a release German suplex from the ladder. Aero Star flipped through and landed on his feet. He climbed up behind Garza and got him into an electric chair position and came down off the ladder. Then, Drago executed a springboard diving crossbody as Aero Star fell back with the electric chair.
At the end of the match, Paul London and Dr. Wagner Jr. climbed two different ladders placed under the Gift of Gods. Aero Star and Drago climbed up and all four traded blows. As they punched away at each other, Pentagon and Angel Garza came in and worked together to tip over the ladders, sending every crashing to the mat or into and over the ropes. They put a ladder back on its feet and Garza quickly dropped Pentagon with a superkick. He began climbing the ladder. Fénix climbed onto the ring apron, then did a springboard onto the other side of the ladder. They got up to the top and traded blows until Pentagon got back to his feet and tipped the ladder over. Fénix landed in the ring. Garza landed on his feet, but Pentagon took care of him with a superkick and then a package piledriver. He steadied the ladder on its feet and began to climb it. He noticed Fénix getting up, turned around and leapt off the ladder to give him a Mexican destroyer! After that, Pentagon went up the ladder again, this time making it to the top and removing the Gift of the Gods from the carabiner on which it was looped.
THE RESULT
WINNER : PENTAGON DARK ***
VS. TRIOS TABLES MATCH
THE AMAZONAS TRIBE VS. THE ARMY OF TRUTH
Awesome Kong, Shayna Baszler & Rhea Ripley vs. Braun Strowman, Akam & Rezar THE SET UP
Truth Martini’s Army of Truth came to Lucha Underground on a mission to exterminate the Ancient Aztec Tribes. Truth Martini has told his followers that the tribes have false idols. Truth is what everyone should aspire to know, and the only truth in the world is contained in the Book of Truth. To spread the gospel of the truth, they would have to systematically eliminate every tribe, one at a time. With the Rabbit and Reptile Tribe’s at war, they would have to target another tribe, one with undeserved special privileges – the Amazonas Tribe. They initially targeted the Mash-Up Wrestling Women’s World Champion and the winner of the Antonio Cueto Luchadoras Cup (prizes reserved only for the Amazonas). However, a collection of the fiercest, most powerful, and most dangerous Amazonas in Lucha Underground came together to defend the luchadoras from the Army of Truth. Now, the victors of this war will be decided in a tables match.
THE MATCH
The ring could not contain these six luchadores. Almost immediately, they spilled out to the floor to brawl around ringside. Strowman, Akam, and Rezar were big and powerful, and they took an early advantage by simply pummeling Kong, Baszler and Ripley down. They got tables out relatively quickly and intended to make short work of the Amazonas. However, Baszler and Ripley were faster, and when they had the opportunity to use speed to break free, they were able to mount a counterattack. Baszler worked over Akam’s arms to try to weaken him and Ripley put some power behind her speed to hit Rezar with stiff clotheslines, a running big boot and a thunderous missile dropkick.
Strowman is known as a Monster Among Men for a reason. After giving Awesome Kong a jackknife powerbomb into the second row of wooden chairs at ringside, he came to bring the fight to Baszler and Ripley. The Strowman Express sent Baszler flying into the second row on the hardwood bleachers. A powerslam put Baszler down and out of commission for several minutes. Back in the ring, a stiff clothesline, a running big boot, and a flapjack put Ripley down and in a vulnerable position. Rezar slid a table into the ring for Strowman. Meanwhile, Kong recovered and gave Rezar a body avalanche against the side of the ring apron and then a chokeslam on the floor. She grabbed a steel chair and brought it into the ring with her in time to save Ripley from going through a table, using it repeatedly on Strowman to get him on the mat and then giving him a splash to keep him down. With Ripley’s help, she dragged Strowman towards the corner, leaving him on his back, and pulled his arms past the turnbuckle post, where she bound his wrists in handcuffs.
With Strowman taken out of the equation, it became a 2-on-2 fight. Kong and Ripley held their own against Akam and Rezar, but once Baszler returned to the ring, the Amazonas held a 3-on-2 advantage. This enabled them to put Akam through a table with a group powerbomb. Shortly thereafter, they put Rezar through a table by incapacitating him, placing him on the table, where Ripley and Baszler held his limbs so he could not get down, and allowing Kong to execute an Awesome Splash to eliminate him from the match.
Now, it was 3-on-1. Strowman was fuming. There was no way to put him through the table with his back stuck to the canvas, so Kong had to release him from the cuffs. The odds appeared to be in the favour of the Amazonas, but uncuffing Strowman was like letting a bull run loose in a china shop. He destroyed them all. He got three tables out and set out up on the floor, he propped up one in the corner, and opened another in the ring. With broke that one by giving Baszler a powerslam to eliminate her. He speared Ripley through the table in the corner. Finally, he had to eliminate Kong. He took her to the ring apron and scooped her onto his shoulder for a powerslam, but she slipped free, then kicked him below the belt when he turned to face her. Then, she grabbed him by the neck with both hands and pushed off the ring apron, putting him through the table with a two-handed sit-out chokeslam.
THE RESULT
WINNERS : THE AMAZONAS TRIBE ***
VS. LUCHA DE APUESTAS : HAIR VS. MASK
Mustafa Ali vs. King Cuerno THE SET UP
Adeel Alam is an agent working for the FBI, sent to the Temple to investigate murders and other shady activities by his handler, Agent Arnold Schwarzenegger. As he continued to look into the murder of Dario Cueto, and disappearance of scores of other luchadores, one name that occasionally popped up as a potential suspect was King Cuerno. One night while shooting pool in a seedy Boyle Heights bar, Agent Alam witnessed a suspicious interaction between King Cuerno and Agent VKM. Agent Schwarzenegger told him to find out what was going on. King Cuerno, the expert hunter that he is, sensed he was being hunted and did what was necessary to shake Agent Alam, revealing that he knew he was being followed in the process. Of course, all of this happened outside the confines of the Temple, so getting a high stakes match at Ultima Lucha Cuatro was not a foregone conclusion. The match was only booked after they were on opposite teams in an atomicos match, where their issues outside the Temple boiled over. When Mustafa Ali asked for a singles match versus King Cuerno, Antonio Cueto was happy to oblige. However, with Ultima Lucha Cuatro being the only event of the season remaining on which the match could take place, a special stipulation was added by Cueto to make this match more interesting.
THE MATCH
The match opened with Ali getting into trouble right away by charging at King Cuerno, who avoided his attack, landed a dropkick into the turnbuckles and gave him a snap suplex, which he followed up with a chinlock. Cuerno was slow and methodical to begin, working over Ali’s upper body, focusing on the neck and shoulders. He kept this up for a few minutes before executing a bridging German suplex to get a 2-count. When Ali was getting up, Cuerno approached and Ali gave him a jawbuster off the top of his skull and then took him down with some tilt-a-whirl headscissors that sent Cuerno out of the ring. Ali executed a topé suicida, after which he returned Cuerno to the ring and began to work on his lower back and legs with a variety of maneuvers and submission holds. After putting Cuerno in a Mexican surfboard and pulling down on his chin to stretch his back some more, Ali attempted a Boston crab that Cuerno broke by getting his hands on the bottom rope after 15 seconds.
The pace of the match started to pick up here as Ali charged at Cuerno, who lifted him over the top rope. Ali landed on the ring apron and hit him with a forearm smash to the face. He began to slingshot over the top rope, but Cuerno caught him and drove his head into the mat with an implant DDT. He went for the pin but only got a 2-count. Cuerno whipped Ali to the ropes and executed a snap powerslam and pinned him for another 2-count. He whipped him into the ropes again and gave him a spinebuster and then climbed to the top rope and went for a frog splash and landed on Ali’s knees. When they got up, Ali gave Cuerno some chops and punches and then dropped him with a jumping spin kick. He followed this up with a springboard tornado DDT and pinned Cuerno for a 2-count. Ali picked him up and gave him a fisherman’s suplex for another 2-count. After that, he climbed to the top turnbuckle and attempted a diving crossbody but Cuerno dropkicked him in mid-air. He went for the quick cover and got another 2-count.
Ali rolled out of the ring to try to regroup, but Cuerno stayed right on him by firing off an Arrow From the Depths of Hell at him. There was half-a-minute of brawling outside the ring, where Ali countered a whip into the turnbuckle post and landed an enzuigiri kick, and Cuerno shoved Ali into the front row seats and gave him a superkick while he was stuck in the seated position. Cuerno rolled Ali back into the ring and executed a springboard elbow drop to the lower back and then applied a bow and arrow hold, but Ali refused to submit. Cuerno lifted him up to go for the Thrill of the Hunt, but Ali slipped free and then rolled him up for a 2-count. Cuerno’s kick out sent Ali out to the ring apron, where he used the ropes to perform a slingshot rolling thunder into a neckbreaker. Ali went out to the climb the turnbuckle. Cuerno got up and ran forward to trip him, but Ali jumped over him and into a sommersault. Once back to his feet, Ali was kit with a spinning wheel kick. Cuerno started climbing the turnbuckles and Ali got up. He hopped up to the top rope and took Cuerno to the mat with a Spanish fly. Instead of going for the pin, he dragged him towards the corner, climbed onto the top turnbuckle and executed the 054 (imploding 450-degree splash). 1…2…3!
THE RESULT
WINNER : Mustafa Ali King Cuerno is Santos Escobar As is customary after a Lucha de Apuestas, the loser must comply with the wager. Ali gets to keep his hair and King Cuerno must unmask. Cuerno removes his mask and reveals that his name is Santos Escobar. Ali presses him on his business dealings with someone he refers to as VKM. Escobar says he doesn’t know who that is. He names the bar in Boyle Heights where they have done business. Escobar says that he paid him to get the Gauntlet of the Gods for him – and paid him a second time when he delivered the item to him. Ali doesn’t hang around to celebrate his victory. At this news, he runs out of the Temple in a hurry, leaving Matt Striker and Vampiro to wonder why he wants the Gauntlet of the Gods.
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THE SET UP
Mil Muertes competed in a Grave Consequences Match at Ultima Lucha Tres against Roman Reigns. At the very moment he appeared to have won the match, he opened the coffin and black spray paint shot out from it into his eyes. Hulk Hogan was laying in wait. John Cena arrived, and together the three sports entertainers buried Mil Muertes. This season, Damien Priest debuted in the Temple and talked about how he was going to live forever. With Mil Muertes no longer around, Catrina saw something in Damien Priest and offered to make it possible for him to live forever. Mil Muertes was re-awakened and shocked the Believers by returning to the Temple at Aztec Warfare IV by attacking Damien Priest. Feeling betrayed by Catrina, he vows to bury her and her new meal ticket. Catrina has stood by Priest and will support him in his pledge to put Mil Muertes six feet under once more.
THE MATCH
This was a hard-hitting affair from the moment the bell rung. Both luchadores threw heavy fists at each other and were out of the ring brawling around the Believers within the first minute of the match. As they fought up into the rows of hardwood bleachers, Priest gave Mil Muertes a big boot to the face and then slammed him down on his back with a side belly-to-belly suplex. Later, Mil Muertes caught Priest with a couple of hard right hands and then gave Priest a gutwrench powerbomb onto the hardwood bleachers. They continued to punch and kick away at each other up on the mezzanine, and teased throwing one another from the area above Antonio Cueto’s office to the ring or floor below. Priest blocked a hip toss attempt with a knee lift to face and then a clothesline. Mil Muertes prevented himself from getting thrown down by countering with a DDT. Mil Muertes punched away at Priest until he knocked him halfway down a rarely used flight of metal stairs, and then kicked him the rest of the way. At the bottom, he was distracted by the sight of Catrina standing and staring straight at him, looking as cold and stiff as ever. This lapse of judgment gave Priest an opportunity to get back into the match with a low blow and then a crucific bomb off the side of the ring apron.
Priest was in charge for the next few minutes as they finally came back into the ring. He hit Mil Muertes with stiff kicks and fists, doing a lot of damage with a jumping front spin kick, a roundhouse kick, a death valley driver and a crucifix buckle bomb followed by a running big boot to the face. However, after executing each maneuver, Mil Muertes blocked Priest from dragging him over to be placed inside the coffin. Priest decided to try for something more impactful when he put Mil Muertes onto the top turnbuckle, but he was eventually knocked off the top rope after some headbutts and a lound shot from Mil Muertes’ right fist. Then, Mil Muertes drove off the top rope and took Priest down with a diving crossbody. This was the start of a comeback that say Mil Muertes bust out some rarely seen high flying maneuvers such as tilt-a-whirl headscissors, a diving clothesline and a diving hurricanrana. After executing those moves, he tapped back into his big power, giving Priest a catch-and-release biel throw, a snap powerslam and a spinebuster. It was after this that he made his first attempt to put Priest into the coffin, but while on the ring apron, he fought his way back to his feet, managed to shove Mil Muertes back into the turnbuckle and then knock him to the floor with a running big boot.
The next part of the match saw both luchadores make attempts to put their opponent inside a coffin. The most exciting spot of the match occurred when Catrina opened the lid on the coffin for Mil Muertes and Priest threw him over the ropes and into it with a crucifix bomb. The impact was such that he bounced and fell to the floor with the coffin coming off the gurney on which it sat and falling on top of him. It seemed that should have been enough to put him away, but when Priest came out and lifted the coffin off him and then placed his body inside it, he got a hand around his throat. He punched at Mil Muertes’ to try to break the chokehold but he was unable to break it until Mil Muertes was back to a seated position. He stood up and tried to kick him, but Mil Muertes ducked down, then rolled out of the coffin and gave Priest a back body drop onto it as he was getting to his feet.
He continued to brawl with Priest around the ring until he was near his coffin, but Priest fought back. They ended up back inside the ring, where Mil Muertes set up for the Flatliner. Priest broke the hold with some knees to the abdomen and then gave Mil Muertes a kick to the crotch. With a table leaned against the ropes in the corner of the ring, he lifted Mil Muertes to give him a running crucific bomb, but Mil Muertes wiggled free, then sent Priest through the table with a Reaper’s Trident spear! He dragged Priest from the wreckage in the corner and brought him to his feet for a Flatliner, but froze when Catrina stood on the apron and revealed she was holding the mystical stone from the rubble of his childhood home under which he was buried and climbed out of following a devastating Earthquake. The same stone she left on his grave when she decided to give up on him. He dropped Priest and allowed Catrina to right up to him. Would they reconcile?
No. She gave him the lick of death. Priest delivered another low blow, then turned him around and set up for the Reckoning. He attempted the move, but Mil Muertes spun free and countered with the Flatliner! When he got up, Catrina tried to hit him over the head with a stone, but he reached up and grasped it in his left hand while reaching out and clutching her neck in his right. He gave her a 180-degree chokeslam! He grabbed Priest’s body, dragged it to the side of the ring and placed in his coffin, shutting the lid on it. Mil Muertes also had a coffin with Catrina’s name and face painted on it. He dragged her over to the ring apron, opened the lid and gave her a Flatliner into the coffin. He picked up the stone and placed it inside the coffin before slamming the lid shut on her too.
THE RESULT
WINNER : MIL MUERTES ***
VS. HELL OF WAR MATCH1st Fall: First Blood / 2nd Fall: Falls Count Anywhere / 3rd Fall: Medical-Evac Rules
Dominik Dijakovic vs. Mike Awesome THE SET UP
At the beginning of Lucha Underground 4, Famous B, owner and proprietor of the most exclusive luchador representation agency in the world – Infamous Inc. – revealed that he had landed two new big and powerful clients, Dominik Dijakovic and Mike Awesome. In the first part of the season, he had them teaming with his other client, Dr. Wagner Jr., in trios competition with a goal of winning the Trios Championships. This plan didn’t pan out as the team constantly found ways of losing, always after some miscue involving Dijakovic. Everyone identified him as the weak link, and when the losses kept piling up, Infamous Inc. eventually became fed up and cut him loose, but not without brutally assault him in the middle of the ring. Dijakovic got revenge when he defeated Awesome in the second round of the Antonio Cueto Luchadores Cup tournament. Awesome and Famous B got revenge for that defeat by assaulting Dijakovic before his quarterfinal match, effectively eliminating him from the tournament. Dijakovic got revenge by attacking Famous B, giving him multiple injuries. Awesome got revenge by defeating Dijakovic in a steel cage match. This war could have continued on like this forever, but Antonio Cueto had the good sense of finally giving them an opportunity to finish off their war in the ultimate final battle – Hell of War. They go into this match each holding a win over the other. To win this match, one of them will have to beat the other one twice!
THE MATCH
The match began with these two behemoths locking up. They tried to overpower one another, attempting to throw each other down, but they both stood their ground. They did this a few times before Dijakovic got Awesome into a standing side headlock, which Awesome broke by sending Dijakovic into the ropes. Awesome ran at him and went for a big boot, but Dijakovic ducked it and went for a running clothesline, which Awesome ducked. Awesome went for a dropkick but Dijakovic clung to the the ropes, then attempted a discus big boot, but Awesome caught his foot, turned him around and shoved him to the corner. Dijakovic stopped short of the turnbuckle and go up and over Awesome but he caught him on his shoulder and pulled him away. Dijakovic wiggled loose and shoved Awesome into the ropes. He tried for a clothesline but Awesome ran right through it, came back and dropped Dijakovic with a hard clothesline of his own. Diajkovic stammered back up to his feet and Awesome hit him with a running clothesline that took him over the top rope and out to the floor. Awesome ran the ropes, but before he could go for the suicide dive, Dijakovic got out of the way. Awesome put the breaks on and tried to attack Dijakovic as he slid back into the ring. Dijakovic blocked and fired back but Awesome blocked. There was an extended sequence of punches and kicks that were blocked, ducked or sidestepped before Dijakovic finally knocked Awesome down with a dropkick and then gave him a clothesline to send him to the floor.
Dijakovic went for a running topé con hilo, but Awesome slid under the ropes as Dijakovic went over them. Dijakovic landed on his feet but when he turned around, he was met by a slingshot springboard crossbody by Awesome! Famous B ran around cheerleading and talking trash at Dijakovic while he was down. Meanwhile, Awesome looked under the ring for some weapons with which to bust his rival open. He pulled a trashcan out and emptied its contents onto the floor. He lifted it up to deliver a blow to Dijakovic’s head, but he nailed Awesome with a discus elbow smash instead. Dijakovic found a kendo stick on the ground and used it on Awesome. He hit him several times, until the stick shattered. Welts formed on Awesome’s body, but the didn’t start to bleed. Dijakovic grabbed the trashcan to use it but Awesome dropkicked it into Dijakovic’s face. It didn’t open him up. Awesome took out a table and slid it into the ring, then sent Dijakovic into the ring. He open one of the table legs and propped it up over the top turnbuckle. He tried to pick up Dijakovic but received a back body drop instead. When he got back to his feet, Dijakovic put him back down with a discus big boot. Dijakovic lifted Awesome into an inverted fireman’s carry, but Awesome slide free, ran to the ropes and threw a clothesline at the same time as Dijakovic. Neither luchador fell. They both ran to the ropes and hit each other with clothesline, but again, they stayed on their feet. Next, they tried running body blocks, but those didn’t work either. Finally, they ran to the ropes and this time they collided with a thud as they hit each other with crossbodies.
Once back on their feet, they hammered each other with right hands until Dijakovic went for a discus elbow. Awesome ducked it, grabbed Dijakovic in a waist lock and forced his chest into the top turnbuckle before launching across the ring with a German suplex. Then, Awesome climbed to the top turnbuckle and went for an Awesome Splash, but Dijakovic rolled out of the way. He rolled right out to the floor and pulled a steel chair out from under the ring. He came back into and hit Awesome with it a couple times before tossing it down and putting Awesome in a chokehold. He had him set up for a chokeslam onto the chair but Awesome gave him some back elbows to the side of the head, then attempted an Awesome Bomb, but Dijakovic countered it with a sit-out facebuster onto the chair! Awesome still wasn’t opened up. Dijakovic noticed the table in the corner. He picked up Awesome and tried to put him through it with a running hip toss, but Awesome didn’t flip over. Instead, he flipped around, landed on his feet and knocked Dijakovic down with a lunging clothesline. Dijakovic rolled towards a corner to try to pull himself up. In the opposite corner, Awesome removed the top turnbuckle pad. As Dijakovic lifted himself up, Famous B got up on the ring apron and began to choke him with the tag rope. Awesome came running in like a freight train and went for a big boot but Dijakovic was able to drop to the mat at the last second. The big connected with Famous B’s face and sent him flying into the front row of the ringside seats!
With Awesome’s leg caught over the top rope, Dijakovic lifted him onto his shoulders and attempted Feast Your Eyes, but Awesome landed on his feet. Dijakovic went for a clothesline, but Awesome ducked and then dropped him with a spear. He picked up Dijakovic and gave him a running Awesome Bomb into the turnbuckle and then a running big boot. He picked up the steel chair and placed it over Dijakovic’s face and then stomped down on it five or six times before the referee could get him to stop. When the referee removed the chair from Dijakovic’s face, it was discovered that Dijakovic was bleeding from the nose and mouth, thus awarding the first fall of the match to Awesome.
When Dijakovic was back to his feet, the referee checked to see if he was ready. After coughing up some blood, he indicated that he was. The referee called for the bell to signal the second portion of the match to be fought under falls count anywhere rules. Awesome rushed Dijakovic and knocked him back into the turnbuckle with a running body block. He picked up Dijakovic and tossed him through the ropes to the floor. Awesome then took him down with an over-the-top-rope topé suicida. He picked up Dijakovic and called for the Believers to move. He lifted him over his shoulder to attempt a running Awesome Bomb, but Dijakovic slipped free behind him and executed a chokeslam backbreaker instead. After bringing Awesome back to his feet, they proceeded to brawl all around the hardwood bleachers and up to the mezzanine area. They fought around over to the area directly above Antonio Cueto’s office and teased throwing each other off the top. Awesome set up for an Awesome Bomb near the edge, but Dijakovic slipped free, and instead gave Feast Your Eyes to Awesome. He pinned Awesome. 1… 2… shoulder up!
Dijakovic was in disbelief. He eventually brought Awesome back to his feet and knocked him down a metal flight of stairs. When he got back to ringside, Dijakovic looked under the ring and pulled out a table and a ladder. Before he could anything with them, Famous B started peppering his torso with shots from a kendo stick. This worked to allow Awesome to get back up and back in the fight. After giving Dijakovic a suplex on the floor, he placed him on the table and started climbing the ladder. Dijakovic got off the table and climbed the otherside of the ladder. He met Awesome at the top and they traded blows. At one point, Dijakovic was barely holding on, in danger of falling through the table, but he held on and battled back, eventually hitting Awesome hard enough to caught him to fall down the side of the ladder and to the floor. Dijakovic climbed over the top of the ladder and jumped. His attack was thwarted with a dropkick by Awesome, who then picked him up and executed an Awesome Bomb on the floor. He pinned Dijakovic. 1… 2… shoulder up!
Awesome was in disbelief. He grabbed Dijakovic and placed him back on the table and again climbed the ladder. He went for the Awesome Splash, but Dijakovic rolled off the table! Awesome crashed and burned. He looked to be out of it. Dijakovic pinned Awesome but he managed to shoulder out of it, so he brought another table out from under the ring and placed Awesome on it. He climbed the ladder and executed a corkscrew moonsault onto Awesome, through the table! 1… 2… 3!
While both luchadores slowly got back to their feet and back in the ring, the ambulance backed into the Temple, beneath the bandstand and parked. One of these luchadores will be headed to the nearest hospital after this. When Dijakovic and Awesome were finally on their feet, the referee called for the bell, opened the final stage of Hell of War!
They met in the middle of the ring and threw down. Awesome got the upper hand and connected with a few fists in a row and then lifted Dijakovic onto his shoulder and attempt Feast Your Eyes, but Dijakovic landed on his feet and slapped a chokehold on Awesome. He elbowed Dijakovic in the side of the head and put his own chokehold on him. He lifted him for a chokeslam, but Dijakovic spun 360-degrees, landing back on his feet and then executed a chokeslam of his own. Then, he picked up Awesome and gave him another Feast Your Eyes! He climbed out of the ring, open the ambulance doors and pulled Awesome out to the floor by the feet. He pulled him over towards the ambulance but couldn’t get him inside as Awesome fought back. They brawled until Dijakovic went for an Irish whip, but Awesome reversed it, sending Dijakovic’s shoulder slamming into the turnbuckle post. Then, he nailed Dijakovic with a superkick.
After that, he dug around under the ring and pulled out a pair of chairs, which he opened up, facing each other, with a space of above three feet between them, then he walked out of sight into the hell that is to the side of Antonio Cueto’s office and returning with a large sheet of glass, placing the ends of it on either chair. In the time it took him to do this, Dijakovic returned to the ring. Awesome climbed onto the ring apron and waited for Dijakovic to get to his feet. Once he had, Awesome went for a springboard crossbody but he received a superkick out of the air. Dijakovic picked up Awesome and lifted him to try to give him a running Awesome Bomb through the table in the corner, but Awesome broke free. Dijakovic went for a discus elbow, but Awesome ducked and gave him an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. He picked up Dijakovic and gave him a running Awesome Bomb through the table! Awesome grabbed Dijakovic and dragged him under the ropes. He put him over his shoulder and carried him over to the ambulance, when he tried to open the door, Dijakovic tried to keep it shut, eventually letting go and slipping off Awesome’s shoulder, so the door swung open and slammed him in the face. Awesome was now cut open above the eye. They traded blows until Dijakovic knocked Awesome down with a discus big boot that caused him to fall into a row of the wooden floor seats. When Dijakovic leaned over to try to pick Awesome up, he was blasted in the head with a beer bottle, which shattered on impact.
Awesome grabbed Dijakovic and brought him over to the ring apron. He pointed to the sheet of glass bridging the open steel chairs and lifted Dijakovic over his shoulder, but he reached out to grab the top rope on his way up, enabling him to come back down to the apron. Awesome turned around and Dijakovic clocked him with a discus elbow and shoved him. Awesome fell backwards, and the back of his head hit the turnbuckle post. His eyes were open, but glazed over. Dijakovic picked him and said, “Time to fly!” Then, he set up Awesome in a vertical suplex position, lifted him and released him into a biel throw motion, off the ring apron and crashing through the plate of glass!
Awesome’s body convulsed for a moment and then went motionless. Famous B was losing his mind. Beautiful Brenda was screaming out in horror. Dijakovic got down, dragged Awesome’s body to the back of the ambulance, opened the doors and threw him inside. Famous B came over and tried to stop him from closing the doors, but got his hand based into one of the doors and a Feast Your Eyes for his troubles. Then, he too was tossed into the back of the ambulance. Dijakovic closed the doors, ensured the were shut and banged on the back door to indicate that it was done. The bell rang, he spat a wad of blood on the floor and lifted his arms high above his head in victory.
THE RESULTWINNER : DOMINIK DIJAKOVIC ***
VS. LUCHA UNDERGROUND TRIOS CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES MATCH
PINNACLE OF SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT VS. LEGENDS OF LUCHA LIBRE
Hulk Hogan, John Cena & Roman Reigns {C} vs. Mil Mascaras, Rey Mysterio Jr. & Dos Caras THE SET UP
Hulk Hogan, John Cena and Roman Reigns arrived in the Temple at different times. Each of them were sent here by Agent VKM, a secret service officer working under the direct orders of President Donald Trump to infiltrate a secret lucha club located in Boyle Heights. Their mission was to tear down the Temple of lucha libre and build a good old fashioned American sports entertainment palace in its place. At Ultima Lucha Tres, when Hogan, Cena and Reigns came together to reveal that they were here to re-establish the old world order of sports entertainment dominance in America, they coined themselves the Pinnacle of Sports Entertainment. To this end, they targeted Lucha Underground titles to show that sports entertainers were superior to luchadores in every way. John Cena won the Gift of the Gods. Collectively, they won the Trios Championships, ending the long title reign of the Lucha Super Friends. They were always embroiled in a bitter feud with Prince Puma and Rey Mysterio Jr. from the beginning of Lucha Underground 4. They all made attempts to defeat Prince Puma the Lucha Underground Championship but came up emptyhanded. They also brutally attacked Rey Mysterio Jr. to prevent him from competing in the Antonio Cueto Luchadores Cup as a way of protesting their exclusion from the tournament. While healing from his injuries, Mysterio went to Mexico to recruit some of the biggest legends in lucha libre to form the most incredible trio in lucha libre history with the single goal of returning to the Temple to show that the best luchadores in the world can and will triumph over the best sports entertainers in the world.
THE MATCH
The first couple of minutes of the match were evenly contested. Neither team was able to get an advantage that they could sustain for long. A tag out was as good as an advantage blown as the new luchador or sports entertainer would enter the ring and get knocked down, whether it was Reigns receiving a hurricanrana from Mysterio, Mil Mascaras receiving a Samoan drop from Reigns, Cena receiving a second rope springboard diving clothesline from Mascaras, Dos Caras receiving a spin-out powerbomb from Cena, Hogan receiving a dropkick and tornado DDT from Dos Caras, or Mysterio getting a flapjack from Hogan. The constant tags in and out ensured that a quick pace of action was maintained in this early going until a double team by Reigns and Cena on Mysterio where Reigns executed a fallaway slam and Cena immediately followed it with a diving leg drop off the top rope slowed things down and gave the advantage to the PSE.
Mysterio was the face-in-peril for the next several minutes. Cena, Reigns and Hogan took turns tagging in and out. They made very quick tags to keep a fresh man in at all times and get as many double-team maneuvers in as they could. Mysterio was taking a beating, and as the assault continued, the champions began to try to register a winning pinfall or submission on him. Reigns gave him a spinebuster and later a gutwrench powerbomb. Cena gave him a spin-out powerbomb and the Five Knuckle Shuffle, and then applied a STF. Hogan executed a stiff running clothesline and later put Mysterio in a bear hug. All were good efforts that fell short. When Mysterio broke free from the bear hug and ran to the ropes, Hogan tried to give him another flapjack, but this time Mysterio countered with a DDT. After some tilt-a-whirl headscissors sent Hogan into the ropes, Mysterio executed the 6-1-9 and then the West Coast Pop. He hooked both of Hogan’s legs. Reigns ran in so Mysterio rolled out of the pin to avoid getting kicked, then crawled through Reigns legs to make the tag to Mascaras.
He came in and cleaned house. He gave Reigns a running crossbody and then a clothesline over the ropes. He gave Cena a hurricanrana and then a back body drop out to the floor. Hogan raked his back, but Mascaras no-sold it and they engaged in a fist fight that culminated with both men eventually running the ropes and Hogan knocking Mascaras down with a leaping clothesline. A chopblock by Dos Caras, who then pulled Hogan over to the ropes and choked him on the bottom rope was enough to give the luchadores the advantage. Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras took turns tagging in and out and double teaming the Hulkster, while Mysterio took a breather on the apron. Once he felt more fresh, he started joining in on the attacks. It looked like the titles were going to change hands after Dos Caras tagged Mascaras and they executed a spike piledriver on him. Mascaras made the pin but Hogan kicked out just before the referee’s hand could hit the mat a third time.
But he didn’t kick out. He kicked out with authority. He sat up and started huffing and puffing, clenching his fists and shaking his upper body. Mascaras didn’t know what to do. He tried putting the boots to him, but it did nothing. Hogan got up and absorbed every blow. Mascaras threw some fists, but they had no effect either. Hogan finally put up a block, extended his arm and wagged his finger back and forth at him. He blocked a series of strikes and fired back with his own right hands. He got Mascaras backed into a corner and gave him a cross corner whip. He charged in and hit the body avalanche, then climbed up and punched him in the head ten times. Hogan whipped him into the ropes and gave him a big boot, then scooped him up and gave him a bodyslam. He ran to the ropes, but Dos Caras pulled down on the top rope and Hogan took a nasty spill out to the floor. Then, Dos Caras leapt off the ring apron to give him a blockbuster. Reigns ran over and gave him a Superman Punch. Mysterio went to the top rope and executed a somersault senton on him! Cena came over and buried his fists into Mysterio’s abdomen. Eventually, everyone was up and brawling, but they all hit the floor when Mil Mascaras executed a topé con hilo into the pile!
A brawl around ringside ensued. Bodies were flung onto the floor, into wooden seats and onto the hardwood bleachers. Hogan and Mil Mascaras ended up back in the ring. Hogan dropped Mil Mascaras with a big boot and gave him a bodyslam. He ran to the ropes to go for the leg drop, but Mil Mascaras popped up, hit the ropes himself and nailed his flying cross chop. He made the pin, but Cena broke it up and gave him the Attitude Adjustment. Dos Caras took him out with a springboard diving tornado DDT. Reigns took him out with a spear. Mysterio tagged Mascaras and tried to give Cena a springboard crossbody, but Reigns ducked it. He waited for Mysterio to get up and charged at him. Mysterio leapfrogged his spear attempt and Reigns slammed into the turnbuckle post with his shoulder, then fell through the ropes. Hogan charged at him and received a hurricanrana that put him into the ropes. Mysterio gave Hogan the 6-1-9 for the second time. This time, he chose to execute a springboard leg drop on him, but then quickly got to the corner and executed a frog splash. Upon landing, he hooked the leg. 1-2-3! Hogan kicked out a split second too late.
Hogan tried protesting the count. When that went nowhere, he attacked Mysterio, but Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras made the save. They dumped him from the ring and stood ready for Reigns or Cena to try to do something, but they didn’t. Once it was clear the battle was over, the new Trios Champions celebrated their win.
THE RESULT
WINNERS : LEGENDS OF LUCHA LIBRE ***
VS. MUW MEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE MATCH
AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe THE SET UP
Last year, Samoa Joe won the Dario Cueto Luchadores Cup. At around that same time, AJ Styles won the Mash-Up Wrestling Men’s World Championship by defeating Seth Rollins at
GWA Victory Road. His first title defense came ten months ago at Ultima Lucha Tres against arguably his biggest real-world rival in the Samoan Submission Machine. Joe put up a valiant effort in a classic encounter but came up short, proving that Styles’ title reign was well-deserved. After the match, Joe told Styles that he would get another match against him, and the next time they met, he wouldn’t fail. This year, in the renamed Antonio Cueto Luchadores Cup, Samoa Joe defeated King Cuerno, Damien Priest, Jake Roberts, Braun Strowman, and The Fiend to repeat as the winner of the Luchadores Cup and to earn a rematch against AJ Styles. Will he be able to make good on his pledge or will Styles’ reign as champion continue on for second year?
THE MATCH
The opening five minutes of our main event was slow and methodical. Both luchadores were engaged in a game of one-upmanship whereby they worked over each other with holds, fought to get out of those holds and attempted to counter them. The pace began to pick up when Joe broke a side headlock and sent Styles running to the ropes. He put his head down for a back body drop. Styles leapfrogged it, came off of the opposite ropes and took Joe down with some tilt-a-whirl headscissors, showing that he can lucha like any other classically trained luchador. When Joe got to his feet, Styles gave him a combo of strikes known as the Phenomenal Blitz. As Joe was getting back to his feet, Styles scooped him up and dropped him with a bodyslam and then delivered a big leaping knee drop, after which he applied a rear chinlock that he eventually transitioned into a camel clutch. Joe eventually broke free. Styles ran to the ropes for his next attack, but Joe took him down with a snap powerslam and hooked the leg for a 2-count. Joe slowed the action down again with some holds focused on the head, neck, and shoulders.
When Styles eventually made it to his feet, he broke the hold with some elbows to the abdomen. He ran to the ropes. Joe followed half a step behind him and knocked him down with a clothesline. When Styles got back to his feet, Joe gave him a head-and-arm suplex. Before he could follow it up with anything else, Styles rolled out to the floor, which sent the big man running to the far ropes and diving through to hit him with a topé suicida. Joe climbed back into the ring and repeated the maneuver, not once, but twice, so that he hit it thrice! He received a big pop for that. Joe picked up Styles, who broke loose with a hard open hand slap to the face, which he followed with some forearms. He went for a whip into the retaining wall of a section of high-rise bleachers but Joe countered. Styles stepped up the wall and clutched the guardrail and then took Joe down with a moonsault, earning him his own large pop.
Styles picked up Joe and returned him to the ring. He climbed onto the ring apron and went for a Phenomenal Forearm but Joe sidestepped it and then gave Styles a bridging German suplex. This got a 2-count. Joe stomped and kicked at Styles as he crawled towards the corner, then he ran to the ropes and came back looking for a hard boot to the face. Styles, however, slid under the ropes at the last moment, causing Joe to get caught up in the ropes. Styles tripped him up and put him a figure four around the turnbuckle post. With no disqualifications in the Temple, he was able to hold it in for at least twice as long as most luchadores do. After that, Joe struggled to get back up and Styles made sure to keep him on the mat, kicking at his calves, tripped him up, and dropping knees and elbows into his lower back. He worked some knee wrenches on him, kicked his calves some more, and gave him some seated sentons onto his right knee before applying a single-leg crab. When Joe made it to the ropes, Styles let him get up and gave him another Phenomenal Blitz, followed by some soccer kicks to the calves, and then a tornado DDT. He went right back to the single-leg crab. Joe got to the ropes again, but it took him longer to get there this time. Styles attacked him with some chops, but Joe fired back with some of his own. They lit each other’s chests up until Styles went for a step-up enzuigiri kick. Joe ducked it and gave Styles a snap dragon suplex. He was slow to get up, allowing Styles time to get to his feet first. He charged at Joe, who defensively spun him around into a spinebuster. As Styles tried to get up, Joe tried to apply the Coquina Clutch, but Styles went to the ropes and flopped through them, preventing Joe from synching it in.
Joe climbed down to the floor, where he was met with a standing dropkick. Styles then gave him a side belly-to-back suplex in which he dropped him on the ring apron and then put him on his back with a hurricanrana. Styles climbed back inside the ring as Joe was laid out on the floor. When Joe began to stir and started to get up, Styles leapt onto the top rope and executed the rarely seen Shooting Styles Press (springboard shooting star placha)! After that, Styles brought Joe to his feet and rolled him into the ring. He climbed into the ring apron and next went for a springboard 450-degree splash, but Joe put his knees up. They both got up at the same time. Styles tried to strike, but Joe lifted him up and gave him an inverted atomic drop, followed by a single-leg dropkick and then a running senton. Next, he gave Styles a powerbomb, then put him in a single-leg crab. As he neared the ropes to force a break, Joe relinquished the hold and applied a STF, and later transitioned it to a crossface, but none of these submissions made Styles tap.
Once back at their feet, Joe turned Styles’ chest a brighter shade of red with more backhand chops. He tried to get Styles set up for a power maneuver, but Styles lifted him over the top rope. Joe landed on the apron. They traded a couple of blows and jostled over positioning for a vertical suplex. Eventually, Joe got Styles up. He somehow slid free and landed on the edge of the apron behind Joe, where he attempted a German suplex. Joe clung to the ropes for dear life, and eventually broke loose with some back elbows to the side of the head. Now, they traded blows on the ring apron. Styles attempted a kick, but Joe caught his leg and then gave him an exploder suplex on the ring apron. Styles fell down to the floor and Joe ran off the ring apron and landed on his torse with a running senton!
Joe picked up Styles and rolled him into the ring where he went for a pin, but Styles kicked out. Next, he gave Styles a chop to the back of the neck, a soccer kick to the chest and then a big jumping knee drop and pinned him again, but Styles still kicked out. Joe picked him up and lifted him onto the top turnbuckle. He jostled with him for the set up to the Muscle Buster, but Styles fought him off and then leapt over him and into a sommersault roll. Joe came charging at him and Styles took him down with what looked like a drop toehold but transitioned the hold into the Calf Crusher on the earlier targeted left calf muscle. Joe writhed in pain and reached out for the ropes but couldn’t get them. He bit his bottom lip and appeared to make like he would tap a few times, before finally reaching back, getting his arm around Styles’ nech and driving his head and neck into the mat repeatedly until Styles let go.
Both luchadores looked spent at this point. They were slow to get up. Once up, they traded chops and punches. Styles staggered Joe and then gave him a fisherman’s facebuster. He went for the pin but Joe kicked out at two. He gave him a ushigoroshi and pinned him for another 2-count. Next, he gave Joe a high-angle belly-to-back suplex, then he went to the top turnbuckle and went for a shooting star press, but Joe rolled out of the way. Styles crashed and burned. Joe got up and started climbing the turnbuckles from inside the ropes. He appeared to be setting up for a high risk maneuver, which was an unusual move for him. However, we didn’t get to see what that would be as Styles kipped up, jumped up and took Joe down with a frankensteiner. He went out to the ring apron where he set up for and successfully landed a Phenomenal Forearm! He hooked Joe’s leg. 1…2… shoulder up!
Styles went back out to the ring apron and set up for it again. He went for it, but this time, Joe ducked it, wrapped around behind him and put him in a Coquina Clutch! Styles reached out for the ropes, but Joe pulled him back towards the center of the ring. Styles tried to back him into the corner, but Joe was able to spin away from it. Styles got his hands under Joe’s thighs, lifted him onto his back and fell backwards on top of Joe, slamming Joe’s back into the canvas, however that didn’t break the hold. Joe held on, and in fact, once on the mat, wrapped his legs around Styles with a body scissors, giving him no way to escape. Styles did everything in his power to break loose. He refused to give up. Instead, he passed out in the hold. When he referee determined Styles was unresponsive, he called for the bell. The match was over and a new Mash-Up Wrestling Men’s World Champion was crowned!
Four long years of fighting in the Temple for this moment, including two prior challenges for the title, one previously against AJ Styles, and finally he had prevailed. He celebrated and the Believers chanted his name. When Styles finally came back around, he acknowledged the effort and passed the torch by shaking Joe’s hand, hugging his long-time rival, and raising his hand in victory.
WINNER : Samoa Joe ***
Agent Alam enters a room without windows. There is a table, two chairs, and a telephone in it. There is a calendar pinned to the wall and nothing more. A single long tube fluorescent light hangs on the ceiling, inside a wired cage light fixture. The picks up the phone and places a phone call. Agent Schwarzenegger answers the phone. He is seated as a passenger inside a black secret service car. He looks out the window at a road sign indicating that Dulles Airport is the next exit. Alam tells him that Agent VKM has the Gauntlet of the Gods. Agent Schwarzenegger asks him if he is sure. Agent Alam says that King Cuerno confessed that it was that which he was paid to hunt down. Agent Schwarzenegger tells him he’ll take care of it. He hangs up and tells the driver there has been a change of plans. They need to go back to D.C.
Famous B is inside a hospital. A doctor has just finished attending to his injuries. Now, in addition to wearing a boot on his foot, he has his arm in a sling and a large gauze bandage affixed to his forehead above his right eye. The nurse says he has been released. He tells the nurse that his client Mike Awesome is also in the hospital and asks her which room he is in. She says she’ll go to check. Meanwhile, Nurse Brenda and Dr. Wagner Jr. come in. He’s pleased to see them. He tells them that he’s waiting to find out where Mike Awesome is. They say they already know. Famous B sits in a wheelchair and Dr. Wagner Jr. pushes it right out to the automatic sliding doors. Famous B wants to know why they are talking him outside. Dr. Wagner Jr. tells him that he and Mike Awesome are terminating his services. Then he rolls the wheelchair over the side of the curb and dumps him out of it.
Braun Strowman, Akam and Rezar walk into a non-descript store front in a strip mall. The location has its windows blacked out and the store front sign is blank. Inside, the place looks like a church. There are rows of wooden pews, candles burning everywhere, and a large pulpit at the back of the room. A large painting of Truth Martini serves as the backdrop to this pulpit. Truth Martini stands behind the podium. He tells his Army of Truth that they are over an hour late for their daily reading from the Book of Truth. Strowman looks him dead in the eyes and accuses him of selling them a package of lies. Martini is taken aback by the accusation and tries to defend himself, but Strowman doesn’t let him speak. He says that everything they were told was false. They were told that the Truth was only way and that its teachings would give them the power to eliminate all the Aztec Tribes, but it hasn’t. Now, they know the Book of Truth has been holding them back. The Book of Truth, its broken promises, and its house of ill begotten worship must burn to the ground! They set about destroying the interior of Truth Martini’s house of worship. He tries to run, but Strowman catches up to him and powerslams him through a table upon which sat hardcover copies of he Book of Truth, some fake gold chalices, and a spread of food. Then, he takes a large candle stick and lifts it up to press against the large painting of Truth Martini, setting it ablaze while Akam and Rezar knock over every lit candle they can find. Flames grow, smoke fills the space, a fire alarm begins to sound, and sprinklers start raining water down in the space as Strowman, Akam and Rezar walk out the front door.
We get a shot of a man shoveling dirt onto a grave in a cemetery. This is a low hanging fog, but he is partially illuminated by the glow of the moonlight breaking through the clouds. As we get closer, it becomes obvious that it is Mil Muertes. He finishes throwing dirt onto the grave and pats it down. The name on the headstone reads “Damien Priest.” The epitaph reads, “No one lives forever.” He turns around and looks into an open grave. In the hole sits a coffin with a likeness of Catrina’s face painted on it. Mil Muertes grabs a stone from underneath a silk cloth. It is the mystical stone that she always carried when she accompanied him to the ring. He throws the stone down with force, leaving a dent in the coffin and then starts throwing dirt into the hole with his shovel.
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The President is sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. His secretary buzzes in and tells him Agent VKM is here to see him. The President tells her to send him in. Agent VKM comes in carrying a briefcase. He is walking very assuredly with a big cocky smile on his face. The President isn’t happy to see this. He wants to know what he has to smile about. He says it is about “this,” as he lifts a large metal briefcase and taps it with his other hand. The President starts ranting about the state of the world and how everyone is out to get him. Agent VKM asks him if he wants to know what’s in the briefcase. The President doesn’t really care right now because he’s angry at Agent VKM for failing him. The super elite squad of sports entertainment agents he assembled were a bunch of losers. They haven’t done anything to Make Sports Entertainment Great Again – in fact, they’ve made the problem even worse! Now, the Lucha Libre Legends are Trios Champions and they’ve run them out of the Temple. It’s pathetic! Agent VKM says that what he has in the briefcase will change all that. Trump says, “Actually, no it won’t. You’re fired!” Agent VKM can’t believe it. He wants another chance. Trump says he’d be a sucker to give a loser like him another chance. He wants him out of his office right away. He hits his intercom button and tells his secret to “bring him in.” Agent VKM asks who will take over the operation now.
“The FBI.” Agent Schwarzenegger walks in, puts his hand on Agent VKM’s shoulder and tells him to come on. Agent VKM tells Agent Schwarzenegger to get his filthy paws off him. Next, he tells the President that he’s making a huge mistake. The FBI is half the agency that the CIA is. They’ll never get the job done. The President doesn’t care. Agent VKM failed and he’s off the job. Agent Schwarzenegger escorts Agent VKM out of the Oval Office and says, “I’ll be back” as he shuts the door behind him. Agent Schwarzenegger tells Agent VKM to hand over the briefcase. He refuses so Schwarzenegger grabs at it. They brawl for a bit until Schwarzenegger gets the better of him and takes the briefcase. Agent VKM rants about how the FBI is an inferior agency and marks his words that he’ll crush his competition. Agent Schwarzenegger says, “You’re a funny guy, Vince. I like you. That’s why I’m going to kill you last.” Agent VKM tells him off and turns to leave. Agent Schwarzenegger says, “Oh, and one more thing.”
Agent VKM turns around and Agent Schwarzenegger impales him in the chest while wearing the Gauntlet of the Gods. “I lied.”
Agent Schwarzenegger turns to go back into the Oval Office but the door is locked so he knocks it down with the Gauntlet of the Gods. Upon entering the room, he says, “Knock-Knock.” The President demands to know what he is doing. He tells him that he’s saving the world. He walks right over to the desk, backs the President up against the windows behind it and chokes the life out of him. The Presidents tongue flaps and he eventually begins to foam at the mouth. His eyes bulge and pop out of his skull. When he’s he body goes limp, his head dangles to the side. “What a pain in the neck.”
Agent Schwarzenegger walks outside into the rose garden. Standing there is Aero Star. He takes off the Gauntlet of the Gods and hands it over to him. He tells Aero Star that it is done. The threat to the future of lucha libre in the Americas is over. The forces of evil have been defeated and the world may begin to heal. Aero Star says that the darkness has been beaten back, but it isn’t defeated. What has happened today is only half the equation. Whether Earth may know peace depends on what happens tomorrow. But for now, Agent Schwarzenegger has done his part and for that, the planet and universe will be forever thankful. Agent Schwarzenegger asks him what he will do with the Gauntlet of the Gods. He says that he will hide it some place that no one will ever find it. They salute each other and Aero Star turns to walk away. Agent Schwarzenegger calls out his name. Aero Star looks over his shoulder at him. As Agent Schwarzenegger puts his sunglasses on, he says, “Hasta la vista, baby!” Aero Star smiles. In the reflection of the black lenses we see a blast of rocket fuel, like a firework being shot off into the night sky.
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