The
show begins with a recap of the life of Dusty Rhodes – The American Dream. Dusty passed away at the age of 69. We at the HWF and CSWA remember Dusty fondly
and he will always symbolize “the American dream” for all of us. The bell rings 10 times and pictures of Dusty
throughout his career show on the Omegatron.
RIP Dusty.
Welcome
fans to the Great American Bash. We are
here LIVE in El Paso, TX – the home (away from home) of the Desperados – El
Chango and the Stache. The Desperados
will be in action tomorrow against the Ascension for the Tag Team titles. Will luck (or skill) be in their corner or
will they become “just another victim” to fall to the might of Viktor and
Konnor?
The
show officially begins with GM’s Master Bull and Hulk Hogan coming on to the
stage and welcoming everyone (BROTHER) to the show. Bull states that all title matches will be
one fall – winner takes all. Hogan says
that the fans deserve this added day (and man, are they straining from the rafters)
as this building is so full it is about to explode. Hulk says that it was an honor to work with
Dusty Rhodes and says he will be missed.
The fans start a “Thank you Dusty” chant and it goes on for a few
minutes as another montage plays on the Omegatron. Hogan and Bull leave the stage to let the
fans appreciate Dusty Rhodes one last time.
As
Bull and Hogan make their way to the back, they run into everyone’s favorite
jackass #CJ. #CJ arrives and says his
“special needs” need to be taken care of ask where his dressing room is. (Editor’s note: by the end of the show, #CJsSpecialNeeds is
trending worldwide). He lambasts Master
Bull & Hogan and gives them crap about not utilizing the #HardcoreChamp the
way he should be used. Master Bull gets
into #CJ’s face and gives him the option to pick a number between 1 and 6. If he chooses correctly, he gets the main
event. If not, he will be in the spot he
is writing down right now. Bull writes a
number on a piece of paper and gives it to Hogan. #CJ picks…6 because he’s a main eventer. Hogan shows the number and it was 1 because
Bull says #CJ always thinks of himself first.
#CJ seems to be ok with being the opening match for tomorrow’s show.
We
head to the ring for our first match which is a Last Man Standing rules match
between Buff ‘Main Event’ Austin and MW3.
As a reminder, Austin asked GM Hogan to make this a match were the loser
would be forced to retire. Austin comes
out first to booing from the fans and he is followed by MW3 who gets a good
pop. MW3 hits the ring and Buff
bails. This goes on for 2 minutes and
finally Buff gets in the ring. The two
of them are fighting all over the place and hitting each other with everything
but the kitchen sink. This one ends up
going the full 30 minutes and just as Buff hit the Pain Killer, the match ended
in a draw. Both men actually got huge applause
from the fans. GM Hogan came back out
and said that the Bash doesn’t begin with a draw and there will be a
winner. Hogan instructs the match to
continue. MW3 was almost like a new man
and he just went off on Buff. For 11
minutes, MW3 beat the tar out of Buff.
They both ended up on the outside of the ring and MW3 connects with a
floatover DDT on the concrete. He makes the cover and gets the 1-2-3. MW3 is victorious. He celebrated with the fans as medics came
out to help Buff Austin to the back.
Fans gave him a standing ovation. (41 min)
In
the back, the Nigerian Wraith said that he thought he and Sonic Blade were crew
but after being eliminated in the battle royal by his ‘friend’, those thoughts
went right out the window. Sonic Blade
walked over and said that the Wraith was blowing things out of proportion but
Wraith wouldn’t hear of it. He said that
the two of them can fight it out and really see who the better of the two
is. Before Sonic Blade could reply, the
Wraith walked off.
We
head back to the ring for our next match.
Charlotte, daughter of ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair is taking on Cactus
Jackie. Jackie hasn’t been around much
lately (she’s been acting as a groupie while her husband Dirk ‘the Pick’ Devon
rocked out on the drums standing in for local bands). Jackie and Charlotte were in the ring
jawjacking and they started to slug it out.
The bell finally rings. This one isn’t very long as Charlotte only let
Jackie get in one move. That was
it. Charlotte owned Jackie in the match
and after hitting a headscissors facebuster, pinned Jackie in the middle of the
ring. Charlotte celebrated with the fans
as Jackie stormed to the back. (6 min)
In
one interview area, the Miz is being interviewed and he says he’s lost his
Hollywood ‘cred’ all because of the Fiend. Tonight, he will take it out on the
Fiend one dollar at a time.
Elsewhere
in the back, the Fiend is talking to Leon Teremoto and he says that the Miz has
taken things too far and tonight, not only is the Miz finished in Hollywood,
tonight, the Miz will be finished in the ring.
It
is time to go back to the ring for our next match. First, Kevin Owens comes to the ring. He is then followed out by Samoa Joe. Joe is accompanied to the stage by his
teammates Ryback and Mark Henry. His
buds remain on the stage while Joe heads to the ring. Joe and Kevin immediately start to slug it
out. Ryback and Henry hit the ring and
triple team Owens until the save comes from Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins. The ref can’t get control of the match and is
ready to call it quits until Master Bull intervenes. Bull says that instead of a singles match,
this is now a 6 man tag team match. Mark
Henry and Dean Ambrose didn’t get involved except in double or triple
teaming. Kevin and Samoa Joe did most of
the dirty work. After a brief
intermission of Ryback and Seth Rollins fighting it out, Owens and Joe were
back in the ring. Kevin nails Joe with
the Steenalizer (reverse powerbomb suplex) and pins Joe clean in the middle of
the ring. Ambrose, Rollins and Owens are
victorious. Owens looks to the heavens
and whispers “for you Dusty”. The
winners left up the ramp while the losers complained in the ring.
Back
in his dressing room, MW3 is talking to Hogan.
MW3 says that Buff, misguided, doesn’t deserve to lose his job. “I didn’t come up with that stipulation,
brother” Hogan said. “He did and now he
needs to pay the piper.” (The camera immediately pans to the right and we see,
sitting there waving to the camera, Rowdy Roddy Piper). “However, there is one way that Buff can keep
his job and that is only if YOU call it quits, brother.” MW3 says “I tell you what…I’ll give you an
answer before the end of the night…brother.”
MW3 leaves the office.
Our
next match is Hollywood Miz vs. the Fiend.
Miz is in the ring first strutting and then the Fiend comes out. The Fiend then introduces his “posse” and out
comes the band the Misfits. The fans pop
and that just pisses the Miz off. The
Fiend gets in the ring and out match begins.
The Fiend was thrashing the Miz all over the ring. At one point, Miz crashes into the ref
knocking him from the ring. A new ref
runs out just as the Fiend hits Miz with the 3 hits from Hell. He makes the cover but the ref acts like he
got something in his eye. Miz pops up
and this the Mizard of Oz and rolls the Fiend up hooking the tights and the ref
makes a very fast 3 count awarding the match to the Miz. The Misfits hit the ring and the Miz
bails. The Fiend and his friends
celebrate in the ring as Miz backs up pissed off (even though he won the
match).
MW3
finds Buff Austin getting ready to walk out and asks to speak to him. MW3 tells Buff that he put on a hell of a
show and doesn’t feel Austin should lose his job. He asks Austin to consider something. He likes what he sees in Buff but Buff isn’t
going to get anywhere with his crap ass attitude. MW3 proposes that Buff makes a (yet another)
change. He asks Buff to become the next Mr. Wrestling. MW3 says that Mr. Wrestling 4 (from last
year) couldn’t carry his jock strap but Buff is the man who could bring
prestige and honor back to the Mr. Wrestling name. Buff accepts the challenge as MW3 presents
him with a brand new mask. MW3 then
meets up with Hogan and says that tomorrow, he will announce his retirement as
long as Hogan agrees to keep Buff Austin (aka Mr. Wrestling 5) around. Hogan agrees and the two shake hands.
In
an interview area, AJ Styles is talking about after putting Orton away, he is
going after the US title held by Christopher Daniels or whomever is in
possession of the title but he is attacked by Randy Orton. The ‘shirts’ (crew standing around waiting to
break up fights) break it up quickly before any damage can be done.
We
go back to the ring for our next match Nigerian Wraith vs Sonic Blade. Sonic comes out first and then the Wraith
storms out after him not even waiting for his music to start. The bell rings just as the Wraith hits the
ring. Their fight goes on for 20 minutes
with neither giving an inch. This match
had the fans attention throughout and when someone did a crazy move, the fans
would chant “that was awesome”. Even
though the Wraith was the more aggressor and rule breaker, the fans accepted
him as an outstanding performer. Right
towards the end, the Wraith went to the top rope and went for a splash but
Sonic moved out of the way. He then
dropped repeated elbow drops on the Wraith and finally hooked the leg to get
the 1-2-3. Sonic Blade gets the
win. After the match, he extends his
hand to the Wraith but at first, the Wraith didn’t want to accept it but after
urging from the fans, he finally did.
Sonic Blade raised the arm of the Nigerian Wraith and they left the
ring.
A
video is shown recapping the history between ‘The Original Big Daddy’ Donnie B
and the Undertaker from 2010. Undertaker
was the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion and Donnie B, not a title holder, was
granted a shot at that title (something never done before) and Donnie B somehow
came out victorious. The HWF and CSWA
then ceased operations until, in 2011, at a special event put on by another
organization, Donnie B agreed to put the title on the line against the
Undertaker and again, he was victorious.
Now, in 2015, one of these two will call it quits. Donnie B vs the Undertaker in a retirement
match. The loser cannot come back in
another form/character. This is it. That match, in a Hell in a Cell, will be our
main event of the night.
As
soon as the steel cage walls were put up (the Hell in a Cell is hanging above
the ring), the next match was able to begin.
AJ Styles vs Randy Orton is next.
Orton comes out first to the booing of the fans and then AJ Styles
follows him out. Orton is in the cage
pacing like a tiger and AJ opts to enter the ring by going over the top. He sits there until the bell rings and then
he LAUNCHES himself down on to Orton and the match is underway. AJ controlled the entire match until a masked
wrestler from the back came out with a chain.
The masked man threw the chain to Orton to bashed AJ with it turning the
tide. A bloody AJ stumbled around the
ring until Orton caught him with the RKO.
He got the 3 count and then tried to make for the door but the masked
man stood there and wouldn’t let him out.
Orton was confused. AJ recovered enough to catch Orton with the Styles
Clash and he got his own 3 count. Now it
is a race to see who gets out of the cage first. The fans were on the edge of their seat for this
one too. AJ ran and jumped on the cage
and began to scale it until the masked man hit the cage wall with a steel chair
making him fall back in the ring. Orton,
on the other side of the ring, made it over the top and then dropped to the
floor becoming the winner of this match.
(21 minutes). The masked man got
in the ring and hit AJ with the chair.
He removed his mask and it was none other than Kazarian – Christopher
Daniels’ tag team partner and sometimes cronie.
He leaves the ring and drops the chair and leaves as the cage is
unassembled.
As
soon as that was done and AJ was helped out of the ring, the Hell in a Cell was
lowered. Donnie B comes out to a nice
pop from the fans. The lights go dim and
a blue light shines on the ramp as the Undertaker makes his way down to the
ring with his eerie music and gong sounding in the background. This is it for one of these two. Not one fan left during this main event. Everyone was glued to their seats awaiting
the outcome. These two did not
disappoint (the whole flippin’ card was pretty damn good) and slugged it out
using the structure to their advantages. At one point, the two made it out of
the structure and climbed to the top.
Donnie B slammed Undertaker hard on the top of the cage and UT locked
Donnie B in a triangle choke but there was no ref (he had gotten knocked out) up
there to see if he tapped. They both
make it back in the ring where Undertaker locks DB in the triangle choke once
again but the ref is still out. DB
breaks the hold by hitting Undertaker with a chair. Donnie B hits the Lights Out
Brainbuster. The ref is starting to
recover. DB pulls the ref over but by
the time he makes the cover, Undertaker sits up. DB’s eyes go all wide. Undertaker hits a couple of chokeslams but DB
catapults him into the cage busting him open.
Both are wearing crimson masks now.
DB calls for the lights out Brainbuster one last time but Taker reverses
it and hits the Last Ride. He makes the
cover…1…2…3. Undertaker has won the
match and Donnie B must now retire. (15 min).
After the match, the cage is raised and Undertaker and Donnie B shake
hands in a show of mutual respect.
Donnie B leaves to the cheering of the fans while Undertaker remains
behind basking in his win.
In
the back, Donnie B gets a standing ovation from all the wrestlers and is met by
the Desperados (El Chango and the Stache) and then part owner Jeff Meyers who
shakes DB’s hand. He is then greeted by
GM Hulk Hogan and Master Bull who congratulate DB on a fantastic career. Undertaker finally makes it to the back and
he and Donnie B shake hands.
With
that, the show comes to an end. Stay
tuned for Day 2 coming tomorrow.
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