Wednesday, August 8, 2018

HCW Wrestling Newsletter 2018 #701 – Phoenix Heat


Hello fans and welcome to another installment of HCW’s Phoenix Heat.   

The show begins with Master Bull coming out to booing from the crowd.  He gets into the ring.  The booing gets louder.  He tries to talk over them but is not successful.  “Listen, you all would have done the same thing.  I had to ensure I had a job in order to provide for me and mine.  You can’t fault a guy for looking out for his family can you?”  The booing intensified.  “Listen, I’m out here for one reason and that is for an announcement.  Cushman Armitage and Emmett Millbarge have given me permission to announce that I will be moving to a more “hands on” role when I take over managerial duties for “Big Money” Ned Rhyerson III.”  The venom spewed by the fans was so thick that Master Bull wasn’t able to get a word in edgewise.  This all changed when the music changed and out comes the World Champion ‘the Ragin Cajun’ King Rad Gumbo.  The fans actually popped for what may be the first time ever for Gumbo (at least in recent memory).  Gumbo comes out on crutches and makes his way down to the ring.  He enters and Bull backs off and exits.  Gumbo states that after he went on to a hard fought victory, Rhyerson attacked him.  He doesn’t blame Ned as it’s what he would have done but now he’s gone and put himself on Gumbo’s radar.  Rad asks Bull if Rhyerson will be representing Cushman.  Bull nods yes.  Rad then says “Well, I guess that makes me the face for HCW and the owners.”  The fans pop.  Gumbo finishes with “the Cajun has spoken” and begins to leave.  Out of nowhere, Ned Rhyerson hits the ring and begins to beat Gumbo down.   Still not 100% from the supershow, he wasn’t able to put up much of a fight.  Rhyerson then began smashing Gumbo with his crutches bending and breaking them on Gumbo.  Rhyerson once again picks up the World title and holds it high before dropping it on the prone form of the World Champion.  Rhyerson and Bull leave.

Backstage, Taylor Bella is commenting about how the Ladies title has become a joke with it changing hands yet again.  No one has been able to hold the title consecutively since the beginning of the year when she was champion.  She says all she needs is one chance and the belt will be hers again and then the fans will have a champion they can be proud of.  The Duchess walks in interrupting Taylor.  The Duchess calls Taylor a fraud because she couldn’t hold the title.  Taylor counters with “At least I’ve held the title this year.  What have you done beside trade brands and then lose every match since then?”  The Duchess attacked her and the two brawled briefly before having it broken up by Emmett Millbarge.  Emmett said that the Duchess will put her spot on the line in a match against Taylor tonight.  If the Duchess loses, they will have to seriously contemplate her future.  He walks off and the Duchess looks a little worried.

Pyro goes off and our first match of the night kicks off.  First, making their way out are Texas Wildfire and Sonic Blade.  The fans pop for them as they make their way down to and into the ring.  Next, the Ambassador comes out and introduces Elitism (Reid and Roderick Rothchild).  The fans boo as the three make their way down to the ring.  The match started off right away with the Ambassador hitting a low blow shot on Sonic Blade.  Sonic made the hot tag to Texas Wildfire who began to clean house against Reid.  After dropping Reid with a leaping DDT, Reid rolled to his corner and tagged in Roderick.  Sonic is tagged back in and continues the assault on Roderick.  Texas Wildfire is tagged back in and he just rages like a wild fire over Roderick until the Ambassador hit him with a low blow shot.  TW staggered to the middle of the ring where Roderick caught him and executed an airplane spin.  He went for the pin, hooked the leg and got the 1-2-3.  Elitism gets the win and started to put the boots to TW but Sonic Blade was in pretty fast armed with a steel chair and chased Elitism from the ring.   Sonic helped TW to his feet and after shaking off the cobwebs, they interacted briefly with the fans (much to their delight) before heading to the back.  (10 min)

Scooter J is backstage and he’s been put into a match tonight.  SJ comments that he gets TNT at the end of the month but he’d rather not wait.  He says he wants to kick TNT’s ass but he’ll settle for taking out his frustrations on one of the imbecilic morons from the Muscles Trio.  He calls TNT a coward for hiding out on the Tacoma roster and anytime he wants to step foot in Phoenix, he’ll burn him just like the hot Arizona sun.

Our next match begins with the lights going dim.  Wilber Townsend comes out carrying his lantern and with his creepy music playing in the background, he makes his way down to the ring.  There’s just something about this guy that sets our nerves on end.  The lights come back up and with the sound of roaring jet engines screaming, out comes ‘Top Gun’ Justin Winger.  The fans pop huge for him as he makes his way down to the ring.  He tries to get the crowd psyched up but Wilber cuts him off wanting to start the match right away.  Winger held the advantage throughout the entire match but the longer it went on, the more of an impact Wilber began to make.  Suddenly, Winger’s advantage, his speed, ceased to be a factor and Wilber turned up the heat.  Winger catches Wilber with an arm drag take down but Wilber drops him with a short arm clothesline.  It seemed that Winger’s head hit the mat kind of hard.  Disoriented, he got up but before he could shake off the cobwebs, Wilber hits him with a lifting sideslam.  He goes for the pin and with a foot on the ropes for leverage, he gets the 1-2-3.  Wilber Townsend gets his arm raised in victory.  Wilber takes a mic and calls out TNT.  “Templeton, you have a match coming up with Scooter J and you have a lot riding on this match including the Townsend name.  I, as well as our kin the Huber Clan, will be at ringside to ensure you do right by the family.  We may not see eye to eye right now but fail us and the buzzards will clean your carcass.  You’d better be ready.”  (17 min for the match and 5 extra for his rant)

After that was over, the Steel Curtain (Buzz and Starbuck Steel) make their way out to a nice pop from the fans.  Once in the ring, Buzz takes a mic and thanks the fans for all of their encouragement.  Starbuck says that Rad Gumbo proved to be the better wrestler and successfully retained.  Buzz takes the mic back and says that they now can concentrate on what they do best and that is tag team action.  Before you know it, they will have gold around their waists.  They are interrupted by the Regulators who came out with their manager Ruth Heartless.  The Regulators mock them for losing what should have been a 2 on one advantage but they couldn’t even pull that off.  Mule comments “You know, if you can’t win when you have the advantage, what in the world makes you think you can win as a team?”  They laugh.  Starbuck takes the mic and says “If you want to see what we’ve got, how about getting your asses in the ring and we’ll show you what a superior team looks like.”  The Regulators tried to back out of it but after Buzz laid some serious insults at Ruth, they rushed the ring and the match began immediately.  For the first 15 minutes of the match, it was all the Steel Curtain.  After that point though (and interference from Ruth), it became all about the Regulators.  We were shocked actually at how much they owned the match.  I guess their teaming with the Banker has been helping them outside of 6 man action.  As the match neared the 30 minute mark, Ruth got involved but ended up getting taken out after Regulator Mammoth accidentally knocked her from the apron.   As we entered the final minute of the match, both Starbuck and Regulator Mule were on the top rope.  Starbuck began chopping the hell out of Mule’s chest.  Mule eye raked Starbuck just as Buzz hit the ring taking Mammoth out with a clothesline.  Mule tried to hit a DDT but Starbuck held onto the ropes until the bell rang bringing this one to a draw finish.  Ruth quickly gathered up the Regulators and they left.  Buzz and Starbuck celebrated with the fans briefly before heading to the back.  (30 min draw)

Backstage, the Muscles Trio (Thorpe, Weasley & McGuire) are playing “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock” (reference to Big Bang Theory) and Thorpe ended up losing so he “volunteered” to go kick Scooter J’s ass tonight.  McGuire told him they’d be watching from the dressing room via closed circuit television.  Thorpe left and then Weasley commented “Closed Circuit?  What is this…the 80’s?”

Muscles Thorpe comes out first wearing his rainbow colored bull hornes and carrying his box of ‘Booty-O’s’ cereal.  He gets a nice pop from the crowd.  Next, Scooter J comes out and the fans boo him.  He flips them off uncaring of who he might offend.  He doesn’t waste any time and the match begins almost immediately.   Muscles Thorpe started off strong but then Scooter J began to battle back.  Just when he was going for the ’10 punches’, music hit and out comes TNT.  The fans pop huge for him.  As he makes his way down to the ring, he stares at SJ never taking his eyes off him.  Scooter J began yelling at TNT for coming out during his match.  He turned around and Thorpe practically runs him over with the E-Train running body block.  He makes the cover and gets the quick 1-2-3.  (6 min)  Thorpe gets the win and leaves right after the ref raised his arm.  SJ begins kicking the ropes in frustration but bails when TNT enters the ring wielding a steel chair.  TNT asks for a mic.  “Scooter J, you invite me out here but then you bail like a coward when I arrive.  I’m here right here and right now.  You want a piece of me?  I’m not going anywhere.”  SJ shakes his head in defiance and says that it be on his terms.  TNT looks to the crowd.  “Also, to my ‘family’…you say I’d better not let you down?  I don’t acknowledge you and if you even remotely think about getting involved in my match, there will be some serious hell to pay.”  TNT then leaves as the fans pop.

The Machines (B and P Machine) say that things haven’t exactly been going the way they’d hoped but tonight, they get the title shot at the tag belts and if the Desperados continue to underestimate them, they will be in for a rude awakening.

Our next match is for placement in the Ladies Top 10.  Taylor has issued a challenge to the Duchess for her spot.  If successful, she will move up in the rankings.  If not, she’ll stay put.  Music hits and Taylor makes her way down to the ring first.  The fans are not very appreciate of her.   Next, the Duchess comes out and the fans boo her.  She yells at a few of them on her way down to the ring.  The two had some jawjacking going on to start their match but as soon as it was underway, they fought tooth and nail.  They hit plenty of high spots with Taylor staying in control for the first 12 minutes but after the Duchess introduced Taylor to the steel steps, things began going her ladyship’s way.  The Duchess went for a few pin attempts but Taylor had the presence of mind to continue to kick out.  At the 19 minute mark, the Duchess eye raked (more like eye gouged) Taylor and went for a pin only for Taylor to once again kick out.  The Duchess was really frustrated at this part and began slamming her hands on the mat.  She got up and followed Taylor to the corner.  While the ref wasn’t looking, the Duchess hit Taylor with a sucker punch and then used the corner turnbuckle to put her feet on for leverage and was able to secure the 3 count before the time limit expired.  The Duchess finally gets a win here in Phoenix and she acts like she’d just run a marathon and won some huge medal.  She leaves the ring laughing at Taylor.  Taylor gets up and rubs her jaw and then she too leaves.  (19:30 min)

The Desperados are backstage and they comment on the fact that the Machines somehow are getting tonight’s title shot.  El Chango says that they’ve beaten them in a non-title match so the fact that this title shot is happening is all about backstage politics.  Leon comments that if they beat them once, they will beat them again and tells El Chango not to worry.  They’ve got each other’s backs and they will emerge victorious.

It’s time for our Main Event.  Tonight, the Tag Team titles are on the line.  First, the Machines (B & P) make their way out to a nice reaction from the crowd.  Next, the champs the Desperados come out and the fans pop huge for them.  They high five with some of the fans and make their way into the ring.  The each climb a set of turnbuckles getting the crowd psyched up for this match.  The match began and for 26 minutes, they kept the fans entertained and on the edges of their seats.  The Machines basically went toe to toe with the champs and would not let up.  Once it seemed like the Machines weren’t going to slow down, El Chango finally took them seriously.  He and Leon double teamed Machine B hitting a shooting star press from El Chango and Leon grounded him with a side headlock.   Machine B powered out and dropped El Chango with a DDT.   Machine B then hits Leon with a jackknife powerbomb.   El Chango comes back hitting Machine B with a spear.   Machine B went for a piledriver but El Chango powered out of it and jumped to the turnbuckle and hit a shooting star press.  With only seconds left, El Chango made the cover and got the 3 count just before the time limit expired.  The Desperados retain their belts in this hard fought victory.  After they had time to celebrate, they shook hands with the Machines in a mutual sign of respect.  The show then came to an end with the Desperados getting pops from the crowd.

Be sure to tune back in as things are really heating up.

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