Friday, November 23, 2018

HCW Wrestling Newsletter 2018 #726 – Phoenix Heat


Hello fans and welcome back to another installment of the HCW newsletter.   Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!!!  We had a hell of a show this past Sunday in San Diego with Elimination Chamber.  Ruby Rose got the win for the Ladies allowing her Tacoma teammates to keep their jobs.  We hear that Scarlett Phoenix and Madame Jade will be on hand tonight to say their goodbyes.   On the men’s side, newcomer Apollo Gyze gets the win also for Tacoma allowing his teammates to also keep their jobs.  

Because of the vacancies caused by the departing wrestlers, HCW has decided to do a roster shake up.  Moving to Tacoma are the Regulators who frankly want nothing to do with the Banker anymore.  Moving to Phoenix are quite a few:  Bob ‘Powder’ Keg, the King of Cones Magnum Kone, Leon Teremoto, Perfect Pecs Stoddard and finally the NEW TV Champion Davis ‘the Hoff’ Hoffmeister. 

Next, because ‘the Elitist’ Reid Rothchild was part of the losing team and therefore is out, Elitism has to forfeit the Tag Team Titles.  A series of matches will be held starting tonight to get to a final 4 who will duke it out at the “Zero Hour” PPV next month.  Roderick was asked if he wanted to find a partner and get back into the tournament but he said that his brother is the only person he’d ever team with so now its singles action for him.

We are also going to have 2 title matches tonight with the 5th Column defending the 6 Man Tag Team Championship against the Steel Curtain and Tommy Lightning and the ITF Champion Jacques Beannot (with his manager ‘the Singapore Sensation’ Matt Preacher) taking on Leon Teremoto.

Pyro goes off and our first match is ready.  Over the loudspeakers blares “VAMPIRE LUNGES FOR EVERYONE!” and out comes the evil vampire bot Dr. Red Fang and his manager Ant Graham.  Fang snarls and growls at the fans as he makes his way to the ring.  Ant gets ridiculed by the fans and he responds by flipping them off.  The music changes and the fans explode as Drew the Canadian Love Machine comes out.  He high fives the fans.  As soon as he gets in the ring, Fang attacks him.  The two battle tooth and nail and kept the fans on their feet for the entire match.  Even with interference from Ant Graham, it wasn’t enough to give Fang a huge advantage.  As the match entered the 20th and final minute of the match, Drew connects with a corkscrew pescado but Fang hits a Vampire Lunge out of nowhere.  With both men spent, the bell rings bringing this one to a time limit draw.  Drew rolls out of the ring and leaves to a pop from the crowd.  Fang makes it to his feet only to get leveled by the Unknown Assassin who ran in from the crowd to attack him.  UA beat Fang down and then knocked him silly with multiple forearm shots.  UA’s manager JC Dykes decks Ant Graham and then enters the ring with mic in hand and he tells Fang that UA isn’t done with him by a long shot and officially challenges him to a match at the PPV with their careers on the line.  He proposes a loser leaves HCW match.  Dykes says that he and the Unknown Assassin will await the cowards’ response.  UA and Dykes leave to booing from the crowd.  (20 min for the match; 5 for the aftermath)

We cut up to the Omegatron where we get a recap from Elimination Chamber showing Ruby Rose’s win as well as Apollo Gyze’s “comment” directed at Master Bull.  “Kiss my ass Master Bull.  Hahahahahahahaha”.

We then cut to the interview area and the Wicked Prophet is there with Leon Teremoto.  WP asks Leon if he is ready for his match against the ITF Champion Jacques Beannot.  Leon says that not only is he ready but he is walking out with the title tonight and once the ref hands him the title, he will drop the ITF name and officially bring back the US title.  The Wicked Prophet wishes Leon good luck.

We head back to the ring for our first qualifying match for the Tag Team Titles.  First, Leiton and Tobias Snake come out to a mixed reaction from the crowd.  Shortly thereafter, their opponents, two members of the Huber Clan (Butch and Junior Huber) come out to booing from the fans.  They make their way down to the ring.  The two teams battled in the ring but lots of rest holds caused the fans to get bored and head to the bathroom or snack bar.  Before we knew it, this one hit the 30 minute time limit.  Both teams are eliminated and out of the tag team running.

We head to the back once again and manager ‘the Singapore Sensation’ Matt Preacher tells everyone that all is well with everyone he manages and Nix Anderson will be back in the ring on Sunday.  He however is not done with the man who “stole” his TV title Davis Hoffmeister.  He promises that Nix will be the champ again. 

We go back to the ring for our next tag team qualifying match.  First, Scooter J and TNT come out to a nice pop from the crowd.  Scooter J looks to be healthy.  TNT high fives with the fans as he makes his way into the ring.  Next, the music changes and out comes the Muscles Trio.  They are wearing their rainbow colored bull horns and carrying boxes of ‘Booty-O’s’ cereal.  The trio do ‘rock, paper, scissors’ to see who will represent them in the match.  Muscles Thorpe and Weasley get the win and they head to the ring.  The match begins pretty quickly but 4 minutes into the match, during a double team, Thorpe threw TNT over the top rope and he appeared to land awkwardly.  He appears to be hurt so SJ is on his own.  Scooter J began a good run but each time he executed a move, the Muscles would tag out bringing a fresh man into the ring.  They did this a few times and SJ got a bit frustrated.  Thorpe tagged Weasley in but before he could tag back in, TNT came around and pulled him off the apron.  In the ring, Weasley went for a double foot stomp but SJ reversed it and hit a piledriver.  With no one to make the save, Scooter J gets the 1-2-3.  SJ and TNT move forward in the tournament. (8 min)

Backstage, the Wicked Prophet interview the Steel Curtain (Buzz and Starbuck Steel) and Tommy Lightning.  Tommy is excited for a shot at the 6 man titles.  Buzz says that this enthusiasm is just what they need to revitalize the division.  Starbuck adds in that it’s been awhile since they carried gold and now is as good a time as any.  Buzz and Tommy then lean in and say “Word” and the trio leave.

We head back to the ring for another tag team qualifying match.  First, the Ryzing Storm (Terra and Travis Ryzing) come out to booing from the fans.  Next, the former champions the Mexicali Flyers (El Dragon Insano and Tornado en Fuego) come out to a huge pop from the crowd.  They zip around like bees which gets the crowd pumped.  The Storm begin by attacking the Flyers but their offense is squashed before it ever got started.  The Flyers were able to calm the Storm and own the match.  At the 12 minute mark, all 4 men were in the ring.  Travis hit Tornado with a neckbreaker and El Dragon threw Terra out of the ring to the floor.  He followed him and picked him up dragging him to the announce table where he hit a superplex from the announce table to the floor.  The ref began counting and El Dragon rolled back in just before the 10 count.  Terra Ryzing doesn’t make the count and ends up getting counted out.   The Mexicali Flyers get the win via CO and move on in the tournament. (12 min)

We head to the back with the Wicked Prophet and he is with the 6 Man tag team champions the 5th Column.  Baron von Blood speaks for his team and says that they will dominate their match tonight and the Curtain and Tommy will go home empty handed.  They laugh as they walk off.

We are back at the ring and music hits and out comes the challengers the Steel Curtain and Tommy Lightning.  The fans pop as they make their way down to the ring.  Their pop is cut short when the 6 Man Tag Team Champions the 5th Column make their way out.  The fans boo the crap out of them.  They stop on the stage and then they look up and we hear “Apollo Gyze don’t apologize” blare through the loudspeakers.  Tommy begins looking around for him determinedly.  When Apollo doesn’t show up, the Column laugh as it was all a ploy to throw Tommy off his game.  Both teams were pretty even through 13 minutes of the match.  The Column triple teamed Tommy and kept him on their side of the ring taunting the Curtain all the while.  people out of the ring, Tommy tried for a monkey flip but didn’t have enough to capitalize on it.  Karl then pulled out an illegal object and hit Tommy with it.  He made the cover getting the 1-2-3.  The Column retain their titles.  They began berating the Steel Curtain and then music hit and out comes GM Master Bull.  Bull says that he rid Phoenix of Apollo and is not happy that the Column likes to keep bringing him up even in an effort to throw their opponents off.  Baron asks Bull what he’s going to do about it.  Master Bull says that even though the Column won tonight, they WILL defend the titles one more time against the Steel Curtain and Tommy Lightning at the PPV.   The Column tried to complain but Bull walked off.  (16 min)

For the last time tonight, the Wicked Prophet is getting ready in the interview area and ITF Champion Jacques Beannot and his manager ‘the Singapore Sensation’ Matt Preacher walk in.  Jacques calls the Prophet a wannabe and if he knows what’s good for him, he’ll just stand there holding the mic.  Jacques says that Leon is a no body and can’t figure out why he’s getting a title shot.  Jacques says that once he defeats Leon, he will be the greatest to hold this title and no one will ever touch him.  Jacques walks away with Preacher following.  Prophet stands there glaring after them.

It is time for our main event.  First, Leon Teremoto comes out and the fans pop for him as he makes his way down to the ring.  After a few minutes to interact with the fans, the music changes and Matt Preacher comes out first and introduces the greatest International Title of France Champion ever – Jacques Beannot.  Beannot makes his way down to the ring and holds his title in Leon’s face.  Leon doesn’t waste any time and takes a swing at Jacques.  Jacques backs off not expecting it, hands the title off and then attacks Leon.  Jacques applies a shoulder pinch and Leon locks in an armbar scissored lock.  Leon then hits a sitout side slam.  Jacques locks in the Spreadsheet but Leon makes it to the ropes.  Jacques applies a sleeperhold but Leon locks in the armbar scissored lock again.  Jacques hits a jaw jacker.  Leon locks in a headlock but Preacher hits him from behind.  When that didn’t work, Preacher got up on the apron and put his hands on the ref.  The ref warned him not to do that again or he would disqualify Jacques.  Preacher rears back and slugs the ref.  The ref calls for the bell disqualifying Jacques and awards the match to Leon.  Since the title doesn’t change hands on a DQ, Jacques is still the champion.  All of a sudden, the Wicked Prophet storms out from the back and he tells the ref he has to call out a serious miscarriage of justice.  He replays the last few moments of the match that showed the constant interference by Preacher.  The Wicked Prophet suggests that Jacques give Leon a rematch at the PPV and make it a no DQ.  Jacques asks why he would do something so stupid.  The Wicked Prophet points up at the Omegatron and it begins flashing hilarious photos of Jacques and he screams to shut them off.  Prophet tells him to agree to the match.  Jacques stammers a bit but then finally agrees.  He and Preacher storm off.  It looks like Leon will be getting a fair shake.

Just as the cameras were getting ready to end, Madame Jade, Scarlett Phoenix, Taylor Bella, Phat Sol, Brick (Machine B), Top Gun Justin Winger and Sonic Blade all came out and said their goodbyes to the fans.  They each got a nice pop.  ‘The Elitist’ Reid Rothchild came out on the ramp and all he said was “You haven’t seen the last of me” and then walked off.  

With that, the show comes to an end.  I’m sure Jacques will have something to say to Tacoma GM Max McGillicutty when he arrives back in Tacoma.  Stay tuned as things are heating up.  

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