Hello fans and
welcome back to another installment of HCW’s Phoenix Heat. Even though winter is approaching, things are
heating up in HCW and are nearing a boiling point. Our PPV week begins on Sunday with a show in
Tacoma followed by one last one in Phoenix on Monday. After that, we pack up and head to the Mile
High City where Denver, CO will host not only the fanfest (Colorado Springs)
but also the 2 day PPV Zero Hour. Our
show in Denver is almost sold out so get your tickets now.
Before the show
begins, HCW acknowledges the real life passing of legends The Dynamite Kid
(from the British Bulldogs) and Larry ‘The Axe’ Hennig. The bell rings 10 times in solemn respect for
them.
Pyro goes off and
out comes GM Master Bull to a pop from the crowd. He thanks the fans for attending and says
that he’s super excited for the PPV only days away. He’s getting the fans pumped up until the
loudspeakers spit out “APOLLO GYZE DON’T APOLOGIZE”. Master Bull is pissed and looks around. A skirmish in the crowd sees Apollo making
his way down towards his ringside seat.
Bull makes a beeline for him. Just
as Apollo was getting to his seat, Bull hops the ringside barrier and tells
Apollo that he doesn’t care that he bought (scalped probably) a ticket; he
doesn’t want him here. Bull gets loud
enough for the microphones to pick up what he’s saying “I’m sick of your
shit. Nobody wants you here.” Apollo flashes his ticket in Bull’s face. “I
don’t think your opinion matters.”
Apollo takes a swing at Bull who easily moves out of the way. Bull is furious and calls for security to
escort Apollo out of the arena. Local
police come over and politely escort Apollo away. Apollo surprisingly leaves with no further
instigation except for his bellowing laughter as he leaves. I think he did what he wanted; he upset the apple
cart. Bull shakes off his anger and calls
for the event to begin. He makes his
way backstage.
Our show kicks off
with manager ‘the Honorable’ JC Dykes and the Unknown Assassin making their way
out to the ring. The fans boo but the
duo consider themselves like Teflon and don’t let it stick. A bell rings and out comes ‘the King of
Cones’ Magnum Kone. He begins to hand
out ice cream. Dykes gets on the mic and
begins to belittle Magnum. Magnum lets
it go until Dykes insults a little kid at ringside who unfortunately dropped
his ice cream. Magnum got him a new one
but by this time, tempers were flaring. Magnum
began dominating the match and Dykes decided he wasn’t having any of it. He got up on the apron and threw a fireball
at Magnum. Fortunately, Magnum stopped
short of being blinded the flash but unfortunately for the Assassin, he was
disqualified for his manager’s actions.
Dr. Red Fang then ran out and attacked the Unknown Assassin and the two
brawled all the way to the back. While
that was going on, the Banker snuck in from the crowd, grabbed a chair, snuck
in the ring and hit Magnum in the back with it.
Mangum no-sold it. He turned
around and the Banker bailed. Magnum
says he’s had enough of the Banker and challenges him to a match at the
PPV. The Banker surprisingly
agreed. It looks like our PPV is shaping
up nicely. (7 min)
Wilber Townsend is
backstage and says that his loss to Texas Wildfire was a fluke and TW will wish
he never crossed paths with the maniacal Wilber.
Our next match is
ready to go. First, one member from the 6 Man tag team champs Baron von Blood
comes out to booing from the fans. The
boos are short lived as the fans pop as Drew the Canadian Love Machine makes
his way out. Drew interacts with the
fans as he makes his way down to the ring.
He even stops to give the kid who dropped his ice cream a high 5. What a nice guy. He gets in the ring but the Baron is an
impatient man and he attacks Drew. Drew
dominates the match and easily takes control.
The Baron proved to be a challenge as Drew could not keep him down for
the 3 count. Before we knew it, the
match was nearing the 20 min time limit.
Drew just took the Baron down with a handstand headscissors but then on
the Omegatron, we see and hear from ‘the Elitist’ Reid Rothchild. Reid begins to mock Drew for his easy loss to
him. Drew, distracted, turned from the
match. The Baron began arguing with the
ref. Reid then appeared in the crowd,
grabbed a chair and blasted Drew in the head with it knocking him out. Reid immediately took off. The Baron ran over and applied the Brain
Klaw. The ref lifted Drew’s arm 3 times
and watched it fall the same. The ref
then awarded the match via submission to Baron von Blood. The fans were PISSED. Drew has been robbed during a match twice
now. This is not going to sit well. Drew recovered, figured out what happened and
then left just a tad upset. (20 min)
Back in his
office, Master Bull confronts the Banker.
Bull confirms the match for the PPV and tells the Banker that since he
wanted to be involved in tonight’s event, he will get a match against Leon
Teremoto. The Banker scoffs and walks
out.
We head back to
the ring for our next match. Missy Chick
makes her way out first to a mixed reaction from the crowd. The music changes and out comes Tacoma’s very
own Hayley Hailstone. The fans pop as
the hugger herself makes her way down to the ring. Once she gets in the ring, the match begins
almost immediately with Hayley controlling the first few minutes of the match
but then after that, Missy evened things up.
The match went for 14 minutes and finally came to an end after Hayley
connected with the “What the Hail” and got the 3 count. The fans popped loud for her. She spent some time with the fans at ringside
before heading to the back. Just as she
was making her way up the ramp, the British Crippler ran out and attacked her
beating her down. The Crippler threw
Hayley back into the ring and then locked in the Crippler crossface and Hayley
was tapping out but it did no good.
Finally, the Crippler relented and then announced that she and Hayley
will have a match at the PPV whether she likes it or not. The British Crippler then walked off. Some extra help came from the back and helped
Hayley to the back.
Leon Teremoto is
backstage and he says he’s ready for his match at the PPV against ITF champion
Jacques Beannot and takes comfort that the Wicked Prophet will call the match
right down the line. Jacques’ bullying
days are over.
It’s time for our
next match. Music plays and out comes
Scooter J to a decent pop from the crowd.
It seems that he is slowly winning the fans back. He barely makes it into the ring when the
lights go out. A single solitary light
rocks ever so slightly on the stage. As
the lights come back up, we see an empty rocking chair with the light
attached. Scooter J turns around and is
ambushed by Wilber Townsend. Wilber
begins to take his frustrations out on Scooter J before the bell even rang. Finally, the ref got off his butt and
officially started the match but now Scooter J was at a disadvantage. Much to his credit, Scooter J may have taken
a lot of beating but he persevered. He
stayed right up there until the end.
Before we knew it, we were practically at the 20 minute mark. Wilber attempts to hit the Go to Sleep but
Scooter J nullifies it just as the bell rings bringing this one to a draw
finish. Wilber was frustrated but before
he could do anything else, TNT ran down
and pulled Scooter J out of the ring.
Wilber looked on as his kin helped “the enemy” (basically, anyone who is
not family). He contemplated going after
the two of them but turned around when he heard something and there was Texas
Wildfire and TW began unloading on Wilber before hurling him out of the
ring. The fans popped huge for TW. Wyatt was heard saying “this ain’t over, boy”
and he made his way to the back. TW
celebrated briefly with the fans before also departing. (20 min draw)
The Muscles Trio
are backstage and they comment that it’s been too long since they held the 6
man titles. Tonight, they take on the
team of the Steel Curtain and Tommy Lightning and they will use them as
stepping stones to secure the belts that were practically made for them.
We head back to
the ring for the next match on the card.
First, the Banker comes out with his manager Ruth Heartless. They are booed as they make their way down to
the ring. After some hemming and hawing,
the music changes and out comes Leon Teremoto.
The fans pop huge as Leon makes his way down to the ring. He gets in the ring and thwarts the Bankers
attempt to sneak attack him. The bell
ring and Ruth gets involved early giving the advantage to the Banker. This continued for some time until Leon
started to make a comeback. While the Banker
was distracting the referee, Ruth removed one of the corner turnbuckle covers
exposing the brackets below. No one
seemed to notice as no action really took place in that corner. At the 13 minute mark, Leon hurled the Banker
into that corner but he did not impact the bracket. Leon charged hitting a splash in the corner
but he caught too much air and landed a little high smacking his arm on the
bracket. He cradled his arm but the
Banker grabbed it and locked in the ATM fee armbar. The Banker used the ropes for leverage until
Leon had enough and had to tap out. The
Banker steals a win. The Banker leaves
and mocks Leon but his eyes go all wide when he sees Magnum Kone come charging
out from the back. The Banker and Ruth
hightail it through the crowd with Magnum in hot pursuit. Leon shakes his arm trying to get the feeling
back in but he gets blindsided by the ITF Champion Jacques Beannot. Jacques locks in the Spreadsheet and sends
Leon to la-la land. Jacques keeps the
hold on until the Wicked Prophet comes out wearing his ref’s shirt. WP says he’s an official now and demands
Jacques release the hold or be relieved of his title. Jacques relinquishes the
hold and goes over to jaw-jack with the Wicked Prophet. Jacques’ manager ‘The Singapore Sensation’
Matt Preacher comes out and gets between the two to keep Jacques from doing
something that could cost him his title.
Preacher and Jacques leave but tell the Prophet to keep his nose out of
their business. (13 min for the match; 5
for the aftermath)
Ladies Champion
Ravishing Raquel is backstage and she comments on how her 1:1 is now a triple
threat match. She says it doesn’t really
matter if it’s one on one, a triple threat or even fatal four way. She will be the one standing tall when the
smoke clears.
Our tag team
tournament is finally down to the last 4 competitors. 2 more qualifying matches and we’ll have the
final teams vying for those coveted titles:
Hardcore Hensen & Jacques Beannot vs the Mexicali Flyers
Scooter J & TNT vs the Ovaltine Jackson & Ghee Buttersnaps
Scooter J & TNT vs the Ovaltine Jackson & Ghee Buttersnaps
It’s time for our
main event. The Muscle Trio (Muscles
McGuire, Weasley & Thorpe) come out wearing their rainbow colored bull
horns and carrying boxes of Booty-O’s cereal.
The fans give them a decent pop as they head down to the ring. Next, the Steel Curtain and Tommy Lightning
come out and the fans pop huge for them.
The winner of this match will go on to the PPV to meet the 5th
Column for the 6 man tag team championship.
Buzz, Starbuck and Tommy get in the ring and the Muscles Trio backs off
giving them their due. The match began
and the Muscles Trio took the early advantage sequestering Tommy into their
corner. By the time Tommy got to make
the hot tag to Starbuck, he had been beaten down for almost 10 minutes. Starbuck, followed by Buzz, came in and
cleared house. The Steel Curtain started
to take control of the match but 3 minutes of triple teaming by the Trio pushed
Starbuck to his breaking point. The Trio
then concentrated on Starbuck until he was able to make the hot tag back to
Tommy. Tommy began taking the fight to
the Trio and then tagged in Buzz and Starbuck for some triple teaming of their
own. While all 6 men were in the ring
fighting, the 6 Man Tag Team Champions the 5th Column came out and
stood just shy of ringside. During the
melee in the ring, Tommy gets tossed out.
The ref tries to regain control.
The Column attack Tommy and then hit him with a triple spike piledriver
on the floor. Tommy is busted open and
bleeding like a stuck pig. The Trio get
pushed back to their corner. Starbuck hits
the ropes and hits a moonsault from the top turnbuckle onto the 5th
Column below. HOLY SHIT chats rang throughout
the building. Buzz, the legal man, hits
Muscles Thorpe with the Buzzkill. He
makes the cover and gets the 3 count.
The team of the Steel Curtain and Tommy Lightning get the win but
everyone is concerned about Tommy.
Medics rush out and put Tommy in a neckbrace and load him onto a
stretcher and take him out of there. The
show comes to an end with the Steel Curtain following and the fans looking on
in concern.
That’s it for
now. Two more shows, a fanfest and then
our PPV will be here. Stay Tuned.
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