Sunday, December 9, 2018

HCW Wrestling Newsletter 2018 #731 – Tacoma Thunder


Hello fans and welcome back to the HCW Wrestling Newsletter.  Well, we are in the home stretch leading up to our PPV this weekend.  The show in Denver is officially sold out and the fanfest in Colorado Springs had to be moved to a new location to accommodate the extra fans (and there were a lot) who wanted to attend.  That event too is also sold out.  GM Max McGillicutty says that he will have an announcement he will make later in the show in regards to fanfest.  To handle the amount of wrestling taking place this week, we will have a total of 5 updates:  One for tonight’s Tacoma show, tomorrow’s Phoenix show, the fanfest and then our two day PPV on Saturday and Sunday.  After that, we will be on our winter’s hiatus giving the staff and roster time off to heal.

In other news, HCW is holding an ongoing “open tryout” for new talent to try and give wrestling in HCW a shot.  We had a decent turnout with a few looking pretty good.  We’ll have to see if they make the cut.

Tonight, the first bracket of the semi-finals for the World Tag team titles takes place with Hardcore Hensen and ITF Champion Jacques Beannot taking on the former champs the Mexicali Flyers.

The show starts off backstage where ‘Big Money’ Ned Rhyerson III walks in with his bags and stops at the board to see who he’s wrestling tonight.   He about loses it when he sees his name marked through and instead sees ‘Red Hot’ Lucas Johnston on the card.  He grabs his bag and storms off.

Pyro goes off and out show is about to get underway.  First, a local talent (I guess) comes out under the name of ‘the Soccer mom’.  She is masked and makes her way to the ring.  Next, Vanilla Zombie comes out first with her manager ‘the Singapore Sensation’ Matt Preacher.  The fans boo them as they head to the ring.  Once in the ring, Preacher grabs a mic and says that not only will Hardcore Hensen demolish Apollo Gyze, but the ITF Champion Jacques Beannot will easily defeat Leon Teremoto and finally, in the Steel Cage, Violet Valkyrie will get what’s coming to her - one hell of a beating from this woman – Vanilla Zombie.  Vanilla gets to unload on this masked nobody.  The bell rings with Vanilla starting off strong with her manager cheering her on.  As the match progressed, our mystery masked woman began to fight back.  Preacher became concerned and tried to get involved but the ref was able to stop him and sent him to the back.  As he was making his way up the ramp, he turned only to see ‘the Soccer Mom’ lock in a triangle choke.  He panicked and ran back to the ring but he was too late as Vanilla tapped out.  Vanilla rolled out of the ring.  ‘The Soccer Mom’ removed her mask and…holy cow…it’s Violet Valkyrie.  Violet takes the mic and says that she’s shown she can dominate and this weekend, in the Steel Cage, Vanilla will wish she never stepped foot in an HCW ring.  Preacher and Vanilla made their way to the back…outsmarted.  (19 min)

We cut backstage where the Wicked Prophet is with Ruby Rose.  Ruby says she’s thankful to still be in the title match but now understands how underhanded and deceptive some people can be.  She says that there is a reason she’s known as “short but vicious”.  She says she’s ready for Ravishing Raquel and asks if Raquel is ready for her.

Our next match begins with Bishop Ripley making his way to the ring first to a mixed reaction from the crowd.  Next, the music changes and out comes ‘Red Hot’ Lucas Johnstson.  The fans pop huge for him as he makes his way down to the ring but he is attacked from behind by ‘Big Money’ Ned Rhyerson III.  The attack is short as officials from the back came out before too much damage could be done.  Lucas makes it to the ring and the ref asks him if he wants to continue.  He does.  The bell rings and Bishop controls the match.  I think that the attack from Ned did more damage than Lucas was letting on.  To his credit, Lucas kept kicking out of pin attempts. This went on for the entire match and we entered the final minute, it was apparent that Lucas was almost out on his feet.   Bishop grabbed him and hit a german suplex.  Lucas went bouncing to the other side of the ring.  Bishop crawled over and made the dramatic cover hooking the leg.  The ref counted 1…2… and the bell rang bringing this one to a draw finish.  Lucas is one tough SOB.  Bishop left and Lucas got to his feet.  He asks for a mic and calls out Ned.  Ned comes out and begins to make his way to the ring pushing through the line of officials who rushed out to prevent Ned from doing further damage.  Ned gets into the ring and Lucas challenges him to a match at the PPV.  Ned accepts and says that his ‘spot’ tonight was the last thing Lucas will be taking from anyone.  He turned and left without further altercation.  Lucas eventually left too.

Apollo Gyze is backstage and the Wicked Prophet asks him if he’s ready for Hardcore Hensen.  Apollo laughs and says that Hensen is just as wishy-washy as that goofball Master Bull.  Apollo also makes fun that Tommy Lightning got injured at the hands of the 5th Column saying he can’t defend himself.  Apollo adds that when he defeats Hensen to become the new Hardcore Champion, the first thing he’ll do is flaunt it in Master Bull’s face…and promises he will NOT apologize.

Our next match is ready to go.  First, MJ comes out with Smasher #2 for this rare singles match.  They are booed as they head to the ring.  Next, the music changes and out comes Superquake Ferguson.  He gets a mixed reaction from the fans.  Smasher #2 attacks him before the bell trying to get the upper hand.  Even MJ had to get involved in order to get the giant off his feet.  Smasher #2 tried for the Steel Smasher a few times but he could not get the pin.  Smasher #2 hits Ferguson with a stomp and tries to pick him up but Superquake falls right on top of him.  Superquake rolled off but before he could get to his feet, MJ ran over and eye gouged him with peanut shells.  Angry Jack came in from the crowd and while Smasher #2 distracted the ref, he hit Ferguson with a chokeslam from hell.  He then took off through the crowd.  Smasher #2 ran over and made the cover hooking the leg and getting his feet on the ropes for leverage.  This cheating move got him the 3 count.  Smasher #2 and MJ left laughing.  Superquake got to his feet and wiped the remaining peanut shells from his eyes and asked for a mic.  He said that he was challenging Angry Jack to a match at the PPV and if he had any balls on him (as opposed to strikes and walks) (the fans chuckled), he would accept.  He then left to a nice pop from the crowd. (12 min)

‘The Elitist’ Reid Rothchild is backstage with the Wicked Prophet and Reid comments on how everyone loves Drew the Canadian Love Machine but he is a glorified nobody.  Reid says it’s too bad he can’t be on the Phoenix roster where he would beat Drew post to post until the Canadian Love Machine was nothing more than a discarded blow up doll.

We head back to the ring as our next match is ready to get underway.  First, over the loudspeakers blares “APOLLO GYZE DON’T APLOGIZE” and out comes Apollo.  The fans boo the crap out of him but he doesn’t care.  He makes it to the ring and begins to mock the fans starting to get them into a frenzy.  The music changes and out comes Billy Robbins.  The fans pop for Billy to make Apollo mad but it doesn’t work.  Billy hits the ring and Apollo backs off.   The match begins and Billy has control for the first few minutes and then Apollo took over opening a can of whoop-ass ala Stone Cold Steve Austin.  Apollo then dominated the match.  At the 15 minute mark, it seemed that Billy was out on his feet.  Apollo hit him with a powerbomb.  He picked him up and hit a second one.  The fans booing intensified as Apollo picked him up and hit a third powerbomb.  The ref told him to end by going for the pin but Apollo refused.  The ref threatened to disqualify Apollo but it fell on deaf ears…until the ref called for the bell disqualifying Apollo and awarding the match to Billy.  Apollo was livid.  He’d been robbed of his match.  He jawjacked with the ref.  He threatened to hit him a couple of times but ended up walking out.  Billy wins via DQ.  (15 min)

The Mexicali Flyers (El Dragon Insano & Tornado en Fuego) are backstage with the Wicked Prophet and an interpreter.  The Flyers state that they had a great match against the Steel Curtain and look forward to meeting them again once they procure the Tag Team Titles again.  The Wicked Prophet tells them not to overlook the (cheating) team that is Hardcore Hensen and (the weasel) Jacques Beannot.  The Flyers state they’ve seen worse and are adequately prepared.  They then leave.  

In-ring action continues with ‘the Elitist’ Reid Rothchild making his way out to the ring.  The fans boo him and he nonchalantly flips them off.  He gets in the ring and continues his taunts until the music changes and out comes the Axe.  The fans pop for him as he comes out and makes his way into the ring wasting no time.  Reid exits the ring as Axe comes over and glares at Reid.  Reid smirks and then takes his time getting back into the ring.  Finally he does and the match can begin.  The Axe threw Reid around like a rag doll and the fans enjoyed every minute.  12 minutes in, Reid decided he’d had enough and tried to walk out.  He didn’t get very far when Drew the Canadian Love Machine came out and the fans popped HUGE.  Reid took a few steps back and decided he didn’t want anything to do with Drew so he crawled back into the ring.  He then yelled at Drew from the ring and turned just as the Axe was charging and hit Reid with his namesake.  One ‘Axe’ and a 3 count secured a win for the big man.  Axe gets the win and the fans approve.  Axe looks to Drew and nods.  Drew responds in kind.  Drew doesn’t enter the ring but walks to commentary where he grabs a mic.  He tells Reid that if and when he wants to meet him in the ring, he’s ready.  He then asks “What about the PPV?”  Reid shakes his head no and leaves.  Drew, disappointed at the cowardice of Reid, leaves shortly thereafter. 

We cut back to the office of GM Max McGillicutty.  Max says he has some great news and for once, is happy to beat Master Bull to the punch.  Max states that at Fanfest, the fans present will be treated to an All-Roster battle royal.  This is not a separation of men and women…everyone competes in the same match.  This is the first time ever that HCW has done this and is proud to let every member of the roster have a chance to shine.

It is time for our Main Event with the winner of this match going to the finals at the PPV to fight for the World Tag Team titles.  First, ‘the Singapore Sensation’ Matt Preacher comes out and introduces the Hardcore Champion Hardcore Hensen and the International French Title champion Jacques Beannot.  Preacher promises that his team is going to go all…the…way.  The trio head to the ring as the fans boo them.  Once in the ring, they taunt the fans until the music changes and out comes the Mexicali Flyers.  The fans pop as the Flyers make their way down to the ring and after some zipping around the ring, they entered the ring.  The match begins with all four men in the ring duking it out.  As the Flyers were told to send someone to the outside, Jacques hit Tornado en Fuego from behind knocking him out of the ring.  Preacher’s duo then went to town double teaming El Dragon for about 5 minutes.  El Dragon ends up hitting Jacques with a dropkick and Dragon made the hot tag to Tornado who came in…like a tornado but Hensen attacked him too and the double teaming continued.  At the 9 minute mark, El Dragon had enough and jumped in the ring helping Tornado en Fuego double team Hardcore Hensen.  Hensen throws Tornado out of the ring while Jacques ties El Dragon up in the ropes.  The dastardly duo then got out of the ring and double chokeslammed Tornado through the Spanish announce table.  Hensen rolled back in the ring and watched as the ref counted to 10.  Upon reaching the 10 count and it was apparent that Tornado wasn’t getting back up in time, he called for the bell awarding the match to Hardcore Hensen and Jacques Beannot via countout.  Matt Preacher joined them in the ring and held up both their arms yelling “I told you so” as the show comes to an end.

Tomorrow is the Phoenix Heat show and then we head to Colorado Springs for our Fanfest.  Be sure to stay tuned.


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