Hello fans and
welcome back to another installment of HCW’s Tacoma Thunder. Officially with this issue, we will go back
to sending out updates via email after each show as opposed to sending both in
one email. It will be easier to manage
this way.
The show begins
with a recap of the conversation between the two GM’s Max McGillicutty and Master
Bull where it pertains to the so-called ‘threat’ that allegedly seems to have
originated from Hardcore Champion Apollo Gyze.
Our in-house forensic investigator Gardinia Blue is still looking into
the video to determine if Apollo truly is behind it. Max tells Bull that if they can find
indisputable evidence that he did make the video, then he will fire Apollo on
the spot. Bull seemed appeased…for now.
We cut backstage
and we see the Wicked Prophet walking up to the match board to see if he’s got
himself a match but he doesn’t see his name however he is listed as the referee
for two matches. He goes to go get
himself ready. We zoom in on the board
and see that he is assigned to the Hardcore title match and the World Tag Team
title match.
Pyro goes off and
the spotlights swirl around the arena and the fans pop huge. Our first match is ready to get
underway. First, Shawn ‘Abs of Stone’
Austin comes out and the fans boo the crap out of him. He flips off a few and makes his way into the
ring. He removes his robe (ala Rick
Rude) and shows off his 8 pack. The fans
pop when the next music plays and it’s none other than Drew the Canadian Love
Machine. The noise practically blows the
roof off the place. Drew shakes the
hands of a few of the fans before rushing to the ring. He climbs the turnbuckles and the fans get
louder and louder. He steps down still
favoring his ankle to make sure he doesn’t tweak it. Once the bell rang, it was apparent that Drew
did not lose anything. He dominated the
match but a few times, he stopped to rub his ankle and heel. Each time he did this, it gave Shawn precious
few minutes to recover and that allowed him to keep kicking out of pins. As we closed in on the final minute of the match,
Drew hit Shawn with the La Casita but he was slow to make the cover. Finally once he crawled over, he draped an
arm over Shawn but the ref would only count to 2 before the bell rang bringing
this one to a draw finish. The fans
popped for Drew but it was clear he wasn’t happy with his performance. Just then, Maximillian Redbeard rushed out
and went after Shawn. Shawn bailed out
of the ring and took off through the crowd with Redbeard hot on his heels. Just as Drew was getting ready to leave, he
is attacked from behind by Reid Rothchild.
Reid hits the Rothchild Stunner and then locks in the Reid (ankle)
lock. 4 suits from the back rushed out
to prevent further damage to Drew’s ankle. Reid grabs a mic and says he is accepting Drew’s
challenge at the PPV and reiterates that HCW is no longer big enough for the
two of them and one of them in fact is going to be retired at the PPV. Reid drops the mic and walks off. Drew is able to walk but with help as he
makes his way to the back.
There is a
commotion backstage and a brawl has erupted between Tommy Lightning and
Starbuck Steel. GM Max McGillicutty
makes his way over and tells Starbuck and Tommy that they have to settle this
in the ring and that match will be up after the next match. He sends them their separate ways.
We head to the
ring for the next match. First, Wendell
Hammerschmidt makes his way out to a mixed reaction from the crowd. Next, Nix Anderson makes his way out and gets
a little better pop. He stops and points
to a sign a fan has that reads “Nix > Preacher’s Posse” and he shakes the
fan’s hand and makes his way to the ring.
The match begins right away and the two seemed to be pretty evenly
matched throughout. Both men held the
advantage for short periods of time. At
the 17 minute mark, Nix wanted to stop and play the ukulele but Wendell
wrenched it out of his hands and threw it across the ring. He then hit nix with a German suplex. Nix crawled to the corner and picked up his
ukulele and set it on the top rope.
Wendell charged going for a splash but Nix moved and Wendell smashed his
head into the ukulele disintegrating it.
Nix was mad but went for the pin and got the 3 count. He gets his arm raised in victory but
silently laments over his ruined musical instrument. He then leaves to a pop from the crowd. (18 min)
Hardcore Hensen
confronts Apollo Gyze backstage and demands he get his rematch for the
title. Apollo says no and that he has to
defend against someone else tonight.
Hensen gets into Apollo’s face again and demands his rematch. Apollo says no again. Hensen storms off.
We head back to
the ring for the next match. Tommy
Lightning comes out first but he is booed heavily. Next, Starbuck Steel comes out and the fans
pop. Tommy is pissed and attacks
Starbuck before he can make it into the ring.
Both men hold their own for the first 13 minutes of the match but the
Starbuck hit Tommy with the Buck U and things began going his way. Each time though that Starbuck tried for a
pin, Tommy would roll out of the ring.
Finally, Starbuck had had enough but there were only seconds left in the
match. Tommy hits the ropes and hits a
flying bodypress. Starbuck picks him up
and hits the Buck U but before he could go for the pin, the bell rings bringing
this one to a draw finish. A frustrated
Tommy leaves the ring and enters with a steel chair. He then hits Starbuck once across the back
but before he could deliver another blow, Buzz Steel and Biceps Bannerman
rushed out to save their partner. Tommy
bolted. Buzz got on the mic and told
Tommy to find himself a tag team as they were going to defend the 6 man titles
against them this week in Phoenix. Tommy
laughs and after getting a mic, he says he doesn’t have to find a team as one
approached him. Buzz asks who and Tommy
tells him to turn around. Buzz and
Biceps turn around only to see the Smashers standing there. They attack Buzz and Biceps and Tommy rushes
back down to join in the fun. The Smashers
hit the Doomsday Device on each member of the 6 Man champs and stood their
laughing. (20 min draw for the match; 5
for the aftermath). Eventually they all
left.
Hayley Hailstone
is backstage with a couple of awards.
She says that she won two different awards from the Teen and Kids awards
shows – One for most positive entertainer and one top Achievement award. She is interrupted by Ravishing Raquel who
calls her awards stupid and takes one and throws it on the ground shattering
the glass. Hayley slaps the spit out of
Raquel and the two brawl until it is broken up.
Max shows up again and tells the two of them to take it to the ring now.
Ravishing Raquel
makes her way out first and she is not happy.
She doesn’t even make it to the ring before Hayley rushes out and
attacks her (not what we expected but she is a little spitfire after all). The bell sounds as soon as both women rolled
in to the ring. Early in the match,
Hayley hits the “What the Hail” but only gets a 2 count. A few minutes later and reversing a ravishing
armbar, Hayley hits a tornado DDT and goes for a pin but Raquel gets her foot
on the ropes after 1. Both women battle
in and out of the ring. At the 18 minute
mark, Raquel connects with a moonsault.
Before she goes for the pin, Ladies Champion Ruby Rose comes out. Raquel gets up and begins to jaw jack with
the champ. This gives Hayley the minute
she needs to recoup. She gets up and
turns Raquel around and hits the What the Hail again and hooks the leg solidly
to get the 1-2-3. Hayley gets the win
and the fans pop huge for her. She looks
over at Ruby who nods her head and then walks away. Hayley celebrates with the fans for almost 5
minutes before heading to the back. (18
min)
Backstage in GM
Max McGillicutty’s office, the World Tag Team Champions Scooter J and TNT are
told that originally the team they were going to face didn’t make it to the
arena in time so that match is off. Just
then, the Mexicali Flyers walk in and say that they have yet to get their
rematch and since the champs are here and want to wrestle, why not give the
fans a hell of a show. Max agrees and so
do the champs. Everyone shakes hands as
our Main event for the evening has just been locked in.
It’s time for the
Hardcore title defense. First, Tobias
Snake makes his way out to a mixed reaction from the crowd. We immediately cut backstage where Apollo
Gyze is complaining about defending the title when he just did it a few weeks
ago. The Wicked Prophet, dressed in his
ref attire, walks by and tells Apollo to ‘man up’ and get his ass to the
ring. Apollo stands there a moment
stewing and then heads out. Just as
Apollo was making his way through the curtain, his tag line blares over the
loudspeakers “APOLLO GYZE DON’T APOLOGIZE” and the champs makes his way down to
the ring with the belt over his shoulder.
Right off the bat, Tobias hits the Dirty Deeds DDT and the Wicked
Prophet makes a 2 count. Apollo
struggled a bit after that and Tobias followed it up a few minutes later with a
hook and ladder facebuster. He goes for
the pin again but Apollo kicks out. Apollo
throws Tobias out of the ring and then hits a suicide dive to the floor onto
Tobias. The Prophet had to yell at
Apollo to get back in the ring. After this
move, the match went the way of the champ’s.
At the 9 minute mark, Tobias had tried to bring in a golf club but
Apollo swiped it from Tobias and hits him square in the gonads and then hits a
sit out powerbomb. Apollo makes a lazy
cover and the Prophet begins to count but Tobias manages to kick out. Apollo, sensing he needs to finish this now,
picks up Tobias and hits a second sit out powerbomb. This time he hooks the leg (and puts his feet
on the ropes for extra leverage). The Wicked
Prophet made what seemed like a faster than normal count which allowed Apollo
to get the 1-2-3. Apollo Gyze wins the
match and successfully defends his title.
Apollo yells at the Prophet to raise his hand in victory but when he
tried, Apollo yanked his hand away saying that the False Prophet doesn’t get
that honor. He holds up his title and
the fans boo. Apollo leaves followed by
Tobias. The ringside announcers call the
Wicked Prophet over and he goes to converse with them during the final
break. (10 min)
Hardcore Champion
Apollo Gyze walks through the curtains declaring himself the grand champion but
then he is ambushed by Hardcore Hensen who throws him through some stacked boxes. Hensen hits the Hard Times on Apollo. Hensen then challenges Apollo to defend the
title at the PPV but the loser must leave HCW.
Hensen figures that if the GM’s can’t/won’t fire Apollo, he’ll drive him
out.
It is time for our
Main Event with the World Tag Team Titles on the line. First, the challengers the Mexicali Flyers
(El Dragon Insano and Tornado en Fuego come out to a deafening pop from the fans. They make their way down and get in the ring
climbing each of the turnbuckles to louder and louder pops from the crowd. Just then, they were attacked by Angry Jack
Lawson and Mean Jack Mason. The Jacks
pummeled the challengers. El Dragon
Insano was whipped into the steel post and Tornado en Fuego was introduced the
hard way into the steel steps. Next, the
music hits for the Tag Team Champs and out comes Scooter J & TNT. They get a pop but not one at the level of
the Flyers but they rush the ring and chase off the Jacks. Mean Jack points to them and then motions
they want a shot at the champs. Scooter
J holds the ropes open for them but they choose not to oblige. The Jacks leave. The Wicked Prophet checks on the Flyers and asks
if they want to continue. Both Flyers
said yes. Once the bell rang, it was
apparent that the attack by Angry Jack and Mean Jack took a greater toll on
them than expected. TNT attempted the
first pin after hitting El Dragon with a powerbomb. 2 minutes later, El Dragon makes the tag to
Tornado en Fuego. Tornado almost
immediately eats a flying dropkick from TNT.
TNT tries for a pin but only gets a 2 count. TNT follows it up with the Townsend Driver
and tags Scooter J in. The champs did
some double teaming but the second time around, they were slow to leave the
ring. The Wicked Prophet turned his back
to get one of the champs out of the ring and Mean Jack Mason snuck in from the crowd
and choked Tornado on the ropes. Scooter
J went for a pin (not having seen this) but only got a 2 count. Tornado tried to make the tag but Scooter J
pulled him back into the ring. Just
then, Angry Jack showed up and they pulled El Dragon Insano off the apron and double
chokeslammed him through the Spanish announce table. Mean Jack hugged the side of the ring to stay
hidden. He then choked and viciously eye
raked Tornado before bolting through the crowd.
Scooter J made the quick cover and got the 1-2-3. The champs retain their belts with this
victory. Scooter J went to check on
Tornado while TNT checked on El Dragon.
Both men were slow to get up but still seemed to be ok. The champs invited the Flyers into the ring
and shook their hands. The champs then
held up the arms of the Flyers as the show comes to an end.
We are sure there
will be some serious fallout from this match and the closer we get to the PPV,
more and more matches will be finalized.
Stay Tuned.
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