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.
