THE RISE OF COMBATThe debut of a new wrestling federation called Global Combat. Who will take home the first Global Combat Championship in this debut episode?
_____ Dark match! Devin Wolf & Oswald Manning defeated the Knaves Sebastien Lannes comes on to start the show. He announces that this is a new era and that GCW is now known as Global Combat! As such, it is a big night, where all titles will be on the line up for grabs! Starting with a Global Combat title tournament to determine the new champion! He announces the pairings then takes us to the show! Global Combat tournament semi-finals: Mercury vs.. Blue Tornado If you’re an aficionado of underhanded tactics, this was your kind of match! Mercury decided to cheat with reckless abandon in this one. Foreign objects, holding the tights, feet on the ropes, chokes, holding the ropes, thumbs to the eyes, ball shots, and even old school rope burns were tactics that Mercury didn’t consider too underhanded to try to win this match! He even took advantage of some manager interference(which got a 12 in Steel, BTW), when Jen Yuen Li decided to distract the referee. This allowed Rocky Li to do a run in and hit Blue Tornado with the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it only got 2! Mercury was so reliant on underhanded tactics in this one that even Lucien Champion and Ric Flair thought it was a little over the top! During one of Mercury’s underhanded attacks, he was able to bust open poor Tornado, leaving much doubt as to whether Tornado could even compete in the next round even if he won. Skipping to the end! Laurence: Mercury is working over Tornado! How can Tornado survive this onslaught? SchmittyHD: Well, you see, having worked with both of these guys, I can say that Tornado is gutsy, he’ll give 110% out there. As for Mercury, he likes to play around with his opponents. He knows he has this one in the bag! Mwahaha! Laurence: ANOTHER ball shot by Mercury! The crowd is all over him, peppering him with boos! This is against the spirit of competition and fair play! The referee is cautioning him again. Come on, ref! Disqualify him! I’m disgusted by all the underhanded tactics I’m seeing in this match! Tia: Come on, Laurence! Who doesn’t like some underhanded tactics every once in awhile. You know, I was thinking that the Knaves must regret trying to team with a goody two shoes in Blue Tornado. They should have teamed up Mercury. Could you imagine the amount of cheating that would occur if those guys teamed up? It would be off the charts! Laurence: Snap Mare by Mercury. He runs at Tornado….soccer style kick to the back of the head! Mercury takes a bow to the audience, who are booing him with a fury! Now, Mercury’s signaling for his finisher, the Numata Lock! Yeah! Finish this match! You have hurt the poor kid enough tonight. Mercury lifts Tornado’s legs. SLAM! Tia: Tornado just hit Mercury in the face! Laurence: Mercury is down, and Tornado is putting something back in his tights! Hey! Wait a minute! He covers Mercury, 1.……………2.…………….MERCURY KICKS OUT! Mercury is back up now, and apparently is completely about Tornado’s recent use of underhanded tactics! The referee’s just shrugging it off and Mercury’s pissed. The crowd is loving it, though. Drop kick by Tornado, and Mercury runs into the referee! The referee is down, and Tornado is going into his tights again! HE HAS A CHAIN! Tia: YES! Laurence: HE JUST BLASTED MERCURY WITH THE CHAIN! MERCURY IS OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING! The crowd is going nuts and Tornado looks to be signaling for some kind of finisher! He is going up top now! He waves to the crowd, and… BOOM! Laurence: 450 SPLASH! YES! WHAT A MOVE! TORNADO COVERS AND THE REFEREE IS JUST RECOVERING! SchmittyHD: WHAT A MIRACLE! Laurence: He covers, hooks the tights….1.………….2.……………….3! TORNADO WINS! The crowd is going crazy and Tornado is excited! His music is blaring, and he won the match. He’s looking a little worse for wear after that tiring encounter, but he just knocked off Mercury! I never would have expected the last GCW Champion Mercury to go down in the first round of this mini-tournament! What a nice win for Tornado tonight, even if it was a bit…underhanded! SchmittyHD: Who cares? After the cheating Mercury pulled tonight, he deserved a little payback! Laurence: Tornado is going to the crowd to celebrate! The crowd’s loving it. He’s slapping hands, celebrating! He can’t believe it! What an upset! (Lannes is sitting in his new office with Bianca nearby him. In his hands, he is holding some papers. As he is looking them over, two men dressed in lumberjack attire enter. They are both big men with beards, flannel shirts, jeans, workboots, and strange hats, both with a steely Canadianess to them that can’t be explain! They are an intimidating presence, and they look like they mean business.) Lumberjack #1: Are you Sebastien Lannes? Lannes: (confused.) Yeah? Lumberjack #1: HI! MY NAME IS WARSAW BRADLEY AND THIS IS MY PARTNER “FLAPJACK” FRANKIE BASS! I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE WONDERING! Lannes: No, no, you don’t. Warsaw: HOW DID FRANKIE GET THE NICKNAME FLAPJACK? WELL, YOU SEE, WE’RE FROM THE YUKON AND WE’RE LUMBERJACKS! Lannes: Never would have guessed. Warsaw: AND ONE DAY, WE WERE GOING BACK TO THE LUMBERJACK CAMP AFTER A HARD MORNING’S WORK AND THERE WAS FRANKIE STUFF FLAPJACK AFTER FLAPJACK DOWN HIS GULLET! IT WAS AMAZING! ONE, TWO, TEN, TWENTY! BY THE END OF THE DAY, HE HAD EATEN 315 FLAPJACKS! WE ALMOST RAN OUT OF SYRUP! Lannes: Wow. That’s a…pretty amazing! Frankie: Well, yeah, you know, those flapjacks in the Yukon are pretty good and all. I couldn’t stop eating em, and that butter and syrup, delicious. It makes you feel like a man. Lannes: Hey! Haven’t I seen you some place before? Frankie: Well, no. Unless, you’ve been up in Whitehorse sometime. I have been there all my life, you know? Didn’t have much, just my flannel shirt, my trusty axe, and a lot of trees. Bianca: Yeah, Sebastian. I found him when I went up to the Yukon. He seemed like a good wrestler, so I hired him! Lannes: Are you sure? I could swear we were giving this guy a main event push not six months ago! Warsaw: NO WAY! ME AND FRANKIE HAVE BEEN UP IN THE YUKON OUR WHOLE LIVES! WE GREW UP TOGETHER, RIGHT FRANKIE? Frankie: Right, Warsaw. Lannes: Well, maybe I was thinking of his brother or something. Warsaw: HEY LANNES! ANY CHANCE WE COULD PARTICIPATE IN A MATCH TONIGHT? Lannes: Sure! You are in the tag title match tonight! Warsaw: THANK YOU! WE WON”T LET YOU DOWN! (They leave.) Lannes: (to Bianca.) Are you sure we didn’t push that guy? I distinctly remember a guy who looked just like that beating Blue Tornado and vanishing off the face of the earth or some shit! Bianca: You’re crazy! I first met that guy in the Yukon. You should see him! He’s a pretty good wrestler. Lannes: Whatever. Let’s get to the next match. Global Combat tournament semi-finals: Rocky Li vs. Garnet Onderdonk Before the match, Rocky Li got on the microphone. He talks about how happy he is to get a chance like this in the first round. While a bunch of other matches feature a multitude of former World Champions and even a King of the IWE, he gets the guy who did well “in Japan.” Well, he’s Rocky Li, and he’s seen a lot of guys do well “in Japan.” It’s not like it means anything! Heck, he saw a guy once who won like fifty titles in Japan and the guy couldn’t even get past curtain jerking in most leagues. Heck, within a month he was losing 8 minute weekend show main events to tag wrestlers! He sucked! So, if this Onderdonk thinks he can do well “in Japan” and beat the greatest USW Champion of All-time, then he’s sorely mistaken! This brings out Garnet Onderdonk. He looked stoic coming to the ring, totally unphased by the magnitude of this big event. The match itself was a beautiful one. It started off with Onderdonk dominating the early portion of the match with powerful palm strikes and stiff back drops! The showboating Li was stunned to discover his opponent taking it to him in such a manner and soon had to revert to tactics on an underhanded nature to keep up! He was able to slow the juggernaut known as Onderdonk. He even got Brian Centerscore into the act. Centerscore choked Onderdonk on the outside of the ring while Rocky Li distracted the referee! The end of this one came when Brian Centerscore threw his shoe into the ring, but it was caught by Onderdonk. Noticing this illegal tactic, Onderdonk promptly threw it to Rocky Li who caught it, just in time for the referee to see! The ref promptly grabbed the shoe from Li, who fought him, allowing him to be caught from behind by the Mandolin Strangler by Onderdonk! Li was caught in the middle of the ring and had no choice but to submit. After the match, Li and Centerscore argued, leading Rocky Li to hit him with the Rock Horror Picture Show! Li then grabbed a chair and started beating Centerscore with it, yelling at him for “costing him an easy match!” and chastising him for thinking a shoe is an effective foreign object. “This isn’t WCW! And you’re not a woman!” He nailed him with a chair a few more times before various random officials came to Centerscore’s aid and Rocky Li walked off angry! This might be the end of Centerscore’s Global Combat career! In the back, Mike Pizzazz shows up! He just quit GCW on the last show! What is he doing here? Number one contenders match! Volpe/Nieminen vs. Takara/Sakata vs. Lumberjacks vs. Copperhead + Salamander Good tag match! This was a match that got the crowd pumped up. The Lumberjacks spent most of the match manhandling most of their opponents. Their smaller opponents had trouble finding a way to take down these big lumberjacks! Warsaw Bradley looked impressive out there. He nailed some typical power stuff, but added some new stuff like ax bomber, and a devastating double axe handle that even big Copperhead couldn’t take! His partner, Flapjack Frankie, even went up top(!) and hit poor Nieminen with a flying double axe handle that nearly got the three count! He also nearly got the three on poor Salamander after hitting a Flapjack on the guy. Salamander got such hang time on that move that it looked like he might take out the arena lights! Alas, Nieminen made the save before Frankie could get the three count! Unfortunately, the big lumberjacks started brawling with the Serpentors, causing both teams to get counted out! That left the Euros and the Japanese in the ring! This was a pretty good match up with both teams throwing caution to the wind for the next few minutes. This was until four European looking dudes came out to the ring. One of them tried to enter the ring, but was immediately stopped by the referee! This allowed the biggest one(a French guy in a striped shirt and a beret) to come into the ring and hit a Rock bottom onto Takara. Another guy, who I might add, looks strangely familiar, went up top and hit a frog splash on poor Takara. Meanwhile, the third guy, Volpe, and Nieminen neutralized poor Sakata with a devastating triple team! Finally, when the referee turned around, Nieminen was getting the cover on Takara for the easy victory! The referee raised their hands in victory as their new partners came into the ring, and they congratulated one another! Such heeldom makes me sick! In the back, the new Euro team celebrated with expensive champagne! Not much to say here, other than it appears as if the newest Euros are called Augustin, Hugo, Devin, and Oswald. OSWALD?!? Sebastien Lannes is sitting in his office, trying to figure out the proper way to throw a paper airplane when Mike Pizzazz enters into his office! The crowd pops huge when they see Pizzazz! Pizzazz: Well, well, well, the more things change… Lannes: Hey there Pizzazz! I’m surprised to see you here after your grandstanding on the last show! Pizzazz: Well, maybe I have had a bit of a change of heart. Lannes: No one wanted to hire you, huh? You know, I could make some calls. I hear FAW’s hiring, or maybe you could join the Council. Everyone loves the Council. Hey! Maybe I could send you to makeup, they could get you some black clothes, maybe some white makeup, maybe a dye job. You could be all brooding! Or, hey, maybe you can be like a Twilight vampire. Sparkling Pizzazz! Pizzazz: This isn’t the time for jokes. Lannes: On the contrary, this is GCW, it’s always time for jokes! Pizzazz: Look, I want my job back! I had fun in this league and, dammit, I’m not going to let Lucien Champion ruin it for me! I know how he is, and I know he’s been waiting, just waiting to bury me for embarrassing him during his last CPW appearance. I took a legend and turned him into a has been! I know how he works. He even got a revenge on a guy who beat him in 1997! So, yeah, I’m not going to hide. I’m not going to leave leagues that I love because of him. No, I’m going to take it head on! (cheers.) I’m Mike Pizzazz, and there is nothing Lucien Champion can do to fuck with me! You hear that Lucien! (Phone rings.) Lannes: Excuse me. I have to take this. (answers phone.) Yes. Yes. I see. Well, hey, if you say so. (hangs up phone.) Pizzazz: What was that? Lannes: That was Lucien. He says that he admires your initiative, and that you have your job back, but… Pizzazz: Good! Now, enter me in that mini-tournament to determine the Champion. I’m Mike Pizzazz. I am the most decorated Champion in GCW History, and I want, nay, DEMAND that I get a chance to defend that. Lannes: Oh, you’ll be wrestling tonight, alright. In fact, you’ll be getting a chance at the tag champions, Los Mags! (cheers.) Pizzazz: The TAG titles?!? Look Lannes, no offense to those titles, but they aren’t the ones I want! Lannes: Oh, I never said the titles would be on the line! Pizzazz: WHAT?!? Lannes: Well, you see, Mike. I like you and all. You were a good champion, but that was in GCW. This is Global Combat! Now, mind you, most wrestlers in GCW had their contracts roll over and their positions were preserved. You, on the other hand, quit the fed! This does not please Lucien one bit, so Lucien has decreed that if you want your job back, then you will starting from the bottom! Pizzazz: WHAT?! This is impossible! This is nuts! Lannes: Hey, if you have a problem, that it up with Lucien. Oh, and Pizzazz… Pizzazz: What? Lannes: Have a nice day! Non-title: Los Mags vs. “Sparkling” Mike Pizzazz & Cameron Fowler This is the debut of Pizzazz’s new “gimmick.” He’s a vampire! He broods! He sparkles! He sucks! He doesn’t look happy about this! He plays along for a few minutes, but then just gets frustrated and attacks his partner! He lambastes the referee and threatens to walk out, but he gets nailed from behind by Los Mags! He’s still in the match! They work him over for a few minutes as it is a bit noted that he’s been worked a bit stiff by Los Mags before he gets whipped into the ropes, and a rolling clothesline by Delgado. Finally, Mike gets tossed out of the ring by Castillo, while Delgado goes up top, and hit’s a frog splash on Fowler to pick up the win. Los Mags celebrate their easy win, while Pizzazz just takes it in stride. Mike Pizzazz is coming back from his match in the back when he runs into Chloe Madison! He tries to hit on her, but she brushes him off saying that a star of her caliber doesn’t cavort with under card trash! Pizzazz is pissed! (Lucien Champion enters the arena to a HUGE pop from the crowd. He has the Global Combat title around his waist, and he has two suits behind him, carrying the winner’s trophy. Lucien looks like he could get into that ring right now and wrestle!) In the back, Mr. Indy Cody Blackburn interviews with Darcy Yang. He regales here with tales like the time he won the IWE North Dakota Hardcore Extreme title. He spends five good minutes talking about how he beat down the mighty 8 foot tall 500 pound Thomas Ripple to take home that Hardcore belt! For awhile there, he didn’t think he would win it, but, right there in Bismarck, he picked up that trash can and nailed big Ripple and Ripple fell like a big redwood. Blackburn says he pinned him and it was then that he got the biggest win of his career! She wouldn’t understand, of course. She’s not a Champion like him, but he’ll show her tonight when he steps into that battle royal and wins the Global Combat Global title. He’ll show her and all these fans out there what being the king of the indies is all about! Combat Pro Global title entrants: Sexy Mann, Scott Liarman, Outback Bob, Kurt Bang, Mad Goblin, Francois Lefebvre, Colin Markham, Rufus, Adam Hershey, Akira Nagai(with Chiyo Horimoto) and “Mr. Indy” Cody Blackburn Cody Blackburn was tossed 5 seconds into the match when the belt rang and Rufus went on a rampage! Blackburn is pissed to be eliminated and talks about how former IWE Washington champions don’t get eliminated like this! He pulls out Rufus and the two brawl to the back! A lot of non descript brawling occurred for the next few minutes when Chiyo lifted up some sort of paper. This led the 500 pound Nagai to go on an elimination spree, eliminating Lefebvre, Goblin, Mann, & Hershey, all within a few seconds of each other. Outback Bob tried his luck, but got nailed with a belly to belly after charging the big Nagai. Nagai just scooped him up and tossed him to the outside. This left Nagai, Markham, Liarman, and Bang. The two faces and two heels teamed up, and, after a few minutes, Bang tossed Markham to the outside, leaving two faces and Nagai. The two faces double teamed Nagai, but couldn’t get anywhere with him! Finally, after some fighting, they were able to get the big man staggering. They charged, but Bang stopped as Liarman ran full force into him! The two men got trapped on the ropes, as Bang ran over and tossed both men the rest of the way! He’s the new champion. He celebrates in the ring, while Chiyo looks decidedly unhappy by what has happened, going over to Nagai and escorting him to the back. Meanwhile, Liarman looks pissed as Bang celebrates his victory! We have to go to a commercial. In the back, Blue Tornado is getting stitched up. The doctor expresses his concern to Tornado about his ability to compete later on tonight. Tornado says that this is his dream and he intends to follow through it, no matters what happens to him. No injury will stop him from competing for that belt! (Lannes is in his office when three more new wrestlers enter. One is a big guy, who is dressed in an expensive suit and loafers, and is smoking a pipe, another is an imposing Asian male, dressed in an expensive leopard print outfit, while the third is a small, mustachioed man, dressed in a pith helmet, a khaki shirt and shorts. Lannes looks confused.) Lannes: Hello? Roman: HELLO! Pleasure to meet your acquaintance. My name is Roman Exelby. You may have heard of me. I have been on the cover of Time, Esquire, GQ, and many other magazines. Lannes: No. I haven’t. Roman: I am here to meet your superior, a Mr. Lucien Champion. He is a man of fine taste and even finer women, and, I would like to get to know this Lucien and talk business with him! I see several debutants in this federation who may try to usurp power from Mr. Champion and I want him to know that he has a strong financial backer in myself, in case, any of those harpies try anything. Wrestling’s a man’s game, wouldn’t you say, Mr. Lannes? Lannes: Well, as per my position, it would be unwise of me to say. Besides, I’m more interested in this hulking brute behind you. He would seem a perfect specimen to wrestle in Global Combat. Roman: Ho ho ho! You’re very direct, Mr. Lannes. I like this. And this hulking is a man I met in my travels to Indonesia. He was a bouncer in his native Jakarta, and I knew he could be even more useful. Dr. Livingston. Ask this man if he wants to compete in Combat. (Dr. Livingston says some stuff in Indonesian and the other man nods.) Roman: Yes, Mr. Hamka has agreed. He would like to work for your fine federation. With my guidance and track record of success, I think he will soon be a champion! Lannes: Welcome to Global Combat! You three will make fine additions indeed! (commercial) Garnet Onderdonk cuts a promo. He goes into a story about his wrestling career and how he's won titles in Canada, Japan, Europe, and all over the world. He has been in some huge matches that some have called the greatest of the all-time, but nothing has prepared him for tonight. 20,000 people in the stands, millions watching at home, and he gets a chance to take home of the most coveted prizes in the IWE. He says he will give it everything's he got tonight, and he doesn't plan to leave that ring, until Lucien Champion comes out and awards him the Global Combat title! Young Lions tournament final: Casimiro Aguero vs. Claudio Apenas The hatred was obvious in this one. These two have been exchanging barbs for the pas few weeks on GCW TV, and now they are taking it out on each full force in this match. There were a lot of stiff shots between these two and moves that seemed to have an extra umph in them! Apenas wasted no time working over Aguero’s leg, hoping to neutralize Aguero’s most power weapon, the Argentinean backbreaker! Aguero, meanwhile, took the strategy of exhausting his poor opponent by hitting him with some devastating strikes! By the 20 minute mark, it appeared to be working as Apenas was obviously exhausted. This allowed Aguero to take the advantage, and finally finish the match with the backbreaker in an impressive performance. The crowd cheered wildly for the newcomer who rose the title above his head. Seconds later, “Augustin” and “Hugo” came out to the ring. What are they doing here? Augustin: (Slow clap.) Impressive, impressive. It was as if I was watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel in wrestling form. (looks out to the crowd.) And, no, I’m not talking about the ninja turtle, you toothless rubes. (Boos.) You know, it depresses me, a European, born and bred, to see you, a South American, take home such a title. Has Europe fallen so behind the colonies that we are now having to watch them take titles that were once ours to conquer. Casimiro: Excuse me. But, who the hell are you? Augustin: Oh, I’m sorry. We haven’t met. My name is Augustin Gautier. I’m a poet, and this is my bodyguard, Hugo. Speaking of poems, you know, I think this moment requires one. (pulls out a piece of paper.) In Latin, by the way, because, unlike these plebeians, I can speak more than one language! (boos.) You’re from Latin American, so I’m sure you understand Latin. This poem is about a man who conquered many territories in his time, a true winner. You may have heard of him…Julius Caesar! Okay here we go! (starts reading.) Veni…Vidi….OW!!!!! (The crowd cheers.) Laurence: Casimiro just kicked him in the head! Huge pop from the crowd! Hugo charges him, but Casimiro dumps him over the ropes! He has Augustin up now! Argentine backbreaker! The crowd is going wild! Now, Casimiro has him up, and tosses him onto Hugo! Augustin is pissed! Devin and Oswald, his two flunkies come out, but get cut off by Casimiro. They are backing off as Augustin is saying this isn’t over! Casimiro’s music kicks up and he holds his title aloft! He doesn’t fear these guys one bit! Global Combat tournament semi-finals: El Tiburon vs. Kome Kobito This was the most down the middle match of the first round, with no underhanded tactics, and even a handshake between both wrestlers to starts us off! This match was evenly matched throughout with neither guy being able to really take the advantage. It also skirted the 30 minute time limit, clocking in at around 29:30. The end came when El Tiburon was going for the Shark Bite, but Kome pushed him into the turnbuckle. Stunned, Tiburon fell back into a German suplex for the hard fought Kome Kobito victory! After the match, the two shook hands again as it looks like they respect each other. Good match! Kobito cuts a short promo after his match. He congratulates Tiburon on a spectacular match and then takes about how he now puts his focus towards the finals. It won't be easy, but he plans on taking home the title. He looks visibly exhausted from the tiring match. Global Combat tournament semi-finals: Douglas Scott vs. Nera This was a decided change of pace from the other matches this evening, which mostly featured speed/technical guys going at it. This was two big dudes looking to kick the crap out of each other. Of the four first round matches, this one was the shortest, clocking in at only 9 minutes, but it was a fairly stiff, an evenly match nine minutes. The end came when Scott back dropped out of a Nera power bomb, then caught a running Nera with a spine buster to advance to the finals! Agus Hamka(With Dr. Livingston & Roman Exelby) vs. Dylan McBride Squash! The Indonesian prodigy makes short work of the outmatched McBride. This match could have been finished at the 3 minute mark, but Livingston kept communicating with Hamka, apparently telling him to continue to dish out punishment. Livingston even got into the act, engaging in some underhanded tactics when McBride got thrown to the outside. The referee was watching Livingston when Livingston reminded him that “He’s a doctor!” And “This man is hurt!” As such, by the Hippocratic Oath, it is his job to make sure that this man is fit to compete. He might have a concussion! Livingston checked on the man for a moment, then, when the referee turned his back, he started choking him! When the referee returned to looking at Livingston, Livingston tried to tell him that this man is injured and he’s not sure he can go on fighting! As this was happening, Exelby went over and punted the guy! “Look at him! He’s just laying there hurt!” cautions Livingston. Finally, after that bit of tomfoolery wrapped up, Livingston gave Hamka the chance to finish. He quickly did, wrapping his opponent in the Jakarta Clutch for the submission win. Douglas Scott cuts a promo in the back. He talks about how he easy it was to take down the massive Nera and how easy it's going to be to win the title because all of his opponents are either too tired or too injured to deal with a fresh monster like Douglas Scott! Lucien Champion meets with Sebastien Lannes. He says that tonight he is going to award the title, personally, to whoever win the title. He talks up the competitors. He talks about how Tornado has risen from obscurity to becoming the King of the IWE and beat his old nemesis, Mercury, here tonight, which isn't an easy thing to do. He talks about how Onderdonk has been successful everywhere, and how Onderdonk always shows for the big matches! You saw it earlier when he beat former USW Champ, Rocky Li. He talks up Kobito's accomplishments, and how dangerous he is! He took El Tiburon to the limit and beat him. He held the USW American title for years! Finally, he talks about the monster Douglas Scott. He's a Champion and a winner. He's a mammoth of a man who has a chance to prove tonight that he's made it in this business by winning this title. He has already shown what he can do by taking down a big man like Nera with ease, but can he handle these smaller guys? Either way, says Lucien, all four men are deserving of this award, and he can't wait to see who comes out on top! Global Combat title finals: Garnet Onderdonk vs. Kome Kobito vs. Blue Tornado vs. Douglas Scott This was the big match of the evening. The crowd was going wild throughout this one as all four men are pretty popular here! Kobito was the first man eliminated. It was obvious that he was exhausted from his marathon match with El Tiburon and didn’t look 100% in the match. His strength finally gave out, and he found himself on the wrong end of a Douglas Scott power bomb. After a few more minutes of good three way action, Onderdonk was the next to be eliminated. He missed a lariato on Blue Tornado, and Tornado took full advantage, catching the stunned Onderdonk with a Tornado DDT to eliminate him. That leaves, him and Douglas Scott! A GCW original vs. a guy from the original GCW. Scott was the fresher competitor in this one, barely taking much damage so far tonight, while Tornado was tired and bloodied. Mercury opened up that cut earlier, and Onderdonk and Kobito continued to pick at it like the veterans that they are! “TOR-NA-DO! TOR-NA-DO!” the crowd chanted in hopes of getting their hero, the King of the IWE, some energy, but the big man Scott was taking full advantage. He didn’t need to work the cut anymore as Tornado was already wearing the crimson mask. No, he made sure to hit his usual array of power moves to further tire the smaller Tornado. He wore him down with spine busters, power bombs, punishing suplexes, and backbreakers. Still, Tornado would not capitulate. Scott just kept getting two against the brave superstar! Cutting to the end… Laurence: BOTH MEN ARE DOWN! WHOEVER GETS BACK TO THEIR FEET FIRST WILL PROBABLY HAVE THE WIN! (pauses.) IT’S SCOTT! THE BIG MAN IS UP! He is pounding his chest! He knows that victory is within his grasp. HE IS SIGNALING FOR IT! THE POWER BOMB! SchmittyHD: If he hits this, it’s over! Hell, I am shocked that it isn’t over yet! Tornado has hung in there, but now it’s time for the coronation of Douglas Scott. This man is a champion, and a winner, and he’s showing why here tonight! Laurence: He puts Tornado through his legs, and he has him up…. THUD! Laurence: OH! THAT LOOKED LIKE IT HURT! Tia: THAT’S IT! THE POWER BOMB! TORNADO IS DONE! D-O-N-E! Laurence: Scott covers, 1.…………………..2.…………………….TORNADO KICKED OUT! THE CROWD IS GOING NUTS! YOU CAN BARELY HEAR YOURSELF THINK IN THIS ARENA RIGHT NOW! HOW THE HELL DID HE KICK OUT OF THAT? Tia: Scott is mad! That just made him angry. He spits on Tornado indignantly to show his disgust at Tornado ruining his moment. Laurence: NO! HE’S GOING FOR IT AGAIN! CALL THE DAMN MATCH, REF! THIS COULD END TORNADO’S CAREER! SchmittyHD: NO WAY! TORNADO WOULD NOT STAND FOR IT! HE WILL NEVER GIVE UP UNTIL HE IS PINNED FOR THAT THREE COUNT! Laurence: Scott has him up. I CAN’T WATCH! (pauses) TORNADO ESCAPES! Tia: BUT FALLS ON HIS ASS! Laurence: Tornado slipped out and tried to land on the ropes, but he landing went horribly wrong. Scott is just laughing at him. Scott: NOW I’M GONNA FINISH HIM! Laurence: Scott has him up…AGAIN! BUT WAIT TORNADO IS PUNCHING HIM! HE IS DEFIANT TO THE LAST! Tornado slips around…TORNADO D…NO! SCOTT JUST TOSSED HIM HALFWAY ACROSS THE RING! MY GOD! Tornado is getting back up! STAY DOWN! STAY DOWN! Tia: He is stumbling around! He probably can’t even see! FINISH HIM, SCOTT! Laurence: Scott charges…LARIAT! NO! TORNADO CAUGHT THE ARM! CRUCIFIX PIN! 1.………………2.……………………….3!!!!!!!!!!! HE WON! HE WON! THAT BASTARD DID IT! THE BLUE TORNADO IS THE NEW GLOBAL COMBAT CHAMPION! Tia: I can’t believe this! Scott had it! Laurence: Blue Tornado is bleeding heavily from his face, and probably doesn’t even know where he is right now. Douglas Scott took him to the limit, but, in the end, Tornado came out on top. Oh my! What a victory! What a night! Tia: His music is kicking up and here comes the Global Combat contingent, led by Lucien Champion himself. (The shot changes to Lucien Champion and a few random suits. In his hand, Lucien is holding the new diamond studded IWE Global Combat Heavyweight title. In the background, ones of the suits is carrying a trophy and the other is carrying an envelope of some sort. The crowd is going wild as Lucien Champion enters the ring and takes a look at his first Champion as owner of Global Combat, the Blue Tornado. He is smiling huge, and seems to like what he sees.) Lucien: Blue Tornado, Blue Tornado. I want to shake your hand! (Tornado seems shocked by all of this, as he and Lucien give a good manly shake as the crowd roars its approval.) Tornado: Thank y…thank you. Lucien: Tornado, I realize it’s been an exhausting night for you. You know, as a champion myself, I have been here multiple times, and, as such, I think can credibly say that what you did here tonight was one of the greatest feats of athleticism that I have ever witnessed. You know, I am never one for hyperbole and really I have heard this multiple times from several different sources, but, you know, I think I have found the worthy successor to my crown. (cheers.) Now, I don’t want to say next Lucien Champion! (More cheers.) because that would be unfair, but from what I witnessed tonight, there might be a day in the very near future where they won't be saying next Lucien Champion anymore,(cheers.) No, after this performance they might be saying the next Blue Tornado! (Tornado chants from the crowd as Lucien takes a breath.) As such, it is my absolute pride and my total joy to present you with this title! (Lucien hands him the Global Combat Heavyweight title. Blue Tornado just looks utterly shocked by what he’s looking at. The diamonds of the belt are sparkling in the arena lights. A tear can be seen from Tornado's eyes. It's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. He takes it in for a minute, then he proudly raises this title, his title in the air to the adoring crowd.) Tornado: (fist pump.) YEAH! Lucien: Also, I would like to present you with this trophy for winning this mini-tournament here tonight. (Tornado stops the suit temporarily as he puts on the Global Combat title around his waist to more cheers, then accepts the trophy, and raises it in the air proudly.) Lucien: Finally, I would like to extend to you an official invite to be GCW’s star property in the 16 man tournament to determine the number one contender to the IWE World Championship! And the chance to win a match with Donovan Champion! (The crowd roars its approval as words like, “Win the belt, Tornado!” and “Take that title!” can be heard.) Tornado: (wiping blood from his forehead and taking the envelope.) Lucien…I hope you understand what I’m about to do because I feel truly in my heart that if you or any other World Champion of this great sport were in this position that you would do the same thing. So, Lucien, with all due respect to you and the IWE. RIIIIPPPPPP!!!!!! Walter: BLUE TORNADO JUST RIPPED THE ENVELOPE! Tia: WHAT IS HE THINKING? Tornado: Lucien, I apologize to you because I know what I just did will get a lot of crap at the IWE offices. Champion: Hey, big man! I defend my champions to the last breath, much as STW or CPW have done for me in the past. I got you back in the back offices. If the IWE wants to give me crap, then let em. (cheers.) I’m Lucien Champion. I don’t care, but I just want to know why you did that. Tornado: It’s simple, Lucien. You know, over the past year, my life has been a roller coaster ride of surprises. I didn’t enter the King of the IWE tournament thinking I’d win, but I did. I didn’t come here tonight thinking I would win the belt, but I did. And, you know, it has got me thinking. You know, the fact is that I take that invitation as a slap in the face. (cheers.) A TOURNAMENT TO NAME THE NUMBER ONE CONTENDER! Well, IWE, I’ll give you a number one contender….ME. (Raucous cheers.) My credentials? Well, it all started a year ago when I was in a qualifying match for the King of the IWE tournament. That’s QUALIFYING match because in GCW, we made our contenders EARN it. They weren’t appointed by some no nothing committee. There were no sentimental picks. If you want to join the King of the IWE, you had to beat someone else to do it! Anyway, I face off against Nera. Former IWF World Champion, former GCW World Champion and a man who had beaten me twice before. What did I do? I took him to the limit! I beat that big bastard 1.….2.…3 in the middle of that ring. (A clip is shown of Tornado beating Nera.) So, yeah, I qualified. And what thanks did I get? I got Lance Rave! The USW World Champion! I heard the people in the back. “That’s Lance Rave! He has no chance!” “Nice try, GCW, but have fun going back to the fuckin minors when your boy loses to Lance Rave!” “Who is this loser? He ain’t in Rave’s league!” Well, guess what? I went out and BEAT THE USW WORLD CHAMPION! (cheers.) In the next round, I got a softie, I had the Arachnaman. Whatever. I’m good. I beat him! Semifinal time! Me and Brent Foxx and once again, I kept hearing it. “Who is this joke?” “This is RKW’s tournament to lose!” “He got lucky against Rave, but he won’t against RKW.” And once again, I went out there and showed them what I could do in that ring when I PINNED Brent Foxx in the middle of that ring. (cheers.) Lucien: (slaps him on the chest.) That you did, big man. Tornado: And you know what? They still doubted me. I was facing Gregory Colton next, and, once again, I heard it! “He’s a Colton! He’s the RKW Champion! This is the coronation of Gregory Colton here tonight!” I was forgotten. I was an afterthought. No one gave a shit about me, so I went out there and I wrestled the match of my GODDAMN LIFE and I BEAT GREGORY COLTON, THE RKW CHAMPION, RIGHT THERE IN THE RING! (More cheers, as Tornado takes a breath, and wipes some more of the blood from his face.) And you know what? It felt good. I was the King of the IWE, but, still, to some, it wasn’t enough. I kept hearing the backstage talk that I was a lame king. That I did jack shit since winning the crown. From beating Gregory Colton and Brent Foxx to beating Esteban Convallis and Loco Brooks? What a loser! Then, I took a loss to Casimiro Aguero, and I heard the howls of "fake," of "pretender to the throne"! Which brings me to tonight, (smiles as the decibel level from the crowd slowly rises.) I was put against Mercury. Great wrestler that Mercury. Last GCW Champion. Former STW Champion. Legend. And again, I beat him 1.….2.…..3 in this ring, and FINALLY, it was me, Garnet Onderdonk, Kome Kobito, and Douglas Scott right here in the finals of this tournament. In this ring were two guys in Onderdonk and Kobito who have been trading the Octuple Crown over in Japan in recent months. Two guys who are looked at in Japan as being top shelf guys, and finally Douglas Scott, a man who last held the GCW Title when it was still promoted by Kabuki. It was the endgame. The winner of this match get the belt, and, you know, I wasn't intimidated. I went out and beat three of the top wrestlers in the world today right HERE in THIS ring and I WON THIS TITLE! (holds up the trophy.) So, let me tally this for a minute and then Lucien, I got a question. So, let’s see, over the past few months, I have defeated two GCW! World Champions, a USW World Champion, two of RKW’s last World Champions, the only two men to EVER hold the prestigious Octuple Crown, and the man who was the last Champion of the old GCW, along with a few other leagues. In that group are the champions of EVERY major league in the ENTIRE IWE! (cheers.) They lined them up, and I took them ALL down. So, Lucien, you said earlier that you understand, and that you’ve been there, so I need your expertise here. If you were me, and you did that, and, again with all due respect, that’s something that not even YOU have done. Lucien: (shrugs.) You got a point there. Tornado: Anyway, with all that in mind, if you did all that, would you join a TOURNAMENT to get a shot at the IWE World title? Lucien: (laughs.) Tornado, I WOULD HAVE DONE WHAT YOU DID! Tornado: And fans, how about you? Would you have joined the TOURNAMENT? Fans: NOOOOOOO!!!! Tornado: So, I guess, then it’s unanimous. IWE…I don’t need your tournaments to prove I’m the best, to prove I’m the number one contender to that belt, so, IWE, Donovan, and whoever else, if you REALLY want to give me that title shot, I’m opening it up right here and right now. I will face you anytime and anywhere for that title. I don’t care if it’s a month from now, a week from now, or even right here and right now! (The crowd goes nuts.) Because I don’t care. GET DONOVAN'S ASS RIGHT IN THIS RING AND I'LL FACE HIM RIGHT HERE AND NOW! (Tornado chants.) So, yeah, IWE….I’m waiting. I'm waiting. (Tornado’s music kicks up again as he holds his trophy high with his title around the waist. The fans cheer and the scene fades to black.) |