Post by Valdora on Apr 26, 2011 13:28:21 GMT
Retribution Build Up Raw Week One
The camera pans the rabid crowd.
“Hello everyone and welcome to Monday Night Raw. We are here in Dayton Ohio, coming off the heels of an amazing event last night. Foundation was one of the hardest hitting, most eventful nights I have ever called. All the fallout of that and what’s next will be sorted out here tonight.”
“Yeah, Shane Mcmahon is meant to come out here tonight and name a new number one contender. Whose that gonna be?” Asks King.
“That plus the tag team title on the line in a rematch of last night. The Nexus defend their newly won gold live here on Raw against the Machine Guns from the Motor City!”
*Play Shane*
The crowd comes alive as Shane strides down to ringside with a smile.
“Well here comes the general manager. Apparently he was on a conference call with the WWF Owner Karl Dutton all day today. This should be most interesting” JR says.
Shane gets into the ring, adjusting his suit jacket and then nodding to an employee as they hand him a microphone.
“Well, well, things have certainly heated up these past two weeks. What an amazing last two weeks. In just 14 days the company has changed ownership, the previous owner has been buried and we had one of the most eventful drafts I have ever seen. Certainly we saw the effects of that last night didn’t we? Stars are rising here in the WWF both new and old. And tonight they will continue to as we will have two huge title matches for you live here on Raw!” The crowd cheers “yes two. You see at the top of this first hour KENTA will get his rematch mandated by the Japanese promotion Noah against Jushin “Thunder” Liger for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship! That combined with a Tag Team Title match and the WWF Champion in action against a mystery opponent in our main event. Oh yes, the WWF is on fire tonight! But now we come to the big one. Who will face AJ Styles on May the 15th at Retribution? Who is the number one contender? Well there certainly are a lot of worthy individuals…”
*Play Austin*
Shane hears the glass breaks and closes his eyes. The crowd explodes as Stone Cold marches down the aisle with purpose.
“Uh oh” says JR “déjà-vu anyone?”
He enters the ring and goes to all four corners as Shane watches him, breathing out as Austin grabs a microphone.
“Steve…” Shane chuckles “what can a do for you?”
“Well you can start by naming me the number one contender” Austin barks.
“Well I was coming to that?” Shane says timidly.
“What was that? Hell Vince you’re looking young these days. Had some work done?” The crowd laughs.
“What?”
“What? That’s my line. What did you say Vince?”
“I’m not…”
“But you are a Mcmahon and you are in charge now….oh I remember you. Shane, oh yeah” he laughs, Shane laughs with him and nods “you’re the little son bitch who I once hit in the head with a chair, dam near sent your head flying into the cheap seats? That you?”
Shane lowers his head and nods.
“You’re the guy I stunnered night in, night out to piss of your old man right? Now you’re in charge? Where’s your old man…Oh yeah I remember. He’s in the place I just came from, the place the son of bitch in charge around here sent me to help out. Hell I would have an easier time curing the blind that getting ratings for that place. Made TNA and WCW look professional. Anyway, that’s beside the point. Stone Cold’s back home now and I want my title back.”
“Steve I…”
“What?”
“If you will let me speak…”
“What?” The crowd cheer and clap as Austin smile out at them “no Shane I’m gonna let you speak. But I am telling you now if you don’t make Steve Austin the number one contender that it will be Austin VS Mcmahon the Next Generation right here!”
The crowd roar as Shane bites his lip and timidly raises the microphone to speak “see Mr. Austin, Steve that’s the thing. You only just got here” loud boos, Shane looks around at them now as he speaks. Austin doesn’t look happy. “I need to give those who have fought their way to the top in our rankings the title shots first. So if you…”
“You put me in that scramble match last night.”
“And you did really well. But see that was a special occasion. Surprises and shocks are what that type and match needs. You were the biggest and the best but now you need to get in line.”
“Why not do another ‘special occasion’?”
“Because I don’t want to water it down.”
“So what you’re telling me is that you aren’t going to make me the number one contender.”
“Well not yet” Shane stammers.
“Are you or are you not going to make me the number one contender dancing boy?” Austin insists to loud cheers.
Finally Shane sighs, lifts the mic and says “no.”
The boos reign down, Shane looking out apologetically at the crowd. Austin looks at them shaking his head and then back to Shane.
“That’s all I wanted to know” Austin says.
“You’re not mad?”
“Hell no. But see the thing is” Austin raises his hand as if he is about to speak…then wham! Kicks Shane in the guts and gives him the stunner to a huge ovation from the live crowd.
He goes over to Shane, trash talking as he shakes his head and then stands and picks up mic again now.
“I think you should go back to Stamford, have a meeting with that British bastard and rethink your decision. And that’s the bottom line ‘cause Stone Cold said so!” With that Austin throws down the microphone and heads to leave when…
*Play Y2J out*
Austin frowns with aggravation as Chris Jericho comes on stage.
“You the number one contender? Austin this isn’t your WWF anymore. Nowadays people have to earn title matches. And I have toiled away for a year now and only just had my shot last night…and you ruined it! But worse, these sycophantic brainless idiots started to boo me. Why? Because of you? Who are you Austin? Who are you to waltz in, ruin my hard work, my connection to these people and demand a title match? I am Chris Jericho and I am the best in the world at what I do. And right now what I would love to do is kick your teeth in…however. However you are not worth my time” loud boos “he’s not! You’re not worth my time Austin. Instead I will put forward my body of work over the last year and respectfully ask to be named number one contender” even louder boos.
“You say I’m not worth your time but I know the truth. You stand there with your new music, saying long words and playing with your pretty blond hair. But the truth of the matter is that you are a yellow gutless bastard who is afraid of what Stone Cold will do to you after last night!” The crowd cheers.
“No, I just can’t be bothered with you Austin. You are a focally challenged red neck who should have stayed in the minor leagues. Because I promise you that if you come near Chris Jericho…you will be burned. Hit my music!”
With that Jericho smiles at Austin, poses to boos, looks at Austin again, chuckles and heads to the back. Austin narrows his eyes as he looks on and we fade to our first break.
Our opening contest is Tag Team action as No Limit manages to defeat Harlem Heat
*Play RVD*
The crowd comes alive as Rob Van Dam comes out with Bill Alfonso. Fonzy has a limp in his step from the stunner last night but is energetic as always. As they enter the ring the announcers notice Fonzy is carrying something in along black bag. He hands RVD a microphone.
“What up? Some of you may remember me, some of you may not. I am RVD and I am the Whole Dam Show, because once you have seen RVD you can just go home. That’s the truth” he nods into the camera in the ring, Fonzy blowing his whistle “but the main thing RVD is known for is not being looked over in WWF title matches, oh know. The main thing RVD is known for is being one tough hardcore mother f’er. In this bag is my old friend…the ECW Championship” some cheers as the belt is pulled from the bag and placed on RVD’s shoulder “now I know the powers that be around here won’t recognize this as an official championship. It won’t be on the roster on the website or anything…but that’s fine. Cause this is more of a symbol. A symbol of what Mr. Monday Night is all about. And I challenge any man in that locker room right now, any man who thinks he is hardcore enough, any man who thinks he has the balls to come out he and face R V D in a hardcore match for this symbolic title. I am naming this the RVD Hardcore Invitational. Now I don’t care if you’re new or old around here. I don’t care if your WWF made, WCW made, NWA made or ECW made. Bring your ass out here, beat me and you can have this belt. But you have to come and take it from me” he places it flat out on the mat like a line in the sand then gestures for someone to come on.
“What? A Hardcore invitational?” King asks.
“We can confirm folks that that title is not officially sanctioned by the WWF, but they have given RVD permission to do these hardcore matches. I wonder who will accept the challenge?” JR ponders.
*Play Shannon Moore*
Shannon Moore comes out with a determined face, enters the ring and looks down at the ECW title with a nod. RVD shrugs, nods back and then turns to Fonzy. Bill takes off his RVD shirt to reveal an old ECW referee shirt.
“He’s going to be the official for these things? That isn’t fair!” Says JR.
“Right down the middle, right down the middle my man I promise” Alfonso says to the cautious Moore, doing the cutting motion with his hand.
Finally Moore nods in agreement.
“Well Alfonso was a WWF referee” JR comments “so I guess this going to happen.”
Fonzy turns and calls for the bell.
The match starts off as a good acrobatic fight between the two but soon breaks down into a weapon filled frenzy, in which Moore does hold his own. Ending when RVD hits the Vandaminator and the Five Star Frog Splash for the 1…2…3.
RVD shrugs as Alfonso places the belt on his shoulder and says into the camera “the challenge is set. Who will step up? I’ll be waiting.” He then does the R V D chant with the crowd and heads to the back.
We are now backstage, a cameraman filming Shane Mcmahon as he holds his neck in pain, trying to relax on his office sofa.
“We on? Good. I just wanted to say that Austin, things are different around here now. You need to earn your title shot. You’re new so you need to start at the bottom and work your way up…when you get back that is” he looks around “where’s that ice pack?”
“Here…sir” Cornette comes in and places it behind his neck.
“It’s a bit warm.”
“Sorry sir” Cornette says through gritted teeth.
“Did you do my dry cleaning?”
“Yes sir.”
“The paperwork is all done for last night?” Shane looks up at him.
“Yes sir” Cornette nods, obviously in his own personal hell.
“Good. Now go and get me some coffee. And make it better than that crap you brought me last time” Shane turns back to the camera “as I was saying…”
Behind Shane head we can see Cornette mimicking strangling him, then walks off screen.
“… Austin you are going to have earn your title match and no amount of stunners to me or anyone else is going to change that. In fact it will do the opposite. I am not my father and this place will have order. As of right now Mr. Austin you are suspended and fined three thousand dollars. Sorry but from this time forth anyone who puts their hand on a referee or official will get the exact same. The inmates no longer rule the asylum! Under my watch authority here will mean something. Thank you…now back to show.”
We now go to break.
When we come back a gospel choir in on the stage, the raw set covered in purple drapes and bulb candles.
“What is this? We suddenly gone to church JR?” King asks.
“Looks like it.”
The choir then starts clapping and singing when an announcement comes over the PA.
“Ladies and Gentleman please welcome your pimpin’ Pope D’angelo Dinero!” The voice says.
The crowd gives a mixed response as The Pope burst through the curtain in a gospel robe, holding up his arms with a smile.
“Hello brothers and sisters! Your Pope has arrived and as always he is pimpin’. And the Pope is so grateful to the lord to be back here in the World Wrestling Federation to spread the truth, the word of our lord to millions. So let’s get started, everyone put your hands together! Come on everybody put your hands together and yell that you believe it! Yell I believe! I know you can!” Again a mixed reaction “now the Pope this sermon speaking about a troubled man named Stone Cold Steve Austin who was out here earlier. Truly he is a troubled man who has many demons. He thinks that he should be number one contender to the Championship of the word. He also makes a lot of money off saying terrible language and making fun of our lord with his Austin 3:16 slogan. I explore all of you to reach out to your screens now, touch your screens, come on, and say it with me; I will not cheer for Stone Cold Steve Austin. He is an egomaniac who thinks he is better than everyone else. He does evil things. I will no longer cheer him for these sinful acts. I will instead put my faith in the Pope. I will ring up the offices of the World Wrestling Federation and demand he get a title shot, any title shot, for I am a humble man. And know that by doing this you are serving the Lord. You know that he wants the Pope, his speaker, as your champion.”
Loud boos now, the whole arena turned on him.
“That concludes our sermon for today. Until next time love each other and love your Pope even more. Good night one and all, may the lord go with you!”
He bows and kisses to the crowd, getting loud jeers and boos in response as he then heads to the back.
Then it’s our first hour Main Event as Jushin “Thunder” Liger defends his newly won GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against its previous owner KENTA. These two have a fantastic technical Japanese Juniorweight style classic. In the closing moments KENTA looks like he going to take it, delivering the KENTA rush on Liger and then signaling for the GTS…when bam! As the referee is looking at Liger, Dolph Ziggler come through the crowd, gets up on the apron and slingshots KENTA off the ropes, sending him stumbling back into a Liger bomb for 1..2…3. Liger and Dusty celebrate, KENTA looks up with rage filled eyes at Ziggler and Sherri as they back up the ramp grinning. KENTA stands, charging out the ring after them. The smiles disappear off their faces and they run to the back with KENTA giving chase. Back in the ring the crowd cheers as Liger hold up both his title belts…when the lights cut out. On the titantron the video teaser from last night again plays:
*Play Hayabusa promo*
The lights come back up as Dusty and Liger look at each other in confusion, speaking frantically now and we go to break.
When we come back a vignette starts on LAX. Their music playing as the logo comes on and as the gunshots go off gun holes appear on the graphic.
“Hello gringos” we cut to an extreme close of up of Konnan’s face, now slowly zooming back to reveal Homicide and Hernandez beside him “my name is Konnan, and I am once again here in the WWF, just like I was elsewhere, the guy running the show for LAX. See they have been good, real good, but they ain’t been doing good enough. They ain’t yet been the tag champions in the New York cesspool! So I decided to come here to the World Wrestling Federation to get them back on track, to guide em” we see Homicide and Hernandez nodding with smiles behind him, bandana’s over their mouths and noses “but see LAX shouldn’t just be a tag team. It should be a nation and it needs a president which would be me, it needs muscle which would be these two future tag team champions, and it needs some broads. Yeah, LAX is as of this moment a nation again, a movement to take over the white boy filled world of Pro Wrestling. We will take over the tag division, the singles division and now the women’s division with our Sarita!” They look over as Sarita walks in LAX gear, grinning and standing between the other two with her arms over their shoulders “oh yeah. You white boys and girls better get out our way, you Japs and black bastards too. ‘Cause if you don’t then we are gonna mess you up. End of segment, get lost!”
With a graphic appears and we go back to live action.
Its then time to decide to the number one contender for the Women’s Championship in a fatal four way match. It’s Eve Torres VS Kelly Kelly VS Angelina Love VS Hamada. Hamada just dominates using her breathtaking Japanese skill to throw the others around the ring, eventually hitting an AP Cross on Love for the 1…2…3.
As she gets her hand raised, her game face on, we cut to Trish standing and watching this on a monitor, the title belt on her shoulder. She raises her eyebrows and gives an approving nod that says ‘bring it.’
We come back with the FBI coming to the ring.
“Alight” Little creaks his neck as the other two stand behind him “first of all I am announcing from now on you can call me by my real name Nunzio! Cause hell this little and large thing is kinda confusing…anyways. Why we are out here is cause last night, yeah Joe got lucky, we didn’t have a game plan and he got the quick draw on us. Good for you. But now we want to introduce you to our new friend who will take you down in this match Joe! He is newest member of the FBI and the toughest guy I ever met. Come on down fella!”
*Play Santino Marella*
The crowd laughs and comes Santino down to the ring.
“Hey Joe!” Nuncio gets on the microphone “hey, how about trying on our Italian buddy here! He will put you on your ass.”
“You have got to be kidding me” JR comments.
“Samoan Joe!” Santino gets on the microphone to laughs and cheers “you need to put down your donuts for one moments and come out here and face what is coming to you: The cobra!”
The crowd claps and laughs and then the music hits.
*Play Samoa Joe*
Needless to say Samoa Joe destroys Santino. He yells out and begs as he gets thrown around the ring but then is finally choked out with Coquina clutch for the win. Nunzio and the FBI just hold their heads and curse their luck, grabbing Santino and walking to the back. Joe watches them go then grabs his towel and then gestures for a microphone.
“Now that those jokers are gone…I proved myself by beating all those ROH scum at Supercard and have been reinforcing my mission since. But there is still one ROH original left for me to beat, and I won’t rest until I do. AJ! I want you and I want your championship even more. I don’t care if it takes me a week, a month or a year. I will fight through anyone in my way to get to you, and then I will beat you. Then I will have my respect and I will that championship. See you soon.”
With that he drops the mic and heads to the back.
Then Bryan Danielson takes on Christian in the fall out of their heat from last night’s main event. It is a quick paced, heated bout, which eventually spills out the ring. The two are so concentrated on beating the snot out of each other that they both get counted out. Bryan then leaps onto Christian and the two have to be pulled apart by officials as we cut to break.
Then it’s the match fans have been waiting for all night. The rematch from last night’s incredible if controversial tag team bout. The World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championships are on the line as the Nexus defend their newly won gold against the former champions the Motor City Machine Guns. The match is another mat classic and the two team gel so well in the ring. The Nexus are again using dirty tactics, but the guns and referee seem to have learned and won’t fall for all the same tricks twice. In the closing moments of this 25 minuet battle the Guns have beaten down Barret, he is out of it, as they drive Miz down with the Made in Detroit for 1…2….NO! The fans boo loudly as Road Dogg boots Shelly in the back of the head to break it up. Billy Gunn attacks Sabin now, both the Outlaws beating down the Guns as the bell is called for the DQ. The crowd is not happy at all. Dogg hits the pump handle slam on Sabin, Gunn hits the fameasser on Shelly and they stand over the Guns to loud jeers and boos.
On the ramp the Nexus are retreating to the back with their championship belts, holding them up and yelling they are still the champions and then heading to back as we cut.
We are still reeling from those actions when we come back to announce table.
“Ladies and Gentleman, live via satellite; The Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels!” The crowd cheers as Shawn appears on screen “Shawn well done in defeating the Undertaker last night. But in doing so you won yourself your title match you wanted so much, your rematch against AJ. You can choose whenever you will cash it in. Now there has been a lot of talk tonight about who will the number one contender. You can cancel out all of that now if you choose to cash that title match in on AJ at Retribution.”
“I could do that” Shawn nods “and if you had asked me on the night after Wrestlemania, I would have done that. But that was over a month ago now and I have time to reflect. I had what many people are calling the match of the year with John Morrison and I put the nail in the coffin, pun indeed, for the Undertaker. And to be honest after the occupation ended and Raw got back to its old self, the WWF got back to its old self, after I fought by AJ’s side again and saw how good of a champion he has been…well I just ain’t as mad at him anymore. I ain’t as mad period. But I do still have a lot of issues and it has been a very hard year. So what I am going to do is take a sabbatical, which I have cleared with the office, and clear my head, rest up. When I come back I will cash that title match in. Now that could be in a month or it could be in a year, but when I do it will be big and I will be ready. To my fans I will say that I will be back, but the think the WWF is in good shape and in good hands right now. Enough for me to bow out for awhile and let the younger guys do their stuff.”
“Well that’s shame but Shawn we respect it and thank you” JR finished.
“Thank you Jim Ross.”
Then it’s our main event as the WWF Champion comes to the ring. He is sore, but in good spirits, especially given the ovation he is given from his adoring public.
The crowd looks on as Shane walks out on stage, holding his neck, still trying to shake off the effects of the stunner.
“Ok AJ, I have a good opponent for you. This man is troubled but we are working on that with the best doctors in the world. As part of his ongoing therapy I have agreed to give him a match against you to let out any leftover negative energy towards you.”
AJ looks on in confusion.
“Ok, here he is. Come on out” he gestures to the back.
*Play Cactus Jack*
Shane looks as shocked as everyone else as Mick Foley comes out dressed as Cactus Jack. He has a chair wrapped in barbed wire in his hands. He turns to Shane with a sadistic grin, licking his lips and heading down the aisle.
“What? No! You were meant to be yourself! Mick come back! This match is off!” Shane yells.
Cactus ignores him, rolling into the ring and looking at Styles with hungry, sadistic eyes. Styles runs forward, not giving him the chance. The referee is ordered out the ring as this is no longer a match. AJ gets in a few good shots but then gets plastered with the barbed wire chair. AJ rolls over now and we can see he is bleeding for two puncher wounds. Cactus now throws the chair away, gets on his neck and bites Styles forehead. The champion calls out in pain. Jack then reels back and hammers into AJ with hard shots one after the other into his bloody head. He then props Styles up in the corner, circling away around the ring with a smile of pleasure on his face as he goes over for the barbed wire chair again. The crowd is booing, some yelling for AJ to get out of there. Jack now lifts the chair, runs in and drives his signature knee into the chair into AJ’s head in the lower corner. The crowd reacts as Cactus throws the chair away the ring and turns back towards the camera and the fans with a smile on his face still, giving his bang bang taunt. He then hammers into AJ, knocking him out the ring. He sets him up, grabs another chair, climbs the apron and flies off with his running apron to floor elbow with the drives, driving it into AJ’s head. He then just sits there, looking out with his sick smile.
“My God…I am, well somebody please get out here! Cactus is going to kill him! He is going to kill the kid!” JR pleads.
As if in answer various officials and security begin arriving on the scene, trying to calm Cactus down, but no one wants to get close. He snaps at them, even hitting a few, then goes back in on AJ, pulling him up with him onto the announce table and pile driving him down through the Spanish announce table. An eerie hush has come over many of crowd as Cactus just sits besides the lifeless body of the champion. We get some close-ups and women and children holding their mouths, gasping and even looking away in tears.
“JR…AJ’s not moving” King says morosely.
“Will you get over here and stop him! He’s gonna kill him!” JR yells at the officials.
The all surround Cactus, trying to calm him and grab him, but he stand and hammers into anyone who dares to get close. He then pulls AJ’s lifeless body up onto the other English announce table and double arm DDT’ing him through that one now. Finally he lets himself be taken. Cactus is laughing now as he is taken from the ring by security and referees. On the ramp Shane has his hand over his mouth and just looks on helplessly, frozen. Cactus is now handcuffed by uniformed police as they arrive and take him away. He is taken up the ramp, turning to Shane with a broad smile as he passes him. Shane watches him go and swallows as he looks back down to ringside and now daring to go down himself. JR and King are now trying to help as EMT’s arrive and place AJ on the stretcher, not having moved for minuets now. Shane approaches with a concerned face but gets a tongue lashing from JR.
“This is on your head!” JR yells off mic at the GM.
“How was I to know? I was trying to help him!” Shane shouts back.
“You knew this would happen, you had to know. He was only just having a breakdown last night! It’s Mick Foley for God’s sake! What did you expect to happen? Huh?”
“I don’t know! I don’t know” Shane looks down at his shoes, then finally up “I am going in the ambulance with him.”
“You better call his family to! This is your fault Shane! This is your damn fault for being so stupid!” JR yells as Shane as he holds up his hands as him and walks off alongside the EMT’s as they wheel AJ out to the back.
We followed them with a handheld camera all the way to ambulance. AJ is loaded in, Superstars and women gathering around, some calling for AJ by name, some of the girls crying. Shane gets in and the doors are closed. The sirens then sound as it drives away as we linger and then slowly fade to black.
The camera pans the rabid crowd.
“Hello everyone and welcome to Monday Night Raw. We are here in Dayton Ohio, coming off the heels of an amazing event last night. Foundation was one of the hardest hitting, most eventful nights I have ever called. All the fallout of that and what’s next will be sorted out here tonight.”
“Yeah, Shane Mcmahon is meant to come out here tonight and name a new number one contender. Whose that gonna be?” Asks King.
“That plus the tag team title on the line in a rematch of last night. The Nexus defend their newly won gold live here on Raw against the Machine Guns from the Motor City!”
*Play Shane*
The crowd comes alive as Shane strides down to ringside with a smile.
“Well here comes the general manager. Apparently he was on a conference call with the WWF Owner Karl Dutton all day today. This should be most interesting” JR says.
Shane gets into the ring, adjusting his suit jacket and then nodding to an employee as they hand him a microphone.
“Well, well, things have certainly heated up these past two weeks. What an amazing last two weeks. In just 14 days the company has changed ownership, the previous owner has been buried and we had one of the most eventful drafts I have ever seen. Certainly we saw the effects of that last night didn’t we? Stars are rising here in the WWF both new and old. And tonight they will continue to as we will have two huge title matches for you live here on Raw!” The crowd cheers “yes two. You see at the top of this first hour KENTA will get his rematch mandated by the Japanese promotion Noah against Jushin “Thunder” Liger for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship! That combined with a Tag Team Title match and the WWF Champion in action against a mystery opponent in our main event. Oh yes, the WWF is on fire tonight! But now we come to the big one. Who will face AJ Styles on May the 15th at Retribution? Who is the number one contender? Well there certainly are a lot of worthy individuals…”
*Play Austin*
Shane hears the glass breaks and closes his eyes. The crowd explodes as Stone Cold marches down the aisle with purpose.
“Uh oh” says JR “déjà-vu anyone?”
He enters the ring and goes to all four corners as Shane watches him, breathing out as Austin grabs a microphone.
“Steve…” Shane chuckles “what can a do for you?”
“Well you can start by naming me the number one contender” Austin barks.
“Well I was coming to that?” Shane says timidly.
“What was that? Hell Vince you’re looking young these days. Had some work done?” The crowd laughs.
“What?”
“What? That’s my line. What did you say Vince?”
“I’m not…”
“But you are a Mcmahon and you are in charge now….oh I remember you. Shane, oh yeah” he laughs, Shane laughs with him and nods “you’re the little son bitch who I once hit in the head with a chair, dam near sent your head flying into the cheap seats? That you?”
Shane lowers his head and nods.
“You’re the guy I stunnered night in, night out to piss of your old man right? Now you’re in charge? Where’s your old man…Oh yeah I remember. He’s in the place I just came from, the place the son of bitch in charge around here sent me to help out. Hell I would have an easier time curing the blind that getting ratings for that place. Made TNA and WCW look professional. Anyway, that’s beside the point. Stone Cold’s back home now and I want my title back.”
“Steve I…”
“What?”
“If you will let me speak…”
“What?” The crowd cheer and clap as Austin smile out at them “no Shane I’m gonna let you speak. But I am telling you now if you don’t make Steve Austin the number one contender that it will be Austin VS Mcmahon the Next Generation right here!”
The crowd roar as Shane bites his lip and timidly raises the microphone to speak “see Mr. Austin, Steve that’s the thing. You only just got here” loud boos, Shane looks around at them now as he speaks. Austin doesn’t look happy. “I need to give those who have fought their way to the top in our rankings the title shots first. So if you…”
“You put me in that scramble match last night.”
“And you did really well. But see that was a special occasion. Surprises and shocks are what that type and match needs. You were the biggest and the best but now you need to get in line.”
“Why not do another ‘special occasion’?”
“Because I don’t want to water it down.”
“So what you’re telling me is that you aren’t going to make me the number one contender.”
“Well not yet” Shane stammers.
“Are you or are you not going to make me the number one contender dancing boy?” Austin insists to loud cheers.
Finally Shane sighs, lifts the mic and says “no.”
The boos reign down, Shane looking out apologetically at the crowd. Austin looks at them shaking his head and then back to Shane.
“That’s all I wanted to know” Austin says.
“You’re not mad?”
“Hell no. But see the thing is” Austin raises his hand as if he is about to speak…then wham! Kicks Shane in the guts and gives him the stunner to a huge ovation from the live crowd.
He goes over to Shane, trash talking as he shakes his head and then stands and picks up mic again now.
“I think you should go back to Stamford, have a meeting with that British bastard and rethink your decision. And that’s the bottom line ‘cause Stone Cold said so!” With that Austin throws down the microphone and heads to leave when…
*Play Y2J out*
Austin frowns with aggravation as Chris Jericho comes on stage.
“You the number one contender? Austin this isn’t your WWF anymore. Nowadays people have to earn title matches. And I have toiled away for a year now and only just had my shot last night…and you ruined it! But worse, these sycophantic brainless idiots started to boo me. Why? Because of you? Who are you Austin? Who are you to waltz in, ruin my hard work, my connection to these people and demand a title match? I am Chris Jericho and I am the best in the world at what I do. And right now what I would love to do is kick your teeth in…however. However you are not worth my time” loud boos “he’s not! You’re not worth my time Austin. Instead I will put forward my body of work over the last year and respectfully ask to be named number one contender” even louder boos.
“You say I’m not worth your time but I know the truth. You stand there with your new music, saying long words and playing with your pretty blond hair. But the truth of the matter is that you are a yellow gutless bastard who is afraid of what Stone Cold will do to you after last night!” The crowd cheers.
“No, I just can’t be bothered with you Austin. You are a focally challenged red neck who should have stayed in the minor leagues. Because I promise you that if you come near Chris Jericho…you will be burned. Hit my music!”
With that Jericho smiles at Austin, poses to boos, looks at Austin again, chuckles and heads to the back. Austin narrows his eyes as he looks on and we fade to our first break.
Our opening contest is Tag Team action as No Limit manages to defeat Harlem Heat
*Play RVD*
The crowd comes alive as Rob Van Dam comes out with Bill Alfonso. Fonzy has a limp in his step from the stunner last night but is energetic as always. As they enter the ring the announcers notice Fonzy is carrying something in along black bag. He hands RVD a microphone.
“What up? Some of you may remember me, some of you may not. I am RVD and I am the Whole Dam Show, because once you have seen RVD you can just go home. That’s the truth” he nods into the camera in the ring, Fonzy blowing his whistle “but the main thing RVD is known for is not being looked over in WWF title matches, oh know. The main thing RVD is known for is being one tough hardcore mother f’er. In this bag is my old friend…the ECW Championship” some cheers as the belt is pulled from the bag and placed on RVD’s shoulder “now I know the powers that be around here won’t recognize this as an official championship. It won’t be on the roster on the website or anything…but that’s fine. Cause this is more of a symbol. A symbol of what Mr. Monday Night is all about. And I challenge any man in that locker room right now, any man who thinks he is hardcore enough, any man who thinks he has the balls to come out he and face R V D in a hardcore match for this symbolic title. I am naming this the RVD Hardcore Invitational. Now I don’t care if you’re new or old around here. I don’t care if your WWF made, WCW made, NWA made or ECW made. Bring your ass out here, beat me and you can have this belt. But you have to come and take it from me” he places it flat out on the mat like a line in the sand then gestures for someone to come on.
“What? A Hardcore invitational?” King asks.
“We can confirm folks that that title is not officially sanctioned by the WWF, but they have given RVD permission to do these hardcore matches. I wonder who will accept the challenge?” JR ponders.
*Play Shannon Moore*
Shannon Moore comes out with a determined face, enters the ring and looks down at the ECW title with a nod. RVD shrugs, nods back and then turns to Fonzy. Bill takes off his RVD shirt to reveal an old ECW referee shirt.
“He’s going to be the official for these things? That isn’t fair!” Says JR.
“Right down the middle, right down the middle my man I promise” Alfonso says to the cautious Moore, doing the cutting motion with his hand.
Finally Moore nods in agreement.
“Well Alfonso was a WWF referee” JR comments “so I guess this going to happen.”
Fonzy turns and calls for the bell.
The match starts off as a good acrobatic fight between the two but soon breaks down into a weapon filled frenzy, in which Moore does hold his own. Ending when RVD hits the Vandaminator and the Five Star Frog Splash for the 1…2…3.
RVD shrugs as Alfonso places the belt on his shoulder and says into the camera “the challenge is set. Who will step up? I’ll be waiting.” He then does the R V D chant with the crowd and heads to the back.
We are now backstage, a cameraman filming Shane Mcmahon as he holds his neck in pain, trying to relax on his office sofa.
“We on? Good. I just wanted to say that Austin, things are different around here now. You need to earn your title shot. You’re new so you need to start at the bottom and work your way up…when you get back that is” he looks around “where’s that ice pack?”
“Here…sir” Cornette comes in and places it behind his neck.
“It’s a bit warm.”
“Sorry sir” Cornette says through gritted teeth.
“Did you do my dry cleaning?”
“Yes sir.”
“The paperwork is all done for last night?” Shane looks up at him.
“Yes sir” Cornette nods, obviously in his own personal hell.
“Good. Now go and get me some coffee. And make it better than that crap you brought me last time” Shane turns back to the camera “as I was saying…”
Behind Shane head we can see Cornette mimicking strangling him, then walks off screen.
“… Austin you are going to have earn your title match and no amount of stunners to me or anyone else is going to change that. In fact it will do the opposite. I am not my father and this place will have order. As of right now Mr. Austin you are suspended and fined three thousand dollars. Sorry but from this time forth anyone who puts their hand on a referee or official will get the exact same. The inmates no longer rule the asylum! Under my watch authority here will mean something. Thank you…now back to show.”
We now go to break.
When we come back a gospel choir in on the stage, the raw set covered in purple drapes and bulb candles.
“What is this? We suddenly gone to church JR?” King asks.
“Looks like it.”
The choir then starts clapping and singing when an announcement comes over the PA.
“Ladies and Gentleman please welcome your pimpin’ Pope D’angelo Dinero!” The voice says.
The crowd gives a mixed response as The Pope burst through the curtain in a gospel robe, holding up his arms with a smile.
“Hello brothers and sisters! Your Pope has arrived and as always he is pimpin’. And the Pope is so grateful to the lord to be back here in the World Wrestling Federation to spread the truth, the word of our lord to millions. So let’s get started, everyone put your hands together! Come on everybody put your hands together and yell that you believe it! Yell I believe! I know you can!” Again a mixed reaction “now the Pope this sermon speaking about a troubled man named Stone Cold Steve Austin who was out here earlier. Truly he is a troubled man who has many demons. He thinks that he should be number one contender to the Championship of the word. He also makes a lot of money off saying terrible language and making fun of our lord with his Austin 3:16 slogan. I explore all of you to reach out to your screens now, touch your screens, come on, and say it with me; I will not cheer for Stone Cold Steve Austin. He is an egomaniac who thinks he is better than everyone else. He does evil things. I will no longer cheer him for these sinful acts. I will instead put my faith in the Pope. I will ring up the offices of the World Wrestling Federation and demand he get a title shot, any title shot, for I am a humble man. And know that by doing this you are serving the Lord. You know that he wants the Pope, his speaker, as your champion.”
Loud boos now, the whole arena turned on him.
“That concludes our sermon for today. Until next time love each other and love your Pope even more. Good night one and all, may the lord go with you!”
He bows and kisses to the crowd, getting loud jeers and boos in response as he then heads to the back.
Then it’s our first hour Main Event as Jushin “Thunder” Liger defends his newly won GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against its previous owner KENTA. These two have a fantastic technical Japanese Juniorweight style classic. In the closing moments KENTA looks like he going to take it, delivering the KENTA rush on Liger and then signaling for the GTS…when bam! As the referee is looking at Liger, Dolph Ziggler come through the crowd, gets up on the apron and slingshots KENTA off the ropes, sending him stumbling back into a Liger bomb for 1..2…3. Liger and Dusty celebrate, KENTA looks up with rage filled eyes at Ziggler and Sherri as they back up the ramp grinning. KENTA stands, charging out the ring after them. The smiles disappear off their faces and they run to the back with KENTA giving chase. Back in the ring the crowd cheers as Liger hold up both his title belts…when the lights cut out. On the titantron the video teaser from last night again plays:
*Play Hayabusa promo*
The lights come back up as Dusty and Liger look at each other in confusion, speaking frantically now and we go to break.
When we come back a vignette starts on LAX. Their music playing as the logo comes on and as the gunshots go off gun holes appear on the graphic.
“Hello gringos” we cut to an extreme close of up of Konnan’s face, now slowly zooming back to reveal Homicide and Hernandez beside him “my name is Konnan, and I am once again here in the WWF, just like I was elsewhere, the guy running the show for LAX. See they have been good, real good, but they ain’t been doing good enough. They ain’t yet been the tag champions in the New York cesspool! So I decided to come here to the World Wrestling Federation to get them back on track, to guide em” we see Homicide and Hernandez nodding with smiles behind him, bandana’s over their mouths and noses “but see LAX shouldn’t just be a tag team. It should be a nation and it needs a president which would be me, it needs muscle which would be these two future tag team champions, and it needs some broads. Yeah, LAX is as of this moment a nation again, a movement to take over the white boy filled world of Pro Wrestling. We will take over the tag division, the singles division and now the women’s division with our Sarita!” They look over as Sarita walks in LAX gear, grinning and standing between the other two with her arms over their shoulders “oh yeah. You white boys and girls better get out our way, you Japs and black bastards too. ‘Cause if you don’t then we are gonna mess you up. End of segment, get lost!”
With a graphic appears and we go back to live action.
Its then time to decide to the number one contender for the Women’s Championship in a fatal four way match. It’s Eve Torres VS Kelly Kelly VS Angelina Love VS Hamada. Hamada just dominates using her breathtaking Japanese skill to throw the others around the ring, eventually hitting an AP Cross on Love for the 1…2…3.
As she gets her hand raised, her game face on, we cut to Trish standing and watching this on a monitor, the title belt on her shoulder. She raises her eyebrows and gives an approving nod that says ‘bring it.’
We come back with the FBI coming to the ring.
“Alight” Little creaks his neck as the other two stand behind him “first of all I am announcing from now on you can call me by my real name Nunzio! Cause hell this little and large thing is kinda confusing…anyways. Why we are out here is cause last night, yeah Joe got lucky, we didn’t have a game plan and he got the quick draw on us. Good for you. But now we want to introduce you to our new friend who will take you down in this match Joe! He is newest member of the FBI and the toughest guy I ever met. Come on down fella!”
*Play Santino Marella*
The crowd laughs and comes Santino down to the ring.
“Hey Joe!” Nuncio gets on the microphone “hey, how about trying on our Italian buddy here! He will put you on your ass.”
“You have got to be kidding me” JR comments.
“Samoan Joe!” Santino gets on the microphone to laughs and cheers “you need to put down your donuts for one moments and come out here and face what is coming to you: The cobra!”
The crowd claps and laughs and then the music hits.
*Play Samoa Joe*
Needless to say Samoa Joe destroys Santino. He yells out and begs as he gets thrown around the ring but then is finally choked out with Coquina clutch for the win. Nunzio and the FBI just hold their heads and curse their luck, grabbing Santino and walking to the back. Joe watches them go then grabs his towel and then gestures for a microphone.
“Now that those jokers are gone…I proved myself by beating all those ROH scum at Supercard and have been reinforcing my mission since. But there is still one ROH original left for me to beat, and I won’t rest until I do. AJ! I want you and I want your championship even more. I don’t care if it takes me a week, a month or a year. I will fight through anyone in my way to get to you, and then I will beat you. Then I will have my respect and I will that championship. See you soon.”
With that he drops the mic and heads to the back.
Then Bryan Danielson takes on Christian in the fall out of their heat from last night’s main event. It is a quick paced, heated bout, which eventually spills out the ring. The two are so concentrated on beating the snot out of each other that they both get counted out. Bryan then leaps onto Christian and the two have to be pulled apart by officials as we cut to break.
Then it’s the match fans have been waiting for all night. The rematch from last night’s incredible if controversial tag team bout. The World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championships are on the line as the Nexus defend their newly won gold against the former champions the Motor City Machine Guns. The match is another mat classic and the two team gel so well in the ring. The Nexus are again using dirty tactics, but the guns and referee seem to have learned and won’t fall for all the same tricks twice. In the closing moments of this 25 minuet battle the Guns have beaten down Barret, he is out of it, as they drive Miz down with the Made in Detroit for 1…2….NO! The fans boo loudly as Road Dogg boots Shelly in the back of the head to break it up. Billy Gunn attacks Sabin now, both the Outlaws beating down the Guns as the bell is called for the DQ. The crowd is not happy at all. Dogg hits the pump handle slam on Sabin, Gunn hits the fameasser on Shelly and they stand over the Guns to loud jeers and boos.
On the ramp the Nexus are retreating to the back with their championship belts, holding them up and yelling they are still the champions and then heading to back as we cut.
We are still reeling from those actions when we come back to announce table.
“Ladies and Gentleman, live via satellite; The Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels!” The crowd cheers as Shawn appears on screen “Shawn well done in defeating the Undertaker last night. But in doing so you won yourself your title match you wanted so much, your rematch against AJ. You can choose whenever you will cash it in. Now there has been a lot of talk tonight about who will the number one contender. You can cancel out all of that now if you choose to cash that title match in on AJ at Retribution.”
“I could do that” Shawn nods “and if you had asked me on the night after Wrestlemania, I would have done that. But that was over a month ago now and I have time to reflect. I had what many people are calling the match of the year with John Morrison and I put the nail in the coffin, pun indeed, for the Undertaker. And to be honest after the occupation ended and Raw got back to its old self, the WWF got back to its old self, after I fought by AJ’s side again and saw how good of a champion he has been…well I just ain’t as mad at him anymore. I ain’t as mad period. But I do still have a lot of issues and it has been a very hard year. So what I am going to do is take a sabbatical, which I have cleared with the office, and clear my head, rest up. When I come back I will cash that title match in. Now that could be in a month or it could be in a year, but when I do it will be big and I will be ready. To my fans I will say that I will be back, but the think the WWF is in good shape and in good hands right now. Enough for me to bow out for awhile and let the younger guys do their stuff.”
“Well that’s shame but Shawn we respect it and thank you” JR finished.
“Thank you Jim Ross.”
Then it’s our main event as the WWF Champion comes to the ring. He is sore, but in good spirits, especially given the ovation he is given from his adoring public.
The crowd looks on as Shane walks out on stage, holding his neck, still trying to shake off the effects of the stunner.
“Ok AJ, I have a good opponent for you. This man is troubled but we are working on that with the best doctors in the world. As part of his ongoing therapy I have agreed to give him a match against you to let out any leftover negative energy towards you.”
AJ looks on in confusion.
“Ok, here he is. Come on out” he gestures to the back.
*Play Cactus Jack*
Shane looks as shocked as everyone else as Mick Foley comes out dressed as Cactus Jack. He has a chair wrapped in barbed wire in his hands. He turns to Shane with a sadistic grin, licking his lips and heading down the aisle.
“What? No! You were meant to be yourself! Mick come back! This match is off!” Shane yells.
Cactus ignores him, rolling into the ring and looking at Styles with hungry, sadistic eyes. Styles runs forward, not giving him the chance. The referee is ordered out the ring as this is no longer a match. AJ gets in a few good shots but then gets plastered with the barbed wire chair. AJ rolls over now and we can see he is bleeding for two puncher wounds. Cactus now throws the chair away, gets on his neck and bites Styles forehead. The champion calls out in pain. Jack then reels back and hammers into AJ with hard shots one after the other into his bloody head. He then props Styles up in the corner, circling away around the ring with a smile of pleasure on his face as he goes over for the barbed wire chair again. The crowd is booing, some yelling for AJ to get out of there. Jack now lifts the chair, runs in and drives his signature knee into the chair into AJ’s head in the lower corner. The crowd reacts as Cactus throws the chair away the ring and turns back towards the camera and the fans with a smile on his face still, giving his bang bang taunt. He then hammers into AJ, knocking him out the ring. He sets him up, grabs another chair, climbs the apron and flies off with his running apron to floor elbow with the drives, driving it into AJ’s head. He then just sits there, looking out with his sick smile.
“My God…I am, well somebody please get out here! Cactus is going to kill him! He is going to kill the kid!” JR pleads.
As if in answer various officials and security begin arriving on the scene, trying to calm Cactus down, but no one wants to get close. He snaps at them, even hitting a few, then goes back in on AJ, pulling him up with him onto the announce table and pile driving him down through the Spanish announce table. An eerie hush has come over many of crowd as Cactus just sits besides the lifeless body of the champion. We get some close-ups and women and children holding their mouths, gasping and even looking away in tears.
“JR…AJ’s not moving” King says morosely.
“Will you get over here and stop him! He’s gonna kill him!” JR yells at the officials.
The all surround Cactus, trying to calm him and grab him, but he stand and hammers into anyone who dares to get close. He then pulls AJ’s lifeless body up onto the other English announce table and double arm DDT’ing him through that one now. Finally he lets himself be taken. Cactus is laughing now as he is taken from the ring by security and referees. On the ramp Shane has his hand over his mouth and just looks on helplessly, frozen. Cactus is now handcuffed by uniformed police as they arrive and take him away. He is taken up the ramp, turning to Shane with a broad smile as he passes him. Shane watches him go and swallows as he looks back down to ringside and now daring to go down himself. JR and King are now trying to help as EMT’s arrive and place AJ on the stretcher, not having moved for minuets now. Shane approaches with a concerned face but gets a tongue lashing from JR.
“This is on your head!” JR yells off mic at the GM.
“How was I to know? I was trying to help him!” Shane shouts back.
“You knew this would happen, you had to know. He was only just having a breakdown last night! It’s Mick Foley for God’s sake! What did you expect to happen? Huh?”
“I don’t know! I don’t know” Shane looks down at his shoes, then finally up “I am going in the ambulance with him.”
“You better call his family to! This is your fault Shane! This is your damn fault for being so stupid!” JR yells as Shane as he holds up his hands as him and walks off alongside the EMT’s as they wheel AJ out to the back.
We followed them with a handheld camera all the way to ambulance. AJ is loaded in, Superstars and women gathering around, some calling for AJ by name, some of the girls crying. Shane gets in and the doors are closed. The sirens then sound as it drives away as we linger and then slowly fade to black.