Post by Valdora on Jul 19, 2012 14:57:41 GMT
WWF Monday Night Raw June 26 2012
*Play Signature*
“Well, hello ladies and gentleman. Welcome to Raw. We are live here in the O2 Arena in London England. What a great success ring of the ring was just down the road at Wembley last night. We have a new WWF Champion in Wade Barrett, a new King of the Ring in John Cena…or do we? Let’s show you footage from last night…” the footage of last night’s finals are shown as Cena gives AJ two Piledrivers, the last of which is the Owen Hart sit out tombstone to get the win. It then shows Hogan, Rock and Cena beating down on HBK, AJ and Bryan while attacking and taking out referees and security left, right and centre as JR and King explain the footage. We then come back to them live.
“Well after that as you saw Dusty Rhodes came out and said that he would fire all of Legendary here tonight. And well…the board of directors responded. This is a statement from them “we hired Dusty Rhodes because we believed he would be able to keep order. However, not only has he not done that but not that it is at its worst he threatens to fire three of the biggest stars of the company from the three biggest contracts we have, which would cost the Company millions in pay outs with no return. Therefore we regret to inform our fans that we have fired Dusty Rhodes as the general manager of the WWF. Also on a larger scale, the chairman Karl Dutton tried to overturn this ruling. And after several meetings today we the board have had no choice, given his lack of involvement with the product lately…we have…my God…we have voted to remove Karl Dutton as the chairman of the World Wrestling Federation. However, we did have felt this way about Mr. Dutton for quite some time, since his poor leadership allowed Mark Callaway, better known as the Undertaker to take over the Company. And we have had a replacement owner who has been on standby for some time, and was at the PPV last night in England. So, we can say that the new chairman, who will be taking over the duties of both the Corporate and wrestling, is already in England and will be there later tonight to address the fans and Superstars. You’re sincerely, the WWF Board of Directors. My God…”
“JR…what? I mean we are in the middle of a tour here and the board has fired the GM and the owner for trying to get rid of Legendary!” King exclaims.
“Well it is apparently way more than that, especially if they had this new owner on stand bye here on the tour over here. Last night seemed to just be the nail in the coffin for Dusty, and Dutton…well it looks like they have been trying to get rid of him for 2 years now and this was the last straw. Just…wow. But that new owner is here in England folks and apparently will be here tonight.”
“Wow JR, this is HUGE! This is crazy. Who do you think it is?” King asks.
“I don’t know King. But the agents have put together a show for the fans never the less and I guess we have to carry on as normal until whoever it is gets here. Let’s go to ringside for our first match.”
The bell rings as Howard Finkle is stood in the centre of the ring, the English fans wild.
“Ladies and Gentleman. The following is a 6 man X Division elimination match! The winner will get an X Division Championship shot against Dolph Ziggler on Smackdown!” The crowd cheers in response.
*Play KENTA, Doug Williams, Chris Hero, Delirious, Naomichi Marufuji, Claudio Castagnoli*
Each man shows of his high flying and technical skill in this faced past, action packed match up. Some of the new arrivals showing themselves for the first time. Of note is Delirious who is talking in seemingly gibberish through the whole match and then coming out and getting him a piece of everyone. The former King of Wrestling takes exception to this and team up to hammer into him. But a chop volley from KENTA on Hero allows Delirious to beat the hell out of Claudio with Mongolian chops and then nails the Bizarro Driver (leg hook fisherman driver) to get the 3 count and eliminate him. Delirious crawls backwards from this to crouch in the corner, speaking gibberish to himself as he plays with his mask dreads, chewing on one of them as he watches the others go to work.
“Man, that Delirious is one weird Dude” King comments.
“To put it mildly” JR replies.
The next to go is Marufuji courtesy of a lifting rolling cutter from Hero. But as he stands from behind comes Williams who takes him over with the Chaos theory and gets the 3 count to eliminate him now. The battle rages on. KENTA hammering into Doug in the corner with chops when Delirious comes back into it, running across the ring and dropkicking KENTA in the back of the head. He then rolls him up for 2. They both rolls to stand, KENTA going for the GTS but Delirious drops down out of it and then hits the double pump handle wheelbarrow driver he calls the Chemical Imbalance 2 and gets back hooks the leg, counting along in gibberish numbers for 3. KENTA is gone. Williams now comes in and he and Delirious battle hard back and forth for a further five minutes until Delirious goes for the Bizarro Driver but Williams back turning it into a roll up for 1…2…3! Doug Williams get the win and the title shot. As the music plays the referee raises his hands and below Delirious sounds like he is cursing, but of course no one can make out the words. Williams watches him rolls out of the ring, slam the mat and walk up the aisle angrily talking to himself in his own language the whole way as Doug Williams stands tall in the ring.
We cut to the back now seeing a long black stretch limo arriving, the crowd buzzing.
“Oh my JR! Is this him? Is this the new owner?” King asks.
“Maybe” replies JR as the driver gets out of his seat and comes around, opening the door for the passengers.
As they yell out, broad grins on their faces Legendary emerge from the car to heavy boos. Seemingly to be a very good, even party mood as they smile and yell at the camera “tonight baby. We did it. We save the company!” Yells Cena into the barrel, the other two laughing and saying the same as they walk off into the arena.
“Man, this night just keeps getting better doesn’t it?” JR says dryly as we go to break.
When we come back…
*Play Awesome Kong*
In the ring now stands Christy Hemme as the monster of women, towering over her as she enters the ring with her women’s title belt on her shoulder as she steps up to her. Christy goes to speak to start the interview when…
*Play Mickie James*
Kong glares on and Mickie strides down to the ring with a deadly serious look on her face. Everyone looking on, following her as she slides into the ring and then goes over asking for a microphone. She now takes one and turns back to Kong who raises an eyebrow at her.
“Kong, I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. I came close last night, I came real close and now…I want my rematch” the crowd cheers for that as Kong raises her head.
She then reaches over and snatches the microphone out of Christy’s hand and points for her to leave the ring. She doesn’t have to ask her twice. As she bails Kong turns back now to face Mickie James and raises the microphone.
“I beat you women. I have nothing else left to prove. I will just beat you again...” Kong starts.
“Then why not except? If you can just do it again?” Mickie counters.
Kong reacts to that and then goes to raise her microphone again “alright, alright. You want another shot against me? You…”
*Play Trish*
The O2 arena erupts as Trish Stratus walks out onto the stage making her return. In the ring Kong and Mickie have now turned and stare up at her, hands on their hips. Trish smiles down at them, then out at the crowd with a nod as she raises her microphone up.
“Mickie, Mickie. That’s great and all. Great to see you finally back here, we go back a long way. But I’m sorry…it’s time for you to get to the back of the line. Because I’m back, and Kong. I want my shot.”
The crowd cheers at that as now the three women stare each other down; Mickie now comes to the ropes and yelling up to Trish that this is hers, Trish calling back that we will see. Kong looking between them as we go to break.
When we come back we cut too backstage where we see the Motor City Machine Guns arguing with an agent with a clip board.
“Why weren’t we in that? If anyone deserves a shot against Ziggler it’s me!” Sabin demands.
“Because you’re the tag team champions, as you proved last night. And the new owner feels you should focus on that and that alone. It’s more than enough. Also…he ordered us to make you defend your titles here tonight against the American Wolves!” The crowd cheers for that as the Guns stare at each other, then nodding as walking off as the agent shakes his head and looks down at the sheet.
*Play the Easy Ryders*
The crowd boos heavily as Zack Ryder and Robbie E swagger out to the ring. They both then grab microphones and stand in the centre of the ring, flipping their sun glasses up to their heads as they go to speak.
“You serious bro?” Ryder asks “the American Wolves? Seriously? We beat them last week on Smackdown and they get a title shot. We beat them, and woo woo you know it!” Loud boos.
“Yeah and lately we have got tired of the competition around here, kinda getting stale beating every tag team there is in the WWF. So we are opening the Ryders open challenge right here, right now! If any team in the back thinks they can beat us then get out here and prove it! But you won’t because we can beat anyone.”
“Woo woo woo you know it!” Ryder adds as the two look back to the stage waiting to see if anyone will take up their challenge.
The crowd is buzzing for a moment, then erupts in cheers as Armando Estrada walks out in a fine white suit, cigar in pocket and a microphone in hand as he stands on the stage, the Ryders laughing in the ring and yelling abuse at him. Nodding at the cheering crowd and lifting the microphone up.
“My name is Armando Alehandro Estrada! And I represent a team that has been away for a while. See after Wrestlemania they had to…haha refocus and now. Now they are ready to come back and reclaims what is there haha. And why not tonight? Why not start with you two haha! So allow me orange men to introduce your opponents for this evening. They are the Ripper Paul Burchill, the Predator Tyler Rekks! The Natural Born Killers!”
*Play NBK*
The crowd gives a loud roaring ovation as the NBK return. They charge down to the ring, games faces on. A referee now comes out and gets between them and now calls for the bell. The Ryders are just laughing at them, obviously not known what they are in for and then run head first into them right in a beating of a life time. First Burchill beats E around the ring, then Ryder and then lets Rekks rip him to shreds. They then nail both of them with spine busters and double closelines before then hitting the decapitator for the 3 count.
The NBK are back and they are back in style. Estrada now jumps into the ring and raises their hands up, laughing and proclaiming that they are back and they are out to reclaim what is theirs.
When we come back we are in the interview area with Gene Okerlund.
“Ladies and Gentleman. The new World Wrestling Federation Champion! Wade Barrett!” Thunderous ovation from the English crowd as Barrett steps in, the championship belt over his shoulder looking very happy and proud “well Wade you did it. You are the first ever English World Wrestling Federation Champion; you made it to the top of the mountain and you did it here in England. But as you may have heard online, Miz has been saying that you cheated last night and that he is still the rightful WWF Champion.”
“I cheated? Well let me first say that I think that beating someone in the middle of the ring with your finishing move in the cleanest, most definitive way to beat someone that there is. Miz I beat you, you just need to accept that you are yesterdays news. I’m better, I’m the man now and now you are standing in my shadow” the crowd cheers to that “but on to more important things at hand. Yes, I did it. And I could not be more proud that to be WWF Champion. I am the Champion of the World, the first Englishman to do it and I did it in Wembley Stadium before 75 thousand of my countryman. And I promise them and everyone else that I will hold this title with pride and dignity and any loud mouths that get in my way on the way will be beaten down just like Miz was!”
“Well how about tonight then? You are set team with the Intercontinental Champion Jushin “Thunder” Liger. A huge pairing of the two biggest champions in this company indeed. But your opponents will be the men you both faced last night Christian and Miz.”
“Well then…”Barrett chuckles “it will give me a chance to beat two loud mouths again then won’t it.”
With that Barrett walks off as we fade out.
*Play Abyss package announcing he debuts next week*
*Play Ziggler VS RVD*
Hard hitting match here as RVD channels all his anger of the last couple of months into hard, vicious kicks. Ziggler though does fight back with skilled offense of his own. In the final moments RVD sends Ziggler double flipping over to the centre of the ring with a monkey flip and then heads to the top rope, signaling for the 5 star…when Londrick hit the ring and hammer into him, pulling him off the top rope for the disqualification. As the bell rings Ziggler stands now pulls the two off of RVD, yelling at them about getting him disqualified. They call back that they were trying to help and that he would have lost. Ziggler yells back that they are the losers who couldn’t get the job done, that Velvet is in the hospital because of them. Back and forth the argument rages until finally Ziggler pushes Kendrick over and leaves. Calling back that he isn’t going to carry them anymore as he heads up to the back.
We then cut to backstage seeing Ziggler as he storms up the corridor, passing the Guns as they head to the ring for their title defense. The two sides stare each other down with burning hate for a moment until Ziggler throws his X Division title belt down and charges forward, hammering into Sabin. It is chaos, commotion as now referees and security run in yelling and they pull the wild brawl apart, Ziggler and Sabin hammering into each other like mad men. Finally it is pulled apart and two of agents yell for Sabin and Shelly to get to Gorilla position. Sabin yells on “one day! One day your mine!” But then nods, throwing his hands up at the yelling officials and then picks up his tag title and joins Shelly as they walk towards the ring for the next match up after a break.
*Play Wolves VS Guns*
This is a superb tag team battle is there ever was one. Not quite as high flying, long or as fueled by heat as lasts defense but instead being more of a contrast as the Wolves use ground based and technical offense to corner the Guns more high flying move set. But they also use a variety of kicks and suplex to counter the speedy moves in awesome sequences. After they tear the house down for 13 minutes it reaches its end when Shelly is able to grab the super kick and pull Edwards in, hitting the Shellshock for the 3 count. The Guns retain in impressive fashion again. They stands now, holding their title belts up high and calling to the camera for someone to come and try and take them.
We cut to the parking lot, out camera’s obviously waiting for the new owner when Shawn Michaels and Bryan Danielson arrive to a loud cheer, pulling their bags behind them as they look solemn, obviously without AJ as they talk little and enter the area.
“Man, the combustible elements are all tonight folks…and we still have the new owner to be announced as result of it all. Stay with us.”
*Play Daffney VS Ayako Hamada*
Top women’s action here as these two women tear viciously into each other. Daffney pulling and ripping at hair and flesh as she slams the more powerful women to the mat. But in the end Hamada is able to duck a closeline and then hits the Hamada Chan cutter for the 3 count. Hamada gets the win.
We then cut backstage now seeing the Miz walking towards the ring for our main event. Okerlund now runs up to him “Miz, Miz, any comments for the world on what happened last night when Wade Barrett be….”
“Get out of my face before I knock yours off” Miz sneers as he him and pushes him hard backwards off screen, glares with anger at them and then continues his stride towards the ring as we go to break.
Then it’s time for the main event…
*Play Liger/Barrett VS Miz/Christian*
This is battle of a main event for sure as the two biggest singles champions in the WWF take on their challenges from the night before. Both teams are able to work well together, with Liger and Barrett even hitting some tandem offense with Barrett heaving Liger up and onto Miz and Christian. The cocky ones jell though and manage too to work together and manages to cut Liger off from Barrett in the second half of the match beating him down. Miz then goes to finish it with the SCF, but Liger swings out of it and turns it into a DDT. He then slowly crawls over and manages to get the hot tag to Barrett. The crowd roars as they native hero runs in and takes Miz down with a hard closeline, then Christian runs in to one. He then scoops slams them both. But Christian lands on his feet and runs in…right into a rolling Liger wheel kick sending him out of the ring. Liger then runs the ring and dives out onto Christian taking him out on the floor. Back in the ring now Barrett now comes in Miz, going to pick him up, but Miz manages to grab him and catch him with an inside cradle, hooking the tights for 1…2…3!
The crowd boos heavily as Miz rolls out of the ring, his music play and being announced the victor. He now backs up the ramp grinning from ear to ear as Barrett glares on, shaking his head as he stands.
“The Miz just got a pin fall on the WWF Champion. Maybe the new owner will consider giving him a rematch now?” JR asks as we fade to the back.
There behind Legendaries Limo we see another limo pull in with two WWF flags on the hood, the crowd buzzing as the driver comes around and opens the door.
“Folks we are told we have to cut. We have to go to break but when we come back the new owner will be here. It’s out last commercial break, the owner is revealed. Next” JR says as we fade out.
The crowd is now abuzz as we come back, they like everyone else in anticipation of who is about to come out. Howard Finkle is now stood in the centre of the ring.
“Ladies and Gentleman. I first have statement to read from the board of directors…” he reaches down and unfolds a paper from his pocket reading from it “three years ago when the company was in finical peril we decided to go in a new direction. We hired a new chairman in Karl Dutton and allowed him creative freedom. While he has brought us some success in the past three years and we are happy to once again have the name of the World Wrestling Federation and the initial WWF back in his successful appeal, we feel that his leadership over the past year and a half has not been to our standards. We feel that he was giving the opportunities to those who were not proven as Champions and as such our business has suffered. He even almost ended the company when he allowed the Undertaker to take over as chairman, betting your stocks in a wrestling match is reckless and shows that we may have put our faith in the wrong. As for Dusty Rhodes, we like what he has done as General Manager but much like Mr. Dutton has not been practical. We have been considering this change for some time but after last night’s PPV when Mr. Rhodes seemed intent on costing the company millions by firing the Rock, John Cena and Hollywood Hulk Hogan we had to call an emergency set of meetings today. We knew that the new owner was overseeing the tour for us and since he was already there it made it an easy choice. Therefore we have decided to go back to what works, to the man that made this company what it is and has the drive and the vision to see it thrive again. Ladies and Gentleman the new owner, returning to his former position on our board in the World Wrestling Federation…Mr. Vince Mcmahon!”
*Play Vince*
The crowd reacts in shock and then cheers as pioneer of the WWF, the man who build the stage strides out onto it. He has a beaming broad grin as he look around the cheering crowd and then strides down the ramp his signature power walk.
“I don’t believe. I can’t believe it. This son of a…” JR starts.
“Whoa JR! You can’t say that! He’s the boss again! Mr. Mcmahon is back! He’s the owner again!” King seems very pleased.
“Yeah, I wonder how long until I’m fired again King” JR scoffs.
“Not long if you keep talking like that!”
Mcmahon now steps with power up the ring steps and then enters his ring, walking over, the grin not having left his face as he shakes hands with Howard and with a nod takes the microphone. The music dying as he turns back to look out at the crowd with his smile wide as ever. He takes in the loud reaction for a moment then lifts the microphone up “well after three years, after three years they finally saw the truth. And the truth is that this company is nothing without me! It cannot be run by anyone but me! After three long years the idiots I employed have finally realized that no one is better for this son than the biggest son of bitch in the world! And yes this son of a bitch is back!” A cheer again “now…I haven’t got much prepared because as much as the board has had me overseeing a few things for the last few months this all was very sudden over the last 24 hours. However I have been keeping up to date and I want to go ahead and announce a huge main event match for next week. Next week live…in this very ring” he grins at the line as he points at the canvas “the World Wrestling Federation Championship will be on the line when Wade Barrett defends against the Miz!” Loud thunderous ovation for that “now…now on to serious business. The reason this all happened was because Dusty Rhodes and Dutton were pressured into rehiring the biggest names in the world back this company, pressured. What kind of idiot in this business would not hire the titans that I made, the jugernaughts that with me as their tag team partner build this company into a global empire! A media power house! And finally the board realized that while the new stars that have been made over the last few years do bring in success, ratings and money The Rock, John Cena and Hulk Hogan bring in a hell of a lot more! And I know that better than anyone because I made them what they are and I know how good, and how powerful at the box office they could be. Because hell…that success build my house, built my empire, built my plane and lined very already very deep pockets. But instead of becoming a billionaire like me by utilizing them, they were misused and even let go from this company. Even I was gone for a time. And then when they finally were forced to hire them, instead of taking advantage of them they wanted to fire them over some petty rules from a petty man. Well now the idiots are gone and Vince Mcmahon is back to make sure that this company becomes not only as big as it ever was, bit bigger. So get ready for a shake up. Because it’s time for change…”
*Play HBK*
The crowd erupts as Shawn Michaels and Bryan Danielson come down, they do not look happy at all as they enter the ring. Vince still smiling as he nods to Bryan and watches as HBK grabs a microphone and steps up to him.
“Ladies and Gentleman the Heart Break Kid…” Vince starts.
“Shut up!” Shawn gets in his face and yells to a loud cheer “Vince I don’t know what era your living in but this isn’t 1987. This isn’t 1999, this isn’t even 2005. This is 2012 and over the last few years I have figure headed this company and been proud as wrestling became the focus. Been proud as new stars broke the glass ceiling and everyone, no matter the size, no matter the gender or nationality have been able to make names for themselves, become the stars they should be and make the money they deserve for their hard word. Now basically what you just said is that you’re on the side of Legendary, that you obviously agree with them. And no one’s surprised, their philosophy was taught to them by you! In your world Vince guys like me are not stars, in your world men like Bryan here are just internet darlings that are two small to be World Champion no matter his talent in this ring. You want to come back and make things the way they were? Vince, I got news for you, I am a lot of people in the back that have made this company over the last three years like it just the way it is. So you can take your swagger, your new wig and your big stars and go somewhere else! Start a new entertainment company because this isn’t yours anymore. It’s ours.”
The crowd cheers as Vince glares at Shawn for a moment, then raises his microphone with the smile returning “see that’s were you’re wrong Shawn. This is my company, I made you and I made everyone else here who they are. I made this business what it is, and none of you are bigger than this company or Vince Mcmahon and that is exactly why I’m back to lay down the law. So I will be doing things the Vince Mcmahon way, and if you don’t like it then you and your skinny indy wrasslers lose your smile, go home or go somewhere else!” The crowd reacts the that, having completely turns on Mcmahon now.
“Oh really well…” Shawn starts.
*Play Legendary*
Shawn and Bryan shoot a look to the ramp as Cena, Rock and Hogan come out. They now throw their jackets off, looking ready to go as they gesture for them to come down here. They nod and start to make their way down…when from behind Vince nails Shawn in the back of the head allowing Legendary to use their superior size and numbers to overwhelm Bryan and Shawn more than they would have anyway. Beating them down as they crowd boos heavily. All three of them now stomp into them on the mat, Mcmahon just standing in the corner and grinning as they so. Cena then hits the FU on Bryan as Rock hits the Rock bottom on Shawn. Hogan then drops the leg on them both and then they stand tall. The crowd booing thunderous as Vince comes forward now with a microphone again and leans down to the out cold HBK.
“Shawn welcome to Vince Mcmahon’s WWF, welcome to the future. You may be under contract but if you and the others don’t play along then welcome to hell! Because I will make your lives hell until you quit! So putting it simply you and your wrasslers have no chance in hell!”
With that his music hits and then he joins Legendary in a big group hug, then breaks and holds their arms up, yelling out and pointing to them as only he can. Trash being thrown, the booing deafening as the logo appears and Raw fades to black.
Smackdown!
Live from Manchester England
Smackdown opens by order of Vince Mcmahon with the Motor City Machine Guns defending their tag team titles against The Brisco brothers. Another great technical match here but in the end the ASCS rush gets the win for Guns. They retain for the 3rd time this week in a great show stealing match.
We then see Mcmahon going into Wade Barrett’s locker room. The camera allowed to follow. He shakes hands with him and says that so long as he plays by the rules and does things the easy way then he will be champion for a long time to come. He then leaves and Barrett glares on after him.
Then its women’s action as Victoria takes on and defeats Sarita in a tough match.
Following that King Kobashi is in action taking on Chris Hero. Good match ends with Kobashi hitting the brain buster for the 3 count.
Then as promised on Raw we get Dolph Ziggler defending the X Division Championship against Doug Williams. Solid back and forth X Division action that is another contender for match of the night. But in the end Ziggler is able to KO Williams with the sleeper hold for to retain. As he holds up his title blow a kiss towards the camera and says that this was for Sky.
Then the Dudley Boyz takes on the American Wolves in another hard hitting tag team bout. The Dudley’s able to hit the 3D for the win. They have not had enough and then put Edwards though a table.
We then see Chris Sabin burst into Vince’s office with Shelly, to which they get yelled at for it. Vince asking “just who is the hell do you think you are?” Sabin doesn’t respond, instead demanding an X Division title shot against Ziggler. Vince replies that he isn’t Dusty Rhodes and he doesn’t get to make demands, that the answer is no because he doesn’t deserve it and he needs to concentrate on defending the Tag Team titles yet again. But on Raw the Guns will defend them against the Dudley Boyz in a tables match.
Then in the main event the home town boy Wade Barrett takes on The Rock. Hell of a match here, with Rock doing all he can to wear Barrett down, targeting the legs and back and then trying for the death lock…but Barrett throws him off and then goes for the waste land but Miz hits the ring and nails Barrett in the back of the head with a chair. This causes the DQ, but Miz doesn’t care, beating down on Barrett with the chair and then letting the Rock nail him with the Rock Bottom and leave with Legendary. Miz then leans down over Barrett and yells at him as he holds the title belt that “this is mine” and that he will be getting it back next Monday.
*Play Signature*
“Well, hello ladies and gentleman. Welcome to Raw. We are live here in the O2 Arena in London England. What a great success ring of the ring was just down the road at Wembley last night. We have a new WWF Champion in Wade Barrett, a new King of the Ring in John Cena…or do we? Let’s show you footage from last night…” the footage of last night’s finals are shown as Cena gives AJ two Piledrivers, the last of which is the Owen Hart sit out tombstone to get the win. It then shows Hogan, Rock and Cena beating down on HBK, AJ and Bryan while attacking and taking out referees and security left, right and centre as JR and King explain the footage. We then come back to them live.
“Well after that as you saw Dusty Rhodes came out and said that he would fire all of Legendary here tonight. And well…the board of directors responded. This is a statement from them “we hired Dusty Rhodes because we believed he would be able to keep order. However, not only has he not done that but not that it is at its worst he threatens to fire three of the biggest stars of the company from the three biggest contracts we have, which would cost the Company millions in pay outs with no return. Therefore we regret to inform our fans that we have fired Dusty Rhodes as the general manager of the WWF. Also on a larger scale, the chairman Karl Dutton tried to overturn this ruling. And after several meetings today we the board have had no choice, given his lack of involvement with the product lately…we have…my God…we have voted to remove Karl Dutton as the chairman of the World Wrestling Federation. However, we did have felt this way about Mr. Dutton for quite some time, since his poor leadership allowed Mark Callaway, better known as the Undertaker to take over the Company. And we have had a replacement owner who has been on standby for some time, and was at the PPV last night in England. So, we can say that the new chairman, who will be taking over the duties of both the Corporate and wrestling, is already in England and will be there later tonight to address the fans and Superstars. You’re sincerely, the WWF Board of Directors. My God…”
“JR…what? I mean we are in the middle of a tour here and the board has fired the GM and the owner for trying to get rid of Legendary!” King exclaims.
“Well it is apparently way more than that, especially if they had this new owner on stand bye here on the tour over here. Last night seemed to just be the nail in the coffin for Dusty, and Dutton…well it looks like they have been trying to get rid of him for 2 years now and this was the last straw. Just…wow. But that new owner is here in England folks and apparently will be here tonight.”
“Wow JR, this is HUGE! This is crazy. Who do you think it is?” King asks.
“I don’t know King. But the agents have put together a show for the fans never the less and I guess we have to carry on as normal until whoever it is gets here. Let’s go to ringside for our first match.”
The bell rings as Howard Finkle is stood in the centre of the ring, the English fans wild.
“Ladies and Gentleman. The following is a 6 man X Division elimination match! The winner will get an X Division Championship shot against Dolph Ziggler on Smackdown!” The crowd cheers in response.
*Play KENTA, Doug Williams, Chris Hero, Delirious, Naomichi Marufuji, Claudio Castagnoli*
Each man shows of his high flying and technical skill in this faced past, action packed match up. Some of the new arrivals showing themselves for the first time. Of note is Delirious who is talking in seemingly gibberish through the whole match and then coming out and getting him a piece of everyone. The former King of Wrestling takes exception to this and team up to hammer into him. But a chop volley from KENTA on Hero allows Delirious to beat the hell out of Claudio with Mongolian chops and then nails the Bizarro Driver (leg hook fisherman driver) to get the 3 count and eliminate him. Delirious crawls backwards from this to crouch in the corner, speaking gibberish to himself as he plays with his mask dreads, chewing on one of them as he watches the others go to work.
“Man, that Delirious is one weird Dude” King comments.
“To put it mildly” JR replies.
The next to go is Marufuji courtesy of a lifting rolling cutter from Hero. But as he stands from behind comes Williams who takes him over with the Chaos theory and gets the 3 count to eliminate him now. The battle rages on. KENTA hammering into Doug in the corner with chops when Delirious comes back into it, running across the ring and dropkicking KENTA in the back of the head. He then rolls him up for 2. They both rolls to stand, KENTA going for the GTS but Delirious drops down out of it and then hits the double pump handle wheelbarrow driver he calls the Chemical Imbalance 2 and gets back hooks the leg, counting along in gibberish numbers for 3. KENTA is gone. Williams now comes in and he and Delirious battle hard back and forth for a further five minutes until Delirious goes for the Bizarro Driver but Williams back turning it into a roll up for 1…2…3! Doug Williams get the win and the title shot. As the music plays the referee raises his hands and below Delirious sounds like he is cursing, but of course no one can make out the words. Williams watches him rolls out of the ring, slam the mat and walk up the aisle angrily talking to himself in his own language the whole way as Doug Williams stands tall in the ring.
We cut to the back now seeing a long black stretch limo arriving, the crowd buzzing.
“Oh my JR! Is this him? Is this the new owner?” King asks.
“Maybe” replies JR as the driver gets out of his seat and comes around, opening the door for the passengers.
As they yell out, broad grins on their faces Legendary emerge from the car to heavy boos. Seemingly to be a very good, even party mood as they smile and yell at the camera “tonight baby. We did it. We save the company!” Yells Cena into the barrel, the other two laughing and saying the same as they walk off into the arena.
“Man, this night just keeps getting better doesn’t it?” JR says dryly as we go to break.
When we come back…
*Play Awesome Kong*
In the ring now stands Christy Hemme as the monster of women, towering over her as she enters the ring with her women’s title belt on her shoulder as she steps up to her. Christy goes to speak to start the interview when…
*Play Mickie James*
Kong glares on and Mickie strides down to the ring with a deadly serious look on her face. Everyone looking on, following her as she slides into the ring and then goes over asking for a microphone. She now takes one and turns back to Kong who raises an eyebrow at her.
“Kong, I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. I came close last night, I came real close and now…I want my rematch” the crowd cheers for that as Kong raises her head.
She then reaches over and snatches the microphone out of Christy’s hand and points for her to leave the ring. She doesn’t have to ask her twice. As she bails Kong turns back now to face Mickie James and raises the microphone.
“I beat you women. I have nothing else left to prove. I will just beat you again...” Kong starts.
“Then why not except? If you can just do it again?” Mickie counters.
Kong reacts to that and then goes to raise her microphone again “alright, alright. You want another shot against me? You…”
*Play Trish*
The O2 arena erupts as Trish Stratus walks out onto the stage making her return. In the ring Kong and Mickie have now turned and stare up at her, hands on their hips. Trish smiles down at them, then out at the crowd with a nod as she raises her microphone up.
“Mickie, Mickie. That’s great and all. Great to see you finally back here, we go back a long way. But I’m sorry…it’s time for you to get to the back of the line. Because I’m back, and Kong. I want my shot.”
The crowd cheers at that as now the three women stare each other down; Mickie now comes to the ropes and yelling up to Trish that this is hers, Trish calling back that we will see. Kong looking between them as we go to break.
When we come back we cut too backstage where we see the Motor City Machine Guns arguing with an agent with a clip board.
“Why weren’t we in that? If anyone deserves a shot against Ziggler it’s me!” Sabin demands.
“Because you’re the tag team champions, as you proved last night. And the new owner feels you should focus on that and that alone. It’s more than enough. Also…he ordered us to make you defend your titles here tonight against the American Wolves!” The crowd cheers for that as the Guns stare at each other, then nodding as walking off as the agent shakes his head and looks down at the sheet.
*Play the Easy Ryders*
The crowd boos heavily as Zack Ryder and Robbie E swagger out to the ring. They both then grab microphones and stand in the centre of the ring, flipping their sun glasses up to their heads as they go to speak.
“You serious bro?” Ryder asks “the American Wolves? Seriously? We beat them last week on Smackdown and they get a title shot. We beat them, and woo woo you know it!” Loud boos.
“Yeah and lately we have got tired of the competition around here, kinda getting stale beating every tag team there is in the WWF. So we are opening the Ryders open challenge right here, right now! If any team in the back thinks they can beat us then get out here and prove it! But you won’t because we can beat anyone.”
“Woo woo woo you know it!” Ryder adds as the two look back to the stage waiting to see if anyone will take up their challenge.
The crowd is buzzing for a moment, then erupts in cheers as Armando Estrada walks out in a fine white suit, cigar in pocket and a microphone in hand as he stands on the stage, the Ryders laughing in the ring and yelling abuse at him. Nodding at the cheering crowd and lifting the microphone up.
“My name is Armando Alehandro Estrada! And I represent a team that has been away for a while. See after Wrestlemania they had to…haha refocus and now. Now they are ready to come back and reclaims what is there haha. And why not tonight? Why not start with you two haha! So allow me orange men to introduce your opponents for this evening. They are the Ripper Paul Burchill, the Predator Tyler Rekks! The Natural Born Killers!”
*Play NBK*
The crowd gives a loud roaring ovation as the NBK return. They charge down to the ring, games faces on. A referee now comes out and gets between them and now calls for the bell. The Ryders are just laughing at them, obviously not known what they are in for and then run head first into them right in a beating of a life time. First Burchill beats E around the ring, then Ryder and then lets Rekks rip him to shreds. They then nail both of them with spine busters and double closelines before then hitting the decapitator for the 3 count.
The NBK are back and they are back in style. Estrada now jumps into the ring and raises their hands up, laughing and proclaiming that they are back and they are out to reclaim what is theirs.
When we come back we are in the interview area with Gene Okerlund.
“Ladies and Gentleman. The new World Wrestling Federation Champion! Wade Barrett!” Thunderous ovation from the English crowd as Barrett steps in, the championship belt over his shoulder looking very happy and proud “well Wade you did it. You are the first ever English World Wrestling Federation Champion; you made it to the top of the mountain and you did it here in England. But as you may have heard online, Miz has been saying that you cheated last night and that he is still the rightful WWF Champion.”
“I cheated? Well let me first say that I think that beating someone in the middle of the ring with your finishing move in the cleanest, most definitive way to beat someone that there is. Miz I beat you, you just need to accept that you are yesterdays news. I’m better, I’m the man now and now you are standing in my shadow” the crowd cheers to that “but on to more important things at hand. Yes, I did it. And I could not be more proud that to be WWF Champion. I am the Champion of the World, the first Englishman to do it and I did it in Wembley Stadium before 75 thousand of my countryman. And I promise them and everyone else that I will hold this title with pride and dignity and any loud mouths that get in my way on the way will be beaten down just like Miz was!”
“Well how about tonight then? You are set team with the Intercontinental Champion Jushin “Thunder” Liger. A huge pairing of the two biggest champions in this company indeed. But your opponents will be the men you both faced last night Christian and Miz.”
“Well then…”Barrett chuckles “it will give me a chance to beat two loud mouths again then won’t it.”
With that Barrett walks off as we fade out.
*Play Abyss package announcing he debuts next week*
*Play Ziggler VS RVD*
Hard hitting match here as RVD channels all his anger of the last couple of months into hard, vicious kicks. Ziggler though does fight back with skilled offense of his own. In the final moments RVD sends Ziggler double flipping over to the centre of the ring with a monkey flip and then heads to the top rope, signaling for the 5 star…when Londrick hit the ring and hammer into him, pulling him off the top rope for the disqualification. As the bell rings Ziggler stands now pulls the two off of RVD, yelling at them about getting him disqualified. They call back that they were trying to help and that he would have lost. Ziggler yells back that they are the losers who couldn’t get the job done, that Velvet is in the hospital because of them. Back and forth the argument rages until finally Ziggler pushes Kendrick over and leaves. Calling back that he isn’t going to carry them anymore as he heads up to the back.
We then cut to backstage seeing Ziggler as he storms up the corridor, passing the Guns as they head to the ring for their title defense. The two sides stare each other down with burning hate for a moment until Ziggler throws his X Division title belt down and charges forward, hammering into Sabin. It is chaos, commotion as now referees and security run in yelling and they pull the wild brawl apart, Ziggler and Sabin hammering into each other like mad men. Finally it is pulled apart and two of agents yell for Sabin and Shelly to get to Gorilla position. Sabin yells on “one day! One day your mine!” But then nods, throwing his hands up at the yelling officials and then picks up his tag title and joins Shelly as they walk towards the ring for the next match up after a break.
*Play Wolves VS Guns*
This is a superb tag team battle is there ever was one. Not quite as high flying, long or as fueled by heat as lasts defense but instead being more of a contrast as the Wolves use ground based and technical offense to corner the Guns more high flying move set. But they also use a variety of kicks and suplex to counter the speedy moves in awesome sequences. After they tear the house down for 13 minutes it reaches its end when Shelly is able to grab the super kick and pull Edwards in, hitting the Shellshock for the 3 count. The Guns retain in impressive fashion again. They stands now, holding their title belts up high and calling to the camera for someone to come and try and take them.
We cut to the parking lot, out camera’s obviously waiting for the new owner when Shawn Michaels and Bryan Danielson arrive to a loud cheer, pulling their bags behind them as they look solemn, obviously without AJ as they talk little and enter the area.
“Man, the combustible elements are all tonight folks…and we still have the new owner to be announced as result of it all. Stay with us.”
*Play Daffney VS Ayako Hamada*
Top women’s action here as these two women tear viciously into each other. Daffney pulling and ripping at hair and flesh as she slams the more powerful women to the mat. But in the end Hamada is able to duck a closeline and then hits the Hamada Chan cutter for the 3 count. Hamada gets the win.
We then cut backstage now seeing the Miz walking towards the ring for our main event. Okerlund now runs up to him “Miz, Miz, any comments for the world on what happened last night when Wade Barrett be….”
“Get out of my face before I knock yours off” Miz sneers as he him and pushes him hard backwards off screen, glares with anger at them and then continues his stride towards the ring as we go to break.
Then it’s time for the main event…
*Play Liger/Barrett VS Miz/Christian*
This is battle of a main event for sure as the two biggest singles champions in the WWF take on their challenges from the night before. Both teams are able to work well together, with Liger and Barrett even hitting some tandem offense with Barrett heaving Liger up and onto Miz and Christian. The cocky ones jell though and manage too to work together and manages to cut Liger off from Barrett in the second half of the match beating him down. Miz then goes to finish it with the SCF, but Liger swings out of it and turns it into a DDT. He then slowly crawls over and manages to get the hot tag to Barrett. The crowd roars as they native hero runs in and takes Miz down with a hard closeline, then Christian runs in to one. He then scoops slams them both. But Christian lands on his feet and runs in…right into a rolling Liger wheel kick sending him out of the ring. Liger then runs the ring and dives out onto Christian taking him out on the floor. Back in the ring now Barrett now comes in Miz, going to pick him up, but Miz manages to grab him and catch him with an inside cradle, hooking the tights for 1…2…3!
The crowd boos heavily as Miz rolls out of the ring, his music play and being announced the victor. He now backs up the ramp grinning from ear to ear as Barrett glares on, shaking his head as he stands.
“The Miz just got a pin fall on the WWF Champion. Maybe the new owner will consider giving him a rematch now?” JR asks as we fade to the back.
There behind Legendaries Limo we see another limo pull in with two WWF flags on the hood, the crowd buzzing as the driver comes around and opens the door.
“Folks we are told we have to cut. We have to go to break but when we come back the new owner will be here. It’s out last commercial break, the owner is revealed. Next” JR says as we fade out.
The crowd is now abuzz as we come back, they like everyone else in anticipation of who is about to come out. Howard Finkle is now stood in the centre of the ring.
“Ladies and Gentleman. I first have statement to read from the board of directors…” he reaches down and unfolds a paper from his pocket reading from it “three years ago when the company was in finical peril we decided to go in a new direction. We hired a new chairman in Karl Dutton and allowed him creative freedom. While he has brought us some success in the past three years and we are happy to once again have the name of the World Wrestling Federation and the initial WWF back in his successful appeal, we feel that his leadership over the past year and a half has not been to our standards. We feel that he was giving the opportunities to those who were not proven as Champions and as such our business has suffered. He even almost ended the company when he allowed the Undertaker to take over as chairman, betting your stocks in a wrestling match is reckless and shows that we may have put our faith in the wrong. As for Dusty Rhodes, we like what he has done as General Manager but much like Mr. Dutton has not been practical. We have been considering this change for some time but after last night’s PPV when Mr. Rhodes seemed intent on costing the company millions by firing the Rock, John Cena and Hollywood Hulk Hogan we had to call an emergency set of meetings today. We knew that the new owner was overseeing the tour for us and since he was already there it made it an easy choice. Therefore we have decided to go back to what works, to the man that made this company what it is and has the drive and the vision to see it thrive again. Ladies and Gentleman the new owner, returning to his former position on our board in the World Wrestling Federation…Mr. Vince Mcmahon!”
*Play Vince*
The crowd reacts in shock and then cheers as pioneer of the WWF, the man who build the stage strides out onto it. He has a beaming broad grin as he look around the cheering crowd and then strides down the ramp his signature power walk.
“I don’t believe. I can’t believe it. This son of a…” JR starts.
“Whoa JR! You can’t say that! He’s the boss again! Mr. Mcmahon is back! He’s the owner again!” King seems very pleased.
“Yeah, I wonder how long until I’m fired again King” JR scoffs.
“Not long if you keep talking like that!”
Mcmahon now steps with power up the ring steps and then enters his ring, walking over, the grin not having left his face as he shakes hands with Howard and with a nod takes the microphone. The music dying as he turns back to look out at the crowd with his smile wide as ever. He takes in the loud reaction for a moment then lifts the microphone up “well after three years, after three years they finally saw the truth. And the truth is that this company is nothing without me! It cannot be run by anyone but me! After three long years the idiots I employed have finally realized that no one is better for this son than the biggest son of bitch in the world! And yes this son of a bitch is back!” A cheer again “now…I haven’t got much prepared because as much as the board has had me overseeing a few things for the last few months this all was very sudden over the last 24 hours. However I have been keeping up to date and I want to go ahead and announce a huge main event match for next week. Next week live…in this very ring” he grins at the line as he points at the canvas “the World Wrestling Federation Championship will be on the line when Wade Barrett defends against the Miz!” Loud thunderous ovation for that “now…now on to serious business. The reason this all happened was because Dusty Rhodes and Dutton were pressured into rehiring the biggest names in the world back this company, pressured. What kind of idiot in this business would not hire the titans that I made, the jugernaughts that with me as their tag team partner build this company into a global empire! A media power house! And finally the board realized that while the new stars that have been made over the last few years do bring in success, ratings and money The Rock, John Cena and Hulk Hogan bring in a hell of a lot more! And I know that better than anyone because I made them what they are and I know how good, and how powerful at the box office they could be. Because hell…that success build my house, built my empire, built my plane and lined very already very deep pockets. But instead of becoming a billionaire like me by utilizing them, they were misused and even let go from this company. Even I was gone for a time. And then when they finally were forced to hire them, instead of taking advantage of them they wanted to fire them over some petty rules from a petty man. Well now the idiots are gone and Vince Mcmahon is back to make sure that this company becomes not only as big as it ever was, bit bigger. So get ready for a shake up. Because it’s time for change…”
*Play HBK*
The crowd erupts as Shawn Michaels and Bryan Danielson come down, they do not look happy at all as they enter the ring. Vince still smiling as he nods to Bryan and watches as HBK grabs a microphone and steps up to him.
“Ladies and Gentleman the Heart Break Kid…” Vince starts.
“Shut up!” Shawn gets in his face and yells to a loud cheer “Vince I don’t know what era your living in but this isn’t 1987. This isn’t 1999, this isn’t even 2005. This is 2012 and over the last few years I have figure headed this company and been proud as wrestling became the focus. Been proud as new stars broke the glass ceiling and everyone, no matter the size, no matter the gender or nationality have been able to make names for themselves, become the stars they should be and make the money they deserve for their hard word. Now basically what you just said is that you’re on the side of Legendary, that you obviously agree with them. And no one’s surprised, their philosophy was taught to them by you! In your world Vince guys like me are not stars, in your world men like Bryan here are just internet darlings that are two small to be World Champion no matter his talent in this ring. You want to come back and make things the way they were? Vince, I got news for you, I am a lot of people in the back that have made this company over the last three years like it just the way it is. So you can take your swagger, your new wig and your big stars and go somewhere else! Start a new entertainment company because this isn’t yours anymore. It’s ours.”
The crowd cheers as Vince glares at Shawn for a moment, then raises his microphone with the smile returning “see that’s were you’re wrong Shawn. This is my company, I made you and I made everyone else here who they are. I made this business what it is, and none of you are bigger than this company or Vince Mcmahon and that is exactly why I’m back to lay down the law. So I will be doing things the Vince Mcmahon way, and if you don’t like it then you and your skinny indy wrasslers lose your smile, go home or go somewhere else!” The crowd reacts the that, having completely turns on Mcmahon now.
“Oh really well…” Shawn starts.
*Play Legendary*
Shawn and Bryan shoot a look to the ramp as Cena, Rock and Hogan come out. They now throw their jackets off, looking ready to go as they gesture for them to come down here. They nod and start to make their way down…when from behind Vince nails Shawn in the back of the head allowing Legendary to use their superior size and numbers to overwhelm Bryan and Shawn more than they would have anyway. Beating them down as they crowd boos heavily. All three of them now stomp into them on the mat, Mcmahon just standing in the corner and grinning as they so. Cena then hits the FU on Bryan as Rock hits the Rock bottom on Shawn. Hogan then drops the leg on them both and then they stand tall. The crowd booing thunderous as Vince comes forward now with a microphone again and leans down to the out cold HBK.
“Shawn welcome to Vince Mcmahon’s WWF, welcome to the future. You may be under contract but if you and the others don’t play along then welcome to hell! Because I will make your lives hell until you quit! So putting it simply you and your wrasslers have no chance in hell!”
With that his music hits and then he joins Legendary in a big group hug, then breaks and holds their arms up, yelling out and pointing to them as only he can. Trash being thrown, the booing deafening as the logo appears and Raw fades to black.
Smackdown!
Live from Manchester England
Smackdown opens by order of Vince Mcmahon with the Motor City Machine Guns defending their tag team titles against The Brisco brothers. Another great technical match here but in the end the ASCS rush gets the win for Guns. They retain for the 3rd time this week in a great show stealing match.
We then see Mcmahon going into Wade Barrett’s locker room. The camera allowed to follow. He shakes hands with him and says that so long as he plays by the rules and does things the easy way then he will be champion for a long time to come. He then leaves and Barrett glares on after him.
Then its women’s action as Victoria takes on and defeats Sarita in a tough match.
Following that King Kobashi is in action taking on Chris Hero. Good match ends with Kobashi hitting the brain buster for the 3 count.
Then as promised on Raw we get Dolph Ziggler defending the X Division Championship against Doug Williams. Solid back and forth X Division action that is another contender for match of the night. But in the end Ziggler is able to KO Williams with the sleeper hold for to retain. As he holds up his title blow a kiss towards the camera and says that this was for Sky.
Then the Dudley Boyz takes on the American Wolves in another hard hitting tag team bout. The Dudley’s able to hit the 3D for the win. They have not had enough and then put Edwards though a table.
We then see Chris Sabin burst into Vince’s office with Shelly, to which they get yelled at for it. Vince asking “just who is the hell do you think you are?” Sabin doesn’t respond, instead demanding an X Division title shot against Ziggler. Vince replies that he isn’t Dusty Rhodes and he doesn’t get to make demands, that the answer is no because he doesn’t deserve it and he needs to concentrate on defending the Tag Team titles yet again. But on Raw the Guns will defend them against the Dudley Boyz in a tables match.
Then in the main event the home town boy Wade Barrett takes on The Rock. Hell of a match here, with Rock doing all he can to wear Barrett down, targeting the legs and back and then trying for the death lock…but Barrett throws him off and then goes for the waste land but Miz hits the ring and nails Barrett in the back of the head with a chair. This causes the DQ, but Miz doesn’t care, beating down on Barrett with the chair and then letting the Rock nail him with the Rock Bottom and leave with Legendary. Miz then leans down over Barrett and yells at him as he holds the title belt that “this is mine” and that he will be getting it back next Monday.