Dark Matches: Rough Hog Reid Harrison defeated local talent Caleb Wonder, and The Strange Crew (Drizzles the Clown and Hawaii) defeated local talents Dale Waters and Scott Fisher.
The HAW theme played to start the show off.
Edward Findleton: Welcome to HAW Vindication! We are in Orlando, Florida tonight! Tonight our main event has potential intergalactic ramifications as Crash MuscleGate defends the world championship against Glenny Pax!
THE Casey Gains: His MuscleGang, Lovable Liam and Frederic St. Pierre will also be defending their titles against The Biofuel Engineers, Sydney Mason and Dalton Elkins, and we’ll also see Athena defend the Women’s Championship against Sekino The Stunt Pilot!
Edward Findleton: But we’re starting the show wild with the National Championship I Quit match!
Jet Black’s music hit, and he came out with a backpack on. As he got to the ring, he emptied it, revealing various weapons. Pastor James came out next, looking worried at the match that was about to take place.
With both competitors ready, referee Tom Hunter rang the bell and the match was on. James approached Black and seemed to offer a traditional test of strength, and Black seemed to think about it. Jet Black shook his head, then picked up a metal pipe from his weapons. James ran out of the ring and Black started to chase him. As James turned a corner, he grabbed a camera man and threw him into the path of Jet Black, causing him to trip and fall.
Pastor James grabbed the camera and smashed it over Black’s back. James continued to destroy the camera over Jet Black, until he was writhing on the ground in pain. Pastor James took the mic from Tom Hunter and held it up to Black’s mouth, but he said nothing.
James continued his beatdown of Black outside the ring, occasionally trying to get him to say the words, but Black refusing. Pastor James started to get frustrated, then went under the ring and grabbed a table, setting it up. With Black hurting, James grabbed him, then hit the Cobra Clutch Slam through the table. James held the mic to Jet Black, who appeared to be unconscious.
Edward Findleton: Jet Black can’t say the words if he’s knocked out!
THE Casey Gains: But if this gets too dangerous, Tom Hunter may just have to call the match.
Pastor James then started to argue with Hunter, who at this point was refusing to call it. James finally had enough and approached Black, but Jet Black grabbed a piece of splintered wood and thrust it up at James’ face. James collapsed to the ground clutching his face, and as he moved his hands away blood started to stream down his face. Pastor James seemed to be blinded by this, giving Jet Black the opportunity to regain his composure. Black grabbed Pastor’s head and rammed it into the ringpost. With James down, Black grabbed the steel pipe he had, then some barbwire which he wrapped around the pipe. Jet Black started to slam the barb wire pipe onto the back of Pastor James, cutting his back open.
As James crawled away, he ended up next to the broken camera, which Black grabbed the cord from and started to choke James. Pastor James started to tap out, but Tom Hunter refused to ring the bell. As Jet Black released the grip and held the microphone up to the mouth of Pastor James, all he could do was cough and gasp for air.
Black picked up James and threw him into the ring, where James tried to regain composure on the ropes. Black took the barb wire pipe and started to clobber on James’ wrist and hands, cutting them open as well.
Edward Findleton: This may be too much. Tom Hunter may need to just call this!
Jet Black tooks the arms of James and tied them up in the ropes, as he was now defenseless. Black gave James a few more blows to the chest with the barbed wire pipe. Finally Black held the microphone up to Pastor James.
Pastor James: I….I…..I qu-
Black pulled the microphone away, then bashed James atop the head with the back end of the mic.
Jet Black: I don’t want to hear that. I want to hear that you’re a liar. Say that you’re a liar!
Pastor James: I’m a liar! Please!
Jet Black: Say…you’re a con-artist.
Pastor James: I’m a con-artist! I q-
Jet Black: Say you are taking advantage of others with your false beliefs!
Pastor James: I’m taking advantage of others! I don’t believe!
Jet Black smiled, and started to unravel the barb wire from the pipe. He wrapped it around Pastor James’ head like a crown and pushed it into his skin, causing James to scream in agony.
Jet Black: I quit.
Jet Black threw the microphone down and exited the ring. The music of Pastor James played, but he remained with his arms out and tied up in the ropes, covered in blood. Tom Hunter and medics immediately started to tend to him.
Edward Findleton: An absolutely horrible match. I don’t mean that in terms of technical skill but just the pure violence we saw.
THE Casey Gains: Some people fight for titles, others fight for something else. It looks like tonight Jet Black had something more than the HAW National Championship on his mind. I guarantee in his mind he walks away the victor, but at the end of the day…Pastor James is the champion.
Edward Findleton: While we have medical tend to do Pastor James, let’s look in backstage with the MuscleGang!
The MuscleGang were in their locker room, with Crash on a scale.
Crash: Well?
St. Pierre sighed and looked at the ground.
Frederic St. Pierre: You only lost 2 lbs. That still leaves you 7.4 lbs overweight.
Lovable Liam: No! Crash! You can’t wrestle like this, it’s too dangerous!
Crash: I have too! I’m a champion! So what if my mile is 30 seconds slower?! Or I have all this extra weight?! Look, all of us can do this tonight! We’ll win!
Oden: I will help you! I will stop the Visitors! Crash, you beat Glenny! Liam, you beat Elkins! Frederic, you beat Mason! We all beat someone, we win!
Frederic St. Pierre: This is the best strategy. We focus on our equals. We do that, we win. Liam, let us go. We have our match now.
Lovable Liam: ….Good luck Crash.
Crash: You too guys.
Liam and St. Pierre exited, as Crash began his warm up routines.
The Biofuel Engineers made their entrance first, followed by The MuscleGang. Referee Dennis Thompson held up the Tag Team championships, rang the bell, and the match began.
Sydney Mason started the match off with Frederic St. Pierre. Mason tried to overpower St. Pierre, but Frederic’s technical skills allowed him to reverse and apply submissions to Sydney Mason. Mason started to wear down, and Liam was tagged in.
Lovable Liam continued the attacking, when Sydney Mason managed to reverse Liam into an Irish Whip. With Liam running, Mason ducked to deliver a back body drop, but Liam jumped over him. As Liam landed, his leg gave out, and he fell to the ground, clutching his left ankle. Mason went over to stomp on the ankle, but Dennis Thompson stopped him and started to check on Liam. Liam seemed motivated to continue, and used the ropes to stand up. Thompson allowed the match to continue, and Mason immediately kicked Liam’s ankle, causing him to fall.
Sydney Mason made his way to Dalton Elkins, and tagged him in. The fresh Dalton started going to work on Liam’s ankle, stomping it, throwing it into the mat, and applying leg locks. Liam would try to make it to St. Pierre, but each time he got close, Elkins grabbed his foot and pulled him back to the center of the ring. With Elkins still holding Liam’s injured foot, Liam tried to stand up on his good leg. Elkins laughed and taunted Lovable Liam, but Liam jumped with his free foot and delivered a spinning heel kick to Elkins jaw.
With Dalton dazed, Liam crawled to the corner and tagged in St. Pierre. He immediately ran towards Mason on the opposing apron and elbowed him, then delivered a knee drop to Dalton Elkins. St. Pierre continued going after the head of Elkins, and locked in a rear naked choke. Dalton started to fade, but Mason broke the hold with a kick to St. Pierre’s back. Liam tried to come back into the ring to help St. Pierre, but Mason immediately kicked Liam in the injured ankle. With Liam down, Mason helped Elkins up, and the two pushed Liam out of the ring.
Mason then grabbed St. Pierre and picked him up, and Irish whipped him. As St. Pierre came back, The Biofuel Engineers hit a Double Flapjack onto him. Mason rolled out of the ring, and Dalton Elkins covered St. Pierre, as Dennis Thompson counted to three.
Bradley Wallace: The winners of this match and the NEW HAW Tag Team Champions, Dalton Elkins, Sydney Mason, The Biofuel Engineers!
Edward Findleton: And the relentless attack by the Biofuel Engineers pay off, and we have new tag team champions!
THE Casey Gains: Liam gave it all, but that match essentially became a handicap match halfway through. It would have been a tough challenge for St. Pierre to handle the Biofuel Engineers effectively.
Edward Findleton: An impressive effort all around, but at the end of the day, we have new tag team champions!
THE Casey Gains: As Sydney and Dalton celebrate their tag team championship victory, we also have to look ahead to next month.
Edward Findleton: That’s right! Downtown Disaster will be taking place next month, and the Women’s Tag Team Championship will be on the line! And next week, we will find out who the Solo Girls will be facing!
THE Casey Gains: But also in the women’s division, our next match, Athena vs Sekino The Stunt Pilot!
Sekino’s music played, and she calmly walked out, a sly grin on her face. The champion Athena came out next looking confident.
Referee Brenda Moses rang the bell, and immediately Sekino charged Athena attempting to hit a bicycle knee, but Athena dodged. Sekino went flying into the ring post knee first, and briefly clutched it in pain.
Edward Findleton: We already saw one self imposed injury tonight! Is history going to repeat?!
Athena used that opening to pounce on Sekino and started striking her. Sekino tried to cover her head for protection, but Athena kept striking. In desperation, Sekino started to punching blindly above her, sometimes missing, sometimes hitting Athena’s body, and sometimes both of their first colliding. Sekino then managed to grabbed to Athena’s hair and yanked it, knocking her down to the mat.
Sekino got on top of Athena and started elbowing her head, but Athena brought her knees up to collide with Sekino. As both women finally broke off, a few blood stains were now present, mostly from their knuckles.
THE Casey Gains: This ring mat is trashed after tonight Edward.
The Stunt Pilot and Athena regrouped, and stared each other down, before both running towards each other, locking up, and delivering more punches. As blows were traded, this time Athena grabbed Sekino’s hair and started pulling, but Sekino managed to twist her head, and spit saliva into Athena’s eyes, who let go. Athena quickly rolled out of the ring, trying to clear her vision. As she turned to go back to the ring, Sekino jumped outside of the ring with a flying crossbody.
Sekino seemed to have hit her knee on the landing and hobbled a bit, but managed to pick up Athena. Lifting her up in a bearhug, Sekino ran towards the barricade and used her force and weight to drive Athena into it. With Athena out of it, Sekino managed to lift and push Athena back to the ring. The Stunt Pilot climbed the top rope and jumped, hitting the Moonsault Double Foot Stomp. She limped back to Athena and covered her, and successfully pinned her for a three count.
Edward Findleton: And what a delivery on that double foot stomp!
Bradley Wallace: The winner of this match and the NEW HAW Women’s Champion, Sekino the Stunt Pilot!
THE Casey Gains: She’s shown in Japan why she was a great wrestler, and now is showing it here. No fear for the Stunt Pilot as she becomes the new champion!
Edward Findleton: That was a fight, not a wrestling match, and maybe that wasn’t what Athena should have gone for. She played right into Sekino’s strengths.
THE Casey Gains: We still have another title match tonight Edward. And I’m getting word that we have footage of the challenger arriving to the arena as we speak!
The camera cut to the arena parking lot, showing nothing. Suddenly a spotlight seemed to shine down on a specific parking spot, then a bright flash occurred. When the light died down, Glenny Pax was standing there with some Visitors. He nodded to them, and they made their way towards the arena.
THE Casey Gains: That match will be coming up shortly, but first, we have a quick announcement!
The music of Travis Samuels’ played, and he made his way down to the ring with his guitar.
Travis: Good evening Orlando! Great to see y’all here tonight. I know you haven’t had a chance to see me do a lot of wrestling recently, but if you folks miss me in the ring, I have good news. Tomorrow night I’ll be right back in this arena performing a concert! I really hope to see all of you there, thank you!
Travis Samuels started to exit the ring, when the music of Peter “Carnage” Horn hit.
Edward Findleton: Oh no…
THE Casey Gains: Travis may want to skip town and just offer refunds.
Horn and Alfred Karneus made their way out to the ring, Karneus with a microphone.
Alfred Karneus: Travis Samuels, you should do your fans a favor. They haven’t seen you wrestle in a while, just like you said. So maybe tonight, you can be the one to end the Book of Carnage! But….I really shouldn’t get ahead of myself. We all know what’s going to happen. Because the next chapter in the Book of Carnage will…..NOT be you! You’ve got your tough country boy attitude, your every day American man appearance…and when you’re out of the spotlight, you’ll go back to your five star hotels and travel in your private bus like the spoiled rich brat you are!
Travis: You think that? You think I’m afraid of either of you? Because I’m ready to go right now!
Travis Samuels took his shirt off and tossed it to the crowd, and referee Tom Hunter came running down to start the match. Before Hunter could get in, Samuels grabbed the guitar and smashed it across Horn’s back. Horn budged a little, but then slowly turned his head towards Samuels, furious.
Edward Findleton: Travis needs to run. Now.
Tom Hunter called for the bell, but Samuels didn’t back down. He charged at Peter Horn, punching him with both fists, but Horn quickly countered with a headbutt. As Travis Samuels fell to the ground, Peter “Carnage” Horn lifted him back up and delivered a fallaway slam. Horn didn’t give Travis a second to recover and lifted him up again, this time hitting the Side Sitout Powerslam. Peter “Carnage” Horn covered Travis Samuels, and picked up the victory.
Bradley Wallace: The winner of this match, Peter “Carnage” Horn!
Alfred Karneus wrote the name of Travis Samuels in the Book of Carnage on Chapter 7.
Edward Findleton: Can anyone stop him?
THE Casey Gains: Alfred Karneus said his goal was to defeat every wrestler in HAW, so far he’s looking like he’s well on his way to achieving that.
Edward Findleton: Well before we get to our main event, one thing we would like to note is that we have an update on Pastor James. He has been transported to a local hospital, and is in stable condition.
THE Casey Gains: We can all rest easy tonight knowing that. Pastor James will be ok.
Edward Findleton: As we end that update on the National Champion, it’s time to find out who will end the night as World Champion!
The lights in the arena dimmed, and as Glenny Pax’s music played, he made his entrance, seemingly unphased that it’s a World title match. The champion Crash MuscleGate came out next, accompanied by Oden Schreiner.
Dennis Thompson took the World Title and talked to both men. He held up the title, called for the bell, and the match was on.
Both men circled the ring, eyeing the competition up. After a few laps, Crash and Glenny locked up in the ring. Crash outmuscled Glenny and got behind him, but Glenny delivered an arm drag to knock Crash down. Crash held onto the arm, now throwing Glenny and got behind him again. Glenny. Glenny rolled and did a flip, then was in position to give a quick belly to belly suplex.
Crash tried to recover and stumbled towards Glenny, who delivered a drop toe hold to knock Crash down. With Crash on his stomach, Glenny Pax began to lock in an Indian death lock.
Edward Findleton: I’m not sure what’s happened to Glenny, but he does not look like the same wrestler a year ago.
THE Casey Gains: He’s definitely holding his own against the champion right now, but can he continue?
Glenny eventually let go of the death lock. Glenny got Crash to his feet, whipped him to the ropes and caught him for a backbreaker. Glenny Pax stood up triumphantly and started taunting the crowd. Pax went back to Crash to pick him up, but as bent down, Crash rolled Glenny up into a small package. Thompson got down to count, but Glenny kicked out at two. Glenny stood up and quickly grabbed Crash for another whip, but this time Crash maneuvered around into a crucifix, going for another pinfall. Glenny kicked out at two, and started to sit up, but Crash pushed him back down for another cover, kicking out at 2 again.
THE Casey Gains: And each kickout takes effort! You have under three seconds to muster the force to push another body off of you, that’s going to wear Glenny down!
Glenny rolled out of the ring to recover, but Crash followed him and began to chase him. However after a short sprint, Crash started to slow down, then bent over, trying to catch his breath.
Edward Findleton: Crash may have had Glenny there but i think the effects of the experiments in space are catching up to Crash!
Tired, Crash rolled into the ring, as did Glenny, who seemed to appear confident now. He ran at Crash and hit a clothesline. Crash stood up, and Glenny ran again, now with a headscissor takedown. As Crash stood up a third time, Glenny ran again, but this time Crash jumped, and Glenny ran face first into the Dropkick.
Edward Findleton: That could be match!
Crash started to crawl over to Glenny, but at that moment, two Visitors started to run down the ramp. Oden Schreiner put both arms out, double clotheslining them. Two more Visitors ran out, which Oden grabbed and delivered a double chokeslam. At that point, swarms of Visitors ran out from the back, and Oden charged into them, effectively holding them off and forcing the wave of interference backstage.
As this was going on, Dennis Thompson was trying to make sure none of the Visitors had interfered, and Crash stood in the ring, watching the mayhem.
Edward FIndleton: Wait! We’ve got a fan jumping into the ring! Security!
A man wearing a hoodie ran into the ring, and crept up behind Crash. He then grabbed Crash’s head, and hit a Lifting Reverse DDT.
THE Casey Gains: I don’t think that’s a fan!
The “fan” pulled his hood back, revealing Douglas Brunswick. He slid out of the ring and ran back to the crowd.
Edward Findleton: No! I don’t believe this!
Referee Dennis Thompson missed all of the interference, and with Oden and the Visitors backstage, turned around towards Crash and Glenny, who were getting to their feet. Glenny sprinted at Crash with everything he had and hit the Standing Tornado DDT. He climbed on Crash, and hooked the leg.
Edward Findleton: No! 1…2….3!
Bradley Wallace: The winner of this match and NEW HAW World Champion, Glenny Pax!
THE Casey Gains: And Douglas Brunswick came through on his promise, he WAS the reason Crash lost the title!
Edward Findleton: But at this cost?! What will this mean going forward?!
THE Casey Gains: I’m not sure Edward, but the fact is, Glenny Pax has done what everyone thought was impossible, he’s a World Champion.
As Glenny Pax celebrated in the ring, Crash rolled out, holding his neck.
Edward FIndleton: You’re right Casey, tonight Glenny Pax is the champion, and his reign begins. We’re almost out of time ladies and gentlemen, so we’ll see you next week as we begin our path to Downtown Disaster. Goodnight!
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