Dark Matches: Club Corruption (Night Prince and Ninja) defeated The Master Bassers (Diego Salazar and Enrique Mendoza), Peter “Carnage” Horn defeated Connor Andrews
The HAW theme played to start the show.
Edward Findleton: Welcome to HAW! We're in Detroit, Michigan, and we’ve got an interesting main event!
THE Casey Gains: Mayor Briggs challenged El Espectro to a tag match this week! So it’s Briggs and the United States versus El Espectro and…whoever he can find in his corner!
Pastor James music cut the announcers off, and he came to the ring with Dixie Boyle and Ivy Clarke.
Pastor James: Brothers, sisters…
Dixie Boyle: Daughters!
Pastor James: …….Children of the Lord. It’s been a long time since I’ve got to speak to all of you personally. I want to speak from the heart. Sometimes in life…we lose our path. We stray away from the Lord, and partake in sin. We’ve all sinned, everyone here has, even me, believe it or not. But some sins are worse than other, and perhaps the worst of all…is Wittchcraft. It is an abomination to religious worship, and HAW has a witch under contract. Witchmere, you are the ultimate sinner, and you shall repent for your sins! …And Bethany Watts too, because she’s just a horribly mean person! Which is why Ivy gave me a great idea…If you two are brave enough, then next week at One Way Trip, you two will face off against Ivy Clarke and Dixie Boyle in a tag match! We’ll see if you show up next week.
James nodded to Dixie and Ivy, and the two left the ring.
Edward Findleton: Well an open challenge for the women next week can make for an interesting tag match!
THE Casey Gains: And speaking of women’s tag matches, we’ve got one coming up next!
In ring James calls Wittchmere a witch, and Bethany Watts a horribly mean person. Watts and Witchmere challenge Boyle and Clarke next week
Natasha York and Isabella Dawson came down, now going just by “Nu Iota” and their opponents Kherti Bhakta and Penny “The Hammer” Downs followed.
Kherti dominated most of the match, and gave a quick tag to Penny. Penny got about 30 seconds of ringtime before Kherti tagged herself back in, and was able to put Natasha York away with a Straight Jacket German Suplex in 5:23.
As the match ended, Penny looked frustrated, and pushed Kherti away. She yelled in her face.
Penny: Stop underestimating me! I dare you to next week!
Penny exited the ring frustrated, while Kherti seemed annoyed.
Backstage, Niko Green and RJ Bu were staring into the camera.
RJ Bu: Yo, Row and Stanellis. Next week, we’re going to see you in the ring, and we’re going to beat you! End the promo!
Niko Green: No! Not yet.
RJ Bu: My bad, bro.
Niko Green: Maybe I’m someone who’s always bit off more than he could chew, but I’m sorta looking forward to next week. I think people think we’re flukes. That we suck. RJ cares more about being flashy than wrestling. Maybe, maybe not, I don’t know what’s in his mind. But you know what I care about? Achieving my goals. Yeah, we won the titles. That’s half the battle. Remaining relevant is the key, defending them is the new benchmark. I want respect for us. So beating a former World Champ, his musclebound lackey, and let’s face it, his two animals. That’s gonna bring some respect. It better. Now, end the promo.
RJ Bu: End the promo!
Back at ringside, the Stable’s music played and out came Zoey Chambers, Jenna Ingram, and Hazel Glover, who all looked a little bit annoyed.
Zoey Chambers: So last week…didn’t go as planned.
Jenna Ingram: Summer Fun, we DEMAND the match!
Hazel Glover: Please.
Zoey Chambers: I was going to butter them up a bit. We can’t just demand the match, they can say no!
Jenna Ingram: They already agreed and no-showed!
Hazel Glover: It seemed like a plausible explanation.
The Stable started to argue, when the sound of a cell phone ringing was heard. Zoey reached into a pocket and answered it.
Zoey Chamber: …Daisy? Hold on let me put you on speaker, you’re on HAW now.
Daisy Fields: Oh hey. Maple, come here, we’re on the show. I think this means be get paid.
Maple Blossom: Sweet.
Jenna Ingram: Where are you two?! You said you’d face us!
Daisy Fields: Detroit! ….Just uhh, the wrong one.
Maple Blossom: Detroit, Kansas. We were wondering why they booked a show in a town of 102 people and it turns out, it’s because they didn’t book it here. It was Michigan, actually.
Daisy Fields: So yeah, we’ll do your match, but we had this cool idea. What if we make it a three on three tag match for the titles? The Stable vs Summer Fun and Paisley Alden!
Hazel Glover: Is…is that allowed? You can just volunteer Paisley for this?
Paisley Alden: Oh, I’m here too with them. Yeah, I’ll wrestle again!
Jenna Ingram: That was not the agreement!
Zoey Chamber: It wasn’t, but it does sound fun! We accept! We’ll see you next week, at One Way Trip, in Columbus, Ohio, the United States.
Hazel Glover: And by the United States, Zoey means the country we’re in, not the wrestler.
Daisy Fields: Ohhhh, I was worried. Ok, see you later!
Jenna looked frustrated, but Zoey and Hazel seemed a bit excited at the idea.
Edward Findleton: Well that’s going to be an interesting match. A three way tag match…for the titles. No idea how that will work!
THE Casey Gains: I’m just going to predict that somehow, Paisley is going to end up with both titles in RFW. No idea how, but that’s par for the course here.
Edward Findleton: Casey, nothing crazy like that happens here at HAW. Now let’s throw it backstage to Gregory Greystone, where he interviews a man being threatened by aliens!
Gregory Greystone: Hello ladies and gentlemen! I’m here with Douglas Brunswick! Douglas, last week Glenny Pax said he was going to send the Cyberhemoth after you. How do you feel being stalked by a cyborg?
Douglas Brunswick: Cyberhemoth is tough, I’ll give him that. But he’s not invincible. I went toe to toe with him last year. If Glenny wants to send him after me, so be it
Gregory Greystone: Have you been extra alert and cautious? Usually around this time in the interview, someone gets attacked!
Douglas Brunswick: I’ve been more alert, yeah. But not afraid. I think there’s only one person afraid, and that’s Glenny Pax himself. If he had any courage, he’d face me in the ring next week. So Glenny, next week at One Way Trip, I’m walking down the ramp, and I’m hoping to face you. Let’s see if you show up.
Edward Findleton: Another potential match for next week’s One Way Trip, Glenny Pax vs Douglas Brunswick, possibly! But now, it’s time for our main event match!
Mayor Briggs’ music came, and he walked down with the United States and Bigg Pimpin’ Alex. El Espectro came out next, and walked down alone. Mayor Briggs and The United States started to laugh, and Briggs took a mic.
Mayor Briggs: Oy mate…you couldn’t find a partner, eh? No one wants to team with the weirdly silent luchado fella? Tough luck lad, looks like it’ll be a handicap match for-
Briggs got cut off as King Donovan’s music started up and the arena erupted.
Edward Findleton: The King is back!
THE Casey Gains: He’s got his eyes on both Bigg Pimpin’ Alex and Mayor Briggs, after they sidelined him last year!
Donovan got in the ring, fistbumped El Espectro, and immediately started brawling. Referee Dennis Thompson was able to collect the competitors up eventually, and the match officially started. Briggs and USA tried to cheat, but El Espectro and Donovan had counters in place. As The United States started to get isolated and the tide was turning, Briggs took the HAW National Championship and retreated with Alex. Shortly after, El Espectro hit the Inverted Stomp Facebreaker and pinned The United States in 9:03. El Espectro and Donovan wasted no time, and started rushing to the back to chase after Briggs and Alex
Edward Findleton: Mayor Briggs is usually prepared, but I don’t think he was prepared for the return of King Donovan!
THE Casey Gains: Briggs thought he would have an easy title defense a few weeks ago…with King Donovan on El Espectro’s side, that is definitely not the case anymore!
Franco Mancini’s music began to play, and he walked out.
Edward Findleton: Well it looks like we’re ending the show with the World Champion!
Franco Mancini: I want to take a moment to invite my challenger next week to the ring. I heard his speech last week, and I want to address it.
Franco waited until Fun Fight Machine came from backstage and joined him in the ring.
Franco Mancini: Last week, you shared a story of your mother’s passing…your departure, your dedication. I’m not going to go low and insult your family, I respect someone who puts their family first. I truly mean that. And despite our long history, I commend you for being a good family man.
Fun Fight Machine: Thank you.
Franco Mancini: But I do got a bit of a problem with you. Go to Japan, take care of your mom. Come here, dedicate the year to her. But you’re coming to the front of the line? You think you can beat me again? You got lucky once with a great shot, and you got even luckier in our rematch when the ref didn’t see my shoulder up. Your entire career has been built on your rookie year, a fluke HAW championship, that you’ve never been able to retrieve. While me, I’ve won this five times! I’ve proven year in and year out there is no one more dominant! And it makes me sick that will all the work I put in, my first title defense against is going to be against the charity case to try and make a feel good story about his mother!
Fun had heard enough and punched Franco. Fun Fight Machine had a rage and started attacking Franco nonstop, until officials ran down and separated the two.
Edward Findleton: Franco hit a nerve there, and maybe that wasn’t too wise! We’ll find out if Fun can channel this anger next week at One Way Trip. Goodnight!
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