King Cucaracha

COLE Alright, well we're rolling on with AngleSlam 2006 and man Coach, it's been a HOT night in Miami so far! COACH How many times are you gonna make that same joke? COLE Depends, how many matches are left? Actually, don't answer that. One match that is left, to get back on topic here, is the match that's been dubbed the 'Interpromotional Dream Match' for the OAOAST 24/7 Championship. One of the feature matches and most anticipated matches on the entire card. We've had an influx of SWF wrestlers this past half year, some more hostile than others. Landon "La Cucaracha" Maddix falls into the hostile category and tonight, he makes his OAOAST PPV debut, looking to show us up by defeating one of our own in Leon Rodez. He certainly showed him up two and a bit weeks ago, when he laid Leon out with the help of The Wildcards to win the title, under the guise of Ghost Machine. But tonight, it's one on one and The Wildcards have other issues so one would assume they won't be out here to interfere. COACH We can only hope. COLE Indeed, because this has the potential to be a real doozy. Two great athletes, who are so different and yet so alike. COACH So alike that they could be the same person. COLE Coach, kayfabe. COACH Oh, gotcha. [b]*GOOOOONG!*[/b] "YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" "C'mon man" "DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK..." LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" and it's Interpromotional time as Leon Rodez emerges through the OAOAST sliding doors, wearing proudly the OAOAST orange and black with his tights and robe, once again challenging for the OAOAST 24/7 Championship. Leon seems jovial as usual as he walks down the rampway, miming high-fives to the fans beneath him beside the rampway. BUFFER Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is your InterPromotional Dream Match for the OAOAST 24/7 Championship of the WOOORLD! Introducing first, the challenger. Representing the OAOAST!! From Grand Rapids, Michigan... he weighs in at two hundred and twenty pounds. The former three-time 24/7 Champion... "SILKY SMOOTH"... LLLLEEEEEEOOOOOOONN... RRRRRRROOOOOOOOODDEEEEZZZZZZZZ!!!!! "YYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!" Leon vaults into the ring and salutes the crowd with a raised fist and a cheesy smile. Disposing of the robe, Leon then goes through some warm-ups, while all attention turns back to the entrance way. This is big. This is historic. This isn't understated, that's for sure. "Tell me exactly, what am I supposed to do Now that I have allowed you, to beat me! Do you think that we could play another game Maybe I could win this ti-ime." "I kinda like the misery you put me through Darling you can trust me, completely! If you even try to look the other way I think that I could kill this ti-ime!" "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" The (almost) ever-present manager and recent romantic conquest of the 24/7 Champion, Megan Skye, leads the way as "Disturbed" by The Game fires through the arena. It's only been two weeks, but the OAOAST faithful are nothing if not observant and know exactly what that means. Boo time, as the 24/7 Champion Landon Maddix enters. Maddix takes in the surroundings and the elevated rampway he's stepping onto with a hint of unfamiliarity, but being the professional egotist he is he still finds time to raise his title belt overhead. Megan leads the one woman applause-fest as Landon now strolls on down the ramp, rocking his SWF Justice & Rule sweatshirt rather than his usual entrance garb. BUFFER And, his opponent! Accompanied to the ring by his Perfect 10, MEGAN SKYE! He represents the SWF... hailing from Huron, South Dakota by way of Madrid, Spain! Weighing two hundred, twenty pounds. Tonight making his OAOAST Pay Per View debut, he is one half of the SWF World Tag Team Champions and the reigning, defending OAOAST 24/7 CHAMPION... "THE SAVIOUR OF THE OAOAST"... this is LLLAAAANNDDOOOONN... "LA CUCARACHA"... MMMMMMMAAAAAADDIIIIIIIIIXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Looking a little nervous to enter the ring and possibly with good reason, Landon hands off his dueling title belts and his sweatshirt to Megan on the rampway, keeping a careful eye on the ring. Leon watches on lounged in a corner, checking an imaginary watch on his wrist. "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" Referee Charles Robinson calls for Landon to get into the ring. And despite Leon's laid back attitude, Landon seems suspicious, preferring to stay on the rampway as he talks strategy with his manager. So Robinson tries to hurry him up another way, by calling for the bell. *DINGDINGDING!* With the bell gone and the match officially underway Landon accepts defeat and enters the ring...and promptly climbs right back out, letting Robinson know in no uncertain terms who's in charge here. The SWF's Power Couple have another team pow-wow on the floor, while Rodez bides his time by getting into his own 'pow-wow' with a smoking hot brunette in the second row. COLE What's with all this stalling? They don't do this in the SWF, why do it here? COACH Well we don't have word limits. COLE ... COACH Sorry. Finally Landon and Megan high-five and it seems the Champion is ready to go. Rolling into the ring, Maddix squares up to his challenger and starts to put the verbal beatdown on The Silky Smooth One~! Leon just stands there and takes it with a wry smirk on his face as Landon keeps on yapping. And yapping. And eventually, he seems to get to the point as he starts poking fingers and apparantly daring Leon to go chop for chop with him. Leon is happy to accept and even offers his chest to the Champion, giving him the chance to go first... *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" ...a chance which Landon duly takes. With gritted teeth Rodez absorbs the chop, brushing it off as the proverbial ball is now in his proverbial court... ...but Landon DUCKS the chop... *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" ...and hits a second knifedge on Rodez! COACH C'mon, that ain't how it works! Just to make sure the fans know how smart he is, Maddix takes a moment to tap a finger to his temple while Rodez shakes off the chop, accepting that he was just outsmarted. Turning back around, it seems Landon is ready to resume the chop battle now as he slaps his chest, encouraging Rodez to try his luck. Leon sets and hesitates a little, half-expecting a duck of the head...which doesn't come. But his hesitation allows Landon to catch him napping with a quick thumb to the eye! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE Oh come on! Right to the eyes! With Leon blinded, Landon pulls him around by the shoulder, exposing the chest again... *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" ...for another knifedge chop. *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" ...and another. By the arm, Maddix now loads Leon up, backing him off into the ropes and shooting him across the ring with an irish whip. Back shoots Leon as the 24/7 Champion swings high with a clothesline. Too high infact, especially as Leon ducks underneath. Not panicking, Landon tries again on the second rebound with a back elbow. Another duck from The Silky Smooth one leaves Maddix flustered though and in his efforts to redeem himself as quickly as possible he ducks his head, far too early, allowing Leon to leapfrog over thetop of the Champion! It takes a second or two but eventually Maddix realises he's been decieved again and pops back upright, looking around in confusion for his opponent... *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" ...and gets lashed with four sudden, almost Kobashi-speed knifedge chops to return the earlier favours! COLE What's good for the goose is good for the Landon! COACH What the hell does that mean? COLE ...man Coach, it's been a HOT night in Miami so far! Those four chops prove more than enough for Landon as he drops to his knees and BEGS OFF~! The prospect of a follow-up eyepoke prompts Leon to turn that down though, kicking Landon in the gut and pulling him right back up to his feet. With an irish whip by Rodez looks to send Maddix off the ropes, but it's reversed by The Next Generation. This time though, Leon uses the fact he's running at great speed to an offensive advantage and vaults right back at Maddix as he hits the ropes, wiping him out with a flying forearm! Out of the ring scrambles Landon looking to regroup, as Rodez bounds back up and blows a theatrical kiss to the Miami crowd! COLE And that's what you get for trying to embarrass Leon Rodez, Mr. Maddix! The 24/7 Champion bails out to the floor to recollect his thoughts and it's as good of a time as any to remind you there's No Disqualifications, No Countouts and Falls Count Anywhere in 24/7 competition. Leon seems to be hanging back for now though. I think he'd rather beat Landon in the ring, straight up, to further prove a point to the egotistical SWFer. "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" Maddix brushes the hair from his eyes and glares into the pro-Rodez crowd, shaking his head in disgust. Around ringside scuttles Megan to re-assure her man everything is okay and the Power Couple go into another discussion on the floor before Landon rolls back into the ring. An honourable guy, Rodez gives Maddix his space before Maddix offers up a knucklelock. But apparantly Leon watched Landon's match on Thursday and doesn't fall for the trick, sweeping behind into a waistlock before his eyes can be jabbed deep into his sockets again. Dropping to one knee, Landon tries to pick at the fingers to free himself from the waistlock. But when his technical ability fails him, Landon goes to what's worked for him most of his career. *CHING!* "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE Lowblow! COACH Where the hell did that 'ching' come from? COLE ...man Coach, it's been a HOT night in Miami so far! The fans in the American Airlines Arena really give it to the (half) Spaniard. So does Charles Robinson, but he doesn't matter. Shrugging the referee off, Landon hauls the winded Rodez off of his knees and to his feet, popping him in the jaw with a forearm. A second forearm finds the mark, before another irish whip puts Leon on the run again. Ducking the head, a backdrop seems to be Maddix next move again... ...but again it fails, as Leon vaults over top, taking the Champion over with a sunset flip... 1... 2... Kickout. Rodez still looks to be favouring his lower nutsack region, but rolls back to his feet to cut Landon's rush off with an armdrag. Another armdrag. And a third, Japanese style this time, Leon hanging onto the arm as he rolls through before threading the legs underneath the other arm and pulling Landon over with a crucifix cradle... 1... 2... Kickout. Both men up and momentum is on Rodez's side...until he finds himself snared in a cravaté. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE There's one. Hope you're keeping score at home. COACH Hope you're still awake at home too after he's done with this. The crowd rightfull crap on the glorified headlock as Landon holds it for all he's worth, smirking away as he hears the fans' reaction. The hold has slowed Leon down though. To a complete standstill infact, as he searches for a way to free himself from the Champion's grip. Rodez manages to get near the ropes and reaches out, inches away from the top rope...before grabbing it on the second attempt. Of course, Landon can't be DQed though, meaning he can hold on regardless. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Realising that the ropebreak lacks the 'break' it usually does, Leon has to try another tactic. So he grabs the rope again and starts to shuffle around, testing the ropes for how much give they'll allow. Landon watches on and tightens the hold a little, anticipating the challenger's next move and quelling it. But Leon keeps hold of the ropes. Twist, turn, set and... ...STOMP ON THE FOOT!! "YYEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE I half-expected a somersault and an acrobatic escape there from Leon. But unfortunately for the Champion, he full-expected it and got his foot stamped on for his trouble. The classic schoolyard tactic leaves Landon hopping on one foot, furiously arguing with referee Robinson that those sort of shenanigans shouldn't be allowed. But by arguing with the referee, he becomes distracted from his opponent, who sneaks up... ...AND STOMPS ON THE OTHER FOOT!! "YYEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE Haha! More mind-games from Leon and Landon Maddix is [i]hopping[/i] mad right now! COACH I get it, I get it, cause he's hopping right? That's funny. Poor Landon doesn't know which foot to hop around on now and ends up hobbling around in clear pain, trying to reach down and nurse both of his feet at once. As he hobbles around towards Rodez though, he gets no sympathy, as The Silky Smooth One boots him in the shoulder blade, snapping him upright. Ducking low, Rodez then hoists Landon up and spikes him with an Inverted Atomic Drop, just as he thought it could get no worse. Bad feet and an achy breaky pelvis, Maddix flounders in the centre of the ring and gets caught napping, schoolboyed over by Rodez... 1... 2... No! Rolling out of the pin, Maddix has had enough of being shown up and with gritted teeth, flaming eyes and venomous intent he charges on his swollen feet looking to take Leon's head off with a vicious clothesline. Unfortunately, he ends up running right into a drop toehold. Landing across the middle rope throat-first, Maddix stays slumped as Rodez jumps back to his feet and ponders whether he should do what he's thinking of doing. "YYEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!" There's your answer. COLE Megan trying to use that towel to fan Landon down, but I don't think that's going to make much difference there young lady. Calling on the power of the fans, Rodez does a very special AngleSlam JIG~! to the delight of the Miami crowd. Rodez then hits the opposite ropes and sprints back at top speed directly at Maddix... COACH CALL THAT BITCH BOJA... ...NO! Maddix moves... ...but Rodez lands safely on the bottom rope and vaults back around. This time, the pointing to the temple by The Next Generation isn't quite so valid. And Megan lets him no, waving her trusty towel and screaming at her man to turn around. Landon does so and gets caught with a boo...NO! Landon catches the boot! Again he points to the cranium... *SMACK!* ...and gives Rodez a target to aim for with an Enziguri!! COLE Enziguri, which loosely translated from Japan means 'I hate your neck'. COACH For real? Rodez rolls over...AND POINTS TO THE TEMPLE~! OMGHEELTURN~! With Maddix facedown on the canvas, Rodez then quickly bundles the Champion over and makes the cover... 1... 2... Kickout! By the hair Rodez brings Landon right back up, but the challenger leaves himself open for a knee to the gut. Wisely, Landon declines to show how wise he is with a temple tap this time, instead measuring Rodez as he slumps against the ropes and charging. Rodez is waiting on him though, ducks the head and backdrops Maddix over the top, onto the OAOAST PPV rampway with a satisfying thud!! "YYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Quick as a flash, Megan scrambles up the steps and onto the ramp, positioning herself in between Landon and the ring to buy her man some time. COLE Well, it's been a far from auspicious start to Landon Maddix's first OAOAST PPV match. The crafty challenger has had an answer for everything Landon's tried and he's left the two-time former World Champion looking quite the fool so far. COACH And that's perfect. The way Maddix was talking two weeks ago, this had to happen. He needed to be shown up like this tonight. COLE Don't count Maddix out just yet though Coach. He's not called "La Cucaracha" for nothing. SUICIDE KING Of course. He's called that because he's a dirty no-good Spaniard. COACH & COLE ... Referee Robinson tries to tell Landon to get back into the ring, but is indignantly informed by La Cucaracha that he has an important match tommorrow night for the SWF and he needs to conserve his energy. Especially considering he's got to fly from Florida to Canada as soon as this match finishes. Leon has no time for that sob-story though and finally he's tired of the stalling, exiting the ring and meeting Landon on the rampway with a forearm strike! Megan scuttles off to safety as Landon returns the favour with a forearm, only for Leon to throw one right back, sending Landon sprawling down the ramp! COLE Uh-oh! The action has finally spilled out onto the entrance way and remember, falls count anywhere, so this one could go anywhere Coach! COACH Ten bucks says they end up in some water and party like it's ninteen ninety nine. COLE No, we've got that covered on the show already. With the 24/7 Championship in hand Charles Robinson follows down the ramp, as it's Landon's turn to strike, connecting with a patented forearm that sends Leon retreating back towards the ring. Soon learning that you shouldn't go forearm for forearm with La Cucaracha, Rodez stuns his opponent with a boot to the gut and pulls him in, setting up a piledriver on the rampway! But of course, that rarely works and as soon as he finds himself in trouble, Maddix snaps upright to backdrop Rodez over, with another hard thud on the ramp! "OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" As soon as Rodez lands, Maddix is right on top of him with the cover... *THUD!* 1... *THUD!* 2... No! Annoyed at the two count and the OAOAST fans down below him, Maddix stomps away on The Silky Smooth One before glancing back to the ring. And apparantly, gaining an idea. The 24/7 Champion re-enters the ring and takes up a position on the far side of the ring, lounging against the ropes as he waits for Rodez to drag himself back up. "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" The fans don't concern Landon now as Rodez pulls himself up and favours his lower back as he begins to lumber back towards the ring. As he does so though, it seems like rather than he going to Landon, Landon is going to come to him, as The Next Generation rushes the length of the ring... ...vaulting to the top rope... ...and SOARING a good 7 or 8 feet down the ramp, wiping Rodez out with a JAW-DROPPING Spaceman Plancha!!! "WWOOOOOOOAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE WOW! COACH That's one way to shut these people up, huh? COLE Give the devil his due, that was impressive! In one motion Landon leapt to the top, then the next he goes flying down the aisle and takes out the challenger! One thing we know about Landon from the SWF, he's flashy, he's a show-off, sometimes without reason. But what you just saw there was the flash with an end product. Both men end up in a heap on the rampway as the crowd around them go wild, not for Landon as such but for the move. Landon ends up hurting from the landing as well as Rodez, but he's the first to react and drops on top of Rodez, forcing Robinson to rush over with the count... *THUD!* 1... *THUD!* 2... KICKOUT! Pushing up to his knees, Maddix takes issue with the count with referee Robinson. As always Robinson is quick to defend his count, so the Champion is forced to bring Rodez back up and pop under the jaw with another quick forearm. Rodez wobbles, as Landon then reels back... ...cravaté. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE There's number two. COACH 'Number two' is right. That's a steaming pile of number two. The fans are spared this time though, as after a few gratuitous wrenches of the head and some taunting of the crowd, Landon gets bored of the hold and changes things up. Wringing out the arm, an irish whip is set up, Landon sends Rodez back down the ramp and into the outside of the ring ropes...which Leon hangs onto, stopping himself from being rebounded back. RODEZ ALAN CLARK RULES!! COACH OH NO HE DIDN'T~! Oh yes he did and if anything's gonna rile up The Next Generation it's that, letting his heart rule his head as he furiously sprints down the ramp...and gets scythed down with another drop toehold, again landing throat-first on the middle rope, although this time of course on the outside of the ring. COLE Looks like Leon's going to put the ramp to good use here. Striding off towards the curtains, Rodez leaves Maddix hanging as he makes it at least halfway down the ramp before turning on his heels and sprinting back! The fans in the pits below reach out to their hero, thankfully not tripping him up as he rushes down... ...and down... ...and down... ...before eventually making it down the rampway and DRIVING his weight into the spine of the 24/7 Champion!! COACH CALL THAT BITCH BOJANGLES, YO~! Man I've missed doin' that! COLE If you weren't so bias you could do it every week. COACH Yeah, but what can you do? Maddix comes off the ropes with a hand pressed to his back and gets nailed with a right hand, before it's Leon's time to whip. Taking the arm, Rodez turns and shoots Landon down the ramp, which soon becomes down the apron, as Maddix manages to cut the corner where the ramp drops away... *CLANG!* ...but ends up crashing back first into the ringpost, slumping down against the outside of the middle turnbuckle as Megan yelps in shared pain on the outside. RODEZ How about a Shining Wizard, huh!? "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE Oh yeah, a little poetic justice coming up! With Landon still slumped against the post Rodez takes a moment to get the crowd behind him, with the always popular rhythmical clapping. The claps slowly pick up pace as Megan is frantic, screaming at Landon to get up or move or show any meaningful signs of life what-so-ever. But he doesn't and the claps are barely seperate from each other now they're so quick as Leon bursts down the rampway again with another long run-up. A quick detour later, Rodez then takes flight, jumping the void from ramp edge to ring apron... *CLUNK!* "OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" ...BUT MEGAN PULLS LANDON TO SAFETY AND RODEZ WRAPS HIS RIGHT KNEE AROUND THE RINGPOST!!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE DAMNIT! Megan Skye, interjecting herself in this match and saving Maddix's ass! COACH And probably wrecking Leon's knee too. Rodez writhes in agony, rolling into the ring and howling with pain as he clutches his right knee. Following him into the ring, referee Robinson seems understandably concerned as he checks on the challenger, most of the crowd eeriely quiet now except for the pocket of fans closest to Maddix and Megan who give them their rightful boos. COLE You might be right Coach, Leon looks like he's in a bad way and he's clutching that right knee, which is the same knee that had to be surgically repaired back in 2003 and put Leon out of this business for roughly a year. It's still braced up and obviously it's healed as fully as is physically possible. But it's still a surgically repaired knee and therefore a vulnerable bodypart. COACH And it's not like he just smacked it on the post either Mikey. He [i]wrapped[/i] it around the post. Something like that can tear ligaments. COLE Or in Leon's case, re-tear ligaments. Referee Robinson seems to be in two minds about stopping the match but apparantly Leon is able to convince him he's okay to continue. Either that, or Charles doesn't want a riot on his hands. "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" Taking his sweet time, Landon fiddles with his hair on the floor before climbing back to the apron. Rodez is trying to use the ropes to pull himself back to his feet, but Landon ducks a foot into the ring and kicks him in the face, putting him right back down. Clasping the top rope, Landon then vaults in, coming down on the right knee with a very deliberate double stomp! LEON AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! COLE Wow, Rodez just screaming in pain there. We're going to see just how much of a ruthless streak Maddix has in him now I'm afraid. Rodez tries to crawl away but doesn't get very far on one leg, Landon strolling over and simply kicking him in the knee, almost mocking the injured challenger in the process. Another nonchalant kick to the leg is thrown before Landon reaches down and grabs the limp limb. Hooking the ankle under his arm, the cocky Maddix falls back and JARS it into the canvas with a KneeDT! And without relinquishing his grasp on the ankle, he chains it into a submission, rolling Leon over onto his back and applying a simple but effective under the circumstances Half Boston Crab. COLE Submission hold applied, but unless Leon is more injured than we think then this is just a weardown tactic, trying to soften the knee up a little further. COACH Well it's all cool working over a bodypart, but the question is what's it working towards? If Maddix doesn't have a hold that'll work the leg and get a submission, he might as well just forget about the injury and wrestle the match as he was. COLE I'm not sure what Landon has in his arsenal, Coach. From the footage I've seen, he never picks the leg as the bodypart to focus on though, so you may have a point. COACH Damn skippy. COLE Uhm...yeah. "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" The crowd try to rally behind the challenger as he starts to fight the hold, realising that reaching the ropes won't do him any good and instead trying to push up on his hands and escape the crab on his own merits. Maddix tries to sit back and flatten Rodez back down, but Rodez is up on his hands now, creeping his free leg underneath him to aleviate some of the pressure. Realising he's losing the challenger, Landon throws in the towel on the crab, but not the leg as he quickly lifts and slams the knee into the canvas! And again! Leon's base collapses under him as the knee is bounced off the canvas a third time, before Maddix flips him over onto his back and whips around the leg with a spinning toehold, the prelude to the figure fou...NO! Rodez fights it, kicking out with his left leg time and time again until Maddix is sent stumbling away into a neutral corner. COLE Rodez is fighting, but this is all just desperation now. Hopping on one leg Rodez tries to get back to his feet, but he can't put any weight on the right leg, allowing Landon to catch him from behind. A kick to the back of the knee softens Rodez up, before Landon hooks him around the waist, tucking in the knee as he lifts the Silky Smooth One up, then brings him right back down with a shinbreaker! Even on one leg, Leon is fighting though... *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" ...and manages to throw a knifedge chop to back Landon off. But only temporarily, as Maddix clubs into him from behind again and quickly executes another shinbreaker! This time there's no fightback from Rodez and he hops helplessly on the one foot as Maddix pulls him into the centre of the ring, bringing him over with a dragon screw legwhip that further wrenches the internal workings of the knee in ways they shouldn't be wrenched. "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE Again, tearing away at that leg. Maddix is in control, but time and time again in the past we've seen Leon in some bad situations and he's always shown tremendous amounts of heart. Pulling Rodez back up, Maddix picks the bad leg of the challenger and snaps an uppercut across the back of Rodez's knee. A second almost causes Rodez to buckle from the pain, but he gallantly stays up. Landon pulls him over with another quick dragon screw though to put an end to his resiliance. Straight from that, Maddix whips around Rodez's leg with a figure four in mind...but Rodez knows that spells disaster and with no other option he grabs a handful of Landon's blond hair and fires off a right hand! A second! Grabbing the hair again, Rodez goes for a third, but Landon suddenly WRENCHES at the knee with a spinning toe-hold which stops Rodez in his tracks. And with Rodez hurt, The Next Generation takes the opportunity to quickly apply the figure four leglock! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" COACH Aw, crap! COLE The Wrath Of Maddix, the time honoured figure four leglock, one move which Landon does have in his repetoire that works the leg. Rodez has got to escape this figure four and quickly, because I'm sure his knee cannot take much of this hold. With his hands clenched to his face, Rodez moans and groans with every wrench of the hold, the beaming Champion pushing up onto his hands to apply more pressure on the hold. The pain is clear, as Rodez pushes up to face Landon for a moment. But he quickly collapses back... 1... 2... Rodez pushes off of his shoulder, almost forgetting where he was for a moment. Landon has the hold applied tightly and Rodez, glancing towards the ropes, which won't aid him anyway. Maddix pushes up again, eliciting another howl from Rodez. The challenger grits his teeth through the pain for another attempt at finding a way out. But again Maddix wrenches the hold, which causes Rodez to fall to the mat again... 1... 2... THR--NOO! Rodez JUST pushes off the canvas in time! "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" The Miami crowd are doing their best to carry the challenger on now, despite how bleak the situation looks. Maddix gives another wrench of the figure four before glancing over to his corner and giving a little signal to Megan, who right on cue crawls into the ring and starts to MOP LANDON'S BROW with her towel in mid figure-four!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE That's ridiculous!! Talk about arrogance, that's off the damn scale! COACH Come on Mikey, he doesn't want sweat in his eyes. COLE Please Coach. Maddix is suitably mopped down so Megan resumes her cheering duties on the floor. Meanwhile, Rodez is slowly sinking away it seems and looks to be just about out of it. But just as Robinson prepares to count his shoulder down, The Silky Smooth One decides he has to make one last effort and sits bolt upright! Teeth gritted, the challenger pumps his fists and whips the crowd into a frenzy as he leans to his left and starts to try and tip the balance of the hold! Maddix's cocky streak has disappeared now and he tries to stop Rodez from turning him, but the challenger is determined and fights through the pain barrier, managing to get onto his side... ...but Landon quickly unwraps his legs and releases the hold, before he can be turned. COLE I guess that counts as an escape...Maddix taking no chances there, he doesn't want to get caught in the deadly reversed figure four. A cheer goes up, but Maddix doesn't completely let Rodez go. Instead, he lifts Rodez's leg by the ankle before slamming it down into the mat. Landon follows up with a stomp just for good measure, before smirking out into the crowd. COLE Maddix has things going his way. He just needs to keep his focus... COACH Easier said then done when he's got thousands of OAOAST fans baying for his blood. Looking out into the sea of Floridian fans, Maddix tries to get an "S - W - F!" chant going, which is thrown asunder faster than Al Gore's presidential campaign. All this is good clean fun for Landon though, drafting in Megan to help with the chant. However, Rodez is using this time to drag himself up with aid from the ropes, still running on adrenaline as he hops across the ring. By the shoulder he spins Landon around, catching the shocked SWF superstar in the jaw with a hopping jab! A jab! A JAB! A... ...forearm, Maddix cutting off the trademark combo. Cockily Landon shoves the challenger away, waiting for Rodez to hop back before launching a basement dropkick low. The boots catch Rodez in the thigh and he shoots up, landing SPIKED on his head! Seeing this, Landon decides to make a cover... 1... 2... Kickout! Maddix is quickly back up, laying in more vicious stomps. Rodez tries to fight him off with his free leg but Maddix is able to avoid the flailing leg and keeps kicking until finally Robinson has enough and decides to pull him away. Shoving Robinson aside, Maddix goes back over to Rodez and pulls him up. With a snarl, he then cups a hand under Rodez's jaw, pulling him face to face and spitting some insults at him. And SLAPPING him across the face! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Leon is in no position to fight back and struggles even to stay on his feet...or rather, foot...as Landon tucks a leg in behind the challenger's and tucks the head over his shoulder. Leaning Rodez back, the Champion then pulls him forward, looking for the Crash Landon '05... ...but instead, crash landing across Rodez's knee, as he counters with an STO/Backbreaker!!! "YYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE YES! Maddix got too cocksure of himself and he paid the price! COACH Yeah, but he got driven down on Leon's right knee. Leon sacrificed himself on that one. COLE Very true and the desperation counter did the challenger's leg no favours at all. But the Champion now has a damaged back to think about, as both men are down and...and WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING!? 'She' would be Megan Skye. And what 'she' is doing is sliding into the ring with a steel chair in hand, cautiously approaching Rodez and wielding the chair, waiting for a good shot at the right knee! Referee Robinson warns her to get out of the ring. He might as well have left ten minutes ago though, because nobody is listening to him. Megan continues to stalk the challenger, still without a good view of the leg, but Leon is getting up and the chair is wielded, ready to strike... ...UNTIL MEGAN GETS SPEARED DOWN BY... ...BY JADE RODEZ!?!?! "YYEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COACH What the hell!? COLE Jade Rodez to the rescue! Leon said he did his homework, I guess he knew what Megan was capable of and thankfully, he had his little sister watching his back! COACH Lame. COLE Well, you know what isn't lame Coach? COACH What? COLE This! CATFIIIGHT! CATFIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!! To the delight of the Miami crowd, Megan and Jade start scrapping on the mat, which soon turns into scrapping on the ramp as the bundle out under the ropes, still ripping and tearing at hair and flesh and whatever else comes to hand. Leon is up now, hobbling on one foot and faster that you can say 'I love it when a plan comes together' he's smiling as he sees his sister taking it to Ms. Skye. However, he wouldn't be smiling if he saw what was behind him. To his feet, Landon sneakily retrieves the steel chair and lies in wait. Screams of warning tell Leon something's wrong and he turns around. Just what Landon wanted, as he swings for the hills with the chair... ...DUCKED! Rodez manages to sweep under the chairshot and hop around to meet Landon coming a second time, blocking the chair... *CLANG!* ...and pushing it back into Landon's face! "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Away sprawls Maddix, a look of anger masking the fact he's seeing stars right now as he falls into the corner. Rodez is right behind him and grabs hold of Landon's blond locks, pulling his head back and slamming it into the turnbuckle... ...and again... ...again... "FOUR!" "FIVE!" "SIX!" "SEVEN!" "EIGHT!" "NINE!" "TEN!!!!!" COLE No need for a recount in Florida that time, Maddix sent into the buckle ten straight times and the tide may just be turning in the OAOAST's favour! Out from the corner hops Rodez, the fact he's on one leg not affecting his mobility too much. Rodez waits in the centre of the ring as slowly, very wobbly and pretty aimlessly, Landon comes staggering towards him. And before the woozy Champion can strike, he gets popped in the jaw with a jab! A jab! A jab! A jab! A jab! Landon is on rubber legs now as Leon, on one non-rubber leg, turns to blow the kiss to the crowd and...stops, not trusting his leg to withstand hitting the usual enziguri. Luckily though Landon is already ducking the non-existant enziguri. So, with a shrug, Leon just spikes him with a DDT! COACH Mama Said Knock You Out...With A DDT Because My Leg's Busted! COLE Catchy. Again Rodez has to take a moment to tend to his knee, but with the 24/7 Championship beckoning he grits the teeth and drapes an arm over Maddix's chest... 1... 2... NO! COLE That injured knee isn't just going to hurt Leon physically, but it's also going to hurt his chances of winning this match. I doubt he can get Maddix up for the Backpack Stunner and he's got no chance of a 450. What does the challenger have in his bag of tricks to beat Maddix with only one leg? COACH He could just waffle him with the chair. COLE No complaints here. Up hops Leon again and he waits on the 24/7 Champion, who is looking around ringside for some advice from his trusty manager. However, his trusty manager is in the backstage area, probably still clawing away at Jade Rodez's face. Maddix has to go it alone now. Stumbling up he suddenly makes a break forward, trying to clip out Leon's knee from the front. The challenger is able to side-hop him though, Landon skidding harmlessly (for Leon, at least) across the mat. Landon pops right back up and charges again...but this time, runs into a back elbow! That seems to lock Landon a little loopy and allow Rodez to wrap on a front facelock. Cradling the leg, Rodez takes Maddix over with a Fisherman's Suplex, with a bridge... 1... ...but his right knee is buckling, so Rodez lifts it off the canvas, maintaining the bridge with the left leg... 2... KICKOUT! COLE Amazing neck strength to bridge with one foot, let alone two, but again the bad knee is hampering every idea Leon has right now. "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" Up goes the chant again, the crowd sensing Rodez needs a little encouragement as he tries to figure out exactly what he can use for a next move. Maddix looks to cut him off before he gets the chance, swinging with a clothesline. And missing with a clothesline, Rodez watching Maddix 360 around and lifting for an inverted atomic drop...but wisely realising that'd hurt his knee, so instead dumping Landon down with a Stone Cold Spinebuster (which keeps him standing, but Landon hurting). As Maddix clambers up from that, an elbow jabs him in the abdomen...and again, doubling him over a little, so Leon can grab a 3/4 headlock. Pointing to the corner, Rodez is looking to slice some bread now as he runs to the buckles... RODEZ AAAHHH! ...but running isn't wise with a bad leg and he has to stop before he reaches the corner, releasing Landon to tend to his knee... ...and getting pulled down across [i]his[/i] knees with a Lungblower!! "OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE Again the knee halts the challenger's progress and that may have been the crucial tweak of the knee there! Scrambling around, Maddix hooks the good leg, leaving Leon with only the bad limb to try and kick out with... 1... 2... ONLY TWO!! "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE But Leon Rodez refuses to be beaten! COACH No doubt. He's got a lot of gumption. I don't know what gumption means, I don't know if anyone else does, but whatever it is he's got it. Maddix has had enough now as he storms to his feet, ripping at his own kneepad and exposing his right knee as he backs into a corner. COLE Shining Wizard! Landon's going for the Shining Wizard and if he hits this, it's over! COACH But if he misses, he's gonna end up with a knee like Leon's. The challenger is hurting now and slowly to his feet, the crowd trying to warn him again as Landon lies in wait. Maddix is impatient, encouraging Leon up, shouting at Leon to get back to one knee. Pushing himself up off the canvas, Leon starts to get up and Landon starts to run...but the challenger can't put any weight on the right leg, unable to get the knee under him and forcing the eager Champion to skid to a halt, returning to the corner. Clearly in pain, Rodez now plants the other leg on the mat as he starts to pull himself up, feeding the knee for Landon as he again charges forward... ...AND GETS SPEARED OUT OF THE AIR BY RODEZ!! "YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE RODEZ SAW HIM COMING! Rodez saw Landon coming the first time and he was ready by the second! COACH What a counter, too! COLE COVER!! 1... 2... 3 -NOOOOOO! "OOOOOOOHHHHHHH - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Referee Robinson takes the brunt of the abuse as he signals that Landon's shoulder barely shot off of the canvas at two. Despite the obvious disappointment, Rodez doesn't dwell on the two count and hobbles back to his feet, bringing Landon up with him with a handful of hair. RODEZ BANANA HAMMOCK! "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE He's gonna go for it, but I don't think his knee will hold out! Again with the 3/4 headlock, Rodez knows this is going to take his last amounts of energy and pauses for a moment, soaking in some oxygen before hoisting Landon up...BUT THE KNEE GIVES WAY! COLE Just as I thought, that knee is too damaged for Leon to carry two hundred and twenty pounds on his back, even for a second. Rodez uses the ropes to help himself back up and curses his bad idea as he limps away, to where Maddix is waiting on him with a Dropsault...CAUGHT! Rodez catches the legs and Maddix drops down on the back of his head, before getting turned over into the Boston Crab! "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" COACH Woah, where did that come from!? COLE I don't know and I don't honestly care! All that matters is, Maddix is in trouble and this seems to be a move that won't damage the knee of the challenger! Rodez sits back and is already nodding his head, satisfied that he's finally got the 24/7 Champion where he wants him. Meanwhile, the agonised Next Generation starts to claw and crawl with a grimace on his face, knowing that with one leg Leon's balance won't be as strong. "TAP!" "TAP!" "TAP!" "TAP!" The referee is right there with him to check for a tap-out, but Maddix shakes his head with a 'no', scanning around the ring for the ropes. But Rodez sits back a little further with the hold and it seems like La Cucaracha is trapped and resigned to defeat... "TAP!" "TAP!" "TAP!" ...until suddenly, he starts pushing up! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Maddix has his eyes locked on the bottom rope and begins to reach out for them, crawling across the ring. He knows he can't make a break of the hold, but at least with the ropes in hand he technically can't lose the match. Rodez can't stop Maddix's crawl and every time he's brought back a step, he's stepping onto the right leg once more. Despairing boos fill the air, as Landon is just a short distance away from the ropes. And with no way of stopping his opponent and no plans of trying to drag him forward, Leon is left to cling on and hope... ...as Landon makes the ropes! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" COLE Maddix has the ropes, but Rodez doesn't have the break the hold! COACH He'll break it, you watch. He's too much of a nice guy. And Coach's prediction is dead-on, as Rodez does throw down the legs of the Champion, although mainly to nurse the right leg again. Maddix is still clutching the ropes for all his might, until he finally realises the hold is broken. And quick as a flash, he twists around and grabs Rodez's right knee, tugging away at the buckles of his kneebrace!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE Hey...HEY, COME ON! COACH That's what being a nice guy gets ya. COLE This is uncalled for! I know it's No Disqualifications but Robinson needs to get in there and stop this! That kneebrace isn't there for decoration, it's there for a reason! Maddix seems to have the brace unfastened and is trying to pull it off now, but Rodez knows what trouble he'll be in if that happens and starts wailing away on the back of Landon's head, punching him erraticly until the Champion is fended off. Quickly Rodez rolls away and to a neutral corner, trying to re-attach his kneebrace before any further damage can be done. *CRACK!* "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Too late. COLE DAMNIT! CHAIRSHOT, RIGHT TO THE KNEE! Collapsing in a fit of pain, Rodez writhes in agony, his kneebrace doing nothing to protect his knee from twisting from the force of the steel chair. Standing over the challenger, a smug grin forms of Maddix's face as he shrugs his shoulders, mouthing to the fans that "it's in the rules". And just to demonstrate the point further... *CRACK!* "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" *CRACK!* "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" *CRACK!* "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" ...he SMASHES the chair down across the knee three more times, with referee Robinson powerless to stop him! "FUCK YOU LAN - DON!" *clap clap clapclapclap!* "FUCK YOU LAN - DON!" *clap clap clapclapclap!* "FUCK YOU LAN - DON!" *clap clap clapclapclap!* The grin is now a smile from ear to ear, as Landon adjusts his grip on the chair, pointing the top of the steel impliment down...AND JAMMING IT INTO LEON'S KNEE, IN TIME WITH THE CLAPPING!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE Come on, enough is enough! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Rodez is barely moving now, balled up and clutching his knee with groans and moans of pain just about audible over the hostile crowd. Finally Robinson steps in in the name of good taste and tries to get the chair away from Landon, only for Landon to toss the chair aside himself. He's done with it. He's got other ideas. Pulling Rodez agonisingly into the centre of the ring by the ankle, Maddix kicks the inside of the knee! And again! MADDIX WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ...before whipping around and applying the Wrath Of Maddix again!! COLE Right back to the Figure Four! And I don't think that kneebrace is on properly...it could be doing more harm than good right now! The Silky Smooth One is screaming in pain now, hands clutched to his head as his knee is ripped and torn away at by the hold. Referee Robinson is right beside him to check for a submission, as Maddix starts to rock up and down, putting even more downward pressure on the knee. Eventually, with the pain sinking in, Rodez slumps backwards and his shoulders pin to the mat... 1... 2... Rodez sits up, but doing so causes him to roar in pain even more! "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" COLE The crowd are trying to rally behind the challenger, but I don't know how much good that's really going to do. COACH None, that's how much. Comfortable in the hold Maddix resorts to some trash-talking now, making the most of it while Leon is still face to face with him. Because he doesn't stay there long, the pain again sapping at his energy levels and leaving him to slump back down to the canvas. A very clear laugh from Landon earns a few boos, but most of the fans are busy encouraging Leon on now, watching on nervously as he begins to fade away...and his shoulders fall to the mat again... 1... 2... SHOULDER UP, but just barely! COLE Rodez is slipping away here! Hid body is in danger of shutting down due to the pain and right now, it might be wise of him just to tapout and live to fight another day much as it pains me to say it. COACH Then don't say it! He's representin' the OAOAST, he'd better not just give up on us! COLE And risk ruining his career!? COACH If he taps out here, he might just ruin his career because Axel might just can his ass. Running on fumes now, Rodez sits up on his elbows and tries to summon some more reserve strength, in tremendous pain as he starts to try and tip over to the side, to reverse the hold. But his body is too weak to even get onto his side now and Maddix just rocks him right back over, pushing up the straight leg, further adding damage to the already damaging hold. With the referee right in his face Rodez looks about ready to give. His hand is hovering and he's seemingly about to tap. "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" But suddenly, another wave of chants come and Leon wags the finger at Robinson, ready to try again and escape! "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" "LE - ON!" Pushing up onto his hands, Rodez growls as he tries to block out the pain, raising one fist in the air and trying to lever himself over to that side. Having caught a chance to relax, Maddix now starts to wrench at the hold again, trying to stop Leon in his tracks. But Leon is still fighting, still determined, pushing over and getting onto his side... ...tipping... ...turning, and... ...MADDIX PULLS HIM RIGHT BACK DOWN!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE Oh no. I think that was Leon's last spurt of energy right out of the window there. Taking no chances, Maddix is putting his all back into the hold now as the chants of the fans are draining away. Rodez is doing the same now, trying to find the heart and the battle for one last attempt, but simply unable to. Slowly he sinks down, referee Robinson's questioning not even getting a 'no' now, as Rodez falls back, pain etched on his face but not a lot else in the way of movement. Robinson checks for any signs of life. And for a moment, Rodez seems to respond. But his shoulders are down and Robinson quickly notices... 1... 2... 3!!!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" *DINGDINGDING!* COLE That's it, it's over. COACH What!? Robinson calls for the bell and the crowd sink down just as lifelessly as Leon, as sure enough "The Game" cues up over the sound system. Even Landon looks a little surprised that the match is over. But once Robinson explains what has happened, the 24/7 Champion's only response is to demand his belt. BUFFER Ladies and gentlemen... your winner of the match and STILL OAOAST 24/7 Champion... LANDON... "LA CUCARACHA"... MMMMMAAAADDIIIIXXXXXX!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Rodez isn't completely out but he's as good as, as Maddix snatches his title away from Robinson. Strolling over to the fallen OAOAST favourite, he then places a foot over the chest, smiling away as he poses over the fallen hero. COLE Look at this disrespect! Landon Maddix is spitting in the face of the OAOAST right now! He beat one of our own and he beat him to the point where he couldn't defend himself, surely that's enough? And now this. COACH He didn't just beat him Mikey...he pinned him with a figure four. When was the last time you saw that? COLE I can't remember ever seeing it Coach. But I can't remember seeing someone get their knee, their already injured knee, torn apart like that and keep fighting to the point that they simply couldn't continue like we just saw. Leon Rodez didn't tapout, he didn't give up, but he was in that figure four for at least a minute and a half, two minutes even and eventually his body just gave out on him. He couldn't respond to the count and that's why Landon Maddix is still the OAOAST 24/7 Champion. As Maddix exits the ring and poses on the rampway, to another chorus of boos, a small group of trainers and EMTs jog past and enter to check on Rodez, who is still barely conscious. Taking a last glance back into the ring, Maddix flicks the hair from his eyes and smiles. Before then turning around and realising that Megan is probably still scrapping, so turning tail and leaving. COLE Leon looks to be in a bad way here. I just hope this isn't as serious of an injury as the one that he suffered two years ago. COACH Yeah. I'm no big fan of the guy, but you don't wanna see this. The doctors continue to check on Leon, as for reasons of taste and writing two PPV matches on a weekend we cut away to something completely different.

As the impromptu theme song of AngleSlam 2006, "Miami" by Will Smith, plays through the arena we're panning through the crowd in the jam-packed American Airlines Arena to cater to the fans who decided to bring signs to the show! Signs such as: "WHERE IS CHRISTIAN WRIGHT?" "IF TEAM LITHUANIA WIN, WE RIOT!" "WHERE IS BOHEMOTH?" "120 DAYS 'TILL CHRISTMAS!" ...and many other unimportant opinions. Man, wrestling fans are dumb. And speaking of dumb... COLE Man Coach, it's been a HOT night in Miami so far! COACH HOLLA~! COLE And speaking of hot, up next we've got hot boyband on boyband action! COACH And all without worrying about the threat of spyware. Wowza! Suddenly, a giant puff of orange smoke engulfs the commentary table and Double C are dragged away by the throats by two monstrous men. One fan can be heard pondering "When the hell did Hell's Hitmen start working here again!?", as as if by magic the soon to be rotting carcasses of Coach and Cole are replaced by a much better commentating team, Tony Schiavone (bare with me) and Jesse "The Body" Ventura (bin-go)! SCHIAVONE Wow...how the hell did we get here? VENTURA Who cares Schiavone!? A payday's a payday, so just read the damn autocue. SCHIAVONE Okay, well Tony Schiavone alongside Jesse "The Body" Ventura and we're here to call the action in this next match for the HI-YAH World Tag Team Championships, between the Champions D*LUX and the hostile challenger, The Global Party Exchange. VENTURA But it's not just about the titles Schiavone. It's about pride and it's about integrity. These D*LUX kids have been running around for a while now, playing the boyband and that's gotten under the skin of Johnny Jax and Scotty Static. They feel like they're being ripped off, even though they've moved on from their days as happy go lucky boybanders. It's a matter of principle. I know how they feel too, everybody wants to rip-off The Body, Tony. Trouble is, there's only ever gonna be one Jesse "The Body"! SCHIAVONE What about Tony Brannigan? VENTURA ...that's different! SCHIAVONE Mmm-hmm. Well, you brought up The GPX's problem with D*LUX and ever since the last edition of OAOAST Syndicated, which incidently returns in two months on October 28th, they've been making their lives very difficult. But after what we saw last Thursday night, it seems D*LUX are sick of being treated like pushovers. They're here to fight tonight and to prove that they're not wannabees to anyone and that they're the top young tag team in the business today. And with that, let's send it up to the ring. .:CUE: O-Town, "Make Her Say":. "In a world full of posers, phonies, and pure wannabees, there finally emerges a group which has come to set the record straight. so, all you suckers better recognize, ya heard can you say uhhh na na na na..." A noteably mixed reaction goes up as the oh-so familiar sounds of O-Town sound out through an OAOAST arena and lead the way for The Global Party Exchange. Striding down the rampway, Static and Jax are in no mood to 'play' tonight as they virtually ignore the fans around them, both positive and negative. BUFFER Ladies and gentlemen, the following tag team contest is sanctioned by HI-YAH Promotions and is scheduled for one fall, to be contested under HI-YAH Rules. 20 counts will be oberserved at ringside and throwing an opponent over the top rope will be deemed an automatic disqualification. In the event of the champions being disqualified, the titles will change hands! Introducing first, currently in the ring, the challengers. At a total combined weight of four hundred, thirty seven pounds... they are former OAOAST World Tag Team Champions and two-thirds of the current OAOAST Six-Man Tag Team Champions... the team of SCOTTY STATIC and JOHNNY "JAM" JACKSON... THE GLLOOBBAALL PAARRTTYY... EEEXXXXXXXXXXCCHHHHAAAAANNGGEEEEEEE!!!!! Another mixed reaction goes up for one of the most recognisable teams in the OAOAST's history, as they simply glare down the aisle, waiting for their opponents. SCHIAVONE As you said Jess', it's not about the titles for The GPX tonight, it's about as they see it 'saving face'. VENTURA It might not be about the titles, but that won't stop them from winning those straps if the opportunity arises. The GPX are one of the best teams in this company's history and you don't become that without a natural will to win and to succeed. "JUST ONE ON ONE THAT'S THE WAY WE DO IT BABY! JUST ONE ON ONE, THAT'S THE WAY WE DO IT! JUST ONE ON ONE THAT'S THE WAY WE DO IT BABY! JUST ONE ON ONE, THAT'S THE WAY WE DO IT!" The Miami crowd rise to their feet as "First To Believe" by A1 begins to play and the delightful Jade Rodez leads the way for her tag team combination, D*LUX! The GPX watch on distinctly unimpressed, as Jade stands between her two men, "Showtime" Shayne bodypopping to the music while "Tremendous" Tyler looks out into the crowd with a beaming, pearly white smile that has the women in the crowd screaming in passion! It's AngleSlam, a big deal for these two comparitive newcomers. Pointing on to the ring, Jade leads her yellow-dyed denim clad combination down the aisle, as The GPX beckon them on. BUFFER And introducing the opponents. Being led to the ring by their manager, Ms. JADE RODEZ! They weigh in at a total combined weight of three hundred, ninety seven pounds... the reigning, defending HI-YAH World Tag Team Champions... "SHOWTIME" SHAYNE BRAVE... "TREMENDOUS" TYLER BRYANT... they are D*LLLLLLLUUUUUUUXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!! "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" All positive reaction for D*LUX as they rush the ring, dispensing of the belts to Jade on the way and perform STEREO DIVES into the ring, wiping Scotty and Johnny out with outside-in Planchas!! "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" SCHIAVONE D*LUX are wasting no time in taking the fight to The GPX tonight! *DINGDINGDING!* Tyler mounts Jax and rains down a succession of right hands as it's Static and Shayne doing battle in the ring, Static sidestepping Shayne with a lucha bi-paso and shoving him into the ropes. Back shoots Shayne and Static sets up for a lift. But Shayne is a step ahead, hauling himself up The GPXer's side and hooking the legs around the head, sending Static tumbling over with a headscissors takeover! Static comes right back up and gets taken over with an armdrag. And a standing dropkick puts Static to the floor, leaving D*LUX alone in the ring with Jax. Tyler hauls him up and sends the other GPXer to the ropes. In skips Shayne and D*LUX take their man over with a double backdrop, which has Jade clapping away gleefully. SCHIAVONE And here's where D*LUX are at their most deluxe, when working as a tag team. VENTURA Or cheating. SCHIAVONE I wouldn't say that Jess'. VENTURA In tag team wrestling, you're supposed to have one in and one out. They've got a five count to get in and out...now you tell me Schiavone, how long have they been in the ring at the same time? D*LUX quickly recover Jax before he can roll to the outside and take him by the arms for another whip, this time a double. Back rebounds Jax, taking two fists right to the gut to double him over. Each hooking an arm and a leg, Shayne and Tyler then lift the larger of the opponents up and drop him across the knees with their double gutbuster. SCHIAVONE The Cowell Movement! VENTURA You didn't answer my question. SCHIAVONE Well Jess', all four men were in the ring to start, so the referee hasn't had chance to get one man out yet. VENTURA There we four men in the ring because The GPX were jumped before the bell, ALSO illegal! As D*LUX celebrate their move, they get a little carried away and don't spot Scotty Static entering the ring. From behind he wipes out Shayne, then gets caught in a slugfest with Tyler. A slugfest which Tyler wins, until Static lowbridges him, pulling him by the waistband of his jeans, right out of the ring. Landing with a thud on the arena floor, Tyler uses the barricade to pull himself up. Any assistance from his manager has to wait though, as in the ring Static is on the move, soaring through the middle and top ropes with a SUICIDE DIVE!! "OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Static and Tyler are down on the floor now, leaving Shayne and Jax in the ring. And with Jax still holding his gut after the Cowell Movement, Shayne goes soaring overhead, snaring him with a sunset flip... 1... 2... Kickout! Rolling through to his feet, Jax pushes forward, stacking Shayne on his shoulders... 1... 2... ...Shayne kicks out, but immediately gets hoisted off the canvas by the strongest man in the match, going up for a powerbomb. However, Shayne is able to plant the hands on the head on the way up, pushing over into another sunset flip... 1... 2... Kickout! SCHIAVONE Fast-paced action from the get-go here between these two exciting tag teams! Both men are back up and Jax manages to slow Shayne down now, booting him in the gut. With an irish whip he then sends Shayne into the turnbuckles and looks to follow in with a clothesline. Shayne gets a boot up to block. But Jax shakes it off and charges again...into another boot. With Triple J dazed, up to the middle rope vaults Shayne, reeling Jax in for a Tornado DDT. He hooks the head and gets the vault... ...but Static rolls in in mid-move and The GPX counter with a Spinebuster/Neckbreaker combo! "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!" Static points at referee Mark Hebner to make the count as Jax presses down the shoulders... 1... 2... No! VENTURA If The GPX can ground this match then they've got the advantage. They've got the ruthless streak and a lot of anger driving them tonight. And besides that, this referee's a moron and he still hasn't got control of the match. Static and Jax are the ones left two on one in the ring now and it's their turn for some double-team action. Pulling Shayne to his feet, Jax hooks him up for a side russian legsweep, as Static explodes off the ropes... *SMACK!* ...and NAILS Shayne with the Yakuza Kick, into the legsweep! Into the nearest camera, Static dedicates the move to fellow 6-Man Tagger Jamie O'Hara, who was taken out on Thursday of course, while Jax takes care of the pin... 1... 2... Kickout! Looking in a little bit more of a hurry than his partner, Static rushes over and drags Brave to his feet, bringing him into a standing headscissors. As Jax clambers up The GPX then adjust and look to take "Showtime" up with a combined powerbomb, over a shoulder a-piece...but Shayne floats down the back to safety! The GPX end up stumbling forward in unison, just as Tyler Bryant vaults up top and soars in, catching Static and Jax with a boot each, sending both sprawling back out to the rampway!! "YYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" SCHIAVONE Springboard Double Front Dropkick! VENTURA I'm begging this referee to get two guys in and two guys out! SCHIAVONE Well, there are now Jesse. VENTURA I meant from each team! This is a shambles! The GPX regroup on the ramp as Shayne now rallies the crowd behind him, firing up the fans as he springboards to the top. Soaring out down the ramp, he tries to wipe out The GPX with a double crossbody...BUT THEY CATCH HIM! Jade yelps and quickly encourages Tyler to help. He's already doing just that though, running the length of the ring AND WIPING OUT EVERYONE WITH A SOMERSAULT PLANCHA TO THE RAMPWAY!!! TYLER YEAH-UH!! "O - A - O - A - S - T!!" "O - A - O - A - S - T!!" "O - A - O - A - S - T!!" SCHIAVONE And the OAOAST chant goes up in this HI-YAH Tag Team Title Match! VENTURA I've completely lost track of this, what the hell is going on here!? Landing on his feet, Tyler hands out a few high-fives to the fans below him. But he spends too much time making friends and ends up getting jumped from behind by Johnny Jax, kneeing Tyler in the kidneys and sending him off the rampway, down to the aisleway beside it! Tyler manages not to crash into the barricade. But Jax settles that for him, as he takes flight off the ramp AND CRUSHES TYLER INTO THE BARRICADE WITH A STINGER SPLASH!!! "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" SCHIAVONE OH! There's about a three foot gap either side of the rampway down there and Tyler had nowhere to go! Jax now fires up the fans, who are right beside him where he now stands. But soon those fans are running for cover, as Shayne Brave comes soaring down from the ramp AND LANDS A BODYPRESS, TIPPING HIM AND JAX OVER THE BARRICADE, INTO THE CROWD!! "YYEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" VENTURA This is chaos! SCHIAVONE And look at Scotty Static, I think he's got a jump of his own in mind here! VENTURA Why is referee Hebner allowing this? He should be getting Static back into the ring, or at least counting these four out! Over the barricade rolls Tyler too as he tries to help out his partner, leaving the three wrestlers in amongst a sea of vacated chairs, security trying to keep the fans out of the way. Up on the rampway, probably five of six feet over the crowd, Scotty Static is waiting. The three bundle together, with D*LUX trying to fight off the bigger Jax, giving Static a target to aim at. But in mid-run, he stops. Instead, he turns his back on the three... "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..." ...which the crowd shouldn't be disappointed about, as he shuffles backwards until his feet are hanging over the edge of the rampway. And with the crowd encouraging him to dive, Static screams out "HOOLIGANDA". Before, like an olympic diver, he vaults backwards... ...WITH A MOONSAULT, OFF THE RAMP, OVER THE BARRIER AND INTO THE TRIO BELOW, SENDING CHAIRS AND BODIES FLYING ALL OVER THE GOD-DAMN PLACE!!!! "YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!" SCHIAVONE OH MY! "HOLY SHIT!" "HOLY SHIT!" "HOLY SHIT!" "HOLY SHIT!" All four men are down in the chairs now as referee Mark Hebner and Jade Rodez both watch on, open-mouthed from above on the rampway. The fans are going nuts around them and security is having to do their best to keep them away SCHIAVONE All four men are down, deep in the Miami crowd. We knew these four would do anything to get at each other and we assumed it would be athletic, but we never thought we'd see this Jesse. VENTURA I don't know what to say Schiavone. A moonsault off that ramp, into the crowd? SCHIAVONE Scotty Static is a daredevil...all four of these men are. And the referee is being lenient towards them here tonight, knowing just how much these match means to all four and how much this issue needs to be settled here tonight. VENTURA Lenient is putting it mildly, he might as well not even be out here. Static is up now and bringing Shayne up with him, which intiates a slugfest between the two weakened divers. Behind them Jax and Tyler are slower to their feet, but also exchanging frantic punches, the match turning suddenly from a dive exchange to a street brawl as the four begin to scrap through the chairs and through the fans, off towards the backstage area. Static ends up bundled through a row of chairs by Shayne, the brawl no approaching the retreated crowd. *DINGDINGDING!* SCHIAVONE Huh!? The four continue to brawl despite the bell, as in the ring Mark Hebner is busy conversing with Michael Buffer... *CRACK!* "YYEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!" ...missing Shayne Brave getting a chair across the back from Jax! BUFFER Ladies and gentlemen...the referee has stopped this match...ruling it to be a NO CONTEST!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" SCHIAVONE Oh wow, that's not a popular decision. VENTURA The first thing the referee's done right all match, about damn time! He knew he couldn't control these four so he's throwing it out. SCHIAVONE I don't think these four care though, they're still brawling! Indeed, the sounding of the bell makes no difference to The GPX and D*LUX, as Jax takes a spill over a barricade at the back of the arena from a Tyler clothesline. Tyler follows him over and lays in some right hands, those two brawling off towards the backstage area now as Static and Shayne are a little way behind but clearly heading the same way. SCHIAVONE Well, an indecisive finish to this one, The GPX and D*LUX are stilling fighting though...I don't think we've heard the last of this! VENTURA Those poor saps in the back sure haven't. HAHA!

My idea's better because it has more armdrags. But yeah, works for me.

Lumines. Hadn't read about it, didn't pay huge attention to releases and it came as a cheap package with the PSP when I got it.

Praise be. I lost EWR from my computer a while back and am too bone-idle to search it out, so kudos for the links. WreSpi is a good concept but I never really got into it. You could work the bodyparts sure, but if psychology like that came into the game it never really showed. A lot of the counters seemed to happen with no rhyme or reason either. After a while, you just rush through the matches double clicking on the first move or counter your mouse lands on and waiting until you got a win. Seeing as it's geared towards the 'smart' fan who cares about that junk, it needs some tweaking to make it less...well, less of a spotfest, for lack of a better term.

War Games 91. That's all I need to hear.

Is there anywhere Chris Hero doesn't work?

Saved By The Striker, in.

I vote my match is changed to a 'who can cram the most indy spots into one match' Match.

Willie The Worker would be a better gimmick than whatever the hell it is RVD's supposedly been doing for the past 5 years.

Quit school. Worked for me. Also, I think winning a PPV match should result in one of CC sending you $5 through Paypal or other such means. That's ten English pounds, gentlemen. Make a note.

I always loved this one, since I heard Punk quote it on an indy show. Non-lethal judo throws? Who ever heard of a lethal judo throw?

Yeah, I'm not sure there's a lot anyone on CC can really do. If I feel like a lazy asshole, nothing's going to get me writing to be fair. One idea to promote consistency would be, and in the spirit of everything I do I've stolen it from an indy fed, coming up with a lose ranking system for #1 Contendership to the World Title and possibly others. Basically, to qualify for a title shot, you have to accumulate three straight victories, aka 'points'. Each win earns you a point. If it's elimination multi-man stuff, each victory would I assume earn you one point. One defeat sends you back to 0 points though. That'd give people a reason to show every show they possibly can, it'll make sure the title scene is competitive, you can build storylines around it, it'd stop people getting instant World Title storylines without noteable workload (which I was guilty of last title reign, of course) and most importantly of all, CHIKARA do it so it MUST be awesome.

Before the main event, thanks. COLE Three days to go until the hottest night of the summer, AngleSlam 2006 promises to be a heated night in more ways than one. COACH Oh no doubt. It's been a crazy environment around here these past few weeks, all leading to Sunday night. COLE A lot of personal issues to be settled and a lot of pride on the line, plus five titles to be decided. And who knows, we might end up adding some more stuff in the meantime, just to give you your dollar's worth. Here's what's on tap as of right now for AngleSlam... [b]!~OAOAST WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP~! -ALFDOGG (c) VS. DREK STONE-[/b] COLE ...headlined by this big main event. Assuming he gets past Hoff tonight, Alfdogg defends the World Championship against the BattleBowl winner and former World Champion in his own right, Drek Stone. COACH But if he loses, it'll be Hoff versus Drek, right? COLE Right, but... COACH Man, that'd be an awesome match! COLE Coach, we're supposed to be selling what's actually on the show, not what might be on the show. COACH Oh. Yeah. Either way, Drek's more than likely gonna be the new champ, that's worth your money folks. [b]!~NO RULES NECCESSARY~! -ZACK MALIBU VS. BRUCE BLANK-[/b] COLE The most personal issue in the OAOAST today, perhaps ever, Zack Malibu finally gets his hands on Bruce Blank and it's No Rules Neccessary! COACH Zack's been stewing for weeks now, itching to get this match. No rules, usually, would be Bruce's kinda match, but if Zack's willing to pull a gun on the guy then who knows what he'll do at AngleSlam when it's all nice and legal. COLE Except guns. [b]!~24/7 INTERPROMOTIONAL DREAM MATCH~! -LANDON MADDIX (c) VS. LEON RODEZ-[/b] COLE The 24/7 Title the backdrop for an historic first-time meeting. COACH I've gotta admit, Landon looked pretty good tonight. But the SWF winning over the OAOAST at our AngleSlam event is unthinkable. COLE Landon's been very vocal, claiming that he will embarrass this company by beating one of our hottest prospects at the second biggest show of the year, in his OAOAST PPV debut. But Leon Rodez isn't 'one of our hottest prospects' for nothing and hopefully, Landon will find out why this Sunday. [b]!~TRIPLE THREAT TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH~! -THE HEAVENLY ROCKERS (c) VS. BLACK T VS. THE SOONER BRUISERS-[/b] COLE A lot of issues in this one, Black T are after The Heavenly Rockers Tag Team Titles. But now, the added distraction of The Sooner Bruisers has complicated that. The question is, can Logan control his temper when confronted by the men who crashed his wedding day, or will his anger cost his team the belts. COACH Logan and Synth'll be out for blood, Black T out for gold and The Sooners just out for themselves. [b]!~I QUIT IN A CAGE MATCH~! -THA PUERTO RICAN VS. THUNDERKID-[/b] COACH It's I Quit. Only, in a Cage! COLE And it's the final chapter in a long lasting grudge between these two. Only one way to win, no escape and no chance of The Lightning Crew getting involved. It'll be settled once and for all at AngleSlam. [b]!~MIAMI MAYHEM MATCH~! -LONGDOGGER PETE VS. PETER KNIGHT-[/b] COLE And speaking of settling scores, how about this? PK and Longdogger have been going at it for months and it finally comes down to a straight battle between the two. Only, it's under the Longdogger's rules, Miami Mayhem, a match he virtually patented in the SWF. COACH What's a Miami Mayhem? COLE ... [b]!~OAOAST HEARTLAND CHAMPIONSHIP~! -OTAKU II (c) VS. BROCK AUSSTIN-[/b] COACH These two hate each other too. COLE Indeed. Otaku refuses to back down from the man mountain bully that is Brock Ausstin and they go at it one more time over the Heartland Championship at AngleSlam. Can Brock regain the title, or will Otaku fend Brock off once more? [b]!~HI-YAH TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS~! -D*LUX (c) VS. THE GPX-[/b] COLE A battle over titles, but based on jealousy. COACH It's not jealousy, moron! D*LUX are leeching off of The GPX's popularity, The GPX ain't happy. I don't call that jealousy. COLE Well, D*LUX haven't done a thing to warrant the hostility from Static and Jax, but they've been pushed into reaction. The result? Tag action at AngleSlam! [b]!~TAG TEAM WORLD CUP SEMI-FINALS~! -CANADA VS. JAMAICA- -U.S.A VS. LITHUANIA-[/b] [b]!~TAG TEAM WORLD CUP FINALS~! - CANADA/JAMAICA VS. U.S.A/LITHUANIA-[/b] COLE And even more tag action at AngleSlam, as the Tag Team World Cup draws to a conclusion. Team Heyross of course proudly representing the U.S.A. This is one issue not based on hatred at AngleSlam, although if it comes down to the U.S and Canada, there's nothing but hatred there. COACH Damn Frenchies. COLE Exactly. A big chance for the three non-American teams to carve an OAOAST career out for themselves too and plenty of national pride on the line. COACH Go U.S.A, WHOOOOO! U.S.A! Four More Years! COLE ...up next, Alfdogg versus Hoff, World Title on the line. Main event on the way! Don't press Alt + F4. Or tune out from your TVs. Yeah.

COLE Coming up next, it's the 24/7 Championship on the line and a momentous night as one of the SWF's finest makes his official OAOAST debut. Landon "La Cucaracha" Maddix, a three-year veteran and former two-time World Champion has called this a 'warm-up' match ahead of his match at AngleSlam against Leon Rodez. Biff Atlas, one half of Nutrition's Real Gurus, will be the man with something to say about that and hopefully defend the OAOAST's honour. COACH You really think Biff's got a chance? COLE Landon Maddix is the most decorated athlete in SWF history, with thirteen seperate title reigns in his two and a half years with the company, plus four more title reigns in their old feeder promotion the SJL. There's no doubting that he's a great athlete. He's not the most popular of people either, hard to believe I know, so he's used to hostile atmospheres like he'll get tonight. On paper, to those who know about Landon, he's the favourite to win tonight. But wrestling matches aren't won on paper and tonight Biff Atlas comes with the entire OAOAST locker room and the fans in his corner and the lure of a career making upset here tonight. COACH He's got a lot of pressure on his big-ass shoulders though Mikey. Biff's a tag wrestler. This Maddix guy, he's a four-time SWF Tag Champion, right? COLE Four-time and current, yes. And feel free to steal more of my research notes any time you like. COACH No problem. Anyway, point is Maddix must be a great tag wrestler but he's made it as a singles wrestler first. Biff's a tag wrestler, but he's not got experience in singles. COLE Well that is true. Fingers crossed for Biff though, after Landon's comments at the OAOAST's expense. COACH Word. .:CUE: "Adrenaline", Gavin Rossdale:. If we're being honest, Biff Atlas has rarely been the most popular man in the OAOAST. But judging from the reaction he gets as he comes out through the OAOAST entrance doors, he might be tonight. Gone are the hula skirt and the ankle bracelets, tonight Biff is obviously all business as he's kitted out in his aqua NRG tights and looking ready for action. Biff exchanges a few high-fives on his way to the ring, looking a little over-whelmed by the reaction he's getting as he rolls into the ring and pops to his feet, wide-eyed as he glances around the arena. BUFFER Ladies and gentlemen, the following contest is scheduled for one fall and it is for the OAOAST 24/7 Championship of the World! In the ring, the challenger... hailing from Venice Beach, California. Weighing in tonight at two hundred and twenty pounds. One half of Nutrition's Real Gurus... BIIIIIIIFFF... "SHAMPOO"... AAAAAAAAAAATTLLLLAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!! "YYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE What a reaction for Biff Atlas! I don't think he quite knows what to make of it all right now, but he needs to use it to his advantage and not get caught up in it like a deer caught in headlights. COACH Let's hope Biff can keep his eyes off of Maddix's hair long enough to beat him too. "Tell me exactly, what am I supposed to do Now that I have allowed you, to beat me! Do you think that we could play another game Maybe I could win this ti-ime." "I kinda like the misery you put me through Darling you can trust me, completely! If you even try to look the other way I think that I could kill this ti-ime!" Almost drowned out by boos but not quite due to a state of the art P.A system, "The Game" by Disturbed hits, as through the entrance doors steps Megan Skye, heralding the arrival of the 24/7 Champion. Landon Maddix stops at the top of the ramp and thrusts his hands out to his side to another crescendo of boos. All of which Landon takes in his stride as he walks down the aisle, carrying over his shoulder proudly the SWF World Tag Team Title, the 24/7 Title less proudly around his waist. BUFFER And introducing the opponent. He is led to the ring by his manager, Ms. MEGAN SKYE! From Huron, South Dakota by way of Madrid, Spain... weighing two hundred, twenty pounds. One half of the SWF World Tag Team Champions and the reigning, defending OAOAST 24/7 CHAMPION of the World! Making his official debut for the OAOAST tonight, ladies and gentlemen he is LLAAANNDDOOOONN... "LA CUCARACHA"... MMMMMMAAAAAADDIIIIIIXXXXXXXXXX!!!!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Landon leaps to the apron, looking out at the crowd as Megan climbs the steps. Megan holds open the ropes and Landon bounds into the ring, spinning himself into the centre of the ring with every ounce of his ego powering him and posing with Megan. Biff watches on from a neutral corner, a little pensively. COLE He's certainly not understating this first official entrance, is he Coach? Unstrapping his 24/7 Title, Maddix hands it to referee Charles Robinson. He doesn't however entrust him with the SWF Tag Title, which he instead passes off to Megan with a wink and a smile. A confident smile. Go figure. "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" COLE A hostile reaction from these OAOAST fans, although to be fair he's not the most popular with the SWF fanbase either. Of which there are a few here tonight who I've seen with SWF shirts on. COACH They're lucky they ain't been run out of here already. *DINGDINGDING!* The bell sounds and it's official, Landon Maddix's first official OAOAST match is officially underway. Your official, Charles Robinson. Biff still looks a little nervous and his eyes dart around the arena, perhaps a little lost without long-time partner Flex Phillips in his corner or even at ringside. Looking entirely more confident, Landon shuffles out of the corner and measures his opponent up. And despite the identical body weight, Biff clearly looks the more impressive physically. So rather than coming bulling out from the bell, the crafty 24/7 Champion comes to a stop, one hand pinned behind his back, the other extended for a friendly handshake. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COACH I dunno if this is how they do things in the SWF or not, but I smell a rat. COLE Well, Biff isn't reknowned as a smart cookie. But surely he's not going to fall for this. Trying to look as genuine as possible Landon encourages Biff to shake the hand. Looking around the arena nervously, Biff doesn't seem sure of quite what to do. The mass of downward pointing thumbs and frantic shaking of heads scattered around the OAOAST crowd tells him that something is amiss though and as he turns back to Landon he declines the shake, instead showing off TEH GUNZ~! which causes Maddix to turn away, furious at being upstaged. COACH You're no Lex Luger buddy. One pose like that and he'd have suckas diving for cover. Accepting defeat in the battle of the bodies, Landon offers up a greco-roman knucklelock to the americo-roman knucklehead. Biff cautiously accepts... ...and gets jabbed in the eyes! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE Patented Landon Maddix I'm afraid. As Biff blindly stumbles backwards, Maddix goes on the attack with his strike of choice, the forearm. A quick succession of four back Biff into the ropes and set up an irish whip, sending Biff shooting across the ring and back into a high, spinning back elbow! Sneer, pose, soak up Megan's applause, all patented Landon. Eventually, Landon then makes the pin... 1... ...and gets PRESSED off of the pin by Biff! "YYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!" COLE That might just give Landon's ego a bit of a battering. Landon quickly applies a side headlock as Biff pulls himself up and looks to keep the pocket powerhouse under control. Going to the gut with an elbow, Biff simply powers Maddix off into the ropes though. Building up a head of steam, the confident Champion barrels right back with a shoulderblock...and goes down! Hard! Up clambers Landon with a hold of the back of his head, turning to meet Biff as he comes off the ropes, connecting with his own shoulderblock, which again sees Landon bounced off the canvas like a rubber ball! Maddix is already hoping for a timeout now, but Biff mows him down with a clothesline despite his attempts to beg off, forcing Maddix to retreat to the floor to get a breather. COLE That's what Biff Atlas has to do if he stands a chance of winning the 24/7 Title tonight. He's got to be smashmouth and use his power advantage, not allowing Landon to show off his athleticism. COACH Or to cheat. COLE That too. Although, with No Disqualifications in the 24/7 Division, he could also just cream Landon with a dumbell. COACH No complaints here. Despite there being No DQs and falls counting anywhere, Biff doesn't follow Landon out to the floor and allows him time to regroup. Over comes Megan with some words of advice and her trusty towel, mopping any sweat Maddix has already accumulated from his brow. "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" Those tactics don't earn Maddix any fans, but he's not concerned. Team conference over, Landon eventually re-enters the ring, making sure Robinson keeps Biff back as he does so. Another lock-up is offered from La Cucaracha and understandably Biff is even more wary this time, after the thumb he got in his eye last time. Crossing his heart, Landon swears he's genuine this time. He's not, of course, as he lunges past Biff and applies a waistlock. Not a technical expert, Biff uses his power to prise Landon's hands apart, then performs a standing switch. Reaching back, Maddix looks for an escape from Biff's waistlock...and finds it, wrapping his hands around Biff's head and wrenching his neck into a cravaté! COLE Uh-oh, that 3/4 chancre that's known in British circles as the cravate. A pet hold of Landon, it's not that pretty but it's...well, it's not that effective either actually. It's basically a headlock. But it is his pet hold. And trust me, he will hold onto that cravaté until you fall asleep if he feels like it, because he doesn't really know what he's doing. Lucky then that Biff has no plans on staying put in the hold, barging Landon back into the corner and driving back, crushing him against the turnbuckles. Another barge forces Landon to break the hold, before Biff takes a run-up, looking for a more forceful barge. Maddix gets the foot up to block, dazing Biff for... ...another cravaté! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COACH Ugh! COLE Now, if this were someone like Zane Maxwell, this would be a good tactic because he would be working towards something. Landon learnt this hold from an old tag team partner while trying to improve as a technical wrestler. But he gave up halfway, so he's left with a hold that he doesn't really know what to do with except apply and hold. COACH So, he's just dumb, or he's doing this to piss the fans off? COLE A little from column A, a little from column B. He's not a mat tactician by any stretch of the imagination. Maddix clings onto the hold with the support of Megan and only Megan behind him. The rest of the crowd route behind Biff, as he powers up and lands an elbow to the gut. Another elbow. And a third, breaking the cravaté. Biff then grabs Landon and shoots him to the ropes with a whip. The succeeding clothesline is avoided though as Landon rolls underneath the well-developed arm, coming to his feet and looking for a knifedge chop. Biff ducks that though, taking Maddix's far arm on his way and twisting it around into another whip. This time Landon comes back and gets pressed into the air by the powerhouse, but he manages to shift his weight in mid-air and come down with a hurricanrana, taking Biff over into a corner and giving the 24/7 Champion another chance to posture for his new fanbase. COLE Hurri-Lanrana. COACH Cute. As Biff pulls himself up in the corner, over swaggers Landon, measuring Biff up... *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!* ...and landing a knifedge in the corner. *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!* ...and a second chop, across Biff's ripped pectorals. Being ripped, they absorb the chops a little more... *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!* ...but a third seems to do the job as Biff slumps a little deeper in the corner. Landon takes advantage, placing his leg across Biff's throat and choking him against the buckle, knowing full well the referee is powerless to warn him. Retracting the leg, Maddix then takes a moment to argue with some of the more vocal members of the Lincoln crowd as Biff crawls away to catch his breath. "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" "LAN - DON SUCKS!" Following after Atlas, Maddix hooks his leg under an arm, taking Biff over with an Oklahoma roll... 1... 2... No! Beating Biff back to his feet, Landon lands a boot to the head to keep him at bay. Followed by another boot, just for fun. Lording it over the fallen Biff, Landon then turns out to the crowd and shows off his own, not quite as impressive but present nonetheless GUNZ~! MADDIX WHO'S GOT THE POWAH NOW, HUH~! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" The only person in danger of swooning is Megan as Maddix shows the crowd what's he's got. Biff is up in mid-posedown, but Landon spots him and cuts him off as he reaches his knees, landing a knee before holding Biff's head in place and grinding him across the face with a BOOTSCRAPE~! COACH That's a real dick move. Landon's kickpads don't do much to soften the blow for Biff, still recoiling with a hold of his face as Maddix looks to bring him back to his feet. Irish whip by Landon sends Atlas into the corner, the smaller half of NRG nestling against the buckles as Maddix runs in, leaps and lands a big forearm smash! "OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Biff staggers out of the corner as Maddix fires off the ropes, connecting with a second leaping forearm strike to this time put the challenger down. On his knees already, Landon decides why not make a cover... 1... 2... Kickout! Straight on goes another cravaté, Landon controlling Biff's movement and slowly bringing him up to his feet, still trapped in the hold. Before Biff can even think about firing back, a knee to the gut doubles him over, Landon cravatemaring Biff over onto his seat... *SMACK!* ...and he just PUNTS Biff in the spine with a Dragon Kick! COACH That'll make you piss blood in the morning. Biff kicks his feet nursing the back, as Landon comes off the ropes behind and pulls a move out of the Curt Hennig playbook, tumbling over Biff and taking the head with a Perfect Neck Snap! Of course, Landon takes the chance to posture as soon as he comes to a stop. But he does then scramble over and belatedly follow-up with the pin... 1... 2... Kickout! Shaking the finger at referee Robinson, Landon looks for Biff to get back up. Using the ropes Biff does so, but as he turns around Maddix busts out an impressive Dropsault to knock him right back down! Landon is already warning referee Robinson about his count, even as he's crawling over to make the cover... 1... 2... Kickout! MADDIX Come on! COLE A little show of frustration from the Champion, who obviously doesn't think much of the OAOAST and it's roster, so it's safe to say he's underestimating Biff. Landon pulls Biff up by his shiny bald head, then takes that same bald head and hurls it face-first into the top turnbuckle. Spinning Biff to face him, Landon then loads up... *SLAP!* "WHOOOOOOOO!" ...and fires in another knifedge. Referee Robinson tries to order Landon into getting Biff out of the corner, but the 24/7 Champion is under no real requirement to do so and connects with another couple of forearm strikes before whipping Biff out. Biff hits the buckles on the opposite side and is rebounded out, being waited on by Landon who scythes him down with a drop toehold. Up to all fours bounces Biff. And if he'd done his research, he'd know that was a bad position as Landon steps over and looks to snare the head to apply the Land Of Nod! Frantically Biff starts to twist and turn, throwin' elbows and eventually forcing his way to safety, crawling back through Landon's legs. Not dwelling on the disappointment, Maddix hits the ropes and charges at Biff. Clothesline attempt is ducked by Landon, who keeps on running, bouncing off the opposite side...just as Biff tumbles through the air, cutting Landon off with a Spinning Wheel Kick right to the jaw!! "YYEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE That might well be a knockout! Landon sprinted right into Biff's heel! COACH But Biff ain't following up, he's gotta follow up! COLE Biff's taken most of the punishment in this match Coach. Both men are down and I'm not sure if you can have a double countout in 24/7 Title matches, Robinson certainly isn't counting. Stumbling to his feet, the knocked loopy Next Generation wanders aimlessly around the ring. Megan is frantic trying to get him to turn around. But even though he does as told, it's a mistake, as Biff is in the middle of an adrenaline rush and firing up. Around turns Landon and he gets popped with a right hand! "BIFF!" Right hand. "BIFF!" Right hand. "BIFF!" Right hand. "BIFF!" Taken aback momentarily, Biff turns to the crowd to check that they really are chanting his name. The cheer he gets for simply looking at them tells him they are, so Biff gets into the spirit of things, wiiiiiiinding up and... ...Landon ducks, catching him under the arm and pulling Biff down with the Complete Shot!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE Aw man, Biff got a little carried away and it cost him. Still dazed in his own right, Maddix takes a moment to roll Biff's dazed frame over. But when he does, he finally gets serious, hooking the leg on the pin... 1... 2... NO! "YYEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!" Megan yells at her man not to panic as he climbs back up, shaking out the cobwebs and stalking behind Biff waiting for him to get back up. "SMART - MARK SUCKS!" "SMART - MARK SUCKS!" "SMART - MARK SUCKS!" "SMART - MARK SUCKS!" Slowly Biff starts to clamber back up. But he's still dazed. And as he gets halfway up he has to stop to try and collect his thought, unfortunately having fed one knee out and enticing Landon in to spring off the leg... COLE SHINING WIZAAA... ...NO, BLOCKED!! Biff throws up his muscular forearms and sheilds his face, Landon's knee bouncing harmlessly off the arms and leaving him to crash back to the canvas. Scrambling back up, Landon tries to make up for the failure with a forearm strike. Biff ducks underneath though, grabbing a waistlock and throwing the 24/7 Champion over with an instictive German Suplex, folding him up on his head!! "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE WHAT A MOVE! Where the hell did Biff pull that from!? COACH Who cares? Pin him you dumb musclejock, pin him! Chances are Biff can't hear Coach. But he can hear the Lincoln fans yelling the same (well, similar) thing at him and all that support spurs him on, rolling Landon over and making the cover... 1... 2... Kickout! COLE Only two, but this is Biff's chance! The crowd are hyped now, sensing Biff may very well pull off the upset they're begging for. With a handful of Landon's blond and apparantly very interesting hair, Biff pulls La Cucaracha up to his feet. He manages to pull himself away from feeling Landon's purty hair long enough to then club him down with a clothesline. Maddix bounces back up through instinct more than anything else, to get knocked down with a second clothesline. Up comes Maddix again and down he goes again from clothesline number three. Firing up the crowd, Biff then hits the ropes and catches Landon on the way up with an Akiyama-esque knee under the jaw. COLE That's the Biff Upper Lip! Could that be enough? 1... 2... No, two! COACH Apparantly not. COLE Biff has got the 24/7 Champion on the ropes though. Has he got enough in his arsenal to finish Landon off now, without his tag partner by his side? Biff catches Landon on the way up again, keeping the pressure on as he whips Landon into the ropes. As The Next Generation bounces back Biff then aims for the head with another clothesline. Still with enough of his wits about him, Maddix is able to weave underneath again, this time hooking around Biff's powerhouse of a right arm and lever himself up, looking for a crucifix pin attempt. Biff blocks the takedown though and hoists Landon up into a fireman's carry, ready for the Bad Hair Day! Apparantly Megan has done her homework and freaks out... ...until Landon manages to elbow Biff in the temple, strong enough to escape his clutches and land behind Atlas. He takes the head with him for good measure, wrapping on an inverted front facelock. Slamming an arm into the gut, Landon then drops to a knee, dropping the bottom out on Biff! Snapping off of the knee, Biff stays upright, barely. But Landon quickly chains into another move, hooking the head and dropping to one knee again, this time with a short neckbreaker! Biff is still standing, but he's virtually out on his feet and unable to stop Landon from rushing the ropes in front. With a stationary target, Landon comes back and hits a full one and a half turn in mid-air, driving his foot into the face with the Cucaracha Kick, to finally fell Atlas! COLE Fantastic sequence of moves from Landon Maddix. And a lot of resiliance shown too. COACH Yeah, he's a stubborn little... COLE COVER! 1... 2... NOOO!! "YYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Hanging his head Landon slams his fists into the canvas before taking the count up with Robinson. Megan convinces him to get back on Biff though, Maddix raining in some stomps to keep Biff at bay before backing off and encouraging him back to his feet. "LET'S GO BIFF!" "LET'S GO BIFF!" "LET'S GO BIFF!" "LET'S GO BIFF!" Biff, with the crowd solidly behind him, reaches his feet. He's met with a forearm strike. And another. Make it three. But Biff is still on his feet, so Landon backs off the ropes to get a better run-up on the fourth forearm. Biff remains standing though, so the 24/7 Champion decides on a change of tactic. Maddix takes a step and hops up onto Biff's shoulders for a Hurri-Lanrana... ...BUT BIFF DROPS TO HIS KNEES, STACKING MADDIX WITH A POWERBOMB!! "YYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!" COLE COUNT IT! COUNT! 1... 2... 3 -NOOOOO!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" COLE AH, so close!! COACH No way did he kick out! COLE Robinson seemed to hesitate for just a second and that may have been crucial! "THAT WAS THREE!" "THAT WAS THREE!" "THAT WAS THREE!" "THAT WAS THREE!" As Megan tries to regain her breath on the floor, Biff despairs at being so close yet so far from a career making victory. Arguing the count isn't going to do any good now though, so instead Biff brings Landon back to his feet. Scoop and a slam by Biff, planting the Champion in position as Biff cuts the thumb across the throat to singal that it's ovah~! Hobbling over to the corner, Biff then begins to scale the turnbuckles facing out into the crowd. COACH Woah, where's he goin'!? COLE Biff is...is he going for a Moonsault!? I don't think this is too smart, this isn't Biff's area of expertise what-so-ever! COACH But if he hits it, it's OVAH~! COLE I wouldn't doubt that. Biff seems a little unsteady up top and the sensible thing to do would be to cut his losses and climb back down while his vertebrea are still safelt attached. But with the flashbulbs going off around him and the crowd on their feet, Biff seems to be intoxxicated with the reaction and completely caught up in the moment. So he steadies himself, flexing a bicep before veeery carefully standing upright on the top... ...and peforming the crispest backflip you're ever likely to see... *WHAM!* "OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Unfortunately, Landon rolls out of the way and Biff ends up belly-flopping into the canvas! COLE The Biffsault misses!! COACH Never shoulda gone for it. Winded, Biff pushes up off the canvas. But he makes it no further than one knee, before Landon Maddix springs into action... COLE SHINING WIZAAARD~! The knee connects this time, KOing Biff to the delight of Megan and nobody else. And this time, Landon wastes no time in converting the move into the pin... 1... 2... 3!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" *DINGDINGDING!* COLE And that'll do it. Landon Maddix scores the victory in his OAOAST debut, but a valiant effort from Biff Atlas. He just got a little carried away. One big mistake and you can't make that big a mistake against a former World Champion, else you get beat, just like that. Maddix does his best to sugarcoat the victory, acting as if he hasn't even broken a sweat as he pushes up to his knees and poses triumphantly for the crowd. If he could hide the fact he's nursing his neck, it'd be more convincing, but oh well. BUFFER Your winner of the contest...and STILL OAOAST 24/7 Champion... LANDON "LA CUCARACHA"... MMMAAAAADDIIIIXXXXXX!!! "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Megan slides into the ring and begins to celebrate with Landon... ...until suddenly, clapping can be heard over the P.A system. COLE What's that? RODEZ Laaaaaandooooon. Oh, Laaaaaandooooon. "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Suddenly the Lincoln crowd go NUT~!, as the familiar face of LEON RODEZ shows up on the AngleTron! At first Landon seems confused, until Megan points him in the direction of the Tron, at which point Landon becomes in danger of losing it. Leon looks to be cutting this promo from a gas station for some reason. Good a place as any I guess. RODEZ Yooooooooo hoooooooooooooooo! Landon Maddix, well well well. Never thought I'd be addressing you, but here we are. Now, I've taken the liberty of cutting a couple of promos here on the road to Miami because to be honest, I don't know if you won or not. Assuming you're hearing this one, then you did beat Biff Atlas and for that I congratulate you. Not least because that leads us to AngleSlam, for the 24/7 Title. Rodez takes a bite out of his Snickers and chews. And chews. And regrets taking a bite out of it, because it's going to double the time he'd planned on spending on this promo. RODEZ After what you did to me a couple of weeks ago, people might think I'm a little stock-crazy to have signed up to wrestle you at AngleSlam. A barbed wire bat to the face shouldn't leave you wanting more. But this time, it'll be different. It'll be one on one and I'll be expecting you. Bruce'll be busy with my comprendé Zack Malibu and Cortez and Bloodshed...hate you. Yeah, see Landon, I've done my research on you. You've been an SWF World Champion, SWF Tag Champion, SWF ICTV Champion, SWF USJL Champion, SWF International Champion, SWF everything champion. You're pretty good. I just hope you've done your research on me Landon. If not, a pointer. One thing you'll find out if you intend on sticking around these parts, is that I'm a notoriously easy going guy. So when you came into the OAOAST and... well basically, you called me out... that was fine with me. You're a great athlete. And you should be a great challenge for me at AngleSlam. Sure, it'd be nice if you'd just [i]asked[/i] me for a match instead of shredding the flesh off of my face to get my attention, but hey, different strokes for different folks, I understand. Rodez takes a bite out of his microwave burrito. Less chewy. RODEZ Maybe that's not your intention though. Apparantly, this is about the SWF or the OAOAST or some such manner of deal. So now, I'm representing the OAOAST against the 'evil invaders' all of a sudden. How that happened, I have no honest idea. Either way, I'm more than willing to wrestle you at AngleSlam. So if you want to make this 'SWF versus OAOAST' then that's fine. I'm even willing to compete with you in any of the SWF's finest and purest forms of competion. So, take your pick- Mall Brawl, Calvinball or of course the dreaded Stairway To Panda Match! Landon is, like, so burned but he tries his best to hide it, even going so far as to applaud Leon's undercutting of the SWF's reputation. Mockingly, of course. RODEZ I kid, I kid. Although, if it were a Megan Skye On A Pole Match then I'd be willing to talk. "YYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!" In the arena and ring, Landon and Megan flip out as Leon winks to the camera. RODEZ You talk a good game Landon. You talk the SWF up, you talk the OAOAST down. You're hot on the 'stick' as they say. But talk is cheap. Like I say, I did my research. These claims you make about being this flawless technical wrestler that the entire SWF roster envies aren't fooling anyone. Hell, from what I can tell, none of them even like you. And yet, the more that I think about it, after all your compatriots have been doing to Zack and his family in recent weeks, maybe it's about time I started standing up for him, indirectly as it may be. Looking down at the floor, Leon shakes his head. RODEZ SWF versus OAOAST? So be it. But to me, Landon... it's just gonna you and me, one on one and a chance for me to get my 24/7 Title back. I'm looking forward to a good competitive match at the big show. And if you don't want to give that to me, then too bad. Everything's going crazy around the OAOAST recently and it's hatred and venom everywhere you look. That's not me. No death, no mutilation, I'm going to settle for taking my title back and shutting your mouth. Another bite of the burrito allows time for the crowd to applaud on Leon, messing with Landon as he yells at them to 'pipe down'. RODEZ Prepare For Landon? Already done. Landon, you'd better Prepare... For Leon... ...wait, that's [i]terrible[/i]. Ugh! (hangs head) Just...just cut. God, that sucked! Leon skulks off past the gas pumps mumbling in disappointment, as eventually the handheld feed cuts to static. Left in the ring, Landon watches the blank Tron for a moment before snatching his 24/7 Championship and holding it overhead for the Lincoln crowd one last time. COLE Landon Maddix, Leon Rodez, 24/7 Title this Sunday at AngleSlam. I can't wait. COACH Word.

So, I did all this and figured now that I'm top, I might as well post it for you all to read. This is only SWF title reigns and there are some overlapping Tag Title reigns that might have been calculated wrong, like JJ with Manson and then with Spike. But whatever. Find yourself on the list, if you can. 1. Landon Maddix- 12 2. Johnny Dangerous- 11 Tom Flesher- 11 3. El Luchadore Magnifico- 10 Sacred- 10 And the rest... Toxxic- 9 Wildchild- 9 Janus- 8 Ash Ketchum- 7 Danny Williams- 7 Fallout- 7 "Grand Slam" Mark Stevens- 7 Sean Davis- 7 Thoth- 7 Chris Raynor- 6 Jay Dawg- 6 Rane- 6 Charlie "Grappler" Matthews- 5 Chris Wilson- 5 Edwin MacPhisto- 5 Ejiro Fasaki- 5 Frost- 5 HVille Thugg- 5 Insane Luchador- 5 JJ Johnson- 5 Mike Van Siclen- 5 Neilsen Of The Jungle- 5 Spike Jenkins- 5 Stryke- 5 Todd Cortez- 5 Aecas- 4 Axis- 4 Jay Hawke- 4 Mak Francis- 4 Mistress Sarah- 4 Perfect Bo- 4 Annie Eclectic- 3 Andrea Montgomery- 3 Chris Storm- 3 Christian Fury- 3 Dace Night- 3 David Cross- 3 Divefire- 3 Grimedogg- 3 John Duran- 3 Judge Mental- 3 Manson- 3 Mercury- 3 NTD- 3 Outcast- 3 TNT- 3 Va'aiga- 3 X- 3 Zyon- 3 Ace Lezaire- 2 Akira Kaibatsu- 2 Alan Clark- 2 Angelous- 2 Austin Sly- 2 Beezel- 2 Bobby Riley- 2 Boston Strangler- 2 Bruce Blank- 2 Ced Ordonez- 2 Coy West- 2 Cyclone Comet- 2 Erek Taylor- 2 G.O.A.T- 2 Grunge- 2 Jimmy The Doom- 2 Johnny Rotten- 2 Max King- 2 Mayor McCheese- 2 Michael Cross- 2 Molock- 2 Pimp Daddy Sarp- 2 Ryan Dustin- 2 Scott Pretzler- 2 Spark- 2 Spike- 2 Stubby "Pots" McWeed- 2 Xstasy- 2 Amy Stephens- 1 Arch Griffon- 1 Carnage- 1 CIA- 1 Curry Man- 1 Danny Vigilante- 1 Grendel- 1 "Insane" Joe Flyer- 1 Jamie "Kid Bullet" Bjork- 1 Jimmy "The Demon" Liston- 1 KOJI- 1 K-OS- 1 Linchpin- 1 Longdogger Pete- 1 Marcus Ward- 1 Martin "Big Country" Hunt- 1 Mr. Galatea- 1 Munich- 1 Nathaniel Kibagami- 1 PDS- 1 Spider Nekura- 1 Suicide King- 1 The Doomstroyer- 1 The Masked Man- 1 Tod DeKindes- 1 TORU- 1 Vladimir Everheart- 1 Wes Davenport- 1

Did anyone even see Striker wrestle on Heat (dumb question I know, but bare with me). The guy isn't a bad worker. He's a great heel, not just an interview but actually in the ring as well. He's just not that intimidating. He needs someone for a tag partner, like (heaven forbid) Chris Masters. Usually I'd say he'd work better in ECW than RAW, but there's so interchangable now I don't know.

At the risk of sounding corny, Jimmy Wang Yang and I don't care. And if anyone's taking a crazy bump off of some platform or some crap, it's London and not Kendrick. Kendrick's smaller but London's the company bump merchant.

Somewhere in between Bruce's match and Maddix's match would be neat-o, thanks. Backstage and The Wildcards are leaving! The world and everyone within it rejoices, but not so fast. MADDIX GUYS! Hey, guys! Where are you going? The three Wildcards don't even make it to the door before they're stopped in their tracks by a voice. A familiar voice. And a voice which none of the three are that fond of if their reaction is anything to go by. Jogging over to the trio, the OAOAST 24/7 Champion Landon Maddix pauses to catch his breath, as The Wildcards exchange some rather disappointed and frustrated looks between them. BLANK To get us some eats. The catering round here's terrible and the hospitality ain't nothin' to write home about neither. MADDIX No no, you can't go just yet. BLANK Well Crispy Creme ain't gonna be open much longer, so unless you got some other ideas... MADDIX I've still got my match tonight though. CORTEZ Don't worry, we'll pick up a tape and fast forward through the boring bits. Shrugging off the snide comment from his old adversary, Landon keeps a patient smile on his face. MADDIX No, see, I need you guys here. That seems to be of interest to the SWF International Champion as Bruce's eyebrows rise. Folding his arms, the big redneck smiles a big redneck grin to both Cortez and Bloodshed, neither of whom see the need to smile back. BLANK You [i]need[/i] us, huh? Well ain't that a turn up for the ol' books. MADDIX Yeah, I need you. You are needed. Landon Maddix needs Bruce Blank's help, shout it from the rooftops for all the SWF to hear! Listen, guys. From what I can tell this Atlas guy is nothing special and certainly not in my league, but you know how crazy things are around here lately. Everyone's out for our blood. And this 24/7 Title's defended non-stop, every moment of every day. It's like a damn target on my chest...or my waist at least. An open invitation for people to jump me from behind, without punishment. That's why I need you three. I need you behind that curtain guarding the entrance so nobody comes out trying to steal my title. CORTEZ So we stand behind the curtain while you soak up the spotlight? MADDIX ...pretty much, yes. CORTEZ Sounds about right. C'mon guys... MEGAN Hey! The trio again don't quite make it to the door. Infact, they only really make it a half turn before they're brought to a halt. This time it's by the female voice of Maddix's manager Megan Skye though. And when a woman talks, you listen. Even if you do happen to be her ex Mr. Cortez. MEGAN Not so fast. Just hear us out. MADDIX Thank you Megan. Looks, guys, I might not officially be 'one of you', but we did have an arrangement. It's war, you said so yourself. In war you need a battleplan and you need everyone to stick to that plan. It's like... like Takeshi's Castle! You're the lucky three guys who haven't got your teeth smashed through your eyeballs on the High Rollers and I'm General Lee, leading us into action on those dinky dodgems. And the OAOAST is Takeshi's Castle. Now, if... MEGAN Uhm, Landon. MADDIX What? MEGAN Nobody ever wins on Takeshi's Castle. MADDIX I realise that. Everyone realises that. But I'm being theoretical. Work with me here. (to Hooligans) Anyway, as I was saying, if we don't work as a team then the Emerald Guards will pick us off with their lasers and before we know what's happened, we'll end up out of here, as failures. Work together however and maybe, just maybe, we'll storm Takesh...uhm, the OAOAST. Are you following me on this? BLANK ...what the hell is Takeshi's Castle? Groan. MEGAN Look, you're all man enough to stick to an agreement, right? BLANK Sure. MEGAN Right. You help us out tonight, dinner's on us. Taking a moment to confer with his team-mates, Bruce smiles. BLANK You got yourself a deal, missy.

COLE In recent weeks, the conflict between The Global Party Exchange and D*LUX has been running rampant, a conflict over pride and over image rather than over titles or simple personal hatred. And in the past week OAOAST President Axel in accordance with HI-YAH officials signed the two warring teams to a tag team match to settle things once and for all at AngleSlam, with the HI-YAH Tag Team Championship on the line. As always, the man with the scoop is... COACH THE COACH~! HOT NEWZ STAND UUUUUUUP!! COLE ...is the incomporable "Mene" Gene Okerlund. COACH Oh. COLE And our good friend Gene is ready and waiting to get a word with the challengers, take it away Gene. Cut to the always popular INTERVIEW STAGE~!, where Gene Okerlund is being showered with typical cheers. And Gene, ever the showman, hypes the crowd up before getting a delayed signal that he's on air. OKERLUND Ladies and gentlemen, my guests at this time... the OAOAST World Six Man Tag Team Champions... THE HOOOOOLLIIGGAAANNSS!!! "YEEA - BOOOO - AAA - OOOOOO - AHHH - OOOOOOOOOOOO!!" "In a world full of posers, phonies, and pure wannabees, there finally emerges a group which has come to set the record straight. so, all you suckers better recognize, ya heard can you say uhhh na na na na..." With the familiar sounds of "Make Her Say" by O-Town playing behind them, the trio of Johnny "Jam" Jackson, Scotty Static and Jamie O'Hara make their way from the main stage to the smaller but infinitely cooler interview stage. O'Hara jaws with the nearby fans in the background, while Static and Jax take their positions up either side of "Mene" Gene. OKERLUND Now gentlemen, in the past year or so you three have been no strangers to controversy. But what we've seen recently from you seems to have been controversy for the sake of controversy, talking of course about your actions towards D*LUX. STATIC Controversy for the sake of controversy, huh? Obviously you've not been paying much attention to us old man. OKERLUND I've been paying attention. And might I say, your reasons for targetting D*LUX are pretty spurious. JAX Lay off the big words there grandad. STATIC We've stated time and time again what our beef with 'G*LUX' is Gene. If some greenhorn showed up with a handheld mic, dressed up in a 20 cent suit trying to imitate your 80 cent suit and called himself "Lene" Dene, you'd punk his ass out on the spot. Cause you've earned the right to. You talk about us being no strangers to controversy and yeah, we ain't gonna lie, we do attract trouble now and again. Newsflash Gene-O, we're The Hooligans. The territory comes with the name. But above that, we attract controversy because we attract attention. When you talk tag teams in the OAOAST, you've got Black T, you've got Ned and Singleton and you've got The GPX. Everyone else, they're just pretenders to our throne. We MADE the Tag Division! JAX For real. Ned and Simon were rip-offs from day zip. And I don't see nobody wantin' to dress up like an Eskimo nowhere. STATIC Which just leaves us to rip-off. D*LUX have been livin' off of our reputation ever since they showed up in the OAOAST. Now, we figured these kids'd curl up and disappear pretty soon, but apparantly we were wrong. So, we decided to do something about them. JAX This boyband shtick they got goin' on? We've moved on from all that dawg. We're real, we ain't manufactured. And we're sick of seein' our old coattails being dragged outta the prop cupboard and put on display by these punk kids. OKERLUND Now wait a second here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you two still call yourselves the Global [i]Party[/i] Exchange? "YYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!" Some of the fans cheer that patented Okerlund burn, as Johnny's face drops. O'Hara takes issue with the fans again and starts to wave his hands frantically trying to get them to pipe down. JAX What's your point old man!? OKERLUND Well, forgive me for saying so, but Global Party Exchange isn't a very 'hooliganistic' name. STATIC Since when do you become the authority on what is and what ain't 'hooliganistic' Okerlund? Listen, we established that name. We left our blood, our sweat and our tears in that OAOAST ring to transform the name GPX into a name to be feared in this wrestling business! When people see those letters G P X, they recognise! That name means something to people! We earned the right to live off that name. Us and us alone. That's why we're so pissed off with these greenhorns leeching off of them, as good as spitting on the hard work and dedication we've given for three fucking years! Ever the professional, Gene raises his eyebrows a little at the language. STATIC What have these kids done in this business? What have they done around here? NOTHING! They ain't got shit on us! OKERLUND May I remind you this is a family show. JAX It quit bein' a family show months ago Gene, be easy. STATIC The fact is Gene, these punks have gotten us riled up. Remember all the hostility that got thrown our way when we were trying to make spots for ourselves in this business? The disgust everyone had when we were fighting Zack Malibu? Where's it at now? Aw no, no hate here Gene. These kids have got pretty hair, see. They're nice and groomed, regular trips to the salon. They bring in ratings, so they get a free pass. What about our ratings!? What about real work!? This country's so obsessed with image, it's makin' us sick! We're pretty guys, right? JAX No doubtin' it. STATIC All these people are getting conned by manufacture. They see cookie-cutter blondes with balloons for brains and balloons strapped to their chest and they think that's beauty. They look at Lindsay Lohan eating herself from the inside and it makes them wanna buy her movies because she can squeeze through a drainpipe. And they think these pretty boys with manicures and pedicures and hair down to their asses are some sort of standard bearer. Since when did being meterosexual become hip? These kids, they're manufactured. Apparantly, they're the 'new GPX'. Guess what, fuck that! The suits in the HQ need to realise, you can't create stars like us! JAX Damn right! STATIC Fellahs, you're just boys stepping into a man's world. And I don't think you're ready to change that anytime soon. Come AngleSlam, we might just put you outta this world for good. We don't care about this funny little Japanese belts you're draggin' around. This is about pride. Hooligan pride. And when you insult that pride, you're gonna get hurt. Weaving into view from underneath camera shot, O'Hara pulls the mic in close. O'HARA Hooligans, fuck what ya heard! "YYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!" The cheers aren't for the profanity of for the fantastic lean-in, but for TYLER BRYANT and SHAYNE BRAVE, storming the interview stage from behind and knocking Static and Jax to the floor with BELTSHOTS~! O'Hara takes a spill from the sprawling Jax taking his legs out but pulls himself right back up. Big mistake, as D*LUX grab him and drop him across the knees with the Cowell Movement!! With Okerlund watching on from afar and wondering why this always happens to him and his precious interview stage, D*LUX then take O'Hara by top and tails and PITCH HIM OFF THE INTERVIEW STAGE, A GOOD FOUR FEET TO THE FLOOR!! "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" O'Hara bounces off of the unforgiving concrete and rolls to a stop, with The GPX dragging each other to safety from the stage, pointing fingers and talking trash but saving their retaliations for AngleSlam apparantly. With the coast clear, Jade Rodez reclaims the discarded microphone. JADE Boys in a man's world? Ooooh, that's a good one! Well if my boys are boys then you've pushed these boys too far this time and at AngleSlam, you're, like, going to be right in our firing line GPX! We're not here to follow in your footsteps. We don't want to be like you. But on Sunday night "Tremendous" Tyler and "Showtime" Shayne are going to show you that they're every bit as good as you two are or maybe even better because we're gonna beat you! TYLER YEAH-UH! That new catchphrase gets the response it deserves: A1's "First To Believe". But the fans seem to be happy enough with the song and they cheer D*LUX anyway, as they watch The GPX on their way. Johnny and Scotty make some last threatening gestures before exiting back through the entrance doors, leaving the wreckage of Jamie O'Hara behind. COLE If The GPX were under-estimating the HI-YAH Tag Team Champions, they may just have gotten their wake-up call tonight.

People saying "good booking" are right, to a point. But it needn't be seamless, primetime TV level booking with absolutely no plot-flaws what-so-ever. Wrestling is wrestling. It's not like other TV shows, because they don't have to weave 'they dress up in women's swimming trunks and wrestle in front of thousands of people' into their scripts. The main thing is entertainment. Sure, 1999 might not have been the most flawless period of sensible booking, but people watched the show and the crowd were more into anything than they are now. ECW's shows were littered with logic gaps (singles matches turning into impromptu tag teams matches being my pet-hate), but they entertained the fans. There has to be a limit, naturally, before you get to the stage where you're over-booking, ala WCW in 2000. But the main thing is entertainment, whether it's critically acclaimed or not. You know the big problem right now? NOTHING HAPPENS!! Summerslam is supposed to be the second biggest show of the year. NOTHING HAPPENED!! No stars were made, there were no debuts, no surprise heel-turns or unexpected run-ins. Nothing. It was just another by the numbers PPV. And that's the problem. People need a reason to tune into shows. The ratings spiked after Edge won the title at New Year's Revolution because it was a shock and off the regular path. Back in 1999, you HAD to watch PPVs because if The Giant can burst through the ring and debut attacking Stone Cold, then something interesting could happen on the next PPV. Hell, it needn't be a company changing surprise everytime. When Coach turned heel at Summerslam 03, that was great. There's an intrigue level there where now, there is none, except 'will this guy win or not' and you can satisfy that without spending $39.95. Even if they'd debuted Jeff Hardy at Summerslam it would have been something, but they saved that even for RAW.

Okay, I just read the schedule. October 28th for Syndicated is fine, disregard the above contradiction. Thank you.

Consider it done. I'm not sure if the Clusterfuck counts as a 'title' as such, but if so it's clearly the only one that really matters.

They can't 'make' a new boom period superstar. It doesn't work like that. Manufacturing stars just doesn't work. When it happens, they just have to take advantage of it. Austin's popularity was somewhat accidental, in that he was put over in the King Of The Ring but really got over with one line in a promo. Rock's popularity was somewhat accidental, in that he was being rejected as the face the company wanted him to succeed at and joining The Nation was a reaction measure. When they got popular, the company weren't afraid to push them. Right now, any time someone gets popular, instead of capitalising the company seems to freak out and/or do something stupid booking-wise that screws everything up. Best example I can think of being Orton, who may or may not have made it big after Summerslam '03 but was never given the chance to find out. The only time they've even come close in the past few years is Batista, who got over purely as a side character to HHH and was given a chance to succeed, although he didn't become the mega-star like a Hogan or an Austin.

Excalibur did commentary? Awesome. Bald Icarus is disturbing.