Black/Wright

[Mystery Eskimo 0]

COLE

Fans, we have now a special recording of a match taped at an unknown location earlier this week. At World Without End, Dan Black was scheduled to take on Christian Wright one on one, but due to transportation problems Black was unable to make it to the show on time. Locker room rumour is that Wright believes Black deliberately missed the match for fear of injury. Naturally, this led Dan Black to lay down a challenge. The two agreed on an empty arena match where Wright's HIYA title is not on the line, under relaxed rules - but this is not falls count anywhere, the decision must be made in the squared circle. As the two competitors, referee Nick Patrick and our camera crew were the only people allowed in the arena, there is no commentary on the following match.

 

COACH

Woo! We get paid for doing nothing!

 

CABOOSE

That's more or less what you get paid for anyway.

 

We cut to tape.

 

Dan Black, in his usual attire of white and black halved short trunks, is limbering up in one corner of a ring in a medium sized arena. Wright is in baggy blue cargoes, hands taped up, opposite Dan. Nick Patrick checks both men over, and signals that we're underway - no bell, just Patrick's terse "Let's go!".

 

Black and Wright circle each other, their impact on the mat loud and clear in the otherwise silent arena. Lock up, and Black immediately comes out of it into an armbar. Dan shakes the arm, snapping it out, and then torques it round again. Wright grimaces in pain but rolls forward and then executes a graceful cartwheel back to break Black's grip and counter to his own armbar. Dan counters this with the more direct method of a knee to the gut. Black grabs a front facelock and tries for a suplex, but Wright blocks it and then gets a little pay back on Dan with three hard knees to his stomach.

 

Wright flips Black over in a seated position with a fireman's carry takeover and then dropkicks him hard in the back of the head! Wright with the cover, but Dan throws up a shoulder at one. CW brings Black to his feet and nails him with a pair of forearm strikes, and then lands a hard kick into Dan's left leg. Black goes down to one knee, and as he starts to pull himself back up Wright runs the ropes and clips out the left leg with a low chop block as Black stands.

 

CW stomps at Black's leg. Dan rolls away into the ropes, and Nick Patrick counts a break. Wright backs off reluctantly, but as soon as Dan stands goes back on the attack with more kicks to the leg. Black fires back, catching CW with a forearm shot and then a big European uppercut that has Wright dizzied. Black with a trio of rapid, hard chops, the noise echoing through the arena, and then whips Wright to the ropes. Dan drops down for a backdrop attempt, but Wright stops himself in front of Black, grabs a handful of hair and slams him down backwards to the mat.

 

CW with an immediate elbow drop to the sternum, and then a cover which Black again kicks out of at one. Wright brings Dan up and tries to get a hold on his left leg, possibly looking for a Dragon Screw, but Black fights him off with a forearm shot, and then a dropkick that tumbles Wright back against the ropes. Dan runs to the opposite side, and executes a sprinting clothesline that sends both men tumbling to the outside.

 

Nick Patrick, officiating under the relaxed rules requested by the competitors, doesn't start a count out, but does exit the ring too to ask the two men to take it back inside. Black shows no sign of agreeing, however, as he throws Wright back first into the ring steps. Dan pulls up the apron, looking for weapons, and comes up with a kendo stick! This is a step too far for Patrick though, and the official snatches the stick away from Dan. After a brief insult to the veteran referee, Black turns back to Wright, who hits him with a punch to the stomach as Dan tries to bring him up. Wright grabs Dan by the neck and rams his face into the ring post!

 

Patrick tries to remonstrate with Wright, but the arrogant young star ignores the ref and now slams Dan's head onto the ring apron. Wright pushes Black up and chops him hard across the chest. Another chop, and another, leaving Black wincing. Wright pauses to gain his breath, and then fires another chop, but Dan dodges this one! Christian's chopping hand hits the ropes and bounces back into his own face!

 

Wright's response is bleeped out, and Black takes advantage by grabbing him in and hitting a DDT onto the apron! Dan gets behind CW, applies a waistlock and - German suplex into the guard rail! Wright hit hard on the back of his neck and lies motionless after this brutal assault. Black scrapes Wright off the floor and makes to roll him back into the ring, but changes his mind at the last minute and instead tosses Wright the opposite way, over the guard rail. Black applies a front facelock and tries to suplex Wright onto the front row seats! - but CW blocks it. The two men fight over the suplex for a moment, until Wright finally gets Black up - and a brainbuster onto the seats!

 

Nick Patrick by now has abandoned trying to retrieve the competitors to the ring, and is eating a hot dog.

 

Wright pulls Black off the chairs and tries to lift him back over the guard rail. Black throws a blind punch which catches CW in the jaw more by luck than judgment. Dan follows with another European uppercut that sends Wright staggering down the aisle between the banks of chairs. Black charges after Wright and delivers a jumping bulldog, driving Christian's face into the hard floor!

 

Dan puts the boots to Wright, before grabbing him up and bringing him to the steps leading up into the stands. Black grabs his opponent and looks to try and snap suplex Wright onto the stairway, but Wright blocks it and then with an effort back drops Dan onto the floor! Christian takes a moment to regain his breath, before climbing up the steps! At a height of seven or eight feet he stops, turns, and leaps off with a big elbow drop all the way forwards and down onto Black!

 

Dan convulses, and Wright covers, but Nick Patrick, finishing off his dog, shrugs away his demands for a count and points to the ring. Wright frowns at the official, but picks Dan up. CW takes Black by the neck and back of his shorts and, running, hurls him over the guard rail back to ringside. Wright then climbs up onto the rail and jumps off with a back senton straight to the gut of Black!

 

Christian gets to his feet slowly, and rests against the apron, holding his back, the high impact moves he's been throwing out taking a toll on him. After half a minute, however, Wright is back on the attack, grabbing Dan up and bending his left leg back - and then dropping him knee first onto the steel steps! Black rolls away, swearing and clutching his leg in pain. CW puts the boots to it, and then brings Dan back up, looking to repeat the move onto the steps, but Black hurriedly fights back, snatching his leg free and catching Wright with an elbow to the gut. Dan then slams Wright's face into the ring post, getting some revenge for earlier, and then executes a DDT onto the ring steps!

 

The impact of skull on steel is loud, and Wright is prostrate over the steps. Black picks him up and rolls him back into the ring, grabbing up a handy steel chair as he does so. Nick Patrick, following the wrestlers back into the squared circle, immediately goes to take the chair away from Black, who surrenders it reluctantly. Patrick tosses the chair out of the ring. Black covers Wright:

 

ONE!

 

TWO!

 

THREE - no, a kick out!

 

Dan brings Wright up and whips him into a corner, but he's limping slightly as he follows in and delivers a running European uppercut to CW's jaw. Black then grabs Wright up and deposits him onto the top rope in a sitting position. Black clambers up after Wright and sets for top rope superplex, but Wright comes alive and fights back! The two struggle against each other, teetering on the top, until Wright shoves Black down hard to the mat! CW immediately leaps off with his Holy Grail frogsplash - but Dan gets his knees up! Wright rolls away, breathing heavily, all the wind knocked out of him.

 

Black is also in pain however, the impact of Wright on his knee causing further damage, and the limp is more noticeable now as he stands and brings CW off the canvas. Dan with a pair of hard chops to the pectorals, and then a textbook Northern Lights suplex:

 

ONE!

 

 

TWO!

 

 

TH- Wright kicks out, rolling over onto his front in the process, and Dan pounces, locking on his Heart of Ice crossface! Black wrenches on the hold strongly, but Wright's feet are too near the ropes, and he's able to just touch the bottom cable.

 

Black keeps the hold on for long as he can in the face of Nick Patrick's orders to release, and then rolls away. Dan uses the ropes to pick himself up, keeping his weight on the right leg. Wright also slowly rises, rubbing his neck. Black meets him with a couple of forearm shots, but Wright responds with a straight kick to the side of Dan's knee. Dan comes back with an eye rake, and then hits CW with a belly to bell overhead throw!

 

Black rolls out of the ring and comes back with the chair again. This time as Patrick makes to take it, Dan shoves him away and just cracks the chair hard against the back of Wright! Black turns to the referee as if challenging him to disapprove, but Patrick just holds his hands up in deference. Wright tries to roll out of the ring, but Black drops the chair and brings him back and to his feet. Dan grabs Wright in a double under hook, looking to hit Pitch Black (Angel's Wings) onto the chair, but CW fights out and around into a hammerlock on Dan.

 

Black reverses that round to a full nelson, and drags Wright into position for a Dragon suplex onto the chair, but Wright breaks the hold and catches Dan with a back kick to the groin! Black collapses to his knees with the pain of the low blow, and Wright is able to grab up the chair and just slam it viciously onto Black's exposed head!

 

Wright covers Black:

 

ONE!

 

 

TWO!

 

 

THREE!

 

 

 

 

No! Dan throws up a shoulder! Wright stays calm and drags Black towards the corner. He then rolls out of the ring, grabs Dan's legs, and pulls him hard towards him, causing Black to crash into the ring post with probably the worst possible part of his anatomy to do so!

 

Wright has the chair and slams it twice into Black's left knee, and then locks on a ring post figure four! Wright hands off Dan's legs, inflicting excruciating pain! Dan grabs the ropes, and Patrick counts it, with Wright only releasing the hold after serious threats.

 

The release is only temporary for Black, however, as Wright gets back in the ring, drags Dan into the middle of the squared circle and applies the figure four leg lock! Black has nowhere to go, and with the damage done to his leg looks on the verge of tapping out, his head thrown back in pain. Nick Patrick leans in, asking Dan if he wants to give it up, and Black responds...

 

 

 

 

...by grabbing Patrick by the shirt collar and dragging him hard onto Christian Wright! The impact of the official on Wright causes him to lose his grip, and Dan rolls free. Wright shoves the hapless referee off him angrily, and gets to his feet turning around -

 

into KICK WHAM BLACKOUT - no! Wright shoves Dan off to the ropes! Black bounces back straight into a Urange! Cover!

 

ONE!

 

 

TWO!

 

 

THREE!

 

 

 

 

No! Black with the kick out! Wright curses at Patrick and brings Black up, grabbing a front facelock, looking for his Converting the Sinner suplex, but Dan suddenly counters, twisting out and pulling Wright down into the Heart of Ice! Nick Patrick keeps his distance from Wright's flailing hands as Black locks his grip tightly!

 

Christian tries to drag himself to the ropes, to the referee, anywhere - but there's nowhere for him to go but to

 

 

 

TAP

 

 

TAP

 

 

TAP

 

Black rolls away from Wright, exhausted. Jivin' JR comes running out from the back, a medical kit in his hand. He slides into the ring with an effort and helps the limping Black out. There's no music, no crowd applause, but the respective looks of triumph and frustration of the competitor's faces shows this match meant a lot.

 

 

We cut back to Sofa Central.

 

COLE

Wow, those two guys really went at it! Black picking up the win, but that could have gone either way.

 

COACH

Well, Wright had the match won until Black used the referee as a foreign object.

 

COLE

Regardless, Dan Black with a big win going into Climax on Sunday the 18th. Don't forget, it will be Black T against Wright and Bohemoth, and I have a feeling Wright will be out for revenge!