King Cucaracha 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2008 Brought to you by American Express Taped: January 24th, 2007 First air date: January 26th, 2007 (check local listings for airings in your area) Announce team: Tony Schiavone and Jesse "The Body" Ventura Lead corespondent: Tony Brannigan The special AnglePalooza Preview edition of Syndicated opens up with a video package highlighting the 29 announced competitors in the Lethal Rumble Match. The recent interactions in the build up to AnglePalooza between PRL, Mad Cappa and the Stephen Joseph Popick Corporation, Landon Maddix and Todd Cortez and Zack Malibu and Bohemoth are highlighted heavily, as are the likes of Alfdogg, Theodore Moneymaker and Reject who have already spoken of their intentions to win the Rumble. Tony Schiavone and Jesse "The Body" Ventura welcomed us to the show and hyped the big main-event, Internationally Known/Cucaracha Internacional to take on Todd Cortez and World Tag Team Champions The Lone Star Gunslingers. TONIGHT! The show started with a match stemming from last week though. The Christ Air Express took on Simon Singleton and Biff Atlas, subbing in for the still injured Ned Blanchard. ***The Christ Air Express -VS- Simon Singleton and Biff Atlas w/Molly Nerdly*** Clips of the endings to last week's respective singles matches played through the entrances, Biff and MARV qualifying for the Lethal Rumble at the expense of MEL and Simon respectively. Former rivals Biff and Simon struggled to get on the same page at the start of the match and their in-experience as a team showed as The CAE ran them ragged. The tide turned on a cheapshot from Simon, getting a knee in to the back of MEL as he hit the ropes and allowing Biff to hit a big Belly To Belly. Singleton took the lead for his team and got the unpredictable Biff in check long enough to cut MEL off in their half of the ring. The makeshift team got a little too adventurous though and a mistimed attempt at the Beverly Hills Blonds' Rocket Launcher missed the target, allowing MEL to get the tag. MARV cleaned house and it looked bad for Simon and Biff, forcing Melody to jump to the apron and run a distraction. Her brothers fell for it which saved Biff from a Happy Ending. But as Simon passed Biff the clapboard, MEL saved MARV from a shot to the back of the head and dropped him with a DDT on the foreign object! MEL quickly cut off Simon, as MARV then turned around and set Biff up for the Marvellousity (Pheonix Splash) to win the match! Winners: The Christ Air Express, via pinfall As Simon WEPT over his now broken clapboard, we got a timely reminder of the Anderson Cup standings... NEXT WEEK ON HELDDOWN~! The Conference Semi Finals begin... Los Infernales Conference: The Christ Air Express vs. Nathaniel Black and Jamie O'Hara Miracle Weirdness Connection Conference: Theodore Moneymaker and Christian Wright vs. D*LUX ***Denzel Spencer -VS- Worthington Steel*** A nice showcase for the Jamaican, going into his first Lethal Rumble. Denzel used his speed on the mohawked enhancement talent, rocking him with an array of kicks in the early going. Worthington got a brief advantage after avoiding a charge in the corner. But it was only brief, Denzel catching him with a quick DDT and following that up with a Scissors Kick. Denzel then swiftly finished Worthington off with the Carribean Compactor (Northern Lights Bomb). Winner: Denzel Spencer, via pinfall The AnglePalooza RecaPalooza was of the controversial ending to the 2003 Royal Rumble Match, won by Angle-Plex from under the nose of Zack Malibu. Thankfully, revisionist history means we aren't shown any clips of the riot that occured afterwards. Jesse: "Did we really need to see that again?" Up at the interview stage, Tony Brannigan's guest for the week was the International Champion, Felix Strutter. Ahead of the biggest match of his entire life, Strutter was pretty confident, even after Brannigan reminded him of his pinfall loss at the hands of Colombian Heat a couple of weeks ago on HeldDOWN~! Apparantly, that didn't count because it was a tag team match. Always a good excuse. Anyway, Strutter said that he heard Reject "whining" on last week's show and said that he doesn't whine. Instead, he'd go out and turn himself into a big star rather than waiting for them to come to him, by becoming the unified OAOAST World Heavyweight Champion. The HeldDOWN~! recap then focused on Theodore Moneymaker and his shocking announcement that not only does Krista Isadora Duncan have an illegitimate child, but he or she is on the OAOAST payroll! ***Mr. Boricua -VS- Blake Hamilton*** Jesse: "Odds on the child being Mr. Boricua? Eh, I'd say about a 1 in 150. Krista's a fitness queen, after all, I can't see her being into fat love." Boricua, the #30 entrant in the Lethal Rumble, made short work of his outmatched opponent. Very short work. An avalanche in the corner pretty much finished Blake off within 20 second, but Boricua dragged it out a little before finishing off Hamilton with the Latino Bomb and a one foot pin. Winner: Mr. Boricua, via pinfall Jesse and Tony took a moment to run down the AnglePalooza card as it stands. World and International Championship Unification Match, Stephen Joseph Popick versus Felix Strutter versus Colombian Heat; The 30 Man over the top rope Lethal Rumble Match for a chance to main-event AngleMania VII; OAOAST World Tag Team Championship Match, The Lone Star Gunslingers versus James Blonde and Faqu; No Disqualification Match, Krista Isadora Duncan versus Theodore Moneymaker; James "The Pheonix" Cone versus Jester 30 men. One ring. A shot at wrestling immortality on the biggest stage of them all. ANGLEPALOOZA 2007 January 27th(ish), Atlanta, GA LIVE on Pay-Per-View! (BTW, we were the ORIGINAL HD TV, fuckers) Ahead of the main-event, we got a quick reminder of two weeks ago on HeldDOWN~!, when James Blonde and Faqu stole The Lone Star Gunslingers' Tag Team Title belts after an unsuccessful title challenge. Leading to the rematch at AnglePalooza, but first... ***Cucaracha Internacional (Nathaniel Black, James Blonde and Faqu) -VS- The Lone Star Gunslingers and Todd Cortez w/Melody Nerdly*** Blonde and Faqu came to the ring with The Gunslingers' titles in their possession just to really rub some salt into the wounds. The referee assigned Charles Robinson had to keep the teams apart before the opening bell, with the Texans clearly still hot about the theft of their belts. Black started the match for his team and fared pretty well in out-wrestling Jock and then Baron. But a different prospect altogether proved Todd Cortez. An early Riot Act Plus attempt was nixed by Blonde however and the introduction of Faqu into the match shifted it into the favour of the former HI-YAH trio. The Gunslingers could only look on in frustration as Black and Blonde interchanged in and out with the big Samoan, using him to wear down Cortez before they tried to put him away. They couldn't seem to manage it though and eventually, Cortez got out of the Guilt Trip (Playmaker) and turned Blonde inside out with a clothesline! Jock got the tag and The Texas Twister tore through the opposition, even Faqu. The Tag Champions started to run away with the match and disposed of Faqu with a double dropkick before setting up Black for the Lone Star Lasso. A lowbridge from Blonde caused Jock to tumble to the outside though and Black rolled up Baron into a seated butterfly lock. Before Jock could tap, Cortez made the save, wiping out Blonde before getting close nearfall off of an Urban Assault (Sitout Chokeslam) on Nathaniel. As he set up for the Riot Act Plus though, Faqu blindsighted him with a thrust kick and a big splash for a close 2 count! That sent Faqu into a rage but The Gunslingers took him out as he went after the referee, following him to the floor while Blonde set up Cortez in the ring. He got out of a powerbomb attempt though and landed a superkick, before ducking a charge from Black and quickly drilling him with a Riot Act Plus~!!! which put the Brit down for the three!! Winners: Lone Star Gunslingers and Todd Cortez, via pinfall As Cortez started to celebrate his win, Blonde quickly grabbed the Tag Titles and made off before The Gunslingers could reclaim them. Blonde managed to get Faqu to leave, keeping the raging monster from going back for more, as The Gunslingers pointed them down from the ring vowing to reclaim what's their's at AnglePalooza. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
