Fans, we are back, and Mike Powers is on his way to the ring...and we're about to look at two of the up and comers in the business. Lookie here, Chris... That's Cross... Chris, Cross, whatever, I'm a man at work here. POWERS is an up and comer. Militar de FRAUD, or should I say Saul, is nothing but Mary Lou Retton in a mask. Some american yutz trying to cash in on the proud tradition of the luchador. You don't seriously believe that claptrap Mike Powers was spouting about Furia, do you? Why shouldn't we? Didn't you ever wonder why Furia never had a green card? I always thought he was an illegal immigrant..but no, he's from Florida. How much worse is that? Fans, we have these prerecorded comments from Militar de Fur.. SAUL!!! His name is SAUL!!! from Furia now....taped from earlier in the evening.... @%@%@%@%@%%@%@@%@%@%@%@%@%%@%@%@%@%%%@%@%%@%@%@%@%%@@%@% (Camera opens on Furia walking towards the camera from the parking lot in streets clothes, jeans, black Furia shirt and a red mask, carrying his wrestling attire in a duffle bag. He notices the camera...) [Furia, to camera man,still walking, camera following] "Oye, what you up to ese? It's nothing special that I'm coming into the building...why are you filming me? (right into camera, waving)Hey what's up everybody! Hope you're all ready for some wrestling action! Geez, I feel like i'm on the Real World or something..." (They're walking through the halls of the building now,past the locker rooms and crew...) [Furia] " Hey, you know something, I got an idea, tell those guys in the back to cue up my music." (camera cuts to the entrance ramp as "Staring at the Sun" by Offspring cues. An unsuspecting crowd pops hard as Furia, still toting his duffle bag makes his way to the ring, slapping hands with the fans. He stops, notices a sign that "?Quienes tu papa?" and laughs...Furia throws his bag into the ring, jumps from floor to apron and scales the turnbuckle saluting the fans...then moonsaults into the ring. they throw him a mic...) [Furia] "Oye amigos! Vosotros estais locos! Gracias. Man, you fans are hot tonight! (pop) You know, all I want to do is perform for you all out in the crowd, who paid to watch here tonight and for all of you at home watching on the television. (pop for the fan acknowledgment) I fought hard in that 3 way dance for the light heavyweight title and came so close to persevering and coming out on top, I salute my fellow competitors, they also put on a good match. But recently, there's been this guy who's been criticizing me for my high flying moves, but you know, that's just what I thought you all want. (YEAH!) Mike Powers (boo) you come out here flailing your ego wildly in the air and want some recognition for what you do in the ring? Listen chico, you have to earn the fans' respect. You can't come out and whine about it. Pone su dinero donde su su boca esta. I'll see you in the ring later tonight, and let's see if your wrestling skills can earn you the respect of your fellow competitors, but most importantly, the fans." ("Staring at the Sun" by Offspring cues up again as Furia slides out from under the rops,slaps hands with the fans some more as they cheer and makes his way to the back...) @%@%@%@%@%%@%@@%@%@%@%@%@%%@%@%@%@%%%@%@%%@%@%@%@%%@@%@% MATCH #3: Mike Powers vs. Militar de Furia +++SHORT REPORT MODE ON+++ Powers is laying across the ropes in a lazy fashion when "Staring at the Sun" comes on..but no Furia....this is because Furia comes out from the crowd and very quickly leaps up into a twisting headscissors rana sending Powers into the ring. This is followed by two quick dropkicks before Powers rolls out of the ring and grabs a chair. After a minute of feinting by Furia and abject stalling by Powers, referee Mason Crow makes Furia back up and Powers s-s-l-o-w-l-y gets back into the ring. Upon re-entering, he pulls the ref over to him, points to Furia and says "Don't you see it? Isn't it awful?" Cross comments on Powers going back to that whole Saul Rosenfeld thing, while Byron keeps hyping that it's true. Powers walks over to Furia and says "I'm going to give you one last chance to admit it, SAUL!"...and before he can answer, he slaps the taste out of his mouth to a significant amount of boos...and then sticks his head out of the ropes before Furia can do anything about it, forcing the ref to force Furia back. Powers edges back in, they lock up, Powers gets an armtwist, but Furia goes into an armtwist of his own, then monkeyflips Powers over. Once Furia gets back up, tho, Powers sticks his head and torso outside of the ropes again to the boos of the crowd. Furia has had enough, and, while Powers' back is turned, leapfrogs Powers over the ropes and hits a legdrop coming down on the back of Powers' head, causing his body to rock like a seesaw before falling out of the ropes. This got a pop from the crowd. Furia goes right to work with chops to the chest of Powers, followed by a short-arm kneesmash. Out of Powers' hunched over position, Furia immediately goes for the powerbomb, but Powers fires off several fast rights before twisting and spinning into a falling DDT on the concrete. A small pop for the sheer ugliness of the move ensued. Powers gets up and rolls Furia back into the ring, then follows suit. Kicks to the face and stomach follow, with Powers eventually picking Furia up, sending him to the ropes, and hitting a hard double chop to the chest, knocking Furia down... ...unfortunately, Furia pops right back up as Powers turns around to fire a retort at the ringside fan, and hits a series of hard knife-edges, each one knocking Powers on his ass, forcing Powers to scramble to his feet, and then knocking him on his ass again. Furia grabs Powers arm, does a quick twist, pulls the arm over his shoulder and yanks down, hyperextending it, and then twists out of it into a short-arm clothesline, which is ducked by Powers. Powers attempts a mulekick, but Furia grabs his leg, and Powers nails a front brain kick with the other foot that drops Furia onto his back. Powers then stomps some more to the face and the chest of Furia, then tries to go after his mask, yelling "ADMIT IT!!!! STOP LIVING A LIE!!!!" as the fans booed....Furia fired an elbow to the stomach of Powers to stop the mask attempt, then slides between his legs baseball style, kips up, and nails a spinwheel kick that backs Powers to the ropes. Furia with a kick to the stomach, then the leg, then a HARD one to the face, before Furia attempts a huracanrana....which Powers reverses into a running liger bomb that scores a 2 count. Powers grabs Furia, hits a bodyslam followed by a standing forward sommersault legdrop, 2 count. Powers climbs onto Furia, hits three rights to the head, then goes for the mask again, actually getting the mask twisted around so that Furia was blinded. Powers immediately with stiff kicks to the face as Furia flailed around, trying to connect with something. A *wild* swing by Furia is ducked by Powers, and Furia almost falls over the ropes..as he comes back up, Powers runs, jumps, and springboards backwards, nailing a reverse DDT on Furia on the way back. 2 count. He immediately gets into Furia's face, "Stone Cold" style, yelling "GIVE IT UP, SAUL! YOU'RE A FRAUD!!!" At this point, Crow forces Powers to get back long enough for Furia to adjust his mask Powers grabs Furia, teardrop suplex, followed by a measured elbowdrop right in the square of the face. Picks up Furia, hits a powerbomb, then stays locked for the double powerbomb...but this time, Furia hits a pinning rana for a 2 1/2 count on Powers. Unfortunately, Furia is still dazed, and can't follow up, allowing Powers to pick up Furia, whip to the ropes, Yakuza kick that sends Furia right onto his ass. Powers to the top rope, split leg moonsault, 2 3/4 count. Powers argues briefly with the referee, then picks Furia up, sends him to the ropes again, Furia ducks a spinning elbow, then nails a rope bounce handstand spring elbow (aka the Tajiri rebound elbow) that drops both men to the canvas. Count is laid on both men until Powers rolls over and gets a two count. Both men to their feet, Powers misses with a right, Furia connects with a roundhouse kick, then a dropkick right between the eyes, sending Powers down. Furia grabs Powers, sends him to the ropes, Powers ducks a kick, then comes back and Furia firemans carries him into a samoan drop. Furia then goes for the Super Crazzy Memorial triple moonsault, but after the second one Powers manages to get his knees up. Powers is up, lifts Furia onto the top rope, then goes up. Powers goes for a superduper plex, but Furia tries twisting it into a swinging DDT, which fails when Powers drops straight down, almost crotching himself on the top turnbuckle but causing Furia to land with a thud on the campus. Powers gets back up, IMMEDIATELY nails his skytwister moonsault for the finisher, and gets a slightly fast 3 count from Crow. *WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER* * Mike Powers, via pinfall, 14:56 * *WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER* And already, ALREADY Powers is a much better wrestler than he was even a month ago. He didn't do any of that showboating crap, he just got the job done. And that finisher hit proved it, Furia didn't have time to breathe. And Powers apparently isn't done yet...he's got Furia tied up in the ropes now.. Oh, look at this, spin kick to the face of Militar de Furia..he's trying to make him confess. And Powers doing his bit for community service tonight, trying to get Furia to release his inner demons. Come on Saul, it's OK to be an American..and you can't be THAT ugly under there. On second thought... <> Powers now finally being led away..and Militar de Furia is hurt in there, folks.. they're trying to get him off the ring ropes..fans, we'll be back shortly.... **************************************************** * COMMERCIALS: -Fram Auto Filters * * -Burger King College Footbal promo * * -Dawson's Creek/Charmed * **************************************************** ============== Voice Over] Do gang beatings have you down in the dumps? (cut to a shot of three men in spikes tossing a masked businessman around a locker room) [VO] Are you _still_ getting hit with chairs? (one, two, three, chair shots level the masked suit, busting him open) [VO] Have you finally tired of the taste of wood? (first a powerslam drives the masked man through the table, then a piledriver) [VO] If so, we're the men for you!!! (Rip-Tide and Vertigo step into the picture flexing and posing) [VO] Fast...effective...and relatively cheap... (the boys take out the trio of goons, and then collect a heap of money from the masked business man) [VO] The Chaos Brigade. If you can't do it...we will, for a price. Call 1-800-BREAKEM to schedule an appointment. [fade to black] @%@%@%@%@@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@ [We cut to the backstage where Adrienne Solo is, once again, backstage awaiting our next combatants. Suddenly, as if they just came out of nowhere, the Chaos Brigade appear behind Solo--she almost has a heart attack and is obviously flustered by their size.] [AS] Oh my, Rip-tide, Vertigo, last week on Impact we saw your advertisement and in-ring debut in the EWC. Tonight you're facing T.R. Parker and Joshua Collins, two men with a LOT of enemies. Who is paying you for this excursion? [Rip-Tide] No one--it's a freebie. We're considering it business development. [Vertigo] You see, last week we aired a witty, high quality, entertaining, advertisement. Then we came out and annihilated two punks on live television. We figured we were good to go. What did it get us? Not too much. [Rip-Tide] We obviously underestimated the cynicism of the wrestler's of the EWC. They are all so used to double-crosses, SO AFRAID of being attacked from behind that people seemed to doubt our sincerity. And that hurt...it pissed us off. [Vertigo] So late last week, R-T and I went to the EWC offices and found this open contract signed by two of the big guns in this fed. We didn't even blink--we just placed our names on the contract and now we're ready to hurt some people. [Rip-Tide] Maybe you didn't believe we're really businessmen. Maybe you weren't sure if we're worth the money. To all the doubters out there, keep your eyes on that ring tonight, and when we're done, and you're salivating at the thought of hiring us... [Vertigo] Call one of our TOLL FREE NUMBERS!!! 1-800-SMASHEM or 1-800-BREAK-EM... [Rip-Tide] ...Tell us your problems, and we'll make them go away-permanently. [Vertigo] Just remember, we're the Chaos Brigade... [Voice Over from nowhere] Causing havoc whether you want us to or not. [AS] Back to you, guys. @%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@% MATCH #4: The Children of Apocalypse vs. The Pendragons The Pendragons come out first and then "When Worlds Collide" by Powerman 5000 kicks in and The lights go out. The Children of Apocalypse walk out to the ring in their ring gear and enter the ring as Hawk and Sinclair immediately jump on them, showing no fear. Pendragons pick up the CoA and and whip em both in to the ropes, and Hawk hits Dan with a hurricanrana while Sinclair back body drops Zach. Zack roles out of the ring and Sinclair goes to his corner as the bell rings. Dan and Hawk tie up and Dan knees him in the gut, he whips him into the corner and goes starts to pound away with left and rights. Dan whips him into the ropes and backbodydrops him. Dan tags to out Zach and he nails Hawk with a DDT. He pick him up and whips him into the ropes, leap frog, and Hawk hits him with a clothesline. Hawk makes a quick tag to Sinclair while Zach is getting up. They lock up Zach goes behind, Sinclair goes behind him, attempts a bulldog but Zach counters it by pushing him off. He pick him up and hits him with a swinging neckbreaker. Sinclair gets up and Zach hits him in the gut and applies the 3/4 bulldog, he runs up the corner and hits the acid drop. He tags out to Dan and then runs over and hits Hawk. Dan puts on a bearhug, Zach runs into the ropes and hits a bulldog lariat on Sinclair when he was still in the bearhug. They toss Sinclair to the outside and Zach runs up and hits his triple jump moonsault on Sinclair. Hawk in and he nails Dan from behind while Zach is outside. Hawk whips Dan into the corner, Dan stumbles out and Hawk goes for a hurricanrana, but Dan holds him up and drops back driving Hawk face first into the top turnbuckle from Dan's shoulders. Zach slides back in the ring with Sinclair still on the outside. Dan sits on the top turnbuckle and Zach grabs Hawk and puts him in the same corner as Dan. While facing away from Dan, Zach puts Hawk in a vertical suplex and Dan grabs the legs and puts them over his shoulders. Dan pulls him up and Zach grabs the neck and they hit a the Full Redemption off the top rope for the 1-2-3. *WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER* * The C of A, via pinfall, 4:01 * *WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER*WINNER* And the Children of Apocalypse with another important win going into the North American Tag Team Title tournament, to be held this weekend on EWC Impact, check your local listings for details on that one. Fans, when we return, the Cut 'n Shoot Heritage title is on the line!