Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Live From Daytona Beach, Florida
Legacy Championship
Leandro Vs Gutter Rat
"Convict" Match
Jackie Frazier: The following contest is the CONVICT match! It is set for one fall, and will be for the NLR Legacy Championship!!! Introducing first from Tijuana, Mexico.. Standing at 7' 2'', weighing in at 418 pounds, he is 'El Mexicano Codena', Leandro!'
[ "Cancion Del Mariachi" by Los Lobos & Antonio Banderas hits the PA system, as Leandro marches down the ramp, growling at the fans who stick their hands over the guard rail and get too close to him. Jimmy Pez chases after him, as he slides into the ring, and the ref puts the first cuff around his wrist.]
JP: This will be just totally awful!
Sully: I can't wait!
Jackie Frazier: And his opponent..
[ The crowd begins to cheer already, expecting this match to be just plain violent.]
Jackie Frazier: From Sin City, Standing at 6'1'', weighing in at 301 pounds, 'The Rat Bastard', Gutter Rat!
[ The lights dim, then blacken, and several figures appear at the entrance ramp as monk chants come over the speakers. Smoke begins to eminate over the rampway as what appears to be about sixteen men in robes, all carrying torches towards the ring.. ]
Sully: Are we still at the right card?
[ As they line up the rampway, torches extended, the robes are shed to reveal the monks as the homless that Gutter Rat has defended in Sin City since his inception. The fans cheer as the beginnings of More Than Human play an after a big explosion Gutter Rat appears at the rampway, and marches down to an ovation, staring at Leandro all the while. He climbs in the ring, the camera tilting up to show the cell around them. The ref, cautiously walks over to Leandro, takes the cuffs, and cuffs the Rat Bastard to 'El Mexicano Codena'. The two immedietly begin brawling, and Gutter Rat seems overwhelmed by the pure size and power of his opponent, who begins really laying into him! ]
JP: Leandro is a sick sick man, he has all this pent up rage, and he's letting it fly!
[ The cell finally lowers around them, and the bell rings. Gutter Rat, taking a beating, rakes the eyes then tackles the big Mexican, pulling both of them to the mat. Gutter Rat straddles the big man, delivering several Ultimate-Fighter style blows, but Leandro rolls back over, and grabs Gutter Rat by the throat with both hands, and starts banging his head against the mat, anger and hatred in his eyes like never witnessed before. Gutter Rat rolls and headbuts Leandros' nose, and first blood has been drawn, as blood begins flowing freely from the nose of the man they call Leandro. ]
Sully: Don't count Rat out! Leandro may be the tougher of the two, but Gutter Rat has a mean streak like no other.
[ Now Rat stands up, and tugs Leandro to his feet with amazing strength, just using the hand cuffs! ]
JP: Look at the strength!
Sully: I guess that time with Troy as a mentor is rearing its ugly head now!
[ Rat puts Leandro on the mat as quickly as he got up with a clotheslining him straight to hell! He then jerks him right back up, and drops him back to the mat with a DDT! He tries for a quick pin.. 1..2.. Leandro kicks out though, And hits Gutter Rat in the side of the head with an elbow, and stands up, Gutter Rat at his feet. He yanks Rat off the mat and then punches him once hard in the face! A loud crack is heard and blood begins to pour from underneath the mask of GR, his nose crunched in by one hard punch! They continue brawling across the ring both tugging at the cuffs, and swinging powerfull blows at each other in rapid succession as the crowd goes nuts. GR then grabs 'El Mexicano Codena' by the back of the head and walks him over to the side of the cell, slamming his face into the cold steel mesh. Once. Twice.. A third time, and Leandro stumbles back, before Gutter Rat tosses him over the ropes, and into the Cell.]
JP: This is just insane!
[ The Rat doesn't give the 'beast' the satisfaction of writhing, instead puts a boot to Leandros' throat, keeping him pinned against the cell. After a minute though, he stops and pulls Leandro up, putting him up and over, via suplex onto his back, and Rat on top of him! Rat begins going nuts, throwing fists into his face, banging his head off the canvas, and then finally yanking him up all by himself by the throat! ]
JP: Get out of there Leandro! Never folks, have we seen the likes of Leandro become so, in a word, manhandled.
Sully: I don't pity Leandro.. He's had a ton of fights, but tonight it's like he's looking into the eyes of a mirror.
[ Gutter Rat tries for a chokeslam, but Leandro digs his unchained hand in the eye socket of the Rat Bastards mask, dropping him to the mat, and Leandro lands on both feet. He draws his foot back, and places one HARD kick to the face of Gutter Rat! GR rolls around holding his face with his good arm, leaving a lot of blood on the mat, but Leandro does not let up, and pulls him back up performing a Pump Handle Bomb! 1..2..NO! ]
JP: This is just back and forth!
Sully : They're doing a great job of hurting each other!
[ Leandro looks disgusted, and gets up, grabbing Gutter Rat by the head, walking over to the corner and begins beating it into the corner ladder. Leandro now lifts up the Rat Bastard, and drops him in the Convict Suicide right into the corner ladder, which folds some under the force. The ring shudders, and the outer cell threatens to come apart! ]
JP:'It has to be over!'
Sully:'No way in hell is it not!'
[ Leandro pins.. 1..2.. NO! The entire arena gasps, Leandro goes wild, and begins to punch him and slam him into the mat again! He covers again.. 1..2...NO! ]
JP: The veteran, Gutter Rat, refuses to give up!'
Sully: And Leandro is angry as hell!
[ The ring is covered in blood from both men. And "The Beast" smells it. Leandro pulls Gutter Rat to his feet, then up on one shoulder, driving him forward, head first, into the cell. He turns around and walks across the ring for another. Then he drives him into the corner ladder. The ring shudders again!]
JP: Good God!
Sully: The last time I saw that much blood, I was watching a horror movie!
JP: That horror has come to life Sully, these are the two sickest individuals in the sport today!!
[ Leandro hoists the staggering Gutter Rat up, and swings him towards the cell, but Gutter Rat reverses it into a big clothesline, then yanks him to his feet. Gutter Rat winds up on top of Leandro! 1..2.. Jeff Quick breaks the count as Leandro gets his shoulder up, Gutter Rat slams the mat in fustration and clasps his uncuffed hand around the referees neck, squeezing the life out of him.. ]
JP: Oh god!
Sully: Oh god!
[ Gutter Rat rises to his feet, and Chokeslams Jeff Quick! Leandro is still sprawled on the mat, but now no cover can be made! ]
Sully: Uh, waiter, we need a new ref!
JP: We need a tranqulizer dart for the Rat Bastard, that's what we need!
[ Jim Adams opens the cell door, and climbs into the ring, helping an unconcious Jeff Quick out of the ring, just as we see Gutter Rat toss Leandro's body into one of the cell's side panels It buckles, as Leandro flies through it, yanking Rat into the ropes, he then sling shots Rat off the canvas with a sick thud! More 'Holy Shit!' chants begin. ]
JP: His feet are touching, does he win?
Sully: Didn't you read the memo? It's not a cage match, John. These two are gonna go until one man breaks.
JP: I am grateful to see this match from the booth, NEVER have I seen so much brutality in a match before.
[ Gutter Rat begins to stir, climbing over the top rope, and searching under the ring, and finds a large burlap sack, and hits Leandro with it several times while dragging him over to the cell door. The door is opened and he slides it into the center, but not a second later, Leandro slams the door on Gutter Rats head with a sickening "thud". The replay is just as ugly. The crowd begins to go nuts as Leandro crawls through the opening, dragging Gutter Rat with him, and shoving the second referee out of the way. ]
Sully: Nobody is safe! Not any more!
JP: Everybody run!
[ Jimmy Pez watches intently as his 'beast' drags Gutter Rat back into the ring with a completely savage look in his eyes. 'El Mexicano Codena' grabs the bottom of the bag, and flings its contents across the mat. The mat is now covered in sharp tacks. Leandro goes to toss Gutter Rat across the ring, but Gutter Rat counters by grabbing his arm, and performing a swinging neck breaker much to the crowds delight. Both men lie in the center of the ring, cut up by the tacks, bloody heads and broken noses, Leandro, a gash at his elbow, from the cell opening. ]
JP: Both big men slow to get up.
Sully: Both of these men are severely injured!
[ Leandro is dragged back to his feet, both men bleeding everywhere! He ducks a clothesline, and wraps Gutter Rats' own cuffed arm around his throat! He begins to fade fast, with "The Beast" keeping it tight. The combination of the blood loss and then choking doing quite a bit of damage to Gutter Rat. ]
Sully: Leandro is just so brutal!
JP: Both of these men are rather hurt!
[ Leandro finally stops his brutal submission, as Gutter Rat can't seem to catch his breath. GR topples to the mat, and Leandro throws both arms out in a rage and yeld that near silences the crowd. ]
Sully: 'Cmon Rat, show some spunk!!
JP: It's the beginning of the end here, folks!
[ Leandro again shouts, this time something in spanish, and lifts the fallen Rat Bastard up into a bear-hug! Gutter Rat flails, yet Leandro will not be denied. The "Beast" drived Gutter Rat head first, face first, to the mat, bring only himself and one limp arm back up, and he makes the cover. 1... 2... 3!
His music plays, and security and medical staff rush the ring in force. Leandro is uncuffed from the fallen Rat and is handed the stark white and golden Legacy title. He shoves a few personell aside and climbd the cell with ease, strap carried over his shoulder, once atop, he screams at the fans while flexing, both competitors blood washed over him. Little streamlets of shiny white, green and gold fall from the rafters as Leandro proved on this night, every word Jimmy Pez, the guy hopping up and down at ringside, had said last week. Leandro has become the man to beat, in the NLR. ]
Jackie Frazier: Your winner, and new Legacy Champion, Leandro!!!
JP: That match was the most unnerving display of violence I've ever seen, period.
Sully: Somebody get a mop, and a stretcher, this one is in the books, and couldn't have been any more decisive.
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