TD: Here we go folks. Two go friends, stable-partners and former Tag Champs set to face off for the biggest prize in the Industry, the World Heavyweight Title.
“Numb” by Rob Zombie begins to play and the fans come to their feet as Stonehart appears at the top of the ramp. They cheer for the man as he makes his way down the ramp, slapping hands with the fans arranged at ringside. He gets up onto the apron and steps into the ring, making his way to a turnbuckle to pose for some pictures.
TD: Stonehart has been on a big roll as of late. Nothing seems to be able to put him away.
KK: Now to see if that roll continues tonight.
Stonehart’s music fades out, and the fan’s anticipation builds. Then, “Back in Black” by ACDC begins to play and the fans begin their booing as Reed Harrington makes his way out onto the stage. He walks down the ramp, World Title belt around his waist and pyro going off in his wake. He rolls into the ring and hands the title belt to the ref.
The ring announcer stands in the middle of the ring.
RA: Ladies and gentlemen, our next match-up is scheduled for 1 fall, with a 1 hour time limit, and is for the World Heavyweight Championship!!!
RA: Introducing first, standing on my right, he is the #1 contender. Standing 6 foot 10 and weighing in at 288 pounds, StoneHART!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fans give another cheer, though SH is in a focused mindset, not noticing it.
RA: Introducing second, standing on my left, he is the current, reigning and defending World Heavyweight Champion. Hailing from San Antonio Texas and weighing in at 281 pounds, Reed HARRINGTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fans boo, though they filter into cheers as the ref shows off the title belt. The referee then hands the title belt to the announcer, and calls for the bell.
[Bell Rings]
The two men come together in the middle of the ring, shaking hands. They then back off their sides of the ring.
TD: It will be interesting to see when their friendship dies in face of their greed to be the best.
KK: Better die quickly. I want to see some blood.
They meet in a collar-and-elbow tie up, with the taller Stonehart getting the side headlock. Reed lifts SH off the ground a lit, but Stonehart kicks his legs, landing on the ground and taking Reed down to the mat. Trapped in a side headlock, Reed pushes SH’s head just enough to get it into a head scissors. Stonehart twists around until he’s at Reed’s feet, with Harrington sitting up, pushing his elbows into Stonehart’s back.
Stonehart does a front flip, with his head still trapped, going for a jackknife pin. Reed quickly spins so that Stonehart is on his stomach on the bottom. Stonehart starts to push himself up, so Harrington lets go and tries for a backslide. Stonehart breaks the grip, spins and grabs Harrington in a waist lock. He lifts him up, but Reed gets his foot inside SH’s leg, blocking it. Harrington then does a go behind. Stonehart goes for some elbows, but Harrington just moves out of the way. Stonehart then bends over and pulls Reed’s legs out from under him. SH turns around and grabs onto the legs, but Harrington uses his leg strength to push Stonehart into the ropes. Harrington gets to his feet, and they are at a stalemate.
The fans show their appreciation for applauding the exchange.
TD: Good set of chain wrestling there. They know each other quite well.
KK: It’s only a matter of time before one person gets the advantage.
They circle the ring before meeting in another collar-elbow tie up, which Stonehart wins again. Harrington pushes him off into the ropes. SH comes back with a shoulder tackle that knocks Harrington down. Stonehart then runs and bounces off the ropes to Harrington’s left. Reed shifts around and gives Stonehart a drop toe hold when he comes back, quickly moving over and getting SH into a front headlock.
SH pushes themselves up onto their feet, but Harrington spins Stonehart around before grabbing him for the Kenta Slam. He waits a second, one second too long. SH elbows Reed in the back of the head, causing him to stumble away. When Harrington turns back around, Stonehart boots him in the gut and puts him in a standing head scissors. He calls for the Forgotten Sunrise, but Reed quickly pulls Stonehart’s legs out from under him. Harrington goes to flip SH over, but Stonehart quickly scrambles to the ropes, forcing the ref to break up the hold.
Harrington pulls Stonehart up and hits him with a hard knife edge chop.
**SMACK**
Whoooooooooooooo!!!!
He follows it up with another hard chop.
**SMACK**
Whoooooooooooooooo!!!!
Harrington whips Stonehart across the ring. On the rebound he reaches up and grabs Stonehart for a sleeperhold.
TD: Harrington going to wear Stonehart out early in this match.
KK: This could be the fastest title defense in history.
Stonehart seems to waver, but only for a few moments. He elbows Harrington in the mid-section a few times before running to bounce off the ropes. He does not see the Harrington runs with him, so that when SH bounces off the ropes and turns around Harrington is already clotheslining him over the rope to the outside.
Harrington drops down and rolls to the outside as the ref begins to count them out.
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Harrington pulls Stonehart up and slams him face first into the ring apron. Reed follows it up with a boot to the gut and a hard knee lift to the face.
[2]
Harrington pulls SH up and goes to whip him into the barricade, but Stonehart reverses, sending Harrington running. SH runs after him, but Harrington stops short and gives him a drop toe hold, sending Stonehart face first into the barricade.
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Reed gets up and starts to boot away at Stonehart. He then pulls the former P.A.C. member up and drops him chest first onto the security barrier.
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[5]
Harrington pulls Stonehart up and rolls him into the ring. Once inside, Harrington hits a powerslam, following it up with a running elbow drop.
He goes for the pin.
1…
2…
Stonehart kicks out.
TD: It’s going to take a lot more than that to put Stonehart away.
KK: Harrington knows that. He’s just wearing him down as fast as he can.
Harrington starts to boot away at SH, targeting the gut. He pulls Stonehart up and whips him into the ropes, hitting a back elbow on the rebound that sends Stonehart stumbling into a corner. Reed walks over and starts to pummel his opponent with multiple punches to the face, head and midsection.
Harrington then sends Stonehart across the ring, running after him and hitting a jumping body splash.
Harrington walks to the middle of the ring and does it a second time.
Reed tries for a third time, but Stonehart comes out of the corner, catching Reed on his shoulder. SH then lifts Reed up and drops him face first onto the turnbuckle, outside the ropes. Harrington hits and falls to the outside.
KK: That’s gotta hurt.
SH takes a few seconds to catch his breath as Reed pulls himself up. Harrington climbs up onto the apron where Stonehart boots him between the ropes. SH then reaches over, hooks Reed’s head and gives him a suplex into the ring.
Both men get up at the same time. Reed goes for a clothesline, but SH ducks under it, grabs him for an STF, but does it across his knee. Stonehart then moves his knee around allowing him to drive Harrington gut first onto the top of his knee.
Stonehart gets up and boots away at Harrington’s midsection, forcing him back into the ropes. The ref tells him to give the champ some space.
KK: Stonehart may be letting his greed get the better of him.
TD: That is expected with such a big prize on the line.
Stonehart let’s Harrington get to his feet before walking over and giving him a European Uppercut that nearly takes his head off. Reed stumbles into the middle of the ring, and when he turns around gets his head nearly taken off again by a big boot.
Harrington goes down, and Stonehart tries for the pin.
1…
2…
Harrington kicks out.
Stonehart picks him up and whips him into the ropes. Harrington comes back and receives a hard knee to the gut that flips him over. SH then kicks Reed hard in the spine.
TD: I don’t think anyone can question how hard that kick was.
KK: You could hear that echo in the rafters.
Stonehart takes some time in pulling Harrington up to his feet. Reed is then whipped into the ropes again, except this time on the rebound he gets pushed up into the air like a flapjack, except comes down gut first across Stonehart’s knee.
Reed hits with so much force that he rolls out of the ring for safety.
TD: Stonehart is merciless in his assault on Harrington’s midsection.
KK: It’s a good strategy. Harrington will lose a great deal of his strength if he loses the use of his gut muscles.
TD: Harrington is in deep trouble now.
The ref starts to count Reed out, as he lays on the outside in a near fetal position.
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TD: If Reed gets counted out, at least he will retain his title.
KK: Yep. That’s why Stonehart is going to get him.
Stonehart goes to the outside and pulls Harrington up, rolling him into the ring. He follows him inside and puts him in a pump-handle position. Stonehart lifts him up, but Harrington shifts his weight around, coming down behind Stonehart and giving him an Inverted DDT.
TD: What a counter.
Harrington gets up first and pulls Stonehart up, hitting a swinging neckbreaker. He doesn’t stop there, pulling SH up again and hitting a knife edge chop.
**SMACK**
Whoooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Stonehart stumbles backwards into a corner. Harrington walks over there and grabs onto SH’s head. Reed gets up onto the second turnbuckle and jumps off, giving his friend a bulldog.
KK: Stonehart could have a broken nose.
Harrington goes for the cover.
1…
2…
Stonehart kicks out.
TD: It’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks lose in this match.
KK: It better.
Reed pulls Stonehart up and grabs him in a waist lock. SH immediately runs to the ropes and grabs on, hoping to shrug Harrington off. Reed holds on and opens up with repeated forearm shots to the back. Harrington then pulls Stonehart away from the ropes and does a German Suplex, but he screams when he does and curls up, holding his midsection.
Harrington gets to his feet first, but he is doubled over at the pain in his mid-section. He pulls Stonehart up, but SH comes back with a hard knee to the gut, followed by another. Stonehart then runs and bounces off the ropes, but Reed stands up despite the pain and gives Stonehart an Evenflow DDT.
TD: Both men are laid out.
KK: Stonehart still has the advantage. Every time Harrington does a move, he hurts his mid-section. He’s hurting himself.
TD: Well, you can’t forget about the saying “no pain, no gain.”
KK: You know, only idiots like yourself say stupid lines like that.
TD: I'm not an idiot.
KK: Yes you are.
TD: Says who?
KK: I do, and I’m the only one who matters.
Both men get up at the same time and start to exchange punches. Harrington gets the advantage, until Stonehart cuts him off with a boot to the mid-section. He follows it up by putting Harrington into an Abdominal Stretch.
Stonehart wrenches it in, causing Harrington to holler in pain.
KK: Reed’s really going to be feeling the burn here.
Harrington’s arm starts to shake in pain, but soon is turns into one of determination. He gets SH’s leg out of the way, then begins to punch him in the face. Stonehart stumbles back into the ropes, and Harrington charges, taking both of them up and over to the outside.
Both men are laid out. The ref starts to count them out.
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[2]
[3]
Stonehart is the first to his feet. He shakes his head out before pulling Harrington up. He puts Reed up on his shoulders, and turns toward a ring post.
TD: Stonehart’s going to use Reed like a battering ram.
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KK: This could paralyze Harrington.
Stonehart runs forward, but Harrington slips off and pushes Stonehart into it. SH hits head first and careens.
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Harrington rolls into the ring to break up the count. He then looks down at Stonehart, who has been busted open. Reed steps out onto the apron, then gets himself up onto the second turnbuckle.
KK: What the hell is Harrington planning?
TD: I don’t know, but it can’t be good.
Stonehart gets up, stumbling around from the loss of blood. When the time is right, Harrington leaps off in a big cross body block onto Stonehart.
Crowd: HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT!!!
KK: HOLY SHIT!
TD: KRAIG!
KK: What? That’s the biggest cross body I’ve ever seen!
Reed slowly gets to his feet and grabs onto Stonehart, pulling him up and pushing him into the ring. Harrington gets inside and goes for the cover.
1…
2…
Stonehart kicks out.
KK: I don’t believe it.
TD: Neither can Reed.
Harrington is in complete shock. He smiles as he looks down at Stonehart, almost asking him to just stay down. Harrington mounts Stonehart and opens up with right hands to the already bloody face of SH, opening him up even more.
Reed gets up and pulls SH up with him. Reed then whips Stonehart across the ring and hits a back body drop, though he holds his midsection afterwards. SH gets up quickly through reflex though is downed by a clothesline.
Harrington then drags Stonehart into position in front of a corner. Satisfied, Reed begins to climb to the top.
TD: This could spell the end of Stonehart’s dream to be the world champ.
KK: For once I think I’ll have to agree with you.
Once steadied, Reed jumps off for a leg drop. Stonehart manages to roll out of the way, and Harrington meets nothing but mat.
Reed manages to get to his feet first, holding his ass. He pulls Stonehart up, but SH fights back with left and right hands, fighting with everything he has left. Harrington gets rocked as he backs up into the ropes. Stonehart whips him across the ring and hits him with a Big Boot. Harrington goes down but pops up through momentum. Stonehart pulls Harrington up and hits an Impaler.
TD: Tribute to Blader!
Stonehart goes for the cover.
1…
2…
Harrington just gets a shoulder up.
KK: Oh that was close.
Stonehart pulls Harrington up and hits him with a European Uppercut, knocking him back into a corner. Stonehart then sits Reed on the top turnbuckle. Stonehart slowly starts to climb up, and soon they are both standing on the top rope.
Stonehart hooks Harrington’s head, and gives him a huge superplex into the ring.
TD: Harrington just fell like 16 feet!
KK: That’s like a whole story.
Stonehart was also hurt during the move. He spends a couple of seconds sucking in air, looking up at the lights. Then, he rolls over and gets an arm across Harrington.
1…
2…
Reed barely, and I mean barely gets a shoulder up. The crowd visibly moans.
Stonehart pushes himself up to his feet, his face a crimson mask. He looks down at Harrington like a man possessed and yells at him to get up. Reed does, slowly, and receives a hard knee to the gut for his troubles. SH puts the World Champ in a standing head scissors and lifts him up for a powerbomb, but somehow Reed manages to punch Stonehart in the head a few times before giving him a Hurricanrauna.
SH gets flipped right into the corner, somehow managing to get caught in a tree of woe. Harrington takes advantage by giving Stonehart a baseball slide, mashing his face in.
KK: Stonehart is losing his good looks faster than UWA is losing their talent!
Reed frees Stonehart from the corner before dragging him into the middle of the ring. Pulling him up, Harrington grabs Stonehart in a full nelson and gives him a Dragon Suplex, screaming at the pain in his mid-section but still holding on anyways.
1…
2…
Stonehart kicks out.
TD: What will it take to put either of these men away?
KK: I don’t know!
Harrington slowly gets to his feet and calls for the end. He pulls Stonehart up and hooks him for the Kenta Slam, but Stonehart gets up with an elbow to the head. Stonehart then boots Harrington in the gut and lifts him for the Forgotten Sunrise, but he spins him too fast. Reed uses what little abdominal strength he has left to land on his feet, grab Stonehart, and…
TD: Kenta SLAM!!!!!!
Harrington collapses onto Stonehart.
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2…
3!!!
The crowd gets up and applauds the two men’s efforts. The ref hands the world title to an exhausted Harrington as a trainer gets some towels to Stonehart.