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The show opens with a historical montage dedicated to the Dallas Sportatorium followed by the show opening:
PPV Theme Song – Hell Yeah by Rev Theory
AND NOW, DON KING PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS THE HISTORIC PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING EXTRAVAGANZA, LAST CALL!
Scene Set: Inside the Sportatorium there is a small entranceway set-up with a video screen just above. Outside the Arena is a concert stage set up with a larger video screen so the fans outside can take in the action.
Jim Ross (JR): Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the final night of professional wrestling ever here at the fabled Dallas Sportatorium. I am joined by my long-time colleague “Dirty” Dutch Mantel (Dutch). It’s great to be here Dutch…
Dutch: It is great to be here, not necessarily with you mind you.
JR: Well thanks Dutch I guess….., and now we go to our colleague Marc Lowrance who is outside the building with somewhat unwanted guests.
We go outside where Marc Lowrance is running up to interview Buff Bagwell and the nWo. They are set-up outside the Sportatorium outdoor roadshow style. Horace Hogan is BBQing. Kyle Petty is there with the nWo Race Car, as is new nWo benefactor Dennis Rodman. As well, Konnan, Scott Norton, and Stevie Ray are present, as are some nWo fans in nWo black and aqua apparel. Yes, black and aqua.
Lowrance: Mr. Bagwell are you here to accept the challenge laid down by the Fabulous Freebirds to meet them in the ring where it matters?
Buff: We said we were going to invade and if that means beating the Freebirds within an inch of their life in the ring, fine with us. Cause if you aren’t with us, you’re against us.
Horace: Hey Buff, do you want a hot dog?
Buff: I’m kind of busy right now, OK? Where we we?
Lowrance: There are reports of some changes in the New World Order, new ownership, new leadership, new colors, do you care to elaborate?
Buff: Yup, you could say were putting the “new” in New World Order (as Buff give the camera a cheesy look with the double pointing fingers).
Lowrance: Holy Cow.
Buff: And I’m the new leader of the nWo!
Stevie Ray: Bagwell you ain’t the leader, I am.
Bagwell: Listen here, you had your chance with the B-team and looked how that turned out.
Stevie Ray: You got a point but who made you leader? How about I’ll be the Assistant Leader?
Buff: You mean assistant to the leader?
New nWo financial benefactor Dennis Rodman walks over.
Rodman: Gentlemen, gentlemen there will be plenty of glory to go around.
Lowrance: Mr. Rodman why have you decided to become the new financial benefactor of the nWo?
Rodman: Simply put there is a lot of money to be made baby. Sure, the nWo had a set-back after nWo HOSS-a-Mania but as you can see there is new management in place. This will be a lean, mean, black and aquamarine express. We can’t make these TV shirts fast enough. Only $9.99. It is 2 sweeeeeeeetttttt!
Lowrance: Holy Cow. OK JR, back to you.
We reconvene inside the Sportatorium where Abdullah the Butcher is standing inside the ring with his new manager, Mr. Fuji, who has a mic.
Fuji: My Abdullah will make any man bleed. He is Madman of Sudan. He challenges any professional wrestler to First Blood match!
After a brief pause a familiar song kicks in over the loudspeakers. It sounds like the opening riff of “Enter Sandman” by Metallica. Can it be? It is! It’s the ECW World Champion. He’s here. It’s the Sandman!
The Sandman arrives through the crowd with his typical entrance, smashing beer cans on his head and smoking a cigarette. The fans in the Sportatorium are going crazy and singing along to Enter Sandman. After about 5 minutes and nearly the entirety of “Enter Sandman” playing through, The Sandman finally arrives in the ring and goes face-to-face with Abdullah.
Match 1 – Abdullah the Butcher vs. The Sandman (ECW World Champion) in a First Blood Hardcore match.
Referee: David Manning
Abdullah and the Sandman to beat the crap out of each other all over the ring area in a violent first blood hardcore match. Both use multiple weapons to try and make the other bleed first.
The Finish: With Abdullah down the Sandman reaches under the ring and hauls out a Kendo stick with forks attached to the end. Sandman uses the modified weapon on a prone Abdullah’s skull to cause a large gash in the Butcher’s head and blood starts pouring out profusely.
Winner: The Sandman
JR: We now go to the back to our old friend Bill Mercer who is standing by with the NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Harley Race.
Mercer: Mr. Race, tonight you will be putting your championship on the line against WWF Champion “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. What are your thoughts on the highly anticipated match?
Standing behind Race is his right-hand man/lackey Lenny Montana.
Race: Austin, let me tell you this. I am the greatest professional wrestler on God’s green earth. Nothing means more to me that this title, the World’s heavyweight championship. I cannot believe the NWA officials sanctioned this match and ordered me to defend the most important title in the world against you. You started this Austin, when you swindled me out of championships in Toronto and Atlanta. And then you attacked me in Detroit. Now I’m going to finish it. I plan to finish it early. What that means Austin is you have no chance in hell of taking this title from me. I don’t think you’ll even make it to our match later this evening. I am offering $500,000 dollars to any man who can take you out tonight. You are a disgrace to my chosen profession Austin. You don’t deserve to be in the same ring with me. And I will do everything in my power to ensure that you do not.
Mercer: JR back to you.
JR: Up next folks is a tag match between two men I’ve known a very long time, and two icons of the comedy industry. How did Jay Leno and Drew Carey find themselves in the world of professional wrestling again? Take a look.
Video Package – Drew Carey and Jerry Lawler find themselves as guests on the Tonight Show for the same night. Lawler is interviewed by Leno first and all goes by the numbers. Carey comes out 2nd and Lawler sticks around. As the interview progresses, Leno brings up Carey’s previous involvement in pro wrestling with his participation in the Royal Rumble.
Leno: You had a brief foray into pro wrestling, one that didn’t go very well.
Carey: I was screwed, that Rumble was mine for the taking. And if I recall you (Leno) also had a match once upon a time.
Leno: Mine went a little bit better than yours.
Carey: Oh really? Maybe you’d like to put your money where your mouth is?
Leno: What do you mean?
Carey: Face me in a match?
Leno: You can’t be serious.
Carey: I am dead serious. I’ll tell you what, seeing as you’ve only ever been a tag team wrestler, let’s have a tag team match. You find a partner and I’ll find a partner and we’ll face off at a little show I heard about coming up in Dallas, Texas. Oh look, I have a pro wrestler right here. How about it Jerry, wanna be my partner and beat up Leno?
Lawler: Well, he does look like he has a glass jaw and a very punch able face. Let’s do it. I’m going to embarrass you Leno.
Carey: Well, there you go Leno, you go find a partner and we’ll find out who is Comedy’s king of wrestling.
Carey and Lawler get up and leave the Tonight Show set.
The next week on the Tonight Show Leno announces he has found a partner for the tag team match at Last Call. Out comes the WCW World Television Champion, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan. Duggan comes out with a 2x4 and an American flag. HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Duggan and the audience start chanting USA, USA, USA !!!!!!
A week later while Leno is hosting the Tonight show a director comes up mid-sentence to Leno and hands him an envelope. Leno opens it up and reads it to the audience. It is from Carey and Lawler. It states that their match at Last Call will be a Taped Fist Tag Team match.
Match 2 – “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan (WCW World Television Champion) and Jay Leno vs. Jerry “The King” Lawler (AWA World Champion) and Drew Carey in a Taped Fist Tag Team match.
Referee: David Manning
Ring Announcer: Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Carey and Lawler come to the ring to Lawler’s WWF theme music. Leno and Duggan come out next to Duggan’s WCW theme. Both Duggan and Leno are carrying 2x4s and American flags.
The match is primarily between Duggan and Lawler. At one point Manning is trying to keep Leno out of the ring while Lawler and Carey have Duggan tied up in the ropes with the unraveled tape. Leno and Carey do come face-to-face and land punches eventually with their fists taped to inflict maximum damage.
The Finish: Duggan and Carey are the legal men and go to the outside. While the referee is distracted by Duggan and Carey brawling outside (sort of one sided for Duggan).
Suddenly Leno turns on Duggan when he signals Lawler and tosses him a set of brass knuckles. Duggan is the first of the two back in the ring and then Leno purposely distracts the referee so Lawler can nail Duggan with the brass knucks. Then Lawler climbs the ropes and hits a prone Duggan with punch off the top rope with the knucks, and when he goes for the pin Leno jumps off the apron and the referee goes to make the pin, 1-2-3. Lawler, Carey and Leno a jumping around hugging in the ring as the fans boo loudly and a bit of garbage is thrown in the ring. The three make their way to the back to a chorus of boos and jeers.
Winner – Jerry “The King” Lawler and Drew Carey
We now go out by the loading bay of the Sportatorium and arriving in his pick-up truck is WWF Champion “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. No sooner is he out of his truck and he’s attacked by a bleeding and maniacal Abdullah the Butcher trying to collect on Race’s bounty. Austin is fighting him off when a large metal chain hits Abdullah across the back and head and he goes down. Swinging that chain was none other than Bruiser Brody. Abdullah is prone on the ground while Austin and Brody have a stare-off glaring at one another. They both look at Abdullah and Austin turns and looks at a forklift and then back at Brody. Austin heads for the forklift when Brody wraps the chain around Abdullah’s body leaving a length to hold onto. Brody then rolls Abdullah onto a wooden pallet and then Austin picks up the pallet with the forklift and raises The Butcher 15 feet in the air. Brody rolls a dumpster over, grabs the length of chain and hauls Abdullah off the pallet and he falls into the dumpster which Brody then closes shut. The camera then pans back to the forklift and Austin is already gone.
We go back to ringside with JR and Dutch.
JR: Up next folks is the Fabulous Freebirds who have laid down the challenge to the nWo. When the Freebirds found out the nWo decided to invade the last show here at the Sportatorium, they felt they had to defend their territory. They will let the nWo into the arena if they agree to a 4 on 4 Team Elimination match, to which the nWo have.
Badstreet USA kicks in over the loudspeakers and out strut the Fabulous Freebirds consisting of “Gorgeous” Jimmy Garvin, Buddy “Jack” Roberts, and Badstreet lead by Michael “PS” Hayes. The foursome get into the ring and Hayes grabs a mic.
Hayes: New World Order if your goal is to spend tonight in a Dallas hospital, then by all means, come on into the house the Freebirds built!
The Classic nWo Rockhouse theme music kicks in. After about 45 seconds the nWo members begin to appear just to the right of the entranceway. Out from the side of the entrance come Buff Bagwell, Stevie Ray, Scott Norton, Konnan and Dennis Rodman and they slowly make their way to the ring.
JR: Funny fact Dutch, both teams here have members who have released musical albums.
Dutch: Who? These guys? You must be joking.
JR: I’m serious Dutch, Konnan and Michael Hayes have released albums.
Dutch: I’m guessing both their albums went plywood.
Match 3 – The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael “PS” Hayes, Buddy “Jack” Roberts, “Gorgeous” Jimmy Garvin, and Badstreet) vs. The New World Order (Buff Bagwell, Konnan, Stevie Ray, and Scott Norton with Dennis Rodman).
Referee – Mills Lane
Roberts eliminates Konnan. Stevie Ray then eliminates Roberts. Buff Bagwell eliminates Badstreet. Garvin eliminates Norton. It’s now down to Hayes and Garvin versus Bagwell and Stevie Ray. Bagwell hits the Buff Blockbuster on Hayes and goes for the pin, but Stevie Ray makes the blind tag and becomes the legal man. Buff and Stevie Ray start arguing which allows Hayes to make the hot tag to Garvin who cleans house and pins Stevie Ray.
The Finish: Now two-on-one, tagging in and out Hayes and Garvin use tandem tag team offense to inflict punishment on Bagwell until Hayes makes the easy 1-2-3 pin on Bagwell to win the match.
Winner – The Fabulous Freebirds
We go to Bill Mercer in the backstage area who has Lawler, Carey and Leno for a post-match interview.
Mercer: Lawler, what do you have to say for yourself?
Lawler: First of all, don’t judge me Mercer that idiot Duggan had it coming. Duggan you idiot did you really think a comedy legend, a television icon, like Jay Leno would ever truly want to team up with the likes of you? After you caused our tag team to lose on Monday Night Raw, I made it my mission to embarrass you in front of the whole world and I recruited the two true Kings of Comedy to help me put you in your place. And that’s exactly what we did. And if you ever come near any of us again Duggan, you’ll eat that 2x4 mark my words. C’mon let’s go celebrate!
Lawler, Carey and Leno walk off while continuing to celebrate their victory.
Mercer: Back to you JR.
JR: Well folks our next match is a match-up of two MMA legends who never faced each other until now. Dan Severn and Don Frye are two of the toughest fighters ever in MMA and Pro Wrestling and now they will finally go toe-to-toe in a 20-min Iron Man match. Take a look.
Video Package: A package airs highlighting the battles between Frye and Severn in MMA and Pro Wrestling. Now closer to the end of their careers than the beginning, they teamed up for a radio show called the Realest Guys in the Room. It proved to be quite popular. At first both men got along quite well, but neither fighter would admit on air that their counterpart was the better fighter. Frye in particular used to take shots at Severn claiming Severn could never defeat him in a match. Eventually this reached a boiling point and Severn challenged Frye on-air and said he had already spoken to Don King about making the match for Last Call. King agreed to book the match on the conditions he could select a Special Guest Referee to help sell it. King reached out to former Boxing World Champion and current D-Generation X member “Iron” Mike Tyson as Tyson had experience officiating previously at WrestleMania. The other condition was it was to be no ordinary match but a 20-min Iron Man Match where the man with the most pinfalls would be declared the winner. Thus, the match was set.
Match 4 – Dan “The Beast” Severn vs. Don “The Predator” Frye in a 20-min Iron Man match.
Referee: “Iron” Mike Tyson
Ring Announcer: Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Mike Tyson comes out first to DX’s theme music. Don Frye is the next performer to make his entrance, this time to Chaos A.D. by Sepultura. Dan Severn makes his way out to his WWF entrance theme.
The first 19 minutes of the match was a hard-hitting contest where neither man held anything back. An exhibition of classic grappling and expert striking but no falls. At about the 17-minute mark Frye hit Severn with a roundhouse right that rattled Severn and busted him open real good, blood was flowing profusely.
The Finish: At roughly the 19 minute mark Frye nails Severn with a hard suplex and goes for a pinfall. Tyson rushes over but slips on the pile of blood on the mat from Severn and fails to make the 3-count on time. Frye is incensed and gets in Tyson’s face and Tyson’s drops Frye with a knockout punch. Severn recovers in time to get his arm across Frye’s chest for a pin attempt and Tyson makes the 1-2-3 count and Severn wins the Iron Man match 1-0 just as time expires.
Winner – Dan “The Beast” Severn
The camera shot goes outside to find Harley Race’s main lackey, Lenny Montana, propositioning the nWo, who are still smarting from their defeat by the Freebirds.
Montana: I am here on behalf of the World’s heavyweight champion, Harley Race. It is an honor do his bidding on this day as I have pledged my never-ending loyalty to our World’s champion. To our World’s champion. I am here to make the New World Order an offer it cannot refuse. Cannot refuse. The great Harley Race is willing to offer you $1 million dollars to take out Stephen Austin. That is double the original offer. Double the offer. Will you accept his great offer?
Rodman: For a cool $1 million sure I think the nWo can help you out with that. Tell you what, give us $500,000 up front, and another $500,000 when we finish the job. Do we have a deal, Lenny?
No sooner did Rodman make his counteroffer than the sound of a loud horn is heard blaring and a pair of headlights is seen from about 50 feet away. The camera goes to the where the lights are and it’s Stone Cold and he’s driving the 3:16 Monster truck! He nails the gas and heads straight for the nWo’s roadshow set-up running over the tent and BBQ. Austin sets his sights on the nWo race car and uses the Monster truck to absolutely destroy Kyle Petty’s nWo race car. Austin stops the truck and jumps out where he is immediately attacked by the nWo members.
Austin proceeds to take out Norton, Konnan, Buff, Stevie Ray, Horace and Rodman using the 3:16 Monster truck and the mangled nWo race car as weapons. Kyle Petty runs away rather than face Austin’s wrath.
Austin then turns his attention toward Lenny Montana. Stone Cold begins beating on Montana, getting him down and repeatedly stomping him in the stomach.
Austin: You’re gonna sleep with the fishes tonight, you piece of trash!
Montana is left crumpled up on the parking lot pavement in a heap by Austin as Stone Cold looks into the camera and tells Race that he’s knows he’s watching, and Austin is coming for him.
We head back inside to JR and Dutch.
JR: Our next match is a long, long time coming. Kevin Von Erich has fought for years for this rematch with Bradshaw and finally he gets his rematch tonight for the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship. Here is how we got here.
Video Package – Several years earlier, JBL, performing as “John Hawk” defeated Kevin Von Erich for the NWA North American Heavyweight championship. At the time it was considered a fluke that an inexperienced wrestler like John Hawk would defeat a skilled veteran like Von Erich. Hawk (JBL) then refused to grant Von Erich his mandatory rematch for the title. Frustrated, Von Erich sued Bradshaw to try and force the rematch.
The problem Von Erich faced was that Bradshaw had invested his money wisely and was becoming much wealthier at an exponential rate. As he became richer and richer, he began performing as John “Bradshaw” Layfield or JBL and had the financial means to hire the best lawyers and could keep this lawsuit in legal purgatory seemingly forever. Several years have passed by and Von Erich had all but given up on his mandatory rematch and was set to retire from the sport when a new young lawyer based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico looking to make a name for themselves took the case on pro-bono and found a legal loophole in the contract. The lawyer was able to persuade a judge to order JBL to grant the mandatory rematch. Finally, the rematch was on!
Match 5 – Kevin Von Erich vs. John “Bradshaw” Layfield for the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship.
Referee – Mills Lane
Ring Announcer – Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Kevin Von Erich comes out to a huge ovation using Stranglehold as his entrance theme as a tribute to his family. The familiar bells of JBL’s Longhorn WWF theme plays and Bradshaw arrives riding on a large horse to the ring.
Both men come face-to-face and lock up. They engage in a hard-hitting match-up with some classic catch-as-catch-can maneuvers. Von Erick tries his best to keep the match in the ring, but JBL gets him outside the ring where he can do more damage.
The Finish: Kevin Von Erich finally gets JBL in the Iron Claw. It looks like JBL is about to go out, the crowd is wildly behind Von Erich. The referee lifts his arm up twice and it falls both times, but JBL gets a 2nd wind and makes the 3 count. JBL wraps his arms around Von Erich’s waist and backs into the ropes for momentum then throws Von Erich across the ring. Kevin bounces off the ropes and into a waiting Clothesline from Wall Street by JBL. Bradshaw makes the pin for the 1-2-3 to retain the championship to the dismay and shock of the audience.
Winner – John “Bradshaw” Layfield
While the ring crew begins setting up the steel cage for the upcoming match, we go outside to a concert stage where Rev Theory are set to perform their hit song, Light it up.
After the performance two “roadies” dressed in Rev Theory T-shirts run up and push the lead singer out of the way and grab the mic. Both men are in disguise at first but once they grab the mic the rip off their disguises to reveal their identity. It’s Buddy “Jack” Roberts and Jerry Brown, the original Hollywood Blondes.
Roberts: Austin, years ago you stole our gimmick and tarnished the name of the Hollywood Blondes. Well now we’ve finally come to collect in the form of Race’s bounty. So, Austin we know you’re out here somewhere get over here so we can finish this!
After a little wait the fans in the concert audience can here the roar of the 3:16 Monster truck engine. Austin appears and drives the truck right up to the concert stage. He jumps out of the truck and attacks Roberts and Brown. Using the drums and speakers as weapons, Austin lays a whoopin’ on both original Blondes. He eventually puts Jerry Brown’s head through the large snare drum. Then Austin deals with Roberts, hitting him with a Stunner which causes the concert audience to go wild. After the Stone Cold Stunner Austin grabs Roberts by the back of the neck and tosses him out into the crowd where the fans crowd-surf Roberts away. Austin salutes the crowd.
Back in the Sportatorium, the crew has set-up a chain-link steel cage for the next match-up, Ultimo Dragon versus Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka.
JR: Folks you are in for a treat. Don King has created a first-of-its kind match-up, a reverse cage match. Dutch do you want to explain to the fans out there in TV land how this match works?
Dutch: Well, the concept is unique but fairly simple. In this type of cage-match the objective is to climb the cage and rather than escape over the top, you need to hit your finishing move onto your opponent from the top of the cage. What we have here tonight is a battle between the master of the Superfly Splash in Snuka vs. the master of the Asai Moon Sault in Ultimo Dragon. Don King couldn’t have selected two better competitors to debut this new take on the cage match. He said this match would be stupendous and I believe that.
JR: I couldn’t agree more Dutch. Let’s go the ring and Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Match 6 – ECW World Television Champion Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka vs. J-Crown Champion, NWA World Middleweight Champion, and WCW Cruiserweight Champion Ultimo Dragon.
Referee – Mills Lane
Lennon introduces the Jimmy Snuka first. He comes out to his WWF theme. Next out is the Japanese legend, Ultimo Dragon to his WCW theme. Both men receive warm reactions from the fans in attendance. They enter the cage through the door and then it is padlocked.
Ultimo and Snuka have a back-and-forth contest with both competitors getting in an ample amount of offense. Both utilize their athleticism and high-flying moves to inflict punishment on the other. The fans are torn as they like and appreciate both performers.
The Finish: Dragon whips Snuka into the corner chest-first. Snuka grabs ahold of the top turnbuckle and exposes the steel bolt. Dragon is unaware the turnbuckle bolt is exposed and a couple minutes later Snuka launches Ultimo into the exposed turnbuckle. Ultimo is prone in the middle of the ring and Snuka climbs the cage, He gets to the top and signals for his Superfly Splash and jumps but at the last second Ultimo Dragon moves out of the way. After regaining his composure Ultimo uses the same exposed turnbuckle on Snuka by grabbing Jimmy by the back of the head and slamming his head into the exposed turnbuckle. Ultimo slowly makes his way to the top of the steel cage. He gets in position and launches off the top for the Asai Moon Sault which he hits clean on Jimmy Snuka for the victory.
Winner – Ultimo Dragon
We go backstage where Austin has finally made his way inside the building. He is blindsided by a masked man in coveralls. Despite the surprise attack Austin eventually gets the better of the masked man and has him on the ground trying to back away until he brings up in a garage door
Masked Man: Please, please no more Steve!
Austin recognizes the voice and rips the mask off. It’s “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan!
Duggan: I’m sorry Steve, I had to I need the money. You saw what Lawler and Leno did to me. You know, I started out as a bounty hunter. But but but my mistake Steve, I just figured you know, where I did defeat you for the US title once that I had a good chance to collect the bounty. You understand, don’t you?
Austin already looked pissed off but when Duggan mentioned that US title win Austin’s face got even more intense. Stone Cold start laying boots to Duggan on the floor until Duggan can’t take anymore and Austin walks off leaving Duggan lying in a heap up against the garage door.
We go back to ringside with JR and Dutch.
JR: Well folks out next match-up involves a performer who has been away from this industry for many years and is making what seems to be a long-awaited return at least judging by the reactions of fans to this man’s return. Dutch did you ever cross paths with the notorious “Dr. D”?
Dutch – I did have the misfortune of crossing paths with Schultz back in the day. There are a lot of lunatics out there. And then there is Dr. D. He is a special kind of lunatic.
JR: Hopefully Dutch he didn’t hear you say that. God knows what his reaction would be. Here’s a clip of why “Dr. D” has decided to return to the ring to settle an old score.
Video Package – In a famous incident “Dr. D” David Schultz was interviewed by ABC Reporter John Stossel backstage at Madison Square Garden and after being asked if pro wrestling was fake, Schultz hit Stossel twice with open hand slips. Stossel claimed to suffer hearing issues after the attack and sued. Despite being a main event level player at the time, Schultz was black balled by the wrestling industry after that incident.
Stossel along with being a reporter was also an author and had release several books. He was on tour for his latest book in which he continues to say derogatory things about the Schultz and pro wrestling industry. Stossel is doing a book signing near where Schultz now lives and when Schultz learns of the book signing, he decides it is a fantastic opportunity to confront Stossel. Schultz shows up abruptly to Stossel’s book signing and it takes the entire Mall Security staff to get him out of the building. All the while Schultz is calling Stossel down to the dirt and questions his manhood. Just before Schultz is out through the door Stossel yells “stop stop” and approaches Schultz with 10 security in between them and makes a challenge.
Stossel: While I won’t fight you David, clearly you have repressed issues about what happened years ago. I feel bad for you David, so I’ll give you one chance. I’ll find a representative, a champion if you will, of my choosing, to stand in for me in a match against you. If you win, and you won’t, I’ll give you 3 minutes alone in the ring with me. But if you lose, and you will, you have to kiss my ass in front of the entire world! Screaming and yelling like a madman Schultz accepts the challenge, at least we think so.
Stossel approaches Don King about having the match at Last Call. King loves the idea but isn’t convinced Stossel will live up to his end of the bargain should Sid lose and demands that Stossel be locked in a cage hanging above the ring to make sure he cannot get away.
Stossel and ABC schedule a press conference to announce who Stossel has found as his champion with Schultz in attendance. Out comes the current WCW World Heavyweight Champion, “The Millennium Man” Sid Vicious.
Schultz wastes no time getting in the face of Sid and the two start pushing and shoving and event security has to step in and break it up. Schultz even takes a swipe at Stossel in the confusion but misses. The dislike between Schultz and Sid is immediate and palpable.
Match 7 – “Dr. D” David Schultz vs. WCW World Heavyweight Champion “The Millennium Man” Sid Vicious with John Stossel suspended in a cage above the ring.
*If Schultz wins, he gets 3 minutes alone with Stossel
**If Sid wins, Schultz must kiss John Stossel’s ass.
Referee: David Manning
Ring Announcer – Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Despite spending most of his career as a villain Schultz gets a positive reaction from the fans in attendance as he makes his way to the ring to no entrance music. Sid Vicious and Stossel come out to Sid’s WWF theme music.
The match will never be confused with a technical wrestling clinic as both Schultz and Vicious engage in a hard-hitting and very physical contest. Lots of brawling and action on the outside. Sid is methodical in his approach and goes after Schultz’s right knee to try and prevent the Southern Piledriver.
The Finish: Sid hits not one but two Powerbombs on Schultz and goes for the pin. Schultz barely kicks out at 2 to the shock of everyone watching. Sid cannot believe he kicked out. Schultz’s intensity is taken to another level, and he goes hard at Vicious eventually weakening him enough to position him for the Southern Piledriver which he hits and pins Sid Vicious 1-2-3.
Winner – “Dr. D” David Schultz
With the victory Schultz now gets his 3 minutes alone with Stossel. The cage is lowered to the center of the ring and Schultz opens the door and grabs Stossel by the throat and drags him out of the cage which is then risen to clear way. Stossel is absolutely terrified as Schultz has him on his knees grabbing him by the collar and necktie with his left hand. Stossel is crying and slobbering trying to apologize to Schultz while Dr. D works the crowd threatening to hit Stossel with a right hand. Stossel is that scared he begins to soil himself in the ring and it’s clearly visible to the audience. With seemingly the crowd’s approval Schultz hauls back and hits Stossel with a right hand to the side of the head. Then he hits him again. And again. And again. Then he starts kicking and kicking Stossel and this is starting to become uncomfortable to watch. And the more Schultz hurts Stossel the happier “Dr. D” is becoming. A large smile is present on Schultz’s face, and he is in his glee enjoying hurting Stossel. The fans in attendance turn on Schultz and start to boo loudly and start throwing garbage into the ring witnessing this now disturbing incident. A couple fans rush the ring in Stossel’s defense, but Schultz fights them off as well. “Dr. D” starts yelling at the audience.
Schultz: You stupid people, this is who Dr. D was all along! Didn’t you know that? What’s wrong with you?
Eventually the traumatic 3 minutes is over. Medical personnel rush to Stossel’s aid. To a chorus of boos, jeers and hisses Schultz makes his way to the backstage area smiling and laughing while walking backwards so he can relish the damage he’s done to Stossel who is being attended to in the ring by EMTs.
We go back-stage again to Stone Cold walking into a dressing room. When he walks in, he finds The ECW World Champion The Sandman in the room drinking beer out of a cooler. Austin is in a foul mood as Sandman stands up and faces Austin and after starting at one another for 4-5 seconds Sandman smiles then takes a haul of his cigarette but blows the smoke to the side so as not to upset Austin.
Sandman: Well, if it ain’t “Stone Cold”. I heard you like to drink a few beers.
Austin: You heard Stone Cold drinks beer?
Sandman: I did. Over in the cooler is a beer with Stone Cold’s name on it!
Austin: You have a beer?
Sandman: Yup.
Austin: For Stone Cold?
Sandman: Yup
Austin: In that cooler?
Sandman: Yup
Austin: Over there?
Sandman: In that cooler right there (as The Sandman points to it). Just go over and grab a beer compliments of the Sandman!
Austin turns slightly and begins to motion toward the beer cooler keeping The Sandman in view out of the corner of his eye. As Austin begins to reach into the cooler Sandman attacks Austin but Austin was suspicious of The Sandman all along assuming Sandman would try to collect the bounty and is anticipating the attack. This allows Austin to get the jump on The Sandman and he lays a beating on Sandman in the dressing room. Austin then takes the beer cooler with the remaining beer and heads off.
We go back to ringside with JR and Dutch.
JR: Folks we are now ready for our Triple Main event. Up first we have a dream match-up between arguably the two greatest tag teams of all-time meeting for the first and maybe last time ever. I’m talking about the Road Warriors and the Dudley Boyz. Dutch you’ve faced the Road Warriors before, how was that for you?
Dutch: JR they may be the most physical team in the history of pro wrestling. When you had a match against those two you knew you would be in for a long night and a bad morning.
JR: No doubt. I wonder if the Dudley’s know what they’ve gotten themselves into but it’s a match of their own making, so I have no sympathy for them. Here’s a clip of how this dream match came about.
Video Package – The Road Warriors were wrestling in Minnesota when Ellering noticed Little Spike Dudley sitting next to the barricade railing in the audience. Spike smiles at Paul and waves but doesn’t engage Ellering at all.
A couple weeks later, Ellering notices Big Dick Dudley sitting close to the action in the audience. This time Ellering goes over and starts mouthing off to Big Dick asking why he is here. Big Dick doesn’t back down and the commotion is noticed by Hawk and Animal, and they basically forget about the match and confront Big Dick, who backs off and makes his way out of the arena.
A few weeks pass and the Legion of Doom are performing at the Spectrum in Philadelphia when Sign Guy Dudley walks down the aisle stairs carrying some signs. The crowd immediately notices him and halfway down the steps he stops and lifts up his first sign.
“Wanna fight”?
2nd sign
“Last Call”
3rd sign
“Your titles”
4th sign
“Vs. Our’s”
5th sign
“Winner take all”
Hawk and Animal watched the display by Sign Guy Dudley and acknowledge his challenge and both Road Warriors signal as if they accept the challenge for a match against the Dudley Boyz, D-Von and Bubba Ray. The crowd erupts when they see the acceptance of the challenge.
Match 8 – AWA and NWA World Tag Team Champions, The Road Warriors with Paul Ellering vs. WWF and ECW World Tag Team Champions, The Dudley Boyz in a winner-take-all title unification match.
Referee – Mills Lane
Ring Announcer – Michael Buffer
The Dudley Boyz, D-Von and Bubba Ray, make their way out first to their final WWF theme. They get on the mic, and they rip on the crowd, calling them rednecks and hillbillies and trailer trash.
“Iron Man” by Black Sabbath hits and out come the Legion of Doom, the Road Warriors to an aptly named “Road Warrior” pop. For many in the audience it is their first-time seeing Hawk and Animal live and the audience becomes unglued.
Both teams go to each corner while Michael Buffer introduces both teams and then says his signature trademark phrase “Lets get ready to Rumble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”. The crowd cheers as the bell rings and the match begins.
The Road Warriors and Dudley Boyz wrestle a hard-hitting but relatively clean match-up for the first 15 mins. The match stays in the ring with a lot of physicality, power moves, and tandem offense from both teams. The Dudley’s hit the 3D death drop and Hawk kicked out. Conversely the LOD hit the Doomsday Device once on D-Von and he kicked out before the count of 3.
About the 15-minute mark, Sign Guy Dudley, Big Dick Dudley, and Spike Dudley walk down and take seats in the crowd near the barricade.
The Finish - About 20 mins in, Animal sends D-Von outside the ring and the legal man is Bubba Ray, but he has ahold of Hawk and throws Hawk into Referee Mills Lane and Lane becomes incapacitated.
Meanwhile the sitting Dudley’s sense an impending Road Warrior victory, jump the barricade and rush the ring. Ellering cuts them off but it’s 3 on 1. Suddenly out of the back run Droz and Jon Heidenrich and even the odds against the denizens of Dudleyville.
With the ref down, Animal body slams Bubba Ray and sets him up for the Doomsday Device. Hawk climbs the top rope and hits the Doomsday Device clothesline and Bubba crashes to the mat. Hawk grabs the ref by the back of the collar and revives Lane enough for Lane to recognize the pin attempt by Animal and Lane counts the 1-2-3 making the Road Warriors now AWA, NWA, ECW and WWF tag team world champions!
Winners – The Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal
We go to the back and it’s Stone Cold Steve Austin and he’s in dressing room bathroom area and as he attempts to leave, he finds none other than the notorious “Dr. D” David Schultz standing in his way blocking Austin’s exit.
Schultz looks at Stone Cold with disdain. “You ain’t so tough, boy” as Schultz gets right in Austin’s face. “If anyone is collecting any bounties around here, it’s Dr. D!”. Schultz being a legitimate bounty hunter by trade.
Austin and Schultz begin to brawl in the bathroom area. They slam their way through the stalls surrounding the toilets. Austin begins to get the better of Schultz and grabs Schultz by the back of the head and puts Schultz’s head through a porcelain urinal. Schultz appears to be out cold as Austin leaves the scene.
We go back to JR and Dutch at ringside.
JR: Well Dutch I think it’s safe to say we are in for something special in our next match-up.
Dutch: This is going to be a treat for any wrestling fan JR. We’ve never had a TLC match in the Sportatorium and I think it’s safe to say we’ve never had a TLC match ever with two competitors quite like Edge and Bruiser Brody. Brody I can attest is every bit the wild man people think he is. But Edge is smart and cunning and has more experience in this type of match so it should be a hell of a match-up.
JR: Totally agree Dutch. Folks, here’s some footage of how this match came about.
Video Package - At a recent pro wrestling show, Vickie Guerrero was sitting in the dressing room waiting for Edge to finish showering after his match when Bruiser Brody walked into the dressing room. With Edge unaware, Vickie was terrified of the massive and wild Brody. Brody backs here off and looks over at the WWF Intercontinental and WCW United States Championship belts and grabs the WCW US title belt and leaves. Afterward Edge comes out of the shower and freaks out when he notices his US belt gone. Vickie tries to explain it wasn’t her fault, but Edge is furious, and he leaves.
The following week, Vickie Guerrero comes out to the ring and grabs a mic.
“Excuse me!”
The crowd boos.
“I said excuse me!”
The crowd boos louder.
“Bruiser Brody, my husband Edge couldn’t be here tonight. But I, I mean we, want to issue you a challenge. Bring that US title belt you blatantly stole like a thief in the night. Bring it to Dallas, Texas at Last Call. My lover Edge will bring his Intercontinental championship and we’ll hang both above the ring and the winner will be the man who climbs a ladder and grabs both belts because it will be a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match!”
The next week Brody is at a wrestling event where he is in the ring being interviewed by Marc Lowrance. He’s carrying the US title belt and tells the world he accepts the match at Last Call and promises it will be the most brutal TLC match off all-time.
Match 9 – Bruiser Brody vs. WWF Intercontinental Champion and WCW United States Champion “The Rated R Superstar” Edge with Vickie Guerrero in a TLC championship match.
Referee – David Manning
Ring Announcer – Michael Buffer
The challenger Bruiser Brody comes out first to the Immigrant Song by Led Zepplin. Brody has the US title and his large chain. Brody is clearly the fan favorite in this match-up. He gets in the ring and hands over the US title belt. Metalingus by Alter Bridge hits and out comes Edge with Vickie Guerrero in tow. He grabs a steel chair and enters the ring then hands over his Intercontinental title belt.
Michel Buffer introduces both competitors and once again does his signature catch-phrase.
Edge and Brody have a TLC match that has a bit of everything. They fight toe-to-toe in the ring using punches and drop-kicks and other maneuvers. Edge brings in a ladder and both me get their licks in using the ladder as a weapon. They brawl all over the Sportatorium leaving a mess in their wake. Both men are eventually bleeding profusely. JR and Dutch’s announcing table was destroyed by a Brody piledriver on Edge through the table. Shortly before Edge speared Brody through a table positioned on the outside against a barricade. While on the outside Brody swings his chain at Edge but Edge blocks it with a chair. They brawl more when Edge gets a very solid headshot on Brody with a chair that staggers the wild man.
The Finish – Brody falls to the concrete floor back first. Edge sets up and hits the Con-Chair-To on Brody and then grabs a massive 17-foot ladder and climbs to the top. Edge jumps and lands a Senton Bomb on Brody. Edge tries to make his way back to ringside and into the ring but after a brutal match he’s slow and staggered. He gets to the ring and sets up a ladder, but Brody has recovered somewhat, and he has his large chain. Edge is almost to the top and Brody rolls into the ring and swings the chain like a whip at Edge and it stuns him. Brody climbs the other side of the ladder and wraps the chain around Edge then jumps and pulls Edge off the ladder to the mat. Brody ties the chain around Edge and then ties the other end around the steel post. Vickie tries to free Edge by untying his foot from the steel post but she’s too late and fumbles around meanwhile Brody climbs the awaiting ladder and retrieves the two title belts to become WWF Intercontinental and WCW United States Champion much to the delight of the Sportatorium audience. Brody goes out into the crowd with his two titles belts to celebrate with the fans.
Winner – Bruiser Brody
After the ring crew clear the area of the debris left from the war between Edge and Bruiser Brody, Michael Buffer introduces Verne Gagne as they begin the Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony for Buddy Robinson. Verne has a microphone and talks about his friendship with Robinson and how much he means to the world of pro wrestling and combat sports. Buffer introduces Buddy Robinson, and he gets in the ring and is handed a microphone where he thanks Verne and the wrestling fans, and they present him with a large plaque in his honor and both men get a warm reception.
In the backstage parking area we see an angry Rated R Superstar storming out of the arena with a suitcase in hand. Vickie Guerrero is running after him begging and screaming for him to stop.
Edge: Let me explain it to you Vickie. First, you let Brody steal my US title belt. Then you get me into a TLC match of all things against a wild lunatic swinging a steel chain around. And to top it off you couldn’t even untie my foot causing me to lose the match. So guess what that means Vickie. It means we are done. I want a divorce!
Edge rips off his wedding ring and tosses it onto the ground and jumps aboard a black Lincoln Continental and drives off. Vickie drops to her knees screaming at the top of her lung as we go back to JR and Dutch at ringside.
JR: Dutch the time has finally come for tonight’s main event. I’m really looking forward to this. And it appears the bounty laid down by Harley Race was unsuccessful.
Dutch: Never say never JR but you’re right Austin will most likely be here for the championship match something Harley said would not happen.
JR: Now let’s take a look on how this once in a lifetime match came to be.
Video Package – Harley Race was having a championship match with AWA World Champion Jerry “The King” Lawler at the Skydome in Toronto, Canada when Stone Cold decided to strike and attacked Lawler causing a disqualification victory for Race, but he didn’t take the AWA title.
A few weeks later Race is wrestling WCW Champion Sid Vicious at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for the WCW title and again Austin strikes causing the DQ victory for Race but no title change.
Not long after Race is competing against Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka for the ECW World Television Championship at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit and Austin strikes for the 3rd time, but this time he goes at Race himself, attacking Race like only the Texas Rattlesnake can. Stomping a mudhole in his ass and walking it dry. Afterwards Race is incensed but claims Austin will never get a match for his world championship.
Austin then appealed to the NWA Board of Directors for a title unification match with Race. The board are confident Race would defeat Austin and gaining control over the WWF Championship would be advantageous, so the board agreed to the unification match much to the chagrin of “The Mad Dog” Harley Race. They then sold the rights to the match to Don King for his Pay-Per-View Extravaganza, Last Call,
Match 10 – WWF Champion “Stone Cold” Steve Austin vs. NWA World Heavyweight Champion “The Mad Dog” Harley Race in a winner-take-all title unification match.
Referee – David Manning
Ring Announcer – Michael Buffer
Harley Race walks out first to the tune of Galaxy Express. Harley takes his time getting to the ring. He doesn’t receive a warm welcome and you can tell by his face he’s not happy Austin made it all the way to the match, and no one could successfully collect the bounty. But he’s not scared either. This will be a match-up of two of the toughest world champions in the history of the sport.
Race’s theme music stops playing and the crowd grows anxious then suddenly they hear the sound of glass breaking and the roof practically comes off the Sportatorium as Stone Cold makes his entrance to the heavy bassline of his Hell Frozen Over theme as he hits all four corners.
The scowl on Austin’s face is palpable as he is incensed at this point after having to fight off many bounty hunters throughout the course of the night. Michael Buffer introduces Race first and Austin second. Everybody is on their feet in anticipation. Buffer begins to go into his signature catchphrase he gets as far as “Leeeeeettttts get ready” and Austin can’t handle his rage any longer and attacks Race before Buffer can finish. Buffer gets out of the ring as fast as he can. The bell rings and the main event of the night is on.
As expected, Steve Austin and Harley Race engage in an extremely physical contest. Lots of hard suplexes and back body drops. They brawl on the outside multiple times using the steel barricade and steel steps to inflict punishment on each other. Race goes for multiple pinfall attempts. Eventually Race gets cut open but it doesn’t slow him down. Austin almost gets disqualified using the cord from a cameraman to choke out Race.
The Finish – After about 30 minutes of hard-hitting action that kept the Sportatorium audience on their feet, suddenly a gasp comes over the crowd. The notorious “Dr. D” reappears coming out of the back to get his revenge on Stone Cold. His head is bandaged up while spewing profanities at Austin and he’s carrying a large rifle! The off-duty police are slow to get to Schultz but out nowhere Kevin Von Erich runs out and tackles Schultz from behind causing him to drop the gun and give the off-duty police time to subdue Schultz and drag him away yelling and screaming something unintelligible.
The commotion is enough to distract Race and when he turns around, Austin is waiting. Stone Cold kicks Harley in the stomach and hits him with a Stunner which hurts Race but doesn’t put him down. Austin kicks him in the breadbasket again and hits him with a 2nd stunner. The 2nd one knocks Race down but he springs back up, albeit nearly out on his feet. Austin gives him one more kick to the guts for good measure and a 3rd stunner followed by the pinfall 1-2-3 to finally unify the WWF and NWA championships.
Winner – “Stone Cold” Steve Austin
After the match Austin celebrates with a beer bash. Kevin Von Erich climbs into the ring and Austin’s theme music stops and the two men come face-to-face. Austin signals to the ringside attendant to toss him four beers and he hands two to Von Erich. They both smash beers together and drink em’ Stone Cold style as Austin’s music hits again. Austin signals for four more. They smash beers again, but Austin kicks Von Erich in the breadbasket and hits him with a huge Stone Cold Stunner as beer goes everywhere as the glass breaks for the final time. The show closes with Austin on the top turnbuckle having one last beer bash with the fans at the legendary Sportatorium!
POST SHOW: After the camera’s stop rolling Austin breaks character and hosts a final beer bash and celebration in the ring with many of the performers who spent time in the Sportatorium such as Kevin Von Erich, David Manning, and Michael Hayes among others while entertaining the audience in the famous Sportatorium one last time.
PRESENTS
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| TRIPLE MAIN EVENT | ||||
| WWF Champion "Stone Cold" Steve Austin | vs. | NWA World Heavyweight Champion "The Mad Dog" Harley Race | ||
| Singles match to unify the WWF and NWA World Heavyweight Championships | ||||
| WWF Intercontinental Champion and WCW United States Champion "The Rated R Superstar" Edge with Vickie Guerrero | vs. | Bruiser Brody | ||
| TLC match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship and WCW United States Championship | ||||
| NWA Tag Team Champions and AWA Tag Team Champions "The Legion of Doom" The Road Warriors with Paul Ellering | vs. | WWF Tag Team Champions and ECW Tag Team Champions The Dudley Boyz | ||
| Tag Team match to unify the NWA, AWA, WWF, and ECW Tag Team Championships | ||||
| OTHER FEATURED MATCHES | ||||
| NWA North American Heavyweight Champion John "Bradshaw" Layfield | vs. | Kevin Von Erich | ||
| Mandatory singles rematch for the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship | ||||
| "Dr D" David Schultz | vs. | WCW World Heavyweight Champion "The Millennium Man" Sid Vicious with John Stossel | ||
| John Stossel will be locked in a cage above the ring | ||||
| *If Sid wins, Schultz must kiss John Stossel's ass | ||||
| *If Schultz wins, he gets 3 mins alone with Stossel | ||||
| WCW World Television Champion "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and Jay Leno | vs. | AWA World Heavyweight Champion Jerry "The King" Lawler and Drew Carey | ||
| Taped Fist Tag Team match | ||||
| J-Crown Champion, NWA World Middleweight Champion and WCW Cruiserweight Champion Ultimo Dragon | vs. | ECW World Television Champion Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka | ||
| Exhibition Reverse Cage Match (First man to hit finisher from top of the cage is declared the winner) | ||||
| Dan "The Beast" Severn | vs. | Don "The Predator" Frye | ||
| 20-minute Iron Man match with Special Guest Referee DX Member "Iron" Mike Tyson | ||||
| The Fabulous Freebirds | vs. | New World Order (nWo) | ||
| Michael "PS" Hayes, Buddy "Jack" Roberts, "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin and Badstreet | Buff Bagwell, Konnan, Scott Norton and Stevie Ray with Dennis Rodman, Horace Hogan and Kyle Petty | |||
| 4 on 4 Team Elimination Match | ||||
| PLUS | ||||
| Abdullah the Butcher’s "First Blood" Challenge | ||||
| A Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation to Buddy Robinson presented by Verne Gagne | ||||
| Rev Theory in concert |
The show opens with a historical montage dedicated to the Dallas Sportatorium followed by the show opening:
PPV Theme Song – Hell Yeah by Rev Theory
AND NOW, DON KING PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS THE HISTORIC PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING EXTRAVAGANZA, LAST CALL!
Scene Set: Inside the Sportatorium there is a small entranceway set-up with a video screen just above. Outside the Arena is a concert stage set up with a larger video screen so the fans outside can take in the action.
Jim Ross (JR): Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the final night of professional wrestling ever here at the fabled Dallas Sportatorium. I am joined by my long-time colleague “Dirty” Dutch Mantel (Dutch). It’s great to be here Dutch…
Dutch: It is great to be here, not necessarily with you mind you.
JR: Well thanks Dutch I guess….., and now we go to our colleague Marc Lowrance who is outside the building with somewhat unwanted guests.
We go outside where Marc Lowrance is running up to interview Buff Bagwell and the nWo. They are set-up outside the Sportatorium outdoor roadshow style. Horace Hogan is BBQing. Kyle Petty is there with the nWo Race Car, as is new nWo benefactor Dennis Rodman. As well, Konnan, Scott Norton, and Stevie Ray are present, as are some nWo fans in nWo black and aqua apparel. Yes, black and aqua.
Lowrance: Mr. Bagwell are you here to accept the challenge laid down by the Fabulous Freebirds to meet them in the ring where it matters?
Buff: We said we were going to invade and if that means beating the Freebirds within an inch of their life in the ring, fine with us. Cause if you aren’t with us, you’re against us.
Horace: Hey Buff, do you want a hot dog?
Buff: I’m kind of busy right now, OK? Where we we?
Lowrance: There are reports of some changes in the New World Order, new ownership, new leadership, new colors, do you care to elaborate?
Buff: Yup, you could say were putting the “new” in New World Order (as Buff give the camera a cheesy look with the double pointing fingers).
Lowrance: Holy Cow.
Buff: And I’m the new leader of the nWo!
Stevie Ray: Bagwell you ain’t the leader, I am.
Bagwell: Listen here, you had your chance with the B-team and looked how that turned out.
Stevie Ray: You got a point but who made you leader? How about I’ll be the Assistant Leader?
Buff: You mean assistant to the leader?
New nWo financial benefactor Dennis Rodman walks over.
Rodman: Gentlemen, gentlemen there will be plenty of glory to go around.
Lowrance: Mr. Rodman why have you decided to become the new financial benefactor of the nWo?
Rodman: Simply put there is a lot of money to be made baby. Sure, the nWo had a set-back after nWo HOSS-a-Mania but as you can see there is new management in place. This will be a lean, mean, black and aquamarine express. We can’t make these TV shirts fast enough. Only $9.99. It is 2 sweeeeeeeetttttt!
Lowrance: Holy Cow. OK JR, back to you.
We reconvene inside the Sportatorium where Abdullah the Butcher is standing inside the ring with his new manager, Mr. Fuji, who has a mic.
Fuji: My Abdullah will make any man bleed. He is Madman of Sudan. He challenges any professional wrestler to First Blood match!
After a brief pause a familiar song kicks in over the loudspeakers. It sounds like the opening riff of “Enter Sandman” by Metallica. Can it be? It is! It’s the ECW World Champion. He’s here. It’s the Sandman!
The Sandman arrives through the crowd with his typical entrance, smashing beer cans on his head and smoking a cigarette. The fans in the Sportatorium are going crazy and singing along to Enter Sandman. After about 5 minutes and nearly the entirety of “Enter Sandman” playing through, The Sandman finally arrives in the ring and goes face-to-face with Abdullah.
Match 1 – Abdullah the Butcher vs. The Sandman (ECW World Champion) in a First Blood Hardcore match.
Referee: David Manning
Abdullah and the Sandman to beat the crap out of each other all over the ring area in a violent first blood hardcore match. Both use multiple weapons to try and make the other bleed first.
The Finish: With Abdullah down the Sandman reaches under the ring and hauls out a Kendo stick with forks attached to the end. Sandman uses the modified weapon on a prone Abdullah’s skull to cause a large gash in the Butcher’s head and blood starts pouring out profusely.
Winner: The Sandman
JR: We now go to the back to our old friend Bill Mercer who is standing by with the NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Harley Race.
Mercer: Mr. Race, tonight you will be putting your championship on the line against WWF Champion “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. What are your thoughts on the highly anticipated match?
Standing behind Race is his right-hand man/lackey Lenny Montana.
Race: Austin, let me tell you this. I am the greatest professional wrestler on God’s green earth. Nothing means more to me that this title, the World’s heavyweight championship. I cannot believe the NWA officials sanctioned this match and ordered me to defend the most important title in the world against you. You started this Austin, when you swindled me out of championships in Toronto and Atlanta. And then you attacked me in Detroit. Now I’m going to finish it. I plan to finish it early. What that means Austin is you have no chance in hell of taking this title from me. I don’t think you’ll even make it to our match later this evening. I am offering $500,000 dollars to any man who can take you out tonight. You are a disgrace to my chosen profession Austin. You don’t deserve to be in the same ring with me. And I will do everything in my power to ensure that you do not.
Mercer: JR back to you.
JR: Up next folks is a tag match between two men I’ve known a very long time, and two icons of the comedy industry. How did Jay Leno and Drew Carey find themselves in the world of professional wrestling again? Take a look.
Video Package – Drew Carey and Jerry Lawler find themselves as guests on the Tonight Show for the same night. Lawler is interviewed by Leno first and all goes by the numbers. Carey comes out 2nd and Lawler sticks around. As the interview progresses, Leno brings up Carey’s previous involvement in pro wrestling with his participation in the Royal Rumble.
Leno: You had a brief foray into pro wrestling, one that didn’t go very well.
Carey: I was screwed, that Rumble was mine for the taking. And if I recall you (Leno) also had a match once upon a time.
Leno: Mine went a little bit better than yours.
Carey: Oh really? Maybe you’d like to put your money where your mouth is?
Leno: What do you mean?
Carey: Face me in a match?
Leno: You can’t be serious.
Carey: I am dead serious. I’ll tell you what, seeing as you’ve only ever been a tag team wrestler, let’s have a tag team match. You find a partner and I’ll find a partner and we’ll face off at a little show I heard about coming up in Dallas, Texas. Oh look, I have a pro wrestler right here. How about it Jerry, wanna be my partner and beat up Leno?
Lawler: Well, he does look like he has a glass jaw and a very punch able face. Let’s do it. I’m going to embarrass you Leno.
Carey: Well, there you go Leno, you go find a partner and we’ll find out who is Comedy’s king of wrestling.
Carey and Lawler get up and leave the Tonight Show set.
The next week on the Tonight Show Leno announces he has found a partner for the tag team match at Last Call. Out comes the WCW World Television Champion, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan. Duggan comes out with a 2x4 and an American flag. HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Duggan and the audience start chanting USA, USA, USA !!!!!!
A week later while Leno is hosting the Tonight show a director comes up mid-sentence to Leno and hands him an envelope. Leno opens it up and reads it to the audience. It is from Carey and Lawler. It states that their match at Last Call will be a Taped Fist Tag Team match.
Match 2 – “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan (WCW World Television Champion) and Jay Leno vs. Jerry “The King” Lawler (AWA World Champion) and Drew Carey in a Taped Fist Tag Team match.
Referee: David Manning
Ring Announcer: Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Carey and Lawler come to the ring to Lawler’s WWF theme music. Leno and Duggan come out next to Duggan’s WCW theme. Both Duggan and Leno are carrying 2x4s and American flags.
The match is primarily between Duggan and Lawler. At one point Manning is trying to keep Leno out of the ring while Lawler and Carey have Duggan tied up in the ropes with the unraveled tape. Leno and Carey do come face-to-face and land punches eventually with their fists taped to inflict maximum damage.
The Finish: Duggan and Carey are the legal men and go to the outside. While the referee is distracted by Duggan and Carey brawling outside (sort of one sided for Duggan).
Suddenly Leno turns on Duggan when he signals Lawler and tosses him a set of brass knuckles. Duggan is the first of the two back in the ring and then Leno purposely distracts the referee so Lawler can nail Duggan with the brass knucks. Then Lawler climbs the ropes and hits a prone Duggan with punch off the top rope with the knucks, and when he goes for the pin Leno jumps off the apron and the referee goes to make the pin, 1-2-3. Lawler, Carey and Leno a jumping around hugging in the ring as the fans boo loudly and a bit of garbage is thrown in the ring. The three make their way to the back to a chorus of boos and jeers.
Winner – Jerry “The King” Lawler and Drew Carey
We now go out by the loading bay of the Sportatorium and arriving in his pick-up truck is WWF Champion “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. No sooner is he out of his truck and he’s attacked by a bleeding and maniacal Abdullah the Butcher trying to collect on Race’s bounty. Austin is fighting him off when a large metal chain hits Abdullah across the back and head and he goes down. Swinging that chain was none other than Bruiser Brody. Abdullah is prone on the ground while Austin and Brody have a stare-off glaring at one another. They both look at Abdullah and Austin turns and looks at a forklift and then back at Brody. Austin heads for the forklift when Brody wraps the chain around Abdullah’s body leaving a length to hold onto. Brody then rolls Abdullah onto a wooden pallet and then Austin picks up the pallet with the forklift and raises The Butcher 15 feet in the air. Brody rolls a dumpster over, grabs the length of chain and hauls Abdullah off the pallet and he falls into the dumpster which Brody then closes shut. The camera then pans back to the forklift and Austin is already gone.
We go back to ringside with JR and Dutch.
JR: Up next folks is the Fabulous Freebirds who have laid down the challenge to the nWo. When the Freebirds found out the nWo decided to invade the last show here at the Sportatorium, they felt they had to defend their territory. They will let the nWo into the arena if they agree to a 4 on 4 Team Elimination match, to which the nWo have.
Badstreet USA kicks in over the loudspeakers and out strut the Fabulous Freebirds consisting of “Gorgeous” Jimmy Garvin, Buddy “Jack” Roberts, and Badstreet lead by Michael “PS” Hayes. The foursome get into the ring and Hayes grabs a mic.
Hayes: New World Order if your goal is to spend tonight in a Dallas hospital, then by all means, come on into the house the Freebirds built!
The Classic nWo Rockhouse theme music kicks in. After about 45 seconds the nWo members begin to appear just to the right of the entranceway. Out from the side of the entrance come Buff Bagwell, Stevie Ray, Scott Norton, Konnan and Dennis Rodman and they slowly make their way to the ring.
JR: Funny fact Dutch, both teams here have members who have released musical albums.
Dutch: Who? These guys? You must be joking.
JR: I’m serious Dutch, Konnan and Michael Hayes have released albums.
Dutch: I’m guessing both their albums went plywood.
Match 3 – The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael “PS” Hayes, Buddy “Jack” Roberts, “Gorgeous” Jimmy Garvin, and Badstreet) vs. The New World Order (Buff Bagwell, Konnan, Stevie Ray, and Scott Norton with Dennis Rodman).
Referee – Mills Lane
Roberts eliminates Konnan. Stevie Ray then eliminates Roberts. Buff Bagwell eliminates Badstreet. Garvin eliminates Norton. It’s now down to Hayes and Garvin versus Bagwell and Stevie Ray. Bagwell hits the Buff Blockbuster on Hayes and goes for the pin, but Stevie Ray makes the blind tag and becomes the legal man. Buff and Stevie Ray start arguing which allows Hayes to make the hot tag to Garvin who cleans house and pins Stevie Ray.
The Finish: Now two-on-one, tagging in and out Hayes and Garvin use tandem tag team offense to inflict punishment on Bagwell until Hayes makes the easy 1-2-3 pin on Bagwell to win the match.
Winner – The Fabulous Freebirds
We go to Bill Mercer in the backstage area who has Lawler, Carey and Leno for a post-match interview.
Mercer: Lawler, what do you have to say for yourself?
Lawler: First of all, don’t judge me Mercer that idiot Duggan had it coming. Duggan you idiot did you really think a comedy legend, a television icon, like Jay Leno would ever truly want to team up with the likes of you? After you caused our tag team to lose on Monday Night Raw, I made it my mission to embarrass you in front of the whole world and I recruited the two true Kings of Comedy to help me put you in your place. And that’s exactly what we did. And if you ever come near any of us again Duggan, you’ll eat that 2x4 mark my words. C’mon let’s go celebrate!
Lawler, Carey and Leno walk off while continuing to celebrate their victory.
Mercer: Back to you JR.
JR: Well folks our next match is a match-up of two MMA legends who never faced each other until now. Dan Severn and Don Frye are two of the toughest fighters ever in MMA and Pro Wrestling and now they will finally go toe-to-toe in a 20-min Iron Man match. Take a look.
Video Package: A package airs highlighting the battles between Frye and Severn in MMA and Pro Wrestling. Now closer to the end of their careers than the beginning, they teamed up for a radio show called the Realest Guys in the Room. It proved to be quite popular. At first both men got along quite well, but neither fighter would admit on air that their counterpart was the better fighter. Frye in particular used to take shots at Severn claiming Severn could never defeat him in a match. Eventually this reached a boiling point and Severn challenged Frye on-air and said he had already spoken to Don King about making the match for Last Call. King agreed to book the match on the conditions he could select a Special Guest Referee to help sell it. King reached out to former Boxing World Champion and current D-Generation X member “Iron” Mike Tyson as Tyson had experience officiating previously at WrestleMania. The other condition was it was to be no ordinary match but a 20-min Iron Man Match where the man with the most pinfalls would be declared the winner. Thus, the match was set.
Match 4 – Dan “The Beast” Severn vs. Don “The Predator” Frye in a 20-min Iron Man match.
Referee: “Iron” Mike Tyson
Ring Announcer: Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Mike Tyson comes out first to DX’s theme music. Don Frye is the next performer to make his entrance, this time to Chaos A.D. by Sepultura. Dan Severn makes his way out to his WWF entrance theme.
The first 19 minutes of the match was a hard-hitting contest where neither man held anything back. An exhibition of classic grappling and expert striking but no falls. At about the 17-minute mark Frye hit Severn with a roundhouse right that rattled Severn and busted him open real good, blood was flowing profusely.
The Finish: At roughly the 19 minute mark Frye nails Severn with a hard suplex and goes for a pinfall. Tyson rushes over but slips on the pile of blood on the mat from Severn and fails to make the 3-count on time. Frye is incensed and gets in Tyson’s face and Tyson’s drops Frye with a knockout punch. Severn recovers in time to get his arm across Frye’s chest for a pin attempt and Tyson makes the 1-2-3 count and Severn wins the Iron Man match 1-0 just as time expires.
Winner – Dan “The Beast” Severn
The camera shot goes outside to find Harley Race’s main lackey, Lenny Montana, propositioning the nWo, who are still smarting from their defeat by the Freebirds.
Montana: I am here on behalf of the World’s heavyweight champion, Harley Race. It is an honor do his bidding on this day as I have pledged my never-ending loyalty to our World’s champion. To our World’s champion. I am here to make the New World Order an offer it cannot refuse. Cannot refuse. The great Harley Race is willing to offer you $1 million dollars to take out Stephen Austin. That is double the original offer. Double the offer. Will you accept his great offer?
Rodman: For a cool $1 million sure I think the nWo can help you out with that. Tell you what, give us $500,000 up front, and another $500,000 when we finish the job. Do we have a deal, Lenny?
No sooner did Rodman make his counteroffer than the sound of a loud horn is heard blaring and a pair of headlights is seen from about 50 feet away. The camera goes to the where the lights are and it’s Stone Cold and he’s driving the 3:16 Monster truck! He nails the gas and heads straight for the nWo’s roadshow set-up running over the tent and BBQ. Austin sets his sights on the nWo race car and uses the Monster truck to absolutely destroy Kyle Petty’s nWo race car. Austin stops the truck and jumps out where he is immediately attacked by the nWo members.
Austin proceeds to take out Norton, Konnan, Buff, Stevie Ray, Horace and Rodman using the 3:16 Monster truck and the mangled nWo race car as weapons. Kyle Petty runs away rather than face Austin’s wrath.
Austin then turns his attention toward Lenny Montana. Stone Cold begins beating on Montana, getting him down and repeatedly stomping him in the stomach.
Austin: You’re gonna sleep with the fishes tonight, you piece of trash!
Montana is left crumpled up on the parking lot pavement in a heap by Austin as Stone Cold looks into the camera and tells Race that he’s knows he’s watching, and Austin is coming for him.
We head back inside to JR and Dutch.
JR: Our next match is a long, long time coming. Kevin Von Erich has fought for years for this rematch with Bradshaw and finally he gets his rematch tonight for the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship. Here is how we got here.
Video Package – Several years earlier, JBL, performing as “John Hawk” defeated Kevin Von Erich for the NWA North American Heavyweight championship. At the time it was considered a fluke that an inexperienced wrestler like John Hawk would defeat a skilled veteran like Von Erich. Hawk (JBL) then refused to grant Von Erich his mandatory rematch for the title. Frustrated, Von Erich sued Bradshaw to try and force the rematch.
The problem Von Erich faced was that Bradshaw had invested his money wisely and was becoming much wealthier at an exponential rate. As he became richer and richer, he began performing as John “Bradshaw” Layfield or JBL and had the financial means to hire the best lawyers and could keep this lawsuit in legal purgatory seemingly forever. Several years have passed by and Von Erich had all but given up on his mandatory rematch and was set to retire from the sport when a new young lawyer based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico looking to make a name for themselves took the case on pro-bono and found a legal loophole in the contract. The lawyer was able to persuade a judge to order JBL to grant the mandatory rematch. Finally, the rematch was on!
Match 5 – Kevin Von Erich vs. John “Bradshaw” Layfield for the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship.
Referee – Mills Lane
Ring Announcer – Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Kevin Von Erich comes out to a huge ovation using Stranglehold as his entrance theme as a tribute to his family. The familiar bells of JBL’s Longhorn WWF theme plays and Bradshaw arrives riding on a large horse to the ring.
Both men come face-to-face and lock up. They engage in a hard-hitting match-up with some classic catch-as-catch-can maneuvers. Von Erick tries his best to keep the match in the ring, but JBL gets him outside the ring where he can do more damage.
The Finish: Kevin Von Erich finally gets JBL in the Iron Claw. It looks like JBL is about to go out, the crowd is wildly behind Von Erich. The referee lifts his arm up twice and it falls both times, but JBL gets a 2nd wind and makes the 3 count. JBL wraps his arms around Von Erich’s waist and backs into the ropes for momentum then throws Von Erich across the ring. Kevin bounces off the ropes and into a waiting Clothesline from Wall Street by JBL. Bradshaw makes the pin for the 1-2-3 to retain the championship to the dismay and shock of the audience.
Winner – John “Bradshaw” Layfield
While the ring crew begins setting up the steel cage for the upcoming match, we go outside to a concert stage where Rev Theory are set to perform their hit song, Light it up.
After the performance two “roadies” dressed in Rev Theory T-shirts run up and push the lead singer out of the way and grab the mic. Both men are in disguise at first but once they grab the mic the rip off their disguises to reveal their identity. It’s Buddy “Jack” Roberts and Jerry Brown, the original Hollywood Blondes.
Roberts: Austin, years ago you stole our gimmick and tarnished the name of the Hollywood Blondes. Well now we’ve finally come to collect in the form of Race’s bounty. So, Austin we know you’re out here somewhere get over here so we can finish this!
After a little wait the fans in the concert audience can here the roar of the 3:16 Monster truck engine. Austin appears and drives the truck right up to the concert stage. He jumps out of the truck and attacks Roberts and Brown. Using the drums and speakers as weapons, Austin lays a whoopin’ on both original Blondes. He eventually puts Jerry Brown’s head through the large snare drum. Then Austin deals with Roberts, hitting him with a Stunner which causes the concert audience to go wild. After the Stone Cold Stunner Austin grabs Roberts by the back of the neck and tosses him out into the crowd where the fans crowd-surf Roberts away. Austin salutes the crowd.
Back in the Sportatorium, the crew has set-up a chain-link steel cage for the next match-up, Ultimo Dragon versus Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka.
JR: Folks you are in for a treat. Don King has created a first-of-its kind match-up, a reverse cage match. Dutch do you want to explain to the fans out there in TV land how this match works?
Dutch: Well, the concept is unique but fairly simple. In this type of cage-match the objective is to climb the cage and rather than escape over the top, you need to hit your finishing move onto your opponent from the top of the cage. What we have here tonight is a battle between the master of the Superfly Splash in Snuka vs. the master of the Asai Moon Sault in Ultimo Dragon. Don King couldn’t have selected two better competitors to debut this new take on the cage match. He said this match would be stupendous and I believe that.
JR: I couldn’t agree more Dutch. Let’s go the ring and Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Match 6 – ECW World Television Champion Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka vs. J-Crown Champion, NWA World Middleweight Champion, and WCW Cruiserweight Champion Ultimo Dragon.
Referee – Mills Lane
Lennon introduces the Jimmy Snuka first. He comes out to his WWF theme. Next out is the Japanese legend, Ultimo Dragon to his WCW theme. Both men receive warm reactions from the fans in attendance. They enter the cage through the door and then it is padlocked.
Ultimo and Snuka have a back-and-forth contest with both competitors getting in an ample amount of offense. Both utilize their athleticism and high-flying moves to inflict punishment on the other. The fans are torn as they like and appreciate both performers.
The Finish: Dragon whips Snuka into the corner chest-first. Snuka grabs ahold of the top turnbuckle and exposes the steel bolt. Dragon is unaware the turnbuckle bolt is exposed and a couple minutes later Snuka launches Ultimo into the exposed turnbuckle. Ultimo is prone in the middle of the ring and Snuka climbs the cage, He gets to the top and signals for his Superfly Splash and jumps but at the last second Ultimo Dragon moves out of the way. After regaining his composure Ultimo uses the same exposed turnbuckle on Snuka by grabbing Jimmy by the back of the head and slamming his head into the exposed turnbuckle. Ultimo slowly makes his way to the top of the steel cage. He gets in position and launches off the top for the Asai Moon Sault which he hits clean on Jimmy Snuka for the victory.
Winner – Ultimo Dragon
We go backstage where Austin has finally made his way inside the building. He is blindsided by a masked man in coveralls. Despite the surprise attack Austin eventually gets the better of the masked man and has him on the ground trying to back away until he brings up in a garage door
Masked Man: Please, please no more Steve!
Austin recognizes the voice and rips the mask off. It’s “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan!
Duggan: I’m sorry Steve, I had to I need the money. You saw what Lawler and Leno did to me. You know, I started out as a bounty hunter. But but but my mistake Steve, I just figured you know, where I did defeat you for the US title once that I had a good chance to collect the bounty. You understand, don’t you?
Austin already looked pissed off but when Duggan mentioned that US title win Austin’s face got even more intense. Stone Cold start laying boots to Duggan on the floor until Duggan can’t take anymore and Austin walks off leaving Duggan lying in a heap up against the garage door.
We go back to ringside with JR and Dutch.
JR: Well folks out next match-up involves a performer who has been away from this industry for many years and is making what seems to be a long-awaited return at least judging by the reactions of fans to this man’s return. Dutch did you ever cross paths with the notorious “Dr. D”?
Dutch – I did have the misfortune of crossing paths with Schultz back in the day. There are a lot of lunatics out there. And then there is Dr. D. He is a special kind of lunatic.
JR: Hopefully Dutch he didn’t hear you say that. God knows what his reaction would be. Here’s a clip of why “Dr. D” has decided to return to the ring to settle an old score.
Video Package – In a famous incident “Dr. D” David Schultz was interviewed by ABC Reporter John Stossel backstage at Madison Square Garden and after being asked if pro wrestling was fake, Schultz hit Stossel twice with open hand slips. Stossel claimed to suffer hearing issues after the attack and sued. Despite being a main event level player at the time, Schultz was black balled by the wrestling industry after that incident.
Stossel along with being a reporter was also an author and had release several books. He was on tour for his latest book in which he continues to say derogatory things about the Schultz and pro wrestling industry. Stossel is doing a book signing near where Schultz now lives and when Schultz learns of the book signing, he decides it is a fantastic opportunity to confront Stossel. Schultz shows up abruptly to Stossel’s book signing and it takes the entire Mall Security staff to get him out of the building. All the while Schultz is calling Stossel down to the dirt and questions his manhood. Just before Schultz is out through the door Stossel yells “stop stop” and approaches Schultz with 10 security in between them and makes a challenge.
Stossel: While I won’t fight you David, clearly you have repressed issues about what happened years ago. I feel bad for you David, so I’ll give you one chance. I’ll find a representative, a champion if you will, of my choosing, to stand in for me in a match against you. If you win, and you won’t, I’ll give you 3 minutes alone in the ring with me. But if you lose, and you will, you have to kiss my ass in front of the entire world! Screaming and yelling like a madman Schultz accepts the challenge, at least we think so.
Stossel approaches Don King about having the match at Last Call. King loves the idea but isn’t convinced Stossel will live up to his end of the bargain should Sid lose and demands that Stossel be locked in a cage hanging above the ring to make sure he cannot get away.
Stossel and ABC schedule a press conference to announce who Stossel has found as his champion with Schultz in attendance. Out comes the current WCW World Heavyweight Champion, “The Millennium Man” Sid Vicious.
Schultz wastes no time getting in the face of Sid and the two start pushing and shoving and event security has to step in and break it up. Schultz even takes a swipe at Stossel in the confusion but misses. The dislike between Schultz and Sid is immediate and palpable.
Match 7 – “Dr. D” David Schultz vs. WCW World Heavyweight Champion “The Millennium Man” Sid Vicious with John Stossel suspended in a cage above the ring.
*If Schultz wins, he gets 3 minutes alone with Stossel
**If Sid wins, Schultz must kiss John Stossel’s ass.
Referee: David Manning
Ring Announcer – Jimmy Lennon Jr.
Despite spending most of his career as a villain Schultz gets a positive reaction from the fans in attendance as he makes his way to the ring to no entrance music. Sid Vicious and Stossel come out to Sid’s WWF theme music.
The match will never be confused with a technical wrestling clinic as both Schultz and Vicious engage in a hard-hitting and very physical contest. Lots of brawling and action on the outside. Sid is methodical in his approach and goes after Schultz’s right knee to try and prevent the Southern Piledriver.
The Finish: Sid hits not one but two Powerbombs on Schultz and goes for the pin. Schultz barely kicks out at 2 to the shock of everyone watching. Sid cannot believe he kicked out. Schultz’s intensity is taken to another level, and he goes hard at Vicious eventually weakening him enough to position him for the Southern Piledriver which he hits and pins Sid Vicious 1-2-3.
Winner – “Dr. D” David Schultz
With the victory Schultz now gets his 3 minutes alone with Stossel. The cage is lowered to the center of the ring and Schultz opens the door and grabs Stossel by the throat and drags him out of the cage which is then risen to clear way. Stossel is absolutely terrified as Schultz has him on his knees grabbing him by the collar and necktie with his left hand. Stossel is crying and slobbering trying to apologize to Schultz while Dr. D works the crowd threatening to hit Stossel with a right hand. Stossel is that scared he begins to soil himself in the ring and it’s clearly visible to the audience. With seemingly the crowd’s approval Schultz hauls back and hits Stossel with a right hand to the side of the head. Then he hits him again. And again. And again. Then he starts kicking and kicking Stossel and this is starting to become uncomfortable to watch. And the more Schultz hurts Stossel the happier “Dr. D” is becoming. A large smile is present on Schultz’s face, and he is in his glee enjoying hurting Stossel. The fans in attendance turn on Schultz and start to boo loudly and start throwing garbage into the ring witnessing this now disturbing incident. A couple fans rush the ring in Stossel’s defense, but Schultz fights them off as well. “Dr. D” starts yelling at the audience.
Schultz: You stupid people, this is who Dr. D was all along! Didn’t you know that? What’s wrong with you?
Eventually the traumatic 3 minutes is over. Medical personnel rush to Stossel’s aid. To a chorus of boos, jeers and hisses Schultz makes his way to the backstage area smiling and laughing while walking backwards so he can relish the damage he’s done to Stossel who is being attended to in the ring by EMTs.
We go back-stage again to Stone Cold walking into a dressing room. When he walks in, he finds The ECW World Champion The Sandman in the room drinking beer out of a cooler. Austin is in a foul mood as Sandman stands up and faces Austin and after starting at one another for 4-5 seconds Sandman smiles then takes a haul of his cigarette but blows the smoke to the side so as not to upset Austin.
Sandman: Well, if it ain’t “Stone Cold”. I heard you like to drink a few beers.
Austin: You heard Stone Cold drinks beer?
Sandman: I did. Over in the cooler is a beer with Stone Cold’s name on it!
Austin: You have a beer?
Sandman: Yup.
Austin: For Stone Cold?
Sandman: Yup
Austin: In that cooler?
Sandman: Yup
Austin: Over there?
Sandman: In that cooler right there (as The Sandman points to it). Just go over and grab a beer compliments of the Sandman!
Austin turns slightly and begins to motion toward the beer cooler keeping The Sandman in view out of the corner of his eye. As Austin begins to reach into the cooler Sandman attacks Austin but Austin was suspicious of The Sandman all along assuming Sandman would try to collect the bounty and is anticipating the attack. This allows Austin to get the jump on The Sandman and he lays a beating on Sandman in the dressing room. Austin then takes the beer cooler with the remaining beer and heads off.
We go back to ringside with JR and Dutch.
JR: Folks we are now ready for our Triple Main event. Up first we have a dream match-up between arguably the two greatest tag teams of all-time meeting for the first and maybe last time ever. I’m talking about the Road Warriors and the Dudley Boyz. Dutch you’ve faced the Road Warriors before, how was that for you?
Dutch: JR they may be the most physical team in the history of pro wrestling. When you had a match against those two you knew you would be in for a long night and a bad morning.
JR: No doubt. I wonder if the Dudley’s know what they’ve gotten themselves into but it’s a match of their own making, so I have no sympathy for them. Here’s a clip of how this dream match came about.
Video Package – The Road Warriors were wrestling in Minnesota when Ellering noticed Little Spike Dudley sitting next to the barricade railing in the audience. Spike smiles at Paul and waves but doesn’t engage Ellering at all.
A couple weeks later, Ellering notices Big Dick Dudley sitting close to the action in the audience. This time Ellering goes over and starts mouthing off to Big Dick asking why he is here. Big Dick doesn’t back down and the commotion is noticed by Hawk and Animal, and they basically forget about the match and confront Big Dick, who backs off and makes his way out of the arena.
A few weeks pass and the Legion of Doom are performing at the Spectrum in Philadelphia when Sign Guy Dudley walks down the aisle stairs carrying some signs. The crowd immediately notices him and halfway down the steps he stops and lifts up his first sign.
“Wanna fight”?
2nd sign
“Last Call”
3rd sign
“Your titles”
4th sign
“Vs. Our’s”
5th sign
“Winner take all”
Hawk and Animal watched the display by Sign Guy Dudley and acknowledge his challenge and both Road Warriors signal as if they accept the challenge for a match against the Dudley Boyz, D-Von and Bubba Ray. The crowd erupts when they see the acceptance of the challenge.
Match 8 – AWA and NWA World Tag Team Champions, The Road Warriors with Paul Ellering vs. WWF and ECW World Tag Team Champions, The Dudley Boyz in a winner-take-all title unification match.
Referee – Mills Lane
Ring Announcer – Michael Buffer
The Dudley Boyz, D-Von and Bubba Ray, make their way out first to their final WWF theme. They get on the mic, and they rip on the crowd, calling them rednecks and hillbillies and trailer trash.
“Iron Man” by Black Sabbath hits and out come the Legion of Doom, the Road Warriors to an aptly named “Road Warrior” pop. For many in the audience it is their first-time seeing Hawk and Animal live and the audience becomes unglued.
Both teams go to each corner while Michael Buffer introduces both teams and then says his signature trademark phrase “Lets get ready to Rumble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”. The crowd cheers as the bell rings and the match begins.
The Road Warriors and Dudley Boyz wrestle a hard-hitting but relatively clean match-up for the first 15 mins. The match stays in the ring with a lot of physicality, power moves, and tandem offense from both teams. The Dudley’s hit the 3D death drop and Hawk kicked out. Conversely the LOD hit the Doomsday Device once on D-Von and he kicked out before the count of 3.
About the 15-minute mark, Sign Guy Dudley, Big Dick Dudley, and Spike Dudley walk down and take seats in the crowd near the barricade.
The Finish - About 20 mins in, Animal sends D-Von outside the ring and the legal man is Bubba Ray, but he has ahold of Hawk and throws Hawk into Referee Mills Lane and Lane becomes incapacitated.
Meanwhile the sitting Dudley’s sense an impending Road Warrior victory, jump the barricade and rush the ring. Ellering cuts them off but it’s 3 on 1. Suddenly out of the back run Droz and Jon Heidenrich and even the odds against the denizens of Dudleyville.
With the ref down, Animal body slams Bubba Ray and sets him up for the Doomsday Device. Hawk climbs the top rope and hits the Doomsday Device clothesline and Bubba crashes to the mat. Hawk grabs the ref by the back of the collar and revives Lane enough for Lane to recognize the pin attempt by Animal and Lane counts the 1-2-3 making the Road Warriors now AWA, NWA, ECW and WWF tag team world champions!
Winners – The Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal
We go to the back and it’s Stone Cold Steve Austin and he’s in dressing room bathroom area and as he attempts to leave, he finds none other than the notorious “Dr. D” David Schultz standing in his way blocking Austin’s exit.
Schultz looks at Stone Cold with disdain. “You ain’t so tough, boy” as Schultz gets right in Austin’s face. “If anyone is collecting any bounties around here, it’s Dr. D!”. Schultz being a legitimate bounty hunter by trade.
Austin and Schultz begin to brawl in the bathroom area. They slam their way through the stalls surrounding the toilets. Austin begins to get the better of Schultz and grabs Schultz by the back of the head and puts Schultz’s head through a porcelain urinal. Schultz appears to be out cold as Austin leaves the scene.
We go back to JR and Dutch at ringside.
JR: Well Dutch I think it’s safe to say we are in for something special in our next match-up.
Dutch: This is going to be a treat for any wrestling fan JR. We’ve never had a TLC match in the Sportatorium and I think it’s safe to say we’ve never had a TLC match ever with two competitors quite like Edge and Bruiser Brody. Brody I can attest is every bit the wild man people think he is. But Edge is smart and cunning and has more experience in this type of match so it should be a hell of a match-up.
JR: Totally agree Dutch. Folks, here’s some footage of how this match came about.
Video Package - At a recent pro wrestling show, Vickie Guerrero was sitting in the dressing room waiting for Edge to finish showering after his match when Bruiser Brody walked into the dressing room. With Edge unaware, Vickie was terrified of the massive and wild Brody. Brody backs here off and looks over at the WWF Intercontinental and WCW United States Championship belts and grabs the WCW US title belt and leaves. Afterward Edge comes out of the shower and freaks out when he notices his US belt gone. Vickie tries to explain it wasn’t her fault, but Edge is furious, and he leaves.
The following week, Vickie Guerrero comes out to the ring and grabs a mic.
“Excuse me!”
The crowd boos.
“I said excuse me!”
The crowd boos louder.
“Bruiser Brody, my husband Edge couldn’t be here tonight. But I, I mean we, want to issue you a challenge. Bring that US title belt you blatantly stole like a thief in the night. Bring it to Dallas, Texas at Last Call. My lover Edge will bring his Intercontinental championship and we’ll hang both above the ring and the winner will be the man who climbs a ladder and grabs both belts because it will be a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match!”
The next week Brody is at a wrestling event where he is in the ring being interviewed by Marc Lowrance. He’s carrying the US title belt and tells the world he accepts the match at Last Call and promises it will be the most brutal TLC match off all-time.
Match 9 – Bruiser Brody vs. WWF Intercontinental Champion and WCW United States Champion “The Rated R Superstar” Edge with Vickie Guerrero in a TLC championship match.
Referee – David Manning
Ring Announcer – Michael Buffer
The challenger Bruiser Brody comes out first to the Immigrant Song by Led Zepplin. Brody has the US title and his large chain. Brody is clearly the fan favorite in this match-up. He gets in the ring and hands over the US title belt. Metalingus by Alter Bridge hits and out comes Edge with Vickie Guerrero in tow. He grabs a steel chair and enters the ring then hands over his Intercontinental title belt.
Michel Buffer introduces both competitors and once again does his signature catch-phrase.
Edge and Brody have a TLC match that has a bit of everything. They fight toe-to-toe in the ring using punches and drop-kicks and other maneuvers. Edge brings in a ladder and both me get their licks in using the ladder as a weapon. They brawl all over the Sportatorium leaving a mess in their wake. Both men are eventually bleeding profusely. JR and Dutch’s announcing table was destroyed by a Brody piledriver on Edge through the table. Shortly before Edge speared Brody through a table positioned on the outside against a barricade. While on the outside Brody swings his chain at Edge but Edge blocks it with a chair. They brawl more when Edge gets a very solid headshot on Brody with a chair that staggers the wild man.
The Finish – Brody falls to the concrete floor back first. Edge sets up and hits the Con-Chair-To on Brody and then grabs a massive 17-foot ladder and climbs to the top. Edge jumps and lands a Senton Bomb on Brody. Edge tries to make his way back to ringside and into the ring but after a brutal match he’s slow and staggered. He gets to the ring and sets up a ladder, but Brody has recovered somewhat, and he has his large chain. Edge is almost to the top and Brody rolls into the ring and swings the chain like a whip at Edge and it stuns him. Brody climbs the other side of the ladder and wraps the chain around Edge then jumps and pulls Edge off the ladder to the mat. Brody ties the chain around Edge and then ties the other end around the steel post. Vickie tries to free Edge by untying his foot from the steel post but she’s too late and fumbles around meanwhile Brody climbs the awaiting ladder and retrieves the two title belts to become WWF Intercontinental and WCW United States Champion much to the delight of the Sportatorium audience. Brody goes out into the crowd with his two titles belts to celebrate with the fans.
Winner – Bruiser Brody
After the ring crew clear the area of the debris left from the war between Edge and Bruiser Brody, Michael Buffer introduces Verne Gagne as they begin the Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony for Buddy Robinson. Verne has a microphone and talks about his friendship with Robinson and how much he means to the world of pro wrestling and combat sports. Buffer introduces Buddy Robinson, and he gets in the ring and is handed a microphone where he thanks Verne and the wrestling fans, and they present him with a large plaque in his honor and both men get a warm reception.
In the backstage parking area we see an angry Rated R Superstar storming out of the arena with a suitcase in hand. Vickie Guerrero is running after him begging and screaming for him to stop.
Edge: Let me explain it to you Vickie. First, you let Brody steal my US title belt. Then you get me into a TLC match of all things against a wild lunatic swinging a steel chain around. And to top it off you couldn’t even untie my foot causing me to lose the match. So guess what that means Vickie. It means we are done. I want a divorce!
Edge rips off his wedding ring and tosses it onto the ground and jumps aboard a black Lincoln Continental and drives off. Vickie drops to her knees screaming at the top of her lung as we go back to JR and Dutch at ringside.
JR: Dutch the time has finally come for tonight’s main event. I’m really looking forward to this. And it appears the bounty laid down by Harley Race was unsuccessful.
Dutch: Never say never JR but you’re right Austin will most likely be here for the championship match something Harley said would not happen.
JR: Now let’s take a look on how this once in a lifetime match came to be.
Video Package – Harley Race was having a championship match with AWA World Champion Jerry “The King” Lawler at the Skydome in Toronto, Canada when Stone Cold decided to strike and attacked Lawler causing a disqualification victory for Race, but he didn’t take the AWA title.
A few weeks later Race is wrestling WCW Champion Sid Vicious at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for the WCW title and again Austin strikes causing the DQ victory for Race but no title change.
Not long after Race is competing against Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka for the ECW World Television Championship at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit and Austin strikes for the 3rd time, but this time he goes at Race himself, attacking Race like only the Texas Rattlesnake can. Stomping a mudhole in his ass and walking it dry. Afterwards Race is incensed but claims Austin will never get a match for his world championship.
Austin then appealed to the NWA Board of Directors for a title unification match with Race. The board are confident Race would defeat Austin and gaining control over the WWF Championship would be advantageous, so the board agreed to the unification match much to the chagrin of “The Mad Dog” Harley Race. They then sold the rights to the match to Don King for his Pay-Per-View Extravaganza, Last Call,
Match 10 – WWF Champion “Stone Cold” Steve Austin vs. NWA World Heavyweight Champion “The Mad Dog” Harley Race in a winner-take-all title unification match.
Referee – David Manning
Ring Announcer – Michael Buffer
Harley Race walks out first to the tune of Galaxy Express. Harley takes his time getting to the ring. He doesn’t receive a warm welcome and you can tell by his face he’s not happy Austin made it all the way to the match, and no one could successfully collect the bounty. But he’s not scared either. This will be a match-up of two of the toughest world champions in the history of the sport.
Race’s theme music stops playing and the crowd grows anxious then suddenly they hear the sound of glass breaking and the roof practically comes off the Sportatorium as Stone Cold makes his entrance to the heavy bassline of his Hell Frozen Over theme as he hits all four corners.
The scowl on Austin’s face is palpable as he is incensed at this point after having to fight off many bounty hunters throughout the course of the night. Michael Buffer introduces Race first and Austin second. Everybody is on their feet in anticipation. Buffer begins to go into his signature catchphrase he gets as far as “Leeeeeettttts get ready” and Austin can’t handle his rage any longer and attacks Race before Buffer can finish. Buffer gets out of the ring as fast as he can. The bell rings and the main event of the night is on.
As expected, Steve Austin and Harley Race engage in an extremely physical contest. Lots of hard suplexes and back body drops. They brawl on the outside multiple times using the steel barricade and steel steps to inflict punishment on each other. Race goes for multiple pinfall attempts. Eventually Race gets cut open but it doesn’t slow him down. Austin almost gets disqualified using the cord from a cameraman to choke out Race.
The Finish – After about 30 minutes of hard-hitting action that kept the Sportatorium audience on their feet, suddenly a gasp comes over the crowd. The notorious “Dr. D” reappears coming out of the back to get his revenge on Stone Cold. His head is bandaged up while spewing profanities at Austin and he’s carrying a large rifle! The off-duty police are slow to get to Schultz but out nowhere Kevin Von Erich runs out and tackles Schultz from behind causing him to drop the gun and give the off-duty police time to subdue Schultz and drag him away yelling and screaming something unintelligible.
The commotion is enough to distract Race and when he turns around, Austin is waiting. Stone Cold kicks Harley in the stomach and hits him with a Stunner which hurts Race but doesn’t put him down. Austin kicks him in the breadbasket again and hits him with a 2nd stunner. The 2nd one knocks Race down but he springs back up, albeit nearly out on his feet. Austin gives him one more kick to the guts for good measure and a 3rd stunner followed by the pinfall 1-2-3 to finally unify the WWF and NWA championships.
Winner – “Stone Cold” Steve Austin
After the match Austin celebrates with a beer bash. Kevin Von Erich climbs into the ring and Austin’s theme music stops and the two men come face-to-face. Austin signals to the ringside attendant to toss him four beers and he hands two to Von Erich. They both smash beers together and drink em’ Stone Cold style as Austin’s music hits again. Austin signals for four more. They smash beers again, but Austin kicks Von Erich in the breadbasket and hits him with a huge Stone Cold Stunner as beer goes everywhere as the glass breaks for the final time. The show closes with Austin on the top turnbuckle having one last beer bash with the fans at the legendary Sportatorium!
POST SHOW: After the camera’s stop rolling Austin breaks character and hosts a final beer bash and celebration in the ring with many of the performers who spent time in the Sportatorium such as Kevin Von Erich, David Manning, and Michael Hayes among others while entertaining the audience in the famous Sportatorium one last time.
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GKJ:
Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling presents:
Wrestlevania 6!
live, as always, from Philadelphia, PA
1. Bobby Lashley vs. Antonio Inoki (w/ MVP)
Singles Match
The curtain-jerker for this year's show features a never-thought-of match, as MVP ups the ante a whole lot in his mission to take down his former client. Antonio Inoki makes his return to PCW at his behest to matchup with the imposing Bobby Lashley.
2. Natalya & AJ Lee (c) vs. Mayu Iwatani & KAIRI
Women's Tag Team Championship
PCW has had a long-established women's tag team division, thankfully, but current champions have been not thrilled with who PCW General Manager Kairi Sane has brought to them as competition, have instead sought Kairi to remove herself from the position if she is unable to do the job. The challenge is not only accepted, Kairi Sane will come out of retirement, wrestling now as just KAIRI, in her North American return, introduces her former stablemate Mayu Iwatani as her partner.
3. Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay, Rikishi, & Scotty 2 Hotty) vs Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre, Jr. & Lance Archer)
Trios Match
PCW has never had a strong trios division, we've never had a trios match at a Wrestlevania, and we are looking to get it more off the ground with two teams who are legendary for very different reasons. I'm not sure it would be possible to get two factions with a bigger clash in styles between the extremely popular and crowd-pleasing Too Cool, or the uber-ruthless and aggressive, and maybe crowd-pleasing for different reasons, Suzuki-gun.
4. Bayley w/ Chavo Guerrero, Jr. vs. Zoya the Destroya [played by Alison Brie] w/ Marc Maron and Kate Nash
Women's Commonwealth Championship
PCW chairman G. Kim Johnsson was/is a huge fan of the series "G.L.O.W." on Netflix, which was sadly canceled for their final season, so he was all too willing to give airtime to members of the cast looking to promote the show in hopes that someone else picks it up, and the build to Wrestlevania, is the perfect time of the year to do this with so many millions of eyes on the weekly product. A few weeks ago, cast members Alison Brie, Kate Nash, Marc Maron, along with consultant Chavo Guerrero, Jr. joined the commentary booth to do this during one of Bayley's title defenses, which was short so they had their time for this week cut unfortunately. As one of the biggest stars in the company, Bayley offers the cast a spot on the Ding Dong, Hello Show the following week. However, she thinks this is all ridiculous and has been unimpressed with things like "funny" videos of Alison doing matches with herself, and mocks her and her character, Zoya the Destroya. She pokes fun at thinking Alison could have an actual wrestling match to the point where Bayley mockingly challenges her to one, with the title, and says that it's a good opportunity to get her 'stupid' character to be seen, making the idea not outright rejected. Chavo does not think this is such a good idea, since this would be 'real' wrestling, and it's not what the cast was trained to do and is incredulous when the challenge is accepted and decides he cannot support this, berating the cast, shoving Marc Maron down when he tries to calm him down (setting up a potential spot in the match), and ostensibly turns heel. The match is set up under the auspices that Alison Brie is playing the actual character of Zoya the Destoya, Marc Maron and Kate Nash as special commentators, and Chavo 'present' at ringside but clearly supporting Bayley.
5. Seth Rollins vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Keystone Cup Tournament Final
This is the finals of the inaugural "Keystone Cup" tournament, where the winner goes the opportunity to challenge the world champion, similar to the New Japan Cup where it is not Money in the Bank, but to become the #1 contender and determine the terms of the match. Two aces of their generation, but competing a world away, meet in the final in a true dream match scenario having beaten most of the contemporaries you see elsewhere on this card. Both have been around PCW before and the paths of Seth Rollins and Hiroshi Tanahashi will finally meet on the grand stage of Wrestlevania.
6. Drew Gulak (c) vs. Mark Henry vs. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Stevie Richards vs. Wheeler Yuta vs. Justin Credible vs. Essa Rios vs. Steve Blackman vs. Al Snow vs. Johnny Knoxville vs. David Arquette vs. Larry Zbysko
12-Way Ladder Match
Men's Commonwealth Championship
Upon request of PCW hometown legend and current champion Drew Gulak, the PCW Men's Commonwealth Championship is set to be hung atop a ladder in this open invitational featuring a mix of legends of the Philadelphia (some Pennsylvania) wrestling scene, natives of Philadelphia, and assorted familiar "legends," for lack of a better term for some.
7. reDragon (Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) vs. The Quebecers (Jacques Rougeau & Carl Ouellet w/ Raymond Rougeau & Jimmy Hart)
"Province of Quebec Rules"
Men's Tag Team Championship
Upon reaching been aggressive in their pursuit of the tag team championship, the Quebecers, which as Quebecers, are new to the territory and are extremely and pridefully Quebec about it, previously 'accidentally' took out one of reDragon's main contenders, that has also rendered them undermanned and not happy that they did not obtain their #1 contender status with honor. This makes them leery and set up a plan to remove Raymond Rougeau from their equation as to level the playing field. As to replace him, and because their normal manager is not available, the Quebecers have employed their own once-manager and "the Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart to protect Jacques and Carl from reDragon's unfettered aggression and have the championship match contested under 'Province of Quebec Rules' where the championships can change hands on a disqualification, obviously with hopes that that's what they can coerce to have happen.
8. Sasha Banks (c) vs. Chyna
Women's World Championship
Last year Sasha Banks, at long last, achieved her ultimate dream, winning the PCW Women's World Championship in the Wrestlevania 5 main-main event (it went on last) in the '200V Double Hell Double Landmine Exploding Barbed Wire Exploding Ring No Disqualification Deathmatch,' which was rated 7 1/2 stars, and she has held the title for a whole year up leading into this year's show. To commemorate these achievements, the chairman scheduled an elaborate celebration and has offered Sasha Banks 'whoever and whatever she wants,' essentially giving her the ability to book her own title match for the biggest show of the year, uh, within reason. Her request is one of her personal heroes, and the ultimate game changer when it came to women in wrestling: the 9th Wonder of the World - Chyna. Sasha soon finds out though that Chyna isn't just showing up to coronate her, send a calling card in the form of a surprise run-in and brawl during the celebration, feeling slighted at the insinuation that this isn't an earned opportunity - she was coming for the title anyways. Given she feels she's given Chyna the opportunity, Sasha's disappointment is palatable, this is not what she wanted (even if it's what she asked for), but everyone knows no one is ever going to out-mean her. Both are here to lay claim the fact we're able to get two women so significant to each of their eras will at least make this among the most compelling matchups on the card.
9. Jon Moxley vs. Atsushi Onita
Japanese Deathmatch
In part of last year's double main event, Jon Moxley dropped the men's world championship in a brutally fought Hell in a Cell match. But not one to sulk, Moxley has continued to fight and claw and be violent because, well, that's what Jon Moxley does best. Making a new challenge is a first-timer to the PCW scene and legend and innovator of assorted versions of deathmatches, Atsushi Onita. It's a matchup of two men who only know how to go all the way, in this special attraction Japanese Deathmatch - and there's no place better than Philadelphia for this match, given we're not in Japan. On commentary will be special guest and wife to Jon Moxey, Renee Paquette once again, because her live reactions ringside are going to be priceless once again.
10. Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Ricky Steamboat
2 out of 3 Falls
Men's World Championship
This year's main event is particularly delicious. Bryan Danielson is no stranger to the local scene here, but he's finally made his way into PCW and quickly worked himself into position to challenge for and win the PCW Men's World Championship. He is finally, rightfully, the top person in the company - through sheer handwork and determination that reflects the patrons of this city and state. On the other side, Ricky Steamboat is similarly respected in the industry, despite being undervalued and overshadowed by the bigger stars of his generate, thus he has never been the top guy. But now he is going to get a rare opportunity to achieve that status. It is not in the nature of either person to give up their ground now after the work they've put in to get here, but the time has come where they must go through each other. And Danielson wants everyone to know, that he's going to kick Steamboat's head in.
Wrestlevania 6!
live, as always, from Philadelphia, PA
1. Bobby Lashley vs. Antonio Inoki (w/ MVP)
Singles Match
The curtain-jerker for this year's show features a never-thought-of match, as MVP ups the ante a whole lot in his mission to take down his former client. Antonio Inoki makes his return to PCW at his behest to matchup with the imposing Bobby Lashley.
2. Natalya & AJ Lee (c) vs. Mayu Iwatani & KAIRI
Women's Tag Team Championship
PCW has had a long-established women's tag team division, thankfully, but current champions have been not thrilled with who PCW General Manager Kairi Sane has brought to them as competition, have instead sought Kairi to remove herself from the position if she is unable to do the job. The challenge is not only accepted, Kairi Sane will come out of retirement, wrestling now as just KAIRI, in her North American return, introduces her former stablemate Mayu Iwatani as her partner.
3. Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay, Rikishi, & Scotty 2 Hotty) vs Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre, Jr. & Lance Archer)
Trios Match
PCW has never had a strong trios division, we've never had a trios match at a Wrestlevania, and we are looking to get it more off the ground with two teams who are legendary for very different reasons. I'm not sure it would be possible to get two factions with a bigger clash in styles between the extremely popular and crowd-pleasing Too Cool, or the uber-ruthless and aggressive, and maybe crowd-pleasing for different reasons, Suzuki-gun.
4. Bayley w/ Chavo Guerrero, Jr. vs. Zoya the Destroya [played by Alison Brie] w/ Marc Maron and Kate Nash
Women's Commonwealth Championship
PCW chairman G. Kim Johnsson was/is a huge fan of the series "G.L.O.W." on Netflix, which was sadly canceled for their final season, so he was all too willing to give airtime to members of the cast looking to promote the show in hopes that someone else picks it up, and the build to Wrestlevania, is the perfect time of the year to do this with so many millions of eyes on the weekly product. A few weeks ago, cast members Alison Brie, Kate Nash, Marc Maron, along with consultant Chavo Guerrero, Jr. joined the commentary booth to do this during one of Bayley's title defenses, which was short so they had their time for this week cut unfortunately. As one of the biggest stars in the company, Bayley offers the cast a spot on the Ding Dong, Hello Show the following week. However, she thinks this is all ridiculous and has been unimpressed with things like "funny" videos of Alison doing matches with herself, and mocks her and her character, Zoya the Destroya. She pokes fun at thinking Alison could have an actual wrestling match to the point where Bayley mockingly challenges her to one, with the title, and says that it's a good opportunity to get her 'stupid' character to be seen, making the idea not outright rejected. Chavo does not think this is such a good idea, since this would be 'real' wrestling, and it's not what the cast was trained to do and is incredulous when the challenge is accepted and decides he cannot support this, berating the cast, shoving Marc Maron down when he tries to calm him down (setting up a potential spot in the match), and ostensibly turns heel. The match is set up under the auspices that Alison Brie is playing the actual character of Zoya the Destoya, Marc Maron and Kate Nash as special commentators, and Chavo 'present' at ringside but clearly supporting Bayley.
5. Seth Rollins vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Keystone Cup Tournament Final
This is the finals of the inaugural "Keystone Cup" tournament, where the winner goes the opportunity to challenge the world champion, similar to the New Japan Cup where it is not Money in the Bank, but to become the #1 contender and determine the terms of the match. Two aces of their generation, but competing a world away, meet in the final in a true dream match scenario having beaten most of the contemporaries you see elsewhere on this card. Both have been around PCW before and the paths of Seth Rollins and Hiroshi Tanahashi will finally meet on the grand stage of Wrestlevania.
6. Drew Gulak (c) vs. Mark Henry vs. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Stevie Richards vs. Wheeler Yuta vs. Justin Credible vs. Essa Rios vs. Steve Blackman vs. Al Snow vs. Johnny Knoxville vs. David Arquette vs. Larry Zbysko
12-Way Ladder Match
Men's Commonwealth Championship
Upon request of PCW hometown legend and current champion Drew Gulak, the PCW Men's Commonwealth Championship is set to be hung atop a ladder in this open invitational featuring a mix of legends of the Philadelphia (some Pennsylvania) wrestling scene, natives of Philadelphia, and assorted familiar "legends," for lack of a better term for some.
7. reDragon (Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) vs. The Quebecers (Jacques Rougeau & Carl Ouellet w/ Raymond Rougeau & Jimmy Hart)
"Province of Quebec Rules"
Men's Tag Team Championship
Upon reaching been aggressive in their pursuit of the tag team championship, the Quebecers, which as Quebecers, are new to the territory and are extremely and pridefully Quebec about it, previously 'accidentally' took out one of reDragon's main contenders, that has also rendered them undermanned and not happy that they did not obtain their #1 contender status with honor. This makes them leery and set up a plan to remove Raymond Rougeau from their equation as to level the playing field. As to replace him, and because their normal manager is not available, the Quebecers have employed their own once-manager and "the Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart to protect Jacques and Carl from reDragon's unfettered aggression and have the championship match contested under 'Province of Quebec Rules' where the championships can change hands on a disqualification, obviously with hopes that that's what they can coerce to have happen.
8. Sasha Banks (c) vs. Chyna
Women's World Championship
Last year Sasha Banks, at long last, achieved her ultimate dream, winning the PCW Women's World Championship in the Wrestlevania 5 main-main event (it went on last) in the '200V Double Hell Double Landmine Exploding Barbed Wire Exploding Ring No Disqualification Deathmatch,' which was rated 7 1/2 stars, and she has held the title for a whole year up leading into this year's show. To commemorate these achievements, the chairman scheduled an elaborate celebration and has offered Sasha Banks 'whoever and whatever she wants,' essentially giving her the ability to book her own title match for the biggest show of the year, uh, within reason. Her request is one of her personal heroes, and the ultimate game changer when it came to women in wrestling: the 9th Wonder of the World - Chyna. Sasha soon finds out though that Chyna isn't just showing up to coronate her, send a calling card in the form of a surprise run-in and brawl during the celebration, feeling slighted at the insinuation that this isn't an earned opportunity - she was coming for the title anyways. Given she feels she's given Chyna the opportunity, Sasha's disappointment is palatable, this is not what she wanted (even if it's what she asked for), but everyone knows no one is ever going to out-mean her. Both are here to lay claim the fact we're able to get two women so significant to each of their eras will at least make this among the most compelling matchups on the card.
9. Jon Moxley vs. Atsushi Onita
Japanese Deathmatch
In part of last year's double main event, Jon Moxley dropped the men's world championship in a brutally fought Hell in a Cell match. But not one to sulk, Moxley has continued to fight and claw and be violent because, well, that's what Jon Moxley does best. Making a new challenge is a first-timer to the PCW scene and legend and innovator of assorted versions of deathmatches, Atsushi Onita. It's a matchup of two men who only know how to go all the way, in this special attraction Japanese Deathmatch - and there's no place better than Philadelphia for this match, given we're not in Japan. On commentary will be special guest and wife to Jon Moxey, Renee Paquette once again, because her live reactions ringside are going to be priceless once again.
10. Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Ricky Steamboat
2 out of 3 Falls
Men's World Championship
This year's main event is particularly delicious. Bryan Danielson is no stranger to the local scene here, but he's finally made his way into PCW and quickly worked himself into position to challenge for and win the PCW Men's World Championship. He is finally, rightfully, the top person in the company - through sheer handwork and determination that reflects the patrons of this city and state. On the other side, Ricky Steamboat is similarly respected in the industry, despite being undervalued and overshadowed by the bigger stars of his generate, thus he has never been the top guy. But now he is going to get a rare opportunity to achieve that status. It is not in the nature of either person to give up their ground now after the work they've put in to get here, but the time has come where they must go through each other. And Danielson wants everyone to know, that he's going to kick Steamboat's head in.
