June
30th, 2001
Castle
Hall, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Attendance:
2,416
TV
rating: 4.3
(The jam-packed, jacked-up crowd inside the Castle Hall in Hertford are on their feet as the arena is lit up with flashing lights and small bursts of pyrotechnics, signalling that Saturday Fight Night is live on air! Your commentary team at ringside is Chris Freeman and Adam Wheeler.)
Chris
Freeman: Hello everyone, good evening and welcome to Saturday Fight Night,
coming at you this evening from the beautiful Castle Hall in Hertford! I’m
Chris Freeman; Adam Wheeler is alongside me here at ringside and tonight you
will see the quarter finals of the NWA-UK Hammerlock World Television
Championship get underway!
Adam
Wheeler: That is really going to be something, but in addition to that, some of
the top contenders for the World Championship who advanced in that particular
tournament on Monday will be warming up this evening! And of course there is
that huge Four Corners Tag Team Match involving all the teams in the World Tag
Team Title Round Robin Tournament!
CF:
We are just 24 short hours away from GrandSlam, which is live on Sky Box Office
tomorrow night from 8pm. I for one cannot wait.
AW:
It is going to be incredible, Freeman. We know it and all the Hammerlock
superstars know it too, which in a way makes tonight’s TV Title Tournament
matches that little bit more critical. You see, if you lose and get eliminated
from the tournament, you lose the chance to wrestle on Hammerlock’s inaugural
pay-per-view and that would be one hell of a blow.
CF:
Speaking of people not wrestling, I notice that Jason Prentice is booked to
wrestle this evening in the TV Title Tournament. But surely with the ankle
injury he has, which is supposedly keeping him on the shelf for the next four
months, there’s no way he can compete tonight? Or maybe his injury isn’t all
that genuine after all?
AW:
How dare you, Freeman! How dare you question the word of one of the greatest
wrestlers ever to grace the British circuit! Shame on you!
CF:
Well, we all saw him walking around on Monday…
Jason
Prentice interview, w/ Linda O’Neil.
(“PRENTICE…makes…PERFECT!”
Jason Prentice’s music hits over the arena speakers.)
CF:
…looks as if we are going to get some clarification from the man himself.
(Jason
Prentice slowly hobbles down the ramp, awkwardly manoeuvring around on his
crutches. Linda O’Neil does her best to help him.)
CF:
Are you telling me this guy is going to wrestle tonight against Steve Bailey?!
AW:
Well, we all know what a courageous and fighting young man Prentice is.
CF:
Do we?!
(Prentice
takes an eternity climbing up the ringsteps and into the ring, making sure that
the cameraman gets a good shot of his heavily bandaged ankle. He takes the
microphone.)
JP:
Unfortunately…
(The
crowd begins to boo mercilessly. They know what’s coming.)
JP:
…unfortunately, I will not be able to wrestle here this evening.
CF:
Then why the hell was he entered in the damn tournament?!
JP:
Now whilst I cannot compete tonight, I’ll be damned if I am going to miss
wrestling on pay-per-view tomorrow night at GrandSlam! Last Monday night, I
think I gave up too easily. The doctors say I can’t wrestle. Well, screw the
doctors! What do they know, anyway?! I’ve been pushing myself as hard as I can
for GrandSlam. Although I’m not going to be anywhere near 100%, thanks to that
piece of crap Luke Champion, I swear I will still participate. But then there
are those of you out there who are questioning the authenticity of my injury…
(Prentice
stares a hole through Chris Freeman.)
AW:
Hmm, I wonder who he could be talking about?
JP:
Just because the camera caught me trying to walk without crutches on Hammerlock
TV and then I stumbled and fell, that means I can actually walk??? Does it,
Freeman?! I can walk, can I?! I was pushing myself too hard! If I can walk and
therefore wrestle, if my injury is a figment of my imagination, then why the
hell would I pull out of the World Heavyweight Title Tournament?!
AW:
He’s got you there!
JP:
I oughta kick the crap out of you for questioning my word!
AW:
Yes! I’d love to see that!
CF:
You aren’t helping.
(“Get
Ur Freak On” by Missy Elliott hits and “The Upset Kid” Junior Jones makes
his way down to the ring, diverting Prentice’s attention. Jones gets into the
ring and is handed a microphone.)
Junior
Jones: So let me get this straight, Prentice. You’re going to wrestle
on pay-per-view tomorrow night, in your fragile condition?! I’ve always
thought you were lame, but this is ridiculous! If you want to go to GrandSlam,
you have to beat me tonight, and I don’t fight cripples!
JP:
That’s okay, you see Hammerlock allowed me to find a replacement to wrestle
you this evening.
Jones: Oh, really. And did you?
JP:
Yep.
Jones:
Well, who is it? Bring them out right now!
(“Linchpin”
by Fear Factory blasts over the speakers. Junior Jones is shocked.)
CF:
Oh, my God! The Byson is loose!!!
AW:
Prentice’s IQ is off the charts!
(Byson
storms down to the ring as Junior Jones readies himself. Prentice hurriedly
leaves the ring with a huge smile on his face and joins the commentary team.)
[NWA-UK
Hammerlock World Television Championship Tournament, Quarter Finals]:
Byson
pinned Junior Jones with the Bull Rutt in 0:13:16.
Rating:
***
Post-match:
(Jason Prentice is seated at the commentary table with Linda O’Neil by his side. He is revelling in “his” victory.)
JP:
Woo-hoo! I’m going to GrandSlam!!!
CF:
I can’t believe that, Jason! You get Byson to do your dirty work and take all
the credit! How the hell are you going to wrestle tomorrow night anyway?
JP:
You let me worry about that.
AW:
Let’s face facts, Freeman. Jones never stood a chance. Byson looks in
incredible form going into the World Title Tournament Quarter Finals.
(Cuthbert
D. Fharquar runs down to the ring and starts putting the boots to Jones.)
CF:
Hey come on! What the hell is Fharquar doing out here?
JP:
Well, it’s his tournament match next and he obviously wants to take the trash
out of the ring!
AW:
Heh, that was good Jason!
JP:
Thanks.
(Fharquar
calls for the microphone.)
CF:
Fharquar’s got something to say!
Fharquar:
Alright Jones, I’ve had just about enough of you. I offered you £1,000 to
face me, but you refused. I then put up £5,000 for you to wrestle me and you
threw that back in my face. Well, listen to me. I’m going to offer you an
amount of money that is unfathomable to you. Unimaginable. Inconceivable. If you
wrestle me tomorrow night at GrandSlam, I’ll give you £10,000!
JP:
Wow!
AW:
Ten grand?! How could he refuse?!
(Jones
nods his head and fights back to his feet.)
CF:
He’s accepted! Fharquar vs. Jones at GrandSlam!
(Fharquar grabs Jones’ hand to shake it and seal the deal, but he blasts him with a short clothesline! Fharquar then plants The Upset Kid with the Silver Spoon, but “Hidden Agenda” by Pitchshifter hits and “Shotgun” Steve Bailey intervenes.)
CF:
Here we go! Bailey against Fharquar, the TV Title Tournament continues!
JP:
Wait, you mean Fharquar doesn’t even get a breather after slapping that little
punk around?!
CF:
You know, all this talk of money makes me wonder how much it took to for you to
buy Byson’s services this evening.
JP:
Shaddup!
AW:
Yeah Freeman, shut up!
[NWA-UK
Hammerlock World Television Championship Tournament, Quarter Finals]:
Steve
Bailey pinned Cuthbert D. Fharquar with the Pistol Whip in 0:13:20.
Rating:
*** 1/4
CF:
There it is! The Pistol Whip and Steve Bailey advances!
AW:
He advances to GrandSlam, where he’ll get his ass handed to him by “Picture
Perfect”!
JP:
Damn right, Adam. You know, I’m gonna shoot down “Shotgun” tomorrow night!
CF:
What, with your crutch?!
JP:
You know Freeman, we’ll see how many smart comments you make when I shove my
fist in your mouth.
AW:
Freeman, if you bet against this man you’ll lose a lot of money.
(Some
really awful porn music from the 70s begins to play around Castle Hall. Midnight
Blue makes his way out from the back, accompanied by one of his favourite
co-stars, Jaclyn Lick.)
JP:
What the hell is that?
CF:
That’s Midnight Blue.
JP:
No, that filthy troglodyte hanging off his arm! She looks like Valkyrie!
AW:
Midnight Blue is not scheduled up until later tonight, Freeman.
(Midnight
Blue walks over to the commentary table and puts on a headset.)
JP:
It’s getting a little crowded around here…hi there Midnight, and the
beautiful Miss Lick!
(Prentice
kisses Jaclyn on the hand and then coughs. Linda doesn’t seem to approve.)
Midnight
Blue: Evening gentlemen.
CF:
The beautiful Miss Lick? That’s funny Jason, I thought you just called
her a tr…
JP:
(Interrupting) So Midnight, what brings you out to the commentary table?
MB:
Well, I’m on a little bit of a scouting mission. Tomorrow night at GrandSlam,
in the quarter-finals of the World Title Tournament, I face The Iceman Ben
Winter and he’s up next against Smashmouth. I just want to see what moves, if
any, I should watch out for during our match.
CF:
Don’t you have a match later against Robbie Anthony?
MB:
Yes I do, Chris. Tonight, his undefeated streak will come to an end and just
like Ben Winter tomorrow at GrandSlam, Da Bomb will end up feeling Blue!
AW:
Not in the same sense as your ladies, of course! Where are your other two
beauties, if you don’t mind me asking?
MB:
They are in the back, “getting ready”.
JP:
You know, you wouldn’t catch my Linda working in the porno industry. She’s
too classy, you see.
(Chris
Freeman sniggers.)
JP:
Something funny, Freeman?
AW:
You know Midnight, I thought you were brilliant in “Pumping Irene”!
MB:
Thank you very much.
CF:
Alright, Adam…
AW:
And “Ride A Cock Horse” was a masterpiece…
CF:
That’s enough!
Ben
Winter pinned Smashmouth after hitting him with a foreign object in 0:18:17.
Rating:
****
MB:
I cannot believe he had to use that ice pick to win the match!
JP:
You do what you have to here in Hammerlock.
CF:
That’s a huge win for Winter ahead of GrandSlam.
MB:
It doesn’t change the fact that he’ll taste defeat tomorrow night when I
eliminate him from the tournament. Come on Jaclyn, we’re outta here.
Gentlemen, the pleasure was all yours.
(Midnight Blue vacates the commentary table and sarcastically applauds Ben Winter. Winter sizes up Blue from the ring. All of a sudden, Midnight Blue reaches into the ring and swipes the ice pick. He and Jaclyn Lick make a quick getaway up the ramp with Winter in hot pursuit.)
AW:
That’s gonna be a superb match when they get it on at GrandSlam, but I
wouldn’t be wanting to “pick” a fight with Ben Winter before then!
(laughs)
CF:
Very clever. Migraine is standing by.
Migraine
interview.
(Migraine
is standing backstage with a steel chain wrapped around his fist. Kelly is with
him.)
Kelly:
Migraine, you requested this interview time?
Migraine:
Yes I did, Kelly. Look at this. This solid steel chain. This is the
instrument…no, the weapon, that cost me a place in the quarter finals of the
World Heavyweight Championship Tournament. The very weapon that you, Bryan
Campbell, used to bludgeon me last Monday night. Tonight is Saturday Fight Night
and I have been entered in the World Television Championship Tournament. And who
did lucky old me draw? None other than you, Bryan Campbell. The illustrious, the
distinguished, the renowned “Blue Chipper”. The man who has been a thorn in
my side since DTA. Tonight it ends. I went to the higher-ups, the powers that be
here at Hammerlock and I requested that our tournament match this evening be
a…
(Migraine
pulls the chain taut in front of the camera.)
Migraine:
…Chain Match! And guess what, Campbell? My request had been accepted. See you
in the ring, champ.
“Blue
Chipper” Bryan Campbell interview.
(Bryan
Campbell has just witnessed Migraine’s comments on a backstage monitor. Phil
Robinson is standing by with him.)
Phil
Robinson: Mr. Campbell, your thoughts?
Bryan
Campbell: This is disgraceful! This is totally unfair! A Chain Match?! I’m a
wrestler, not a damn brawler! I’m a Blue Chipper for God’s sake! What is
going on around here? I smell a conspiracy. Someone doesn’t want to see me
crowned a champion in this company!
(Campbell storms out of shot.)
CF:
A Chain Match this evening! That is gonna be great!
AW:
No it’s not gonna be great, Freeman! Come to think of it, I reckon
Campbell’s right. Migraine interfered in Campbell’s World Title Tournament
match and caused him to lose, but the result stood. Now they make his TV Title
Tournament match a Chain Match. I smell a rat, and he’s sitting beside me.
CF:
Are you saying that I am conspiring against Campbell winning a title here in
Hammerlock?
AW:
Well, you don’t like him, do you?
JP:
Migraine gives me a headache. Did you know I beat him in less than ten seconds?
CF:
(sighing) Next up here on Saturday Fight Night, all four teams involved in the
NWA-UK Tag Team Title Round Robin will collide in a Four Corners Elimination
Match.
AW:
A round robin where every team is currently level-pegging. Something has to give
tomorrow night at GrandSlam, and whoever wins this next match would not only
have a massive confidence boost but also a psychological edge over every other
team.
Four
Corners Match:
The
Bodysnatchers defeated Hammersmith Hard Men, Society Bites and
The
Punk Junkies:
x Knight beat Brainstorm via the Chelsea Smile in 0:37:48
x Knight beat Bradley via the Chelsea Smile in 0:44:34
x Burke beat Phillips via a vertical facebuster in 0:51:13
William
Burke suffered a neck injury. He will be out for approximately 6 cards.
Rating:
* 1/4
CF:
The Bodysnatchers snatch the victory, but Burke is favouring his neck.
JP:
He looked hurt after that last exchange on the floor.
Post-match:
(William Burke was helped out of the ring by his tag team partner Blair and the referee. He looked to be experiencing extreme discomfort with his neck.)
AW:
I hope that injury doesn’t screw up The Bodysnatchers chances at GrandSlam.
CF:
We’ll bring you word on Burke’s condition if and when we get it. Up next,
the World TV Championship continues as Luke Champion battles M.J.
JP:
Ah yes, Luke Champion, the man who broke my ankle. What a travesty is would be
if he were to win the title. Personally, I’m not going to let it happen.
CF:
Well, he has to get past M.J. first before he gets to GrandSlam. If he gets
locked in that Total Body Workout…
JP:
…it’ll be All She Wrote???
CF:
I guess so. You know I still don’t know how you are going to wrestle tomorrow
night.
JP:
You let me worry about that and get on with calling the action.
CF:
Here comes “The Legacy”…
(“My Own Summer (Shove It)” by The Deftones starts to play and Luke Champion emerges from the back to a nice ovation. Champion makes his way over to the broadcast table. Jason Prentice struggles to his feet and the two men participate in an intense stare down. Champion then rolls into the ring.)
JP:
You know I’m surprised he didn’t try to take a cheap shot at a cripple.
AW:
I wouldn’t have put it past him.
CF:
Here comes M.J., the World Television Championship Tournament continues!
[NWA-UK
Hammerlock World Television Championship Tournament, Quarter Finals]:
Luke
Champion pinned M.J. with the All She Wrote in 0:14:36.
Rating:
****
CF:
That’s All She Wrote for M.J…wait a minute!!!
Post-match:
(Jason
Prentice jumps to his feet, leaves the broadcast table and runs into the
ring! He takes his crutch and hammers it across Champion’s back, before
finally breaking it in two.)
AW:
It’s a miracle!!!
CF:
There was never anything wrong with Prentice! It was all a set-up!
(Linda
O’Neil slides a chair into the ring at Prentice’s command and Prentice traps
Champion’s ankle inside it. He climbs the turnbuckle and tries to drive an
elbow onto the chair, but Champion moves his leg and Picture Perfect eats mat.
Luke Champion frees his ankle from the chair and then cracks the steel chair
over Prentice’s head, to a huge pop. Prentice bails out of the ring and crawls
up the ramp clutching his ankle as Luke Champion talks trash at him from the
ring.)
CF:
I cannot believe that low-life!
AW:
I know, attacking an injured member of the roster like that. Unbelievable.
CF:
I was talking about Jason Prentice. He’s in the semis of the Tournament and he
hasn’t even wrestled in it yet! The man should be barred from competing
further!
AW:
Come on, Freeman! Prentice used his brains. You have to admire that.
Backstage:
(Kandi
and Serenity, both clad in rather skimpy attire, are shown entering Ben
Winter’s dressing room. The door closes.)
CF:
What’s going on? Has Midnight Blue sent two of his co-stars to soften up his
opponent for tomorrow night, “The Iceman” Ben Winter?
AW:
Winter’s certainly going to need some “softening up” after spending time
with Kandi and Serenity!
CF:
Will you stop…
(Suddenly,
the door bursts open and Winter throws the two women out of his dressing room.
He tells them to get lost. Midnight Blue then sneaks in and swings the ice pick
at Winter, but he ducks out of the way and the pick embeds itself in the door.
Referees quickly arrive on the scene to prevent any further confrontation.)
CF:
My God, Blue tried to decapitate Winter there!
AW:
He apparently means business, and he’s up next against a man who is yet to
taste defeat here in Hammerlock, “Da Bomb” Robbie Anthony!
CF:
I think this is going to be an excellent match.
AW:
What’s that opinion based on? Your years of experience in the ring?
CF:
Smart ass.
Midnight
Blue pinned Robbie Anthony with the One Night Stand in 0:15:49.
Rating:
*** 1/4
AW:
Midnight Blue has done it! He’s recorded a clean victory over Robbie Anthony!
What a performance!
CF: That’ll give Blue all the confidence in the world for his showdown with Ben Winter tomorrow night, but what will the repercussions be for Anthony? What frame of mind will he be in now?
AW:
It’s not the greatest way to prepare for the biggest night of your life by
losing for the first time in a new promotion. A lot of people thought that
Anthony was going to stroll in tomorrow night and take it all, but they’d
better guess again.
CF:
I’m just receiving word that William Burke has been seen by doctors backstage
and the news is that he has received some sort of neck injury. I’m also
hearing that his participation at GrandSlam tomorrow night is extremely
doubtful.
AW:
That’s very unfortunate not just for Burke, but for Blair as well. The
Bodysnatchers had as good a chance as any team to leave the Wembley Arena
tomorrow night with the Tag Titles.
CF:
Up next is the fight of the night here on Saturday Fight Night, the last Quarter
Final in the NWA-UK Hammerlock World Television Championship Tournament. It’s
Bryan Campbell vs. Migraine, and it’s a Chain Match!
AW:
It’s an outrage, Freeman, a complete indignation for Bryan Campbell, a Blue
Chipper by the way, to participate in a match such as this.
CF:
They’ll be linked from each arm by a fifteen foot long steel chain…
AW:
Are you listening to me?!
CF:
I’m trying not to.
AW:
You might learn something. You know it seems to me that Migraine has gone and
cried to the Hammerlock officials and got his own way, he probably threw a
tantrum. Well Campbell is going to make him cry in this match. Cry out in pain,
that is.
CF:
That remains to be seen. Here we go!
[NWA-UK
Hammerlock World Television Championship Tournament, Quarter Finals]:
Chain
Match:
Bryan
Campbell pinned Migraine with the Chip Off The Old Block in 0:19:07.
Rating:
**** 1/4
AW:
YES! Campbell wins it! You see that, Freeman? All of Migraine’s cheating and
whining got him NOWHERE!!!
CF:
Bryan Campbell advances after a bloody, violent and wild Chain Match. What a
tremendous contest!
Post-match:
(Bryan
Campbell takes the steel chain and clotheslines Migraine in the throat with it.
Migraine falls in a heap with his
hands around his neck.)
CF: Hey come on! This isn’t necessary!
(Campbell
wraps the chain around Migraine’s head and then stomps away. Finally, the
self-professed Blue Chipper throws Migraine over the top rope and hangs him with
the chain until Migraine drifts into unconsciousness. Referees finally arrive on
the scene, but the damage has already been done.)
CF:
Campbell has completely choked out Migraine! What did that achieve?!
AW:
Well, hopefully Migraine now gets the message that you don’t screw around with
a Blue Chipper and a champ like Bryan Campbell!
CF:
Ladies and gentlemen, sorry to leave you on a sour note but we hope you’ll
join us tomorrow evening for our pay-per-view offering, NWA-UK GrandSlam. It is
sure to be a very memorable and thrilling night of action, where all of our
championships will be decided! You can check out the entire card and details on
how to order this event in the news
section of the NWA-UK Hammerlock website. For Adam Wheeler here in
Hertford, I’m Chris Freeman wishing you all a very good night!
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Peter
Abram, 06-30-2001