July
1st, 2001
Wembley
Arena, London
Attendance:
8,900
PPV
buy-rate: 1.07441
The
show opens with some pre-recorded comments from several Hammerlock superstars:
Scottie
Hero: “Byson, if I have to walk through you, that’s just fine. If I have to
walk through every single person in this locker room in one night, all at the
same time, that’s just fine too. Whatever it takes. I will be the NWA-UK World
Heavyweight Champion.”
Byson:
“It’s MY belt. It’s MY title. It is all gonna be mine tonight, because
this is my night. The night of BYSON! Scottie Hero, you will be the first victim
on my road to the title. My fist is gonna rape your face so badly that not even
God himself will recognise you! I will be champion, and everybody will scream
the name of Byson. Byson. BYSON!!!”
Ben
Winter: “All the hype. All the publicity. The entire legacy of the National
Wrestling Alliance and of GrandSlam. Well tonight, the NWA-UK World Heavyweight
Championship is coming home, coming home to me. Tonight, The Iceman will leave
everyone else out in the cold.”
Robbie
Anthony: “Smashmouth? Your name is, unfortunately for you, very appropriate.
Because I’m gonna smash your mouth. I’m gonna smash your nose. I will smash
your entire face and break your whole body down, en route to becoming champion.
Nobody survives Da Bomb!”
(Jason
Prentice is shown standing by with Linda O’Neil.)
Linda:
Jason, just stay focused and do the promo.
Prentice:
Okay, okay, do you know your part?
Linda:
My part? My part is to stand here and look pretty. That’s my part.
Prentice:
And you do it so well.
(Prentice
counts himself down.)
Prentice:
3…2…1…Tonight, Jason Prentice…
(Linda
interrupts.)
Linda:
Excuse me Jason, but do I look alright? I want to look gorgeous when you become
champion…
Prentice:
Exactly Linda, when I become champ. Steve Bailey, I’m gonna go through
you and then whoever wins between Champion and Campbell, I’m going to go
through them as well. I will become the NWA-UK World Television Champion! I’m
determined to put my name in the history books. Tonight is MY night. I will be
champion!
(Prentice
looks at Linda.)
Prentice:
Was that alright with you, Linda?
Linda:
That was Picture Perfect!
(The
scene opens with Chris Freeman and Adam Wheeler standing inside the ring,
surrounded by thousands upon thousands of screaming fans inside the Wembley
Arena.)
Chris
Freeman: Hello everyone and welcome to NWA-UK Hammerlock’s GrandSlam!
(The
crowd pops.)
CF:
We are here at the Wembley Arena in London…
(Another
cheap crowd pop.)
CF:
…I’m Chris Freeman…
Adam
Wheeler: …and enough about you, I am “The Lyrical Miracle” Adam Wheeler
and remember, if you hear a sharp line or fascinating fact during the course of
this broadcast, it’s a Miracle!
(The
crowd cheers again.)
CF:
Tonight, all of Hammerlock’s championships will be decided…
William
Blair: To say that I have a problem would be the understatement of the year!
(William
Blair of the Bodysnatchers tag team interrupts Freeman and walks to the ring
with a microphone. The white-hot crowd boo him ruthlessly.)
Blair:
I want to know what exactly I have to do to get my name mentioned around here,
Chris!
(Blair
climbs into the ring.)
Blair:
My partner, William Burke, is not here tonight because he suffered an injured
neck at the hands of The Punk Junkies.
(Blair
starts to get right in Freeman’s face.)
Blair:
Yet you haven’t mentioned that fact, have you? We were supposed to be the NWA-UK
World Tag Team Champions! You have never mentioned that!
(A
“Shut the hell up” chant rings around Wembley Arena.)
Blair:
What does it take? What does it take?
(Blair
looks over at Adam Wheeler.)
Blair:
Maybe if I were a fat wannabe wrestler, spewing out mindless crap all the time,
then maybe they’d mention my name once in a while!
(Adam
Wheeler looks at Blair, slightly concerned.)
AW: To tell you the truth, I have no idea where all this hostility is coming from. I put you over on TV all the time, I have no problem with you. In fact, I think your gimmick is great! I like everything you do! I find you very entertaining, straight down to your ring name…
(Wheeler
looks as is he is in deep thought.)
AW: …which unfortunately I can’t remember right now, since you are just some undercard jamoke!
(Blair
grabs Wheeler by the throat and backs him into the corner. Suddenly, The Punk
Junkies hit the ring and make the save, doing a number on the Bodysnatcher.
Then, Society Bites make their way down to the ring wielding chairs. They get
between the ropes and lay out Twitch and Brainstorm with stereo chair shots.
That brings out the Hammersmith Hard Men, who come to the ring armed with
baseball bats, which sends Kevin Bradley and Chaz Harris scurrying out of the
ring and to the back. The crowd has been whipped into an absolute frenzy!!!)
(The
NWA-UK GrandSlam opening titles roll. When they end, Chris Freeman and Adam
Wheeler are sat at the commentary table. Wheeler is busy fixing his tie.)
CF:
Way to nearly get your ass handed to you on our first pay-per-view!
AW:
Just shaddup and call the action!
CF:
Our opening contest here this evening is the first quarter final in the NWA-UK
World Heavyweight Title Tournament, in which Scottie Hero challenges the burly
powerhouse Byson.
AW:
It’s gonna be a huge task for Hero to beat Byson. He may have been trained by
Andre Baker and Dino Scarlo, but even that may not be enough. A lot of people
fancy Byson to come out on top in this tournament, including myself.
[NWA-UK
World Heavyweight Title Tournament Quarter Finals]:
Byson
pinned Scottie Hero after a power bomb in 0:17:52.
Rating:
**** 1/4
AW:
Byson nearly put him through the ring with that power bomb!
CF:
What a superb effort by Hero, he never gave up and he kept bringing it to Byson.
AW:
Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough and Byson advances to the semi finals.
CF:
You have to give Scottie Hero some credit for that performance.
AW:
I don’t have to give him anything.
CF:
In our second quarter final, “The Iceman” Ben Winter goes up against blue
movie sensation Midnight Blue.
AW:
Along with his lovely ladies, who attempted to take Winter’s mind off the game
last night on Saturday Fight Night, but to no avail.
CF:
Did you say “ladies”?
AW:
Yeah.
CF:
I wouldn’t have put Serenity, Jaclyn Lick or Kandi in the same sentence as
“ladies”, unless the sentence was, “Serenity, Jaclyn Lick and Kandi are
not ladies”.
AW:
Whaddya mean? Some women would charge for the things they do!
CF:
Oh boy.
AW:
Anyway, Winter is obviously focused on winning this tournament as he was able to
resist Midnight Blue’s women. But Blue scored an incredible, some may even say
shock, victory over Robbie Anthony last night, so he’ll be no pushover.
[NWA-UK
World Heavyweight Title Tournament Quarter Finals]:
Ben
Winter made Midnight Blue submit to the Deep Freeze in 0:11:05.
Rating:
****
CF:
There it is! Nobody escapes the Deep Freeze!
AW:
You know, I think Winter was choking Midnight Blue there…
CF:
It’s not a choke, it’s a cobra clutch. Anyway, Winter will face off against
Byson in the first semi final!
AW:
That’s gonna be a great match.
CF:
Just like our next one promises to be when Robbie Anthony battles Smashmouth.
AW:
We saw these two meet a few weeks ago and on that occasion, Da Bomb was able to
come out on top. But you can bet your ass that Smashmouth has learned from his
mistakes. That’ll make him even more determined to beat Anthony and take a
step closer to winning the World Championship.
CF:
Smashmouth will gain some heart as well after Midnight Blue defeated Anthony
last night, so we now know that Da Bomb is not invincible. The World Title
Tournament continues!
[NWA-UK
World Heavyweight Title Tournament Quarter Finals]:
Robbie
Anthony pinned Smashmouth with the Detonation in 0:09:50.
Rating:
***
CF:
A wonderful performance there by Robbie Anthony, he looks extremely indomitable
here at GrandSlam!
AW:
The Detonation is a very dangerous move. Anthony broke the neck of the WWF’s
Jesus in his try-out match with the Stamford outfit using that manoeuvre. You
don’t get up after taking that move.
CF:
The American marches on to face the winner of our next contest between Muerte de
Antedicho and Hiro Kakuhari, which is the last quarter final match-up. A real
international flavour about this one.
AW:
There certainly is, Freeman, and a real contrast of style between the two
participants. Antedicho hails from Villarreal in Spain and favours a high flying
arsenal of moves. He is all about high risk. The Japanese superstar Hiro
Kakuhari, on the other hand, enjoys breaking his opponents down with piercing
chops and lethal kicks. This man is very, very dangerous and should not be
underestimated.
CF:
The winner of this one meets Robbie Anthony in the semi finals, so get ready!
[NWA-UK
World Heavyweight Title Tournament Quarter Finals]:
Muerte
De Antedicho pinned Hiro Kakuhari with the Antedicho Driver in 0:14:31.
Rating:
*** 1/4
CF:
What a brilliant display by Antedicho to advance in the World Title Tournament.
AW:
The man reminds me so much of his trainer, Super Crazy. Both are never afraid to
take chances and they usually pay off.
CF:
Well that sets up two mouth-watering semi finals; Byson against Ben Winter and
Robbie Anthony versus Muerte de Antedicho. One of those men will leave London as
our World Heavyweight Champion. Let’s go backstage with Kelly.
Ben
Winter interview.
(The
Iceman is standing by backstage with Kelly.)
Kelly:
Ben, congratulations in getting past Midnight Blue in the quarter finals of the
tournament.
Winter:
You know, I give Midnight Blue a hell of a lot of credit. I knew he’d come out
all guns blazing at me and he never let up once, but in the end, he tasted the
Deep Freeze and got left out in the cold.
Kelly:
Well, that means you’ll face Byson in the semi finals. How are you going to go
about wrestling such an volatile commodity like him?
Winter:
It won’t be easy, but then there are no easy matches in a tournament like this
with so much on the line…
(Suddenly,
Byson runs in and interrupts proceedings by spearing Winter into the wall. Byson
grabs a trash can and hammers the grounded Iceman with it. Byson begins to
intimidate Winter.)
Byson:
It’s MY belt! MINE!!! You won’t stop me! NOBODY WILL STOP ME! You will
scream the name of Byson! Byson! BYSON!!!
(Byson
stomps away on Winter’s battered body and makes his exit. Adam Wheeler
applauds.)
CF:
What are you clapping for?
AW: Byson. He’s got brains.
CF:
You’re condoning that behaviour?
AW:
Oh come on, Freeman! He’s softening up his semi final opponent! It’s going
to be easy pickings for Byson now. He’ll walk into the final.
CF:
I hope you aren’t writing off The Iceman’s chances.
AW:
Oh no, but I would, if he had any.
CF:
The World Television Title Tournament continues next with the semi finals as
“Picture Perfect” Jason Prentice, wrestling his first match in the
tournament, faces Luke Champion.
AW:
Prentice had us all fooled by inventing an ankle injury and he had Byson
substitute for him in the first round, so that means he’s the freshest of all
the participants. His opponent is “Shotgun” Steve Bailey, a very innovative
wrestler who is young and hungry for success. This should be a good match.
CF:
Let’s go up to ring!
[NWA-UK
World Television Title Tournament Semi Finals:]
Jason
Prentice pinned Steve Bailey with the Perfect Plant in 0:07:49.
Rating:
** 1/4
AW:
Yes! Prentice wins it!
CF:
Hold on a minute…who’s that?
Post-match:
(A
black masked figure runs through the crowd, jumps the guardrail and enters the
ring. He nails Bailey with an Off the Top Rope Side Kick Suicida.)
CF:
That looks like…
AW:
…The Great Sasuke?! He just hit the Rider Kick!!
(The
black figure blasts Bailey with a tiger suplex as the fans boo him mercilessly.
The masked man then plants Bailey with the Thunder Fire Power Bomb.)
CF: The Thunder Fire Power Bomb! That’s Sasuke’s
move! What’s he doing here?!
AW:
He and Bailey have a history!
(The
Great Sasuke hooks up Shotgun’s legs and locks in the Total Body Workout?
The crowd continue to boo and jeer.)
CF:
Hang on…
(“Sasuke”
unmasks, revealing M.J.! He stomps Bailey several times before leaving to ring
to a chorus of boos.)
CF:
M.J. has just laid one hell of a beating on Steve Bailey, whilst masquerading as
The Great Sasuke! I don’t believe it!
AW:
M.J. is getting right inside Bailey’s head. The bad blood has been flowing
freely between those two for some time now and it has just started to boil!
CF:
Coming up next is the second and last semi final in the TV Title Tournament.
It’s Bryan Campbell, the self-professed Blue Chipper, taking on “The
Legacy” Luke Champion, with the winner meeting Prentice in the final!
AW:
Two men that are a great example of the young locker room here at Hammerlock and
a credit to British wrestling in general. This could be the sleeper match of the
evening.
[NWA-UK
World Television Title Tournament Semi Finals:]
Luke
Champion pinned Bryan Campbell after a power bomb in 0:11:49.
Rating:
** 3/4
CF:
That’s it, Champion got him! He’s through to the final!
Post-match:
(As
Champion celebrates in the ring, Campbell sneaks out of the ring and swipes a
steel chair. He rolls back in and drives the chair into the back of Champion’s
right knee, taking the leg out from under him. Campbell then swings the chair
back for another shot, but Migraine hits the ring and snatches the chair away
from him. Migraine cracks the chair over Campbell’s head and then leaves the
ring. Migraine lifts up the apron of the ring and pulls out a table from
underneath. The crowd goes absolutely crazy!)
CF: Did you hear the pop for that table! It got a bigger one than when you came out!
AW:
Shut up, Freeman! He can’t do this! He can’t put Campbell through a table!
(Migraine
sets the table up in the ring and then crotches Campbell on the top turnbuckle.
Migraine climbs up with him and he hooks The Blue Chipper up, before dropping
him through the table with a sickening reverse DDT!)
CF: Did you see that?! He’s killed him!
(Campbell
twitches amongst the broken fragments of the table while Migraine slumps in the
corner, clutching his head. Meanwhile, Luke Champion is helped out of the ring
by a couple of referees.)
AW: Get the doctors out here now! That’s going too far!!!
CF:
Come on, Adam. Campbell tried to garrotte Migraine with a chain last night. The
score between those two is a long way from being settled. And what condition is
Luke Champion going to be in for the final later this evening? Campbell took his
knee right out!
AW:
Well, you know what they say about one-legged men in ass kicking contests…and
NWA-UK Title Tournaments!
CF:
The Round Robin Tournament to crown the first-ever NWA-UK Tag Team Champions
culminates next when Society Bites take on the Hammersmith Hard Men. Now, in a
controversial move, The Punk Junkies have been awarded three more points by the
championship committee after The Bodysnatchers had to pull out due to Burke’s
injury.
AW:
Really? I hadn’t heard anything about it. Maybe Blair should come out here and
tell us about it.
CF:
Well anyway, The Punk Junkies will be champions if this match ends in a draw.
AW:
What happens if one of the teams wins? That’ll mean that two teams will be
tied on six points!
CF:
I’m not sure what will happen if that eventuality occurs.
AW:
Well, that’s not very professional, is it?!
CF:
You’re the colour man. You tell me what will happen!
AW:
I don’t know, do I? Otherwise I wouldn’t have asked you! (sighs)
CF:
Let’s go to the ring…quickly!
Society
Bites defeated Hammersmith Hard Men when Bradley made Phillips
submit
to a sleeperhold in 0:04:17.
Rating:
** 1/4
CF:
Bradley and Harris take the win, but they aren’t celebrating.
AW: Of course they aren’t, Freeman. They don’t know
who the NWA-UK World Tag Team Champions are yet, since they are now level with
the Punk Junkies on six points.
Round
Robin Standings
NWA-UK
World Tag Team Title Round Robin Tournament
==================================================
|
1.
The Punk Junkies
Society
Bites
|
6
( 2: 1: 0) 6
( 2: 1: 0) |
|
3.
Hammersmith Hard Men
The
Bodysnatchers
|
3
( 1: 2: 0) 3
( 1: 2: 0) |
CF: We hope to have some clarification on this situation very soon.
AW:
We’d better, or else the Tag Titles will still be vacant!
CF:
The World Title Tournament reaches the semi finals next as Byson goes one-on-one
with Ben Winter. Now bear in mind that Winter was brutally attacked backstage by
Byson after his quarter final victory over Midnight Blue.
AW:
And I suppose you think that gives Byson the advantage?
CF:
Well, naturally.
AW:
I reckon that it just pissed the Iceman off and he’ll now be even more fired
up for this one. Both men are very strong, but I don’t think that even Byson
will be able to lift the 330 pound Winter up for the Bull Rutt. Even though
Winter has the height and weight advantage, Byson can be deceptively quick. This
one is gonna be interesting!
[NWA-UK
World Heavyweight Title Tournament Semi Finals]:
Ben
Winter pinned Byson after a small package in 0:11:36.
Rating:
*** 1/4
CF:
Winter got him! Byson couldn’t escape the small package in time!
AW:
What a smart move that was! Byson tried to hit him with that suplex, but The
Iceman hooked him up into a pinning predicament!
Post-match:
(Byson hammers Winter with a clothesline to the back of the head and then stomps away at him in frustration. Byson then goes under the ring and pulls out a table.)
CF:
No, he’s not going to do this!
AW:
Yes, he is, and I doubt that anybody will be able to stop him! This Byson is
beside himself with anger because his World Title aspirations are over, and he
needs someone to take it out on!
(Byson
sets up the table at ringside and rolls back into the ring. He nails the groggy
Winter with a vicious belly-to-belly suplex and then drags him out to the ring
apron. Byson hooks up The Iceman for a tiger driver.)
CF: A tiger driver from the ring apron through the table?!
AW:
I have never seen anything like this before in my life!
(As
Byson goes to hit the move, Robbie Anthony hits the ring to a huge pop and
blasts Byson with a low blow. Anthony then climbs out onto the apron and power
bombs Byson straight through the table!)
CF:
Oh my God!
AW:
I can’t believe that! Anthony had no business out here!
(Muerte
de Antedicho sprints down to the ring and nails Anthony with a springboard
dropkick to the back of the head, sending Da Bomb careening off the apron and
into the guardrail! Antedicho then gets up a head of steam and executes a tope
con hilo on Anthony, Winter and Byson at ringside! The crowd are going
absolutely wild.)
CF: Here we go! Antedicho obviously doesn’t want to wait for his semi final and he’s going to do it now!
AW:
And he’s doing the right thing! He can’t match power with Anthony so he has
to take to the air!
[NWA-UK
World Heavyweight Title Tournament Semi Finals]:
Robbie
Anthony pinned Muerte De Antedicho with the Detonation in 0:13:46.
Rating:
**** 1/4
CF:
For the second time tonight, Anthony gets the win with his Detonation. Da Bomb
is in the final!
AW:
What a superb match that was. Antedicho lasted a hell of a lot longer than I
thought he would.
CF:
Society Bites are standing by backstage.
Society
Bites interview.
(Chaz
Harris and Kevin Bradley are standing in front of the GrandSlam banner with Phil
Robinson.)
Phil
Robinson: Guys, you def…
Chaz
Harris: Shut the hell up, dumbass. We came here tonight to win the Tag Team
Titles. We just got through kicking the holy hell out of The Hammersmith Hard
Women, but I don’t see any belts around our waists. Where the hell are they?
Kevin
Bradley: You know it’s painfully obvious that this piece of crap company
couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery, let alone a Tag Team Title
Tournament that actually works. Now as I understand it, we are level on points
with the Punk Junkies…
(At
that moment, The Punk Junkies interrupt the interview segment carrying a steel
ladder.)
Twitch:
That’s right, you are level on points with us, but not level on talent. It’s
time to settle this, and we are going to do it tonight.
Chaz
Harris: Oh, really?
Brainstorm:
Damn right. When you get done whinging, we’ll see you out in the ring for a
ladder match! That way, we’ll crown the undisputed NWA-UK Tag Team Champions
of the World…US!
Twitch:
What do you say?
Kevin
Bradley: You got it!
CF:
Wow, a ladder match for the Tag Team Titles, tonight!!!
AW: That is gonna be great!
CF:
Up next here at GrandSlam is the £10,000 Challenge Match. Now some weeks ago,
“The Upset Kid” Junior Jones scored a victory over Cuthbert D. Fharquar,
which didn’t sit too well with the man from Park Lane. Ever since, he has
tried to bait Jones into a return match by offering ever increasing sums of
money. He finally succeeded in getting his match last night with a bid of ten
grand.
AW:
An amount of money that Junior Jones could only ever dream about before now.
CF:
Do you think that lightning will strike twice this evening?
AW:
I seriously doubt it. Fharquar has been waiting a long time for this opportunity
to get back at the Upset Kid and I doubt he came here tonight to screw it up.
[£10,000
Challenge Match]:
Cuthbert
D. Fharquar pinned Junior Jones with the Silver Spoon in 0:13:54.
Rating:
*** 3/4
CF:
Who the hell is that?!
AW:
That’s Lord J. T. Potemkin III, from British Championship Wrestling!
CF:
What the hell is he doing here?
AW: Kicking Junior Jones’ ass, by the looks of things!
Post-match:
(Potemkin locks Jones in a cross knee backbreaker hold while Fharquar blasts Jones with a slingshot legdrop. Fharquar then lifts the barely conscious Jones up for a power bomb and Potemkin drops Jones with a top-rope shoulder neckbreaker. Referees eventually intervene while Fharquar and Potemkin work the jeering crowd.)
AW:
What a devastating attack on The Upset Kid! He has every reason to be upset now!
CF:
Potemkin has no business being in Hammerlock.
AW:
I think he was just giving a friend a helping hand.
CF:
Next up here at GrandSlam, we are proud to have four of the young stars of NWA
West Coast here at the Wembley Arena for your viewing pleasure. It’s the first
round of the NWA West Coast Tag Team Title Tournament. The Shoot Club team of
“The Shooter” Tony Jones and Chad Collyer take on “The Suicide Machine”
Donovan Morgan and “Above Average” Mike Sanders. Adam, would you like to
give us a little insight into the participants?
AW:
No problem. Known as the "Shooter", Tony Jones has been one of the
major players in All Pro Wrestling over the last two years. With his great
amateur wrestling background, wrestling at San Francisco State University, he is
a very accomplished mat-technician, and he tosses some of the meanest suplexes
in the business today. Jones is a man of few words, as he lets his wrestling do
the talking, and that speaks volumes. He has been highly scouted by some of the
top promotions in the world, such as WWF, WCW and the Japanese shoot-promotion
BattleArts, and recently played a big role in the Barry Blaustein wrestling
documentary "Beyond The Mat". Look for big things to come out of Tony
Jones, as this young man is on his way to the top of the wrestling world. He
isn't flashy, and doesn't talk a lot of trash, but if you’re an old school fan
of solid, hardworking wrestlers, you will be a fan of Tony Jones.
Chad
Collyer was trained by Dean Malenko and has done three tours of Japan. He was
recently invited to the ECWA Super 8 Tournament in Delaware. That tournament is
for the top eight Cruiserweights in the country.
Donovan
Morgan is one of the top pro wrestlers on the West Coast, and has been for the
past 3 years. He has worked all over the US against some of the top stars in
indy wrestling today, even receiving tryouts with WWF and WCW. Morgan made it to
the finals of the 2000 King Of The Indies tournament, only to lose to
Christopher Daniels in the final match.
Mike
Sanders rose from just an "Above Average" graduate of the WCW Power
Plant, to the most powerful active wrestler in the promotion. Slightly larger in
size than a cruiserweight, Sanders can fly like smaller wrestlers but prefers to
work the mat. Although he seems laid back, the “Above Average” has a great
deal of focus in the ring, as well as an uncanny amount of confidence.
CF:
Thank you very much for that, Adam. This should be a fine match. Let’s go to
the ring!
[NWA
West Coast Tag Team Title Tournament First Round]:
The
Shoot Club (Chad Collyer and Tony Jones) defeated Mike Sanders and Donovan
Morgan when Jones
pinned
Sanders after a German suplex in 0:10:47.
Rating:
* 1/2
CF:
There you have it, The Shoot Club advance in the NWA West Coast Tag Team Title
Tournament…hang on a second!
(“Voice” by Disturbed hits and US wrestling superstar Big Poppa Pete emerges from the back, to a phenomenal pop from the mammoth crowd on hand.)
CF:
That’s Big Poppa Pete!
AW:
What the hell is he doing here?!
(Pete
walks down the ramp towards the ringside area. He removes his sunglasses and
winks at the camera, before making his way over to the commentary table.)
CF:
Looks like you can ask him yourself!
AW:
I hate egomaniacs.
(Pete
puts on a headset and shakes hands with both commentators.)
CF:
Welcome to Hammerlock and welcome to GrandSlam, Pete!
Pete:
Thanks, great to be here.
AW:
So what are you doing here?
Pete:
Well I thought I’d come out for a closer look at my boys winning the NWA-UK
World Tag Team Titles, if that’s okay with you.
CF:
By “your boys”, you mean Society Bites, right?
Pete:
Correct. Kevin and Chaz, the two guys I trained. You’ll never meet two harder
working guys and the chemistry they have together is unbelievable. They’ve got
the look, they’ve got the charisma, they’ve got the talent and they are soon
gonna have the Tag Team Titles.
AW:
They must overcome The Punk Junkies in a Ladder Match to bag the gold. Here we
go!
Ladder
Match for the vacant NWA-UK World Tag Team Titles:
Society
Bites defeated The Punk Junkies in 0:20:46.
Rating:
* 3/4
(Society
Bites won the NWA-UK World Tag Team Titles.)
AW:
They have done it! Kevin Bradley and Chaz Harris have won the NWA-UK World Tag
Team Titles!
CF:
And they can thank their mentor for that! Pete just blatantly interfered and
essentially handed his boys the Tag Team Championship!
Post-match:
(Big
Poppa Pete, Chaz Harris and Kevin Bradley all climb the ladder and work the
irate crowd. Society Bites show off their newly won belts.)
CF: The crowd don’t like it one bit.
AW:
What the hell has it got to do with them?!
CF:
Kelly is standing by with NWA-UK World Heavyweight Title Tournament finalist
Robbie Anthony.
Robbie
Anthony interview.
Kelly:
Robbie, congratulations of getting through to the final. What do you think of
your chances?
Robbie
Anthony: Excellent. Why? Because I said from the start that I wouldn’t let
anybody stand in my way of becoming champion. I’ve gone through two tough guys
so far and I have no reason to believe that I cannot defeat Ben Winter…
(Ben
Winter walks in and takes the microphone.)
Ben
Winter: Is that right?
Robbie
Anthony: Yeah.
Ben
Winter: Well, we’ll see. You may have prevented me from going through a table
earlier tonight, but I will show you no mercy. That belt will be around my
waist, and you, or anybody else for that matter, can’t do a damn thing about
it.
(Winter
leaves while Anthony shakes his head in disgust.)
AW: What a final that is gonna be!
CF:
Well, up next is the final of the World Television Title Tournament and it
promises to deliver big time, not least because the two combatants absolutely
loathe each other!
AW:
You ain’t lying. Jason Prentice and Luke Champion have been gunning for each
other since day one, but only one man can walk out of here with the TV Title
around their waist.
CF:
Champion severely injured his knee in the aftermath of his semi final encounter
with Bryan Campbell when The Blue Chipper cracked the back of his leg with a
chair, and you can bet that Prentice won’t hold anything back in trying to
destroy that knee.
AW:
Why shouldn’t he? Prentice has a lot to prove here. Many think that he
shouldn’t even be in the tournament after his bouts of foul play. There’s no
doubting the capability and promise that these two men show every time they step
into the ring. But who wants it more? That’s the big question.
CF:
This match will be fought under two out of three falls rules. Let’s go up to
the ring.
[NWA-UK
World Television Title Tournament FINAL:]
Two-out-of-three-Falls
Match for the vacant NWA-UK World Television Title:
Jason
Prentice beat Luke Champion 2 falls to 1:
x Champion beat Prentice via disqualification in 0:22:01
x Prentice beat Champion via the Perfect Plant in 0:33:12
x Prentice beat Champion after outside interference in 0:38:24
Rating:
**** 1/4
(Jason
Prentice won the NWA-UK World Television Title.)
CF:
Prentice wins it, with the inadvertent help of…Valkyrie!!!
Post-match:
(British
Championship Wrestling’s Female Fighting Phenom, Valkyrie, grabs Prentice and
lifts him above her head in a Gorilla Press, before dropping him face-first onto
the steel chair. As Prentice gets back up clutching his face, Valkyrie nails him
with a vicious savate kick. Valkyrie then climbs to the top turnbuckle, ready to
hit Fate’s Thunderclap on “Picture Perfect”, but Linda O’Neil drags her
man out of harm’s way. Luke Champion pulls Valkyrie off the top turnbuckle and
argues with her, blaming her for costing him the title. Officials quickly
intervene and separate the two.)
CF:
I think that Champion has every right to be upset.
AW:
Of course he does, that broad just cost him the TV Title! But who cares?
Hammerlock’s first-ever World Television Champion is “Picture Perfect” –
he’s Jason Prentice!
CF:
Well, the time is upon us, it is our main event of GrandSlam, NWA-UK
Hammerlock’s inaugural pay-per-view. We shall crown the first ever World
Heavyweight Champion in Hammerlock history. It will be either “The Iceman”
Ben Winter or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s own Robbie Anthony.
AW:
Stamina and cardio vascular conditioning will be the important factor in this
match, because of the Iron Man Rules stipulation. That means that whichever
superstar records the most decisions inside thirty minutes will be the World
Champion. They have both been in the ring for roughly the same amount of time
this evening, but take into account that Winter has been attacked after each
match he has been in. As time goes on, that will begin to take its toll.
CF:
It’s too close to call. They are both phenomenally strong and powerful.
Who’s night is it going to be?
[NWA-UK
World Heavyweight Title Tournament FINAL]:
Iron
Man Match for the vacant NWA-UK World Heavyweight Title:
Robbie
Anthony beat Ben Winter 5 falls to 4:
x Anthony beat Iceman via the Detonation in 0:11:06
x Anthony beat Iceman via an inverted bulldog in 0:13:21
x Iceman beat Anthony via a running powerslam in 0:18:05
x Iceman beat Anthony via a bodyslam in 0:23:49
x Anthony beat Iceman via a springboard clothesline in 0:28:13
x Iceman beat Anthony via a Thunder Fire
Power Bomb in 0:29:39
x Anthony beat Iceman via the Detonation in 0:35:02
x Iceman beat Anthony via an inside cradle in 0:35:41
x Anthony beat Iceman via an inverted bulldog in 0:37:59
x time limit expired (Anthony and Iceman) in 0:40:00
Rating:
****
(Robbie
Anthony won the NWA-UK World Heavyweight Title.)
CF:
Anthony has done it!!! He is the NWA-UK Hammerlock World Heavyweight Champion!!!
AW:
Winter seemed to tire as the match went on, but he came back from two falls
down, which was a marvellous feat. Da Bomb clinched it in sudden death overtime
though, a scintillating performance from him!
CF:
It has been all night.
Post-match:
(The
entire Hammerlock locker room surrounded the ring and applauded the first ever
World Champion, along with the delighted crowd inside Wembley Arena. Ben Winter
then shook hands with Robbie Anthony and the two men embraced. Winter raised Da
Bomb’s arm in a tremendous show of sportsmanship. Robbie Anthony climbed each
turnbuckle and held the World Championship belt aloft to an incredible ovation.)
CF: Ladies and gentlemen, what a show and what a pay-per-view debut for NWA-UK Hammerlock. Thank you for joining us here tonight for GrandSlam and we shall see you on pay-per-view very soon. For Adam Wheeler, this is Chris Freeman here at the Wembley Arena in London, saying goodnight everybody!
Match
observations:
STOP
THE PRESSES!!!
Just
hours after clinching the World Heavyweight Championship at NWA-UK GrandSlam,
Robbie Anthony has quit the promotion, effective immediately. Unconfirmed
reports cite a pay dispute as the cause for Anthony walking out of Hammerlock.
The World Championship has now been declared vacant, more details and
information on this shocking story will be released when we get them.
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Peter
Abram, 07-02-2001