
The HWA-Tron flickers to life and we see the words 'Happy Hardcore New Year from the HWA!'. Then a highlights package plays from last week; Kevin Hurts beating The Real Hero to retire the International Title, The Real Hero's subsequent shoulder injury, then the four on four match between the HWA, and the 'CFO', Judge being eliminated by Change and Hurts and then his return to the ring to hit the Wrath of Judgement on Conner, pretty much killing any chance of a team HWA victory. We then see the preview of tonight's matches; Judge v Conner in a steel cage for the number one contendership, Hurts v Pocket Change for the X-Treme Title, and then the fatal four way to establish the newest HWA Champion.
FLW: WHATS UP HWA?!
The crowd cheers Larry, who was once hated by them but then redeemed himself in their eyes when he stood up to David Jackson some months previously.
FLW: Thats right my friends! Now I want to put forward an open challenge for anyone back there in the locker room. Anybody want a piece of the Fat man!?
The crowd cheer Larry's decision to make a return to the ring, and sure enough some music hits. "Step Up" by Drowning Pool.
TB: Oh no, surely not!
KK: ANDERSON?!
Sure enough Anderson steps to the top of the ramp, microphone in hand.
ADA: Hey Larry, good to see you back and well.
FLW: Thanks man, does this mean you're proposing to take me on at Eve Of Extinction?!
ADA: Ha! Good one! No. I'm just the commisioner around here my friend, I don't wrestle any more! No, there's a kid in the locker room who'se not yet got a match booked for Eve Of Extinction. I'm putting you in a match with Shawn Clover!
The crowd cheers once more as the Irishman's name is mentioned.
FLW: Sounds great to me! Now how about you and me spend some, er, quality time with these lovely ladies here?!
ADA: Oh hell yeah, now you're talking big man!
The two slap each other on the back and disappear back up the ramp with the ladies draped around them.
KK: Lucky bastards....
TB: We have another pre taped comments from Kevin Conner. Roll the footage.
Kevin Conner: Tonight is the night where i finally get my shot, to get a shot at the HWA title. I truly am the best in this business and to beat Judge ass for a second straight time is laughable but whatever puts food in my mouth and pays the bills. See But I dont want to talk about that I want to talk about something more important that and that is about one Chris Biggs. or as you fans know him as that ass Pocket Change. See this man was arrested for beating some dudes ass in a bar. He wanted to get out of our match at EOE.
See Bigg Money is the ref in this match if he can walk. He say she's not going to call it down the middle but I will beat his ass like i do Pocket Change and take his ;imp ass hand to count the 3. It doesnt matter whom is going to call that match the ending is goign to be the same. Just like Danny Starr and Michael Diamond, this match is personal. Headling EOE. You are going to be in for one hell of a fight, and possibly a match fo the HWA World Championship. Pocket Change, you better train hard this week because come EOE you're looking at the greatest wrestler and the next HWA World Champion, simple because that's just the way I am!
"Back Then" by Mike Jones hits and Pocket Change struts his way down to the ring. The camera points out Bigg Money, who is sitting in the front row. Change touches knuckles with him before leaping over the top turnbuckle and into the ring.
TB: Here we have our challenger, Pocket Change. Pocket Change really can't stand the man he'll fight today, Kevin Hurts. He along with Tiger Knight see Kevin Hurts as HWA's chosen child - as it were.
KK: He is, isn't he?
TB: Erm, remember the memo Keith?
KK: The one that said... oh shit yeah, we don't talk about it.
TB: Correct!
"Immortal" by Adema hits and Kevin Hurts makes his way out to the arena, the X-Treme Championship being worn proudly around his waist. He walks slowly down to the ring, slapping hands with a few hands. He gets to the bottom of the ramp, and before the bell rings, Pocket Change leaps off the top of the turnbuckle he'd just climbed, and knocks Hurts over with a spinning 450 splash. The crowd go nuts.
TB: Oh my GOD! What a risk by Pocket Change!
KK: Yeah but it paid off!
Pocket Change gets up and brushes himself off. He rips the belt off of Hurts and starts landing blows on to his face. Hurts tries to defend himself, but Change continues to press home with the punches. Hurts uses his legs to unbalance Change, and using his technical skills manages to lever Change to the floor. Now Hurts has the advantage. Hurts smashes Change's skull into the steel ramp several times and Change is bust open right away. Next, Hurts picks up his title belt and hits Change over the back of the head with it.
TB: Hurts showing us his exreme side!
KK: Yup, he makes a good X-Treme champion!
Now Hurts gets Change to his feet and sends him careering into the ring post. Change's shoulder connects and he recoils clutching his shoulder.
KK: Uh oh, not ANOTHER shoulder injury curtesy of Hurts?
TB: Yeah. I bet his shoulder, er, hurts!
KK: Touche! One pun apiece!
Hurts then more or less knocks Change into next week with a vicious super kick. Change takes a nasty fall which pretty much sees him tumble over the ring steps and onto the guard rail.
TB: My God. Pocket Change is really taking a pounding here.
KK: Yeah but look.... Bigg Money is up.
TB: I guess that answers our questions as to whether he can walk or not yet!
Bigg Money is helping Pocket Change back to his feet. Unbeknownst to them though, Hurts has already bounced off the ropes once for momentum and then flies over the top rope in a suicide dive, connecting viciously with both Pocket Change and Bigg Money. Money topples into the row behind him in the crowd wheras Change and Hurts fall in a heap on the mat.
KK: Biggz.... Is he ok?
TB: We better get some help out here. This is a man who only just managed to walk again.
Kevin Hurts manages to drape an arm over Pocket Change. Referee Wallace Cunningham makes the count 1-2-kickout by Pocket Change!
TB: How the hell did Change just kick out of that, given all the punishment Hurts had put on him?
KK: He's certainly got some decent resilience, thats for sure.
Hurts is pissed though. He goes for the Freak Out (Powerbomb setup to rollover piledriver) , but Change is wise to this and counters into a DDT and now Hurts is out flat in the ring. Change goes for the cover 1-2-kickout.
TB: Gonna take more than that to put Hurts away I think.
KK: Yeah, I think Change realises that, but was just being opportunistic this time.
Change leaves the ring looking for weapons. Biggz is back on his feet and throws something to Change.
TB: Was that a set of brass knuckles?
KK: Looks like it might have been, it was definitely gleaming!
Hurts gets to his feet and beckons for Change to enter the ring, not having seen Biggz throw the object to Change. Hurts advances, Change enters the ring and hits him squarely in the forehead with the brass knucks. Pocket Change goes again for the cover, but the camera turns away to see Morgoth jumping over the crowd rail, entering the ring and breaking up the pin.
TB: What the hell?!
KK: The memo! Don't act so surprised.
TB: I thought you were joking about the damned memo!
KK: I was.....
TB: Right. So what the hell was that?
KK: Well I got a feeling that either Morgoth has some sort of deal with Kevin Hurts, or he REALLY doesn't like Pocket Change!
Morgoth picks up Pocket Change and tosses him, like a toothpick, out of the ring. Hurts sails over the top rope, and lands on Trent and Keith's announce table, not breaking it, but kind've bouncing off it.
KK: Holy F'n SHIT!
TB: I think Morgoth just KILLED Pocket Change!
KK: I mean, if Change had have gone THROUGH the table, some of his impact would have been absorbed at least, but THAT?! If he hasn't got at least a half dozen broken ribs then I'ma King Charles Spaniel.
TB: Say woof Keith.
KK: What? Why?!
TB: Well look!
Sure enough, Pocket Change has actually started to lift his battered, bloodied and bruised body off the floor. In the ring though all hell is about to break loose. Hurts goes nose to nose with Morgoth.
KK: Clearly Hurts has had enough of Morgoth's "help".
TB: I dunno why, he's been on a good run with his help!
Hurts shoves Morgoth. Morgoth looks hurt and opens his arms out in a "what did i do" posture to Hurts. Hurts turns away briefly before turning once more towards Morgoth and hitting the Truth Hurts (Superkick).
KK: What the HELL?!
TB: This is what i've been trying to tell you all along! Kevin Hurts may have been helped since he debuted in the HWA, but it wasn't because he asked for it, or perhaps even needed it!
At this point Pocket Change has re-entered the ring, and sees Morgoth lying prone in the ring. Unsure as to what has gone on, he looks at Hurts, puzzled. Taking advantage of this momentary lapse in concentration, Hurts runs towards Change and hits the Freak Out (Powerbomb setup to rollover piledriver). The referee counts 1-2-3 and it's over!
TB: STILL Hurts kind've took the involuntary assist from Morgoth there.
KK: And I tell you something right now. There will be retribution for that if I know Morgoth.....
When Judge doesn't come out to his music, Morgoth appears at the top of the ramp, microphone in hand.
MG: Folks, i'm afraid Judge didn't make it to the arena tonight, and so by default, Kevin Conner will face the winner of tonight's fatal four way match for the HWA World Heavyweight Title.
The crowd boo and the mention of Judge's no show, but cheer when Conner's name is mentioned.
MG: And now I have another little matter to take care of. Kevin Hurts. Kevin Hurts is gonna get himself hurt, ha ha, at Eve of Extinction when I will taking him on in a one on one match!
TB: Morgoth v Hurts! Thats HUGE!
MG: The match will, naturally, be for Hurts' X-Treme Title, a title which I've never held in the HWA actually....
TB: But thats an abuse of power!
KK: He can do what he likes, he's the president!
TB: Yeah, but it sucks.
MG: So Kevin Hurts, you pathetic, ungrateful little bitch! You'd better get yourself ready son......
Morgoth drops the mike and heads back to the locker area.
"Jump Around" by House of Pain hits and Shawn Clover runs down to ringside, slapping the hands of his fans on the way.
KK: Clover has to be the outsider in this match.
TB: Perhaps, but he has lots of potential... He certainly looks happy to be here though!
KK: So he should! His next world title shot might not be till the year 2016!
"Immortal" by Adema hits and Kevin Hurts walks out to the ring, his slightly dented X-Treme title over one shoulder. He is limping slightly, but manages to raise both fists in a salute to the crowd.
KK: Here's the cheating little shit!
TB: Keith! Put an end to that already! He's NOT the HWA's golden child..... He's even now booked in a match against the HWA president Morgoth at Eve of Extinction! That doesn't strike as being the actions of a man who'se spot is protected!
KK: Sure it does. Hurts gets another high profile match!
TB: *sigh* You're just not gonna let this go Keith, are you.
KK: Er, no.
Out of my Way by Seether hits and Tiger Knight enters the arena, to mostly boos.
TB: Hmmm, interesting to see TK getting boo'd here tonight.
KK: Possibly due to his affiliation with Pocket Change...
TB: Could be. TK is currently experiencing one of the worst runs in HWA history. I think he's lost every one of his 6 matches so far. Thats something that only Kevin Conner or Dan Sawyer in their early days managed to achieve!
KK: True, but they improved. I mean, look at where Kevin Conner is now. Quite possibly one of the best known wrestlers of this generation.
TB: Anything can happen in professional wrestling!
"Back Then" by Mike Jones hits and Pocket Change comes down to the ring to a lot of boos. He flips off a couple of fans before making his way into the ring. His ribs are taped up, and he occasionally has to stop, grimacing in pain before he can carry on.
KK: Don't think we'll be seeing too mouch of Change's legendary ariel arsenal in this match some how.
TB: I think you're right. Change has a huge disadvantage going into this match.
KK: Yes, but he has a huge advantage standing near ringside... his name is Bigg Money!
The bell rings and we get things underway. All four men advance towards the centre of the ring. All are looking at each other, trying to work out where the first attack will come from. Suddenly, Pocket Change and Tiger Knight leap into action, taking on Kevin Hurts and Shawn Clover respectively. Hurts and Clover are taken by surprise and are quickly taken to the ground.
KK: Now this is more like it! Teamwork!
TB: This is supposed to be a fatal fourway match! I see though that alliances has been formed. I guess we should have expected this.
KK: Should have? I DID!
In tandem moves, Tiger Knigth and Pocket Change lock up their opponents in figure four leg locks.
KK: Hey! Nobody told me we'd signed the Hart Foundation!
Hurts manages to get to the ropes but Clover is still stook in his lock. Hurts drops an elbow and this allows Clover to escape. Clover puts his hand out to thank hurts, but a well timed drop kick from Tiger Knight sends Clover into Hurts. Hurts falls backwards, and out through the ropes, falling clumsily to the floor.
KK: Nobody to rescue you now, Hurts!
TB: God's sake Keith, FORGET ABOUT IT ALREADY!
Now though, Tiger Knight turns towards Clover and BANG! The Tigereye (RKO). Clover goes down. TK pins Clover and after 1-2-3, Shawn Clover is eliminated.
TB: So now we're down to three.
KK: Your math is excellent. Oh wait, what does HE want?
Kevin Conner is seen making his way down to ringside.
TB: He's the number one contender, i guess hes getting a closer look!
KK: He should get to the back like the rest of the wrestlers.
Conner stands outside the ring but then gets in. He turns Kevin Hurts around and hits a Soul Searcher. Conner then grabs Tiger Knight and kicks him in the stomach and hits a Conner Clash. Pocket Change then grabs Conenr throws a punch but Conner ducks and Pocket Change is then dropped with a Superkick! All four men are down and Conner heads to tbe back.
TB: HES TAKING OUT ALL MEN IN THIS MATCH!
KK: GET HIM OUT OF HERE REF!
TB: CONNER JUST BEAT EVERYONE IN THIS MATCH, thats a loud and clear statement!
Conner leaves the ring after leaving everyone lying on the canvas. Pocket Change manages to just about raise a hand enough to give Conner the finger. Hurts crawls his way over to Tiger Knight. Wallace Cunningham makes the count 1-2-kickout, but barely, from Tiger Knight.
KK: TK almost eliminated there.
Not giving up just yet, Tiger Knight tries draping an arm over Pocket Change. 1-2-foot on the ropes from Change. Hurts though is now just about back to his feet. He slowly climbs the turnbuckle and then gracefull leaps off with a 'Death from Above' (Swanton bomb) on to Pocket Change. With surprising agility for such a battered and bruised body, Change narrowly manages to avoid the swanton. Hurts eats the canvas.
TB: Oh great. Morgoth's here again.
Morgoth is indeed approaching the ring, starting intently at Kevin Hurts.
KK: What the hell is Morgoth going to do?
TB: Who knows. He's an unpredictable element in this match.
Pocket Change manages to just about hit a 'Full Hopper' on Kevin Hurts but it's clearly not a full powered one. Kevin Hurts goes down though, and predictably Morgoth slides into the ring.
TB: NO NO NO! Somebody get Morgoth OUT!
Pocket Change goes for the pin. Morgoth stands above the two of them, but then spins around and helps Pocket Change by holding Hurts down! 1-2-3 and Kevin Hurts is eliminated!
KK: HOLY SHIT!!!!!! MORGOTH JUST SCREWED KEVIN HURTS!
TB: HOLY SHIT IS RIGHT!!!!
KK: I mean, yeah sure, we knew Morgoth had challenged Hurts to the match at Eve Of Extinction, but Morgoth has helped Hurts in match after match here in the HWA. This makes NO sense!
TB: Maybe Morgoth was being truthful when he said Hurts was an ungrateful bitch?!
KK: Morgoth? Truthful?! Well, I suppose there's a first time for everything!
TB: So with Hurts now eliminated, we're down to Pocket Change and Tiger Knight. I guess their little alliance has worked for them.
KK: Yeah. And I guess Kevin Hurts really DID need Morgoth and the HWA to help him win matches! Cos guess what Trent? Hurts just LOST!
Tiger Knight and Pocket Change now stand opposite each other in the ring. Neither willing to make the first move. Pocket Change has blood in his mouth and is clutching his broken ribs.
TB: You've got to favour Tiger Knight to take advantage of these conditions, it's the best chance he'll probably EVER have of picking up the HWA title!
KK: Thats true, and the fact is, he IS an outsider in this match, and yet here he is in the last two!
Tiger Knight advances on Pocket Change, he attempts the Tigereye, but despite his condition, Pocket Change is wise to this move by his friend, and he counters into a crossface, taking TK to the ground.
TB: Yeah, we really aren't going to get any of PC's big flashy signature moves now. He's busted up bad.
KK: Yes but look, he's on top here!
Tiger Knight is indeed fighting for survival in the match as PC has him in the crossface right in the centre of the ring. Tiger Knight makes a couple of inches towards the rope but there's still about 4 feet out of reach. TK's face starts to go purple. The camera zooms into the audience to see Bigg Money. Money's face is distorted in adrenaline as he wills Pocket Change on to get the rap from Tiger Knight.
TB: He's never going to make it is he.
KK: Nope. Well done TK. You put up a great fight, now tap out and save yourself.
Tiger Knight seems to have passed out in the hold. The referee checks TK once, twice and on the third time TK seems to call on some internal source of power. Not only does he raise his arm up, but he actually sits up, and hits Change in the face with a HUGE right hand!
KK: WHAT?! WHERE THE HELL IS TK GETTING HIS POWER FROM!?
TB: Almost like he's 'hulking up'!
TK does indeed stand up. He lifts up Change and throws him into a turnbuckle. Change just looks at TK in shock, before slumping to the mat. TK picks him up and hits the Tigereye. This time he gets it fully, and Change is out. 1-2-3 and it's all over!
TB: TIGER KNIGHT DID IT!!!!! HE BECAME THE HWA WORLD CHAMPION!!!!
KK: Oh MAN I can't believe this!!!
Change is out for the count though and it's only when TK goes to check on him that he manages to open his eyes. He looks up at TK. TK offers him a hand up. Pocket Change looks at the hand, then turns away. Then he takes it! Tiger Knight pulls Change up. Change beckons for Wallace Cunningham to fetch the HWA World Heavyweight Title. He does so. Pocket Change has Tiger Knight stand facing the largest section of the crowd, and Pocket Change puts the belt on him. The crowd cheer for Tiger Knight, who as the underdog, won the match. Bigg Money enters the ring and the three men celebrate together.
TB: Well what great sportsmanship in the ring right there.
But suddenly and out of nowhere, Pocket Change has his dented bloodstained chair in his hand and
KK: OH MY GOD!
Pocket Change just took out Tiger Knight with the chair!
TB: What the hell?!
KK: I don't understand this at all!
TB: Oh my God, Bigg Money has handcuffs.
Biggz and Pocket Change handcuff TK to the turnbuckle. Change grabs a mike.
PC: You know TK, We were supposed to be friends. You said you didn't give a s*it about the title. That belt was supposed to be MINE! You and me are friends no longer! You blew it asshole! We could've ruled this company, but now, it's me versus you. The crowd continues to boo him. Change continues, Go ahead and boo you losers, You wanna' cheer for this man then go ahead, that just shows what an idiot you are.
The show goes off the air, as Pocket Change and Bigg Money are beating the living shit out of Tiger Knight. His blood splatters all over the HWA World Heavyweight title as the show goes off the air.