TBirdSCIL
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON Jan-22-03 AT 00:07 AM (EST)](FADE-IN: The camera pans the crowd at the Van Andle Arena and shows various people in different states of hysteria. One fat guy is shown screaming and yelling as he double-fists two beers. Two attractive girls almost pretend to make out and giggle about it. A really ripped guy starts flexing for the camera. Some signs are shown, including "I BREACHED MY IMPASSE" "TEMPEST: NEXT GREAT LAKES CHAMP", "BRING BACK SHADES", and "I EAT POO SANDWICHES". CUT-TO: Matt Faley standing at mid-ring)
MATT FALEY: "Our next match is for the Great Lakes Televsiion Title! It is Best Two-Out-of-Three Falls! First, coming to the ring, the challenger," (CUE-UP: "The Day the World Went Away" by Nine Inch Nails) "From Death Valley, California, weighing in at 238lbs., GOLEM!!"
(The crowd cheers as Golem makes his way to the ring, focused on the ring and nothing else, wearing his usual black trunks and boots. He climbs in and raises his claw hand and the crowd responds in force)
M.F.: "And his opponent," (CUE-UP: "Lawnmower" by Worthless United) "From Whitelandia, USA, weighing in at 220lbs., the Great Lakes Television Champion, THE JOBBER!!"
(The crowd boos as The Jobber walks to the ring with the belt around his waist, pointing it out to some of the fans along the way with a cocky look on his face. He climbs into the ring and raises both arms, drawing more boos, and then points at Golem, then to the belt and shakes his head)
TONY ROSS: "Rick, not to take anything away from this match, but I cannot believe what we saw before the commercial break! Jake Shades is blackmailing Scott Malec into giving him an announcer's job with nude photos of Lady V! You got to be kidding me!!"
RICK WISEMAN: "I don't put anything past Shades and this does not surprise me at all. Shades will do anything to get his way and this proves it. Who knows where he got those photos from, but I'm sure we will find out soon enough,"
T.R.: "Well this should be quite a match, as it will prove once and for all who the better man is! These two have had quite a few encounters in the past and this will definitely settle the score!"
R.W.: "Both of these men are immensely talented with ring skills, but both have used cheating tactics in the past. We'll see how that comes into play here."
T.R.: "OK here we go, as both men circle each other, jawing back and forth trying to psyche each other out. These guys are veterans and I don't think any amount of psyching out is going to deter them. They lock up and The Jobber gets a side headlock and wrenches on the pressure! Golem pushes off and The Jobber comes off and gets taken down by a Golem shoulderblock! Golem quickly off the ropes and The Jobber leapfrogs him! Golem comes off the ropes and tries a clothesline but The Jobber ducks, turns, and hits a dropkick to Golem's knees!"
R.W.: "Great sequence there as these guys try to out-maneuver each other and The Jobber immediately gos to soften up the leg, or in this case the knee."
T.R.: "The Jobber is notorious for working the leg or knee the entire match to set up that vicious step over toe hold he uses. Golem already favoring his knee as the Jobber kicks it a few times! The Jobber pulls him up and hits an atomic drop onto the knee! Golem hits the mat and The Jobber holds on to the leg and begins to twist, applying pressure to that knee!"
R.W.: "Any kind of damage to the knee can be a real disadvantage early in this type of match, since you need two falls to win and that can take a long time."
T.R.: "Golem uses his free leg to kick Jobber off and Golem gets to his feet just in time to catch a charging Jobber with a crisp armdrag! The Jobber gets right back up and runs into a belly to back suplex!! 1.....2....No!! Golem gets up and walks off the pain of his knee a little bit and gies back to the Jobber! Golem pulls him up and sweeps the leg! And now it appears Golem is going to work the leg himself! Golem has an ankle lock on as The Jobber cried out in pain! Golem has a lot of torque on that knee right now!"
R.W.: "Good strategy here by Golem, as the Jobber will have to worry about protecting his own leg rather than going after Golem's."
T.R.: "There have been numerous knee injuries in this great sport of ours, and one can occur at any moment here as both men are focused on doing just that! Golem continues to apply pressure but the Jobber manages to reach out and grabs the ropes to break the hold! Golem stomps The Jobber's face in return! Golem pulls him up and slams him right back down, and he drops his own knee onto Jobber's!"
R.W.: "Golem needs to be careful using his knee as an offensive weapon here because that can only soften it up even more, even though it wasn't the one Jobber was targeting."
T.R.: "Whoah!! Now Golem applies an Indian Deathlock!! The Jobber is in real trouble here! And remember in a two-out-of-three falls match, it does not have to be a pinfall, it can be a submission as well! The Jobber cries out in pain as he tries with all his might to reach the ropes again! Golem has him locked pretty well, but The Jobber is using a superhuman effort to reach! He strains and strains and he makes it! The hold is broken and Golem is angry!! He begins stomping away viciously at The Jobber's knee as the fans egg him on!"
R.W.: "Another reason why Golem may be frustrated is because of his inability to take the Great Lakes Title off of Michael Manson! Golem cannot let that distract him and he needs to turn that frustration into something positive here!"
T.R.: "Golem already holds a victory over Jobber in the Great Lakes Title tournament, so we'll see if he can duplicate that feat here, twice! Golem gets The Jobber to his feet and levels him with a short clothesline! Now Golem is trying to apply a Boston Crab, but The Jobber is blocking it! Golem may be trying to weaken the back as well but The Jobber is able to roll out of it! The Jobber avoids a Golem spear and Golem goes headfirst into the corner! A quick rollup by The Jobber!! He's got the tights!! 1.......2......3!!! The Jobber gets the first fall!"
R.W.: "Golem was too eager to get at the Jobber and that cost him as he went right into the corner and bounced his shoulder off the post extremely hard! The Jobber had the tights and Golem is letting the referee know about it!"
T.R.: "Golem is arguing vehemently about it and The Jobber knees him from behind and he collides with referee Al Marinaro!! Marinaro and Golem both tumble out of the ring and hit the floor!! The Jobber follows them out and he pulls Golem up and rams him shoulder-first into the post! The Jobber knows that Golem really hurt his shoulder on that spear attempt and now he's going to try and exploit it! The Jobber pulls Golem's arm behind him and rams him into the guardrail, right on that right shoulder! Golem is in agony here down one fall!"
R.W.: "Al Marinaro is now regaining his senses as the Jobber uses another piece of ringside furniture, the ringsteps, to ram Golem's shoulder into!"
T.R.: "The ringsteps separate and go flying as Golem is sent shoulderfirst into them! Marinaro rolls into the ring and he wants the second fall started and The Jobber is happy to oblige as he dumps Golem into the ring! The Jobber follows in pulls Golem up and hits a shoulderbreaker!! No Golem holds on and hooks him with a small package!! 1.....2.....3!! He got him!! Golem immediately gets retribution!!"
R.W.: "He had a handful of tights there, Tony, just like The Jobber did earlier, and I guess turnabout is fair play! We are evened up at one fall a piece and now The Jobber is in a rage!"
T.R.: "Well, that's too bad, he got a taste of his own medicine! The Jobber is pleading his case and Marinaro won't have any of it! Golem grabs The Jobber from behind for a back suplex into a bridge!! Marinaro counts!! 1......2.....No!! Oh so close, everyone here thought Golem had it wrapped up!! Golem is in shock because he thought he had the third fall!"
R.W.: "Well I guess Marinaro didn't care about a rest period or anything because he just went ahead and counted!"
T.R.: "Golem grabs The Jobber and hauls him to his feet! Full nelson face slam!! Golem follows it up with a series of elbows! Golem is favoring his shoulder so you know the damage has been done to it! Golem pulls the Jobber up and he sets the Jobber up for what could be a death valley driver, but The Jobber slips out the back door and rolls him up!! 1.....2....No!! No tights that time and that might have been the difference! Both men are up and Golem ducks a clothesline and turns and clips the back of The Jobber's knee! Golem is going for the Indian Deathlock again but the Jobber kicks him away! The TV Champion is fighting for survival here as Golem smells victory!"
R.W.: "Golem is trying to go back to the leg that he was working earlier in the match but Jobber simply won't let him, as he gets kicked away again!"
T.R.: "The anger is showing on Golem's face as he stomps the Jobber's knee and pulls him to his feet! Golem lifts him for a powerbomb but The Jobber face plants him from mid air!! Wow!! Both men are on the mat and breathing heavily as Marinaro lays the count down! Golem is up first and he drags The Jobber to his feet! Golem kicks The Jobber in the gut and goes for the Backdrop Drover! No!! It's blocked, he can't get him over!! The Jobber knees Golem right in the face and hooks him!! Tiger Driver into the pin!! 1.....2.....3!! The Jobber got him!! The Jobber retains the title here at Massive Assault with a hard fought two fall victory! And the fans don't like it one bit!"
M.F.: "Ladies and gentlemen, your winner, and STILL GLCW Television Champion...THE JOBBER!!!"
R.W.: "Even though the first two falls were won by using the tights, the Jobber pulled this one out with old-fashioned guts and sweat and I give him credit for that, but the fans here in Grand Rapids don't seem to agree!"
T.R.: "The Jobber comes out on top here and retains his Television Title here in Grand Rapids! Fans, Lady V is standing by in back with Sean Edmunds!"
(CUT-TO the locker room area. Lady V, visibly shaken up by the earlier incident with Shades and Malec, walks up to Sean Edmunds and is about to speak when she is abruptly cut off)
SEAN EDMUNDS: (upon seeing Lady V) "Do not even utter a word. I told Krusher that I would not be interviewed once more for this match and I mean it. So you be quiet and just look nice, ok? Ok. Now. Rabesque. The time is upon us. All the years of waiting, all the years of patience. All the years that I've been suppressing my anger. It's all about to come out, Jean. When I get into that ring with you, and when I look around the arena and realize that this is it, the moment I've been waiting for, I'll let everything go. And when I mean everything go, I mean everything, Jean. I'm going to let my anger go. I'm going to let my obsessions go. Because once I have you all alone in that match, Jean, I am going to comprehend that this is what I've been waiting for. A chance to prove you to be the faux that you are. You constantly are telling the world that you are the greatest wrestler there is today. (smiles) Jean, they'll see that you're just the wrestler who is most full of (BLEEP). This match won't be over until one of us says 'I Quit'. I've worked so hard .. I've waited so long .. and now that I have everything the way I want it, those two words do not exist in my vocabulary. And anytime that you've got me on the verge of letting my hopes slipping through my fingers, all I am going to do is look into your eyes. I've told you, Jean... I'll pull all the strength I need from looking in your eyes. And I will not forfeit. Everytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes.. and I clench my fist whenever I see you. But Jean, I'll be free of you after tonight. Because I'm setting you free. You'll no longer have to worry about 'Simply Sensational' attacking you from behind, or interrupting your matches. Because I will have moved on to bigger and, yes Jean, even BETTER things. So Jean, while your wallowing in the mediocrity that will have finally caught up with you, perhaps you'll be able to look back at tonight's match, tonight's defeat I should say, and use it as an epiphane. Tonight will be the night that you finally open your eyes .... open your eyes to see what everyone else has been seeing for weeks, hell, years.... Jean Rabesque isn't the greatest wrestler alive... he isn't even close.... and Jean, when you have this epiphane ... just remember who all along was telling you just how much you've fallen. You'll have lost all that you were working for after tonight Jean. There won't be a shot at Manson for you ... there won't be a shot for any gold in the GLCW ... and hell, Jean... you want even have the power of having a perfect record over me. I'll see you in the ring, Jean... and after this is all said and done... I'll have made history ... too bad it will be at your expense."
(Edmunds walks away and Lady V just shakes her head. Fade to a commercial for the next Riptide in Cleveland)
MATT FALEY: "Our next match is for the Great Lakes Televsiion Title! It is Best Two-Out-of-Three Falls! First, coming to the ring, the challenger," (CUE-UP: "The Day the World Went Away" by Nine Inch Nails) "From Death Valley, California, weighing in at 238lbs., GOLEM!!"
(The crowd cheers as Golem makes his way to the ring, focused on the ring and nothing else, wearing his usual black trunks and boots. He climbs in and raises his claw hand and the crowd responds in force)
M.F.: "And his opponent," (CUE-UP: "Lawnmower" by Worthless United) "From Whitelandia, USA, weighing in at 220lbs., the Great Lakes Television Champion, THE JOBBER!!"
(The crowd boos as The Jobber walks to the ring with the belt around his waist, pointing it out to some of the fans along the way with a cocky look on his face. He climbs into the ring and raises both arms, drawing more boos, and then points at Golem, then to the belt and shakes his head)
TONY ROSS: "Rick, not to take anything away from this match, but I cannot believe what we saw before the commercial break! Jake Shades is blackmailing Scott Malec into giving him an announcer's job with nude photos of Lady V! You got to be kidding me!!"
RICK WISEMAN: "I don't put anything past Shades and this does not surprise me at all. Shades will do anything to get his way and this proves it. Who knows where he got those photos from, but I'm sure we will find out soon enough,"
T.R.: "Well this should be quite a match, as it will prove once and for all who the better man is! These two have had quite a few encounters in the past and this will definitely settle the score!"
R.W.: "Both of these men are immensely talented with ring skills, but both have used cheating tactics in the past. We'll see how that comes into play here."
T.R.: "OK here we go, as both men circle each other, jawing back and forth trying to psyche each other out. These guys are veterans and I don't think any amount of psyching out is going to deter them. They lock up and The Jobber gets a side headlock and wrenches on the pressure! Golem pushes off and The Jobber comes off and gets taken down by a Golem shoulderblock! Golem quickly off the ropes and The Jobber leapfrogs him! Golem comes off the ropes and tries a clothesline but The Jobber ducks, turns, and hits a dropkick to Golem's knees!"
R.W.: "Great sequence there as these guys try to out-maneuver each other and The Jobber immediately gos to soften up the leg, or in this case the knee."
T.R.: "The Jobber is notorious for working the leg or knee the entire match to set up that vicious step over toe hold he uses. Golem already favoring his knee as the Jobber kicks it a few times! The Jobber pulls him up and hits an atomic drop onto the knee! Golem hits the mat and The Jobber holds on to the leg and begins to twist, applying pressure to that knee!"
R.W.: "Any kind of damage to the knee can be a real disadvantage early in this type of match, since you need two falls to win and that can take a long time."
T.R.: "Golem uses his free leg to kick Jobber off and Golem gets to his feet just in time to catch a charging Jobber with a crisp armdrag! The Jobber gets right back up and runs into a belly to back suplex!! 1.....2....No!! Golem gets up and walks off the pain of his knee a little bit and gies back to the Jobber! Golem pulls him up and sweeps the leg! And now it appears Golem is going to work the leg himself! Golem has an ankle lock on as The Jobber cried out in pain! Golem has a lot of torque on that knee right now!"
R.W.: "Good strategy here by Golem, as the Jobber will have to worry about protecting his own leg rather than going after Golem's."
T.R.: "There have been numerous knee injuries in this great sport of ours, and one can occur at any moment here as both men are focused on doing just that! Golem continues to apply pressure but the Jobber manages to reach out and grabs the ropes to break the hold! Golem stomps The Jobber's face in return! Golem pulls him up and slams him right back down, and he drops his own knee onto Jobber's!"
R.W.: "Golem needs to be careful using his knee as an offensive weapon here because that can only soften it up even more, even though it wasn't the one Jobber was targeting."
T.R.: "Whoah!! Now Golem applies an Indian Deathlock!! The Jobber is in real trouble here! And remember in a two-out-of-three falls match, it does not have to be a pinfall, it can be a submission as well! The Jobber cries out in pain as he tries with all his might to reach the ropes again! Golem has him locked pretty well, but The Jobber is using a superhuman effort to reach! He strains and strains and he makes it! The hold is broken and Golem is angry!! He begins stomping away viciously at The Jobber's knee as the fans egg him on!"
R.W.: "Another reason why Golem may be frustrated is because of his inability to take the Great Lakes Title off of Michael Manson! Golem cannot let that distract him and he needs to turn that frustration into something positive here!"
T.R.: "Golem already holds a victory over Jobber in the Great Lakes Title tournament, so we'll see if he can duplicate that feat here, twice! Golem gets The Jobber to his feet and levels him with a short clothesline! Now Golem is trying to apply a Boston Crab, but The Jobber is blocking it! Golem may be trying to weaken the back as well but The Jobber is able to roll out of it! The Jobber avoids a Golem spear and Golem goes headfirst into the corner! A quick rollup by The Jobber!! He's got the tights!! 1.......2......3!!! The Jobber gets the first fall!"
R.W.: "Golem was too eager to get at the Jobber and that cost him as he went right into the corner and bounced his shoulder off the post extremely hard! The Jobber had the tights and Golem is letting the referee know about it!"
T.R.: "Golem is arguing vehemently about it and The Jobber knees him from behind and he collides with referee Al Marinaro!! Marinaro and Golem both tumble out of the ring and hit the floor!! The Jobber follows them out and he pulls Golem up and rams him shoulder-first into the post! The Jobber knows that Golem really hurt his shoulder on that spear attempt and now he's going to try and exploit it! The Jobber pulls Golem's arm behind him and rams him into the guardrail, right on that right shoulder! Golem is in agony here down one fall!"
R.W.: "Al Marinaro is now regaining his senses as the Jobber uses another piece of ringside furniture, the ringsteps, to ram Golem's shoulder into!"
T.R.: "The ringsteps separate and go flying as Golem is sent shoulderfirst into them! Marinaro rolls into the ring and he wants the second fall started and The Jobber is happy to oblige as he dumps Golem into the ring! The Jobber follows in pulls Golem up and hits a shoulderbreaker!! No Golem holds on and hooks him with a small package!! 1.....2.....3!! He got him!! Golem immediately gets retribution!!"
R.W.: "He had a handful of tights there, Tony, just like The Jobber did earlier, and I guess turnabout is fair play! We are evened up at one fall a piece and now The Jobber is in a rage!"
T.R.: "Well, that's too bad, he got a taste of his own medicine! The Jobber is pleading his case and Marinaro won't have any of it! Golem grabs The Jobber from behind for a back suplex into a bridge!! Marinaro counts!! 1......2.....No!! Oh so close, everyone here thought Golem had it wrapped up!! Golem is in shock because he thought he had the third fall!"
R.W.: "Well I guess Marinaro didn't care about a rest period or anything because he just went ahead and counted!"
T.R.: "Golem grabs The Jobber and hauls him to his feet! Full nelson face slam!! Golem follows it up with a series of elbows! Golem is favoring his shoulder so you know the damage has been done to it! Golem pulls the Jobber up and he sets the Jobber up for what could be a death valley driver, but The Jobber slips out the back door and rolls him up!! 1.....2....No!! No tights that time and that might have been the difference! Both men are up and Golem ducks a clothesline and turns and clips the back of The Jobber's knee! Golem is going for the Indian Deathlock again but the Jobber kicks him away! The TV Champion is fighting for survival here as Golem smells victory!"
R.W.: "Golem is trying to go back to the leg that he was working earlier in the match but Jobber simply won't let him, as he gets kicked away again!"
T.R.: "The anger is showing on Golem's face as he stomps the Jobber's knee and pulls him to his feet! Golem lifts him for a powerbomb but The Jobber face plants him from mid air!! Wow!! Both men are on the mat and breathing heavily as Marinaro lays the count down! Golem is up first and he drags The Jobber to his feet! Golem kicks The Jobber in the gut and goes for the Backdrop Drover! No!! It's blocked, he can't get him over!! The Jobber knees Golem right in the face and hooks him!! Tiger Driver into the pin!! 1.....2.....3!! The Jobber got him!! The Jobber retains the title here at Massive Assault with a hard fought two fall victory! And the fans don't like it one bit!"
M.F.: "Ladies and gentlemen, your winner, and STILL GLCW Television Champion...THE JOBBER!!!"
R.W.: "Even though the first two falls were won by using the tights, the Jobber pulled this one out with old-fashioned guts and sweat and I give him credit for that, but the fans here in Grand Rapids don't seem to agree!"
T.R.: "The Jobber comes out on top here and retains his Television Title here in Grand Rapids! Fans, Lady V is standing by in back with Sean Edmunds!"
(CUT-TO the locker room area. Lady V, visibly shaken up by the earlier incident with Shades and Malec, walks up to Sean Edmunds and is about to speak when she is abruptly cut off)
SEAN EDMUNDS: (upon seeing Lady V) "Do not even utter a word. I told Krusher that I would not be interviewed once more for this match and I mean it. So you be quiet and just look nice, ok? Ok. Now. Rabesque. The time is upon us. All the years of waiting, all the years of patience. All the years that I've been suppressing my anger. It's all about to come out, Jean. When I get into that ring with you, and when I look around the arena and realize that this is it, the moment I've been waiting for, I'll let everything go. And when I mean everything go, I mean everything, Jean. I'm going to let my anger go. I'm going to let my obsessions go. Because once I have you all alone in that match, Jean, I am going to comprehend that this is what I've been waiting for. A chance to prove you to be the faux that you are. You constantly are telling the world that you are the greatest wrestler there is today. (smiles) Jean, they'll see that you're just the wrestler who is most full of (BLEEP). This match won't be over until one of us says 'I Quit'. I've worked so hard .. I've waited so long .. and now that I have everything the way I want it, those two words do not exist in my vocabulary. And anytime that you've got me on the verge of letting my hopes slipping through my fingers, all I am going to do is look into your eyes. I've told you, Jean... I'll pull all the strength I need from looking in your eyes. And I will not forfeit. Everytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes.. and I clench my fist whenever I see you. But Jean, I'll be free of you after tonight. Because I'm setting you free. You'll no longer have to worry about 'Simply Sensational' attacking you from behind, or interrupting your matches. Because I will have moved on to bigger and, yes Jean, even BETTER things. So Jean, while your wallowing in the mediocrity that will have finally caught up with you, perhaps you'll be able to look back at tonight's match, tonight's defeat I should say, and use it as an epiphane. Tonight will be the night that you finally open your eyes .... open your eyes to see what everyone else has been seeing for weeks, hell, years.... Jean Rabesque isn't the greatest wrestler alive... he isn't even close.... and Jean, when you have this epiphane ... just remember who all along was telling you just how much you've fallen. You'll have lost all that you were working for after tonight Jean. There won't be a shot at Manson for you ... there won't be a shot for any gold in the GLCW ... and hell, Jean... you want even have the power of having a perfect record over me. I'll see you in the ring, Jean... and after this is all said and done... I'll have made history ... too bad it will be at your expense."
(Edmunds walks away and Lady V just shakes her head. Fade to a commercial for the next Riptide in Cleveland)