[FADEIN: The ramp to the ring as “Brain Stew” by Green Day plays over the PA. Sean Edmunds, Larry Tact, and Jared Wells making their way to the ring, the crowd jeering the mass of Anthology loudly as they make their way to ringside. There are a few pro-Wells signs that can be seen in the crowd.]
TF: The following contest is a 6 man tag match, scheduled for one fall, making their way to the ring first...Here are the EPW World Tag Team Champions...JARED WELLS AND LARRY TACT!!!! Their partner, also representing Anthology....”Simply Sensational” SEAN...EDMUNDS!
[The crowd continues to boo as the men hit the ring, Wells and Tact hold aloft their tag belts as the crowd keeps on them.]
DT: Anthology as usual not making themselves any friends as usual.
MN: They may not be popular, but they'll work as a team, I can't imagine how 3 tough guys from Brazil are going to deal with pretty boy Hart.
[MUSIC UP: “Phenomena” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shawn Hart, wearing black pleather pants and black ring boots, makes his way towards the ring, the trio of Jungle Storm suddenly speed past Hart and hit the ring, all three men attacking Anthology!]
DT: Oh my goodness! Jungle Storm have charged the ring and are all over Anthology! The ref trying to retain order here.
MN: This isn't a 4 on 3 handicap match! Get one of them out of there!
DT: Anthology hit the floor and now they are screaming at the ref to get order and get one of Jungle Storm out of the ring. Carvalho, Dos Santos and Silva now all arguing in, Dos Santos and Silva now getting each others faces, and finally Silva now walking out of the ring, glaring at his two partners.
MN: How the hell are they ever going to work together with Hart when they can't even settle their own issues?
DT: Well we're about to find out, as Dos Santos has elected to start for his team against Edmunds. Santos and Edmunds circle each other and Dos Santos just now unloading rights and lefts upon Edmunds, he backs him into the Jungle Storm corner and gets a Thai Clinch...AND A SERIES OF STIFF KNEES TO THE MID-SECTION OF EDMUNDS!
DM: Jungle Storm are well versed in just about every fighting style there is to know and currently that's all on display here!
DT: Dos Santos makes the tag to Carvalho who takes Edmunds out of the corner and a BIG hiptoss...Edmunds scampers over his own corner...Carvalho waving on Anthology, he just wants to fight somebody here, he doesn't care who!
DM: Carvalho seen by most as the calming influence over Jungle Storm and the man who leading them into their tag title match at Russian Roulette.
DT: Tact now tagged in and he and Carvalho lock up. Carvalho gets a side headlock. And now takes Tact down to the mat.
DM: Jungle Storm clearly want revenge for what happened to them last week, but Carvalho isn't letting that get in the way of a sound wrestling plan.
DT: Carvalho makes his back towards his own corner. Dos Santos tags back in and he exploits Tact being trapped in the headlock by kicking him in the ribs repeatedly!
MN: Come on ref, get some order in there! This is absurd!
DT: Dos Santos now firing away with rights to the body. Tact now sent to the ropes, GETS FLOORED BY A CLOTHESLINE! Tact gets back to his feet...GETS DRILLED WITH A SPINNING BACK ELBOW! DOS SANTOS COVERS!
ONE!!
TWO!!
NO!!
DT: Tact powers out at two! Dos Santos pulls him over to Jungle Storm's corner...and wait a second, Shawn Hart just tagged himself in!
MN: Oh of course the glory hound wanting to pick the bones after Jungle Storm did all the hard work, what a punk Hart turned out to be.
DT: Hart fires a series of hard right hands to Tact's jaw. Hart now measures him and lands a dropkick Tact reeling now as Hart whips him to the ropes. Wells makes a blind tag as Tact was coming off the ropes and Hart LEAPFROGS Tact...Tact off the other side, but he holds the ropes to avoid getting caught with a backdrop, WELLS BULLDOGS HART DOWN FROM BEHIND!
MN: See, this is the kind of tactics the tag champions use and that's why they are so successful.
DT: Wells stomping away on Hart now...Hart now thrown into the Anthology corner and gets a boot to the gut and now a big right hand from Wells who tags in Edmunds. Edmunds fires away with a series of jabs to Hart...Snapmare by Edmunds brings Hart into the middle of the ring and a BIG DROPKICK to the back of Hart. Edmunds now hooks up Hart and a SLAM...He goes to the outside...Edmunds off the top with a splash...NOBODY HOME!
DM: Hart hasn't suffered that much abuse, he needs to make the tag now before Anthology can really get to work on him.
DT: Hart making his way over his corner now...Wait a second...Wells just charged across the ring and cheap shotted Carvalho and Dos Santos! Now both of them AND Silva are trying to get into the ring. The ref is trying to stop a riot!
MN: Let them get in there and get themselves DQ'ed. This ref is working with Jungle Storm by saving them from themselves!
DT: You're like a black hole for reality, logic has no hope of escaping your crazy mind.
DM: While Jungle Storm have the ref tied up, Anthology is putting a 3 on 1 beating on Hart in the corner!
DT: Hart at the mercy of Anthology, who have none, Wells now tagged in and the legal man, he throws Hart into the ropes...SPINEBUSTER! Big time impact from Wells who stands over Hart now, putting the boots to the ex member of Anthology.
MN: Hart really made the mistake of his life turning his back on Anthology, he's going to pay for that mistake over and over again.
DT: Wells pulls Hart up to his feet, Wells with a waist lock...He gets Hart off the ground...BELLY TO BELLY SUPLEX! 250 plus pounds of Jared Wells crashing down on Shawn Hart...Wells with a cover!
ONE!!
TWO!!
NO!!
DT: Hart rolls the shoulder off the mat at 2 and a half and Wells quickly moves to tag in Edmunds. Edmunds now in and he pushes Hart into the Anthology corner and UNLOADS with a series of knife edge chops [Crowd “Woo'ing” along] Edmunds pulls Hart out to the middle of the ring and hooks him...NORTHERN LIGHTS SUPLEX WITH A BRIDGE!
ONE!!
TWO!!
TH-NO!!
DT: DOS SANTOS BREAKS IT UP! The ref now getting Dos Santos back into his corner. Edmunds and Tact switch without a tag and that FURTHER outrages Jungle Storm, who can't get the ref to turn around, and see the illegal switch. And now he turns around with Tact in the ring and he's allowing it to stand...Get control in there buddy!
MN: Wells was dominating Hart, he could have made the tag if he wanted to. He's just outraging the rubes and playing Jungle Storm for suckers.
DT: Tact now picks Hart up...HART WITH A HART ON!!! [Crowd pops!] Out of NOWHERE Hart just CRUSHED Tact with that move! Hart not able to follow up with a cover, he needs to make the tag!
DM: Hart and Tact have had a long history of matches against each other, it's kind of a shocker that Tact could leave himself open to such a move, he has to know how deadly Shawn Hart can be.
DT: Hart now crawling towards his corner...Tact moving towards his corner...Tact tags in Wells...HART TAGS IN DOS SANTOS!! Wells in and now being hammered by rights from Dos Santos! Santos off the ropes...Shoulder block FLOORS WELLS...Edmunds in the ring...TAKES A BIG FOOT TO THE FACE! DOS SANTOS IS A HOUSE OF FIRE IN THERE!
MN: Get out of the ring Anthology! Take 5 and regroup!
DT: Well Dos Santos isn't allowing that as he's all over Wells...Wells thrown hard into the corner..DOS SANTOS CRUSHES HIM WITH A SPLASH! Wells falls into the middle of the ring, Dos Santon with the tag to Shawn Hart who goes up top...ELBOW OFF THE TOP BY HART! THE COVER!
ONE!!
TWO!!
TH-NO!!
DT: Tact breaks it out, and all hell's broken loose! All 6 men fighting in the ring now...Carvalho and Tact now crash to the floor Edmunds and Dos Santos also go spilling to the floor...Wait a second, Wells just kicked at Silva who's outside the ring. Silva now trying to get in the ring but the ref is stopping him...OH WAIT A MINUTE!
MN: This is GREAT!
DT: CRUISE IN THE RING WITH THAT IC BELT AGAIN! HE JUST KNOCKED HART COLD! THIS IS A JOKE!
DM: This is the second Aggression in a row where Cruise has attacked Hart...Anthology clearly will not tolerate defections!
DT: Cruise now back out of the ring...Edmunds pulls Silva away from the ref, Wells has the pin...This is a DISGRACE!
ONE!!
TWO!!
THREE!!
[Bell rings, crowd booing loud!]
TF: Here are your winners...Larry Tact, Jared Wells, and Sean Edmunds...ANTHOLOGY!!!
DT: Anthology not stopping either here...Now all 4 Anthology at ringside attacking Jungle Storm, and now here comes Copycat...This is just sickening...Silva grabbed by Cruise...REALITY CHECK...The other two members of Jungle Storm being double teamed...Now Tact and Edmunds holding Dos Santos...CRUISE CRACKS HIM WITH THE BELT TO THE SKULL...And now Carvalho SUFFERS THE SAME FATE...I don't even know what to say fans...This is just an outrage...
MN: Nothing can stop Anthology, just accept it!
DT: Shawn Hart and Jungle Storm laid out...Anthology standing tall, and I guess you really just have to ask yourself...What hope is there to beat Anthology?!
MN: None! That's what hope there is!
*BOOM! – PYRO*
[“Yer Majesty“ by Shinedown starts up and the crowd gets to their feet as EPW Owner, “The Queen of the Ring” Lindsay Troy steps out onto the stage with a microphone.]
TROY: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!! Hold up just a second!! Cut it out RIGHT THIS SECOND or you’re all on the bread line tomorrow, you understand me?!
DT: It’s the owner!! And Anthology has stopped in their tracks! Edmunds, Cruise, Wells and Tact… they’re all glaring up at the owner with huge smirks on their faces. Copycat still standing over Jungle Storm…. Larry Tact is egging Lindsay Troy on…
MN: Maybe not the smartest move in the world.
TROY: First of all, it’s real brave of you to execute such a brilliant plan, guys. Five on three. Nice going. You’ve really proven yourselves.
[The camera cuts to Anthology generally laughing it up and having a good time, not impressed.]
TROY: Well, I’m gonna cut this celebration short. I told you two last week that not only did you have to defend the belts at Russian Roulette, but you were gonna face a team of my choosing earlier in the night prior that that title defense. You’ve been making it a habit, wearing down a softening up your opponents in your title defense… so at Russian Roulette… you’ll be the ones getting softened up…
[Jared Wells snatches a microphone out of a crewman’s hand…]
WELLS: Spit it out, Troy!! We don’t have all day, you know! There are parties to get to, laaaadies to get to. Who is it?? Crimson Calling??? You think we’re afraid of them?? It’s not Forsaken. What team from EPW’s past did you dig up, Troy??? You know what?? It doesn’t matter WHO it is…. We are the World Tag Team Champions for a reason. So bring em out. Go ahead. Bring out this team you’ve chosen. We’ll lay them out just like we laid these two losers out.
[Boos.]
TROY: Not afraid huh? Well….
Let me introduce the first man you’ll have to team up against. I’ll start by saying this – he is my former tag team partner…
[the crowd pops]
He is a former THREE TIME WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION.
[bigger pop]
He has held the WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP…. with THREE different men.
[sustained pop]
He is, without a doubt…. well, I’ll just let the music speak for itself…
[“Bad to the Bone” by George Thorogood and the Destroyers blasts over the speakers…. The crowd goes apesh!t.]
[Onto the stage, walking slowly and basking it all in ….
BIG DOG.
Dog walks over to Troy and gives her a big hug as the men in the ring looks on, not nearly as happy as they were a few minutes ago. Cruise especially knows exactly what this means and doesn’t look pleased AT ALL.]
DT: MY GOD!! BIG DOG IN EPW!! I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SEE THE DAY!!
DM: This man is a legend, Dave!! I bonafide legend and is absolutely synonymous with A1E. No one has done more, no one has meant more. What an unbelievable get for Lindsay Troy!
[Big Dog takes his place next to Troy and just smiles, staring up at the ring.]
TROY: And his partner?? Well – I’d say you know him pretty well. I’d say that most of you in that ring know him directly, from staring up at him on your back after a three count.
He is a man I know very well. In fact, you just might call him… family.
[The crowd busts into a huge pop. Some anticipate this, some are anxious to hear the name.]
He has won SIX World Tag Team Championships with FIVE different partners.
[The pop grows louder.]
And he is a… FOURTEEN TIME WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION!!!!!
[The rafters are shaking. Anthology is looking around, not knowing what to do here.]
HE IS THE FORMER OWNER OF EPW – THE REIGNING CSWA UNIFIED WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION….”THE EGO BUSTER” DAN RYAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[“Zero” by Smashing Pumpkins kicks in and the familiar pyro and strobe effect goes off, flashing scene after scene of Ryan’s career on the EPWTron.]
[The the crowd blows the roof off.]
MN: Oh….my GOD.
DT: Oh my God is right!!!! Dan Ryan and Big Dog?! At Russian Roulette???
[Ryan steps through the curtain and raises both arms as Troy and Big Dog both have huge s**t eating grins on their faces. The mood in the ring gets deathly serious as Jared Wells suddenly doesn’t look to be in the mood to party. The rest start to whisper to themselves as Ryan takes in the ovation.]
TROY: Settle down….ok, settle down….
The bottom line is… Wells? Tact? You WILL face your opponents and defend those belts on even terms. And if you even THINK of having anyone else in Anthology interfere in your title match… those belts are MINE. You hear me?? MINE. So I suggest you go home and do whatever it is you do, party, live it up… but I promise you this: your days of bullying people around here are OVER.
[Troy drops the microphone and Ryan and Big Dog throw their hands up one more time to a thunderous ovation as the scene fades out.]