Trump Wrestlng Association (TWA): Four the Hard Way
May 27, 2015 21:14:40 GMT -5
Post by Leo on May 27, 2015 21:14:40 GMT -5
Segment 1: Introduction by Gordon Solie
The camera opens with a shot of Gordon Solie sitting at the commentators’ table ringside inside Trump Plaza. The hushed roar of a crowd can be heard behind him.
Solie: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Four the Hard Way, the second ever show by the Trump Wrestling Association. I’m Gordon Solie, but I’m unsure where my usual broadcast partner, the Honky Tonk Man, is at the moment.
Our main event this evening will be a four-man gauntlet cage match for the TWA World Title pitting The Rock, Curt Hennig, Jake Roberts and Ronnie Garvin against each other based on winning qualifying matches last week at Trump Card.
How the match will work is that two men will start off and after one loses by pinfall or submission, a new man will enter the ring and once they lose, the final man will enter the cage and whoever wins that match will be the first ever TWA Champion. It’s been decided the order will be based on the speed the men I previously mentioned won their matches last week. That means Rock and Garvin will be the first two men, Roberts the third and Hennig the last, having the greatest advantage.
We’ll also see tonight the first title defense by Eric Young of the TWA Wild Card Title he won in a battle royal at Trump Card. He used chicanery to get R-Truth to eliminate himself by stating the title belt was filled with spiders, something Truth is deathly afraid of. However, he might have to face that fear tonight. Fans are allowed to pick the stipulation for the Wild Card Title matches via Twitter and one of the suggested stipulations from @eyoungwc is a bag of spiders on a pole match. I’m told a hardcore match, ladder match and tables match have also received many votes. We’ll find out the winner later on.
The TWA Tag Team Champions will also be crowned tonight in a tornado tag with Strike Force, made up of Tito Santana and Rick Martel, facing the Faces of Fear, comprised of Haku and the Barbarian.
Last week, the qualifying match won by the Faces of Fear broke down into pandemonium when fellow Heenan Family members the Warlord and Big Show became involved. Tim Horner, one-half of the Lightning Express with Marty Jannetty, will be out several months with a broken leg. Jannetty suffered three cracked ribs and various bumps and bruises.
Based on this savagery, TWA owner Donald Trump met earlier today in his office here at Trump Plaza with Bobby Heenan, head of the Heenan Family, and Stacy Keibler, manager of the Mexi-Can-Am Connection Strike Force is a part of. Our cameras were there to capture the meeting at the behest of Mr. Trump. We show you that footage now.
Segment 2: Taped segment with Donald Trump, Stacy Keibler and Bobby Heenan
The screen cuts to Donald Trump sitting behind a wooden desk. On the other side is Stacy Keibler sitting in a chair with her legs crossed and hands in her lap. Bobby Heenan enters. Trump motions to a second chair in front of his desk.
Trump: Bobby, please sit down.
Heenan (as he goes to sit to Keibler): I’ll have two sugars and light on the cream.
Keibler: What?
Heenan: Coffee, toots, two sugars and light on the cream.
Trump: Bobby, this is Stacy Keibler, she represents Strike Force.
Heenan: So, are you doing the beaner or the Canuck?
Trump: Bobby, I don’t appreciate that humor and I don’t think Stacy does either.
Keibler rolls her eyes and shifts in her chair to turn away from Heenan, not wanting to be any closer to him than she has to.
Trump: I asked you both here today because of what happened last week between the Heenan Family and the Lightning Express in the TWA Tag Team Title match qualifier.
I’m going to be honest, it was one of the most talked about things amongst fans from Trump Card. But, at the same time, Bobby, I can’t have your men injuring my wrestlers. We can’t put on a show if we have no wrestlers. Tim Horner probably won’t be back until the end of the year and Jannetty wants to come back now, even though doctors have advised against it.
Here is what I am doing. The tornado tag for the belts between Strike Force and the Faces of Fear will still occur at Four the Hard Way tonight. However, all members of the Heenan Family will be banned from ringside…
Heenan goes to protest and Trump raises a hand to silence him.
Trump: And, to be fair, all members of the Mexi-Can-Am Connection will be banned from ringside as well. If any known affiliates of either of those groups are at ringside at any point in the match, they will be suspended indefinitely. That goes for you, Stacy, and you, Bobby.
Heenan: Look, the Powers of Fear are savages and the Big Show is simply a walking natural disaster. I should have been out with them last week, I’ll grant you, but I was handling matters in the back. You’re better off Mr. Trump with having me out there controlling them.
Trump: No, I don’t think I am. Let’s see if you can control your men in the back. Stacy, are you good with this?
Heenan: Oh, she’s asked if she’s good with it, but I’m not?
Keibler: That will be acceptable to us, Mr. Trump, as long as the Heenan Family abides.
Trump: Stacy, if the Heenan Family breaks the stipulation first you have my permission for Tom Zenk and yourself to come to ringside and help out Strike Force. And, Bobby, before you say anything, the same goes for your side, but I don’t think that will be an issue. You both may leave.
Heenan and Keibler go to stand.
Heenan: Can I get that coffee now?
Keibler punches Heenan in the arm and he winces.
Keibler: Get your own damn coffee.
The scene cuts back to Solie at the announce table.
Segment 3: The Big Show vs. “Gentleman” Jim Clovin with a pre-match promo
Solie: There you have it fans. In an attempt to prevent another massacre like we had last week, but still preserve the scheduled tag team championship match, Donald Trump has banned all members of the Heenan Family and the Mexi-Can-Am Connection from ringside for the match…
Solie is cut off by music. Bobby Heenan, leading the Big Show, approaches the ring.
Solie: While Bobby Heenan might be banned from ringside later tonight, he’s able to come out right now. The man he’s with is one that led the destruction against the Lightning Express and by his mere presence prevented officials from coming to their aid.
Heenan takes a microphone and stands in the ring with the Big Show, who has his arms crossed over his chest.
Heenan: I know all you ham and eggers must be thrilled that I won’t be allowed to be with the Faces of Fear later tonight. There was no chance of a repeat of what happened last week. That was about sending a message and the message was sent. It was this, nobody is safe with this man around.
Heenan shoots a thumb back at the Big Show who stares stoically ahead.
Heenan: I’ve managed some of the largest men in this business. King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd, Andre the Giant; do you know what they all had the Big Show didn’t? Fear. The Big Show has been made to look like a joke everywhere he’s been. Seven foot tall, 425 pounds, a joke. No, no, not on my watch. I said come with me and you’ll be feared by every guy in the back, every fan in the arena and everyone watching at home. That’s what last week was about. It was establishing fear.
I’ve tried all week to get this man a match and I haven’t found any wrestler in the back willing to put their name on the dotted line of a contract. I’m making an open challenge right now for this man so he can show in a match what he can really do. So if there is anyone with the guts or stupidity to face the Big Show in this arena, come on out.
A few seconds go by and a timid figure appears at the top of the entrance ramp. The short blonde man is wearing a white top hat, bowtie and tails.
Solie: This is the man who was a last minute entrant in the Wild Card Title battle royal last week and the first man eliminated. I believe his name was “Gentleman” Jim Clovin.
Heenan: Who’s this, the parking valet from out front?
Clovin enters the ring and nervously approaches Heenan.
Clovin: No, sir, I’m “Gentleman” Jim Clovin and I would be honored to accept your gracious open challenge and prove my skills against your formidable charge.
Heenan: Your funeral, pal. Show, don’t injure the guy, just give him a regular beating.
Heenan exits the ring and Clovin bows to all four sides of the arena as he did the previous week. The bell rings before Clovin has removed his ring attire and Show pounces on him with a mighty yell.
Clovin is hoisted off his feet with Show’s big mitts wrapped around his throat. Clovin tries to use his hands to break the hold, but it’s not happening. Show throws Clovin into the near corner. He slumps down with a loud thump. Show screams and charges with a full head of steam, squishing Clovin with an avalanche. Show backs up and Clovin starts to fall, but Show catches him around the throat. He hoists Clovin and spins around to be back toward the center of the ring. Clovin bounces a good three feet in the air as he strikes the mat and Show rides the momentum to make it back to his feet. He stands with a boot on Clovin’s chest and referee Tommy Young counts the academic three count.
Eden Stiles: Your winner in 32 seconds. The Big Show.
Heenan: Be a nice guy and carry that sack of potatoes to the back, Show.
Segment 4: Bobby Heenan and Donald Trump become guest commentators.
Show picks up Clovin and tosses him over one shoulder. He walks to the back. Heenan doesn’t follow. He goes to the commentary table and sits where the Honky Tonk Man would usually be and puts on a headset.
Solie: Bobby, what are you doing?
Heenan: I decided to give Honky Tonk Man the night off. I gave him a pink Cadillac and tickets to Graceland. He’s probably halfway to Memphis right now.
Solie: Well, obviously, Bobby, you’re trying to do this in some way to circumvent the ruling from earlier that you are not allowed at ringside for the tag team title match.
Heenan: I’m not at ringside. I’m to the side of ringside. I’m not a member of the Heenan Family. I’m not a manager. I’m a commentator tonight. Everything’s square, Solie, like your wardrobe.
Suddenly, Donald Trump appears from the back and the crowd cheers as he goes down to ringside and the commentators’ table. Trump sits down in an extra chair and puts on a spare headset.
Heenan: I guess you’re here to tell me I can’t be out here. I reviewed what I had you put in writing Trump. I’m fine with being right here at the commentators’ table as long as I don’t move. If you want to challenge it, I think my lawyer will have something to say about it…soon as he finishes his night classes.
Trump: I’m not challenging anything, Bobby. After I heard the Honky Tonk Man wasn’t going to be here tonight, I thought this might be your plan.
Heenan: Who squealed?
Trump: You think I don’t know what’s happening in my own company and my own casino? Bobby, you’re one of the best commentators of all time and I’d be foolish to kick you to the back with HTM gone. But, if you’re going to be our here with Gordon, so am I.
Solie: Let me get this straight. Both of you will be my broadcast partners here for the remainder of the evening?
Trump: That’s right, Gordon.
Heenan gives a sigh and rolls his eyes at Trump upstaging him.
Solie: That will certainly be a treat for the fans at home. Right now, let’s go to the back where Bob Uecker is with Cody Rhodes, known as Stardust, who lost a TWA qualifying match last week to Jake Roberts. Roberts had some choice words for Stardust after the match, questioning his manhood and sanity.
Segment 5: Backstage interview with Stardust
Uecker looks uncomfortable near the painted pink Stardust who laughs and prances around.
Uecker: So, uh, do you have a response for Jake Roberts?
Stardust: I do…I do…Jake Roberts offered to make me a man, but why would I want that when I am already something greater. I’m Stardust.
Rhodes puts the palms of his gloves together to make a star and walks into camera until it fills the screen. He then backs up and returns to the nervous Uecker.
Stardust: Stardust fills the universe. Stardust comprises everything. What a man does is interned with their bones, but Stardust lives forever and goes forever. Jake Roberts has nothing for me. And all I have for him is Stardust.
Stardust reaches a hand into his suit and pulls it out. He opens his palm and blows glitter into the camera. He dances off cackling.
Uecker: Back to you Gordon…
Stardust rushes back into frame and blows another wad of glitter into Uecker’s ear and laughs. Uecker shudders, half surprised and half annoyed.
Segment 6: The Mighty Igor vs. Shawn Stasiak
Eden Stiles: Our next match is one fall with a 15 minute time limit. Introducing first from Hayward, California, at a weight of 242 pounds, accompanied by Sunny, Shawn Stasiak.
Gordon Solie: It was not a good night last week at Trump Card for Sunny and her men. Badd Company was defeated by Strike Force in the TWA tag title tournament and Stasiak was tossed almost immediately in the Wild Card battle royal by the man he’s facing here tonight.
Stiles: And his opponent, at 289 pounds from Dearborn, Michigan, the Mighty Igor.
Igor approaches from the back, a goofy grin on his face and a string of linked sausages hanging around his neck.
Solie: Don’t let his kindly demeanor fool you. The polish powerhouse is one of the strongest men ever in the history of wrestling.
Heenan: And one of ugliest. You know why he wears those sausages around his neck? It was the only way his parents could get the family dog to play with him as a child.
Trump: The fans obviously love him and that’s a major reason my people wanted him here in TWA. I’m also told he’s a great power wrestler with more skill than you’d think. If Stasiak tries to go toe to toe with him like he did last week in the battle royal, I think he’s going to get the same result.
Then Igor was eliminated by Mark Jindrak. I have it on very good authority, that Sunny is in negotiations with Jindrak to join her stable.
Solie: That would reunite him with Stasiak as the two were part of the Natural Born Thrillers in WCW with Chuck Palumbo, Mike Sanders and a few other men.
Igor walks around ringside offering a bit of kielbasa to audience members. Some of the children take a nibble. Igor enters the ring, his dopey grin getting wider, as he goes up to Sunny and holds out a sausage to her. She makes a face like she’s going to get sick.
Heenan: Funny, Sunny usually never turns down a wiener.
Stasiask is upset by Igor motioning at Sunny and attacks him with wild lefts and rights. A stunned Igor stumbles into the ropes and falls chest first over the second strand. Stasiak takes the ring of sausages and pulls back on them, choking Igor until they come apart.
Referee Scott Armstrong backs Stasiak off as the match hasn’t even started yet. Stasiak takes a big bite of sausage and yells with his mouth full to the crowd. Armstrong helps Igor up, who nods his head that he wants the match to still happen.
Igor turns around and Stasiak spits a wad of half-chewed sausage into his face. Igor takes a big mitt down his face to wipe the mess and his usually gentle eyes flash with fire. Stasiak takes a step back as his eyes flash with fear.
Solie: Stasiak is maybe realizing he made a mistake in making the big guy angry.
Heenan: Stasiak and Igor are equally stupid. The only smart thing Stasiak ever did was pick up Sunny…or more like it, let Sunny pick him up.
Igor comes forward with a mighty right and Stasiak flies out of the ring, over the top rope to the floor. Sunny runs over and helps Stasiak up, asking how he is. Igor reaches over the ropes and grabs Shawn by his short, pointy hair, lifting him up. Stasiak screams and the fans howl. He grabs the ropes to take some of the pressure off his head and steadies himself on the apron. Igor grabs the ropes and with a quick yank brings Stasiak back into the squared circle.
………
Cut to the finish.
Igor body slams Stasiak, who arches his back to signal pain. Igor stares down at him. Sunny jumps up on the apron. She smiles and blows a kiss at Igor, who wanders over to her.
Solie: Igor is obviously smitten with the lovely Sunny and she’s decided to use that to Stasiak’s advantage, who has been surprisingly dominated throughout most of this bout.
Stasiak realizes what Sunny is doing and is poised to strike on the mat behind Igor. Sunny closes her eyes and puckers her lips. The crowd roars for Igor to kiss her. He goes near. Stasiak tries to schoolboy Igor from behind, but can’t budge the big man. Igor looks down and then plops down to squash Stasiak. Igor pops back up in one swift motion and kisses Sunny. The audience hollers while Sunny wipes her mouth and drops back to the floor in disgust.
Heenan: Sunny usually doesn’t mind sausage breath.
Trump: Bobby, we’re really going to need to get you some sensitivity training.
Igor leans into the ropes and comes off with a big splash, arms out in from of him as if he were doing a belly flop into a pool. He lands on Stasiak, knocking the wind out of him and Armstrong slides into place to count the pinfall.
Stiles: And your winner, the Mighty Igor.
Armstrong raises Igor’s hand in victory as Stasiak rolls to the floor holding his stomach. He goes up the aisle with Sunny berating him.
Segment 7: Backstage interview with Sunny and Shawn Stasiak
Bob Uecker tries to talk with the defeated duo, but is smart enough to hang back and just hold the microphone out to catch the verbal beat down to go with the physical beat down Stasiak just received.
Sunny: I can’t believe you. Two weeks, two weeks in a row, that…that…imbecile has made you look like a weak wimp.
Sunny smacks Stasiak in the shoulder and he winces. She gives an exasperated look of ‘I can’t believe you.’
Sunny: You’re getting one more chance next week. I’m going to arrange a tag match. Anyone Igor can get against you and Mark Jindrak. And maybe Jindrak won’t be joining you and Badd Company, he’ll be replacing you.
Sunny storms off. A dejected Stasiak goes to turn around and leave while still holding his midsection. Jindrak slides into frame with a big, mocking smile on his face.
Jindrak: Look forward to working with you again, bro. Tough loss out there.
Jindrak give Stasiak a playful shot in the ribs and he winces. Jindrak exits and Stasiak slumps off muttering to himself.
Segment 8: Othello and Marc Mero vs. Col. DeBeers and Vladimir Koslov
Stiles: Our next matches has a 20-minute time limit. Introducing first at a combined weight of 577 pounds, Col. DeBeers and Vladimir Koslov. Known as White Power.
Trump: Gordon, I want to say right off that I don’t agree with or condone the politics of these two men. But they’re great wrestlers that came highly recommend for their in ring prowess. I’ve usually found in business and life that those who need a comeuppance usually receive it.
Heenan: I’m still waiting for mine.
Stiles: And introducing their opponents at a combined weight of 570 pounds. Marc Mero and, debuting for TWA, Othello.
Mero emerges from the back with Othello trailing behind. The imposing black man is near seven feet tall with a bald head and bushy goatee.
Solie: Who is that?
Heenan: Who is that? What is that? He’s like a telephone pole with legs.
Trump: Marc Mero came to me after White Power issued the challenge to him last week because he eliminated them from the Wild Card Battle Royal. He asked if he could bring in someone from outside TWA and when he showed me a picture of who it was, I couldn’t say no. Marc told me he’s been training Othello in wrestling and boxing for about a year.
Solie: DeBeers and Koslov haven’t made any secret out of their racist opinions. Even thinking Mero was black and directing vile his way last week.
Heenan: I don’t discriminate on skin color. I go by height and this guy is just fine with me. When it rains, he knows five minutes before anyone else.
Trump: Maybe we’ll have to get him in the ring with your Big Show sometime soon, Bobby.
Heenan: Hey, if you’re willing to pay for the ring they’d probably break, make it happen.
DeBeers asks for the microphone from Stiles.
DeBeers: We never agreed to this. Koslov and I never agreed to face Mero and this animal. We refuse to go forward with this travesty.
Mero takes the mic from a surprised DeBeers.
Mero: You said for me to bring anybody I wanted. If you cowards want to run away and let the world know that you were afraid of a black man. Then do it.
DeBeers and Koslov confer. Mero jerks his head toward the pair and Othello crosses the ring in two long strides. The heels are unaware of his presence until two giant hands grab their heads and slam them together. Koslov falls out of the ring while DeBeers sits on the mat and holds a hand to his ringing noggin.
Othello picks DeBeers up and gorilla presses him over his head. He walks around the ring, showing DeBeers to the four sides of the arena. DeBeers shakes his head no and begs Othello not to slam him down. Othello with a slight nudge forces DeBeers into the air and steps forward, allowing DeBeers to plummet to earth behind him.
Heenan: That’s like falling from a skyscraper. Trump, you should offer hazard pay.
Solie: The strength of this man is inhuman. It looks like Marc Mero and Mr. Trump have found the next big thing in professional wrestling.
Heenan: Emphasis on big.
……….
Cut to the finish.
Solie: After settling down, White Power has managed to cut the ring in half and isolate Marc Mero from his mammoth tag team partner, Othello.
Trump: Like I said at the start Gordon, I didn’t hire Koslov and DeBeers for their politics, but how they work in the ring. Once they regrouped they showed they deserved to be in there. Even Bobby Heenan would have had a hard time getting his men together after a surprise like Othello.
Heenan: We would have left. Know when to cut your losses.
Koslov has Mero in a bearhug. He looks to be fading, but Othello claps his hands and stomps a big boot on the ring apron. The fans follow along. The sound energizes Mero
whose eyes flash and arms quake. He slams his arms into Koslov’s ears and he releases the bearhug. Mero hits a standing dropkick and both men go down.
Heenan: If Mero makes the tag it’s all over. The only thing better than a giant, is a fresh giant.
Both men crawl to their corners. Koslov reaches up and slaps hands with DeBeers. Referee Tommy Young acknowledges and DeBeers launches into the ring, but he’s not fast enough to stop Mero from tagging Othello just a couple seconds later.
Young acknowledges the second tag as the crowd explodes. Othello steps over the ropes into the ring and DeBeers backs off. Othello stalks over to him. DeBeers drops down to his knees in his corner and shakes his head while holding up his hands.
Othello stars down at DeBeers. DeBeers then comes up between Othello’s legs with a forearm for a low blow. Othello continues to glare with a ‘that’s all you got’ look.
DeBeers is petrified now and begs off for real. Othello reaches down and picks DeBeers up by his shoulder and flings him out of the ring and down to the mat. Othello measures DeBeers as he goes to stand. He comes forward with a big boot, putting DeBeers down.
Koslov reenters the ring and Othello whirls around to catch him with a spinning clothesline. Othello turns back to DeBeers, skips in the air and comes down with a crushing leg drop. He hooks the leg and gets the pin on DeBeers.
Mero leaps into Othello, who holds his mentor with one arm while raising the other in victory.
Stiles: And, your winners, the team of Marc Mero and Othello.
Trump: It looks like White Power suffered a power outage.
Heenan: You come up with that one yourself Trump, or did you hire Bob Hope’s old writers.
Trump: With your tired lines, some writers might help you Bobby.
Solie: Greater than the win over White Power is the debut of a new force in TWA and professional wrestling as a whole. Othello, especially if he sticks with the veteran Mero, has a very promising career ahead of him.
Segment 9: TWA Wild Card Title match stipulation reveal
Bob Uecker stands in the back on his interview set with R-Truth on one side and Eric Young on the other. Young has the Wild Card title around his waist. Truth looks pensive.
Uecker: It’s time for the big reveal. Based on suggestions from Twitter we have four possible stipulations that could mark the first ever TWA Wild Card Title defense of Eric Young against R-Truth. Those are a hardcore match, ladder match, tables match and a bag of spiders on a pole match.
Truth: Damn, man, don’t say spiders.
Uecker: Language!
Truth: F*ck you man, don’t say spiders.
And, receiving an astounding 68 percent of the total favorites received, it’s bag of spiders on a pole.
Truth: Damn, I mean sh*t, I mean f*ck, I mean sh*t f*ck f*ckity f*ck.
Young gives a quick yes and fist pump, but then quickly tries to hide it.
Young: Bad break, dude. @eyoungwc, you better hope neither me or Truth find out who you are, because suggesting that as a stipulation was really low.
Uecker: You can say that again.
Young: Anyway, it’s what the fans wanted and we just have to make the best of it, right Truth.
Truths is muttering to himself with his hands over his mouth and head down.
Truth: Spiders, spiders, spiders, why did it have to be spiders. Always, spiders, always spiders.
Truth wanders off set.
Young: See you out there Truth. Good luck.
Young grins and walks off.
Segment 10: Bag of Spiders on a Pole match for the TWA Wild Card Title between Eric Young (c) and R-Truth
Stiles: Our next match is for the TWA Wild Card Title and will only end when one man retrieves a ziplocked bag of spiders down from a post attached to the ring post and pours it over the head of their opponent.
Solie: Mr. Trump, I hope you’re not fooled by Eric Young’s charade about not being @eyoungwc.
Heenan: Solie, wait a minute, that could really anybody. Even me.
Solie: Is it you?
Heenan: Of course not, that would be stupid.
Trump: There’s nothing in the rules that says a wrestler can’t make a suggestion on twitter for the Wild Card Title match stipulation. After all, it’s based on who gets the most fan votes and bag of spiders got it. I’m not going to deny the people what they want to see.
Stiles: Weighing in tonight at 220 pounds and hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, R-Truth.
Truth comes out from the back with his head down and still muttering to himself. He looks up as he approaches the ring and stares at the bag already attached to a pole hooked to a ring post.
Solie: It looks like Truth is praying now.
Heenan: Couldn’t hurt.
Stiles: And his opponent. The TWA Wild Chard Champion from Nashville, Tennessee, and weighing in at 225 pounds, Eric Young.
Young strides confidently to the ring. He removes his title belt and hands it to Stiles. He lets his gaze drift over to the bag of spiders. As Truth’s eyes also go that way, Young snaps to attention and charges Truth. The match is on.
………
Cut to the finish.
Young and Truth lean into the ropes from opposite sides. Truth ducks a clothesline. Young pulls up and turns around to catch a corkscrew elbow from Truth as he rebounds from the opposite set of ropes. Truth follows with a leg drop and spins up to his feet.
He looks up at the bag of spiders as the fans cheer him on.
Solie: Young has made a couple attempts so far for the bag of spiders, but this would be Truth’s first try.
Truth gingerly steps over to the corner and climbs to the top turnbuckle. He puts his hand on the bag and takes is away quickly.
“I can feel them squirming, man,” he yells as he holds his hand as if he touched a hot stove.
Young comes up with his head between Truth’s legs and falls backwards to splash Truth to the mat with an electric chair drop. Young goes for the spiders.
Truth comes up from behind like Young did. Young turns to face truth and acts like he already has the bag of spiders and motions like he’s throwing them. Truth falls back and rubs his hands over his body, knocking off the imaginary spiders.
The extra few seconds is all Young needs to get the bag down for real. Young opens is up and pours them down on Truth while he’s still convulsing on the mat. Seeing the spiders now, Truth freaks out even more and runs to the back.
Cameras trail Truth who makes a beeline for the backstage door. He screams into the parking lot and disappears into the night.
Young looks down. “Hey, these are fake.”
Trump: Did you really think we would use a bag of real spiders. I thought best to be cautious.
Heenan: Didn’t matter to Truth. He’s probably caught up with the Honky Tonk Man in Memphis by now.
Stiles: Your winner, and still TWA Wild Card Champion, Eric Young.
Segment 11: Backstage encounter between Curt Hennig and Joe Hennig
Joe Hennig sits on a bench in front of a row of lockers. He laces his boots, finishing preparation for his upcoming match.
A shadow appears over him and he looks up to see his father. Joe jumps to his feet and tenses, ready for a fight. He’s shocked to see an extended hand.
Curt: Joe…good luck tonight.
Joe: You too, dad.
The two men shake hands. Curt exits. Joe looks confused, but a small smile creeps to his lips.
Segment 12: Stardust vs. Joe Hennig with post-match promo from Jake Roberts
Stiles: Our next match has a 15 minute time limit. Introducing first from Champlin, Minnesota, at a weight of 227 pounds, “Better Than Perfect” Joe Hennig.
Solie: Even in a losing effort, the son of “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig made quite an impression last week against his father in a TWA qualifying match.
Heenan: The Rock sank to a new low putting Hennig against his own son. What despicable person would arrange for a man to fight his own son?
Trump: That’s what you did with the Rock and Rocky Johnson last week.
Heenan: Huh? I’m deaf in that ear. Sit on my other side next time, Trump.
Stiles: And his opponent, from the Fifth Dimension at a weight of 220 pounds, Stardust.
Solie: Stardust had a reply to Jake Roberts on the offer he made last week for Cody Rhodes to go under his wing. It certainly wasn’t the response Roberts wanted.
Heenan: That fruitcake should be so lucky to have someone like Roberts willing to show him the ropes. He’s mean, dirty, lying, cheating…
Trump: A man after your own heart.
Heenan: Yeah…no…look, in that ring you sometimes have to cut a few corners. Just look. Roberts is in the TWA Title match later tonight and Rhodes is a loser facing another loser.
………
Cut to the finish.
Stardust has Joe Hennig in a surfboard. Referee Scott Armstrong asks if Henning wants to give up, but he shakes his head emphatically no.
Solie: I’m not sure how much this young man can take…look, from the back, it’s Jake Roberts.
Roberts strides confidently to the ring with a sneer on his lips and a bag over his shoulder.
Heenan: He’s got Damien with him, Gordon. I would say it’s bad for him to be out here right now when he’s got the title match to worry about later, but this man can do whatever he wants.
Trump: And if his attention is elsewhere or he gets hurt out here now, that’s better for Curt Hennig.
Heenan: Trump, you’re not as dumb as you look, but who could be.
Roberts in one clean motion, brings his bag forward and opens is to send Damien sliding across the ring near the grapplers.
Stardust lets Hennig down. He goes on his belly and slithers closer to Damian, flicking his tongue in and out like a snake.
Heenan: What is that moron doing?
Solie: Even I have a hard time explaining that as Rhodes trying to get in Roberts head back. It’s just bizarre.
Roberts just stands at ringside with an evil grin. He motions to Stardust to continue what he’s doing. “Go ahead,” he calls.
Hennig recovers and stares down at the odd sight with a look of disbelief.
“Go ahead,” Roberts says again, but this time, Hennig realizes he’s talking to him. Hennig kicks Stardust in the back of the head. He keeps a weary eye on Damien while stomping Rhodes down. He pulls Rhodes up and slings him into the ropes. Hennig charges at him and catches Stardust with a one-armed swinging neckbreaker, known as the Turning Heads.
Hennig pulls Rhodes up to his feet. Roberts reaches into the ring and snatches Damien, putting him back in his bag. Joe nails the Perfectplex and gets the win.
Stiles: And your winner…
Roberts: Give me that microphone.
Much like last week, Roberts takes the microphone from Stiles. Hennig leaves the ring, knowing the business is none of his.
Roberts: Cody, the mistake you made was thinking you had a choice on the offer I made you last week. Free will has always been an illusion. You failed my first test and I have doubts you will fail many more.
I will drag you kicking and screaming into being a man, whether you want to or not. Is it because of respect I have for your father and brother? Or, is it just because I don’t have cable and I’m easily bored.
I’ve got more important matters to tend to later tonight when I become the TWA World Champion. But, next week Cody, a second test. One if you fail, won’t just be disastrous for you.
Roberts flips the microphone to Eden Stiles with a wink and exits the ring.
Segment 13: Tornado tag team match for the TWA Tag Team Titles pitting Strike Force against the Faces of Fear
Stiles: Our next match has no time limit and can only be won by pinfall or submission. It’s for the TWA Tag Team Titles.
Introducing first at a combined weight of 460 pounds, Strike Force, featuring Rick Martel and Tito Santana.
Solie: As detailed earlier, all members of the Heenan Family and Mexi-Can-Am Connection are banned from ringside based on the massacre the Heenan Family caused last week.
Heenan: The Faces of Fear are the most dangerous tag team ever in wrestling history. They don’t need me out there with them. All I could ever do was point them in a direction and say kill. Santana and Martel won’t know what hit them.
Stiles: And their opponents at a combined weight of 608 pounds, Haku and the Barbarian, the Faces of Fear.
Trump: I don’t think anybody would have faulted me for suspending them, Big Show and Warlord for what they did last week beating up Marty Jannetty and breaking Tim Horner’s leg. However, I want the best guys in the ring and I want wrestlers to work their conflicts out in the ring. If I didn’t think Santana and Martel could handle themselves against these monster, trust me, I wouldn’t let this match go through.
………
Cut to the finish.
Martel and the Barbarian brawl on the outside, while Haku and Santana go at it in the ring. Haku makes with a double throat thrust and Tito collapses to the mat grabbing at his neck.
Solie: This match has been brutal, but thankfully not as brutal as what we saw last week.
Trump: Everyone knew this was going to be a brawl and most people, especially Bobby here, probably didn’t think Strike Force could keep up, but I knew they could.
Heenan: It’s not over yet. Would I give Strike Force the advantage in a wrestling match? Sure. But this is a fight and nobody, nobody, beats my guys in a fight.
The Barbarian takes Martel by the back of the head and wings him over the guardrail into the crowd. Martel stands and Barbarian lifts his leg over the rail and slam forward with a big boot to Rick’s chest. He falls back into the crowd.
Haku yells. He has Santana up for a piledriver. Barbarian sees it and enters the ring. He gets up on the second rope.
Heenan: Here it is, all she wrote. A spiked piledriver on Mr. Arriba gives Tim Horner a roommate at the hospital.
The crowd erupts as a figure streaks out from the back with a steel chair in his hands.
Solie: It’s Marty Jannetty!
Heenan: What’s he doing out here? That’s not fair! That’s illegal!
Trump: I said no members of the Mexi-Can-Am Connection or the Heenan Family. To my knowledge, Marty Jannetty isn’t affiliated with either. He’s okay to be out here.
Jannetty, with his ribs heavily taped, flies into the ring and smacks Barbarian with a chair. Haku drops Santana and goes after Jannetty and is hit with the chair in the head. He shakes his noggin and yells, the shot having no affect.
Santanan dropkicks Haku from behind, who stumbles into the Barbarian slumped in the corner. Martel appears from out of the crowd as Jannetty exits the ring. Martel leaps to a top corner and Santana goes opposite him.
The heels, dazed, trip into the middle of the ring and are sandwiches with twin missile dropkicks. They make simultaneous covers, but only one count from Tommy Young is needed to make Strike Force the TWA Tag Champions.
Heenan: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! THIS IS A TRAVESTY! THIS IS…
Trump: Really, no worse than what your men did last week.
Heenan: I’M CHALLENGING THIS TRUMP! THIS WON’T STAND! YOU’LL HEAR FROM ME AND MY LAWYERS NEXT WEEK! THIS ISN’T OVER!
Heenan slams down his headset. He gathers up Babarian and Haku and leads them to the back in a huff.
Segment 14: Backstage interview with the Mexi-Can-Am Connection
Uecker: Let’s see if I can catch Bobby Heenan and the Faces of Fear.
Heenan: Buzz off Uecker. We’re not talking.
Heenan charges past Uecker with Barbarian and Haku still selling pains from their match.
Uecker: Well, here’s a happier bunch.
Tom Zenk and Stacy Keibler appear, all smiles, to greet Santana and Martel holding the TWA Tag Team Title belts. They hug and congratulate each other.
Martel: Where’s Marty Jannetty? Come in here, Marty.
Jannetty walks in. He shakes hands with everyone.
Martel: Normally, we wouldn’t want to win a match with outside help. But, we know what they did to you and Horner last week and we know what they most likely would have done to us post match.
Santana: That spiked piledriver could have broken my neck. Thanks brother, for helping us out.
Santana hugs Jannetty. Martel follows.
Keibler: I just want to reiterate that Jannetty was not a member of the Mexi-Can-Am Connection. However, I think he’s more than proven himself of joining us now.
Jannetty: Really?
Everyone shakes their heads.
Jannetty: I accept. I just wanted to tip the scales a little bit after what happened last week at Trump Card. Tim Horner, brother, I love you, I’m thinking about you and I’m not done making the Heenan Family pay. Especially since I’ve picked up some new allies.
The group walks off together to celebrate the title win.
Segment 15: Paul Orndorff vs. Rocky Johnson
Stiles: Our next match has a 20 minute time limit. Introducing first from Washington D.C. at a weight of 260 pounds, “Soulman” Rocky Johnson.
Solie: Well, Mr. Trump, it looks like it might be you and me for the rest of the show.
Trump: That won’t make me cry, Gordon.
Solie: Our next matchup pits two men who lost qualifying matches last week for the TWA Title match later tonight. Rocky Johnson had to face his son, the Rock, thanks to Heenan maneuvering the bout as head games.
Trump: I have to admit, Gordon, I thought it was brilliant to put one of the greatest wrestlers of all time against his own father, the man who taught him everything he knew. That match had some great raw emotion.
Stiles: And his opponent, at a weight of 253 pounds from Tampa, Florida, “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff.
Solie: It certainly makes sense after what we just saw, but this is two weeks in a row the longtime member of the Heenan family is without his manager, Bobby Heenan.
Last week, Orndorff lost to Ronnie Garvin because of interference gone awry from stablemate, the Big Show.
Trump: I don’t know if that was unintentional or not. Big Show has demonstrated he doesn’t play well with others and Bobby not giving Orndorff much guidance is suspicious to me.
The bell rings and Orndorff and lifts his arm, signaling a test of strength.
Solie: These are two of the strongest, most well developed grapplers I’ve ever seen. A test of strength between the two would certainly be a sight.
Johnson is hesitant, but raises his arm and links fingers with Orndorff. The pair quickly follow suit on the other side. Orndorff has the early advantage, but Johnson starts to come back. Orndorff’s knees buckle and he begins to sink. Johnson nods his head approvingly to the crowd, but Orndorff breaks the contest with a kick to the knee and an elbow to the stomach of the Soulman.
……….
Cut to the finish.
Orndorff works a sleeper hold. Johnson seems to be fading. The referee lifts an arm. It falls. Scott Armstrong lifts it again, it falls. He goes for a third, when the crowd stirs.
Solie: The Big Show is coming out from the back. Orndorff has this match well in hand, he can’t fake like he’s trying to help this time.
Orndorff drops the sleeper and yells at Show from over the ropes. Big Show betrays no emotion as he simply stands at ringside.
“I don’t need you, go the back,” Orndorff barks.
“Hey, Bobby, sent me out here as an insurance policy,” Show gruffly retorts with a pointed finger aimed at Mr. Wonderful.
Johnson sits out on the mat still. Orndorff returns to his sleeper. He locks it, but Johnson reaches up and drops back to the mat with a jawbreaker to free himself.
Trump: Smart move there, Gordon. Johnson was obviously playing opossum. Once again the help from the Big Show, turns out to be hurting.
Johnson seems revived as he rocks Orndorff with a series of lefts and rights. He hits a spinning right hook with the force sending himself and Orndorff to the mat. Johnson lands on top and hooks the leg for the one…two…three.
Stiles: Your winner, “Soulman” Rocky Johnson.
Big Show shrugs his shoulders and gives an ‘oh, well’ look before heading to the back. Orndorff fumes, red faced on the mat.
Segment 16: Backstage interview with Bob Uecker and White Power
Solie: We cut to the back where Bob Uecker has a very mad Col DeBeers and Vladimir Koslov.
Much like the week before, Uecker stand on his interview set with chairs and other furniture flying about his head thrown by Koslov. DeBeers can barely contain himself as he stands next to Uecker.
Uecker: It’s déjà vu all over again as my good friend Yogi Berra would say.
DeBeers: This is an outrage. This is an atrocity. This will not stand.
Uecker: Do you know that Marc Mero isn’t black now?
DeBeers: Shut up!
Koslov ends his tirade and enters the frame to stand on the other side of Uecker.
DeBeers: Mero, you think it’s funny. You think you can trick and humiliate us with your simple minded giant. Next week, we’re be prepared. Next week, we’ll be prepared. We challenge Othello (DeBeers spits after saying the name) to a singles match…against Koslov.
Koslov: Yes…wait, no…I thought you…
DeBeers: Othello (he spits again), you will know what White Power truly is next week!
Segment 17: TWA World Title Gauntlet Cage Match pitting The Rock vs. Ronnie Garvin vs. Jake Roberts vs. Curt Hennig
Stiles: The next match is for the TWA World Title and will take place inside a steel cage. This gauntlet match must be won by pinfall or submission.
Introducing the first entrant from Miami, Florida, at a weight of 260 pounds is the Rock.
The Rock enters, basking in the roar of the crowd.
Solie: This is the matchup we’ve been waiting all night for. While many would peg the Rock as the odds on favorite, I don’t think any man could survive the three competitors he will need to in order to become the TWA World Champion inside a steel cage.
Trump: But, if anyone could do it, Gordon, it would be him. The Rock wasn’t lying last week when he said I went to him first about joining the TWA. I wanted the best of the best and there is no question who that is in wrestling today or at any time in history.
Stiles: And the second man in this gauntlet match, at a weight of 242 pounds from Charlotte, North Carolina, “Rugged” Ronnie Garvin.
Solie: Garvin, a former NWA World Champion and the man with hands of stone is overall vastly underrated competitor in my opinion.
Garvin enters the cage and extends a hand to the Rock. The Rock shakes it, the bell sounds and the two men lock up.
………
Cut to the end of the first fall
Garvin has Rock in the figure four. Rock stretches and strains as he tries to pull Garvin to the ropes.
Solie: Normally a reaching the ropes would cause the break of a hold in a cage match, but will this time since the bout is being contested under standard TWA rules, just simply inside a cage.
Trump: I like seeing both go all out here in the first match, Gordon, but I don’t see how either will have anything left for Jake Roberts as the next competitor.
The Rock’s fingertips brush the bottom rope and referee Scott Armstrong calls for a break. Garvin undoes the figure four and attempts to pull the Rock back to the center of the ring. The Rock grabs Garvin as he’s bent over and hurls him into the cage wall. Rock pulls himself up by the top rope as Garvin falls back into the ring.
Rock picks Garvin up by one leg and falls backwards, sending Garvin into the cage again. Garvin lays in a heap on the mat and Rock locks in the Sharpshooter.
Solie: The Rock has the Sharpshooter on tight. I don’t see Garvin breaking this or being able to make the ropes for a break.
The Rock screams as he cranks back on the maneuver. Garvin tries to power up, but can’t. He tries to pull the Rock to the ropes, but he’s planted firm. Taking all he can stand and with no alternative, Garvin shakes his head yes to Armstrong and submits.
Stiles: The winner of the first stage of the gauntlet match, The Rock. His next opponent, Jake “the Snake” Roberts.
Solie: This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Roberts tonight. He accosted Cody Rhodes earlier for the second week in a row.
Trump: Admittedly, Gordon, I’m interested in seeing where that goes. I’m giving Roberts some leeway, but he better watch himself. As I stated earlier, I like controversy, it sells, but not at the expense of my stars’ health.
………
Cut to the end of the second fall
Roberts reverses a whip into the corner and hits the Rock with a short-arm clothesline. Both men lay on the mat breathing hard. They struggle up. Roberts grabs Rock by the head and goes for the DDT. The Rock raises up and sends Roberts sailing into the cage back first. Roberts makes his feet and the Rock catches him for his snap DDT. The People’s Elbow follows and the Rock advances despite the odds.
Stiles: And the final man to enter this gauntlet match, “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig.
Hennig walks to the ring minus Bobby Heenan with his usual confident grin on his face. He spits his gum out and swats it before entering the ring.
Solie: The Rock has already faced two men in matches that by themselves could be a main event anywhere in the world.
Trump: I honestly don’t see how the Rock can last long against a fresh Curt Hennig.
Hennig enters the ring still smiling. He takes his ever present hand towel and throws it at the sweaty and breathing hard Rock. The Rock wipes his face with it, says “thanks” and throws right back into Perfect’s face. The Rock charges with Hennig temporarily blind and pummels him with lefts and rights on the mat to start.
………
Cut to the finish
The Rock finds himself in the figure four again. He tries to pull Hennig to the ropes to break again, but he’s lacking the strength from earlier in the gauntlet cage match.
Solie: I think this grueling contest is finally catching up with the Rock. His stamina is legendary, but I think we’ve finally witnessed its limit.
Trump: The Rock is fading. A tremendous effort and I promise you this won’t be his last chance to win the TWA World Title for him.
Solie: Hennig was obviously watching the match in the back and knew the Rock was already weakened from the figure four Ronnie Garvin used earlier in the match.
The Rock’s eyes slowly close. He turns his arm a few times to encourage the crowd to cheer, but it falls limp at his side. Blacking out from the pain, Rock slumps to the canvas, his shoulders flat on the mat. Young counts the pinfall and Hennig wins.
Solie: The Rock has passed out, leading to the pinfall.
Trump: It should be mentioned the Rock never submitted. He never gave up. He’s a hell of a competitor and certainly tonight proved me right in making him the linchpin of TWA.
Before we go off the air, let me announce, that to open our next show, All Bets Are Off, I will officially present the TWA World Title to Curt Hennig.
Solie: All the TWA titles are on champions. Feuds are shaping up. Alliances are being solidified. Others are in question. What will All Bets Are Off give us, tune in to find out.
Card Recap
TWA Four the Hard Way
Live from Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Designated announcers: Eden Stiles and Gordon Solie
Guest commentators: Bobby Heenan and Donald Trump
Back stage interviewer: Bob Uecker
Referees: Tommy Young and Scott Armstrong
Four man gauntlet cage match for the TWA World Title: The Rock vs. “Rugged” Ronnie Garvin vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts vs. “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig
“Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff vs. “Soulman” Rocky Johnson
Tornado Tag match for the TWA Tag Team Titles: Faces of Fear (Barbarian and Haku) vs. Strike Force (Tito Santana and Rick Martel). All members of the Heenan Family and the Mexi-Can-Am Connection are banned from ringside.
Stardust vs. “Better Than Perfect” Joe Hennig
Bag of Spiders on a Pole Match for the TWA Wild Card Title: Eric Young (c) vs. R-Truth. Winner must retrieve a bag of spiders from a pole attached to the ring post and pour on his opponent.
Marc Mero and Othello vs. White Power (Col. DeBeers and Vladimir Koslov)
The Mighty Igor vs. Shawn Stasiak with Sunny
The Big Show with Bobby “The Brain” Heenan vs. “Gentleman” Jim Clovin.
The camera opens with a shot of Gordon Solie sitting at the commentators’ table ringside inside Trump Plaza. The hushed roar of a crowd can be heard behind him.
Solie: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Four the Hard Way, the second ever show by the Trump Wrestling Association. I’m Gordon Solie, but I’m unsure where my usual broadcast partner, the Honky Tonk Man, is at the moment.
Our main event this evening will be a four-man gauntlet cage match for the TWA World Title pitting The Rock, Curt Hennig, Jake Roberts and Ronnie Garvin against each other based on winning qualifying matches last week at Trump Card.
How the match will work is that two men will start off and after one loses by pinfall or submission, a new man will enter the ring and once they lose, the final man will enter the cage and whoever wins that match will be the first ever TWA Champion. It’s been decided the order will be based on the speed the men I previously mentioned won their matches last week. That means Rock and Garvin will be the first two men, Roberts the third and Hennig the last, having the greatest advantage.
We’ll also see tonight the first title defense by Eric Young of the TWA Wild Card Title he won in a battle royal at Trump Card. He used chicanery to get R-Truth to eliminate himself by stating the title belt was filled with spiders, something Truth is deathly afraid of. However, he might have to face that fear tonight. Fans are allowed to pick the stipulation for the Wild Card Title matches via Twitter and one of the suggested stipulations from @eyoungwc is a bag of spiders on a pole match. I’m told a hardcore match, ladder match and tables match have also received many votes. We’ll find out the winner later on.
The TWA Tag Team Champions will also be crowned tonight in a tornado tag with Strike Force, made up of Tito Santana and Rick Martel, facing the Faces of Fear, comprised of Haku and the Barbarian.
Last week, the qualifying match won by the Faces of Fear broke down into pandemonium when fellow Heenan Family members the Warlord and Big Show became involved. Tim Horner, one-half of the Lightning Express with Marty Jannetty, will be out several months with a broken leg. Jannetty suffered three cracked ribs and various bumps and bruises.
Based on this savagery, TWA owner Donald Trump met earlier today in his office here at Trump Plaza with Bobby Heenan, head of the Heenan Family, and Stacy Keibler, manager of the Mexi-Can-Am Connection Strike Force is a part of. Our cameras were there to capture the meeting at the behest of Mr. Trump. We show you that footage now.
Segment 2: Taped segment with Donald Trump, Stacy Keibler and Bobby Heenan
The screen cuts to Donald Trump sitting behind a wooden desk. On the other side is Stacy Keibler sitting in a chair with her legs crossed and hands in her lap. Bobby Heenan enters. Trump motions to a second chair in front of his desk.
Trump: Bobby, please sit down.
Heenan (as he goes to sit to Keibler): I’ll have two sugars and light on the cream.
Keibler: What?
Heenan: Coffee, toots, two sugars and light on the cream.
Trump: Bobby, this is Stacy Keibler, she represents Strike Force.
Heenan: So, are you doing the beaner or the Canuck?
Trump: Bobby, I don’t appreciate that humor and I don’t think Stacy does either.
Keibler rolls her eyes and shifts in her chair to turn away from Heenan, not wanting to be any closer to him than she has to.
Trump: I asked you both here today because of what happened last week between the Heenan Family and the Lightning Express in the TWA Tag Team Title match qualifier.
I’m going to be honest, it was one of the most talked about things amongst fans from Trump Card. But, at the same time, Bobby, I can’t have your men injuring my wrestlers. We can’t put on a show if we have no wrestlers. Tim Horner probably won’t be back until the end of the year and Jannetty wants to come back now, even though doctors have advised against it.
Here is what I am doing. The tornado tag for the belts between Strike Force and the Faces of Fear will still occur at Four the Hard Way tonight. However, all members of the Heenan Family will be banned from ringside…
Heenan goes to protest and Trump raises a hand to silence him.
Trump: And, to be fair, all members of the Mexi-Can-Am Connection will be banned from ringside as well. If any known affiliates of either of those groups are at ringside at any point in the match, they will be suspended indefinitely. That goes for you, Stacy, and you, Bobby.
Heenan: Look, the Powers of Fear are savages and the Big Show is simply a walking natural disaster. I should have been out with them last week, I’ll grant you, but I was handling matters in the back. You’re better off Mr. Trump with having me out there controlling them.
Trump: No, I don’t think I am. Let’s see if you can control your men in the back. Stacy, are you good with this?
Heenan: Oh, she’s asked if she’s good with it, but I’m not?
Keibler: That will be acceptable to us, Mr. Trump, as long as the Heenan Family abides.
Trump: Stacy, if the Heenan Family breaks the stipulation first you have my permission for Tom Zenk and yourself to come to ringside and help out Strike Force. And, Bobby, before you say anything, the same goes for your side, but I don’t think that will be an issue. You both may leave.
Heenan and Keibler go to stand.
Heenan: Can I get that coffee now?
Keibler punches Heenan in the arm and he winces.
Keibler: Get your own damn coffee.
The scene cuts back to Solie at the announce table.
Segment 3: The Big Show vs. “Gentleman” Jim Clovin with a pre-match promo
Solie: There you have it fans. In an attempt to prevent another massacre like we had last week, but still preserve the scheduled tag team championship match, Donald Trump has banned all members of the Heenan Family and the Mexi-Can-Am Connection from ringside for the match…
Solie is cut off by music. Bobby Heenan, leading the Big Show, approaches the ring.
Solie: While Bobby Heenan might be banned from ringside later tonight, he’s able to come out right now. The man he’s with is one that led the destruction against the Lightning Express and by his mere presence prevented officials from coming to their aid.
Heenan takes a microphone and stands in the ring with the Big Show, who has his arms crossed over his chest.
Heenan: I know all you ham and eggers must be thrilled that I won’t be allowed to be with the Faces of Fear later tonight. There was no chance of a repeat of what happened last week. That was about sending a message and the message was sent. It was this, nobody is safe with this man around.
Heenan shoots a thumb back at the Big Show who stares stoically ahead.
Heenan: I’ve managed some of the largest men in this business. King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd, Andre the Giant; do you know what they all had the Big Show didn’t? Fear. The Big Show has been made to look like a joke everywhere he’s been. Seven foot tall, 425 pounds, a joke. No, no, not on my watch. I said come with me and you’ll be feared by every guy in the back, every fan in the arena and everyone watching at home. That’s what last week was about. It was establishing fear.
I’ve tried all week to get this man a match and I haven’t found any wrestler in the back willing to put their name on the dotted line of a contract. I’m making an open challenge right now for this man so he can show in a match what he can really do. So if there is anyone with the guts or stupidity to face the Big Show in this arena, come on out.
A few seconds go by and a timid figure appears at the top of the entrance ramp. The short blonde man is wearing a white top hat, bowtie and tails.
Solie: This is the man who was a last minute entrant in the Wild Card Title battle royal last week and the first man eliminated. I believe his name was “Gentleman” Jim Clovin.
Heenan: Who’s this, the parking valet from out front?
Clovin enters the ring and nervously approaches Heenan.
Clovin: No, sir, I’m “Gentleman” Jim Clovin and I would be honored to accept your gracious open challenge and prove my skills against your formidable charge.
Heenan: Your funeral, pal. Show, don’t injure the guy, just give him a regular beating.
Heenan exits the ring and Clovin bows to all four sides of the arena as he did the previous week. The bell rings before Clovin has removed his ring attire and Show pounces on him with a mighty yell.
Clovin is hoisted off his feet with Show’s big mitts wrapped around his throat. Clovin tries to use his hands to break the hold, but it’s not happening. Show throws Clovin into the near corner. He slumps down with a loud thump. Show screams and charges with a full head of steam, squishing Clovin with an avalanche. Show backs up and Clovin starts to fall, but Show catches him around the throat. He hoists Clovin and spins around to be back toward the center of the ring. Clovin bounces a good three feet in the air as he strikes the mat and Show rides the momentum to make it back to his feet. He stands with a boot on Clovin’s chest and referee Tommy Young counts the academic three count.
Eden Stiles: Your winner in 32 seconds. The Big Show.
Heenan: Be a nice guy and carry that sack of potatoes to the back, Show.
Segment 4: Bobby Heenan and Donald Trump become guest commentators.
Show picks up Clovin and tosses him over one shoulder. He walks to the back. Heenan doesn’t follow. He goes to the commentary table and sits where the Honky Tonk Man would usually be and puts on a headset.
Solie: Bobby, what are you doing?
Heenan: I decided to give Honky Tonk Man the night off. I gave him a pink Cadillac and tickets to Graceland. He’s probably halfway to Memphis right now.
Solie: Well, obviously, Bobby, you’re trying to do this in some way to circumvent the ruling from earlier that you are not allowed at ringside for the tag team title match.
Heenan: I’m not at ringside. I’m to the side of ringside. I’m not a member of the Heenan Family. I’m not a manager. I’m a commentator tonight. Everything’s square, Solie, like your wardrobe.
Suddenly, Donald Trump appears from the back and the crowd cheers as he goes down to ringside and the commentators’ table. Trump sits down in an extra chair and puts on a spare headset.
Heenan: I guess you’re here to tell me I can’t be out here. I reviewed what I had you put in writing Trump. I’m fine with being right here at the commentators’ table as long as I don’t move. If you want to challenge it, I think my lawyer will have something to say about it…soon as he finishes his night classes.
Trump: I’m not challenging anything, Bobby. After I heard the Honky Tonk Man wasn’t going to be here tonight, I thought this might be your plan.
Heenan: Who squealed?
Trump: You think I don’t know what’s happening in my own company and my own casino? Bobby, you’re one of the best commentators of all time and I’d be foolish to kick you to the back with HTM gone. But, if you’re going to be our here with Gordon, so am I.
Solie: Let me get this straight. Both of you will be my broadcast partners here for the remainder of the evening?
Trump: That’s right, Gordon.
Heenan gives a sigh and rolls his eyes at Trump upstaging him.
Solie: That will certainly be a treat for the fans at home. Right now, let’s go to the back where Bob Uecker is with Cody Rhodes, known as Stardust, who lost a TWA qualifying match last week to Jake Roberts. Roberts had some choice words for Stardust after the match, questioning his manhood and sanity.
Segment 5: Backstage interview with Stardust
Uecker looks uncomfortable near the painted pink Stardust who laughs and prances around.
Uecker: So, uh, do you have a response for Jake Roberts?
Stardust: I do…I do…Jake Roberts offered to make me a man, but why would I want that when I am already something greater. I’m Stardust.
Rhodes puts the palms of his gloves together to make a star and walks into camera until it fills the screen. He then backs up and returns to the nervous Uecker.
Stardust: Stardust fills the universe. Stardust comprises everything. What a man does is interned with their bones, but Stardust lives forever and goes forever. Jake Roberts has nothing for me. And all I have for him is Stardust.
Stardust reaches a hand into his suit and pulls it out. He opens his palm and blows glitter into the camera. He dances off cackling.
Uecker: Back to you Gordon…
Stardust rushes back into frame and blows another wad of glitter into Uecker’s ear and laughs. Uecker shudders, half surprised and half annoyed.
Segment 6: The Mighty Igor vs. Shawn Stasiak
Eden Stiles: Our next match is one fall with a 15 minute time limit. Introducing first from Hayward, California, at a weight of 242 pounds, accompanied by Sunny, Shawn Stasiak.
Gordon Solie: It was not a good night last week at Trump Card for Sunny and her men. Badd Company was defeated by Strike Force in the TWA tag title tournament and Stasiak was tossed almost immediately in the Wild Card battle royal by the man he’s facing here tonight.
Stiles: And his opponent, at 289 pounds from Dearborn, Michigan, the Mighty Igor.
Igor approaches from the back, a goofy grin on his face and a string of linked sausages hanging around his neck.
Solie: Don’t let his kindly demeanor fool you. The polish powerhouse is one of the strongest men ever in the history of wrestling.
Heenan: And one of ugliest. You know why he wears those sausages around his neck? It was the only way his parents could get the family dog to play with him as a child.
Trump: The fans obviously love him and that’s a major reason my people wanted him here in TWA. I’m also told he’s a great power wrestler with more skill than you’d think. If Stasiak tries to go toe to toe with him like he did last week in the battle royal, I think he’s going to get the same result.
Then Igor was eliminated by Mark Jindrak. I have it on very good authority, that Sunny is in negotiations with Jindrak to join her stable.
Solie: That would reunite him with Stasiak as the two were part of the Natural Born Thrillers in WCW with Chuck Palumbo, Mike Sanders and a few other men.
Igor walks around ringside offering a bit of kielbasa to audience members. Some of the children take a nibble. Igor enters the ring, his dopey grin getting wider, as he goes up to Sunny and holds out a sausage to her. She makes a face like she’s going to get sick.
Heenan: Funny, Sunny usually never turns down a wiener.
Stasiask is upset by Igor motioning at Sunny and attacks him with wild lefts and rights. A stunned Igor stumbles into the ropes and falls chest first over the second strand. Stasiak takes the ring of sausages and pulls back on them, choking Igor until they come apart.
Referee Scott Armstrong backs Stasiak off as the match hasn’t even started yet. Stasiak takes a big bite of sausage and yells with his mouth full to the crowd. Armstrong helps Igor up, who nods his head that he wants the match to still happen.
Igor turns around and Stasiak spits a wad of half-chewed sausage into his face. Igor takes a big mitt down his face to wipe the mess and his usually gentle eyes flash with fire. Stasiak takes a step back as his eyes flash with fear.
Solie: Stasiak is maybe realizing he made a mistake in making the big guy angry.
Heenan: Stasiak and Igor are equally stupid. The only smart thing Stasiak ever did was pick up Sunny…or more like it, let Sunny pick him up.
Igor comes forward with a mighty right and Stasiak flies out of the ring, over the top rope to the floor. Sunny runs over and helps Stasiak up, asking how he is. Igor reaches over the ropes and grabs Shawn by his short, pointy hair, lifting him up. Stasiak screams and the fans howl. He grabs the ropes to take some of the pressure off his head and steadies himself on the apron. Igor grabs the ropes and with a quick yank brings Stasiak back into the squared circle.
………
Cut to the finish.
Igor body slams Stasiak, who arches his back to signal pain. Igor stares down at him. Sunny jumps up on the apron. She smiles and blows a kiss at Igor, who wanders over to her.
Solie: Igor is obviously smitten with the lovely Sunny and she’s decided to use that to Stasiak’s advantage, who has been surprisingly dominated throughout most of this bout.
Stasiak realizes what Sunny is doing and is poised to strike on the mat behind Igor. Sunny closes her eyes and puckers her lips. The crowd roars for Igor to kiss her. He goes near. Stasiak tries to schoolboy Igor from behind, but can’t budge the big man. Igor looks down and then plops down to squash Stasiak. Igor pops back up in one swift motion and kisses Sunny. The audience hollers while Sunny wipes her mouth and drops back to the floor in disgust.
Heenan: Sunny usually doesn’t mind sausage breath.
Trump: Bobby, we’re really going to need to get you some sensitivity training.
Igor leans into the ropes and comes off with a big splash, arms out in from of him as if he were doing a belly flop into a pool. He lands on Stasiak, knocking the wind out of him and Armstrong slides into place to count the pinfall.
Stiles: And your winner, the Mighty Igor.
Armstrong raises Igor’s hand in victory as Stasiak rolls to the floor holding his stomach. He goes up the aisle with Sunny berating him.
Segment 7: Backstage interview with Sunny and Shawn Stasiak
Bob Uecker tries to talk with the defeated duo, but is smart enough to hang back and just hold the microphone out to catch the verbal beat down to go with the physical beat down Stasiak just received.
Sunny: I can’t believe you. Two weeks, two weeks in a row, that…that…imbecile has made you look like a weak wimp.
Sunny smacks Stasiak in the shoulder and he winces. She gives an exasperated look of ‘I can’t believe you.’
Sunny: You’re getting one more chance next week. I’m going to arrange a tag match. Anyone Igor can get against you and Mark Jindrak. And maybe Jindrak won’t be joining you and Badd Company, he’ll be replacing you.
Sunny storms off. A dejected Stasiak goes to turn around and leave while still holding his midsection. Jindrak slides into frame with a big, mocking smile on his face.
Jindrak: Look forward to working with you again, bro. Tough loss out there.
Jindrak give Stasiak a playful shot in the ribs and he winces. Jindrak exits and Stasiak slumps off muttering to himself.
Segment 8: Othello and Marc Mero vs. Col. DeBeers and Vladimir Koslov
Stiles: Our next matches has a 20-minute time limit. Introducing first at a combined weight of 577 pounds, Col. DeBeers and Vladimir Koslov. Known as White Power.
Trump: Gordon, I want to say right off that I don’t agree with or condone the politics of these two men. But they’re great wrestlers that came highly recommend for their in ring prowess. I’ve usually found in business and life that those who need a comeuppance usually receive it.
Heenan: I’m still waiting for mine.
Stiles: And introducing their opponents at a combined weight of 570 pounds. Marc Mero and, debuting for TWA, Othello.
Mero emerges from the back with Othello trailing behind. The imposing black man is near seven feet tall with a bald head and bushy goatee.
Solie: Who is that?
Heenan: Who is that? What is that? He’s like a telephone pole with legs.
Trump: Marc Mero came to me after White Power issued the challenge to him last week because he eliminated them from the Wild Card Battle Royal. He asked if he could bring in someone from outside TWA and when he showed me a picture of who it was, I couldn’t say no. Marc told me he’s been training Othello in wrestling and boxing for about a year.
Solie: DeBeers and Koslov haven’t made any secret out of their racist opinions. Even thinking Mero was black and directing vile his way last week.
Heenan: I don’t discriminate on skin color. I go by height and this guy is just fine with me. When it rains, he knows five minutes before anyone else.
Trump: Maybe we’ll have to get him in the ring with your Big Show sometime soon, Bobby.
Heenan: Hey, if you’re willing to pay for the ring they’d probably break, make it happen.
DeBeers asks for the microphone from Stiles.
DeBeers: We never agreed to this. Koslov and I never agreed to face Mero and this animal. We refuse to go forward with this travesty.
Mero takes the mic from a surprised DeBeers.
Mero: You said for me to bring anybody I wanted. If you cowards want to run away and let the world know that you were afraid of a black man. Then do it.
DeBeers and Koslov confer. Mero jerks his head toward the pair and Othello crosses the ring in two long strides. The heels are unaware of his presence until two giant hands grab their heads and slam them together. Koslov falls out of the ring while DeBeers sits on the mat and holds a hand to his ringing noggin.
Othello picks DeBeers up and gorilla presses him over his head. He walks around the ring, showing DeBeers to the four sides of the arena. DeBeers shakes his head no and begs Othello not to slam him down. Othello with a slight nudge forces DeBeers into the air and steps forward, allowing DeBeers to plummet to earth behind him.
Heenan: That’s like falling from a skyscraper. Trump, you should offer hazard pay.
Solie: The strength of this man is inhuman. It looks like Marc Mero and Mr. Trump have found the next big thing in professional wrestling.
Heenan: Emphasis on big.
……….
Cut to the finish.
Solie: After settling down, White Power has managed to cut the ring in half and isolate Marc Mero from his mammoth tag team partner, Othello.
Trump: Like I said at the start Gordon, I didn’t hire Koslov and DeBeers for their politics, but how they work in the ring. Once they regrouped they showed they deserved to be in there. Even Bobby Heenan would have had a hard time getting his men together after a surprise like Othello.
Heenan: We would have left. Know when to cut your losses.
Koslov has Mero in a bearhug. He looks to be fading, but Othello claps his hands and stomps a big boot on the ring apron. The fans follow along. The sound energizes Mero
whose eyes flash and arms quake. He slams his arms into Koslov’s ears and he releases the bearhug. Mero hits a standing dropkick and both men go down.
Heenan: If Mero makes the tag it’s all over. The only thing better than a giant, is a fresh giant.
Both men crawl to their corners. Koslov reaches up and slaps hands with DeBeers. Referee Tommy Young acknowledges and DeBeers launches into the ring, but he’s not fast enough to stop Mero from tagging Othello just a couple seconds later.
Young acknowledges the second tag as the crowd explodes. Othello steps over the ropes into the ring and DeBeers backs off. Othello stalks over to him. DeBeers drops down to his knees in his corner and shakes his head while holding up his hands.
Othello stars down at DeBeers. DeBeers then comes up between Othello’s legs with a forearm for a low blow. Othello continues to glare with a ‘that’s all you got’ look.
DeBeers is petrified now and begs off for real. Othello reaches down and picks DeBeers up by his shoulder and flings him out of the ring and down to the mat. Othello measures DeBeers as he goes to stand. He comes forward with a big boot, putting DeBeers down.
Koslov reenters the ring and Othello whirls around to catch him with a spinning clothesline. Othello turns back to DeBeers, skips in the air and comes down with a crushing leg drop. He hooks the leg and gets the pin on DeBeers.
Mero leaps into Othello, who holds his mentor with one arm while raising the other in victory.
Stiles: And, your winners, the team of Marc Mero and Othello.
Trump: It looks like White Power suffered a power outage.
Heenan: You come up with that one yourself Trump, or did you hire Bob Hope’s old writers.
Trump: With your tired lines, some writers might help you Bobby.
Solie: Greater than the win over White Power is the debut of a new force in TWA and professional wrestling as a whole. Othello, especially if he sticks with the veteran Mero, has a very promising career ahead of him.
Segment 9: TWA Wild Card Title match stipulation reveal
Bob Uecker stands in the back on his interview set with R-Truth on one side and Eric Young on the other. Young has the Wild Card title around his waist. Truth looks pensive.
Uecker: It’s time for the big reveal. Based on suggestions from Twitter we have four possible stipulations that could mark the first ever TWA Wild Card Title defense of Eric Young against R-Truth. Those are a hardcore match, ladder match, tables match and a bag of spiders on a pole match.
Truth: Damn, man, don’t say spiders.
Uecker: Language!
Truth: F*ck you man, don’t say spiders.
And, receiving an astounding 68 percent of the total favorites received, it’s bag of spiders on a pole.
Truth: Damn, I mean sh*t, I mean f*ck, I mean sh*t f*ck f*ckity f*ck.
Young gives a quick yes and fist pump, but then quickly tries to hide it.
Young: Bad break, dude. @eyoungwc, you better hope neither me or Truth find out who you are, because suggesting that as a stipulation was really low.
Uecker: You can say that again.
Young: Anyway, it’s what the fans wanted and we just have to make the best of it, right Truth.
Truths is muttering to himself with his hands over his mouth and head down.
Truth: Spiders, spiders, spiders, why did it have to be spiders. Always, spiders, always spiders.
Truth wanders off set.
Young: See you out there Truth. Good luck.
Young grins and walks off.
Segment 10: Bag of Spiders on a Pole match for the TWA Wild Card Title between Eric Young (c) and R-Truth
Stiles: Our next match is for the TWA Wild Card Title and will only end when one man retrieves a ziplocked bag of spiders down from a post attached to the ring post and pours it over the head of their opponent.
Solie: Mr. Trump, I hope you’re not fooled by Eric Young’s charade about not being @eyoungwc.
Heenan: Solie, wait a minute, that could really anybody. Even me.
Solie: Is it you?
Heenan: Of course not, that would be stupid.
Trump: There’s nothing in the rules that says a wrestler can’t make a suggestion on twitter for the Wild Card Title match stipulation. After all, it’s based on who gets the most fan votes and bag of spiders got it. I’m not going to deny the people what they want to see.
Stiles: Weighing in tonight at 220 pounds and hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, R-Truth.
Truth comes out from the back with his head down and still muttering to himself. He looks up as he approaches the ring and stares at the bag already attached to a pole hooked to a ring post.
Solie: It looks like Truth is praying now.
Heenan: Couldn’t hurt.
Stiles: And his opponent. The TWA Wild Chard Champion from Nashville, Tennessee, and weighing in at 225 pounds, Eric Young.
Young strides confidently to the ring. He removes his title belt and hands it to Stiles. He lets his gaze drift over to the bag of spiders. As Truth’s eyes also go that way, Young snaps to attention and charges Truth. The match is on.
………
Cut to the finish.
Young and Truth lean into the ropes from opposite sides. Truth ducks a clothesline. Young pulls up and turns around to catch a corkscrew elbow from Truth as he rebounds from the opposite set of ropes. Truth follows with a leg drop and spins up to his feet.
He looks up at the bag of spiders as the fans cheer him on.
Solie: Young has made a couple attempts so far for the bag of spiders, but this would be Truth’s first try.
Truth gingerly steps over to the corner and climbs to the top turnbuckle. He puts his hand on the bag and takes is away quickly.
“I can feel them squirming, man,” he yells as he holds his hand as if he touched a hot stove.
Young comes up with his head between Truth’s legs and falls backwards to splash Truth to the mat with an electric chair drop. Young goes for the spiders.
Truth comes up from behind like Young did. Young turns to face truth and acts like he already has the bag of spiders and motions like he’s throwing them. Truth falls back and rubs his hands over his body, knocking off the imaginary spiders.
The extra few seconds is all Young needs to get the bag down for real. Young opens is up and pours them down on Truth while he’s still convulsing on the mat. Seeing the spiders now, Truth freaks out even more and runs to the back.
Cameras trail Truth who makes a beeline for the backstage door. He screams into the parking lot and disappears into the night.
Young looks down. “Hey, these are fake.”
Trump: Did you really think we would use a bag of real spiders. I thought best to be cautious.
Heenan: Didn’t matter to Truth. He’s probably caught up with the Honky Tonk Man in Memphis by now.
Stiles: Your winner, and still TWA Wild Card Champion, Eric Young.
Segment 11: Backstage encounter between Curt Hennig and Joe Hennig
Joe Hennig sits on a bench in front of a row of lockers. He laces his boots, finishing preparation for his upcoming match.
A shadow appears over him and he looks up to see his father. Joe jumps to his feet and tenses, ready for a fight. He’s shocked to see an extended hand.
Curt: Joe…good luck tonight.
Joe: You too, dad.
The two men shake hands. Curt exits. Joe looks confused, but a small smile creeps to his lips.
Segment 12: Stardust vs. Joe Hennig with post-match promo from Jake Roberts
Stiles: Our next match has a 15 minute time limit. Introducing first from Champlin, Minnesota, at a weight of 227 pounds, “Better Than Perfect” Joe Hennig.
Solie: Even in a losing effort, the son of “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig made quite an impression last week against his father in a TWA qualifying match.
Heenan: The Rock sank to a new low putting Hennig against his own son. What despicable person would arrange for a man to fight his own son?
Trump: That’s what you did with the Rock and Rocky Johnson last week.
Heenan: Huh? I’m deaf in that ear. Sit on my other side next time, Trump.
Stiles: And his opponent, from the Fifth Dimension at a weight of 220 pounds, Stardust.
Solie: Stardust had a reply to Jake Roberts on the offer he made last week for Cody Rhodes to go under his wing. It certainly wasn’t the response Roberts wanted.
Heenan: That fruitcake should be so lucky to have someone like Roberts willing to show him the ropes. He’s mean, dirty, lying, cheating…
Trump: A man after your own heart.
Heenan: Yeah…no…look, in that ring you sometimes have to cut a few corners. Just look. Roberts is in the TWA Title match later tonight and Rhodes is a loser facing another loser.
………
Cut to the finish.
Stardust has Joe Hennig in a surfboard. Referee Scott Armstrong asks if Henning wants to give up, but he shakes his head emphatically no.
Solie: I’m not sure how much this young man can take…look, from the back, it’s Jake Roberts.
Roberts strides confidently to the ring with a sneer on his lips and a bag over his shoulder.
Heenan: He’s got Damien with him, Gordon. I would say it’s bad for him to be out here right now when he’s got the title match to worry about later, but this man can do whatever he wants.
Trump: And if his attention is elsewhere or he gets hurt out here now, that’s better for Curt Hennig.
Heenan: Trump, you’re not as dumb as you look, but who could be.
Roberts in one clean motion, brings his bag forward and opens is to send Damien sliding across the ring near the grapplers.
Stardust lets Hennig down. He goes on his belly and slithers closer to Damian, flicking his tongue in and out like a snake.
Heenan: What is that moron doing?
Solie: Even I have a hard time explaining that as Rhodes trying to get in Roberts head back. It’s just bizarre.
Roberts just stands at ringside with an evil grin. He motions to Stardust to continue what he’s doing. “Go ahead,” he calls.
Hennig recovers and stares down at the odd sight with a look of disbelief.
“Go ahead,” Roberts says again, but this time, Hennig realizes he’s talking to him. Hennig kicks Stardust in the back of the head. He keeps a weary eye on Damien while stomping Rhodes down. He pulls Rhodes up and slings him into the ropes. Hennig charges at him and catches Stardust with a one-armed swinging neckbreaker, known as the Turning Heads.
Hennig pulls Rhodes up to his feet. Roberts reaches into the ring and snatches Damien, putting him back in his bag. Joe nails the Perfectplex and gets the win.
Stiles: And your winner…
Roberts: Give me that microphone.
Much like last week, Roberts takes the microphone from Stiles. Hennig leaves the ring, knowing the business is none of his.
Roberts: Cody, the mistake you made was thinking you had a choice on the offer I made you last week. Free will has always been an illusion. You failed my first test and I have doubts you will fail many more.
I will drag you kicking and screaming into being a man, whether you want to or not. Is it because of respect I have for your father and brother? Or, is it just because I don’t have cable and I’m easily bored.
I’ve got more important matters to tend to later tonight when I become the TWA World Champion. But, next week Cody, a second test. One if you fail, won’t just be disastrous for you.
Roberts flips the microphone to Eden Stiles with a wink and exits the ring.
Segment 13: Tornado tag team match for the TWA Tag Team Titles pitting Strike Force against the Faces of Fear
Stiles: Our next match has no time limit and can only be won by pinfall or submission. It’s for the TWA Tag Team Titles.
Introducing first at a combined weight of 460 pounds, Strike Force, featuring Rick Martel and Tito Santana.
Solie: As detailed earlier, all members of the Heenan Family and Mexi-Can-Am Connection are banned from ringside based on the massacre the Heenan Family caused last week.
Heenan: The Faces of Fear are the most dangerous tag team ever in wrestling history. They don’t need me out there with them. All I could ever do was point them in a direction and say kill. Santana and Martel won’t know what hit them.
Stiles: And their opponents at a combined weight of 608 pounds, Haku and the Barbarian, the Faces of Fear.
Trump: I don’t think anybody would have faulted me for suspending them, Big Show and Warlord for what they did last week beating up Marty Jannetty and breaking Tim Horner’s leg. However, I want the best guys in the ring and I want wrestlers to work their conflicts out in the ring. If I didn’t think Santana and Martel could handle themselves against these monster, trust me, I wouldn’t let this match go through.
………
Cut to the finish.
Martel and the Barbarian brawl on the outside, while Haku and Santana go at it in the ring. Haku makes with a double throat thrust and Tito collapses to the mat grabbing at his neck.
Solie: This match has been brutal, but thankfully not as brutal as what we saw last week.
Trump: Everyone knew this was going to be a brawl and most people, especially Bobby here, probably didn’t think Strike Force could keep up, but I knew they could.
Heenan: It’s not over yet. Would I give Strike Force the advantage in a wrestling match? Sure. But this is a fight and nobody, nobody, beats my guys in a fight.
The Barbarian takes Martel by the back of the head and wings him over the guardrail into the crowd. Martel stands and Barbarian lifts his leg over the rail and slam forward with a big boot to Rick’s chest. He falls back into the crowd.
Haku yells. He has Santana up for a piledriver. Barbarian sees it and enters the ring. He gets up on the second rope.
Heenan: Here it is, all she wrote. A spiked piledriver on Mr. Arriba gives Tim Horner a roommate at the hospital.
The crowd erupts as a figure streaks out from the back with a steel chair in his hands.
Solie: It’s Marty Jannetty!
Heenan: What’s he doing out here? That’s not fair! That’s illegal!
Trump: I said no members of the Mexi-Can-Am Connection or the Heenan Family. To my knowledge, Marty Jannetty isn’t affiliated with either. He’s okay to be out here.
Jannetty, with his ribs heavily taped, flies into the ring and smacks Barbarian with a chair. Haku drops Santana and goes after Jannetty and is hit with the chair in the head. He shakes his noggin and yells, the shot having no affect.
Santanan dropkicks Haku from behind, who stumbles into the Barbarian slumped in the corner. Martel appears from out of the crowd as Jannetty exits the ring. Martel leaps to a top corner and Santana goes opposite him.
The heels, dazed, trip into the middle of the ring and are sandwiches with twin missile dropkicks. They make simultaneous covers, but only one count from Tommy Young is needed to make Strike Force the TWA Tag Champions.
Heenan: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! THIS IS A TRAVESTY! THIS IS…
Trump: Really, no worse than what your men did last week.
Heenan: I’M CHALLENGING THIS TRUMP! THIS WON’T STAND! YOU’LL HEAR FROM ME AND MY LAWYERS NEXT WEEK! THIS ISN’T OVER!
Heenan slams down his headset. He gathers up Babarian and Haku and leads them to the back in a huff.
Segment 14: Backstage interview with the Mexi-Can-Am Connection
Uecker: Let’s see if I can catch Bobby Heenan and the Faces of Fear.
Heenan: Buzz off Uecker. We’re not talking.
Heenan charges past Uecker with Barbarian and Haku still selling pains from their match.
Uecker: Well, here’s a happier bunch.
Tom Zenk and Stacy Keibler appear, all smiles, to greet Santana and Martel holding the TWA Tag Team Title belts. They hug and congratulate each other.
Martel: Where’s Marty Jannetty? Come in here, Marty.
Jannetty walks in. He shakes hands with everyone.
Martel: Normally, we wouldn’t want to win a match with outside help. But, we know what they did to you and Horner last week and we know what they most likely would have done to us post match.
Santana: That spiked piledriver could have broken my neck. Thanks brother, for helping us out.
Santana hugs Jannetty. Martel follows.
Keibler: I just want to reiterate that Jannetty was not a member of the Mexi-Can-Am Connection. However, I think he’s more than proven himself of joining us now.
Jannetty: Really?
Everyone shakes their heads.
Jannetty: I accept. I just wanted to tip the scales a little bit after what happened last week at Trump Card. Tim Horner, brother, I love you, I’m thinking about you and I’m not done making the Heenan Family pay. Especially since I’ve picked up some new allies.
The group walks off together to celebrate the title win.
Segment 15: Paul Orndorff vs. Rocky Johnson
Stiles: Our next match has a 20 minute time limit. Introducing first from Washington D.C. at a weight of 260 pounds, “Soulman” Rocky Johnson.
Solie: Well, Mr. Trump, it looks like it might be you and me for the rest of the show.
Trump: That won’t make me cry, Gordon.
Solie: Our next matchup pits two men who lost qualifying matches last week for the TWA Title match later tonight. Rocky Johnson had to face his son, the Rock, thanks to Heenan maneuvering the bout as head games.
Trump: I have to admit, Gordon, I thought it was brilliant to put one of the greatest wrestlers of all time against his own father, the man who taught him everything he knew. That match had some great raw emotion.
Stiles: And his opponent, at a weight of 253 pounds from Tampa, Florida, “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff.
Solie: It certainly makes sense after what we just saw, but this is two weeks in a row the longtime member of the Heenan family is without his manager, Bobby Heenan.
Last week, Orndorff lost to Ronnie Garvin because of interference gone awry from stablemate, the Big Show.
Trump: I don’t know if that was unintentional or not. Big Show has demonstrated he doesn’t play well with others and Bobby not giving Orndorff much guidance is suspicious to me.
The bell rings and Orndorff and lifts his arm, signaling a test of strength.
Solie: These are two of the strongest, most well developed grapplers I’ve ever seen. A test of strength between the two would certainly be a sight.
Johnson is hesitant, but raises his arm and links fingers with Orndorff. The pair quickly follow suit on the other side. Orndorff has the early advantage, but Johnson starts to come back. Orndorff’s knees buckle and he begins to sink. Johnson nods his head approvingly to the crowd, but Orndorff breaks the contest with a kick to the knee and an elbow to the stomach of the Soulman.
……….
Cut to the finish.
Orndorff works a sleeper hold. Johnson seems to be fading. The referee lifts an arm. It falls. Scott Armstrong lifts it again, it falls. He goes for a third, when the crowd stirs.
Solie: The Big Show is coming out from the back. Orndorff has this match well in hand, he can’t fake like he’s trying to help this time.
Orndorff drops the sleeper and yells at Show from over the ropes. Big Show betrays no emotion as he simply stands at ringside.
“I don’t need you, go the back,” Orndorff barks.
“Hey, Bobby, sent me out here as an insurance policy,” Show gruffly retorts with a pointed finger aimed at Mr. Wonderful.
Johnson sits out on the mat still. Orndorff returns to his sleeper. He locks it, but Johnson reaches up and drops back to the mat with a jawbreaker to free himself.
Trump: Smart move there, Gordon. Johnson was obviously playing opossum. Once again the help from the Big Show, turns out to be hurting.
Johnson seems revived as he rocks Orndorff with a series of lefts and rights. He hits a spinning right hook with the force sending himself and Orndorff to the mat. Johnson lands on top and hooks the leg for the one…two…three.
Stiles: Your winner, “Soulman” Rocky Johnson.
Big Show shrugs his shoulders and gives an ‘oh, well’ look before heading to the back. Orndorff fumes, red faced on the mat.
Segment 16: Backstage interview with Bob Uecker and White Power
Solie: We cut to the back where Bob Uecker has a very mad Col DeBeers and Vladimir Koslov.
Much like the week before, Uecker stand on his interview set with chairs and other furniture flying about his head thrown by Koslov. DeBeers can barely contain himself as he stands next to Uecker.
Uecker: It’s déjà vu all over again as my good friend Yogi Berra would say.
DeBeers: This is an outrage. This is an atrocity. This will not stand.
Uecker: Do you know that Marc Mero isn’t black now?
DeBeers: Shut up!
Koslov ends his tirade and enters the frame to stand on the other side of Uecker.
DeBeers: Mero, you think it’s funny. You think you can trick and humiliate us with your simple minded giant. Next week, we’re be prepared. Next week, we’ll be prepared. We challenge Othello (DeBeers spits after saying the name) to a singles match…against Koslov.
Koslov: Yes…wait, no…I thought you…
DeBeers: Othello (he spits again), you will know what White Power truly is next week!
Segment 17: TWA World Title Gauntlet Cage Match pitting The Rock vs. Ronnie Garvin vs. Jake Roberts vs. Curt Hennig
Stiles: The next match is for the TWA World Title and will take place inside a steel cage. This gauntlet match must be won by pinfall or submission.
Introducing the first entrant from Miami, Florida, at a weight of 260 pounds is the Rock.
The Rock enters, basking in the roar of the crowd.
Solie: This is the matchup we’ve been waiting all night for. While many would peg the Rock as the odds on favorite, I don’t think any man could survive the three competitors he will need to in order to become the TWA World Champion inside a steel cage.
Trump: But, if anyone could do it, Gordon, it would be him. The Rock wasn’t lying last week when he said I went to him first about joining the TWA. I wanted the best of the best and there is no question who that is in wrestling today or at any time in history.
Stiles: And the second man in this gauntlet match, at a weight of 242 pounds from Charlotte, North Carolina, “Rugged” Ronnie Garvin.
Solie: Garvin, a former NWA World Champion and the man with hands of stone is overall vastly underrated competitor in my opinion.
Garvin enters the cage and extends a hand to the Rock. The Rock shakes it, the bell sounds and the two men lock up.
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Cut to the end of the first fall
Garvin has Rock in the figure four. Rock stretches and strains as he tries to pull Garvin to the ropes.
Solie: Normally a reaching the ropes would cause the break of a hold in a cage match, but will this time since the bout is being contested under standard TWA rules, just simply inside a cage.
Trump: I like seeing both go all out here in the first match, Gordon, but I don’t see how either will have anything left for Jake Roberts as the next competitor.
The Rock’s fingertips brush the bottom rope and referee Scott Armstrong calls for a break. Garvin undoes the figure four and attempts to pull the Rock back to the center of the ring. The Rock grabs Garvin as he’s bent over and hurls him into the cage wall. Rock pulls himself up by the top rope as Garvin falls back into the ring.
Rock picks Garvin up by one leg and falls backwards, sending Garvin into the cage again. Garvin lays in a heap on the mat and Rock locks in the Sharpshooter.
Solie: The Rock has the Sharpshooter on tight. I don’t see Garvin breaking this or being able to make the ropes for a break.
The Rock screams as he cranks back on the maneuver. Garvin tries to power up, but can’t. He tries to pull the Rock to the ropes, but he’s planted firm. Taking all he can stand and with no alternative, Garvin shakes his head yes to Armstrong and submits.
Stiles: The winner of the first stage of the gauntlet match, The Rock. His next opponent, Jake “the Snake” Roberts.
Solie: This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Roberts tonight. He accosted Cody Rhodes earlier for the second week in a row.
Trump: Admittedly, Gordon, I’m interested in seeing where that goes. I’m giving Roberts some leeway, but he better watch himself. As I stated earlier, I like controversy, it sells, but not at the expense of my stars’ health.
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Cut to the end of the second fall
Roberts reverses a whip into the corner and hits the Rock with a short-arm clothesline. Both men lay on the mat breathing hard. They struggle up. Roberts grabs Rock by the head and goes for the DDT. The Rock raises up and sends Roberts sailing into the cage back first. Roberts makes his feet and the Rock catches him for his snap DDT. The People’s Elbow follows and the Rock advances despite the odds.
Stiles: And the final man to enter this gauntlet match, “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig.
Hennig walks to the ring minus Bobby Heenan with his usual confident grin on his face. He spits his gum out and swats it before entering the ring.
Solie: The Rock has already faced two men in matches that by themselves could be a main event anywhere in the world.
Trump: I honestly don’t see how the Rock can last long against a fresh Curt Hennig.
Hennig enters the ring still smiling. He takes his ever present hand towel and throws it at the sweaty and breathing hard Rock. The Rock wipes his face with it, says “thanks” and throws right back into Perfect’s face. The Rock charges with Hennig temporarily blind and pummels him with lefts and rights on the mat to start.
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Cut to the finish
The Rock finds himself in the figure four again. He tries to pull Hennig to the ropes to break again, but he’s lacking the strength from earlier in the gauntlet cage match.
Solie: I think this grueling contest is finally catching up with the Rock. His stamina is legendary, but I think we’ve finally witnessed its limit.
Trump: The Rock is fading. A tremendous effort and I promise you this won’t be his last chance to win the TWA World Title for him.
Solie: Hennig was obviously watching the match in the back and knew the Rock was already weakened from the figure four Ronnie Garvin used earlier in the match.
The Rock’s eyes slowly close. He turns his arm a few times to encourage the crowd to cheer, but it falls limp at his side. Blacking out from the pain, Rock slumps to the canvas, his shoulders flat on the mat. Young counts the pinfall and Hennig wins.
Solie: The Rock has passed out, leading to the pinfall.
Trump: It should be mentioned the Rock never submitted. He never gave up. He’s a hell of a competitor and certainly tonight proved me right in making him the linchpin of TWA.
Before we go off the air, let me announce, that to open our next show, All Bets Are Off, I will officially present the TWA World Title to Curt Hennig.
Solie: All the TWA titles are on champions. Feuds are shaping up. Alliances are being solidified. Others are in question. What will All Bets Are Off give us, tune in to find out.
Card Recap
TWA Four the Hard Way
Live from Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Designated announcers: Eden Stiles and Gordon Solie
Guest commentators: Bobby Heenan and Donald Trump
Back stage interviewer: Bob Uecker
Referees: Tommy Young and Scott Armstrong
Four man gauntlet cage match for the TWA World Title: The Rock vs. “Rugged” Ronnie Garvin vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts vs. “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig
“Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff vs. “Soulman” Rocky Johnson
Tornado Tag match for the TWA Tag Team Titles: Faces of Fear (Barbarian and Haku) vs. Strike Force (Tito Santana and Rick Martel). All members of the Heenan Family and the Mexi-Can-Am Connection are banned from ringside.
Stardust vs. “Better Than Perfect” Joe Hennig
Bag of Spiders on a Pole Match for the TWA Wild Card Title: Eric Young (c) vs. R-Truth. Winner must retrieve a bag of spiders from a pole attached to the ring post and pour on his opponent.
Marc Mero and Othello vs. White Power (Col. DeBeers and Vladimir Koslov)
The Mighty Igor vs. Shawn Stasiak with Sunny
The Big Show with Bobby “The Brain” Heenan vs. “Gentleman” Jim Clovin.
