We fade in to a tag team match between Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson vs Ricky Steamboat and Magnum TA. Arn shoots Steamboat off the ropes and tries for a Spinebuster but Ricky reverses it into a DDT. Arn rolls to his corner and makes the tag as Ricky slowly crawls towards his corner while the crowd encourages him. Tully tries to cut him off but Ricky reaches up to make the tag to Magnum. The crowd roars as Tully quickly raises his hands and backs up slowly. Magnum points at his long time rival and then helps his partner to his feet....and levels him with a right hand??!! The crowd is stunned silent at first then starts booing loudly as Magnum, Arn and Tully start stomping the hell out of Ricky Steamboat.
The match is thrown out but the trio doesn't care, continuing to beat on Steamboat as Tommasso Ciampa and Tessa Blanchard come out and join in the beating. Steamboat tries to roll out of the ring but Magnum follows and gorilla presses him throat first onto the guard rail. Arn and Tully then nail Steamboat with a SPIKE PILEDRIVER on the concrete! Arn Tully and Magnum slide back into the ring and celebrate with Tessa and Tommasso. SGWA medical personnel start taking Steamboat to the back on a stretcher as Tully grabs a microphone.
Tully: For those of you expecting to see this (holding up 4 fingers)... forget about it. We're more advanced than that, we don't need some egomaniac holding us down. No leader, no public face, everyone with an equal shot and an equal say. Ladies and Gentlemen this is The Apocalypse. 4 of the greatest wrestlers in the history of this industry coming together to cause chaos. And our business manager, my lovely daughter Tessa (Smirks) She negotiated in our contracts that we get to throw out open challenges for any championships we want at the first show.
Magnum: For those of you asking why I did what I did, I'll tell you. I listened to you fans, I tried to do everything for you fans and what did it get me? NOTHING. Now I admit I was skeptical when Tully originally approached me. But after I listened to him I realized he was right: I don't now nor have I ever needed you fans. And I'll prove that when I become SGWA World Heavyweight Champion.
Arn: Steamboat, it wasn't anything personal. You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tully and myself are the greatest tag team in this sport. We can't be defeated and we'll prove that when we challenge for those SGWA World Tag Team Titles.
Tommasso Ciampa: I look forward to learning from these veterans and becoming SGWA United States Champion.
Tessa Blanchard: Consider this a message not just to the SGWA but to the entire Pun's House Wrestling Alliance. The Apocalypse is here and we cannot be stopped.
The five pose arm in arm as the crowd starts throwing trash into the ring and we FADE.
We cut to Ricky Steamboat sitting in his living room.
RS: Magnum TA, I knew you as an honorable man. A man who would always do what was right. And now you have disgraced yourself, you've disgraced the fans and you've disgraced this entire sport by your choice of associates. But I will make you pay for that disgrace, I am accepting your open challenge for the SGWA World Heavyweight Championship.
We fade in and see James E Cornette and the Midnight Express in front of an SGWA interview banner.
Cornette: Let me start by saying I don't give a damn what Magnum TA did. If he thought that was best for him then more power to him. But what did interest me was Arn Anderson's diatribe about being the best tag team in this industry and being unbeatable. Well Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, you know damn well you aren't unbeatable. Because the one team you've never been able to defeat is the Midnight Express. The one and only time you faced Stan and Bobby they not only defeated you... they embarrassed you to the point where you turned tail and left the company. So hell yes we accept your open challenge for tomorrow night.
After the Midnight Express leave the interview area, the crowd goes wild as The American Dream Dusty Rhodes comes out.
Dusty: Lemme start by saying I'm shocked and disappointed by the actions of my friend Magnum TA. I've tried to reach out and call him but he's refused to talk to me. I would almost like to accept his challenge for the World's Heavyweight Championship but I will not interfere with Ricky Steamboat's revenge. So that leaves me with the challenge from a young man named Tommasso Ciampa. Now I've seen you wrestle kid and there's no doubt you have a ton of talent. But I have been United States Champion before, I know what it takes to get to that level. So if you have the guts, I accept the open challenge.
This brings out a smirking Tommasso Ciampa. He shakes his head as he grabs a microphone.
Ciampa: This is a joke right? I came to this company to face the best of the best and my first match is against an over the hill, out of shape has been? Do yourself a favor old man, realize who you're talking to and back off before you get seriously hurt.
Dusty: This fat, out of shape broken down old man still has enough in the tank to whip your ass.
The two get nose to nose and look like they're about to come to blows before security comes out to separate them.