Main Event
Ban Bros & Dionysus vs. Gerard Angelo, Downfall, Jessie Lee
Adilene Floyd: The following 6-man Tag Match is our MAIN EVENT of the evening and is scheduled for ONE FALL (onee fall)
"The Pursuit of Vikings" by Amon Amarth hits the PA system. Everyone in attendance collectively loses their shit. Odin Balfore and Corey Black walk out on stage in matching black, red and white colored gear. Odin's a full getup of boots, pants and double strap singlet. Corey's the usual bicycle shorts and kickpads. They head for the ring and get in, taking a stance watching the entry way. Its no frills, all business.
Adilene Floyd: Introducing first, they are the AW Tag Team Champions…Corey Black and Odin Balfore…THEEE BAAAANNNNN BRRROOOOSSSS
Billy: Focused and menacing as always are the legendary AW Tag Team Champions.
Chris Avery: Never here to mess around. Put them in a spotlight Clash Main Event? And they REALLY mean business. Look at Odin! Did he get taller?
Pyro fires along the edge of the stage as "Berserker" rips through the crowd. From backstage, Dionysus confidently strode out onto the stage, confidently holding a single arm in the air. Alastor followed behind him, hands clasped in front of him.
Adilene Floyd: Making his way to the ring, accompanied by Alastor, from Minneapolis, MN, weighing in at 270 lbs; he is The Crimson Gladiator, Dionysus!
Dionysus took a moment to look around the venue as he began to walk down the ramp. He spent a few seconds slapping high fives before locking eyes with the ring. Walking over to the ring steps, he climbs up, placing a hand on the top rope. He entered in-between the top and middle ropes, all while looking at his opponent. He turned to the crowd, raising a single fist into the air, keeping it in the air as he turned toward the stage. Dionysus then moved to the turnbuckle, waiting for his opponent.
Billy: Dionysus is ALSO looking all business tonight, as he has been since the birth of Elysium.
Chris Avery: And just like the Ban Bros do, Dion is all about making a statement and this’ll be a great match to do so in. Doesn’t look like Dionysus and the Ban Bros are looking to shake hands in camaraderie.
Billy: Wouldn’t believe my eyes if they did, Chris.
ONE FINGER AND A FIST,
I'll CLAW MY WAY OUT OF ANY SITUATION!
I GOT A 1 2 PUNCH
I'll FIGHT MY WAY OUT OF ANY CONFRONTATION!
While the unmistakable sound of Drowning Pools' One Finger and a Fist pumping throughout the arena, the various lights began to swirl and move about at a frantic pace. Yet, it was the alarmingly fierce-looking woman that walked out onto the Revolution1 stage that drew the attention of the fans. Clad in black leather and a mean look in her eyes, the woman stood at the top of the ramp; hands tagging on the inside of the black studded vest she wore.
Adilene Floyd: And their opponents…FIRST…Making her way to the ring from Perth, Western Australia......the Aussie Assault....Jessie Lee!"
With the announcement of her name, the pugilist powerhouse descends down the rampway and proceeds to circle around the ring as she interacts with various fans along the way. Until she shifts her gaze to the ring, that is. With a sudden burst of speed, she slides into the ring and springs up to her feet; talking a metric ton of trash as she haphazardly throws her vest to the outside of the ring. Clearly, this Aussie was here to fight
Billy: What a BAD ASS.
Chris Avery: That’s all there is to say…the vets across the ring better watch out. Jessie Lee’s looking to punch a hole through any of the three of them, if not all of them.
There's a pregnant pause in the air before the lights in the arena shut down, one by one, with an audible CHOOM as each section goes dark. The crowd sits in unsteady, uncomfortable silence there, in the dark, for a full thirty seconds. And then, cutting through the stilled silence, quickfire staccato burst of kickdrums and shredding guitar in the intro to Slipknot's opus "Before I Forget", and the Tron's image changes to a close-up of a wolf's eye, gold against a black screen, and the animatic changes to bared, slavering lupine teeth, opening, and then biting down; A spray of red blood splatters over the screen as Corey Taylor shouts "GO!!"
"Stapled shut! Inside an outside world and I'm
Sealed in tight! Bizarre but right at home
Claustrophobic! Closing in and I'm
Catastrophic! Not again,
I'm smeared across the page and doused in gasoline,
I wear you like a stain, yet I'm the one who's obscene.
Catch me up on all your sordid little insurrections,
I've got no time to lose, I'm just caught up in all the cattle.
Fray the strings, throw the shapes,
Hold your breath, listen;"
A spotlight cuts through the darkness to a point on the stage where Downfall's kneels one knee on the stage amid a cloud of pyrotechnic smoke and fog, head bowed, tracing the fingers of his right hand across the ramp, then he slowly raises his head to look at the ring. He's wearing his slashed denim vest with a black hood underneath, pulled up over his head, and, to chilling effect, as he looks up into the bright spotlight over him, smoke rolling onto the stage, it can be seen that his face underneath the hood is hidden behind a white skeletal mask with empty eye sockets, and a long snout culminating in pointed teeth: a wolf's skull.
Adilene Floyd: Introducing next, from Chicago, Illinois…The AW Hardcore Champion…DOOOOWWWWNNNNFFAAAAAALLLLLLLL
"I! Am the world before I am a man,
I! Was a creature before I could stand,
I! Will remember before I forget...
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!!
I! Am the world before I am a man,
I! Was a creature before I could stand,
I! Will remember before I forget...
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!!"
In his left hand, he is carrying a long, curved, black iron crowbar. The arena lights brighten, and then, he begins his walk down to the ring, holding the crowbar perched over his shoulder and behind his neck. He cracks his neck to the side in an aggressive manner as he gets to the end of the ramp. Then, he goes around to the ring, pacing over to climb on the apron, and he takes just a moment to breathe it in as he rests a leg on the ropes themselves, and slowly pulls the wolf skull mask up to rest on the top of his head, before pacing to the turnbuckles and ascending, quickly, to the second rope, crossing his wrists in an X. He hops down, taking the skull mask off, shrugging out of the slashed denim vest, and laying the crowbar down in the corner, circling the ring like a shark, tensely pulling on the top rope to stretch.
Billy: Hardcore Champ is here, Chris. Look at him lookin’ across at Dionysus.
Chris Avery: Oh, I’m sure just the fact that the Tag Team Championships are out here at all is fueling the never ending fire of the team once known as Vanguard.
The arena’s lights go black, plunging the inside into darkness causing a nervous murmur to flush over the crowd. The ActionTron lights up suddenly, reflecting the night sky over water when stars start flying at the screen with the familiar orchestra music. They turn on the water and fly toward a familiar mountain with the sunrise behind it. The 21 stars form two-thirds of a circle over the mountain but instead of “Paramount”, the cursive font reads “Gerard Angelo” and the crowd fucking boos.
“I CAN’T STOP!”
The lights start to flash as “STOP” repeats over and over from different speakers in the arena as the beat starts to build and then it drops.
BOOM
An explosion of gold fireworks goes off.
“I CAN’T STOP!”
The house lights come back on as the hook of “Who Gon Stop Me” rings out through the jam-packed arena as the crowd continues to boo. The lights come back on as Kanye West’s voice serenades the people as they give loud boos as Gerard Angelo is shown standing on stage, back to the crowd, the hood of his hoodie pulled up, right arm raised above his head at an angle, one finger extended. He throws his hood back with the same hand and spins around to the crowd, arms extended like he’s absorbing another wave of booing, a cocky smirk etched across his face as he surveys the crowd behind his trademark sunglasses. He makes his way down to the ring slowly, brushing off fans and taunting them.
Adilene Floyd: From Hollywood, California, weighing in at 225 lbs, he is the Living Legend, GERRRRRARD ANGELOOOOOOOOO!
He stops at the ring stairs, slaps the top step before climbing them and walks to the center of the ring apron. Angelo surveys the arena crowd again to another round of boos, and poses, pyro exploding from the four ring posts. Gerard slips through the middle and top rope into the ring. He walks to the opposite ring post, leaping onto the second turnbuckle. Gerry points to the crowd before unzipping his hoodie, which gets more than a few ladies in the audience to scream out, before pulling it off and pretending to toss it to the fans, before just dropping it on the floor with a smirk. "The Hollywood Hero" hops down and removes his sunglasses, placing them in the corner neatly before he leans back against the turnbuckles, mouthing off to the fans as he starts to stretch.
Billy: EXPLOSIVE personalities in this Six Man Tag Match, WHAT a main event. Sometimes, ya know, ya just gotta put a bunch of stars in a match and let them slug it out.
Chris Avery: How very Promotion Wars of them.
Billy: And let’s see who…OH! NO TIME WASTED, LOOK AT ANGELO!
Gerard Angelo charges across the ring, catching Dionysus in the corner with slugging fists, not even letting his team determine together who would be legal first. Angelo slugs away, Dion tucking his arms in to block some blows before firing a massive headbutt forward, sending Angelo to the middle of the ring. Dion approaches but Angelo EXPLODES forward again with a stiff lariat! He keeps moving forward and sends a fist right into the chin of BOTH of the Ban Bros!
Billy: ohhh boy, Angelo may be a little TOO fired up here tonight.
Chris Avery: Angelo is always fired up, Billy, he’s always ready for the scene.
Angelo turns back towards Dion and shoves him into his team’s corner, Jessie Lee immediately reaching over and slapping him on the arm for the tag. Angelo holds his arms out, but gets an uppercut from Dion in response. He stumbles and turns around RIGHT INTO A BIG BOOT FROM ODIN who has hopped into the ring. Jessie Lee, now legal, gets in and ducks a swinging fist from Odin. She hits a few sharp kicks to the left leg of the big man. The ref is yelling for Odin to get out of the ring, but Jessie’s attacking the tree trunk instead. Odin grabs her by the head and CHUCKS her across the ring. Right after, he’s flattened by ANGELO who hits a running front dropkick like a wrecking ball. The ref is now yelling for Angelo to get out the ring as well!
Billy: Do our refs get paid extra for ref-ing 6-man tags?
Chris Avery: No, I think most of our crew has learned to, uh, pick their battles.
Downfall now gets in the ring while the action spills immediately and he goes after Dion, but Dion is ready for it, catching his longtime foe with a Belly to Belly Suplex, sending him across the ring and to the outside. He follows to trade fists. Jessie and Angelo are both getting strikes in on Odin, but from the opposite corner comes a FLYING Corey Black, who spears the SHIT out of Gerard Angelo!!! Angelo rolls away until he finds the outside floor, which just happens to be near Dionysus and Downfall trading blows. Corey Black sizes up the group before the legend leans into the ropes and runs across the ring, jumping up and over the TOP ROPE WITH A FLIPPING PLANCHA, CRASH LANDING ONTO DIONYSUS, DOWNFALL AND GERARD ANGELO.
Chris Avery: Christ, these guys are all over the place. WHAT a leap by Corey Black!!
Billy: The ref doesn’t know whether to start a countout for illegal competitors in the ring or for legal competitors outside the ring!
In the ring, Jessie Lee is showing how vicious those Aussie fists can be, holding the much larger Odin in a doubled over position while connecting shots to the side of his head, transitioning to lifted knees to the ribs as well. Odin slowly starts to stand through the impact, sending a back elbow into Jessie’s lip that has her stumble back. But not for long as the Aussie has zero fear, coming right back into the face of Odin. Odin’s ready for it however and lifts her up to his shoulder in a powerslam position. He takes a few steps across the ring before letting her slip off of his shoulder…AND RIGHT INTO A HIP TOSS THROW CLEAR OVER THE TOP ROPE, AND JESSIE LEE LANDS ON ALL 4 OTHER COMPETITORS OUTSIDE THE RING WHO HAD JUST GOTTEN TO THEIR FEET!
Billy: THE POWER OF ODIN!
Chris Avery: Threw Jessie Lee like she had the word NERF along her side.
Odin does his due diligence and gets out of the ring and stands on the apron for his team, looking down and surveying his own damage with a grin. The ref looks around to all the competitors and bodies start to stir. Corey Black gets up and now the Ban Bros stand together again in the corner. Dionysus rolls in, legal, while his own team starts to reassemble in the corner. Finally, Jessie Lee gets up and back in the ring as well, Dionysus QUICK to pounce, standing her up and hitting ON YOUR SHIELD backbreaker, looking up viciously at Downfall after doing so from a knee. He gets up but, not for long as he leaps and drops a classic elbow drop on Jessie as well, covering with the hook of a leg…
1…
Jessie kicks out.
Billy: The LOOK over to Downfall…
Chris Avery: The crowd will chant Fight Forever at some point any time these two get their hands on each other. But Dion is showing Jessie Lee who she’s messing with…
Dion slowly helps Jessie Lee up to her feet but by the time she’s there, she surprises him with some quick SHARK strikes. Dion swings back, but Jessie ducks and grabs him from behind, connecting with a GERMAN SUPLEX on him! She gets fired up as Dion rolls over towards his corner and Corey Black tags in. Jessie looks over her shoulder at the tag and smirks a devil’s smirk as she walks over and tags in DOWNFALL.
Billy: OHHH BOYYYY
Chris Avery: Corey Black. Downfall. Remember that movie THERE WILL BE BLOOD?Both get in the ring and stare each other DOWN as they approach the middle of the ring. Some words are exchanged before RIGHTS AND LEFTS START FIRING, Corey Black and Downfall throwin’ fists of FIRE. The crowd is RED HOT as Corey Black starts to get the advantage, getting Downfall’s back to the ropes. Black goes to whip Downfall, but Downfall reverses, sending Black across and rebounding back, but Black launches forward and shoulder blocks THROUGH Downfall, sending him hard to the mat. Black pumps fists out to the crowd as Deathproof is feeling it. Downfall gets back up but Black grabs him and lifts him up into a fireman’s carry. Downfall slips out the back and goes for a Back Suplex, but Black’s not havin’ it, locking his legs low and hitting some elbows back into Downfall’s head.
Billy: Look at these two go!Black turns around and CONNECTS with a gnarly left hook, but Downfall feeds off of it and swings a BACK HAMMER FIST right into Black’s nose! Both men stumble back a bit from the impacts, and Downfall gets tagged out by Gerard Angelo behind him. Angelo sneaks in the ring and as Black looks up with focus still on Downfall, Angelo slips in and grabs him from behind and lifts him up and over with the EXCALIBUR PRIME!! He scurries to grab a sneaky pin too, but the veteran Black does a full roll over and Odin reaches in for the tag, swinging the legs over the top rope and staring Angelo down.
Billy: Great move by Gerard Angelo, tried to win the ninja battle, but now…he’s face to face with Odin.Angelo hits the ropes and leaps at Odin with what looks like a cross body attempt but Odin adjusts his body immediately, catching Angelo and slamming him down with the old Bossman Slam, shaking the ring from the impact. Odin gets back up to his feet grabs Angelo’s arm, yanking him back up to his feet and lifting him right up into a choke!
Billy: Oh my, looking for RAGNAROK?!Odin goes to lift Angelo, but he slips out of the grip quickly and lifts a knee right into Odin’s gut, pulling the big man down with a tugging DDT. Angelo gets up as quickly as he can, hand on his back in pain, throwing a few stomps into Odin as he slowly gets back up to his feet. Angelo reaches a hand over and Downfall tags in. Angelo goes to whip Odin across the ring, but the big man stops and simply pulls him in for a short arm Lariat. Downfall hits a Spinning Wheel Kick that catches Odin flush in the face, sending the big man down. Downfall hits a few right hands before charging back across the ring, coming RIGHT back at Odin and LAUNCHING HIS BOOTS FORWARD with the Lock, Step and GONE shotgun dropkick! And instead of shooting Odin into the corner, it actually sends the big man crumpled through the ropes and CRASHING to the outside mat from the impact!
Billy: DOWNFALL sends Odin like AIR MAIL with the force of that dropkick!Chris Avery: Yeah, It’s not often that…WAIT. DOWNFALL, BEHIND YOU!DIONYSUS has snuck in the ring behind Downfall and grabs him quickly from behind, whipping him around with a ripcord and BOOM!!!! ELBOW TO THE FACE with the IDES OF MARCH! Downfall falls flat to the mat from the killer blow, as Dion slowly looks up towards the crowd with a devilish smirk on his face. But as he does that, he GETS BLINDSIDED BY A CHARGING JESSIE LEE, WHO CONNECTS WITH A SUPER(wo)MAN PUNCH!!!
Billy: HOLY HELL, two massive blows back to back, Dion gets a receipt from Jessie Lee!Odin Balfore is back in the ring now and looks down at Downfall who is OUT from the Dion surprise. He drops to his knees with a taunt before going to put his body over for a cover…but as his large frame gets in position, GERARD ANGELO, who has been watching from low in the far corner comes in and SLAMS Odin’s head into the mat with THE HOLLYWOOD ENDING!
Billy: WHAT?!
Chris Avery: HOLLYWOOD ENDING! The master waited for his cue!Odin and Downfall are now flat on the mat together, both the legal men, as Angelo spins around with a taunt to the booing crowd. He bends over towards Downfall, who is on his team and goes to reach for a limb to drag him to the corner with…BUT GETS V-TRIGGER KNEED STRAIGHT TO HELL BY COREY BLACK OUT OF NOWHERE!
Billy: SHITFIRE! COREY BLACK just sent Gerard Angelo’s head into the 12th row!!Black checks on Odin quickly to see that the big man is starting to turn over. As is Downfall beside him. Black gets out of the ring as the ref is yelling warnings again in multiple directions, mostly to unconscious bodies. Corey Black in one corner, Jessie Lee healthy in the other corner, are hollering for legal tags, as both Odin and Downfall get to hands and knees. Gerard Angelo lays lifeless at the ring apron as Dionysus is recovering but on his feet on the outside from the lethal right from Jessie Lee.
Billy: Who's gonna make a tag here, Chris?! All of a sudden all six start brawling in the ring!
Billy: OH HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE!!Lee starts choking Dion!!
Downfall is up and RAMMED THROUGH THE BARRICADE BY ODIN BALFORE!!
Chris Avery: JESUS CHRIST!Gerald crossbodies Corey Black off the apron and the two fall onto the railing and spill over!!
Billy: GOOD GOD!Chris Avery: All hell is breaking lose here, Billy! Lee is choking Dion, Downfall has been running powerbombed through the ring barricade by Odin, Gerard Angelo and Corey Black have spilled into the crowd.
Billy: And here comes Elsyium!Ebb and Flow rush Odin at ring side and Leno goes straight for Lee, ripping her away from Dion.
DING DING DING DING
DING DING DING DING DING DING
DING DING DING
DING DING DING
Chris Avery: It is Action and pandemonium everywhere!Odin begins to gain the upper hand when he throws Ebb and then lifts Flow up in a two hand choke. Ebb returns with a stiff chair shot to Odin's back causing him to drop Flow. The two nod at each other and Ebb holds the chair up to Odin and Flow delivers a stiff drop kick against the chair and causing it to reverberate off Odin's thick skull.
Billy: Shit Fire what a vicious maneuver from Ebb and Flow on Odin Balfore!In the ring, Dion and Leno have Lee cornered, but "The Time Is Now" by Atreyu plays and out onto the stage comes TFK with a microphone in hand, causing all eyes to fall upon him. He nods for a second, before speaking.
TFK: Cut!!!! This is all wrong! This isn't how this is supposed to go!Thad points to Ebb and Flow.
TFK: We have the French Fry kids taking out Oldin Balfore? Seriously! Mayor McCheese is rolling in his grave right now! You little bastards give me the Grimace Shakes, I swear to God you do!Thad waves them off and points to Leno.
TFK: Don't even get me started on Jay Leno's 3rd cousin twice removed, with his ridiculous rainbow bright hair cut where he's got one more visit to New York's Cubbyhole on his punch card to get himself a free meatball sandwich!Leno begins to look fuming mad and Dion motions to him to calm down.
TFK: Then there's the Giant Ginger Cult leader trying to give everyone a better life to live! Ha, I've seen Kevin Bishop poking around here, what? Was his pocket pool playing Brotherhood having ass too busy to show you how it's really done?Dion stands statue esque not giving TFK an inch.
TFK: Don't worry, Ion…Billy: It’s Dion.Thad smirks.
TFK: So sorry, figured you'd go by Ion now since you gave your D away a long time ago!Lee begins to find her feeling and Thad nods to her.
TFK: You boys and ALL of Action Wrestling are going to learn real, real soon that WE are Tailor Made differently…"Chris Avery: That's Doc Holiday!!!Doc and Lee both have chairs and they take Dion and Leno out, sending them scrambling out of the ring, where Ebb and Flow catch up to them.
TFK: Simply put… We're Tailor Made For Greatness!
Billy: We just saw a fellow Hall of Famer return to Action Wrestling, Chris. What's next?
Just then The Sitcom jumps the barricade and hits the ring but Lee and Holiday get out of the ring and join TFK on the ramp!
The Sitcom slides out of the ring as TFK gets Lee and Holiday to the back..
TFK: WE DONT FIGHT FOR FREE, BUD! PUT THE BELT ON THE LINE!Just then Alexander Pasternak's music hits!
Billy: JESUS CHRIST THIS IS OVERBOOKED!Pasternak comes out to the stage...
Alexander Pasternak: Easy, easy.. everyone listen up! At Uprising, I got a few requests, had some demands, and had some beggars.. so I'll just make it official! The All-In ladder match at Uprising will feature the following!!..
Gerard Angelo!
Corey Black!
Odin Balfore!
Downfall!
Jonny Cedrone!
The Sitcom!
Jessie Lee!
Doc Holiday!
Dionysus!
.. and current Cruiserweight Champion SERENITY HOLMES!The crowd pops!
Billy: WOOOOWWWChris Avery: ALL NINE OF THOSE SUPERSTARS IN THE RING AT THE SAME TIME FOR A CHANCE AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP?!Pasternak drops the microphone as we see TFK smiling with Holiday and Lee. We see Sitcom wanting blood on the ramp. We see Angelo and Corey Black smiling at each other ready to brawl.. we see Downfall staring down everyone.. we see Dion getting Leno, Ebb and Flow coached up in the corner.. we see Odin reading his hands and nodding his head..
Billy: WE'RE OUT OF TIME!!
Chris Avery: THIS WAS AN INSANE NIGHT ON CLASH!