Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The HPW opening finishes up and we are welcomed to the show by Chad Fairfax and Doug Solomon. The camera moves around the arena showing the excited crowd and a shot of a specially designed set for the trifle threat match. The two hype tonight’s huge matches including Trent Malik getting his chance for revenge, the in ring return of Illy Mustafa, and a steel cage match featuring the world champion.
Before the two can finish hyping tonight’s card they are interrupted by a large group of men dressed in suits invading the ringside area. Suddenly The Don appears from the curtains to a chorus of boos indicating that we are about to witness the first ever Trifle Threat Match in HPW history.
|Matt Gregor vs. The Don vs. Nacido Libre Luchador|
The Don makes his return to the HPW ring and orders his men to the back, telling them that he can do this on his own. The music of Nacido hits next as the masked luchador hesitantly walks past The Don’s “family”. The masked man gets a mixed reception from the controversial Philadelphia crowd with the majority of them booing him but a small amount that seem to respect the skill he possesses. Finally the music of Matt Gregor plays as one half of the demonic duo makes his entrance as the final competitor.
The match starts off hot and heavy right away as The Don and Gregor apparently form some sort of alliance and go to work on Nacido. The two pound away on Nacido and irish whip him into the ropes, before they get a chance to capitalize Nacido springboards off the ropes and takes them both out with a beautiful moonsault gaining him some more popularity with the crowd. Nacido scoops Gregor up and slams him to the canvas with a big bodyslam. The Don charges at Nacido but he is able to get out of the way and hit a drop toe hold causing The Don to headbutt Gregor’s nut-sack region.
Nacido stays in control for a short while longer until he makes the mistake of going for a dive on to the outside of the floor on to both men. The Don was unable to escape his asai moonsault but Gregor showed the nurturing from McWilliam by diving under the ring to escape. Gregor quickly crawls out and jumps Nacido from behind. He grabs Nacido by the mask and sends him crashing into the guardrail with such force that Nacido goes flying into the first row. Once satisfied that he has taken out Nacido, Gregor turns his attention to The Don and throws him back into the ring.
Gregor gets caught with a hard punch to the jaw from mob boss that catches him by surprise. The Don bounces Gregor off the ropes and catches him with a big side slam. He covers him but only gets a two count as Gregor rolls his shoulder up. The Don continues the aggression for several minutes until Nacido recovers and is able to send him out of the ring with a big headscissors. Unfortunately as he turns around he gets caught by Matt Gregor with the Afterlife. Gregor covers him and gets the three count meaning that Nacido is the man that will have the trifle being poured over him. The fans voice their displeasure at Gregor when suddenly the lights in the arena go out.
Sounds of something being slammed on to the canvas can be heard when the lights suddenly flick back on to reveal Trent Malik standing over the body of Matt Gregor. Malik has a big smile on his face as he forces Gregor up to his feet and delivers a big hip toss over the top rope to send him to the floor. Malik follows him out and drags Gregor towards the specially designed set. Malik throws Gregor over a small fence so he is in position and then walks over to a large lever. Malik grins to himself and then pulls the lever. A massive amount of desert falls on to a helpless Matt Gregor to huge cheers from the crowd as they chant “Malik”.
Malik forces a member of staff to get him a microphone and then laughs at Gregor for further humiliation. Malik warns Andrew McWilliam that this maybe funny but in two weeks what he will do to him will not be funny at all. Malik says that Cinderella’s time at the ball is coming to an end, and when the clock strikes midnight at HPW 5 both Matt Gregor and Andrew McWilliam will be nothing more than bad memories.
Winner: Matt Gregor by pinfall, 8:13.
--Commercial Break—
|Trent Malik vs. Agramon|
Doug Solomon announces Trent Malik to the ring, followed by the intimidating Agramon who is accompanied to the ring by Miss Athena Star. Fairfax notes that he’s not sure if she’s accompanying him or she’s taking him on a day trip from the home. Solomon returns to his seat and adds that they’re “both as mad as each other - if anything they’ve both escaped from the home.”
The action gets underway and immediately Agramon goes into attack mode, charging forwards with his teeth exposed and his arms raised. Malik is fast enough to move out of the way, but Agramon doesn’t stop - he turns around and chases him towards the other side of the ring. Malik decides he should go on the offensive and shoots a low dropkick to the monster’s knee. Agramon lifts his leg in pain, but it seems to have just made him angrier. He reaches down and picks up Malik, who had fallen to the floor in front of the beast, and drags him to the center of the ring by his hair. He lifts him high above his head, but Malik throws some knees and kicks to Agramon’s head, forcing him to drop Malik to the floor, in effect completing the planned move. Agramon holds his head while Malik clutches his sternum which was just crushed against the ring mat.
Both men recover and stand across the ring from each other. Agramon comes charging forwards, and again Malik delivers a low drop kick, but this time he quickly scrambles out of reach of Agramon’s clutches. He gets up behind Agramon and throws some kicks to the back of the knee, sending the big man down. Now the playing fields are leveled, Malik stays in control for much of the match. Agramon tries fighting back a few times but it has no more affect than King Kong swiping at planes on top of the Empire State Building. The commentators start to speculate how Malik will wrap up the match, and if he could hit the Midnight Malice on the big guy. He answers those questions at the end of the match when he stands in the corner and baits the beaten dragon to charge at him. Agramon does, albeit with a limp, and Malik jumps up onto the 2nd rope at the last second. Agramon goes flying into the turnbuckle, and Malik reaches down and grabs his arms up behind his back. With his legs either side of Agramon’s head, he jumps outwards and around from the turnbuckle, driving Agramon’s big meathead into the mat. He rolls him over and gets the 1-2-3.
Winner: Trent Malik by pinfall, 13:42.
Chad Fairfax notes that Keeley is standing by with some breaking news, and we cut backstage where the delectable interviewer is by herself with a microphone. She reveals to her broadcast colleagues that earlier today, while working her second job as the chairman's secretary, she was informed by Jimmy Duxen that he has finally accepted the challenge of Harrison Hughes to a match at HPW 5.
The announcers are shocked by the World Champion's sudden turnaround, asking Keeley what made their boss change his mind. She says she doesn't know, but Hughes did call the office again and she put him through to the chairman this time, just like Mr Duxen had asked. She didn't hear the conversation between them, but whatever was said, it caused the owner to make the match in two weeks, and he's been in a bad mood ever since.
Doug Solomon asks if HPW will be on the line in this match at HPW 5, and Keeley confirms that all the previously proposed stipulations of this 2-out-of-3 falls match have been agreed upon, with different consequences resulting from how many falls each man scores. She explained them on air last week, but will publish them on HPW.com now that the match is officially on.
Doug suggests letting the website experts take care of that, and Chad thanks Keeley for sharing this exciting, potentially monumental development. The announcers discuss the ramifications of Jimmy Duxen and the former chairman Harrison Hughes doing battle in the ring, before reminding us that Illy Mustafa will return to action after this commercial break.
--Commercial Break—
|Michael Bloodman vs. Illy Mustafa|
The music of Michael Bloodman hits and “The Legend” makes his way out to the hostile environment of the Philadelphia crowd. Bloodman looks unintimidated by the aggressive nature of the crowd and instead taunts them further. Solomon notes that he doesn’t look nervous at all about this being Illy Mustafa’s big in ring return. Bloodman enters the ring and does his usual pre-match poses to rile the crowd up further.
The music of Bloodman stops playing as the crowd waits anxiously for Illy Mustafa. Chants of “Illy” are heard even before his music plays to which responds to by telling them to shut up. Illy’s new music hits as Solomon makes his introduction to a loud cheer from the crowd, but after about a minute it becomes clear that Illy is not making his entrance. His music stops playing and they try it again but once again Illy is nowhere to be found. Suddenly a video on the titontron begins to play showing Illy out cold backstage with Otis Jones over him screaming for people to get help. The crowd boos heavily as Bloodman begins to laugh and demand that the referee raise his hand in victory.
Suddenly a hooded man jumps over the guardrail with a baseball bat and slides into the ring. As Bloodman turns around the man swings the bat into the midsection of Bloodman causing him to hurl over, and then he follows it up with several hard shots to the back. The hooded man rips off his hood to reveal his identity.
“YEAAAAAAAAAH!”
“That’s Illy! Illy is here!”
Solomon is disgusted by Illy’s trick and notes that he is working on the back that Duxen hurt last week to eliminate Bloodman’s power. Illy continues to smash away with the baseball bat on to Bloodman’s spine and then he switches it up and begins to work the knees as well to a loud ovation. The referee steps between the two and takes the bat away from Mustafa apparently showing some sympathy towards Bloodman. Illy grabs the referee by the collar and reminds him that it is no disqualification and asks “so what the hell are you doing?” Illy turns his attention back to Bloodman and hits a big running kick to the head as Bloodman is trying to make his way back to his feet. Unfortunately the kick causes Bloodman to stand immediately up with a look of rage. Illy looks concerned but charges at Bloodman anyway and gets caught with a huge spinebuster that sends shockwaves throughout the arena.
Solomon begins to laugh and predicts that this is the end of Illy Mustafa. Whilst Illy is down Bloodman grabs the baseball bat and breaks it over his knee showing what kind of power he has. He throws Illy back up to his feet and into the corner and begins to fire away with punches. He irish whips Illy hard across the ring causing him to fling forward and clutch his back on impact with the opposite corner. Bloodman still shows the effects of his injured back and hurting knees but he grabs Illy and tries to set him up for the Bloodman Effect. Illy quickly gets out of that position and hits a big kick to the balls of Bloodman to a loud cheer.
Illy slides out of the ring and throws a member of staff out of his seat so he can grab his steel chair. Illy slides back in and cracks Bloodman in the skull with it causing him to fall over to the mat. Illy continues the assault by smashing Bloodman in the back, arm, leg, anything and everything that he can with the steel chair. Once satisfied Illy drops down and wraps his leg around Bloodman’s neck and arm, trapping him in the triangle choke. Illy begins to squeeze the hold as chants of “Illy” overwhelm the arena. Bloodman however refuses to be beaten and some how begins to power his way up to his feet. Bloodman tries to counter the triangle choke into the Bloodman Effect but that’s when Illy begins to fire away with spike-like elbows to the head. Illy drives the point of his elbow into the temple of Bloodman and then the top of his forehead over and over again until Bloodman drops back down to the mat and a cut is opened. The referee checks on the well being of Bloodman and then calls for the bell as the crowd erupts.
“Here is your winner by TKO; Illy Mustafaaaaa!”
Illy refuses to release the hold and continues to fire away with elbows until the referee has to use force and rip him off.
Winner: Illy Mustafa by TKO, 12:21.
As Illy is being restrained by George Redwood and prevented from doing any more damage to Bloodman, the giant screen above the entranceway flickers away from the live scenes of the ring and cheering crowd. It’s replaced by Kenny Dior’s smirking face. Illy’s music is cut and Dior lifts his hands into shot and starts a slow clap. He offers congratulations to Illy Mustafa. He says that everyone is celebrating, happy to have their hero back in HPW.
“But no one seems to realise what that actually means. No one has put two and two together and worked out exactly why you’re back here. I’ve read about contract issues and a new contract and whatever, but why have YOU come back. Why would you leave glorious Hollywood and come back to our “cheap” form of entertainment, back to us peasants, huh? I’ll tell you why, it’s because your big Hollywood dream FAILED. YOU FAILED MUSTAFA. And now you’ve come back to HPW, to these fans that cheer you, to rebuild your ego. It’s so obvious that I’m surprised even HPW fans don’t realise it. What was it huh? They not want their big action hero to be barely able to move his neck without fifty different pills? Did you make too many demands? Make a move on Miley? Well whatever the reason you’ve run back here with your tail between your legs, you should know this. You are going to regret it. I will make sure of that.”
The crowd boo loudly as Illy shakes his head towards the screen. Solomon says “finally someone sees it too!” as we go to commercial break.
|Jimmy Duxen vs. Julian Bosley|
Back from commercial break, the ominous steel cage structure is slowly being lowered from the ceiling of the packed arena. At ringside Fairfax and Solomon hype the upcoming cage match, XCon vs. Ex-cop. Solomon stands up and announces Julian Bosley to the ring. As Bosley reaches the cage he walks around feeling the steel that could soon permanently disfigure his body. He steps inside the cage and looks nervous but also determined as he runs against the ropes a few times, his shoulder brushing against the steel as he does so. Fairfax points out that claustrophobia could also play a part in cage matches, the feeling of being trapped inside that cage. He also notes that being locked up inside a steel structure probably isn’t something that Bosley wanted to return to.
Solomon calls the HPW World Heavyweight Champion down to the ring, and Jimmy Duxen strolls out confidently. Solomon says that he likes what we’re seeing here - “it’s how it should be. Our gracious, courageous, law-upholding champion looking in on another caged animal of society.” Duxen steps up into the ring and the door is slammed shut behind him. Duxen turns around and looks at the chain being wrapped around the door, and Fairfax says that this environment is not familiar to Duxen. Fairfax also notes that the rules of the match are slightly different to cage matches HPW fans might be familiar with - the only way to win is by escape over the top of the cage, not through pin fall or submission or walking out the door.
The bell rings and the two circle each other, glancing towards the cage that surrounds them every few steps. Bosley steps forwards and looks to lock up with Duxen, but Duxen feints the move and instead slaps Bosley in the face. While he’s busy smirking, Bosley pulls back his right arm and throws it forwards across Duxen’s jaw, knocking him down. The crowd roars as Duxen looks to be out. Bosley doesn’t know what to do, whether to climb the cage and win the match or stay and beat on Duxen some more.
“CLIMB THE CAGE! CLIMB THE CAGE! CLIMB THE CAGE!”
Bosley listens to the fans and starts climbing, just as Duxen starts to come to. Bosley is half way up before Duxen seems to realise where he is, looking around at the cage. He sees Bosley almost to the top and quickly jumps up to his feet and stumbles towards the cage wall that Bosley is clinging to. He starts shaking it, too weak and dazed to climb up himself. Bosley’s feet come loose from the cage and he starts swinging against the wall holding on just by his hands. Duxen grabs Bosley’s feet, and suddenly jerks them backwards. Bosley manages to hold on, but Duxen pulls again, and again, until finally Bosley’s hands slip and he comes crashing down to the mat face-first. This gives Duxen some time to clear his head, and he slaps himself a few times to wake up.
Bosley apparently landed on his hand or wrist when he fell from the cage, as he clutches it tight to his chest as Duxen fires down a few kicks to his fallen opponent. Fairfax questions if Bosley will be able to climb the cage with a hurt arm. Duxen spots the injured arm himself, and immediately starts working on it. He throws it against the cage, wraps it around the ring ropes, stomps it, pulls it, kicks it against the steel... “If it wasn’t already injured, it definitely is now.”
Fairfax’s question about Bosley’s ability to climb the cage is later answered when he manages to hit a sudden F5 from no where and gets control of the match. With one arm he throws Duxen repeatedly into the cage while Solomon shouts about the brutality of Bosley’s character and says this proves that he’s not “reformed”. But when Bosley tries to climb up the cage, he’s one arm down. He tries to climb with just one hand, but Duxen recovers before he reaches the top and once again tries to pull Bosley down. Bosley has learnt from earlier in the match though, and lets go at the same time that Duxen pulls, landing on his feet with a slight stumble.
Once again the two stand opposite each other in the ring, and Duxen seems to get a brain wave. He looks down at Bosley’s hand, then up at the cage. Duxen suddenly runs to the cell wall nearest him and starts climbing, but Bosley runs over just as quickly and pulls him down, a leg either side of the ring ropes. While Duxen squeals in pain, Bosley runs to the opposite side of the cage and starts climbing slowly with one hand. Duxen struggles to recover, but starts climbing his own side gingerly. Bosley reaches the top of the cage, his upper body leaning over the steel while he gets his breath and tends to his injured hand. Duxen keeps climbing uninterrupted though, no injuries holding him back, and joins Bosley at the top of the cage on the opposite side. The two look at each other, and suddenly scramble to climb over and out. Bosley almost falls with only one hand to support himself, and finds it hard to climb down with one hand. Duxen however climbs over with relative ease, and half falls, half climbs down to the floor where he is announced as the winner. Bosley, just a step behind, drops to the floor and, realising he’s lost, punches the cage and the announce table behind him before roaring in frustration. Duxen demands his belt be brought to him and, the gold over his shoulder, walks up the ramp looking down at Bosley through the cage walls. The smirk returns to his face as the HPW copyright information appears on screen and the action fades to black.
Winner: Jimmy Duxen by cage escape, 22:54.
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