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# Uh, you guys ready? # [A train.] [In sepia tones. The train rolls on. To the gritty sounds of Metallica’s cover of “Tuesday’s Gone”, originally by Lynard Skynard. ] [Superimposed over it, the clips fly. IWA. Craig Deids, Neo-Nichiren, Tracy Richter, D.Leprechaun. BWWa. Apollo Carrington, Renier Von Wolfcastle, Leona Lawless. MSWA. Psycho Steve, Nighthawk, Johnny Storm… so many more.] # Train roll on # [And slowly, the Old Line Wrestling logo swallows it up. The train, the history.]
[Silence.]
[And then, exploding out of the quiet, Monster Magnet. With “The Right Stuff”.] [A montage of clips show TJ Killingbeck and Jeffy Andrews. Killingbeck battling in CRW, fighting Top Dollar, Mace, Loki. Fighting Kurt Richards. Moving to OLW and fighting alongside the Union with Kai Scott. And finally raising the CAL World Title over his head. Andrews, fighting as himself and masked as Ultra Raptor. Plowing through the competition in CRW. Injuring Jonny Bravo, Flare, Loki, Danny Vicious and Dawn. As Raptor, kicking the life out of Cole Christenson with the man handcuffed to the cage. Switch to Freddy Phoenix and Daemon Curtis. Phoenix in the 4 way TLC match at IWA Ascension. Curtis battling with Jack Cassidy in Chaos Wrestling, and with Adam-X in TIW. Working with Phoenix to fight the CRW threat, only to backstab him immediately after it is done.] # I don’t feel fear or panic # [Kid Xtreme and Crosslatch’s win streak, starting with the 6 tag team battle at FoCAL, continuing with their OLW Title win over Gemma Lockhart and Daeriq Damien, and their CAL World Tag Title win in the TLC match at Reindeer Games 4, ending with their loss to Asian Invasion at Coronation. Switch to NGN, their battles on their way up the ranks in OLW with SS Syndicate and VnD. Switch to Avarice and Seamus Finnegan. Defending the CAL World Tag Titles together as the Whiskey Devils. Avarice turning on Finnegan, kicking off his persona change. Finnegan, bleeding but refusing to back down, while Marissah Whitley and Rebecca Finnegan look on.] # I’m the right stuff, baby, the right stuff # [Big D, and his epic battles all over IWA and LBWF before it. Python taking it to the air in his gruesome trademark “Crystal Dreams” match. Sammy Powers, both from 20 years ago and today, demonstrating what mat wrestling is. Grimm, showing some serious talent in his OLW career so far. Top Dollar, pinning opponent after opponent on his way to win the Crusade III tournament. Footage of the Stone & Steel Syndicate and Minority Uprising, both wrestling in Japan.] # When the dial needle flickers # [Vicious and Delicious. Teaming together in the NAWA, the LBWF, and early IWA. Adam Delicious fighting in IWA, leading the Untouchables, winning the IWA Heavyweight Title. Danny Vicious in NPW, fighting Calvin Astroth for the NPW Heavyweight Title. Together, against the Untouchables. And at Coronation, when Vicious powerbombed Delicious over the ropes. The scarce footage of Jesse James from his bingo hall days, wrestling. Assorted clips of The Red Axis and all its members – Cross, Svetlana, Malyk and Yakolinov. Cross winning the CAL World Title, the IWA Heavyweight Title, the KWF Title. Yakolinov fighting in the BWWa Deathmatch Division. Svetlana’s recent battle with Garrett Davidson, and James’ attack on Southern Comfort.] # I’m the right stuff, baby, the right stuff # [This is OLW Line One.] [And it starts NOW.] SKEEEEEEEEEEEEVVEEEEE-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!! BOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!! BOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!! BARATATATATATA-BOOOOOOOM!! BBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!! [The 1st Mariner Arena is showered in red and yellow pyros as "The Right Stuff" continues to play.] Cito Conarri: HAPPY NEW YEARS WRESTLING FANS, AND WELCOME TO OLW LINE ONE! I'm your host, Cito Conarri, alongside Leslie Stanton on Color and Steven Styles on Technical! Leslie Stanton: It is great to be here in the 1st Mariner Arena, Cito! I'm Leslie Stanton, and... Steven Styles: And I ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... am "The Incomparable" Steven Styles. Conarri: As always. Fans, we have an incredible card lined up for tonight, that's going to be topped with a match to crown the inaugural OLW Heavyweight Champion! Freddy Phoenix, the IWA legend and former CAL World Champion, takes on the youngster Daemon Curtis in what will become the climax of a bitter, heated rivalry. Stanton: We've also got the CAL World Title on the line, and you know, I think that we should be allowed to have two main events. Because you can't be telling me that the TJ Killingbeck/Jeffy Andrews rematch deserves anything besides top billing. Styles: I'd tell you that, but then you'd probably try to kick me in the nuts like you always do. Conarri: Andrews won the CAL World Title as Ultra Raptor. We thought Raptor was going to be the next Timmy Fantastico, but on the same night, he was unmasked by Heidi and pinned by Killingbeck. He's bitter, angry, and wants blood, and wants his title back. Stanton: We're also going to have the Mid Atlantic title on the line tonight... and what a tangled path OLW's undercard titles have taken. Cito, want to explain? Conarri: It all started when Jeffy Andrews stole the Mid Atlantic Title from the champion, Charles Scott, saying that if Heidi could steal his belt, he could steal one of hers. Don't ask me to explain how he came to that, because I can't. At the same time, the match for the Chesapeake Title between Rick Ravage and Greg Stone, which was originally set for Line One, occurred two cards early, with Ravage winning the title and Stone retiring. Ravage himself, after winning the title, promptly retired. Styles: So what about the Chesapeake Title? Conarri: Well, Ravage had the class to hand the belt back before he left. Meanwhile, Andrews carted the Mid Atlantic Title to ringside once, and had his lackey Zeke Cassidy try to disrupt Heidi from announcing the card for Line One. Heidi won nearly instantly, and Andrews ended up running off without the MA Title. Styles: Slick. Conarri: So the Chesapeake Title is inactive currently while OLW rebuilds its roster, and the Mid Atlantic Title is on the line. And it’s going to be a match between Big D, Top Dollar, Sammy Powers, Python, Grimm, and the mystery man – who I’m at leisure to identify. It’s “Bullet” Brian Buchanan, of MSWA and PSW fame. Stanton: How’d you know that? Conarri: Because he was going to do a press conference announcing his signing, but then he no-showed it. Still, he’s gonna be here tonight. Stanton: In other matches – we’ve got the grudge match between Adam Delicious and Danny Vicious. The long running tag team found themselves at odds over the OLW/CRW war. Vicious was from CRW, and NPW before it, and sided with them. Danny’s also been having some substance abuse problems. Conarri: We’ve also got the debuting “Outlaw” Jesse James, taking on a member of the Red Axis. You know, the Red Axis was embroiled in a battle with Southern Comfort, and we were building up to a 3 on 3 confrontation between the two groups – but Jesse James wrecked Garrett Davidson’s knee, and Blackwell decided to heal up his neck. The third guy never even showed up on the card. Anyway, James usurped SoCo’s spot on the card, and he’ll be taking on a member of the Red Axis – who has yet to be identified. Stanton: The Red Axis signed a peculiar contract where any member of them can accept their booked match. So… meh. Styles: Do I get to talk? Conarri: No. We've also got a match between Minority Uprising - that's the masked brothers, Lobo Loco and Monstruo Enmascardo, who were recently joined by Billy Killjoy, taking on the Stone & Steel Syndicate. "Jersey Devil" Troy Matthews, "The Sentinel" Alex Markham, and Joshi legend Saori Kazama. They'll be facing off in a Captain's Fall Tornado Tag match, and... the rules to that are pretty complicated, so I'll wait til it's time for that match to get into it all. Our more hardcore wrestling fans may have followed the battles these two teams had all over Japan, and even though it doesn't have particularly high billing on this card, it may be the highest drawing match as far as our overseas fans in Japan are concerned. Stanton: Anything else? Conarri: Lastly, we’ve got the debuting Shawn Sparks, taking on OLW’s talent enhancement type, The Black Wonder. We’ll take you to that match in a minute, but first, we’ve got something happening out in the parking lots. [The cameras pan out to a beautiful view of the parking lot of 1st Mariner Arena. All day, OLW camera crews have been filming wrestlers and fans coming in and out of the arena. A black stretch limo has stopped in front of the 1st Mariner Arena. The limo driver walks out of the corner and walks to the back of the limo. He opens the door and out comes Impact who is wearing a custom made Armani suit. Impact has never worn the suit and has agreed to put it on just for Line One.] Conarri: Folks, we are live outside the arena righ tnow. As we see here, Impact arrived to the 1st Mariner Arena, and Styles, I don’t think he came alone. [The booing from the crowd can be heard in the background as they are watching this on the video screen. Impact walks to the trunk of the car and begins to grab the bags. As he is doing this, Big D comes out of the limo to a huge chorus of boos. He too is wearing an Armani suit with a pair of sunglasses.] Styles: And there he is! The man who has vowed to capture the OLW Mid-Atlantic Title arrived just a few hours ago! How exciting! [Some fans that are waiting to get into the arena notice that Big D and Impact have arrived. Some of the smarks begin to cheer while others begin to boo. Big D acknowledges them with a nod.] Big D: Impact…see that? People are cheering me…people are cheering greatness. It’s good to know some of these fans still know what a true wrestling legend looks like. [Impact, who is mute in case anyone doesn't know, nods in agreement and they begin to walk into the arena. Big D stops and acknowledges the crowd once again.] Big D: Yeah…I like this kind of party. Tonight my friend…is going to be a glorious night. You are looking at the next OLW Mid-Atlantic Champion….brah! The tandem make their way into the arena as a small “Big D” chant erupts amongst the fans waiting in line. Styles: Conarri…Big D has once again guaranteed a victory tonight! |
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