Toshi: The fans have chosen for the Challenger to choose!  I have here with me an envelope with Scott's choice of match, let's see what it will be!

Toshi rips open the envelope, looks at the slip and hands it to Adams.

Adams: Tonight's opening match, is a C4 Barbed Wire Rope Time Bomb Texas Death Match!!!!

The crowd roars it's approval and Adams holds up a hand.

Adams: Because this means it will take a few to set up the ring, I'm told we're going backstage for something occuring this very moment!

We cut to Commissioner Joe BoXeR, sitting at his desk in the American Airlines Arena. He's dressed in a fine suit tonight, as usual. There's a knock at the door.

Joe BoXeR: "Come in."

The door swings open and Matthew "Virus" Engel, Joe's younger brother, steps into the office. He's got some of his ring attire on, but he's missed the jacket and dress shirt, which leaves just pants, shoes, and a wife-beater shirt.

Matthew Engel: "You wanted to see me?"

Joe BoXeR: "Yeah, man. Have a seat."

Matt takes a seat in front of the desk. Joe is finishing up some paperwork. He signs a few things, organizes it into his folder, and tucks it away in his desk. He folds his hands together on top of his desk and looks at his brother.

Joe BoXeR: "How are you doing?"

Matthew Engel: "You made me come down here to see how I'm doing?"

Joe BoXeR: "No, not exactly. I just wanted to kn--"

Matthew Engel: "Just get to the point, Joe. I don't have time to waste."

Joe tilts his head, a little flustered with his brother's rudeness.

Joe BoXeR: "Listen, I know you're still pissed at me for helping Alex win the World Title. And I know you've been wanting that chance for awhile now. But, I am a honorable guy, Matt. I repaid Lex with a better spot in the Rumble after he made sure that you and Corey didn't kill each other. I didn't expect him to win the damn thing, I thought Enika had it covered."

Matthew Engel: "I'm over that, Joe."

Joe BoXeR: "Then why the coldness towards me and Warren lately? You haven't even visited Warren in the hospital yet. He needs your support. He really looks up to you, Matt."

Matthew Engel: "Well, he shouldn't. He should be looking up to you, shouldn't he? I mean, everybody loves you, Joe! You had a great career, you've won titles that actually meant something, and everybody liked you! You earned what you got and hey... now you're Commissioner for the P-fucking-WA. I mean, he should be looking up to you. I'm just Matthew Engel. I'm nothing."

Matt looks away. Something else is on his mind, something else plagues him.

Matthew Engel: "But that changes tonight."

Joe BoXeR: "What do you mean?"

Matthew Engel: "Despite my coldness, you're still my brother, and I'll always be there for you whenever you need me. So whatever happens tonight, I want you to know that. I'm doing this for our family."

Joe BoXeR: "Doing what, Matt?"

Matthew Engel: "You'll find out soon enough."

Matt gets up from his chair, but Joe stops him for a moment.

Joe BoXeR: "What about Stevenson? Have you even prepared yourself mentally for him tonight?"

Matthew Engel: "Do you actually think I'm not taking that kid seriously?"

Joe BoXeR: "Nobody else does."

Matthew Engel: "Well... that just shows you how stupid they are. I'm not about to let someone one-up me for a chance at a prestigious title because I didn't take them serious enough."

Joe BoXeR: "Glad to hear that."

Matt walks toward the door, but stops again.

Matthew Engel: "You can't forgive Alex."

Joe BoXeR: "I haven't."

He disappears. We cut to ringside, where McDaniel and Rentfro are ready for the opening match!  One of the rings has been dressed up with barbed wire on the ropes, minor explosives around the ring apron and other such painful devices.

McDaniel: For clarification, there will be a 20 minute time limit of sorts for this match... if the match is still going on after 20 minutes, and I imagine with these two it will, then the charges on the ropes will be activated.  After that, if a competitor hits the barbed wire, there is a chance that the wire will explode!

Rentfro: Enough talking!  We've waited long enough, let's go to Eric Emerson!

Eric Emerson: The following contest is a BARBED WIRE ROPE C4 TIME BOMB TEXAS DEATHMATCH!  The winner will the the first person to gain a pinfall and have their opponent be unable to answer a ten count!  This match will be for the Pioneer Wrestling Association Grizzly Beer Championship!

A soft pinging noise fills the speakers, the lights flickering along with it. A tension seems to flow throughout the fans, all of them knowing who is about to come out next. As the pinging comes to a stop, the lights in the arena shut off completely, and orchestral intro to "Planet Hell" by Nightwish begins. The crowd doesn't really know what to think as images of angels and death flash across the screen, superimposed with flashes of ring action. The lights begin to flicker along with the beat of the drums. And without a warning, the music stops and a massive explosion of pyro goes off as the metal part of the intro begins, the lights coming back on with a fury. Blue lasers fly about the arena as Marco Hietala begins singing.

### Denying the lying ###
### A million children fighting ###
### For lives in strife ###
### For hope beyond the horizon ###

The lasers switch to a reddish hue as Tajra begins to sing....

### A dead world ###
### A dark path ###
### Not even crossroads to choose from ###
### All the blood red carpets before me ###
###
Behold this fair creation of God ###

As Tajra's pace and the music calm down considerably, a spotlight bursts out from in front of the curtain as a figure slowly makes its way out in front of it, head tilted down. The figure stops just in front of the light, head tilted down. Her long, black hair flows over her shoulders, the red bangs at the front hiding her face as she silohettes herself on the light.

### My only wish to leave behind ###
### All the days of the earth ###
###
An everyday hell of my kingdom come ###

The woman slowly lifts her head up, hair hanging down over her face and obscuring most of it. Finally, as the second of the song begins, she throws her arms out to the side in a crucifix pose and flicks her head back, her hair flying back over her shoulders and revealing her face.  A huge pop occurs as a stream of silver sparks fall from the screen above her, the light behind her blacking out.  She ignores any sort of minor pain that the sparks would be causing her as three silver fireworks shoot off from the top of the tron to fly off and hit sets above the ring, causing minor explosions and the lasers to switch back to blue.

Eric Emerson: Introducing first... coming to us from Buffalo, New York!  She weighed in this morning at 141 pounds, and stands at five foot nine inches.  She is the current, reigning, defending... UNCONTESTED, UNDEFEATED, AND UNDISPUTED... PIONEER WRESTLING ASSOCIATION GRIZZLY BEER CHAMPION!!!!

Rentfro: And she has the longest introduction of anyone in the entire PWA!

McDaniel: Hush, Brian.

Rentfro: What? It takes longer for her to get to the ring than it does for her to wrestle a match!

### The first rock thrown again ###
### Welcome to hell, little Saint ###
### Mother Gaia in slaughter ###
###
Welcome to paradise soldier ###

Riona unstraps the PWA Grizzly Beer Championship from her waist and raises it high with one arm, pacing across the entrance ramp and showing everyone what she's got as the lasers turn back to red with Tajra's voice returning.

### My first cry neverending ###
### All life is to fear for life ###
### You fool, you wanderer ###
### You challenged the gods and lost ###

Eric Emerson: Ladies and gentlemen, this is THE CELESTIAL TRIGGER.... RIOOONNNNAAAA LANNGGGLLLLYYYY!!!

Riona lowers her arm and begins to make her way down the ramp as silver sparks suddenly fly up from either side of the entrance ramp to shower down over her, creating a tunnel of sorts due to the arching shape. Riona's typical neutral gaze not showing much of her thoughts towards the crowd or to Silverback in the ring.  The arching shape keeps her from specifically reaching out for high fives, but she doesn't bother to stop the few pats on the back she gets through the tunnel of sparks. Riona stops at the bottom of the ramp as the sparks finally dissipate, looking up into the ring for a few moments before walking over to and up the stairs. She quickly but carefully climbs up to the top turnbuckle, taking care to avoid the barbed wire and snaps off a crucifix pose with the Grizzly Beer Title in her right hand as silver pyro shoots up from the other three turnbuckles with a loud pop as soon as the chorus begins.

### Save yourself a penny for the ferryman ###
### Save yourself and let them suffer ###
### In hope ###
### In love ###
### This world ain't ready for The Ark ###

She holds the pose there while the chorus goes on, the lasers finally ending. Finally, Riona lowers her arms and hops down into to her corner, a bit further than usual thanks to the wire, doing some last minute stretches and getting ready for the match as the lights return to normal.  

Eric Emerson: Introducing her opponent, and challenger for the PWA Grizzly Beer Championship...

The lights in the arena dim as the opening riff of “5 Minutes Alone” hit’s the PA system. The PWAtron lights up with a headshot of Scott Nash Strader looking down, with his blondish hair hanging in his face. He slowly lifts his head as the words to the song begin.

Eric Emerson:  Hailing from Houston, Texas and weighing in at two hundred and ninety five pounds....

### I see you had your mind all made up you group of Pitiful liars. ###
### Before I woke to face the day, your master Plan transpired. ###
### Something told me- this job had more to Meet the eye. ###
### My song is not believed? ###
### My words some- What deceiving? Now I'm unwhole. ###

Eric Emerson: SCOTT NASH STRADER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott Nash Strader steps out from behind the curtain he closes eyes and looks upwards leaning on his cane.

### But you can't crush the kingdom ###
### Can't be what your idols are. Can't leave the scar. ###
### You cry for compensation. I ask you please just give us... ###

Scott begins his descent down to the ring, but stops halfway down the ramp. He calls for a microphone as the music keeps playing, Riona watching in the ring.

### 5 minutes alone ###
### 5 minutes alone ###
### 5 minutes alone ###

SNS – Stop the music.

The music stops and some area's of the crowd start the 'S-N-S' chant, as he leans heavily on his cane. He lifts the mic back up as the chants calm down.

SNS – Riona, after listening to you praddle on about about the past few weeks, saying a bunch of shit just to fill up the airwaves. With idiotic comments saying I had enough time to prepare for our match, yet you seem to forget I was in one of the most brutal cage matches to date, then was in the Rumble in The Bronx for a fuck of a lot longer then you were actually earning another shot at your strap, considering you already granted me a match for May. You talk a mighty fucking big talk for a whiny tramp.

Scott winces in pain as he moves slightly to reposition his leg.


SNS – Let me give you a word of advice... want people to stop talking about your personal life, then sstop rebutting on it when someone mentions it. Its that fucking simple, but I do realize how your mind works, and even though thats simple, common sense seems to escape you. Hell I never even mentioned any details about the Kelser situation and immediately you jump down my throat like I said something wrong, like I was telling a lie. The only person thats lying is you Riona, and your lying to worst person as well. That person, is yourself Riona. It's one thing to lie to another human being, but its a insult to your dignity and pride to lie to yourself.

Also, what gives you the right to say I know nothing, I lack friends, and I was joking about what happened to Dustin. Quite the contrary. I actually like the guy, and his ex Enika. As a friend of Enika, I would like to see nothing more then her happy with him, and you being there only prevents that. Why? Enika will see you and remember what happened. Maybe I'm out of line here, maybe I'm not, but its my God given right to speak about what ever the fuck I want to speak about, and you trying to stop me is an act of anti-patriotism. You better be careful, George Bush is still president of the states, and he could declare war on you and take your fields of oil.

The crowd sits idly by waiting for Strader's next move or word.


SNS – Riona, I've already out-smarted you once. By not showing up to wrestle in that big tag match, I threw your ass for a loop by bringing Raizzor out to replace me. Well I got another for you sweetheart. Everyone, allow me to introduce the one and only Lord of the Dance.... MICHAEL FLATLEY!

SNS turns around up at the entrance ramp, as the sound of feet hit the p.a in rhythm. Flatley enters the stage doing his his famous dance routine and makes his way down to Strader. Strader watches him clapping along, but suddenly Flatley knocks Strader's cane away. Strader looks horrified, but the main music from Lord of the Dance begins to play. Scott's shoulders begin to move, then his feet begin to fly like Michael Flatley's as they dance up and down the entrance ramp. Scott lifts the mic back to his mouth as he dances, his voice jumping with every step.

SNS – You really didn't think that you of all peope could end my career did? Nothing but a stupid bitch!

Scott drops the mic and carefully slides into the ring to avoid cutting himself on the barbed wire. He walks right past Eric Emerson to his corner and does some light stretches to get his knees ready waiting . Referee John Martes goes over to Riona and is handed the PWA Grizzly Beer Championship. He walks to the middle of the ring and holds the title high in the air to show the crowd what the two are fighting over, which gets a huge pop.  John then walks over to the timekeeper and hands the belt over, before signalling for the bell..

* * * DING DING DING * * *

Riona and SNS move together at the sound of the bell, and start to jaw off with each other.  The size differential between the two is evident, with Riona giving up a foot and almost 130 pounds to her opponent.  SNS moves in for a lock up, and Riona seems to oblige before sliding out and delivering a swift kick right to SNS's injured legs, which are sure to be a focal point throughout the match.  SNS winces slightly, and turns, lunging for Riona, who simply dodges the lunge and screams off a second kick right to the back of SNS's right knee.  SNS stumbles a bit and falls to a knee.  Riona, sensing a weakness, tries to score a knockout roundhouse kick right to Scott's head, but SNS ducks the kick and floors Riona with a massive lariat that turns the GB champion inside out.  Riona lands hard on her back and SNS drops down, going for a quick pinfall that only gets a 1 count.  Unfazed, Strader pulls Riona to her feet and yanks her arm, Irish whipping her towards the barbed wire.  Riona has the sense to stop her motion before she gets there, and quickly jumps backwards, delivering a backflip kick right to a charging Strader.  SNS staggers a bit from the blow, allowing Riona to move in for the kill, screaming off 3 of her trademark knife edged chops right to Scott's chest.  Riona makes an attempt at Irish whipping Scott into the barbed wire, but he blocks it and instead pulls Riona in for the SVD, but Riona swiftly slides out of the move and attempts to boot him in the gut, but Scott catches her foot.

Rentfro: Riona's doing exactly as everyone expected and is using her speed and striking game to attack Scott's legs.

McDaniel: SNS could seriously change the face of the match here and now depending upon what he does, however, now that he has the Celestial Trigger's leg trapped.

Nash wags his finger a bit as Riona hops up and down on one foot, trying to muster the momentum to turn over, which she does with an attempted enziguri, but Scott, ever so the veteran, ducks the first kick.  However, Riona susprises him with a sudden mule kick to the gut that causes him to release Riona from his grasp.  Riona twists to her feet as SNS drops to a knee to regain his breath a little, and this is all the opening Riona needs as she rushes up and slams her knee into the side of his face with a Shining Wizard.  Scott drops like a rock and Riona pounces, dropping her knee several times into the back of his head before rolling over and twisting Scott's knee with a kneelock.  Unfortunately for Riona, her grip on Scott's leg doesn't last very long as SNS rolls over and kicks Riona off tantalizingly close to the barbed wire.  Riona stops her momentum just in time and rushes in to regain the advantage, but Scott catches her and spins slightly before slamming her hard into the mat with a spinebuster.  SNS bounces back to his feet from the momentum of the move and does a quick pose as he lords over Riona, loving every second as she arches her back in pain on the mat.

Rentfro: Just as there is no denying Riona's speed, there is no denying the power of Scott Nash Strader.

McDaniel: The question is, however, can he monopolize on the damage he's doing now?

Scott doesn't waste much time posing, as he quickly moves onto the attack, stomping Riona's stomach repeatedly and with increasing force, his face shifting from pride to rage as the stomps continue.  Finally, he stops and steps back, giving himself some room before he lashes out with a soccer kick to Riona's side that turns the Trigger over onto her stomach.  This allows Scott to reach down and lock Riona into a chinlock, while shouting out more trash talk to the champion.  Scott contorts Riona's neck heavily, knowing that he can't win the match this way, but enjoying the advantage all the same.  The situation begins to turn as Riona musters her strength and gets to her feet before trying to push Strder into the ropes, but Scott holds on and drags Riona back down to the mat, a particular move that Riona herself is fond of.  Riona grunts a bit in fustration as Scott keeps twisting on her neck, but finally Riona makes it back to her feet, and this time, instead of pushing SNS off, Riona twists her leg and kicks the back of Scott's knee.  This causes SNS to release the hold and both competitors make it back to their feet around the same time, facing each other.  Riona is the first to attack, lashing out with another knife edge chop.  Scott immediately responds with a wicked right, and the two quickly decend into exchanging right hands as the crowd starts to get impatient for some violence to happen as the match hits the 6 minute mark.

McDaniel: Just listen to that crowd. They really want to see some blood here.

Rentfro: Who can blame them? Two blood-sworn enemies, barbed wire and explosives... and yet, so far, it's been a standard match. The fans came wanting to see something special, and they won't rest until they get it.

Riona surprisingly starts to gain the advantage in this exchange and begins to push SNS towards the wire with her repeated stinging chops.  Being the veteran that he is, Scott realizes where in the ring he is and quickly goes on the defensive, grabbing Riona's face and raking her eyes.  The GB champ staggers a bit and Scott uses this opprotunity to drop to his back and carefully roll out of the ring.  The crowd fills his ears with jeers and taunts, but Scott shrugs it off as Riona rubs her eyes a bit and pulls up the ring skirt, pulling out a trash can that is full of weapons, which turns the bloodthirsty crowd to his side.  Riona swears a bit as she regains her eyesight, knowing that Scott's gonna be hard to get to now.  Scott pulls out a kendo stick from the trash can and smiles, sliding into the ring as Riona backs up to let him in.  SNS advances on the champion, but when Riona gets to the other side of the ring, she drops down and slides out of the ring herself, pulling out her own trash can of weapons from the other side of the ring.  She roots around and pulls out a kendo stick of her own, to Scott's dismay.  SNS lets her slide back into the ring, and quickly strikes, trying to hit her while she was on her back.  Riona rolls out of the way of the strike until she's on her back, and then blocks another attack with her own kendo stick.  Thinking quickly, Riona lashes out, kicking Scott's knee again, which causes him to drop to a knee and allow Riona up to her feet.  Riona quickly moves into a defensive kendo stance as Scott looks a little surprised, getting back to his feet.

Rentfro: Whoo! Deuling kendo sticks! Shades of Bruce Lee!

McDaniel: ...Bruce Lee never used kendo sticks.

Rentfro: Yeah, but if I'd said Akira Kurosawa, just how many people would have known what I was talking about?

McDaniel: Touché.

Scott makes the first move, raising his kendo stick above his head and slashing at Riona who places her kendo stick above her head horizontally to block the blow. Riona then quickly lashes at SNS with a kick from her right leg while she pushes up on her kendo stick to make Scott's come off her and also to make Strader lose his balance. The kick from Riona connects with SNS's left side, but before Langly can pull her leg away Scott suddenly releases his hold on the kendo stick he has with his left hand and uses his left arm to trap Riona's leg. Now Riona's balance has been compromised and out of desperation she goes for a shot to the right side of Scott's head with her kendo stick, but once again Scott is a step ahead of it and blocks it with his kendo stick. Swiftly after doing this he pushes his kendo stick out to the right to remove Riona's kendo stick from it and suddenly lets it drop out of his hand before he grabs it once again while it is in mid-air so he has the middle held. SNS then thrusts the end of the kendo stick into Riona's throat which makes her drop the kendo stick she has and hold her throat before Scott shoves Riona away by using her trapped right leg.  Riona comes perilously close to the barbed wire, as the crowd cheers for the chance at violence, but stops herself just short.  Scott sees his opprotunity as drops his kendo stick and rushes Riona, hoping to hit her with a Yakuza kick, but Riona rolls away from the kick and Scott's right leg becomes the first victim of the barbed wire as it gets trapped there.

Rentfro: And finally the barbed wire comes into play!

McDaniel: While Riona continues to focus upon Strader's legs at the same time.

The crowd cheers at the first use of the barbed wire as Riona walks over and grabs her discarded kendo stick.  Scott tries to pull his leg out of the wire, but Riona makes this much harder as she slashes downward with the stick, smashing it right against his knee.  SNS screams in pain as Riona smiles, twirling the stick in her hand a bit before slashing once more against Scott's knee, causing another agonizing scream from the former champion.  Finally, Scott pulls his leg off the wire and Riona, seeing blood in the water, goes on the attack, grabbing the leg and snapping it in the wrong direction by jumping over his body.  Riona snaps off a crux pose as Scott tries to roll to his feet, a small amount of blood starting to show on the right leg.  Riona takes the opprotunity to go back on the attack by rushing Scott for what looks like a knee to the face that would send him into the barbed wire, but doesn't take into account SNS's strength as he suddenly powers himself to his feet and lifts Riona with a HUUUUUGE back bodydrop that sends Riona FLYING out of the ring, over the barbed wire, and right to the entranceway side of the ringside area.  The crowd looks a little stunned at the sudden change of momentum, but this deters Scott very little as he limps a little to the edge of the ring and rolls under the bottom wire.  As Riona is very slow to get to her feet after the impressive show of strength, Scott calmly flips up the ring skirt and pulls out a table to the crowd's delight before sliding it into the ring.  He then advance on Riona, grabbing a chair from ringside on the way, with malice burning in his eyes.    

Rentfro: Damn, talk about a momentum shifter.

McDaniel: When we were told there would be aerial moves for this match, I doubt this is quite what was in mind.

Scott approaches Riona as she gets to a knee and brings her right back to the floor as he smashes the steel chair right into her back.  Scott holds the chair in one hand as he reaches down and drags Riona over to the guardrail using her hair.  He gives her a sadistic looking grin and slams her face into the rail a couple of times before throwing her into it back-first.  Riona crumples against it, and Scott doesn't let her regain any energy as he levels her with a steel chair shot right to the face.  Riona's eyes look a little glassy from the shot, but SNS knows not to let Riona any time to rest as he picks her up and Irish whips her towards the ring.  Riona recovers in time to slide into the ring without touching the barbed wire, SNS stopping his follow up charge in time.  He tries to calmly slide into the ring, but Riona puts a stop to that as she smacks him right in the face with a baseball slide, causing him to fall backwards and tear up the back of his shirt a little on the barbed wire.  Riona looks at Scott, who must have taken more of that boot to the face than she realized, and at the table, and suddenly gets an idea.  She grabs the table and props it up so it's lying against the top of the barbed wire.  Scott slowly begins to get to his feet as Riona steps back to the opposite side of the ring, getting some running room before running across the ring, up the table, and flying towards Scott in an attempt at a flying forarm!  Unfortunately for Riona, Scott Nash Strader gets his bearings in time and CATCHES RIONA, TURNING AND SLAMMING HER INTO THE FLOOR WITH A POWERSLAM!

Rentfro: Riona Langly showed great resilience in coming back from that huge crash to the floor earlier, but you have to wonder just how much punishment her back's going to be able to take.

McDaniel: Especially with all the damage that Strader's been doing to it through this match. One thing's for certain, it's got to be slowing her down, which is a good thing for him.

Scott is the first one to recover from the move, grabbing Riona and dragging her over to the ring.  Rather than roll her into the ring like most would, he pulls her to her feet and starts to rain right hands down onto the wobbly champion before lifting her up in a bear hug.  Scott squeeze the life out of the champion as she screams, but these screams only seem to energize SNS as he applies more pressure onto the champion.  Finally sensing Riona fading, he loosens his grip on her just ever so slightly before throwing her right onto the barbed wire!  Riona screams as the wire tears up her back, but she hangs there as SNS grabs his trash can full of plunder and pulls out a 2x4 wrapped in barbed wire.  He takes a couple of mock swings with the weapon before swinging the weapon and impacting with Riona's chest.  The Dallas crowd winces as SNS wiggles the weapon around as it sticks to Riona, catching ahold of Riona's shirt, before he rips it off of her chest with a satified smirk on his face.  Riona's shirt has a giant hole in it, and she's screaming every obscenity possible at Scott as SNS calmly tosses the 2x4 aside and picks up the chair once more.  Clanking the chair against the ground in an attempt to build up some tension, he laughs and just annihilates her with a wicked chair shot!

Rentfro: Yes!! Riona's shirt is ripped open!

McDaniel: Cool your jets, Rentfro. She has a sports bra on underneath. There's no flesh for your fantasy, you little virgin.

Rentfro: Aw dammit!

Riona's bleeding from a probably broken nose at this point as Scott laughs at Riona's misfortune.  Scott asks Riona if she wants to give up, and she just spits right in his face.  Scott shrugs his shoulders, rears back a bit, and then simply crushes Riona with another massive chair shot right to the chest. The Dallas crowd understandably winces and cheers, depending on the person, at this display of primal agression. Riona spits up some blood, and some of it manages to get onto SNS. With another shrug, Voorhees spins around and lets loose with another massive chair shot to the face, nearly bringing Riona down from her barbed wire position. Riona hangs limply from the barbed wire, and Scott's face has shifted to joy as he finally has her exactly where he wants her.  Pointing at Riona and laughing, Scott drops back, looking to finish the Trigger off with one last, massive chairshot. SNS charges, looking like he's gonna hit the head again... AND RIONA KICKS THE CHAIR BACK INTO SCOTT'S FACE! The crowd releases a good sized pop as Riona painfully frees herself from the barbed wire. Riona's back is covered in lacerations and her shirt is torn, but she doesn't care as she grabs the chair Scott dropped and just levels him with a massive shot to the skull! SNS drops to a knee, adrenilne keeping him up, while Riona tosses the chair aside and grabs SNS in a front face lock! SNS tries to escape Riona's grip as she positions him right next to the 2x4, but Riona holds on as she twists herself and slams Scott face first into the weapon with the BOMB DROPPER!  Scott's face opens up the beginnings of a crimson mask as Riona rolls him over for the pinfall... ONE... TWO... THREE!!!

Rentfro: There's the pin! But has the Celestial Trigger done the job? Can she keep him down??

McDaniel: Scott Nash Strader has until the count of ten to get to his feet or he will lose the match. The referee begins the count, and you can hear the audience count along with him.

The crowd cheers as Riona rolls off of SNS and Martes starts the count... 

John Martes: One... Two.... Three... Four... Five.... Six....Seven.. 

SNS manages to bring himself back to his feet at the count of seven, blood flowing down his face as Riona walks back over and grabs SNS by his hair.  She drags her challenger over to the ring and rolls him into the ring, making sure for him to catch the barbed wire on the way in.  Before getting into the ring herself, she walks over to her trash can full of weapons and tosses it into the ring, before reaching under the ring skirt once more and pulling out a pair of florescent light tubes.  She slides the pair of tubes into the ring, herself following them in, but before she's able to capitalize on the extra weapons, SNS limps over and stomps down on Riona's right hand.  The champion gets to her feet holding her hand in pain, and Scott clocks her with a right hand that sends her spiraling close to the barbed wire.  She still is able to stop her momentum before hitting the wires, but SNS makes sure she feels the wire as he gives her a Northern Lariat that sends her facefirst right into the wire.  As her exposed abdomen collides with the dangerous wire, Scott grabs her by her long black hair and shoves her facefirst into the top wire, grinding her face until it opens up even more.  Riona starts throwing elbows behind her until Scott lets up, but the damage is already done as blood starts flowing from the cuts along her head.  Scott smiles a wicked smile at Riona, who growls and charges, taking Scott down to the mat and throwing rights and lefts like there was no tommorow.  The crowd suddenly turns to the PWATron as the countdown goes in the last few seconds... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1!!!!

Eric Emerson: Will the operators please load the charges!

Rentfro: It gets deadly now!!!

Riona heeds the crowd nor the technicians loading the charges any mind as she continues to pound on Scott's face, her blood dripping down onto the multiple time world champion.  Finally, Scott is able to reach out and grab one of the weapons lying around the ring, a staple gun, and smack Riona in the side of the head with it, causing her to stop her assault.  Riona rolls to her feet at around the same time that Scott tries to put a staple into her forehead, and she is able to block the attempt by catching the gun in mid swing.  SNS tries to use his power to force the gun down onto Riona's head, but the Grizzly Beer Champion heads him off at the pass by kicking him right between the legs with her right boot.  The males in the audience boo this action, with the girls cheering, as SNS falls to his knees.  Riona drags him to his feet by his blond hair and spits some blood right in his face before pushing him back first into the barbed wire, which doesn't explode to the chagrin of the crowd.  Riona stomps him a couple of times in the midsection before grabbing him by his shirt and yanking him right off the barbed wire in such a way in that all three strands catch him on his back before Riona snapmares him down to a sitting position.  She gives SNS a swift roundhouse kick to the face to drop him, and then notices the cut-up state of his shirt, which gives her an idea.  She grabs Strader's shirt and rips the rest of it right off his body, using the remains to wrap around his neck and pull back, choking him.

Rentfro: Riona's a smart girl, turning Strader's own clothing into an impromptu weapon.

McDaniel: Very true, Brian, but I wouldn't let her catch you calling her a 'girl'. She may take you on next.

Rentfro: ...


SNS quickly tries to roll over, mustering all his strength to get to his knees, but all that does is cause Riona to jump down on Scott's back  and change the leverage in a variation of the Camel Clutch.  Riona wrenches back on the hold, trying to cause SNS to black out, but Scott fights off the hold, slowly getting to a knee and rising, the shifting leverage causing Riona to slide off and to the mat.  Scott drops back down to a knee, gasping for air, while Riona tosses SNS's shirt aside.  As SNS tries to regain his breath, Riona walks over to where she had slid her light tubes and picks both of them up.  She stalks up to Scott and lets him turn around before she BLASTS him, smashing both of the light tubes against his head at the same time!  Scott crumples to the mat and Riona drops the two light tubes, going in for a pinfall, but somehow only gets a two count out of it.  Riona sighs as giant lacerations are forming on SNS's skull, but continues the match by grabbing onto Scott's bloody hair and pulling him to his feet.  SNS is staggering from all the recent abuse, but is quickly awakened as Riona screams a chop right into his chest.  SNS tries to keep Riona away by grabbing onto her face and pushing her away, but she just goes back on the attack rushing Scott.  But, SNS is ready for Riona's charge and bends down, catching Riona and lifting her for the SVD!  Riona immediately catches her bearings, sliding behind Scott and locking in a full nelson for the DETONATOR!  Scott tries to break the hold while Riona makes an attempt to wear Scott down... AND SNS RUNS BACKWARDS RIGHT INTO THE WIRE!  BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Rentfro: HOLY CRAP! No wonder they call it the Detonator!

McDaniel: ...apt timing to be sure.

Both Riona and SNS are thrown forward from the blast, Riona getting far worse of the blast as her back is torn up and bloody.  Both the back of her shirt and her bra are completely torn apart...  Scott's feeling a little dazed from the blast, but shakes it off as much as he can, crawling over to Riona and rolling her over for a pin attempt.  ONE... TWO... THREE!  SNS smiles wearily as he gets off the blood covered Riona, letting Martes in to make the count as SNS limps over to Riona's pile of weapons and pulls out a hockey stick ...

Martes: One... Two.... Three... Four... Five.... Six... Seven... Eight... Ni...

Rentfro: Wow, I'm amazed Riona's still in this match after all that.

McDaniel: The woman is tough, and she's a PWA Champion. You expected any less?

Riona amazingly crawls to her feet at the count of nine, her shirt barely hanging on her body at this point, as SNS advances on her and swings the hockey stick right at her head.  Riona ducks the swing and SNS spins around, losing his balance as the blood loss is starting to get to him.  Riona quickly reaches down, grabbing a large piece of broken light tube and jams it right into Scott's knee.  SNS screams in agony as the blood immediately starts to flow, but this also causes SNS to get very angry as he grabs Riona around the neck and shoves Riona towards one of the sides of the ring still intact, as the side that had exploded now had NO ropes at all.  Riona cannot stop herself from going into the wire, but thankfully for her, it doesn't explode, as she probably couldn't take another explosion.  Still, barbed wire to bare back is never a pleasant feeling as Riona belts out a scream from the pain as SNS reaches down and grabs the large piece of broken glass.  SNS stalks on Riona as she carefully pulls herself off the wire, and slashes the glass right on her chest, the remnants of her shirt sliding off as the blood immediately starts flowing... The flashbulbs remain blank as the display isn't exactly very sexual except for a certain few.  Scott takes a brief moment to laugh before kicking Riona in the gut and pushing her in a front head-scissors.  He turns towards the pile of broken glass and lifts Riona, looking to Jackknife her right into it.  Riona quickly punches out of the move, sliding down slightly and locking her knees around SNS's head and slinging him into the barbed wire with a hurricanrana!.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

Rentfro: Daaammnnn... that blew up RIGHT in Scott's face.

McDaniel: And this match may very well have as well, if Riona can capitalize.

SNS flew headfirst into the wire, which had caused him to fly backwards from the explosion... His whole body is bloody and his outfit is completely torn apart.  Riona cringes ever so slightly at the sight as she crawls over and checks for a pulse... A small bit of relief forms on her face as she feels his heart still beating.  But, Scott's eyes quickly open and he reaches up, grabbing Riona into another chokehold.  SNS slowly gets to his feet, still holding onto the choke, and glares down at the champion.  Dragging her over to the middle of the ring, he lifts Riona up for a chokeslam... RIONA SLIDES OUT!  TOURNIQUET!  SNS HITS THE BROKEN GLASS FACE AND SHOULDER FIRST!  Riona quickly rolls SNS and goes for the cover... ONE... TWO... THREE!!

Rentfro: That has got to be the end. If this match continues much longer one or both of these competitors could be killed or forcibly retired.

McDaniel: A fact of which they're both aware, and a price they're willing to pay, Brian.


Riona rolls off SNS, both competitors dripping blood all over the mat as Martes starts the count.

Martes: One... Two.... Three... Four... Five.... Six... Seven... Eight... Nine... Ten!!!!

 

 

 


* * * DING DING DING * * *

Eric Emerson: The winner of the match, and STILL PWA Grizzly Beer Champion, RIONA LANGLY!!!

John Martes quickly rushes over and gets the GB Championship and a towel, giving it to Riona and wrapping the towel around her as the EMTs and ring crew come out... Riona weakly holds the title up as she gets to her feet, walking under her own power as she drags herself out of the ring, thankful that the side of the ring facing the entranceway had exploded.  Riona reaches the top of the ramp and holds her title high before heading to the back .  SNS has to be helped to his feet, but is at least able to walk out from the disaster as the ring crew cleans up this mess and we cut to the back.

McDaniel: SO close for Strader!!! he kicked out but had no more energy after wards!

Rentfro: His mind had to be elsewhere, what with the kidnapping and all!!

McDaniel: The question is will he answer the challenge next week! Especially after all the hell he's been through here!  Let's go back upstage to find out about our next match!

Adams: An incredible way to start off High Stakes!

Toshi: No kidding! The violence of that match was off the charts!  I wonder if we showed our match of the night too quickly!

Adams: Well, for violence that match may not be outdone, but for class and skilled wrestling, our next match could compete for the best of the night!  We now have an Intercontinental Title contendership match!  Two of the men who teamed just last week will face off to decide who will face the winner of the Enika/Nightmare match later tonight. 

Toshi: This match came about partially due to the miscue between Stevenson and Virus, so now they're out to obtain a coveted spot, but to do so, one must overcome the other.

Adams: The fans had the choice of the following; A call for back up match, in which each man can call in another wrestler for two minutes to help beat up his opponent.  But only one back up can be in the ring at a time!  The second, a blind fold match, which would be a first in the PWA if I recall, and finally, a five count match!  What better way to make a statement then to hold your opponent's shoulders down for a long five!

Toshi: So, let's find out what you, the fans at home, have chosen!