Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA

(Camera's pan across the near-capacity crowd, who are screaming and holding up their
signs, from the derivative ("Parker, FUEGO'S GONNA KILL YOU") to the smarkish ("Hey,
Hurley Bros., WHERE'S STEVE?) to the outright weird ("Bush? McCain? Hell, no! RONNIE FROWN
FOR PRESIDENT!")

HOMECOMING IS OVER, but we're are here live tonight in Hot-Lanta, for another edition
of Lords of the Ring. I am Isaac Cross, and fans, Jeremy Byron is still out from that
horrific beating he took at the hands of "The Strutter" T.R. Parker, who tonight gets
his shot at championship gold when he takes on the NEW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD,
FUEGO!!! In our main event tonight!! Plus we've got two other title defenses, the
RETURN of Siouxnami as they take on the Hurley Boys in a war that started many
YEARS ago...

<<"Justice of the Peace" by Iron Maiden plays as the crowd starts to boo">>

And it looks like we've got a visit from John Riker, the commissioner of the EWC,
who has been a part of some VERY controversial decisions as of late.

Riker choosing to put his own wheel into play for the Marathon Wheel of Torture match
between Fuego and Ernie Grendel, with ALL the stips on the wheel being Pure Science
match, in an obvious effort to frustrate and infuriate the champ and the challenger.

EWC owner Armand LeBeaux foiled that, but Riker kept inserting himself in other ways,
finally at the end attacking Fuego, and taking a frog splash for his troubles.
He's in the ring now, lets here what the man has to say.

[Riker]
At Hardcore Homecoming, Fuego...you did something that no wrestler should ever do if
they like having professional wrestling for a career...you laid your hands on an
EWC official. Me, the Comissioner of the Elite...Wrestling...Council.

Now, some people feel you should be fined....some people feel you should be suspended...
in fact, a few even suggested that I fire your jungle ass!

But you know, that's too easy. What that means is that you don't get hurt. You sit back
in that cushy Manhattan apartment of yours smoking through a bamboo shoot and living off
that hefty performance bonus you just earned. Well, tonight, jungle man, it's not that
simple. Tonight, you've got TR Parker for the World Heavyweight championship. And you
know what, I know you're hurt. I know you went through the wringer at Hardcore Homecoming.
And you know what? You're going through it again. Tonight, Fuego, you will be facing
T.R. Parker in a...

Hold on folks, that's Armand LeBeaux's theme music, but he shouldn't be here, he recently
relinquished his front office duties, although he's still owner.....but the new president
of EWC is making her way out here, and her name is Adrienne Solo. And Gordon Solo's baby
girl has never looked this good doing it!

[Solo]
That's about all of you I'm going to take, John.

You know, when Mando hired you, he was basing it on your work and your friendship with my
father. You were a good man, and you did the best job anyone could ask for over in
Pennsylvania. But you come over here, you act like a hotshot, sticking your nose
into matches.....John Riker, you're a pathetic shell of a man, and if my father had seen
you today, he would do what I'm about to do.

Your contract with us is a basic employment contract, meaning that management sets the terms
of your employment. Now, if it were up to me, I would fire you right on the spot. But
I'm going to go easy on you this time. For now, you're merely no longer the EWC
Commisioner.

I can't believe it!! Riker has been fired from the EWC Commisionership!!! He's beside
himself!!!!

[Solo]
Now, you still have a job...albeit for less money, after all, I am about the bottom
line. And right now, we have a specific need to be filled, and you filled it well at the
PPV, John. As of right now, you are the new Ground Zero color commentator!

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Riker just got DEMOTED to color commentator from
running the EWC. He's completely not happy about it...but is heading down here! He
knows that with his contract, he doesn't have a leg to stand on here.

[Solo]
Now, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you...John Riker's replacement...
and NEW EWC COMMISIONER...

<<"Latifah's Law" by Queen Latifah plays over the system>>

TARA JANSEN!!!!

Well, look who's back. John, welcome back to the color commentators chair, I guess you're
at least gonna be here until Jeremy gets ba..

Look, talking head, you can just shut your piehole right now, because the one TRUE
commisioner of EWC is talking. I can't beleive that Daddy's Little Girl up there
STRIPPED me of my rightful job in EWC and has handed it to that trollop. I know Jansen
sold her soul to the devil a few years ago, and it looks like the dividends just keep
on paying.

Tara proved herself to be a fair and just commisioner here until health problems took
her out of the running, but she's healthy and she's back.

You mean she's got a healthy back. Tara sure hasn't been hitting the Buttmaster very
hard lately.

[Jansen]
Folks, it's great to be back, and I know you wanna see some wrestling rather than
a bunch of fed officials yammering, so I'm gonna get right to business. In a few weeks,
we're gonna be having SnowBrawl, the first PPV of the new millenium, in Minneapolis, and
we're gonna have a heck of a main event for you. See, it's the Holiday season...and
when EWC thinks the holidays....we're thinking of our annual holiday tradition...the
Nightmare match. But we're gonna change up tradition a little bit here.

See, we've got six people right now that can all lay a claim to being the best in the
EWC, so what we're gonna do is have a Gauntlet match!!! That's right, two people
start in the ring...the winner goes to meet #3...the winner of THAT goes to meet
#4, and so on, until the last two men meet in the ring. The winner of that match will
be the new EWC World Heavyweight Champion...while the loser will have his worst
professional nightmare come to life. That could be a 90 day suspension, it could be
having to face his most hated rival in a stip match of his opponent's choosing,
WHAT-EVER.

The participants of that match will be.....former LH champion Chris Monroe...

"Canadian Sensation" Chris Sim...

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"The Strutter" TR Parker...

Ernie Grendel

The CURRENT EWC WORLD CHAMPION, FUEGO!!!!

And, as the sixth participant....a man with an incredible record since getting here...
and the REIGNING EWC NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION...

Folks, that is *NOT* the North American champion..that's Ronnie
Frown, the Cut-n-Shoot champion. How *DARE* he interrupt this.

Well, Ronnie Frown is the EWC Killjoy, and apparently he's none
too thrilled about the decision to put Omega in over him. And
I can't blame him, have you SEEN Frown's W/L record? Undefeated.

Well, Omega's the North American champ, and has been so for awhile,
so he certainly deserves the shot as well.

[Ronnie Frown]
HOLD ON there, honcho! I think you have a little explaining to do.
I'm talking about this sugarcoating job you're trying to pull on the
people here, trying to paint over the TRUTH with a pretty picture.
Well, Ronnie Mulder is here to blow the whistle on your coverup.
Let's talk a about this little party you're planning, and about just
who you think deserves to be invited.

I came to this league a year ago with a purpose, a focus on the
*sport* being smothered under the mountain of bread and circuses that
the leeches in the stands are howling for. And since that time, I
have dug my way up *through* that mountain, I have done it *all* --
strap matches, death matches, hardcore matches, footbrawls, rumbles
-- Ronnie Frown has survived every freakish excuse for *not* wrestling
the administrative minds you represent could concoct.

The sad fact of life is that while the EWC's best brains were
thinking of new ways to knuckle under to the masses, Ronnie Frown has
struggled his way from the bottom of the totem pole to the most
AMAZING career in sports history today. I have survived, and WON, the
longest match in wrestling history ... I have claimed the shortest,
most decisive victory in EWC ... I have taken the pride of Cut 'n
Shoot, the absolute Mecca of your precious not-wrestling, and pinned
him to the ground ... and I have become THE most undefeated man in the
whole damn league.

But you don't want to recognize that career, because what I am NOT is
the good little boy who makes the leeches happy. After I spend a long
night doing my best to keep another lunatic you dug up from trying to
*kill* me in the name of good clean fun for the fans, I get to drag
my broken bleeding body back to the lockers and congratulate myself
on STILL not being on your list of championship contenders for
another week. You look at those numbers again, you look at that
career again, Jansen, and you tell me, how the hell can
I do BETTER than a perfect record? No, no, don't even waste your
time ... what you need to do, is cut the BULL you're slinging, send
Damien Omega back to the end of the alphabet where he belongs, and
then YOU can take credit for putting the capping moment on that
AMAZING career: a World Championship title!

[Jansen] *looking thoughtful*
You know, Ronnie, I can't believe I'm saying this...but you've got a point.

HUNH!?!?!?

I can't believe this, maybe I was wrong about Tara Jigglebutt out there.

You are right...you are undefeated in the EWC. Granted, you've had more than your
fair share of help out there. But you are undefeated. And the Cut-n-Shoot champion.
Damien Omega, however, is the North American champion, and has had an impressive
record in his own right. So, tell you what I'm going to do. We're gonna have a match
tonight.

OK, I see where this is going...

And it's going to be the kind of match that whoever wins, whoever loses...both are going
to walk away with something better. Tonight, Ronnie Frown, you will face Damien Omega
in this very ring. And the winner of this match will have the CHOICE of either being the
North American champion *OR* going into the Nightmare Gauntlet at SnowBrawl. The LOSER
of the match...will take home whatever is left. So, Ronnie Frown, at the end of that match,
you will *EITHER* be the NEW NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION...*OR* you're going to the Gauntlet.

BUT, this won't come without a price for you. Damien potentially has something to lose
right now...you do not. THEREFORE, as a final price for this match, you must relinquish to
me the Cut-n-Shoot title. If you don't, no match, and Omega walks away with *EVERYTHING*.

This is YOUR CHANCE to trade up in the world, Ronnie. Now, I know that the Cut 'n Shoot
title means a LOT to you....but as someone once said....get used to disappointment.

*CROWD POP*

So....are you in, or are you out?

FOLKS, RONNIE FROWN VS. DAMIEN OMEGA *TONIGHT*!!!

I can't believe that. And the EWC calls *ME* manipulative? Forcing Frown to give up
the title to get a title shot?

Hey, other feds do it. Why not? And if Frown is so damn confident he's the greatest thing
since Brita pitchers, what's he got to lose? Folks, we'll be right back after this!

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*MATCH ONE* 'The Ace' Ty Kross vs Neil Nerdlinger

Nerdlinger was already in the ring as "Who I Used To Be" by Clint Black kicked in. The
fans started to cheer as Ty Kross high fived his way to the ring. As soon as
Kross got to ringside, Nerdlinger launched himself over the top rope. Kross managed to
take a step back and winced at the thud that was made by the missed suicide plancha.
Kross grabbed the cameraman, had him do a close up on Nerdlinger and said, "This is your
brain on drugs. So don't do 'em!" Kross followed up by tossing Nerdlinger under the
ropes and entered the ring as the bell sounded.

Kross looked around to the crowd, shrugged and made the casual "boot on the opponent's
chest" cover. Nerdlinger managed to lift a shoulder up at 2, which garnered a snicker
from Kross. In a show of sportsmanship, Kross picked Nerdlinger up and started to dust
him off. Nerdlinger took a swing, which was easily avoided. Kross quickly grabbed
Nerdlinger's head, keeping him at bay as Nerdlinger swung wildly for a good 30 seconds.
Kross slapped Nerdlinger in the face, hit the ropes and sent Nerdlinger spinning to the mat
after a wicked lariat.

And so far, this match has practically been nothing but "The Ace"

Oh, please, just because he's your brother doesn't mean you have to
pander to him or keep putting him over.

Uh, we're not brothers.

SUUUURE you are.

Uhh, look at my face, look as Kross' He's caucasian, I'm not. Are
you *SURE* we're brothers?

Hey, if Darren and Jimmy Jack Machismo can be brothers, so can you guys!

Kross waved for the fans to start clapping as Nerdlinger got to his feet. Both men locked
up and Nerdlinger went for a leg takedown, which was blocked. Nerdlinger went for a hip
toss, then ducked a lariat from Kross. Kross followed up with a back elbow smash, then
lifted Nerdlinger high in the air, measured the distance to the turnbuckle, then deposited
him face first across the turnbuckle via a stun gun. Kross pulled Nerdlinger back to his
feet, motioned for the cameraman to get a good shot and hoisted Nerdlinger up for a suplex.
Nerdlinger must have been in the air for 20 seconds before he was introduced to the mat
via a piledriver, which Kross calls the West Texas Driver. Kross made a casual cover as
the ref made the 1-2-3.

Winner: 'The Ace' Ty Kross, by pinfall 3:01

And Ty Kross is just BEGGING for someone to take a shot at him. That is the
cockiest ring work I have seen in a long time.

Well, it's not as if Nerdlinger is a World title contender. And the last
time Ty Kross was here, he was the #1 contender to the World Title.

When was that, 15 years ago? So far, all I've seen of him is some light
work. Get him in there with a Ronnie Frown or one of the Power Supply,
then we'll talk. Maybe I could book that.

Riker, you're not the commisioner anymore. Meanwhile, IN THE RING,
Ty Kross apparently has some words for the public.

[Kross]
'The Ace' has finally come home to the Elite Wrestling Council.

(An "EWC" chant kicks up and the cameraman starts to pan over the crowd, only to be
motioned back by Ty Kross.)

[Kross]
Your job is to keep the camera on me, son. Now most of you people saw me in a goofy
gimmick royal rumble a while back, but all that counts for is Ty Kross finding a few people
to beat on.

Murder, Inc... I don't know where you boys are hiding, but I'll be here when you get back.

Siouxnami... if you two chumps survive the Hurley Boys tonight, we've got a date for some
more cowboys and indians action.

And last but not least... let's talk about the Children of the Apocalypse. I don't know
how much history you guys know, but when the EWC started, there was a pretty mean group of
guys that went by the name Apocalypse Unlimited.

(The crowd goes nuts and starts an "AU" chant.)

Who!?!?!?

[Kross]
Well let me be the first to say that Apocalypse Unlimited IS coming home to the EWC!
Tonight I just kicked the crap out of Neil Nerdlinger... next week the Children of the
Apocalypse get to meet AU first hand, in all their apocalyptic fury. The horsemen are
coming boys...

(The crowd gives a decent pop as "Bad Company" by Bad Company kicks in and Ty Kross turns
around and walks back through the curtains.)

Speaking of brains being on drugs, folks, there WAS no "Apocalypse Unlimited" in the EWC.
All there was was a no-talent masked doofus named Mr. Wrestling IV who jobbed to Bobby
Windsor, jobbed to Generation X, hell, he even jobbed to a one-note podunk named
Cousin Frank!

But then IV went to the now-defunct EWF and formed AU with the likes of Barry Bromowitz,
William the Conqueror, and yes, Ty Kross. Now Kross is saying AU is coming back..does that
mean the return of Mr Wrestling IV?

If so, I know about 20,000 arena fans and a million or so more at home that are gonna
find the e-wrestling equivalent to Sominex next week.

Folks, we will return to see the newest Child of Apocalypse in action, Nick Rierson is
*next*

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