The following contest is a triple threat ladder match, and it is for twenty-five thousand X-Bux! First, on his way to the ring BEARDED WAR PIG!!
"Monster" by STEMM blasts out over the speakers as Bearded War Pig makes his way out from the back. He wastes no time getting to the ring where he stands in the center arms crossed waiting for his opponents.
And now, on his way to the ring, the former Universal Champion, STEVE DAVIDS!!
Darkness fills the arena and there is total silence. As the music picks up Steve emerges in the shadows, with one single beam of light shining down on him. He slowly makes his way down the ramp before grasping hold of the middle rope and pulling himself onto the ring apron. He climbs into the ring over the middle rope, and riles himself up for the match.
And lastly, making his debut… CHARON!
The sound of glass breaking echoes throughout the arena as the lights cut to black like someone forgot to pay the electricity bill. A shrill noise comes over the speaker next, sending the crowd into a frenzy of annoyed booing.
"IT'S SO FUCKIN' DARK IN HERE.
COME COME FUCK APART IN HERE.
I DIE IN THE PROCESS.
YOU DIE IN THE PROCESS.
KETTLE DRUM ROLL HARD SHIT.
FUCK I SAID FUCKER DON'T START SHIT."
The beat drops after MC Ride's outburst and the lights come back on for a split second before cutting out again. The lights continue flickering to the beat as smoke billows from some unknown source and fills the arena. Charon, clad in a dirty, bloodstained denim jacket, tattered camouflage cargo pants, and old Doc Martens, stomps down to the ring. He slides under the bottom rope and rips the jacket off like a rabid animal before tossing it under one of the turnbuckles.
Before the bell can ring Charon comes flying out of the blocks.
Ding Ding Ding!
He heads straight for Bearded War Pig with a flurry of right arms! But Pig is on the defence, he chops back at the new competitor to a mixed ovation from the crowd. The two men offload heavy punches to each other, but as they turn around they walk into a double clothesline from Steve Davids, the self proclaimed King Slayer.
What a double clothesline from the King Slayer, he nearly took both their heads clean off!
I’m not sure there would have been much clean about that JR.
Davids ceases the opportunity, he picks up Charon and whips him into the corner. He runs at Charon who ducks, Davids runs straight into the turnbuckle, and turns into a standing drop kick from the debutant!
But now Bearded War Pig is up, and he grabs Charon into a headlock, wrestling him down to one knee. Charon tries to get out of it, but BWP shoves him into the ropes and on the return tries to lift him in the air but receives a punt to the shoulder for his troubles. Pig stumbles back and Charon takes him down as well with another standing drop kick!
The debutant is making short work of these two thus far Luca.
It certainly is an impressive start, there’s no disputing that.
Charon stomps on BWP’s fingers! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! BWP roars out in pain, but Davids saves him from any more agony, as he hits a forearm into the back of Charon. BWP rolls out of the ring, and seems to be rolling towards a ladder.
Davids throws Charon shoulder first into the turnbuckle before flinging him onto his back. Davids picks his opponent up, but receives a thumb to the eye!
Davids holds his face and stumbles backwards. Charon runs at him but Steve ducks!
CRACK!!!
Ladder shot from War Pig right into the skull! Charon is busted wide open, claret blood spills onto the floor as Pig climbs into the ring. Davids rolls under a ladder shot but then as he turns!
CRACK! Into the ribs! Davids drops down to his knees, holding his gut. Pig throws the ladder down in front of Davids, grabs him by the head! Spike DDT onto the ladder!
Bah gawd that is a devastating maneuver right there!
BWP takes advantage of the moment. He sets the ladder up in the centre of the ring and begins to make the climb towards the briefcase that all three of these combatants long for! He gets halfway up the ladder and then receives a forearm to the back. Charon then hits Pig with a low blow!
Pig falls backwards off the ladder, landing on his back! Charon has already began heading for the ropes, he rushes off of them, leaps into the air! Leg drop straight to the face!
Charon rolls out of the ring and grabs another ladder.
What the hell has Charon got planned here?! Just climb the ladder damn it!
I’m not sure what he’s got planned JR, but I don’t think it’s a trip to the park and a picnic!
Charon slides the big ladder into the ring, and then picks up a mini-ladder as well, which he also slides in. He places the small ladder between a middle and top turnbuckle.
He then picks up the bigger ladder and places it on the middle rope, shoving the top of it in between two steps of the ladder that is already standing in the centre of the ring! He picks up Pig and looks back at the ladder. He lifts Pig up into the air, who kicks his legs and uses his momentum to drop down on his feet. BWP takes Charon down with a spinebuster!
Davids is back in the ring now. He runs at BWP with a big boot, but BWP ducks! He picks Davids up! SCOOP SLAM ONTO THE LADDER! Davids roars out in pain as he lays motionless on the ladder in mid-air. Charon grabs Pig by the back of the head and plants him with a reverse DDT!
He begins to climb the other side of the ladder!
He could go for the briefcase but he looks down at Davids, with a sickening smile on his face.
No...no…. Don’t do it!
Charon throws himself over the ladder, flipping in mid-air!
SWANTON BOMB! THROUGH THE LADDER!!!!!!
Dear god, dear god, Davids might well be broken in half!
All three men are down, motionless! Davids is folded in half, his limbs in locations they shouldn’t be able to reach! Paramedics rush to ring-side. They ask Steve if he can continue and the resilient Psycho Sensation simply shoves the paramedic in the face, the crowd cheer in excitement!
He is still motionless though! The ladder’s remains are dragged out of the ring by Bearded War Pig as Charon also reaches his feet. The two men begin to exchange slow but heavy forearms! The crowd are on their feet now for this exciting match up. Charon smirks as he grabs Pig by the head, and attempts to throw him at the small ladder placed between the turnbuckles but Pig reverses it and uses Charon’s momentum to launch him into the ladder instead!
Somehow Charon stays on his feet and Pig cannot believe it!
Pig unloads a flurry of forearms and throws him into the ropes. Charon comes running back at Pig and Pig grabs him, spins in the air and slams him down, executing a devastating tilt-a-whirl side slam!
Pig then begins to climb the ladder, but Davids is back in the ring! He seems to have a small bag of something, but firstly he drags Pig down the ladder and knocks him down with a brutal clothesline!
He raises the bag in the air!
Uh oh. I think we saw this in one of his promos earlier in the week.
Davids empties the bag, tacks are scattered across the mat.
He heads up to the top turnbuckle!
LEAPING KICK TO WAR PIG!!!
That’s the same kick that knocked you out cold four years ago at High Stakes, Luca!
But unlike Angelus, I actually managed to get up from it!
Well let’s see if Bearded War Pig can!
Bearded War Pig falls to the outside of the ring, seemingly out cold! We haven’t seen that move executed by Steve Davids since High Stakes 2013!
Davids looks to the outside at the damage he has inflicted. But rather foolishly! Because as his back is turned, he is grabbed from behind by Charon! Who flings Davids over his head! Executing a devastating German suplex! Davids lands in the the tacks which are impaled into his back and neck!
All three men are out of it now!
Charon is the first to climb to his feet and he groggily, slowly climbs the ladder, one step a time!
Davids is in agonizing pain but somehow climbs to his feet, he grabs Charon by the ankle, desperately pulling at him. Charon kicks Davids to the mat!
He could have it here!
But THE PIG IS UP! SOMEHOW BEARDED WAR PIG SURVIVES!
He grabs Charon and pulls him down to the mat, before executing a vicious back flip German Suplex! Launching Charon into the tacks as well!
Wargasm! Wargasm! What a move! This is Bearded War Pig’s chance at glory!
But BWP is also down and out. All three men are down again. Davids has rolled the outside and grabbed a kendo stick! He slides back in and swings it at Bearded War Pig who has climbed to his feet. But he kicks Davids in the gut, runs off the ropes and hits him with a knee to the temple! The ladder comes tumbling down. BWP flips the ladder out of the ring for now and turns his attention to Steve Davids!
He grabs the kendo stick and cracks it into Steve’s ribs! And then into the back of Steve’s neck where the tacks are already impaled! BWP turns and cracks Charon over the skull, more blood oozes from his head!
But Charon is straight back up to his feet somehow! He grabs BWP from behind and bites into his shoulder!
What the hell is that!?
BWP cries out in pain, but hits an elbow to the gut. The two men turn to face each other and suddenly begin to trade a rapid flurry of forearms. One after the other! Charon comes out on top and backs the war pig into a corner, he climbs up onto the middle rope! 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9. He pauses as the crowd look for the tenth closed fist to the temple, he teases them before dropping down to the mat and hitting a bionic elbow instead!
BWP stumbles into the turnbuckle, leaning back into it. Charon runs to the opposite side of the ring, and runs at BWP with a high boot! But BWP ducks it! And Charon is all caught up on the top turnbuckle!
BWP with a brutal exploder suplex from the corner!!!
Charon flies out of the ring! But as Pig turns!
Is that a flying Steve Davids I see!?
Steve Davids soars from the top turnbuckle, with a small ladder in hand! He hits a crossbody on the War Pig, using the ladder for extra damage but it seems to have strung both men!
Davids is back up to his feet, and he picks War Pig up! He launches him into the corner! As he begins to run towards the corner though, he’s interrupted by a spinning forearm from Charon! Who uses his momentum to roll out the opposite side of the ring and head under it. He pulls out a fire extinguisher!
Charon slides into the ring and sprays the extinguisher all over Davids who rolls out of the ring to avoid freezing! Charon goes to do the same thing to Bearded War Pig, but BWP takes him down with a spear! BWP grabs the extinguisher, picks Charon up and throws him along the mat like a bowling ball, shoulder first into the extinguisher!
BWP then launches the smaller ladder out of the ring towards Davids before heading out and grabbing the biggest ladder he can find. He awkwardly slides it into the ring. He sets the ladder up in the centre of the ring and looks up at the briefcase!
One thing is for sure, that if these three men are walking on their own accord to the battle royal later tonight, it’ll be a gawd damn miracle!
Pig begins to climb the ladder! Davids enters on the other side and climbs up the opposite side! The two men meet at the top! They begin to trade punches, slowly and steadily, keeping their balance at the same time. BWP grabs Davids by the head and cracks it into the top of the ladder, Davids groggily falls back but reaches out to hold on as War Pig tries to take the briefcase!
Charon is back in the ring now though! He looks to take both men out by tipping the ladder over but they counter it by jumping down, landing on their feet. Davids swing wildly! Charon ducks it and lifts Davids high up into the air to execute a back body drop! In mid-air Bearded War Pig catches Davids into a reverse cutter!
I’m not sure if they meant to team up on Davids there, but they seem to have taken out the Psycho Sensation! He’s down and out! The War Pigs are going mental out here tonight!
The two men remaining in the ring square up to each other, they go toe-to-toe and eye-to-eye. The crowd are loving it. Charon goes to bite the War Pig but he grabs Charon by his hair and screams in his face. BWP plants Charon with a European uppercut. And another! And another! Charon is against the ropes now.
BWP takes Charon out of the ring with a clothesline! Both men are sent to the outside! Charon is down as Pig lands on his feet. He heads towards Davids who is ringside as well.
CONK!!
Davids plants War Pig with the ring bell to the skull! Pig flies to his back and blood oozes from his face.
Charon is leaning against the barricade at ringside. Davids runs towards him and looks to spear Charon through the barricade. But he dodges, Davids stops just in time… turns around! SUPER KICK! Davids drops to the mat slowly, holding his jaw in the process.
Charon isn’t done inflicting pain yet though, he pulls Davids to his feet and whips him into the barricade! He runs at him, and leaps into the air feet first, executing a brutal running drop kick!
Charon looks at War Pig, who is still out cold on the outside, and then he climbs into the ring, but instead of going for the ladder, he begins to climb the turnbuckle!
What the hell could Charon be thinking right here!?
He leaps…
Flying…
SMACK!!!!
Steel chair shot in mid-air from Bearded War Pig, out of nowhere! He must have been playing possum!
Charon is instantly folded in half, lifeless on the outside. Davids grabs Pig from behind and slams his head into the apron!
Once! Twice! Three times!
Davids rolls into the ring but BWP soon follows, grabbing Steve’s ankle as he begins to climb the ladder.
Bearded War Pig pulls Davids down to the mat. They’re both on their feet now. Davids swings wildly, BWP ducks and connects with a stiff uppercut. Davids jolts backwards and then runs with a big boot but BWP ducks again. Davids turns into one jab, two jab, three, and another uppercut! Then BWP kicks Davids in the gut, lifts him up, looking for a powerbomb!
Davids begins to punch BWP in the head, forcing him to lose concentration. Davids lands on his feet, kicks BWP in the gut and out of nowhere! SHOCKWAVE!! (Fisherman’s Cradle Neckbreaker)!
That’s it! This is the moment Steve Davids has been looking for!
What the hell is Charon doing on the outside?! He has set up a table, what on earth can he be thinking!?
Davids slowly gets to his feet, and begins to climb the ladder, but now Charon has set up a ladder next to the original ladder! And he’s climbing that!
The two men begin to trade punches at the top of the ladders! And now Bearded War Pig has joined Steve on his ladder! Charon is leaning onto the other ladder, on BWP’s side!
The momentum takes all three men tumbling! And they fall out of the ring and straight through the table!
My gawd!!! My gawd!!! There is a heap of human rubble left on the outside of the ring because of this hell of a match up! And we still haven’t got ourselves a winner!!
Bearded War Pig is the first man to his feet. He grabs the ring apron and pulls himself up. He slowly slides into the ring as Steve Davids and Charon start to stir on the outside.
BWP grabs one of the two ladders already set up in the ring and centers it under the briefcase full of xbux. Satisfied the ladder is centered he starts the slow ascent to the top while Steve Davids and Charon both slide into the ring and make a beeline for the ladder. The two man trade a few elbows to the face, the last of which sends Charon stumbling back a few feet, allowing Davids to start up the ladder after Bearded War Pig. War Pig gets to the top and reaches out for the case, his fingers barely grazing the bottom of the case. He attempts to move up one more step but is held in place by Steve Davids who has both hands gripped around BWP's left ankle. BWP looks down and with his right foot starts laying waste to Steve Davids face like Captain Kirk on the Klingon Captain at the end of Star Trek 3 The Search For Spock.
"I guess War Pig has had enough of him."
A combination of boots to the face and Charon grabbing Davids around the waste forces both Davids and Charon crashing down the ladder hitting a few steps on the way down. Now free of David's grip Bearded War Pig climbs up one more step and with both hands grabs hold of the briefcase full of Xbux and yanks it down making him the winner of the match.
The winner of this match...BEARDED WAR PIGGGGGGG!!!!!!