Northern Carnage Wrestling Presents:
Resurrection Night One
July 20, 2024- Johnstown, Pennsylvania – NCW Arena
It had been seven years since Northern Carnage Wrestling had gone cold. While some of its former crusaders carried on its themes of blood & guts, it was never the same. Although statistically the land of carnage had collapsed only a short while ago, much changed across the wider terrain of the Fiction Wrestling Multiverse. With several of the biggest names of today coming from NCW's past, what could come for the future should it return?
On a hot summer night in the rust belt of Pennsylvania, the world would get a glimpse at what that future may look like. A genuine wrestling show promoted by Northern Carnage Wrestling out of the Cambria Country War Memorial Arena (aka the NCW Arena) was set to kick off. For those familiar with the brand, they won't be surprised to find how stripped down the ambience is compared to other wrestling shows. All lights are on the squared circle, decked out with blue ring ropes, a spotless white canvas, and matching black aprons & posts that are adorn with the revamped NCW logo. From the perspective of the hard camera (situated behind the heads of the commentators), the makings of an angled entry way can be seen out of left corner of the screen. Shots from the two hand-held cameras at ringside reveal the source of the entry way to be no more than a dark curtain embellished with LEDs that are defaulted to blue. The NCW insignia looms overhead.
The focus of the crowd is not on the set-dressing but the action that will soon occur in the ring. For over the course of the next two nights, the NCW will crown its first world champions in this revival. Two eight person tournaments are being hosted simultaneously, but the participants have been mysterious. In some ways, this revival has reverted NCW into a newborn company just building its roster. Rumors have abounded over who will be filling the brackets, with those only being confirmed or denied by the match cards flashing on the recently installed four-way video screen hanging above the ring (added by the building owners, not the wrestling promotion).
Korra vs. Coco Bandicoot- Quarter Finals in NCW World Women's Championship
The first match of the revival, as well as kicking off the chase for the World Women's Championship, featured two stalwarts of the Land of Carnage. The inaugural entrance came with much anticipation, not just because of its overall importance to kicking off the show but who it was for. "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts signaled the arrival of the individual who at one point was considered the face of its entire female roster. But in some ways the collapse of NCW was pinned upon the ego she began to develop from the accolades she constantly received. After a trip of embracing her inner Judas, she had gone relatively quiet across the fictional wrestling multiverse. The question of how Avatar Korra would be received upon returning to the NCW Arena were answered with a pop from the audience.
If she had returned a little wiser was going to be contested by her opponent. Coco Bandicoot, sister to former 3-time NCW World Men's Champion, has logged over two decades in the squared circle. The land of carnage was no stranger to her, having held the Women's Championship before and being part of a celebrated Ladder War bout a decade ago. While she lost that match to her opponent tonight, there were little doubts about Coco's in-ring capabilities. It would also be true bliss if both halves of the Bandicoot family could leave these tournaments with gold in hand.
For NCW standards, Korra and Coco's match this night was a clean sport. While Korra was pulling a louder crowd response, it was Coco who was standing in the opening as the master of the ring. The Smart Sister knew the outside was unsafe territory to be sharing with the Avatar, evading a crossbody to the outside. The dazed Korra had her brain rattled right after with an Inverted DDT on the unforgiving ground. Although she endured a moonsault for a pin attempt, the lag time getting back in the ring prevented her from falling comatose at that moment. Coco's own ambitions in taking flight are also cut down. An attempt to hit her patented IQ Drop (Diving Tornado DDT) in the center of the ring is reversed into a Saito suplex. She soon tries to capitalize with a running big boot, but Coco averts. Only for the Hardcore Avatar to cut her down with an enziguri on the rebound. Korra eventually puts her opponent down with her trademark Water Whip (spinning heel kick), but its far from enough to win at that juncture.
There's a point the momentum of the match is on a razor thin edge, as both women are capable of exchanging chops even as their chests begin to sting. Coco appears to get the edge, going for a Crash and Burn corkscrew senton, but is caught by Korra. But an attempt at another Saito is swung back into a DDT. That allows Coco the time to try for another Crash and Burn, but this time Korra evades and puts her opponent down with a dropkick. She rolls into a senton upon Coco and goes for the cover, but again fails to end the match. It compels Korra to go high risk, seemingly shaking Coco out of her senses enough to seat her in one corner. Korra attempts the Element to Element, but only smacks her feet into the bottom turnbuckle. Knowing about Korra's history with leg injuries, Coco does deck a few nasty jabs at her calf muscles. Korra's on wobbly ground and fed into a Wumpa Twist (Twist of Fate). Coco senses an opportunity to close things out and takes the time to take flight and execute the Bandi-Elbow (Frog Splash transitioned into a Elbow Drop). But is upset by a late kickout from Korra.
Kicking out of the finish brings a new ovation out of the crowd for the Hardcore Avatar. Coco tries snuffing out the situation with another attempt at the Wumpa Twist, but Korra transitions out. A high knee to the jaw at close range stuns Coco back into a corner, made to appear dazed with a running high knee that's followed by a bulldog. Korra stirs up the band of 3,500 fans in attendance, all anticipating a Water Whip. It has the unintended effect of giving Coco the warning of what was coming. She catches Korra's foot, spins her out. She successfully hit a discus elbow, but running to the well of the Crash and Burn once more was not the right call. Korra evades, scoops up the battered Coco and throws her back toward one of the turnbuckles with a Korralizer (Package Fallaway Powerbomb)! Korra, still pained, draws Coco back out of the corner for a complete pin, winning her first match back in NCW!
Crash Bandicoot vs. Choi Da-San- Quarter Finals in NCW World Men's Championship
Off the heels of one Bandicoot's frustrations comes another's opportunity. There is a standing ovation for the return of the N. Sane Bandicoot to the NCW Arena. Crash Bandicoot is the clear favorite to win this match and possibly the whole tournament. His first obstacle to capturing the world championship a record breaking forth time is someone unknown to the NCW faithful. Choi Da-San comes out with a rather generic look. All black tights and pads, slick back hair that's buzz shaved on either side. His Asian complexion makes one presume he'll be wickedly athletic but have little charisma translating across the language barrier.
At the sound of the bell, Da-San offers a respectful handshake to his favored foe. Crash leans forward to accept, only to be SMACKED across the face. A grin too large to be natural grows on Da-San's face, giving Crash the hint he's in fact entered the ring with a wildcard he knows little about. And the vicious exchange of knees Crash must deflect in the early going show it. But for as speedy as he may be, Da-San is also quick to get hung up in midflight. Crash has his senses to feed one of those knees into a back body drop, giving him the opportunity to hitting an Orange Twister (Corkscrew Leg Drop) to a prone Da-San across the bottom rope. A flying forearm smash puts Da-San down but he's far from out.
The two ultimately spill to the outside, but Da-San counters Crash's efforts to dive off the barricade into a double knee backbreaker. He builds upon the momentum with a double foot stomp into Crash's abdomen, having jumped from the same spot on the barricade his opponent was hoping to use earlier. Little respect is shown as Da-San mud stomps Crash between the stairs and ring apron before returning him to the ring. A simple elbow drop has the sense of more malice from its delay and Da-San's cackle one executing it to Crash's heart. But the N. Sane Bandicoot stays alive before the referee can count to three on the pin.
Da-San looks to wear out Crash as much as he can, using a sleeper hold to deprive his opponent of having any leverage with the ropes. He follows it up with a inverted powerslam but is unable to score with a diving elbow drop. Both wrestlers drag themselves to opposing corners. Crash is up first, but Da-San ducks under a clothesline. He springboards off of the top turnbuckle, hoping to splash back on a rebounding Crash with a diving reverse elbow. But Crash catches him, spins him about and plants him into the canvas with an Aftershock (Sitout Side Slam). The moment has come to deploy the Crash Landing (High Angle Senton Bomb), but a battered Crash takes some time getting up on the top rope. Da-San can scramble up the turnbuckles and begins elbowing wildly at Crash's head. Crash collapses into the corner, struggling to stay on his hands and knees. Da-San has him set up for the Crosshairs (Knee Strike to a cornered opponent). However, Da-San was a bit too foolish to think someone who had endured terrifying falls and a barbed wire massacre was down for the count at this stage. Crash evades the Crosshairs, Da-San's knee careening into the middle turnbuckle. He's victim to a Wumpa Twist that receives an exclamation in a successful Crash-Landing moments after! Crash makes the successful pin, and advances in the tournament!
Erin Parry vs. Kaylie Kassiss- Quarter Finals in NCW World Women's Championship
The next chapter in the tournament for women's gold brings fresh faces to Johnstown. The two competitors who are making their debuts in NCW could not be more opposite. Erin Parry sticks out like a sore thumb standing in the middle of the rust-belt crowd. Cloaked in a royal red robe that likely valued higher than the average paycheck of the audience, the Silver Screen Siren makes it clear she is the brightest star thus far seen tonight….at least in her head. She even goes as far as to request the referee to aid in disrobing, but only after bestowing them a pair of white gloves less they soil her priceless overwear with them rough hands. In all fairness, she does shine like a star once her bodysuit is revealed, decked out in gold sequences that reflect the lights of the arena. By contrast, Kaylie Kassiss looks plucked from the stands, her only separation being an aura of conviction. She's dressed less for a wrestling match but more for a back street brawl with boots, cargo shorts and athletic brasserie. Her choice of 80s rock for entrance also clashes with Parry's 2010s pop. Kassis looks ready to drag Parry into the reality that is the hardcore grim NCW is known for.
The opening moments are comedic as Parry gingerly locks up with Kassiss but pulls back the moment she's sucked into a headlock. She does not like being touched by what she would describe as a mere street urchin. Noticeably, Parry uses her feet rather than her hands to cause damage to her opponent during this match's prologue. But its Kassiss' open palms that determine the earlier momentum. Parry seeks shelter on the outside but learns quickly how unsafe of place that is in the NCW Arena. Kassiss was all too eager to dip outside and batter Parry against the barricades. Southampton's Pharaoh uses a steel chair to get some hang-time, wrapping her legs around the head of the propped-up Parry. The skull of the Silver Screen Siren is taken to the unforgiven floor with a hurricarana.
The lag time from highlight move to pin attempt is too much, giving Parry time to regain her senses. Kassiss' want to smack the movie star around some more for the blue-collar crowd's enjoyment leads to being poked in the eyes. A pair of kicks to the thigh and midsection put Kassiss in line for Parry's Starlight Strike (High-Impact Roundhouse Kick). Parry slows the pace intentionally, tugging Kassis' leg in opposite directions. She tries to wheelbarrow lift her into spinebuster but Kassiss is capable of pulling her down to the mat with legs locked around the head for a pin attempt. Parry breaks out and trips up Kassis. After stunning her with a Paparazzi Snap (Snap DDT), Parry locks her into a single leg boston crab. Kassiss sees a set of ropes nearby and would be in easy reach of getting them, but it appears that's what Parry truly wanted. She switches from leglocks to ensnaring the outreaching army behind Kassis' back. Southampton's Pharaoh is forced to her feet and spun into a fierce lariat by Parry.
Parry takes time to rest against the ropes and wait for Kassiss to get back to her feet. She wipes her hands along her legs before crudely brushing some stray hairs back into line. It seems to be an unwise move as Kassiss charges for Parry, but the Silver Screen Siren pulls the top rope down and her opponent inadvertently tumbles to the floor. Wanting to deliver a receipt for the earlier hurricarana, Parry delivers a brainbuster on the ground, leaving Kassis to the din of NCW's twenty count. Feeling victory assured (and perhaps neglecting the company's extra count time), Parry offers the white gloves from earlier to a cameraman to help re-robe her for her exit. But the theatrics distract from her still alive opponent clawing for the ring apron. At the ten count Kassis rolls back into the ring, dazed by the brainbuster but breathing.
Parry was done toying and began to unload with stomps on her opponent's legs. She attempts to twist Kassiss' legs into a figure four, but the Southampton Pharaoh grabs a hold of the Siren's shoulders, preventing her from stretching the leg back. Parry tries to smack Kassis away, only to receive a sickening but effective headbutt that breaks the two women's holds. Kassiss stagers to her feet, favoring her head severely but sensing the momentum pivoting back to her side. Parry evades a running big boot but is taken down by a run of Kassiss Karpet Bombing (Poetry In Motion). She dazes Parry silly with a knee to the gut, a knee to the jaw, before completing her Flank and Center with a DDT. Kassiss makes the cover…. but Parry's foot reaches the bottom rope, aborting the pin effort.
Kassiss efforts to reposition Parry give the Silver Screen Siren and opening. She clings to her opponent's cargo shorts to try and get back up. Kassiss shakes her off with a open palm and sets up for a running knee strike. But where Parry should be seated against the ropes becomes a void at the last second. Parry rolls up Kassis, both wrestlers legs flaying in panic for different reasons as surprisingly it is good enough for the three count! Parry wins to the shock and frustrations of everyone in the NCW Arena.
How did Kassiss go from getting a second wind to being foiled by a mere roll over? Well…a replay from the hard camera may have the answer. Unseen by the referee or the hand-held camera, Parry's hand can be seen yanking on the waist of Kassiss' cargo shorts. Worth noting that her hand is pulling in the direction putting as much pressure to prevent the upper-body from breaking out. It's a dirty tactic, but sometimes that's what it takes to get it down in the grime of NCW.
Mako vs. Travis Touchdown- Quarter Finals in NCW World Men's Championship
In the next contest over the World Men's Championship tournament, its technically a battle between a NCW stalwart and newbie. But when you compare age and experience, that newbie has for to speak of. What both share are fictional wrestling careers marked by 'missed opportunities. While he had shared in tag team and midcard titles, Mako never was able to break into the main event quite like the other two thirds of the Fire Ferrets. Travis Touchdown had been without a wrestling home since the closure of UWE. Considering his passion for wrestling, getting to head to NCW was in essence a way to life out some sort of pipe dream of being in the original land of extreme. Mako, though familiar to the crowd, quickly found that Touchdown was being welcomed as the favorite in this match. Giving the one-time law enforcer motivation to clean Touchdown's clock.
Mako does not let Touchdown get comfortable in the NCW Arena. He whips him something fierce both in and out of the ring at the onset of the bell. But there are flashes of what Touchdown is capable of, such as reversing a running clothesline into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. But a suicide dive into the guard rail by Mako reminds Touchdown just what kind of company he had signed to be a part of. Mako's closest chance to cutting Touchdown's debut short with a scoop powerslam, followed up with springboard leg drop off the turnbuckle. But impressively Touchdown gets the should up at two. Mako's efforts at a RKO-like cutter are broken apart, being spun instead into a german suplex. Touchdown tries to twist Mako into a Texas cloverleaf, but Mako can keep himself from being dragged off by clinging to the ring apron. He kicks Touchdown away and the two exchange a series of ever more resentful palm strikes. Touchdown gets the upper hand, putting Mako away with the Thunder Ryu Bomb (Folding Powerbomb) to claim victory!
Nazarena Galvez vs. Grace Waters- Quarter Finals in NCW World Women's Championship
What happens when you put someone claiming to be a "Latina Chainsaw" against an opponent so irate at the universe they have disregarded their family name? You get this Quarter Final match in the Women's Championship Tournament. The match began with a violent tie up that saw Galvez and Waters rocking into half of the ring's corners before Galvez had her opponent squeezed against the bottom buckle. Efforts to neckbreak Waters in the middle of the ring get Galvez pushed face first into the opposite turnbuckles. Galvez jumps outside to evade a body avalanche. Incredibly Waters lost no steam from it and planchas out of the ring and onto her foe.
From there….chaos reigned. A fist-fight broke out on the outside, with neither woman truly gaining headway. They stretched the twenty count to its limit before having to mutually break to prevent being both counted out of a shot at the championship. They picked right up from where they left off, now Galvez is gaining the edge from the size advantage. She succeeded in spinning Waters out into a kneeling facebuster, but it was not nothing for a win. She threw Waters into a corner in preparation of a spear, but a discus elbow by Waters stunned her momentum. A European uppercut sent Galvez stumbling back into the ropes. But Waters efforts to clothesline her out of the ring were stopped with an uppercut of Galvez's own creation. The waist-lift scoop powerslam drops Waters, who again kicks out.
Galvez decides to stretch the will of Waters with some Philadelphia Fury (Camel Clutch), but Waters doesn't give her the chance to properly lock it in. With one hand loose, elbow jabs and a roll over yields an unexpected pin effort. Galvez can kick out but suffers a nasty stomp square over her nose. It was no accident as Waters started stomping in a cycle only broken up by the referee. The damage is soon on full display, as blood starts draining out of the inflamed nostrils. Galvez pushes the referee aside (the crowd pops) and drills Waters in the corner with a running clothesline. She attempts to perch Waters on top of the turnbuckle, but for what is not discovered. Waters knocks Galvez off the high ground before jumping toward her, drilling her heat with a Tornado DDT! Back on her feet, she slung the head of Galvez across the middle rope and, with knee to the back of the neck, began to choke her out! The referee eventually stepped in for a separation, but Waters wasn't done. She attempted to pull Galvez down to the mat with a choke applied, but Galvez kept a leg on the bottom rope to prevent it being legal. Trying to pounce on her yet again was a bad move, as this time Galvez ducks and applies a hammerlock. She kneels and executes the Latina Chainsaw (Kneeling Reverse Piledriver), but the chokes and broken nose delay her time to capitalize. Waters rolls to the outside, laying on the floor and reeling from the effects of the finisher.
The bloodied Galvez crawls to the ropes, hoping to just reach out and pull Waters in by her hair. But is in for a shock as the scrawny girl out of Poughkeepsie BITES Galvez on the nose! There is fury in her eyes as Waters slingshots her way back into the ring, taking Galvez off her feet with a diving clothesline. Locking legs around her opponent's body, Waters locks on a mandible claw. The battered Galvez soon slumps to her side, forcing the referee to call the match in favor of Grace Waters.
Christopher House vs. Aiden Mason- Quarter Finals in NCW World Men's Championship
"CUT THE F*ING MUSIC!"
Christopher House, the Franchise of Carnage, was back in the NCW Arena. The crowd was raving for the entrance of the company's most feared yet revered competitors. There was no doubt about him playing a role in the ongoing tournament over World Men's Championship, but this was not the capacity he had saw himself in.
"….I will not deny there were many nights I dreamed about this…..about a resurrection of my crucible!...Those three letters, they forged me into the man that stands before God and humanity today….but alas, its still merely a dream and not reality. Because if this was truly NCW, I would be locking eyes with a worthy foe….who the hell is this!?"
A blunt but fair question when concerning Chris's opponent. In the opposing corner was a sea wall of a man who looked have waltzed right off the beaches of California and into the Land of Carnage. The harsh surroundings do not break his composure, as he's leaning back against the turnbuckle with eyes shielded by sunglasses.
"Let me see this."
House snatches a cue card out of the hand of Stephen DeAngelis' hand. They were necessary on a night witnessing numerous entrances.
"Hailing from….Laguna Beach….The Laguna Laid Back….Aiden Mason…What Type Of Name Is That?" Chris throws the cue card in Mason's direction. "Son, you best start walking now because you got some serious mileage to get up to Erie"
Mason simply chuckles, appearing to mouth something along the lines of "The Great Lakes Don't Count, Bro"
"This is ridiculous. Seven Years? Seven Years! This is what I'm given! An obese So-Cal Soy-Boy!...what, you have something to say? Fine, come here."
House motions for Mason to meet him in the ring….but serves the microphone to his HEAD rather than his hand!
Its clear the Franchise of Carnage was trying to get one over an opponent who had a clear size advantage. His barrage of fist-o-cuffs soon go numb on Mason, who shoves the former world champion halfway across the ring with one stroke of the arm. Mason invites House to try again, and this attempt to swamp the Laguna Laid-Back sees House thrown down with a belly-to-back suplex. Successful in sweeping the NCW Stalwart off his feet, Mason takes a victory lounge in the corner. Eyeglasses are still on while an irate House sits before him. To make things worse for House, the crowd was laughing at him and warming up to the newcomer.
Now the two got down to business. This was a match that saw Christopher House trying to hammer in to Aiden Mason that he ought to respect the gravitas of the moment. That being Chris's moment, his return to power in the Land of Carnage. But Mason does a good job swatting the deathmatch specialists for reality. He's not in a death struggle with a Bandicoot, he's in a straightforward singles match. That doesn't mean Mason can't connect with the cult crowd around him, as he gets everyone to start doing a wave in unison. This builds anticipation for a stinger splash in the corner, followed up by an Uranage Slam back into the ring.
House increase frustrations with the situation do begin to fuel moves more dangerous for Mason. A hiptoss toward the ropes allows House to rebound with a pendulum lariat. Though it only causes a stagger, it gives the opening to send Mason to the mat via a running bulldog. Although not known as a submissionist, House nevertheless attempts a form of a crossface. He wretches the head and neck of Mason, using the hold less to force a tap out but more adding damage to his opponent's body. Mason manages to drag himself to the ropes, but by the time he gets himself back to his feet he has House's foot driven at his skull with a Carbon Footprint!
Mason kept a brave face through the escalation of House's violence. But as he tried to fireman's carry his opponent off the top turnbuckle, a series of elbows forced him to drop the weight. A SECOND Carbon footprint throws Mason against the ropes. The Franchise of Carnage feeds Mason's head under the left arm and executes the Peach Creek Plunge (Fisherman Buster). With a emphatic hook of the leg and glare into oblivion, House makes the pin and wins!
While Christopher House has a second round to look upon, he still got one eye on the Laguna Laid-Back. At some point in the match, Mason had gotten serious and put the sunglasses aside. Seeing them sitting under one of the buckles, House breaks from his victory pose to snatch them up. With Mason still down on the mat, House smashes the blunt end of the frames against his cranium repeatedly! After a few strikes, splinters of black plastic scatter across Mason's body and the ring. With a shove of the surviving lens into Mason's mouth, House is finally satisfied with his triumph. Though he had soured some of the fans against him, nothing new for a House in Johnstown.
Macy Tarr vs. Winifred Theodesia Beechling- Quarter Finals in World Women's Championship
Macy Tarr, the fairer sister of Grace Waters, is not a name associated with NCW. Yet she had been a key component backstage in the latter days of the company's original run, being a go-to trainer and occasional referee who occasionally filled the unsavory occupation of jobber. In fact, one of her students had taken part in this tournament, that being Kaylie Kassis. After numerous false starts, she had been encouraged to try one more time at making a in-ring legacy for herself with NCW's relaunch.
Where Macy was plain jane aside from her silver dyed locks, her opponent wowed with her entrance. English-born Winifred Theodesia Beechling took the steampunk aesthetic to the next level, as noted by both shoulders cloaked in tattoos of gears and cogs. Though she may be a bit too bright in color to fit into the NCW Arena, her enthusiasm about her odds tonight makes her easy to rally behind.
This match shaped into a clash between substance vs style. That should not deter from either woman's athleticism, but all eyes are on Beechling who's able to feed a dazed Tarr into a series of strikes that pummel her to the mat, a flurry she dubs the Gadget Grapple. But what Tarr does display is a knack of getting out of many sticky situations. Unable to employ a rope break to get out of Beechling's crossface chickenwing, Tarr's able to contort her neck enough to loosen the crossface, and with a lunge forward dumps Beechling upon the mat and breaks free. Though trying to use her arm proves impractical in the succeeding minutes.
Beechling puts Tarr through hell with a leghook german suplex. But when trying to transition into the Fujiwara armbar, Tarr clasps her good hand with the arm of interest. Frustrated, Beechling aborts the effort and goes for her finisher, the Steam-Powered Exploder (Exploder suplex lift into a scoop powerslam). But Tarr keeps alive by recognizing the bottom rope being near and extending her foot. Beechling has a brief questioning with the referee but goes back to plotting another go the Steam Powered Exploder. This one is in the center of the ring, far from the reach of the ropes. But through all her might, Tarr slowly begins to pivot out of Beechling's grasp. A spinning heel kick stuns Beechling before she springboards her whole body off the ropes, knocking her opponent down with a flying crossbody. With the crowd fully backing Tarr at this stage, she struggles to her feet and tries pulling Beechling into an inverted DDT. Beechling throws her forward into the ropes. The rebound of the ropes gives Tarr the opportunity needed to springboard back into a modified version of the Silver Blade (as a springboard stunner rather than a handspring cutter). Tarr hooks the leg and makes the cover, picking up the win. Tarr is the most surprised, not expecting to come out on top with a now limp arm. But shell will enjoy this accomplishment, even if it's just one step toward the true prize.
Bolin vs. Benjamin Botes- Quarter Finals in World Men's Championship
The last of the round one matches at last arrives. In one corner was quite possibly the most beloved male wrestler to come out of the original NCW. That is no disrespect to the likes of Crash Bandicoot, but nothing could rival the fan interaction The Whole Damn Deal of the Fire Ferrets had when he walks into the NCW Arena to Pantera's Walk. But he has an enigma to face if he wishes to become the world champion. Making his debut was Benjamin Botes. While the NCW Faithful new little of his background, the imposing six footer going by the calling of the Hyena of Johannesburg quickly struck fear in the hearts of all.
While much of the matches had been tame for the company, this final bout reminded everyone what the 'C' meant. From Bolin crossbodying upon Botes over the barricade and into the crowd, to Botes dragging Bolin off the top rope and plummeting to the floor with the Predator's Embrace (Straitjacket Gory Neckbreaker). The only reason the latter didn't end the contest was the lag time in getting Bolin back inside the ring. Bolin endures stomps to the skull while being caught in a Keylock armdrag, but Botes would later have to take the spinning leg drop to his back while draped across the top rope. But it was Botes who would ultimately get the momentum firmly in his grasp when he evaded a Five Star Frog Splash, in which he'd been stretched out across the timekeeper's table. Botes slid aside and Bolin crashed through the splinters and to the unforgiving floor below.
Botes deploys an added layer of punishment by removing the padding of one of the top turnbuckles. Though Bolin tries to delay whatever the Hyena has planned with a final salvo of kicks, it's not enough to prevent being spinebusted into the exposed steel. Followed up by not one but TWO Savage Impacts (Power Breaker), and Botes secures his spot in the second round of the NCW Men's World Championship Tournament. Having the Whole Damn Deal of the original company laid out at the end of this return gives fans at home is a warning. A warning of the dangers now loose across the Fiction Wrestling Multiverse now that the Land of Carnage is back in business.
Quick Results:
Korra defeats Coco Bandicoot via pinfall at 10:32
Crash Bandicoot defeats Choi-Da-San via pinfall at 8:41
Erin Parry defeats Kaylie Kassis via pinfall at 15:04
Travis Touchdown defeats Mako by pinfall at 7:25
Grace Waters defeats Nazarena Galvez by technical knockout at 14:50
Christopher House defeats Aiden Mason by pinfall at 11:21
Macy Tarr defeats Winifred Theodesia Beechling by pinfall at 12:09
Benjamin Botes defeats Bolin by pinfall at 17:37
Night Two Card:
Crash Bandicoot vs. Benjamin Botes- Men's World Championship Tournament Semi Finals Red
Christopher House vs. Travis Touchdown- Men's World Championship Tournament Semi Finals Blue
Korra vs. Erin Parry- Women's World Championship Tournament Semi Finals Red
Macy Tarr vs. Grace Waters- Women's World Championship Tournament Semi Finals Blue
Red vs. Blue -NCW Women's World Championship Match
Red vs. Blue -NCW Men's World Championship Match
*card subject to change*