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The Lineup

GOLD RUSH:
Greensboro Ring

Center Ring: Old Friends

GOLD RUSH:
Presidential Ring

Center Ring: Upstaged

GOLD RUSH:
Title Shot Ring

GOLD RUSH:
United States Ring

Presidential Approval Ratings

GOLD RUSH:
Center Ring

Don't Stop Now




GOLD RUSH Challenge
Greensboro Championship Ring

PARSONS: With all the chaos going on around here with all four rings getting underway at once, this is gonna be a challenge – but if you’re listening to the sound of my voice right now, you’re ready for the Greensboro ring.

BUCKLEY JR: This is the lowest ring on the totem pole tonight to some people, but if you know anything about CSWA history you know the importance that the Greensboro Championship has played in this company over the years.

PARSONS: Indeed there have been some big names to hold this belt over the years – the list of former World Champions who also held the Greensboro Title includes Mark Windham, GUNS, Evan Aho, Anarky and Shane Southern. In addition, others like current US Champ Kin Kiroshi, Wicked Sight, plus current UNIFIED Champion Troy Windham’s first gold belt was the vaunted Greensboro Title. So whoever stands last in this ring will take over a lot of history in addition to moving on for a chance at the UNIFIED World Title.

BUCKLEY JR: Well, of the ten guys currently in that ring, I’ve got a guy in mind I expect to win.

PARSONS: And that is?

BUCKLEY JR: Anyone but JA.

PARSONS: Anyone but JA? That’s not a pick. And what do you have against the Greensboro Champ anyway?

BUCKLEY JR: The guy doesn’t even have a real name! It’s two letters for cryin’ out loud. Who’s his arch nemesis? LT? The RS Express?

PARSONS: Well, on the heels of that startling insight – let’s get this one underway!

BUCKLEY JR: All four ring bells chime simultaneously at once and listen to this capacity crowd go nuts! Where else can you get over forty men going head to head all at one time?! And The Unified World Champion is in the middle absorbing it all!

PARSONS: Right off the bat there are a couple groups pairing off although it seems Wes Ikeda, Xion Exodus and Mike Small are concentrating on the champion. Mike C and Daymon have paired off in one corner as the two EUWC superstars slug it out. Eron the Relentless is taking it to JJ Deville against the ropes and Kevin Watson and Nemesis seem to be going at it as well!

BUCKLEY JR: Watson with a clothesline on Nemesis that almost sends him out early, but he holds on to the top rope and gets a thumb to the eye on Watson to end that quickly!

PARSONS: Greensboro Champion JA is fighting off three men as he takes turns firing right hands to Ikeda…now to Exodus!!....Small takes on and stumbles back! Dropkick to Small and he goes to the corner hard!! JA with a knife edge chop to Ikeda, who grabs his chest like he’s been SHOT!

BUCKLEY JR: It sounded like he was! Mike C with the upper hand on Daymon as he goes behind and puts a hard forearm into the kidneys! Full nelson on Daymon -- Mike C tried to drive him forward, but Daymon slips down out of the hold and sweeps the legs out from under Mike C! Anklelock on Mike C near the corner, but it doesn’t last long as they get a little too close to Nemesis, who stomps Daymon right in the back of the head for good measure, breaking the anklelock!!

PARSONS: The former two-time US Champion, Nemesis, now turns back toward Watson, who took the brunt of a hard back elbow from Nemesis a few moments ago….Watson to his feet and Nemesis backs him into the corner and whips him across the ring….Wes Ikeda doesn’t see him coming and turns around just in time to catch a Kevin Watson clothesline that sends him flying over the ropes for our first elimination of the night!! Wes Ikeda is eliminated!

BUCKLEY JR: Now the man formerly known as K-9, Kevin Watson, cleaning house on Exodus and Mike Small, giving that goody two shoes JA a chance to regroup, but not for long….Nemesis is over and taking some shots at the champ!! JA trying to cover up and Nemesis goes for the prize!! He’s trying to dump JA over and eliminate the Greensboro Champion right now!!

PARSONS: What a coup this would be for a guy like Nemesis, coming back into the CSWA after such a long hiatus and taking out the champion so early on! But he would still have to be the last man standing in this ring to become the Greensboro champion!

BUCKLEY JR: Nemesis fighting to get him over! Watson whipping Mike Small across the ring! He whips Exodus as well and they collide in the middle of the ring! Exodus goes down! Mike Small is wobbly and is taken by the back of the head and tossed over the top rope by Kevin Watson!! Mike Small is up, over and out! That’s two by Watson now!!

PARSONS: Watson turning and sees Nemesis trying to dump the champ over the top and clubs Nemesis in the back, breaking it up!

BUCKLEY JR: Meanwhile, Eron the Relentless is living up to his name just pummeling JJ Deville…and for once tonight the Unified World Champion’s gaze is right here on his old friend and former Greensboro Champ JJ.

PARSONS: Old friend huh?

BUCKLEY JR: Yep, and his old friend is getting his head handed to him.

PARSONS: Eron with a snap suplex!! A leg drop!! Leg across the rope and he comes down hard on that knee! Hand full of hair and there goes JJ DEVILLE!! NO!! He grabbed onto the top rope and held on!! Eron doesn’t see it though because he’s walking back across the ring toward the action between Mike C and Daymon, but JJ Deville has saved himself with a hand full of top rope!

BUCKLEY JR: Mike C and Daymon still going at it in the corner and a belly to belly suplex by Daymon sends Mike C flying into the center of the ring! Daymon sees Eron coming at him, but takes a right hand to the side of the head! Eron backs Daymon up and whips him across the ring! Eron drops to the mat as Daymon leaps over! Eron back up and uses Daymon’s momentum to lift him HIGH IN THE AIR AND HE DROPS RIGHT ON HIS FACE!!

PARSONS: Mike C up now! Clips the knee of Eron the Relentless!! Stomps to the back of the knee and Eron is trying to wiggle away! JA with Watson double teaming Nemesis and Xion Exodus is trying to get into the mix! Watson and JA turn…and IN ONE FLUID MOTION THEY TAKE EXODUS AND THROW HIM INTO THE AIR AND OVER THE ROPES!! Xion Exodus is eliminated from GOLD RUSH!

BUCKLEY JR: Three down, seven to go!!!

PARSONS: Mike C done stomping Eron’s knee it seems and he’s back to Daymon, who’s getting to his feet! Mike C with a charge! Daymon moves out of the way and Mike C goes headlong into the corner!! Daymon with a charge of his own…he pancakes Mike C in the corner and German Suplexes him out of the corner!! Daymon still on Mike C!! He whips him back into the corner and starts to climb! He’s pulling him up!! He’s motioning for the Brain Rocker Redux!! They’re way up there and this will be all if he hits it!!

BUCKLEY JR: Wait!! Eron is back up and leaning against the ropes!! He gets a springboard from the top rope and dives at Mike C and Daymon!! THEY GO TUMBLING OUT OF THE RING!! ERON THE RELENTLESS HAS JUST ELIMINATED BOTH DAYMON AND MIKE C AT THE SAME TIME!!

PARSONS: What an unfortunate turn of events for Daymon and Classy Mike C, but what a hell of an effort by both men and an even greater effort by former jOlt Champion Eron in just getting up there to knock those guys out of this matchup.

BUCKLEY JR: Well, I’ll tell you something else too. Even though he’s been eliminated, Mike C might wanna thank Eron the Relentless, because if Daymon hits that Brain Rocker from way up there, Mike C is dead right now. I know some of you were praying. So was I, actually.

PARSONS: Moving on… Eron catching his breath now, but he turns and directly catches the gaze of JJ Deville, who wants no part of Eron!!

BUCKLEY JR: And over here on the other side, JA and Kevin Watson are still working over Nemesis – they’ve got him halfway over the ropes and are trying to shove him the rest of the way! Watson’s motioning to JA now, who loosens up his grip and….Kevin Watson’s saying something…JA seems to be holding Nemesis up…..Watson steps back….

PARSONS: OHHH!! Superkick!! BUT HE HIT IT ON JA!! JA almost going over, but he snaps back down to the mat!!

BUCKLEY JR: Our first betrayal of the night!! I love it!!

PARSONS: Kevin Watson and Nemesis are old contemporaries from several years ago in the CSWA, but they certainly weren’t buddies back then. Watson quick sees that JA didn’t go to the floor, and now he sees Nemesis is still against the ropes!! Watson with a charge and clotheslines Nemesis over the top to the floor!!! We are down to our final four!!! Nemesis has been eliminated by Kevin Watson!

BUCKLEY JR: Apparently there was no love lost between them, despite Nemesis hinting at some sort of familial connection over the last few weeks. Instead, the man formerly known as K-9 is in, and Nemesis is OUT! Watson pulls JA to his feet and catches him with a kick to the midsection. Double underhook…he lifts him up and plants his fact into the mat with a piledriver!! Watson pulling him back up!! He tries to toss him over the ropes, but JA holds on yet again!!! He’s like that annoying little spider you chase around your house trying to squash him, but he keeps hiding under the bed, then the couch, then…

PARSONS: Fascinating, really, but we’ve got action in the ring you boob! Eron the Relentless is stalking JJ Deville on the other side of the ring!! He’s got him! Whip to the ropes! Clothesline!! Former Greensboro Champ and Troy Windham wanna-be JJ Deville goes down hard!! Eron pulls him up! Deville is on dream street!! Eron to the top rope for the high-risk maneuver!! Missile Dropkick!! That almost did it!! Deville into the ropes but he gets tangled up!!

BUCKLEY JR: Eron’s got him now!! It’s time for everybody’s favorite Winger fan to take the long ride to the floor!

PARSONS: Eron with a running start and he LEAPS UP AND SWINGS AROUND THE BACK OF JJ DEVILLE’S HEAD WITH A HARD SAVATE STYLE KICK!!

BUCKLEY JR: And that’s all she wrote, Stan!! It’s only a matter of time!!

PARSONS: Watson setting Greensboro Champion JA up onto the top rope! The champ fires back with a right hand!! Watson fires back!!

BUCKLEY JR: It’s a slugfest! He’s fighting it up there! He’s not ready to give up the title just yet, even though it’s inevitable.

PARSONS: I wouldn’t say that just yet. Watson with a hard clubbing right hand and JA slumps on the top turnbuckle! Watson climbing back up there with him and hooks him in….superplex to the middle of the ring!! That shook the entire ring!!

BUCKLEY JR: Eron pulling JJ Deville out of the ropes now and setting him throat first across the top rope!! He climbs up top!! He leaps to the outside of the rope and drops a leg across the head of JJ DEVILLE!!! DEVILLE FLIPS UP AND OVER THE TOP ROPE AND HE’S OUTTA HERE!!! WOW!! JJ DeVille is eliminated from Gold Rush and his Unified Title dreams.

PARSONS: What a move!!

BUCKLEY JR: An amazing display of athleticism from Eron the Relentless and our final three here in the Greensboro ring are Eron, JA and the surprising Kevin ‘K-9’ Watson!!

PARSONS: Long time fans remember that in his first stint Kevin Watson was little more than enhancement talent…

BUCKLEY JR: But he’s back now and has a real chance to upset the field and take home the Greensboro Championship!!

PARSONS: Eron slides back into the ring from the apron as Watson pulls JA back to his feet and sets him up on the turnbuckle again!!

BUCKLEY JR: JA is out of it here, Stan!! I don’t think he has enough fight left in him to defend against this!

PARSONS: Watson climbing up top, but here comes Eron behind him!

BUCKLEY JR: He doesn’t see him!!!

PARSONS: Eron with a low blow!! Watson howls in pain!!

BUCKLEY JR: The equalizer!!

PARSONS: Watson just tumbles to the mat and Eron is taking advantage!! He gets up onto the second turnbuckle and he’s locking JA in!! He’s got him into a standing headscissors position on the top turnbuckle!! Eron could go a long way to finishing this right here!! He wants to take out the Greensboro Champion right now!

BUCKLEY JR: He’s taking a big risk!! High reward, but the risk is big time right here, Stan!!

PARSONS: Eron pulling to get him up!! He’s trying to make the turn for the powerbomb!!!

BUCKLEY JR: OH MY GOD!!

PARSONS: Kevin Watson lurched forward and put his weight into both men as Eron turned the move toward the ring!! THEY GO FLYING SIDEWAYS TO THE OUTSIDE AND AHHHHHH!!!!!!

(SFX: Loud sound of wood cracking – and when the sound comes back, the two announcers are noticeably shaken, but trying to be professional)

BUCKLEY JR: They just came through our table!! Holy crap! What a counter from Kevin Watson!! Do you know what this means, Stan???

PARSONS: Kevin Watson is the new Greensboro Champion!!!

[Overhead PA] “The winner of the Greensboro ring and new Greensboro Champion…. KEVIN “K-9” WATSON!!!!!!”

PARSONS: Kevin Watson has done what so few others have managed to do. He was literally released from the CSWA years ago, went overseas to hone his craft, and this was his one shot to get back into the big leagues. It’s a Cinderella story like we haven’t seen in a long, long time.

BUCKLEY JR: But who’s going to the center ring with him?? These guys came through the table together!!

PARSONS: CSWA officials are huddled around here by the wreckage talking it over….JA and Eron the Relentless are still out cold here in the wreckage that used to be our broadcast table….

BUCKLEY JR: They’re looking at replays, but I don’t know what good that’s gonna do. They hit the damn wood simultaneously. Lord knows I was outta there as fast I could be.

PARSONS: Well, things are moving along with the other rings but we’re still waiting on a decision from our officials as these guys are just now starting to stir and get some medical attention.

BUCKLEY JR: Yeah, one of these guys is about to have to go compete in the center ring! They better shake it off in a hurry!

PARSONS: We’re going to hand it off to our colleagues calling the ring for the Presidential Championship, but we’ll cut back in as soon as we have a decision from CSWA officials. Kevin Watson is the new Greensboro Champion and is literally on his way over to the center ring to challenge for the UNIFIED World Championship!

BUCKLEY JR: It’s over to Rudy Seitzer and the lovely Poison Ivy!