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The lights in the venue dim as a hand becomes visible throwing the entrance curtain open. And out comes the Next Conspiracy receiving a mixed reaction from the audience as "An Ancient Sign of Coming Storm" blares into the speakers.

Yeahrrgh!!!

At the top of the entrance aisle, Figgins turns his back to the audience outstretching both of his arms and leaning back. Finally he spins on one foot and spits energy drink onto the aisle infront of him. Letting his arms fall back down to his side he began his trek towards the squared circle

Blood red bows plough the waves
The dragon heads grin
Twenty ships with Norsemen braves
Riding the northern wind

"Making his way to the ring... Weighing in at 267 pounds...He is the Next Conspiracy...JACOB FIGGINS! "

They left their shores at early dawn
As a red sun was rising in the east
An ancient sign of coming storm
Thunder of sword and shield

The lights returned to normal and Figgins raised his head letting the audience's eyes grace him. Looking from left to right, a smirk crawled across the features of Figgins as he runs up the ring steps and walks along the apron taking a swig of his energy drink before putting the bottle down next to the southeast turnbuckle. He leaned against the ropes outstretching his arms once more and spraying a light mist onto the floor outside the ring.

Sails appear in the south
Now every man prepare
The sea will be colored by blood
Battle is drawing near

Finally entering the ring, via the top and middle ropes, Figgins turns on one foot and extends his arms for a final time acting as if it was a privilege to the audience to watch him perform in the squared circle and within the venue itself. Dropping his arms he takes off his ring jacket and throws it outside of the ring to get prepared for his upcoming bout.


A multitude of cheers and scattered boos kick up as smoke bellows from the curtains signaled the arrival of the one and only Alex Lord. As there is a slight pause and without warning, the drumming for “I need a Hero” starts up. White strobe lights comb the crowd giving brief glances at faces, anxious to see GWA's fastest rising star. The main lights dim as the tension begin the rise and ancipations builds for the next match.. The crowd on either side of the entrance curtain grows anxious with the stalling of "The Epitome of Excellence” as the strobe light continues to pulsate along with the beat of the song. Just before the vocals are to begin everything cuts off. The crowd although bewildered stays in their seats. Everything comes on it a flash as the vocals begin again. The white strobe lights flashing to the beat


” Where have all the good men gone
And where are all the gods?
Where’s the street-wise Hercules
To fight the rising odds?”
.
“Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need”

“I need a hero
I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight“

Lords’ silhouette can be seen from behind the curtain as the lights cut out completely and the smoke begins to rise. Without warning, Alex explodes from behind the curtain with that slow troll. Alex stops and scans the arena , throwing that smirk into the air...if he was nervous about his upcoming match , you couldn’t tell by the look in his eyes. With his eyes focused on the ring, he begins his descent. Fans beat on the guardrails to the beat and with outstretched hands, try to touch him as he passes down the aisle.

“I need a hero
I’m holding out for a hero 'till the morning light
He’s gotta be sure
And it’s gotta be soon
And he’s gotta be larger than life
Larger than life
"

“Somewhere after midnight
In my wildest fantasy
Somewhere just beyond my reach
There’s someone reaching back for me

Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
It’s gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet
“

As Alex reaches the end of the isle, and stops for a moment to shoot a cocky grin towards the crowd. The Cheering and the chorus of this song playing seem to get Lords hyped up as he throws his arms into the air and strike a pose , taking his time and allowing people to take pictures. After giving the people want they wanted, Alex regains his focus and heads towards the ring.

“need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero 'till the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight

I need a hero
I’m holding out for a hero 'till the morning light
He’s gotta be sure
And it’s gotta be soon
And he’s gotta be larger than life.”

Alex gets a running start and hops onto the apron , before taking his jacket off and tossing it to the timekeeper. Alex gives a bow to the fans before turning facing the inside of the ring. He gives a tug on the ropes and flips over into the ring stopping in the center. He hops up onto the middle rope and stares out at the crowd, tossing his arms into the air as if victory is assured.

“I need a hero
I'm holding out for at hero 'till the the end of the night

Up where the mountains meet the heavens above
Out where the lightning splits the sea
I could swear there is someone somewhere
Watching me”





Jacob and Alex dart towards each other after making a couple of rotations in the center of the ring. No feeling out process is necessary as the two tag team partners struggle back and forth in an effort to gain good position. Figgins, with the strength advantage shoves Lords into the ropes and does not attempt to heed Mayfair’s words before unloading a stinging openhanded slap to the chest of his opponent. The crowd waits for Lords counter attack but is left waiting as Lords brushes off the blow and steps back to Figgins. Nose to nose, the two men stare at each other and after what seems like an eternity they pull back and begin throwing blows.

Lords cups his hand around Figgins neck and crashes his elbow into the side of his head repeatedly. Despite putting all his weight behind each blow, the elbows seem to have no effect on the larger Figgins. Now it was Figgins turn to brush off the blows from Alex, and he did so with that cocky smile that brought both of them back to their bitter rivalry. Jacob whips Lords into the ropes and drops down as if going for a back body drop. Lords clutches onto the ropes and gives a slight whistle as he sprints forward, eager for his foot to collide with Figgins head with a Yakuza Kick. Figgins drops down to his knees as Lords, not satisfied with one kick rushes to the ropes and attempts another but his foot is caught by the recovering Figgins and he is dumped onto the canvas for his troubles with a capture suplex. Figgins rips Lords off the ground before setting him up for a gutwrench position and powering Lords down with a FIG BUSTAH!-No! Alex flips in mid-air and lands on his feet before knocked down with an elbow from outta nowhere. Lords climbs to his feet and is whipped into ropes, he attempts to rebound with a spinning heel kick but is caught by a focused Jacob Figgins and put on his back with a shoulder block. Figgins darts to the ropes perhaps looking to repay Lords for that yakuza kick from early but his plans are dashed as Lords’ flying knee strike meets Figgins’ jaw.

Figgins drops to the canvas , holding his face and Lords immediately capitalizes on this by scissoring Figgins’ right arm between his legs and fish hooking his opponent’s face. Figgins resists crying out in agony as Lords’ slender fingers rips at his nose and mouth. Mayfair pries Lords off of Figgins face as he reaches a count of four. Lords complies with Mayfair’s request, pulls Figgins up, and shoves him into the corner. Blows rain down upon Figgins’ forehead from Lords but Figgins shoves Mayfair away from under Lords’ legs before ramming his forearm into Lords’ groin. Figgins rushes to the opposite cables, his arm cocked to the side for a clothesline but Lords tosses his opponent over the ropes and staggers him with a hard elbow. Lords backs up, runs up the rope, and jumps off while giving his opponent an dropkick.

Figgins drops to the floor as Lacey rushes over to grab Mayfair’s attention. Lords measures Figgins from the ring and races to the ropes before leaping through with a TOPE CON HILO!-NO! Figgins lays Alex out with a well-placed elbow shot. The crowd erupts in boos as Figgins whips Lords back into the ring and goes for the cover. 1…..2……2.50! Lords throws his arm up lazily as Figgins climbs to his feet. Jacob rips Alex from the canvas and punishes Lords’ chest with a backhand chop…..and another….and another…..and another. Figgins peppers Lords with a string of chops but the fiery Lords just takes them until Figgins rocks him with a rolling back chop. As Lords drops onto his knees , Figgins rebounds off the ropes before getting clobbered with a LARIAT!-NO! Jacob barely ducks the blow before turning around with a discus clothesline. Lords throws his arms up in front of his face to defend against the hard shot. Lords fires a quick couple of hard kicks to the mid-section of Figgins but is caught with chop and placed in a standing headscissors. Figgins heaves Lords up but he is caught with a trip of elbows to the head before Alex rolls off his shoulders into a sunset flip. Figgins rolls through the flip and attempts to catch Lords in the face with a dropkick but again Alex throws up his arms in a tardy defense before hopping up and delivering a dropkick to Figgins chin. Jacob stares up at the ceiling, appearing to be out of it but he is quickly brought back to reality as Lords crashes onto him with a back senton.

Lords does not even try to go for the pin before picking Figgins up and whipping him into the corner. Alex clotheslines Figgins in the corner and switches arms, attempting to pull Figgins from the corner and into a bulldog. Jacob waits until Lords tries to yank him outta the corner before hoisting him onto his shoulder in a back suplex position. Lords holds on for dear life but is left clutching nothing but his back due to Figgins tossing him away as one would do a rag doll. Figgins pounds away at the lower back of Lords relentlessly with stomps till Alex makes a hasty retreat to the floor. Figgins, in no hurry to follow Lords to the outside and lose his advantage, perches himself in the corner and waits. Alex clutching his back while walking along the outside before hopping to the ring apron. Figgins lunges at Lords with a chop but Alex parries it away with one hand while delivering a devastating openhanded slap to the face with the other. As Figgins turns to check his face, Lords capitalizes by leaping over the ropes with an inverted lungblower. Alex rolls over onto Figgins, his arm draped over his shoulder. Mayfair’s hand does not come down for one count before Figgins breaks free on Lords’ grip and rolls to his knees.

Figgins stands to his feet and takes a few steps towards the still down Lords, he thinks better of this as Alex gives him a cold stare and rises to his feet. Figgins fires a kick to the side of Alex’s leg and Lords responds with a high kick aimed for Jacobs’ head. Figgins catches the kick and dodges the follow-up enziguri that leaves Lords face first on the canvas. After dodging Lords’ barrage of kicks, Figgins squats over Lords and takes up his right leg in a single crab. Alex flails for the ropes but his Samoan comrade in arms just applies more pressure. Mayfair drops beside the injured Epitome of Excellence and repeatedly asks him if he wants to give up. He does not answer as he plants his hands on the ground, pushes up and makes a crawl for the ropes. Whether Figgins intended to let him or not Alex grasps the ropes and breaths a sigh of relief as pressure is alleviated from his leg and back. Figgins rips Lords from the canvas and wraps him up in a reverse waistlock, Lords snakes his leg around his opponent’s to stop the suplex and fires off a trio of back elbows to soften him up before latching onto Figgins’ arm before turning around into a hammerlock. Lords leaves the hammerlock on and swings his right leg up , draping it around Figgins’ neck and his left leg around his opponent’s right.

Figgins waves his hand rapidly, a sign that he still has some feeling in his body but Lords seeks to remedy that as he wrenches the arm back even further into a kimura-like armbar. Although constricted, Figgins still posses the presence of mind to slide towards the ropes but the two-hundred pound Lords is still too much to bear. Jacob grabs Alex’s foot, prying it from around his neck. Lords will not go down without a fight and he lets the hammerlock go before hopping onto Figgins’ shoulder before rolling into a victory roll.

1……2….2.40 , He crosses the legs but even that is not enough to contain The Next Conspiracy. Figgins remains on his hands and knees and punishes the recovering Lords with a headbutt. As Lords attempts to rise to his feet, Figgins gives him a taste of his own medicine with short , stinging kicks to the jaw. Figgins draws too close and Lords makes him pay with a headbutt to the gut. Figgins reels back into the ropes from the headbutt but rebounds with a dropkick right to the face. The crowd is split down the middle, with each side attempting to will their chosen warrior to victory. Figgins drags Lords up with reverse waistlock but again Alex reverses , this time with a drop-toe-hold. Lords keep the leg of Figgins’ scissored between his thighs before snaking his arm around Figgins’ neck for an STS. Now it if Jacobs’ turn to flail for the ropes as Lords attempts to squeeze the life outta him. A couple of Figgins chants starts up and die just as quickly but they seem to have no effect, as he appears to be out. Just as Mayfair drops down to check on him, he pushes up as Lords did before and attempts to reach the ropes. The ropes are within reach but Lords stands up and drags Figgins to the center of the ring! Figgins sticks his hand inside the sleeper hold in an attempt to loosen up the noose around his neck rolling over onto his back.

Lords releases the hold rather than put himself in jeopardy of being pinned. Figgins uses the rope to climb to his feet, as the effects of the sleeper are still visible in his movement. Lords rushes at Figgins, eager to capitalize on his weakness but at the last second Figgins ducks and Lords find himself upside down in a back to belly piledriver-position. Lords scurries off of his opponents back into a sunset flip. Figgins rolls through and grabs Lords leg in an effort to roll Lords up into a pinning predicament but Lords wraps his legs around his body and wrenches in a butterfly lock.

Figgins writhes in pain and searches for an escape for the hold. “Tap” chants start up as Lords lets out a yell of pure fury and intensity. Figgins looks like he is about to tap but rears back unto his knees and from there onto his feet with Lords still clinging onto him. Figgins takes one-step forward before flinging himself backwards and sending Alex flying across the ring. Figgins drags Alex by the arm to the center of the ring before dropping his leg across it. Alex tries to pull his arm from Figgins grip but Figgins straddles his arm and leans back into a cross-arm breaker. Lords grabs his wrist as Figgins leans back and rolls towards his captured arm , putting his opponent on his back and more importantly , his shoulders. Mayfair spots Figgins with his shoulders down but as soon as he does, Figgins releases the hold.

Lords follows Figgins to his feet and lets loose a round of openhanded slaps before racing to the ropes only to be MURDERED on the rebound by a LARIAT! Alex rolls outta the ring and Figgins is not too far behind , eager to press his advantage. Figgins picks Lords up, whips him into the guardrail, and unleashes clubbing blow after blow until Lords appears out on his feet. Figgins goes for one more blow but Lords slips off the rail and punishes Figgins with his own flurry of strikes much to the delight of the closest spectators. Lords picks Figgins up into a fireman carry position before turning and dropping him FACE-FIRST INTO THE GUARDRAIL.

Lords leaves his opponent to climb back into the ring as he tries to catch his breath. Figgins pulls himself up by the guardrail and slowly makes his way to the ring. Lords measures Figgins as he slides into the ring, takes him down with a dropkick, and quickly goes for the cover. 1……2……2.67 , Figgins kicks out with enough force to toss Lords a considerable distance away. Lords winds up his arm as Figgins climbs to his feet , preparing to take his head off with a LORDS NO KACHI!-No!

Figgins blocks the strike and hoists Lords up in a Canadian backrack before flipping Lords forward for the FRONT FIG-EFFECT!-NO!. Lords slides off of Figgins’ shoulder and after applying the full nelson, attempts a DRAGON SUPLEX!-No Sold! Figgins brushes off the blow and whips Lords into the ropes and as he comes back takes him up for the FALLING FIG-LEA-KNEE TO THE FOREHEAD! A stiff knee to the forehead squashes Figgins’ offense. Lords grabs Figgins in a ura-nage-style head and arm clutch , but Figgins refuses to go down without a fight. Figgins fires off rapid elbows to fight off Lords, but Lords responses his knees to the gut. One strong knee knocks the wind out of Figgins , give Lords the opportunity to take him over , ACID ALKALINE!-NO! Figgins forces his way outta the exploder and spares him from the move that sealed his fate at the second anniversary show. The crowd explodes for the action in ring.

Figgins rears back for another LARIAT!-NO! Lords grabs the oncoming arm and drops as if going for an arm drag only to grab a hold of Figgins’ leg , straddles his free one and roll into the GAROU NO YADORU CRADLE! Figgins fights to free himself but Lords just tightens his grip as Mayfair begins the count , 1……2……3! Lords picks up the win by flash pin.

Lords leaves his Lacey to check on Figgins as “I need a Hero” plays and heads back towards the curtains. He only looks back once and that’s was to give a slight wave to the crowd that he gives his all for. The other half of God Complex just watches as his partner leaves as he gets up with Lacey’s help and makes his own exit.

The lights suddenly dim down as the opening guitar intro to "Lose Control" pick ups and smoke shoots from near the entrance way. A figure in a white shiny long jacket emerges, standing while looking at the fans as he stands in the shadows. The figure emerges as strobe lights go off to reveal....CODY BOGARD!!!!! Cody makes his way to the ring alone tonight.

I can't stop- can't stop thinking
About you at all I called you up
to come on round tonight
You wouldn't give a straight answer
But you wouldn't say no
Even though you're going with him

Here comes the night
Lead me on
In your veins
Warm inside
Heart beats fast
Lights are low
I want you
Let it go

Cody makes his way over to the ring, springing up to the ring apron, climbing the turnbuckle and posing with his arms open in a pose.

You arrive with cool in your eyes
And explain to me
How he makes you feel inside
So safe, secure
Later on as the night is falling
You bring me on with violent words
Desire and being young

Here comes the night
Lead me on
In your veins
Warm inside
Heart beats fast
Lights are low
I want you
Let it go

Cody jumps from the turnbuckle as he looks to the curtain to await the Champ.

Here comes the night- it is coming on
The lights are low and our records on
Inside your veins and you lead me on
Here comes the night- it is coming on

The opening chords of “The Takedown” By Yellowcard hit the speakers and the lights in the area flash blue and white as the crowd rises to their feet in anticipation of one of their favorite GW Stars.

I feel things changing when I move
It’s a distance, its a difference
Across this planet without you
And you might call this a downfall
It's one long night that I’m passing through
It's a dark one what have I done
It’s one long night

Ice pushes aside the curtain and the Dragonslayer is met with a torrent of cheers from members of the crowd. He throws his arms up into the air as silver sparks erupt from devices on the ground beside him. He closes his eyes and takes it all in for a second before dropping his pose and shooting his arms out in the crucifix position as one final explosion of sparks engulf him.

Don't turn your back on me now
You can't do this
So don't say you can live without
You can't do this alone
How did I end up like this the lonely one
Your greatest takedown
You take me down

After the sparks have cleared, Ice makes his way down the ramp slapping hands with as many fans as he can along the way. He reaches the bottom of the ramp and leaps up on top of the ring apron facing one side of the crowd.

Left last night with a long goodbye
With some red wine through a phone line
Told you thoughts that multiply
That I don't know how to let go
We've been here many times before
I am empty when you leave me
What's one more

He raises his arms again and all the spot lights in the arena focus on him as the Dragonslayer basks in the love of his fans. He then drops the pose, takes off his Dragonslayer T-shirt and throws it to the crowd before grabbing the top rope and leaping into the ring.

Don't turn your back on me now
You can't do this
So don't say you can live without
You can't do this alone
How did I end up like this the broken one
Your greatest takedown
You take me down

Ice lands gracefully on the mat and turns around to do the crucifix one more time as the bridge of the song hits. As he does this silver sparks fly up from the ring posts showering the ring.

I won't get by I won't heal in time
I won't get by

Don't turn your back on me now
You can't do this
So don't say you can live without
You can't do this alone
How did I end up like this the chosen one
Your greatest takedown
You take me down

Ice breaks the pose and hands the GWA Grand Championship to the Justin Mayfair who holds it up for all to see.

DING! DING! DING!

Cody and Ice meet face to face in the middle of the ring, both men stare down at each other before going into a handshake between two allies and friends. The chumminess ends right there, as both men lock up into a grapple, Ice taking Cody’s arm for a swing into a wristlock. Bogard starts tapping his shoulder a little, ducking down and twisting his body, changing Ice’s wristlock into a wristlock of his own. While having one of his arms’ caught, Ice swings his free arm over Bogard’s neck, bringing in his arm and throwing him over with a snapmare. Before Ice even considers taking a kick after the snapmare, Cody rolls out of the Dragonslayer’s kick range and charges at him, caught up by Ice’s arms and thrown to the other side with a fireman’s carry. Both men rise up quick, Ice going for a jumping bicycle kick early but is shoved aside by Cody, throwing a short knife-edge chop to the throat. The sudden chop to the throat halts Ice’s attack, as he brings up his hands to cover his throat, Bogard taking one of the free arms and tossing him with an arm drag. Upon Ice getting up, the Burning Avenger fires a backhand jab to the chest, right into two additional jabs to the jaw and cocks his fist back for a stiff guh punch, but the Grand Champion ducks under the punch, striking the back of Cody’s knee. Ice fires off additional kicks to the back of the knee, forcing Bogard to bring up his leg each time in discomfort, using the opening to strike Cody with an enzugiri to the head. The King of Hearts is down on the mat rubbing behind his head in reaction to the previous attack, the Dragonslayer approaches him and lifts him to his feet, suddenly backing away and going to the well right away with an Artic Flash, only for Bogard to grab the foot, turning into a back kick sweep to bring him down. The Burning Avenger keeps hold of the foot as he turns to face Ice, pulling the foot in to get hold of the legs and going right into a bridging pin…

1…

Ice kicks out just as referee Peter London’s hand hits the mat for a count of one. Bogard rolls off of Ice, pulling him to a seated position and nailing him with a soccer kick to the back. Cody fires off more soccer kicks to the back, hopping over Ice, and landing a mule kick to the face. The Dragonslayer is flat on his back, hands placed on his forehead, as the Burning Avenger rolls forward to the ropes and stands right next to them, waiting for Ice to rise. Once Ice gets to his feet, Cody runs over towards Ice and gets his leg lariat attempt turned into a powerslam by the Grand Champion. Pulling Cody straight up, Ice drives a boot into the midsection, and dropping into a snap ddt. The King of Hearts kicks the mats in pain while his hands cover his neck, as Ice walks right up to Cody and kicks him in the ribs, which roll him over onto his back. Now exposing Cody’s upper body, the Dragonslayer jumps over Cody’s body and landing on top of him with a double foot stomp. Not missing a beat, Ice wraps his arms around Cody’s neck and head, pulling him to his feet while having a headlock on him. The Grand Champion starts to pound his fists against the head and face of Bogard, backing over to the ropes and using the momentum from the ropes to drive Bogard face first with a bulldog takedown. Ice turns his body over to look over at Cody, down on the mat and attempting to get up, which makes Ice decide to help him up to one knee. Ice all of the sudden runs over to the ropes and catches Cody in the head with a running dropkick to the face. Grabbing on to Bogard’s arm, Ice drags him to the center of the ring, then turning him to an all fours set-up, stepping over and around Cody’s arm, rolling into a Magistral Cradle. Mayfair slides over to both men to check the pin and makes his count….

1… 2…

Cody manages to kick out of the hold, as Mayfair throws his hands up signaling two. The crowd starts to show the split in the arena as half of the crowd cheer on the Dragonslayer for the assault, while the other half are in a panic trying to cheer on Cody. Ice allows Bogard to stand back up, reaching into to lock in a front face lock on Cody, and tries to hit a DDT, but Cody stands firm to halt any movement. The Grand Champion clubs away at Bogard’s back to weaken his stand on the mat and goes for another DDT, but simply hits the mat himself as the King of Hearts squirmed out of the facelock and shoves Ice as he goes down. Cody reaches down to pull up Ice, kneeing him in the midsection once reaching his feet, then scooping him up and throwing him down with a slam. Immediately, Bogard swings his leg over Ice’s neck and drops down across it with a legdrop. From the ground, Bogard reaches out and grabs hold of Ice’s right arm, pulling himself over toward the arm and lands on Ice’s arm with another legdrop. The Dragonslayer brings in his right arm, clutching it in pain as the Burning Avenger takes him by the neck, nailing him with forearm shots to the head. After the head strikes, Bogard goes for the arm again with a high kick, opening up Ice’s guard and getting his head under the undamaged arm, lifting him up high and back with a vertical suplex. Cody looks over towards Ice, looking to help him up with his hurt arm, only to spin and slam it down to the canvas with an arm dragon screw-type maneuver. Ice lets out a scream of discomfort as he turns over and grabs for his arm, but Cody doesn’t give him the chance to grab the arm, crouching over the arm and pulling it up in a seated armlock.

As the Burning Avenger pulls on the arm upwards, Ice bangs his foot on the mat and trying to fight through the pain. The crowd is divided between cheering for Cody to apply more pressure on the arm and trying to cheer for Ice to not give up, the Dragonslayer using his feet to inch over to the nearby ropes. Ice manages to stretch his feet out to the ropes and drape his foot on the rope, signaling Mayfair to make Cody break the hold. As the referee tells Cody to break the hold, he looks back to see the foot on the ropes, and lets go the arm, raising from the seated position. The King of Hearts presses Ice against the ropes, taking the undamaged arm and whipping him across the ring, swinging his leg up for a big boot to the face. The Grand Champion ducks under the boot and gets to the ropes, leveling Bogard on the rebound with a jumping shoulder tackle. Ice bounces back up, despite favoring his arm a little, catching Cody with a kick to the back of the thigh, bringing down Bogard’s hands to cover his thigh. The thigh kick from Ice creates an open target on Cody’s body, shooting a side martial art-style kick to the ribs of the Burning Avenger. As Cody winces from the blow, the Dragonslayer back away a bit, allowing him enough space swing up and nail a high roundhouse to the chest, knocking down Bogard. Upon turning his body over and looking up to see Ice, Cody watches the Grand Champion running straight at him and nailing a running low dropkick to the head. Ice rolls up and steps over the body of Bogard, lifting Cody’s head up and wrapping his arm around Cody’s neck, applying a Dragon Sleeper on him.

The crowd is once again split between the two GWA members with half of the crowd cheering for Ice and the other half cheering on Bogard, trying to get him not to tap. The Dragon Sleeper does it’s job and cuts off Cody’s air and it’s not long before ref Justin Mayfair has to watch Bogard carefully to make sure he’s still awake. Mayfair looks as if he is about to grab Bogard’s arm to test to see if he is awake when Ice suddenly lets go of the hold. He sits the Burning Avenger up and then delivers a devastating kick to the temple of Bogard. The crowd cries out at the stiffness of Ice’s kick and even Mayfair seems to cringe a little bit at the sight of Ice driving his foot hard into the head of Bogard. Naturally, Cody collapses in a head on the mat in perfect position for Ice to turn him over and cover the former Openweight Champion. “1…2…CODY KICKS OUT!!” The crowd cheers wildly for Cody’s resilience even if it was probably more out of instinct then anything. Ice sits up off of the challenger and quickly formulates a new plan. He drags the still stunned Cody Bogard over to a near by corner and climbs up on top of the third turnbuckle. Ice stands up tall on the turnbuckle and does a rolling motion with his hands. He then leaps off of the third rope and hits a 450 SPLASH RIGHT INTO CODY’S KNEES!!!! Bogard proves to Ice that he too can think on his feet and he brings up his knees right before Ice was to land on him letting Ice splash right into his knees. The Dragonslayer rolls off of Cody holding his ribs and ends up rolling out of the ring and onto the floor.

Bogard pulls him self back up to his feet holding the side of his head and follows Ice out on to the floor, determined not to let this chance escape him. He grabs the Dragonslayer and throws him head first into the metal barricade denting it in. The crowd near the barricade back up a bit to avoid getting caught in the crossfire as Bogard picks up Ice again and again throws him into the same barricade denting it in even more so that it’s coming off of the metal frame. Inside of the ring, Justin Mayfair is screaming out at them to get back into the ring but The Burning Avenger knows that this chance to inflect damage on the GWA Grand Champion is far too good to let go of. He picks Ice back up and sits him down in a metal chair by the barricade. He then takes the back of his hand and delivers A TORRENT OF CHOPS to the chest of the Dragonslayer finishing up with one final chop to the side of Ice’s head. He then backs up and bit and sprints forward for a RUNNING CHOP once again to the side of Ice’s head. The final chop is enough to cause Ice to slide out of the chair but before he can even hit the ground Bogard grabs him and drags him back over to the ring where he rolls him back in. After following him in Cody drops one final knee to the head of Ice before covering the Dragonslayer in hopes of obtaining the GWA Grand Championship. “1…2…ICE KICKS OUT” Much the same as The Burning Avenger had done before; Ice manages to kick out before the fatal three count mostly out of instinct. The crowd cheers for this mostly out of hopes of seeing a long match out of these two.

Cody seems determined not to give up his tactical advantage over the Champ and he goes back to his earlier plan to work on the arm of the Dragonslayer. Bogard quickly grabs Ice’s weakened arm and pulls it back in a fujiwara Armbar that looks as if it could rip the arm out of Ice’s socket. Ice cries out in pain as Bogard pulls harder on his arm stretching the muscles almost to the point of ripping them from the bone. Justin Mayfair asks Ice if he wants to give it up and he yells no up at him as the crowd cheers on. Half of the crowd has begun to beat on the barricade to try and will Ice on while the other half has started a “Lets go Bogard, lets go Bogard” chant to encourage the Burning Avenger to pull even harder. Ice slowly inches his way closer to the ropes until he is with in grabbing distance and reaches out to grab them. Mayfair reaches down to force Bogard to let go of Ice’s arm but he has already done this and is on his way back to his feet, not wanting to risk a disqualification in a match this important. He waits for Ice to also get back to his feet and then he hits the back ropes before coming back and slaughtering Ice with an EXCALIBUR SLASH-DUCKED!!! Ice has Bogard scouted enough to knock when a big move is coming and he is able to duck just in time for Bogard’s arm to fly harmlessly over his head. Ice then runs forward, hits the ropes in front of him, and then comes back to hit Bogard just as he turns around with an ICEBURG SPEAR! The crowd cheers in approval of the timeless spear by Ice and watches in anticipation as the Dragonslayer covers the challenger.

“1….2…Bogard grabs the ropes!” The count is close, but before the third count is administered, Cody reaches out and grabs a hold of the same bottom rope that saved Ice from his hold a few moments before. The half of the crowd cheering for Ice is obviously disappointed but the Dragonslayer seems anything but sad as he sits up off of Bogard, a smile on his face. Why he is smiling is a mystery as he grabs the Burning Avenger and lifts him to his feet before maneuvering him into the center of the ring and placing him in a standing head scissors. The crowd knows what he has planned and Ice hits the ZERO DRIVER-BOGARD COUNTERS! Bogard spins out of the head scissors and grabs on to Ice looking for a finishing move of his own the TWILIGHT EXECUTION-COUNTERED! Ice manages to push the Burning Avenger away before he can hit the move and Bogard stumbles into the ropes behind him as Ice too sprints at the opposite set of ropes before coming back and nailing the DRAGON BANE-DUCKED! Cody Bogard ducks the lariat from Ice and manages to hook Ice’s arm and leg at the same time lifting him up in a reverse Fireman’s Carry for the GALAXIAN EXPLOSION-COUNTERED AGAIN! Ice seems to have this move more then scouted and back rolls off of Bogard’s shoulders, gracefully lands on his feet, and drops Bogard to the mat with the ARCTIC FLASH!!!!! The Burning Avenger is caught wide open with the super kick and Ice smiles even bigger as some of the smarter members of the crowd begin to realize that the sequence that they have just witnessed was the exact same sequence that put Ice away at Solumn Sorrow more then a year ago. The only difference was that Cody actually hit the Galaxian Explosion and was able to retain the GWA Openweight Championship with it. Ice recreated it all so that he could trump Bogard with the Arctic Flash.

The Dragonslayer starts backing away to the corner, slapping his leg and stomping the mat with his foot, the crowd clapping to Ice’s stomps, Cody slowly coming to after taking the superkick earlier. The King of Hearts manages to make it to one knee, which gives Ice the signal to charge and take air with the SHINING-INTO THE RINGPOST!!! Bogard manages to duck right under Ice’s swinging foot, making Ice run into the ringpost as Cody takes his time to rise up to his feet and now facing the Grand Champion’s back. Bogard starts to lunge in with knee strikes to the lower back of Ice, striking dangerously close to the kidneys. The Burning Avenger reaches over one of the ropes to pick up Ice’s arm, positioning it behind Cody’s arm and shoulder, and fires off a barrage of machine gun chops to the back of the neck. Once finishing the flurry of chops with a HUGE knife-edge chop to the neck, Cody pulls Ice back to leave him hanging in the air in a tree of woe like move from the middle ropes, then swinging his leg up and over Ice’s neck, dropping it across his neck with a leg drop. Cody rolls off of Ice, getting to his feet and shouting “RAVE!!!” at the ceiling, the crowd cheering in response as Bogard pulls Ice up to his feet, turning him around and starting to apply a half nelson hold on Ice’s damaged arm. The moment Cody goes for the other arm, he feels some resistance from Ice as he fights with all his strength to keep Cody from completing the full nelson setup. As it looks like Bogard manages to get Ice’s arms up to the full nelson set up, the Dragonslayer throws his arms down to break the hold, using the free opportunity to land a jumping back kick to the midsection, and throwing his arms over Cody’s body in an exploder suplex setup. The Grand Champion powers his way to lift up Bogard for the CRYSTAL- Bogard flails his legs like mad and counters into a DDT, spiking Ice on the mat.

Trying not to waste any time, Cody drops to the mat and wraps his legs around Ice’s neck with a figure four like sleeper hold. The Burning Avenger moves one hand over to one of his legs, pulling on it to increase the pressure across the neck of Ice, while using his free hand to start a chant going through the crowd. While half of the crowd is chanting for Cody, the other crowd half begin rallying for the Dragonslayer to break out of the unorthodox submission Cody has applied on him. When it appears Ice would bring his arm up in an attempt to fight his way back, the arm goes back down and tries to pry Cody’s legs off his neck. The claps start ringing in a rhythm, unknown on which wrestler they’re siding with at this point, as Ice starts to rock his body back and forth, which Bogard starts noticing and pulls on his leg again to get more pressure. The rocking motions get bigger and bigger, the Dragonslayer getting his arms in the air each time to aid him while Bogard pulls with all his might to restrict the Champion’s movement. Ice finally gets off his back with one big turn and has his hands planted on the mat, using them to push himself up and changing Cody’s submission into simply leaving his legs hanging on Ice’s shoulders. The Dragonslayer goes where he doesn’t usually goes…throwing a stomp onto the chest of defenseless the King of Hearts, which forces himself to release the hold on Ice’s neck and flopping his body onto the mat. The Dragonslayer looks around at the crowd and starts readjusting his boots, moving in front of Bogard and striking him with kicks in order to make him get up while applying as much damage as possible. Once getting Bogard up, Ice grabs hold of him and goes for the irish whip, but is countered with an irish whip by Cody, swinging at Ice on the rebound with a Shotei. However, Ice brings up an arm to hook Cody’s and swinging his body across his back to hook Cody’s other arm with his legs, bringing him down and pinning his shoulders down with a crucifix hold.

1… 2…

Cody manages to kick out of the crucifix hold at two and a half. The Dragonslayer looks over at Mayfair giving the two sign, Ice takes a moment to regain some wind and pick himself back up, standing ready for Cody. The Burning Avenger struggles his way back to his feet, looking up to Ice who was standing in a martial arts fighting pose. Ice launches a mix of left and right low kicks, which cause Cody to bring up his legs to lessen the impact of the strikes, following up by throwing a boot to the midsection, which Bogard catches. The boot ends up as a decoy as Ice uses the caught leg as a step to leap up and nail him with an enzugiri, stunning the King of Hearts. The Grand Champion takes Cody up to his shoulders with a fireman’s carry, taking a moment to secure his grip and making sure Bogard is out of it. The Dragonslayer swings Bogard’s legs behind him and connects with the SUB-ZER- Ice is left hanging, wondering why he hasn’t hit the mat yet. Ice looks up to see Cody standing on his feet and with his arms wrapped around Ice’s neck. The Burning Avenger lifts up the Dragonslayer up a little to shift his hold from the neck to around the waist and sending him backwards with a german suplex. Cody doesn’t release the hold though, rolling over to his feet with Ice in tow and moving one of his arms into a half nelson setup, and this time hits a half nelson suplex, briding the hold unbelievably. Right as Mayfair slides over to make the pin count, Cody rolls over once again and pulls Ice up with him, now shifting down to grab both of Ice’s arms and leaning backwards, crushing the Dragonslayer’s neck with a tiger suplex, bridging the hold and not moving this time, Mayfair sliding in to make the count…

1… 2… THR-

Ice manages to kick out with the closest count of the match thus far. Cody looks in disbelief of being SO close to finally reaching the glory, running his hands through his hair and looking back at Mayfair with the two sign to make sure that it wasn’t a cruel joke. The King of Hearts gets up fast and starts stomping his foot with anticipation, getting some of the crowd behind him as he waits for the Champion to stand in front of him. Upon seeing Ice at his feet in front of him, Cody swings for the fences with a R-15 Spinning Heel Kick, however, Ice ducks under the kick and grabs hold of Bogard’s now exposed neck and dropping him onto his knees with a lungblower. Cody falls over on the mat like a sack of rocks, taking a moment to attempt rising, but Ice sees this and runs over to the ropes, striking him on the rebound with a soccer kick to the face. The Grand Champion throws his fist in the air, the crowd cheering for the Dragonslayer as he lifts Cody to all fours before leaving him near the center of the ring and walking to the ropes. Ice steps through the ropes and onto the ring apron, looking from the apron for Cody to get into position, slowly staggering in place. Once seeing Cody reaching the desired target area, the Dragonslayer pulls himself up to the ropes and dives at him for a springboard hurr-POWER BOMB BY BOGARD!!! Cody picks his head up quick, looking over the crowd in a zoned state, then at the corner, shouting “ENDO!!!!” as he starts backing towards the corner. The King of Hearts begins adjusting his knee pads as he awaits Ice to recover from the power bomb, slowly sitting up. Once Ice gets to his knees, Cody rushes in like a speeding bullet and runs over him with the SHINKUU BUDDHA-GIRI, remaining on his knees and reaching back to hook Ice’s legs for the pin…

1… 2… THRE-

Somehow the GWA Grand Champion is able to hold on to his title a little longer by kicking out at the very last second. The crowd explodes in cheers for the Dragonslayer and for the continuation of this already amazing match. Bogard sits up off of the Dragonslayer and hits his palm with his fist out of frustration. He lifts Ice back to his feet and quickly sets him up in a standing head scissors before lifting him up onto his shoulders. The Burning Avenger then runs forward and into a LIGER BOMB-HURRICARANNA! Ice wraps his legs around the neck of The King of Hearts and peels off of him causing the former Openweight Champion to flip forward and hit the mat sitting up. Ice recovers quickly and hits Cody in the back of the head with a RUNNING KNEE! The vicious strike causes Cody to hold his head in pain and he rolls out of the ring to get some distance between him and the champ. Ice isn’t going to let Cody get a breath though and he leaps through the middle rope and nails Bogard in the jaw with a DIVING FOREARM! The impact sends Cody stumbling back where he connects with the steel barricade and falls down in a heap holding his head. Ice gets back up this his feet and runs forward again looking to smash Bogard’s head in-between his knee and the barricade with another RUNNING KNEE-BOGARD DODGES. Cody moves his head to the side and Ice ends up driving his knee right into the unforgiving steel causing him to cry out and several of the audience members to cringe at the thought of the pain that is now running up the Champs leg. Ice staggers away holding his knee and turns his back to the challenger allowing Cody to hit the huge target that is his knee with a Chop Block that drops Ice to the ground in pain.

Cody wastes no time in capitalizing on this mistake from the GWA Grand Champion and he drops a knee right to the back of Ice’s knee causing him to cry out again. Inside of the ring Justin Mayfair is yelling for them to bring it back into the ring and after a second knee to Ice’s leg he grabs the Dragonslayer and lifts him back to his feet with the intention of taking the match back into the ring. Ice refuses to let him control the match and bashes him with a quick right hand to the jaw that causes him to stumble backwards just enough for Ice to let loose with a quick snap kick to the ribs. Cody’s hands are glued to his side as he holds on to the ring apron for support after the bone crushing kick from Ice. Ice then fires another snap kick into the other side of Bogard doing even more damage to the challengers ribs but at the same time doing a little damage to him self seeing as he had to kick with his hurt leg. Bogard finally decides that it would be safer for him away from the feet of Ice and he rolls into the ring to get out of his striking distance and to gain a second to breathe while Ice climbs in him self. Ice follows him in and instantly runs at the Challenger looking for a second ICERBERG SPEAR-LEAPFROGED! Bogard is able to leap over the Champion dodging the spear and together both men run at the ropes in front of them. They hit the cables and come back only for Ice to be dropped to the mat by a low dropkick from Bogard. The King of Hearts then quickly grabs the knee of Ice and hooks it with his own legs before wrapping his arms around the head of Ice and pulling up locking in a deadly STF!

The hold causes Ice to frantically search for the ropes but Bogard has him right in the center of the ring once again in another painful and draining submission hold. Mayfair hovers over the Champ asking him if he wants to give up but the Dragonslayer refuses to give as he struggles to find some kind of leverage in the hold. Ice fights back the pain and manages to free his knee from Bogard’s making the hold more of just a sleeper affair. He accents this by swinging out his legs from under Bogard and adopting a sitting position with the king of Hearts still wrapped around his neck. The Burning Avenger squeezes even harder, trying to cause Ice to faint which would grant him the title. Ice fights away the blackness the best he can and slowly but surly pushes to his feet taking Bogard with him. The crowd is amazed by this feat of heart from Ice as he fights through the pain in his leg and the lack of oxygen in his blood to somehow get back to a vertical base with Bogard still squeezing away at his carotid artery. Ice staggers and it’s apparent that the hold is having a drastic effect on the Dragonslayer. Even though Ice has managed to get to his feet, Bogard still has the hold firmly applied and it doesn’t seem like the Champ’s situation has changed much. That is until he suddenly bends down and lifts Bogard onto his shoulders in a standing fireman’s carry out of nowhere. The crowd comes alive as Ice stands fully back up and then spins the King of Hearts off of his shoulder nailing the SUB-ZERO CUTER! The former finisher of the Grand Champion nearly knocks out the King of Hearts and both men are left motionless on the mat after the high impact move.

Mayfair quickly checks both men before starting a ten count. Ice is exhausted from the sleeper he had applied to him and Bogard is still dazed from the Sub-Zero Cutter. He reaches the count of 7 before Ice begins to stir and manages to get to his feet before ten. While he would still retain the Championship on a double count out, the Dragonslayer isn’t going to let this match end like this. He stands up and grabs onto Bogard as the Burning Avenger gets to his knees. Ice lifts Cody up the rest of the way and lifts him up over his head looking for the DAI GUREN HYORINMARU DRIVER-SUNSET FLIP! The King of Hearts reverses the finisher attempt from Ice and hits a beautiful sunset flip, holding the Champs shoulders down for 1…2…KICK UP! Ice rolls backwards, hits the ropes behind him and sprints right into an EXCALIBUR SLASH-DUCKED AGAIN! Ice runs under the arm of Cody Bogard and springboards off of the second rope in front of him to hit the twisting, flying, side kick he calls the GUARDIAN BLADE-CAUGHT! Cody catches Ice as he flies, holding his leg up and sending the Champ over his head in a CAPTUR SUPLEX-ICE LANDS ON HIS FEET! Ice lands on his feet behind Bogard and hits the cables again. The King of Hearts mimics him and hits the cables in front of him as well and they come back but instead of attacking both men duck and runs forward as if expecting an attack from the other man. Together they hit the ropes again and come back only this time they both attack nailing a DOUBLE EXCALIBUR SLASH/DRAGON BANE! The crowd explodes in appreciation as the double lariat knocks both men clean off of their feet.

The crowd goes from loud cheering to fierce guardrail pounding, as both Ice and Cody are flat on the mat trying to recover from their respective lariat strikes. Both men begin to look at each other from the ground, trying to push themselves off the mat slowly and taking whatever chances they had to regain their composure. Cody reaches his feet first and takes Ice by surprise with a rising knee to the stomach, then reaching down for Ice’s legs and lifting up in the air, dropping him swiftly onto his knee with a manhattan drop. The Dragonslayer is left standing stunned and hunched, holding near his crouch as the Burning Avenger throws two quick shotei slaps to the face, then racing for the ropes and leaping with his knee high up-ICEBERG SPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE!!! The crowd is in shock, not believing that the Grand Champion was able to pull off a move that fast after taking some stunning damage. A dazed Ice looks down at Cody, pulling him by his hair and then turning him around, locking his hands around his waist and throwing Bogard back with a german suplex. The Grand Champion rolls over while keeping hold of Bogard, shifting his arms up and locking around Cody’s arms, lifting up once and back down, only to lift again and slamming him with a tiger suplex. The crowd is going wild now, as Ice rolls once more with Cody in tow, bringing his arms up in a full nelson hold, taking his time to tweak the hold tight and wrenching a little, then leaning backwards and busting Cody’s neck with a dragon suplex, finishing his own trifecta suplex counter to Cody’s trifecta earlier on. However, Ice is unable to bridge the hold as his legs start giving way and force him to release the hold, but the Dragonslayer doesn’t look disappointed by it. Ice brings himself up to a knee, helping up Cody along the way as he gets both he and Cody up, then rolling Bogard with the KAMI NO YADORU SMALL PACKAGE!!! Mayfair dives in and quickly checks the shoulders to make sure there is a pin…

1… 2…. THRE-

Cody bursts out of the small package RIGHT at the last possible second. The crowd is going ballistic at the near three counts both men have obtained, Ice grinning as he can tell he has the match wrapped up. The Dragonslayer pulls up the hunched over Bogard, placing him in a standing head scissors, wrapping his arms around the waist and jumps up with the DIVIN-Ice has stopped rotating, feeling something keeping him in place. The King of Hearts has him hanging in the air, starting to back away and falling towards the ropes, catching Ice’s neck with a Stungun rope drop. The Grand Champion is left gasping for air and clutching his neck, Cody pulling himself up as fast as he can and charging right up to him, raining slaps to the face with the crowd shouting “ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!” with each stinging strike. The machine gun slap barrage continues, the crowd’s “ORAs!” reaching the 20’s, suddenly backing up a few steps and nearly beheading the Grand Champion with an R-15 Spinning Heel Kick. The King of Hearts is running on total adrenaline at this point, pumping his arm in the air as he stalks Ice near the ropes, almost willing him to rise up. As the willing continued, Ice began making his movement up, slowly to one knee then the other, moving from one knee to a foot. The Dragonslayer gets his other foot in place and slowly rising and turning, which signals Cody to dash in and striking him with a superkick of him own, but not with the same impact of the Artic Flash to knock Ice down, only stunning him. Cody just smiles at this, running past Ice to the ropes behind him, then reaching the opposite ropes on the rebound, drilling the Grand Champion with a big time EXCALIBUR SLASH!!! The Burning Avenger dips down to his knees and throws himself on top of Ice, hooking the leg and waiting for Mayfair to run in and make the count…

1… 2… THRE-

ICE GETS A SHOULDER UP AT TWO AND NINE TENTHS!!! Bogard and the crowd look on in shock, in a state of disbelief, Ice not staying down without a fight. Both men get up and meet face to face, Cody coming off with two big slaps, backing up slightly and winds up for a Kenka Ki- ARTIC FLASH!!! The Dragonslayer has his back exposed and looking to be slow on the recovery, Cody raises up quick and clips him in the knee, dropping Ice down. Bogard rushes for the ropes in front of Ice and buries his knees into Ice’s head with the SHINKUU BUDDHA-GIRI!!! The Burning Avenger is still down on his knees, not noticing Ice sitting back up to his feet while shaking his head, the Grand Champion running off the ropes and catches a turning Cody with the ICEBERG SPEAR!!! The Grand Champion has his head hanging low, looking away from Cody to catch his wind, but fails to notice Bogard getting up fast from the spear. The King of Hearts sprints to the ropes and catches Ice on the return with the EXCALIBUR SLASH, CAUSING HIM TO FLIP IN MID-AIR!!! The Burning Avenger quickly turns his attention to Ice, but notices him getting up looking unaffected by the lariat, forcing Bogard to head for the ropes and swinging with a second EXCALI-DIAMOND STORM COUNTER BY THE DRAGONSLAYER!!! The Grand Champion is left hunched over and on his knees from the desperation Diamond Storm, not noticing Cody defying him by getting up and immediately has him in a standing head scissors, locking both of Ice’s arms behind his back and spiking him with the HYAKU RYŪ SENJIN HA REVENGER!!!

The energy in the crowd is off the charts, the chanting getting louder and louder, in total amazement of both Ice and Cody Bogard defying each other with such spirit. Both men look worn out and worse for wear, struggling their way up to their feet. Ice throws a forearm to the face, answered back by Cody with a forearm of his own, forearms traded back and forth. Cody goes for the kill with an uraken-DUCKED by Ice and getting the standing head scissors on him and ju-Cody counters. Bogard tries to hook the leg for the Sekiha Tenkyoken Buster, but Ice moves his legs furiously to prevent him, kicking just enough to use the momentum to let him drop to his feet. Cody turns around to face Ice, but sees nothing as the Dragonslayer is ducking and lifting Cody over his shoulders, dropping to his knees and landing the DAI GUREN HYORINMARU DRIVER!!!!!! Ice releases the hold on Cody’s legs, looking to be on the brink of his limits and suddenly reaches down and helps pick Bogard up along with himself. The Grand Champion grabs at Bogard’s knees once again, lifting him over the shoulders and letting him drop against him back, falling to his knees and SPIKING HIM WITH A 2ND DAI GUREN HYORINMARU DRIVER!!!!!! Ice releases the hold on the legs of Cody and falls backwards onto Bogard, Mayfair scrambling over to both men and starts counting…

1… 2… THREE!!!!!!!

The crowd explodes in a hail of cheers as Ice rolls over onto his back and looks up at the ceiling above him. It took him nearly 40 minutes to do it but the Dragonslayer has prevailed tonight. Justin Mayfair brings over the Grand Championship and hands it to Ice as Ice stands to his feet. A couple of moments later Cody Bogard pushes his way back to his feet as well and the two engage in a stare off in the center of the ring. Ice wraps the GWA Grand Championship around his waist and holds out his hand to the Burning Avenger who takes it and then pulls Ice into a hug in the center of the ring. The crowd gives this a standing ovation and Ice holds Bogard’s arm high in the air to show his respect for the Burning Avenger. Ice’s music hits and he slowly bows to the King of Hearts out of respect before rolling out of the ring and heading to the back.

The Samoan stands up, allowing Chambers to pull himself over to the corner and get himself up as well, but then immediately moves in on the attack, throwing punches right into Chambers's mid-section. Dar finishes off with a hard elbow to the face, then whips him across the ring, throwing himself down to the mat for extra force, sending Chambers into the turnbuckles with spine-shattering force. Dar gets back up, pulling Chambers to his knees by his luxurious hair and launching a kick into his face. He doesn't let go, though, hitting him with more of the strikes, taunting Chambers with his own signature attacks. Finally, Dar lets off after a good eight or nine, but Chambers immediately shoves himself up to his feet in a rush of adrenaline, slapping Dar hard on the face. Chambers gets one in return, but doesn't back down, hitting Dar with a chop, then gettin elbow'd for his efforts. The two trade strikes until Dar ends it with a ROARING ELBOW! Chambers doesn't have enough in him to take that one, and goes down hard to the mat. Dar follows with a pin. "1...2...TH-NO!" Chambers kicks out. Dar pulls him right back up, whipping him into the corner once again. Chambers goes down to a seated position this time, reeling from the punishment, but Dar doesn't give him a break, walking over and taunting him for a second before placing his foot against his face and tearing his cheek up with Boot Scrapes. The Samoan runs back out to the opposite corner, then charges forward, rolling down at the end into the DAI BOSOU!!! Two hundred ninety pounds of death tank slam into Chambers's face and torso, leaving him motionless in the corner. Dar goes to lift him up, but Chambers fights back, feebly swinging his arms out towards Dar's face. The Samoan easily avoids the hits, as Chambers can't even stand, but London tells him to back off. By now, Dar isn't in the mood to hear that, and turns to accost the ref, walking him back into a corner with a threatening glare. London immediately backs down, but gives Chambers a few extra seconds of rest, allowing him to lift himself up with the ropes, turning and throwing a kick into Dar's stomach as he turns around, hitting two more before Dar knocks him clean off his feat with a Burning Elbow Smash. Dar follows with a pin. "1...2...TH-NO!" Chambers gets a shoulder up.

Dar looks frustrated with that one, slapping his hand down on the mat before grabbing Chambers by his hair again. London warns him about hair-pulling, but backs off as soon as Dar threatens a strike, the Samoan turning back to Chambers and pushing him back into a corner, giving him a few hard elbows to the side of the head before whipping him into the opposite corner. As Dar charges, though, Chambers manages to get his leg up, Dar running right into the boot. With Dar stumbling back, Chambers quickly hoists himself up onto the middle ropes, grabbing Dar in a Facelock as he turns around and flipping over into a Blockbuster! The counter comes out of nowhere, Dar bailing out of the ring and holding the back of his neck as the crowd bursts into cheers, glad to see Chambers starting to turn things around again. Dar turns towards the fans, calling out "Any of you dorks carry asprin with your inhalers?" He gets only jeers in response. Chambers quickly gets back up to his feet, not wanting to waste his chance, and runs to the ropes, diving through the other side with a TOPÉ SUICIDAAAAAA!!! Dar gets slammed back into the guard rail as the crowd jumps to their feet, pounding the barriers and cheering wildly for the dive, the Samoan having never seen it coming. Chambers gets back up after several moments, high-fiving one of the fans. "NOBODY STEALS MY MATERIAL!" He reaches down and pulls Dar back up, whipping him hard into the guard rail. Dar looks about finished by this point, breathing heavily and barely able to stand, but Chambers whips him into the opposite rail for good measure. Chambers climbs up onto the apron, then gets into the ring, deciding to let Dar come back on his own, the Samoan taking his time getting back up to his feet before slowly climbing up onto the apron. By now, the Heartbreaker has got tired of waiting, though, and runs to the ropes, jumping onto the second one and swinging his leg around for the RC ENZUIGI-NO! Dar catches him, pulling him over the ropes and off the apron into the EXPLODERDEATH!!!

Chambers lands head-first on the floor as the crowd jumps up, screaming with shock and awe as the two men lay on the outside. "HOLY s**t! HOLY s**t! HOLY s**t!" After a while, Dar gets up, obviously in RAGE MODE as he hauls Chambers's corpse up from the ground, bending him over and TOSSING HIM INTO THE GUARD RAIL HEAD-FIRST!!! Dar throws the Heartbreaker like a ******** lawn dart, Chambers crumpling onto the floor as the crowd boos, but Dar is in his own world by this point, kicking over the chairs set at ringside and unleashing a war cry. As he walks back over towards Chambers, though, he stumbles, quickly leaning against the ring for support and holding his head, as if he was about to faint. Apparently Chambers's work in the earlier parts of the match has come back to help him, the headlocks having worn down Dar's endurance. Chambers is starting to stir by the time Dar moves again, pulling him up and rolling him back into the ring, sliding in afterwards to follow. Chambers immediately goes to the corner, using the ropes to help himself up. Dar immediately advances on him, throwing a few elbows, but Chambers knocks him back with a chop, then swings up on the ropes and hits him with a Mule Kick, sending Dar stumbling back even further. As he charges, Chambers is ready for him, dropping down to one knee and hooking his arm to ARM DRAG HIM INTO THE BUCKLES!!! Dar slams into the corner to cheers from the crowd, Chambers rolling away to take a breather, knowing he just bought himself a little more time to recover. Once he sees Dar start to stand, though, he quickly gets up to his feet, moving to the opposite corner. As Dar finishes getting up, Chambers runs forward, going in for another YAKUZA KI-NO! Dar steps forward, intercepting him with a hand around his throat, swinging Chambers up into a NODOWA OTOSHIIII!!! The ring shakes with the force of Chambers hitting it, the crowd looking tense as Dar quickly drops down over him for a pin. "ONE...TWO...THR-NOOO!!!" Chambers gets a shoulder up!

The two men are still for a moment, left alone with the insatiable crowd stomping their feet, banging on the railing, clapping their hands, and trying to start lame chants. Darson, now breathing very heavily, looks down at Roy, who is hardly breathing at all. Still in disbelief that he could kick out of the abuse of the last six minutes, Darson can do nothing but shake his head as he mutters aloud “...oh, he’s ******** Dead!...” The Archetype grabs Chambers by the neck yet again, peeling him off the canvas with minimum effort and throwing his arm over his shoulder, signalling for another NODAWA OTOSHIIIINOOO! With a burst of energy Roy shoots his legs out, locking them around the neck and the arm that has him by the throat, falling backwards into a TRIANGLE CHOKE!!! Trying to wear down the Samoan to his level and trying to gain precious time Chambers reverts to his game plan and slows the pace of the match back down to his tempo. The furious Dar claws at the mat, managing to push himself up back onto his knees, and then to his feet at the expense of energy. Being partially blinded by the legs wrapped around his head, Dar uses his free hand to plunge fist after fist into Roy’s side. Referee London intervenes, grabbing the hand and insisting that it’s against GWA regulations to throw closed punches, but this only distracts Darson’s attention as he grabs London by the collar and hurls him across the ring, rolling to the outside where GWAndroids console him. “What the ******** was THAT man?” “Dude, you’re just a referee!” “DIE YOU WORTHLESS c** BUCKET!!!” Inside the ring Roy is taking a considerable beating as Dar’s Samoan Super Strength hoists him upright and slams him repeatedly into the corner, peppering him with kidney shots, but the Heartbreaker doesn’t budge, refusing to miss this opportunity. Gradually, the thrashing begins to take it’s toll on Dar as he begins to slouch down back to the ground. Referee London slides back in the ring, not looking terribly carefully to see if Dar has the ropes...

Darson Grays is fading fast as his movements become less erratic and his breath slows and deepens. Roy, now with wind regained, forces all of his strength into his legs, clamping down on Dar’s carotid arteries and restricting the blood flow to his head. Finally, seeing that Dar has been incapacitated, but not ready to submit, Roy snaps his legs back and sits forward, jumping to his feet and grabbing Dar’s free arm, pulling them behind his back and standing him up to finish the match off with a devastating BLUES BREAKER!!! But as Roy starts to lift Dar up, he realizes his strategic mistake. With the strength drained from him Darson has become complete dead weight and impossible to lift as he sags back to his knees. Roy yanks and tries feverishly to deliver the final blow. He releases the arms and sends a series of clubbing blows and elbows to the back of Darson, pulling his head back and raking his face with a fierce knee strike before pulling his arms back and lifting him back to his feet! But this sudden shock to his system is enough to knock sense back into the sleeping giant, as he begins to resist and to pry Roy’s arms back. Keeping them hooked, he peels them away from Roy as he slowly rises to full size, looking more terrifying than ever as he looks down with a silent rage at his opponent before delivering a hard knee to the gut, hooking the arms behind his own back and taking him to the canvas with a FOLDOVER TIGERBOMB!! 1...2...THNO! Roy just gets his shoulder up! But this is costly as Darson manages to roll him over into a HALF CRAB WITH SAMOAN CRAAAANK!! But when Dar stops rolling, Roy continues with the momentum, flipping onto his back and slipping his legs out from under the Samoan, planting them on his back and grabbing his arms in a Scarecrow Crucifixion! However it doesn’t seem to be doing much good as Dar gradually powerhouses his way out of it, pulling his arms forward and actually raising Roy off of the ******** floor! Chambers’ feet slip off of the Samoan’s back as he begins to lead both of them to their feet.

Roy still has the Surfboard Stretch applied and cranks into it as much as possible to gain as much leverage from the hold as he can, but this is soon taken away as Darson begins to turn the stretch over. Roy fights it as long as he can with the crowd behind him, clapping rhythmically, urging him on, but the sheer strength of Darson Grays is too much and he is soon placed in the hold himself. But the crowd is not deterred and begins clapping louder and faster as Roy tries valiantly to pull his arms forward and out of the hold. Shockingly, he inches forward and begins to break Darson’s hold, until the Archetype lets go completely and Roy snaps forward, his arms shooting through air and crossing onto his chest. This has played perfectly into Darson’s hands as he grabs the crossed arms by the wrists and throws Roy back directly onto his head with a HOSTILEPLEX!!! The crowd oohs and deflates as the Heartbreaker’s body folds over his head at a sickening angle...And just as quickly as he went down Roy crawls back up!! The crowd jumps to their feet as Roy’s hand begins to slap the mat while he pulls his chin out from his sternum and climbs back to his feet! Darson looks on, not even in anger, merely in disbelief as the first GWA Grand Champion brushes off the dangerous suplex. Dar isn’t going to take that s**t and charges forward, knocking the cocky ******** into the ropes with a Charging Elbow! As Roy reels back Dar unloads with a series of elbows, each knocking him further back until he finishes the series off with a well placed Burning Elbow right across the cheek! NO SOLD! Roy stares right back into Dar’s face before shooting forth with his own Burning Elbow! DISRESPECT! Chambers hits off a couple of his stiff kicks before grabbing the big man by the neck and hurling him into the corner.

Without a moment’s pause all of the abuse comes back to him. With a flash of the sinister grin seen in the Gambino Cell, in the TNT Street Fight, and in th 2/3 Falls Sparco match, Roy Chambers gets mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore! Roy absolutely UNLOADS on Darson! Elbow! Elbow! Elbow! Knife-Edge Chops! Stiff Kick! Stiff Kick! Stiff Kick! Stiff Kick! Mongolian Chop! Elbow! Elbow! Stiff Kick! Spinning Back Kick!! But Darson comes back with a PALM STRIKE! Roy is sent flying back, rolling on the canvas, only to NO SELL and come rolling right back connecting his heel to Darson’s forehead with a ROLLING KAPPO KICK!! This brutal shot leaves him slouched in the corner, knees raised, arms draped over the top ropes. Chambers is on his feet, the crowd is red hot, just as darson did earlier Roy laps into the opposite corner and comes exploding forth, jumping off his knee and hitting a brutal RC ENZUIGIRI!! The smack echoes across the arena as both men slouch to the ground. The fans in attendance have been whipped into a frenzy, several chants emerge simultaneously and quickly die out, the excitement coupled with their natural deficient attention spans proving too much for coherent thought as both men stir in a slow race to regroup and come back strong. Chambers, having just a bit of a stamina advantage is able to get to his feet and catch the rising Dar off his guard as he grabs the back of his neck and almost taunts him with abnormally weak step kicks, though it may be the fatigue wearing in after almost forty minutes in the ring with such a relentless opponent. Chambers leads Dar out to the center of the ring, grabbing him in a front facelock and signaling to the crowd that the end is near. He gets in a few more knee shots in on the weakened opponent before hooking a leg and beginning to take him up. But whatever he had planned is abruptly interrupted as Darson kicks himself out of the leg hook and shoots upright, and throws Roy over his shoulder with an EXPLODER SUPLEX!!! Roy hits the mat directly on his back with such force that he bounces up to a sitting position, arching in pain as his mouth hangs open. Darson spots this and decides to take it one step further. “No sell THIS you ******** p***k!” Dar grabs Roy around the torso and lifts him clear into the air, dropping him onto his feet and throwing his shoulder over his neck, snapping him backwards into a DANGEROOOOOOOUS BACKROPPAAAAAAH!!!! With Roy stuck folded in half on the canvas Darson needs merely to roll him onto his back and hook the leg for the pin. ONE...TWO....THREE!!!

ROY KICKS THE ******** OUT!!! The fans are already booing as Peter London, much to their change of heart, throws his fingers up to show that it was just a two count. Darson Grays is considerably less pleased with the outcome. He leaves the battered Heartbreaker on the ground as he grabs London’s collar, having enough with the tiny referee. With the crowd throwing in equally harsh words and abuse coming at him from all sides, London grabs Darson’s hand by the wrist and yanks it off his shirt, pointing to the name tag sewn onto his uniform by malnourished minor seamstresses in Sierra Leon, signifying that he is an official and is to be respected, and if he has to take any more s**t he will eject Dar from the match, not caring whether he is fired or not. Dar stares blankly at this, pondering it over, then decisively cocks his fist unleashing a deadl-SCHOOL BOY ROLL-UP BY CHAMBERS!! ONE, TWO, TH-KICKOUT!! The two are up instantly, the rush of adrenalin being enough for them to shake off the weariness of the match as they stand transfixed at each other. Peter London wisely backs out of their way as they abandon any sense of sportsmanship and come out charging, throwing closed fists into each other venting all of their frustration and leaving it to pure rage to decide the winner. Roy starts to gain the upper hand as he connects three unanswered rights to the side of the head of Darson, but Grays comes back with a brutal punch to the temple and Roy is taken aback. Another powerful shot knocks Roy back into the ropes, where Dar grabs his arm and whips him violently across the ring. Roy comes back to meet Dar, crunched over ready for a big move, but Chambers cuts it short as he hits a square kick to the forehead, springing the Samoan upright.While he is still slightly dazed Roy backs up into the ropes and comes out, finally nailing another long awaited YAKUZA KICK!!!

The crowd gives a huge pop, but Dar does not go down, merely reels in the middle of the ring. Chambers, undeterred, takes off against the perpendicular ropes and scrapes the side of Dar’s face with A SECOND YAKUZA KICK!! Again he is only staggard and remains on his feet. With the crowd behind him more than ever in his career, Roy comes off the opposite ropes with a THIRD YAKUZA KICK!!! Darson is taken to his knee but arrives right back up, just in time to be blasted from behind by ANOTHER ******** YAKUZA KICK!!! Taken down to both knees, with his eyes glazed over, Darson attempts to regain his senses as Roy comes off the same set of ropes behind him and rebounds off the ropes in front of him, leaping into the air and coming down on Darson with a <******** DANGEROUS DROP YAKUZA KIIIICK!!! Several fans in the front row have taken their chairs and proceed to bang against the railing as Darson goes flopping across the ring. Chambers wastes no time in scrambling to pick up the victory. ONE.... TWO.... THREE-NO! Somehow Darson still finds the strength to kick out! The crowd is a bit deflated after that one, thinking that the flurry of kicks might have been enough to put Dar away. Chambers doesn't look pleased, running a hand back through his silky locks and sitting back on his knees, seeming to be at a loss as to how to finish the Samoan. But then his face lights up with an idea, and Chambers shoves himself up to his feet, doing the same with Dar. "ONE MORE TIME!" yells the Heartbreaker as he pulls Dar into ANOTHER ******** HEADLOCK! The crowd bursts into cheers, but it turns into fright immediately, as Dar wraps his arms around Chambers and lifts him up for a SECOND DANGEROUS BACKDROPPAAAAAAAHHHHH-NOOO!!! Chambers floats over, but holds onto Dar's head, landing with him in a Reverse Facelock, immedately rolling into the CARDIAC ARREST!!! The crowd bursts up to their feet, cheers drowning out everything else in the arena, until everyone in the front row starts pounding the barriers. Chambers slowly rolls Dar onto his back, then flops over him. "ONE...TWO...THR-NOOOOO!!!" DAR GETS A HAND ON THE BOTTOM ROPE!!!

Chambers slowly rolls over to the side, staring up blankly at the ceiling while Dar bails out of the ring, knowing he's in serious danger. It seems the Heartbreaker is at a loss for what to do, shaking his head from side to side. Pretty soon, though, the crowd gets him back into it, starting up a "CHAM-BERS! CHAM-BERS! CHAM-BERS!" chant, drawing him up to his feet. Chambers exits the ring, dropping down off the apron and approaching Dar. "WE'RE NOT DONE YET!" That gets another cheer from the fans, as Chambers grabs onto the Samoan and rolls him back into the ring, sliding in after him. Dar is practically dead weight at this point, but Chambers slowly lifts him back up to his feet, shoving him back into the corner and unleashing a flurry of kicks into his mid-section, the crowd cringing at the force of the strikes, Chambers finishing off with one right to the side of Dar's head. Dar is only on his feet due to his arms being stretched over the top rope, slumping down and breathing heavily. Chambers steps back, slapping his arm and yelling for the fans before spinning around for a DISCUS LARIATOOOOOO-NO! DAR BLOCKS IT! Chambers's arm slams into Dar's forearm, sending a shockwave up through the limb, leaving Chambers stumbling back and clutching it in agony. Dar cocks his arm, spinning around for his own strike, a cry of victory coming from him as he blows Chambers away with the ROARING BACK EL-NO! Chambers throws a kick into the back of Dar's leg, making his knee buckle. Dar's arm flails out as he goes to regain his balance, and Chambers quickly grabs it, swinging his legs up and dropping back in the TRIANGLE CHOOOOKE!!! The crowd is up on their feet once more as Chambers locks in the hold, Dar falling down to one knee and looking shocked as his head gets squeezed in between Chambers's legs, cutting off the already-bad circulation he's had throughout this match. The Samoan has to act immediately, knowing he can't stay conscious long in this hold, and slowly pushes himself up, making Chambers hang off of him and tightening the hold even more. Dar stumbles once, looking as if he's about to go down, but keeps to his feet, lifting Chambers up until only his head is touching the canvas...AND DESTROYING HIS OPEN BACK WITH KNEEEEEEE STRIIIIIIIIKES!!! Chambers makes an attempt to hold on, but with his spine getting pulverized, it's only a matter of time until he lets go, dropping down onto the mat with Dar, the two lying motionless amidst cheers of a maddened crowd.

Dar slowly reaches out to grab the ropes, pulling himself back up to a vertical base, his chest heaving, his endurance all but spent by this point. He seems to be doing a bit better than the Heartbreaker, though, who might be paralyzed after that last attack. Walking over, he hauls Chambers back up to his feet once more, only to pull him into a Standing Head Scissors, rolling him up onto one shoulder. The crowd gasps as Dar pulls Chambers down across him, hoping against hope that it won't happen, but it's in vain - X-DRILLAAAAAHHHH!!! Chambers's head gets spiked down into the canvas, a shockwave going through him. Dar lets him drop down to the mat, then rolls him onto his back, then drops down to the side in a weak cover. "ONE...TWO...COUNTO THREEE-NOOO!!!" CHAMBERS GETS A SHOULDER UP!!! Another shockwave hits the arena, but this one comes from the crowd, cheering to see that it's not over yet. Dar falls over to the side, shaking his head just as Chambers had done, not quite understanding yet that he hasn't won. As London moves over to check on both of them, Dar reaches up and grabs him by the collar, asking if that was three. The ref assures him that it was a near fall, no matter how much Dar insists, and the Samoan finally shoves him away in disgust. Finally, Dar gets up again, grabbing Chambers by the hair and dragging him over to the corner, ignoring London telling him about the rules. The Samoan reaches down and pulls Chambers back up, turning him away and setting a head under his arm, lifting him up onto the top turnbuckle before throwing an elbow into the back of his head, leaving Chambers dazed on the top. Dar climbs out onto the apron, then onto the ropes, taking Chambers in a Front Facelock. The crowd looks very worried now, not sure if Chambers can recover in time to get out of this, especially considering that he looks nearly unconscious. Dar gets up onto the top rope, taking a few moments to steady himself before lifting Chambers up, spinning him and coming down with the AVALANCHE WAKE UP SCREEEEEAAAAAM-NOOOO!!! Chambers swings back down onto the ropes and throws his shoulder into Dar's gut. This loosens the hold enough for the Heartbreaker to attack, throwing a flurry of chops into Dar's chest, finally bending him over and lighting up his back with a Mongolian Chop. Chambers ends it with a knee strike right up into Dar's face, the crowd still on their feet from before, but now watching with a lot more hope. Dar gets pulled into a Front Facelock, Chambers reaching down and hooking one of his legs. The Heartbreaker takes a few deep breaths, then cries out with exertion, LIFTING DAR UP AND FALLING BACK WITH THE SUPAFISHAMANBUSTAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

The crowd is screaming for a pin, pounding the barriers and nearly hopping over with excitement, Chambers and Dar laying still on the canvas. Finally, though, Chambers rolls over to the side and drapes an arm across Dar's chest, London sliding in for the pin. "ONE...TWO...THREEEE!!!" It takes a while for the cheers to die down enough for Roy's entrance theme to be audible, the Heartbreaker slowly getting up to his feet with the help of the Chamber Maids. A huge grin is plastered across his face, the Heartbreaker feeling great after the win, making a belt motion at his waist. "I'm comin' back, baby!"

Roselyn: "And here is your winner...ROY CHAMBERS!!!"

Chambers takes a walk around the ring once he's able to be steady on his feet, playing to the crowd for a while until he finally exits, beginning the walk up to the back. Meanwhile, Dar is only now beginning to sit up, holding the back of his neck and waving off the ring crew with his free hand. Chambers stops at the curtain and turns back to face the ring, catching Dar's eye and giving him a cheeky thumbs up. Dar just glares at him, getting a laugh out of the Heartbreaker before he exits, Dar following after him to let the ring crew get the scaffold set up for the next match.