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Post by Big Time Fights on Jan 1, 2021 7:46:06 GMT
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
DARNELL CANE
In 2021, I want to make all of Lion's Road pay.
FELIX BINGHAM 2021 is the year of the metal ox. Success comes to those who work really hard and no one worked harder than me in 2020. Tonight, I start things off right by becoming champion.
RYAN SAMUELS
In 2021, I want prove that I can out drink Iron Mack, 3 to 1. That man can throw down some damn beers!
AJ KNIGHT I'll beat Justin Seville and I'll win the World's title. Just like every other year.
LUKE MARSHALL
In 2021, I want to earn a shot at the championship.
JUSTIN SEVILLE I will become the King of Lions.
RAIN CORVIN In 2021 I want to hear the sounds of shattered souls even more, and broken dreams atop of that.
Danny Aguilar stands in the middle of an empty highway, somewhere in the desert, holding the mask he wore when he was known as El Nieto del Super León. He looks back in the direction from which he came and then looks forward in the direction he is headed.
DANNY AGUILAR
Follow this road in that direction and you’ll end up in Saltillo, Coahuila, México. It’s a wonderful city, full of life and beauty. It’s where I come from. It’s where I wish I was going, but my return home is not as simple as walking back in that direction. For me to get home, I must travel in the opposite direction. To get back to Saltillo, I need to travel this way down the Lion’s Road. This way is my path to redemption.
He holds up the mask in his hand and looks closely at it.
DANNY AGUILAR
This is who I was. It wasn’t my choice. I was never meant to be me. I was always meant to be him. From the moment I was born, I was preordained to become El Nieto del Super León. A name that was destined to become legend, just like his father and his father before him...but El Nieto del Super León will never become a legend. El Nieto del Super León lost his identity. El Nieto del Super León lost his family. El Nieto del Super León lost his home. I want to return home to my family. There’s only one way I can do that. I can no longer be El Nieto del Super León. Now I have to be me. Now I have to be Danny Aguilar.
Aguilar lets go of the mask and the wind takes hold, carrying it off into the desert.
DANNY AGUILAR
El Nieto del Super León only has a past, but Danny Aguilar has a future. My destiny has yet to be written. Everybody thought they knew the heights to which El Nieto del Super León was going to rise. Nobody knows what Danny Aguilar is capable of. My legacy begins with my first match in Lion’s Road. Steven Christopher, you are not my enemy, you are merely my first opponent. Perhaps someday you will be famous for your own reasons, but you will live on infamously in my story as the first hurdle I overcame on my way to greatness. I will meet you soon.
The camera pulls back as Aguilar begins walking down the road. A semi-trailer truck appears behind him. It’s the Lion’s Road ring truck, adorned with images of various superstars of the promotion. Aguilar smiles as he watches the truck speed past. The camera ascends into the sky and shows the long road ahead as the truck speeds off into the distance. A lion’s roar is heard as the image fades out.
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Post by Big Time Fights on Jan 1, 2021 7:46:08 GMT
Back from break, Steven Christopher takes Danny Aguilar down to the mat with a side headlock but quickly finds the Grandson of the Super Lion's legs wrapped around his head, freeing the youngster from the headlock. The Showstopper finds his own show brought to a halt as Aguilar has the headscissors applied extremely well, rendering Christopher unable to simply pull himself out. He tries though, oh does he try... but eventually decides he needs to get up and get moving to make an escape work. Finally with Aguilar's legs flat on the mat, Christopher yanks his head free and immediately slaps the Mexican luchador across the face! Aguilar tries to get up quickly but eats a knee, doubling him over and then gets his back raked!
SAM HEWITT Fans, if you just joined us these two men are newcomers here in Lion's Road. Wearing the black tights with "Showstopper" emblazoned across them is Steven Christopher, a ten year veteran. His opponent in the white trunks has only been wrestling two years but is a third generation star - Danny Aguilar. Aguilar's father and grandfather are well known in lucha circles with popularity rivalling that of the Pollos. He previously competed as El Nieto del Super León but lost his mask in his very first lucha de apuesta - a match of bets, loosely translated.
BRIAN SHELZI So essentially, we've got ourselves a match between a rich kid who was handed everything by his family and a kid coming from wrestling royalty that fumbled coming out of the gate.
SAM HEWITT That's pretty succinct, yeah.
Christopher thrusts his pelvis at Aguilar then rakes his eyes! Christopher laughs as Aguilar stumbles away blinded, but comes right back with a running back elbow smash! With the Showstopped stunned by the shot, Aguilar hits the ropes and downs him with a sling blade! He then darts back to his feet and leaps onto the second rope, moonsaults off with a lionsault... but Christopher moves!
AGUILAR LANDS ON HIS FEET!
Aguilar leaps over Christopher then leaps onto the ropes again, nailing a beautiful reverse crossbody! He hooks the leg!
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SAM HEWITT For nearly half a century, the Lion's Roar has secured wins for his family but here tonight, Danny Aguilar picks up his first win in Lion's Road with it!
Happy with the weight of his first match in a new promotion being off his shoulders, Aguilar throws his arms back and lets out a roar before heading to the back. We bring up the replay...
BRIAN SHELZI Aguilar jumps off the second rope, looking for the lionsault but somehow sees Christopher move while he's upside down and lands on his feet. How he didn't break an ankle, I don't know - but he wastes no time at all with a follow up, he jumps over Christopher as he's getting back up, buying him a second or two and then comes off the ropes again with the crossbody - the Lion's Roar as Sambo said. Maybe escaping the family heritage is what this kid needed. I can't wait to see more of him.
SAM HEWITT No doubt about it. Impressive in his debut and he'll be back on the program next week so it won't be long before we see him again. Now I understand we've got Ryan Samuels standing by backstage so let's send it back there.
The cameras cut to backstage to where the LRX backdrop is. Standing there is "The Midwest Nightmare" Ryan Samuels, looking pissed off, with his forehead still bandaged. He snarls and he paces back and forth, swinging his bullrope very aggressively.
RYAN SAMUELS
Jonah Ke'ala, you stupid son a bitch. You really think that you can get away with smackin' me in the head with a ring bell and not get your face caved in? You really think that I'm gonna let you think for one goddamn second, you got one up on me? Really? REALLY?!
Ryan is fuming, and he is highly aggravated.
RYAN SAMUELS
Boy, you have opened up the wrong door now. You are gonna step through that door and walk right into hell. You are gonna come face to face with the devil and I can guarantee you are not gonna like it. The devil has no mercy and boy, when you and I come face to face in that ring, you will receive absolutely no mercy from me. You have been nothin' but a pain in my ass since day one and now, I am going to take you out once and for all! Hot damn! Mack and I are gonna show you and that little punk Luke Marshall that you do not want to mess with Lariat Inc!
Ryan continues to pace, back and forth, with such fury in his eyes.
RYAN SAMUELS
Ke'ala, you keep thinkin' that if you come at me, you will be able to prove you belong. Well son, you don't. You don't have what it takes to belong in the ring with me. You don't have what it takes to belong in the ring with "Iron" Mack Brody. You don't belong here. Neither do you, Luke. This ain't your place. Go back and play your weird football sport. Lion's Road is the land of giants and you two are little tiny nobodies. Get the hell out of my way. This is your final goddamn warnin'. Mack and I have bigger and better plans than dealin' with you two goddamn fools!
With that, Ryan starts to swing his bullrope wildly at the cameras as we cut to commercial.
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Post by Big Time Fights on Jan 1, 2021 7:46:15 GMT
“You sons of bitches!”
People run off every which way as “Iron” Mack Brody comes charging into the interview area. He tosses his duffel bag against the wall, knocking over equipment and signage, and obviously not giving a damn about the chaos he’s creating.
“I go off and take some time to head back to Fort Worth to see my wife and twelve kids, and what do I find when I come back? That damn lying Hawaiian, Jonah Ke'ala hasn’t gotten it through that coconut shaped head of his to stay out of my partner Ryan Samuels’ business. A smart man would have walked away after the whooping he received, but no one has ever accused ol’ Ke’ala of being a smart man. Hell! Maybe Samuels beat him so badly last time he lost what common sense he had left!”
Mack spits on the floor and glares at the camera.
“So I guess that means ol’ Madman Mack has so come back to this stinking territory to start beating people’s heads in again. Ke’ala! You want to act like a tough guy and stick up for that Aussie, Luke Marshall? That’s fine by me, bubba! See, there’s only a few things I love in this world, and beating the holy hell out of a couple greenhorns like you two is one of them. So what I’m going to do is go find my partner, give that boy a slap upside his big melon, ‘cause he didn’t finish you two off like the way he should have while I was gone, then we’re going to go down to that damn ring and beat you both within an inch of stinking lives. When the dust is settled, it’ll be Lariat Inc standing tall and you two will be looking up at the lights.”
Mack yells again and kicks over some production lights before bending down and picking up his bag.
“Where the hell is that damn ginger, Riel? Someone tell that boy I’m looking for him! He better have my beer ready when I get to my locker room!”
Mack tosses his duffle bag over his shoulder and marches off.
“And where the blazes is that Ryan Samuels? I better be ready to whoop some ass or I’ll beat him up too.”
Mack can be heard yelling for a few more seconds before he disappears.
Conveniently, Riel Buck appears once he’s gone. Sipping on a martini, he looks around and surveys the carnage left in his client’s wake. He snickers to him and faces the camera. Shrugging, he winks at the audience and starts wanders off in the general direction he saw Mack Brody go.
“I have a feeling the shit’s going to hit the fan tonight,” he remarks before he too disappears.
The camera starts up with Luke Marshall icing around at a gym, being recorded by someone he knows, he needs to get this out of him.
LUKE MARSHALL
Goddammit… motherfuckin… stupid fuckin Ryan Samuels… fuckin kicking my head against a post… fuckin trying to end my career before it can begin… fuck. Absolute bullshit...
Luke turns around to look at the camera, clearly upset.
LUKE MARSHALL
Ryan… Ryan mate, you’ve done fucked up now. I tried to do this before and be all respectful like I normally am… but no. You don’t deserve that. You tried to end my career… you tried to kick me out of wrestling, you tried to put me in hospital. In my second… fucking… match. You tried to crack my skull wide open, tried to put me in the ICU, to take me off T.V. I cannot fucking stand that, mate.
Luke runs his hand through his hair while smirking.
LUKE MARSHALL
Now, now I’ve got my homie Jonah by my side. This lad is one of the toughest sons of bitches I’ve ever seen… you… you don’t know what you’ve started here. You’ve woken up a beast inside me, a beast that hasn't awoken since my days playing rugby back in my home country of Australia… a beast that has been awoken through my training with Austin Anderson, which has given me that edge that I was missing. Training with him has given me a new outlook on wrestling… and a new sense of what I can do inside the ring… Ryan… you’ve fucked up… you… you are going to get a taste of revenge in this tag match… I am going to hurt you worse than you ever could hurt me. Normally I would be really respectful and my “happy to be here” attitude tagging along with me. But you don’t deserve that. What you deserve Ryan… is an ass kicking of a lifetime. And you’ll get that when me and Jonah team up to face off against you and Mack Brody… and I cannot wait to get my hands on you… just you wait. I’ll see you soon, Ryan.
And with that, Luke walks out of frame and the camera shuts off.
We come back from the break with Lariat, Inc. in the ring awaiting their opponents. Riel Buck is his usual obnoxious self on the outside as "King Kong" by Gorilla Zoe begins to play and the tandem of Jonah Ke'ala and Luke Marshall walk out. They exchange a quick high five and nod before charging down to the ring, but Brody and Samuels meet them halfway!
SAM HEWITT This one is bedlam already!
Both teams begin to wildly throw punches in the aisle as referee Jerry Roberts yells at them to get to the ring. Riel sneaks up behind Roberts and clobbers him with his cane, dropping the official as "Iron" Mack Brody sends Luke Marshall flying over the guardrail with a huge big boot. Mack follows Luke over the rail as Jonah and Ryan Samuels trade lefts and rights in the aisle. Samuels gains the advantage with three well placed forearms causing Ke'ala to stumble into the guardrail. Ryan runs and hits a nasty running european uppercut that flips Jonah head over heels right over the railing! Riel can be heard screaming as we see Brody and Luke trading punches. Brody catches one of Marshall's strikes and begins to choke the rookie with his massive hands!
BRIAN SHELZI My favourite hold! The Greco-Roman double handed choke!
SAM HEWITT Yeah, what a technician.
Samuels has Jonah up on his feet and the two men are trying to drive each other's heads into the railing before Riel runs by and cracks Ke'ala in the head with his cane. The blow stumbles Jonah and Ryan attacks! Samuels launches Ke'ala into a section of chairs, with a big german suplex! The cameras cut over as we see Mack slamming Luke's head into the back wall, sending the Aussie staggering away. Brody grabs a nearby chair and just plants Marshall across the back, dropping the man to his knees. Suddenly Ryan Samuels comes out of no where and drops Luke with a spear! Ryan and Mack throw up the longhorns before picking Marshall up and just tossing him into a section of chairs with a double biel toss! Mack turns around and gets rocked by a headbutt from Jonah! The big man stumbles back as Jonah goes for a chop on Ryan, who ducks and drives Ke'ala into the ground with another german suplex! Mack grabs Luke and walks him over to where the hard camera's scaffolding is. He drives Marshall's head into the metal and begins to press Marshall's head against the scaffolding with all his force. We see Ryan get to his feet and eat a wild chairshot from Jonah! He stumbles back and eats another shot! Jonah lets out a roar and swings hard at Samuels' face, dropping the big man down to his knees. Jonah drops the chair and runs towards the scaffolding and hits Mack in the back with big forearm.
SAM HEWITT A huge forearm shot from Ke'ala, but I'm not sure how effective it was against Big Brody!
Brody and Ke'ala begin to trade blows as Luke pulls himself to his feet. Ryan stumbles into the fray and begins to clobbers Luke, who climbs up the scaffolding to get away! Samuels follows! Both men are on top of the scaffolding trading punches! Marshall catches Ryan with a boot to the gut and drives Samuels into the scaffolding with a shaky but effective brainbuster!
BRIAN SHELZI Oh my god...
SAM HEWITT Somehow, someway... that scaffolding held up under all that weight.
Elsewhere Mack picks Jonah up and tosses him onto some chairs with a bodyslam! Mack begins to yell at Ke'ala as we see Luke stumble to his feet on top of the scaffolding. With a yell, Luke dives off the scaffolding right on top of "Iron" Mack Brody! All four men are down as we see Riel Buck dancing around the carnage. Ke'ala gets to his feet and staggers over to Luke and helps him to his. Ryan is seen stumbling down the scaffolding before racing over to the two men and starts throwing haymakers! He drops Luke with a right hook and throws an elbow right into Jonah's ribs, sending the big man stumbling away. Samuels follows and begins throwing clubbing blows into the back of Ke'ala! The cameras cut back and see Mack slowly get to his feet and stumbles over to Luke. He reaches over and grabs a nearby trashcan and belts Marshall in the head, sending garbage everywhere!
BRIAN SHELZI Garbage day!
Brody picks Luke up to his feet and a beer bottle explodes over Mack's head! The big man goes down hard and is out! Marshall stumbles back and falls against some chairs. We cut back to Jonah and Ryan exchanging blows right by the guardrail. Jonah catches a wild left from the big man and kicks him hard in the gut. Samuels doubles over and Jonah looks to be going for a powerbomb but Ryan counters with a backdrop over the railing into the ringside area! Samuels hops over the barricade and stomps at Ke'ala. He moves the ringside table and picks Jonah up to his feet and eats a hard headbutt! Ryan stumbles back and falls on top of the table as Ke'ala jumps up onto the ring apron. He points to the sky and runs at the fallen Ryan and sends him through the table with a huge running senton!
SAM HEWITT Broken bottles, broken tables... hell, we might even have broken bodies at this rate. This is pure chaos!
Ke'ala gets to his feet and grabs a chair from the seating area. He sizes up Samuels, who is wearily getting back to his feet. Riel Buck breaks his cane across Ke'ala's back and the Mauler from Maui falls to his knees, crying out in pain. Buck grabs the chair and holds it up over Ke'ala's face, allowing Samuels to boot it into him! Buck directs Samuels then grabs Jerry Roberts, shaking him back to alertness. Samuels grabs Ke'ala and throws him inside the ring. He climbs in behind him and raises his arm...
MIDWEST EXPRESS!
The lariat catches Ke'ala as he struggles to his feet. Samuels collapses to the mat, but manages to drape an arm across the Mauler. Roberts slowly crawls over...
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SAM HEWITT We have a winner in theory, but I'm sure there's going to be fines coming out of this one.
BRIAN SHELZI Riel Buck's never hassled me over the fines. It's a hell of a lot easier than trying to get the money out of Brody and Samuels.
SAM HEWITT I bet.
BRIAN SHELZI I gotta go check on Roberts, I'll be back.
SAM HEWITT Oh, NOW you check on him? Not when he had a cane smashed over his back?
BRIAN SHELZI Dude's from Alabama, I'm sure it's happened a few times.
Hewitt sighs.
SAM HEWITT Fans, let's get this cleaned up. We've still got a couple matches to go, but with a little luck - they'll be a lot less hectic than this one was.
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Post by Big Time Fights on Jan 1, 2021 7:48:49 GMT
We cut backstage as Lariat Inc stumbles through the curtain, beaten and bloodied but as loud and boisterous as ever. Samuels snatches the microphone from Becky Chande and Riel Buck tells her to get out of here.
RYAN SAMUELS KE'ALA! Hahaha, just like I thought... KE'ALA! You ain't shit! And to prove you ain't shit, I want you one more time! My pick! My match! You're going to pay for pinning me twice! You messed with the wrong man, Ke'ala!
They storm off as the scene shifts to a locker room...
AJ Knight begins taping up his wrists in preparation of his match while Jeremy Squire begins pacing the floor. He looks over at AJ...
JEREMY SQUIRE AJ, are you sure you don't want me out there? I mean this is Justin Seville we're talking about. The man's not exactly all there, he has tried to end your career on multiple occasions over something that happened nearly 4 years ago. It could be dangerous. AJ looks up and chuckles. AJ KNIGHT Jeremy, you got to trust me here. I'm in his head. I know him, I know the way he thinks. I know what he's going to do before he does it. Hell, I know what he's going to do, before he KNOWS he's going to do it. Do you know why Jeremy? Jeremy shakes his head. AJ KNIGHT Because he's the same man that he's been since 2017. He never really got out of that one moment. I'm going to be a step ahead, and I'll have my hand raised at the end of the night. Mark my words. AJ bumps fists with Jeremy Squire, as he heads towards the ring.
"Tired" by Stone Sour begins blaring over the PA system, which means that Justin Seville is on his way to the ring. After the intro, Seville shoves the curtain aside and steps out with a purpose in every step. He removes his denim jacket and hucks it at a dojo student as he marches down the aisle. Darnell Cane is in tow, but is having a bit of trouble keeping up with Seville's power walk.
MASON MARVELLE
Ladies and gentlemen, this bout is to be fought over a fifteen minute time limit with one fall, one submission or a knockout to decide the winner! Introducing first accompanied by Darnell Cane. Fighting out of Raleigh, North Carolina! He weighs in at two hundred and twenty four pounds: "THE COTTONMOUTH" JUSTIN SEVILLE!
Seville enters the ring and refrains from taunting, he's locked in and ready to fight.
MASON MARVELLE His opponent...
Simple Plan's "Me Against the World" hits. AJ Knight slowly walks out, hands on his hips and a smirk on his face. Jeremy Squire accompanies him, but looks a bit less confident about the whole situation. Squire tries to say something to AJ, but AJ puts his hand up and motions him to follow him. The two make their way down to the ring.
MASON MARVELLE Accompanied to the ring by Jeremy Squire! Fighting out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania! He weighs in at two hundred and twenty pounds: "THE MILLENNIAL CRUSADER" AJ KNIGHT!
Seville is running the ropes as AJ Knight climbs into the ring, but somehow the former World's Champion sees the cheap shot coming as Seville tries to sucker punch him! However, AJ ducks it and swivels - blasting Seville with an elbow! AJ follows it up with a series of stomps directed at the Cottonmouth's head, but find their way to his shoulder and back instead as he tries to crawl away. Knight grabs him by the ears, yanking him up to his feet and snaps off a swinging neckbreaker! He roars back to his feet, wrestling off his ring jacket as he heads to the corner and chucks it right at Darnell Cane. He turns around and waits as Seville staggers back to his feet...
SUPERKI-NO!
Seville catches the foot and swings AJ's leg at referee Robbie Morris, who manages to block it.
BRIAN SHELZI OK, tank! I've seen referees fall over from less than that.
AJ gets struck from behind by a lariat, falling to his hands and knees. Seville starts screaming at Morris to call for the bell as he stuffs AJ between his legs, then grabs him around the waist. Morris signals and we finally get an opening bell, Seville hoists him up...
PILEDRIVER!
AJ's head crunches into the mat as Seville sits in a euphoric trance, half-smiling with a far away look in his eyes. Cane is yelling at him to follow up, but it's not until he gets halfway into the ring that Seville takes notice. Morris works to remove Cane as Seville goes for the cover. Squire sneaks around and pops up, placing AJ's foot on the bottom rope.
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SAM HEWITT I'm not sure that was a wise move or not. Squire may be delaying the inevitable, or he might've just given AJ a second chance!
Seville's happiness turns to rage, he shakes his head in disbelief and gets up - pointing his finger at Morris as he backs him into the corner. Squire grabs a bottle of water and splashes AJ with it, pleading with him to shake it off. AJ rolls onto his stomach in a daze and slowly pulls himself up using the ropes, but gets swung around again...
PILEDRIVER!
Seville plants one knee on AJ's chest as Morris counts.
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The Cottonmouth stares coldly at Squire on the outside, but the Electric doesn't let that intimidate him. He pulls himself up into the ring and starts trash talking Seville, who invites him inside the ring. Squire doesn't need an invitation, he hops the ropes and nails a spinning heel kick on Seville! Squire gets up, full of adrenaline as Seville slowly gets back to his feet...
LOW BLOW FROM CANE!
Squire falls at the feet of Seville, who pulls him up...
PILEDRIVER!
Seville rolls up to his feet and admires his destruction as Knight and Squire are laid out beside one another.
BRIAN SHELZI So... you still think this is the same ol' Justin Seville?
SAM HEWITT Yes, I do... he just found the missing ingredient.
Cane raises Seville's arm in victory as the Cottonmouth continues staring at his foes.
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Post by Big Time Fights on Jan 1, 2021 7:49:22 GMT
Scene. Rain Corvin on a balcony, looking down. The people look like ants. Like a river of ants, going on and about their own business. Corvin turns around, facing the camera. He is smoking his usual cigarette. “Mediocrity…
...The art of being either here nor there. Not being either good nor bad at something. Being something between fish and meat. Plain simple, being boring to death and even there being averagely boring to death.
Not being able to rise from the amount of people surrounding you. Being just plain a midway hack that doesn’t cut it to be anything. Not being able to be even bad at something. And that, believe you me, truly sucks.
If you’re good, you can become better. Or you can get worse.
If you’re so bad you suck, you can only get better.
But if you’re mediocre? If you can’t manage to rise from the masses that surround you? Then you’re just plain dull.
The synonym of “Dull” and “ Mediocre” in the Oxford dictionary?
Felix Bingham!
Tall but not a Power Forward or Centre.
Big but playing with technique, in the ring.
One would say, you’re innovative. But even that doesn’t cut it when it comes to you. Your whole life has been a try to be something you’re not. You’re whole existence has been spent at attempts to succeed, but you haven’t managed.
Yet.
“Yet” is the word you hang onto, when you talk about your life and your success. Yet to be there. Yet to cut it. Yet to manage. Well, to be honest, you still got time. Something like twenty one years old. Still got the whole time in the world to be able to manage to cut it in some direction.
One would say, looking at you.
But then. They look at me!
Twenty years old. Iron Road tournament winner. Prince of Lions Champion. And many many more accolades to come. When they compare the two of us they see a dis-level of galactic proportions. When it comes to skill, the difference of it is like the difference between a grown up Jaguar, that’s hunting a deer and a kitty which tries to catch a fly.
Well, Felix Bingham, maybe when the time comes and you’re about to fight yours truly, you will finally succeed, and see the truth in the eyes. You will finally find the strength to rise above mediocrity and fight to become something.
Better or Worse.
But even if your drive to become something awakens, it will not start with a win over me.
Kicking your butt and taking no prisoners, that’s all I will do. And when you will be looking at me, twenty years old and almost a king, maybe your ego will wake up from that mediocre slumber in which it finds itself right now.
That’s it.
Now, piss off. Become something.”
Referee Cordell Garner signals for the bell and we start off with Bingham locking up with the champion, much to Corvin's chagrin. Bingham backs Corvin up into the ropes and Garner calls for a clean break, Bingham starts to back away without issue but eats a slap in the face! Darnell Cane is yelling at his client from the outside, but the Prince of Lions doesn't really give him a chance to recover or listen as he snaps off a kick to the body then some palm strikes that put Bingham in the corner. Corvin tries to keep on the attack, but Garner gets in between them - although he has a hell of a time as Corvin has his palm covering Bingham's face and the Cat is grabbing whatever he can get a hold of in response, which is both hair and eye patch!
BRIAN SHELZI It only took three months, but someone finally grabbed a hold of his eye patch! I get why he wears it but it's a massive target on someone who's already a massive target as a champion.
SAM HEWITT OK, but on the same page - Felix Bingham has never really been the cheating typ-
BRIAN SHELZI There's a man outside that ring who can change all that with his teachings, though - a real snake oil salesman. Look at what he's done for Justin Seville!
Bingham smacks his palm down across Corvin's face, then knees him in the gut. With little regard for the yellow card, Bingham grabs him and chucks him through the ropes and to the floor. Cane backs up, assuring Garner he doesn't intend to get involved but Corvin is back up and keeping a keen eye on both men. Bingham holds the ropes open for him, but earns a death stare for his generosity. Garner backs Bingham up, allowing Corvin to slide back in but he gets the boots put to him almost immediately. Bingham drags him to his feet and slams him back into the corner turnbuckles, then executes a snapmare - applying a chin lock.
BRIAN SHELZI Sambo, you'll hear many people say that Felix Bingham isn't a flashy guy but look at that string of movements. He put the boots to him, he pulled him up and slammed him back first into the corner then snapmared him down - those are all jarring motions. Your body is trying to adjust, go with the flow and the challenger here is dizzying him up.
SAM HEWITT Bingham is entering his fourth year as a fighter, his third full year as he made his debut at the tail end of 2018. Trained by Teddy Davis, Bastian Krull and Pierre the Masked Canuck - he certainly had some talented brains to pick from. The champion finally finds a way out of the hold after about forty five seconds in it, grabbing the arm and wringing his way out. He brings Bingham down the mat with the wringer and delivers several kicks to the neck and shoulder area. He tries to execute an axe kick, but Bingham rolls out of the way and scrambles to his fe-- RUNNING DDT! The champ catches Bingham as he's trying to get back to a vertical base, planting him with the DDT. He covers. 1... ... 2... ... Corvin punches him! Garner calls off the count, wondering what the champion is doing but Corvin offers no answers as he pulls the 6'6" Bingham off the mat and to his knees. Corvin backs up - a kick to the body! Bingham staggers to his feet and eats a couple more, then Corvin scoops him up and powerslams him! He covers! 1... -NO! Cane can't help but cackle and the expression on Corvin's face shows that he isn't impressed by this disrespect.
BRIAN SHELZI I'm not sure what he expected, I believe he had Bingham beaten and he interrupted his own count. Rain Corvin is a different kind of cat for sure and I'm not sure if he could give you a great answer about what's going on in his head.
Corvin pulls Bingham to his feet and tries to whip him into the ropes but gets reversed, Corvin rebounds off the ropes and eats a dropkick! Bingham doesn't quite get all of it, but it hits enough that the champion is sent down to the mat! Bingham crawls across the mat and hooks the leg!
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SAM HEWITT To his credit, Felix didn't argue the call. That's a smart move from the youngster, don't waste time and energy arguing a call that isn't going to be reversed.
Instead, Bingham pulls Corvin to his feet and looks to Irish whip him into the ropes again. He does, but Corvin hangs on! Bingham's dropkick finds nothing but air as he hits the mat. The champion calmly waits with patience unseen tonight... and as Bingham starts back to his feet...
YAKUZA KICK!
Fade to Black! Bingham topples over and Corvin hits the ropes sternum first from his own momentum, he falls down on his backside and covers.
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Cane is livid that his men didn't go 2-0 tonight! Corvin rolls off Bingham's body and is handed his title belt. Referee Cordell Garner offers to raise his arm, but gets a dismissive glare from the champ instead.
SAM HEWITT Well, I'm not sure a guy like that gets any Christmas cards or New Year's greetings but he has himself the Prince of Lions Heavyweight Championship. I'm sure he's OK without the others.
BRIAN SHELZI Nine points for that win. 3 for the win, 6 for the championship defense so he's well on his way to World's title contention.
SAM HEWITT Yes, the new Division setup should prove interesting in the next few weeks. Anyway, fans, we are out of time on this program. It's been a wild one and I'm sure next week will offer no such sanctuary if these fighters have anything to say about. For Brian Shelzi, I'm Sam Hewitt - so long from the Lion's Road!
Corvin and Cane share a long staredown as the champ walks off to the back as we close the show.
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Post by Big Time Fights on Jan 5, 2021 2:03:18 GMT
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