Kevin Cole: I still don’t even know what the heck a Spider Trap Glass Crash Death Match is! But Mark Payne is going to defend the World Title against Hazard in one and it’s coming up next!
Nik Cain: Well, it’s gonna take our ring crew a little while to get this monstrosity set up. Hazard and Payne go way back. In fact, almost one year ago to the day we had another one of these shindigs and, in the main event, Hazard defeated Mark Payne in an Insane Death Match to capture the FCW World Title for the first time. Then, at Pledge Your Allegiance 3, Payne and Hazard were both entered in the four-way main event. And, in the end, it was Hazard victorious, capturing the World Title for the second time. But, despite that track record, Mark Payne still seems to think that Hazard, along with pretty much everyone else, simply is not on his level. Hazard took offense to that and, tonight, is looking to show Mark Payne and everyone else the level he is truly capable of raising his game to when necessary. And it looks like we’re ready to go.
Kevin Cole: Oh god! This may be the most hideous thing I have ever seen! Why on earth would two men subject themselves to this?
(As the camera pans around the ringside area we see what looks more like some sort of post apocalyptic war zone instead of a wrestling event. Pairs of wooden posts have been put up parallel to each ring post as well as in between all four ring posts, for a total of sixteen wooden posts in total. Barbed wire has been wrapped in various criss-crossing ways around all of these posts creating a net of barbed wire all the way around the ring. On top of these barbed wire nets have been placed sheets of glass. For lack of a better comparison, it’s as if the ring has a moat around it. But instead of a moat filled with water, it’s a moat of barbed wire covered in a layer of glass.)
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This contest is a Spider Trap Glass Crash Death match scheduled for one fall.
It is for the FCW World Title.
Introducing first...
From Huntington, WV...
Weighing in at 239 pounds...
"The One Man Riot" Hazard
(“Paint it Black” by Earth Crisis hits as Hazard makes his way to the ring. The One Man Riot has come dressed for a war. No tights, no athletic gear. Just a pair of loose-fitting jeans secured with a belt that appears to be a bit too long for him. Fists are taped up quite heavily, and he's wearing a black sleeveless t-shirt that simply reads "The Machine" on the chest. Black work boots are the footwear in order for tonight's war. As he hits the ring, he strips out of the shirt and tosses it into the crowd and crouches against a set of ropes, eyes trained on the entranceway, eagerly anticipating the arrival of the World Champion.)
Nik Cain: Hazard is ready for war.
Kevin Cole: And that is just what he’ll get!
His opponent...
Fighting out of Allentown, Pennsylvania...
Weighing in at 269 pounds...
The FCW World Champion...
"The Blonde Bastard" Mark Payne
(“Biggest and the Best” by Clawfinger starts to play as the World Champion, Mark Payne, makes his way to the ring. The belt looks as shiny as the day it was first given to Hazard, replacing the one Jean had destroyed. And Payne looks as cocky as the day he wrestled his first match. Back then, the crowds certainly weren’t nationwide but even then he walked out to that ring like the world was watching. Despite being in his home state of Pennsylvania, Payne is met with a considerable amount of boos from an obviously pro-Hazard crowd.)
Kevin Cole: Here comes the World Champion!
Nik Cain: This isn’t the welcome I would expect a hometown boy to get. But, then again, this is Mark Payne, a man who never really cared if you liked him or hated him, just as long as you spelled his name right.
They lock up.
Mark Payne uses a spinning power bomb on Hazard.
Quite a few boos are audible.
Kevin Cole: And, just like that, this match is underway!
Mark Payne hits Hazard with a corkscrew legdrop.
Mark Payne executes a flatliner legsweep on Hazard.
Quite a few boos are audible.
Mark Payne nails Hazard with a Northern Lights bomb.
Quite a few boos are audible.
Mark Payne goes for a fisherman buster, but Hazard counters it with
a small package.
Jeff Davis counts: One, kickout.
Kevin Cole: Quick roll up by Hazard but he only gets a one count.
Nik Cain: The day the FCW World Title changes hands on a small package is the day I pack my bags and go announce Slam Ball for TNN.
Hazard hits a fisherman buster on Mark Payne.
A small "Hazard" chant is being started.
Hazard locks Mark Payne in a figure-four leglock.
Mark Payne is valiantly trying to break the hold.
Mark Payne tries to escape the hold.
Mark Payne breaks the hold after 18 seconds.
Hazard hits a reverse DDT on Mark Payne.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, kickout.
Hazard hits Mark Payne with a cobra clutch suplex.
Hazard whips Mark Payne into the turnbuckle.
Hazard uses the Stinger Splash on Mark Payne.
The crowd is really behind Hazard.
Hazard kicks Mark Payne.
There are lots of chants for Hazard.
Nik Cain: There is absolutely no question who these fans want to see walk out of here the champion tonight.
Hazard chops Mark Payne.
Hazard kicks Mark Payne.
Mark Payne chops Hazard.
Mark Payne chops Hazard.
Mark Payne hits Hazard with a clothesline.
Hazard falls out of the ring.
A wave of boos is going through the crowd.
Kevin Cole: Oh god! Oh god! Hazard might be dead!
Nik Cain: I wouldn’t go that far. But I guarantee that a lesser man in Hazard’s current position would probably wish he was dead.
Mark Payne climbs the 2nd turnbuckle and mouths off to the fans.
The decibel level in the building is unbelievable.
Hazard reenters the ring.
Mark Payne hits Hazard.
Mark Payne punches Hazard.
Mark Payne nails Hazard with a flapjack into a diamond cutter.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, shoulder up.
Mark Payne nails Hazard with a Thunder Fire Power Bomb.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, kickout.
Mark Payne goes for a Cradle DDT, but Hazard blocks it.
Hazard goes for a snap suplex, but Mark Payne counters it with a vertical suplex.
Mark Payne throws Hazard out of the ring.
Kevin Cole: Payne throws Hazard into that...mess again!
Nik Cain: I hate to say this, since Hazard is one of my favorite guys in the business, but right now Mark Payne is handing Hazard his ass in the match Hazard wanted and, right now, he’s making it look easy.
Hazard reenters the ring.
Mark Payne punches Hazard.
Mark Payne hits Hazard.
Hazard hits Mark Payne.
The crowd is going into a frenzy.
Mark Payne chops Hazard.
Hazard punches Mark Payne.
The crowd is on its feet cheering for Hazard.
Hazard kicks Mark Payne.
Hazard chops Mark Payne.
The crowd is giving Hazard a standing ovation.
Hazard goes for a Hotshot, but Mark Payne counters it with a lariat.
Kevin Cole: What a clothesline! Hazard’s chest is just oozing blood right now!
Nik Cain: At the rate that Hazard is losing blood right now, he may not last more than a couple minutes before he simply passes out.
Mark Payne locks Hazard in a scorpion deathlock STF.
Hazard tries to fight the pain.
Hazard tries to fight the pain.
Hazard tries to fight the pain.
Hazard is writhing in pain.
Jeff Davis tells Hazard to respond or he'll stop the fight.
Hazard nods.
Mark Payne lets go after 33 seconds.
Kevin Cole: Hazard will not quit!
Nik Cain: It’s so cliché to say there’s no quit in him, but in Hazard’s case that is absolutely true. The man’s body may give out, but his heart and soul never will.
Mark Payne goes for a Northern Lights bomb, but Hazard counters it with
an elbowsmash.
Hazard whips Mark Payne into the turnbuckle, but Mark Payne reverses it.
Mark Payne gives the sign for the Moment of Clarity.
Mark Payne executes the Moment of Clarity on Hazard.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, in the ropes...
Kevin Cole: Moment of Clarity! But Hazard gets his foot on the rope!
Mark Payne climbs the 2nd turnbuckle and mouths off to the fans.
Security guards are restraining some fans from hitting the ring.
Mark Payne whips Hazard into the ropes.
Mark Payne hits Hazard with a backdrop.
Hazard falls out of the ring.
Kevin Cole: Hazard gets sent through the glass and barbed wire for a third straight time! But what the heck is he doing now?
Nik Cain: It looks like he’s dragging himself over the barbed wire in order to get beneath the ring.
(Hazard disappears beneath the ring for a moment, and crawls back out the other side behind Payne, carrying three four foot long fluorescent light bulbs in each hand. He lets two from each hand fall to the mat, and with alternating swings, brings the light bulb tubes across Payne's back. He quickly scoops up another light bulb and braces it across Payne's chest from behind and executes a Russian legsweep with the bulb across Payne's chest, bursting it on impact. For Hazard's grand finale in the light show, he uses the belt to brace the remaining three light tubes against his body, then carefully scales the turnbuckles and proceeds to do the unthinkable...with three light bulbs strapped to his own chest and stomach, Hazard takes to the air, Super fly-style, and crashes down across Payne, driving shards of glass into each man.)
Kevin Cole: I...I think I’m going to be sick.
Nik Cain: You puke on me, Cole, and I will fuck your ass up.
Hazard nails Mark Payne with a reverse DDT.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, KICKOUT.
Kevin Cole: Kick out! Kick out!
Hazard hits Mark Payne with a kick.
Hazard attempts to place Mark Payne on the turnbuckle, but Mark Payne blocks it.
Hazard hits a reverse neckbreaker on Mark Payne.
The crowd is giving Hazard a standing ovation.
Hazard takes Mark Payne down with a series of headbutts to the head.
Hazard throws Mark Payne out of the ring.
Kevin Cole: No! No! Don’t do it!
(With Payne laying in the mess of glass and metal at ringside, Hazard's eyes gleam over with a touch of madness. With blood dripping from his entire torso, he makes it to the second rope, then cracks his knuckles and grins at the audience. He motions for the crowd to make a little more noise...a little more...working them into a frenzy before hitting the top rope and crossing his chest in a Hail Mary. From there, Hazard uncorks a frog splash towards Payne, only to find that the World Champion has rolled himself out of the wreckage and hits nothing but glass, barbed wire, and concrete.)
Kevin Cole: Oh...dear...lord!
Nik Cain: I’ve seen some crazy shit in my day, and that right there was some crazy shit.
Hazard is handed a baseball bat.
Hazard hits him with the baseball bat.
The crowd is giving Hazard a standing ovation.
Kevin Cole: Baseball bat to the skull of the World Champion!
Nik Cain: What does it say about FCW than our fans actually bring baseball bats to our shows?
They're brawling inside the ring area.
Hazard knocks Mark Payne into the ringsteps.
Hazard executes a series of knifehand chops on Mark Payne.
Hazard throws Mark Payne back into the ring.
Hazard hits Mark Payne with a DDT.
The crowd is giving Hazard a standing ovation.
Kevin Cole: Hazard plants Mark Payne with a vicious DDT!
Hazard goes for the Diamond Cutter, but Mark Payne blocks it.
Mark Payne nails Hazard with a low blow.
Mark Payne uses a tiger driver on Hazard.
Kevin Cole: What a power bomb!
Nik Cain: You can never count Payne out. Never.
Mark Payne hits Hazard with a clothesline from the top rope.
Mark Payne is going for the pin.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, kickout.
Mark Payne uses a spinebuster slam on Hazard.
There is no referee to count.
Jeff Davis is back on the job.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, in the ropes...
Mark Payne executes the Superstar Superkick.
Kevin Cole: Superstar Superkick!
He goes for the pin.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, three.
Kevin Cole: And Payne gets the pin!
Jeff Davis counts: one, Hazard gets back to his feet.
The crowd is really behind Hazard.
Kevin Cole: But Hazard is quickly back up to his feet!
Nik Cain: The guy is loosing blood like Ronald Reagan looses his memory and just got hit with a kick that has put a lot of guys in this business away for ten seconds and then some. What does it say that he got up that quickly?
Hazard uses a snap suplex on Mark Payne.
Hazard hits a piledriver on Mark Payne.
Hazard cracks his knuckles and grins.
The crowd is really behind Hazard.
Hazard uses a sleeper drop on Mark Payne.
The crowd is really behind Hazard.
Hazard gives the sign for the Flatscan.
Kevin Cole: Hazard says its time for the Flatscan!
Hazard executes the Flatscan on Mark Payne.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, three.
Kevin Cole: Flatscan! Hazard has pinned the World Champion!
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
Mark Payne gets back to his feet.
The ring is quickly filling up with debris.
Kevin Cole: But Payne beats the count! The ring has literally been stained red with the blood of these two men but neither one wants to lose this match! What keeps them going?
Nik Cain: It’s called pride...not that I’d expect you to know anything about that.
Hazard goes for a snap suplex, but Mark Payne counters it with a vertical suplex.
Mark Payne kicks Hazard.
Hazard punches Mark Payne.
There are lots of chants for Hazard.
Mark Payne punches Hazard.
Mark Payne chops Hazard.
The decibel level in the building is unbelievable.
Hazard kicks Mark Payne.
Hazard goes for a kneelift, but Mark Payne side-steps and Hazard only hits air.
Mark Payne uses a screwdriver on Hazard.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, three.
Kevin Cole: Payne gets another pin!
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, Hazard gets back to his feet.
There are lots of chants for Hazard.
Kevin Cole: So close!
Nik Cain: The blood loss has definitely taken its toll on Hazard. But it’s also taking a pretty hard toll on Payne too.
Mark Payne hits Hazard with a Hotshot.
Security guards are restraining some fans from hitting the ring.
Mark Payne whips Hazard into the ropes.
Mark Payne takes Hazard down with a kick to the midsection.
Mark Payne whips Hazard into the turnbuckle.
Mark Payne runs shoulder-first into the corner, but Hazard moves out of the way.
Hazard chops Mark Payne.
There are lots of chants for Hazard.
Hazard chops Mark Payne.
There are lots of chants for Hazard.
Hazard chops Mark Payne.
The crowd is really behind Hazard.
Mark Payne chops Hazard.
The ring is quickly filling up with debris.
Mark Payne punches Hazard.
Mark Payne whips Hazard into the ropes.
Mark Payne hits Hazard with a backdrop.
Hazard goes over the top rope but lands on the ring apron.
Kevin Cole: Hazard lands on the apron!
Hazard grabs Mark Payne.
Mark Payne hits Hazard with a back elbow but Hazard hangs on.
Mark Payne hits Hazard with a back elbow but Hazard hangs on.
Hazard executes the Flatscan on Mark Payne from the ring apron to the floor.
Kevin Cole: Oh...dear...lord! Hazard sends both Payne and himself crashing through that mess around ringside with a Flatscan! Neither man is moving at all!
Nik Cain: Shades of last year’s main event.
(Both men lay, barely moving, amidst a mass of barbed wire and shattered glass. Finally, Hazard struggles to get up and slide back into the ring, leaving a red streak behind him. Literally covered in blood, he waits for Payne to drag himself back into the ring as well.)
Nik Cain: These two are so blood soaked its actually getting hard to tell which one is which.
Kevin Cole: Hazard isn’t doing what I think he’s doing! He can’t be!
Hazard gives the sign for the Moment of Clarity.
Hazard executes the Moment of Clarity on Mark Payne.
Jeff Davis counts: One, two, three.
Kevin Cole: Yes! Moment of Clarity on Mark Payne! Hazard just used Mark Payne’s own finishing maneuver against him!
Nik Cain: The ultimate insult and I don’t think Payne is gonna beat this count. Hell, Hazard can’t seem to get up anymore either. These two are absolutely spent.
Jeff Davis counts: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten.
The crowd is going crazy.
The winner is Hazard. Time of match: 0:26:36
Kevin Cole: Payne cannot get up! This match is over and Hazard has recaptured the FCW World Title!
Nik Cain: I won’t say that was the best match I’ve ever seen but I’ll be goddamned if it wasn’t the bloodiest match I’ve ever seen. I mean, just look at the ring.
Kevin Cole: I’d rather not if it’s all the same to you.
(Hazard has managed to walk down the ring steps and is using the guardrail to help support himself. He is handed the World Title and struggles to hold it above his head amidst an uproar from the crowd. Pandora comes rushing down to the ring, her eyes red from tears of concern. Hazard is far too proud to let medical personnel attend to him until he’s gotten back stage but does allow Pandora to put his arm around her neck so that she can help him get to the back.)
Nik Cain: Mark Payne has often called himself the Icon of FCW. But if Hazard doesn’t represent what FCW is all about, then I don’t know who does.
Kevin Cole: Speaking of Payne, it looks like he has regained consciousness and is trying to get a microphone.
Nik Cain: This oughta be good.
(Back in the ring, Mark Payne is asking for the mic, which he gets. The crowd hushes a bit as Mark Payne tries to speak, but can’t for a few moments, his body spent the blood running down his face still. He shakes his head and then finally begins to speak.)
Mark Payne: People can say what they want about the silence, why I’ve been so quiet. They can say I am not what I used to be. The fact is there is a time in every man’s life when you have to sit back and do some hard thinking. I’ve had a lot of time to think, a lot of time to really sit down and think about what has to be done. When I look back at my two and a half years here in FCW it is a past that I am immensely proud of. Four times I have been the World Champion, something no one else can say that have done. When you show a highlight reel of FCW’s greatest matches, you find yourself watching Mark Payne time and time again. However there comes a time when everything has to come to an end, a time where you simply run out of things to do, battles to wage, and wars to win.
(Payne pauses for a moment and looks around taking in the atmosphere...)
FCW has been a greatest home I have ever known, and ever will know. It has given me everything I ever dreamed of and more. I have bled for this company because it has become such a part of me that sometimes it is hard to remember a time when I was not FCW to the very bitter core of my existence. I have fought many hard battles but what I do now is perhaps the hardest thing I have ever done.
(Payne pauses again, looking down, sighing a bit...)
Tonight I am announcing my retirement from the rings of FCW.
(The crowd is stunned.)
I feel as if the time has come for me to move on, much like another person you may remember from the very first time we threw one of these Cruel and Unusual bashes. For a long time I felt as if FCW needed me, and that was great, because I thrive in the limelight, and I lived the life that I have to live. But now FCW does not need The Blonde Bastard because this place is filled with men of my talent and they deserve a chance to be to FCW what I have been for as long as I have been here: An Icon. Is this the end for good in terms of me and wrestling? Probably not, but in FCW when you retire it’s for keeps. I have nothing left to prove, nothing left to gain. I am the best this company has ever seen and ever will see. That is enough for this Bastard to walk away with. For the last time...
(Payne smiles his trademark smile.)
It’s been your pleasure compliments of the FCW Icon, the ONE and ONLY:
“BLONDE BASTARD”
(Payne drops the mic.)
Kevin Cole: What a bombshell! Mark Payne has officially retired from FCW!
Nik Cain: I don’t even know what to say. I think I need to let this sink in before I attempt to process it.
Kevin Cole: I think it’s going to be a long time before this entire evening even begins to sink in! We’ve seen the end of two careers, the crowning of new World Tag Champions and a new World Champion and, quite frankly, eight of the damnedest matches I have ever seen!
Nik Cain: You know, I think that sums it up pretty well. Tonight was the damnedest night of wrestling this color commentator has ever seen.
Kevin Cole: And with that, this unbelievable night comes to a close! Until next time this is Kevin Cole for Nik Cain saying goodnight...and god bless.
(The camera does not cut to a shot of the retired Payne. It does not cut to a shot of the new champion Hazard. Instead, we just get a shot of some of the twisted mass of blood stained glass and barbed wire that litters the ringside area. On this gruesome scene, we fade to black.)
