ANY GIVEN NIGHT
Kendra: Ladies and Gentlemen, the following match is the Any Given Night match! The rules of this match are as follows. There is no limit to the number of entrants and every competitor starts the match inside the ring. Once you are thrown over the top rope and both feet touch the floor then you are eliminated. Once we get down to the final two it becomes pinfalls and submissions only, no holds barred!
Kent: Alright, let’s do this!
Poe: There are currently… fifteen people in the ring!
Regi: And any one of them could walk out of here as the new number one contender!
Kendra: The following MWA stars are in the ring and competing in this match: Carolyn Baker; The Great Ba-Boo; Matthew Bowden; “The Omega Man” Benjamin Doi; Jack “The Golden Eagle” Gaither; Travis Eagle; Chris Langstone; Logan Lima; Osirian; John Patrick; Steve Pinex; Kyle Tristain; Ryan Tyler; Kimberley Williams and Jason Wright!
DING DING DING
The bell sounds and the chaos begins! Instantly the fifteen combatants are brawling en masse and no-one can get the upper hand. Matthew Bowden heads right for Steve Pinex and the two trade some heavy blows. Several people are ganging up on The Great Ba-Boo, pushing the giant man into the ropes and trying to get him over the ropes. He fights off Ryan Tyler, Kyle Tristian and Chris Langstone before Jack Gaither appears and drop kicks the big man, who is already tied up in the ropes. Ba-Boo stumbles back and flips over the ropes and to the arena floor.
Kendra: The Great Ba-Boo has been eliminated!
Regi: The biggest man has gone already!
Poe: Great elimination from this newcomer, he’s out to win here tonight!
“Lullaby for a Dead Man” by Elena Siegman reverberates through the arena, and the lights in the arena turn a brilliant shade of emerald green. The song rolls on without anyone appearing, until at last the lights around the arena flash incredibly bright, and the music is cut and replaced with “Superman” by Bush.
Baxter: What the hell?
[Crucified, for eternal
Reinvent myself
Shape my alter skin
Try to break the mold
Severed hold
First you find your threshold bevels
Breathing out your toxic levels
Long slow rope is hanging
Now we know what’s coming
Oh Superman
Where have you gone?]
On the stage appears the man once thought to be dead, Benedict Auslander, followed closely by Nana Moto. The two exchange a glance, and then Nana gives him a peck on the cheek before handing Benedict a microphone and returning backstage. Benedict waits for his music to cut, and for the screams, both positive and negative, to die down. When at last he deems everyone ready, he starts to walk towards the ring while lifting the microphone to his mouth.
Benedict: Firstly, the rumors of my demise were greatly exaggerated. Secondly, I just want to say that the display of talent here is truly pathetic, with few exceptions. What the hell happened to the MWA while I was gone? Where did all those cowards who watched me die go? It took my [BLEEP]ing death to take me away from this place, so what is the excuse for people like Sierra Devereaux, Dan Divine, Lito Kruz, and the greatest reason ever to consider a vasectomy, Jackie Sweets? Or even that hot chunk of ass Kacy Knight?!?
Poe: This can’t be happening. I watched this man die.
Benedict waits reaches the ring, and pauses to lift the microphone to his mouth again.
Benedict: I suppose it is all for the best. You people deserved more than those frauds had to offer. You deserve more than the unwelcome scabs that have dared to enter an MWA ring have to offer. YOU DESERVE…ME!
Auslander runs to the ring and slides under the ropes. He instantly heads to Carolyn Baker, who was struggling in the corner where Kimberly Williams is trying to eliminate her. Benedict grabs Williams from behind and tosses her over the top rope. Auslander and Baker share a brief hug.
Kendra: Kimberly Williams has been eliminated!
Poe: This is insane. This can’t be…
Regi: Well somehow it is.
Steve Pinex and Matthew Bowden are still trading blows, neither man seemingly getting the upper hand. Bowden tries to squirm away, looking maybe to start fighting with someone else, but Pinex keeps pulling him back in and demanding that he fight.
John Patrick, fresh from handing over the reigns of the NMW, is battling away with another newcomer to the MWA, Logan Lima. The two are trading blows, apparently quite evenly, until Lima executes a picture perfect drop kick. Patrick is stunned and stumbles back into the ropes. Lima follows up with clothesline which sends Patrick over the top rope, but he holds on and lands on the ring apron. Lima then manages another drop kick and John Patrick crashes to the arena floor.
Kendra: John Patrick has been eliminated!
Baxter: They’re going thick and fast so far!
As the action continues in the ring a disruption becomes evident in the crowd. Cameras quickly switch to the area and we see the figure of August Joyce, in ring gear, walking down the steps towards the ring. August is bloodied and bruised, hair dishevelled and looking thin.
Baxter: What the hell?
Regi: Is that August Joyce?
Poe: It sure is. Where the hell has he been? And what the hell has happened to him?
Baxter: And how many other people are just going to show up in this match?
Joyce slowly makes his way to the ring, hopping over the security railing and climbing up onto the ring apron. He looks towards Kendra Wing and nods.
Kendra: Ladies and Gentlemen, a late addition to this match… He is the former MWA Millennium Champion, The Peoples Choice, August Joyce!
Joyce steps into the ring and immediately all the MWA competitors, former colleagues of August, stop and look over at him in shock. One of those men, Benjamin Doi, walks over to August. We can just about hear what the two men say to each other.
Doi: August, man, what the frickin’ hell happened to you?
August stands there, silently, looking at his friend.
August: I’m sorry.
Doi looks confused. And then August slaps him hard, the sound of palm on face echoes around the arena for a brief moment.
Poe: Damn, what a shot.
Regi: August Joyce returns after a year of being missing… and attacks his best friend?
Baxter: Doi’s been looking for this chump for over a year, what gratitude from the so called Peoples Choice!
Poe: I thought you’d love that…
Baxter: Hell no, he’s Canadian!
Everyone that had stopped to look at August is now back fighting again while August and Doi have begun to brawl. Doi easily gets the upper hand and has Joyce backed into a corner. Doi stops his attack as he tries to talk to August again, but August just keeps trying to attack. Doi again overpowers Joyce, backs him into the ropes this time, steps back and clotheslines him over the top rope and to the arena floor below.
Kendra: August Joyce has been eliminated!
Baxter: Well he didn’t last long!
Poe: August Joyce is obviously not in a great condition right now, lord only knows why he threw himself into this match.
Regi: Whatever the reason he threw himself if, Ben Doi threw him out of it in no time at all.
Joyce is helped to his feet by a referee as Doi watches on, shouting down at his friend as August hops the railings once more and disappears back into the crowd. Just then Jason Wright spots an opportunity and grabs Doi from behind, pushing him over the top rope and sending him crashing out of the match.
Kendra: Benjamin Doi has been eliminated!
Baxter: Ha, I love this match!
Regi: Five people already eliminated in this match!
Poe: And it looks as if another could follow here…
[report ends, for full match details go to the MWA website]