Shooting Stars Wrestling #104 - 'The Show Stopper!'

Live . . . from the Cincinnati Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio . . . this is . . .



SHOOTING . . . STARS . . . WRESTLING !!!!

FROM LAST WEEKS SHOW:  Brody scoops him up . . . GO TO SLEEP OUT OF NOWHERE!!!!  Brody covers . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . NOOOOO!!!!  Jericho kicks out and now it is Brody’s turn to be stunned!!!!  Brody is going to do it one more time, but again Jericho escapes by elbowing Brody in the head!  He grabs the legs . . . WALLS OF JERICHO AGAIN!!!!  Brody is trapped in the center of the ring again, and HBK is in his face asking if he wants to give it up.  Brody is shaking his head no . . . when suddenly the bell rings!!!!  

The screen goes black and we hear the fans chanting ‘S-S-W!  S-S-W!’

The opening montage starts us off as ‘TILL I COLLAPSE’ by Eminem hits.  The camera comes up on the crowd pumping their fists and chanting, and the strobe lights go off on the ramp.  The camera scans the crowd, focusing in on several signs in the audience.  One sign says ‘JERICHO WAS ROBBED’ and another one says ‘5 MORE MINUTES’.

‘BREAK THE WALLS DOOOOOOOOWN!’ and we kick off tonight’s show as the SSW champion Chris Jericho comes down to the ring.  Jericho has the same disgusted look on his face as he does every week, and he takes the microphone.

Jericho – ‘Last week, I told the world . . . I guaranteed . . . that this show would end with me raising the UWF World title in triumph and that is exactly what happened.  Now, there are many of you short-sighted hypocrites out there that think I failed because I am not the new world champion, but your lack of vision is exceeded only by your ignorance.  You see, all of you parasites fail to acknowledge the scope of my victory.  You all get to bear witness to my master plan coming to fruition.  Last week I not only beat Bruiser Brody, I dominated him.  I left him lying in a pool of his own blood!  What I did last week was more important than taking the UWF World title . . . I showed the entire world what a fraud Bruiser Brody really is!!!!  I shattered this ‘aura’ on invincibility that you gelatinous tapeworms have manufactured for that overgrown Neanderthal.  And whether Brody or that fat slob Sir Oliver Humperdink want to admit it, I have gotten inside his head.  And now that I am inside Brody’s head, the only thing that remains is to take the UWF World title from around his waist.  Bruiser Brody is just like Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster . . . nothing but an Urban Legend.’

‘OOOOOO, OH SHAWN!’ and out comes the ‘Heartbreak Kid’ Shawn Michaels!  HBK has a mic!

HBK – ‘You know something Chris Jericho, it has become very obvious to me that you have got some kind of problem with ole HBK.  Now, I’m not sure why, but for the last 3 weeks, you have seen fit to take a cheap shot at me in 2 of those weeks.  So the reason I am out here right now is pretty simple.  I wanted to if you want to try to take another shot at me . . . TO MY FACE!.’

Jericho – ‘That is funny Shawn . . . OF COURSE I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOU.  Let me make one thing perfectly clear.  I am the face of this company, and no one steals my spotlight.  Least of all you!  I am the future UWF World Champion, I am the showstopper here in SSW!!!!’

HBK – ‘OK, if that is the way it is gonna be . . . that’s fine with me.  I didn’t come here to be a referee, I came here because the best are here!  If Shawn Michaels is going to continue to call himself the best, then he has to go up against the best.  And seeing as you say you are the best, I guess I will have to take your word for it right now, but none of these people here are going to buy it until you beat me!’

Jericho – ‘Oh, you don’t want that Shawn.  There is one glaring fact that you need to face, and that is that you are standing in the ring with the best performer in this business today.  I have already beaten world champions that were better than you.  Men like Maxx Payne, whom everyone said was invincible.  Men like ‘Gorgeous’ George Wagner, whom people think is the greatest world champion in history.  Face it Shawn . . . I AM THE BEST IN THE WORLD AT WHAT I DO!’

HBK – ‘I tell ya what . . . I have never been accused of doing the safe thing.  So, by all means, take me to school.  You say you are the best in the world at what you do?  Prove it tonight!  But I will say this.  If you think you are going to add my name to that list you just called off, think again . . . because the ‘Heartbreak Kid’ Shawn Michaels lays down for absolutely nobody!!!!’

Jericho – ‘So you want me in the ring tonight?  Well, I accept your challenge.  Oh, and Shawn?  You won’t have to worry about laying down, because I am going to knock you down!  Tonight I am going to show the world once again that your days of being the ‘showstopper’ are long since past.  Do you understand what I am saying to you right now?’

Jericho takes another cheap shot at HBK, but he ducks and fires back with right hands of his own.  Jericho reverses a whip into the ropes, but HBK explodes out with the flying forearm!  Jericho rolls to the outside and escapes as HBK kips up and stands tall as we go to break!  IT WILL BE HBK VS. JERICHO TONIGHT!!!!  

Commercial Break

Back from break, Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan are hyping what happened at the opening of the show.  Tonight we are going to see Jericho vs. Michaels!!!!  

‘SEXY BITCH’ by David Gueta hits, bringing out the HIP Wahines Tag Team champions, Maryse and Michelle McCool!  McCool says it is true what they say .  . blondes do have more fun.  And they had fun hurting Beth Phoenix last week.  They also had fun putting AJ Lee in her place and showing that she just got lucky against them before.  They don’t have a match tonight, but they should be on TV every week because they bring in the viewers.  This is for ‘all the women want to be them and all the men come to see them’!  

Madison Rayne comes out for the next match, and she tries to kiss up to them.  She wants to be a part of Fatal Attraction.  McCool is not so sure, and says that if Madison can beat Trish for the United States title tonight, then they will think about it . . . because nothing looks better on them than gold.  

Match 1: for the United States Women’s title

(Champion) Trish Stratus
vs.
Madison Rayne

Madison puts up a hell of a fight, and Trish is distracted by Fatal Attraction’s presence at ringside.  Madison nearly has the win after hitting the leaping flatliner, but Trish kicks out.  In the end, Trish blocks a codebreaker attempted by Rayne and rolls her up in a jackknife pin to get the victory.  

As the bell rings, Maryse looks at Mike Goldberg and says that they have to leave their mark on tonight’s show.  They hit the ring and attack Trish, and Rayne quickly joins in and helps them put the boots to the champ.  The crowd pops as out of the back comes AJ Lee, and she tries to make the save on Trish but gets beat down too!  ‘BRICKHOUSE’ by Rob Zombie hits and out comes Beth Phoenix!  Beth hits the ring and the three bail out.  

Commercial Break

IN THE BACK:  Josh Matthews is with Shawn Michaels.  HBK says that he said it before and he will say it again . . . he didn’t come to SSW to be a referee.  Now, he doesn’t understand why Jericho has such a problem with him, but jealously is a very ugly thing . . .

HBK is interrupted as someone else steps onto the set.  He introduces himself as . . . DREW MCINTYRE!  Drew says what HBK says is true.  Jealousy is an ugly thing, and it is something that he has had to deal with in people all his life.  He has been a big fish in a pond full of losers.  Surely HBK can relate to that.  But unlike Shawn Michaels, his bloodline goes all the way back to Scottish lords.  But he is not here because of the past, he is here because of the future . . .  he is here to make an impact!  HBK says that is great, but McIntyre is on his time now.  If he wants to make an impact, he needs to do it some other time.  McIntyre smiles and says that he appreciates the advice, then walks away . . .

Match 2: Non-title Match

(SSW TV Champion) John Morrison
vs.
Austin Aries

Morrison is still showing the effects of his 3 matches against Nigel McGuiness, and his shoulder is taped up.  Of course, Aries targets the injury and largely plays the heel in this match by working on the arm.  Morrison has brief flashes of offense, nailing the running STO backbreaker, but when he goes for the hangman neckbreaker he hurts his shoulder again, allowing Morrison to tie him in the ropes and hit the IED dropkick right to the shoulder!  Aries locks in the ‘Last Chancery’, and Morrison looks like he is going to tap but wiggles anough to get a foot in the ropes.  Morrison fights back, striking with a back heel kick.  Rock Dropper blocked by Aries . . . SHIN BREAKER FOLLOWED BY A LEG-HOOK SAITO SUPLEX DROPS MORRISON ON HIS HEAD!  Aries up top . . . 450 SPLASH MISSES!!!!  Palace of Wisdoma attempted by Morrison but blocked!  Brainbuster try by Aries but Morrison connects with a knee strike to the head in mid-move!  FLYING CHUCK CONNECTS!!!!  Morrison smacks himself in the shoulder, trying to get the feeling back in it . . . MORRISON STARSHIP!!!!  1 . . . 2 . . . 3!!!!  

Morrison is handed the belt and the ref tries to raise his arm, but he jerks it back and has him raise the one that is not injured.  Joe Rogan says that since it was a non-title match, Morrison might have had more guts than brains there.  

Commercial Break

‘A NEW DAY’ by Adelitas Way hits and out comes Ted Dibiase Jr.  Dibiase comes out and says that, since the Elimination Chamber, his name has been pushed off of TV.  No one wants to mention him anymore, and management wants to stick him in tag team matches.  When you run in the Kentucky Derby, you don’t leave your prized stallion in the stables.  He is the Fortunate Son and no one else measures up to his ability.  Shane wants him to pay some kind of dues, but when you are this good . . . YOU DON’T PAY DUES!!!!  

This brings out Ken Anderson along with Bobby Lashley to interrupt.  Anderson says that Lashley is the most dominant athlete in 2 sports, and if Dibiase thinks he deserves it more than him he is out of his mind!  Dibiase is not having any of it, and calls Lashley a ‘brainless pile of muscle’.  He says that if he has to go through Lashley, he will do it!  This brings out AJ Styles, who asks what either of them have done to deserve a title shot?  Are they the champion of the top international tour in the UWF?  No, but he is.  Are either of them the one that ended the career of CM Punk?  No, but he is.  They should not even be having this conversation because clearly AJ Styles is the man that should be challenging for the SSW title.

‘HERE COMES THE MONEY!’ and out comes Shane McMahon.  Shane says that he likes this.  He likes new blood stepping up and trying to make it to that next level.  And he is all about giving those people opportunities, but title shots are not just going to be handed out.  Instead it will be a four corner match next week with the winner getting the SSW title shot.  It will be Lashley vs. Dibiase vs. Styles vs. a fourth man, and that 4th man is . . . ‘The Pope’ Elijah Burke!!!!  

A documentary airs where we see Josh Matthews going to the homes of both CM Punk and Bryan Danielson to get reports on their condition.  Punk talks about having a cracked skull when he was a kid, and says that AJ targeting that old injury to try to take him out for good but it didn’t work.  He is still breathing.  Meanwhile, Danielson is rehabbing his neck injury and he talks about how his partner, Nigel McGuiness, won’t return his phone calls.  Then he watches TV and sees Nigel and his goon Wade Barrett letting their greed go to their head.  He is still ½ of the SSW tag champs, and he is coming back soon to get what is his.    

Commercial Break

Match 3: Tag Team Match

American Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards)
Vs.
The Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido & Tony Mamaluke)

The Wolves are very business-like in the early goings in this one, and they take it to the mat with the Italians.  Guido and Mamaluke look pretty good early on, but it is the teamwork of the Wolves that give them the edge at the end.  Edwards enters the ring and knocks Guido off the apron to the floor, allowing the Wolves to double-team Mamaluke.  Edwards with a super kick, followed by a spin kick to the gut by Richards, then a simultaneous enziguri by both men take out Mamaluke.  Guido comes back in, but Edwards tosses him into the air right into the Alarm Clock by Davey!!!!  Powerbomb by Edwards as Davey hits a backstabber at the same time!!!!  Davey nails Mamaluke, knocking him back to the floor, while Edwards turns Guido over into the Achilles Lock (elevated half crab) for the tap out victory!!!!  

After the bell, Davey grabs the mic from ringside.  

Davey – ‘You know, no matter what someone tries to sell you, or what story they try to make you buy in to . . . some things just ‘are as they are’.  And what we are is the best tag team around.  No gimmicks, no 12th grade catchphrases required.  James Storm and Adam Copeland, you two have been out of touch with reality far too long.  And here pretty soon, reality is coming crashing down!  You see, the American Wolves is not just a team, it is a way of life.  That’s just the way it is.  Some people (points at himself and Eddie) are the hunters, and some are the prey.  And the hunt is on!’

The Wolves go to leave, but they notice someone has come out to ringside.  When the announcers notice this as well, they see that it is Prince Nana!  Nana takes the house mic and says that he dug deep into his pockets to get the best lawyers and won his ‘wrongful termination’ lawsuit against SSW.  NEVER GO UP AGAINST THE NATION OF GHANA, WEST AFRICA!!!!  Nana says that he has been watching the Wolves, and he can help them get what they want.  So far they have been unsuccessful in even getting a shot at the world tag titles, but he can get it for them. All they have to do is become the first members of the Embassy.  Eddie acts like he wants to listen, but Davey immediately says ‘no’ and walks out.  Eddie follows, but apparently it is reluctantly.      

Commercial Break

. . . . . . VS . . . . . .

Main Event: Non-title match

(SSW Genesis Champion) Chris Jericho
vs.
‘Heartbreak Kid’ Shawn Michaels

The match starts with some lockups and reversals, and it seems Jericho is determined to outwrestle Michaels.  Hip toss by HBK, but Jericho kicks him off and both men to their feet.  This time Jericho gets the hip toss and HBK kicks him away, and when both men pop back up Jericho is waiting with a huge slap right across the face of Michaels!!!!  Michaels responds with a big right hand, then sidesteps an angry Jericho as he charges and tosses him over the top to the outside and Jericho crashes hard into the announce table!  HBK goes for the baseball slide but Jericho sidesteps and slides back in the ring, then springboards off the middle turnbuckle and dropkicks HBK off the apron to the floor!!!!  Jericho scoops Michaels up and slams his back into the ring post, but HBK blocks a suplex on the floor and instead nails one on Jericho on the concrete!  Back in the ring, Jericho connects with a spinning heel kick, but when he goes for the one-handed bulldog HBK shoots him off chest-first into the turnbuckle!  HBK up top, but Jericho shoves the ref into the ropes, causing him to fall and crotch himself.  Jericho climbs up top with HBK . . . SUPERPLEX!  1 . . . 2 . . . NO!  Jericho stays right on the back, hitting the butterfly suplex backbreaker and then a back senton right across the small of HBK’S back!  Jericho slaps him in the head, yelling at him that he is better than him!!!!  HBK fires back with rights, but eats a spinning heel kick from Jericho.  Abdominal stretch by Jericho, and he uses the ropes for leverage to add more pressure to the move.  HBK fights out of it, hitting a hip toss, then a reverse atomic drop.  A series of clotheslines by HBK, and he goes for a huricanrana but Jericho blocks it in mid-move and locks on the Walls of Jericho in the middle of the ring!!!!  HBK is in trouble, and he claws his way to the ropes to break the hold!  Codebreaker attempt by Jericho is BLOCKED . . . SLINGSHOT INTO THE TURNBUCKLE BY HBK!!!!  A slam, and now HBK scales the ropes . . . ELBOW DROP TO THE HEART OF JERICHO!!!!  HBK looks to the crowd, who is ready for it.  TUNING UP THE BAND!!!!  HBK goes for the Sweet Chin Music, but Jericho grabs his foot and takes his legs out . . . Walls of Jericho tries for again . . . ROLL UP BY HBK!  1 . . . 2 . . . NOOOO!  HBK reverses a whip on Jericho, but Jericho comes off and nails HBK with a flying forearm!  KIP UP BY JERICHO AND HE MOCKS HBK!  NOW JERICHO TUNES UP THE BAND . . . SWEET CHIN MUSIC TO HBK BY JERICHO!!!!  1 . . . 2 . . . NOOOOO!  HBK kicks out!  Jericho is livid now, and he argues with the ref that it was 3!  The ref tells him that it was only 2, and Jericho looks like he is about to cry.  He goes back after Michaels . . .  SWEET CHIN MUSIC OUT OF NOWHERE BY MICHAELS!!!!  BOTH MEN ARE DOWN!!!!  HBK finally crawls over and lays an arm across Jericho’s chest . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . NOOOOO!  Jericho kicks out and HBK is stunned!!!!  Jericho reverses a whip that sends HBK into the ropes, but he comes off for the flying forearm and Jericho ducks . . . HBK TAKES OUT THE REFEREE!!!!  Jericho slides outside and grabs a chair . . . SWEET CHIN MUSIC KNOCKS THE CHAIR RIGHT BACK INTO JERICHO’S FACE!!!!  HBK crawls over and covers, and the fans are counting 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . but the ref is still down!  HBK grabs the chair and unfolds it in the middle of the ring . . . LOW BLOW FROM BEHIND BY JERICHO . . . BREAKDOWN ONTO THE UNFOLDED STEEL CHAIR!!!!  Jericho slides the evidence out of the ring and hooks the leg as the referee crawls back over.  1 . . . 2 . . . 3!!!!  

Jericho grabs the SSW title and clutches it tight and it looks like he is in tears.  He keeps saying ‘I TOLD YOU’ and he points to the fans and ringside and repeats it to them as he leaves the ring.  HBK is still down in the ring when suddenly ‘BROKEN DREAMS’ by Shaman’s Harvest hits and from the back comes . . . DREW MCINTYRE????  What the hell is McIntyre doing out here????  McIntyre calmly walks to the ring, then looks down at the fallen HBK with a smirk on his face.  He picks HBK up . . . AND DROPS HIM WITH THE FUTURE SHOCK DDT!!!!  McIntyre’s music hits again and the show closes with McIntyre standing over HBK!  

Next week:

Drew McIntyre makes his in-ring debut
Ted Dibiase Jr. vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Eijah Burke vs. AJ Styles (winner gets a shot at the SSW Genesis title)