TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006 * STAPLES CENTER * LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

A video package airs on the Jumbotron, highlighting events that took place last week on Frequency, with GI Jew, Mike Troha, Hollywood Mike Griffin, Jason Calysto, and Romeo qualifying to join Greg Tantalus, Jaguar, and Jackie Baccaro in an eight-man single elimination tournament for the vacant PWA World Heavyweight Championship March 11 at Salvation, in the Superdome in Sydney, Australia. From there, “By_Myslf” by Linkin Park hits and the opening credits roll, before a brilliant pyrotechnics display ensues and we are taken inside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, where we are taken to our commentators, Victor Troy and Superstar Scott Hosemann!

Troy: Hello everyone, and welcome to PWA Frequency! I’m Victor Troy, along here with Superstar Scott Hosemann, and we are live in the Staples Center in Los Angeles for another huge night of PWA action!

Hosemann: Our field of eight has been set for the PWA Championship tournament to be held at Salvation, and we have big news on that tonight!

Troy: We do, Scott! While we won’t find out the first round brackets or matchups for the tournament until the start of the Salvation broadcast, we will have an opportunity to hear from the participants. Tonight, the eight participants in this tournament will have a showdown of sorts, mediated by Nick Cade, each being given the opportunity to speak, heading into this big tournament!

Hosemann: Also tonight, in mixed tag team action, Walter Gindin’s team of Jonathan Brett and Keiko Ishida will meet the Women’s Champion Morgan Day and a partner of her choice!

Troy: In addition, we will see an International Invitational gauntlet match, with the winner receiving a shot at Showtime Damon Savage’s International Championship at Salvation! Only former International Champions are invited to compete tonight, and thus, we will see James Biamonte, Infernus, Loki, The Omega Steve Beovich, and the PWA Tag Team Champions Paul Dawkins and Renegade will duke it out gauntlet-style for the honor!

Hosemann: That should be tremendous!

Troy: It should, but folks, let’s get right down to ringside for our opening contest!

Muse’s “Stockholm Syndrome” blares onto the speakers, and the fans begin cheering thunderously as Paul Epton and John Wolfe are the first of the night to make their way to the ring. As they get down there, Wolfe remains on the outside, and Epton enters, loosening up. Then, “Dance of the Warrior” hits the speakers, and a mixed reaction meets the enigmatic Shaman Soaring Phoenix as he heads to the ring. Phoenix methodically makes his way to the ring, and when he enters, he stares down John Wolfe, trance-like, on the outside for several moments. Wolfe doesn’t know quite what to make of it, and neither does Epton, who is on the other side of the ramp, not having any attention paid to him. However, the bell then sounds, and Phoenix immediately breaks his trance, and charges right at Epton!

* SOARING PHOENIX VS. PAUL EPTON *
Referee: Jason Church
Epton is able to sidestep the charging Phoenix, nailing him with clubbing blows to the midsection. With Phoenix a bit stunned, Epton is able to whip the much larger Phoenix against the ropes, staggering him with a hard dropkick, nearly taking him off his feet! Epton then sends Phoenix against the ropes again, this going for a leapfrog. However, Phoenix picks Epton out of the air, and drives him down to the mat with a vicious slam!

Troy: My God! I think Epton’s head just bounced off the mat!

Hosemann: It did, Troy. I don’t know how hurt he is, but it bounced off that mat with a TON of velocity. He could be out, or at least out on his feet.

Epton is slow to his feet, and when he does get up, he is easy prey for Phoenix. Phoenix stares directly at Wolfe as he grabs Epton by the throat and drives Epton to the mat with a vicious Wolfe-like chokeslam! From there, Phoenix goes to the top rope and launches himself with his Flight of the Phoenix senton bomb, connecting with full impact! Phoenix then makes the cover… one, two, three!

Troy: And that does it for Paul Epton!

Hosemann: Another impressive victory for Soaring Phoenix!

Troy: But look at John Wolfe! Is he impressed, or does he want to kick this guy’s ass?

Hosemann: I really don’t know yet, Troy, but I’ve gotta think it’s a little of both.

Troy: Maybe so.

The fans are split as to their opinion of Phoenix as Wolfe gets up and enters the ring. Wolfe stands inside the ring, directly across from Phoenix, and the tension mounts. However, Wolfe extends his hand, and Phoenix briefly shakes it. A tense staredown continues, and Phoenix exits as Wolfe tends to Epton. He calls several officials from the back to come down as assist Epton as we take our first commercial break.
* WINNER VIA PINFALL: SOARING PHOENIX *

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The International Champion Showtime Damon Savage is seen walking through the backstage area, until he is stopped in his tracks by the Progressive Champion Dexter P. Wellington. Showtime stares Wellington down intently, and Wellington merely smiles at him.

Wellington: I’ve got your number, Showtime. I’ve got your number and you know it.

Showtime: What the hell are you talking about?

Wellington: You saw it. I said I was going to get rid of you in the Lethal Lottery battle royal at Temptation, and I did exactly that. You’re nothing Showtime, but you fear me. That was proven tonight.

Showtime: What do you mean that was proven tonight? I don’t have any damn idea what the HELL you’re talking about.

Wellington: Tonight, there’s an invitational gauntlet match for an International Championship opportunity at Salvation, and I wasn’t invited to participate.

Showtime: That’s because the gauntlet is exclusive to former International Champions, Wellington. Believe me, I’m not ducking you now, nor would I ever.

Wellington: Sure seems like you’re ducking me.

Showtime: I have no reason to duck your punk ass.

Wellington: Because you know I am better than you, and I am a much better Progressive Champion than you could ever dream of being.

Showtime: Are you kidding me? I had the longest reign ever with your title when I lost it, which was in a fantastic ladder match at Everlasting Epic, remember? Win or lose, it doesn’t get much better than that.

Wellington: You beat losers, and lost to a loser. I beat a Hall of Famer in his specialty match.

Showtime: It’s a moot point man. You’re a joke.

Wellington: Then put me in the gauntlet match if you’re so sure of yourself.

Showtime: Oh you want in the gauntlet match, huh?

Wellington: Of course I do. But you won’t tell Kerry Cox to put me in, because you’re afraid.

Showtime: Oh that does it. I ain’t afraid of nobody. Consider yourself in the damn match, I’m going to Cox’s office now.

Wellington: Good. And Showtime, I WILL win this match, and I WILL take your International Championship at Salvation.

The two stare each other down briefly, and Showtime exits to Kerry Cox’s office as the camera shifts to Commissioner Paul Ferrara’s office, where he is talking to Loki and Reaper.

Ferrara: So run this by me again. What exactly do you guys want?

Loki: We know that the International Invitational gauntlet match is up next, and we want to propose a match for Salvation, assuming of course, that neither Paul Dawkins nor Renegade win this next match.

Ferrara: And that is?

Reaper: We want you to sign Paul Dawkins and Renegade to defend the Tag Team Championship against Bishop Cross and Scythe at Salvation.

Ferrara: Cross and Scythe?! How can that happen?

Loki: It will happen. Just sign the match and it will happen.

As Ferrara contemplates, Kerry Cox enters the room.

Cox: What’s going on?

Ferrara: These guys have proposed we sign Dawkins and Renegade vs. Scythe and Bishop Cross for the Tag Team Championship at Salvation if neither Dawkins nor Renegade win the International Invitational next.

Cox: That’s what you guys want, huh?

Reaper: That’s what we want.

Cox: How bad do you want it, Loki?

Loki: Why?

Cox: Would you be willing to give up your spot in the International Invitational for it? Because I just finished speaking to Showtime, and Dexter P. Wellington has been added to the match. I need to even the match out, you need a favor. I’ll tell you what. If you give up your spot, and the whole Army stays completely out of this match, I’ll sign your title match, regardless of the outcome of this next match.

Loki: You have a deal.

Smiling, Loki and Reaper exit and we take a commercial break.

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Back from break, “Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart overtakes the speakers, and the fans begin booing rabidly as the Progressive Champion Dexter P. Wellington makes his way to the ring.

Troy: Alright, here comes a man, Scott, that these fans just cannot stand.

Hosemann: And you can’t blame them, Troy. He’s a pompous ass. But he was able to talk his way into this International invitational tonight, which means that he could end up challenging for even more gold at Salvation should he emerge victorious tonight.

As Wellington takes his place on the outside of the ring, “Piggy Bank” by 50 Cent hits, and the fans cheer thunderously as the PWA Tag Team Champions Renegade and Paul Dawkins come out together, accompanied by Liz Rush.

Troy: And here come the tag champs!

Hosemann: They could end up competing against each other here tonight, Troy, in what would certainly be an interesting twist of fate.

Troy: Those kinds of situations always are. Alright folks, we have four more people set to enter, so we’re going to take a commercial break. We’ll be right back with the start of this International Invitational gauntlet match, with the winner earning a shot at Showtime Damon Savage’s International Championship at Salvation! Stay tuned!

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As we return from break, James Biamonte and Tony Annetta are locked up in the center of the ring.

Troy: Alright, welcome back folks. James Biamonte and Tony Annetta have gotten the unlucky draws to start this gauntlet match off, and we have Dex Wellington, Paul Dawkins, Renegade, The Omega Steve Beovich, and Infernus on the outside, waiting for their opportunities. Remember, this match was open to all former International Champions, and Dex Wellington, who has never held that championship, was placed in this match at the request of the champion himself.

* INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONAL GAUNTLET MATCH: PWA PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION DEXTER P. WELLINGTON VS. PWA TAG TEAM CHAMPION RENEGADE VS. PWA TAG TEAM CHAMPION PAUL DAWKINS VS. JAMES BIAMONTE VS. TONY ANNETTA VS. THE OMEGA STEVE BEOVICH VS. INFERNUS *
Referee: Billy Vargas

Annetta whips Biamonte against the ropes, and Biamonte ducks under a clothesline on his return, bouncing off the opposite ropes, and clubbing Annetta down with a hard, stiff dropkick. Biamonte lifts Annetta up and whips him into the corner. He charges in on Annetta, but Annetta gets a boot up that nails Biamonte right in the jaw! Biamonte staggers away, and Annetta comes out of the corner. Annetta whips Biamonte against the ropes, catching him with his Tommygun spinebuster on the rebound, but Biamonte slips out of it, and seamlessly counters into the Buzzkill! Biamonte drives Annetta down hard and covers… one, two, three!

Troy: And that does it for Tony Annetta!

Hosemann: What a counter, Troy!

Biamonte stands in the ring, ready for his next challenge, and Renegade is the man who enters. Renegade goes right after Biamonte, immediately taking him down.

Troy: Don’t forget this battle, Scott! Biamonte actually beat Renegade to win this very title just four months ago!

Hosemann: Indeed he did!

Biamonte gets up and Renegade whips him against the ropes, leapfrogging over him as he returns. Biamonte hits the opposite ropes, and Renegade downs him with a big-time kick as he rebounds! As Biamonte is getting to his feet, Renegade positions for the kick of death, which the fans cheer loudly for. Renegade lets loose with the kick, but Biamonte ducks under it and sets up for the Buzzkill! However, Renegade counters out of the Buzzkill and drills Biamonte down with the F-U! Renegade covers… one, two, three!

Troy: And that’s it for Biamonte!

Hosemann: Now Renegade is the man! Three wins to go!

Infernus is next in, immediately taking the fight to Renegade. Infernus beats Renegade down pretty hard, with hard punches and furious stomps. He then whips Renegade hard into the corner and charges. However, at the last second, Renegade moves out of the way, and Infernus’ shoulder goes crashing into the ringpost! Infernus then staggers backwards, right into the F-U! Renegade covers… one, two, three!

Troy: Another one bites the dust!

Hosemann: He’s on a roll now!

The Omega Steve Beovich then comes in, lunging at Renegade with a cross body into a pin! Beovich gets one, two, and then Renegade kicks out! Renegade unleashes a kick on Beovich but Beovich ducks it, and downs Renegade with a huge, hard spinebuster! From there, Beovich climbs to the top rope!

Troy: Extreme Precision! He’s going for Extreme Precision!

Hosemann: If he hits this, Troy, Renegade’s run is probably over!

Beovich jumps off the top with Extreme Precision, but Renegade rolls out of the way! Then, as Beovich rises to one knee, Renegade blasts him in the skull with the kick of death! Renegade covers… one, two, three! The fans cheer, but then Dex Wellington immediately runs into the ring and rolls up Renegade, grabbing the tights! One, two, three!

Troy: No! No! He had the damn tights!

Hosemann: But the referee didn’t see it, Troy! And now Renegade is history, and Dexter P. Wellington is just one victory away from an International Championship match!

Troy: But look who is still standing in his way!

Paul Dawkins enters the ring, and immediately looks for revenge for his fallen comrade. Dawkins takes the fight right to Wellington, clubbing him down hard and tossing him around the ring to the joy of the crowd. Dawkins downs Wellington with a big dropkick and, as he gets up, Dawkins runs at him and downs him with the Scud Missile!

Troy: He hit the Scud Missile!

Hosemann: Wellington may not have much time left, Troy!

Dawkins whips Wellington into the corner and charges in at him, looking for the stinger splash. However, Wellington moves out of the way, and Dawkins crashes chest-first into the turnbuckles. From there, Wellington rolls Dawkins up, using the ropes for leverage! One, two, three!

Troy: Are you kidding me?!

Hosemann: I don’t believe this! Dexter Wellington has just stolen this! The Progressive Champion Dexter P. Wellington will be challenging Showtime Damon Savage for the International Championship at Salvation! Unbelievable!

The fans boo loudly as “Marriage of Figaro” replays, and Wellington demands a microphone.

Wellington: Showtime! I told you I would do it! And now that I have my match against you secured, I have a challenge for you. You talk about how you are better than me, and you talked about your ladder match for this title at Everlasting Epic. Well, since you lost my title in that match, and how about I win YOUR title in a ladder match? Showtime, I’m challenging you to make our International title match at Salvation a ladder match! What do you say?

Troy: Oh my God!

Moments later, “Footprints” by G-Unit blasts onto the speakers, and Showtime appears at the top of the ramp, the International title belt over his shoulder.

Showtime: You want a ladder match, Wellington? That’s fine by me. Just try to take this from me in a ladder match.

Wellington: Oh I will, Showtime.

Showtime: Oh we’ll see about that. Wellington, your ass is on! And at Salvation, it will be SHOWTIME!

The fans cheer loudly as “Footprints” replays and the two commence a heated staredown as we take a commercial break.
* WINNER: DEXTER P. WELLINGTON *

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