PWA
OVERDRIVE
The PWA logo flashes onto
the screen as a brand new superstar-filled opening hits the screen. We are then
taken inside the Continental Airlines Arena at the Meadowlands Complex in
Cade: Hello everyone and
welcome to the one year anniversary edition of Overdrive! I’m Nick Cade and we
are just one hour from Revival. Justin, the atmosphere is absolutely electric
inside this arena tonight!
Schenck: It sure is, to say the absolute least! We got
Sevendust playing the new theme, we got a whole new look, this is huge! It was
one year ago when Overdrive first aired, just 9 miles across the river in
Cade: There will be a
career ended tonight, but we will get to that later. For now, lets get to
the ring for our first matchup, which will be for the Women’s Championship!
Segment 2, Match 1 – PWA Women’s Championship – Lauren Tantalus ©
vs. Allison Kelly
Referee: Dan Martin
Ring announcer Lee Palmer
steps into the ring as the lights dim a bit and Eminem’s “White America” begins
to play.
Palmer: The opening contest
is scheduled for one fall and it is for the PWA Women’s Championship! Introducing first, the challenger. From
Kelly arrives to a cascade
of boos from the capacity crowd, and she ignores every last one of them as she
makes the long walk to the ring. As she enters, the crowd noise changes
drastically as “Free” by VAST hits.
Palmer: And
her opponent, from Denver, Colorado, she is the PWA Women’s Champion,
Laurennnnn Tant-alussss!
The champion arrives to an
overwhelming pop and quickly takes her title from her waist as Kelly goes out
after her!
Cade: This one is starting
early!
The challenger takes advantage
of the jump-start and knocks Tantalus to the ground with a right hand. She
quickly peels the champion up by her hair and rolls her into the ring. Kelly
climbs in and begins to stomp away on the popular rookie titleholder as the
crowd gets behind Tantalus.
Cade: The crowd is starting
to get behind Lauren here.
Schenck: Allison hasn’t
been cheered much in her career, she’s used to it. She just needs to keep her
focus here.
Kelly slams the champion
down and goes for a cover, but only gets a two count. She grabs Tantalus’ head
and clamps down in a rear chinlock. Martin gets down and asks if Tantalus wants
to quit, but the champion doesn’t give in an inch. The crowd begins to cheer
once more, bringing Tantalus up to her feet. The champion nails one elbow to
the midsection, then another, and another before finally breaking the hold! She
hits the ropes and ducks a clothesline, but Kelly doubles her over with a kick
to the midsection on her return and follows up with the Raunchinator! Kelly
makes a cover, and Martin counts one…two…and the champion kicks out!
Schenck: She kicked out!
Allison is in shock!
Cade: And not by a little
bit either; the champion is not dead yet!
Kelly gets up and gets
right in the face of the official, but Martin refuses to back down. The
distraction allows Tantalus to get to her feet and she spins Kelly around and
kicks her in the stomach before attempting the Tiger Driver, but the challenger
fights out of it and shoves her towards the official. Martin manages to get out
of the way and Tantalus hits the turnbuckles hard. Kelly charges at her, but
Tantalus manages to dodge away and the challenger hits the shoulder post with
tremendous impact!
Tantalus exits the ring and
begins to climb up to the top rope. Kelly slowly staggers up to her feet, but
the champion dives off and crashes right on top of her with a suicide plancha!
Kelly falls in a heap and Tantalus makes a cover for 1----2----3!
Cade: What a move! We’ve
never seen Lauren attempt anything like that suicide plancha before.
Schenck: She’s beaten
Allison Kelly twice in a row now
Cade: Well she pulled out
all the stops to get the win tonight, and so will Bryan Conroy, who is standing
by with Tracie Reed. Take it away Trace.
Winner via pinfall at
Segment 3 – Backstage
The shot goes backstage to
the interview area, where Tracie Reed is standing by with PWA Owner Bryan
Conroy.
Reed:
Conroy: First off Tracie,
let me say what an incredible night this has been already. The crowd is dynamic
out there and kudos to Lauren and Allison for putting on one hell of a match. Now onto Mike Troha. This guy has been a thorn in my side
ever since the day he walked through these doors. You’re right Tracie, the
ramifications are huge. If he wins, he gets to challenge for the PWA Title once
again, not that it means he will ever win it. However, if he loses I get what I
want, and that is to watch him squirm. He would still be unable to challenge
for that title, and every time he shows up to a PWA event, he knows that he is
losing 75% of his paycheck every time he walks through the door. And to boot,
he must work all four dates a week for every week on the calendar. Its good to
be an owner Tracie, but it’ll feel better to stick it to my no good cousin
right here tonight.
We are shown a moment from
last year’s premiere edition of Overdrive, where the Progressive Title was
defended between six men in a wild time limited matchup.
The crowd begins to
completely back Romeo as the clock dwindles down. Kerry Cox and Anthony Annetta
have been taken out of the action as Blizzard and Infernus begin to brawl in,
and then out of the ring. A sickening smile comes over the red face of
Bodycount as he stalks the champion. Bodycount raises his arm into the air for
the Monster Chokeslam with 30 seconds left! Romeo staggers up, and Bodycount
hits the move with tremendous impact! Bodycount looks at the clock reading 10
seconds left, but before he can pin Romeo, he’s attacked from behind by
Infernus. Infernus gets a Monster Chokeslam for his troubles as the fans count
along with the clock, 5-4-3-2-1!
Cade: That’s it! Romeo has
done it!
Debonis: We have a new
Progressive Champion, but Bodycount had the match well in hand.
A battered,
and now bloody Romeo holds his belt high in the air, with the assistance of the
recently emerged Camieko, as the fans shout their approval over the blaring of
“Freak Da Hoes”.
Cade: Either way, you have
to hand it to all six men. But what an effort by our new Progressive Champion,
Romeo!
Debonis: He definitely
proved some critics wrong tonight. Romeo has won the first match in Overdrive
history!
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Segment 5 - Ringside
Cade: That was some moment
last year Justin, the crowd went nuts when Romeo won the first Overdrive
matchup and captured the Progressive Title.
Schenck: It was, but Romeo
was taken out of commission by Infernus a few weeks ago and hasn’t been seen
since. Infernus has issued a challenge to him for the International title
tonight, but do you think Romeo really has a chance in hell of showing up?
Cade: Are you kidding me?
This is all one big ruse by Infernus and Jerry Georgatos. We all know Romeo had
to have arthroscopic surgery on his knee and isn’t cleared to wrestle for
weeks. Hell, he’s not even here in the arena and I don’t see any way he’ll show
up either!
Schenck: I know; I just
wanted to hear you say it.
Cade: Don’t worry; TFU will
get theirs someday. Now onto the huge
career vs. career match between The Machine and Jason Calysto. These two have
gone back and forth for months now, but the road will end for one tonight. Take
a look at the legendary career of the man simply known as The Machine.
A video airs on the
Jumbotron, set to Bad Company’s self-titled track, highlighting the long and successful
career of The Machine, which could come to a close tonight
in a career vs. career match against Jason Calysto.
Reed: GI Jew, tonight you
will face—
Jew: Sorry to cut you off, but I’ve got it from
here. (Tracie shrugs and hands the mic to GI Jew) SOLOMON,
the big Alaskan monster. You see, everyone here seems to be afraid
of you for some reason, but me? Hell no! You forget quickly, I was
there from your get go son. I know you in out, left and right. I sent Walter
out for you to be a part of MY team, not me being a part of yours. Justice and
me, we had our history, but that was my boy. I said not to get carried away,
but you... you just couldn’t listen could you? Maybe that
six months of darkness in
We head backstage, where
Mike Grieco is walking briskly as Dee Licious follows him from behind.
Grieco: Nope, you can’t
talk me out of it this time
Grieco: Hey Kerry.
Cox: What can I do for you
Grieco?
Grieco: Well you know my
match with Loki tonight?
Cox: Yeah.
Grieco: Well since I
wouldn’t even be in it if it weren’t for
Cox: So what are you
saying?
Grieco: I need you to ban
her from ringside.
Cox: If it means a better
match tonight, consider it done.
Grieco: (To
Grieco: All of it is for
you, isn’t it?
We cut to the back door of
the arena, where Jason Calysto has just entered the arena. The crowd parts like
the
The screen displays another
clip of last year’s Overdrive premiere, where cousins Jon Dulberg and Ryan
Knakal teamed up to defeat Steve Beovich and Anthony Desio.
Beovich
uses the ropes to pull himself up as Desio charges into the ring. Desio nears
Dulberg, who shows tremendous ring presence by sending “BK” over the top rope
with a back body drop! Knakal hits the ring floor to keep Desio at bay while
Beovich swings a desperation right hand at Dulberg. Dulberg ducks it and hits a
huge release German suplex! Dulberg makes a cover and hooks the far leg,
1----2----3!
Cade:
What a big win for Dulberg and Knakal!
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Segment 11 – Backstage
We are taken back to the
interview position, where Scott Cornelius is next to Jaguar.
Cornelius: Jag, tonight you
will team up with Vulture for the first time in years to face TFU for the Tag
Team Championship. But the question that looms is how can you be so sure that
Vulture won’t stab you in the back tonight and side with TFU against you?
Jaguar: Corny, I’ve heard
this question for weeks now. Why doesn’t anyone think I know what I’m doing? I
know the risk I’m at tonight. Have I spoken to Vulture? No. Is Vulture even
here yet? No. Do I trust Vulture? Hell no. But this is something based on
respect. The both of us can say that there aren’t many people in this business
that we respect more than each other. Vulture isn’t the type to lie down for
TFU after what they did to him before they reformed. They damn near broke the
guy’s neck. Vulture and I will team up against TFU tonight, but not because of
each other. We’ll do it because we hate TFU. That what unites
us from here on out. But now that I think of it, things will be really
interesting once we take their belts.
Cornelius: Thanks and good
luck to you tonight.
Segment 12, Match 2 – Tornado Tag Match – James Biamonte, Jeff
Knakal, and Ryan Knakal vs. Synergy
The remix to “Get F*cked
Up” by Lil’ Kim and
Cade: We just saw another
clip from last year’s premiere, where Ryan Knakal teamed up with Jon Dulberg to
beat Steve Beovich and Anthony Desio. Tonight, the cousins are against each
other with Knakal on this team and Dulberg and Beovich leading Synergy. Who’s
gonna come out on top here?
Schenck: I have no idea.
All I know is that its gonna be complete chaos in this
one.
Cade: Safe bet.
“Come With
Me” by P. Diddy and Jimmy Page hits next, bringing Dulberg, Beovich and Don
Capriglione out to a raucous ovation! The trio wastes no time in rushing into
the ring and getting the fight underway!
Church signals for the ring
bell as the two teams go at it around the ring. Ryan and Jeff team up on
Capriglione and Beovich, while Dulberg takes it to Biamonte in a corner. The
Knakals back up and attempt a double clothesline, but The Omega and MVP duck
down and back body drop them over the top and to the floor! The former tag
champs get up, but Dulberg hits the ropes and his teammates lift him before
hurling him over the top and crashing down atop them!
Cade: What a death-defying
move by Synergy!
Schenck: This one is
already out of control
Beovich goes out to help
Dulberg, while Biamonte grabs Capriglione for the Buzzkill. The former
Progressive titleholder manages to fight out of it and bounces Biamonte off the
ropes before connecting with a big spinebuster in the middle of the ring!
Biamonte is flat on his back as Capriglione climbs to the top rope and crashes
right down on his chest with the Upper Decker! Biamonte instantly clutches his
chest as Capriglione covers for the 1---2---3! The fans celebrate as “Come With Me” hits again on the PA system.
Cade: Just like that,
Synergy wins it!
Schenck: Capriglione looks
none too happy in there. Why is Dulberg’s music going when he won the match?
Cade: Never mind all that,
I think Biamonte is hurt in there. Capriglione really squashed him with that
big splash Justin.
Schenck: Hopefully we can
get an update on his condition later. For now, lets take a look at a man whose
career will not end tonight; we call him “The Iceman”.
Winners via pinfall at
Segment 13 – Jumbotron
A video package airs, set
to Oasis’ “F*ckin in the Bushes,” highlighting the
illustrious career of the Iceman Jason Calysto, a career which could meet a
sudden end later tonight.
We cut back to the parking
lot, where the familiar Renegade Jeep pulls in. A crowd forms and watches along
as The Machine climbs out. The former PWA Champion grabs his bags and power
walks into the arena for what could be the last time.
Static-X’s "All
in Wait" hits the speakers and we see a graphic appear on the screen that
reads "PWA Revival Report." From there, the shot takes us to a
backstage set and PWA reporter Ron O'Brien, who is standing in front of a
backdrop featuring the Revival logo.
O'Brien: Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Ron O'Brien
and this is the Revival report. The Progressive Wrestling
Mike Tortorici defends the PWA
Championship against Rudy Montenora!
The Iceman Jason Calysto and The Machine battle in a
Career-Ending Match! And in a twist just announced, there will be no count outs
and no disqualifications, yet all outside interference has been banned from
ringside, which means there MUST be a winner tonight and a career will be
ended!
TFU members Mike Griffin and Greg Tantalus put the Tag Team Championship up for
grabs against Jaguar and a partner of his choice! Jaguar has made a plea to the
missing-in-action former PWA Champion Vulture to be his partner? Will he come out of hiding and accept?
PWA owner Bryan Conroy takes on his
cousin and TFU member The Miracle Mike Troha!
If Troha wins, his ban on PWA title shots is lifted, but if Conroy is
victorious, Troha takes a 75 percent pay cut and must work all four PWA shows
every week, no exceptions!
Showtime Damon Savage goes head-to-head
with Evander Holyfield in a 12-round boxing exhibition!
GI Jew battles Walter Gindin’s Alaskan monster Solomon!
TFU member Reaper puts the Progressive Championship on the line against former
tag team partner Speed Demon in a First Blood Match!
Scythe collides with TFU member Jonathan Brett!
Loki battles Mike Grieco with Dee
Licious banned from ringside!
Plus, Infernus has stated that he will defend the International Championship
against Romeo if the Hot Boy can make it to Revival. Romeo is currently not in
the building, but will Da Playboi be able to put his knee injury aside to claim
his title shot?
All this and more coming your way Saturday, December 27 from East Rutherford,
New Jersey! It's Revival, exclusively on pay-per-view! That's all
for now, folks. For the Revival report, I'm Ron O'Brien, saying see you
momentarily right here in