Seth Rollins looks at the clock, as he goes in to defend the FCW 15 Championship
Yes, I know, this is a cop out. But, work has been 10 hours a day, and stuff like that, I’m doing a lot of slacking and I still want to be part of this site. It is hard working 24 days straight getting up at 6:45, going to work, getting back from work at 6:30, going to the gym for an hour, and after supper I’m back in my room at 8, haha. And the day I post this in to be checked before getting posted on the site, I burnt my arm and chipped my tooth. Rough day at the office. But, I still want to keep myself occupied, so sadly, this week here I’m going to breeze through the results from the 09/18/11 edition of FCW, and this way I’ll be able to be up to date every week. However, due to this, I’m hoping to get every write up out on Wednesday from now on.
The show featured one match, and it was a good one with Seth Rollins vs Dean Ambrose for the FCW 15 Championship, and this week, they would go 30 minutes.. They were tied 2 a piece when Maxine ordered a sudden death, no time limit extension. Seth Rollins ended up winning with a move he hadn’t used in awhile, God’s Last Gift. During the show, they built it up with Briley Pierce interviewing Ricky and Richie Steamboat about who would win. Richie picked his former tag team partner Rollins, while Ricky picked Ambrose. Dusty Rhodes said Jack Brisco would be proud of both men, and Maxine, Bo Rotundo and Aksana sat in the VIP area for the match
Now, onto this week’s show. It’s a video of Bo Rotundo, the first ever two time FCW Heavyweight Champion. After that, out come Maxine and Norman Smiley, who is holding the Florida Heavyweight Championship. She says she has good news and bad news. Bo Rotundo is injured, and will be out for a few months. The good news is there will be an 8 man tournament for said Florida Heavyweight Championship. The entrants are:
-Seth Rollins
-Leo Kruger
-Big E Langston
-Leakee
-Percy Watson (oh yeah)
-Damien Sandow
-Dean Ambrose
-Husky Harris
The final match will be a fatal fourway. The first match up will be Damien Sandow vs Leakee. Sandow jump starts with a boot on Leakee and pounds him in the corner. Leakee reverses and levels Sandow with some forearms to the chest. Leakee keeps the advantage early on until a quick shot to the throat by Sandow. He regains the advantage with a kitchen sink knee to the gut. Big powerslam gets two. Sandow gets the advantage again with a rake to the eyes, pretty heelish on his part. Sandow pulls his knee pad down and lands a knee drop, then grinds his knee in Leakee’s face. A couple of Kobashi knees and a knee drop gets a two count. A kitchen sink knee to the gut of his own by Sandow. Lots of knee moves, maybe he has steel in it like Lex Luger’s forearm. Sandow goes for an abdominal stretch. Every time I see that move I think “thumb in the bum”. Damn you Steve Corino! He breaks the hold after grabbing the rope and getting a four count. He goes for another and Leakee hits a hip toss. They are both fighting on their knees, and Leakee lands some headbutts (headbutts from a Samoan at that). Leakee misses a knee lift (do you see a pattern here) and hits a clothesline.
William Regal says he was informed the next match will be between Husky Harris and Big E Langston. Sandow is in the corner and Leakee goes for a diving splash but hits the turnbuckle. Sandow hits the M-14 (a spinning neckbreaker type move) and gets the win.
Winner: Damien Sandow
Briley Pierce says he’s STILL interviewing people. Abraham gives a heart felt get well soon to Bo Rotundo and puts over the whole Rotundo family. He says he’s the James Brown of Sports Entertainment. He asks Briley if he knows who James Brown is, and Briley responds, yeah, 007. He yells at him, James Brown not James Bond. Basically, he’s the hardest working man in sports entertainment. He says his congratulations and condolences, because he will make his reign the shortest. After tonight, Abraham Washington is putting himself in the title chase. He’s gonna put it IN YO FACE!
Abe not impressed with Briley's lack of musical knowledge
FCW Divas Championship
Aksana (c) vs Audrey Marie
Audrey has a vest now. Caylee Turner is out now to give her expert analysis. Aksana has some neat music, I will say. Diamonds Are Forever, and so is the FCW Divas Title I guess. Jump start again with a boot. Caylee says she was born in 1988. Geez, that’s the year my little brother was born. Audrey gets to the outside and goes for a sunset flip, but she’s pushed off and outside the ring. Aksana slams Audrey into the apron and gets a 1 count. Chinlock by Aksana. Caylee says that Aksana is a veteran in the ring. Maybe she could teach Dr. Tom a few things Caylee has an annoying upward inflection in her voice. How she talks like THIS, and every time she talks the last few words are said in a DIFFERENT TONE. It was a Family Guy joke. Anyway, Audrey gets choked into the ropes and Audrey goes for another chinlock. Suplex by Aksana. Aksana goes for the Diva Drop Spinebuster, but Audrey reverses it into a small package, AND GETS THE PIN.
Winner and NEW FCW Divas Champion, Audrey Marie.
The chick with the Bandana over the boobs look becomes the new Divas Champion!
They go back to the commentators and like, is Caylee sticking around. She’s certainly not Gorilla Monsoon. We now go to a vingette featuring the Ascension, shot in black and white. Conor O’Brian says, “As the great Phoenix emerges”, then Tito says something in Spanish. As the great Phoenix emerges what? Kenneth Cameron says the 5th dimension into a stroll to the gates of Heaven. I think he says that anyway, the music got randomly louder when he spoke Maybe this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Conor says the tides are turning. And Raquel says they are the Ascension, and that they will rise. Speaking of Conor O’Brian and extension, guess what’s back!
The black and white and random statements show they mean buisness
FCW Superstar Profile:
This week: Conor O’Brian
Conor O'Brian. Nice name....FOR ME TO POOP ON!
So I missed a few weeks, basically due to work and lack of time. Conor though is an interesting one to talk about, as he has had two developmental runs. He entered Deep South Wrestling in 2006, as “Rough House” Ryan O’Reilly (they wanted to keep the Irish names up). Rough House was actually one of the only two DSW Heavyweight Champions, along with Bradley Jay (aka Jay Bradley, Brad Bradley and Ryan Braddock). He ended up leaving WWE along with his girlfriend at the time, Krissy Vaine, who appeared once on WWE Smackdown attacking Torrie Wilson. Man, what a chick can do to a man. But hey, I’m not one to throw stones from my glass house. He got resigned in 2010 and quickly got called up for NXT Season 4, and the Cheese loving rat like Conor O’Brian. Conor also went onto NXT season 5 and was eliminated at week 17. After his elimination, it seemed that show became the Whose Line is it Anyway of professional wrestling, where everything is made up and the points don’t matter. He now seems to be the crown jewel of Ricardo Rodriquez’s group, the Ascension, which is a bit odd as they were at odds on NXT Season 4, in which Ricardo tried to kill him. I guess it’s like with Kane and Snitsky. They’re over that.
Briley Pierce is backstage with Aksana, who is crying and looking at her Queen of FCw crown. He says they can do this later and she is just crying. Husky Harris walks in and says she got everything she deserves. She says she’s really really sorry. Husky gives her a hug and she seems to have this smirk on her face.
Corey Graves vs Erick Rowen
Too bad Melina isn't still around. I heard she's into guys with Erick's look.
The former Sterling James Kennan makes his debut in this upcoming match. He faces the long lost McAllister brother, Erick Rowen. He’s part of WWE’s ginger invasion in the past few years. Corey tries a hit and move strategy on Rowen, which frustrates the man from the North. Dropkick through the ropes by Corey. Rowen grabs Corey by the legs though and swings him into the barricade. Big Bearhug by Rowen and he slams Graves into the turnbuckle. Corey tries fighting back and keeps trying the hit and run strategy. He goes up to the top rope but gets caught in the hand of Rowen. Greetings from the North chokeslam gets Corey Graves up and he gets the win.
Winner: Erick Rowen
Big E Langston vs Husky Harris
The battle of the big men, as Big E Langston takes on Husky Harris. I wonder why Calvin Raines isn’t in this. Husky points at Bo’s banner as if it was a Wrestlemania sign. Matt Marlaro talked about Bo’s injury, which was a lascerated kidney. Man, how does one get that. The two men are doing a lot of lock ups in this match, shades of the epic classic of Goldberg vs Lesnar. Langston keeps trying to get a headlock on. Shoulder blocks to each other doesn’t knock either of them down and Langston gets the advantage with a shot in the gut. Husky’s weak spot obviously. Harris runs out and clotheslines Langston and they’re both down for the commercial. They come back, and they’re back to punching again. Big Belly to Belly by Big E (awesome alliteration). He gets a couple of one counts, but his persistence is admirable. They are talking about how Big E was in a weight lifting competition recently. He benched 529 pounds, squatted 710 pounds and set a US record with a 799 deadlift. I remember reading Mark Henry lifting more in my old WWF magazines when WWE was sponsoring him in the 1996 Olympics, they reported he did that in a 95 competition. Like, 900 pounds are so.
More clubbing blows by Big E. Big E with his famous shoulder blocks in the corner. Big E keeps going for pins again, he doesn’t give up on that. Another boot to the breadbasket, which likely has a couple of loaves in it. More shoulder blocks. Regal is making this sound more exciting then it is. Husky starts fighting back but Big E gets a knee in the gut. Husky catches Big E, who is running off the ropes, with a jumping forearm. Husky then does the painful chest slap pushes to the corner. A couple of big splashes in the corner and he runs off the rope for a spear, his brother’s finish. That gets him the pin.
Winner: Husky Harris
Husky's stomach looks very perplexed.
Big E worked on that gut, and the giggling was hypnotic, but it was not enough. And the next episode, I will likely have an actual schedule. Hooray!