21st Century Boys (English c-verse)

[jesseewiak]

[b]Jeff Nova & Joss[b] Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Top Face & Owner together? Win.

Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Matravers is still a upper-midcard type of guy while O'Curle is still just a tag team specialist

Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
Honestly, Eddie could win this himself.

K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood - DCO
They fight, they fight, they fight....

The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
Seagulls are great, but they're still the Seagulls.

La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
Three-sided coin flip.

BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? - 10:45

[Portlius]

QUICK PICKS:

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Nova hands some of his popularity on

Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Great match, too close to call

Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild

K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
Vive la revolution! they are due a win...
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 11:06

[Boltinho]

Wednesday week 3 August 2010
Edgware Hall, London
Attendance: 2,000



Jeff Nova introduces tonight’s show from the ring. He seems pretty comfortable in his tux tonight after his successes in cleaning up his company a little last week.

Jeff goes on to say that although things are getting back to how they were before his injury and absence earlier this year there are still pockets of malcontents and troublemakers.

Other owners might be perturbed by this but not Jeff. He wasn’t Worlds Strongest man for shirking a challenge and so tonight Jeff is facing his troubles head-on.

The main event will be Jeff teaming up with Joss Thompson to take on ex-World Champ Jonathan Faust and the out-of-control Pitbull Brown (who attacked Jeff Nova last week and has been demanding a title shot).

A*





The big TV shows Mel Florence backstage. The commentator looks great tonight and as always the camera loves her. She’s holding a mic and turns to face the man she’s talking to – Mr Blood.



The big but dark man is as always smeared in blood across his pasty white face and is dressed in a dark robe. He’s pretty much a teenage goth’s dream.

Blood takes the opportunity tonight to tell everyone again just how much he enjoys feeding on fear, weakness and pain and that he’s going to maximise how much he can do that by finally beating Grey Angel and winning the UK Title at We Will Rock You.

Mel is slightly unsure as this match has NOT been sanctioned but is cowed by Mr Blood’s ferocity.

C-

K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood



* In-your-face stuff here as neither man gives an inch.
* Mr Blood shows that his power is a bit underrated as he bulldozes his way through K’Lee’s attempts to use the feared Crossface Chickenwing.
* And Blood settles things decisively with a big double-arm DDT for the win.

In a match that had some good action and average heat, Mr Blood defeated K'Lee Hawkins in 5:47 by pinfall.

D+

Eddie Cornell is stalking through a corridor backstage. The friendly Northerner looks furious as he barges into a dressing room to confront The Assassin’s Guild.



Cornell tells the Guild he’s had enough of their attacks and taunts and he wants to settle things in the ring. The guild initially reject the very idea (Why would they agree to that?) but come around to the idea and say that they’ll agree to a tag match tonight – as long as they can decide on Eddie’s partner.

Eddie is unsure but decides that everyone in 21CW is a proven fighter so why not? The match is on.

B+





Jeff Nova heads back to the ring to introduce the next match.
There are some teams in21CW that need a bit of a boost so he’s giving 3 of them a chance to seize some tonight:



La Revolution (Jacques Livarot & Pierre Beaujolais) haven’t been amazingly successful since they arrived but they are talented young men and dedicated trainers.



The Strange Quarks (Energy Punk & Power Beast) have some real psychological problems but Jeff understands why they feel they have a problem.



And although the Wildcards (Anarchy & Menace) are unorthodox Jeff respects anyone with passionate beliefs in positive change.

B+

La Revolution (Jacques Livarot & Pierre Beaujolais) vs. The Strange Quarks (Energy Punk & Power Beast) vs. The Wildcards (Anarchy & Menace)







* Anarchy puts on a show here with his normal energy and action but la Revolution also impress by slowing him down using some silky technical skills. They truly are the poor man’s Keith twins.
* By contrast the Quarks find this a bit hard going but retreat to their corner for a sneaky tactic. Having seen Matravers do so well Energy Punk and Power Beast each down what looks like a can of Monster.
* But it backfires against them as with their backs turned Menace takes advantage and Powerbomb.

In a bout that had solid in-ring action but not much in the way of heat, Wildcards defeated The Strange Quarks and La Revolution in 8:23when Menace hit Jacques with a Powerbomb.

D

Pride (Dragon & Lionheart) head to the ring and kneel down inside it in vaguely Buddhist fashion.

Dragon again says that although Snaptime have set the bar in terms of pure effectiveness they are the most disciplined and dedicated team in the company. ELIMINATION are bigger and stronger but they have failed to win the belts because they try to just attack Snaptime. Pride can succeed because they don’t want to be contrary – they want to use the champs own strengths against them.

D-

The Manchester Seagulls (Liam & Nate) vs. Pride (Dragon & Lionheart)



* Ouch. This match really isn’t much of a contest I’m afraid.
* The Seagulls give it a good go and it’s always fun to see feathered skinny guys hurtle through the air but they’re never in the frame to do well.
* Because Pride are so clearly tougher and better they don’t even need to make a big deal out of it. They just wear the Seagulls down until Dragon hits his finisher and it’s game over.

In a bout that had solid in-ring action but not much in the way of heat, Pride defeated Manchester Seagulls in 5:36 when Dragon defeated Liam Seagull by pinfall with a Dragon Drop.

D-

The screen shows the teenage monster War Machine.

The huge young man is ensconced in a massive bath (it looks big enough for a whole rugby team) and pretty much finishes it.

The young man refers to his attack last week and says that he doesn’t know who the attacker was but whoever it was that was brave enough is in for a treat – he’s getting a match for War machine’s Anarchy Trophy at We Will Rock You.

All he has to do is show up.

B





Eddie Cornell heads to the ring alone. He’s joined there by the Assassin’s Guild who seem pretty pleased with themselves (in a smug and arrogant way).



Eddie asks who he’s got – Wade Orson maybe? The Steamroller even?
But no. The Guild stop smirking enough to introduce Eddie’s partner tonight:

Half man. Half monkey. All ridiculous.

Eddie will be teaming tonight with Hell Monkey.



C

Eddie Cornell & Hell Monkey vs. The Assassins Guild (Snake & Predator)



* Clearly Eddie is the strongest single competitor here but his partner is... erratic.
* Hell Monkey is all over the shop trying gymnastics and so on rather than make any clear attempt to win the match.
* As a result it’s pretty simple for the Guild to just ensure Eddie is kept out of the ring at all possible times. Not content with tactics like that predator adds insult to injury by cleaely cheating to take the pinfall.

In a match that had some good action and average heat, The Assassins' Guild defeated Eddie Cornell and Hell Monkey in 7:46 when Predator defeated Hell Monkey by pinfall with a handful of tights.

C+

Kathleen Lee heads to ringside with the current members of The Takeover; Merle O’Curle who is in the ring tonight as well as Steve Stoat and Nigel Svensson.

She’s wearing her usual tight, leather dress and looks all business. Grabbing a mic the Rock Chick tells everyone in the building that although there have been some blips recently her group still holds the Tag belts and Steve Stoat is one of the more feared singles competitors in the company. They’re working all hours in the gym and she’s confident that they can back to the dominance they’ve shown before.

Certainly Snaptime are very confident on beating the mock-Eastern tag pretenders Pride. In fact Kathleen confirms that they have agreed to a title match at We Will Rock You. Meanwhile Merle is in singles action tonight against another man with ideas above his station – Adam Matravers.

B-

Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle



* A nice contrast in styles here. Merle likes to get as tight as possible whilst Adam is all abour mobility and risk-taking.
* It’s not too long before The Takeover show their colours and Nigel Svensson interferes by kicking Adam in the back.
* Nigel and merle proceed to double team Matravers but Mile-High makes his way to his corner and knocks back a can of Red Bull that phoebe hands him.
* Instantly the old strength returns and Adam swiftly clears the ring before setting up his finisher the Mile High Moonsault on Merle.

In a bout that had great heat and great wrestling action, Adam Matravers defeated Merle O'Curle in 14:41 by pinfall with a Mile High Moonsault.

C+

Jeff Nova and Joss Thompson head to the ring ahead of their main event showdown with Pitbull and Faust.

Both men reiterate that they have personal reasons for beating their opponents but the priority is defending 21CW against the type of scheming cheats and bullies that have no place in the company.

Joss also mentions that although he respects Jeff Nova as a leader the American is in this company to win titles and big matches. And sooner or later there’s going to be conflict over the belt.

Jeff responds by saying that Joss will get a big match at We Will Rock You.



Pitbull and Faust enter together looking uneasy. They have fought together before but they’re an uneasy partnership at best.

Pitbull says he’s beaten everyone in the company but the World Champ and owner Jeff and the attacks will keep coming until he agrees to a match.

Faust says he still deserves the World Title and wants it back but tonight his hatred of Joss Thompson is more important. Either way he and Pitbull will be handing out a beating.

A*

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Brown



* Non-stop knockout action here as 4 deadly enemies come together in the ring.
* Everyone in the ring gets a great chance to impress with significant time and momentum swings wildly between the teams with hot tags, near-falls and signature spots.
* Joss manages to impose himself though and hits his clean-cutter on Pitbull...
* Only for Dunton Hall to toss Faust a steel chair which he promptly uses to brain Joss.
* Pitbull also grabs a chair and the two men set to Joss and Jeff driving them from the ring leaving the ref to abandon the match.

In a superb bout that had great wrestling and a sizzling crowd, Jonathan Faust and Pit Bull Brown drew with Joss Thompson and Jeff Nova in 17:24 when the referee lost control and stopped the match.

B-

After the match the carnage continues with Pitbull and Faust lambasting Joss and Jeff with the two chairs they have. Nova and the American are forced to retreat but as Pitbull, Faust and Hall brandish their chairs and gesture at the crowd Jeff grabs a mic:

“You’ve gone too far tonight Pitbull. I’ve tried to show you a wee bit of respect but you’ve blown it now. You need a lesson teaching and I’m the one to teach it.

“You’ve got your title match. At We Will Rock you it’s going to be you vs. me for the 21CW World Championship.
“And because I don’t really trust you it’s going to be inside a steel cage.”

B



Overall show rating: B-

[serotonin187]

Good show Boltinho, surprised that Hell Monkey debuted not that I'm complaining the guy is awesome.

[Boltinho]

Originally Posted by serotonin187

Good show Boltinho, surprised that Hell Monkey debuted not that I'm complaining the guy is awesome.

Thanks very much.

Unfortunately it was hell Monkey's 1st and last show - he was only on a talent trade.

I wanted someone silly to partner Edd so him losing would be justified and I thought about some of the chaps I've got in development but they didnt really fit:

• The Minor Annoyance is still so bad the rating would have tanked.
  
• Brilliant White would have brought out the judgmental side of Eddie too much which I thought would harm him a bit.
  
• The Seagulls were already on the card

So I just thought a silly new face would be the answer and although monkey is a great worker i thought he'd be good for the purpose.

[Boltinho]

Another week in the bank and quite frankly I was pleased with the show. A few things moved on more than just standard chat promos, we had a surprise worker and at least one upset win. Nice.

The 3-way tag match was a bit thrown in but I thought it would be a fun diversion and airtime for some good teams.

Originally Posted by Portlius

QUICK PICKS:
Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
Vive la revolution! they are due a win...
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 11:06

Just 2/6 Im afraid. Rev are due a win. They’ll get it one of these days. Either way im happy with progress. Theyre really skilled for the UK now.

Originally Posted by jesseewiak

[b]Jeff Nova & Joss[b] Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
Honestly, Eddie could win this himself.
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood - DCO
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? - 10:45

2/6. Turns out Eddie couldn’t. I wanted to set up the fact that the Guild are a threat to him if they can gang up on him.

Originally Posted by Charasmatic Enigma

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 9:11

5/6. Just missed out on the ME draw.

Originally Posted by Rayelek

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
-Definitely marking for Matravers, hopefully he can win his last big title
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 8:43

4/6. Glad you like Matravers. I’ll prob ramp him up a bit over the next few weeks but he’s a ways away from a title shot.,

Originally Posted by MJStark

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 10:02

1/6. Great to have you back sir but 1/6? Ouch.

Originally Posted by Jack Hood

QUICK PICKS:
Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 9:38

3/6 sir. Better than i normally do in your diary.

Originally Posted by Jingo

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Big fan of both .. But Matravers is just more of a 21CW guy!
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 7:59

4/6.
You’re right. Merle isn’t really a 21CW guy at all but he has got over. I really should job him down a bit to make him a MC star.

Originally Posted by Tiberious4

QUICK PICKS:

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
Dragons+Lions>Seagulls
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)?
10:13

3/6. Loved the mathematical way of looking at it. And of course it was very right.

Originally Posted by smwilliams

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
Dominant heel is dominant.
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
I hate the Quarks.
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)?
13:42

6/6 with the bonus. Mr Blood is pretty dominant. He’s a HW you know. I always thought he was smaller. And you hate the Quarks! Im surprised. I love them.

Originally Posted by Occasional_Z

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Has draw written all over it
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs.Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 8:04

5/6. You’re right. The ME was clearly a draw. 4 stars in a meaningless tag match? SE ratings-winner all day long.

Originally Posted by serotonin187

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
Hard choice here The Guild need to look strong since their return but, I don't see Eddie wanting to job to them.
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs.Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)?9:47

6/6. Actually Ed was totally fine with Monkey taking the fall. I was slightly surprised but hes a great guy.

Originally Posted by Zergon

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Matravers looks to get into main title picture and in order to get there he has to be able to beat Merle.
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
Seagulls are jobber to me until they prove otherwise.

La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)?
9:25

4/6. Matravers does need to win these. And Merle needs to lose to people like him to to manage his pop. The Seagulls are unlikely to prove they’re not jobbers. Ever.

Originally Posted by Midnightnick

Jeff Nova & Joss Thompson vs. Jonathan Faust & Pitbull Jones
Adam Matravers vs. Merle O’Curle
Eddie & ??? vs. The Assassins Guild
K’Lee Hawkins vs. Mr Blood
The Manchester Seagulls vs. Pride
La Revolution vs. The Strange Quarks vs. The Wildcards
BONUS: How long will the 3way tag match last (to the second)? 16:31

Just 2/6 sir. But as a fan I loved most of your picks.

So we had two chaps finish with 6/6. SMWilliams and Serotonin187.

There can be only one though and Serotonin187 wins it on the tiebreaker. I wanted to keep the 3way match as short as possible and it clocked in at just 9-47. Given the company even that was probably too long.

Congrats sir and help yoursdelf to any object youd like.

Thanks everyone for reading, commenting and picking. I’ll announce the forthcoming matches at We Will Rock You in the next few days (even though there’s one week left before it).

[serotonin187]

Though some Hell Monkey merch would be awesome but since he's only here for 1 show i doubt the shop would have some, so I'll take some Jonathan Faust merch please.

[MJStark]

Originally Posted by Boltinho

1/6. Great to have you back sir but 1/6? Ouch.

Yeah, I kinda grabbed names based on who I like/names i recognise due to not having kept up on current events really

I'll try harder next time, I promise

[smwilliams]

No!!!! My dream of a pair of Adam Matravers Red Bulls replica wings goes down the drain. Stupid tiebreaker.

[Boltinho]

Originally Posted by serotonin187

Though some Hell Monkey merch would be awesome but since he's only here for 1 show i doubt the shop would have some, so I'll take some Jonathan Faust merch please.

Sorry. The factory would like to tell you that Hell Monkey is not someone they're looking at supporting right now.

However - here's a first. The debut of 21CW snowglobes!

Why? Just because alright?

[Boltinho]

Originally Posted by smwilliams

No!!!! My dream of a pair of Adam Matravers Red Bulls replica wings goes down the drain. Stupid tiebreaker.

Brilliant idea. I love the idea of extreme teenagers turning up in wings. Here you go sir:



And for those less fond of wearing wings to wrestling shows:



Thanks for the suggestion. Specificity is great.

[Jingo]

Wow, im so getting me some of those wings. Awesome!

[smwilliams]

Originally Posted by Boltinho

Brilliant idea. I love the idea of extreme teenagers turning up in wings. Here you go sir:



And for those less fond of wearing wings to wrestling shows:



Thanks for the suggestion. Specificity is great.

SWEET! Thanks dude.

[Boltinho]

BoBW

Week 4 August 2010

Business Jones vs. Steve Stoat



Eddie Cornell & Joss Thompson vs. Hot Stuff



Adam Matravers vs. Nigel Svensson



Lionheart vs Merle O’Curle


ELIMINATION vs. The Brothers Ivanoff



Jacques Livarot vs. ???





As always the finest predictor amongst you will win the chance to claim any merch you want from the company’s growing catalogue. Remember the more specific the better!

QUICK PICKS
Business Jones vs. Steve Stoat
Eddie Cornell & Joss Thompson vs. Hot Stuff
Adam Matravers vs. Nigel Svensson
Lionheart vs Merle O’Curle
ELIMINATION vs. The Brothers Ivanoff
Jacques Livarot vs. ???
TIEBREAK: Matravers is having a pretty decent time of it at the moment. What is the momentum of his girlfriend/manager Phoebe Plumridge?

[serotonin187]

Business Jones vs. Steve Stoat
Toughest fight on the card to predicted, so I went with me favourite of the two

Eddie Cornell & Joss Thompson vs. Hot Stuff
Can't see Eddie and Joss losing here, unless The Assassin's Guild were to get involved beating down on Eddie but i don't see it

Adam Matravers vs. Nigel Svensson
Matravers is getting push Svensson isn't


Lionheart vs Merle O’Curle
The battle of two tag team guys and I loved to say O'Curle would win but I don't see it unfortunately


ELIMINATION vs. The Brothers Ivanoff
ELIMINATION!!!!!!

Jacques Livarot vs. ???
Livarot is a jobber end off...


TIEBREAK: Matravers is having a pretty decent time of it at the moment. What is the momentum of his girlfriend/manager Phoebe Plumridge? 58