PRESENTS
AUGUST 31ST 2009CRUNCHIES BAR
EAST LANSING, MI"THE TRADITION OF PRO WRESTLING RETURNS" KURT ANGLE SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY WITHOUT PAY...COULD BE FIRED FROM TRADITION WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HOURS MORE ON THIS STORY AS IT DEVELOPS.... WITH THAT SHOCKING NEWS, THE SHOW OPENS WITH A BANNER COMING DOWN FROM THE CEILING REVEALING THE FIRST ROUND MATCH UPS FOR THE HISTORIC TOURNAMENT TO CROWN THE TRADITION CHAMPION TONIGHT....
THEN SUDDENLY......
JERRY LYNN COMES DOWN TO RINGSIDE WEARING AN OFFICIAL...
T-SHIRT
LYNN WITH MICROPHONE IN HAND....
"Fans that know me, know I am not the type of guy to come out and cause a lot of static with words..I let my actions in this ring speak for me, however I had to come out hear tonight and get a few things off my chest....
These past few days in this company have been interesting to say the least, involving a certain situation with Kurt Angle. It has been covered by all the major outlets and to my surprise this company comes out with a statement that quite frankly shocked me a little bit as you say at the top of this post.
You want to punish this man before all the facts come out, you want to take away his lively hood well to me that is a bunch of crap! I know Kurt you are actually in the back with the higher ups with this company explaining your side of the story..well as you can see by the shirt I am wearing I told this company what I thought...lets just say they did not agree with my thoughts so I am going to much greener pastures..but before I do that.....
I say the hell with the format TRADITION has for tonight's show...before I leave let's you and I give these fans one more match Kurt...you and I in this ring tonight one on one...sactions, suspensions, fines be damned, how about OLYMPIC HERO?"
WITH THAT.....
KURT ANGLE MAKES HIS WAY INTO THE RING, MIC IN HAND....
"Jerry first off man thank you, it has been a rough 48 hours or so dealing with certain issues out of the wrestling business and words can't say how much I appreciate what you have done not only recently, but getting me back on track when Bison Smith beat me at "HAD ENOUGH"...you were the only one man out of all the talent in the back that had the balls to come out and challenge me when I needed it the most.
Who knows what the future holds for me in this business Jerry, I will tell you I am taking calls from other promotions who know talent when they see it.
I came here tonight despite the suspension to tell my side of the story I really had no intentions of making this public but to show my thanks to you as a true competitor in this business the ultimate compliment and to show you how appreciative I am to you, tonight I say the HELL with TRADITION and their bullshit politics, lets do what WE do best...I accept your challenge tonight!"BOTH MEN SHAKE HANDS AND LEAVE THE RING TOGETHER
WITH THAT... A COMMOTION IS SEEN IN THE LOCKER ROOM AS WRESTLERS TRY TO SEPARATE THE NEW YOUNG LIONS CHAMPION: ERICK STEVENS WHO WAS ATTACKED BY TYLER BLACK!
TRADITION CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
ROUND 1 RESULTS
TEKESHI MORISHIMA defeated ERICK STEVENS
"Thanks to the attack earlier from Tyler Black the newly crowned Young Lions was at a distinct disadvantage entering this match not at 100%.
Morishima took it to Stevens early and often at the start of this match with stiff punches to the head and face, followed by a tremendous lariat off the ropes. Stevens would go down with out a fight however connecting with some high impact moves of his own, including a tremendous inziguri and tornado DDT.
Morishima got the victory however with 3 consecutive SAITO SUPLEXES after Stevens missed a splash in the corner to get the 3 count and advance."
*AFTER THE MATCH TYLER BLACK CAME DOWN TO RINGSIDE AND STARED RIGHT AT ERICK STEVENS*
TIGER MASK defeated FRANK GOTCH
"The match began with Tiger Mask extending the hand to Frank Gotch who after several minutes finally accepted the handshake.
Pure wrestling at it's best, a true mat classic. Mask started out quickly hitting with a high leg sweep take down followed up with a series of rolling senton splashes. Gotch however took the brunt of the attack and responded with a vicious leg hook and a guillotine choke.
After several minutes in the hold Tiger Mask broke the hold and caught Gotch with a jumping spin kick coming off the ropes, followed by a jumping pile driver to give Tiger Mask the victory at 18:57 of the match."
STEVE CORINO defeated MIL MASCARAS
"In what many could classify a upset THE KING OF OLD SCHOOL gets the very hard earned victory over Mascaras after escaping an octopus hold by reaching the ropes but being able to hold down Mascaras for the 3 count after a devastating running knee smash to the face in the corner followed by a lariat off the ropes."
BISON SMITH and MITSUHARU MISAWA DOUBLE COUNT OUT
"The wars these two have had over in Japan have been legendary, and both of them to the delight of the fans brought another legendary battle this time to the states.
Back and fourth these two went with tremendous high impact moves with several near falls. Misawa and Bison both connected with their finishing maneuvers and both kicked out..neither man giving an inch not backing down..the match eventually spilled to the outside of the ring with them continuing to battle the referee gave the 20 count to both men and called for the bell despite the boos from the crowd who wanted to see a winner."
*AFTER THE MATCH BOTH ATHLETES SHOOK HANDS IN A SHOW OF RESPECT TO A STANDING OVATION FROM THE CROWD*
*WITH THAT DOUBLE COUNT OUT 1/2 OF THE TRADITION TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS STEVE CORINO WILL RECEIVE A BYE INTO THE FINALS*
*A camera shot showing Kurt Angle in the back preparing for quite possibly his LAST match under a full time capacity for TRADITION is talking on his cell phone...*
"I know what you are saying my man, you got some solid talent there but man working in ALASKA, I got my kids to think about man...for all I know they would be getting their education from an igloo and their masters in ice fishing, that is no way for the children of an Olympic hero to make a living"
Your offer money wise is very intriguing but man PNW offered me the same amount with incentives...plus the consistincey of HEARTLAND over the years not to mention the history in Memphis and the WWWF and HoA well...they really has cool T-shirts just ask Jerry Lynn. All and all it makes it a really hard decision, but you are in the mix...hey look I got to get ready so talk to you soon"
TRADITION CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
ROUND 2 RESULTS
TEKESHI MORISHIMA defeated TIGER MASK
"The ultimate match with contrasting styles, the pure power and brute force that is Morishima against the speed and agility that is Tiger Mask.Speed and agility won out in the early part of the match, with Tiger Mask connecting with lighting fast kicks to the head of Morishima, a dropkick off the top rope and a springboard plancha kept the bigger man off balance and confused. However all it took was one move to change the entire outlook of the match thanks to a tremendous running boot to the face of the masked man in the corner. Morishima then delivered a thunderous belly to belly suplex to get the 3 count to move to the finals of the tournament to face Steve Corino"
SPECIAL CHALLENGE MATCH
KURT ANGLE defeated JERRY LYNN
"Both men shook hands before the match began again to show respect. Once again these two put on a classic match with just some suburb mat wrestling. Angle connected witha series of rolling German suplexes, Lynn fought back with a picture perfect sit down power bomb followed up by a missile dropkick from the top rope!
Back and fourth these two went for over 20 minutes not letting the other out do them when finally Angle scored the victory with a release belly to belly suplex from the second rope followed by a breath taking moonsault from the top rope to get the victory"
*AFTER THE MATCH WITH THE FANS CHANTING PLEASE DON'T GO TO BOTH...LYNN EXTENDED HIS HAND TO ANGLE WHO PAUSED FOR A MOMENT AND WITH A SINISTER COCKY SMILE SPIT RIGHT IN THE FACE OF LYNN...THEN LEFT THE BUILDING WITH A CHORUS OF BOO'S AND TRASH BEING THROWN AT HIM*
*LYNN STOOD IN THE RING IN ABSOLUTE SHOCK,, AS THE FANS CHEERED HIM AS HE LEFT THE RING*
MAIN EVENT
TRADITION CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
FINALS
TEKESHI MORISHIMA defeated STEVE CORINO
"Once again these two put on an absolute classic match, with everyone on their feet for the entire match which included everyone from the back to come down in the isle way to witness one of the most hard hitting physical matches to ever take not only in TRADITION but perhaps of all the FLWMorishima came out quick connecting with a running hip attack followed up by a spinning side slam and a forearm club which gave a deep cut right above Corino's left eye...before to long Corino was wearing the Crimson mask.Morishima picked up the pace even more so when the blood poured down Corino's face from the cut...connecting with tremendous stiff right hands and a thunderous boot to the face in the corner!
Morishima looked to connect with another boot to the face in the corner but Corino super kicked a charging Morishima square in the mouth right before the big man got his foot up. After several chops to the face and chest Corino connected with power slam and victory-plexing Morishima over the top rope onto the concrete floor!
A bloody Corino continued the assault ooutside the ring with a mule kick to the groin and a series of right hands to the face.
Morishima fought back with an elbow strike and a lariat! Corino grabbed a steel chair and leveled Morishima in the face busting him open!
The two continued to brawl in and out of the ring, Morishima seeing that Corino could barely stand do to all the punishment and blood loss through out the match finally got the 3 count when he delivered 3 consecutive SAITO SUPLEXES in a row! for the 3 count and victory...."
*AS STREAMERS FELL FROM THE CEILING AND A STANDING OVATION FROM EVERYONE IN THE BUILDING THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE.......*
*THE NEW TRADITION CHAMPION.....*
TEKESHI MORISHIMA
*AS THE NEW CHAMPION MADE HIS WAY BACK TO THE LOCKER ROOM TO CONTINUE THE CELEBRATION...EMTS AND OFFICIALS TENDED TO A BLOODY STEVE CORINO WHO WAS STILL IN THE RING. WHEN SUDDENLY..........
WITH CAME DOWN TO THE RING AND RIGHT IN THE FACE OF A FALLEN CORINO *EATON AND LANE CHASED OUT THE EMTS FROM THE RING AND HELD UP A HELPLESS CORINO AS CORNETTE CAME OVER AND SLAPPED THE TASTE OUT OF HIS MOUTH...AND GRABBED THE MICROPHONE....*
"I tell you what Corino, hell of a match you just had son, however WE are out here to remind you of something...that is that we are the number #1 contenders for those tag team belts you and your little boy toy Landell are currently sporting. WE feel you have been neglecting those titles...which is fine if we where in say the WWE where they dont give to shits about tag team wrestling.
"However YOU sir are not in the WWE and we want what you got, tie him up boys..."
*WITH THAT EATON AND LANE DRAG CORINO OVER TO THE TAG ROPE IN THE CORNER AND WRAP IT AROUND HIS THROAT AND LOOKED AS THOUGH THEY WERE THEN GOING TO THROW HIM OVER THE TOP ROPE AND HANG HIM!!!
*WHEN SUDDENLY CORINO'S TAG TEAM CHAMPION PARTNER AND STUDENT RICK LANDELL STORMED DOWN TO RINGSIDE...CORNETTE MOCKED LANDELL AND TOLD HIM IF HE DID NOT PUT THOSE TITLE ON THE LINE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS AGAINST THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS...THEN THEY WOULD HANG CORINO AND END HIS CAREER RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF HIM AND ALL THESE FANS!*
*AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES LANDELL AGREED THEN HE TO GOT ATTACKED BY THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS AND WAS LEFT A BLOODY MESS AS THE SHOW ENDED*
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TRADITION CARD # 15