Thu Wk 4 Mar 2020 - END! Seance (Go Home Show)
***Bookers Notes are delineated with italics
Champions:
END! Gold Mens Champion: Samoa Joe
END! Gold Women’s Champion: Awesome Kong
END! Iron Mens Champion: Caristico
END! Iron Women’s Champion: Delphyne
END! Platinum Tag Champs: Kofi and Kenta
PPV: When Disaster Strikes is this Sunday!
Previously: I kept changing the product so the promotion lost a LOT of popularity. It was once a Cult promotion, but for the past year it has been Regional. As a result, I have lost a bunch talent, Ettore Ewen (Big E Langston), Brock Lesnar, Sheamus, Randy Orton, Cesaro... the list goes on. This past week Austin Creed (Xavier Woods) decided to put in notice and Kofi signed elsewhere. Kofi was the tag champion with Kenta so that leaves a big hole that I am going to address now...
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Angle: KENTA! and Maria cut an especially emotional promo about friendship and the departure of their friend, Kofi!
Kofi was using his contract ending as a reason to angle for a title shot vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi. The END! Council decided no, especially since he was already tag team champion.
KENTA felt especially slighted by Kofi, but mostly he feels that the fans were left out of watching the best tag team that END! has to offer.
Enter AUSTIN CREED.
Austin talks about how he used to have a lot of friends here. Kofi was his friend. Ettore Ewen was his friend, but now they are gone. There are NO FRIENDS in this business, every man for himself.
“That’s why I am leaving TOO!” Austin Creed says. “And you know what, I’ll kick your ass on my way out the door, how does that feel, KENTA?”
Chris Jericho defeated Minoru Suzuki in a hardcore rules match
Clips from the past angle air. Minoru entered END! to make a name for himself, by picking the biggest fight possible, Chris Jericho. But when you pick the biggest fight, that dog is going to fight back. And fight back Jericho did, all over the arena, many times. Minoru even beat up Chris Jericho’s tag team partner, Austin Creed.
This is a blow off to match to a failed feud. Suzuki is not over at all in America. I need to spend some time building him up on the Pre-shows. Although, I am not sure it’s worth it given his age.
After the match, Jericho announces that he’ll get a title shot if he beats a mystery opponent at the PPV...
Caristico vs. JBL
With KOFI leaving, I need something for KENTA to do, and it seems a feud with Caristico is better than old man JBL. JBL is not happy about losing here, by the way.
Tag Team Madness Announced at the PPV
This is for the titles that got vacated when Kofi left. The announced tag teams are:
The Time Splitters
Brother Ray and Brother Devon
The Fix (Christopher Daniels and Shelton Benjamin)
These should be half of the teams. I’ll throw some other guys in there as well. Of course, I am just going to throw them in a match next as a preview:
Brother Ray and Brother Devon defeated The Time Splitters and The Fix in a TAG TEAM MADNESS Preview Match.
These guys have all been portrayed as jobbers when my tag team division was more... vibrant. Now it’s time to do some rehab. Ray and Devon are the most over tag team, so I think they’ll get the strap here.
KENTA defeated Austin Creed
Austin Creed tries to attack KENTA after the match... but KENTA turns the table on him!
I wanted a way to kick Austin on his way out. Goodbye Austin! Go host those g4 shows!
Dual Contract Signings: Hiroshi Tanahashi and Samoa Joe/Vixen and Awesome Kong (w/ Ric Flair)
I figured it’d be a cool thing to have dual contract singings. The comedy would come from the Awesome Kong side, who is more preoccupied with Ric Flair than wrestling now.
Samoa Joe promises that if he wins, things will be VERY DIFFERENT in END! going forward and that Disaster will indeed strike! Strong words from the habitual linestepper.
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Pre-show Matches:
Ultimo Dragon defeated Silas Young - This was Ultimo’s debut. SIlas Young is a local hire.
Angelina Love defeated Melina Perez - Melina Perez is a local hire. This match got a very bad rating with a 34. I’d like my women’s matches to be at least in the 40′s.
James Storm defeated Eugene Nicholas - James Storm has mostly been a jobber for me, it’d be nice to get him up to a positive rating on the undercard before I use him again.
Delphyne defeated Mary Apache to retain the IRON! Women’s Title - Mary Apache has been the surprise signing of my tenure. Consistently puts on great matches. She’s older, but I should probably put her over with the Iron title at some point.