A Lumberjack Match
By
The Mangler
Marshall’s revenge tour was still not complete. While he
had managed to defeat Ash (see Gauntlet I) and Byron (see Gauntlet II), he failed miserably to exact any
retribution from The Executioner. In
fact, The Executioner had beaten him decisively in the ring and arranged
further outrage post-match.
Marshall was determined to right that wrong, but first he
had another wrong to right – his brother Theo.
Theo had manipulated Marshall into forming a tag team, and they had
spent months training, perfecting their teamwork, and resolving their personal
differences. But Theo had been actively conspiring to set Marshall up for the
beating of his life and the horrible 6 months that followed. Marshall was determined to get retribution.
Theo, however, wasn’t exactly stupid. He had already been beaten and humiliated by
his brother in the ring once and wasn’t going to let that happen again. (see Theo's Debut) As such, Theo had refused every offer of a
match until Marshall had agreed to a lumberjack match. Marshall knew how these things could go, so he
made sure that he had loyal lumberjacks.
In reality, Theo’s lumberjacks owed no loyalty to him, but instead owed
that allegiance to The Executioner. But
in this case, the enemy of my enemy worked for Theo.
The negotiation over who would be lumberjacks and the
rules they would have to follow was intense.
Marshall knew that Theo would use every advantage, legal or not, to win
the match and also to punish him. He was
just as determined to punish Theo and knew he would have to make sure Theo’s lumberjacks
didn’t unnecessarily interfere.
For the final rules, it was decided that Theo and
Marshall could each have four lumberjacks.
For Theo, they would be The Executioner, Adam, Ash, and Kayden. For Marshall, it would be Wiley, Noah, Liam,
and Logan. The lumberjacks would be
under the ref’s control, and he could disqualify Theo or Marshall if his
lumberjacks violated the rules. The lumberjacks would be set up so that there
would be two lumberjacks on each side of the ring, and they would alternate sides
between team Theo and team Marshall.
If Theo and Marshall were inside the ring, the
lumberjacks had to remain on their side of the ring. If one of the wrestlers had been ejected from
the ring, then the lumberjacks were free to intermingle. Their “official” job was to return the
wrestler to the ring, but everyone knew that they would try to help their guy
by beating on his opponent. That is why
each wrestler had the same number of lumberjacks, in an attempt to prevent such
a situation from happening. However, as
soon as the wrestler was returned to the ring, they were required to return to
their assigned position.
To help enforce the rules, two additional referees were
positioned outside the ring, and their job was to ensure that the lumberjacks
stayed on their side of the ring when required and ceased any hostilities once
both wrestlers were back in the ring. Both
referees had whistles they would blow to signify that both wrestlers were back
in the ring and the lumberjacks needed to return to their assigned
positions. They also were there to make
sure that the lumberjacks did not interfere with wrestlers on the ring apron or
within the ring itself. Doing so meant
instant disqualification of their wrestler.
These two refs had no authority over any action between Theo and
Marshall. That was the ring referee’s
responsibility.
When a wrestler is outside the ring and the lumberjacks
are involved, the ref can initiate a 10-count.
If the wrestler outside the ring is interacting with the lumberjacks and
he is not back in the ring at the end of that count, his opponent is
disqualified. Theoretically, the lumberjacks
could keep their man out of the ring, and his opponent would be
disqualified. But Liam, Logan, Wiley,
and Noah knew that Marshall wanted to inflict punishment on Theo, not win by
disqualification. The same could be said
for Theo’s lumberjacks as well. Plus,
the lumberjacks supporting Theo were not really his ‘friends’. They wanted to
see Marshall put through the ringer. However,
if Theo were getting beaten, they would have no problem tossing him back in the
ring to lose.
Walker, the UWF employee in charge of the card, went into
Marshall’s locker room where he and his four lumberjacks waited.
“Okay, just wanted to make sure everyone understands the
rules, especially the lumberjacks. You
MUST stay on your side of the ring unless Mashall or Theo is outside the
ring. You MAY NOT interfere in any way,
shape, or form the action in the ring or ring apron.”
“Yeah, we know the rules.
You just need to make sure the other guys are kept in check. They are more likely to ignore the rules and
you seem to give them some leeway,” Marshall said.
“I can guarantee you, they will obey the rules and
everything will be enforced to the letter!”
“Okay,” Marshall said, but with skepticism.
Walker walked over to the other locker room to give the
same speech to Theo’s team.
“We get a couple of seconds on the ring apron or in the ring,”
The Executioner said.
“Afraid not. Not
THIS time at least. The rules will be
strictly enforced against the lumberjacks.
That is the order from higher up, and I can’t disobey them.”
“Can’t or won’t,” Adam asked.
Walker looked over at him and said, “Unfortunately, both. But, of course, what happens AFTER the match
isn’t really included in the rules.” He
then winked at the locker room and walked out.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, it is now time for the match
everyone has been waiting for, our Maaaaiiiiin
Eeeeeveeent, featuring Marshall versus his brother Theo.” The crowd went wild, showing their enthusiasm
for this matchup.
“As you all know, Marshall is on a retribution tour after
his mauling in the big tag event. Theo
was a major part of that, and Marshall is seeking revenge.” Another loud cheer went up from the audience.
“Tonight’s bout will be a singles match, with standard
wrestling rules applying EXCEPT with lumberjacks to prevent one wrestler from
running away. Their job will be to
return to the ring a wrestler who has left it.
As reported earlier, these lumberjacks have to follow special rules as
follows.” The announcer then went over
the agreed-upon rules. The crowd was
getting antsy as it took some time to repeat the rules.
“Start the match, start the match,” the crowd began
chanting even before the announcer had finished repeating the rules. He finally gave up.
“Obviously, you are all ready for the action to begin,
and our ref is already in the ring, so let’s get started and introduce our
lumberjacks. First up, representing
Marshall, we have Liam and Logan.”
Liam, from Cork, Ireland, sauntered out first. He was a "fireplug" of a wrestler
at 5'10" and 210 pounds. He was
wearing his green trunks with the shamrock on the ass cheeks. His knee pads were also green, and his
wrestling boots were white. Accompanying him was Logan, who stood 6’ and
weighed in at 200 pounds. He was wearing
white trunks, kneepads, and wrestling boots.
The crowd roared their approval as the two wrestlers walked down the
aisle to take up their positions.
“And now representing Theo, we have Ash and Kayden.”
Ash stood at 5’8” tall and weighed 180 pounds, while
Kayden was taller and heavier at 6’2” and 200 pounds. Neither wrestler was overtly muscular, but
that was deceptive. Both were
well-conditioned, strong, and devious. They were each wearing a black wrestling
singlet with flames up the back. The
crowd’s reaction was nearly the same volume, but they showed disapproval of the
two wrestlers who totally ignored them.
“Marshall’s final two lumberjacks will be Wiley and
Noah.”
Wiley stood at 6’ tall and weighed in at 190 pounds. He was still cut from his match against the
Executioner, which he had added pounds for.
He was wearing black wrestling trunks with a fire motif on the ass. His knee pads and boots were red. Following him out was Noah, who stood at 6’
tall and also weighed 190 pounds. He
didn’t look quite as cut as Wiley, but still had impressive muscles. He was dressed identical to Wiley, suggesting
a possible tag team relationship. The
noise in the audience increased in volume as the crowd indicated their approval
of these two.
“And now, Theo’s final lumberjacks, The Executioner and Adam.”
The Executioner, a 6’ tall, 225-pound bear of a man, walked
smugly out of the curtain. His body was
covered with a layer of hair, and he had a small beer gut. He appeared soft, but beneath that softness
lay tight musculature and exceptional athletic ability. He was wearing an identical singlet to Ash
and Kayden. Adam, 5'8” and 185 pounds of muscle, walked out behind him. He had impressive muscles and was almost as
devious as The Executioner. To no one's
surprise, he was also wearing a black singlet with flames on the back. Theo’s lumberjacks were dressed like a team,
while Marshall’s were not.
Surprisingly, the volume increased even more as the crowd
shouted their disapproval. The
Executioner wasn’t the top heel in the federation for no reason. The two lumberjacks egg the crowd on as they take
up position on the final side of the ring.
“And now the contestants in tonight's match, we have the
Gould Brothers, Marshall and Theo.” Each
of the wrestlers entered from opposite sides of the auditorium and sauntered
down to the ring. On Marshall’s side
could be heard mainly cheers, while the opposite occurred on Theo’s side with mostly
boos.
Marshall stood 5'11" tall, weighed 200 pounds, had
4% body fat, and shredded so that you could almost see every muscle fiber. His abs were an eight-pack and
rock-hard. After his beatdown at the
hands of the Heel faction, he had trimmed his blonde hair into a military buzz,
giving him a severe look. His deep blue
eyes seemed to look right through you.
He completely ignored the crowd as he watched his brother walk down to
the ring.
Theo stood 5'10" tall, weighed 195 pounds, had 10%
body fat, and defined musculature, although not quite as ripped as
Marshall. His darker hair was shaved on
the sides and faded into a short crop on top.
His eyes were also deep blue, and even if you didn't know they were
brothers, just the eyes would give it away.
He, too, ignored the taunts from the crowd while focusing on his
brother.
Each of the two combatants acknowledged their lumberjacks
as they climbed into the ring. Both were
aware of the importance they held in this match as they stood in their corners
awaiting the ref’s directions. The
referee dispensed with the time-honored tradition of calling both wrestlers to
the middle of the ring to review the rules.
Knowing the history behind this match, he didn’t trust them not to
attack early. Besides, they knew the rules, and it was his job to enforce them—A
task he knew was not going to be easy. He looked at the timekeeper and signaled for
the bell. DING. This highly anticipated
match was underway.
The two wrestlers approached each other in the center of
the ring with caution. Theo finally
raised one hand, signaling a test of strength.
Marshall flexed his fingers and slowly raised the opposite hand. Suddenly, he spun around, driving his foot
into the side of the head of his brother knocking Theo off balance and toward
the ropes.
Continuing his spin until he was facing Theo again,
Marshall bent at the waist and charged into Theo, wrapping his arms around the
sides. He continued charging until
Theo’s back impacted the turnbuckle in the corner. He rapidly grabbed the middle ropes and began
driving his shoulder into Theo’s midsection.
“Break the hold, break the hold,” the ref demanded as he
began his five count. Around four and ½,
Marshall quickly stood, turned his back to Theo, reached over his right
shoulder, grabbed Theo by the head, and snapmared him into the middle of the
ring. Theo bounced when he hit the mat,
but surprisingly, he was able to kip back to his feet, but not without some
pain to his abs. He turned to face
Marshall.
“That's all you got?
It’s gonna take more than that,” Theo teased.
Without saying a word, Marshall again charged in to grab
Theo. However, Theo had positioned
himself near the ropes, so he was able to fall back and grab the top rope with
both hands, raising his foot up to catch a charging Marshall in the solar
plexus. The move impacted hard, driving
air from Marshall’s lungs. He was forced
to take a couple of steps backward, but wasn’t given much time to recover
before Theo slammed him with a clothesline, dropping him to the mat. Theo grabbed him, pulled him up to his knees,
and turned him so that he could drape his neck across the second rope. He straddled the back of the head and began
to bounce up and down.
“Off the ropes, and break the choke,” the ref demanded.
“What choke?” Theo inquired.
Without further admonishment, the ref started his
count. At the count of four, Theo stood
up, charged across the ring, bounced off the ropes, and returned leaping in the
air and coming down across Marshall’s upper back, driving his throat into the
ropes. Marshall felt as though he had
been decapitated. Again, the ref
demanded that Theo get off his opponent.
As Theo stood, the ref got in front of him and backed him
to the center of the ring, all the time admonishing him for his actions. The Executioner stepped forward and raised
his hands, but stopped when he saw the outside ref in his peripheral vision. He
dropped his hands, but oh, how he wanted to grab that head and continue Marshall’s
punishment.
When the ref stepped back, Theo went over to pull
Marshall to his feet. However, Marshall
had other plans, and once he was on his knees, he drove a fist into Theo’s
abs. Theo was not expecting the blow, so
the fist sank a little deeper than it should have. Marshall pressed his advantage by driving his
forehead into the abs, further forcing Theo backward, before leaping to his
feet.
The two wrestlers circled each other with Marshall
rubbing his throat and Theo his abs.
They approached again and locked up in a collar-and-elbow. They pushed
and shoved, trying to gain an advantage until Marshall suddenly drove a knee
into Theo’s abs. He quickly secured a side headlock and flipped Theo to the
mat, keeping the hold all the way.
Slowly, Theo managed to regain his feet only to have
Marshall hip-check him back to the mat.
He slammed his hand down on the mat in frustration. He again managed to get to his feet, but this
time, as soon as he did, he grabbed around Marshall’s waist and tried to throw
him off. Although he took a couple of
steps, Marshall was able to maintain the hold.
“My hair, my hair,” Theo screamed.
“Did you pull his hair?” the ref asked.
“Of course, not,” Marshall replied just before he screwed
his face up and grunted because Theo had driven a fist up between Marshall’s
legs into the crotch. The ref was not
able to see the blow as he was distracted by questioning Marshall.
Theo continued with his advantage by slinging Marshall
into the ropes. As Marshall rebounded,
he was met with a solid knee to his abs, which flipped him to the mat. Theo followed up by dropping a knee, then an elbow
deep into the umbilicus. He then flipped
Marshall onto his chest, sat on his upper back, pulled his arms up and over his
knees, and then clasped his chin and pulled back.
Marshall grunted as the Camel Clutch was applied,
stretching out his abs and his back. Theo
leaned back as far as possible, trying to get maximum pain from the hold. Marshall struggled to get out of the hold and
finally managed to dislodge his left arm from Theo’s knee and reach out to grab
the lower rope.
“Break the hold, he is in the ropes,” the ref demanded.
“So what?” Theo asked.
“What it means is you have to break the hold. NOW!” the ref demanded before starting his
count. Theo released the hold and
allowed Marshall to drop to the mat.
Theo began to rise but once his ass was above Marshall he quickly
dropped slamming his ass into the upper back.
Mashall grunted.
“Get off the man,” the ref demanded.
Theo looked out at The Executioner, who gave him a thumbs
up as he stood and stepped back from Marshall, who grasped the middle rope to
pull himself up. Theo charged in,
grabbed Marshall by the back of his trunks and his hair, and threw him out of
the ring between the first and second ropes.
No sooner had he hit the floor than The Executioner and Adam were on
him, using their feet to kick and stomp.
Wiley and Noah came around the corner and clotheslined The Executioner
and Adam stopping their assault on him.
Ash and Kayden were the next lumberjacks to arrive. Ash pulled Marshall to his feet and locked on
a full nelson. Kayden began driving
fists into the exposed abs. He continued
until Liam rounded the corner and slammed into him from the back. Ash dropped the Nelson when Logan delivered a
forearm smash to his upper back. All
four lumberjacks began brawling with each other and ignoring Marshall, who was
slumped to one knee holding his abs.
Theo had been distracting the ref so his guys could work
over Marshall. Once he saw that Marshall
was free, he stepped back so the ref could turn and start counting Marshall out
of the ring. When the ref reached eight,
Marshall grabbed the bottom rope and began to pull himself onto the apron, but
he was met by Theo, who had run across the ring and performed a baseball slide,
knocking Marshall back to the ground. It
also broke the ref’s count.
Marshall quickly stood, but did not see The Executioner,
who was temporarily free from the brawl, grab him and slung him into the metal
barriers separating the ring from the crowd.
Marshall slammed into the barrier abs first and doubled over the
barrier. The Executioner was drawn back
into the action with the other lumberjacks.
Once Marshall hit the barrier, the ref began a 10-count
on him. He was able to get his shit
together and get back into the ring at 8 when the ref pushed Theo back. As soon as Marshall was back in the ring, a
shrill whistle could be heard, signaling the lumberjacks they needed to return
to their side of the ring. They each landed
a few last punches but then managed to disengage and retreat. None of them were any worse for wear.
The two wrestlers approached each other with
caution. Theo lunged at Marshall,
bringing his knee up between his legs.
“Aaaahhh,” Marshall screamed.
“Watch the low blow,” the ref warned.
“Sorry, it was an error,” Theo replied as he locked
Marshall’s head under his armpit and DDT’d him to the mat. He quickly moved around to sit on the back
and bent both legs at the knee, locking his ankles under his armpit. He sat back and stretched in a Boston
Crab. Once again, Marshall felt the
stretch in his back and abs.
Whenever the ref was out of view, Theo would either punch
or squeeze the balls. Every time
Marshall complained and the ref checked, there was nothing to see. Of course, Theo denied any ball work, and the
ref knew what was happening, but he couldn’t do anything without seeing it.
Marshall took a deep breath, placed his palms flat on the
mat, and began lifting his chest off the mat.
He suddenly extended both his legs, catching Theo by surprise. This propelled Theo away from Marshall and
towards the rope. Unfortunately, he went
through the ropes and landed on the floor directly in front of Liam and Logan.
They hesitated only a second before they began raining stomps on his body.
Theo’s lumberjacks arrived, and one pair took on Liam and
Logan while the other two assisted Theo to his feet. The Executioner slipped something into the
front of Theo’s trunks before Wiley and Noah appeared and attacked them. Once again, the lumberjacks were brawling,
leaving Theo alone.
He shook his head and walked around to the other side of
the ring to get back in. Marshall leaned
over the top rope, jawing at Theo while the ref was trying to get him to back
up. Theo suddenly leaped up and joined
both of his hands behind Marshall’s head.
Marshall saw him coming and tried to back up. Unfortunately, that meant when Theo dropped
back down, taking Marshall’s head with him, Marshall’s throat impacted across
the top rope. Theo hung on and continued the choke until the ref counted to 4.
Theo released the head, jumped up to the ring apron, and
applied a headlock over the top rope. A
shrill whistle was heard as the ref began trying to pull Theo’s arm free. Unfortunately, he was standing behind Theo,
so he did not see him remove something from his trunk before slamming it into
Marshall’s forehead. Theo released the
hold, and Marshall fell backward into the ring.
The lumberjacks returned to their side of the ring.
Theo leaped to the top rope and somersaulted off, landing
perfectly across Marshall’s abs. He ignored the ref’s continuing admonishment
and pulled Marshall up and locked on another side headlock, squeezing as hard
as he good. Once he was turned away from
the ref, he removed the foreign object from his trunks and used it again to
slam into Marshall’s forehead. Marshall
grunted, and you could see his legs go weak.
Theo returned the object to his trunks, lifted Marshall’s head, and
drove a judo chop into the throat, letting him go at the same time. He dropped to his knees, and his hands went
to his throat.
“Did you strike him in the throat?” the ref demanded,
seeing Marshall’s hands go up to his throat and hearing him gagging.
“Of course not. I
would never do something like that,” Theo said with a deadpanned expression.
The ref snorted and walked over to Marshall, who was
slowly getting to his feet with the assist of the ropes.
Kayden and Ash walked toward the ring corner and started
jawing at Noah and Logan. Those two
walked toward them and returned the favor, but both sets of lumberjacks
remained on their side of the ring. In
just a few seconds, the four wrestlers were screaming insults and taunting each
other.
“Time to take a little trip,” Theo yelled as he pulled
Marshall to his feet, palmed him by the back of the head, and charged him
across the ring before tossing him over the top rope. Marshall flew over the rope and landed at the
feet of The Executioner and Adam.
While the ref immediately got in front of Theo to prevent
him from exiting the ring, The Executioner and Adam began delivering stomps and
kicks to the downed Marshall. However,
they were only able to get a few in before Wiley and Noah came around the
corner to pull them off him. Once again,
the four lumberjacks were in a free-for-all while Marshall lay on the mats
around the ring untouched, and Theo kept the ref occupied in the ring.
Marshall suddenly felt a hand grab a handful of hair and pull
him to his feet. He was then lifted into
the air by two sets of hands before being dropped abs first across the extended
knees of Kayden and Ash. The ‘oomph’ of
air escaping his lungs was drowned out by the shouts of the other four
lumberjacks in the brawl.
Liam and Logan were lying on the floor in a state of
confusion. When Theo had yelled about a
“little trip,” they had both looked into the ring to see what was
happening. As soon as Marshall flew over
the ropes, Kayden and Ash had taken advantage of the distraction, which they
knew was coming, to drive steel-toed boots up into the balls of their opposing
lumberjacks. They immediately followed
this up by DDTing both wrestlers to the arena floor and followed that with a
piledriver to each wrestler.
They quickly turned and ran around the ring to see the
other four lumberjacks beating on each other.
This meant that Marshall was unprotected, and they took advantage of
that by picking Marshall into the air and delivering the abs drop. They repeated the move twice more before
picking him up and dropping him abs first across the metal railing dividing the
ring from the audience. When Marshall rolled
off the divider and onto the floor, Kayden and Ash began stomping on the abs
like they were trying to put out a fire.
Glancing in the ring, Kayden and Ash saw that the ref was
starting to turn. They pulled Marshall to his feet, grabbed an arm, and whipped
him around abs first into the ring apron.
As Marshall staggered back, the two lumberjacks grabbed him by the back
of his trunks, lifted up, giving his balls a nice wedgie, and dropped him in a
double atomic drop. Marshall screamed as
he staggered forward, then dropped to the floor.
Ash and Kayden charged around the ring post back to where
Liam and Logan still lay on the floor, a little woozy. They dropped to their opponents' sides,
untied the trunks, and freed the laces.
They looped Liam’s left arm through Logan’s right arm. Both wrestlers'
thumbs were then brought to the front of their wrestling trunks, where the
trunk laces were retied tightly, thus limiting arm movement. With their arms looped together, this further
constricted them. All of this was
accomplished in a relatively short time, as Ash and Kayden had been
specifically practicing for this moment.
One of the outside refs just laughed at this development. There was nothing else he could do as this
didn’t violate any of the rules, and he had to give them credit for
inventiveness.
Meanwhile, The Executioner and Adam disengaged from Wiley
and Liam. They were unsure why the
action had stopped, but Marshall’s two lumberjacks turned and saw him on the
floor. Walking backward, to keep an eye
on their fellow lumberjacks, they assisted Marshall to his feet and back under
the bottom rope. As soon as Marshall was on the apron, they heard the whistle
that signified that Marshall was back in the ring, so they slowly began to walk
back to their side of the ring. The
Executioner and Adam smiled and laughed. Ash and Kayden drove a final foot into the
crotch of Liam and Logan as they stood. They
laughed, high-fived, and returned to their side of the ring. The ref standing there simply shook his head
no at them.
Wiley and Noah had returned to their side of the ring, leaving
The Executioner and Adam on theirs.
Looking across the ring, they failed to see Liam or Logan but knew that,
by the rules, they wouldn’t be allowed to access that side of the ring to check
it out. Even if they could, Ash and
Kayden would never let them over there.
The Executioner looked over at Kayden, who smiled and
threw a thumbs-up. Adam and he laughed
and high-fived. Things were going to
plan.
Inside the ring, Theo pulled Marshall to his feet,
grabbed a wrist, and flung him into the ropes across the ring. As Marshall rebounded off the ropes, he was
met by Theo’s knee slamming into his gut near the bell button. Marshall bent over from the blow, and Theo
leaped into the air, bringing his leg down across the back of Marshall's head,
forcing him to the mat with a bone-jarring slam. Marshall’s head actually bounced off the mat.
Not wasting any time, Theo pulled Marshall's right arm
out perpendicular to his body and began slamming his knee into the bicep. He followed this up by standing up, trapping
Marshall’s wrist under his foot, and slamming stomps and kicks into the already
abused bicep. Marshall’s jerking finally
freed his arm, and he pulled it to his side.
When he sat up, he was met with a knee to the back of his head from Theo.
Theo pulled Marshall to his feet, grabbed the left wrist,
and pulled the arm behind Marshall into a hammer lock. He slammed his fist into Marshall’s abs,
causing him to bend at the waist. Theo grabbed the back of his trunks and,
maintaining the wrist, charged him across the ring, slamming the shoulder between
the ropes and into the ring post.
He pulled Marshall from the corner and reapplied the
armbar to his left arm. Keeping one hand
on Marshall's wrist, he stepped under his right arm and turned to face
him. Marshall's left arm was trapped
behind his back, and his right arm was draped over Theo’s shoulder.
“Let’s see if these are any good,” Theo smirked, running
his hands down Marshall’s abs. He began
delivering a series of open-handed blows to the wide-open abdomen. If the ref were out of sight, he would close
his fist before hammering it home. Theo
was careful to keep Marshall away from the ropes as he continued to drill punch
after punch into the abs. He could feel
them softening and loved every grunt that Marshall made.
The Executioner was screaming at the ref from the side of
the ring, so he walked behind Marshall to yell at him to shut up. As soon as the ref’s vision was out of sight,
Theo twisted and slammed his knee up into Marshall’s crotch, causing him to
jerk violently, freeing his wrist from Theo’s hand. However, before he could bring it around to
protect himself, Theo slammed a second low blow into the balls.
Marshall screamed and stumbled back into the ropes, just
missing the ref. The ref turned to see
what was happening and saw Theo stalking toward Marshall, who was leaning
against the ropes. The ref stepped in
front of Theo and pushed him backward.
“He’s in the ropes, so stay back,” he admonished Theo. Theo sidestepped the ref and exited the ring,
where The Executioner and Adam were. He reached under the bottom rope, grabbed
both ankles and yanked, pulling Marshall’s legs out from under him, and he fell
face down to the mat. He managed to
raise his hand to protect himself.
Suddenly, he was sliding under the ropes and out of the ring.
Wiley and Noah, seeing what was happening, began to
charge around to the side of the ring to help out Marshall. However, they had failed to notice that Ash
and Kayden had been moving toward the corner between them. When Theo began backing up and distracting
the ref, Ash and Kayden started charging around that corner. Thus, Wiley and Noah were only able to reach
the corner, but not around it, when they were both propelled forward by double
drop kicks from Ash and Kayden. Their momentum
sent them flying into the metal guardrails, winding them.
As Marshall was pulled out of the ring, Adam dropped and
extended his knee, so that when he cleared the ring edge, Marshall dropped onto
the extended knee, absorbing the impact with his abs.
Ash and Kayden got up from the floor, stalked over to
Wiley and Noah, who were leaning over the metal guardrail. Each one reached around the waist of the
wrestler in front of them, locked their hands, then lifted up and fell back,
slamming the two wrestlers to the floor in a suplex. Wiley and Noah were stunned.
Theo’s lumberjacks walked around, grabbed their opposites
legs and applied a figure four, dropping back to the ground. Wiley and Noah
screamed and began thrashing around.
The Executioner pulled Marshall to his feet and grabbed
the right wrist, while Adam did the same with the left wrist. Both wrists were brought behind Marshall’s
back and pushed up, trapping him in a double hammerlock. The Execution and Adam placed their free hand
under Marshall’s elbow and lifted Marshall up.
He screamed as all of his body weight was now hanging from his
shoulders. Not satisfied with just
holding him up, the duo shook Marshall, increasing the pain even further. Theo began raining fists into the exposed six-pack.
When the two lumberjacks released their hold on the
elbows and Marshall dropped to his feet, Theo rolled back into the ring and
engaged with the referee.
As Marshall’s feet touched the floor, Adam drove a knee into his crotch. When he bent over, Adam grabbed him by the
waist and lifted him up with his head hanging down. He then dropped Marshall, such that his right
shoulder slammed into his knee, while his left shoulder slammed into The
Executioner’s knee – a unique double shoulder breaker. Marshall was pulled up by the hair and slung
into the ring apron. He reached up with
one hand to steady himself. After throwing
him against the ring, the duo charged around the ring to where Wiley and Noah
were still trapped in figure-four leg locks.
Each chose one of the wrestlers and dropped down with their asses
trapping their heads against the floor and muffling their scream. Adam and The Executioner each pulled out a
pair of brass knuckles, put them on, and began slamming down into their opponents
stretched and unguarded abs.
Theo disengaged with the ref, who turned and saw Marshall
at the ring apron. He looked over and
saw that the lumberjacks were skirmishing on one side of the ring, but since
Marshall was still outside the ring, this was legal. Theo did a baseball slide under the rope and
slammed into Marshall’s chest, sending him flying backward, where he collided
with the ring barrier. He staggered
forward. Theo locked a hand behind his
head, charged him to the nearest ring post, and slammed his head into it
twice. He then forced him back into the
ring, where he proceeded to drop a knee into the right shoulder before pulling
Marshall to the center of the ring. He
slammed his ass down onto Marshall’s pecs before reaching and locking both his
hands around Marshall’s throat – a blatant and obvious choke.
“Break the hold, break the hold. 1…2….3….4…” the ref intoned.
At four and ½, he released his hands and held them up
before bringing them down again and into the choke. This cycle repeated twice more before the ref
said, “Do it again, and this match is
over.”
“Spoilsport,” Marshall replied.
Even as they were torturing the other two lumberjacks,
Theo’s four lumberjacks were keeping an eye on the action in the ring. When Theo forced Marshall back into the ring,
two final fists were delivered into the abs before the two lumberjacks were
released from the figure-four. Theo’s four lumberjacks returned to their sides
of the ring, leaving a hurting Wiley and Noah curled up on their sides, their
knees and abs screaming in pain. The
other two of Marshall’s lumberjacks had been made less effective.
Liam and Logan had started to regain some sense and tried
to move. However, as they were still
somewhat groggy, it took a few minutes for them to figure out what was
happening. With limited use of their
hands, they were unable to effectively untie the string that held their thumbs
to their body. Finally, however, Logan
had maneuvered so that he was sitting on Liam’s thighs. This placed their
trunks, and trunk strings in close proximity so that Logan could begin to work
at loosening the strings tying Liam.
Heeding the ref’s final warning, Theo stopped the choke
and stood. He drove a series of stomps
into Marshall’s left shoulder before using that arm to drag him to his
feet. Marshall grunted at the stress
being placed on the arm as it was pulled up.
Once Marshall was on his feet, Theo quickly placed the left arm behind
his back in a hammerlock. He drove the wrist
and hand as high up the back as he could.
Holding the left wrist with his left hand, Theo stepped in front of
Marshall, wrapped his right hand around the left side, and grasped his hand
holding Marshall’s wrist.
He then constricted, now having Marshall in a bear hug
AND a hammerlock. He leaned back,
lifting Marshall off his feet, and tipped him somewhat to the side. Marshall screamed as the pressure on his
shoulder increased. Theo twisted and turned to maintain the pressure. Tiring of the hold, Theo put Marshall down on
his feet, released his right hand, and stepped back. He made a fist with his right hand and drove
it into Marshall’s abs. He smiled with
satisfaction as he felt the fist sink into the softened muscle. He continued to drive fist after fist into
the abs.
Marshall was now getting desperate, so he tried to push
Theo back toward the ropes. Theo ceased
the blows to the abdomen and hooked his right leg around Marshall’s left and
pushed back. This threw both wrestlers
off balance, and they crashed to the mat, with Marshall landing on his back and
his arm, and Theo landing on top of him.
Marshall emitted a loud scream as he landed on his damaged
shoulder. The pain was made worse by
Theo falling on top of him. Theo stood
and directed several more stomps to the shoulder.
“Hey, Theo, a little help here,” Ash screamed from the
floor. He was watching Liam and Logan
and realized they were making some progress on freeing themselves. The ref turned toward the lumberjacks to see
what they were up to.
Theo immediately knew what Ash was asking for, so he
pulled Marshall to his feet, charged him across the ring, and slammed his left
shoulder into the ring post. When
Marshall pulled back into the ring, Theo directed him to the ropes and pushed
him between the first and second ropes.
Marshall had the sense to grab the rope with his right hand so that he
didn’t fall completely out of the ring.
However, Theo began a series of kicks and stomps until Marshall’s hand
slipped from the rope, and he dropped to the floor.
As soon as Ash and Kayden saw Marshall hit the floor,
they charged around the ring post toward Liam and Logan. Still consumed with trying to untie
themselves, Liam and Logan did not realize what danger they were in until Ash
grabbed the back of their heads and slammed them together. He did this twice. Ash then pulled Logan out of Liam’s lap, and
he and Kayden manipulated the two until they were lying on their chests side by
side.
Ash grabbed Liam by the head, while Kayden grasped
Logan. They pulled the two wrestlers up
until they were kneeling, their arms still interlocked. Ash and Kayden then placed their own feet at
the back of their opponent’s knees and next locked the other two wrestlers’
heads under their arms, and bent them back, while Ash and Kayden rolled onto
their backs. Now, Liam and Logan were
trapped in a double Surfboard/Dragon Sleepers combo with their arms
interlocked. Ash and Kayden maintain the
hold until both wrestlers are sleepered out, then the holds are released.
Adam emits a loud “oomph” before his hands fly to his
crotch, and he drops to his knees.
Marshall responds with a right hook to the face, knocking Adam to the
floor and making him insensible. Unfortunately,
the Executioner comes up on Marshall’s left side and delivers a chop to the
shoulder, which sends excruciating pain down his arm and upper chest. The Executioner grabs the left wrist and
twists it around to the back. He grabs
around Marshall's midsection, lifts him, and inverts him before dropping the
left shoulder down into a shoulder breaker.
Marshall screams as the pain explodes in the joint.
In the ring, Theo is trying to get around the ref and
exit the ring. At least he is pretending
to so that he ref is occupied. He watches as The Executioner executes the
shoulder breaker. He sees him drop
Marshall to the floor, lying on his chest.
He watches, arguing with the referee, as The Executioner grabs the left
wrist, wrenches it up the back, and then sits with his feet against Marshall's
shoulders. He then pushes down with his
feet while pulling up with his hand, applying tremendous pain and doing damage
to the left shoulder.
Marshall’s deafening scream is partially block by the
floor but is heard by the ref. As the
ref tries to turn in that direction, Theo grabs him by the upper arm and pulls
him back.
The ref’s face turns red as he screams, “What the goddamn
fuck do you think you are doing?? How dare
you touch the ref. You need to keep your
fucking hands to yourself. I should
disqualify your ass right now.”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” Theo mumbles as he slowly backs
away, raising his arms with his palms out.
“I just got excited,” he continues.
In reality, he is not sorry at all, as this gives his
lumberjacks more time with Marshall.
Looking over, he sees Ash and Kayden dropping Liam and Logan to the mat
like limp noodles. He nods towards The
Executioner, who releases the wrist, pulls Marshall to his feet, slings him abs
first into the ring apron, before sliding him back under the ropes. The whistle blows, signaling that both
wrestlers are in the ring.
Theo pulls Marshall to his feet, locks the left arm
around his back, then scoops him up and delivers a bodyslam with his arm
pinioned behind his back. He then drops three knees down into the abs and a
couple of stomps. He pulls Marshall to
his feet and applies an abdominal stretch, ensuring that the left arm and
shoulder are also being stretched.
Marshall is in obvious pain. At this point, he is in agony. His shoulder is taking most of the pain, but
his abs are being stretched out. Theo occasionally drives the edge of his hand
into Marshall’s abs, and if the ref is out of position, a closed fist. He finally locks on an abdominal claw. Marshall is now just one big hurt.
“I give, I give, I submit, no more, I give,” Marshall
pleads. The ref signals for the bell,
but Theo does not release the hold until he starts to count. He releases the hold, and Marshall drops to
the mat. The ref raises Theo’s hand to
the overwhelming ‘boos’ from the crowd.
Theo just encourages them to continue.
As soon as Ash and Kayden get here, the “I give, they
charge around the ring post, grab Wiley and Noah, and deliver pile drivers to
them.
Theo’s four lumberjacks then jump up onto the ring apron,
face the crowd, and throw their hands up in a victory stance. The boos from the crowd just gets
louder. Finally, they turn and enter the
ring.
The ref realizes what is going to happen, so he goes over
to protect Marshall.
“Guys, the match is over.
Theo won. Exit the ring,” he
pleads.
The Executioner walks over until he is standing in the
ref's face.
“The way I look at it, you have two choices. One, you can turn around and slide out of the
ring and be on your way like a good little ref, or two, you can try to protect
this one,” The Executioner says, and he slams a kick into Marshall. “Either way, we are going to have some fun
with loser here. It’s just a question of
whether you get beat up or not.”
The ref looks at all five of the wrestlers staring at him
and decides discretion is the better part of valor. He exits the ring, hoping that Marshall’s
lumberjacks will even things up. But
alas, all four of those are out of action.
Marshall is pulled to his feet, picked up, and lifted
over the top to stand on the ring apron facing the audience. His arms are trapped between the first and
second ropes, and his feet are pulled off the ring apron, so he is hanging by
his arms in the ropes.
“Please, no, no, please,” Marshall begs as the pain in
his left shoulder explodes. This is
music to The Executioner's ears. He has
brought Marshall down again.
“Sorry, fucker, but you lost, so we win. And as we like to celebrate when we win, you
are out of luck.”
Seeing what is happening, some of the UWA administrators
want to go down to the ring to stop it.
However, Walker has made it clear that if anyone interferes, they will
be out of a job. And the directive comes
from the top, he reiterates. It doesn’t,
Walker just wants to see Marshall punished some more.
Adam strips Marshall of his trunks and once again
Marshall finds himself in the middle of the auditorium in only his jock. After that, The Executioner, standing outside
the ring, slams a fist into the abs. He
then takes up a boxer's stance and, for the next five minutes, uses Marshall as
his personal punching bag—something he has experienced before. In succession, each of the other wrestlers
takes their five minutes. All five of
them concentrate on his pecs and his abs with an occasional blow to the balls. When the 25 minutes are up, Marshall is
hanging in the ropes, all but unconscious.
His hard pecs and defined abdomen appear reddened and soft. This is confirmed by The Executioner, who
uses his finger to demonstrate to the crowd how softened up they are.
The five exit the ring area, leaving Marshall where he is
tied up and hanging in the ropes. After
some discussion, Ash and Kayden grab Liam and Logan and toss them over their
shoulder with their heads hanging down the back. Ash and Kayden have to walk in unison as the
two wrestlers are still entangled by their arms. No one from management attempts to interfere
although the crowd is screaming obscenities and boos at wrestlers and pleading
for someone to “do something”.
“All right, ladies and gentlemen. That concludes tonight’s show. Please exit the arena.”
The crowd piles out of the auditorium until it is empty
except for Marshall in the ropes and Wiley and Noah on the mats around the
ring. They are slowly starting to come
around. Suddenly, the main lights dim,
and the auditorium descends into near darkness.
It is another twenty minutes until Wiley and Noah come around enough to
perceive what has happened. They help a
clearly hurting and damaged Marshall from the ropes and the ring and carry him
back toward the locker room.
“Do I need to do something?” Walker asks as they come
through the curtain.
“No, I think you and management have done enough of
nothing,” Wiley sneered.
“Hey, don’t take it out on me. They set up the rules and the kind of match
they wanted. Bitch at them if you must.”
Noah just shakes his head as they help Marshall into the
locker room, where they find that their lockers have been forced open and are
empty. Seeing that Liam and Logan are
not in the locker room, he steps back out into the hallway.
“Have you seen Liam or Logan?” he asks Walker.
“I thought I saw them leaving out the back door, but I can’t
say for sure. I know they are not in the
training room, sauna, or other locker room as I just locked all those up.” He jingled the keys as he said this.
Noah turns around and re-enters the room to hear Wiley
cussing. It seems all their clothes are
gone, and despite extensive searching, they cannot find anything in the way of
clothing or towels that could be used to cover them. Additionally, all their phones, wallets, and
keys are missing, except for the single key to Wiley’s old Ford 150. Noah charges out into the hallway to ask
Walker for some help, but he isn’t around.
He cannot find anyone else either, but as he walks by the other locker
room, he swears he hears some noise from in there. He goes to the door and pulls it open, and it
pops open. Seems Walker didn’t get the
latch completely in place.
He sees Liam and Logan in a position that is shockingly
familiar to him. They are naked, their
arms are tied to the pipes above their heads, and a 10-pound weight is swinging
from their nuts. As duct tape is wrapped
around their mouths, all that can be heard are grunts of pain, which are
reflected in their eyes. They took a
pretty good beating, and their present positions aren’t helping. Noah finally managed to free them, and they
limp back to where Wiley and Marshall are.
Noah explains what he found, and Wiley says, “Just when I
think things can’t get any worse, they do.
We got outfoxed here tonight, and Marshall and you two paid the
price. Maybe they are unbeatable.”
“NO, they are NOT,” Marshall yells from his seat on the
bench. You could hear the anger and frustration in his voice because his last few wrestling outings had all ended in misery. “We just have to
forget about being nice and playing by the rules where they are concerned. Don’t worry, I’ll get them yet.”
The other four shake their heads. Having no other choice,
they exit the arena. It was quite a
sight, as Marshal was only in his jockstrap and boots, looking beat to
hell. Wiley and Noah were in their
wrestling attire while Liam and Logan were limping along in their birthday
suit. Fortunately, no one was around to
see the sad spectacle. At least they
didn’t think so, but were disabused of that notion when the video of them exiting
landed on X.
They walked over to Wiley’s truck. Since it was a very old truck, it had only
one bench seat in the front. They placed
Marshall in the middle of the front seat while Noah slid in beside him. Wiley climbed into the driver’s seat while a
still naked Liam and Logan climbed gently into the bed of the truck. Two blocks later, a police car activated its
lights and pulled them over. How is
Wiley going to explain two naked guys in the bed of the truck, three nearly
naked guys up front, one obviously beaten up, and no driver’s license? Can they avoid jail or not???
Wiley failed to appreciate the smirk as the cop got out
of his car. Had he been more observant,
he would also have seen a striking resemblance to Adam, who was the cop’s
brother. He would figure that out later
from the holding cell at the police station.
It looks like the executioner has gotten the last word!! At least for now.
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