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Six courageous competitors are locked inside a cage and forced to survive amidst ferocious combat.
Golden Ben Miller, Violence, Awoke, Shotcaller, Decade and Fuse Makoto: Who will emerge as the Pure Gold Champion?
The Season 3 finale, Fort Knocks, will change the world of Golden Pro Wrestling: FIND OUT HOW!
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Golden Pro Wrestling theme song “The Sound” by Switchfoot begins to play…
THIS!
IS!
GOLDEN!
PRO!
WRESTLING!
The camera fades into the FedExForum where thousands of fans have already filled into their seats on the floor, the entire lower and second levels, and the ENTIRE upper level!
The camera pans the arena and fans, providing shots of the ring, ramp, intro stage and Gold Screen.
Above the ring hangs the ominous golden cage, Fort Knocks.
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The camera turns into a two-shot of the unflappable duo of Golden Pro Wrestling’s commentators.
Rudy Mac: My GOODNESS! My WORD! FOLKS welcome to… FORT KNOCKS!!!
The sound of the sellout FedExForum arena nearly drones out Rudy McClintock.
DeShawn: FORT KNOCKS! FORT KNOCKS!
Rudy Mac: I’m Rudy Mac, your Memphis rasslin’ expert, and with me is a man who chases chem trails for the purpose of huffing them, DeShawn Brannon!
DeShawn: Hey hey hey!
Rudy Mac: DeShawn, it’s finally here! FORT KNOCKS!
The broadcast transitions to a wide view of the golden cage hanging above the rim.
Rudy Mac: The madness, the guts, the carnage… Fort Knocks will the most profound competition Golden Pro Wrestling has EVER held!
DeShawn: There’s what? SIX wrestlers!?
Rudy Mac: YES! One champion and FIVE contenders punched their ticket for the Pure Gold Championship match!
DeShawn: Run ‘em down!
Rudy Mac: First confirmed was Golden Ben Miller, but by a twisting story, he had to RE-EARN it in the Gold Strike 15 last chance battle royal!
DeShawn: He EARNED it!
Rudy Mac: And after winning the Gold Strike 12 main event against Violence and Corbin Fiscal, Shotcaller showed that he was a REAL contender! He was Fort Knocks-bound with the victory!
DeShawn: Stay strong, my brotha’!
Rudy Mac: The current Pure Gold Champion, Fuse Makoto, successfully defended his title against the DRACONIAN, and secured his Fort Knocks spot!
DeShawn: Respect! Respect!
Rudy Mac: Next up? Violence! The first Golden Pro Wrestling Pure Gold Championship absolutely DISMANTLED the upstart Ejercito de Juan!
DeShawn: Ay caramba!
Rudy Mac: This is where it gets interesting… newcomer Decade gets a chance to steal Golden Ben Miller’s spot at Fort Knocks, and he does! Clean!
DeShawn: But something seems off about this new guy, Decade.
Rudy Mac: So, four are locked in going to Gold Strike 15! Then out of nowhere, Awoke defeats our heartthrob, Flip Costa, to get a shot at the friggin’ PURE GOLD CHAMPIONSHIP!
DeShawn: Flip has bigger things going on! Like this trip the Draconian is going to take him on!
Rudy Mac: If Flip’s bodacious looks don’t help him stop the hurtling asteroid toward Earth, I’m sure his overwhelming charm will!
DeShawn: … you get to TALK to him?!
Rudy Mac: Don’t get jealous, DeShawn! Anyways… there was one last shot at Gold Strike 15 as a lottery moment in the form of a battle royale!
DeShawn: Yes, wrap it up!
Rudy Mac: Golden Ben Miller bested nearly TWENTY wrestlers and took the final spot for tonight’s Fort Knocks match!
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Fort Knocks quickly transitions to the FedExForum’s employee parking lot where the signature white van of the Greater Memphis Psychiatric Institute pulls up. Once the van parks, as expected, the Orderlies and Dr. Dean climb out.
Before the Orderlies can open the back door, Dr. Dean stops them and gets their attention.
Dr. Dean: Caruso, Summers, listen to me.
The Orderlies appear focused already.
Dr. Dean: Tonight may be the most important night yet for our endeavor. Sicko has an opportunity to become the Hardcore Champion, you both have the opportunity to become tag team champions, and I have the opportunity to bring our dear Abel back into the fold.
Orderly Caruso and Summers both nod in understanding.
Dr. Dean: We can have no mistakes tonight. I demand perfection when handling Sicko, I demand perfection in your match against the Wild Kards, and I demand perfection in recapturing Abel once we set him up! Do you comprehend!
Again, the Orderlies nod in silence.
Dr. Dean: Okay then, bring out our dear Sicko and let us start the show.
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The show transitions again to a backstage hallway outside of a closed door. The camera slowly approaches the door and cracks it open to show Decade standing in front of a mirror.
Golden Pro Wrestling’s fans let off a small pop from back inside the arena while Decade begins to talk to himself.
Decade: Alright, buddy, you’ve been working your whole life to get this opportunity. A shot at the Pure Gold Championship!
Suddenly, Decade’s voice switches to a more guttural, raspy tone.
Decade: Ha! You think you really have a shot tonight?
A brief moment passes, and his voice returns to normal.
Decade: I’m not listening to you today. I can do this.
The raspy voice returns.
Decade: You always say that, and you always fail!
In the background, the GPW fans murmur in confusion, and Decade’s voice reverts.
Decade: Go away!
Again, the raspy voice.
Decade: Don’t worry, my friend, I’ll help you tonight!
The muscular wrestler reaches over and grabs a large sledgehammer from off screen, and looks at it with a sick, twisted face.
He then forcibly shakes his head and slowly looks back in the mirror with the sledgehammer in his hand. After a moment of silence, he gives his reflection a serious nod before Fort Knocks moves on to the first match.
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Fort Knocks returns to inside the FedExForum where the crowd waits anxiously.
Rudy Mac: What a scene from backstage! Decade appears to be at odds with himself!
DeShawn: He’s just saying out loud what we all say to ourselves!
Rudy Mac: Well, we don’t have anymore time to think about it, because we’ve got our first action of Fort Knocks! We’ve got 3 members of the Hardcore Division with a Triple Threat shot at the vacated GPW Hardcore Championship!
DeShawn: Come back soon, King Crab Mack!
The arena turns its attention to the entrance stage when “Deadman” by Karnivool begins to play. Dr. Dean and the Orderlies escort the deranged-looking Sicko out and down to the ring.
BOO!!!
Rudy Mac: Ever since starting strong in Season 1, Sicko has been WINLESS! BUT he has beaten Crosscheck Beck and Reject in one-on-one action!
DeShawn: I’ll never discard a guy who looks like pure death!
Dr. Dean and the Psych Ward take their spot at ringside, and the music transitions to “Bloodwork” by 36 Crazyfists.
BOO!!!
Wearing his signature leather mask, Reject walks out carrying his barbwire bat.
DeShawn: Ugly as ever!
Rudy Mac: He’s hoping the GPW Hardcore Championship belt will distract from his monstrous appearance!
After Reject climbs into the ring, he stares down Sicko and the music transitions. The crowd POPS for Crosscheck Beck as “Bottom of a Bottle” by Smile Empty Soul jams out of the arena’s speaker system.
Rudy Mac: Despite a couple of losses to King Crab Mack, Beck has actually been pretty solid since the start of Season 2!
Crosscheck Beck climbs into the ring with his hockey gear and hockey stick. The three wrestlers look across at one another, and suddenly the action gets underway.
The crowd is perturbed when they see Reject and Sicko team up on their favorite hockey player. Reject takes a wild swing with the bat and pounds away on Beck’s stomach.
Rudy Mac: My god! I can see blood coming up through Crosscheck Beck’s jersey!
DeShawn: Looks like Reject is zeroing in on one of the soft spots between the hockey pads!
Sicko watches as Reject picks up Crosscheck Beck and delivers a double knee gutbuster.
LEFT SWIPE!!!
Instead of going for the cover, Reject turns his attention to Sicko. Sicko kicks Reject in the stomach and Reject drops his bat.
Sicko pulls Reject in and drops him with a full-nelson facebuster onto the barbwire bat.
THE LOOSE SCREW!!!
The crowd screams while Sicko goes for the cover.
Rudy Mac: It could be an early end to this one!
DeShawn: Just like one of Reject’s dates!
1… 2… … NO!!!
Now the crowd is cheering after seeing Crosscheck Beck break up the count.
The match continues for several minutes with the three alternating attacks upon one another. Eventually Sicko knocks both Reject and Crosscheck Beck out of the ring with a double clothesline. After they stand up at ringside, Sicko leaps out of the ring and hits a senton onto them both.
Rudy Mac: We haven’t seen that kind of aerial work from Sicko before!
Ringside, Dr. Dean encourages Sicko.
Dr. Dean: Go ahead, young man!
Sicko continues his attack until Beck reverses him and lifts him into a jumping vertical suplex.
MAJOR PENALTY!!!
1… 2… NO!!!
Reject breaks up the count at the literal last second and tosses Crosscheck Beck headfirst into the barricade.
Rudy Mac: Looks like another potential risk for CTE!
The masked incel whips Sicko into the steel steps, and then picks him up for a double knee gutbuster.
LEFT SWIPE!!!
1… 2… … 3!!!
Rudy Mac: New Hardcore Champion! New Hardcore Champion!
DeShawn: Reject did it!
At ringside, Dr. Dean looks disappointed while the Orderlies scoop up Sicko. Reject meanwhile displays a satisfied look from underneath his mask while the Golden Pro Wrestling Hardcore Championship is strapped around his waist.
Winner and NEW Hardcore Champion:
Reject via Left Swipe
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Fort Knocks transitions to a FedExForum locker room where Shotcaller is seen pulling a medium-length chain out of his gym bag. He tests it with a whipping motion before nodding in approval.
Rudy Mac: Looks like we know which weapon Shotcaller is bringing to Fort Knocks!
There’s a knock at the locker room door, which catches Shotcaller’s attention.
Shotcaller: Come in yo.
The door opens and a large man with blue hair stands patiently within the door frame.
BOO!!!
The blue-haired man patiently asks a question.
Awoke: May I enter your personal space, Shotcaller?
Shotcaller: Da fuck?
Awoke: I would never approach a black man without asking that first. It’s only polite after what my people have done to your people for thousands of years.
Shotcaller: … da fuck?
Awoke: Don’t worry, I’ll stay out here. I just wanted to let you know that tonight I’ll be making sure to help you win the Pure Gold Championship. Afterall, it would be impossible for a person of color to do it on their own merit considering the systemic oppression they are under.
Golden Pro Wrestling’s straight ‘G’ scowls back at Awoke.
Shotcaller: Seriously yo, da fuck you talkin bout?
Awoke: If it isn’t obvious, you’re wrestling four cis white males tonight. That sort of racial numerical advantage is simply too much for an African American to overcome.
Shotcaller: Isn’t da champ Chinese?
Awoke: He’s actually Japanese, but he doesn’t count as a minority either way. Asians have become too successful for that status.
Shotcaller: Isn’t a minority status like a… statistical thang… yo?
GPW’s social just warrior smugly shakes his head and waves his hand.
Awoke: I’m afraid the education system hasn’t prepared you for discussions regarding demographics. Anyway, I just want to let you know that I will have your back and do whatever I can to make things right between our peoples!
Before Shotcaller can respond, Awoke walks out of view of the camera leaving Shotcaller with an annoyed, perhaps offended look.
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When the show returns to inside the FedExForum, the crowd delivers a chorus of displeasure as “Happy?” by Mudvayne hits the speakers.
BOO!!!
The Orderlies emerge from backstage with Dr. Dean walking behind them.
Rudy Mac: Looks like Dr. Dean is already in a bad mood after seeing Sicko lose his chance for the Hardcore Championship!
DeShawn: His mood may turn around if the Orderlies can walk out with the tag team titles strapped around their waists!
Orderly Caruso takes his place on the outside of one of the ring’s corners, and the music transitions to “Lit Up” by Buckcherry.
The crowd POPS when they see Sean and Seth Kard jog out from backstage with their Golden Pro Wrestling tag team titles.
Rudy Mac: After nearly twenty years apart, these two brothers reunited, shook off the rust and are now champs!
After briskly making their way to the ring, Seth pops over the ropes and takes his place counter to Orderly Summers.
The match kicks off with Orderly Summers failing to grab hold of Seth Kard. Seth uses his nimble athleticism to pop off the ropes and hit a spinning dropkick.
Summers climbs back to his feet but is met with a spear by the younger Kard brother.
Rudy Mac: It’s all Seth Kard right now!
DeShawn: He’s playing with a full deck after overcoming his drug addiction!
Rudy Mac: That’s a sensitive subject which you touched on beautifully with a tasteful pun!
With Summers on the ground, Seth hops up to the top rope and launches out into a 360 leg drop.
SUICIDE KI-NO!!!
Orderly Summers rolls out of the way and lets Seth crash butt-first into the mat. He tags in Orderly Caruso and the match continues.
DeShawn: We call that a bad flop!
Dr. Dean cheers on as Orderly Caruso manhandles Seth Kard. However, Seth is able to duck out of a clothesline attempt and tag in Sean Kard.
Sean Kard tries to take the advantage but is quickly dispatched with a hard suplex. Orderly Caruso then lifts up Sean and nails a monster sit-out powerbomb into a pin attempt.
MEDICATION TIME!!!
1… 2… NO!!!
Rudy Mac: That resiliency is why the Wild Kards are champs!
With a look of frustration, Orderly Caruso tags in his partner, and Orderly Summers delivers a series of devastating power moves. He caps it off with a MONSTER tiltawhirl slam.
WRECK TIME!!!
1… 2… … NO!!!
DeShawn: Sean Kard has now kicked out of both of their finishers!
Orderly Summers pulls up Sean Kard and tags in Orderly Caruso, but Caruso whiffs at a big boot. Sean Kard gets away and tags in Seth. Seth immediately hops to the top rope and nails a flying lariat against Orderly Caruso.
Sensing an opportunity, Seth climbs back up to the top rope and again launches for his 360 leg drop finisher.
Rudy Mac: Can Seth hit it this time?!
SUICIDE KING!!!
Rudy Mac: He does!
1… 2… … 3!!!
Dr. Dean shouts in frustration after watching Psych Ward take another defeat. The Orderlies exit the ring while the Golden Pro Wrestling tag team belts are handed to the Wild Kards.
DeShawn: Sean took the brunt of it but managed to survive to give Seth the chance to win it!
Inside the ring, Seth shakes his head in admiration of Sean Kard’s resiliency before giving him a big hug.
Winner and STILL Tag Team Champions:
The Wild Kards via Suicide King
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The crowd watches anxiously as the show transitions to a dark backstage hallway. It’s a hallway they know all too well, because it’s the customary location for the most hated man on the roster.
BOO!!!
Violence.
The former Pure Gold Champion stares into the camera with a twisted scowl while sporting his signature red wrestling singlet.
Violence: Hey dipshits.
BOO!!!
Violence: We’re just a little bit away from me taking back what’s MINE! But I thought it might be nice to set the stage for what’s coming.
The Asshole from Alberta smiles and continues to look into the camera.
Violence: You know, when I heard Commissioner Meloche say that anything goes inside of Fort Knocks including weapons… I had to think hard about what I wanted to bring to the ring.
In his usual cheeky way, Violence raises his hand to his chin as if in deep thought. However, it becomes apparent he just wants the camera to see what’s on his hand.
Brass knuckles.
He begins to laugh as he hears some gasps and boos drawn in from the main arena of the FedExForum.
Violence: Oh, you idiots have no idea what’s going to go on tonight. With this bad boy on my hand, I’m going to SPLIT OPEN every single one of my opponents. That includes, Shotcaller, Decade, Awoke… and your two dear, little heroes, Fuse Makoto and Golden Ben Shithead!
The former Pure Gold Champion points to the brass knuckles on his hand.
Violence: And once they’re all split open, I’m going to blur them out… one… by… one… by one… until ONLY I REMAIN! Fuck you later!
BOO!!!
He begins to laugh maniacally, and the camera transmission fades out.
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Fort Knocks moves back to inside the main arena of the FedExForum where the crowd buzzes in anticipation.
Rudy Mac: Well folks, now we know what Violence has in store for Fort Knocks!
DeShawn: Yes… Violence!
Rudy Mac: Moving on, we now have a Silver Championship title match between two wrestlers who have clashed before!
“I Chase Paper” by Plies starts to bump out of the speaker system, and the crowd gives a loud cheer for Golden Pro Wrestling’s accountant and member of the Golden Pros.
Corbin Fiscal comes jogging out from backstage and stops at the top of the ramp. He puts his hands on his hips and beams a big smile before making a light run down to the ring.
DeShawn: Corbin Fiscal has to be one of my favorite people at GPW! I’ve never had a paycheck show up late!
Rudy Mac: And now he has a chance to cash in on a paycheck of his own! He and Jumpstart have been jawing at each other all season, and considering he beat Jumpstart way back at Gold Rush, he has to like his odds tonight!
The music switches over to “Destruction” by Joywave.
BOO!!!
The wily veteran Jumpstart walks out confidently with the Silver Championship strapped neatly around his slim waist.
Rudy Mac: This guy has let us ALL down! He was once a hero, but now he’s nothing better than a cheap shot artist!
DeShawn: If I didn’t have your moral structure to lean on, Rudy, I’d probably still be cheering for him!
Jumpstart goes down the ramp and does a neat, clean vertical jump onto the ring apron, and then another vertical jump over the top rope.
Rudy Mac: It seems like his knee is fine, but will it hold up throughout the match, or will he have to reach into his bag of dirty tricks!
A production assistant takes the Silver Championship belt away, and Corbin Fiscal and Jumpstart walk up to each other. Jumpstart is nearly seven inches shorter than the athletic GPW bookkeeper. Despite his diminutive stature, Jumpstart quickly throws a knee to Corbin Fiscal’s gut.
Rudy Mac: Here we go! Silver Championship on the line!
The first couple minutes of the match are relatively even, with Jumpstart ducking away several times and managing to sting Corbin during returns.
Jumpstart drills a highlight bulldog, and then nails a standing moonsault into a cover.
1… 2… NO!!!
Corbin Fiscal gets back to his feet and begins to take control of the match. Using his superior size and strength, he levels Jumpstart with a series of german suplexes ending in a bridge pin attempt.
1… 2… … NO!!!
DeShawn: Keep going, Corbin! Remember my support when you tally up year-end bonuses!
The match stays competitive with the two dishing out back-and-forth moves. Eventually, Corbin whips Jumpstart into the corner, but when he chases after him, Jumpstart moves at the last moment letting Corbin bash into the turnbuckle.
The GPW accountant stumbles back to mid-ring where Jumpstart is waiting for him with a magnificent dropkick.
Rudy Mac: More vintage Jumpstart here!
Jumpstart climbs up the top rope and leaps out for a shooting star press.
THE START-UP!!!
Rudy Mac: This is probably it!
DeShawn: At least it will be a CLEAN win!
1… 2… … … NO!!!
Corbin Fiscal kicks out, which incenses Jumpstart and prompts a huge cheer from the fans.
Jumpstart gets to his feet and begins berating the referee for not counting fast enough. Sensing an opportunity, Corbin Fiscal tries to manhandle Jumpstart, but Jumpstart counters and throws Corbin directly into the referee.
DeShawn: I hope workman’s comp will cover that!
The Golden Pro Wrestling accountant leans over to check on the referee’s health, but Jumpstart sneaks up behind him.
LOW-BLOW!!!
Rudy Mac: Hogwash!
The referee comes back to consciousness and sees Jumpstart with his arm over the groaning Corbin Fiscal.
1… 2… 3!!!
Rudy Mac: More hogwash from the wash up!
Jumpstart is handed his Silver Championship belt before rolling out of the ring and walking up the ramp. He jeers at the fans while “Destruction” by Joywave plays in the background.
Winner and STILL Silver Champion:
Jumpstart via low-blow
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Fort Knocks moves on past the Silver Championship match by returning backstage to the rear employee-entrance door. The crowd buzzes patiently waiting to see who walks through.
A MASSIVE CHEER erupts when the doors open and Golden Ben Miller walks through in street clothes with his gym bag.
Rudy Mac: Golden Ben Miller IS IN THE BUILDING!
DeShawn: A fresh sight after hearing from Violence!
In GBM’s free hand is a black chair with a beautiful ‘G’ in golden script.
Vicky Cogliano rushes in to view from offscreen. The GPW reporter quickly fixes her hair before looking at the camera while Ben politely stops for the impromptu interview. Vicky’s body guards, Bounce Squad, stand by quietly.
Vicky: Hi GPW fans! I’m here with your hero, Golden Ben Miller, before tonight’s main event Fort Knocks Match!
Wooing and cheering can be heard from the main arena as the crowd pops again.
Vicky: Ben, can you give us a little bit of insight into your second season finale main event, and your second shot at the Pure Gold Championship?
The Golden Warhorse narrows his eyes and thinks carefully before responding.
GBM: Vicky, I’ll be honest with you, I am simply 100% focused on what I need to do tonight, and I’m going to ask for a raincheck for this interview. If things go right, I’ll be happy to talk to you in depth at the start of Season 4.
The GPW reporter (and moonlight stripper) looks slightly caught off guard by GBM’s lack of candor.
Vicky: …I can completely understand, Ben. But before you go, can you tell us a little bit about what you have in your hand?
Golden Ben Miller looks down at the custom black and gold steel chair in his hands. He holds it up carefully in front of the camera so that the fans can get a good look.
GBM: Everyone can bring their own weapon tonight. I know Shotcaller has a chain, Awoke will have a protest sign, Decade is rocking a sledgehammer, and Violence has brass knuckles. I don’t know what Fuse Makoto has… all I can tell you is that a simple chair is what my grandfather, Golden Glen Miller, used in his hardcore matches, and I’m not going to abandon tradition.
The crowd cheers wildly at the invocation of wrestling legend Golden Glen Miller.
GBM: Thanks again, Vicky. We’ll catch up next season, I promise.
Golden Ben Miller walks off camera and Vicky makes one last poised look.
Vicky: Golden Ben Miller, ladies and gentlemen!
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Fort Knocks returns to inside the main arena and the sound of “Down with the Sickness” by Disturbed begins to play.
BOO!!!
Dr. Dean walks out from backstage flanked by the Orderlies, and Orderly Caruso is carrying what looks like the world’s largest straitjacket.
Rudy Mac: My god folks! This match has been brewing for two seasons ever since Abel Unstable escaped from Dr. Dean!
DeShawn: Now, if Abel is disqualified due to weapon use, then Dr. Dean is authorized to take Abel back into his care!
Rudy Mac: Care!? Hogwash! It’s pure captivity for what appears to be an actually sane man!
DeShawn: I’ll let the doctors be the judge!
Rudy Mac: Speaking of which, we’re being told that Golden Pro Wrestling’s chief physician, Dr. Tabitha Garran, will be escorting Abel Unstable down to the ring tonight!
Dr. Dean walks up the steel steps while the Orderlies begin rummaging under the ring. They pull out an assortment of weapons and begin tossing them into the ring including a chair, a large wrench, a spare TV monitor, and finally a large table.
The Orderlies quickly climb in and set up the table at one side of the ring prompting oohs and ahhs from the Golden Pro Wrestling crowd.
Rudy Mac: This isn’t even a hardcore match! They’re just dangling all these carrots to provoke Abel to disqualify himself and prove he’s insane!
Orderlies Caruso and Summers climb out of the ring and the music switches to “Tear Down the Wall” by Art of Dying, which prompts a major POP from the crowd.
The large behemoth named Abel Unstable walks carefully onto the entrance stage with Dr. Tabitha Garran by his side. Abel peers down to the ring where Dr. Dean and the Orderlies wait.
DeShawn: There’s the big guy! Looks pretty sane!
Rudy Mac: It looks like Dr. Garran is giving him some emotional support!
Indeed, Dr. Garran pats Abel on the back and whispers something to him. Abel nods and walks down to the ramp, and then climbs slowly up the stairs before ducking between ropes into the ring.
Dr. Garran takes her place ringside on the opposite side from the Orderlies.
Rudy Mac: This is it! Abel has his chance to exact revenge on Dr. Dean from years of questionable mental psychiatric care, but if he uses any of the weapons in the ring, he’s going back to the Greater Memphis Psychiatric Institute!
DeShawn: This is crazy!
The music dies down, and Dr. Dean carefully approaches Abel in the middle of the ring. You can hear Dr. Dean goad Abel by pointing to all the weapons laying the ring.
Dr. Dean: Go ahead, Abel! Use whatever you like on me! This is your chance!
At ringside, Dr. Garran reiterates what’s at stake.
Dr. Garran: Keep it clean Abel and you’ll be a free man FOREVER!
Abel looks back at Dr. Garran for a second, and then immediately turns to deliver a MASSIVE punch to Dr. Dean’s head.
The crowd goes NUTS!
Rudy Mac: It’s on now!
Dr. Dean hits the mat and is immediately pulled back up to his feet by Abel. Abel lays in shot after shot on Dr. Dean, and eventually pins him in the corner. The big man from Little Rock gets a running start and drills a huge hip into Dr. Dean’s prone body.
DeShawn: This has to be what… years of pent-up animosity spilling out!?
The match continues on with Abel physically dominating the smaller Dr. Dean, but Dr. Dean finally gets the upper hand. He lands a questionable uppercut to Abel Unstable, which stuns the bigger man.
While Abel is shaking off the potentially illegal punch, Dr. Dean lays himself on top of the constructed table and begs Abel to come attack.
Dr. Garran: Don’t do it, Abel! Pull him OFF the table and keep going!
Rudy Mac: Wise advice! If Dr. Dean goes through the table, then that’s definitely a DQ for Abel!
Abel rationally pulls Dr. Dean off the table and continues his epic beat down.
Rudy Mac: In a straight up fight, it’s obvious Dr. Dean is outmatched here.
At ringside, the Orderlies can only watch on as their boss receives the brutal pummeling. Looking to give Dr. Dean an edge, Orderly Caruso gets up on the ring apron and distracts the referee.
DeShawn: Shenanigan’s isn’t just a fictional restaurant!
With the referee distracted, Orderly Summers trips Abel Unstable from the other side of the ring. Abel falls and rolls onto his back. Dr. Dean climbs up to the top rope, and right before the referee can turn around, Orderly Summers places a chair on Abel’s prone chest.
Rudy Mac: Is this a setup!?
When the referee turns around, Dr. Dean leaps off the top rope onto Abel, letting himself smash into the chair that lays upon the big man.
The referee waves his arms wildly calling for the bell and yelling for a disqualification due to use of a weapon.
Rudy Mac: Hogwash! Hogwash! Abel didn’t use a weapon!
DeShawn: All that matters is that Abel was DQ’d due to a weapon!
BOO!!!
Dr. Garran screams at the referee and pleads for reconsideration, but it’s too late. Dr. Dean gets up to his feet while the Orderlies climb into the ring with the large straitjacket.
Winner:
Dr. Dean via Disqualification
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Inside the ring, the Orderlies pick up Abel and begin laying down a vicious beating. Dr. Garran, apoplectic at the turn of events, cries out ringside for mercy.
Rudy Mac: This could get ugly! Abel’s escape always has been major blotch on the Orderlies’ professional record!
As Orderlies Caruso and Summers lay down their savage punishment, Dr. Dean climbs back to his feet and maniacally laughs. The leader of the Psych Ward picks up the microphone tossed in from ringside, and the Orderlies pull Abel’s arms behind him.
Dr. Dean kneels down and gets in front of Abel’s face, which features the wide, alarmed eyes of a man recaptured.
BOO!!!
Dr. Dean: Ah, my dear Abel. So nice to know that I’ll be able to keep such a… CLOSE eye on you from now on!
BOO!!!
Dr. Dean: Of course, Mr. Caruso and Mr. Summers are still a little bit upset regarding your escape at the beginning of Season 2!
The Orderlies, with mighty grunts, pick up Abel Unstable into a two-man powerbomb position while Dr. Dean drops the microphone and takes a few steps back.
BACK IN YOUR CELL THROUGH A TABLE!!!
Rudy Mac: My gawd! The carnage!
DeShawn: Abel just splintered that table into a million pieces!
Dr. Garran is visibly crying and shaking at the side of the ring while watching the Orderlies strap the unconscious able into the straitjacket.
Rudy Mac: It looks like this is it! Abel is back under the captivity of Dr. Dean!
Despite no longer holding the microphone, Dr. Dean can be heard yelling at the Orderlies to pick Abel up and drag him back to the van.
“Down with the Sickness” begins to play and the crowd painfully reacts to watching Abel leave backstage with Dr. Dean and the Orderlies. Dr. Garran weeps while walking up the ramp by herself.
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Once the pandemonium inside the arena calms down, attention is drawn to the Gold Screen which fades to a shot of the roof of the FedExForum.
Against the backdrop of the dark Memphis sky, Fuse Makoto cleanly practices movements with his ‘Bo’.
The crowd cheers wildly at the sight of their Pure Gold Champion, and then hushes in awe of Fuse’s smooth skills.
Rudy Mac: This young man is like nothing else Memphis rasslin’ has ever seen!
After a series of quick stops and starts with the bo, it finally comes to a sudden diagonal rest at his side. He looks directly into the camera, straightens his posture, and performs a respectful bow.
The Golden Pro Wrestling fans POP at the honorable magnificence of Golden Pro Wrestling’s current champion.
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The show returns to inside the main arena of the FedExForum where the crowd buzzes in anticipation of the Fort Knocks main event.
Rudy Mac: I gotta tell you folks, the Fort Knocks event is coming right up, and we can’t wait!
DeShawn: Can’t wait!
Rudy Mac: BUT I have some good news first!
DeShawn: Good news!
Rudy Mac: DeShawn! I’m trying to deliver a smooth transition between complex plots! Stop repeating everything I’m saying!
DeShawn: Stop repe- ah, sorry, Rudy. Got it!
Rudy Mac: Before the big festivities kick off and we witness pure carnage within the walls of Fort Knocks, we just got word that a very special wrestler will be addressing the crowd!
DeShawn: Who, Rudy!?
Just then, “Midnight Voyage” by Ghostland Observatory hits the speakers the crowd pops HARD.
Rudy Mac: Flip Costa!
The beautiful, stunning, magnificent wrestler comes walking out in street clothes with a nervous smile while pulling a suitcase behind him.
Rudy Mac: At Gold Strike 15, the Draconian told Flip to come to Fort Knocks so he can begin some sort of journey!
DeShawn: Who knows what the Draconian means by that!
Flip waves to the crowd on his way down to the ring before walking up the steps and climbing through the ropes with his suitcase. With a friendly motion, Flip beckons for a microphone with a production assistant quickly gets to him.
As Flip Costa’s music dies out, the crowd breaks into an impromptu chant.
FLIP! FLIP! FLIP!
Once the chant begins to subside, Flip raises the microphone to his lips.
Flip: While I may not have punched my ticket to the Fort Knocks match, it’s probably for the best… because I have something MUCH bigger to deal with!
The crowd cheers in acknowledgement of what Flip is fighting for.
Flip: Ever since The Golden Moment, I’ve been grappling with the guilt of letting you ALL down! Out there, somewhere, is an asteroid heading toward our planet, and I had the chance to stop it!
BOO!!!
Flip: Well, you know what folks, I won’t rest until I get that asteroid BLOWN UP! And as you saw at Gold Strike 15, the Draconian has invited me on some sort of journey…
The Pensacola Pretty Boy then looks up to the rafters.
Flip: So, I’m here Draconian! You told me to be here! I’m here! What’s next!?
The lights inside the FedExForum suddenly take a drastic dim to near darkness, and blue lights begin to pan around the crowd.
“The Core” by Uppermost begins to drone through the speakers…
BOO!!!
Flip looks to the entrance ramp where the Draconian emerges. The large alien being slowly walks down the ramp to the ring without acknowledging the jeers from the GPW fans.
Inside the ring, Flip backs up and allows the Draconian space.
The music continues to play dramatically as Flip and the Draconian approach each other, and the crowd takes a moment to appreciate the pivotal encounter between the two wrestlers.
After the Draconian’s theme song fades out, the lights come back up. Flip stands with his chest out and chin high waiting for the Draconian to do something. Finally, the Draconian begins to speak and his voice emanates from the speaker system despite him not using a microphone.
The Draconian: Flip Co-stah… you will now come with me.
Golden Pro Wrestling’s best-looking competitor looks out to the crowd who respond with cheering and encouragement. Flip drops the microphone and grabs his suitcase.
Every light within the FedExForum goes completely dark for a moment, and when they come back the Draconian and Flip Costa are gone.
Flip’s suitcase remains in the middle of the ring wobbling before falling on its side.
Rudy Mac: He’s gone! He’s gone! Flip Costa just left with the Draconian!
DeShawn: Don’t be gone too long, Flip!
The crowd cheers in excitement as the second chapter of the Draconian and Flip Costa’s story ends.
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The crowd buzzes loudly while still hyped from all of the night’s action and just witnessing Flip Costa leave with the Draconian. A production assistant scrambles into the ring and fetches Flip’s abandoned suitcase.
Rudy Mac: Do you feel that DeShawn?
DeShawn: The feeling of overdue child support hanging over your head?
Rudy Mac: DeShawn, no! You need to pay up, so your kids get the necessities… wait, you’re distracting me!
DeShawn: Sorry!
Rudy Mac: The feeling I’m talking about is ANTICIPATION! Everything in Season 3 has been building up to this! The Fort Knocks match is HERE!
“The Sound” by Switchfoot begins to jam out through the FedExForum speakers, and the crowd looks upward when they hear mechanical movements begin.
Indeed, the entire apparatus of the Fort Knocks cage begins to be carefully lowered. When it gets low enough, the crowd sees that Golden Pro Wrestling Commissioner Parker Meloche is riding on top of the cage with a microphone and a massive smile.
Rudy Mac: Commissioner Meloche is on top of Fort Knocks!
The GPW ring crew quickly and competently goes about securing Fort Knocks to the ring and doing safety checks upon their work.
Golden Pro Wrestling’s theme song “The Sound” by Switchfoot fades out, and the crowd marvels at the beautiful monstrosity in front of them. Upon the top Fort Knocks, Parker Meloche speaks into the microphone.
Parker: Golden Pro Wrestling fans… WELCOME!
The crowd gives a raucous cheer in response.
Parker: Tonight, is a very SPECIAL night! This is Golden Pro Wrestling’s FIRST. EVER. SELLOUT!
Everyone in the arena goes absolutely insane, and the sheer number of people force the audible levels to hit levels never seen at the FedExForum. Eventually the cheering subsides so the GPW leader can continue.
Parker: It is now time for FORT KNOCKS! Six AMAZING competitors will be coming down with their own weapons of choice and duking it out in an anything-goes cage match from which there is NO escape!
The crowd pops MASSIVELY in excitement.
Parker: After any successful pin attempt, the wrestlers will separate while the pinned wrestler is taken, dragged, or carried out through Fort Knocks’ ONE door! LET’S GO!
GPW’s theme song begins to play again while Parker, still wearing his business suit, climbs down the side of the cage carefully to take his place with Rudy Mac and DeShawn at the announcer’s table.
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GPW Commissioner Parker Meloche walks around Fort Knocks and over to the announcer booth where an extra chair and headset are waiting for him. After the GPW ring crew finishes setting up Fort Knocks, a team of GPW security staff take their place by the Fort Knocks door, ready for pulling out defeated opponents throughout the match.
At the announcer table, Parker smiles at Rudy Mac and DeShawn, slips on the headset and sits down.
Parker: Hi there, Rudy and DeShawn!
Rudy Mac: Commissioner! It’s a treat every time you join us ringside!
DeShawn: An honor!
Parker: That means a lot coming from you two. You guys are never given enough credit for the expert insight or witty charm. You both bring GPW to life every single show!
Rudy Mac: That means the world to us, thank you!
DeShawn: Truly sir, the pleasure is all ours. What you’ve done to take GPW from Gold Strike 1 all the way to Fort Knocks is nothing short of genius! Our first sellout!
Parker: Well, our wonderful benefactor, Golden Glen Miller, challenged me to build Golden Pro Wrestling into a can’t-miss show, and that’s exactly what WE did. It’s not all me, because it took every single wrestler and crew member to make it happen!
Rudy Mac: And this is it! Complete sellout! Fort Knocks! Here we go!
The FedExForum speaker system begins to play “Novacaine” by 10 Years, which prompts a mixed reaction from the crowd, but mostly positive. Decade walks out from backstage holding a sledgehammer, which he holds up for the crowd to see.
Rudy Mac: Decade has certainly acted like a sledgehammer during his first season of Golden Pro Wrestling.
DeShawn: But what’s going on with him talking to himself so much!?
Parker: I’ll admit, he seemed pretty even keeled during his interview, and his actions have always appeared honorable, but something may be going on under the surface.
Decade climbs in through the open door of Fort Knocks and takes his place in the middle of the ring.
His music is swapped out by “Chained to the Rhythm” by Katy Perry, which elicits a negative reaction from the crowd.
BOO!!!
Awoke stomps out from backstage with a protest sign that reads “FORT KNOCKS IS RACIST”.
Rudy Mac: Insufferable!
DeShawn: How in the WORLD is Fort Knocks racist!?
Parker: With people like Awoke, you just have to let them get those claims out of their system.
The blue-haired social justice warrior gets through the Fort Knocks door and eyeballs Decade.
Next up, the music “Ambitionz Az A Ridah” by 2Pac begins to bump rhythmically. The crowd lets loose a VERY mixed reaction to Shotcaller as he walks onto the entrance stage and throws a ‘W’ up with his hand across his chest.
Rudy Mac: Shotcaller is the kind of guy you either hate or love!
DeShawn: Peace up to my homie!
Rudy Mac: DeShawn! You are the least homie-like man I know!
Parker: As you both know, I have a history with Shotcaller, but EVERYONE should respect him.
Shotcaller climbs into the ring holding the metal chain in his hands, apparently ready to beat down everyone with it.
The crowd immediately begins to boo when “Halo” by Soil blares into the air.
BOO!!!
Rudy Mac: Hate it… or hate him, Violence is a SERIOUS challenger for Fort Knocks.
Violence walks out from backstage and holds up a massive middle finger while wearing the brass knuckles he unveiled earlier in the show.
DeShawn: Violence is always a player!
Parker: He was our first Pure Gold Champion, and he’s been hounding me for another shot for the last two seasons. Now he’s got his chance!
The Asshole from Alberta gets into Fort Knocks and snarls toward Awoke, Decade and Shotcaller.
Then the signature drumline of “My Hero” by Foo Fighters begins to play and the crowd unleashes their loudest pop of the night. Golden Ben Miller walks out confidently while holding his custom black and gold chair.
Rudy Mac: The Golden Warhorse did EVERYTHING he could to earn his shot at Fort Knocks.
DeShawn: He outlasted nearly TWENTY other wrestlers at Gold Strike 15 to get into Fort Knocks just under the wire.
Parker: I don’t think that was how he imagined Season 3 would play out, but he’s here nonetheless!
GBM gets into the ring and takes his place amongst the other four weapon-wielding wrestlers.
The crowd buzzes as Golden Ben Miller’s music fades out, and then “Name Of The Game” by Crystal Method begins to jam. The crowd lets loose a pop even bigger than they did for Golden Ben Miller when current Pure Gold Champion Fuse Makoto walks out.
Rudy Mac: The Pure Gold Champion, Fuse Makoto, is here to make his second title defense!
DeShawn: I wish I had his ability to focus! I might have graduated from high school!
Parker: Just impressive. Incredibly impressive. Fuse Makoto has come so far from the young man who begged me to bring him from Japan!
Fuse Makoto carries his bo with him and gets inside Fort Knocks, and the only door to the cage is firmly shot and locked.
Rudy Mac: The wrestlers are in Fort Knocks! The door is shut! It’s finally HERE!
DeShawn: Hold up! I have to put on my rain gear in case any blood gets splattered!
Parker: That’s incredibly rational!
The six wrestlers each hold their own weapons: Awoke with a protest sign, Decade with a sledgehammer, Golden Ben Miller with a chair, Violence with brass knuckles, Shotcaller with a metal chain, and Fuse Makoto with his bo.
After a moment of suspense, they each wind up their weapons before rushing into the middle like a medieval battle.
Rudy Mac: Carnage! Chaos!
The wrestlers clash violently and pound away at each other with weaponry. Decade jams his sledgehammer into Awoke’s stomach while Golden Ben Miller slams Shotcaller over the head with a chair, and Violence catches Fuse Makoto directly in the face with the brass knuckles.
DeShawn: Blood already!?
Rudy Mac: Fuse is the first to bleed from those vicious brass knuckles!
The Golden Pro Wrestling fans scream and cheer in ecstasy from the action. The wrestlers pair off and mix it up one-on-one. On one side of the ring Violence continues a beat down on the current Pure Gold Champion, Fuse Makoto.
Elsewhere, Shotcaller lifts GBM up and throws him down with a perfect belly-to-belly slam. Awoke catches hold of Decade and delivers a powerful facebuster.
Rudy Mac: It’s anyone’s game, eh Commissioner!?
Parker: This is what we all wanted!
Violence bounces Fuse Makoto’s face into the cage multiple times further spilling the champion’s blood, which is now streaming down from his forehead, over his face and onto his chest.
Across the ring Golden Ben Miller reverses Shotcaller’s move and throws him into Decade. Now freed up from Decade, Awoke engages with GBM. Awoke gets the upper hand quickly and delivers a massive samoan drop to Golden Ben Miller onto the protest sign.
CANCELLED!!!
Rudy Mac: Awoke is going for the first elimination!
1… 2… NO!!!
GBM kicks out and gets to his feet to continue action against Awoke which carries them off into the corner of the ring.
Fuse Makoto reverses one of Violence’s punches and jams him in the stomach with the bo. He then swiftly cracks Violence over the back with the bo, prompting the crowd to cheery wildly. While Violence rolls on the mat, Fuse moonsaults off the middle rope and lands with the bo onto Violence.
DeShawn: Bo-eutiful!
1… 2… NO!!!
Violence kicks out and Fuse finds himself ripped up and off the mat by Shotcaller. Shotcaller and the Pure Gold Champion begin to battle it out, but mid-ring is overtaken by Decade and Violence who begin to go at it.
Decade levels Violence with the sledgehammer and then picks him up into a textbook inverted suplex.
A PERFECT 10!!!
Rudy Mac: Suplexion perfection!
1… 2… … NO!!!
Parker: Violence is showing why he’s always a feared opponent! It’s hard to keep that man down!
Amidst the action, Shotcaller stumbles out to mid-ring and is WHACKED by Golden Ben Miller with the signature black hair. Shotcaller rolls on the ground, now bleeding profusely.
GBM picks Shotcaller up for a scoop slam, but the west coast ‘G’ reverses it and drops GBM with a neckbreaker.
THE DRIVE-BY!!!
The impact of the neckbreaker sends Shotcaller’s own blood flying into the air spraying nearby competitors.
DeShawn: I’m glad I put on my rain gear!
1… 2… … NO!!!
Rudy Mac: Still, no one has been eliminated!
All six wrestlers wildly battle in the middle of the ring. Things get serious when Awoke buries Decade with a samoan slam, and Shotcaller hits Fuse Makoto with another one of his neckbreakers.
Everyone’s weapons are strewn about on the ring mat and available to anyone who grabs them.
CANCELLED + DRIVE-BY!!!
Violence stands by surprised while Awoke charges him. After delivering a knee to the gut of Violence, Awoke lifts Violence and hits his finisher.
CANCELLED!!!
Rudy Mac: Only Awoke and Shotcaller are standing now!
The two wrestlers look at each other with menacing glares, and suddenly Awoke lays down on the mat.
Rudy Mac: What is Awoke doing!?
Inside of the ring, Awoke can be heard yelling to Shotcaller.
Awoke: Pin me and then go beat the rest! It’s the only way to achieve equality for your marginalized people!
Shotcaller looks down at the blue-haired wrestler suspiciously, but then gets down and covers him. The referee, now also covered in blood, slams out the three-count.
1… 2… 3!!!
All of the wrestlers stagger to this feet, each breathing mightily from the exertion so far. The lights in the arena dim slightly and the Gold Screen displays a short sentence in golden script.
FORT KNOCKS ANNOUNCEMENT
AWOKE
ELIMINATED
Rudy Mac: The first fly has dropped! Awoke is out of Fort Knocks at his own discretion!
All of the wrestlers stand by while Golden Pro Wrestling security opens the cage door. Awoke looks over to Shotcaller and holds a fist into the air.
Awoke: Go get them, brother!
Shotcaller shakes his head while GPW security escorts Awoke out of Fort Knocks and locks the door to the cage. The lights came back up to full, and the five remaining wrestlers waste no time going back to battle.
While Decade is double-teamed by Shotcaller and Violence, Fuse Makoto and Golden Ben Miller square off in the middle of the ring. Fuse Makoto, badly bloodied, ducks under GBM’s chairshot attempt. However, when he turns back around, GBM finally SMACKS the Pure Gold Champion.
More blood spray across the ring.
DeShawn: If anyone needs a blood donation, they just need to roll around on the mat!
Fuse Makoto attempts to get to his feet, but GBM grabs hold and DESTROYS Fuse with a traditional scoop slam.
1… 2… NO!!!
Golden Ben Miller gets up slightly flustered from the scoop slam not putting away Fuse but is immediately met by a clothesline by Violence. The two long-time rivals battle it out to the side of the ring while Decade and Shotcaller’s exchange takes center stage.
Shotcaller drills a knee into Decade’s stomach, which sends Decade to the mat. The west coast ‘G’ recollects his metal chain and begins whipping Decade in the back, prompting a convulsion with each delivery.
Rudy Mac: Shotcaller may break that chain!
Parker: If anyone can take it, I bet Decade can!
Indeed, Decade powers back to his feet and grabs hold of his sledgehammer. When Shotcaller attempts another attack, Decade lets the chain wrap around the sledgehammer and then promptly rips it out of Shotcaller’s hands.
Decade swings at Shotcaller with the sledgehammer, but Shotcaller ducks underneath only to be met by a tornado kick from the blood-stained Fuse Makoto.
NIKUYA STRIKE!!!
Fuse Makoto resets his stance and delivers an even more powerful tornado kick to Decade.
NIKUYA STRIKE!!!
Rudy Mac: Fuse Makoto is going on a Nikuya Strike SPREE!
After a moment of being unsure who to cover, Fuse Makoto hooks the leg of Shotcaller for an elimination attempt.
1… 2… … 3!!!
Parker: That’s the champ being THE CHAMP!
Fuse Makoto rolls off of Shotcaller while Decade, GBM and Violence all take a moment in opposite corners to catch their breath. Again, the FedExForum lights dim, and the Gold Screen reads out another notice.
FORT KNOCKS ANNOUNCEMENT
SHOTCALLER
ELIMINATED
The crowd cheers while GPW security opens the cage door to grab the defeated wrestler. Once Shotcaller is removed, the door is shut and locked which leaves four wrestlers remaining: Violence, Golden Ben Miller, Decade and Fuse Makoto.
Rudy Mac: Four are left!
At this point, it becomes apparent that all of them are bloodied; indeed, the mat is littered with weapons and red stains.
The chaos returns as Fuse Makoto and Decade engage, and Golden Ben Miller and Violence go back to war. Decade pounds Fuse’s crimson face onto a turnbuckle while Golden Ben Miller picks up Violence and does a running spinebuster into the metal cage.
DeShawn: Closing my eyes now! Tell me when it’s over!
Rudy Mac: DeShawn! We’ve waited all season for this! Stick with me!
Decade and Fuse Makoto continue their lively battle to the side, and Violence eventually gets the advantage on GBM.
With a heavy grunt, the crimson-faced Violence lifts Golden Ben Miller onto his shoulders. The broadcast feed, per FCC guidelines, goes blurry.
THE BLUR-OUT ONTO A CHAIR AND PROTEST SIGN!!!
Rudy Mac: Double U Tee Eff!!!
The camera shot comes back into focus after Violence stuck GBM with his illegal finisher onto multiple weapons.
1… 2… … … NO!!!
The crowd unleashes their loudest scream of the night in response to the Golden Warhorse’s durability. Inside the ring, Violence looks completely aghast and apoplectic at GBM’s kickout. As a response Violence pulls GBM to a corner and begins laying boot-after-boot onto Golden Ben Miller’s head.
Fuse Makoto and Decade’s exchange comes to mid-ring and the two wrestlers, somehow and someway, exchange a series of technical reversals.
Parker: Only in Golden Pro Wrestling could you see two mutilated, destroyed men still find a way to exchange PURE wrestling!
Rudy Mac: That’s what makes a PURE Gold Champion!
Ducking under a Nikuya Strike attempt, Decade grabs hold of Fuse and lifts him into an inverted suplex position.
A PERFECT 10!!!
The crowd gasps as Fuse Makoto’s title defense is now truly on the line via pin attempt by Decade.
1… 2… … … NO!!!
Rudy Mac: Unflappable, insurmountable, unbeatable! How do you want me to describe Fuse Makoto!?
Decade drags Fuse over to the side while they continue their technical affair. Meanwhile, Golden Ben Miller and Violence escalate their exchange.
Coming back to mid-ring, GBM scoop slams Violence to the middle of the ring with a THUD. He looks out to the crowd, who begin to ramp up their exuberance with expectation of GBM’s signature move.
DeShawn: Golden Knee inside Fort Knocks! Here we go!
GBM pulls off his kneepad and begins to run to the ropes, which he bounces off of. He runs across Violence’s body and bounces off the other rope… but when he comes back to mid-ring to drop his knee, he suddenly stops.
Rudy Mac: What’s going on, Ben!? Do it!
With a smile, Golden Ben Miller walks over and picks up his black and gold chair, and then heads to the side of Fort Knocks. The crowd buzzes and woos as they see GBM begin to climb the side of the cage above the ring.
DeShawn: Parker, is this legal?
Parker: In Fort Knocks? No, pretty much anything besides national treason is legal!
The Golden Warhorse reaches the roof of Fort Knocks and carefully clutches the chair between his legs. He uses his arms to make his way to the middle of the roof ala monkey bars-style, and then dangles precipitously over Violence who still lays mid-ring.
The crowd gasps in awe as Golden Ben Miller falls from the roof toward Violence.
GOLDEN KNEE FROM THE ROOF OF FORT KNOCKS WITH A CHAIR!!!
Rudy Mac: Once in a lifetime moment!
The referee slams his hands while GBM hooks Violence’s knee.
1… 2… … 3!!!
DeShawn: I can die a happy man!
Golden Ben Miller rolls off of Violence and stammers to his feet. Decade and Fuse Makoto split up and they all hold onto the ropes while collecting what is left of their durability.
The FedExForum lights dim, and the Gold Screen displays a short series of words.
FORT KNOCKS ANNOUNCEMENT
VIOLENCE
ELIMINATED
The lights return to normal, and the Golden Pro Wrestling security crew open the cage door and enter. It takes a moment, but they manage to get Violence to his feet, which they then help out.
Violence gives a spiteful, bloodied, final look back at the three remaining wrestlers before the cage door is closed and locked.
Parker: I’m guessing this is going to leave a sour, metallic taste in the mouth of Violence going into Season 4!
Back inside Fort Knocks, Golden Ben Miller, Decade and Fuse Makoto slowly walk out to middle ring. The crowd cheers intensely at the only three remaining wrestlers. After a moment of suspense, the three each scamper over to their own weapons.
Decade scoops up his sledgehammer, Golden Ben Miller snatches his bent and twisted chair, and Fuse fetches his now blood-stained bo.
Rudy Mac: They’re re-arming for the next stage of this war!
Like an intricate dance, the three wrestlers take turns swinging their weapons, but each miss in succession. Finally, Decade drills GBM in the stomach with the sledgehammer, but is then met with a whack to the face from Fuse Makoto’s bo. Decade’s nose explodes and blood is sent sailing into the crowd.
Parker: Can I borrow your raingear, DeShawn!?
DeShawn: If it means getting me health care coverage, then sure!
Parker: Just keep it then! We might have sold out the FedExForum for the FIRST TIME, but we aren’t healthcare coverage-rich yet!
With Decade momentarily dispatched, Fuse Makoto and Golden Ben Miller begin to exchange blows mid-ring. The two familiar opponents are able to read each other’s moves and mirror with counters. The crowd reacts happily to the back-and-forth affair.
Rudy Mac: The one time these guys went toe-to-toe, Fuse Makoto surprised GBM and picked up a huge win!
Fuse Makoto, thinking he had Golden Ben Miller stunned, goes for a Nikuya Strike. Unfortunately, he whiffs on the kick and GBM pulls him into drop an EPIC scoop slam. The crowd lets loose a thunderous cheer at the traditional wrestling move.
Parker: An oldie but a goodie, just like his grandpa used to do!
Just as Golden Ben Miller walks toward Fuse for the pin attempt, Decade can be seen at the side of the ring. Decade begins talking wildly to himself and grabbing at his hair and slapping himself in the head.
Rudy Mac: Is Decade okay!? Seems like he’s having one of those episodes we kept seeing!
With wild eyes, Decade quickly picks up the sledgehammer and runs toward GBM. Using the element of surprise, Decade slams the sledgehammer into Golden Ben Miller’s head, which sends him down to the ring completely incapacitated.
BOO!!!
DeShawn: What the…
Parker: What the…
Rudy Mac: HOGWASH!
Decade rolls GBM over and rolls him over for the pin attempt.
1… 2… 3!!!
BOO!!!
Golden Pro Wrestling’s newest wrestler gets to his feet with a maniacal look and raises his arms. Fuse Makoto groggily gets to his feet over in one of the corners.
The lights dim and the Gold Screen rolls out its expected words.
FORT KNOCKS ANNOUNCEMENT
GOLDEN BEN MILLER
ELIMINATED
GPW security opens the door, and they have to bring in extra personnel to retrieve the Golden Warhorse. Completely unconscious and bloodied, the six Golden Pro Wrestling security staff members struggle to safely maneuver GBM through the door.
DeShawn: Golden Ben Miller is going to the hospital, right!?
Rudy Mac: That would make sense!
Parker: I’ll see to it, personally!
Golden Pro Wrestling’s commissioner jumps up from the announcer’s table and runs around the Fort Knocks cage where GBM is carefully loaded onto a stretcher. With an incredibly concerned look, Parker escorts Golden Ben Miller’s stretcher as it’s taken up to the ring.
Meanwhile, GPW security lock the cage leaving the final two competitors inside Fort Knocks.
Rudy Mac: We’re down to two! Fuse Makoto and the apparently unstable, unpredictable Decade!
Fuse Makoto walks out to mid-ring with both fluid and crusted blood all over his face, neck, and chest. Decade obliges the intensity with his wild eyes and a similarly bloody face.
The crowd begins to get a raucous realization that the end of Season 3 is approaching with just two wrestlers left to cap things off.
G-P-W! G-P-W! G-P-W!
Rudy Mac: Listen to that, DeShawn! Golden Pro Wrestling is on a WHOLE NEW LEVEL!
DeShawn: Closing my eyes from here on out, at least to keep blood out of them!
The two wrestlers kick errant, discarded weapons away from each other and enter grappling stances. Fuse Makoto and Decade lock up in the middle of the ring and proceed to put on a display of supreme wrestling.
Decade gets the first advantage by lifting up Fuse in a German suplex onto Golden Ben Miller’s chair into a pin attempt.
1… 2… … NO!!!
Rudy Mac: Fuse Makoto with some sort of new-level resiliency!
After getting back to his feet, Fuse makes a series of deft moves to put Decade in a precarious position on his back in the middle of the ring. The current Pure Gold Champion climbs the ropes with his back against the elevated cage before leaping out, nailing a somersault elbow to Decade’s prone body.
DeShawn: Rudy! You didn’t have that move in your notes about Fuse!
Rudy Mac: Because it wasn’t known!
1… 2… … NO!!!
The two final wrestlers get back to their feet and exchange moves against one-another. Fuse delivers a picturesque leg sweep, which drops Decade on his back. To the crowd’s excitement Fuse picks up his bo and waits patiently for Decade to get back to his feet.
Rudy Mac: Looks like Fuse literally smells blood!
Decade gets to his feet and sees Fuse thrust the bo directly at his head. Decade somehow ducks the attack and picks up his sledgehammer. When he turns around, he holds up the sledgehammer just in time to block another swing of the bo, which splinters in half upon impact.
DeShawn: What happened, Rudy!? I’m not looking!
Rudy Mac: DeShawn! Open your eyes! It’s all coming down to this!
Fuse Makoto looks surprised at his weapon breaking, but then realizes he can use the two broken pieces of the bo as separate weapons with one each hand.
He moves forward with the dual weapons but is nailed in the chin by the sledgehammer. Decade drops the weapon and lifts Fuse Makoto into his signature inverted suplex position.
Rudy Mac: It might be all over now!
A PERFECT 10-NOOO!!!
Fuse Makoto slips out of the suplex position and takes a couple of steps back.
Without looking at Fuse, Decade grabs the sledgehammer again and turns around.
NIKUYA STRIKE INTO THE SLEDGEHAMMER INTO DECADE!!!
The crowd unleashes a torrent of cheering while the bloodied Fuse immediately begins hobbling around with a wincing expression.
DeShawn and Rudy Mac: My god!
Fuse comes toward Decade and simply collapses on top of him.
The referee, now completely stained in the blood of six wrestlers, slams his arm down on the mat repeatedly.
1… 2… … … … 3!!!
Rudy Mac: FORT KNOCKS! FUSE MAKOTO JUST WON FORT KNOCKS!
The crowd screams wildly as the GPW security team opens the door to Fort Knocks. Fuse Makoto rolls off of Decade’s body and crawls to the ropes, which he uses to get back to his feet.
The security team drags Decade out of the ring before a production assistant hands the Pure Gold Championship belt to the referee for the post-match ceremony.
Winner and STILL Pure Gold Champion:
Fuse Makoto
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Inside the blood-stained, blood-soaked, blood-everything ring within the Fort Knocks cage, the referee straps the Pure Gold Championship belt around Fuse Makoto’s waist.
Rudy Mac: I don’t know if there’s a dictionary definition adequate enough to describe the resiliency of Fuse Makoto!
DeShawn: All jokes aside… WHAT. WAS. THAT!?
Rudy Mac: DeShawn! That was what Golden Pro Wrestling IS ALL ABOUT!
Fuse Makoto, bloodied, drained, hobbled and stumbling around on one foot, picks up the broken pieces of his bo. He takes a moment to look out toward the fans who cheer him on.
Everywhere within Fort Knocks are broken pieces of weapons, blood stains… and one Pure Gold Champion.
Rudy Mac: From everyone at Golden Pro Wrestling, thank you for joining us all the way to the end of Fort Knocks. We’ll see you all soon for SEASON 4!
Fuse brings his arms together with a piece of the bo in each hand, and gives a solemn bow to the camera as the broadcast fades to black…
All illustrations from the talented David G.