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Apologies on the radio silence, got caught up in a little creative endeavor. Gonna get back on this as soon as possible

Headshot seems like a company whose events would all be stuff the Unreal Tournament announcer said.

Full disclosure, got some obligations for the next couple days so don't expect the next show until around sunday/monday

Gott im Himmel, not the Brautwurst!

ZEN: THE ART OF GRAPPLING MAIN EVENT EGUCHI'S AMAZING SCRAMBLE QUALIFICATION MATCH! QT PI VS BRADLEY BLAZE THE GOLDEN PIG VS THE OUTRAGEOUS ARONA STEREO VS A-MAZE-ING GRACE TYRONE GRAY VS KASHMIR SING THREE-WAY ELIMINATION MATCH WINNERS RECEIVE KINSHIP TITLE SHOT BROOKLYN'S FINEST VS THE GHOSTS OF RETRIBUTION VS SAMHAIN & GLITCH

THE ZEN NEWSWIRE BLAZE JOINS PI & ALLEN IN SCRAMBLE MATCH AS EGUCHI PROMISES 'AMAZING' CONCEPT FOR NEXT ART OF GRAPPLING Victorious in the Mammoth Battle Royale, the Dallas Cowboy Bradley Blaze has officially joined QT PI and ZEN Conqueror Champion Harry Allen in the Scramble Match set for United States of Mayhem. Some would say that the match was more or less gifted to him by Sheriff Duke Hazzard forcing Harry Allen to give Blaze the Conqueror belt to use as a weapon but there's no DQ's in a battle royale (especially with Hazzard in charge) so the decision stands. However on the horizon is the match set by ZEN: Yamaguchi's Eguchi The Amazing Councilperson and through translator Haley Buck he has demanded Duke Hazzard and the entire roster be present for when he announces it live on Art of Grappling. What is the former comedian planning? Find out on Art of Grappling! CHEETAH BOY TAKES GOLDEN GLORY UNDER HIS WING? Fans were surpised when a hostage situation orchestrated by the Outrageous Arona to lure his father Cheetah Boy into a beatdown was answered not just by CB but by the superhero duo of the Golden Pig and Fox. Catching up with CB and GG post-show, newswire reporters confirmed that CB had approached the youngsters after their loss to the Legends of the Sea in the Tortuga Street Fight and offered to give them his tutelage to bring them back on their game. What will the future hold for these two young men under the guidance of such a traveled veteran? Only time will tell! A-MAZE-ING GRACE DEMANDS SECOND MATCH WITH STEREO, CHAMP UNAMUSED Noted rookie Luchador A-MAZE-ING Grace (known for his iconic mask and...lopsided win/loss record) has come out demanding a second match against Right to Party Holder Stereo on Art of Grappling. Declaring that after seeing the champ's performance in the Mammoth Battle Royale he has Stereo's moveset completely figured out, Grace is confident he can topple Stereo and secure for himself a Right to Party match. Stereo for his part wasn't keen to beat down on 'that restaurant kid's tray-looking dingus' again when he still hadn't gotten his hands on American Justice but agreed to it just to take out some frustrations.

ZEN: Art of Grappling Attendance: 515 Viewers: 95,124 On The ZEN Network The show kicked off with ZEN: Saskatoon's own Mammoth on the ZENTRON 9TRILLION declaring that just like what he wrote on the napkin he gave the Newswire he was a BIG MAN who wanted a BIG MATCH in the BIG MAIN EVENT of Art of Grappling and what match could be bigger...THAN A BATTLE ROYAL!? Tonight 20 ZEN Luchadors would face off in a battle royal with the last man standing moving on to the Scramble Match! Rob and Mac discussed the possibilities of who could come out of such a match with a place in the scramble match, if last week was a high stakes poker game this week was a full on lottery and it was only the second week of the qualifiers! MELANCHOLY MOLLY & MIKE FUNK VS SAMHAIN & GLITCH Informally christened 'Mike 'n Molly' by Mac Smith, the tecnico duo in this bout had their work cut out for them against the imposing Samhain and erratic gremlin known as Glitch. Sadly for the tecnicos, the sons of The Outrageous Arona were keen to get back in their dad-mom's good graces by scoring a win and they were willing to do whatever it took to get that done. So keen for this were they that when it looked like Mike Funk was going to get the hot tag to Molly, Samhain yanked her off the apron and clocked Mike in the face as he leaned out of the ring in despair. Dazed and staggering back into the center of the ring, Funk the Glitch in the Matrix meteora for the emphatic three count victory for the rudo pair. WINNERS VIA PINFALL: SAMHAIN & GLITCH Post-match Arona made his way down to the ring, all smiles and applause for his boys. Grabbing a microphone Arona directed them to grab Funk and Molly and drag them into the ring, holding them in place as Arona casually bootscraped across their faces while loudly demanding his father make his way to the ring or allow the two fallen tecnicos suffer more punishment. He explained that he allowed a chance at glory to slip through his fingers last week and he knew that if Cheetah Boy had a chance he'd make sure to screw over his flesh and blood tonight so he wanted CB to come down here and presumably catch a beating to take him out of the equation for the main event. After a few moments of silence, Arona got his wish as CB stepped out onto the stage... And was joined by The Golden Glory! Fox and Pig nodded to the other animal-themed luchador and all three hit the ring with a speed that made Arona immediately get out of the dodge, soon followed by his sons as the tecnico trio checked on the fallen pair. Arona glared as he made his retreat, now knowing that his father had replaced one ally with two... BROOKLYN'S FINEST VS THE EASY RIDERS Back for a second shot at making their names in ZEN: Boston, The Easy Riders of Torque and Asphalt took on the only Yankees welcome in Boston in Brooklyn's Finest. Taking a more conventional rudo approach this go around, Torque & Asphalt attempted to isolate Hawkeye in their corner of the ring and showed off an impressive array of roughneck offense culiminating in an atomic drop combined with a running big boot to secure a very close nearfall on the baseballman. However, you can't keep a good man down and Hawkeye managed to dodge a double clothesline from his foes and dive into his corner for a tag to Eagle who climbed to the top rope and delivered flying shoulderblock to both men. Proceeding to run wild with that classic babyface fire, Eagle nearly got in pinfall with a big diving elbow onto Torque that Asphalt managed to break up. However, as Torque rolled out of the ring, Asphalt was made the legal man via lucha rules and that came into play as Hawkeye Calhoun waylaid him with a back drop before setting him up in the tree of woe! Running the bases, Hawkeye smashed Asphalt with a baseball slide that carried him to the outside to clock a recovering Torque with a right hand! Back in the ring, Asphalt writhed in pain and rolled right into the center, leaving him wide open to a flying body splash by Eagle for the three count! WINNERS VIA PINFALL: BROOKLYN'S FINEST Backstage QT PI's investigation into the strange goings on continued as she interviewed Lady Devonshyre and Kashmir Singh. Or rather, she interviewed Deovnshyre as Singh atttempted to give 'sensible' explanations for everything. Devonshyre described a hideous unsightly beast shambling about in the dark corners of the building, horrid to look upon and nauseous to smell, gibbering in a tongue she couldn't dare place as being any earthly language. Singh shook his head, declaring her ladyship had been reading too much P.H Hateknack lately and it was getting to her while QT thanked her for her description and time. Devonshyre, dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief, asked if QT had a clue what was happening and was assured by the brainiac that her theories were beginning to bear fruit...ugly stinky fruit, but fruit nonetheless. CRASH TEST VS SWASHBUCKLER A high-flying contest between the younger of the tag team champs Swashbuckler and the ever-reckless Crash Test saw Buckler have the support of Cap'n Crush and the stuffed parrot (who apparently has received the name 'Swabby') at ringside who shouted loud abrasive trashtalk at the tecnico...well one shouted, the other loudly repeated like the last three words every time. We'll let you guess which did which. Buckle didn't really seem to need the cheer section as he handily went to town on his fellow luchador enmascarado but that didn't stop Crush from flippantly tripping the tecnico up off an irish whip and getting ejected (though the parrot was allowed to perch on the apron and stay) before Buckler hit the -ahem- "SWASH! BUCKLE! SUPLEX!" "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK SWASHBUCKLE SUPLEX!" For the pinfall victory. WINNER VIA PINFALL: SWASHBUCKLER As Buckler celebrated his victory with Swabby, the camera cut to the back where Robbie Wright was hanging out with Ash Barnaby and Zach Rudge in the Frat's private locker room. As the trio shared a round of beers (non-alcoholic, lucha responsibly kids), Ade Nelson entered the room announcing that he was bringing along someone who could help them in the battle royale which Robbie was eager to meet until it turned out to be Pumpkin Jack. King of Charisma and the Tricky Treat glared at one another as Ade obliviously noted that they needed everyone that hated 'Old Man Hazzard' as possible in the Scramble Match and an alliance tonight would almost guarantee one of them winning the battle royal. Robbie dismissed the idea out of hand, telling Ade that they didn't need the help of a guy who failed to gain the ZEN Conqueror, only for Jack to shoot back that Robbie had failed twice now causing Wright to round on him and put a finger in his face before Nelson and House Party pulled their leader away. Jack shook his head and thanked Nelson for his invitation but clearly he would need to stand alone tonight, proceeding to walk out as Wright shook himself free and gave the other members of the Frat a look. THE GHOSTS OF RETRIBUTION VS A-MAZE-ING GRACE & CARRIE RUSSELL A brand new team in the land of ZEN (one could say thrown together), Grace and Russell had a novel strategy for their debut bout. That strategy was Russell using her smaller partner as a bludgeon to beat the living crap out of Phantom and Poltergeist. This worked rather well at first with her keeping both of the Ghosts on the backfoot, but the obvious problem of using your partner to damage your opponents is that you're damaging your partner as well, which meant when the Ghosts caught Grace off an 'assisted' suicide dive and deposited him in the front row...well a tag match rapidly became a handicap. Without anyone to support her efforts, Russell rapidly fell victim to the Heaven's Crash and paid for her hubris with a pinfall. WINNERS VIA PINFALL: THE GHOSTS OF RETRIBUTION Prior to our main event, T-Bone Tucker was seen in the back, looking quite a bit more disheveled than he did as the bodyguard of Modern Justice. Stepping up towards the Modern Justice locker room, he knocked on the door and was met by Ollie Basham who glared at the world's smallest big man and demanded to know what he wanted. Tucker wanted to plead his case to Century, he claimed he knew nothing of what American Justice was going to do or that he even had anything against Modern Justice in the first place, having never so much as talk to the masked man. Basham rolled his eyes and told Tucker nobody's going to buy his god awful excuses and that everyone saw him bring the ref back in time for Justice to do what he did, so he should just do everyone a favor and find himself a new line of work. This caused Tucker to screw his face up and point at Basham... "You told me to do the thing with the water, though!" Basham abruptly slammed the door in Tucker's face and the shades-wearing tough guy folded his arms and walked away, a grimace on his face... MAIN EVENT BATTLE ROYALE! PARTICIPANT ROLL CALL! ASH BARNABY, ADE NELSON, ROBBIE WRIGHT, ZACH RUDGE, BRADLEY BLAZE, BIG HOSS, DEADLY DEADSHOT, PUMPKIN JACK, THE OUTRAGEOUS ARONA, THE GOLDEN PIG, THE GOLDEN FOX, CHEETAH BOY, SUPREME YOSHIDA, DIAMOND DEUCE, TYRONE GRAY, CAP'N CRUSH, SWASHBUCKLER, KASHMIR SINGH, LADY DEVONSHYRE, & STEREO As the bell sounded for Big Mammoth Big Battle Royale, Arona decided to throw in his lot with the Regulators...by which we mean he dove behind Big Hoss and pointed at his father and Golden Glory while screaming "GET HIM, COWBOY MAN!" This had...the opposite effect as basically everyone else excluding his stablemates had their attention turned and realized Hoss was the one to beat while Hoss himself turned and started strangling the Outrageous One. Cheetah Boy was the first to fly across the ring to slam a forearm into the back of Big Hoss (ironically saving his son) as a flood of other roster members joined in on the beatdown while the Frat opted on ganging up on Blaze and Deadshot to keep them from running interference. Hoss eventually SHOVED his assailants back and began running roughshod, smashing anyone he could get his hands on with hammerfists that probably felt like getting hit with the real thing and grabbing both Singh and Devonshyre for a meeting of the minds that sent them both stumbling back and over the ropes the sheer crush of humanity had pulled down! SINGH AND DEVONSHYRE ELIMINATED "YOU SUCK RICH LADY AND BORING MAN!" As Big Hoss threatened to turn back around to rejoin his stablemates, SUPREME Yoshida stepped forward and...called for the GIANT CHOKE SLAM!? Goozling the biggest man in the ring, she...utterly failed to lift him as he looked down at her with bemusement. Looking around, Yoshida began calling on the power of Eric And/Or Richard Eisen for help, which didn't help even a little but what did was Tyrone Gray, Diamond Deuce, and Stereo stepping in for a QUADRUPLE GIANT CHOKESLAM on Hoss! As the four stood over the fallen cowboy, Yoshida began attempting to convert her newfound allies to Eisenism to...less than positive results as Gray and Stereo grabbed her by the headband and tossed her out of the ring! SUPREME YOSHIDA ELIMINATED "YOU SUCK YOSHIDA!" As the anti-Hoss alliance began to break down, the Legends of the Sea attempted to pounce on Pumpkin Jack and begin beating the ZEN Icon down. Rob and Mac speculated they were attempting to make a name for themselves in this match by eliminating a name like Jack, but the former ZEN Master champ thought quickly and tossed the wig off a cowering Arona's head into Swashbuckler's face to blind him! Showing his superior ring awareness he kept himself on the side of Crush's face that had the eyepatch until the Cap'n got frustrated and switched the eye he had it on in time to see a fist coming at his face! Meanwhile to the distress of almost everyone, Big Hoss was back up and very very angry, intercepting the Golden Glory as they attempted to go after Arona and clotheslining both over the top rope! THE GOLDEN GLORY ELIMINATED "YOU SUCK BARN ANIMALS!" Knowing that if Hoss got a head of steam everyone would be in serious trouble, Cheetah Boy attempted to go after Hoss again but this time Arona stepped in and grabbed his father to reroute his momentum to go flying onto his allies! CHEETAH BOY ELIMINATED "YOU SUCK, PAPA! HAHAHA-GACK!" Arona's nigh on constant gloating at whoever got eliminated finally came back to bite him as he ate a right hand from Stereo who began beating him across the ring before booting him in the belly and going to bounce off the ropes for the Emancipation Proclamation-but found Arona's head rammed into his belly by Big Hoss, who proceeded to lift Stereo onto his shoulder and begin spinning around to FLOOR everyone he possibly could, including his own stablemates! With the field on their backs, Hoss lifted Stereo over his head and approached the ropes to dispose of him...but Stereo began throwing punches to the face of the big man, managing to wriggle free and land on the apron. Sensing the opportunity to go for a Hip Hop Drop, he began to move towards the nearest corner- -Only to run into a clothesline from Big Hoss, causing Stereo to flop to the apron and out onto the floor! STEREO ELIMINATED "Haaaaahhhh...serves ya...ya right...you sssssuuuuuck Stereooooo..." As Hoss broke off to try and get Blaze and Deadshot back in the game, The Legends (Swashbuckler inexplicably now WEARING Arona's wig) again attempted to pounce on someone, this time Robbie Wright who they stomped into the mat with all their might. However, Wright had considerably more back up than Jack and Ade Nelson tried to get them off his friend only to catch some fists himself and a superkick from Swashbuckler! Sensing the chance to put one of the leading wrestlers in ZEN on the mat with authority, Crush called for the Walk the Plank, pulling Nelson up into the Spinebuster position as Swashbuckler scurried over to begin walking the ropes...which he regretted when Barnaby and Rudge shook them and left him to fall crotch first onto the top one! With the crowd cheering them on they began shaing the ropes further to give Buckler the most torturous pony ride of his life as the wig bounced up and down on his head until they let up and left him to fall onto the apron. This was when Arona swooped in, swiped his wig bag, and shoved him to the floor. SWASHBUCKLER ELIMINATED "GIMME THAT! YOU SUCK, SEA THIEF!" Luckily for Arona, House Party had different fish to fry as Crush kept waiting for the leaping leg lariat of his tag partner until he got frustrated and turn around to find himself staring at two very amused Fratboys. He barely gets a chance to gasp before House Party hit a double superkick right to the face which made him release Nelson and stumble into the ropes and back for a triple back body drop that led him to FLATTEN Swashbuckler on the outside! CAP'N CRUSH ELIMINATED! "YOU TOO, SECOND SEA THIEF!" The Frat turned to audience to celebrate this elimination-when they found someone else had made his way out to the ring as Duke Hazzard was ranting at the bros while waving his cigar around. They taunted the Sheriff, all three making belt motions...until Blaze, Deadshot, and Hoss assaulted from behind and dumped the trio to a chorus of boos! BARNABY, RUDGE, & NELSON ELIMINATED "YEEEEEES! AWAY TO JAM WITH JOCKS IN THE GREAT BEYOND! YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU-Oh hello!" Arona's ranting was cut off by Blaze, Deadshot, and Hoss staring at him. The Outrageous one immediately began begging off until he bumped into the chest of Robbie Wright, who he turned into and immediately begged off from again as Tyrone Gray and Diamond Deuce stepped up to his side for a tecnico/rudo staredown with Arona caught in the middle -until Pumpkin Jack cut through the line and dropkicked the Outrageous one clear into a corner and both sides began going after each other! Blaze and Wright traded bombs in the center as Gray & Deuce's rivalry-turned-friendship-turned team up attempted to deal with Hammer & Scalpel! At ringside an understandably angry Frat chased Duke Hazzard to the back as Pumpkin Jack chased Arona to the top rope only to take multiple forearm shots and fall back, his legs hooked around the top rope with his upper body sticking out like a sore thumb. Arona attempted to make him even more sore with a double stomp that-Jack avoided by flattening himself back against the turnbuckle! Arona landed hard and stumbled forward into the middle of the slugfest in the middle of the ring, getting battered by all sides before stumbling back into the ropes just as Jack slithered onto them and held them down for him to flop over and onto the floor! ARONA ELIMINATED "Wh...n...nooooo...I suck!? NOOOOOOOO!" Tearing at his wig, Arona stormed to the back with a distraught look on his face. With that annoyance dealt with, Jack took a breather as Wright and Blaze clocked one another hard enough to fall into opposite corners and the spotlight went on Deuce & Gray vs Hammer & Scalpel. Tyrone Gray blitzed Deadshot with some swift lowkicks, delivering a chop to the crook of Deadshot's arm to block a swing before clocking him with a knee to the chin that sent him sprawling into a third corner. Knowing they weren't going to get a better chance, Gray and Deuce (who had been playing cat and mouse with hoss) teamed up to smash the big man with shots to the legs to try and wear him down, forcing the mercenary to one knee as Deuce took point, going to drag Hoss to the remaining free corner and attempt a tornado ddt-that got blocked! Hoss yanked Deuce onto his shoulders and blasted Gray with a headbutt as he came running in, Hoss then nodded to a recovered Deadshot who climbed his corner as Hoss got into position and Deadshot leapt to double stomp the back of Deuce before hitting a second double stomp to the body of Gray on the mat as Hoss hit his big F-5 on Deuce! Together the two men gathered Deuce off the mat and tossed his limp body out of the ring. DIAMOND DEUCE ELIMINATED Directing traffic, Deadshot pointed out Pumpkin Jack to his partner, telling Hoss to take care of the recovering masked man while he eliminated Gray. This however was his undoing as Gray retained enough wherewithal to suddenly switch their momentums and toss Deadshot out instead! DEADLY DEADSHOT ELIMINATED As Big Hoss went to grab Pumpkin Jack from the apron, the Tricky Treat leapt for a springboard Superman punch that rocked the biggest man in the match and sent him staggering into a dropkick from Tyrone Gray! Gray, seeing the big man struggling, went to bounce off the ropes -but found them dragged down from the outside by Deadshot! TYRONE GRAY ELIMINATED Deadshot put the boots to the disoriented Gray, even slamming him with a running kick to the face! He seemed poised to do even more damage when Diamond Deuce intervened and sent the mercenary retreating to the back. With nothing left for it, Deuce helped his friend away from the ring as well, looking angry at the goings on. Back in the ring our final four saw the united front of the remaining Regulators against two men with severe animosity for each other. Jack kept on Big Hoss, pounding at him with lefts and rights before switching to harsh mongolian chops and finishing up with a rolling elbow that put the big man on his back. Jack got little time to rest, however, as he was waylaid by Bradley Blaze and smashed to the mat with a bulldog! Turning his attention back to Robbie Wright, Blaze was met with a flurry of punches on his way back up from the bulldog that worked him back into a corner. Wright tried to use the corner to hook him up for the Wright Move but as he got him up, he found himself tripping over Pumpkin Jack as the disoriented ZEN Icon tried to regain his sense on hands and knees, really only hitting a suplex on the Dallas Cowboy. Scrambling up, Wright got in Jack's face, angrily demanding to know what the Tricky Treat thought what he was doing. Jack's hand shot out and grabbed Wright by the throat, clearly losing any patience he had with the leader of the Frat. The two men began trading hands as the crowd went wild, rights connnecting as they grabbed at each other's hair/mask for leverage, it seemed for a moment like Big Hoss was going to break up this party by grabbing them both but the smaller men without missing a beat hit simultaneous headbutts that sent him into the ropes! If only to eliminate an obstacle to their own fight, Jack and Robbie hit stereo dropkicks to Hoss and sent him tumbling out of the ring, eliminated finally. BIG HOSS ELIMINATED With that finally done with, Jack and Robbie set their sights back on each other, brawling with ferocity but not seeing what else was going on in the far side of the ring as Duke Hazzard had returned, apparently having juked the Frat backstage and he wasn't alone as Harry Allen was with him looking perturbed as the two spoke with Bradley Blaze and Hazzard began gesturing at Allen's belt. The champion held it close to him but Hazzard demanded he hand it to Blaze and Allen reluctantly did so. Meanwhile Jack ducked a clothesline from Robbie and back body dropped him over the ropes and onto the apron! There Wright kept a deathgrip on the ropes with one arm as Jack and he kept trading blows one after the other in a struggle to avoid elimination when- Bradley Blaze smashed the ZEN Conqueror belt into the upper back of Jack causing him to lurch bodily into Wright and send him to the outside! ROBBIE WRIGHT ELIMINATED! Then it was just a simple matter of lifting up Jack and tossing him out as well and we had ourselves a winner... PUMPKIN JACK ELIMINATED THE WINNER AND ADVANCING TO THE SCRAMBLE MATCH: BRADLEY BLAZE On the outside Wright understandably recovered before Jack and looked keen to continue their brawl when the Frat arrived on the scene to pull him away. Robbie looked ready to argue with them when Ade pointed out that the exact opposite of what they wanted happened as in the ring Bradley Blaze celebrated with Duke Hazzard, holding up the ZEN Conqueror title. As Wright led his brothers away from the ring, a different drama occurred inside it as Harry Allen swiftly yanked the title from Blaze's hand and began laying into him for posing with it. Blaze shrugged, looking to a perturbed Duke Hazzard who tried to calm his champion, but Allen slipped out of the ring, hugging his title to his chest. Hazzard screwed up his face but was pulled into another celebratory pose by Blaze, both cowboys holding up their hats as Rob and Mac wonder if this will be the scene at the end of the scramble match and Art of Grappling goes off the air...

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ZEN: The Art of Grappling MAIN EVENT MAMMOTH'S BIG MAN BIG MATCH BIG MAIN EVENT STIPULATION & PARTICIPANTS TBD THE GHOSTS OF RETRIBUTION VS A-MAZE-ING GRACE & CARRIE RUSSELL CRASH TEST VS SWASHBUCKLER BROOKLYN'S FINEST VS THE EASY RIDERS MELANCHOLY MOLLY & MIKE FUNK VS SAMHAIN & GLITCH

THE ZEN NEWSWIRE QT PI QUALIFIES FOR SCRAMBLE MATCH AT MAYHEM, MAMMOTH'S MATCH LOOMS OVER ROSTER With her victory in the main event of the last Art of Grappling, QT PI has shot up the rankings in ZEN to join Conqueror Champion Harry Allen in the the United States of Mayhem scramble match. PI -who was cajoled by Duke Hazzard and Bradley Blaze into putting her career in jeopardy in the triple threat match- has stated her ultimate goal is support in investigating the strange goings on around the premises of ZEN events saying in a statement to Newswire reporters: "I believe that time is of the essence if we are to fully explore our options regarding these phenomena, I can only hope to be victorious at Mayhem and install a new regime in time before things hit critical mass." Meanwhile our next Art of Grappling will play host to a match crafted by ZEN: Saskatoon's Mammoth, in a statement delivered to us on a fast food napkin the commissioner of our neighbors to the north had this to say: "BIG MAN! BIG MATCH! LET'S SEE SOME CARNAGE!" Scintillating. AND THEN THERE WERE TWO: THE RAPID FALL OF MODERN JUSTICE Once one of the most threatening groups in ZEN: Boston, the fortunes of Modern Justice seem to have collapsed like a soufflé in a loud room as not only did they kick out T-Bone Tucker at United States of Shamrocks, but Johnny Chapman quit the group on his way to being banished by taking the pin in the main event triple threat. When we reached out for comment, to the group's leader Travis Century we were rudely blocked from seeing him by Ollie Basham who told us to mind our own business. Jerk. ZEN TEMPLE: BOSTON GRADS ON THEIR WAY ACROSS THE POND! Continuing our coverage of the ZEN Foreign Exchange Program, two graduates of the ZEN Temple Dojo: Boston were given their marching orders to report to our sister branches across the atlantic ocean. The Villainous Moustachio Milano has been shipped off to ply his perilous plots in ZEN: Andorra while a diminutive Monarch who simply refers to himself as 'The King of-' has found his home in the posh lands of ZEN: London. We hope they learn well under the tutelage of the fine luchadors of both branches and come back as the stars we know they can be.

ZEN: The Art of Grappling Attendance: 515 Viewers: 99,362 on the ZEN Network With the search for the five challengers for the United States of Mayhem scramble match beginning tonight, ZEN Council Member The Aztec appeared on the ZENTRON 9TRILLION to announce his match to decide a contender in the main event tonight: “To walk the path of a champion, of one who would decide the fate of your very company, one must have conviction. I call upon the desperate, the ambitious, the foolhardy to make their move tonight. The prudent and wise will not risk what I propose, confident that one of the other trials will be their chance. Tonight, one will stand, one will fall, one will forever be left asking ‘What if?’...for my match is a triple threat contest… “AND WHOEVER IS PINNED OR MADE TO SUBMIT WILL BE BANISHED FROM ZEN FOREVER!” With the prospect of a roster member being forced to leave forever, Rob and Mac theorized over who could possibly step up to try and take that step towards becoming Conqueror Champion with the risks involved. They agree it’s not the smartest option but it could be the only chance some members see to get into that title chase… THE GHOSTS OF RETRIBUTION VS THE EASY RIDERS New England indy stalwarts Asphalt and Torque brought a hardnosed brawling approach to their battle with Phantom and Poltergeist, who matched them blow for blow in a chaotic contest to start the night off. Not bothering with the typical rudo tactics of isolating one of their opponents, the Riders instead attempted to bowl over the more experienced tag team with pure brute force. This however came back to bite them rather quickly as Torque found himself tossed from the ring after getting on the losing end of an exchange with Phantom and his partner got hooked for a hellacious Heaven’s Crash from the facepainted duo for an emphatic three count. WINNERS VIA PINFALL: THE GHOSTS OF RETRIBUTION Post-match the Ghosts’ celebration was cut off by the sudden arrival of The Legends of the Sea. Hot off their title defense against the Golden Glory in the Tortuga Streetfight the pirates were condescendingly gracious towards the other tag team, declaring with a little hard work and practice they might one day hold tag team gold…just probably not the Legends’. Those babies were there to stay. That’s when a new addition to their team made itself known: “RAWK! HERE TO STAY! RAWK!” Rob: “OH NO NOT YOU AGAIN!” Yes the annoying parrot (or at least a stuffed facsimile of it to abide by animal rights ordinances) was now perched on the belt on Cap’n Crush’s shoulder, who bellowed a hearty laugh and ‘fed’ it a cracker before strutting to the back with Swashbuckler slapping his rear at the annoyed Ghosts. STEREO VS A-MAZE-ING GRACE The opportunistic rookie, A-Maze-Ing Grace attempted to take advantage of the rough shot Stereo took from American Justice’s bat in his title defense at United States of Shamrocks but the champ was not about to allow the masked man to pick his bones. After an initial flurry of head-targeting offense by Grace, Stereo managed to avoid a springboard roundhouse kick and caught Grace with a backdrop. As Grace scrambled to recover from the slam, Stereo hit a positively gruesome Emancipation Proclamation and scored an easy pin. WINNER VIA PINFALL: STEREO Backstage we found an enquiring mind looking for answers. QT PI was interviewing Hawkeye Calhoun and Freedom Eagle about some mysterious goings on around the arena. Eagle claims he didn’t get a good look at the mysterious happening but Calhoun swears he saw a semi-transparent version of ‘That horrible man that insulted Mr. Whistler back in Pittsburgh.’ wandering around, clearly referencing the missing Garry the Entertainer. QT nodded along and began pacing, muttering theories to herself as Brooklyn’s Finest looked on. Finally she snapped her fingers and declared she needed to see Sheriff Hazzard immediately and ran off. As the camera followed QT along the backstage area, it was sidetracked by various gaggles of wrestlers discussing the stipulation of tonight’s main event and whether they’d take the risk of being banished forever from ZEN to get into the scramble match. Rivals turned…well, Friendly Rivals Tyrone Gray and Diamond Deuce discussed it and decided that with them still recovering from their bout at Shamrocks it’d be better to wait for another opportunity. Meanwhile Kashmir Singh and Lady Devonshyre had their arms around Crash Test, trying to convince him to enter the match for them and give the spot to either of them as Crash put up placating shaking hands. Finally the camera settled on the Arona Family and its Pa/Matriarch, The Outrageous Arona as he lamented the stipulation as if it wasn’t there he could simply have the three of them storm the ring and pin one of his sons but sadly…he’ll have to settle for just having them at ringside because HE would take up the challenge and fight his way to the top where he would truly be acknowledged as the GOD OF ZEN! As his sons bowed and groveled to him the camera cut to the ring for our next match… T-BONE TUCKER VS BIG HOSS Clearly still distraught at what went down at Shamrocks, Tucker took on an enraged Big Hoss after the failure of the Regulators to fully put away the Frat at the big event. While Tucker unleashed his patented ‘powerhouse’ offense in the early goings on Hoss, it had little to no effect on the other man who put him away with a simple Piledriver in mere moments. WINNER VIA PINFALL: BIG HOSS Fittingly for Tucker, we cut backstage after this to find that the members of the now depowered Modern Justice were in the midst of an argument. Ollie Basham was bemoaning the fact that the stipulation from Shamrocks meant that this golden opportunity to ‘change the world’ was out of their reach, while Johnny Chapman furiously noted it was Basham’s idea to put the stip in in the first place and declared they should just go for it anyway and dare Hazzard to try and enforce the stipulation. Century tried to talk sense into his proteges, noting that perhaps their priorities were misdirected trying to achieve titles and that their message could be delivered another way. This only made Chapman angrier as he berated Century for leading them down this path he suddenly decided wasn’t worth it before making a declaration: “If Modern Justice members can’t challenge for titles anymore, then maybe I should STOP being a member of Modern Justice! I’ll fight for the planet on my own, screw you two, screw American Justice, and screw T-Bone Tucker!” Storming out of the room, Chapman wearing a stony expression and Century with his head in his hands.It appeared the triple threat had its second contender… THE FRAT (Ade Nelson, Ash Barnaby, and Zach Rudge) VS LADY DEVONSHYRE, KASHMIR SINGH, AND…CARRIE RUSSELL! The quite sizeable redheaded local, Carrie Russell, was apparently on the payroll of Devonshyre and Singh this evening as she very clearly had some bills stuffed in her gear. Noted by Rob to be known as ‘The Red Fist’, Carrie cut an early swath through the Frat with her brawling style and superior strength until Kashmir Singh tagged in to target and isolate Ade Nelson. Showing the meanstreak his recent bumbling with Devonshyre had seemingly dampened, Singh led his team to beat down on Nelson with even Devonshyre putting her wealth to good use by slapping Nelson across the face with a fat wad of dosh! However it would be the Russell who dropped the ball for her team as she missed a corner splash that knocked by Singh and Devonshyre off the apron, allowing Nelson to roll out of the ring and Barnaby to come in and leapfrog the less experience Russell to hit his Barnburner tornillo off the top rope to the floor onto the recovering pair of Singh and Devonshyre! Disoriented, Russell seemed to not understand this allowed Rudge to come in as the legal man and hit his Freak Out springboard blockbuster on Russell for the win! WINNERS VIA PINFALL: THE FRAT Post-match, The Frat were joined in the ring by Robbie Wright! The leader of the Frat declared that while he wasn’t gonna let himself get lured into a trap and get banished from ZEN when his boys needed him to help fight the Regulators, he was back and ready to lead the Frat to glory as the premiere stable in ZEN: Boston! He swore to everyone that before the year was out that the Frat would all be holding gold in this company and that started at the scramble! High-fiving with the other members of his team, the Frat made it clear they were united front going into the trials ahead. SPECIAL SPOTLIGHT SEGMENT The camera cut back to the office of Duke Hazzard as the Sheriff seemed to be on the phone. Hazzard: “Whaddya mean you’re not gonna put Hoss and Deadshot on the line!? It’s just that wig-wearing freak and a hippy with a gym membership! Hoss barely broke a sweat tonight beating down Century’s old man, there’s no way he could lose!? …you’ll do it? …how much. CROCKETT YOU GREEDY TWERP FORGET I EVEN CALLED YOU!” Hazzard pressed the end call button and slammed the phone down. Harry Allen took a surreptitious look at Bradley Blaze… Blaze: “Don’t even say it, I ain’t about to risk my career.” Allen: “Coward…” Blaze stepped forward, snarling at the champion. Blaze: “I know the man that needs me and two hitmen to keep that belt holdin’ up his pantalones didn’t just call me a coward.” Hazzard: “Both of you stop it, we need to focus on what’s important here. If none of us are in that doggone match, we need to make sure we can handle whoever comes outta it. Arona’s got his own gang but frankly I think Hoss could take care of all three of the little weirdos himself. Chapman just made himself a lone wolf, that means we might be able to turn him towards our way of thinkin’ but we still don’t know who’s takin’ spot three.” “Ahem, excuse me, Mr. Sheriff, sir?” All three men turned their attention to the door where there stood QT PI, having finally navigated the building to where Hazzard’s office was. Allen noticeably tensed up at the sight of his former mentee. Allen: “Ms. Tanner, yer a sight fer sore-” QT: “I’d prefer if every part of your remained sore, Harry but you’re not who I came here to see.” Blaze: “If’n ya didn’t notice little lady, we’re havin’ an important meeting here. I believe the fate of this here company’s at stake.” QT: “Ah, then I belong here as well because I too am trying to avert disaster. Sheriff Hazzard I believe you know of the strange goings on around the arena lately?” Hazzard: “I’ve heard rumors. Pff, ghost stories and boogeymen, I got better things to handle.” QT: “I would not be so sure, you see I’ve been doing some research into all this and I think what we have here might be a phenomenon we’ve long been due to experience as a branch of ZEN. You see in Yamaguchi-” Hazzard: “Girl what do I gotta do to tell you I don’t care one bit about yer nonsense and bringing up those nosy no-good buttinskis in the other branches ain’t gonna help yer case.” Allen: “Now hang on, Duke, Ms. Tanner’s got a good head on her shoulders-” Blaze: “What’re you, president of her fanclub?” QT: “I hope not as he got my girlfriend banished.” Allen averted his eyes as QT glared at him. Blaze whistled lowly with a hyena-esque smirk. Blaze: “Well then…perhaps I can suggest a lil somethin’ here? If’n you’ll excuse me bein’ so forward, Duke.” Hazzard: “Fine, what is it?” Blaze: “This here girl wants someone investigatin’ whatever’s goin’ on…then maybe she can be the change she sees in the world? How about you mosey on down to the ring and put yer money where yer mouth is, darlin’? If ya win that match and then the scramble well…world’s yer oyster to do whatever ya want. Best not get pinned though, that’d make Harry here awfully sad.” Allen: “You son of a-” QT: “Fine, deal. I don’t THINK we have time until Mayhem before this hits a possible critical mass point but title contention would get eyes on me and perhaps a sponsor for my research. Mr. Hazzard I formally request I be the final entrant to the Triple Threat match.” Allen: “Quinn no, this is a bad idea-” QT: “I don’t remember asking your approval, Harry.” Hazzard: “Fine, now head on down to the ring and get to it before yer hair color gives me a migraine…” QT nodded and turned away, going to head for the ring for our main event. Allen rounded on Blaze and put a finger in his face. Allen: “You low-down snake if that girl gets fired-” Hazzard: “Enough, Harry, if you trained her right she’ll at the very least not get pinned. You gotta get your head in the game, boy, your title and MY job are on the line here.” Allen sighed and took a seat to watch the main event as Blaze moved to stand behind Hazzard, leering down at the champ with a predatory grin… MAIN EVENT TRIPLE THREAT MATCH THE LOSER OF THE FALL IS BANNED FROM ZEN, THE WINNER ADVANCES TO THE MAYHEM CHAMPIONSHIP SCRAMBLE! QT PI VS JOHNNY CHAPMAN VS THE OUTRAGEOUS ARONA Making good on his stated gameplan, Arona came to the ring flanked by Glitch and Samhain while QT and Chapman went it alone. While no fans of one another stemming from their feud over the Right to Party, pragmatism won out and the latter two teamed up in what was essentially a handicap match to start with. Without the threat of a DQ, Samhain and Glitch could do their parent’s dirty work for him without fear and it took everything QT and Chapman had to hold them off as it was only their fortitude and each other breaking up falls that kept Arona from steamrolling the match in the early goings. However having his minions in the ring eventually came back to bite Arona as while it appeared that Chapman had been laid out by Samhain for Arona to hit the Moonsault Senton, the Eco-Warrior was actually playing possum and rolled out of the way as QT hit a drop toehold on Samhain to put the bigger man in the way of Arona’s finisher! As Samhain writhed and rolled out of the ring, Glitch tried to intervene but Chapman grabbed Arona’s wig and tossed it in the face of the gremlin! As Glitch flailed around trying to get the wig off his face, he was helped by QT smashing him with the Knee+Face=Defeat (as had become tradition whenever they shared a ring it seemed) and sending the wig flying as Glitch bumped and staggered back up into an Apple Gore by Chapman! Together the Eco-Warrior and Brainiac tossed Glitch out onto Samhain on the outside which left only Arona…who had recovered while his minions were getting wrecked and tried for a dirty rollup pin on QT, holding onto her tights for dear life! He might’ve ended up winning then and there if it weren’t for Chapman hauling him off and planting him on the mat. Panicked, Arona got on his knees and begged off from Chapman, looking to the crowd to convince him to give Arona mercy. But for a man fighting for the planet, there’s no time for mercy and Chapman lifted Arona to his feet, allowed QT to grab onto his head, and bodily tossed him out of the ring and onto his sons at ringside wiping them all out! QT took a moment to make sure Arona and his goon squad weren’t getting up and barely had time to dodge an Apple Gore from Chapman who caught himself in the ropes. As the two took a moment to stare each other down it became clear the alliance was over the second the threat Arona posed did and now it was time to fight. QT used her superior agility to try and wear Chapman down but the former Modern Justice member was not one to be denied and he countered a high crossbody into a powerslam to take control of the match. With the promise of a Conqueror title shot in place, Chapman attempted to apply his Juice Box Cloverleaf submission but QT remained lucid enough to squirm and wriggle her way around to avoid it getting applied. Furious and getting impatient at the prospect of Arona getting back up on the outside, Chapman smashed a right hook into QT’s face and backed off, calling for the Apple Gore! As QT slowly made her way to her feet, Chapman got his running start and-once again had to catch himself as he nearly collided with the corner when QT dodged to the side! What he didn’t catch however was QT running with as much speed as she could muster to SMASH into his face with Knee+Face=Defeat! She pounced on him with a wild eye towards the rising Arona family who couldn’t get in the ring in time as the ref counted once, twice, thrice! WINNER VIA PIFNALL: QT PI! JOHNNY CHAPMAN HAS BEEN BANISHED FROM ZEN: BOSTON Art of Grappling ended on lingering shots of a celebrating QT, a retreating Arona, the limp form of Johnny Chapman…and a cut to the Modern Justice lockerroom as Travis Century gave a thousand yard stare and Basham threw up his hands in frustration.

Apologies about the bolding of everything in the previous post, google docs sucks and I hate it. ZEN: The Art of Grappling MAIN EVENT MYSTERY MATCH STIPULATION AND CONTESTANTS TO BE DECIDED BY ZEN: ANDORRA'S THE AZTEC THE FRAT VS LADY DEVONSHYRE, KASHMIR SINGH, & A LOCAL TALENT T-BONE TUCKER VS BIG HOSS STEREO VS A-MAZE-ING GRACE GHOSTS OF RETRIBUTION VS THE EASY RIDERS

Special Livestream Segment The camera cut in on a darkened boardroom somewhere in Boston, the skyline in the background lit up for the night as a single spotlight from above illuminated the man seated at the far end of the conference table taking up the middle of the room. Hazzard: “Alright you crooks, let’s get this over with.” One by one lights in the room illuminated the other members of the ZEN Council… “Crook am I? Call me what ya want, just don’t call me late fer dinner, heh heh heh!” “...” “私は日本人ですが、あなたが何を言っているのかわかりません。” “Uh, Eguchi, mate? You brought a translator, right?” “Yeah hi I’m here. He said ‘I’m Japanese, I have no idea what you just said.’” Hazzard: “Tell him I called him a crook!” Haley Buck conferred with Eguchi who burst out laughing and replied. Haley: “He says your hat’s stupid.” Hazzard: “YOU LOOK HERE YA LITTLE-” “Ahem, gentlemen, please we’re here to conduct business.” Hazzard: “Conduct business? Yer here to tell me how to run MY business and frankly I don’t appreciate it!” Mammoth: “We’re here because you decided to talk trash about us on yer little show while breakin’ your own asinine rule about no parties without that title of yours.” Man O’War: “To say nothing of how you’ve been acting around your champion.” Hazzard: “I got my manager’s license, ain’t no crime about lookin’ after my man’s interests! Yer on the council for ZEN: London, fish face, had any title matches lately? How about you, Aztec? These other two haven’t had title matches because they’re too broken down to-” Bendis slammed a fist onto the table and caused Hazzard to recoil. Bendis: “Enough! Now Hazzard, I like you, that may shock you but your antics warm the cold gnarled little thing that I at one point called a heart. But you did go and break your own rule. Twice even, and you called us out to do something about it the second time. You can’t expect me to go and let that slide.” Hazzard: “This is gonna surprise ya, Big Man, but in my country we got a little thing called Freedom of Sp-” Bendis: “If I were you I’d refrain from tacky platitudes, you work for ME remember? Now despite your…trying personality, I’m going to give you a sporting chance. In May, at your branch’s United States of Mayhem event, we’re going to have ourselves a scramble match for that Conqueror title of yours.” Hazzard: “What’s that got to do with my job? Congrats two months from now there’s a match, big whoop.” Bendis: “FURTHERMORE…whoever wins that match will decide who will run ZEN: Boston or the process to decide who does it.” Hazzard: “WHAT!? Now hang on there-!” Bendis: “The next four weeks on Art of Grappling these gentlemen seated around the table will book a match apiece to decide one of the contestants in that scramble match.” Hazzard: “What about me, huh? Don’t I get a say in this!?” Bendis: “As a matter of fact, yes. Because at United States of Fools YOU will get your chance to decide a contestant in the scramble match in the main event. See? I’m fair and just dictator.” Hazzard: “Rrrrrrgh…FINE! Fine! But I swear…when, not IF but WHEN Harry Allen comes out of United States of Mayhem with that there title, ya’ll gotta leave me alone and let me run this company how I see fit! Deal!?” Bendis: “Very well, seems fair enough. So…who’s going first?” Mammoth, Man O’War, & Eguchi: “M-!” The Aztec’s arm shot into the air, glaring at his fellow councilmembers who backed off. Bendis: “Alrighty, Azzy, you get first dibs…please don’t kill anyone at the table, please.” Aztec: “………..” Bendis: “I declare this meeting of the ZEN Council adjourned!” The lights went out suddenly. Bendis: “Where should we get lunch?” Mammoth: “WAFFLE HOUSE!” Man O’War: “Under no circumstances!” Haley: “Eguchi would like a burger.” Aztec: “...Five Guys.” Bendis: “What am I made of money!?” Hazzard: “Hate all of ya’ll…also Outback Steakhouse.”

Hello this is somewhat embarrassing but I forgot to have the Council member for ZEN: London, Man O'War, in the news post. This has been rectified.

THE ZEN NEWSWIRE DUKE HAZZARD TO MEET WITH ZEN COUNCIL IN SPECIAL LIVESTREAM EVENT TONIGHT After the latest in a long line of shameful title defenses, this time outright assisting Harry Allen as the referee in his match against Pumpkin Jack, Duke Hazzard has finally been summoned to stand before the ZEN Council to defend himself. Tonight Mr. Hazzard will meet with the group headed by Frankie Bendis to decide his future and [PLEASE REFRAIN FROM PRINTING HOW MUCH WE HOPE HE'S FIRED UNTIL WE KNOW HE'S GONE -Editor] GARRY MIA 2: THE MIA'ENING! Following his intense match with Robbie Wright at United States of Shamrocks, Garry The Entertainer disappeared after Wright hit him with a Wright Move on the entrance stage post-match. ZEN Security have done their best to locate the missing luchador but so far have been unable to figure just where he got off to, not helped at all by Franklin T. Monkey running around trying to conduct his own investigation...which mostly involves screaming 'FIND HIM' at people. Really helpful, Frank. In semi-related news, members of the ZEN: Boston roster have reported seeing bizarre things in the dark corners of the Horace Klegenschmidt Memorial Arena here in Boston. Things creeping in the dark corners of the arena, flashes of apparitions that disappear into thin air, a hideous malformed beast stalking the halls. We're pretty sure that last one was just ZEN: London's Knighthood Champion The Minor Annoyance on a holiday but still, stay safe out there, ZEN Faithful. MODERN JUSTICE IN DISCORD FOLLOWING RIGHT TO PARTY TITLE RESULT Due to the unforeseen involvement of American Justice in their Right to Party Title match, Modern Justice's members have been disallowed from ever challenging for one of ZEN's titles so long as they associate with the group. All blame for this has been put on the shoulders of T-Bone Tucker by the others, whom Travis Century declared was in league with the masked vigilante and screwed the group out ever gaining prominence in ZEN again -thereby dooming the world. Meanwhile Ollie Basham has stood by the founder of Modern Justice while Johnny Chapman has been keeping his distance following United States of Shamrock. For his part in all this, Tucker has been protesting his innocence and apparently trying to hunt down Justice to get answers...much like Stereo who is understandably mad about getting walloped with a bat. Justice is a hard man to find, however, and nobody will truly know what's going on here until he's located.

The United States of Shamrocks Attendance: 2,192 Viewers: 114,908 On The ZEN Network "Welcome everyone to Trenton, New Jersey and ZEN: Boston's United States of Shamrocks! My name is Rob L. Miskovsky here tonight with Mac Smith!" "Y'know my doc told me I can't go havin' MacDonalds anymore for my health but that's fine by me, Rob, because I think the luchadors of ZEN are about to have this building Shamrock Shakin' all night long!" Rob: "Right you are, Mac, tonight we are going to see some out and out grudge matches taking place! Titles will be on the line and possibly even the career of our own Duke Hazzard if that precious belt of Harry Allen's changes hands!" Mac: "Aw my heart's a flutter at the prospect, Rob but that's our main event! We've got plenty of high-octane bouts to go before then and whaddya know it's time for our first one! The free-wheeling funnymen of the Frat taking on the handpicked enforcers of Hazzard, the Regulators in a trios contest!" Rob: "Let's get the cameras down to ringside for the action!" TRIOS MATCH THE FRAT VS THE REGULATORS The chaotic energy that ended the latest Art of Grappling continued into this opening contest tonight as The Frat came looking for a fight and the Regulators were keen to give it. Bodies were thrown every which way (not least of which because of Big Hoss) and not a single man stayed in the ring for long as Arlene Lawler failed miserably to keep the luchadors in line, particularly Nelson and Blaze who picked right up where they left off last month. Of particular note in the early goings was Big Hoss countering a double suicide dive by Rudge and Barnaby by grabbing each man by the throat and holding them in place while Blaze and Deadshot delivered stomps to their bacs. Indeed it seemed like Hoss was going to be a deciding factor as things wore on, his penchant for power moves and the obvious size advantage keeping him (quite literally) head and shoulders above the competition. However, his cohorts weren't counting on the experience advantage that the Frat brought to the table -some 12 years, most of them spent together- and that came to the fore when House Party nailed a double enzugiri to the big man followed by Ade Nelson nailing him with a flying leg lariat that sent both men tumbling over the top rope! Deadshot and Blaze stormed in after this and tried to brawl with House Party but found themselves outmaneuvered as Blaze as kicked into a corner and Deadshot tossed out onto both Ade and his own partner! Outnumbered, Blaze soon found himself flying onto the other members of his team to the outside, with House Party soaring onto all four men (and an intervening J.T Crockett III) with stereo topes that had the crowd roaring and everyone collapsing to the floor. As Arlene Lawler began a twenty count, Nelson and Blaze were the first to recover and go at one another with flying fists that eventually sent them tumbling over the ring barricade! House Party and Hammer & Scalpel were soon to follow as J.T Crockett tried to get his men to return to the ring but the sheer animosity on display was too much and they brawled all the up into the crowd and the very bowels of the building as the count reached twenty and Lawler waved the match off... DRAW VIA DOUBLE COUNT OUT The intrepid camera crew began following the action as the brawl went further and further into the arena. Fans arriving late to the show were surprised to see the show coming to them as the sheer mayhem on display made its way past the concession stands and restrooms as various weapons were brought to bare and finally all six men staggered their way out into the early spring night. Rob: "Absolute chaos to start the night off, Mac, I think Arlene Lawler may be getting a talking to from head official Jay Fair for letting that get away from here." Mac: "I dunno if you can really blame her, nothing short of a riot squad could've kept that match on track!" Rob: "In any case up next we have Melancholy Molly taking on SUPREME Yoshida and I cannot shake the feeling this is a punishment for Molly considering she defied Hazzard's little attempt to screw over Pumpkin Jack a couple weeks back." Mac: "Yoshida has only gone crazier since her 'Pilgrimage' up to Providence and we can only hope that Molly brings her down to earth." "ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNN FAAAAAAAIIIIITHFUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLALALALALALALALAAAAAAAAOW! PLEASE RISE NOW!" BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Ignoring the boos of the fans, SUPREME Yoshida stepped her way out from the back and knelt as the strains of the classic Supreme Challenge theme serenaded her. Yoshida: "Oh drink in it, ZEN Faithful, upon this day the spirit of Eisenism is strong in this place. Beautiful New Jersey, home to not a single SWF Suprem-a-star, but take heart for truly one day you will be worthy, I believe in you! Now...let us pray!" Yoshida knelt her head and clasped her hands, reciting... Our Eric, who lieth in providence. Supreme Be Thy Challenge Thy Winds Broken Thine Puppets Mastered- "Uhhh...hey...lady?" Melancholy Molly, ever the heathen, had trundled out onto the stage and poked the Prophet with her boot. Yoshida's eyes lit up as she sprung to her feet. Yoshida: "Could it be!? A wayward soul has come to hear the gospel of Eisenism!? Look upon her, ZEN Faithful for this is truly a day to celebrate! Oh glorious Melancholic one, will you join me in that greatest of exultations to the one true Wrestling God?!" Molly: "I uh...always kinda liked TCW better..." Yoshida: "BLASPHEMY!" Yoshida punched Molly in the face and dragged her down the ring. Jay Fair shook his head in disbelief but called for the bell and the match was on! MELANCHOLY MOLLY VS SUPREME YOSHIDA From the beginning it looks as though Rob's belief that this match was punishment for Molly was true as Yoshida did everything in her power to punish Molly for her 'Blasphemy' with an array of hard strikes and power moves that had the shorter luchadora on the ropes. Clearly on the warpath, Yoshida's zealous devotion to Eisenism actually ended up giving Molly a chance to retaliate when Yoshida attempted her old finisher of the diving elbow drop early and Molly just sort of flopped out of the way and then locked in a Fujiwhatever Armbar! Yoshida screamed in agony but refused to submit, eventually stretching out a leg to hook it over the ropes and force a break that saved her chances in this match. Ever the pessimist, Molly flopped into a corner and invited another beatdown from Yoshida who gladly obliged, stomping a mudhole into Molly and walking it dry at the very notion that she was so very close to losing to the dame of depression. Storming around the ring and holding up her arm, Yoshida called for the finisher of Bruce the Giant, the Giant Chokeslam; she pulled Molly up and clamped a hand around her throat and tried to lift her once...but couldn't do it...twice...couldn't do it... She locked eyes with Jay Fair and raised her other hand...then POINTED dramatically at him! Jay tried to back off, citing his impartiality as an official before Yoshida grabbed him by the wrist and forced him to throttle Molly as well! DOUBLE GIANT CHOKESLAM! Yoshida made the cover, it was academic at that point. Not even bothering to raise the victorious zealot's arm, Jay instead attempted to resuscitate Molly who flopped out of the ring and slowly made her way back up the ramp... WINNER VIA PINFALL: SUPREME YOSHIDA Mac: "Of all the weapons I've seen used in plenty of ZEN rings in my time, the official was not one of 'em!" Rob: "A callous move by Yoshida there, getting Jay Fair involved in proceedings, I'm frankly appalled and I-wait, I believe a commotion is going on in the office of Duke Hazzard ladies and gentlemen let's get a camera back there!" The camera did indeed cut to Duke Hazzard's office, surreptitiously peeking in through a crack in the door to see the Sheriff on his phone having a completely normal conversation. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'VE LOST TRACK OF 'EM!? CROCKETT YOU MOUSEY LITTLE COWARD YER THE MANAGER OF ABOUT HALF THAT DOGGONE TEAM! MOST OF MY DANG STRATEGY FER TONIGHT'S TITLE MATCH RELIED ON YOUR BOYS AND BLAZE BEIN' HERE! ARRRRGH! FIND 'EM OR SO HELP ME YOU CAN KISS YER PAYCHECK GOODBYE-OH, CONTRACT MY USDA CERTIFIED RUMP ROAST! GOODBYE!" Hazzard clicked the call off and tossed the phone to the side, slamming a fist on the table. Hazzard: "Useless outfit, I reckoned this from a Cali boy like Deadshot but Handley? Blaze? Them Frat boys better be six feet under fer them to drop the ball like this..." "What about my match?" Hazzard: "Oh I'll think'a somethin', Harry, ya know I always got me a plan. Now-" The cameraman soon found himself almost bowled over as someone stormed into the room! Scooting along the floor, the camera managed to turn around and see- "Dukey, buddy, babykins, I'm baaaaack!" Hazzard: "Oh fer-what do you want!?" "Whaddya think we want, lamebrain, we're here to collect on the D-E-A-L!" Hazzard: "The deal?" Franklin: "Gold star, run home to mama and tell her ya brilliant! Tell 'em, Garry." Garry: "Welllll we held up our end of the deal so-" Allen: "No you didn't ya Sesame Street Sonuvva-!" Franklin: "Ohhhhh yes we did, we beat up Pumpkin Jack!" Allen: "He can still throw a punch just as well as anybody, lemme tell ya! Ya didn't even hit that dang piledriver of yers!" Garry: "Looooook Harrrrrrry, Harold, Harriet Tubman, I don't think I really care what you have to say, I wanna hear from the bossman. Dukey-" Hazzard: "Harry's right, yer worthless rear end didn't do as told. Get outta my office." Franklin: "WHAT!? Yoooooou..." Garry: "Now Franklin, let's not go saying something we'll regret...I respectfully disagree with you, Dukey-" Hazzard: "And stop callin' me that you washed up excuse fer a rassler. Look at'cha, comin' whinin' to me fer help and I know why. Yer scared, scared of what Wright's gonna do to ya. Well I hope he does it, I hope you give him the piledriver too. I hope ya both get wheeled outta here on stretchers because guess what!? That's two less problems I gotta deal with! That's what you are, Garry, yer a problem fer me and ya always have been from the day you and that stupid puppet of yers came on in here! Ya ain't gonna get any help from me tonight or any other night, ya understand?" Garry: "I...you...look...D-Duke. I'm gonna level with ya...if Wright hits that move of his much more...I'm gonna have a problem." Hazzard: "We got a medical team on standby ya big baby." Garry: "It's not that it's...my mind...he's gonna free it." Allen: "Oh no, maybe some common sense'll get out, basic people skills maybe~" Garry: "I didn't wanna talk about it because...y'know...when would it ever come up but...trust me, Duke. You don't want what's in there getting out..." Hazzard: "Read. My. Lips, Garry. I don't care what grey matter comes on out of that empty dome of yers. Heck, maybe Harry here's right, maybe whatever comes out'll teach you what it means to be a real man-" Franklin: "THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS YOU MORONS! IT'S GONNA BE BAD! REAL BAD! FOR EVERYBODY!" Everyone looked at the puppet on Garry's arm, for the first time sounding genuinely angry rather than sarcastic...Allen snarled and Hazzard pointed his cigar at man and puppet alike. Hazzard: "Git, now. Or so help me the Wright Move's gonna be the least of yer problems." Franklin opened his mouth for more verbal sparring but Garry shook his head and began to walk away...it was at this point Hazzard noticed the camera. Hazzard: "AND WHAT WERE YEW DOIN' STANDIN' NEXT TO THE DOOR, HUH!? YOU GET OUTTA HERE TOO OR YER FIRED!" The camera made a bolt for the door as the feed cut abruptly back to Rob and Mac. Rob: "Welp, no honor among...well, whatever you'd call them." Mac: "Jerks, Rob, the term is jerks. Speaking of, it's time for Diamond Deuce vs Tyrone Gray!" Rob: "Ah yes, Deuce has been obsessed with defeating Gray since the latter debuted with a win over him back in January. Their last bout ended in a draw which Deuce did...not take well." Mac: "Gray didn't like it either, in fact this bout was his own idea. Either Deuce will prove he can beat High Energy tonight or Gray's ambitions to move on to the Conqueror chase will be realized! Let's get down to the ring!" TYRONE GRAY VS DIAMOND DEUCE The personal stakes in this match were high and the seriousness both luchadors brought into this bout reflected that as Deuce and Gray clashed for the third time. Gray fought hard and Deuce fought smart in the early goings with the moves on display almost in conversation with their last bout as both men tried to hit their finishers mere moments into the match culminating in a Deuces Wild getting countered into a victory roll for a nearfall that left both men scrambling up and facing off before looking to the audience which answered with an excited ovation. Getting right back into it, Gray once again put his acrobatic skills on display by flooring Deuce with a flurry of Japanese arm drags before going for a springboard high kick that Deuce managed to duck and attempt to counter into a german suplex that his opponent flipped out of and knocked Deuce loopy with a shining wizard as he was attempting to get up. In control from there, Gray attempted move after move to try and put Deuce down but every time the man from Miami Beach found the strength to kick out. Losing patience, Gray set Deuce up and went for the Tumbleweed-only to find himself forced to leap off and onto the top rope uneasily when Deuce stumbled into the corner! Trying to take advantage of Gray struggling to keep his balance, Deuce clubbed him in the back and began climbing up onto the turnbuckle with him. The two men struggled, throwing shots at each other as both teased a couple moves -including the back superplex that caused their draw last month- before Deuce clinched onto Gray tight and performed a spanish fly into the mat! Deuce covered his rival! 1! 2! KICKOUT! Slamming the mat in frustration but quickly getting a handle on himself, Deuce dragged Gray up and looked to put him in the electric chair position for the Deuces Wild-but Gray slammed an elbow to the top of Deuce's head and lurched forward through the ropes, catching himself on the apron as his opponent stumbled. Gray measured the distance, looked to the crowd, then leapt onto the top rope and onto Deuce's shoulders, maneuvering himself to deliver the Tumbleweed when- Deuce hooked his head out of nowhere! DEUCES WILD! The bang of flesh hitting canvas was thunderous as the electric chair driver planted Gray! Deuce hooked a leg! 1! 2! 3!!!!! THE WINNER VIA PINFALL: DIAMOND DEUCE Mac: "HE GOT 'EM! BY GOLLY DIAMOND DEUCE JUST PINNED TYRONE GRAY DEAD IN THE CENTER OF THAT RING!" Rob: "I am speechless, Mac, what a contest and once again Deuce didn't resort to one of the dirty tricks we know him for!" As Deuce confirmed with the ref that he had won -almost not believing it himself- he stood up and looked to the crowd, raising his arms to a surprising amount of cheers from the fans in Trenton. Meanwhile, Tyrone Gray began to stir, clearly still out of it after the Deuces Wild and having to be checked on by Jay Fair... Deuce advanced on the recovering Gray, the ref instinctively trying to put himself between the rudo and his fallen foe when... Deuce extended a hand. Gray gave it a look, then one to Deuce, hesitating a moment before... Shaking it to a cheer from the fans as Deuce helped him up and raised the other man's hand, a show of sportsmanship that would've been unthinkable after this series with Gray. Rob: "Never thought I would see this day, Mac, Diamond Deuce being gracious in victory quite possibly for the first time in his life." Mac: "Well Rob when you have matches of that caliber with someone it has a tendency to change you. Let's hope this change sticks, because he was the worst before." Rob: "I guess now that title belongs to Modern Justice. Speaking of next up is our Right to Party title match with very serious stakes for the protestors." Mac: "I have no idea what Ollie Basham was thinking putting the group's right to fight for...well the Right on the line in this bout but I won't have any complaints if and when his shoulders hit the mat for that three count." Rob: "Still you gotta think Travis Century is coming into this one with a gameplan and the other members of MJ will be right there to help execute it." ZEN RIGHT TO PARTY TITLE MATCH IF STEREO WINS, NO MEMBER OF MODERN JUSTICE CAN CHALLENGE FOR A TITLE AGAIN STEREO (c) VS OLLIE BASHAM Coming out to this match with a more subdued Remo Richardson MMA-inspired entrance that the author definitely didn't forget to include in the actual game no sir, Stereo shelved his acrobatics to go all in on the fists against Basham to start the match off with that definitely put the Activist off his game. Still, when you have the likes of Travis Century at ringside there's always something afoot-or in the case of this match, a-sign as Century used his ("No Rights? No Fights! Ok, Some Fights But Only The Ones We-" they apparently ran out of room) to obscure the view of Arlene Lawler as Johnny Chapman clocked Stereo with a right hook when Basham ducked a clothesline. From there Basham took complete control of the match. Conspicuous by his absence was T-Bone Tucker who hadn't come down to ringside but for the time it looked like he wasn't needed as Basham tortured the champ with submission hold after submission hold, clearly setting him up for the Sit-In when...Stereo struggled to force Basham off in a sleeperhold and smashed into Arlene Lawler, making her collapse on the mat. Stereo and Basham separated enough for the champ to clock his challenger with a right hand that sent him to the mat. Sensing a chance to strike, Johnny Chapman rolled into the ring and charged at Stereo for the Apple Gore but he saw it coming and sidestepped to hit the Eco Warrior with the Emancipation Proclamation! As the fans cheered, Stereo turned around into a low blow from Basham who took him to the mat and locked in the Sit-In! However, Lawler was still out and Century was having no luck resuscitating her...that's when a hero arrived! T-BONE TUCKER...WITH A BUCKET OF WATER! Running down to ringside full of vim and vigor, T-Bone splashed the contest in the face of Lawler to awaken her...just in time for Stereo to pitch his body and roll up Basham for a nearfall as Century went from hugging his bodyguard to trying to strangle him. With both of them not looking and champion and challenger going to stand up, someone else hit the ring: THE AMERICAN AVENGER...WITH A BAT (surprise surprise) As Stereo and Basham looked at the newcomer, the vigilante made his move...AND SLAMMED STEREO IN THE FACE WITH HIS BAT IN FRONT OF THE REFEREE! Basham's jaw dropped as Lawler called for the bell and both Century and Tucker stared in shock as Justice gave Tucker a thumbs up and scampered away as a recovering Chapman tried to grab him. WINNER VIA DISQUALIFICATION AND STILL HOLDER OF THE RIGHT TO PARTY: STEREO! NO MEMBER OF MODERN JUSTICE CAN NO LONGER CHALLENGE FOR A TITLE IN ZEN: BOSTON Rob: "WHAT WAS THAT!? AMERICAN JUSTICE JUST KNOCKED STEREO OUT AND SCREWED MODERN JUSTICE OUT OF...WELL EVERYTHING!" Mac: "Rob I-how in the-why the-who told that guy to butt in here!?" In the ring Ollie Basham had a good idea, pointing accusatorially at T-Bone Tucker as he and Travis Century entered it. Tucker protested but Century is heard over the camera mic "He gave you a thumbs up...he gave you a thumbs up!" Tucker plead his innocence, holding up his little bucket as if it was a smoking gun to prove he had nothing to do with this. This left him wide open to an Apple Gore from a furious Johnny Chapman. Basham leaned down to shout insults at Tucker but Chapman shoved him aside and shoved a finger in his face, telling Basham he dropped the ball before sliding out of the ring, an annoyed Basham chasing after him as Century stood over Tucker with a look of disgust. Spitting on his now-former bodyguard, Century turned around and followed his remaining proteges to the back as EMTs arrived to help both Stereo and Tucker to the back. Mac: "A devastating blow to Modern Justice, not to mention all the fans who were expecting a stellar title match. I wonder-oh great it's these guys..." Passing the injured champion, Arona casually asked if he can get the next title match as Glitch cackled and Samhain slapped his father/mother on the back in appreciation of the 'great' joke. As his cronies held open the ropes, Arona stepped into the ring where Glitch provided a microphone for him to speak into. Arona: "Inhabitants of Trashlandia, New Jersey, harken now to the pontifications of your superior in beauty, intelligence, wrestling ability, and parenthood! On Art of Grappling I showed my wonderful strategic brilliance by beating my father within an inch of his life, or as New Jerseyians call it 'Father's Day'. Now that pathetic poindexter thinks she can scrape together a pair of pugnacious pawns to put ME in checkmate? There's only one chessmaster in lucha libre...well ok there's that other guy but I AM SUPERIOR! So dear darling 3.1-Forehead, bring out the lambs so that I may teach my boys the valuable life lesson of SLAUGHTERING THEM!" Stepping out onto the stage to a raucous response, QT PI called for her music to be cut as she glared at the treacherous son of Cheetah Boy. Then, slowly, her snarl turned into a smirk as she raised her hand and snapped her fingers... Just about the only New Yorkers the Jersey crowd would be happy to see, Brooklyn's Finest hit the stage to the shock of Arona's gang in the ring! Posing with QT for a moment, the trio rushed the ring and slid in to start the match off with a bnag! TRIOS MATCH QT PI & BROOKLYN'S FINEST VS THE ARONA FAMILY It did not take long for Arona to bail out of the ring and allow his cohorts to take the brunt of the punishment as the match got underway, leaving Glitch to get wrecked by a dropkick from QT PI and Samhain to be tripleteamed by all three when Brooklyn's Finest hit him with a double suplex and QT followed up with a moonsault for an early nearfall broken up by Glitch. As Lawler finally got the tecnicos to leave only one member of their team in the ring (Eagle fyi), Arona chose that moment to strike by chopblocking Eagle from behind and trapping him in his team's corner for a beatdown as had seemed to become his trademark of late. Making quick tags, the Family did everything in their power to keep Eagle from escaping with wear down tactics from Arona, brute force from Samhain, and...unorthodox methods courtesy of Glitch. Case in point when Eagle seemed poised to make a break for it, Glitch made the ZENTRON 9TRILLION display the American flag and start playing the national anthem causing him to stop everything and salute...which let Samhain boot him in the gut and powerbomb him to elongate the beating. However, you can't keep a majestic soaring eagle down forever, and Arona's hubris came back to bite him when he decided to mock Calhoun's signature baseball slide as the man with the mustached mask snatched Arona's pink wig as he passed and showed off his pitcher's arm by tossing it directly onto the noggin of Mac Smith at the commentary desk. Aghast at this, Arona and his goons fled the ring to bully the commentator, which allowed Eagle to escape the tree of woe and join his partners in lining up on the apron behind the Family as they retrieved the wig and turned around...directly into a triple diving axehandle from the tecnicos. As QT PI and Freedom Eagle dealt with Samhain and Arona scurried off again, Calhoun put Glitch in the tree of Woe, threw Arona's wig (which he retrieved in the fracas) into the gremlin's face and rounded the bases before sending the wig flying into the crowd with his baseball slide. As Glitch flopped to the mat, knocked silly, QT PI came in and dragged him to the center of the ring to lock in PI's Paradox for the submission victory! WINNERS VIA SUBMISSION: QT PI & BROOKLYN'S FINEST QT and her allies didn't get long to celebrate, however, as someone crashed the party with a mic and an attitude... "Yeah yeah yeah you beat the clown show, congratulations, now git outta my ring, I gotta conduct business!" Calhoun and Eagle glared at the Sheriff but QT waved them off, but not before giving the man who ran her girlfriend DareSheDevil out of ZEN an even more venomous look. Hazzard: "Don't you gimme them eyes, girl, I can arrange you to join yer girlfriend in the assembly line at the BriCo factory or wherever she ended up reeeal quick. GIT!" With the tecnicos (and soon after rudos) leaving the ringside area, Hazzard turned his attention to Arlene Lawler who was about to join them. Hazzard: "Ohhhh no no no, you stay. And Fair, you get yer geriatric hindend on out here too!" Looking more than a little perturbed, Jay Fair made his way down to the ring, entering it and seeming to question what the Sheriff was after here. Hazzard: "Good now I'm gonna cut to the chase here. You two have done an awful AWFUL job tonight. Just doggone terrible, ya hear me? You-" Hazzard pointed at Lawler. Hazzard: "I ain't never seen no matches devolve into this much chaos in my life and they were all on yer watch. Meanwhile YOU-" Hazzard jabbed his finger at Fair. Hazzard: "Dared to put yer hands on a wrestler here tonight when you helped chokeslam poor lil innocent Melancholy Molly. I just don't know what to say!" Fair stepped in and started protesting the detail of Hazzard's accusation but the boss cut him off. Hazzard: "Now we got ourselves some high stakes matches tonight and frankly, I can let those slide because one's a street fight and the other well...frankly I HOPE it descends into madness and I hope they both put themselves outta commission. But the title match? The title match is faaaaar too important to risk on you two bunglers and there's only one man in this here building that has the stuff to take no guff in that kinda environment..." Realization dawned on the refs' faces, Fair looked disgusted, Lawler just looked away. Hazzard: "As of this moment I am deeeeee-clarin' myself the SPECIAL GUEST REFEREE FOR THE ZEN CONQUEROR TITLE MATCH! Because SOMEONE's gotta keep things under contro-" Fair swiped the microphone and growled in Hazzard's face. Fair: "Don't you dare think for one second think anyone in this building is buying that load of crap!" Hazzard tried to grab for the mic but Fair stepped back. Fair: "You're scared, everyone can see it, everyone knows it. It doesn't matter who is officiating that match tonight, if they called it down the middle your man Allen would NOT be walking out of here with that belt. You really think the ZEN Council are gonna-" Hazzard grabbed the mic and shouted in Fair's face. Hazzard: "YOU EVER TOUCH MY MIC WHEN I'M TALKIN' AGAIN I'LL FIRE YOU AND YER LITTLE PROTEGE THERE SO FAST YER HEADS'LL SPIN! THIS IS MY COMPANY, THE ZEN COUNCIL AIN'T GONNA DO A GADDANG THING ABOUT IT! THE MAIN EVENT IS MINE TO OFFICIATE AND BY GOD IT'LL GO THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO OR MY NAME AIN'T DUKE HAZZARD!" Slamming the mic down, Hazzard stormed out of the ring as Jay tried to calm down Arlene, looking on disapprovingly as Hazzard left and stagehands began setting up various nautical props for the Tortuga Street Fight. Mac: "I don't think I've ever seen Hazzard as nasty as he's been tonight, Rob." Rob: "I agree with you one hundred percent, the stress of the situation is making him take drastic measures and I don't think he realizes that putting himself in the ring gets him that much closer to a very very dangerous Pumpkin Jack. He lets one too many things slide and he's gonna have to answer to the Tricky Treat." Mac: "Speaking of letting things slide, our next match up is one where just about everything is legal according to the pirate code. Yes it's the Tortuga Street Fight!" Rob: "Now what does the Street Fight entail, Mac?" Mac: "Plainly put, ZEN corporate has shelled out the big bucks to bring a little slice of the age of piracy here to Trenton, have a look down there! We got treasure chests, cannons, I think I even see them adding a-yes sir that is a ship's mast and crow's next being wheeled out onto the stage! Truly they've spared no expense!" "RAAAWK SPARED NO EXPENSE!" Mac and Rob: "GAH!" "Raaaawk!" Rob: "Oh I hate this." Mac: "Lads, maybe SOME expense could've been spared here." "RAAAAAAAAAWK SPARE NO EXPENSE SPARE NO EXPENSE!" Rob: "Is it going to be here the whole match?" "RAWWWWK WHOLE MATCH!" Rob: "Oh dear." ZEN KINSHIP TITLE MATCH TORTUGA STREET FIGHT THE LEGENDS OF THE SEA (c) VS THE GOLDEN GLORY One of the most heated rivalries in the tag team ranks, this match started off with both teams squaring off in the center and exchanging trash talk before Golden Glory turned away to prep for the bout as Jay Fair held up the Kinship Belts-and had them torn away by the champs who immediately tried to waylay the Heroes from behind with them! However, Golden Glory had learned well the kind of tricks their rivals were capable of and ducked down to dodge the cheap shot and dropkick them out to the floor! Grabbing a treasure chest the stagehands had stashed in one of the corners of the ring, Fox directed traffic as the Legends regained their footing on the outside and Pig got a running start to leap onto the chest, then the ropes and finally into a Somersault Tope onto Crush and Swashbuckler! As the crowd erupted into an appreciative 'Pigs can fly!' chant, Fox slid out of the ring and retrieved the title belts, throwing one to Pig and each taking up a position at the far end of the ringside area while Crush and Buckler tried to get back up...getting another running start as their foes saw the oncoming animals and smacked into each other trying to escape- Fox and Pig leapt onto the guardrail and held the titles high, clearly enjoying some mind games with the two men who'd stolen them back in January. Tossing the belts to some staff members to properly deposit them at the commentary desk, Golden Glory hopped down to find Crush and Buckler had crawled under the ring. Searching around ringside for the buccaneers, they managed to find Buckler's boots poking out form under the apron and grabbed them to drag the smaller member of the Legends out-not noticing when Crush slipped out the opposite side and stalked around the ring holding a rather anachronistic kendo stick to slam into the back of Fox and the face of Pig. Finally gaining control of the match, Crush and Buckler grabbed their opponents by their masks and marched them up the rampway towards the stage where the majority of the props for the bout had been set up. Tossing Fox over a cannon, Crush wrapped his kendo stick over the throat of Pig and smashed him down with a Russian leg sweep! Pointing his first mate towards the crow's nest, Crush turned around to mug to the crowd, not noticing that Fox had recovered from his trip to the cannon and had retrieved something from beneath it: A CUTLASS! Holding out the curved sword in front of himself, Fox challenged Crush to a duel of sorts and the pirate obliged! Wood clashed with 'steel' as superhero and knavish pirate did battle, Swashbuckler pausing from his ascent to scramble back down and help his partner only to be hit with an errant cane shot from Crush that flattened him. Enraged by his partner's fall, Crush began aggressively swinging his stick around, being dodged with ease by the more agile Fox before getting the flat of the masked man's blade slapped against his rear! Unfortunately for Fox, what the aggressive stylings of Crush lacked in efficacy, they made up for in providing a distraction as Swashbuckler managed to grab the wrist of Fox and wrestle the cutlass away. Now with both pirates holding him at sword/stickpoint, Fox slowly backed up...and then pointed up to show Crush wasn't the only one being a distraction as all three men stood below The Golden Pig at the top of the crow's nest. As the fans erupted in excitement, Pig launched himself with Pigs Can Fly off the top and onto all three, wiping them out with his patented 630 from so very high up! Jay Fair was on the scene in an instant, checking for injuries as all four men were laid out on the stage. The 'Pigs Can Fly' chants were deafening as slowly the Golden Glory got to their feet first and began dragging the champs towards the ring, tossing Buckler and Crush inside as the end seemed to be in sight. Looking to the fans for approval, Fox yanked Swashbuckler into the wheelbarrow position and called for the All That Glitters. However, just as Pig had ascended to the top rope, Crush lurched his body into them in a desperate bid and crotched Pig onto the top turnbuckle. As Fox looked on, Swashbuckler reversed the wheelbarrow into a victory roll pin for a two count before Fox reversed it for his own two count before Crush nearly took his head off with a lariat! Swashbuckler scurried over to the treasure chest Pig had used as a launchpad at the start of the match and upended it, scattering gold coins all over the mat but motioning Crush to bring Fox over... With the masked man out of it, Buckler shoved his head into the treasure check and began stomping the lid down onto Fox's upper back furiously! Crush joined in in short order and it was little wonder when Fox went limp from the punishment and both men turned their attention to Pig...who tried to sail off the top rope with a high crossbody-only for Crush to catch him and smash him to the mat with a powerslam! Shoving his first mate to the corner, Crush picked up Pig and held him in a spinebuster position as Swashbuckler climbed to the top rope and began walking across it for a massive springboard leg lariat at the same time as Crush slammed Pig down in the spinebuster. Even as Buckler sprung onto the treasure chest to make sure Fox couldn't escape to break the pin, everyone knew it was over, Pig had just Walked the Plank. "RAAAAWK! WALK THE PLANK!" "WILL SOMEONE GET THIS BIRD OUT OF HERE!?" WINNERS VIA PINFALL AND STILL ZEN: KINSHIP CHAMPIONS: THE LEGENDS OF THE SEA Rob: "A massive victory for the Legends here tonight, emphatic even as they put the exclamation point on their feud with the Golden Glory. You have to wonder what's next for either team after a match like that." Mac: "Best thing I can think of is for the Glory to regroup and try to find a new way forward. They've held those belts three times already, I doubt this is the last time will be the last time ever." Rob: "Fans as we get the ring and stage cleaned up and-ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES ASISSTS US PLEASE!" "RAAAAAWK! ASSISTS US, PLEASE!" Rob: "I want to remind you that for the rest of march and our big event in April, United States of Fools, we will be returning to our home in Massachusetts but take heart because we will be coming back for a tour of New York afterwards for United States of Mama. Tickets are available at ZEN.com/Boston and-" "Hey hey heyyyyyy, kiddos~! It's meeeeee, your best friend, Garry the Entertainer! Here with my best friend, Franklin! Tell the kids hi, Frank!" "HI THERE YA ANKLE-BITING TWERPS! WE'RE GETTING SCREWED OVER!" Stepping out onto the stage as the crows nest was being wheeled away, Garry and his puppet cohort soaked in the boos of the audience. Franklin: "Oh yes Franklin, I couldn't agree more! Kids tonight's lesson is all about: Garry: "Ya see kids in this world you're gonna wanna trust people, they're gonna say they have your best interests at heart and if you just scratch their back, they'll scratch yours. But that's not the case, it never has been! You can't trust people, not entirely, you can't trust that they'll be your friend when the chips are down-noooo no. You can't trust people you can only trust three things...Death. Taxes. And-" Voice: "Robbie Wright beating you up one side of Trenton and down the other?" Garry: "...maaaaaaan..." Not even bothering to turn around, Garry just broke out in a dead sprint towards the ring as Robbie Wright stormed out after him and smashed bodily against him, sandwiching him against the apron! Malice apparent in his face, Wright tossed Garry into the ring and rolled in after as Franklin was yoinked by a stagehand to serve as a manager at ringside. ROBBIE WRIGHT VS GARRY THE ENTERTAINER Wasting no time in going after The Entertainer, Robbie Wright pounded on him with rights and lefts despite the warnings of Jay Fair. Garry's fingers eventually found Wright's eyes and raked at them to get some separation before throwing himself out with a boot to the belly! With the fans booing him vociferously, Garry went for an early attempt at his Package Piledriver but was back body dropped down to the mat. Wright swiftly bounced off the ropes with a knee drop that left Garry writhing and holding his head then went for another and another, softening Garry up for that devastating Wright Move finisher. Listening to the chants of 'One More Time', Wright went for a fourth knee drop only to find himself tripped by the felt hands of Franklin T. Monkey! Rounding on the simian, Wright began grabbing at him through the ropes which allowed Garry to pounce in and roll him up with the tights for a desperate nearfall! As Robbie stood up, coming in for a right hand, Garry ducked under it and caught Wright with a neckbreaker. Again, Garry attempted a pinfall, this time with help from the ropes but Jay Fair caught him and swiped the Entertainer's boots off them. As Garry and Jay argued, Wright rolled to the apron and soon found himself getting choked by Franklin, who swiftly backed off when Jay turned around. Resolving that the only way out of this was pure aggression, Garry began laying in the boots to Robbie as Jay tried to get him to back off, the Entertainer shoving the referee away before smashing into the King of Charisma with a leg drop! Leering at the fans as began chanting for Robbie, Garry grabbed a wrist in each hand and began stomping Wright's face in, stopping only to slam him down to the mat with his boot and press it on his chest for a pin! 1! 2! Kickout! Garry snarled like a wolf denied its prey and grabbed Wright by the hair hauling him up to smash his face into a turnbuckle no less than three times before Fair finally hand enough and asserted his authority to get Garry to back off. This enraged Franklin who began arguing with Fair on the outside while Garry...undid the turnbuckle pad on the opposite corner. Meanwhile things did not go the way Franklin wanted them too with Fair as -possibly due to Hazzard's taunts earlier, possibly just sick of this monkey like everyone else- Fair EJECTED Franklin from ringside and sent him to the back while throwing a tantrum! Garry put his hands on Fair and began arguing before shaking his head in frustration and going after Robbie-who began lighting him up with punches to the face and a big DDT! The fans began chanting once more for Robbie as he ran roughshod over his hated foe, leveling the Entertainer with lariats, shoulder tackles, and finishing up with a Russian Leg Sweep that nearly secured victory if not for a foot on the ropes. Standing up and looking determined, Robbie called for the Wright move, circling Garry when the Entertainer lashed out with a headbutt to the belly! As Wright doubled over, Garry wrapped his arms around Robbie's thighs and hauled him up, trying to fall backwards and slam him face first on the exposed turnbuckle but Robbie's hands caught the ropes just in time! Garry struggled with the King of Charisma, trying to yank him away to retry his attempted knockout blow but as Garry turned around for a better grip, Robbie's legs wrapped around his head and yanked him face first into the turnbuckle instead! As Garry stumbled back in a daze, Robbie climbed to the top and launched himself with a high crossbody that flattened Garry down to the mat! 1! 2! Thr-KICKOUT! Robbie briefly broke off to try and argue with Jay Fair's count before thinking better of it, he stood and stalked Garry, calling for the Wright Move, eyes burning with the intensity of the sun as the Entertainer shakily got to his feet. Wright moved in quick, attempting to hook him for his finisher but Garry tangled their legs to avoid it, struggling to escape the move he seemed to live in fear of. Two shots to the side followed by a clap with both hands gave Garry the breathing room to slam a knee into Robbie's midsection and grab him around the midsection for a release gutwrench suplex into the corner opposite the one with the exposed turnbuckle! Seeing an opportunity with Robbie looking out of it in the corner, Garry got a running start and smashed into him with a cannonball senton, dragging the leader of the Frat out of the corner for a pin! 1! 2! Thre-KICKOUT! Grabbing Jay Fair by the collar, Garry does not show the same cooler head that Robbie had and started screaming in his face to count faster, hooking Wright's leg for a second nearfall that sent him into a mat-slapping tantrum. As the fans picked up a 'You can't beat him' chant, Garry stomped on Wright's back and began screaming incoherently in his ear before picking him back up and holding him in place, clearly looking for the package piledriver when Wright smashed his head into Garry's belly and knocked the wind from him! Robbie followed it up with a right hand to the jaw that would've made Bradford Peverell jealous, and as Garry flopped against the ropes and bounced back...it happened. Wright hooked him, he lifted him, and he twisted, planting Garry headfirst into the mat with the Wright Move! He pounced on the downed Entertainer, grabbing a leg and hooking it as he pinned Garry to the mat! 1! 2! 3!!!! WINNER VIA PINFALL: ROBBIE WRIGHT Rob: "An absolute barn-burner there folks, and I'm not talking about Ash Barnaby's finisher!" Mac: "Robbie Wright has removed one of the biggest thorns in his side here tonight and the fans absolutely love i-wait what's going on?" Wright had grabbed Garry's hair and was dragging him out of the ring and up the rampway, motioning for a cameraman to follow him, he stopped on the stage and glared into it. Robbie: "Allen, Jack, whichever one of you comes out of that title match tonight with the belt, I wanna show you somethin'-" Robbie, even as Jay Fair demanded his stop, hauled up Garry and hit the Wright Move again on the stage! Garry's body slowly rolled off of it to the concrete below as Wright grabbed the camera and focused it on his face. Robbie: "This is the end of it as far as Garry's concerned. Next title match is mine no matter what I gotta do to get it, and anyone that gets in my way is gonna regret it! So shine that belt up nice, boys, because tonight is the beginning of the end for one of you!" The camera watched as Robbie strode to the back, passed by Franklin who came running (assisted by a stagehand) out to check on Garry but...the camera panned down to find nobody beneath the stage. Garry was missing and Franklin was freaking out, looking around and demanding to know if anyone saw where he went before shrieking and running to the back. Mac: "Robbie Wright sending a message at Garry's expense here. I'm always one to cheerlead that guy getting his just desserts but I felt like the end of the match should have been the end period..." Rob: "More to the point, where IS Garry? We heard the man talking about 'Freeing his Mind' throughout the month but is this what that entailed?" Mac: "Whatever it is, it's got Franklin rattled and that's enough to let me know something's wrong here. Faithful we'll keep you abreast of details as we get them but the show must go on here at United States of Shamrocks and we have one more match for you tonight!" Rob: "Champion versus Icon, Harry Allen versus Pumpkin Jack, the champ has nearly double the years in this business as the challenger but Jack is a veteran of multiple ring wars with the likes of Halloween Knight, Joey Poison, The Aztec, and so many more luminaries of the ZEN Network. This one would be a classic if it wasn't for the obvious elephant in the room." Mac: "More like steaming pile of you-know-what, with Duke Hazzard attempting to say that the regular officials of ZEN Boston have dropped the ball tonight, he's gone and appointed himself special guest referee and if that man calls it down the middle I'll eat this Hawaiian shirt, mate." Rob: "The task ahead is definitely dauting for the Tricky Treat, but you don't get that name without having a few clever tactics up your sleeve. If there's one man who can beat those odds, it's Pumpkin Jack!" Mac: "It's time, ladies and gentlemen! Pumpkin Jack versus Harry Allen, ZEN Conqueror belt on the line, let's get to the action!" ZEN CONQUEROR TITLE MATCH HARRY ALLEN (c) VS PUMPKIN JACK SPECIAL GUEST REFEREE: DUKE HAZZARD A hotly anticipated bout among the ZEN Faithful, the addition of Duke Hazzard to this bout made the fans in Trenton ready for shenanigans from the get-go and shenanigans they got as Hazzard did everything in his power to get stall out the pre-match as he could by laboriously checking Jack for weapons prior to the bell. For his part, Jack looked amused by these antics to begin with, submitting to the checks until Hazzard called both men to the center of the ring to explain the basic rules of a wrestling match-which was really just Hazzard covering so Harry could take a cheap shot and start the match with an advantage. Pounding Jack into the ropes with lefts and rights, Allen ignored a slow five-count by Hazzard until Jack twisted them into the ropes and began firing shots back that caused Hazzard to attempt a much faster count that Jack backed off from just in time. As Hazzard admonished Jack for his 'Classless brawling', he jabbed a finger in Jack's chest, this distracted the Tricky Treat from Hazzard using the other hand to slip something to Allen before the champion threw another suckerpunch over Hazzard's shoulder. Jack dodged this one though, and grabbed Allen around the waist for a german suplex, bridging for a pin that Hazzard naturally slow counted to make sure Allen counted out. However, as Allen stood to get back in the fight, Jack outmaneuvered him again and hit an exploder suplex, again pinning him for a slow count he kicked out of. Then came a t-bone, then a fisherman, then a dragon suplex and Jack's strategy became clear: Destroy Allen so utterly that even an obviously crooked ref like Hazzard couldn't refuse a count. Needing desperately to get his man a break, Hazzard sequestered Jack in a corner to harangue him for pulling Allen's hair (despite never once doing any such thing) to buy the champ some time. When Jack finally had enough and sidestepped the Sheriff, he found himself taking a thumb to the eye and a rough DDT from the slippery champion. With it made quite obvious he was at a severe disadvantage in a straight up match, Allen went with what brought him to the dance: Out and out scumbag rudo tactics. At every opportunity he could he would take a drastic shortcut with only a light scolding from Hazzard as a punishment. This flurry of chicanery culminated in Allen wrapping Jack's leg around a steel ringpost and sandwiching it between the unforgiving steel and his cowboy boot! With Jack writhing on the mat in pain, Allen took advantage by applying the most devastating submission hold in a Texan's arsenal: THE SPINNING TOE HOLD INDIAN DEATH LOCK With victory seemingly in hand, Hazzard began making a show of at first asking, then demanding Jack submit to the hold. All the while Jack remained defiant even as the agonizing move was cranked on by Allen at Hazzard's behest. Eventually Jack found the fortitude to grab the ropes and -when Hazzard naturally kept his five count to a glaical speed- proceeded to drag himself through the ropes and onto the floor forcing a break. Hazzard greedily began to speedrun a twenty count but Allen waved him off, the champ clearly smelled blood and the prospect of an actual decisive victory over Pumpkin Jack was too good to miss out on. Despite Hazzard's misgivings, he allowed Allen to head to the outside and advance on his challenger, going to kick out Jack's leg as the Tricky Treat was trying to get up with help from the barricade. But Jack had seen this coming and lurched to the side, leaving Allen to kick the barricade himself and leave him wide open to a lunging slingblade on the outside! Hazzard, sensing a potential change in the tides, began counting again but Jack was too quick, grabbing up Allen and tossing him into the ring with himself following a mere second after at a 19 count. Hazzard grit his teeth as the challenger began regaining his momentum by unleashing as many acrobatic moves as he could, using his opponent's body like a crutch to keep steady. However, the problem of Hazzard's bias remained and didn't seem like it was going away any time soon, forcing Jack to return to his previous strategy, culminating in an attempted Pumpkinhandle Suplex that Hazzard attempted to intervene in and got clipped by his own man's boot on the chin, knocking him to the mat! Jack bridged to pin Allen with no referee, a three count passed...a six count...a nine count... Jay Fair hit the ring! Pouncing down, Jay counted once, twice... KICKOUT! The elapsed time was too long, Allen had managed to regain his senses and his strength. As Fair took over reffing duties, Allen attempted to swing on Jack, only to get dodged and headscissored to the mat by the challenger! Pointing at the corner, Jack signalled for the Orange Bowl and began hobbling for the corner-which was when a commotion distracted him. Hazzard was back up and he was NOT happy to see Jay Fair in the ring. The Sheriff grabbed Fair and began shaking him furiously before getting shoved on his butt by the head official of ZEN: Boston. Jack shook his head and began to climb to the top rope, turning around- He didn't see Allen slip his hand into his tights, he didn't see him retrieve what Hazzard had given him, what he did see was the last second of a brass knuckled fist traveling directly at his jaw! WHAM! Jack slumped and flopped off the top rope, seeing his chance, Allen tossed the knuckles out of the ring and climbed to the top rope, hitting his Diving Fist Drop on the KO'd Jack. Harry made the cover and called for the ref. Hazzard smirked and gave Jay an exagerrated 'After you' gesture. Fair ran over and began to count... 1! 2! Hazzard stomped him in the back of of the head and swooped down. 123! WINNER VIA PINFALL AND STILL ZEN CONQUEROR CHAMPION: HARRY ALLEN Mac: "THAT PIECE OF TRASH DID IT AGAIN!" Rob: "Head Official Fair may need a stretcher after that callous display, I am sickened to my core!" There was little time for celebration for Allen and Hazzard as Jack began to stir. The two of them scampered up the rampway like thieves in the night, Allen turning to hold up his belt with a cat-that-ate-the-canary grin before disappearing to the back Mac: "I don't know what it is Mr. Bendis and the ZEN Council are intending to do to that man but I assure you it will NOT be enough." Rob: "ZEN Faithful I've been Rob L. Miskovsky and for my broadcast partner Mac Smith...just...pray for justice, because God knows the Sheriff isn't gonna give you any."

LuchaSlam XXV - predictions card: 1- Campeonato de Universal title match - Nicolas Lopez © Vs Hijo Del Mephisto Comment: 2- Campeonato de las Mujeres title match - Celeste Moon © Vs Electric Dreamer Vs Amazon Queen Comment: 3- Phoenix II Vs El Critico Comment: 4- Campeonatos de Parejas title match - Space Invaders (Cosmic Rider & Extranjero Loco) © vs The Freedom Family (Luis Montero Jr & Tricolor Jr) vs Evil Intent (Hellspawn 666 & Slayyer) vs The American Cobras (Marvel Malloy & Storm Spillane w/Emilia Reyes) Comment: space 5- COTT World Heavyweight Title - Pablo Rodriguez © Vs Marcos Flores Comment: 6- Mystery Pink Vs La Hija del Diablo Comment: 7- Campeonato de Mexico title match - Disturbed © Vs Dragon Americano Vs El Hijo de Espado Roja Comment: 8- Campeonatos de Trios title match - Psycho Circus (Hellech, Payaso Jr & Pierrot) © Vs Remmy Skye & Canadian Daredevils (Jayson Van Pelt & Kamikaze) Comment: clowns 9 - El Pavo Real Vs Silver Tiger Comment: Some Questions: 1. Do we see merit in further summaries of the other Mexican promotion's PPVs? ye 2. The preview for LuchaSlam XXV was spread out over the last few entries - do people prefer to get them all at once or does it work having them doled out in spurts as they are being announced? either's fine

Technically the KBB video game but yeah it happened.

ZEN: United States of Shamrocks MAIN EVENT ZEN CONQUEROR TITLE MATCH HARRY ALLEN (c) VS PUMPKIN JACK ROBBIE WRIGHT VS GARRY THE ENTERTAINER ZEN KINSHIP TITLE MATCH TORTUGA STREET FIGHT THE LEGENDS OF THE SEA (c) VS THE GOLDEN GLORY TRIOS MATCH QT PI & ??? VS THE ARONA FAMILY (ARONA, GLITCH, SAMHAIN) RIGHT TO PARTY TITLE MATCH IF STEREO WINS, NO MEMBER OF MODERN JUSTICE CAN CHALLENGE FOR A TITLE STEREO (c) VS OLLIE BASHAM TYRONE GRAY VS DIAMOND DEUCE III MELANCHOLY MOLLY VS SUPREME YOSHIDA TRIOS MATCH THE FRAT VS THE REGULATORS

THE ZEN NEWSWIRE BLARNEY STONE EDITION WRIGHT/JACK ANIMOSITY? THE NEWSIRE HAS THE LATEST! The end of the latest Art of Grappling was a chaotic scene as Robbie Wright 'assisted' Pumpkin Jack in defeating Garry the Entertainer in a hotly contested matchup! Jack made it pretty clear that this help was NOT wanted in a faceoff with Wright post-match the two seemed poised to come to blows when Harry Allen and Bradley Blaze hit the ring to kick off a brawl! We've sent feelers out to both men's camps and while Wright has refused to comment, Jack had this to say: "My fights are my own and I thought The Frat would respect that. Apparently I was wrong as far as their leader was concerned. If Wright thinks I can't handle my own fights, then he can try me himself." CHEETAH BOY OUT FOR SHAMROCK, QT PI PROMISES REPLACEMENT Also on the latest Art of Grappling, Cheetah Boy was assaulted backstage by the minions of his son The Outrageous Arona! We at the newswire can confirm the ferocity of the attack left him unable to join QT PI in a tag team rematch with Arona and Glitch, leaving the Brainiac at a disadvantage...or so it would seem. QT has entreated Sheriff Duke Hazzard to make the match a trios contest to include Samhain as well, promising a pair of partners to even the odds. The match has been given the go ahead so it remains to be seen who will join QT in trios action. ZEN COUNCIL MEETING HANGS OVER HAZZARD'S HEAD, WHAT WILL COME OF THIS CONCLAVE!? Ever since two weeks ago the prospect of a meeting of the ZEN Council has haunted Duke Hazzard. With Frankie Bendis saying it will revolve around the embattled Sheriff's job performance and...inflammatory remarks, we can only wonder what will come of it! What we don't have to wonder about is the attendance as we can refresh you folks at home the various council members and which branch of ZEN they represents, shall we? FRANKIE BENDIS (FKA HALLOWEEN KNIGHT) - ZEN: ORIGINAL THE AZTEC - ZEN: ANDORRA MAMMOTH - ZEN: SASKATOON EGUCHI THE AMAZING BOOKER COMMENTATOR COUNCILMAN - ZEN: YAMAGUCHI MAN O'WAR - ZEN: LONDON DUKE HAZZARD - ZEN: BOSTON Get it? Got it? GOOD! SEE YOU IN TRENTON FOR UNITED STATES OF SHAMROCKS!

ZEN: The Art of Grappling "Garry vs The Gourd" Attendance: 641 Viewers: 100,623 The show began with Garry the Entertainer entering the office of Duke Hazzard, the Sheriff of ZEN looking like a nervous wreck flanked by Harry Allen and Bradley Blaze. Duke apologized for basically ghosting Garry the past few weeks, explaining that it was all the fault of that no-good Pumpkin Jack who was out to destroy the sanctity of ZEN: Boston. Franklin brought up how easily Hazzard gave Robbie Wright a match with Garry but the Sheriff replied that just showed how much faith he had in the Entertainer and that's why he called him here tonight: "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Pumpkin Jack needs to get hurt. Bad. The champ's belt is hanging in the balance and my livelihood is half staked on it stayin' right where it's at. Meanwhile you've got yer own problems that I think I can give solutions to, mainly a little jackwagon in a gaudy red tracksuit. So you take care of my problem tonight...I take care of yer problem come Shamrock. Deal?" Franklin very clearly smelled a rat but Garry grinned wide and stuck his hand out. "You got yourself a deal!" Soul thoroughly sold, Garry strode off to prepare for the main event. Allen and Hazzard shared a grin as Blaze folded his arms. QT PI VS AMERICAN JUSTICE A showcase for QT PI ahead of a rumored matchup alongside Cheetah Boy against Arona and his 'Family' at United States of Shamrocks, the Smartest Woman in Wrestling outthought, outfought, and outlucha'd her vigilante opponent with a flurry of high-flying maneuvers. Justice briefly managed a comeback dodging the Knee+Head=Defeat but QT managed to flip though an attempted backslide and lock in the PI's Paradox for a submission victory! WINNER VIA SUBMISSION: QT PI PI had little time to celebrate her victory as the ZENTRON 9TRILLION came to life to show her a harrowing scene backstage as Cheetah Boy was suffering a beatdown at the hands of Glitch and Samhain! Arona stood to the side, cackling and taunting his father as his 'sons' put the boots to-wait wouldn't that make CB their grandpa? Before more unfortunate questions could be asked, QT rushed backstage and Arona directed his troops to flee the scene, cackling and declaring there would be no hope for 'The Runt' come time for United States of Shamrocks. Elsewhere backstage, Pumpkin Jack was approached by The Frat (specifically Nelson, Rudge, and Barnaby) who offered to give him assistance in his match with Garry tonight since it was almost certain that the Regulators would get involved. Jack appreciated the offer but waved the Frat Boys off, declaring that if all went well tonight he'd be giving Robbie Wright an easier time come Shamrock. Nelson shrugged and led the boys in giving Jack handshakes before walking off...as the camera panned to show Robbie Wright around a corner, looking annoyed at Jack's words... CRASH TEST VS OLLIE BASHAM With the hopes of Modern Justice riding on him, Ollie Basham came into this match looing to dismantle his reckless opponent with a vicious array of technical moves, grounding him with ease and going to town on the masked man. Taking a few moments to tauntingly tell T-Bone Tucker to watch and learn, Basham dominated Crash Test before putting him away with his Sit-In Stretch Muffler. WINNER VIA SUBMISSION: OLLIE BASHAM Post-match Basham was given a mic by Travis Century and proceeded to rip into Stereo as a pale imitation of a wrestler and a heartless opportunist that only used his platform as the Right to Party holder to put on his little shows at the big events. Ollie Basham was twice the wrestler, twice the role model, and twice the man that Stereo was and at Shamrock he vowed he was going to show it. Backstage cameras caught up with Tyrone Gray asking him about how he was healing up after his altercation with Arona's Family last week. Gray began to give an update when Diamond Deuce walked into frame. Deuce said that all week all anyone was asking him was 'Why? Why'd you come out to help Tyrone Gray?' and he declared that Gray shouldn't be getting ANY wrong ideas, Deuce just came out there to run those freaks off because he knew that if he let it go down, Gray would have an excuse for their match. Deuce wasn't about to let that happen, and now Gray couldn't weasel his way out of giving him his due when he went down to the Deuces Wild in Trenton. Deuce stormed off, leaving Gray to just roll his eyes and smirk as he did, what was that Shakespeare said about people protesting too much? BROOKLYN'S FINEST VS DEVONSHYRE & SINGH Apparently resolving that the weirdness of ZEN was better faced with a partner along for the ride, Hawkeye Calhoun was joined in this match by his friend Freedom Eagle, showing a natural teamwork that put them in stark contrast with Lady Devonshyre and Kashmir Singh. Pre-match Singh angrily waved off Jay Fair from checking Devonshyre for weapons...only to pat her down himself to find a massive wad of bills and pocket it himself 'For her own good'. Deprived of her bribery strategy, Devonshyre still managed to comport herself well in the match, assisting Singh in isolating Eagle after getting run roughshod over by the opposing team in the early goings. However, Calhoun -finally grasping the fullness of lucha-style tag rules- cleverly yanked Eagle out of the ring as Devonshyre taunted the crowd on the top rope while calling for an elbow drop and replaced him on the mat! Ignoring Singh's warnings, Devonshyre went for the drop without checking and Calhoun rolled out of the way, springing onto her for an opportunistic pin attempt that Singh broke up! Singh directed traffic from there, angrily telling Devonshyre to toss Calhoun out of the ring while he grabbed Eagle...only for Eagle to appear on the other side of the ring and pull the ropes down as Calhoun reversed the attempted toss to send Devonshyre running. Eagle rolled into the ring as Singh paced around the opposite side, trying to figure out where Eagle was; Eagle stepped up and tapped him on the shoulder, getting waved off. Then Calhoun tapped Singh on the other shoulder and got waved off. Then they both tapped him on the shoulder and he realized it was NOT Devonshyre trying to get his attention. Slowly Singh turned around and immediately took a double suplex that had him writhing on the mat! As Brooklyn's Finest advanced on him, Singh scooted back towards a corner, begging off and fumbling in his tights for...the money! He held it up to them like meat to a pair of hungry lions, wagging the stack of bills back and forth until-DEVONYSHYRE SNATCHED THEM! As the Lady blithely tutted Singh for not practicing what he preached, she soon found herself hit by a baseball slide from Calhoun as Eagle yanked Singh out of the corner! As Singh was yanked to his feet he tried to shove Eagle away before turning directly into a kick to the gut from Calhoun who got Singh into a gutwrench position while Eagle ascended the top rope! Gutwrench suplex! Big body splash! This one was over! WINNERS VIA PINFALL: BROOKLYN'S FINEST The camera cut from the sight of Brooklyn's Finest celebrating with the fans to a secluded hallway in the arena, there we found Ollie Basham and...T-Bone Tucker? For once Tucker wasn't being scolded by his stablemate, instead Basham was...apologizing? Basham said he was going along with Century and Chapman because of peer pressure and deep down he knew Tucker was a good guy trying his best. That's why Basham told Tucker he had a special plan for the title match at Shamrock and he needed Tucker's help to make sure Basham got what he wanted, understood? Eager to get back in the good graces of his faction, Tucker nodded...and noticed the camera, starting to charge at it as it cut away and we went to our main event. MAIN EVENT PUMPKIN JACK VS GARRY THE ENTERTAINER A matchup of one of ZEN's most beloved tecnicos and hated rudos, the more experienced Jack went into this one the odds-on favorite barring any chicanery. Unfortunately Garry was A) Desperate and B) A Black Belt in Chicanery, Shenanigans, and at least a yellow one in Scumbag Tactics. This was on full display as he made it his mission to attack the mask of Jack in between other more generally head-focused moves. Rob and Mac on commentary noted he was obviously seeking to soften him up for the package piledriver, which Garry attempted quite early in the match but found himself back body dropped outside the ring (naturally onto Franklin)! With Garry attempting to stand and check on his lil buddy, Jack vaulted over the top rope for a diving body press that took out man and monkey alike, scrambling up to play to an appreciative crowd! Looking to end the match early, himself, Jack tossed Garry into the ring and pointed at the corner signalling for the Orange Bowl when-the stage hand operating Franklin grabbed his leg, forcing him to kick them away! This distraction allowed Garry the chance to smash a forearm into the back of Jack's head and suplex him back into the ring! Regaining control of the match, Garry returned to his strategy of targeting the head, smashing it against every available surface and slamming Jack again and again with an array of DDTs (at one point even doing finger gun taunts a la Bradley Blaze). Once more attempting the package piledriver, Garry found himself tripped up and nearly caught in a pinfall that he only barely kicked out of. Off his momentum, Garry began wildly swinging on Jack as they both stood but found himself deftly outmaneuvered and caught in multiple pinning attempts before stumbling full force into a superkick! With Garry dazed and staggering, Jack went for a Pumpkinhandle Suplex but Garry still had enough wherewithal to jab a thumb in his eye and force a break as Jack fell to the mat clutching at his face! Jay Fair knelt down next to Jack and checked on the luchador for any serious damage, only turning around briefly to tell Garry off for the dirty move. With Jack half-blinded and Jay checking on him, Garry motioned for something from Franklin...a pair of brass knuckles! Smirking wide, Garry grabbed the knucks and turned around to- Go face to face with Robbie Wright! Garry didn't even have time to beg off before Wright hit the Wright Move and slid out of the ring! Jack and Jay remained distracted a few more moment as Franklin screeched for the ref to pay attention and both men turned to find Garry laid out on the mat! Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Jack ascended the ropes and hit an Orange Bowl for an unknowingly tainted victory! WINNER VIA PIFNALL: PUMPKIN JACK Jack stood and posed for the fans for a few moments before Robbie Wright slid back into the ring and began putting the boots to Garry. Jack, putting two and two together stormed over and ripped Robbie off his rival and nearly took a slug to the face for his trouble. Robbie briefly hesitated before getting in Jack's face with an intense staredown that allowed Garry to roll out of the ring and limp back up the entranceway...until he got smashed into by Harry Allen and Bradley Blaze running down to the ring! The Conqueror Champion and Duke Hazzard's hired gun waylaid Robbie and Jack, kicking off a chaotic brawl that kept on right as the cameras faded out and Art of Grappling came to an end...

ZEN: The Art of Grappling MAIN EVENT PUMPKIN JACK VS GARRY THE ENTERTAINER BROOKLYN'S FINEST VS KASHMIR SINGH & LADY DEVONSHYRE CRASH TEST VS OLLIE BASHAM QT PI VS AMERICAN JUSTICE

THE ZEN NEWSWIRE HAZZARD IN HOT WATER!? ZEN COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULED THE DAY AFTER UNITED STATES OF SHAMROCK Surprisingly literally no one that's been paying attention to the words coming out of his mouth the last few weeks, the ZEN Council and Sheriff Duke Hazzard are not on the best of terms. Maybe it was his man being the champion, maybe it was him surrounding himself with The Regulators but the man in charge of ZEN: Boston became even more combative as of late and openly challenged their authority...at least until Frankie Bendis decided to pay a visit. Now we have a ZEN Council meeting on the horizon about Hazzard's conduct and it seems like his job may be hanging by a thread. We at the newswire aren't SAYING some scissors would be appreciated but snip snip are we right? ZEN CONQUEROR TITLE MATCH SET FOR UNITED STATES OF SHAMROCK...FOR REAL THIS TIME! With Pumpkin Jack successfully jumping through the hoop of his handicap match on Art of Grappling, we now have a set in stone title bout for Shamrock: Pumpkin Jack and Harry Allen will face off in Trenton for the Conqueror Title! Allen's reign thus far has been characterized by chicanery and shenanigans but as a man whose lifelong rival was/is the current Supreme Ruler champion, Jack has a lot of answers for a lot of dirty tricks. Can Duke Hazzard's handpicked champ leave Trenton with the belt? ZEN FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROGRAM COMMENCES! HYWATER THE FIRST TO MAKE THE JUMP! The product of an initiative between the five chapters of ZEN, the Foreign Exchange Program has finally gone live in an attempt to give the youngest members of the rosters of each a chance to gain much needed experience! Volunteers from all ZEN rosters are lining up to make the jump from one promotion to another and ZEN: B's own Helen Hywater is on her way to ZEN: London to take UK by sure. Give 'em heck, Helen!

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ZEN: The Art of Grappling "When the Man Comes Around" Attendance: 641 Viewers: 110,437 On The ZEN Network The start of Art of Grappling focused almost entirely on Duke Hazzard entering the building amidst a flurry of press activity, bulbs were flashed and questions asked as the embattled Sheriff waved them off and angrily stormed his way to his office flanked by the Regulators who kept the journos at bay. Once inside, Duke noticed his chair was turned around and fumbled to grab the first thing that came to hand: A branding iron. "Alright yew spooky sonnova gun I know yer in that there seat and if you don't git I'm brainin' ya with this thing, understand!?" The seat swung around to reveal: "Goodness, Sheriff, I've had warmer welcomes when visiting my subsidiaries." Frankie Bendis, Founder of ZEN, Supreme Ruler Champion, and Chairman of the ZEN Council tilted his head and stroked his goatee. Hazzard immediately dropped his weapon and began making excuses, only to get cut off by the Chairman laughing uproariously and wiping an invisible tear from his eye. "Oh you really crack me up, Hazzy, you really do." Standing up and brushing the seat off, Bendis explained his purpose here tonight was twofold: 1) He was taking an executive vacation. 2) He had a message to deliver to Hazzard from the ZEN Council. Hazzard blinked and tried to pry out of Bendis what that message was but the Chairman held up his hand and shook his head, the message would wait until AFTER he'd seen all ZEN: Boston had to offer tonight. Demanding Hazzard provide him with a front row seat for the action, Bendis strode out of the office to the shock of the Regulators, especially Harry Allen. With a casual comment about admiring Harry's title belt, Bendis strode down the hall with Hazzard following after him, hissing at his henchmen to be ready for the main event tonight. We cut from this to ringside where The Outrageous Arona led his two 'sons' Glitch and Samhain out for the two opening contests of the evening. Arona hyped the other two men, declaring that unlike 'SOME FATHERS', he took an active part in the lives of his children and had spent the past seven days helping them to come into their own as pro wrestlers! He declared that tonight he was confident that 'Glitchy and Sammy' would make their Dadmom proud because he is just that naturally prideful in general and he has tons to spare. CRASH TEST VS GLITCH The first of the bouts featuring Arona's Family, Glitch took on Crash Test in a high-flying contest that was more of a demolition derby between the two than a proper lucha libre match. Crash's constant risk taking was a classic double-edged sword, his reckless approach ebbing and flowing his chances in extreme fashion as Glitch's own rulebreaking mannerisms tipped the scales in his favor. With both Samhain and Arona cheering him on and only taking a brief stop to point out Bendis taking a seat in the front row, Glitch hit his Glitch in the Matrix meteora to pin Crash Test in impressive fashion. WINNER VIA PINFALL: GLITCH TYRONE GRAY VS SAMHAIN Without a need to vacate ringside for this matchup, Glitch and Samhain merely switched places for the bigger man's match with Tyrone Gray. Only just his third match on Art of Grappling, it became clear Samhain's brute force had nothing on Gray's years of experience as the former MAW prospect ran circles around his foe much to the clear amusement of Bendis in the front row. Seeing his 'kid' getting made a laughingstock of, Arona shouted for Samhain to throw the rules out the window which prompted the halloween heavyweight to catch Gray in a corner choke which he refused to let up on past the five count from Arlene Lawler, causing a DQ! WINNER BY WAY OF DISQUALIFICATION: TYRONE GRAY Post-match Arona and Glitch slid into the ring and helped Samhain yank Gray out of the corner and triple powerbomb him down to the mat! Letting his lackeys put the boots to High Energy, Arona leaned out of the ring to mug at the Chairman when the crowd erupted into cheers at the arrival of QT PI and Cheetah Boy who tried to come to Gray's rescue. However, the numbers were proving to be too much until a very unlikely bit of cavalry galloped onto the scene: Diamond Deuce!? Scaling the top rope and launching himself with a missile dropkick on Samhain, Deuce recovered in time to lowbridge Glitch into stumbling out of the ring which allowed the tecnicos to get a numbers advantage of their own on Arona...who characteristically beat a tactical retreat with his goons as Gray and Deuce locked eyes for a moment as the rudo took his leave. Rob and Mac tried to make sense of Gray's heated rival intervening in something that would give him an advantage but couldn't come to any satisfying answer. THE GOLDEN FOX VS SUPREME YOSHIDA A surprisingly engaging clash of styles in this bout as former Kinship Champion, The Golden Fox, took on the SWF's #1 Fangirl in SUPREME Yoshida in a battle of cruiserweight acrobatics against all the hits of the 80's! With his tag partner The Golden Pig at ringside for support, Fox kept up a brisk early pace against Yoshida until the hot prospect from Hokkaido, Japan turned him inside out with a Strong Arm Tactic that only a boot on the apron saved him from getting pinned off of. Looking to apply a Proton Lock, Yoshida found herself evaded by Fox and stunned with a palm strike as the fans cheered the masked superhero on! Seeing an opportunity, Fox went out onto the apron to go for his springboard Hurricanrana finisher The Fox Hunt-when he saw his partner getting assaulted at ringside by Swashbuckler and Cap'n Crush! Looking to intervene, Fox was left unprepared when Yoshida suplexed him back into the ring and sized him up for something big...something devastating...something...SUPREME! THE SUPREMACY! The finishing move of Eric Eisen is used to devastating effect on the unexpecting Fox and he is lifeless on the mat for Yoshida to pounce on for the pin! In the front row Frankie Bendis pointed and spilled a bucket of popcorn over Hazzard who smiled with forced enthusiasm. WINNER VIA PINFALL: SUPREME YOSHIDA As both members of The Golden Glory were helped by staff to the back, Yoshida grabbed a microphone to give her special message to the ZEN Faithful. "ZEN FAITHFUUUUUUUL! LISTEN TO ME AND LISTEN WELL! When I was defeated Ash Barnaby two weeks ago my soul was dealt a blow like it had never felt before! Yes, yes, and while the ZEN Roster wallowed in the slightly better than here but still awful trashpile known as Jersey City I knew I had to use the time I had to find a new way...a better way. So gathering my belongings I made pilgrimage to Providence, Rhode Island and the headquarters of the greatest Sports Entertainment company on the planet: The Supreme Wrestling Federation!" The fans booed her fangirling "And there I knelt before the gates and I begged and pleaded for a sign, a sign from mighty Richard Eisen, from the indomitable Eric Eisen, I would've even settled for Jerry! As the storm clouds gathered and life seemed at its darkest, that was when a limousine pulled up to the building and I saw him...ohhhh yes I saw him. Eric Eisen, perfect in every way, the finest mind in this business and as I touched the hem of his garment I asked him for his wisdom and he told me that if I vacated the premises immediately I would not be arrested! BUT I WAS ARRESTED, ZEN FAITHFUL! ARRESTED IN! MY! SOOOOOOUL! And I knew, oh yes I knew from that day forward it was not that the faith wasn't powerful enough, it was that I had not committed myself to it fully, that YOU had not committed yourselves to the one true religion, and that religion is: "Eisenism~" "FROM THIS DAY FORTH, I DEDICATE MYSELF TO THE FATHER! THE SON! AND THE NOT AS GOOD SON! FOR I AM SUPREME YOSHIDA, THE PROPHET OF EISENISM! REPENT AND CONVERT AND YOU WILL BE SPARED MY HOLY FURY!" To a chorus of boos (and a Supreme Ruler laughing his rump off), Yoshida serenely made her way to the back, her intent to be a crusader for Eisenism certainly causing a stir. ROBBIE WRIGHT VS A-MAZE-ING GRACE The match begins! Wright Move Wright Move Wright Move! The match ends...yeesh...Grace was gonna need to be peeled of the mat with a spatula... WINNER VIA PINFALL: ROBBIE WRIGHT After that thing we had to call a match for legal reasons, Robbie Wright took a few moments to trade words with Duke Hazzard in the front row when he was interrupted by Garry the Entertainer appearing on the ZENTRON 9TRILLION! Looking smug after his successful ambush of Robbie last week, Garry tut-tutted that absolute beatdown of Grace just there. Declaring he saw himself in Grace in this situation, beaten on for no good reason by a tracksuit-wearing bully with an unnecessarily brutal finishing maneuver, Garry said that for underdogs all over the world he'd take great joy in feeding Robbie some humble pie at United States of Shamrocks... "Also, hey, Dukey, buddy! I see you down there, why won't you answer my calls!? Hit me up, we can scratch each other's backs on all this surely!" This prompted Franklin to pop into frame. "Or at least pick the lice from them! OOK-AH! OOK-AH! OOK-AH!" Hazzard, who had been trying to shield his face with his hat to not be noticed, groaned noticeably as Wright stormed to the back with a dark look on his face. After this The Regulators marched down to ringside, Bradley Blaze leading Big Hoss and Deadly Deadshot (along with JT Crockett III) to the ring to face off with Pumpkin Jack, who made his way out onto the stage in order to meet whoever it was that Hazzard had chose to be his partner... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28CJFJ_bN9c Oh...oh dear. Misfortune incarnate, Melancholy Molly trundled out onto the stage. Head hung low, hands in pockets as she stood next to a perplexed Pumpkin Jack. Bendis -for his part- pointed and laughed at this turn of events, joined by Hazzard who looked genuinely pleased for the first time tonight. Mac and Rob rightfully pointed out that Molly has held the Right to Party in the past but most of her victories were...to put it gently flukes and with the very determined Regulators on the other side of the ring, Jack's work as cut out for him in the main event. MAIN EVENT 2-ON-3 HANDICAP MATCH PUMPKIN JACK & MELANCHOLY MOLLY VS THE REGULATORS The commentators were far from wrong when they said Jack had an uphill battle ahead of him, not only was his partner not the winningest member of the roster, but she also seemed bound and determined to lose the match on purpose if her conduct when she got in the ring was any indication. Many were the times that Jack had to break up a pin or intercept a submission hold just to make sure the most apathetic woman on the roster wouldn't screw him over. It was only on a lucky back body drop sending Deadly Deadshot out onto the other members of the Regulators that Jack had a moment to actually converse with his partner. What he said was a mystery but Molly looked up at him with...well she still looked sad as sad could be but there was something approaching determination in her eyes. This was good because as soon as they could the Regulators finally managed to have Bradley Blaze catch her in a surfboard hold. Jay Fair asked for her submission but...Molly said no! This made Duke Hazzard spill his own popcorn in rage rather than joy as he began shouting at Molly to give if she 'Knew what was good for her', but Molly held on and paid the price by getting worked over by the Rudos in their corner! It was an extreme test of endurance for Molly, who endured move after move as the Regulators did their best to isolate her and keep Jack from getting the hot tag. From the hammering fists of Big Hoss to the deadly accurate offense of Deadshot to the sadistic dirty tactics of Blaze, if the fans didn't despise the Regulators before they certainly did with this awful display. Looking to put her away once and for all, Blaze applied a sleeperhold on Molly, leering across the ring at Jack when...MOLLY HIT A JAWBREAKER! With Blaze nearly bumping out of his boots, Molly began the long crawl across the ring! Deadshot dove in and tried for a running senton that Molly limply rolled out of the way of, beginning to crab walk as Big Hoss growled and tried to enter the ring-only to get yanked off the apron by an unseen hand while Jay Fair was keeping track of Molly nearing tagging range! As Hazzard squawked for Fair to pay attention three pairs of arms yanked a struggling Hoss under the ring to a fate unknown as Molly lunged for the hot tag and Jack entered the ring to an uproarious reaction! The ZEN Legend ran wild on the two remaining rudos, sending them to the mat again and again with lefts and rights before making them both have a meeting of the minds in the center of the ring! An early backdrop driver on Blaze secured a nearfall that Deadshot broke up, but as the rudos attempted to get the numbers advantage, Molly snuck up on Deadshot and got on her hands and knees allowing Jack to shove him onto his back! Blaze attempted to drive a cowboy boot into Molly's head but this was intercepted by Jack who took the Dallas Cowboy down with a dragon screw! Blaze held his leg in pain as Deadshot began to scramble back up, outmaneuvered by the oft-overlooked Molly who caught him in a full nelson and hit him with her Dopamine Drop finisher that sent him bouncing up and directly into a Pumpkinhandle Suplex from Jack who bridged into a pin for the victory! Jack just earned himself his ZEN Conqueror title match and celebrated with Molly in the ring as Hazzard threw a tantrum at ringside and...oh hey The Frat came out from under the ring, whistling innocently as they wandered off and past the furious Sheriff. The cameras zoomed in on Hazzard and were able to catch his tirade... Hazzard: "-and I ain't ever been so humiliated in my life! That one was a slam dunk and if it weren't for those no good Frathouse Rats I'd be free of that dadgum gourd once and for all! AAAAAAARGH!" Bendis: "Oh hey, that reminds me! I still have that message to deliver!" Hazzard: "Aw shut it ya no good suit! The only reason your worthless rear end still has that Supreme Ruler title of yers is cuz my boy Harry don't wanna travel! I don't got one good thing to say about that council of yours and as far as I'm concerned they can go shove it!" Bendis: "Oh. Alright...so this is probably a not a good time to tell you you've been compelled to come to a meeting of the Council to...discuss your continued status as the authority around here? Shall I just let them know you're no longer interested in the job?" Hazzard: "Wh-!? N-now hang on Mr. Bendis, I just got a bit heated there...I uh...there's no need to...I can...I can make it to that there meeting no problem!" Bendis: "Goody! Because it's the day after your little event with the Shamrocks and the States and whatnot! I can't wait to see you there! Toodles now~!" Standing up and giving a little wave, Frankie Bendis walked off, signing a few autographs and giving a glaring Pumpkin Jack finger guns as he went. Old rivalries die hard. Hazzard, left to his own devices, let out a noise like a dying animal and tossed his hat on the ground, storming off while cursing like an old timey prospector as this edition of Art of Grappling came to an end.