STRUGGLE SESSION: COOL ZONE #2 CARD

COOL ZONE #2 CARD (Subject to Change):

1. Lorelei & Junior Grim vs. Jezebel Grim & Toshiyo Nakano – The winner of this match takes the spot formerly occupied by Lorelei & Jezebel in the Wild Card Challenge battle royals, (battles royal?) plus they win a five dollar bet.  As of right now, we don’t know if that means ten dollars total, or if it’s precisely five dollars, for a total of $2.50 each. Due to the two Wild Card matches happening on this show, the winner also wrestles twice in one night.  Which seems kind of dumb, seeing as how entry was open to literally anyone, and both teams could have been in, but what do I know?

2. Tyrannosaurus Plex (with Manny Diaz) vs. Dick Smales – No wrestling show is complete without a match where a dumpy, old, bald man gets hurled into the sky repeatedly by a giant dinosaur man, while a middle-aged former world champion in US flag Zubaz shouts slogans at them both.

3. WILD CARD CHALLENGE BATTLE ROYAL #1 – The winner gets their team in the tag title tournament as the #8 seed, or gets the #1 seed and a first-round bye if their partner wins the second battle royal. Wrestlers can be eliminated by pinfall, submission, or being tossed from the ring, because these matches tend to suck, and we’d like to end this as fast as possible. Current competitors, subject to change, but probably not:

  1. Rockin’ Roland (Rockin’ Rocksmen)
  2. Lil’ Xeljanz (Winthorp & Xeljanz)
  3. Ludmilla Grozny (Grozny Twins)
  4. Rhode Island Red (Fighting Cocks)
  5. El Grande Chungus (BIG BOI SEASON)
  6. PARTY TIGER (COKE PARTY)
  7. Brother Smothers (Humble Ministries)
  8. Buford Randall (TSOL)
  9. CANNONBALLS! (Team No Impulse Control)
  10. Harbinger Calmity (Harbingers)
  11. Reinhold Kinski (Cobra Highway)
  12. Comrade DIRECT ACTION (Outside Agitators)
  13. Junior Grim/Toshiyo Nakano, depending on who wins the first match

Important to note here is that The True Sons of Liberty, (Garfield Vanzetti & Buford Randall) Team No Impulse Control, (CANNONBALLS! and Immortan Jimmy) and the theoretical Grim/Nakano team are all newly-formed teams that have never had a match together before this show. Also, counting the Wild Card Challenge teams, the tag tournament features four co-ed teams (including the Secret Evil Service Elite, who are already in the main bracket) and one all-female team, and there have never been anything but all-male champions before now. So either this tournament will be a triumph of human progress or a crushing reaffirmation of the patriarchy. Wrestling!

4. Zelda Lucabrasi vs. Taco Belle – The breakout star of the YASS KWEENDOM 2020 tournament takes on the high-flying nacho enthusiast.  This could have serious implications over who PARTY TIGER‘s next challenger might be. Zelda is hoping for a title match rematch, while Belle, you know, sometimes you just gotta make a match and see what happens, like everyone was in that tournament and all but one is coming off a loss, and well, shit. We didn’t think this thing through. Should be at least decent though.

5. Froggy Terry vs. Radical Jeremy – RANDOM MATCH hell yeeeaahhh, old schoooool! I think we need to do more barely-planned house shows, so we can flesh out the ranking a little more. Until then? Stuff like this.

6. Marioluigi Lucabrasi vs. Tucker Schertz – Same as above? Man, we gotta give heavyweights something to fight over eventually. Or maybe get Marioluigi to sit in a sauna for a while, so he can fight cruiserweights.

7. WILD CARD CHALLENGE BATTLE ROYAL #2 – See above. Winner gets the #7 seed, or possibly #1.

  1. Rollin’ Rocky
  2. Big Winthorp
  3. Dimitri Grozny
  4. Buff Orpington
  5. BIG TREAT BOY
  6. Ross Coke
  7. Sister Dobalina
  8. Immortan Jimmy
  9. Harbinger Doom
  10. Skull Mayday
  11. Raoul Kemp
  12. Lorelei Grim/Jezebel Grim

Kinda looks like most of these teams opted to put the stronger halves of the team in this one. Personally, I’d try not to have a weak link, but again, what do I know?

7. Reverend Freakout vs. Big Baby Lucifer – BBL is really trying to make a case for himself as a top guy lately, and Freakout has always been a deceptively tough dude, at least when he sticks to one plane of existence.

9. NO POLICE INVOLVEMENT CHAMPIONSHIP STREET FIGHT – Tony Unity (champion) makes an OPEN CHALLENGE – So apparently, no one will know who the challenger is until after the show starts, meaning we can’t do any sort of expert analysis or update the stupid poster art.  I’m hoping for the funniest possible outcome, where the challenger ends up being some loser schmuck, and Unity finds a way to still lose somehow.

10. CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Immortan Jimmy vs. Rodimus Primo (champion) – Jimmy won the right to a one-on-one do-over of the tournament’s three-way final, and this should be kind of wild. Then again, anything involving Jimmy ends up ridiculous, like he probably breaks three windows while making toast. It’s Legend vs. Young Upstart here, but I wouldn’t count Primo out if leaving this one with his reign intact. If you ask me, that kid’s got something special. He’s got the touch.

NOTE: Jimmy wrestles earlier in one of the Battles Royal, so in case something untoward happens to him, we will make a substitution for this match. Then again, he is Immortal and in possession of a level of dumbassery that only immortality can grant a person, so he’ll more than likely just wrestle injured.

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THE SCENE: The Vito Genovese Memorial Bingo Complex and Auction Barn. In the empty arena, STRUGGLE Pro wrestler, self-proclaimed “world’s greatest patriot,” and Facebook valor-thief GARFIELD VANZETTI stands in the ring holding a microphone. He is flanked by his wife, PATIENCE HALLIBURTON-VANZETTI and his weird little sidekick guy, BUFORD RANDALL. BUFORD stands at attention, as though either man had ever been involved in the military in any way whatsoever, and a visibly bored PATIENCE just kind of dicks around on her phone. Elsewhere, BUDDY FROM THE RING CREW records the whole scene.

GARFIELD: My fellow countrymen, these are dark times. This once-great nation stands on the precipice of disaster, as a fraudulent election and a completely-fabricated pandemic have-

(PATIENCE’s phone starts ringing, loudly playing “Jungle Love” by Morris Day and the Time)

GARFIELD: You didn’t put it on silent? I thought we talked about this?

(PATIENCE answers the phone, shoots him a look, and holds up a finger in the universal sign of “shut up, I’m on the phone”)

PATIENCE: Hey, look, I can’t talk right now, Garfield’s doing a… A thing, I dunno. (Whispering) And goddammit, I told you not to call this phone during the day!

GARFIELD: Wait, who is that?

PATIENCE: Oh. It’s… Uhh… Jane. Jane from… The office?

GARFIELD: Well, tell Jane you’ll call her back.

PATIENCE: (to the phone) Yeah, I gotta go, I’ll talk you later. (Whispering again) See you tonight, stud.

GARFIELD: Okay, so where was I… My fellow Americans, now is a time when we must-

(BUFORD’s phone starts ringing. It’s an early 2000s model Nokia – because he read online that the deep state can’t listen in on those – and it’s playing a MIDI version of Hanson’s “Mmm-Bop,” which he swears came with the phone)

GARFIELD: Really!? Don’t answer that!

BUFORD: But it’s my mom.

GARFIELD: I don’t care!

BUFORD: She only calls this phone in emergencies.

GARFIELD: Just pull out the goddamn battery!

BUFORD: (fumbling around with the back panel of the phone) Yes sir, immediately sir.

BUDDY: (over the PA system) Uhh, speaking of batteries, you need to wrap this up, this thing’s about to die.

GARFIELD: Okay! So. In these trying times, yadda yadda yadda, I am pleased to announce on behalf of my family, my country and STRUGGLE Pro Wrestling that my neck has fully healed, and I shall soon return to active competition. And with Buford by my side, The True Sons of Liberty are entering the Wild Card Challenge, where we shall inevitably earn a spot in the tag team championship tournament, and bring the gold back where it belongs.

BUFORD: And I’d just like to say that-

GARFIELD: …And as champion, I shall restore honor and integrity to this great sport, just as I did when I ended the careers of the seditious anarchists, Skip Legday and Captain STRUGGLE! United we stand! Guns, country, family, guns, God, freedom, guns! THIS I’LL DEFEND!

(At this point, it seems as though the promo is over, when all of a sudden, STRUGGLE Pro announcer, backstage interviewer, office gofer etc., MURRAY STADANKOWICZ walks out and enters the ring.)

GARFIELD: Wait, what is this? Why are you here?

MURRAY: Well, we have a special announcement to make, and just figured that as long as we have the cameras set up, we might as well do it now.

GARFIELD: But this is my promo! This is my time!

MURRAY: But I thought you were done. You said your catch phrase and everything.

GARFIELD: Well, I mean… Yeah, I guess.

MURRAY: Super great! Ladies and gentlemen! I have an exciting announcement! After a long delay, the wait is finally over! Now that they have finished their contractual obligations in Minneapolis and Portland, we can finally announce the arrival of the hottest free agent tag team in professional wrestling! Welcome to STRUGGLE Pro for the first time ever – they’ve never wrestled here in any capacity, folks – at a total combined weight of 461 pounds, introducing Skull Mayday and Comrade DIRECT ACTION: The Outside Agitators!

GARFIELD: Wait, what!?

(“Sleep Now in the Fire” by Rage Against the Machine blares over the PA system, as two black-clad masked wrestlers enter the arena. One is a cruiserweight whose lucha-style mask has an elaborate horned design, and the other is a heavily-tanned and almost absurdly muscular man with contradictory spindly legs. The closest physical comparison for the two would be CAPTAIN STRUGGLE and SKIP LEGDAY, like the resemblance is almost uncanny. Upon seeing the duo, GARFIELD is immediately livid.)

GARFIELD: What is the meaning of this! That’s clearly Skip Legday and Captain STRUGGLE! I have a restraining order!

MURRAY: What? No, these are two other guys! Come on, look at their masks!

GARFIELD: Butbutbut- Captain didn’t even get a new mask! I can still smell the spray paint!

COMRADE DIRECT ACTION: Ah, Captain STRUGGLE. I know he cool because I meet him in jail! He just like the Comrade, except he very ugly! That why he wear mask!

GARFIELD: What the hell are you even talking about!? And you! There’s no way you’re not Skip! The legs! Look at your legs! Your skinny little legs!!

SKULL MAYDAY: Speaking of skinny… Heard you just got over some kinda neck injury. Maybe if you had some traps, that wouldn’t have happened, bro. Looking pretty scrawny there, little man.

GARFIELD: Scrawny!? I was the 2015 Tri-State Area Over 40 Crossfit champion! I am the perfect human weapon!

SKULL: Well, you know. Maybe if you knocked off all the New Age nonsense and did some real lifting, you’d have some actual mass.

GARFIELD: Wha- Bu- Guh- (his speech degrades momentarily into a bunch of exasperated consonant sounds that do not resemble any known human language)

SKULL: Just saying, bro.

GARFIELD: I demand these two men be removed from the building at once!  I HAVE A RESTRAINING ORDER!

COMRADE: Not against us.

GARFIELD: You little… Argh! THIS ISN’T OVER!

SKULL: Not by a long shot.

MURRAY: Ladies and gentlemen, The Outside Agitators!

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THE SCENE:  Backstage after the opening match of STRUGGLE Pro THE COOL ZONE #1, a freshly-defeated YUMIKO LA GRANGE  is not handling the loss well.   Despite the intervention of STRUGGLE Pro head booker UNCLE ABDUL, it can be safely said that she is absolutely losing her shit.

YUMIKO LA GRANGE;  What the fuck was that, anyway!?  Lorelei Grim is like a thousand fucking pounds!  She moves like a sloth!  How the fuck can you not duck that lariat!?

TOSHIYO NAKANO:  Please, Yumiko-san, I-I I try, but she just-

YLG:  Do not give me a fucking excuse!  DUCK! THE FUCKING! CLOTHESLINE!

UNCLE ABDUL:  For Christ’s sakes, Yumiko, just calm down!

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