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Lashly
outlasts five Extremists, won the “ December to Dismember Title ‘’
watched million on Ten ~Sports
By Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD—
Just minutes before Lashlley won the ECW World Title in first ever
Weapons-filled Extreme Elimination Chamber match telecast by world
renowned TV channel TEN~SPORTS on last Sunday. Wrestling is one of the
popular sport in all walk of life and Ten Sports is telecasting this
kind of interesting mega event regularly. On the ECW new breed’s first
solo pay-per-view event since its debut on Sic Fi, the newest Extremist
Lashley emerged from the first-ever weapons-filled Extreme Elimination
Chamber with the ECW World Title. Flooring the World’s Largest Athlete
and outlasting four of ECW’s top competitors, this one man accomplished
a very extreme mission.
“ECW is the real deal,” proclaimed the exhausted yet elated new
champion. “Being in that chamber was threatening and dangerous enough,
and on top of that, I had to fight off the toughest – and largest –
athletes in the world.” He added, “This isn’t a regular championship I
won – it is extreme.”Earlier in the night, Sabau was found laid out in
the locker room area and a seemingly concerned Paul Hyman substituted
the stretch red ECW Original with Hardcore Holly. Later, Big Show,
Holly, Test and Hymen all made their way to the ring in the locker room
area and it became apparent that it was all a scheme to flank the ECW
World Champion by Hyman’s trusted henchmen. The crowd in Augusta, Ga.
anxiously watched as the 10-ton steel structure was lowered from the
rafters over the ring. Within minutes, they would witness an
unbelievable confrontation between six of the new breed’s finest in an
every-man-for-himself encounter.The most controversial main event in ECW
history commenced with two embittered rivals in Rob Van Dam and Hardcore
Holly. The two traded blows while the other four participants looked on
from within their separate holding pods. Every five minutes thereafter,
each combatant entered the melee with the unique weapon stowed within
their pod until all six men had made their way into the ring.The first
man to join the fray was ECW fan favorite CM Punk who emerged from his
pod with a steel chair, followed five minutes later by Test who bore a
crowbar. After lighting up his opponents with high energy attacks,
Punk’s chair was ultimately used against him by the hardcore veteran RVD.
Van Dam flattened the straight-edge Extremist with a Five-Star Frog
Splash for the pin.
Though disappointed about the loss, Punk was met by a respectful ovation
from the Georgia audience. Directly after he made his way through the
curtain, Punk described his experience in the main event.“I could’ve
prepared by watching all the tapes in the world and could’ve battled [my
opponents tonight] all a billion times; it still wouldn’t have prepared
me,” Punk said. “They call that thing Satan’s playground for a reason.”
With Punk eliminated, Van Dam faced a double-team effort by Holly and
Test as Hyman shouted instructions to his hired hands. Suddenly, Test
exploded into his cohort Holly with a ferocious big boot to the face and
eliminated the Alabaman by pin. This would be enough for RVD to mount a
brief but fiery offense on ECW’s Impact Player.
However, RVD attempted to finish off Test and mistakenly scaled the
wrong corner – that of Big Show. With the Extreme Giant grabbing Van
Dam’s leg, Test dropped RVD to the mat and followed through with a
savage elbow drop from the top of Show’s pod, finishing RVD. Following
his defeat in the Chamber, Van Dam spoke in brief with ECW media men“I
can’t imagine it getting much more brutal than that,” said RVD.
“Everyone’s hungry for the same goal: the ECW World Title. Just Test was
left standing and the ruthless competitor waited for the next opponent –
who would be revealed Lashley. Before he could make his way into battle,
Heyman’s Private Security force took out referee Mike Posey before he
could release Lashley from imprisonment. Locked within his pod with his
table, Lashley was furiously eager for action and sought escape. Even
with his incredible strength, it took Lashley’s uncanny force as well as
his weapon to crash through the steel roof of his Chamber pod, enabling
him to enter the match.Lashley speared his way through Test with minutes
to spare before the entry of his final and most formidable foe, Big
Show. The menace of the 500-pound Big Show was even greater as the
dominant champion wielded a lethal barbed wire bat coming into the bout.
Lashley used the steel chair to shield himself from Show’s attack and
even reversed an enormous choke slam to stay in the match. It was
ultimately a spear from Lashley that had enough velocity to bring the
colossal champion to the mat and enable the challenger to gain the
victory. While Heyman looked on in disbelief, Lashley embraced his newly
attained ECW gold and the ECW fans received their new champion on the
biggest night of his young career to won a world title of this kind of
competition.
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