ONE STEP CLOSER 2002

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August 2002 TV Here

ONE STEP CLOSER 2002

FREE FOR ALL

The FREE FOR ALL begins.

Heenan and Paul E. are on the announce table.

HEYMAN: Welcome everyone to One Step Closer!

HEENAN: Humanoids...tonight could be the beginning of the end for the NCPW as we know it!

HEYMAN: That's right Brain! If Muta beats Foley tonight, then he has booking power for NCPW POWERSLAVE 2002!

HEENAN: Foley MUST win tonight, or NCPW could be in BIG trouble!

HEYMAN: Lets go to the parking lot to see the wrestlers arrive...

In the parking lot, we see Zero-G arrive in a Jag, and the three seem in good spirits. The Innovaotrs are next to arrive and enter the arena quickly.

HEENAN: You know what else to Paul. Tonight we get to find out not only who Al's partner is, but who this Wildcat is to.

HEYMAN: Maybe if we wait, well see them arrive.

Outside, The Kai En Tai tour van arrives. Kai En Tai get out, and immeadiately start shouting. The camera pans around and we see Nishimura shouting back. Nishimura runs inside, and Kai En Tai follow.

HEYMAN: Here comes Al!

Al Snow arrives and gets out of his car. His partner starts to get out, but Al stops him before we can see past his hand. Al shouts at the camera man, and we go back to the announce position.

HEENAN: Did you see that guys hand? It was MASSIVE!

HEYMAN: I know...lets get this show started!

HEENAN: We're going live!

Card Information

Held in: RICHFIELD COLISEUM

Location: OHIO, UNITED STATES

Date/Time: August Week 5 at 11:00pm

Matches/Interviews booked: 15

Arena Capacity: 10000

Attendance: 10000

A Sold Out Arena.

Ticket Buy Rate: 100%

PPV ratings: 3.8%

Approximently Viewers: 5700000

No-Time-Limit-Match

The Innovators defeated The Jackyl Pack when Kanyon pinned E. Guerrero with the Flatliner in 0:17:20.

Rating: *** 1/2

(The Innovators retained the NCPW TAG TEAM TITLES.)

No-Time-Limit-Two-out-of-three-Falls Match

Mikey Whipwreck beat Koji Kanemoto 2 falls to 1:

x Whipwreck beat Kanemoto via the Whippersnapper in 0:05:07

x Kanemoto beat Whipwreck via the Tiger Suplex in 0:10:10

x Whipwreck beat Kanemoto via the Whippersnapper in 0:20:13

Rating: ***

No-Time-Limit-Number-One-Contenders-Four Corners Match

Kai En Tai defeated Zero-G, Too Much and Team Alfonso:

x Lynn beat S. Taylor via the Piledriver in 0:05:51

x Van Dam beat D. Storm via the Five Star Frog Splash in 0:13:28

x Funaki beat Lynn via the Fisherman's Buster in 0:22:07

Rating: ** 3/4

Barbed Wire No-Time-Limit-No-Countout-No-DQ-Triangle Match

Atsushi Onita defeated Hardcore Holly and HHH when Onita pinned HHH with the Thunder Fire Power Bomb in 0:21:16.

Rating: ** 1/2

(Atsushi Onita won the NCPW FTW TITLE.)

post match, Atsushi Onita celebrates. Then...the lights go off again! The spotlight is on Onita, and...ROAR! "DUCK AND RUN" hits! The scratches appear on the big screen: "Guess who just arrived! Onita, tell your boss to be ready. The Wildcat is coming. If any of you Kai En Tai members try to get involved in tonight's man event...you will all know my presence!" The lights go back to normal, and the music stops. Onita doesn't look too happy anymore.

No-Time-Limit-Match

Tiger Mask IV pinned Mikey Whipwreck with the Tiger Suplex in 0:20:09.

Rating: **** 1/4

(Tiger Mask IV retained the NCPW TV TITLE.)

No-Time-Limit-Four Corners Match

The Suicide Blondes (Chris Jericho, Christian and Edge) defeated

Team Extreme (Booker T, Rhino and Taz), The Can-Am Express (Doug Furnas/Glacier/Phil LaFon) and Kai En Tai (Dick Togo/Kaz Hayashi/Terry Boy):

x Chris Jericho beat Booker T via the Lion Tamer in 0:14:01

x Kaz Hayashi beat Furnas via the Flying Senton in 0:15:23

x Edge beat Togo via the Downward Spiral in 0:17:21

Rating: * 3/4

(The Suicide Blondes (Chris Jericho, Christian and Edge) won the NCPW SIX MAN TITLES.)

post match, the Suicide Blondes celebrate with their titles. The celebration is short lived though, as the Kai En Tai originals storm the ring and take the Blondes out.

KAZ: Suicide Blondes...by taking our belts, you have gone Kamikaze tonight! We challenge you to a simple three-on-three contest at POWERSLAVE! No other teams, just you three taking us on!

JERICHO: Thats what you want? You got it!

Kai En Tai take this as an invatation to attack and clean house in there. The crowd is booing madly.

No-Countout-No-DQ-3-Man Battle Royal

Osamu Nishimura won a 3-man Battle Royal:

x Nishimura defeated Sick Boy after the Northern Lights Suplex in

0:24:17

x Nishimura defeated Ohtani after the Northern Lights Suplex in

0:33:34

Rating: **** 1/4

post match, Shinjiro Ohtani throws a fit and lays into the new champion Nishimura. TAKA and Funaki hit the ring, and Ohtani invites them to join him in the attack. TAKA calmly picks up the cruiserweight title nd floors Ohtani! TAKA and Sho are doing a number on Ohtani!

NISHIMURA: You fool! You were right to be suspcious Ohtani-san! You saw this coming, but you fell in so easily!

Nishimura lays into Ohtani with TAKA and Sho.

HEENAN: I guess that Ohtani is out of Kai En Tai then!

HEYMAN: Ya think?

HEENAN: Of course i do...i'm the Brain!

HEYMAN: Bobby...shut up!

Then...a familiar music hits. It's Kanemoto! Koji Kanemoto, Ohtani's partner in NJPW hits the ring! Koji fights off TAKA, Funaki and Kai En Tai new boy Nishimura! When Ohtani looks up and sees Koji helping him, he gets up and helps clear the ring. Koji and Ohtani hug and then shake hands. They leave together.

HEENAN: WOW!

HEYMAN: You can say that again Brain!

HEENAN: WOW!

HEYMAN: Now, lets get ready for the next match!

"Rock 'N' Roll Part II" hits, and Al Snow walks out to the ring, cocky as ever.

SNOW: Tell me...all you people here, live so near to my home town of Lima, yet you show none of the class of Lima. HA! Well, now is the time you've all been waiting for! Ladies and Gentlemen, my partner!

The music hits again and a huge man walks down to the ring in a mask.

HEENAN: Who is it!

HEYMAN: I know who it is! He was with Al in SMW!

The man enters the ring and removes the mask to reveal...UNABOMB!

SNOW: And so people, as we did in SMW...The Dynamic Duo rides again!

No-Time-Limit-Match

The Dynamic Duo defeated The Flock when Unabomb pinned Raven with the Unabomb in 0:20:22.

Rating: *** 1/4

[MATCH FOR BOOKING POWER AT POWERSLAVE 2002]: No-Time-Limit-No-Countout-No-DQ-Non-Title-Match

Great Muta pinned Cactus Jack with the Moonsault in 0:23:11.

Rating: *****

post match, Muta calls Kai En Tai out and they all lay into Cactus Jack. Kanemoto and Ohtani storm the ring and try to help, but they end up thrown out of the ring. Muta takes a mic while Kai En Tai kick Foley into a bloody mess.

MUTA: So Foley...I guess we have power at POWERSLAVE! HAHAHAHA! Now...an explanation. Ohtani, you must want to know why.

Ohtani retreating up the ramp with Koji stops.

MUTA: It's true, The Wildcat did not throw Nishimura through the window. He through himself! HAHAHA! All this time, we've wanted to turn on you, and now you allign yourself with Koji Kanemoto...HAHAHA!

Koji and Shinjiro leave.

MUTA: Speaking of the...Wildcat...show yourself and save Foley, or you may not have a company to work for.

We hear scratching, and the words appear on the big screen. "If that's what you want." There are no lighting effects, and no roar. All we hear is the sound of 3 Doors Down's "Duck and Run" echoing around the arena and the crowd chanting "WILDCAT! WILDCAT!" Then, "Wildcat" Robbie Brookside enters through the crowd with a baseball bat! He takes out TAKA, Funaki and Nishimura before anyone in the ring notices. As Kaz, Togo and Terry Boy turn, each is hit with a vicious baseball bat shot to the head. Tiger Mask IV is the next to drop, and Onita falls soon after. Muta has his back turned laughing. Then he turns and sprays mist, but Robbie dropped to the mat and avoided it! He gets up and attacks Muta with the bat! Muta is busted open, and Robbie is really doing a number on him! Foley is up, and he calms Robbie down. Foley and Robbie celebrate in the ring over the fallen Muta and the show fades out...