Post by Prophet of Ash on May 16, 2012 17:20:35 GMT -5
Schneider shows no hesitation to going to the floor. As he rolls underneath the bottom rope, Mak catches him with an elbow to the small of the back before he can get back to his feet. Mak pulls Schneider to the floor, then brutally whips him into the steel ring steps. Referee has the ten count going, already up to four. Mak rolls into the ring.
Matt Steel: Is he going for a countout victory?
Matthew Werner: How anticlimactic would that be? Opening spot, then a count out..
Schneider slow to his feet. He walks back to the middle of the ring apron to get back into the ring. Mak Cross darts away from Schneider into the ropes, rebounding, then running back, diving up and over the top rope and to the arena floor, putting life and limb on the line with a suicide dive that floors Schneider, sending both men crashing backwards into the security rail.
First two spots of the match, other than a chop, and it's all Mak.
Mak is first back to his feet. He pulls Schneider to a vertical base, but goes behind into a rear waist lock. He’s trying for a German suplex on the arena floor, but Schneider is having none of it. Standing switch from Schneider, he’s now trying to take Mak up and over for a German suplex on the floor, but Mak wisely grabs ahold of the ringside rail. He actually pulls some of the rail with him as he goes up, but not up and over. As he’s released, the rail crashes back to the floor. Schneider opts for a short arm clothesline to the back of Mak, then bangs Mak’s head into the rail.
Everything Schneider tries is blocked, so he goes to a simple strike.
The referee’s count rises again. This time, it’s Schneider who rolls into the ring to break the count. Mak puts his arm into the ring and starts in himself, Schneider stomping on the fingers. Schneider grabs Mak by the arm and pulls him into the ring. Schneider puts the point of his elbow to the point of Mak’s elbow and begins pulling Mak’s arm the wrong way. Mak screams in agony, the referee right in to ask him if he wants to submit. Unfortunately for Schneider, prior to applying this submission hold, he didn’t pull Mak to the center of the ring, so Mak is able to easily put a foot on the bottom rope.
Schneider gains the advantage, only by stomping on the hand, a dirty and illegal move. Schneider goes for a submission, and Mak easily escapes it.
Schneider back up, Mak nursing his arm a bit. Schneider pulls him back up by the arm, putting the arm through the ringer with a wrist lock, before giving him an Irish whip, but holding on to the arm as he does so, resulting in Mak violently whip lashing and crashing to the mat.
Matt Steel: Good way to tear a shoulder out..
Matthew Werner: Do you think he’s sending a message to Hutton Brown here? He’s targeting the left arm of Mak Cross..
Matt Steel: I don’t think Phillip Schneider thinks that far ahead. I think he just does things and hurts people.
Schneider pulls Mak to a vertical base, still holding on to the top wrist lock. He drags Mak to the corner, putting Mak’s hand over the top rope and pulling downwards on it. The referee warns of a disqualification, then starts the five count.
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Schneider breaks before five.
Matt Steel: Those ring ropes are steel cable wrapped in a small amount of thin plastic tubing, then wrapped in tape. They have no give to them.
Mak leaves his arm dangling over the ropes and doesn’t try to retreat, instead just catching his breath. Schneider peels the protective Velcro cover off of the top rope connector, exposing the steel piece of the ring used to tighten the ropes. Schneider grabs Mak’s hand again and this time, bangs it into that exposed steel.
Matthew Werner: That’s galvanized steel, and very awkwardly shaped galvanized steel at that.
Matt Steel: This is why Schneider is the elder statesman of the WFWF locker room. The wrestling ring’s combat area to most people goes from rope to rope, occasionally the air above the ropes. To Schneider, the entire ring is in play and the areas that most people don’t use, the apron, the posts, the connector’s to the ropes.. Schneider knows how to use those to his advantage.
Schneider grabs the hand of Mak again, this time stuffing the fingers between the steel connector of the buckle. The referee warns of this, Schneider switching his position and pulling down at the fingers, effectively trapping Mak’s hand in the buckle. Referee starts a five count.
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Schneider lets go. He doesn’t need to hold Mak in place any more, Mak is stuck.
Matt Steel: It’s like a bear in a bear trap, he’s stuck in that corner with no way out..
Matthew Werner: Why would it be just a bear in a bear trap? Wouldn’t anything in a bear trap be trapped the same way as a bear?
Matt Steel: Shut up, Matthew.
Schneider backs away from the corner as the referee instructed him to do. He backs into the neutral corner across the ring from where Mak is trapped. Mak tries desperately to get himself free from the ring post’s vice. Schneider decides it’s time to assist him, running across the ring and Yakuza kicking Mak in the back of the head. Mak’s quick pull to protect himself from the Yakuza kick does free his hand, opening a slight cut on the hand in the process.
Matt Steel: Legitimate Japanese Businessman Kick in the corner. I hear that’s how Schneider goes hunting. He gets an animal trapped, then he just runs up and kicks the crap out of it.[/quote]
Schneider advantage, primarily through illegal means.
Schneider pulls himself off of the turnbuckles and makes his way to the center of the ring. Mak gets free from the turnbuckle and stumbles back to the center of the ring. Schneider takes a swing at Mak. Mak blocks and swings for a slap. Schneider blocks the slap and hits Mak in the sternum with a palm strike. Mak throws an elbow, Schneider blocks it and tries for an elbow of his own. Block from Mak and a leg sweep. Schneider nips up and arm drags Mak. Mak scrambles back to his feet, running across the ring, and running right into a spinning back fist.
Matt Steel: He swung that out of no where and his depth perception was spot on to hit that.
Matthew Werner: And Mak Cross is on wobbly legs.
Matt Steel: He swung that out of no where and his depth perception was spot on to hit that.
Matthew Werner: And Mak Cross is on wobbly legs.
Back and forth strike exchange, neither are able to hit anything. Schneider gets a desperation strike out of no where.
Schneider hooks Mak in an inverted full nelson. He’s trying to pull him over for a Beverly Kills 90210. Mak elbows his way out of it and spins Schneider around. Mak puts a foot to Schneider’s face and drops to his back, booting Schneider’s face by the fall. Mak back to his feet. He runs forwards for a spear on the stunned Schneider. Schneider sidesteps and directly Mak into the ropes. Mak stumbles through the ropes and to the arena floor.
Matt Steel: Mak was going for broke with that spear and he caught none of it.
Matthew Werner: And now he’s in a dangerous area, on the floor.. That’s Schneider’s area..
Matt Steel: Mak was going for broke with that spear and he caught none of it.
Matthew Werner: And now he’s in a dangerous area, on the floor.. That’s Schneider’s area..
Despite taking a spinning back fist, Mak has enough to him to escape the pending finisher, reversing Schneider's finisher and rolling to the floor to get his sense back.
Schneider rolls to the outside. He grabs a steel chair from ringside and throws it into the ring. The referee puts it back out of the ring, turning his back to the action for long enough for Schneider to gouge the eyes of Cross. Schneider grabs the blinded Cross and hip tosses him up and over, onto the steel ramp. Schneider stops, staring up the ramp, as Hutton Brown has made his presence known there, at the top of the ramp.
Matthew Werner: What’s Hutton doing out here?
Matt Steel: I assume he’s not out here to trade Pokemon cards
Matthew Werner: What’s Hutton doing out here?
Matt Steel: I assume he’s not out here to trade Pokemon cards
Schneider throws a chair into the ring, and when the ref isn't looking, gouges the eyes. Again, only gaining the advantage because he went outside of the rules.
Hutton makes his way down the ramp. The referee slides to the outside to try to stop whatever is about to happen, cutting Hutton off at the pass. Hutton grabs the referee and pitches him aside. Schneider meets Hutton midway down the ramp and the two exchange blows. A vicious head butt out of no where from Hutton stuns Schneider. Hutton grabs Schneider and lifts him up, dropping him on the ramp with a piledriver. Referee has seen all of this and calls for the bell, calling for a disqualification.
Matthew Werner: Clearly a disqualification in Schneider’s favor, due to the outside interference of Hutton Brown.
Matt Steel: Hutton’s really made it a point of spoiling Schneider’s moments lately. First the no rope barbed wire match, now this would be classic match..
Matthew Werner: Schneider may be seriously hurt here.
Matthew Werner: Clearly a disqualification in Schneider’s favor, due to the outside interference of Hutton Brown.
Matt Steel: Hutton’s really made it a point of spoiling Schneider’s moments lately. First the no rope barbed wire match, now this would be classic match..
Matthew Werner: Schneider may be seriously hurt here.
Finish of the match, which Mak isn't even involved with, and ends with Schneider laid out.
Hutton stands up, a smug smirk on his face. Referees swarm around the Heavyweight champion, checking on his well being as we fade out, the copyright information and the WFWF logo flashing on the screen as we fade to black.
Now tell me, HOW THE that is putting Schneider over and burying Mak? Whenever it was catch as catch can wrestling, or Schneider wasn't cheating, Mak had the advantage in the match. Mak hit EVERY high impact move of the match, Schneider's only time in power being the illegal attacks to the hand, and the eyes. And the hand work the feud element with Hutton, which plays towards the finish.