VCW Monday Night Wrestling 02/22/99 (VCW 8)

Interview:
Hunk Higgins challenges Stormy Weathers to a match at the Big Fight, and Ruby Richard Cage 
challenges the Wrecking Crew to a match right now.Click here to see highlights.

The Middle-Aged Outlaws defeated The Wrecking Crew when Higgins defeated Rock
 by disqualification in 0:03:33.
Rating: -*
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Interview:
The Inquisition sets up their agenda for tonight.
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The Bull Moose Party defeated The Immortals when Bullwinkle pinned K. Collins
 after the The Bully Pulpit in 0:20:51.
Rating: 1/2*

Interview:
Liberation X responds to the Inquisition's challenge.
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Manhunter #1 pinned Brian Rivera with the Diving Headbutt in 0:16:03.
Rating: * 3/4

Interview:
Dean Sanders offers $50,000 if Tim Bell can beat him in a rematch.
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Tim Bell pinned Dean Sanders with the Top-Rope Frankensteiner in 0:12:36.
Rating: *** 1/2

Interview:
Tim Bell celebrates his victory, but is jumped by Dean Sanders and Lance Errington... Lance 
then goes on to challenge Johnny Smiles to a match at the Big Fight.
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Lance Errington pinned Devaccio Pola after hitting him with a fire extinguisher in 0:16:09.
Rating: ****
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Interview:
Lance Errington, Dean Sanders, and Neytron DelArmeggio jump Devaccio Pola in the ring.
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Interview:
David Wright Hubbard speaks his mind about a lot of things.
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Non-Title-Match:
David Wright Hubbard pinned Rob Solomon with the Flying Cross Bodypress in
           0:16:36.
Rating: *** 1/4

Interview:
Fred Reid interviews Melissa DelArmeggio in the ring.
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Interview:
Richard Tobian talks about the Torturer, Gabriel Black, and the Big Fight.
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The Torturer pinned Richard Tobian after a jack-knife power bomb in 0:14:13.
Rating: ** 1/2

Interview:
Johnny Smiles discusses upcoming title defenses and unveils his strategy for scouting Melissa 
DelArmeggio... which makes her quite angry.Click here to see highlights.

Melissa DelArmeggio defeated Johnny Smiles by disqualification in 0:09:21.
Rating: **** 1/4
(Johnny Smiles retained the VCW Intercontinental Title.)
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Interview:
David Wright Hubbard brutally tortures Melissa DelArmeggio and challenges Troy Black to a 
match at the Big Fight.Click here to see highlights.

Ladder Match:
Gabriel Black defeated Jeff Wright in 0:17:08.
Rating: *** 1/2
(Gabriel Black retained the VCW World Title.)



Match observations: 

       Tonight, perhaps more than any other, set the scene for the Big Fight. 
Even the opening nonsense with the Middle-Aged Outlaws set a scene, as Hunk 
Higgins challenged Stormy Weathers, the manager of the Oriental Express, to a 
match at the Big Fight, with an added stipulation:  if Stormy wins, he gets to 
kiss Bretta "The Barmaid" Biffcork.
       After that announcement, the impossible happened:  The Middle-Aged 
Outlaws defeated the Wrecking Crew, albeit by disqualification, when Stormy 
Weathers tripped Hunk Higgins during the match. The Wrecking Crew are very 
unhappy, and understandably so; Stormy Weathers cost them what would ordinarily
have been an easy victory. There will probably be consequences for that in the 
coming months.
       The Inquisition made no secret about their plans for Troy Black, Melissa 
DelArmeggio, and Liberation X, with Gabriel Black going so far as to set up a 
ladder match against Liberation X member Jeff Wright as tonight's main event, 
and David Wright Hubbard challenging everybody from Rob Solomon to Johnny 
Smiles to Melissa DelArmeggio. Later on, they would reveal that they were 
indeed all business.
       Tim Bell, in a rematch from last week, defeated Dean Sanders to win 
fifty thousand dollars. Unfortunately, the Golden Society wasn't happy with 
this loss, and decided to make Tim Bell one of the first of many people to be 
attacked and injured during tonight's show. Lance Errington and Dean Sanders 
attacked Tim Bell with the metal suitcase containing the money, and he was 
carried away on a stretcher.
       This scene would be repeated later when, after Neytron DelArmeggio, the 
newest member of the Golden Society, helped Lance Errington defeat Devaccio 
Pola, the two of them and Dean Sanders hospitalized Devaccio Pola with a three-
man Spike Piledriver. Referee James Applebee gamely tried to stop them, but was
overpowered and also sent to the hospital after a Piledriver by Neytron 
DelArmeggio.
       David Wright Hubbard was a busy man this week, defeating Rob Solomon in 
a non-title match, then returning to lay out Melissa DelArmeggio and Johnny 
Smiles in the middle of a grueling Intercontinental Title match that brought 
out the best in two otherwise mediocre performers. After attacking them, he
proceeded to torture Melissa until she was finally saved by the H.A.R.P. Squad,
then challenge Troy Black to a match at the Big Fight.
       Richard Tobian fought a good, competitive match against the Torturer, 
but was unable to win. He has also declared himself an enemy of the 
Inquisition, and to that end he challenged Bass Rogers to a rematch at the Big 
Fight, a rematch from their last match at Wrestlewar, without the VCW 
Television Title on the line, of course. Declaring yourself to be an enemy of 
the Inquisition isn't usually very wise, though...
       The main event, the ladder match, saw Jeff Wright come within inches of 
being the VCW World Champion several times. There were multiple high spots, and
both men took more than a few nasty falls when the ladder was knocked out from 
under them, sometimes while they were up quite high on it. However, Gabriel 
Black will most likely go into the Big Fight still holding the VCW World Title,
and the main event will still pit him against Falcon in a ladder match.

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