Post by Robert Daniels on Feb 9, 2021 18:57:47 GMT -5
Battleground Network Presents
MAINSTREAM WRESTLING 62
SUNDAY - 2/21/2021
TOYOTA CENTER
HOUSTON, TEXAS
MAINSTREAM WRESTLING 62
SUNDAY - 2/21/2021
TOYOTA CENTER
HOUSTON, TEXAS
MAINSTREAM WRESTLING IS LIVE FROM HOUSTON AND WE’RE INSIDE THE TOYOTA CENTER FOR MAINSTREAM 62!
CONTRACT SIGNING
“Deal with the Devil” by Pop Evil hits the speakers as Julianna DiMaria appears on the stage, greeted by some boos from the fans in attendance. She ignores them and heads down to the ring with a confident, focused look on her face.
GRAHAM STEVENS: Please Welcome the winner of the 2021 Pinnacle Battle Royal and Number One Contender...JULIANNA—DIMARIA!
She climbs the ring stairs, stepping through the ropes and stands awaiting the introduction of the champion.
“Highway to Hell” by AC/DC plays as the Mainstream Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion makes his way to the ring. Hammerstein is dressed for business in a black suit and shirt with a blood red tie. His hair is pulled back in a tight ponytail.
GRAHAM STEVENS: Please Welcome the Mainstream Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion. He is the “American Monster”...JACOB—HAMMERSTEIN!
He cradles the World Heavyweight Championship in his right arm as he walks up the ring steps and enters the squared circle. After he's in the ring, he rest the title on his left shoulder. Bombay walks over to Hammerstein, his hand extended. The American Monster looks down at his hand, and keeps walking over to the table. He sets the Championship on the middle of the table and sits down across from Julianna DiMaria. He picks up the microphone and nods to Julianna.
HAMMERSTEIN: Julianna DiMaria, without a drop of sarcasm, I wanna say I'm proud of you. You heard the naysayers, the ones that said that maybe you didn't have what it takes anymore. You heard them, but you didn't listen to them. They told you that you couldn't do it, and you gave them the finger and told them to hide and watch. Then you went out and you won The Pinnacle Battle Royal. Hell, along the way, you even beat me in NVR. But, I don't want you to get the wrong idea.
Hammerstein grabs the Mainstream World Championship and holds it out towards Julianna. His voice takes on a more forceful tone.
HAMMERSTEIN: When this title is on the line, and my spot as standard bearer for this company is at stake, I go to a whole other level. If you wanna take this belt...if you wanna become the standard bearer for Mainstream, you're gonna have to dig down deeper than you ever have. You're gonna have to go to a place that you've never been before. You've got to find strength beyond strength... determination beyond determination. Do you have it in you? You'd better find it before you get in this ring with me again, or else I WILL run your ass over.
Hammerstein signs the contract and starts to stands up but Julianna DiMaria picks up the microphone to speak.
JULIANNA DIMARIA: Just hold on one second...you’re questioning whether I have it in me to have strength beyond strength and determination beyond determination? For starters, if I didn’t, I wouldn’t have won the Pinnacle Battle Royal to begin with. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t come in here last year like the house of fire that I have been for much of my run here and won the United States Championship almost right out of the gate. The fact of the matter is, Hammerstein, I came here to MAINSTREAM Wrestling to become the best that I’ve ever been. I came here to grow past the nonsense that I had to deal with in the first couple of years that I had hit the mainstream business. I got to this company because I wanted to prove that I am a serious competitor with a hell of a lot more determination and strength than anyone would ever give me credit for. It hasn’t always been an easy ride. I have had my stumbles. I’ve had my periods where people stupidly questioned if I was losing it only to go out and prove the people that posed that question wrong.
“It’s like I’ve been saying on social media… this isn’t the same old Julianna anymore!”
“This isn’t the Julianna that would fail to take the next step.”
“This isn’t the Julianna that would collapse, crumble and cry whenever things didn’t go her way.”
“This isn’t the same old Julianna that would make excuses about every single little thing and blame everyone else.”
“This isn’t the same old Julianna that would give far more of a crap about looking pretty and being some naïve stupid, basic, blonde Barbie doll far more than being a professional wrestler.”
“This is not the same old Julianna that would be treated as a joke elsewhere.”
“This is not the same Julianna that would never come close to being to a main event level that I am right now.”
“You probably know that, considering that NVR encounter that you specifically pointed out. But let me tell you something about that NVR match… that’s NVR. If you think I am going to walk into Mainstream 65 with my head in the clouds, basking in the glow of that win and acting like I’ve got this match in the bag, then you’re dead wrong because if I go into that match with that mindset, you’ve already beaten me before the bell has even rung and I’m too smart and too experienced to fall into that trap now. No, that’s not the match that I am going to think about when I go into our title match.”
“The match I am going to be thinking about is the Emerald City Classic last year.”
“You think I’m over that? You think I’m over how I pulled off a hell of a run in the tournament, all the way to the finals, and how I was bruised and battered after all the shit Bryan Ford had put me through that night and how it was YOU and not me that won in the finals? You think a part of me still isn’t bitter about it? Because it is! I’m a competitor that has long grown of being DONE with second best. I have sat back and accepted being second best for too long now. For the whole time that I’ve been here, I’ve had to see you be one step ahead of me every single show…”
“And with all due respect?”
Julianna takes a pause before she ultimately signs the contract.
JULIANNA DIMARIA: Come our title match?
“That’s going to end! I get to become a world champion for the first time… FINALLY… against the pinnacle of this company… and I’m not going to have any apologies for my first world title coming at your expense…”
Hammerstein pushes the table from between himself and DiMaria. Bombay tries to step between the Champion and the Challenger as Hammerstein steps up to Julianna, but The American Monster stiff arms him in the chest, pushing him back into the ropes . The Hall of Famer extends his right hand to the future Hall of Famer, who accepts the handshake. Hammerstein holds the World Heavyweight Championship in his left hand and raises it in the air.
CHARLES HUDSON: DiMaria looks up at the title with a sense of determination all over her face.
MCKAYLA LEWIS: Everyone who has won the Pinnacle Battle Royal has went on to become the World Heavyweight Champion.
CHARLES HUDSON: That is a very interesting fact Lou but that streak ends in two weeks. Julianna DiMaria is a very good wrestler but she’s no match for the American Monster.
MCKAYLA LEWIS: In two weeks folks Hammerstein defends the World Heavyweight Championship against Julianna DiMaria in the Main Event of MAINSTREAM 63!