Boston, Massachusetts
The shot opens live in the jam packed Fleet center in Boston as the camera pans around the lively crowd before going to the broadcasters.
Joey Styles: Hello everyone and welcome to the Fleet Center in Boston and welcome to Tag Wars! I'm Joey Styles along side Joel Gertner and what a unique night we have tonight!
Joel Gertner: Absolutely! This event will be done by random drawing which means we could see any combination of teams, so we could see friend against friend or even enemies on the same team Joey!
Styles: As a matter of fact, let's take a look at the locker rooms as the roster has basically been split into two rooms.
The shot goes backstage to a split screen as the faces of SlaughterHouse are in one room and the heels are in the other.
In the ring are the eight top contenders for the women's title and general manager Jesse Steele is shown on slaughtervision.
Jesse Steele: Hello ladies. I know all of you along with the fans might be wondering where Trinity is and why she is not in the ring defending her title. Well as everyone knows, we just returned from overseas and she was doing some last minute promotional work for our next trip back to England and due to some travel issues she won't be here tonight. So as of now this match will be turned into a number one contenders battle royal with the winner facing Trinity next time on SlaughteHouse from Miami. So may the best woman win!
Number one contender Women's battle royal
- Ivory eliminated by Molly Holly
- Syd Colt eliminated by Lita and Britney Haven - Mystique eliminated by Jazz
The battle royal went from eight down to five as Jazz and Molly Holly wanted Gail Kim to join them in a three on two on Haven and Lita but to everyone's suprise, Gail turned around and tossed Molly out as Haven went after Jazz. The two went at it as Gail Kim and Lita went at it and all four traded shots until Haven tossed Jazz into the corner. She was followed by Kim and Lita. As Haven got down, Lita jumped off her back onto the two in the corner with poetry in motion, dropping Gail but Jazz stumbled out which gave Haven the chance to toss her out and eliminating her. But before she could do anything, Jazz reached in and pulled her out under the bottom rope which was a valid elimination so as Jazz and Haven got into it and fought to the back, it came down to Lita and Gail Kim.
The fans began chants of "Lita" over and over as the two remaining women circled each other and sizing each other up.
As the two locked up, Lita went for an arm drag but Kim quickly turned it into a crossface chicken wing. She had it on for a few minutes till Lita began fighting out of it so Gail kneed her in the back and hit the ropes trying for a move but Lita quickly dropped down pulling the middle rope with her and sending Gail to the floor.
"Lovefurypassionenergy" by Boy hits car hits as referee Scott James came in and raised her hand.
Styles: What a win for Lita and she will now go into this weeks SlaughterHouse as the number one contender to face Trinity for the women's title.
Gertner:That should be something to see since those two women are mirror images of the one another.
Styles: Well fans it's time for our first match of Tag Wars so let's go over to the luckiest man in this building Josh Matthews, who is with Christy Hemme for the drawings!
The shot shifts to the special drawing stage as once again both locker rooms are shown on slaughtervision.
Josh Matthews: Eat your heart out Joey! Okay Christy let's spin this tumbler.
Hemme spins the tumbler a few times then stops and opens it and picks out two names at once, handing them to Matthews.
Matthews: Okay the first man, part of team number one will be.... Little Guido!
As the locker rooms are shown on slaughtervision, Guido is shown getting up and making his way to the ring.
Matthews: The second name is...... Juventud Guerrera!
Back in the opposing locker room, Juventud was shown getting up and making his way to the ring while Hemme once again drew two names out of the tumbler and handed them over to Matthews.
Matthews: Let's see the first member of their opponents. It will be........ Val Venis!
Hearing his name, Venis got up and left the dressing room, making his way to the ring.
Matthews: And his partner will be...... Oh now this will be interesting, the name of Nick Dinsmore!
Out of the same dressing room Venis came out of, Dinsmore came out, making his way to the ring.
Tagwars first round match Juventud Guerrera/Guido Maritato Vs Val Venis/Nick Dinsmore This match had a lot to offer from high flying to a power game to on the mat wrestling but in the end as Juventud jumped on Dinsmore's shoulders for an apparent hurricanrana, Dinsmore muscled him off onto his feet in front of him and quickly hit his german suplex pin to score the win for his team.
Styles: Man what a suplex! And now Nick Dinsmore and Val Venis have advanced to the Tag Wars battle royal for the championship ring.
Gertner: Dinsmore's former cohorts in the million dollar corporation hinted at the fact that he was the weak link of the group, well I think Mr. wrestling just showed everyone different right here tonight!
The shot goes back to Josh Matthews and Christy Hemme as Hemme once again spins the tumbler and pulls out two names, giving them to Matthews.
Matthews: Okay, let's see we have the name of, Chris Harris!
Backstage Harris is shown leaving the locker room for the ring.
Matthews: Next we have, Victor Garza.
Garza is shown backstage making his way to the ring while Christy spins the tumbler pulling out two more names and handing them to Matthews.
Matthews: Their opponents will be, the monster Legion!
Legion is shown making his way to the ring from the back.
Matthews: And his partner will be, oh man, James Storm.
A suprised Storm makes his way out and to the ring.
Tag Wars first round match Chris Harris/Victor Garza vs Legion/James Storm This was an interesting match when Garza started with Storm and got taken to school up until he tagged in a relunctant Chris Harris. But when it was all said and done, Legion's running boot on Harris got the win, sending his team to the battle royal.
Styles: Oh my God! That boot of Legion is still as lethal as ever!
Gertner: And like we said before, anything can happen at this event and we just saw it with AMW on opposing sides.
The next match of the evening saw Jamie Noble defeat Outcast to become X-division champion due to outside interference by of all people, Nidia!
Backstage Paul Heyman was told by a returning Sargeant Slaughter that Nemesis would in fact be in the Tag Wars tonight.
The next Tag Wars match saw the united Hot Bodies score a win using their "Hot Shot" to advance to the battle royal.
In the locker room, JD Blaze was furious that Nemesis was in the Tag Wars but said that he'd dump the painted faced panty waist like he does everyone else.
At ringside, despite being attacked by Jeff Hardy, Bloodhunt used his impaler ddt to get him and Preston Knight into the battle royal.
Backstage Marcus Hansen was shown getting ready for his title defense but was seemingly staring into outer space and in the locker behind him could be seen the restraining order given to him by Joe Corey, when both Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit walk in and told Hansen despite all that, he has to stay focused on defending his title not just tonight but against everyone all the time. Then Jericho picks the title up off the bench and lays it right on Hansen's lap as they leave. Hansen then drops his head to stare at it.
At ringside Jeff Hardy nailed the Swanton Bomb to advance himself and Jerry Lynn to the battle royal this time however Hardy was stopped short of celebrating when he was attacked by Bloodhunt as he was leaving the ring.
Next up in the Tag Wars, Devon Cage and fellow Triple x member Elix Skipper scored the win using Skipper's Sudden Impact to advance to the battle royal.
The following match up saw of all people JD Blaze and Nemesis advancing to the battle royal together following a choke slam.
Backstage again, Marcus Hansen was shown pacing back and fourth with the undisputed title in his hand when Britney Haven approached him saying that she knows he's been hearing it for a while now but in her opinion she along with everyone else on SlaughterHouse had nothing to worry about cause they all knew he'd do the right thing. As she left, Hansen looked at the title again then merely growled like an angry dog and walked off.
Back at ringside, Chris Benoit locked on the Crippler Crossface to secure a battle royal spot for both himself and Grim Reaper.
As the shot shifted backstage, Marcus Hansen walked into general manager Jesse Steele's office and was apparently relunctant in saying something but Steele looked at him and said if anyone asks he'd say he forced Hansen to do it. As Hansen nodded and left Torrie Wilson asked what they were talking about to which Steele replied that Hansen just agreed to drop the issue with Joe Corey.
The next Tag Wars match saw Chris Jericho and Mike Evil advance thanks in part to Jericho's "Walls of Jericho".
In the last and final match, Symon Dredd was scheduled to team with Shane Helms but when Shane Helms did not come out to his music after a mintue, the Hurricane's music hit and he came out to a huge ovation then he used the eye of the hurricane to adavnce with Dredd to the battle royal.
With that last win, the remaining 18 men came out to begin the Tag Wars grand championship battle royal. After a while, it came down to Preston Knight and JD Blaze against the Hurricane and Nemesis and Hurricane disposed of Knight which led to Blaze dumping him over the top rope from behind, leaving it Nemesis versus Blaze for the Tag Wars championship ring and in the end, after pushing off as Blaze went for the "HeatWave", Nemesis booted Blaze in the face which sent him over the top rope, giving Nemesis the win.
Referee Dave Hebner came in and awarded Nemesis the Tag Wars championship ring and raised his hand in victory as Blaze merely watched on from atop the rampway and was rather upset.
It was now time for the main event as Marcus Hansen defended the undisputed title against Shawn Stasiak and they went back and forth for most of the match but at one point, Hansen seemingly came down wrong on his right leg and it got twisted up but as Stasiak made a move he got blasted by a lariat but he dropped to the mat in pain grabbing at his thigh. However, he managed to get an arm across Stasiak to score the win.
Hansen laid on the mat in a ball-like position clutching at his right thigh in seemingly agonizing pain as officals came out along with general manager Jesse Steele and EMT's to check on the fallen champion as the pay per view went off the air.
