LCW Showdown Television Results 11.18.09

LCW Showdown Television Results (November 18, 2009) live from the Iowa Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, IA.

From the broadcast booth, Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko welcomed everyone to a three hour edition of LCW Showdown as "Monsters" by Matchbook Romance, the LCW Showdown theme song, played in the background and as fireworks exploded all over the arena.

LCW General Manager Harley Race came out with a clipboard in his hand and introduced the number one contender for the LCW Universal Championship, Magnum TA. Magnum came out and joined Race in the ring. Race said there was only one element missing and that was the champion. Race noted that due to the unpredictability of the Showdown Championship Draft, he can't guarantee that Austin will still be the champion next week or there would be a contract signing tonight. Race said, "He could lose the champion tonight or he could even lose it next week, only days before Redemption Day. What I can guarantee to you though, Magnum TA, is that you will face one of three men: reigning LCW Universal Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin, Austin's Showdown Championship Draft Series opponent tonight, Hollywood John Tatum, or his opponent next week, the Honky Tonk Man. With that guarantee, I'd like to invite you now to officially sign the contract for your championship opportunity at Redemption Day." Race handed Magnum the clipboard and Magnum was about to sign it when LCW Universal Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin came out and joined them in the ring. Austin talked about beating Sid Vicious in a stretcher match at LCW Showdown at the Chase two weeks ago. He talked about kicking ass and taking names in the LCW Showdown Championship Draft Series. He said he would be ready to sign that contract after kicking Hollywood John Tatum's ass this week and the Honky Tonk Man's ass next week. Magnum said that there was one ass he wasn't kicking, one name he wasn't taking, and that was his. Magnum reminded Austin that he was champion because some goon squad attacked him before his match with Bill Goldberg at LCW Beach Brawl in July. Goldberg won the match via forfeit and Austin was giving the opportunity to win the title by LCW Founder Christian Calaway. Magnum said, "Then, we put our differences aside in August at Caged Heat and joined forces to take on Ted Turner's Evil Empire and we helped Calaway regain control of the company and drive Turner from LCW. At Survival Project in September, Bill Goldberg again cost me the opportunity to become the number one contender for that title (pointing to the LCW Universal Championship on Austin's shoulder) and I had to step aside while Sid Vicious, who won the Survival Project. And that's fine. I'm a man and I can play the game by the rules. But Sid Vicious changed the rules when he powerbombed you on that steel entrance stage. He took you out of commission and just like you took advantage of an opportunity when I was taken out of action, I took advantage of an opportunity when you were taken out of action. I think you and can both agree that you got the better end of the deal. I helped you retain your title by defending your title on your behalf and beating Sid Vicious for you and I became the number one contender for the LCW Universal Championship last month at Night of Horrors." Austin said Magnum could stop the revisionist history right there because he remembered hitting Vicious with the Stone Cold Stunner and helping Magnum beat Vicious. Austin thanked Magnum for helping him retain the title, but what had happened between them in the past didn't matter. Austin said, "I don't want to talk about our great series of matches in the past and how we traded the LCW Television Championship in early 2006 or how we traded the LCW International Championship in late 2006, because there's one title we're not trading in 2009 and that's the title draped over my shoulder right now." Austin said he respected Magnum as the longest reigning LCW Universal Champion in the history of the company, but there was only one problem with that: he wasn't the reigning champion anymore. Magnum said he would be after Redemption Day. As the two men got in each others face, Race kept the two men apart and told Magnum to sign the contract. Race handed Magnum the clipboard and a pen and Magnum signed the contract as the crowd cheered. Race announced that the champion, whomever that might be, would sign the contract at the end of LCW Showdown next week. Austin and Magnum stood face to face exchanging words as Race implored them to wait until Redemption Day. Magnum walked up the entrance ramp and when he reached the entrance stage, Sid Vicious attacked him from behind, laying him out with a clothesline. Austin ran up the entrance ramp, chasing Vicious away as the show went to commercial.

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In the back, Sean Mooney interviewed Madusa and asked her for a comment on her shot at the LCW Joshi Championship. Madusa said, "Sean, I have a lot of history in Japan. I've won championship gold there so I know what being a joshi is all about. I also have history with Akira Hokuto, history that dates back WAY before LCW opened its doors. In 1996, I was living my dream. I helped establish a serious women's division in WCW, but I lost to Akira in a career vs. title match. I disappeared for three years and Akira took my title back to Japan with her. Now, the tables have turned and I'm going to take the new LCW Joshi Championship away from her.” Madusa walked away.

Madusa defeated LCW Joshi Champion Akira Hokuto in 6:39 by pinfall with the German suplex bridge to win the LCW Joshi Championship. As soon as Madusa was announced as the new champion, Hokuto hit her with the Northern Lights Bomb. Dump Matsumoto, Devil Masami and Aja Kong came to the ring. Hokuto shouted out orders to them in Japanese and Masami and Kong held Madusa up by her arms. The pair quickly ran out of the way as Dump Matsumoto levelled Madusa with the Dump Truck Lariat. From the crowd ran Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo. The two entered the ring and double dropkicked Masami and Kong out of the ring. Jaguar Yokota joined them and climbed the turnbuckle. She gave Matsumoto a flying hurricanrana and she too flipped out of the ring. The three women stood around Madusa, protecting her and staring down Hokuto. With rage in her eyes, Hokuto left the ring and took her allies up the entrance ramp with her. Yokota helped Madusa to her feet and Asuka and Nagayo held her arms up in victory as the crowd cheered and chanted, “MA-DU-SA! MA-DU-SA!”

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In the back, an irate Magnum TA confronted LCW General Manager Harley Race and demanded a match with Sid Vicious tonight! Race granted the request and Magnum walked away.

Big Van Vader defeated Wildfire Tommy Rich in 2:16 by pinfall after the powerbomb after Hollywood John Tatum interfered and blasted Rich with a steel chair while Missy Hyatt distracted the referee. During the match, Hollywood John Tatum and Missy Hyatt came out and watched the match from ringside, laughing as Vader dominated an outmatched Rich. As Rich started to mount an offense, Tatum blasted Rich with the steel chair. After the match, Vader left ringside with Tatum and Hyatt. When they reached the entrance stage, Tatum raised Vader's arm in victory, but Vader quickly laid him out with a clothesline before continuing to the back. Missy leaned down to check on Tatum as the show went to commercial.

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In the back, Wildfire Tommy Rich confronted LCW General Manager Harley Race and before Rich could even say anything, Race told him that he saw what happened and he knew what Rich wanted. Race offered him a match with Hollywood John Tatum, but Rich said that wasn't what he wanted. He said he was done with his "light work" and was done with Tatum and Hyatt. He said he was making his comeback and without their interference he might have won the match. Race interrupted him and said, "You want another match with Big Van Vader?" Rich said that was exactly what he wanted and Race granted him the request and said the match would take place at the LCW Redemption Day pay-per-view.

Superstar Billy Graham defeated LCW United States Champion Stan Hansen (with Col. Robert Parker and Maw Bass) in 7:52 by pinfall after a running powerslam to become the new LCW United States Champion. During the match, the referee was knocked out by Hansen when Graham moved out of the way of an attempted Lariat clothesline. The Desperados tried to interfere, but Bret Hart and Macho Man Randy Savage came out and cleared them out of the ring. As they brawled at ringside, Wild Bill Irwin ran past them, into the ring, and hit Hansen with the Lariat clothesline. Graham picked up Hansen, hit him with the running powerslam for the pinfall and the win. After the match, security officials came out to separate Hart, Savage and the Desperados. Hart and Savage got in the ring and celebrated the victory with Graham and Irwin left through the crowd as Hansen and the rest of the Desperados were escorted from ringside.

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LCW World Tag Team Champions Cowboy Bob Orton and Dirty Dick Slater defeated the Powers of Pain (with Mr. Fuji) in 6:11 by pinfall when Orton pinned the Barbarian with a schoolboy rollup after Barbarian missed an attempted Kick of Fear. During the match, the Bass Brothers tried to interfere, but the Powers of Pain made short work of them, clotheslining both of them over the top rope and out of the ring.

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In the back, LCW World Tag Team Championship Cowboy Bob Orton and Dirty Dick Slater confronted LCW General Manager Harley Race and said they wanted one more match match with the Bass Brothers at LCW Redemption Day. Race said he would grant the request, but with one stipulation. Race said both teams need to move on and the only way he can figure to do that is to break up one of the teams. Race said that at LCW Redemption Day, Orton and Slater would defend the titles, if they're still the champions after next week's Showdown Championship Draft Series title defense, against the Bass Brothers in a tag team match in which the losers will never be able to team again! Orton and Slater said they were all right with the stipulation and were confident they'd win. Race said if they lost the titles next week on Showdown, the match would still take place at Redemption Day with the losing team having to break up, never to team again.

In the back, Sean Mooney interviewed the new LCW United States Champion Superstar Billy Graham, who was with Bret Hart and Macho Man Randy Savage. Graham said he was hearing talk that he was thinking about walking away from it all, retiring, but the win had put the fight back in, “this old war horse.” He said he had plenty of fight left in him and if he was going out he couldn’t imagine a better way to go out than defending the LCW United States Championship. Wild Bill Irwin approached them and said, “I want you to know, that what I did out there, I didn’t do it for you. I did what I did because of what Stan Hansen and those sons of bitches did to me last week. They beat me down like a dog. You talk about being a war horse, well this dog still has plenty of fight left in him. Now I know that doing what I just did tonight may have signed my death warrant and Stan Hansen is going to try to be my executioner, but until the day the noose is around my neck and I hang from the gallows, I’m not going to surrender. What I did tonight, I did for me, because I had to. But I want you to know this, when I walk away from the executioner, when I survive the gallows, I’m coming for you (referring to Graham) and I’m going to make that (referring to the title) mine. You wouldn’t have that if it weren’t for me.” LCW General Manager Harley Race approached them and said that Irwin had made several good points and announced that next week on LCW Showdown he was going to face Stan Hansen and the winner would receive a shot at the LCW United States Championship at the LCW Redemption Day pay-per-view in two weeks. Race also announced that it would be a lumberjack match! Race congratulated Graham and warned him not to look past his Showdown Championship Draft Series opponent next week, Tully Blanchard.

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In the back, Macho Man Randy Savage and Bret Hart were walking through the arena corridor. Savage and Hart shook hands and went their separate ways. When Savage turned the corner, he was blasted in the head by a steel chair. The Dynamite Kid appeared around the corner with a smile on his face and dropped the steel chair before Bret Hart appeared and chased him away. Hart returned to check on Savage and called for help.

Magnum TA defeated Sid Vicious in 8:04 by pinfall after the belly-to-belly suplex. Before the match, LCW Universal Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin joined Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko in the broadcast booth. After the match, Jimmy Hart appeared in the broadcast booth and started insulting Austin. The Honky Tonk Man appeared behind Austin and when Austin turned around, Honky Tonk blasted Austin with the guitar. Hart left with Honky Tonk as the show went to commercial.

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LCW Heritage Champion King Kong Bundy defeated Paul Orndorff in 4:41 by countout after LCW International Champion Barry Windham interfered and slammed him back first into the steel ring post. After the match, Windham rolled Orndorff into the ring and put him in the corner and Bundy hit him with the Atlantic City Avalanche splash. Security officials ran out and escorted Windham and Bundy from ringside as medical officials checked on Orndorff.

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Luna Vachon defeated LCW Women's Champion Ivory in 7:09 by pinfall after Lock interfered and hit Ivory with the Lock, Stock and Barrel in a no holds barred match to win the LCW Women's Championship. During the match, steel chairs, frying pans, and even a broken bottle were all used by these women, one desperate to hold onto the title and another desperate to secure it as her own. Vachon went to retrieve another weapon from under the ring, but came face to face with Lock. Minutes later in what became essentially a handicap match, Ivory had Vachon laying on a table after taking a frying pan to the head. Lock climbed the turnbuckle and delivered the Lock Pick somersault elbow drop leveling Vachon into a pile of splinters. Just as Ivory was going to high-five Lock, she threw a fireball into Ivory's face. Ivory shrieked in pain and Lock used the Lock, Stock and Barrel knocking her out. Lock dragged Vachon on top of Ivory and the referee made the pinfall count. The referee reluctantly declared Vachon the new LCW Women's Champion. She stumbled to her feet and clutched the belt tightly and cried out in joy. Lock punched Vachon in the gut and then hit her with the Lock, Stock and Barrel, knocking her out cold. From the broadcast booth, Schiavone noted that, "Lock just gets scarier and scarier. I think we know who the next challenger for the Women's Title is." Larry Zbyszko replied, "I want to know why she screwed Ivory and helped Luna only to knock her out anyway. What is wrong with this woman's head?"

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LCW International Champion Barry Windham (with J.J. Dillon) defeated Black Bart (with Col. Robert Parker and Maw Bass) in 5:30 by disqualification after the Desperados interfered and attacked Windham. After the match, the Desperados continued to attack Windham until Tully Blanchard came out with a steel chair and cleared them out of the ring. Blanchard helped his fellow Horseman to his feet.

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LCW Universal Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Hollywood John Tatum (with Missy Hyatt) in 3:40 by pinfall after the Stone Cold Stunner. Before the match, the number one contender for the LCW Universal Championship, Magnum TA, came out and joined Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko in the broadcast booth to provide guest commentary during the match. After the match, Magnum and Austin exchanged words, Magnum from the broadcast booth and Austin from the ring, as the show went off the air.

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