Backstage a limosine arrived and out of the limo came with a roar from the crowd, came mr norton, he walked into the building with a smile on his face
Back at ringside, Ian Powers came out to defend the hardcore championship against phoenix and it was a battle at phoenix was using trash can lids and signs to hit ian with and was looking to put ian away but ron waterman came out and the new comer Kae came out and tossed a chair at phoenixs head, then went running at the ropes and flipped off with a springboard backflip, that allowed ian to finish phoenix off with the fatal error, hooked the leg and scored the victory to retain the hardcore championship
After the match, No chance hit as the fans errupted and out came Mr Norton strolling to the ring, he entered the ring and said that the last time he was in this ring, he was attacked by three men, men who didnt deserve to be recongized as men and now he said they were apart of this thing called the cult of the xxxtc, mr norton said it sounded like a porn club for queers. He said that since eric bischoff is out for a while due to inapproiate behavior, that he would be running the asylum for a while and said that he hoped that the cult enjoyed what they did tonight cuz later tonight it would be kip and jesse teaming together to face angelic and slayer (fans errupted) then norton followed up by saying that since eddie and rex are no longer here and they got replacements for them, then the replacements would face angelic and slayer at vendetta in a steel cage match (fans errupted) and that, that would be cool, no chance hit as norton left to loud cheers from the crowd
Backstage, the cult was watching as tyrone smiled and said if its war he wants, its war hell get....this was followed by a promo for payback featuring batista against renee depree and edge for the universal championship
The action returned with Marcus Alexander defending his newly won middleweight championship against the kid in alot of high flying action, but it was marcus finishing the kid off with the swanton bomb to score the victory and retain the middleweight championship
Backstage Sandy Katt was with pj cash and they talked about his deput here tonight on the asylum against issac wakeman, but he didnt get alot to say as issac and jason approached, issac said that its a shame that their father got kurt angle off of rampage, but it was even more a shame that the roster was getting filled with new comers like pj cash and not given to atheletes like him and his brother, pj cash just smiled and said that every company has them and every rookie loves them and he cash said that tonight, he hopes they make the father proud, cuz he wasnt going to be and then cash walked off as the wakemans looked at each other in confustion
Back at ringside, it was issac and cash locking up and issac looked really impressive against cash, but the so called one man show turned the match in his favor and finished issac off with the cash register for the victory, jason entered the ring and tried to attack cash, but cash was ready and fought him off, but as he was putting jason down with the cash register, derek darko entered the ring and attacked him, darko was all over him but cash fought back a bit, but the wakemans got up and joined in and then darko dropped him with the sickness, darkos music hit as the wakemans and darko left to loud boos
Backstage Mr Norton was talking with some guys when Buff and Ellis came up and ellis talked to norton about how as middleweight champion, ratings were high and with marcus being champion now, people might loose focus and watch other shows when marcus performs, norton said he understood and so ellis asked for a shot at the middleweight championship at vendetta, norton said that is ellis felt he deserved it, then it was a done deal but said tonight as a favor he wanted them to take mbota and noose out cuz of the history in the past with the sds, and norton said if they do that, not only would he give ellis that match at vendetta but the winners would get a clean shot at the prophecy for the world tag team titles and said that ellis could have two matches in one night, ellis and buff liked it and shook nortons hand and headed towards the ring as norton smiled as they left and said they were good as dead
back at ringside buff and ellis took on mbota and noose and it was a clear massacure for buff and ellis who just didnt have an ounce of a chance as they took buff out and then noose tossed buff into mbota who speared the crap out of him, mbota hooked the leg and scored the victory
Backstage The Cult were getting stuff ready for their match coming up when tyrones phone rang, he answered it and then got a serious look on his face, shook his head and hung up and told the guys to calm down for a second, he said he got off the phone with you know who and they said things are in place for tonights match, they all smiled and lifted their glasses as lomota came out wearing just a towel around her and they all stopped and stared at her as she smiled then she turned and began to take off the towel going back into the shower room as the boys all toasted
Back at ringside, it was jimmy justice taking on matt immaculate with tythalon doing commentary and justice just began to beat the holy hell out of immaculate pointing at delreth, but the distraction of delreth at ringside helped immaculate as justice tried to put matt away with the justification, but delreth yelled at justice who turned and matt just clobbered him with a clothesline, then set him up with the immaculation, hooked the leg and scored the victory
Backstage, buff and ellis were walking to their room when captain america was leaving and kinda bumped a bit into buff who said watch it, and america said he did and they lost, then they attacked captain america and began to stomp away on him, they together grabbed the captain and tossed him hard into the wall as america fell hard to the floor as buff and ellis left...Footage was shown from Payback how batista retained the universal championship, taz made masters tap out and Joe Corey delivered a vicious message to jordan rockwell
Back at ringside, the main event was the james gang taking on angelic and slayer, angelic and slayer didnt care about tags, they just wanted to beat the hell out of kip and jesse and it took a bit for the ref to get stuff under control, but he finally did but angelic and slayer still controlled the match, akasha was trying to help out, but that brought out the rest of the cult along with lomota who was wearing a short jean skirt with a cult shirt, this didnt get ang and slayer off their game as they maintained control of the match until the cult music hit and all eyes were on the stage as was the ref too, tyrone pulled slayer off the apron and tossed him into the stairs, lomota began an arguement with akasha and it was on as the ref tried to stop it, and james rolled in a chair as kip and james dropped angelic on the chair with the ride off, tyrone went over and pulled akasha off lomota and tossed her into the wall, the fans booed as james told the ref to look in the ring, as the ref rolled in and registered the three count giving the victory to the cult of the xxxtc, their music hit as they all celebrated in the ring as the asylum came to a close