8/21/2023 - Pollo Bucket 20th Anniversary Special

Hammerstein bounds across the ring and cannonballs Hijo! The fence breaks and the two men fall out to the arena floor! The Amherstburg crowd erupts into a HOLY SHIT chant as Popcorn Pollo scrambles to check on his cousin. Referee Cordell Garner works to free both men from the wreckage, but Hammerstein gets up before he can and starts pulling barbed wire out of his skin as tiny cuts cover his body. Hijo calls out for Papi, looking up at the lights as Popcorn Pollo attends to him but Popcorn repeatedly says, "No, Popcorn!" and Hijo stares at him blankly! Popcorn Pollo gets up and instructs Gigante, who marches over just as Hammerstein gets to his feet. Hammer doubles up the chain and swings it... smacking the chest of Gigante, who looks down and looks back at Hammer expressionless. Hammer grabs the chair from the corner and cracks Gigante with it and despite the fact that it's hanging around his neck after the fact... Gigante remains expressionless and more importantly standing still. Popcorn Pollo grabs some water and splashes Hijo, forcing him to come to. Hammerstein climbs up on the apron and rips the remnants of the fence off of the ring post. Hammerstein tries to free up some more chain, but it's not until Hijo gets up that he's able to do so. Hammerstein quietly ascends the turnbuckle... Popcorn tries to hold Hijo up straight but then looks up and a shadow casts over him like a solar eclipse. Popcorn shoves Hijo out of the way as Hammerstein moonsaults onto them!

CHAD GOMEZ:
A MOONSAULT FROM HAMMERSTEIN!?

SAM HEWITT:
A moonsault from... Hammerstein...

Hijo lays on the floor, shakes his head and looks at the scene. Gigante is on the ground, Popcorn Pollo's legs are trapped underneath Hammerstein's body! Hijo tries to take a walk, but realizes he's still chained up. He tries to remove the dog collar, but doesn't have the key! He gathers up the chain and frees up enough length to roll back inside the ring. Hammerstein pulls himself up from the bodies, drags himself onto the apron and crawls inside the ring. Pollo whips him across the back with the chain, but Hammerstein fights to his feet... Pollo tries to punch him... HAMMER BLOCKS IT! FINGER WAG! Another punch is blocked! Hammer rocks Pollo with a punch, then a second... then a third! With Pollo staggered, Hammer wraps his fist in the chain and goes to clock him again... but Pollo ducks! Hammer turns around, kicks Pollo in the gut and goes for the Stunner! Pollo shoves him away and leaps onto his back! SLEEPER HOLD! Pollo expertly transitions into a double chickenwing and Hammerstein tries to rock him off, but Pollo drives his heels into Hammerstein's thighs and knocks the big man forward... INTO THE BARBED WIRE! Hijo keeps the hold applied as Hammerstein cries out in agony as the wire rips his flesh! Garner asks him if he wants to quit and despite having no way to get out, Hammerstein says NO! Pollo transitions his Slaughterhouse Stretch into a full nelson! He drives Hammerstein's face into the barbed wire even further!

SAM HEWITT:
C'mon! He's not going to, you've gotta stop the match Garner!

Garner looks as though he's going to do just that, but a lone white towel soars into the ring. Pollo sees it and releases his hold, falling to the mat! Holly Buchanan climbs over the guardrail and races inside the ring, trying to gingerly remove Hammerstein from the wire! Pollo lays bloody and beaten on the mat himself, Popcorn grabs him and pulls him out of the ring and he and Gigante each grab an end and carry him off to the back. Hammerstein is freed by the stage hands, but falls to the mat a bloody mess. Holly Buchanan grabs his head and clutches it to her chest as security tries to restrain her so that medics can attend to him.