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Lillian: It is now time for the Barbwire X for the Intercontinental Title! Introducing first...

*Dead and Bloated by Stone Temple Pilots blast on tha PA System as Hero slowly walks out from the back. Hero looks down at his hands then looks up at the ring. Hero shakes his head and looks behind him. Hero keeps going and stands at the Edge of the ring.*

Ok, first, we decide the winner. Then, I'll post the ending. Booker didn't show so he is not able to retain.
Hero = 1, 2
Angle = 3, 4
Jericho = 5, 6

The bell rings as Angle darts at Hero aggressively. Angle slammed Hero to the mat with a very quick double leg takedown. Angle hopped onto Hero’s chest and started grinding his forearm into Hero’s face. Jericho, in the mean time, started climbing to the top rope. Angle used his “top rope senses” and got off of Hero and charged up to the top rope, grabbing Jericho. Angle fell back down, tossing Jericho into the middle of the ring with a butterfly suplex. Angle then got back to his feet and turned around.

The second Angle turned around he was nearly decapitated by a clothesline from Hero. Hero was pissed from Angle’s less than kind way of treating him earlier. Hero grabbed Angle by the head with one hand and repeatedly punched him with the other. Hero then picked up Angle and nailed him with a cravate suplex. Jericho got back to his feet near the ropes and Hero clotheslined him to the floor. Hero then returned to Angle, who was just getting up, and locked in a cravate.

Angle struggled in the hold wincing in pain. Angle hit Hero in the side. Hero held on. He hit him again. Hero still held on. Finally, Angle slammed Hero so hard, his grip loosened and Angle slipped from his hands and out behind him. He grabbed Hero in a waist lock, and bent and flung him over with a German Suplex. Angle held on, got back up, and suplexed Hero again. Angle held on to the waist lock again, and brought Hero back up. The third time, Angle released Hero who landed hard on his back and head from the German. Angle breathed heavily and stood up. He screamed, revealing his “ECW” mouthpiece to the fans in attendance and the viewers at home.

Jericho slowly slid back into the ring behind Angle. He leaned back and bounced off the ropes, grabbing Angle’s head and driving his face to the mat with a bull dog. He then ran to the ropes opposite Angle, and as he returned to his feet, Jericho kicked him hard in the back of the head with a running enziguiri. Jericho then went over to Hero, who was just recovering from the suplexes. Jericho set Hero up for a powerbomb. He lifted Hero onto his shoulders, and then slammed him to the ground with force. Jericho then tightened his grip and slowly brought Hero back onto his shoulders. Jericho drove Hero into the mat with the second powerbomb. Jericho let go this time and placed his foot on Hero’s chest, flexing his arms as he sometimes uses for a pin.

In the mean time, Angle had gotten up behind Jericho. Jericho just took his foot off of Hero when he backed up into Angle. Angle bent down, grabbed Jericho, and rotated him into a powerful Angle slam. As Jericho lay on the mat in pain, Hero struggled to get back to his feet with the use of the ropes. Angle went over to Hero, who buried his foot into Angle’s gut as he approached him. Angle hunched over from the kick as Hero followed up with a European Uppercut. Hero stood back up only to be hit with a European uppercut from Angle. Hero fired one back, and Angle returned the shot as well. They went back and forth until Hero faked an uppercut and locked in a cravate. Angle, irritated, jabbed Hero in the eye to get him to release him. Angle then stepped up to Hero as he stumbled and grabbed him around the waist.

Angle popped his hips and flung Hero to the center of the ring with an overhead belly to belly suplex. Angle then looked up and saw the title. He smiled, but still looked angry for some reason, and started to climb the ropes. Jericho recovered from the Angle slam and climbed the ropes on the diagonally opposite side of Angle. Hero held his back and crawled over to a third corner, catching his breath. Angle used the steel column to grab the barbed wire, fighting threw the pain as his hand was being ripped open. Jericho worked just like Angle, just on the opposite side.

Hero then started to climb his corner, shaking how the cobwebs in the process. Angle and Jericho moved at an equally slow pace, inching closer to the belt with blood trickling from their hands down their arms and dripping on the mat. Hero moved a quicker pace towards the belt, making up for starting a little later than the other two. All three men reached the belt and a mid-air braw ensued. Feet were flying as the three men struggled to hold on. Eventually, Jericho and Angle kick Hero at the same time, one foot to each of his sides and he couldn’t hang on. Hero plummeted to the mat, bouncing off his back from the impact. Angle and Jericho now battled it out. After angle got a good kick in on Jericho, Y2J was able to wrap his legs around Angle’s neck. Jericho took a deep breath, and let go of the barbed wire with his hands as gravity pulled him downward, ripping Kurt’s hand’s from the barbs as he was hurled to the ground from an enormous hurricanrana!

The three men lay in the ring, barely moving. Hero was the first to stir, crawling over to the corner. Hero went over to Jericho, who was the next to move. Hero stomped on Jericho and then pulled him up into a piledriver position. Hero started to pick Jericho up when he was knocked onto his back. Jericho had grabbed his legs and tripped him. Jericho held onto Hero’s legs and slowly turned him into the Walls of Jericho. Jericho wrenched hard on Hero’s back. Angle finally got back up, angry at Jericho. He stumbled over to Y2J and nailed him with some hard punches.

Jericho dropped Hero’s legs and stepped back from the punch. Jericho took a swing at Angle, but it was ducked and Angle stepped behind Jericho, putting him in a waist lock. Jericho did a standing switch, smugly thinking he had just gained the upper hand. Angle elbowed Jericho hard. Then, in one swift motion, he dropped onto his stomach and put one leg behind Y2J and the other in front. He used this position to do a type of drop toe-hold, sending Jericho onto his stomach, and giving Angle the opportunity to grab Jericho’s leg. Angle grabbed Jericho’s ankle and locked in the Angle lock, twisting the ankle hard.

While this was going on, Hero was slowly getting back up. Jericho screamed in pain as Angle seemed to be intent on breaking his ankle. Hero made it over to the corner, and started to climb the ropes. Angle continued to just wrench Y2J’s ankle, increasing the pressure. Hero finally got to the top rope. He then went to get his hands on the barbed wire. Angle glanced over at Hero, and saw his chance to be champion slipping away. He released Jericho, and ran over to the ropes. Hero slowly moved towards the belt, focusing on the gold, not the pain in his hands sliced up hands or his hurt back.

Angle got to the barbed wire and moved up behind Hero. Hero didn’t see Angle; he only had eyes for the belt. Angle got right up behind Hero. In desperation, Angle let go of the barbed wire and held onto Hero’s waist. Hero clutched the wire tightly, trying to support both his weight and Angle’s. He felt his finger’s slowly losing grip and eventually, he could hold on as he let go. A double team move took place, as gravity teamed up with Kurt Angle for a super German suplex! Jericho limped over to the corner as the ring shook from the impact of his two opponents slamming the mat.

Jericho slowly climbed the ropes, still in severe pain. He stood on the top buckle on one foot, using the column to get up and grab the barbed wire. He grabbed it, the pain in his hands incomparable to the stabbing pain in his ankle. Jericho edged his way to the middle of the X. Jericho moved, one hand at a time, up to the belt. Finally, he grabbed the title and fell to the mat with it.

Lillian Garcia: “Here is your winner… and NEW WIF Intercontinental Champion, Chris Jericho!”
Jericho’s music hit as Jerichoholics cheered for the impressive victory. Several members of the staff came out from the back to check on the three men lying in the ring. Jericho rolled under the bottom rope with the belt on his shoulder, still wincing. He limped to the back, proudly displaying his new gold. The camera showed a shot of Angle and Hero getting assistance before fading out into an advertisement.

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