Saturday Night Slam Masters Week 2

Week 2 of Saturday Night Slam Masters was a professional wrestling programme first aired July 6th, 2024 on The Hellhole YouTube channelChallengers Lineup for Summer Championship | CWA Saturday Night Slam Masters. It was part of the Capcom Wrestling Association and the event setting was Haggar Stadium in Metro City. The episode is part of the red-coded Season 1, also known as The Return.
==Event==
A promotional package ran before the opening titles, recapping Mike Haggar's announcement of the Summer Carnival Championship and World Championship opportunity from the prior weekSaturday Night Slam Masters, Week 1, with footage of match winners. The show then opened with fireworks and the entrance of Max. He faced Alex in the opening match, losing after they spilled to the outside and he was too dazed to return to the ring before a ten count. Commentary later confirmed he was medically cleared.
Rasta Gomes was accompanied by his manager Freak in the second match against Lamb Chop - a masked luchadore with the same pattern and tattoo as Thunder Bonez and Badfaith Question. It was a hard hitting match that showed Gomes' versatility as an agile and powerful competitor. He won after hitting a releasing German suplex and dragging Lamb Chop to the center of the ring for the pin.
Match three was a battle of the big men as Titan The Great faced off against The Giant Piledriver. The battle became a compelling contest as they traded bitter blows. Titan was able to survive a piledriver, retaliating with his titan breaker finisher, and two attempts at the Torture Rack, that eventually forced Giant Piledriver to tap out.
===Main Event===
The Saturday Night Slam Masters main event once again featured The Hyper Cannons, Aleksey Zalazof and Lucky Colt, in a tag team match with a military themed duo called "Joint Strike". Zalazof started the match with Major Sergeant, immediately going for a version of the Sunset Splash, but Great General was able to break the count. Joint Strike continued to cover each other, Great General breaking up a late pin after Lucky Colt hit the Sunset Splash on Major Sergeant. Zalazof threw Great General out of the ring, allowing Lucky Colt to hit a top rope flying elbow drop for the pin.
==Results==
No.	Result 	Stipulation 	Time
1 	Alex defeated Max via countout 	 	4:00
2 	Rasta Gomes (with Freak) defeated Lamb Chop via pinfall 	 	6:15
3 	Titan The Great defeated Giant Piledriver via submission 	 	6:52
4 	"Hyper Cannons" Aleksey Zalazof & Lucky Colt defeated "Joint Strike" Great General & Major Sergeant via pinfall	Tag Team match	6:46
==Additional Information==
This second episode of Saturday Night Slam Masters was the first to utilize a pre-intro promotional video package to start the show. It loosely recapped the important announcement of a CWA World Championship opportunity, while promoting the Sunday special event of the 2024 Summer Carnival Championship. Notification of the Sunday, 8pm Eastern Time live premier of the event, was available to activate throughout the week on the Hellhole YouTube ChannelCWA Summer Carnival Championship.
Commercials for Street Fighter 6, Mega Man Legacy Collection, and Street Fighter 6 Akuma DLC appeared during this episode of Saturday Night Slam Masters. Although episodes are not sponsored by any of these products; commercial breaks are used for editing and pacing, and to pay homage to the companies and brands that have inspired the Capcom Wrestling Association fan-fiction project. Street Fighter 6 and the first Mega Man games were both previously streamed as Let's Plays in The Hellhole.
Mega Man Legacy Collection was a late substitute for the WWE 2k24 Announce TrailerWWE 2k24 Announce Trailer, which was removed after a YouTube copyright claim from Sony Pictures Networks India Pvt. Ltd., WWE, on behalf of WWE : FMTS Live Streams. WWE 2k24. Unlike the selective restrictions incurred by the first episode, this version would have been completely blocked from viewing worldwide. All WWE 2k24 commercials were removed from subsequent episodes.
Week 2 of Saturday Night Slam Masters suffered a significant drop-off of short term viewership from the first week. The episode ran against WWE Money in the Bank 2024.
==Background==
The second week of Saturday Night Slam Masters was promoted as the last chance opportunity to impress officials ahead of the Summer Carnival Championship tournament bracket. Internally there were concerns the episode itself lacked star power, with several of the most promising prospects already pushed to feature in the first week of the Return season. All newly appearing characters were featured in the preview thumbnail on the Hellhole YouTube Channel in an effort to present the potential stakes of the tournament, and variety of characters competing.
Alex, of Street Fighter III fame, was seen as the most broadly marketable name available for the second week of Saturday Night Slam Masters, and was pushed into the opening match with another Street Fighter character, the more obscure Max. The two characters were seen fighting at the Summer Carnival Championship in cut scenes in Street Fighter V, Max being derived from the attract screen from Street Fighter II.
The Hyper Cannons, Aleksey Zalazof and Lucky Colt, were the only characters to appear on the first two cards, occupying both main events in an effort to build a foundation of familiarity, and present their importance as featured heroes of the original Muscle Bomber series.
Various obscure characters from Street Fighter 6's World Tour appeared in enhancement roles. The Great General and Major Sergeant were the most embellished, given overtly militaristic designs to distinguish them from other characters who used the same basic, randomized designs assigned in Street Fighter 6. The Joint Strike tag team name and entrance music was directly inspired by the 1942 series - a Capcom vertical scrolling shooter.
==References==
Category:Capcom Wrestling Association