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Friends! How Many Does Tim Rockwell Have?

Posted: Jul 26th 2022 By: CMBurnham

All Tim Rockwell needed was a friend.

For most of the past year, Rockwell has had a friend stand beside him in WFC. A fellow Villain named Thrash. And despite their name, the Villains had complete fan support as they chased the WFC Tag Team Champions Toxic Masculinity for their titles. Victory after victory in non-title events, but it always seemed like when the titles were on the line, something happened that would keep those titles away.

Now, the titles aren't the important thing to Rockwell. After the events at the Freedom Rings Rumble, where it was revealed that Stevie Caballero and WFC Director of Operations Richard Pierce had formed a partnership to destroy WFC from inside, Rockwell now understands that the titles aren't the goal. The goal is to preserve WFC. And he knew he could count on Thrash to help him with that.

As long as Thrash was there.

But this past Saturday, it seemed like the one ally in the cause was taken from Rockwell. Thrash took on Dutch Hagen in a first time meeting of the two beasts. And as would be expected, both men held nothing back. They battled inside the ring and around the ringside area, with the referee showing great leniency in their match. And after 6 or 7 minutes had passed, despite both men connecting with hard-hitting moves, neither competitor had tried for a pinfall in that time. In fact, in the entire duration of the match, which only lasted another 3 minutes or so, neither man went for a pinfall and both men ended up being counted out of the ring. It was clear that they would much rather punish each other physically than be declared a victor in the contest. After the bell rang, both men battled past the announce table and out towards the back entrance of the lockerroom access area. There, a video camera caught up with them and followed them outside where members of the Caballero Cartel joined in to help Hagen. After a 3-on-1 battle, they dumped Thrash into the back of a truck and WFC Drillsville Champion Rhett then sped off with the Big Man, headed somewhere only he knew about.

That left Tim Rockwell alone to face Richie Adams in the main event. And while it would not be the first time that Rockwell had stared down difficult odds, it was certainly one of the most desperate times for Rockwell to find himself without an ally. But prior to that match, Rockwell appeared on camera and told the WFC faithful that he had one last friend. One more ally he could count on. Who that ally was, he didn't say. But he certainly sounded confident and prepared to take down the other member of London Calling.

Rockwell and Adams were no strangers to each other. Their times against each other went all the way back to the days of ComPro over ten years ago. But this was more personal. This was more important. And Rockwell went after Adams with a vengeance that had not been seen in a long time. When Rockwell caught Adams in the corner and pulled off the three running knee strikes to the side of Adams' head, it was with much more force and ferocity than normal. And then, Rockwell's villain side kicked in full swing as he went outside the ring, flipped up the ring apron and revealed his beloved crowbar Shirley. At that point, Rockwell no longer cared about winning the match. He just wanted to get revenge for what happened to Thrash, for the even deeper revelation earlier that night that Caballero and Pierce had Dr. Nightshade working with them and that he had the WFC Board of Directors tied up, for all the children that Tim had fought for and all the ones who would never get a chance if Caballero, Pierce and Nightshade got their way. Rockwell planned to start with Adams and work his way through anyone else put in front of him.

But he is still just one man. And when the Caballero Cartel hit the ring, Rockwell could only do so much before the numbers overwhelmed him. Bobby Dylan grabbed Shirley from Tim and while Tim was able to put him down before he could do damage, Dutch Hagen then wiped Rockwell out from behind. After a brief but effective beatdown, Reed wrapped a chair around Rockwell's neck and Rhett went outside to get another chair from under the ring. And in a moment that may never happen again he couldn't find one. So Reed sent Rhett to the back to get another chair, which he quickly found.

What he wasn't expecting was to find the person that Rockwell was actually talking about earlier that night. It wasn't Shirley like everyone thought.

It was Alex Royal.

And he made his presence known with a well placed chairshot across the back of Rhett, negating him as a threat.

The explosion of applause and cheers as Royal's music hit only increased in volume as "The Showcase" stepped through the curtain for the first time in almost three months. The last time he had been in a WFC ring, he and J. D. had lost in the finals of the Johnnys vs the World tournament. But this wasn't about gold or any personal recognition. This was to come defend a close friend and a company that meant so much to him. And Alex held nothing back as he cleared house on the Cartel, ending the night by doing to Bobby Dylan what they had tried to do to Tim Rockwell and putting him out with a Killshot in the ring.

The two men once known as the Rock-N-Royal Express stood triumphantly in the ring and announced that on July 30th, they would face any combination of members of the Cartel. And on August 6th, joined by J. D. and WCR Tag Team and ASP 5-Star and Mid-American Champion Mr. Nasty, they would take on a contingent of wrestlers represnting Control Your Narrative at the huge "ExtravaSlamza" event in Pryor. Clearly Royal is back and ready to once again be immersed in the happenings at WFC. And Rockwell knows that he has yet one more friend to count on in the war to save the company.