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Tim Rockwell: Curing WFC Of The Caballero Cancer

Posted: Apr 24th 2014 By: CMBurnham

Almost since its inception, WFC has been plagued by the presence of Stevie Caballero. The manager has sunk his claws in deep to the company and believes himself to be smarter than anyone else on the roster.

To back that point up, Caballero likes to point out how he took Robert Lee to become the first WFC Hometown Heroes Champion, a title he still holds today. He also has establised the Caballero Cartel, a powerful faction including Lee, Jon Cross and Braxx.

With the Caballero Cartel on the rise, Tim Rockwell, the heart and soul of WFC, has made it his desire to rid WFC of the cancer that is Caballero. And at the April 13th event, Caballero and Rockwell each assembled teams of 5 for an Elimination match. While nothing more was at stake, the bragging rights for the winning team, that was still enough for Rockwell to put together a team just as powerful and with some personal issues to settle with Caballero's group.

But Stevie had a bit of a spanner thrown in the works when one member of his team, Maddox Jones, no-showed the event. Caballero blamed Jones' father, Striker, for making this happen and citing an unbalanced situation, decided that the main event needed to be called off. Host Max McGuirk was having none of that, though, and announced that he has a perfect replacement for Jones: Caballero himself! Rockwell was ecstatic because he got to "whoop Stevie Caballero's tail", but Caballero wanted nothing to do with the match. Already the wheels in Caballero's mind were spinning and his plan would be revealed when the time for the main event came.

It was a clash of multiple titans and the players in the main event match came to the ring. On one side, Caballero's team of ComPro Tag Team Champions The Brotherhood of Mayhem, Robert Lee, Fuel and Caballero himself. On the other side, Striker, OWA Tag Team Champion American Made, the reunited Velocity Renegades, Anarchy 2nd & X-Static and UWE United States Champion Tim Rockwell. The bell rang and match was one. The rules were simple: When someone was pinned, submitted, got disqualified or was counted out, they were eliminated and had to go to the back. The rest of the team continued. The match was over when one side was completely gone.

Malice struck first for his team by hitting American Made with a loaded elbow pad, allowing Fuel to pin the patriotic champion for the pin.

The Velocity Renegades brought back some of their old teamwork to put down Fuel. But when Anarchy looked to be going for the pin, X-Static tagged himself in and said that he was not going to allow his partner to get the pin when it was his work that put Fuel in that position. A brief argument erupted between the partners and that gave Fuel enough time to recover and hit X-Static with a Superkick to pin X-Static.

With Rockwell's team down 3-5, it was time to gain a pin or be at almost insurmountable odds for the remainder of the match. Caballero actually accomplished that for them, but getting disqualified for hitting referee J. J. Hefley in the back of the head. In reality, it was Robert Lee who did that, but it was all on purpose to keep Caballero from being at risk in the match. And in a moment of sheer brilliance, when Caballero was ordered to the back, he reminded everyone that he was licensed as a manager and had a legal right to remain at ringside with his team.

Finally, Rockwell's team struck gold when Striker hit Menace 2nd with a Stroke and took him out. But quickly after that, Robert Lee put Striker, who is the #1 contender to the WFC Hometown Heroes Title, down with a leg lariat. Anarchy 2nd that capitalised and connected with the Thrill Kill on the champion to put him out, but out of nowhere, Fuel once again hit a devestating superkick on his brother and that left Rockwell as the last member of his team against Fuel and Menace.

Rockwell, with no one to rely on, first targeted the veteran competitor Malice. After such a long match and having to carry this fight on his own, some of the moves were not necessarily the crispest, such as the Tornado DDT he hit to put Malice down. But they worked and now it was 1-on-1. Rockwell vs. Fuel. Many of the fans were quite shocked that the crybaby coward was the last member of Caballero's team to survive. And that he had also eliminated more people than anyone else. So Rockwell knew he had to be careful. And he almost me the superkick up close and personal not once but twice before hitting a Grapevine DDT of his own and winning the Elimination Match.

Rockwell was not content to indulge in the glories of his victory because he still had not gotten his hands on the one person he wanted the most: Stevie Caballero. As Caballero attempted to flee the scene, Rockwell was not content to get his hands on the manager another day. He wanted him right then and chased after Caballero to the back as well. A few moments later, Rockwell emerged with Caballero, dragging him back to the ring and throwing him in. Despite pleas of desperation from the Texas Yankee, Caballero found himself on the receiving end of a Grapevine DDT which put him down and out in the middle of the ring.

But Rockwell had one more act. Knowing that Caballero had legally manipulated things so that he would be the host of the May 18th event, Rockwell knelt over the fallen Caballero. With all the energy left in his voice, Caballero demanded that Rockwell find an opponent for him on May 18th and if he could not do that, Rockwell would DDT Caballero again and again until he could not reach his feet. The message is clear. Rockwell wants Caballero out of WFC. It's his mission. It's personal. And Rockwell has made it clear that he will not rest until that mission is accomplished.