Post by Lord Hastings on Nov 19, 2018 22:05:46 GMT -5
Welcome to GlobalTrollz LIVE Synergy Coverage for November 19th, 2018!
Championship Roll Call:
World Heavyweight Champion: Alan Wallace
Cross-Hemisphere Champion: Maggie Lockheart
Cooperative Champions: Angelica Vaughn and Dave Rydell
Chaos Champion: Le Bord de Dieu
The road to Horizons is heating up, and it continues some big time action as tonight’s card sees the World Heavyweight Champion, Alan Wallace, teaming together with the woman that challenges him at Horizons, Kem Dynamo, against the twin serpents of Eden Morgan and Gabriel Baal. Speaking of cooperative action, that division’s champions will be in competition as well, against the makeshift team of Zane Scott and Konrad Raab.
We’ll also get some marquee singles matches with Lucy Wylde taking on Travis Pierce and Maggie Lockheart in action against Kenzi Grey. In the main event, a Horizons challenger for the Cross-Hemisphere Title will be determined, as Jet Somers faces off against Sarah Lacklan.
Your Synergy coverage begins, now…
- Vinegar, Hans, and Jay give us the usual intro that transitions into childish bickering. [/CopyPaste]
All three competitors rush at one another, but Le Bord turns and mushes Maria’s face to throw her out of the way before getting surprised by a spear from Roxy. Bordy rolls away and under the bottom rope, then grabs Roxy’s leg and begins slamming it against the turnpost. The announcers remind the crowd that Bordy is focusing on Roxy’s bad knee.
Maria comes off the apron with a tornado DDT to Bordy! Bracing herself on the apron, she begins kicking at Bordy. Eventually she lets up only long enough to roll Bordy back into the ring. As she slides in, Roxy stumbles over to attempt a standing moonsault. It looks sloppy but connects enough to give her the first pin attempt. Maria kicks out at 2.
Bordy with a low blow from behind to Roxy! The announce team spends the next five minutes arguing over whether or not that hurts a woman as Roxy demonstrates that it does as she crumples. Bordy goes to close on her, but Roxy returns the favor and now they’re both in the fetal position writhing!
Maria to her feet now, she grabs Roxy up by the hair and sets her up for a neckbreaker. Roxy shoves her off, but Maria hits the ropes and returns with a big clothesline. She catches Le Bord trying for a hat trick on the low blow and stomps on her back. She scoops The Edge of God up, looks like she’s going for her trademark brainbuster.
Bordy bicycle kicks her legs in the air, twisting around to turn it into a headscissors takedown! Here comes Cotton with a dropkick, but Bordy fades back and Cotton comes up short! Bordy leaps over and grabs a double fistful of Roxy’s hair, dragging back as she climbs up on her back and starts stomping away.
Bordy is caught off guard as Maria slaps the taste out of her mouth, causing her to drop Roxy’s head. Bordy wipes the back of her hand across her lips, then looks down at a trickle of blood there. Maria smirks, but her eyes pop wide as Bordy hits her, seeming to windmill her arms and legs at the same time. She drives the newer competitor into the corner with a sheer onslaught of rage.
Bordy grabs Maria’s arm and falls backward, pulling her into a monkey flip. As Maria comes up, Bordy shoots up behind her and grabs her head. A scream of triumph as she hits the L'étreinte de Dieu and covers for the win!
Winner: Le Bord de Dieu
Time: 6:24
It’s an old rivalry renewed as Zane and Rydell get things started. Double elbow tie-up, Rydell takes Zane down with an arm drag. Rydell goes to follow up but Zane catches him with a straight punch, comes off the ropes with a running boot to the face. Zane covers, but Rydell kicks out right away. Raab is vocally supportive from the apron as Covert Jay gushes about the potential of Team Zaab on commentary.
Zane lifts Rydell for an airplane spin, but Rydell floats off the back and shoves him away. Zane comes off the ropes and ducks under a clothesline, but as he comes off the ropes again Rydell slams into him with the Tip of the Spear. Rydell drops into a cover but only gets a one before Zane launches him off. Rydell is right back on him as he pulls him up and goes for a suplex, only to have it blocked as Zane drops his weight and uses his power to separate Rydell’s hands. He pulls Rydell up onto his shoulders by his arms and then drops him down and powerslams him into the mat before he collapses down and reaches for his own corner. Raab reaches out and encourages him to their corner as Angelica does the same for Rydell.
Both men inch their way to their corners with Zane making the tag to Raab a few seconds before Rydell makes it to Angelica. Rydell takes in Angelica a few seconds later and the two meet towards center ring with Raab getting the advantage as he tosses her overhead with a release suplex, which he follows up with a snap suplex before finally hitting her with “The Frozen Pin” before she kicks out at two. Raab immediately transitions into an STF. Angelica yells in pain and refuses to submit as Rydell yells encouragement to her from their corner and stomps on the apron (did you know that it’s the hardest part of the ring) to keep her oriented towards it. Zane claps from his and Raab’s corner, which Raab acknowledges with a nod and smile.
Sam Green asks Angelica if she wants to submit and she emphatically refuses. She begins to pull herself towards her corner and unbeknownst to Raab, towards the side ropes. Rydell leans over the ropes and reaches towards her but she can’t reach him. What she does reach is the bottom rope with her foot. Sam sees it and orders Raab to break the hold, which he does. He stands up and backs up a couple of steps as Sam checks Angelica, who assures him that she’s OK. She stands up and walks to center ring. Raab asks her if she’s ok and she tells him that she is and the two lock up again. Raab gets around behind her again and goes for another suplex, but Angelica blocks it with her leg. He tries it again, but Angelica ragdolls and rolls him up for a quick two.
Angelica follows it with a quick roundhouse that drops Raab to his knees. She follows up with a succession of “YES” kicks that she finishes with a standing dropkick that knocks Raab back into the corner. Zane yells to him from the outside as he extends his hand for a tag. Rydell yells at him from his corner but gets an...impolite response from “The Personification of Pain”. Angelica runs between their yelling and drives Raab into the corner with a Cannonball. She drags him out and goes for a pin, but Zane breaks it up at two by shoving her off.
Rydell blitzes into the ring to retaliate, but Sam turns and orders him back into his corner as Angelica goes back to work on Raab. She pulls him up and drops him with a quick DDT, then drags him over to her corner and tags Rydell in. Rydell races across the ring and knocks Zane off of the apron, which elicits a bit of a displeased gasp from Angelica. He turns back towards his corner and tags Angelica back in. She steps in, darts across the ring, uses the ropes for leverage and then shoots across the ring and drills Raab with an absolutely devastating “#Vaughenmous” kick which lifts Raab off of the canvas.
And straight into a “Virus of Life”.
Rydell drops on top of Raab and gets the academic three count a second before Zane can break it up.
Winners: Angdell
Time: 8:12
Backstage, Kenzi and her mother meet with the Lord-Creative Director.
“The Icon of Entertainment” enters first and gets the reception that you would expect. He clearly doesn’t care, as he acts as if he’s being cheered as the conquering hero the entire way. That changes as soon as Lucy’s entrance starts and she’s greeted with a cheer that leaves no doubt as to who the favorite in the match is. Pierce responds to this with a dismissive hand gesture, but is still clearly a bit irritated by it. Lucy gets to the ring, finishes her entrance and makes sure to rub the crowd reaction in a bit. Hazel East sends them both to their corners, checks them and then calls for the bell.
The two competitors walk to center ring and one former World Champion smirks at another as Pierce condescendingly smirks at his opponent. He reaches out to pat her on her head, but she grabs him by his wrist and spins him down into a surprise LeBell Lock. Pierce struggles against it and slowly uses his legs to push himself towards the ropes. Unfortunately for him, right as he’s about to get there, Lucy rolls backwards towards center ring and re-applies the hold. Pierce begins to yell loudly but refuses to submit.
Hazel begins her count but Lucy releases it before Hazel gets past four. She stands up and backs off when Hazel tells her to, then goes and checks on Pierce. He stands in his corner and tells Hazel that his shoulder might be hurt. Lucy stands in her corner and watches as Hazel checks Pierce. Pierce steps from his corner and points at his shoulder again but insists that he can continue when Hazel asks him. Hazel turns and then waves both towards center ring when Pierce suddenly explodes past her, darts across the ring and drives a vicious boot into Lucy’s face that lifts her off of her feet in the corner. Lucy staggers out and Pierce hits “The Truth Hurts”. He drops onto her for the pin and gets to a two-point five when Lucy kicks out.
Pierce stands up and yells at Hazel that her count was too slow. Hazel tells him that Lucy got her shoulder up and tells him that the match is still going. Pierce stands up, turns and walks straight into a spear from Lucy. She leaps up onto the turnbuckle and crashes down onto him with flying headbutt. She gets to her feet and pulls Pierce up but he pushes her off and clotheslines her in the back of the head, then dead lifts her off of the mat and drops her onto the back of her neck with a nasty looking snap suplex. Instead of letting her go, he transitions his hands and drops her onto the back of her head with a falling sleeper slam. He rolls her over into an arrogant cover, but only gets a two before she kicks out.
He leaps up, grabs Lucy by her hair and roughly yanks her up by it as Hazel tells him to let go. She never gets the entire phrase out before Lucy drops Travis with a sudden “Wylde Liberation”. Hazel begins her count as both wrestlers lay prone on the mat. At five Lucy begins to move, at seven Pierce begins to. Lucy gets to her feet at eight and backs up a few steps as Pierce gets to his hands and knees and shakes his head to clear it. That clarity disappears the second that Lucy unleashes a powerful “Keep Your Chin Up” that flips him over onto his back. She drops into the cover and hooks his leg.
Hazel gets to two point eight before Pierce weakly kicks out. Lucy leaps to her feet and leaps back against the ropes just as Pierce crawls to his knees. The smack that her leg makes when it impacts with his head causes the first two rows to visibly wince. Lucy drags him to his feet, hits a quick if largely unnecessary “Wylde Liberation” and three seconds later Lucy picks up the win.
Winner: Lucy Wylde
Time: 9:21
Vain tells Dynamo that he’ll start, she gently tells him that they could have worked this out had they met earlier like she wanted. He tells her that this was just now the meeting and points her to the outside. Eden wants to start, but Baal appears to talk her out of it, and she reluctantly steps to the outside.
The bell rings with Vain staring across the ring at Baal, and Vain immediately tags in Dynamo, telling her their meeting had an addendum and she can start the match. Dynamo comes in and looks to open with kicks just as she did a week ago, but Baal is ready, taking Dynamo down with a drop toe hold. He goes to stomp on her, but she rolls out of the way and to her feet, coming off the ropes and connecting with rolling Koppu kick. Dynamo into a cover, but Baal kicks out right away.
Dynamo goes to pull Baal up, but he delivers several shots to the gut. Baal springboards for the Freudian Slip, but Dynamo sidesteps it. Baal ducks under a clothesline, comes off the ropes and plants her with a running STO. Eden wants a tag, but Baal tells her he’s got this. He goes to bring Dynamo back up, but she tucks her shoulder into his chest and runs him back into the corner in front of Vain. She stomps Baal down and puts her hand up for a tag, but Vain shakes his head no and tells her that Baal needs two more kicks. Dynamo rolls her eyes and delivers two more stomps before backing off and cannonballing back in. Vain tells her the cannonball was too much but he tags in anyway.
Vain comes in and sets up the Cherry Popper, but Baal shoves him away, staggers Vain with an uppercut. Eden again wants a tag, but Baal grabs hold of Vain and hits a snap suplex. Baal sets up a T-Bone, but Vain cracks him in the side of the head with an elbow, sending Baal stumbling towards his corner, and Eden leans over the ropes and tags herself in.
Eden rushes in with a discus clothesline that knocks Vain down, follows up with a springboard knee strike and covers, but Vain kicks out right away. She comes off the ropes as he is getting up and attempts a headscissor takedown, but he grabs her legs and holds on, planting his feet and hurling her into a corner. Vain charges in with a clothesline, then rips her out of the corner with a belly-to-belly suplex. Vain covers, but Baal breaks up the cover.
Kem starts to come in but the Owen Peterson cuts her off, Baal uses the distraction to move Eden closer to their corner, he steps out to the apron and leans over for a tag as the referee has turned back around, but Vain charges and blasts him off the apron. Eden is back up as Vain turns around right into the Hard Way, and Vain staggers for a moment before Eden plants him with Entropy. Eden covers, but now it’s Kem breaking up the cover.
Eden attempts to apply the Ouroboros, Vain attempting to block it, as Baal comes around the ring and tugs Kem off the apron before sending her into the barricade. Vain is able to get Eden’s shoulders leveraged to the mat, and she releases the hold to get her own shoulder up. Eden to her feet and starts to pull Vain up, but he catches her by surprise with the Curtain Call. Baal starts to come into the ring, but Peterson cuts him off and yells at him to go back to his corner. Vain stands over Eden and stares down at her before smiling at Baal, and he picks Eden up and sets her up for a brainbuster, preparing to drop her right on her head, but Baal rushes in past Peterson and clips Vain in the knee, catching Eden as he drops her and setting her on her feet. Baal lays the boots to Vain as Peterson has had enough and calls for the bell.
Winners: Alan Wallace and Kem Dynamo by Disqualification
Time: 13:02
Baal continues the attack on Vain as Eden watches thoughtfully, but Eden spots Kem coming in and taps Baal, and they drop out of the ring on the far side as Kem slides into the ring. Kem eyes them as they head up the ramp, and Lieberjosch notes that Kem now has a free shot at the champ if she wants it, but Kem opts not to take it.
Kenzi out first, her ‘Momager’ in tow, followed by the reigning Cross-Hemmisphere Champ, Magdalena Lockheart. Opening moments of the match are the two competitors feeling one another out, exchanging grapples and technical wrestling holds, but each woman finding a way to reverse what the other is attempting. Maggie ultimately maneuvers in behind of Kenzi after a standing switch, attempting a german suplex. Kenzi is able to shift her weight forward, blocking the move, and then connects with a back elbow that catches Maggie directly in the mouth, staggering her. A hip toss from Kenzi sends Maggie hard to the mat, and she follows it up with a springboard dropkick that sends Maggie through the ropes and out to the floor.
Maggie gets to her feet but is completely wiped out from a springboard somersault from Grey. Kenzi pulls Maggie back to her feet, only to snap suplex her back onto the floor, before pulling her to her feet and shoving her back into the ring. Kenzi with a heel kick, and then follows it up with a bicycle kick. Kenzi lying in wait as Lockheart struggles back to her feet, and she catches the C-H Champ with a Breakout performance that gets a count of two-and-a-half, but Maggie is able to get her shoulder up. Maggie completely stunned as Kenzi makes her way to her feet, Kenzi going for The Walk of Fame, but Maggie has her scouted and is able to move out of the way at the last minute. Kenzi righting herself and turning back towards Maggie, but Lockheart connects with the Beat Rush, and then springboards off the middle rope and hits The Black Star, leaving both women sprawled out in the center of the ring.
‘Momager’ Sydney Grey is yelling at her daughter to get up, and both women begin stirring. Kenzi is first to her feet, but is sent back to the mat with a perfectly executed Judo Hip Toss. Kenzi back to her feet, but is hit with a leaping forearm from Lockheart that sends her into the corner. Maggie begins pummeling Kenzi with right hands, punching her all the way down to a seated position in the corner. The C-H Champ then channels her inner rattlesnake and commences with a mudhold stomping the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 90’s. Maggie takes off towards the adjacent corner and comes hauling ass across the ring, connecting with a knee lift that rattles the jaw of Kenzi Grey. Kenzi definitely dazed as she begins crawling out of the corner. Maggie goes for Lacrimosa, but misses, as Sydney Grey reaches in and grabs the leg of her daughter, pulling her outside to safety.
Sydney attempting to get through to Kenzi, shouting instructions at her as Kenzi still attempts to shake out the cobwebs. Maggie bounds off the far ropes and connects with a baseball slide that sends Sydney down hard. Kenzi snaps out of the fog and hops up onto the apron, just as Maggie gets back to her feet. Kenzi goes for a right hand, but Lockheart blocks it, and then connects with an step-up enzugiri that finds its mark, and Kenzi hits the apron. Maggie grabbing Kenzi by the head and pulling her up to her feet, and then through the ropes. Lockheart connects with a DDT and goes for the cover, but Kenzi gets the shoulder up at two-and-three-quarters.
Maggie pulling Kenzi to her feet again, whips her towards the ropes. Spinning heel kick from Maggie, but Kenzi ducks under and continues towards the opposite ropes. Maggie back to her feet, but Kenzi connects with a spear, folding Lockheart up due to the force behind it. Kenzi struggling to make the cover, finally draping an arm across the C-H Champ’s chest, but Maggie with the shoulder up at the last second.
Both women slow to get back to their feet, with Maggie making to hers first and landing multiple forearm shivers to the side of Kenzi’s face. Maggie bounds off the ropes, but Kenzi is waiting on her and sends her to the mat with a thunderous spinebuster. Kenzi grabbing the legs of Lockheart and rolling on top of her with a pin attempt, but Maggie gets the shoulder up again. The two women up again, Kenzi landing a kneelift to the stomach of Lockheart. Irish whip to the ropes, Kenzi connecting with a sidewalk slam. Grey quickly back to her feet, and applies a sharpshooter to Mags. The pain is etched all over Maggie’s face, as Kenzi leans back into the hold as far as she can. Official is in place, asking if Lockheart wishes to submit, but she firmly says no, just with more colorful language. Maggie summons the strength to push herself off the mat with her arms, and begins the long crawl towards the ropes. Just as she is about to reach the ropes, Kenzi releases the hold, quickly gets to her feet, and lands an elbow drop to the small of Maggie’s back. Kenzi grabs the legs of Maggie and drags her back to the center of the ring, flipping her over and going for the sharpshooter again. Maggie reaches up and grabs Kenzi by the head, and rolls her up in a small package that almost gets a three-count. Kenzi and Maggie both get to their feet, but Kenzi leaves her feet, executing a hurricanrana onto Lockheart, and she grabs a hold of the leg. Maggie with the kickout at two, and both of these women are spent.
Sydney Grey hops up onto the ring apron, yelling at the official, as both Kenzi and Maggie make their way to their feet. Kenzi over and yelling at her Mom to get down, which the voluptuous ‘Momager’ reluctantly winds up doing. The distraction costs Kenzi though, as Maggie is waiting on her as she turns around, and connects with Event Horizon. Maggie then backing up towards the ropes, waiting on Kenzi to begin attempting to get up, looking for Lacrimosa. Sydney quickly over to that side of the ring though, reaches in and grabs the leg of Maggie just as she is about to go for her finishing move. Maggie yelling down at Sydney now, as Ms. Grey pleads her innocence. Flustered, Maggie turns her attention back towards Kenzi just in time for Kenzi to connect with a One Hit Wonder that knocks Maggie back into the ropes. A kick to the gut doubles the Cross-Hemisphere Champion over, and one Blockbuster later, Kenzi has earned a hard-fought victory.
Winner: Kenzi Grey
Time: 9:27
The two competitors make their entrances and the match gets underway. Back and forth as each test the other until Somers takes control. It’s short-lived as Lacklan rocks Somers with right hands and then connects with a running avalanche into the corner.
Lacklan pulling Somers to his feet, but Somers flings her forward, ramming her face into the middle turnbuckle. He starts to stomp away at her, only to pull back, an arm going around his midsection as he winces. It’s enough breathing room for Lacklan to get back to her feet, dropping Jet and nearly taking his head off with a vicious clothesline.
Somers back to his feet, and Lacklan has seen him favoring his ribs, takes him down with a spear. Jet’s down and knows he’s in trouble, rolls toward the side to get some distance between he and Lacklan.
Jet Somers rolls under the bottom rope to the outside, pushing himself upright and facing Sarah Lacklan still inside the ring.
Vinegar: What are they doing here?!
Covert Jay: Behind you, Jet!
Jet turns just as Eden Morgan slams into him with a hard forearm, to the back of his head, dropping him to all fours. She wastes no time in gripping his hair and pulling him more upright before driving her fist right between his shoulder blades, a tiny puncture wound made. She taps the ring she wears again, the needle hidden once more as Gabriel Baal moves in to stand over Jet.
Vinegar: Someone do something! Where is security?
Lieberjosch: Methinks this reeks of revenge. Jet cost Gabriel the Cross-Hemisphere title at WrestleStock and that bill has come due.
Jet grasps at Gabriel’s ankles as Eden’s serum works through him, still trying to fight his way upright. Gabriel leans down and whispers something in his ear while Eden kicks the mats away, revealing hard concrete. Inside the ring, Sarah Lacklan argues with Chartreuse clearly in an attempt to buy time and so he doesn’t notice events on the outside. Each time he starts to turn back, she grabs at her ankle, crying out in pain and then assuring him she’s okay.
Gabriel looks to Eden and then lifts Jet up, Jet’s dazed and drugged stare meeting Eden’s cold one.
Vinegar: THE FALL! Baal just drove Somers down hard with The Fall on the concrete!
Lieberjosch: And now Eden and Gabriel rolling Jet into the ring just as Chartreuse turns around. He looks suspicious...
Vinegar: Lacklan knows, she saw what happened!
Gabriel and Eden back away from the ring, their hands up in mockery as if to say “nothing to see here”, standing in the center of the ramp as they watch the ending of the match.
Vinegar: This is a sham!
Covert Jay: Jet looks hurt!
Lieberjosch: Sarah’s gotten Jet up and it looks like— THE ABYSS!! And the cover, it’s over!
Winner: Sarah Lacklan
Time: 9:27
Eden and Gabriel are pleased with themselves, but the Director of Human Resources has something to say about it…
End Show
Championship Roll Call:
World Heavyweight Champion: Alan Wallace
Cross-Hemisphere Champion: Maggie Lockheart
Cooperative Champions: Angelica Vaughn and Dave Rydell
Chaos Champion: Le Bord de Dieu
The road to Horizons is heating up, and it continues some big time action as tonight’s card sees the World Heavyweight Champion, Alan Wallace, teaming together with the woman that challenges him at Horizons, Kem Dynamo, against the twin serpents of Eden Morgan and Gabriel Baal. Speaking of cooperative action, that division’s champions will be in competition as well, against the makeshift team of Zane Scott and Konrad Raab.
We’ll also get some marquee singles matches with Lucy Wylde taking on Travis Pierce and Maggie Lockheart in action against Kenzi Grey. In the main event, a Horizons challenger for the Cross-Hemisphere Title will be determined, as Jet Somers faces off against Sarah Lacklan.
Your Synergy coverage begins, now…
- Vinegar, Hans, and Jay give us the usual intro that transitions into childish bickering. [/CopyPaste]
Roxy Cotton vs Maria Salvatore vs Le Bord de Dieu
All three competitors rush at one another, but Le Bord turns and mushes Maria’s face to throw her out of the way before getting surprised by a spear from Roxy. Bordy rolls away and under the bottom rope, then grabs Roxy’s leg and begins slamming it against the turnpost. The announcers remind the crowd that Bordy is focusing on Roxy’s bad knee.
Maria comes off the apron with a tornado DDT to Bordy! Bracing herself on the apron, she begins kicking at Bordy. Eventually she lets up only long enough to roll Bordy back into the ring. As she slides in, Roxy stumbles over to attempt a standing moonsault. It looks sloppy but connects enough to give her the first pin attempt. Maria kicks out at 2.
Bordy with a low blow from behind to Roxy! The announce team spends the next five minutes arguing over whether or not that hurts a woman as Roxy demonstrates that it does as she crumples. Bordy goes to close on her, but Roxy returns the favor and now they’re both in the fetal position writhing!
Maria to her feet now, she grabs Roxy up by the hair and sets her up for a neckbreaker. Roxy shoves her off, but Maria hits the ropes and returns with a big clothesline. She catches Le Bord trying for a hat trick on the low blow and stomps on her back. She scoops The Edge of God up, looks like she’s going for her trademark brainbuster.
Bordy bicycle kicks her legs in the air, twisting around to turn it into a headscissors takedown! Here comes Cotton with a dropkick, but Bordy fades back and Cotton comes up short! Bordy leaps over and grabs a double fistful of Roxy’s hair, dragging back as she climbs up on her back and starts stomping away.
Bordy is caught off guard as Maria slaps the taste out of her mouth, causing her to drop Roxy’s head. Bordy wipes the back of her hand across her lips, then looks down at a trickle of blood there. Maria smirks, but her eyes pop wide as Bordy hits her, seeming to windmill her arms and legs at the same time. She drives the newer competitor into the corner with a sheer onslaught of rage.
Bordy grabs Maria’s arm and falls backward, pulling her into a monkey flip. As Maria comes up, Bordy shoots up behind her and grabs her head. A scream of triumph as she hits the L'étreinte de Dieu and covers for the win!
Winner: Le Bord de Dieu
Time: 6:24
~Commercial Break~
Angelica Vaughn and Dave Rydell vs Konrad Raab and Zane Scott
It’s an old rivalry renewed as Zane and Rydell get things started. Double elbow tie-up, Rydell takes Zane down with an arm drag. Rydell goes to follow up but Zane catches him with a straight punch, comes off the ropes with a running boot to the face. Zane covers, but Rydell kicks out right away. Raab is vocally supportive from the apron as Covert Jay gushes about the potential of Team Zaab on commentary.
Zane lifts Rydell for an airplane spin, but Rydell floats off the back and shoves him away. Zane comes off the ropes and ducks under a clothesline, but as he comes off the ropes again Rydell slams into him with the Tip of the Spear. Rydell drops into a cover but only gets a one before Zane launches him off. Rydell is right back on him as he pulls him up and goes for a suplex, only to have it blocked as Zane drops his weight and uses his power to separate Rydell’s hands. He pulls Rydell up onto his shoulders by his arms and then drops him down and powerslams him into the mat before he collapses down and reaches for his own corner. Raab reaches out and encourages him to their corner as Angelica does the same for Rydell.
Both men inch their way to their corners with Zane making the tag to Raab a few seconds before Rydell makes it to Angelica. Rydell takes in Angelica a few seconds later and the two meet towards center ring with Raab getting the advantage as he tosses her overhead with a release suplex, which he follows up with a snap suplex before finally hitting her with “The Frozen Pin” before she kicks out at two. Raab immediately transitions into an STF. Angelica yells in pain and refuses to submit as Rydell yells encouragement to her from their corner and stomps on the apron (did you know that it’s the hardest part of the ring) to keep her oriented towards it. Zane claps from his and Raab’s corner, which Raab acknowledges with a nod and smile.
Sam Green asks Angelica if she wants to submit and she emphatically refuses. She begins to pull herself towards her corner and unbeknownst to Raab, towards the side ropes. Rydell leans over the ropes and reaches towards her but she can’t reach him. What she does reach is the bottom rope with her foot. Sam sees it and orders Raab to break the hold, which he does. He stands up and backs up a couple of steps as Sam checks Angelica, who assures him that she’s OK. She stands up and walks to center ring. Raab asks her if she’s ok and she tells him that she is and the two lock up again. Raab gets around behind her again and goes for another suplex, but Angelica blocks it with her leg. He tries it again, but Angelica ragdolls and rolls him up for a quick two.
Angelica follows it with a quick roundhouse that drops Raab to his knees. She follows up with a succession of “YES” kicks that she finishes with a standing dropkick that knocks Raab back into the corner. Zane yells to him from the outside as he extends his hand for a tag. Rydell yells at him from his corner but gets an...impolite response from “The Personification of Pain”. Angelica runs between their yelling and drives Raab into the corner with a Cannonball. She drags him out and goes for a pin, but Zane breaks it up at two by shoving her off.
Rydell blitzes into the ring to retaliate, but Sam turns and orders him back into his corner as Angelica goes back to work on Raab. She pulls him up and drops him with a quick DDT, then drags him over to her corner and tags Rydell in. Rydell races across the ring and knocks Zane off of the apron, which elicits a bit of a displeased gasp from Angelica. He turns back towards his corner and tags Angelica back in. She steps in, darts across the ring, uses the ropes for leverage and then shoots across the ring and drills Raab with an absolutely devastating “#Vaughenmous” kick which lifts Raab off of the canvas.
And straight into a “Virus of Life”.
Rydell drops on top of Raab and gets the academic three count a second before Zane can break it up.
Winners: Angdell
Time: 8:12
~Commercial Break~
Backstage, Kenzi and her mother meet with the Lord-Creative Director.
Lucy Wylde vs Travis Pierce
“The Icon of Entertainment” enters first and gets the reception that you would expect. He clearly doesn’t care, as he acts as if he’s being cheered as the conquering hero the entire way. That changes as soon as Lucy’s entrance starts and she’s greeted with a cheer that leaves no doubt as to who the favorite in the match is. Pierce responds to this with a dismissive hand gesture, but is still clearly a bit irritated by it. Lucy gets to the ring, finishes her entrance and makes sure to rub the crowd reaction in a bit. Hazel East sends them both to their corners, checks them and then calls for the bell.
The two competitors walk to center ring and one former World Champion smirks at another as Pierce condescendingly smirks at his opponent. He reaches out to pat her on her head, but she grabs him by his wrist and spins him down into a surprise LeBell Lock. Pierce struggles against it and slowly uses his legs to push himself towards the ropes. Unfortunately for him, right as he’s about to get there, Lucy rolls backwards towards center ring and re-applies the hold. Pierce begins to yell loudly but refuses to submit.
Hazel begins her count but Lucy releases it before Hazel gets past four. She stands up and backs off when Hazel tells her to, then goes and checks on Pierce. He stands in his corner and tells Hazel that his shoulder might be hurt. Lucy stands in her corner and watches as Hazel checks Pierce. Pierce steps from his corner and points at his shoulder again but insists that he can continue when Hazel asks him. Hazel turns and then waves both towards center ring when Pierce suddenly explodes past her, darts across the ring and drives a vicious boot into Lucy’s face that lifts her off of her feet in the corner. Lucy staggers out and Pierce hits “The Truth Hurts”. He drops onto her for the pin and gets to a two-point five when Lucy kicks out.
Pierce stands up and yells at Hazel that her count was too slow. Hazel tells him that Lucy got her shoulder up and tells him that the match is still going. Pierce stands up, turns and walks straight into a spear from Lucy. She leaps up onto the turnbuckle and crashes down onto him with flying headbutt. She gets to her feet and pulls Pierce up but he pushes her off and clotheslines her in the back of the head, then dead lifts her off of the mat and drops her onto the back of her neck with a nasty looking snap suplex. Instead of letting her go, he transitions his hands and drops her onto the back of her head with a falling sleeper slam. He rolls her over into an arrogant cover, but only gets a two before she kicks out.
He leaps up, grabs Lucy by her hair and roughly yanks her up by it as Hazel tells him to let go. She never gets the entire phrase out before Lucy drops Travis with a sudden “Wylde Liberation”. Hazel begins her count as both wrestlers lay prone on the mat. At five Lucy begins to move, at seven Pierce begins to. Lucy gets to her feet at eight and backs up a few steps as Pierce gets to his hands and knees and shakes his head to clear it. That clarity disappears the second that Lucy unleashes a powerful “Keep Your Chin Up” that flips him over onto his back. She drops into the cover and hooks his leg.
Hazel gets to two point eight before Pierce weakly kicks out. Lucy leaps to her feet and leaps back against the ropes just as Pierce crawls to his knees. The smack that her leg makes when it impacts with his head causes the first two rows to visibly wince. Lucy drags him to his feet, hits a quick if largely unnecessary “Wylde Liberation” and three seconds later Lucy picks up the win.
Winner: Lucy Wylde
Time: 9:21
~Commercial Break~
Alan Wallace and Kem Dynamo vs Eden Morgan and Gabriel Baal
Vain tells Dynamo that he’ll start, she gently tells him that they could have worked this out had they met earlier like she wanted. He tells her that this was just now the meeting and points her to the outside. Eden wants to start, but Baal appears to talk her out of it, and she reluctantly steps to the outside.
The bell rings with Vain staring across the ring at Baal, and Vain immediately tags in Dynamo, telling her their meeting had an addendum and she can start the match. Dynamo comes in and looks to open with kicks just as she did a week ago, but Baal is ready, taking Dynamo down with a drop toe hold. He goes to stomp on her, but she rolls out of the way and to her feet, coming off the ropes and connecting with rolling Koppu kick. Dynamo into a cover, but Baal kicks out right away.
Dynamo goes to pull Baal up, but he delivers several shots to the gut. Baal springboards for the Freudian Slip, but Dynamo sidesteps it. Baal ducks under a clothesline, comes off the ropes and plants her with a running STO. Eden wants a tag, but Baal tells her he’s got this. He goes to bring Dynamo back up, but she tucks her shoulder into his chest and runs him back into the corner in front of Vain. She stomps Baal down and puts her hand up for a tag, but Vain shakes his head no and tells her that Baal needs two more kicks. Dynamo rolls her eyes and delivers two more stomps before backing off and cannonballing back in. Vain tells her the cannonball was too much but he tags in anyway.
Vain comes in and sets up the Cherry Popper, but Baal shoves him away, staggers Vain with an uppercut. Eden again wants a tag, but Baal grabs hold of Vain and hits a snap suplex. Baal sets up a T-Bone, but Vain cracks him in the side of the head with an elbow, sending Baal stumbling towards his corner, and Eden leans over the ropes and tags herself in.
Eden rushes in with a discus clothesline that knocks Vain down, follows up with a springboard knee strike and covers, but Vain kicks out right away. She comes off the ropes as he is getting up and attempts a headscissor takedown, but he grabs her legs and holds on, planting his feet and hurling her into a corner. Vain charges in with a clothesline, then rips her out of the corner with a belly-to-belly suplex. Vain covers, but Baal breaks up the cover.
Kem starts to come in but the Owen Peterson cuts her off, Baal uses the distraction to move Eden closer to their corner, he steps out to the apron and leans over for a tag as the referee has turned back around, but Vain charges and blasts him off the apron. Eden is back up as Vain turns around right into the Hard Way, and Vain staggers for a moment before Eden plants him with Entropy. Eden covers, but now it’s Kem breaking up the cover.
Eden attempts to apply the Ouroboros, Vain attempting to block it, as Baal comes around the ring and tugs Kem off the apron before sending her into the barricade. Vain is able to get Eden’s shoulders leveraged to the mat, and she releases the hold to get her own shoulder up. Eden to her feet and starts to pull Vain up, but he catches her by surprise with the Curtain Call. Baal starts to come into the ring, but Peterson cuts him off and yells at him to go back to his corner. Vain stands over Eden and stares down at her before smiling at Baal, and he picks Eden up and sets her up for a brainbuster, preparing to drop her right on her head, but Baal rushes in past Peterson and clips Vain in the knee, catching Eden as he drops her and setting her on her feet. Baal lays the boots to Vain as Peterson has had enough and calls for the bell.
Winners: Alan Wallace and Kem Dynamo by Disqualification
Time: 13:02
Baal continues the attack on Vain as Eden watches thoughtfully, but Eden spots Kem coming in and taps Baal, and they drop out of the ring on the far side as Kem slides into the ring. Kem eyes them as they head up the ramp, and Lieberjosch notes that Kem now has a free shot at the champ if she wants it, but Kem opts not to take it.
~Commercial Break~
Kenzi Grey vs Maggie Lockheart
Kenzi out first, her ‘Momager’ in tow, followed by the reigning Cross-Hemmisphere Champ, Magdalena Lockheart. Opening moments of the match are the two competitors feeling one another out, exchanging grapples and technical wrestling holds, but each woman finding a way to reverse what the other is attempting. Maggie ultimately maneuvers in behind of Kenzi after a standing switch, attempting a german suplex. Kenzi is able to shift her weight forward, blocking the move, and then connects with a back elbow that catches Maggie directly in the mouth, staggering her. A hip toss from Kenzi sends Maggie hard to the mat, and she follows it up with a springboard dropkick that sends Maggie through the ropes and out to the floor.
Maggie gets to her feet but is completely wiped out from a springboard somersault from Grey. Kenzi pulls Maggie back to her feet, only to snap suplex her back onto the floor, before pulling her to her feet and shoving her back into the ring. Kenzi with a heel kick, and then follows it up with a bicycle kick. Kenzi lying in wait as Lockheart struggles back to her feet, and she catches the C-H Champ with a Breakout performance that gets a count of two-and-a-half, but Maggie is able to get her shoulder up. Maggie completely stunned as Kenzi makes her way to her feet, Kenzi going for The Walk of Fame, but Maggie has her scouted and is able to move out of the way at the last minute. Kenzi righting herself and turning back towards Maggie, but Lockheart connects with the Beat Rush, and then springboards off the middle rope and hits The Black Star, leaving both women sprawled out in the center of the ring.
‘Momager’ Sydney Grey is yelling at her daughter to get up, and both women begin stirring. Kenzi is first to her feet, but is sent back to the mat with a perfectly executed Judo Hip Toss. Kenzi back to her feet, but is hit with a leaping forearm from Lockheart that sends her into the corner. Maggie begins pummeling Kenzi with right hands, punching her all the way down to a seated position in the corner. The C-H Champ then channels her inner rattlesnake and commences with a mudhold stomping the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 90’s. Maggie takes off towards the adjacent corner and comes hauling ass across the ring, connecting with a knee lift that rattles the jaw of Kenzi Grey. Kenzi definitely dazed as she begins crawling out of the corner. Maggie goes for Lacrimosa, but misses, as Sydney Grey reaches in and grabs the leg of her daughter, pulling her outside to safety.
Sydney attempting to get through to Kenzi, shouting instructions at her as Kenzi still attempts to shake out the cobwebs. Maggie bounds off the far ropes and connects with a baseball slide that sends Sydney down hard. Kenzi snaps out of the fog and hops up onto the apron, just as Maggie gets back to her feet. Kenzi goes for a right hand, but Lockheart blocks it, and then connects with an step-up enzugiri that finds its mark, and Kenzi hits the apron. Maggie grabbing Kenzi by the head and pulling her up to her feet, and then through the ropes. Lockheart connects with a DDT and goes for the cover, but Kenzi gets the shoulder up at two-and-three-quarters.
Maggie pulling Kenzi to her feet again, whips her towards the ropes. Spinning heel kick from Maggie, but Kenzi ducks under and continues towards the opposite ropes. Maggie back to her feet, but Kenzi connects with a spear, folding Lockheart up due to the force behind it. Kenzi struggling to make the cover, finally draping an arm across the C-H Champ’s chest, but Maggie with the shoulder up at the last second.
Both women slow to get back to their feet, with Maggie making to hers first and landing multiple forearm shivers to the side of Kenzi’s face. Maggie bounds off the ropes, but Kenzi is waiting on her and sends her to the mat with a thunderous spinebuster. Kenzi grabbing the legs of Lockheart and rolling on top of her with a pin attempt, but Maggie gets the shoulder up again. The two women up again, Kenzi landing a kneelift to the stomach of Lockheart. Irish whip to the ropes, Kenzi connecting with a sidewalk slam. Grey quickly back to her feet, and applies a sharpshooter to Mags. The pain is etched all over Maggie’s face, as Kenzi leans back into the hold as far as she can. Official is in place, asking if Lockheart wishes to submit, but she firmly says no, just with more colorful language. Maggie summons the strength to push herself off the mat with her arms, and begins the long crawl towards the ropes. Just as she is about to reach the ropes, Kenzi releases the hold, quickly gets to her feet, and lands an elbow drop to the small of Maggie’s back. Kenzi grabs the legs of Maggie and drags her back to the center of the ring, flipping her over and going for the sharpshooter again. Maggie reaches up and grabs Kenzi by the head, and rolls her up in a small package that almost gets a three-count. Kenzi and Maggie both get to their feet, but Kenzi leaves her feet, executing a hurricanrana onto Lockheart, and she grabs a hold of the leg. Maggie with the kickout at two, and both of these women are spent.
Sydney Grey hops up onto the ring apron, yelling at the official, as both Kenzi and Maggie make their way to their feet. Kenzi over and yelling at her Mom to get down, which the voluptuous ‘Momager’ reluctantly winds up doing. The distraction costs Kenzi though, as Maggie is waiting on her as she turns around, and connects with Event Horizon. Maggie then backing up towards the ropes, waiting on Kenzi to begin attempting to get up, looking for Lacrimosa. Sydney quickly over to that side of the ring though, reaches in and grabs the leg of Maggie just as she is about to go for her finishing move. Maggie yelling down at Sydney now, as Ms. Grey pleads her innocence. Flustered, Maggie turns her attention back towards Kenzi just in time for Kenzi to connect with a One Hit Wonder that knocks Maggie back into the ropes. A kick to the gut doubles the Cross-Hemisphere Champion over, and one Blockbuster later, Kenzi has earned a hard-fought victory.
Winner: Kenzi Grey
Time: 9:27
~Commercial Break~
Jet Somers vs Sarah Lacklan
The two competitors make their entrances and the match gets underway. Back and forth as each test the other until Somers takes control. It’s short-lived as Lacklan rocks Somers with right hands and then connects with a running avalanche into the corner.
Lacklan pulling Somers to his feet, but Somers flings her forward, ramming her face into the middle turnbuckle. He starts to stomp away at her, only to pull back, an arm going around his midsection as he winces. It’s enough breathing room for Lacklan to get back to her feet, dropping Jet and nearly taking his head off with a vicious clothesline.
Somers back to his feet, and Lacklan has seen him favoring his ribs, takes him down with a spear. Jet’s down and knows he’s in trouble, rolls toward the side to get some distance between he and Lacklan.
Jet Somers rolls under the bottom rope to the outside, pushing himself upright and facing Sarah Lacklan still inside the ring.
Vinegar: What are they doing here?!
Covert Jay: Behind you, Jet!
Jet turns just as Eden Morgan slams into him with a hard forearm, to the back of his head, dropping him to all fours. She wastes no time in gripping his hair and pulling him more upright before driving her fist right between his shoulder blades, a tiny puncture wound made. She taps the ring she wears again, the needle hidden once more as Gabriel Baal moves in to stand over Jet.
Vinegar: Someone do something! Where is security?
Lieberjosch: Methinks this reeks of revenge. Jet cost Gabriel the Cross-Hemisphere title at WrestleStock and that bill has come due.
Jet grasps at Gabriel’s ankles as Eden’s serum works through him, still trying to fight his way upright. Gabriel leans down and whispers something in his ear while Eden kicks the mats away, revealing hard concrete. Inside the ring, Sarah Lacklan argues with Chartreuse clearly in an attempt to buy time and so he doesn’t notice events on the outside. Each time he starts to turn back, she grabs at her ankle, crying out in pain and then assuring him she’s okay.
Gabriel looks to Eden and then lifts Jet up, Jet’s dazed and drugged stare meeting Eden’s cold one.
Vinegar: THE FALL! Baal just drove Somers down hard with The Fall on the concrete!
Lieberjosch: And now Eden and Gabriel rolling Jet into the ring just as Chartreuse turns around. He looks suspicious...
Vinegar: Lacklan knows, she saw what happened!
Gabriel and Eden back away from the ring, their hands up in mockery as if to say “nothing to see here”, standing in the center of the ramp as they watch the ending of the match.
Vinegar: This is a sham!
Covert Jay: Jet looks hurt!
Lieberjosch: Sarah’s gotten Jet up and it looks like— THE ABYSS!! And the cover, it’s over!
Winner: Sarah Lacklan
Time: 9:27
Eden and Gabriel are pleased with themselves, but the Director of Human Resources has something to say about it…
End Show
