Pro Wrestling RAIDEN - Big Trouble in Little China

[Strike]

Pro Wrestling RAIDEN Presents...
Big Trouble in Little China
November 2, 2018
LIVE! from The Cow Palace in San Francisco, California




The roar of the crowd echoes throughout the entirety of the Walter Pyramid as the cameras go live, displaying the rambunctious, sold-out crowd of nearly 12,000 people not being one bit shy about making noise, some displaying their own wrestling merch they wore or signs they brought in while the lights swirled around the arena. The crowd roared even louder as they recognized the familiar tune of "Big Trouble In Little China (End Credits - Album Version)" by The Coupe De Villes playing over the PA system as the ringside area was shown in full display. The fans and the action were separated via traditional steel guard rails, jade green mats set-up around the outside to pad the many falls people are likely to take on the outside, the ring aprons being adorned with the Pro Wrestling RAIDEN logo in them, black ropes and the mat itself being an emerald green color with the Pro Wrestling RAIDEN logo at its center. The cameraman on the outside has a shot of some of those with front row tickets, various wrestling t-shirts from talent from all over the world being represented before the camera pans over to an elevated white ramp on the straight and narrow that led to an entrance area set-up with an area where black curtains with the PWR logo hid whatever else might be looming backstage. It is at this time that we hear your two announcers for the course of the evening in Patrick "Starfish" Carson and Dre Hamilton.

Patrick Carson: We're baaaaaack! Hello everyone and welcome to Pro Wrestling RAIDEN's "Big Trouble in Little China," coming to you live from the sold-out Cow Palace in San Francisco, California and through all your screens worldwide via The Experts Network. My name is Patrick Carson and alongside me is the absolute motherfucking gentleman themselves, Mr. Dre Hamilton.

Dre Hamilton: It me, your regular color commentating, GQ motherfucker of the announcer table and I ain't one to miss a good party. Needless to say, tonight is promising its fair share of some fireworks. Ten matches, ten promises of sheer violence and I am out here living for it!

Patrick Carson: We've got some first time encounters, like the Sanctuary grads in Kendrick Lewis and Oliver Wilson squaring up after Kendrick Lewis showed up at Operation Intrude N313 and beat the crap everyone inside the ring to the WWA Pacific Northwest Championship being defended for the first time in YEARS, as Ramsay Bodach will defend against Issac Solo and a replacement for Hunter Peterson, who was NOT cleared by medical staff in time for this show due to his neck injury.

Dre Hamilton: Tough break, hombre. Speaking of breaking, some interesting shit could break as there's the pair of No DQ matches after it, with Evan Envi and Savannah Taylor squaring off from issues dating back to years of working around each other in FGA to the tag match where Michael Norcia and Artemis Kaiser will team up against Dexter Jacobs and MIKO AYANO, OF ALL PEOPLE - and this match's stakes are massive as owner and promoter Chris Strike has said whoever picks up the fall here, they get to call their shot at whatever match they want at the shows coming up in Kyoto in January.

Patrick Carson: But while those matches are gonna have their share of violence on display, there is in fact only one real grudge match in this card and a very good reason for it. These two women have despised one another for years but seldom been across from each other in the pro wrestling ring...and tonight, it happens. Sabra Kellar flew all the way from Morocco, returning to the squared circle for the first time in years to take on none other than Aurora. Trust me, there's no lost love here.

Dre Hamilton: But I do got a lot of love for the fact that William goddamn Bateman is ALSO making his triumphant return to the wrestling ring to put on one of his typical show stealers and this time, against one of the young rising stars in professional wrestling that has been, at times, compared to Wrestling Jesus himself and for Marlon Cure, tonight HAS to be the biggest night of his career thus far.

Patrick Carson: To cap it all off, the True Expert championship gets defended here tonight and this result could turn the entire ongoing tournament on its damn head as Rex Evans exercises his right to challenge against the champion Jack Benevolence. But the main event...oh, this is a dream match in so many ways that the fact we're getting it is surreal. Any combination of these six women could be a main event anywhere in the world and we get ALL OF THEM. IN THE SAME RING.

Dre Hamilton: The Scarborough Fair and Canadian Chainsaw Massacre...all six women involved in those two trios have won accolades and championships wherever they have set foot in. They are some of the absolute best wrestlers on Earth, there is chemistry out of the wazoo between each unit as a team but the most important part of it all...each of those teams believe they're best in the world. Tonight, we find out which one's claims have merit.

Patrick Carson: And we cannot forget that we're starting tonight off in high gear as the eclectic Aries Armadaist takes on PROJECT MUSCLE of DIVINE, in MUSCLE's North American debut! Let's not waste any more time and let us go to ringside where none other than arguably the world's greatest pro wrestling ring announcer is standing by...RUMCHATA AYANO, KICK US OFF!

The bell rings and the crowd goes nuts, as Rumchata Ayano steps forward with her radiant smile, adorned by a beautiful gold dress and the microphone near her lips as she takes a deep breath and makes the opening announcements for the first match of the evening...

"PROJECT MUSCLE ARRIVAL" - North American Debut Match
PROJECT MUSCLE [DIVINE Pro] vs. Aries Armadaist [Underground]

It might be a weird sight for those who just watch the Underground brand of HKW, but Aries Armadaist was greeted with boos from the San Francisco crowd packed inside of the Cow Palace. On that note, commentary putting forth the fact that Aries has been putting in overtime with the Underground's 2018 Cult Classic going on, having to travel out of his way to be here before getting on the next flight to Amsterdam for the tournament. PROJECT MUSCLE's entrance was energetic, the massive, hulking behemoth getting a warm welcome as he was making his debut in a land he had yet to fight in and his excitement showing as he high-fived and even hugged (powerfully) some of the fans on his way to the ring. Once introductions were made and the bell rang, the two men didn't hesitate for a second to get in each other's faces, with Aries gradually looking up and screaming "OK SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" while realizing how incredibly tall and swole MUSCLE was in person compared to any photograph he's seen of him. MUSCLE just grins widely, flexing accordingly before he told Aries to come at him as hard as he could. Aries charged the ropes and back with a shoulder tackle...but MUSCLE doesn't budge. Aries shakes it off, goes for another one...and yet, MUSCLE does not move an inch from his spot. Shaking his head, Aries promptly screams "OH FUCK THIS" and promptly grabbing onto PROJECT's head and placing him in a headlock, throwing in a few fists in the process before PROJECT MUSCLE simply lifts Aries Armadaist off the mat with ease to the astonishment of the crowd and tosses him up into the air, albeit Armadaist lands on his feet. There is a large grin on PROJECT MUSCLE's face as he beckons Aries to give it another shot, to show him how strong he really was...and Aries obliged.

By promptly shoving the referee aside with one hand to obstruct his field of vision with his free right hand suddenly jabbed right at PROJECT MUSCLE's eye, poking it like the goddamn wily veteran he is to the chagrin of the crowd. The sudden loss of vision does send MUSCLE on the automatic defense as Aries rains down with kicks to the sternum and wild, clubbing blows to the meatier individual until he backs him up in the corner. Armadaist takes advantage of this with his usual "unprofessional" tactics as a few headbutts to the chest find their mark, followed by his "Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am" combo of three left handed jabs, a right handed Hook, and finished with a Bionic Elbow right onto the eye that had been poked prior eventually bringing the big man to a knee so that Aries can DDT him right off of that spot and get a pinfall count of two and a quarter. Seeing his opportunity, "Hoss Kong" proceeds to scream that HE is the real hoss here as he begins to place some well-placed boots, forearms, all meaning to keep the larger MUSCLE at bay. PROJECT attempts to fight back with a punch that gets ducked and another headbutt finds MUSCLE's chest, sending him to the corner, with Armadaist capitalizing with stomps to his sternum and grinding his boot across MUSCLE's face and the eye previously damaged before running to the opposite turnbuckle and then back at MUSCLE with a running big boot to his cornered opponent, keeping him dazed. But as Aries Armadaist smirks and takes off with the ill-intent of another big boot to PROJECT's face, PROJECT MUSCLE lets out a war cry as he bursts out of the turnbuckle corner...

The entirety of the Cow Palace comes unglued as Aries Armadaist is sent at least seven feet up in the air and halfway across the ring, landing on the mat near the ropes with the biggest goddamn POUNCE on God's green Earth.

PROJECT MUSCLE looks rather impressed with himself for a moment, punching the air in excitement as his feat of strength but he does not waste a moment in the aftermath of that burst of emotion, going over to Armadaist and picking him up with just one hand amidst the "HOLY SHIT" chants echoing from the arena as he lifts Armadaist in a military press position and going even as far as doing a pair of squats with him held up before dropping Aries on his shoulders and connecting with a double knee gutbuster - almost LITERALLY getting IN THEM GUTS - and that maneuver ends up getting MUSCLE a two and a half count and the near fall. PROJECT's strength is put on further display as he continues his attack with a combination of raw power and strength by lifting, tossing and suplexing Armadaist onto the mat for another pair of minutes, something that caps off with a rather amazing set of theatrics as a dazed Armadaist walks right into the EXPLOSIVE RIGHT HAND! ...Really, the only reason this isn't a three count is due to Aries somehow getting his right foot on the ropes.

The drama came to its final act as MUSCLE proceeded to bring Armadaist back up to his feet, letting out a roar as he connected with a Roaring Laria- NO! Aries blocked the lariat with a headbutt, his face red at this point and screaming obscenities at MUSCLE as he caught him with a Karnage Bomber (Lariat) that forces PROJECT to take a few steps back, staggering...but he does not fall. Aries' eyes widen in frustration, a loud "OH MOTHERFUCKER, YOU TRY TO STEAL MY HOSS TITLE AND THEN YOU DO MY MOVE?! THAT IS IT!!!" before he does the utterly unspeakable of attempting to kick PROJECT MUSCLE right in that one muscle in between his legs...only for his foot to get caught by MUSCLE's hands. PROJECT MUSCLE does not look pleased. PROJECT MUSCLE, in fact, is more than happy to then lift Aries Armadaist off his feet and looks to powerbomb him DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS but a sharp pain hits him as Aries Armadaist, desperately trying to fight off the massive powerbomb incoming, proceeds to dig his fingers right into the previously targeted eye of MUSCLE...the pain enough to cause MUSCLE to loosen his grip and for Aries to fall right behind him. In desperation, Armadaist grabs a hold of PROJECT's waist and with all of his strength - plus MUSCLE still feeling the effects of the eye poke - he pushes PROJECT MUSCLE towards the referee and backs them both into the ropes. The ref immediately shields himself by turning back, bracing for a collision in which MUSCLE himself puts a stop to by planting his feet onto the mat...but that seems to do the trick as Aries lets go of him and as MUSCLE turns around, he is nailed with a Dick Kick! The crowd loudly boos the actions of "The World's Greatest Unprofessional Wrestler" as Aries proceeds to hook PROJECT MUSCLE right into the Holy Ghost Catcher (Gannosuke Clutch)...and soon enough, the referee sees the cover and counts it for the pinfall victory!

Aries immediately gets out of dodge, with the referee having to catch up with him halfway down towards the entrance in order to raise his hand while PROJECT MUSCLE looks far less than amused. But as Aries exits to boos, PROJECT MUSCLE eventually stands up under his own power to a standing ovation from the Cow Palace as the chants of "PLEASE COME BACK" are heard throughout the arena as MUSCLE nods, acknowledging the adulation from the North American audience as he bows to each of the four corners before making his exit, slapping hands and showing his gratitude to the new fans he has made with his performance on his way to the exit.

WINNER: Aries Armadaist

[Strike]

Singles Match
Kendrick Lewis [FA] vs. Oliver Wilson [FA]

This one got ugly and got ugly quick, as Kendrick Lewis promptly interrupted the introduction of Oliver Wilson by smashing him with a forearm and sending Rumchata Ayano running for cover, losing a heel in the process...to which Kendrick Lewis simply shook his head after stomping onto Wilson in the corner a few times before throwing the heel right at Rumchata's direction and telling her to not lose her shit when she was in his ring! Not endearing himself one bit to the fans in the Cow Palace, he begins to stomp away at Wilson before picking him up from the mat and chopping the ever-living daylights out of him before hurling him across the ring as Wilson sails into the air and crashes against the mat. "I RUN THIS SHIT," Kendrick screamed out to more boos as he meticulously approached Oliver Wilson once again and began taking his time with a series of power moves, including a pair of gutwrench suplexes followed by a powerbomb getting him a near three-count...something that didn't amuse Lewis, as he screamed at the referee to do his job and count properly. But Kendrick's ego got the better of him, because as he attempted to inflict more punishment by going for another powerbomb, Wilson desperately fought his way out of it and into an arm triangle that forced Lewis to scramble to the ropes in order to break it before the pain in his body could become intolerable.

Wilson's course of action was chopping down the large, taller behemoth in front of him by cutting him down to size with sharp kicks aimed at the back of Kendrick's legs and then various strikes aimed at his head once he could reach out, the highlight of this comeback in particular being a low angle Busaiku Knee Kick that got him a two and a half count. A sequence of strikes was followed suit from Oliver and while Kendrick attempted to fight back, the New Zealand native showed his own impressive brand of fighting spirit by absorbing a pair of hulking chops from Lewis and nailed him with a Kesagiri chop that stunned the big man and then, Oliver Wilson did the near unthinkable by putting all of his core strength into it by giving Lewis a Saito Suplex that shook the canvas. However, that feat of strength wasn't fully rewarded as Oliver only got a near fall due to having to spend an extra few seconds having to turn Kendrick's massive body around, as Lewis had rolled onto his belly after the impact of the suplex.

Wilson grabbed onto the right leg of Kendrick, giving it a pair of stomps for good measure and even dropping a knee onto it before he began going through the notions to attempt at locking in his patented Southern Cross (Haas of Pain) finishing hold but Lewis would fight out of it, one or two strikes from him enough to force Wilson to break the hold. As Kendrick makes a run at Wilson again, the smaller of the two uses the ring to his advantage by using a drop toehold to cause Kendrick to land in the middle ropes throat-first. As his head dangles there and he notices the possibilities to do more damage, Oliver Wilson looks around and with that, he runs to the opposite side and comes bouncing off the ropes at full speed...right into a southpaw lariat from Kendrick Lewis that turns Oliver Wilson inside out. The crowd practically cringes at the impact, especially as they notice a trickle of blood beginning to drop down onto the mat as Wilson's nose is seen to be turned at a completely different direction than what it's supposed to go. Lewis simply scoffs at him, screaming at Wilson before lifting him off the mat and placing his head in between his legs, gradually lifting Oliver up and holding him by his arms before landing with a thunderous Splash Mountain Bomb that gets the pinfall cover, the victory and then to add insult to injury, Kendrick Lewis placing a foot on Oliver Wilson's chest as the referee raises his hand. The big man's words post-match aren't exactly shy either:

"COME ONE, COME ALL! PRO WRESTLING RAIDEN?! I RUN THIS SHIT! TRY TO TELL ME OTHERWISE..."

WINNER: Kendrick Lewis



The first of two title matches to happen on this night and its announcement are met with excitement from those within the Cow Palace - the camera panning to show some familiar faces from the sports world enjoying themselves such as San Jose Sharks defenseman Karl Eriksson, Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley and to an absolute roar of the crowd, FFW Hall of Famer Nevaeh Summers is sat in the front row at the hard camera side, waving accordingly to the fans with a big smile on her face once she realized the footage was showing on the big screen! The entrances are made in short order as the California native in Issac Solo makes his way out first to a great reception and in a weird twist, the WWA Pacific Northwest Champion in Ramsay Bodach comes out second, the championship that has been defunct for years but that Bodach has held out of sheer pride, much to former champion Solo's disgust after their battles in Portland Pro over this championship and being considered the pride of the Pacific Northwest as a whole. But the buzz begins to settle within the crowd after the champion's entrance, as the announcement was made on Twitter a few days ago of Hunter Peterson's neck injury keeping him out of this match and that his replacement would be revealed come showtime...

That's when the arena suddenly goes dark.

The crowd gasps in shock, as funky opening chords to a rather familiar tune begin to play out over the PA system, the lights all around the Cow Palace beginning to swirl and move around uncontrollably in its bright white, moving faster and faster with the lights then slowing down as the guitar and sounds do...before the lights turn from white to an emerald green color, the swirling beginning again as Voodoo Johnson's "Dirty Angel" begins to pick it all back up again, both Solo and Bodach's eyes widening in confusion as they focus on the entrance and the crowd gasps in shock as they realize that there's nobody coming out of the curtain...

Because someone just made their way through the crowd and promptly proceeded to low blow both unsuspecting men, the expression of both shock and a roar of surprise echoing through the Cow Palace as everyone, announcers included, realized who the third competitor in this match was...as SOPHIA PIKE immediately turns to the referee, grinning from ear-to-ear and calmly tells the pin-striped shirt wearing man in question to "ring the fucking bell if you know what's good for you."

WWA Pacific Northwest Championship - Triple Threat Match
Issac Solo [FA] vs. Ramsay Bodach © [UNDERGROUND] vs. Sophia Pike [FFW]

As the bell rings, it's clear that the surprise attack has caught everyone off-guard as Pike is immediately on the offensive, equally focusing her attention on both downed men with stomps and a chop block on Bodach to make sure the six-foot-eight behemoth is down and once the shock is done for, the boos begin to HEAVILY rain in on the "Queen of King County" as she's picking her spots, promptly almost superkicking Ramsay's jaw off the moment he got into a kneeling position before she used the help of the ropes and both feet onto Bodach's back to basically push him out under the bottom rope and send him to the outside of the ring as she proceeds to use her alone time with Issac Solo by going to work on his left arm by twisting and turning on it, adding strikes and even a double knee armbreaker to keep the Samoan Steamroller at bay before her attention turns to a far-less-than-amused Ramsay Bodach getting back in the ring and telling Sophia Pike how her coming after his balls wasn't "very nice" before the behemoth came at Pike and drove her into the corner on something fierce, shoulder thrusts soon following suit from the WWA Pacific Northwest champion before he let Pike stumble out of the corner before grabbing her under one arm before giving her a side slam backbreaker...only to then turn around and get caught flush with a high kick from Issac Solo on the right shoulder and arm area before Solo picks up and throws the champion onto the mat in an impressive feat of strength with a T-Bone suplex...Solo doesn't hesitate to follow suit with a pair of cannonball sentons on both Bodach and Pike, covering Pike first and only getting a two count before attempting to do the same onto Bodach with similar results.

The three wrestlers in question would shine at particular moments over the following few minutes, with no person gaining control for a long period of time and some of the highlights including Ramsay and Issac going as far as taking turns with grabbing Pike off the mat and then tossing her high up in the air and onto the mat, as if a contest of "Throw the Sophia" was the actual stipulation...but when it came to the two men alone in the ring after Pike rolled out to recuperate, Solo was able to exploit Bodach's lack of speed and used his technical prowess to keep the WWA Pacific Northwest champion grounded with holds and strikes and nullifying Sophia's attempts at stopping him in the process...and Solo seemed set to have Ramsay right where he wanted him after a thunderous powerbomb was then turned into a Boston crab...but that only lasted a few seconds, up until Pike blatantly raked him across the eyes to break the hold, some of her temper flaring up as she laid it into him with European uppercuts in the aftermath before dodging a rolling kesagiri chop to counter with an arm wringer into a hammerlock, which Sophia then transitions into a Hammerlock DDT...only to then be practically deadlifted off the mat while trying to cover Solo and right into a full nelson backbreaker from the champion. However, Pike showed her own brand of toughness by kicking out from that move and turning a Bodach attempt to deadlift her off the mat onto a kimura lock that forced the champion to power his way out of it towards the ropes before another cannonball senton from Issac Solo forces the hold to break and does its damage to both competitors in the process.

Feeling his opportunity at hand, Issac Solo promptly drags Sophia Pike back to a standing position and connects with a fierce Samoan Squash (Sitout side powerslam) in which he hooks the leg and would have perhaps gotten the three count if not for Bodach leaping to break the cover. Bodach and Solo didn't hesitate to return to exchanging blows, the commentators once again emphasizing the utter level of disdain they have for one another dating back to their battles in Portland Pro...but as Solo finds a LBC Lock attempt reversed right into the Ghost Driver (Pyramid Driver) that felled Issac long ago for the championship and then goes for the extra measure by locking Solo up center of the ring with Bodach's Curse (Inverted kneeling sharpshooter), the crowd's reactions going between urging Issac to struggle and find the ropes to letting the dominant champion have himself a nice submission...but those reactions at the carnage suddenly do turn to another set shocked gasp followed by boos...

All as Hunter Peterson jumps over the barricade to get at ringside! The man who was deemed to not be 100% to actually wrestle this match like he was originally supposed to then leaped onto the apron, to the ropes and springboarded off of them onto Ramsay Bodach...who caught him in mid-air by the throat with one hand. Bodach's eyes narrowed, as he squeezed Peterson's throat even further before lifting him up...only for the boos to get louder as a crowbar  is suddenly cracked right across Ramsay's back by a man who somehow towers him in size before a man recognized by commentators and fans alike as "The One They Spoke Of" Gary Gilray, as he proceeds to then blast Ramsay with another crowbar shot to the skull before dropping the foreign object, the cameras now showing Ramsay has been busted open...and as the blood begins to drip from him, Gilray sickeningly presses his right palm around the bloody head and licks his own hand - prompting the "YOU SICK FUCK" chants in record time - before hooking Bodach up and nailing him with a fierce cross-armed lifting DDT that lays out the WWA Pacific Northwest champion. The referee is powerless to do anything about it given the nature of triple threat matches, as Sophia Pike is now grinning from ear-to-ear, as she watches Solo find himself getting caught with a discus big boot from Hunter, stumbling right into her direction as Gilray then proceeds to pop up Issac right in the air while Sophia nails him flush with a superkick on the jaw before immediately covering Solo with Hunter placing his weight on the pinfall for good measure as the crowd showers this trio with boos as the pinfall is counted and we have a new champion crowned!!!

...But the trio isn't done here just yet, as Hunter kicks Solo aside after the fall and three Seattle natives begin to kick and stomp away at Bodach before Gary Gilray and Hunter Peterson lift him up, pushing him onto the ropes and catching him on the return with a double flapjack while Pike leaps up and connects with a double knee facebuster. The boos are thunderous at this point, as Sophia Pike is finally handed her newly won championship, the referee quickly raising her hand before she shoves them away and proceeds to celebrate with her two Seattle cohorts, with color commentator Dre Hamilton coining exactly what may have just happened:

"They just became Seattle's Most Wanted!"

WINNER (and NEW WWA Pacific Northwest Champion): Sophia Pike

[Strike]

After the ringside area was cleared up with Bodach and Solo initially being helped to the back - eventually refusing the aid and walking their own selves out amidst a ton of cursing and Bodach angrily screaming - after the Seattle trio exited through the crowd rather than the backstage curtains, there was a bit of a pleasant surprise as "Smile" by Kenny D. Freeman plays over the PA system and a familiar face to the California area - and man of TFWF fame - 0in Kenny Freeman made his way out to a nice reception from the crowd in question, as he happily made his way to the ring, high-fiving fans and such in the process before getting inside of the squared circle. The referee from the previous match had remained at ringside, giving fans an idea that a match was actually going to happen that hadn't been initially scheduled.

But it wasn't long after his entrance was made that the fans were caught by surprise by "Pull Me Under" by Dream Theater playing across the PA system as owner/promoter Chris Strike stepped out to the roar of the crowd as he made his way down from the entrance portion to the center of the ring - in a full Sanctuary Wrestling Academy tracksuit with the matching pants and sneakers to boot. Once inside, he didn't hesitate to go over and shake hands with Kenny Freeman, the two exchanging a small conversation amongst themselves before Strike motioned for and grabbed a microphone, letting the crowd settle down before speaking up.

Chris Strike: Now Kenny, like I told you a few days ago, I said you'd get a chance to come here and to bring your gear with you...which I can see you did.

Freeman does nod, excited about the prospect of wrestling in front of a crowd like this one.

Chris Strike: As the last-ever TFWF Light Heavyweight Champion and as timing permitted, you are actually helping me in a big way by wanting a match here tonight. Because I have just the opponent for you. See, alongside running RAIDEN these days, I got into actual wrestling trainer role...much like some of my mentors. I wanted to help shape the next generations of pro wrestlers, to give them every bit of knowledge and help hone their abilities in the same way that those mentors were able to do for me. So tonight, there is one particular student of mine that will be wrestling you tonight, Kenny Freeman!

Strike took in a deep breath, the announcement being met with some cheers but the focus being at the ringside area, as the ring crew members were mostly made-up of Sanctuary Wrestling Academy students...and their eyes practically lit up as the realization dawned that it could be one of them that their teacher was talking about.

Chris Strike: This is a moment...that I feel is long overdue for them. An unconventional and incredibly last minute opportunity, but one that they deserves at a stage like this one. Your opponent tonight, Kenny Freeman? It is none other than one of my absolute best students, to the point where she has become my second-in-command as a trainer at the Sanctuary Wrestling Academy...

A pair of particular eyes widened at the exact sentences spoken and the cameraman seemed to know exactly who to focus on, as the pale, dark-haired woman with black lipstick and with a matching tracksuit to that of Strike's was now in plain view of one of the cameras before the shot returned to Chris Strike turning around, his eyes meeting the woman's before he nodded.

Chris Strike: Adrianna Wilde...you're up!

The crowd cheered the announcement and her face being shown on the big screen indicated Adrianna Wilde out to the entirety of the Cow Palace at this point, as she promptly began looking around her and with the seemingly unexpected announcement, the cameras could see the goosebumps coming out of her while the expression on her face...wasn't exactly one of the excitement. She gradually made her way to the ring apron, not getting on it but motioning for Strike himself to get over there. Chris placed the microphone down and knelt down to be at eye level with her and while the following words were hushed, a cameraman managed to get a shot showcasing the two talking amongst themselves, Adrianna's expressions shifting from fear to concern to anger as she rapidly uttered her sentences, a few tidbits coming through louder than others from her such as "why the fuck are you doing this," "nowhere near mentally prepared...and physically...and no gear..." and "no...just no!" Confusion was slowly settling over the crowd and Kenny Freeman in the ring but Chris Strike's expression didn't shift, a calm settled over him as he remained focus on Adrianna and promptly explained himself in a voice only she could hear at this point, the two seemingly going back and forth for almost a minute before their attentions shifted to the sound of a pair of hands pounding the apron. Followed by another. And another. And another.

Soon enough, a few of the students/ring crew for the show were pounding the apron, almost as if their own way of shouting encouragement as they looked over at Adrianna Wilde, yelling at her words of encouragement, the pounding becoming rapid and with it, the crowd inside of the Cow Palace beginning to join them with clapping and stomping to go along with it. Adrianna seemed to realize this, the widened eyes returning but due to something else entirely as Chris Strike made his way through the middle and bottom rope, sitting himself on the apron and patting her on the shoulder, the words out of him being loud and clear at this point:

"You can do this. I believe in you!"

The mat pounding and clapping continued, as Adrianna took in a deep breath, gritting her teeth and looking over at Chris Strike with a glance that meant their conversation was not over...but causing the Cow Palace to cheer even louder as she unzipped her track jacket and tossed it to Chris Strike before grabbing the ropes and pulling herself up onto the apron. Strike digs into one of the pockets of his track jacket, pulling out a pair of black elbow pads, which Adrianna does snatch from his hands and she tentatively does go through the ropes and steps into the ring, a black t-shirt covering her torso and the elbow pads are slipped on before the referee checks in to see if she's ready...to which she takes a deep breath and nods before checking on Kenny Freeman, who does the same...and the bell rings!



Impromptu Singles Match
Kenny Freeman [FA] vs. Adrianna Wilde [FA]

There's a resounding level of approval of cheering as the crowd's ready to see just exactly what this student of Chris Strike can do, although commentary at home does do a good job of describing Wilde's experience as Strike's third student ever plus having experience training under another old legend in Adrien Specter, only going into teaching rather than taking on a full-time career due to Sin City Wrestling basically fucking her over. Her and Freeman tentatively circle around the ring before a traditional collar-to-elbow tie-up happens and the two spend the first minute of the match reversing out of various holds, irish whips and the normal wrestling opening sequences that see Adrianna on the losing end at first but gradually gaining her bearings to where she nails a fairly sweet dropkick on Freeman to the applause of the crowd.

The confidence seems to be gained more and more from Wilde as she began showing flashes of brilliance by controlling the early portion of the match with technical prowess akin to that of her mentors with her own spin on it, as she followed a combination of slaps and a backfist with hitting a devastating reverse STO and locking in a Koji Clutch that almost submitted Freeman if he didn't fight his own body and soul onto putting a foot on the ropes. However, Adrianna's inexperience within the squared circle did definitely play a hand as she attempted to catch Freeman with a running lariat only to see the agile light heavyweight duck under it, leap onto her shoulders and hit a desperate reverse hurricanrana that spiked her head onto the mat. The move earns K-Free a close two count but no dice as Adri put her shoulders up in time. From there, K-Free uses the time at hand to begin taking flight and speeding things up by landing a pair of springboard crossbodies, a scoop slam and having Adrianna Wilde onto the mat as he scales up the top rope and goes for a frog splash...hitting nothing but mat as Adri rolls out of dodge in the nick of time.

Panting, Wilde does see her opportunity at hand as Freeman is groggy, being slow to get back to his feet and once he's worked his way to a vertical base, the crowd at the Cow Palace (and Strike himself on the outside) go utterly bananas as she grabs onto Freeman's right leg and from there, she seamlessly proceeds to basically turn Freeman into a practical ball by placing him in the Paradise Lock, holding on to the ankles and pulling back on the hold, as K-Free is SCREAMING in agony in the process while the crowd outright is in awe of the hold in question to which Wilde holds for another few moments before suddenly letting go...as she runs with a burst energy onto the opposite corner, bouncing off the turnbuckle and then taking off from it as she penalty kicks Kenny Freeman's posterior so hard that the sound of it alone causes people to cringe, one particular lady screaming outloud in the front row as the hold's released after that impact. Adri isn't quite done here though, as she quickly brings Kenny back to his feet and puts the finishing touches with Adrien Specter's old finisher, putting Freeman "Six Feet Under" with a Vertebreaker before transitioning into a cover and getting the pinfall victory to much fanfare!

Her expression was filled with all sorts of emotions, her body trembling as she somehow got herself back up to her feet and had the referee raise her hand. Adri took in her deep breaths, just absorbing the moment in question before rolling over to the outside where Chris Strike promptly joined her. Adrianna practically headbutted his shoulder at that point, looking up at him and more words being yelled out as Strike simply stood there and took it all in, nodding as she seemed...upset? Angry, even? It was a bit of a wild exchange, but a few moments after her words, Chris simply pointed out the entirety of the crowd and the many cheering her on as Strike proceeded to raise his student's arm up himself, pointing to her and allowing the moment to sink in, as Chris Strike was then heard saying something that could be considered as official as anything:

"Welcome to Pro Wrestling RAIDEN, Adri..."

WINNER: Adrianna Wilde



We go backstage, where normal RAIDEN techie but also playing the role of backstage interviewer in David Zinkus is standing by with two familiar men, one of whom wears a snarl on his face.

David Zinkus: "Ladies and gentlemen, joining me at this time are two well-known figures in the world of professional wrestling...Xander 'Legion' Azula and Timothy Kahrs."

The crowd gives a mild pop as Zinkus holds the microphone in front of Legion, who just gives him a murder glare. Kahrs steps over to speak instead.

Timothy Kahrs: "You'll have to excuse Mr. Azula, he is still furious over some recent happenings and refuses to actually speak at the moment. He's put that job on me, as the Interim General Manager of The Experts."

David Zinkus: "I see, and I suppose that means your visit here tonight is Experts-related?"

Timothy nods in response.

Timothy Kahrs: "Indeed, it has been an absolute honor to be here to witness Pro Wrestling RAIDEN at the Cow Palace in lovely San Francisco. I mean, it's hard to top having your show in Long Beach, but the Cow Palace has tons of wrestling history attached. Tonight is a big step forward for everyone involved, and that includes The Experts. Believe it or not, this is the first time in about ten years the True Expert Championship has been defended outside of an official Experts event, and it is the first step towards rebuilding both its legacy and that of The Experts as a whole. We are a vastly different company than we were five years ago, and we are opening up to partnerships with promotions all around the world. Our partnership with Pro Wrestling RAIDEN and the recent opening of Fuerza Pro are just the first steps in that direction...but of course, we're not just hear to toot our own horns. There's a certain elephant in the room that needs to be addressed."

David Zinkus: "The status of the Extreme Tournament, correct?"

Timothy Kahrs: "That's right, David. At the last RAIDEN show, Invasion N3..."

Legion leans over, interrupting as he whispers in the ear of the Interim GM.

Timothy Kahrs: "Sorry, at Operation Intrude N313, Mr. Azula made an announcement regarding the Extreme Tournament. In the time that's passed since his announcement, further details have been ironed out...and I'm here to set the record straight."

We cut to footage of previous Experts events as Timothy continues to speak.

Timothy Kahrs: "In years past, the Extreme Tournament was largely held as a single-elimination tournament pitting as many as ninety-six wrestlers against each other for the right to be crowned the winner, and almost always to be crowned the True Expert. By order of the Board of Directors, this year's Extreme Tournament is a little...different: we are holding a round-robin tournament that sees just sixteen wrestlers facing each other, in four groups of four, over the course of six weeks. These men and women will be looking to earn points by way of a victory or a draw, and after the group stage is over the top wrestler in each group will advance to what we're calling the 4Score Finals: a four-way dance, elimination style, to crown the winner of the 2018 Extreme Tournament."

This gets a big pop from the crowd, but Zinkus looks confused about something.

David Zinkus: "But what of the True Expert Championship?"

Timothy Kahrs: "I'm glad you asked, David. We've determined that the change in format does not lend itself to the champion defending every single round...so, despite Mr. Azula's previous announcement, the True Expert Championship will not be on the line during the group stage...and that brings us back around to tonight's title match. Jack Benevolence will be going to war with a very angry, a very eager Rex Evans to defend that title...and whoever comes out of it the champion will certainly be offered a spot in the tournament. If the champion accepts, and he is able to advance to the finals...the True Expert Championship will be on the line!"

Another big pop from the crowd as Timothy nods, signaling the end of his little speech.

David Zinkus: "Well gentlemen, thank you for your time and thank you for the big news regarding this year's Extreme Tournament!"

[Strike]

After a quick commercial showcasing "The Experts Network" and what is available within its library plus streaming service overall, we return to ringside at the Cow Palace as the bell rings again indicating that it is time for another match.

Singles Match - No DQ
Evan Envi [FGA] vs. Savannah Taylor [FFW/FGA]

The usage of the "No DQ" stipulation came to play almost too early in this match as Evan Envi did not hesitate to immediately poke Savannah in the eyes and follow suit with punting Savannah Taylor in between her legs the moment the match started before nailing a KAPOWSKI KICK~! for good measure to keep her down before he slid out of the ring, grabbing a microphone and then tapping it a few times before entering the ring again:

Evan Envi: "And THAT.... wooooo.... that friends... is what we call... the good ol'... one-two. Look at that! Get your eyes-- get that camera-- on Savannah Taylor and LOOK at what happens when you run... your... mouth! Gahh... "

Evan Envi catches his breath into the microphone, leaning against the ropes, shaking his head a little as the boos rain down from the San Francisco locals. Envi begins to gesture toward the fallen Savannah Taylor, but frowns as the boos grow louder. He turns, looking around at the masses.

Evan Envi: "You know-- I used to really like San Francisco. THIS used to be one of the places in the world I called home. But much like Chris Strike himself, San Francisco decided to turn its back on me years ago. There was no reason. There was no logic. That's why I don't shake hands with people in this stupid city. That's why I don't take pictures with your stupid kids. That's why it takes the will of God himself to get me to wrestle in a place like San Francisco. You guys aren't even wearing my merch. The heck is the point of you guys? You..."

Envi pauses a bit as the boos become overwhelming. He holds up his hand and continues, stomping a few extra boots onto Savannah Taylor for good measure to keep her right down on the mat.

Evan Envi: "You all piled in here to watch the Chief anyway, which I wholly understand because it's me, but you pigs are still shoving Deathsteaks into your mouth like a bunch of psychopaths-- and who KNOWS what's even really in that stuff. Who KNOWS what happens to those cows before Aries has them executed? We don't know. You don't know! And on top of that... on TOP of that, you're alllll gonna leave here with every intention of giving your money to Chris Strike again, and you don't know what he's doing with all that. You KNOW he's not honest. You people, my g-- you're mindless! You can't help yourselves! You're gonna empty your pockets for this dude knowing that Chris Strike booked me on this show to SPITE me. To EMBARRASS me in a match with Savannah Taylor, and how's that working out right now?! How is it working out, Savannah?! Huh? Because see, I'm going to dedicate this match to one very special person tonight that probably isn't even watching this dump of a show but deserves it nonetheless. So, Miss Samantha Star, wherever you are...here's to you! Now... get that camera back on her! Get that--"

The boos got louder as Evan then proceeded to nail Savannah across the skull with the microphone, the loud thump and feedback that ensued being as much punishment as hearing his voice was to some within the Cow Palace...however, that all only got him a two count and a very, VERY unamused Savannah Taylor to deal with after she reversed her way out of a scoop slam moments after...and proceeded to kneel down, landing an uppercut right in between the legs, flush onto Envi's prized, crown jewels...

The battle spewed outside shortly afterward, a mutual dislike between both competitors making for all the elements that began to cause a brawl around the ringside area as Savannah kept pressing the attack, irish whipping Envi onto the guardrails twice in a row before dropping him back onto the floor with an atomic drop with an extra emphasis on ensuring his gonads got the full extent of it. Screaming something akin to the words "WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?!" while groaning in pain and trying to keep his distance only served as extra fuel though, as Taylor proceeded to slingshot Evan from the floor and right onto the steel post before lifting up the apron and taking a moment to then remove a kendo stick from which she promptly swung at Envi's back after pulling it out, ensuring he'd go back to the floor after trying to crawl to the near one of the aprons. The crowd gasped in awe, some even cringing, as Savannah Taylor followed suit with a kendo-stick aided Blonde Ambition (Forward Russian Leg Sweep) onto the floor, the announce team literally both agreeing that Envi brought this upon himself mentioning the CEO of FFW's name and such.

Finally, Savannah slid Envi back inside of the ring and covered him, although only getting a two and three-quarters count to her utter annoyance. A Yakuza kick attempt from Taylor saw Envi catch it and try to turn it into a capture suplex, to which Savannah fought off before rolling Evan up in a small package for another close fall. But as they stand up, Evan Envi promptly rakes the eyes of Savannah Taylor before sending her shoulder-first into the steel post at the nearest turnbuckle. It's not long after that in which "The Chief" begins to exhibit a bit more control over the bout, a shoulder breaker combined with a pair of slingshot elbow drops right onto Taylor's left shoulder getting him a two count and enough time to go outside and begin digging around for weapons himself. A garbage can gets thrown in and it lands roughly, the lid flying off to the other side of the ring while contents inside said trash can like a stop sign, a kendo stick, a baseball bat, a pair of unpacked light tubes that somehow don't shatter on impact and what looks to be a bunch of CD's with two men in tight spandex and the words "Galactic Pretty Boys: APPRIVOISE!" on the cover. But the highlight weapon on Envi's hands just so happens to be a pair of tables he pulled out, to which the crowd does happily oblige at the very concept of them being used altogether as he sets one of them them outside, then slides one inside of the ring, setting it up in the corner afterward.

"The Chief" lays it into "The Siren" by dragging her to the corner and hitting rapid, multiple European Uppercuts and knife-edged chops interchangeably before following it with a Sambo suplex right onto the garbage can, the impact crumbling it and the crowd barely being able to believe it when Savannah kicked out at the nick of time after Envi went for the cover. Evan's hubris by complaining to the referee does end up being his undoing, as Taylor desperately crawled out of the remnants of the garbage can and found her hands onto the baseball bat, which she swung rapidly as Envi's sternum when he tried to grab her once again. Stunned, Evan stumbled backwards into the ropes and back onto a roundhouse kick that further dazed him, Savannah's patented "The Gamble" (corkscrew neckbreaker) and for good measure, a springboard frog splash but the earlier damage plus the impact of the splash didn't allow her to promptly make a cover and thus, Envi managed to kick out at the nick of time.

But as Savannah drags Envi back to a standing position and looks to put the finishing touches on it all, boos emerge as a camera focuses on the entrance way to see two dudes dressed in way too much zebra print and tassels rushing down to the ring, plowing through a pair of Sanctuary students/ring crew trying to intercept them and that distraction of the two men - now recognized as Max and Kyle Greenback, who tend to roll around with Envi often these days - is enough to cause Envi to reverse out of a Siren's Song attempt into the BPA (Single knee lungblower), transitioning right into a crossface submission hold as he looks incredibly proud of himself as Max and Kyle hop on the apron and scream obscenities while the Cow Palace pleads for Taylor to fight this one...and she begins to crawl, turn and boldly make her way around ringside but not to the ropes...no, instead, she grabs one of the kendo sticks that were spewed out from when Envi threw the garbage can inside and using any strength within her, she swings the kendo stick backwards, whacking Evan upside the head a good four times to force him to finally let go of the hold. But as "The Chief" rolls back and holds on to his head, the Greenback twins don't waste any time getting inside of the ring and hitting stereo superkicks to the kneeling Savannah Taylor to the chagrin of the crowd itself. Kyle poses around and shit talks the crowd for a moment before Max tells him to shut up, as he points out one particular weapon unused and for Kyle to not be dumb and go grab it. As Max then goes over to Envi and helps "The Chief" regain his bearings, Kyle Greenback unwraps and exposes the pair of light tubes in their single package, holding them up for the crowd to see as he holds one in each hand and watches as Savannah Taylor is bringing herself back up to her feet with the help of the ropes...

Kyle Greenback does attempt to swing one of the light tubes but before he can complete the swing, his eyes look like they're about to pop out as Savannah Taylor, very angrily, kicks him right in between the legs. Then proceeds to take one of the light tubes and poor Kyle is the first victim of it being smashed over his head. Noticing this, Max tells Evan to stay put and he leaps forward, screaming obscenities at Savannah as he attempts to Yakuza kick her...but Savannah dodges and promptly counters by using Max's momentum and giving him a back body drop...over the ropes and through the table on the outside. Evan Envi looks utterly bewildered, as his back-up plan has, indeed, failed him while Savannah grabs on to her head, being only two steps away from the turnbuckle with the table laying on the corner. Evan Envi darts towards her direction but "The Siren" shows up some incredible athleticism as she jumps over the oncoming Envi and lets him eat nothing but wood as he crashes shoulder-first through the table. Hoisted upon his own petard, "The Chief" does not move a single muscle from that impact as Savannah drags him out of the corner and towards the center of the ring before grabbing onto "The Chief," nailing him with the Siren's Song (Scissored DDT) to then turn him over and pick up the pinfall victory! Both competitors remain lying down on the mat in the aftermath of this one, with Savannah eventually pulling herself up to have her hand raised in the air while the Greenback boys check on and eventually carry out Evan Envi to the outside of the ring and out of the Cow Palace altogether.

WINNER: Savannah Taylor

[Strike]

We return from a brief fifteen minute intermission after the absolute mess that was the last match and well...we delve right back into grudges territory, because REASONS!

Tag Team Match
Michael Norcia [UNDERGROUND] & Artemis Kaiser [FFW/4CW] vs. Dexter Jacobs [HELL] & Miko Ayano [FFW]

The tension was already in the air from the moment each of these individuals entered the ring, when given the histories between Norcia/Dexter, Artemis/Miko and of course, the former tandem known as "WhiskeyDex" of Dex/Miko having no other choice but to co-exist for one night, as the person who landed the winning pinfall or submission on this night would get their choice of a match against anyone of their choice at one of the two shows in Kyoto coming up in January...so, of course the tension went up an extra octane or twenty when it was Artemis Kaiser and Dexter Jacobs who decided to start things off. Memories from their encounter in Long Beach under the RAIDEN banner were still fresh and Jacobs decided to remind Artemis of such, to which Artemis rolls her eyes and...shoos him away with her hand? There's a glance of confusion before Artemis states she isn't interested in him. That gets a not-so-kind response from Jacobs, who charges forward and gets dropped with a drop toehold. Artemis proceeds to spend the next minute keeping Jacobs on the mat with holds and some strikes meant more to provoke the "Redneck Hulk" rather than hurt him, an attempt to prove her superiority to him in a way.

The first few minutes of it, in fact, are all mostly the Kaiser/Norcia duo trading quick tags, slapping/punching/kicking/elbowing Dexter Jacobs around and looking almost utterly dull and bored while doing so...almost as if the fun had worn off. Even a pair of stereo PK's to Jacobs' chest and back from the duo aren't enough to cause their expressions to change as Norcia then irish whips Dexter to the opposite side and catches him with a spinebuster...only to then get caught with a pair of flying knees to the face as Miko Ayano landed with the Meteora on him, the ref indicating a blind tag did occur moments prior. Ayano's following use of leg kicks and overhead chops did keep the much taller, imposing Norcia at bay and a forearm shiver sent the big man backwards but when Ayano ran to the ropes and aimed for a jumping kick of some kind, the strength of the "Neck Breaking Beast" was put in full display as Norcia caught Miko and gave her an overhead belly-to-belly suplex! Scoffing, Norcia proceeded to grab Ayano and scoop slam her onto the mat, reaching out and letting Artemis tag him in before grabbing onto Miko's left leg while Artemis grabs the right leg. The two of them glance at one another before they drop down with a leg DDT and the expression on Miko's face shifts as she promptly grabs the right ankle and tries to roll away...even as Artemis begins to stomp away methodically on it, a wicked grin on her face while doing so. Artemis blinks, noticing something in the crowd that causes her to grab on and twist at Miko's right ankle, mockingly waving to a woman in the front row that commentary points out as Noelle Smith - who had her leg previously injured by Artemis and the leg brace to prove it. That bit of hubris does allow for three things to happen, however: Miko Ayano to get to the ropes to break the hold, Dexter Jacobs slapping the ever living hell out of the back of Miko Ayano's head to tag himself in and the "Redneck Hulk" deadlifting Artemis off of the hold and tossing her with a release German suplex in which Kaiser does the full rotation and lands on her face and chest in the process.

Jacobs bulldoze rushes the opposite corner, catching Norcia with a boot and sending him right out of the apron before a running kick to Artemis' sternum follows suit and the "Redneck Hulk" maintains control over the next minute or so, a series of fierce strikes alongside a fierce spinebuster as a counter to an Artemis kick attempt keeping "The Last Empress" at bay...oh, and of course, Dexter Jacobs does give Michael Norcia another running boot the moment he gets back up in the apron and this time, an annoyed Norcia doesn't hesitate to make his way back into the ring with the referee promptly being there to attempt at stopping him...and failing miserably, being shoved aside by Michael. So, of course Dexter decides that the biggest dick move he could pull off at this point is to toss Kaiser like a lawn dart right onto Norcia and hit two birds with one stone, right? ...Of course he did. The Cow Palace was not amused by any means as Dexter hurled curses at them and his opposition, while Miko was yelling out from their corner to stay on Artemis...to which Dexter shot back for "Whiskey" to mind her own goddamned business.

Dexter's hubris did cost him, however, as he was caught by a chop block and then an Uraken to the back of skull after Artemis slipped out of a scoop slam attempt, as Kaiser didn't hesitate to give him a taste of yet another Muay Thai clutch like in the last RAIDEN show, letting the knees fly, forcing the bigger man to go on the defensive and even eat some shots before one particular bit finds him in the chin and buckles him. Shortly after, Artemis runs the ropes and catches Jacobs with the Execution Kick (Axe kick) and once she turns his weight around, she ends up getting a two count from the pinfall attempt only because Miko Ayano decided to wisely break up the fall. Artemis isn't amused, her and Miko exchanging some words in the process as Ayano returns to her corner. Kaiser grabs a good chunk of Dexter's hair, dealing some kicks to his chest in the process of getting him on all fours before...dragging him to the corner where Ayano was at? There's some confusion before Artemis roughly lands a forearm on Dexter to keep him from protesting, as she grabs his right wrist and uses it to lightly chop Miko across the chest before taking a pair of steps back and uttering the words "tag!" to the referee...who proceeded to acknowledge it, knowing better.

Ayano steps inside and both women promptly go back to resuming the same kind of warfare their No Surrender bout in FFW produced a few weeks ago, neither woman giving each other an inch as strikes are exchanged - Artemis not hesitating to target Miko's right ankle with low kicks while "The Warp Drive Dragon" wasn't shy of replying with some sharp kicks of her own, although she did catch one of Artemis' kicks immediately afterward and turned it into a dragon screw for good measure, transitioning promptly into a single leg crab in which Michael Norcia doesn't waste a single second darting in and breaking it up with a thunderous left hand uppercut that you could swear seems to knock Ayano's lights out. A sharp running elbow from Norcia follows suit to Dexter Jacobs on the apron while Artemis returns to a standing position. Dex immediately jumps back up on the apron and this time around, Norcia gives him a running boot to the head, sending him straight onto the guardrail with force while he yells out quite a sentence at him: "You're trash. Stay down there where you belong!"

A fuse seems to immediately go off on Dexter Jacobs' head as he LEAPS over the barricade to the shock of those in the first few rows in attendance, his eyes moving practically through the first row seat where Noelle Smith is while he motions for an older, buff gentleman sitting with a notebook in hand and a fanny pack on him in the row behind her to stand up - which he does. Jacobs grabs the chair, closing it shut as he hops over the barricade and back to ringside. As he comes up to the apron, the referee is promptly on Jacobs' case, all while Artemis and Norcia actually show a bit of teamwork as Norcia helps Kaiser in hitting an aided version of her pop-up kick to the chest known as, well, the Chestburster...and they follow up with a double team STO/German suplex combination to which Artemis has the bridge on for the pinfall...but no referee to count it, as the man in stripes is still concerned with getting the chair away from a pissed-off "Redneck Hulk." ...So, instead, Michael Norcia has had about enough as he goes to the corner with his right hand cocked and he swings it at Jacobs' direction, but Dexter - whether through cleverness or sheer instinct - puts the steel chair in front of him and lets it absorb the entirety of the Hand of God, causing Norcia to punch the chair out of Jacobs' grasp but reel back immediately afterward, his left hand moving on to his fist as to check on its status himself. Artemis lets go of the bridge after hearing that particular impact, but only to be practically turned inside out by Dexter with the "...And Hell Followed With Him" (Discus lariat).

With the help of the ropes, Miko Ayano stands back to her feet, noticing Norcia has made his way back to the apron while Jacobs had done the same on their end. The crowd inside of the Cow Palace began to clap accordingly, as if expecting a tag to happen but as Miko approached her team's corner...she just stared at Dexter Jacobs. The two didn't break eye contact, hatred seething out of Jacobs and a lot of mixed emotions from Ayano in this situation, a discussion breaking out between the two long-time but now former tag partners brought together for one night. It was enough tension to where Artemis was able to see a chance to crawl her way back towards her own corner, where Norcia was annoyed enough to want his way back into this one and to deal with "the little shit" across from the ring. Artemis eventually reaches out and tags Norcia, who comes running in at Miko's direction...only for Ayano to duck the oncoming blow and let him crash chest-first onto the turnbuckles, before running the ropes and delivering a thundering bicycle kick to Michael Norcia in the process. Miko Ayano grits her teeth at this point, looking over at her tag partner once again and telling him something inaudible that causes his eyes to widen before she smacks him across the face. Then does it again. And a third time. This causes Jacobs to exit out of the corner - and the referee to indicate a tag?! - as the words between former partners end up getting more heated, all while Michael Norcia has returned to his feet and is annoyed enough to start trading blows with the two of them, one after the other...

The crowd at the Cow Palace goes insane, however, as both Miko and Dexter begin to fight back against Norcia simultaneously, a begrudging nod from Miko followed by a disgusted look from Jacobs ensuing as the two of them irish whip the "Neck Breaking Beast" off the ropes and Dexter catches Michael on the rebound with a flapjack while Miko catches Michael while airborne with an Uraken backfist! Artemis sees this all from her corner, her eyes blinking as she exits out of her corner only for Miko Ayano to come out like a bolt of lightning, a running dropkick connecting and sending Artemis crashing against the turnbuckles. Ayano rolls backwards...and Dexter Jacobs promptly catches Miko Ayano with a deadlift gutwrench, screaming the words "FUCK YOU WHISKEY" while hurling her forcefully right at the corner and right onto Artemis Kaiser! Gritting his teeth, Jacobs turns around but Michael Norcia picks him up, promptly nailing him with the 'Til Heavens Fall (Cataclysm Backbreaker) but not going for the cover. At this point, Norcia was angry enough to where he was content with punching a malcontent in the face until some semblance of joy was achieved. He stalked Jacobs, waiting for him to return to his feet, his right fist clenched and Norcia biting down and gritting his teeth on whatever pain was there from punching the steel chair, while Artemis and Miko were dragging their way up and fighting one another with elbows and fists to a standing position.

As Jacobs stood up slowly to his feet and Miko Ayano got a Falcon Punch (Superwoman punch) for her troubles on the other end from Artemis Kaiser...the pair both stalked the "Redneck Hulk" as he got to one knee before Michael Norcia stepped forward and delivered The Hand of God (Straight right hand to the jaw) while Artemis rolled around to deliver The First Crusade (Rolling Elbow) to the back of his head...but Dexter Jacobs ducked out of the way...and the elbow and fist collided with one another, both Norcia and Kaiser clutching onto their respective weapons and a look of pain on their faces as Jacobs took advantage by throwing Artemis shoulder-first into the nearest steel post before scooping up Norcia and dropping him with not one, but TWO Primal Concrete Sledges (Tombstone Piledriver) to then turn him over the pinfall and manage to get the three, if only because Miko Ayano guarded the fall by turning a charging Artemis Kaiser right onto a cross armbar that she did not quite let go of even after the bell rang, the referee being forced to break it up and scream at "The Warp Drive Dragon" that the match was over.

The aftermath of it all was a tense affair, as the referee was barely able to raise the hands of the winners before Dexter Jacobs deliberately shoved Miko Ayano out of his way to get out of the ring and Ayano followed suit, the two of them going back to exchanging words all the way up to the entrance where those words do end up turning into a brawl between the former partners, forcing security and the ring crew of Sanctuary students to be forced to break it all up in the process while the crowd is outright screaming to "LET THEM FIGHT." Meanwhile, Norcia and Kaiser simply shook their heads in disappointment, not at losing and not even at the scene that further escalated in the aftermath of the bout...but at one another, as they took their wounded weaponry and steely gazes before exiting out of the ring and going out through separate exit points, perhaps each one blaming the other for the loss that was suffered here today.

WINNER: Dexter Jacobs & Miko Ayano

[Strike]

Grudge Match
Aurora [RAIDEN] vs. Sabra Kellar [FA]

We go from a trio's worth of grudges to another long-time grudge being harbored and put on full display, fans within the Cow Palace erupting at the return of Sabra Kellar to a wrestling ring for the first time in many years and while Aurora was a well-known veteran, well...the boos were imminent from the get-go as she was quick to get on Sabra's face after making her entrance, claiming Sabra had been long overdue for this one. The two women kept the nose-to-nose esque stare for a few moments, causing the fans around the arena to lose their practical minds for the anticipation to this one before they were finally separated by the referee in charge. But once the bell rang, both women were more than willing to go right back at it as European uppercuts and forearm strikes were traded between both women with neither giving the other any edge or give, causing a simultaneous forearm strike from the both of them to break the practical hockey-esque brawl they'd started and force them to the ropes before the taller Sabra found herself replying with a front thrust kick that catches Aurora by surprise on the chin and floors her down to the mat below, causing her to gradually roll outside of the ring. Aurora looks surprised for a moment, perhaps having not expected this much of a fight from somebody so rusty but as Sabra throws her arms out in a crucifix position and has a smug grin on her face, Aurora's gaze narrows, smacking the apron out of frustration before making her way back inside of the ring.

Sabra doesn't look to have lost any of her abilities, as she has the early match control through her own striking and her technique through certain holds keeping Aurora from using her own bread-and-butter of speed with some of its main highlights being the execution of a running high knee transitioned into a spinning neckbreaker for a close fall alongside landing a front dropkick to the right knee that floors Aurora before Sabra runs the ropes and catches her with a running DDT, getting a two and a half count and the confidence that she basically took a variation of her long-time nemesis' calling card and used it blatantly against her. But Sabra's roll would be halted after Aurora retreated to the outside under the bottom rope and as Kellar made her way out and onto the apron, Aurora saw an opportunity at hand as she promptly grabbed Sabra's left leg and yanked it forward, causing her to crash neck first onto the apron and down to the floor. The wily veteran in Aurora didn't hesitate to begin taking advantage of it, grabbing Sabra and wailing away with some strikes prior to irish whipping her right onto the steel pole, to which Sabra crashed roughly against it - albeit placing her arms in front of her skull absorbed the impact from being much worse. Heeding the twenty count in the ring, Aurora slid back inside and then rolled right back out to reset it, grabbing Sabra by the waist and driving her back against the apron, then against the guardrail, proceeding to do that a few more times before she yanked on Sabra's hair and with a glance of utter disgust, she threw Sabra Kellar over the barricade without a care in the world onto a few people in the front row...one of them so happened to be FFW Hall of Famer Nevaeh Summers, at that.

Not even realizing the amount of people she took out (or caring, in fact), Aurora retrieves Sabra from the crowd, laying in a few closed fists onto her face and busting Sabra's lip in the process before bringing her back in the ring and nailing Sabra with stomps and dropping an elbow right onto her chest before covering Kellar for a two count. Rori grinded her forearm onto Sabra's face after the kickout, another pair of fists flying to open up the damage as Sabra's mouth was visibly bleeding at this point before she dragged the woman known as "The Legacy of Violence" to her feet and irish whipped her onto the opposing turnbuckles. To say the next few minutes became a one-sided affair would be a bit of an understatement, as Aurora would use the in-ring surroundings and a brawling streak unlike her to lay as much punishment as humanly possible onto Sabra Kellar, be it from adding a few stomps to the back of Sabra's head in malicious and mocking manner to the key highlight of this set of affairs, which was a front facelock into a DDT from which Aurora would maintain the facelock, roll over and stand them both back before dropping Sabra with another DDT...and then she did it a third time...and then wrapped it all up with a fourth one, except this time, it was the "To-Be-Named" flowing snap DDT that ended the sequence. Arguably, the only reason the match didn't end on the spot had something to do with Sabra's in-ring prowess not being lost after the years of inactivity, her foot managing to touch the bottom rope prior to the referee making the three count. But as Aurora stood her up once more and attempted to go for a bicycle kick, Sabra managed to catch it and in desperation, lifted Aurora off her feet and proceed to connect with a buckle bomb!

Both women found themselves rolling to the outside of the ring and with enough space established between them, there was a glimmer in Sabra Kellar's eyes as she wiped some of the blood from her mouth and watched as Aurora returned to her feet before taking off, diving through the ropes and onto the other side of the ring, catching Aurora and spinning her into a Tornado DDT as a variation of the Sabracadabra had been unleashed upon the Cow Palace to the delight of the crowd! Sabra didn't hesitate for a moment as she threw Aurora into the ring and followed right after her, promptly connecting with The Ultimate Sin (Sitout piledriver) but somehow, someway, Aurora got the shoulder up just before the three count. Aurora's nose was noticeably showing some blood coming out of it now as well and Sabra practically licked her own bloody lips at the sight in front of her, as she measured Aurora as she got up to a knee and nailed her with penalty kick across the face, which caused some of the crowd members to wince at its impact. And yet, not even that was enough, as another two and three-quarter count was the story with Aurora's shoulder popping up.

While begrudgingly realizing her nemesis' toughness, Sabra didn't hesitate to throw a few extra stomps at her head while Aurora attempted to stand to a vertical base much like it had been done to her earlier before Sabra went through the ropes and onto the apron. Sabra grasped the ropes tightly, waiting for just the opportune moment to then springboard onto the top rope and leap forward...BUT AURORA CATCHES HER IN MID-AIR WITH A LEAPING DDT, SPIKING SABRA'S HEAD IN THE PROCESS!!!! The crowd at the Cow Palace becomes unglued from that counter, as Aurora promptly proceeds to capitalize on this by deciding to literally put an end to it all, standing Sabra back up and nailing the Carpathian Cross (Twisting wrist-lock inverted double underhook facebuster) for good measure to get the one, two and three!

While the wind is deflated from the crowd's sails, there is a rather warm reaction for the match that they just saw take place...well, that's at least until Aurora begins kicking and face washing at Sabra as she's attempting to stand up, mouthing off to her long-time nemesis accordingly before making the decision that she isn't quite done just yet...but that's when the crowd comes alive once again as they see Nevaeh Summers hop through the barricade and promptly get into the ring, getting right in between Aurora and Sabra and not hesitating to get in Aurora's face for her earlier stunt of throwing Sabra right into her. Aurora jaws right back at her, telling Nevaeh to get back to her cushy little seat in the audience if she knows what's good for her. That only seems make Summers even more defiant, telling Aurora to make her...

And that's the point where we have the referee and some of the students at ringside interject, making sure neither one of these women can go off on a brawl with Nevaeh being asked to return to her seat while the other set of people holding Aurora back are telling her to start moving towards the curtain once again but the uncertainty does hang in the air as the two are escorted...and where we see Sabra Kellar stand up under her own power to a loud ovation from the Cow Palace crowd, a "PLEASE COME BACK!" chant following suit as Sabra Kellar takes a bow in acknowledgment before gingerly beginning to make her way out of ringside and to the entrance area.

WINNER: Aurora

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Singles Match
William Bateman [FA] vs. Marlon Cure [FGA]

By many people's expectations, announcers included, this one had the expectations of being a show stealer as both men arrive with their swagger turned up to 11, Marlon Cure is introduced as "KING Marlon Cure" and William Bateman is, quite literally, announced as "Christ Himself." Those bits alone probably should answer just about any question on what both men think about themselves, as the bell rings and Bateman has a dismissive look on his face as he seems to measure Marlon, not being particularly impressed with what exactly he is seeing as of yet...but as they enter the center of the ring, there is a rapid exchange between the two of holds, leg trips, arm drags, flips, more flips, a plethora more flips into roll-up attempts and all sorts of junior heavyweight shenanigans with neither man gaining the advantage over the other and with its conclusion showcasing both men assuming a fighting position after the deadlock to the roar of the crowd. Cure proceeds to follow suit on that exchange by running the ropes, dodging a Bateman lariat and then flying up with a headscissors takedown that sends William stumbling to the turnbuckles...from which Cure then follows with a handspring elbow and bulldog combination before kipping up and throwing out his arms, posing for the crowd after taking this brief bit of advantage.

...But that's the part where William Bateman springs up to his feet and practically boots Marlon Cure across the face, turning him inside out with a Yakuza kick...then, "Christ Himself" proceeds with congratulating Marlon on the ground and mentioning that "the bitch-made training wheels your Mom gave you as an act of pity for not swallowing you when she had the chance are now off," as he proceeds to outright welcome Marlon Cure to facing the equivalent of God and Jesus himself by grabbing on to Cure's bald head and proceeding to rapidly kick him in the face various times while on all fours before nailing an axe kick to the back of Marlon's neck, sending him down to the mat face-first on the aftermath. Dazed, Marlon attempts to roll towards the bottom rope and to the outside of the ring...only to get aided in the process as Bateman connects with a running dropkick to his sternum, sending him to the outside forcefully. So it is only fitting that William Bateman proceeds to follow the aftermath of that by watching Marlon Cure stand up to his feet on the outside before "The Pretty Boy Assassin" proceeded to run the ropes, a round-off cartwheel and then a picture perfect moonsault completes the Sasuke Special from Bateman onto Cure, to the amazement and applause of the crowd. Bateman simply basks in it all, leaning his head back and nodding with the most smug grin in the history of mankind. Because he knows...

Bateman proceeds to take his time on the outside, using the count to add to the damage done to Marlon by catching him with a pair of European uppercuts before lifting Cure up and driving him gut-first onto the barricade. He's amused at the referee still counting them out and being at a "six" when William hops onto the apron, places his hands on the referee's shoulders and basically tells him that he's going to make sure that referee ends up poor, alone and homeless if he INSISTS on continuing to fuck up his groove plus that he'll get back inside the ring when HE wants to, not under someone else's whim. That brief moment does open a window for Cure, however, as the young junior heavyweight leaps onto the apron and catching Bateman with a thrust kick before "Christ Himself" can react to it, leaving him dazed in the apron. "King Cure" promptly springboards back into the ring, running the ropes and proceeds to go for another highlight reel as he proceeds to connect with a thunderous slingshot apron DDT that leaves both men down and out on the floor!!! The impact is enough to cause the first "HOLY SHIT" chants to emanate out of the entirety of the Cow Palace.

But even though Cure has the advantage, he is holding on slightly to his neck on the aftermath of the impact although adrenaline fuels him in full as he nails Bateman with a reverse suplex right onto the guardrail, leaving him dangling there before he climbs back up onto the apron. Marlon Cure takes a deep breath, posing as he raises one arm up and basks in the atmosphere before him before nailing a discus leg drop from the apron to a dangling Bateman in the guardrail. After tossing Bateman back in the ring, Cure makes his way up to the top rope and goes for a Sky Twister Press...in which he lands it flush! But the self-proclaimed "GOD Junior Heavyweight" isn't stopping there, as he measures William Bateman as he's standing up and springboards onto the third rope, looking for an elb- BATEMAN LEAPS UP IN THE AIR AND CATCHES HIM WITH CALIFORNICATION (POISON RANA) ON THE WAY DOWN!!! THE CROWD HAS PRACTICALLY LOST ITS SHIT AT THE COUNTER, AS EVEN WILLIAM BATEMAN HIMSELF LOOKS IMPRESSED RATHER THAN IT BEING SOMETHING OUT OF EXPECTATION! MARLON CURE PRACTICALLY LOOKS LIKE HE DIED, TOO, WHICH DOESN'T HELP THE "HOLY SHIT" CHANTS ECHOING ACROSS THE COW PALACE!!!

And yet, somehow, "The Pretty Boy Assassin" doesn't go for a cover...and whether that's ring rust or just basking in the moment, we won't ever know. What we do end up knowing is that for the next few minutes, it's Bateman who is back on the attack by smartly beginning to attack the neck area with kicks directed at it, a neck crank that Cure tries to fight at first but the discomfort gets enough to where Marlon has to get a foot on the ropes before William does even more damage with it...that only augments Bateman's increased attacks on it, as some of the particular highlights on the next few minutes are things such as Bateman dangling Cure's feet on the ropes and then dropping him with a reverse DDT onto his knee before transitioning it onto a neckbreaker that somehow only ends up being a two and three quarters count. "The Pretty Boy Assassin" is relentless, however, the attack on the neck continuing with strikes on the aftermath and another close fall coming after nailing Marlon Cure with a cross-legged fisherman buster dropped onto the knee!

The turning point on all of this occurs when Bateman finally seems to be ready to put the finishing touches, hooking Marlon up on his shoulders and looking to land The Kill (Psycho Driver), but Marlon lands on his feet, a desperation roundhouse kick catching William off guard followed by Cure grabbing on to Bateman and connecting with a ripcord Sling Blade, getting a two count in the process of it. While grabbing his neck, "King Cure" finally sees a chance to get himself back in the ballgame as he then proceeds to nail the DYW/Did You Wrong (Leg Trap Sunset Flip Powerbomb) after catching Bateman with a combination of forearm strikes and a spinning elbow, getting a close-but-not-quite two and a half count. Stumbling against one of the turnbuckles, Cure takes a few deep breaths, watching carefully as William returns to a standing position before he charges off the corner, jumping up and looking for a bicycle knee strike but he gets caught by Bateman in mid-air with a SHOTEI, MOTHERFUCKER!!! Marlon Cure's eyes are widened as he finds himself staring up at the lights, while Bateman lets out something akin to a battle cry of his own, a semblance of emotion finally showing off of him as he begins to beckon Marlon Cure's "bitch ass" to get back up, the crowd anticipating his every movement in the process as Cure does crawl to the ropes and uses them to aid himself back to his feet, stumbling back towards the center...

William Bateman darts out of the corner, looking for his patented GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (540° knee strike), but Cure manages a Matrix-esque dodge to the absolute shock of everyone within the Cow Palace before returning to a vertical position and lifting "Christ Himself" on his shoulders in a fireman's carry position. Marlon Cure tries to capitalize on it with the The Blackout (Fireman's Carry dropped into an Overhead Kick) but William manages to duck under the kick in the nick of time, leaping up on Marlon's shoulders and looking for another Californication (Poison hurricanrana)...in which Cure ends up taking the full brunt and yet, running on adrenaline and the momentum of bouncing onto the ropes, Cure somehow manages to connect with the Moment of Clarity (Somersault Reverse DDT) onto an unsuspecting William Bateman as both men are now laid out on the mat, the crowd ERUPTING for this sequence of moves between the two men.

The referee begins to administer a count for both men to get up but Marlon Cure proceeds to practically surprise everyone by kipping up off the mat, holding his neck on the immediate aftermath but causing the entirety of the crowd to roar as he points to the top rope and he gradually begins to ascend it...and a large grin appears on Cure's face as he sees Bateman still laid out on his back as he begins to ropewalk, carefully taking each step as the crowd in the Cow Palace is at a fever pitch at this point while "King Cure" closes the distance between himself and "The Pretty Boy Assassin" before leaping off the ropes with every intent to nail Reign Storm (Ropewalk Corkscrew 630° senton)...BUT BATEMAN ROLLS OUT OF THE WAY, CURE HITTING NOTHING BUT THE MAT! A loud scream followed by loud curses emanate out of Marlon Cure, as William Bateman is seen returning to his feet with his eyes widened, perhaps seeing what could have happened if he stayed put...and that alone drives "The Pretty Boy Assassin" into picking Marlon Cure up off the mat, placing him on his shoulders and then nailing him on the center of the ring with The Kill (Psycho Driver), the crowd counting along with the referee for the ONE, TWO, THREE!!!

William Bateman doesn't hesitate for a second to bask in the glory of his return as the referee raises his arm up while Cure is helped out of the ring by the Sanctuary students, a loud roar of applause for the efforts both men put in but that show of respect for the match in question being replaced by the entirety of the "Cow Palace" chanting Bateman's name and with it, the hint of a genuine smile can be seen on the face of "The Pretty Boy Assassin" before the usual cocky facade re-appears once again as he extends his arms out, letting the people know all too well of one simple fact:

He's back.

Witness Him.

WINNER: William Bateman

[Strike]

True Experts Championship
Rex Evans [FA] vs. Jack Benevolence © [EXPERTS]

There was a certain lingering anticipation in the air as a special theme music and introduction was made particularly for the show displaying the lineage of the True Experts Championship and the names that held the esteemed title over its history - names such as Jesse Gunn, Level-One, Black Death, Georgie Nickles, Sandy Makel, Doug E. Fresh and the history goes up to the current True Expert in Jack Benevolence...who gets a loud of set of boos even from a video package.

There is a tense air as Rex Evans makes his entrance first alongside his brother Tommy Evans to the absolute roar of the crowd while Jack Benevolence and his manager Russell White are showered in boos while Jack enters, raising the True Expert title above his head, acting like he's above all of it. Both men not being shy about mouthing off to one another in the corner as introductions are made. The True Experts championship belt is raised in the air by RAIDEN senior referee Eli Carr, who was specifically assigned to this match to ensure no shenanigans from anyone at ringside and outside of the confines of the squared circle. The match began, surprisingly, with your stereotypical collar-to-elbow t- nope, it actually began with Rex Evans promptly grabbing Jack Benevolence by the scruff of his neck and beginning to rain down with punches on him, an irish whip to the ropes and a hard shoulder tackle sending Benevolence to the mat and promptly rolling to the outside, the crowd cheering hard as Evans doesn't waste any time attempting to give chase...until, of course, Russell White places himself in between his client and Rex Evans. The boos inside the Cow Palace get louder, as the announcers do explain that if Rex Evans that unless Russell White interferes with the match and gets caught, Rex Evans cannot touch him unless he wants to risk an automatic DQ, his purse given to the champ and his shot at a True Experts championship bout afterward for as long as Jack is the champion. Rex simply scoffs at the motion, taking a few steps back as Jack gets back inside of the ring...but as Rex goes to do that, he gets caught with a running forearm from Benevolence that sends him off the apron and crashing against the guardrail.

Tommy Evans keeps his distance on the outside compared to Russell White, however, only shouting words of encouragement for his brother as Benevolence is using a combination of elbows and forearms to keep Evans at bay, screaming about what a commoner and a felon he is in the process while drawing further ire from the crowd but Rex gradually begins to fight back from it, grabbing Jack and placing him against the barricade while raining down with precise punches aiming at his sternum, stomach and then moving up to Jack's face once his guard lowers, the MMA background showing for Evans before he takes Benevolence off the turnbuckle and irish whips him right onto the steel steps. Rex quickly rolls under the bottom rope to break the twenty count and rolls back outside, making his way towards the True Expert champion but Jack surprises many by grabbing Evans by the leg and giving him a flapjack in which Rex's head bounces off of the steel steps, the crowd groaning and wincing at its impact.

Once Jack rolls Rex back into the ring and gets a two count from the initial cover on the aftermath of that counter, the following five minutes or so are a one-sided affair dominated by the True Experts champion, as his technical background allows him to keep Rex on the ground under certain holds and outright reversing any strike or hold attempts from Rex Evans such as slipping under a punch and nailing Evans with a full nelson slam or a minute later, after eating a pair of elbows from having a waistlock on Evans while attempting a German Suplex, tripping up the oncoming "Avatar of Brutality" and rolling his way into a single leg crab in which Rex eventually does reach the ropes but allows his leg to be a target from that point out - as Jack keeps the hold until a "four" count is reached before finally breaking it. From there, Benevolence continues to target the suspect left leg with various stomps and even going as far as to lock in a figure four leglock using the ringpost twice, breaking it off once the referee reached a "four" count on each time. That said, Rex Evans continues to show his own gusto and fight, using his right leg to kick Benevolence's head with an enziguri after an attempted dragon screw from the current True Expert in order to get some breathing room and create distance between the two competitors.

The crowd claps along as Evans begins to pound the mat, briefly checking on his left leg and putting some weight onto it to ensure it's not broken or that something was pulled before approaching Benevolence, who sought asylum near the turnbuckles as he begins to nail Jack with repeated shoulder thrusts in the corner before pulling him out of the corner and into a stalled vertical suplex in which Rex promptly grabs his left leg on the afterward of it, wincing as he realized there was more damage than expected and thus, not allowing him to try for a pinfall cover. He uses a few seconds while sat down on the mat to give the leg a proper rubdown before standing up, knowing any sort of violence against his own limb will literally break it coming from him. Rex makes his way over to Benevolence once again, a few knee strikes coming from his good right leg landing against Jack's stomach and allowing Evans to irish whip Jack to the opposite ropes but on the return, as Evans plants his feet (wincing) and attempts to go for the Powerline (Heavy clothesline), Jack surprisingly manages a baseball slide under Evans' legs and proceeds to shortly after dive down at the left leg with a chop block, taking Rex out from underneath and promptly setting up a shinbreaker shortly thereafter which is then transitioned into a figure-four leglock from Benevolence.

The crowd gasps, screaming out for Rex Evans to fight it - Tommy Evans pounding the apron furiously, yelling instructions at his brother to start moving towards the ropes - as Rex is screaming out in agony while Jack Benevolence has a confident grin on his face as he has the hold locked in tight. At first, Evans does his damnedest to sit up, the "Avatar of Brutality" trying to punch away at the legs of Benevolence and at the face of the True Experts champion but to no avail, as Jack just adds to the torque of the hold and resisting the urge to submit, Rex grits his teeth and begins to roll to his side...with Jack trying to keep him steady but to no avail, as Rex rolls onto his belly and reverses the figure-four hold. His eyes widened, Benevolence promptly rolls himself over and onto his back, bringing Rex back onto the wrong end of the figure-four now but due to the rolls, Evans is in enough position to reach out with his left hand and grab the bottom rope, forcing referee Eli Carr to step in and count Benevolence who nearly doesn't let go by the count of five until he is threatened by the referee with disqualification.

Jack does let go of the hold, but both him and Russell White, who has been keeping a close eye on it all, get on the referee's face (White doing so from the apron) and begin to protest this "blatant biased refereeing" being done by RAIDEN's senior official, asking things such as why a felon like Rex Evans hasn't already been disqualified for his dirty existence or why he was even allowed to have someone accompany him without a proper manager's license. Referee Eli Carr blatantly tells them both to get out of his face and for Jack Benevolence to get back to wrestling if he knew what's good for him. That seems to anger the True Experts champion, who shoves the referee and reminds him exactly who is the King and who is the Jester around here. Referee Eli Carr simply shakes his head and before Benevolence can say another word, Rex Evans rolls Jack Benevolence onto a schoolboy cover and damn near gets the three count, the crowd gasping in shock at the near fall they just witnessed. As they return to a standing position, Russell White is still in the apron and he begins talking at referee Eli Carr's direction about the blatant favoritism for Rex Evans and trying to screw over his client on a cheap cover and as White and the referee have words, Benevolence seems to pull something out from his tights as he gets up to his feet and the cameraman nearest to him manages to catch a shot of him slipping a pair of brass knuckles on his right hand and as Rex Evans grabs him by the head and pulls him u- POW! Evans drops like a sack of potatoes at a fierce punch from Benevolence aided by the brass knuckles, which he promptly stuffs back onto his tights and he is booed to high hell and beyond while Russell White observes and immediately hops off the apron, screaming at the referee to do his job as the "Once and Future King" rolls Rex Evans on his back and covers him, not even bothering to hook the leg in the process.

One, two, th- REX EVANS GETS THE SHOULDER UP!

The crowd and Jack Benevolence cannot believe their eyes at the fact Rex Evans somehow got his bearings to kick out, the announcers calling it both Rex's toughness combined with his desire to become a True Expert. Incensed by this, Jack Benevolence proceeds to pick up Rex Evans and brings him up into the air, looking for Jack's Hammer (Jackhammer), but Evans hits him with a knee on the skull while in the suplex position, forcing Jack to loosen up his grip as Evans lands behind Benevolence. Gritting his teeth through the pain at the rough landing, Evans turns Benevolence around and nails him with the Simply Taken Out (Standing STO), promptly going for the cover in the aftermath but Benevolence managing to get the shoulder up just in the nick of time before the referee's hand hits three. Evans doesn't hesitate for a moment though, bringing Jack up to his feet and nailing him with a stiff combination of punches and a backfist that keeps the champion standing but dazed as Rex runs to the ropes and back, lea- NO, JACK BENEVOLENCE POPS HIM UP, NAILING HIM WITH JACK'S KNIFE POWERBOMB (Pop-up powerbomb)!!!! Jack immediately hooks the leg and goes for the cover, but yet again, Rex Evans refuses to stay down and he kicks out at two and seven-eighths!

At this point, Benevolence is furious, screaming that it was a three count while the referee holds up two fingers. The argument goes on for a few moments before Jack screams at the referee to do his job after he nails this one move on the "filthy convict or so help you, God" before he moves to the corner, stalking Rex Evans as the "Avatar of Brutality" finds himself struggling to return to a vertical position but eventually does so. Benevolence comes darting out of the corner, aiming to nail Evans with a lari- BRUTE PUNCH (Superman punch) FROM EVANS LANDS SQUARE ON BENEVOLENCE'S JAW!!!! Evans let out a roar, wiping off the sweat from his brows as he watches Benevolence stumbling to the ropes and using them to get back to his feet and without any hesitation, Rex Evans runs the ropes and HITS BENEVOLENCE WITH THE UNSTOPPABLE (SPEAR) ON THE CENTER OF THE RING!!!!!!

THE CROWD IS ON THEIR FEET, COUNTING ALONG WITH REFEREE ELI CARR AS REX EVANS COVERS JACK BENEVOLENCE!

ONEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THR- THE CROWD'S ANTICIPATION SHIFTS INTO MASSIVE BOOS AS RUSSELL WHITE PULLS REFEREE ELI CARR OUT OF THE RING AND TO THE OUTSIDE BEFORE HE CAN COUNT THE THREE!!!!

...But referee Eli Carr isn't knocked out by this as he stands up moments after Russell White's actions, him and the manager exchanging a look as Eli Carr loudly yells that Russell White has officially interfered with this match...and that's about all the cue that Tommy Evans needs on the outside, as he begins to approach Russell White happy as a clam, telling ol' Russ he needs to have a chat with him. Russell White gulps, pleading with Tommy Evans to exercise mercy and to not do anything he's going to end up regretting...and that's the moment in which Tommy begins to give chase to White around the ringside area, the crowd erupting as Russell White begins to scramble for his life around ringside before trying to escape by jumping the barricade - only to get caught by Tommy Evans before he does so and dragged back onto ringside...and then tossed inside of the ring onto a waiting and very angry Rex Evans.

The crowd inside the Cow Palace is at a fever pitch at this point, watching as Russell White is pleading with Rex Evans to not do anything he's going to regret while Rex looks basically intent on dealing with him the same way he's dealt with any trash bag over the years who has stood between him and his goals. Rex lifts up Russell by the scruff of his neck, exchanging some not-so-kind words with him while bringing him near the turnbuckles...when he suddenly ends up hit with a lariat across the back, which crushes him and Russell White into the turnbuckle. Jack Benevolence promptly rolls Rex Evans up with a schoolboy, a grip on the tights of the "Avatar of Brutality" that the referee cannot quite see alongside placing his foot on the ropes...but as the referee counts to two, Tommy Evans immediately yells out "FOOT ON THE ROPES, FOOT ON THE ROPES!" at the referee's direction, causing senior referee Eli Carr to look at the ropes, notice that blatant bit of cheating and stop his count, calling off the pinfall in the process. An irate Benevolence turns around to see the cause of the commotion and he is mockingly waved at by Tommy Evans, who he begins to jaw with while Tommy keeps telling him that Jack miiiight want to turn around before it's too late for him...

It's no surprise that the ending result to all of this does result in Jack Benevolence turning around and Rex Evans looking for another Unstoppable (Spear) but this time, Benevolence somehow manages to dodge out of the way and Rex Evans ends up going through the ropes and onto the outside, crashing right against his own brother Tommy Evans in the process with an ugly thud, as both brothers are out. Jack does see this and he immediately grasps the referee by the shirt, SCREAMING at him to start counting out the felon as he should per the rules! The referee begins his twenty-count as standard, Russell White weakly sliding back to the outside of the ring as Jack Benevolence's eyes remain focused on Rex Evans, who isn't moving for the first few counts until count eleven, in which he begins to stir up...

As the count reaches thirteen, Rex seems to realize his predicament as he is immediately headed back towards the ring, crawling and moving towards it as fast as his condition will allow him. By sixteen, Rex Evans' hands are on the apron, reaching for the ropes and trying to pull himself in...and yet, not being able to do so as the crowd boos loudly while Russell White can now be seen holding on to Evans' left leg, pulling on it and causing Rex to struggle. The count gets to eighteen...nineteen...but Tommy Evans promptly launches himself at White, forcing him to let go and just before the referee counts to twenty, Rex Evans manages to get back inside...ONLY TO THEN BE IMMEDIATELY DRAGGED BACK TO HIS FEET AND DROPPED BY JACK'S HAMMER (JACKHAMMER) FROM BENEVOLENCE, WHO IMMEDIATELY GOES FOR THE COVER!!!

ONEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THREEEEEE- WAIT NO, REX EVANS' FOOT IS ON THE ROPES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Benevolence cannot believe it, his eyes widened as he stares at the dangling left foot of Evans having made it to the ropes and furiously, he stomps down on the leg a few times, dragging him to the center of the ring before trying to turn it into another figure-four leglock BUT EVANS REVERSES IT INTO A SMALL PACKAGE, BENEVOLENCE MANAGING TO SOMEHOW KICK OUT AT THE LAST SECOND!!!!!! Both men gradually return to their feet and at this point, they just begin to throw hands with one another, boos and cheers preceding each punch from Benevolence and Evans respectively but a brawl like this one happens to be right in the alley of the "Avatar of Brutality," whose shots become more constant and in desperation to avoid being overwhelmed, Benevolence throws in a wide punch in which Rex ducks under and then proceeds to scoop him up on his shoulders, crossing his legs AND THE CROWD ROARS AS REX EVANS PROCEEDS TO NAIL JACK BENEVOLENCE WITH THE DISSOCIATION (CROSS-LEGGED SAMOAN DRIVER)!!!!!!

EVANS PROMPTLY HOOKS THE LEG AND WE'VE GOT A COUN- BUT THE BELL SUDDENLY RINGS!!!!!

There's a bit of confusion amidst the crowd and it's Rumchata Ayano, the ring announcer, who clears up everything as she explains that they have reached the thirty-minute time limit for this match and that it is considered a DRAW! Therefore, still remaining as True Experts champion...Jack Benevolence!

The crowd boos while Rex looks downright crestfallen at this point, knowing very well he might have had the champion if he had another three seconds. Cursing himself, Evans pounds the mat in frustration before standing up to his feet, drenched in sweat as both men went to war. Tommy Evans and Russell White make their way to the ring and to their respective people, with Tommy consoling Rex while Russell White has the True Experts title on his hands,  elated while telling Jack the news. Benevolence promptly snatches his title from Russell's hands, determined to stand up and once he does, he raises the belt up in the air to the chagrin of the crowd in question, screaming out as to where is Chris Strike to put the belt around his waist like the coward promised to do it! Benevolence takes a few steps off his corner, keeping the title raised up high and screaming at Rex Evans that it was time for the felon and his accomplice to get dragged out of his ring before he decided to beat Evans within an inch of his life like the rodent, worthless hack he truly was...that he would never sniff another shot at HIS True Experts championship...that h-

REX EVANS BOLTS OUT OF HIS CORNER AND TAKES DOWN BENEVOLENCE, ANOTHER BRAWL EMANATING BETWEEN THE TWO AS THE CROWD GOES NUTS WHILE EVANS WAILS AWAY AT BENEVOLENCE WITH HAMMER FISTS FROM A MOUNTED POSITION!!! BENEVOLENCE HIMSELF MANAGES TO SOMEHOW ROLL INTO A DOMINANT SPOT AND RAIN DOWN WITH PUNCHES OF HIS OWN BEFORE SECURITY AND RING CREW/SANCTUARY STUDENTS ARE BREAKING THEM APART, THE CROWD CHANTING TO JUST "LET THEM FIGHT!" AS THEY ARE GRADUALLY SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER, YELLING AND CURSING FROM ALL ENDS AS THEY'RE DRAGGED OUTSIDE OF THE RING!

White and Benevolence are immediately escorted out via the crowd while the remaining crew are doing their best to contain both Rex and Tommy Evans from going after that lot, but as the announcers put it, if Rex Evans had only three more seconds...he'd have been the next True Expert...and that perhaps the next time, the story would be a lot more different than what it was tonight!

TIME LIMIT DRAW

[Strike]

Main Event - Trios Dream Match
Scarborough-Fair (Stephanie Stefano, Mickey Scarborough & Raquel Fair) [FFW]
vs.
Canadian Chainsaw Massacre (Kenzie Rowe, Holly Chainshaw & Izzy Anders) [SSWA]

Patrick Carson: ...Jesus, it's been a crazy night, Dre. Absolutely ridiculous card from top-to-bottom but while our ring crew and the security staff have been busier than ever, well, we still have one more match to go here tonight.

Dre Hamilton: Damn straight we do and this one, if you're going to talk about dream matches, this was one in a lot of people's minds over the past few years as The Scarborough Fair and Canadian Chainsaw Massacre established themselves as not only some of the best individuals within professional wrestling, but as two of the absolute best trios tandems on the globe...and tonight? They're gonna square the fuck up!!!

Patrick Carson: And neither of us see any point in delaying it any longer...let's go to Rumchata Ayano at ringside!

The bell rings once again, Rumchata Ayano is at the center of the ring with the spotlight on her and we are set...

Rumchata Ayano: Ladies and gentlemen, the following is a Trios Dream Match set for one fall and it is your MAIN EVENT OF THE EVENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A loud amount of cheers for that particular announcement as we arrived at the last bout of the night.

"HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?! BAD THINGS COME IN TWOS,
BUT I NEVER KNEW... ABOUT THE LITTLE THINGS!"

Rumchata Ayano: Introducing first! From Berkeley, California...at a combined weight of four hundred and ten pounds...they are the team of Mickey Scarborough, Raquel Fair and "THE" Stephanie Stefano... THIS IS... THE SCARBOROOOOOOOOUGHHHH... FAAAAAAAAIIIIR!!!!

"Every single day, things get in my way. Someone has to pay, for the little things."

As the chords of "The Little Things" screech, the entire arena gets filled with cheers. Spotlights of yellow and pink and green flicker through the crowd and the arena darkens as the music plays. Emerging from the curtains and making their way one-by-one past the entrance before standing together side-by-side, Mickey, Raquel, and Steph all come out and the crowd within the Cow Palace absolutely and utterly loses their shit in approval as they see the three of them dressed exactly as the "Three Storms" from the Big Trouble in Little China movie - Raquel as Thunder, Mickey as Rain and Steph as Lightning. The three stand proudly together, posing for a moment before they start walking down towards the ring, with Raquel and Mickey having their trademark ladders in hand...

Patrick Carson: What a reaction for the Scarborough Fair and check out the gear, Mr. Hamilton!

Dre Hamilton: The show's called "Big Trouble in Little China" and I have a feeling that even with all the crazy shit we've seen tonight, these three are REALLY bringing the "trouble" part if they do any of the crazy shit the "Three Storms" did during that movie!

Once they get near the apron, Mickey and Raquel leave their ladders next to one of the barricades before they both raise a fist... And Steph fist-bumps them both back to another loud, positive reaction from the crowd around and it is shortly after that in which the three get into a huddle outside of the ring, a few things being discussed before the three girls yell out "BREAK!" before rolling into the squared circle under the ropes as Mickey and Raquel hop the top rope while Steph leans against the ropes. Raquel and Mickey soak in the cheers with wily grins while Steph nods in approval at the entirety of their choices here before they gradually begin removing their straw hats and proceed to talk strategy in the corner while getting rid of their entrance gear details (but their primary gear still remaining very "Three Storms" inspired) as their music fades out.

Rumchata Ayano: ...And their opponents...

As the house lights fade, "Feel Good Inc." by Leo Moracchioli blasts out through the arena, and out from the back come out the longest-reigning SSWA Trios Champions in history: Holly Chainsaw, Izzy Anders and Kenzie Rowe! The pair stomp around the entranceway, taking a look at their surroundings within the Cow Palace for a moment as Holly and Kenzie proceed to stomp around the entranceway, flipping the bird to the crowd as to tell exactly what they think of them while Izzy simply examines the scenery with an egotistical saunter, knowing that they have the audience wrapped around their fingers as they begin walking down the ramp and towards the ring - as the trio of girls are sporting a particular Fu Manchu tank top that is the exact same design as what Jack Burton wore for the majority of "Big Trouble in Little China."

Rumchata Ayano: Weighing in tonight at a combined weight of four hundred and seven pounds... "HORRORSHOW" HOLLY CHAINSAW... "THE MINDKILLER" IZZY ANDERS...AND KENZIE ROWE...THEY ARE THE CANADIAAAAAN CHAINSAAAAAAW MAAAAAASSACREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

As fans reach out to them, they brush them off, concentrating on approaching the ring, sharing a couple of inaudible words. Holly slowly climbs the ring steps, before walking out onto the apron, whilst Kenzie hops up there in a single bound while Izzy climbs the ring apron, turning her back to the ring to stare at the audience. She shifts down the ropes until she reaches the turnbuckle, ascending it with a delicate air. The Holly/Kenzie pair each hook one leg over the middle rope before turning back out to the crowd and flipping them off before slipping into the ring under the top rope. The trio come together a moment at the center of the ring, Kenzie crouching low and stretching out her leg, Holly standing tall over her and gesturing wide with her arm while Izzy reaches methodically for her eyepatch, removing it with flair lowering it into her mouth, giving it a playful bite and turning to give Stephanie Stefano a wink before they head to the opposite corner from Scarborough Fair, the trio getting rid of their Fu Manchu tank top before sharing a private joke with each other whilst waiting on the bell to ring.

Dre Hamilton: The utter goosebumps, Fish...these three are some baaaaaaaad bitches and I fuckin' love it!

Patrick Carson: The longest-reigning Shooting Star Wrestling Alliance Trios Champions ever and for good reason. Their chemistry as a tandem is off the charts and to me, as much as I love the three of them, Scarborough Fair has something to prove here on whether their chemistry as a trio can match up to that of CCM.

The bell does indeed ring shortly after that but rather than clearing out the ring outside of whoever's deciding to start the match itself, CCM boldly steps side-by-side to the center of the ring with Anders at the center, Holly on the left, Kenzie on the right. Scarborough Fair aren't spring chickens, however, proceeding to match them up with Steph at the center, Mickey on the left and Raquel on the right. The two teams stare down one another, the anticipation building with a majority of the Cow Palace chanting for "Scarborough Fair" but there are some loud, noticeable "CCM" chants following suit and as the crowd duels amongst themselves, Holly Chainsaw throws the first punch onto Mickey Scarborough and it all breaks down from there as Mickey and Holly go at it, Raquel and Kenzie exchange forearms while Steph and Izzy traded European uppercuts. The brawl in question led to Mickey and Raquel simultaneously clotheslining Holly and Kenzie over the top rope and to the outside, leaving Izzy Anders along with them after Izzy threw Steph outside the ring in between the middle and top rope. Anders turned around, Scarborough superkicked Izzy right on the knee and Fair followed up with her Shining Bionic Elbow right between Izzy's eyes, the Elfin Knight maneuver thrown in place before the two of them proceeded to turn around...and get equally hit with a pair of spinning heel kicks from Holly and Kenzie, sending them down to mat and onto the outside.

Looking around, Kenzie Rowe promptly takes off running on her side while Holly checks up on Izzy, the crowd gasping in amazement as Rowe promptly goes through the middle and top ropes with a suicide dive into the entirety of the Scarborough Fair trio...flipping off the entirety of the crowd after standing up for good measure, knowing damn well she don't need their approval!

Patrick Carson: Welp, we went from 0 to 200 extremely quick!

Dre Hamilton: Round 1 arguably goes to CCM here, as Rowe just took out all THREE of the Scarborough Fair girls with that suicide dive, jesus fuck...

Kenzie promptly takes Mickey and rolls her into the ring and we're finally on the one-on-one standard fare as Izzy and Holly of Canadian Chainsaw Massacre are in their corner while Kenzie drags Mickey to her team's turnbuckle, dealing up a pair of knife-edged chops before tagging in Holly Chainsaw, who is sporting a bandage over her forehead from a vicious attack she had suffered days prior at the hands of Anastasia Starling in SSWA...and Holly comes in with some not-so-kind punches to Scarborough's sternum and adds an extra facewash with her boot for good measure before the referee begins to count Holly for some illegal esque shit on the graps ring...to which Holly replies in typical fashion before going back to the boot and now choking Mickey with her foot: "SHUT UP CUNT!" Yet again, the referee counts and Holly breaks this one up at four, tagging in Izzy Anders immediately after, who comes in and hits Scarborough with some quick, precise machine gun punches before she drags Mickey out of the corner, letting out a loud yawn while looking over at the Scarborough Fair corner where Steph and Raquel were finally at now before grabbing Mickey off the corner and hurling her across the ring...right onto said corner before she sits indian-style on the center of the ring and motions for none other than Stephanie Stefano, the crowd gasping at the utter audacity of "The Mindkiller," even more so as she tells both Raquel and Mickey that she doesn't need "the sidekicks ruining her good time, no matter how pretty their faces are."

Mickey did see this and shook her head, immediately trying to bullrush Anders while screaming she was going to get that "BASIC BITCH" before she felt a tag to her back, with Raquel Fair promptly coming over the ropes and marching to the center of the ring, annoyed as Izzy Anders stood to her feet. Anders said something about Raquel not being Steph, Raquel replied in kind by smashing her in the face with a forearm that caught Izzy by surprise to send her stumbling back to the ropes. Raquel irish whips Izzy and on the return, it's Raquel who suddenly gets caught by a running European Uppercut from Izzy. Shaking her head, Anders stomps on Raquel a few times before unceremoniously throwing her over the ropes and to the outside. Izzy blinks, making her way to the center of the ring and indicating that she's going to do something as she runs the ropes and bounces off of them, headed towards Fair's direction on the outside...only to bounce off the ropes again and roll out onto the mat, landing in a position where she is lying down and staring at the Scarborough Fair corner as the crowd mercilessly begins to boo being teased out of a dive and the fact that Izzy is still taunting the corner, motioning that she wants Stephanie Stefano and again, telling the rest of Scarborough Fair to just stick to being the cheerleaders!

Patrick Carson: Patented mindgames from The Mindkiller here and the Scarborough Fair tag team cannot lose their cool like they have bee- HOLY SHIT!

What no one, including Izzy Anders, expected was for Stephanie Stefano to come bolting out of her corner, landing onto "The Mindkiller" with a running senton that keeps her right down on the mat and in prime position for Stefano to deadlift Izzy Anders' weight off the mat and right onto an insane pumphandle neckbreaker that gets quite a few eyes wide opened at its sheer impact! Rowe and Chainsaw are promptly calling out the referee for not stopping any of this illegal business before Stefano simply holds her arms up: "WHAT?! SHE WANTED ME, SHE GOT M- hang on a second, you two." Interrupting her own self, Stephanie promptly picked up Izzy off the mat again, this time right into a side slam backbreaker...in which she held Anders onto position, staring right at Chainsaw and Rowe. "Like I was saying..." and on that cue, Holly and Kenzie come out of their corners and as Holly comes at Steph first, she finds herself the victim of a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker! Kenzie does get the drop on Stephanie by nailing her with a pair of clubbing blows to the back but Stefano does return the favor with a stiff forearm once she turns around and pulls Kenzie right into a pendulum backbreaker for her troubles. As the trio of CCM gradually stand up to their feet, all three are promptly met by both Raquel Fair and Mickey Scarborough coming in with some height and distance on springboard dropkicks that send the current DIVINE Duos Champions and "The Mindkiller" back down to the mat and in Chainsaw & Rowe's case, sending them off to the floor.

Patrick Carson: And now it's Stefano and the Fair trolling CCM right back...Izzy Anders, mainly.

Dre Hamilton: Is it just me or did the room get a few degrees hotter when Steph started wailing on Izzy? Like, I'm not the only one detecting the tension here, right?

Steph, meanwhile, realizes she's not actually the legal woman in this and proceeds to let go of Anders, telling Raquel to bring her on along while returning with Mickey to their corner as Raquel does indeed place Izzy on a headlock and drags her to the Scar-Fair corner, laying in a few good forearms with some extra sauce behind them before tagging in Mickey, the two of them irish whipping Anders off of the ropes and catching her on the return...but the referee noting a tag was made just as Izzy ends up getting caught with a double elbow on the return. Only for Kenzie Rowe to come in with a dropsault onto Mickey and dodging a wild Raquel punch to land with a combination of her own forearms and open-palm strikes prior to hooking Fair and dropping her with a belly-to-belly suplex. A scoop slam from Rowe to Fair soon follows and with it, a standing moonsault that is good for a pinfall although Raquel Fair kicks out at two from it. Having found someone to isolate, however, Kenzie promptly drags Raquel to her trio's corner just as Izzy returns to the apron. Tagging in Chainsaw, Kenzie proceeded to then hang Raquel in a tree of woe position and Holly didn't hesitate to take her shots with boots and punches to the exposed gut of the Scarborough Fair member before taking a few steps back and connecting with a front dropkick that had enough force behind it to cause Raquel to drop out of the tree of woe position and back onto the mat.

Dre Hamilton: Notice how the moment that Scarborough Fair tried to go back to playing fair, Canadian Chainsaw Massacre found a way to capitalize on it and now, they're in control?

Patrick Carson: It's part of why they've been as successful as they are as a trio and while Steph, Raquel and Mickey have been best friends for many years, it's one of those situations where they haven't teamed anywhere near as often as a trio compared to their opponents tonight. The rough tactics are only going to get worse from here, I feel.

It didn't take long after that for Holly to go for another cover, getting another two count before Raquel kicked out and with that, Chainsaw began to grind her forearm against Fair's skull, throwing in an elbow for good measure before slowly dragging her to her feet, a sharp forearm keeping Fair stunned before Holly connected with a pair of snap suplexes for another two count and all while still keeping the Scarborough Fair member on their corner. Chainsaw placed Raquel back in their corner, getting in the referee's face about counting her whenever she's been doing moves there and the shouting match between ref and wrestler giving Izzy and Kenzie enough time to grab the tag ropes and begin choking the life out of Raquel Fair with them, as Mickey began to protest from the opposite corner while Stephanie just observed it all carefully.

Eventually, the argument did stop and so did the blatant illegal choking as Holly tagged in Izzy and Anders didn't hesitate to pop off with a pair of European uppercuts to Fair, stumbling her back towards the ropes before bringing Raquel Fair down with a Fireman's Carry Neckbreaker! She covered Fair promptly after but once the count was near two and a half from the referee, Mickey Scarborough stomped out on Izzy Anders' head to break it up and Anders did not look amused one bit as the referee had to interject and stop Mickey from going any further, as she wasn't the legal woman. So of course Anders would aggravate it further by blowing a raspberry at Scarborough's direction before proceeding with grabbing Fair by the hair and throwing her head right onto the boot that Holly Chainsaw stuck out to bring her down.

Patrick Carson: The teamwork from Canadian Chainsaw Massacre here entirely is something else, especially with Izzy Anders stirring up the pot even further with Raquel and Mickey...and geez, Raquel needs to tag out of this one and bad, she's spent a loooot of time on the opposite corner.

Dre Hamilton: It's smart. For as good as the Scarborough Fair tag team are, unlike Stefano, they tend to be more guts than brains and thus, they're easy to rile up. CCM are getting all sorts of time to do nefarious tactics. Tag team wrestling 101, really.

Another tag, this time to Rowe and Rowe doesn't hesitate to pick up where it was left off, scoop slamming Raquel on the mat and proceeding to nail her with a slingshot senton shortly after that, a maneuver she looks quite proud of having landed as she gradually drags Raquel back up to her feet by the hair...but as Kenzie attempted to go for a snap suplex of her own, Raquel managed to slip her grasp and land behind her. Realizing this, Raquel attempts to leap backwards for a Pele Kick and she manages to connect. Rowe is dazed, stumbling backwards but right into her corner, as Chainsaw blind tags herself in and as Fair begins to try and make the crawl towards her, Holly Chainsaw comes crashing the party by means of a running leg drop to the back of Fair's neck and head. She turns her around, going for yet another cover but that covers gets cut short at one as Mickey again breaks it up herself, the referee warning Scarborough to stop getting herself in the ring when she's not the legal woman...but again, that only opens up the window for some extra shackanery to happen as Kenzie Rowe enters the ring herself, her and Holly bringing Raquel Fair up and irish whipping her to the ropes...but Fair hangs on for dear life rather than bounce off from them. Chainsaw comes charging in but Raquel ducks under a clothesline attempt and uses the momentum to back drop Holly over the ropes as Chainsaw holds on to the ropes and lands on one foot on the apron. Holly manages to grab Fair in a sleeper hold from her end, telling Kenzie to waste her but as Rowe comes charging in with a dropkick, Raquel manages to slip out of the grasp and it's Holly who ends up eating the dropkick and is sent to the floor outside.

Patrick Carson: And after a bit of a beating taken from their end, Scarborough Fair finally getting a tag made and some momentum being regained!

Dre Hamilton: Holly's still the legal woman for CCM though, they've gotta get her back inside the ring.

Raquel immediately leaps to her left and towards her corner as Kenzie comes at her, making the tag to Mickey Scarborough in the nick of time as Mickie springboards onto the top rope and comes down onto Kenzie with a seated senton. Mickey promptly stands up and runs at Izzy Anders on her corner with a flying forearm to send "The Mindkiller" hopping down from the apron and away from the action as Mickey then proceeds to rolls toward Kenzie Rowe before springing to her feet and flipping onto Rowe with a rolling thunder senton! Mickey promptly makes the cover and she gets a two count for it before Rowe shoots the shoulder up. Mickey proceeds to stand Kenzie up to her feet, landing a pair of low kicks to her shins before noticing that Holly Chainsaw is back up on the apron and about to enter the ring...to which Scarborough responds by irish whipping Kenzie right onto Holly, sending Chainsaw back to the outside and then following suit by dumping Kenzie to the outside as well. At this point, Mickey quickly returns to her corner, tagging in Raquel, who gets inside of the ring gingerly and tags in Stephanie to the roar of the crowd afterward as she gets into the ring. Mickey is screaming excitedly to Steph about "doing the thing" and even Steph has to ask if they're sure about it before Mickey nodded in approval while Raquel returned to the apron, still feeling the effects from the ass whooping she got done taking. Stephanie makes her way near the ropes and positioning herself there as Mickey Scarborough takes off like a bat out of hell, jumping right into Stephanie Stefano's shoulders...and Steph holds her up high in mid-air, slowly turning at a one hundred and eighty degree angle, as Mickey Scarborough proceeds to do the damnedest moonsault one has ever seen onto Chainsaw & Rowe on the outside, as the crowd within the Cow Palace promptly becomes unglued!

Patrick Carson: WHATTHEFUCK!!!

Dre Hamilton: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST SCARBOROUGH IS CRAZY! SHE'S CRAZY!!!

Patrick Carson: THAT'S ONE OF THE CRAZIEST THINGS I'VE EVER SEEN!

The "HOLY SHIT" chants do not take long to begin and with that, Stefano promptly makes her way out of the ring and up to retrieve Holly Chainsaw and bring her onto the ring at long last, throwing her back inside as Raquel goes outside to check on Mickey while Kenzie's gradually making her way back to her trio's corner from the outside. As Stephanie slides back inside the ring, she waits a moment as Holly is gradually standing back up, a curious look on her face before she mutters something akin to "yeah, you and Bennett really do look like long-lost twins" before the two women begin exchanging blows in the center of the ring, neither one giving the edge to the other until Chainsaw rakes Stefano across the eyes to create some distance. As the "Horrorshow" then proceeds to run the ropes and looks for a running lariat, Stefano is ready to meet her but is caught by surprise when Kenzie Rowe leaps in with a chop block to her leg and Chainsaw catches her with a jumping lariat in the process, the tandem double team being both unexpected and not at all appreciated by the crowd, as Chainsaw & Rowe shortly follow suit by dragging Stefano close to their corner and Holly tagging in Izzy Anders. Holly stuns Stefano with a jawbreaker, leaving her staggering and in open position for Holly and Kenzie to run to the opposite ropes, coming back and hitting Stephanie simultaneously, from front and back, with their Chainsaw Burst and Shotgun Blast respectively - the Shotgun Burst being completed from the tandem. Izzy Anders follows suit shortly, pointing out at Dave Scriven in the second row that "this one is for you" before charging in and kicking the beejesus out of a seated Stefano with a penalty kick! Anders promptly goes for the cover:

ONE!!!!

TWOOOOOO!!!!

THR- Stefano gets the shoulder up!

Izzy Anders proceeds to stalk Stefano as the latter begins to try and stand herself up after the sudden onslaught of moves she just got subjected to...and Anders only escalates things further with a massive STOCKTON SLAP upside the face of Stefano followed by showing her own level of power by irish whipping Steph to the ropes AND CATCHING HER ON THE REBOUND WITH STEPH'S OWN DEBT COLLECTOR (Pop-Up Lariat)! There is a blatant, mischievous grin on Izzy's face as she positions herself behind Stephanie afterward while Stefano stumbled from the sequence of moves, her fingers moving excitedly as she...firmly grabs onto Stephanie's bosom. Very, very firmly. Stefano's eyes widen in horror, as Izzy has a shit-eating grin on her face, squeezing as she says "told ya I'd do it" before suplexing "The" Steph Stefano in what could be best described as a grope-plex, I guess?!

Dre Hamilton: THE LEGENDARY GROPE-PLEX! GOD BLESS IZZY ANDERS, SHE IS A SAINT FOR THIS!

Patrick Carson: Many a people wish they were Izzy Anders right now, but we've got a cover here Dre!

Either way, Stephanie's shoulders are down on the mat and the referee slides down to make the count:

ON- STEPHANIE STEFANO IMMEDIATELY KICKS OUT!

Dre Hamilton: Wait, what the hell!?

Stefano rolls over, the expression on her face having shifted completely as Anders stands up confused for a moment before she suddenly finds herself in a full nelson, with Stefano promptly lifting Izzy as far high up as she can, screaming "TRY SQUEEZING HARDER NEXT TIME, ASSHOLE" before nailing her with a full nelson bomb, as Izzy Anders' ass literally is the first thing crashing against the mat and a look of shock and pain is written all over her face - along with a scream of "DAMN YOU KYRAAAAAAA" following suit before she falls to the mat...as does Steph, clutching on to her chest in the process as the two members of each trio began making their way to their corners, the crowd anticipating it and the duos of Scarborough Fair and Chainsaw & Rowe beckoning for their tag partner to do so.

Simultaneously, Raquel Fair and Kenzie Rowe are tagged in and the crowd goes utterly berserk as Fair doesn't waste any time springboarding off the top rope and NAILING Rowe with The Fairest Of All (Springboard flying forearm), the crowd erupting at the impact! However, as Raquel stands up, she is promptly kicked in the gut by an oncoming Holly Chainsaw, who then hooks her up and nails Fair with the Chainsaw Driver (Double Pumphandle Wheelbarrow Driver)! Mickey Scarborough promptly gets back into it with a flying knee attack towards Chainsaw in Holly ducks out of the way, but as Chainsaw turns around, she gets a Jager Bomb (Asian Purple Mist) for her troubles. Holly promptly covers her eyes, hurling curses at Scarborough as she proceeds to then make Holly "Scarred For Life" (Standing Shiranui into Lungblower) but even that particular victory cannot even come close to be celebrated as Izzy Anders literally pops up Mickey Scarborough onto her shoulders in freakish strength fashion and connects with the Shotgun Party II (Ki Krusher)! Stephanie attempts to shortly thereafter hook Izzy up for the Witchmade, but "The Mindkiller" fights her way out of it with elbows to the side of her head and in desperation, Izzy ends up clotheslining Stephanie and herself out of the ring!

Patrick Carson: And it's a plethora of finishing maneuvers getting landed here but wait a second, look at Kenzie!

Clutching her jaw and still showing signs of being in pain, Rowe does promptly turn Raquel Fair over on her back and makes the cover while barely managing to hook up one leg:

ONEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THRE- RAQUEL FAIR GETS THE SHOULDER UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kenzie Rowe, however, does not look one bit undeterred by it at all as she picks up Fair, smacking her on the back of the head a couple of times while talking trash...only for Raquel to smack her right back in the process, the two exchanging blows before a roundhouse from Rowe is ducked under by Raquel before she picks Kenzie up on her shoulders in a fireman's carry but as she tries to lift Kenzie and throw her into the Meteor Hammer, Rowe counters it into a poison rana that spikes Raquel Fair onto the mat. Kenzie promptly makes her way to Holly, who's still cursing the sun while trying to rub off whatever it was Mickey Scarborough spat on her face. The two look over the chaos and Kenzie mentions that it's time they did some dirty dancing...

Dre Hamilton: Under any normal circumstances, this bit of chaos combined with those words would be measured under a completely different context.

Patrick Carson: The DIVINE Duos Champions are the only ones standing right now and they've got as big of an opportunity as any to maybe put an end to this!

Holly Chainsaw moves to the centre of the ring once her eyesight is cleared out, whilst Kenzie gets the crowd stamping their feet. She then leads them in a countdown (4, 3, 2, 1), charging forward at two, before leaping up for Holly to catch her with the signature lift from "Dirty Dancing", holding her in the air like that and turning...as the crowd slowly realizes what is happening and are aided by the PA system suddenly playing the chorus to Bill Medley and Jennifer Warner's hit "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" - the crowd singing alongside it - before Holly spins Kenz around and over in the Iconoclasm/Senton Bomb Combo, immediately cutting off the music on impact and with Kenzie holding on for the pin as the referee slides down to make the count:

Patrick Carson: DIRTY DANCING!!!! THE COVER ON FAIR...

ONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Stefano can be promptly seen trying to get inside of the ring but being held back by Izzy Anders before Holly Chainsaw comes in with a drop kick to damn near take Steph's face off.

TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Dre Hamilton: THE GREATEST TRIO IN PRO WRESTLING PULLS IT OFF AGAIN!

THREEEEEEE- MICKEY SCARBOROUGH COMES CRASHING DOWN ON THE COVER BEFORE THE COUNT IS FINISHED WITH A SHOOTING STAR PRESS!!!!

Patrick Carson: NO!!! NOT JUST YET!!

As Mickey holds on to her stomach from the impact of "The Flight Path" she just landed, both Holly Chainsaw and Izzy Anders are back inside of the ring and the tandem proceeds to catch Mickey with a pair of superkicks right at her stomach to double her over before Izzy brings Scarborough onto a pumphandle set-up, telling Holly to watch for any oncoming "basic bitches" before lifting Mickey up and looking for a pumphandle lift but Scarborough manages to reverse her way out of the hold and SPIKES Anders' head on the mat with a DDT! But just as Scarborough sits up, she is on the receiving end of a variation of the Chainsaw Burst (Running Double Knee Lift to opponent's head)!

What Holly doesn't see as she hurls more profane phrases at Mickey for spitting the purple mist at her moments prior is that "THE" Steph Stefano is lying in wait and she doesn't hesitate for a moment in lifting Holly on her shoulders in a torture rack position and from there, turning and dismantling the "Horrorshow" with a vicious transition from the Argentine rack into a double knee backbreaker! Stefano isn't quite done, however, as she grabs Anders by the hair and pulls her back up with a blank stare before roughly tossing her onto the ropes and on the return, popping her up about seven feet in the air before turning Izzy inside out with the Debt Collector (Pop-Up Lariat), screaming that "THIS IS HOW YOU FUCKING DO IT!" before turning around...

Patrick Carson: And Steph paying Izzy back for the blatant move steal earlier...

...right into Kenzie Rowe's grasp, as Kenz lifts Steph up and immediately connects with Death Rowe (Small Package Driver)!

Dre Hamilton: And thanks to that, I'm afraid "THE" Steph Stefano just got put on Death Rowe!

The carnage is practically unreal, as bodies are seemingly everywhere in the ring and the referee has lost control long, long ago between these two trios...which leads Kenzie to look around her surroundings and spot a particular pair of ladders that have been unused and unattended for since the beginning of the match. The Cow Palace knows where this one is going as Kenzie promptly slides out of the ring and grabs one of those ladders from the outside, ignoring the referee's entire existence and the yelling coming out of them while gritting her teeth and gradually getting the ladder inside of the ring.

Patrick Carson: ...I had a feeling we'd see these ladders come up at a certain point but after the beating these six women have given each other? This...is not going to be good for somebody.

Dre Hamilton: Well, Canadian Chainsaw Massacre aren't exactly known for playing by the rules...and I don't think DQ's apply in trios? Nor do I think they'd be enforced on this main event, given we WANT an actual winner and all.

Patrick Carson: But they have an advantage...Raquel Fair is still the legal woman for Scarborough Fair and she has beaten to all hell here tonight. Kenzie's giving her time to recover by doing this and you never know when it comes to pro wrestling and the weird shit people pull out of their asses in critical moments...

Dre Hamilton: I don't know, Carson...way I see it? CCM isn't done inflicting punishment on these girls. Not after being pushed the way they've been pushed throughout this match.

While the referee does protest as Holly Chainsaw is back to her feet and grabs a hold of the ladder Kenzie brought in, needless to say, both Chainsaw & Rowe happily let the ref know that he can't (or won't) do anything about it as Rowe gets back inside the ring herself and threatens to take the ref's head off if he doesn't shut his mouth right there and then, engaging in argument for good measure as Chainsaw sees Raquel Fair with a very pained expression on her face using the ropes to return to her feet. Readying the ladder, Holly charges at the corner to try and basically impale Raquel against the turnbuckles...BUT FAIR LEAPFROGS OVER THE INCOMING LADDER THRUST! The ladder hits the turnbuckle and the rebound from the running charge from it is enough to cause Chainsaw to let go of the ladder albeit she remains on her feet while Fair actually lands on the ladder after it was dropped...but the expression on Raquel's face of both pain and a jolt of anger are clearly visible, with Holly telling her to "fucking bring it on" before the "Horrorshow" is suddenly turned around by Mickey Scarborough, who proceeds to fake a superkick to Rowe's jaw, causing the Englishwoman to bring up her guard...only for Mickey to superkick Chainsaw right on the knee with her "Medicine Hat Mixer" maneuver, followed by Raquel Fair running from the ladder itself and leaping onto the kneeling Chainsaw with a flying forearm onto her face. It's at this moment in which Kenzie Rowe and Izzy Anders both jump back into the fray, grabbing Scarborough and Fair by their skulls...and bashing them against one anothe- NO, they resist, a pair of elbows from each Scarborough-Fair tag team member finding the sternum of Rowe & Anders.

Mickey and Raquel throw in another set of elbows, forcing Anders & Rowe to release their respective grips as the two girls promptly throw Rowe to the outside of the ring and with it, they focus their attention on the one woman who was constantly trolling them throughout the start of the match as Scarborough and Fair get on either side of their hapless opponent, getting as close as possible to Izzy Anders before taking in a deep breath...and proceeding to do the one thing they've been meaning to do to "The Mindkiller" since the beginning of this match:

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK YOU, YOU BAAAAAAASIIIIIIC BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

As Izzy Anders' eyes widen and she is bent over and gripping her ears after having BLOODY FUCKING MURDER screamed into her ears, Fair and Scarborough grab Anders by the hair and drives her face forward into the mat while kicking their legs out from under them under some "Dulcet Tones"...and conveniently enough, Izzy Anders' head meets the ladder that Chainsaw & Rowe so casually brought into the ring, the thud being loud enough to where half the crowd expects the referee to turn around and say something...if not for the fact that Stephanie Stefano conveniently was in his line of sight, the ref himself checking on her while this all apparently started to happen! The "HOLY SHIT" chants begin almost promptly as Anders is out on the mat while Mickey and Raquel quickly use their heels to kick the ladder from below them and onto the outside of the ring before damn near collapsing on the mat in the process as the fatigue from the incredible bit of screaming alongside the grueling bout seems to get to them.

Dre Hamilton: ...Motherfucker I COULD HEAR THAT ALL THE WAY FROM HERE!

Patrick Carson: Izzy Anders damn well may have just gone DEAF after that bit...and wait a minute, Rowe's back in!

As commentary mentioned, it's at this point that Rowe indeed makes her way back into the ring, shoving Scarborough aside and promptly rolling up Fair for a pinfall cover that doesn't even get off the ground as Steph Stefano is there to break it all up by smashing Rowe with a stomp to her back. Motioning towards Mickey and then for her to "go up," Stefano proceeds to help Raquel backup to a standing position before the two girls proceed to then lift up Kenzie Rowe in an elevated double chickenwing facebuster as the crowd within the Cow Palace stands to their feet as Scarborough has scaled the top rope...the camera phones being out and some flashes of light going off alongside videos as Mickey dives off the turnbuckle while screaming "FFIIIIIIIIIIIIVVEEE SSTTAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!" at the top of her lungs. She drops a leg across the back of Rowe's neck as Raquel and Steph slams Kenz down to complete the facebuster and the impact sends the crowd jumping off of their feet!

Carson & Hamilton: SCRIVEN DRIVEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steph practically SCREAMS at Raquel - more to make sure she hears it over the crowd - to cover as Fair gradually turns Rowe on her back and hooks both legs, leaning back into the cover as much as her state will allow it as the referee slides into the cover!

ONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chainsaw realizes what just happened and she immediately tries to run towards the cover...

TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SCARBOROUGH AND STEFANO GET IN FRONT OF CHAINSAW, INTERCEPTING HER AS HOLLY TRIES TO JUMP OVER THEIR SHOULDERS, HER FINGERS REACHING OUT FOR THE COVER...

THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Patrick Carson: IT IS ALL OVER!!!!!
The bell promptly rings and the crowd ROARS in approval as Mickey and Steph drop Chainsaw on the mat and collapse, all while Anders finally looks up with a trail of blood coming out of her forehead at the scene before groaning as her head buries itself onto the emerald green mat as "The Little Things" by Danny Elfman begins to play over the PA system and Rumchata Ayano stands up from her seat at ringside, making the official announcement as the trio of the Scarborough Fair helps one another out as they return to their feet.

Rumchata Ayano: Here are your winners!!!!! The team of Mickey Scarborough, Raquel Fair and "THE" Stephanie Stefano... THE SCARBOROOOOOOOOOOOOOUGHHHH... FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIR!!!!

On that cue, the referee and the Scarborough Fair trio raise their hands, the girls basking on the adulation from the audience as Holly Chainsaw is helping Kenzie Rowe back to her feet at this point before the tandem makes their way to Izzy Anders, who stands up under her own power albeit with a look of disgust on her face as she watches the celebration from Scarborough-Fair's side before the Canadian Chainsaw Massacre trio proceed to take their leave.

Patrick Carson: Make absolutely no mistake, ladies and gents...this one was an absolute FIGHT between these two trios and an absolute toss-up from start to finish.

Dre Hamilton: I wanna see it again in the future. Except without a pesky referee getting in the way. Let them bloody each other up, y'know?!

Patrick Carson: That is something to look out for in the future and folks, Pro Wrestling RAIDEN's future is none other than inside of KBS Hall in Kyoto, Japan on January 17th and 18th for a two-night extravaganza! Until then, on behalf of The Experts Network, all of the staff and crew here at Pro Wrestling RAIDEN and of course, the GQ Motherfucker Himself in Mr. Dre Hamilton...I'm Patrick Carson! Good night everyone!

The parting shot before with the ending credits on the screen shows the crowd inside of the Cow Palace with a loud "SCARBOROUGH FAIR" chant echoing through the arena as Raquel and Mickey both are holding on to their ladders up and touching them as Steph Stefano raises her own fist with a smile, pounding the ladders before they yell out "BREAK!" and the feed fades to black...

WINNERS: Scarborough Fair