Extreme Extravaganza 2024 Night 2

Before the show begins, Mick Crellin and Stevie Howard recap the previous evening's events and hype up tonight's matches, including the main event grudge match between Serena Raine and Mark Chapman, Cassie Crowe defending the Chaos Championship against Izzy Thorn, Kameron Chase and the UK Dragons seeking revenge on the masked attackers from recent shows, and - happening right now - the GEW in-ring debut of two-time FGA World Champion Jimmy Page!

1. Blaine Knox vs Jimmy Page
Blaine aggressively rushes at Jimmy - straight into a Concussion! Pin, and that's the three!
Winner via pinfall: Jimmy Page

Rubbing his jaw, Blaine protests, angrily asking for the match to be restarted. The ref checks his watch then questioningly looks at Jimmy, who shrugs. He put his gear on, he might as well do some work tonight. The ref calls Carly over to explain the situation to her, and she announces that this will continue as a two out of three falls match! Jimmy again goes for the Concussion but this time Blaine dodges it, springs off the ropes, and comes back with a flying kick. Page is knocked back into the ropes, but he pushes himself back out with a forearm. It's Knox's turn to fall against the side of the ring, but he springs back with a clothesline! This leads into the two big lads brawling all over the ring with stiff strikes, and then a spell on the outside with, if anything, stiffer strikes. Jimmy wants to make a big statement in his GEW debut and prove that the hype behind him is justified, but Blaine is determined to be the spoiler, and this is a hard hitting match as they get increasingly annoyed with each other's fighting spirit.

In fact, Blaine gets so mad he spits at Jimmy! The loog lands on the King of the F'n World's chest and he snarls, immediately leaping up to blast Knox with an Aneurysm! Blaine falls straight into Jimmy's arms, and Page twists Knox's neck across his knee with The Paralyzing. Only then does Jimmy wipe the spit off his pecs - and slap it right back across Blaine's face! The fans are murmuring, wondering whether they're going to see the same Jimmy Page responsible for so much wanton carnage in the past, but - with a moment of ambivalence - he checks himself. But that doesn't mean he's going easy on his young opponent, as he smashes him with the Trauma Symphony and covers. One! Two! THREE! No - Blaine has an ankle over the bottom rope. Jimmy picks him up, but Blaine has a headbutt. He's loopy as hell but still refusing to make it easy, and the two men batter one another for several minutes more. However, that succession of big signatures really took a lot out of Blaine, and although he does his best to keep on fighting back, he's clearly losing more from each big hit than Jimmy is. Finally Jimmy lands another Concussion to get the pin again, taking it 2-0, though Blaine made him work hard for it.
Winner via pinfall: Jimmy Page

Jimmy (somewhat begrudgingly) offers his young opponent a handshake, but Blaine ignores it and stomps away.

Before the next match, Myles Taylor mocks Kai O'Hara from across the ring while the ref goes through the pre-match checks. Kai just stares back at Myles, deadly serious expression but saying nothing.

2. Kai O'Hara vs Myles Taylor
Kai still has a bandage on his arm from the assault by Taylor a few weeks ago and, as expected, the Southern Born Killer hones in on it, making it his focus for most of the match. In a repeat of their previous encounter, he tries to punish Kai with various holds, torques and yanks, as well as many heavy punches and kicks to the target elbow. Taylor spends a fair amount of time taunting Kai about being a loser and how he'll never get a win in GEW as long as he's around. For his part, O'Hara does his best to try to prove him wrong with roll-ups, school boys and inside cradles aplenty - but they're never quite enough to keep Taylor down for three. He gets a very near fall after a bridged Northern Lights suplex, but it's not quite enough and only seems to anger Myles into more assaults on his injured arm. At one point Taylor has an armbar locked in and Kai seems close to tapping, but manages to find the ropes with his foot just in time. Taylor stays on the offensive for a good chunk of the match, almost ending things by dropping Kai on his head with a vicious DDT from the second rope. O'Hara refuses to stay down, though, and after "accidentally" crotching Myles on the top rope by shoving him when he'd climbed up there, he ascends to the top himself. He flies off and sends Taylor crashing back into the ring with a clothesline before climbing up once again and...

Diving elbow drop with his bad arm! Instead of recoiling in pain as one might expect, however, Kai just grins, stands up and then unwinds the bandage from his arm. It was a ploy! He stretches a section of the bandage between his hands as Myles starts to stir on the ground and it looks as if he's contemplating using it as a weapon to choke his foe, but instead he balls it up and tosses it out of the ring. He drops to a knee behind the now-sitting Taylor and hammers several elbows into the side of his neck before dragging him back up to his feet. He hooks Taylor's head and looks as if he's about to lift him into a suplex, but instead hooks a leg and spins out into a brainbuster! He holds on for a cradled pin and there's no mistaking the referee's count this time. One... two... three!
Winner via pinfall: Kai O'Hara

Kai can't believe it. After all the taunting by Myles and Alex over the last few shows, he finally has his win! He drops to his knees, covering his face with his hands - clearly overwhelmed with emotion. After a few moments he stands back up to let the referee raise his hand. Myles gets up slowly, holding the back of his neck and staring at Kai. O'Hara stares right back at him and Taylor drops back down, rolls out of the ring and storms to the back, furious.

3. Chloé Becker, Dylan Dixon & Elle Santos vs Heart Boy Hugo, Paisley Carter & Sadie Slate
It's a big showcase for some of the junior talent. Since four of the six trained together, there's a lot of quick back and forth wrestling with a solid amount of counters and reversals - though also a few moments of miscommunication since everyone involved is still pretty green. Paisely and Dylan especially seem to care more about showing off their skills to the fans in their shared GEW debut than pushing for the victory when they face each other (and in fairness, the fans appreciate what they see!). Hugo and Chloé as the relative veterans take the captain roles, while Elle and Sadie, being unaffiliated with Wildfire, are often the difference makers who surprise the rest of the wrestlers. In the end it's the latter two involved in the finish, as Elle rolls over Sadie with a sunset flip and brings her down in a backstabber, which is enough for the fall!
Winners via pinfall: Chloé Becker, Dylan Dixon & Elle Santos

An angry Myles Taylor is storming down the corridor backstage, attacking everything in his path. A trash can has been kicked over, a poster ripped off the wall, and drinks and snacks have been wiped from a table to litter the floor. His path of rage is interrupted when he hears a voice just ahead of him.

"Well..."

He looks up to see Alex Chambers leaning against the wall with his arms folded, in a reversal of roles from the previous night. "So that's how you manhandle a loser, huh?"

"Don't fucking start," Myles snaps.

Alex straightens up, raising his hands innocently. "I'm not starting anything. I'm just sayin'..."

"Not another word," warns Myles and Alex's eyebrows raise.

"Or what?" he asks, stepping towards Taylor. "What are you gonna do?"

Myles is clearly fuming as he stares at Alex, but instead of saying or doing anything else, he huffs and walks around him.

Chambers spins around, watching him walk away and laughs. "Yeah. That's what I thought."

4. Lyra Keston vs Revvy King
This one is pretty one-sided from the get-go. Revvy is confused about how they got here and Lyra's attack on her at the last show, but Keston doesn't seem to have calmed down at all. She screams at Revvy about derailing her career and holding her back and flies at her as soon as the bell rings. King does her best to defend herself and try to put up a fight, but aside from a few counter-attacks and defensive throws using Keston's own momentum against her, she isn't really in the contest. Lyra is angry and aggressive throughout, not giving Revvy much time to even think about mounting a comeback, let alone make one. The referee warns her on several occasions about a whole host of things: closed fists, hair pulling, eye raking, biting, not breaking holds... It's only when she's threatened with disqualification that she actually starts to calm down a little bit and stop screaming back at the official. She doesn't calm down as far as Revvy goes, however, and after a Stay Down and Eye of the Storm in quick succession, she plants King with the Polar Vortex. She doesn't go for a cover, though. Instead, she gloats a little bit, playing up to the fans before she locks in a figure four leg lock. Revvy taps almost immediately.
Winner via submission: Lyra Keston

Even with the bell ringing Lyra doesn't let go, and Revvy's screams of pain only seem to drive her on as she raises up onto her hands to apply more pressure to the hold. Revvy pulls at her own hair, breaking into sobs of agony until eventually the referee manages to get Lyra to release the hold. She stands up, demands that the referee raises her hand in victory, and then stares down at her former tag team partner, content with the damage she's caused.

5. The Bethel (ABEL & DEACON) vs The Jokers Wild (BlakJak & Spades)
These two teams start brawling at ringside while the JW are still making their entrance, the Canadian clowns seeking revenge for being injured by the beasts... meanwhile The Bethel seem offended at The Jokers' refusal to simply accept their purpose as sacrifices. The bell gets rung, at some point, but almost none of the match takes place between the ropes as the wrestlers brawl all over the auditorium. The stands, the steps, the stage, even the techies' area - nowhere is safe. Oliver Creed is out there with his disciples, and even though he's doing very little beyond standing back and watching, just murmuring the odd word of advice to The Bethel, Spades and BJ have him in their sights too as the architect of their suffering. They go after him a couple of times, but each time Creed's soldiers save him, allowing him to calmly walk away, maintaining a neutral expression all the while. The Jokers get ragdolled around hard by the giants, but they came prepared with their signature barbed wire hockey and lacrosse sticks, and they bloody up ABEL and DEACON in short order, grinding spikes into their faces and dragging them down their backs. However the One True Gospel fight through the pain, and make themselves an opening when ABEL chokeslams Jak on the apron while DEACON powerbombs Spades through the timekeeper's table. ABEL grabs the sports sticks and stares at them with a wide-eyed sneer, then tosses one to DEACON... but instead of hitting their opponents with them, The Bethel snap them over their knees and then smash the remnants against the floor!

DEACON picks up a now unravelled length of barbed wire and wraps it around BlakJak's neck, hoisting him up over his back and parading him around. ABEL meanwhile grabs a jagged spike of what was once Spades' own lacrosse stick and digs it into his skull, sending blood flowing down his face, before whipping him into the post and then following in with a big forearm lariat! He calls to DEACON, and they each drag their current chosen victim up... ABEL lifts Spades up in a military press... heaves him up high into the air, then steps away... and as the Joker falls, DEACON spinebusters Jak into him in mid-air, driving both of the three-time GEW Tag Team Champions into the ground in a tangled pile! They both glance to Oliver, who simply says "more", and they peel them back up. Another military press, this time from DEACON to Spades... this time he throws him to ABEL who catches him in a press of his own before dropping him into a powerslam! BlakJak then receives a double vertical suplex, and the whole torture session is capped off by both Jokers once again getting dragged back up, this time in powerbomb clutches. The Bethel slam them together spine-first before turning and bombing them both into the apron, side by side, and at last the two leviathans set the JW up in a double stack pin to get the victory.

NO! THE JOKERS GET SHOULDERS UP! The fans go ballistic. Creed narrows his eyes, a slight scowl crossing his lips. DEACON snarls furiously, while a psychotic thousand-yard stare appears in ABEL's eyes. Creed lifts an arm, gesturing "up" for more punishment, and his flock duly oblige, ripping the Windsorites up once more. But with the noise from the crowd helping them focus, BJ and Spades channel every joule of energy left in their broken bodies, and they start throwing wild fists at ABEL and DEACON's faces. Relying on speed, aggression and sheer surprise factor, they look to blitz their foes down before they can regroup. They claw at the cuts they inflicted earlier to make the blood start flowing again, then Spades wraps some barbed wire from their broken weapons around his fist and starts punching and grinding at DEACON's head, while Jak takes the shattered end of his hockey stick and rams it inside ABEL's mouth before kneeing him in the jaw! Creed's deeply unhappy at this point, not getting personally involved but hovering nearby menacingly... and the fans explode in cheers as the Jokers suddenly drop him with Cotton Candy & Popsicles! The former GEW World Champion may have his Gospel but here in the Church of GEW, Jokers Wild are the congregation's saints right now, and they exalt them with every shot they make. ABEL's head gets crushed against the ringpost with a double knee shot, and then BJ wraps DEACON's arms up in barbed wire while Spades grabs the largest piece of the very same table he was previously powerbombed through. He climbs up the outside of the buckles, raising his impromptu weapon and aiming it squarely at DEACON, who's being held in place by BlakJak, head totally exposed...

...but before Spades can jump he's thrown into the ring! ZANATOS! Jak goes for the interloper but eats a boot to the face, and Zanatos flies off after Spades to crush him with a frog splash! While he rolls out and helps Oliver back up, ABEL flattens Jak with a big boot, then starts choking him with barbed wire. BlakJak tries to escape, but ABEL hefts him right off the floor, leaving him dangling by the throat, then starts squatting up and down to send even more pain stabbing into BJ's neck! Spades crawls towards the edge of the ring, trying to save his buddy, but DEACON's able to blast him in the head with a forearm under the bottom rope. With no help coming, Jak taps out.
Winners via submission: The Bethel

ABEL doesn't want to let go, but the referee and some security guards manage to prise him off BlakJak. DEACON shoves Spades back under the ropes while ABEL drags BJ into the ring too, and they're joined by Oliver and Zanatos. Mirroring The Bethel's debut, Jak and Spades get planted with the Eye of the World and the Black Maw respectively. Creed kneels down stabs both men in the head with his sharpened crucifix, then takes a dab of blood from each of them on his index and middle fingers. As he stands, Zanatos now kneels in his place, and The Shepherd proudly anoints the newest member of his Flock. Zanatos still looks conflicted, but he's made his choice. Oliver rests a reassuring hand on his shoulder while ABEL and DEACON flank them on either side. Creed stares into the camera, smiling lightly.

Nikki Song, Matt Kail and Elle Santos are all heading down to the ring now, and Oliver gestures for his men to leave. They back away through the fans, watching on as Jokers Wild's friends from Battlegrounds, along with Dr Cortez and her team, check them over.

Serenity comes out on her own, ahead of her two closest friends facing off. She says nothing much to either of them before the bell, and just stands in a neutral corner. Phreak and Ligaya both stare at her questioningly.

6. Ligaya Fontaine vs Phreak
But Phreak looks away first, and he sprints at Ligaya before the ref finishes calling for the bell, sending her stumbling away with a twisting back elbow to the nose! She moves back in after she recovers, but Phreak's quicker and he knocks her flat with a dropkick. He scrabbles over looking for a grapple - but Ligaya pulls him into a crucifix pin! She almost gets the win right there, but Phreak powers out just in time. He grabs Fontaine and pulls her into a choke but she fights out of it, and the two of them grapple back and forth around the canvas, trading holds. The technical battle forms the core of this match, with chain wrestling into submissions holds and rollups. There are also some big takedowns, mainly deadlift suplexes for Phreak and explosive rebounds for Ligaya, like a whisper in the wind, and a Pinay Legsweep which gets a two and a half count. Throughout it all, Serenity watches on nervously, remaining in her corner, saying nothing but obviously distressed by how rough her friends are being with one another.

Without the White Widow guiding her, Ligaya doesn't quite seem to know what to do - she tries to lock in the Tentacle Monster on Phreak, but his broad shoulders are too much for her. Normally her tag team partner would tell her to work towards the senton bomb or Ground Pound instead, but sans that advice, Ligaya goes for the Tentacle Monster again when the opportunity presents itself. That error costs her momentum big time, leading to Phreak firmly taking over. After a phoenix splash and a gutwrench gutbuster both get near falls for the Phreakish One within about the space of a minute, he starts to get frustrated. Serenity's biting her lip anxiously as Phreak measures Ligaya. As she stands back up, he hits the ropes... big springboard clothesline! But she spots it coming just in time and dodges - and PHREAK CLOBBERS THE REF! Phreak's stunned, but not enough not to drill Fontaine with a double arm DDT. With no ref he can't pin, so he tries to rouse him, but to no avail. In his annoyance, he rolls to the outside and grabs a chair... but as he climbs back up on the apron he pauses. Serenity's staring him in the eyes, still saying nothing, but her eyes are pleading with him not to assault Ligaya and she's shaking her head lightly. Phreak's conflicted, looking between Serenity and Ligaya, glancing down at the chair, at the ref... he clearly doesn't know what to do now. The referee starts to stir and with a sigh, Phreak throws the chair down to ringside and steps through the ropes... INTO A SMALL PACKAGE! One! Two! THREE!
Winner via pinfall: Ligaya Fontaine

Phreak hops up looking stunned. Ligaya's pretty shocked too. Serenity heads straight over and gets between them immediately, and before either of them can say or do much of anything, she raises both their arms and then hugs them both in turn. Phreak exhales and runs his hands across his head, then briefly tags Ligaya's hand in grudging respect before leaving the ring. As he walks out and 420 B.C. watch him go, Crell wonders if Phreak's impulsiveness in going for that chair cost him the match. Stevie disagrees - as far as he's concerned, listening to Serenity is what cost him.

7. Roscoe Lake vs Ryan McGrath
There's tension from the start and the two youngsters step up face-to-face, spitting words of venom at each other before the bell rings. It's Ryan that makes the first move, clocking Roscoe in the jaw with a hard right hand, but he fires one right back and they trade strikes back and forth for a solid minute before any wrestling takes place. The action is high-tempo throughout - Ryan is fast, but Roscoe is faster and he gets the early advantage after an exchange of throws and takedowns by catching McGrath off guard with a headscissor takedown. He bails out of the ring to regroup and Roscoe stands back with a grin, not taking his eyes off him. Ryan takes his time but eventually climbs back onto the apron, only for Lake to knock him right back down again with a handspring against the ropes! McGrath crashes into the barrier at ringside and rolls away onto the mat, holding his back. Roscoe is soon out there with him after a diving senton over the top rope, but somehow Ryan is alert enough to roll out of the way and leave Roscoe crashing to the ground. It's McGrath who staggers up to his feet first and he pulls Lake up, then throws him hard into the steel steps before sliding back into the ring and lying on the canvas to recover. Roscoe beats the referee's count by barely a second and throws himself under the bottom rope just as Ryan is rising to his feet.

McGrath tries every dirty tactic in the book to try to put Lake away from there, and almost gets a three count after a tornado DDT, but the referee catches him with his feet on the ropes for illegal leverage. No matter what Ryan throws at him, Roscoe just will not stay down. A well-timed low blow with the referee's view obstructed almost does it, but the teenager still manages to lift a shoulder before the three! McGrath is getting frustrated and is making no effort to hide it. Through gritted teeth and with a scowl on his face, he drags Roscoe back up to his feet by his hair, swatting off his weak attempt to push him away. Ryan slaps him in the face a few times, shit-talking him as he does, and then spits at him. That seems to bring Roscoe back to life and he fires a hard forearm at McGrath's face, much to the delight of the fans. He goes again, throwing three quick forearms in succession, and Ryan is reeling. Roscoe backs him into the ropes, shoots him across the ring and then sends him down with a moonsault dropkick. He roars back up to his feet, the crowd willing him on as he pulls McGrath back up and flattens him again with a discus clothesline. With adrenaline and momentum on his side, he hits the ropes and comes back at Ryan with a flip splash, and then a standing shooting star press for a near fall. Undeterred, he picks Ryan back up again, hoists him over his shoulders and hits him with Mark Chapman's Radiant Eclipse to put him down for three!
Winner via pinfall: Roscoe Lake

While Roscoe celebrates and Ryan slinks off clutching his head and looking absolutely murderous, a video package airs for GEW's next supershow, Open Season.

Kameron Chase is on his way to the ring for his match, looking fired up as fuck, when he runs into his son who's just come backstage from his own. Ryan, still steaming over his loss to Roscoe, once again tries to argue with his dad that he can't trust Laurel Anne Hardy and Evangelista. Kam acknowledges the problems that he and the UK Dragons had in the past, and that Ryan doesn't know them very well, but Kam believes that they're not the same people they used to be, and that they'll stay by his side to take on these masked attacker fucks. Ryan simply says that he hopes his dad's trust isn't misplaced, then heads off to cool down.

8. Evangelista, Kameron Chase & Laurel Anne Hardy vs Mystery Opponents
Kam insists on starting this, and although the Dragons are out for blood too, they let him. He runs wild in the opening couple of minutes, fuelled by vengeance for Cole, Mark and Revvy. The mystery men are wearing bodysuits and balaclavas to conceal their identities, and Carly clearly doesn't know their names, so during this period Crell and Stevie decide to call the thin guy Jimbo, the big guy Kearney, and the slouchy one Dolph. It's Dolph who catches Kam with a low blow while Jimbo distracts the referee. The Dragons rush in with double dropkicks to knock Dolph down, but the official forces them out again, having missed the chicanery, and the mystery team take advantage with another low blow! They work Kam over some more, but at last he catches Jimbo with a Force 10, allowing him to tag out. The Dragons start hot, using fast tags to overwhelm Jimbo. But once again, the bullies use underhanded tactics to take over, with Dolph crossing round to threaten Kameron and Laurel on the apron - and while the ref's telling him to go back to his corner, Kearney illegally slugs Evangelista with a forearm to the back of the head.

The masked men isolate Evangelista for a prolonged beatdown, mocking Laurel as she gets madder and madder all the while, culminating in Kearney giving Leanne a stinger splash in the corner that wipes her out. But even that doesn't satisfy them; they keep pushing the offence, with Jimbo and Dolph even taking turns to choke her and smack her head against the canvas. Kam's stretching for the tag but Laurel is furious right now, with evil in her eyes which hasn't been seen since her feuds with the likes of Alice Harris and Whisper. Evangelista finally manages an enzuigiri to scramble into the tag, and Laurel bursts in like a shotgun blast, smashing Kearney with a straight punch to the throat, then leaping onto his back and trying to choke him out, while driving a knee into his spine over and over. When he proves able to weather that, she rabbit punches him in the back of the head, and that drops him to shaky hands and knees. Hardy kicks an arm out then aggressively stomps on his head and neck, again and again and again, before choking him once more. Dolph storms in and grabs her by the hair, dragging her off his ally... but as he turns her around she bites his hand as hard as she can! His scream doesn't quite drown out the crunching noise of his finger getting broken.

Now Jimbo rushes in too - but gets turned inside by a lariat from Kameron! The ace of GEW grabs Jimbo and starts bashing his head into the ringpost over and over, then starts to pull his balaclava off, which leads to Jimbo desperately thrashing until he can powder, just barely protecting his identity. Meanwhile, Dolph and Kearney have dragged Laurel to ringside, and though she's fighting back like an enby possessed, they manage to bust her open by scraping her head along the edge of the apron. Dolph gets her in mount and starts alternately punching the graze and grinding his knuckle into it, until her entire face is completely crimson. Evangelista flies off the top with a moonsault to knock Kearney down, but before she can save her best friend, Kearney grabs her by the hair and whips her into the post. Kam and Jimbo join them and all six brawl their way all over ringside, with the referee not really able to do anything about it beyond limply telling them to bring it back inside. Chase takes over fighting Kearney, saving Evangelista, and the respective biggest members of each team suplex one another across the ground. Elsewhere, Leanne and Jimbo do the same. Laurel and Dolph are still slugging each other with brutal punches. Hardy grabs his throat, and she 100% seems like she's trying to crush his windpipe! He slaps her arm down again, but she responds with a boot to the kneecap and then a left to the jaw. A headbutt not only drops him but leaves a wet blotch on his balaclava. Another kick, this time to the temple, and then she turns to the fans, screaming, and slaps herself in the forehead again a couple of times to open herself up even more. The fans scream back in support as she beats her chest wildly, shrieking a bloodcurdling shriek. She's fully Carried now, the claret matting her hair and dripping off her face and pooling up on the floor.

With Dolph down for a moment, she smashes Jimbo in the back of the head. She and Evangelista regroup and they drive him against the ringpost, and come in one-two with back elbows to crush his skull into the steel. Blood can be seen trailing in the air after Laurel's, but she's more energetic now than she was at the start of the match, and throws kick after kick into Jimbo's midsection. Dolph's back up now and he shoves her aside, driving her against the apron, but Evangelista boots him in the belly and heaves him against the side of the ring too, with a huge exploder suplex! Not far away, Kameron takes Kearney down with a Three Mile Island off the apron, and then he and the Dragons give the masked men a triple noggin knocker! The Natural Disaster and the UK Dragons embrace emphatically, neither Kam nor Leanne caring that they too are getting covered in Laurel's blood. All three slide into the ring... take measure as the attackers slowly help each other back up... a trio of suicide dives send everyone tumbling across the floor! The fans are cheering and clapping wildly, and buoyed by their support, Kam jumps right back up and throws up a double horns. The next thing he throws is Dolph back into the ring! Cover... one! Two! Three- NO! Kickout. The fans boo in commiseration with Chase. He starts to twist Dolph into the Kamokaze, but the masked man blocks it. Kam with elbow after elbow, and then he tries to pull the balaclava off! Dolph does all he can to prevent this, but that allows Kam to clock him with a punch and pull him up over his shoulders.

Dolph manages to kick himself free before Kam can hit the Mental Maelstrom, though, and they start trading strikes. Down at ringside, Laurel and Leanne are now both clamped around Kearney's neck and pounding his head with fists and headbutts - at least until Jimbo rips Evangelista off from behind, allowing Kearney to throw Hardy over his front, with both Dragons' spines meeting the ground painfully. Kearney moves in to pick Laurel up but she rakes his eyes and they start striking each other again, while Jimbo and Evangelista start Irish whipping each other around ringside into anything hard. Back in the ring, Dolph pops Chase with not one, not two, nor even three, but four headbutts in a row, before unloading those machine gun chops we've come to recognise - by the end of all twenty, Kam's chest is raw hamburger meat, with blood trickling down his torso from blazing pink welts. And yet, he screams defiantly in Dolph's face and cracks him with a headbutt of his own! Straight right to the jaw follows, and he hauls him over his shoulders for a Mental Maelstrom... but the poor ref's attention is divided between that and the wild brawl still happening at ringside. That's why he misses RYAN hopping up on the apron and pulling Dolph back down! Kam turns to see who interfered, and is stunned to see his own son looking back at him - but not as much as when Ryan blasts him with an overhead kick! Dolph grabs Kam as he falls and yanks him back around by the arm, into a spinning backfist... falls across him... ONE! TWO! THREE!
Winners via pinfall: ?????

Dolph and Ryan bolt, backing up the entrance together, and Jimbo and Kearney join them when they get openings. The Dragons chase them halfway, but aren't quick enough to catch them, and Ryan flashes them a smug smirk as the four men disappear backstage. He may have lost his own match, but clearly tonight wasn't a total failure. Laurel sprints off in pursuit, but Evangelista returns to the ring to help Kam back up and ask him how he is, physically and mentally. He doesn't really have an answer for her, but they too head backstage, with Kameron looking ready for murder.

Even after Isabella Thorn makes her entrance, the fans are still seething about the last result and Cassie takes particular pleasure in winding them up even more during her own entrance, drawing out how long she takes to get to the ring, with a big shit-eating grin plastered across her mouth as she chats back to them...

9. GEW Chaos Championship: Cassie Crowe [c] vs Isabella Thorn
...all that built up negativity explodes into cheers as Isabella flies at her with a tope con giro! Champion and challenger roll around at ringside punching each other, and Izzy gets the better of it. Standing up, she stamps on Cassie's neck to hold her down while she rips the title from around her waist. Crowe shoves her aside and stands up too - only to get smashed right back down with a belt shot to the face! The fans cheer as Isabella pins her, but it's only a one count. Thorn with a deadlift German suplex, and then she flips up the apron and starts pulling out all the good stuff; tables, light tubes, a length of cable. That last one gets wrapped around Cassie's neck, and used as leverage to swing her into the post. Snapmare, and Izzy firmly plants a sole between Cassie's shoulderblades while pulling back with the power line. Cassie grimaces, coughing and hacking up spit, as she tries to prise her fingers in between the rubber of the cable and the flesh of her neck. Making an inhuman noise, she manages to pull it away just a little, enough to breathe... Isabella kicks her in the back of her head! Cassie crawls away on all fours, with scratch marks from her own fingernails visible on her throat. She doesn't get far, as Thorn loops up the cable in her hand and starts whipping the champion's back until it's covered in bloody welts. That anger we've seen so much from Isabella lately drives her to stalk around Cassie, throwing in vicious strikes, before smashing a light tube over her head and then straddling her shoulders to dig at her face with the prongs until a thick line of blood is bisecting it. But after that deed the challenger looks lost for a moment, overwhelmed by her options (and, just maybe, her own rage). She decides to take advantage of the wounds to both Cassie's neck and back with a dragon sleeper, but she's allowed her opponent time to recover, just enough to backpedal and crush Izzy against the ringpost.

Isabella pushes herself back out, but is met with a punch across the temple with a cable-wrapped fist, and now she's got a splatter of blood across her forehead too! Cassie is still dazed, but so is Izzy now, and it takes them a moment to reconvene. They trade strikes - and though Cassie's are heavier, they're a lot less careful, as she's still suffering from all the pain Isabella inflicted so far. That lets Izzy gain the upper hand... until Cassie hoofs her between the thighs. The fans boo, but it's a deathmatch, so like, okay? And? They wind up playing tug of war with the cable not long thereafter, somehow through the gap in the corner between the ring post and the turnbuckles, which is won by Cassie yanking Isabella headfirst into the steel! Now it's Crowe's turn to smash light tube after light tube over Thorn, throwing them down at her head and torso like plates in a Greek restaurant. After that she leans a table against the apron, and sends Izzy through it with a backdrop suplex! Next is Cassie's turn to retrieve weapons, but there's only one she wants. After rooting under the ring for a moment, she raises her signature lead pipe... and for this special occasion it's wrapped in barbed wire! Izzy's already coming to meet her despite going through that table, but is herself met instead wih a pipe blow to the gut. Cassie switches behind her and gets her in a full nelson, with the barbed wire pressing up under Isabella's jaw... DRAGON SUPLEX! Izzy rolls around coughing as they land. Now they've both taken trauma to the throat.

That factors in in a big way, as the longer the match goes, the longer it takes for them to recover from big moves. Every breath sucked down those scuffed windpipes hurts like hell. They're both looking to make it worse, too, from Izzy dropping Cassie neck-first over the top rope, to Cassie choking Izzy against the turnbuckles with her sole. There's a huge, huge near fall when Thorn drives Crowe face-first through a pile of light tubes with From The Grave With Love, but the champion manages to roll a shoulder just in time. Not willing to give up any pressure, Isabella wedges Cassie's own lead pipe between her lips and kerb stomps her, and the Chaos Champion is left with blood gushing out of her mouth! But a minute later she turns this to her advantage when she grabs Izzy in an inverted facelock while saving up a load of blood in her cheeks, which she spits into her challenger's eyes! Inverted brainbuster into the debris-strewn canvas, a cover, but it's only a two count. Shortly after that they both go for their signature combos, Cassie's Code: Vain and Izzy's Legacy Touch, at the same time, and the both get about halfway, trading strikes rapidly, until they both sink back. Izzy snaps back in with a superkick, but Cassie ducks it and catches her with a Battlegrounds Uppercut, and then uses the barbed wire pipe to assist in a shinbreaker, clearly trying to prevent Sweet Dreams again! A fisherman's suplex through another table leaves Izzy rolling around clutching her leg, and Cassie climbs up to the top turnbuckle...

...where she hefts that lead pipe like a baseball bat, getting ready to jump down and cave Izzy's head in with it. But as she's getting up, Isabella rams half a table into the ropes via the legs! Cassie wobbles, but manages to retain her balance... at least until Isabella leaps up with a roundhouse which catches the pipe and smacks it into the side of Crowe's head! While the champion sways and blinks, blood dripping from her face and mouth all the way down to the canvas, the challenger climbs up - limping, huffing short and pained breaths with every moment of pressure on her hurt leg - and punches Cassie in the head. They brawl for a moment, which Isabella wins by biting Cassie's forehead, and then, in a mirror of earlier in the match, spitting Cassie's own blood (mixed with a fair bit of her own, in fairness) back in Crowe's eyes! Izzy starts to pull Cassie over her shoulders, and the commentators realise she's going for her father's finisher, the Parasite Eve, avalanche style! But as Cassie's getting hauled up she manages to kick Thorn in the bad shin, and Isabella stumbles, almost falling and taking them both down to the mat. She manages to steady herself, but Cassie's already on the move and she rips Izzy into the air with an avalanche Warthorn! It's similar to Izzy's own From The Grave With Love, but Cassie's a lot more experienced at using it - and it's from a lot further up. The champion rolls her body across the challenger's... and gets the three count at last!
Winner via pinfall: Cassie Crowe

The fans fill the chamber with boos, but Cassie just grins as she crawls backwards up the entrance way on her ass, leaving a trail of blood as she goes but with the title still in her possession. Those boos only get even louder as Serena Raine joins her tag team partner on the stage, and they congratulate one another on their wins tonight (prematurely, in Raine's case?). The fans are baying for blood as she and Mark Chapman take their places in opposite corners, staring holes through one another's eyes...

10. Mark Chapman vs Serena Raine
Right out of the gate Serena flies at Mark, knocking him backwards with a forearm and following up with more until he's driven into the corner. From there she targets his midsection, laying in kicks and then stomps once he's grounded. The referee warns her and, at first, she ignores him - but then slowly backs away, not wanting a repeat of her disqualification loss against Kameron Chase. It takes Mark a few long seconds to pull himself back up and when he does, Serena is waiting for him. She beckons him forward and he obliges, engaging her in a lock up. She immediately drops down and takes him over with a fireman's carry, then follows up with an elbow drop to his face. Chapman rolls over, holding his face, and when he moves his hands away, blood drips down onto the canvas. Serena forces him to turn over with a hard kick to the side and the source of the blood becomes clear: a deep gash has opened up in his right eyebrow. Raine grins, looking down at him and then taunting the fans in a "this is your hero?" kind of way. This mockery seems to drive Mark, who catches Serena hard with an elbow to the gut. He begins to unload on Raine with his own strikes, then doubles her over with a knee to the midsection and attempts to follow up with a DDT, but Serena catches him first, snagging a single leg takedown before furiously hammering down elbows. Chapman stops Raine's elbows with a kimura attempt, and from there the two begin an exchange of holds.

For a while, it seems the match may fall into a traditional rhythm, until Raine punctuates a triangle choke by slamming an elbow into Chapman's forehead. She's warned again by the referee, and actually releases the hold to allow the ref to check Mark - who now has another fresh cut in the middle of his forehead. When Chapman waves the ref off of him though, Serena rushes in and slams Mark into the corner, before ripping him out of it with a double-knee sternum breaker. The aggression ramps up, and Raine begins to mercilessly attack. She continually aims for Mark's face, throwing elbows, kicks, and takedowns meant to aggravate the bloodflow. She also begins to pay attention to the chest. Not long after the first sternum breaker, she catches Mark with a second, and immediately rips him to his feet for a third. She goes to pull him back to his feet again but he sandbags and wraps a leg around hers and... flying scissor heel hook out of nowhere! Mark has it locked in and the crowd roars, relishing in Serena's pain. They chant for her to tap and Mark looks sure that he's got it now, despite being on the back foot for most of the match. He grits his teeth and wrenches her ankle beneath his arm, but the blood flowing into his eyes stings a bit too much and forces him to unclasp his hands and let go with one arm to wipe it away, allowing Raine to slip her foot out of the hold and roll away. A groan from the crowd accompanies Chapman's frustration as he pounds the mat and then pulls himself back up to his feet. He's too worn down to go on the offensive and the blood loss seems to be affecting him as he backs himself into a corner to try to rest and recover. Serena isn't going to give him any time to do that, though. Limping slightly, but determined, she storms after him and goes right back to attacking his head with fists and elbows. He shoves her away forcefully and her ankle gives way, giving Chapman enough time to remove himself from the corner. He wipes some more blood from his eyes, and manages to see well enough to catch Serena charging in again with a shot to the gut and some strong strikes to the head.

With the crowd starting to kick into a riot behind him, he gets a second wind. He gets a good turn of offense which sees him hit a sling blade and a swinging neckbreaker for a 2 count. He goes for the Trashed and Scattered, but Serena avoids the punt and sweeps his legs out from under him. She follows up with a double foot stomp to his chest. Serena eyes Mark as he begins to rise, and with Chapman on both knees in the center of the ring, Raine runs in from the corner and connects with a vicious pump kick to the head. Instead of following up with a pin, though, Serena reaches down and grabs both of his arms. She pulls Mark up until his shoulders are off the mat, then stomps him back down with a heel to the chest. Chapman visibly takes a sharp intake of breath, almost a gasp, and Serena repeats the process. Again... and again... and again... When she goes to do it for a sixth time, Mark has gone limp. She stomps him down again anyway. A scream of "STOP IT!" comes from ringside and Serena's attention is drawn to Trinity Chapman climbing over the barricade at ringside. Raine smirks as she releases Mark while security rush to stop Trinity from making her way into the ring. In a heartbeat, Roscoe Lake is down the ramp and weaving his way between the security staff to wrap his arms around his crying girlfriend. While this is going on, the referee has checked on Mark, lifted his arm three times and determined that he is out. He calls for the bell and then for the medics to come quickly as a shocked hush falls over the arena.
Winner via stoppage: Serena Raine

Raine doesn't take much time to celebrate her victory; it seems she's not done with Mark. Before the medics can get into the ring she kicks the bottom rope, warning them away as she grabs a fistful of Mark's hair. Roscoe turns around at the sound of the crowd booing to see what's going on in the ring. He begs Trinity to stay where she is, then quickly slides into the ring and yanks Serena away from Mark before taking a large step back. As soon as her eyes lock on Roscoe, Raine looks furious. She begins to step toward Chapman's student, mouthing low threats. She stops just short, and simply laughs. As if on cue, Cassie Crowe emerges on the ramp, still battered from her bloody match with Isabella Thorn, but smirking regardless as she makes her way toward the ring, giving Roscoe a little wave and wink. As her fellow Daughter of Darkness is approaching, Serena says something the camera doesn't catch to Roscoe and clears the way to Mark. Roscoe glares at her with fire in his eyes and then crouches beside Mark, keeping his eyes on Raine until she exits to the apron. Once the ring is clear, he turns his attention to Chapman, who seems to have come around now and is trying to sit up, but Lake tells him not to move and yells at the medics to come in. They do, and so does Trinity, who rushes over to her dad's side. On the apron, Raine glances over her shoulder at the bloody scene, and simply raises a fist to the air, while on the ground below her, Crowe stands with the Chaos title held high as the broadcast ends.