Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2021 3:32:34 GMT -5
(OOC: Before I Begin. A Note as to how I judged everything on this show. Especially the War of Attrition, the match itself. I used the traditional rubric of the old system, grading Relevancy, Argument, Entertainment and Flow on a scale of 1-5. Nobody received a perfect 20/20 score. I was excruciatingly critical in order to eliminate the possibility of any “tie” results of multiple max score RP’s in the War of Attrition Match. If requested, I can post the scores or PM you specifically to give you an exact rundown of your score and where you placed overall in the match. But know this, that even the match winning RP for War of Attrition was not a perfect score. And your order of elimination is not a direct correlation to your placement from the bottom scores to the winner. I’ll be more than happy to discuss any of your scores with you via PM but there’s never going to be a perfect formula for getting a 20/20. With that said, I hope you enjoy this summarized result of War of Attrition.)
Match #1: David Morgan Vs. Russell The Love Muscle
An incredibly, surprisingly good choice to open the show with these two gentlemen. The fans were for whatever reason, completely on board with especially Russell. But David Morgan was no slouch in the pops department either. I think many of them had forgotten, or maybe not realized that The Raging Bull was a member of the Left Hand who just finished assaulting the CEO of WWH. But to be fair, there were like, 500 people in the ring that night. Either way, this was two grown adult men pulling no punches, beating the tar out of each other for the better part of seven minutes. Morgan was on Russell like he was a stubborn ribbon of gristle on a drumstick and David hadn’t been fed in a week. But the Love Muscle comeback was well received by the fans, and he definitely fed off that third man momentum. He did lock in the World’s Strongest Love Tap as promised, but Morgan was a very long legged man, and eventually found his way to the ropes. Just when you’d think logically this would be the time The Bull makes a comeback for his own sequence, but Russell could not be denied. A running splash into the corner, seamlessly transitioned into a Loveslam Powerslam, and the three count was elementary.
However, it wasn’t all love in the arena post match. As the Left Hand didn’t take kindly to their charge losing, they swarmed the ring and put the boots to the Love Muscle. We get a preamble to the War of Attrition match later on tonight as several WWH roster members ran out and stopped the Left Hand from branding Russell like they did Angelica Ambrose the week prior. I don’t know how they managed to clear the ring, but it happened and we were ready to continue the show. If only we knew what was really about to go down.
WINNER:
RUSSELL THE LOVE MUSCLE
WINNER:
RUSSELL THE LOVE MUSCLE
Match #2: Shinigami Foundation Vs. Satan’s Chefs
As bizarre as it may have been to see two wrestling...chef’s. The audience in attendance could hardly be judgmental considering two skeletons currently held the actual prize these boys would be fighting for the rights of contendership for. Beyond that, seeing Noah Hanson actually at ringside supporting his charges had a nice big pop from the crowd. The Shinigami Foundation were naturally showered in boos. But they definitely seemed to have a little something extra in their eyes. A sharper focus. Cold blooded violent intent. Whatever you wanna call it, this was a two for two in terms of matches that started out fire right from the gate. Thomas Baine spilled to the outside with the rippling wall of muscle called the Masked Chef. While Alex Slayer and “Rabid” Remy put on an absolute clinic. It was almost a little, TOO perfect in sequencing. As neither man seemed to be willing to take a breather as they moved from spot to spot switching up submission and high flying offense as needed. Thomas Baine got on the wrong side of Noah Hanson, as the former WWH World Champion cleaned his clock and gave the Masked Chef an advantage in the brawl. Naturally, the referee didn’t witness this. Although there were some other spots where Baine came back in, and Slayer fought with gusto. For the most part that was a turning point in the match for Satan’s Chefs as they maintained control.
But again, as would appear to be an irritating recurring pattern for this event, the Left Hand initiated the next “chapter” of their takeover of the promotion. Several south pawed minions came through and attempted to bum rush & kidnap Noah Hanson in front of God of everyone. Hanson wasn’t having any of it, cleaning the clock of several Left Hand members. But otherwise the numbers game was getting to be too much for even a legend like Hanson. This caused a convenient distraction from the Chef’s, allowing The Shinigami Foundation to take Remy Lafontaine and destroy him through a Tornado of Souls. Perhaps surprisingly, The Foundation actually helped out at ringside after their business was taken care of, and they helped Noah beat back his attackers. Much to the unexpected appreciation of the crowd.
There was beginning to be a sense of static dread among those in attendance. Wondering if the Left Hand was just going to make their presence known for every single match tonight until they ruined the show.
WINNER:
SHINIGAMI FOUNDATION
SHINIGAMI FOUNDATION
Match #3: Mercedes Vargas Vs. Serenity Scorpio Vs. Jensen Kidd-Belmont
The boos from the crowd upon seeing Havoc escorting Serenity Scorpio to the ring as the newest member of Havoc’s Anti-WWH troop was quite profound. I’m sure Havoc would tell the Left Hand that he wanted to burn WWH to the ground before it was cool. But whatever worm he’s got in the ear of the former WWH Tag Team Champion definitely seemed to have her focused on this contest. But before the match began, Havoc made his exit. He wasn’t going to pull a Noah Hanson and wait around from the Left Hand to try and catch him slipping. As for the others, JKB got the biggest babyface pop of the three. But there was a rather special moment where Vargas was inundated with japanese style ribbons thrown into the ring in respect for her accomplishments through a long, illustrious career. You could tell Mercedes had difficulty holding back some tears of appreciation from that.
Vargas being the cagey veteran she was, allowed Serenity & Jensen to go at each other like two ladies with something to prove from each of their perspectives. Scorpio got the better of Kidd-Belmont in the short term, but Mercedes took advantage with a rather brutal looking german suplex to Serenity. Jensen bounced a dropkick off the jaw of Vargas, with Scorpio kneeling behind Mercedes to trip her up. Then running straight for Jensen as Serentiy nailed her with a running enziguri, chucking her to the outside. Then running for an attempted suicide dive only for Mercedes to catch her off guard with a rollup and a VERY close two count.
The action kept up like this for a solid nine minutes. No woman able to maintain any kind of advantage for long, as there’s already that third participant to hit a knee to the face, or a springboard back elbow etc. etc. The match itself ended as abruptly as you could imagine, without pause in the action, Serenity hit the Scorpio 450 Splash onto Jensen Kidd, to which Mercedes just barely broke up at the count of two. Vargas devastated Scorpio with the Tiro De Gracia Gory Bomb, but was so exhausted at this point she couldn’t capitalize before Serenity rolled out of the ring. But luckily for Mercedes, she still managed to have a spare foot over the chest of Jensen, and scored a constitutional three count on the newcomer.
A gasp of terror turns into a sigh of relief as instead of a Left Hand run in, we simply see Renee Jonae standing at the top of the entrance ramp. She held her WWH Women’s Championship above her head as Mercedes Vargas recovered and mouthed “I’m coming for you”. Again, I cannot stress how grateful the live audience was for no Left Hand involvement here.
WINNER:
MERCEDES VARGAS
WINNER:
MERCEDES VARGAS
Match #4: Iconoclasts Vs. Soulless Sisters Vs. The Midnight Society
More than a fair bit of confusion here from the entrance of the champions. As everyone has come to expect The Spooky Scary Skeletons, the Tag Champs were now going by The Midnight Society collectively. They still dressed as Skeleton’s for their entrance to the ring for theatrical purposes. But became zipped down and in more traditional wrestling gear after the fact. The reaction to this was definitely mixed, but mostly positive for the endearing champions.
The champs didn’t seem too eager to get things started, and the Soulless Sisters also seemed to want to bide their time waiting for someone else to make a bad move first. Chris Chaos was frothing at the mouth for some action however, screaming “Screw this!” and immediately dove into an attack. The Radical Gabe Reno backed up his partner, and ironically, the straightforward and violent approach seemed to be the right thing to do for a time. As the chaos ensued, neither the Midnight or the Soulless really didn’t know how to defend from such a vicious onslaught. The Iconoclasts took turns ping ponging opponents from pillar to post. But Lilith Evans eventually pulled her weight for this title opportunity, slipping under Chaos and ringing the family jewels of both aggressors to send them bawling to the mat. The Soulless took over for a time here, Charlotte Ross directing traffic and doing their best to keep everyone down with a series of double team moves. The Midnight Society accomplished a taunting move that allowing a tiger feint kick from the corner turnbuckle after Ross missed a diving forearm. Some impressive cohesion between Lavicle & Merus as they rolled up Ross and then blasted her with a shining wizard. Lilith Evans tried to jump towards Hugh and was lawn darted into Chris Chaos again to keep him down.
But Gabe Reno had a master plan that he liked to call “Steel Chair”. As Lavicle turned around he was busted wide open with probably one of the most vicious chair shots that reverberated all throughout the arena, and the champ was knocked out cold. Merus did his best to hulk up to deal with things alone, but a running boot from Chaos put him away before he could get started. It seemed like it was going to be up to The Soulless Sisters to ultimately stop the Iconoclasts. But for all the fighting spirit Lilith Evans had, she still wasn’t Gwendolyn Black. And the chemistry between the Iconoclasts was greater than what the Sisters could muster. Lilith Evans eventually was felled by the Chaotic Radicality. But Charlotte Ross had one last desperation move she could pull off, nailing Gabe Reno with a brutal Stuff of Nightmares snapmare driver. Chris Chaos The Slayer in half with an equally nasty SPEAR. Just when Chris finally thought he had the match won, Hugh Merus came back to give him a receipt for that big boot from earlier. The Chaotic One was on the receiving end of an incredible flurry of stiff blows from the portly paul bearer, but at the end of the day, a dreamcrushing snap DDT outta nowhere shut down Merus again. Chris Chaos continued to be the MVP of this match as he put Hugh away with The Equalizer. He went for the pinfall, which a weak and barely moving Mike Lavicle attempted to break it up. But Gabe Reno came back into things at the last minute and curb stopped the life out of the King of Spooks. No further interference allowed Chris Chaos to finish his pinfall of Hugh Merus, and we had new tag team champions.
WINNER:
THE ICONOCLAST
THE ICONOCLAST
Match #5: Sah’ta Thor Vs. Vincent Lyons Jr.
One would think it would be a hard sell to follow up such an incredible tag title match and the shock of the CHANGE nonetheless, truly causing a shakeup in the tag team landscapes. But man would you be wrong, at least in terms of reaction. Vincent Lyons Jr was put over HUGE by the crowd as the conquering hero he was. Vanquisher of Havoc and the Ashes of the Wake, and arguably the one true beacon of light in all of WWH capable of defending the company from the Left Hand. So of course, he was to come face to face with the well, face of the Left Hand himself. Sah’ta Thor. Although Baphomet was considered the leader, everyone knew the real machinations between this takeover would come from a mastermind of the Imperium and the Empire of Blood. The boos were deafening.
But just like that, in an incredibly shocking snapshot in time, The leader of the Revolutionaries shot off from his corner after Sah’ta Thors elongated entrance. He stretched out his leg like a bolt of lightning aimed at the temple of Thor, and Lyons blasted his opponent with a modified Iconic Impact that curb stomped Sah’ta BACKWARDS with the back of his head ricocheting off the top turnbuckle. Sah’ta Thor crumbled to a heap on the mat as he shotgunned against the corner, and Vincent wasted no time following up with a Lyon’s Roar DDT to his fallen foe, and just like that, it was over! The crowd absolutely exploded in a pop I haven’t heard like that in about twenty years...as Vincent Lyons Jr proved once and for all that he IS the savior of WWH.
Predictably, albeit irritatingly, The Left Hand made their presence known once again. This time, the ring leader himself Baphomet actually made his entrance. VLJ stood his ground as he was surrounded by swarms of Lefties. Literal trash began to be thrown into the ring as the Left Hand started mugging Vincent. But it wasn’t long before Victoria Lyons ran out to try and make the save for her brother! The numbers were too strong for just the two of them, as there was more beat downs of the Lyons twins. More garbage pelted the Left Hand. But they didn’t care. I swear to you, the roof of the arena was nearly blasted off it’s foundations on what happened next. As one by one, the locker room began to empty featuring both Sanatorium and Dystopian stars. Stephanie Matsuda, Johnny Cedrone, Sarah Lynn, Chris Matthews, Kiki Katharsis, Jonna Austin, Josh Kaine, Maggie McIntyre, Levin Tsingine, Orianna Johnson and Phantom. The numbers finally began to even out as Baphomet made his tactical retreat. Bellowing from the crowd that he would initiate the “Final Solution” to WWH by the end of the night.
WINNER:
Vincent Lyons Jr.
Match #6: Renee Jonae Vs. Zolton
There was a lot of buzz surrounding this match. Although it was a non-title encounter for Zolton, the bragging rights, the harsh feelings over the debacle of the Champions Summit, you could cut the tension in the air with a knife. Zolton had made his entrance to a chorus of boos. You’d think he would be just as appreciated for dethroning Havoc as one Vincent Lyons Jr. But you could see the corruption of entropy and chaos within the eyes of the WWH World Champion. Indeed, one could argue that perhaps the top title was even cursed with it’s evil influences. Considering we haven’t had a respectable, non-evil oriented world champion since Noah Hanson years ago. Renee Jonae was met with a reaction as apropo as you would imagine from the Shogun Winner, the one woman capable of defeating Stephanie Matsuda for the Women’s Championship. And someone well on her way to perhaps winning the WWH World Championship. Zolton to be sure, would be doing everything in his power from this match to stop that from happening.
Renee Jonae was prepared for the champions initial aggressiveness. Or at least, as prepared as she could be. He threw himself at his opponent like a wild animal, trying to impose his greater size on the Faye Noire. Jonae did her best to keep her distance while chucking leg kicks and jabs at the champion to try and catch him off guard. But Zolton had seemed to also be training his own reflexes over the past weeks. He eventually caught his opponent, and the fans boo’d from the sheer brutality of his full frontal face strikes to the New Colossus in the corner creating an uncomfortable feeling among those in attendance that he might not stop. A referee eventually did break up the action, checking on Renee and asking her if she wanted to continue although her face was spurting blood in rather graphic fashion. The Woman’s Champion nodded her head and pulled herself up by the top ropes, and DEMANDED that Zolton attempt to continue his assault.
What ensued was perhaps the closest thing we’ll ever get to a Rocky Movie series of both terrifying and inspirational back and forth moves performed by Zolton and Renee. Everytime she would suffer a crushing body slam to the mat or a heavy metal boot to the face, she would come back even harder than ever and actually took Zolton off his feet with her own flurries of Titania’s Dance. Although Renee Jonae was blackened, bruised and bloodied in an absolutely morbid display of violence throughout the match, she would not allow herself to be denied. Nothing Zolton could do would ultimately take her down for good. But likewise, it didn’t seem like The Fay Noire had enough oomph behind her battered punches and weakened knees to really knockout Zolton for longer than two seconds at a time.
The damage to the New Colossus was begging to get so gruesome, the referee finally began to step in and insist that he needs to stop the match. With her face painted in her own blood, she grabbed the referee by the collar and through gritted teeth and wild eyes told him that if he stops the match, she’ll send him to the afterlife personally. But after she is finally let go by the official, Zolton caused a scream to emanate from certain members of the audience as he blatantly and with no regards for the rules of their engagement, ran at Renee Jonae with a steel chair in an attempt on her life. The referee gets bumped in this exchange, but not enough to really knock him out. Rather, he calls for the bell as Renee Jonae desperately tries to counter Zolton with crucifix pin rollup. But the referee isn’t even counting, he’s done at this point. As the bell has been called and the fans erupt in a chorus of boos from not getting a true resolution to this incredible and emotional contest.
Zolton throws down his steel chair and screams at Renee Jonae who is being attended to by paramedics who have rushed to the ring. “As long as I live, you will NEVER face me again! If and until you engage in no disqualification rules! No more of this DQ Bullshit! I am the Man of Chaos! I cannot be contained!”
Zolton has to be escorted away from the scene by arena security, as Renee cooperates with the doctors as best as she can. Equally as upset as the fans that she wasn’t able to get a definitive result from this confrontation.
WINNER:
RENEE JONAE (DQ)
Main Event: War of Attrition Match
1st Entrant: Crash Rodriguez
Crash was looking pretty surly. Probably not related to his #1 entry slot but a general disdain for humanity in general.
2nd Entrant: Christy Winters
Interesting pop for Miss Winters with her entry. A reflection of the duality of Sanatorium itself. With some people on her side regarding the deposing of Eden from the Sanatorium and some more on Dubois line that Winters belongs down there.
Crash had things pretty well handled against Christy despite her best efforts for the early going on this contest.
3rd Entrant: Phantom
Big pop for Phantom, who came rushing down to the ring and absolutely levelled Crash with a corner splash. Winters tried to show her appreciation and got a chokeslam for her own efforts. Phantom isn’t playing games.
4th Entrant: Gabe Reno
Crash must’ve been feeling really lonely in there with the influx of Sanatorium talent to his lonesome. He was in luck however as The Radical One was just crazy enough to go for the biggest target in the match and start brawling with The Phantom. Which ironically turned into a three on one assault in Rodriguez’s favor with everyone ganging up on Phantom to try and take the big man out to no avail.
5th Entrant: Latoya Hixx
Just as the Monster of WWH was done with the classic “push everyone off the giant” spot in the corner, Latoya Hixx made her presence known by screaming in Phantom’s face that “I am a Hoeski!”. She is summarily chucked over the top rope by Phantom, who waves her off with a “Now you’re a Byeski!” I love this man.
LATOYA HIXX WAS ELIMINATED
6th Entrant: John Blade
The man, the myth, the legend himself. He comes right up to Phantom, just like Latoya did. And for whatever reason he went “I am a Hoeski!” And was again...summarily chucked over the top rope. Almost like he...recycled his own joke. Phantom merely shook his head this time though. He’s better than that.
JOHN BLADE WAS ELIMINATED
7th Entrant: Chris Matthews
Bah gawd what a pop from the crowd for this mans return to WWH. I gotta be honest I half expected him to confront Phantom and call himself a Hoeski, as the Godfather always taught us that Hoes come in threes. But nope. Matthews was all business in this one. Actually single handedly crushing Phantom with a spear. Christy Winters unfortunately found herself on the wrong side of the hype train during this exchange, as Matthews proceeded to toss her up and over for his 1st elimination.
CHRISTY WINTERS WAS ELIMINATED
8th Entrant: Xavier Rose
The Isle Newcomer was certainly a house of fire on this one. Firing off against both Chris Matthews and Gabe Reno in a brief show of hanging with the big boys. Crash is the spoiler in this one as he shuts down Rose as quickly as he began to shine.
9th Entrant: Orianna Johnson
Although she’s been upset with how she’s been treated by WWH, she still got a very respectable pop from the crowd. Seems there’s a lot of Teen Titan sympathizers in the crowd tonight. She helps out Xavier Rose against Crash. Then tries to tee off on Phantom but finds her strikes largely ineffective as she gets scared away into the waiting clothesline of Gabe Reno.
10th Entrant: Stephanie Matsuda
HUGE pop for probably the most dominant force in WWH since Havoc. The International Champion popped off strong saving Orianna from Reno, then Phantom. Only to turn around and nail Orianna as well with a roundhouse kick. Chris Matthews and Xavier Rose actually had to team up to start beating down on Matsuda to calm things down before she started chucking people.
11th Entrant: Darin Zion
The ring was definitely starting to fill up at this point. But it was full of very game competitors, so even though the extremely confident Darin showed up and rocked the worlds of virtually everyone in the ring, he quickly grew frustrated with his inability to eliminate Reno, Matsuda and Phantom from the ring.
12th Entrant: Isabella Thorn
The technically underage 17 year old competitor Isabella came in representing Isle. Along with her father Sah’ta’s Imperium Stable. But decidedly not with the Left Hand. Although that seemed to hardly matter to the audience. She was guilty by association, and found herself unable to mount much starting offense as most of the WWH alumni ganged up on the teenager to pay for the sins of her father.
13th Entrant: Kirsty Mascara
A middling response for Kirsty, as she just serves to continue to clog the ring with competitors who seemingly refuse to quit. Matthews and Zion battling in one corner. Crash and Matsuda in another. Thorn fighting her way out of a predicament with Orianna and Phantom. While Rose and Reno duke it out. Kirsty bides her time waiting for an opening.
14th Entrant: Jonny Cedrone
Biggest pop next to Chris Matthews goes to the King of Sexy as he looks to make his mark near the halfway point of this match. He starts levelling Xavier Rose, Orianna and Phantom. Gabe Reno takes Mascara into the corner and tries to whisper a truce between them to help take out Jonny. But just as Kirsty was about to charge him, The Radical One betrays her and throws her to the outside!
KIRSTY MASCARA WAS ELIMINATED
15th Entrant: Jonna Austin
A good reaction from the crowd for Jonna. A real constant competitor for the WWH women’s title. But unfortunately for her, Orianna Johnson was feeling a bit left out of the hype party on this one. And took out her frustrations by immediately hitting Austin with an enziguri and dumping her out as quickly as she tried to get in!
JONNA AUSTIN WAS ELIMINATED
16th Entrant: Dark Tiger
We are over the halfway mark now in the War of Attrition. Dark Tiger had himself a rather...unique plan to enter this match. Accompanied to ringside by his colossal partner Giant Tiger, he jumped on the shoulders of his team mate and allowed himself to be lawn darted over the top rope and into the ring. Unfortunately his mark was...not well intended. As he landed unceremoniously into the waiting arms of Crash Rodriguez who quickly disposed of Dark Tiger on the opposite side of the ring so Giant Tiger couldn’t catch him.
DARK TIGER WAS ELIMINATED
17th Entrant: Alistar Siddiqui
Beyond maybe Crash or Reno, this is the first guy I can think of that just legitimately was showered with boos on his entrance. Who says old school foreign heels can’t get heat? Unfortunately the crowd isn’t going to get vindication on this round. As he takes his sweet, mother loving time getting to the ring. Soaking in the negative reaction from the crowd.
18th Entrant: Quint McCain
Definitely a huge pop for the former WWH World Champion. Most of us probably assumed safely that we’d never see this guy again. So this was a nice moment. Siddiqui has entered the ring now and picked his spots fighting with Gabe Reno and Phantom. Who with Crash Rodriguez have been the longest lasting guys in this match. Quint fires off some shots at Xavier Rose, and Jonny Cedrone, just really anything he deemed as pretty as TQO. Then we came face to face with Chris Matthews and Quint McCain in the middle of the ring and by gawd you could cut the tension with a knife.
19th Entrant: Russell the Love Muscle
Big newcomer to the WWH squared circle, and I do mean big. He comes it right as Chris and Quint are trading blows and get themselves lost in the shuffle brawling around the ring. Russell gets a lot of good blows in against most of the field, before taking Crash Rodriguez and eliminating him from the proceedings!
CRASH RODRIGUEZ WAS ELIMINATED
20th Entrant: Belladona Hunter
You could just smell the impropriety in the air as it took us 20 entrants to finally get 1 member of the Left Hand involved. And boy did the fans let Miss Hunter hear it. You could already hear whisperings of foul play in the crowd as they feared the worst and that the Left Hand had occupied most of the late game slots. But their murmurs were almost immediately turned into explosive cheers as Hunter wasn’t even afforded a moments reprieve as Stephanie Matsuda just kicked her face off and Belladonna flies over the top rope!
BELLADONNA HUNTER WAS ELIMINATED
21st Entrant: Maggie McIntyre
Maggie gets met with a respectable response upon her entrance. We see that Russell the Love Muscle and Phantom are both teetering trying to eliminate the other big man over the top rope. It looks like Matthews had finally gotten the best of Quint with significantly less ring rust involved. Reno was torturing Orianna in the corner and was saved by Xavier Rose. Matsuda gets overtaken dealing with Darin Zion and Jonny Cedrone respectively. Maggie lends the assist to The Love Muscle and scores A BIG elimination against the Phantom!
THE PHANTOM WAS ELIMINATED
22nd Entrant: Victoria Lyons
HUGE pop for the Revolutionary Lyoness. She bolts right in there and starts waylaying people, determined to prove her own point. Siddiqui is seen trying to bully Isabella Thorn out of the ring, but the young teenager shows a craftiness way beyond her years, showing her experience training since she was a child over Alistar’s green collegiate background. With a monkey flip the Evening Star is disposed of by Isabella!
ALISTAR SIDDIQUI WAS ELIMINATED
23rd Entrant: Gothica Skylight
Again another vicious round of boos for a member of the Left Hand. The ring is so congested there’s no way they’re going to be able to mount a numbers game offensive. WWH wasn’t having it this night, The Left Hand was going to be shut down. Gothica still held her own as best as she could, knocking away the likes of Zion, Maggie and Victoria. Meanwhile, Chris Matthews had finally finished stomping a mudhole in The Quintastic One, but out of nowhere he is caught off guard and eliminated by Jonny Cedrone!
CHRIS MATTHEWS WAS ELIMINATED
24th Entrant: Sarah Lynn
The perennial house of fire that was Sarah Lynn came in swinging. Knocking over the likes of Russell with a BIG forearm, joining arms with Orianna Johnson to clothesline Stephanie Matsuda. Darin Zion quickly picked up the pieces there and started stomping away at the International Champion. Maggie McIntyre puts a stop to the momentum with a running boot to Orianna, but Sarah Lynn quickly turns it around and eliminates Maggie for her trouble!
MAGGIE MCINTYRE WAS ELIMINATED
25th Entrant: Lycana
Another member of the Left Hand, Lycana came to the rescue of Gothica taking a beating from Gabe Reno. She ferociously fought off Victoria Lyons and tried to regroup with her teammate. Lycana and Gothica turned their eyes to Isabella as if begging for her assistance to group up, but they are ignored. In the mean time, Cedrone has taken to battling with Quint in the corner. Russell the Love Muscle is battling away at the likes of Isabella and Xavier Rose as they try to overtake the Dystopian superstar. But Gabe Reno is the one who becomes a deciding factor in this one and assists in eliminating Russell!
RUSSELL THE LOVE MUSCLE WAS ELIMINATED
26th Entrant: Baphomet
Things were looking from bad to worse here, as not only had Skylight and Lycana not been eliminated yet, but the mighty Baphomet had finally made his presence known, and the Left Hand was gaining in numbers despite the crowded field. Most of the infighting has stopped at this point, as Baphomet rallies Gothica and Lycana to his side. Isabella reluctantly joins them out of loyalty to the Imperium subgroup, which Baphomet has to loudly remind her of to get her in line. But just as most everyone was discussing agreement how to handle the Left Hand, Gabe Reno is immediately backstabbed by Darin Zion! The man with no allegiance to WWH beyond being recruited by Noah Hanson became showered with boos as everyone thought this was his declaration of joining the Left Hand. But before such a thing could even be confirmed everyone began piling onto Lycana, Isabella, Gothica and Baphomet. The commentators notate how Gabe Reno was an ironman performance lasting over 45 minutes in the match prior to his elimination.
GABE RENO WAS ELIMINATED
27th Entrant: Grimm
The cagey veteran from the Isle Brand definitely got to work early during his moment. Blasting Darin Zion, Johnny Cedrone, Isabella Thorn and even Baphomet with blunt force trauma inducing strikes. Even with his wild attacks, most of those remaining in the ring remained focused on the Left Hand. Victoria Lyons assisted taking Lycana away from her charge. Gothica was taken out by Sarah Lynn and Orianna Johnson, still teaming together. Jonny Cedrone seemed particularly incensed at Baphomet, laying in heavy leather. Stephanie Matsuda has her way with Baphomet as well, shin kicking the crap out of the Left Hand messiah. Quint McCain helps with a devastating Quint Superkick to Baphomet, which allows Cedrone, Matsuda, Xavier Rose and Grimm to all collectively dump Baphomet over the top rope and out of this match!
BAPHOMET WAS ELIMINATED
28th Entrant: Gary Black
The Leader of the Order of the Soulless comes out flanked by the earlier eliminated Phantom, The Soulless jester Chucky Ross, as well as the Soulless Sisters, as the vanguards of WWH assist in escorting Baphomet, rather violently, out of the ring and through the backstage area. Gary Black looks on with a proud grin on his face, as Lycana and Gothica are freaking out in the ring. Skylight looks particularly distraught which doesn’t allow her to even defend herself as Gary Black mercifully throws her over the top rope.
GOTHICA SKYLIGHT WAS ELIMINATED
29th Entrant: Blake Anderson
Too little too late for the final member of the Left Hand, but Blake does what he usually does best anyway and goes in it for himself. There is actually a foreboding hush over the crowd as there is only one entrant left, and everyone knows who that is. While Zion and Cedrone are battling it out, Quint is overtaken by Matsuda. Orianna and Sarah Lynn stick together and continue double teaming isabella Thorn. Grimm and Xavier Rose are brawling over seemingly the rights to being the final member of Isle in the Rumble. While Gary Black meets Blake Anderson face to face for a striking battle. In the mean time, Victoria Lyons continues playing cleanup for the Left hand crew as she eliminates a dejected Lycana.
LYCANA WAS ELIMINATED
30th Entrant: Havoc
The roar of boos is deafening. As although one threat in the Left Hand has been all but neutralized, the threat remains of the imminent destruction of WWH by the hands of Havoc. He viciously attacks Gary Black from behind, then Grimm, then Cedrone. Especially Cedrone. Darin Zion backs off from the former champion for now, but Isabella Thorn is not afraid. She engages the monster head on, but this is to her detriment, as she becomes Havocs first victim to fall.
ISABELLA THORN WAS ELIMINATED
It had been several minutes of intense action in the ring, and you could see that Grimm was running out of gas. Xavier Rose too, was the man overtaking the ironman spot for the War of Attrition being in there the longest. But the youthful superstar was still more than a match for Grimm, sending him over the top rope as Havoc engaged with Matsuda.
GRIMM WAS ELIMINATED
Even Matsuda began to be overwhelmed by the intensity that Havoc was bringing to this rumble. As people got in the way of her kicks and martial arts strikes, Havoc took advantage with full brutality and overtook her. The Quintastic One tried to come to the rescue, but he got taken down and Sarah Lynn & Orianna began beating down on the WWH Legend. With Darin Zion taking care of Cedrone, and Victoria Lyons occupied with trying to get rid of Blake Anderson, it was up to Gary Black to confront Havoc and stop his onslaught. The Leader of the Soulless met with the Leader of the Ashes of the Wake, but an incredibly busted head-butt later and Havoc dumped Gary Black to the outside in a stunned state of mind.
GARY BLACK WAS ELIMINATED
By my count we were down to the final 10 from here. Rose, Lynn, Orianna, Havoc, Lyons, Cedrone, Quint, Anderson, Zion and Matsuda. Havoc continued to rain...havoc, down on anyone who touched him. Blake Anderson actually got the better of his exchange with Victoria Lyons, who seemed unfortunately gassed herself from the desperation of trying to eliminate all traces of the Left Hand. But this wasn’t a lucky break for Blake, as he unfortunately ran right into the pair of Sarah Lynn and Orianna Johnson. He was able to kick away Sarah, but that cost him his balance and Orianna scooped him up and put him down.
BLAKE ANDERSON WAS ELIMINATED
Orianna seemed extremely happy about being the one to eliminate the last member of the Left Hand, but I guess Victoria didn’t take too kindly to that credit and took her down. Quint looked to just be finishing up a skirmish with Jonny Cedrone before walking into Darin Zion and eating a few forearm blows into the corner. Sarah Lynn leaned against the ropes to get herself back up to her feet after being attacked by Blake Anderson, but the crafty veteran Stephanie Matsuda took this opportunity to depose of the Sanatorium inmate with a clothesline over the top!
SARAH LYNN WAS ELIMINATED
Down to the elite 8. Havoc resumed his epic battle with Matsuda almost eliminating her. While Xavier Rose took down Darin Zion with a flurry of offense. But you could tell Xavier was toast conditionally here, as he gasped for air in the corner, Jonny Cedrone blasted him with a boot and then quickly capitalized with a throw to the outside!
XAVIER ROSE WAS ELIMINATED
The commentators said that it looked like Xavier was in the ring for a comparable amount of time to Gabe Reno, but the Radical One eeked it out by mere seconds. But still, an amazing showing from the Isle competitor. After Havoc was satisfied kicking Matsuda while she was down, he rocked Orianna with a right hand and finally got to meet with Victoria Lyons face to face. The Lyoness seemed exhausted from her endeavors, while Havoc showed no emotion whatsoever beyond a seething look of rage in his eyes. Victoria fought valiantly, but Havoc just seemed too strong. He would not be denied on this night. Just as Victoria was teetering on the brink of elimination, The King of Sexy Jonny Cedrone came to her rescue! He tried to tie up Havoc in a german suplex maneuver, but was elbowed away. Havoc turned around, gave Cedrone a pump kick. Turned his attention back to Victoria, and attacked with a rage feuled clothesline over the top rope, but it was a feint! Victoria Lyons slips under the bottom rope and Havoc in all his anger couldn’t have the wherewithal to catch himself and stop his elimination at the hands of Victoria Lyons!
HAVOC WAS ELIMINATED
With that, we were down to the sinister six. Cedrone, Orianna, Quint, Lyons, Matsuda and Zion. Speaking of Darin Zion however, Victoria Lyons celebration upon seeing the elimination of all threats to WWH was cut short. As she failed to account for the wildcard mercenary of Noah Hanson’s picking. With her hands raised in the air, Zion eliminated Victoria Lyons and was drenched in a sea of boos so profound I thought the roof was cave in on the arena.
VICTORIA LYONS WAS ELIMINATED
Orianna Johnson took it to Stephanie Matsuda to try and avenge the loss of her rumble partner, Sarah Lynn. Jonny Cedrone attacked Darin Zion in likewise revenge for the loss of his ally Victoria Lyons. The Quintastic One, the only alumnus left in this match, carefully tried to pick his spots waiting for an opening. This came in the form of Cedrone snapmaring Darion Zion down to the mat, which allowed TQO to run up and hit the WWH outsider with a shining wizard kick! Likewise on the other side, Orianna made a tragic slip that allowed Matsuda to connect with a wicked knee to her jaw. Orianna was out on her feet, as the International Champion threw her outside the ring.
ORIANNA JOHNSON WAS ELIMINATED
And then there were four. Stephanie Matsuda. Darin Zion. Quint McCain, and Johnny Cedrone. Normally there would be an epic standoff between the final four competitors in this kind of situation, but the stakes were too high and the action too frantic. As Quint and Johnny high fived over the incidental team work they pulled on Darin Zion, The King of Sexy took the wily veteran by the hair and chucked him to the outside! Quint caught himself on the ropes, landing on the apron, but BOOM! A vicious lifting kick to the face and The Quintastic One was outta here!
THE QUINTASTIC ONE WAS ELIMINATED
Stephanie Matsuda took this opportunity as her chance to rally and finish this match once and for all. She unloaded on Johnny Cedrone with vicious kicks and forearms that rocked the King of Sexy to his core. She turned her attention to Darin Zion and started giving him a similar treatment. But he pushed her out of his way and she snapped off a superkick into Johnny Cedrone. She came back to Darin Zion and ate a devastating codebreaker facebuster by Zion! Matsuda returned to her feet, taking a busaiku knee kick from Cedrone! Darin Zion grabbed the stunned International Champion as it took the two of them to eliminate her and THEN THERE WERE TWO!
STEPHANIE MATSUDA WAS ELIMINATED
Darin Zion. Jonny Cedrone. WWH Vs. Outsider. The man of many world championships from other companies versus the man looking for his first opportunity at the gold. Only one of them can go on to Dreamstate! Johnny Cedrone wants to shake hands in the middle of the ring, but Darin Zion spits in his face! The Ban Hammer! Discus Clothesline to Johnny Cedrone! Darin Zion lifts up the King of Sexy, but Darin’s equally as exhausted as anyone else. He stumbles back up to his feet, hand over the back of Cedrone’s head, he tosses him over! NO! Cedrone! Johnny Cedrone has caught himself on the apron! Darion Zion rushes him, Jonny ducks! But Zion’s caught himself! They’re battling on the apron! Both men trading forearms on the apron, both went over the top rope! If either man slips, it’s all over! CEDRONE! JOHNNY CEDRONE DUCKS A HAYMAKER AND HITS THE CASHOUT! DARIN ZION IS OUTTA THERE!
DARION ZION WAS ELIMINATED
WINNER OF THE MATCH, AND THE MAN GOING TO DREAMSTATE TO CHALLENGE FOR THE WWH WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP, THE KING OF SEXY... JONNY CEDRONE! THE FANS CAN’T BELIEVE IT!
Jonny rolls back into the ring, Darin looking visibly frustrated on the outside, still recovering from that Cashout Stunner. Cedrone is announced as the winner of the War of Attrition and the tears in his eyes tell the whole story. He sits on his knees and stares up at the heavens, and around all the adoring fans going ballistic over his history making win, and his lip quivers with emotion as he will finally live his Dreamstate...and challenge for the heavyweight title at the WWH megaevent. It is quite...a sight...to behold.
WINNER OF WAR OF ATTRITION MATCH:
JONNY CEDRONE
WINNER OF WAR OF ATTRITION MATCH:
JONNY CEDRONE