Excellence Wrestling Association

[Jarkko]

Well, I found an uncorrupted copy of my old IntFam database, so I decided to return to where I derived many of the "OG" IntFam characters - pro wrestling.

That's right. A number of the first hundred men in the IntFam were developed from characters I'd made in the N64 game WCW Mayhem, and later in WWF Wrestlemania 2000. Where it started largely shifting to football was with FIFA 2002. But I had initially had these guys in a created "EWA" - which at the time meant "European Wrestling Association" because of the Pathakos family's Greek roots and the majority of the characters at that point being either European or North American. Obviously the IntFam has become a little more balanced in distribution since then.

So without any further ado... (goes into character)

THE EXCELLENCE WRESTLING ASSOCIATION!!!

How does this differ from the likes of WWE or AEW? Well, for a start, its sheer size. Between three "tiers," there are some 541 wrestlers, although the number is capped at six hundred, so there is some room for growth. This requires its two flagship Tier 1 TV shows, EWA Excelsior and EWA Uprising, to go three hours each, and very seldom are there wrestlers who wrestle every TV show in a year, even if they are World Champion. You do have champions like Dean Chapman and Georgios Pathakos who prefer to be fighting champions, but others don't mind missing a show or two here and there, as long as they defend their titles within the appropriate time limit. But that brings us to point #2.

There are far more title changes, especially true of the World Championship. In the EWA's 18-year history (OOC: I had it longer at one point but decided to bump the years down a bit ) there have been 88 distinct EWA Championship reigns. Granted, over a quarter of those (27 to be exact) were between two wrestlers - the seemingly supernatural Dean Chapman (13) and the 8-foot-tall behemoth Andros Pathakos (14), whose proportions are even now those of a normal-sized man, just amplified significantly. There have, however, been 26 other EWA Champions. The longest reign was not quite a year by Andros Pathakos, who spent most of 2008 as champion before finally being bested by his Canadian archrival in mid-December. The shortest reign? Only eight minutes. The winner of the "Soul Survivor" tournament in July of each year has the right to the title match of their choosing, when they want, where they want, within a moment's notice, and the six shortest EWA Title reigns were all as a result of this. The very shortest was the one and only EWA Title reign of Jure Žabranič, who had the Soul Survivor clause invoked on him at EWA's December PPV, Winter War, after having just beaten Mattias Vlahos. His opponent was then-three-time champ Žydrunas Janvāris, whose martial arts skill and freshness made Žabranić a sitting duck.

#3 - biobeds. The latest in medical technology (OOC: actually ahead of what we actually have IRL ) is made available on-site so that even the most grievous of injuries are readily treatable. It also helps that one of the valets (Dr. X) is herself a well-qualified medical doctor! Concussions are much more easily treatable, for one, which allows for more of #4 as well...

Hardcore matches. Some of the EWA wrestlers are batcrap insane, on an ECW-calibre scale. While none of them genuinely want to kill one another (unlike at least one wrestler from the old ECW who at times did) they have no problem reefing on one another with any permitted weapon within the hardcore arsenal! The EWA Hardcore Championship was in play almost right from the get-go, with 95 Hardcore Champions having been crowned. The guys you really want to avoid are The Three Crazies, who have 33 of those between them - "The Walking Tank" Goran Šimeunović (best described as a mix of Rhyno and Mark Henry, but taller than both at 6'5") and "The Insane Thessalonian" Dominik Alexandros , and "Death Incarnate" Mattias Vlahos have 11 each. There are women's hardcore matches although they are less frequent. With that being said, Dominik's younger sister Gabriella (known as Gabazon) has won the Hardcore Championship (only woman to do so) and has no qualms about bringing weapons into a match, including her trademark kendo stick!

#5 - Wrestlers from a whole host of countries! Between the three tiers, there are wrestlers from 148 sovereign nations and a few self-governing territories and commonwealths on top. 

#6 - The role of women. Women have a lot more to do in the EWA than in the other big promotions. While they have to opt in to this, they can compete for cruiserweight (220 pound or less) gold. The one exception is Andros Pathakos' 6'7" twin sister Marina, who apart from a stretch between 2010-2013 only competed against women in intergender tag team matches. Due to her overwhelming success amongst the cruiserweights and her propensity for hardcore matches, Gabazon (real name Gabriella Žabranič née Alexandros) was also allowed to compete beyond the level of cruiserweight. Marina is the only woman who has ever won the EWA Title and has had pretty good success with other titles - a four-time Old World Champion (second-class), an eight-time Americas champ (third-tier), and a seven-time TV champ (which must be defended on each TV show for the first tier, whether first or second class) - while Gabazon has cemented her place in history, not only being the (jointly) most successful EWA Women's Champion with ten, but also a women's high three Cruiserweight Championships, an Americas Championship, and most impressively, two Hardcore Championships under her belt!

More recently (2017), a women's TV Title was added to give even more exposure to the quality of women's wrestling in EWA, and the matches are very competitive, with the title having changed hands 110 times in over 1300 TV events since then (1st- and 2nd-class shows and PPVs over 6 years)  A kind of #6a here: the Intergender Tag matches are always popular, such that they've actually had a separate championship for them since 2011! Many husband-wife, boyfriend-girlfriend, and brother-sister combos have won this title!

#7 - the tier system. EWA got so big at one point (2011) that they made a lower division, but then that got so big that they had to do it again (2016) and cap themselves. Tier 2 does have some former top-level talent in it, but also, if a wrestler is coming back from a serious enough injury that they have to take substantial time off to heal in spite of the biobeds, they are put in Tier 3 for conditioning purposes. Otherwise, promotion and relegation between the tiers is decided by committee based on results from the previous year, in early February. But how? Part of it is the board. Another part...

#8 - Fan interaction. Diehards love this. While the fans obviously don't have full control over creative or promotion/relegation, there have been many times where booking has been partially influenced by fan input, and there are four specific board members elected just to go through fan suggestions. The best thought out ones sometimes even get incorporated into regular company policy! Furthermore, signs are encouraged with two simple rules - "don't block the camera," and "don't use banned slurs."

#9 - Music licensing. While the EWA has a robust in-house music department, they also license music from outside, especially for intros. (But War of Ages has made a killing in this alternate universe because the opening lick from Amber Alert is looped for background music for EWA Uprising in between matches!) And this isn't just songs from the mainstream music industry - music from video games is also involved! Without question, though, the most famous licensed tune among EWA fans is Dean Chapman's entrance theme, a slightly abridged version of Fear Factory's "Hi-Tech Hate." When the lights go out, the snow machines start working overtime, a full moon shows up on the PathaTron, and this starts playing, you know you're in trouble! Speaking of which...

#10 - Over the top entrances. With the kind of money the Pathakos family has at its disposal, over-the-top entrances aren't just restricted to a few wrestlers. Pyro is common although there is a lot of diversity in how it is used. You have Dragan Kovačević's dragon-themed entry where fire shoots up the entry ramp before the ringposts go up in flames à la WWE's Kane. Surprisingly, Andros Pathakos' intro is quite subdued for pyro, with just stage flames at the beginning, but given the guy's size, him coming in is over-the-top as it is. Contrast that with his archrival, Dean Chapman, whose dark, bone-chilling (often literally as he has snow machines going!), and very blue entrance has been described as a mix of The Undertaker, WCW's Glacier, and and Kane.

#11 - Arguably the widest range of gimmicks. Don't expect just a bunch of randos with only slight differences in clothing. The number of gimmicks is astounding. There are large stables, including one of overt Reformed Christians (the "God Squad," co-founded in 2018 by Dean Chapman, Nick Trentham, and Joseph Ndali), one of a prosperity preacher and his followers ("Prosperity," led by the aptly-named Simon Magus, a callback to Acts 8:9-25) , a Mafia-like stable ("Fraternità," led by Antonio Sabatti), a stable of lower-income hooligans from the British Isles, Canada, and the Faeroe Islands called the "Working Class Hooligans," which founded in the wake of the 2018 dissolution of the EWA's largest stable, the "True Brits" - this split also led to the creation of "Clan McIntyre" from that stable's Scottish elements, "Cymru" from the Welsh folk, and less directly, the "God Squad" - and Tier 2's "Anti-Corruption Army," a face stable of primarily African wrestlers (starting to expand outside of Africans, with possible a "two-tier stable" in mind) who have just as much of a beef with Prosperity as the God Squad does if not more! There is also an Armenian stable called Hayastan, "Team Lietuva" (other than the "First Family" this is the longest-tenured stable) for the Lithuanians and co-headed by OG IntFammers Žydrunas Janvāris and Arvydas Maklėvičius, the hip-hop oriented "Urban Warriors" and their "allied stable" "Newark Family Bidness" (really just a stable for the Prince family, Dion, Randy, and Shakira), the "Samoan Army," and the small but growing pirate stable, "Jolly Roger."

The individual characters are no less diverse. Some of the gimmicks legitimately scare you. Dean Chapman is one example, with his coldness-geared theme, his trenchcoat, bald head, dark sunglasses hiding eyes that glow bright blue, and perennially gloved hands, something he hasn't deviated from since 2011. Mattias Vlahos calls himself "Death Incarnate" and his entry music, hooded cape and ornate (albeit fake) sickle at entry, and his face paint inspired by the goth and black metal looks line up with this, and this is no less true of his intergender partner Apollyon (real name Yelena Vlahos née Ginzburg - yes, his real-life wife). Vyacheslav Antropov plays off the stereotype of the "dour, sneering Russian." (Perhaps not scary, but definitely intimidating!) Gylych Turesbekov and Kieran MacArtair add to their intimidation factor through historical ethnic costumes hammed up. Another terrifying getup is that of Kollector (real name Siad Farah), who is supposed to be "smart undead" and has makeup and torn clothing to convey this. Arguably the scariest woman for this is Gabazon, whose eye makeup and numerous tattoos only partially betray just how messed up she is in the head!

You also have certain martial-arts folk coming out in their traditional costume. Stephen Pathakos and Žydrunas Janvaris come out in gis, the former in black and the latter in white with a stripe in the colours of the Lithuanian flag along the top of his shoulders and running down his sleeves. Vidura Samenem comes out decked out not unlike the character Adon from the Street Fighter franchise, in Muay Thai garb. Kao Xiao-Xuan comes out in a wushu uniform. Kartanegara "Karti" Paramita comes out in a pencak silat uniform. Mariah Gerhardt comes out in MMA equipment (she is an expert in krav maga). Finally, Željko Miljanović, his younger sister MiMi (Mirjana Miljanović Kovačević), Ksenija Prodanović, Ryan O'Martin, and Kennan Aroi come out in boxing garb, including a hooded robe that they take off before they start the fight - a couple of them come out in boxing gloves although these are taken off beforehand.

Of course, no wrestling promotion would be complete without some luchadors, and EWA has a particularly large number of them. The most famous of these by far is Mexican "El Extravagante" Ricardo Benitez, the all-time best Cruiserweight Champion with nine titles to his name. Not all the luchadores are Mexican or even Latino/Latina. The Hokkaido Harrier (Hideki Kawachi) is Japanese but started wrestling in lucha libre rather than Japanese puroresu. "Romulo Imperatorio" is actually Lithuanian (Romulus Abramovičius) and is sometimes called the "Pale Luchador." Finally, WildCat (Catriona Marks née Stuart) wrestles a hybrid style of lucha libre and British Strong Style.

Some of the other gimmicks include but are not limited to metalheads (Goran Šimeunović and Shavo Gurzadian have "lighter" forms of this but the same 'tude; Heavy Devy and J-Shred in Tier 2 and Terje Grimseth in Tier 3 go all out with it! Yukiko Kawachi does this as well), billionaire prosperity preacher (Simon Magus), oversized luchador (Giammarco Scibetta), rich playboy (Kaélos Pathakos), hacker (Hakan Berat - I wonder why ), mob boss (Antonio Sabatti), refined gentleman (Georgios Pathakos, Luther O'Reilly) or lady (Rosa Pathakos, Kristi Pathakos, Elisabeth, Queen Helen), grizzled wilderness prophet (Elijah), rappers (any member of the Urban Warriors regardless of race), benevolent street "gang" members (Newark Family Bidness), a bishop (Joseph Ndali - probably better called a presbyter), a muscular longshoreman (Gerry Granger), a redneckish Kazakh (Takhir Teteriuk), a rock star (Kevyn Mirković), a James Bond-esque spy (Vincent Fleury), a loud-mouthed Texan stereotype (Devin Elliss), a matador (Ronaldo Álvarez), a linguistic scholar (Rasheed Young), a steampunk belle (Persephone), a sniper (Ciro Pocena), a fisherman from the Atlantic (Benny Thorvaldssen), an EDM DJ (DK Extreme, aka Dino Krzač), a Basque nationalist (Marko Zarragoitía), and skateboarders (Rhoda Gálavez, Anjali, Crash KTM). There are a whole host of others. One particularly notable gimmick was permitted by the makers of Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future, by Tajikistani grappler Kadreddin Nabiyev, who now wrestles as "Lord Dredd," the cyborg antagonist of the series. Another campier one was derived by Indigenous Canadian Matt Martin, whose gimmick is based on the wooden mascot of his home town, Sookie Sam! 

#12 - Few moves are banned, again, because of the invention of biobeds in the early 2010s (OOC: in this timeline) and a marked decrease in brain and nerve injuries in wrestling. Only diving headbutts are 100% banned, although there are some moves that only "stronger" wrestlers are allowed to use, such as the ganso bomb (only the very strongest wrestlers are allowed to use this, and only Goran Šimeunović actually does) and certain kinds of piledriver.

In terms of weapons, this is also true, although anything using real glass is outright banned as is the practice of "blading."

#13 - Commentators have much freer rein. Kris Pathakos, Sr. managed to talk legendary ECW commentator "Loose Cannon" Joey Styles out of retirement and forked over money to WWE to purchase his commentary services in 2011, and the big draw was the relative freedom of commentary. The original lead commentator was current Tier 2 and 3 lead Selmar MacLeod starting from 2005, with Kris Pathakos Sr. being his initial colour guy, but MacLeod himself had suggested Styles take over for him, and in fact, he even suggested that Styles go back over old AEW shows and react to them as a side gig! These were released as the EWA: A Touch Of Styles series in 2013, and it was very well-received!

There is no "banned words" list beyond ethnoracial slurs, religious epithets, and a few other slurs, although they are also asked to keep "potentially creepy simpage" to a minimum. And of course it wouldn't be Joey Styles if he didn't get in at least one "OH MY GOD!!" in an episode! Swearing is allowed, but Kris Pathakos Sr. has said "don't overdo it with the F-bombs." One notable moment of the latter was during one of Dean Chapman's rare Hardcore Championship reigns in 2016, where he was taking on Goran Šimeunović and he missed a swanton bomb, instead crashing through double-stacked wooden tables, eliciting Joey's trademark response, but in typical Dean Chapman fashion, he practically no-sold it, leading Silas McMorrigan (the chief colour guy) to blurt out "!@#$ing hell! What does it take to keep him down???" Usually one to pipe up if too many F-bombs are being dropped, Kris Senior instead said, "I think just about everyone would ask that question, Si! Not even a certain giant son of mine would get up that quickly! (Šimeunović did end up winning, but only after dropping a heavy wooden crate on him and sitting on top of it for the pin!)

#14 - Finally, accessibility. The televised events have English ring announcements (except in hispanophone countries where they are in Spanish or in Japan where they are introduced in Japanese) and have four announce teams on site - English, Spanish, Japanese, and French - but have commentary teams in dozens more languages. As for house shows, local ring announcers are recruited to introduce in whatever the majority language of the country is if they aren't English, Spanish, Japanese, or French. With the Pathakos Family making more than enough money elsewhere to put it into EWA, several board members have said that it's one of their prerogatives to keep ticket prices low.
 

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SHOWS

Pay-Per-View Events

Each month has one PPV per tier, although four of the PPVs involve all three simultaneously. The Tier 1/cross-tier PPVs are:

January - Free-For-All
February - St. Valentine's Day Massacre
March - No Surrender (cross-tier)
April - Knockout Kings
May - Festival of Excellence (cross-tier)
June - Anything Goes
July - Soul Survivor 
August - Maximum Carnage (cross-tier)
September - Equinox
October - Horrorfest
November - Advent
December - Winter War (cross-tier)

Tier 2 adds:

January - Absolute Zero
February - Doom And Gloom
April - Battlefield Europe (note: this PPV is always held in Europe, for obvious reasons )
June - Slammer Solstice
July - Pure Fire
September - Shindig
October - Total War
November - First Blood

And Tier 3:

January - Combat Of The Future
February - Cyberwar
April - Prophecy
June - Live-Wire
July - Plains of Abraham (always held in Quebec City, QC, Canada)
September - Make 'Em Tap
October - Fields Of Blood
November - Mayhem

TV Broadcasts

With Pathakorp having its own TV production conglomerate contained within, each tier has its TV shows. The upper-class tier 1 shows are often rebroadcast, as is the top tier 2 show. 

1. Tier 1
   • First-class: EWA Excelsior (Monday), EWA Uprising (Wednesday)
     
   • Second-class: EWA Roughhousin' (Thursday), EWA Maniacal (Saturday, or Friday during a cross-tier PPV)
     
2. Tier 2
   • First-class: EWA Blitz (Wednesday), EWA Throwdown (Friday)
     
   • Second-class: EWA Up-And-Coming (Tuesday) 
     
3. Tier 3: EWA Slobberknocker (Tuesday), EWA Tier 3 Thursday
   

House shows

You might thing that with such a gruelling TV schedule that house shows would only add to that. Keep in mind that they have a cap roster of 200 wrestlers per tier. Even with the top-class shows going three hours, not everyone is going to get booked on a night! So there are often multiple house shows in a week, some smaller than others. There have been Tier 3 house shows done for next to nothing for admission in towns of just a few thousand people. Of note was the one they did in Chemainus, BC - population around 3,500, where it was a tier 3 show but Dean Chapman (who is from there) and Don George (who is from nearby Penelakut Island originally) showed up for it as well to put on a match! And the pop Sookie Sam got when he showed up in his hometown of Sooke was deafening even though its arena doesn't have much capacity. On the flip side, house shows can be at quite large venues as well!
 

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Each Tier has the following championships, with the Tier 1 Championships being considered the championships-proper ((pc) means previous champion in matches with multiple opponents):

The EWA Championship

The best of the best. While there have been 88 distinct championship reigns, only two wrestlers have won it more than five times, as mentioned above. After beating Simon Magus at Anything Goes (the June PPV), Dean Chapman is on his 13th title reign, second only to Andros Pathakos' 14. (He also holds the longest reign, as already mentioned)

Tier 2 EWA Championship: Sookie Sam (beat Lord Dredd, Jimmy Umaga, Général Bernard, Captain Redbeard (pc), Colby Shelley, Paul Morgenstern, and Raimondas Žutautas in an Octagon Match on EWA Throwdown on 30 July 2023, his first Tier 2 Championship reign!). Veteran Iiro Kimmonen, who was the inaugural Tier 2 champion in 2011, shares the most Tier 2 EWA Championships with J.J. Matsson, his cousin Riku Kimmonen, and Sebastian van Eijkeren (currently in Tier 1) with 6 reigns each. The longest reign wasn't be any one of these, though, as that belongs to Vyacheslav Antropov (who won't be leaving Tier 1 anytime soon!) who held the Tier 2 EWA Championship for thirteen and a half months in 2020-2021 before finally dropping it to Malaki Tulupu as a prelude to his promotion, having won the prize a total of four times.

Tier 3 EWA Championship: Raputo Kisimba (beat Ioane Niko at Maximum Carnage, his second Tier 3 Championship.) Since Tier 3 is relatively new, is it any surprise that that length record is also held by Vyacheslav Antropov? He held the Tier 3 Championship for six months and a week before dropping it to another up-and-comer in Sookie Sam in 2017. That was his only reign with that title before being promoted to Tier 2. The record for this is co-held by twelve different wrestlers who have won the belt four times, including five currently in Tier 2 (including Sookie Sam), and three (Lorne Christopher, Shavo Gurzadian, and L-Wolf) in Tier 1. 

The EWA Old World Championship

Originally the European Championship, it was renamed the Eurasian Championship in 2011 and the Old World Championship in 2015, but is considered the same title the whole way through. While a relatively prestigious belt, it does change hands rather frequently, and the current champion as of 26 August 2023 is Žydrunas Janvāris (he beat Tris Marks at Maximum Carnage, the August PPV), who now co-holds the record for most reigns with Dean Chapman with 15, three more than Goran Šimeunović (whose seven-month reign in 2009 is still the record) and Mattias Vlahos.  

Tier 2 Old World Championship: Major Mitch (beat Iiro Kimmonen, also at Maximum Carnage, his first reign!). Record number of times held by Saint Max (6 times), record reign length by Kaspars Janvāris (9 months, 2015).

Tier 3 Old World Championship: Robert Mensik (beat The Phantom at a house show, 26 July 2023, for his third reign), tied with eight others for most reigns, including three presently in Tier 2 (Lord Dredd, Heavy Devy, and Adomas Kirvaitis, who was the initial record-setter)

The EWA Americas Championship

Originally the EWA Canadian Championship, it was renamed in 2011 due to the EWA's expansion. And even though it is the third-class singles belt, it has a surprising draw to Dean Chapman, who has won the belt twenty times - more than any other person has held any other belt that doesn't have mandatory defence (as the TV Title does). Another fun fact about this title, though: It also holds the record for most times being vacated, having been vacated seventy-three times, of which eighteen (practically a quarter) were by Chapman alone! As such, is it any surprise that Chapman doesn't hold the record for longest reign? (In fact, he co-holds the record with himself for the shortest reign, having vacated the belt three times immediately after winning it, just to get it off the waist of someone he didn't like for their unscrupulous behaviour! Not once did the person he beat win it back at the next title match.) No, the longest Americas championship reign was the six and a half month reign of Hakan Berat, who pulled it off back in 2010. He was almost equalled by 13-time champ Sebastian Brown in 2012 but came up a week short when he lost it to Nikolaj Bogdanovič at that year's Festival of Excellence (the promotion's top PPV, held in May). As the bold type gives away, Berat is also the current champion, having won it for the tenth time at Maximum Carnage 2023 against Antonio Sabatti.

Tier 2 Americas Champion: Ilias Pathakos (beat Riku Kimmonen at Maximum Carnage, for his third reign); most reigns is 8 by Willie Giove, while the longest reign was eight and a half months by Sookie Sam (another fun fact - he never actually lost this title, rather he vacated it immediately after winning the Tier 2 EWA Championship).

Tier 3 Americas Champions: Rory Dean (beat Stacks, Kristijan Bogišić, and Zaher Shaaban in a Fatal Four-Way match on EWA Tier 3 Thursday on 24 August 2023 for his record sixth Tier 3 Americans Championship); he also holds the record for longest reign and was indeed the title's inaugural holder for this reign in 2016, holding the belt for 9 months before finally being defeated by Sétanta.

EWA Hardcore Championship

This is the first of the specialty titles, being constrained to hardcore matches, of which the only legal constraint can be no outside interference. It is a grueling division with weapons galore and is the cause of the vast majority of injuries, and as such the division is opt-in. The current champ, having equalled the record co-held by Goran Šimeunović and Dominik Alexandros, is Mattias Vlahos, who ousted first-time champ Vyacheslav Antropov in a "Maximum Carnage" elimination Hardcore match against nine other combatants, including the two now co-record-holders; he actually pinned Šimeunović in the process as well as Antropov and first-time title contender Avi Kalan.

The longest reign of a hardcore champ was Šimeunović's "Reign of Terror," which saw him win forty-nine hardcore matches in a row over a seven-month span before losing to Dean Chapman, and this was in 2012. 

Tier 2 Hardcore Championship: Captain Redbeard (beat Aurėlijus Maklėvičius at Maximum Carnage for his second reign). The record-holders for Tier 2 are Malaki Tulupu, Taiaho, Paul Morgenstern, and Colby Shelley, who have all held the belt five times; the longest reign was the only reign of Natane Huboka, who held the Tier 2 Hardcore Championship for almost exactly one year before losing to the aforementioned Morgenstern in a triple-threat match that also included The Djinn (interestingly, Morgenstern is the only performer from that 2017 match that isn't in Tier 1 yet, but his prospects are good!).

Tier 3 Hardcore Championship: currently vacant, to be decided on EWA Slobberknocker on Tuesday; previous champion was Raputo Kisimba, who vacated the belt after winning the Tier 3 EWA Championship at Maximum Carnage; he co-holds the record of four reigns with Serik Ibrashev, Ioane Niko, Benik Temurjyan, and The Phantom, with the longest reign actually belonging to current Tier 2 champion Captain Redbeard, with the Canadian pirate having held the title for five months and three weeks, both beating and being beaten by Niko.

EWA TV Title

This is a tough one to defend, as you have to literally do it every time you're on TV. It's easier the further down you go on the tier system. But the unquestionable king of the TV Title is Tris Marks, who has not only won the belt 25 times but is one of just eight wrestlers to spend more than two months with the belt, including the all-time longest rein of three months and two weeks in 2008, being toppled from that pedestal by divisional archrival Kaélos Pathakos. Even if he last held the belt in 2021, he is always up to try and pad his stats even more! The current champ, having won at Maximum Carnage, is Joseph Ndali, his fourth such title.

Tier 2 TV Title: J-Shred stunned everyone by winning a Pentagon elimination match on EWA Throwdown on Sunday, 20 August, beating record-holder Dārius Kardijevs (12 titles), Dom Adami, Dizzy Gibbins, and most importantly, previous champ Iopa Misa, who himself had only held the belt since the previous Wednesday! The longest reign as Tier 2 TV Champ is 2 1/2 months by Don de Boer in 2012, before he finally dropped the belt as a prelude to re-promotion to Tier 1.

Tier 3 TV Title: Vadim Covalciuc won his first-ever EWA belt by beating Jacoby on Tier 3 Thursday on 31 August, then successfully defended it against another Aussie, Rocky Morrison, at Maximum Carnage. Only four people have won the belt more than three times, with the current record-holder being "Dangerous" Dan Kassaye with six reigns, one of which is the shortest, lasting only half an hour before Demis defeated him; the all-time longest reign is four months by Jamaal Andrews, who won the belt for the second time in November 2022 and lost it to JJ Bear (Jeffrey Johns) in April 2023.

EWA Cruiserweight Championship

Ahh yes, the flippity-dos The weight ceiling for the cruiserweight division is 220 lbs., and as such all but one of the women (Marina in Tier 1) is eligible for this belt, although in the case of Gabazon (who has won it twice), it's only barely. Kazuyoshi Takahashi recently won his seventh CW title (at Maximum Carnage, beating Jane George), tying him with Arik Ginzburg for second-most all-time, but they are both still two back of the ever-flamboyant luchador Ricardo Benitez, who seeks to be the first cruiserweight champ to hit double digits with one more win. The longest reign as Cruiserweight Champ goes all the way back to the inaugural reign of Kaélos Pathakos in 2005, where he held the belt for eleven months before finally being forced to vacate for going over weight ceiling. (Benitez won his first in the ensuing tournament!)

Tier 2 Cruiserweight Championship: Danute, sister to the Maklėvičius boys and Wacław Iwański's RL wife, had an epic match against Supaida at Soul Survivor to win the belt for the first time - she has been a fighting champion thus far, having really impressed with wins over some of the better Tier 2 cruiserweights! But she'll have to go a lot longer if she's to beat the record of The Djinn, who held the cruiserweight belt for a jaw-dropping sixteen months before finally losing as a prelude to a promotion! This is the longest that any EWA wrestler has held a belt. Period. He won in November of 2017 and finally lost it in March 2019 against co-reign record holder Général Bernard, who along with Supaida and Vincent Fleury has held this belt eight times.

Tier 3 Cruiserweight Championship: "Africa's Favourite Luchador" Macie Ndong is on reign #3 after Maximum Carnage, having bested Wellington Gounod and The Assassin (Naum Litvinov) in a triple-threat match. Only one cruiserweight has outdone him for number of reigns, Ganya Montshiwa (5-time champ, now in Tier 2). But perhaps more impressive is that the record-holder for longest reign did so as young as he did - he held the belt for an entire year in 2017-2018, being just barely into his 20s at the time, and is now one of Tier 2's top cruiserweights - Ash Stevenson won the title in his first-ever match in 2017 and held it for nearly a year when given an opportunity to move up the ranks to Tier 2. He is also the only title-holder in EWA history to have never lost a title belt, as he vacated before leaving for Tier 2, but I'm guessing that will change given the higher level of competition.

EWA Women's Championship

The womenfolk have always had a belt, from the first days of the EWA until now, and - with the exception of Marina - has regularly showcased the finest of women's wrestling in the company, with Marina only having briefly participated in the women's division between September 2010 and May 2013, winning the championship twice during that stretch and setting the record for longest reign at fourteen months - the second-longest in EWA's history and the longest for the top tier. It has been rumoured that Gabazon may follow her in participating more against men, as she is the only woman to claim the EWA Hardcore Title, ranks second all-time in title wins with ten, and is the only woman to have ever beaten the 6'7" giantess in a title match, doing it twice. Not even all-time reigns total holder Danae Pathakos (who has won the belt fourteen times) has beaten her older sister in a title match, and has only beaten her at all just twice in fifteen meetings. The current champion is Sapphira, who beat Gabazon in very controversial fashion at Soul Survivor - her in-ring "boyfriend" Simon Magus distracted the referee and one of his lackeys (Jack Smith) hit Gabazon in the mid-section with a steel chair) and was able to barely stave off Apollyon at Maximum Carnage. But she is now starting down Apollyon's tag team partner, Persephone!

Tier 2 Women's Championship: This division is very competitive. The longest-ever reign was just four months, by Tier 3 record-holder Akiko Sakaki - "Tall, Dark, and Kawaii" is now in Division I simply because she is that good, having won the Tier 2 women's title four times in a relatively short period of time, from 2018-2021, with her third reign being the record and her second reign being the record she broke! The record-holder for most reigns is another current Tier 1 superstar - Nadja, an OG IntFammer, has won the Tier 2 women's championship ten times. The current champion, on her second reign, is Ágata, a luchadora from Colombia.

Tier 3 Women's Championship: As mentioned earlier, Akiko Sakaki is the record-holder here, but this time for a more substantial thirteen months, being bested by Astra as a prelude to her leaving for Tier 2 in 2018. Astra is no slouch, as she has won the title six times, but that only ranks her third overall, with #1 being Sonya Craig's nine. The current champ is the 25-year-old "Queen of Kawaii," Shii-Chan, who won her shock first title at a house show in late August.

EWA Women's TV Title

A very recent phenomenon, only being added in 2017. Five women have won the belt five times: Elisabeth, Ruth Chisiza, Viktore, Jane George, and most recently, Shakira (Randy and Dion Prince's cousin), who won it at Maximum Carnage only to lose it on September 4th on EWA Excelsior against Ronnie Brown, who in spite of being a five-time Women's Champ had yet to win the TV Title. But reigns usually are quite short, averaging two months. The longest reign and only one to go over three months was Viktore's six-month reign in 2021.

Tier 2: Debuted in 2020. We're actually still in the midst of the longest-ever reign of this title, now five and a half months, by Angela van Eijkeren, who has also held the belt the most times, this being her fifth reign.

Tier 3: Only just debuted last July. and there have been a total of six reigns, with only one woman having more than one, Nikki Kazakis, whose longer reign was just a whisker over four months and who has won the belt twice. Her second reign ended at Maximum Carnage, as she lost to Jeannie-Lee, tag team partner of another champ, Miss Natasha. The other two women to have held this are Linda Friesse (an OG IntFammer but only started wrestling fairly recently) and the only wrestler besides Kazakis to have held both this and the Tier 3 Women's Championship, Sonya Craig.

EWA Tag Team Champs

When it comes to tag team wrestling, only a few of the great tag teams have stayed together for a super-long time. But the teams that have really stood the test of time are reign-number record holders 2Kold (Sebastian Brown and JP Myllyjärvi) who are twelve-time champs, and reign-length record holders The Two Titans (Grigor Zagorakis and Dominik Alexandros), who held the belt for eight and a half months in 2009. There's another record worth mentioning, which is the most partners won with, a record held by seven-time tag champ Dean Chapman, who has won it with four different partners - Fedil Haxhari, Turan Efendiyev, Don George, and Yiannis Andreas Kazakis. Newark Family Bidness (Dion and Randy Prince, two of the three members of the stable of that name) are the current champs, having dethroned the Towers of Ararat (Marat Gurzadian and Minas Tenkerian) at Soul Survivor and surviving (pun intended) challenges from The Levites of Luxury (Dok and Jack Smith, from Prosperity), Eastern Orthodoxy (Turan Efendiyev and Oleg Kapetanov, from the God Squad), The Skaha Boys (The First Family's Stassi Pathakos and Slobo Gogić), The Bog Boys (Nikolaj and Gordan Bogdanovič), and WCH's Tris Marks and Gerry Granger at Maximum Carnage.

Tier 2 Tag Team Champs: Deathcore (Heavy Devy and J-Shred) accepted a rather rash open challenge from The Tenkerians (Nazaret and Geghetsik, Minas' younger brothers) just eight days after outlasting The Umagas (Jimmy and Va'iga) at Maximum Carnage, and won in true heavy metal style! A staple in Tier 2's Tag Division is the Troublemakers (The tag team consists of KD Chase and Willie Giove, while the stable of the same name also includes Jefferson Wylie and Marissa Giove), who have won the tag team championships ten times in Tier 2, and also once in Tier 1 back in 2013! The longest-reigning champs were the very first ones - Samenheid, made up of V3 (Viktor van Vassenden) and a debuting Gekko (Nxeko Mufamadi), years before they became the cornerstone of the Urban Warriors stable, held the Tier 2 tag belts for 12 1/2 months before vacating the belts to be promoted to Tier 1, where they have been since March 2012. The always-entertaining South African tag team has also held the Tier 1 Tag Team Championships once (they did for three months in 2017) and have been in several other title matches.

Tier 3 Tag Team Champs: Tier 3's men's tag division is the only tag team division where a single person holds the record for most belts won - Kicham Alami, a six-time champ, having most recently won with El Aguila Marroquí (Abdelrashid Youssouf) and also having won with Raputo Kisimba, "Dangerous" Dan Kassaye, and Zaher Shaaban. The top for a more solidly fixed team is the four times The Morrisons, our current champs, have won it, last winning against the Asian Drub Foundation (who fight by the Fabulous Freebirds rule as they have three members). The longest reign has not been very long given how this belt has only existed since 2016 and there are so few established tag teams but so many people wanting a taste of tag team wrestling. It was at one point thought that "Your Worst Nightmares" - a trio of menacing Montenegrin Kristian Bogišić, Viking Rögnvaldur (Helgason), and the metal-masked Phantom (Steinbjørn Kruse) - would utterly dominate the division, but after five months they got dropped by the Jeffers Brothers (Steve and Reid).

EWA Women's Tag Team Champions

The Tier 1 belt was instituted in 2011 and the Tier 2 belt two years later. They were traditionally dominated by the "Fab Five" tag teams: The Pathachicks - Helen and Danae Pathakos, KoldChix - Ronnie Brown and Tiina Myllyjärvi (who married each other's older brothers!), The Krissies - Kristina Machlas and Kristina Efendiyeva (this tag team started before the latter married Turan Efendiyev), the Gerhardt Girls - Rachel and Naomi Gerhardt (there is another tag team with that name because they are in a stable of four with cousins Mariah and Rebekah Gerhardt), and The Croatian Sisterhood - Ana Mirković and MiMi (Mirjana Miljanović), with an honourable mention to the Naarasleijonat (Lionesses), Vera Ukkonen and Pamela Kimmonen, who have won the women's tag belts four times. But in recent years, more potent tag teams have arisen - Carly Jack and Jane George (two-time champs), Gynocracy (Marina and Gabazon - the former is a four-time champ but the latter has only won once), The Sentai (Yukiko Kawachi and Ami Shimada, two-time champs), and most recently, our current #1 contenders, Death and Hades (Apollyon and Persephone, who have yet to win but are showing extreme promise). KoldChix held the title the longest, with a seven-month-three-week reign in 2015. Don't sleep on our current champions either - Special Forces (Ruth Chisiza and Sara Wylie)!

Tier 2 Women's Tag Championships - Since 2013, there has been many a tag team in the division, but none have been able to match the consistency of the Magnussen Sisters, Sherri and Ingrid. (Cousins of Kjetil and Nina Magnussen.) They keep coming back for more, having won the Tier 2 belts twelve times. It's not even close, with second place, held by Sorellanza (Christina Schiaffino and Tina (Sabatti Lorenzi)) only having won four times. The Magnussens also have the longest reign at one year, almost to the day. Their most recent reign came to an end, though, at Soul Survivor, thanks to the cunning of the Mourit Triplets (Sahba, Safa, and Salibah), with the Moroccan identical triplets sneakily swapping out one for the other and being able to attain victory that way. 

Tier 3 Women's Tag Championship - Started in 2020, this division is still quite small and its all-time best tag team for length of reign has long since departed for Tier 2. The Robanos - cousins Tamara and Martina Robano, actually held the belt for the first year - so just under a third of its entire existence. Another team, Las Chicas Guapas (Sexy Streamer (Estefanía Lozano) and "La Idola" Eva Clark) won the belt three times, which is the record. They are relatively new to Tier 2, having only been promoted back in February of this year, so they were around the 3 for a while. The current champs, who won at Maximum Carnage, are Shenosis, a Cypriot team comprising Greek Nikki Kazakis and Turk Lady Kez (Kezban Süleymanoğlu).

EWA Intergender Tag Team Champions

This belt is one of the uniquenesses of EWA, and there are some very good matchups that can come out of this. There was actually a fairly well-received PPV main event (Equinox 2014) that had an IG Championship match as the main event, and why not? It was billed as "The One Night 2Kold and the Kold Chix Will Actually Fight Each Other," as the members of long-standing EWA men's and women's tag teams 2Kold and KoldChix paired off against each other for the then-vacant EWA Intergender Tag Team titles, and the match was legendary, finally ending when Ronnie Brown made Tiina Myllyjärvi tap to the Sharpshooter. But it was all good in the Kold Family afterwards, as there were handshakes, hugs, and raised arms all around. (Both IG teams in the Kold Family have held the belt, but the team of JP Myllyjärvi and Ronnie Brown have the advantage, three times to two!) There are many husband-wife or boyfriend-girlfriend combos who have won, and it's no different for our current champs, or for either record-holding team. And again, the most recent champions were crowned at Maximum Carnage, as the team of Double Dose Of Death (Mattias Vlahos & Apollyon) kicked off reign #2 by beating the team of Sapphira and Dok from Prosperity in one of the few matches of the sort that went hardcore - indeed, Dok left the ring a bloody mess after Apollyon, having just put Sapphira through an announcers' table with a diving powerbomb, grabbed a kendo stick and started hammering away on the big Nigerian when he tried to come to her rescue and got his feet held up by Mattias Vlahos. A few moments later, Death Incarnate put him through a table (with steel chairs underneath it, no less) with Death's Sickle for the 1-2-3. The most reigns belong to Marko Gogić and Danae Pathakos, who in fact participated in the very first EWA Intergender match when Danae was only 19! These two lovebirds have won the title thirteen times, and hold the second- and third-longest reigns. But not the longest! No, that belongs to another First Family intergender tag team, currently named A Touch Of Class under Georgios Pathakos' "Greco-British gentleman" gimmick, as he tags up with RL wife Kristi Pathakos (Christine Pathakos née Granger). They held the belt for all of 2015, having won it just before Christmas 2014 at Winter War and only relinquishing it at St. Valentine's Day Massacre 2016, for a grand total of roughly thirteen months.

Tier 2 Intergender Tag Team Champions: The Odd Couple (Paul Morgenstern and Eva Clark). Imagine putting a bubbly, somewhat sensual pop star stereotype with a 6'8" religious zealot with little to say and much to slam? Well, Paul Morgenstern has proven to be among the most surprisingly capable tag team partners in both men's (with Nick Matthew) and intergender tag wrestling regardless of whom he gets stuck with, but will either team last if The Menacing Mennonite ends up joining the God Squad?

A much more consistent team at this level is that of seven-time champs Danute & Aurėlijus Maklėvičius - this brother-and-sister team have the longest consecutive tenure as a team in the division, going back to the belt's genesis in 2015 - only the teams of Gustaf Nordlund/Megan Strand (North and South), Iiro Kimmonen/Angie van Eijkeren, and Willie and Marissa Giove can also make this claim. Their reign-length record is one year and a bit on top, having turned the trick in 2017 and a bit of 2018, beating North and South before losing to Marta and Ganya Montshiwa (only to win it back from the same a month later!) and the latest of their seven championships was from February to May 2023 when they lost to Angelika and Viktor von Hesse, who in turn lost to The Odd Couple at Pure Fire.

Tier 3 Intergender Tag Team Champions: The second-newest belt in the EWA, having debuted February 2022 (five months before the Women's TV Title did in that division). There is no reign-count record beyond the eight teams that have won it as there has yet to be a team to win it more than once. In order, these teams have been:

1. Jonny Armaghanyan and Miss Natasha (Cyberwar 2022 (12 February 2022) - Tier 3 Thursday, 17 March 2022; beat Amy McIver and Mavis)
   
2. Jamaal Andrews and Keisha Biggs (17 March 2022- Festival of Excellence 2022 (28 May 2022)
   
3. Gregor Dvořák and Brisa (28 May 2022 - Live-Wire 2022 (11 June 2022) (shortest reign)
   
4. Sonya Craig and The Phantom (11 June 2022 - No Surrender 2023 (26 March 2023)) (longest reign)
   
5. Jessica Potaka and Tua (26 March 2023- Prophecy 2023 (22 April 2023))
   
6. Amy McIver and Mavis (St. Kitts Connection, 22 April 2023- Festival of Excellence 2023 (27 May 2023)
   
7. Deirdre Braemar and Lech Osmulski (27 May 2023 - Plains Of Abraham 2023 (8 July 2023)
   
8. Michael Siddhu and Kasia Mann (from Asian Drub Foundation, 8 July 2023-present
   

​​​​​​Besides the championships, there are also the three tournaments; one (Knockout Kings) is open and the other two (Free-For-All and Soul Survivor) are Tier 1-plus Tier 2 invitees only. All the winners have been from Tier 1.

Free-For-All (January)

More similar to WCW's World War III than to WWE's Royal Rumble in that all wrestlers participating start in the rings at the same time; there are 72 combatants in four rings, and whoever's feet or back touch the ground outside the rings after being thrown over the top rope is eliminated; it is possible to still be in contention if you end up on top of the barricade, though! The EWA Champion at the time does not participate, and faces the last person in the ring. It isn't hard to imagine how Andros Pathakos has both the most wins (8) and the most eliminations in a single FFA event (42, in 2016) of any EWA wrestler. Two women have participated in the main FFA event, with both managing eliminations but ultimately coming up well short of winning - Marina Pathakos has actually been involved in every FFA since 2006, with her best finish being in 2019 where she finished 22nd. Gabazon has participated twice as well, although her best performance was just a 60th-place finish this year. This year saw the best-ever Tier 2 performance, with Adomas Kirvaitis finishing 26th, not much higher than Sookie Sam (30th) or former Tier 1 Japhet al-Nazr (32nd). (The first elimination, though, after just six seconds, was another Tier 2 invitee; Lord Dredd. ) This year's winner was actually Simon Magus.

The women's FFA was started in 2011 and features 60 competitors, with no fewer than one invited from Tier 2 (since there are only 60 women per tier). While Gabazon lays claim to the most eliminations in one go (39 when she won in 2021, a record almost equalled by this year's winner Ruth Chisiza with 37), she has only won the event twice. The record for most wins actually belongs to Tiina Myllyjärvi, who has won four times. Marina has legitimately never entered the event, having always gone with the men, and Gabazon sat it out in 2018, 2020, and 2023 to participate with the men. Ruth Chisiza won the Women's Title from Yukiko Kawachi at Festival of Excellence 2023, only to lose it to Gabazon at Anything Goes a month later. 

Knockout Kings (April)

The one open tournament, this is actually an MMA tournament of sorts, with 64 contenders entering a tournament after the conclusion of No Surrender PPV, and it differs from any other EWA event in that it is legit unscripted. And it is usually considered Dean Chapman's tournament to lose. Not only has he won ten tournaments (2008, 2010-11, 2013-15, 2017, 2019-2021, and 2023) , but he has never lost a match in 15 years of the competition, rather having opted out six times for having to defend the EWA Championship at the Knockout Kings PPV. Of the remaining five tournaments, Željko Miljanović, an accomplished and feared boxer, has won three (2012, 2016, 2022), with Stephen Pathakos (2009) and Žydrunas Janvāris (2018) having won the other two. So why have the tournament when one guy dominates? Simple. Exposure for the legit martial arts talent that exists in the EWA, of which there is quite a bit. There have even been a few surprises, such as Vidura Samenem making it to the 2020 final, and pencak silat master Karti Paramita going to 2023's semis from Tier 2.

A women's tournament was started almost immediately after the men's was due to its success; this has become quite popular in its own right because of how level the playing field actually is, even with Marina or Gabazon involved. In fact, the record holder, Carly Jack, who is well-versed in MMA, has a mere four titles, just one ahead of fellow MMAer Ruth Chisiza and krav maga expert Rachel Gerhardt. That said, in spite of having fewer title wins, Chisiza is considered the best Knockout Queen because she has won the most overall matches. This year's winner was Chan-Sook, who combines the elegant kicking techniques of taekwondo with the stiff punches and stifling holds of Brazilian jiujitsu; it is her first championship.

Soul Survivor (July)

In spite of the name, this is actually closer to a King of the Ring type tournament, with the winner of this 32-man tournament, given the ability to book themselves a match for the EWA Championship. This is the least lopsided tournament of the three, with a three-way tie for most wins of the entire tournament - Dean Chapman, Žydrunas Janvāris, and Goran Šimeunović have all won it three times; Andros Pathakos is among three who have won it twice, the others being Tris Marks and Hakan Berat. The other four winners of the tournament were Giammarco Scibetta, Nik Bogdanovič, Dominik Alexandros, and surprisingly, Gerry Granger, whose shock run in 2021 led to him facing Dean Chapman for the belt at Maximum Carnage, only to lose because of interference from Andros Pathakos. This year's winner, Goran Šimeunović, has used his booking, but used it to book his match against whoever the EWA Champ is for the year-end PPV, Winter War.

As with the other two, a women's tournament was started, in this case in the same year, making it the oldest of the women's tournaments. Persephone won it this year but chose to not exercise her booking ability for Maximum Carnage so as to give her stable-mate and tag-team partner Apollyon a chance to wrap up her rivalry with the scheming Sapphira first. But with Apollyon having lost that match, it looks as if Sephie plans to meet the Prosperity wrestler at Equinox later this month.

Gabazon holds the record for most tournament wins and most tournament match wins... both barely. She is the only three-time winner, but there are three two-time winners as well - Ronnie Brown, Yukiko Kawachi (who won in 2022), and Jane George, the last of whom has just two fewer wins than Gabazon does.
 

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CURRENT CHAMPIONS LIST (This will be updated as it changes):

Tier 1

EWA Championship - Dean Chapman (The God Squad)
EWA Old World Championship - Elijah (The God Squad)
EWA Americas Championship - Joseph Ndali (The God Squad)
EWA Hardcore Championship - Mattias Vlahos (The God Squad)
EWA Cruiserweight Championship - Bassam al-Wadud (The God Squad)
EWA TV Title - Radek Toth
EWA Women's Championship - Persephone (The God Squad)
EWA Women's TV Title - Yukiko Kawachi (Kombat Klub)
EWA Tag Team Championship - The Álvarez Brothers
EWA Women's Tag Team Championship - Death And Hades (Apollyon and Persephone, The God Squad)
EWA Intergender Tag Team Championship - A Double Dose Of Death (Mattias Vlahos and Apollyon, The God Squad)

Tier 2

Tier 2 EWA Championship - Sookie Sam (The Edgecrushers)
Tier 2 Old World Championship - Lieutenant Zerbo (Anti-Corruption Army)
Tier 2 Americas Championship - Jabrail (Anti-Corruption Army)
Tier 2 Hardcore Championship - Radko Bekesza
Tier 2 Cruiserweight Championship - Ash Stevenson
Tier 2 TV Title - Aurėlijus Maklėvičius (Team Lietuva)
Tier 2 Women's Championship - Delina
Tier 2 Women's TV Title - Carlota
Tier 2 Tag Team Championship - The Samoan Studs (Tama Nimo and Iopa Misa, The Samoan Army)
Tier 2 Women's Tag Team Championship - Polish Power (KB Kool and Kasia Iwańska)
Tier 2 Intergender Tag Team Championship - Raisa Nakisa and Kadreddin Nabiyev (Ex Machina)

Tier 3

Tier 3 EWA Championship - Spurgeon MacEachern (The God Squad)
Tier 3 Old World Championship - Raputo Kisimba
Tier 3 Americas Championship - Spurgeon MacEachern (note: likely to vacate it on Slobberknocker)
Tier 3 Hardcore Championship - Terje Grimseth (The God Squad)
Tier 3 Cruiserweight Championship - Egidijus Stravinskas (Team Lietuva)
Tier 3 TV Title - Serik Ibrashev
Tier 3 Women's Championship - Sonya Craig (Canadian Girls Kick Ass!)
Tier 3 Women's TV Title - Amy McIver (The Caribbean Connection)
Tier 3 Tag Team Championship - Hell For A Basement (JJ Bear and Braydon McMahon)
Tier 3 Women's Tag Team Championship - Tammy & Keisha (Tamara Stevens and Keisha Biggs)
Tier 3 Intergender Tag Team Championship - The God Squad (represented by Big Xeno and Kim Jae-Hwa)

[Kyng]

Wow... I would've bet good money on this thread being one of @ The Last Outlaw's creations. And I would have lost !

But, yes, it's great to hear from the IntFammers again. These matches do sound pretty brutal, although I suppose you can get away with that when you have biobeds (which sound like a great invention, which would no doubt have plenty of applications beyond wrestling!)

Thanks for sharing .

[Jarkko]

RESULTS FOR EWA BLITZ, 13 SEPTEMBER 2023, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT

• Lord Dredd "recruits" the Efendiyev Twins
  
• The Tulupus def. Big A Wambo and Muhammad Abderamane by pinfall; after the match, Big A Zanzibombs Muhammad as Simon Magus arrives with The Weekenders to pound on him and send the message that Big A has joined Prosperity.
  
• The Beautiful People cut a group promo dissing basically everyone; they are confronted by the Trope Troupe and Team Lietuva's Tier 2 contingent
  
• Colby Shelley calls out Tier 2 Hardcore Champ Captain Redbeard and the two have an impromptu hardcore match; Captain Redbeard def. Colby Shelley by pinfall.
  
• Members of the ACA watch on as Muhammad Abderamane is rushed to the biobed station; leader Général Bernard wonders aloud what just happened, before Private Pascal tells him that it was Prosperity's fault.
  
• J-Shred © def. Galin Liapchev by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 TV Title.
  
• The Mourit Triplets def. Aaliyah, Oksana Khvostova, and Sexy Streamer by pinfall. (trios match)
  
• Lord Dredd "recruits" Han Ming-Sze.
  
• Angela van Eijkeren © def. Rasuna by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 Women's TV Title.
  
• Lord Dredd attempts to "recruit" Sookie Sam with help from the Efendiyev Twins, whose appearance has changed somewhat to look more cybernetic; the odds are evened when The Dissidents attack the Efendiyev Twins from behind.
  
• Dizzy Gibbins def. Tungsten in #1 Contender's match for Tier 2 TV Title; after Dizzy leaves, Lord Dredd legitimately recruits Tungsten with the promise of being allowed his revenge.
  
• Kimmoset approach Sookie Sam and The Dissidents about Lord Dredd, as per Iiro Kimmonen, Dredd tried to "recruit" his cousin Riku as well. They decide to fight back.
  
• Lord Dredd unveils "The Machine," his new stable.
  
• The Weekenders are jumped by The Cleanup Guys and Olafemi Akintunde en-route to a tag team match against The Tenkerians. "We saw what you did to Muhammad Abderamane earlier. Reap what you sow!" The threesome drags them out to the ring where the match goes ahead. The Tenkerians def. The Weekenders by pinfall; after the match, the Prosperity stable, including the Tier 1 members, floods out to combat the attackers, only to be intercepted by the entirety of the ACA; some are badly beaten, but others flee, including Big A Wambo and Simon Magus. Général Bernard proudly announces the "three newest members of the Anti-Corruption Army - at ease, Agent Saidaliyev, Corporal Abedzadeh, and Warrant Officer Akintunde!"
  
• "The Machine" is attacked by seven wrestlers in the arena parking lot: Sookie Sam, The Dissidents, Kimmoset, Hassan Saramankov, and Zekey T. Sam yells, "Break of The Edgecrushers, BITCH!" after all five are left laid out. (OOC: This is a reference to the anti-machine "protagonist" of the Fear Factory album "Obsolete") They go back inside after this.
  
• MAIN EVENT: Aurėlijus Maklėvičius, Adomas Kirvaitis, and Raimondas Žutautas def. Jimmy Mboya, Théo Beaujean, and Gamboa by submission (trios match).
  
• Big A Wambo is delayed in his escape and gets smacked in the head with a steel chair by a recovered Muhammad Abderamane; Simon Magus comes to his rescue and drags him into a bus as a wounded Prosperity makes its escape.  Last shot of the show shows members of the ACA running to the scene as Abderamane, among other invectives, calls him a "greedy, backstabbing traitor" - also showing up are the God Squad, represented by Saint Max and Gabriel, plus newest member Paul Morgenstern, who had been introduced on Up-And-Coming on Tuesday.
  

See you on Friday for Throwdown - the premier Tier 2 show is in the birthplace of the IntFam (grosso modo), Athens, Greece! Booked matches include a #1 Contender's match for the Tier 2 Hardcore Championship (Big O, Aurėlijus Maklėvičius, Spider-Mata, Diesel Montgomery, Hamid Tsevetkovsky, and Tungsten) - DQ only for outside interference, "narrow falls count anywhere" (only inside the arena, no backstage), 3 referees! J-Shred will face Tama Nimo for the Tier 2 TV Title, and in the women's counterpart match, Angie van Eijkeren will face off against the enigmatic Isobel! And Big A Wambo will return with backup to face the music for his betrayal of Muhammad Abderamane!

RESULTS FOR TIER 3 THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023, TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL

• Bambata & Amaka Manzini def. Iraklis & Dyana Pathakos by pinfall (Intergender Tag Match)
  
• Tier 3 Americas Champion Rory Dean issues open challenge for "warmup match" for Make 'Em Tap; Braydon McMahon accepts.
  
• Wellington Gounod def. Letsego Bolelang by pinfall.
  
• Terje Grimseth, "Dangerous" Dan Kassaye, Bonez, Big Xeno, Spurgeon MacEachern, Sarah Turkington, and Kim Jae-Hwa officially join the God Squad; Terje Grimseth named sub-leader for Tier 3 by Nick Trentham; confronted by Red Dawn
  
• Vadim Covalciuc gets into a fist fight with Jonny Armaghanyan backstage.
  
• Amy McIver def. Jeannie-Lee © by submission, wins Tier 3 Women's TV Title (first reign)
  
• Serbsational def. The Santis, Zambabwe, and Oleksander Matviyenko & Robert Mensik to become #1 contender for Tier 3 Tag Team Championships at Make 'Em Tap on Saturday (Fatal Four-Way)
  
• Egidijus Stravinskas cuts a worked shoot promo on Macie Ndong, his opponent on Saturday.
  
• Tua def. Vadim Covalciuc © by pinfall, wins Tier 3 Men's TV Title (first reign)
  
• Raputo Kisimba cuts promo, confronted by Jamaal Andrews
  
• The Phantom causes match between Robert Mensik and Spurgeon MacEachern to end prematurely; ruled no contest.
  
• MAIN EVENT: Braydon McMahon def. Rory Dean in non-title match (Standard Hardcore Match)
  

Card announced for Make 'Em Tap - Saturday, 16 September 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus.

• Yordan Velichkov vs. Hansel (submission match)
  
• Adam Springsteen & Warren Maybury vs. Nate Radkov & Naiden Bogdanovič.
  
• "Rarotonga's Finest" Tua © vs. "Perth's Favourite Goon" Jacoby vs. "The Terror From Tiraspol" Vadim Covalciuc vs. Jonny Armaghanyan for Tier 3 TV Title (Four-way elimination match)
  
• The Assassin vs. Ioane Niko © for the Tier 3 Hardcore Championship (Standard Hardcore match)
  
• The God Squad (represented by Spurgeon MacEachern and Dan Bonez) vs. Red Dawn (Xiang Zhi-Han, Yap Kim-Hock, and Luke Ng)
  
• Deirdre vs. Amy McIver © for the Tier 3 Women's TV Title
  
• The Flores Twins vs. The Santis
  
• Serbsational vs. The Morrisons © for the Tier 3 Tag Team Championship
  
• Shenosis © vs. Sigrid and Talia Lundmark for the Tier 3 Women's Tag Team Championship
  
• The Phantom vs. Spurgeon MacEachern vs. Robert Mensik © for the Tier 3 Old World Championship
  
• "The Afrikaner Bruiser" Rory Dean © vs. Jon Kabitana vs. Braydon McMahon for the Tier 3 Americas Championship (submission match)
  
• The Temurjyan Brothers vs. The Water Creatures
  
• The Asian Drub Foundation (represented by Kasia Mann and Michael Siddhu)© vs. The God Squad (represented by Big Xeno and Kim Jae-Hwa) for the Tier 3 Intergender Tag Team Championship
  
• Crystal Woman vs. Shii-Chan © for the Tier 3 Women's Championship
  
• "The Klaipėda Kid" Egidijus Stravinskas vs. "Africa's Favourite Luchador" Macie Ndong © for the Tier 3 Cruiserweight Championship
  
• "Champion Of The Norse" Rögnvaldur vs. "The Unblack Attack" Terje Grimseth ("Viking Pyre" Match)
  
• "The Guamaniac" Patrick Taitano vs. "The Kyrgyz Crippler" Zamir Bokoyev vs. "The Black Mountain Boogeyman" Kristijan Bogišić vs. The Pharaoh vs. Stacks vs. Viktors Rozentals to be #1 contender for the Tier 3 EWA Championship at Fields Of Blood in October (Hexagon elimination match)
  
• MAIN EVENT: Jamaal Andrews vs. "The Lion From Lubumbashi" Raputo Kisimba for the Tier 3 EWA Championship (submission match)
  

RESULTS FOR EWA ROUGHHOUSIN', THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023, TRABZON, TURKEY

• Prosperity members from Tier 1 arrive, noticeably banged up after the gang brawl between them and the ACA on Blitz. Simon Magus and the rest go out to the arena and cut a promo, pronouncing a curse on both the ACA and the "so-called God Squad," the latter of whom interrupts the promo. While there is no brouhaha, co-leader Dean Chapman throws down a challenge to the stable.
  
• Moustapha Berat def. Don de Boer by pinfall.
  
• Lord Dredd arrives at the arena and is very promptly jumped by a furious Turan Efendiyev, who smacks him with a kendo stick before shoving him into the trunk of a car. He whips out a cell phone, calls Dean Chapman and tells him he's going to the airport. "I have some cyber-trash to take out."
  
• Trevor Hentham gets off the phone with Nick Trentham, who is in Tel-Aviv to welcome Tier 3s into the stable, when he is met by Joseph Ndali en route to his TV Title defence. The two chat again about the possibility of Trevor joining the God Squad in Tier 1, something Nick has consistently tried to get him to do.
  
• Joseph Ndali © def. Mark Wylie by pinfall to retain the EWA TV Title. In a post-match interview, he calls that "one of the bigger TV show victories he's ever had" and shows Wylie respect as a "worthy opponent."
  
• EWA Americas champ Hakan Berat cuts a promo that quickly turns into a multi-wrestler promo. First Arvydas Maklėvičius challenges him, then Grigor Zagorakis, then finally, God-Squadder Nick Trentham remotely from Tel-Aviv.
  
• Akiko Sakaki def. Sabrina by submission.
  
• A Double Dose Of Death def. Jane George and Lorne Christopher by pinfall in a non-title match (Intergender Tag Match)
  
• Ronnie Brown © def. Linn by submission to retain the EWA Women's TV Championship
  
• Gerry Granger and Giammarco Scibetta have a tense encounter that almost comes to blows, but is broken up by JP Myllyjärvi telling the two to "take a chill pill."
  
• Turan Efendiyev returns and hurries to the locker room to get ready for a Gang Warfare matchup.
  
• MAIN EVENT: The God Squad (represented by Dean Chapman, Mattias Vlahos, Turan Efendiyev, and Oleg Kapetanov) def. Prosperity (Simon Magus, Dok, Jack Smith, and Ari Beye) (Gang Warfare match). Sapphira attempts to get involved only to get laid to waste by Persephone; Scarface and the Constanţiu Twins reveal themselves to be the "new members" Prosperity had been bragging about - Bassam al-Wadud and Apollyon attempted to fend them off, but it wasn't until the arrival of Trevor Hentham with a steel chair that things got back under control. And as if that weren't enough, Elijah - Simon Magus' younger brother - hit his brother with the Eschaton finisher as he was backpedalling out of the ring, payback for him being hit with Kenosis (literally the same move by a different name) on Excelsior on Monday, causing him to miss Uprising on Wednesday (with a kayfabe injury) - Elijah then triumphantly announced his alliance with the God Squad as Simon looked up in horror.
  

Next Tier 1 show is Maniacal on Saturday! Coming to you from Tbilisi, Georgia! Joseph Ndali has his eyes over his shoulder for other Prosperity members as he goes toe-to-toe against Ari Beye for the EWA TV Title! Ronnie Brown has given her bestie, sister-in-law-twice-over (they married each other's older brothers), and tag team partner Tiina Myllyjärvi a shot at her Women's TV Title! Dean Chapman and Turan Efendiyev are set to address "The Machine's" doings in Tier 2! And with Equinox fast approaching, Simon Magus' life just got a whole lot more complicated with his own brother joining the God Squad! Plus the EWA Old World Title is on the line in the main event as "The World's Largest Judoka" Žydrunas Janvāris is set to go mano-a-mano with fellow giants Gerry Granger and Giammarco Scibetta!

[Jarkko]

RESULTS FOR EWA THROWDOWN, FRIDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2023, ATHENS, GREECE

• Muhammad Abderamane kicks off the show by calling out Big A Wambo, calling him out for "betraying both his faith and his blood" to follow "that  greedy sorcerer Simon Magus." Big A Wambo shows up in a fancy suit, accompanied by The Weekenders, and begins to rattle off excuse after excuse for his behaviour, before calling down a curse upon the Athens fans for booing him so loudly.
  
• Dario Krznar def. Halcone by pinfall.
  
• Big A Wambo is on the phone with Simon Magus, who says he has a plan to sabotage some of the matches this Sunday at Shindig and that he has made Kwame G of the Weekenders the faction's "sub-leader" within Tier 2. This is overheard by the ACA's AK-47, but he is intercepted by the Weekenders and beaten.
  
• Supaida def. Rami by submission.
  
• Karti Paramita def. Raj by pinfall.
  
• The Edgecrushers arrive, and Sookie Sam gets the news that Lord Dredd decided to try and "recruit" people from Tier 1 but was stopped from doing so by the Efendiyev Twins' vengeful older brother Turan.
  
• Polish Power (Kasia Iwańska and KB Kool) def. Tsunneko (Harumi Kitagawa and Kaori Niihara) by pinfall.
  
• The Efendiyev Twins and Han Ming-Sze attempt to recruit Iopa Misa, but an abduction attempt afterwards is turned aside by other members of The Samoan Army, including the Tulupu brothers, Kalolo Maivia, Va'iga Umaga, and his tag team partner Tama Nimo.
  
• The female contingent of The Beautiful People are snubbed in their recruitment attempt of the Snow Bunnies, Angelika and Hrachia Tenkerian; Delina makes a passing barb directed at the "superficial bimbos" in the group.
  
• Galin Liapchev def. Lothar Schmidt by pinfall.
  
• Kollector randomly attacks Hassan Saramankov and harasses Ana Buzurbayeva en route to his match.
  
• Kollector def. Yakubu Egbe by submission; after the match, Seven comes to his aide as Hassan Saramankov tries to exact revenge with an aluminum ball bat.
  
• Afterwards, the two cackle with evil glee as they decide to form a tag team called "The Abominations."
  
• Saints & Angels (Saint Max and Gabriel) def. The Weekenders (Kwame G and Kwasi Asamoah) by pinfall; after the match, they are attacked by Big A Wambo, who puts Gabriel through an announce table.
  
• The Beautiful People (Saimi Attinen and Oksana Khvostova) def. The Mourit Triplets (Safa and Salifah) by disqualification (Sahba technically got involved); Oksana manages to get the ref to see the "triplet switcheroo" that they had had a habit of doing.
  
• J-Shred © def. Tama Nimo by submission, to retain the Tier 2 TV Title.
  
• Lord Dredd arrives to find his entourage emerging from the biobed room. Yashar Efendiyev explains that they attempted to recruit Iopa Misa, which Dredd blasts for being both foolhardy and sloppy, and that he "needs more programming."
  
• Angie van Eijkeren © def. Isobel by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 Women's TV Title.
  
• Eva Clark and Paul Morgenstern have a conversation about their title defence and about Paul's recent God Squad membership. After he leaves, she phones someone and simply says, "he doesn't know a thing, boss."
  
• Meanwhile, Saints & Angels are leaving the biobed room when they bump into The Cleanup Guys and Muhammad Abderamane, who "have a proposition" for the God Squadders.
  
• Beauty And The Beast (Jimmy Umaga and Elfie) def. Los Robanos (Tamara and Marco Robano) and Anatolya Kiryginskaya & Dārius Kārdijevs by pinfall (intergender tag Triple Threat) to become #1 contender for the Tier 2 Intergender Tag Team Championship
  
• Kris Pathakos, Sr. makes a surprise appearance to join the Tier 2 announce table.
  
• Delina def. Sexy Streamer by pinfall.
  
• The Beautiful People swarm Delina in the ring and start to attack, only to have the Trope Troupe come to her aid. When the men of the former stable try to get them out of the fight, they themselves are jumped by Team Lietuva, leading to a ridiculous brawl that takes half the security staff in the building to contain. Delina is heard dropping an F-bomb as TBP's feminine contingent leaves. "Bunch of sore !@#$ing loser-assed bimbos!"
  
• MAIN EVENT: Big O def. Aurėlijus Maklėvičius, Spider-Mata, Diesel Montgomery, Hamid Tsevetkovsky, and Tungsten (Hexagon elimination match with Standard Hardcore rules; narrow-rules Falls Count Anywhere) to become #1 contender for the Tier 2 Hardcore Championship; the last two are counted out for leaving the arena, but they return with the rest of their respective stables, including new Machine recruits Toni Alves and Fabrice Lacroix. But then this happens:
  

The Machine vs. Edgecrushers & The God Squad!

Selmar MacLeod: Is this going to stop anytime soon?
Kris Pathakos, Sr.: If it doesn't I'm going to have to start dropping fines!
Al Snow: Let 'em go!! I LOVE THIS!
Eamon Kelly: Come on, Edgecrushers! Beat their cyber asses!
*Everything goes black for five seconds*
SM: Oh, what the hell now?
*then the lights come back on, revealing Dean Chapman, Turan Efendiyev, Saint Max, Gabriel, and Paul Morgenstern*
SM: IT'S THE GOD SQUAD!!! DEAN CHAPMAN IS HERE!! TURAN IS HERE!!
AS: And Dredd just ordered the Efendiyev Twins into the back, but the Kimmoset aren't letting them leave!
*Dean Chapman catches Lord Dredd with a roundhouse kick, making him stumble backwards so that the backs of his knees hit a crouching Turan Efendiyev's shoulders. Turan pulls up and howls*
EK: Oh, he's in real trouble now!
SM: Tungsten tries to free his leader from the Alpha Wolf's clutches... *Dean Chapman lands a vicious kick to Tungsten's head* BRAIN FREEZE!!!
KPS, AS, EK, and Lucas Nicolle in unison: HE'S OUT!!
*Turan flips Dredd's torso up before sitting down and slamming him back-first into a pair of set-up steel chairs*
SM *growling slightly*: AND THERE'S THE LONE WOLF SLAM!! DREDD IS OUT!!
*Paul Morgenstern sets Fabrice Lacroix up for a powerbomb, then hooks his arms and slams him down through a nearby table, rapidly sitting down in the process*
SM: And Fabrice just got EXCOMMUNICATED!!
*Sookie Sam puts Han Ming-Sze on the top turnbuckle and sets him up for the finisher; Riku Kimmonen sets up another table*
AS: Sookie's got Han up! Sookie's got Han up!
KPS: And Riku just set up another table! This is not going to end well for The Machine!
*Sookie Sam falls, slamming Han through the table*
SM: TIMBERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
AS: And a spinebuster to Elkhan on the ramp! Yashar can't run anywhere! Turan is trying to talk some sense into him and Yashar won't have any of it...
*Yashar smacks his older brother in the mouth with a kendo stick*
SM: OOF! Turan just ate a faceful of Singapore cane! He tries again... *Dean Chapman grabs the stick in mid-swing and snatches it away from him* he gets intercepted by Dean Chapman... he tries to superkick Zekey, not smart, he got countered... *Zekey T wraps Yashar's right leg around his neck with his left hand and hangs on, puts a front facelock on him with his right and lifts him with that*
LN: CATTLE PROD INCOMING!!!
*Zekey T drops Yashar down in a brainbuster as Riku Kimmonen locks in a Figure Four Sharpshooter on Elkhan*
KPS: Alright, I think we've seen enough of this.
*KPS takes off headset* and grabs a microphone.

• Kris Pathakos then announces matches in light of the brawls that happened that night:
  • The Machine vs. Edgecrushers
    • "Toni Alves and Fabrice Lacroix are barred from the arena, as are The Dissidents"
      
    • "Kimmoset vs. The Efendiyev Twins in a hardcore tag team matchup"
      
    • "Han Ming-Sze's spot in the Cruiserweight Championship match is still set, but it will now be a Pentagon match! Zekey T, congratulations, you got yourself a title shot! Neither stable is to interfere in the match, and should they do so, the interfering member or members will be sent down to Tier 3, effective immediately!"
      
    • "Tungsten will face Hassan Saramankov in a Hardcore match - broad FCA rules!" This got an enthusiastic response from Al Snow in particular!
      
    • "And of course, the Championship match between Lord Dredd and Sookie Sam is still on, but now, it will be inside a doorless cell! And to make things even fairer, nobody - I mean absolutely bloody nobody - is allowed to interfere on the behalf of either combatant! Any disqualification will end the match, and if it's on Sookie's behalf, he loses his title!"
      
  •  The God Squad/The ACA vs. Prosperity - "The God Squad has its own fish to fry!"
    • "We're going to have three 3X3 matches! Two of those will involve the ACA and one will also include the God Squad - It's gonna be: Big A Wambo and the Weekenders, against Muhammad Abderamane and The Cleanup Guys, against Saints & Angels, and a mystery partner to be determined at the time of the match!"
      
    • "We're also going to see three ACA members - in fact, the two highest-ranking members, Général Bernard and Colonel Aristide, plus Robbie Irschick - take on A Legion Of Spiders and the group of Team Palestine and Zafir al-Qawad."
      
  •  The Beautiful People vs. whoever - "Don't think I've forgotten about that little stunt you pulled... five-on-one, you bunch of cowards!"
    • "All their women will take on the Trope Troupe and their special guest partner, Delina, in a Gang Warfare matchup!"
      
    • "All their men will be subject to a matchup against Team Lietuva! I don't care that they have a title match later that night! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!"
      

Card announced for Shindig - Sunday, 17 September 2023, Sofia, Bulgaria

• Kimmoset vs. The Efendiyev Twins (Hardcore match)
  
• The Abominations (new tag team; Seven and Kollector) vs. The Samoan Studs
  
• Samira vs. Angie van Eijkeren © for the Tier 2 Women's TV Title
  
• Big A Wambo and The Weekenders vs. Saints & Angels and a "mystery partner" vs. Muhammad Abderamane and The Cleanup Guys (3X3 match; modified hardcore match - Tier 1 wrestlers barred from ringside for duration of the match)
  
• Radko Bekesza vs. Raitis Janvāris vs. J-Shred © for the Tier 2 TV Title (Triple Threat match)
  
• A Legion Of Spiders vs. Team Palestine & Zafir al-Qawad vs. Anti-Corruption Army (represented by Général Bernard, Robbie Irschick, and Colonel Aristide)(3X3 Match)
  
• The Beautiful People (Théo Beaujean, Gamboa, and Jimmy Mboya) vs. Team Lietuva (Aurėlijus Maklėvičius, Adomas Kirvaitis, and Raimondas Žutautas)(Trios match, Standard Hardcore rules with narrow-rules FCA).
  
• Big O vs. Captain Redbeard © for the Tier 2 Hardcore Championship (Standard Hardcore match)
  
• Old School vs. The Mourit Triplets © for the Tier 2 Women's Tag Team Championship (Title can change hands due to DQ; one of the triplets must be barred from ringside)
  
• Galin Liapchev vs. Dom Adami vs. Manu vs. Sétanta for #1 Contender for Tier 2 Old World Championship at Total War in October
  
• Han Ming-Sze vs. Crash KTM vs. Armando vs. Zekey T vs. Danute © for the Tier 2 Cruiserweight Championship (Pentagon elimination match)
  
• Tungsten vs. Hassan Saramankov (Standard Hardcore match, broad rules-Falls Count Anywhere)
  
• Taiaho vs. Ilias Pathakos © for the Tier 2 Americas Championship
  
• Beauty And The Beast (Elfie and Jimmy Umaga) vs. The Odd Couple © for the Tier 2 Intergender Tag Championship
  
• Kai Attinen vs. Major Mitch © for the Tier 2 Old World Championship
  
• The Beautiful People (Sexy Streamer, Aaliyah, Saimi Attinen, Oksana Khvostova, and Irina Valdez) vs. Trope Troupe (Azumi Yoshida, Harumi Kitagawa, Kaori Niihara, and T-Star) and Delina (Gang Warfare match)
  
• Carlota vs. Ágata © for the Tier 2 Women's Championship
  
• The Efendiyev Twins vs. The New Livonian Order vs. Straight Outta GQ vs. Deathcore © for the Tier 2 Tag Team Championship (Four-way elimination match)
  
• MAIN EVENT: Lord Dredd vs. Sookie Sam © for the Tier 2 EWA Championship (Cell match; other members of Edgecrushers and The Machine barred from ringside, DQ can result in championship loss)
  

[Jarkko]

RESULTS FOR MAKE 'EM TAP, SATURDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 2023, NICOSIA, CYPRUS

• Hansel def. Yordan Velichkov by submission (submission match)
  
• Nate Radkov & Naiden Bogdanovič def. Adam Springsteen & Warren Maybury by submission.
  
• Jonny Armaghanyan def. "Rarotonga's Finest" Tua (pc), "Perth's Favourite Goon" Jacoby, and "The Terror From Tiraspol" Vadim Covalciuc to win the Tier 3 TV Title (Four-way elimination match; fifth reign)
  
• The Assassin def. Ioane Niko (pc) to win the Tier 3 Hardcore Championship
  
• The God Squad (represented by Spurgeon MacEachern and Dan Bonez) def. Red Dawn (Xiang Zhi-Han, Yap Kim-Hock, and Luke Ng) by pinfall (trios match)
  
• Amy McIver © def. Deirdre to retain the Tier 3 Women's TV Title
  
• The Santis def. The Flores Twins by pinfall
  
• The Morrisons © def. Serbsational to retain the Tier 3 Tag Team Championship
  
• Sigrid and Talia Lundmark def. Shenosis (pc) by submission to win the Tier 3 Women's Tag Team Championship (first reign)
  
• The Phantom def. Spurgeon MacEachern and Robert Mensik (pc) by pinfall to win the Tier 3 Old World Championship (fourth reign)
  
• Braydon McMahon  def. "The Afrikaner Bruiser" Rory Dean © and Jon Kabitana by submission to win the Tier 3 Americas Championship (Triple Threat submission match; second reign)
  
• The Temurjyan Brothers vs. The Water Creatures ended in a double countout
  
• The God Squad (represented by Big Xeno and Kim Jae-Hwa) def. The Asian Drub Foundation (represented by Kasia Mann and Michael Siddhu) (pc) by pinfall to win the Tier 3 Intergender Tag Team Championship; "And this packed crowd in Nicosia is going crazy for their native son!" - Selmar MacLeod.
  
• Crystal Woman def. Shii-Chan (pc) by submission for the Tier 3 Women's Championship (second reign)
  
• "The Klaipėda Kid" Egidijus Stravinskas def. "Africa's Favourite Luchador" Macie Ndong (pc) by submission to win the Tier 3 Cruiserweight Championship (first reign).
  
• "The Unblack Attack" Terje Grimseth def. "Champion Of The Norse" Rögnvaldur in "Viking Pyre" match (the first man to go through a flaming table loses). Said Al Snow, "Where's Joey [Styles] when you need him?"
  
• "The Kyrgyz Crippler" Zamir Bokoyev def. "The Guamaniac" Patrick Taitano, "The Black Mountain Boogeyman" Kristijan Bogišić, The Pharaoh, Stacks, and Viktors Rozentals to become #1 contender for the Tier 3 EWA Championship at Fields Of Blood in October (Hexagon elimination match)
  
• MAIN EVENT: Jamaal Andrews def. "The Lion From Lubumbashi" Raputo Kisimba by submission to win the Tier 3 EWA Championship (submission match, first reign)
  

RESULTS FOR EWA MANIACAL, 16 SEPTEMBER 2023, TBILISI, GEORGIA

• Contract signing - Asmat Makhashvili and Zviad Kavkasidze to debut in Tier 3 in November. "I can see why you left these signings for tonight, boss! This home crowd is popping!" - Silas McMorrigan
  
• Prosperity arrives, still nursing a few wounds from their brawl against The God Squad on Roughhousin'. They cut a promo to address their defeat, and they blame the fans for the loss as they "didn't have enough faith." The God Squad interrupts their promo to taunt them further, with Elijah really taking the lead, calling his older brother to repentance.
  
• Pavol Zeman def. Ari K by pinfall
  
• Nick Trentham, on his way out to a match, gives Hakan Berat his word that he and his stable will be "honourable to the utmost" in the leadup to Equinox, but he also warns the Cypriot Turk about the other two main contenders for his belt, and gives particular attention to Grigor Zagorakis.
  
• The Lords Of Lancashire (Nick Trentham and Trevor Hentham) def. The Azermenians (Shavo Gurzadian and Youri Abdayev) by submission; after the match, Prosperity's Jack Smith and Dok run out to attack only to be stymied by Eastern Orthodox (Oleg Kapetanov and Turan Efendiyev), the other tag team in the God Squad!
  
• A distraught Simon Magus wonders how the God Squadders seem to be a step or two ahead of their every move and begins to throw accusations around.
  
• Sapphira is approached by Antonio Sabatti with a "proposition" to have "protection" for her title match against Carly Jack. 
  
• Gordan Bogdanovič def. Joseph Ndali (pc) by pinfall to win the EWA TV Title (first reign); this was done with help from Prosperity members Ari Beye and Scarface.
  
• Nik Bogdanovič scolds his younger brother backstage for accepting the help of "heretics, thieves, and liars" and demands he give Ndali a rematch. After watching the tape (which he gets from backstage staff), he assents, only to have Simon Magus, Ari Beye, and Scarface jump them.
  
• Turan Efendiyev and Dean Chapman come out to address the situation concerning "The Machine," warning Lord Dredd that if he shows his face in Tier 1 again, Turan will not hold back. Turan also says he "will do whatever it takes to get [his] brothers back!" 
  
• Dion Prince def. Avi Kalan by pinfall.
  
• Ami Shimada def. Ronnie Brown (pc) by pinfall to win the EWA Women's TV Championship; there was indirect (non-DQable) interference from Jane George, who have a big #1 contender's match for the Women's Tag Titles coming up next Monday!
  
• Dean Chapman hears about Simon Magus' actions against the Bog Boys and says to "Execute Order 76."
  
• Sapphira © def. Carly Jack to retain the EWA Women's Championship; Sabrina from Fraternità interfered in the match.
  
• Proud of herself, Sapphira celebrates with new "bestie" Sabrina, but they are jumped backstage by Persephone, Apollyon, and Kristina Efendiyeva.
  
• Antonio Sabatti tries to confront a glowing-eyed Dean Chapman and gets Brain-Frozen (OOC: kicked in the head) for his troubles. When Giammarco Scibetta and Domenico Pocena accost him further down the hall, he runs at them, hits them with his Cossack Counter (split-legged double leg lariat), hits Giammarco with the Arctic Outflow (flipping piledriver) on the bare floor, and drags Domenico to the nearest table to put him through it with a Cold Snap. Joey Styles' remark is telling: "Big Dom through the table!! Dean Chapman is on a crusade now! Everybody, look out! ... Oh my GOD!"
  
• Bassam al-Wadud def. Giustino Travolta and Romulo Imperatorio; the Constanţius from Prosperity try to be sneaky and take him out, but Turan Efendiyev and Trevor Hentham were already prepared for them. Bassam now goes to Equinox to challenge for the EWA Cruiserweight Championship!
  
• Dean Chapman tries to attack Simon Magus, who flees, leaving Jack Smith and Scarface to deal with him; Joseph Ndali snaps and nails Scarface in the mid-section with a sledgehammer before hitting him with Last Rites, partially as payback for costing him the TV Title. As for Jack Smith, he is dragged out to the ring by the God Squad co-leader, where Dean Chapman cuts a short, threatening promo on both Prosperity and Fraternità before planting him into the steel chair he had in his other hand with the Cold Snap. "You will rue the day you crossed me, you apostates! And trust me when I say - The God Squad has allies ordained by the Almighty as well!" Who are these allies? Will we find out Monday in Bucharest?
  
• MAIN EVENT: Gerry Granger def. Žydrunas Janvāris and Giammarco Scibetta by pinfall to win the EWA Old World Title (second reign). Big Druno was not happy about this as Gerry Granger hit him with a low blow and pushed him out of the ring to take advantage of a clearly banged-up Scibetta with the Bristol Blackout. The Working Class Hooligans came out to celebrate with him, but also to prevent reprisal from Team Lietuva!
  

First matches announced for Equinox:

• Men's TV Title holder will face Tris Marks.
  
• Women's TV Title Champion will face Apollyon, Sabrina, Danae Pathakos, Kristina Machlas, and Carly Jack in a Hexagon Match.
  
• Newark Family Bidness (Dion and Randy Prince, c) will face the winner of an elimination match on Uprising (Wednesday) between The Bog Boys (Nikolaj and Gordan Bogdanovič) vs. The Po Bros (Domenico and Ciro Pocena) vs. Eastern Orthodoxy (Turan Efendiyev and Oleg Kapetanov) vs. Dok & Jack Smith for the EWA Tag Team Championship
  
• Kazuyoshi Takahashi © vs. Bassam al-Wadud and two more contenders to be determined by matches on Excelsior and Uprising, for the EWA Cruiserweight Championship. Match 1 is a Triple Threat match between Trevor Hentham, Eric Carlyle, and Wheelz; Match 2 is a Fatal Four-Way between Ricardo Benitez, Janne Myllyjärvi, Erkin Buzurbayev, and Vincent Fleury.
  
• Hakan Berat © vs. Arvydas Maklėvičius vs. Nick Trentham vs. Grigor Zagorakis for the EWA Americas Championship (Four-way elimination match)
  
• Gerry Granger © vs. Žydrunas Janvāris for the EWA Old World Championship (DQ will result in belt loss)
  
• Dean Chapman © vs. Simon Magus for the EWA Championship (DQ from outside interference only, will result in belt loss)
  

Among the booked events for Monday, we have a TV Title brouhaha planned for the main event, but not before Joseph Ndali teams up with the Bog Boys to take on Simon Magus, Ari Beye, and Scarface in the show's opener! The Hexagon match will see Gordan defend his title against Ndali, as well as Devin Elliss, Gahiji Kayibanda, Arik Ginzburg, and Bruce Stuart. Dean Chapman has a non-title match planned against Antonio Sabatti. The new Red Power faction will make its debut, and its "Strong and Proud" tag team, Jane George and Carly Jack, are set to face KoldChix, Pathachicks, and The Croatian Sisterhood in an elimination match to be #1 contenders for Special Forces' Women's tag belts.

Tomorrow night, Shindig, the Tier 2 pay-per-view!

[Jarkko]

RESULTS FOR EWA SHINDIG, 17 SEPTEMBER 2023, SOFIA, BULGARIA

• Kimmoset def. The Efendiyev Twins by pinfall (Hardcore match); Riku Kimmonen debuts a new finisher, the “EMP” (a double hammerlock piledriver)!
  
• The Abominations (Seven and Kollector) def. The Samoan Studs (Tama Nimo and Iopa Misa) by submission.
  
• Paul Morgenstern and Saints & Angels confront the celebrant demonic duo, saying, "We'll be watching."
  
• Angie van Eijkeren © def. Samira by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 Women's TV Title.
  
• Saints & Angels and "mystery partner"/newest God-Squadder Japhet al-Nazr def. Big A Wambo and The Weekenders (Kwame G and Kwasi Asamoah), and Muhammad Abderamane and The Cleanup Guys (Jabrail and Farshaan) (3X3 match; modified hardcore match - Tier 1 wrestlers barred from ringside for duration of the match); this ends up a bit controversial as The God Squad and the ACA don't lay a finger on each other in the entire match!
  
• Kris Pathakos, Sr. fields an angry phone call from Simon Magus, who accused him of siding against him and “persecuting” him. Kris Senior fires back that Simon Magus and his stable's tactics caused this mess in the beginning.
  
• Raitis Janvāris def. Radko Bekesza and J-Shred (pc) by pinfall to win the Tier 2 TV Title (Triple Threat match, second reign).
  
• Anti-Corruption Army (Général Bernard, Robbie Irschick, and Colonel Aristide) def. A Legion Of Spiders (Spider-Mata, Supaida, and Anansi) and Team Palestine (Ali Ishaq Abdul-Jabir and El Palestino) & Zafir al-Qawad by pinfall. (3X3 Match)
  
• Team Lietuva (Aurėlijus Maklėvičius, Adomas Kirvaitis, and Raimondas Žutautas) def. The Beautiful People (Théo Beaujean, Gamboa, and Jimmy Mboya) by submission (Trios match, Standard Hardcore rules with narrow-rules FCA). Beaujean is (kayfabe) injured after being put in Žutautas' "Lockbox" finisher.
  
• Big O def. Captain Redbeard (pc) by pinfall for the Tier 2 Hardcore Championship (Standard Hardcore match).
  
• Old School def. The Mourit Triplets (pc) by pinfall to win the Tier 2 Women's Tag Team Championship (Sahba opts to stay in the back; second reign)
  
• In the back, Sahba is caught kissing Nassim Toual by Safa and Salifah; they proceed to chew her out for being "more interested in a guy than in the fact your sisters just lost," to which Sahba insists she had no choice in the matter.
  
• Sétanta def. Galin Liapchev, Dom Adami, and Manu for #1 Contender for Tier 2 Old World Championship at Total War (Four-way elimination).
  
• Crash KTM def. Han Ming-Sze, Armando, Zekey T, and Danute (pc) for the Tier 2 Cruiserweight Championship (Pentagon elimination match); note: Zekey T and Han Ming-Sze were eliminated by double countout.
  
• The fight between Zekey and Mr. Han continues in the back and ends when Zekey Cattle Prods him into a large garbage dumpster. “Just where Clicker trash like you belongs!”
  
• Hassan Saramankov def. Tungsten by pinfall in the arena parking lot (Standard Hardcore match, broad rules-Falls Count Anywhere); he ended up having help from Zekey T, and after winning by hitting a Dust Devil into the rail around the mezzanine and pinning him, Saramankov powerbombed Tungsten into the same dumpster that Han Ming-Sze was put in earlier.
  
• Taiaho def. Ilias Pathakos (pc) by pinfall for the Tier 2 Americas Championship (second reign).
  
• Beauty And The Beast (Elfie and Jimmy Umaga) def. The Odd Couple (Paul Morgenstern and Eva Clark)(pc) for the Tier 2 Intergender Tag Championship; Clark hit Morgenstern with brass knuckles when he tried to tag her in, confusing Umaga and infuriating Elfie. Umaga went for the pin anyway.
  
• Afterwards, Clark announces that she has joined Prosperity.
  
• Major Mitch © def. Kai Attinen by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 Old World Championship
  
• Trope Troupe (Azumi Yoshida, Harumi Kitagawa, Kaori Niihara, and T-Star) and Delina def. The Beautiful People (Sexy Streamer, Aaliyah, Saimi Attinen, Oksana Khvostova, and Irina Valdez) in Gang Warfare match; Oksana Khvostova and Sexy Streamer both injured (SS in kayfabe, Oksana legit as Delina botched the Deleter and broke her arm – diagnosis was a fractured humerus, and even with biobed treatment she’ll be out of action for a month).
  
• Carlota def. Ágata (pc) by pinfall for the Tier 2 Women's Championship; afterwards, she announces that she is done with being Eva Clark’s partner after how she treated Paul Morgenstern.
  
• Clark attacks Carlota in the locker room, (kayfabe) injuring her.
  
• The New Livonian Order (Raitis Janvāris and Dārius Kārdijevs) def. The Efendiyev Twins, Straight Outta GQ (Gamboa and Théo Beaujean) and Deathcore (J-Shred and Heavy Devy) (pc) by pinfall for the Tier 2 Tag Team Championship (Four-way elimination match)
  
• The Efendiyev Twins are abducted after the match and crammed into the back of a former police car; one of the abductors remains behind and unmasks himself, revealing himself to be their older brother Turan Efendiyev. “It’s for your own good!” he declares. With Toni Alves and Fabrice Lacroix not present and Han and Tungsten still in the trash bin, Lord Dredd is effectively isolated.
  
• MAIN EVENT: Sookie Sam © def. Lord Dredd by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 EWA Championship (Cell match; other members of Edgecrushers and The Machine barred from ringside); after the match, after celebrating a bit with his belt, Sam grabs a mic and simply says, “I’m not done yet!” He then drags Dredd through the backstage area and the fan entries into the same parking lot where Tungsten and Han were binned, on the mezzanine above the same trash bin, singing “Shock” by Fear Factory and slamming Dredd into random things as he goes. The last words on the show are “Go to Hell!” before Sookie jackknife-powerbombs Dredd down into the trash bin. He then flags a (kayfabe) garbage truck, driven by Turan Efendiyev, to come and take them away. Even if they haven’t won EWA’s "Metal Wars" necessarily, the Machine has been seriously crippled.
  

[Jarkko]

RESULTS FOR EWA EXCELSIOR, 18 SEPTEMBER 2023, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

• Prosperity comes into the ring, and Simon Magus goes off on a rant about how the EWA Board have become “enemies of God” for allowing the events of Shindig, where members of The God Squad and the Anti-Corruption Army basically double-teamed their members and didn’t lay a finger on one another.
  • They are interrupted by Kris Pathakos, Jr., who basically repeats what Kris Senior said Sunday as it was happening, but also adds a threat – any further discussion of the matter “outside the appropriate channels” will lead to actual punishment. But he lists every time in the last few months that he and his father could have punished them officially but chose not to, rather hoping that they’d “get their asses kicked by someone you genuinely wronged.”
    
• Backstage, Žydrunas Janvāris thanks Kris Junior for allowing him a rematch, even if it’s in another Triple Threat match.
  
• Sookie Sam def. DJ Jojo Roti by pinfall; Joey Styles states that he was “very impressed” by Sam’s performance at Shindig both during and after the match against Lord Dredd and that he was glad to see the “lovable mascot” side of him again, albeit in Tier 1.
  
• Joseph Ndali and the Bog Boys (Nikolaj and Gordan Bogdanovič) def. Simon Magus, Ari Beye, and Scarface by disqualification, with members of The God Squad being forced to drag Joseph Ndali out of the main arena to prevent him from going completely mental on Scarface after the latter starts reefing on Nikolaj Bogdanovič with a steel chair – the referee comes to in time to catch him in the act, hence the DQ. One highlight of the match sees Ndali hit a slingshot Destroyer on Simon Magus.
  
• Fedil Haxhari confronts Scarface backstage, saying that he’s become “a dark shadow of [his] old self” and that he has “condemned [himself] to eternal second-fiddle status under Simon Magus.”
  
• Rachel Gerhardt def. Rosa Pathakos by pinfall. After the match, Kris Senior says he has to “attend to some business.”
  
• Turan Efendiyev arrives and is told by Shavo Gurzadian that “the bosses” are looking for him.
  • He arrives at their office to see a fuming Gordan Bogdanovič slam the door open and stomp out.
    
  • He learns that, while the administration realizes the threat of The Machine, he still technically broke EWA rules – not in his actions towards his brothers, which were perfectly justified, but in his actions towards Lord Dredd, Tungsten, and Han Ming-Sze at the end of the PPV. So he has been fined and may possibly miss Equinox as a result.
    
• Gabazon def. (pc) Ami Shimada by pinfall to win the Women’s TV Title (fifth reign)
  
• Getting increasingly desparate, Simon Magus tries to recruit the Croatian Brotherhood to his cause, and the response is less than favourable. Goran puts it best: “We see what you’ve been doing, Simon Maggot. We know you’re in cahoots with the !@#$-Mob (Fraternità). Lemme give you some advice. Quit while you’re still alive. Because if the rumours are true, both of y’all’s little stables are going to get your !@#$ing heads kicked in. Or beat in. Whatever. Now get the hell out of here before I Gore your ass through the door.”
  
• Bohdán Váněk def. Benny Thorvaldssen by pinfall.
  
• Persephone def. Sabrina by submission.
  
• Renata Valenzuela interviews Turan Efendiyev and Oleg Kapetanov backstage about the prospects of them missing Equinox. Oleg admits that he’d be annoyed if they missed, but that the Lords of Lancashire could take their place should that happen.
  
• En-route to his next match, Turan is jumped by Dok and severely beaten.
  
• Minas Tenkerian def. Turan Efendiyev by countout as a result; Kris Senior is livid by the time he gets back to the announce table, and grabs a mic.
  • “Prosperity, your antics have gone on long enough! The next one of you to interfere with a match will be suspended indefinitely! Dok, get your ass out here, now!”
    
• Dok comes out with a smug grin on his face, until he finds out a) that any chance of Turan being suspended is now gone b) he will be facing Goran Šimeunovič in a hardcore match!
  • Goran, in the back, is actually excited about this, but he asks the Croatian Brotherhood to be on standby just in case any of the “blabbit-grabbit !@#$ers” tries to interfere in spite of Kris Senior’s threat
    
• Wheelz def. Trevor Hentham and Eric Carlyle to win a shot at the EWA Cruiserweight Championship at Equinox.
  
• Mattias Vlahos def. Vaško Prodanović by pinfall.
  
• Renata Valenzuela attempts to interview Nick Trentham, but Jack Smith crashes their interview, and in trying to hit Trentham instead KO’s Valenzuela, infuriating the announce team and Renata’s cousin Stanislao, who storms out to the ring and demands a match against Jack Smith to defend his family’s honour.
  
• Stanislao Valenzuela def. Jack Smith by submission; he has to have Kris Senior convince him to let go of the modified Gory Special he has locked in.
  
• Ana Mirković def. Akiko Sakaki by submission.
  
• Dean Chapman def. Antonio Sabatti by knockout; the real moment of the match didn’t even involve either of the contestants though, as Domenico Pocena and Giammarco Scibetta tried to intervene... and a returning Andros Pathakos burst his way through the entry ramp, sending Joey Styles into a fit and causing Kris Senior to laugh. “He said they had allies!” Even the 7’6” Pocena and 7’5” Scibetta are terrified by the return of the giant, and try to flee, only to have their path blocked by Željko Miljanović and Nikica and Franjo Antolašić. Andros runs up the ramp and nails Giammarco with a Big Boot just as the bell rings to end the match, and Dean Chapman jumps out of the ring and runs like a man possessed to jump and nail Pocena with a Snowstorm (a reverse Frankensteiner). Then the biggest OMG moment – Andros Pathakos takes both Scibetta and Pocena by the throat, dives off the stage, and Slam Dunks the two Fraternità giants through two different sets of tables. Cue Joey Styles: “OH MY GOD!!!” As Andros gets up and roars triumphantly, he and his “respected archrival” Dean Chapman shake hands.
  
• Andros then cuts a promo. “From the moment we first butted heads in 2005, we have been the most consistent rivals this company has ever known. But there has always been such a level of respect between us that neither of us would dream of adopting the kind of tactics that Simon Magus and those who follow his heresy have in the last year. You know full well that I myself was a victim of those tactics six months ago, just so Simon didn’t have to face me. But now I’m back. I may never join the God Squad, but I will stand by their side, the side of the Croatian Brotherhood, and the side of the Anti-Corruption Army in Tier 2, until Prosperity is brought to its hands and knees! And what’s more, I will join with you, Dean Chapman, as a tag team, until that point in time!” Silas’ response is golden: “!@#$ing hell! Dean Chapman and Andros Pathakos as a tag team? God help anyone who gets in their way!”
  
• Strong And Proud def. Pathachicks, KoldChix, and The Croatian Sisterhood to become the #1 contenders for the EWA Women’s Tag Team Championship.
  
• Goran Šimeunović def. Dok by pinfall... after he puts the Nigerian through no fewer than four tables! The fans were chanting "E-C-Dub" and Joey was loving it! 
  
• MAIN EVENT: Joseph Ndali def. Gordan Bogdanovič (pc), Devin Elliss, Gahiji Kayibanda, Arik Ginzburg, and Bruce Stuart. After the match, Gordan and Joseph shake hands, and Gordan raises Joseph’s hands – then he reveals in a promo that the Bulgarian Bullies are also taking a stand against Prosperity and Fraternità.
  
  This is going to make for a very interesting Uprising! With it now confirmed that Andros Pathakos and the Bulgarians are on the God Squad's side and the Croatian Brotherhood more or less outing themselves thus, this sounds like the setup for a massive Gang Warfare match at Equinox next Sunday! Dean Chapman and Andros Pathakos - dubbed "The Unstoppables" by Silas McMorrigan - have a tag-team match booked against Domenico Pocena and Giammarco Scibetta. Joseph Ndali will defend his newly re-earned TV Title against Scarface, with the rest of Prosperity barred from ringside and the threat over Scarface's head that he will be suspended indefinitely if he cheats; Gabazon will defend her Women's TV Title against MiMi; the main event will see Simon Magus warm up for Equinox against Goran Šimeunović!
  

[Jarkko]

DAVE MELTZER LAYS DOWN HIS PROMOTION/RELEGATION PREDICTIONS

Longtime wrestling pundit Dave Meltzer is known for being opinionated. But oftentimes those opinions are respectable. So he decided to chime in with who he thinks the EWA's promotion and relegation candidates are.

"For those who have never really gotten into the EWA, they have a system where at the end of each year they factor in fan response and overall wrestling and mic-work ability (sometimes they are lopsidedly good at one or the other and that keeps them afloat), and whoever's at the bottom of tiers 1 and 2 will drop to 2 or 3 respectively, and whoever is as the top of 2 or 3 goes up to 1 or 2. Barring retirements, here's how it's arranged:

5 heavyweight men
2 cruiserweight men
3 women

Now when there are retirements, there is a decision that must be made - do they add to the promotions or deduct from the relegations? I bring this up because two EWA old-schoolers are actually on the verge of retiring from wrestling - one of them is Kris Pathakos, Junior, who plans to become a full-time boardsman who will be active on shows but not as a wrestler. The other is Lydia Pathakos, who was already married to Stephen Pathakos by the time she started with the company in early 2006 - she is older sister to "The Insane Thessalonian" Dominik Alexandros, and to one of the greatest women's wrestlers of all-time in Gabazon - real name Gabriella Žabranič. Not entirely Hall-Of-Fame worthy if the EWA even had one, but she has won the Women's Tag titles twice with her younger sister and the Intergender Tag belts three times with her more decorated husband.

Lydia has already stated that Winter War will feature her last match. But as for when Junior plans to leave his boots in the ring, that's a bit more up in the air. He has been sporadic in his competition since the promotion's tenth anniversary celebration at Soul Survivor in 2015, and the last time he won any gold at all was in 2017, when he won his eighth and to date last TV title - as for major titles, he hasn't held any since November 2011 when he lost his third and final Americas Championship to Sebastian Brown. Given his age, it wouldn't be surprising to see him come up with a few more matches before he finally hangs them up, so I'm factoring this into my final decision and I'm going to have the option for a sixth heavyweight man open. Obviously, there will be four women coming up from Tier 2 rather than just three when the switchover is made next February.

But first, we have to discuss who is going down from Tier 1:

Heavyweight Men

5. Kjetil Magnussen. Chet isn't bad technically, but the self-styled New Age Viking really isn't that interesting a character, and he's been as low as a Tier-2 mid-carder before. What this means for his tag partner Kennet Kjetilssen and his younger sister Nina remains to be seen. The difference between him and a guy like John Crane is that boring wrestling is literally part of Crane's gimmick, but his technique is actually a lot broader than Magnussen's, who has a couple of nice-looking but simple finishers but his move repertoire is nothing to write home about.

4. Giustino Travolta. Both of The Wiseguys find their way onto this list, Travolta being the heavyweight of the two. He's not as far down this list because he is quite a good technical wrestler, but unlike his diminutive partner he struggles somewhat in the air and doesn't have the flashiest moveset. The tag team hasn't really been able to get over.

3, 2, and 1 - the entire Cymru stable except Floyd. I'm sorry, but Cymru as a stable just lacks a certain something. They are all technically solid, and Martin and Trefor Llanfair have been in Tier 1 since they joined in 2009, but personally, I find their moveset to be more boring than Drew Gulak's, and Floyd and Olwen are literally the only ones in that entire stable that know how to cut a good promo. Brendan Ross has been little more than a jobber since he came to Tier 1 in 2015. He still has some untapped potential, but he won't realize it in Tier 1, not yet anyway.

Cruiserweight Men - these were easier, I found.

2. Pietro Salvatore. Like tag partner Giustino Travolta, he's a bit of a one-trick pony, although in his case that bodes even worse, because aerial wrestlers without that many slams or holds don't tend to wow the fans like they used to. He is okay on the mic, much like his tag team partner. The Wiseguys actually have a bit of a cult following, but they've never been really able to get over per se.

1. Alec Dundas. I know there are lower-rated men's wrestlers, even including Dundas' tag partner Kieran MacArtair (who also needs a better finisher), but Kieran can at least cut promos decently. Dundas really needs to work on his promo game - he's on par with lower-mid-carders in Tier 2.

Women - Although Sha-Boogie isn't the best in the ring, she is improving, to her credit, and it's her mic skills and charisma that perennially keep her in the top level. So she won't be on this list.

(3. Leila Váňková or Sheena. If they choose to go the "extra promotion" route, they'll have to pick between these two. Sha-Boogie is too popular, Scary Sally was coming off a bad year when she got dinged with her career-worst rating, and the Portishead product is likely to go back up quite a bit next year, Anita started turning around about March-ish, and Sapphira is such a good villain that the board members behind the final move would be lynched if they moved her! Leila, who is Grigor Zagorakis' older sister and wife to Bohdán Váněk, is starting to show her age; even though her technique is still very good, she is slowing down. She would actually make a good coach when she finally decides to hang up her boots for good. Sheena, on the other hand, had a bit of a sloppy start to 2023 and ended up injuring herself, and since coming back she's been really playing it safe.)

2. Rhiannon. Floyd Llanfair-Ross' wife in and out of the ring is an above-average wrestler with kind of a weak-looking finisher, but her promo skills are what you'd expect from someone in Tier 3 - this combination has made her a yoyo talent of sorts, and she's been kind of a jobber this year.

1. Alice Fleury. She had a really bad year in 2023. She hasn't been booked to win a single match, she has botched several moves that she should have hit easily (even injuring Nadja in the process back in February), and she has struggled with her conditioning. Of the wrestlers on the list, she may be the only one to accept a double drop, if only to get her self back to 100%. It's a pity, too, because when she's good, she's quite good. And her mic work, while not stellar, is about average for Tier 1.

Who is going up from Tier 2

Heavyweight Men

(6. If Junior does retire in time for the promotion and they go the extra promotion route, I'd be torn as to which seasoned veteran I'd like to see return to Tier 1 - Ilias Pathakos? Kai Attinen? KD Chase? Supaida? Japhet al-Nazr and the Kimmoset have both said they will turn down promotion - Kimmoset to continue their feud against The Machine and Japhet to "help the young 'uns some more." But there are also a couple of wrestlers who have never been in Tier 1 and probably should be at this point. Captain Redbeard is hesitant to go up because he feels his current gimmick and stable haven't run their course yet. Tama Nimo says he's not going up unless it's with his current tag partner Iopa Misa - who in fairness is quite good in his own right. J-Shred and Heavy Devy want to stay a tag team as well. The highest guys open to it that I think are ready for it are Jabrail, Robbie Irschick, and The Reaper. So it's anyone's guess who will join the following five.)

5. Major Mitch. Although the charismatic Général Bernard is the main mouthpiece of the Anti-Corruption Army, Mitch is unquestionably their most talented member. He can cut decent promos in his own right and his powerful slams get the oohs and aahs of the crowd. And he's quite charismatic as well. Women absolutely love him, with his chiselled physique and pleasant demeanour towards fans. Regardless of whether it happens this year or next, he'll be in Tier 1 in no time, mark my words!)

4 Paul Morgenstern. The Menacing Mennonite is actually being booked as if he's leaving Tier 2. I mean, why else split up his popular intergender tag team partnership with Eva Clark and have her "go to the dark side?" Unlike ECW's Roadkill, whom he was somewhat heavily based on, he can cut a pretty lengthy promo, but it's mainly his power move set coupled with a couple surprising aerials and some good mat technique that make him ideal for Tier 1. 

3. Seven. Newer to the EWA, Seven (real name Sevan Andranikyan, a Lebanese of Armenian descent) is known for his demonic-looking and often colour-saturated promos; unlike his new BFF Kollector, he was naturally good at promos from the get-go, and were it not for Lord Dredd he might have been considered the best mic-worker in the tier! He is also a very good wrestler. He brings the power moves that you'd expect for a man of his size, but he also has a fair bit of mat technique and even some striking technique beyond the level of your garden-variety brawler! 

2. Lord Dredd. His "The Machine" stable may not last beyond next January, but Dredd has proven himself a more compelling villain than expected for someone based on 80s sci-fi cheese! Samira's attempt to help him reclaim his humanity in the early part of the year and his recent unorthodox "recruitment" of several wrestlers to found the "Machine" stable are some high points. He is genuinely menacing on the mic with his deep voice and slight Persian accent. Wrestling under his real name (Kadreddin Nabiyev) in the early 2010s, the manic Dredd-Head later in that decade, and finally as The Will Of The Machine, this Tajik-Canadian is actually quite a creative thinker, and may overhaul his gimmick when he finally gets his well-deserved promotion.

1. Sookie Sam. Matt Martin may have to tweak his town-mascot gimmick a little, but the Sooke native has already wrestled in Tier 1, as is sometimes done, and he has a surprisingly well-rounded arsenal of moves for someone who goes 6'6" and around 290 pounds! I mean come on, in his match against DJ Jojo Roti on this week's Excelsior, he hit a flawlessly executed corkscrew moonsault! His promo skills have also improved dramatically this year, leading to him being booked in some of the best feuds from Tier 2 in 2023, most recently the founding of the Edgecrushers to combat The Machine. He'd actually be a really good fit for Red Power, the Indigenous North American stable that recently added Nick Matthew and AJ Sandoval as members in Tier 2, but even if he doesn't join them, he has the tools to really be a star, not unlike Vyacheslav Antropov did in his meteoric rise from Tier 3 to winning major titles in Tier 1! There are a lot of similarities between those two and I'd like to see a feud between them!

Cruiserweight Men

2. Général Bernard. The charismatic and virtuous leader of the Anti-Corruption Army, I don't think I've seen anyone do a more compelling face over such a long period of time than Bernard Lamizana. The Burkinabé cruiserweight is an eight-time Tier 2 Cruiserweight Champion, putting him equal with Supaida and current Tier 1 wrestler Vincent Fleury for the most on the books. But what sets him apart from those two is that his longest reign is longer than those of the other two put together, and at one point was the tier record before it was beaten by another current Tier 1 talent, The Djinn. (Sure, Djinn obliterated the record, which was 7 months, by holding it for 16!) Honestly, though, he isn't just all charisma, but he has a fairly well-balanced in-ring skillset as well.

1. Kollector. Another Canadian resident, having come to Canada as a refugee from Somalia, Kollector (real name Siad Farah) is actually one of the most enduring horror-based characters in the EWA, being able to get away with minimal promo-cutting in his early years through amazing character acting as the zombie-like "Devourer of Souls," who debuted in 2010. Having come achingly close to Tier 1 promotion several times, I think this is finally his year. Although one of his finishers is a mandible claw, he actually has an assortment of other submission holds and is pretty good in the air. He could use some better slams, though. Still, in the immortal words of Eli Drake, to refuse him ascension to the top level would make you a "DUMMY! YEAH!"

Women

4. Elfie. She's been Tier 2 for most of her career, spending just a single year in Tier 3 at her debut and getting promoted after wowing the crowds with her athleticism. She's among the most-Googled EWA wrestlers when it comes to image pics, because let's face it, this diminutive Austrian is hot. But she's no dumb blonde bimbo - the self-styled "Mistress of the Mountains" is one of the best aerial wrestlers in Tier 2 and possibly the best non-luchadora aerial wrestler among women, plus she has enough mat technique to balance that out. Her slams are pretty limited because of her small frame, but she can rattle off a mean Tornado DDT. And she's actually good on the mic and a good actress. Case in point - when she flipped out on Eva Clark for stabbing Paul Morgenstern in the back on Excelsior this past Monday!

3. Ágata. Amazing wrestler and all-around good luchadora who could very easily compete against men in the cruiserweight division. Maybe not as physically strong as someone like Danute, but makes up for it with speed, aerial ability, some mat technique, and a pretty good arsenal of slams. I like her gimmick, too - it's referencing mystery author Agatha Christie, whom she supposedly actually enjoys reading IRL! "The Big Reveal" - her double-overhook mat slam - was named Fans' Choice move of the Year twice - 2016 in Tier 3 and 2018 in Tier 2. And she has a decent-sized proverbial trophy case - two-time Tier 3 Women's Champion, two-time Tier 2 Women's Champion, and two-time Tier 2 Women's TV Champion, plus she has been #1 contender for the Tier 2 Cruiserweight Championship once as well!

2. Angie van Eijkeren. Let's be honest with ourselves. She was only ever sent down because of her out-of-ring injuries suffered during the 2020 season, and she needed time not just to heal up but to "get her groove back" so to speak, not unlike Japhet al-Nazr. She was a regular in the upper-mid-card to upcard for more or less her entire career before that and she has definitely gotten her game back. It's a pity it'll mean ending such an epic streak - she is actively in the midst of the longest EWA Women's TV Title streak for any tier - but it'll mean she can tag back up with younger sister Linn in the Women's Tag division (she's a one-time champ) and maybe also with older brother Sebastian in mixed tag in a setup similar to Newark Family Bidness!

1. Danute. Sister to Arvydas and Aurėlijus Maklėvičius. Wife to Wacław Iwański. AMAZING in-ring performer, such that she wins against men. It's time for her to go up to Tier 1 after a very successful Tier 2 career spanning nine years and including seven Women's Championships (third all-time in Tier 3 with behind Ruth Chisiza's eight and Nadja's ten and both are now in Tier 1), a Cruiserweight Championship, and a Tier 2 record seven Intergender Tag titles with younger brother Aurėlijus. I think she's more than deserving - she's been high on the depth chart for years now. 

Who is going down from Tier 2

Most of the wrestlers from this list simply came up too quickly and should have stayed down in Tier 3. There is one that had a very bad year in 2022 though.

Heavyweight Men

5. Sven Halk. Still needs to work on that whole "getting over" thing. Other than his finisher he's a dime-a-dozen jobber. He was rushed into Tier 2, plain and simple.

4. Marco Robano. He's the one that just had a bad year, and a year in Tier 3 could help him regain his composure.

3. Yakubu Egbe. To his credit, he is improving, but a little time in Tier 3 might speed up his progress a little.

2. Jakob Strand. A perennial jobber, Jakob could be more, but he needs to find his "thing" first. He also has a reputation for being sloppy with his Supplanter finisher, and the injury that it caused Kennan Aroi early in the year may have kept him out for much longer were it not for the biobed technology! 

1. The Great Khan. Mr. Ochirbal needs to find a new gimmick, because "The Great Khan" not only has not gotten over, but has gotten backstage heat from Chinese and Russian wrestlers and fans. Not everybody is as enthusiastic about Mongolian history and folklore as worldwide fans of Mongolian folk metal are. 

Cruiserweight Men

2. Sansone. He hasn't really done much of anything on TV this year, and his house shows have been at best average. Needs more dev time.

1. Pala Dolkar. I don't think I've seen a sloppier guy in EWA, even in Tier 3. He is fairly charismatic and has some solid aerial moves, but he's also botched a number of spots this year. He needs to tighten up some more.

Women

3. Foluke. Still has some untapped potential and some charisma, but really needs to tighten up.

2. Teresa Santoso. Had a lousy year. It didn't help that she tore ligaments in her right ankle when trying to suicide dive Anelis by getting her foot caught in the ropes.

1. Sanyu. Rushed into Tier 2, plain and simple. She really needs to broaden her moveset and get better at taking falls.

Wrestlers coming up from Tier 3

Just a note in advance: We have had six consecutive years where wrestlers who were plainly too good for this tier were promoted. Started with Slava Antropov and Ash Stevenson back in 2018 (now in Tier 1), then Sookie Sam (2019), Lloyd McAndrews (eventually Captain Redbeard) and Paul Morgenstern (2020), Jabrail, Akiko Sakaki, and Sexy Streamer (2021), Nassim Toual and Kaori Niihara (2022), and Azumi Yoshida (2023). That trend shows no sign of slowing down and I think this could be another year where at least three of the ten promoted wrestlers are so obvious it's ridiculous!

Heavyweight Men

5. Jonny Armaghanyan, Tua, or The Phantom. It might seem controversial having Jonny A in this mix, but I honestly think he has the most potential of the three. The other two are largely silent heels, but the Armenian-Canadian Armaghanyan can really cut a promo. I'd like to see Phantom get some experience at cutting serious promos before he gets bumped up. Tua is insanely strong but has a few major flaws in his in-ring ability. 

4. Robert Mensik. Big Bobby has been languishing for too long in Tier 3. He holds the Tier 3 record for most times (5) being #1 contender for the Tier 3 EWA Title without actually winning it, but it is more telling that he is a 3-time Tier 3 Old World Champion, a 2-time Tier 3 Americas Champion, and a 2-time Tier 3 Hardcore Champion. This is his year to go up.

3. Zamir Bokoyev. I'd actually have his tag partner in the top ten as well for heavyweights, maybe around sixth or seventh. If they go up as a package I wouldn't be surprised in the least, but Bokoyev is definitely the superior of the two and is being touted as the next Bryan Danielson, so good is his technical wrestling. He does need to improve his promos to get to Tier 1, but he's absolutely Tier 2 material and has an excellent in-ring skillset.

2. Jamaal Andrews. If Raputo Kisimba is Xavier Woods or Kofi Kingston, Jamaal is Big E, with more of a focus on power. While not the "official leader" of the Caribbean Connection faction (that is Denzel Bryant), he might as well be because he is far and away the best wrestler of the lot, and he can cut a good enough promo for Tier 2. 

1. Raputo Kisimba. While he's no Sookie or Slava, "The Lion From Lubumbashi" has too much mic skill to be stuck in Tier 3, and as demonstrated by his two cross-tier matches this year, he can handle Tier 2 pretty easily. He is a pretty balanced wrestler skillset-wise and his flashy gimmick influenced by his heritage and charisma make him a perennial fan fave at the lowest tier.

Cruiserweight Men

2. Estevão Donato Rocha. I think that Stevie is probably going to stick around another year in Tier 3 but he should be going up. A potential replacement for him would be Rolando Ferrer, as Macie Ndong (who recently lost the belt to Egidijus Stravinskas) has turned it down in hopes of pursuing the record for most Tier 3 Cruiserweight championships - he sits tied second with Ferrer behind Tier 2's Ganya Montshiwa with three, two shy of the record. Donato Rocha is no slouch either, being a two-time Cruiserweight champ, a two-time TV Champ, and even a one-time Old World Champ in Tier 3!

1. Egidijus Stravinskas. I'm not sure why this guy never got a Tier 3 EWA Championship push. I think he'd make a great tag team with Romulo Imperatorio as they have very similar gimmicks, although "The Klaipėda Kid's" costume is not nearly as colorful as "The Lithuanian Luchador's." But he has great athleticism and charisma, and cuts a good promo. When the ratings update drops in January, I can guarantee you that Strav's going to top Tier 3. STUPID obvious promotion. He's almost Tier 1 calibre already! To his credit, he is the current holder of the Tier 3 Cruiserweight Championship, the first of many major title reigns, I'd imagine! He is also a three-time Tier 3 TV Champion. The rumour mill has him being booked for Americas Championship matches at the end of the year, so we'll see! He's still quite new in the EWA, having only joined in mid-2021.

Women

3. Astra Janvāre. The younger sister of Raitis Janvāris and cousin to Lithuanians Žydrunas and Kaspars Janvāris and Viktore, you could say wrestling is a bit of a family affair for her! She is a six-time Tier 3 Women's Champ and at an even six feet tall is quite imposing within the division. She is also quite balanced in her wrestling arsenal, having power moves, flying attacks, submission holds, and even a few jiujitsu strikes taught to her by her martial-arts master of a cousin! 

2. Shii-Chan. Let neither her age nor her EWA-low height fool you. Shii-Chan is a firecracker. And she's still very young (25), giving her plenty of time to develop further. Steeped in the tradition of puroresu, she has begun to branch out from this into certain MMA and lucha libre techniques. I could see her staying in Tier 2 for a few years, but her spunky demeanour and her technical capabilities have her already good enough to be in Tier 2.

1. Sonya Craig - loooooooooooooong overdue. She should have been in Tier 1 by now. But it's mainly on her that she isn't given how she's wanted to really build momentum going in. But let's look at her resume: A record nine-time EWA Tier 3 Women's champion, and rumour has it she's being booked to win title #10 in October; one of just two wrestlers to have held both Tier 3 Women's and Women's TV Championships at the same time (the other is Nikki Kazakis, who has pre-emptively refused promotion for the second year in a row), and holds the record for the longest reign as Tier 3 Intergender Champion with The Phantom. She is beyond good enough for promotion. On a side note, it would be kinda neat if she and The Phantom both got promoted, because in terms of in-ring work they work well together!

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RESULTS, EWA UP-AND-COMING, 19 SEPTEMBER 2023, TIRANË, ALBANIA

• Ángela, the up-and-coming Mexican wrestler, approaches Gabriel about joining the God Squad. After conferring quickly with Paul Morgenstern, Japhet al-Nazr, and Saint Max, they assent to grant her provisional membership.
  
• Ágata def. Sabrina by DQ; Eva Clark got caught interfering with the match, but the SOS tag team decided to beat down on her anyway, with Ángela coming to her rescue.
  
• Private Pascal def. Rami by submission.
  
• Dom Adami def. Saini Fanalua by pinfall.
  
• The Edgecrushers arrive in the arena to a massive pop from the crowd; Selmar MacLeod asks, "What kind of message will they have for us today?"
  
• "Overly Attached Waifu" Azumi Yoshida seems to take a liking to new Tier 2 Americas Champion Taiaho, but the Kiwi seems a bit standoffish around her. But Yoshida starts to seethe with jealousy when he starts chatting with Gwak Mi-Hyun and Isobel in the back.
  
• Angie van Eijkeren © def. Aaliyah by pinfall to retain the EWA Tier 2 Women's TV Title.
  
• Toni Alves and Fabrice Lacroix arrive at the arena, wondering where Lord Dredd could be. They start asking around, getting various snarky responses, before Raitis Janvāris finally spills the beans that he - and Tungsten and Han Ming-Sze - have not been seen since Shindig when they were hauled away in a dumpster by the God Squad's Turan Efendiyev.
  
• The two Machine members go out to the ring and call out the God Squad and The Edgecrushers, demanding answers. But the only answer they get is an impromptu Texas Tornado tag match against Kimmoset; Kimmoset def. Toni Alves and Fabrice Lacroix by pinfall, after Riku Kimmonen hits the significantly bigger Lacroix with the EMP.
  
• Paul Morgenstern def. Raitis Janvaris (pc) by pinfall to win the Tier 2 TV Title (second reign); this in spite of an attempt at interference by Prosperity, who are beaten back by the other men of the God Squad.
  
• Azumi Yoshida is spotted wandering around talking to herself about ways of "taking out [her] love rivals." She then decides to go "moth hunting" after seeing Kevin Biggs walking by.
  
• Taiaho © def. Abdul Yasirov by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 Americas Championship.
  
• The Edgecrushers meet in the ring, with Sookie Sam getting a particularly big pop for retaining his title. The group cuts a promo, with Sookie, Hamid, and Riku Kimmonen taking turns gloating over The Machine's three members and revealing their current situation - incarcerated in Sofia for assault (kayfabe) after attempting to "recruit" several locals after finding their way out of the city garbage dump.
  
• MAIN EVENT: Carlota © def. Isobel by pinfall after interference from Azumi Yoshida; Yoshida hides under the ring after doing the dirty, then pops back out to start pounding on Isobel Dietrich after Carlota has left the arena. But then the arena goes black, and a quasi-demonic voice booms, "Jealous fool! You have sown envy, now you shall reap death." The lights come back up, Isobel is gone, and in her place stands her intergender tag team partner, The Reaper, decked out in full deathly regalia. "Your time is coming soon, that you will face her in a fair fight, but it will be the Moth that leads you into the flame..." With deep, evil laughter, the ring fills with smoke and the arena again goes dark.
  
• In the back, it seems that Dean Chapman and Nick Trentham have both greenlit not only Ángela, but Ágata as well, as new members of the God Squad. Just as the stable is leaving its meeting, though, it is attacked by members of Fraternità. While it takes a while, the God Squad are eventually victorious. The Edgecrushers, still grateful over how the God Squad aided them against The Machine, rush onto the scene, only to find Fraternità's six members in various uncomfortable situations, most so Armando, who had been put through both a window (OOC note: made of candy glass) and a pair of tables in the same move by Paul Morgenstern.
  

It's going to be an interesting Blitz tomorrow in light of what happened tonight! The only matches we know of for sure are the TV Title matches - Paul Morgenstern will go toe-to-toe with the ACA's Robbie Irschick for the men's TV Title, while Angie van Eijkeren looks to extend her Women's TV Title streak even further against the scheming Eva Clark! Will Kris Pathakos, Sr.'s anti-interference threat against Prosperity apply to Tier 2? Because if so, The Weekenders and Big A Wambo are in huge trouble, even if they got their hides handed to them by Gabriel, Saint Max, and Japhet al-Nazr!

RESULTS, EWA SLOBBERKNOCKER, 19 SEPTEMBER 2023, BIRKIRKARA, MALTA

• The Caribbean Connection comes out and makes known their desire to "bring home all the gold." They plan to start with the Cruiserweight and men's TV Titles, as they already have the Tier 3 EWA Championship (Jamaal Andrews) and the Tier 3 Women's TV Title (Amy McIver)
  
• Mr. Wilson def. Rihard Pretner by submission.
  
• Kasia Mann and Michael Siddhu are arguing in Punjabi about whose fault it was they lost the Intergender titles, which current champs Big Xeno and Kim Jae-Hwa can't help chuckling about as they pass by in the locker room.
  
• Big Xeno def. Patrick Taitano by pinfall.
  
• Kristijan Bogišić def. Chun Kiman by pinfall.
  
• The fans cheer loudly at the news that their hometown hero, "The Big Rock" Dom Adami, won his match on EWA Up-And-Coming (live at the same time in Albania).
  
• Amy McIver © def. Brisa by pinfall to retain the Tier 3 Women's TV Title; she did, however, require some interference from her stable-mate Morrissey to get the job done.
  
• Egidijus Stravinskas confronts Morrissey, warning that "his people" will get involved if any Caribbean Connection folk try to interfere in his match later on.
  
• Jonny Armaghanyan © def. Mavis by pinfall to retain the Tier 3 TV Title.
  
• Kim Jae-Hwa def. Kasia Mann by submission.
  
• MAIN EVENT: Egidijus Stravinskas © def. Wellington Gounod by pinfall to retain the Tier 3 Cruiserweight Championship.
  

See you on Thursday for Tier 3 Thursday! Kris Junior has a special message for the Caribbean Connection, and a couple of big tag-team matches are booked! Amy McIver will take on Miss Natasha for the Women's TV Title, while Jonny Armaghanyan will have a tough test in Spurgeon MacEachern for the men's counterpart!

[Jarkko]

RESULTS, EWA BLITZ, 20 SEP 2023, SPLIT, CROATIA

• A rather ominous start to this episode as Gwak Mi-Hyun is attacked by a masked woman and left in a heap in the back.
  
• Jax def. The Great Khan by pinfall.
  
• Sapphira no-shows Uprising to come to Blitz to introduce her fellow Nigerian, Foluke, as the newest member of Prosperity.
  
• AK-47 def. Pala Dolkar by pinfall; Dolkar injures himself (legit) by botching his own finisher, and is day-to-day recovering from an injury to his left knee.
  
• Taiaho again has to abide the presence of Azumi Yoshida in the back, and his concern when he spots Gwak in the biobed room annoys the "Overly Attached Waifu" immensely.
  
• Angie van Eijkeren © def. Eva Clark by disqualification; it is initially stated that Clark won, but a visiting Kris Pathakos, Sr. spots interference by  Prosperity's newest addition and orders the referee reverse the decision, leaving Eva Clark furious... until The Boss puts her in her place by stating that Foluke will be heading for Tier 3 as a result of her misdeeds, and that Clark is "more than welcome to join her!"
  
• Kris Junior is on hand as well with a message to deliver, but before he can enter the arena, he is ambushed in the back three masked men. The Edgecrushers show up to drive them away, and Kris Junior proceeds to the ring.
  • "Since the stable that has been a thorn in everyone's side, called Prosperity, tried to interfere in the TV Title match between Paul Morgenstern and Raitis Janvaris, but were prevented from doing so by the other members of the God Squad, rather than being relegated to Tier 3 wholesale apart from Eva Clark, they will instead merely be fined and suspended. Furthermore, the Weekenders will be moved to the bottom of the contenders' list for the Tag Team Titles. Hang on, my father has something to add. Wait, what? Okay. It seems that Foluke had joined Prosperity and almost successfully interfered on Eva Clark's behalf. So she will be going down to Tier 3.
    
• Sapphira is seen raging backstage over the phone with Simon Magus, when she is approached by Danute, who simply says, "I'm amazed some Jehu hasn't already had you defenestrated already, you filthy Jezebel! Keep screwing around, and all the shamala hamalas in the world won't be able to save you from what the other women in the locker room that aren't in your back pocket will do to you." Sapphira makes faces at her defiantly as she leaves.
  
• The Abominations def. Indochina (Chongrak Mahidol and Lang Hu Mai) by pinfall. Mahidol is subjected to The Unforgivable Sin as Seven Jackhammers him stomach-first into the mat, (kayfabe) injuring him. 
  
• Even the astute listener, Private Pascal overhears Prosperity sub-leader Kwame G say a bit too loud that Fraternità was responsible for the attack on Kris Junior, and that Prosperity was planning an attack on the God Squad over the beating Fraternità received yesterday as repayment. Knowing he'd be caught if he went the most direct route, he figures out a "long way around."
  
• Paul Morgenstern © def. Robbie Irschick by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 TV Title; they exchange pleasantries after the match but are alarmed when Private Pascal comes running through the crowd to warn them of what is coming. Robbie says he will report this to Général Bernard right away and suggests that the God Squad leave the premises immediately, but The Menacing Mennonite says "What, and run from a perfectly good beatdown? No thank you!"
  

Exchange between Kris Senior

Kris Senior: "I was able to make out some of that conversation, and it seems Prosperity just doesn't get the hint. Well hello there, Private Pascal. What can I do for you?"
Private Pascal *barely audible over the mics*: I know who attacked your firstborn, boss. It was Fraternità. More specifically, it was Chip, Skip, and Tirone. I overheard Kwame G on the phone.
Selmar MacLeod: Those bastards...
*An angry Kris Senior pulls out his phone and phones Kris Junior, telling him this news*
Kris Senior: Thank you for telling me. Oh, they aren't going to get off easy for this.

• A livid Kris Pathakos, Junior storms out to the ring and calls out "mob scumbags" Fraternità and challenges the entire Tier 2 part of the stable to a match with partners of his choosing. Armando comes out to attempt to disavow the operation, but just as he finishes his discourse the camera cuts to a brawl outside the God Squad locker room, with sub-leader Japhet al-Nazr waving a cell phone in the camera and saying, "I'll bet Kris Senior and Kris Junior are gonna love to see what's in the voicemail inbox of this bad boy!"
  
• Kris Junior wants to bring in the ACA, but Armando points out that he would need two women for that to work. At that point in time, Général Bernard enters, spitting in Armando's face as he passes by, and goes into the ring to announce the newest members of the Anti-Corruption Army - Enam Odom, Charisma... and Women's TV Champ Angie van Eijkeren! Joined by Tier 2 Old World Champion Major Mitch and AK-47, these stand in the ring with Kris Pathakos, Junior as Général Bernard sits down at the announce table, giving one last taunt - "We're waiting... cowards!"
  
• The Anti-Corruption Army (representees above) and Kris Pathakos, Jr. def. Fraternità in a Gang Warfare match. Forced out to the ring by the God Squad after the vicious beatdown of Prosperity's Tier 2 wrestlers forces Sapphira to skip town, they serve as ramp guards and cheer on the ACA and Kris Junior as they go to town! Some highlights - Angie van Eijkeren "mudhole stomping" Christina Schiaffino in the corner, AK-47 hitting "Boom, Headshot!" on Armando and (kayfabe) knocking him out cold, and Kris Pathakos Jr. setting off an "E-C-Dub" chant by crucifix power-bombing Skip through a table set up in the ring corner. Paul Morgenstern carries Armando's limp body to the biobed room. Charisma locks in a previously unseen (from her) submission manoeuvre on Tina (a standing D'Arce choke) forcing her out of the match by submission. Enam Odom yells to the crowd, "YOU WANT MORE ECW???" The pop he gets causes Kris Junior to set a table on fire just as Major Mitch hits Tirone with the renamed Tropical Storm (a more spinning version of the Angle Slam) and pins him for the elimination. The "Ghanaian Goliath" hits Chip with the Ghana Bomb through the table and once AK-47 brings in a fire extinguisher and puts the fire out, he goes for the 1-2-3. Angie van Eijkeren ends it with a De Dutch Treat into a steel chair for Schiaffino. Then Kris Junior grabs the mic and cuts a promo on the leaders of Prosperity and Fraternità. "Simon Magus! Antonio Sabatti! You just made the biggest mistake of your careers! I will not rest until both your so-called stables are six feet under!" Kris Senior proudly said on commentary, "now that's my son!"
  
• MAIN EVENT: Sookie Sam © def. Captain Redbeard by pinfall to retain the Tier 2 EWA Championship. With the Machine out of the way, Sookie Sam could have this PPV-worthy matchup against a less bitter rival in Jolly Roger leader Captain Redbeard, and the two Canadians put on a wrestling clinic. But Sam's superior aerial ability and a few extra tricks won him the day. He actually didn't win the match with his usual finisher as he instead hit another corkscrew moonsault and used that for the win. He also became just the third man (after Slava Antropov and Major Mitch) to kick out of Walk The Plank!
  

I get the feeling that things are going to boil over come Friday on EWA Throwdown! A number of titles are on the line - Angie van Eijkeren has God-Squadder Ángela to deal with for the Women's TV Title, Paul Morgenstern was impressed enough by Enam Odom that he's giving the Ghanaian a title shot at his TV Title belt, all three tag team titles are up for grabs - Old School defending the women's belt against the Influencers (Sexy Streamer and Aaliyah), Beauty And The Beast going toe-to-toe with the ACA's Major Mitch and Charisma for the Intergender Tag Belt, and a Baltic rivalry for the Tag Team Championships as Lithuanians Double-A (Adomas Kirvaitis and Aurėlijus Maklėvičius) meet up with The Latvian New Livonian Order (Dārius Kārdijevs and Raitis Janvāris) - and finally, the main event is sure to be an exercise in sheer brutality as a four-way elimination Hardcore Championship match sees Big O have to deal with Heavy Devy, Saint Max, and Shawn Agir.

RESULTS, EWA UPRISING, 20 SEP 2023, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA

• Loud boos erupt when Prosperity arrives at the arena, where Simon Magus is confronted by Antonio Sabatti, who simply says, "This had better work out."
  
• Rhiannon def. Alice Fleury by pinfall.
  
• Dean Chapman, Goran Šimeunović, Nik Bogdanovič, and Andros Pathakos have a meeting about Equinox and other things related to the Prosperity-Fraternità alliance, with Nik promising payback for Scarface's previous attacks on him.
  
• Joseph Ndali © def. Scarface by pinfall to retain the EWA TV Title. The moment the winning bell rings, Nikolaj Bogdanovič comes bolting into the arena with a kendo stick in hand and starts pounding on the Albanian mobster, only to have Fedil Haxhari try to cool him down. Scarface grabs the mic and rips Fedil for "going soft," after which his fellow Albanian challenges him to a match at Equinox.
  
• The Working Class Hooligans have a meeting stating that they are not going to take sides in the upcoming war, but rather take advantage of the two sides wearing each other down for gold.
  
• Gabazon © def. MiMi by pinfall to retain the EWA Women's TV Title.
  
• Sha-Boogie def. Leila Vaňková by submission.
  
• Stanislao Valenzuela is attacked in the back by Ciro Pocena.
  
• John Crane challenges Mattias Vlahos for the EWA Hardcore Championship, to which he assents but the resulting match is a one-sided squash that lasts just two minutes: Mattias Vlahos © def. John Crane by knockout to retain EWA Hardcore Championship.
  
• Scary Sally def. Mariah Gerhardt by submission.
  
• Simon Magus tries phoning Kwame G, only to get Japhet al-Nazr on the other side. Panicked, he runs to Fraternità's locker room to speak with Antonio, and while Domenico Pocena and Giammarco Scibetta won't let him by, he gets through the message that their cover has been blown.
  
• Ronaldo Álvarez def. Don de Boer by pinfall
  
• A recovered Renata Valenzuela does an interview with Blacademix (Luther O'Reilly and Rasheed Young), who want in on the Tag Team Title scene and are ready to go to great lengths to get it!
  
• Janne Myllyjärvi def. Ricardo Benitez, Vincent Fleury, and Erkin Buzurbayev in a four-way elimination match to book the final spot in the EWA Cruiserweight Championship match at Equinox.
  
• Antonio Sabatti tries phoning Armando but his call is answered by Kris Pathakos, Jr. "Maybe next time make sure Prosperity's guys aren't so loud! Your men are in deep !@#$ for attacking me!" Sabatti is so infuriated by this that he smashes the phone to pieces on the ground and starts swearing up a storm.
  
• The Unstoppables (Dean Chapman and Andros Pathakos) def. Domenico Pocena and Giammarco Scibetta by submission. A couple of "OMG" moments for Joey here - one when Andros Slam Dunks Domenico out of the ring and into the announce table, and the other when Dean holds Giammarco in a vertical suplex position and does four squats with him before Jackhammering him. It turns into a handicap match after the table spot in spite of Ciro Pocena's efforts to "even the odds" - those ended with a Big Boot from Andros. Giammarco was about to mount some offence, but that was brought to an abrupt halt when he missed his Superheavyweight Splash because Dean backflipped up from the flurry of offence as if Big Gigi had barely thrown a punch. Once Dean had locked in Hypothermia, it was over. After the match, Ciro Pocena goes to the EWA office to make the hard decision to withdraw the Po Bros from the main event.
  
• Sapphira phones Simon Magus in a panic, stating that she had to leave fast because the God Squad had been tipped off to their planned attack and mounted a devastating counteroffensive. She claims to be on her way to Ostrava, which is where Maniacal will be held on Saturday.
  
• Tatra Force (Pavol Zeman and Radek Toth) def. Thunderbear (Don George and Brock Samuel) by pinfall. (Gotta let the local boys win one, eh? )
  
• As Simon and Antonio ponder their next move, Paolo Scibetta enters to tell them to turn on the TV to Blitz, where Kris Pathakos is about to cut his promo telling them they had made "the biggest mistake of their careers."
  
• Newark Family Bidness def. The Towers of Ararat (Minas Tenkerian and Marat Gurzadian) and Nadya E by pinfall in a 2-1 split intergender trio match.
  
• Serhiy Kalitvinko def. Vyacheslav Antropov by pinfall.
  
• Goran Šimeunović def. Simon Magus by pinfall; after the bell rang, Goran got a table out and put Simon through it with his patented Dalmatian Death Drop, much to the glee of one Joey Styles! 
  
• MAIN EVENT: The Lords Of Lancashire def. Eastern Orthodoxy, The Bog Boys, and Dok & Jack Smith to become #1 contenders for the EWA Tag Team Championship. You could tell this was gonna be good when the last minute substitution was Nick Trentham and Trevor Hentham, and the pop was huge! The moment the bell rung and the other three tag teams stared down Dok and Jack Smith with devious grins on their face, you know things were about to get very real. Suffice it to say, they were the first team eliminated, as both Dok and Jack were made to tap out - the former to a Lancashire Leg Lock and the latter to Hentham's inverted Figure-Four leglock, but not before they caught a beating from the other four! It didn't mean that they didn't have a good bout thereafter, but the technical abilities of the Lords of Lancashire were too much even for Nik Bogdanovič as he also made the big redhead tap. After the match was over, there were handshakes and arm-raises abound, then Nick Trentham dropped a bombshell - since Turan Efendiyev was already the #3 contender for the Americas Championship, and the #2 contender is already in the four-way match at Equinox, Nick gave up his own spot in that ranking, so Turan Efendiyev is going to take Nick Trentham's place! Oleg Kapetanov applauded fervently.
  

Card announced (pending TV Title matchups) for EWA Equinox, Sunday, 24 September 2023, Prague, Czechia

• Fedil Haxhari vs. Scarface
  
• Vyacheslav Antropov vs. JP Myllyjärvi
  
• Joseph Ndali © or Marko Myllyjärvi or Takhir Teteriuk vs. Tris Marks
  
• Gabazon © or Sabrina or Tiina Myllyjärvi vs. Apollyon, Akiko Sakaki (replacement for withdrawing Sabrina), Danae Pathakos, Kristina Machlas, and Carly Jack in a Hexagon Match for the EWA Women's TV Title
  
• Jack Smith vs. Mattias Vlahos © for the EWA Hardcore Championship (Hardcore Cell match)
  
• Sabrina vs. Kristina Efendiyeva (Standard Hardcore match, narrow-rules FCA)
  
• Strong & Proud vs. Special Forces (Ruth Chisiza and Sara Wylie, c) for the EWA Women's Tag Team Titles 
  
• Dok and Sapphira vs. A Double Dose Of Death © for the EWA Intergender Tag Team Champ
  
• Bassam al-Wadud vs. Janne Myllyjärvi vs. Wheelz vs. Kazuyoshi Takahashi ©
  
• Ricardo Benitez vs. Romulo Imperatorio vs. Eric Carlyle to become #1 Contender for the EWA Cruiserweight Championship at EWA Horrorfest in October.
  
• Arvydas Maklėvičius vs. Turan Efendiyev vs. Grigor Zagorakis vs. Hakan Berat © for the EWA Americas Championship
  
• Lords Of Lancashire vs. Newark Family Bidness © for the EWA Tag Team Championship
  
• Željko Miljanović vs. Ryan O'Martin
  
• Žydrunas Janvāris vs. Gerry Granger © for the EWA Old World Championship (DQ will result in belt loss)
  
• Persephone vs. Sapphira © for the EWA Women's Championship (DQ will result in belt loss)
  
• Simon Magus vs. Dean Chapman © for the EWA Championship (DQ from outside interference only, will result in belt loss)
  
• MAIN EVENT: Gang Warfare Maxed Out! (10-on-10 Tornado Hardcore elimination match) Antonio Sabatti, Giammarco Scibetta, Paolo Scibetta, Ciro Pocena, The Constanţiu Twins, Ari Beye, Big A Wambo (called up from Tier 2), and The Wiseguys, vs. Andros Pathakos, Kris Pathakos, Jr., Goran Šimeunović, Dragan Kovačević, Oleg Kapetanov, Elijah, The Bog Boys, and Nicky and Fran.
  

(OOC note: Domenico Pocena is kayfabe-injured and will miss the PPV - he was written out of the loop to have back surgery and will be out until near Christmas at the absolute soonest.)

See you tomorrow for Roughhousin'! We come to you from Ostrava, Czechia, hometown to the Váněk family! Both Bohdán and Andrea are booked for matches, plus as mentioned in the Equinox card we have both TV Titles up for grabs! Joseph Ndali faces the surly Kazakh Takhir Teteriuk, and Gabazon gets a tough test against Tiina Myllyjärvi! Plus there's a brewing tension outside of the main conflict, between the Croatian Brotherhood and the Working Class Hooligans... what will come of it?

[Jarkko]

RESULTS FOR EWA ROUGHHOUSIN', 21 SEPTEMBER 2023, OSTRAVA, CZECHIA

• Antonio Sabatti confronts Goran Šimeunović about The Croatian Brotherhood opposing his stable and Prosperity directly; Goran responds by saying, "I hope you like the taste of wood, Tony! Because you'll be eating a lot on Sunday! Honestly, the reason we sided with the God Squad is because anyone with a !@#$ing conscience has gotten sick of your constant meddling. Now bugger off before I Gore you through something!"
  
• Don de Boer def. Bruce Stuart by pinfall.
  
• Ryan O'Martin and Željko Miljanović have a bit of a backstage run-in.
  
• Kris Pathakos, Jr. def. Giustino Travolta by pinfall.
  
• Andrea Váňková def. Olwen Ross by pinfall.
  
• Turan Efendiyev is accosted by Grigor Zagorakis, who doesn't believe he deserves a shot at the Americas Championship
  
• Takhir Teteriuk def. Joseph Ndali (pc) by pinfall to win the EWA TV Title (third reign)
  
• Dean Chapman gives the "Presbyter" a pep talk backstage and says that more title opportunities will come. "But you know this already, Brother Joe. You've won the damned thing five times! I think you should shoot a bit higher. Next time the opportunity presents itself, have a go for the Americas Championship. It might be a few weeks yet because of Turan, but I think you have one in you!"
  
• Gabazon © def. Tiina Myllyjärvi by pinfall to retain the EWA Women's TV Championship. Actually quite a good matchup.
  
• MAIN EVENT: Czechmates (Bohdán Váněk and Jindřich Němeček) def. HaB'rit (Arik Ginzburg and Avi Kalan) by pinfall, getting a loud pop from the hometown crowd!
  

Maniacal is coming up on Saturday, coming from Brno, Czechia! Takhir Teteriuk and Gabazon will defend their titles against Marko Myllyjärvi and Sabrina respectively, but Gabazon will have to have eyes in the back of her head as there is always the risk of Fraternità or even Prosperity getting involved!

RESULTS FOR EWA TIER 3 THURSDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2023, CONSTANTINE, ALGERIA

• Metin Segem def. Zviad Kavkasidze by pinfall. Not a bad match for a rookie though!
  
• Ulughbek Islomov def. Eric Severn by submission.
  
• Nassim Toual from Tier 2 arrives to a big pop!
  
• Miss Natasha def. Amy McIver (pc) by pinfall to win the Tier 3 Women's TV Title.
  
• Miss Natasha celebrates with Canadian Girls Kick Ass (her stable, led by Sonya Craig) as she gets interviewed by Marcia Rogers, and CGKA make plain their plan to take as much gold as they can - Sonya is after Crystal Woman's Tier 3 Women's Title, the RCAF (Jeannie-Lee and Lucia Cañizales) are after the Women's Tag Championships, and Deirdre has teamed up with fellow Canadian JJ Bear to go after the Intergender Tag Titles.
  
• Nassim Toual def. Robert Mensik by submission (non-title match). This was a good one, too! The fans loved it, and Big Bobby showed his respect to the local boy (not just Algerian but from Constantine!) by shaking Toual's hand.
  
• Tua cuts a biting promo on Jamaal Andrews and challenges him to a title match on Slobberknocker next Tuesday. Andrews comes out and accepts.
  
• Spurgeon MacEachern def. Jonny Armaghanyan (pc) by pinfall to win the Tier 3 TV Title.
  
• Lady Kez and Nikki Kazakis are having a nice chat when they are interrupted by Tier 3 Women's Tag Team Champs Sigrid and Talia Lundmark, who insult them over their "vanity and superficiality."
  
• MAIN EVENT: The Caribbean Connection (represented by Wellington Gounod, The Leeward Lions, Denzel Bryant, Adam Springsteen, and Warren Maybury) def. The Asian Drub Foundation (represented by Ulughbek İslomlov, Michael Siddhu, and Barati Shah) and the Bulgarian Bullies (Yordan Velichkov, Nate Radkov, and Naiden Bogdanovič) in a Gang Warfare match (non-Hardcore).
  
• After the bell rang declaring the Caribbean Connection the winners, the ADF and the Bulgarian Bullies turned on one another!
  

Next Tuesday will prove very interesting in light of the finish here as well as the snobbish behaviour of the current Women's Tag Team Championships! Plus there has been a challenge laid down as Tua has challenged Jamaal Andrews for the Tier 3 EWA Championship, and the newly-crowned TV Champs will both have matches as well - for the men, Big Spurge will take on Rocky Morrison, and for the women, Miss Natasha might have her hands a bit full with ADF's Kasia Mann!