MAINSTREAM 79: INCEPTION III - MSG - 01/23/2022

[Robert Daniels]

Battleground Network Presents

MAINSTREAM WRESTLING 79
INCEPTION III
SUNDAY - 01/23/2022
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
NEW YORK, NY

MAINSTREAM WRESTLING IS LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY AND WE’RE INSIDE THE HISTORIC MADISON SQUARE GARDEN FOR INCEPTION III!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Ladies and Gentlemen, Happy New Year and Welcome to Mainstream 79 and tonight is INCEPTION III!

“War Machine” by KISS begins to screech over the PA system, bringing the ruckus New York City audience to their feet inside of the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden! After a few brief moments, the Mainstream Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion, Chris Madison, steps through the curtain with Frankie Morrison by his side. Together they are embraced by a passionate fanbase whose deafening roars echo throughout the arena. With his championship belt secured around his waist, Madison takes a moment to soak in the adulation from the crowd while Frankie Morrison begins making his way to the ring. Madison slowly begins to follow, making sure to high five as many fans as he possibly can on his way down to the ring. He makes it to the ring steps and looks around the entire arena as they serenade him with his theme music. Madison smacks the top of the steel steps and then hustles up to the apron and then quickly climbs the nearby corner. While perched on the top turnbuckle, Madison unfastens his championship belt and hoists it over his head, garnering a louder ovation from the live audience. Morrison watches from the center of the ring, with a microphone in hand, and applauds his client as he jumps down into the ring. Madison takes the microphone from Morrison and pauses for a moment, giving the crowd a chance to quiet down.

CHRIS MADISON: Man it feels good to be home!

Madison smiles as the audience erupts.

CHRIS MADISON: Tonight starts a new year for Mainstream Wrestling, but for me it’s a continuation of the hard work I’ve put into this record breakin’ one hundred and seventy six day title reign!

He pauses as the crowd cheers for their hometown competitor.

CHRIS MADISON: Not too shabby for a guy who wasn’t even supposed to be a part of the tournament which crowned a new World Heavyweight Champion after the whole Manny fiasco!

Morrison buries his face in his hand as Madison chuckles.

CHRIS MADISON: I’ve taken pride in bringin’ stability to this championship, givin’ this company a presence at the top that the rest of that locker room could strive towards. No matter who the challenger was, or who wanted to push themselves towards that opportunity, the constant was, and still is, that they were goin’ to have to go through me! That was the case at the beginnin’ of my reign when I defended against Skye Healy and Cartier, that was the case at the five year anniversary show against James Edwards, and that’s the case tonight as I defend against Sage Lowry.

You can feel the excitement in the air from the live audience in anticipation for the championship title match.

CHRIS MADISON: This is a big opportunity for Sage. A chance to step out of her mentor’s shadow and show exactly what she’s got as a singles competitor. But perhaps more importantly, Emma Douglas, gets to see how her teachings measure up against a champion that she’s on the verge of challengin’. But here’s the thing, six defenses and a one hundred seventy six day reign as champ isn’t where this ends. We’re in my house! Madison Square Garden! New York is, and will always be my home. Gettin’ the chance to defend in front of eighteen thousand means more than you know. You all have had my back through every step of my career. The ups, the downs…

"Judas" by Septogram plays throughout Madison Square Garden. After a moment, Emma Douglas comes walking out, looking as confident as ever. She is notably wearing a very gothic crown upon her head, so dark and angles, not quite what you'd expect from a "Queen" but on her, it works. She stares down Chris Madison from the stage for a few before bringing the microphone up to her mouth.

EMMA DOUGLAS: I'd say I'm sorry to interrupt you, but that's a lie. Because I'm very glad to do just that. Because your time is over. Your time in the sun is coming to an end real soon, and you're looking at the person whom is going to end your reign.

Madison is about to speak and Emma interrupts her once more.

EMMA DOUGLAS: I know what you're going to say, so just shut it. You're going to say, "That didn't work out so well for me the last time I tried it, did it?". Those were the words you were going to say, right?

Madison nods and keeps talking trash but none of it is quite picked up on the mic.

EMMA DOUGLAS: I admit, I've struggled here in Mainstream. I came here to dominate, to run through people and I just....haven't. I'd get title opportunities and ultimately choke. Put on a good showing but fall short every time. It's been beyond frustrating.

Emma shakes her head as she paces around the stage.

EMMA DOUGLAS: So I changed tactics. Seeing how I was being assaulted by Skye Healy and her friend, I knew I needed some back up, so I plucked a recently graduated Sage Lowry out of obscurity and gave her a chance to be a part of something. To be part of my rise and become one of the most successful Squires in the process. I took what they taught her and help mold her into the spitfire you see of her now.. My doing. And together, we carried the tag team division here. For six months, not a single team could touch us. It wasn't even close. Euphoric would argue differently but they are just bitter at OUR success.

Emma chuckles bit as she continues.

EMMA DOUGLAS: And I transitioned that bit of tag team success back into singles success. I used my frustrations and anger from losing those tag titles to a couple of pretty boys to toss people around in the Chase For The Crown.

Emma makes a point to point at the gothic crown upon her head and cackles.

EMMA DOUGLAS: So unlike the last time, I EARNED this title shot. No trying to justify my participation a championship challenge. No sneak attacks to catch your ire. No more excuses and half truths. I EARNED this and I won't be stopped. You've been a great champion, Chris, there is no denying that, but every reign ends at some point and I'm going to be the one taking the honors of relieving you of your championship gold.

Emma holds up her hand to cut him off once more.

EMMA DOUGLAS: Deny it all you want. But you're tired. From the constant abuse from defending that belt. You're weary, I see it in your eyes. So, get past Sage if you can. Because if she doesn't get the job done, I sure as hell will. I am done being thought as a joke and an after thought. There is nothing on this planet that is going to stop me from tearing that belt from your grasp. Like I said, MY time is now. Long may She reign.

Emma chuckles to herself as she tosses the mic down on the stage and walks off backstage, not even bothering on giving Madison a second glance back, having said her piece.

CHARLES HUDSON:  Our World Heavyweight Champion Chris Madison and ‘Queen’ Emma Douglas are undoubtedly on a collision course!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: That’s if he’s able to defeat the former World Tag Team Champion, Sage Lowry later tonight!

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[Robert Daniels]

BACKSTAGE...
Cartier and Nefertiti Jackson are sitting at a small table outside the TV Champion’s locker room at the arena, and they appear to be playing a spirited game of dominoes.

They two women are rapidly slapping tiles down onto the tabletop, but Cartier lands her last one first.

CARTIER: BOOM! Domino! How ‘bout that shit, biiiiiiitch? What I tell you? What I tell you, ‘Titi? You ain;t ready for me, girl, I been playin’ bones on the streets of Brooklyn New York since I was in Pre-K.

NEFERTITI: Shit… aight. Here you go.

Nefertiti hands over some money, nothing huge, it looks like 20 or 40 dollars.

CARTIER: This is just like Mainstream. Everywhere I go, people bet against me, an’ all of ‘em lose they shirts at the end of the day because of it. They think they got the tiles, but before they know it I’m sittin’ over here wit’ a smile on my face an’ another W next to my name. Watch me tonight, ‘Ti. You gonna see it two times.

Cartier laughs, and Nefertiti smiles back at her.

NEFERTITI: You think this cat they got you up against is anything to worry about?

Cartier snorts.

CARTIER: Listen. Everyone here in this company is here because they got some skill or another. I don’t treat nobody like they’s a afterthought or anything like that. This man is green as grass, though. They teach y’all real good at Squires, but they don’t teach you how to hang wit’ a bad bitch like me. That shit can’t be taught. That’s somethin’ you gotta experience to understand. It’s why I been the Television Champion for so long, sis. Every now an’ then they send up a Amara Johnson or a Michel Flynn just to keep me on my toes, but I ain’t never gonna drop no strap to some rook. No offense.

NEFERTITI: Damn! None taken I guess!

Nefertiti puts on a show acting offended, but it’s obvious she’s just fucking around.

CARTIER: You know it ain’t like that. In due time, you gonna run Squires the way I run Mainstream. There’s a reason people leave the arena after the TV Title been on… I make this championship the one to watch. An’ someday soon? I’ll have the Mainstream Title itself. Shit, maybe you’ll be up there wit’ me by then an’ you can inherit this one when it’s time for me to move on up like George an’ Weezy.

NEFERTITI: Well I guess you’d have to lose to a Squire for that to happen!

Cartier clucks her tongue, but her lips tun up into a smile.

CARTIER: You right… but you different. You ain’t like these other cooke cutters up in there. You got some sass to you. Some spice. Some sauce. I seent it in you the first day we met up, I knew you wasn’t another Michel Flynn. You got somethin’ special…that’s why you sittin’ here wit’ me instead of orderin’ some avocado toast or some shit in the cafeteria.

She laughs, and Nefertiti joins in. Soon the two women are howling as Cartier starts to gather up the dominoes.

NEFERTITI: What, no rematch?

CARTIER: Girl you gotta have some money leftover for when we hit the club later on. I ain’t buyin’ your drinks, bitch!

NEFERTITI: That’s fucked up.

CARTIER: Sink or swim, boo, this is the big time. You got to pay your dues you wanna make it up in this business… an’ tonight that means you gotta pay for the bottle. That’s how we celebration’ my Pinnacle win after the show, when I walk out here an’ toss every other soft ass corny ass ugly ass motherfucker on over the top rope. This one’s all about me, ‘Titi. I’m not settlin’ for less than I deserve this year, an’ that shit is on GAWDT.

NEFERTITI: On GAWDT!

Nef joins in and they cackle together again. Cartier slides the dominoes into a little cloth pouch and shakes them up to get them settled into place.

CARTIER: Nefertiti…no cap. I been the Television Champion here in Mainstream since April of last year. You don’t count that hiccup wit’ Tara Fenix, that means I held this shit longer than anyone. Longer than Cashe. Longer than Amira. Longer than Manny Fernandez… an’ that’s addin’ both his reigns together. I have redefined what this championship means here in Mainstream. But it’s time for me to take another step up. I can’t just sit here an’ be satisfied wit’ what I got, because complacency is what gets you weak. Tonight, it’s the Pinnacle Battle Royal. That’s gonna let the whole world know that in 2022? Cartier is the face of Mainstream. Gives ‘em all plenty time to get used to it too.

NEFERTITI: I know that’s right.

CARTIER: Now come on… I got to get my shit ready.

The two head off together, standing from the table and opening the dressing room door before disappearing inside as a pair.

[Robert Daniels]

PREVIOUSLY RECORDED...
A handheld camera clicks briefly before it is placed on a flat surface. The hand that was covering the lens moves away and is revealed to be Zodiac. The decor looks to be similar to that of a studio apartment. Zodiac turns around, walks over to his bed and sits on the edge of it.

ROBERT ZODIAC: I don't remember what all happened near the end of my match with Biggs...the only reason I know is because of the tape. I lost myself in that match...the last thing I remember thinking was "I'm gonna set him on fire"...and then he broke my ankle. I don't hate him for it, though...I just hope he learned to keep his nose out of other people's affairs. Don't poke the bear, as the proverb goes.

He sighs and shifts himself around on the edge of the bed, leaning forward as he looks into the camera.

ROBERT ZODIAC: This year...is when it begins. I turn everything around. I start over. A new me, as cliché as that sounds. I'm not one to preach about people getting a "second chance", but I got into this business with the wrong mindset. I've seen a lot over the years, and I've done a lot myself. That bulls**t stops, right here and right now. I have lot to make up for. I don't know why, but wrestling...it just lights that fire, and when it starts burning, I can get...aggressive. To say I get aggressive is an understatement, I've ended careers. Some people like inflicting pain. I know someone on this roster who can attest to that, because he's fought him before. No, it wasn't me. It also wasn't the man who did this.

He stands up off the bed and it's clear now that he still has the boot on he received for his ankle to heal up as he bends down and the sound of velcro being unstrapped is heard. He stands back upright and has the boot in his hand. He swings it back and forth in a slow pendulum like motion before he smiles.

ROBERT ZODIAC: By the way...thank you, Biggs. I needed the recovery time.

He places the boot down beside him and looks back into the camera.

ROBERT ZODIAC: I'm back. One of the biggest scumbags on the face of this planet...because let's be honest, we're all scumbags. We have all done stuff we've regretted later, whether it's a week or a year. I'm no hero, but I refuse to be a villain anymore. It ruined my life, doing the sh*t I did. It's caught up with me over time, and it will keep finding me until I've paid my debts...but do you wanna know what REALLY sucks?

He starts walking towards the camera.

ROBERT ZODIAC: ...When I'm the one sent to collect.

He puts his hand over the camera lens as the screen cuts to static, a 'Z' briefly flickering in the center of the screen before it cuts to black.

[Robert Daniels]

MAINSTREAM WRESTLING
WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP

★★★ CARTIER (C) ★★★
vs
★★★ MICHEL FLYNN ★★★

The bell rings and this World Television Championship is officially underway! Michel Flynn locks up with Cartier and bullies her back into a corner. Cartier spins out and locks her hands behind Flynn’s head, and then executes a crisp head-and-arm suplex!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Cartier pulling new moves out of her bag of tricks!

CHARLES HUDSON: That’s something that sets Champions apart, McKayla… people like Cartier are always improving.

With Flynn a little dazed by the suplex, Cartier is able to whip him hard into the corner buckles. He hits his back against the corner and winces, but when Cartier flies in high for a leaping headscissor, he’s able to duck away and Cartier just ends up straddling herself on the top turnbuckle. Flynn climbs up behind her and drops her with a back suplex from the top!

Flynn then climbs back up and stands on the top rope for a second before hitting a big flying elbow! He’s got the Television Champion stunned and he goes for a cover for 1…2…KICKOUT!

Flynn looks to keep Cartier down but she snags him with a drop toe hold, then transitions nicely into a crossface. Not satisfied to simply bear down on the submission, Cartier instead wails Flynn across his jaw and orbitals with some hard inside forearm shots!

Flynn manages to contort his way into rolling Cartier onto her shoulders again but she’s let go and freed herself of any sort of pinning combo before even the count of one. Back on her feet she takes a running start and drives her shin right across the face of Michel Flynn with a devastating kick!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Hard shot from the champion!

CHARLES HUDSON: At the end of the day, Cartier is a brawler. No matter how many fancy moves she learns, she’s always going to find a way to just HIT someone!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Smart girl!

Cartier drags Flynn to his feet and hooks his arms… then pulls him up into a Glam Slam! Flynn is planted on his face and Cartier drops down into a lateral press 1…2…KICKOUT!

Moments later Cartier eats a kick to the midsection from Flynn, and he hooks her into a vertical suplex. Rather than pulling her up and over though, Flynn walks forward and drops Cartier’s abdomen onto the top rope! All the wind is sent out of Cartier and she balances on the rope for a moment before sliding down to her feet on the apron.

Michel Flynn hits the ropes running and then rebounds toward Cartier, diving toward her to send her off the apron and into the railin - but Cartier submarines him and pulls down the top rope! Flynn flips over the ropes and crashes down to the hard floor as Cartier looks down at him.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Cartier heading for the top rope here, Charles…

Cartier gets to the top as Flynn struggles to his feet, and she leaps off with a huge meteora to the outside! Flynn is sent sprawling by the impact and Cartier catches her breath for a second before pulling him up and muscling him back into the ring beneath the ropes. Cartier re-enters the ring as Flynn gets to a knee. She grabs his wrist and twists him into an arm wringer, then steps up in the corner until she’s on the top… then walks to the middle of the top rope like she’s on a tightrope!

CHARLES HUDSON: Once again, something new in ‘22 for the TV Champ!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: New but still Old School!

From the middle of the rope, Cartier jumps off and turns, drilling Flynn with an Eat This Ass from up top! Flynn hits the deck and Cartier is on him, hooking a leg for 1…2…KICKOUT!

Cartier and Flynn stand toe to toe in the middle of the ring and Cartier looks very comfortable standing in front of him and trading punches. Flynn is overmatched early as Cartier seems to land punches at will to his head and torso. Flynn catches her though when she comes in for a looping hook by jabbing his thumb right into her eye!

CHARLES HUDSON: Flynn with a cheap shot, but he got away with it!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: They say it isn’t cheating if you don’t get caught.

Cartier stumbles back into the ropes and Flynn runs up to her and stuffs his knee right into her gut, bending her in half. He whips her to the far ropes and drops down to his belly, letting her step over him. He then pops back up as she rebounds again and snares her with a light speed spinning powerslam!

Flynn gets up and grabs Cartier by hair that probably did not grow out of her scalp naturally… he pulls her up and locks her into a Full Nelson! Cartier struggles… and then Flynn pulls her up in the air and slams her down onto her back! Cartier’s legs go limp from the Full Nelson Slam and Michel Flynn leaps onto her for a cover for 1…2…KICKOUT!

Michel Flynn patiently waits for her to rise. With growing anticipation and a running start, Michel Flynn looks for his patented Le Daiser D'or shotgun kick! Cartier evades and Flynn hits the corner, flopping onto his back.

Cartier showboats for the crowd and then pulls Flynn to his feet before bending him over with an inverted atomic drop that does a number on his lower abdominals. Cartier hits the ropes and then snaps Flynn’s head down the canvas with the SIZZURP KICK!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: She nailed the Sizzurp Kick, Charles, and you know what that means…

CHARLES HUDSON: AShe uses it to set up the big finish, the Empire State of Mind!

Cartier steps into a corner and waits while Michel Flynn slowly gets onto his hands and knees. She crouches and urges him up, and when he lifts his eyes to meet hers she charges him and cracks the running kick right across his jaw! The lights go out for Flynn and Cartier rolls onto him, hooking both legs for 1…2…3!

GRAHAM STEVENS: Your winner by pin fall AND STILL Mainstream Wrestling World Television Champion…CARTIER!

CHARLES HUDSON:  Another successful title defense by our World Television Champion Cartier!

MCKAYLA LEWIS:  Great job to Emerald City Squire graduate Michel Flynn.

CHARLES HUDSON:  Cartier just puts another notch in her ever impressive belt one defense at a time. Now later tonight she looks to take home the Pinnacle Battle Royal!

MCKAYLA LEWIS:  When we return from the break we’ll hear from another participant in tonight’s battle Royal and also the World Tag Team Championships will be on the line!

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[Robert Daniels]

The arena lights go dark, and red lights strobe on either side of the stage as Carpenter Brut’s “Leather Teeth” begins to play.The crowd is not sure how to react, but boos quickly fill the arena as Biggs makes his entrance clad in a black studded leather jacket and black leather pants with the Mainstream United States Championship clasped around his waist, and aviator shades adorning his face.Red and white spotlights dance wildly about the arena as the red strobes flash in time with the music. He holds his arms out to his sides, soaking in the malice and malcontent from the fans before heading down the walkway towards the ring.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: This Madison Square Garden crowd sure is letting Biggs have it tonight, aren’t they?!

CHARLES HUDSON: New York City is one of the toughest towns in the United States. They’re quite particular about whom they cheer and don’t cheer.

Biggs lacks the normal dance in his step as he reaches the ring and walks up the ring steps. He steps through the ropes and mounts the far turnbuckle, glaring out at the crowd as he unclasps his title belt and raises it high in the air, drawing even more vitriol from the fans.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Conspicuous by their absence are the Tag Team Champs, Team Sexy. Usually those two are attached to Biggs at the hip!

CHARLES HUDSON: They do have a title defense to prepare for.

The United States Champion hops off the turnbuckle and calls for a mic. He doesn’t even wait for the boos to die down before beginning to speak.

BIGGS: So all you not so fine people want me to be the bad guy?! I mean how else can I take the fact that all y’all voted me as the Most Hated Wrestler of the Year for 2021! The only thing I can understand less than that is why you would vote noted narcissist Skye Healy as the Most Popular Wrestler of the Year, but I digress! As much as I would like to chalk up the vote to my actions in my match with Robert Zodiac at the Mainstream Fifth Anniversary Show, the fact is that you people don’t appreciate me!

A loud “F— YOU BIGGS! F— YOU BIGGS!” chant gets going.

BIGGS: Sorry, I’m a happily married man! And yes, I know the last time I was seen in a Mainstream Wrestling ring, I compromised my morals. I did something that I haven’t done in over 7 years, and that was use a weapon inside this ring. Well actually several weapons, but that’s beside the point. It is to my great shame and detriment that I stooped to such levels, but the bottom line is that any of you who would rush to call me a liar or a hypocrite, well, you’re the biggest hypocrites of them all because there’s no a single one of you who if you had been in the my situation who wouldn’t have done the same exact thing! So while I do my best to hold myself to a higher standard, unlike you all, at least I have standards!

The familiar refrain of “F— YOU BIGGS! F— YOU BIGGS!” begins again, and Biggs can’t help but chuckle at it.

BIGGS: Am I proud of the fact that I hobbled Robert Zodiac with a steel chair wrapped around his ankle? No, not at all. Am I proud of the fact that in my hubris, I had to grab a Kendo Stick to break a hold? Absolutely not. I make a conscious decision to not use weapons not because I don’t know how to use them, but rather because I know how to use them all too well. If I allow myself the luxury of using weapons, well I’m just simply too damn creative to not severely injure my opponents, and that’s never my goal in a match. Do I want to hurt my opponents to where they lose the will to go on in the match? For sure. Do I want to injure them and cost them time and money by preventing them from being able to wrestle? No, no I don’t. And up until the Fifth Anniversary Show, I made the sacrifice of limiting myself in this ring, I took the high road. But it’s obvious to me now that you people don’t give a crap about the moral high road, you don’t care that I have avoided shortcuts and cheap shots. Instead of looking up to me as a person to be admired for his courage and conviction, you have chosen to scorn me and try to knock me down to your level! And while it would be oh so easy for me to say screw it, these jackasses don’t care if I hold to my moral standards, I chose to be the better man! So you can boo me all you want! You can cuss me out until the cows come home! It doesn’t change the fact that I am morally and ethically superior to each and every one of you! You don’t have to like me. Hell you don’t even have to respect me. But I will not bend or compromise my morals to appease the masses!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: What an arrogant ass…

CHARLES HUDSON: I don’t see a donkey in the ring.

BIGGS: Everything I have achieved here in Mainstream Wrestling, I have earned, and tonight, I will EARN my victory in the PInnacle Battle Royale to become the number one contender for the Mainstream World Heavyweight Championship. The current Mainstream World Heavyweight Champion, Chris Madison, seems to think that I believe I’m entitled to a title match, that I think I deserve a match based merely on my star power and name value. I am a best selling author after all. But Chris, if I can be frank with you, I have such a robust vocabulary that I don’t need you putting words in my mouth that simply aren’t there. So after I outlast everyone else in the PInnacle Battle Royale, and earn that title match, I don’t care if it’s you I face, or Emma Douglas that I face, I will earn the Mainstream World Heavyweight Championship.

“As for the United States Championship that I have slung over my shoulder? Well all y’all know that I am and will continue to be a fighting champion! I know Jason Cashe, Robert Zodiac, and Bryan Ford all want a piece of me and a shot at this belt, and gentlemen, and yes, I use that term very loosely in your cases, I will take any one of you on any time, anywhere. Same goes for anyone else who wants to see if they can take this title from me! I am declaring 2022 the Year of Biggs in Mainstream Wrestling, and whether you people like it or not, there’s nothing you, or anyone in the back can do to stop me!”

“Leather Teeth” hits the speakers as Biggs hands the mic out to the time keeper and exits the ring. Some fans in the front row are jawing off and flipping Biggs the bird, and he just laughs in their faces as he walks by. Biggs’ nonchalance enrages one of the fans, a heavyset man with a neckbeard, who hops the barricade and lunges at Biggs! Biggs coolly sidesteps him as the man faceplants onto the floor, and security rushes to restrain the fan. Biggs turns to the crowd, pointing at the man, chuckling as he says, “This guy wasted a $500 ticket just to fall flat on his face! Stay classy New York!”

MCKAYLA LEWIS: You hate to see that. Ladies and gentlemen, hopping the barricade is not condoned. That man will be spending the night in jail, and will be banned from future Mainstream Wrestling events.

Biggs is all smiles on the stage as he holds his US Title high and the fans continue to boo him.

[Robert Daniels]

PREVIOUSLY RECORDED...
A dark-haired man in a Misfits hoodie stands on the corner of 8th Avenue and W 31st, eyes fastened on the looming and iconic Madison Square Garden. He's got salt-and-pepper stubble on his cheeks, as though he shaved about twenty four hours ago but was too lazy to touch it up before going live. He turns to glance over his shoulder, catching sight of the camera and flashing a crooked smirk – by now, it's clear who this is to anyone who's followed indy wrestling for the last year. Lex Collins drops a wink and lifts a hand to gesture at the building.

LEX COLLINS: Hey, so I've gotta make this quick, I guess. They only gave me a few minutes to slide this in. So, let's get right to it. There's a lot of history between those walls – if they could talk, I couldn't even imagine the stories they'd tell of heartbreak, of bloodshed an' loss… of victory an' surviving the insurmountable odds. I've been here a few times, myself. First time was back in 2012…

He shakes his head, chuckling ruefully.

LEX COLLINS: Feels like a lifetime ago. I was still a bit green round the edges then. Had a huge blowout against a woman named Solara Newton, workin' for a company that closed its doors nearly a decade ago. Doesn't matter.

He shrugs, maintaining that awkward eye contact for a few seconds before his brown eyes shift away.

LEX COLLINS: No stranger to the venue. That's my point. Been here before – those walls hold a few of my stories, too. Been in a few matches like this Pinnacle Rumble, too. Funny how that goes. Introduction to a couple companies over the years've gone that route and if you feel up to Googling it, you'll find my track record in them stinks. Save you the time. Been in six of them over the years, big ones with big ticket prizes on the line. Last guy eliminated twice – so, I guess there's something to be said about consistency?

He flashes that crooked smirk again, and this time it seems almost self-deprecating.

LEX COLLINS: One guy had to almost rip my arm clean from the socket to get me to let go of that rope. Yeah, I guess I got tenacity goin' for me too. Tonight, gonna lace up my boots, step through those all-too-familiar doors into a locker room full of strangers' faces. Name's Lex Collins. Tonight, I'm an Outsider. I'm the new guy. Let's see how long it takes to change that.

He turns and walks away without another word, heading towards Madison Square Garden and the Mainstream Wrestling production truck that's just pulling in.

[Robert Daniels]

MAINSTREAM WRESTLING
WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

★★★ TEAM SEXY (C) ★★★
vs
★★★ THE GRAHAM LEGACY ★★★

The bell rings and this World Tag Team Championship match is officially underway! Bobby Larson and Steven Graham start this one off for their respective teams. Larson sizes up the older of the Graham brothers, before rushes in and gives him a stiff boot to the face, knocking Graham flat on his back! Bobby is quick to the cover for 1…2…KICK OUT!

Keeping the pressure on, Bobby gives Graham a couple of punches to the face before pulling him up to his feet and whipping him towards the ropes. On the rebound, Bobby pulls Steven up onto his shoulders and takes him down with a Samoan Drop! Bobby is beaming with confidence as he backs into the ropes and bounces off, juking and jiving a bit before dropping a knee right across the forehead of his opponent! Bobby gives him a nonchalant cover, hooking the near leg with his left arm while flexing his right arm and kissing his own bicep for 1…KICK OUT!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Bobby Larson used to be such a good kid. But running with Blake O’Reilly and Biggs hasn’t done him any favors.

CHARLES HUDSON: Can you blame him for having some fun in the ring? He’s one half of the Tag Champs!

As Bobby grabs a hold of Steven's head to pull him up to his feet, Graham is incensed and delivers some hard shots to the midsection of Bobby Larson, hunching him over! Steven pulls Bobby in for an attempted Piledriver, but Bobby deadweights him, dropping to his knees and sweeps the legs out from underneath Steven Graham! Faster than lightning, Bobby grabs a hold of Steven's legs and flips over into a Jackknife cover for 1...2...KICK OUT!

Bobby Larson grabs a hold of Steven’s arm and wrenches it into a Hammerlock. Larson wraps his free arm up and over around the head and neck of Steven, and takes him down with a Hammerlock Reverse DDT! Blake can be heard yelling on the apron, “Just like Poppa Biggs taught him!” Bobby stays on Steven, floating over into a cover, and placing his forearm across the bridge of his opponent’s nose while hooking the inside leg for 1…2…KICKOUT!

Bobby pulls Steven back up to a vertical base but Steven ducks under behind him, wrapping his arms around Bobby’s waist! Steven pops his hips and tosses Bobby up and over with a Release German Suplex, but Larson lands on his feet!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: What agility on display by Bobby Larson!

CHARLES HUDSON: They don’t call him “Blue Lightning” for nothing!

Steven turns around to be greeted by a Short Arm Clothesline from Larson, followed up by another on the pop up! Steven rolls away to create some distance before getting to his feet, and Larson takes the bait, rushing right in to get nailed with a Standing Dropkick to the mush! O’Reilly yells encouragement, or rather encouragement through discouragement, from the apron as Steven sits Bobby up and applies a Seated Sleeper Hold. Bobby tries to get his hands under his chin to break the hold, but Steven Graham has the hold in deep! Blake sees his partner fading and rushes in to break the hold, but gets intercepted by David with a Running Shoulder Tackle that sends Blake flying through the ropes to the floor!

CHARLES HUDSON: Steven Graham has Bobby Larson isolated in the center of the ring with that hold and his brother running interference!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: We could be on the cusp of new Tag Champs!

Bobby’s flailing arms start to flail less wildly, and as the ref checks his arm to see if he’s out, Bobby comes to life, rolling his hips to the side and pushing himself up to a vertical base, elbowing Steven Graham in the midsection as he does so! Bobby breaks out of the sleeper, but Steven reaches out and gets a hold of Bobby’s tights, pulling him back in position for a Russian Leg Sweep as David explodes into the ring with a Running Clothesline on Larson! Steven is quick to cover for 1…2…KICK OUT!

Steven grits his teeth and pulls Bobby back up to a vertical base, going to whip him into the ropes, but Bobby reverses! Blake O’Reilly hops up onto the apron and gives Steven a cheap shot between the shoulder blades that causes him to stumble forward. Bobby uses the opening to lift Steven up on his shoulders and nails a picture perfect Cartwheel Death Valley Driver, leaving Steven on the mat as he pops up into his Stupid Sexy Dab pose!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: He should have gone for a pin instead of showboating.

Bobby struts over to his team’s corner and tags in Blake O’Reilly. He takes his time entering the ring and sizes up Steven Graham. The two men trade some shots with Steven getting the upper hand! Blake pokes Steven's eyes blinding him temporarily. O'Reilly hits the ropes and spins connecting with a roaring elbow to the back of the head!

Steven is stunned leaning against the turnbuckle in the corner, still reeling from the poke to the eye earlier. Blake explodes out of nowhere with a big drop kick! He looks down at Steven and smirks to the camera. He then yanks the man up deadlifting him from the ground before holding him high in the air with a stalling suplex. He drops him into a jackhammer and hooks the leg for 1…2…KICKOUT!

Moments later O’Reilly impatiently waits for Steven Graham to push himself back up off the mat. Steven ducks under a wild clothesline and lifts Blake up with a blue thunder bomb! Both men are down but Steven is inching closer and closer to his teams corner. David leans across the top rope and grabs the tag allowing him to enter the ring!

Blake is up on his feet and bummed that the fresh man is now legal in the ring. O’Reilly throws a right hand that David ducks under. David delivers a boot to the midsection that doubles O'Reilly over. David takes a run to the ropes but his foot is caught on something! He looks down and Bobby Larson snuck to the outside and pulled his foot! David shakes him off and argues with Larson turning around into a spine shattering spear! O'Reilly dusts his hands off and flexes his chest a bit.

Blake O’Reilly remains on the offensive, pulling David Graham up to his feet, pressing him back first against the ropes then Irish whips David towards the other side of the ring. David rebounds but he throws him overhead with a Back body drop! Blake looks down at David before hitting a standing Phoenix splash and hooks the leg for 1…2…KICKOUT!

Kneeling following the two count Blake O’Reilly lifts the back of David’s head and props him up in the corner. O’Reilly rushes into the corner, taking a run at him. David gets out of the way but Blake expected it and jumps onto the middle corner turnbuckle. He leaps off twisting his body last minute and crashes down with a corkscrew senton!

O’Relly pops up and levels Steven Graham with a forearm knocking him down to the ring floor. The official warns him but he follows that senton up with a quick Scoop Slam and tags in Bobby Larson. Larson drops an elbow on the sternum of David Graham before shooting the half and turning David on to his belly. Targeting the back of David’s head, Bobby Larson throws some heavy hands, before placing his knee between the younger Graham’s shoulder blades and applying a Chin Lock!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Bobby Larson and Blake O’Reilly have both raised their submission games since going under the tutelage of Biggs. Probably the only good thing about their professional relationship with that weasel.

CHARLES HUDSON: He’s got that Chin Lock in deep, putting a lot of pressure on David Graham’s neck.

Bobby keeps the hold on, and O’Reilly misses on an attempted clothesline to intercept Steven Graham, who Dropkicks Bobby right in the back of the head! Blake O’Reilly doesn’t miss on his next Clothesline attempt, sending Steven Graham over the top rope! He follows him out while Bobby and David gather themselves in the ring.

Exchanging fists fast and furiously! Bobby gets the advantage, and backs David Graham into the ropes, whipping him into the ropes and throwing him sky high with a Back Body Drop! Graham arches his back in pain and Bobby gets a running start towards the ropes, catching Graham as he gets up with a Running Knee Lift into a Neckbreaker, The Power Outage! Bobby hooks both legs for 1…2…KICK OUT!

CHARLES HUDSON: He almost had him there!

Not losing his focus, Bobby gets back to his feet and appeals to the crowd as he makes his way to the near corner, grabbing a hold of the top rope and stomping the mat! Bobby stomps the mat again, and the crowd starts clapping in time with his stomps!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: He’s charging up the Lightning Strike!

The stomps get quicker and quicker, and as David pushes himself up to his feet, Bobby lets loose with the Lightning Strike! Blake O’Reilly has cleared the ring of Steven Graham while Bobby hooks the leg of David for 1…2…3!

GRAHAM STEVENS: Your winners by pin fall AND STILL Mainstream Wrestling World Tag Team Champions…Bobby Larson, Blake O’Reilly…TEAM—SEXY!

CHARLES HUDSON:  The Graham Legacy with another missed opportunity here tonight against Team Sexy.

MCKAYLA LEWIS:  Team Sexy looks to run the tag division here in twenty twenty two!

CHARLES HUDSON:  I’ve been hearing rumblings of teams lining up to meet with Kevin Bombay in hopes of earning title shot opportunities in the very near future!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: One former tag team champion earned a shot at Chris Madison by winning the chase for the Crown at the fifth year anniversary but Queen Emma Douglas be supporting her protege Sage Lowry in her first attempt for the title when we return from the commercial break!

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[Robert Daniels]

The 10 second instrumental for "Ready or Not" plays throughout the arena before Lauren Hill's voice cuts in with the classic chorus.

Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and take it slowly
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and make you want me!

From the back is Jason Cashe as he steps out onto the stage. At the center, before the stage turns into the ramp, he stops. Stepping to the side, he turns and looks back at the entrance as Josslynn Spencer appears to a pop from the audience. Cashe reaches out to her and she grabs his hand as they link together and head towards the ring.

At ringside, Cashe gives her a lift onto the apron and jogs up the steel stairs before holding the ropes for Josslynn. He enters the ring after her, signaling for a microphone from the ring announcer.

JASON CASHE: How the hell are we doing tonight? It's been a while hasn't it?

The crowd popped and clapped. Everyone who was connected to Mainstream Wrestling was thrilled to see it back after a month's vacation.

JASON CASHE: You remember Josslynn right?

Again, the audience pops. Josslynn had been a graduate of Squires and had competed in Mainstream for a while. She was linked to Cashe in 2020 and parts of 2021 but here she was again by his side.

JASON CASHE: Josslynn, do you want to say hello?

He holds the mic for her and she gives him a stare before greeting the large audience in Madison Square Garden.

JOSSLYNN SPENCER: Hi!

She got an even bigger pop! Cashe smiled as he pulled her close and kissed her on the top of her head. This wasn't why he was out here but it deserved a moment. It was an important piece of who he was and where he planned to be moving forward. She was his present and future. Getting down to business, Cashe started moving around some.

JASON CASHE: Tonight is the Pinnacle! Tonight, Mainstream is BACK!

The fans were alive as they were moving around like a mosh pit full of cheers!

JASON CASHE: I've been preparing for this moment, this return since Thanksgiving! As you can see.. I am in great shape, the best I have felt in years! I am tatted up and ready to leave my mark once again on this promotion!

It was loud! Cashe wouldn't say they were hyped for him because even he was hyped for the return of Mainstream so he enjoyed their excitement because he shared it with them.

JASON CASHE: With that said.. Where oh where do I begin?

Pacing to the right, Cashe lets the microphone fall to his side as Josslynn approaches him and grabs his face, kissing him to, if nothing else, calm him down. Get him focused. Living in the moment, Cashe scoops her up and sits her on the top turnbuckle at one of the corners. He stood in between her legs as he put the microphone back to his mouth. His eyes staring into hers, he got back to his point.

JASON CASHE: Beautiful..

He moves out from in front of her and cuts back to the center of the ring, staring out into the crowd.

JASON CASHE: Let's kick this shit off with something that's never been seen before! LET'S GET IT!!

Pointing towards the entrance, a whole conga line of Little People pile out from the back. All of them were wearing Josslynn Spencer shirts from her Mainstream days as Fans laugh and cheer! They scurry towards the ring as Mainstream Security rushes out to stop them. Lifting one or two of them up and holding them under their armpits, it was a sight to see as a few of them made it to ringside.

JASON CASHE: YOOO! LEAVE THEM BE!

The Midgets who made it to the ring, roll into the ring to get the protection from Cashe. The security guys get to ringside only to see Cashe step towards them to stand between them and the wee ones who are here with Cashe. The security team stands down, letting the little people they did catch down so they can join Cashe.

JASON CASHE: Bombay wants me to open this show? I'm doing this shit MY WAY! Tell him to fine me, tell him to fire me and in both of those outcomes I will say F**K HIM! Now go back where you came from because this is MY Time!

The audience was behind Cashe as were the 7-8 Midgets in and around the ring. As the security leaves, all the little people exit the ring and surround it as wee little lumberjacks! It was a great thing to see in Mainstream and LONG overdue. Cashe seems to be in high spirits as he gets back on the microphone.

JASON CASHE: This year is when a WHOLE lot of questions will be answered! We will CHANGE the dynamic in 2022! People I have seen on this roster for the last few years but haven't yet stepped in the ring with. Emma Douglas, Zodiac to name a few. People who have ducked and dodged opportunities to be in the ring with me will find that their creative control has expired or that I just don't CARE about what they want! People like Billy Danielson, people like Skye Healy! You both WILL be seeing me this year unless you do yourself a favor and LEAVE because I am not playing with kid gloves anymore, I am not holding off because you've got these panties in a twist BITCHES backstage who cannot take the heat but want room in the kitchen to cook! That shit ends this year!!

The roaring of the audience, they wanted to see these things as well. Midgets danced about hyping the crowd up!

JASON CASHE: I'm not taking No for an answer, I'm not ASKING permission! If you duck me then hear my theme music because you can't hide, I will FIND you and MAKE you want me as I take it slowly! From names I haven't seen to unfinished business.. BIGGS! I know you're in the back and I hope you can hear me.. Our little spat? This feud between us WILL find a conclusion in 2022! You won, I won and we have a draw so there NEEDS to be a winner and that winner is the man in this ring right now!

Hands clapped together as Cashe continued with his slightly aggressive but casual mic work.

JASON CASHE: See, I'm not hiding what I want. I'm not ducking behind management and hoping people still see me as a value to this roster. I will take action! Like with Blake O'Riley, that boy is getting his ass WHOOPED in 2022 and he should HOPE that I don't decide to partner up and TAKE those tag titles that he currently has..

People were confused because some of the names Cashe named, they liked so there was a mixture in reaction outside of the cheer for sheer excitement on Mainstream being back.

JASON CASHE: I'm not a good guy, I'm not a terrible human being but I am GOOD at doing BAD things to people and I don't much care if you fans, you consumers cheer or boo them..

More of that mixed reaction. Cashe felt at home in the middle of their affection.

JASON CASHE: I care about two things in 2022.. One of them is sitting right there on the top ropes. The other is finding the toughest son of a bitches this roster can employ and punching them in the f**king mouth! Championships get all the credit for success but crown me or not, I will fight like something is on the line each and every night I am present for a show. Be it inside this ring or finding someone to fight backstage, you will see the 'DiOGee' doing what I do best and that's Scrap!

"So come one, come all! You want to come down now like the Price is Right then come on down! I'll be here all night and to make SURE I find a fight? I have entered the Pinnacle tonight and like I did before, I aim to win it! I don't care about odds, I don't care about who might align to stop me.. You BETTER squad up in this match because I will take OFF your head and toss it over the ropes to get to the end and have My Hand Raised! You want that spot? You will HAVE to take it from me.. Take from a Taker and I'm going to take plenty in Mainstream for 2022! Count on it!"

Cashe cocks back and launches the microphone deep into the crowd. The production team were probably quick to cut the mic so some fans couldn't use it as it disappeared into the audience. Heading back to Josslynn, she hugs around him as he pulls her off the top turnbuckle. They exit the ring as the midgets surround them like an entourage of the best quality!

[Robert Daniels]

MAINSTREAM WRESTLING
WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

★★★ CHRIS MADISON (C) ★★★
vs
★★★ SAGE LOWRY ★★★

The bell rings and this World Heavyweight Championship bout is now underway! Chris Madison comes out of his corner slowly, allowing an opportunity for Sage Lowry to push the pace. Lowry charges and tries for a running bicycle kick that Madison easily avoids by stepping aside. Madison grabs his challenger with a rear waist lock and drags her to the center of the ring. Sage drops her hips and begins working at Madison’s grip, frantically trying to avoid being lifted into the air. She stomps down on his foot and performs a standing switch and then transitions from a rear waist lock to a standing side headlock. Sage squeezes Madison’s head tightly against her side before being lifted into the air as the champion tries for a belly to back suplex.

Sage has the wherewithal to release the headlock and flips backwards while in the air, landing on her feet. Madison hits the mat after the unsuccessful suplex attempt and quickly rolls to his knees. Just in time to catch a round kick from Sage Lowry against his chest. Madison pops up to his feet and snaps Sage backwards with a capture suplex that sends her across the ring. Befor Madison could mount any further offense, Sage Lowry wisely rolls under the ring ropes to the apron.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Smart play by Sage Lowry. After a series of counters, she’s preventing Madison from picking up any further momentum by rolling out of harm’s way.

CHARLES HUDSON: She essentially just took a time out!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Can you blame her? She’s in what could be looked at as the biggest match of her career against a champion who has shown time and time again that he’s arguably one of the best to ever lace up those boots.

Madison stands in the center of the ring, keeping his eyes locked on Sage. The champion shows no signs of pursuing the fight outside and waves for Lowry to join him back in the ring. Sage stands tall on the apron and begins stepping through the ropes. She places her first foot on the bottom rope and then launches herself at Madison, cutting him in half with a springboard spear. As both competitors hit the mat, Madison latches onto Sage, rolling into a guillotine choke with a body scissor!

Lowry plants her hands into the mat and postures up before slamming Madison back down against the canvas. She succeeds in breaking the body lock, but Madison still has guillotine applied. Lowry pushes up again, this time getting her feet under her before lifting Madison up and over her head, bridging into a Northern Lights Suplex! 1… Madison quickly kicks out. Both champion and challenger scramble to their feet. Lowry grabs Madison by the wrist and tries for a short arm clothesline but Madison ducks under.

As they both turn to face each other, Madison unloads with pinpoint accuracy - landing lefts, rights, inside leg kicks, and finishing with a leaping knee strike that dazes Sage Lowry. Lowry staggers on her feet and Madison quickly slips behind her, lifting her up onto his shoulders with an inverted fireman’s carry. Madison moves to the center of the ring before flipping Sage feet first into the air, connecting with a brutal knee to the chin on the way down. Madison drops down and hooks a leg for 1…2…KICKOUT!

Pulling Sage to her feet Madison tries to lock up with Sage, but Sage uses her speed to duck and move behind him. He tries to hit her with a back elbow a few times, but she keeps moving out of the way. She has enough strength to pull him over with a huge German suplex.

Madison pops up almost no selling the German as Sage grabs and whips Chris into the ropes and nails him with a leg lariat upon his return, knocking him down to the mat. She motions him to get up and kicks him directly in the face with a low dropkick. She's quick to try to pin him, placing all her weight on his shoulder. 1...2...KICKOUT!

But as he throws that shoulder off the mat, Sage grabs him in a side triangle choke. The referee slides down and watches for a tap. Madison being a submission magician keeps his composure. The Champion drags inch by inch until his finger tips touch and then grab hold of the ropes. The referee signals for Sage to break the hold and counts to four before she does.

Pulling Madison up to his feet, Lowry tries to keep control but the Champion creates separation with a spinning back kick to the midsection that doubles the challenger over. Madison quickly follows that up with an axe kick to the back of the head and then a rolling elbow to the mouth that flattens Sage Lowry. Madison backs against the ropes, giving Lowry enough time and room to collect herself and get back up to her feet. As she stands, Madison quickly grabs her and explodes with a t-bone suplex!

As they hit the mat, Madison keeps his arm stretched across Lowry and rolls into a koji clutch! Lowry reaches out towards the ropes but isn’t close enough. She begins clawing at Madison’s grip, trying to fight free but is unsuccessful. She tries to spin her lower body closer to the ropes but her outstretched foot doesn’t reach the ropes. Finally, she twists in a way that puts Madison on his shoulders with all of her body weight on top of him despite still being trapped in Madison’s koji clutch. The referee slides in to make the count for 1…2…BREAK!

Madison is left with no choice but to release the submission and kick out of the pin attempt.

CHARLES HUDSON: Excellent awareness from Sage Lowry. Madison had her in the middle of the ring with no escape in sight and she managed to roll him into a pinning predicament.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: That koji clutch was locked in! I’m not sure Lowry could have lasted much longer!

CHARLES HUDSON: Maybe so, but here we are and the match continues!

Upon standing, both of them throw a haymaker that connects. They wobble from the shared blows. Madison falls into Sage, grabbing her and whipping her across the ring, into the corner. She manages to get a boot up as Chris comes running in at her. He is a little dazed, holding his jaw. Sage uses this time to chop block him, causing him to drop to one knee. Sage pulls herself up to her feet, spreading herself and promptly hits him with a super kick right to the face. She falls after executing the move.

Madison groggy as he pushes up to his feet while Sage struggles to her hands and knees, trying to collect herself. Madison drops down, pushing Sage back to the mat with both hands and all of his weight coming down on her upper back. Holding her in place, Madison begins delivering bone crunching knees to the ribs - each forceful strike moving Sage inches across the ring. Madison sprawls across Sages back, spinning into a deadlift gutwrench suplex! Sage Lowry bounces off of the mat and pops up to her knees.

Nearly defenseless, the challenger tries to get her arms up to block the incoming bicycle knee strike from Madison but is unsuccessful! Madison reaches down and secures a front face lock, lifting Sage up to her feet and dragging her to the middle of the ring. Madison tightens the front face lock into a standing guillotine and begins spinning, lifting Sage clean off of the mat with each rotation of his signature helicopter guillotine as the live audience counts in unison!

One…
Two…
Three…
Four…
Five…
Six…
Seven…
Eight…
Nine…
Ten…

Madison shrugs Sage aside and drops down onto her for 1…2…KICKOUT!

As Madison gets up and brings Sage to her feet as well, the Champion swings and Sage ducks a wild punch, hitting Madison with an enziguri, momentarily stunning him. She grabs him and nails him with a stiff European uppercut, one big enough to cause him to stumble back against the ropes. Sage then floats him over with a huge Northern Lights Suplex, holding the bridge for 1…2…KICKOUT!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: They are trading pinfalls as both want this match to end!

CHARLES HUDSON: I don't, I want this to continue! What a match!

Madison crawls away from his challenger, making it to the corner so that he can use the ropes to pull himself up to his feet. As he stands, he turns around and is crushed by a running european uppercut from Sage Lowry! Sage keeps Madison pressed against the turnbuckles and connects with a nasty knife edged chop! After a loud Wooooo from the live audience, Sage unloads another brutal knife edged chop that turns the champion’s chest beet red. Sage turns her back to Madison, keeping him up on his feet before running across the ring. She hits the turnbuckles in the opposite corner and bounces off of them, charging back towards Madison.

Lowry tries for a handspring back elbow but Madison steps aside. He quickly presses Lowry up against the corner and holds her still before nailing her with a headbutt between the eyes. Madison follows that up with machine gun knife edge chops that gets the roaring approval of the audience! He pulls Lowry from the corner and wraps his arms around her before driving her back first to mat with a spinning belly to belly suplex and transitions smoothly into an arm triangle!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: It has gotta be so hard to prepare for a match against Chris Madison. These high impact suplexes are brutal and almost always followed up with a submission hold.

CHARLES HUDSON: But that’s his gameplan. Break you down to the point where you’re physically incapable of fighting out of these holds.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: I’m sure Sage will continue to push until there’s no more fight left in her. But how much longer is that?

Sage tries to desperately punch her way out of the submission hold, connecting to the back of Madison’s head, but the champion shows no signs of letting go. She manages to twist herself and Madison, using only her feet, to get close enough that she can place her foot on the bottom rope to force a break. Madison releases at the officials instructions. He gets up to his feet and watches as Sage begins to pull herself up with the help of the ropes.

Madison traps one of Sage’s arms against her side while securing a rear waist lock. Positioning her in the center of the ring, Madison pulls on Lowry’s arm, spinning her around while throwing a rolling elbow strike. Lowry ducks underneath the strike attempt, having heavily scouted Madison’s Comatosed. She jumps up and connects with an enziguri. Madison stumbles but stays on his feet. Lowry runs past him, jumping up onto the middle rope and springboarding back with a cross body. Madison catches Lowry in mid air and drives her down head first with a brain buster! He drops down and hooks a leg for 1…2…KICKOUT!

Madison lifts Lowry up to her feet and immediately backs her against the ropes. He isolates a wrist and whips her across the ring. Lowry manages to reverse the Irish whip and sends Madison across the ring. Madison rebounds and Lowry leapfrogs over him. He hits the ropes again and gets turned upside down with a hurricanrana. Madison hits the mat and pops back up to his feet only to be taken out by a low drop kick to his knees. Lowry waits, watching as Madison makes it to his knees before connecting with a superkick!

Lowry steps through the nearby ropes, standing on the apron. She grabs the top rope and launches herself over the top rope with a slingshot senton that comes crashing down across his torso. She quickly flips over and hooks a leg for 1…2…KICKOUT!

CHARLES HUDSON: I think Madison had the wind knocked out of him because that was a closer fall than I thought it would be.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: At the end of the day, does it matter? I’m sure Sage Lowry doesn’t have a preference for how she wins here tonight. As long as she’s walking out the new Mainstream Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion!

CHARLES HUDSON: That dream almost came to fruition.

Lowry glares at the official and shakes her head. She pulls Madison up to her feet and dips her shoulder, lifting Madison onto her shoulders. Madison counters, trapping her arms with his legs and rolling back into a crucifix. He doesn’t roll into a pinning position; instead holds her in place while raining down with brutal elbow strikes to the side of her head. Madison lets go and pushes up to his feet. Madison watches as Lowry stumbles up to her feet.

He positions himself and waits for Lowry to turn towards him. Once she does, Madison pushes her up into the air for a flapjack but catches her on the way down by his side and flips her over with a pop up gutwrench suplex! Madison forgoes the pin attempt and pulls Lowry up to her feet with a modified Muay Thai Clinch. He backs her into the corner, connecting with elbows, forearm strikes, and knees to the abdomen before jumping up into a flying armbar!

Lowry can’t hold Madison’s weight long and rolls to the mat. She reaches and tries to clasp her hands together in an attempt to block the submission hold but is unsuccessful. Madison cranks on her arm, looking to force the tap out. Lowry slaps the mat once in frustration and focuses on finding a way to make it to the ropes. Inch by inch, she scratches and claws her way until finally being close enough to reach out and grab the bottom rope to force the break.

Madison stands tall as Sage begins to crawl across the mat. Madison stands over the lower back of his challenger and reaches down, grabbing both of her arms and pulling them behind her back with a double chicken wing before lifting her up to her feet. Madison drives her backwards with a tiger suplex but Sage flips and lands on her feet. She quickly snaps Madison to the ground with an arm drag takedown. Both competitors get up simultaneously and Sage catches Madison with another arm drag takedown.

Madison is a little slower to his feet and gets flipped to the mat with a tilt-a-whirl headscissor takedown from a charging Sage Lowry! Madison tries to gather his bearings and slowly gets to his feet with assistance of the ropes. From behind, Sage jumps up onto his shoulders and snaps him back with a poisonrana! She quickly crawls for the cover for 1…2…KICKOUT!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: I don’t know how Madison didn’t just break his neck after being spiked on the top of his head!

CHARLES HUDSON: That was the closest fall yet! We almost crowned a new champ!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: I think this New York City crowd would have broken out into a riot!

Sage shakes her head in disbelief. She slaps the mat and then pops up to her feet. Lowry picks Madison up and backs him into a corner. She begins unloading with round kicks to the abdomen of Madison, but the champion catches her leg. He pushes her out to the center of the ring and transitions to a side waistlock and slams her backwards with a saito suplex!

The force sends Lowry bouncing off of the mat and towards the corner of the ring. She backs up against the bottom turnbuckle and is pulled up to her feet before she could even try to rise. Madison whips Lowry across the ring and immediately follows in pursuit. Lowry makes it to the corner but runs up the turnbuckles and flips over Madison. Madison makes it to the corner and hops up onto the middle rope, throws himself backwards and grabs a front facelock, twisting into a tornado DDT as soon as Lowry’s feet touch the mat.

While on the ground, he effortlessly transitions into his patented Peruvian Necktie! In the center of the ring there is nowhere for Sage Lowry to go! All of Madison’s weight is across her back, keeping her in position as she slowly begins to fade. She reaches out desperately for the ropes but is nowhere close. The live audience rises to their feet and turns their eyes to the entranceway as Emma Douglas storms ringside! She slides into the ring and hits Madison with a sliding knee to the side of the head just as Sage Lowry begins to tap. Ding! Ding! Ding!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: That's it! This match is over! Emma Douglas has come out to the ring and ambushed the World Heavyweight Champion!

CHARLES HUDSON: Not sure if she interfered first or if Sage tapped out. That’s the officials call and to be honest, it’s only a matter of book keeping. Chris Madison is still the Mainstream Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion. His record breaking title reign continues!

Ding! Ding! Ding! The time keeper keeps ringing the bell as Emma Douglas kneels next to Madison, delivering rapid hammer fists. Madison tries his best to cover up but Emma Douglas is relentless. Sage begins to stir and wastes no time getting to her feet and stomping away at the champion. Emma stands up and instructs Sage to lift Madison up. Lowry holds Madison in place and Emma lifts Madison onto her shoulders with a fireman’s carry. She marches near the corner and delivers her Douglas Devastation Driver!

Madison hits the turnbuckles and drops upside down, landing on his head and neck. The official pleads with Emma and Sage to leave the ring but the former tag champs don’t appear to be finished. Emma climbs up to the second rope and once again gives Sage instructions. Sage lifts Madison up, passing him to Emma. Emma jumps off the middle rope and delivers their Final Judgement tombstone piledriver! Ding! Ding! Ding! Satisfied with the destruction, Emma steps out onto the ring apron with Sage following suit.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Your winner by disqualification AND STILL Mainstream Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion…CHRIS—MADISON!

CHARLES HUDSON: He’s won. He’s retained. But he knows deep down that Emma Douglas isn’t playing around and has no interest in letting her future championship opportunity slip through her fingertips.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: You have to wonder if pissing Madison off by interfering and leaving him laid out in the middle of the ring is a smart play on Emma’s behalf.

CHARLES HUDSON: Only time will tell. But if anything was accomplished here tonight, she’s grabbed his undivided attention!

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[Robert Daniels]

BACKSTAGE...
We come back from commercial and we see Skye Healy standing somewhere backstage, proudly showing off her Legacy Championship on her shoulder. She smiles at the camera.

SKYE HEALY: It is a new year. It’s a new era. It’s the first show of 2022 for Mainstream Wrestling. After a rollercoaster year for me, a new year means a new beginning for the Limitless Lioness. But don’t get confused. This is no new year, new me trend. This is a new year, new status quo. Because this year will be the year of Skye Healy. And if you pay enough attention and look around the wrestling world, you start to see it too. This wrestling world is wrapped around my finger.

“Nothing is changing about me. I go to sleep, I know what I am destined to do and that is to be the star of professional wrestling. I’ll make damn sure no one overlooks me, my talents, my drive, my passion… ever again. It started with Billy Danielson. It started with taking this championship from him, being the first to do so. A title that’s been held by countless legends and all their legacies are encapsulated in me.”

“2022 is going to be a Limitless year and it starts tonight in the Pinnacle Battle Royal when, WHEN, I win it and go onto face the Mainstream World Champion. It doesn’t matter who the champion is by the time I get there, the result will be the same. No one has had the amount of main event World title match experience that I have earned in the past year. That means I know what to do. And I have learned from my mistakes and have overcome them. So the next time I step into the ring for the World Championship, you are looking at the new champion.”

Skye Healy looks down at the Legacy Championship in thought before turning back to the camera and smiling.

[Robert Daniels]

BACKSTAGE...
RM Tapp is seen making his way down the hallway, already in his gear for the night. Tapp makes sure to announce himself to everyone that he passes creating a few looks of annoyance as he does. After a while he notices the cameraman near him and motions for him to come closer.

RM TAPP: You know, tonight is going to be a good night. You know how I can tell? Because every night is a great night when you’re one of the best wrestlers in the business. And that’s not just me being cocky. That’s me being truthful.

He flashes that smug grin that he’s become known for.

RM TAPP: I mean look at 2021. Last year was undeniably my year as I reached new heights that many believed to be unreachable. And I have no plans of slowing down now if I’m being completely honest with you. I don’t see myself stopping at shoe deals and Rolex sponsorships.

Tapp shakes his head and points a finger towards the camera.

RM TAPP: And if you still don’t believe me. Just look at what I did to Bryan Ford. Oh. I’m sorry.

Tapp rolls his eyes.

RM TAPP: I meant Black Magic or whatever it is he’s calling himself these days. I mean really. Changing your name just because you can. Who does that? But that’s besides the point. I humbled him. Broke him down. And beat some sense into him. Consider that my yearly favor Bryan. But I’m done with favors. It’s time to focus on me and my goals. Goals like walking out there tonight, wrestling better than any other wrestler in the ring, and winning the Pinnacle Battle Royal.

Tapps phone buzzes suddenly prompting the submission wrestler to check it briefly before returning the phone back to his pocket.

TAPP WRESTLING: Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a Five Star Classic Match to go put on. But you knew that already.

And with that RM Tapp continues down the hallway before turning left as the camera cuts away.

[Robert Daniels]

MAINSTREAM WRESTLING PRESENTS THE FIFTH ANNUAL

1. EVERY 2 MINUTES ANOTHER WRESTLER ENTERS THE MATCH AT RANDOM DRAW UNTIL ALL 20 MEN OR WOMEN HAVE ENTERED.

2. TO BE ELIMINATED YOU MUST BE THROWN OVER THE TOP ROPE AND BOTH FEET MUST TOUCH THE FLOOR.

3. WINNER WILL RECEIVE A SHOT AGAINST THE CHAMPION AND IT WILL BE FOR THE SEATTLE PRO WRESTLING WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP. THE WINNER OF THIS BOUT WILL BE ABLE TO SELECT THE EVENT AND TIME THE MATCH WILL TAKE PLACE.

#1. RM TAPP

“Classic Man Remix” by Jidenna featuring Kendrick Lamar begins to play throughout the historic Madison Square Garden as the patented light show begins for the arrival of RM Tapp!

GRAHAM STEVENS: This is the 2022 Pinnacle Battle Royal where the winner will receive a World Heavyweight Championship match! Introducing first from Raleigh, North Carolina! RM—TAPP!

Tapp walks up the stairs and along the ring apron before stepping into the ring and climbing up onto the middle turnbuckle in the corner with his arms in the air!

#2. BRYAN FORD

The Tron statics a bit before "DNA" by Kendrick Lamar blares over the speakers as the face of Bryan Ford appears on the screen. Ford lowers his shades and winks saying ‘Action’.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number two! Making his way to the ring at this time from Los Angeles, California! He is the Innovator of Greatness…BRYAN—FORD!

Ford makes his way down the ramp walking with a swagger as he reaches the apron. Leaping onto the edge he then somersaults over the top rope rolling into the ring squaring up for a fight while waiting for the bell to ring.

The bell rings and this years Pinnacle Battle Royal is officially underway! Bryan Ford and RM Tapp look around the arena having flashbacks to their match at the Fifth Year Anniversary two months ago. Ford pumps up the New York City fans who are on their feet for him as Tapp Adams tries to cut the hype down running at Ford with a clothesline, Ford ducks and takes the arm spinning around and delivers a spinning kick to the gut, he hits the ropes and then rolls off of Tapp’s back landing behind him and immediately connects with a snap German Suplex!

Ford kips up and pounds his chest. Tapp is back on his feet unusually fast then he pounds his chest like a guerrilla then clotheslines Bryan Ford over the top rope! Tapp with his back turned smirks but he turns around to find Bryan Ford standing on the ring apron looking to slingshot himself in! RM Tapp rushes over but he’s met with a super kick attempt. Tapp sidesteps but Bryan Ford connects with an Enziguri to the side of the head dazing Tapp! Ford waits for Tapp to turn around and he then slingshot spears RM Tapp to the ground in the middle of the ring!

RM Tapp clutches his mid section wincing in pain. He slaps the mat then pushes himself up off the mat. Ford clotheslines Tapp over the top rope falling down with him to the bottom of the floor. Ford looks to tackle his foe again but the two spill through the ropes and out onto the floor! Tapp is back to his feet first, then followed by Bryan Ford and the two immediately go back at it trading hard body shots as they break out in a full blown fight and spill out into the crowd who cheer the violence on as they fight on up through the funnel and out of sight.

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#3. BILLY DANIELSON

GREATEST
OF
ALL
TIME

"Born for Greatness" by Papa Roach plays as the crowd buzzes, as the crowd goes nuts. The first verse plays out, causing more anticipation. As the verse comes to the end it pauses for a moment. All of the lights go out again, but then come right back on in full brightness!!!

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number three! Making his way to the ring at this time from Chicago, Illinois! He is the Franchise…BILLY—DANIELSON!

NO WE'RE NOT NAMELESS
WE'RE NOT FACELESS
WE WERE BORN FOR GREATNESS!!!

Suddenly, Billy "The G.O.A.T." Danielson walks out from behind the curtain to a huge pop, as he makes his way down to the ring. He's high-fiving fans as he makes his way to the ring. He wipes his feet before going up to the apron, and into the ring. The fans continue to cheer as Danielson throws his arms in the air looking around for RM Tapp and Bryan Ford.

With so much time left on the count down, Billy Danielson waves over a ringhand and asks for a microphone. After getting the mic, Danielson posts in up in the corner trying to catch his breath.

BILLY DANIELSON: Since I have some time...I just want to address this BEAUTIFUL CROWD here tonight...

The crowd pops for themselves, as they always do.

BILLY DANIELSON: You know, I spent the last two years talking about my legacy in this company, and this is really where my Legacy started. At that very first Fusion where I went to a sixty minute draw with Mark Storm RIGHT IN THIS VERY RING!!!

He looks around at the fans, as he still has another minute before the next wrestler comes out.

BILLY DANIELSON: So it BLOWS MY MIND...that THIS GUY in the FRONT ROW of a MAINSTREAM WRESTLING SHOW...

Billy points at some random fan at the front.

BILLY DANIELSON: HAS THE AUDACITY TO WEAR A NVR WRESTLING SHIRT HERE TONIGHT!!!

The crowd begins to boo at the one mark in the front row who decided he's too hipster for a twenty dollar Mainstream shirt. Danielson shakes his head.

BILLY DANIELSON: You're lucky I have about thirty seconds before someone comes out, because I swear to God that I would beat the shit out of you right now. If anyone here in the crowd does it, hit me up on twitter, I'll make sure you get some free merch and tickets to the next show...

The time clicks down to twenty seconds.

BILLY DANIELSON: Whelp, gotta get ready for whomever is next. The rest of you have been BEAUTIFUL, so have a goodnight.

Danielson goes to hand the microphone to the ringhand, but pump fakes to pull it back to his lips and point to the mark again.

BILLY DANIELSON: Except you! F*** YOU!!!

Danielson flips him off and flips the mic over the top rope as the crowd begins to count down from ten.

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#4. BIANCA REED

Diamonds are a girl's best friend, diamonds are a girl's best friend
Southern girl in me I ain't afraid to catch a case, VVS's on me and I flooded out the face
Diamonds are a girl's best friend, diamonds are a girl's best friend
I don't need you, I've got flooded out baguettes
I don't need you, all my diamonds dripping wet

Blue lights flood Madison Square Garden with two spotlights centered on the entrance ramp as Bianca Reed walks out, stopping at the top of the ramp and lifting her shades to the top of her head. She rolls her eyes at the crowd and treats them to some smack talk as she struts down the ramp, making a “blah blah blah” gesture as she gets closer to the ring.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number four! Making her way to the ring at this time from Atlanta, Georgia! She’s the Killer B…BIANCA—REED!

I'm a super hero, bitch, don't try me hoe, bad like a villain, I pop it and then I reload
All the best things in life come for free, but don't you think that applies to me
I do what I want 'cause I know that I'm hot, I ain't a band but you know how I rock
Don't need no clippers to give you a chop, took me to dinner then I took him out
I like it when you call me crazy, long as you keep callin' baby

Upon reaching the ring, Bianca hops up onto the apron and leans back against the ropes, flashing a cocky smirk at the crowd before waving and ducking through into the ring. Walking to the center of the mat, she poses and takes off her sunglasses, tossing them casually to the side. Flicking her hair over her shoulder, she looks back at Billy Danielson from across the way and smiled.

Bianca Reed comes out strong and has Billy Danielson on the ropes and is dragging his face across the ropes. Bianca quickly drops down and tosses Billy into the center of the ring with a fireman's carry take down. Bianca begins to stomp on every appendage Billy has. She finishes her series of stomps by driving her heel into the nose of Danielson. Billy grabs his face and scrambles to his feet as Bianca runs up and hits a flying lariat on Billy. Bianca goes to the nearest corner and gets on the middle rope for a springboard elbo-BILLY ROLLS OUT OF THE WAY!!! Billy gets to his feet and hits a Chicago Blackout! Wasting no time Billy begins to lift Bianca up to her knees and feet to try and eliminate her from the match.

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#5. CARTIER

"212" by Azealia Banks begins playing throughout Madison Square Garden as the curtain is whipped back and Cartier makes her way out onto the stage pumped up!

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number five! Making her way to the ring at this time from Brooklyn, New York! She is the World Television Champion…CARTIER!

Cartier begins running down the aisle way and slides under the bottom rope and into the ring!

Cartier sees her opportunity with Bianca Reed against the ropes, and she hits the opposite side before speeding toward Billy Danielson on the other side… Cartier builds up all her momentum and leaps, turning in mid-air for an epic EAT THIS ASS! But Danielson dips out of the way, and Cartier is left just hitting the ropes, stuck sitting on the middle one with her arms draped over the top, confused.

Meanwhile Bianca Reed along with her ally Cartier have The Franchise in the corner as they try to push him over. Billy fights back, kicking and booting the two away. Finally, he takes Bianca and Cartier, and clashes their heads together.

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#6. JASON CASHE

The 10 second instrumental for "Ready or Not" plays throughout the arena before Lauren Hill's voice cuts in with the classic chorus.

Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and take it slowly
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and make you want me!

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number six! Making his way to the ring at this time from Houston, Texas! He is the DiOGee…JASON—CASHE!

From the back is Jason Cashe as he steps out onto the stage. At the center, before the stage turns into the ramp, he makes a mad dash down to the ring sliding under the bottom rope and straight into the action!

Jason Cashe has Bianca Reed against the ropes, working her body with stiff boxing combinations. Cartier approaches, trying to run Cashe over the ropes. Cashe drives an elbow back into her chest, sliding into place before throwing them both back with a Russian Leg Sweep. Bianca Reed comes off the ropes, grabs Cashe to pull him off the canvas and gets a stiff forearm to the jaw by Cashe for her efforts. Cashe grabs around Bianca’s waist, looking for a piledriver or powerbomb but out from the side comes Cartier with a well timed and executed EAT THIS ASS against Cashe's face.

Cashe eats it flush and falls back bumping into corner catching himself but still knocked senseless. He wonders out of the corner with Bianca Reed moving around him slowly, with Cartier on the far side moving around scouting her opponents it’s Jason Cashe who comes back to back with Billy Danielson!

The two men turn around seeing one another but looking over each others shoulders grab hands like Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker from Rush Hour and complete step up enziguri’s on both Reed and Cartier simultaneously! Jason Cashe and Billy Danielson meet nose to nose, in the center of the ring and the two men begin punching one another with repeated right hands again simultaneously!

Cartier and Bianca Reed are both back to their feet and they begin Both pummeling Jason Cashe as he drops to his knees taking punches, kicks as he tries to cover up. Bianca Reed slides back and snaps forward, crashing a vicious knee into Cashe's face, putting him flat on his back seeing stars!

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#7. DELANEY KINGSTON

"Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish begins to play throughout the arena as Delaney Kingston makes her way out onto the stage.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number seven! Making her way to the ring at this time from Jupiter, Florida! She is one half of the tag team known as ‘TAYLOR Made’…DELANEY—KINGSTON!

Delaney takes her time walking to the ring talking with the fans at ringside. Killing time and looking to choose her spot wisely where she enters the ring.

Kingston slides into the ring and looks to assist Bianca Reed and Cartier in eliminating Jason Cashe. Meanwhile Billy Danielson lays back allowing the trio to attempt eliminating Cashe. Jason Cashe breaks free and drops to the mat holding on to the bottom rope. Cartier and Bianca Reed point at Delaney Kingston and charge, exploding into a big brawl right there in the center of the ring. The crowd goes wild as nobody backs down, but their equal momentum is halted by Billy Danielson as he looks to dump all three over the top rope!

Cartier frees herself but she eats a drop kick from Kingston and falls through the ropes, landing hard on the apron. When Kingston charges her to send her off, she ducks it and plants her shoulder hard through the ropes into Kingston’s midsection, leaving her hunched over and staggering. Cartier then grabs the top rope and bounces up…SPRINGBOARD SIZZURP KICK onto Delaney Kingston!

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#8. GARETH PRITCHARD JR

“Revolt” by Wild Fire begins to play throughout the arena and the first beats of the song lights flicker and light smoke comes from the sides of the entrance. The lyrics begin and the flickering becomes faster with each passing second. As the lyrics come to a crescendo with “This is a call to arms”...Gareth steps out of the curtain; a cane in his right hand, wearing what appears to be a three-piece suit and white wrist tape covering up to his knuckles.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number eight! Making his way to the ring at this time from Cardiff, Wales! He is…GARETH—PRITCHARD—JUNIOR!

Gareth looks to the crowd and smirks as he begins to walk down the ramp, not even flinching at the fans who scream at or with him his look is that of a man that doesn’t even care at all. He shrugs and enters the ring looking for a fight.

The cameras pick up Bryan Ford and RM Tapp still duking it out backstage as the two men crash into the interview area backstage. Camera equipment falls over and the background comes falling down. Ford connects with a big knee to the gut. Tapp retaliates with a clubbing shot to the side of the head!

Tapp holding the back of Ford’s head looking to steer this battle back to the ring but instead Ford caused a brief detour to the catering area and the staff all begin to run around in a panic. Tapp throws a hot dog full force at Ford's face as ketchup and mustard explode on impact. Ford grabs a bucket of popcorn and throws it in Tapps face! He then puts the bucket over his head before superkicking him over the counter! Ford clears a table but is blindsided with a baguette over the head from Tapp! Ford tackles Him and both men come crashing down through a table full of desserts!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Ladies and Gentlemen RM Tapp and Bryan Ford started this one off tonight and either man has been officially eliminated from the over the top battle royal at this time.

CHARLES HUDSON: As a member of the board I can confirm that the rule is once all fifteen combatants has entered the ring the final person in the ring will be declared the winner if Tapp and Ford do not make it back to ringside prior to the final elimination. Sound confusing. Maybe. Because it’s never happened before!

Gareth Pritchard Jr slides into the ring to enter the Pinnacle Battle Royal for his first time. Scrambling to his feet, Pritchard Jr is met with a stiff "Mark Of JASON" as Jason Cashe crashes into him. Gareth Pritchard Jr falls back into the ropes as Cashe rushes to clothesline him out but Gareth gets a foot up, kicking Cashe to the midsection. Gareth goes for a quick DDT but Cashe lifts him up, turning and running Gareth back first into a nearby corner. Pulling free, Cashe blasts him with a huge right hand. Gareth returns with a big Left Hand. Cashe delivers another right. Gareth throws another left and another and another as Cashe stumbles back with each fist. Gareth swings wide for one more Left Hook but Cashe ducks it, pops up and jumps behind him, snatching his head and dropping him with his patented ‘UTI' Neckbreaker!

Bianca Reed whips Billy Danielson into the ropes, but The Franchise baseball slides underneath the bottom rope. Bianca turns to Jason Cashe and begins to trade strikes with them. Reed is quick to dispatch the Cashe, but didn’t watch as Billy Danielson runs around the ring, slides back into it and delivers a CHICAGO BLACKOUT to the back of Bianca’s head! Danielson flexes in the ring before Cartier drives him towards the ropes.

Cartier smashes Billy Danielson in the grill with a stiff forearm shot, then hooks him up into a Michinoku driver that leaves Danielson flat on his back. Cartier then ascends the ropes and stands tall in the corner, sticking her tongue out for the crowd and wiggling her butt before bending her knees and prepping for the Supa Dupa Fly splash… but Danielson is up! He rushes to the turnbuckles and knocks Cartier off balance, dropping her so that she lands straddling the top turnbuckle!

Danielson hooks his hands under Cartier’s chin and hip, then flips her into the middle of the ring with a top rope body slam that has Cartier wincing and grabbing at her lower back. Danielson then takes a page out of Cartier’s book and climbs to the top himself…Danielson leaps off with a splash…SWEET TOOTH FROM CARTIER!!! Cartier popped up off the mat and met Danielson in mid-air with that jumping codebreaker, bringing back memories from the Thot Chocolate era.

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#9. DAYNA BARRETT

“Walk” by Saucy Santana begins to play throughout the arena as the curtain opens it’s Dayna Barrett whom steps out onto the stage slowly with the curtain closing behind her. Barrett smiles and waves at the fans along the aisle while making her way down to the ring.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number nine! Making her way to the ring at this time from Los Angeles, California! She is a member of Immaculate…DAYNA—BARRETT!

Barrett walks slowly around the ring before tripping the feet of Delaney Kingston causing her to be distracted and nearly eliminated by Billy Danielson. Dayna Barrett slides into the ring and immediately goes after Delaney Kingston.

Bianca Reed turns her back on Gareth Pritchard Jr as he smirks and grabs his chin reeling from the previous attack. Gareth grabs the top rope and charges towards Reed crashing in with a clothesline to the back of her head, proceeding to viciously stomp on her shoulder area in retribution. As Prichard stops, he smiles and stares at the crowd who are showering him with a chorus of boos!

Jason Cashe whips Cartier to the ropes, but Cartier reverses. When Cashe bounces back, Cartier lowers her head for a back body drop but Cashe puts on the brakes and stands Cartier up straight with a knee to the face. Cashe snatches Cartier up off her feet in a bear hug!

Cartier squirms in the hold and eventually breaks free with a series of downward elbows to Cashe’s skull, followed up by clapping her arms together on either side of their head. With her feet back on the canvas, Cartier grabs Cashe and drives him down hard with an inverted atomic drop!

Meanwhile a vicious clothesline by Gareth Pritchard Jr from across the ring sends Bianca Reed the number four entrant in this match over the top rope, hitting the apron and falling to the floor becoming the first elimination of the battle royal!

BIANCA REED ELIMINATED BY GARETH PRITCHARD JR

Gareth Pritchard Jr let’s out a scream inside the jam packed Madison Square Garden, before pulling his neck tie loose and tossing it out of the ring. Showing he means business to the other competitors.

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#10. LEX COLLINS

The lights dim, and "One Finger And A Fist" by Drowning Pool erupts at ear-splitting volume over the arena sound system, getting an ear-splitting huge pop from the female fans in attendance. Lex Collins bursts through the curtain and sprints towards the ring. Midway there, Lex stops and shrugs out of his Brutal Apparel hoodie, tossing it into the crowd.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number ten! Making his way to the ring at this time from Canyon Lake, California! He is the ‘Outsider’…LEX—COLLINS!

He pauses for a few selfies with fans before hopping up on the apron and wiping his feet. Grinning at the crowd, he presses his right fist over his heart to a huge pop before turning and springing over the rope straight into the action.

Lex shoves Jason Cashe to the ropes, dropping him with a hard shoulder block off the rebound. Undaunted, Cashe is quick to get back to his feet only to end up staggering back to the ropes after a hard left hook to the jaw connects! Collins follows Cashe in, no reprieve in sight as he starts unloading all manner of strikes before only for Cashe to connect with a stunning headbutt. Collins staggers back but the moment Cashe tries to capitalize, he clinches, shoving Cashe back even though his nose is bleeding from the lucky shot.

Danielson goes to Cartier and begins to put her over the top rope. When that doesn’t work, he moves to Dayna Barrett in the corner, but she also fights back. Hoping third times the charm, Billy heads towards z Delaney Kingston, but she staggers him before he can even get his hands on her. Kingston lights Danielson up with some stiff chops, but Danielson catches her arm…and slams her with IMPERIUM!

Dayna Barrett charges Danielson, hoping she were catching him off guard, but he hits a SPINNING CHICAGO BLACKOUT!!! Cartier springboards off the middle rope for a flying EAT THIS ASS…NO--THINNING THE HERD! Danielson is the last wrestler standing as he looks at the countdown.

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#11. BIGGS

Carpenter Brut’s “Leather Teeth” hits the speakers as the lights on either side of the stage flash red and white, and Biggs makes his entrance to a chorus of boos from the crowd. Biigs looks as serious as a heart attack as he walks down the aisle, taking his time to reach the ring.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number eleven! Making his way to the ring at this time from Seattle, Washington! He is the Mainstream Wrestling United States Champion, the ‘Spaceman’—BIGGS!

Inside the ring, the combatants have all ceased fighting, and are glaring at the United States Champion. Biggs is smart enough to read the room, and takes even more time removing his ring jacket as he walks up the steps.

He feigns stepping between the ropes, and OPPONENT & OPPONENT both lunge towards him, but Biggs hops right back down off the apron.

MCKAYLA LEWIS: What a coward! Biggs is stalling, it’s plain to see!

CHARLES HUDSON: Aw c’mon, Lou, one of the biggest factors to success in the Pinnacle Battle Royale is knowing when to pick your spots, and Biggs is doing just that!

One of the refs on the outside is admonishing Biggs, telling him to get into the ring, but Biggs says he doesn’t have to, not yet at least. Hostilities resume in the ring as Biggs props himself up next to the barricade.

Meanwhile Alex Collins gets that patented armbar going and Delaney Kingston fights to break free, straining towards the ropes to no avail as Collins continues trying to rip her arm from the socket. Kingston breaks enough for the hold to shift from an armbar to a crossface and they push up and dive at the ropes, dragging Lex along for the ride. The crowd pops as Lex grabs Kingston’s arms from behind – underhook DDT out of nowhere! Collins immediately drops a knee into the middle of her back after the impact!

Seizing the opening, Biggs goes to slide into the ring, but puts on the breaks as Lex Collins notices him trying to sneak in. Biggs slithers back out, still not having officially entered the match. Collins steps back into the middle of the ring, but Cartier lines herself up…then jumps to the middle rope and drops Collins onto his face with a leaping oblivion STO!

Delaney Kingston has Dayna Barrett right where she wants her looking to muscle her up and over the top rope but an elbow to the top of her head stops Kingston right in her tracks! Dayna lands a kick to the midsection of Delaney and pulls her in, flips over and nails her with the ‘Heartbreaker’! Kingston rolls over out of it onto her back! Meanwhile Dayna Barrett lifts her up and drops her across the top rope, she grabs under the bend of her knee and begins lifting her up. Billy Danielson comes from behind and dumps both Dayna BARRETT and Delaney Kingston over the top rope and down to the floor!

DELANEY KINGSTON & DAYNA BARRETT ELIMINATED BY BILLY DANIELSON

Danielson celebrates as if he’s won a gold medal. Laughing hysterically inside the ring as the clock begins counting down.

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#12. ELENA TAYLOR

“All I Need” by Within Temptation starts playing throughout the Garden and out walks Elena with a smile on her face. As elena stops at the top of the ramp pink and gold pyro goes off as she poses before walking down the ramp.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number twelve! Making her way to the ring at this time from Orlando, Florida! She one half of the tag team ‘Taylor Made’ is… ELENA—TAYLOR!

Elena Taylor comes running down the aisle to check on her recently eliminated tag team partner DELANEY Kingston but from out of no where Biggs throws a punch that Elena Taylor narrowly ducks! Taylor gives Biggs a stiff kick in the gut and slams his head off the ring apron before rolling Biggs into the ring!

Everyone turns their attention to Biggs, who is getting up to his knees at this point, and “The Spaceman” gulps, knowing his goose is well and truly cooked. They swarm him, beating him with fists and feet before hoisting Biggs up like he was crowd surfing and tossing him unceremoniously to the floor!

BIGGS ELIMINATED BY EVERYONE

CHARLES HUDSON: They ganged up on him! That's not fair!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: Couldn't have happened to a better guy!

We catch up with RM Tapp backstage who shoves Bryan Ford backwards over the equipment boxes, sending the man to the ground. Tapp puts the boot to Ford, before following up with a nasty looking shoot kick to the head. Some of the backstage workers try to separate the two, but Tapp pushes past them before throwing wild haymakers in Bryan’s direction.

Tapp props the table up against the nearest wall. He nudges Bryan’s head with his knee, adding insult to injury, before picking him up and delivering three chops to the chest, before setting up Ford for a snap Suplex that sends him crashing through the table.

Tapp lifts Bryan’s head up by the chin so that they are eye to eye. RM screams in Ford’s face, spitting at him that Bryan ‘is such a disappointment now.’ Bryan Headbutts Tapp which pisses off the submission specialist causing him to slap Ford straight across the face!

Tapp retreats and begins running back towards the entrance way from Bryan, but the latter is quickly gaining on him. Tapp throws chairs in his path to slow him down. Equipment boxes and backstage workers as well. But none of them slow Bryan down long enough for him to get away. So Tapp grabs the nearby fire extinguisher, pulls the pin, and sprays the extinguisher all over Bryan.

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#13. ROBERT ZODIAC

“The Pot” by Tool begins playing inside the Garden just before Robert Zodiac steps out onto the stage and slowly looks around the audience who are booing him immediately, most of them being familiar with his past. He tilts his head back as he holds his arms put straight to the sides, his palms turned upward.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number thirteen! Making his way to the ring at this time from Trenton, New Jersey! He is the ‘Unstable One’…ROBERT—ZODIAC!

He stands there for a moment before lowering his head and moving his hands in front of himself to form a 'Z' with his thumb and index fingers before breaking it in half to form two fingerguns pointed towards the ring. He 'pulls the trigger' and begins making his way down the aisle and sliding into the ring.

Zodiac rushes towards Lex Collins and dives down, clipping his leg with a front chop block. He rolls back to his feet and stomps on Collins’ midsection, forcing him to sit up before he turns and runs off the ropes. He comes back at full speed with a stiff knee square to his face that folds him up! He drags Lex Collins back to his feet by their head before flanking them and wrapping his arm around his chest. He lets out a roar and hits a uranagi backbreaker that he immediately follows up with by dropping backwards with a flatliner!

Zodiac frees his arm and kips up changing his focus to Gareth Pritchard Jr and jumps towards him, wrapping his legs around his head and sending him stumbling forward to bounce off the turnbuckles. Gareth is forced to backpedal off the impact before Zodiac grabs him from behind and sending him overhead with a snap german suplex before he kips up to his feet to a small pop from the crowd!

From out of no where RM Tapp jumps the guardrail and slides into the ring. RM Tapp explodes from a kneeling position as Lex reaches for the back of his head, taking him out at the knees. His fists flash through the air, slamming into Lex's face but Collins doesn't go down! Tapp goes for a clothesline, but Lex sidesteps, catching Tapp’s arm on the way by, and takes him down instead with a corkscrew armdrag. Lex lays the boots to Tapp, and that's all the opening he needs as Tapp grabs his foot, locking Collins into a gorilla clutch in the middle of the ring – HOLY S**** REVERSAL – Collins slips out the back door and takes Tapp down with a wicked headlock driver! AD HOMINEM OUT OF NOWHERE!

MCKAYLA LEWIS: And there is Bryan Ford making his way back down to the ring!

CHARLES HUDSON: You can’t win the match from outside the ring Lou!

Zodiac grabs Bryan Ford just as soon as he gets into the ring from behind in a rear waist lock but gets caught with a back elbow that staggers him. Ford takes off running and bounces off the ropes, Zodiac ducks underneath a lariat attempt from Ford that nails Billy Danielson right on the jaw and sends him tumbling over the top rope and down onto the ring apron. Zodiac bounces off the ropes, he runs towards Jason Cashe and ducks underneath an attempt of his signature ‘Mark of Jason’ but this time he leaps up onto the second rope and rebounds back towards Cashe but narrowly misses him and catching Cartier connecting with his patented enzuguri that he calls the Pain Killer! Cartier is sent over the top rope from the momentum of the maneuver and she lands back first on the apron before rolling off into the floor!

CARTIER ELIMINATED BY ROBERT ZODIAC

MCKAYLA LEWIS: We’ve seen both the United States Champion and World Television Champions be removed from this battle Royal in back to back eliminations!

Gareth seems to be in trouble right now, as he tries to fend off Collins with everything in his power. Danielson backs him up against the turnbuckle and Gareth does what he can to protect himself. Danielson is throwing punches and kicks to Prichard, and it seems as if The King of Failure is finished, but somehow, he manages to grab Danielson’s arm driving him away from him and giving him enough space to jump and lock in the TUDOR ROSE.

CHARLES HUDSON: Now let’s see who the next entrant is…

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#14. ELI BUCHANAN

"Tiger Red" Eli Buchanan walks out onto entry way, accompanied Charlotte O'Neal, wearing his tiger mask. He stops and drops to one knee, raising his fists in the air. Charlotte walks around behind him and pulls the mask off of him. He rises to his feet and the two kiss before taking each other's hand and walking down to the ring.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing entrant number fourteen! Making his way to the ring at this time from Guelph, Ontario! He is the ‘Last Dragon’ … ELI—BUCHANAN!

Charlotte stands at ringside. Buchanan rolls into the middle of the ring up to one knee and rises his fists in the air once more while Charlotte O'Neal looks on proudly from ringside.

Eli Buchanan wastes no time as he enters this match following a long absence in Mainstream Wrestling. Buchanan Irish Whips Gareth towards the ropes, no doubt looking for a clothesline from hell, but it backfires as The King of Failure manages to dodge the move and hit him with a well-placed Pelé Kick. He then proceeds to grab the arm of Buchanan and lock in a Fujiwara Armbar. They’re smack in the middle of the ring as Prichard continues applying more and more pressure to the arm, even grabbing the index and pinky fingers and separating them as much as he can to cause even more pain to Buchanan. If this continues it could spell doom for him, but luckily for them, Robert Zodiac manages to save him in time.

Jason Cashe has Elena Taylor on the top turnbuckle, trying to dump her over the top. Taylor boots Cashe in the face to get them away, and Billy Danielson assists in freeing Elena Taylor by hitting Jason Cashe with a clothesline. Taylor thanks Billy Danielson but just a bit too soon as Billy grabs her off the top turnbuckle and drills her with THE FRANCHISE! Danielson lifts Elena Taylor and eliminates her over the top rope and to the floor!

ELENA TAYLOR ELIMINATED BY BILLY DANIELSON

Eli Buchanan hits his old rival Billy Danielson with a leaping knee strike. He follows up with quick succession with a roaring elbow and a German suplex. He turns to the fans and raises his hands, waiting for Danielson to get to his feet. He rushes in and hits Thunder Struck! Buchanan with a handful of Danielson’s tights tosses him over the top rope and eliminated him from the Pinnacle Battle Royal!

BILLY DANIELSON ELIMINATED BY ELI BUCHANAN

CHARLES HUDSON: There goes my pick to win the whole thing Lou!

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#15. SKYE HEALY

“I’m only happy when it rains...”

Skye Healy walks out amidst panning and strobing yellow purple lights. She spins around showing off her high collared jacket that has “Limitless” emblazoned on the back of it. Her head peaks around the collar and winks to the camera.

GRAHAM STEVENS: Now introducing the fifteenth and final entrant in tonight’s Pinnacle Battle Royal! Making her way to the ring at this time from San Diego, California! She is the Mainstream Wrestling Legacy Champion! The ‘Limitless Lioness’… SKYE—HEALY!

She walks down the aisle with confidence and poise as her arms stretch out soaking in the reaction from the crowd. She removes her robe, leaving it lay in the aisle way then make a mad dash down to the ring.

Skye Healy enters the match sliding under the bottom rope, ducks an incoming clothesline from Bryan Ford and delivers a big boot to Lex Collins on the rebound. Lex Collins rushes in and gets turned inside out with Healy’s neckbreaker knee smash. Eli Buchanan charges at the Legacy Champion and gets a spinning kick to the gut that doubles him over.

Lex Collins grabs Jason Cashe around the waist, but he breaks free, slipping behind and taking him down with a lungblower before wrapping his legs around his body and transitioning to a choke hold with body scissors. Lex slams the back of his head into their face, and he rolls aside and back to his feet before they can recover. Collins springs off the second rope, going for a kneedrop to the shoulder that misses but Cashe rolls away at the last... possible... second. Back on his feet, Buchanan comes in hard with a jumping enzuigiri that Collins manages to catch. He dumps Eli Buchanan on his back – baseball slide into a stiff uppercut and Buchanan is deadweight as Collins pulls him back up!

Healy grabs Lex Collins by the neck and attempts to toss him out, but he hang on. Buchanan attempts to skin the cat but Healy is right there and connects with a kick to the head, causing him to fall to the apron. Meanwhile Robert Zodiac comes back and gets tossed over the top rope, but lands on the apron once again but Skye Healy connects with an enziguri on Zodiac! Knocking him off the apron while delivering a tornado DDT to RM Tapp!

ROBERT ZODIAC ELIMINATED BY SKYE HEALY

Gareth Prichard Jr snapmares Skye Healy to the mat taking control and locking in a choke. Healy starts feeling a rush from the crowd as she starts to get back to her feet hitting Prichard in the mid-section repeatedly managing to get some separation allowing her to escape Prichard’s grip and Prichard can only smirk in appreciation as he absorbs more and more punishment to the midsection!

Stomping his foot into the canvas, Jason Cashe looks at RM Tapp and Bryan Ford as he points at the canvas and yells for them to square up! Both of them accept and shoot at Cashe with wild swinging fists, Cashe catches the shots but fires back at Bryan Ford. He swings back and back elbows Gareth Prichard Jr as Cashe attempts to fight three people at once. Holding his own for a brief moment as shots get traded, Cashe falls to a knee after Bryan Ford slaps a low kick to his knee. Now Cashe was being worked on by both Pritchard and Ford as they worked to get the "DiOGee" out of the ring.

Getting him to his feet, Gareth applies a standing headlock. Cashe drops to a knee, hits a low blow to Gareth before lifting, twisting and slamming him down with an amateur takedown. Ford clobbers Cashe to his back with a clubbing forearm. Grabbing hold of Cashe, Ford lifts and slams Cashe with a bodyslam. Gareth looks to the turnbuckles with a plan in his head and leaps to the top rope. Gareth Pritchard Jr is going for a high risk move. Cashe scurries to his feet, rushes the corner, grabbing Gareth Pritchard and launching him to the outside and he lands with a hard thud on his back.

GARETH PRITCHARD JR ELIMINATED BY JASON CASHE

MCKAYLA LEWIS: We’re down to the Legacy Champion Skye Healy, Jason Cashe, Eli Buchanan and of course RM Tapp and Bryan Ford who started us out in the very beginning of this battle royal!

Running and tossing Bryan Ford over the ropes, Ford holds onto the ropes enough to just land on the apron. Cashe nods and turns away from him, racing to the far ropes. He comes off them picking up speed and rushing back towards Ford looking for a Spear through the ropes. Cashe knew he wouldn't be eliminated if he did it through the middle ropes so he was fully focused on getting this done. As he lowers to go for the Spear, Eli Buchanan comes in hot from the left with a Superkick as RM Tapp comes in from the right with a Flying Knee! Both connect to the side of Cashe's head and his forward progress goes flatline as he slumps into the canvas. Both Eli Buchanan and Skye Healy get Cashe up as Ford reenters the ring. Bryan Ford tackles RM Tapp to the mat and begins pummeling him for the one millionth time in this match. Skye Healy kneels in the corner scouting her competition and playing possum. Eli Buchanan lifts Jason Cashe up and tries to talk him into an alliance. Cashe follows with a thumb to the eye where a nearly blinded Eli Buchanan lifts Cashe up with his patented Chaos Driver! With one eye open and one eye closed Eli Buchanan pulls Jason Cashe up and dumps him over the ropes, Cashe flops onto the apron before slipping off onto the floor!

JASON CASHE ELIMINATED BY ELI BUCHANAN

Eli Buchanan ducks RM Tapp’s clothesline, grabs him around the waist and hits a German suplex. He pops the hips, rolls to his feet and hits a second German suplex! Eli pops his hips one more time, rolls to his feet and hits one last German suplex! Buchanan still with one eye open and the other closed deadlifts Tapp over his shoulder and charges into the corner. He buries his head into Tapp’s midsection and follows up with a belly to belly suplex out into the middle of the ring. He waits for Tapp to sit up and comes running out and hits a shining wizard to the back of the head!

Buchanan hits a leaping knee strike on Bryan Ford and grabs Skye Healy with a front chancery. He hits a suplex, rolls to his feet and hits a second. He rolls to his feet one more time and raises Healy up with a vertical suplex, spins around and brings her down with a cutter. Buchanan rolls backwards, grabs Healy by the head and locks in a dragon sleeper hold!

Meanwhile Skye Healy uses her superior athleticism and she reversed the dragon sleeper causing Buchanan to release the hold. RM Tapp attacks Eli Buchanan and has him on the ropes. Ram Tapp lifts Eli Buchanan over the ropes but he lands on the apron. Tapp walks back into the center of the ring, but Skye Healy reemerges and connects with a gut buster. Tapp is on all fours. Healy looks around and runs to the opposite side of the ring, gets a running start, and launches herself off Tapp’s back and lands a superman punch on Eli Buchanan knocking him off the apron.

ELI BUCHANAN ELIMINATED BY SKYE HEALY

Skye Healy is thrown over the top rope but she saves herself landing on the apron. Bryan Ford tries to push Healy off but gets dragged over the top rope by her. Ford lands on the apron as well. Healy begins kicking at the head of Ford trying to cause him to fall off, but it does no damage. Ford stands up as Healy does and the two begin trading blows. Each is trading lefts and rights, teetering on the edge of elimination. Ford backs Healy up to the turnbuckles. He’s trying to toss Healy off, but she hooks her arm in the ropes. Healy halts any elimination with a headbutt to the gut of Bryan Ford. Healy stands back up, Ford charges, Healy responds with a back body drop over the buckle and Bryan Ford hands hard on the other side of the ring apron but he holds on!

Skye gets perched on the top turnbuckle looking for a double foot stomp into the chest of Ford lying on the ring apron. RM Tapp wraps her up by her lower extremities. Skye kicks Tapp away. He returns, attempting another strike, but Healy answers it with another boot. Healy stands on the top rope and springs off with a hurricanrana and sends RM Tapp over the top rope and he falls to the ring apron!

Tapp and Ford are both good on the brink of elimination! Skye Healy rushes around to her feet. She hesitates and takes a step back, she looks for a running spear to RM Tapp but he grabs her between the middle and top rope stopping all her momentum. RM Tapp reaches over the top rope grappling with Skye Healy. He looks to pull her over the top rope as well, Skye looks to reverse and lift Tapp off the ring apron with a Suplex lift but he blocks it with his foot on the bottom rope. Bryan Ford steps up, puts his head under the other arm of Healy, he grabs her right and together RM Tapp and Bryan Ford double Suplex Healy up and over the top rope to the floor! She lands feet first eliminating her!

SKYE HEALY ELIMINATED BY BRYAN FORD & RM TAPP

MCKAYLA LEWIS: We’re down to the final two men! Ironically it’s the same two who started this bout over an hour ago!

RM Tapp kicks the thigh of Bryan Ford after the moments it lapse in judgment and he steps back into the ring. Tapp returns to the middle of the ring, and puts his hands up telling Bryan Ford to get back into the ring and warns him of ‘the greatest Wrist lock in the business’. Ford steps through the ropes, approaches the center of the ring and RM snatches his arm and with a smug look on his face applies his signature Bionic Wristlock while urging him to ‘Take notes!’ much to the annoyance of the fans in attendance.

Tapp holds on tight to the wrist lock Bryan Ford looks to break the maneuver in the corner only for Tapp to pick him up by his legs and tries to dump him over the top rope. With a bit of a struggle though, when Ford manages to get a hand on the top rope and the other on the apron to use as leverage. A frustrated Tapp transitions into his Achilles REAL, stomping the head of Ford until he releases his hold on the rope and tumble out into the ring apron once more.

RM Tapp runs to the opposite side of the ring and squats in the corner. He runs the length of the ropes and looks to level Bryan Ford when he stands with a running forearm to finish him off while on the ring apron. But as he approaches and swings the forearm Bryan Ford just narrowly puts up both hands and grabs the wrist of RM Tapp, he turns looking away from the ring and rushes along the apron pulling Tapp in one swift wrist lock motion, causing him to step over the top rope and out both me are on the apron! Bryan Ford releases the wrist look, creating just enough separation and he lands a Bford & After bicycle kick on RM Tapp that sends him flying off the ring apron and he lands on the floor! Ding! Ding! Ding!

GRAHAM STEVENS: Your winner of the Fifth Annual Pinnacle Battle Royal is…BRYAN—FORD!

CHARLES HUDSON:  Whoa!

MCKAYLA LEWIS:  He’s done it! From the number two spot…kicking off twenty twenty two with an emphatic victory in the Pinnacle Battle Royal! Bryan Ford has secured a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship opportunity!

CHARLES HUDSON:  Hats off to RM Tapp as well but tonight belongs to the Innovator of Greatness!

MCKAYLA LEWIS:  Congratulations to Bryan Ford! Thank you all for joining us here at Inception three! Good Night!

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