MWE Presents: Red Line 4

MWE Presents: Red Line 4 Sept 19, 2023 8:43:46 GMT -6

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Post by gvb on Sept 19, 2023 8:43:46 GMT -6

MWE Presents: Red Line 4
From Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, Friday 30th December, 2022

Camille Bellamy:
Well, better late than never, don't you think?

The location was the same as ever, the production studio inside the MWE HQ in Chicago. The host, instead had changed from the previous editions of Red Line. After three years, Amy Maynard left the spot to the young Camille Bellamy, one of the company's backstage interviewers.

Camille Bellamy:
It's been a long wait, but you know how legal disputes go. It took some time and money to settle this argument with the old network and get the green light to air Red Line 4 on The Agora but eventually our badass lawyers got it all figured out, and here's the presumed lost footage from Deccember's marquee event. I'm Camille Bellamy, your host for tonight. It'll be my pleasure to accompany you through the events that characterized that night to remember, at least for one of the eighteen participants. Even though I'm sure the other seventeen couldn't forget it either, for better or for worse.

The tattooed interviewer let out a soft chuckle.

Camille Bellamy:
Of course, that's not everything we have in store for you tonight. In between matches, I will present you the winners of the MWE Awards. A little disclaimer since a few months have passed, these awards refer to the year 2022, up until our Five Year Anniversary show. And speaking of that historic event, to no one's surprise it won not one but two awards: Event Of The Year and Best Poster!

The screen behind Camille's back lit up to show the award winning poster and some highlights of the matches that made Five Year Anniversary the fans' favorite pay-per-view of 2022. And looking at them, it was hard to disagree.

Camille Bellamy:
Now that that's out of the way, let me take you back to school, precisely at the UCLA, inside the Pauley Pavilion. That's where the first match took place, and let me tell you, it's one you don't want to miss!

No Ropes Match
Pauley Pavilion Presented by Wescom @ UCLA (4:00 PM PST)

Olly VS Leanne Jones VS Selena Lyre

On paper, this match had the tamest stipulation of all six qualifying matches. A ring with no ropes surely doesn’t sound as scary as barbed wire or nails, but don’t let that fool you, these three still found ways to hurt each other. Olly was the first one to strike, attacking Selena from behind as she was making her way to the ring, blasting her with a forearm to the back of the head. Leanne, for now, decided that she wouldn’t get involved, staying in, or rather on the ring while Ollyy knelt down next to Lyre and started slamming her face on the steel ramp with unprecedented violence. Five, six, seven… Hard to keep count of how many times the Electric Girl’s face hit the cold steel, but Olly wasn’t stipping, not until he left her motionless on the ramp. Then he headed to the ring where Lan was waiting for him. The former Valiant Chaos Champion had, in the meantime, grabbed a steel chair and she tossed it at Olly. Instinctively, he grabbed it with both hands before it hit him in the face, but he still suffered the consequences of the impact when Jones jumped from the edge of the ring and dropkicked the chair on his face.
The two kept fighting, trading blows out of the ring. Starting a brawl meant bringing the match in Olly’s turf, and in fact the former Academy student turned the tide in this situation, pinning Jones against the barricade and hitting her with heavy forearm strikes to the face. Leanne eventually got some separation with a headbutt that caused Olly to stumble back, But when she charged toward him, the Phoenix native lifted her from the ground and rammed her back into the barricade. He was about to hit her again with another right hand, but a kendo stick shot to the head stopped him dead in his tracks. Selena Lyre was back into the mix, and she was taking her pound of flesh, hitting Olly with vicious cane shots to the back.
Leanne took the chance to recover, watching the opponents tear each other apart. She decided to step in when she saw the Electric Girl ready to jump from the apron toward the floored opponent. Jones sneakily walked up to her and swept her legs, causing the young woman to land back first on the hardest part of the ring. Lan doubled down with the punishment, lifting her opponent and powerbombing her on the apron.She then pushed Selena back in the ring where she tried to pin her with a running single leg dropkick to the head while Lyre was trying to push herself up to her feet, but it wasn’t enough to win the match. Jones seemed ready to connect her Kinkaku-ji (step-up double foot stomp to the back of the head) but the unpredictable nature of triple threat matches played against her as she was blindsided by Olly with a brutal Random Act Of Violence to the back of her head.
Not having ropes on the way made it much easier for Olly to leave the ring and grab all the weapons he wanted to maintain control of the match. He was giving back to Selena, stomping her head under his boot, dismissing Leanne’s comeback by simply grabbing her and throwing her out of the ring on the hard floor below. Even though [a match like this was going to give him plenty of weapons to have fun with, and as a Red Line 3 finalist he surely was aware of it, Olly still brought his own toys to the party: his trusted brass knuckles. He wore them and called for his Leap Of Faith, his patented loaded Superman’s Punch with which he was planning to knock Selena out and punch his ticket to the Elimination chamber. But the Electric Girl was not having it, ducking the blow and taking him down with a low dropkick to the leg. Before Olly could get up, she blasted him with her Lightning Strike and made the cover, but Jones recovered in time to break up the pin.
If you were wondering when the shoulder issues that haunted Olly the whole 2023 started, they began today when Leanne trapped his arm between the folds of a steel chair, rested it on the steps and, from the ring, jumped on that arm with a curb stomp that looked very similar to Skylynn Reed’s finishing maneuver For Someone’s Glory. Could it be a tribute, or maybe revenge? Olly was the one who injured Sky one year and half ago, forcing her out of action for months.The odd part was that while Lan and Sky used to be friends, that was no longer true by the time Red Line 4 happened, with Jones turning on Reed in Valiant. But while the reasons for this homage remained a mystery, the outcome was pretty clear: Olly was out of the match, in a world of pain and with a pretty much useless right arm.
For a high-flier like Selena, not having the ropes to use to fly around the ring was not ideal, limiting her arsenal heavily. Leanne proved to be more versatile, relying on her striking ability and a clever and creative use of the weapons scattered all around the ring. The thumbtacks Olly dropped on the canvas came in handy as a desperate measure to break Selena’s momentum when Lan grabbed a handful of them and tossed them tin the opponent’s face. A distraction that allowed Jones to hit her Cross The Lan (corkscrew neckbreaker), prelude to the Kinkaku-ji, slamming Lyre’s face on a steel chair to secure the win.

WINNER: Leanne Jones
BY: Pinfall (Kinkaku-ji), 10:46

We cut back inside the studio, welcomed once again by Camille's smile.

Camille Bellamy:
Tough night for Olly... In the months following Red Line, he fought with an injured shoulder, and we saw how it affected him in more than one occasion, until it forced him to take a step back and undergo surgery in the summer. Perhaps it will be a consolation for him to know that he took home yet another award, although he will be sharing it with someone else. The Tag Team/Stable Of The Year award goes once again to K2O even though this time they'll have to share it with none other than Bad & Boujee.

A graphic shows the two teams.

Camille Bellamy:
I doubt any of them will be happy about it, but the rivalry between these two teams has been one of the most heated of the last year, so it makes sense that both of them are considered the standard bearers of the tag team division. More so when you look back at this.

Another clip aired, a montage of some of the defining moments of the rivalry between the two teams.

Camille Bellamy:
Did you see that Tag Team Gauntlet match back at Bound For Greatness? Well, that came this close to be your Match Of The Year, but another match topped it. Curious to find out which one it was? Just wait until after the second match of Red Line 4!

Taipei Deathmatch
Galean Center @ University Of Southern California (4:00 PM PST)

Kitara dela Torre VS Jessica Lasiewicz VS Jackie Fowler

The fans who came to the USC knew they were in for a bloodbath. The former Valiant Champion Jackie Fowler, MWE’s resident superstar Jessica Lasiewicz and the mysterious Kitara dela Torre were scheduled to compete in the Ancient Way, with their fists taped and dipped in glue and glass shards.The look on their faces was telling the whole story, a mix of focus and concern, both of which were necessary to survive the unforgiving and dangerous match. Once the setup was complete, the referee brought the three competitors in the middle of the ring, reminding them that the match will end with the first fall, clearing any doubt regarding elimination rules possibly being in place. Once that part was clear, he called for the bell, giving start to the bloodshed.
Fowler caught Lasiewicz off guard with an elbow to the face, leaving her stunned. He then focused on Kitara, attacking her with some ounces combinations. And the fact that Jackie’s boxing background was something the Englishman prided himself with only made the fact that not a single strike landed even more impressive, a testament of Kitara’s incredible agility and evasion skills. Even when she was with her back against the ropes she found a way out, kicking Fowler’s leg and hitting him with a knee to the face. The Bellend dropped on all fours and dela Torre stepped on his back to launch herself toward the returning Archangel, sending her flying across the ring with a headscissors. The fans tributed her a round of applause,which she acknowledged with a smile remaining focused on the task at hand.
After knocking Jackie out of the ring, Jessica dropped Kitara to the floor with a sweep kick and climbed on top of her, trying to disfigure her with a right punch to the face from a mounting position. The Filipino/Swedish was able to wriggle away, leaving Jessica to punch the floor. The younger wrestler was quickly up to her feet and ready to kick the Archangel to the head, knocking her down. Finally using the weapons at her disposal, Kitara sat on Jessica’s back and pulled her head down, grinding the back of her hand on her forehead and cutting through the skin with those broken shards of glass, drawing first blood. Luckily for her, this torture didn’t last long as a running knee to the side of the head courtesy of Jackie Fowler knocked dela Torre down.
Maybe the Banksy Of Lucha was showing some restraint toward his mentor’s daughter, or maybe it was just the way the match was going, but Fowler seemed to be focusing mostly on Kitara, pinning her against the corner and hammering her with knee strikes to the guts after slicing her abdomen with a flurry of punches. His knee pad had turned red from Kitara’s blood, and soon his back assumed the same color when Jessica sneaked up behind him and raked his back with the taped fists. Out of respect of the young fans watching this replay we won’t repeat the profanities that Jackie yelled out, but the fans attending the show live got a good laugh out of them. He turned around just in time to block a right hand directed at his face, twisting Lasiewicz’ arm and sending her stumbling back with a headbutt to the nose.
Blood stains covered the once white canvas, all three competitors looking for worse but still pushing through, fighting with the last bit of energy to earn that spot in the Elimination Chamber. One thing’s for sure, whoever will make it to the final will have their work cut out for them. And so will have the doctors tasked with stitching them up once the match is over, as they obviously targeted the opponents’ injuries looking to aggravate them. Jessica was a crimson mask after a right hand chop to the forehead from Fowler reopened those cuts. Jackie himself looked like a stunt-double for Jim Caviezel in The Passion Of The Christ, his back covered in blood pouring from numerous cuts. And Kitara may have managed to stop the blood loss from her abdomen, but the wound was clearly limiting her movements. Not that she seemed to mind, the adrenaline coursing through her veins helping her ignoring the pain, She even raised the bar of violence by leaving the ring and dipping her knee pad in glue,, before covering it in glass shards. With that new weapon she obliterated Jessica, hitting her with a brutal running knee that knocked The Archangel out, But the effort cost her, causing the wound to reopen, leaving her exposed to Jackie’s Lancaster Bomber. There was no kicking out from that, and nobody that could make the save. The match ended with a bloodied and exhausted Jackie Fowler standing next to the opponent’s bodies with his arm raised,

WINNER: Jackie Fowler
BY: Pinfall (Lancaster Bomber), 11:09

Camille Bellamy:
Jackie Fowler in MWE? Who saw that coming?

Even though the show happened months ago, there's legit surprise in Camille's voice. Either she can't yet wrap her head around it or she's a damn good actress.

Camille Bellamy:
Yeah, you probably saw him in the crowd at Anarchy In The UK as well as a couple other events, so maybe you knew that something was brewing... Still, seeing him perform in the ring was quite the surprise for those in attendance. And that wasn't all we'd see from him. Jackie Fowller will be back in our main event later on, even though you have to wonder in what kind of shape he'd be, after that bloodshed of a match.

A quick graphic introduces the next award. As anticipated by Camille in her previous contribution, it was time to find out what match had been voted by the MWE fans as the best one they witnessed.

Camille Bellamy:
I promised you I'll reveal the MOTY, and I want to start by saying it was an incredibly close race. We've had so many incredible matches last year; in addition to the aforementioned Tag Team Gauntlet, I'd like to mention some other bouts that remained etched in our memories, such as the first match of the Best Of Five series between Olly and JJ Night, the Three Strikes Match for the World championship between BROOKFORD and Glory Braddock at Dark Web or the brutal Mentor vs Student match between Alessio van Duren and Nine van der Hoek at 5ive. But as great as they were, they couldn't make the top of the list. Your Match Of The Year happened during our Summer Beach Tour, in Barcelona. And it was the Three Stages Of Hell Battle For The Briefcase final between Glory Braddock and Julian Savell.

The footage took us back to that day, showing why the match was voted as the best of 2022 by the MWE fans.

Camille Bellamy:
And speaking of great matches, we're about to see another one that, I'm sure, will not disappoint. So without further ado, let's go to the Eagle's Nest at the California State University for a Last Man Standing.

Last Man Standing Match
Eagle's Nest @ California State University (4:00 PM PST)

"Lonestar" DJL VS Jvstice Hardy VS Till Schlotterbeck

The atmosphere was electric inside the Eagle’s Nest, the fans waiting with trepidation to see the three men going to war. The stipulation for this qualifying match was one that, at least in theory, wouldn’t leave much room to interpretation. To advance, one had to incapacitate the opponents for a ten count and be the last person standing in the ring. As soon as the bell rang, a beastly roar echoed throughout the whole CSU as Till charged head on toward Jvstice, knocking him down with a headbutt to the chest. The two were no stranger to each other, having been part of the Mod Pro Wrestling roster in England. Coughing, Hardy rolled out of the ring to catch his breath, leaving DJL and Till to brawl it out. Punches were flying back and forth between the cowboy’s styled being a little more polished than the German’s but, perhaps, less effective. Schlotterbeck got the upper hand, sending the second generation wrestler into the ropes with an uppercut. Another roar, and once again Till sprinted forward toward the opponent, stretching out his arm to knock him over the top rope. The momentum caused the Berlin Brawler to tumble out of the ring as well.
The match continued out of the ring where the three competitors used the surroundings to hurt each other, With no commentators table to destroy, the one were the timekeeper was sitting made for an equally painful alternative. Just ask Jvstice Hardy, who got put through it by DJL with a powerbomb. The cowboy didn’t even have time to gloat about his feat because Till was back on the attack, ramming the steel steps into his skull. Two men were down, and the referee started a double count. He reached six before the two competitors began to stir, DJL crawling toward the apron while Hardy used what remained of the table to help himself up. The German fighter focused on the cowboy, slamming his head on the steel post not once but twice. DJL leaned against the post, almost waiting for that third head shot that never came, as Till got knocked down by Hardy with a bell shot to the back of the skull..
Struggling, Schlotterbeck managed to beat the count, getting up to his feet at eight. He was really feeling the consequences of Jvstice brutal shot, looking dazed at his opponents trading chops against the barricades. He wanted to get involved, but as soon as he took a step toward them he almost dropped down. to one knee. He was clearly needing some more time to recover but his opponents were not going to give him any. Seeing him in difficulty, they momentarily pushed their differences aside and united against the German, connecting with a double superkick that knocked him down. Once again the referee started his count, this time getting all the way to nine before Schlotterbeck climbed up to his feet.
Things weren’t looking good for the Big German, but if he had to go down, it wouldn’t be without a fight. Grabbing a chair from under the ring, he wreaked havoc among his opponents, hitting them both with several shots. Jvstice got the worst of it, having the back of his head busted open. But not even the blood gushing out of the wound could keep him down long enough to get eliminated, and before the ref yelled eight, he was ready to go. Till was laying out his punishment to the Lonestar, driving the top of the chair into his ribs, as if he was stabbing him. Jvstice sneaked up behind the German and grabbed him by the waist, sending him flying with a suplex. The chair flew with him landing not too far from Till’s head. For a moment, Jvstice considered grabbing it to keep Schlotterbeck down, but he immediately stopped, as a better idea crossed his mind. He picked up Till and lifted him on his shoulders in a fireman’s carry position. Then he caught him in mid-air with a cutter, dropping him on top of the chair with the Truth In Vengeance. And this time, Till couldn’t answer the count and got eliminated from the match..
With just two men left battling for a spot in the Elimination Chamber the level of violence and intensity picked up even more. Both men were feeling the urge to end things quickly and save some precious energy for the final battle that will take place at the L.A. Coliseum in just a few hours.Jvstice tried to end things with his Done With Everything (suplex on the apron) but it wasn’t enough to keep the Big Texan down. The cowboy’s reaction was immediate and definitely in character, using a lasso to choke out Jvstice. Hardy managed to slide his hand between the rope and his neck, relieving some pressure. This allowed him to at least breathe, although not without struggle, and stay conscious while the Lonestar desperately tried to put him out. DJL’s mistake was to get too close to Jvstice, allowing the former cop to hit him with a mule kick to the groin, finally getting out of the noose. The red markings on his neck remained as a memory of those unpleasant moments, and how close he was to losing it all.
Jvstice never fully recovered from almost choking out, often coughing and rubbing his sore neck. DJL seemed in control, but no matter what he threw at him, Hardy just wasn’t staying down. Eventually, when the Big Texan tried to leave the ring to retrieve a table, his own weapon of choice was used against him..Jvsitce, despite the swollen eye and busted nose courtesy of the former QuantuMMA Globalweight champion, noticed his opponent inadvertently stepping with his foot inside the lasso’s noose and he immediately grabbed the opposite side of the rope and pulled it, causing DJL to fall flat on his face. What happened next might be frowned upon by most and even the referee wasn’t quite sure how to feel about it. But in a match where anything goes and the goal is to make it so that you’re opponent can’t get up before the count of ten, hog-tying the cowboy was an unorthodox but effective (and probably legal) way to achieve that goal. Anti-climatic maybe to those who expected to see a comeback from Hardy, but in his conditions, battered, bruised and exhausted, he wasn’t going to take any chances, choosing the fastest and safest way to the Elimination Chamber.

WINNER: Jvstice Hardy
BY: Last Man Sfanding, 18:30

Camille Bellamy:
Sometimes you gotta be a bit creative, and make the best of the hand you're dealt with. Jvstice surely did that and, like it or not, he will be in the Elimination Chamber match. Speaking of him, it's recent news that Jvstice joined MWE, which means we'll be seeing him in action more often. Could he be a candidate for next year's One To Watch award? I don't know, but I can tell you who won it last year and, little spoiler alert, you guys really nailed this one.

After a brief pause to create some suspense, she contiued.

Camille Bellamy:
It's safe to say that Rainer Nordhagen had a great first part of 2023, winning and holding onto the Junior Heavyweight championship up until Zeitgeist. In all honesty, he had a little help from his wife Karen Eldon, but the Academy graduate has all the tools in the box to bounce back and end the year on a high note. Will he succeed? Time will tell.

The screen lit up once again showing a golden ticket hanging above the ring.

Camille Bellamy:
As you can see behind my shoulders, we are ready to show the fourth match of Red Line 4. A TLC match with a twist, as all the tables, ladders and chairs will be wrapped in barbed wire. Who's involved in such a barbaric match? You'll see real soon but I'm telling you, this match was STACKED!

Barbed Wire TLC Match
Rush Gymansium @ Occidental College (4:00 PM PST)

Andrew Raynes VS Clyde Sutter VS Kimberly Williams

The luck of the draw gifted the fans who came to the Occidental College with a match that could main event any card in any company. Three people who held gold in MWE, three of the biggest names and clear favorites to win this tournament clashed in a brutal qualifying match featuring, to Kim’s delight, barbed wire. Tables, ladders and chairs were all wrapped up to make those weapons even more punishing, Raynes and Sutter still had unfinished business from their rivalry over the Riot championship and they picked it up tonight, trading fists in the middle of the ring. Kimberly tried to get involved in the fun but they didn’t want to play with her and knocked her down with simultaneous punches to the face before resuming their brawl. But Williams wasn’t one to stay down or sit on idle hands and immediately popped up to her feet, charging at the two opponents and dropkicking them both. She then watched them lying close to one another and sprinted to the ropes, jumping on Sutter’s chest with a double foot stomp and, from there, leaped onto Raynes’ with the same move.
It didn’t take long for the first chair wrapped in barbed wire to be introduced in the match and, unsurprisingly, it was everyone’s favorite manic who did it. Her plan, assuming she had one, backfired tragically when Andrew Raynes spotted her sneaking up behind him and quickly turned around delivering a superkick to the chair and shoving it back against the Woman Scorned. Kim’s survival instinct kicked in and somehow she managed to tuck her head so that the sharp edges didn’t disfigure her, connecting with her skull instead. The blow still had enough force to cut her open, painting her red hair a darker shade, but the damage was undoubtedly minor than it could have been. The chair was now laying on the floor for Raynes to pick it up and swing at Sutter, but the Assassin quickly ducked it and kicked Raynes on the lower back, sending him against the ropes. The former Chicago Way champion lost his grasp on the chair, which fell on the outside, and bounced back into Clyde’s arms. With a German suplex, Sutter sent him flying halfway across the ring before landing hard on his neck. .
Sutter seemed in control already, and the scary part was that he didn’t even need to use any weapon to achieve that, counting only on his sheer power. He almost beheaded Kimberly with a discus clothesline and powerbombed Raynes on the apron as the Toughest Out tried to prevent him from grabbing the ladder. But now, nobody was standing in the way between him and the big golden ticket hanging above the ring. He set up the ladder under the coveted prize, cussing at the realization that it would be a painful climb, since the entire ladder was wrapped in barbed wire. He began his ascent, trying to ignore the pain he was feeling as the sharp edges cut through his hands. leaving a red trail down his hands and wrists. He was halfway to the top when Kimberly knocked him off by kicking the ladder. The Assassin fell down to the floor, but the worst thing was that the ladder fell right on top of him. He protected his face with his arms, getting out with just a few scratches from a dangerous situation.
The longer this match went, the uglier things got and the more blood was spilled. Throughout all these years and the countless deathmatches she has been apart of, Kimberly mastered the art of using chairs, and the fact that they were, like everything else, wrapped in barbed wire only added to the fun. Raynes and Sutter, who got respectively hit multiple times on the back with said object and dropped onto it with a DDT wouldn’t call it fun, but the Wildcard was having the time of her life. She then stuck the chair in the corner and licked her own blood pouring from the hands before going to pick up Andrew and whipping him into that very corner. The former Chicago Way champion’s back arched as the barbwire plunged through the skin, and he fell on his knees. Kim measured him up and looked like she could hit him with the Shadowblade but luckily she saw out of the corner of her eye that Clyde was ready to swing the chair against her back. Her cat-like reflexes did the rest, allowing her to dodge that blow with a lateral roll, causing the chair to smash into Raynes’ head instead.
You’d think that the double impact would have ended Raynes’ chances to be a factor in this match, but he didn’t get that moniker for giving up easily, he earned it in the ring with performances like the one he pulled tonight. Bleeding heavily from the head and the back, he still found the strength to fight back, He blocked Kim’s punch and surprised her with a headbutt that left her dazed. He then lifted her in a powerbomb position and walked toward the ropes, from where she launched her onto a table previously set up on the outside. As the edges pierced through her body, Kim found herself stuck through the debris, a passive spectator of what was going on in the ring. Seemingly insensitive to the pain, the Toughest Out grabbed the ladder and rammed it into Sutter, knocking him down. He then dropped it on his already banged up chest, so hard that it might as well have crushed a rib, leaving the former Riot champion rolling on the floor in agony and coughing hard. Perhaps to add insult to injury, or to emphasize his feat and how he conquered the opponent, Raynes set up the ladder over Sutter’s bruised body and began his climb toward the golden ticket. Another hard blow to the back halted his momentum. Who delivered it? A bloodied and furious Kimberly Williams.
They say that “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” or, in this case, like THE Woman Scorned. Williams wasn’t pulling any punches, putting her own body and well being on the line to achieve her goal with little care of how much it will hurt her or how it will potentially affect her in the second match of the night. She literally ripped the barbed wire from the ladder and wrapped it around her knee to make sure neither Andrew nor Clyde would get up after she hit them with the Shadowblade knee. Now she could begin her climb with nobody to stop her. It was a slow one, the leg she used to knock down her opponents was in a bad shape, still wrapped up in barbed wire and with blood soaking her pants. But ultimately the sacrifice paid off and she reached the prize, pulling it down and securing, once again, her spot in the main event of Red Line.

WINNER: Kimberly Williams
BY: Ticket Retrieval, 19:33

Back in the studiio, Camille is ready to announce the next award.

Camille Bellamy:
The next award is heavily linked with the one we just announced. If the majority of fans chose the BOTB final as the match of the year, not many of them would've put their money on the actual winner. The Most Shocking Moment award goes to Julian Savell winning the briefcase, which ulitmately lead to him becoming the MWE World champion.

The controversial ending of the Battle For The Briefcase final aired, remiinding everyone of the moment The Division took over MWE.

Camille Bellamy:
Maybe it wasn't him winning but more like how he won, but regardless of that, it was a moment that would define the course of our company.

The screen was now showing Bebe LeBeau, who will be taking part in the upcoming Red Line match.

Camille Bellamy:
In a similar way, this next match could define the career of one of these three competiors. Bebe LeBeau, Valkyrie and Abby Blake will try to survive the Spike Nail Elimination Match and advance into the Elimination Chamber. Who will make it to the next round? And at what cost?

Spike Nail Elimination Deathmatch
Gerstein Pavilion @ Loyola Marymount University (4:00 PM PST)

Valkyrie VS Bebe LeBeau VS Abby Blake

By the look on her face, Bebe didn’t quite understand the implications of signing up for Red Line when she did.. On her way to the ring, she looked at the bed of nails surrounding the squared circle with a look of fear and horror; once inside, she begged the referee to remove them and reschedule the match as a regular triple threat. Obviously the answer was no, and the fact that she asked didn’t go over well with the bloodthirsty fans filling the Gerstein Pavillion who showered LeBeau in boos that quickly turned into cheers when Abby knocked Bebe on her ass with a jumping knee strike. Valkyrie shrugged her shoulders and proceeded to pick up the Academy graduate and lift her over her shoulders, heading toward the ropes to eliminate her. But Bebe fought for her life, connecting a couple of elbow shots to get free, landing behind the Dane and hitting her with a strike to the kidneys that dropped the former Chicago Way champion to her knees, allowing Bebe to follow through with a shining wizard. Not even time to get up to her feet and Bebe was taken down by a running crossbody from Abby Blake who then began to stomp the former camera-girl into the ground.
The three competitors were taking literally any chance they could get to try to eliminate the opponents. This particular stipulation implied a potentially great opportunity for the winner to enter the Elimination Chamber pretty much unscathed, or at least in a far better condition than the other five competitors. Bebe was using her feet to try and push the Viking under the bottom rope and onto the bed of spiked nails, but Vee grabbed the bottom rope with both hands, holding onto it for dear life. Blake sneaked up behind LeBeau and grabbed her by the leg, trying to toss her over the top rope. The young girl was quick to grab on the top rope and resist the attempt. He even managed to wrap her legs around Blake’s head and sent her flying to the center of the ring with a headscissors, getting the hell away from the edge of the ring and those bed of nails threateningly waiting right outside of it.
Just because the only way to end the match is to stake your opponents on the spiked nails outside, it doesn’t mean that you can’t use some toys to help you achieve that ultimate goal. The first one to realize that was, unsurprisingly, Bebe. Having proved time and time again a talent to find and take shortcuts to win matches, the former Academy student picked up a chair from under the ring and began to swing it at her opponents, catching Valkyrie in the midsection and doubling her over. The next swing caught a running Blake right on the face and floored her, giving LeBeau green light the opportunity to focus once again on the Great Dane Bitch with a vicious strike to the back that knocked the former Chicago Way champion flat on her back. It was now the perfect opportunity for her to score the first elimination, and she chose Valkyrie as her victim. Bebe grabbed her by the hair and dragged her up to her feet. She took a short run to the ropes and threw the opponent out of the ring but at the last moment the Dane powerhouse countered it and it was Bebe who flew over the top rope. Her great agility and survival instinct allowed her to land safely on her feet on the apron, but her demise was just moments away. A backfist from Valkyrie knocked her off the edge of the ring and she fell butt-first on the spiked nails. We save you her cries of pain and comments about “stuff sticking up her bum”, what really mattered was that we were now down to two competitors.
The size difference wasn’t doing Abby any favor, putting her at a disadvantage against the taller and heavier opponent. Her attempts at tossing the Dane over the top rope were all blocked by Valkyrie, forcing Blake to pursue a different road. She tried to choke the former Chicago Way champion out, which would give her the option to just roll Vee under the ropes and onto the piece of plywood covered in spiked nails laying right outside the ring. She locked Valkyrie in a triangle choke, slowly squeezing the life out of her. The Dane dropped to one knee and it looked like she was really passing out, put with one last effort she picked herself up and just slammed Abby on the canvas, finally getting out of the chokehold. Both women laid down for all the time they deemed necessary to recover, taking full advantage of the fact that there were no count-outs to dictate when they should get up. Then slowly, they both made it up to their feet, ready to enter the final stretch of this contest.
Abby’s agility helped her get out of a sticky situation when she found herself on the apron with Valkyrie charging with a big boot, To avoid the Dane’s killing blow, Abby leaped off from the edge of the ring, flying over the bed of nails to land on the barricade separating the ringside from the fans area. She almost fell back, miraculously keeping her balance and keeping her hopes alive although now she was left with the problem to get back in the ring. A jump in the opposite direction was too risky, while jumping on the steel steps looked a lot safer. She ran the barricade to reach the corner, and from there jumped on the steps leading to the ring. Valkyrie was there waiting for her, ready to swing her punch as soon as Abby came within range. Blake ducked her blow and grabbed the Dane by the back of the neck, dragging her over the top rope. The two found themselves on the apron, fighting on a thin portion of the ring inches away from a painful end. The stakes couldn’t be any higher, the slightest mistake could be fatal but neither of them seemed to be too concerned with that, focusing instead on finding the way to push the opponent down. Punches flew back and forth, kicks even but nothing seemed to work. It took something special to end this contest, something reckless. It took a huge set of balls and will to put it all on the line, it took a suplex from the apron right onto the bed of nails. Valkyrie was the one getting this crazy idea that hurt her as much as it hurt Blake, since both of them fell back first onto the spikes. But Abby landed onto them first, thus making Valkyrie the winner. Granted, she would feel the effects of her choice in the main event, but that’s a bridge she will cross later tonight,

WINNER: Valkyrie
BY: Sole Survivor, 17:19

Camille Bellamy:
Four awrds left to announce, and only two spots. Get ready for a double dose!

Close up on the announcer's face.

Camille Bellamy:
In every story, in every situation there's a hero and a villain, and that definitely applies in this industry as well. And while there wasn't any doubt that Julian Savell would take the title of Top Heel, the race for the most beloved one was way more close. Alex Andrews and Tiff received their fair share of votes, but for the second year in a row the Top Face award goes to Lowri Moss.

On the screen we saw Julian doing some of those despicable things (including throwing the Chicago Way championship in the trash) that won him this prize. Then it was Lowri's turn, the former World champion was seen interacting with the fans and celebrating her wins with them.

Camille Bellamy:
Safe to say the fans miss Lowri, and I'm sure a lot of people in the back do too. But now that she's gone, it will be interesting to see who's going to follow in her footsteps and claim the Top Face award next year. Certainly it won't be any of the three people involved in the sixth and final qualifying match. RAZE and Tiffany Lynn-Page aren't exactly fan favorites, while Jack Danielson.. Well he doesn't work for the company, so despite getting a great reaction in Pasadena, he's not eligible for this prize. Anyway, let's watch together what happened in the Electrifed Cage Match!

Electrified Cage Match
Braun Gymnasium @ Caltech (Pasadena) (4:00 PM PST)

RAZE VS Tiffany Lynn-Page VS Jack Danielson

Before the match started, the referee reminded the competitors the rules of this particular Electrified Cage Match. The structure will only be electrified for ONE minute every THREE minutes, with a five seconds warning message appearing on the tron to announce when the switch will be flicked. The rest of the time it’ll just be a regular cage match that can only be won by escaping the structure. Interesting to note that there’s no door for them to leave the cage through, so the only way to escape is to climb the 20 feet tall wall, praying that electricity doesn’t start running through it halfway to the top. After making sure everyone was aware of what they were getting themselves into, he quickly left the ring just as the cage was being lowered. It’s not like he had much to do there, with no pinfalls or anything to count. Plus, the squared circle was already crowded enough, and it was about to turn into a warzone, and anyone in their right mind would want to stay as far away as possible from it. Tiffany Lynn-Page and Jack Danielson immediately allied to take on RAZE but the Division member held his own even though he was outnumbered, knocking the Prima Donna down with a terrific punch and sending Jack flying into the cage. Wasting no time, he charged at full speed and squashed Danielson with his bodyweight; it must have felt like being ran over by a freight train, the impact made the whole structure shake and left Jack sitting on the floor recovering. Tiffany instead was already back to her feet and as soon as RAZE turned to face her, she blasted him with a roundhouse kick to the side of the head.
Nothing noteworthy happened in the following couple of minutes, just the three of them trading blows with nobody really getting the edge, It all changed when, all of sudden, the tron lit up and the countdown began. The fans yelled out every number, from the five to the zero that meant the cage was now electrified. There was a brief moment when the zero was called when the three competitors froze. Jack was the first to react, grabbing RAZE’s wrist and firing him into the cage wall. The structure sizzled as the Anomaly hit it and instantly collapsed to the floor. Jack was seen laughing, a mix of excitement and amusement combined with the hint of sadism as he pictured different ways to use the cage as a weapon. A chop to the chest quickly wiped that smile from his face, a second one followed right away as Tiffany began to build momentum. A few more landed, leaving red marks on Danielson’s pecs. She then tried the same trick he did with RAZE, but the Highest Roller threw himself to the ground, sliding on the canvas and stopping inches away from the electrified cage. He might have saved himself from the shock, but he couldn’t avoid getting his head kicked off with a punt kick from the Diva.
For the three minutes between each “electrification” of the cage, the match was somewhat a regular contest. There were times when RAZE dominated with his unmatched power, others when the chaotic brawling style of Danielson gave him the upper hand and others when Tiffany’s agility and her aerial assaults swung the momentum in her favor. But when the timer reached zero and electricity began to run through the cage, that was when the real fun started. Each of them had tried how it felt like to “ride the lightning”, and they all were particularly wary of not repeating the experience. Especially the HRW champion, who got his face grilled against the cage by the maniac called RAZE. Luckily for him, he started at the end of the minute, and the torment only lasted a few seconds. But RAZE had now accomplished his goal, clearing the ring and creating himself the first opportunity to climb the cage and leave the match as the winner. Unfortunately for him, Tiffany recovered too soon from the sit out chokebomb and climbed the wall right next to him. She hit him with a couple of punches to the back, he slammed her face against the cage, they traded a few more strikes and eventually fell all the way down, crashing on the mat below.
Kudos to Tiffany for fighting an impressive and smart match against two much bigger opponents, using her speed to dodge their attacks and the surroundings to take and keep them down. After removing the protective pad from the middle turnbuckle, she sent RAZE head first into it with a drop toe hold takedown. With The Anomaly out of the picture, she could turn her attention on Jack, slamming his head on the cage and then following with a brutal superkick to the back of the head that knocked him out cold. She could now begin her ascent to escape the cage, but halfway to the top the countdown started. Maybe she overestimated her speed, maybe it was greed but she thought she could make it to the top and out of the cage in five seconds. A fatal miscalculation as the cage was electrified as she was about to push herself over the edge. The shock caused her to lose her grasp, falling all the way from the top of the cage and crashing on the canvas. A nasty fall that knocked the wind off her lungs, leaving her breathless and sore.
Jack didn’t want to make the same mistake, and even if he had both opponents at his feet, he didn’t risk climbing the cage. He kept pressure on them with stomps and kicks, occasionally lifting them for a suplex or a throw killing time until the fans began their countdown. Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Zero… Electricity once again began to run through the cage, putting a smile on Jack’s face as he felt like he was one minute away from punching his ticket to the elimination chamber. He only had to keep them down for a little longer, which didn't seem to be a problem for the Highest Roller. To make sure it was now safe to climb, he grabbed Tiffany and tossed her into the steel fence, watching her body convulse as she got shocked. He did the same a few seconds later with RAZE, and seeing how he simply bounced against the cage no longer electrified, he began to climb undisturbed, hopping over the edge of the cage and dropping on the floor below, leaving Catech to head to the L.A. Coliseum

WINNER: Jack Danielson
BY: Cage Escape,, 20:33

Camille Bellamy:
That was... Electrifying, don't you agree?

She chuckled lightly, quickly regaining her composure.

Camille Bellamy:
Silly jokes aside, we now have a clear picture of the six competiors who will fight in the chamber for a title shot and a rich cash prize. Leanne Jones, Jackie Fowler, Jvstice Hardy, Kimberly Williams, Valkyrie and Jack Danielson already went through hell once, but they're about to take another trip into the City Of Woe. Before finding out who the sole survivor will be, we have two more awards to announce. The Male Wrestler Of The Year and Female Wrestler Of The Year go to...

Drums roll.

Camille Bellamy:
Julian Savell and Glory Braddock! Not really a surprise, but definitely well deserved. And with that, my job here is done. Enjoy the Red Line 4 main event, ladies and gentlemen. And see you on the next episode of Millennium!

Elimination Chamber Match
L.A. Coliseum (9:00 PM PST)

Leanne Jones VS Jackie Fowler VS Jvstice Hardy VS Kimberly Williams VS Valkyrie VS Jack Danielson

It might be just one match, but the LA Coliseum is still packed. Six competitors who survived six excruciating matches will be fighting for a guaranteed shot at any title in MWE, as well as a rich cash prize. After giving us a quick overview of the four competitors locked in the pods, each of them showing the bruises and wounds of the battles they went through earlier in the afternoon, the camera focused on the two contestants standing in the middle of the ring, Leanne Jones and Jackie Fowler. They too looked like they had seen better days, especially Jackie whose back got stitched up in a rough-and-ready way, making him look like the monster of Frankenstein. Jones seemed to be in a fairly better shape, although that bruise on her right cheek courtesy of Olly’s Leap Of Faith must be hurting like hell. The fans were buzzing at the idea of the two long time rivals squaring off one more time after their scuffles in Valiant. Oddly enough, both of them asked to be the first to enter the chamber, and their request was granted by the MWE officials. While this wasn’t entirely out of character for Fowler, he did the same back in Valiant winning the whole thing, it was surprising to see Leanne, one known for taking shortcuts, stepping to the plate and kicking things off. She walked toward Jackie, saying something the cameras couldn’t pick up with that sly smirk on her face. Fowler was unimpressed, barely reacting until the bell finally sounded. Then he threw the first punch ducked by Leanne who began to walk in circles around him. They locked up and the Bastard easily transitioned into a headlock. Perhaps too easily, it almost looked like Leanne allowed him to wrap his arm around her head just to reach with her hand to his shoulder and rake his back. A couple of stitches reopened, causing Fowler to groan in pain as blood poured once again down his back.
Lan kept a slow pace, using a lot of holds and ground wrestling in the opening minutes of the match. An unexpected change from the hard-hitting, high-flying style she displayed in her previous stint. This attitude was getting on Jackie’s nerves, his body language clearly indicating he was getting more and more annoyed by the turn this match had taken. And the fans didn’t appreciate it as well, a chant of “Boring! Boring!” bursting out from the LA fans. But Jones didn’t flinch, sticking to her gameplan. It was a smart one too, one that would allow them both to save their energy for later in the match. And God knows they will need it. Finally breaking free from the headlock, Jackie sent the opponent into the ropes and picked her up for a body slam. Rather than drop her in the middle of the ring, he walked to the ropes and let her fall on the steel platform right outside it. He tried to crush her ribs with a slingshot double foot stomp but Leanne rolled out of the way and kicked his legs off with a sweep kick. Jackie fell down, the back of his head bouncing hard on the steel.Before he knew it, Leanne was on top of him, talking some more before firing some punches to his face, trying to break through the Bellend’s guard. Finally she created the opening, punching Fowler right on his shocked face. More strikes rained down on the former Valiant champion, followed by the usual trash talk that characterized the whole match. She was still punching him when the buzzer went off, introducing the first contestant in the match: Jack Danielson.
Just like that, the match picked up. Whatever plan Leanne had walking into this match went out of the window once the chaotic HRW champion entered the contest. The fans loved the change of pace, more so seeing Leanne getting tossed against the wall of the chamber and punched repeatedly in the ribs. Fowler attacked him from behind but an elbow to the face kept him at safe distance. In the blink of an eye Danielson turned around and leveled the Bansky Of Lucha with a discus clothesline.Caught between two fires, Jack fought both opponents at once and he absolutely killed it, until Leanne dropped him with a reverse DDT. Jones entered the ring, getting as far as possible from the dangerous are surrounding it. Fowler wanted to follow her but Danielson grabbed him by the foot and caused him to trip over and fall down chest-first. He stomped him a few times on the battered back, dropping him onto it with a German suplex.
Kimberly Williams was next, and just like that the level of insanity in this match reached new heights. Her first action, literally, was to climb the pod and jump on Leanne with a crossbody from there, obtaining just a count of two. On the other side of the ropes, Jackie and Jack were trading stiff chops, lighting up each other’s chest. The Englishman won this exchange and grabbed Danielson by the back of his head and looked to smash his head against the Chamber’s wall. The impact busted the Highest Roller open, but Fowler didn’t stop there, immediately picking the opponent up and throwing him into the pod he came out from, obviously going through the plexiglass. Despite Danielson being one of the crowd favorites, seeing him going through the pod had the crowd popping.. What a bunch of sickos! Fowler looked around for his next victim, his heart might have skipped a beat when he spotted the unaware Leanne climbing the turnbuckle to fly onto Kim Williams. He charged with a full head of steam and shoved Jones down and onto the steel platform. Lan landed hard on her shoulder, possibly injuring her arm in the process. She was keeping it limp down her side as she slowly climbed to her feet, leaning against Jvstice’s pod to catch a breath. Fowler was right back onto her, looking to eliminate his longtime rival with his patented Lancaster Bomber, but Jones was able to duck the terrific punch. Jackie’s fist broke through the plexiglass wall, the look of pure agony on his face suggesting he hurt it pretty bad and making people wonder if he’d be able to use it again in the match. Hardy made sure he wouldn’t, grabbing his hand and pulling his fingers apart. Another cry of pain followed by words that would make this show Rated R if repeated lasted for as long as Fowler managed to pull his hand away from Jvstice’s grasp and out of his pod.
Moments later, Jvstice entered the ring and decided to capitalize on what he saw happening right before his eyes. He picked up Leanne Jones and easily planted her on the steel platform with his Truth In Vengeance (fireman’s carry into a cutter), eliminating the former Valiant Chaos Champion. He tried to do the same with Jackie, but the Bastard Of Bowland put up a greater fight than Jones and was able to slip away from Hardy’s shoulders, landing behind him and pushing him into the ropes. As the former Modern Pro superstar bounced back, Fowler caught him in a waistlock and suplexed him into the chamber’s steel wall, killing the momentum he was beginning to build. Fowler hooked his leg and made the cover but as terrific as the impact was, it would take more to keep Hardy down for the count of three.
Just as the last pod opened and the final competitor entered the ring, the second elimination of the night occurred. Jack Danielson had just made it up to his feet and was about to leave (for the second time) his pod when he got totally blindsided by Kimberly’s Shdowblade. The Woman Scorned didn’t waste any time pulling him out of the pod but she pinned him right there and then for one of the most uncomfortable pinning predicaments to memory. The ref had to check twice to see if both Jack’s shoulders were touching the mat in that narrow space. Once he was sure of that, he started to count. One, two, three and just like that Danielson was eliminated, cutting the number of competitors left in the match down to four. It almost got immediately down to three when Valkyrie almost broke Jackie in half with a spear, but the Bellend was one tough SOB and he managed to survive the impact.
To say that this match was chaotic is the understatement of the year. Bodies flying everywhere, blood pouring down the competitors’ exhausted faces and that sense of impending doom that must be hovering in the four competitors’ mind, the awareness that a small mistake could be the end of it all. There have been a few close calls, one for Jackie who barely survived Kim’s Morrigan’s Wrath and one for Valkyrie, who got her shoulder up at the very last second when Jvstice chokeslammed her on the steel floor. The fans witnessed ten minutes of incredible action, the four remaining fighters really leaving everything in this ring tonight. Hardy was the next to fall, courtesy of Vee’s Hammer Of Thor. But just as she entered the ring, she found Jackie waiting for her with his patented #SMD (rope assisted piledriver). Back to back eliminations, and we were down to two.
Looking at the names entering this year’s Red Line, it was hard not to pick these two as the two favorites, and they lived up to the expectations. Even now, thirty minutes into this match and with another match weighing down on them, they weren’t slowing down. Jackie began to show signs of frustrations when his Donkey Punch couldn’t keep Williams down, slamming his fists on the canvas wondering what he would need to do to beat the Woman Scorned. He attempted to lift her for a suplex on the steel floor but she managed to sleep away and catch him with a dropkick as he turned to face her. The impact sent him reeling back into the chamber’s wall, putting more strain on his worn out back. Kim realized that the tide might have turned and she was looking to capitalize on the momentum, driving Fowler’s back on the cold and unforgiving steel with a rear mat slam and following with a springboard legdrop. She didn’t try to pin him, instead she went once again to the top of pod, from where she jumped onto the Bastard Of Bowland with her Chaos Theory (corkscrew senton). Everyone thought this was it, but Jackie still had something left in his tank and popped his shoulder up.The Wildcard remained focus, coming so close to the win didn’t throw her off but rather fueled her to dig deep and go that extra mile to cross the Red Line. She waited until Jackie began to get back to a vertical basis to charge toward him for the Shadowblade knee. The Banksy Of Lucha had it scouted and was able to counter the move by grabbing a piece of plexiglass from the broken pod and throwing it at the incoming Kimberly. He then picked up the same piece of plexiglass and used it to amplify the impact of his American Montana (springboard double knee facebreaker). The landing on his sore back was not quite pleasant, and it took him a few moments before being able to drag himself on top of Williams for the cover. Luckily for him, Kim definitely got the worst out of the exchange, and she couldn’t kick out in time.

WINNER: Jackie Fowler
BY: Pinfall (American Montana), 37:29

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