Red White & Bruised vs. Aphable Azzumption(c)
Jimmy Garcia: And we are getting ready for our main event of the evening! In a preview of the Joey Bunga Invitational at Evolution, the Cruiserweight Tag Team Championships get one more defense before ten tag teams get a shot to walk out of the greatest event of the year with these belts!Katta Pult: Red White & Bruised are three-time Cruiserweight Tag Champions and they’re looking for their fourth reign here.Jimmy Garcia: But the champions, Aphable Azzumption, have had these belts for months, and they definitely want to walk into Evolution with them around their waists! Let’s get started!Ethan Miller: Being accompanied to the ring by Tracy Dixon, and Hilda Meyer, Nikola Vaughn, Karlie Nash, Red, White, and Bruised!Crush Em' By Megadeth blasts in the arena as Karlie and Nikki step on the stage wearing matching Red White and Bruised T-shirts, they smirk as they react to the crowd they walk with swagger towards the ring, they climb the ropes from the outside and point to the crowd and make the loser sign, they meet in the middle of the ring and high five, they enter their corner, Karlie sits in the corner as Nikki lays out on the top rope.
Jimmy Garcia: This team is the backbone of tag team wrestling in Action Wrestling. You know they want to have the honor of stepping into the biggest event of the year with those belts!Katta Pult: And for a fourth time, Jimmy. These are future Hall of Famers.Ethan Miller: And the tag team champions! They are the team of Aphriya Adler and Azurine Vebbins… APHABLE AZZUMPTION!Their entrance begins with “Something Bad” by Miranda Lambert featuring Carrie Underwood playing to fervent fanfare. The arena is showered with rainbow lights. “Da Adorkable Angel” and “The Bad Apple Bottom Gene” walk out onto the entrance ramp hand-in-hand. Dressed to the elevens in their matching red and black striped Combat Corsets, Azurine and Aphriya wave to their adoring audience. While Vebbins waves enthusiastically, Adler places an index finger to her lips so those in attendance don’t ruin a surprise. She holds up her dance partner’s mouthguard and waits for “Da Hardheaded Housewife” to turn back around. Azurine feigns shock by opening her chatting cavity wide and "The Bad Apple Bottom Gene'' bends over in front of Vebbins, facing her. She shakes her tushy for the crowd as she places the "oral obedience aid" in Azurine's mouth with a soft boop to her nose. A cameraman catches Vebbins blush on cue as she feels Adler tug on her halo ring twice. Azurine follows her dance partner’s lead down the entrance ramp until they reach neutral corner steps. “Da Damsel in Dat Dress” glides along the ring apron, straddles herself above the middle rope, and performs a tush wiggle of her own. "The Bad Apple Bottom Gene" climbs up the apron then up the turnbuckles. Her left leg over the top rope as she looks out over the capacity crowd with a wide smile. She then seamlessly flips over the corner into the ring. Azurine contemplates climbing into the ring, but goes to her team’s corner, holds her tag rope with her left hand, and massages Aphriya’s shoulders with her right hand.
Jimmy Garcia: Aphriya Adler has been one of the greatest homegrown success stories in AW history! After finishing fourth in The Search last year, she has become one of the most feared women on the Cruiserweight roster!Katta Pult: And Azurine Vebbins has been a constant delight, every time she steps out into this ring. Her energy is infectious, sometimes it even brings a smile to my face, Jimmy.Jimmy Garcia: That’s high praise considering you don’t smile at anything, KP.The lead CruiserClash referee takes the Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship belts from Aphable Azzumption and holds them up in the center of the ring as both teams look on. As he hands the titles off to Ethan Miller on the outside, the contenders seem to have decided that Karlie Nash is going to start things off. Seeing that, Aphriya Adler is demonstrative in her desire to start it off against Karlie Nash. With Nash and Adler staring each other down from opposite sides, the cracking of the bell prompts the crowd to roar.
Jimmy Garcia: And let’s get started! The tension is through the roof here!Taking a brief moment to size each other up, Nash and Adler get down to business and lock it up. Early on, Nash grabs Adler with a waistlock but Adler uses her judo training to counter out of it with a waistlock of her own. When she goes for what looks like a German suplex, Nash reverses the momentum, breaking the hold Adler has on her and slamming her opponent down with a headlock takedown. With Adler down, Nash locks in a crucifix hold and nails her with repeated elbows to the head. The referee monitors closely as Adler scrambles in a defensive posture, blocking most of the shots. Adler transitions out into a full mount inside her guard and starts wailing by dropping BOMBS with the points of her elbows! This prompts Nikki Vaughn to come to run into the ring and smack Aphriya Adler on the side of the head with a boot!
Jimmy Garcia: Red White & Bruised have the experience edge in nearly every tag team contest they compete in, and they’re showing it here!Katta Pult: But wait… here comes Azurine!As Azurine tries to rush the ring after Vaughn begins to backpedal out with the referee warning, the referee then intercepts Vebbins! But as the referee is distracted with Vebbins, this allows Nikki Vaughn to reenter the ring and the two execute an aided neckbreaker to Aphriya Adler, planting the champion in the middle of the ring!
Jimmy Garcia: Red White & Bruised are going to pull out all stops to leave this ring with those belts!Seeing RWB take advantage, Vebbins angrily goes back to her team's corner. But Nash has made a cover while the referee is talking to Vebbins, and she angrily removes herself to yell at the referee to pay attention! As she pulls Adler back to her feet, she executes an irish whip to Adler, who has recovered enough to fly back through the air with a diving forearm! She gives Karlie a few knife edge chops before dropping her with a scoop slam right in her corner! She tags Vebbins, who springboards over the top rope and lands a leg drop on Nash’s neck!
Jimmy Garcia: And the tables have turned on a dime here!Katta Pult: That’s why these are the tag team champs!Vebbins picks Nash up and pushes her into the corner before firing off a series of chops. Afterwards, Vebbins monkey flips Nash out of the corner, but she bounces off with forward momentum sending her to her own corner! She reaches for and slaps the extended hand of Nikki Vaughn, who storms the ring and hits Vebbins with a running knee lift! Vaughn uses her power to drive a forearm onto Vebbins back, before an uppercut to the jaw. Vaughn then whips Vebbins to the ropes and tries to slam her down with a sidewalk slam…. But Vebbins counters into a headscissors takedown! With Vaughn prone and the crowd behind her, Vebbins locks her in a side headlock. She wrenches on the hold while Vaughn is still on her knees, unable to get back to her feet on his own accord. Vebbins, however, drags Vaughn to an upright position with the headlock still in tact and transitions into a hammerlock instead. Stuck in yet another hold, Vaughn reaches between her legs to grab Vebbins's. Before Vaughn can reverse, Vebbins takes the arm of her opponent and locks him into an inverted Jujigatame arm bar.
Jimmy Garcia: That looks painful! Vebbins is trying to score that submission early!Katta Pult: We know how skilled Aphriya Adler is with those submission holds and it’s cool to see it rubbing off.Being rather lucky that she has the size advantage of Vebbins, Vaughn used that to scratch and claw her way over to the ropes. With Vaughn's hand firmly gripping the bottom rope, the referee starts to count. Vebbins breaks the hold before the referee steps in. Still on the mat, Vaughn is favoring her arm quite a bit, and she tries to get closer to the corner. Instead of letting that happen, Vebbins gets Vaughn locked in a full nelson, but Vaughn still battles forward towards her corner. Instead of looking for the submission, it looks like Vebbins is going to go for a suplex, but Vaughn counters out of it and drops Vebbins with a back body drop! Vaughn reaches out and makes the tag to Nash and she enters the ring with a flurry. As Vebbins gets back to her feet, she’s knocked right back down with a bicycle kick from Karlie Nash!
Jimmy Garcia: Karlie Nash might have kicked Azzy Vebbins’ teeth down her throat!Before Nash can follow up, Aphriya Adler is bouncing up and down in her corner, trying to get Azzy to crawl to the corner. This prompts Nash to drive the heel of her boot into Vebbins hand, smirking at Adler in the process. The referee warns Nash of the borderline illegal behavior, and she feints a back elbow in his direction. As Nash pulls Vebbins up by the air, Vebbins thumbs at her eyes, and the referee conveniently “misses” it! Vebbins then snaps Nash down with a release german suplex! She foregoes the tag to Aphriya and makes a pinfall attempt!
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Jimmy Garcia: Karlie Nash kicks out just in time!Still feeling the effects of that kick by Nash, Vebbins does the smart thing and tags in her partner. Adler comes into the ring with a look of intensity in her eyes and starts to stomp away on the left leg of Nash, trying to keep the gold medalist prone on the ground. Before Adler can move to the right leg for a submission, Vaughn runs in and delivers a gut busting kick to her ribs that takes the wind out of her! This gives Nash he opportunity to get back in a vertical position that she uses to power Adler down to the mat with a massive spinebuster. Looking down at Adler for a moment, Nash drags her back to her feet and goes for a standing neck crack, but Aphriya Adler ducks out of that and quickly tags her partner Azurine Vebbins.
Katta Pult: The tag champions are showing quite a bit of tag team balance and keeping each other fresh while Karlie is trying to do this herself.Jimmy Garcia: We’ll see which method works!The two members of Aphable Azzumption speak to themselves as Vebbins gets into the ring and Adler gets out. It's only momentary though as Vebbins knows she can't keep her eyes off Nash for long. However, before Vaughn and Vebbins can get to it, Vaughn yells to Nash from their corner to give her the tag. But Karlie waves her off, obviously wanting to stay in the ring herself. Nash runs at Vebbins like a woman on a mission, nailing her with a big European uppercut that she follows up with a fallaway slam. With Vebbins down on the mat, Nash hooks the leg for the cover.
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Jimmy Garcia: And a kickout from Azurine Vebbins!On the outside, Adler starts to work the crowd again, and it gets enough attention away from Vebbins so she can recover. In a way it works, but Nash says something back to Adler that seems to irritate Adler even more. With Vebbins back up to her feet, she places Nash in a full nelson and drops her backwards with a bridging tiger suplex! The cover!
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Nikki Vaughn storms the ring and stomps on Vebbins to break the count! Before the referee can reprimand her, Adler once again starts hopping up and down on the apron, trying to get Vebbins back to her corner. Before Vebbins tags her in, she throws Nash into their corner and then makes the tag to Adler. The champions now try to double team Nash while he's in the corner. When they go to grab him, however, Nash ducks under the two of them, and connects with a double lariat! She grabs their heads and tries to smash them together, but Aphable Azzumption counters out of it into a double back body drop!
Katta Pult: I don’t know what’s going to happen here, Jimmy. Karlie Nash seems like she wants to carry this team on her back, but it might be too much against the champions, who are working together beautifully.They pick her up and whip her into the corner and Vebbins rushes in but Karlie back body drops her over the ropes and she bounces off the turnbuckles to the apron! She turns around and Nikki spears her off the apron down onto the mats!!
Jimmy Garcia: OH MAN!!Adler charges at Karlie but she comes out WITH A CLOTHESLINE FROM HELL!!
APHRIYA IS OUT!!
Jimmy Garcia: ITS OVER!! ITS OVER!!Karlie is crawling towards Adler and the official turns around!!
ONE!!
TWO!!
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DEATHSTARS’ TOXIN PUNT KICKS KARLIE IN THE SIDE OF THE HEAD!!
Jimmy Garcia: WHAT THE HELL OH MY GOD!!Katta Pult: WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?!
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DING DING DINGJimmy Garcia: DEATHSTARS JUST RUINED THE ENDING OF THIS MATCH!!Karlie barely kneels up and she looks like Glenn from the Walking Dead after a Negan smashing baseball and Toxin and Cinta hit superkicks in stereos to her face completely knocking her out!!
Jimmy Garcia: OH MY GOD!They both slide out of the ring together and Nikki is up but Toxin pops her into the air and Cinta bicycle knees her in the head and Toxinc catches her from behind and hits a German Suplex into the steel barricade!!
Katta Pult: GOOD GOD!! OH MY GOD!! NIKKI MIGHT HAVE A BROKEN BACK!!Vebbins is crawling away but Cinta jumps on her back with a stiff double foot stomp!!
Katta Pult: DAMN IT!!Toxin pulls her up by her hair and holds her steady as Cinta hits a stiff superkick to her face! A second one and a THIRD one!! Toxin pulls her up by her hair and hits a stiff german suplex onto the mats!!
Jimmy Garcia: DEATHSTARS HAVE COMPLETELY DISMANTLED BOTH TAG TEAMS HERE!Aphriya is on the apron trying to protect Vebbins, trying to crawl towards her but Cinta and Toxin grab her by her head and pull her off the apron but leaving her feet up on it.. And then DROP HER WITH A STIFF DDT TO THE OUTSIDE!!
The crowd booooooing!
Toxin gets into the ring as Cinta walks over and grabs the Cruiserweight Tag Team Championships..
Jimmy Garcia: THIS HAS BEEN AN ABSOLUTE, METHODICAL BEATDOWN BEYOND EXPLANATION!!Katta Pult: THEY HAVE DONE THIS TO LUCHA WORLD ORDER, AND NOW BOTH THE CURRENT CHAMPIONS AND FORMER TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS! I CAN’T BELEIVE THIS!!Cinta and Toxin hold up the Cruiserweight Tag Team Championships high over their head..
Jimmy Garcia: AZZUMPTION ARE STILL THE CRUISER TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS.. BUT IF RED, WHITE AND BRUISED HAD ONE MORE SECOND COULD THEY BE HOLDING THE TAG TEAM TITLES?!Katta Pult: IT DOESNT MATTER BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IN OUR RING DEATHSTARS ARE HOLDING THE BELTS AND THEY COULD POSSIBLY BE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS AT EVOLUTION 5 AND WE WON’T HAVE A DAMN THING TO SAY ABOUT IT!The graphic appears on the bottom of the screen as they drop the belts in the middle of the ring and do their DeathSquad taunt.
Jimmy Garcia: WE’RE OUT OF TIME!! WE WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK FOR THE FINAL STOP BEFORE EVOLUTION 5!!We fade off the air.