Post by Action Reel on Apr 26, 2021 19:08:30 GMT -5
Ash Blake, Lissie Hope & Carter Shaw vs. Nightingale, Downfall & Adrian of MS13
Adilene Floyd: The following is scheduled for ONE FALL, and it is a six-person tag team match! Introducing first, the team of Adrian, Downfall, and "Angel of Death" James Nightingale... THE LOST BREED!!
The arena falls into a nervous silence as “DARKBREED” by Robert Slump begins its impactful introduction; followed by powerful guitar riffs echoing through the PA system. The lighting inside the arena dims, and the camera focuses on the ActionTron which slowly reveals “THE LOST BREED” in large white letters.
A chorus of boos erupts from the crowd as members of The Lost Breed individually walkout from the entranceway; each taking their place on the centre stage. Firstly, Adrian, wearing leather and his gang colors. Next out; Downfall, who looks around the crowd with a disdainful sneer and he takes a few breaths as he hops in place to psych himself up. Finally; they are joined by James Nightingale, his face half-covered by his intimidating goth-style entrance mask, his eyes focused intensely on the ring.
He slowly unbuttons his trench coat without breaking his intense gaze on the ring; revealing “The Lost Breed” in blood-stained lettering across the chest of his T-shirt. Together they stand united; soaking in the hostility from the crowd. In unison; they begin their intimidating march to the ring.
They all stop at the bottom of the ramp; Nightingale turns to his fellow teammates and nods. Each member passes him and works their way around the outside of the ring; with Downfall and Nightingale shaking hands as they pass each other. Slowly each member climbs onto an apron and slowly enters the ring; pacing around whilst both Nightingale removes his entrance mask. After a moment; all members of The Lost Breed converge in the middle of the ring, raising their right fists in the air, fist-bumping in solidarity. The arena lights return to normal as they finally break their taunt and individually go through their own pre-match preparations ready for the fight ahead.
Chris Avery: It's been several weeks since we've seen a united Lost Breed front... but here they are, standing tall in the ring, with Adrian - Nightingale's "business associate" filling out the team.
Billy: And what business is that, Avery?
Chris Avery: The nunya, according to the man himself.
Adilene Floyd: And their opponents... the team of Lissie Hope, "Mr. All-In" Carter Shaw, and the AW World Champion, Ash Blake... PHILIDOR HOLDINGS, LLC!!
"Midnight City" by M83 hits on the PA, As the first verse comes in, Ash Blake emerges from behind the curtain, the Action Wrestling World Championship slung over shoulder, closely flanked by Lissie Hope, who's taking in the negative reaction to Philidor's presence, and by Carter Shaw, who is reveling in his position. All smiles despite the jeering, she saunters down the ramp, beaming, singing along to her theme song.
As the trio make their way towards ringside, Carter and Lissie climb onto the apron first as Ash takes a moment to go for a photo op with a fan at ringside, though she's harshly rebuffed. A glib smile on her face, she ascends the ring steps and enters under the middle rope as both men pull it up for her before dropping off the apron. Ash hands her belt off to the referee before settling in the corner.
Billy: For the second week in a row, it's Philidor vs the World!
Ash Blake turns to Lissie Hope, as Downfall and Adrian are on the other side of the ring looking like the beefy enforcers they are. Ash orders Lissie to go out first, and Lissie seems to question what the World Champion wants from her, but Ash reminds Lissie of her Philidor obligations. Lissie sighs, and nods her head in understanding and then looks over, showing a lot of the fire of old as she motions to Downfall to come on. Downfall looks tickled, and the crowd ripples with interest at the sight of Hope and Downfall facing off against each other as everyone else settles into their corners.
Lissie and Downfall circle the ring, Lissie quicker and keeping her distance to edge around Downfall, who's stalking her like a shark. He slides in, and she feints a kick at his leg, and he backs up. Ash yells for Lissie to come on, and Lissie turns her head, then she runs at Downfall, who takes her down with an armdrag. Downfall works it into an armbar, and Lissie grits her teeth, pushing her way up from her belly with Downfall clamped onto her arm. Lissie quickly judo throws Downfall off. Downfall is back on her like a pitbull, trying to lock in a front facelock, and Lissie backdrops him off. Downfall arches his back and rolls around on the mat. Downfall tags in Adrian, and Lissie freezes in her corner as the MS-13 member looms over her. Adrian takes a step towards towards the Blackheart, and she responds by tagging in Carter and ducking out of the ring to the rage of the crowd who respond with a huge chorus of boos.
Chris Avery: Lissie has been using her speed to dart in and get what offense she can, and now she's tagging in Philidor's heavy hitter.
Carter steps into the ring and he and Adrian feel each other out, tying up with a collar and elbow tie-up. Adrian quickly gets the upper hand and drives Carter into the neutral corner before delivering a quick could of knees to the mid-section before taking a step backwards and charging forward to deliver a heavy knee. He takes Carter by the back of the head, backs him into the ropes and whips him across the ring. Shaw hits the ropes and ducks the clothesline attempt, hits the opposite ropes and hits a chopblock to the knees of Adrian that wobbles the MS-13 member.
Adrian staggers backwards as Carter holds onto the legs of Adrian. Adrian drives an elbow into the point of Carter that immediately drives the fight out of him before hitting a couple of knees to the face and chest of Mr. All-in that arches him back to a vertical base before almost decapitating him with a lariat! He reaches out and tags in Nightingale who gets a nuclear reaction as he hops through the ropes and hits a few quick knees to the kneeling Carter before hauling Shaw to his feet and dropping him with a DDT. He makes a cover.
Chris Avery: We've seen a lot of firsts in this match, though not one-on-one encounters, the first match between Shaw and Nightingale, and Downfall and Lissie!
The referee: One... Kickout.
Carter pops out with authority and Nightingale sits up with a smirk. He looks up at Carter’s corner and waves sarcastically as Lissie and Ash simply glare at him. Nightingale delivers a few forearms to the face and neck of Carter before picking him to his feet, irish whipping him into his corner and following up with a flying knee that comes with a tag to Downfall as it connects. Downfall squares up to Shaw and delivers a few placed punches to the head and body of Mr. All-in before wrapping him up and hitting a snap suplex!
He turns to Carter’s corner and talks trash to Ash Blake, saying "Your boy really fucked up now, Ashley," before picking Carter up by the head and delivering a chop. Downfall grips Carter's arm, and irish whips him. Downfall goes for a standing dropkick but Carter holds onto the top rope and Downfall crashes to the mat stomach first. Carter chases him down and hits a running leg-drop across the back of the Purveyor of Anarchy and rolls through to hit Ash with a tag.
Chris Avery: The champ is coming in!!
Billy: Ash never gave Downfall a receipt, I think it's coming for a return now!!
The crowd boos as the World Champ slithers through the ropes and delivers a series of brutal stomps to the back of Downfall with a snarl etched across her face. She drags Downfall up by his hair and synchs in a stiff headlock but Downfall pushes her off and into the ropes. Ash nimbly ducks the clothesline attempt by Downfall and stops in her tracks and as Downfall turns around, Ash greets him with a high standing leap that leads into a hurricanrana that sends Downfall crashing to the mat!
Blake gets to her feet and poses to the baying crowd as she points to letting Downfall get a tag to Jimmy Nights, and the crowd pop. But she wags her finger, motioning that such a hopeful thing isn't going to happen, and the crowd boos in response as she stalks Downfall as he gets onto all fours and drops a knee across the back of his neck which plants his face into the mat to the rage of the crowd.
Chris Avery: Ash pressing the crowd’s buttons early on.
She drags Downfall up to his feet and calls the referee over to her left side. She asks him to check for something in her eye and as he checks, Ash mule kicks Downfall in the groin to the disgust of the fans, and to Nightingale and Adrian on the outside who call for the referee to see sense. As Downfall drops to the mat, she thanks the referee and blows him a kiss playfully. Downfall coughs and tries to compose himself as Blake drags him back to his face and drops him straight back down with a side Russian leg sweep. Finally, she drapes an arm across Downfall to make a cover.
The referee: One...
Two... Kickout.
Billy: Make no mistake about it, Philidor always plays by Philidor rules.
Chris Avery: You know there haven't been many - if Any, people that have gotten under the champ's skin... but Downfall touting his victory over Ash all those months ago, and ending her streak with the Television Title, has to carry some kind of grudge.
Ash sits up with an irritated look. She goes to lift Downfall up, and picks Downfall’s arm up and wrenches it around fully before dragging down on it. She delivers a few kicks to the arm socket before whipping him into the corner but Downfall manages to reverse it into a neckbreaker. Both competitors are down, and Ash rolls to her stomach, blinking and stunned, while Downfall is taking a few gasping breaths and shaking out his arm with gritted teeth.
Ash gets to her feet first, and she steps on Downfall's fingers. She goes to lift Downfall up in a front facelock, but Downfall reverses into a hammerlock behind Ash's back and then he annihilates her with a Babylon Burning. Downfall stumbles back and uses the ropes to hold himself up, as Ash, taken off-guard by the vicious hit, flails her arms and pulls herself to her feet. Downfall then charges across the ring and plows through Ash with a shotgun dropkick that catches her and sends her backwards.
Chris Avery: Lock, Step... & GONE!!
Downfall, getting fired up, paces around the mat, yelling for Ash to get up. Downfall lifts the smaller World champ up, and attempts to set her for a Godkiller, but Ash comes down behind him and uses Secondhand Vanity to steal a vicious snap dragon suplex on Downfall, dropping him straight on his head! The crowd explodes at the sudden momentum swing, and Ash gets behind Downfall, who is holding his neck in pain and his eyes unfocused. He gets to his knees, and Ash comes in behind him, locking in a crossface chickenwing with bodyscissors.
Downfall feels the hold begin to tighten around him, so he grabs Ash as best he can and runs straight back into his corner, squashing her in the corner and making her loosen the hold; At the same time Nightingale tags himself in. Downfall slumps to the mat and rolls to the apron, as Ash recovers a little from being squashed. She staggers out of the corner and is met by a Japanese arm-drag from the Angel of Death. She takes a knee and Nightingale follows it with a Yakuza kick to the side of her head. Nightingale taunts Lissie and Carter in the corner, and makes a title gesture to his waist and Lissie responds with a hand gesture of her own.
Chris Avery: No love lost between Nightingale and Lissie, for sure... remember, Nightingale may have been a "catalyst" towards Lissie's issues a few months ago.
Billy: He sure feels like he was, anyway!
Nightingale pulls Ash back up to her feet and hits a couple of knife edge chops that evoke ‘woos’ from the crowd before he drops her with a European uppercut! He nonchalantly steps over Blake and doesn’t break eye contact with the champion as he hits a standing moonsault onto Blake to the astonishment of the crowd. He pops back to his feet and flips off Lissie to the delight of the crowd as she shakes her head. Lissie turns to Carter and calls Nightingale a pissant as Nightingale drags Ash back to her feet and offers her limp hand to Lissie for a tag but Lissie wafts it away with disdain as Nightingale shakes his head and then drops her with a back suplex!
Chris Avery: Nightingale is being disgusting, disreputable and using Ash to taunt Lissie... he wants Ash and Lissie's relationship to be a sticking point for her.
Nightingale then charges into the opposite ropes and leaps over Ash to run to the opposite ropes to build momentum but Carter pulls the rope down and Nightingale tumbles over the top rope and crashes to the outside. Carter immediately bears down on the Angel of Death with furious kicks and stomps, before running James back first into the apron.
Billy: Shaw playing defense, the best way he can!!
Chris Avery: He's considered the white knight of Philidor for a reason!
Both Downfall and Adrian hops down from their corner, and go out to the aisle and confront Carter. Carter squares up, ready to throw down, as does Lissie Hope. The referee leans out to try and restore order, and Downfall shouts, frustratedly at the referee. This allows Ash time to recover, and time for Carter to continue the assault as he drags the AOD to his feet and runs him into the steel steps and then into the guard rail in one fluid motion before dragging him back over to the apron and dumping him back into the ring.
Ash is back to her feet and is recovering in her corner as the referee gets the Lost Breed back under control. Carter climbs onto the apron once again, calmly tidies himself up and takes a hold of the tag rope and smiles falsely as he asks for the tag and Ash obliges as the crowd boo vociferously.
Chris Avery: You have to wonder if that's a Philidor referee... I mean, we have no proof, but the way Jim Mud has taken control of every aspect of Cruiserclash, it has people jumping at every interaction surrounding Philidor.
Billy: That's just what THEY want you to do!! Don't be a SHEEP!!
A battered Nightingale scrambles up to a knee but Carter is already on him and using his strong hitting ability to nail knees to the head and chest, before standing the AOD up straight and hitting a brutal stiff chop to the chest of Nightingale. Carter backs his opponent into the corner with a look of pure fury on his face for Nightingale laying his hands on Carter’s boss, and dares him to do it again before hitting some stiff kicks to the gut of Nightingale.
Nights drops down and Carter keeps booting him down in the ropes, forcing the referee to call for the break. Carter argues with the referee for a moment, before trying to lift Nightingale up, he grabs Nightingale from his back waistband, but the Brit catches him in the side of the head with a reverse elbow. Carter stumbles away, and then he comes back, only to be grabbed again and this time hit with a rolling belly to belly that drives Mr. All-In into the mat. Nightingale hooks the leg.
The referee: One...
Two... Kickout.
Nightingale drags his opponent up by his hair and clubs him over the back of the head before whipping Shaw into the corner. He takes his time before charging in with a running knee that drives the wind out of his lungs. Carter slumps out of the corner, groaning. Nights then snapmares Carter and gives him a soccer kick right between the shoulder blade. Nightingale snarls, and he points at Adrian, saying that it's time for him to earn his pay, and Adrian just stares at him stone-faced. You get the sense that Nightingale is starting to lose the plot, because he rants at Adrian that he wants every member of Philidor in a body-bag... and then his eyes open in horror as Carter spins him around and hauls him over with a t-bone suplex.
Carter drags the limp Nightingale up to his feet and drives stiff knees into his ribs before adjusting Nightingale and dropping him with a fisherman’s suplex! He rolls over and stands up and delivers a couple of stomps to Nightingale before waving at the opposite corner as he rests his foot across the throat of the AOD causing him to flail his feet wildly as the referee counts for a break. Now it's Carter's turn to make enemies, sauntering towards an enraged Downfall and Adrian and flipping each of them the bird. Downfall goes to charge through the ropes and Carter backs away laughing. The referee holds Downfall back. Ash Blake slips into the ring and connects with a few cheap shots and slips out quickly without the referee noticing.
Chris Avery: You wouldn't expect the Lost Breed to be the ones of the receiving end of these tactics.
Carter drags Nightingale up and slaps him hard against his face and pushes him back into the ropes and barks at Lissie to hold him still. Lissie obliges with a sigh as Carter unleashes a flurry of lefts and rights before pointing at Ash and delivering a brutal head-butt to the nose of Nightingale who crumples to the mat. He asks for her review of his headbutt and she gestures to say ‘so-so’. Carter shrugs his shoulders and tags in Lissie who steps through the ropes and Carter pokes her in the chest, the hard-cam picking up the words from Carter…
"Don't hesitate this time"
Chris Avery: I think all of Philidor's eyes are on Lissie, still, even weeks after her confrontation with Howard Black.
Lissie willfully pays no mind to that, instead she stands over Nightingale, poses and the crowd give her huge heat, as she takes her time to bask in these people that used to hail her as their Heroine. The Blackheart sneers, as Nights rolls to all fours. and Lissie turns and hauls him back to his feet and delivers a quick couple of knees before whipping Nightingale into the ropes. Lissie goes for a clothesline, but Nightingale ducks under it and keeps running to the opposite rope. When he charges back from that, Lissie nails him with a bicycle kick to the chest. Lissie drops down for a cover.
The referee: One...
Two...
Thr - Adrian stomps on the back of Lissie's head!
Lissie holds her head and complains to the referee. The referee gets in the way of the menacing MS-13 member, who just looks stone-faced, but he does as he's bid... Lissie points and shouts at him. Nightingale is trying to crawl to his corner, but Lissie drops an elbow across his back and drags him back to her corner. Lissie lifts Nightingale up, and hits a few quick kicks to Nightingale, before climbing the body of Nightingale and hitting a flip crescent kick to the chin. Nightingale falls. Downfall is clapping, trying to will Nightingale back into this thing.
Chris Avery: Make no mistake, Nightingale is in TROUBLE!
Lissie plants back on her feet and tags in a still recovering Carter who steps through the ropes and plants his foot straight onto the outstretched fingers of Nightingale. Carter drags Nightingale up and delivers a forearm shot before a European uppercut that rattles the Angel of Death into the corner... Then he again tags in Lissie who connects with a flurry of quick kicks before grabbing the arm of Nightingale and whips him into the opposite corner.
Nightingale crashes in and Lissie follows up with a handspring back-elbow but nobody is home and Lissie’s head bounces off of the turnbuckle and she staggers into the centre of the ring. Nightingale then performs a turn and BLASTS Lissie with a discus elbow smash! Lissie blinks and her head droops as if her lights are out, Nightingale falls onto his stomach after performing the turn, too winded to move, but his partners yell and hold their hands out for a tag!!
Chris Avery: Nightingale with As Daylight Dies, but he's too beaten down to continue!
Several moments tick by as the referee checks on the downed Lissie and Nightingale. He seems to be gauging whether to start a count, when Nightingale slowly starts dragging himself to the outstretched hands of Adrian and Downfall. Likewise, Lissie makes her way over to Ash and Carter. Nightingale lifts his hand up, and the crowd are booing at Nightingale doing fucking anything, because man people should hate this guy, right?
Nightingale makes one last lunge and takes in Adrian as Lissie tags in Ash to a roar from the crowd. Adrian storms across the ring and levels Ash with a clothesline before Lissie is back to her feet but is soon back down courtesy of a Adrian clothesline of her own! Carter charges towards the MS-13 thug, and is met with a big boot to the face. Adrian turns, catching Ash as she goes for a leaping lariat and turns it into a backbreaker!
Billy: Shitfire, where did this guy learn these moves??
Ash rolls away as Lissie goes for a chop block from behind as Carter hits a running clothesline but Adrian is able to duck the shot from Mister All-In... and as Lissie slides in, he drives a boot hard into the back of the Blackheart. Carter goes to tackle Adrian to the mat but he is intercepted by Downfall who tackles the white knight of Philidor to the outside and the pair get into a wild brawl to the delight of the crowd!
Chris Avery: This is breaking down!!
Billy: I think Downfall wants some payback for that there triple threat!!
As Downfall is busy dropping right hands to Carter on the outside, Ash has recovered and is on her feet as Adrian beckons him on but as Adrian lunges forwards, Lissie is holding onto one of his trunk legs. Adrian tries to shake her off and as he’s distracted, Ash capitalises and boots the MS-13 thug in the mid-section and goes to lock him in the Icaruswing, but Adrian has it scouted, throwing her over his shoulder.
It's not clear what move Adrian is about to hit when he picks Ash up, perhaps a powerbomb of some sort lacking a roster page... and just as he lifts Ash up, she pounds on his head, repeatedly, until he drops her. Ash comes down behind Adrian, shoving him in to Lissie, who gives him a roundhouse kick from the apron. Adrian stumbles into an arm wrench, turned into a mousetrap cradle from Ash! On the outside, Downfall floors Carter with a flash superkick.
Chris Avery: Beast Kick on the outside! Rat Trap on the inside!
The referee: One...
Two...
Three - Downfall pulls Ash's foot, yanking her off the pin!
Downfall gets in the ring, swarming Ash with aggressive strikes. The referee tries to pull Downfall off. Meanwhile, James Nightingale is on the outside, brawling with Lissie Hope. The referee gets in Downfall's path, blocking him from attacking Blake. Downfall lunges for Ash but a pair of arms wrap around his waist and a returning Carter drives him to the mat with a German suplex as the referee tries to regain control of this match. Downfall rolls to the outside. Meanwhile, Adrian is pulling himself up.
Adrian is up on his feet and Ash knees him in the back causing him to fly forward as Lissie and Ash make a quick tag!
Adrian turns around and Lissie kicks him in the gut and hits the pedigree!
Billy: CROWN OF THORNS!!
Ash stomps on Nightingale as he tries to slide in and Shaw and Downfall keep brawling on the outside!
One!
Two!
Three!!
DING DING DING!
Billy: Philidor Holdings is victorious again!!
Nightingale grabs Downfall as Shaw rolls into the ring to celebrate with his stablemates.
Nightingale and Downfall roll Adrian out of the ring as Shaw, Lissie and Ash continue to celebrate in the middle of the ring as Ash is handed her World Championship.
Billy: Ash is on her way to Evolution main event, she'll be facing the winner of Havoc!
Chris Avery: Could be Carter Shaw, could be Lissie Hope! These two are on a tear!
Billy: I'm sure they have plans in place, Chris! Don't even!
Philidor Holdings pose into the camera as we fade to a commercial.