Top Flight | Tag Name | La Facción Ingobernable (Dralístico & RUSH) |
Dante Martin & Darius Martin | Member Names | Dralistico & RUSH |
5'11 & 6'1 | Height | 5'9 & 6'0 |
25 Wins -11 Losses | AEW Tag Record | 5 wins - 1 Loss |
Minnesota | Hometown |
Jalisco, Mexico
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The bell has sounded, it's time for the championship bout to get underway!
Both teams stand across the ring from each other, on one side the sons of La Bestia del Ring, lucha is literally in their blood. On their way here, they beat teams like Dark Order & Private Party, teams that just like Top Flight were considered underdogs who were on the verge of breaking out and winning the AEW Tag Team Championships but couldn't get there. On the other side you have Top Flight that have scratched and clawed every single step of the way getting here, beating teams nobody thought they would, beating teams like the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Bullet Club Wardogs as well as the EVPs of the company, the Young Bucks, teams that just like LFI use a mixture of mental games as well as aggression to get their own way. One of these teams will be able to call themselves the AEW Tag Champions for the first time in their career, it's just a case of which one it will be. Both sets of Brothers look up to the belts hanging up the ring, they know what they need to do. It's now time for action.
Dante immediately runs in meeting Rush as it quickly devolving into a slugfest, exchanging fists left and right. RUSH, the better striker begins to get the better of the exchange, burying a foot deep into Dante’s midsection before forcing him into one of the corners. RUSH grabs Martin into a front face lock, continuing to punch him in the gut before throwing them to the outside. Meanwhile Darius Martin and Dralistico go one on one as Darius takes Dralistico down multiple times with several arm-drags. Dralistico bounces back though, responding with a tilt-a-whirl headscissors followed up by a dropkick to the chest. As Darius gets to his feet, Dralistico smirks wryly. He and Darius would go back-and-forth once more with Dralistico rushes Darius again, only for Darius to leap up with a stunning leapfrog. As Dralístico bounces off the opposite ropes, Darius greets him with a lightning-fast dropkick of his own that sends the brother of RUSH stumbling back. Sensing an opening, Darius rushes in for a follow-up, but Dralístico spins around and nails Darius with a stiff snap kick to the midsection, halting his momentum.
With Darius momentarily winded, Dralístico seizes the moment, hooking him for a snap suplex. But Darius counters mid-lift, flipping over Dralístico’s back and landing behind him. In one fluid motion, Darius hits the ropes and explodes with a beautiful spanish fly planting Dralístico hard into the canvas. Meanwhile RUSH on the outside goes to bring the first of the many ladders propped up all around the ring into the match. Grabbing the ladder up in both hands, waiting for Dante to get to his feet and rams the point of it straight into the opponent’s torso that sends him crashing down. Rush proceeds to show an impressive display of strength by lifting the ladder above his head and slams it on top of Dante! The tag wrestler grimaces as he tries to shake off the pain coursing through his body. RUSH goes back for another shot with the ladder but this time Top Flight catches Rush off guard as Darius flies out to hit RUSH with a Tope Suicida! RUSH drops the ladder as he goes down! Top Flight regroup for it's only for a small bit as just for a millisecond they forget that RUSH also has a brother who flies at them with a moonsault! Off the charts to start the match! Darius tries to get up only to be dazed by Dralisto driving a sharp forearm into Darius' face then whipping him hard into the barricade. Darius Martin crashes into the steel, but before Dralístico can capitalize, Martin uses the barricade to leap up and catch Dralístico with a hurricanrana, sending him flying into the ladder that Rush dropped!
Dralístico clutches his back in pain as Darius Martin quickly tries to capitalize, eyeing the downed ladder, picking it and sliding the ladder under the bottom rope. However before he can slide back in himself, he’s interrupted by RUSH who lays into him with repeated kicks to his opponent until Darius Martin slumps down and RUSH follows up by a running knee to the mentee of Mr Kennedy while he is seated, sending the back of Darius' head into the ring apron! The brutality on show by both teams tonight is insane. RUSH smirks as he sees Dante coming to Darius' aid, but RUSH sidesteps, catching the older brother with a stiff chop to the chest that echoes around the arena. Dante staggers as RUSH grabs him by the arm and whips him hard into the steel steps. But Dante uses his speed to leap over the steps at the last second, bouncing off the barricade and launching himself back toward RUSH with a beautiful springboard mushroom stomp! RUSH goes down but so does Dante, holding his left leg in pain. The leg still giving him issues but Dante is still able to get back into the ring.
Grabbing the ladder, he immediately sees Dralistico coming back into the ring, still holding his back. It's at this moment that Dante shoves the ladder over to fall onto Dralistico! Dralistico catches it! Dante grabs the grounded part of the ladder and picks it ups! Both men tug of war for the ladder! Dralistico pulls! Dante pulls back! Dralistco pulls! Dante pulls back! Dralistico then has a idea as he pushes with Dante in his direction, and smashes him into the turnbuckles!
Dralistico uses this opportunity to sandwich the ladder inbetween the top and middle ropes, trapping Dante! And then the real onslaught happens. Dralistico lays on the punches, Dante does his best to defend himself but it's just too much. Just as the crowd roars, Darius Martin rushes to his brother’s aid. He sprints and leaps onto the middle rope, trying to punch Dralistico away, but RUSH suddenly intercepts him with a nasty looking headbutt, sending Darius crashing hard to the floor before he can even land a blow! Now that LFI Brothers have Top Flight exactly where they want them. RUSH steps back, a smirk spreading across his face, before sprinting toward Dante and delivering his signature Bull’s Horns dropkick straight into the ladder. The ladder slams into Dante’s chest, crushing him into the turnbuckles with such force that his entire body jerks from the impact. As Dante reels in pain, Dralístico takes control. He grabs Dante's left leg, pulling it over the top rung of the ladder and wrenching it in a brutal stretch, applying intense pressure. Dante's face contorts in agony, his leg twisted unnaturally while his body remains pinned.
Seeing the opportunity to deal more punishment, Dralistico goes outside and sets up a ladder to rest on the ring apron to the barricade. Meanwhile Darius, still a bit woozy from the headbutt but determined to turn the tide, grabs a steel chair from ringside and slides back into the ring, wielding it with purpose. He swings the chair at RUSH, catching him off guard and sending him reeling into the corner with a resounding clang. RUSH crumples, stunned by the impact, giving Darius a window of opportunity as his attention turns to Dralistico. Darius runs the ropes and comes at Dralistico with another Tope Suicida but this time armed with a chair to the face of Dralistico! Darius runs back into the ring and removes the ladder holding Dante hostage, catching Dante in a hug between brothers to check if he's okay. And then Dante falls to the corner as Darius decides to put a end to this as he sets up a ladder in the middle of the ring, ready to climb it but of course, Rush quickly intervenes, grabbing Darius by the leg and attempting to pull him down but Darius kicks him away before jumping off and hitting a Step-in Flatliner! Didn't get all of it due to the unpredictability of ladders but got enough. Darius gets up and tries to climb again but this time it's Dralistico running with a chair shot to the face, using the chair that Darius used against him with a cut over his eyebrow now making an appearance and pissing him off as he lays in the blows on Darius now. Dralistico then sets Darius up in the corner with the chair perfectly timed for RUSH to come with in the Bull's Horns to completely knock Darius out.
RUSH then goes to climb the ladder now and tells Dralistico to keep the opponents down. Dante is back up however somehow and as Dralistico turns to stop him he is dropped with a nasty canadian destroyer! But again the left leg! The one that took him out for nearly a year, the one that has been ruthlessly targeted this entire tournament by madmen like PAC & Penta or Drilla & Connors, even Bucks had their own shots at the leg and it all comes back to that as RUSH is almost at the top of the ladder but out of desperation and a need to not let his family down, Dante grabs onto the bottom rung and starts to make his way up but he's not gonna get there in time! And RUSH has noticed him...and a demonic smile is plastered on his face. RUSH is there, he can get the briefcase but he stops himself and watches Dante in nearly impossible levels of pain and discomfort but he still tries to fight on! The fighting spirit of Top Flight lives on as Dante hits the ladder out of adrenaline meanwhile RUSH...beckons him on. He wants this. He wants Dante to get up there and fight him, he demands it of the Top Flight member. It's almost sadistic as Dante does indeed fight through everything and slowly climbs one rung at a time until RUSH just punches him in the jaw as soon as Dante gets into range! A solid onslaught of blows determined to knock Dante Martin back down as RUSH gets Dante with a forearm but Dante returns with a strike of his own! Rush almost falls back out of surprise but it's now time for Dante to get his punches in and he does! He punches with everything he has left! He's so close! Only RUSH to grab Dante's throat and pulls him in for a sickening headbutt! Then smashes Dante's head against the ladder! RUSH taunts him more. Almost close to laughing as the predator gets ready to kill the prey, he pulls Dantes head back to reveal the now busted nose of Dante from the ladder shot. RUSH suddenly pulls Dante in close and whispers something into Dantes ear that the microphones can't pick up, we don't know what he says but before we can theorise on what that is, RUSH hooks Dantes arm, grabbing his waist and pulls him up. The crowd go wild as RUSH suddenly hits Dante with an overhead belly to belly suplex off the ladder through the ladder bridge on the outside! The ladder cracks immediately under the pressure! Dante arches his back in agony as the fans chant “Holy shit!” over and over! Both men are out, taking each other out of the contest!
Leaving just one. Dralistico, still recovering from the Canadian Destroyer, sits in the corner, gob smacked at what just transpired at what his own brother just did. But realising that time is of the essence so Dralistico uses the ropes to pull himself up and climbs up the ladder, same side as his brother just was, Dante and RUSH have not moved, Darius is starting to stir but it's too late! Dralistico doesn't wait like his brother, he grabs the belts! LFI DOES IT! Dralistico and RUSH are the new AEW Tag Team Champions! Dralistico has both championships in his hands and holds them up for the camera in celebration as the medics rush to RUSH and Dantes side! Both teams gave it all they had but only one could get it done! Dralistico climbs down the ladder with the championships so he can see to his brother who is just making his first movements since he did the move...
An insane match to end a insane tournament and to start a new reign of new endless directions? Will Monstersauce get their revenge for Rush strangling them in the semis? Will Jericho get his revenge when he brings in the Learning Tree in a few months? Young Bucks, Acclaimed, The Kingdom, Shibata & Garcia, Bullet Club Wardogs all have logical reasons to get a shot at the gold but those are stories for a different time when i can learn how to write fast...
