THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR MELTDOWN XXX AND FALLOUT 030.
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XXXI: “IN DREAMS.”
Live from the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.
Thursday 22nd June, 2023.
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XXXI: “IN DREAMS.”
Live from the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.
Thursday 22nd June, 2023.
Whilst The Connection are no longer FWA World Tag Team Champions, Meltdown XXXI will begin as the three previous have with a tag team championship bout. The new champions, Chris Peacock and Alyster Black - collectively known as FTN - will defend their titles against Jeremy Best and “Krash”. Whilst there is a high level of doubt over whether the masked man accompanying Best is in fact Black’s former tag team partner who was abducted by Best and his cohorts some months ago, they did pick up a win in their first match together and issued a challenge for any team with a stronger bond than theirs. FTN stepped up and sweetened the deal by offering to put the titles on the line.
SECOND MATCH - 1/20
SECOND MATCH - 1/20
With Michelle von Horrowitz due to put her career on the line against Jon Snowmantashi in Mexico City af Back in Business, this could very well be Dreamer's last ever performance on Meltdown, a show that she has become synonymous with since its inception in 2021. It is also a return to singles competition after her tag team engagements alongside partner Gerald Grayson, and her opponent is Trixie Bordeaux, fresh from a hard-fought deathmatch victory against Reagan Cole in Fallout 030's main event. Trixie has no doubt impressed since her FWA debut earlier this year, but now faces a tough challenge against a two-time world champion with a point to prove.
It is no secret that these two have been pining for a Back in Business showdown, ideally in the main event of Night One, but it has been announced that Meltdown XXXI will be where the final showdown takes place. This match MUST end in a winner and ANYTHING GOES to ensure that this chapter in all of our lives comes to a conclusion.
Death Walker and XYZ have been involved in an ongoing dispute dating back since before the Carnal Contendership match and King of the Deathmatch tournament, both of which saw run-ins between these two competitors. Walker had made a point of choking XYZ out following his matches in the run-up to the tournament, and since then their rivalry has also absorbed Jason Randall, with the Wildcard's own animosity with Death Walker dating back to their feud over the FWA Television Championship. Death triumphed when he and XYZ met in the barbaric context of the KODM, but on XXXI we will see these two tie it up in a traditional wrestling match. Both men, no doubt, will need to keep an eye over the shoulder for the Wildcard, who never seems to be too far away.
The winner of Ground Zero Season Four will make his official FWA debut ahead of his encounter with Katsu at Back in Business. His opponent will be Art of Wrestling’s Juan Tothrefor, who appeared in the Carnal Contendership Match and will have very vocal support from the Mexican crowd.
Tommy Bedlam and Mike Parr's paths intersected over the past few months when they stood on opposite sides of the ring as part of a tag team contest, with Bedlam partnered with Parr's rival Bryan Baxter and 'the Prodigy' teaming with Shawn Summers, who has a history with both Mike Parr and, more recently, 'the Cowboy'. Following the victory of Baxter and Best in that one, Tommy Bedlam will now go one-on-one with Mike Parr in a match that was supposed to happen a month ago but is rescheduled for XXXI. With Mexico City looming, expect both Der Bastard and Triple B to have a vested interest in this one.
031: “JOURNEY'S END”
Live from Estadio Akron in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Saturday 24th June, 2023.
031: “JOURNEY'S END”
Live from Estadio Akron in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Saturday 24th June, 2023.
Reagan Cole suffered a tough deathmatch loss to Trixie Bordeaux as part of Fallout 030's main event, whilst the Coven also tasted defeat on that show as part of a three way tag team match that was won by dayspring/nightfall. Both will hope to gather some momentum in this last stop on the path to Back in Business, with the British Apprentice calling on his partner TYLER to face the Ravenwood sisters in this tag team contest.
Jason Randall has recently been embroiled in a rivalry with Death Walker and XYZ, that has often spilled over into violence after the bell and has resulted in the booking of a one-on-one match between the two on Meltdown XXXI. Randall, meanwhile, will face off against a Danny Toner who has set out recently to prove why he deserves a shot at the title he never lost, picking up victories against current champion Chris Peacock and weaselperson on the path to Back in Business. This momentum stuttered, though, when Toner was defeated on Fallout 030 by Lizzie Rose thanks to an intrusion by the masked attacker that had been plaguing him for some time and revealed to be Ryan Rondo, and 'the Last Draw' will be hoping to return to winning ways here ahead of a BiB weekend in Mexico City.
Lizzie Rose's psychological rollercoaster, who has included free-falls through the TORN universe and loop-de-loops around the mysterious FYOG, continues on Fallout 031 when she prepares to go one-on-one with one of her TORN sisters. It will be Princess Nova who stands across the ring from Lizzie in Guadalajara, and - given the trajectory of this relationship and our developing picture of Nova and Keres within the FWA landscape - she will doubtlessly have something up her sleeve on the last stop before Back in Business where Lizzie will be facing Keres… if Nova allows her to get there first.
After surprisingly agreeing to form a team for the upcoming Trios Battle Royale, the newly-minted ‘Undisputed Xperienx’ will make their debut as a team against The Bad Boys Boy Band. Jackson Fenix, Nate Savage and Xperienx Xtacee find themselves going up against the team who are on paper, the most in-form, with two Trios victories on the bounce, albeit against questionable opposition and by questionable means.
Jon Snowmantashi's scheduled interview time with Todd Salum on Fallout 030 was interrupted by two people: first, by MvH, who is about to compete against the kaiju in a retirement match at Back in Business, and then - perhap a little more surprisingly - by Michelle's tag team partner Gerald Grayson. The Daredevil issued the challenge for this one-on-one match, and - only a month out from Back in Business - many are questioning whether Dreamer or Cthulhu's Nephews as a whole are planning to use this last minute, unexpected singles match to create an advantage ahead of Mexico City.
Following dayspring/nightfall's victory on Fallout 030, Jon Russnow emerged onto the stage to announce that Makima Snowmantashi and Zom Gippy would again challenge for the FWA World Tag Team Championships, and they'd do so in a three-way ladder match at Back in Business. Alongside dayspring/nightfall and the as yet undecided champions in that match will be the winners of this contest, between Aka Yurei and Keiko Hirabayashi of Aka Manto and Quiet and Harry the Sane Wizard of Cthulhu's Nephews. Although unsuccessful on 030, Aka Manto have impressed in their performances on FWA television as of late, whilst Harry and Quiet will be relishing the idea of ending FTN's reign so soon after it began.
'The Exile' Cyrus Truth slumped to a surprising defeat on Fallout 030 to Death Walker, halting his momentum as he prepares to challenge Chris Peacock at Back in Business for the FWA World Tag Team Championship. The four-time former champion and Carnal Contendership winner will hope to correct his form here on the go-home show, but finds himself up against a recently rejuvenated Katsu in Guadalajara, who is preparing for her own Mexico City show-down against El Vengador. Expect the masked man, or perhaps the world champion himself, to be keeping a close eye on this one…
Chris Peacock has taken a difficult path to Back in Business, testing himself against some of the FWA's very best in the weeks since his successful defense at the Grand March. A close loss to Danny Toner was followed by wins against double champion Shawn Summers and - alongside Alyster Black - the Connection, dethroning the FWA World Tag Team Champions in the process. Now, on this last stop before Mexico City, he takes on the man who finished second behind his Back in Business opponent in the Carnal Contendership in weaselperson, who - still without a date for the big weekend but with an apparently keen eye on Peacock’s partner - will feel he has a lot to prove and a big opportunity to do so when he gets into the ring with the champion especially after Peacock laid them out on Meltdown XXX.
The promo deadlines for both shows are:
Sunday 18th June, 2023 at 23:59 Pacific Time.
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 03:00(am) Eastern.
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 08:00(am) UK.
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 10:00(am) Turkey.
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 17:00 Melbourne.
There will be no extensions. Good luckl!
The promo deadlines for both shows are:
Sunday 18th June, 2023 at 23:59 Pacific Time.
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 03:00(am) Eastern.
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 08:00(am) UK.
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 10:00(am) Turkey.
Monday 19th June, 2023 at 17:00 Melbourne.
There will be no extensions. Good luckl!
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