•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• PRE MAIN EVENT Ashley Ricci (C) vs Dean Creed Stipulation: Legacy Championship Result: The pre main event saw old rivals clash again as Ashley Ricci defended her Legacy championship against Dean Creed. With a target on her back, Ashley must've felt like watching her back. However she still remained the woman she always has been, a woman with confidence. Creed has always been the polar opposite to Ashley Ricci, especially with how they see championships. The One Man Army saw this as a path to greatness , especially after his fall from the very top has never seen him fully recover. His aggression here is for all to see, he attacks Ashley like a man possessed. An Inverted DDT it hit, followed by a near fall. A Fisherman's Suplex is hit, with a near fall. It went on like that for the first few minutes into Creed just decided to wear the Rebel down with a headlock. He's kept on top as that's the smart way of attacking the champion. We all saw what she is capable of in the past with big victories over Creed himself, Pierce Kingsley and even recently Raine. It's in her locker. Creed knew her better than most, it's why he didn't give her an inch, at least early on. The power house part of him came into play as he starts working on her back, hitting a couple suplexes, a couple of backbreakers and a good sideslam for good measure. His hat trick of atomic drops also hurt the spine as he wasn't planning on letting Ashley do him over. The title has now become his obsession. However this is Ashley Ricci, the mother fucking Rebel. She got a way into the match when a sitout powerbomb attempt is countered into a flush DDT. It's followed up by a senton. Yeah she's light but it's never fun to have that amount fo weight falling on you at high speed and at a decent height. A couple elbow drops after weren't so great either, forcing Creed to roll himself out the ring for his own health. Creed is pissed off by this and Ashley is telling him to get back into the ring. While this happened all of a sudden the lights went off, which is never a good thing. When the lights go on the referee is down and Raine is now in the ring. She stares right at Ashley and has a baton in hand. The Rebel didn't react quickly enough and ends up being hit with the baton. Raine hits her several times with it across the back as she looks to cause her all kinds of pain. She went to hit it right over her head, only for Ashley to grab it then fight back against the woman she took the title from. Seeing Ashley getting the better of her, despite the lights tricks. Raine is thrown out the ring just as the referee starts to recover from what just happened, likely a baton to the back of the head. Ashley seemed happy about fighting off Raine, only she made the mistake of turning her focus off of Creed. The One Man Army gets into the ring, rolls up Ashley and grabs her shorts to cheat. The referee focuses on Ashley's shoulders and not the fact Creed is exposing her ass through cheating. The Rebel struggled and the referee counted down her shoulders, Creed has taken the title off of her already! The Rebel sits up after that as Creed rolls out the ring and grabs the Legacy title. He lifts it up above his head as Ashley just shook her head while slight amused that he would resort to that to win the title. Didn't matter to the Legendary Creed as he has a NEW title in a brand new year. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• SEGMENT Outcome: The new Legacy champion is confronted by the Justice Bringers, who congratulate him on also having a Winter wedding. The rumours have been swirling for a while on who his bride is, yet he dismissed their congratulations as he wanted to know what they wanted. Parker offered him a place in the group, now he has a title. He felt they could work together and bring in a new era to TXW in 2019. Just because they fought against each other at Apocalpyse. Creed laughed off the offer, he then directed his attention at Raine, challenging her to face him on the next Dark Oasis , just so he can wipe her out the Legacy title picture. The Justice Bringers don't like being told no and would've likely started a fight had Parker nto talked Raine out of it. At least the title is now off Ashley. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• MAIN EVENT Pierce Kingsley vs Johnny Mercer Stipulation: Non Title Result: Mercer had his big moment in the main event as he battled it out with Pierce Kingsley. Big words have been spoken prior to this by the Legend of Tomorrow. What were those words? Well he said if had taken on Pierce at Apocalypse, he would've won, not lost like Lauren did. Now he has a chance to prove it. The last time these two men met, it was in the KOTR tournament. Back then Mercer was very different and it was actually the night he snaped. After losing in a straight forward lumberjack match, Mercer attacked one of he lumberjacks to turn his back on the fans for the first time in a long time. He then went on to dump Zoey which was something no one ever saw coming. Later he would join the Justice Bringers and here we are. His loss to Lauren Li is seen as his only blip since joining them. We do see a very different approach as he took his time and didn't attack like a mad man. He let Pierce get in the first couple of shots, which is something not many would even risk. Mercer was confident in taking them and it showed as he does take them then give some of his own. A jumping facebuster gets Mercer early control as he looks to slow down Pierce's winning streak. He has seemed unstoppable again in recent months, including getting back and then defending the title. What's more interesting about this is Mercer doesn't want any assistance from the Justice Bringers. It would defeat what goal he has set out to achieve here if he just called him his friends. That type of thing might've felt needed when he lost control after an elbow drop attempt from the second rope. Kingsley is quick, very quick and it's something many forget about. He also puts his body on the line as he uses the ropes as his ally and soon dove right onto Mercer to leave both of them down. Kingsley who has experience in main events like this, shows it by getting to his feet quickly. He then kept control of the man who wants to be king and soon lays him out with a superkick from nothing. Mercer gets up which is surprising, only to get hit with a wheel kick. The survivor does the same once more only to this time get kicked into he drops to his knees. He then gets insulted by Kingsley, who reminds him of their past battle. More of the same here? Sure seems that way as the Pay Up is completed with a kick to the side of the head. Kingsley felt good about this, you could sense it. He dragged Mercer up and sets him up for the Sister Abigail, the swinging STO and he connects without an issue. He looks to the ropes, makes a run as he goes for the springboard moonsault. Only suddenly Mercer gets his knees up and Kingsley lands right on them. The champion hurt himself from that as no wonder. It also saved the Justice Bringer from certain defeat. Both men took time to get back up yet when they did Mercer suddenly gets Kingsley onto his shoulders and hits the GTS aka No Mercy. He then waits to add the superkick combo since Kingsley landed right on his back after his jaw hit off the knee. The dazed champion does just that only for him to dropkick Mercer with his last bit of energy as both men are just back on their backs. They certainly countered out of those finishers at times no one expected. Mercer and Kingsley look hurt from it regardless. They continue to fight and once again the champion takes the upperhand. He punches Mercer into the corner, lifts him up and then we see a bone crunching superplex. Not that it did much to the champion, who is used to the worst kind of punishment. He gets up pretty quickly and ends up going over to the top turnbuckle. Moments later he dives off and connects with his trademark with the Six Feet Under [Swanton Bomb], his former finisher. It sure the hell took a lot out of Mercer, possibly setting him up for the end. Tasia commented that it looked over for the would be challenger. He gets forced to his feet, looking like he is moments away from the end. Only he was playing possum and punches Kingsley right in the gut, right when he doesn't expect it. Mercer then reacts quickly by getting him on his shoulders and nails him with yet another GTS. It knocked Kingsley senseless, yet he stayed on his feet. That then left him to eat a superkick right after as No Mercy is actually hit this time! Cover is made and the kick out happens, only Kingsley kicked out AFTER the three, like a split second after. It means he has lost and Mercer can't believe it. He did it, he beat Kingsley, even if it took two of his finishers. The show then ends with the Justice Bringers helping Mercer get out of there as Kingsley sat up, held his jaw and realised for one night, he has been defeated by someone who just had enough in him to win. It also means the Justice Bringers have a shot at the Legacy and World title next show. What a Dark Oasis that is going to be. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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