Team Work had been going for a month and a half solid by now. Sometimes Stephanie's not sure what she's gotten herself into, and sometimes she thinks it's the best thing she's ever done in her entire career. She sighs and taps her fingers against her arm, examining the list of matches scheduled for the night. Smiling slightly, she turns and leaves the hallway to head for her office to oversee how things go.
The first match of the night is Jey Uso vs Rhett Titus. Jey is fast, of course, flying all around the ring and Rhett too, but he holds his ground, waits for an opportunity and, when it comes, rolls through one of Jey's dives, still holding onto him tightly enough to swing them into a suplex slam, which grants him the three count. He smirks and stares out at the crowd as some cheer and others boo, Rhett just relieved to have a role in this race now. The thought of being able to challenge for any belt in any company, well... it's amazing to even consider. Unprecendented, really.
Following, Hanson defeats Curtis Axel, and Alberto Del Rio, still feeling the affects of the roller coaster his week's been, handles Kenny King quickly, his lingering anger and humilation making it a bit easier. Jimmy Uso doesn't continue his brother's bad luck, in fact he defeats Eric Young pretty easily as the referee is more watchful than usual, ensuring no shenanigans goes on. Rowe doesn't let his tag team down by following in Hanson's footsteps and defeating Tigre Uno by targetting his bad arm most of the match.
The next match is Jeff Hardy vs Heath Slater and, although Heath initially gets some offense in, regaining confidence slowly and steadily thanks to the formation of the Social Outcasts, it's not enough to hold Jeff down. The enigma quickly fights through his lingering leg issues from his accident the year prior, and hits the twist of fate, followed by a whisper in the wind, to put Heath away. Jeff is still limping slightly on his leg but he stays in the ring, holding a hand out towards Heath and, as Heath stares up at him suspiciously before gripping it, Jeff pulls him up and they stare at each other. The audience buzzes until mutual respect shows, Jeff shaking Heath's hand and nodding at him before hobbling out of the ring and up the ramp, Heath watching him go before glancing around the crowd.
A triple threat match comes up next, with Tesuya Naito vs Bubba Dudley vs Kalisto. It is clear the luchador is still reeling from becoming US champion, just to lose it three days later, but he focuses as well as he can, trying to counteract Naito's speed and highflying risks with some of his own just to get caught by Naito's corkscrew moonsault. Either way, it doesn't matter in the end as Bubbla catches Naito while Kalisto is recovering and hits the Bubba bomb, ridding Naito of all of the oxygen in his body as well before pinning him.
A handicap match coming up next sees the WWE guys repaying the loss to NJPW as Titus O'Neil and Jack Swagger fail to work together long enough to keep Bad Luck Fale down, the large enforcer of the Bullet Club refusing to be kept down and ultimately pinning Swagger after his patented throwing crucifix powerbomb. The Wolves follow this up with two wins in a row as Eddie Edwards defeats Dean Ambrose and Davey Richards makes fast work of Adam Rose.
The next match is easily one of the most buzzed about as The Boys make their way out, holding their fans in front of Dalton as he makes his entrance, waving them eagerly to keep him cool as he approaches the ring. He stands patiently as the boys help him to shed the sparkling ensemble that he always wears before a match, then doing his peacock strut before his opponent's music hits and the boys leave the ring quickly, still fanning towards him compulsively. Dalton stands there, eyes sharp and stance unimpressed as Kurt Angle approaches the ring, this being yet another stop on his farewell tour before he takes a much deserved break from wrestling.
They eye each other for a minute, Angle's eyes finding the boys on the outside before Dalton steps forward protectively, clearly still on the defensive after losing the boys to Silas Young for so very long. But Angle meets him with an outstretched hand and Dalton frowns, staring at him. Finally, his respect for the Olympic hero wins out and he takes Angle's hand, shaking it with little to no of his usual theatrics. The match then begins in earnest, punches and grapples turning into a rough headbutt before Dalton hooks his arms around Angle's midsection and suplexes him, wanting to prove that his suplexing game is tighter than even Kurt frickin' Angle's. Except that Kurt gives as good as he gets, catching Dalton in a release suplex, then a belly to belly suplex, but it's when he tries to go for a bridging suplex into a pin, Dalton plants his feet and reverses.
The boys on the outside leap in happiness when Dalton deadlifts Angle into a suplex of his own, rattling the ring with the force of it and pinning Angle to the mat so abruptly that everyone is surprised, including Angle himself. The two men stare at each other from where they'd ended up after the match, Dalton breathing in deeply as Angle finds his feet, tilting his head as he takes in the man he'd just lost to. Ever the professional, however, Kurt reaches out and takes Dalton's hand in another warm, respectful shake. "Congratulations," he says simply before letting go and rolling out of the ring to let Dalton have a moment with his boys to celebrate.
Once the ring is clear, the NJPW competitors get a chance to prove themselves and do so quite well as Ibushi defeats D-Von Dudley and Yano eaks out a not-very-clean victory against Mark Henry, who looks pissed off but unable to do anything about it afterwards. Another triple threat occurs, during which Stardust walks away victorious against Bo Dallas and Neville, using their animosity towards each other against them.
The main event is a tag match, with Becky Lynch and Alicia Fox facing off against Awesome Kong and Jade. The two WWE divas examine each other with quiet disdain in their dark eyes, but finally they clap hands in a quiet resolve to fight as hard as possible to get through this match. Kong is tough, of course she is... she's large and strong and seems to enjoy batting both women around while Jade sits back and laughs at it all, but the tide slowly turns when Jade, certain in the other two losing easily at this point, and Alicia grabs Jade by the hair and slings her face first into the mat. Becky then enters the ring and they attack Kong with Jade, who seems so rattled by the move that she fails to dodge the move, and before long they simply dropkick Jade into Kong, sending her off of the apron entirely. From there, it's not hard to defeat Jade as Alicia hits a scissors kick on her and Becky, who is legal on their team, traps her in the disarmer and pulls back, gritting her teeth and digging her feet into the mat for purchase, until Jade taps, screaming desperately.
As they stumble up the ramp, Alicia mocks Kong and Jade by making an L on her forehead with her fingers, laughing enthusiastically as Becky gets to her feet. They both freeze and stare at each other before Alicia shrugs and holds a hand out. Becky briskly shakes before rolling out of the ring, this temporary alliance done and over with, to return to normal by the next wrestling event. Which is just fine for both of them.