8/22/21
(After the opening sequence for NXT Takeover 36)
Ding, ding, ding.
Alicia: The following contest is a gauntlet eliminator, and is for the WWE 24/7 championship. In this match, 2 competitors will start, at 2 minute intervals a new superstar will enter the ring. Elimination can only occur by pinfall or submission inside the ring, this will continue until every combatant has entered the ring. The last one standing will be declared the winner, and your 24/7 champion!
(Hyperdrive - Yugioh 5D's opening theme)
As the best Yugioh theme played, Crow rode out on his duel runner. He did a few spins on the giant Summerslam stage before he drove the bike down the ramp, pulling up to the side of the ring.
Alicia: Introducing the individual who drew Number 1, from New Domino City... he is the current WW 24/7 champion... CROW HOGAN!
Crow removed his helmet before waving to the live crowd, high fiving some of the kids he looked after who were all sitting in the front row.
"Good luck Crow!"
"Kick some butt out there Crow!"
"Show em what you got!"
Crow chuckled, "Oh I will." he then slid in the ring. Just as the next theme played, and out comes a 5ft 9 martial artist with bushy brown hair and bushier eyebrows, wearing a red headband and a white karate gi. Fans of fighting games knew him by one name.
Alicia: Next, the individual who drew number 2... from Japan, weighing in at 150lbs... RYU!
The crowd applauded him as he walked down the the ramp and stepped through the ropes, he eyed Crow with a determined look before getting into a fighting stance. Crow handed ref Tom Castor the title, which he held up before handing it to one of the crewmates before ringing the bell.
Ding, ding, ding.
Ryu and Crow locked up, the fighter getting an early advantage before taking Crow down into a headlock. Crow was able to get them back up and toss Ryu off of him, the wandering warrior bounced off the ropes and shoulder tackled Crow down.
Crow then did the duck and leapfrog routine before catching Ryu with a dropkick, Crow then tried to go for the Blackwing Driver but Ryu flipped him off, with Crow landing on his feet and getting hit with a high back kick that knocked Crow into the south ropes.
Ryu then clotheslined Crow over the ropes, sending him down to the mat. Ryu then got out of the ring and landed a flurry of shots to Crow's midsection before whipping Crow to the southwest post, which Crow ran up and hit Ryu with a Whisper in the Wind ala Jeff Hardy on Ryu.
The two spent a good 15 seconds trying to pull themselves up before Crow tossed Ryu in the ring, he then pulled himself up on the apron before hitting Ryu with a Springboard Tornado DDT. Crow then goes for the first cover of the match.
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Ryu kicks out.
Crow groaned before mounting Ryu and punching him, but then Ryu bridges out from under him and nails a roundhouse kick to Hogan. He then wraps his arms around Crow and gives him a German suplex with a bridge.
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Crow kicks out.
Ryu then goes for high kick but Crow ducks and goes for a Poisonrana but Ryu keeps catches him before slamming him with an inverted Alabama slam. Ryu then goes for a helicopter kick but Crow ducks underneath him before driving Ryu into the corner before tossing him with a belly to belly suplex.
During this moment the countdown clock showed 5 seconds left.
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BRRRRR
Out from the stage came a tiny demon imp lady, with black hair and clothes, with red skin and a long devil tail with a white tip, her other demon features were a pair of black horns with thin white stripes.
Entrant 3: Millie (Helluva Boss)
Millie then got on the apron and springboard dropkicked them both to the mat, she then kipped up and gave numerous corner clotheslines to Ryu and Crow, she then nailed a running bulldog to Crow while catching Ryu with a clothesline. Millie then tossed Crow out of the ring and turned her attention to Ryu.
As she approached him Ryu caught her with a shoryuken, launching her in the air before catching her with a huge side kick that launched her into the ropes. After which he caught her with a scoop slam. Ryu hooks the leg.
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Millie pops the shoulder up.
Ryu then quickly locks in a triangle choke, his legs squeezing the life out of Millie before the farm raised assassin lifted Ryu up and powerbombed him to break the hold. She then backed up and nailed Ryu with a shining wizard, followed up with a standing moonsault. Millie hooks the leg.
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Ryu kicks out.
"Sh$t!" she cursed before lifting up Ryu a going for a suplex, but he counters with a neckbreaker. Ryu then catches a top rope move from Crow with a jumping knee. Ryu then struck the champion with a brainbuster, he got into the cover.
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Crow kicks out.
Ryu then turned to Millie and went for a kick, but she blocked it and nailed a series of forearms to the martial artist as the countdown was finishing up.
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BRRRRRE
The buzzer went off as Millie whipped Ryu into the northeast corner and hitting a corner forearm. Just then the theme for the new group Diamond Mine played as Rodrick Strong came out, accompanied by Malcom Bivens and Haichmen.
Entrant 4: Rodrick Strong
Strong slid into the ring and hit Millie with a jumping knee strike that knocks her down, she was then lifted up into a belly to back suplex position before being dropped into a backbreaker, he then caught a running dropkick by Crow with a backbreaker.
He then catches Ryu with a fireman's carry before dropping him across his knee with a backbreaker.
Rodrick then sets Millie up for End of Heartache, but Millie count with a small package.
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Rodrick and his managers looked shocked at the quick elimination of their client.
Alicia: Rodrick Strong has been eliminated.
Roddy blew up in anger before going to attack Millie who ducks before hitting him with an enziguri, she then clotheslined him out of the ring. Malcom exploded profanities as Diamond Mine left the arena.
Crow then caught Millie with a schoolboy cover.
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Millie kicked out and caught Crow with an Oklahoma roll.
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Crow kicks out.
Crow then ducks a clothesline by Millie and caught her with a pele kick. Knocking her into a seated position before Crow caught her with a soccer style kick to her chest before he dropped an elbow. Crow then hooks the leg.
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Millie kicks out.
Crow growled before he picked up Millie and suplexed her. He then caught a kick from Ryu which he pushed off but Ryu caught him with a spinning back kick to his face, sending the duelist into the ropes. Ryo goes for a big boot, but Crow ducks and chop blocks Ryu. Ryu clutched his leg as Crow catches Millie with a michinoku driver.
Crow hooks a leg.
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Millie pops the shoulder up.
Crow then kicks Ryu in the leg, knocking him down before DDTing him into the mat. Crow then goes up to the top rope and leaps off for a moonsault, but Ryu rolls out of the way leaving Crow to crash and burn as the martial artist pulls himself into the corner.
Millie then came in with a cannonball to Ryu as the timer showed 5 more seconds till entrant number 5.
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BRRRREEEE
Just then Akira Tazowa appeared in a puff of smoke as Millie stood up, but before he can do whatever ninja trick Vince wants him to do Millie clocks him with a heavy forearm. Millie then hooked Akira up and dropped him with a vicious Finn Balor 1916 style DDT. Millie hooks the leg.
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Alicia: Akira Tazowa has been eliminated.
The following 115 seconds was a bunch of roll ups and attacks on Ryu's leg, nothing of significance till the last entrant came out after all three of them superkicked each other down.
BRREEE
Just then the fans exploded when Battle Cry blared out, the NXT crowd, commentators, and roster exploded when out of a wall of smoke came...
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Entrant 6:... Kenny Omega.
The current AEW Champion Kenny Omega came out, along with the other members of the Elite. The Young Bucks, the Good Brothers, and Don Callis. Kenny handed his title to Don before running to the ring, stepping through the ropes and hitting a V Trigger knee strike to Millie.
Kenny then hit Crow with a V Trigger to him, he then landed a third V Trigger to Ryu. Kenny then lifted Ryu up and hit a brainbuster to Ryu. Omega then kicked Crow hard into the ribs out of the ring, he then lifted up Millie into an electric chair position, before he transitioned her for the One Winged Angel.
But then she counters with a DDT, Kenny landing on his head as he flips into the corner. Millie then comes in with a corner knee strike before snapmaring him out of the corner and hitting him with a middle rope uppercut to the back of the head.
Millie then lifts up Omega and hits an inverted 1916 DDT. She then hooks the leg.
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Just then she was pulled out of the ring by Doc Gallows, who then tossed her into the ring post before getting tossed into the barricade. Gallows and Anderson then dropped her with the Magic Killer before Ryu came in with a running senton to the good brothers.
Ryu then ducked a superkick by Nick Jackson, and avoided another superkick by Matt Jackson that hit Nick. Ryu then nailed Matt with a helicopter kick before judo throwing him to the mat below. Ryu then got into the ring, avoiding another V Trigger and hitting Kenny Omega with a sleeper suplex.
Don Callis got on the ropes, only to get hit with a hadoken that sent him flying by Ryu.
Ryu then turned his attention to Kenny and caught a V Trigger before slamming Kenny's head into his knee repeatedly, Ryu then dropped him with a Fisherman Brainbuster. Ryu then locks in an armbar, pulling Omega's arm as Kenny cries out.
Ryu kept the arm extended as he increased the pressure of the armbar.
Just then Nick Jackson broke up the submission with a springboard 450, as Kenny held his arm in pain Nick rained shots on Ryu as Matt pulled himself into the ring. Matt and Nick each grabbed an arm of Ryu and stood on opposing sides of Ryu before kneeing in both the face and back of the head, aka the BTE Trigger.
Kenny then pulled himself onto Ryu for the cover.
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Alicia: Ryu has been eliminated.
After Ryu was screwed out of the title, Crow came in and hit Nick with a springboard bulldog from behind. Crow then caught Matt with a flapjack into the corner before tossing him back with a German suplex.
Crow then approached Kenny, but dodged a low blow before driving Kenny down with an inverted DDT. He then caught Doc with a kick as he tried to get in the ring before slamming Karl Anderson into the post knocking him down.
Crow then saw Don Callis limping to the ring, he then ran and leaped off the ropes and hit him with a tornado DDT onto the ramp. As Crow was coming back to the ring, he was caught by Millie and was hit with a Spanish Fly from the ramp and to the mat covered floor.
Millie then ducked a clothesline from Doc Gallows before dropkicking Anderson and flipping into a pele kick to Doc, Millie then tossed Karl into the time keeper area before spearing Gallows into the opposite barricade. Millie then got onto the south apron and springs off.
But Nick pushes Kenny out of the way and catches Millie with double superkicks, they then hit her with a BTE Trigger. Matt then lifts up Millie into a Tombstone position as Nick got on the apron, just as he was about to leap off Millie's husband Moxxie came in and pulled him off the apron. The Elite member and demon assassin then exchanged shots as Millie squirmed out of Matt's hold.
Millie then kicked Matt right below the belt sending him to his knees clutching his family jewels before Millie tossed him out of the ring, just then Kenny snuck up on her and lifted her up and dropped her with a One Winged Angel. Kenny with the cover.
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Alicia: Millie has been eliminated.
Kenny pushed her away as Karl tossed Crow into the ring, Kenny smirked as he lifted Crow up to add one more title to his collection, but before he can complete the move Crow countered into a Victory Roll cover.
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Crow got up and slid out of the ring and grabbed his title as he ran off before Kenny can figure out what happened.
DING, DING, DING!
Alicia: Here's your winner and still the WWE 24/7 champion... CROW HOGAN!
Crow then drove away on his duel runner as the members of the Elite ran after him.
Title changes: none.