(fantasy) UWA Winter Warfare, 12/30

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From the Barclays Center in Brooklyn:

Pre-show:

Tony Khan came out with the Ring of Honor tag titles. The Devil's Henchmen (The Kingdom?) won the titles Wednesday, but needed to cheat to do so, so the decision is reversed, and the titles are now vacant. Next week, on Champions Challenge, new champions will be crowned. The Kingdom will be in the match, along with Top Flight, Best Friends, the Workhorsemen, and the Varsity Athletes (Josh Woods & Tony Nese) in a 5 team double elimination scramble.

Pre-show match 1: Nathan Frazer def. Myles Borne at 11:00 with the Phoenix Splash. Good bounce-back for Frazer. Charlie Dempsey is in Japan, and Drew Gulak was in the coach's box.

Winter Warfare begins with the women's double elimination scramble. Nia Jax defends vs. Roxanne Perez, Tiffany Stratton, Fallon Henley, Blair Davenport, Lola Vice, & Kelani Jordan.

1. 1st fall: Stratton pinned Jordan after the prettiest moonsault ever at 5:30.
2nd fall: Jax eliminated Jordan with the A-Nia-Lator (Rumpshaker) at 7:55.
3rd fall: Vice pinned Henley after a spin kick at 15:33.
4th fall: Henley returned the favor and hit the shining wizard to pin Vice at 17:31.
5th fall: Perez eliminated Vice with PopRox at 22:40.
6th fall: Davenport pinned Henley to eliminate her with an avalanche falcon arrow at 27:55.
7th fall: Stratton pinned Davenport with the PME at 28:30.
8th fall: Davenport hit a knee strike on Perez at 31:41.
9th fall: Davenport, seeing Stratton try to repeat what she did earlier, hit a mid-air knee strike to pin Stratton at 34:30.
10th fall: Perez eliminated Stratton with PopRox at 36:10.
11th fall: Perez pinned Jax after the champion missed a top rope splash at 39:20.
12th fall: Davenport eliminated Jax with a running knee strike at 43:11.
13th fall: Perez was declared the winner via DQ when Izzy Dame came out and use hairspray on her to blind Perez so Davenport could hit the falcon arrow, but ref Charles Robinson caught the infraction. With Jax eliminated, Davenport & Perez will meet next week to determine the champion. Dame stays in the arena, as she has the next match.....

2. Dark Angel (Katana Chance) squashed Dame in 1:41 with Falling Darkness, then carried her prey to the back.

3. Non-title: Orange Cassidy def. Javier Bernal at 3:44 with the Orange (Superman) Punch. Squash #2.

4. UWA tag titles: The Creed Brothers def. The Kingdom in 4:30. Mike Bennett was pinned after BrutusBall. The presumptive ROH champions were given no offense, punishment for their alleged actions on Wednesday.

5. Jack Hunter (w/Katana Chance) def. Christian Cage in a cage match in 13:45. Killswitch (formerly Luchasaurus) & Nick Wayne came out to target Katana, but Jack, predictably, had some backup in the form of Bobby Lashley & the Street Profits, who had the next match. The Profits hit the Revelation (corkscrew 3D) on Wayne, while Lashley speared Killswitch halfway to Long Island. Stunned, Cage walked right into the path of the Last Ride, and was pinned.

Post-match, the cage was raised, and Chance gave her hero a kiss.

6. Lashley & the Profits def. Roderick Strong and the Varsity Athletes in 11:30. Strong was pinned after the Revelation.

7. UWA World title: Samoa Joe defends vs. EC3, Carmelo Hayes, Trick Williams, Bron Breakker, Ilja Dragunov, and Eddie Kingston.

1st fall: Hayes pinned EC3 after Nothin' But Net at 11:30.
2nd fall: Breakker pinned Hayes after a spear at 11:55.
3rd fall: Kingston pinned Williams after a spinning backfist at 12:51.
4th fall: Breakker pinned Kingston with the spear at 13:05.
5th fall: Dragunov pinned Breakker after Torpedo Moskau at 15:10.
6th fall: Hayes eliminated Breakker with Nothin' But Net at 15:35.
7th fall: Kingston eliminated Hayes with a powerbomb at 16:55.
8th fall: Joe eliminated EC3 with the Coquina Clutch at 19:30.
9th fall: Dragunov eliminated Kingston with a top rope H-Bomb at 22:40.
10th fall: Joe eliminated Williams with the Muscle Buster at 26:10.
11th fall: Dragunov pinned Joe with Torpedo Moskau at 31:40.
12th fall: Joe retains with the Muscle Buster at 34:10. Dragunov sold it like he'd reinjured his neck.

Josh Briggs was a late scratch, replaced by Kingston, as he will be granted a rematch for the NXT Heritage Cup at the New Year's Evil taping on 1/2, to air 1/6 on UWA TV only.

Shawn Michaels is out to make this announcement, stating that if Noam Dar can win on his own, he'll be reinstated to the UWA. However, if any Meta-Four member interferes, Dar will be immediately DQd.

The lights went out. When they came back on, Dark Angel, with three surrogates (Chance, Perez, Stephanie McMahon, & Thea Hail) appeared, one in each corner. The group leader (Stephanie) did all the talking, via electronic masking, and told HBK that Dar should not be Heritage Cup champion at all. If he cheats again, the UWA will award Briggs a brand new title, the Regency Cup (pictured on the jumbotron). HBK has coddled Dar for too long, and it needs to end. In the rematch, either Dar goes it alone as Briggs will, or pick one member of Meta-Four, as Briggs may have a corner person assigned, to even the field.

Just to keep HBK guessing, Stephanie appears on the jumbotron with Triple H & Jack Hunter. Dar is an insult to every man that has held the Heritage Cup, and HBK isn't helping.

UWA 2023 awards will be announced next week.