HAW Lockup started with a promo shot of earlier in the day on the arena concourse featuring Sally Larkin, and a voiceover from Eve Solace:
Eve Solace: Welcome to HAW Lockup from Minneapolis, Minnesota! What you are seeing is behind the scenes footage from this afternoon’s commercial video shoot with Sally Larkin.
Sally Larkin: ….And if you buy your tickets now, you’ll see me defeat Penny “The Hammer” Downs! And it all happens at HAW’s Summit of Success!
Sally held the title up, when from the side, Penny Downs attacked her. Penny grabbed a camera and dropped it onto Sally’s stomach, then took a boom mic and swung it down onto her. Still holding the boom mic, Downs used it as a hook to scoop up the fallen World Title. She brought it closer to her face, but didn’t touch it, just stared at it as if in a trance.
Penny Downs: Soon. Soon I’ll have this back. It will belong to me again. It will be my property, and not in the hands of some thief!
Penny seemed to snap out of it. She flung the title onto Sally and walked away.
Back live in the arena, The Stable’s music started up and the three Stable members made their way to the ring.
Eve Solace: We’re about to have a big match here, Hazel Glover against the National Champion “The Marauder” Sophie Lester, but Athena, what do you make of Penny Down’s attack?
Athena: I think obsessive is the correct word, she really wants this title. And another attack on Sally Larkin, one week away from Summit of Success? She may not show up, but she still has to be feeling the effects of that match against Cate Stiles. This can all add up for The Hammer.
Hazel Glover got a pep talk from Zoey Chambers and Jenna Ingram, and Sophie Lester came out next. This warm up match for the champ was on, and Hazel looked like her usual nervous self, and seemed timid in her attacks on Lester. The Marauder eventually found an opening on Glover’s hesitation, took control, and delivered a Spinebuster to pick up the win in 8:13.
Lester gave a brief celebration, but Zoey came in to check on Hazel, while Jenna went face to face with Lester. Sophie Lester looked annoyed at this and gave Jenna a light elbow to shove her out of the way. Ingram grabbed Lester’s arm, pulling her back towards her, and went face to face again, now inches apart. Ingram gave Lester a hard push, knocking her out of the ring and through the ropes. Sophie Lester slammed her fist on the apron in anger and looked ready to get back in, hopping up onto the side of the ring, before seeing Zoey and Hazel. Counting the numbers, Lester backed off, retreating to the back.
Athena: Sophie Lester, tough as they come, but I think she knows there’s a chance this could have turned into a three on one.
Eve Solace: I have to agree. She knows next week, it’s just going to be one on one.
Backstage, announcer Juliet Sims stood between the two tag teams, Kherti Bhakta and Bethany Watts the tag team champions, and The Solo Girls Rachel and Crystal Cyclone.
Juliet Sims: We are one week away from a tag title match. Four great competitors are flanking me. I’ll start first with Crystal and Rachel. Do you think you can beat these two?
Crystal Cyclone: Do we think? We know we can. We can beat them tonight. We can beat them next week. We can beat them anytime. We won these titles once before, we’re going to do it again.
Bethany Watts: You know, you two have a lot of confidence. You did win these before, but it’s just a fact, you’ve done nothing since. While you go around calling Kherti and myself flukes, you two are nothing but one hit wonders from yesteryear.
Rachel: The fact is, you haven’t had one defense yet. You don’t know what it’s like to truly be a team. We’ve been honing our skills for years.
Kherti Bhakta: What a waste of prime years of your career then.
Both sides looked upset, but Juliet Sims held her arm out.
Juliet Sims: Ladies, no fighting till next week! Let’s just keep it civil.
Kherti Bhakta: Let’s do that. We’ll see you two in the ring.
Back in the arena, Alicia McCarthy and Moonlight walked down to the ring, warming up but also grabbing a microphone.
Alicia McCarthy: Last week, the Revellers called us out for a match, but we had prior engagements and could not attend the show. So this week, we challenge the Revellers!
Moonlight: That’s right, if they had any guts, they’d come out right now and face us!
Eve Solace: Well these fans in Minneapolis might be surprised, because you and I know that the Revellers are not their scheduled opponent.
At that point, the music of the Darzi’s started to play, and out came VCW’s Dina Dazi, Nadine Reza-Darzi, and Nazir Darzi.
Athena: Not the Revellers but the crowd is on their feet to see these girls! Dina and Nadine are sister-in-laws, with Dina’s brother Nazir married to Nadine. And let’s just say, there’s been some complicated history with this family.
Eve Solace: A lot of history, but Delilah went down to VCW and wanted them all as a package, and here they are!
Moonlight and Alicia both smirked, looking over confident as the match began. As the match started, Dina wrestled fair against Moonlight, but with Nadine being tagged in, Nazir started to try to interfere once Alicia McCarthy started to dominate Nadine.
Referee Brenda Moses had enough and threw Nazir out. Moonlight and Alicia taunted Nazir, when the Reveller’s music began playing. Moonlight immediately grabbed a nearby chair and took up off the ramp. With all the distractions, Nadine managed to tag in Dina. Dina got the jump on Alicia McCarthy and managed to eventually hit the Overhead Belly to Belly Suplex on her, and pin her in 9:51.
As the Darzi family celebrated their first win, the Revellers appeared on the jumbotron.
Teri: Alicia McCarthy, Moonlight, we accept your challenge.
Roo: We’ll see you next week at Summit of Success!
With that, Lockup went off the air as Moonlight looked frustrated at being duped.
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