Things quieten down… then pick right back up in a cacophony of boos for Taylor Swift’s “Haunted”! Like her co-World Tag Team Champion earlier, Marie Jones – with B.Real at her side – is met with a hail of garbage. She already made history on our last show by winning the Tag Team Championship in her first FRONTIER match (just don’t mention that her mother owns the company); tonight she gets a chance to join Chandler Scott and Madman Szalinski in the elite ranks of GFC double champions. But standing in her way is Mia Scott, who’s been extremely impressive as Commonwealth Champion – and who’s recently made powerful enemies in Silas World and the Jones dynasty. It’s obvious from Marie’s body language that knocking down Mia would be a sweet bonus on top of winning the title tonight, but the fans are raucously behind Mia as she emerges – except for a couple of bitter Spurs fans since Mia’s team, Chelsea, beat them for the League Cup just a couple of short hours ago. Mia runs straight for the ring and takes a swing at Marie, and as Marie blocks and returns the shot, the bell rings.
Commonwealth Rules Match
Commonwealth Championship
Mia Scott [c] vs Marie Jones
The match begins, uncharacteristically for a Commonwealth Rules match, with wild brawling on the mat. When they finally break apart, Marie comes right back in on the attack – but is schoolgirled by Mia. Marie powers out, and Mia rolls her up in a magistral cradle. Another escape… and a backslide from Mia who seems desperate to end this match as quickly as possible! When Jones powers out again, Scott goes on full offensive, slowly twisting into mount as she rains down elbow shots. When Marie seems dazed enough Mia goes for a lateral press and gets a two count. Scott sends Jones all around the ring with stiff kicks, never allowing the Silas World (and Ginger Nation) member a chance to get her bearings. In her haste, she makes several more pin attempts too. When the bell rings for the end of round one, Mia’s looking ready to burst with aggressive energy, while Marie seems to not quite know where she is.
Mia comes out hard in round two as well, with a huge kick that drops Marie straight to the mat. Mia with the cover, and Marie powers out on the first count. Mia falls back across her but Marie catches her on her knees and flips her into the air, then hops up with the wrists still held and pulls Mia over her head in a rolling front chancery takedown. Jones floats across into her own mount and gives back all the elbow strikes, but purposely makes them slow to rile the champion up further. Marie starts dictating the pace, keeping Mia on the ground in the centre of the mat with holds to weaken her limbs and transitioning to a new one whenever Mia seems in danger of rallying. But all things must come to an end, and when Jones goes for a figure four, the champion hauls herself forward and drapes over the bottom rope, using her first break. The ref forces Marie away, but instead of regaining a foothold, Mia just stays slumped over the rope and before long Marie is back in with a knee to the spine. By the time the round ends shortly thereafter, it’s a complete reversal of the previous break, with Marie standing tall and Mia beaten and sore.
In round three Mia never seems to be able to muster a second wind, and between missed opportunities and slow reactions she’s kept on the back foot throughout. But no matter what Marie puts her down with, she keeps powering back up, seemingly on pure instinct. Nonetheless, she never gets in any strong offence of her own, and as the bell sounds this would be a one-sided decision if wrestling had judges.
Marie can feel the win as she goes into round four, and she starts playing to the crowd and toying with Mia. She’s taking her time, keeping the Commonwealth Champion down but not going for the kill, and Mia is obviously getting angry. When Marie goes for a Divine Impact springboard moonsault, Mia gets her knees up and is quickly over Marie in mount with barely legal punches. Marie goes for a choke counter, but Mia lifts her right off the mat and plants her with a sitout powerbomb! Mia covers for a two. She hunkers back, looking for the Shining Triangle. She pounces – and B.Real pulls Marie out of the ring! Mia sees red and vaults over the top to take both of them out with a plancha! She rolls Marie into the ring, then punches B.Real onto his ass before sliding back in herself. Marie tries to greet her with a thumb to the eye, but Mia catches her and whips her around, sending her shoulder-first into the ringpost. As Marie stumbles out Mia rolls her up, and grabs the back of her tights for leverage! Marie nonetheless kicks out, and the two women trade a few more holds before the bell rings.
In round five both competitors are taking shortcuts, trying anything they can to end this, and it’s a frantic scramble of holds and counters, rakes and tights pulling. After a couple of minutes, Mia manages to work things out so she’s up on Marie’s back! Marie scrabbles at her opponent fruitlessly as Mia gets ready to flip her over with the Circle Line – and B.Real hits the ring and connects a kick to Mia’s jaw! The referee calls for the bell.
Your winner via disqualification, and STILL-
Wait a minute! Shades of our last show as Angelica emerges.
Angelica Jones: No! Yet again one of our title matches ends in outside interference. I’m not allowing this. As FRONTIER owner…
The crowd shout her down at full volume, knowing full well that the boss is about to screw Mia out of her title just like she did to Hardy and Evangelista in Sheffield.
Angelica Jones: AS FRONTIER OWNER! I am hereby ruling that this match-
Jay Pride: Wait, wait wait wait!
He emerges from his ringside position, mic in hand.
Jay Pride: The GFC had a feeling you’d try something like this, Angelica, and they’ve already mandated that if this match ends in outside interference, the decision would remain. It was voted for and passed. So the decision stands – Mia Scott wins!
Angelica glares daggers at Jay – but he doesn’t get much chance to return them as B.Real blindsides him! Meanwhile as Mia hurriedly tries to leave the ring, no doubt in a rush to get back to the airport and get back to the USA to check on her girlfriend Lacey Cohen, Marie blocks her. B.Real slams Jay’s head into the guardrail then slides in to help Marie corner Mia. Sean Sands, Evangelista, Kickass Smurf and other heroes of FRONTIER pour out of the back to help, but they’re cut off as more Silas World members appear on the scene and rally to Angelica. In the ring, B.Real lifts Mia up in a full nelson and gestures to Marie to take her best shot…
…but Marie is suddenly speared off her feet! B.Real drops Mia and runs at the culprit, a large man with dark hair, but is planted into the canvas with a huge spinebuster! Finally he pauses for a moment and we get a good look at him…
It’s Michael Hopkins! The Cardiff fans go ballistic for The Welsh Dragon as he tosses B.Real out of the ring. He helps Mia to her feet, and together they manhandle Marie out as well. As Silas World fall back, Mia and Michael are left standing tall.
After the event, Michael cuts a quick promo thanking the fans for coming, promising FRONTIER will be back in Wales soon and wishing everyone a happy St David’s Day.