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Championship Soul 2018
Night Seventeen - A Block

Dallas Cruz & Tallah vs The Monitor & Tanuki
-The Monitor def. Tallah via pinfall with a Shining Wizard

Jayce, Proto, and the Unit Shredderz vs Nate Navarro, Curio, Railery, and Kayla King
-Inez def. Kayla via pinfall after a New York Hello, Brooklyn Goodbye

Kurast & Orca vs Grif & The Lichador
-Lichador def. Orca via pinfall with a Meat Wagon

Sephiroth & Legato vs Marx
-Myles Shaw did not appear for the tag match at all.
-Sephiroth def. Marx via pinfall with a Meteor Drop

Championship Soul Round 9 Matches
A BLOCK

Kelsey Warden [14] vs Jonathan Leves [4]
-Vash the Stampede and Tallah were ejected from ringside before the start of the match by Kai, the referee, something a robot ref would not have done
-Jonathan was firing on all cylinders as far as being aggressive, laying into Kelsey with hard kicks and straight punches which was drawing a lot of heat and criticism from the referee
-Kelsey managed to clear the air between her and Jonathan by hitting him with a Whiplash DDT on the ring apron, both falling to the outside
-Jonathan went for the red mist late in the match, risking a disqualification to do so out of shear frustration, but Kelsey avoided it and rolled him up for another near pinfall
-Kelsey was up on the top rope and Jonathan came up to join her, accidentally kicking the referee while on the top, knocking her out of the ring briefly. In that moment, Kelsey suddenly sprayed a BLUE poison mist into Jonathan's eyes, causing him to yell out in pain and fall out of the corner onto the mat
-Kelsey Warden [16] def. Jonathan Leves [4] via pinfall with the Medusa's Hammer
-Kelsey celebrated on the mat, as she had punched her ticket and done the work to win the tournament, it now depended on the outcome of the main event.

Raj Delrey [10] vs Domino Ando [6]
-These two are familiar with each other due to their history overseas in tournaments like these. They both observe a few japanese pre-match traditions before beginning
-Very strong-style, a lot of strike trading and fighting spirit on display as both try to wear the other down with thudding kicks and forearms, rocking each other silly several times
-Domino Ando [8] def. Raj Delrey [10] via pinfall with a Sunfall

Mike Landry [8] vs J-Money [2]
-Landry takes his time at the start of the match, while J-Money, defeated, is forced to watch Landry slowly take his entrance attire off in an obnoxious piece by piece manner
-When Landry turns around to give the time keeper his entrance coat, J-Money suddenly runs up and hits Landry with the Cash Out!
-J-Money [4] def. Mike Landry [8] via pinfall with the Cash Out!
-J-Money runs laps around the ring screaming in victory while the fans applaud him (for the first time in a long time) for breaking his losing streak against an a*****e

FFA World Championship Match
Serenno © [8] vs Vince Caputo [5]
-Serenno throws Vince around and uses plenty of suplexes and back breakers to take advantage of his rib injury
-Vince takes advantage of a mistake that Serenno made going to the top rope, out of his element, and crotches Reno on the top, and pulling him off with a cutter
-Vince's major moves start to chip away at Reno, but he can't capitalize because of his injury
-Vince goes for the ASAI DDT but Serenno stops him midair and uses sheer strength to turn the move into a Cr0wned
-Serenno [10] def. Vince Caputo [5] via pinfall with the Cr0wned, and retained the FFA World Championship

In Ring Segment
After the match, Serenno holds the World Championship up high while Jada gets into the ring to cut a promo about how great her fiance is, but her microphone doesn't work. She switches it out for another one, which works at first and then cuts out as well. When she goes to get a third microphone, the lights go out. When the lights come back on, Jada is behind held back in the corner of the ring by Ashalar Voidstrider, while Serenno is locked up tight in a Dragon Sleeper by a hooded figure in the ring. Serenno thrashes around, when the figure starts to swing him around in a circle, with the choke still applied, and when he stops spinning, Serenno has gone completely limp. The figure picks up the World Champion and then slams him down on the mat with a Torture Rack Cyclone. The man takes off his hood and cloak to reveal himself as Serrick Rowe, a recent free agent who is coming off an insanely successful run in J.A.P.A.N. and considered to be one of the best wrestlers in the world right now! Serrick looks at Jada, still being held back by Ashalar, and then gives her a theatrical bow with his arms outstreched, foot planted on Serenno's chest. Ashalar releases Jada, who goes to her fiance's aid, while Serrick and Ashalar leave.

Kelly King 2.0 [9] vs "The Storm" Matt Shanahan [14]
-Big fight feel for the main event. Matt Shanahan has to win the match in order to advance, otherwise Kelsey will advance instead. Adding to that King and The Storm's legendary rivalry reignited
-Matt doesn't appear early on to be entertaining the idea of WRESTLING King, trying to stuff all of his takedown attempts, and throwing King around the ring. King seems determined though, getting frustrated by this but not giving up on his plans
-Matt went for a running boot on King but King dodged, Matt getting hung up in the ropes, leading to King hitting a chop block and spending a good five minutes beating the dog s**t out of and working Matt's leg
-King kept working the leg as much as he could, including wrapping Matt up in the Twisted Flow, but Matt would not submit to the hold of course. Matt made it to the ropes and dragged King out of the ring, but King managed to hold the Twisted Flow the whole time. Using the nearby announce table to pull himself up, Matt finally ripped his legs out from King's grip and then dropped King with a Seventh Act onto the corner of the table rather than a turnbuckle
-King had to survive a lot more violent physical moves, ocassionally assisted by Matt's bum leg, such as Matt not being able to get King up for a chokeslam at first, and then doing the slam onto his bad knee, causing just as much damage to himself as to King
-Finally at the end of the match, Matt got fed up with King's perseverence. After a Chapter Four, Matt pulled King over to the corner and up to the top, hoisting him into Gory position for the Last Corner.
-King landed his feet on the middle rope when Matt rotated him, and then picked the massive Storm up off the top and rotated in midair, hitting a super Atma Weapon
-Kelly King 2.0 [11] def. Matt Shanahan [14] via pinfall with a super Atma Weapon
-Both King and Shanahan lay on the mat completely wiped out by the ending of the match, but the reality is that King prevented Matt Shanahan from advancing to the finals of the Championship Soul.

In Ring Segment
King finally makes his way over to a corner and sits in it, watching Matt and just waiting. When Matt finally rouses from the Atma Weapon, he slowly but surely gets to his feet, and sees King sitting in the corner, his music still playing from the victory. Matt walks over to him and King does not attempt to flee as Matt, with only a small limp, pulls King out of the corner and picks him up for the Toss. Holding King over his head, King resigns himself to his fate after beating Matt out of spite, but after a long moment, Matt just dumps King back down onto the ring mat gentle and swears audibly, before leaving the ring.