UNION Bring Down The House '24 (RLS Live Event)

UNION Bring Down The House '24 was a UNION Wrestling Live Event that took place at the UNION Arena in Sheffield, on the 16th March 2024. It was the second UNION Wrestling event to use the Bring Down The House name, having purchased the branding from PRIZE Wrestling League following their collapse1.
It was preceded by UNION Open Challenge 2024 in early March, and will be followed by UNION Uneasy Alliance 2024 in April.
==Background==
# The WOTU Counties Championship was announced prior to the event, to replace the deactivated WOTU Tag Team Championships and reduce strain on the still fairly small women's roster. As final champions, Gaia Cassidy and Elsa were given automatic qualification for a Three Woman Ladder Match at UNION Uneasy Alliance 2024 to crown the inaugural champion, with the third participant to be decided by Battle Royal made up of the former tag team division participants.
# After losing the WOTU Inter Championship to Sarah Fenix at UNION Open Challenge 2024, Tammy Washington announced on social media that she was invoking her rematch clause for Bring Down The House.
# Similarly, El Jefe would grant friend Piranha a second chance at the UNION British Championship after he failed in his Open Challenge at the prior event, with Piranha seeming bitter about it.
# Also invoking their rematch clause for Bring Down The House, INVICTA's Zander Adder and Bane promised to win back their UNION Tag Team Championships, and show up The Deck for the "irrelevant relics" that they are.
# UNION World and WOTU World Champions Mikey Ace and Lara Grey would confirm a short-lived alliance at the event in order to see of the challenge of Takanobu Endo and Nancy Warren; the former of whom wanted another chance to best the champion, the latter of whom wanted to prove her prior injury had only delayed her rise to championship glory.
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==Card==
# 	Result 	Stipulation(s) 	Finish
D*	Gigabyte Jr. def. Hace el Trabajo 	Dark Match 	Gigabyte Jr. pinned HeT
1 	Taki def. Miss Deeds , Jackie Compton, Nightmare D0ll, Terri Law, Kenzie Starr, Sitara and Indira	WOTU Counties Championship Qualifier Battle Royal 	See table below,,,
2 	Sarah Fenix (c) def. Tammy Washington 	Singles Match for the WOTU Inter Championship 	Washington pinned after Fenix Splash
3 	El Jefe (c) def. Piranha 	Singles Match for the UNION British Championship 	Piranha pinned following Patada del Jefe
4 	The Deck (The Maverick & Mayhem) (c) def. INVICTA (Zander Adder & Bane) (w/Brody Shires) 	First to a Finish Tag Match for UNION Tag Team Championships	Adder pinned by Mav following a Cut the Deck
5 	Nancy Warren & Takanobu Endo def. Lara Grey & Mikey Ace 	Mixed Tag Match 	Warren pinned Grey following a top-rope clothesline
*D stands for Dark Match, a traditional occurrence at big UNION Wrestling events where outside or yet-to-debut talent wrestle try-outs or attendance-exclusive bouts.
#	Eliminated 	By 	Method of Elimination
1	Indira 	Sitara 	Dumped over while distracted
2	Sitara 	Taki 	Kneed off of apron
3	Kenzie Starr 	Nightmare D0ll 	Thrown over top rope
4	Terri Law 	Taki 	Kneed off of apron
5	Nightmare D0ll	Taki & Miss Deeds	Dumped over top rope by both
6	Jackie Compton	Taki 	Strong-whipped over top rope
7	Miss Deeds 	Taki 	Nodowa Otoshi followed by strong-whip
W	Taki 	- 	-
==Aftermath==
# By winning the opening Battle Royal, Taki now goes on to compete against the final WOTU Tag Team Champions Elsa and Gaia Cassidy to see which of the three can become WOTU Counties Champion, in a Ladder Match.
# By seeing off the challenge of the former holder of the belt once again, Sarah Fenix has proven her worth as the WOTU Inter Champion going forward.
# Piranha sickeningly attacked El Jefe following their match at this event, ensuring that the story they're weaving together doesn't end here, and moves into an even more hostile last chapter.
# The Deck will have to be wary of INVICTA even after beating them again, with the former champions known to be tireless in their attempts to overrun and control UNION Wrestling.
# By defeating Lara Grey and Mikey Ace, both Nancy Warren and Takanobu Endo ensured their places in the World Championship matches at UNION Uneasy Alliance 2024.
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==Trivia==
* The main event came about after Mikey Ace sustained a slight neck injury in one of his matches with Virgil Baker, as a way of allowing for him to take a breather should he need it, and for Grey and Warren to see out the match.2
* The event marks the debut of the new UNION Wrestling branding, including a new logo to replace the revamped ropes-logo introduced in 2021 based upon their 2016 rebrand. The Championship belts have also undergone retrofits bearing the new logo.3
* Squared Circle Insider gave the event a 4.25/5 rating, calling it an "excellent, if smaller-scale, way to start the season", particularly praising the British Championship match and the main event.4
==Behind-the-Scenes==
# I originally used the event name for my PRIZE Wrestling League promotion on the PC version of WWE 2K18 and 2K19.
# This is just narrative fluff, in truth it's more about ensuring everything to do with their creation for 2K24 works correctly. It's also why BDTH works with a slightly smaller card that my other PLEs tend to.
# This is the in-universe explanation for my new logos, which I created to refresh everything after a few years of it all looking quite samey.
# This is actually an in-universe way of stating my own feelings on how the show went (which matches I enjoyed the most, etc.).