UNION Bring Down The House Event (RLS Live Event)

UNION Bring Down The House was a UNION Wrestling-produced Live Event that took place at the UNION Arena in Sheffield on Sunday 20th March 2022 and was broadcast over the three days from the 22nd to the 24th exclusively on the CAPTCHER streaming service1. 
It was the first Live Event of the "Reboot Era" in UNION Wrestling, and will be followed by UNION Uneasy Alliance 2022.
==Background==
Note: The event is the first in UNION's history not to feature any kind of dark match.2
=== "Night" One ===
# The opener for the WOTU Tag Team Championships was confirmed to be a To-The-Finish Tag Team Match in pre-show advertising, with siSTARZ and the team of Kenzie Starr & Terri Law confirmed later.
# The UNION Showcase matches were not advertised ahead of time.
# The main event was confirmed days before to show took place to be a Ladder Match between Wroe and a mystery opponent for the vacant UNION British Championship.
=== "Night" Two ===
# The UNION Tag Team Championships were confirmed to be up for grabs days before the event, with INVICTA and the returning #AMBITION confirmed by Eddie Hamer shortly after.
# The UNION Showcase matches were not advertised ahead of time.
# The main event WOTU Inter Championship match was confirmed ahead of time, with the participants being announced at the same time.
=== "Night" Three ===
# The opening match was known in advance to be to decide the UNION World Champion going forward, with Virgil Baker and Hubris already being in a semi-consistent feud coming into the reboot.
# The UNION Showcase matches were not advertised ahead of time.
# The UNION Showcase matches were not advertised ahead of time.
# The main event was known in advance to be to decide the WOTU World Championship, with Jackie Compton being known already and Lara Grey being confirmed later, due to her status as a freelancer.
== Card ==
=== "Night" One ===
#	Participants 	Stipulation 	Result
1	Kenzie Starr & Terri Law def. siSTARZ (Sitara & Indira) 2-1	To-The-Finish Tag Team Match for the vacant WOTU Tag Team Championships	Law eliminated both siSTARZ following Starr's count-out elimination.
2	The Trick def. Hace el Trabajo 	UNION Showcase Match 	Trick pinned Hace el Trabajo following LunaTrick.
3	British Samurai def. Wroe 	Ladder Match for vacant UNION British Championship 	BritSam knocked Wroe from ladder and retrieved championship.
=== "Night" Two ===
#	Participants 	Stipulation 	Result
1	INVICTA (Zander Adder & Bane w/Brody Shires) def. #AMBITION (Joey Walton & DJ Laine)	First-to-a-Finish Tag Team Match for the vacant UNION Tag Team Championships	Adder pinned Laine following Snakebite Driver.
2	Abby Crowley def. Dulcy Bravo 	UNION Showcase Match 	Crowley pinned Bravo following A-to-B
3	Sitara def. Kelly Gazidis 	Normal Match for the vacant WOTU Inter Championship 	Sitara pinned Gazidis following Starsault.
==="Night" Three===
#	Participants 	Stipulation 	Result
1	Virgil Baker def. Hubris 	Normal Match for the vacant UNION World Championship	Baker pinned Hubris following Alabama Slam.
2	Jack Fry def. Ricky Cheng 	UNION Showcase Match 	Fry pinned Cheng following a Frytener.
3	Anne Marie def. Zara 	UNION Showcase Match 	Anne Marie pinned Zara following Springboard Dropkick.
4	Lara Grey def. Jackie Compton	Normal Match for the vacant WOTU World Championship 	Grey submitted Compton with a Greyhug.
== Aftermath ==
The Live Event was based around establishing the starting champions and showcasing trialist or upcoming superstars, so very little in the way of storylines actually occurred.3
== Trivia ==
* The show was taped all as one big event for the live crowd on Sunday 20th March, and broadcast on CAPTCHER as three separate events starting on the following Tuesday. This was done to ensure that CAPTCHER could handle the smaller shows before the premiere of weekly programming like Charged and Unleashed.4
* The live crowd were urged by UNION officials not to spoil the results, or the return of British Samurai, before they were broadcast, which Eddie Hamer stated after Night Three went on CAPTCHER had been a success.5
* Squared Circle Insider gave the show a 3.5/5 rating overall, feeling that "amazing matches" on the first two episodes were undone slightly by "predictable, safety-net booking" on the final episode.6
== Behind-the-Scenes ==
# The "CAPTCHER" branding is just how I format the posts in the forum diary that contain the videos.
# This was because I already had ten matches to play through, and very little to test out, which is the purpose "dark matches" served in my last UNION run.
# This is true out-of-narrative, too, very little story was established here because it was about setting the starting points.
# This is kind of true, as I wanted to make sure I still had the ability to easily edit these things together to make them competent enough to pass as "episodes".
# This is just a little ironic joke based on the fact that spoilers would be out in seconds were this a real event.
# This is me tacitly admitting to very, very, predictable booking in the two World title matches. There's twists to come, though.
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