UNION Uneasy Alliance 2023 (RLS Premium Live Event)

UNION Uneasy Alliance 2023 was a UNION Wrestling Live Event that took place at the uSmart Arena in Liverpool, Merseyside on the 14th May 2023. It was the third event in the overall Uneasy Alliance chronology, and the first of the rebooted era of the promotion.
It was the first Live Event of the 2023/2024 season of UNION, and was followed by Hardcore Brawl 2023 in June.
==Background==
#Eddie Hamer confirmed that there would be a return to the traditional practise of having a Dark Match before the show's main card, testing out one or more trialist being considered for a full contract offer.
#Rafe Daniels would request a UNION World Championship match on the first episode of Charged's 2023/24 season, with champion Virgil Baker accepting in the form of a beatdown. The two would undermine each other across the next few shows.
#Tammy Washington would earn a shot at the WOTU Inter Championship, held by Sitara, with some impressive victories across the preceding month of shows.
#Zara and Sarah Fenix had been feuding in the preceding month to the event, following the former rejecting the latter's post-match congratulatory handshake. This would culminate in a Grudge Match being confirmed to end the feud.
#Harry Daniels demanded a shot at the UNION British Championship from Eddie Hamer in the run-up to this event, angered that Piranha had been given a shot following a win on Charged. Daniels would defeat El Jefe to earn a shot, but angered Piranha would his post-match attack on Jef. This lead to a Contendership match between the two, which again ended with a Daniels win and a similar attack on Piranha.
#Bad Dreams spent the majority of the month preceding this event tormenting the WOTU Tag Team Champions, leading to the match being made official for the event.
#Eddie Hamer confirmed that WOTU World Champion Lara Grey would defend her championship at the event, with Nancy Warren winning a Three-Woman Contendership Contest in the Main Event of the last Unleashed before Uneasy Alliance.
#During the first rebooted episode of Charged, in 2022, Mikey Ace made a shocking return to wrestling to re-form The Deck with The Maverick and Mayhem in their battle against INVICTA. Zander Adder would state that INVICTA's fourth member would make Ace's return to The Deck "pointless", which was followed by the reveal that the fourth man was Ace, himself, who turned on Mayhem during a tag-team match against Adder and Bane. Eddie Hamer stated that Uneasy Alliance would be needed to settle the score, and the following was agreed:
** If INVICTA win, and Team UNION (now featuring Jack Fry, and later Pete Hook) lose; The Deck must split, Adder and Bane can choose their Tag Team Championship opponents for six months, Brody Shires earns a British Championship shot and Mikey Ace earns a UNION World Championship shot.
** If Team UNION win, and INVICTA lose; INVICTA must split, The Deck can choose to challenge for Adder and Bane's Tag Team Championships at any time, for six months, Jack Fry earns a British Championship shot and Pete Hook earns a UNION World Championship shot.
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==Card==
# 	Result 	Stipulation(s) 	Finish
D*	'Lord' James Swift def. Matsuda by count-out 	Singles Match 	Swift allowed ten-count to pass while sat on turnbuckle.
1 	Virgil Baker (c) def. Rafe Daniels by pin-fall 	Singles Match for the UNION World Championship 	Baker pinned Daniels following an Alabama Slam
2 	Tammy Washinton def. Sitara (c) (w/Indira) by pin-fall 	Singles Match for the WOTU Inter Championship 	Washington reversed an attack into a Float-Over DDT and pinned Sitara
3 	Zara def. Sarah Fenix by pin-fall 	Grudge Match 	Zara pinned Fenix following a Zmash
4 	Harry Daniels def. British Samurai (c) by pin-fall 	Singles Match for the UNION British Championship 	Daniels pinned BritSam following Pain in HD
5 	Kenzie Starr & Terri Law (c) def. Bad Dreams (Miss Deeds & Nightmare D0ll) by submission 	First-to-a-Finish Tag Team Match for the WOTU Tag Tag Team Chammpionships	Law choked out D0ll after knocking Deeds off the apron
6 	Lara Grey (c) def. Nancy Warren by submission 	Singles Match for the WOTU World Championship 	Warren was unable to complete Canadian Crab submission due to injured leg, allowing Grey to submit with Greyhug
7 	INVICTA (Zander Adder, Bane, Mikey Ace & Brody Shires) def. Team UNION (The Maverick, Mayhem, Jack Fry & Pete Hook)	Uneasy Alliance Match 	See table below...
*D stands for Dark Match, a traditional occurrence at big UNION Wrestling events where outside or yet-to-debut talent wrestle tryouts or attendance-exclusive bouts.
Elimination 	Team 	Eliminator 	Method
Brody Shires	INVICTA 	Jack Fry 	Pinned following a Frytener
The Maverick	Team UNION	Zander Adder	Counted out following Snakebite Driver outside ring
Mayhem 	Team UNION	Zander Adder	Pinned following Snakebite Driver
Zander Adder	INVICTA 	Jack Fry 	Pinned following Frytener
Jack Fry 	Team UNION	Bane 	Pinned following Throttleslam, ref missed Fry grab rope
Bane 	INVICTA 	Pete Hook 	Pinned following Line & SInker
Pete Hook 	Team UNION	Mikey Ace 	Submitted with Ace of Spades
==Aftermath==
# The feud with Daniels would turn Virgil Baker face, leading into a feud with the victorious Mikey Ace (see below) for the Championship heading into Hardcore Brawl.
# Tammy Washington would also turn face going forward from this event, with Sitara eventually enacting her rematch clause for Hardcore Brawl.
# Zara, who's Grudge Match with Sarah Fenix earned acclaim, would move on to a similar feud with the veteran Angel, setting up another Grudge Match.
# Harry Daniels' celebrations were short-lived, as a vengeful Piranha would immediately attack him the next night on Charged.
# Better Than You (Elsa & Gaia Cassidy) would win the right to face WOTU Tag Team Champions Starr & Law following this event.
# Nancy Warren would take time off following her loss to Grey, due to injury, and the rest of the World Championship division would clash for the chance to replace her in the weeks following.
# By winning; INVICTA ensured that Mikey Ace could challenge Virgil Baker for the UNION World Championship, that Brody Shires could choose to face the holder of the British Championship, and that UNION Tag Team Champions Zander Adder and Bane could choose their opponents for the next six months.
==Trivia==
* Squared Circle Insider gave the show 4 out of 5, noting that the opener was good, and the mid-card excelled, but that the main event was "cluttered, convoluted and fairly predictable in it's finish".
* "Lord" James Swift, who won the Dark Match, would sign a contract with the promotion following the event. He'd appear at a couple of Attendance Only shows in the following weeks, with a planned debut for the Charged after Hardcore Brawl.
== Behind-the-Scenes ==
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