UNION LIVE! (RLS Universe Show)

UNION LIVE! is the not-for-broadcast, house-level live show produced by UNION Wrestling, serving primarily as a way of allowing new or trialling superstars to compete with less pressure, new storylines, angles or innovations to be tested1, and injured or absent superstars to have a platform to return to. It will debut on Wednesday 20th March 2024. Like the flagship broadcast show, UNION Charged, for the 2024-25 season, dubbed "Season 1" by Eddie Hamer, a new system of continuity for the promotion will come into effect, with LIVE! set to be included in this.2
There was previously a show called UNION Wrestling LIVE, which ran from late-2017 to mid-2018, but it is considered distinct from this show given the promotion's overall reboot.3 LIVE! also replaces the previous house-level show, UNION Attendance Only.
==History==
UNION LIVE! was confirmed to be replacing the in-house UNION Attendance Only shows in early 2024, as part of the wider refresh of the promotion. This marks a return to live show touring for the first time in any sense since COVID shut down operations, and the first time a fully-branded, weekly showing has done so consistently since mid-2018.
==Style==
UNION Wrestling Director of Wrestling Eddie Hamer says the show is going to be an "all the fun and games of Attendance Only, but on the road"4, returning the promotion to where it was in late 2017.
==Trivia==
*UNION LIVE!'s return to touring in the UK and Europe was always a part of the plan for Eddie Hamer as the promotion built back up to it's 2017/2018 heyday.5
*Each Reboot Era show has it's own colour scheme, with LIVE!'s being a black-and-white setup for the most part.6
==Behind-the-Scenes/Notes==
#In truth, I do use this pressure-free environment to test upcoming things for big shows, like House Shows in real-life have and do.
#This just means I'm keeping more detailed notes for this season, publicly.
#This is true, and many episodes of this are still available somewhere on YouTube, alone, now that the forums they were embedded in are defunct.
#I'd always intended to get the house show moving again, after having it happen "in a smaller room" of the UNION Arena used as a location for the stationary UNION Charged show.
#Same, and that heyday basically means the fun and immersion I got to with the promotion in 2K18. It's going well, so far!
#Each show has it's own colour scheme in terms of logos and in-game lighting/formatting, to differentiate them.