UNION Unleashed (RLS Universe Show)

UNION Unleashed is a secondary broadcast show produced by UNION Wrestling, serving as it's way of building storylines in-between the Live Events that usually happen on a monthly basis, as well as giving some of it's lesser used superstars some of the spotlight. It debuted on Friday 15th April 2022 and serves as the promotion's touring minor show. As with UNION Charged, the 2024-25 season, dubbed "Season 1" by Eddie Hamer, will mark the beginning of a new system of continuity for the promotion.1
There was previously a show called UNION Wrestling UNLEASHED, which ran from late-2016 to mid-2018, but it is considered distinct from this show given the promotion's overall reboot.2
==History==
UNION Unleashed debuted on the 15th April 2022 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and mainly featured in it's first two seasons a microcosm of the feuds happening on Charged and the Live Events, with the occasional pot-washer (the closest equivalent in UNION to a jobber) being brought it to enhance talent.
==Style==
UNION Wrestling Director of Wrestling Eddie Hamer says the original plan for the show was inspired in large part by alternative wrestling staples such as Yorkshire Wrestling Alliance, with shorter and more frenetic matches, the use of pot-washers and stripped back production including no ring announcers or commentary. This, however, didn't come fully to fruition, with only the use of pot-washers, and in some cases the shorter matches, being adopted by the show.3
==Trivia ==
*The Reboot Era originally would have seen the advent of entirely new programming, but Brita Vigerbäck of the Special Wrestling Group apparently loved the names of the original shows.4
*Each Reboot Era show has it's own colour scheme, with Unleashed's original scheme being a new blend of pinks and purples to give the show a very distinct identity. Once Charged dropped the traditional UNION blue in favour of an all-yellow scheme in 2024, however, Unleashed instead adopted it.5
==Behind-the-Scenes/Notes.==
#This just means I'm keeping more detailed notes for this season, publicly
#I had a good idea in mind for a logo, but wanted to both get a clean sweep in terms of where the promotion was, while also not having to go trawling back through old threads to gather information for the History and Style sections of this page.
#My plan was to just have the shows be matches with crowd noise, unlike more ambitious plans for Charged and Live Events, but I dropped this pretty quickly upon realising Attendance Only- and later LIVE!- served this exact function.
#This was actually my own change of heart, as I designed the logos for the old shows as a "what-if...?" kind of thing and ended up really liking them.
#Each show has it's own colour scheme in terms of logos and in-game lighting/formatting, to differentiate them.
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