UNION Charged (RLS Universe Show)

UNION Charged is the main 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. It will debut on Monday 11th April 2022 at the bespoke UNION Arena in Sheffield, and serve as the promotion's flagship show. 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 CHARGED, which ran from late-2017 to mid-2018, but it is considered distinct from this show given the promotion's overall reboot.2
==History==
UNION Charged debuted on 11th April 2022, featuring a bumper card that saw the shock return- after four years- of Mikey Ace, to help his former Deck stablemates fend of INVICTA. The show saw notable angles play out over the next year, including Ace's betrayal of The Deck and defection to INVICTA, Nancy Warren's return to UNION Wrestling, and the promotion's first Over-the-Top-Rope Battle Royal.
Charged's second series began in March 2023, and was largely dominated by the main event scene of the promotion; INVICTA as UNION World and Tag Team Champions, Lara Grey as WOTU World Champion, and the WOTU Tag Team Champions (first Starr & Law, then Better Than You).
Charged debuted a new logo, colour scheme and arena setup in March 2024, with it's new series being dubbed "Season 1", and a new starting point, for the promotion's programming.
==Style==
UNION Wrestling Director of Wrestling Eddie Hamer says the show is going to be an "exciting new blend of old-school alternative wrestling and new-school sports entertainment", confirming that there'd be no on-screen authority figures for the time being3, and that storylines would be largely determined by the participants, themselves.
==Trivia==
* The Reboot Era originally would have seen the advent of entirely new programming, with one known potential name being UNION Monday Masterclass, 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 Charged's originally being the promotions traditional soft blue and vivid yellow combination, before switching to an all yellow design in 2024.5
==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.
# This was a result of the removal of the Promo Engine, and is open to revision now microphones are a weapon again as of 2K24.
# 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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