Monica Bellucci

## Overview

Monica Bellucci is seen as one of the strongest WWYD superstars: a contestant with few if any weaknesses who is equally comfortable playing The Straight Bat or Route 1. Bellucci has a very high opinion of herself and, as such, is used to getting her own way. Such is her high self-regard that she doubts the credulity of any match she loses or draws, and will frequently claim her opponent has cheated. Bellucci has also been known to have cruel and sadistic tendencies and is prone to emotional outbursts and making decisions in anger. She has an intense rivalry with and personal hatred for Jennifer Connelly. She was the WWYD Commissioner following the Med Event Mafia Takeover at the end of WWYD3 until the end of WWYD4.

# Storylines and Controversies

## WWYD2

Bellucci emerged as an extremely strong challenger to Jennifer Connelly during the tournament with a series of dominant wins to reach the final, which was highly controversial and saw Bellucci disqualified by Head Referee Walter Day after allegations of match-fixing in an event that has become known as Bellucci-gate. Special investigator Robert Mruczek found robust and credible evidence that a bot had been used to bolster Bellucci's vote. At one point over 2,000 votes were "dumped" in less than 30 minutes. The match had an unusually high voter turnout -- over 9,000 cast, well over the normal standard deviation, which led to further accusations of "outside interference". The resentment that the disqualification caused fueled many later storylines, including the Med Event Mafia Takeover and Med Event Mafia vs. The Pantheon story-arcs. It also drastically altered the bookings of the Queen's Cup II, Queen's Cup III, and WWYD4.

## Queen's Cup II

Commissioner William Regal agreed to reinstate Bellucci, but on the condition that she start against "at the bottom": rather than automatically qualifying for WWYD3 as #2 Seed, she would have to qualify by winning The Queen's Cup. Regal called this "The Road to Redemption" and this became the strap-line for the competition. However, first she would have to defeat Abigail Shapiro (who had also been reinstated) and Christina Hendricks to make it to the Queen's Cup. After defeating Shapiro 71-29 and Hendricks 56-44, Bellucci drew Denise Richards in the opening match of the Queen's Cup and tied 50-50 suffering a double elimination under the "Watson Rule". This was a huge shock as Bellucci was widely expected to win the competition. In the event it was won by Brooke Shields, a future member of The Pantheon.

## WWYD3

Bellucci did not take part in WWYD3 because she was officially eliminated once more after her failure to win The Queen's Cup. However, following the tournament, Walter Day revealed he had sold WWYD to Silvio Berlusconi, which triggered the Med Event Mafia Takeover. Berlusconi appointed Bellucci as Commissioner, who was hell-bent on revenge on Jennifer Connelly for the events of WWYD2. She assembled the Med Event Mafia, reinstating many eliminated allies, such as Salma Hayek, and quickly went about firing staff, installing her own team, and making changes to the next two competitions.

## Queen's Cup III

Before the tournament started Bellucci dubbed The Queen's Cup, "the loser's cup". When reporter Philippa Forrester pointed out that Bellucci had failed to win the last Queen's Cup, Bellucci fired her in rage and appointed Barbie Ferreira in her place. Bellucci felt that The Pantheon had both cheated and received preferential treatment by the old regime. As part of a major shake-up, she reinstated a number of defeated opponents of the (at that time) four leading Pantheon members Jennifer Connelly, Michelle Pfeiffer, Liz Hurley and Scarlett Johansson. These she put in groups of four and labelled them "Victims of Connelly", "Victims of Pfeiffer" and so on. She also changed the structure of the tournament to have group stages in a round-robin format with all four semi-finalists now qualifying for the next WWYD tournament. The second, third, and fourth placed contestants would later receive #13, #14, and #15 Seed status respectively but this was not yet implemented. In the event, none of Bellucci's reinstatements won the tournament, instead the final was won by Cindy Crawford, who would later join The Pantheon and defeat Bellucci herself in WWYD4.

## WWYD4

The tournament was dominated by the Med Event Mafia vs. Pantheon storyline and Bellucci's revenge mission against Connelly. It marked the first time that a Commissioner was also an active WWYD Superstar. Bellucci was very prepared to use and abuse her powers to give either herself or other Med Event Mafia superstars advantages. She proved to be a much more interventionist commissioner than her predecessor, William Regal. Before the tournament started Liz Hurley, a member of The Pantheon, approached Bellucci with "DNA Evidence" proving that she is, in fact, Italian. So desperate was Hurley to join the Med Event Mafia that she offered Bellucci her son, Damian Hurley, as a "manservant" to sweeten the deal. Bellucci accepted and Hurley was now a "Med", even though many privately doubted the credulity of her DNA results. As part of the deal, Hurley had Vanessa Ferlito fired from the group, changed her positioning in the bracket and secured Lizzo as a Round 1 opponent, whom she would go on to defeat 95-5.

In Round 1 of the tournament, Jennifer Connelly was originally booked to face Yekaterina Lisina, a 6'9" giant, but Bellucci changed this to replace Lisina with Salma Hayek. Just before the tournament began, Hayek begged Bellucci to change the booking again ostensibly so Hayek could fulfill her blood-feud against Brooke Shields. Hayek convinced Bellucci to make Alexandra Daddario the opponent instead as a "secret weapon" to take the champion out. Daddario started the match strongly. Special investigator Robert Mruczek noted irregularities with the voting for Daddario but when he brought these to Bellucci's attention, he was fired and replaced by her "manservant", Damian Hurley. When Connelly made a comeback, Bellucci was about to disqualify her for allegedly cheating when Silvio Berlusconi made a rare intervention to prevent this from taking place. Bellucci cried in front of Berlusconi begging to allow him to disqualify Connelly. Instead, Damian was tasked with finding evidence for cheating. When he was unable to find such evidence, Bellucci had him whipped over 100 times. Shortly after Round 1, a mysterious video featuring Jenna Ortega and Anya Mikheeva emerged following the latter's 75-25 loss to Anna de Armas, in it footage emerged that appeared to show de Armas was secretly working for Bellucci. Bellucci won her own Round 1 match against #2 Seed Scarlett Johansson 55-45, in a strong start for the Med Event Mafia.

In Round 2, during her own match against Zooey Deschanel, Bellucci fell behind. When she realised she was losing she stopped the match and disqualified Deschanel on the grounds of cheating, although she offered no evidence for this and ruled out an investigation. When Bellucci later pulled back in front against Deschanel, she then reversed the decision, announced there had been "a mistake", and declared the final results of the match to be valid. Bellucci narrowly defeated Deschanel 51-49 -- a far cry from the heights of her WWYD2 form. Deschanel took the events with dignity and did not complain. Also during Round 2, Salma Hayek had fallen behind Brooke Shields in their hotly-anticipated and emotionally-charged match, she pleaded with the Commissioner to force Damian Hurley into making a special investigation to prove Shields was cheating. Rather than compile his report, Hurley engaged in increasingly bizarre behaviour, including dancing around like a girl in a shampoo advert and wearing his mother's dresses and other clothes. Bellucci grew increasingly impatient with Damian. Damian turned to his mother in desperation looking for an escape from the abusive Bellucci. This led a desperate Damian to turn to Hurley's old boyfriend Hugh Grant for help, which resulted in Silvio Berlusconi "putting out a hit" on Damian for "crossing the family".

In Round 3, Bellucci became suspicious of Denise Richards, whom she had disliked from her draw with her at the Queen's Cup II, in her match against Keira Knightly. Since Damian was missing, appointed Salma Hayek as the new Special Investigator to look into "irregularities" in the Richards vs. Knightly match. Hayek did find suspicious activity, but since Richards lost the match narrowly, 52-48, nothing came of the investigation.

In the Quarter-Finals of the tournament, The Pantheon definitively defeated the Med Event Mafia when all four of its remaining members -- Brooke Shields, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cindy Crawford, and Jennifer Connelly -- went through to the Semi-Finals. Bellucci had drawn the Queen's Cup winner, Crawford. Despite playing her signature shot Bicycle Bombshell, Bellucci lost 53-47 to Crawford has played her own signature shot Blue Denim for the victory, which many considered an upset. One reason that Bellucci did not attempt to overturn these results is because during these matches, The Consortium Takeover occurred, which heralded the end of the Med Event Mafia era. Hugh Grant had rescued Damian Hurley. When Damian was dancing around Grant's garden, an assassin -- who appeared to be Ana de Armas working under Bellucci's (and Berlusconi's) orders -- tried to kill him. When a shaken Damian asked Grant what they might do, Grant immediately called his old friend, Tony Blair who used his influence over Berlusconi to broker a deal in which the WWYD Franchise would be sold to The Consortium Inc.. As part of the deal, Bellucci and her team were to be replaced, and they were ordered not to "rock the boat" while the transfer was taking place. This accounts for why Bellucci did not try to disqualify any of The Pantheon during the Quarter-Finals.

During the Semi-Finals, the Med Event Mafia were moving out of their offices, when Bellucci became tearful and said she had let her teammates down and "failed the Southern hemisphere". Salma Hayek responded with loyalty saying that Bellucci would "always be their queen" and Lauren "Chungus" Jauregui led the whole faction to cheer for Bellucci in solidarity. Only Liz Hurley did not join in, rather she denounced them and denied she ever had any Italian blood while posing in front of a British flag.

After Jennifer Connelly won her fourth straight WWYD title beating Michelle Pfeiffer in the final, Brooke Shields and Cindy Crawford drew their match 50-50. Bellucci tried to abuse her power one final time by declaring herself the #3 Seed. William Regal returned and tried to persuade Bellucci to stop with this attempt and simply calculate who had the highest average score between Shields and Crawford in the tournament. Bellucci challenged him to name an opponent for a special no-DQ 1-hour sprint match -- if she won, she would become #3 Seed and if she lost, it would be done Regal's way. Regal named Denise Richards as the opponent, and Bellucci lost 63-37. From the next day, she would be reduced to being a regular WWYD Superstar and stripped of her powers. Regal became commissioner once again. Bellucci would be #6 Seed for WWYD5.

## WWYD5

Bellucci was back on dominant form in the tournament but also exercised much power over acting-Commissioner Damian Hurley. She became increasingly sadistic and controlling during the disturbing Med Event Mafia Dominate Damian storyline, fixing favourable bookings for herself, routinely having Damian beaten and physically assaulted, either by herself or her minions, and, most notably, having her opponent in the Semi-Finals, Brooke Shields disqualified in a highly controversial event known as Shields-Gate. Bellucci had destroyed her opponents up until the Semi-Finals, but tied Shields 50-50, and eventually lost in the final to Cindy Crawford who was on a mission of vengeance for her friend. After the tournament, Bellucci claimed that Crawford had cheated in the final and refused to appear in the number 1 contender group at Queen's Cup V until an official investigation was launched.

## 1st Tag-Team Tournament

Although Bellucci did not take part in the tournament, she was there to cheer on two of her teams, The BFFs and the eventual winners The Cuban Connection. Bellucci intervened after less than 30 minutes into the tournament to complain to Sir Charles Lynton about the fact that the Cubans were losing to Corny's Cougars, this led ultimately to the Mixed Inter-gender Tag Match which saw Bellucci tag with Damian Hurley against Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jim Cornette, they won the match. Bellucci was also involved in the Med Event Mafia's Hospitalisation of Brooke Shields. Although she was not part of the assault on Brooke Shields, Bellucci defended the stable members in court and successfully persuaded Clarence Thomas to dismiss the case. She celebrated with the rest of the Med Event Mafia when they won the final.

# Facts

* **Signature shots**
	+ Bicycle Bombshell
	+ The Commissioner

* **Nicknames**
	+ "The Commissioner"

* **Stables**
	+ Med Event Mafia

# Championships and accomplishments

* WWYD2 runner-up
* WWYD5 runner-up