Game Over 2021

Game Over was a supercard event produced by World Championship CAWs. The event aired over two nights and was the first WCC show to do so. Night one aired on August 26th 2021 and featured three matches including a pre-show, night 2 aired on August 29th and was headlined by the WCC World Championship match between Iestyn Roberts and Jack Ketch.

## Storylines

Heading into Game Over Jack Ketch had guaranteed himself a World Championship match having won the 20 man Royal Rumble at New Year's Wresolution. On episode 35 Ketch wrestled Freddie Armani and Big Bubba Sanders in a handicap match as a punishment for interfering in Big Bubba's match against Walter Church. On the same show World champion Iestyn Roberts came to the ring and delivered a promo, he was interrupted by Warmachine challenging him to a Fight Pit match on the following episode. On episode 36 Roberts would become dual champion - defeating his former best friend Warmachine in the Fight Pit (a steel cage match where victory is only possible via submission or knockout). Following the match Ketch would appear on the stage to applaud the champion. Ketch would strike on episode 37, attacking Iestyn Roberts backstage following the champions interview with Jordan Chang.

After being absent for months Jessica Saint returned to action on episode 35, squashing Delilah Black in under a minute. The following episode Saint would defeat Penny Pounds in similarly quick fashion. Saint would beat Mercy von Kill on the 22nd June episode only to be attacked by Mama Samedi after the match with the Voodoo Queen locking in the Mandible Claw.

During a backstage interview with Jordan Chang, Irish wrestler Jane Barrett approached Kathy Kross and challenged her to a match the following week. On the following episode the two would meet in the ring with Kross coming away with the win after a hard fought match. Following the match Barrett would offer Kross a handshake only to be rebuffed. Later in the evening Barrett would be interviewed by Freddie Armani on The Salon and stated Kross was “a big fish in a small pond” and threatened to remind her of this. On the final episode before Game Over Barrett approached Kross backstage and challenged her to a title match at the supercard - noting the champion didn’t have a match for the show. Kross declined having beaten Barrett already. During Kathy’s match with Vicoria Wolfe Barrett would cause a distraction allowing Wolfe to roll up the champion for the win and give her only her second loss since debuting. Later in the show Kross would attack Barrett backstage and accept her challenge for a title match.

Following the events of Appetite for Destruction the roster was under the control of The Empire. After their brutal backstage assault on a number of the wrestlers nobody dared stand up against them, this resulted in co-GM drafting in Tazmania who would attack Thornton le Clay in his office on episode 35. On episode 36 Tazmania revealed the other co-GM Walter Church had given him a contract with the proviso he puts an end to The Empire. On the next episode Tazmania defeated Barton Willows in the main event before The Empire came to the ring. Tasmania would fight them all off individually before taking out Thornton le Clay on the ramp. On episode 38 Tazmania would beat Freddie Armani before challenging Thornton le Clay to a match at Game Over. le Clay declined and stated if Tazmania could beat Percy Bolton at Game Over he would face him at the next supercard.

With the ongoing pandemic and travel between countries still restricted the WCC Tag Titles hadn’t been seen on the show since January with one half of the champions Rey Amazonas in Mexico. On episode 36 The Wolverines manager Mistah Woose approached GM Thornton le Clay and arranged for a handicap match between one half of the champions Leopardo Oscuro and The Wolverines. With a 2 on 1 advantage The Wolverines would win the tag team titles for a 3rd time on episode 37 but would have to share the one title belt.

On episode 37 the Beast of Bodmin revealed Fujimoko was now “his pet dragon” and that he was going to unleash his ferocious power on the next episode. Fujimoko made his in ring return on episode 38, beating Jake Major, Damian Santa Cruz and Prince Dorado in a 3 on 1 handicap beat the clock challenge.

## Event

### Preliminary Matches

The pre-show match saw Starbuck and Power, West Coast Connection and the Bombay Bad Boyz compete in a triple threat tag team match to determine the number one contenders to The Wolverines tag team titles. Ali Kazam would pick up a win for his team, pinning Prince Adaze.

The first match on the night was the inaugural Big Daddy Memorial Battle Royal named after the legendary British wrestler. During the match Big Bubba would eliminate Freddie Armani in revenge for the comments Armani had made about his partner Britney Beth. The final two came down to Bubba and Rick Basher, Basher countered a chokeslam and tossed Bubba into the turnbuckle, Bubba would retaliate with a clothesline before Irish whipping Basher out of the ring to win.

The second match of the night was for the WCC Women’s Championship match pitting champion Kathy Kross against Jane Barrett. Towards the end of the match Barrett delivered a spear to Kross who rolled out of the ring only to be distracted by the debuting Chaos Pact (Grand Aoki and Yoko Hamada), this allowed Barrett to take control. Kross fought back and hit an Ayr Raid prompting Chaos Pact to rush the ting, Kross fought them off before hitting a Big Boot to Barrett to pin and win.

The following match was the WCC Tag Team Title match. Prior to the match Victor Wolfe told his cousin he had a surprise for him with DJ assuming it was the other tag team belt - much to his disappointment it was a t-shirt which read “Tag Team Champion” with an arrow pointing to a picture of the tag team belt. A long and arduous match ended with the Bombay Bad Boyz hitting DJ Wolfe with a double superkick, Karma Mistry then brawled on the outside of the ring with Victor Wolfe. As Ali Kazam looked for a submission hold DJ fought free and hit him with a stalling suplex before pinning and winning the match.

Night two opened with Mama Samedi vs Jessica Saint. Mama Samedi came to the ring flanked by zombified versions of Delilah Black, Penny Pounds and Mercy Von Kill. The match spilled to the outside with Saint hitting a crossbody off the top turnbuckle to Samedi at ringside. As the two fought back into the ring Samedi vanished before reappearing behind Saint and locking on the mandible claw.

The following match was Tazmania vs Percy Bolton with Bolton’s career on the line.After driving the veteran Bolton through the barricade at ringside, Tazmania rolled back into the ring and won via countout. Infuriated by this, Thornton le Clay who had accompanied Bolton to the ring slid in and hit Tazmania with a Pedigree before making the referee restart the match with no DQ and no count outs. The pair would wail on each other with chairs and the steel steps before Tazmania hit a fisherman brainbuster and picked up the win.

### Main Event

The main event saw Iestyn Roberts defend the World title against Royal Rumble winner Ketch. After a bloody and brutal match it seemed Iestyn Roberts had the match won with a Swansea Swing but as he went to cover Ketch, Fujimoko appeared with his Ace with the Case briefcase to cash in his title opportunity. The Dragon King dropped Roberts with a drop toe hold and hit Ketch with a Dragon’s Breath only for Ketch to kick out at 2. The three scrapped until a desperate Roberts hit Ketch with a chair, taking him out of the match. Back in the ring he blocked a Dragon’s Breath and hit Fujimoko with a Swansea Swing to retain the title.

## Aftermath

Following Game Over 2021 World Championship CAWs moved to a new venue, the Apollo Theater in London and began airing a new show - Lights Out. On the first show Jessica Saint rushed the ring during Mama Samedi’s match with Britney Beth and surprised everyone by attacking Britney instead of the woman who beat her at Game Over. DJ Wolfe would abandon his cousin in a tag match against the debuting Beefcake Express leaving Victor to take the pin fall. Chaos Pact would make their presence felt after Kathy Kross defeated Heather Grey and Cardinal Sin debuted during a Iestyn Roberts promo.