1st Tag-Team Tournament

## Overview

Following his return Commissioner William Regal announced the first ever WWYD Tag-Team Tournament. It would follow the format of The Queen's Cup in featuring sixteen teams in four qualifying groups of four followed by Semi-Finals and a Final. Unfortunately, it was mired in controversy thanks to the Med Event Mafia's Hospitalisation of Brooke Shields after the Group Stage. It was won by The Cuban Connection who defeated The BFFs in an all-Med Event Mafia final.

## Teams

* American Made
* Facial Attraction
* The BFFs
* The Cuban Connection
* GTFO
* Corny's Cougars
* Bang Gang
* Brit Slap
* T&A
* Yellow Fever
* The Rulers
* The Fats
* Black Panthers
* Goth Girls
* Bollywood Babes

## Storylines and Controversies

Less than half an hour after the tournament started, Monica Bellucci complained to Sir Charles Lynton about William Regal's handling of the match between The Cuban Connection and Corny's Cougars. After an irate Jim Cornette challenged Bellucci to face Catherine Zeta-Jones, Regal intervened, and this led to the first ever Mixed Inter-gender Tag Match which pitted Bellucci and Damian Hurley against Cornette and Zeta-Jones. The former team won 59-41.

The two Med Event Mafia teams, The Cuban Connection and The BFFs, both topped their groups. The former would face GTFO, the team of Liz Hurley and Scarlett Johansson, while the latter were set-up for an encounter with American Made, the team of Cindy Crawford and Brooke Shields. Salma Hayek had hated Shields ever since their blood feud and vowed to take her revenge. Following a training session, Brooke Shields was leaving via a parking lot when she was accosted by Hayek, flanked by Penelope Cruz and Lauren Jauregui, as Shields went to run from them Ana de Armas hit her with a flying kick from the roof of a car. The Med Event Mafia proceeded to deliver a four-on-one beatdown on Shields, who was left in a bloody mess. She was committed to hospital where she was visited by Crawford, Michelle Pfeiffer and Barbara Palvin who were visibly upset by what had happened. To add insult to injury, William Regal announced that the Semi-Final still had to go ahead and that Crawford would have to find a substitute partner. Then Dr Willa Wanda appeared to explain that according to the Rules, the substitute had to come from a "retainer on reserve", who was listed as Lizzo. Crawford -- winner of both Queen's Cup III and WWYD5 -- was now faced with the ignominy of teaming up with WWYD's lowest jobber. However, Special Investigator Robert Mruczek had obtained CCTV footage of the incident from the parking lot, and Regal had no choice but to call the police on the Med Event Mafia as it was a clear case of assault. The Semi-Finals were immediately stopped and postponed. At the trial, Justice Clarence Thomas was persuaded by Bellucci's defence, and dismissed the case leaving the Med Event Mafia to go unpunished. By this time, Shields had recovered from her injuries, and the Semi-Finals were restarted. This even worked to the Med Event Mafia's advantage as The Cuban Connection had been losing against GTFO while they appeared to take the advantage after the restart and ended up winning the match, which many considered to be an upset. Meanwhile, The BFFs defeated American Made by the tightest possible margin (51-49), which led Shields devastated and inconsolable.

In the final, The Cuban Connection caused their second upset in a row by defeating their fellow stablemates, The BFFs, 55-45. In their post-match interview, Salma Hayek took the loss graciously, and recognised that "the best team won". Commentators said that the won represented an elevation in status for both Ana de Armas and Lauren Jauregui, who had won her second tournament back-to-back.

## Links

* Group Stage Round 1
* Group Stage Round 2
* Group Stage Round 3
* Semi-Finals (aborted)
* Semi-Finals
* Final