Med Event Mafia's Arrangement with Jeremy Hunt

## Overview

With William Regal back as Commissioner, the Med Event Mafia had lost their leverage over management. However, Head Referee Jeremy Hunt -- who had been appointed by Sir Charles Lynton after a bust-up with Walter Day over decisions he had taken for commercial rather than ethical reasons (see the Pantheon Boycott for details) -- had already let The Fingernail of Doom take place at Queen's Cup V; he seemed ... open to persuasion. When Special Investigator Robert Mruczek pointed out irregularities in the match between Michelle Pfeiffer and Ana de Armas, Hunt was content to let it go. He was later seen receiving "favours" from De Armas in much the manner she had done for Clarence Thomas. This all but confirmed Hunt was now a Med Event Mafia asset.

The Meds had a catastrophic Quarter-Finals with Bellucci drawing with newcomer Alica Schmidt, Hayek losing her long-awaited blow-off match with Brooke Shields, and De Armas losing to Cindy Crawford; Penelope Cruz had crashed out in Round 3 to Schmidt also. Bellucci confronted Hunt with a gun and demanded that something be done citing irregularities in her match with Schmidt. Mruczek did note unusual jumps in Schmidt's scoreline (Med Event Mafia fans had incessantly complained this had happened in her match with Cruz also), but Regal shut down the investigation and declared nothing should be done. He had vowed that he would be avenged for the trauma of being put through a trail by the Meds and said he was sick of the mayhem they had been causing since their comeback. This meant only Lauren Jauregui, widely considered the "least talented" of the group despite her recent successes, was left. Jauregui had scored the tightest victory possible (51-49) over the resurgent Nigella Lawson. Bellucci declared it the group's "Darkest Hour". To make matters worse, the draw between Bellucci and Schmidt had gifted Brooke Shields a bye straight into the final: something had to be done.

Shortly before the Semi-Finals, Regal and Mruczek were reported missing. Hunt assumed the powers of both the Commissioner and the Special Investigator in their absence. Jauregui, terrified of being humiliated in a thrashing, requested that her Semi-Final match against Crawford should be a 5-on-1. Hunt granted this -- a highly questionable decision, but, in the absence of Regal, the decision stood. Remarkably, Crawford held the entire Med Event Mafia to a draw. Meanwhile, it was revealed that Regal and Mruczek had been imprisoned in the Med Event Mafia Lair, Cruz had held a gun to his head as Bellucci told him he would not escape alive. Regal and Mruczek then embarked on a perilous adventure to try to escape the lair which they eventually managed to do after facing various challenges. Regal returned and declared the final would be a triple-threat match between Jauregui, Crawford and Shields with the rest of the Med Event Mafia barred from ringside. Then, much to everyone's surprise, including Bellucci's (and likely Jauregui's), Jauregui defeated both members of American Made by successfully splitting the vote to take the match 37-34-29. The result, largely orchestrated by loyal Med Event Mafia fans, proved hugely controversial among WWYD fans, but meant that Jauregui had completed an historic Triple Crown. After the match Jauregui cut an emotional promo dedicating her victory to "all the normal girls and women out there who were never the prom queen." In the ensuing celebrations, Bellucci could not hide her jealousy -- Jauregui now had three trophies to Bellucci's none. No one had ever doubted that Bellucci was the leader of the group, but now her authority was being undermined by Jauregui's successes.