Leave The Door Open (2022)

**Leave The Door Open (2022)** was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Royal Wrestling Kingdom. It was held on April 13, 2022 and was made available to purchase on FITE TV. It is the first live event under the **Leave The Door Open** chronology.

## Production

#### **Background**

RWK: Leave The Door Open is the second supershow produced by the rebranded professional wrestling promotion Royal Wrestling Kingdom. The show's main focus involves Tyson Blade once again facing W1LBUR with the RWK Heavyweight Championship on the line, whilst the first RWK Women's Champion is crowned as Lauren Quintana faces off against Roxi Roberts in the tournament finals.

#### **Storylines**

The RWK: Leave The Door Open show featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers signed by the promotion. Wrestlers portrayed faces (those who portray the "good guys") or heels (the "bad guys") as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a match.

A tournament was announced before the first episode of *Realm* to crown an inaugural RWK Women's Champion, containing six of RWK's best competitors in the women's division. Having earned a first-round bye, Qadira automatically advanced to the semi-finals. In the first-round matches, Lauren Quintana defeated Lilith Young, Roxi Roberts defeated Kaiva Powell and JOLYNE defeated Valentina Kaminska. In the semi-finals, Lauren Quintana defeated Qadira and Roxi Roberts defeated JOLYNE to set up the final, where the winner would walk out as Women's Champion.

As part of his first duties as the new RWK General Manager, Jack Rogue would announce a set of 'golden opportunities' for both the men and women of RWK. For the women, the first contender for the RWK Women's Championship would be decided through two matches, the first being a tag team match where the winners would face each other on the subsequent episode of Realm. It was announced that JOLYNE and Kaiva Powell would team up to face Qadira and Valentina Kaminska at Leave The Door Open.

As part of his first duties as the new RWK General Manager, Jack Rogue would announce a set of 'golden opportunities' for both the men and women of RWK. For the men, the next contender for the RWK Heavyweight Championship would be decided through a fatal-four way, pitting Tyler Keenan, Tyler Quintana and Chris Young up against either one of Tyson Blade, Joseph Diamond or Fabricio Esparza, all dependent on who would be pinned or submitted in the main event on the same night of Realm. Fabricio Esparza would be the lucky competitor to join the match at Leave The Door Open after Joseph Diamond was pinned by Tyson Blade.

At My Life Was Never Eazy, W1LBUR would defeat Tyson Blade in the finals of the RWK Heavyweight Championship Tournament to become the new RWK Heavyweight Champion. On the March 1 episode of Realm, Tyson Blade, Joseph Diamond and Fabricio Esparza competed in a three-way match to determine the new number one contender, which Blade won and would be attacked by W1LBUR post-match. Both W1LBUR and Blade would sign the contract to make the match official in a pre-recorded segment posted to the company's official YouTube page, where RWK General Manager Jack Rogue revealed the match stipulation to be within a steel cage.

## Event

#### **Preliminary matches**

The show opened with Roxi Roberts facing Lauren Quintana in the finals of the RWK Women's Championship Tournament for the vacant RWK Women's Championship. In the climax of the match, Roberts would perform back-to-back Blinder’s on Quintana to win the match and become the inaugural RWK Women’s Champion.

Next, the team of Qadira & Valentina Kaminska took on the team of JOLYNE & "Primetime" Kaiva Powell. There was chaos throughout the match, with numerous nearfalls and partner interceptions by both teams. In the end, Kaminska would perform two continuous powerbombs onto JOLYNE to win the match. After the match, Kaminska and Qadira would confront one another, shadowing their upcoming number one contender's match for the RWK Women's Championship on REALM.

In the penultimate match, Chris Young took on Fabricio Esparza, Tyler Keenan & Tyler Quintana in a fatal-four way elimination match to become the number one contender to the RWK Heavyweight Championship. Chris Young would be eliminated early on in the match following a Self Control from Quintana. Esparza would be eliminated next following a surprise Streets of Gold from Keenan. In the climax of the match, Keenan and Quintana would trade signature and finisher moves in a tightly-contested contest. Keenan would gain the advantage with a Streets of Gold before planting Quintana with a California Cult Classic to win the match.

#### Main Event

In the main event of the night, RWK Heavyweight Champion W1LBUR took on Tyson Blade in a Steel Cage match for the RWK Heavyweight Championship. It would be a closely-fought match between the two, with each trading finishers to try and defeat the other. In the end, Blade would decide against climbing down the cage and instead attempted to perform a crossbody onto W1LBUR below. The champion would move out of the way, before performing His World upon Blade to win the match.

## Results

 **2.** | Qadira & Valentina Kaminska def. JOLYNE & "Primetime" Kaiva Powell