New Year's Wresolution 2022

New Year’s Wresolution was a Supercard show produced by World Championship CAWs. The show was main evented by the second ever 20 man Royal Rumble match, which was won by Victor Wolfe, last eliminating Thornton le Clay. On the undercard Iestyn Roberts retained the World Championship against Crosshair

## New Year's Wresolution

### Storylines

On episode 5 of Lights Out Iestyn Roberts came out to celebrate retaining the World title and thank the fans only to be confronted by Crosshair who challenged him to a championship match at the upcoming Supercard. On the following episode Roberts would defend his title against the debuting Sabbath. Sabbath had been handpicked by Crosshair to destroy Roberts and came close, with the pair having an intense back and forth match, however the champion would retain. Following the match Crosshair would race to the ring and hit Roberts from behind before hitting him with the championship belt. The champion would call out the challenger on episode 7 with Crosshair attempting a springboard attack only for Roberts to knock him out of the air with a European uppercut, followed by a Swansea Swing.

After his loss to Thornton le Clay at Something Halloween’y, Tazmania’s access to the arena was revoked. He informed the security staff he would be back the following episode and wasn’t coming alone. On episode 6 two unnamed men would attack The Empire’s Barton Willows after Willows beat Bad News Jackson to qualify for the rumble. Later in the show Tazmania revealed they were The Insurrection and would continue to show up and disrupt the production unless le Clay added Tazmania to the Royal Rumble. On the January 17th episode le Clay would agree to add Tazmania to the rumble match, if he could beat the unbeaten Jack Ketch - so confident was he that if he could beat Ketch le Clay stated he would enter the rumble himself, at number one.

Sara Saint would make her in-ring return on episode 5 following a successful spell as Frontline Women’s champion facing Mama Samedi. With Saint looking to hit the X-Factor the lights went out and when they returned Sara’s twin Jessica was stood in the ring dressed as Mama Samedi, she blew her sister a kiss and locked in a Mandible Claw. On the January 3rd episode Sara would challenge her sister to an extreme rules match. The Saint sisters would main event episode 7 in a brutal extreme rules match with Sara pinning Jessica. After the match Sara would grab a chair only for Jessica to beg her not to hit her, as Sara hesitated Jessica sprung to action and caught her sister in a Mandible Claw.

Backstage on episode 5 Starbuck and Power, dressed as state troopers, began interrogating members of the roster regarding the parking lot assault on DJ Wolfe. They started with the West Coast Connection who failed to beat The Wolverines at Something Halloween’y, only for them to refuse to cooperate. Starbuck and Power then challenged them to a match - with the stipulation if they won, the West Coast Connection would have to answer their questions. After Starbuck and Power won the match, Bone would insinuate the attacker was Big Bubba - whom DJ had previously attacked with a sledgehammer. After his match with Freddie Armani, Starbuck and Power approached Big Bubba with some questions with the big man stating they should check the CCTV. On episode 7 the pair revealed to Victor Wolfe they had obtained the CCVT footage and were a step closer to finding out who attacked his cousin. Following Victor’s win over Damian Santa Cruz, Starbuck came to the ramp to unveil the CCTV footage - showing Victor was the one responsible for attacking his cousin.

New women’s champion Victoria Wolfe would appear backstage on episode 5 to say “sayonara” to Kathy Kross as the Chaos Pact headed to Japan to win the ATOM World Championship and Duet titles.

After losing the Commonwealth championship scrum to Britney Beth, Freddie Armani would issue a challenge for the title - pitting his new partner Mercy von Kill against Britney. Backstage when questioned about this, Big Bubba would issue a challenge of his own to Freddie. The two would compete in a Royal Rumble qualifying match, with the added stipulation the loser of the match would have to wear a pink bunny costume for the next year. On episode six Bubba would defeat Armani, qualifying for his second Royal Rumble and consigning his opponent to a year dressed as a bunny. Over consecutive episodes Britney would defend the title against Mercy von Kill and Jane Barrett. On episode 8 a returning Akiko would win a battle royale to become number 1 contender to Beth’s Commonwealth championship.

After a victory over Rick Basher, Jack Ketch would be attacked from behind by the Gorgon - the newest member of His Infernal Minions. On the following episode the Beast of Bodmin would announce a match between Thirteen and Ketch before “unleashing his pet dragon, Fujimoko”. Ketch would defeat Thirteen and would issue an ultimatum to Fujimoko, to “strap on a pair or he was going to come find him”.

### Event

#### Preliminary Matches

The night began with Sara Saint and Mercy von Kill taking on the pair of Mama Samedi and Jessica Saint AKA Duo Dyabolik. Jessica would pick up the win for her team after shunting her twin from the ring apron and applying a mandible claw to von Kill.

Backstage as Victor Wolfe was arriving to the arena, Starbuck would challenge the tag champion to a match for the titles on the following episode.

The following match would see Britney Beth successfully defend the Commonwealth title against Akiko. After a close back and forth Britney would pick up the win after an avalanche Samoan drop. After the match, while Britney was celebrating Akiko’s tag partner Cherry Pi attacked the champion from behind.

The World championship ladder match closed out part 1 of the show with Iestyn Roberts defending against Crosshair.

A refocused Jake Major would defeat local talent Aidan Mac in under 3 minutes after locking on a Rings of Saturn and forcing a submission victory.

#### Main Event

The main event of the night was the 20 man Royal Rumble match. The first two entrants were general manager Thornton le Clay and Ali Kazam. Le Clay would make short work of Kazam, throwing him out after less than a minute. The third entrant was Tazmania. Tasmania and le Clay would flip each other off before le Clay exited the ring. Tasmania would chase him up the ramp and the two would brawl around the arena for the bulk of the match. With the ring steadily filling up with competitors Jack Ketch would arrive at number 10 and begin eliminating competitors Entrant 13 was Zulite the Great, who came wielding a steel chair and started cracking skulls. Returning at number 20, the previously injured Davey Joe Wolfe, came looking for revenge against his cousin.

Tazmania and le Clay would fight their way back to the ring, making a final five of Sabbath, Taz, le Clay, Victor and DJ Wolfe. With Sabbath eliminated Victor would take out his cousin before Thornton took out Tazmania. Finally Victor would eliminate Thornton who had been in the match over 30 minutes to win the rumble.