Inaugural WSC Hardcore Championship Gauntlet Match

**The Inaugural WSC Hardcore Gauntlet Match**, titled **Hardcore Championship Gauntlet Action Figure Match!**, was the first ever match of WSC and the match to determine the first ever WSC Hardcore Champion. The match featured Edge, Cactus Jack, Shane McMahon, Jon Moxley, and Jeff Hardy, which saw Moxley won, last pinning Hardy.

### Background

It all started when The Stage Creator started revealing three new custom championships. one was the WWE 24/7 Championship, the NXT North American Championship, and the one covered in the white jacket was the WSC Hardcore Championship. Nathan says as followed:

"Now what is this championship for? Well, every week, the championship will be defended in hardcore rule stipulations, which means no count-outs, no disqualifications, pinfalls count everywhere, which is going to bring about the most epic and crazy action figure matches you have ever seen."

He then revealed that the five men competing for the title will be Shane McMahon, Jeff Hardy, Cactus Jack, Edge, and Jon Moxley (FKA Dean Ambrose) in a 5-Man Gauntlet Match under hardcore rules. The Match then started the following day.

### The Match

#### Jack V Edge

The Match starts off with Edge and Cactus Jack. Right off the bat, Jack repeatedly hits Edge with the Trash Can Jack brought. Jack then went to grab a Barbed Wire Baseball Bat, but got Low Blowed by Edge. Edge then proceeds to absolutely batter Jack with said bat. Edge went for a spear, but got caught with a Mandible Claw with Barb Wire wrapped around Jack's hand. Edge managed to get out of hit by throwing Finlay the Referee into Jack, which then leads Edge into cracking Jack with a Steel Chair and does his patented Conchairto, though Jack kicked out.

Jack then reversed a Spear into a Package Piledriver and a Elbow Drop. The two then fight at the ramp and arena. Edge then Spears Jack and himself off the arena into a cardboard box, which leads to Edge pinning Jack. Cactus Jack is eliminated.

#### Edge V McMahon

As Jack is laid out on a stretcher, Shane McMahon is up on top of the titantron. McMahon then leaps off the titantron and hits Edge with a diving elbow drop into a pin. Edge is eliminated.

#### McMahon V Moxley

Shane escapes the box while Jon Moxley enters. Moxley then proceeds to leap off the ramp into McMahon and beats his ass. Moxley then drags McMahon back in the ring. Just as Moxley was reaching in for a weapon under the ring, Hornswoggle interferes the match which leads to Moxley beating him up real good (which kicks off their rivalry). Moxley throws a bunch of chairs into the ring but gets caught by McMahon with a crutch. Mox, pissed, grabs his Barbed Wire Baseball Bat while McMahon is begging for mercy. This tricks Moxley as Shane hits him with a Low Blow. Moxley being pissed than ever grabs McMahon and Superplex's him into the bunch of chairs. Moxley attempts to hit McMahon with the bat again, but gets clobbered by Hornswoggle with a Fire Extinguisher and proceeds to use it. As McMahon gets ready for a Coast-to-Coast, Moxley hits him with the Trash Can McMahon placed and hits him with the bat. Mox then Paradigm Shift's (back then known as Dirty Deeds) McMahon into the pile of chairs for the pin. Shane McMahon is eliminated.

#### Moxley V Hardy

Moxley looks under the ring to look for weapons. He then grabs Hornswoggle, who apparently is holding Titus O'Neil. Titus then goes back into the ring as Moxley handles Swoggle, where he punts Swoggle into the crowd. Finally, out comes Jeff Hardy, where he would beat Moxley's ass. Hardy performs a Swanton Bomb, but Moxley still kicked out.

Hardy went to pull out a Ladder, but Moxley leaps in for a Suicide Dive. Mox then sets up a Table with Hardy on it, where Moxley would hit him with a Diving Elbow Drop, but Jeff kicked out also.

Moxley then lay's out Hardy on the announcer's table, but as he's climbing a ladder, Hardy gets up and tips Moxley off the ladder through another announcer's table. Hardy goes up for a Swanton Bomb to Moxley on said table, But Moxley rolls out of the way, with Hardy crashing into the table. Moxley then goes for the Dirty Deeds, and pins Hardy. We have are first ever WSC Hardcore Champion!!!

### Competitors

**Bold = Winner**

**Jon Moxley** | Lasted 6:31

Jeff Hardy | Lasted 2:22

Shane McMahon | Lasted 3:48

Edge | Lasted 3:11

Cactus Jack | Lasted 2:38