Med Event Mafia vs. The Pantheon

## Overview

WWYD4 was dominated by by the events of this storyline and Monica Bellucci's revenge mission against Jennifer Connelly. It marked the first time that a Commissioner was also an active WWYD Superstar. Bellucci was very prepared to use and abuse her powers to give either herself or other Med Event Mafia superstars advantages. She proved to be a much more interventionist commissioner than her predecessor, William Regal. Before the tournament started Liz Hurley, a member of The Pantheon, approached Bellucci with "DNA Evidence" proving that she is, in fact, Italian. So desperate was Hurley to join the Med Event Mafia that she offered Bellucci her son, Damian Hurley, as a "manservant" to sweeten the deal. Bellucci accepted and Hurley was now a "Med", even though many privately doubted the credulity of her DNA results. As part of the deal, Hurley had Vanessa Ferlito fired from the group, changed her positioning in the bracket and secured Lizzo as a Round 1 opponent, whom she would go on to defeat 95-5.

In Round 1 of the tournament, Jennifer Connelly was originally booked to face Yekaterina Lisina, a 6'9" giant, but Bellucci changed this to replace Lisina with Salma Hayek. Just before the tournament began, Hayek begged Bellucci to change the booking again ostensibly so Hayek could fulfill her blood-feud against Brooke Shields. Hayek convinced Bellucci to make Alexandra Daddario the opponent instead as a "secret weapon" to take the champion out. Daddario started the match strongly. Special Investigator Robert Mruczek noted irregularities with the voting for Daddario but when he brought these to Bellucci's attention, he was fired and replaced by her "manservant", Damian Hurley. When Connelly made a comeback, Bellucci was about to disqualify her for allegedly cheating when Silvio Berlusconi made a rare intervention to prevent this from taking place. Bellucci cried in front of Berlusconi begging to allow him to disqualify Connelly. Instead, Damian was tasked with finding evidence for cheating. When he was unable to find such evidence, Bellucci had him whipped over 100 times. Shortly after Round 1, a mysterious video featuring Jenna Ortega and Anya Mikheeva emerged following the latter's 75-25 loss to Anna de Armas, in it footage emerged that appeared to show de Armas was secretly working for Bellucci. Bellucci won her own Round 1 match against #2 Seed Scarlett Johansson 55-45, in a strong start for the Med Event Mafia.

In Round 2, during her own match against Zooey Deschanel, Bellucci fell behind. When she realised she was losing she stopped the match and disqualified Deschanel on the grounds of cheating, although she offered no evidence for this and ruled out an investigation. When Bellucci later pulled back in front against Deschanel, she then reversed the decision, announced there had been "a mistake", and declared the final results of the match to be valid. Bellucci narrowly defeated Deschanel 51-49 -- a far cry from the heights of her WWYD2 form. Deschanel took the events with dignity and did not complain. Also during Round 2, Salma Hayek had fallen behind Brooke Shields in their hotly-anticipated and emotionally-charged match, she pleaded with the Commissioner to force Damian Hurley into making a special investigation to prove Shields was cheating. Rather than compile his report, Hurley engaged in increasingly bizarre behaviour, including dancing around like a girl in a shampoo advert and wearing his mother's dresses and other clothes. Bellucci grew increasingly impatient with Damian. Damian turned to his mother in desperation looking for an escape from the abusive Bellucci. This led a desperate Damian to turn to Hurley's old boyfriend Hugh Grant for help, which resulted in Silvio Berlusconi "putting out a hit" on Damian for "crossing the family".

In Round 3, Bellucci became suspicious of Denise Richards, whom she had disliked from her draw with her at the Queen's Cup II, in her match against Keira Knightly. Since Damian was missing, appointed Salma Hayek as the new Special Investigator to look into "irregularities" in the Richards vs. Knightly match. Hayek did find suspicious activity, but since Richards lost the match narrowly, 52-48, nothing came of the investigation. However, later it was used as the basis for the Suspension of Denise Richards.

In the Quarter-Finals of the tournament, The Pantheon definitively defeated the Med Event Mafia when all four of its remaining members -- Brooke Shields, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cindy Crawford, and Jennifer Connelly -- went through to the Semi-Finals. Bellucci had drawn the Queen's Cup winner, Crawford. Despite playing her signature shot Bicycle Bombshell, Bellucci lost 53-47 to Crawford has played her own signature shot Blue Denim for the victory, which many considered an upset. One reason that Bellucci did not attempt to overturn these results is because during these matches, The Consortium Takeover occurred, which heralded the end of the Med Event Mafia era. Hugh Grant had rescued Damian Hurley. When Damian was dancing around Grant's garden, an assassin -- who appeared to be Ana de Armas working under Bellucci's (and Berlusconi's) orders -- tried to kill him. When a shaken Damian asked Grant what they might do, Grant immediately called his old friend, Tony Blair who used his influence over Berlusconi to broker a deal in which the WWYD Franchise would be sold to The Consortium Inc.. As part of the deal, Bellucci and her team were to be replaced, and they were ordered not to "rock the boat" while the transfer was taking place. This accounts for why Bellucci did not try to disqualify any of The Pantheon during the Quarter-Finals.

During the Semi-Finals, the Med Event Mafia were moving out of the Med Event Mafia Offices, when Bellucci became tearful and said she had let her teammates down and "failed the Southern hemisphere". Salma Hayek responded with loyalty saying that Bellucci would "always be their queen" and Lauren Jauregui led the whole faction to cheer for Bellucci in solidarity. Only Liz Hurley did not join in, rather she denounced them and denied she ever had any Italian blood while posing in front of a British flag.

After Jennifer Connelly won her fourth straight WWYD title beating Michelle Pfeiffer in the final, Brooke Shields and Cindy Crawford drew their match 50-50. Bellucci tried to abuse her power one final time by declaring herself the #3 Seed. William Regal returned and tried to persuade Bellucci to stop with this attempt and simply calculate who had the highest average score between Shields and Crawford in the tournament. Bellucci challenged him to name an opponent for a special no-DQ 1-hour sprint match -- if she won, she would become #3 Seed and if she lost, it would be done Regal's way. Regal named Denise Richards as the opponent, and Bellucci lost 63-37. From the next day, she would be reduced to being a regular WWYD Superstar and stripped of her powers. Regal became commissioner once again. Bellucci would be #6 Seed for WWYD5. However, the events of that tournament, including the dark Med Event Mafia Dominate Damian storyline and Shields-gate would lead to a renewal of the feud.