Marz & Violent`J are careening toward a full year as reigning Duo Division Champions, but this week's set-up for their defense at Tower of Power XVII was only one of the stories this week. Six teams were successfully chosen for The Challenger 7 at Pre-Show 85, but an unexpected tie in the qualifiers means its anybody's guess who the seventh team will be!
The Rage in the Cage main event proved the Steel Cage dishes out pain without discrimination. Just competing with Ratt is a big deal. The unexpected win came at a price, but is a major feather in the cap for "American Nightmare" LordSkarlet! Shame it had to be on a Pre-Show. Cages are a big deal and really belong to the biggest available stage.
Was the assault on Friday Night Fights the biggest story of the week? It's hard to say. DaemonX wouldn't usually be expected to take such extreme measures, but even in the dying days of ICWW, Banging was an important piece of his game plan. Losing him to The British Exit isn't the end for The Invasion, but it certainly helps the otherwise outclassed Brexit collective remain competitive. We should find out just how competitive they intend to be during tonight's Monday Night Invasion.
In all the chaos it could easily be overlooked that The Invasion recruited a champion into their ranks last Monday! SubScorpTile proved his value as investment with a solid Division 2 Championship defense at the close of Tournament 75! This technically gives The Invasion domain over two titles (including Violent`J's Duo gold), diminishing the concern over Statix and his KFL Championship.
The United did some light recruiting this week, as well. Shoe's problems with Poasty have been well documented, but nobody could've expected that Poasty's Tournament 75 Third Round loss could be a part of that! Murdoink revealed his return to the group at Pre-Show 85! That brings the current incarnation of the group to a membership of six -- The United's biggest!
Factions may be growing, but The League was shocked to lose one of its Duo Division players in Challenger 7 qualifying. rxvt became the latest casualty of a particularly brutal year, succumbing to "The Alliance" AlbertBeefcake & The_Hurricane in a pretty standard match. He was clearly fighting hurt during the pair's recent run of success.
The race for the Duo Division Championship should be the focus of the next week. Supercard 85: Tower of Power XVII will mark the 364th consecutive day of Team Xtreme as champs! If they retain this Sunday, their full year is all but assured! Hoping to unset them will be TonyTheTiger & CaTigeReptile -- the all-star pairing who earned #1 spot at Supercard 84: Return to the Dark Carnival. Win, lose, or draw -- history will be made this weekend! Be here for full results!
The Great Arena League Top Ten:
#1 (--) Banging
#2 (--) United: Shoe
#3 (+1) The Great Genku
#4 (+3) Benjamin
#5 (-2) ElJobber
#6 (--) Scott-Howell
#7 (-2) United: Hokey [Royal Roulette]
#8 (--) AlbertBeefcake
#9 (--) DaemonX
#10 (--) Jammer2Omega
The Great Arena Duo Division Top Ten:
#1 (--) Jammer2Omega & Porygonix
#2 (--) CCShadow & Scott-Howell
#3 (--) DaemonX & Banging
#4 (--) "The United" Shoe & Artanix
#5 (--) "The Alliance" AlbertBeefcake & The_Hurricane
#6 (--) "The Greek Crisis" maxilos & proXade
#7 (--) "The New Generation" Baraka_MK & Onryo
#8 (--) Sekktor & legoslayer10
#9 (--) McDaniel & fraysol
#10 (--) UlcaTron & Corrupt hydraslash
The Division 2 Under 5k Top Ten:
#1 (--) Banging
#2 (+1) Benjamin
#3 (-1) Scott-Howell
#4 (--) AlbertBeefcake
#5 (--) DaemonX
#6 (--) Jammer2Omega
#7 (--) Porygonix
#8 (+1) The_Hurricane
#9 (-1) Politics
#10 (RE) Chromatose
The Invasion/Alliance Independent Top Ten:
#1 (+1) The Great Genku (Invasion)
#2 (+1) AlbertBeefcake (Alliance)
#3 (+1) DaemonX (Invasion)
#4 (+1) The_Hurricane (Alliance)
#5 (+1) Statix (Alliance) [KFL Champion]
#6 (+1) Chromatose (Invasion)
#7 (+1) Loopster (Invasion)
#8 (RE) Jason_Voorhees (Invasion)
#9 (RE) UlcaTron (Alliance)
#10 (--) edge (Invasion)
The Incapacitated List:
- rxvt [vs AlbertBeefcake & The_Hurricane - October 16, 2016]
- marianokombat [vs CaTigeReptile - August 24, 2016]
- xtactics [vs Leroy - August 22, 2016]
- jaytea [vs Artanix, Ken & Baraka_MK - August 13, 2016]
- Celeste [vs Damo - August 11, 2016]
- TheMetinPorta [vs Violent`J - June 22, 2016]
- Menas [vs Genku - June 20, 2016]
- Knickxasawrrrr [vs Mime - May 22, 2016]
- Crow [vs Ratt - April 3, 2016]
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