PSW Cast: Bethany Jones

Hometown: Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales

Birth Date: 15/7/2006

Role: Social Media Manager

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Kruscher vs Johnny Cyclone

Deep, booming trumpets play. Kruscher marches out, his expression as cold and hard as his wide, muscular frame. The crowd reaction is mixed; some boo, some cheer, but no one is silent.

David Bekker: The following contest is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, from Moscow, Russia, standing 196 centimetres and weighing in at 132 kilos, KRUSCHER!

SDS: It has been a series of misfortunes for this man. At the Saturday Night Super Fight, he ran the Six-Man Gauntlet to become the first Holder of Dominion, only for Paul Grizzly to come in as the surprise entrant and take the title for himself. Just one week later, at the 2030 draft, he faced Vito Montani in a Number 1 Contender's Match-

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - The Martyr & the Machine

Backstage

Katrina Petrov stands outside a door with a tag: GENERAL MANAGER. While she waits, a quintet of police officers comes into view. The crowd boos Jenever's finest.

Lead Officer: Excuse me, miss. 

Petrov moves aside and gestures for the cameraman to back up as the Lead Officer knocks sharply on the door. 

L.O.: JPD! Open up.

The door opens wide, and Campbell walks out: He's all yours, gents.

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Dennis Zázrak & Seth vs Kraken Khan

Sara Jr finally walks up the ramp with some people in the crowd chanting "YOU SUCK!" over and over. Other fans cheer and even clap for her. Most of them don't care much one way or another. She walks even faster.

SDS: It has been a rough night, largely due to the fallout from last week, which includes our next match, which Jeffrey Campbell announced in his conversation with Sara Blood Jr.

The two big screens show a video montage of the confrontation.

We see the Tectonic Champion, Dennis Zázrak posing under a single spotlight, fresh off defeating Job R. Smith by crushing his hand until he tapped out. We see the former champion, Kraken Khan, storm down.

Khan (pointing, voice deep and growling): You... have something that belongs to me... boy!

Zázrak looks at his own body in confusion.

Khan (holds out his open free hand): And you will HAND IT to me, or I will personally hand... you head to your dear old dad, Martin...

Zázrak (frowns): Who... do you think you are, you ugly, old, masked freak?! You come down to Zázrak's ring, interrupt Zázrak's moment and threaten Zázrak? The Champion? The Groundbreaker?

Kraken: I threaten the coward who ran away like a thief in the night after STEALING my Tectonic Championship!

Zázrak: Zázrak did not run away from YOU at Ascension on Sunday. No, it was... a tactical retreat. Zázrak had already gotten what he came for, and he had no reason to engage in a meaningless street brawl like some-

Khan: SILENCE! You WILL give me back my title or I-

We then see Seth making his way through the crowd. We see Khan shoving Zázrak out of the way to confront Seth. We see Brendan Steele and his men try to intervene, only for Seth to effortlessly leap over them and initiate an insane brawl that sees the monster throwing Steele's men around like toys. 

The brawl ends with Seth sending Khan face-first into the ring post with a Drop Toe Hold before pointing at Zázrak and making a belt motion.

SDS: Seth making his intentions clear. Kraken Khan demanding his title back. If Dennis Zázrak thought he'd have an easy time of it as Groundbreaker, he's got another thing coming!

The video ends.

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Sara Blood Jr vs Torti Gal

Sara Jr runs out on stage to boos and cheers. 

SDS: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the Friday Night Fight Pit! (looks at Santos, returning to his empty seat) And welcome back, partner.

DS (coming back): What did I mi- Dammit!

She bounces on her feet before sprinting down to the ring.

David Bekker: The following contest is a Race Against Time, and it is scheduled for one fall!

Crowd: One fall!

She slides in and climbs the nearest turnbuckle, soaking in the cheers that do come and trying to ignore the boos.

David Bekker: Introducing first, from Staten Island, New York in the USA, standing 196 centimetres and weighing in at 96 kilos, Sara Blood Junior!

DS: Whoops, it seems I need to go again. 

SDS: Sit down! This will only take five minutes.

DS: After the way she stunk up the place in her LAST match, she shouldn't get 5 seconds!

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Minutes & Millennia

Backstage

Sara Jr sprints into the Gorilla position and nearly out the curtain, only to be stopped by Producer Palesa Jeyi: Haibo! Give us a minute, girl.

Sara Jr: B-But I only got five!

Jeyi (rolling her eyes): When the bell rings, kid. Jeff asked for an intermission while security does one last sweep of the arena.

Sara Jr: ... Oh.

Jeyi (soft smile): Get your mind right, do some warm-ups. When it's time, I'll let you know.

Sara Jr (deep breaths): Yeah, I'll... I'll do dat. (looking around) Uh, where's... Tawhti ... Gal? Where's she at?

Jeyi (looking away at the monitors after putting on headphones): She'll be here. Jeff told me it always takes her a while to get in gear, but she's never late.

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Dressing Down & the Dog's Day

Backstage

Cyclone helps the medics carry Grizzly to the back, where another team of medics takes over. The Dominion Champ mumbles in delirium.

Grizzly: Mama... don't wanna... go... school...

Dr Sharma walks in holding the tranq dart, studying it with her usual deadpan: Yes, this is definitely one of ours.

Campbell: You want to tell me why your lot keep bringin' tranq darts to these shindigs?

Dr Sharma (looks at him, while pointing in Grizzly's direction): Because they work.

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Shots Fired

Grizzly: MONTANI! I KNOW YOU'RE IN HERE! Get your ass oot here so I can peel the skin off it! 

Crowd: Vito! Vito! 

Grizzly: Open Season, right?! Well, I'm standing right here!

Crowd: Vito! Vito! Vito! 

Grizzly: Yeah, keep chanting! Keep chanting his name! I'll wipe his blood on each and every one of your faces!

Campbell: Grizzly, mate, that's enough!

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - The Honey Badger vs Kala Kahuna

A virtuosic guitar accompanied by heavy rock riffs plays to a pop. The two big screens show a honey badger going about its day: burrowing, climbing, looking cute, biting the balls of lions. The man himself briskly walks out, looking small, rabid and wounded.

David Bekker: On the way to the ring, from Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa, standing 168 centimetres and weighing in at 104 kilos, the Honey Badger!

SDS: Diogo, I still cannot believe this man is moving around after last week.

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Backstage

An O.R.D.R.L.I. feed appears on the two big screens showing a locker room where Oscar Z. Wallace is sitting, head lowered and shoulder straps down. Suddenly, he gets hit in the face by a towel. The crowd laughs.

The drone pans to show Axel Wallace with his hands on his hips, who gets another loud pop.

Oscar (ripping off the towel): What the hell was that for?

Axel: What the hell were you thinking? 

Oscar (looking down): Sorry.

Axel: I didn't ask for an apology, I asked what you were thinking. Tagging yourself in just so you can charge headlong into an arse-kicking?

Oscar: Thorne pissed me off.

Axel: How?

Oscar: What do you mean 'How'? You heard the crap he was saying about Dad?

Axel: Why would that piss you off?

Oscar (looks up): Why didn't it piss you off? 

Axel: Because I don't care.

Oscar (frowns): You don't care about what Dad would've thought if he saw watched Ascension?

Axel: If he hadn't been feeding the bloody worms back in Brigg the last two years, then sure.

The crowd gasps.

Oscar (stands up and gets in his face): How can you say that?!

Axel (unbothered): I can say it, because he would. (Leaning in) And by 'would', I mean 'has', because he can't say or think or feel anything. (points at him) You are a grown man. Losing your head over some grade-school insults from an old gits who haven't been relevant since you WERE in grade-school is not only dangerous, it's idiotic.

Oscar: Oh, so I'm an idiot now?

Axel: No, you are a hell of a wrestler who I need on his absolute A game or 'Team Wallace' isn't going to work.

Oscar's moustache twitches, his eyes drop and he turns away. 

Axel (grabs him by the shoulder): We're not done talking. 

Oscar turns around.

Axel: Look at me.

Oscar meets his eyes.

Axel: At Ascension we got destroyed, singlehandedly. It happened. There's nothing we can do about it other than what we did tonight: Rack up a win and get ourselves back in the conversation.

Oscar: And then what?

Axel: We just keep doing it. One match at a time until we're standing across from those two freaks again. Tình Nhân might be an old lady with bad back who loves the sound of her own voice, but she's a master of mind games and her boys are weapons of mass destruction. If we can't stay focused then we have no chance of getting those belts back and if we can't become the Tag Team Supreme again, then someone else will, because NO ONE is unbeatable. 

Oscar nods and looks down again.

Axel: ... I just spoke to Campbell. Next week it's going to be us vs the "rockstars" Tom, Dick & Harry. Those blokes might be complete posers, but they're a unit and while we're dealing with two of them, there's going to be a third man on the outside sniffing for blood. You saw how they handled the Battalion Bros last week. As bad as Thorne was, they're even worse. (holds out his hand) Can I count on you?

Oscar looks him right in the eye and clasps his hand: Yeah.

The crowd cheers.

Axel (slaps him on the shoulder): Top man. (starts walking past) And remember what I said. We won tonight. (points at the ceiling) It's only from here. One match at a time.

Oscar (nods and smiles): One match at a time...

Axel (walking to his locker, picks up the towel and throws it Oscar again): Now go take bloody shower, I could smell you from the hallway.

Oscar (catches it): Go **** yourself, Axel!

Axel: That's what the missus is for. You might wanna invest in one of those.

The younger brother just flicks his hand and leaves, lacking a suitable comeback. The crowd laughs and the feed ends.

Arena

DS: Damn, the Axe man is cold-blooded. I love it!

SDS: He's been a World Champion on 6 out of 7 continents for a reason, and he's right. There are hungry teams all over the board. If the Wallaces can't topple Pandemonium-

DS: I don't think anyone can, but if they don't, they're going to be remembered as the first-ever PSW Tag Team Champions who CHOKED a month in.

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Handling Business

A broad-shouldered Caucasian man with a trimmed moustache and a scar over his eye stands in the ring. He wears suspenders hooked to his tights, tape around his fists and an old-school watch chain. He rolls his shoulder, cracks his knucles and pops his neck.

David Bekker: Already in the ring, from Brooklyn, New York in the USA, standing 183 centimetres and weighing in at 118 kilos, "Mr Minute" Louie Mercer!

Mercer holds up his watch to a mild pop.

SDS: The 42nd overall pick at the draft. A technical brawler known in the underground circuit for his 1-minute wins, mostly against hopefuls and rookies. 

DS: I can respect it.

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Truck Stop

As the Wallaces' music echoes throughout the arena, an O.R.D.R.L.I feed appears on the two big screens.

SDS: There we see the World Dominion Champion, Paul Grizzly, fresh off his "title defence". And to the surprise of absolutely no one, he's walking out again.

DS: He handled business, Darryl. He did what Campbell told him to do and everything. You can't fault him for that.

SDS: Right...

As Grizzly, now in street clothes, rounds a corner, he stops. His thick bushy brows raise high enough for his eyes to be visible, finally. 

SDS: What's this now?

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Team Wallace vs the Wild Thornes

The crowd goes wild as a high-pitched guitar riff plays. 

SDS: And here they are, the former Tag Team Champions

Axel and Oscar run out, stop and cross their arms over their heads, creating an X symbol, while pointing their index fingers. 

David Bekker: Introducing first, from Brigg, England, at a combined weight of 204 Kilos, they are the Tag Team Supreme, Axel and Oscar, TEAM WALLACE!

DS: Can you really call them that, Darryl?

SDS: They won those belts at the Super Fight-

DS: And then got sqashed by Pandemonium a month later. You're not really a champion until you defend it.

PSW Fight Pit Episode 2 - Grizzly Business

 

- 10 January 2031

SDS: Welcome everyone to the second episode of Psycho Style Wrestling's Friday Night Fight Pit! I'm "Striking" Darryl Stroligo, joined, as always, by the "Carnival King" himself, Diogo Santos, and we are LIVE from the Dandelion Dome in Jenever. 

DS: I'm still confused about who the hell Jennifer is and why they named a city after her.

SDS: For the 10th time, it's Jen-e-VER!

DS: That's what I said. Jennifer.

SDS: With a V! You say it with a V, like the drink.

DS: Jennifer's a drink? The more you know.

SDS: Nevermind! We have a couple of updates for you, but first, let's take you back to the chaotic ending of our debut episode!