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On this week’s MLW Underground, we saw the heavily built-up War Chamber match between the newest heel faction The Calling going against MLW Champion Alex Hammerstone and The Second Gear Crew.

This was taped in New York City earlier this month with Joe Dombrowski and Matt Striker on the call.

We saw Davey Boy Smith Jr. picking his number for Battle Riot V out of the traditional tumbler as we were reminded this year’s match will be on next week’s show. 

The upcoming Opera Cup tournament was also hyped.

The Calling (AKIRA, Delirious, Rickey Shane Page, Dr. Cornwallis) (w/ Raven) defeated MLW Champion Alex Hammerstone & The Second Gear Crew (Mance Warner, 1 Called Manders, Matthew Justice) in a War Chamber match

Delirious and Cornwallis were surprise entrants for Raven’s team.

Page and Manders were first in for their teams and it didn’t take Page long to use start using weapons as he took a wrench to Manders’ mouth. Manders came back with a spinebuster and gave as good as he got with the wrench to Page’s mouth.

AKIRA entered next, German suplexed Manders, and gave him some Kawada kicks to give his team the advantage. Justice was quickly out to even the odds and smash The Calling with a chair in the corners. Manders then picked up his partner and launched him into his opponents.

Delirious was the first surprise entrant for The Calling and hit two Panic Attack running knees as The Calling took control and slowed the match down again.

Hammerstone was in next to give each member of The Calling a German suplex and a power bomb to Delirious for good measure.

The huge masked man Cornwallis was out next to complete The Calling. He hit an impressive spinning heel kick to Hammerstone before his team began using weapons to get the advantage. Page took a fork to Justice’s head, Cornwallis used the wrench on Hammerstone, and AKIRA was using the chair.

Hammerstone seemed to get legitimately injured when AKIRA and Cornwallis each grabbed a leg and pulled them apart. From that point, Hammerstone was visibly in pain on the mat and crawled to the cage door to be helped to the back. This could have been the storyline reason his babyface team lost the match or even the reason they lost if the decision was switched. They even played it up at the end of the episode when MLW founder Court Bauer began talking about the future of the title. I would have maybe expected a more vicious kayfabe injury than a groin pull, so my guess it that it was legit.

Warner came out last and made the save for his team, taking out his opponents one at a time. Cornwallis was taken out by the cage door, Delirious got his bare foot bitten, and Page got chopped in the corner.

The Second Gear Crew started throwing chairs around, dislodging the barbed wire from the top of the cage. Manders and Justice tried a top rope Doomsday Device with a steel chair on AKIRA for the first pinfall attempt.

There was a parade of big moves as everyone had a chance to shine. Manders hit Cornwallis with a suplex and Delirious with a lariat, AKIRA suplexed Manders on his head and then Warner jabbed AKIRA and built up to a big flip, flop and fly Dusty Rhodes elbow.

Manders used a chair for a running knee strike, but hurt his leg. Justice then hit Page with an unprotected chair shot which seemed to wake him up as Page got to his feet quickly and hit a big boot.

Masked men then came out and helped get some tables into the ring. Page and Manders were bleeding as they went to the top rope where Manders ended up suplexing Page through the table that had two chairs set up on it.

Delirious broke up a pinfall by hitting his top rope splash, followed by Justice doing the same thing as Delirious tried to make the pin. Justice was on the receiving end of a running knee from AKIRA before falling victim to a DDT from Page for The Calling to pick up the pinfall win. 

– Delmi Exo called out Taya Valkyrie and wants the MLW Women’s Featherweight title as Valkyrie “has one foot out the door anyway.”

– MLW Fusion will be returning in the summer.

– We saw an ambulance arriving at the building for Hammerstone as Bauer told Sam Laterna he had never seen Hammerstone in as much pain as he is in just now. They started talking about possibly vacating the title when Alex Kane interrupted and said they should crown him as he is the uncrowned king. 

This brought in Davey Boy Smith Jr. who reminded him he beat him last week. The inevitable brawl ensued, but it quickly included the whole MLW roster as the announcers hyped up next week’s Battle Riot V match.