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00:00Deathmatch! There are no disqualifications, no tags, and no rules.
00:05The only way to win is by pinball, submission, or knockout.
00:11Introducing first, from Thessaloniki, Megan Bane!
00:20Blood Red adorning the Megasys, how fitting for this hardcore holiday deathmatch.
00:27We'll touch more on that in just a moment.
00:30Head back to the ring of the Dabry Ampers, Justin Roberts.
00:35And her tag team partner, from Moldova, she is the problem, Marina Shafir!
00:45Marina Shafir, Megan Bane, a makeshift team at the beginning of the tournament due to the injury to Penelope Ford.
00:52Marina Shafir filling in.
00:53But these two women defeated the sentimental favorites, Ty Mello and Anna Jay, to earn their spot in the semifinals.
01:04But if momentum is a thing, I think it is in the hands of their opponents tonight, but we are just moments away from finding out.
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01:40The winners of this match will earn a spot in the finals in the EW Women's World Tag Team Championship Title Tournament against the Babes of Wrath.
01:54Tony Storm, Mina Shirakawa, Timeless Love Balls!
02:04Tony Storm, Mina Shirakawa, and defeating Riho and Alex Windsor in the opening round of the tournament, but Bryan back in full gear.
02:20They won the four-way match to choose the stipulation for this battle, this semifinal round battle.
02:27And they chose the Hardcore Holiday Deathmatch.
02:32Yeah, at first I was a little surprised that they didn't want to do something like that.
02:35But maybe Tony Storm knew her only shot was to be able to throw everything she could at Megan Bain and Marina Shafir if they were going to beat them.
02:46Tony Storm, she's beaten Marina Shafir once this year already, but just barely.
02:51And there you saw at the bottom of your screen, the finals, the inaugural EW Women's World Tag Team Championship Tournament will take place one week from tonight.
02:59Dynamite, winter is coming as we make our return, Tony, to Atlanta, Georgia.
03:04It's going to be a great night of wrestling.
03:06We've got so much more to go here.
03:07You know, you were talking about Bryan and Tony Storm, you know, I think since she lost the world title, she has been on the mission to do as much damage on any opponent as possible.
03:18And this is just an extension of that.
03:21Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of times, sometimes with Tony Storm, decisions that appear to be impulsive are actually strategic.
03:27I mean, look at this.
03:28Just broke a champagne bottle on the head of Marina Shafir.
03:34Yikes.
03:34And now the remnants of that bottle.
03:37Oh, this is dangerous.
03:38This is really, really dangerous.
03:40I mean, these kind of tactics might be the only way that you can beat Marina Shafir and Megan Bain.
03:50But I mean, we saw this could easily get turned around against Mina and Tony Storm because we saw what Megan Bain and Marina Shafir did in Blood and Guts.
04:02The toughness, the resilience of Megan Bain and Marina Shafir are the true difference makers for their partnership.
04:08Mina Shirakawa comes around the corner with the sling blade.
04:13Candy cane assisted.
04:14I think the candy cane may be wrapped in something.
04:17I don't believe it's your normal candy cane wrap.
04:20What was that?
04:21Oh, it looks to me like barbed wire on the candy cane.
04:26Punishing Megan Bain and then the drop kick from Tony Storm.
04:30They have beaten the hell out of Megan Bain in about a two-minute period.
04:34Well, Marina Shafir busted open, I would presume, from that champagne bottle being cracked over her head.
04:40And now the timeless love bombs.
04:46Some assisted offense there from Tony Storm and Mina Shirakawa.
04:50But the barbed wire wrapped candy cane driven into Megan Bain.
04:56But Shirakawa not escaping unscathed there.
05:00Yeah, luckily they've got those big heavy jumpsuits on.
05:03But will it be enough for them to bring the megasist over the top?
05:12Or will Megan...
05:14Oh!
05:15Yikes.
05:17Bain really had to fight for that one.
05:19And Mina Shirakawa came up clutching that wrist.
05:23That wrist that she broke earlier this summer, I believe.
05:27Maybe worth monitoring.
05:28As now Marina Shafir returns to the ring and Shafir comes around.
05:35No!
05:35Oh!
05:37The head scissors and Tony Storm goes face first on the ring apron.
05:42Megan.
05:43Bain has made a Shirakawa flying as this semi-final battle
05:49and the AEW Women's World Tag Team Champions of Tournament continues.
05:55That's what I'm talking about.
05:56The power of Megan Bain, Brian, is just absolutely incredible what she can do.
06:02I mean, there's not many in the women's division that we've seen through the years here in AEW
06:05can do what she can do.
06:07Obviously the world champion Chris Stantlander is one of them, but not many more.
06:11Yeah, I agree, Tony.
06:12And, you know, she's had an incredible record since debuting here in AEW.
06:19Only one singles loss, and that was to Tony Storm.
06:22And even that, you know, Tony Storm was lucky.
06:25She caught her with a small package.
06:27The big package.
06:28Well, yeah.
06:30That's what she calls it.
06:32That's a package.
06:33Anyways, it's a package.
06:35A cradle.
06:36A cradle.
06:36I, you know, I don't like this.
06:41I don't like this idea of grabbing the table for Marina Shafir and Megan Bain.
06:46I think they can do enough damage without bringing a table into the ring.
06:49I think they've got, uh, Tony Storm and Marina Shafir down, or, uh, Mina Shirakawa down.
06:56I think they should attack them now.
06:59Don't worry about the weapons.
07:01Well, perhaps they're, Marina Shafir and Megan Bain looking to make the swiftest end to this match as possible.
07:09I think it's done in an anger, too, after what happened to them, courtesy of that champagne bottle in Tony Storm.
07:15Well, and also, just in the months leading up to this match, what happened in the four-way at Full Gear, blood and guts, and everything else.
07:22Yeah, I don't think there's any question that the women's division has been about as violent as we have seen in our time here in AEW.
07:31And inside the ring, that table, that wrapping paper-covered table.
07:37Oh, jeez.
07:39It's a Christmas buffet table.
07:41Yeah.
07:41Marina Shafir doesn't need weapons to be violent.
07:44That kick to the back just proved it.
07:49But she's not done here.
07:50Hold on, there's another table.
07:53Oh, and they wrapped up the chair, Brian.
07:55Yeah, and that looks for sure to be a chair.
07:59I mean, we saw blood and guts the way Megan Bain threw that chair at Jamie Hayter's face.
08:06Oh, a frying pan or a saute pan.
08:16Oh, she caught it.
08:17Oh!
08:20A spot in the finals of the AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship Tournament on the line.
08:33Ready?
08:34In this hardcore holiday deck match.
08:37It is the semifinal.
08:39And it is the timeless love vibes being battered by Marina Shafir and Megan Bain.
08:46Remember, this is no disqualification.
08:48It is all legal.
08:50There's some cracked ribs there from Mina Shirakawa.
08:58Yeah, and she's still grabbing her wrist.
09:00If she injures her ribs as well, that could be disastrous for Mina Shirakawa and Toni Storm.
09:07Remember, the winners of this match will go on to the finals of the tournament next Wednesday night.
09:12Dynamite Winter is coming as we make our return to Atlanta, Georgia as Toni Storm getting bounced all around the ring.
09:22Now, Mina's finally climbing up, maybe to help out.
09:26Oh!
09:27Oh!
09:28There you go!
09:30Oh!
09:31Mina Shirakawa caught Megan Bain.
09:34Dropkick that chair right into Megan Bain's face.
09:38And now Shafir, though, wipes out Mina as Toni Storm.
09:44Oh, my God!
09:45Storm!
09:46Zero on the table!
09:48That's all right.
09:53I thought she was going to pile drive her on the apron, but she went all the way to the floor through that table.
09:58Felt the same thing, and wait a minute.
10:00Toni Storm trying to make sure that Megan Bain is a non-factor in this match.
10:05Oh, Marina!
10:07Takes her down, and the mother's milk.
10:09This is how Marina Shafir put an end to the blood and guts match.
10:14This time, as Toni Storm, she surrendered rather than seen Mina Shirakawa completely choked out.
10:21But Toni Storm with some weapons in her hand, a plan in mind, perhaps.
10:30Sending that...
10:31Oh!
10:33That broken pool kill!
10:35Now Shirakawa stabbing!
10:37Stabbing Marina Shafir!
10:39What I'm talking about, huh?
10:40Watch out!
10:40The jackknife!
10:41The low-up, and oh, Shafir escapes!
10:43How violent the women's division has become!
10:46And the back fist!
10:49Marina Shafir spilling out of the ring!
10:56Mina Shirakawa, with the assistance of Thomas Toni Storm, steals herself!
11:02The crowd coming to their feet here!
11:06As Mina...
11:07Mina! Mina! Mina! Mina!
11:10The splash to Shafir on the outside!
11:13I gotta say, this match has been so violent, I'm not sure it serves whoever wins this match
11:21to go into the finals with this kind of damage done to their bodies.
11:25That's right, it's only a week away, Brian.
11:28The finals are...
11:30Tony Storm, steadying Marina Shafir, Shirakawa to the top, and Mina...
11:37The splash plate on the chair!
11:40Mina covers!
11:42Two!
11:44No!
11:44Megan Bane, somehow, after the pile driver, on the table, comes back to break up the pinning predicament.
11:52Aubrey's arm was on the way down with the three count.
11:55Thank you, table!
11:56But now Mina, looking for a suplex through that table, propped up in the corner, but switch
12:06right to the midsection!
12:07The snap suplex by Shafir.
12:10Yeah, she didn't need a broken...
12:12Oh!
12:14Mina Shirakawa's head just bounced off the back of that table!
12:18But meanwhile, timeless Tony Storm, the waist lock, Bane anchors her in the chair, to the
12:26back, once again, Shafir and Bane with the upper hand.
12:31All right!
12:34A spot in the finals next week, what condition, as we mentioned, will the winners be walking
12:40into that match?
12:41Wait a second!
12:43A star, zero, Bane planted on top of Shafir!
12:46Shafir was waiting for the mother's milk!
12:49Oh my gosh!
12:50After what Marina and Megan Bane did to Tony Storm and Mina Shirakawa, blood and guts, how
12:56much would it mean to them to beat them in this match?
13:00Wait a second!
13:00Santa Claus!
13:01Santa Claus has arrived!
13:02Why not?
13:07Who's the gift for, though?
13:08The gift for...
13:13Oh!
13:16This is a gift for the Middle East!
13:18No!
13:21It's loser!
13:26Oh!
13:27The erstwhile bettler!
13:29A timeless Tony Storm!
13:30A no!
13:31The shoe in the head!
13:33A shoe!
13:34The wrong!
13:35And the win!
13:37Here are your winners advancing in the tournament, the Timeless Love Bombs!
13:46Didn't even get to unwrap the shoe and it met the head of Marina, how about that?
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