ALPHABET CUP DAY 1
FEBRUARY 27, 2026
PISCATAWAY, NJ

SHI ARENA

 

 

ARENA

 

Fireworks go off as Capital Cities "VOWELS" plays in the arena. The crowd cheers loudly.

 

 

Simon: Welcome welcome WELCOME to a special House Show. We thought we were gonna be off the air after everything that went down at Heart Condition. I'm still processing it all. So for now regular MAWL is on hold, but we'll return to you as soon as we can and in the meantime, we've got this Alphabet Cup taking place right here in New Jersey. 

 

Kendra's defection means she's off the announcing squad now and going to be recalibrating her ring career, and it sounds like Lenny's got the ring bug too...and I myself may be moving to 404 full-time...so we're going to figure out our more consistent team but I'm happy as all get out to have Ash Greaves-Orleans here in the booth as we at least get to call the Alphabet Cup together.

 

 

Ash: Happy to be here!  And we're also joined by Valerie Thomas. 

 

 

Valerie: This is certainly gonna be something. What exactly are we getting into?

 

Simon: So it's a team cup, with each letter facing off against each other letter in a series of matches... a singles match, a tag team match, a trios match, and a 4 on 4. The trios match is fought under all-in rules, which means that no one can be pinned or submitted until everyone has been legal, and the 4 on 4 is elimination style, with each elimination counting for a point in addition to a point for winning the match itself. So there's a maximum of 11 points that a team can obtain each set - 1 for the singles, 2 for tag, 3 for trio and a maximum of 5 for the winning team of the survivor series. 

 

Ash: That's insane! I imagine that the quick-tags are especially important for the all-in.

 

Valerie: Agreed Ash. It's also gonna be a loooong night.

 

Simon: Well, there are some safeguards there to move it along. With 13 sets of matches, it's gonna be an all-fight situation. There are no interviewers here today and mics will not be provided to wrestlers. They're coming in to kick ass. A cell will raise and lower between each match in the set, with the remaining teams in the dugout. And the entrance music will be based on the individuals in the 1 on 1 match as the de facto "captain" of that day. 

 

Valerie: Gonna be real interesting to see if these teams can get along. They're grouped by first initial so it's truly going to be a ragtag, hope you survive this sorta event.

 

Ash: I think that the desire to win will probably outweigh any personal gripes, but yeah, especially in a loss situation, gonna be a long flight to the next event. And with the fallout from DOH and Heart Condition who's really to say what's gonna happen.