EAW Ground Zero (2017)

EAW Ground Zero
Tagline
Promotion	Elite Answers Wrestling
Date	September 17, 2017
Venue	United Center
City	Chicago, Illinois
Theme Song	"Whatever It Takes" by Hollywood Undead
Last Event	EAW Territorial Invasion (2017)
Next Event	EAW Manifest Destiny (2017)

Ground Zero was a professional wrestling supershow which took place at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois on September 17, 2017. The event was produced by Elite Answers Wrestling and featured Elitists from the company's Voltage brand.

Production

Storylines

On the heels of an executive decision made by Voltage General Manager Kenny Drake, Cameron Ella Ava was named number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship, with the eventual match taking place at Territorial Invasion. This presented what would turn out to be a great conflict of interest for her, as the sitting champion was her boyfriend, Jamie O'Hara. He would go on to retain. At the same event, TLA defeated Aren Mstislav in an "I Quit" match to become the new number one contender for the title. With that match set for Ground Zero, Drake then announced that Ava would be the special guest referee for the title bout.

Over the length of 10 months, Moongoose McQueen and Finnegan Wakefield have been sporadically feuding with one another. The feud became more heated when the EAW New Breed Championship entered the picture. At Pain For Pride X, McQueen captured the New Breed Championship in an Ultimate X match that also featured Wakefield. Shortly afterwards, Finnegan would challenge McQueen to a match for the title at a later date, which McQueen accepted. At NEO Uprising, the match ended in controversy when McQueen used his feet to escape the Wakefield Special, simultaniously having Finnegans shoulders to the match, which the referee called as a pinfall. The two began to argue over the result for over a month before Finnegan interupted a mock match for the championship between McQueen and his brother Shimmer, challenging to a match at Ground Zero. The following week, the stipulation of a Ladder match was added.

Matches

No.	Results	Stipulations
1	Keelan Cetinich defeated Carlos Rosso	No Ropes Barbed-Wire Timebomb Deathmatch
2	Nathan Fiora defeated Shaker Jones	Singles match
3	Finnegan Wakefield defeated Moongoose McQueen (c)	Ladder match for the EAW New Breed Championship
4	Amadeus (c) defeated Anthony Leonhart, Jon McAdams, Harvey Yorke & Solomon Caine	Five-Way match for the EAW Interwire Championship
5	El Ironico defeated Cody Marshall (with Deborah Marshall)	Singles match; If Cody Marshall had won Ironico would have been forced to be his servant
6	Lars Grier defeated APOCALYPSE	Grave Consequences match
7	Jamie O'Hara (c) defeated TLA	Singles match for the EAW World Heavyweight Championship with Cameron Ella Ava as special guest referee
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

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