EAW Terminus (2017)

EAW Terminus
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Promotion	Elite Answers Wrestling
Date	June 1, 2017
Venue	Damai Center
City	Dalian, China
Theme Song	"Young and Menace" by Fall Out Boy
Last Event	EAW Fighting Spirit (2017)
Next Event	EAW Pain for Pride X

Terminus is an upcoming professional wrestling supershow that is scheduled to take place at the Damai Center in Dalian, China on June 1, 2017. The event will be produced by Elite Answers Wrestling and will feature female Elitists from the company's Empire brand.

Production

Background

Following the success of the Malicious Intentions supershow in March, the Empire brand was tapped to host its own exclusive supershow on the home stretch to Pain for Pride X. The show will be the second supershow promoted under the Empire banner, and the third one overall (counting the inaugural two-day Vixens Cup show in March 2016).

Storylines

In the spring of 2017, Tarah Nova and Empire General Manager Cleopatra crossed paths, with each encounter ending badly. Cleopatra went so far as to have Nova escorted out of the arena and banned from the premises. Nova attacked Cleopatra as well. On the May 4 episode of Empire, Cleopatra began the show by addressing the audience and attempting to fire Nova. She was interrupted by EAW Chairman HRDO, who informed her that he was disappointed with her performance as an authority figure and that he was worried that she was abusing her power in her back-and-forth with Nova. Cleopatra, in a bid to gain his trust, said that she wound enter Nova into the match to determine Empire's representative in the Extreme Enigma Elimination match that was slated to make its return at Pain for Pride.

Despite having been an integral part of the all-women's Sanatorium sub-group known as The Coven, in early 2017, cracks began to show between Stephanie Matsuda and the other women in the group. The first notable source of friction was her acquisition of the one-time agent of Carlos Rosso, Mao Ichimichi, as her own personal manager. The rift between Matsuda and the other women continued to grow when she competed for the Women's Championship at Malicious Intentions. In March, the rest of The Coven ousted Matsuda, having already previously gravely injured Ichimichi. Matsuda clashed with her former teammates several times in the weeks that followed, including competing against them in an eight-woman tag team match on the May 4 episode of Empire. In an in-ring segment on the May 11 edition of Empire, Alexis Diemos revealed that Lauryn Hunter, the young daughter of Matsuda's deceased one-time mentor Michael Hunter, had been taken in by the Sanatorium in light of her mother recently falling ill. Diemos agreed to face Matsuda in a match at Terminus and subsequently return Lauryn to her if she won, on the condition that Matsuda didn't lay a hand on any of the other women of The Coven between then and the supershow.

The conflict between another Coven member, Madison Kaline, and Megan Raine began initially as a social media scandal when Raine's then-boyfriend, Voltage roster member Keelan Cetinich, was revealed to have been direct messaging Kaline on Twitter. Kaline and fellow Coven member Brody Sparks continued to taunt Raine over the incident in the weeks that followed. In April, Raine broke up with Cetinich live on Voltage and subsequently turned heel for the first time in her EAW tenure. Raine and Kaline were also pitted against each other in several tag team matches. On the May 11 episode of Empire, following Raine's defeat of Loganne Riley, Kaline came out and attacked her before announcing that the two were due to meet at Terminus.

Matches

#	Match	Stipulation	Time
	Tarah Nova vs. TBD	Extreme Enigma Four-Way Elimination Match Qualifier
	Stephanie Matsuda vs. Alexis Diemos	Luchas de Apuestas/Custody of Lauryn Singles Match
	Madison Kaline vs. Megan Raine	Singles Match