BRIEF HISTORY OF TREVOR LEE VS. ROY WILKINS
Tomorrow night will be a night that we’ll never forget. Two of our very best collide in a once in a lifetime bout that you cannot afford to miss. The stakes have never been higher. The pressure is on like never before. It all adds up to one classic match between two of the greatest wrestlers CWF Mid-Atlantic has ever seen. This is how we got here:
July 20, 2013: Trevor Lee of the Aftermath defeats Roy Wilkins of the All Stars in a 2013 Johnny Weaver Cup Tournament match that saw interference from both groups. Rumors circulate after the loss that Wilkins is on the outs with the All Stars and he appears without Coach Gemini or any other members of the group for his next several bouts.
August 17, 2013: Trevor Lee goes on to win the 2013 Weaver Cup Tournament, earning a guaranteed future shot at the Mid-Atlantic Championship.
September 7, 2013: Chet Sterling helps Trevor win a return match against Wilkins and realizing the value of having teammates by his side, Wilkins reconciles with the All Stars after the loss and re-joins the group.
December 28, 2013: Trevor cashes in his guaranteed title shot for winning the tournament, unsuccessfully challenging Mid-Atlantic Champion Arik Royal, who in winning passes 1 year as champion.
July 12, 2014: One year after losing to Trevor Lee in the Weaver Cup, Roy Wilkins does what no one had been able to do for 560 days and defeats Arik Royal for the Mid-Atlantic Championship.
September 13, 2014: Wilkins successfully defends against both Trevor Lee and former champ Arik Royal in a triple threat match, pinning Trevor while using the ropes to his advantage. In fact, Wilkins had used the ropes in ALL his successful title defenses to date, prompting Trevor to make a most unique challenge.
November 1, 2014: Wilkins defeats Trevor in a no ropes match where the ropes were literally removed from the ring before the match started. The 45-minute technical wrestling war is immediately regarded as one of the best and most unique Mid-Atlantic Championship bouts in history.
December 27, 2014: Wilkins loses the Mid-Atlantic Championship to Brad Attitude at Battlecade XV, who immediately makes raising the prestige of the championship his number one priority.
August 8, 2015: When Attitude is given the chance to pick a challenger for his title he selects Trevor Lee saying that for the Mid-Atlantic Championship to be legitimized it has to be defended against someone like Trevor, who was beginning to make waves on a national and international circuit. Attitude ultimately retains the title after a brutal, bloody 37-minute war.
November 20, 2015: Trevor and Wilkins captain trios teams for the 2 out of 3 falls Triathlon Match at Ultimate Survivor XIII, which Trevor’s team wins after a wild third fall that sees Hurricane Shane Helms and Matt Hardy help fight off the All Stars.
December 26, 2015: At Battlecade XVI, Attitude throws down the gauntlet to once again attempt to raise the profile of the Mid-Atlantic Championship, offering to defend against the top 5 challengers in 1 elimination match. After an unbelievable 46 minute match, Wilkins defeats Trevor in the final fall to leave Battlecade XVI a 2-time champion after Kamakazi Kid blasted Trevor with a steel chair and the illegal use of the Cincinnati Destroyer flipping piledriver.
January 16, 2016: CWF matchmaker Brad Stutts announces that Trevor Lee will get a 1 on 1 match against Wilkins for the championship as soon as schedules allow it and terms are agreed to.
January 30, 2016: Coach Gemini mandates a fan vote on whether or not Trevor should get another title shot against Wilkins. Despite the Coach’s politicking, the fans vote yes in a landslide.
February 13, 2016: Terms are agreed to and the contract for the title fight is signed: no time limit, no disqualifications, no count-outs and no holds barred — meaning the piledriver hold and all its variations, including the Cincinnati Destroyer, are legal. At the last minute Coach Gemini insists upon another stipulation added to the bout: if Trevor Lee doesn’t win the championship, he can never wrestle for CWF Mid-Atlantic again. A game Trevor Lee immediately agrees to the stipulation but by the end of the night he’s attacked by both Xsiris and Lance Lude, who join the All Stars and collectively they bury Trevor under the All Stars banner at the conclusion of the event.
February 24, 2016: In an appearance on the Elite Podcast Network’s Carolina Corner podcast, CWF matchmaker Brad Stutts vowed that the stipulations would be honored no matter the outcome, saying “As much as we want Trevor Lee to be around forever, it isn’t worth our credibility with the audience. The stipulation will be honored regardless of who wins. If Trevor Lee doesn’t win the Mid-Atlantic Championship this Saturday, it’s his last time ever wrestling in the Mid-Atlantic Sportatorium.”
February 27, 2016: No matter the result, one way or another, a championship chase of over two years comes to a conclusion. Either Trevor Lee finally becomes the Mid-Atlantic Champion after successful reigns as Television, Tag-Team, Ultra J and Rising Generation League Champion or his CWF Mid-Atlantic career is over. It is as big a main event as we have ever promoted in the 16-year history of CWF Mid-Atlantic. It is a can’t miss event as we may say goodbye to one of the very best we’ve ever seen.
