Downward Spiral (2013)

Downward Spiral (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the Extreme Wrestling Empire (EWE) promotion and presented by Gibson. It took place on June 2nd, 2013, at the 1st Mariner Arena, now the Royal Farms Arena, in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the second event within the Downward Spiral chronology. A shared pay-per-view between both the XPlosion and Genesis brands, it featured on its card six professional wrestling matches, one of which was the second edition of the Total Anarchy match.

At four hours length, it is one of the longest pay-per-view events in EWE history.

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After "Zeus" Jack Jones stole the Legends Championship, XPlosion debuted the EWE Canadian Heavyweight Championship. After winning the number one contender matches, Neo Dragon, after splitting up with Delirious from Chemical Imbalance, and John Cena, after a long expected change of heart were put in the match against one another. In his second match of the night, Neo Dragon took on Delirious in a Loser Leaves EWE match.

After a series of tests thrown at Orlando Jordan, he was still the World Wrestling Champion. And now, in a second match involving John Cena, Jordan had to defend the title belt in a Championship Scramble match also involving Mike Bennett, Dean Ambrose and Sheamus.

On the RPW side of the card, after a few vignettes on the RPW television program, Tommaso Ciampa debuted in a match against established EWE superstar Goldust. Big Daddy V and Kung faced off in the Battle of the Fat Fucks for the RPW Champion, both aiming to become the best big man on RPW.

Genesis presented a Television Championship match where Rooker took on Archer Ryland. Chael Sonnen had vacated the title belt to move on to bigger things, and general manager Eric Bischoff decided to put these two Genesis wrestlers in contendership. This was also Archer Ryland's first match since returning.

Despite having been knocked down twice by the Church of Elijah, Chael Sonnen had simply gotten back up, dusted himself off and kept on fighting. The Pope's previous two victories over The American Gangster happened with help from his Disciples, but now, Elijah Dinero had to face the ex-MMA star in a one-on-one environment where weapons were involved? A Hardcore Match for the International Championship where the Disciples were banned from ringside.

The event was also host to a unification match between the World Tag Team Champions, from XPlosion, The Curse, and the EWE Tag Team Champions, from Genesis, William Regal & The Miz.

XPlosion collided with RPW as Chris Jericho brought in a surprise partner to face off against former close friend Christian and his partner, Kevin Steen.