Adrenaline (2012)

Adrenaline (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the Extreme Wrestling Empire (EWE) promotion and presented by Crush. It took place on May 6th, at the Wembley Stadium in London, England. While not a capacity crowd, this still registers as one of the largest audiences in EWE history. The first event within the Adrenaline chronology, it featured on its card five professional wrestling matches, one of which was a dark match.

The main rivalry heading into Adrenaline was the one between then reigning World Wrestling Champion Blackout and challenger Chris Jericho.

The pay-per-view was a moderate commercial and critical success..

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The event card featured an All or Nothing Match World Wrestling Championship Opportunity Briefcase, Tag Team Championship Opportunity Briefcase with a partner of choice, Contract Release Briefcase and Surprise Briefcase. The latter was obtained by Bobby Lashley, and opened only later in the week on the Genesis TV show, by general manager William Regal. It turned out to be the new EWE Women's Championship, which Lashley promptly neglected.

The card also featured a World Tag Team Championship Battle Royal, in which the last two men standing in the ring would be awarded the championships. XPlosion General Manager, Edge, interrupted the match when there were only four men left standing, and one of which was already established team HONOR, and the other Single H & Kung. Instead of letting the match continue, Edge made it into a Tag Team match for the titles the following week on XPlosion.

For the Legends Championship, Batista, Drew McIntyre and a masked man who ended up using the trademark moves of Elijah Dinero faced off in a Steel Cage match. Once the masked individual pinned Batista after an Elijah Express, he unveiled himself to actually be Santino Marella! Marella had earlier been defeated by Zema Ion in the dark match.

In the main event we saw a heated rivalry culminate in what is considered one of the greatest EWE matches of all time. Chris Jericho took on World Wrestling Champion, Blackout, in a 30-minute Iron Man match that left the fans giving the contest a standing ovation.