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BRAZEN Star Announces Relinquishing of Championship

Posted by Jamie Sawyers on 14 Jul 2024

In an unexpected announcement, Ophelia Sykes took to social media today to inform the public of what she’d already told BRAZEN officials in private: she is relinquishing the BRAZEN Women’s Championship.

Not a cause for regret, however: she is giving up the title because she is pregnant!

Sykes, age twenty-six, told her social media following that she and her long-time partner and fellow Defiant Pat Cassidy, age twenty-nine, discovered this week that they are expecting their first child. Baby Cassidy is currently due to arrive sometime this Spring.

The news comes during a turbulent time for the Cassidy family: at last week’s Maximum DEFIANCE, Brock Newbludd came up short in his bid to win the FIST of DEFIANCE, and as a result Cassidy must serve as best man when his long time rival Malak Garland marries Pat's sister Sibohan. While Cassidy is apparently overjoyed at the prospect of newfound fatherhood, he’s likely less excited that Malak will be his child’s uncle.

Still, DEFIANCE and the Favored Saints congratulate both Ophelia and Pat on their emerging family. Obviously, Sykes will miss in-ring action for the rest of 2024 and the majority of 2025, while Pat’s bicep injury still has him on the inactive list. Current word is that doctor’s are telling Cassidy that he is on track for an early 2025 recovery and return to the ring - just in time, one would assume, for DEFCON 2025.

Despite still being injured, one can also expect to Pat to be a part, in one form or another, of DEFtv 206 when Malak marries Siobhan.

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TOP FIVE

1. Henry Keyes
2. Ned Reform
3. Conor Fuse
4. Corvo Alpha
5. Brock Newbludd

TAG TEAM

1. RCR
2. M4NTRA
3. Lucky Sevens
4. Los Tres Titanes
5. The Lads

BRAZEN SINGLES

1. Kazuhiro Troy
2. Nick Lotto Otto
3. Punch Drunk Purcell
4. Archer Silver
5. BIGBOSS Batts

TALKING DEF

"We have, after all, returned to the "great" city of New Orleans. A place most famous for its tendency to get drunk and nude. A city with a whooping 71% graduation rate in its local school system - which seems high until you realize that New Orleans routinely graduates students who are unable to read as evidenced by the quality of the signs here tonight. But why would you care? You don't need to read to flash your breasts for beads though, do you? And the most egregious offense of all: New Orleans birthed this ignorant, aggressively stupid, childish excuse for a company. Yes, children, it is fitting - DEFIANCE was born from a decrepit landfill full of ignorant swamp-folk, and for its 200th episode it returns to the black hole of civilization from whence it came."

- Ned Reform