The Renegades
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| Members | Ace Reed Shawn Matthews Danny Madness Nick Adams Aaron Foley PJ Matthews |
| Name | The Renegades |
| Debut | 2008 |
| Promotion(s) | Kick Ass Wrestling Northeast Championship Wrestling |
The Renegades is a backyard wrestling tweener stable that originally wrestled in Kick Ass Wrestling just shortly before Northeast Championship Wrestling, which consists of Ace Reed, Danny Madness and Shawn Matthews, despite his departure from the federation.
The group consolidated in 2008 after The Four Aces fused with additional members PJ Matthews and Aaron Foley, going on to NECW with the merger of Kick Ass Wrestling, Backyard Championship Wrestling and Extreme Wrstling Alliance.
Their gimmick is based on taking a less serious tone backstage and sparking humor amongst themselves to entertain the online audience, displaying sometimes unpredictable behavior, however, are a strung together unit that compete cleanly and omit villainous tactics.
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History
Origination (2008)
PJ Matthews and KAW Championship Ace Reed feuded over the duration of the first half of 2008 and at KAW Blackout 96, both were strung together to compete for the KAW Championship. Near the conclusion of the bout, in a comical tone, Reed executed a flying fingerpoke to Matthews and shockingly prevailed while Matthews playfully overdramatized the effect. Following this incident, Matthews and Reed consolidated to form an apparent tag team called the Renegades, and in that process, spectators (or the KAW wrestlers) conveyed their frustrations by hurling water bottles at the both of them. At the end of the event, a message displayed on the screen stating "The Renegades, Are here...".
Height of Period (2008)
The merger between KAW, BCW and EWA occured during June that same month and brought forth Northeast Championship Wrestling, where The Renegades amassed their alliance grouping Nick Adams and Danny Madness (Reed's prior partners in The Four Aces) as they began appearing on episode 1 NECW Shockwave. On the next episode, EWA Champion Shawn Matthews and The Crippler received booking to confront Ace Reed and Danny Madness in a Tag Team match, but before the match was ended, Shawn Matthews turned on the Crippler and connected with his Gin N' Chronic signature move eventually aligning with the group.
The faction carried their antics out backstage and emphasized a less serious tone outside the ring, but come together against their adversaries. Reed and PJ Matthews remained the primary enforcers of the group. It was around such time that PJ Matthews started to develop his "I Am Better Than You" gimmick. The Renegades had amounted to being favored in the GBYWN Power 25 and created their own YouTube account "TheRenegadesTV" and commenced to broadcast their united socialism and random hilarities, most of which were aimed to entertain the online community. Shawn Matthews, however, was less seen amongst them due to travel reasons to attend NECW events.
PJ Matthews engaged in a short feud with John Crosby. Shawn Matthews kept feuding with The Crippler over the EWA Championship and at EWA's Last Show, was dethroned of the championship, but went on to victor the Money in the Bank match at NECW Union 2008, the particular event where Ace Reed bested BCW Champion Murph and EWA Champion Crippler in a Title Unification match to become the NECW Champion.
Dissention (2008)
The Renegades took a wrong turn when off-screen owner of 2KW, SyNN, offered Shawn Matthews a full-time roster spot in his federation which Matthews accepted. Consequentially, this fuelled "sellout" claims by his peers and others aware of the incident. Aaron Foley had been evicted from the group after misplacing Reed's KAW Championship and Nick Adams had ended up separating from The Renegades. On episode 15 NECW Shockwave, PJ Matthews apparently also left the group after an attack on Reed.
