Rarefied Romance

ALEXANDER HAMMERSTONE WAS on top of the world. He had just beaten Pagano in a wild, falls-count-anywhere match to retain his Major League Wrestling World heavyweight championship, and was poised to give a post-match interview to MLW “Interview Queen” Alicia Atout. With his best friend, Richard Holliday, looking on from the corner of the ring, Hammerstone soaked in the plaudits from the crowd in Dallas, Texas. Not even the apparent technical difficulties Atout was having with her microphone could put a damper on things.

Those “technical difficulties” turned out to be a ruse, however. And, as