Phoenix Fury Legdrop

Uh oh, she stole Feinstein's boyfriend...

I was just speculating, since YNA said his opponent isn't one of the announced guys on the card and Ian and Hero have both said that they want Doug Williams in IWA.

I'm crossing my fingers for a hopeful battle of NOAH partners between Ace and the debuting Doug Williams, but eh, it's only a dream... Sabin/Delirious/Jacobs...well, I don't like three-ways, and I dislike Sabin's in-ring work. I'm hoping that Delirious and Jacobs keep it interesting.

Six-Man Tag Match: The Thrillogy vs. Sly Sommers, Crystal, and Northstar

I doubt it. It'll prolly run until about midnight. The tag tournament only ran until 11:50, and look how loaded that show was.

Smart Mark Video's already released this show on tape.

I usually don't out-and-out pimp shows, but this card has the potential to be the blow-away "Show of the Year"... ***One More Time: Part One/No Time Limit*** CHRIS HERO vs. CM PUNK ***One More Time: Part Two/Steel Cage Match*** ALEX SHELLEY vs. "Barbaric Berzerker" JIMMY JACOBS ***IWA Light Heavyweight Title Match*** [Champion] MATT SYDAL vs. AUSTIN ARIES ***IWA/NWA Midwest Women's Title/Knockout or Submission*** [Champion] LACEY vs. DAIZEE HAZE ***IWA World Tag Team Title Match*** [Champions] BRAD BRADLEY & RYAN BOZ vs. "Ring Crew Express" DUNN & MARCOS "The Notorious 187" HOMICIDE vs. SAMOA JOE "Wild Eyed Southern Boy" TRACY SMOTHERS vs. "Anarchist" ARIK CANNON DANNY DANIELS vs. "Spyder" NATE WEBB Plus DELIRIOUS in action, and more!

Let's see... Pondo/Abby should be bloody, and that's just about it. Shelley/Petey should be absolutely f'n amazing. It's a fresh match to most, though they trained together at Scott D'Amore's school in Canada, and both are really great workers. Sydal/Jacobs should be good. I think they're might be a bit of a clash since they're both perennial faces, but Sydal's getting to be good enough to make up for that. B'n'B/Whitmer and Daniels might be a bit weird, but I think Danny and BJ can pull off the one-night face turn. I'm wondering what Nate Webb and Ito will pull out, and hoping that Ito's one of the DM guys that can also wrestle. Trik's gonna get MURDERED. That is all. MsChif/Lacey should be good, since MsChif isn't afraid to bring all sorts of awesomeness when she wrestles and Lacey's upped her already-decent game. I hope MsChif wins the belt and makes more frequent trips to IWA. As for the left-over guys...I hope Hero vs. Darkness Hero or Hero/Delirious happens again, since those are two really great pairings, judging by their previous work together. I'm sort of emotionless either way about who Sabin should work.

Before the show, NWA Wildside's Tank, Toby Klein, Smoky C., and someone inaudible were announced as the final four KOTDM particpants. The microphone was a bit on the fritz in the early part of the show. Hillbilly Jed defeats Jason Dukes (All I'm going to say about this is that I have no clue why this was booked on an IWA show, let alone one this huge. Outside of the 400-pound Jed landing on his feet on a monkey flip, it was probably the worst match I've seen in person at IWA Mid-South since I started going in November 2003.) Samoa Joe defeats Homicide (This went on early, I had heard, because there was a huge traffic jam in Chicago and a lot of the guys were slow in making it to the show. The match itself was pretty good. It wasn't as "epic" as their ROH stuff, but technically, I thought it was better than their No DQ match in New York and at least on par with their Do or Die match, minus the zillion headbump 2-counts. Homicide worked over Joe's neck, continuing the injured neck saga of Joe in ROH. The match was extremely stiff, and had some great matwork. The finish was Joe bringing Homicide over after a 2-count pinfall into the choke for the win. I apologize for the shady ending details; it was a long night.) Nate Webb defeats Danny Daniels (w/out Jim Fannin) via DQ when he piledrove Nate onto a chair after Nate missed the Chairsault (Nate's entrance included him challenging Danny to a game of Horse on the armory's basketball hoop, Danny turning it into a game of dodgeball, and Nate catching Danny's ball to render him "out". Nate then had referee Tommy Thompson shoot from the ring...and airball it. Nate seemed to have an off-night in-ring, but Danny was firing on all cylinders, continuing to bust out new stuff I've never seen him do before, including some wacky-ass lucha cradle submission that I literally cannot explain due to its complexocity. But trust me, you'll know it when you see it on the tape. Post-match, Tommy Thompson got both piledriven by Danny Daniels and Soylent Green-ed by Nate Webb, as both exclaimed their disliking for the DQ rules. Tommy was then replaced for every match until the main event by the much cuter Mickie Knuckles (and I did NOT say Tommy was cute...just exclaiming how cute I think Mickie is...Tommy, if you read this, I'm not like that....man, my attempts at humor at 3:30 AM suck.)) Delirious defeated "Classic" Colt Cabana and the debuting HC Loc (Cabana got in some routine retard jokes at Delirious before teaming up on him with Loc to take him out of the equation. This teaming-up thing seemed to last until near the end, when communication between the two ROH tag team wrestlers failed, and it became every man for himself. I would have morphed it into a tag match somehow, since it didn't come off as great as the three guys involved are, but it wasn't bad.) Here's the part in the report where the match order gets a bit wacky, since the night was long, and my memory isn't... Lacey defeats Daizee Haze in a knockout/submission match to retain the IWA Women's Title (Details aren't much from me (sorry again), but I do remember some really cool submissions busted out by both ladies and that I think Lacey's strategy was trying to make Daizee pass out with wear-down holds.) Arik Cannon defeats Tracy Smothers via a roll-up while holding the middle rope (Cannon came out waving an NWA flag for heel heat. It was the classic "young guy gets outclassed by the older, rugged veteran, but ends up pulling some trick out of his sleeve to out-do the vet in the end" stuff. Cannon was so awesome at being the cocky, young prick heel, and Tracy's Tracy...too awesome for words. I'd recommend this just for Tracy pulling his tweener act after the match, tricking Arik into a false sense of security, and then jumping him before Cannon low blows him and does the Tracy Shuffle before bailing. I wouldn't mind a rematch, myself.) IWA Mid-South Tag Team Champions Ryan Boz and Brad Bradley defeated The RING CREW EXPRESS~! in a title match (Awesome moment before the match, as the RCE get Mickie to do the jumping double high-five with both of them, and then they mark out for that and start giving each other the jumping double high-five. B'n'B whined about having to defend their belts against two guys who they destroyed in Highland over a month ago, but Dave Prazak brought up how they lost to the Havana Pitbulls in round one of the Tag tournament, and should be lucky fighting champions. I personally loved the match, and thought it was the sleeper hit of the night. There was a funny spot at the beginning where the RCE got Boz up for a double suplex after three unsuccesful attempts and two duo foot shuffles, but then got double-suplexed by Bradley seconds later. The monstrous duo got heat on Dunn before Dunn barely sneaks out and tags in Marcos, who quickly becomes face-in-peril himself. Then, things broke down into a free-for-all, with D&M getting killed by B'n'B, but would use their speed to get little glimpses of hope and victory before being shut out due to the power and monstrocity that is Bradley and Boz.) IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Champion Matt Sydal defeats Austin Aries in a title match (Aries is now a full-blown heel in IWA. The story of the match is that Sydal had to watch from using the cast on his left arm as a weapon, and Aries would take advantage by working over Sydal's injured wrist. I loved Aries as a heel here, as he's really great at the role and I'm glad that ROH is elevating him in a heel role. The match overall was really great, and my second favorite of the night. I'm not wanting to come off like a huge spot mark here, but there's one spot I HAVE to note, where Sydal stood on Aries's shoulders, jumped up, twisted, and landed an awesome DDT.) CM Punk defeated Chris Hero in 61 minutes (I thought it was 57, but the live report that came before me says my thought was wrong) with a rear chinlock with his feet on the ropes that made Hero pass out (It wasn't as good as either the TLC match or the 93 minute match, in my opinion, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't hunt this out like a motherf-cker. Hero worked over Punk's arm, and Punk over Hero's neck (Hero trying to stop any possible Pepsi Plunge attempts, and Punk trying to soften Hero up for both of his finishers). My only complaint about the match was that Hero's armbar offense came off just a tad repetitive, but I didn't think it was too bad. I've seen two of the Punk/Styles ROH matches, but not the 2nd Ann. Show nor the Briscoes/SCS tag from Chicago, but this is the best Punk match I've seen in forever. After the match, Samoa Joe comes from the commentary table, congratulates Punk, and attacks Hero by handcuffing him and choking him out with the rear naked choke. It looks like the feud ain't over...) In the main event, Jimmy Jacobs scored two pinfalls on Alex Shelley inside of a steel cage in order to win their Best of Seven series (Alex Shelley is so damn awesome. It wasn't a one-man effort by any means, but you could almost tell that Shelley was the glue that held this match together and made it so awesome. He busted out such little things, as picking up Jimmy's railroad spike, normally around for comedic purposes as part of the Brody impression, after Jimmy picked up a quick win with a small package and worked over his face with it sadistically, silently telling everyone that he thought he should have had this one in the bag and that it was on right then and there. Shelley's reaction to IWA Commissioner Mark Wolf restarting the match after a double-countdown when neither man could respond to the referee's ten-count was great. I loved the acknoledgement to their Lafayette series at Winter Wars with the Shellshock into the cage fencing (ala the Shellshock into the wall during their Texas Death match), into the regular Shellshock. Jacobs ended up kicking out and winning with the Contra Code from the top rope, using the cage to push off of. The post-match was great, as Shelley didn't even bother acknoledging Jacobs and just sat in the corner and stared at the turnpost in anger and disappointment, as he had lost the final battle against his one mortal enemy in IWA Mid-South. I totally apologize for being shit-grin nerdy here, but Shelley's overall performance was amazing on this night.) In conclusion, if you don't buy the tape somehow, you deserve to be smacked really hard in the face repeatedly until you go out and buy it.

I believe so, with Nate Webb, Ian Rotten, and Petey Williams all in the semi-finals.

A couple of announcements about tonight's show from the IWA-MS Message Board: The final four King of the Deathmatch competitors will be announced tonight. Two are debuting, two are not. One of the debuts is sent from NWA Wildside ("Ice-BERG! Ice-BERG!"...) "Classic" Colt Cabana has been added to the show. Neither him nor Delirious have opponents for tonight.

A big announcement concerning the future of Abe Vigoda in the OAOAST, plus we find out who #4 is on the babyface team for War Games.

Only two I've seen are Quote the Raven and You've Gotta See This. Quote the Raven was alright. I wasn't exactly a huge fan of the Hero/Raven match, as it looked a lot like Raven was sleepwalking through the match, and even tapped out before Chris could get the Hangman's Clutch fully locked in. The Shelley/Jacobs 2/3 Falls match was really fun, and the Daniels/Sabin/Martini three-way was a really good spotfest. Nothing else really struck me as being noteworthy, though. You've Gotta See This, however, was an amazing show. In my opinion, it's the best Lafayette IWA show to date, going over Winter Wars back in December (though I'm sure tomorrow night might knock it off of its throne early). The only match on the show I didn't like was Ryan Boz/Eddie Venom, and even then, you got Venom almost murdering Boz with one of the most killer big boots I've seen in forever. You also got a really great Red/Austin Aries match, Samoa Joe killing Steve Stone, a great Eddie Kingston/Chris Hero match, and one of my MOTY candidates in Team Friday (B-Boy and Homicide) against Team Gateway (Matt Sydal and Delirious). If Faceoff was the last Allentown show, then I've seen it. Outside of Joker/Strong and Shelley/Hero/Bradley/Rave, I wouldn't waste my money on it if I were you. There was nothing on that show I'd consider to be "good", and Ruckus/Berk was embarrassingly bad. Also, every match but the four-way seemed to be rushed a bit, since I'd assume they'd want to get the show overwith as soon as possible because of the crappy attendance.

Tomorrow's choices are: The Adventures of Pete & Pete Nick Cannon Show Don't Just Sit There

Yep, Abyss = Justice.

Last night, I viewed quite a bit of a Matt Sydal in Gateway comp tape that fellow board poster Slingshot Suplex made me. There's no real depth to the stuff, but the flippy stuff is quite good, the gimmickry's so bizarre that it's way too fun not to watch, and it's fun watching Matt, Delirious, Daizee, and MsChif, right out of wrestling school. I also just finished Bryan Danielson vs. Bobby Quance from PWG's "Taste the Radnes", which basically was Dragon being really awesome, Quance being really awesome, and coming together to have a match that, while pretty good, was less than the two addends. Great struggle between the two at the beginning, ending with Quance kicking Dragon to throw him off his game. Dragon leaves the ring angrily to regroup, and comes back to work over Quance's middle torso. Very basic stuff, but Dragon makes it work so well. There's not much of a big babyface comeback, outside of a slightly extended version of one of the teaser babyface momentum changes, with a tremendous version of an old finisher to cap off the match.

I had heard he didn't work the 2nd night of the Peterson Cup due to not wanting to hurt it anymore than it already is. As far as I've heard, he's going to work with the hand heavily taped up. I'm hoping I'm not proven to be wrong; that would suck.

I do that because not every pinfall should be overtly-dramatic, and I barely break out even one space between the pinfalls because I personally am not a fan of the whole "1, 34 spaces, 2, 34 spaces, '.....KICKOUT!!!!!!!!!!'" stuff. But thanks for the feedback; I'll break out the stacked count more often.

Sly and Crystal vs. Hoff and Calvin and some SKITTAGE~!, bitches!

Anyone have a Chris Hero CAW?

On Directv theres Nicktoons which shows a good majority of the cartoons and Noggin which shows most of the actually acted shows. I got Noggin on Dish, and I only wish they'd actually show some of the old Nickelodeon shows. They were showing Pete and Pete for a while, but according to the extremely vague story I heard, some parents complained about the content on one episode, and Noggin pulled it. Now, all we get is Degrassi, RFR, My So-Called Life, random episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Daria on a loop from 6 PM to 5 AM every day.

Jay's right for the most part: Before being Lost Boys, Gabriel and Azrael were Twizted (Gabriel) and Mark E. Mark (Azrael), two proverbial jobbers (though, at one point, Mark E. Mark was a member of Suicidal Tendencies, one of my favorite heel groups in a long time). If I remember correctly, there was some four-way with those two and two other guys from the Wildside Dojo on Wildside TV that got broken up by an NWA Elite attack, which ended up with Twizted and Mark E. Mark going away for a while and coming back right before Freedom Fight 2001 as two-thirds of Jim Mitchell's short-lived stable, alongside Scottie Wrenn. I think the explanation for the Azrael heel turn is something that sounds way too artistic for wrestling, like when Iceberg made Azrael bleed all of that blood, he let all of the humanistic blood escape from Azrael's veins and the demonic fluid that once ran inside of Azrael was back.

They were the opening act, what does that say about them musically? I think Breaking Benjamin was actually the first band out. But, from the one person I do know that went out to the show, I got the feeling that SotY's show sucked as well. (Living in Indiana has its...actually, it doesn't.)

Well, that's about the hardest choice an IWA fan would have to make right now, as both shows were really incredible. But, if you absolutely, positively can't buy both, get Simply the Best.

I couldn't attend unfortunately, but I'm probably buying the tape at One More Time (Hero/Punk in Lafayette), I heard that nothing would make you think that Ian and Prazak were idiots for booking a women's tournament show. As far as one-off matches are concerned, apparantly the finals were pretty good and Mickie Knuckles vs. Mercedes Martinez was comparable to some of the better men's matches of the weekend.