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FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST JOINS THE NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE We are proud to announce that Fight Sports Midwest has become a member of the Midwest branch of the National Wrestling Alliance, governed under esteemed NWA Midwest President Ed Chuman. We hope to do proud to the NWA and the rich history and tradition that it represents. TWO MATCHES ANNOUNCED FOR MARCH 17th! On March 17th, the National Wrestling Alliance will present the premiere event for Fight Sports Midwest, coming to Portage, Indiana at the Camelot Sportsplex. As of right now, three big show-downs have been announced, including our main event bout featuring TNA star Samoa Joe facing former Combat Zone Wrestling Heavyweight Champion Eddie Kingston. Today, we bring to you the next two bouts on what's sure to be a good night of professional wrestling action! Since the fall of 2003, "The Anarchist" Arik Cannon has been a staple of the Midwestern independent scene, competing in four consecutive Ted Petty Invitationals, including winning the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship from Petey Williams in the 2004 tournament, and being a finalist in the 2006 competition. Cannon was sidelined with a collarbone injury during the fall of 2004, right after winning the IWA Title, but came back and won the belt once again, this time from Jimmy Jacobs, in January 2006. The success he's garnered has led to MTV's new wrestling promotion Wrestling Society X recruiting him as one of the stars of their program. During his travels to Los Angeles, he's had to deal with one of WSX's top tag teams, Do It For Her, consisting of the previously-mentioned Jimmy Jacobs and a man whose path had never previously crossed with Cannon's directly, in Tyler Black. Black exploded very early in his career, winning the IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship just months after his debut match. His feud with Josh Abercrombie for that belt, which included a brutal TLC match and a 30-Minute Iron Man Tables match that saw Tyler dive off of a basketball goal at one point, is one of the more talked-about rivalries in recent IWA history. Ever since that feud, Tyler's been touted by many fans and experts as being a can't-miss future star in professional wrestling, as he has great size for a junior heavyweight, has proven to be skilled beyond his years, and can adapt to any style, as proven by the vicious battle he had with former partner Marek Brave in a barbed-wire match at All-American Wrestling's "Windy City Classic II" event in November. Though Tyler and Cannon had shared a locker room many times before in the Midwest, tempers really flared at Wrestling Society X, where there was more of an on-screen emphasis on the cultural lifestyles of the competitors. The heat really esculated when Cannon, a devout follower of the punk rock sub-culture, privately aired his distaste with Tyler's preference for emo music, which he sees as a less-masculine bastard child of the music that he loves. Of course, Black didn't take kindly to those words, and a rivalry of bickering has taken place, although due to not being around one another much due to physical location, they haven't gotten to air these grievances face-to-face. Both Cannon and Black have asked for the match, and on March 17th at Fight Sports Midwest's debut event, "The Anarchist" Arik Cannon will face Tyler Black! ALSO JUST SIGNED... We at Fight Sports Midwest have noticed a resurgeance in tag team wrestling over the past year, an aspect of this great sport that sadly was almost lost at one point. Thanks to fine promotions such as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla in California and Ring of Honor, tag team wrestling is climbing its way back into the professional wrestling limelight. FSM is not about to be left behind this trend, as one of our goals is to bring some of the best teams in the country and give Midwestern wrestling fans a tag team division of their own to be proud of! To launch the division, at our first event, we will be holding a five-team gauntlet bout where two teams will start and after one teams loses, another team will replace them until all five teams have entered. The winner of the last fall will be proclaimed the winner of the entire match. The news of this division forming spread amongst some of the competitors over the past couple of weeks, and there's already been talks with both current tag teams and brand new teams, as some singles wrestlers are looking at this as a hot commodity that they need to hop on. Over the weeks leading up to this event, more teams will be announced as they're confirmed. As of now, we can announce the first team, as they've officially signed their names on the dotted line. The first team in the gauntlet will be "The All Star" Chuck Taylor, one of the hottest stars on the indy scene today and the current IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Champion, and Truth Martini, one of the most prominent wrestlers to come out of Michigan in years and the man who trained such stars as Jimmy Jacobs, Alex Shelley, and Zach Gowen. Truth sees Chuck as having nothing but the utmost potential, but needs guidance in which Truth feels he can provide to help mold the youngster into a complete professional wrestler. On March 17th, Truth & Chuck will join a field of five to determine preliminary tag team supremacy in Fight Sports Midwest! As of right now, here's the official card for Fight Sports Midwest on March 17th in Portage! ***MAIN EVENT*** "The Samoan Submission Machine" SAMOA JOE vs "The Last of a Dying Breed" EDDIE KINGSTON ***FIRST TIME EVER IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING*** "The Wrestling Machine" AUSTIN ARIES vs "The Trendsetter" JOSH ABERCROMBIE ***HEAVYWEIGHT SHOWDOWN*** "Double C" CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI vs "The Strong Style Psycho" TANK (w/ Rev. Dan Wilson) "The Anarchist" ARIK CANNON vs TYLER BLACK ***TAG TEAM GAUNTLET*** Featuring CHUCK TAYLOR & TRUTH MARTINI, plus FOUR MORE TEAMS! ALSO FEATURING... TRIK DAVIS "Pure Dynamite" BILLY ROC "Sweet 'n' Sour" LARRY SWEENEY BRANDON THOMASELLI "The Psycho Shooter" DRAKE YOUNGER "Iron Saints" VITO & SAL THOMASELLI ANN BROOKSTONE (formerly ANN THRAXX) "The Old Timer" JEFF KING HYDRA AND MORE! FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST SATURDAY, March 17, 2007 Camelot Sportsplex 5201 U.S. Highway 6 Portage, Indiana ***SMART MARK VIDEO FILMING ON MARCH 17TH!*** For those of you who are unable to attend our inaugural event, the fine folks at Smart Mark Video will be filming this for DVD release, with expert commentary and analysis from Dave Prazak & Joey Eastman. You can check out Smart Mark Video on the web for almost all of your independent wrestling video needs at www.smartmarkvideo.com! ***SAMOA JOE WRESTLING SEMINAR*** We are thrilled to announce that from 2-4 PM on the afternoon of our debut event, Samoa Joe will be offering a seminar to trained professional wrestlers to help better their in-ring skills. This is an opportunity to get hands-on advice from one of the best wrestlers on the planet and a great opportunity to improve your game. The seminar will cost $50, and spots are limited. Please contact [email protected] for more information. ***FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST ON THE WEB!*** Come check us out on MySpace at www.myspace.com/fightsportsmidwest, where you can get exclusive information on ticket sales, new matches, and everything FSM! Also, for exclusive interviews from Fight Sports Midwest competitors, you can go to www.youtube.com/fightsportsmidwest. Currently up are taped comments from Eddie Kingston discussing his injury and the main event on 3/17, and new comments from many other FSM combatants will be up on there soon. Keep an eye on the FSM MySpace, as we will be releasing the info to order your tickets to this event in the near-future! FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST SATURDAY, March 17, 2007 Camelot Sportsplex 5201 U.S. Highway 6 Portage, Indiana

We here at the spawning independent wrestling promotion Fight Sports Midwest aren't going to make silly promises that we're going to change the entire wrestling landscape as you know it, nor will we make outlandish claims about our place in the ever-changing professional wrestling world. However, we will bring you this promise: on March 17, 2007, in Portage, Indiana at the Camelot Sportsplex, we know that our debut event will bring something different to the Midwestern independent scene and give you, the hard-working wrestling fan, your money's worth while bringing something for every fan's tastes. With that being said, here is our blockbuster main event... ***FIRST TIME IN PRO WRESTLING*** "The Samoan Submission Machine" SAMOA JOE vs "The Last of a Dying Breed" EDDIE KINGSTON Two of the hardest-hitting men in professional wrestling today will collide for the FIRST TIME! Though these two share very different paths to the successes they've achieved in professional wrestling, they share a common tendency to be dangerous strikers in the squared circle. The accolades and championships held between the two men would practically fill a book! On March 17th in Portage, these two bulls of very different woods will collide to determine the dominance of one in the world of pro wrestling! You can check out a preview video we've made for this massive battle here: (We hope to get a director's account in the next few days, in which case the video will also be loaded on there). ALSO APPEARING: "The Trendsetter" JOSH ABERCROMBIE "The Anarchist" ARIK CANNON CHUCK TAYLOR TRIK DAVIS "Sweet 'n' Sour" LARRY SWEENEY "Iron Saints" VITO, SAL, & BRANDON THOMASELLI "Pure Dynamite" BILLY ROC TRUTH MARTINI ANN BROOKSTONE (formerly Ann Thraxx) "The Old Timer" JEFF KING HYDRA AND MORE! Also, come join us on MySpace at www.myspace.com/fightsportsmidwest, where you can keep up with all the latest Fight Sports Midwest happenings, including belltimes, ticket info, match announcements, and SO MUCH MORE! Also, we are looking for a webmaster for our website. If you are interested and have the skills necessary to make a slick, modern, professional website, message us on MySpace. FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST SATURDAY March 17, 2006 Camelot Sportsplex 5201 U.S. Highway 6 Portage, Indiana *********** Look for the semi-main event to be announced within the next ten-fifteen days.

Does anyone have the '91, '93, and '96 Rumble matches?

Hammer Henderson has his first official match, and more on the Royalty of the Ring.

THIRD MATCH ANNOUNCED FOR 3/17! ************** The independent wrestling world has been a-buzz since word leaked that Claudio Castagnoli's negotiations with World Wrestling Entertainment had hit a snag, and at least for the time being, he wouldn't be signing. Castagnoli has exploded in every promotion he's set foot in since his return to America in Fall 2004, as fans, wrestlers, and promoters alike can't help but see the immense wrestling ability that Claudio possesses. That ability has also led Claudio to becoming one-half of the first Independent Triple Crown Tag Team Champions, as for a period of time this fall, he and ex-partner Chris Hero held the Combat Zone Wrestling Tag Team Championship, Ring of Honor Tag Team Championship, and the Chikara Campeons de Parajas simultaniously, a feat many teams can only dream of. On March 17th, Claudio comes into Fight Sports Midwest alone, with a massive test standing in front of him... His opponent has dominated the tag team scene in the Southeastern region of America for the better part of five years now, holding Wildside tag team gold on five different occasions with three different partners, then becoming NWA Anarchy Tag Team Champions with fellow Devil's Reject "The Sleeper Cell" Shaun Tempers. He and long-time tag team partner Iceberg are also consistantly in the tag title hunt in Alabama-based promotion IWA Deep South. That's not to say he hasn't been a prominent singles competitor, as he burst onto the deathmatch scene at the 2004 IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatches in Oolitic, Indiana, following that up with strong showings in the next two KOTDM's, as well as winning IWA Deep South's Carnage Cup in 2005. He's also proven himself as a worthy grappler, putting in excellent performances in singles bouts with competitors such as Ian Rotten, Ryan Boz, and Brad Bradley, all sanctioned under National Wrestling Alliance rules. On March 17th, Reverend Dan Wilson will lead his monster into competition, as it will be "The Strong Style Psycho" Tank going head-to-head with "Double C" Claudio Castagnoli! As of right now, here is the card for Fight Sports Midwest's debut event on March 17th, 2007 in Portage, Indiana at the Camelot Sportsplex! ***MAIN EVENT*** "The Samoan Submission Machine" SAMOA JOE vs "The Last of a Dying Breed" EDDIE KINGSTON ***FIRST TIME EVER IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING*** "The Wrestling Machine" AUSTIN ARIES vs "The Trendsetter" JOSH ABERCROMBIE ***HEAVYWEIGHT SHOWDOWN*** "Double C" CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI vs "The Strong Style Psycho" TANK (w/ Rev. Dan Wilson) ALSO FEATURING... "The Anarchist" ARIK CANNON CHUCK TAYLOR TRIK DAVIS "Pure Dynamite" BILLY ROC "Sweet 'n' Sour" LARRY SWEENEY BRANDON THOMASELLI "The Psycho Shooter" DRAKE YOUNGER "Iron Saints" VITO & SAL THOMASELLI TRUTH MARTINI ANN BROOKSTONE (formerly ANN THRAXX) "The Old Timer" JEFF KING HYDRA AND MORE! ***EDDIE KINGSTON SPEAKS ON INJURY, SAMOA JOE*** Eddie Kingston sent in a video from his home, where he's currently recuperating from a broken ankle he suffered at a recent Combat Zone Wrestling event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he clears up exactly when he is returning to the ring and his thoughts on stepping in the ring to face Samoa Joe for the first time ever! You can find the video at This, and all future Fight Sports Midwest Exclusive videos can be found on our YouTube site, at www.youtube.com/fightsportsmidwest. ****FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST on MYSPACE.COM*** Come join us on MySpace at www.myspace.com/fightsportsmidwest, where you can keep up with all of the latest Fight Sports Midwest happenings, including belltimes, ticket info, match announcements, and SO MUCH MORE! ********** FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST SATURDAY, March 17, 2007 Camelot Sportsplex 5201 U.S. Highway 6 Portage, Indiana

She puts over green, and the orange-wearing Phyllis reminds her that she said that. Angela's reply: "No, orange is whorish."

So I'm back on a part-time basis, as I'm not as busy as I thought I'd be, nor am I being stimulated enough creatively. So anyway, I was watching some old Coliseum Home Video stuff recently and thought, it might be kind of fun to do something like that for the OAOAST. Like, once quarterly or whatever, we throw together 4-6 matches with guys who you'd never usually see wrestling, with little-to-no ties to storylines, in competitive matches tied together with silly host segments. I think it'd be fun, as long as it's not too much writing. Whaddya think?

Eddie Kingston sent in a video from his home, where he's currently recuperating from a broken ankle he suffered at a recent Combat Zone Wrestling event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this video message, he clears up exactly when he is returning to the ring and his thoughts on stepping in the ring to face Samoa Joe for the first time ever on March 17th in Portage, Indiana! You can find the video at This, and all future Fight Sports Midwest Exclusive videos can be found on our YouTube site, at www.youtube.com/fightsportsmidwest. The third match for Fight Sports Midwest' debut event, "Rockin' the Suburbs", will be announced this Tuesday night via the FSM MySpace at www.myspace.com/fightsportsmidwest.

The second OAOAST bout of The Royalty of the Ring.

Quick last-minute addition: The in-ring debut of the Royalty of the Ring, Alex Bryant & Zangief Carpentier.

On November 28th, we announced that, on Saturday, March 17th, 2007 in Portage, Indiana (just 40 minutes outside of Chicago), Fight Sports Midwest will present its debut professional wrestling event to you, the pro wrestling fans. Also on that day, we announced the main event for that show, as two bonafide heavyweight heavy-hitters in former Total Nonstop Action X-Division Champion Samoa Joe and former Combat Zone Wrestling Heavyweight Champion Eddie Kingston, will do battle in the main event of that premiere event. Tonight, we are ready to announce the next match for our opening card, a battle of two junior heavyweight stars of the independent wrestling scene. Getting his start in the Midwest, Austin Aries rose through the independent scene like a bullet in 2004, going for relative obscurity to becoming a finalist in the prestigious East Coast Wrestling Association's Super Eight Tournament, then gaining a regular roster spot with Ring of Honor as a member of Generation Next before capping off his break-out year by becoming the only man in almost two years to defeat Samoa Joe, gaining his first ROH World Title. Since then he, along with his partner Roderick Strong, became the longest-reigning ROH World Tag Team Champions as well as becoming a featured player on Spike TV's TNA Impact program on Thursday nights. One young man whose career currently looks to be modelling the beginning of Aries' meteoric rise is Josh Abercrombie, who much like Aries did, has been burning up in the Midwestern independent scene for the past two years, first exclusively in the Michigan independents and then going on to become the longest-reigning IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Champion, a belt that Aries challenged for at one point, but could not obtain. Abercrombie has torn through almost any light heavyweight who's come in his way, such as Jamie Noble (Gibson), Delirious, Matt Sydal, Jerry Lynn, Tyler Black, and Ruckus. Rarely in the past year has Josh met his match in the squared circle. On March 17th, 2007, in Portage, IN at the Camelot Sportsplex, these two dominant junior heavyweights will collide! Josh Abercrombie will face Austin Aries! Here's a preview video that's been made for this upcoming bout: As of right now, here is the line-up for Fight Sports Midwest's inaugural event on Saturday, March 17th! ***FIRST TIME EVER IN PRO WRESTLING*** "The Samoan Submission Machine" SAMOA JOE vs "The Last of a Dying Breed" EDDIE KINGSTON ***FIRST TIME IN PRO WRESTLING*** "The Wrestling Machine" AUSTIN ARIES vs "The Trendsetter" JOSH ABERCROMBIE ALSO FEATURING... "The Anarchist" ARIK CANNON CHUCK TAYLOR TRIK DAVIS "Sweet 'n' Sour" LARRY SWEENEY BRANDON THOMASELLI "The Psycho Shooter" DRAKE YOUNGER "Iron Saints" VITO & SAL THOMASELLI TRUTH MARTINI ANN BROOKSTONE (formerly ANN THRAXX) "The Old Timer" JEFF KING HYDRA AND MORE! ***SMART MARK VIDEO FILMING 3/17*** For those of you who've asked, Smart Mark Video will be in attendance on March 17th to film the event, then will distribute it on DVD through their website, www.smartmarkvideo.com, where you can also find many other fine pro wrestling DVD products. ****FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST on MYSPACE.COM*** Come join us on MySpace at www.myspace.com/fightsportsmidwest, where you can keep up with all of the latest Fight Sports Midwest happenings, including belltimes, ticket info, match announcements, and SO MUCH MORE! FIGHT SPORTS MIDWEST SATURDAY, March 17, 2007 Camelot Sportsplex 5201 U.S. Highway 6 Portage, Indiana

I wrote that one Cibernetico match that people seemed to like...

Has the stream crapped out for anyone else?

Got the cartwheel bit from this dude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VolZ1Le1CSM

So, Billy Roc & Mike Quackenbush had this match on September 2nd in Indianapolis, and I loved it and all that jazz. Coming up on November 4th, they're set to rematch in the same promotion, along with Dave Crist vs. Hallowicked, LOS ICECREAMS~!, and some other stuff. So, here's a video I made to hype up the Roc/Quack sequel. Enjoying it would be nice. Song: "Use It" - New Pornographers WMV FILE: hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=L100U1SD (replace the x's with t's) MPEG FILE (better quality): hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=1R8F8BVP (replace x's with t's) YOUTUBE LINK: (I made a boo-boo: the show isn't on November 2nd, which is a Thursday. It's on November 4th, which is a Saturday.)

If it's cool, I got bored and wrote something and it'd probably be better for a Syndicated show rather than HeldDOWN~! or a PPV.

"Mr. Insanity" Toby Klein is the champ; he's defending it against IWA Battlebowl winner Sexy Chucky T.

In an attempt to excite myself more for this coming weekend, I threw this little dealie-a-bob together. Nothing epic or earth-shattering...just some wrasslin' set to music and hopefully it gets people more excited about the Ted Petty Invitational than they already are. Enjoy! WMV LINK: hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=FQIOFGMC (replace x's with t's) YOUTUBE LINK: MPEG LINK: hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=7XEVJGLP (replace x's with t's) -Tom

1. Low Ki vs. Gran Akuma 2. M-Dogg 20 vs. Ricochet 3. Trik Davis vs. Erick Stevens 4. Chris Hero vs. Ricky Reyes 5. Brandon Thomaselli vs. Roderick Strong 6. Jigsaw vs. Davey Richards 7. Arik Cannon vs. B-Boy 8. "Mr. Wrestling" Kevin Steen vs. Claudio Castagnoli 9. Mike Quackenbush vs. "Classic" Colt Cabana 10. Delirious vs. Scott Lost 11. Scorpio Sky vs. Hallowicked 12. El Generico vs. Chris Bosh

HEY! So, like, I was there and stuff (thank you to T-Mack for posting said results that I texted in and putting up with my total marking out for Konnan bobbleheads at the gimmick table), and here's some totally thoughtful thoughts about everything: -I don't know if it's a new set-up (I hope it is, so they'd have an explanation), but the fancy lights and music set-up created mucho problems with the power. In other words, they had so much stuff hooked up to what I presume was one singular place that they blew the power out not once, not twice, but THREE times. The third one happened during a match, and although the referee had a zany comment about not being able to count a man out if he cannot see him, it was kind of embarrassing. On the bright side, when the lighting worked right, it looked JUST like the Kumite from Bloodsport, which blew my damned mind. - The building is in quite a random location. If you ever go to an IPW show, look for the Fountain Square COMMUNITY Center, since the Salvation Army sign up front is unseeable from the road, in my opinion. - Lots of kids and "special" folk in the crowd tonight, which made it way different from most other "workrate" feds (and a lot more fun at times). Irish Airborne, who somehow randomly became fountains of charisma here, were great at riling the kids up. The nameless manager who came out with Hex Gage...notsomuch. Promoter Mike Williams comes out at the beginning of the show and announces that Matt Sydal's still on the Interstate, as he flew from LA to St. Louis this morning and was now driving from St. Louis to Indianapolis. The ring announcer was, if he had a suit, the epitome of "old-timey" awesomeness. If he would have bought something nice to wear and not a suit jacket over a t-shirt and jeans, he would have been straight out of 1938 and it would have been awesome. - 1. IPW Mid-American Title Match: Ryan Raze defeated Zac Vincent and Roach to retain the IPW Mid-American Championship. This was rather not good. Vincent also came out with the pretty bad manager with had the slowest wit imaginable and wrestled "Omega" Aaron Draven in both men's IWA East Coast debuts. He also looks like a mini of Tony Stradlin (who now wrestles for WWE developmental territory Deep South Wrestling). Roach looks just like a mini of Quicksilver from PWG, and Raze looks like what would happen if Lash LeRoux went on a bender and the only thing he had when he woke up was a box of Mike Quackenbush's old gear. Pretty bad match that followed that three-way formula of "two guys wrestle, one guy stays outside of the ring" so closely that there were times that one guy would just kind of wander outside of the ring, not even getting knocked out there. Vincent hit a pretty neat sit-out backbreaker out of the starting position for the Cop Killa, but other than that, nothing memorable here. 2. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Quarter-Finals: Chuck Taylor defeated OMG in a sucky match with a Lungblower to advance to the Semi-Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. If a match could ever make Sexy Charles T. look minor league, here it is. Very un-structured and random. I think the Lungblower is now the 2006 version of "Grab a hold when things fall apart". 3. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Quarter-Finals: Mike Quackenbush defeated Billy Roc in a fantastic match to advance to the Semi-Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. Following the match, Quackenbush gave Roc props on the microphone. "Fuck Yeah!" was basically the general statement upon the closing of this match from the crowd. Best match of the tournament almost by far, if it weren't for the finals rocking also. This crowd had the benefit of the crowd being not dead at this point and reacting to everything they did. The match started with lots of wacky chain wrestling, which Quack is the king of and therefore dominated. Then, they go to the lucha armdrags...and Billy Roc surprisingly takes control of the match. You can literally see the expression on Quack's face change from "Okay, this is a neat little exhibition to have some fun with" to "I need to take this guy out". So, Quack being the master of every wrestling hold known to man, decides he's going to take out Billy's knee since he's all quick and stuff. Quack gets really mean with the knee-work, doing anything from the KneeDT to just holding the leg out and palm striking the knee. Big "Let's Go Billy!" chant when Billy attempts to escape a variation of the STF from Quack. This all builds up to probably the best-looking move in Billy's arsenal, the enziguri, beginning Billy's comeback. A really hot sequences of moves leads to Quack bringing Billy down with the Lighting Lock Delta for the tap-out finish. After the match, Quack puts Billy over on the microphone for being a credit to the Indiana indy scene and thanked him for a great match. This was, by far, the best match I've ever seen out of Billy Roc. Though I'm sure some of it was Quack, Billy didn't look as hesitant as he can sometimes, he sold well enough to get the pro-Quack crowd behind him, and all of his stuff looked really crisp and good. If this match had circulation like what Smart Mark Video or ROH's distribution company has, this would be the match that'd change opinions on Billy Roc on some. Overall, good times were had by all. - A problem with the show arose here, as the best and most heated match of the night went on third, and totally drained the crowd for most of the rest of the show (there was a little bit of energy left after intermission, but then Quack came out and ruled again). Part of it might have been the whole "delaying for Sydal" thing, but it was still a problem. 4. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Quarter-Finals: Ricochet defeated Hex Gage with a Yoshi-Tonic to advance to the Semi-Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. I actually missed part of this bout due to fearing the possession of my car no longer being mine since I parked in a rather shady part of the area due to getting lost and showing up late. But, from what I saw, Gage looked super-athletic and did some neat spots, including the afformentioned Phoenix 630, which was impressive considering he's built like a thicker Chuck Taylor. Gage also looks like what would happen if Alex Shelley were a wacky old-timey magician, and that's a great thing. Ricochet tried the double moonsault for the finish, but he basically landed like Eddie Kingston did at the 2004 TPI on his moonsault dive, only replace the metal part under the ring with Hex's head. It was really scary, but they finished the match. 5. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Quarter-Finals: Jake Crist defeated Aaron Williams in a stiff match with a lariat to advance to the Semi-Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. Williams looked pretty good here, not being so light and flippy and being more solid at basics than some of the other non-"super-indy" guys here. These two just beat the holy hell out of each other. At one point in this match, Jake got into an argument with a child outside of the ring with a young kid that ended with, after a really awesome Yakuza kick, he popped outside of the ring and charged at the kid to yell at him so fast that he almost headbutted him on accident. But yeah...way different than most Jake Crist stuff with the crowd-playing and stiffness. 6. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Quarter-Finals: Dave Crist defeated Allan The Solution in an akward match with a Ghetto Stomp to advance to the Semi-Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. Allan The Solution looked pretty impressive but the finish was rushed due to Crist being knocked loopy. Allan The Solution was the best of all the guys you'd probably never heard of going into the tournament, and should really be given a shot in bigger promotions. He's quite intense and looks to be a big subscriber to the Al Snow theory of "put your opponent down to the mat at all costs". It turns out that I'm pretty sure now that Solution was the one who got knocked out off of the hurricanrana on the floor, not Crist. However, they went with Crist selling it like he had a concussion off of it...then popping right back up once he got back into the ring, hitting a few moves, and finishing the match quickly. Alright match, but I think it would have been better given more time and less brain bruises. 7. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Quarter-Finals: Matt Sydal defeated Vortexz with the Moonsault Belly-To-Belly Suplex to advance to the Semi-Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. Sydal looks extremely tired due to flying in from CA. Alright match, but Sydal looked like if you were to have thrown him a pillow, he would have taken a nap right there. This is even the first time I've ever seen Matt Sydal without perfectly groomed hair. To his credit, he made Vortekz look way better than he probably usually would, picking spots for Vortekz's wacky flips and flops that made sense and popped the crowd. INTERMISSION TIME~! Lots of guys selling Best of DVD's, and someone was selling an atrociously awesome collection of mid-90's WWF Best of Coliseum Video clipped tapes and action figures, including the afformentioned Konnan bobblehead. There were also a lot of people in the crowd with random huge WWF figures for no reason I could figure out. Dave Crist also did some "tricks" in the ring for applause. (and by tricks, I mean wacky lucha rolls) 8. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Semi-Finals: Chuck Taylor defeated Mike Quackenbush in a goofy match with a Moonsault Press to advance to the Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. I think they could sense that the crowd was still kind of waning, so they did this weird hybrid of a really good comedy match wrapped in a delicious seaweed package of good chain wrestling. They did the old Pepper Gomez "Look up there!" spot, but with British courting holds, as well as zaniness based around Quack biting Taylor and threatening to do it again. The finish stunned the crowd somewhat, but it was an assumption at that point that it'd be Ricochet/Chuck/Sydal, which would still make sense in terms of predicting it'd click well. 9. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Semi-Finals: Ricochet defeated Jake Crist in a short and very flippy match with a 630 Splash on broken ropes to advance to the Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. They did a lot of moves and they did them well, but the big thing about this match was being scared that the ring ropes were either going to snap or the ringposts would literally snap in half off of someone even as small as Ricochet hitting them. At one point, Ricochet hit the ropes and the two posts on the other side of the ring FLEW UP OFF OF THE GROUND. The other two posts were making snapping noises as well. So, what do you do when the ringposts and ropes are falling apart? Do a 630, of COURSE! That was the finish, and....just thank God no one got hurt. They did another impromptu intermission to fix the ring, and when we got back in, Sydal vs. Dave Crist had already started. 10. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Semi-Finals: Dave Crist defeated Matt Sydal with a Superbomb to advance to the Finals of the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament. Sydal kind of woke up during this match, but he still wasn't the usual Matt Sydal. He doesn't deserve any shit from anyone though, as his travel schedule really sucked this weekend. Crist looked really good during this match though, as you could definately tell he was taking the lead at most points. They also held a lot more holds than almost anyone else did in the tournament. 11. Horror Show, Botch and Cyanide defeated The Council Of Champions, Dave Davidson and Carlton Kaz and Southern Rock, Hillbilly Jed and Indiana Kidd Jr. in an abysmal match when the member of Horror Show that tries to be like Brain Damage pinned Hillbilly Jedd following a Side Slam. This match was not only filmed for the DVD release of this show, but also for repeated use in the 7th Circle of Hell to punish the sinners. This wasn't even bad in a funny way...this was bad in a terrible way. Horror Show are the saddest thing I've seen in a while, as one looks like a really fat Insane Lane who imitates Deranged and the other tries to be just like Brain Damage. Neither does it particularly well. Kaz & Davidson didn't look too bad, but that's because the other two teams were so fucking awful. Kidd & Jedd, in their yellow and black attire, looked like the killer bees that even the Iron Sheik wouldn't humble. This match just kept going...and going...and going. There was no reason for it other than to get guys on the show, especially this late into the show when the crowd was already worn out. They did the always-retarded spot in these matches where partners are tagged in against each other, and it was terrible both times. They did the most awkward "accidental dive spot" EVER when Kidd stood on the top rope with his back to the ring for seriously about a minute before Jedd was whipped into him by the Horror Show, causing Kidd to fall onto the Council outside of the ring. This match made me hate being alive for about twenty minutes. 12. Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament Finals, IPW Light Heavyweight Title Match: Dave Crist defeated Ricochet and Chuck Taylor in a great match to win the Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament and the IPW Light Heavyweight Championship after pinning Chuck Taylor following a Top Rope Rubix Cube. Really good stuff to end off the tournament, with Dave Crist being the star of the match (which sometimes doesn't happen in situations like this). It was very similar to Dragon/Daniels/Ki from ROH in 2002, with lots of the one-upsmanship and three-way holds. Crist also brought the double-stompery here. The finish was a little out of nowhere, but the crowd still really dug the match. Good stuff. After the match, the promoter came out and did a 30-minute Ian Rotten-style speech about how awesome his crew is, how great his business partners are, etc. that was nice and all, but it was around midnight and it was five hours at this point. I can stand it at a show like TPI since the wrestling's mind-blowing the whole way, but on a show like this where it's good, but not amazing, you get kind of tired. Overall, the show was worth the $12 I spent on it, and Quack/Roc and the finals I'd venture to say are worth buying the $15 DVD for, with Quack/Roc being a must-see by any means. You can find the DVD's on www.insanityprowrestling.com.

Just wondering, since you said you've known him for a while: how long has Ricochet been working? He's only 17, and I can't imagine he's been around for a long while.

Lift the guy up in an electric chair position, then drive him down head-first between your legs, only off of the top rope. Gage was alright...his high-flying was impressive considering his size.

It was a show that was on Disney in the States in the mid-90's (and Canada before that), based on a bunch of flashbacks to kindergarten. YouTube and the torrent sites are failing me terribly. Does anyone know where I would be able to find some episodes of this show at? Thanks in advance.

Some brief feedback since I haven't slept since Thursday: First off, thanks for all of the positive feedback on the Torneo Cibernetica. I'm trying to be more of a person of my word so I'm not saying I'll ever come back for certain, but I might make an effort to write the occasional one-off match every once in a while. Liked the whole Malibu deal up until the immediate Anglesault re-instation. I know why it was done, but the angle might have had more impact had Zack been gone for a while. The cage match was cool, though not to be a nit-picker, but Hoff's slammed Gibraltar before too. And...fuck, I'm tired. I'll be back after a nap.

LOL I totally forgot about that - man color ME embarrassed, sorry man. It's cool. The match is: Brock Auustin, Reject, TJ Burns, Dark Predator, Sly Sommers, & Zane Maxwell vs. James Blonde, Ultimo Villano X, Ultra Shago, Faqu, Colombian Heat, & Otaku II If I could request the main event slot, that'd be cool. If not, cool too.