Phoenix Fury Legdrop

As of now... Battle of the Monsters: Gibraltar (w/Saint Andrew) vs. "The Current Big Thing" Brock Auustin (w/ Rick Heyross) #1 Contender To The HeldDOWN~! World Title Match: Sly "The Sly" Sommers vs. Peter Knight

Final Match in Seven Sins Series (Streetfight): Minions (3-3) vs. GPX (3-3) Gibraltar in action against unnamed opponent Sly & AJ Flaire vs. PK & Jacob Lyne, as Adam said.

Random thought: when's this week's HD going up?

How can you "safely" say Petey Williams sucks? Because you saw three matches out of his entire career, all on the biggest stage of his career (where he was probably really nervous) with guys who don't even speak the same language as him? I hate to agree with Rob Naylor, but don't judge any of these guys, especially Petey Williams (who I've seen some really great stuff out of in IWA Mid-South) just based on this.

I think they finally came to an agreement, since I was flipping around just now (1:51 AM, Thursday morning), and Tough Crowd w/ Colin Quinn popped up.

No offense to 'Cide, but Brad Bradley's are ten times more deadly. Bradley's forearms and lariats are also stiff as hell.

Tigers Mask isn't associated with the Tiger Masks of the past, but rather some cross-promotion with a Japanese baseball team called "The Tigers".

In front of an unofficial attendance number of AT LEAST 300, and probably more people.... "The Tremendous" Emil Sitoci d. Trik Davis, Cru Jones, and Frankie The Face in a four-way dance (energetic, good opener; it was said Trik's original opponent, Cash Flo, hurt himself in training and wouldnt't be able to make Highland or Oolitic this weekend; only part I didn't like is how Cru Jones took it upon himself to beat the crap out of Trik since he couldn't get over otherwise) M-Dogg20 & Josh Prohibition d. PWG's Vito & Sal Thomaselli (Best M-Dogg & Josh tag match I've probably ever seen; kept a lot more structure than usual Youthanazia matches; Thomasellis definately earned a spot in IWA, and got over huge) Conrad Kennedy III then cut a promo about IWA being nothing but hardcore, high-flying "horsefucking", as he put it, leading to... TRACY SMOTHERS~! d. Conrad Kennedy III (Tracy's appearance was a total and complete surprise, as apparantly Ian won't advertise Tracy ahead of time again since Tracy no-showed some shows in November; really good old-school style match without all the dumb stalling that's usually prevelant in Chicago-area wrestling) Ryan Boz (w/ Jim Fannin) d. "Road Dogg" BG James (Worst match of the card, imo; James definately relied on the pre-match promo shtick and wasn't planning on doing much in the ring; Jim Fannin massaging Ryan Boz's back got an "ROH" chant, to which Fannin replied, "Ryan Boz isn't fourteen years old!"; post-match, Trik Davis came out to set up himself and BG James against Jim Fannin and Ryan Boz tonight in Oolitic) In an UNBELIEVEABLE six-way woman's match, Lacey d. Rain, Daizee Haze, Ms. Chif, ODB, and Mickie Knuckles (listed in reverse order of elimination) (This, without a doubt, is one of the best North American women's matches I've ever seen; at least five standing ovations throughout the match; match was worked as heels (Lacey, Rain, Chif) versus faces (ODB, Mickie, Daizee) throughout the match, until all the faces got eliminated and only Rain and Lacey were left, when they turned on each other after Lacey laid down for a pin, but reversed it into a small package for a near-fall; Ms. Chif got herself over huge with the Highland crowd with her debut in the building on this night, and was probably MVP of a match where everyone put in a really good performance) "Anarchist" Arik Cannon d. Ian Rotten (Before the match, after the crowd chanted "Jesus Loves You" at Cannon, Arik replied, "Fuck you and fuck Jesus too!"; in a word, this match was stiff; these two KILLED each other with forearms, chops, and some of the most disgustingly hard headbutts I've ever seen; Cannon worked Ian's knee since it's common knowledge that Ian's knees are basically shot; Ian put over Arik after the match as the guy who's slided into Chris Hero's spot as the new workhorse of IWA Mid-South) Steve Stone d. Zach Gowan (Gowan's entrance lasted at least three minutes due to him making sure that every single person in the building hated his guts; Stone then came out and proceeded to chop Zach's chest until it looked identical to raw, bloody meat; Gowan did mocking Hogan poses throughout the match when he was either on offense or stalling) IWA MID-SOUTH LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE (2/3 Falls): Matt Sydal © retained over Delirious (Another really good match between these two; Delirious somehow got Mr. Belvedere over in the first fall by randomly screaming his name after a move; Sydal won the first fall after a top rope belly-to-belly suplex; Delirious won the second fall with Chemical Imbalance II (reverse pumphandle lifted into an inverted Storm Cradle Driver); Sydal won the third fall with a short armscissors after working the arm a bit early in the match; Sydal faces AJ Styles on April 10th for "Simply the Best 5", back in Highland, IN at the Lincoln Center) IWA-MS HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH (Special Troubleshooting Referee: "Classic" Colt Cabana): Jerry Lynn © retained over Danny Daniels (w/ Jim Fannin) (Cabana cut a heel promo beforehand on both the wrestlers still selling shirts and autographs at the gimmick table, and IWA Mid-South, saying ROH was now his home, and proclaimed that Jim Fannin paid him off to "call it right down the middle"; Cabana started the match with a classic "Gladiators, ready?!?!....contestants, ready?!?!" straight out of American Gladiators; really good match, and much better than Lynn's repetitive drivel these days; really close near-falls with Lynn's Air Raid Crash and Cradle Piledriver, and Daniels's regular piledriver; Cabana eventually turned on Fannin, knocked him off the apron, and counted Daniels down for the three-count, leading to a post-match beatdown on Cabana by Daniels and Fannin where they attacked his legit injured shoulder before Jerry Lynn came out to make the save) TEXAS DEATH MATCH: "Spyder" Nate Webb d. JC Bailey (JC was planning on attacking Nate before his usually amazing dancing entrance, but BG James came out of the door on Nate's cue, and distracted JC as Nate came in through the front door, beat JC up, through him back in the ring, and danced all around the building to "Teenage Dirtbag"; violent as all hell here; Nate got seven dollar bills donated by him to fans for stapling to JC's face, but JC got the advantage back and stapled all of the money to Nate's face, though Nate did staple a dollar on JC's tongue; they nearly killed themselves trying to piledrive each other through a table that refused to break; too many more insane spots to mention here; Nate got the win after a senton onto JC's head, which was wrapped in chairs, and kept him down for the ten-count after a pin) Nate then thanked Ian over the house mic for helping him grow as a wrestler since debuting in IWA-MS, since 3/6 was Nate's five-year anniversary as a wrestler, and then demanded a barbed wire tables match with JC at April Bloodshowers in Oolitic, since JC jumped him after the match. Ian came out, and refused to book it, since the stipulation went that no matter what happened, Nate and JC couldn't fight in an IWA ring for one year. Ian said he wanted Nate to see another five years as a wrestler, even though some a-holes in the crowd kept screaming for a rematch. Nate reluctantly agreed, and the show closed with Nate and Ian walking to the locker room as "Teenage Dirtbag" played again. NOTES: This was my first Highland show, and it was unbelieveable. Outside of Road Dogg/Boz, everything was at least good, and the women's six-way, Ian/Cannon, Sydal/Delirious, and Webb/Bailey were unbelieveable....Signed for "Simply the Best 5" in Highland, IN at the Lincoln Center on April 10th: "Classic" Colt Cabana vs. Danny Daniels, "The Phenomonal" AJ Styles vs. Matt Sydal, plus the IWA debuts of ROH World Champion Samoa Joe and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan...Biggest Highland crowd yet...the IWA Tag Team Title Tournament, plus Sabu's return to IWA rings, is on May 29th...IWA "Best of 2003" limited-edition (only 250 were made) are still available from the company...Show was taped on two cameras by the new production company that tapes the shows when Smart Mark Video cannot make it to the shows.

EVIL ONE LEGGED MAN~! Ok, all joking aside, about 10 months ago, if you told me that Zach Gowen couldn't be a heel, I would believe you... but apparently he can be one. A prosthetic leg as a weapon. Haven't seen that since Diesel ripped off Mad Dog Vachon's leg. Gowan is one hell of a heat magnet. Saturday night in Highland, he played heel better than just about everyone else on the show but Danny Daniels, and got the best heel heat I've ever seen at a live show (but nowhere near anything from back at the old Clarksville building, where Tracy Smothers incited riots almost weekly).

Best American women's match I've seen just about ever, for sure. I haven't seen any joshi sadly, so I couldn't comment there. But from the anal retentiveness of joshi fans about how great their psychology is, I think this would be a bit below joshi-level. But still a crowning achievement in IWA's (and more notably, Dave Prazak's) mission to get women's wrestling over the same way men's indy wrestling gets over.

According to 1Bob Black & White, Abyss & Roddy Piper both pulled out of this Saturday's show today, and Rob's still involved despite what they're saying.

Okay, I will. Weird thing is, the lead singer from The Postal Service sounds exactly like the guy from Death Cab for Cutie.

Why does "Clark Gable" come up in all of the DCFC searches on Soulseek then, under the DCFC name?

Hybrid Stigmata - Dimmu Borgir Title and Registration - Death Cab for Cutie Clark Gable - Death Cab For Cutie Girlfriend - Eve 6 Mad World - Gary Jules

Like I said in the thread-starting post, SMV films whenever they can get down, which is barely once a month anymore. Since people complained about the shitty quality of the one-camera non-SMV taped shows, they hired a new production company (who, outside of having equiptment that blows away SMV, really suck) to tape shows when SMV can't come to IWA.

I think you can e-mail Vince Jones ([email protected]) to either reserve tickets, or get the info about reserving tickets. Front row's already sold out...thank Sal for being able to reserve seats for STB during first intermission.

The DVD's are on www.iwams.com As for BG James...he doubled attendance in Oolitic, so he draws somewhere.

Trust me then; Ian would be an idiot not to try and get Ms. Chif in for all the shows that Matt, Delirious, and Daizee come up on. I honestly think she surpassed all the other women in the company last night as far as getting over with the Highland crowd, and surely the people who watch the tape whenever it comes out.

They're booked for 4/10, and if you missed it the first ten times, Matt's working AJ Styles.

Colvid (w/ Sly Sommers) vs. Peter Knight Match Six in the Seven Sins Series (Tables Match): GPX (2-3) vs. Minions (3-2) Some developments with Brock/Gibraltar; even I don't know what yet.

Onyx'll be on Velocity as well, teaming with fellow Wildside heavyweight "The One Man Mafia" Mikael Adrien to job to Palumbo & Stamboli, as well as former Wildside Jr. Heavyweight Champion Ray Gordy jobbing to Shannon Moore.

Before an attendance of 87 at the Lafayette, IN National Guard Armory.... Steve Stone d. Skeeter Frost (Frost's IWA debut; Steve practically murdered the guy with chops and forearms; Frost's chest looked brutal.) Jim Fannin, Brad Bradley, and Ryan Boz had an interview segment here, where they basically announced that Fannin's lawyers got the TLC stip pulled from B'n'B's later match with Matt Sydal and Delirious. "The Tremendous" Emil Sitoci d. "Arch Angel" Gabriel and Nick Halen (replacing an injured "Kool" Seth DeLay) in a three-way dance (Opening parts with all three were a little iffy, but Gabriel and Sitoci had a good eight-minute match to themselves after Halen was eliminated) SALVATORE RINAURO~! d. Cru Jones (Sadly, not one of Sal's best matches, but it wasn't too bad. Sal pulled out the win after rolling Cru up with a schoolboy and pulling the ropes) Daizee Haze d. Lacey Danny Daniels (w/ Jim Fannin) d. Austin Aries (Really, really good stuff here; Aries worked the head of Daniels's due to Daniels's recent nose and ear surgeries, while Danny worked Aries's back. Aries nailed the brainbuster and 450 splash for near-falls, the second of which Jim Fannin pulled Austin out of the ring. Daniels then rolled Austin up, and like Sal vs. Cru, Danny used the ropes to win. If this is any indication, their match at ROH's Do or Die II convention show in New Jersey in March should be off-the-charts.) Ian Rotten d. BJ Whitmer (w/ Jim Fannin handcuffed to a fan in the front row) (A lot of pre-match chicanery, with Fannin asking to be handcuffed to a 4-year-old...and the kid proceeded to flip Fannin the bird. Pretty good match here, and BJ actually looked kind of charismatic. I dug the matwork, and Ian laid in some pretty good headbutts. Post-match, Danny Daniels jumped Ian, leading to Nate Webb, Cru Jones, and Austin Aries making the save. Ian then announced for next month in Lafayette that he and Steve Stone would wrestle BJ & Daniels in a stretcher match.) Brad Bradley & Ryan Boz d. Delirious & Matt Sydal (To say Delirious is over in Lafayette would be an understatement. The man got FIVE "Stem-Cell Research" chants without even bringing the subject up. Sydal & Delirious got off to a hot start before B'n'B took over. Delirious was the wacky face-in-peril as B'n'B pummeled him. Delirious eventually got the hot tag, but it was all for naught, as Bradley and Boz won when Bradley powerbombed Delirious off of the top rope, and through a table despite refusing the TLC stipulation earlier in the night.) JC Bailey d. "Spyder" Nate Webb in a steel cage match (Good match with a bunch of insane spots, including a Russian legsweep off the top rope, a Soylent Green (Canadian Backbreaker/over-the-shoulder powerbomb flipped into a DDT) from Nate Webb off the top rope, a missed Chairsault from Nate off the top of the cage, and JC finishing Nate off with a Barstown Jam (flying legdrop) off the top of the cage. Post-match, JC pummeled Nate some more with the chairs before leaving, and Ian Rotten proclaimed that next Saturday in Highland, Nate and JC's feud would end in a Texas Death Match.) NOTES: Attendance was hiked up by about thirty people from last month....I don't know if it's just me not going to many shows besides IWA or what, but the crowd at the show was unbelievably hot for just about everything...The show was filmed on two cameras by the new production team...Sad note to announce, as during the first intermission, a fan was taken to the hospital after suffering what I heard was a seizure in the parking lot...The Oolitic show next Friday has been moved to Sunday due to the Oolitic building being double-booked on Friday...IWA "Best of 2003" DVD's are still available, and I heard they moved at least five or six tonight, and sold ten at Oolitic last weekend...a non-stipulation Ian Rotten & Steve Stone vs. BJ Whitmer and Danny Daniels match with the winners advancing to the IWA Mid-South World Tag Team Title Tournament in May was announced as taking place in Oolitic next weekend....Overall, another really good show from IWA Mid-South.

Thanks for the compliments thus far, and I must say, the Ejaculation Chamber ruled, just for the Evil Green Ranger run-in.

Glimmering Warlock's a Shining Enziguri, and the Whiteout is a Flatliner.

You can laugh at that all you want, but consider that, according to what one of the street team guys was telling me, no one in Lafayette is accepting of flyers to promote. Also, and I'd have to go back and check, but I think this outdrew AJ Styles's one Lafayette appearance in December.