Phoenix Fury Legdrop

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

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.

Just got in four comps (a HYOOOOOGE thank you to Slingshot Suplex from this board for sending the stuff to me), each highlighting one of the four members of the "Gateway Crew" that's come into their own as stars in IWA Mid-South and NWA Wildside, amongst other promotions. It's mainly of their Gateway careers, though I can bring other appearances of theirs if wanted. All but the Daizee Haze comp are 6 hours (hers is 2 hrs.). I'd prefer to sell for $5 plus shipping, though I'll trade if it's something really good. PM me or e-mail me at [email protected] (Matchlists are available if wanted)

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 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!

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.

Also added to 6/11 in Lafayette: Samoa Joe vs. Homicide. It's sad that only 50-60 people will come to see it live, but at least I'll enjoy the hell out of the show.

Live thoughts from a useless mind (and I don't mean the entire Chicagowrestling.com "braintrust")... 1. DANNY DANIELS def. EDDIE EDWARDS in the opening contest. (Fun opener; Daniels busted out a lot of moves he usually doesn't bust out; Edwards looked good in his debut) 2. SUMIE SAKAI def. RAIN (w/ Lacey) with two missile dropkicks, followed by a moonsault. (Sumie got super over during the match, and busted out some cool stuff; Rain seemed to keep up.) 3. TRACY SMOTHERS & CHRIS HAMRICK def. EDDIE KINGSTON & BLACK JACK MARCIANO to advance to the second round of the tournament. (The first of three really, really fun Southern Comfort matches; Kingston and Tracy's interaction with each other was tremendous; Hamrick worked as the face-in-peril and did a great job of it, as usual) 4. CM PUNK & COLT CABANA (w/ Tracy Brooks) def. NIGEL McGUINNESS & CHAD COLLYER to advance to the second round of the tournament. (Lots of Cabana being goofy and having fun with the wacky European stuff; the Saints were way over, as the ROH fans came in droves; Nigel was face-in-peril, and him and Punk seemed to click really well, so well that I hope someone books them in a singles match in the future) 5. RICKY REYES & PUMA def. BRAD BRADLEY & RYAN BOZ (w/ Carmine DeSpirito) to advance to the second round of the tournament. (There seemed to be a lack of crowd heat, and I even overheard some guys sitting behind us calling the Pitbulls "jobbers". For "jobbers", the Pitbulls f'n rocked here. Reyes and Puma overcame the obvious size disadvantage and the awkwardness of having an even match with guys that much larger than them, and made it work. Puma worked without his mask here; is he doing that in SoCal now?) 6. HOMICIDE & B-BOY def. M-DOGG 20 & JOSH PROHIBITION to advance to the second round of the tournament. (Best M-Dogg and Josh match I've ever seen, as 'Cide and B-Boy seemed to work around their strengths (big spots), layer those accordingly, and then attached the story to the match, as they beat on M-Dogg as their face in peril. Amazing spot at the end, as M-Dogg went for a SSP on B-Boy, but 'Cide caught him by the neck on the way down and dropped him with an Ace Crusher, followed by a brutal Cop Killa on JPro for the win) 7. PETEY WILLIAMS def. JIMMY JACOBS (w/ Becky Bayless) & ALEX SHELLEY & RODERICK STRONG & "Spyder" NATE WEBB & AUSTIN ARIES & DELIRIOUS in an Elimination Match to earn an IWA World Title shot. (Really fun match outside of really abrupt eliminations of Delirious and Jacobs; Aries came out as a face and seperate from his Generation Next partners before joining them early in the match; insane spot during the dive sequence where Roderick Strong grabbed Nate's foot while going for a kick and flipped him over the top rope onto the other guys; ended up as Petety and Nate versus Generation Next in a three-on-two tag match; Nate evened the odds by pinning Shelley with a really cool half-nelson/chicken wing twisting DDT thingy; Petey then pinned Nate with the Canadian Destroyer before eliminating Aries the exact same way (Roderick got eliminated with Soylent Green before Shelley); Petey was once again over like rover by the end) 8. PETEY WILLIAMS def. BJ WHITMER (w/ Jim Fannin) to win the IWA World Heavyweight Championship, following the Canadian Destroyer flip piledriver. (Short, but sweet; the heat was awesome for this match; story was that BJ was trying to finish it quickly with big moves, but Petey capitalized on one mistake of BJ's to hit the Canadian Destroyer and win the belt; loud and long "Petey" chant post-match) 9. CM PUNK & COLT CABANA (w/ Tracy Brooks) def. RICKY REYES & PUMA to advance to the finals of the tournament. (For some reason, I can't remember too much from this, other than Cabana hopping around and imitating Speedy Gonzalez during the opening minutes of the match, and that it was good. I apologize for not remembering more, but I was out until about 3 last night and woke up way too damn early) 10. TRACY SMOTHERS & CHRIS HAMRICK def. HOMICIDE & B-BOY to advance to the finals of the tournament. (Tracy dancing to 'Cide's entrance music might have been one of the greatest things I've ever seen, and I would LOVE to see Homicide work Tracy after seeing them work together in this match; B-Boy and Homicide kept Chris Hamrick in the ring as their face-in-peril (I think; I know he was face-in-peril for at least two of the Southern Comfort tags of the night) before a great finishing sequence, including Hamrick MURDERING B-Boy with a Psycho Driver) 11. SAMOA JOE def. CHRIS HERO by choking him out. (GET THE TAPE! This was, by far, the most fun I've had at a live show in forever, as the crowd in Highland was the loudest I've ever heard an IWA crowd in person with the split chants for both Joe and Hero (both having louder chants than the other at one point or another in the match, but ending up being even); I enjoyed the dueling "Let's go Joe!"/"Let's Go Hero!" chants because, unlike in ROH where it seems to be something to tick off the New York bus crowd, there was actual hatred for Hero by a large section of the ROH fans in the crowd (at least the people who were around us that chanted for Joe; they only cheered Punk, Cabana, and Joe the entire night) as well as the anti-Hero marks that sit by the entrance to get themselves over and flip off Hero during his entrance, and the people who either were annoyed by them or wanted to see the IWA home team win; the match itself was great, but the crowd being so damn into it made it even more amazing) 12. SABU def. JERRY LYNN via submission with the Camel Clutch in a No DQ Match. (Even after intermission, nothing could compare to the Joe/Hero atmosphere, and I felt sorry for Lynn and Sabu for having to try; average Sabu-type match with crowd brawling, chair spots, and moonsaults, though I did notice that he worked Lynn's back with his flying stuff to wear him down for the Camel Clutch) 13. TRACY SMOTHERS & CHRIS HAMRICK def. CM PUNK & COLT CABANA to win the tournament and be crowned new IWA World Tag Team Champions. (By this point, the idiots behind us who kept mocking Tracy and Hamrick for being "retarded old men" had really gotten on my nerves, but you guys don't give a shit what I was thinking at that time, so let's move on...Opening consisted of all of the Saints, including Tracy Brooks, doing the "Tracy Shuffle" (Smothers, not Brooks), and then everyone raising their hands and getting cheered, including referee Muhammed/Jon Lovitz/Robert Lemke...just don't call him Bob; Tracy then schooled Punk on the mat before the Saints took command of the match and kept Smothers in the ring to work him over; funny moment where Cabana puts Tracy in the corner and does some wacky karate chops for comedy, to which Tracy just looks at him bewildered, switches positions, and pounds him with some of his own chops; all hell then breaks loose before Tracy tries to bring Cabana over with a sunset flip, Cabana tries to hold onto Punk, but Hamrick nails a LOUD superkick on Punk to send Cabana over and get the three-count; SCS turned heel after the match by jumping Hamrick and Smothers) Overall, another tremendous IWA show in Highland. There wasn't anything I would call bad, and there were a few matches that I would call really great (Southern Comfort/Team Friday, Hero/Joe, tag tourney finals). I just hope that the heat for Joe vs. Hero comes off half as good on tape as it did live. It was one of those very rare occasions where everything comes together and the atmosphere becomes amazing. It was fun to get to mark out again, and for that I thank Hero, Joe, and the rest of the IWA crew for bringing that opportunity.

Three big matches featuring Thrillogy members as a result of the happenings with Axel, plus Abe announces what the stips for the GAB main event are. That's all.

New info about both nights, just released... ************** Here is your latest news update concerning this coming weekend's title tournaments just outside of Chicago! IWA Mid-South Wrestling returns to the Lincoln Center (2450 Lincoln Street) in Highland, Indiana this Saturday night, May 29th for the IWA World Tag Team Title Tournament. Bell time is 7:30pm. Tickets are $25, $20, and $15, will be available at the door on the night of the event, and are currently available in advance at the Lincoln Center box office. The first round pairings in the eight team single elimination tournament have been announced! They are... "The Wildcards" EDDIE KINGSTON & BLACK JACK MARCIANO vs. "Southern Comfort" TRACY SMOTHERS & CHRIS HAMRICK M-DOGG 20 & JOSH PROHIBITION vs. "The Notorious 187" HOMICIDE & "The New Age Punisher" B-BOY "Second City Saints" CM PUNK & COLT CABANA vs. NIGEL McGUINNESS & CHAD COLLYER "The Havana Pitbulls" RICKY REYES & PUMA vs. BRAD BRADLEY & RYAN BOZ Plus, in non-tournament action on 5/29... CHRIS HERO vs. SAMOA JOE SABU vs. JERRY LYNN ***Six-Way Elimination Match*** "Barbaric Berzerker" JIMMY JACOBS vs. "Spyder" NATE WEBB vs. PETEY WILLIAMS vs. "The Next" ALEX SHELLEY vs. DELIRIOUS vs. RODERICK STRONG ***IWA World Heavyweight Title Match*** [Champion] BJ WHITMER vs. Winner of Six-Way That's eleven big matches in all Saturday night, 5/29 in Highland at the Lincoln Center! Then, the very next night, Sunday, May 30th, IWA Mid-South Wrestling, in assocation with the midwest office of the National Wrestling Alliance, presents the IWA Mid-South/NWA Midwest Women's Title Tournament at the National Guard Armory (2530 173rd Street) in Hammond, Indiana, just under three miles away from the Lincoln Center! Bell time is 7pm. Tickets are $20, $15, and $10, and will be available at the door. A men's match will be a part of the festivities, alongside the one night single elimination women's tournament. ***Six-Man Tag Team Elimination Match*** CHRIS HERO & HOMICIDE & B-BOY vs. CM PUNK & BJ WHITMER & SAMOA JOE The tournament itself will consist of three four woman brackets, and a three-way elimination final. Confirmed for participation in the tournament... DAIZEE HAZE TRACY BROOKS RAIN MERCEDES MARTINEZ MsCHIF ALLISON DANGER ARIEL MICKIE KNUCKLES LACEY LEXIE FYFE Two previously announced women for the tournament, Angel Williams and ODB, have had to pull out of competition due to necessary recovery time from recent cosmetic surgery. Some background on a few of the women in the tournament who IWA fans haven't seen recently in IWA rings... IWA Mid-South Women's Division veteran "Foxy Lady" Lexie Fyfe has been added to the field. Lexie appeared in IWA Mid-South during 2001 in a feud with "Sensational" Sherri Martel before relocating to Florida shortly thereafter. Lexie is a well traveled female competitor that wanted a piece of the current IWA crop, and has been granted a spot in the tournament. For more on Lexie, visit http://www.lexiefyfe.com/ to check her out. East coast standout Mercedes Martinez, who recently appeared on several occasions for Combat Zone Wrestling, New England Championship Wrestling, Chikara, and Kiryoku Pro, will make her IWA Mid-South debut as part of the tournament. Mercedes is highly regarded as one of the very best women in the country, mixing a solid technical style with hard hitting strikes. Recently returning from her first tour of Japan, where she had the opportunity to wrestle alongside Sumie Sakai, as well as oppose joshi star Etsuko Mita, current Ring of Honor roster member Ariel has been added to the tournament bracketing. Visit http://www.arielsworld.com/ for more info on this Massachusetts based female grappler. Current NWA-TNA star Tracy Brooks will also be a part of the tournament. This Canadian competitor, more known from TNA in her role as a manager, is also an accomplished pro wrestler, having won the 2003 Women's Super 8 tournament, promoted by Afa The Wild Samoan in Danbury, CT. Tracy wrestled for IWA at the first night of our 7th Anniversary Weekend last year, and will make her IWA return as part of the tournament. Visit http://www.tracybrooks.net/ for more on Tracy. An update on the bracketing and participants for the Women's Title Tournament will be posted during the coming days. Be sure to join us for an exciting Memorial Day Weekend of IWA tournaments! This Saturday and Sunday, just outside Chicago! KING OF THE DEATH MATCHES 2004 NOTES Two more competitors have been added to the field for the King of the Death Matches 2004 tournament, to be held June 25th & 26th at the Community Center Gym (235 Hoosier Avenue) in Oolitic, Indiana. Previously announced for participation were reigning KOTDM Mad Man Pondo, JC Bailey, Wifebeater, and Ryan Boz. Plus, just signed to participate in the tournament.... "Low Life" LOUIE RAMOS and "The Notorious 187" HOMICIDE Mark your calendars! June 25th and 26th is the KOTDM 2004, IWA Mid-South's final death match tournament! For the latest IWA information, call the hotlines at 502-569-1701 in Louisville or 630-585-3958 in Chicago.