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To help build the event there are a number of promo videos on the IWS site, including a cat-fight video between Elsa Bangz & D-Vyn. You can find the videos here: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/index.shtml ********************************************* An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Sunday, February 22nd, 2004 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* The IWS Invades NDR Center For all those who love wrestling, the Internet Wrestling Syndicate presents Violent Valentines this Saturday, February 28th. Every IWS event is special, but this Saturday’s event promises to be unique. For the first time ever, for one night only, the IWS will present an all ages show as they invade the historic NDR Center, the home of Northern Championship Wrestling. In a rare show of cooperation between competitors, when the IWS found itself needing a venue for its February show, NCW generously offered their arena. One man who is no stranger to the NDR Center is the IWS’ new champion, Pierre Carl Ouellet. He may find his first test is also his most difficult, as PCO must defeat the man that many wrestling observers believe will be a breakout star in 2004, EXcesS69. No man believes in EXcesS69 more than Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris, who arranged this title shot for his contract superstar. In fact, the Commissioner is so certain that his man will win the title match that he is already trying to rig the deck for EXcesS69’s first title defence. Originally, IWS President Seska had signed a Number One’s Contender Match for Violent Valentines between former champions Dru Onyx and Sexxxy Eddy. But Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris opened up the two man contest, announcing that it would be a gauntlet match featuring at least twelve different competitors. Already confirmed to be participating are roommates Beef Wellington and El Generico, in addition to the Green Phantom, Fred le Merveille, Matt Classic from British Columbia’s Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling and Kevin Martel, nephew of former world champion Rick Martel. While twelve man struggle for the right to challenge for the IWS title, two men will clash with nothing on the line but hate. Kevin Steen and Kurt Lauderdale have been butting heads for months in an ongoing spiral of violence and retribution. Once both men were students, comrades, friends together, but when Kevin Steen turned his back on their trainer, Jacques Rougeau Jr., Kurt Lauderdale took offence. The Career Killer began the feud by attacking Kevin Steen, but the IWS’ “Mr. Wrestling” has vowed to finish both the feud and Kurt Lauderdale. Kid Kamikaze finds himself in a match as a direct result of the feud between Lauderdale and Steen. At Praise the Violence, Dan Paysan and Kevin Steen fought for the right to take on Kurt Lauderdale. Before that match, Dan Paysan announced that if he lost, Kid Kamikaze would have to face his consigliere Tomassino. Despite Kid Kamikaze’s best efforts, Dan Paysan did lose his match and the hulking Tomassino looks to reward the Wesmount Playboy for his failure. At the last IWS show, le Syndicat de Lutte Internet captured the tag team titles. During Violent Valentines, Viking Villeray and Damian Doré will put their newly won gold on the line against the Hardcore Ninjaz. This will not be an easy test. No team has won the IWS tag titles more often than the Hardcore Ninjaz, and the natives of Fabertown, Japan have never been more dangerous than they are right now. After sending the Flying Hurricanes to Intensive Care at the last IWS show, how far will the Ninjaz go to win what they believe to be their property; their tag team titles? Also scheduled for Violent Valentines, the crowd pleasing Highlander Pat Hamilton will make his return to the IWS, after an absence of nearly a year, to take on Nightmare Manson in singles action. The host for the IWS live events, Brian the Guppie of Team 990’s Between the Ropes invites you to join him, Elsa Bangz and D-Vyn as the IWS presents Violent Valentines, Saturday, February 28th at the historic NDR Center, 955 Villeray Est, Second Floor, Montreal, Québec. Tickets are twelve dollars at the door. Doors open at 7:30pm, show starts at 8:30 pm. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs e-mail [email protected] or order from http://www.xrv.com/iws. This show would not be possible without the cooperation and sacrifice of many people, including, but not limited to, the wrestlers and management of Northern Championship Wrestling. The roster and staff of the Internet Wrestling Syndicate thank them for their generosity.

Beef Wellington tries to give his new roommate El Generico some advice on how to pick up girls. Hilarity ensues. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/m...dia/babyoil.wmv This was to help set up the three way match between Beef Wellington, El Generico & EXcesS69 aka "That Baby Oil Wrestler"

Praise the Violence photos 1. Fred le Merveille & Elsa Bangz : Les Patriotes http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws004.html 2. Sexxxy Eddy & D-Vyn are also quite patriotic http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws007.html 3. Eddy with a pinning combination on Fred. You will notice that Fred takes hygiene very seriously. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws013.html 4. It’s a bird... It’s a plane... it’s a porn star turned wrestler? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws019.html 5. Fred with “Le 101” pedigree http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws024.html 6. The Arsenal and Hardcore Ninja Number One. Ninja Spotting tip: Hardcore Ninja Number One has the tattoos. Also you can just see Kenny the Bastard in the TV in the background. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws029.html 7. Takao and Kenny the Bastard enter followed by the Motivator of Madness aka Skeletor. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws030.html 8. The Arsenal and the Hardcore Ninjaz hitting a three man’s Fisherman Buster. Notice that the Arsenal is smiling, never a good sign. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws037.html 9. The Hardcore Ninjaz have just landed the Pearl Harbour. The Arsenal conducts violence like a symphony. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws040.html 10. After their victory, the Hardcore Ninjaz do a little Interior decorating. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws045.html 11. 3-2-1 Contact! http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws046.html 12. The Band’s Back Together. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws049.html 13. Giovanni - Dru Onyx’ younger, better looking, more athletic cousin http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws056.html 14. How does he do that? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws058.html 15. Not sure who got the worst of this exchange. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws059.html 16. Tank makes sure that Giovanni gets the pin. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws063.html 17. Hey Kurt is it true that Damian is the stiffest wrestler in Quebec? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws073.html 18. Hey Kid Kamikaze is it true that Damian is the stiffest wrestler in Quebec? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws074.html 19. Hey girls, is it true that... ummm never mind. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws078.html 20. Crazy Crusher just added an extra half rotation to Kid Kamikaze’s Super-Plex so that Crusher landed on his feet and Kid Kamikaze landed on his back. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws070.html 21. Kevin Steen drops the hammer on Kid Kamikaze. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws080.html 22. Air Crusher. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws081.html 23. The SLI celebrate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws084.html 24. Now the really amazing thing about Crusher is that he did the entire match (including lifting Kurt Lauderdale for a Death Valley Driver) with a broken ankle. A little like Maurice Richard scoring a Stanley Cup Winning Goal with a broken leg. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws085.html 25. Kurt Lauderdale and Kid Kamikaze are rather displeased at being eliminated by Kevin Steen. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws086.html 26. Dan Paysan looking forward to an easy win. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws087.html 27. Dan recovers from being stunned just a little bit too late. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws091.html 28. Tomassino catches Dan Paysan. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws095.html 29. Beef Wellington. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws097.html 30. El Generico. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws098.html 31. This wrestler brought to you by Johnson & Johnson http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws099.html 32. Speaking of Baby Oil, here is Mr. Baby Oil, EXcesS69 http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws100.html 33. El Generico takes EXcesS69 for a ride. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws102.html 34. Beef uses El Generico as a weapon. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws107.html 35. El Generico ducks out of the way of the Ass Punch http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws108.html 36. Now is this any way for room mates to behave towards each other? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws110.html 37. Beef is being turned into Beef Jerky. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws111.html 38. Pierre Carl Ouellet http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws116.html 39. You just know this is not going to turn out well for the Arsenal. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws119.html 40. OK. In terms of worst case scenarios, on a scale of one to ten, one being the best, ten being the worst... this rates about a fifty. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws120.html 41. We call this fan “Sign Guy” http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws001.html 42. PCO - Art Critic http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws126.html 43 The Arsenal is enjoying himself. PCO not so much. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws127.html 44. PCO power bombs the Arsenal through a table... http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws131.html 45. Motivator of Madness aka Skeletor gets involved... http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws132.html 46. Which is a bad idea... http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws133.html 47. Only it gives time for the Arsenal to go back on the attack. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws134.html 48. The Arsenal’s Chair assisted Boston Crab http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws137.html 49. PCO & Commissioner Seska http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws148.html 50. The good guys celebrate with PCO http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...nce/iws150.html

An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Sunday, January 18th, 2004 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* A Total Triumph to Start 2004 Pierre Carl Ouellet won the IWS title Saturday night during Praise the Violence, overcoming adversity, superior numbers and a vicious premeditated attempt to cripple his left knee. The Arsenal, in a crazed defence of his belt, used chairs, tables and his own body to attack PCO's knee with almost surgical precision. When violence failed, the Arsenal tried larceny, but PCO survived both to become IWS champion. It was a night of firsts: the first IWS show of 2004; the first IWS show at Unison. It was a night which saw the IWS broom boys set up the usual number of chairs for an IWS crowd... and then set up another hundred chairs for the larger crowd... and then finally run out of chairs. It was a night which saw two Montreal policemen walking the beat wander into the Unison to see why the parking lot was so full, and which saw them leave an hour later, voices shot from screaming for their new IWS favourites. It was a night when men who could barely walk wrestled as though possessed by Lou Thesz. In short, it was a magical night that some are already calling the greatest IWS show ever. The wrestling began with a showdown of two of the best bumpers in all of Canada: the human rubber ball, Sexxxy Eddy and the head of le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, Fred le Merveille. Eddy had his valet D-Vyn in his corner, while Fred had both Elsa Bangz and Marc le Grizzly backing him up. It didn't take long for the outside participants to get involved inside the ring with D-Vyn getting the better of Fred, as Sexxxy Eddy was trying to put the moves on Elsa. In the end, Eddy's refusal to take Elsa seriously cost him, when Marc le Grizzly caught Eddy from behind, setting him up for Fred le Merveille's "101" pedigree variant which gave Fred the victory at 8:25. The Flying Hurricanes and the Hardcore Ninjaz have been butting heads for months. At Praise the Violence, the two teams finally got a chance to settle their differences in a straight up tag match. With the Arsenal in the Ninjaz' corner, the Flying Hurricanes enlisted the help of the Motivator of Madness, who returned to the IWS exactly one year after being fired by the Arsenal. Allergic to a fair fight, the Hardcore Ninjaz got back their edge by handcuffing Takao to the ring post and isolating Kenny the Bastard for a three on one beat down. Eventually, the Motivator of Madness was able to get Takao¹s handcuffs off to even the odds, but when Takao and Kenny turned their back on the Motivator of Madness, he stunned them both with simultaneous low blows. The beating that followed was complete and devastating, with the Ninjaz burying the Flying Hurricanes under chairs and then leaping from the top rope for their patented Pearl Harbour chair assisted leg drop for the pin at 8:24. After the match was over, the punishment continued, culminating in Kenny being used as a missile to drive Takao through a table. After the Fan Favourites exited in triumph, Kenny and Takao were carried to the back. The Green Phantom came to Praise the Violence looking for Dru Onyx and revenge after the Bajan Bomber engineered Tank's ambush during Season's Beatings. But with Onyx out of town, the Green Phantom had to settle for Onyx' cousin Giovanni declaring, "If I can't spill your blood Onyx, then I will spill the blood of your flesh and blood!" Giovanni describes himself as Onyx' younger, better looking and more athletic cousin, and he gave a good account of himself, but after two Phantom Menace cradle drivers and a Phantasm, the Green Phantom stood poised for victory. At the very last second, a rushing Tank interrupted the count. After rocking the Green Phantom with two Tiger Shell Drivers, Tank rolled Giovanni on top of Phantom and then ordered the referee to count while he stood with one foot on Giovanni's back keeping the Phantom's shoulders down for the pin at 9:17. To add insult to injury, Tank mocked the Phantom by imitating his most familiar poses and mannerisms. Before Extreme Revolution's scheduled tag team title defence, Fred le Merveille came back out, with the entire Syndicat de Lutte Internet, to decree that now that the IWS was in Saint-Laurent, it was legally required to have a French tag team compete for the tag belt. Since neither the champions, Crazy Crusher and Nightmare Manson, nor the challengers, Kid Kamikaze and Kurt Lauderdale, were French according to Fred, he announced that it was now a three way elimination match with Damian Dumont and Viking Vimont as the third team. Crazy Crusher quickly built on his reputation as the cruiser who hits like a heavyweight, at one point nonchalantly lifting the monstrous Kurt Lauderdale for a Death Valley Driver. Nonetheless, it seemed like Kurt Lauderdale's size and strength gave his team a definite advantage, until Kevin Steen intervened. Seeking revenge for Kurt's ambush during Season's Beatings, Steen attacked and stunned the big man, giving Steen enough time to flatten Kid Kamikaze with a package pile driver and roll a dazed Nightmare Manson on top of the Westmount Playboy for the pin after 13:02. After Kid Kamikaze and Kurt Lauderdale¹s elimination, Extreme Revolution fell victim to a classic SLI referee diversion. Fred snuck into the ring to hit Nightmare Manson with his "101" pedigree, allowing Viking and Damian to cover for the win at 14:32. Afterwards, le Syndicat de Lutte Internet celebrated their victory in the ring with Pepsis to the cheers of their French fans and the jeers of everyone else. After the tag title match, IWS co-owner PCP Crazy F'N Manny came to the ring to salute Crazy Crusher. Manny told the shocked crowd that Crusher had wrestled with a broken ankle, postponing surgery to appear at Praise the Violence. Crazy Crusher was well-liked before Praise the Violence, but after his gutsy performance Saturday night, he is truly an IWS hardcore soldier. A backstage fight between Kevin Steen and Dan Paysan led to their match at Praise the Violence. Oddly, they were fighting over which of them hated Kurt Lauderdale the most. The two men agreed to decide in the ring who would get to face Kurt Lauderdale during Violent Valentines. At first, it appeared that Dan Paysan was destined to win as Steen was mugged by Kurt Lauderdale and Kid Kamikaze before the match even started. Kevin Steen survived Dan Paysan's initial onslaught and Tomassino's interference to make it a competitive match. Dan Paysan had his chances to win, but the flawless technique of the IWS' Mr. Wrestling proved too much for the high flying Good Fella. Steen finished off Dan Paysan with his trademark Package Pile-Driver after 10:20. Before the three-way dance pitting reluctant roommates El Generico and Beef Wellington against IWS Commissioners Joseph FitzMorris' contract super-star, EXcesS69, the crowd was treated to one of the IWS famed comedy skits. In a pre-taped segment, Beef Wellington tried to teach El Generico how to pick up women only for EXcesS69 to out-Casanova both men. The ensuing match was a showcase for brilliant technical wrestling, death-defying high-flying and innovative comedy. The performance by all three men was especially impressive since Beef Wellington was nursing an eye infection, EXcesS69 was limping from a leg injury and as Beef put it, "El Generico hasn't been right since he got dropped on the head last month." Mind you, El Generico always gets dropped on his head. In fact at Praise the Violence, it was Beef himself who dropped El Generico on his head, putting his roommate through a ringside table with an E. Coli Driver from the apron. Sadly for Beef, EXcesS69 took advantage to pull a flash cover on Beef Wellington. Beef got his shoulder up at two, but EXcesS69 used that momentum to roll Beef into his First Impression submission hold. Trapped in the middle of the ring, with his back twisted like a Mobius strip and with El Generico unconscious on the outside, Beef had no choice but to tap at 13:00. To help ensure fairness, President Seska ejected the Hardcore Ninjaz from the building prior to the main event. Stripped of his goons, the Arsenal was in trouble early in the match, until the Motivator of Madness made his presence felt, pulling down the ropes and spilling PCO to the outside. Like a shark scenting blood, the Arsenal zeroed in on PCO's injury attempting to hyper-extend his left knee. This led to a vicious moment where the Arsenal dove off the top turn buckle driving PCO's knee through the Time Keeper¹s table. Dragging a limping PCO back to the ring, the Arsenal used a chair to bend PCO's knee in a torturous half Boston Crab. With PCO screaming in agony, it seemed like the Arsenal was within reach of victory. It was at this moment, eighteen minutes into the match, that the ring bell sounded and the Arsenal grabbed his belt in triumph. But PCO never tapped. The cunning Motivator of Madness had stolen the ring bell from the wreckage of the Time Keeper's table. IWS President Seska ordered the Arsenal back to the ring and declared that the match must continue. Furious, PCO hit the Arsenal with a devastating power bomb and finished off the One Man War with a top rope cannonball for the win at 19:49. After PCO's victory, the IWS locker room emptied out to congratulate him on his victory and an emotional PCO thanked the fans, declaring that the spirit of the IWS and of the IWS fans was unlike that of any fed in the world. The Internet Wrestling Syndicate will present Violent Valentines. Time and date to be announced shortly. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/its/.

Season's Beatings Photos 1. Dru Onyx in his Front-Row Seat. 2. Takao takes Dan Paysan for a ride. 3. Dan Paysan tries to fight off a two on one. 4. OK? Who ordered Ninjaz? 5. The Hardcore Ninjaz are not camera shy. 6. Can we get a Japanese translation for this? 7. The IWS champion does his thing with his two biggest fans at ring side. 8. I am the IWS Champion and I do not deserve this! 9. Santa Seska. 10. The Dru Onyx diet plan. 11. Onyx, you got me a tank for Christmas. That's so... Why in HELL did you get me a tank for Christmas? 12. Is this a gift that you can return? 13. It's not even Christmas Morning and the Green Phantom has already broken his gifts. 14. EXcesS69 finds Fred le Merveille quite amusing. 15. El Generico dropping someone else on their head for a change. 16. Beef Wellington's new look. (See after getting spray-pained blue last month, Beef dyed his hair blue. Beef Wellington, Method Wrestler.) 17. El Generico punishes Viking some more. 18. Sexxxy Eddy's valet D-Vyn 19. Eddy's a big believer in a traditional Christmas. 20. Kevin Steen stretching Sexxxy Eddy 21. Sexxxy Eddy, the Rubber Man 22. "Hey, Kevin! Jacques says Hi." 23. PCO watches a Ninja as he skins the cat. 24. Two Ninjaz vs. One PCO. 25. I think that the Ninjaz are outnumbered. 26. The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. 27. Sleep... and dream of large women. 28. The hardcore ninjaz do NOT take losing well. 29. "HEY! PCO! Remember when I said that I would give you a title shot if you neat the Ninjaz? I lied!" 30. Seska announces the Arsenal vs. PCO for Praise the Violence. ************************************************************** An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Sunday, December 21st, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE (ha!) RELEASE* The Arsenal and Pierre Carl Ouellet Set to Collide Pierre Carl Ouellet beat the Hardcore Ninjaz in a two on one handicap match to earn the right to challenge the Arsenal for his IWS title. This concluded a raucous Season's Beatings show in front of a standing room only crowd, and capped off a tremendously successful 2003 for the IWS. Season's Beatings was a success before the first match started as the hardcore soldiers, the loyal fans of the IWS, answered the call in droves to bring canned goods as a donation for Sun Youth. The IWS collected more than three hundred cans knocking two dollars off each ticket sold when at least two nonperishable food items were donated. Before wrestling started, Dru Onyx came to the ring and announced that President Seska had punished him, for attacking PCP Crazy F'N Manny at Payback's A Bitch, by suspending him for a month. Rather than staying home, Onyx talked, well threatened, IWS announcer Brian the Guppie into buying him a ringside ticket. When asked by Brian the Guppie, "Aren't you worried that you will be attacked during the show by Manny?" Dru Onyx showed a video clip of Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris paying Onyx to prevent Manny from entering Le Skratch which resulted in Onyx trashing Manny like so much garbage. In the first match of the night, the Flying Hurricanes, Takao and Kenny the Bastard, faced off against Don Francesco's boys. Because Tomassino was off doing a job for the Don, Kurt Lauderdale was hired for the night to second Dan Paysan. Despite Kurt Lauderdale's strength and Dan Paysan's speed, the Flying Hurricanes' smooth teamwork gave them an advantage. After about eight minutes of back and forth action, Kurt Lauderdale became incensed at the miscommunication with his temporary partner and walked out on Dan Paysan. The Good Fella fought bravely on his own, but the Flying Hurricanes seemed destined to win... until the Hardcore Ninjaz hit the ring and ambushed the Flying Hurricanes and the IWS referee Bakais. The match was officially declared a no-decision. As the Flying Hurricanes limped to the back, the IWS champion, the Arsenal joined his Ninja goons to announce that he was not going to face Pierre Carl Ouellet for the IWS title saying, "PCO, you'll have to earn your title because tonight you'll have to fight Hardcore Ninja Number One. You'll also have to face Hardcore Ninja Number Two... at the same time!" The Arsenal also announced that since the IWS management had informed him that he had to defend his title that he had hand-picked his opponent, "The only man in the IWS tough enough to face me, Latino Kid. Wait, which is the short one? Latino Mysterio? I want Latino Mysterio." In the ensuing battle, the pint-sized Peruvian battled bravely and came heartbreakingly close on at least one occasion to the upset of a lifetime. But the sadistic One Man War was too much for Latino Mysterio, putting the match away with a Fisherman's Buster through a table for the win after 6:57. It is an annual tradition in the IWS for the Green Phantom to bring a tree to the ring and distribute gifts. This year, the Green Phantom presented IWS superfan Mike Rotch with a wrestling magazine autographed by Brutus the Barber Beefcake, and to Colonel Meez of emax tapes ( http://www.emaxwrestlingtapes.com/ ) he gave a big bone. The Green Phantom also received socks from his Mom. As the gift giving was winding down, Dru Onyx, at ring side, announced that he too had a present for the Green Phantom, handing Phantom a small package which the Hardcore Hero opened to reveal a small green... tank. As the Green Phantom was wondering aloud why Onyx gave him a tank for Christmas, Quebec heavyweight and former Jacques Rougeau protege, Tank, tackled Phantom from behind. In the hard-hitting brawl that resulted, the two men battled in and out of the ring. The Green Phantom finally gained the upper hand dragging Tank into position for a Phantasm. The two men struggled on the ropes, at one point looking like both would spill over the ropes on to the Time Keeper's table. Visibly annoyed, the Green Phantom broke a chair over Tank's head to gain some control over the mammoth. To the cheers of the crowd, their Hardcore Hero showed incredible strength muscling Tank over for the Phantasm and the pin at 10:43. In October, during Blood, Sweat and Beers, Fred le Merveille offered EXcesS69 a place in le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, enticing him to turn his back on the Green Phantom and embrace his French heritage. The man that Fred calls "Mathieu Soixante Neuf" rejected Fred, splattering the brains of the "cerveau du SLI" with a wicked chair shot. At Season's Beatings, the two men finally met one-on-one. During the ensuing contest, Fred le Merveille was ably assisted by Mark le Grizzly. EXcesS69 used his speed and technique to avoid the two on one beat down that Fred was looking for. Time and time again, EXcesS69 maneuvered Fred into his pretzel like variation on the Stretch Muffler submission hold, and time and time again, Fred escaped by the skin of his teeth. Finally, after 14:42, EXcesS69 caught Fred in the centre of the ring and the leader of le SLI tapped out. After the match, Fred furious and embarrassed, declared that since it was obviously impossible that he had tapped out, the referee must have made a mistake and the match was a no-contest due to an error by the official. El Generico and his reluctant room mate Beef Wellington teamed up to face off against le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, Viking Ville-Marie and Damian Decarie. This highly anticipated match-up was a showcase for three men considered to be the stiffest wrestlers in Quebec, not to forget Beef Wellington, Master of the Ass Punch. In the end, after a hard-hitting bout, it was Beef Wellington who stood triumphant having levelled Damian with an E. Coli pile driver onto a garbage can. But, rather than cover Damian for the pin, Beef chose to gain some small revenge on the SLI's valet, his former girlfriend Elsa Bangz. Unfortunately, while Beef was delivering the Ass Punch to Ms. Bangz, Viking was preparing to ambush Beef with "Le Tueur des Policiers" on the trash can, which got Viking the pin at 12:05. Kevin Steen, who turned down a WWE dark match because he was asked to cancel his IWS matches to get the try out, was greeted with a hero's welcome by the fans of the IWS. His opponent, IWS veteran and locker room leader Sexxxy Eddy, also applauded Steen's sacrifice and promised to give Kevin Steen WWE calibre competition. The two men delivered in spades as the match ranged from technical mat wrestling to crisp high flying to spine bending throws. Eddy is called the most pliable man in Canada, and on this night he proved how resilient he is, taking Kevin Steen's best shots and struggling back to his feet for more. In the end, the IWS technical wizard was forced to break out a top rope Package Pile Driver to keep Eddy's shoulders down for the win after 15:19. After the match, Kevin Steen shook Eddy's hand and thanked him for giving him the match of his life. The crowd refused to let Kevin Steen leave the ring, clapping their hands, stomping their feet and chanting, "Mr. Wrestling, Kevin Steen!" Sadly, this extended applause gave Kurt Lauderdale a chance to attack Kevin Steen and batter him to within an inch of his life. The beat down culminated in Kurt destroying Steen with his Career Killer fireman's carry power bomb across two chairs. Afterwards, the big man enigmatically told Kevin Steen's limp body, "Jacques says hi." In the main event, despite the best efforts of the Hardcore Ninjaz, Pierre Carl Ouellet was able to fight off their cheating, underhanded double team tactics with a slight assist from the Flying Hurricanes. PCO won the match after 8:49 by putting Hardcore Ninja Number One through a table with a top rope power bomb. After the match, Arsenal tried to welsh on giving PCO a title shot if he beat both Ninjaz, but President Seska came to the ring to announce that the main event of Praise the Violence would be a match between the Arsenal and PCO for the IWS title. The Internet Wrestling Syndicate presents Praise the Violence scheduled for Saturday, January 17th, at Unison Bar et Billiard, 3500 Boulevard Cote Vertu, Montreal, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are fifteen dollars. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/its/.

EXcesS69 can speak English but he sounds like every stereotype you could imagine of bad English by a Frenchman. That said, I truly believe that some promoter somewhere could do something by bringing in EXcesS69 as the 21st Century Rick Martel. Have you looked at the rest of Un F'N S Sandman?

Great list Shooter Jay. I am surprised that you didn’t include the NWA: Wildside Wargames match on the list somewhere. The bumps on this match may not have had the physical impact of some of the matches on your list, but the build for the match was so good that the emotional impact for each bump meant that each one meant that much more. [edit] As Phoenix Leg Drop just pointed out to me, they did include the WarGames match on the list. I'm an idiot. That said, there are a bunch of other moments from that match that I preferred.[/edit] It’s nice to see the IWS on the list naturally. I second your description of the Arsenal’s DVD as being picture perfect. That is part of what makes the Arsenal such a great villain to me. He doesn’t accidentally hurt people. He know exactly what he is doing, exactly how much what he is about to do will hurt his opponent and he does it anyway and smiles while doing it. There are a few IWS bumps that didn’t make your list that deserve to be mentioned however. Most of these, you probably never saw though. So here are my Top Ten Other IWS Hardcore Moments (I put them in chronological order, because it is impossible to rank them.) 1. Season’s Beatings (January 2003) The Arsenal Superplexes Mathy69 From the top rope to the outside on to the concrete floor. You can see it HERE! Now, I don’t want to be all conspiracy victim or anything, but doesn’t that move look exactly like the one Shooter Jay described between Bailey and Butcher? (Only performed several months earlier.) In his very first match in the IWS, before changing his name from Mathy69 to EXcesS69, Mathy proves to the IWS fans that he is completly and totally insane. Again, the key to this move is how crisp it is. At the time, this sparked a mini-feud on the on the IWS message board when some nit-wit said that the IWS was no longer hard-core and I went off on him when he described this particular move as not hard-core. The other cool thing is that in that clip you can see my legs as the two men landed directly in front of me, and, oh yes, since you asked, the Arsenal was smiling. 2. Violent Valentines (February 2003) Steve Royds and the Green Phantom power bomb PCP Crazy F’N Manny Through a light tube mattress made of fifty light tubes. The bump that left Manny with a concussion and a heavily lacerated arm and back requiring more than twenty stitches. It also left Manny, according to Peter LaSalle, “With a lacerated liver, a swollen spleen, a punctured pancreas and a concussed colon!” Just prior to this bump, guest referee Manny had screwed Royds and Phantom by jumping on top of El Generico to help him keep Royds' shoulders down while Manny fast counted the pin. The stipulation for the match was that if the Team of El Generico and Dru Onyx won, the Green Phantom had to put his title on the line against Onyx in March at Know Your Enemies. So it made sense that Phantom would be angry at Manny and wanted revenge. It also meant that when the title match between Phantom & Onyx finally happened, the fans were screaming for Phantom’s blood. There are other pictures of this bump, but THIS! is all that I need to show. 3. Freedom to Fight (April 2003) Iceberg and Face of Death set Viking on Fire This Picture says it all really. If I had to put together an army, the very first hardcore soldier that I would pick is Viking. Almost as scary as the bump is the fact that after being treated for his burns, Viking checked himself out of the hospital (against his Doctor’s advice) to get back to the Skratch in time to see the main event. Speaking of that Main Event... 4. Freedom to Fight (April 2003) Brother vs. Brother, Ninja Vs. Ninja, Flesh vs. Barbed Wire The best, most psychologically complex no ropes barbed wire death match that I have ever seen, and in my opinion the best IWS main event that I have seen to date. 5. Body Count (May 2003) EXcesS69 and Onyx battle all over the Skratch for 29min 45 sec. As EXcesS69 tries to win the IWS title by using the time honored “give the fat guy a heart attack” strategy. Onyx, battling bruised ribs from a car accident and a bout of bronchitis, uses the entire bar to keep EXcesS69 from winning his title, literally bashing and throwing EXcesS69 into anything that wasn’t nailed down and some things that were nailed down. EXcesS69 nearly wins the title a bunch of times and was within fifteen seconds of forcing a draw when Onyx finally pins him. 6. UnF’NSanctioned (September 2003) Onyx power bombs Sexxxy Eddy on the entrance ramp Dru Onyx channels Vader to totally stiff Eddy, furious after losing their match. Then Onyx ups the dickishness factor to eleven, when he stops to retie his boots on top of Eddy’s prone body. Onyx is a bad, bad man. 7. UnF’NSanctioned (September 2003) Fans Bring the Weapons A picture is worth a thousand words. 8. Blood, Sweat and Beers (October 2003) The Arsenal and Eddy’s Barbed Wire Board and Thumb Tacks Death Match Think a wrestler doing a death match without a shirt is impressive? Eddy does death matches in a thong! The entire match was sick, but the two moments that stick out in my mind were: The Arsenal applying a Boston Crab to Eddy on top of a barbed wire board. The Arsenal stuffing Eddy’s thong with thumb tacks and then doing THIS! 9. Payback’s A Bitch (November 2003) X hits the Arsenal with a top rope cannon ball Most people roll out of the way of this move. The Arsenal not only took it, he was busy being stretched by Eddy, Takao and Kenny the Bastard, as you can see HERE! 10. Season’s Beatings II (December 2003) The Green Phantom’s chair shot on Tank Yes, it was just a chair shot. And I don’t even have any pictures of it. But if you were there live, man, it was a hell of a chair shot. The Green Phantom had Tank in position for a Phantasm, Tank tried to wriggle out of the move in the process nearly sending both men head-first into the time-keeper’s table. (i.e. into the lap of me and Eddy’s Dad.) Phantom, visibly pissed, grabs a chair and breaks it over Tanks head. I have seen a ton of chair shots in the IWS and there have been some great ones this year, most notably Kid Kamikaze nearly taking Beef’s head off with a chair. But this one topped them all.

(Also on the IWS web-site, there are two promo videos up. One of Kevin Steen & Dan Paysan's backstage altercation, and one of Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris interrupting Beef Wellington and El Generico's lunch to tell the two "Novelty Acts" that they would be facing XS69. You may have to boost the brightness a bit.) *************************************** An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Friday, January 9th, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* A New Year - A New Venue - A New Champion? The new year is a time for new ventures, a time for new resolutions and for Pierre Carl Ouellet, it is a time to try and add a new shiny gold belt to his bulging trophy case. But if PCO has resolved to win the IWS title, its’ champion, the Arsenal, is equally determined to hang on to his belt. Each man has impressive advantages in the ring. PCO brings strength, experience and a history of winning big matches. On the other hand, the reigning IWS champion, the Arsenal, is merely the most twisted, deviant, violence-prone sociopath ever to set foot in a ring in this country. The Arsenal is known for doing whatever it takes to win, sometimes putting his own body on the line to achieve victory... but more often sacrificing the body of his opponent. IWS President Seska has booked these two men to compete for the IWS title in a match where there must be a winner, scheduled for the main event of Praise the Violence, Saturday, January 17th, 2004. Doors open at 8:30 pm. The Internet Wrestling Syndicate is pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement with the management of Unison Bar et Billiard to hold this and future IWS events in their location at 3500 Boulevard Cote Vertu. This gives the IWS a larger location for their wrestling events with easy access by bus and metro. Also scheduled for Praise the Violence, Quebec City's Extreme Revolution, Nightmare Manson and Crazy Crusher will put their IWS titles on the line against Kid Kamikaze and his body-guard, the Career-Killer Kurt Lauderdale. The Westmount Playboy weaseled his way into this match, getting his mother to sweet talk Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris into awarding her son and Kurt Lauderdale the title shot. While Kurt Lauderdale goes for tag team gold, two men who hate the Career Killer's guts will be fighting each other. Dan Paysan has a score to settle with Lauderdale after Kurt walked away from a match leaving Dan, his temporary partner, to face the Flying Hurricanes alone. Kevin Steen also owes Kurt a serious debt after Lauderdale attacked him at Season's Beatings and drove Steen into a chair with the Career Killer fireman's carry power bomb. Rather than work together to take down the Career Killer, Steen and Paysan got into a back-stage fight over who would get to fight Lauderdale first. At Praise the Violence, two of Canada's finest young high flyers, Kevin Steen and Dan Paysan will meet with the winner getting a shot at Kurt Lauderdale in February. Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris has declared that his goal for 2004 is to put gold around the waist of his contract super-star, EXcesS69. As part of this quest, he has booked EXcesS69 in a three-way match against two men that the Commissioner dismisses as "Novelty Acts" : roommates Beef Wellington and El Generico. The Commissioner seems convinced that this match will help prove that EXcesS69 deserves a shot at the IWS title, but he may be underestimating the abilities of the Latin Luchador and his reluctant roommate the former Westmount Warrior. In a confrontation that has been brewing for months, the Flying Hurricanes, Takao and Kenny the Bastard will finally get a chance to get some revenge against the Hardcore Ninjaz. The so-called "Fan Favourites" from Fabertown, Japan have been ambushing the Hurricanes for months, ever since IWS announcer, Brian the Guppie, declared that the Flying Hurricanes were the true Fan Favourites of the IWS. It was exactly a year ago that Fred le Merveille first debuted in the IWS. A hero to some, a villain to most, many consider the president of the Syndicat de Lutte Internet to be the most charismatic man in Quebec wrestling. Having had such an impact in only his first year in the IWS, one can only wonder what the future holds for this Machiavellian Svengali. At Praise the Violence, the IWS future and the IWS past will collide as the veteran of the IWS locker room, the Triple X "Sex XXXpress" Sexxxy Eddy does battle with Fred. All this plus the Green Phantom, Mark le Grizzly, Elsa Bangz, D-Vyne, Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris, IWS President Seska and, as always, the voice of Quebec wrestling, the Team 990’s Brian the Guppie. The Internet Wrestling Syndicate would like to take this opportunity to thank Bar Le Skratch for a successful three year partnership. Unfortunately, ongoing renovations at Le Skratch make it unsuitable as a venue for wrestling events. While everyone involved in the Internet Wrestling Syndicate is saddened that we have closed a chapter on the success story of the IWS by leaving our traditional location for shows, we are equally excited by the possibilities offered by a larger location with better access. The Internet Wrestling Syndicate presents Praise the Violence scheduled for Saturday, January 17th, at Unison Bar et Billiard, 3500 Boulevard Cote Vertu, Montreal, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are fifteen dollars. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/ . For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/its/ .

An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Friday, December 5th, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Kevin Steen Makes A Stand Kevin Steen will face IWS veteran and locker room leader, Sexxxy Eddy at IWS Season’s Beatings in a respect match. Eddy challenged Kevin Steen backstage during the last IWS show, Payback’s A Bitch. The two-time former IWS champion decided to give this cocky new star a chance to prove himself against the very best that the IWS has to offer. Little did anyone know that that challenge would change Kevin Steen’s life. The nineteen year old Kevin Steen is already being described as one of the finest technical wrestlers that Canada has ever seen, and he was promised a chance to prove his skill in a dark match try out with the WWE scheduled for February. But that audition came with a price: Steen was told to cancel his match with Sexxxy Eddy and go back on his word. Kevin Steen could have made the safe choice, the smart choice: he could have broken his promise. He didn’t. How much is a man’s word worth? Is it worth his dreams? Is it worth his future? How much is Kevin Steen’s word worth to you? If you believe in Independent Wrestling, you should be at Season’s Beatings. If you believe that wrestlers’ should not be held hostage to greed and ego, you need to be at Season’s Beatings. And if you believe in Kevin Steen; if you support Kevin Steen, you must be at Season’s Beatings. The last IWS show, Payback’s A Bitch ended with the masked superstar “X” confronting the IWS champion, the Arsenal. “X”, a star of the Nashville based NWA/TNA promotion’s weekly pay per views, announced that he had come to the IWS to take the Arsenal’s belt. How will the One Man War respond to this challenge? More importantly, what part will the Arsenal’s goons, the Hardcore Ninjaz play in “X”’s quest to become IWS champion? After being betrayed by his girl friend and valet, Elsa Bangz, at the last IWS show, Beef was left beaten, homeless and covered in blue spray paint. At Season’s Beatings, Beef will be looking for a small measure of revenge when he faces off against Damian Decarie and Viking Ville Marie, le Syndicat de Lutte Internet. To help ensure himself of a Hardcore Hanukkah, Beef has recruited his new room mate to be his partner... El Generico. No doubt the Latin Luchador will be looking forward to giving Viking and Damian a Navitad Knuckling that the separatists won’t soon forget. Meanwhile the leader of le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, Fred le Merveille will confront the man that he accused of being a traitor at the last show, EXcesS69 or as Fred refers to him “Mathieu Soixante-Neuf.” Fred promised EXcesS69 a war, but the brains of the SLI may have outsmarted himself taking on a man who has just finished five months as the apprentice of the most violent man in the IWS, the Green Phantom. Speaking of the IWS hardcore hero, at press time, the Green Phantom was not scheduled to have a match. But as any long time IWS fan knows, every year at Season’s Beatings, the Green Phantom brings a tree to the IWS to properly celebrate the holidays. Of course, the Green Phantom prefers to decorate his tree with the mangled bodies of other wrestlers. As he says, “It’s never really Christmas until someone Feels the Green!” Like the Green Phantom, Dru Onyx is a former IWS champion. Like the Green Phantom, Dru Onyx finds himself without a match going into Season’s Beatings. Of course, in the case of Dru Onyx that’s because IWS President Seska has decided to punish the Bajan Bomber for attacking PCP Crazy F’N Manny at the last show with a barbed-wire bat and leaving Manny with a severe concussion. But the Butcher from Barbados is not taking his punishment well. In fact, Onyx has promised, has guaranteed, “I will be at Season’s Beatings. Who is going to stop me? No one can stop 325 pounds of Canadian Mean!” Also scheduled for the IWS annual hardcore holiday, the Flying Hurricanes are scheduled to open the show by taking on Dan Paysan and Tomassino. Don Francesco’s boys have been frustrated in their quest to secure themselves a shot at the IWS tag team titles. No doubt they will look to work out a few of those frustrations on Takao and Kenny the Bastard. All this plus the Career Killer Kurt Lauderdale, Mark le Grizzly, Elsa Bangz, Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris, IWS President Seska and, as always, the voice of Quebec wrestling, the Team 990’s Brian the Guppie. The IWS presents Season’s Beatings scheduled for Saturday, December 13th, at Le Skratch, 965 Cure Labelle, Chomedey, Laval, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are twelve dollars. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/. A short shoot statement by Kevin Steen can be seen on the web-site concerning his decision to stay in the IWS. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/its/.

Freedom to Fight is one of those shows that gets better as it goes along. The undercard is okay. Then FOD sets Viking on fire and the rest of the show just takes off. Hi-5 vs. the Flying Hurricanes is very good Phantom vs. EXcesS69 vs. the Arsenal is very good and it includes one of EXcesS69's patented suicide attempts - a suicide stage dive from the second floor of the Skratch which is still one of those - I can't believe that the crazy bastard just did that Dru Onyx vs. El Generico rocks the casbah and the Ninja vs. Ninja match is I swear to god one of the most psychological matches that we have ever done. (That along with THE three way are the best matches that we have done this year.) We release the shows on DVD-5's to give the best quality for the footage. That gives us enough memory for 135 minutes of wrestling. If we have enough room we add the pre-show trailer. We tend to err on the side of more wrestling. My stuff is scattered all over the place, but the biggest simple concentration is Here Now I do write press release shills, but you can read through the lines with my stuff. I never say that a match is good when it isn't. I start using other words that don't quite mean good. And if you want to know how I feel about a show ask me and I'll go back over my notes. (For instance I liked Know Your Enemies way more than Jay did and I liked Hardcore Heat less, but then I'm a mark for both Arsenal and El Generico, and Arsenal wasn't on the Hardcore Heat card while El Generico was on the Know Your Enemeies card twice.) My personal picks for the year (that have been released) in order would be: 1. Un F'N S 2. Freedom To Fight 3. Scarred For Life 4. Know Your Enemies 5. Hardcore Heat 6. Season's Beatings 7. Violent Valentines That said Violent Valentines is still a pretty good show.

THe other small error not to be picky is that the FLQ killed Pierre LaPorte but they only kidnapped James Cross.

*scratches head* I could have sworn that I posted results here yesterday... Before I get to the pictures, I just thought that I would mention that one of the funnier things about the build to Payback's A Bitch is that Tim Baines for the Ottawa Sun listed the show in the paper (Tim is a very good guy btw very supportive of the local scene) but for editorial reasons they wouldn't list it as "Payback's A Bitch"... so instead the prissy sons a bitches listed the show as... Payback is a Bitch. ******************************************************************************* 1. EXcesS69 gives Nightmare Manson a lesson in submission wrestling. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws004.html 2. I don't know who this is hurting more. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws006.html 3. The Green Phantom has a different kind of lesson for Nightmare Manson. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws019.html 4. Your Hardcore Hero. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws029.html 5. Crazy Crusher for the block. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws026.html 6. Kevin Steen's new hobby: Dropping Mexicans on their head. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws040.html 7. El Generico tries to ground Kevin Steen. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws035.html 8. Kevin Steen continues to drop El Generico on his head. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws044.html 9. Doing the Frog Splash takes a lot of concentration. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws043.html 10. You can only push a Luchador so far before he snaps. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws048.html 11. Dan Paysan, the newest member of the IWS. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws052.html 12. Kid Kamikaze welcomes Dan Paysan to teh IWS. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws057.html 13. Onyx actually outweighs the two Latinos combined by seventy pounds. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws069.html 14. You've got to admire their spunk... http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws064.html 15. Just prior to Onyx throwing Latino Mysterio into the fourth row. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws065.html 16. How in the BLUE HELL do you combine the Camel Clutch with a Boston Crab? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws072.html 17. PCP Crazy F'N Manny gets in Onyx's way once too often. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws075.html 18. Fred le Merveille tries to convince Marc le Grizzly to put down the Mae West and the Pepsi. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws078.html 19. Beef is in the process of putting a submission move on Fred le Merveille with a bridge. Damian is just a twisted deviant who isn't even supposed to be in the match. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws080.html 21. Fred applies the Boston Crab while Viking who isn't even supposed to be in the match drops a leg. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws082.html 21. Fred le Merveille just before the ASS PUNCH hits. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws094.html 221. The first ever DOUBLE ASS PUNCH! Serves Viking & Damian right. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws095.html 23. That would be Elsa Bangz, Beef's girlfriend and valet breaking up with him. What she couldn't write a Dear John letter like normal people? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws098.html 24. You know the break-up is going badly when the girl-friend breaks out the spray-paint. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws102.html 25. "On the plus side, you got to see me without my shirt on. And at least that psychotic bitch left me my Titanic poster." http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws104.html 26. Hardcore Ninja Number One. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws114.html 27. And this would be Evil Ninja Number Two, being, well, EVIL~! http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws111.html 28. Safety tip for Valets: Don't go near the Arsenal! http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws117.html 29. Actually come to think of it, the Hardcore NInjaz aren't that safe either. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws118.html 30. Who is that Masked Man? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws119.html 31. Who is this super-hero? Sarge? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws120.html 32. NO! Rosemary, the telephone operator? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws126.html 33. NO! Penry, the mild-mannered janitor? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws129.html 34. Could Be! http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws130.html 35. Arsenal! I have come all the way from Nashville to take your belt, TABERNAC! http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...003/iws132.html

An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Thursday, November 6th, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* The Arsenal Prepares for Payback The IWS champion, the Arsenal, and his goons, the Hardcore Ninjaz, the so-called “Fan Favourites” will face the combined forces of the Flying Hurricanes and the Triple X “Sex XXXpress” Sexxxy Eddy in a huge six man tag match during the main event of the next IWS show, Payback’s A Bitch, on November 15th. Sexxxy Eddy and the Flying Hurricanes will have revenge on their minds. Eddy is coming off his first ever loss to the Arsenal at last months Blood, Sweat and Beers, while the Hurricanes were Pearl Harboured by the Hardcore Ninjaz during the same show. Eddy and the Hurricanes have never worked together before, but they do have a lot in common: all three are uncommonly resilient, all three are truly popular with the fans and most importantly, all three men hate the Arsenal and the Hardcore Ninjaz. Two men also united by their hatred... for each other... will clash, as Kevin Steen and El Generico face off in an Extreme Grudge Match. At Blood, Sweat & Beers, Steen and El Generico combined with Pierre Carl Ouellet in a three way dance that inspired the IWS faithful to rush the ring, pound the mat and chant “Match of the Year!” With hand-held fan cams of that match already circulating amongst wrestling insiders from Connecticut to Nashville, anticipation is building for this match pitting two of the finest young wrestlers in Canada. But this will not just be a showcase of technical excellence. Feelings between the two men run high after Kevin Steen duped El Generico following the three way dance last month leading to Steen flattening the Tijuana native with his trademark Package Pile Driver. During Payback’s A Bitch, the IWS Odd Couple and tag team champions, the Green Phantom and EXcesS69 will face the stiffest challenge to their titles yet as they square off against Quebec City’s Xtreme Revolution. Nightmare Manson and Crazy Crusher have demonstrated over the past three months that they can overcome obstacles of strength, size and numbers, but in the IWS tag team champions they may have run into a challenge so big that even giant-killer Crazy Crusher may not be able to overcome it. Xtreme Revolution earned their title shot by beating Don Francesco’s boys, Tomassino and the Black Stallion Eric Mastrocola. Crusher and Manson benefitted from some unexpected help from Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris who flattened Eric Mastrocola with a chair shot. The Commissioner’s intended target had been Nightmare Manson. Don Francesco had warned the Commissioner before the match that the right team had better win... or else. At Payback’s A Bitch, no doubt the Commissioner will discover what Don Francesco means by “or else”. Former IWS champion Dru Onyx has just returned from his triumphant tour of England with NWA (UK) Hammerlock. He is scheduled to face Shane Simmons at Payback’s A Bitch. No doubt the Bajan Bomber will be looking to prove that he deserves a shot at getting his hands back on the IWS title. And when the Butcher from Barbados has something to prove, God help his opponent. Also scheduled for Payback’s A Bitch, the former Westmount native Beef Wellington has been booked to face Fred le Merveille, the leader of le Syndicat de Lutte Internet in what can only be described as a true clash of cultures. Beef’s former tag team partner Kid Kamikaze and his bodyguard Kurt Lauderdale will also be in attendance during Payback’s A Bitch, as well as Pierre Carl Ouellet amongst others. The IWS presents Payback’s A Bitch scheduled for Saturday, November 15th, at Le Skratch, 965 Cure Labelle, Chomedey, Laval, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are twelve dollars. Card subject to change. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/its/.

The Package Piledriver is called that because it was named that by the guy that invented the move, and the guy who gave the move to X: Kevin Steen. (Pause for someone to say "Who's Kevin Steen?") Well, he's one of the best technical wrestlers in Canada. He was trained by Jacques Rougeau and wrestles in Montreal for amongst others the IWS. To quote Kevin Steen on this issue, "I was the first person to use it in Quebec and I named it the Package Piledriver. Maybe someone used it in the past elsewhere, but when I came up with it, I had never seen anyone else do it, nor have I ever seen anyone do it since I started using it. That is, until Mr. X used it tonight on NWA-TNA."

1. Crazy Crusher & Nightmare Manson stretch Eric Mastrocola & Tomassino http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws004.html 2. Before takeoff please extinguish all smoking materials and remember to keep a solid grip on your chair. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws001.html 3. Beef Wellington IS the Best Dressed Man in Montreal Wrestling. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws008.html 4. Beef Wellington's E. Coli Pile Driver http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws014.html 5. The Hardcore Ninjaz attack the Flying Hurricanes from behind. Hardcore Ninjaz spotting tip: Hardcore Ninja #1 has the tattoo. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws019.html 6. The Hardcore Ninjaz doing what they do best. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws021.html 7. This picture really needs a thought balloon with El Generico thinking "Ay Carumba! Why does this always happen to me!" http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws028.html 8. Kevin Steen: High Flyer? Nahhhhhh... http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws032.html 9. Pierre Carl Ouellet. Victorious. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws038.html 10. This, I really, really can't explain: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws043.html 11. The Green Phantom tastes wood. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws050.html 12. Now THIS is one hell of a submission move: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws058.html 13. You WISH you had Sexxxy Eddy's job: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws059.html 14. You WISH you had Sexxxy Eddy's job II: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws060.html 15. Arsenal rethinks that whole barbed wire strategy. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws062.html 16. See, you would think that the naked guy would be at a DISADVANTAGE in a barbed wire board death match. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws064.html 17. EDDY! For the love of GOD! What are you doing! http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws065.html 18. On the other hand, maybe being naked in a barbed wire board death match is NOT such a good idea. http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws069.html 19. "Learning how to fly is simple. You just throw yourself at the ground and miss." http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws072.html 20. Barbed Wire? Check. Boards? Check. Thumb Tacks? Check. Hardcore Ninjaz? Ch... OK who ordered the Hardcore Ninjaz?!? http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ers/iws083.html

An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Sunday, October 19th, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Violence Triumphs Over Sex The Arsenal pinned his nemesis, Sexxxy Eddy, to retain the IWS title Saturday and conclude a red hot Blood Sweat and Beers performed in front of an enthusiastic sold out crowd. This was the Arsenal’s first ever victory over his former tag team partner. The quest for that victory has consumed three years of the Arsenal’s life and some would suggest his sanity as well. But if the Arsenal is crazy, than he is crazy like a fox, because the One Man War did everything that he could to stack the deck against Sexxxy Eddy, including surprising Eddy by insisting that the main event be a barbed wire board death match. Despite that, Sexxxy Eddy was about to become the first ever three time IWS champion when the Hardcore Ninjaz hit the ring to guarantee the victory for the Arsenal. Blood, Sweat and Beers started with a tag team match pitting Crazy Crusher and Nightmare Manson of Xtreme Revolution against Don Francesco’s boys, Tomassino and Eric “The Black Stallion” Mastrocola. This match was demanded by both teams, with Xtreme Revolution putting their status as number one contender’s on the line in order to get revenge, and Don Francesco determined to prove that his boys deserved to be tag team champions. Before the match, Don Francesco warned IWS Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris that his continued well-being depended on the right team winning the match. A panicked FitzMorris accidentally nailed Eric Mastrocola with a chair, leading to Crazy Crusher running up a chair to kick Tomassino into a Sunset Flip pin by Nightmare Manson after 6:12. This match was a showcase for Crazy Crusher’s astonishingly innovative offence. It helped demonstrate why many wrestling observers, including this writer, consider him to be the most dangerous wrestler pound for pound in Canada. Prior to his ‘Loser Leaves Westmount’ match, Beef Wellington addressed the crowd, apologizing for being too intense at the previous IWS show and promising, “I will never take wrestling seriously again!” When Beef’s opponent and former tag partner, Kid Kamikaze hit the ring in a rage and demanded that Beef show some respect, Beef proved true to his word, removing his trade mark cow pants and IWS shirt to reveal bright green bicycle shorts, bright orange knee pads and a Paula Abdul shirt. The ensuing match proved to be both funny and psychologically compelling. Kid Kamikaze won the match to remain the Westmount Playboy by countering Beef Wellington’s famed top rope ass punch into an arm bar submission in mid air and eventually forcing Beef to tap at 12:58. Kid Kamikaze did, however, need his valet to flash the referee and for Kurt Lauderdale to run in and distract Beef Wellington to ensure his victory. Brian the Guppie, of Team 990’s Between the Ropes and CFCF-12’s Contact 12 Wrestling Hotline, brought out the Flying Hurricanes for an in-ring interview during Blood, Sweat and Beers. Praising their work during the tag team scramble at the previous IWS show Un F’N Sanctioned, Brian the Guppie called them, “The most under-rated tag team in Quebec. My favourites, I hope they are your favourites, in fact, they are the Fan Favourites, Takao and Kenny the Bastard, the Flying Hurricanes.” But, before Brian the Guppie could start his interview, the Arsenal came to the ring to protest that he and the Hardcore Ninjaz are the Fan Favourites. While the Arsenal distracted the Flying Hurricanes, the Hardcore Ninjaz ambushed them from behind, eventually using the Flying Hurricanes own finisher on them as one Ninja power bombed Kenny the Bastard from the top rope through Takao on a table. Adding injury to insult, the other Ninja finished off the Hurricanes with his patented Pearl Harbour top rope chair and leg drop. Pierre Carl Ouellet, one of Canada’s great veteran wrestlers got into the ring with two young men, Kevin Steen and El Generico, who are already considered the future of Canadian wrestling. The result of this three way dance was nothing less than spectacular. After 15:14 of furious action, PCO hit Kevin Steen with his top rope cannonball for the win with El Generico diving just too late to break up the tag. Immediately afterwards, the IWS fans showed their appreciation by surrounding the ring to bang the mat and chant “Match of the Year!” On the eve of leaving the country on his quest to become an international wrestling superstar, Dru Onyx was summoned to the ring to explain why, at Un F’N Sanctioned, he power bombed Sexxxy Eddy on the entrance ramp after losing to the Sex XXXpress. Rather than apologize to Eddy, Onyx tore into the crowd, announcing that since he had been signed to wrestle in the UK by NWA (UK) Hammerlock that he no longer needed the approval of the IWS fans. This brought out PCP Crazy F’N Manny, who accused Onyx of only caring about money. Declaring that the IWS and its fans had been the ones to make Onyx famous, Manny challenged Onyx to a match on the spot. Onyx, protesting that he was wearing $2000 sunglasses, backed down and meekly offered an apology to the fans and to Eddy. Time will tell if his apology was sincere. The IWS Odd Couple, EXcesS69 and the Green Phantom retained their IWS tag team titles in a wild and stiff battle where they battled not only their scheduled opponents, Viking Ville Marie and Damian Decarie, not only the head of le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, Fred le Merveille and the newest member of le SLI, Marc le Grizzly, but also, inevitably, EXcesS69 and the Green Phantom battled each other. The climax of the match saw EXcesS69 holding a chair torn between hitting his own partner, the Green Phantom, and the head of le SLI, Fred le Merveille. Wearing a pumpkin on his head to celebrate Halloween, Fred had entered the ring urging EXcesS69 to acknowledge his French heritage and ditch the Green Phantom with whom he was always fighting anyway. In the end, EXcesS69 chose to stand with his partner and he brained Fred le Merveille, the so-called ‘cerveau’ of le SLI, splattering pumpkin all over the ring. EXcesS69 then won the match by spearing Damian, hooking his leg for the pin in the same motion, and when Damian lifted his shoulder at two, EXcesS69 used that momentum to pick up Damian over his neck by the hooked leg. As EXcesS69 applied pressure to Damian’s leg, he also bent Damian’s neck into the mat forcing Damian to tap at 18:45. As a wrestling writer for Quebec web-site http://www.info-lutte.com has noted recently, when the Arsenal smiles it usually means that something very bad is about to happen to someone. During the main event, a barbed wire board death match, the Arsenal was doing a lot of smiling. And with good reason. In an environment where the human flesh can be torn and ripped, a performer like Sexxxy Eddy, who wrestles practically in the nude, is at a huge disadvantage. Things took a turn for the worse for Eddy when the Arsenal brought out a water pitcher filled with thumb tacks. It became clear as the main event wore on that the Arsenal’s aim was not just to beat his former tag partner, it was to maim and scar him as well. The Arsenal’s twisted attempt to prove that he was the better man was nearly the champion’s downfall, however, as Sexxxy Eddy rallied, tore the Arsenal’s layer of protective shirts off, covered the One Man War in a layer of barbed wire and executed a picture perfect springboard shooting star press. Sadly, before the referee could make the count, the Hardcore Ninjaz hit the ring giving the Arsenal the chance to finish Eddy off with a Death Valley Driver onto the outside apron and the pin at 26:33. After the match, the IWS nurse hit the ring to tend to Eddy’s wounds. The Arsenal, annoyed at being upstaged, demonstrated why he is considered the most deplorable, misanthropic sociopath ever to set foot in the ring by attacking the IWS nurse and giving her a Death Valley Driver to the shock and horror of the crowd. Now that the Arsenal has finally beaten Sexxxy Eddy, the one man who could always humble the One Man War, one has to wonder who will step up to stop the reign of terror of this so-called ‘Fan Favourite.’ The IWS presents Payback’s A Bitch scheduled for Saturday, November 15th, at Le Skratch, 965 Cure Labelle, Chomedey, Laval, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are twelve dollars. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/iws/.

An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Wednesday, October 15th, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Dru Onyx Prepares to Invade: Britain Braces for Bajan Bomber Dru Onyx will be flying to Britain next week to tour Britain with NWA (UK) Hammerlock. The former IWS champion will have a unique opportunity to prove why he is considered one of Canada’s best heavyweights on the world stage. NWA (UK) Hammerlock is Britain’s finest promotion for technical wrestling, and through its ties with the National Wrestling Alliance is part of a proud hundred year tradition of grappling excellence, stretching from current NWA World Champion, A. J. Styles, to the first undisputed World Champion, Karl Gotch, who won in 1908. The six foot two inch, 325 pound Dru Onyx was trained by Quebec wrestling legend Marc "Le Grizzly" Pilon and made his professional wrestling debut, June 12th, 1999. Dru was born in the Barbados, grew up in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec and presently makes his home in the West Island of Montreal. Here in Canada, the Butcher from Barbados wrestles under his real name Dru Onyx, but while wrestling abroad he will be saluting his heritage by wrestling under his family title SoA, the Spirit of Allah. Dru Onyx was in a feisty, combative mood when I sat down to speak to him about his upcoming trip. As Onyx ran his conditioning drills in the IWS training facility, he dismissed the notion that he should be intimidated by his leap to the world stage. “Those chumps at Hammerlock won’t know what hit them. If they only knew how bad it was going to be they would be on the phone right now to Heathrow: ‘Stop the plane from Canada! Send it back! Don’t let it land! The Bajan Bomber is on it! Don’t let that monster off the plane!’ Because once I am off the plane and through customs, it is too late. People are going to get hurt. People are going to suffer.” Dru Onyx is an ambitious man who clearly knows that this is a great career opportunity for him. “You know why they call it a stepping stone? Because I am going to be stepping, and those English punks are going to end up with tomb stones!” Known in Canada as a man who takes the craft of wrestling seriously, Dru Onyx has declared that this trip will be a ‘working vacation’ for him. “See, I don’t wrestle for the money. I don’t wrestle to win. Don’t get me wrong. I hate losing, but I really wrestle because I like making people suffer. So this is perfect for me. I get to visit a new country, see the sights, meet some interesting people... and hurt them. I am going to Jolly Old England, because there are bones for me to break, and women for me to take!” NWA (UK) Hammerlock is know world wide for training excellent technical wrestlers. Onyx reportedly has been brushing up on his grappling technique, but he insists that he is not worried by the reputation of NWA (UK) Hammerlock’s finest. “Yeah, I’ve heard the stories. In Britain, people are born to wrestle, bred to compete and trained to win. So, I’m looking at this as a learning opportunity. I’m going to go toe to toe with the best wrestlers in Britain and I’m going to learn them that if you put the Bajan Bomber in an arm bar, I will rip your arm off and beat you to death with it. You call yourself technically born? You say you were technically bred? You face me, you’ll end up technically dead!” While at press time, Dru Onyx does not know who his opponents in Britain will be, he is unconcerned. He doesn’t feel that he needs to prepare for any one opponent to be ready for him. “Ready for those chumps? I know what I’m going to be facing. I’m going to get in the ring against some short, skinny, snaggle-toothed, knock-kneed, too stupid to come out of the rain, crying for his mama punk who is going to take one look at me and say his prayers while he fills his drawers. Ready for them? They are not ready for me! How do you prepare for 325 pounds of Canadian Mean? How do you get ready to face a man who lives to hurt people?” Normally belligerent, Dru Onyx turns downright hostile when asked to predict his win-loss record while on tour with NWA (UK) Hammerlock. “Let me tell you something. When you get in the ring with Onyx, you had better not be thinking of winning and losing, you had better be concentrating real hard on ways to keep breathing. After a Dru Onyx match, the announcers don’t talk about victors and the vanquished, they announce the survivors and the casualties!” Dru Onyx will be appearing with NWA (UK) Hammerlock on the following dates and at the following locations: Monday, October 27th, at the Winter Gardens in Margate, Kent; Tuesday, October 28th, at the Civic Hall in Bedworth, Warwickshire; Wednesday, October 29th, at the Castle Hall in Hertford, Hertfordshire; and Friday, October 31st, at the Civic Hall in Grays, Essex. All of us at the Internet Wrestling Syndicate would like to wish Dru Onyx the best of luck on his trip, only we are not entirely certain that he is going to need it. In fact, we would invite him to break a leg, if we were not convinced that he already intends to break a leg - someone else’s leg - during his trip. Instead we would like to wish the best of luck to Dru Onyx’s opponents, or as we call them in Montreal, victims. We hope that they have a lot of luck and bandages, lots and lots of bandages. Dru Onyx will be appearing with the stars of the Internet Wrestling Syndicate as the IWS presents Blood, Sweat and Beers scheduled for Saturday, October 18th, at Le Skratch, 965 Cure Labelle, Chomedey, Laval, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are twelve dollars. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/iws/. The following IWS show will be called Payback’s A Bitch and is scheduled to be held Saturday, November 15th, at Le Skratch. Dru Onyx’s web-site is http://www.dru-onyx.com/. NWA Hammerlock’s web-site is http://www.hammerlock-wrestling.com/. For those who would like pictures of Dru Onyx, the following are some of the many featured on the Internet Wrestling Syndicate web-site. Permission to use these and other photos on the web-site is conditional on credit for the photo being given to the IWS, and all legal rights and copyright to the photo belong to the IWS. A good recent picture of Dru Onyx demonstrating his rather unique definition of sportsmanship can be found here (the crumpled victim is Sexxxy Eddy): http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ned/iws016.html Onyx greeting his fan(s): http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ned/iws015.html Onyx in the process of trying to break EXcesS69’s leg: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...unt/iws115.html Two angles of the same move, Sexxxy Eddy giving Onyx a Suplex: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ned/iws027.html And from a reverse angle: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/images/i...ned/iws032.html

If you go to Death Valley Driver, there is a lot of information about the fed there. The guys at DVDVR are very old-school work-rate freaks, with some interesting quirks. They seem to like VCW.

With a little added bonus for Smart Marks... A little something that I put together for a British web-site that wanted more details of the feud. Time-Line for the Sexxxy Eddy vs. The Arsenal feud Extreme Dream Part One (February 2002): Cracks in the Sexxx & Violence team start showing as Eddy announces that he only entered the team in the tournament so that he won't have to defend his title. Extreme Dream Part Two (March 2002): Mistress Rose, Eddy's valet, gets knocked off the apron. While Eddy is checking on her, the Arsenal gets double-teamed and thrown out of the ring, Eddy gets double-teamed and pinned, and they are eliminated from the tournament. The Arsenal snaps, beats the crap out of Eddy and steals the IWS title. Know Your Enemies (April 2002): The Arsenal faces Eddy for the IWS title. Eddy wins when Precious Lucy interferes on his behalf kicking off a feud between Precious Lucy and the Arsenal that runs most of the summer. (including a bloodbath between the two in July where they had to sweep the blood out of the ring after the match.) Freedom to Fight (May 2002): Eddy defends his title in a four way elimination match with the Arsenal, Green Phantom and PCP Crazy F'N Manny. Eddy convinces Phantom & Manny to team up to eliminate the Arsenal first. Eddy loses his title to the Green Phantom. Tournament of the Icons (June 2002): Eddy wins the Tournament of the Icons beating the Arsenal in the final. The Arsenal had to beat Dru Onyx, TNT and Precious Lucy to advance. Eddy beat Steve Royds and Brutus Beefcake. Un F'N Sanctioned (August 2002): Eddy, The Arsenal and Dru Onyx fight a three way dance to determine the number one contender. Dru Onyx pins Eddy when the Arsenal hesitates on the outside torn between going up top to break the pin and diving through the ropes to do it. Blood, Sweat and Beers (September 2002): Eddy beats the Arsenal, but the Arsenal seperates Eddy's shoulder with a T-Bone Suplex from the top rope through a table. Body Count (May 2003): Eddy returns to the IWS from his injury. In his first match he is scheduled to face the Evil Ninja. The Arsenal disguises himself as the Evil Ninja to soften up Eddy for his new tag team partner. Scarred For Life (June 2003): In a Nightmare Tag Partners match, Eddy and the Arsenal are teamed to face the Green Phantom and EXcesS69. When Arsenal's spot as number one contender is put on the line in the match, a free for all breaks out. In the match, the Green Phantom and EXcesS69 get simulataneous pins which leads to them getting a shot at the IWS tag team titles at Hardcore Heat. Afterwards, the Arsenal and Evil Ninja attack Eddy backstage which gets Eddy and the Arsenal suspended for a month. Hardcore Heat (July 2003): Eddy and the Arsenal are both suspended and do not compete. During the show, the Arsenal's manager Iron Mike Patterson reveals backstage that the Arsenal is in Cuba, and that the attack on Eddy was arranged deliberately so that the Arsenal could get suspended and go on vacation without losing his spot as number one contender. Eddy is pissed. Born to Bleed (August 2003): The Arsenal beats Dru Onyx in a ladder match for the IWS title with help from the Evil Ninja and the returning Hardcore Ninja Number One. Un F'N Sanctioned (September 2003): Eddy, still limping from being power bombed on the stage by Dru Onyx sees the Arsenal attack and disrobe his friend and co-star Carol Cox, the owner of the IWS. Eddy confronts the Arsenal backstage. Despite his injury, Eddy has to be pulled off the One Man War by four men (The Flying Hurricanes and Los Latinos). The Arsenal stuns those backstage by challenging Eddy to an IWS death match at Blood, Sweat and Beers. **************************************************************************** An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Friday, October 10th, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Violence Challenges Sex The Arsenal has laid his IWS title on the line to face the one man that he has never beaten, his former tag team partner, the Triple X “Sex XXXpress” Sexxxy Eddy. After the Arsenal attacked IWS Owner Carol Cox during Un F’N Sanctioned, Eddy came to the defence of Carol, his friend and frequent co-star, back stage. To everyone’s surprise, the Arsenal challenged Eddy on the spot to an IWS Death Match at Blood, Sweat and Beers. What kind of Death Match the champion has in mind is not clear as yet, but the Arsenal is the self-proclaimed “master of painful innovation” As the team Sexxx and Violence, the Arsenal and Sexxxy Eddy were once the most feared tag team in Canada. While great individually, as a team they wreaked havoc, letting nothing stand between them and victory, not the rules, not the referees, not even the health of their opponents. Together, they engineered two IWS title reigns for Sexxxy Eddy. When the IWS announced the Extreme Dream tournament to crown the first ever IWS tag team champions, it seemed like the Arsenal would finally have gold of his own. But Eddy treated the tournament as an excuse not to defend his IWS title, rather than an opportunity to add extra gold. When Sexxx and Violence were eliminated from the tournament, many things were broken, never to be repaired. The Arsenal and Sexxxy Eddy’s partnership ended, their friendship was torn apart and the Arsenal’s sanity snapped like a twig. For most of 2002, Eddy and the Arsenal fought with the One Man War coming up short, time and time again. Mind you, the Arsenal has a slightly different take. In the Arsenal’s twisted view of IWS history, “Eddy only beat me because I let him. He only pinned me because I allowed him to. And Eddy knows that. He know that the one thing that he has never beaten is my mind. In my mind, I have never been pinned.” They say that history is written by the victors. Next Saturday, the Arsenal will try to rewrite the IWS history books. The Green Phantom and EXcesS69, the IWS Odd Couple and still IWS tag team champions, will defend their title against le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, Damian Decarie and Viking Ville Marie. This match came about when the Svengali of le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, Fred le Merveille, convinced the number one contenders, Crazy Crusher and Nightmare Manson of Xtreme Revolution, to give up their title shot so that they could face Don Francesco’s goons, Tomassino and Eric Mastrocola instead. Many tag teams spend a career fighting for a chance to compete for tag team gold. Xtreme Revolution do have a score to settle with Don Francesco, but in their anger has this young team blown their shot at becoming champions? In a match that has been brewing for months, Beef Wellington will face his treacherous former partner, Kid Kamikaze one-on-one in a “Loser Leaves Westmount” match. Beef Wellington is known for his crowd pleasing offence, while his former tag partner is a great ring technician. The stakes have never been higher for the Westmount Warrior, but can even Beef’s dreaded ass-punch overcome Kid Kamikaze, the Westmount Playboy? Two of Canada’s finest young wrestlers, Kevin Steen and El Generico, will face off against the veteran Pierre Carl Ouellet in a three-way dance. Both Kevin Steen and El Generico are renowned for their aerial ability, but as PCO demonstrated at Un F’N Sanctioned, he too can fly. Against either Steen or El Generico alone, PCO would have the advantage of size and experience, but can he take both men at once? In a match like this, the only sure winners are the fans. Also during Blood Sweat and Beers, Dru Onyx, on the verge of embarking on a tour of England with NWA Hammerlock, has asked permission to address the IWS fans. It is hoped that the Bajan Bomber will explain his actions at Un F’N Sanctioned, where he horrified the capacity crowd by ambushing Sexxxy Eddy and power bombing him on the entrance ramp. Last year, Blood, Sweat and Beers was declared by IWS fans to be the best show of 2002. This year already promises to rival that historic show. The IWS presents Blood, Sweat and Beers scheduled for Saturday, October 18th, at Le Skratch, 965 Cure Labelle, Chomedey, Laval, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are twelve dollars. Card subject to change. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/iws/.

Some more pictures with my "witty" comments. A couple of them are duplicates, but the rest are all new. (I only did the links because I prefer not to chew up people's load times.) 1. The Natural Superstar Steve Royds hits the Anabolic Drop on Iceberg 2. Sexxxy Eddy BEFORE his match with Onyx 3. Sexxxy Eddy DURING his match with Onyx 4. Sexxxy Eddy AFTER his match with Onyx 5. Crazy Crusher has just Rana'd Kenny the Bastard 6. Crazy Crusher and Nightmare Manson are about to give Damian a very rough landing 7. Kevin Steen in mid-move as EXcesS69 bails out of the way. 8. EXcesS69 about to hit an Asai Moonsault 9. New Strategy, EXcesS69, next time let Kevin Steen win! 10. Pierre Carl Ouellet takes flight! 11. ... and a rough landing (at least for Kurt Lauderdale) 12. Beef Wellingtom has the best pants in wrestling don't you think? 13. Even the refs in the IWS know how to sell. 14. Just how stiff are El Generico's kicks? 15. Pretty DAMN Stiff! 16. In fact, in general, I would avoid pissing off El Generico... 17. Of course, Arsenal doesn't tend to take my advice... 18. In fact, I remember specifically saying, "Don't do that, Arsenal. What?! Are you CRAZY?" 19. The answer would be YES! apparently. 20. Now that's one hard core elephant! 21. Montreal, where even the desserts are hardcore... 22. Enter the Green Phantom! 23. That most deadly of weapons! 24. HEY! Is that a new costume for the Hardcore Ninjaz? 25. They do say that TV is bad for you. 26. I thought that we made it clear that no guns were allowed? 27. And now a quick editorial comment by our fans... 28. Angle #1 29. Angle#2 30. Victory, but at what price?

An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Monday, September 22nd, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Capacity Crowd Cheer their Hardcore Hero to Victory The Green Phantom, with some rather unexpected help, beat the Hardcore Ninjaz and survived the annual Fans Bring the Weapons Match to retain his IWS tag team title in front of close to a thousand fans crammed into the beautiful downtown Medley. This concluded a historic Un F’N Sanctioned show that has already been described on independent wrestling sites in Quebec (like http://www.lewebzine.net) as the best wrestling show held in Quebec this year. With opening band Tantrumn’s “IWS Theme” still ringing in the ears of the fans, the Natural Superstar Steve Royds made his triumphant return to the IWS, beating the 275 pound Iceberg in 3:02. After Steve’s victory, the leader of le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, Fred le Merveille, made his way to the ring to protest Steve speaking English when he is obviously a francophone. Fred announced that he had decided to add a fourth member to le Syndicat de Lutte Internet and he offered the spot to Steve Royds. After consulting the crowd, Steve rejected Fred’s offer with an authoritative clothesline. Fortunately for Fred, he was rescued by the newest member of le SLI, Quebec wrestling legend Marc le Grizzly. He and Steve brawled to the back leaving Fred sprawled in the ring. The IWS’ sexy nurse showed up to provide Fred with the breath of life, but Fred rejected her tender mercies once he found out she spoke no French. Arguments are already raging as to which match at Un F’N sanctioned was the best with four different matches already being cited not just as match of the night but as candidates for Canadian match of the year. The first of these matches was the confrontation between two former IWS champions and crowd favourites, Dru Onyx and the Triple X “Sex XXXpress” Sexxxy Eddy. Onyx riled up the crowd by interrupting a strip tease being performed by Eddy and two of his female co-stars, and verbally assaulting Eddy for not taking wrestling seriously enough. During the hard-hitting combat that followed both men had chances to win, but Eddy’s resiliency and speed overcame Dru Onyx’ frightening power when Eddy got the flash pin with the “Total Sexxxtacy” reverse springboard shooting star press at 10:00. After the match, in a show of sportsmanship, Dru Onyx held up Eddy’s hand up in victory for the crowd... only to ambush Eddy with a Spear and then horrifying the crowd by power bombing Eddy out of the ring and on to the entrance ramp, folding up Eddy like a human accordion. While the crowd voiced their displeasure, Dru Onyx showed his contempt for them, for his fallen opponent and for the niceties of civilized behaviour by using the crumpled Eddy as a human footstool while the Bajan Bomber retied his wrestling boots. The SLI Invitational turned into a four team elimination match when the Flying Hurricanes, Los Latinos and Xtreme Revolution all answered Viking Voisine and Damian Dion’s open challenge. In the process, the match became an open invitation for the crowd to get to their feet and stay there as the eight men electrified the packed crowd with a fast-paced and insane scramble highlighted by an eight man submission chain, a picture perfect four way suplex and an astonishing Super FrankenSteiner to the outside by Crazy Crusher that turned Kenny the Bastard into a human missile. The Flying Hurricanes eliminated Los Latinos after 12:35 when Takao power bombed his own partner, Kenny the Bastard, onto the Latino Kid. The Flying Hurricanes were eliminated in turn by le Syndicat de Lutte Internet when Viking and Damian combined to level Takao with a “Tueur des Policiers” at 13:16. Xtreme Revolution won the SLI invitational at 14:02 when Crazy Crusher and Nightmare Manson combined to hit Damian with their Revolutionizer vertaebreaker. After the match, IWS Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris came to the ring to praise Xtreme Revolution and name them number one contenders to the IWS tag team titles. Don Francesco stormed out to protest this decision and his boys, Tomassino and Eric Mastrocola, laid out Xtreme Revolution before dragging the Commissioner to the back to teach him some respect. Two men frequently described as the best wrestlers in Quebec, Kevin Steen and EXcesS69 put on a wrestling clinic during UnF’NSanctioned, delivering a match that succeeded at being technical without being boring and being hard core without using weapons. EXcesS69 won after reversing a running kick into a surprise roll-up after 16:01. Kevin Steen reacted poorly to the loss, throwing EXcesS69 into the ropes in such a way that EXcesS69 ended up in a life threatening hangman position. Rather than rescuing his fellow wrestler from this precarious predicament, Kevin Steen grabbed a chair and delivered a thunderous chair shot to the defenceless EXcesS69, who had to be carried to the back by IWS officials. IWS owner Carol Cox celebrated her birthday during Un F’N Sanctioned. Her in-ring celebrations were cut short, however, when IWS champion Arsenal and his manager TV’s Iron Mike Patterson crashed the party. After humiliating Carol and ruining a designer dress, Arsenal and Iron Mike Patterson began threatening physical violence to the IWS owner when PCP Crazy F’N Manny hit the ring to chase them off. Manny announced that he would be acting as guest referee in the Fans Bring the Weapons main event, because he was the only man crazy enough to do it. Pierre Carl Ouellet demonstrated why he is considered an icon in Quebec wrestling as he partnered with Beef Wellington against Career Killer Kurt Lauderdale and Kid Kamikaze. Beef was isolated for most of the match before Pierre Carl Ouellet broke out a somersault plancha to help turn the tide and save his partner. PCO then neutralized the threat of Kurt Lauderdale, flipping from the top rope to the outside, through Kurt and a table. Beef Wellington made his own contribution to his team’s success putting his treacherous former partner, Kid Kamikaze, through a table with the E. Coli straight jacket pile driver. Beef and PCO won the match after 19:49 when Beef flipped PCO off the top rope onto Kurt Lauderdale with the move that helped PCO win three WWF tag team titles. El Generico came heartbreakingly close to winning the IWS title in a match that cemented El Generico’s reputation as one of the best and most charismatic wrestlers in Quebec, and furthered the Arsenal’s already considerable reputation as pound for pound, the most mean, twisted, vicious sociopath in the wrestling industry. Frustrated at his inability to pin the courageous El Generico, and irritated by how close the Tijuana native had already come to stealing his precious IWS title, the Arsenal lured El Generico out of the ring. The two men brawled to the upper floor of the Medley where the Arsenal ambushed El Generico and used a Death Valley Driver over the railing through five tables to knock out the Latin Luchador. Iron Mike Patterson and the Arsenal carried El Generico back to the ring for the pin fall at 23:27. While Montreal band InVeigh played their new “Theme to Fans Bring the Weapons”, IWS officials handed out safety goggles and face masks to prepare the crowd for the most ultra violent match in Quebec, a match that only happens once a year. And just like a demented Christmas, the fans had brought gifts including, amongst many others, a barbed wire Babar, a light tube log cabin, a potted cactus made from green light tubes and thumb tacks, a light tube skate board, a barbed wire child seat, a light tube machine gun, two light tube light sabers, a television set, and that most deadly of weapons... a ham. Before the match started, IWS President Seska demanded that the Green Phantom name the man that he had chosen to temporarily replace his partner EXcesS69. The Green Phantom protested that there wasn’t any one in the IWS crazy enough or hardcore enough to be his partner in an environment like Fans Bring the Weapons, at which point PCP Crazy F’N Manny threw off his referee shirt and for one night, Green Drugs was reunited. Words can not describe the hellish insanity that ensued. Suffice it to say that within mere minutes, the Hardcore Ninjaz manager, Iron Mike Patterson, the referee for the match, Mop, and the replacement referee, senior IWS official Peanut were all unconscious. The sole remaining IWS referee, Bakais, took one look at the ring and fled for his life. And the competitors were just warming up. Ultimately, a match like Fans Bring the Weapons is not so much won as survived. In the end, the Green Phantom, the IWS Hardcore Hero, was the last man standing after both Hardcore Ninjaz missed with a weapons added top rope Pearl Harbour leg drop. The Green Phantom took quick advantage to Phantasm one groggy Ninja onto another and cover for the pin as Bakais ducked out from hiding to make the count at 17:39. The IWS presents Blood, Sweat and Beers scheduled for Saturday, October 18th, at Le Skratch, 965 Cure Labelle, Chomedey, Laval, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are twelve dollars. IWS wrestling is intended for audiences eighteen years or over. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com/. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/iws/. For a video clip of Arsenal’s Death Valley Driver off a balcony through five tables, go here: http://the-arsenal.8k.com/videos and click on dvdweb.wmv.

An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Saturday, September 20th, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* The Green Phantom Stands Alone The Green Phantom finds himself without a partner as he prepares to defend his IWS tag team title at Un F’N Sanctioned against the Evil Hardcore Ninjaz in the most vicious hardcore wrestling event in the business: the main event Fans Bring the Weapons. During Un F’N Sanctioned, the Green Phantom’s tag team partner, EXcesS69, will take on Kevin Steen, the self-proclaimed best wrestler in Canada. This match came about after EXcesS69 accepted Kevin Steen’s open challenge at Born to Bleed. IWS president Seska decreed that EXcesS69 would be barred from participating in two matches on the same show. Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris was not thrilled at this announcement, but he consoled himself by the fact that his young contract superstar, EXcesS69, will not be putting his good looks on the line in the most brutal, disfiguring match ever devised. President Seska & Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris, in a moment of rare agreement, decided that the Green Phantom could choose his own replacement for EXcesS69. At press time, the Green Phantom had yet to make his choice. To further complicate matters for the Green Phantom, President Seska appointed a special guest referee for the Fans Bring the Weapons main event. The only man in the locker room crazy enough to agree to referee the match is none other than PCP Crazy F’N Manny. The last time that IWS fans saw Manny in an IWS ring, the Green Phantom and Steve Royds were power-bombing Manny through fifty light tubes, leaving Manny with a “a concussion, 50 stitches, a torn artery and a heavily cut arm,” not to mention, “a swollen spleen, a lacerated liver, a punctured pancreas and a concussed colon.” Can Manny be impartial in a match that features the man who put him in intensive care? Un F’N Sanctioned will be held in downtown Montreal at the beautiful Medley, Saturday September 20th. The IWS is famous for raising the bar of independant wrestling in Canada at its Medley events, and this show promises to be no different. In addition to the best in wrestling, Un F’n Sanctioned will shine the spotlight on the best in Montreal metal as local bands Tantrumn and InVeigh will be featured. Tantrumn will perform their “IWS Theme” to open the show, while InVeigh will perform their “Theme to Fans Bring the Weapons” just prior to the main event. Three time WWF tag team champion, WCW hardcore champion, ECW and All Japan star, Pierre Carl Ouellet will make his IWS in-ring debut teaming with his friend and former student, Beef Wellington, to face off against Beef’s treacherous former partner, Kid Kamikaze, and the Kid’s bodyguard, Career Killer Kurt Lauderdale. Le Syndicat de Lutte Internet, Viking ViMont and Damian DuMont, have issued an open challenge to any and all teams to face them in the SLI Invitational. Xtreme Revolution have already answered that challenge, but will they be the only team to do so? Two former IWS champions will clash as two-time former champion the Triple X “Sex XXXpress” Sexxxy Eddy will face off against the recently dethroned IWS champion Dru Onyx. The former champion has been vocal in his displeasure at being denied a rematch for the IWS title. Former friends Eddy and Onyx nearly came to blows backstage as Onyx taunted Eddy, calling him, “a two-time loser who wrestles in his underwear.” Eddy responded by pointing out that Onyx has now lost twice to the Arsenal. Modestly, Eddy did not mention that he, himself, has never lost to the Arsenal, pinning the One Man War on several occasions. The Arsenal, who beat Dru Onyx in a controversial ladder match at Born to Bleed to become the new IWS champion, is taking no chances with his hard won gold. For his first title defence, the Arsenal and his manager, Iron Mike Patterson, have hand-picked El Generico. The Tijuana native and true fan favourite is mired in a five month losing streak. On the other hand, many IWS watchers believe that the Arsenal could be underestimating El Generico, as the Latin Luchador has already this year come within a heartbeat of winning the IWS title. For more information about the matches featured during Un F’N Sanctioned please visit the IWS website at http://www.syndicatewrestling.com. Information and video clips will be added frequently as we lead up to Un F’N Sanctioned. Card subject to change. The IWS presents Un F’N Sanctioned, scheduled for Saturday, September 20th, at The Medley, 1170 St-Denis, Montreal, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are fifteen dollars in advance. IWS wrestling is intended for audiences eighteen years or over. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com. For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/iws/. For more information about Tantrumn, consult their web-site: http://www.tantrumn.com.

From the TimeKeeper's Table The press release with the full card is being released on Wednesday, but I guess I can give you a preview. Fred le Merveille vs. Hercules Ayala Jr. Fred is a heat machine. He's been playing his face to francophones, heel to anglos gimmick for a while in the IWS and it just keeps building in intensity. Fred is one of the best story-tellers in the IWS (along with Beef and El Generico) He is also master of the goofy sell. All of that said, Fred is going to have his work cut out for him facing the massive Hercules Ayala Jr. Fred does always have a card up his sleeve though. (sometimes an entire pack.) Hercules will also have to convince the IWS fans that he can wrestle a full match since he has gotten a lot of heat for his performances in the past two shows as Los Latinos' second. Le Syndicat de Lutte Internet Invitational Damian & Viking issued an open challenge and Xtreme Revolution accepted. That's two sick teams facing one another. The SLI are considered by many to be the stiffest in Quebec. CCW's Xtreme Revolution are considered by many to be two of the best bumpers in Quebec. That's a mighty interesting combination. Mind you, the way that SLI worded their invitation, it could be interpreted that more than one team could accept that challenge... Onyx vs. Sexxxy Eddy Two former IWS champions facing off against one another. Onyx has just finished an impressive title run where he has shown real ability in the ring beyond just his power. His sidewalk slam finisher was dated when the Big Bossman was using it mind you. Sexxxy Eddy has by now shaken off the slight ring rust that he had when he came back. (His match against El Generico at Born to Bleed may have been the best match that I have seen live this year.) Eddy seems to be trying to compete with EXcesS69 for the "best match of the night" every single IWS show. Eddy and Onyx are both faces, but both Eddy and Onyx are good at respect matches. Of course, Onyx may be just a tad grumpy about losing his IWS title last month. EXcesS69 vs. Kevin Steen Before his knee injury, Kevin Steen was considered THE high flyer in Quebec. Since his injury, EXcesS69 has grabbed that title and run with it, making him a crowd favourite with the IWS. Just to up the stakes a little, Steen has come back from his knee surgery convinced that he is the best wrestler on the planet. His arrogance rubs EXcesS69 the wrong way. So professional jealousy mixed with personal dislike for one another... I think that no matter what happens, the fans win. Beef Wellington & Pierre-Carl Ouellet vs. Kid Kamikaze and Career Killer Kurt Lauderdale The aftermatch of Hi-5 losing the tag titles and breaking up are still being felt in the IWS. This match is a direct result. When Kid Kamikaze turned on his partner with a thunderous chair shot at Born to Bleed, and began berating him for being a crowd-pleasing clown, no one could have predicted that PCO would run-in to make the save. So, you have one of the best, most respected wrestlers in the province teaming with a highly regarded young superstar in the making teaming to fight two treacherous vermin. It should be a lot of fun and it will be interesting to see how PCO adapts to the IWS fans and the IWS style. (IWS Title Match) El Generico vs. the Arsenal © The Arsenal hand-picked El Generico to be his first opponent based on El Generico's five month losing streak. The one thing that we have learned during that losing streak is that El Generico is prepared to do damn near anything to win, whether that means putting his own body on the line or by nearly killing his opponent. Especially in his last match against Eddy, El Generico may not have won, but it was not for lack of trying. His running boots to Eddy's face in the corner were some of the stiffest that I have ever seen. So the Arsenal may be underestimating his opponent just a bit. Add to that the fact that the Arsenal himself went through a long losing streak last year, only to break through dramatically at Payback's A Bitch and he hasn't lost a match since. This match has gotten a lot of heat from some IWS fans who argue that at a downtown show in front of new fans, the IWS title should be fought between two bigger men. It is entirely possible that some people watching this match may ask why these two men are in the title match if they have never seen them before, but I predict that five, no two, hell ONE minute into this match and size will be forgotten, because these two men are pound-for-pound not just two of the best wrestlers in Quebec, they are two of the best wrestlers in the country (and heck most of the North-East) Fans Bring the Weapons (IWS Tag Team Title Match) The Evil Hardcore Ninjaz vs. The Green Phantom & EXcesS69 © This is a match with a lot of questions surrounding it. Can EXcesS69 wrestle in two matches in one night? More importantly, will he be allowed to? I have heard that Commissioner Joseph FitzMorris is not happy that his good-looking young superstar is putting his physical appearance at risk during this match. EXcesS69 is signed to a ten-year contract by FitzMorris. What will the Commissioner do to protect his investment? The Green Phantom, on the other hand, is in his element whether he has a partner or not. The Green Phantom has been involved in every FBTW match from the very beginning and, if memory serves, he has never lost in a Fans Bring the Weapons Match. The Hardcore Ninjaz are back together again and their first match as a team is one designed specifically for their brand of insanity. Will the returning Hardcore Ninja Number One have the same vicious streak that his brother, the Evil Ninja, has demonstrated since they broke up? Rumours swirl that the IWS referees have approached President Seska and asked (actually begged might be the better term) that she appoint a guest referee for this match. None of the IWS zebras it appears are anxious to be involved in the most brutal main event in the IWS. But who would be crazy enough to agree to ref this match? Most importantly, what will the fans bring to this match? At last year's FBTW match, the fans brought enough insane material that CZW's Lobo called us "a bunch of sick fucks!" What instruments of destruction will the fans bring this year? FBTW only happens once a year for the IWS, and a lot of pent-up creativity goes into it. How much will the fan participation play in the ending of this match? (Personally, I'm bringing a rubber chicken.)

Dude, a plane or train ticket from Toronto to Montreal wouldn't set you back more than a hundred bucks. If you need a place to stay in Montreal drop me a line. TO is nothing. I have guys from Georgia & Scotland talking about coming to IWS events. The real problem with running shows in Ontario is that Ontario has a really strict athletic comission. To wrestle in Ontario you need a license which costs $75 annually. This is why CPW runs their shows in Hull instead of Ottawa. Since most of the IWS guys would have to be licensed that would mean that you would either kill your profit for one show or the wrestlers would have the cost of their license cut out of their salary.

An IWS Press Release Internet Wrestling Syndicate http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Montreal, Québec, CANADA Wednesday, August 27th, 2003 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* The Medley Braces for an IWS Assault The Internet Wrestling Syndicate is pleased to announce that it will return to the beautiful Medley in downtown Montreal, Saturday, September 20th for Un F’N Sanctioned. As it is every year, Un F’N Sanctioned will feature a Fans Bring the Weapons match as its main event. Whatever weapons the fans bring, the wrestlers will use in the match. (No guns, no knives.) One fan from Ottawa has already promised to bring 371 light tubes on his own! This year the Fans Bring the Weapons match is scheduled to be a tag team title match pitting the IWS champions, the Odd Couple team of the Green Phantom and EXcesS69, against the reunited Hardcore Ninjas. Can the Green Phantom and EXcesS60 put their differences aside in time to survive a match against the IWS’ most hardcore tag team in the most hardcore event in wrestling? Making his in-ring debut at Un F’N Sanctioned will be a man who has excelled at the highest level of wrestling, former three-time WWF tag team champion, former WCW Hardcore champion, former ECW and All Japan star, Pierre-Carl Ouellet. His partner will be his friend and former student, Beef Wellington, as they team to face Beef’s former tag partner Kid Kamikaze and Beef’s former body guard, Career Killer Kurt Lauderdale. Also premiering for the IWS at Un F’N Sanctioned is Jacques Rougeau protege, Kevin Steen, the self-proclaimed “best wrestler on the planet!” Kevin Steen’s open challenge at Born to Bleed was answered by EXcesS69 who finds himself scheduled for two matches on the same night, including the main event Fans Bring the Weapons match. Montreal Band Tantrumn will kick off the festivities by performing their “IWS Theme” live at the start of the show. Tantrumn, one of the hardest working bands in Montreal, are coming off a successful appearance during the Vans Warped Tour. Fellow Montreal group InVeigh will perform their new “Theme to Fans Bring the Weapons” live before the main event. Prior to Un F’N Sanctioned, both Tantrumn and InVeigh will be performing at the Medley live during the free show Big Metal 3, Sunday, September 7th starting at 5pm. The Internet Wrestling Syndicate is famous for its shows at the Medley that have raised the bar for independent wrestling in Canada. September 20th, the IWS will add to their legend as Un F’N Sanctioned promises to be the most important and most exciting independent wrestling event held in Canada this year. For more information about the matches featured during Un F’N Sanctioned please visit the IWS website at http://www.syndicatewrestling.com Matches, information and video clips will be added frequently as we lead up to Un F’N Sanctioned. The IWS presents Un F’N Sanctioned, scheduled for Saturday, September 20th, at The Medley, 1170 St-Denis, Montreal, Québec. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Tickets are fifteen dollars in advance. For information about the show e-mail [email protected] or visit the Internet Wresting Syndicate at their web-site: http://www.syndicatewrestling.com For information about IWS merchandise & DVDs, our wholesale prices or our customer referral program e-mail [email protected] or order from http://xrv.com/iws/ For more information about Tantrumn, consult their web-site: http://www.tantrumn.com