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I'd watch football, but I simply have to know how Lita is doing. I haven't been able to sleep since last Monday. HOW IS THE BABY? MY GOD!!!!

We need Taboo Tuesday to have both brands...then we could have Kane vs. Heidenreich in a "King of the Rapists" match.

Bischoff vs. Eugene. Yay.

Become a manager like Heyman.

Added WWF IYH #6 PPV, a first gen tape.

DDP unmasking after pretending to be La Parka and giving Randy Savage a diamond cutter on WCW Nitro. Undertaker coming out before the Austin/Dude Love match at OTE98. The glass shattering and Austin coming out to help Foley win his first title. The glass shattering and Austin coming to the ring to help Chyna eliminate Vince and win the Corporate Rumble. Virgil finally hitting DiBiase with the Million Dollar belt at the 1991 Royal Rumble.

Hey, we all need a tasteless thread once in a while.

Tag and heavyweight titles on both shows would hurt the brand extension. Having the tag belts on both shows would cause too much jumping back and forth between brands, as well. Statement: Steroid use in the WWE is at the same level it was ten years ago.

So who's the mystery man? With a kick like the one he dished out, I immediately thought of Low Ki.

Cool stuff, but first a few criticisms: -Seven matches, all at least 5:00 long, including a 22:00 main event is just too much for a two hour show that also includes interviews, angles, etc. You just wouldn't be able to have that much on one show. -Palumbo/Rosey in a 5:00 match on RAW? I see where you're going with the story, but that would just kill the crowd. -The Hardy stuff with Nitro and Moore was very cool, but you should have just left it at that. Having Lita turn on them and aid Kane was too much all at once. Ending with Kane getting beaten down by Hardy's surprise help would have been enough for one segment, allowing Lita to turn later in a more "important" situation. -I have no idea where you're going with the Jericho/Vince/Christy stuff, but I guess that's okay. -You have Hurricane booked in an IC title match and a tag match for next week. Maybe you realize that though. Also, I would have booked the handicap match with Jericho as Jericho vs. Christian and Tomko, and put Rhyno in the IC title qualifier match. HBK teaming with Rhyno just doesn't make much sense. Good stuff though getting people involved and creating lots of interest with mystery men, new angles, etc. This show would be better to watch then what we're going to get tonight, I'm sure.

TATANKA vs. MR. HUGHES (RAW, AUGUST 9TH, 1993): Tatanka is still undefeated at this point. Hughes starts with punches but Tatanka whips him to the ropes and botches a leap frog and falls down so they start over. They tie up and Tatanka quickly rolls Hughes up for 2. Macmahon does his classic oversell of the nearfall. Tatanka hits some chops but Hughes punches him back. Tatanka comes off the ropes with a cross body for 2. Hughes clotheslines Tatanka down. Hughes grabs Tatanka by the hair and kicks him in the back. Very slow offense. Hughes goes to a chinlock. Tatanka comes back with chops and knocks Hughes down with a shoulderblock. Hughes dumps Tatanka to the floor. They fight outside but Tatanka back drops him and rolls in to win by countout at 4:10. Dumb. Bad match. 1/2*

Whoops, forgot to give credit. My bad.

IWA Mid-South presented the second night of the marathon Ted Petty Invitational Tournament. A. J. Styles became the 5th different winner in five years, defeating Samoa Joe and Brian Danielson in the finals. A crowd of 350 experienced another incredible (5+ hours worth) night of wrestling. As good as the 2003 TPI was, it couldn't touch this year's event. For fans that appreciate the best in indie wrestling, this videotape is a must buy. Fans booed the announcement that the event was being held under the auspices of the NWA, the oldest and largest sanctioning body in professional wrestling, as Gordon Solie used to say. (1) C. J. McManus beat Thunderbolt and Billy McNeil in 4-5 minutes. My only question is why was this necessary? T-Bolt gave McNeil an implant DDT and McManus stole the pin. Postmatch T-Bolt made McManus pay with a DDT. (2) Jimmy Jacobs beat Salvatore Rinauro in 8:28. This was better than their first round match at the 2003 TPI. Jacobs kicked out of the Phoenix Fury Legdrop and pinned Rinauro after two cannonball sentons. (3) The non-sanctioned-falls-count-anywhere-anything-goes-match between Ian Rotten and Steve Stone (with Jim Fannin) ended in a no contest when Chris Candido interfered. Yup. Skip showed up in Highland. Rotten had Stone beaten to a pulp when Fannin interfered. Rotten chased Fannin out the door and in came Candido. "The Dream Team" gave Rotten a lengthy beatdown while Fannin yakked, with Candido doing three top rope headbutts onto Rotten's injured arm. Ian's wife, Patti came down to ringside with a chair and complained to the NWA Midwest dude, who said he was washing his hands because it wasn't sanctioned. Iceberg made the save. (4) Rainman beat Danny Daniels in 10 minutes. Judging from the response to his entrance, Rainman's appearance the previous evening had made a positive impression on the fans. Daniels was having his way until Rainman hit a Spinesplitta counter. Rainman got the Hillside Strangla but couldn't make Daniels tap. Daniels comeback. It looked like Daniels botched a top rope huracanrana. Rainman exploded into a midring version of the Kool Krusher. Daniels kicked out the finisher that got Rainman to the quarterfinals. Daniels hit a superplex but Rainman scissored Daniels' legs into a cradle for the pin. The crowd gave the defending champion an appreciative sendoff. (5) Samoa Joe beat Nigel McGuinness via submission in 13:20. Fans were split on McGuinness. Joe was way, way over with these fans. I liked this match a lot. McGuinness was able to neutralize Joe's size advantage on the mat with his superior skills. But McGuiness couldn't trade with Joe standing. Joe solved McGuinness' cutesy turnbuckle headstand with a Yakuza kick that got the first of many "holy ****" chants. It was on now. Joe brutalized McGuinness. Joe sold a forearm shot as if he had been knocked for a loop. McGuinness hit a divorce court and tried for a submission, but Joe made the ropes. Joe used big knees to the face to set up the choke out. (6) Hallowicked & Jigsaw & Larry Sweeney beat Icarus & Gran Ikuna & Trik Davis in 9:57. This match also struck me as unnecessary dilution of great show. It featured students from Quackenbush's Chikara Wrestle Factory. It's a green but talented group. Nice high spots and shaky on the transitions. Sweeney's gimmick is fun. The crowd enjoyed the luchaesque action. A series of babyface false finishes turned into a victory for the heels when Hallowicked pinning Icarus with a super brainbusta. (7) A. J Styles beat Matt Sydal in 12:45. This was similar to the match they did in Evansville Wednesday night. Great in its own right but not quite at the level of the Evansville match because the finishing sequence wasn't as spectacular. Sydal is as close to a white meat babyface as you're going to see in Highland. Styles was booed for failing to honor the ropes break. Styles gave Sydal a vertical suplex to the floor but seemed to get the worst end of it. Rotten got on the mic to express his disappointment in Candido. Said if Candido needed a job all he had to do was ask. Rotten said they used to friends, which was the reason he was one of the only guys in the business that hadn't tapped Tammy. Rotten announced that he was bringing Dusty Rhodes to Highland on 10/23 as his partner for a match against Candido and Stone. (8) MsChif beat Mercedes Martinez and Lacey and Rain and Daizee Haze and Mickie Knuckles in an elimination match (12:42.). Good match for an elimination deal. Martinez made more of an impression on me here than in her title win the previous night. Haze and MsChif got a pop for a lengthy rolling cradle. MsChif hit an impressive choke bomb. Rain was the first to go on a Martinez super brainbuster. Martinez dropped Knuckles on her head shortly thereafter. Lacey Nobody home on Haze's missile dropkick and Lacey planted her with a DDT. Martinez took out Lacey with a german suplex. It was down to Martinez and MsChif. Martinez countered the Desecrator with a powerbomb for a near fall. MsChif came back with the Desecrator to score the pin. MsChif was enraged that she wasn't going home with the belt. This would seem to set MsChif up as the number one contender. (9) Arik Cannon beat Petey Williams in 12:40. This was a great pairing featuring two small guys that are extremely smooth and quick. Cannon tagged Williams and hit the Gamebreaker. Cannon tied Williams up in a pretzel like cravate. Fans got behind Williams, who made the comeback. Williams had the sharphshooter applied with fans calling for the tap out. Cannon made the ropes. They each escaped from the others' finisher. The finishing sequence was awesome. Williams was on the outside with an apparent blown knee. Cannon waited confidently (naturally with his back turned) while the ref's count reached nine. Williams surprised Cannon with an attempted Canadian Destroyer. Cannon drove Williams hard into the turnbuckles to block and hit the Glimmering Warlock to win the match and the title. Crowd chanted for Cannon. (10) Mike Quackenbush beat Nate Webb via submission in 7:25. Another good match. Quackenbush dazzled the crowd with an array of submissions. Quack hit a flip dive. Quack did the Spyder's Webb into rocking horse. Webb hit a tumbleweed off the top rope. Quackenbush hit a northern lights bomb. Webb did an inverted Spyder's Webb. Quackenbush got the win with another tripped out submission. (11) Brian Danielson beat CM Punk in 16:05. This was the most highly anticipated match of the quarterfinals. They didn't disappoint. The early going was a battle of mat submissions. Punk shot back at a fan with "I hope your parents die." They traded top quality dropkicks. Punk hit a jumping piledriver and worked over Danielson's neck. Punk got a near fall with a rabbit lariat, a very popular move this week. Danielson dropped Punk on his head. Both men slow to rise. Danielson used a missile headbutt for a near fall. Punk suplexed Danielson into the first row. Danielson went all the way aroudn the ring as he gave Punk a 30 revolution airplane spin. Awesome spot. Punk hit the shining wizard but Danielson got a foot on the ropes. Punk went up top looking for the Pepsi Plunge. Danielson backdropped Punk off the top and hit a dragon suplex for the pin. (12) Wildcards (Eddie Kingston & Blackjack Marciano) beat Ryan Boz & Brad Bradley and Tank & Iceberg to win the IWA Mid-South Tag Team Titles in 16:40. The four monsters took turns beating up on Wildcards throughout the match. Tank was especially brutal with a cobra clutch suplex and 300+ pound double stomp on Marciano. The monster teams got on bad terms with each other due to unwanted tags. Boz and Bradley hit their washing machine finisher on Marciano, but Tank saved. Boz and Bradley got Iceberg up for a suplex. Kingston blinded Bradley with the powder and Bradley clocked Boz with a wild swing. Tank hit the chokebreaker on Marciano, but Kingston powerbombed Tank and flipped Marciano off of the top rope onto Tank for the three. Fans popped with approval for the title change. Tank and Iceberg got the please come back chant. (13) Samoa Joe beat Rainman in 54 seconds. Rainman charged across the ring prior to the bell and launched a furious assault. Joe weathered the storm and took Rainman's head off with a lariat. The crowd was pissed. They wanted to see a match. Rainman got the "please come back" chant. (14) A. J. Styles beat Arik Cannon in 6:04. Cannon tried to get stiff. Styles pounded Cannon and had him hanging to the ropes for dear life to block the Clash. Cannon managed to headscissor Styles through the ropes to turn the momentum. Styles halted Cannon's offense with the quebrada into the reverse DDT. Styles went for the discus lariat and got caught with Cannon's exploder suplex. Styles ducked the Glimmering Warlock and pinned Cannon with the discus lariat. Fans thought they had a new heavweight champion, but it was not to be. Cannon said Williams agreed to defend the title in the tournament, but he didn't. Rotten told Cannon that either he defended against Styles on 10/23 or YOU'RE FIRED. Cannon said OK. (15) Brian Danielson beat Mike Quackenbush via submissoin in 11:29. Great match. Fans were pulling for Quackenbush in the underdog role. They did a nice job of playing off of spots from earlier matches in the tournament. Danielson started the subtle heeling by waving off the handshake. Danielson went high impact. Quack did a cool back bridge leglock. Danielson told Quack that he didn't have the power and did a pelvic thrust right out of Flair's playbook. Quack turned the tables on Danielson's surfboard dragon suplex. Quackenbush went lucha style. Danielson cut Quack off with a dropkick. Danielson grounded Quack to wear him down. Quack rolled away from Danielson's missile headbutt and got a great near fall. Quack got a ropes break on the Cattle Mutilation. Danielson did a 13 revolution airplane spin, reversed it for 13 more, and did a four revolution giant swing. Quackenbush tapped out in the Cattle Mutilation. Quackenbush got the please come back chant. Quackenbush said it never seemed to be in the cards for him to win one of these tournaments, "but I'm going to go home reflecting on what a pleasure it was to entertain you." (16) B. J. Whitmer won a seven-way elimination match over Jimmy Rave and Chris Sabin and Austin Aries and Alex Shelly and Todd Sexton and Claudio Castagnoli in around 12 minutes. The participants were all losers from the first round. Lots of crazy flying until the eliminations started coming, fast and furious. It came down to Rave and Whitmer. Rave opened up a nasty hardway gash on Whitmer's forehead open the hardway with a running knee. They did a bunch of near falls building to Whitmer's wrist clutch exploder suplex. The show almost fell apart as a result of an ugly postmatch incident. Whitmer and Fannin just about lost it on a ringside fan. The fan was being a complete dick toward Whitmer, who had just worked his ass off in the ring and gotten his head split open. Whitmer ended up shoving the guy, and Fannin started wading into the seating area to get at him. Rotten came out to order his guys to the back. Rotten gave the fan a lecture. A fan on the opposite side of the building started heckling Rotten, who charged across the building to get in his face. Wrestlers started pouring out of the dressing room to quell the disturbance. Styles acted as the voice of reason and told everyone to get back to the business at hand. Regardless of the fans' behavior, the lack of professionalism on the part of Whitmer, Fannin and Rotten put a black eye on an otherwise stellar evening. (17) A. J. Styles defeated Brian Danielson and Samoa Joe to win the tournament (14:32). A wild and intense way to close the show. Joe was clearly the fan favorite. Joe and Style hit dives to the outside. They did a round robin of of spots, kicked off by Joe's Ole Ole, where they seated a guy in a chair and obliterated him. There was a great three way spot where Danielson monkey flipped Styles into a huracanrana on Joe. Danielson applied the Cattle Mutilation to Styles and superplexed Joe, before Joe choked him out at 10:42. Styles and Joe proceeded to beat the hell out of each other. Styles escaped from the musclebuster and tried for the Clash, but he couldn't get Joe up. A second try failed as well. With the crowd chanting "A J," the third time was the charm. The crowd let out one final explosive pop. Williams spoiled the moment with a Canadian Destroyer on Styles. When Styles recovered, he said he was going to break the @#@#%*'s neck. Rotten put Styles over huge, comparing him to Petty as one of the all around nicest guys in the business. Styles thanked the crowd to close the show. NOTES: The return date for 10/23 with Rhodes & Rotten vs. Candido & Stone and Cannon vs. Styles will be part of quadruple shot including 10/20 Bloomington, 10/21 Evansville and 10/22 Lafayette (Strong Style tournament)…The TPI will be available on videotape and DVD through Smart Mark.

BJ Whitmer won a 7-man elimination match, and the finals are on right now.

AJ Styles defeated Arik Cannon to advance in the tournament... and NOT Win the title. Cannon didn't put it on the line. Danielson over Quack. The finals are Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson vs. AJ Styles. It was announced for the 8th Anniversary, Arik Cannon vs. AJ Styles for the title.

Samoa Joe defeated Rainman, he is the first participant in the finals. THE WILDCARDS~! won the IWA Tag Team Titles pinning Tank after the old Quebecer's Cannonball.

Can someone PLEASE post the text from the Jake Roberts interview from the Heroes PPV?

I believe Animal no sold a tombstone from Kane back in 1997 when he just debuted, and they were making him into a big monster.

Mike Quackenbush d. Nate Webb American Dragon d. CM Punk That gives us semifinals of: Samoe Joe vs. Rainman Arik Cannon vs. AJ Styles Mike Quackenbush vs. American Dragon Have to say that it's sort of a surprise to have Quack and Rainman in that final six, but it sure looks like a Joe vs. Cannon vs. Dragon finals to me right now. I guess we'll see!

Ms. Chif won a women's match, and Arik Cannon beat Petey Williams to win the IWA title. I wonder if he'll make it through the rest of the tournament as champ?

Another report: "And I thought the Evansville show was hot. IWA Mid-South presented a killer night one of the 2004 Ted Petty Invitational at the Lincoln Center in Highland, In. I'm thinking it made my all time list of live events. CM Punk vs. Austin Aries, Samoa Joe vs. Roderick Strong and Chris Hero vs. Mike Quackenbush were all amazing, and each in a different way. The crowd of 300 saw a show that blew away last year's first night, which was an excellent show in its own right. Ian Rotten opened the show with the announcement that the King of the Death Match Tournament wasn't dead after all. Rotten said that the 2005 tournament will take place at Korakuen Hall in conjunction with Big Japan Wrestling. Rotten did a nice tribute to Ted Petty and asked for a moment of silence. (1) Mercedes Martinez beat Lacey to win the IWA Mid-South Women's Title in 11:07. The crowd had fun with this match, enjoying it for what it was. Back and forth pin attempt early. Martinez's shoulder got rammed into post. From there, it was Lacey going after the injured arm, and Martinez making babyface comebacks with crabs and leglocks. Martinez applied an excruciating crossed-legged submission, and Lacey was in too much pain to get her shoulders off the mat. Dave Prazak introduced the 24 man tournament field. Fans chanted for Super Dragon, A. J. Styles, Chris Sabin, Hero, Punk and Joe. Prazak announced that any westler involved in outside interference during a tournament match would be subject to a one-year suspension from IWA Mid-South. (2) Matt Sydal beat Salvatore Rinauro in 9:36. Rinauro got the "faggot" chant. Sydal popped the crowd with a tope over the top. Rinauro used Azrael's Ted Bundy move (vertical suplex dropped into a uranage). They were both left hanging upside down after a battle on the middle rope. Sydal did a standing moonsault off Rinauro's back for a close two count. Sydal escaped from the Phoenix Fury Legdrop and won it with an overhead belly to belly superplex. Crowd chanted for Sydal. (3) Nate Webb beat Hallowicked in 8:44. The crowd treated this like the winner was a forgone conclusion. Hallowicked has some skills, once you get past his awkward Igor like movements. The gimmick draws from both Shark Boy and Delirious. Webb went for one too many Nebraskan Tumbleweed. Hallowicked punished Webb in the tree of woe. Webb turned Hallowicked inside out with a clothesline. Hallowicked showed good explosiveness on his flying headscissors. Hallowicked dropped Webb on his head with a german. Hallowicked got too flippy for his own good, and Webb finished him with Soylent Green. (4) Rainman pinned Chris Sabin in 10 minutes. A battle of contrasting styles. Sabin went with the air game wrestle and Rainman wanted to brawl to set up his signature power moves. Rainman hit the Spinesplitta for a near fall. Sabin came back with a pair of enzuigiris to put "the Soul Assassin" on the deck. Sabin nailed a springboard missile dropkick and hit a tiger suplex for a near fall. It was the night for the Wildside guys to borrow each other's moves, as Rainman used Seth Delay's Kool Krusher. Sabin used a wicked cradle piledriver variation (ala Kevin Steen). Rainman applied the Hillside Strangla but Sabin made the ropes. Rainman hit a pumphandle Michinoku Driver (Rinauro's finisher) for the upset victory. Crowd was obviously surprised to see Sabin out of the tournament but showed respect for Rainman's ability. (5) CM Punk beat Austin Aries in 16:46. Damn, this was hot. Easily the best match of the first half of the opening round. Two great performances. The crowd was the third star of the match with vocal factions pulling hard for each guy. The stiffness quotient was way up from anything up until this point. Aries stepped on Punk's mouth HARD. At 4:00, Punk hit a Tope Suicida. Aries freaking clobbered Punk's ass and hit a corkscrew pescado. Aries chopped the post. Punk rammed his knee into the post when Aries ducked a shining wizard. Aries destroyed Punk's knee, at one point using a knee DDT. Punk hit a shining wizard that did more damage to his knee. Punk rolled through on Aries' flying bodypress and hit a german suplex with a bridge. Aries missed on a 450. Great false finishes here, Punk with a hammerlock lariat and Aries with a top rope brainbuster. Aries teased a Pepsi Plunge before Punk caught him with a reverse Pepsi Plunge to score the pin. This match jumped the intensity level of the show up bigtme. (6) Danny Daniels pinned Todd Sexton in 10:56. Daniels was all over Sexton early. Sexton finally ran Daniels to the ropes to shake him off. Sexton went to work on Daniels' knee with dropkicks to set up the sharpshooter. Daniels answered with a double stomp into a senton backsplash. Daniels hit a huracanrana from the top, but Sexton came back with an ankle lock. Daniels hit a tombstone piledriver for a great near fall. Sexton got the sharpshooter locked in good and tight, but Daniels was able to reverse it into the Walls. Daniels dropped Sexton on his head with the Rubix Cube. Strong pop for the finish. B.J. Whitmer gave Daniels an exploder suplex into the first row of seats in the postmatch. Fans chanted "die, Whitmer, die." (7) Jimmy Jacobs beat Delirious in a Ladder Match to win the IWA Mid-South Lightweight Title in 15:56. It didn't take long to get the ladder involved. Delirious gave Jacobs a flapjack onto the ladder at ringside. Delirious dropkicked the ladder with Jacobs standing inside of it. Jacobs took advantage of his small stature, executing offensive moves while standing inside the ladder. They each pulled out spikes. Delirious lost his spike taking a bump. Jacobs drove his spike through Delirious' mask and Delirious was busted open. Very effective use of blood to heighten the drama of the match. Delirious came back with Shadows Over Hell off the top of the ladder. Delirious taped Jacobs to the ropes and climbed, but Jacobs used the spike to free himself and knock Jacobs off the ladder. In the tightrope-without-a-net spot of the night, Jacobs set Delirious up on a table at ringside and tried to dive off the top of the ladder, but he slipped on the launch, and impaled himself on the top rope. It could have been so much worse. Jacobs put Delirious through the table with a cannonball senton off the top. Jacobs had the belt in his grasp when Delirious missile dropkicked the ladder out from under him. Jacobs hung onto the bungee cord that was attached to the ceiling and dropped to the mat with belt in hand. Great finish. (8) Mike Quackenbush beat Chris Hero in 16:35. The crowd loved this match. This was billed as a battle of Chikara Wrestling Factory co-trainers. Both of them were treated like deities by the crowd, not that they didn't deserve it. They worked a slew of intricate arm reversals. Quackenbush went lucha style, which was a smart way to minimize the size difference. Hero hit a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and used his size to control Quackenbush on the mat. Quackenbush came back with some great submissions. Hero did the coolest hammerlock superplex ever. Quackenbush did a outside/inside tornado DDT. Hero hit the cravate suplex. The finishing sequence was back and forth reversals building to a cradle pin. Mega pop for the finish. Rotten announced that Hero was leaving for his first tour of Japan in the morning. Rotten said was sending their best guy to represent the best promotion in the US. Rotten said the handful of fans that heckled Hero had to be true assholes not to appreciate his talent. (9) A. J. Styles beat Jimmy Rave 12:45. This was another very good match. Rave worked heel. Rave tried to work for the cross ambreaker. Styles got pissed and tried to rip Rave's arm off. At 4 minutes, Styles suplexed Rave into the turnbuckles. Styles went with dropkicks. Rave responded with a rabbit lariat and a baseball slide to the nuts. Rave got the crossarmbreaker and Styles made the ropes. Style worked on Rave's neck. With Rave straddling the top rope, Styles nailed a flying roundhouse to the temple. Styles went high impact. Rave came back with Dusk Till Dawn. Styles submitted Rave with a kneeling Mutalock. (10) Samoa Joe beat Roderick Strong in 14:20. A strong style classic. Stiff, stiff, stiff. Joe was ridiculously over with the crowd. Strong earned ther respect by taking everything Joe could dish out. Joe got the best of an exchange that was stiff beyond belief. Both of their chests were beet red. Joe tried to cave Strong's chest in with kicks. Fans chanted "Joe is going to kill you." Joe busted Strong's mouth open with a face wash sequence. Joe hit a tope suicida. Just when it looked like Strong was dead meat, he countered the Ole Ole with a sidewalk slam on a chair. Strong pulled off some power moves that showed he's one deceivingly strong dude. Joe did a powerbomb into a crab into an STF into a crossface. Joe dropped Strong on his head a couple of times. The finish saw Joe take Strong's face off with a kick and hit a musclebuster from hell. The fans exploded with in "IWA" chant. They shook hands and the fans chanted for both men. (11) Nigel McGuinness submitted Claudio Castagnoli with a Rings of Saturn in 13:30. Lots of European style. I like Castagnoli as a heel. He got heat hurling insults in German. McGuinness outwrestled Castagnoli and did a slow burn about his cheating. Castagnoli double crossed McGuinness on a handshake. Castagnoli took McGuinness to the mat with a cobra clutch and a Crippler Crossface, but McGuinness made the ropes. McGuinness befuddled Castagnoli with a headstand on the turnbuckles. McGuinness blocked Castagnoli's submission and stretched him on the mat to set him up for the tap out. (12) Brian Danielson beat Alex Shelley (14:43). Great stuff. They went back and forth with variations on a Nirvana Strangle. Shelley emptied his nostrils on Danielson. Shelley got the Border City Stretch but Danielson quickly made the ropes. Shelley hit a lariat backbreaker. Danielson rocked Shelly with European uppercuts and returned the favor with the snot blowing. Danielson tortured Shelley with a surfboard dragon sleeper. Shelley put Danielson's head between his knees and hammered it into the mat. Danielson hit his awesome superplex. The key spot was Danielson doing a 30 revolution airplane spin that left both men dazed and confused. Danielson tried for the Cattle Mutilation and Shelley reversed it into the BCS, before Danielson got him with a backslide. Danielson was so dizzy that he headed in the wrong direction after the match. Shelley stopped to hurl on his way to the back. (13) Arik Cannon beat Super Dragon with a shining wizard in 13:45. Good match, especially if you like stiff strikes and head drops. Tremendous response for Dragon's entrance. This was his first visit to Highland. Cannon looked quicker than Dragon on the mat. Dragon gave Cannon a curb stop. The fans called for an encore and Dragon obliged. The crowd was marking out for just about everything Dragon did in this match. Cannon came back with a curb stop of his own, so Dragon gave him one more. Cannon suplexed Dragon into the turnbuckles to take over. Cannon used a cravate surfboard. Cannon missed with a cannonball senton, and Dragon DESTROYED him with a barrage of strikes. Dragon did an ungodly top rope double stomp to the back of Dragon's neck. Cannon knocked Dragon out of the ring with a shining wizard but couldn't get the three. Cannon dropped Dragon on his head a couple of times to set up another wizard. (14) Petey Williams beat B. J. Whitmer (with Jim Fannin) to retain the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Title in 12:58. Fannin did his best to provoke a fan into a physical altercation prior to the match. Fannin ordered the ref to ring the bell. Williams ran in through the front door to schoolboy Whitmer, and it was almost over before it started. Williams was the aggressor. He hit a slingshot huracanrana that ruled. Whitmer came back with a spinebuster and beat Petey up. Some sick thudding soccer kicks here. Williams did a cool flying crucifix slam. Whitmer tried to choke Williams out. Whitmer blocked the Destroyer and hit an exploder suplex for a near fall. Williams got the sharpshooter but couldn't close the deal. Williams tried for a Super Canadian Destroyer. No go, thank God. Williams blocked another exploder and hit the Canadian Destroyer standard for the pin. Daniels had to be restrained from going after Whitmer in the postmatch. NOTES: The brackets for tonight are as follows: 1) Williams vs. Cannon, Styles vs. Sydal 2) Punk vs. Danielson, Quackenbush vs. Webb 3) Joe vs. McGuinness, Rainman vs. Daniels The survivors advance to a three way dance finale to determine the tournament champion. Also on the card are Brad Bradley & Ryan Boz vs. Tank & Iceberg vs. Eddie Kingston & Blackjack Marciano for the IWA Midsouth Tag Titles, a 6 way women's match and STILL MORE. There are 41, count 'em, 41 wrestlers booked…Rotten announced that the promotion was setting up tour packages for the 2005 KOTDM in Tokyo.

From the CZWfans board: "Here's a really good review with some more detail, I stole it from Lipinski at DVDVR: IWA Mid South, TPI (Ted Petty Invitational) Tournament, 250 people (I think they were hoping for 300) in Highland, Indiana -Show began with an announcement that the King of the Death Match will be back in 2005 but in Japan, in affiliation with Big Japan Pro Wrestling at the Korakuen Hall in Japan in October of 2005. IWA will be sending many wrestlers (Chris Hero, Delerious are going next week), they're going to offer travel packages to get as many people there as possible..more on this later as Ian Rotten will be on the PPH shortly...he also said IWA will give a trip away for a lucky fan as they can enter a SWEEPSTAKES~! with every IWA piece of merch they buy at shows...he also said "I'm the one who booked four shows in one week like a dumbass" 1. Mercades Martinez defeated Lacy at 11:07 with a pinfall as Mercades had Lacy in a leg submission to win the IWA Mid-South/NWA Midwest Women's Title 2. TPI: Matt Sydal defeated Salvatore Rinauro in 9:36 with a "moonplex" belly to belly off the top rope where he ends up on top of the guy in a pinning combination, outstanding match, Sydal is very impressive. 3. TPI: Nate Webb defeated Hallowicked in 8:43 with a Soylent Green #2 4. TPI: Rainman upset Chris Sabin at 10:16 with a pumphandle driver, very good match 5. TPI: CM Punk defeated Austin Aries in the second best match of the night at 16:46 with the pepsi plunge off the second rope. Just an awesome back and forth match, many two counts, as Aries worked on Punks leg after he hit the ring post with a shining wizard. I was thinking upset, but it didn't happen. An awesome match. 6. TPI: Danny Daniels Baby (his name is danny daniels but during his match he says the word baby at least a 1,000 times) defeated Todd Sexton at 10:55 with an electric chair into a rollup. After the match former tag partner BJ Whitmer attacked Daniels and gave him an exploder into two rows of chairs 7. In a ladder match for the Vacant IWA Light Heavyweight Title Jimmy Jacobs defeated DELIRIOUS in 16:42 when Jacobs grabbed the belt as Delirious hit a dropkick off the front row. Jacobs was hanging but grabbed the belt and fell down. Very good match for a number of resons. Jacobs used two spikes (long nails) to rip apart Delirious' mask (yes, it would have been a DQ in Arena Mexico) and Delirious bladed very nicley. Lots of good back and forth. Two negatives: 1. only one ladder, and the ref needed to balance it out each time by putting a foot on one side to keep it down 2. they did a table spot, IWA tables are usually very hard wood (only the best) and as jacobs tried to get off the ladder he hit the top rope and took a super nasty bump.. 8. TPI: Mike Quakenbush defeated Chris Hero in 17:37 with a rollup. There were about 25 armbreakers in this match...yes, it went over well at times it wasn't like wrestling but more like a dance! 9. TPI: AJ Styles defeated Jimmy Rave in 12:41 with an awesome bow and arrow submission where the opponent has his body upright and AJ cranked back on the head with both hands...it was awesome 10. TPI: In the match of the night: Samoa Joe defeated Roderick Strong in 14:18 with a muscle buster. Wow, this was what great strong style wrestling is all about. Joe makes everything look so believable and Strong had plenty of great moments. On two occasions the crowd was on their feet believing the upset was going to happen. This was incredibly brutal, and amazing. Strong looked amazing here, joe is the f***** man. Strong went toe for toe and deserves a push as he was the bomb here. 11. TPI: Nigel McGuinness defeated Claudio Castagnoli (a rich european) in 13:31 with an arm submission...nothing could follow that last match...nothing. 12. TPI: American Dragon defeated Alex Shelley in 14:41 with a backslide after Shelley escaped the Cattle Mutalation, hit the crossface of Jado, I mean Shelley, and Dragon reversed it with the backslide. Good match. Dragon did a 28 count airplane spin, which was sweet. 13. TPI: Arik Cannon defeated Super Dragon in 13:43 with a shining enzugiri, another super stiff match. Crowd was hot for this as they were for most things. Nothing beats a KILL KILL KILL chant. 14. TPI: Petey Williams defeated BJ Whitmer in 12:48 with the Canadian Destroyer to retain the IWA Mid South Heavyweight Title (Show lasted from 7:40-12:45ish) Matches for Saturday 1. TPI/IWA Mid South Heavyweight Title (is defended in every match with the champion) Petey Williams vs Arik Cannon 2. TPI: AJ Styles vs Matt Sydal 3. TPI: CM Punk vs American Dragon 4. TPI: Mike Quakenbush vs. Nate Webb 5. TPI: Rainman vs. Danny Daniels Baby 6. TPI: Samoa Joe vs. Nigel McGuinness 7. TPI (IWA Mid South Title): Winner of #1 (Williams/Cannon) vs. Winner of #2 (Styles/Sydal) 8. TPI: Winner of #3 (Punk/Dragon) vs. Winner of #4 (Quakenbush/Webb) 9. TPI: Winner of #5 (Rainman/Daniels Baby) vs. Winner of #6 (Joe/McGuinness) 10. Three-Way IWA World Tag Team Title Match: Bradley & Boz vs. Wild Cards vs. Tank & Iceberg 11. Non-Sanctioned/Falls Count Anywhere/Anything Goes Ian Rotten vs. Steve Stone 12. IWA Women's Division Six-Way Special Attraction Lacy vs. MSCHIF~! vs. Mercades Martinez vs Daizee Haze vs Rain vs Mickie Knuckles 13. Scramble Match (with the losers of the first round) 14. TPI Finals (3 way dance) "

Remember that shit? After pay per view matches people would be on the Superstar Line to talk about their matches. Was it 1-900, I'm assuming? Did anyone ever call it?

Definitely didn't predict a Cannon heel group forming, especially with Dragon in it. Weird. Show sounds good though.

Looks like a pretty good show, no surprise from IWA-MS. I'm sure the shows will get better and better as the weeks go on. I'll definitely be buying this one though, especially for Dragon/Hero.