IWA-MS TPI Night two ongoing results

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From info received at the CZWfans board:

 

1) TJ McManus d. Billy McNeil and Thunderbolt in a 3-way debuts match

2) Jimmy Jacobs d. Sal Rinauro to retain the IWA-MS LHW title

3) Steve Stone and Ian Rotten went to a no-contest when Chris Candido returned. He and Steve Stone will now be known as the Dream Team. Iceberg made the save for Ian Rotten.

 

4) Rainman d. Danny Daniels to advance to the TPI semifinals

5) Samoa Joe d. Nigel McGuinness to advance to the TPI semifinals

 

6) Hallowicked, Jigsaw, and Larry Sweeney d. Trik Davis and Team FIST

 

7) AJ Styles d. Matt Sydal to advance to the TPI semifinals

 

Ian Rotten announced at the 8th anniversary, it'll be him teaming with Dusty Rhodes vs. The Dream Team. It's now intermission. Still a ton more to come.

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The Dream Team? Original...

 

How was AJ/Sydal? Better then there last two matches?

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Didn't expect Styles to beat Sydal three times in a row, but i guess they're still saving Sydal's big win over him for some down the line.

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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?

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Right now i'd expect Arik Cannon to make it all the way with the belt looking at who's left, he's the only real regular left, other than maybe Punk & Joe if they plan on sticking around full-time, and i don't think Punk will be making it to the finals anyway. Of course Cannon could also just be a dick and refuse to defend the title ensuring he stays the champ.

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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!

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Wow, the semis look awesome. Quack vs. AmDrag should be exspacular.

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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.

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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.

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Looks like i was right about Cannon not putting the belt on the line. Either way that is one LOADED final three-way, without a more 'home grown' IWA guy in the match really anyone could win it.

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

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Wow. I was totally expecting Cannon to win this thing.

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AJ Styles is your 2004 Ted Petty Invitational Champion. Samoa Joe choked out Bryan Danielson, and Styles scores the victory via a Styles Clash on Joe.

 

Also after the match Petey Williams turns heel as he gives AJ a Canadian Destroyer.

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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.

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That report is from Larry Goodman, who I met for the first time in person in Highland and is a heck of a nice guy.

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That report is from Larry Goodman, who I met for the first time in person in Highland and is a heck of a nice guy.

Whoops, forgot to give credit. My bad.

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I went to both nights, and they were great shows.

 

Strong vs Joe, Punk vs Aries, and Rave vs Styles were all just great matches from night 1. Anyone that skipped that and just went to the finals really missed out.

 

I don't think the crowd was pissed over the Joe and Rainman finish. They didn't come off that way.

 

Super Dragon got tons of love despite having a so-so match. And Ian said durring the Q&A that he wouldn't be back because he was "a dick."

 

I think the show's going to look great on tape cause the crowd was very hot. It's funny how they boo'd Cannon durring his match with Williams, but then all cheered when he set up the shinning wizard and won his match.

 

I don't like the idea of putting the 3 biggest names in the final. I thought they might do one big name; Styles or Joe, one homegrown guy; Webb or Cannon, and then one longshot; Sydal or Quack...crowd was way into Quack. And the final was hurt a tad cause it took AJ 3 times to get up Joe for the Styles Clash finish.

 

There was an incident with a fan in the 2nd or 3rd row yelling at Fannin after "The Charisma Machine" BJ Whitmer had his match. So BJ runs over and shoves the guy or something. So BJ was nowhere near the scene when it happened, but maybe thought "I can get heat this way." Then Ian basicaly comes out and tells him that he was dumb to leave his seat, when all he did was stand up. Then another guy stands up and says the guy did nothing wrong...so Ian yells at him for no reason. Which was more or less bullshit. And since it was an IWA crowd everyone sided with Ian. And Ian in the Q&A basicaly said the fans could yell and get up all they wanted...untill they stuck their heads into the ring...this guy was a couple rows back.

 

BJ's 7 way maych sucked anyway. It's stupid to have these guys work 10-20 minute matches the night before, and then have them all eminiate each other in just minutes.

 

Other then that bullshit it was a great 2 nights.

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so a.j one the tournament. guess i was right about the iwa.

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In what way? Care to expand on that at all, or just claim to be right because AJ Styles "one" a tournament.

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well i dont think that much of a.j in the ring anway. but thats not what really bugs me about it. see as crap as i believe styles to be in the ring hes one of the biggest names on the indie scene so he didnt really need to go over. plus jobbing your new champion in his first match with the belt and then having him claim the title wasnt on the line aftewards makes him look really weak and putsthe chances of his title reing being taken seriosly in jeoprady.

there i hope that ansews your question.

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What a fantastic weekend wrestling event. So, so many great matches over the course of two nights.

 

The first match of night two was basically a tryout match. Billy and CJ were recommended to Ian by Matt and Delirious. CJ is decent, Billy is pretty good although he didn't get to show a lot in the match.

 

Joe vs Strong, Aries vs Punk, Sydal vs Styles v3.0, Cannon winning the title...just a small portion of the greatness that was these two nights. This is the must-get tape of 2004.

 

But a couple of the negatives:

 

 

Didn't match the hype: Double C and Super Dragon. Saw absolutely nothing out of either one that would make me want to see them again.

 

The fan incident. Nothing I saw personally or have read since then demonstrates to me that Fannin or Whitmer had any right to physically go after a fan when all he was doing was talking shit to them. If you're a heel, I would think you'd want fans reacting to you by yelling. Fans shouldn't have to worry about being physically attacked for giving heels the reaction they are supposed to be drawing anyway. And Fannin did this both nights, although the incident on night one I didn't see as clearly because it was on the opposite side of the ring.

 

As far as Ian lecturing the fan..... I felt it was misdirected.

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If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, but I'll say it again: if you're a wrestler, a manager, or any kind of worker on a wrestling show, NEVER TOUCH THE FANS. Ever. I don't care if they yell at you. I don't care if they step over the piece of string or "imaginary line" that serves as a guardrail in many indy feds. I don't even care if they spit on you. Unless a fan actually attacks you and physically strikes you, you have no right whatsoever, either legally or morally, to "fight back" no matter how your honor has been impugned.

 

OK, other than that, sounded like a helluva show. Anyone else think it was weird that damn near half of the NWA-Wildside regular crew was up there on the same night that Wildside had a TV taping? I was at that taping Saturday night, and without Rainman, Sal, Tank, Iceberg, Sexton, and Rave (not to mention part-timers like Sydal, Delirious, and Styles) it felt a little bit like a skeleton crew, especially without good ol' Goodman reviewing the action like always. Weird how bookings go on the indy circuit sometime.

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cyber_mark- stop posting.

 

Rocky Romero once hit me on my hat once because I kept yelling at him to die and how I hated him. It was hilarious.

 

Sounds like an amazing show- I really want to see Nigel v. Joe.

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cyber_mark- stop posting.

 

Rocky Romero once hit me on my hat once because I kept yelling at him to die and how I hated him. It was hilarious.

 

Sounds like an amazing show- I really want to see Nigel v. Joe.

Nigle vs Joe was alright...but Strong vs Joe was the shit. That's the match to check out

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I personally thought Hero/Quack and Quack/Hero were better than Joe/Nigel (Strong/Joe was awesome in terms of what they went for, and the finals were just unreal).

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In case anyone cares, all four TPI week shows are out on www.smartmarkvideo.com.

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Oh, and from I've read now. The fan who stood up only did so cause BJ spit blood on the guy. Now yelling and even shoving the fans is one thing, but blood spitting is just vugar.

 

Get you heat in the ring and on the mic, BJ...if you can.

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Oh, and from I've read now. The fan who stood up only did so cause BJ spit blood on the guy. Now yelling and even shoving the fans is one thing, but blood spitting is just vugar.

You mean the guy in the NWO shirt?

 

He's lying out of his ass. I heard him there at that show, and he was defending the fan's right to stand up and do whatever they want except for getting in contact with a wrestler, I don't remember him saying a damn thing about being angry that BJ spit blood in the guy's face. If he was angered about that, it took him a long time to express his anger, since he didn't stand up until minutes after the initial incident had happened and Ian was already talking about fans and wrestlers.

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I think he means the fan who Fannin and Whitmer originally confronted on the opposite side of the ring. Whitmer spit the blood on that guy.

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I think he means the fan who Fannin and Whitmer originally confronted on the opposite side of the ring. Whitmer spit the blood on that guy.

Oh.

 

Yep, he sure did.