IWA-MS matches for 1/14 and 1/15

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Some matches were announced at the Tuesday night IWA-MS chat for the events coming up on Friday, 1/14 at the National Guard Armory in Vincennes, IN, and Saturday, 1/15 at the Lincoln Center in Highland, IN.

 

Here's what was announced for 1/14 Vincennes...

 

***Title Versus Title***

[iWA World Champion] CM PUNK vs. [NWA Midwest Champion] CHRIS CANDIDO

 

***IWA World Tag Team Title Match***

[Champions] EDDIE KINGSTON & BLACK JACK MARCIANO vs. VITO & SAL THOMASELLI

 

CHRIS HERO vs. "Double C" CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI

 

DELIRIOUS vs. BRANDON THOMASELLI

 

MERCEDES MARTINEZ vs. DAIZEE HAZE

 

Plus more matches to be announced

 

Already set for 1/15 Highland...

 

***Steel Cage/IWA World Tag Team Title Match***

[Champions] EDDIE KINGSTON & BLACK JACK MARCIANO vs. BRAD BRADLEY & RYAN BOZ

 

***No DQ or Countout/IWA Women's Title Match***

[Champion] MERCEDES MARTINEZ vs. MsCHIF

 

CORPORAL ROBINSON vs. NEW JACK

 

Plus CHRIS HERO, CHRIS CANDIDO, "The New Age Punisher" B-BOY, BRANDON THOMASELLI, "Double C" CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI, and more to be announced.

 

Also, the new date for Rensselaer will be Saturday, 1/29.

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1/14/05, Vincennes, IN:

 

Punk vs. Candido (IWA vs. NWA Midwest title vs. title)

Wildcards vs. Iron Saints (IWA tag team titles)

Thomaselli vs. Delirious

Hero vs. Double C

Sydal vs. Nigel

Mercedes Martinez vs. Daizee Haze

 

Plus Jimmy Jacobs, Josh Abercrombie, and more

 

1/15/05, Highland, IN

 

Wildcards vs. Boz/Bradley (cage match for tag titles)

Corporal Robinson vs. New Jack

Mercedes Martinez vs. MsChif

Chris Candido vs. Danny Daniels (titles on the line if Candido wins 1/14)

Jimmy Jacobs vs. Claudio Castagnoli

Petey Williams vs. Chad Collyer

Brandon Thomaselli vs. Josh Abercrombie

Chris Hero vs. Trik Davis

 

Plus Steve Stone, Chandler McClure, Iron Saints, Eric Priest, Larry Sweeney, and Silas Young.

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Looks like we might finally see a climax in the Chris Hero Highland losing streak, losing to Trik Davis is about the bottom of the barrel, if Chris Hero finally snapping doesn't happen here it might never happen.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Nah, I see Trik winning personally. He beat Steve Stone last time out (or, I think last time) and I don't see this going anywhere except Hero finding an 'aggresive streak' and turning heel.

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When did Punk win the IWA Title? Show name and date please.

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The 1/14 Vincennes show was cancelled due to flooding in the area.

 

Punk won the title at the anniversary show, which I believe was 10/23/04.

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8th Anniversary Show, 10/23/04 in Highland.

 

EDIT: Beaten to it.

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IWA Mid-South, in association with NWA Midwest, returned to the Lincoln Center in Highland, IN on Saturday night, January 15th. Here's what went down...

 

1. "The Iron Saints" VITO & SAL THOMASELLI def. "Underwear Model" ERIC PRIEST & SILAS YOUNG with a double team maneuver where Young was held in the pendulum and hit with a double stop to the back of the head off the top rope.

 

"The King of Diamonds" EDDIE KINGSTON interrupted some announcements by DAVE PRAZAK, and informed the fans that his partner BLACK JACK MARCIANO is on the shelf with a leg injury for the next several months and would not be able to defend the IWA World Tag Team Titles in the cage later in the night. Kingston asked that he be permitted to substitute a third man into the championship team to defend the titles. Prazak agreed to it, but only if BRAD BRADLEY & RYAN BOZ had the option of substituting a third man into the match on their team if they so choose (for instance, if they wanted to surprise Kingston's team by making the match against Bradley and NEW JACK, they'd have the ability to throw him into the match as a substitute). Kingston then introduced his new manager JIM FANNIN, who brought "Metalhead" STEVE STONE out with him and announced that Stone would be Kingston's partner in the cage.

 

2. "The Human Rulebook" CHANDLER McCLURE def. DYSFUNCTION & BRAD MARTIN when McClure hit the Touchdown on Dysfunction for the victory. McClure had JIM FANNIN in his corner, as he attempts to prove himself to Fannin and earn a spot in the Family.

 

3. PETEY WILLIAMS def. CHAD COLLYER via submission with the Sharpshooter. Williams attempted several times to hit the Canadian Destroyer, but was unsuccessful. Collyer was able to lock in the Collyer Cloverleaf but couldn't keep it on Williams. Petey focused on Collyer's leg in the final moments of the match, setting him up for the Sharpshooter.

 

4. GOLDEN VAMPIRE XIII def. "Sweet & Sour" LARRY SWEENEY in Sweeney's Open Challenge match. Vampire accepted Sweeney's challenge and was unmasked roughly five minutes into the bout as "Wild Eyed Southern Boy" TRACY SMOTHERS! The Lincoln Center fans chanted "thirteen" in support of the Vampire, while a portion also got heavily behind Sweeney.

 

5. TRIK DAVIS def. CHRIS HERO with an inside cradle rolled out of a delayed vertical suplex attempt by Hero. The two chain wrestled in the early going of the match, until Hero grew frustrated that Davis was able to go hold for hold with him. Hero soon began to throw some hard strikes. The determination of Davis kept him going through the beating until he was able to roll Hero into an inside cradle for the pinfall.

 

6. BRAD BRADLEY & RYAN BOZ & TRIK DAVIS def. "King of Diamonds" EDDIE KINGSTON & "Metalhead" STEVE STONE in a Steel Cage Match to win the IWA World Tag Team Titles. Bradley and Boz made their way to the ring first, and Bradley was immediately jumped by Kingston and Stone on the floor before entering the cage, going to work on Bradley's arm. Once all four men were inside the cage, Fannin's team focused on the arm of Bradley, repeatedly driving it into the cage. Both Kingston and Boz were busted open from shots into the steel. Jim Fannin at ringside was able to undo the chain on the cage door to open it, and slammed the door on Bradley's arm twice. Several referees and security guards checked on Bradley's condition and rushed him out of the cage and back to the locker room, as the cage door was closed once again, leaving Boz to go it alone against Kingston and Stone. He did his best to fight off both men himself, but wound up on the receiving end of the beating. TRIK DAVIS soon left the commentary table and decided that if Bradley was out of the match due to injury, he would substitute himself as Boz's partner, and climbed to the top of the cage, diving on both Kingston and Stone. Trik fired up on both of his opponents before hitting a double stop off Boz's shoulders on Stone, setting up for Boz to score the pinfall and win the titles. Bradley, with his shoulder and arm bandaged up, made his way back to ringside, and celebrated in the cage with his partners as Fannin, Kingston, and Stone threw a fit on the ringside floor.

 

7. MsCHIF def. MICKIE KNUCKLES in a Submission Match with a modified version of the pendulum, with a chinlock applied rather than grabbing hold of the arms. Mickie tried to get a submission several times with the Muta Lock, while MsChif used a variety of holds all focusing on Mickie's back. Eventually her back took such a beating that she couldn't hold the bridge necessary to keep MsChif in the Muta Lock. MsChif soon hit the Desecrator, before locking Mickie in the modified pendulum for the win.

 

8. BRANDON THOMASELLI def. JOSH ABERCROMBIE with an Air Raid Crash off the second rope. This was a hard fought match by both men, which saw Brandon hit a corkscrew plancha to the floor, as well as his 450 splash during the course of the match. Abercrombie caught Thomaselli in the cobra clutch on several occasions, wearing him down while also mixing in some of his own high flying maneuvers. As Abercrombie was going up top to attempt the Phoenix Splash, Thomaselli stopped him on the turnbuckles and maneuvered him into position for the Air Raid Crash and the victory. Brandon's brothers VITO & SAL THOMASELLI came out to help him celebrate the victory, only to attack him, giving Brandon the double team pendulum/double stomp to the head off the top rope. Vito grabbed the mic and told Brandon that he made the wrong decision in choosing IWA Mid-South over NWA Wildside, and challenged him to find a partner for 2/12 in Highland and face them in a tag match. A groggy Brandon accepted the challenge.

 

9. JIMMY JACOBS def. "Double C" CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI with the Contra Code. Jacobs gave Claudio a nasty looking rana off the ring apron to the floor, driving Castagnoli to the floor head-first. Claudio got Jacobs in Swiss Sleeper Holding during the match, but was unable to put him away with the maneuver. He also delivered a devastating European uppercut after launching Jacobs into the air and connecting with the uppercut on Jacobs' way down.

 

10. CHRIS CANDIDO def. DANNY DANIELS via disqualification to retain the NWA Midwest Heavyweight Championship. Candido was accompanied to the ring by his manager JIM FANNIN. Daniels and Candido went back and forth for the first ten minutes of a mainly technical wrestling based match. During the closing moments, "Metalhead" STEVE STONE made his way to ringside, attempting to assist Candido in getting the victory, and taking turns with Fannin distracting referee TOMMY THOMPSON while tossing Candido a chain as well as the title belt. Ulimately Daniels gained possession of the chain and swung at Candido, inadvertenly striking Thompson and laying him out. Daniels was eventually able to hit the piledriver on Candido, and made the cover as second referee BRYCE REMSBURG hit the ring to count the fall and raise Daniels' hand as new champion. Thomson made his way back to his feet and reversed the decision, disqualifying Daniels for hitting him with the chain.

 

11. CORPORAL ROBINSON & NEW JACK def. JC BAILEY & 2 TUFF TONY in an Anything Goes impromptu tag team match after Jack came off the top rope with a chair on Tony. The match was originally scheduled to be Robinson vs. New Jack, but during Corp's pre-match mic work, Bailey and Tony hit the ring area and attacked Robinson, double teaming him with a chair. New Jack's music then kicked in and he came to Corp's aid. The four agreed to turn the bout into a Texas Tornado style tag team match. Several weapons, including a chained sickle and staple gun were used during the bout, which went all over the Lincoln Center and saw all four men busted open. Robinson hit the Boot Camp on Bailey before Jack came crashing down off the top with a chair to earn his team the victory.

 

NOTES: The event was filmed by Smart Mark Video for home video release, with commentary by Dave Prazak, Danny Daniels, Chris Hero, Eddie Kingston, Trik Davis, and Tracy Smothers... The live crowd was given updates about the IWA-MS wrestlers competing elsewhere during the show. IAN ROTTEN won the SCCW death match tournament out in California, while ARIEL won the NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Title on a NECW show in Framingham, MA, defeating MERCEDES MARTINEZ and HAYLEY SKYE in a three-way match. It was announced that IWA-MS management will bring ARIEL out as soon as possible to defend her newly won title... It was announced that SARA DEL RAY and "Cheerleader" MELISSA ANDERSON will make their IWA-MS debuts on the 2/11 & 2/12 double shot weekend... This was the largest live attendance at the Lincoln Center since the 2004 TPI tournament weekend. Thanks to all the fans who came out to see the event in person! We greatly appreciate your support.

 

IWA-MS returns to action next weekend with a double shot of events. Friday, 1/21 we're back in Bloomington, IN at the National Guard Armory, while Saturday, 1/22 we're back at the Valparaiso, IN National Guard Armory. The Valpo event will feature Delirious defending the IWA Light Heavyweight Title against Jimmy Jacobs in a Steel Cage Match, in addition to the eight man NWA Indiana State Title Tournament. Card information for Bloomington will be posted on the IWA-MS web site during the coming days.

 

We're back in Noblesville, IN on 1/28, and Rensselaer, IN on 1/29. IWA-MS co-promotes Muscatine, IA with NWA No Limits Wrestling on 2/5. The Vincennes, IN event which had to be postponded due to the floods in southern Indiana has been rescheduled for 2/11. We're back in Highland on 2/12. Mark your calendars!

 

Call the IWA-MS hotlines at 502-569-1701 in Louisville, 630-585-3958 in Chicago, and 317-579-3230 in Indianapolis.

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I have no clue how well it'll translate to tape, but that's the second best time I've had at a Highland show (TPI being number one).

 

The New Jack stuff was funny, but at the same time, you have to remember that IWA has to be out of that building by a certain time now, and I really doubt him doing basically stand-up comedy in the ring for no reason for a half-hour really made people happy.

 

I'm kind of disappointed that Brad "Freakin'" Martin was brought back in a really short three-way match, but eh, at least they fit him into the show. I hope he gets to come back and show his stuff; he was really great in his Lafayette match with CK3 back in July.

 

Golden Vampire XIII/Larry Sweeney was tremendous. First off, Sweeney wore either a tiara or the daintiest headband I've ever seen. It looked like he shat his pants when the GV came out. I don't think they locked up until five minutes into the match, but they got the most reaction that anyone that night had gotten. The look on Tracy's face when that mask came off is something I don't think I'll ever forget. Crowd goes crazy, Tracy comes back with some hand thrusts that only he can do, Sweeney misses the best flip legdrop of all time (he basically just rolled off of the top rope and landed on his ass), and Tracy hits the schoolboy for the win. Tracy then grabs the microphone and tells us what he did over the holidays, which makes him that much more awesome. It was great to be alive in Highland, Indiana.

 

The Trik Davis stuff must be seen. Between beating Hero and coming in out of nowhere and winning the cage match with Boz (hell, I was sitting on the bleachers right behind where Trik was doing commentary and even I had no clue he was going to do what he did), I think they made a star in Highland, Indiana out of Trik Davis last night. My throat is kind of hoarse today from marking out during the cage match. I just hope it translates well to tape, because at least in my opinion, it was one of the best moments in the fifteen month history of IWA in Highland. I'm thinking the next time he comes out in Highland, more fans will cheer over the Journey song he comes out to than will have cheered over any Journey song in two decades.

 

MsChif/Mickie was unfortunately disappointing (I wasn't there last month though I heard they didn't click too well). To me at least, it just seemed like a series of submission moves for the sake of a series of submission moves. Though I won't be there due to a Ben Folds concert five minutes from my house next month, I'm really looking forward to Del Ray & Melissa's debuts in Highland.

 

One thing I hope to erase from my memory as soon as possible is the image of Chris Candido wrestling bare-assed with a towel up his ass. That's just wrong.

 

I thought the continuation of the Vito & Sal Thomaselli/Brandon Thomaselli split from Wildside in IWA was pretty cool. It only made sense since Brandon turned on them at Wildside and logic's kind of cool. Wildside got pretty good heel heat for not having any representatives there other than the Thomasellis.

 

The New Jack match was...well, it was a New Jack match. People seemed to like it, so that's cool and all.

 

I'd say to get the tape/DVD/laserdisc/8-track/projector slideshow, even if just to re-live Golden Vampire XIII and "The Night of the Trik".

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Thanks for the review, you should post it at the IWA boards.

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I might.

 

Another funny note: when Martin was leaving after his match, he got a "Cory!" chant. I didn't think about it until after the chant ended, but he really does resemble Ben Savage, who played Cory Matthews on "Boy Meets World".

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The reason Mercedes couldn't make it to the 1/15 show was because of the weather, since she was back home (she lives in Massachusetts). There is a new IWA-MS Women's champion, as at the NECW show on 1/15 Mercedes Martinez lost the title in a Triple Threat match to Ariel (who sucks, and pretty much personifies the WWE Diva style of NOT KNOWING HOW TO FUCKING WRESTLE). The third woman in the match was Hayley Skye.

 

Mercedes carried both of those two talentless fucks.

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Well, I guess seeing what they did with Trik, turning Hero here wouldn't have been the best time. But I sure hope they pull the trigger on the (almost inevitable, surely) turn on the 12th, because it's getting to the point where Hero's matches are too predictable. Not to mention the fact he's losing to guys some way down the pecking order.

 

Not that they shouldn't put the new guys over. But until Hero turns, he's being booked to lose to these kids and he's coming off bad. When he turns and gets his 'edge', then it'll be all forgotten and this'll be a losing streak angle that might actually work.