IWA-MS 5/7/05 results

[JoeDirt 0]

IWA Mid-South Wrestling, in association with NWA Midwest, returned to the Park District Rec Center in Midlothian, IL on Friday night, 5/6. Here's what went down...

 

DAVE PRAZAK and CM PUNK opened the show. Prazak explained to the fans that the IWA World Heavyweight Title, Light Heavyweight Title, and World Tag Team Titles would be defended on the card. Ten wrestlers would participate in a battle royal to determine who would get the World Title shot at JIMMY JACOBS later in the night, with the order of elimination from the royal determining the undercard matches. PUNK would also challenge DELIRIOUS for the Light Heavyweight Title, and a three team tag match would determine which of three teams would get the shot at TRIK DAVIS & RYAN BOZ. Punk shared his memories of CHRIS CANDIDO with the fans of Midlothian, pointing out that he was originally scheduled to wrestle Chris on the show for Candido's NWA Midwest Heavyweight Title. Punk dedicated his match against Delirious to Candido, and the bell was rung ten times in his honor.

 

1. JOSH ABERCROMBIE won the ten man battle royal to earn a shot at JIMMY JACOBS. Abercrombie and DANNY DANIELS were the final two participants in the battle royal. Jacobs left the commentary table and approached the ring, getting involved to cost Daniels (who has never gotten a rematch since losing the belt to Jacobs) the title shot. Jacobs, dressed in a suit, then attacked Abercrombie and said the title match would begin immediately.

 

2. JIMMY JACOBS def. JOSH ABERCROMBIE to retain the IWA World Heavyweight Title following a low blow while the referee was out of position.

 

3. TYLER BLACK def. MATT SYDAL after Matt attempted a shooting star press, Black moved, and as Sydal landed on his feet, Black rolled him up for the three count. Black focused on the bad knee of Sydal for the duration of the match. After the victory, Black asked that the next time they meet, Matt put his NWA Midwest X Division Title on the line.

 

4. MARCO "Stylz" CORDOVA def. "The Human Rulebook" CHANDLER McCLURE to retain the NWA Illinois State Title. During the closing moments of the bout, JIM FANNIN and "Metalhead" STEVE STONE hit the ring on McClure. Fannin took the microphone and announced that since IAN ROTTEN is still on a European tour, he's in charge, and ordered that the referee put the Cordova/McClure match on "pause," and turn the match into McClure vs. Stone. Stone quickly scored the pinfall, followed by Cordova's match becoming "un-paused," and Cordova also scoring a fall on McClure. Such tomfoolery on the part of Fannin and Stone will no doubt be met with much protest when Ian returns to the country.

 

5. "The Iron Saints" VITO & SAL THOMASELLI def. "Underwear Model" ERIC PRIEST & SILAS YOUNG and BRANDON THOMASELLI & MAREK BRAVE in a three team Texas Tornado style falls count anywhere tag team match to earn a Tag Team Title shot.

 

6. TRIK DAVIS & RYAN BOZ def. "The Iron Saints" VITO & SAL THOMASELLI in a Texas Tornado style tag team match to retain the IWA World Tag Team Titles.

 

7. DANNY DANIELS def. "Fast" EDDIE VEGAS following a butterfly piledriver.

 

8. CHAD COLLYER def. TRACY SMOTHERS & "Outlaw" BILLY GUNN in a three-way bout.

 

9. DELIRIOUS def. CM PUNK in just over thirty minutes to retain the IWA Light Heavyweight Title. The two battled to a thirty minute time limit draw, just as punk had Delirious locked in the Anaconda Vise. After the match, both Punk and Delirious asked for five more minutes, and Punk asked the crowd "Would Candido want five more?" The bell rang once again to begin the overtime period. Delirious quickly went for a sunset flip on Punk, pulling the back of Punk's tights down on the way over, and scored the pinfall.

 

NOTES: The event was filmed with two cameras by Smart Mark Video for home video release, with commentary by Dave Prazak, CM Punk, and Trik Davis... It was announced to the crowd that IWA-MS management has yet to confirm a new venue for the scheduled 5/28 date for "No Blood, No Guts, No Glory 2005." If a venue cannot be locked in within the early part of this coming week, an announcement will be made on the web site concerning a new date for the event (likely 6/18 at the Hammond Armory if that is the case).

 

NWA Midwest will present an event on Saturday night, 5/7, at the Park District Rec Center in Streamwood, IL with the proceeds going to the Chris Candido Scholarship Fund. Visit www.midwestwrestling.com for more information on the show.

 

IWA-MS returns to action on 5/20 in Salem, IN at the Armory, and 5/21 in Vincennes, IN at the Armory. We're back at the Armory in Valparaiso, IN on 5/27.

 

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[Youth N Asia 0]

Nice to see D get a good win over Punk. And Jimmy can't be a heel...he's so little, and non threatening.

[Cuban Linx 0]

30+ minutes of Delirious/Punk is good with me.

[Guest Evolution]

The battle royal was a good way to start things off as the crowd was very pro-Daniels, and it showed when the crowd reaction was a little less than great for Abercrombie/Jacobs.

 

Black/Sydal was a pretty sound match with a surprising finish.

 

Cordova/McClure was fine as the crowd didn't care for Cordova and Fast Eddie the most out of all men tonight.

 

The three-way tag was pretty brutal, as it went everywhere in the building as Marek took the brunt of the punishment, getting German suplexed INTO THE WALL, and then coming back into the ring to take a pendulum stomp from the Saints to give them the win and bust open Marek's chin hardway.

 

Davis/Boz vs. Saints was probably really cool outside, but I personally stayed inside because I didn't feel like fighting my way back to my seat. I've heard other reviews praise this, though, and all I know is that either Vito or Sal ended up with their ass bleeding hardway.

 

Daniels/Vegas was a pretty good standard face/heel match, as Vegas got to the crowd pretty quickly and the finish was very well done with Daniels totally killing Vegas with that butterfly piledriver to finish.

 

Collyer/Smothers/Gunn was a rather long three-way, but mostly because Smothers spent most of the pre-match trying to convince Collyer to "turn" on Gunn. Before you get on Tracy's back, he did offer Chad five bucks. The crowd was really into this, especially the smart marks who caught Smothers' kayfabe breaking lines.

 

Delirious/Punk was an awesome match that didn't feel nearly like 30 minutes. It started off with mostly comedy, but then Punk got serious, taking the role of "You ain't shit, kid!" with Delirious before Delirous got the surprise pin with the Candido ass spot. It was a surprise pin because I was expecting Punk to flop around for awhile ala Candido. But he saved that for after the match.

 

Overall, a very solid show with Cordova/McClure and Jacobs/Abercrombie being the two down spots for me, but the Tag Title match should be awesome on video.

[King Cucaracha 0]

My memory sucks...who's the Danny Daniels trainee again. I remember hearing he was pretty good, but the name escapes me. Looks a decent enough show anyway, although it'd be nice for Jimmy to win a match fairly.

[JoeDirt 0]

My memory sucks...who's the Danny Daniels trainee again. I remember hearing he was pretty good, but the name escapes me. Looks a decent enough show anyway, although it'd be nice for Jimmy to win a match fairly.

I think Tyler Black is the Daniels trainee.

[Guest Evolution]

Tyler Black and Marek Brave are both Daniels' trainees, which explains them frequently tagging and facing each other. Not that I'm bragging since they aren't big names, but I'm friends with both of them, so I know that they've BOTH been trained by Daniels, even though they knew plenty about the business and just had their psychology fine-tuned by Danny.