IWS Freedom to Fight Preview - 05/24 - Boyer/Steen

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IWS Champion vs. IWS Champion at Freedom to Fight

 

It is possibly the biggest title match that the International Wrestling Syndicate has ever had.

 

Champion vs. Champion; Title vs. Title; Gold vs. Gold; Kevin Steen vs. Max Boyer.

 

Two men who have been butting heads and grinding egos - setting off sparks - will put everything up for grabs at IWS Freedom to Fight 2008: their title belts, their reputations and their self-respect will all be on the line and only one man will walk away the winner.

 

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IWS Freedom to Fight

Card – Quick & Dirty

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Bogey’s, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA

 

Main Event – IWS Title Match: IWS Champion Kevin Steen vs. IWS Canadian Champion Max Boyer

Title vs. Title – and there MUST be a Winner!

 

Grudge Match: The Green Phantom vs. “Paranoid” Jake Matthews

 

Beef Wellington vs. Jimmy K

 

Rock ‘N’ Roid Express (Twiggy and Franky the Mobster) with Santino Italiano vs. The Untouchables (Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone) with Samson

 

*****

 

Freedom to Fight Bloodstream

 

In this first ever "Special Edition" of Bloodstream, we focused solely on the main event for Freedom to Fight '08, IWS Canadian Champion - Max Boyer vs. IWS World Champion - Kevin Steen - Title vs. Title.

 

Hear comments from both men, as well as some of their peers in the IWS - on how they think it'll go down - as they make IWS history - on May 24, 2008.

 

 

 

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

 

Twiggy and Franky the Mobster, the IWS' resident odd couple and reigning Tag Team Champions, choose a rather appropriate name for their team.

 

 

 

EYE FOR AN EYE

 

Chronicling the recent events between the Green Phantom and "Paranoid" Jake Matthews.

 

 

 

 

UNSAFE WORKING ENVIRONMENT?

 

The Untouchables, Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone, explain their absence from last month's show.

 

 

*****

 

Freedom to Fight Detailed Preview

 

No one can argue with Kevin Steen’s list of achievements; the titles that he has won (IWS Title three times, EWR title twice, PWG title, PWG Tag-team title twice, CZW Ironman title); his ability to have great matches with the best opponents (Pierre Carl Ouellet, Christopher Daniels, A. J. Styles, Samoa Joe, Austin Aries, Steve Corino, Alex Shelley, Petey Williams, Super Dragon, Roderick Strong, Chris Hero, Mike Quackenbush, Necro Butcher, Davey Richards, Chris Sabin, Matt Sydal, Ian Rotten, Jerry Lynn, Morishima and others.); or his status in Quebec (named Quebec’s best wrestler three years in a row).

 

The only thing is…

 

And I preface this by saying that this is going to read like sour grapes, the whiny ranting of a man with an axe to grind. But as Max Boyer would tell you, sometimes the grapes are SOUR.

 

The fly doing the back stroke in Max Boyer’s soup right now, that splinter right below the skin, is that Max has fought his whole life for a fraction of the chances that Kevin Steen was handed on a golden platter. Or as Max bitterly puts it, “Kevin was born on third base and acts like he hit a triple!”

 

They both started the race in the same place: students of Jacques Rougeau Jr. Max was the better student, the harder worker, the more complete athlete, but Kevin Steen was Jacques’ Golden Boy. Things didn’t change much in the IWS. Kevin’s first match in the IWS was against a man that many consider Quebec’s best pure wrestler: EXesS. Within less than a year, Kevin Steen was head-lining the IWS at the Medley (always the biggest IWS show of the year) and shortly after that, Kevin was IWS champion.

 

When Max came to the IWS, was he handed a match against the promotion’s best wrestler? No, he was shoe-horned into a try-out match with five rookies. Was he promoted to the main event once he showed how good he was? No, he was saddled with being one of Fred la Merveille’s goons. When Max killed himself in a 2005 Season’s Beatings Christmas match against Viking, he made Viking a star, but while Viking soared into the IWS main event and the IWS title, Max was left behind - mired in the IWS mid-card.

 

Hell, six days after delivering that painful star turn, Max proved that he deserved to be considered amongst the province’s elite when he fought (and WON) a pitched battle against Quebec’s best wrestler… Kevin Steen.

 

Inter-Species Wrestling Holiday Special, Dec 9, 2005, Valleyfield Quebec, wrestling trivia fans!

 

The man who lost that match, Kevin Steen, toured the world; the man who beat him, Max Boyer, was left behind, again.

 

It has taken two and a half years of training, of toil, of victory after victory for Max Boyer to prove that he deserves another shot at a man that he beat the only time that they ever wrestled!

 

So, next Saturday, Kevin Steen, the man who makes his living rising to the occasion will be given another chance to come up big in a big match against a great opponent. And for Max Boyer, there is nothing at stake - nothing except to prove once and for all, Une Fois Pour Toute!, that he is the better wrestler, the better champion and the better man.

 

Champion vs. Champion; Title vs. Title; Gold vs. Gold; Steen vs. Boyer and there has to be a winner.

 

*****

 

There’s not really much else going on next Saturday, except – oh yeah – the two mastodons of the IWS will clash, as your Hardcore Hero, the Green Phantom will finally get his hands on “Paranoid” Jake Matthews, the man who attacked Phantom from behind last month with a shovel and stole the Phantom’s mask. Let’s be clear: Jake is CRAZY at the best of times, and the Phantom has never been the poster boy for Anger Management. If Jake’s plan was to drive the Phantom insane, well judging from the daily – sometimes hourly – e-mails, texts and phone calls that I have been getting from the Phantom, well Jake’s plan is working. Now why you would want to piss off the Phantom this much is one of those rhetorical questions that I am going to file under: “Jake is CRAZY”

 

On the other side of that scarred coin, one guy who is starting to make a lot of sense – and frankly, it is pissing me off – is the IWS’ most bitter man, Beef Wellington. After Jimmy K failed to show up for his scheduled title match against Kevin Steen at Scarred For Life because of a family emergency, Beef immediately demanded a match against the goth warrior, pissed beyond belief that Jimmy K would pass up the chance to fight for a belt that Beef has never been given a real chance to win.

 

Actually, I am not sure that Beef has even been given a chance recently to fight in a match to even qualify him for a title shot, which would help explain his crankiness.

 

Also scheduled to fight will be the trio of the Rock ‘N’ Roid Express, Twiggy and Franky the Mobster joined by Santino. Despite the presence on their team of Franky, one of Quebec’s best heavyweights, Twiggy, Franky and Santino will be seriously out-gunned by their opponents: The Untouchables’ Dan Paysan and Jimmy Stone joined by the bully Samson. The Untouchables will be looking to prove that they deserve a shot at the Rock ‘N’ Roid Express’ tag team titles, while Samson will just be looking for any kind of shot at anyone smaller than he is.

 

There will be other matches, but perhaps more important than that, I can announce that PCP Crazy F’N Manny, will be at Freedom to Fight to make a major announcement. Manny has been completely absent from the IWS offices since Kevin Steen beat him for the title in January at Praise the Violence.

 

Will Uncle Manny be flanked by the Sultans of Sycophancy, 2.0? I can confirm that Jagged and Shane Matthews will be at Freedom to Fight, also that they have been frustrated in their latest attempts to get yet another shot at the IWS tag team titles, largely because Manny has been MIA and no one else in the office will give them the time of day.

 

I am however required to mention that Shane and Jagged are at this very moment “Flying in first class on our way to sunny California where we will compete – NO! Where we will WIN PWG’s annual tag team tournament!”

 

I have no idea what Manny will be announcing, but we have already announced that the IWS will be doing an outdoor show as part of the Fringe Festival on Friday, June 20th (sponsored by City Styles and Adrenaline) and that we will be concluding our annual Summer of Violence with a show at the Medley on Saturday, September 27th. Look for more details soon!

 

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Freedom to Fight ticket special. Buy one VIP ticket (normal price $20) and the DVD for Violent Valentine 2008 (normal price $20) for just $30 for both. SAVE $10! E-mail [email protected] for details.

 

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The IWS presents: Freedom to Fight, Saturday, May 24th, 2008 at Bogey’s World Bar & Billiard, 3250 Cremazie Est (corner of Cremazie and St-Michel near the St-Michel metro), Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 pm, show starts at 9:00 pm, tickets are $20 for VIP, $15 for Regular. Or buy a copy of IWS Violent Valentine 2008 on DVD and a VIP ticket for just $30. 18+, card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [email protected] .

 

Adrenaline and City Styles present: The IWS @ the Fringe! featuring “Iron” Mike Paterson star of the hit Fringe play Macho Man vs. Predator, Friday, June 20th, 2008 near Parc des Ameriques on the corner of St-Laurent and Rachel, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Show is 4PM to 6PM, show is FREE and for ALL AGES, card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [email protected] .

 

Inter-Species Wrestling should be arrested for presenting Hot Summer RUB-DOWN, Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at Foufounes Electriques, 87 Ste-Catherine Est, (near the corner of Ste-Catherine and St-Laurent, near the St-Laurent metro) Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:00 pm, show starts at 8:00 pm, tickets are $15. 18+, card and times subject to change (we should be so lucky). For more information go to www.beyondthebarn.org or write to [email protected] .

 

The IWS presents: Summer Slaughter, Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at Bogey’s World Bar & Billiard, 3250 Cremazie Est (corner of Cremazie and St-Michel near the St-Michel metro), Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 pm, show starts at 9:00 pm, tickets are $20 for VIP, $15 for Regular. 18+, card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [email protected] .

 

The IWS presents: Hardcore Heat, Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at Bogey’s World Bar & Billiard, 3250 Cremazie Est (corner of Cremazie and St-Michel near the St-Michel metro), Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 pm, show starts at 9:00 pm, tickets are $20 for VIP, $15 for Regular. 18+, card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [email protected] .

 

The IWS proudly presents: Show Name TBA, Saturday, September 27th, at the beautiful, downtown Medley, 1170 St-Denis, near the Berri-UQAM Metro. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 9 PM. VIP tickets are $25, Regular tickets are $20. VIP ticket holders admitted first. No reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.ticketpro.ca or in person at the Medley box office. 18+. Card and times subject to change. For more information go to www.syndicatewrestling.com or e-mail [email protected] .

 

Our DVDs for each show are released through www.smartmarkvideo.com. Our biggest recent release is Un F’N Sanctioned 2007 featuring then NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage - http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/main/index.p...6b66a85q4734bui . Our best-selling DVD from last year is Un F’N Sanctioned 2006 featuring Sabu’s last match in the indies before his re-debut on Raw (two nights later) as well as the crazy hardcore Fans Bring the Weapons match - http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/main/index.p...;ref=iwsdvd0043

 

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IWS fans in Germany can now pick some of our best shows from a fed almost as crazy and blood-thirsty as us: wXw. With our permission, they are making available the following shows to German (and European) fans:

Un F’N Sanctioned 2003 Medley show

Un F’N Sanctioned 2005 Medley show

Un F’N Sanctioned 2006 Medley show

Un F’N Sanctioned 2007 Medley show

Blood, Sweat and Beers 2007 Medley show

Scarred for Life 2005 Steen vs. Damian

Blood, Sweat and Beers 2005 Steen vs. Damian II

Summer Slaughter 2007 Steen vs. Damian III

Hardcore Heat 2006 Steen vs. Viking

 

For more details contact: [email protected]

 

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Finally, the Film Festival that I run when I am not Manny’s slave, the YoungCuts Film Festival, is STILL accepting submissions:

http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=2008_YCFF

 

The YoungCuts Film Festival is the Premiere Showcase for Great Short Films from the Best Young Film Makers (generally 25 and under.)

 

To see some of the great films that have played at the Festival in the past go here:

http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=Film_Tour_Index