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IWA: No Limits Wrestling - Saturday, January 7th, 2006 in Muscatine, Iowa
Impressive turnout, around 150 or so. Before the show Ian Rotten came out to inform the crowd of two things - Tito Santana missed his connecting flight from Chicago and would not be here, and neither would Eddie Kingston, who had to tend to a family emergency. Rotten promised the fans that they would still get their Fans Bring the Weapons match, but now Rotten would face Corporal Robinson instead.
1. CJ Otis defeated Jaysin Strife by pinfall with a Burning Hammer. This was a good opening match with a lot of stiff strikes. Onis tried playing the bad guy but both men received a fair amount of cheers.
2. IWA-MS Tag Team Titles: Vito and Brandon Thomaselli (w/ Sal Thomaselli) defeated the Midwest Mafia... um... twice? The "first" match was relatively short, with Robert Anthony evidently getting pinned while applying a Mexican surfboard on Brandon. The Thomasellis agreed to restart the match and took over on offense. The Midwest Mafia made a good comeback (and received a good amount of cheers from the audience), but the Thomasellis would retain when Sal hit Tony Scarpone with his crutch, allowing the Thomasellis to hit a tandem pendulum/guillotine leg drop on Anthony for the victory.
3. Trik Davis defeated Bryce Benjamin by pinfall with a Complete Shot/Novacaine. A clean, short face vs. face match, with some nice chain wrestling.
4. Marek Brave defeated Josh Abercrombie (w/ Sal Thomaselli) with a reverse hurricanrana. My narrow pick for best match of the night saw Abercrombie trying to convince the referee that Brave was pulling his mustache. Brave pulled out a sweet running springboard moonsault on Abercrombie. Typical back-and-forth cruiserweight stuff, until Sal attempted to hold Brave so that Abercrombie could wail on him. Brave moved, causing Abercrombie to knock Sal off the apron. Brave then rolled up Abercrombie for a two count, before hitting the reverse rana to send us to intermission.
After the first intermission...
Team Underground (Eric Priest and Chandler McClure) came to the ring and cut a promo on the Thomasellis saying that while they didn't care whether the fans cheered or booed them, they did not approve of the Thomaselli brothers' cowardice and hyped an upcoming tag title match between the two teams in Midlothian, IL.
5. This was supposed to be Eric Priest vs. Larry Sweeney in a ICW/ICWA Tex-Arkana Television Title match, but since Sweeney objected to Priest having McClure in his corner, Sweeney announced the title would still be on the line, in a tag match? His partner? The Mississippi Madman! So now, the match was...
Team Underground defeated Larry Sweeney and the Mississippi Madman when Priest pinned Madman with a flying elbow. This was a fun comedy match, with Sweeney (who was blissfully unaware that his butt was showing the entire match) treating Madman like dirt. Madman attempted the Mississippisault but missed, allowing Team Underground to double team him for the victory. Since Priest scored the pin, he was initially awarded the title. Madman turned on Sweeney after the match. Sweeney then announced that due to a rule in the Tex-Arkana rulebook (which he has misplaced) stating the champion has to be pinned to lose the belt, he was still champion.
6. Title vs. Title: IWA-MS Light Heavyweight Champion Tyler Black defeated IWA-MS World Heavyweight Champion Jimmy Jacobs by disqualification. Jacobs flipped off the crowd when they tried to chant "Huss!" at him. Black played up his size advantage big time, but took the sickest bump early in the match. He attempted a tope suicida to the outside on Jacobs, but missed and BROKE a steel chair with his back and leg. Amazingly, he continued and didn't limp for very long. Jacobs then took control for the majority of the rest of the match, using a well-hidden pen to jab Black in the head with. Black finally took control and went for his charging elbow strike, but Jacobs pulled the referee in the way to take the blow. Black then hit the small package driver but got no three count since the referee was down (earning him his loudest "Oompa-Loompa" chant of the night). Jacobs took control with a low blow and attempted to punch Tyler with a chain wrapped around his fist, but Black took him down and applied a reverse sharpshooter. Scoville finally revived to see Jacobs tapping out, and called for the bell, giving the fans the impression that Black had just won the IWA-MS World Heavyweight Title. However, Scoville clarified his decision that due to Jacobs pulling him in the way of Black's elbow strike, he was actually disqualifying Jacobs, allowing Jacobs to keep his title. Black responded by punching Scoville in the face afterwards. While Marek Brave/Josh Abercrombie was cleaner, this was still a very good match.
Another intermission was taken to prepare for the main event.
7. Fans Bring the Weapons Match: Ian Rotten defeated Corporal Robinson with a tombstone piledriver. Basically your typical FBTW match, with the focus more on using the weapons rather than one guy trying to beat the other. To pay tribute to IWA-MS matches of years past, Robinson requested that the match be started on the outside. The best spot saw Robinson superplex Rotten through a "table" made out of chairs and florescent light bulbs. Robinson then brought in a cross made of light bulbs, but Rotten took over and tombstoned him on the cross for the pin in a short but intense match. Afterwards Ian talked about how close he had become to Robinson over the years, and the two men shook hands and embraced. Ian then spoke for a few minutes before looking at Scoville and saying, "What are you still doing here?" Rotten then said he did a fairly good job for someone who had only been refereeing "five or six minutes." Both men then wished the crowd good night. End of show. The next show will likely be on February 10th or 11th, according to Ian
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