This past weekend was the annual Ted Petty Invitational Tournament
and this year it was a big success for the IWA. We would like to
thank all our fans that packed the Hammond National Guard Armory
both nights and made this a fun two nights of wrestling for everyone
involved.

Here is the rundown of what happened on both nights...first for
night one:

AJ Styles pulled out of the tournament due to illness. He went to
the doctor before his flight because he was feeling under the
weather and found out he has strep throat. He was replaced in the
tournament by Sal Thomaselli.

Kevin Steen def. Nate Webb...crowd liked this match and was
impressed by Steen in his IWA debut

Josh Abercrombie def. James Gibson who demanded to be called Jamie
Noble and said he was representing the WWE. Abercrombie rolled him
up out of the Tiger Driver and got the pinfall.

Brad Bradley def. Tank in a very impressive hard hitting matchup.
Brad did a tope flying over the top rope and landing on Tank and
then delivered 3 running clotheslines and finally knocking Tank off
his feet and getting the pinfall.

Mike Quackenbush def. Alex Shelley in one of the top matches of the
night. Shelley came out and acted like Reckless Youth and even had a
Reckless Youth introduction. Great mat wrestling and submission
holds and reversals before Quack got the win in this one.

Arik Cannon def. Joey Ryan with the glimmering warlock

Skayde def. Puma

Chris Hero def. Rainman following 2 top rope double foot stomps in a
hard hitting contest

Tyler Black def. Sal Thomaselli with the small package driver. Sal
demanded to be introduced as the "Phenomenal One" and at the end,
Vito held Tyler while Sal tried to hit him with the tag belt but
Tyler ducked and after Vito went flying from the ring, Tyler hit the
small package driver for the win.

Chris Sabin def. Marek Brave

Matt Sydal def. El Generico in an amazing high flying matchup. Sydal
hit the reverse rana off the top for a nearfall and won with the
belly to belly off the top. The crowd gave these two an extended
standing ovation after the match.

Delirious def. Brandon Thomaselli and after the match, tempers
flared and the two brawled on the floor for awhile before the ref
was able to break it up and get them to the back.

American Dragon def. Claudio Castagnoli. The closing minutes of this
match was outstanding. They exchanged about 15 European Uppercuts
back and forth. Claudio held up Dragon for a 43 count on a delayed
suplex but that just made Dragon mad. He got up and applied a 21
spin Airplane Spin onto Claudio and then applied Cattle Mutilation.
Claudio rolled out of it but Dragon slapped on the crossface
chickenwing and won via tapout.

Jimmy Jacobs def. Colt Cabana to retain the IWA Mid-South
heavyweight title by drilling Colt in the face with the title belt.
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Here is the rundown for Night Two of the TPI:

Marek Brave def. Trik Davis when he hit a spear and held on and
flipped over into a northern lights position for the pin.

Kevin Steen def. Brad Bradley in a second round match when he ducked
the lariat and hopped up onto Brad's shoulders and executed a
crucifix bomb for the pin. Good hard hitting matchup.

Mike Quackenbush def. Skayde in a second round match with a crazy
rollup but people were standing in front of me so I didn't see it
completely. Very good lucha match.

Chris Sabin def. Josh Abercrombie in a second round match with the
Future Shock. Good action throughout as both men had several near
falls.

Matt Sydal def. Tyler Black in a second round match. Tyler and Matt
were fighting on the floor and Tyler ran at the No Limits music man
and used Regal's midsection as trampoline and flipped backwards onto
Sydal. Sydal gets the pin with the Standing shooting star press
after all kinds of crazy high flying maneuvers including Sydal
jumping from the apron and hitting an enziguiri (Sp?) on Tyler who
was on the top rope.

Arik Cannon def. Delirious in 20+ minutes with the glimmering
warlock. Comedy at first. Delirious did the spit assisted escape
from the go behind but Cannon just reapplied it and Delirious did it
again and Cannon turned it into a bearhug. Delirious then licked
Cannon's face to get out of the hold. Delirious got Cannon into the
corner and hit him with 49 clotheslines and Cannon reversed him into
the corner and then hit 18 chops in a row. Cannon then did the
delayed suplex but the crowd didn't count so I don't know if it beat
Claudio's 43 second suplex last night. After the match, Delirious
had a bloody nose and a huge gash on his hand and Cannon gave him a
hug and a handshake and then gave him some ice for his nose.

Chris Hero def. American Dragon in the second round. The finish came
as Hero did the airplane spin to Dragon but it had no effect. Dragon
took down Hero and went for the cattle mutilation but Hero blocked
it. Dragon went into a crossface chickenwing but Hero made it to the
ropes. Dragon yelled for an airplane spin of his own but Hero
countered into a rollup for the pin. A key point in the match came
as Hero had worked over Dragon's knee including a figure four with a
backbridge to add extra pressure. Hero went to give Dragon an irish
whip but Dragon just fell to the ground. Hero, not usually
aggressive, immediately applied a spinning toe hold on the injured
Dragon. During the Highland losing streak, Hero probably would have
checked on Dragon and then went away from the knee.

Jimmy Jacobs def. Mickie Knuckles to retain the IWA heavyweight
title. Jimmy dominated Mickie for the majority of the match and
repeatedly would get up from his pinfall covers and act like Mickie
had kicked out. He did a Hogan routine and a Stone Cold routine and
pulled her up both times. Mickie finally started fighting back and
Jimmy went to get a chair. The ref took it away and while he was
removing the chair from the ring, Jimmy tried to hit Mickie with the
belt. Mickie ducked and Jimmy ended up hitting the ref with the
belt. Bryce came out to contiue reffing. Jimmy again goes for the
chair but Bryce grabs it and won't let him use it. Jimmy shoves
Bryce with the chair out of the ring. Mickie hits the kick of doom
and Ian in a ref shirt runs from the gimmick table to the ring but
can only get a two count. Iron Saints come out to attack Ian but
Rainman and Tank cut them off. Ian follows them to the back and
Jimmy hits Mickie with powder to the face, the belt to the face and
a centon and gets the pinfall to retain the title. Ian returns to
the ring and tells Jimmy that his title reign will end in Morris as
it will be Jimmy Jacobs vs. Colt Cabana in a lumberjack strap match
so there will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide for the champ.

Kevin Steen def. Mike Quackenbush in a semifinal match. Steen
attacks Quack when Quack was coming to the ring. He injures Quack's
arm and works it over the entire match. Steen gets the pinfall with
his package piledriver.

Matt Sydal def. Chris Sabin in a semifinal match when he counters
the Future Shock into a rollup for the pinfall. Sydal jumped from
the apron and executed a rana on Sabin who was sitting on the top
rope. Great high flying action from Sydal and great power wrestling
from Sabin throughout.

Arik Cannon finally defeats Chris Hero in a semifinal matchup that
was the match of the night. The first five minutes was a respectful
display of wrestling and counterwrestling. Cannon then slapped Hero
and the fight was on. It was a contest of who could chop who harder.
Who could headbutt who harder. Then an awesome display of suplex
after suplex on each other. Cannon got the victory with a backslide
out of nowhere and you could tell that Hero was pissed but Hero was
offering to shake Cannon's hand and everyone thought we might
finally get the show of respect between these two after the series
of matches in Midlothian. Cannon knocked Hero's hand away and put
his hand out so that he was the one to offer the handshake. Hero
shook Cannon's hand and they hugged each other. Hero then raised
Cannon's arm but then delivered a clothesline and just totally
snapped. Mickie and Trik and Bryce finally get Hero off of Cannon
and are yelling at him. Hero is apologizing to everyone and asking
what he has done and keeps trying to walk over to Cannon and check
on him. Hero then throws Bryce through some chairs and drills Trik
and Mickie and then tears into Cannon again. The crowd was going
crazy and 200 people were standing in front of me so I couldn't see
everything.

Iron Saints def. Tank/Rainman to retain IWA tag titles. Saints use
double teams to control early but then Tank's size takes over. He
picks up Sal for a Samoan Drop and then Rainman presses Vito up and
throws him on top of Sal and Tank is then holding both Thomasellis
across his shoulders. Double Samoan Drop and the crowd loves it.
Later in the match Saints take back over and hit Driveby and then go
back up top but Tank cuts off Vito and Vito knocks Tank to the
floor. Vito then goes to jump onto Tank but Tank catches him and
throws him through the chairs. Sal runs and dives at Tank but gets
caught and thrown through the chairs. Saints regain control and go
for the pendulum on Tank but Rainman breaks it up but Saints then
work over Rainman and get the pin.

8 Man Tag Elimination I didn't get to see a lot of. Nate, Puma,
Generico and Brandon all wear masks to the ring and get an 8 year
old kid into the ring to dance with them to Nate's music. Kid goes
dance move for dance move with them and then even breaks out a
breakdance after Puma did one. Joey Ryan, Claudio, Alex Shelley all
come out dressed as Super Dragon along with Super Dragon. They
hailed from Dragon Quest, Dragon Ball Z etc. Lots of curbstomps and
crazy action. Super Dragon eliminates El Generico to win the match
as the sole survivor on either team. Claudio blocked a tornado DDT
and threw Puma up into the air and drilled him with an impressive
European Uppercut.

Ian announces that Cannon can't compete in the final due to injuries
from the attack by Hero. Steen vs. Sydal one on one for the
tournament final. Steen is in control and beating up Sydal. Cannon
comes out with his shoulder wrapped and gets into the ring. Ian
tried to stop him but threw his arms up in disgust and walked away
when Cannon jumped into the ring. Steen immediately drills him in
the shoulder and then does the package piledriver to eliminate
Cannon. He then goes to the gimmick table and takes a Sydal tshirt
and comes back to the ring and chokes Matt with one of his own
shirts. Sydal hits a twisting flipping dive off the top to the floor
and then the match gets real competitive. Steen goes for the package
piledriver but Sydal counters with a rana. Steen hits a beautiful
450 but Sydal kicks out. They go to the top rope and exchange
punches for control and Sydal gets the advantage and knocks Steen to
the ground. Sydal hits the shooting star press for the victory to
win TPI 2005.

Cannon comes out to shake Sydal's hand. Ian calls Daizee and
Delirious into the ring and he puts over all four of them and tells
TNA that they need to sign Delirious and Sydal. Cannon asks Ian for
a title shot. Ian tells him anytime he is fully healthy he can have
one. Ian then tells Cannon that he has something for Hero after what
Chris did to Cannon...On Thursday night, October 13th in Morris,
Illinois it will be the long awaited rematch...Chris Hero vs. Samoa
Joe.
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The next show for IWA Mid-South is on Thursday night, October 13th
in Morris, Illinois. Here is your up to date information for that
show:

Announced during Night Two of the TPI - Ian made two matches for the
show in Morris.

Samoa Joe vs. Chris Hero
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Colt Cabana for the title in a lumberjack strap
match.

More matches will be announced soon.

The IWA Mid-South makes its return to Jim Fannin's hometown of
Morris, Illinois on Thursday night, October 13th with a 7:30 pm
belltime.

This show will take place at the Shabbona Middle School at 725
School St. in the big gymnasium. Ticket prices will be $25 for the
first two rows, $20 for the third through fifth rows and $15
bleacher seating.

A percentage of the ticket sales will go to the Morris Grade School
District #54 and a percentage of the ticket sales will go to the
Morris Redskin Football team via the Quarterback Club.

The last IWA Mid-South show in Morris was the largest attendance in
IWA Mid-South history and that was during a snowstorm. There is room
at the middle school for 900-1000 people. We had over 500 in the
snowstorm at the high school several years ago.

We suggest that our regular fans in the Chicago area that want to
attend the event buy their tickets either at TPI this weekend or via
paypal with Patti. You can email Patti at rottenwife@... for the
information.

We will be making announcements after TPI on who will be at this
event. We are expecting a large turnout to support the football team
so again I strongly suggest that you get your tickets ahead of time.
The show will end by 10 PM so the students can attend and still make
school the next morning and that people can get home early enough to
go to work in the morning.

Hope to see everyone there.
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Other upcoming shows:

Saturday night October 15th, Midlothian, IL - Park District Rec
Center - Totally Tool Wrestling in the afternoon & IWA at night

Friday night October 21st, Herrin, IL - Civic Center

Saturday night October 22nd, Indianapolis, IN

Friday night October 28th, Muscatine, Iowa - National Guard Armory

Saturday night October 29th, Hammond, IN - National Guard Armory

November 18th and 19th, Indianapolis - King of the Death Matches

Thanksgiving Night, Hammond, IN - National Guard Armory

Fri & Sat November 25th & 26th - Midlothian - Chris Candido Memorial
Tag Tournament
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Remember that the buy 10 tapes for $100 sale runs through the end of
the year. Email Patti at rottenwife@... for more information
about this sale.