1. Colin Troy def. Erico with a springboard from the outside into a
La Magistral rollup. Strong showing from both men and we'll probably
be seeing them again in the future.
2. Jeff Brooks def. T.D. with a shooting star press. This was just
T.D.'s fifth match and he showed A LOT of promise. Ian came to the
ring after the match and stopped Jeff Brooks. He said "I have an
invitation for you" and the entire crowd gasped. Ian then said "I'm
just kidding, get the hell out of here," and the crowd went nuts. It
was a very funny moment. Ian then proceeded to welcome T.D. into the
family and say that it was going to be his pet project to make him
into a star. T.D. is a student of Truth Martini's and like I said, he
did very well for only his fifth match.
Joey Eastman then comes to the ring and welcomes himself back into
IWA and announces that he has acquired the services of Prince Mustafa
Ali. This leads into:
3. Prince Mustafa Ali/Troy Walters/Ricochet def. Team Ja(y)son
(Hades, Quick and Dukes). As mentioned earlier, this was probably the
match of the night. Crazy ass dives galore to the floor at one point
including Quick doing a 900 off the top rope to the floor. Ian
conducted a poll after the match and almost everyone raised their
hand in agreement when asked if they thought they were going to see
Quick's "brains all over the floor" after the 900. The end came as
most were on the floor and Hades was setting up for the Killswitch.
Quick came flying over the top rope and delivered a flying kick to
the face that laid out Hades. Ali then set Hades up in the corner and
delivered the Weapon of Mass Destruction (inverted 450).
Ian then invited Ricochet into the TPI and announced that he would
face defending champion "Lightning" Mike Quackenbush in the first
round.
4. Drake Younger def. Sami Callahan with a Drake's Landing onto a
chair. This was a very stiff match with lots of brawling on the floor
and up onto the stage by the announce area.
5. Daffney def. Kimberly Kash with a hammerlock Northern Lights
suplex. Daffney then said that she will be back to take the title
from either Daizee when she recovers from injury or in a tournament
if Daizee has to be stripped of the title if her injury lingers.
6. Dingo def. Chuck Taylor with a moonsault to retain the IWA Mid-
South World Heavyweight Title.
7. Sex, Drugs & Wrestling (Ash & Kris Chambers w/ Ethan Page) def.
Naptown Dragons (Scotty Vortekz & Diehard Dustin Lee) when Ash used a
chain to get the pin. Ian announced that Sex Drugs & Wrestling are
the first team in Double Death tournament.
8. Michael Elgin def. Egotistico Fantastico with ground and pound.
This was a very fun match that showed Ego go toe to toe with Elgin
for most of it. Ego blocked the first ground and pound attempt with a
stiff right hand to the jaw. The end came though when Ego went for a
double springboard moonsault and Elgin moved. Elgin then pounced onto
the fallen Ego with ground and pound for the victory. Jeff Brooks
then ran out and attacked Michael Elgin on the floor after the match
but was not very successful. Elgin tossed him around a little and
left him laying on the floor. Scotty Vortekz then ran out and started
putting the boots to the fallen Egotistico Fantastico and
yelling "Scotty knows" and "Scotty knows what's up" obviously in some
sort of reference to Ego's theme song of "Scotty doesn't know." I'm
not sure what Scotty knows and "what's up" but I'm intrigued to find
out.
9. Mickie Knuckles vs. Sara Del Rey went to a no contest. There were
no pinfalls yet when the injury occured to Mickie causing the show to
come to an abrupt end.
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Here is an update on the health of Mickie following the surgery on
her broken right femur bone.
We just talked to the doctor and the surgery was a success. It took
quite a bit longer to do the surgery than they anticipated because of
how muscular Mickie is. The doctor's quote was "we expected someone
with the muscle mass of a 24 year old female and we got a
construction worker instead." Due to the amount of muscle mass in her
legs from all the hindu squats, when the muscles spasmed after the
bone broke, it caused the bones to slide past each other. They had to
stretch the bones back out to get them end to end in order to insert
the titanium rod.
He expects that Mickie will be able to walk out of the hospital on
Wednesday with crutches and maybe she can recover and go through
therapy enough to be back inside a wrestling ring inside of 6 months.
The doctor said that it was a "perfect storm" of "freak events" that
had to cause the injury due to how strong she is but that such things
do occur.
We are hoping to be able to see Mickie in the next 90 minutes or so
after she gets out of the recovery room.
Once again, we thank all of the great fans that have been kind and
sympathetic in this horrible time and have offered their well wishes
and prayers. Our phones have been ringing nonstop and our email boxes
have been filling with people wanting updates. We can't respond
personally to all of them so please just accept these updates on the
board and pass them along to friends as needed.
Even though the surgery is over and was deemed successful, please
keep Mickie in your thoughts as she will need the support in order to
get through rehab and return as soon as she is back to 100%.
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IWA Mid-South returns to action on Saturday July 26th in Sellersburg,
IN at Alley Cats Bowling Lanes.