A New Beginning 2008 - January 19th, 2008
Court Time Sports Center - Elizabeth, PA
Complete results by Joe Dombrowski
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Short-Form Results
The Hollywood Balds (Vendetta & "DeeeLicious" Jimmy DeMarco) def.
Michael "The Bomber" Facade & Johnny Gargano
"Balls Hot" Troy Lords def. Delirious in a Super Indy VII Qualifying Match
Too Cold Scorpio def. Daivari
IWC Tag Team Champions BabyFace Fire (Shiima Xion & Jason Gory) def. The
Burning River Brigade ("M-Dogg20" Matt Cross & Josh Prohibition)
IWC World Heavyweight Champion The Sandman def. Dennis Gregory
"The Havana Pitbull" Ricky Reyes def. "Snapshot" CJ Sensation
Sexual Harassment (Eric Xtasy & Justin Idol) def. The Gambino Brothers
(Mickey & Marshall Gambino)
Super Hentai def. Ruckus in a Super Indy VII Qualifying Match
"Sweet N Sour" Larry Sweeney def. IWC Super Indy Champion "Fabulous" John
McChesney in a Texarkana Death Match to win the title
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Just weeks following the most publicized and talked about weekend in IWC
history, the International Wrestling Cartel kicked off 2008 with another
newsworthy event from the famed Court Time Sports Center in Elizabeth, Pa.
The six-month long journey of “Sweet & Sour” Larry Sweeney to regain the Super
Indy Title he was screwed out of thanks to the War Machine finally reached its
culmination as Sweeney fought through a tremendous amount of blood loss and
punishment to dethrone “Fabulous” John McChesney in a wild Texas Death Match,
dubbed on this night as a “Texarkana Death Match”. Sweeney drilled McChesney’s
skull into the solid steel entrance ramp to not only score a 3-count, but also
leaving McChesney incapable of answering the official’s ten count.
The battle between the War Machine and two ECW originals only escalated in two
memorable encounters, the first of which pitted newest War Machine member
Daivari one-on-one with Too Cold Scorpio in their first ever meeting. Former
four-time IWC champion Dennis Gregory intervened and attempted to cost Scorpio
the match in much the same way he had done during Scorpio’s match with Samoa Joe
last month. However, Scorpio was able to recover from the interference and score
a major victory with a top rope twisting powerbomb.
Gregory’s attempts at reclaiming IWC gold were not successful either. With the
match’s standard one-fall rules as opposed to the wild steel cage environment
where Sandman won the title, the 5-time former ECW World champion and current
IWC champion Sandman was at a distinctive disadvantage, as his trademark
Singapore cane was now illegal. However, that didn’t stop both men from sneaking
it into the match on numerous occasions, and it didn’t stop The Sandman from
hitting his trademark White Russian Legsweep en route to his first successful
IWC title defense. Daivari joined his newfound leader to begin a 2-on-1
post-match attack on the champion until Sandman’s former ECW World tag title
partner Scorpio made the save. With all four men having major issues with one
another, the challenge was made and soon thereafter accepted for next month at
Accept No Limitations when Sandman & Scorpio officially re-unite to take on
Dennis Gregory & Daivari in tag team competition.
The best team in IWC today overcame perhaps the most underrated tag team in the
world when Shiima Xion & Jason Gory, Babyface Fire, successfully defended their
newly-won tag team titles over longstanding top title contenders “M-Dogg 20”
Matt Cross & Josh Prohibition, The Burning River Brigade. But the question
remains, with the IWC tag team division as competitive as it is, with teams like
The Gambinos and Sexual Harassment waiting in the wings, and even duos like The
Motor City Machine Guns making their presence known, what challenges will be
next for BFF to try to overcome?
Ray Rowe would no doubt be IWC champion today if not for his trainer, mentor,
and best friend for nearly two years, J-Rocc, slamming a steel cage door on
Rowe’s head so violently and aggressively that it knocked the door from its very
hinges. After weeks of speculation, J-Rocc finally explained his heinous
actions, making it clear his motives were all about the jealousy and bruised ego
over Ray Rowe’s success and popularity eclipsing his own. Ray Rowe had heard
enough and stormed to the ring to confront his former ally, and not even J-Rocc’s
best knockout shot with a steel chair could even cause the emotionless assassin
to flinch. Rowe’s controlled aggression exploded onto J-Rocc as security and
wrestlers frantically tried to pull the men apart. Following the fracas, the
match was signed for Accept No Limitations… Ray Rowe will have his chance to
face J-Rocc one-on-one
Traditionally among the most prestigious events of the IWC calendar year, this
year’s will be no different when IWC presents Super Indy VII this spring. The
Super Indy tournament has grown by leaps and bounds in reputation from year to
year and is quite simply the place for the destiny of dreams to be realized -
either they are realized and become a reality, or they are shattered to dust,
perhaps never to be accomplished. Four men began that journey this past weekend…
“Balls Hot” Troy Lords was able to avenge perhaps the most personally
disappointing loss in his career when he cradled Delirious for the three-count.
It was Delirious who Lords met in the finals of Super Indy V, when a
dehabilitating knee injury severely hampered Lords’ chances at capturing the
gold. Lords fought with the heart of a champion, pushed his body beyond its
limits, and passed out as his Super Indy dreams literally faded to black. Now
“Balls Hot” has one more shot to go “Balls to the Wall” and go all the way and
realize the destiny some said he would never be ready for.
Also qualified for Super Indy VII, the man who started the legacy in 2002, the
man who raised the bar and took the championship to the prestigious levels it’s
been viewed at since, the man who took the Super Indy title to Japan and back:
Super Hentai, who defeated Ruckus. Hentai’s Super Indy final win over
Christopher Daniels put Hentai on the map as a major player and the best the
area has to offer. Hentai’s title reign, just shy of one year, still stands as
the longest reign in the history of the championship. Now, six years later, can
the young veteran return to where it all started and become the first man to
become a two-time tournament winner?
Bizarre, unique, and slightly uncomfortable are all popular ways of describing
Sexual Harassment matches, but to their credit, ever since Eric Xtasy & Justin
Idol got on the same page a few months back and seemed to reach a compromise in
their serious wrestling vs. mind games confliction, the team has been undefeated
and unstoppable. Even The Gambino Family, who dominated IWC tag wrestling in
2007, fell victim to the unorthodox nature of Sexual Harassment. Xtasy’s mind
games were successful in everything from getting the Gambino Family ejected from
ringside, to freezing Marshall Gambino in his tracks with a big ol’ kiss, and
Idol was there to capitalize, helping Eric drill Mickey with the Rose Creeper en
route to another Harassment victory, with a little help from Michael Façade
along the way.
CJ Sensation’s first singles match in nearly a year was clearly not what he had
expected when he had petitioned the IWC offices to let him return to active
competition. CJ found himself staring across the ring at an angry pitbull, a
Havana Pitbull in former IWC champion Ricky Reyes. Sensation did incredibly well
considering the level of competition and potential ring rust that may be
involved, but the calculated Reyes knew of Sensation’s primary weakness - the
surgically repaired neck - and targeted it, finishing the job with his patented
lethal dragon sleeper. Was promoter Norm Connors sending Sensation a message by
placing him in the ring with one of IWC’s most dangerous competitors in CJ’s
first singles match back? What else will be in store for CJ in his return to
active competition?
It was also a successful return for The Hollywood Balds as the “Prime Minister
of Perversion” DeeeLicious Jimmy DeMarco returned to tag team competition with
the physically imposing Vendetta, defeating former tag champs Michael “The
Bomber” Façade and Johnny Gargano when Vendetta locked in a Texas Cloverleaf.
Just as Vendetta had made a major statement before his sixty-day suspension with
the assault on Babyface Fire, he made perhaps just as powerful a statement here
with this decisive Hollywood Balds win. An attempted post-match “hit” on Façade
with a baseball bat was narrowly avoided, but Façade would have the last word
later that night. |
