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Monday, September 29, 1997 |
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(Editor's Note: Aside from a basic spell check these results are being provided in their original form. They were saved from the original IWA mailing list.) September 30th, 1997 By: Jim Fannin
The first TV show started off with "Too Sexy" Shawn Casey with his lovely manager Dava take on the IWA returning JC Ice. The match was over ten minutes long with plenty of wrestling. Casey hit a slingshot suplex and a dropkick off the second rope to the back of JC Ice's head while he was sitting on the canvas. Casey also hit a Diamond Cutter off the top rope. JC recovered and went on to win the match with a Gourdbuster. JC was then interviewed. The second match was a squash for Ox Harley as he simply destroyed Bobby Martin with some vicious chair shots and then got the pin with a slop drop onto a chair. The third match saw a good bout between Bull Pain with Billy the P and Tracy Smothers. The ringpost was used in this match as well as chairs but there was no blood. Bull hit a belly to back suplex and Tracy came back with a shoulderblock off the top rope and a DDT. Tracy went to climb up to the top again but Billy the P held his leg and Bull was able to deliver his Painkiller for the win. The Painkiller is a DDT with the opponent's feet draped over the top rope and being dropped down. Tracy was interviewed after the match and complained about being robbed by Bull. The fourth match was a squash for Doug Gilbert as he got to wrestle the ever popular Shark Boy. Shark Boy was able to hit a belly to back suplex and stun Dougie but Dougie won with a piledriver. Gilbert was then interviewed after the match. The main event for the first show was the battle royal to crown the first ever IWA TV champion. The ten men in the battle royal were JC Ice, Ox Harley, Shawn Casey, Buddy Landell, Tom Burton, Rollin' Hard, Tower of Doom, Tracy Smothers, Blaze, and Doug Gilbert. No Shark Boy so our "Shark Boy: The Perfect TV champ" sign was useless. The match didn't go long as everybody was thrown out in a row. JC was first eliminated and then Landell was tossed by Smothers. Casey was eliminated at the same time as Landell. Tracy and Tower eliminated themselves. Dougie backdropped Ox over the top and then did the same to Burton. Rollin' ditched Blaze and it was down to Dougie and Rollin' Hard for the title. Dougie thought it was in the bag but Rollin' was able to ditch him and win the TV title just a couple of days after becoming a proud daddy. Crowd marked out big time for the Rollin' Hard title win. The second show started with Rollin' Hard defending his newly won title vs. the Tower of Doom. Tower stole Rollin's afro wig and drilled Rollin' with a chair. Tower then jumped off of the chair and hit Rollin' with a legdrop and then bulldogged Rollin' onto two chairs that were set up in the ring. Tower continued the onslaught with a pumphandle powerslam. Tower missed a splash into the corner and hit his head on the ringpost and cut himself open for the first blood of the night and was pinned by Rollin'. It seemed to be a sloppy finish and the blood wasn't needed. Les Thatcher then interviewed the NWA US Tag Team Champions Ian Rotten and Blaze. Ian had on his Little Girls Beware T-shirt with a picture of Lawler. Ian did all the talking. Tom Burton defeated Terek in the second match of the show in a mat wrestling clinic. The crowd was restless as Burton is a technical wrestler all the way. Burton won by submission with a single leg Boston Crab after a Powerbomb.
JC Ice and Tracy Smothers wrestled to a ten minute draw that was all wrestling again. The crowd got into at the end but it took them awhile. JC Ice gave an interview after the match reminding the people that the marquee still says "WRESTLING". Both men shake hands and leave the ring. American Kickboxer defeated the debuting Bret King. The two wrestled as the crowd was again growing restless. Kickboxer did his usual spots with the Ultimo Dragon like kicks and an Asai Moonsault to the floor. Kickboxer won with a Tumbleweed Back Senton Splash off the top. Good match and King was decent in his debut. Match five saw Shark Boy take on Bobby Martin. This is like the jobber matches in ECW where 911 would come out. After Shark Boy hit a couple of great dropkicks to the crowd's approval, Billy Joe Travis came out and attacked both wrestlers. He then called out Blaze which led to the main event.
Billy Joe Travis was pretty funny. He reached into his tights for his "chain" and clubbed Blaze with it during the match. When he left the ring, he opened his hand before he went to hide the "chain" and his hand was empty!!!!! It was horrible on his part but still funny. I don't think too many people caught it though. Billy Joe piledrove Blaze through a table as well during the match. This is were it gets wild. Buddy Landell comes out and helps Travis beat on Blaze. Ian comes out to make the save. Ian is hit with a chair by Landell and juices. The heels are working over the faces and Dougie comes out. He then turns on Ian and starts hitting him with a chair. JC comes out to help Travis, Gilbert, and Landell. They set up Ian for the "chairshot heard round the world" as Gilbert is going to deliver the chairshot while Landell and Travis hold Ian's arms out. JC stops the chair shot and says that this is wrestling we don't need a chair. Gilbert, Travis, and Landell then turn on JC and attack him. Landell, Gilbert, and Travis are calling themselves the USWA Dream Team and Ian said that he is bringing in Axl Rotten next Tuesday to face those three and JC Ice has agreed to team with the Rottens.
(Note: These tv shows never aired)
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