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01-29-2007, 02:13 AM
Since a lot of people seem to be sick of the WWE I figured i'd do this to inform people of what else is out there. There are several indies out there and finding the right ones can be hard so i'm going to break some of my favorite ones down (ring of honor not included)
IWA-MS: A promotion started over 10 years ago by Ian Rotten and Jim Fannin. They mainly run in Indiana and Illinois but have made a trek to Philly and will be doing so again this June.
Current Talent: Ian Rotten, Chris Hero, Low KI, Chuck Taylor, Necro Butcher, "Mr. Insanity" Toby Klein, Eddie Kingston, Josh Abercrombie, Mickie Knuckles, Arik Cannon, Jimmy Jacobs, Ricochet, Drake Younger, The Bad Mother Fuckers ("Mean" Mitch Page, Bull Pain, and Mitch Ryder), The North Star express (Darin Corbin and Ryan Cruz), The Iron Saints (Vito, Sal, and Brandon Thomaselli)
Alumni (some still make random appearances): CM Punk, Colt Cabana, Nate Webb, American Kickboxer, Suicide Kid, Ken Anderson( Kennedy), Trik Davis, Ace Steel, Samoa Joe, Alex Shelley, Matt Sydal
Current Champions and tournament winners
IWA-MS Champion Chuck Taylor (defeated Toby Klein)
Light Heavyweight Champion Josh Abercrombie (defeated Tyler Black)
Tag Team Champions Vacated by Brain Damage and Deranged
Womens champion Mickie Knuckles (defeated Hailey Hatred)
2006 Ted Petty Invitational winner Low Ki
2006 King of the death matches "Mean" Mitch Page
2006 revolution in strong style champion Eddie Kingston
2006 Queen of the death Matches Mickie Knuckles
Big Storylines and feuds
Ian Rotten and Jim Fannin fighting for control over IWA-MS: This really started in 2003 With Ian and Jim having different ways of how the IWA should run. Jim Was more into living in the older days and having new wrestlers pay dues. Meanwhile Ian was a lot more open to newer talent and felt this was needed to help IWA survive. This really intensified in 2005 When Ed Schuman ( head of NWA Midwest) also wanted control of IWA. Wrestlers all took sides and clashed. This series of events led to a Wargames type match at No blood no guts no glory 2005, in which Team IWA (Ian and Axl Rotten, Chris Hero, Bull Pain, and Corporal Robinson), Team Fannin (Eddie Kingston, BJ Whitmer, Steve Stone, JC Bailey, and Mark Wolf), and team NWA (Tank, Eric Priest, Chandler McClure, Sal, and Vito Thomaselli) fought for control of IWA. The match ended with Team IWA winning.
Hero vs Punk: In 2002 these men had several matches That led up to A tlc match that went 55 minutes. They then had a 2 out of 3 falls match that went 90 minutes. Their last match in IWA Happened in December of 2004 where CM Punk wont at 59:04.
Jimmy Jacobs the Chicken shit Champion:In the beginning of 2005 Jimmy Jacobs became the IWA-MS Champion and since that time he became the biggest ego maniac in the IWA locker room. He always found away via cheating in his matches which he used to beat the likes of CM Punk, Chris Hero, Josh Abercrombie, and Matt Sydal. Things got a lot worse when in November IWA Cancelled 4 shows during thanksgiving weekend. Jimmy Jacobs took this very personal as it was money out of his pocket and appeared at an aaw show and there he trashed the IWA title. This cause infuriation form both Ian Rotten and Jim Fannin. Jacobs continued to defend the title but there were many "assassins" sent out to pretty much mame Jacobs. This inclucded the likes of New Jack and Bull pain, where the infamous baseball bat Incident took place where Jim Fannin Brutalized Jimmy Jacobs with a barbwired baeball bat. All of this culminated when In January 2006 at no retreat no surrender, Arik Cannon finally defeated Jimmy Jacobs for the IWA title. After Jimmy Jacobs was fired.
The return of Jimmy Jacobs and the bmfers: At TPI 2006 Jimmy Jacobs made his return in helping Josh Abercrombie defeat Tyler Black in a loser leaves town match. After Jim Fannin came out and appeared to have forgiven Jacobs for his actions but in a surprise twist Fannin revealed he was able to get Abercrombie to sell out his best friend. Then The bad mother Fuckers of Mitch Page and Bull Pain came out and beat the shit out of Jacobs. Toby Klein ran out to try to save Jacobs but was also beat down. Klein then had to defend the title against Chuck Taylor who defeated him due to injury caused by the bmfers. After Jim Fannin asked for a thank you from Taylor for pretty much handing him the title on a silver platter, Taylor refused and then was also beat down. at the 10th anniversary The bmfers tried to cause Taylor the title in a match with Ian rotten but it backfired. Also at the 10th anniversary Jacobs also came back and attacked Abercrombie for selling him out. Both issues involving the bmfers and Jacobs are still going on and to heat everything up, Jim Fannin has put a thousand dollar bounty for anyone who can take out Jimmy Jacobs.
Shows I recommend checking out
TPI 2004,2005, and 2006
An IWA fairytale when the hero met the dragon
A revolution in strong style 2004
An IWA freakathon
Simply the best 6
Something to prove
Catch a rising star
No blood no guts no glory 2005
A matter of Pride
No retreat no surrender 2006
We're no joke
Scorpio rising
Simply the best 7
The 10th anniversary celebration (3 shows)
So there you have it my write up on IWA-MS. Up next is Chikara.
IWA-MS: A promotion started over 10 years ago by Ian Rotten and Jim Fannin. They mainly run in Indiana and Illinois but have made a trek to Philly and will be doing so again this June.
Current Talent: Ian Rotten, Chris Hero, Low KI, Chuck Taylor, Necro Butcher, "Mr. Insanity" Toby Klein, Eddie Kingston, Josh Abercrombie, Mickie Knuckles, Arik Cannon, Jimmy Jacobs, Ricochet, Drake Younger, The Bad Mother Fuckers ("Mean" Mitch Page, Bull Pain, and Mitch Ryder), The North Star express (Darin Corbin and Ryan Cruz), The Iron Saints (Vito, Sal, and Brandon Thomaselli)
Alumni (some still make random appearances): CM Punk, Colt Cabana, Nate Webb, American Kickboxer, Suicide Kid, Ken Anderson( Kennedy), Trik Davis, Ace Steel, Samoa Joe, Alex Shelley, Matt Sydal
Current Champions and tournament winners
IWA-MS Champion Chuck Taylor (defeated Toby Klein)
Light Heavyweight Champion Josh Abercrombie (defeated Tyler Black)
Tag Team Champions Vacated by Brain Damage and Deranged
Womens champion Mickie Knuckles (defeated Hailey Hatred)
2006 Ted Petty Invitational winner Low Ki
2006 King of the death matches "Mean" Mitch Page
2006 revolution in strong style champion Eddie Kingston
2006 Queen of the death Matches Mickie Knuckles
Big Storylines and feuds
Ian Rotten and Jim Fannin fighting for control over IWA-MS: This really started in 2003 With Ian and Jim having different ways of how the IWA should run. Jim Was more into living in the older days and having new wrestlers pay dues. Meanwhile Ian was a lot more open to newer talent and felt this was needed to help IWA survive. This really intensified in 2005 When Ed Schuman ( head of NWA Midwest) also wanted control of IWA. Wrestlers all took sides and clashed. This series of events led to a Wargames type match at No blood no guts no glory 2005, in which Team IWA (Ian and Axl Rotten, Chris Hero, Bull Pain, and Corporal Robinson), Team Fannin (Eddie Kingston, BJ Whitmer, Steve Stone, JC Bailey, and Mark Wolf), and team NWA (Tank, Eric Priest, Chandler McClure, Sal, and Vito Thomaselli) fought for control of IWA. The match ended with Team IWA winning.
Hero vs Punk: In 2002 these men had several matches That led up to A tlc match that went 55 minutes. They then had a 2 out of 3 falls match that went 90 minutes. Their last match in IWA Happened in December of 2004 where CM Punk wont at 59:04.
Jimmy Jacobs the Chicken shit Champion:In the beginning of 2005 Jimmy Jacobs became the IWA-MS Champion and since that time he became the biggest ego maniac in the IWA locker room. He always found away via cheating in his matches which he used to beat the likes of CM Punk, Chris Hero, Josh Abercrombie, and Matt Sydal. Things got a lot worse when in November IWA Cancelled 4 shows during thanksgiving weekend. Jimmy Jacobs took this very personal as it was money out of his pocket and appeared at an aaw show and there he trashed the IWA title. This cause infuriation form both Ian Rotten and Jim Fannin. Jacobs continued to defend the title but there were many "assassins" sent out to pretty much mame Jacobs. This inclucded the likes of New Jack and Bull pain, where the infamous baseball bat Incident took place where Jim Fannin Brutalized Jimmy Jacobs with a barbwired baeball bat. All of this culminated when In January 2006 at no retreat no surrender, Arik Cannon finally defeated Jimmy Jacobs for the IWA title. After Jimmy Jacobs was fired.
The return of Jimmy Jacobs and the bmfers: At TPI 2006 Jimmy Jacobs made his return in helping Josh Abercrombie defeat Tyler Black in a loser leaves town match. After Jim Fannin came out and appeared to have forgiven Jacobs for his actions but in a surprise twist Fannin revealed he was able to get Abercrombie to sell out his best friend. Then The bad mother Fuckers of Mitch Page and Bull Pain came out and beat the shit out of Jacobs. Toby Klein ran out to try to save Jacobs but was also beat down. Klein then had to defend the title against Chuck Taylor who defeated him due to injury caused by the bmfers. After Jim Fannin asked for a thank you from Taylor for pretty much handing him the title on a silver platter, Taylor refused and then was also beat down. at the 10th anniversary The bmfers tried to cause Taylor the title in a match with Ian rotten but it backfired. Also at the 10th anniversary Jacobs also came back and attacked Abercrombie for selling him out. Both issues involving the bmfers and Jacobs are still going on and to heat everything up, Jim Fannin has put a thousand dollar bounty for anyone who can take out Jimmy Jacobs.
Shows I recommend checking out
TPI 2004,2005, and 2006
An IWA fairytale when the hero met the dragon
A revolution in strong style 2004
An IWA freakathon
Simply the best 6
Something to prove
Catch a rising star
No blood no guts no glory 2005
A matter of Pride
No retreat no surrender 2006
We're no joke
Scorpio rising
Simply the best 7
The 10th anniversary celebration (3 shows)
So there you have it my write up on IWA-MS. Up next is Chikara.